Life Goes On

Chapter 25

Saturday February 24th 2007, afternoon

Logan came strolling into Coop's room above Kelly's without knocking, like usual. Coop was doing push ups but he stopped and stood up when Logan came in.

"Hey there, buddy, feel like getting some lunch?"

"You're lucky I don't deck you right now."

"Whoa, whoa, where is all of this hostility coming from?"

"Don't you ever pull what you did last night with Winnie ever again."

"Oh, that." Logan chuckled. "So she ran to her protector and ratted me out? Damn dame. She finally starts being useful to me and turns snitch in a second. And I thought we were starting to get somewhere."

"You will not use her like a whore again! You got it?"

"Wow. A little sweet on her, are you? There won't be a long line to get her, I'll tell you that much."

Cooper threw Logan against the wall. "That kind of talk stops now. Show her respect or I'm gonna beat it into you until you do."

"Get off me. Damn." He pushed Cooper away. "Me and you are supposed to be best friends. Why do you always got to go and get yourself twisted in knots over chicks that ain't worth the time of day and then let it mess up our friendship? I'm getting sick of it. This ain't the first time. That Shannon bitch you left behind before moving here was always telling you to keep me away and that you could do better for a friend and now this...you're all over me because of Winnie, some chick you barely know and ain't even banging. Geez. Where are your priorities?"

"Where is your common decency? What you said to her yesterday and the situation you put her in was out of line and you know. Never again, Hayes. She's a nice person and she doesn't deserve that."

"Okay, right, your panties are in a bunch because she's a nice person. Sure. I believe that. So did she come by here last night and give you an eyeful of her in that dress I found for her? Cause if she didn't you sure missed out. If I didn't have Georgie I might even have thrown her one just so she knows what a real man feels like."

"Get the fuck out of my sight!"

Logan laughed. "All right. I can see you ain't about to be reasonable about this. No more Winnie talk. But I gotta do what I gotta do where she is concerned. So you better learn to deal with it."

"You better watch your step or else you'll deal with me and I'm not a chick you can browbeat into doing what you what."

"I get results."

"If you want me and you to stay best friends you're gonna watch yourself around her. That's all there is to it. I don't think I could make myself more clear than that. You hurt her again with your stupid fucking mouth that never stops running or your stupid fucking ideas of dressing her like a skank or anything else moronic like that and I will be so all over you that you won't be about to breathe without feeling me in your face. I'm well aware how you put chicks in categories and you're only halfway decent to the ones you think of as cute little angels. All the rest you treat like crap! Well not Winnie! You won't make her feel less than good enough exactly how she is again. Say it!"

"Damn. You have lost your mind over this piece of ass. Did she give it up to you already? Wow. I didn't know she had it in her."

"Say it, Hayes!"

"FINE! WHATEVER! I will try to nicer to your chick. Damn it. Every time you get like this all I get are headaches and you get yanked around by chicks like your dick is on a chain. Have fun with that, Coop! Just remember if you picked better you wouldn't end up in these kind of dumb ass situations with chicks that ain't no where near right for you."

"Don't you worry about how I feel about Winnie. Has nothing to do with you. You worry about how you treat her."

"I heard you the first twenty times. I'm out of here."

"Good!"

Logan walked out, slamming the door and Coop glared at the door after he left.

XXXXXXXXXX

Lulu and Dillon took Lissa to the Quartermaine mansion for a short visit, so she could see Edward. He doted on her and declared her the cutest baby in all of the world.

After that they went back home and put her down for a nap. Standing over her crib Lulu said "That baby smell, its amazing. I love it. I wonder how long till she loses it?"

"Every time we have to change a poop diaper."

Lulu laughed. "Its not that bad yet."

"Yeah, well that don't make me feel better."

"You know I thought I'd feel like I couldn't breathe if I had a kid relying on me but now I feel like I can't breathe only if I don't know that she's all right. I'm so glad she's home now."

Dillon wrapped his arms around Lulu from behind. "I know what you mean. I don't feel trapped either. Or stuck or tied down. She makes me feel useful and like my life actually means something now."

"Just don't give up all your dreams because you have a kid. Lissa can't bear the brunt of being all you have in your life."

"Hey, I have my best friend who is right here doing this all with me too. And I can always get a job at ELQ."

Lulu moved out of his arms. "No way. Dil, you want to be a director and sure, having Lissa has slowed you down but don't let this stop you. You promised me when we agreed to have her that you would still chase all your dreams. Its too much weight to carry for me to know I cost you all that."

"We're gonna be married. It wouldn't just be me chasing my dreams. It'd be all three of us. I won't go off on location shoots unless you both come along."

"So we'll come along."

"Is that what you think is best? Its rough, Lu, always living out of a suitcase."

"My parents did it for years and all that mattered was they were together. I admit I figured you'd go and be on movie sets for months and months alone and I'd do the single mom thing, which does freak me out some, but if you want us with you then we're there. Having your trust fund gives us options so lets take them. Just no boarding school for Lissa cause I would never leave her there like your Aunt and Uncle did their kids."

"No way in hell. We stick together. You, me and Lissa."

Lulu smiled. "And you chase your dreams and become famous and, hey, maybe I'll get to meet some famous people too along the way. I'd love to be able to touch Matthew Maconahay just once in my life."

"Huh, you got a crush on him?"

"He's really sexy."

"I heard he doesn't even shower."

"What? Of course he showers."

"And he doesn't wear deodorant."

"You're making that up."

"And he poops his pants and makes his assistants change him."

Lulu laughed. "Now I know you're making that up!"

Dillon grinned at her.

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Logan walked into Jake's Bar and spotted Johnny. "Hey, man!"

"Thanks for coming out. I got bored on my stake out and decided to bag it for the day."

"Stake out, huh? How is that private eye gig going?"

"I'm not really a private eye. Trevor says you need all this licensing and shit for that. But I do all the same stuff anyway. Just can't call myself legit, like I care."

"Be careful. Don't wanna get your fool head blown off."

"Who you calling a fool?" Johnny joked. "Anyway, let me buy you a beer." He said to Coleman. "Set my friend up, would ya?"

Logan said to Johnny "Maybe I'll make you my new best friend if you keep throwing cash around."

"So you're easy, huh?"

"Ha! I've been known to be. But don't tell Georgie that. She thinks I'm respectable still."

"Yeah, well, what she don't know won't hurt her."

"That's what I say but its total bullshit. One day that girl is gonna hate me when she really gets to know me."

Johnny picked up his bottle. "Well here's to her never catching a clue."

Logan laughed. Playing up to being Johnny's friend was a back up plan. If he couldn't get shit on the Corinthos organization, maybe he could get something good on the Zaccharas. His bosses would be happy to get any Big Fish, and Logan didn't care who got hurt while he did his job as long as it wasn't him or Coop.