234's Lifelines

54. Chess Pieces

July 2nd 2017 2 million reads!!! My sometimes petty self loves you all sincerely 

Funny fact a knock on Hera's door by Peter took Lexis' memories away, a knock on her door five years later by Peter brings it back.

Fight Song - Rachel Platten 

"Tennessee Williams once wrote; When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone." - Lucas Scott One Tree hill

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Maeve arrives at Lexis' mums house. She'd gone to Jess' and rang the bell for a while to no response so she'd decided to come over to the house to see if Hera had returned. 

She knocks on the door but gets no response. She tries twisting the door knob and it gives way opening the door to the house. She walks in.

"Miss Reynolds," She calls out looking around but stops in her tracks once she gets to the middle of the living room.

On the ground were shattered pieces of glass and blood with Lexis seated in the pool of it all.

"Alexander!"Maeve yells hurrying towards him. She bends down and reaches out for him but he withdraws.

"What happened here?" She asks looking around and stops as her eyes falls on the painting on the wall. She takes a step closer, forehead furrowed as her eyes glance over the painting.

"Isn't that..."

"Hera Reynolds, my ex- fiancee," Lexis suddenly says standing up. He totters, Maeve immediately reaches out to hold him but he pushes her hands away.

Maeve glances back at the picture then at him. Her mind starts rolling as she connects the dots.

"She lied," Maeve says sadly.

He simpers.

"Won't be the first nor the last," Lexis replies seating down.

She wasn't the only one who'd lied though, Karen had too, as had Nathan...everyone close to him had lied. Her heart goes out to him knowing the only one he'd trusted Hera, had been just as untruthful as the others.

She glances at him and notices his blood again. Letting out a heavy sigh she turns around and hurries to the kitchen searching for some first aid but finds none. She walks over to the storage and opens it revealing a couple of luggages. She looks to the side and notices the first aid box. She quickly picks it up and hurries to the living room. Picking the broom and dustpan she cleans up the glass shards, throws it away and returns with a mop to wipe the blood. Dropping the mop to the side, she  disinfects her hands and opens up the first aid box. A couple of papers were folded on top of the supplies.

She picks up the folded papers and unfolds them. Glancing at the first page, her lips open and close in shock. She shuffles though the other pages, once done she looks up at Lexis and then the paper wondering whether to tell him or not.

"What's in it?" He asks having noticed her actions.

"A ticket,"She says, his right eye twitches.

"For?"He asks almost as if he didn't want to know but had to know.

"Hera and Shakespeare, to Nigeria. Alexander it's a one way ticket for tomorrow," Maeve states.

Lexis holds the bridge of his nose and breaks out into a strained laugh.

Maeve looks on worriedly, had this revelation driven him crazy?

She silently watches him as he laughs, her mind going over everything that had happened since she met Hera and it all began to make sense. Her reaction when they'd first met, the name of the father, the DNA tester in his office, Jess' reaction to Karen. How could she have missed all the signs? If her mates from Quantico heard this they'd never believe it.