An update on Christmas?! This is a miracle folks! Haha. I was able to finish the chapter ahead of schedule and get it uploaded, so just consider this my Christmas gift to all of you. :) Thanks a million as always for all your love and support to this fanfic series, it seriously means so much to me. But, anyway, on with the story! I was very amused to see what you thought occurred on José and Kelsey's date. All I will say for now… you'll see what actually happened that night. And to answer a review really quick, most likely I am planning on sticking to referencing the other TD characters and just sticking to keeping this an Aleheather fanfic based around them and their families. Anyway, enjoy!

3 days later

(Alejandro's POV)

Father already left early for work and there was so much that I could focus on right now at breakfast.

After Carlos and Marisol went around to visit some friends in Canada, they came back here to celebrate an early Christmas with us before going back home to Spain to spend the holiday with Marisol's family. Which normally I'd be very relieved and quite happy with having Carlos here to keep José at arm's length.

Yet, all I could focus on was José.

Ever since he came home from his 'date' with Kelsey 3 days ago, he's been… off.

Not that I am in any way complaining about this change to his personality in the slightest since I don't think José has ever been this silent or left me alone this long for as long as I can remember.

But, that doesn't mean I also don't find his sudden shift oddly suspicious.

He's hardly said anything since that night and always seems to be in a perpetual state of deep thought, practically staring off into some sort of spatial point and hardly ever in the present moment.

And all I can wonder is what happened between both him and Kelsey to make José suddenly act like this?

At first I thought for a moment my mind was playing tricks on me since I remembered him looking almost in shock and had bruises all over his neck and jaw until he seemed to not have them the following morning or even now. Well until I realized that the only and quite obvious reason I thought they disappeared was because José covered them up with some of mother's extra make up in the hall bathroom to probably avoid questioning by mother, father, or myself.

Which he has done before, and most recently after our fight on the deck several weeks ago.

But all I have are questions.

And Heather wasn't any help in the respect of divulging more information on that score, at least nothing that made sense of José's actions.

Though I wasn't surprised to hear her motive was to get payback on her sister through my brother and seemed pretty satisfied with herself since she told me that Kelsey was not happy to put it mildly, or at least that was how she sounded in their phone call apparently according to Heather.

Heather and her sister do seem to have quite a bit of rivalry to say the least between them, which I understand.

Although that is a whole other set of questions I have for Heather to be dealt with at a later time.

I was just at a loss right now.

If Kelsey told Heather her date with José was terrible (not that I am in anyway surprised with that being the case) but then… why wasn't José angry as well when he came home?

And why did he come home looking like that and acting like this?

Did Kelsey do this to José?

If she did, I must say… I'm oddly impressed.

Then again, while I absolutely detest the thought of admitting anything 'positive' about my brother, José is a lot of things… but, I don't think José would ever get into a physical altercation with a woman.

But, even if Kelsey did read him his rights a bit, then José would have at least come home 'less than pleased' at bare minimum.

Yet it still begs the question… what happened to make José like this?

Apparently I wasn't the only one thinking this since Carlos looked over at José and gave him an equally confused look. He looked at me with the same look before we both looked back at José, who was still blankly staring at his plate with that same off look to him.

Eventually, Carlos finally said, trying to get José's attention, "Oye, bromigo?"

José just kept painstakingly slowly eating his eggs bit by bit but remained almost unresponsive as he kept looking in front of him.

Carlos and I exchanged confused looks again as Carlos continued to prod, "José?"

Nothing.

Eventually I got even more perplexed as I saw Carlos looking over his shoulders, almost as if to make sure it was just the three of us.

Then I saw Carlos reach under the table and saw him pull out the soccer ball I remembered him walking in with after doing his warmups in the basement before breakfast. Carlos gave me a look and smirked slightly before standing up from his chair and tossing the ball at the top of José's head and bouncing off right back into his hands.

I smirked when José practically dramatically and violently reacted to it as he spouted, putting his left hand on his head, "Ay, carajo! Carlos?! What was that for?!"

Carlos just grinned as he teased playfully, "Buenos días, hermanito. Welcome back."

I grinned even more in amusement as José gave both of us an annoyed and defensive glare as he spat, "What are you talking about?"

Carlos just shrugged and replied casually with a grin, "Well, I was just trying to get your attention since you seemed to be on some sort of mental vacación just now. What's got you so dazed, bromigo? Take a good hit recently?"

Then both Carlos and I's expressions immediately contorted in confusion as José's whole expression morphed into deep thought, almost like a sudden thought hit him, as his eyes went wide and got this almost far off look to them.

Well, until he scrunched his eyes shut and slammed his fist on the table, causing Carlos and I to jump slightly.

Then José took one last bite from his plate before getting up from the table and saying in a rushed fashion, "Ugh!... I'm going for a drive."

We saw him grab his winter jacket before storming out the front door and slamming it shut behind him.

After a long stretch of silence, Carlos and I exchanged a look of absolute confusion.

Despite being in a perpetual state of confusion over my feelings toward Heather myself, especially early on… I am shocked to say I am even more confused over what is happening to José at the current moment.

Just… What exactly happened that night?

25 minutes later in Ottawa

({No POV})

José drove into the business residential district of the city until he somehow found a parallel parking spot along the street and pulled over.

After shutting and locking the door to his car, he slowly but with a purpose paced around his car to the sidewalk and started making his way around the corner to the previous street he was on and eventually stopped when he saw his 'building of interest' across the street.

He stopped and put his hands in his coat pockets as he looked up at the room in the middle of the 3rd floor with blue curtains seen inside on either side of the window.

Kelsey's apartment.

José kept staring at the apartment window until he let out a long sigh and saying under his breath, "Oye… dios mío."

3 nights ago

It was the end of the date and José and Kelsey were both walking back to her apartment from Gerardo's car that José borrowed for the evening.

Only the two were reflecting quite different demeanors on the outlook of how the date went.

José was looking very confident and 'sure of himself' as he walked and talked next to Kelsey about his latest boxing match and seeming to be really enjoying himself.

Kelsey; however, was just looking done and annoyed to completion as it commanded her entire expression if not being close to outrage. Her entire demeanor was tense and cold as she just kept looking in front of her with a very intense look in her eyes.

Though José seemed none the wiser or just didn't bother to care to 'see the signs' of Kelsey's annoyance as he kept proceeding to talk about himself… like he had been doing the entire date from the moment he picked her up to take her out to dinner.

But, Kelsey was not even listening and hadn't been listening for what seemed like eons to her at this point to what he was saying.

They were just getting to the front of her building, where the doormen seemed to be having a shift change since no one was there.

Meanwhile José proceeded to keep talking about his last boxing match, "Sure while Rojas did give me a bit of a challenge, I had to say his endurance was lacking. But, of course, even the strongest cockroaches take a bit of stomping before going in for the k… QUÉ?!"

José was immediately cut off as Kelsey blindly grabbed the front of his dress shirt and started dragging him inside her apartment with her.

He kept protesting and questioning her all the while only to be met with absolute silence as Kelsey pulled him into the stairwell and up the stairs to the 3rd floor landing. José was still continuing his questioning as Kelsey eventually stopped in front of the door to her apartment.

She pulled out the keys with her free hand before unlocking the door and closing it right behind them quicker than either of them could blink, but not before practically tossing José inside.

José stumbled a bit before eventually regaining his footing and complaining, "Just what in the…"

Then Kelsey grabbed his shirt collar with both hands before slamming his back to the wall in her hallway just outside her bedroom. Her hands clenched so tight around the fabric of his dress shirt that her knuckles were turning white.

The look in her eye reflected nothing short of annoyed rage as she said through bared teeth in a low building voice, "Will you just shut the fuck up already?"

José was so caught off guard and quite offended as he got out, "Excuse me?!"

Then he was taken even more off guard when Kelsey pulled him toward her before immediately slamming him back against the wall with fire in her eyes as she growled right in his face, "I said shut it, you conceited, mouth running shitbag!"

Normally in these situations, José was never one to take insults lying down and usually always fought back to some degree.

But now… he was wide eyed and silent as he kept looking at Kelsey.

And it appeared Kelsey wasn't finished as she exasperated, "Do you have any idea how fucking annoying you are? This was the worst date I've ever been on! I mean just… UGH! YOU never stopped talking the ENTIRE time, YOU only talked about yourself, YOU were being such handsy skeez under the table at the restaurant, and 'I' am fucking OVER IT! You wasted an entire 3 hours of my life that I am never getting back and I am not about to let this be a complete loss without getting any pay off."

José was just staring at her as he took in her entire 'tirade' just now.

Eventually José had enough mental capacity to tilt his head in confusion and although clearly still mentally processing managed to inquire, "Qué?"

Kelsey immediately snapped back with a finger in his face, "Look, I may not know any Spanish or whatever, but I know you're playing stupid. Trust me, I know exactly what you really want from me. So why don't we drop all this superficial date crap and get right to it. So how about this? We are going to have sex right now for two reasons only. One, you are insanely hot and I am not about to pass this up. And two… I have not had sex in almost 5 months since my boyfriend broke up with me and my sex life has sucked. I just turned 24 last Tuesday and all I have done for months is go to work with a bunch of guys old enough to be my dad, get inevitably hit on by those same gross old guys, and then come home to nothing but a damn cat. So, since we both want the same thing here… then let's start with this."

Before José could even react, Kelsey pulled him closer by his shirt and practically crushed her lips against his.

José's eyes sprung open on contact as he looked like he was trying to catch up to the situation as Kelsey eventually locked her arms around his neck to practically hold him in place.

But right as José's mind seemed to catch up to the current situation, Kelsey eventually got them into her room and practically impatiently tore off his jacket and practically tossed it across the room before literally ripping the front of his shirt open.

Several buttons ripped off his shirt in the process and scattered in all random directions before Kelsey practically pushed José on her bed with more force than he had expected.

He fell back and kept himself propped up slightly on his elbows as he kept looking at Kelsey wide eyed.

Both of their breathing was picked up as they stared at each other while Kelsey seemed to be wasting no time as she started unzipping the back of her dress with everything about her grey eyes practically radiating nothing but pure physical lust and want as she looked over José.

Meanwhile José, who up until this point never thought of himself as sexually inexperienced at all or that nothing in this particular area could possibly surprise or shock him, was looking at Kelsey with the most undivided attention he failed to give her the entire night... well, up until now that is.

He was at a loss. Normally José was always just used to having girls just come to him looking for a 'good time' where he usually held most of the control.

But, up until this moment, he had never had a girl be as upfront, forceful, direct, and dare he say almost dominating of him in a situation like this before.

While it wasn't something he was used to and even though the feeling of having a girl being in control over him in this sort of way in this particular area was something completely foreign to him… he had an almost overwhelming feeling of being completely turned on by the situation, probably more than he ever had been to his memory in a situation like this.

Particularly having his eyes practically glued to Kelsey as she impatiently tugged off her dress as if it annoyed her, now standing in front of him half naked while putting her hands on her hips.

She tilted her head at José, who was still just staring at her wide eyed and his mouth partially open, before she directed in flustered annoyance, "So, are we going to do this or what?"

Kelsey's question was still only met with silence as José just kept staring at her wide eyed and mouth agape, his eyes practically scanning over her and taking every inch of her in.

She scoffed in annoyance at his silence and lack of action as she rolled her eyes hard and commented, "Oh, what? Now you decide to shut up?"

Though her physical attraction toward him seemed to outweigh her annoyance at the current moment as she practically strode toward him and straddled over him on her bed as she continued almost checking him out. José still seemed almost locked in on her and whatever was occurring at the present moment as he continued to just stare.

Kelsey seemed to be on a one track mind as she practically pulled him up slightly to take off his shirt the rest of the way since he clearly wasn't doing anything to progress the situation so far, much to her frustration.

Right as she took off his shirt and tossed it to the side in flustered annoyance and almost impulsively ran her hands down his front, immediately causing him to let out a drawn out groan on reflex.

Then it was almost like José's brain and body finally seemed to reconnect and catch up to the present moment as he wrapped his left arm around her back and pulled her close to him on impulse and locked his lips to hers. He looked like he was about to turn her under him… until it seemed like Kelsey had other ideas as she pinned him down on his back to the mattress with her hands over his wrists.

Though José was stronger and could have taken over the situation easily, he was still almost internally shocked by how strong Kelsey actually was since she seemed to have quite a bit of force behind her actions.

She broke away and looked him over one more time up and down, her eyes practically raking over him as she ground out in what could only be described as flustered lust, looking him right in the eye, "Ugh, you're so hot..."

The before either of them could blink, Kelsey immediately leaned down and crushed her lips against his again, making José freeze up for a second before he eventually reciprocated sooner rather than later as he reached down and tried to undo his belt, button, and zipper on his pants as fast as he could.

Even though nothing he had ever experienced prior could prepare him for where their current situation was leading them.

Present day

José kept looking at Kelsey's apartment in almost fascination as he thought about everything else that happened that night and hadn't left his mind since it happened.

At first he was about to walk off, seeing the apartment was dark and assuming Kelsey was probably working, until he stopped when he saw Kelsey walking back into her apartment with a couple shopping bags and looking at her phone.

She blindly walked past the doorman to her apartment building, who opened the door for her as she walked in.

Slowly José's expression morphed into a sly smirk as he said quietly to himself, the wheels clearly turning in his mind, "Hello again… chica…"

Okay, I know what you're probably thinking? DEXTER, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?! Well, I'm assuming you connected the dots on the obvious 'one night stand' that occurred between José and Kelsey, but as to exactly what occurred behind closed doors between them is something you'll have to wait and see. Either way it appears that Kelsey somehow unintentionally caught José's undivided attention in the process of their hook up. But, I'll leave you all to leave your speculations until then on how exactly she did that. Either way, it seemed Kelsey left something out during her enraged phone call to Heather, didn't she? ;) All will be revealed in the next chapter, along with the return of Aleheather content. ;) I also hope you liked the breakfast scene between Alejandro and his brothers just acting like, well… 'brothers'. Haha. But, I just wanted to show more of their dynamic and show a realistic and in character interaction between the 3… and how at the moment Alejandro still believes Kelsey roughed up José… just not in the way he thinks. Lol. XD Thanks so much for taking the time to read and constructive reviews are appreciated as always. Hope you and your loved ones are staying safe and well during the holiday season.

Merry Christmas to all!

Dexter1995