Guilty Little Secret
A/N: What if Frasier hadn't walked in on Niles and Lillith in Room Service? The story picks up just after the waiter has gone to get Lillith's ketchup
Lillith and Niles sat in silence, both trying to understand what had driven them to end up in bed together, the tequila was, natrually, a contributing factor, but both knew that it was not the only reason, it merely lowered thier inhibitions and let them be receptive to the idea of spending the night together. After all they were both unattached and had recently been hurt bu their respective spouses. The only thing that was clear to both of them was that it must never be repeated, their existence as a couple would total that one night. Unfortunatley they couldn't agree as to whether to tell Frasier. Lillith thought not, she knew just what the revalation of what happened between her and Niles would crush him, they both betrayed his trust, despite the fact that she no longer had feelings towards him, she felt she couldn't be that cruel. Niles on the other hand knew he had to say something, his ethics would not allow him to lie to his brother about an event of this magnitude, and in any case if he was questioned about the events of the night the tendency for his nose to bleed would give him away, no matter how convincing his words were.
They decided to reconvene at Frasier's apartment that evening to break the news to him, as Niles turning up in the same suit as he had the night before would immediatley set the alarm bells ringing in Frasier's mind, to decriminate themselves further they would arrive separatley and not mention anything of the previous evening until Frasier said something, they had even devised a script of sorts. Well these things work in theory, but the reality can be very different as they were to discover that evening.
As agreed they both arrived within 10 minutes of each other but that is where the plan fell apart, when Frasier asked Niles if Lillith had arrived at her hotel he suddenly looked very guilty and started touching his nose incase it had started bleeding. Nartually Frasier was concerned for his brother, but this soon turned to anger when Niles suddenly blurted out that he had spent the night together.
The shock was immediatley evident on his face, suddenly there were millions of thoughts racing through his mind, predominatley that this was a cruel joke they were playing, nevermind the fact there seemed to be no obvious motive for such a thing, unless Lillith was upset that he had rejected her the evening before. He went into the kitchen on the premise he was going to make coffee, fortunatley this gave Lillitha chance to have a little talk with Niles.
"What was that, why did you have to blurt it out?" Lillith said with murderous intention in both her voice and her eyes.
"I couldn't help it,
I can't cope with lying to him."
On emerging from the
kitchen they discovered that he had gone along with his car keys.
Please R&R