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Author's Note: I changed Annette's character. I mixed her behavior with Kathryn's, so she's kind of pure and a little bit on the evil side. And she's not from the country. Hope you like. Sorry, but this chapter isn't necessarily K/S, but I promise in the end they will definitely be together.
Chapter 7- Sinister Motives
Summary: Kathryn runs into Sebastian for the first time in a year. Sebastian meets someone unexpected.
Sebastian's POV
I had just returned from London yesterday and as far as I can tell nothing's changed. About five months ago, my father divorced Aaliyah's mother and now we don't speak very often. Aaliyah's mother died a couple weeks ago, and since she doesn't want to be alone in London, she's going to live with us. Our little 'fling', if that's what you want to call it ended long before our parents' marital troubles. My father and Tiffany Merteuil are constant phone buddies, and are getting very close. He flies over to the states every chance he gets to visit her. Even if they get married, it wouldn't last too long because my father has what I like to call a 'wandering dick'. And I know Tiffany wouldn't want her reputation tampered with. Like mother like daughter. I can't say that I don't ever think about Kathryn, because I do. She's all I could think about this past year. I've heard she's moved on, and I miss her. But I would never tell her that, I still have my pride. I'm going to make her regret walking out on me; I want her to beg me to take her back. Yea, like that's going to happen. Aaliyah is arriving in New York in two weeks, so I can make contact with Kathryn within that time before sparks fly. I've seen her picture a few times in the NY Times, and she has grown up so quickly. She was in the Society column because she was engaged to some rich dimwit, but luckily, she decided not to go through with it. Well, tonight there's a gala for my father's return to New York, and of course Kathryn will be there because her mother's going.
**
I smoothed out the pants on my suit as I walked around the large room that was filled with hundreds of overall wealthy, dense and boring people. I grabbed a champagne glass from a tray, downed it and put it back. This thing only started a few minutes ago and I know I'm going to get trashed real soon. Just as I looked up, I saw the most beautiful woman I had ever seen coming down the stairs at the entrance. She was wearing a tight red evening gown that was low cut. Her hair was up in a pin and she had the most radiant smile. She looked so pure, and I was drawn to her. She had a small frame and her body was perfectly proportioned. As if she felt me staring at her, she looked up, caught my stare and smiled back before disappearing into the crowd. As I walked around some of the guests to try to find the mysterious girl, I bumped into someone familiar. She turned around with a frown that immediately disappeared and a sly smile replaced it.
"Hello Sebastian" she purred as she looked me over and smiled.
"Kathryn, hi." I replied doing the same. She was wearing a tight tan evening gown that was sexy yet classy. Typical Kathryn.
"Welcome back, it's been a while. Where's Aaliyah?" she asked in amusement while watching me shift uncomfortably.
" I think you know the answer to that Kathryn." I answered growing tired of her mind games and wondering where that girl went.
I looked back at Kathryn to see her studying me. I sighed heavily. This wasn't what I was expecting our reunion to be like. "Why are you talking to me Kathryn? I thought you didn't ever want to speak to me again." I inquired, trying to figure out her true motives.
As soon as I asked a tall, dark athletic looking brunette walked over. He came up from behind and wrapped his arms around Kathryn. He kissed her cheek while she was staring at me. She smiled, as if trying to figure out if I was angered by his public affection. It was then that I knew what she was trying to do. She was trying to make me jealous. Before she could try to gloat, I decided to go look for that girl. I smiled at Kathryn and spoke to her politely.
"I will see you sometime later Kathryn. The night is young, and so are the ladies. Nice seeing you again. Bye." I walked away from them and turned to watch her, only to see her face change into a scowl. She pushed the guy away, grabbed a drink and walked away.
I smiled as I made my way through the crowds of people. Some of them stopped to pat my back, or welcome me back to New York. I was tempted to tell them to fuck off, but I played the 'good son' role and smiled. Just as I was going to give up, I felt someone tap my shoulder. I turned around to be face to face with the ravishing beauty. She smiled at me and opened her mouth to speak.
"I saw you staring at me from the other side of the room, so I decided to come over and say hello. My name is Annette Hargrove. You must be Edward Valmont's son, Sebastian." She said, looking into my eyes. She was beautiful, standing at maybe 5 foot 5, blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes. For some reason I was in awe of her. Wait, did she say Hargrove? How Ironic. Headmaster Hargrove hated me when I was at Manchester.
"Yes, are you the daughter of the headmaster at Manchester Prep?" I asked dazed in my own thoughts.
"Yes I am, but I never went there. I just came a couple months ago from Long Island. I lived with my mother, but she died not too long ago. So you went out with Kathryn?" She asked looking beyond me for a second then back at me. I looked at her slightly surprised.
"Yes, for a little while before my family left for London. Why?" I asked interested in what she thought of Kathryn, and if she bought all of her bullshit.
"I think she's rather um, interesting." She answered cryptically. I was kind of confused why Annette would think someone like Kathryn would be interesting. Suddenly Annette woke me from my reverie.
"Do you want to dance?" she asked, her eyes pleading with me to give in. I felt like I couldn't say no to her, and that was a VERY bad thing.
"As long as it's a slow dance." I answered with a slight smile. As we walked over to the dance floor, I noticed Kathryn at the side staring at Annette with venom. I was starting to wonder what the deal was between them.
Kathryn's POV
I spent all that time getting ready for that stupid gala just to see Sebastian. Yes, I missed him, but I would never tell him. I have my pride. I invited the son of one of my mother's friends, Court Reynolds to go with me. I wanted to make Sebastian jealous so he could beg me to take him back. And the brute hung all over me the whole time. Sebastian usually would've been upset at seeing this, but oddly he walked away. And as I saw him walk onto the dance floor with some other chick, I realized that he might have fallen for someone else. I fumed as I stood there watching him dance with the blonde. I decided that I would find out who she is then destroy her. And as she danced with Sebastian, she kept looking over at me with a spiteful smirk. She definitely isn't who she seems. I pulled Court onto the dance floor and I watched her talk to him with a sweet innocent smile. I wanted to slap it right off her face. As soon as the music was over, I resolved to have a talk with the blonde before I left to call Blaine. As Sebastian talked with Court, about what I don't know, I approached the broad. When she turned to look at me, I gave her a sickly smile that hurt to make.
"Hi, I'm Kathryn Merteuil. I've seen you around the city but we haven't officially met." I said almost making myself sick.
"I'm Annette Hargrove. My father has spoken very highly of you. You're a living legend in New York and Manchester for that matter." She said babbling on about my reputation. If I didn't know better, I'd think she's actually jealous of me. Well, she wouldn't be the first person, or the last in my opinion. Sebastian's name brought me back from my state of boredom.
"And he has been so nice and I really like him. I heard you two went out for a while. He admires you Kathryn." She gushed, seemingly excited about meeting Sebastian. Well what do you know? Another Valmont groupie. I'd better set her straight.
"Well, Sebastian can be really nice, but I'm afraid he cheats constantly. I couldn't trust him to be loyal to me." I told her with a worried face. She smiled and came up closer to me.
"Well, just between us. I'm only using him for sex. I hear he's quite good, but you tell me Kathryn. And I know he'll be loyal to me, because I'm the cream of the crop, and you're the bottom of the barrel. Because, when all else fails, you'll be the first one on your hands and knees. No wonder you can't keep a man." She answered with a slick grin.
She was a smart bitch; I'll give her that. She said that in the middle of the gala where there was a crowd and not just the two of us because she knew we would have to find a doctor to pry this size 7 shoe out of her ass. And that I couldn't do anything because it would ruin my reputation if I hit her. I tried my best to hold my temper, but it was rather hard. That completely threw me. I thought she was just a dumb blonde, but by the look on her face, I knew she was going to make some trouble. And Sebastian already likes her. Damn.
As soon as she saw my face, she backed up, gave me a fake smile and said. "I'm sure I'll see you around Kathryn. Have a nice night." She turned around, came up behind Sebastian and put her arm around his. Sebastian and Court finished talking and Court came over to me. Sebastian waved goodbye to me and walked out the front door with Annette by his side.
Court drove me home and he asked me to be his girlfriend. I agreed, thinking that he could be a valuable asset to me. As soon as I got home, I called Blaine. He picked up with a groggy "Hello?"
"Blaine, God you'll never believe this."
**
Sebastian's POV
I opened my eyes to see Annette sleeping soundly next to me. She had only let me go so far with her. She said 'in all due times will good things come'. I guess in my case, her having sex with me. She reminded me of Kathryn, but Annette was better at the game than her. I mean, I would have never guessed that Annette would be as bad as she was. And she gave almost the best blowjob I had ever gotten. But Kathryn was better. I mean I wanted Annette, but something about her made me choose her over Kathryn. With Kathryn it was all just head games, but with Annette, everything is honest and no lies. For now I'll just stick with Annette, and if Kathryn comes to me, I'll leave Annette.
Annette started to wake up as I was writing in my journal. She looked up at me and smiled. She kissed me on the cheek and got up and walked to the bathroom. After her shower, she came out dressed and refreshed and we started kissing again until she saw the time.
"Damn. I have to get going Sebastian. I have a meeting." Annette said grabbing her bag. She gave me a light kiss and told me to call her later.
As soon as she left, my father called and told me to get dressed and to be ready to go out in twenty minutes.
**
Annette's cell phone rang as she hailed a taxi. As soon as she gave the driver directions, she picked up.
"Hello?"
"Annette. Is it done?" The voice on the other end of the phone asked.
"Yes. He asked me to be his girlfriend." Annette answered quickly. The driver stopped suddenly causing Annette to fall all over the seat. "Hey buddy, I'll have your damn license for that. Just drive the motherfucking car! Is that so fucking hard?" she yelled getting angry. She put the phone back to her ear. "Sorry."
"It's alright. Did he buy the Hargrove-Long Island bullshit?" the voice asked sharply.
"He did. Sebastian doesn't want Kathryn anymore. I made sure of it. And when you bring the information, I'll be able to destroy her." Annette replied.
"Good. I'll see you at the restaurant." The voice said before hanging up.
**
The limo stopped at a nice bistro and Sebastian and his father stepped out the car. As they were escorted to a table in the restaurant, Sebastian saw Kathryn and her mother at the table ahead of them. As they got closer Sebastian whispered in his father's ear. "How come you didn't tell me they were going to meet us?"
"It slipped my mind." Edward answered his son sarcastically.
The waiter waited for them to sit at the table with the Merteuils. Sebastian and Kathryn looked at each other awkwardly. Sebastian was the first to speak.
"Dad, what are we here for?" Sebastian asked somewhat perturbed. Edward and Tiffany looked at each other and smiled. They looked back at Sebastian and Kathryn with wide smiles.
"We're getting married."
Please Review!
Author's Note: I changed Annette's character. I mixed her behavior with Kathryn's, so she's kind of pure and a little bit on the evil side. And she's not from the country. Hope you like. Sorry, but this chapter isn't necessarily K/S, but I promise in the end they will definitely be together.
Chapter 7- Sinister Motives
Summary: Kathryn runs into Sebastian for the first time in a year. Sebastian meets someone unexpected.
Sebastian's POV
I had just returned from London yesterday and as far as I can tell nothing's changed. About five months ago, my father divorced Aaliyah's mother and now we don't speak very often. Aaliyah's mother died a couple weeks ago, and since she doesn't want to be alone in London, she's going to live with us. Our little 'fling', if that's what you want to call it ended long before our parents' marital troubles. My father and Tiffany Merteuil are constant phone buddies, and are getting very close. He flies over to the states every chance he gets to visit her. Even if they get married, it wouldn't last too long because my father has what I like to call a 'wandering dick'. And I know Tiffany wouldn't want her reputation tampered with. Like mother like daughter. I can't say that I don't ever think about Kathryn, because I do. She's all I could think about this past year. I've heard she's moved on, and I miss her. But I would never tell her that, I still have my pride. I'm going to make her regret walking out on me; I want her to beg me to take her back. Yea, like that's going to happen. Aaliyah is arriving in New York in two weeks, so I can make contact with Kathryn within that time before sparks fly. I've seen her picture a few times in the NY Times, and she has grown up so quickly. She was in the Society column because she was engaged to some rich dimwit, but luckily, she decided not to go through with it. Well, tonight there's a gala for my father's return to New York, and of course Kathryn will be there because her mother's going.
**
I smoothed out the pants on my suit as I walked around the large room that was filled with hundreds of overall wealthy, dense and boring people. I grabbed a champagne glass from a tray, downed it and put it back. This thing only started a few minutes ago and I know I'm going to get trashed real soon. Just as I looked up, I saw the most beautiful woman I had ever seen coming down the stairs at the entrance. She was wearing a tight red evening gown that was low cut. Her hair was up in a pin and she had the most radiant smile. She looked so pure, and I was drawn to her. She had a small frame and her body was perfectly proportioned. As if she felt me staring at her, she looked up, caught my stare and smiled back before disappearing into the crowd. As I walked around some of the guests to try to find the mysterious girl, I bumped into someone familiar. She turned around with a frown that immediately disappeared and a sly smile replaced it.
"Hello Sebastian" she purred as she looked me over and smiled.
"Kathryn, hi." I replied doing the same. She was wearing a tight tan evening gown that was sexy yet classy. Typical Kathryn.
"Welcome back, it's been a while. Where's Aaliyah?" she asked in amusement while watching me shift uncomfortably.
" I think you know the answer to that Kathryn." I answered growing tired of her mind games and wondering where that girl went.
I looked back at Kathryn to see her studying me. I sighed heavily. This wasn't what I was expecting our reunion to be like. "Why are you talking to me Kathryn? I thought you didn't ever want to speak to me again." I inquired, trying to figure out her true motives.
As soon as I asked a tall, dark athletic looking brunette walked over. He came up from behind and wrapped his arms around Kathryn. He kissed her cheek while she was staring at me. She smiled, as if trying to figure out if I was angered by his public affection. It was then that I knew what she was trying to do. She was trying to make me jealous. Before she could try to gloat, I decided to go look for that girl. I smiled at Kathryn and spoke to her politely.
"I will see you sometime later Kathryn. The night is young, and so are the ladies. Nice seeing you again. Bye." I walked away from them and turned to watch her, only to see her face change into a scowl. She pushed the guy away, grabbed a drink and walked away.
I smiled as I made my way through the crowds of people. Some of them stopped to pat my back, or welcome me back to New York. I was tempted to tell them to fuck off, but I played the 'good son' role and smiled. Just as I was going to give up, I felt someone tap my shoulder. I turned around to be face to face with the ravishing beauty. She smiled at me and opened her mouth to speak.
"I saw you staring at me from the other side of the room, so I decided to come over and say hello. My name is Annette Hargrove. You must be Edward Valmont's son, Sebastian." She said, looking into my eyes. She was beautiful, standing at maybe 5 foot 5, blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes. For some reason I was in awe of her. Wait, did she say Hargrove? How Ironic. Headmaster Hargrove hated me when I was at Manchester.
"Yes, are you the daughter of the headmaster at Manchester Prep?" I asked dazed in my own thoughts.
"Yes I am, but I never went there. I just came a couple months ago from Long Island. I lived with my mother, but she died not too long ago. So you went out with Kathryn?" She asked looking beyond me for a second then back at me. I looked at her slightly surprised.
"Yes, for a little while before my family left for London. Why?" I asked interested in what she thought of Kathryn, and if she bought all of her bullshit.
"I think she's rather um, interesting." She answered cryptically. I was kind of confused why Annette would think someone like Kathryn would be interesting. Suddenly Annette woke me from my reverie.
"Do you want to dance?" she asked, her eyes pleading with me to give in. I felt like I couldn't say no to her, and that was a VERY bad thing.
"As long as it's a slow dance." I answered with a slight smile. As we walked over to the dance floor, I noticed Kathryn at the side staring at Annette with venom. I was starting to wonder what the deal was between them.
Kathryn's POV
I spent all that time getting ready for that stupid gala just to see Sebastian. Yes, I missed him, but I would never tell him. I have my pride. I invited the son of one of my mother's friends, Court Reynolds to go with me. I wanted to make Sebastian jealous so he could beg me to take him back. And the brute hung all over me the whole time. Sebastian usually would've been upset at seeing this, but oddly he walked away. And as I saw him walk onto the dance floor with some other chick, I realized that he might have fallen for someone else. I fumed as I stood there watching him dance with the blonde. I decided that I would find out who she is then destroy her. And as she danced with Sebastian, she kept looking over at me with a spiteful smirk. She definitely isn't who she seems. I pulled Court onto the dance floor and I watched her talk to him with a sweet innocent smile. I wanted to slap it right off her face. As soon as the music was over, I resolved to have a talk with the blonde before I left to call Blaine. As Sebastian talked with Court, about what I don't know, I approached the broad. When she turned to look at me, I gave her a sickly smile that hurt to make.
"Hi, I'm Kathryn Merteuil. I've seen you around the city but we haven't officially met." I said almost making myself sick.
"I'm Annette Hargrove. My father has spoken very highly of you. You're a living legend in New York and Manchester for that matter." She said babbling on about my reputation. If I didn't know better, I'd think she's actually jealous of me. Well, she wouldn't be the first person, or the last in my opinion. Sebastian's name brought me back from my state of boredom.
"And he has been so nice and I really like him. I heard you two went out for a while. He admires you Kathryn." She gushed, seemingly excited about meeting Sebastian. Well what do you know? Another Valmont groupie. I'd better set her straight.
"Well, Sebastian can be really nice, but I'm afraid he cheats constantly. I couldn't trust him to be loyal to me." I told her with a worried face. She smiled and came up closer to me.
"Well, just between us. I'm only using him for sex. I hear he's quite good, but you tell me Kathryn. And I know he'll be loyal to me, because I'm the cream of the crop, and you're the bottom of the barrel. Because, when all else fails, you'll be the first one on your hands and knees. No wonder you can't keep a man." She answered with a slick grin.
She was a smart bitch; I'll give her that. She said that in the middle of the gala where there was a crowd and not just the two of us because she knew we would have to find a doctor to pry this size 7 shoe out of her ass. And that I couldn't do anything because it would ruin my reputation if I hit her. I tried my best to hold my temper, but it was rather hard. That completely threw me. I thought she was just a dumb blonde, but by the look on her face, I knew she was going to make some trouble. And Sebastian already likes her. Damn.
As soon as she saw my face, she backed up, gave me a fake smile and said. "I'm sure I'll see you around Kathryn. Have a nice night." She turned around, came up behind Sebastian and put her arm around his. Sebastian and Court finished talking and Court came over to me. Sebastian waved goodbye to me and walked out the front door with Annette by his side.
Court drove me home and he asked me to be his girlfriend. I agreed, thinking that he could be a valuable asset to me. As soon as I got home, I called Blaine. He picked up with a groggy "Hello?"
"Blaine, God you'll never believe this."
**
Sebastian's POV
I opened my eyes to see Annette sleeping soundly next to me. She had only let me go so far with her. She said 'in all due times will good things come'. I guess in my case, her having sex with me. She reminded me of Kathryn, but Annette was better at the game than her. I mean, I would have never guessed that Annette would be as bad as she was. And she gave almost the best blowjob I had ever gotten. But Kathryn was better. I mean I wanted Annette, but something about her made me choose her over Kathryn. With Kathryn it was all just head games, but with Annette, everything is honest and no lies. For now I'll just stick with Annette, and if Kathryn comes to me, I'll leave Annette.
Annette started to wake up as I was writing in my journal. She looked up at me and smiled. She kissed me on the cheek and got up and walked to the bathroom. After her shower, she came out dressed and refreshed and we started kissing again until she saw the time.
"Damn. I have to get going Sebastian. I have a meeting." Annette said grabbing her bag. She gave me a light kiss and told me to call her later.
As soon as she left, my father called and told me to get dressed and to be ready to go out in twenty minutes.
**
Annette's cell phone rang as she hailed a taxi. As soon as she gave the driver directions, she picked up.
"Hello?"
"Annette. Is it done?" The voice on the other end of the phone asked.
"Yes. He asked me to be his girlfriend." Annette answered quickly. The driver stopped suddenly causing Annette to fall all over the seat. "Hey buddy, I'll have your damn license for that. Just drive the motherfucking car! Is that so fucking hard?" she yelled getting angry. She put the phone back to her ear. "Sorry."
"It's alright. Did he buy the Hargrove-Long Island bullshit?" the voice asked sharply.
"He did. Sebastian doesn't want Kathryn anymore. I made sure of it. And when you bring the information, I'll be able to destroy her." Annette replied.
"Good. I'll see you at the restaurant." The voice said before hanging up.
**
The limo stopped at a nice bistro and Sebastian and his father stepped out the car. As they were escorted to a table in the restaurant, Sebastian saw Kathryn and her mother at the table ahead of them. As they got closer Sebastian whispered in his father's ear. "How come you didn't tell me they were going to meet us?"
"It slipped my mind." Edward answered his son sarcastically.
The waiter waited for them to sit at the table with the Merteuils. Sebastian and Kathryn looked at each other awkwardly. Sebastian was the first to speak.
"Dad, what are we here for?" Sebastian asked somewhat perturbed. Edward and Tiffany looked at each other and smiled. They looked back at Sebastian and Kathryn with wide smiles.
"We're getting married."
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