A VEGAS LIFE

Disclaimer: Do not own any of the characters mentioned in the story below, except for Ashley Johnson, as she is my
creation. Possible spoilers for all episodes...
Rated M for sexual content and harsh language.

Summary: A new quest arrives, which means a lot of tension for Ashley and the rest of the crew. Then, some unexpected
things happen and it forces them to make some decisions.

Alternative Universe: I made a few changes, main change is that Ed and Jillian are no longer married, they have been divorced for a
year now.

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Chapter 1 - A New Arrival

A long black limosine arrived at the front door of the Las Vegas Montecito casino. The guests all turned their heads in the most impossible ways to see who exits the limo, but for the Montecito crew this was something that occured definitely once a day, sometimes even more. It was just another rich guy, ready to spend some of his money and, off course, lose. Cause it was rare, to say the least, that somebody would walk out of the Montecito with a large amount of money won. The casiono would make sure of that.

Ashley Johnson, one of the casino hosts had seen the limo appear and quickley had made her way back into the casino and upstairs towards her office. She had recognized the limo and was in no mood to meet the ones inside or even be friendly to them. Besides, it wasn't something she had to do.

When she had almost reached her office her cellphone rang. She took it out of her pocket and looked who it was. Great, she thought. On the screen of her cellphone only a two letter word appeared. 'Ed'. She let it ring a little more, before she decided to answer it.

"Hello?"

"You always answer your phone like that?", a raw voice spoke.

"No Ed, I don't. I just figured as it was you, I didn't have to be all nice and polite. So, what's up?", Ashley said. She decided to pretend she didn't know who had just arrived.

"We have a special quest who had just arrived, I'd like you to come down and meet him", Ed replied. "The quest you so quickly walked back into the casino for", he added.

"Well, I'm sorry. But I'm very busy up here Ed. Maybe some other time?"

"Well, let me refrase. I want you to come down and meet him. Scratch the whole I'd like you...", his voice sounded more than demanding now.

Ashley sighed deeply. It hadn't worked.

"Will it help if I say that I already know who's downstairs? That he didn't really leave a good impression, since he left the last time?", she hopefully asked.

"No it won't. Now get your ass down here Ashley!" And with that he just hang up.

Great, she thought. Just what I need. But she decided she better go downstairs, before Ed would come up and get here.

She took the elevator down and walked into the lobby. Stood still for a second to adjust her clothes before she made her way to Ed and the new arrival.

"Good afternoon, Mister O'Shea. It's so nice to have you back", Ashley said in the most proffessional tone of voice she could find.

"It's good to be back miss Johnson, or is it Mrs already?", he winked at her.

"No, no. It's still miss. It's been not that long since we last saw each other right?", she smiled politely.

"No, I quess it really isn't. Time flies.", he said.

Asley decided to cut him short, since it looked like he was able to talk for the rest of the afternoon.

"I quess you will be glad to here, that Sam Marquez is available to be your host during your stay. If you need anything, just let her know and she'll make sure you get it.", she said.

Before Mr O'Shea was able to say something, she continued.

"Well, I really hope you enjoy your stay here. But if you don't mind, I have a lot of work to do. But I'm sure we will run into each other".

She quickly turned and walked away, before O'Shea or Ed was able to stop her.


Offices

"So I heard Mr O'Shea has arrived again", Danny said, a hint of sarcasm could be heard in his voice.

"Yeah, so I quess it will be a lot of hard work again. Mystique needs to be so clean, like it seems it has no clients and nobody working for it." Delinda added.

"Well, you guys are one to talk. You're not the one who has to host him. I do. So I'm about to hear all of his horror stories all over again. But well, what do you do about it?", Sam Marques said.

At that moment Ashley came walsing into the office.

"Well, we could sedate him, put him in a FedEx box and just ship him off", she said, the anger getting the best of her. "Nobody would ever see him again. Problem solved."

Everybody laughed. They all knew, that when it came to Mr O'Shea, the only one who really had something to complain about was Ashley. O'Shea had made her his love interest, ever since the moment she had started working for the Montecito. The only problem was that he didn't seem to realize that she didn't feel that way about him. Not at all did she feel that way. So she made it her goal in life to avoid him as much as possible. The crew knew that and they were more than willing to step in for her at some occasions. It was just Ed, who didn't seem to realize how Mr O'Shea felt about Ashley. He just thought is was his way of life, the personality he had. He never once thought it might be uncomfortable for Ashley to be around him so much. Not like he was dangerous or anything. He didn't seem to be dangerous. It was just that Mr O'Shea was used to get what he wanted. The moment he wanted it. He always seemed a little angry about the fact that Ashley still hadn't responded to his advances. He once told her that he thought it was just her business appearance that seemed to ignore him, but that she deep down inside felt the same way about him as he felt about her. Wisely, she hadn't responded with the truth. Cause she knew he couldn't handle the truth. Instead, she made some insinuations about how she felt. Which, of course, where interpreted in the wrong way. So now, she was pretty sure, she would never get rid of him. He would be coming back, at least once a month to do some gambling. And everytime he came back, he tried to sweettalk her into diner, a ride in his car or just a drink. Everytime she had politely declined, using her busy schedule as the perfect excuse. Everytime he had told her he understood, but behind her back he had complained to Ed about her.

So the last few months she had dealt with Ed's anger several times. Each and every time she had tried to explain why she did what she did, but he never really seemed to buy it. When it came to Mr O'Shea, all Ed could see was a lot of profit for his casino. He didn't see the real Mr O'Shea like Ashley had gotten to know him. But she didn't really cared about his outbursts. She did what she did, because she felt like it was the best thing to do.

"That's not the way we talk about clients, now do we?", Ed said, while walking into the office. Everybody calmed down the second they had heard his voice.

Ashley looked at him, the anger flaring up again.

"So what? It's not like he's gonna hear it anyway"

She sighed, trying to calm herself down.

"Besides,", she looked around the room, "it's not like anyone is gonna say anything right?".

"No, of course not. We keep your secret", Danny said, smiling at her.

"Shut up McCoy and get back to work. That means for all of you!", Ed's voice boomed through the room.

They all said their goodbyes to Ashley, before quickly walking out of the offices.

"My office now Ashley. Right now!"

To Be Continued!

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Next chapter:Ashley gets in a hugh fight with Ed and a dance turns out in a hot moment for the entire crew.