A/N: Sorry had to change the rating on this one. I didn't know that this idea would hit me in the middle of writing it. I have an overactive imagination (downside to being left handed) so I thought that I would go with it. Don't hate Carol to much no here, cause somethings even a mother doesn't know about. Here's the next chapter so I'll stop rambling and let you read.

Chapter 49:

He drove away from the bar and down the darkened streets of Seattle, but we didn't leave the city. Soon we were parked in front of a house that I didn't recognize.

"Get out of the car." He barked at me when we were parked.

I didn't argue but did what he said. I didn't know what he might have been capable of or what might be in store if I made him madder than he was right now. I don't know why but it seemed as if he was furious with me for something, and if anyone should be furious it should have been me not him. He grabbed my arm when we were out of the car and rather roughly we headed inside that house.

"What are we doing?" I had to ask.

"You and I are going to have a little chat." He said as we walked into a very nicely furnished living room.

"We don't have anything that we need to talk about." I said, "I want to go back to the bar or back to my parents' house." I stated, "I don't want to talk."

"Sit down," he said as he slammed me down onto the couch, "I said we were going to talk and I mean it."

"Yeah okay." I said "you haven't changed at all have you? Still bossy, demanding, pushy, no wonders we didn't last more than two dates."

"I've changed enough." He said back to me.

I watched as his sister came into the room. Michael just nodded at her and she walked back out. I didn't know what was up with that. "What?" I said, "we're here you want to talk, so talk."

"We have some unfinished business." He said. "Something that you left behind and now required your attention."

"I didn't leave anything behind that I didn't want to leave behind." I stated, "you and I don't have anything anymore, why can't you just accept that and give up, move on. I have."

"There are something's in life Tess that you can't just walk away from, no matter how hard you try. What we have is one of those things and I'm not going to let you just walk away this time. You can't simply forget about this and pretend it didn't happen, reality bites."

"I made my decision and that's that." I said. "I have a life in Chicago. I'm getting married in March, that's the life I want to lead, that's the life I am going to lead. One that doesn't involve you. You used me, took advantage of me, hope it was fun because it was the last time."

"Plans can change." He said looking at me. "I'm pretty sure that your plans will be changing. What is here, you can't escape it Tess. I know you have tried but it's still here."

"Stop talking in circles." I said. "There's nothing here, why don't you get that. My god what do I have to say to get you to just let it go. I know that I have. I wanted to forget it and I have."

"I don't know how you could have." He answered "I haven't been able to forget it. I remember it every day of my life. I think about it constantly and it bothered me so much that I had to go and try and fix it and now you are going to own up to it."

My heart sank when he said that. I knew what he was talking about. "No" I shook my head now "I will do no such thing and you have no right to even be talking about this."

"More right than you know."

I stood up and looked him in the eye now. "You raped me," I said, "I didn't ask for what you did. I was drunk. You were supposed to take me straight home. You told everyone at that party that you were going to do just that and you didn't. They trusted you, I trusted you. You even lied to right to my mother's face."

"Oh Tess," he said as he reached up and touched the side of my face, "you wanted it, I only gave you what you wanted, but you were so embarrassed and ashamed for anyone to think that you were that kind of girl." He was talking down to me now, "you have such an innocent look and demeanor to you god forbid anyone found out about how you really are. It's always the quiet ones."

"Twist it a little more Michael." I said "you know there were people there, people who saw how out of it I was. It wouldn't take but one or two of those people to say that I was intoxicated when I left the party; I was intoxicated when you finally dropped me off at home. My mother would attest to that one. I made a mistake not saying anything to anyone when it happened. I just wanted to forget, but you won't let me. You might fool everyone with your good guy appearance and your hard working attitude, but I know what you really are like and I want nothing to do with it anymore, I want to forget you and forget what happened. I'm ashamed because I blamed myself for getting drunk, for getting into the position where you could do that to me."

"You didn't tell anyone because you know what you are saying isn't true." He said, "I won't let you forget simply because it's what you want. It will never just go away."

I backed away from him a few steps now, "no, it's done, it's over and I'm moving on. You nearly ruined my life, my future, my career." I said, "But never again will I let you do that to me. I have everything that I want in Chicago. I am getting back on that plane and going home to the man who loves me. Not someone who is obsessed with what could have been. I don't want to be with someone I can't trust with someone who hurt me as badly as you did."

"He might not feel the same way about you when this all comes out." He said. "I don't think I'd want to be with someone like you, someone who shrugs their responsibilities and runs away the first chance that they get."

"I haven't run away from anything." I answered back.

"Someone might differ with you." He replied back.

"No, you didn't." I said. "You and I talked about this and we agreed on what we did. You can't change your mind about that. You honestly can't expect me to change my mind."

"You have to, I thought I was okay with it, but I'm not." He said as he moved to the side. "I can't do it and I won't let you do that either."

I looked up to see his sister now standing in the doorway and had to fight the urge not to break down and cry, that was the last thing that I thought that I would ever see again. I had worked so long and so hard to make my peace with the entire situation and here he was bringing all back up. I was not going to do this. He might have found something sick and twisted in this, but I wasn't going to play into this game.

I started to move towards the door when he grabbed my arm and yanked me back around to forcing me to face his sister. "Take a long hard look Tess." He said holding me in place now so that I couldn't move, "that's your reality and you are going to have to face up, because it's here and it's now. That's as real as it gets and you are not leaving Seattle. You've hid it for a long time, but it's all about to come out into the open."