Four Leaf Clover – 10
I'm using ABCD's characters without permission and for no profit. I'll argue to the Supreme Court it's just Fair Use! And that's not legal advice.
Summary Reminder – Based on Trinity's challenge of J/N engaging in an affair. Natalie ends it after admitting to herself she wants more from John. After Natalie is almost killed in the AS Diner, John breaks it off with Emasculation and tells Natalie he loves her. Just when they've agreed to keep their new relationship under wraps until John can tell E, she is lurking in the hallway of the A/S hotel and gets an eyeful.
A/N: Bwahahahhahaha!
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"What are you doing here so early? We're not open yet," Rex said from behind the bar at UV where he was taking inventory.
"Then why was the door open?" Evangeline snarled.
"It's six in the morning, we get deliveries. It's not even legal to serve anyone right now."
"I'll defend you for free if we get busted. Get me a drink." Evangeline slammed her purse down on the bar and sat herself on a stool.
"What's got you so riled up? You get into a fight with McBain?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
"All right, just never figured you for the early morning drinker." Rex shook her martini. He poured it over a couple of olives and passed it to her. "Dirty, like you like it."
At the comment Evangeline started laughing.
"What's so funny?"
"You think I like it dirty you should see your sister."
"Hey, hey. Don't talk about my sister!"
"Whatever." Evangeline hissed and sucked her drink down. She sucked up an olive and began violently masticating it. "Another." She pushed the glass over to Rex.
"How about you just drink it from the shaker?" Rex mixed up some more, dumped a load of olives and juice in the shaker and passed it over to her. She surprised him when she began to drain the mixer.
"Ya know, I figured you were too ladylike to take me up on that." Rex leaned his elbow on the bar and looked at the lawyer intently.
"Yeah? How ladylike did you think I was?" Evangeline swirled the contents of the shaker and eyed Rex. He squirmed uncomfortably. Evangeline was just not his type - aside from being too controlling and arrogant, there was something about her shoulders that gave him the creeps.
"I get it. There's no one else here."
"What do you mean by that?" she said into the beverage mixer.
"No one else is here so you're not faking that stiff lawyer thing. You and McBain liked to do it public places." When Evangeline choked and slammed the mixer down and looked at him with wide eyes he continued. "Everyone in town knew. You wanted Natty to know, didn't you?"
"Well she got the last laugh didn't she?" Evangeline resumed her haughty manner, although the slight slur to words undermined the effect.
"You heard about that, huh?" Rex winced and eyeing his patron with a knowing eye, pulled the vodka bottle back over and took out another mixer.
"Heard, I saw it."
"Ouch." Rex grabbed a glass and poured her a straight drink instead, and then a shot for himself.
"Wait a minute." Evangeline said after she took a long drank of her vodka. By now she was seeing two of Rex and her words were garbled. "How did you know about it already, it just happened about…um…ya know…just before."
"Oh, well. Um. Just guessing." Rex pretended to be busy with his clipboard.
"Wait a minute, Bals…Ballsham…Balls." Evangeline broke off and laughed naniacally. "What should I hath…you know."
"Nothing. I don't know nothing." Rex tried to pull the bottle out of Evangeline's hands. "Keep it. I gotta go in the storeroom."
Evangeline lunged over the bar and grabbed Rex's hair. "What should I know? Have they been sleeping together all this time?" She screeched.
"All this time? Ouch. Let go."
"Tell me!"
Rex pried her fingers away and grabbed the vodka bottle away.
"How long!"
"A couple of months I think? I'm not sure. No one told me. Couldn't you tell?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Evangeline tried to get herself off the bar with every intention of going to confront John and the harlot, in her drunken state she forgot she was almost four feet off the ground, missed the bar stool and landed in a heap on the floor. There was a spine tingling crunch when she landed and a ear splitting scream.
"Shit! Now, I'm going to get in real trouble!" Rex hopped over the bar. He grabbed his cell phone out of his pocket and dialed.
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"Just how did this happen, Balsam?" RJ asked in exasperation as he and Rex stood outside the office door waiting for RJ's private doctor to finish examining Evangeline.
"I told you. She came in demanding a drink. She had just seen Natty and McBain in some kind of compromising position."
"Did she now?" RJ smiled.
"Then I let it spill it had been going on for a while. I didn't know McBain had dumped her the night before."
RJ began to laugh.
"Do you think she's going to sue?"
"Not unless she wants to tell the whole world, on the record what really happened. Evangeline Williamson is not big on telling the truth. I wish I'd seen her face when you spilled the beans. You know I should be pissed at you, I had planned to tell her myself."
"Why? I thought you liked Natty."
"I do, I do. I would have given her the heads up first, but I wanted to have the pleasure just when the humiliation would be at its best. Then I'd accuse her of stalking McBain all this time."
"Man, you hate her."
"Hate is a strong word, Balsam. I prefer disdain. Oh, I gotta call Lindsey and tell her the story. She's going to die." RJ pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and walked a bit down the hallway.
Rex sighed and paced. All he heard from down the hall was the sound of laughter.
Just when RJ hung up and returned to Rex's side the door opened and the doctor came out.
"How is she?"
"She's bruised, she sprained her wrist. She was too drunk to do much more damage than that. She's passed out on the couch right now."
"What was the crack I heard?"
"Oh that, she fell on her purse and cracked her dildo. She was quite upset about it."
Rex made an "ewwww" face. RJ pulled out his phone again.