Chapter 23: Neverland

Another time Jump bought to you by Christmas

ITC POV

Date: August 29th 4 :00am (T minus 10 hours until its time)

When I woke up, I felt like shit, I sat up and fell right back down. "Damn." I groaned. "Yea, thats part of the process." I turn and see X with Mikey, in his arms still asleep and from the looks of him freshly bathed. "How many of us did you wash?" X laughed "just Y/N and Mikey. She is already in the car. Why you need help?" I sucked my teeth, "no fool."

When he left to take Mikey, I got up with help from a chair and made my way into the shower I stood up for all of 7 minutes before, I had to get out. Once I got to the toilet, and a towel fell on my head I looked up to see X standing there and smiling, "wrap yourself up, I got a few more to deal with."

After an hour and some change we were all in the van. We were awake just tired. "Okay guys it will take us about 6 hours to get to our last destination." Y/N looked panicked. X smiled "Relax sweetheart, I have people helping with the last 3 closures. Now all of you eat and drink, I will wake you every couple of  hours to make sure there arent any accidents." He is laughing. I really do hate him sometimes. Just like he said he was gonna do, he stopped every couple of hours, he made sure we drank, did our business, and ate. Before we knew it, between the sleep and stops, we were pulling into

"Home." was all I could get out. He continued to driving, until we made to our actual home. That when we were met by several faces, one I could recognize anywhere.

She opened the door closest to me and her eyes welled up, when she saw well all of us. "I thought I was going crazy." Without thinking she jumped onto me crying I held her, "Hey dunk, I love you an all but your crushing me here." She smacked me, "I missed you, too ITC." I tilted my head. "How did you?" She pointed to X, who was picking up Mikey; "He told me what was going on, and how she" She was pointing to Y/N "did so much for yall. Speaking of, where is her laptop." I looked at the floor, "Underneath, Old ass man there." directing my insult toward Vince. Who by the way maybe old but still found the strength to flick me off." Janet grabbed it and handed off to someone. Y/N mumbled "Don't take that, you cant take it." Janet smiled and stepped out of the way to tell our brothers, Bill and couple of friends of mine to come help us inside.

"Damn Mikey you this young and you cant walk without help.. Sucks to be you." said Jermaine.  "Don't make me slap you man." Bad said. The rest  helped us in the house. I looked back and saw Y/N was still in the car. "Bill, go back and get her." Bill shook his head "Mrs.Jackson, said not until she talks to all of you first."

I got loose from, Randy, corny ass. I limped my way to Janet, "You bring her in, right now." Janet shakes her head no. "WHY! She did everything for us, she fed us, took care of us, made sure we made peace before, we left this time, and you want to leave her out there in pain and alone." Janet shrugs, "I know she did right by you, but she should have told us about all of you when you first got here, all that time with her. What ABOUT US! YOUR FAMILY, Your children!" I shook my head, and tried to walk out the door.

I barely made to the threshold before I fell down. "Tito." He came rushing over, "Please man. Dont leave her like that, she been through too much and she going to go through more, just because of us. Please go get her." Tito just nodded "Bill get Closet on to blanket fort. I will go get Y/N" With that Tito rushed out the door moments later, she was placed on the floor with the rest of us.

Janet cleared her throat, "So X, tell me what everything that you couldnt before." X sighed, he explained it all AGAIN to the family. "See, if you would have just said all of this from the jump street I wouldnt have lost my shit."

Y/N laughed "Yea, he sucks at that." Janet sighed, "Momma and the kids wont be here til 1:30. Thats the best I can do on short notice." X nodded. "The transparency stage doesnt start til 2pm. ITC just wants to have one birthday with all of the family and no drama. Vince and It wanted to see and spend time with their, now adult, kids. The easiest way was to...." Y/N interrupted "was to put the three together." she laughs, then said "I knew, I married you for a reason." with that she blacked out. Everyone looked shocked, no more so than X.

Third Person POV

Mikey asked "Did you tell her about the other her?" X said "No" X picked Y/N and put her on the couch and opened her eyes, they were red. "What the fuck!" He fell backwards. "Thats impossible. Those are......" Before he could finish, the door flew open, and in came running all of Michael's kids.

They were running towards their aunts and uncles when they noticed, well their dad on the floor, everywhere. Paris stopped when she looked at Y/N, she took out a spare face mask and placed it over her face. Her eyes widened, "Auntie, that was the lady I told you about, the one that donated like 100,000 to Make a Wish foundation, under the name Wendy just to take one tour of the house." The Michaels looked at an unconscious Y/N.

OTW groaned "She did it for me. I wanted to tell Joseph he was an asshole and I hope burns in hell. But instead she took me there, she showed me your pictures, told me what she could about you all. I never felt so proud, in my whole life."

Just than a man cam running through, "Janet, the article she wrote is done, this is easily going to shake some people. Can I have your ok to publish it?" X replied, "Read it out loud to Bad, its his closure." Janet nodded

-Article-

I, recently, came into some information, that may or may not shock some of you. That beloved Pop Icon; no, that's not right; Musical legend, Michael Jackson, has suffered at the hands of journalists for decades.

Due to my age and understanding of things, I didnt underterstand why would reporters lie. There job is to report facts, not to lie and make headlines. So, this article and subsequent video, will be my chance to right a wrong.

A wrong I didnt even knew existed, until it was too late to undo the damage it did, when it could have mattered. This article is with someone I am dubbing Dirty Old Bastard (DOB). He was the originator of the most infamous of my Michael Jackson nicknames, Wacko Jacko.

Interview

"My first question is you wrote for a tabloid, was there any particular celebrity, that you targeted more than others?" I heard him clear his throat. "Yes, Michael Jackson." I sighed "Why?"

DOB looked at me weirdly. "Because it was my job to sell papers, he was the most popular artist on the planet. He did so many weird things, between, buying the elephant man bones and sleeping in an oxygen chamber. It was like wanted to attention. So I gave it to him." he said it so nonchalantly, I got the sudden urge to slap him. I took a deep breath and nodded my head.

"Did you know Wacko Jacko, is based off racist terminology?" The man nodded. "I know now, I didnt back then, Wacko Jacko just rhymed. If I knew it was racial, I wouldnt have done it." I look at him, and I sadly, believe him. I do think he didnt know.

"How did you find out about the oxygen chamber? I know you were the first reporter to put it out there." He gulped. "I had a source close to Michael at the time. They fed me stories, I figured they were all true considering he was one of his bodyguards." "Who was the bodyguard?" I asked. The man in front of me looked in my eyes, and tilted his head to the side. "I dont know if giving up my source is ethical."

I rolled my eyes "Michael is no longer here, and you arent working as a reporter anymore. Whats the real harm?" He seemed to be thinking, and finally nodded. "His name was Tyrone. He was killed protecting a foreign diplomat in 2009."

"If Michael was here right now, what would you say to him? If anything." The man hung his head and sighed "I'm sorry. I didnt think Wacko Jacko would have gotten so out of hand. I hope one day you can forgive me, and so you can finally rest in peace."

End of Interview.

Ladies and Gentlemen, when I tell you the disgust I felt being in the same room with him, was unbelievable. Trust me when I say that as a fan, I was appalled. Most importantly as someone who was taught that the first amendment is probably one the most important rights given to us. To see someone abuse it just for the sake of the almight dollar, disgusted me. But my work isnt stopping there. I managed to get an joint interview with both Ofrah and Donna, if this article made you upset. This will make video interview WILL MAKE YOU DOWNRIGHT MAD.

This is Wendy signing out.

#MJJInnocent

End of Chapter 23