Souless666: lol He did say it. There's no room for argument there. Debwood-1999: Mark in a tutu would be a sight to see. I think it would be hilarious although I think he would disagree with me. NeroAnne: I get a kick out of James picking up Mark too. It's the benefit he reaps for being a giant too. Cooper and Connor…yup, that's totally correct. They are Captain Don't Give a Shit and Captain Baby. Bearer is motivated by his own hatred for Mindy and James, although he does love Glen in his way. Meeting Mindy did fuck Glen over in a way because as soon as she entered the picture, his entire life was centered around her and she didn't feel the same way back. James never has given a shit about what Bearer says or thinks and he doesn't care for Glen either. He wants Mindy and he will have her, everyone else be damned. EternalxInsanity: Mark in a tutu is a rather fun thought…if it's not managed in this story I'll have to try to work into one of my other ones. Esha Napoleon: Thank you! Glad you enjoyed them. DarkMage6: *grins* I think I created a monster when I wrote the Mark in a tutu line lol slashdite: All things will be answered with time. All I can say is that the shit hasn't even really begun hitting the fan yet.
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Lying beside the other in Mindy's bed propped by a ridiculous number of pillows, Cooper had his head rested on Mindy's shoulder like a child while hugging her torso with his outside arm, ignoring how the sun beamed through the heavy curtains.
"He loves you" he croaked in his usual morning voice and lifted his eyes only to see her shadowed face. Her hair was in a low, thick loosely-tied braid all down her left side and over the comforter. They were the only ones 'not awake' they'd been lying together talking for hours. Cooper was curious of everything from her favorite song to why she didn't take her wedding rings off yet. "Dad really loves you, he's just too much of a coward not to say anything…" though she was fiddling with her acrylic French-manicured nails moments earlier, Mindy stopped and became cross at Cooper calling his father a coward, "Mark's got him by the god damn balls, he can't do anything." Though she hadn't said anything, Mindy frowned and tilted her head down so she could get a better view of his very narrow and attractive bone structure. Though he wasn't feminine-looking, his features were not exactly what one would look at and say 'burly man'. Cooper was disgustingly handsome, he had a stare on him so piercing she got a shrill sometimes from it. "That son of a bitch wants Dad all to himself, haven't you picked up on that?"
"Yes" her normally high-pitched voice croaked, her head bobbing slightly to nod. Frowning, Cooper hugged her tighter and clenched his teeth.
"It's bullshit. That fucker doesn't deserve Dad, he treats him like SHIT, haven't you picked up on that?"
"I don't get involved" Mindy backed WAY out of that one before she said something she'd later regret, "Mark has…" it was safe to say this, she didn't give a fuck, "serious…serious things wrong with him" she cringed and placed a hand on her breast plate, "Not like ME serious, but-"
"He's a lunatic psycho obsessed with my dad, yet fucks anything with two legs and marries, and has kids, yet fuckin' FORGETS about me!"
"WAIT a minute, whoa whoa whoa…" frowning, Mindy turned Cooper's chin up and looked him dead in the eye, "Slow down, baby…" the moment his breathing softened she asked, "What are you talking about?"
"Dad's not my dad, you know that" she nodded, "Fuckin' Calaway got drunk, knocked up my mom, treated her like fucking SHIT because Dad loved her and not just him, and I never fuckin' heard from him or knew he was my dad until I was sixteen. Stick THAT in your pipe and-"
"Hey!" with a chiding poke to the rounded tip of his nose she frowned, and only then did he catch the err of what he'd said.
"Sorry…" dropping his head again he gave her little body an apologetic squeeze, "It's just"
"No worries" smiling gently she brushed the sleep-tousled hair from his eyes and rubbed his back, "You can keep going, you know I won't tell." Sniffling and taking a few long breaths through his nose he continued.
"Dad raised me, Dad did everything for me…Mark didn't do jack SHIT yet expects my dad to be his little bitch. I hate him, Princess. I can't stand him, I don't know any other way to put it…he's poison for my dad yet he-"
"Well there must be something Daddy likes about him, right?" increasing the friction of the back rub she asked, "There's gotta be-"
"Dad's spent his life with the son of a bitch, you know, the whole 'you complete me' bullshit." She nodded. "Then YOU come along after fuckin'…" he snarled, "ridiculous. I wish dad met you before he met fucking Mark"
"But he had your mom…"
"But Mom died" his lips trembled at the memory and he shivered from trying not to cry.
"Oo baby!" pouting her lips both arms wrapped around him and she sat up straight, rocking back and forth with him and shushing so nobody would hear, "She's not really dead" smiling warmly she stroked his hair and kissed the top of his head, "She's only dead if you let her be dead" his hands dug into her same black dress that she had worn the night before and he shook his head.
"She's gone! She's never coming back"
"Hey hey hey!" feeling her own eyes become cloudy from pity she snapped his face to hers, "Shh!" With trembling lips he significantly calmed, so she took a deep breath and placed his own hand over his chest so he could feel his heartbeat. "You feel that?" Staring at his chest as if there were a massive, bloody hole in it he whimpered at his own heartbeat. "That's your mom…" he looked her in the eye as if she'd told him that God was in the room, "she'll always live there…" she shook her head and used her free hand to cup his face, "and no one can take her away from you. You'll never be alone, EVER. She's there when you're happy, she's there when you're sad…she's watching you right now and upset that you're crying when you should be all tingly and stuff because she's kissing you good morning." Squeezing his eyes shut so the tears could lightly fall he gazed at her in disbelief.
"You really think so?"
"I do not think" leaning forwards so she could kiss his forehead maternally she stopped and pressed their foreheads together, "I know. You guys loved her too much how could she ever go away from you?"
"Mark treated her like shit…" he grabbed both sides of her little head and held onto her hair, "and she was so fucking kind to everyone-"
"Mark's an ass to everyone" furrowing her brow she sighed, "sometimes I think he is less happy than ME, which is-"
"Why are you unhappy?" trembling he pulled away and stared at her incredulously, "Don't you love us?"
"Of course I do" extending an arm towards him, he crawled back against her and sat there staring into space, "I love all of you…" but that was her issue to begin with. Nobody that she loved actually felt the same way, so she'd always kept her distance. Panting and staring at her in great veneration he swallowed hard.
"We love you so much…" he nodded against her bare shoulder, "you have no idea." Though she didn't formally respond (mainly out of skepticism), she pressed her mouth to the top of his head. "I think if…" he panted and caught his breath, "Mom…could have picked someone to take care of us it'd be you…I'd only want you, even if Mom gave us a choice of anybody else."
"No" dropping her eyes downcast she shook her head with a grimace, "I am very hard to live with. I have to have someone-"
"We give you your pills every day in the strawberry milkshake just how you like it!" he nodded with a forced smile, "We love you TOO why can't you get your head around that? What the hell has Crispy done to you? I never wanted a fucking stepmom until you! I'd get pissed if Connor even THOUGHT of such an idea and then you come along! And now I LOVE you! Not just for my dad, for us too! Mark doesn't do shit for us, he's only interested in Dad, but you on the other hand…" his voice cracked, "you WANT to be my mom!"
"Why would I not want to be your mom?" she didn't understand, shaking her head confusedly, "If I did not like you, I would not like your daddy either. You guys come together."
"Because Mark's a fucking dickwad that thinks he can scare you into going away because we're HAPPY! We're fucking ecstatic with you and that fucker HATES it because we took to you like stink on shit. TRUST me, Dad loves you a lot, it's just fucking Mark that won't let him show it so you go away, but please remember what I said about Dad and giving him time"
"Mark is very scary when he's jealous…" her large blue eyes widened intensely, but after shaking off that brief uncomfortable thought she switched her gaze back to him.
"What'd he do?" Raising an eyebrow as he now held both her little hands, she didn't answer. "Come on, tell me! You can tell me, I love you! What did that dick-licker do to you so I can kill him?" Curling her plump lips in she frowned and tried to vindicate him any way possible.
"It…" her voice dropped, "it was a long time ago."
"I don't give a fuck. What did he do to you? You're gonna be my stepmom you have to tell me so I can protect you!"
"Babe…" again she tried to calm him down but he refused, grabbing both her arms and forcing her to speak.
"Come on, I love you! You can tell me what he did, I love you!" Staring at the mattress and tracing a circle with her finger she frowned.
"When I was seventeen…" she gulped and smoothed his hair so he calmed significantly and snuggled against her, "I dated Glen…Mark didn't like that…so one night while we were in the car he told me that he loved me and I said I loved him too, but then" her hands started to vibrate and he clasped them so it would stop, "he…" staring him in the eye she whimpered, "he p-p-pulled the car t-to t-the s-si-de of the road…" Cooper nearly broke her fingers from clamping onto her so hard, "and he raped me…" sniffling and shaking her head she gazed at her own braid before speaking again, "He saided that if I telled Glen what he did he would kill me. You are the first person to ever know why I dated Glen instead of Mark and why I will never forgive Mark ever." Clenching his teeth and pressing a rough kiss to her cheek, Cooper took a deep breath and made a mental note to tell his father immediately.
"Don't worry…" stroking her hair he shook his head, "Fucker will never hurt you again as long as I'm alive."
"Please do not make him hate me more though…" she frowned, "Your dad is so in love with him"
"But he loves YOU too!" she didn't respond, "That's what you don't get! Dad fucking adores you, he wouldn't have spent all of last night fucking you and lying to the asshole about it if he didn't" she stared at him completely scandalized. She hadn't said a word about it to anyone, so he smirked. "I smell him on you…" he embarrassed the fuck out of her. "I'm guessing he came inside since he's in love with you" she nodded, "you didn't shower, did you?"
"We gotted back at seven in the morning. I was tired."
"And then I came in here and kept you up more" he snickered.
"Yes."
"Hopefully Dad grows a pair with Mark so you're not resorted to secrecy anymore"
"How do YOU know?" she ribbed, folding her arms across her chest and pushing him playfully.
"Because I know my dad, and I know my dad loves you, and I know whatever that bastard tells my dad to do its set in stone because he's a PRICK who likes to make other people miserable."
"I have to go back to Los Angeles" she watched his eyes widen in horror, "I have a show and a couple other stupid awards ceremonies and shit that I have to go to…"
"But you can't!" shaking his head he clung to her like a baby monkey, "You're OURS now! You can't go away, fuck whatever Crispy or Mark say-"
"I was gonna ask if you wanna come with me…" she smiled gently, "I have two houses; one in Bel-Air with all the snobby nasty-ass rich people you might not like that…" she perked, "but I have a beach mansion in Malibu right on the water and it's a private beach and we can walk outside and walk down our private boardwalk to the sand, and then the beach is all ours and nobody can bother us, and I have maids and stuff-"
"Really Mindy?" he grinned excitedly and wished his father was around to beg him, "Can we come with you, please? That'd be awesome I wanna come with you!"
"So you would like to?" she asked hopefully and he nodded like it was a stupid question.
"You're stuck with us. We go everywhere you do." Rubbing his back she kissed his temple firmly and gasped at the sound of the door opening and Connor launching himself on the bed and crawling up Mindy's legs to hug her shoulders.
"MINDY! COOPER! Stupid-heads Daddy and Mark made us breakfast and won't let me eat it until YOU get down! Come on come on come on now!"
"Get OFF her, idiot" Cooper went to shove him off when Mindy's hand went up and prevented him from doing so, stroking Connor's hair and planting a hard kiss on his head. "No seriously if he's bothering you"
"I don't bother ANYONE, Cooper! You're just mean mean mean, you big meanie!" frowning he snuggled into Mindy's bosom and glared at him, "She's MY new mommy too! Right, Mommy?"
"Whatever you say" holding his chin and grinning she giggled as Cooper groaned and used the crook of her neck to bury his face like a pillow.
"Fuck off, Connor, we're wiped." Resting her chin on top of Cooper's head and hugging a frowning Connor, Mindy took a deep breath and tried to keep her eyes open.
"How long were you guys out gettin' pizza last night?"
"Ugh" again Cooper groaned, "Honestly? Any-fucking-thing beats out Mark and his idiot episodes he has at the dead of fucking night"
"He gets loopy on Jack" she nodded with a sigh, "My Glen likes vodka better. Black vodka was his favorite."
"Well fuck Crispy you're ours now, right Connor?"
"I want breakfast" he pouted his lips at them both, "and I want breakfast now before I get Daddy"
"PLEASE, baby…" she kissed his head again and groaned, half-falling asleep with Cooper and a now-sedated Connor when slowly another party entered the room unknown to them, running a hand over Mindy's forehead and kissing her.
"Hello beautiful" kneeling beside the bed and staring at the three of them for a minute, James leaned forwards and rubbed Mindy's face with the back of his hand before smirking devilishly, "YOU look like you've had a long," he licked the corner of her mouth and snickered, "eventful night"
"Shut the fuck up" she groggily replied, trying to wave him away when he slightly moved up and kissed her into the bed, running a hand down the front of her body until he hit the top of Connor's head, which was conveniently resting on her boobs so he couldn't touch her. Lifting the arm from Connor's back she hugged his neck and drew out the kiss, moving to fix his hair when it hit her that he had smoothed it down himself after he'd showered.
"I knew in advance than to try it any other way" pressing another kiss on her, she suddenly felt uncomfortable and shook her head with a frown.
"Baby, the boys are here, it can wait"
"It's fine…" Cooper waved it off and still kept his head in her neck, pleasantly surprising his father, who stared at him like he had eight heads.
"Since when?" he asked with a shake of the head.
"You love her, don't you?" he asked without looking at him dispassionately, "I don't mind…really, I don't." Glancing at the four of them in the room to Cooper it was a normal family, exactly how it was supposed to be. Exchanging glances with an also surprised Mindy, James switched his attention to Cooper.
"I thought I was 'too old' to kiss someone...?"
"You are."
"Then why is it okay when I kiss Baby Doll?"
"She's my age, it cancels you being old out and you round to be somewhere in your mid-thirties." Shaking his head confusedly, James would deal with Cooper and his strange behavior later. He continued to caress Mindy's face and eased Connor off so she sat up.
"We made you breakfast, Sleeping Beauty" he joked again, telling by her puffy eyelids she'd gotten zero sleep for the grand total of four hours that they'd been home, "You don't have to cook this morning, we did it." She groaned like a zombie and rubbed her nose against his before smiling gently.
"Thank you."
"Can I go eat now, New Mommy and Daddy please please please?" Connor begged, and with a nod from James off he went, Cooper was groggy as all hell, but kissed the side of Mindy's head and gave his dad a nod before leaving after him.
"Marky's been a little nicer this morning" he nodded before sitting on the mattress and kissing her, "He shouldn't give you any shit or I'll straighten him out."
"Don't" she shook her head when they kissed again, James's hand going down her dress and onto her bare chest before she pointed to the door and he locked it. "I don't want him to hate me"
"He doesn't" smiling gently and stroking her face his hand went back onto her chest and down her front until he got between her legs, rubbing her with his fingers while kissing her roughly, "You smell like me."
"Weird…" she nodded along with a pout; she didn't like it when her shampoo and body lotion/soap wore off (or, in her case, were sweated off).
"I like it."
"Mark won't" kissing the fingers that were caressing her face she frowned at him beginning to finger her, "And if he smells me on your hand-" pointedly pulling the moistened fingers out he drew them into his mouth and they came out clean.
"There's no way he'll know unless I get cum in your hair."
"Then don't do that" shaking her head and hooking the arm around his body they continued to make out before he crawled on top of her and lifted her nightgown enough so he could push inside and keep kissing her.
"Last night meant a lot to me"
"More to ME than you, idiot" shaking her head with a sigh she tried to help him out and make them finish before Mark came up and yelled at them, "I love you."
"What?" panting he slowed down and kissed the tip of her nose, "You think I feel any different?" Frightened she didn't answer. "I love you to death" they kissed, "Another idiot thing I forgot to say last night…I'm sorry." While she was somewhere between laughing and crying they kissed roughly and she rocked into him harder from underneath.
"So you love me?"
"Yes."
"Good, I love you too!" she giggled in a high little voice, trying to bite back a moan as he came before following up with hers moments later. Panting they both shut up to see if they could hear anything downstairs, but nothing. Sighing in relief that he didn't have to pull out they kissed until Mindy frowned and put a hand on his face, "I have to go back to Los Angeles…" she gulped, already feeling his heart stop, "I have a lot of stuff I have to do…" quickly she bumped her nose against his, "Can you and the boys come with me? I have a beach house in Malibu it's my FAVORITE place in the whole world and-" the kiss cut her off.
"Yes."