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Chapter 10 Vertigo

I walk into the room to see Thea getting ready. "Hey, I heard what happened, is everything alright?" I ask.

"I'm fine," Thea says. I sigh before crossing my arms.

"Why did you take drugs?" I ask.

"None of your business," Thea replies.

"It's my business when people I care about are getting hurt!" I shout.

"Don't you dare shout at me," Thea replies. "I don't want your d*** pity and you are no family to no one in this mansion!"

The room went quiet. After a couple of seconds. "If that's how you feel, I'll go see how Moira's doing," I whisper.

I walk towards the door. "Miles," Thea says. I continue to walk. "Miles." While walking I see Oliver.

"Hey Miles, good to see you," Oliver says.

"Not the time, Oliver," I say as kindly as I can as I walk past him.

Scene change.

Oliver, Thea, Moira and me walk past the Paparazzi and toward the building. Oliver holds Theas hand. The paparazzi shout at Thea in an attempt to question her.

Scene change, court room.

Oliver, Moira and me sit down and watch Thea sitting before the judge. "Docket ending 1-10-5-6 people v. Thea Dearden Queen," the opposing lawyer says. "Possession of a controlled substance. Driving under the influence." The opposing lawyer hands the judge a picture. "Counselors, I understand you've reached a plea arrangement?"

"We have," Thea's lawyer says. He stands up. "Given that my client is a juvenile the people have agreed to probation," Thea's Lawyer says.

"A juvenile?" the judge asks. "Says right here she's eighteen."

"She is eighteen, but at the time of the arrest she was still two days' shy of here eighteenth birthday," Thea's lawyer replies. "Miss Queen has no priors."

"Just because Miss Queen's family sweeps here priors under the rug, doesn't mean they don't exist," the judge protests. "You get your client off. You help your boss avoid dealing with a drug that's sweeping over our city like a plague. Everyone wins, except us people of Starling city."

"With all due respect—," Thea's lawyer says.

"Miss Queen, like it or not, you are now the poster child for this menace. Maybe if they see that the Queen family can't get away with vertigo they will think twice before using Vertigo themselves, the plea arrangement is denied," the judge says. The judge hits the desk with his hammer. "This case will proceed to trial."

Scene change, Queen's mansion.

"They can't do this," Moira says. Moira, Oliver, The and me walk into the room. "That man cannot send my daughter to prison."

"He won't," I say. Everyone stops and Moira turns to face me. "I'm gonna make sure of that." I grab my jacket and put it on.

"What are you doing?" Moira asks.

"I'm doing what everyone else does when they're in trouble," I say. I walk to the door and open it. "Get help." I walk out the door.

Scene change.

I walk down the hall way and stop in front of a door with a cardboard box covering the window. I knock on the door. It opens and I see a woman with black hair in a black leather jacket with a t-shirt underneath and grey jeans standing in front of the door. "I need you to do a case for me, you are Jessica Jones, right?" I say.

"Come in," Jessica says as she lets me in. I look around the room. "My place is a bit of a mess." I nod. "So, what's a kid need a P.I. for?"

"My adopted sister's on trial, Thea Queen," I say.

"That spoilt b****," Jessica says. I let out a heavy sigh.

"I need you to find something, anything, to keep Thea out of jail," I explain.

"And why come to me?" Jessica asks.

"From what I heard, you do whatever is necessary to get a job done, I need someone like that, cause Thea doesn't have much time left," I reply.

Scene change, Queen's mansion.

Oliver, Laurel and me are sitting on a couch faced at Thea who is sitting on another couch. "My father was able to get Brackett to back off his hard line stand," Laurel says.

"Your father hates me," Thea replies.

"No," Laurel says.

"No," Oliver says.

"She kind of has a point," I say.

"My father hates Oliver," Laurel says.

"Nobody asked you to get involved," Thea says.

"I did," Oliver says.

"Look, were just trying to help," I say.

"The judge has agreed to a sentence of five hundred hours of community service and two years of probation," Laurel says. "Provisional on the appointment of someone to act in loco parentis," Laurel explains.

"In loco what?" Thea asks.

"It means the court will appoint an individual to assume responsibility of you, me," Laurel says.

"I say thanks, but no thanks," Thea says.

"Thea, you don't actually have a choice," Oliver replies.

"Oh, actually, I do. See, I'm eighteen now and I can make my own decisions. So I decide not to be your ex-girlfriend's office monkey," Thea says. Thea claps her hands together.

"Well, if you change your mind then," Laurel says. Thea nods.

Oliver and Laurel stand up and they walk to the door. "Thank you," Oliver whispers.

"Yeah," Laurel replies. Laurel walk out of the room. Oliver turns to Thea.

"Thea," Oliver says. "You're in real trouble and rightly so, doing drugs and driving. It is beyond stupid. That is a good deal that Laurel got you. Why aren't you jumping at it?"

"I already have a mother," Thea says.

"We are going to help you no matter what you say, no matter how hard you try to pull us away, that's that, so you can make it difficult for us or not, we won't go anywhere," I say.

"You're going to go to jail, it will ruin the rest of your life," Oliver says.

"No, heh, I want to ruin mom's life. She's a liar and a cheat. I mean, deal with it, Ollie. You can pretend all you want to that she's a saint, but I hate her and she betrayed dad," Thea says.

"Well think about everyone else who cares about you, Oliver, me, Walter when he gets back," I say.

"If he gets back," Thea says.

"When he gets back. We all care about you, we all want what's best for you, and it would break our hearts if you were sent to jail!" I shout. The room went quiet. "Sorry, I'm going to see if my friend's got anything to help Thea's case," I say. I stand up. "Thea, just think about what me and your brother have said," I say. I place my hand on hers. "Okay."

"Alright," Thea says. I let go of her hand and walk towards the door, as I do, I whip a tear from my eye.

How was that. Good or bad? I hope you liked the Jessica Jones cameo. Until next time, Ant-boy out.