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and knew I had to finish this story, plus I love writing it.
Alice woke up and absently rubbed her jaw, then winced. She slowly opened her eyes and let them adjust to the morning light flowing through the windows. Looking down she saw that she was drapped in a thick comforter, her shoes next to the bed. She could feel the weight of Terry's arm draped around her waist and turned to see him.
He lay silently, she couldn't help but notice how gentle his face looked while he slept. His hair was a mess. She grinned slightly. He lay on top of the covers, all of his clothes still on. She saw he'd slept with his gun on and frowned. A second look at his face told her he hadn't slept much. The door was locked and the phone was next to the bed on the floor.
She couldn't even remember what had happened. She remembered being scared, on the phone, the man who attacked her, and she remembered Terry. He'd held her as she cried, and returned her desperate kiss with vigor. But she also remembered when he'd forced himself to pull away from her. He told her she was scared and they should stay put until morning, and she knew he was trying to sway the mood. She let him, knowing it was just as hard for him to stop as it was for her.
He'd gotten her ice for her jaw and gingerly cleaned her cut lip, the whole while dreading his decision to stay at his hotel the night before. If he'd been there she wouldn't have been hurt by some merc and he might have gotten some answers out of the invader.
She let her eyes travel over his face, his ruffled hair, and down his shoulder and toned arm around her waist. She kept finding herself comparing Peter to him. Thingking things like: Peter never had arms like that, or Peter wasn't as chivelrous, which really was an unfair thought. Peter had never been put in a situation to prove his chivalry to her, she was sure he would measure up. And she couldn't expect him to bench as much as a soldier, he never was very athletic. They simply had different traits.
But the kiss she'd shared with Terry could compare to no other. No matter how long she lived with Peter she knew she was cursed to know that the most passion she'd ever felt in one single moment hadn't been for the man she'd married. That thought made her more uncomfortable than she could stand.
She heard a car engine close by and perked her head up. The engine died and she heard a door open. At the soft sound of the door closing Terry was sitting up, his pistol magically transferred from it's buttoned holster to his hand.
"It's probably just Dino." Alice said as she lay a hand on Terry's shoulder. At her light touch, he faced her. His features softened as he looked at her face, noticing her defined jaw line now was a dark purple color. Her lip had a raw cut, but wasn't swollen anymore. His hand gripped his gun tighter as he nodded to her and let his free hand push a stray strand of hair from her face.
"Probably." He agreed as he got up and with a twist and roll of his shoulders popped his back noisily.
"I'll go see." He said as he left, gun in hand but no longer the battle- ready dimeanor.
She watched him get to his feet and walk to the door his finger's flexing around the hilt of his gun as he walked into the hall and stopped near the stairs, he was about to peer down when he heard broken glass being stepped on.
"What the hell happened here?" He heard Dino shout as he sighed and jogged down the stairs. Dino looked up as he met him at the bottom and lifted his hands in the air, brows raised.
"I leave you alone for like, two seconds and this happens!" He said as Terry tucked his gun behind him in his pants and gave Dino a look. "I Alice ok, were you here?" He asked as he looked around the room, seeing how there were sings of a definite struggle.
"No, I was at the hotel. She called me and when I got here he was gone mate." He gripped the back of the sofa and his knuckles went white. "He tried to scare her, smacked her around." Dino saw the bloody hand print on the wall and walked over and touched it, knowing it was dry but doing it anyway. Terry turned and gritted his teeth.
"You don't beat the people you're trying to get money from, they've never pulled this shit before!" He took a deep breath and Dino shook his head.
"What the fuck is this country coming to!" He said as he looked at the blood and broken glass and actually let out a growl. "I'm about to get really pissed off at these guys and they don't want that." He walked into the kitchen saying something else, but Terry ignored him. Alice was walking down the stairs, she'd changed from her blood stained clothes into a white button up blouse and some linen trousers with leather fringe that dragged on the floor over her bare feet.
"Watch out, there's a lot of glass." Terry said as she nodded and tip toed to where he stood and lay a hand on his upper arm. Before he could say anything Dino entered again and looked at Alice's face and shook his head.
"Alice, this was way wrong. In so many ways." He crossed his arms and looked at her hand on his arm then at Terry, who looked away. "I don't know what their doing, I say we get a bird and try and find them in the mountains." Terry lifted and hand to stop him.
"We don't know where they are, there's no way." Dino knew he was right but he was still set off.
"Well, we need to find a way. These guys are reaching the deal is falling apart, and eventually our guys up there in the mountains aren't gonna be worth enough. We need to go in somehow." Alice cringed and walked to the door where she carefully stepped past the glass and disappeared outside.
The two men were silent, one was suspicous and the other was guilty. Dino gave Terry an interrogating look through his brows.
"Did you sleep with her?" He asked it bluntly, but had he side stepped it wouldn't have been his way. Terry gave him a bitter look that said it all.
"No." He walked into the kitchen and got out a bottle of burbon from the fridge and didn't even bother with a glass.
"Man, you can't do this to yourself she is counting on you to bring her husband home!" He animated his words with his hands and Terry simply sighed as the liquor went down and set the bottle down. "What are you holding out for? She get's Peter back and then hands him divorce papers?" He knew Terry knew this already but letting him hear them anyway might penatrate his thick skull.
"I know what I'm doing." Terry said as Dino sighed.
"You know they don't even tell you not to do this when you sign up for the job, it's that wrong. It's one of those things that comes with common sense." Terry took another drink and gave him a look as he screwed the cap on.
"Drop it." He said dangerously and Dino sighed, he nodded and ran his hands through his hair.
"Ok. So your on for tonight right?" He asked as Terry paused then nodded.
"Yeah he should contact me tonight around eight." He looked his watch then glanced out the window to see where Alice was. She was sitting next to the pool curled up in a lawn chair.
"Well don't get carried away with him ok?" He got up and gave Terry a slap on the back. "Keep in touch and either get her outta here or stay over from now on. Call me if you need me." He was near the door when he turned back. "And sleep in the guest room!" Terry couldn't help the smile and shook his head.
Alice sat with her arms around her knee's in one of the chairs next to the pool, biting her nail absently as she looked over the city of Telcala. Smoke rose from several places and she could faintly here an alarm going off. At least Peter wasn't here to see this. She closed her eyes.
Every time she thought of Peter she couldn't help but feel guilty. She kept thinking about their last words to eachother and how unhappy she'd been. How she'd wanted to leave Telcala the moment she got there, and how angry Peter was at her.
What would've happened to them if this hadn't? Would she be in the United States filing divorce papers or would they have talked it out. She'll never know. Every day Peter seemed further and further away and she was starting to forget the man everyone talked about, the man she was married to.
"Alice?" She sighed at the voice, he seemed to make everything better. All fears and doubts left her when he was near and she sometimes wondered what would've happened had they met somewhere else. Maybe in college or when she'd taken that trip to Australia the summer she graduated with her sorority sisters. She looked up at him.
"So what did Dino say?" She asked as he kneeled in front of her and lay a hand on her knee.
"That we should ride into the jungle with riffle's and horn's blaring." She gave a half smile and it made him smile back, he wanted her not to worry. "We're gonna continue with nagotiations but I think he's got something planned he's not telling me. I hope it's nothing that's gonna get him in trouble." His face was stern again and he looked over the fence to the valley below where the city was in chaos.
"This place is such a mess, it's like these kidnappings have set off a chain reaction. The government moves in, the E.L.T. pushes back and the innocent people are the one's who get punished." He watched her as she shook her head and looked at a house that was now a skeleton that was smoking and charred. "These people can't afford this war, that's why the bad guy's will win." She met his eyes and he could tell there was something bothering her. Something else.
"Peter told me to leave the night before he was taken." She admitted as she held back tears. "And I was going to, then he was gone and now..." She ran her finger's down the side of his face and shrugged as she swallowed hard.
"I feel like I've already said goodbye to him and how fair is that?" Tears were slipping down her cheek's and Terry took her hand and shook his head.
"Don't feel bad about this, I take full responsiblity for..."
"No." Alice stopped him and gripped his hands like a vice. "I would be gone right now if he hadn't been taken, and then I wouldn't have met you. And even though I've tried to tell myself differently I would rather have met you this way than never met you at all." He gently moved her blonde curls from her face with his hands and looked into her bright blue eyes. He had no reply, he couldn't get his lips to move.
So he didn't talk he simply pulled her into his arms and held her. And she let her tears fall, all the emotions she hadn't shared and the bottled up feelings coming out with them. She dared not say it but she was falling in love with him, and there was no way this was going end happily ever after no matter what the result. And so she held him, the feeling of his arms around her was the most comforting thing she'd known. Both the sweet and the bitter. Bitter because she was a married woman and how could she leave Peter after all this? But how could she let Terry go? It was a question she was going to have to ask and she knew it wasn't going to be an easy one.
I love Dino, we'll see lotsa him in my fic, tell me what you think and where you think it should go. reviews please!!!
Alice woke up and absently rubbed her jaw, then winced. She slowly opened her eyes and let them adjust to the morning light flowing through the windows. Looking down she saw that she was drapped in a thick comforter, her shoes next to the bed. She could feel the weight of Terry's arm draped around her waist and turned to see him.
He lay silently, she couldn't help but notice how gentle his face looked while he slept. His hair was a mess. She grinned slightly. He lay on top of the covers, all of his clothes still on. She saw he'd slept with his gun on and frowned. A second look at his face told her he hadn't slept much. The door was locked and the phone was next to the bed on the floor.
She couldn't even remember what had happened. She remembered being scared, on the phone, the man who attacked her, and she remembered Terry. He'd held her as she cried, and returned her desperate kiss with vigor. But she also remembered when he'd forced himself to pull away from her. He told her she was scared and they should stay put until morning, and she knew he was trying to sway the mood. She let him, knowing it was just as hard for him to stop as it was for her.
He'd gotten her ice for her jaw and gingerly cleaned her cut lip, the whole while dreading his decision to stay at his hotel the night before. If he'd been there she wouldn't have been hurt by some merc and he might have gotten some answers out of the invader.
She let her eyes travel over his face, his ruffled hair, and down his shoulder and toned arm around her waist. She kept finding herself comparing Peter to him. Thingking things like: Peter never had arms like that, or Peter wasn't as chivelrous, which really was an unfair thought. Peter had never been put in a situation to prove his chivalry to her, she was sure he would measure up. And she couldn't expect him to bench as much as a soldier, he never was very athletic. They simply had different traits.
But the kiss she'd shared with Terry could compare to no other. No matter how long she lived with Peter she knew she was cursed to know that the most passion she'd ever felt in one single moment hadn't been for the man she'd married. That thought made her more uncomfortable than she could stand.
She heard a car engine close by and perked her head up. The engine died and she heard a door open. At the soft sound of the door closing Terry was sitting up, his pistol magically transferred from it's buttoned holster to his hand.
"It's probably just Dino." Alice said as she lay a hand on Terry's shoulder. At her light touch, he faced her. His features softened as he looked at her face, noticing her defined jaw line now was a dark purple color. Her lip had a raw cut, but wasn't swollen anymore. His hand gripped his gun tighter as he nodded to her and let his free hand push a stray strand of hair from her face.
"Probably." He agreed as he got up and with a twist and roll of his shoulders popped his back noisily.
"I'll go see." He said as he left, gun in hand but no longer the battle- ready dimeanor.
She watched him get to his feet and walk to the door his finger's flexing around the hilt of his gun as he walked into the hall and stopped near the stairs, he was about to peer down when he heard broken glass being stepped on.
"What the hell happened here?" He heard Dino shout as he sighed and jogged down the stairs. Dino looked up as he met him at the bottom and lifted his hands in the air, brows raised.
"I leave you alone for like, two seconds and this happens!" He said as Terry tucked his gun behind him in his pants and gave Dino a look. "I Alice ok, were you here?" He asked as he looked around the room, seeing how there were sings of a definite struggle.
"No, I was at the hotel. She called me and when I got here he was gone mate." He gripped the back of the sofa and his knuckles went white. "He tried to scare her, smacked her around." Dino saw the bloody hand print on the wall and walked over and touched it, knowing it was dry but doing it anyway. Terry turned and gritted his teeth.
"You don't beat the people you're trying to get money from, they've never pulled this shit before!" He took a deep breath and Dino shook his head.
"What the fuck is this country coming to!" He said as he looked at the blood and broken glass and actually let out a growl. "I'm about to get really pissed off at these guys and they don't want that." He walked into the kitchen saying something else, but Terry ignored him. Alice was walking down the stairs, she'd changed from her blood stained clothes into a white button up blouse and some linen trousers with leather fringe that dragged on the floor over her bare feet.
"Watch out, there's a lot of glass." Terry said as she nodded and tip toed to where he stood and lay a hand on his upper arm. Before he could say anything Dino entered again and looked at Alice's face and shook his head.
"Alice, this was way wrong. In so many ways." He crossed his arms and looked at her hand on his arm then at Terry, who looked away. "I don't know what their doing, I say we get a bird and try and find them in the mountains." Terry lifted and hand to stop him.
"We don't know where they are, there's no way." Dino knew he was right but he was still set off.
"Well, we need to find a way. These guys are reaching the deal is falling apart, and eventually our guys up there in the mountains aren't gonna be worth enough. We need to go in somehow." Alice cringed and walked to the door where she carefully stepped past the glass and disappeared outside.
The two men were silent, one was suspicous and the other was guilty. Dino gave Terry an interrogating look through his brows.
"Did you sleep with her?" He asked it bluntly, but had he side stepped it wouldn't have been his way. Terry gave him a bitter look that said it all.
"No." He walked into the kitchen and got out a bottle of burbon from the fridge and didn't even bother with a glass.
"Man, you can't do this to yourself she is counting on you to bring her husband home!" He animated his words with his hands and Terry simply sighed as the liquor went down and set the bottle down. "What are you holding out for? She get's Peter back and then hands him divorce papers?" He knew Terry knew this already but letting him hear them anyway might penatrate his thick skull.
"I know what I'm doing." Terry said as Dino sighed.
"You know they don't even tell you not to do this when you sign up for the job, it's that wrong. It's one of those things that comes with common sense." Terry took another drink and gave him a look as he screwed the cap on.
"Drop it." He said dangerously and Dino sighed, he nodded and ran his hands through his hair.
"Ok. So your on for tonight right?" He asked as Terry paused then nodded.
"Yeah he should contact me tonight around eight." He looked his watch then glanced out the window to see where Alice was. She was sitting next to the pool curled up in a lawn chair.
"Well don't get carried away with him ok?" He got up and gave Terry a slap on the back. "Keep in touch and either get her outta here or stay over from now on. Call me if you need me." He was near the door when he turned back. "And sleep in the guest room!" Terry couldn't help the smile and shook his head.
Alice sat with her arms around her knee's in one of the chairs next to the pool, biting her nail absently as she looked over the city of Telcala. Smoke rose from several places and she could faintly here an alarm going off. At least Peter wasn't here to see this. She closed her eyes.
Every time she thought of Peter she couldn't help but feel guilty. She kept thinking about their last words to eachother and how unhappy she'd been. How she'd wanted to leave Telcala the moment she got there, and how angry Peter was at her.
What would've happened to them if this hadn't? Would she be in the United States filing divorce papers or would they have talked it out. She'll never know. Every day Peter seemed further and further away and she was starting to forget the man everyone talked about, the man she was married to.
"Alice?" She sighed at the voice, he seemed to make everything better. All fears and doubts left her when he was near and she sometimes wondered what would've happened had they met somewhere else. Maybe in college or when she'd taken that trip to Australia the summer she graduated with her sorority sisters. She looked up at him.
"So what did Dino say?" She asked as he kneeled in front of her and lay a hand on her knee.
"That we should ride into the jungle with riffle's and horn's blaring." She gave a half smile and it made him smile back, he wanted her not to worry. "We're gonna continue with nagotiations but I think he's got something planned he's not telling me. I hope it's nothing that's gonna get him in trouble." His face was stern again and he looked over the fence to the valley below where the city was in chaos.
"This place is such a mess, it's like these kidnappings have set off a chain reaction. The government moves in, the E.L.T. pushes back and the innocent people are the one's who get punished." He watched her as she shook her head and looked at a house that was now a skeleton that was smoking and charred. "These people can't afford this war, that's why the bad guy's will win." She met his eyes and he could tell there was something bothering her. Something else.
"Peter told me to leave the night before he was taken." She admitted as she held back tears. "And I was going to, then he was gone and now..." She ran her finger's down the side of his face and shrugged as she swallowed hard.
"I feel like I've already said goodbye to him and how fair is that?" Tears were slipping down her cheek's and Terry took her hand and shook his head.
"Don't feel bad about this, I take full responsiblity for..."
"No." Alice stopped him and gripped his hands like a vice. "I would be gone right now if he hadn't been taken, and then I wouldn't have met you. And even though I've tried to tell myself differently I would rather have met you this way than never met you at all." He gently moved her blonde curls from her face with his hands and looked into her bright blue eyes. He had no reply, he couldn't get his lips to move.
So he didn't talk he simply pulled her into his arms and held her. And she let her tears fall, all the emotions she hadn't shared and the bottled up feelings coming out with them. She dared not say it but she was falling in love with him, and there was no way this was going end happily ever after no matter what the result. And so she held him, the feeling of his arms around her was the most comforting thing she'd known. Both the sweet and the bitter. Bitter because she was a married woman and how could she leave Peter after all this? But how could she let Terry go? It was a question she was going to have to ask and she knew it wasn't going to be an easy one.
I love Dino, we'll see lotsa him in my fic, tell me what you think and where you think it should go. reviews please!!!