Slamming her hands on the table, Beth jumps up and says, "You have got to be fucking kidding me? It was Dorothea? Crazy in the fucking head, Dorothea." She is beyond livid, beyond pissed and starting to understand the way that Dorothea might be feeling, to where she would threaten Beth's life.
"Hey, clam down." Jon says to her, in a fatherly way. "It won't do us any good getting pissed off. At least we know who it was and that we all are safe. She can't do anything from in there."
Beth spins on her heels and says, "Excuse me? You want me to calm down?" She now laughs because she is so pissed off, that laughing is her next best reaction - she'd feel bad if she threw things like she wanted to. It wasn't necessary and Beth didn't want to scare the kids. "How can you tell me to calm down?" Looking at Jon, she knows he has to feel the burn.
The Captain excuses himself and tells Jon to call him if he needed anything. Jon thanked him for what he did and promised he would call if he needed anything. The Captain was local and could come over at a moments notice if needed. "Jim, what are they going to do with Dot? She can't get away with this, can she?" Jon has to know.
"While she's still there, she won't have telephone access and she obviously can't do anything from in there, but I will talk to the local precinct and see if they plan to press charges. Do you want them to press charges?"
Jon shrugs his shoulders because he really doesn't know what he wants them to do. "I don't know, I'll give you a call." And the Captain takes his exit. He can tell that it's going to explode in there, and he doesn't want to witness it.
Beth, leaning against the kitchen counter asks Jon, "You don't know if you want to press charges? She didn't make the threat against you Jon, she made it towards me - and I will decide if the charges get pressed." She is starting to shake and feel very sick to her stomach. Here she is, in her house, with her husband taking care of her children after she threatens her. Beth cannot believe the tenacity of Dorothea. How much more was she going to try to do to her, to them?
Jon gets up and walks to her, "This is going to be okay." He tries to put his arms around her, but she pushes him away. She doesn't want to be touched and not just by him. The feeling in her stomach gets worse, so much in fact she has to throw up in the kitchen sink. Jon gets worried and tries to comfort her, but she continues to push him away.
"Please don't touch me."
"Why are you so pissed at me? What the fuck did I do?" he barks at her, with a pretty hard look on his face. "I thought you would feel better once we knew who it was."
Wiping her mouth with a paper towel, Beth looks to him and responds with "I'm supposed to feel better when I learn that it's your wife that made the threat? How is that supposed to make me feel better, other than we know who and where she is?" Beth leans on her elbows. She feels like someone had drained the life from her, directly from her veins.
"You should feel better knowing that it was an empty threat, Beth. Dorothea would never hurt you, that's not the way she is."
"Threatening someones life is a way of life for her, Jon? Look at what she's done in the last few weeks, all because she can't let you go. We are out here, had to be escorted out here and protected by a guard because that's not the way she is? Are you fucking kidding me? She is getting worse, Jon." Her nerves are shot and she needs to sit down, so she walks back to the table and sits down.
"Do you want to go home tonight or stay here?" Jon asks her, knowing the answer. Beth will not stay another night in the house. All she had to do was look at him, and he knew the answer. "I'll call for a car." And he leaves the kitchen.
Jon feels as if a large weight had been lifted and thinks he can relax a little bit. It was a tough time for all of them, but Jon really tried to make it fun for the kids. He doesn't see or understand why Beth is so pissed. He walks into the living room with his cell phone, and he calls the car service. When he's off the phone, he tells the kids, "I called a car, we're going back home. Can you pick up before we go?" It wasn't directed at any one child, but Stephanie told her dad that she would take care of it.
In the door way into the kitchen, Jon stops and looks at Beth. He can see that she's not feeling too well. He can see that she is somewhere else right now. He walks over to her and stands next to her, puts his hand on her shoulder and asks her, "What do you want me to do? What do you want me to say?"
Beth looks up to him and starts to cry. She loves him so much, but he's costing her her sanity. She buries her face in her hands and just lets it flow. She is at the point where she can't take anymore. She thinks back over the last year in her life and can't even recognize the life she used to have. The life that she has now is quite the opposite of what she gave up to be with him. From the beginning, she knew that a relationship with a rock star was going to be tough - but in a just a few months she has gone from on top of the world, to all over the world landing at a dead end.
"I want to go home."
"I called for a car, we'll be out of here in just a little bit." he tries to console her, but he knows her well enough to know that she needs him to stand back, just a little bit.
"I want to go home, to California." she confesses, with no expression on her face. He stands there not knowing what to say.
"Ok, we can go this weekend, like we talked about."
"I want to go alone." and as soon as she got the words out of her mouth, her hand flies to cover it and she runs to the bathroom; making it just in time. Jon follows her into the bathroom, he leans over and holds her hair back. When she's finished, she gets up off the floor and looks at him. "Jon, I can't do this anymore. I just can't." A tear rolls down her cheek.
"What are you talking about? Can't do what?" wiping the tear off of her cheek.
"I can't be with you anymore. I can't stay on this roller coaster. I need to get off." and she walks passed him and back into the kitchen. He is right behind her, and he's not happy.
"Will you talk to me? What's going on?" he pleads, not seeing this one coming.
Beth still feels like crap and her nerves are even more raw. She's STUCK in this house until a car gets there to get them. In this house. The house that his wife lives in, part time. The house that he shared with her at one time and she is there with his children. She loves his children.
Looking for some crackers, Beth is going through cupboard after cupboard and the common thing that she sees in each cupboard is vodka. She grabs a bottle and says to Jon, "Here's Dot problem, or was it her solution?"
"Meaning?"
"Is this how she got through life being your wife? Or am I the only one that she's had a problem with?" Beth is flippant and Jon isn't liking it.
"Beth, please tell me what the hell you are talking about?"
There is a beep of the horn, letting them know that their car had arrived. The kids heard it and headed out to get in. Jon made sure that everything was off, locked and they left. The ride back to the city was quite. Everyone felt the tension and the boys were tired.
Jon grabs Beth's hand and whispers in her ear, "I'll never give up the fight, I'll go the distance!"
What the hell?! Has Beth lost her damn mind!
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