Summary: Sebastian comes up with a way around Tiffani's ultimatum
Chapter 17: Coming Out On Top
Sebastian was fucked. As the hot water rushed over his body he leaned his head against the shower tile and contemplated his options. Thanks to his evil stepmother he had an impossible decision to make. He could break the heart of the only girl he ever truly loved or he could never see her again. Either way he was fucked.
Tiffani gave him until tomorrow night to make a decision which didn't give him a lot of time. Sebastian really did love Kathryn which was why he couldn't stand the idea of her being put away in some clinic. However he knew he couldn't very well tell her he wanted to end things. For starters Kathryn would probably never believe him, especially after last night. After finally getting her to open up to him there was no way in hell he would ruin all that.
Of course there was always the option of telling Kathryn about her mothers ultimatum. Normally Sebastian would but Tiffani told him that if Kathryn found out about it she would ship her off before she could even say good-bye to him. So Sebastian would keep quiet about it but he wasn't about to give in to that bitch's demands. He was determined to find another solution.
After getting out of the shower Sebastian wrapped a towel around himself and walked back into the bedroom where he found a naked Kathryn stretched out on his bed reading a book. She looked up at him with a grin "morning."
"Morning. Nice to see you're finally up."
"It's your fault" she told him with a yawn. "You kept me up last night."
"It takes two sweetheart" he smirked at her.
Kathryn returned it "I suppose you're right. Anyway I thought I heard mother. Is she home?"
Sebastian's smile fell at the mention of Tiffani "she was."
"Did you talk with her?"
"Briefly"
Studying him she asked "is something wrong?"
He hesitated a moment before saying "no everything's fine."
With a grin Kathryn slowly crawled to the edge of the bed and kneeled in front of him. "Are you getting bored with me already?"
Sebastian looked down at her beautiful body and smirked "I think that might be impossible."
"Good Answer" Kathryn pulled off his towel off and smiled down at his throbbing erection. Even in the midst of all the turmoil he was feeling, the girl could still manage to make him almost painfully hard.
Kathryn leaned up like she was going to kiss him but before their mouths could meet she pulled away and moved down his body until her mouth was only centimeters away from his cock. Her wicked tongue lashed out at the tip and then licked up the base. The sensations were driving Sebastian insane which was he guessed the whole point. After sliding his dick all the way into her mouth Kathryn pulled it out and asked "so are you going to tell me what is wrong with you?"
"Nothing" he groaned "now finish before I come all over your pretty little face."
She smirked "tell me the truth and maybe I'll let you do that anyway."
"It's nothing. Now could you please..."
Kathryn sucked on the head of his cock but then once again pulled away. "You're not telling me something. Now you either tell me what the fuck is bothering you or I won't touch your dick for the rest of the day." Flicking her tongue at his balls she looked up and grinned "it's your call."
Fed up with the little game and still determined to keep the truth from her Sebastian quickly grabbed Kathryn by the legs and flipped her onto her back. As he climbed on top of her she let out a whimper and murmured "not fair."
"Life never is" he said told her as he slid between her thighs. "You're right there is something I'm keeping from you and I will tell you about it...eventaully. You just have to trust me to handle it. Can you do that?"
"Do I have a choice?"
"Just sit back and enjoy the ride baby" Sebastian ordered right before he began to fuck her brains out.
* * * * * *
"I don't know what you expect me to do" Blaine told him as he casually sipped his lattae.
"I need you to find me something to use against her" Sebastian explained as calmly as possible. "And I need it by tomorrow."
"Tomorrow? Sebastian in case it's escaped your narrow viewpoint I do have a life outside of making sure yours runs smoothly."
Rolling his eyes he sighed "you can put Brad the wonder stud on hold for a few hours. Look if I don't do this Kathryn's gone for good."
Blaine shrugged "Kathryn can take care of herself Valmont."
"Well think of it this way, there goes 20% of your profits if she leaves."
"You do have a point but still...what do you think I can possibly dig up in less than twenty four hours?"
"I don't know be creative." Sebastian pulled out a wad of cash and tossed it carelessly on the table. "I'll give you double your average fee if you follow through."
Blaine picked up the cash and admired it with a grin. "Well I always have been fond of Kathryn..."
* * * * * *
The following day Sebastian still had yet to hear back from Blaine. He called and left at least ten messages but the asshole wasn't picking up the phone. He was undoubtedly too busy getting his dick sucked. Well Sebastian vowed that if he dropped the ball so to speak on this little assignment he would make Blaine's life a living hell.
Following a tense day at school Sebastian headed into his room thinking about the joint that was in his desk. He defiantly needed something to take the edge off. However as he opened the door he was sickened to see his step mother sitting at his desk as if she belonged there. "What the fuck do you want?" he barked at her.
She looked up at him with her usual cool gaze and told him "times up."
"What? No I have until tonight. That was the deal" he said closing the door behind him.
"Yes but I'm getting bored waiting for an answer. So what will it be Sebastian? Are you going to tell my daughter you're through with her or should I make some travel plans?"
The only thing in that moment Sebastian could think to do was stall for time. Strolling up to the desk causally he asked "how can you do this to your own daughter?"
"Oh quit being so melodramatic Sebastian" she sighed. "I'm doing this for her own good"
"How's that?"
Getting up from her seat Tiffani walked over to him. "Come now Sebastian did you really think a relationship between you and my daughter would last?"
"I love her" he snarled "why wouldn't it?"
"Well setting aside the fact that the two of you are related, by marriage anyway, there's the fact that neither of you are able to sustain a relationship for any substantial amount of time. I mean just look at you and that darling little Annette girl. You got rid of her awfully fast didn't you?" She continued on smirking all the while "you may indeed love Kathryn, Sebastian but face it my daughter is far too self absorbed to love anyone. And no matter how much you care about her I doubt you could manage to keep it in your pants for very long. Just like your father."
"You're wrong" he replied.
Tiffani sighed "yes well it doesn't really matter anyway. Now enough stalling I want an answer. What are you going to do?"
"Fine" he sighed "if you want an answer-"
Sebastian was interrupted by a knocking at the door. "What is it?" Tiffani hissed.
One of the maids opened the door with an apologetic smile. "I'm sorry to interrupt but this just arrived."
"I'll look at it later" Tiffani said shooing her away.
"Actually it's for master Sebastian. It's marked urgent."
"Let me see" Sebastian said taking the package from the women's hands. It was a large Fed Ex envelop addressed to him from a Mr. Blaine Tuttle. Smirking Sebastian said "thanks Stella I've been expecting this."
"What is it?" Tiffani asked annoyed.
Turning away from her Sebastian eagerly ripped open the envelop and pulled out the few papers inside. At first he didn't understand what he was looking at. He thought Blaine would get him some incriminating photos or something, this just looked like a page full of numbers. However on closer inspection Sebastian realized what the bank statements meant. Turning to his step mother her smirked "my, my haven't we been busy."
"What is it? What are you babbling about?"
Studying the sheets he asked casually "so how long have you been broke Tiffani?"
"Excuse me?" She asked shocked "where on earth did you get that idea?"
"Well according to these you've spent all your money from your last divorce settlement two years ago."
Tiffani's mouth fell open but she tried to save face. "That's ridiculous. Don't you think your father would be aware if I didn't have any money?"
"No he wouldn't because as these statements tell it you've been pilfering from my fathers accounts and putting them in a tidy trust of your own." Shaking his head at her he muttered "I guess you really are nothing more than a gold digging whore after all."
"You son of a bitch" she hissed as she went to slap him.
However Sebastian caught her hand before it made contact "oh none of that."
"Where did you get those documents?"
"Never mind that. The important question is what am I going to do with them?"
Composing herself Tiffani smoothed out her well coifed hair as she told him "you won't show them to your father because if you do your precious Kathryn will be out on the streets."
Sebastian chuckled "oh I don't think so. You may be but not her. According to this you couldn't touch Kathryn's inheritance, that's still in tact and she'll come into it in about three months. So you see while you're rotting away in some prison making all sorts of new girlfriends Kathryn will be living in a penthouse on Madison." Smiling at his new papers he said "yes my father should find this very interesting."
Realizing she was defeated Tiffani swallowed her pride and muttered "what do you want?"
Sebastian took a seat behind his desk and eyed his step mother in disgust. "You know what I want."
"You expect me to just turn the other cheek while you take advantage of my daughter any time you choose?"
He scoffed "oh please. As touching as your concern is we both know the real reason you wanted me away from Kathryn. She was your insurance policy in case my father ever got wind of all your illegal activity. Without her you might end up with nothing. Well it ends now. You aren't going to touch a dime of Kathryn's money but you are going to go along with everything I tell you."
"What is that exactly?"
Leaning back with a smile Sebastian explained "well as it happens you will be making some travel plans Tiff..."
* * * * * *
Annette was in desperate need of a bathroom. She was attending the annual Manchester Cares benefit, a school charity that helped raised money for orphans. Almost all of the student body along with most of their parents were attending. This was great, especially for the charity but it made in nearly impossible to find a bathroom without a line.
Annette decided to go look in the school to see if any of the bathrooms were open. As she was turning the corner to enter the west entrance of the school, she stopped in her tracks when she heard some familiar voices. "It should be done before tonight" an older female voice explained.
"Good. What time is the flight?"
Upon hearing the male voice Annette hid behind the adjacent wall. Peeking out from her spot she saw that it was indeed Sebastian talking with his step mother Tiffani. Since James funeral several weeks ago Annette had yet to talk with Sebastian and she didn't want to start now. She was desperately trying to close that chapter of her life. However she couldn't help but be curious about what they were talking about so she eavesdropped for a moment longer.
"It's at six forty" she explained curtly. "You know Kathryn won't be pleased about being shipped off so suddenly."
"Yes well it's for her own good. She'll thank me eventually" Sebastian said.
"Say's you" Tiffani laughed coldly. "I'll just be glad to be rid of her and her temperamental moods."
"How is it you were never up for mother of the year Tiffani?" Sebastian asked as they headed back to the party.
Once they were gone Annette walked out from her hiding spot thinking about what she just heard. Kathryn was being shipped off and Sebastian approved of it? That was incredibly odd then again Annette had come to realize that the whole family was pretty much that way. Sighing she resigned herself to not think about the Valmont's or Merteuil's.
She walked into the school and after the first bathroom she tried was locked she went to the second closest one. However before Annette could open the door it swung open and knocked Annette to the ground. As soon as she hit the hard floor she heard a nasty chuckle followed by "jesus Annette, walk much?"
Looking up she saw Kathryn was the one who hit her with the door and of course she didn't look a bit apologetic about it. Sighing Annette got to her feet and muttered "why can't I get away from you people?" After straightening out her dress she looked up at Kathryn "you know you could apologize."
"Yeah I could" Kathryn smiled coldly as she breezed past her.
Annette should have just ignored her and let her walk away however there was always something about Kathryn that made her feel confrontational. "Well I should probably say good-bye to you. This will probably be the last time we see each other...thank god."
Kathryn spun around and asked "what are you going on about? I'm not going anywhere."
"Oh well according to your mother and Sebastian you are" Annette told her thrilled that she finally had something to hurt Kathryn with after all the misery she caused her. "I overheard them talking and apparently this is your last night in New York."
"Right and I'm just suppose to take you at your word because you eavesdropped on some conversation? I don't think so Dorothy."
"Fine" Annette sighed. "Believe what you want. All I know is this is the last time I'll have to see you ever again. I guess this proves there's a god after all." Then this a triumphant smile Annette turned away from her enemy for the final time and headed into the bathroom. There was a line.
* * * * * *
"What's going on?" Kathryn demanded as she walked into the townhouse to find her mother, step father and Sebastian all sitting around. She had just gotten back from the benefit at Manchester where she had spent a majority of the time looking for her step brother. After her run in with Annette she wanted to know if what she said was true. However she couldn't find him or her mother so she went home. It was apparent from the welcoming she got when she came in that something was indeed going on.
"Kathryn dear we need to have a talk" her mother said in her typical prim and proper voice.
Wanting to cut though the bullshit she demanded "are you sending me away?" Judging my the surprised looks they all exchanged Kathryn realized it was the truth. "Jesus Christ it's true!"
"How did you know that?" Edward asked.
"Who cares how I found out, no way in hell am I going anywhere." She looked over at Sebastian hoping he would give her some answers but his face remained expressionless.
"Look Kathryn this is for the best. I've been very worried about you since your friend James passed away. You just haven't been acting like yourself so I think it would be best if you went somewhere to...rest for a little while."
"Oh please" she exclaimed "don't you dare use his death as an excuse. You've been looking for years for a way to get rid of me mother but there's no way I'm going to let you. I'm not going anywhere."
Turning to her husband Tiffani said "see, see the paranoia. I'm trying to be a good mother but she always thinks I'm against her."
"Good mother? What a fucking joke!" Shaking her head in disgust Kathryn charged up to Sebastian who was sitting comfortably and said "you're not actually going to let her do this, are you?"
Slowly Sebastian stood and in a calm voice said "Kathryn I really think it's for the best."
"Excuse me?"
Touching her arm he ignored her hostile attitude. "You know I care about you but I agree with your mother. You need to get out of New York for a little while. Maybe have a fresh start someplace new."
Kathryn gawked at him in disbelief "I thought you loved me. How could you do this to me?"
"Dear don't make a scene" her mother sighed. "Now Sebastian has volunteered to take you to the airport. I had Mai Li pack up your things-"
"What I'm going now? No, no way!"
"Come on Kathryn" Sebastian said as he took her arm "don't make this harder than it already is."
Watching as several of the servants carried her suitcases out of the house Kathryn honestly thought she was having a nightmare of some sort. She could actually see her mother doing something like this but never in a million years did she think Sebastian would agree to go along with it.
As her mother approached her and tried to give her a hug Kathryn pulled away and charged out the door. Sebastian quickly followed after her "wait a second, where are you going?"
"Not with you, you fucking traitor!" As Kathryn walked out of the house and headed for the street Sebastian grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back. "Let me go!"
"No we have to get going" he told her as he calmly led her to the awaiting limo. Although Kathryn continued to struggle he opened the door and pulled her into the car.
When she tried to open the door but found it locked she yelled "this is insane! Let me out."
"No this is for your own good"
"Stop saying that! Why are you doing this to me? You told me you loved me"
He looked over at Kathryn and nodded "I do."
"Then tell the driver to turn around."
Sebastian leaned over and gently caressed her face "sorry I can't do that."
Roughly Kathryn pushed him away and hissed "I can't believe I trusted you. Well never again, I'm not going to let you-"
Suddenly Sebastian interrupted her by pulling her into a kiss. She tried to squirm away from him but soon found herself giving in. When he pulled away he whispered "if you don't stop with the temper tantrum we are going to miss our flight."
Still wrapped in his arms Kathryn asked "what do you mean our flight?"
Slowly Sebastian smiled "oh come on did you think I was really going to let you leave me?"
"You bastard!" Kathryn yelled when the realization hit her that she had been set up. However as angry as she was, she was far more pleased. Quickly she grabbed him by his jacket and pulled his mouth to hers. They kissed passionately, nearly bruising each others mouth. Then as suddenly as she pulled him to her Kathryn pushed him away and straddled Sebastian. Grabbing the tie around his neck she hissed "you set me up."
"Yeah and where's my thank you?"
"Thank you?" Kathryn asked astonished.
"I gave up the opportunity to see your bitch mother behind bars for this. You bet your ass you better be thankful" he snickered.
She smiled "what did you have on her?"
"If you're nice maybe I'll tell you"
Kathryn leaned into him and gave him a tender kiss. When they pulled away she whispered "you love me?"
"What do you think?"
She only smiled in response but then something occurred to her. "Sebastian where are we going?"
Epilogue Coming Soon