Part 31a
By Desiree

Writer's note: As for the deaths of two characters, they 
requested it so I did it. They helped me actually devise 
the death scene and the method of death. And so everyone 
will know, I will be offing a couple of more on the next go 
around at their request.
Des

"What the hell is going on?!?" Misha began to look around 
at the chaos amongst her. Everything was going crazy. 
Pigeons were roosting in the lobby, the elevators were out 
of whack, the power kept surging and dying and everyone was 
screaming. The rain was pouring into the lobby where the 
windows and doors had been thrown open and everything was 
getting wet. 
 
She was getting more than impatient, "Dammit. I wish it 
would stop raining. My makeup is getting ruined." Suddenly 
the rain stopped, as if on command. 
 
Hey... How did that happen? Misha thought to herself. 
Surely her request didn't stop the rain from falling. She 
must be going crazy. 

"Rain." She said out loud. The rain began again, leaving 
Misha totally dumbfounded. "Stop." She commanded. The rain 
stopped. A few people looked around at the rain stopping 
and starting. 
 
"I gotta go tell Cyn and Des. They won't believe me. Misha 
went off in search of her sister and friend, still confused 
at how she was able to control the rain. 

*	*	*	*	*	*	* 

Desiree got to the elevator and ripped off the panel. She 
needed to get the thing working again and she knew of no 
other way. She was going to hate the repair bill for that 
one. Getting the elevator to work was easy, but replacing 
the panel she destroyed in the process wasn't. Desiree made 
a few swift moves amongst the wires and the elevator was 
operational again. When the elevator reached their floor 
and the doors opened, it was empty. Raven was gone. She 
looked to Shannon. "I thought you said she was in here." 
 
Shannon was just as surprised. "She was. Damn! I hope 
E.V.I.L. doesn't have her."
 
Desiree looked at Shannon. "Who's E.V.I.L.?"  

"He's only the one trying to destroy Kiss and all of us on 
the group too."  

"What are you talking about?" Desiree asked in confusion.  

Shannon pulled Desiree to a bench down the hall. "Have you 
ever wondered how you are able to fix anything that breaks 
or goes wrong?"  

"Yeah. Lots of times, but what has that got to do with Kiss 
and us?"  

Shannon started to explain everything. Desiree listened 
with intent disbelief. 

*	*	*	*	*	*	* 

Cyn went back to her room to be alone. This trip wasn't 
turning out to be as fun as she had thought. Seeing 
everyone and listening to everyone talk about Eric only 
upset her more. Time and other interests had not healed her 
heart. She threw herself on her bed and began to cry 
uncontrollably, never noticing when the lights flickered 
and the television changed channels and the phones began to 
ring. She was too deep into her tears. 
 
Cyn had been in love with Eric Carr for a long time. They 
met right after he joined Kiss and there had been an 
immediate attraction. They went everywhere together. No one 
had noticed them at the time because Kiss was still in 
makeup, so when they went out, they were never bothered. 
 
When Kiss took off their makeup, Cyn began to feel the 
pressure related to dating a recognized star. When she 
started getting death threats, she backed away from Eric. 
He had been devastated at first, but went on with the 
touring and writing, always thinking about Cyn.  
 
Eric was seen in public with a few models, but his heart 
had remained with Cyn. When he heard she had moved in with 
someone else and had a baby, he knew things were over. Then 
in 1989, he spotted her at a concert. He immediately sent 
one of the crew after her and had her brought backstage. 
Her boyfriend was mad, but she didn't care. 
 
After the encore, Eric ran for the back of the stage. He 
had to see her. What he saw made him mad. Cyn stood there, 
her face covered in bruises. He had not seen them from the 
stage because she had them covered with makeup, but he 
could see them now. "Who did this to you? I am gonna kill 
him."  
 
"Please don't. It'll only make things worse. He's already 
going crazy because I'm back here without him. If you get 
him any madder, he'll kill me." 
 
"No he won't. I want him back here now. Where is your 
daughter?" 

Cyn looked at Eric with disbelief. "How did you know I had 
a daughter?" 
 
"I have my ways. I've never lost track of you, but 
obviously I didn't keep enough attention on you. Now where 
is she?" 
 
"She's with my sister, Kristy."  

"Fine. Now give me your sister's address and I want you to 
call her right now and give my friend permission to take 
her. Then I want you to go back out there and get that 
jackass and bring him back here with the story of getting 
to meet all of us. I'm going to take care of this here and 
now. Your daughter will be in safe hands and you won't have 
to deal with him again." 
 
Cynthia did as she was told. She called Kristy and gave her 
the information. She then went out and got Robert. He 
slapped her for going backstage, but when she said that the 
guys of Kiss wanted to meet him, he quickly changed his 
tune and headed for the stage. 
 
Eric told the rest of the guys the situation and they were 
all waiting when Robert and Cynthia walked into the waiting 
area. Eric had to turn his face so that no one would see 
how mad he was. Paul and Gene introduced themselves and 
then Bruce. They talked for a few minutes, trying to make 
Robert feel at ease. He never saw when Bruce gave a motion 
to the local police. 
 
The officer walked over and tapped Robert on the shoulder. 

"Can I help you," he asked as he turned.  

"Sir, you are under arrest." The officer informed him.  

"For what? I haven't done anything wrong."  

"Sir, we have a report that said you were seen slapping 
this woman here just a few minutes ago."  

"Who said that? I didn't hit her. Tell them I didn't hit 
you."  

Cynthia just stood there and began to cry.  
 
Eric walked over and pulled her into his arms. He looked at 
Robert. "I saw you hit her and so did the rest of the guys 
as well as the crew and about 10,000 other people. You 
won't get away with hurting her any more."  

Gene looked at him. "You're just lucky that I didn't get my 
hands on you. I would have ripped you to shreds. You must 
be dickless because no man would ever hit a woman. How you 
conceived a baby I'll never know. Now take him away. I 
don't want garbage like that soiling my stage."  

The police escorted Robert out of the arena to a waiting 
police car.  
 
Eric pulled Cynthia closer. "It's okay. We have Shandi and 
both of you are coming with me. I won't let you get away 
again."  

Gene, Paul and Bruce patted Cynthia on the back.  

"You're going to be okay. But did you really name your kid 
Shandi," Paul asked.  

Cynthia looked up at Paul and smiled. She told the guys the 
story behind her daughter's name. Everyone laughed at the 
idea of Cynthia's daughter being named Fifi if it hadn't 
been for the Brother-in-Law being a huge Kiss fan.  
 
The months after the concert had been the best Cynthia had 
spent in several years. She had never gotten over Eric and 
here they were, back together. Her life was great. But then 
Eric got sick. Watching him suffering in pain nearly killed 
her. And when he died, Cynthia nearly died too. If it 
hadn't been for her newfound sister Misha, she didn't think 
she would have survived. 
 
Misha had no idea that Cyn had been living with Eric Carr. 
That part of her life had been kept from her family, out of 
fear that Robert would try to find her and Shandi. So when 
Misha and Cyn came together as a family, it was a very sad 
sister Misha had met. She never could get a good answer as 
to why Cyn cried all of the time. 
 
Misha tried everything to pull Cyn out of her depression, 
but nothing worked. Misha had heard Cyn talking to herself 
on a constant basis over the years and always crying about 
something, but she took it for untreated depression and 
never really did anything about it other than try to help 
her sister by keeping her busy. Eventually, Cyn came back 
to life, but there always seemed to be something missing.  
 
When Misha heard about the Kiss gathering, she figured that 
was the perfect place to finally pull Cyn from her funk. 
They were both Kiss fans and Cyn had always gone on and on 
about Paul Stanley and how she was just crazy about him. 
Misha figured this would be a good opportunity to see Gene 
again and possibly get Cyn one wild night with Paul. Cyn 
had never told Misha about her time with Eric and about 
knowing the others. Nor did Misha know that Cyn used Paul 
as the tool to hide her real affections. Shandi had been 
very young when Eric died, so her secret was safe forever. 
 
Eric saw Cynthia when she arrived at the hotel. He had 
hoped she would be there since she was a Kiss fan. He knew 
that suddenly seeing him after thinking him dead for so 
many years was going to be a shock, but the time had 
finally come to where he could divulge his secret to her 
and possibly resume their life together. Eric knew there 
would be lots of explaining, but he knew that she would 
understand once the shock wore off.  
 
When all hell broke loose in the hotel, Eric stopped what 
he was doing and left to go search for Cyn. He knew what 
was going on and he had to protect Cyn from E.V.I.L. He was 
not going to allow anything else to happen to her. He found 
her room amongst the chaos and prepared himself to enter 
the room. Fortunately the hall was empty of people with 
everything going on. He could enter undetected for the time 
being. Loud sobs escaped the room. Something was wrong with 
Cyn. 
 
Eric kicked in the door. Cyn jumped from the bed at the 
sound of the door crashing to the ground. When she saw 
Eric, she fainted. 

*	*	*	*	*	*	* 

After explaining everything to Des, Shannon left. Desiree 
stood in the middle of the hall thinking about everything 
Shannon had said and trying to make sense of everything. It 
explained why Des was able to fix anything and handle a 
crisis in a calm and precise manner. Des decided she needed 
to go try and fix the electrical and telephone problems 
before figuring out how to deal with this E.V.I.L. person. 

*	*	*	*	*	*	* 

Bruce was holding Lorie and escorting her down the hall. He 
was fussing over her and making sure she was okay. Desiree 
saw them together and her heart ripped with pain and 
jealousy. She had been so busy working on the elevator and 
stuff, she lost out on Bruce. "Who's that with him," she 
wondered and then she heard Bruce call her by name. "So 
that's Lorie. I didn't recognize her. She looks different 
than her pictures." Desiree's jealousy subsided a bit. She 
knew Lorie was a Kissister and she would never begrudge a 
fellow sister of anything. The only problem was that with 
Lorie and Bruce so close, either Lorie was already claimed 
by Bruce or about to be. This only upset her more because 
she knew that once a claim was made, she would never have a 
chance with Bruce without upsetting a sister. DAMN. DAMN. 
DAMN. Life just isn't fair!! Desiree resolved her mind to 
accept Lorie and Bruce together. She didn't like it, but 
she knew she couldn't interfere now. 

*	*	*	*	*	*	*
 
Eric Singer felt a jolt go through his body. Something was 
wrong. He heard the sirens going off and watched as the 
lights flickered. "As if I wasn't already nervous about 
this gathering, now everything is going haywire and I'm 
having electric currents running through my body." Eric 
thought he better go see if he could find Paul and Gene. 
 
He opened his door and ran right into someone.  

"Excuse me," Eric said as he helped the woman to her feet. 
 
"Oh my God. You're Eric Singer. I can't believe it."  

Eric looked at the woman in the Revenge t-shirt and jeans. 
She was cute. "Yeah, I'm Eric Singer," he said as he helped 
her up. "Now tell me who you are."  

"Uh, my name's Desiree, but my friends call me Des."  

Eric looked at her again. "Is your name really Desiree?"  

"Yeah. Funny isn't it. My Dad was weird and he liked French 
sounding names. My Mom hated it, but he won out."  
 
"So, I see you're a Kiss fan," Eric said while pointing to 
Desiree's shirt.  

"Oh yeah. I'm a huge fan. I love you guys. You're the 
greatest."  

Eric was relieved. His first fan encounter at the gathering 
and she wasn't blaming him for replacing Peter. Maybe this 
wouldn't be so bad after all. "So you like Revenge?"  

Desiree smiled. "It's my favorite album. It has such a raw 
and gritty sound. I love it. I've already worn out 4 copies 
playing them over and over again."  

Eric laughed. "You're funny. What are you doing right now?"  

Des looked at Eric. She couldn't believe she was talking to 
him. He wasn't Bruce, but he was cute with his shorter, 
darker hair and yummy legs and she did love his playing. "I 
was about to go to the lobby to see what I could do to 
help." Des remembered what Shannon had said about all of 
the members of Kiss having special abilities and she 
wondered what Eric's was and if he knew yet. 
 
Des decided to see if she could get some information from 
Eric. "So, what do you think about this E.V.I.L. 
organization?"
  
Eric looked at Des with a bit of confusion. "What E.V.I.L. 
are you talking about? I don't think I've heard of them 
before." 
 
Desiree began to explain what Shannon had told her. Eric 
knew that if Shannon had said it was true and Val had known 
about it, then it had to be true. He had known Val for a 
long time and he knew that she was sensitive to weird 
things. 
 
Eric looked at Des. "So, according to Shannon, we all have 
some kind of super hero powers?"  

"I don't know if you could call us Super Heroes, but she 
did say that we all had some type of ability that when they 
were all put together, could defeat this E.V.I.L. that has 
obviously been after Kiss for a very long time."  

Eric was stunned. "So you're telling me that when all of us 
get together, we can defeat this thing?"  

"That's what Shannon said." 

Eric stopped Desiree. "So if we have these abilities, what 
are yours?"  

Desiree explained about being able to fix things and 
situations. She told him about Shannon and the other guys 
from Kiss and some of her fellow sisters. She then 
explained that according to Shannon, not everyone knew what 
they could do yet and that only time would tell.  

She then went on to explain what Shannon had told her about 
the weird things that had just occurred.  

"Oh, Man," said Eric.  

"What's wrong," Des asked. 

"When all of that stuff happened, I felt a surge run 
through my body. I don't know how to explain it, but it has 
to be related to all of this."  

Eric suggested they go back to his room and try to figure 
out what his abilities were. Des told him that she had to 
go to the lobby and make sure everything was okay and then 
she would meet him there.  
 
Desiree and Eric split up. Eric went back to his room to 
wait for Des and she headed for the lobby. What she saw was 
chaos. Birds were everywhere and the hotel occupants were 
running around hysterical.  

Des did not recognize any of her sisters, but she figured 
that with the realization of everything going on, they were 
all probably doing something to assist with the situation 
at hand. Des found the phone system and got it back on 
line. She then sought out the computer server and found 
everything that had disappeared at the time of the power 
surges. When the hotel computers were operational, Des 
found the main power grid and got the various lighting 
problems repaired.  

When she finished, she headed back upstairs to find Eric's 
room. No one would believe she was actually going to get to 
be alone with a member of Kiss.