One Good Fling Deserves Another
By: Ashley and Emily
A story about the love/hate relationship of Penny Marshall and Michael McKean
Setting: Penny and Rob Reiner's Home
"Oh, Rob!" Penny said imitating Laura Petrie crying for Rob in the Dick Van Dyke Show.
"Look honey. I'm sorry, but I have to go. All In The Family has to go on location to shoot the next 3 episodes. You know I wouldn't leave you unless I have to" Rob said trying to calm his wife down.
"But I'll be all alone!"
"With Tracy" Rob added and Penny gave a sigh and said "I give up!". She picked up Rob's last duffel bag that had to be loaded into the trunk and shoved it in his arms.
"Call me when you get there" and with that she gave him a quick kiss on the lips, turned him around, and shoved him out the door. When she was sure he had pulled away from the house she leaned against the door and with a relieved sigh she said "I don't know how many times I'll have to have to do that. I may be an actress, but this is crazy!" then she said slightly under her breathe "I hope he rots in hell."
Later on the afternoon, about 11:00 am actually, Penny was busy trying to figure out how much more she can jab out of Paramount. She had a pair of sunglasses taking the place of a headband, her forehead rested in her left hand and drumming her pencil in her right hand on the table as she stared from her calculator to her sheets of figures. She thought she heard a creak, so she looked up and realized that her daughter Tracy was standing in the doorway in a very revealing outfit. She was wearing a very low cut red halter top, tight, black short shorts, and her dark colored hair piled on the top of her head secured by a pair of sunglasses placed on her head like her mother.
"Mom? Do you know where my little black purse is?" Tracy asked.
"Look in the car" Penny suggested not even noticing her outfit. She went back to her work and then she looked over as Tracy walked out of the room and she yelled, "Tracy! Get over here!" Tracy knew she was in trouble. "Where did you get that outfit?" Penny was ready to pounce on her but when Tracy told her she got it out of Penny's closet she realized she was caught. She told her she was only going over to Lori's house and Garry would be picking her up in 3 minutes so she let her go. Smutty outfit or no smutty outfit she had to let her go. She figured she'd let Garry handle her.
"How long are ya gonna be over at Gar's?" Penny asked, still staring at her calculator.
"I dunno ... we're just going over to the country club with Aunt Barbara." Tracy replied. "Mom, I can't find my mascara! Can I borrow some of yours?"
"Yeah, it's upstairs on my dresser."
Tracy rushed upstairs. Penny sat there, contemplating for a moment. She was in a deep train of thought when she heard the door shut. She looked up and saw it was her brother Garry, and his daughter Lori. "Trace! We're ready!" Lori yelled as soon as she entered the home.
"She's upstairs Lori," Penny informed her niece.
"Oh, hiya aunt Penny! Upstairs huh?" Lori asked. Penny glanced at her quickly and nodded, then turned back to the numerous figures. Lori dashed up the stairs screaming, "C'mon Tracy! Get your butt down here!"
"What's all that?" asked Garry, walking over to the table.
"Salaries, taxes, budgets ... all that fun stuff," answered Penny, lighting up a cigarette.
Just then, Tracy bounded down the stairs along with Lori. She ran over and threw her arms around her mom's shoulders. "Bye Mom!" she screamed as she and Lori ran out of the door into the California sunshine.
"Bye sweetie!" Penny yelled after her.
"See ya later Pen," said Garry.
"Bye!" Penny yelled.
With that, Garry left. Penny looked back at her paper and figured it was a hopeless case, so she neatly stacked everything up in a pile and put in a her desk drawer. She walked over to her TV and turned it on just in time to see reruns of L&S (it did come on in reruns earlier around noon in the 70's). She stared blankly at the TV as she saw her and Cindy bound up the sidewalk chanting "1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 8 , etc.." She quickly realized what episode this was. It was "Look Before You Leap." She smiled slightly as she watched Lenny and Squiggy figure out Laverne thought she was pregnant. Although she kept telling herself she was smiling because the two guys were funny as a team, Penny knew she was smiling because Mike's face was on the screen. For a few months now Penny and Mike had been having a secret rendezvous. They tried not to let anyone know, but of course Cindy found out. She was kinda lost in a reverie when the phone rang and snapped her back into reality. It was Tracy on the phone asking if she could spend the night at Garry's. Penny agreed and said she would pick he up about 1:00 PM tomorrow afternoon. She placed the phone back in it's cradle and then thought "Well, isn't this something? I'm home alone. No one here. I can do whatever I want all night..."
Flash forward to a half an hour later...
Penny has music blaring and is singing her heart out and dancing around the house in one of her many naughty negligees. As she is in the chorus of "Stop In the Name of Love" the doorbell rings. She turns down the music, puts on a coat, and checks to see who is at the door. She discovers it's Michael McKean! ('Bout time he showed up! I was getting worried!)
"Hey Mike!" Penny says trying to catch her breathe from darting across the house.
"Hi. Is Rob home?" Mike asked cautiously.
"Nah. He left on a business trip for a few weeks." Penny explained as she let him in. "Why'd ya come over?"
"I was bored at my place. Susan is at a baby shower in Tampa for the weekend with Colin, again. She goes out of town a lot and always takes him with her" Just then he noticed she was wearing a coat. "Hmm ... interesting choice of clothing. Starting a new trend are we?" He asked with a smirk.
Penny then realized she still in her jacket. "Well, I was kinda just having some fun."
"Doing...?"
"You'll see," and with that Penny darted behind the archway from the hallway into the kitchen and he could hear the tune from Pretty Woman start up (what is this, Oldies but Goodies night?! Anyway...). Right when the words "Pretty Woman walking down the street" were sung Mike could slowly see Penny appear again. She was doing sort of a sexy walk in her nightie and of course had a see-through robe over that, all done in black. He began laugh when he saw what she was doing.
"Penny, you never cease to amaze me."
When the words "No one can look as good as you" Penny slowly raised her arms above her head and kinda did one of those sexy wiggles where you lower yourself towards the ground. Then she dropped the see-through robe, revealing just the black negligee. And Mike's jaw just dropped. She leisurely rose back up and wrapped her arms around Mike's neck and he dipped her back. She giggled alluringly. As Mike lifted himself and her back up, their eyes met. They stared into each other's eyes yearningly for what seemed like an eternity. After a while the song ended, and somehow Penny was distracted from this sort of trance. "Uh... I'd better go... uh... put a different song on," she said stuttering. She took a deep breath and added confidently, "Any requests?"
"Yeah," Mike started. Penny was off to change the music but he stopped her and said, "No. Let me." He walked into the kitchen and looked through all of the records and 8 tracks. When he found just the one he was looking for, he took the "Pretty Woman" record off the player and put on this one. All of a sudden, the familiar tune of "When A Man Loves A Woman" (Ya know ... that song! "When a man loves a woman..." somethin' somethin'... "Turn his back on his best friend if he put her down..." Yeah, okay.) blasted through the house, echoing off every wall. Michael appeared back in the archway, and smiled. He sauntered casually over to Penny, and whispered in her ear, "May I?"
She looked up at him with those big green eyes, and nodded, "You certainly may."
Pen wrapped her arms around Mike's neck, and he placed his arms around her waist. They began to dance. Michael pressed his lips gently against Penny's forehead. After a while though, tension began to mount, and the seductive temptation began to build. The two went into an almost instant lip lock, the passion becoming more and more intense. When they finally stopped, Mike was out of breath and Penny's face was all red. She turned around with her back against his chest, and he wiggled his way ever so slowly down her neck, and touched his lips to her bare shoulders.
"Mike?" Penny asked.
"Hmm?" Mike responded with his lips still locked to her body and his hands caressing her shoulders, back, stomach, and waist.
"Are you still in love with Susan?"
This caught Mike's attention and made him kinda uneasy. He could feel every muscle in his body tense. "What made you think of that?"
Penny turned around and met his gaze face to face. "I dunno. I guess I just go to thinking with you coming over here a lot when no one is home"
"Well, don't think so much" He said and he pushed back her carmel colored hair and began to kiss her lips. They both shared one long passionate kiss. Penny threw her arms around Michael and laid her head against his chest. Just then, she heard a clangor. She used her thumb to touch her ring finger ... and as she had suspected, the ring was gone. "My ring..." she mumbled.
"What was that?" Michael asked, his hands caressing her waist.
"Nothin'..." Penny trailed off.
Just a few minutes later, Michael looked down at Penny. He noticed she was looking awfully thin, and he knew she hadn't had an appetite for days. He also noticed she was in deep concentration. On what, he couldn't be sure though. Out of nowhere, Michael blurted, "I'm hungry."
Penny laughed and turned to him. "Did you just say you were hungry?"
Michael laughed at himself and nodded, "Yeah I... guess I did. Hey, why don't you go into the kitchen and make some sandwiches okay?"
Penny replied, "Okay ... sure." Then she walked into the kitchen. As soon as he saw her figure disappear he bent down and picked up the wedding ring that had fallen off Penny's finger. Inside it there was an inscription. "PM & RR 1971." Michael kept studying it. He walked into the kitchen with it still tightly secured inside is hand and found Penny going through the fridge.
"Lose something?" he asked and showed her the ring. She looked down at her hand.
"Oh I guess I did" Then Michael took her hand and placed it on her finger while gazing into her eyes. He started leaning towards her and Penny leaned back into the open fridge door and it slammed and she fell down flat on her back. Michael dropped to his knees and put one knee along either side of her and laid down on top of her. Slowly their soft lips touched and Michael slipped his hands under her waist and moved his hand up the back of her blouse stroking her back. When Penny felt his hand reach her bra clasp she drew back from his warm embrace.
"What's wrong?" Mike asked.
"I dunno" Penny said with a confused look on her face. "For some reason I feel sick, but not a flu sick".
"Cramps?" Mike suggested.
"Hmm ... probably" she said trying to shove it out of her mind. At that moment they heard a crash. Mike got up and helped Penny up too and they went to investigate. They found that Rob and Penny's wedding picture had fallen off the wall and the glass had cracked right between Penny and Rob. Penny picked it up and simply said "I'll take this as a sign."
"First the ring, now the picture. Something is wrong here." Mike said getting an eerie feeling.
Part 2 Coming Real Soon!!!!!