The Lies That Bind

"The Lies That Bind" is the 11th episode of Wiksteria Lane.
==Summary==
Renaboss struggles to come to terms with the fact that he has terminal pancreatic cancer, and Lady Junky realizes the magnitude of the sacrifice she's making in order to go along with her father's plans... to thwart her fiancé's plans. Meanwhile, Jdg98 gets settled into Rena's template, Americana sets her scheming into motion, and Villain fan decides to set up shop on the lane again...
==Plot==
Jdg98 opens the door to 4352 Wiksteria Lane, Renaboss' template, and lets himself in. He brings with him some luggage, and after he gets inside he quickly makes his way to the guest navbar. After a while, he is then seen getting adjusted to the house, getting a soda from the fridge and watching some television. He then looks out the window at his own template - which isn't really his anymore.
Flashback - Jdg98, aged 12 and a half, arrives on Wiksteria Lane, in a cab, after a long bus ride. JMsapphireZ, his elderly uncle, gets out his template and welcomes him. Jdg is thankful toward his uncle, for agreeing to take him in during these hard times. Sapphire tells his young nephew to abstain from worrying, as he will be safe there with him, it's a really nice community and people are welcoming, and no one will be looking for the kid there. He goes on to say, "God willing, son, I will go on living for many years, and for as long as I can, I will do my very best to protect you."
In the present time, Jdg sighs and takes another sip from his soda can.
At the local hospital, in his bedroom, Renaboss is nearly crying his eyes out, fighting as hard as he possibly can to keep the tears inside, as Dr. Sonya, his physician, whom he's somewhat befriended, tells him the conditions behind his pancreatic cancer, which is being deemed by the oncologist as 'terminal'. Sonya comments that he should really get the expert on this, to properly explain to him the severity of the condition, but Rena says he's good, he's heard enough. "I'd like to... be alone for a while. If that's okay." Sonya acquiesces and leaves. Rena fully lies down on his bed and looks up at the ceiling.
Lady Junky and QuinnQuinn are over at the former's template, having a meeting in the PM room regarding the upcoming wedding. QuinnQuinn has brought over some cake samples, and Lady apologizes to the harried wedding planner for the absence of her busy, busy fiancé, but tells her the woman's efforts into making this a great wedding do not go unappreciated. Quinn is thankful, but tells her that the groom-to-be really should put some more effort into it himself. Lady says, "He is just so busy. Ruler of lane. You understand." Quinn says, "Regardless, dear, a man should never put work above his own wife. To-be, I mean." Lady says, "Well, I do not want to be the kind of girl who forces man to drop everything to come to her. He's busy. He has important things to do. He'll be here when he is." Quinn smiles and says, "Wow... either you are the world's most honorable girlfriend... or you give the same amount of fucks about this wedding as he seems to do." Lady asks "What?" and Quinn replies with, "Nothing, dear. Taste this now. It is oh so delicious, complete with wild berry syrup. Like the Garden of Eden in your mouth." Lady continues sampling wedding cakes.
Jdg is tending to the front lawn of Rena's house when he notices Americana moving into 4346 Wiksteria Lane. She brings with her only a few bags. Jdg makes his way towards her as she admires the community, and introduces himself. Americana smiles as she appears to recognize him, and greets and introduces herself as well, as best she can, seeing as how she isn't the most sociable person. Jdg asks the typical questions, whether she's alone, and why she doesn't bring many things... Americana replies that yes, she is alone, no family, and she doesn't bring much because she doesn't own much. "I guess I'm... striving to finally set up roots somewhere. Somewhere nice, like this community appears to be." Jdg tells her it's a lovely place, appearances-wise, and some of the people are nice, but she should be wary of the street's mean over-ruler and his niche of henchmen who do anything for him. Americana fakes surprise and shock and tells him she will. Jdg then tries to part ways, but Americana tells him, "Wait up, neighbor. You can't be thinking of leaving without a hug." Jdg, albeit slightly paused at first, moves in for a hug and Americana comments on how nice it is to be part of a place where people actually talk to each other and aren't afraid of physical contact. The kid smiles and leaves, and Americana smiles as well, as she gazes into the wallet she just stole from Jdg's pocket, and gets into her template.
Villain fan is seen talking on a pre-paid cell phone, saying, "Dear Lord, must you always be complaining? You are so hard to please. I left you a... God, I don't even know how much, a huge amount of badges to treat yourself to whatever the hell you wanted to buy while I was out. You're so high-maintenance! No, no, I'm not mad... I love you too, yes... Ok, I..." - Lady walks into his bedroom - "IIIIII... have to go. Ok, call me later, Al. Don't forget to fax me those papers. Goodbye." He hangs up and Lady asks him why he is using a pre-paid cell phone. Vf says he simply got used to it. "Your fiancé has the cops in this place eating out of his hand. If he ever thought, 'Hey, let's tap my father-in-law's conversations, just for the heck of it, I dunno, cos he's a terrorist'... he'd do it." Lady wonders what he is so worried about, or who he has to talk to so privately. Vf says, "Dear... I know you wanna know the truth, and eventually I will tell you everything you need to know, I just need you to trust me in the meantime. Can you do that, princess?" Lady says she can and he kisses her on the forehead. Lady then goes on to say, "It's just... is too much. For me. I mean... he doesn't even show for cake sample. Always busy, too busy for me. I... am young, papa. And pretty. I could be out there falling in love, for real. But I have to get married to him." Vf says, "Darling, I do remember having told you to just string it along, drag it out for as much as possible, to get us some time to get him down on his knees. You didn't have to get married this soon." Lady says, "I know, is just..." "Just what?", he interrupts, "What happened that made you want to get married so fast?" Lady says, "Nothing... seemed right. If I drag on too long, he could have suspicions." Vf smiles and says, "You're right... that's my smart little Princess Peach right there." Lady smiles. She then sighs, takes a deep breath, and says, "Papa... I... am a virgin... and the first time I... make love..." - Vf is clearly somewhat uncomfortable with this - "...It'll have to be with a man I hate." Villain takes his time to answer this, but then he finally does, with, "Honey... it's just sex. It's no big deal. Why don't you just... bite the bullet and do it now? Go up to him and have sex. No biggy. And at least it'll be over with soon." Lady is shocked by her father's response.
Lynettefan2626 is in his office, taking care of business, when ImmaGleek walks in and informs him that the local Chat Mod has quit his position without giving notice, due to a nervous breakdown, which means he now basically has no head of police. Lynette starts saying, "Are you fucking kidding me? I swear to God, so much crap has hit the fan already the walls of my house are now made of shit." Imma smiles and asks him what he is going to do. "Obviously, I'm gonna need to get someone else to fill in for that whiney loser. Nervous breakdown... I'll give him his nervous breakdown." Imma starts telling her boss that she heard he actually is in that bad a shape, considering that he walked in on his wife and brother having sex. Lynette comments that people are weak, and then Lady enters the office. She asks Imma to leave, and the secretary refuses to go, telling her only her fiancé can ask his secretary to leave. Lynette is surprised at the nerve on his young secretary, and says, "Imma, what the fuck, just get out of here." An indignated Imma leaves the room, walking past Lady, who is smiling snidely at her. Lynette asks his fiancée what she wants, and Lady reminds him that he missed the cake tasting that day. Lynette, having completely forgotten about that, apologizes for having missed it, and wonders why Lady didn't just come up and call him, seeing as how his office is in their house. Lady says she didn't want to trouble him, as he could have been busy. Lynette then asks why she's 'troubling' him now, seeing as how he could also be busy at this time, and Lady says, "Well... that's because I can't control my 'hornitude'." A confused Lynette says, "Your what?", and Lady replies, "I wanna make love." Lynette is given pause, and then he says, "Wait, I, thought you wanted to wait until you got married." "Yes, well... I can't control my feelings for you no long. I need you. Make love to me, sweet." Lynette sighs.
I luv pll, the ruler's maid, is cleaning Villain fan's room when she notices the same bag he wouldn't let her carry the other day. She says, "Ay, Dios mío, can't even unpack bag, all for maid, all for maid...". She opens the bag and starts getting out some stacks of clothing, which she stacks up properly on Vf's closet. She sees the pre-paid cell phones and isn't fully aware of what they are and what they implicate, simply commenting, "Ay, ay, I wish I had much money, to buy me pretty teléfonos." She continues taking out some more stacks of clothes, and then she finally notices, under a blue shirt, the glass jar containing a small heart encased in a relatively gooey fluid. The maid is shocked and she closes the bag. She gasps repeatedly for some time, and then she takes out all of the clothes she stored in the closet, puts them back in the bag, in an order similar to the one they displayed before she took them out, and she does this as quickly and worriedly as she can, so that no one knows she even went anywhere near the bag. When she gets out of the room, she runs into Villain fan, and says, without making eye contact with him, "Ay, señor, I clean your room, all pretty and clean and good." Vf thanks her, rather dismissively, and walks into his bedroom. I luv pll sighs and leans against the message wall, making the cross sign on herself.
After sex, Lynettefan2626 and Lady Junky are sitting on their bed, arms crossed, silent for a few seconds. Lynette breaks the silence by saying, "Well, I have some more stuff I should really get done. I'll meet you for dinner, sweetheart." He gets up and starts getting dressed, and notices the look on her face. He asks what's wrong, and she says, "Is just... this. It's... not this I had in mind." "You didn't like it?" She is silent for two seconds and says, "No... I didn't." Lynette says, "Well, to be frank, dear, you could have put some more effort into it, so don't go blaming me. My world wasn't exactly rocked either." Lady says, "I do. Blame you. It... is no good." Lynette gets angry. "What the hell do you want from me? It is what it is! You're the one who came into my office talking like a slut and saying you wanted sex!" "No!", Lady fires back at him, "I said I want to make love." She gets up and leaves the room, almost crying. Lynette is just left standing there, buckling up his belt.
Americana is seen in her basement, going through Jdg's wallet. She takes out his ID and finds the name JoséGuerri98. She is surprised. She then takes out a picture of him as a young child, presumably accompanied by his mother and father, as a couple is behind him. She makes a copy of the ID and then pins the copy on a wall, to a board. In the cardboard we see the pictures of Renaboss and Jdg98, with some documents under them. The ID copy is among the few documents seen under Jdg's picture. Above their pics we see a headline reading "Targets". Americana puts the original ID back into the wallet and leaves the basement. Once she's gone, we can see a third picture in the target wall... belonging to Villain fan.
Americana knocks on Jdg's door and the young man opens it. She tells him she found his wallet on her front lawn just now, and she could tell it had to be his because he's the only person who's stopped by to meet her so far. Jdg is relieved and thankful, because he'd looked for it everywhere and was growing panicked. Americana then leaves, and he thanks her yet again for bringing it over. She turns back to him and says, "Please, what are neighbors for?"
At the hospital, Lady Junky is seen holding Rena's hand, having just been told about his condition. She says she is very sorry and wishes there was something she could do. Renaboss claims that he is going into surgery right now and the doctors are gonna try and remove as much of the cancer as possible, but they are not very optmistic and he is certainly going to need chemotherapy. "It's not fair, huh?", he tries to lighten the mood, "And I have such pretty hair." Lady smiles and caresses him, saying, "You are handsome anytime. Even bald." Rena smiles and begs her not to tell Jdg what is going on. "He doesn't have a clue and I want it to stay that way, for as long as possible. He is just a kid." Lady says she won't tell him anything. Rena then asks her why she is so down today, and she says she just feels bad for him. "There are... other things, I can't lie, but... this puts anything to perspective, no?" Rena says, "Yeah, it does..." She leans over to kiss him on the forehead and wishes him good luck. She then leaves and he is left there to think.
Flashback - Renaboss is seen, bloodied, curling up on the floor, after apparently having been beaten up. He is coughing up blood. A phone is heard ringing and he does his best to get it ouf of his pocket and pick it up. A voice is heard saying, "Bet you didn't like that beating, huh? Well, ya had it coming, bud..." Rena says "Fuck... you...", and the voice replies with, "Hey, hey, be nice... I'm your pal, I wanna help... ever heard of a place called Wiksteria Lane?"
In the present, in his room, Rena is pissed and throws his food tray onto the floor. He then mumbles, "I should have just stayed there and fucking died..."
Lady Junky and Villain fan are sitting in the living room when the middle-aged man gets up and notices a cab arriving on the lane and parking outside of the template. Lady notices this too and gets up and asks who it is. Vf tells her to come outside with him. They do, and in time to notice a beautiful, attractive young brunette getting out of the cab, dressed in a miniscule attire, complete with push-up top and micro-skirt. The young lady, MaryPierceLopez, is chewing gum and turns to them and says "'Sup". Lady is confused, and Villain makes his way towards the girl and turns to Lady, saying, "Sweetheart... this is MaryPierceLopez... she... is your sister." Lady is shocked and further confused.
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