Chaper 11.
Hotel Concorde La Fayette, Paris, France.
Lulu woke up to find Maxie's hand resting on her left breast causing her to sit up immediately, which in turn caused Maxie's hand to fall back on the bed beside her. After the initial shock wore off, Lulu couldn't help notice how enticing Maxie looked all stretched out on the silky sheets, taking an extra long look at her sexy round ass, she found herself getting aroused and quickly rushed into the bathroom before Maxie woke up and saw her.
As she slipped off her tiny night shirt and panties, she grabbed a washcloth and bar of soap from the counter and stepped into the shower. She tried thinking about work, but that didn't last long. There were too many thoughts of Maxie touching her breast flying through her head to think straight. That mixed with the sight of her naked body lying beside her caused more than a few rather naughty thoughts to creep into her by now very confused, yet turned on state.
Despising Maxie had been her hobby for well over a year now and to be thinking of her in a sexual manner was deeply distressing for Lulu, who wanted nothing more than to close her eyes and pretend she'd never seen her arch enemy naked.
She washed every inch of her body as fast as she could, fighting off thoughts of Maxie naked as she tried to get through the shower without giving into the increasingly powerful desires that had been building up since she woke up.
Finally, as the shower came to a close, she felt a sense of relief as she had managed to keep those nasty thoughts from taking over, but as she stepped out of the shower Maxie walked in, still naked as can be, "Did you take my shower?"
"No, I took my shower, but you're free to have one now, I'm sure there's a little hot water left." Lulu said with a satisfied smirk. She went to grab a towel to dry off but Maxie reached out and grabbed all three towels that were sitting on the rack.
"I guess you'll have to let nature dry you off." Maxie said with an equally smug smile as she took the towels out of the bathroom and walked back into the bedroom, tossed them on the bed and promptly fell on top of them, "Hmm, they feel so warm and soft. I could lie here all day."
Growing more annoyed than aroused now, Lulu chased after Maxie and stopped as she saw her lying on the towels, "You are so immature."
"Oh right and you're not?" Maxie yelled back, sitting up to glare at her naked blonde enemy, "You used my shampoo and my soap and take my shower and I'm immature? I don't think so. Now, put some clothes on, you really shouldn't be walking around like that. Kate could be here any minute."
"Stop lying." Lulu laughed, while edging closer and closer to the bed, "That shampoo was from the hotel and Kate is not coming here, we are meeting her in the lobby."
"Wrong and wrong." Maxie happily corrected, "I set out that shampoo and the soap last night before I went to bed and if you peak out the bedroom door you'll see Kate sitting waiting for us."
Lulu shook her head at Maxie, but still walked over and opened the bedroom door and looked out, "She's not there." When she turned to look at Maxie, she saw her going through her luggage and that was the last straw. She made a beeline for Maxie, flying over the bed and tackling her to the ground, "What the hell are you doing in my stuff?"
Maxie struggled to get free, but couldn't get any leverage and after a few half assed attempts to push her off, she let out a deep sigh, "Look you animal, I was going to grab your shampoo and use it. That's all. Now get off of me before I get mad."
"Not until you say sorry."
"For what?" Maxie asked, honestly confused by Lulu's demand.
"How about for stealing my towels or even worse, for groping me when I was sleeping." Lulu added, doing her best to sound upset, "I could have you arrested for that."
Maxie laughed out loud at Lulu's latest accusation, "Oh don't flatter yourself, you have nothing I want to grope, so see a shrink for your delusions and get off of me!"
"I bet there's a camera here, but yes, your hand was on my breast when I woke up. I guess your sexual urges just can't be controlled even in your sleep. Must be a slut thing."
"Shut up." Maxie growled, using all the energy she could muster to make a final attempt to push Lulu off. With one leg pushing against the bed she pushed hard in the other direction and sure enough she had enough force to knock Lulu off to the side.
When there was a loud thud and then a scream, Maxie got up and saw Lulu holding her head as blood trickled down the side of her face, "OMG. What happened? What did you hit?"
Lulu pointed to the corner of the dresser, "Oh god it hurts."
Maxie frantically rushed over and looked at the wound, "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to do that. We need to wash that out. Come with me."
Not having a whole lot of say in the mater, Lulu put her arm around Maxie and her hand over her head as she was led back into the shower. Maxie grabbed a new washcloth from under the sink and hopped into the shower with Lulu and began applying pressure to the small, but nasty cut on her forehead.
After a few minutes the bleeding had stopped and yet the two girls were still huddled together, with Maxie being the first to notice just how close they were as she felt Lulu's breasts pushing against her own. Knowing it wasn't intentional, yet still finding it strangely pleasing, Maxie looked back at Lulu who was noticing the same thing and they both smiled, but didn't say a word.
Lulu couldn't help but enjoy the brief moment where Maxie looked so cute and was so gentle and caring as she helped treat her cut and that seemed to be all she needed to convince her lips that maybe she wasn't so bad after all. Without saying a word, she gave Maxie another long look and knew she wanted it to and in unison the two girls began kissing.
It wasn't your ordinary slow, get to know each other kiss either, this one was filled with passion, fiery passion and they kissed hard and deep, as if they'd been lovers forever. Every movement was met by the other without missing a beat. Their hands anxiously explored each other's naked bodies with unbridled enthusiasm, wanting to touch what they'd only dreamed about for so long.
Maxie slid her hands down Lulu's round ass, caressing it, enjoying every amazing curve, before sliding them back up so she could brush aside some of Lulu's soft blonde hair that was beginning to tickle her nose as they kissed.
After moving Lulu's hair away from her face, Maxie began kissing her way down Lulu's soft sweet neck, nibbling her way towards her ear lobe, licking and sucking it as Lulu moaned her approval.
With Maxie moving down to Lulu's breasts, a sense of excitement filled the tiny shower stall as Maxie cupper Lulu's soft round breasts, caressing them as she licked her lips in anticipation of what came next.
Just as she leaned in closer, there was a loud crashing sound and seconds later Kate rushed into the bathroom and stopped in her tracks at the sight of the two naked young women in a very compromising position.
Along with Kate were two large men with axes, who also got to see a whole lot more of the two women than they would've liked. Kate quickly turned the men away and closed the bathroom door, "What the hell is going on here?"
Tupressi Bar and Grill, Port Charles
Claudia smiled as Courtney walked towards her, enjoying the view as the tight blue dress showed off her sexy fit body incredibly well, "I'm glad you could make it."
"I've been looking forward to this all day." Courtney said as she followed Claudia into the fancy restaurant.
After being seated, Claudia waited for the waiter to leave, took another moment to enjoy Courtney's cleavage her plunging neckline was providing before finally uttering some words, "I don't want things to get off to a bad start and after seeing you in this dress I don't think that's possible, but I need to let you know something and you might not be too happy about it."
Courtney smiled at Claudia's compliment, but just as quickly grew weary about what she was about to say, "I guess it's best to get the bad out of the way first."
"I call it being cautious, but you might not agree. I had you investigated and I turned up some rather disturbing information about you."
Unsure of what Claudia was referring to, Courtney chose to play it calm, "Oh, I'm not sure what that would be. Aside from coming back from the dead, I've led a pretty boring life."
"Oh I'd hardly call your life boring." Claudia said with a laugh, "Living with Jason Morgan is one thing that stands out and being Sonny's sister is another, but even with those two negatives I had hope we could still work together, but it seems that you have an even bigger secret that even they don't know about."
Suddenly Courtney's calm exterior took a hit, fearing Claudia had uncovered the truth about her working for Anna, "Maybe you should stop speaking in riddles and just tell me what you think you know."
"Okay, I found out about your run in with the mob in your search for that fertility drug and what puzzles me is there's no record of you being kept in any safe house, so I have to wonder, just what you've been doing for the past two years?"
A brief sense of relief came over Courtney, "You are very thorough aren't you?"
"I have to be." Claudia replied, still waiting for a real answer.
"This isn't supposed to be public knowledge, so can I get you to promise not to tell anyone, especially Carly, Jason or Sonny? I'm not proud of what I did and I was hoping to keep it in the past where it belongs."
Claudia leaned forward, put her hand over Courtney's arm and smiled, "Of course you can trust me. I just need this cleared up before we go any further."
"Well, the FBI wanted me to stay in the safehouse. That part is true, but I didn't want to. I didn't feel that Maletti would spend another second worrying about me and I was right. I'm not sure why I didn't go back to Port Charles, but I think I just needed some time to think." Courtney said calmly, checking on Claudia's reaction to her story, "I wasn't in a relationship and aside from Carly, I had no reason to go back. Anyway, I decided to take some time to think and clear my head and I ended up going overseas. I spent some time in China and a few months in Moscow, I had money, Sonny made sure of that and I just enjoyed seeing the different cultures around the world and I met someone in Rome and we hit it off instantly and I just didn't want to leave."
"I don't know what to say, but I have no information of you being in any of those places."
"That's because I didn't use my real name." Courtney said with a slight laugh, reaching into her purse and pulling out her wallet, "I used this name. It's what the FBI gave me as part of my new identity."
Claudia looked at the driver's license, birth certificate and other forms of ID all with the name Jennifer Marlow on them and sat back in her chair, "You do know that I'm going to have to verify this story as well."
Courtney nodded with a big bright smile, "Of course. I hope you do, but I just don't want anyone else finding out about it, until I'm ready to tell them."
"Fair enough." Claudia said, feeling that Courtney might just be telling the truth, "Now that we have that out of the way, I hope we can enjoy a lovely evening together?"
"I'd like that." Courtney said, taking a long sip of wine, pleased that she had dodged a bullet for the time being at least.
Port Charles Pier.
Jason stood at the corner of the docks, in a dark corner, gun in hand waiting for Karpov, but as Sam walked onto the docks, his normally serious face became quickly annoyed. With a deep sigh he walked towards Sam, grabbing her by the arm and dragging her back into the corner with him, "What are you doing here?"
"Nice to see you to." Sam snapped, ripping her arm from his grip, "If you'd stop dragging me into your mob crap I could go back to enjoying a nice view of the water."
"Sure, like you come down here to meditate." Jason said, partially serious with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"I have no other reason to be here." Sam explained to her highly paranoid ex, "I really did come here to do some thinking."
"Well, I have business here so you need to go."
"It's a large dock, I don't think I'll be in the way. So go about your mob business and I'll stay out of your way."
"It's not safe here. Karpov has been moving drugs into Port Charles using this pier and he needs to be stopped. I'm positive he's working with someone and I need to find out who."
"Why are you telling me this? Isn't the idea to keep me out of your life?
"I know, I forget sometimes that we aren't really friends anymore. It's just different right now with Sonny on his own and Claudia and the Zacchara's planning a takeover, I actually remember being able to trust you with this stuff in the past."
"Well I can't be part of this. Elizabeth would never forgive me."
"Elizabeth?" Jason asked as his face contorted in confusion, "What does she have to do with this?"
"Um, nothing really," Sam lied, "It's just that I've been spending some time with her lately, trying to repair the damage I caused and we've finally got to the point where she feels she can trust me and I don't want to ruin that."
"Something doesn't fit here. It seems like you're going through a lot of trouble just to make amends. Why are you so happy when you talk about her?" Jason asked and as he watched Sam look away, he let out a groan, "Oh please tell me you're not interested in Elizabeth now? You have to know that can't work."
"First of all, I don't think it's any of your business who Elizabeth or I decides to see and second of all, I'm just happy to be friends with her right now."
"I can't believe this. You two have never really been friends, not even before we were together. Why her? I thought you were with Maxie?"
"I'm not going to discuss my love life with you. I appreciate your concern, but I really need to go. I'll come back later and do my thinking."
Before Sam could make good on that promise, Karpov walked onto the pier with his men close by. Just as soon after Karpov arrived another vehicle came to a stop and more people got out and moved towards him.
Jason watched as the second group of people got close enough to Karpov to make out who it was. Surprise didn't begin to describe what Jason felt as he saw Brenda Barrett walk up to Karpov.
"It's good to meet you in person." Brenda said, smiling at the large Russian mobster.
Karpov took her hand and kissed it gently, "I'm pleased to meet you as well Miss Barrett. I've heard good things about you. I think we can come to an agreement that can benefit both of our organizations."
"Yes, that is what I'd like to discuss, but I need a couple questions answered first."
"Whatever you need to know, I'll tell you."
"Good, that's what I like to hear." Brenda said, walking slowly towards the end of the pier, "I know you have some type of understanding with Jason and even have Sonny Corinthos working for you as some type of consultant/liason?"
"Yes, that is true."
"Okay, I want you to tell Sonny his services will no longer be needed. "
"May I ask why you don't want Corinthos working for me? He has a vast amount of knowledge about Mr. Morgan as well as the inner working of the Zacchara's and many other possible obstacles here on the east coast."
"I have my reasons and it's vital that Sonny have no connections to anyone I work with. If that's a problem for you, then our business is concluded."
"I didn't say I wouldn't do it, I was hoping for a reason, but I will assume your reasons are more than worthy. He will be notified as soon as possible that our agreement has come to an end."
"Excellent." Brenda said with an excited smile, "I have one more thing I need to know, what is your assessment of the Zacchara's? Who's really in control? I heard Anthony left, is that true?"
"It appears he has some type of terminal illness and he's left control of his organization to his children. Johnny is impulsive and aggressive, he lacks the experience to run just a large organization, while Claudia is smart, has good instincts, but she to lacks experience in such things and has proven to be soft in how she's dealt with Morgan and Corthinos. She could've easily eliminated them and yet she chose not to. Her reasons are not clear, but it seems as though she may have developed some type of friendship with Morgan and had a brief fling with Mr. Corinthos, allowing this to cloud her judgment."
"I'm starting to believe that Claudia is more of a liability than an asset."
"I won't disagree, but she does have a considerable organization behind her, with word that she has the backing of an even bigger group."
"I'd be that bigger group." Brenda said with a laugh, "I had hoped that the Zacchara's would be able to deal with things here in Port Charles, but perhaps I was wrong. I think you would be a good choice to run things here in Port Charles. Are you interested?"
"That was my ultimate goal, but do you ask this as a rival or are you asking me to be part of your organization?"
"To be honest, I don't have any interest in Port Charles, so you can have it. I do want to take care of Sonny and Jason on my own, so if you are okay with that, we should have no problems."
"I'm curious as to why you don't wish to add Port Charles to your organization. It is a perfect location for running not only drugs, but guns, ammunition, and any other sensitive material that cannot enter the country using conventional means."
"My reasons are personal and I won't be explaining them to anyone."
"Very well." Karpov nodded, not wishing to push Brenda further, "How long do you think it will take to deal with Morgan and Corinthos?
"If all goes well I should be out of here in less than a week."
"I can live with that." Karpov added, more than pleased with the outcome of the meeting.
"I will let you know when I've taken care of things. It was nice talking to you. I'll be in touch." Brenda said calmly as she walked past the mobster and got back into her long limo.
After Karpov had done the same and drove off, Jason walked back onto the pier and stood silent as she processed what he'd just seen.
Sam smiled at the puzzled look on Jason's face, "I'm guessing you didn't know Brenda was involved in this mob war that's about to happen?"
"She disappeared a few years ago and I thought she was ready to move on with her life and now that's she back and is intent on Sonny being isolated from the mob, I think she's here for revenge."
"I thought they made up when she came back last time?"
Jason nodded, but still hadn't managed an expression, "So did I, but it's clear she is still holding onto the same anger and hurt that caused her breakdown. I thought she was over that and now, I wonder how far she's willing to go to get back at Sonny."
"Well, she seemed very in control just now. A little cold and bitchy, but how can she have the power to do any of this?"
"That's what I need to find out." Jason said with his trademark blank stare, before disappearing into the maze of buildings behind them.
End of Chapter 11.
