104 36: A Deal With The De ViL.
Stacy pulled her (1950's) pink convertable onto the spooky property, exited the vehicle, and walked up to the front door of the spooky house and knocked on it a few times before Diane and Vivian answered the door.
"What on Earth are you doing here?" Vivian asked.
"Get out, i need to talk to Cruella alone." Said Stacy.
"Hey, you can't just come over here and order us around like that. Remember, we have leverage over you." Said Diane.
"Don't remind me." Said Stacy.
"Diane, Vivian, who's at the door?" Came the voice of Cruella from inside the house.
"No one, it's just Stacy. She want's us to wait outside while she talks to you." Said Vivian.
"Let her in." Said Cruella.
Diane and Vivian stood aside, allowing Stacy to enter inside before closing the door.
Inside the old abandoned spooky house, Stacy house Cruella sitting on a sofa, holding a big piece of paper in front of her face, with her legs crossed, revealing her orange and black stripped high-heel shoes and orange stockings. She still had on her big orange fur coat that went all the way down to the floor and was tangerine on the inside, along with her long fur tiger dress. Standing on the floor beside her were her two pet massive gators. The tiger skinned rug was also lying on the floor under her feet. Cruella then removed the paper out of her way and removed her long, red ciggarrette holder from her mouth, which she was using to smoke with. She watched as Stacy entered into the candle lit livingroom, with her Hungarien and German cousin following her from behind.
"What do you want?" Cruella asked.
The two massive gators, Bruce and Neo, glared and hissed at Stacy, causing the 29 year old blond to flinch.
"It's alright, darlings. I'll take it from here." Cruella asured her pets before turnning her attention back to Stacy. "Now what do you want?"
"I need to tell you something." Stacy said.
"Great, i can hardly wait." Said Cruella.
"Rex aked me to marry him at the courthouse here in Paris next month and i said yes." Said Stacy.
"You and Rex are getting married next month here in Paris?" Asked Cruella as she got up from the sofa and walked up to Stacy.
"Yes." Said Stacy.
"And you're having a child with him?" Cruella asked.
"Yes." Said Stacy.
"Oh, that poor man. I'm so sorry." Said Cruella.
"He's very excited, Cruella." Said Stacy.
"You can't be serious." Said Cruella.
"I am serious!" Said Stacy.
"Well...what can i say? Accidents will happen. Why'd you come here tonight, Stacy? To gloat?" Said Cruella.
"You know why i'm here." Said Stacy. "We're happy, Cruella. Please don't tell Rex what i did."
"What do you expect, darling, for me to throw you an engagement party?" Said Cruella.
"I get that you hate me...and you don't care if my life falls apart...but what about Rex? Do you really wanna destroy him too?" Said Stacy.
"You have it all now, Stacy, don't you? A perfect little family." Said Cruella as she walked around the young blond. "Except it isn't all that perfect. You're terrorizing your fiance's childhood friend and his mother and blackmailing them to keep quiet about it. And Rex has no idea."
"Speaking of which, where is he, by the way?" Diane asked.
"I dropped him off back at the motel and told him i had some personal erands to run." Said Stacy.
"And he bought that a second time?" Vivian asked.
"Wow. You know, for a private investigator, your man really isn't all that smart." Added Diane.
"So he doesn't know anything about what you and i have been up to, does he? Wow. It seems like lying to Rex just comes naturally." Said Cruella.
"Just answer the question. Are you going to tell him or not?" Stacy asked.
"You bet i'm gonna tell him, 'cause Rex deserves the truth. Okay, you got your answer, now you can leave." Said Cruella.
"You said that if i helped you steal Dalmatian puppies, you wouldn't tell Rex what i did. What do you call this?" Stacy said.
"Making good on my promise." Said Cruella.
"I've done what you've asked. I got you Dalmatian puppies, now you have to keep your end of the deal." Said Stacy.
"Yes, and since then, neither you or Roxanne have stolen anymore puppies." Said Cruella.
"There aren't anymore Dalmatian puppies here in Paris, Texas except for Gigi's. And i can't go around the state of Texas, from city to city, stealing Dalmatian puppies without making Rex suspicious. Please don't tell." Said Stacy.
"You are a hypocrite. You're all about honosty when it's someone else, but when it comes to you being honost, you have no problem lying to your teeth." Said Cruella.
"It's two different things." Said Stacy.
"Your child will be your age one day, and the truth is gonna come out about you, and when it does, Rex and that child and the people of Texas will hate you forever. Maybe then you'll have an idea of what you've done to this state by helping me steal 104 percent of it's Dalmatian puppy population, as well as blackmail Gigi and Roxanne and keeping a darking secret all these years." Said Cruella.
"I'm not...i'm not doing this to hurt anyone. Blackmailing Gigi and Roxy, those Dalmatian puppies i helped you steal, the owners of all of those puppies, i'm not thinking about any of that. All i can think about...is Rex...and the thought of losing him to that serving wench pesent, Gigi and that little rat of her's. I love Rex. I care about him more than Gigi, more than Roxy, more than those 104 Dalmatians, more than the feelings of all of their owners. Don't you get that? Rex is my whole world, i just want him." Said Stacy.
"Of course. I've been alone for two years in an institution. That's just the way it goes, right? You know, i can't even be a fashion mogul anymore." Said Cruella.
"I'm sorry, Cruella, but that's not my fault." Said Stacy.
"No, it's those 103 Dalmatians' fault. You know, they were so determined to keep me from turnning them into a fur coat that they trapped me in a large ice-cream cone. And Moose is Dalmatian number 103, who was only a puppy at the time. But you already know everything there is to know about me, because you did research about me online, right? Why, so you could use it to try to blackmail me into leaving town? Well, good thing for me, i have information on you about what you did to Gigi, as well as your dark secret. It's all written on a piece of paper, as well as your diary. So now all i have to do is figure out when i can share the news with Rex." Said Cruella
"Cruella, please. Please, please don't do that." Stacy as she got down on her knees and begged.
"I'm sorry, what is that, begging? Do i hear begging? Because i believe Gigi begged you not to make her cut Rex out of her life. And look where it got her." Said Cruella.
Stacy stood up. "Okay. Okay, jus...just hear me out, okay? And if that doesn't change your mind, then i will go to Rex and tell him the truth about everything myself, and just pray that he'll...find a way to forgive me."
"I was gonna tell Rex my secret a long time ago." Said Stacy.
"But then you decided that the whole dark secret thing may be a little hard to get past, if not, impossible." Said Cruella.
"The day that i found out about this terrible secret...i felt that Rex and i were off to a good start as a couple." Said Stacy.
"Oh sure, so why not keep someone else's terrible dark secret for all these years?" Said Cruella.
"She has a point. I mean why keep a dark secret from the man that you love all these years when the secret isn't even your's in the first place?" Said Diane.
"Look, i was afraid that i if told Rex this secret, i would lose him, Cruella. And i think you know why. When i came across this terrible secret, i thought that Rex and i would be done if he found out. Because i had already found out about the secret before i even met Rex in person. And now you're trying to use someone else's dark past to get me to go along with this insane plane of your's." Said Stacy.
"Ohhhhhhh, so it's my fault. It's my fault that you're in this situation." Said Cruella.
"I'm just trying to explain what happened that day. You know, i was scared that day. I thought i was gonna lose my online admierer before our relationship even began. I was really, really in love with him, i just acted on impulse, and i've regretted that the incident happened, i just...i didn't think that i was hurting anyone." Said Stacy.
"If you wanted to have a life with Rex that was based on deception and lies, couldn't you have been a little more clever. Like destroy the evidence, maybe?" Said Cruella.
"Well, i can't undo that mistake. What i can do is prevent anymore mistakes from happening. Like hurting Rex or the person who's dark secret i have been keeping all these years for no good reason." Said Stacy.
"Yeah. You know what, the doctors have this little word that they use at the Asylum back in London. It's called rationalizing. Which is what you're doing." Said Cruella.
"Rex loves me! And he loves this child that we are about to have!" Said Stacy.
Cruella clapped her hands, applauding Stacy.
"He is thrilled to have a family of his own, and his mother, Roxy, is excited about being a grandmother. Do you really wanna pull the rug out from under them. I mean i would think as Gigi's friend, you would wanna spare them." Said Stacy.
"Oh, you know what? You're not asking me to spare Rex, Roxy or the person who's secret you're keeping, you want me to spare you. So give me a reason, okay? You want me to keep my mouth shut and keep your dirty little secret? What do you do for me?" Said Cruella.
"What else do you want?" Stacy asked.
"Oh, darling, surely you don't need me to answer that question." Said Cruella.
"Okay, okay, if you could just forget about all of this, i will make it worth your while. I won't go to the police and report that fact that you've been stealing the states Dalmatian puppy population." Said Stacy.
"That's it? That's your idea of a fair trade?" Cruella asked.
"Cruella, you and your cousins, your minions and your husband would go to jail. I'm guaranteeing your freedom." Said Stacy.
"It's not my freedom i'm concerned about. You made a deal with me, you keep it, then we'll talk." Said Cruella.
"Steal more Dalmatian puppies from the state of Texas? How do you expect me to do that?" Stacy asked.
"The state of Texas consist of a number of Dalmatian puppies. If can get your hands on some more, then you've held up your end of the deal." Said Cruella.
"It's not that simple." Said Stacy.
"Then make it simple! And i'll keep my mouth shut. You have your future with Rex and your baby, and i have my Dalmatian puppy coat. Only if i get my puppy coat." Said Cruella.
"Okay, look, Cruella, even if i did somehow manage to get my hands on some more Dalmatian puppies, Rex would grow suspicious of what i'm doing. He's a P.I., that superseeds everything, and don't have the power to not make him suspicious." Said Stacy.
"Then i guess i don't have the power to keep my mouth shut." Said Cruella.
"Cruella, that's not true!" Said Stacy.
"It's (2020), the first year of the 20's decade. Two the worst years of my life are finally over. Now you may not wanna have a clean slate, but i do. I am not going to carry your burden around for you anymore, Stacy, like you did for this person you keep talking about." Said Cruella.
"Cruella, if you tell Rex, do you realize that no one in this town is going to thank you?" Said Stacy.
"I can live with that." Said Cruella.
"Are you sure? Cause i know you want Rex to hate me, but do you realize that he's gonna hate you too for the way you went about this?" Said Stacy.
"I'm willing to take my chances." Said Cruella.
"You're willing to lose your freedom and you are willing to go to jail, because you know all too well i can make that happen, and when it does happen, you will lose the respect of everyone in this town. Especially...Gigi and her son. Is that what you want them to remember you as? A woman who's full of bitterness and spite?" Said Stacy.
"Come on, Stacy. Hahahahahaha. You know all i have to do is mail Rex the paper of your friend's dark secret...and that little moral high ground you're standing on? Open up, boom, you'll go, bye-bye." Said Stacy.
"Okay. Okay, okay. I am just trying to make you understand that ruining my life is not going to make your life better, okay? It's going to ruin your life too. Is it worth it?" Said Stacy.
"Hmmm...alright." Said Cruella.
"Alright? Are you saying you won't tell Rex?" Stacy asked.
"Alright. I won't tell Rex your horrible, ugly secret." Said Cruella.
"You promise?" Stacy asked.
"I promise. I mean, he might figure it out, he's a Privet Investigator." Said Cruella.
"But it won't come from you?" Stacy asked.
"It won't come from me." Said Cruella.
"How do i know..."
"What do you want me to do, sign something that says 'i swear that i will not tell Rex that his fiance is an evil, sinister, manipulative, conniving, lying little witch, who's been lying to him since day one of his relationship with her.' I swear on my life. Is that good enough for you?" Said Cruella.
"Yes." Said Stacy.
"Good, then go. Go. Go, goodnight. Get out." Said Cruella.
"Cruella...thank you." Said Stacy before exiting the house. The young blond stopped on the poarch. "Thank you." She walked off of the poarch, got into her car, and drove off for the motel, where Rex was waiting for her.
"What was that just now?" Vivian asked.
"What was what?" Cruella asked.
"You won't tell anyone her secret? Have you completely lost it? I thought the whole point in doing this was to get her to help us steal puppies to make them into a fur coat." Said Diane.
Cruella: "Don't worry, darling. I might have promised that i wouldn't tell 'REX'...but i didn't promise that i wouldn't tell somebody else. And i have a pretty good idea who that someone else might be."
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DALMATIANS
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