Chapter 17 - Tenison

(Before I start, I know its been nearly a year since I continued this story and I have lost the audience because of that. Ill be back into it.)

Near midnight, Christmas Day, Ed and Lee walked in the cold, with winter coats. Eddy was hunched over slightly due to his injuries.

Ed looks over to Eddy. "Feeling okay?" Ed tried to talk through his face mask, the hit white smoke that emits from his mouth area as he speaks.

"I'll be fine.." Eddy responded. "Aint nothing I can't handle."

Approaching the Sisters' Trailer, Lee was in the Kitchen drinking a 40oz, appearing not as drunk as she would usually tend to me, her ginger hair was tied up, and had her feet kicked up on the table. May was asleep on the couch, a movie called "Scent of a Woman" was playing on their big television.

Eddy knocked on the door, Lee gets up and May rolls over, she approached the door and looked through the peephole, a tall male on the left, and a average height male on the right.

"Who is it..?" Lee asked sternly.

"Who else?" Eddy retorted. The same stoic voice she grew to hate and love back when they were teens. She opens the door and the light shines in their faces. Lee leans against the doorway with the bottle in her hand.

"Well look who it is. Short Man and Ed." Lee taunted Eddy, whether drunk or not, she was always the same. She put the bottle in his face."

"Wanna taste?" Lee asked Eddy. Eddy looked at Lee with a normal face, with his mouth to his side a bit. He shook his head, expressing "No." She took it away from his face and moved out of the doorway and lets them walk in. Ed took off his face mask and his gloves, making his way to the couch, sitting down slowly so he would not awake May from her sleep. Eddy takes a seat in the Kitchen, in which Lee returned to.

"Merry Christmas you two." Lee said to both Eddy and Ed.

"You too." Ed said.

"Likewise." Eddy said afterwards.

"How's your back?" Lee asked as she took another sip of her 40oz.

"Never better." Eddy said stoicly.

"Lighten up. It's Christmas." Lee returned the stoic tone to Eddy. He looked up grimly to Lee, looking at her light brown eyes.

"I'm sorry. I'm not exactly in the Christmas Spirit, Lee. In case you haven't figured it out yet-"

Lee cuts him off. "Yea yea, your back and you're in your pain. Big deal. We all have been through pain."

Eddy becomes rather irritated. So much that he subtly grips one of the table legs. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, like what Double D told him to do when he feels the urgency to get angry. He opens his eyes.

"You got any beer..?" Eddy asked Lee, releasing his grip on the table. Lee pointed at the fridge, looking into his eyes. Eddy returning the favor. Eddy gets up slowly to go to the fridge and opens it. Nothing.

Eddy sighs, Lee gets up behind him, with the 40oz. Eddy slowly turns around. Giving off a certain vibe with his look, not throwing Lee off not one bit.

"Lee, I'm in no mood for games.." Eddy said, holding back his impending anger.

"Well.." Lee sets down the 40oz. and turns him around, going onto the agreesive side, and got in his face. Ed was so into the movie he was watching that he didn't notice the impending altercation. "I am." Lee continued.

Eddy wasn't gonna hold back no longer, He grabbed Lee's arms and lightly ragdolled her to the side, Lee gets infuriated along with him, she uppercuts him and it threw his head back. He grew fire in his eyes, and picked her up. Ed snaps out of his trance and looks at them.

"Excuse us.." Eddy said grimly. He takes Lee up stairs with him, Ed looking at them leave the room and go up stairs. Ed simply shrugs his shoulders. Eddy opens the door to the bathroom and locks it, setting Lee down. Straight after that, Lee pinned him against the bathroom door, gripping his face, leaving marks. It now becomes a scuffle. Eddy takes her hands and pins them against the shower wall, ripping the curtain off the rod.

"Ooh I missed this!!" Lee exclaimed angrily, her hair now being sprawled out.

"What the fuck is up with you?" The anger Eddy built up has now been unleased, he slammed her hands against the shower tiles. Lee kicks him back, sending Eddy into the mirror on the opposite side. She charges at him, Eddy tries blocks her attacks, gut punch, uppercut again. Eddy had enough. He picks up the angry tall ginger and knocks into the shower, breaking the shower nozzle, with it now shooting out hot water. All Ed could do was listen. He didn't want to intervine.

"The only time we ever interact was when we fight. Never a normal conversation. Fuck you!" Lee exclaimed to Eddy as he continues to pin her against the tiles. The hot water shooting onto the both of them. Eddy had adrenaline coursing through his veins. His and Her clothes get wet as seconds pass by.

"I fucking missed you all this time. Guy after guy, it was all you, I never got the rush from others except you. With all that happened-"

Eddy trembled due to his back pain and lost his balance. Combined with losing grip on his boots as well. Lee overpowers him and uses his body to cover the jetting water.

"I still loved you... you fucking bastard! I missed this...!!" Lee got into his face, Eddy still being heated with anger. He became speechless as Lee looked into his eyes, her hair now wet and covering her left eye. It was hard to tell whether she was crying or not because of the water. A moment of silence. Eddy and Lee locked eyes, then lips for a couple of seconds. Eddy relaxed ever so slightly. He took her hands off his face, unlocked the door and left the bathroom, leaving Lee behind. He walked downstairs and winced in pain, walking outside the door. Ed could only look at him. Ed looked at the upper floor, then at May. Steam was rising from Eddy as he walked the way home. Lee went to her room to get changed into new clothes, closing her door. He walked off into the night.

End of Chapter.