Public Awareness

"Public Awareness" is the 32nd episode of Wiksteria Lane.
==Summary==
After being left homeless, Lynettefan is forced to move to the Lostpedia, but he won't be going alone... Meanwhile, Renaboss figures the time has come to confront Jdg98 about his past, and Gleek and Prima find themselves at odds once more.
==Plot==
Lynettefan is giving a press announcement before his new home on the Lostpedia, where BalkOfFame committed suicide. The reporters ask him the token questions about his burnt down home, what happened to its arsonist, how he feels about relocating and about the ghost of the former president possibly haunting the template. Lynette answers each question calmly and diplomatically and oozing with charisma. Sunshine Princess introduces herself after the press spectacle is over, and claims to be the president of the Lynettefan support club. She is a prissy middle-aged woman who dresses, walks and talks like a lady, the kind who is easily shocked and disgusted. She shows delight in having her beloved president, whom she fought so hard to support during his campaign, moving right next door to her, and tells her that if he needs anything, he can just ring her bell. Lynette is very polite to her, and engages in idle conversation, saying it'll be a tough adjustment moving there but he's actually quite excited about it. "I hope it's not too much of a shock for my maid when she comes back from the vacation I offered her, knowing we've moved to an entirely new wiki," he adds. "Oh, bollocks," she says, "You seem like a lovely employer. I would not mind to clean your house myself, I must say." She chuckles at her own line. Lynette smiles politely. "Well, for all I care, you can get down on all-fours and scrub my bathtub clean right now cos I wanna take a warm bath and rub one in," a familiar voice says. Sunshine turns around, looking shocked, as does Lynette. In front of them stands MaryPierceLopez, with some luggage, having just gotten out of a cab. Sunshine asks who this is, to which Lynette, somewhat awkwardly, tells her it's his ex-fiancée's sister. He then asks her why she's there, to which Mary replies that her dad kicked her out so she needs a place to stay. Lynette is confused. He asks Sunshine to excuse them, and the lady walks away, back to her template, giving Mary the stinkeye. Lynette asks why Mary would wanna stay with him, after everything he's done, and Mary says she doesn't really care, she just really needs a place to crash. "And what makes you think I would allow you to move in with me? I've severed my ties with your family," he tells her, so she takes out her cell phone and says, "Cos baby I got you on camera kicking a woman right in the boobs and into a fire. Put a roof over my head and give me a shower head that vibrates and I keep this sucker from going viral on YouTube. I already have millions of followers cos of my sex tip vids." Lynette's chin drops.
Jdg comes downstairs for breakfast and is saddened to see that there isn't any. Instead he finds Rena standing up in the kitchen, arms crossed, saying that they need to talk. Jdg is hesitant, but sits down, and so does Rena. Rena then recounts the conversations he had with Americana and James, and the research he did online on "JoséGuerri98". The mention of his real name makes Jdg's eyes widen. He starts to stutter as he tries to brush this off as mere lies from people who hate him, but Rena cuts to the chase, saying that he is tired of people close to him lying. "I want the truth, Jdg, now. Did you... did you kill your mother?" Jdg is silent for a while. Then he breaks the silence by saying, meekly, "Yes..." Rena looks at him for a few seconds, mute. Then: "You have to leave." Jdg starts to tear up, "And go where?..." "I don't know, I, I... you kept that, this... huge thing from me. After everything I've done for you. If I can't trust you, I don't know what... who to trust, I... you need to go. Please, just, just, get out." Jdg stands up. Rena adds, "I should arrest you, you know? Report you to the outside authorities. Let them handle you, allow justice to be served. I can't do it, though. You're lucky I can't." Jdg looks at him with utter sadness. Then he just walks out the door, not knowing where to go. Outside, he cries full on.
Gleekobsessed comes home with his divorce papers, hoping to get his wife to sign them. He heads upstairs, to the navbar they once shared when they were still pretending to be a happy couple (or at least he was), and opens the door to find IceBerry mounting Primadonna, as she moans with pleasure. Gleek is horrified and drops the file with the papers, and Ice dismounts from his partner at the sight of his boss. "Mr. Gleek!! I, I'm so sorry, I didn't think you'd... be back... so soon." Gleek looks on with shock. "Oh, what does he care?" Prima says, "We're getting divorced anyway, and he hasn't fucked me in years. Besides, that faggot's been spreading lies about me on public television, I don't care what he thinks about anything I do anymore." Gleek becomes blind with rage and orders IceBerry to get out of his template immediately. The naked secretary does just this, picking up as much of his clothes as he can along the way. Prima just chuckles at this sight. Gleek approaches the bed after picking up the papers and throws them at her. "Hey, that hurt!" she yells, and Gleek says he doesn't care, he wants her to sign them and get out of his life as fast as she can. "And be sure of this, I will do whatever it takes to make sure I leave you in the hole you crawled out of, you maggoty whore. You are worthless, do you understand? You're not worth a dime, and I am giving you no dime whatsoever in this divorce." Prima is enraged as well. "We'll see about that," she says, as she leaves the navbar too, her body wrapped in the sheet. Gleek starts to tear up, and he's not even sure why.
James 1234 is seen loading up the trunk of his car, preparing to leave, and Cat5sparkles approaches him and asks where he is going and why. James tells the young girl that her daddy kicked him out, so he's going to stay at the Wiki Lodge for a while to figure out what he's gonna do with his life. Cat tells him she's sad to see him go, which delights him. She then tells him Jdg has also been kicked out of Rena's house, so maybe now father and son can reunite elsewhere. James is also delighted to hear this, and tells her they will. "I hope you don't pass too harsh a judgment on Rena and my dad," she says, "They're essentially good people, but... well, I guess not everyone can get along." James says she's right, and he doesn't blame them. "And you... you're a very sweet girl. Be proud of that. Always remember to be as helpful and kind to everyone as you can. Everyone likes a nice girl. Especially me." Cat smiles at him. She then tells him goodbye, and heads back home.
Inside, Renaboss is sitting at the kitchen table still, looking depressed. Cat approaches him and asks if he is moping about Jdg, which he confirms. Rena then says he has to get his mind off of it and get back to his long-running plan of taking down Lynettefan and showing everyone exactly who he is. Cat says she wants to help. Rena asks why, to which she says, "Well, you did just lose your kid sidekick, and I just found out that the guy I sorta had a crush on, well, kicked a woman into a fire and grinned as he watched her burn to death. So... yeah, I wanna help." Rena tells her that's sweet of her to offer, but he's not sure how an eight-year-old can be of much help taking down a psychotic all-powerful man. "Have you talked to my sister yet?" she asks. Rena asks what she's talking about, and she says, "My sister Mary. I noticed that when that all was going down, the house and woman burning, Mary was filming everything with her cell phone. You could ask her for the video and show everyone at a public event. There's one of those like every two days." Rena is surprised by this, and tells her that's a great idea. "See? I'm helping already," she says, smiling. Rena kisses her on the forehead and rushes out.
Lynettefan is surprised to see Lady Junky entering his new office. She tells him, in her thick French accent, that her sister let her in, and she was surprised to see that he and Mary are living together. She starts to ask if they're a couple now, and Lynette immediately denies this, saying he's just being supportive to the family of the woman he hurt so much but who saved his life anyway. Lady doesn't know how to respond to this. She says that she has something important to tell him. He stops her, saying that first and foremost, he needs to thank her. "You really came through for me, Lady. You didn't have to. You could have run for your life and left me in there. To pay for my... my sins. Why didn't you?" She looks at him with sadness, surprised that he would even ask this, and says, "Because I am not like you, Lynette..." He looks sad as well, and says, "No. You're not. I... I am sick, Lady." "Yes. You are. You need help." "I am... way past the point of possibly being cured," he says. She tells him she doesn't believe that. "I raped you," he says, bluntly. This makes her look down, fighting back the tears. "I... did to you... possibly the worst thing a man can do to a woman. I... violated you..." he starts to tear up as well as he says this, "And I am so... so, so sorry... if I could... go back, I would, I swear to God that I would. I love you, Lady, I..." "Stop!" she orders him, "Don't..." her voice starts to fail her, "How c-can you say that... you love me? You, you..." "I'm sorry!" "You raped me!! You put me froo hell! You killed Imma in front of me!! You... you marked me, Lynette. For life." Silence. Lynette moves in, tears in his eyes, to touch her face, and she winces at his touch. He then says, "Lady, I... I know I never showed it to you the way that I should, but... but I do love you. I fell in love with you somehow the moment I first saw you. And even after I knew who you were, that you were... his daughter... I still loved you. I don't know how and why, being the cold... hearted person I am, but... I loved you. And I love you still. Seeing you with Renaboss, that's when I first realized it. It broke me. It tore me apart, so much, I... I couldn't bear the thought that I was losing you to him. And when you tried to leave my home that night, I was already... troubled over something else, and I just, I-I snapped..." Lady wipes her tears and says, "Did you kill the church people?" "No! No, no, no, I swear to God, that wasn't me." "But you killed Imma. Can't say no to that." "Yes. Because she wanted to come between us. And I, I chose you, Lady. I... I chose you." Lady shakes her head at his rationalization. "Lynette, I... I came here to tell you that..." She stops. She can't go through with it. "That I... I love Renaboss. Very much. We're much happy. And... I want to be with him and I want you to... let him alone. He loves me. He's good to me. And if you love me like you say, you'll let us be." Lynette looks at her with utter sadness and nods affirmatively. Another silent moment ensues. Lynette then says, "You know... I never thought I could love again. After my wife died, I..." This triggers a reaction in Lady. "Your wife? What... You don't have a wife." "I never... told you, because... well, it's not important." "Yes," she says, "There is lots of much stuff you don't tell me. I was gonna be your wife too, Lynette. But that wasn't so important." She starts to leave, but he stops her, saying, "Lady, I... I used to be... such a good guy. I know you won't believe me, but... I was... I really was." She looks at him for a while and then says, "Be good again." She leaves. He lets the tears stream down his face as he stands alone in his office. Mary shows up, after having seen her sister leaving in tears. Seeing him in the same state, she asks if everything is okay, and Lynette says it is. "Yeah, k, whatever. Look, they called from the dog pound, turns out your dog ate a bunch of puppies there, the woman was being a total bitch about it so I hung up on her. Go deal with that." She leaves, and Lynette turns around and puts his hands on his desk, trying to compose himself.
Flashback - Lynette is seen in a private meeting with Villain fan and DoctorStrange, back when they were all administrators of Wiksteria Lane. They are all having a drink in Doc's template. They engage in chit-chat, the current narrator then completely unaware of the fact that the two men before him have a shared history, and Lynette eventually breaks it to them that he'll be taking a few days off to indulge himself to some travelling. Doc tells him that's great, he deserves to have some fun and rest, and Villain asks where he's going, to which Lynette says, "Europe."
We see Lynette sitting in the living room of Megjfreedman, an American woman now living in Spain. Lynette tells Meg that he found out from locals that her husband recently passed away, and gives her his condolences. He then reveals that he is a friend of Villain fan, whom he knows to be the real father to Meg's only daughter, Mary. Meg asks how he knows this, and Lynette simply tells her he has his ways. He adds that Villain himself knows, and would very much like to meet his daughter. "Miss freedman, I think you should tell Mary the truth, and allow her father to reunite with her. It's the correct thing to do." Meg thinks about this for a while, after Lynette hands her a picture of Villain fan in the current days, taken on Wiksteria Lane (see 3.07).
Back on Wiksteria Lane, Lynette is meeting with DoctorStrange, and Villain fan shows up and tells them, "Look, this is, um, rather sudden, I understand, but, I need to take a sabatical. I need to be away for a while." Doc asks if everything is alright, and Villain says that he is, some personal matters just came up. He leaves again, and Lynette smiles.
Back in his office, Lynette picks up his phone after it rings. On the other side is Matthewvp09, who is standing outside of Meg and Mary's house in Spain. "Well?" Lynette asks. "She knows. The kid. We bugged their house like you asked us to and she already told her daughter what you wanted her to." "Good. Villain fan has already informed us that he's leaving the lane. I know he's going there, just like I wanted. Now, do the rest. What I told you to." "Sure," the leader of Lynette's hired thugs says, "But what do you want to do while he's gone anyway?" "Me? Well... I'll just become President." "So, why did you have us do this anyway? If you were here, why not do it yourself?" "Oh, Matthew, please... I'm not a murderer. I pride myself in saying I never had to resort to murder to get things done." Lynette hangs up. Matthew then notices Meg coming out of the house and entering her car. He peeks through the window and sees Mary masturbating at the picture of her father. He sports a disgusted look, and then he, Mirlo and Nosh make their way to their own car, and start to follow Meg.
Meg is driving down a steep slope when she realizes that she has no brakes. She steps on the pedal with force but it provokes no result, and eventually she crashes her car into a tree. There is no one in sight. Matt parks his car and gets out. Meg is pretty banged up, her head on the airbag, but alive. She's groggy, but well. Her side mirrors crashed. Matthew shows up and Meg tells him to call for help. "Sorry, mam. Kinda can't." This said, Matthew uses one hand to cover Meg's nose and mouth. Her eyes widen with terror as the man smothers her. She tries to break away, but is weak from the crash. Matthew just looks on at her frightened reaction as she gradually loses her strength and dies before his eyes.
End of flashback. Lynette composes himself. Time to move on to whatever comes next.
Villain fan is startled by loud knocks on his front door, and moves to open it. It's Lady, looking hassled, tearful. Villain asks what's wrong, and she just falls in his arms, saying that she needed her daddy. "I am just... I hate life sometimes, papa..." He tries to calm her down as she sobs on his shoulder, and brushes her hair with his hand. "It's okay, it's okay... I got you, sweetie." "I miss you..." she says, with sadness. "Shh, shh... I miss you too, honey. Ma petite jolie."
Gleek sits in his office when his wife comes in. Prima asks him why he called her over, and he starts his speech: "I've been thinking about... our marriage. All of it. From the start to where we stand nowadays. When I found you in bed with Ice today, it devastated me. And I didn't know why. It's not like I'm in love with my secretary. He's straight and definitely not my type. Even though he's a gay-looking straight... that hair... And you, well... you're a woman." "Yep. We both know you ain't into that shit," she says, interrupting him. Gleek continues: "But I still was devastated. I felt betrayed anyway. Cheated on. And then it hit me... all the time, since you found me... being intimate with Dr. Sonya, I've been feeling guilty. But... mostly I just felt... busted. Caught. You had discovered my... horrible secret and I felt vulnerable. I never realized how much worse that moment was because to me our marriage was a sham anyway. But to you it wasn't. That day... I broke you. I shattered your world completely, and I never realized. You really, really loved me and I betrayed you. Lied to you. About everything." Prima is now tearing up, having unwillingly broken her walls to his words. "And I am so... so sorry," he tells her, genuinely. "Why did you do it?..." she asks, crying, "Why did you marry me, if... if..." "I... Prima, I hated it... so much. I still do. I hate being g-gay, it eats away at me. I don't have a problem with it on other people. I'm not ignorant, I'm not a homophobe, I know it's not, a choice, or... I mean, fuck, if I could choose, I'd choose to be straight... God knows I've tried. Just... why me?" He cries, full on, "Why did I have to be gay? I don't want it!! I don't want any of this, I..." Prima tries to calm him down. "It's okay. It's... it should be more than okay. Gleek, you have to... you have to be honest about who you are. Tell the world. Let them know. Trust me, they will only support you for it. And then maybe you can find happiness. We both deserve it, after all." She starts to wipe his tears with her handkerchief, as she wipes her own. "I just," he continues, "Really hate this. So much. Before I met you, I... I even considered... taking my life. But you came along and... Prima, make no mistake, I do love you. I've never loved anyone like I love you. I just... I fooled myself into thinking it was a passionate kind of love, like, we were soulmates or something... but that was a lie." "It's okay, I get it," she says, kindly, trying to comfort him, "I love you too." They smile at each other and are quiet for a while. Then she says, "We could have been best friends all this time. Instead of worst enemies." "Yeah," he says, chuckling. Then, they hug. A tight, long, warm hug. Ice shows up with some files. "What now?" she asks him, after they break it off. "Well," he says, "I guess it's time to tell the public." Prima tells him she thinks that's wise. She then leaves the office, as Ice hands his boss the files. "I'm glad to see you and the missus are back on good terms, boss," the assistant says. "Thank you, Ice," Gleek tells him, "You're fired."
Mary opens the door to Lynette's Lostpedia manor, and Renaboss immediately comes in. She tells him Lynette isn't there, but rather at the new public event that Gleek is hosting over at the Glee Wiki. Rena says he knows, and he'll be going there after to take care of some business, but first he needs something from Mary: "I know that you filmed Americana's death. Lynette kicking her into the fire, her running around... Her corpse has, not surprisingly, already been... moved. God knows where. I want to show everyone, not just the people on our portal who saw what happened, most of whom already know the monster he is, to know. So... video. Please." Mary gives him a smile: "Oooo, I like it when you're all demanding, big boy type... Gives me a hard-on." Rena says he doesn't have time for this foolishness, and orders her to give him the video again. Mary says, "Maybe I want something in return..." Rena gives her a look, and then asks about her bruises. Mary scoffs at this, and says they're none of his business and she still looks hot anyway. "Yeah, well," he says, "I'm sure whoever did that to you had their reasons. Video. Now." Mary says, "Look, dude, you don't just barge in here and make demands. You want something from me. Which means I hold the advantage, not you. Besides, when I get roughed up, I get chatty... You don't want to me feel bullied to the point that I might tell my big ole sister the things we did together..." Rena looks worried. "Cos, yeah... I'm sure she doesn't know that I sucked on your lollipop." "Enough of this," Rena says, taking his gun out from his holster and pointing it at her face, "You will shut your fucking trap now and give me that video before I make you suck on this instead." Mary, intimdated, hands him a small USB drive from her pocket, saying she pasted the video into it. Rena takes it, and says, putting the gun down, "Mary, you really gotta stop trying to screw with people's lives... it'll just all blow up in your face." He leaves. Mary is enraged.
Lady runs into Lynette in the audience of the new impromptu event Gleek is hosting, and asks what he is doing there. Lynette tells her it always looks good to make a show of support for his fellow wikian president. He is then reminded of something: Lady had gone into his template in the middle of the night, unannounced, clearly meaning to tell him something. Same as when she went into his new home the day before. He asks her what it is; Lady pauses for two seconds and says it's not important anymore. She then joins the company of her father. Meanwhile, James finds Jdg lost in the crowd, and asks why he looks so glum. Jdg is disgusted by the sight of his father, but answers anyway, saying he's upset cos it appears Renaboss has already replaced him. In the distance, we see Rena placing Cat in the multimedia booth, giving her instructions, same as he'd done with Jdg on the Lostpedia before. James tells him Cat is a really sweet kid, which disgusts Jdg further. His father then says they're both homeless now, so maybe they can reunite. Jdg turns to him and says, "Look, you fucking pig, I'm gonna tell you this now and it'll be the last thing I ever tell you: get the fuck out of my life! Leave me alone!" Jdg storms out, and James grins, and says, "Very well then..." Renaboss takes the stage, and asks, at the microphone, that everyone pay attention to him. "I have asked your beloved President to allow me to make an announcement before he delivers his speech... Well, I... I have something to show you. Right now, you all think very highly of a resident of Wiksteria Lane... A man whom you know has done his fair share of work to help make it the community it is today." Lynette starts to look a bit worried as he listens to this. Rena continues: "Well... today I'm about to show you just how ruthless, horrible and disgusting this man truly is. Pay attention, gleeks. This... is the real him." Rena signals at Cat to play the video, and she pushes a button. A video from Mary's drive is projected into the curtains behind Rena... and it's a video of Villain fan having sex with his daughter Mary. The audience is disgusted, although some of them amused. Lady's eyes widen with horror, and so do Villain's. In fact, all of the characters we know and love are shocked and disgusted at the sight of the elderly man having sex with his own daughter, and her moaning with pleasure. Villain appears to be crying in the video as he continually thrusts into her. Lynette looks on at the video, and says, with a shocked look on his face, "Oh, this is just... just too good to be true..." Rena rushes to the multimedia booth to get Cat out, and tries his best to cover the little girl's eyes and ears. Lady turns to Villain and shouts, "How could you?!... I..." "Lady, I..." Villain doesn't know what to say. He is left speechless. He tries to make a move for her, but Lady pushes him back, making him fall on his behind, and runs off. Jdg just stares at the screen with open-mouthed horror. Some people in the audience laugh. Others are disgusted. Rena turns off the video, at long last, just as Villain was about to climax, and Jdg looks heartbroken... wrecked. Gleek immediately makes it to the stage and apologizes for what went down, shooting Rena an angry look. Villain is left sitting on the floor, looking on as his oldest daughter runs away. The people look at him with contempt. Gleek then starts his speech. Primadonna Girl stands by his side. "I have... lied to you. For far too long. And that's not right. Me, a President, lying to my people, my followers. And worse than that, I lied to my beautiful, beloved wife, and to myself. The thing is, I have been ashamed of one thing for most of my life. An aspect of me I have never truly, fully embraced. But I am done hiding. Living in fear, in shame. I am ready to... to come out, with the truth. People of this wiki... I am a homosexual." In the audience, people start to clap, and cheer, in his support. Gleek lets out a tear of emotion, joy. Prima smiles.
After the event is over and done with, Rena finds Jdg in the midst of the evading crowd. Rena tells his young friend, "Look... you must be feeling like crap right now, given all that's happened, and... I never did give you a chance to explain yourself. So... let's just go home, okay? And you can tell me everything." Jdg starts to tear up again and says he'd like that, and that he will. Rena then says, "I just gotta go get Cat and we can go. Lady took a cab home." Jdg waits a while, as Rena goes and looks for Cat. He then comes back, alone. The crowd has mostly already left. "Well?" Jdg asks, "Strange, I don't know where she is. I left her with your dad for a while, while I called Lady." Jdg looks worried.
James closes the door to his car and turns back. Cat5sparkles is seen in the backseat, buckling up. She asks him why Rena asked him to take her home, rather than taking her himself, and James says, "Well, sweetie, surely you understand that what happened today was... bizarre. Your buddy Rena needs to... clean up the mess. Comfort your sister, do damage control, that sort of stuff... Don't worry, I'll look after you." "Cool," she says, "I can't believe my daddy would do something like that to my sister." "Well, honey... unfortunately, this world is full of bad, nasty men who do all sorts of horrible things to young girls." James starts to drive away. Out of the Glee Wiki. And into the outside world...
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