Start of Chapter 1 - A House Divided-

- Main Characters Status-

-Age- 28

-Sex- Male

-Status- Married

-Offspring- 1 - female

-Mental Heath- Unknown

-Name- Alexander Roe

-Name of Spouse- Christina Roe

- Name of Child- Rebecca Roe

-Length of Marriage- 10 years

-End Status Report-

-August 1st 2020-

I awoke to the smell of coffee and eggs. A smirk started to form on my face as I glanced toward the alarm clock close to our king sized bed.

-7:30-

*Best get dressed* Alexander thought. As he made his way to the closet of his bedroom.

The closet had a array of outfit. From the common Blue jeans and T-Shirt to the higher class of Suit and Tie with matching pants. Limited and 3- 4 of each kind to keep back on cost.

Even though he could afford better he felt that if he had extra money it should go to his daughter or wife since his only real wants was to see their smiles.

Since today was a big day for his wife and daughter he put on his favorite grey wool professors jacket and a burgundy button up shirt with matching grey khaki pants.

He looked at him self in the mirror.

His eye are a hazel, blending blue, green and brown and at times changing to them in their entente. Kind eyes that when pushed turned harder than the hardest stone.

His hair was balding on top now, showing bit of premature grey alluding to wisdom within its depths.

Wrinkles around his once modest face showing a peace that few achieve and fewer actually show.

" Damn, I'm not even half my fathers age and still look like his brother!" he mumbled as he saw the man staring back from mirror.

"I guess it could be worse...i could look like my grandpa John."

He straightened his jacket and left the room to go down the stairs to find his daughter at the table half asleep eating her eggs as his wife had just finished putting our food on the table and was make her self a cup of coffee.

He sneaked *wants to type snuck* up behind her slowly. Looking to his daughter and putting his finger making a silencing motion. She smiled noticing what her father was about to do.

As his wife was about to turn around he jumped forward making a loud "Woof" like sound scaring his wife almost making her spill her coffee.

Him and Rebecca started to laugh, to the ire of Christina.

Sensing the approaching danger and with all hope to stem it he kissed his wife with as much passion he could muster.

- Three years later-

Alexander was returning from a lecture on the many types of pre-historic people and the once in which he found. And as you might have deduced out of the last sentence he is a Historian of some regard after a few archeological digs that panned out.

Making him famous and enough money to retire which he took as a cue to become a simple teacher.

He had told his wife that he would be coming home tomorrow in hope to give her a good surprise. He always loved giving her and his daughter pleasant surprises. The shock and happiness made every moment he had with them all the more sweeter.

He had a plan in which he would hire a cab from the airport. Take it a block away from his house and sneak in through the backdoor and jump out from behind the couch when Christina returned from the movies with Rebecca. Christina had told him over the phone last night, before he got on the plane, that they would go see a movie since it was once Rebecca had been wanting to see.

With that in mind he figured he would give them a nice surprise.

He did as plan but while in the cab he remembered to call his best friend Mike. Mike is a lawyer by trade and was pretty good at it.

" Hey Mike its Alex how have you been?!" -Alexander-

"Hey guy, I've been good. How's Christina and Rebecca?" -Mike-

"They have been good. Been away at a conference was wondering if you want to go out for drinks tomorrow night? You know,like old time." -Alex-

"Hm... I don't drink anymore but I like food so lets grab a bite instead." -Mike-

"That an even better idea! Want to bring the wives? " -Alex-

"Yeah that will work." Mike

" Alright I'll call you later to make the plans." Alex

"Later guy." Mike

The call ended as the driver stopped where he want to be. He got out of the cab after handing him a $50 which was a little extra but he did care.

He began his way to his house.

As he got closer to the house he noticed his bedroom light on near the top of his 2 story suburban home. This struck his as odd. But he just changed his plan. He would sneak into the house and surprise them with something else. Him not sure what yet.

He walked to his house in a normal fashion now but instead of making a loud noise when opening the door with the key they had under the door mat he entered the house.

The lower levels of the house where dark. With a creaking sound coming from above.

This shocked Alex... but he quickly gained his senses. And Stalked up the stairs to the left of the front door making sure to miss the third step that would undoubtedly creak if any pressure was put on it.

At the top of the stair their was a hallway which led to the left and right . The creaking was louder up here...he heard moans...his vision started to black out.

"No...must keep control... even if it kills me." Alex thought not daring to solidify his thoughts

He walked slowly not able to creep...holding his breath. His and his wife's room door was left ajar letting a slit of light show. As he neared the sounds became louder.

"Let her just be materbating...yes just porn...by all the gods from old to new let it be that..." he prayed,never believing in any of that his whole life.

As he closed in at looked through the slit his hard left him and a coldness that could only be compared to death overtook his thoughts.

"Cheat..liar...fool...death...agony...BETRAYER..." Ancient and new curses sprouted from his mind but none left his mind as he saw his wife. Moaning...Panting like a dog in heat loving every minute with some man that Alex has never seen.

Then as Alex thought he was about to lose all control of his body a calmness overcame him. It was a calm...a focus that destroyed worlds.

He took out his phone and took a picture making sure to turn off the sound. He then left the house. Slowly...methodically one could say... making sure not a trace of him being there was left.

Once he was outside the front door, with the key back under the mat he walked far enough away that no one in the house could hear him. He took out his phone and called Mike.

"Mike,Can you do me a favor." Alex said coldly

This scared Mike. Alex was many things ,but cold..No never.

"What happened Alex?" There was fear in Mikes voice.

"Will you do me a favor Mike, I need an answer." Alex again...cold

" Of course man I would go to hell and back for ya. " Mike said in earnest try to puzzle out what happened to turn his friend into someone cold,someone...emotionless.

"Good...I'll be at your house in twenty minutes...you will understand then." Alex hung up.

Mike was scared. He had seen his friend like this once and that was when some drunk man tried to rape his 16 year old sister. She got away unscathed but the other man was still in a coma. And that was when Alex was 14. When he got angry to a certain point it turned into a cold,void that would swallow up all emotion.

I was asked how it happened and he said " My anger turns into a burning flame in my mind...it consumes all other emotions then at last it consumes my hate and anger making me...void."

Alex had just walked through the little picket fence in front of Mikes home when he finally notice that he had walked the 2 miles without noticing it. Sweat hung to his old, now worn wool blazer he had been given by his grandfather before his passing.

He looked at it for a moment before heading to the door. "I'm gonna have to have a tailor five this again..." the thought kinda echoed within his mind trying to fill the void. He raised his hand to the door and when bringing it down to knock it swung open.

*Thud* He hadn't noticed the door open and hit Mikes little wife on the forehead.

"Sorry Crystal...is Mike home?" He said coldly trying to put some warmth into his voice...it never reached.

Alex almost fell as his friends wife... his sister tackled him sobbing.

"Yeah, Alex I'm here..." Mike knelt down gently nudging Crystal to let go so everyone could come inside and find out what happened.

After a few minutes they finally made it into the house and they all sat in there relatively large living room the two plush couches, a stroking chair and two recliners.

"We should all sit...please." Alex's voice still frosty nearly made Crystal jump at him. Mike was all that held her back. She knows somethings bad...very bad.

"Are the girls ok?!?!" Crystal yelled after they sat down hoping they were fine.

Alex started off for a moment... then spoke.

"I fear....no that not it..." a deep agony barely escaped his voice. He felt his pocket taking out his phone.

He seemed to be looking at something...visible shaking. Then he looked back to Crystal and Mike. They have been barely holding themselves back from strangling him.. Hold them in suspense for more that 10 minutes.

He handed the phone to Mike.

"..."

"...no..." came out almost as a gasp as he looked back up to Alex.

"Wait...what...how...rape...no..." These thoughts flashed through his mind. Crystal peeked over his shoulder and saw the photo.

She flew the 4 feet between her and her brother Alex.

And started to hug him, tears streaming down her face patting his back whispering

"Hush little one...hush... everything will be fine... she will pay... oh how she will pay."

His face was wet. "Why...I'm not sad anymore...am I?" thoughts like these pierced the void. Making to crumble all around him leaving him bear... the hate was muffled...drowned in sorrow and agony.

-The Next Morning-

Alex was asleep on Mikes couch while Crystal and Mike were typing the divorce paper. Crystal had told Alex that she would fix it. It was her job as his older sister, wasn't it?

" So who do you think should deliver these to her?" Mike asked looking towards his wife as he was finishing the legal bit of the documents.

"Oh let me my dear sweetest." a predatory smile crept onto his wife face.

"I...I think i will...I don't want to have to make a jail break." His thoughts were not of the safety of that... that whore but of that of his wife.

-Two Hours Later at Alex's Home-

*Knock* Knock*

"Hey Mike how are ya?" Christina said as she opened the door.

Mike was angry but a few years in the Military and some time as a Lawyer helped him hide it.

"Good. Here. Sign this." He said in as normal voice he could muster... Okay he him self might kill her but he is holding back as much as possible.

She looked at the papers. "What are these Mike?" She asked a little scared

"Divorce proceeding papers. Leaving you with enough money to go die some where." Okay he thought I tried.

" Why Mike! Does Alex know of this?!?" She said a outraged.

"Yes... he came home early last night." anger showing in his voice now.

Christina paled. Eyes bulging as she knew what would happen next.

"Sign the papers Christina you have already caused to much pain!" his knuckles cracked holding him back.

"Is there no way to fix this..." she muttered this.

"No. He saw you and...that...man..." he chewed on those words as if they were the vilest of vile.

Her hands were trembling now. She knew she messed up.

She finished signing the documents.

"Where is Rebecca." Mike hope she was out...for her mothers sake.

"She stayed at some friends... she is suppose to come home at noon today." she was looking down at her hands in horror as it finale dawn on her what she had done.

"You are to be out of the house by the Court hearing." Mike said as he briskly walked away.

"This is Channel Twelve New with heart wrenching news! Earlier today it was found that the wife of one Alexander Roe ""The Leading Mind to our Past"" has commuted suicide by hanging herself, later at ten!" Alex turned the television off in his sister house.

"No...that cant be...I just picked up Rebecca...how..how can that be even possible."

"She was fine...wasn't she?"

" I mean she begged me to come back in which i shot her down as if she were lead and I gravity."

"She cheated on me...so why does this heart more than that...no that's not what hurts...Rebecca saw the news."

These thought barrage his mind as he looks over to his daughter.

She's weeping, I cradle her in my arms as I did when she was so small...her dark sandy blonde hair,Reminds me of her mother. Her eyes are my grand fathers though, one is blue and the other a hazel green. "Such pain." I stroke her hair, not saying a word.

She does not know what happened and i wont hurt her more with the truth. My baby girl needs to see the mother she thought was there not the one that was.

-Time Skip- Three Years *Loves his 3 year time skips*

August 1 2026

It's Rebecca's 17th birthday today.

"Hey Dad!" she yelled from across the living room.

I had just finished selling the old house and was about to put the paper work up when she barged through the front door.

" Hey kiddo, how was school?" I look older...wiser now. I had started to grow a beard now to make the student have to guess my age. But I digress, I look toward my little girl, or should I call her woman now...nah little girl makes her get all bristled like a cat. I'll stick to that.

"Don't you hey kiddo me! Why did I have to go to school today!" she fumed.

Oh that were she was. "Today's Monday right?" She looked me into the eye and shook her head,yes. "And on Mondays you go to school right?"

This time she clenched her fist." It's summer break, Alexander."

"Oh my this is so much fun" I snickered in my mind, must not show it though.

"Well I couldn't have you here now could I?" I said while putting a little shock in my voice.

That got her attention. She's still mad though." And...why is...THAT...father dearest..."

Oh my she seems to be smelling the air...maybe searching for perfume...no wait when did she become a bloodhound?"Well might as well drop the act." I thought.

"I had you birthday gift installed while you were gone." Oh that really got her ears to perk up. *humored old man laugh*

"What is it? Is it a car?! Is it ,is it!?" While saying that she started toward the garage.

"Nope!" I called out toward her. "It costs a lot more that a car,little-one." I smirked at that she hate me calling her that now.

She wiped around and stormed towards me.Is that the toaster...what is she gonna... uck. "Damn it girl!" I yank the toaster out of her hand before she goes for the second blow to the head. "I need that you know! Damn kids and their anger!" I grab her by the scruff of her collar carry her to her room.

"When did you get so strong DAD!" she was going nuts trying to get away.

"When god deemed it a funny sight to see you tossed into your room with no supper and a $20k capsule for games!" *Author high-fives MC*

That shut her up , seems she also stopped fighting. " I can walk now dad...I'm sorry." she said the first part nicely, but ended with a mumble.

"Are you going to behave...if not..." he lets the threat hang as he turns her around and looks her in the eyes.

She seems to have become scared, and sheepish trying to hide behind her own hands. "Yes...papa."

What the absolute hell has happened to her this time!

I let out a puff of air. "This kids gonna be the death of me." I mumble

"Go get ready I'll go make dinner." I say as I turn around and head down the flight of stair we just went up. Really though how the hell did i pick her up like that?

I make it to the kitchen without any stray toaster hitting me in my money maker. And i start to cook something simple.

"Whats for dinner dad!" I heard Rebecca call from the bathroom.

"The easiest and best thing I know of!" I call back.

"Dad...I'm so sorry... anything but that!" she called back scared. I'm not that bad a cook...screw it.

"Do you want Yangs or Pe-King!" I call back. She walks into the kitchen with the phone.

"It's already dialed." She says smiling.

End of Chapter Note-

I truly hope everything is alright.

I am re-uploading everything in a larger more compact way,

-End of Chapter 1-