Set Fire to the Rain 12/?
Pine Valley, Pa
"What do you mean there's nothing I can do?" Jr growled at his lawyer. He stood gripping the Scotch bottle in his hand, his eyes full of fire and brimstone. Here he was paying this goddamn attorney a arm and a leg to get his son away from his bitch of a ex and her fucking dyke girlfriend and the man was telling him the judge had pushed back the hearing indefinitely!
"Mr. Chandler, Judge Haskins has made it clear" the narrow faced lawyer began as he nervously pushed his glasses back from the tip of his nose further up.
"I thought I made myself clear" Jr interrupted. "If he wants backing to go to Washington he had better figure out damn quick who his friends are!"
"Sir! Please, I made your intentions known and the judge feels that elections are six months off and-"
"And what?" Jr grated out, slamming the shot glass down harshly on his desk.
"He's not going to hear your case until then, so he can be sure that you aren't going to back out of the deal" The man finished weakly. He watched as the younger blond man strode over to a curtained window. He pushed the thin material out of the way to stare out at his son, swimming in the pool. "Mr. Chandler?"
Jr waved him off dismissively adding "So that means what?"
"It means you will be sharing custody with your ex wife until such time" the man breathed out knowing this was not what his client wanted to hear.
Jr turned on the man, his face a mask of disgust. "You mean to tell me that I have to leave my only son in the hands of a couple of lesbians!"
"Sir, please its outburst like this that?"
"That what! I have a right to raise my kid the way I see fit. It's bad enough that Babe was a nothing but gutter trash but now he's got Bianca Montgomery as substitute!"
"Mr. Chandler"
"That bitch has taken everything from me" Jr huffed angrily. "She took my daughter, my Bess!" his chest heaved, eyes misty with the memory. " You know I see her sometimes and she looks at me like I'm fucking criminal! Like it wasn't her bastard father that destroyed everyone's life! I wanted to be her father even after I knew the truth! She was mine, I loved her! But it was always about Bianca, poor sweet, little dyke Bianca. I lost Babe to her, Bess, and now she's taken my wife and son!" he said finally taking a breath from his rant.
"Sir, Ms Montgomery"
"Don't sir me, If I lose AJ to her I swear on every God out there I will make her pay, I will make every dream she ever had turn to ashes and then she will know " He paused his hand now folded into fist. "She'll know what it feels like to have nothing."
Kings County Center Hospital, Brooklyn NY
Everything has happened so fast my mind cannot keep up. I can barely remember someone pulling me away from Maggie's body, maybe it was Reggie. There were too many voices echoing, shouts, screams, voices unfamiliar to me. And suddenly I recognized the scream was my own voice, anguished and wretched and wounded. I was screaming, trying to desperately to claw my way back to the smaller woman's side.
"Maggie, sweetheart, say something?" I heard myself begging.
She was blocked from me, people; other doctor's working frantically to move her to what looked like a gurney. I nearly fainted when I saw a pool of blood where she had just lain.
"Bianca let them help her"
It was Kendall's voice, cutting through the static and the chaos. I felt myself turn toward that voice and her thin arms envelope me in a hug. I found myself clinging to her, my face buried in her neck as I broke down. If it wasn't for Reggie's strong arms wrapping around us both I know I would have fallen in a heap the floor.
I was being led to chair to wait. I sat there with my head buried in my hands, mind racing.
It was all too much. My life, my fucked up, pitiful existence of a life was finally after all these years, all the hurts and pains it was finally threatening to break my spirit.
A life that seemed like a fight from the moment I was born. The fight to live, the fight to live outside of my mother's shadow, the fight to gain acceptance for who I was, fighting for someone , anyone to love me, and then Michael, Michael who had almost nearly destroyed me. The man who left me so emotional scarred I never thought I could stand to be touched again or that I would be clean. Then she came, Maggie, my confused, hesitant Margaret. I could feel a weak smile from against my hands.
She always said she hated it when I called her that. But I knew it was a lie. My Maggie who threatened Michael with a knife to keep me safe, the woman who held me through all my nightmares, it was her arms that taught me what safety was.
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Bianca stood in front of the mirror looking at her reflection. It had taken her months to actually look at herself after the rape. Even then she never felt whole, without Miranda she felt broken, and her body felt as if it didn't belong to her anymore. She sighed as her hands slowly feathered over her ribcage to rest gently under the swell of heavy breast.
It was Maggie that had made her feel complete, her touch that finally erased the pain of what Michaels rough hands had wrought. She stepped back from the mirror and strode out her massive bathroom nude, freshly dried. The little blond was still asleep and it brought a smile to her face. Yes she had certainly earned it. Climbing back onto the enormous Queen size bed, she crawled over to the prone figure of her girlfriend lying on her stomach, her bare back exposed as a tangled sheets lay haplessly around her lower waist.
Bianca dusted light kisses over the expanse of olive skin. God she loved this woman. She couldn't seem to get enough of her, she thought as her tongue trailed a path up the delicate back before her, before pressing her forehead into the nape of Maggie's neck. She closed her eyes with a smile as she recalled how Maggie had touched her last night. Last night she had come home to find a decadent dinner in front of her fireplace, where they had finally admitted their love and taken the next step.
As long as she lived she would never forget the exquisite feeling of being inside of the petite woman. It had been so much more than she had ever hoped for. The way she moved under her touch, the desire in her dark hazel eyes that was finally just for her only drove the brunette to edge of herself. A place she had never felt comfortable going with other lovers. But with Maggie it was uncontrollable, she had to have her, completely, wholly, she felt consumed by her love and desire. And the woman did not disappoint, she laid herself bare for her and in doing so set the brunette free to lay herself completely bare right back.
Her little girlfriend took control of her body, touching her as if she had never seen anything so beautiful. Bianca could still see the look of wonder on the blonds face as she pushed her delicate fingers into her heated flesh.
*Am I hurting you* she had asked as she hovered over the taller woman. Her eyes wide with love and a bit of fear, it made Bianca love her all the more.
*No baby, you feel so good* the brunette had gasped. And it was true; it had felt so good it overwhelmed her to her core. She ached to cum, to finally after nearly two years of pain, self doubt, and self loathing, to finally let go and feel again.
*Maggie's face was so intense it shook her to her being, she was studying her every movement and reaction. Her kisses were so explosive there were no words needed, everything they had both wanted so desperately was being put into their lovemaking and somehow Bianca knew it was just that. Love making in its rawest form. Her body arched and rocked with the fingers inside of her as the tears slowly began falling down her cheeks.*
*Her girlfriend kissed them away, all the while keeping up the steady pounding of her skillful hands as if she had been doing this her whole life. "I love you Bianca" she said over and over as the brunette's body froze suddenly, her hands gripping the blonds' waist, her body falling over the edge and finally she came. All the tension of the past two years, the longing, the pain, it all melted away as her body rocked helplessly against the healing hands of her lover.*
Bianca thoughts brought her back to her slumbering lover and she knew the rising need to be close to her again was more than she could bear. With a wicked grin she pulled the sheet back exposing what she thought was the world's most perfect ass and began to shower kisses over the blond. Gently she turned the small body over, nudging the toned legs open to settle between Maggie's thighs. Her mouth watered at the scent of her lover and she began to slowly kiss her way up inner thighs. She'd never forget the shock and pure rapture in her little girlfriends' eyes when she first tasted her. It secretly thrilled her to know that none of her previous lovers had ever been so intimate with her before. She was her first, her female lover and the first to ever bring her to a true orgasm. The fact that those idiots had never thought to bring her Maggie that kind of pleasure stunned her. It was absolutely unacceptable in Bianca's mind, but then what could you expect from a man. Her Maggie had no idea just how good she tasted and Bianca made sure to make she never forgot it either.
It didn't take long for fingers to find their way into dark chocolate tresses and the slight body to begin to move against the brunette's insistent mouth.
"Oh god! Baby you're gonna kill me" Maggie moaned as she felt her tongue enter her deeper.
"I can't help it" Bianca murmured against her, nipping at her thighs…"I can't get enough of you" she sighed hotly before her tongue shot out to take a long slow lick between heated lips. "You're always so wet for me Maggie. Do have any idea how much that turns me on" Bianca said thickly
She watched as the blond swallowed her eyes wide. She couldn't help but chuckle, "Don't realize how much I want you baby" she said astonished.. "Every minute of every day for the last four years" Bianca almost growled before she delved deep into the blond setting her task to make her cum as hard as she could.
And she did, repeatedly. And the brunette thought there could never be anything better than lying in Maggie Stone's arms. She'd never felt so safe.
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I was brought out of my thoughts by a nurse who had finally made her way over to us. I knew I could barely stand I was weak with fear of what would be said. The woman was pretty actually, of Spanish decent and her eyes were filled with concern. "You were with Dr. Stone?" she asked
I stood with Reggie holding my waist for support and Kendall clutching my hand. .
"I mean I saw you all over her after the shooting?" she added quickly. "You a friend of hers?" she clarified.
I got the feeling there was more than friendship going on with this chick and Maggie and flair of jealously went coursing through my veins.
"She's my" I stumbled. What was she really? I mean we hadn't seen each other in years. I had been married, had another kid, an ex wife and now a girlfriend yet when I saw her collapse on that floor everything that had in my life since Maggie seem to melt away. But I knew the law well of enough to know that I wouldn't get any information without a tie to her. "She's my cousin" I lied.
She nodded but looked skeptical.
" I came to see her and Chris" I added quickly and at the mention of my son's name her head jerked up. "Do you know where he is". I had almost forgot the little boy at the center of all this. God! Maggie was possibly…I couldn't let myself think it. Where the hell was my son!
"How's Maggie?" Kendall interrupted giving me a quick glance. It wouldn't matter where Chris was until we could get a handle on Maggie's condition.
"I spoke to the doctor" she began as she guided my little group over to private corner. "Maggie is in the OR right now and they are trying to repair the damage the bullet did when it nicked the artery near her heart."
I gasped and fell against Reggie for support. "Her heart? Oh god is she going to be ok"
"I can't say right now, all I know is that the bullet actually entered here" she said pushing on the side of her own sternum. "it looks like it grazed her sternum and shattered, one of the bullet pieces grazed an artery near her heart. The doctors will try to repair as much as they can"
"They can't do the job in one sitting" Kendall asked as if this were a photo shoot
"Ma'am they will try to do the best they can now but our best heart surgeon accepted a position at another hospital three weeks ago" she said softly. "We might have to get someone to come in and finish the job if they can't repair everything"
My mind was reeling with this new. Maggie could die because of not having the best healthcare!
"It will probably be a few more hours in there but I'll update you as soon as I know more" she said before backing away.
I shook my head as the tears came again more quickly. This could not be happening.
"Binks lets just get some coffee ok" Kendall offered as I just mutely nodded. It was then that I realized my hands were covered in dried blood. My very expensive suit was also blood stained and I must have looked like a damn mess. Reggie offered to get us all three coffees and bite to eat, not like I could stomach anything but I accepted. . Kendall and I sat on the hard plastic chairs as we waited.
"We have to get her the best Kendall, If they can't fix her." I swallowed the lump in my throat. "Griffin can do it!" I said, sure she could see the light in my eyes.
She looked unsure and played with her fingers nervously. "You think he could come here, that they would allow it even" Kendall said worriedly.
"I am her cousin" I said quietly to my sister's disapproving glance. "We can take her to him"
"Take her to what? Binks?" She said shaking her head.
"I'm taking her back to Pine Valley, she can get the best care at PVH and Griffin and even David are the best in their fields. I'm taking her Kendall" I said firmly, my voice hard.
A young man appeared holding a plastic bag. He offered it to me, his voice saying softly. "Nurse Torres said you were family, this is her, Dr. Stone's belongings"
Kendall had to take it for me since my hands were shaking. As he left she slowly opened the bag and looked inside finding Maggie's key chain with Miranda's picture and her cell phone. Kendall fingered the keychain her eyes settling on my daughters' picture. "She never forgot her huh" she with a sad smile.
I sighed guiltily. "What I am going to do Kendall. Miranda is expecting Maggie and I promised her" I said biting back the tears that threaten to come again.
"Mimo will understand"
"Will she? I kept her from the only thing she's wanted. And if Maggie's dies."
"Maggie is not going to die! She is too tough of person for that. Hell, she'll fight just so she can cuss you out when it's all said and done" Kendall smirked.
"You think so" I said weakly, needed to hear everything would work out.
"Of course, Maggie will get through this and you both will make that bitch Reese pay for causing this whole damn mess!" Kendall growled
Reese, I had actually married that woman. I stood in front of my friends and family and married a woman I didn't fully know. I had fucked up so badly up to this point and I knew it. But Reese, what I heard on that mp3 made me sick. It was no wonder Maggie hated me, how could she not. My eyes were burning with hatred; yes there were things that I had to work out with her. She had still kept me in the dark about my child those first few years before the Reese mess, and I would not be letting that slide but right now I needed someone to lash out at. Reese seemed like a better target.
"Kendall I want that bitch to pay" I said suddenly, urgently.
"And she will Binks. So help me she will"
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Kendall and I looked at each other suddenly, both checking our cell phones. It was then that I noticed it was Maggie's phone that was ringing. Kendall shrugged as I looked to her for guidance, not knowing what else to do I picked up the cell and saw the name Anna flash on the screen with her picture.
I took a breath as I answered the phone with a weak hello.
"Maggie is that you?'
I swallowed. "No Anna, it's not Maggie"
"Not Maggie? Who the bloody hell is this!"
"It's Bianca, Bianca Montgomery" I whispered in response.
"What are you doing with Maggie's phone, Where is she? Why are you there" she rambled on quickly causing me to press my hand against my forehead in aggravation. She had kept Christien from me as much as Maggie. And while I was happy Maggie had support it still hurt, I counted Anna as a friend.
"I came to see Maggie about my son Anna but Maggie was shot just a little while ago here in the waiting room of the hospital" I said my voice faltering.
"She what?" came a gasped reply
"She's been shot" I said emotionally. "Look there are things going on here that are fucking out of control but I know about my son, I know you helped her with him, helped keep him from me" I said more bitterly than I meant too.
"Bianca I tried to get Maggie-
"It doesn't matter at this point" I said dismissively the inner Kane in me roaring to life. "Maggie needs help. I don't know where my kid is and I don't know if Maggie is going to live or die."
"He's with me" came a quiet reply
I couldn't speak then. My mind was a blank, Christien was with Anna
"Bianca are you there?"
"Where are you? Where the hell are you?"
"That doesn't matter, what matter is as you say, Maggie is hurt and I'm coming there right now. Call my daughter Robin. She's the listed as emergency contact. Her number is in the phone. You can expect me by the morning" she said hanging up quickly
I sat there, the phone slipping out of my grasp into my lap.
"What the hell did she say?" Kendall asked angrily.
"She said my son is with her and she'll be here in the morning. She wants me to call Robin"
"Who's Robin?"
"Her daughter, I knew her briefly in Paris. She's a doctor and a very good person" I said seeing the skeptical look on my sisters' face.
"So are you going to call her?
3 hours later
This was beginning to feel like the longest day in my life. It was nearing four o'clock and Maggie had been in surgery for four hours. Robin had arrived an hour ago, it seems she has friends in high places that owned their own private jets. She'd flown in and came right here. Since she was Dr. she was allowed to watch the surgery from something called the gallery.
Kendall, Reggie and I were still waiting in our rumpled up clothes for word on Maggie. My mind wouldn't rest no matter how tired I was. I finally gave up when I felt my sister urging me to lay my head on her lap and my brother gently pulled my legs up to rest on his knees. Reggie gently rubbed my back while Kendall worked her fingers through my hair and I closed my eyes.
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"Maggie stop pacing" Bianca laughed, her eyes bright.
"I can't help it. I mean what if it was a false positive" the blond said stuffing her hands in the pockets of her leather jacket
"I have I told you how sexy you look in that jacket. One of my better anniversary gifts don't you think" the brunette said sexily
The blond stopped pacing and fixed her with a arched eyebrow. "Is this part of the pregnancy libido, I've always heard of" she smiled
Bianca reached out her hand as the little blond took it and let herself be pulled over to where she was lying. "It may be, more proof that the 5 pregnancy test I took were all correct" she laughed.
They kissed softly, before she felt Bianca nibbling on her bottom lip."Baby" Maggie whined deepening the kiss before pulling back breathlessly.
"what?" Bianca asked innocently.
Maggie shook her head with a smile, it was going to be one hell of a nine months. And older dr came in with a smile for them both and a nurse followed behind.
"bonnes après-midi Mesdames. Je comprends que nous voulons voir et ultersound de votre grossesse ?
Maggie's French was still not up to pare and she looked to her lover for translation. *he's here to show us an ultrasound of the baby" Bianca smiled kissing the back of her girlfriend's hands.
Maggie nodded enthusiastically. She moved closer to the bed and watched carefully as the younger red headed nurse pulled back the smock to reveal Bianca's tummy. Bianca laughed at her girlfriends' wary look. The nurse put the cool jelly on the brunette's tummy and began to move the ultrasound around as the dr looked at the screen.
Maggie wrapped her off hand around Bianca's shoulder and leaned in closer to see the screen, she paused to kiss her girlfriends upturned lips and smiled. "Is that it..I mean , is that our" she stammered tears coming to her eyes.
"It's our baby Mags..Look" Bianca said equally emotionally. They turned to where the doctor was pointing and smiling.
"B, is this really happening" Maggie whispered reverently.
Bianca turned to her girlfriend, apprehension on her face. "Are you scared?"
Maggie's beaming face put her at ease. "Never, that's our kid. Baby you're gonna have my baby" Maggie grinned a shit eating grin that was contagious.
"Wait till my mother finds out, you won't be smiling then" Bianca laughed as she saw the blonds' face fall. "I love you so much"
Neither had noticed the doctor and nurse slip from the room, promising to return.
"I love you too baby" Maggie smiled softly as she placed her hand on Bianca's slim abdomen. "Both of you"
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"Bianca?"
Bianca woke with a start, her eyes blurry as she focused on a smaller dark haired woman; it was Robin with a older man who looked to be in charge.
"Robin?" Bianca said rising quickly with Kendall and Reggie at her heels.
"The doctor has news on Maggie's condition" Robin said deferring.
They all looked at the older gentlemen with anxious eyes…
He sighed ….