Chapter 6.

Unexpected turn of Events

Back in Vegas life quickly fell into a normal pattern. Alli started her job at the Hotel and she and Criss well…hadn't exactly gotten around to their date yet. Infact since returning from Hawaii they hadn't seen much of each other at all, with Criss being so busy with filming MindFreak and his nightly performances and Alli working ovwer 35 hours a week they just didn't have the time.

They met up at clubs occasionally but just couldn't manage to figure out when to spend any time together.

However photographs of the pair had begun to surface from their night at LAX, the airport and a couple from Hawaii, people were wondering who this new girl was and where she came from. Web sites had just named her the unknown brunette, which made Alli grind her teeth. After seeing newer photos of Criss with other women Alli decided that she was sick of not seeing the guy and asked her boss if she could cut back on some of her hours due to fatigue and lack of sleep.

Knowing that Criss was going to be putting in an appearance at the Playboy Cat House that night she decided to phone ahead and book a table, amazingly they had one left.

Planning to get there at about 10:30pm Alli decided to treat herself to a bit of personal pampering. She went down to a local beauty salon and had a facial, manicure, eyebrow and leg wax; she even had her hair cut and layered so that it sprung up and bounced across her shoulders.

That night she wore a knock out red knee length dress that clung to her figure, it was virtually backless with red laces holding it together across her broad but well shaped back. A specially made convertible bra kept her chest in order. Her hair was piled on her head with a few of the shorter curls escaping and bouncing around her face and neck.

For jewellery she wore long dangling butterfly earrings and a thin black ribbon around her neck, her butterfly tattoo clearly visible on the right side of her neck just behind her ear.

Her feet were clad in black high heeled gladiator sandals, the hight showing off her shapely calf muscles to their full advantage. With the way she was dolled up people might think that she was one of the bunnies…nah.

When she got to the club she noticed there was quite a line, but all she had to do was batt her eye lashes at the bouncer and point out where her name was on the list to get in to the venue ahead of the line. Fair Dinkum eh?

The atmosphere in the Cat House was nothing like she expected, it was really a classy place…aside from the buxom bunnies running around in their fishnets and mondo cleavage, not that Alli could comment based on her own ample assests. Head held high and back straight she strode through the club with long deliberate strides that drew attention to her hips and strong legs.

She gracefully sat down at one of the tables and ordered a glass of moscato, not wanting to drink to heavily that night. Sipping the sweet fizzy wine, Alli's clear blue eyes roamed around the area scoping out her fellow club goers. The bunnies were doing a bang up job, if any of the guys got a bit grabby they smiled politely and told the bartender to keep an eye on them. Alli had no idea how the bunnies managed to spend so many hours on their feet in those spiked heels, but she commended them on their stamina.

She spotted Criss in the far corner surrounded by waitresses and a perky little bleached blond, he was showing them a couple of magic tricks with the napkins and what ever he could find at the table. Alli finished her wine and headed into the ladies room which was convieniently located rather close to the table where he was sitting with his groupies, as she walked past she didn't even look at him but she could feel eyes watching her as the fabric from her dress brushed against some one's legs or the scent of her perfume flared some one's nostrils.

As she was touching up her make up the perky blond came wondering in looking a little tipsy, she came over and started fixing her hair. She looked over at Alli and smiled.

"Hi there, that's a great colour can I borrow your lipgloss?"

Alli smiled slightly in return.

"Sure, go ahead" she replied

"Thanks, I think I lost mine about half an hour ago, Criss made it disappear" giggled the blond. "Oh I'm Holly by the way, Holly Madison"

She held out a slender hand with French tipped acrylic nails.

Alli clasped it with in her own, consciously noticing the differences and similarities. Both had pale skin and long fingers, but where Holly's were soft from constant mosturising and treatments Alli's were slightly calloused from polishing cutlery and carrying hot plates. And Alli's nails were her own, long and filed into points.

"I'm Alli, hey was that Criss Angel sitting with you?" she asked politiety

Holly smiled brilliantly, her whitened teeth flashing between a pair of plump crimson lips.

"Yep, he's a great friend, we've been hanging out a lot since I left the playboy mansion"

Alli cocked an eyebrow.

"So what you to are like dating?" she inquired.

"I'm not sure, we have been out a couple of times but he doesn't seem to want a relationship right now I guess"

"ah kay"

Alli took back her cherry red lipstick and applied a fresh coat to her own lips.

Holly told her to come and sit at their table, she didn't like it that Alli was there by herself. So the perky blond and the quirky brunette headed back to the groupie table.

Holly pushed her way through the small crowd of bunnies and situated her self right next to the mindfreak, she pulled Alli down to sit next to her. The contrast between the two young women was painfully obvious.

Holly, being a former playmate was pretty in a more Vegas appropriate way with perfectly styled blond hair, peaches and cream complection, looking flawless in a tight fitting white dress that clearly displayed her silicone enhanced breasts.

Where as Alli was more striking than pretty, her loosely styled brown hair though shiny had a habit of escaping and bouncing around her shoulders, her own skin was pale with a blue undertone so it looked more like alabaster than cream and her naturally full breasts were flatteringly concealed within her slinky red dress.

Hard choice for the illusionist.

As soon as Alli took her seat Criss looked across the table with wide eyes, he looked a little embarrassed as Holly slid her arm through his and stroked his knee. Alli just shrugged her shoulders and ordered another glass of wine.

She asked holly what it had been like living and working in the playboy mansion, while the ex bunny yammered on Alli's gaze slid over to Criss. The magician looked like he was feeling a little left out, unknown to Holly Alli was sliding her foot up Criss's leg slowly stroking his thigh through his jeans. He looked across the table and their eyes met slowly, his liquid brown gaze drowning in the ocean blue of hers.

Holly excused herself to go to the bathroom again, the bunnies had gone back to their business ages ago, she pecked Criss on the cheek and slid out from the booth. Once she was completely out of sight Criss grabbed Alli's ankle and pulled her around to his side of the table until she was practically in his lap. He slid his hands around the back of her neck, looked her straight in the eyes and pulled her in for a deep, slow kiss.

It felt like a bush fire raging through a forest, his fingertips felt like trails of fire as they ran up and down her back until his arms wrapped around her body and consumed her in a conflagration of flames. When she gasped for air Criss took the opportunity to slip his tongue between her lips and taste the sweet wine in her mouth, Alli moaned quietly and wrapped one arm around Criss's shoulders and ran the fingers of the other hand through his thick black hair.

When they finally pulled apart both were flushed and breathing hard. Criss brushed a stray curl back from her forehead in a gesture similar to one that Leyland had made by the pool in Hawaii. Alli smirked looking down at the flushed illusionist.

"so" she said "Did you miss me?"

Criss laughed loudly and pressed his forehead against hers.

"Does this mean we finally get to go out on our date?" he asked while tracing his thumb over her swollen lips.

Alli smiled languidly before leaning back in for another quick kiss. After which she pulled him to his feet and hand in hand walked out of the club, all thoughts of holly were left back at the table.

The pair left the hotel and just walked along the strip for about two hours talking about what had happened over the last couple of weeks and trying to work out if they were going to try some thing how it was gonna happen. Nothing really got worked out but they had fun just spending time together. They passed any multitude of loyals and general fans, Criss as usual stopped for autographs and photos but didn't perform any tricks.

They stopped by a local liquor store and bought a couple of bottles of cheap booze to make rocket fuel, went back to Criss's place and decided to get completely plastered. After about 5 glasses of the potent drink each things started to get fuzzy and Alli and Criss ended up on autopilot. It felt like a scene from a stoner movie the room started to spin and every thing just kind of faded to black

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Alli awoke the next morning to a pounding headache and a mouth that tasted like mouldy toothpaste, she rubbed her eyes with the heal of her hand and shook her head to clear the cottonballs. The first thing that came o her attention was that she was totally naked, which didn't come as much of a surprise because she often slept that way, the second thing was that she wasn't in her bedroom…this one was a lot bigger and completely unfamiliar. She looked over at the clock and registered that it was 4:45am, she had really only been asleep for a few hours so the grog hadn't quite worn off yet.

She wiped her eyes again and felt something move next to her, she looked down and saw a familiar naked body lying face down in the tangled sheets, he rolled over and she saw whose face it was. She actually fell out of the bed when Criss rolled over baring his abs and a morning glory to the moonlight. She raced into the ensuite bathroom and splashed her face with cold water, her vision was blurred so at some point she must have taken her lenses out with out even realising it.

She pulled on a random t-shirt and found her purse on the floor by the couch, her sexy red dress was pooled on the floor nearby. She put on her glasses and went back into the bed room, walking past the door she notice a couple of crinkled up rubber wrappers lying on the dressing table and blushed at the realisation of what must have happened.

Quickly getting dressed in a pair of small track pants and a hoodie she found draped over a chair, Alli gathered the rest of her things and wrote a quick note saying she had to get home because she had to work in the after noon. She left the note on the table next to Criss's bed, kissed him on the forehead and snuck out of the room.

Ask she hopped into the cab and gave him directions to her apartment she noticed a pretty silver ring winking on her left hand, not thinking much of it she wore rings on that finger all the time. She headed home to get some more shut eye before work.

Criss woke up to an empty bed and an equally bad headache about three hours later, which was quite late for him, but he was so out of it that he didn't even notice the latest addition to his vast ring collection covering the tattoo he had gotten a few years previous.

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Alli was heading home from her work early, she had clocked up a lot of hours lately and the boss decided to give her the night off. As she walked down the strip towards her apartment building her phone rang loudly the chorus of candy shop echoed out of her hand bag, it was Criss.

She pressed the accept button.

Hello?

Hey Alli, it's Criss

Hey Criss, what's up?

Not much just wondering why you didn't say hello this morning

Yeah, sorry about that I had to get some sleep before my shift this afternoon

Oh that's ok, I was just curious…um, can I ask you something?

Sure, knock your self out

Do you remember anything from last night, you know after all that rocket fuel?

He he, nope, I have a total mental blank…we must have really gotten shit faced huh

Um yeah about that, uh did you by any chance wake up with a new piece of jewellery on?

Oh yeah, pretty new ring guess I bought it last night and forgot about it…that's how I got piercing number 10.

Okay, well its just that I woke up with a new addition my self and I thought that one of my brothers was playing a trick on me but then I got a congratulatory gift basket from Felix Rapaport and well…

Well what? What's going on Christopher?

I think we kinda...got married last night…

End Chapter.