THE PHOTOS
That next day Emily wanted to go back to see if Maggie was ok, but she was caught off guard by the many reporters at her hotel room. They had woken her up. Emily hadn't gotten in until late last night and all of those reporters wanted to know why. They all thought that Emily had gone back to partying and staying out getting wasted. Though they knew if that had happened they would get that very large Christmas bonus. So when she went to walk out of the Valley Inn she was caught by the hundred flashing bulbs of cameras. She covered her eyes with the sunglasses and just tried to get to her car. Reporters yelling questions as they followed her to the car.
"Back to the partying scene?" One yelled.
"Spend the night out with someone special?" Another got out.
When she heard this question she chose to answer it.
"Actually, yes I did." She looked at all the reporters and the cameras. Now they were all saying things into their tape recorders, camera crews and writing things down. The buzz got extremely loud as they all seemed to ask the same question.
"Who is it? Who was she? Was it a guy?" They all knew that she was gay but that never bothered her. But what did was when they asked if it was a guy that she had spent the night with. If they didn't know that she was gay yet then they really needed to be shown.
"Calm down, calm down. You all need to understand that what happens in my life is my business not anyone else's. So if you will excuse me I have to go to a meeting about a certain Center." Right as she went to get into her car she heard one question that made her want to find and hit the reporter that asked it.
"So does that mean that you and long time girlfriend Stacey Gill are nothing but yesterdays new?" The man said in the slyest voice that any of the men and women around had ever heard. Stacey Gill and her had been done for over a year and a half but the media always hoped that they were just trying to get publicity when they said it was over.
"Why don't you go ask you wife that question?" Emily said as the crowd burst into laughter and all started to back off. To go and give their editors what they had.
'Great…dad is not going to like this one!' Emily thought as she drove to the MM Center. 'Hope that I am not late.'
MM Center
"Hey, sis when do you think we can get this thing started?" Kendall said as she waved her hand in front of her sister's face. Bianca had just been starting into space ever since they had walked into the Center. She had only one thing on her mind.
'God, I hope that Maggie is ok. Damn it! You have to start talking about the Center. Wait we are missing three more people. Well ok, five more minutes then we will start with or without them.' Bianca thought as she stared still into space. 'Why can't I get this out of my head! She doesn't want my help. She is just...she told me that we weren't friends that I meant nothing to her. God, why does this all seem to come now, life just got to be so great? I have Miranda and...' Bianca's thoughts were interrupted by the snapping of Erica's fingers.
"Sweetie, are you ok? Kendall pore some water for me." Erica said as she went into Bianca's purse. She heard it going of and Bianca was sure not answering it so she went to take the call for her.
"I got it mom..." Bianca said as she took the cell phone and walked out of the room to take the call. "Excuse me, for a minute." She said as she walked out the door, leaving her mother and sister and everyone else in the room staring at her figure till it disappeared.
"Hello..." Bianca said as she lifted the cell phone to her ear.
"Hey. Its me, Ryan. Hey um there is some media frenzy at the Inn so we wont be there for another ten-fifteen minutes. So you go ahead and start without us, ok?" Ryan said as he waited for an answer.
"Um...yeah, ok."
"Hey are you ok, Bianca you sound a little out of it." Ryan said as he heard her voice.
"Yeah, I'm fine just got some thing on my mind that's all. See ya soon." She said into the phone as she hung up. Bianca was standing with her back to the double oak doors of the board room. She was now just staring at the elevator doors.
"God I need your help. I need to help Maggie, she is going to get hurt and I can't let that happen. Just give me something to work with, anything. I know that I am no one to be asking for anything. You gave me my everything back, but now I am just going over board and asking you for help. Give me something, someone to help. God I can't leave her like that, I can't leave her somewhere, where I know she is going to be hurt. Give me a sing, give me an Angel, give me some sort of help. If not for me then for her; she needs help, and she deserves all of it." Bianca said in a soft and gentle voice. She had to do something, she couldn't not do anything. SO she went and she prayed, she knew that she had no right to be, she was given her miracle back, now she needed to give one to Maggie. 'But how.' Bianca's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the elevator doors opening. The sight she saw next was going to be that of the Angel she had asked for.
'But is this Angel for me, or for Maggie?' Bianca saw Emily trying to get up off the floor. She must have slid down the wall. She was now crawling out of the elevator.
"I hate elevators! Next time I take the stairs!" Emily mumbled under her breathe. Bianca had heard her tough. She couldn't help but stare and giggle. Then Emily shock her head realizing she didn't have her bag.
"No!" She jumped back in the stupid mechanical contraption and grabbed her bag and then hopping out of the elevator. Now Bianca couldn't help but laugh, she thought that, the scene she had just seen was the funniest thing in the world. Emily looked up at the littlest Montgomery and just gave her an evil grin.
"You find that funny do you!" Emily said as she got up and walked over to the Bianca Montgomery. Bianca shock her head now laughing with no mercy nor sympathy for the older girl. She hadn't seen her in years. Well face to face that is. She had seen her on the covers of magazines, and on the news but the last time they had come in contact with each other was when Erica had invited her, and her father to a little get together. Nether of them will ever forget that day.
"So you still hate machines, do you?" Came a voice from the now opened twin oak doors.
"Correction, they hate me." Emily put her finger in front of her and the third most richest woman on the planet. Erica and Kendall had witnessed the little performance Emily had given.
They also noticed the way Bianca had stared at the new arrival. They both smiled at each other and then just giggled a little. Though Bianca was now out of breathe from laughing so much, she was caught off guard by her mother's voice.
"Mom, Kendall..." Bianca just turned around and was about to introduce the newest arrival but was cut off.
"Yes sweetie, we know who she is...no need to brake that laughter of yours." Erica said as she lifted her eyebrows at her youngest child and winked. "It's nice to see you again Emily, it's been a long time." Erica said as she turned her head to the older girl. Hoping that she did not just see that little action she had done to her daughter.
"Yes it has..." Emily was cut off by Kendall clearing her throat, trying to signal that she had no idea who this woman was in front of her. "Oh, I'm sorry I'm Emily." She put her hand out to Kendall. Kendall shock her hand introducing herself, since her mother and sister were caught in a staring contest, not to notice anything around them.
"Nice to meet you Emily, I'm Kendall. You must be a member of the Miranda Montgomery Center's board. The one of three that were missing last time." Kendall said in a sly tone. Emily and her didn't seem to get along already and the two woman that were in a staring contest sensed this and saw the way Kendall was looking at Emily. When Emily was given that look she pulled her hand back shaking it.
'Damn she may be small, but her grip his deadly, and so is that stare. (Shudders)'
"I'm sorry...I had business in England. I called to tell I couldn't make it, but I'm hear for this one, and I plan to be here for the rest." Emily said as she heard the elevator doors open. 'Thank God, saved by the metal contraption. I never thought that I would ever think this but...I love you metal death trap.' Emily turned to see a young woman a little older than herself, and a young man even older. She new who they were, Mr. and Mrs. Lavery. She watched the news, and a lot of the time they came right after she did, so she knew who they were.
"Hey sorry we are late. There was a group of camera and television crews all over the Valley Inn. We couldn't get out." Greenlee said as she hugged Bianca and stood in front of Kendall and the new comer. She had seen the look that Kendall had been giving her before they got off the elevator and the shiver the younger girl had. She chose to save this young woman from the wrath of Kendall Heart. When Emily heard that she looked down.
"Sorry about that." She was given a stare by everyone in the hall. The look of bewilderment. She saw this and chose to explain. "The crowd was for me...they were trying to get a headline. So they picked the new bee to hit Pine Valley." Emily said as they still looked at her in bewilderment. She chose to pick up the pace. "Just tune in to 'E' tonight and you'll see." She said as she pushed through the small crowd outside the boardroom. 'Well this is going well...'Emily thought as she took a seat with vacancy. 'And so it begins.' was the thought that went through every ones head as they sat down.
4 hours later
The meeting had ended rather quickly for most. (yeah right, sarcasim)They all were beat after that meeting. After all they were in there for almost four hours. They all had forgotten what they had been talking about when they walked out of the board room. Right as it was ended Emily and Bianca were the first to the door. They had to back up and try and let the other one out. They both extended their hands for the other to go out, but they both refused trying to get the other to go out first.
"Why thank you." Erica said as she walked past the two young woman who were acting as if they were teenagers again.
"Your welcome", they both said as one. Then as Emily was about to say something to Erica she jumped. They all saw her fidgeting after she jumped. She was looking through her pockets.
"Damn over shirt to many fricken pockets!" She said as she lifted her over shirt off and shaking it until she saw her phone falling.
She grabbed it and turned around to answer it. The rest of the people in the room were just staring at the woman, all the guys were anyway. Now the only thing she had covering herself was a sleeveless shirt that cut off above her bellybutton. Ryan and Reggie could do nothing but stare at her. That is when she turned around. The two men got hit over the head by someone. They didn't see who though. They were still busy staring. The two guys weren't the only two left staring.
"Hello?" Emily said into the phone. She then pulled it away covering her ear after the yell that came out of the phone. "Maggie?" She pulled the phone away again, her ear now throbbing in pain.
"Calm down, calm down. What did I..." She was cut off by the yell that escaped the phone once again.
"What the hell did you do! You are so dead! You had no right to..." The crowd in the hall was able to hear every word Maggie said, she was pissed and they all knew it. But they all had no clue why Maggie would be calling the new bee.
"Hey...little one you have to stop yelling, or I wont be able to hear your ranting at all." Emily loked over her shoulder and then made her voice very low trying to signal that she wasn't alone, and trying to make sure the crowd did not hear what she was saying.
"Why the...ugggg...fine! But we need to talk when you are not by anyone...or you know what you just walk away from whoever is there or put me on speaker because I am so ganna..." She was cut off by the sound of Erica's voice in the back round.
"Is that Maggie Stone on the phone?" Erica asked putting her chin on Emily's shoulder, making Emily pull away.
"Emily...is that Erica? Why the hell are you..."
"Yep that's Maggie's voice." Erica said as she backed off to leave, grabbing Reggie's shoulder puling him away from his gaze on the older woman.
Kendall went with her and laughing at the fact that Greenlee had to slap Ryan to get him to stop staring. (I know not the Ryan we know and love but play along)
"Hold on Maggie...I have to put my shirt back on." Maggie just went silent on the other end of the line. She was still trying to grasp what was going on.
'Did she just say put her shirt back on? And Erica was there and I think I heard Kendall laughing. Then Greenlee scalding Ryan. Who else is there, and why in the world is her shirt off.' Maggie could only think about what she was hearing on the opposite line.
"Sorry about that..." Maggie could hear Emily speaking but not into the phone. Bianca just nodded and removed her hand. Kendall had placed her hand over her eyes when the shirt came off, and then when she went off laughing she had placed Bianca's hand over her own eyes. She just heard the remark and nodded her head but was reluctant to open her eyes.
"Oh come on it cant be that bad! You've seen it before." Emily said with a smirk on her face, and it just grew when a small smile and blush went over Bianca exquisite features. "Is that a blush and smile I see?" Right at that moment the elevator doors shut with the load of passengers, al except for Erica. She slyly slid behind the corner of the doors and was now listening to the conversation.
"Hello, HELLO, YO! Maggie was screaming into the phone.
"Oh...sorry mags...I got caught up in a moment." She said as she giggled at her thoughts.
"Yeah well you know I really don't need to hear your little 'contdwm' with some girl right now! I still have the right to rant!" Maggie said into the phone.
She had gotten into the car and started to drive to the MM Center. She figured that would be the first place that she would be if Erica was there. She just prayed that Bianca wasn't there. She couldn't deal with another attack like the might before. She couldn't take hearing that Bianca loved her. She just needed to rant and she was going to.
"Maggie are you getting out of a car? Were you driving?" Emily asked walking to the window, just to see Maggie getting out of her car running into the building. "Shit!" Emily said as she ran to the metal death trap. "Maggie don't come up here." Emily had run out of the room so fast she didn't even see Erica behind the corner. She also just ran past a staring Bianca.
"Is she here?" Bianca whispered just enough for Emily to hear her, and not enough for Maggie to hear her. Emily couldn't lie. She nodded her head as she put her finger to her mouth to tell Bianca not to talk. Bianca was still in shock that Emily and Maggie knew each other, and she didn't know about it. They had been roommates for a long time and she never once ever heard Maggie mention Emily, not once. Her thoughts were ranging far and wide, the one that kept coming into her mind was.
'Maggie, just come up here and then I know I can do something. I guess Emily is who You sent...she came! Thank you.' Bianca thought.
"Maggie I am telling you don't you dare get on this metal death trap. You are not welcome up here." Emily was trying desperately to get her friend to turn back. If she came up she would be in for a hell of a showdown, and Emily knew she didn't need that right now. She could feel the gaze that Bianca was giving her. She knew that gaze well. It was stop while you are ahead.
All three woman that were in the upper floors of the building were all looking at the floor gage as it went down floor by floor. Emily saw this and she was looking back and forth between the phone the death trap, Bianca, and the stairs. She shock her head and she ran to the stairs. It took Bianca about ten seconds before she went to follow her, but was stopped by the closing and the locking of the door. She could see Emily's face she mouthed 'I'm sorry' to her as she put the chair up against the door, and continued to run down the stairs. Erica at this sight just got up and went to her daughter who was now kicking and pushing at the door to the stairs.
"Emily why are you breathing...?" Maggie was caught off guard by the sight of Emily pulling her to the door. She looked at her and back at the door to the stairs, it was slowly shutting after being pushed right into the wall. Maggie tried to pull away but then when she heard Bianca's voice coming from the stairwell she just let Emily pull her. Maggie went to talk into the phone when she just shook her head and went to speak to a very out of breath Emily. Emily was now bent over her hands on her knees trying to stay standing.
"What the...you were talking to Bianca! You had your frecken shirt off...what the heck is going on!" Maggie yelled at Emily now realizing who was in front of her when she had told them they were blushing.
'Oh ewww! It was B...Bianca that she was talking too. Oh gross man! Wait she's seen her with out a shirt before? When...why am I thinking this!' Maggie looked down at her friend who was now looking up at her smiling her billion dollar smile.
"Yeah Mags...it was Bianca...that I had a 'contdwm' with. And it is her...I was trying to clue...you in on. She...obviously had no...idea how I knew you...which is good...I guess...but you still...have to go...and rant at me...later...!" Emily said between pants, trying desperately to catch her breath and convince her friend that Bianca had no idea that she knew her. She had just ran down forty flights of stairs, so her friend wouldn't have to fight with anyone, except her anyway.
"Oh gross Em...real gross...God!" Maggie got into her car and started it. Emily went to the rolled down window.
"Yeah, well your still the one left in the tightest embarrassments. A.k.a. little one. And you still love me!" Emily said as she went and pecked a small kiss on Maggie's cheek.
This made Maggie squirm and go crazy trying to wipe it off, and start mumbling under her breath. Not being able to breath because she was laughing so hard Emily backed away from the car handing Maggie a card and giving her the signal to get out of here. Maggie gave Emily the finger and a smile and drove off, looking back to see Bianca and Erica running up to where the car had just been.
"Sorry but no this time! Sorry Em, hopefully you will live through the wrath known as Kane." Maggie said to her empty car asshe drove off.
"Maggie! Damn it!" Bianca said as she stood in front of Emily. Erica came up behind he daughter and saw the look that she was giving Emily and chose to go to the car.
"Sweetie I'll be at the car if you need me." Erica said as she put her hand on Emily's shoulder and looked at Bianca mouthing ' you go ahead and kill her'. Emily saw the look on the younger girls face and chose to take a step back. She had been followed by the younger girl and was now pinned. She was in between her car and the youngest Kane/Montgomery. There were tears ready to fall down Bianca's face and that alone almost ripped out Emily's heart. Though it had been taken by her beauty almost seven years ago. Now it was breaking at the sight of tears on the face she so loved.
"Bianca...I" Emily started but was stopped by a finger on her lips. The tears that had threatened to fall were now falling like there was no tomorrow.
"You...my God...I thought that when I saw you, that my prayer had been answered. I thought that you were here to help me, and Maggie."
"I am!" Emily said as she pulled the finger away from her lips.
"Really, I could have sworn you just let her go! Let her go back to that abusive boyfriend of hers! You said that you knew her well, enough for her to trust your judgment!" Bianca yelled at the older woman. She knew Emily, they stayed in contact after they meet. Her father and mother were school friends so they knew each other since childhood. That was before Bianca moved away with her father, and Travis was not very friendly with Richard.
"Bianca she has to re..." Emily said as she tried to wipe away a stray tear that had fallen from the young woman's face.
"Regain that trust. How are you going to do that? When you know that you came here because I asked you too, and she doesn't want anything to do with me! How in the world are you going to..." Bianca was now the one stopped by a finger to her lips.
"To tell her that...that the only reason I am here is because of you, and make her believe it. Well see that is where you haven't factored in that I am not just here for you but I am here to get her out of this mess, and make sure that this Jonathan guy is gone for good. What ever the cost."Bianca was not crying anymore she was more angered then sad. She hit the hand that was on her lips back to where it should be.
" I am going to make sure that she is safe and then I am gone. I don't need to stay here. I am leaving once this is done, and I don't plan on coming back. This is just too small of a town for me. And you now just incase you cant get in touch with me or Maggie now that I have her somewhere, that she'll actually listen to what I have to say..."
"You..."
"Let me finish! Still the typical little..."
"What...go on! Typical little...brat...bitch...tell me!" Bianca was now over the edge with rage! She didn't need this...God just five hours ago everything was looking up. Now...now it was just headed down hill, and she couldn't help but slide down head first.
"Bianca you are still the one that called, and the one that has been here for everything. I need to see for myself if this guy is worth ruining a friendship over." Bianca was now staring Emily straight in the eye showing how Pissed Off she was.
"Ok, you have trust in my judgment then. None what so ever! God Emily...what the hell is going on with you." Bianca pulled away, allowing Emily to get out of her in-pinnedment.
"what is going on with me! God is it ever your fault about anything...no scratch that...it can never be your fault your little miss perfect. Well guess what hun you cant always push things off onto other people." Emily spun Bianca around so that they were looking at the other eye to eye.
"Bianca there is no way on this earth that I would ever do anything to hurt my friends and right now I am put in a spot that is not an easy one to get out of. Maggie and I were friends for a long time, well after you and me." Bianca was staring at the hand that was holding her wrist.
The grip felt like it would snap her wrist right off. Emily saw this and lightened her grip but held on so to show that she was not letting her get away with her little act.
"She was the one that was the person that I had to help through high school, and then you had to help her when she went to collage." Emily saw the look that Bianca was giving her and she let her wrist go.
Emily looked down at the way Bianca was now looking at her, and there was fear evident in those eyes. The eyes that made her heart melt every time she looked in them.
"Not even twenty minutes ago we were laughing over the little show I happen to give for all to see." Bianca was now holding her wrist rubbing it and giving a little smile thinking back at the way Emily had gotten her cell phone out of her shirt.
Emily spun around to look at her car and the setting sun. When she went to turn around she was stopped by two arms wrapping around her, around her waist. She then felt a chin press down on her shoulder.
"What is it with you Kane's and shoulders? Huh, come on bumble bee tell me." Emily asked trying to lighten the mood. It worked Bianca was giggling at the comment. "Wait, your mother!" Bianca saw that her mother had driven away and the two were now able to give up the act that they had put on.
So she went over to her girlfriend and put her chin on her shoulder. She was looking at the sunset with her. The two had been going out for about two months. Bianca had no intention of getting serous with anyone fast after Miranda, and Lena leaving, but then all of a sudden Emily showed up. Then when she had gotten Miranda back she was ready to go for what she wanted for. She had her daughter, and she knew that Emily would give her the space she needed to, be with her daughter. But she wanted to grab onto Emily before she was taken by some other jaw opening super model. Emily had told her over and over again that she was not going anywhere. Even after Bianca told her about Lena, she was still there. Well she was there from a distance. She was in New York, but it was only a 45 minute trip to Pine Valley. That is what Emily always told her. She told her that she could be there by her side when she needed her inside an hour. Bianca and Emily were so caught in the beautiful sunset that they forgot why they had even been outside to begin with. They also were so out of it that they were not paying any attention to their surroundings. Media, paparazzi, camera crews the works. Taking all the pictures in the world of the two young lovers. Or that is what they were going to make it look like.
ok so little one one left in the tightest little embarrassment's.
contdwm conversation on nothing to do with Maggie/Me.
Authors notes: Hides in the back of a truck. Still running from lawyers. Sees the lawyers looking for her. They go by and walk on down the street. "Well I never thought I would say this but I love you filthy streets of NYC." Hears truck engine start... "oh shit!" jumps out of a moving truck and lands right in front of lawyers. :cries: