Chapter 3
Julian makes a faux pas! Abe is attacked.
It was almost pitch black, as Julian lay on his bed, his hands behind his head. He was naked and not very happy!
He sat up and looked at the voodoo mask that lay on his tiny dresser. Things had not went well that evening.
He didn't know who he was angrier at: Eve, or himself!
After Eve had learned who Celeste really was, and all about Liz's lies, she had found Julian later on. He had explored the sleeping quarters and noted that he and Eve had separate huts. He had removed the nametag on Eve's door and took it to his own.
It was as he was looking around at his meager quarters, that Eve found him. She had smiled at him, asking him what he was up to. He had pulled her to him and told her that he was making their living quarters more comfortable. That was when things got bad.
Eve told him she couldn't sleep with him while T.C. was still on the island. Julian's mouth had dropped open! He then asked her if she was planning on moving into T.C.'s hut? Eve hadn't liked the question. In return, she asked him if he planned on telling Rebecca the truth about the two of them? Julian answered that Rebecca already knew, and had her eye on another man anyway.
Eve had had no answer to that. She just told him that out of respect for T.C., they could not engage in 'sexual relations' in front of him. Sexual relations! Eve had been so prim and proper about the whole thing, forgetting of course that her stupid husband had engaged in 'sexual relations' with her own sister...in their home!
Dinner then was lousy! A table was set up on the beach, and everyone tolerated one another's company. Rebecca sat next to John and Marlena Black. Julian really had to applaud his wife's strategy. The Black's both seemed to like her, meaning Marlena didn't appear to have a clue as to what Rebecca was really up to. Or, either she did and was secure enough not to be worried.
Teresa and Austin were giggling at the other end of the table. Celeste and Pilar were engaged in conversation and....EVE and Abe were talking and laughing!
Julian had a fit and slammed away from the table! He didn't appreciate Eve's behavior! And while he knew she didn't want to carry on with him in front of people, out of respect for T.C., T.C. was nowhere around! He also worried that Eve was secretly angry with him for injuring T.C.'s eye in the first place.
Julian got up. He wasn't going to tolerate this kind of behavior from Eve much longer. Everyone knew they were involved anyway! Her obsession with keeping up pretenses and pretending to be something she wasn't, was at heart, what had caused all of their problems in the first place!
Julian put on the voodoo mask and walked to the door of his hut, stark naked. He tried to remember where Eve's original hut had been. He took off the mask briefly, so he could see.
Ah! Julian thought. There it is!
Julian put on the mask again, and stealthily walked over to her hut door. He eased it open and saw her form, asleep on the bed. She was wearing some sort of light colored nightgown.
Julian eased over to her bed and got in beside her. He took off the mask, and then began kissing her neck. Right away, something didn't taste right!
Eve turned over and began murmuring, 'Abe'.
Outraged, Julian jumped up! The movement caused Eve to jump up and scream! Lanterns in the other huts came on. Eve reached for hers and Julian was prepared to give her a piece of his mind...when he saw that the woman who was angrily staring back at him, was not Eve!
Abe, John and Eve appeared in the doorway. Eve's eyes widened, and she looked somewhat amused as she took in the naked Julian, carrying a voodoo mask! Abe and John were not so amused.
'What the living hell?!' Abe yelled, taking a few steps towards Julian. But Eve stood in front of Julian.
'I think he thought I was sleeping in here.' Eve said, trying to keep from smiling.
'Why would he be coming in to see you?' Abe asked Eve.
Julian looked down at Lexie Carver, then over at her husband.
'Why aren't you in here sleeping with her?' Julian asked Abe with total disdain. The woman in this bed looked far too good for the Commander in the first place!
'Mind your own business, Crane!' John snapped. He looked at Lexie.
'When did you get back?' he asked.
Eve interrupted.
'Lexie, where is T.C.?'
Lexie was still sitting up in bed.
'His eye was operated on. He's up in a house recuperating.'
'Stefano's house?' Abe asked.
Lexie nodded tiredly. She could feel a fight coming on already.
'So, what did 'Daddy' and you talk about? Huh, Lexie? Did you tell him that we need to get home to our son? Did you tell him that we all have families?'
'Not now, Abe!' Lexie half snapped.
Julian suddenly took notice of the light blue, spaghetti strapped nightgown Eve was wearing. He grabbed her hand.
'I think we'll be running along now. We all have a long day of being held hostage tomorrow. Goodnight!'
Julian pulled Eve out of the hut quickly, then hurried over with her to his own hut. As soon as she was inside, he closed the door. He then turned to face her.
'Am I going to have to shove a dresser in front of the door to keep you from leaving?' he asked teasingly.
Eve half-smiled and folded her arms.
'You're lucky Abe is an understanding man.'
Julian began to walk up to her.
'He is, though, a stupid one.'
Eve tilted her head.
'What do you mean?'
'I mean, that we have enough problems trying to survive without getting in the middle of other people's. It won't be long before Lexie realizes Abe has a crush on you.'
Eve's eyes widened!
'No he doesn't!'
'Yes he does,' Julian murmured and began to kiss her neck. It became a struggle for Eve to make intelligible conversation.
'Okay, Julian, stop...T.C....'
'T.C. is half blind darling, he wouldn't even be able to see us if he were here...'
'But everyone will hear us...'
Julian moved her towards the bed, pulling on the dresser drawer as they fell onto the bed. He pulled out a second voodoo mask!
Eve blinked, as he ripped one of the straps of her nightgown off! She half tried to push him off of her.
'Where did you get a second one? I thought the guards only had them?'
'I am very resourceful, Eve darling, never forget that...now, if you are so afraid of being heard, the masks should muffle our cries....'
Eve barely felt her gown slip all the way off of her. She knew she was beginning to forget herself and her surroundings. Julian's mouth was already closed around one of her nipples. It had never been like this with T.C.. Only Julian.
'I...I...suppose...just this once...'
'Of course, darling, just this one time...' Julian pretended to agree, already deciding that he was going to move her clothes into his hut tomorrow morning. And he would take a hundred 'butt kickings' from T.C. Russell, if that's what it took to keep Eve in his bed, permanently.
Eve flung the mask to the floor and surrendered to the greatest passion she had ever known.
****
John had left Abe and Lexie to talk things out. While he wanted to know what DiMera had told Lexie, those two had other issues to discuss. John would ask Lexie what he needed to know in the morning.
He ended up walking out to the beach. He sat down in the sand and watched the waves by moonlight. Stefano really thought he was quite clever. An enticing beach, comfortable huts, their every need taken care of. One would almost forget they were prisoners. But then again, that was the point.
It was as he was thinking along those lines, that he saw movement to his right. John slowly stood up.
Was that Rebecca Crane? John moved a little ways towards the figure. Good God! It was! And she was doing cartwheels...naked!
John took off his pajama shirt and began walking towards her. Maybe she had had too much to drink, the poor thing! He had noted that Julian stared at Eve all evening. He couldn't believe that creep would be so insensitive to his own wife's feelings. She had had no one to talk to but Marlena and him at dinner.
And it was apparent that Julian had banned her from their hut as well! This whole thing may turn out deadly for all of them, if they couldn't figure a way off of this island. One would think that Julian could at least be decent to Rebecca, now that they were in this perilous situation.
Rebecca, for her part, had been awakened by all of the commotion Julian had caused. She wondered if his being in Lexie Carver's hut, really was an accident?
She had sat up in her bed, and watched John in the darkness(her hut was across from Lexie's). She then saw that he was headed for the beach. She figured the poor man couldn't sleep.
Rebecca had then noticed Abe shut the door to Lexie's hut. All she could hear then were loud voices. Mixed with all of that, were sounds coming from Julian's hut. She had seen him come racing out of Lexie's hut with Eve. So it didn't take a genius to figure out what was going on in here!
Rebecca decided that now was the perfect time to get to know John. She too, slipped out of her clothes, and headed for the beach.
She had seen John sitting there, staring out into the water. Rebecca had eased around some palm trees, before beginning her gymnastics act. She figured he would see her out of the corner of his eye.
He did. And now he was bringing his shirt over! How sweet!
'Rebecca?' John asked, trying not to look at her enormous breasts. Woo! This really was becoming quite the vacation!
Rebecca stopped and stood upright, allowing John to take in everything. She then pretended to look horrified. She began to try and cover herself.
'Oh my God! What am I doing out here?! Where are my clothes?!'
'You don't remember coming out here?' John asked, quickly putting his shirt on her.
'Uh...no...I must have been sleepwalking again.'
'Rebecca, that could be really dangerous on this island. There could be wild animals or anything.'
'Well it isn't anything I can help. God! I could've drowned! Oh John!'
She buried her face into his chest and began to sob! She felt John's hands enclose in her hair.
Rebecca pulled away quickly.
'I'm sorry...I guess it's just this whole thing. I don't know if those guards are going to serve us drinks or shoot us!'
John put his hands on her shoulders.
'Listen to me, Rebecca. It's going to be alright. We are going to get out of here. And when we do, you can divorce Julian and get on with your life.'
Rebecca stared at him.
'Divorce Julian?'
'Honey, everyone here has seen how he's carried on with Eve right in front of you. Now, I like Eve, and I understand there's a history. But with T.C. here, and you, you would think they could at least try and be respectful of your feelings. You deserve better than that.'
Rebecca just stared at him. He had said she deserved better than Julian. Almost as if he really cared about her!
Rebecca shook her head.
'I know. Listen, I'm going to get back to my hut.'
'I'll walk you there.' John said.
Rebecca nodded uncomfortably, and together, they began walking back towards the huts.
****
Early the next morning, Lexie used a communal shower behind the huts, then dressed in a yellow tank top and shorts. She put her hair in a ponytail, packed up her things, and told one of the voodoo masked guards that she was taking her father up on his offer. The guard nodded. Lexie told him to wait while she spoke with her husband. The guard took her bags from her.
Lexie looked in Abe's hut, but found it empty. She figured he was on the beach. She began to walk past the other huts. Something made her stop and pause at Julian Crane's.
There were no curtains on the hut windows. Lexie put a hand over her mouth, as she took in the sight of Julian and Eve sleeping in one another's arms, naked! There were two voodoo masks on the floor of the hut.
Lexie looked away and proceeded towards the beach, feeling angry. Why? Was it because she felt as if Eve were being unfaithful to Tony?
No. It was that Eve was being unfaithful to T.C.! And she had been prepared to beg her father to allow Eve to visit with T.C., to cheer him up during his recovery. There was no way T.C. could find out what a whore Eve had been acting like around here!
Lexie found Abe scooping food on to his plate by the beach bar. It looked as if a buffet breakfast had been prepared. Lexie picked up a plate and walked over to him. He gave her a sideways glance.
'Hey.' was all he said, as he scooped hashbrowns onto his plate.
'Hey.' Lexie answered back. She picked up a piece of grapefruit. Abe looked at it.
'Is that all you're going to eat? John and I decided to try and slip away from the guards today. Hopefully we can find another way off of this island.'
'Don't bother. Father has cameras. He's probably watching us as we speak.'
Abe suddenly slammed his plate down! One of the voodoo guards eyed him, as he wiped down the counter.
'Tell me you're joking?'
'Abe, what did you expect? That's just how Stefano is. Anyway, I have other concerns.'
Abe rolled his eyes.
'You have 'other concerns'? That would be besides getting out of here and back to our son?'
'For your information, Father is going to bring Theo to us. And my other concern is for T.C.! Eve spent the night with Julian Crane!'
Abe suddenly grabbed Lexie and began shaking her hard!
'Do you understand what that means?! He's not planning on letting any of us go! And forget about Russell! If he's not man enough to keep a woman like Eve at his side, then he doesn't deserve her!'
Lexie's mouth dropped open! T.C. was probably more man than Julian Crane ever would be!
'Let go of me, Abe!' she yelled.
'Not until I make you understand that if you have any leverage with that maniac, you need to talk to him about letting us go! Him and Tony!'
Lexie lurched away from him! And before she could tell him, what she had been unable to the other night about Tony's coma, one of the guards came up quickly behind Abe, then pressed a cattle prod into his back! He fell onto the sand, twitching!
'Abe!' she screamed. She tried to help him up, but another voodoo guard stopped her.
'Mr. DiMera did not like seeing you manhandled. Come, I will escort you to the house.'
Lexie reluctantly left with the guard, casting one last glance at Abe's twitching form on the beach.
****
Austin saw that Teresa was already up and using the communal shower. He decided he would come back and use it himself when she was done...though he sorely wanted to peek!
He figured he was having such lustful thoughts, because of all of that noise that came from Julian Crane's hut the other night. Something about whatever was going on in there, made him think about Teresa, and what it would be like to make love to her.
Austin only wore a pair of shorts, as he made his way towards the smells of breakfast. For kidnappers, they cooked pretty well!
He picked up plate, and headed towards the buffet, when the sight of Abe lying on the ground, twitching, stopped him. He threw his plate down and hurried over to him.
'Abe? Abe can you hear me?'
Austin then jumped up. He would go back and get John. John would know what to do...and maybe Lexie or Eve!
****
Teresa closed her eyes and let the water blast down upon her. The water pressure in the make-shift shower was a lot better than her own at home!
She thought about her conversation with Austin the other night. While they had had fun, he confided something in her, something that she didn't think was too nice.
He said that he used to be engaged to marry one of Marlena's daughters, and that Marlena had tried to put a small guilt trip on him, claiming that Sami(that was her name) was heartbroken at how he walked away from her on their wedding day.
Teresa hadn't pried. From the little she knew of Austin Reed, he would not purposely humiliate a woman by leaving her at the alter, unless the woman was just no damned good! And she thought it was crappy of Marlena Black to bring it up now! They had been kidnapped for Christ's sakes!
It was as she was thinking about this, that she saw a shadow outside of the curtain. She peeked out and gasped! It was a very naked Julian!
Julian, for his part, grinned at her. He had been awakened by the shower and realized that was because Teresa had been in it for 20 minutes!
Of course, the day hadn't started out badly. He awoke with Eve in his arms, where she should have been all of these years. He had then quietly gotten up and left the hut, without a stitch of clothing. Julian figured the sight of him naked would hurry Teresa the hell up out of that shower! He was willing to bet she had used up all of the hot water!
****
Pilar had been brushing her hair, when she heard a scream! My God! That was Teresa!
Pilar hurried out of her hut, as did Eve! Pilar noticed that Eve was wearing some kind of man's shirt. She also noted that Rebecca did not stir from her hut. Austin soon joined them, looking flushed.
'What's happening now?!' he asked in a frustrated voice.
'What do you mean, 'now'? Eve asked, turning from the shower fray.
'I found Abe having convulsions next to the buffet! You'd better come quick, Dr. Russell!'
'Okay, I'll go on ahead. Maybe you should get Lexie and John!'
Austin nodded, then watched as Eve ran off towards the beach. He then turned his attention to Teresa, a naked Julian, and an outraged Pilar!
'Get the hell away from there!' Austin hissed with disgust.
'Get away!' Teresa half screamed/cried.
Julian turned and faced the two person crowd he had attracted.
'My, my. If it isn't Agent Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald. Who were you trying to catch all of those years? My father? Me?'
'Step away from my daughter or I'll make you sorry you were ever born!' Pilar whispered.
Julian put up his hands in mock surrender.
'I'm not doing anything to your precious Teresa. My God! She's the mother of my child. I just wanted to use the shower. All she has to do is step out and everything will be fine.'
Austin rushed up past Pilar and grabbed Julian by the throat! Julian began thrashing around in protest.
'Let go of me!' he wheezed.
Austin let go of him and sent him crashing into Rebecca's hut.
'Get away from here until Teresa is done, do we understand one another?'
Julian pulled himself up and smirked. He then walked back to his hut. He found it empty. Where did Eve go off to?
****
Eve reached Abe and helped him into a chair. He had stopped twitching. As he sat back breathing heavily, he took in her state of dress. Lexie had been right. She had spent the night with Crane.
'Tell me how many fingers I'm holding up?' she asked, holding up three.
'Three. Look, I'm fine. Where is Lexie?'
'I don't know. But I'm sure she's fine.'
One of the voodoo guards walked up to them.
'Mrs. Carver will be staying with her father in his residence.'
That was all he said, before he walked off. Eve stared after him, then looked at Abe.
'I'm sorry.'
'For what? Lexie's made it clear where her loyalties lie.'
'No! She's just probably trying to talk some sense into her father, that's all.'
Abe squinted at her.
'How can you not be angry with her? Tell me you do hate Tony?'
Eve sat down in a chair next to him.
'Tony is in a coma.'
Abe raised a brow.
'I didn't know that!'
'Well it happened the day you were kidnapped, that very night. I guess a blood disease that he had, returned. So, no, I don't hate Tony. But anything we had between us is over.'
Abe nodded.
'Stefano could at least let you see your husband.' he grumbled.
Eve looked away. Abe peered at her.
'What is it?'
Eve gave him a knowing look.
'Everyone knows who's hut I spent the night in. I don't think it much matters if I see T.C..'
'Were things that bad between the two of you?' Abe asked.
Eve shrugged.
'The night I had my car accident, I was driving away from him. I had found him having sex with my sister in our home.'
Abe slowly stood up, outraged!
'That *&^^**$#!'
Eve stood up as well, surprised by his language.
'It's alright! I've made peace with it. And I love Julian. But I do want to know that T.C.'s eye will be okay, if for nothing else, our daughters sakes. Look, John and Austin are coming over now. I'd better get dressed. And keep the faith. Lexie is trying to free us. She hasn't betrayed us...or you.'
Eve smiled at John and Austin.
'He's going to be fine. I'll see you in a bit.' she said, walking past them. John looked back at her, taking in the shirt she was wearing. He then joined Austin next to Abe.
'What happened?' John asked.
Abe looked around.
'I didn't want to alarm Eve, but I think I was hit with a cattle prod.'
Austin's eyes widened. 'Why?'
'Lexie and I were arguing. That may have been just a bit of punishment from DiMera, for mistreating his daughter.'
'Did you put your hands on her?' John asked, eyeing him.
'I just shook her! I know I was out of line, but you should have heard her! She said that DiMera is bringing Theo here! Oh, and that there are cameras out here. Do you know what that means?'
Austin looked at John. John sighed.
'It means we'd better find the cameras first, before we look for an escape route.'
****
When Eve returned to the huts, Julian was in the shower singing, and not very well. Eve smiled though. She walked past Rebecca's hut. She could see Rebecca laying in her bed, wearing a sleep mask.
Eve looked away and returned to Julian's hut, only to find Pilar waiting for her.
'Pilar? How is Teresa?'
'Scared, but fine.'
There was a silence.
'Julian doesn't mean any harm....'
Pilar put a hand up.
'Eve, I don't know what you see in that man. But that's your business. But T.C. is a good man. You shouldn't humiliate him in this way.'
Eve drew Julian's shirt around her and sat down on the bed.
'I know that Pilar. And yes, this will hurt him. But I have no doubt he was carrying on with Liz, while he thought I was dead.'
Pilar looked at her curiously.
'Eve, I spent a lot of time with T.C. and Simone after your funeral. I never saw Liz around.'
Eve stood up.
'I caught them together the day of my accident, Pilar. So, it really doesn't matter if it only happened once or whatever. That and...Celeste told me that she believes that Liz was lying about my father.'
Pilar walked up to her.
'Eve, I think you must have heard that I am an FBI agent.'
Eve nodded.
'Yes. I don't understand why you kept it a secret all of these years?'
'That's not important. What is, is that there was a time where we thought we could use Liz to catch DiMera.'
'How?'
'When I learned of her connection to Celeste. It was as I looked into your sister's background, that I too, became suspicious of that story she told. The only way she agreed to help, was when I threatened to tell Antonio.'
Eve was silent. To think of the months of suffering that woman put her through! And for what? She still wasn't sure!
Pilar placed a hand on her shoulder.
'I'm sorry about what T.C. did. Yes, it is unforgivable. But when he comes back here, you need to talk to him, or things are going to get worse around here. Do you understand?'
Eve nodded. Pilar rubbed her shoulder and left the hut. Eve looked around.
Julian appeared moments later. He had a towel wrapped around his waist. He noticed her pensive expression. He tentatively walked up to her, wrapping his arms around her. Eve smiled.
'Tell me that look is not that you're sorry about last night?'
Eve turned in his arms.
'No. I guess I just think we need to hurry up and find a way off of here. Before things get out of hand.'
Julian didn't say anything to that. But he did smile.
'I'm not going to be wearing any clothes today. What about you?'
Eve rolled her eyes and kissed him. She couldn't explain it, but she loved him.
Julian makes a faux pas! Abe is attacked.
It was almost pitch black, as Julian lay on his bed, his hands behind his head. He was naked and not very happy!
He sat up and looked at the voodoo mask that lay on his tiny dresser. Things had not went well that evening.
He didn't know who he was angrier at: Eve, or himself!
After Eve had learned who Celeste really was, and all about Liz's lies, she had found Julian later on. He had explored the sleeping quarters and noted that he and Eve had separate huts. He had removed the nametag on Eve's door and took it to his own.
It was as he was looking around at his meager quarters, that Eve found him. She had smiled at him, asking him what he was up to. He had pulled her to him and told her that he was making their living quarters more comfortable. That was when things got bad.
Eve told him she couldn't sleep with him while T.C. was still on the island. Julian's mouth had dropped open! He then asked her if she was planning on moving into T.C.'s hut? Eve hadn't liked the question. In return, she asked him if he planned on telling Rebecca the truth about the two of them? Julian answered that Rebecca already knew, and had her eye on another man anyway.
Eve had had no answer to that. She just told him that out of respect for T.C., they could not engage in 'sexual relations' in front of him. Sexual relations! Eve had been so prim and proper about the whole thing, forgetting of course that her stupid husband had engaged in 'sexual relations' with her own sister...in their home!
Dinner then was lousy! A table was set up on the beach, and everyone tolerated one another's company. Rebecca sat next to John and Marlena Black. Julian really had to applaud his wife's strategy. The Black's both seemed to like her, meaning Marlena didn't appear to have a clue as to what Rebecca was really up to. Or, either she did and was secure enough not to be worried.
Teresa and Austin were giggling at the other end of the table. Celeste and Pilar were engaged in conversation and....EVE and Abe were talking and laughing!
Julian had a fit and slammed away from the table! He didn't appreciate Eve's behavior! And while he knew she didn't want to carry on with him in front of people, out of respect for T.C., T.C. was nowhere around! He also worried that Eve was secretly angry with him for injuring T.C.'s eye in the first place.
Julian got up. He wasn't going to tolerate this kind of behavior from Eve much longer. Everyone knew they were involved anyway! Her obsession with keeping up pretenses and pretending to be something she wasn't, was at heart, what had caused all of their problems in the first place!
Julian put on the voodoo mask and walked to the door of his hut, stark naked. He tried to remember where Eve's original hut had been. He took off the mask briefly, so he could see.
Ah! Julian thought. There it is!
Julian put on the mask again, and stealthily walked over to her hut door. He eased it open and saw her form, asleep on the bed. She was wearing some sort of light colored nightgown.
Julian eased over to her bed and got in beside her. He took off the mask, and then began kissing her neck. Right away, something didn't taste right!
Eve turned over and began murmuring, 'Abe'.
Outraged, Julian jumped up! The movement caused Eve to jump up and scream! Lanterns in the other huts came on. Eve reached for hers and Julian was prepared to give her a piece of his mind...when he saw that the woman who was angrily staring back at him, was not Eve!
Abe, John and Eve appeared in the doorway. Eve's eyes widened, and she looked somewhat amused as she took in the naked Julian, carrying a voodoo mask! Abe and John were not so amused.
'What the living hell?!' Abe yelled, taking a few steps towards Julian. But Eve stood in front of Julian.
'I think he thought I was sleeping in here.' Eve said, trying to keep from smiling.
'Why would he be coming in to see you?' Abe asked Eve.
Julian looked down at Lexie Carver, then over at her husband.
'Why aren't you in here sleeping with her?' Julian asked Abe with total disdain. The woman in this bed looked far too good for the Commander in the first place!
'Mind your own business, Crane!' John snapped. He looked at Lexie.
'When did you get back?' he asked.
Eve interrupted.
'Lexie, where is T.C.?'
Lexie was still sitting up in bed.
'His eye was operated on. He's up in a house recuperating.'
'Stefano's house?' Abe asked.
Lexie nodded tiredly. She could feel a fight coming on already.
'So, what did 'Daddy' and you talk about? Huh, Lexie? Did you tell him that we need to get home to our son? Did you tell him that we all have families?'
'Not now, Abe!' Lexie half snapped.
Julian suddenly took notice of the light blue, spaghetti strapped nightgown Eve was wearing. He grabbed her hand.
'I think we'll be running along now. We all have a long day of being held hostage tomorrow. Goodnight!'
Julian pulled Eve out of the hut quickly, then hurried over with her to his own hut. As soon as she was inside, he closed the door. He then turned to face her.
'Am I going to have to shove a dresser in front of the door to keep you from leaving?' he asked teasingly.
Eve half-smiled and folded her arms.
'You're lucky Abe is an understanding man.'
Julian began to walk up to her.
'He is, though, a stupid one.'
Eve tilted her head.
'What do you mean?'
'I mean, that we have enough problems trying to survive without getting in the middle of other people's. It won't be long before Lexie realizes Abe has a crush on you.'
Eve's eyes widened!
'No he doesn't!'
'Yes he does,' Julian murmured and began to kiss her neck. It became a struggle for Eve to make intelligible conversation.
'Okay, Julian, stop...T.C....'
'T.C. is half blind darling, he wouldn't even be able to see us if he were here...'
'But everyone will hear us...'
Julian moved her towards the bed, pulling on the dresser drawer as they fell onto the bed. He pulled out a second voodoo mask!
Eve blinked, as he ripped one of the straps of her nightgown off! She half tried to push him off of her.
'Where did you get a second one? I thought the guards only had them?'
'I am very resourceful, Eve darling, never forget that...now, if you are so afraid of being heard, the masks should muffle our cries....'
Eve barely felt her gown slip all the way off of her. She knew she was beginning to forget herself and her surroundings. Julian's mouth was already closed around one of her nipples. It had never been like this with T.C.. Only Julian.
'I...I...suppose...just this once...'
'Of course, darling, just this one time...' Julian pretended to agree, already deciding that he was going to move her clothes into his hut tomorrow morning. And he would take a hundred 'butt kickings' from T.C. Russell, if that's what it took to keep Eve in his bed, permanently.
Eve flung the mask to the floor and surrendered to the greatest passion she had ever known.
****
John had left Abe and Lexie to talk things out. While he wanted to know what DiMera had told Lexie, those two had other issues to discuss. John would ask Lexie what he needed to know in the morning.
He ended up walking out to the beach. He sat down in the sand and watched the waves by moonlight. Stefano really thought he was quite clever. An enticing beach, comfortable huts, their every need taken care of. One would almost forget they were prisoners. But then again, that was the point.
It was as he was thinking along those lines, that he saw movement to his right. John slowly stood up.
Was that Rebecca Crane? John moved a little ways towards the figure. Good God! It was! And she was doing cartwheels...naked!
John took off his pajama shirt and began walking towards her. Maybe she had had too much to drink, the poor thing! He had noted that Julian stared at Eve all evening. He couldn't believe that creep would be so insensitive to his own wife's feelings. She had had no one to talk to but Marlena and him at dinner.
And it was apparent that Julian had banned her from their hut as well! This whole thing may turn out deadly for all of them, if they couldn't figure a way off of this island. One would think that Julian could at least be decent to Rebecca, now that they were in this perilous situation.
Rebecca, for her part, had been awakened by all of the commotion Julian had caused. She wondered if his being in Lexie Carver's hut, really was an accident?
She had sat up in her bed, and watched John in the darkness(her hut was across from Lexie's). She then saw that he was headed for the beach. She figured the poor man couldn't sleep.
Rebecca had then noticed Abe shut the door to Lexie's hut. All she could hear then were loud voices. Mixed with all of that, were sounds coming from Julian's hut. She had seen him come racing out of Lexie's hut with Eve. So it didn't take a genius to figure out what was going on in here!
Rebecca decided that now was the perfect time to get to know John. She too, slipped out of her clothes, and headed for the beach.
She had seen John sitting there, staring out into the water. Rebecca had eased around some palm trees, before beginning her gymnastics act. She figured he would see her out of the corner of his eye.
He did. And now he was bringing his shirt over! How sweet!
'Rebecca?' John asked, trying not to look at her enormous breasts. Woo! This really was becoming quite the vacation!
Rebecca stopped and stood upright, allowing John to take in everything. She then pretended to look horrified. She began to try and cover herself.
'Oh my God! What am I doing out here?! Where are my clothes?!'
'You don't remember coming out here?' John asked, quickly putting his shirt on her.
'Uh...no...I must have been sleepwalking again.'
'Rebecca, that could be really dangerous on this island. There could be wild animals or anything.'
'Well it isn't anything I can help. God! I could've drowned! Oh John!'
She buried her face into his chest and began to sob! She felt John's hands enclose in her hair.
Rebecca pulled away quickly.
'I'm sorry...I guess it's just this whole thing. I don't know if those guards are going to serve us drinks or shoot us!'
John put his hands on her shoulders.
'Listen to me, Rebecca. It's going to be alright. We are going to get out of here. And when we do, you can divorce Julian and get on with your life.'
Rebecca stared at him.
'Divorce Julian?'
'Honey, everyone here has seen how he's carried on with Eve right in front of you. Now, I like Eve, and I understand there's a history. But with T.C. here, and you, you would think they could at least try and be respectful of your feelings. You deserve better than that.'
Rebecca just stared at him. He had said she deserved better than Julian. Almost as if he really cared about her!
Rebecca shook her head.
'I know. Listen, I'm going to get back to my hut.'
'I'll walk you there.' John said.
Rebecca nodded uncomfortably, and together, they began walking back towards the huts.
****
Early the next morning, Lexie used a communal shower behind the huts, then dressed in a yellow tank top and shorts. She put her hair in a ponytail, packed up her things, and told one of the voodoo masked guards that she was taking her father up on his offer. The guard nodded. Lexie told him to wait while she spoke with her husband. The guard took her bags from her.
Lexie looked in Abe's hut, but found it empty. She figured he was on the beach. She began to walk past the other huts. Something made her stop and pause at Julian Crane's.
There were no curtains on the hut windows. Lexie put a hand over her mouth, as she took in the sight of Julian and Eve sleeping in one another's arms, naked! There were two voodoo masks on the floor of the hut.
Lexie looked away and proceeded towards the beach, feeling angry. Why? Was it because she felt as if Eve were being unfaithful to Tony?
No. It was that Eve was being unfaithful to T.C.! And she had been prepared to beg her father to allow Eve to visit with T.C., to cheer him up during his recovery. There was no way T.C. could find out what a whore Eve had been acting like around here!
Lexie found Abe scooping food on to his plate by the beach bar. It looked as if a buffet breakfast had been prepared. Lexie picked up a plate and walked over to him. He gave her a sideways glance.
'Hey.' was all he said, as he scooped hashbrowns onto his plate.
'Hey.' Lexie answered back. She picked up a piece of grapefruit. Abe looked at it.
'Is that all you're going to eat? John and I decided to try and slip away from the guards today. Hopefully we can find another way off of this island.'
'Don't bother. Father has cameras. He's probably watching us as we speak.'
Abe suddenly slammed his plate down! One of the voodoo guards eyed him, as he wiped down the counter.
'Tell me you're joking?'
'Abe, what did you expect? That's just how Stefano is. Anyway, I have other concerns.'
Abe rolled his eyes.
'You have 'other concerns'? That would be besides getting out of here and back to our son?'
'For your information, Father is going to bring Theo to us. And my other concern is for T.C.! Eve spent the night with Julian Crane!'
Abe suddenly grabbed Lexie and began shaking her hard!
'Do you understand what that means?! He's not planning on letting any of us go! And forget about Russell! If he's not man enough to keep a woman like Eve at his side, then he doesn't deserve her!'
Lexie's mouth dropped open! T.C. was probably more man than Julian Crane ever would be!
'Let go of me, Abe!' she yelled.
'Not until I make you understand that if you have any leverage with that maniac, you need to talk to him about letting us go! Him and Tony!'
Lexie lurched away from him! And before she could tell him, what she had been unable to the other night about Tony's coma, one of the guards came up quickly behind Abe, then pressed a cattle prod into his back! He fell onto the sand, twitching!
'Abe!' she screamed. She tried to help him up, but another voodoo guard stopped her.
'Mr. DiMera did not like seeing you manhandled. Come, I will escort you to the house.'
Lexie reluctantly left with the guard, casting one last glance at Abe's twitching form on the beach.
****
Austin saw that Teresa was already up and using the communal shower. He decided he would come back and use it himself when she was done...though he sorely wanted to peek!
He figured he was having such lustful thoughts, because of all of that noise that came from Julian Crane's hut the other night. Something about whatever was going on in there, made him think about Teresa, and what it would be like to make love to her.
Austin only wore a pair of shorts, as he made his way towards the smells of breakfast. For kidnappers, they cooked pretty well!
He picked up plate, and headed towards the buffet, when the sight of Abe lying on the ground, twitching, stopped him. He threw his plate down and hurried over to him.
'Abe? Abe can you hear me?'
Austin then jumped up. He would go back and get John. John would know what to do...and maybe Lexie or Eve!
****
Teresa closed her eyes and let the water blast down upon her. The water pressure in the make-shift shower was a lot better than her own at home!
She thought about her conversation with Austin the other night. While they had had fun, he confided something in her, something that she didn't think was too nice.
He said that he used to be engaged to marry one of Marlena's daughters, and that Marlena had tried to put a small guilt trip on him, claiming that Sami(that was her name) was heartbroken at how he walked away from her on their wedding day.
Teresa hadn't pried. From the little she knew of Austin Reed, he would not purposely humiliate a woman by leaving her at the alter, unless the woman was just no damned good! And she thought it was crappy of Marlena Black to bring it up now! They had been kidnapped for Christ's sakes!
It was as she was thinking about this, that she saw a shadow outside of the curtain. She peeked out and gasped! It was a very naked Julian!
Julian, for his part, grinned at her. He had been awakened by the shower and realized that was because Teresa had been in it for 20 minutes!
Of course, the day hadn't started out badly. He awoke with Eve in his arms, where she should have been all of these years. He had then quietly gotten up and left the hut, without a stitch of clothing. Julian figured the sight of him naked would hurry Teresa the hell up out of that shower! He was willing to bet she had used up all of the hot water!
****
Pilar had been brushing her hair, when she heard a scream! My God! That was Teresa!
Pilar hurried out of her hut, as did Eve! Pilar noticed that Eve was wearing some kind of man's shirt. She also noted that Rebecca did not stir from her hut. Austin soon joined them, looking flushed.
'What's happening now?!' he asked in a frustrated voice.
'What do you mean, 'now'? Eve asked, turning from the shower fray.
'I found Abe having convulsions next to the buffet! You'd better come quick, Dr. Russell!'
'Okay, I'll go on ahead. Maybe you should get Lexie and John!'
Austin nodded, then watched as Eve ran off towards the beach. He then turned his attention to Teresa, a naked Julian, and an outraged Pilar!
'Get the hell away from there!' Austin hissed with disgust.
'Get away!' Teresa half screamed/cried.
Julian turned and faced the two person crowd he had attracted.
'My, my. If it isn't Agent Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald. Who were you trying to catch all of those years? My father? Me?'
'Step away from my daughter or I'll make you sorry you were ever born!' Pilar whispered.
Julian put up his hands in mock surrender.
'I'm not doing anything to your precious Teresa. My God! She's the mother of my child. I just wanted to use the shower. All she has to do is step out and everything will be fine.'
Austin rushed up past Pilar and grabbed Julian by the throat! Julian began thrashing around in protest.
'Let go of me!' he wheezed.
Austin let go of him and sent him crashing into Rebecca's hut.
'Get away from here until Teresa is done, do we understand one another?'
Julian pulled himself up and smirked. He then walked back to his hut. He found it empty. Where did Eve go off to?
****
Eve reached Abe and helped him into a chair. He had stopped twitching. As he sat back breathing heavily, he took in her state of dress. Lexie had been right. She had spent the night with Crane.
'Tell me how many fingers I'm holding up?' she asked, holding up three.
'Three. Look, I'm fine. Where is Lexie?'
'I don't know. But I'm sure she's fine.'
One of the voodoo guards walked up to them.
'Mrs. Carver will be staying with her father in his residence.'
That was all he said, before he walked off. Eve stared after him, then looked at Abe.
'I'm sorry.'
'For what? Lexie's made it clear where her loyalties lie.'
'No! She's just probably trying to talk some sense into her father, that's all.'
Abe squinted at her.
'How can you not be angry with her? Tell me you do hate Tony?'
Eve sat down in a chair next to him.
'Tony is in a coma.'
Abe raised a brow.
'I didn't know that!'
'Well it happened the day you were kidnapped, that very night. I guess a blood disease that he had, returned. So, no, I don't hate Tony. But anything we had between us is over.'
Abe nodded.
'Stefano could at least let you see your husband.' he grumbled.
Eve looked away. Abe peered at her.
'What is it?'
Eve gave him a knowing look.
'Everyone knows who's hut I spent the night in. I don't think it much matters if I see T.C..'
'Were things that bad between the two of you?' Abe asked.
Eve shrugged.
'The night I had my car accident, I was driving away from him. I had found him having sex with my sister in our home.'
Abe slowly stood up, outraged!
'That *&^^**$#!'
Eve stood up as well, surprised by his language.
'It's alright! I've made peace with it. And I love Julian. But I do want to know that T.C.'s eye will be okay, if for nothing else, our daughters sakes. Look, John and Austin are coming over now. I'd better get dressed. And keep the faith. Lexie is trying to free us. She hasn't betrayed us...or you.'
Eve smiled at John and Austin.
'He's going to be fine. I'll see you in a bit.' she said, walking past them. John looked back at her, taking in the shirt she was wearing. He then joined Austin next to Abe.
'What happened?' John asked.
Abe looked around.
'I didn't want to alarm Eve, but I think I was hit with a cattle prod.'
Austin's eyes widened. 'Why?'
'Lexie and I were arguing. That may have been just a bit of punishment from DiMera, for mistreating his daughter.'
'Did you put your hands on her?' John asked, eyeing him.
'I just shook her! I know I was out of line, but you should have heard her! She said that DiMera is bringing Theo here! Oh, and that there are cameras out here. Do you know what that means?'
Austin looked at John. John sighed.
'It means we'd better find the cameras first, before we look for an escape route.'
****
When Eve returned to the huts, Julian was in the shower singing, and not very well. Eve smiled though. She walked past Rebecca's hut. She could see Rebecca laying in her bed, wearing a sleep mask.
Eve looked away and returned to Julian's hut, only to find Pilar waiting for her.
'Pilar? How is Teresa?'
'Scared, but fine.'
There was a silence.
'Julian doesn't mean any harm....'
Pilar put a hand up.
'Eve, I don't know what you see in that man. But that's your business. But T.C. is a good man. You shouldn't humiliate him in this way.'
Eve drew Julian's shirt around her and sat down on the bed.
'I know that Pilar. And yes, this will hurt him. But I have no doubt he was carrying on with Liz, while he thought I was dead.'
Pilar looked at her curiously.
'Eve, I spent a lot of time with T.C. and Simone after your funeral. I never saw Liz around.'
Eve stood up.
'I caught them together the day of my accident, Pilar. So, it really doesn't matter if it only happened once or whatever. That and...Celeste told me that she believes that Liz was lying about my father.'
Pilar walked up to her.
'Eve, I think you must have heard that I am an FBI agent.'
Eve nodded.
'Yes. I don't understand why you kept it a secret all of these years?'
'That's not important. What is, is that there was a time where we thought we could use Liz to catch DiMera.'
'How?'
'When I learned of her connection to Celeste. It was as I looked into your sister's background, that I too, became suspicious of that story she told. The only way she agreed to help, was when I threatened to tell Antonio.'
Eve was silent. To think of the months of suffering that woman put her through! And for what? She still wasn't sure!
Pilar placed a hand on her shoulder.
'I'm sorry about what T.C. did. Yes, it is unforgivable. But when he comes back here, you need to talk to him, or things are going to get worse around here. Do you understand?'
Eve nodded. Pilar rubbed her shoulder and left the hut. Eve looked around.
Julian appeared moments later. He had a towel wrapped around his waist. He noticed her pensive expression. He tentatively walked up to her, wrapping his arms around her. Eve smiled.
'Tell me that look is not that you're sorry about last night?'
Eve turned in his arms.
'No. I guess I just think we need to hurry up and find a way off of here. Before things get out of hand.'
Julian didn't say anything to that. But he did smile.
'I'm not going to be wearing any clothes today. What about you?'
Eve rolled her eyes and kissed him. She couldn't explain it, but she loved him.