Thursday morning, The Smith-James family are at the borders of Reno headed to Las Vegas. Jamie excitedly heads to the highway that leads to Vegas.
"Las Vegas. I remember us going out to Vegas in the winter just to ice skate at the Cosmopolitan. I wonder if that's still up?"
"I think it's closed now, Hon," Azenith said.
"Aw, man. Leilani would love to see that." Jamie said. He looks at Azenith. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing. Just concern."
"About what?"
"A friend of mine that still works at FOX5 told me about the murder that happened last week by the mayor and her mafia." Jamie's eyes widened.
"A mafia?!" Jamie exclaimed. "There's no way, say sike right now, Azzie! Seriously!"
"I'm serious. The investigation scene was brutal to look at. It's like seeing Jon Gotti lying dead in Manhattan."
"So, you're saying that an old lady who is the mayor of Las Vegas told a hitman to kill two people at your old job."
"There's more to that story but yes."
"I don't believe it."
Azenith sends Jamie a link to the death story of Cherney and Tom. Jamie clicks on the link and watches the video. His eyes widened.
"OH MY LORD! THAT'S... My god!" Jamie exclaimed. He looks back at Leilani. Leilani is sleeping soundly. He sighs in relief. Azenith sighs and looks out of the window. She starts to blackout. She wakes up in a dark room. Nobody there but herself. Gunshots fired
POW... POW... POW...
Azenith ducks to the gunfire sounds. She runs and looks at her friends from FOX5 dead on the ground. Blood everywhere. Another round of gunfire starts popping off around. A stray bullet hits Azenith's arm and her stomach. She falls and cuts her eyebrow causing it to bleed. A little girl crying in the distance. She notices the crying noise. Leilani appears to be losing a lot of blood from her hands. Azenith gets up slowly and tries to run to Leilani. A bullet hits Leilani's stomach.
"Mommy... I don't feel so good." Leilani said and fainted. Blood continues to leak out of her body. Azenith stands there frozen. She grabs and hugs Leilani. Tears started to come out of her eyes. The lights shine on her husband, Jamie. He looks beat up. His nose is broken and bleeding. Azenith picks up Leilani and runs towards Jamie. She stops moving. A dark shadow like a figurine of Carolyn appears behind him. She walks in front of Jamie and tilts his head to get a better look at him. His eyes dilated in fear when he looks at her.
"Y-you're the mayor that killed those people..." Jamie said. Carolyn smiles at him.
"Yes." Carolyn said. "But please, call me Carolyn. You remember that in hell." She knees Jamie in the throat and shoots him in the back of his head. She continues to shoot him dead and walks away into the void of darkness. Azenith screams and quickly wakes up from her vision. Jamie grabs Azenith's hand. She breathes rapidly. He looks at her.
"We're almost at the house," Jamie said. Azenith breathes and nods her head to break off the sweat from the vision.
The family arrived in Henderson hours later heading to Anthem Highlands. Azenith wakes up and looks at the house.
"I know what you're thinking and yes, I do own a house in Vegas." Jamie said.
"When did you buy this?" Azenith asks.
"Years before we met. I was studying seismic activity here and bought this house and kept it." Jamie gets out of his car. "Come on, I'll show you around!" He unbuckles Leilani's seatbelt and lets her out of the car. Azenith gets out of the car and follows Jamie inside the house.
"How many rooms are there?" Azenith asks.
"Five rooms. 4 baths. Two are masters and the rest are kids or guest rooms."
"Oh wow. How much did it cost you when you first bought it?"
"About 10k. It wasn't cheap either. I swear."
"Looks like it. Looks newly renovated." Azenith walks around the house. Jamie follows her.
"Yeah. Oh! Did I mention a pool in the backyard?" Jamie said.
"There's a pool in the backyard?"
"Yeah!" Jamie runs to the back of the house and opens the backyard door. Azenith walks outside and her eyes widen. The sunlight shines through the movement of the pool water swaying waves. The palm trees sway along with the wind blowing in the air. Jamie wraps his arm around Azenith.
"It's beautiful!" Azenith said. Jamie kisses Azenith's head and kisses her. Azenith's phone rings. She picks it up to see who it is.
"My friend is calling me."
"Okay. I'll get the stuff out of the car." Jamie said walking away. Azenith answers her phone.
"Hello?" Azenith responded. A sudden familiar voice started to speak.
"Hey, Azenith! Remember me?"
"Who are you? Your voice sounds familiar."
"Azenith. It's Jason!" Jason laughs. Azenith laughs.
"Jason! I could've sworn that your voice sounded familiar." She continues to laugh. Jason laughs along with her. "How did you get my number? It's not even a 702 number anymore."
"Cassandra gave it to me. But anyways, How are you doing?" Jason asked.
"I'm doing alright. My family and I just moved back to Vegas for the reunion party."
"I forgot that you got married years back," Jason said. Azenith laughs.
"You should've asked and put a ring on it." she laughed.
"Yeah right, if you weren't so shy to talk to me."
"Like you have any confidence to talk. Let's not forget the time when you avoided me during the Poker Tournament-"
"Okay, everyone knows that I avoided you at the Poker Tournament, including Dave. Sure."
"I rest my case." Azenith and Jason laugh.
"Are you coming to the reunion party on Saturday?"
"Yeah. My husband insisted on leaving today because he loves Vegas. I don't blame him, it is fun to see my old stomping grounds."
"Don't you have a daughter?" Jason asks.
"I do! I think she likes it so far but doesn't like the heat."
"Aww. That's cute." Jason said. "If you don't mind, I want to hang out with you on Saturday before the Party? I want to talk to you."
"Sure thing."
"Ok. Well... I'll see you at Noon then."
"Ok." Azenith smiles and hangs up the phone. She sighs and walks back inside the house. Her vision starts to blur out as she walks. The room starts to get darker with each step she takes, seeing patches of blood on the ground. Jamie walks in with a box that was left in the car. He looks at Azenith about to faint on the ground.
"Azenith!" Jamie puts down the box and runs towards Azenith and slides to catch her fall. Azenith's eyes turn blood red. Her tears turn bloody. Leilani walks into the den seeing her mother on the floor, crying out for blood.
"Mommy?.." Leilani's smile turns into a frown. Jamie looks at Leilani.
"Leilani, can you grab me a damped towel, pretty please?" Jamie asks.
"Ok!" Leilani runs to the kitchen and wets the towel to give to Jamie. Jamie grabs the towel and wipes Azenith's tears. Azenith nods her head to wake up from her vision dream. Jamie hugs her when she tries to wake up. She loses consciousness and falls into a deep coma.
"Azenith?" Jamie shakes her to wake up. She didn't respond. "No... no...NO!"
He grabs his phone to call the paramedics. Leilani starts to cry. Jamie hugs Leilani while he calls the police.
Three days passed by, Friday morning in the hospital, Azenith woke up from her coma. Jamie and Leilani hug her.
"Azenith! Oh my god!" Jamie exclaimed. "I'm so glad that you are alive!" Azenith laughs.
"Oh god, Jamie. I was only in a coma." Azenith said. Jamie kisses her. Azenith hugs and kisses Leilani.
"But still, I'm glad that you are alive." Jamie continues to kiss Azenith. "What happened to your vision? Is it malfunctioning?"
"Not malfunctioning. It's more of a broken future vision." Azenith said. The doctor comes in.
"What do you mean about a broken future vision?"
"I think I can explain that." The doctor said, "When a person is going through the first phase of their powers, like future vision, It can be dangerous to control when it comes to stress or Anxiety. Azenith here went into a coma due to her vision because of a stressful event playing in her head. It breaks her future vision to be so serious."
"So, what explains the blood in her eyes?" Jamie asks.
"Internal eye bleeding."
"Oh my god..."
"But it's not fatal. It's normal, thank god." The doctor said, "You just need to calm your stress to not cause another vision of internal bleeding. Is there anything that is stressing you out lately?"
"Well..." Azenith's vision came back to see one of her friends getting shot by a stray bullet. She nods it off. "Yes, but I don't want to talk about it."
"That's fine." The doctor said, "Make sure to check in with the registration before you leave and take a load off today."
"Ok."
The doctor leaves the room. Jamie hugs Azenith.
"Ready to go home?" Jamie asked.
"Yeah." Azenith, Jamie, and Leilani head out of the hospital. Later in the evening, Azenith is trying to sleep. Her vision comes in through her dreams. The sound of gunshots firing around the newsroom. Blood... Blood was everywhere on the ground. People are screaming. Azenith tosses herself and starts to sweat. She clenches the bed sheets. One by one, people drop dead on the floor with multiple gunshot wounds on their back, chest, or in their head. Another round of gunshots goes off and a stray bullet hits her. Azenith wakes up screaming and heavily breathes. Jamie wakes up.
"Az!" He turns on the lamplight. Jamie puts his glasses on. Tears fell on Azenith's face. Jamie hugs her.
"I can't do this, Jamie..." Azenith said. "I can't let my friends die tomorrow night."
"What do you mean?"
"Jamie...I'm afraid of the Mayor and her mafia killing us at the reunion party." Azenith said. "After the report about the Tonopah shooting. The mayor shot and killed the reporter and the producer."
"Az... It's just two people. They are not going to go after you guys."
"You don't know that Jamie," Azenith said. "I feel like I shouldn't go."
"You don't have to go but you should go just for old times sake."
"Yeah, that's true."
Jamie kisses Azenith. "I'm here for you, Az. Whatever happens, I will be there for you. Dead or Alive."
Azenith hugs Jamie.
"Thanks, Hon."
Jamie hugs Azenith and kisses her before going back to bed. Azenith lays down and goes back to sleep.