Chapter 20 - Deadly Aims (Part 1)

Princess Irina's main goal is to rule Pemberley on her own and to become like her Dad, she planned to eliminate or dispose the entire family of Grandpa Eddie except her sons. But she'll do that after Lady Sophia officially passed the house to them, by that, she can have the whole castle on her own. It maybe sounds insane and barbaric, but she is what she is, she will do anything just to get what she want. She don't love William anymore, but what's the point of forcing his father to resign earlier to pass the position to William whom she planned to kill?

Actually at first, Irina was against on his father's decision to pass the position to her husband instead of her.

Yes, she once wanted the position but Mrs. Wickham understands their daughter's situation, Irina was furious about it, so Mr. Wickham gave her another chance, that she should find herself a proper husband and break up with Sam, her parents knows that Sam runs an illegal association in London but Irina begged to spare it because she loves Sam, then that's it, Irina broke up with Sam, she didn't told him that she's already 2 weeks pregnant by their child who is Jim, Sam was hurt and she was broke, Irina ran to the River Thames and secretly cried there when she heard a loud shout of a man who is William.

They easily got along because they were both broke that night. If you're gonna ask Princess Irina if she loved William, in fact yes, but it faded when Sam came back 14 years after her wedding with William. She just used William as her cover for 2 years as much she's having a secret affair with Sam for 2 years. As Mr. Wickham promised to her, he will appoint her husband as the next Prime Minister when he retires, then Sam and Irina will make a cover up murdering William so that the position will be passed onto Irina the wife.

Irina didn't went home at Milton because Sam seduced her and slept at Sam's room. They were naked and Sam is already tired asleep shagging her but Irina is still awake and read the text messages, she just ignored all the text from her husband, she received a text message from Susan.

"I already did my part, but there's someone I want to include."

"Go on then, just borrow my men."

Back at Cambridge, Willie actually recorded his conversation with Irina and Sam earlier, he wants Junior to hear it so that he will be the one to speak with Hugh. But apparently, William is also there, so he made a decision to also tell William about everything he knows and his secrets. He told William to stay calm before and after hearing the record.

"What actually is it Willie? You're making me nervous." William said while crossing his arms.

"Could you take Jerry to your room for a bit Junior? I think he shouldn't hear this." Of course he don't want Jerry to hear it.

"Okay Uncle." Junior immediately told Jerry to stay in the room for a bit.

"William, before I'll play this, can I ask you a question?" said Willie while looking at William.

"What is it?"

"Why you didn't told us?"

"About what?"

"That you've been hiding in the closet."

"What-"

"Why you didn't told us that you're queer after all? You like balls and dicks all this time? I thought it was just a prank seeing you kissing yourself in the mirror when we are just a kid."

William was surely shocked about it that he straighten his arms.

"First of all that's bullshit, and I didn't kissed that mirror...Just when and how did you know?"

"Since last week, when your fucking wife and his lover Sam kidnapped me when I was on Scotland."

"What the..it was her, it, it was her all along." William stumbled and almost collapsed in the couch.

"Dad, dad, calm down." Junior held him.

"Junior, you knew about him?" asked Willie to Junior who is comforting his dad.

"Yeah, last year, and I confirmed it last month."

"In fact, he's like me." William added.

Willie was shocked and frightened once more.

"Dad will kill you both if he knows about this, you know how he hates queers." Willie warned them.

"I know, that's why I remained closed and lived a heterosexual life and married a woman."

"You're crazy William, you dragged a lot of women including my wife as your cover of you being poof!"

Willie tried to attack William in frustration but Junior stopped them.

"Uncle! Dad! Stop it!" Junior while trying to separate them

"You don't know what you did to Emily! If it wasn't for me being in love with her, she would have died that night! Now I know the reason why she keeps insisting to tell me the truth of your sudden break up, because you're a fucking poof!"

Willie tried to reach his hands on William to attack him again and Junior was there to hold him.

"Uncle stop! Please, can we move on now? Play the recorder already so that we could settle this things up." Junior while holding them both sides.

"This won't settle Junior, this maybe will answer our questions, but it will make our situation worst." said William while fixing his jacket.

"Look Willie, I loved Emily more than you know."

"Then why didn't you marry her right away? Why wait for Junior to turn 5? That's because your having a secret affair with a man!"

"Uncle Willie stop! Those days are over, we should move on, okay I'll be the one to press that recorder to play." said Junior while pressing the button.

It replayed the whole conversation of Willie, Irina, Sam and Jim at Sam's house earlier. William was completely heartbroken after confirming that he's been raising a child that wasn't his, he's suspicion was right. And what's worst, Jim is liking Sam over him as a father. He lay back on the couch and showed a worthless face and cried.

"Who is this Sam guy?" William asked while sobbing.

"Sam Westerby is my high school classmate, I heard he's been dating with Irina for 2 years, God William how could you not ever suspect her? Are you truly that busy in work?"

"This Sam guy, what he's been doing up today?"

"He's a leader in their association of Hired Killers in London and an Illegal Guns and Rifles Smuggler, he's quite a rich, lot of men, in fact, it was he's men who's been following me from Scotland."

"We've been followed too."

Willie told them everything he knows about Irina and Sam's real plan.

"Willie, why are they telling you that?"

"Like I said, they kidnapped me when I was on work at Scotland."

"But why you? They're not that stupid just to randomly pick a person to tell their plans, they must have something want from you."

"They're the one who told me to document Hugh and.., and ..-" Willie stumbled and can hardly speak the following words.

"What? Willie what?" William is intrigued.

"They..They made me..bbb..bribe the massacre at Scotland."

"I beg your pardon?" William almost didn't believed what his brother said.

Willie nodded his head in guilt and started to sob.

"I have no choice, they threatened me, I know what they're capable of." said Willie while sobbing.

"Why would they want to bribe that case?"

"It was part of their plan to eliminate Mr. Brown for you to be the only option of the position."

"Wwhat? I don't understand, she's been cheating on me but she wants her Dad to pass the position to me." William was now more confused.

"Another thing, she wants Mr. Beckett to resign next week the day you'll be introduce."

"They're rushing, they're up to something. I now know what should I do. But I need your help Willie."

They took a break and continued to eat their dinner and let Jerry out on the room.

"Junior, I actually came here to give this drive to you." said Willie while giving a flashdrive to Junior.

"What's in that?" asked William.

"That's the my proof of innocence, I also put the real report of the massacre at Scotland and the record I played earlier. That's the only thing that can clear my name if in case they decided to arrest or kill me."

"You didn't answer my question earlier that why did they picked you? Aren't they scared that you might tell us? Or, they know something from you that you don't want the public to know?" asked William.

"A,Actually..When they were spying me at Scotland, they knew that I, I have a daughter at Scotland in another woman." Junior and William was frightened about what he just said.

"Daughter?"

"She was just 9 months old, her mother died while giving birth to her."

"You, you cheated on Emily."

"And so do you!"

"But you're married with her, and I'm not."

"What's the difference between what you did to Irina, you're worst, you cheated with your wife, with men!"

They started to raise their voice again

"Dad, Uncle, Jerry is listening, can you put that aside for now?"

"I'm worried what they will do next, Irina has been making contact with Susan." said Willie

"Susan? Hugh's wife?" asked the confused William

"Yes, it looks like they will frame them."

"Perhaps, they had agreed on one thing. Susan is the ex-wife of Lucius."

"What are we gonna do now?"

"We have to stop everything."

"But how? We can't just go to them and stop them right away."

"There's one thing that Irina hates, the public, she doesn't want the public to know what she is. I'll reveal it all in my speech next week, but I need your help Willie."

"Don't, they'll blow your head up, let's not make it obvious."

A week has passed, Aunt Sophia decided to pass the castle to her nephew Eddie early as they expected, according to her, her disease is getting worst and she can feel that she will not last until June. She told Eddie to change to rule for good and revoke the sensitive one and give some freedom of the family. Grandpa Eddie was emotional when he's signing the title as the new Head Master of the Burghley House, everyone is present there and witnessed the signing. Finally, a whole family picture with Junior, he stand in the middle behind Grandpa Eddie and Grandma Wilma because he can't choose between his Mother and Father's side.

William, Junior and Willie pretended that they know nothing about Irina's plan as much as Irina and Jim pretending to them. Mr. Beckett told William that he will introduce him in the next days because Irina told him that he should retire earlier so that he could rest early. Irina has no idea that Willie double-crossed her and started a plan with William and Junior. Susan was also at the signing and asked Irina about something.

"How is he?" asked Susan in a secret.

"That's none of your business, the important thing now is you have done your part." Irina replied.

"There's one thing I want you to do for me."

"And what is it?"

"Hugh has been a helping a girl behind my back for years."

"I know who it is." Irina replied in an instant. "You mean that Eliza? That's Junior's little girlfriend, and the Grandchild of my former nanny."

"How'd you know?"

"Oh come on Susan, I had her track before. What do you want to do her?"

"Include her."

"Sure."

"But not so fast friend, we still have to appoint William and eliminate him, then I'll be the one to take over his position and you can have the Burghley House."

Princess Irina managed to fool Susan by her greed of the castle, but Susan has no idea that it can lead her of being framed.

In the middle of their conversation, Irina noticed that Aunt Sophia led William and Junior inside.

"So Aunt Sophia, when is your schedule of flight to America?" William asked while pushing the wheelchair of Aunt Sophia.

"Tomorrow actually. I guess Amanda will be surprised, I told her that I'll move there next month."

"We hoped you the best Aunt Sophia." said Junior.

"And I have I hopes for you two, you could change this family, make everyone just be who they are. I talked to Eddie about that by the way, at first he disagreed because his father my brother is a total jerk when it talks about queers, he really hates them. But don't worry, Eddie agreed in the end."

"Thank you Aunt Sophia." said William.

On the other hand, Irina decided to talk with Willie in private.

"What now?" asked Willie.

"Can you put in the news about our vacation this coming Monday at Liverpool? I want the people to know about our vacation."

"Okay-"

"But, change the address."

"I beg your pardon?"

"Glasgow, instead of Liverpool."

"What are you trying to do?"

"I arranged an elegant party for us in Sam's mansion at Glasgow, but don't worry we won't tell them, they'll only know that once they are already in Sam's train."

"Then what? Kill us all there?"

"Of course not. I will be there too, we will only have a family bonding and a celebration of our success."

"I don't care, I can't do it anymore Irina, enough of this, what more do you want from us? Now what, you want to expose my daughter? Then go." Willie is already pissed but Irina just laughed.

"Oh, Willie is pissed." said Irina while rubbing Willie's chest. "I forgot to tell you, that some of my men is at Scotland, don't worry, I won't expose you, but I can wipe your daughter without a mess." she added while whispering it in Willie's ears and left him speechless.

Moving on, the night after the signage, Junior was at his apartment doing his thesis and Eliza was with him.

"I'm surprised you visit." said Junior while typing on his laptop.

"Yeah, I'm glad about it too, actually, I resigned on the club."

"Really? That's a good decision."

"I'm a call center agent now." said Eliza while giggling.

"For real? That's awesome!" Junior stand up and lifted Eliza. "I'm so proud of you!" he added and hugged her.

"Thank you..Why don't you ask who helped me?"

"Who was it?"

"It's your Sr." said Eliza in a huge smile.

"My Dad?"

"Yeah. I told him about my job and he told me to resign because he'll help to apply on a call center jobs."

"Oh I'm so happy for you." Junior kissed Eliza on the lips for the first time. "I love you Ms. Cleaver, I wish we could stay like this forever." he added

They continued to kiss each other but they stopped when someone knocked on the door.

"I'll get it." said Junior while putting down Eliza and went straight down.

There he was surprised of the sudden arrival of Lucas."

"Oi, Lucas, it's you. Come in."

When they got up, Lucas was surprised that Eliza was also there.

"Eliza, Hi.." Lucas greeted Eliza and seated on the couch beside Eliza, Junior brought him a juice.

"So, Lucas, what's with the sudden visit?" asked Junior while pitching a juice.

"I had no contact with dad for a week, he's not answering my calls, I went to Windsor Gardens but he was not there, I went to Fitzwilliam and British Museum and asked if they have idea where dad is." Lucas starts to sobs.

"Then what did they told you?"

"They said that Dad requested a week leave through email last week. But I don't have any idea where he is and I asked your Dad, he also can't reach my dad. Junior, I think he's missing." Lucas started to cry and Eliza comforted her.

"Have you told Dad about this?"

"Not yet."

"How about your mom?

"She keeps declining my calls, I texted her but she won't reply."

William on the other hand is having their dinner with Irina and his sons.

"I'm really excited for your speech tomorrow, we'll look forward to it." said Irina while holding William's hand.

William knows that she's faking it so he didn't respond and just nodded his head, he can see that Jim is just looking at his phone and not eating anything.

"Jim, your food is getting cold, you haven't touched anything." said William but Jim just ignored him and went up to his room without a word.

Jim don't see as his father anymore, but in William's eyes, even if Jim isn't his biological son, he is the one who raised him and the one who is registered as the father, so he will still treat Jim as his real son.

William was worried about Lucius because he and him don't have contact for a week already, it made worst when Lucas asked him about it, so he also came up that Lucius was really missing. He decided to go to St. Albans to seek help for Willie even tho Irina tried to stop him from going there. When he's about to get in the car, Junior called him that Lucas needed their help because his father is missing, so William decided to take them with him at St. Albans. Irina immediately called Sam that she wanted his men to follow William where he goes, she also texted the boy she pays to spy on Junior.

"Are you with him?

"No."

"Okay, there is something you have to do."

"What is it?"

Willie on the other hand is writing the headline about Prime Minister's sudden retirement and will introduce William his son-in-law to take over the position. While Emily is packing their things because they will move to Pemberley tomorrow as Grandpa Eddie told them alongside Aunt Sophia's departure. Grandma Emma will not move with them because this is her house since Emily was just a child and she don't want to sell it.

"You sure you don't want live with us there mom? It's nice there, plenty of rooms, lot of gardens." said Emily while folding their clothes.

"I'm so happy that you went this far Emily, but I'll be happier if I'll be the one to guard this house of ours, my memories will lies here." Grandma Emma while helping her daughter.

"At least come with us in the vacation at Liverpool."

"I'll try."

They were alarmed by the knock of the door, it's William, Junior, Lucas and Eliza who just arrived.

"William..Junior.." Emily immediately hugged Junior.

"Hey Mom..Hello Granny..I missed you.." Junior hugged Granny.

After they greeted each other, William immediately looked for Willie.

"Emily, is Willie here?" asked William

"Yes, he's in our room. Go to him, I think he's writing the headline for tomorrow."

Junior introduced Lucas to his mother.

"Mom, this is Lucas Selvig, remember Lucius? This is his son."

"Lucius's son?"

"Hello madam, it's nice to meet you." Lucas while shaking Emily's hand.

"And, Aunt Susan is his mother." Emily was shocked about what she heard.

"Hello, Lucas, you're taller than I thought. By the way, how's your father?"

"That's why we're here, we are wondering if Uncle Willie has some lead where Lucius is, he's been missing for week already."

Emily might have the right to get mad by Lucius, but she's not actually mad at him. Actually, she met Lucius first before William, they were once best friends and schoolmates, Lucius is also the one who introduced William in her life. The truth behind their unfortunate love story was complicated, Emily already knew that Lucius and William had a relationship when she was just pregnant with Junior, one thing she didn't know that Lucius is already married and had a child. She once heard William at the restroom crying in the phone saying that he's breaking up with Lucius for good when Junior was just an infant. Starting that day, Emily knows how genuinely William loved her that he gave up his long time lover just for her and their son.

The day when she caught William and Lucius at the garage, she's actually hiding but she bumped into a can and they saw her. William was so shocked that he only told Emily not to tell his parents and then left her with Lucius who is still crying. She then approached Lucius, Lucius thought he'll be slap or harmed, but instead, Emily hugged him.

"Hey there old friend, it's gonna be alright."

The only words that Emily said to Lucius before he left and never saw him again for almost 16 years. Lucius felt guilty and afraid to face Emily again, in his mind, he betrayed and backstabbed his friend. Emily is now much worried when they told her that Lucius is missing.

Willie has no idea that William is already behind him so he was frightened.

"What are you doing here?"

"Lucius is missing."

"Who's Lucius?"

"My...my..Friend"

"You sure that's just a friend? Driving from Cambridge to here?"

"Okay, he's my lover. Satisfied now?"

"Was that the same guy you date with at the restaurant that Irina showed me?"

"Willie, I only dated the same guy in over two decades."

"Well.. that's quite..long, you met him before Emily?"

"That's none of your business anymore, now can you please help me find him? You're still friend with that Harry right? Did he gave you access in the CCTVs in entire London?"

"That's breaking the confidentiality rule William."

"Come on, no one will know."

Actually Harry is the one who helped Willie to locate Emily when the night that she's about to commit suicide at her house at Haverhill.

"Okay, I'll ask him."

Willie then calls friend Harry who's the head of monitoring the CCTVs in entire London. While Willie is talking with Harry, Emily called out William.

"Um William? Can I talk with you for a moment?

"Uh..okay."

Emily brought William in their terrace.

"How long have you known that Lucius already moved in England from France?"

"Last September, but he said that he moved last August."

"Why you didn't tell me?"

"I think you shouldn't know."

"He's my friend too William."

"He told me not to tell you. I think he-"

"....You guys still dating? And, why you didn't tell me that he was married and had a child?"

William didn't get to answer because Willie called him and went back to the room where Willie is.

"Okay he agreed, but it's gonna be hard since we don't know what, where or when is the actual time he disappeared."

"Well start from his house in Windsor Gardens at night exactly a week starting tonight."

William guessed the correct time and place. They noticed the arrival of red fancy car in front of Lucius's house and they didn't know that it was Susan who's inside it. Then the taxi arrived where Lucius is in it, they noticed that Lucius stopped opening the door at looked at the red car and a woman opened the door and let him inside it then drove away. They identified the car it was owned by Susan Darcy.

"Now it made sense that Irina keeps seeing with Susan, they were collaborating." said Willie in shock.

"Susan is the ex-wife of Lucius."

They tried to locate where they goes but it was blocked.

"Someone is covering it."

"This is not good, this is not good." William starts to panic.

"You're not going to rush into Hugh's house aren't you?" asked Willie.

"Of course not. Susan maybe had a deal with Irina that's why they worked together."

"You know when I dug Hugh's clubbing business, I found out that he only not runs a clubs, but he's also the biggest drug producer in UK."

"Oh God, we're surrounded by the biggest criminals in England." said William while walking back and forth.

"I'll go back to Sam's house tomorrow, I'll try to get some information where they put Lucius or they probably put him there, his house has a lot of basements and rooms."

"But tomorrow's Sunday, you have to be there with me at press conference."

"I'll leave my assistant to record everything there. I also requested more securities in that hall for safety, they might assassinate you. Just do everything according to our plan. And we try to catch up"

"Okay, just don't drop the line, update me everytime."

"Is Junior with you?"

"In fact they're at your living room."

"Okay I'll talk to him."

"You're not trying to bring him with you at Sam's house aren't you?"

"I think Sam didn't saw him in person yet."