Chapter 3 Sunday lunch
"So what do you all think of her?" Paul asked the group as they clear out the execution room.
"So a quite girl don't you think?" Harry asked picking up a box setting of against the wall clearing the area for the chairs.
"She's not all that quiet." They all turned to Brutal. "Get her talking she talk for ages, in fact she's invited us over for Sunday lunch tomorrow, if your interested in a nice home cooked meal that is?"
Dean started sweeping the floors when a thought came to mind.
"Hey Paul, most of us didn't have plans last night but you made her stay so she didn't have to be apart of the execution huh?"
"Yeah, I thought it best that she not be here around the times of the executions."
"Paul, this is her job now, soon she will have all that paperwork done, and then what will she do?" Brutal asked.
"When she gets the paperwork done then I'll think about letting her witness it ok, but for now she gets the days off for executions." They all nodded.
Everything went as planed and on time for Arlen Bitterbuck, Paul was glad to have not included Alexandria on this one.
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They had all gotten a ride together, three of them had work that evening so it wasn't going to be too long of a lunch. Walking up the stair to the front porch they noticed all the doors and windows open, the smell of steak frying moved through the air making the four men even hungrier than they were. Taping lightly on the door they were soon greeted by Alexandria who rushed to the door.
"Afternoon boys." She smiled and opened the door, "Come on in, lunch is almost ready, its all set up on the back porch." They all headed out through the house, into the kitchen where she quickly attending to the food before burning it.
"You need any help?" They all stood around her and she laughed.
"Sure, there are bowls in that top cabnet, these two pots need to be strained and put into one." Dean and Brutal went on looking for the bowls and strainers, helping her put the food out. They all took their own place at the table as she set the last dish in the center. "Hope you enjoy, its been awhile since I cooked for so many before."
"I'm sure it will be delicious, smell pretty good to me." Harry perked up dishing out his food for himself.
"Your looking good today baby girl." Brutal said as he dished out some potatoes.
"Baby girl?" They all asked at once looking at Brutal as she laughed.
"What, its my nickname for her, I mean look at her she's practically a baby to some of us well not so much Dean but from my perspective she is." Brutal said looking over at her, she smiled. "So where this guy you told me about?"
"Guy?" Dean asked looking up from his food.
"Yeah, she told me there is this guy that comes around thinking he owns the place." Brutal said before taking a bit of his steak.
"Its not like that, we had a little fling and then . . ." She trailed off looking down for a second before smiling again. "let's not bring up bad memories now."
"Come on now, we are your family now." She looked over at Paul. "I mean you got us all over here for lunch, means we care for you."
"How, you've known me for barely a week." They all smiled.
"Doesn't need to take months to develop any sort of friendship or feelings." She smiled and they continued their meal. They conversed about everything but work, trying to keep things away from what they do to not spoil to mood of the day.
"That was a wonderful meal Alexandria, thank you." Paul spoke up wiping his mouth. "Well Harry Brutal and I got to get to work."
"Of coarse go, ill take care of this mess." She smiled as they all stood. "Ill see you in the morning I guess." They started off through the house back out to the car, following them she watched as they packed in.
"Dean you coming with, we'll drop you off back home." Harry shouted out causing Alexandria to notice he was standing behind her.
"No, I'll stay and help Miss Davis clean up the mess we made." Alexandria looked back at the car and they all nodded.
"You kids have fun!" They watched the car drive off down the dirt road before turning back into the house.
"You really didn't have to do that you know." She said as they exited onto the back porch.
"I don't mind really, the four us can come to be big pigs, figured it would be rude is one of us didn't stay and help you clean." He started stacking plates as she started covering the left over food. Grabbing the covered food she placed it in the icebox, Dean had placed the first round of plates in the sink and began to roll up his sleeves.
"No, ill do that."
"NO." Dean said sternly. "Gather the rest of the dishes ill do this." She sighed and grabbed the rest of the plates setting them in the sink that was now full of water and soap. She watched Dean scrub the plates and took them from him when he was done and began drying them. It didn't take long before they were done. Smiling she walked over to the ice box.
"You want something to drink?"
"Sure." She smiled and grabbed the pitcher of ice tea and filled two glasses. Walking out to the back porch Dean looked out over her land. She came out soon after handing him the glass. "Nice piece of land you got."
"Yeah it belonged to my parents before they died, gave it to me to manage." She said taking a sip of her tea. Dean looked over at her as she did then back over the land.
"You got any animals?"
"Not yet, we did a long time ago." Sitting down in one of the chairs she had set up. "Nope hasn't been animal in that barn in years, maybe after I'm done with this job I'll get a few." Dean took a seat next to her setting his glass down. They were quiet for a long while, just listening to the breeze. Dean took in a deep breath of cool air and looked over at her. Brutal was right when he told her she looked good today. She had her hair down and wore a light green sun dress that brought out her form more. She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye smiling. He was staring at her and he wasn't doing a good job hiding it. Turning to him the wind caught her hair bringing it to fall in her eyes. As if it were just quick reaction he reached out brushing the strand out of her eyes. She watched his hand till it settled back on the table. She leaned forward to speak but was interrupted by the sound of the door slamming that broke the silence.
"Alex!" they both turned and watched as big unkempt man came through the back porch door, looking at Dean then glaring at her. "Who the hell is this!"
"John this is Dean, I work with him." John looked at Dean judging him for a moment.
"I should be going, Ill see you at work Alexandria." She looked over at Dean and smiled.
"OK, I'll walk you out." They both stood.
"He can find himself out girl your staying her and explaining yourself!" John blocked her from the door.
"We will dicuss this later!" She ground out before pushing past him. Dean didn't like the situation as he walked out on to the front porch with her. "I'm sorry about this, I'm glad you stayed and helped me with the dishes." Dean came up closer to her.
"Look if you want me to make him leave I will." He whispered noticing that John was watching.
"No its fine." She gave a weak smile up at him. "Go on, I'll see you tomorrow." Dean nodded.
"Ok."
"You going to be fine walking home, I can give you a ride?"
"No, its just a mile down the road I'll be fine." Dean turned reluctantly away and began his short walk home. Hoping that the horrible things he was thinking that could happen to her wouldn't, and that he was just being foolish.