Blemished Love - Season 1 - Episode 55

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Blemished Love - Season 1 - Episode 55

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When they got to the hospital, Stella’s mom was already there. Judge Reed had called her to check on him since he was far away from Seattle.


‘Hey Mom. Why is everyone staring at him that way?’ Stella asked while Dani rushed inside.
‘He was asleep when I came.’
‘Okay but has he been told yet?’
‘No, the doctor wanted to get some test done first because his body isn’t responding to touches.’
‘I hope everything works out fine.’ Stella said patting her mother on the shoulder.
Tom left mother and daughter at the door so he could check on Dane.
‘Dad, your princess is here.’ Shirley rubbed his forehead.


She had no idea, he could barely speak. Dane opened his eyes slowly and smiled weakly.
‘Shirley, your dad can’t speak now. Can you come out for a while?’
‘No, it’s alright.’ He said taking the breathing aid off his nose.’
‘Uncle Tom, he can talk.’ Dani joyfully announced shaking the bed.
‘Easy, Shirley.’ He cautioned so he could stop shaking the bed.
‘I’m sorry but I’m just happy.’
‘I will leave you two alone.’ Tom told him.
‘No, wait here. I don’t know why everyone is avoiding me.’


Tom wasn’t surprised because Stella and her mom were still at the door staring at him.
‘I’m sure they are happy you made it.’ He said while Dani was busy poking his nose and laughing.
‘Daddy, can I become a doctor and a lawyer at the same time?’


He nodded and smiled weakly. ‘Yes, but I thought you wanted to be like your mom.’
‘Emmm I want that too but I need to build you a new leg and I can only do that if I’m a doctor like Lisa.’


For some reason the room was quiet all of a sudden and Tom examined the look on his face. He realized Dane hasn’t been told yet about his leg.


‘Princess, it’s the drugs. I’m sure I would start walking soon.’ Dane explained because Michelle had earlier on came to check him out and he complained of not feeling his legs.


‘No, Dad. Mom said you had your leg cut off.’ She said quickly before Tom could stop him.


‘Cut off?’ He asked surprised and tried to lift himself up forgetting his whole body can’t move yet.

‘Hey, just relax. Let me get Michelle.’ He was rushing out to find the doctor when he called him back.

‘What happened to my leg? Can you lift the duvet off my body?’ Dane said sadly.
Just then the police came in with Stella and her mom following them.
‘Uncle Tom, why are they holding handcuffs?’
‘Princess, it’s okay. Dad just need to answer some questions.’ Dane said staring at them.

‘Okay, I would sit outside.’ She rushed off leaving the policemen speechless.
‘What’s the problem officer’s?’ Tom faced them when Dane was suddenly mute.
‘We are here to question Mr. Reed.’
‘But weren’t you told he just woke up.’ Mrs. Medts chipped in.

‘We know all that but it’s been a week and the bullets retrieved from his legs and that of the deceased was a match.’
‘So, he’s now a suspect?’ Tom asked angrily.
‘Of course he is? We just want to know what happened since there was no witness.’
‘You retrieve a bullet from his legs and that makes him a murder. Come on, get something better.’ Tom muttered.
‘I don’t think you understand the gravity of this situation Mr……..’


Tom cut them off. ‘It’s Tom. And I understand you rookies perfectly. All we ask is a day more for him to regain his strength.’
‘Hold on, who is the deceased?’ Dane finally asked after looking on the whole time.
‘Mr. Henry?’ The other quiet rookie answered.


‘Yes, I remember he shot me thrice in the leg during the fight and I grabbed his gun when it went off but hi…..’
‘There you go, he shot him in self-defense. Now you can go.’
Tom knew once Dane admits he shot him without adding it was self-defense he would be in trouble and besides the rookies were naïve and he knew that from the past week they were in and out of the hospital.
The two police men glanced at Tom. ‘But he needs to prove that.’
‘I think I can help with that.’ Bryan said behind them with Shirley on his shoulders.


Tom’s face changed at that moment and he hurriedly grabbed Shirley off his shoulders.
‘Mr. Sculley, I thought you had no idea what happened.’ The shorter rookie asked.
‘Yes, I didn’t until my friends confessed a while ago.’
‘Your friends?’
‘Cephas and Jake. I have it all on recording.’ He answered the police officers.
‘Good, we would need the recording and you have to come with us to the station.’
‘That’s fine with me.’ Bryan announced with an angry face on.
He wasn’t going to bring the recording to the police but he knew his friends would point their fingers to Melisa if he doesn’t.
‘Alright, Mr. Reed. Don’t leave town and Mr. Tom I hope you can keep an eye on him.’
‘He’s going nowhere.’ He replied them and while they walked out.
Tom saw Dane pushing his tears back countless times after the police had left while Dani jumped up and down with a lot of questions.
‘Dad, are you angry with Lisa?’
‘No, why did you ask?’
‘Because she’s not here and you haven’t asked about her yet.’
‘Princess, can we grab some ice-cream?’ Stella interrupted so she could stop asking too much questions.
‘But I want to spend time with Dad.’ She frowned.
‘Dad needs some rest.’ Mrs. Medts chipped in.
‘Okay,’ she said and landing a peck on his dads forehead.
Tom waited for them to leave and he grabbed the next chair beside him.
‘Now we are alone. You can let it all out.’
Dane didn’t wait for him to finish before he started shedding tears. Tom watched him cry and when he was done he wiped his face with the duvet.


‘Sorry, I embarrassed myself.’
‘That’s okay, at least you picked the best person to witness your tears.’
‘Yeah you are right.’ Dane replied slowly.
‘Can we talk about what happened?’
‘You mean the shoot out?’
‘Was it really self-defense?’ Tom had to clear his doubts even though he defended him earlier.
‘I don’t know Tom. I really wanted that guy dead.’


Tom shifted his chair closer to his bed. ‘What do you mean by that?’
‘After I dropped Dani that morning at school, I was on my way back when I had a call from him asking me to meet him.’
‘You should have refused.’
‘I did until he told me he was right behind Lisa’s car with a gun.’ Dane tried to feel his leg unconsciously.
‘Maybe he was bluffing.’ Tom mentioned.
‘I couldn’t take that chance.’ He said shyly.
‘Why did he choose you when Lisa wasn’t yours anymore?’
‘I still love your sister and she loves me. Henry knew Bryan could easily be controlled but with me he had to put up a fight.’
‘So if I get you correctly, you were willing to die for my sister and leave your daughter fatherless.’


‘Dani would always have Grissel but Lisa has only me.’


‘But you do know I don’t want you for my sister right?’ Tom selfishly asked.
‘I do know that especially when you are comfortable with Bryan in her life.’
‘After what you just told me, I don’t think I want him around my sister.’
Dane laughed and winced in pain.
‘I’m glad I made you laugh but you still haven’t told me how you ended up in Lisa’s area.’
‘I had no idea Lisa and Bryan were moving in together, Henry teased me about that when I got there.’
‘Let me guess, you don’t like to be teased so you started to fight him.’ Tom chipped in.
‘You are right, he was already with a gun when I got there but his laughter got me pissed off.’
‘You could have called for help.’
‘I called your sister and she hanged up. Even after I was shot, she was the first person I could think of since Henry mentioned her place was near.’
‘I’m sorry, she was probably still angry with you.’
‘She answered the call and told Bryan to tell me it was a wrong number.’
‘Wait a minute, Bryan answered your call or my sister.’
‘Yes, I heard his voice before i went unconscious but I’m sure I heard Lisa’s voice too.’
‘That b-----d, I knew he was hiding something.’ Tom literally jumped up.
‘Don’t blame him, he was probably acting on your sisters orders.’
‘No, Lisa would never do that to you.’
‘You may never know Tom. Pain changes people.’
‘I’m just glad you are okay.’
‘You call this okay,’ he pointed his left hand to his right leg.’ He had no idea how his hands suddenly got strength.
‘Your hands can move now.’
‘I think so but my leg is gone.’ He murmured sadly.
‘It was an impossible situation, Lisa did her best.’
‘Lisa? What does she have to do with all these?’ Dane asked naively.
‘The Medical Power of Attorney.’ He mentioned to him quickly.
‘Oh yeah, I brought that to the hospital the night I left your place.’
‘Why would you do that when you had no idea Henry was going to call you?’
‘Fighting Henry after he nearly knocked off Grissel was my plan but he beat me to it first with his call.’
‘You knew he was the one, you could have said something when I asked.’
‘One of us needs to be alive for the ladies in our lives.’ Dane said slowly lifting the duvet off his leg while Tom kept pushing his hands away.
‘So you were going to kill him how?’ Tom whispered quietly.
‘I don’t know Tom, all I wanted was him to leave the ladies alone.’
‘Make sure the police doesn’t get a hint of this.’
‘Thank you for earlier and even though I meant to kill him, his friends were also guilty.’
‘The gun went off in the middle of your fight right?’ Tom figured it out.
‘Yes, it felt good but then his friends appeared from nowhere that was when he shot me thrice in the leg.’
‘So he didn’t die immediately.’
‘No, I saw them dragging him to his car.’
‘That explains why he died at his apartment.’
‘Well I’m glad he’s gone.’ Dane replied just when Michelle came in to check on him.
Tom went out to put a call through to Melisa.
‘Drag your lazy self to the hospital right now.’ He said immediately Melisa’s Hello came through the phone.
‘Tom, I’m drunk.’
‘Are you serious right now?’
‘Goodbye.’ She hanged up before Tom could say another word.