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The Loser's Club Ch.25
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The week leading up to their trip was relatively quiet, Kay had told her mother she was going away for the weekend, she hadn't wanted to, but Brian suggested it, and she couldn't say no to him. Her mother had been supportive, but that was only after Kay sworn not to come back married to anyone. That part hadn't been too hard, Theresa was like a walking advertisement for not drinking in a foreign land.
Now sitting on the deck of Brian's boat somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, she felt better then she had in years. She didn't need to be told why; she the answer was Antonio Brian Lopez-Fitzgerald. She looked over at him as he stood behind the wheel of the boat, he had taken his shirt once they left the Harmony harbor, and she hadn't been able to keep her off eyes off him, in her opinion he was perfect.
"You enjoying the show?"
" Kinda." Kay sat up from her position on the beach chair, lifted her sunglasses off her eyes, and leaned her head to the side examining him. " Maybe if you had some music and did a little dance."
"You make me feel so cheap." Brian said as he covered his chest with his arms, and tried to look offended when she just laughed at him.
"Stop your whining." Kay stuck out her tongue secure in the knowledge that he couldn't get her back and sail the boat at the same time." Big Baby." The smile on her face dropped as he pulled a rope out and starting tying it around the steering wheel, and then bottom of the small chair stationed in from of it.
"Now what was I?" Brain asked as he started toward and evil grin now prominent on his face, she backed away toward the cabin door.
"Uh…." Kay squeezed past Brian and headed back on deck, but cursed herself, when she realized the only thing standing between her and Brain was several hundreds miles of water." I'm really sorry if you thought I was insulting to you, it must be the sun I think it's doing something to my brain." The smile was on her face was one of innocence as she walked toward him.
"Yeah, I guess it's possible." He smiled when walked right into her arms, and wrapped her arms around his waist laying her head on his chest. " Enjoying your trip so far?"
"Let's see on a boat with a handsome man on my way to island getaway, I'm guessing yeah."
"Just yeah." Brian hand drifted lower on her hip.
"Sorry I meant HELL yeah." She rose up on to meet his lips and as usual forgot everything but being in his arms. "Mmmhh."
Brian's hands began moving up under Kay's tank top, when the sound of a boat horn was clearly heard, stepping he sees a small U.S. Coast Guard boat sailing past, with several crew members voicing their delight of the free show. Shaking his head he grinned." Well, it's official there is a conspiracy against us."
"Definitely." Kay steps away and moves back to her chair. "So, do you know how far we are from St. Lisa's?
"About an hour away." Brian moved back to the wheel and removed the rope, he takes a deep breath and starts to speak." Kay, I need to talk to you?"
Kay heart starts a slow decent to her stomach at his words, but immediately gets ready to go on the defensive. "Just so you know Brian the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is not a good place to break up with a girl, especially with the large shark population."
He laughs." No, I want you to understand that I did have a past before I came back, and some of that past was on St. Lisa."
He didn't even want to try to broach the subject of Amanda or Dani, but he did have to get some things out I the open.
"Are you saying that I may run into one of your exes?" The thought of more women like Sheridan's wasn't very comforting, and more then a little scary.
" No, I'm saying that you definitely, will, in fact you already met one." She raised her eyebrow, and he continued." Liz."
"Liz, isn't she…."Kay broke off and began laughing so hard that she had to hold her sides. " Never mind."
"No, what were you going to say?"
"I was going to say isn't she a little too old for you, but then it hit me." She waved her hand to emphasize both of them and then fell off her chair and still laughing.
He shook his head. " Then you're okay with me being friends, Liz as my ex."
"Sure why not, you know Reese, besides it not like she still after you."
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Meanwhile in St. Lisa's
"Liz, the honeymoon suite is ready." The middle age woman walked downstairs stair drooping the trash by the door, as she went through to the kitchen.
"Thanks Joan." Liz stood at the reservation desk, wrote Brian's name into the guest book, and tried to ignore the stare she was receiving from Doc, but it was just too much. "Ok, what is it?"
"We're getting guest?" Doc smiled and moved toward the desk.
"No, just Brian and his new girlfriend."
"Oh good." Doc let out a breath. "For a while when we were in Harmony I thought he was going to go after that girl, Kay."
"That's his girlfriend." Liz nods as Doc's eyes widen, and his mouth drops." Yeah, I thought that at first, but…"
"What?" He hesitated to ask knowing Liz's feelings about Brian.
"But.. I heard something in his voice, he was really happy, and I hadn't ever heard him that happy not when he was with Sheridan or even me." The admission had been hard for her, she had thought that Brian was her 'one' for so long, but then she had been wrong before. The memory of the last time tries to force it's way into her head, and she shakes it off, she can't handle thinking about him again, it hurt too much.
"Liz." Doc waved a hand in front of her face. She had always just drifted off into her own little world, but since they returned from Harmony she was doing it more and more. "Liz, come back to me."
Liz comes out her thoughts and finds Doc still standing there." Sorry, I was just thinking about the Brian and Kay." "I think we need to just support Brian, they're coming to get away from their problems, so let's try to keep everything light and fun."
"Okay." It wouldn't be difficult he had actually liked Kay when he meet her briefly during his stay in Harmony, and if nothing else had to admit that Brian had good taste in women. " I'll set up my telescope, so they can see the full moon."
Liz raised an eyebrow, and gave a weak smile." Yeah, they might like that."
"Like what?" Brian walked into the foyer, holding Kay's hand as he smiled at his old friends. " Because we are up for anything. Right Kay?"
"Sure why not."
Liz came form around the desk, gave him a smile, and then repeated the gesture to Kay. "That's great because I thought we could start your vacation with a nice dinner at the restaurant."
"Does that invitation include me, because I'd love to come." Doc stepped forward and gave a hopeful smile.
"We'd be honored to have you both join us." Kay's invites was meet with a surprised expression on Brian and Liz's face and a delighted one on Docs.
"She's right, we want both of you there." He sent her a questioning glance, which he knows she saw, but must be ignoring. He plans included a romantic dinner, but he could adjust it to include he old friends. After all he had Kay all to himself for two days in paradise, and what he wanted o do could wait awhile. " Come and eat with us."
"Sure." Liz walked back around the desk and called into the kitchen, and seconds later Joan reappeared." Take over for a while."
"Gotta ya."
They walked over restaurant in silence and continued that way through the salads and appetizers. It wasn't until there food arrived that conversation started.
"Oh Liz don't do that." Doc gagged as Liz added mayonnaise to the ketchup on her fries and started to mix it together creating a pale orange substance, that cause Brian to advert his eyes from the mess that was her dinner plate. "Must you always do that."
Liz dipped a fry in the substance as her answer and grinned at the disgusted looks on theirs faces. "Yes, I must."
"You know Kay's not use to your weird food choices, could you cool this once." Brian grimaced as he looked over at Liz, she was as bad as Theresa, but at least she had the excuse of being pregnant, Liz was just strange.
"I don't mind, my friend Chad does that too, it taste a little like French salad dressing." Kay laughed as Doc and Brian groaned.
"Men can be such babies."
Liz grins and lifts her glass of water." Finally someone who understands what I've been dealing with."
Kay lifts her glass and clinks it with Liz's." Trust me, I understand."
"Hey, hey we're still sitting here, you know." Doc straightens, and narrowed his eyes, while Brian began to pout.
"Which is way we're not shouting." Liz patted Doc's cheek, and turned back to Brian." Did I meet Chad and his parents during our trip?"
" You meet Chad, he worked at the Book Café, but his orphaned."
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that." Liz remembered Chad now, he had been a nice young man, and he had reminded her of someone. "Well, it's time for Doc and I to leave you two alone." Liz taps Doc shoulder and motions for him to stand. " We'll see you guys."
"Bye."
"It was nice meeting you again."
"It was nice seeing you again to Kay, it's nice to know that aliens hadn't completely corrupted the youth of this country." Doc gave a final wave and followed Liz out.
" Did he just…" Kay looked at Brian for an explanation but he just shook his head." But he did just…"
"Doc is a little different." Brian threw some bills down on the table and lead Kay out the back toward the beach.
"You know I have notice that quite a few of your friends are seem to be a lit off." Brian bend down and untied her shoes and took them off. He titled his head up to look at. "I wonder…
"What are you implying?"
"That maybe you drive people to insanity." She watches as he hides their shoes in a hollowed out tree that was lying on the ground.
" I have you know that both Gabe and Doc where like that when I meet them, so there goes that theory." He made his way back to her and took her hand leading her nearer to the beach to walk along the sand. " I like to think that I attract extraordinary people."
"That's a understatement."
" You're right it is." Brian stops and brings her into his arms, and kisses her head. " Because you are magnificent, superb, wonderful, and all those other synonyms for heaven sent."
"Keeping going, I'll tell you when stop." Kay liked the way she looked in Brian's eye; it almost made her think that she was all those things he said. " What else?"
"Hmmmm.." He stepped back and lifted her chin so that he could look into her blue eyes. " You are also too good for me." She started to say something but he covered her lips with his fingers. " You are, and this is the part where become selfish, because I know that you are all those things I said and more, but I love you Katherine Elizabeth Bennet, and I don't think I could ever let you go." Her eyes water, and her lips begin to tremble." I'm sorry to put this on you when it's obvious that you're not ready.
"No, Brian that's not it." She cupped his face as he wiped he tears away." I crying because I'm happy, this is the first time that I have been really in love with someone and I think that fact that you returning my feelings is just amazing." "But then you're amazing so I should have expected it." She pulled he head down so that his lips were inches away from hers." I love you too, Antonio Brian Lopez-Fitzgerald." Brian closed the distance between them as his brought his mouth to hers.
From his vantage point, the young lovers looked almost picturesque. Standing there bathed in moonlight, locked in an embrace, but he could see the trouble on the horizon there was always trouble. "Life is not happy ever after not even when you're rich." "Hell especially when you're rich. "
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Coming Soon:
The stranger was right there's trouble on the horizon.
