A/N: I DO NOT own Inglourious Basterds.
Poire Williams
"Check."
I leaned back in my chair. For the past three hours I had been out on the back porch, completely demolishing Utivich at chess.
"What? No!" he exclaimed, leaning forward.
"I've got your king cornered with two rooks you can't possibly get out!"
He stared down at the board before standing up angrily and walking away.
"C'mon where you going?" I exclaimed, giggling loudly.
He slammed the screen door behind him and disappeared inside of the house, leaving me alone with Aldo who was sitting on the other end, working on a pipe.
I walked over to him before sitting down on his lap, the rocking chair he was sitting in creaking in protest heavily.
"Hi beautiful." he sighed, looking at the garden in front of us. It had been two days now since the fiasco. No word from Donny. Not that I expected there to be any.
During the day I kept myself occupied. Cooking for the guys. Helping with their latest mission. Hanging out with Hugo or Aldo.
But at night it was a different story.
Aldo no longer trusted himself to sleep with me at night, and neither did I. Both of us knew if we continued any longer sex would ensue, which left me in an empty bed, remembering what once was.
Not only that, but the faint smell of Donny on the pillowcase I refused to wash. His side of the bed was now empty. I missed having him sleeping beside me, his arms around me.
Not to mention the fact that I just couldn't bring myself to take off the ring. Couldn't bring myself to part with one of the last things I had left from him.
"Whatcha thinkin' bout?" he asked, rocking back and forth, blowing smoke rings.
"What do you think?" I sighed.
He looked up at me before nodding.
"I ever tell you abou' my girl?"
"You have a girl?" I asked. I now knew how different he was around women. I wouldn't be surprised if he had a wife and seven little girls back at home.
"Had. Long time ago. Met her in a bar. She bought me a drink. Women don' usually do that. Anyway, we knocked back a few. Went back to 'er place, things got hot. Woke up in the mornin' and she was gone."
"...Wow. Sorry to hear that?"
"I loved tha' woman."
"Hm. One night. Was the sex good?"
"Yep."
I stared at him, hesitating before leaning forward and kissing the corner of his mouth. He looked at me, putting a hand on my face.
"Don' blame me when I do somethin' I shouldin'"
I smirked. That was true. I couldn't keep expecting him to keep his honor. I sure as hell wasn't for myself.
"Hey, whatever happens, happens." I shrugged.
He sighed before nudging me to get off.
"Why?" I whined.
"Because I'm hard and if I stay out 'ere under you for anotha second things just migh' get a little outta control."
I stood up and let him go back inside before sitting down in the big rockign chair, curling up.
Maybe I should get a dog or something.
I heard the sound of heavy footsteps on the grass and looked up. My heart stoopped. My blood ran cold. Donny was standing in front of me.
"Annabelle."he said, quickly rushing towards me.
I walked to him, waiting until he got up the stairs. As he came closer I spread my arms.
Then nailed him right in the jaw.
He fell back, missing a step and falling right on his back on the grass beneath.
"Shit." he muttered, rubbing his jaw.
I yanked off the ring before chucking it at him roughly and pulling open the door, running inside.
As I rushed inside I ran smack into Aldo. He sent me reeling back into the kitchen counter and I fell to the floor.
"Annie! Wha' the hell!" he exclaimed, pulling me up into his arms before looking behind me as the screen door slammed.
Donny had walked inside, staring at Aldo. The two men looked at each other and Aldo pushed me away before rushing towards Donny.
I should have seen it coming. A man of Donny's size. A guy with Aldo's strength. There was no way in hell that would be pretty.
The screen door came down as Aldo lunged towards Donny, tackling him. They both rolled out of side and I sprinted outside to find Aldo on top of him, pommeling him with punches.
I wasn't sure what to do. Donny had broken my heart. Raped me. Humiliated me. But more importantly broke my heart. Nevermind the stitces in my vagina. He broke my fucking heart. Like that could be stitched. I was a seventeen year old girl I was going to be scarred for life.
But at the same time I watched in complete horror as Aldo bloodied his face. His beautiful face. Aldo's own was contorted with rage. Spattered with blood. And that made me realize something...
Did Aldo love me?
A love triangle really wasn't going to work right now. We had other things to get through.
"Stop." I whispered, as Donny rolled on top, wrestling Aldo with all of his might.
"Stop!" I exclaimed. Over the grunts and wet sounds of fists meeting bone I could barely hear myself.
"STOP!"
I ran over before pushing Donny off Aldo and standing in between them both.
They both panted and glared at one another. I knew at any second they would push by me to get to one another.
"Guys don't do this. Can't we just sit down and talk about this?"
"Talkin' is fer pussies baby girl I fight like a man." Aldo snarled before pushing past me.
"NO!" I screamed and jumped in front of Donny.
Before I knew it Donny had grabbed me and shoved me out of the way so hard I collided into the house, nearly taking out the window. I expected them to both stop and check to see if I was okay, but as I looked up they had resumed fighting, throwing punches and yelling at each other through gritted teeth.
I put my hands on my hips and sighed. At this point I was prepared to let them fight it out until Aldo whipped out his swatstika-carving knife.
"Oh shit." I muttered. It was big enough to carve a fucking mammoth. Donny didn't stand a chance. Besides, I wasn't really in the mood to deal with getting rid of a dead body from the back yard.
Aldo swung. Donny rolled. They grabbed at each others wrists. I jumped down the stairs ignoring the pain below my waist before jumping on Donny's back.
We rolled over and I pushed him away before Aldo ran towards us in a haze of confusion and anger.
It really was an accident. Donny had been so close to me I supposed Aldo thought he could snag him with the knife. Not to mentiont he fact that I could only see out of one eye so I couldn't really dodge it that well.
But he got me instead.
We all froze and I looked down as I saw the knife sticking out from between two of my ribs. It didn't really hurt at first, it was more of shock from the fact that I had a knife coming out of me.
"Um...this...isn't good." I looked down at it. Blood was slowly seeping around the wound. I knew if I pulled the knife out I would be in more trouble than I was in now.
"Shit. Annie. I'm so sorry." Aldo clammored. For the first time in history I saw panic on his face.
"Okay, I'm thinking we should just get me into the house." I breathed, the pain blossoming.
Donny leaned forward to pick me up but Aldo smacked his hands away before gingerly picking me up.
I wrapped my arms around his neck, wincing as the stab wound absolutely screamed with pain. It figured. I got over one wound only to fall victim to another.
Aldo carried me back into the house.
"HUGO!" he screamed.
He set me down on a table in the kitchen, grabbing my hand tightly. Hugo entered the room seconds later, holding his pistol. Ready for something.
"Annie got stabbed." he panted, refusing to let Donny come any closer to me.
Hugo looked back and forth between Donny and Aldo, and the knife potruding from under my breast.
"Did that pig do this?" he asked, nodding at Donny.
"It was an accident!" I interuppted before anyone could blame anyone else. Donny pushed a strand of hair out of my face and I involuntarily flinched away from him. He looked away before backing from me.
Hugo nodded before leaving the room to get his things.
"I'm goin' to kill you." Aldo growled as soon as he disappeared, turning to Donny.
"You're the one who stabbed her!" Donny exclaimed.
"CAN WE PLEASE JUST FOCUS ON THE KNIFE COMING OUT OF ME?" I threw up my arms.
They both looked down at me and Donny swore before pacing the room back and forth. Aldo followed him with his eyes, his fists clenched.
Hugo returned with his metal box and a handful of towels.
"Did it hit anything?" he asked.
"I think it slid in between my ribs." I shook my head.
"Take off dress." he commanded, grabbing another knife and handing it to Aldo.
Aldo quicky stabbed the thin fabric of my dress before tearing it off.
Hugo looked at the knife, deciding what to do.
"I will have to snap knife." he tilted his head.
"NO!" Aldo exclaimed.
We all looked at him and I rolled my eyes.
"If you pull it out with a clean yank the only thing you'll have to worry about is me bleeding out." I looked down. Hugo seemed to be thinking along the same line.
"I will pull knife out then. You must put pressure on wound." he looked up at Aldo.
Aldo nodded, looking down at it.
Hugo grabbed a handful of towels, putting them around the knife. As I looked past him the rest of the guys were now crowding around the kitchen to see my latest incident.
He wrapped his hand around the knife handle, grasping it tightly.
"On count of three." he looked at me.
I nodded, inhaling sharply.
Drei... he began.
(Three...)
"Aw c'mon man speak English." Aldo whined.
Zwei...
(Two...)
I bit my lip in anticipation.
Eine. he grunted before ripping the knife out of me sharply.
I exhaled at once, the blood spraying in front of me. My eyes rolled in the back of my head and I became immediately dizzy.
"Stay with me Annie." Aldo said softly, attempting to staunch the heavy blood flow.
I grabbed one of his arms, slipping on the fringe of consciouness. Hugo muttered something only I could understand. Before he could stitch it up he had to stop the blood flow, or else I would bleed from the inside and that really wouldn't be any good to me.
It was Aldo's voices that was coaching me to stay alive, but it was Donny's prescence that kept me there.
And then a thought struck me.
Was it possible for me to love both of them?
I romance-novel love trianlge with hot and heavy passoin and danger had never been in my plans, but nothing ever really went according to plan did it?
No.
