Note: Ok so I'm back to not stalling with a view to more stalling after the not stalling…..oh hell yeah I'm fluent in confusion! This is set just before the 9/19 scene in the police station. Again my lovely reviewers thank you so much for your kind words ;-))

Not Going To Happen

The phone on Marissa Tasker's office desk lit up signalling an incoming call but the device made no sound; the lawyer was sitting with a client and had put the phone on silent. She did glance briefly at the screen recognising her mother's number. When Marissa's cell phone vibrated seconds later with Krystal's name again flashing up the redhead knew something was wrong; she apologised to the woman sitting opposite her before taking the call. It was the client's presence that helped Marissa keep control of her senses as she listened to an agitated Krystal tell her what JR Chandler had tried to do.

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Bianca closed her notebook and sat back in her chair with a contented sigh. The progress report on the Miranda Center in Chile had been better than she expected; initially the project had been held back by bureaucrats but now it was full steam ahead. The centre was weeks away from opening its doors and offering help to the vulnerable women and children who needed it most.

"Ms Chandler you can't go in there….."

The door to Bianca's office burst open and a pale agitated Marissa came storming in chased by the security guard Henry. The redhead turned back to him with a barely concealed snarl.

"My name is Tasker not Chandler."

Both Henry and Bianca were alarmed by the tone in the lawyer's voice, the security guard glanced at his employer for guidance on how to react. Bianca offered the burly man a reassuring smile as she got to her feet.

"It's okay Henry Marissa is always welcome here."

The man nodded giving the redhead another cautious look before turning and leaving the office. Bianca stepped towards her lover.

"What happened?"

Marissa's eyes were burning with rage as she turned her gaze to the brunette.

"He tried to take AJ."

Bianca gasped; her greatest fear was losing one of the girls, of having history repeat itself. It was a fear she and Marissa shared; the redhead may not have ever lost AJ but the divorce had left her shaken enough to know that JR had the power to make it happen.

"Where is AJ now?"

Marissa's eyes began to tear up.

"With Mom."

The brunette reached for Marissa needing to offer comfort and support but the redhead stepped away.

"Marissa?"

"I'm angry, I'm just so angry right now."

Bianca paused watching the flurry of emotions cross her lover's pale face. Marissa looked tortured. Bianca reached again but the gesture was met with a shake of the head.

"I can't baby I can't. I feel like I'm going to explode with rage and I don't want you to feel that."

The brunette wanted nothing more than to envelop the smaller woman in a reassuring hug but she respected Marissa too much to ignore the plea so obvious in her voice.

"Talk to me."

The sigh that escaped strained lips was a mixture of relief and frustration.

"Tad collected AJ from school like we'd planned and took him back to the Martins."

Marissa had wanted to make sure that AJ still kept up regular visits to Krystal's so that he could spend time with his grandmother and the rest of the Martin clan who had all become an important part of his life. Bianca knew the little boy wasn't heading straight home with Miranda today and that Marissa had planned to collect him on her way back from work this evening. What the brunette didn't know was how JR got involved in the scenario. Tad couldn't possibly have arranged for JR to meet with AJ not without Marissa's consent. Surely he wouldn't do that, would he?

"Did Tad let JR in?"

Marissa shook her head, a look of disgust shadowing her face.

"No Dixie did."

Bianca sighed softly; Dixie's history with JR was more than familiar to her. It seemed a reoccurring theme in the Chandler family, one parent struggling to offer stability while the other raged a war of control. It was just so sad that history was now repeating itself, JR becoming Adam against Marissa's Dixie.

"What the hell did she think she was playing at?"

Marissa's voice had risen as anger boiled over again; Bianca bit her lip unsure how best to calm that anger.

/

The lawyer had gone past anger and was now livid. The mere thought of Dixie Martin's naivety made Marissa want to scream.

"Can she really not see what kind of man he is?"

Hazel eyes rose to gaze at Bianca waiting for an answer and only then seeing the way the brunette was biting her lip. Marissa took a breath and closed her eyes, her anger had done what she had hoped it wouldn't; it had scared Bianca.

"Marissa?"

The voice was a whisper and when the lawyer opened her eyes again Bianca was standing right in front of her so close they were almost touching.

"I'm sorry."

Brown eyes widened in confusion.

"For what?"

"Scaring you. I didn't want to come until I was calmer but I had to see you. I had to talk to you. I needed to come here and just be with you because it's the only place I feel normal anymore. And you're the only person who can make me….."

The sentence was halted by soft lips pressing against Marissa's for a kiss filled with tenderness. The fire that had raged within hazel eyes had dimmed a little when Bianca pulled away to gaze at the lawyer.

"You didn't scare me, you couldn't."

"But…."

Marissa's words were silenced again this time by a gentle finger.

"Sweetie don't, we're together and that means I want to see all of you not just the parts you think are okay. JR tried to take AJ and you're angry, I get that Marissa. I'm angry for you and for AJ. So don't apologise just tell me what you're going to do about it."

Hazel eyes dulled.

"I don't know."

Bianca's fingers rose to clear bangs away from her lover's eyes.

"Yes you do."

Marissa looked at her partner in confusion.

"I do?"

The brunette smiled.

"Yes you do, you're a family lawyer and you know just what the law can do to help you."

Realisation settled upon the redhead's face and with it came a steady frown.

"If I involve the law I risk pushing JR a step closer to the edge."

Bianca's eyebrow rose in disbelief, JR had stepped over the edge weeks ago and had been hurtling towards chaos ever since. Marissa sighed.

"Bianca he's AJ's Dad I don't want to destroy their relationship. AJ loves his Dad and JR for all his faults loves his son."

"I know that but it doesn't change the fact that AJ is still afraid of JR."

Marissa's jaws clenched in annoyance and Bianca soothed her lover's cheek.

"You took sole custody because of that and nothing has changed Marissa, JR hasn't tried to get help, he hasn't stopped his vitriol attacks on us. If anything he's gotten worse. I will support you no matter what you chose to do but you need to realise that JR won't stop until he has what he wants and that means there is a very real chance he will try to snatch AJ again. You know the statistics as well as I do Marissa, child kidnapping happens too often and rarely ends well."

Marissa's eyes blazed again.

"He is not taking my son."

Bianca waited watching as her lover's anger began to simmer as the lawyer in her fully tuned in.

"At this stage I certainly have grounds for a restraining order. I don't want to keep AJ away from his Dad but you're right the risk of JR trying to take him again is too great. I don't have a choice anymore. JR's latest actions just further prove that if he can't get AJ back legally then he'll resort to the illegal. The sex tape was bad enough but this, this is one step too far. I'm not losing another person I love."

Tears whelmed up as the last of the anger left the redhead to be replaced by sadness. Bianca didn't hesitate to pull her lover into her arms and offer the love and comfort she had wanted to give from the moment Marissa had stormed into the room.

"That's not going to happen."

Bianca felt the tension begin to ease from Marissa's rigid body as the redhead relaxed into the hug.

"This is exactly why I came here."

The brunette didn't question the quiet words instead she just continued to hold Marissa close.

"You always make me feel better."

Bianca smiled into copper hair.

"Says nurse Tasker who has the magical medical touch."

Marissa pulled back enough to gaze into Bianca's eyes.

"Everything about you is magical Bianca, you're the princess in the fairy tale that has become my life."

The brunette snorted.

"What books did you read as a kid? Because if this is your idea of a fairy tale remind me never to let you read the bedtime stories."

Marissa laughed.

"Think about it, I've got the girl and the happy ever after so it's a fairy tale. And just to make it more fairy tale-ish we've also got JR being the ogre."

Bianca's face turned serious.

"We shouldn't downplay just how much hurt he can cause Marissa, remember I've been at the end of his rage before. When he lashes out people get hurt, people like you."

Marissa shuddered at the mere thought of Bianca in that coma.

"I'm not downplaying it, not after today, the restraining order will stop him getting to both AJ and me. He's not going to get close enough to hurt me baby so please stop worrying."

Bianca wished she could stop worrying but she had discovered long ago that loving someone meant constantly worrying about them and she loved Marissa, loved her deeply. The redhead brushed her finger across Bianca's frowning lips.

"But I'm also not going to let him dim the happiness I feel when I'm with you. We deserve to be happy don't we?"

Bianca nodded and Marissa leaned in to place a delicate kiss on her still frowning lips.

"Thank you. I need to go find a judge. Can you collect AJ for me? I don't know how long this will take and I'd prefer he was with you than anywhere close to Dixie."

"Marissa Dixie is a good person."

Hazel eyes hardened.

"I don't know the woman so I'll have to take your word on that but what she did today was naïve Bianca and I very nearly could have lost AJ because of it."

"But you didn't. Who stopped JR? You never said."

The redhead smiled.

"And there you go again being super. Dixie stopped him, apparently she seen reason."

"You mean she stood up to JR's attempt at manipulating her. That doesn't sound very naïve to me."

Marissa sighed in defeat.

"Ok enough already maybe she isn't naïve but it was still a little too close for comfort."

Bianca nodded, it was much much too close for comfort.

"I've finished for the day so I can go get AJ now, you go find that judge and then come straight home because I think what we all need right now is a family night in."

Marissa's smile threatened to pull muscles in her face.

"My super girlfriend."

Bianca's cheeks flushed.

"You've got to stop calling me that."

Marissa stole a quick kiss.

"Not going to happen. See you at home. Love you."

Bianca was left to watch the redhead leave her office almost as quickly as she had entered.

"I love you too."

But Marissa was long gone and the words floated in the air making Bianca realise that saying them out loud wasn't all that hard after all. Now all she needed was to get into the habit of saying them when her lover could hear them.