Chapter Six

 “Oh Jon I’m so glad you guys showed up.” Carol said.

 “Okay Ma we’re here so can we just get going on this?” Jon said irritable.  

“Jon please. Mrs. Bongiovi if I can see her room now?” Mary asked.

“Right this way.” Carol showed her to the door. “If you need anything just give me or John a yell.” she told them.

“We will.” Mary said. They entered the room and started to look around. “Now sweetie remember not to touch anything okay.” She told him.

 “I won’t.” he replied back.

“Oh and if you think you see anything that doesn’t fit let me know.” She reminded him too. They looked around for anything odd. Mary did notice that there were flowers strung about the room. “Sweetie what’s Dorothea’s favorite flower?”

 “Um I think it’s roses, why?” he asked her.

 “What do you see that’s spread around here?” she asked him. Jon looked around the room.

Then he saw what she did. “There’s roses spread around here.”

“Bingo.” She said.

“Do you think this has something to do with her disappearance?” he asked her.

 “Maybe? Why would she have all these flowers in her room like this? Is she seeing someone that you know of?” she asked him.

 “No she never said anything.” He told her.

 “Okay but what I don’t get is that if she was why would she be hitting on you? Or maybe she broke it off thinking that she could get you back? And he was pissed so he’s retaliating for breaking up with him.” She said throwing out some ideas.

“So do you think she was kidnapped then?” he asked her.

“Quite possible. I mean her bags aren’t packed Jon so she hasn’t left. Don’t you find that a little weird?” she asked him.

 “Well I guess so. But I can think of a million things why Baby.” He told her.

 “I know but let’s just treat this as a kidnapping just in case. Let me try again to get in touch with my brothers and let them know this this too and see what they say. If it’s not then I’ll let you loose on her deal?” she told him.

“Deal.” They left the room and filled in Jon’s parents and told them that they were going to contact her brothers about this. The Bongiovi’s wanted to go to the police but Jon wanted to hold off just a few more days until they knew what they were dealing with. Finally they agree against their gut feeling but agreed anyway. They went back to their room and Mary tried again to call them. Still no answer. She was beginning to worry.  

A couple of hours went by and Jon was on the phone for most of them doing most radio interviews so Mary was trying to relax when there was a knock on the door. Jon waved to her if she could answer it for him. She waved back saying that she would. As she opened the door standing before her was Rick and A.J. She was shocked as hell but totally grateful that they were here. “Rick, A.J. oh my God you’re here. I’ve been trying to call you guys since last night.” She exclaimed. She said grabbing both of them tightly into a bear hug.

 “Well we’re glad to see you too honey.” Rick said. They walked in and Jon was just about finishing his call.

 As Jon hung up he walked over and shook hands with both men. “Boy are we glad you two showed up.” Jon said.

“Yeah we hear that what’s up?” A.J. said. Jon and Mary filled in her brothers on what was going on. They told them about the flowers at the sound check and then about Dorothea missing.

“Well that’s why we’re here. We think we know whose gas lighting you sweetie.” A.J. said.

“Really? Great who.” She asked.

Looking at Jon, “You’re not going to like it.” A.J. said to Jon.

“Why is it someone in my organization?” he asked.

“You could say that.” Rick said. They all sat down and Rick started. “Ok well Jon it’s your ex Dorothea Hurley.”

They both sat there stunned. “You got to be kidding me?” Jon said.

“Nope we looked at the surveillance tape at the first flower shop and it was her that ordered the Lilies and then we tracked down the courier for the one you guys had your dinner and they gave a description of the girl who order them.” Rick said.

 “I don’t think we can do anything legally like arrest her but we can get a restraining order out on her. We’d like to get one out on her for both of you just to be safe.” A.J. said.

 Mary and Jon just looked at each other. “Do you think that’s why she took off?” Jon said.

 “Could be.” Rick said.

“She’s disappeared and my Mom came over last night all worried that she never showed up at all and then we went here this morning and her closes are still here but she hasn’t been back at all.” He explained. “That Bitch is playing us!” Jon said pissed.

 “Damn it she’s knows were on to her.” Rick said.

 “She’s making it look like she’s missing?” Mary said.

“That could be.” A.J. said.

“Well what am I supposed to tell my folks?” Jon said.

“Just tell them that were going to go look for her that should keep them out of our hair for right now. In the meantime A.J. will go down to the local police department and get the restraining orders.” Rick told them.

 “What do you want us to do?” Mary asked.

 “Jon do you have any security watching you guys?” Rick asked.

“Yeah when we go out.” He told them.

“Good keep it that way and just do what you guys have been doing. Don’t sway off of your schedule or she’ll get suspicious.” A.J. said. They both agreed even thou Mary wanted to help her brothers. She missed going out with them but she wouldn’t say anything to Jon.

Jon and Mary went to sound check and Rick went with them as A.J. went to the local police department. Rick wasn’t going to admit that he didn’t have a problem with Jon’s band. He kind of like this music. It was similar to what he listen to away. He even got a kick out of Jon’s work ethic. He also got a kick out of his sister, the way she looked at him. Boy did she have it bad. Mary walked over to her brother. “Hey Rick I need to go to the ladies room so I’ll be right back.” She told him.

“Ok but you’re going to bring someone with you.” He told her.

“I think I can pee by myself.” She laughed.

“Yeah right. Remember that one time you tried and you got the shit kicked out of you?” he reminded her.

“Oh yeah almost forgot that. Ok I’ll take Tom with me.”

 “Thank you.” She went over to Tom and they headed off to the bathrooms. Tom waited out front as she went in. Mary didn’t take any chances and she checked each stall. Feeling better she did her business.

As Tom was waiting Dotty walked up to him but first checking to make sure that he was alone. “Hi, Tom isn’t it?” she asked him.

“Yes it is.” She held out her hand for them to shake. What Tom didn’t know was that when they did she had a syringe in her other had and jabbed him in the arm. Before he could grab her he fell like a log. She was able to drag him out of eye shot from the door of the ladies room so Mary couldn’t see him so when she was coming out she couldn’t see until it was too late. Dorothea then jab her with the second syringe and she went down also. That’s all she wanted. She took her by the feet and dragged her over by the elevator and dragged her in. Then down they went to the garage where her car was waiting. She was able to get her in and she drove off. Rick was now checking his watch trying not to get nervous when she didn’t return right away.  ‘I knew it! It probably happened again. I should have took her.’ His gut was just telling him. So he just got up and decided to go check hoping he wasn’t going to find what he thought he would.

He rounded the corner and there on the floor Tom was lying unconscious. ‘Shit!’ He ran over to him to check to see if he was alive. Thankfully he was. Then he ran in the ladies room but his sister wasn’t in the. He belted the door with his fist. He ran back to the stage area, how the hell was he going to tell Jon and A.J.  A.J. had just walked in when he saw Rick running back in. He went over to Rick to see what the matter was. Rick was telling A.J. what happen and the guys were flailing their arms about arguing with each other.

Jon saw this and stopped everything. He jumped down off the stage and walked over to them to see what was going on. “Look we need to call an ambulance for crying out loud.” Rick yelled at A.J.

 “Ok we will but how the hell did you…” A.J. was stop dead in his tracks.

“Guys what’s going on?” Jon asked. Both of them looked at him with worried faces.

“Jon we need to talk. Look something happened that we didn’t see coming.” Rick said.

“What? Where’s Mary?” he asked scared now.

 Rick wave one of the body guards over. “Do me a favor ok call an ambulance and then have someone meet them and bring them over to the ladies room. Tom’s out, okay.” Rick said.

 “What! What happened to Mary Rick?” Jon was scared as hell now.

“Calm down. Don’t know yet. She went to the ladies room with Tom and someone knocked Tom out. Mary’s not there I checked the ladies room she’s gone.” Rick explained to them.

“She’s what?” Jon asked as he felt like he want to throw up.

 “I know okay! Whoever could have taken her had to take out Tom and he’s pretty big right? So he had to know them. Now we just have to wait until Tom wakes the hell up to find out who the hell it was.” Rick said.

“Great, that’s just great!” Jon said practically jumping out of his skin. 

Mary woke up tied to a chair in this room. She looked around to see if she could see anything she could recognize that would tell her where she was. She tried to wiggle her wrist so that maybe she could loosen her restraints. As she was doing that she could hear footsteps approaching the door so she stopped. The door open and in walked Dorothea. “Well you’re awake finally.” She said as she walked up to her.

Mary just shook her head and chuckled. “You know Jon really didn’t want to believe it was you and you’re going to hurt his parents. Why I just want to know why?” she asked her.

“Why? Really? That’s easy bitch. He should be with me. We should have never of broken up.” She told Mary.

“Wait a minute I thought that you broke up with him?” Mary asked her curious.

 “It was mutual. He basically pushed me to it. He cheated on me constantly so when I went home and decided that maybe I wanted something more, someone to keep me company while he was away and then when I got lonely I was in the wrong too! I don’t think so. Then you come along and he’s Prince Charming! Believe me he’ll cheat on you too.” She told Mary smugly.

“What makes you think he already hasn’t.” she told Dot.

 “You mean he has and you haven’t left him?” she asked.

“We worked it thru why?”

 “Do you really think he’ll stop because he didn’t with me. You see he can’t. They can’t. Those little girls throwing themselves at them all the time is just too much temptation they just can’t help themselves. And then they blame their life style and then the loneliness and how much they miss us so that’s why they do it. That it doesn’t mean anything to them. Sound familiar?” she asked Mary. Mary just sat there knowing damn well that it did sound familiar. That’s the same damn speech he gave her.

“Yeah that’s what I thought. So you have this option, you can dump him or I can kill you your choice sweetie.” She told her. Mary just sat there staring into space. “So what’s your answer?” Dorothea wanted to know.  Mary just sat there; she was getting sick and tired of these psycho’s telling them what they should do.

“Well if you kill me I hate to tell you that he’ll hate you so what makes you think he’ll go back to you?” she asked her.

“Because you’ll be out of the picture you dumb bitch. He’ll come to me for comfort like he always does.” She told Mary.

 “I don’t think so because he knows it you. You see my brothers told us it was you doing all this so you’ve been found out and if I show up dead he’ll know you did it and he’ll hate you. So I don’t fore see a future for the two of you any time soon.” She told her.

 “What do you mean he knows it me? I made sure I covered my tracks.” Dorothea said panicking. 

“Well not that great apparently because my brothers found evidence that it was you. You weren’t that clever now were you?” Mary said baiting her. Dorothea walked over to her and slapped her across the face. Mary just smiled at her and shook her head.

At the hospital the guys waited until the doctor gave the okay for them to talk to Tom so they could find out if he knew who was the one who knocked him out and took Mary. They waited about two hours before the doctor was able to get to them and Rick and Jon were pacing the corridor and jumping out of their skins. Finally he gave the okay to question him. They went into the cubicle as Tom was waiting for them. “Hi Tom how are you feeling?” A.J. asked.

“Like a truck ran me over.” He replied. “Look I’m sorry about what happened. But I didn’t think she was going to cold cock me.” Tom said.

“She? She who?” Jon asked.

“Your ex Dorothea. She came up to me was making small talk then said something like who was this coming and I looked and I think that’s when she stabbed me with something.” Tom told them.

“Dorothea! She’s the one that did this? That fucking Bitch! I’m going to kill her!” Jon yelled.

 “Jon calm down she’ll get hers. Right now we need to figure out where she’s keeping her.” A.J. said.

 “Oh God my parents are going to flip over this.” Jon said.

“I’m sure they will. Didn’t they treat her like family?” Rick asked.

“Yeah they did. This is going to hurt them something fierce.” Jon said upset. “I don’t know how I’m going to tell them.” They headed to the hotel to tell Jon’s parents. Jon sat them down and Carol was worried as hell that something terrible had happened to Dorothea. “Mom I hate to tell you this but…” Jon started to say as Carol butted in.

“Oh Jon just tell me, Dorothea has been kidnapped. No wait it’s worse isn’t it?” she started to say but John Sr. cut in.

“Dear will you let Jon finish. Go ahead son.” He said as he patted his wife on her back.

 Jon just took a breath. He knew his mother wasn’t going to believe him. “Look Mom I know you’re not going to believe this but it’s the truth. Dot is the one that’s doing all this to Mary. She’s the one sending her the flowers and she just kidnapped her and knocked out the body guard we put on her.”

 Carol just looked at him like he was kidding. “Are you serious? Little Dorothea did that? I don’t think so Jon. Why would she do that?” Carol asked.

“Because she’s nuts Mom that’s why. The Simon's have proof that she hired people to deliver the flowers and that she even bought them. And Tom verified that she was at the venue and she was the one that knocked him out. Why the hell would he lie?” Jon said angrily.

 “This is nonsense. Why would she do this Jon?” Carol asked.

“Because she wants me back and will do anything to get me back. She’s fucking crazy!” Jon yelled. “Jon Francis watch your mouth!” she told him.

 “But Mom she’s terrorizing my girlfriend how can you defend her?” he asked his mother. John Sr. was just shaking his head.

 “Because she wouldn’t do that Jon.” She told him.

“Jon are you sure that it’s Dorothea?” his father asked him.

“Yeah Pop were sure.” He said.

“Then what do you need from us?” John asked.

 “We need to search her room again. The Simon's think that maybe we might of missed something the first time that we searched it. You know that we weren’t looking for the first time.” He explained.

“Sure tell them that we’ll do anything that they need us to do to help.” John said.

“We will not, because it’s not Dorothea.  She could be out there hurt too and you’re not doing a thing to help her.” Carol insisted.

 “Mar she’s not hurt. She’s the one hurting Mary and I swear if she hurts her to the point that she needs a hospital I swear to God I’ll kill her.” Jon declared.

“Jon how can you say that?” Carol said angrily.

 “Easy.” He said coldly.

“Okay you two stop this right now this isn’t helping anyone. Jon you go get the Simon's and I’ll open up Dorothea’s door okay?” John told him. Jon left and went to go get the guys. They searched her room and they tore it apart.

“A.J. have you found anything useful?’ Rick asked him.

A.J. just sighed. “No have you?”

“No damn it I haven’t. This was a bust.” Rick said throwing one Dorothea’s suitcase’s on the bed.

“I don’t believe this shit there has to be something here that tells us something?” Jon asked annoyed.

“You would think.” A.J. said. Just then Jon’s father came in and said that there was a phone call for one of the Simon’s. “I hope that’s okay I told Chris to call us here if he remembered anything from the other day.” A.J. told Jon. A.J. went into Jon’s parent’s room to take the call. Carol was sitting on the couch watching him very closely. She knew that they weren’t going to find anything in Dorothea’s room. Rick and Jon finally walked in also and stood there waiting for A.J. to finish his call. When he got off the phone he was smiling.

“Good news Bro?” Rick asked.

 “Very that was Chris and he does remember something. He remembered a janitor was working that day. He was on today and he questioned him. He remembered Dorothea being there and he saw her a couple of times going in and out, and get this the basement of the auditorium.”

 “Well why the hell would she want to go in the basement of the…oh my God!” it hit Jon like a lead brick. “You mean she has Mary in the freaking basement?” Jon asked.

“It seems so. We’ll know more when we get there. We should have her back in a few hours just hang on tight okay?” Rick said.

Jon looked at him like he had two heads. “Are you kidding me? If you guys think that I’m staying here you have another thing coming.” He told them.

“Here we go again.” Rick said sarcastically.

 “Look Rick I’m not staying here while my girl is in trouble. Besides you’re going to need me to handle Dorothea.” Jon stated.

“Wait just one minute Jon. If you think you’re going to walk into danger you can forget it right now.” Carol told her son.

Jon just rolled his eyes at her. He never told her what had happened with Michael. She would have had a fit and a half. “Mom she’s my girlfriend and she’s being held by my ex because of me. Yes I’m going to go besides Dorothea will only listen to me.”

 Before Rick or Carol could argue with him A.J. stepped in. “You know he’s right. Dorothea will only listen to him and if we want to see Mary again in one piece Jon’s are only bet. I say he goes.” Rick didn’t like it but he knew A.J. and Jon were right. Jon kissed his mom and told his dad not to worry it wasn’t the first time he’s done something like this. It paid off to have a girlfriend in this line of business. They got back to the venue and decided to see Chris first. He said he hadn’t seen Dorothea come out so they assumed she was still down there and hopefully so was Mary. Mary was still tied to the chair as Dorothea walked back into the room. “So how are we doing? Hungry, thirsty yet?” she asked her. Mary just shooked her head no even thou she was but she wasn’t going to give her the satisfaction of letting her know that. “What’s the matter cat got your tongue?” she asked her. But Mary wasn’t in the mood to talk. She just thought that she would just ignore her and maybe she would go away.

“I said cat got your tongue?” and she slapped her across the face for not answering. “See what you get for not answering you Bitch.”

Mary just lifted her head back up with some blood trickling down her mouth. She could taste it. “I really don’t feel like talking.”

“Well I do and I want to talk about how Jon will welcome me back into his arms when you’re gone.” She said smiling.

Mary just shook her head and chuckled. “You know your delusional right.  There’s no way he’ll take you back whether I’m gone or not.” Mary told her. Another slap to the face.

 “Really you think so. I know him like a book. I know his every wants and needs. Do you? We can talk without saying a word. We finish each other’s sentences, do you?” she asked Mary.

“I’d answer but I don’t want another slap to the face. But hey what the hell right. Yes and more. I even know where his g-spot is, do you?” she said before she got another one right across the face.

“You fucking Bitch!” Dorothea yelled.

Licking her lips off of the blood, “I take that as a no.” Mary said as her face just got redder and redder.

The guys decided to head down the stairs. Rick was in the lead as A.J. held the rear. When they got to the bottom A.J. and Jon stayed together as Rick went off by himself. Rick was starting to hear voices coming from what seemed like an office way in the back. When he got there he heard what seemed like a woman’s voice yelling. He felt he found them and set off to find A.J. and Jon. They were searching the other side and some large amps and seats and other equipment which was being stored there when they heard Rick calling. “What is it Rick? Did you find them?” Jon asked.

 “I believe so. I heard a woman yelling in an office way in the back. That’s probably them. Let’s go before she decides to high tail it out of here.” They headed out to the office area where they could still hear the yelling. There was a small window where they could look in and when they did there she was tied to a chair and Dorothea hovering over her. But when she slapped her Jon jumped and the Simon’s had to hold him down.

“Calm down will get to her. Look she’s handling it she’s a Simon.” Rick said proudly.

“Rick I don’t give a shit about that. Dorothea’s lost her mind. I’m afraid what she’ll do to her.” Jon said upset.

Then A.J. had an idea. “Hey this might sound a little crazy but it’s all we have.”

“Well don’t keep it to yourself A.J. spill.” Rick said.

“Why don’t we send Jon in there and have him talk to her? I mean what the hell do we have to lose? He’s the one she wants right? He can try and talk her down and then maybe we can get in there and grab her or at least get Mary the hell out of the way.” A.J. explained.

“Look I’ll do anything.” Jon said anxiously.

 “Okay then it’s settled you’ll go in and do what you can to distract her and when you get her attention we’ll come in, you grab her and then we’ll do the rest got it?” Rick said. Jon understood. All he wanted to do was get his girl back safe and sound. He walked up to the door and took a deep breath and walked in.