Ch. 2

Making things easier

"Babe, what are you doing here?" Kendall asked, rubbing her head, "I do not have time to deal with you today." Kendall said under her breath.

"I told you, I work here." Babe said again.

"Unfortunately," Simone came out of the office and glanced at Babe.

Babe sighed, "OK, I'm gonna be working with you whether you guys like it or not. I'm sorry that you don't but I'm not giving up this great chance to work here. So it can either be easy or hard." Babe said, and was given a little bit of hope when Dani smiled at her, but then it was deflated.

"Well then, I guess it's gonna be hard." Kendall gave Babe a bitchy smile, and Dani shrugged when Babe looked over to her.

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A few hours later, Babe was working on some files. While Simone and Kendall were busy, Dani showed her how to enter some files into the computer.

"Thank you so much Dani, I don't know what I would do without you." Babe thanked her.

"Well, I'll help you as much as I can, but don't let them know." Dani said.

Babe nodded, and Dani walked out of the room. She heard the elevator doors open, and a woman came out.

"Bianca!" Babe said, standing up.

"Babe..." Bianca said, raising her eyebrows.

"Oh, I work here now." Babe explained.

"I know I just can't believe Kendall left you un-attended." Bianca told her.

"She has been glaring daggers at me all day; I think she went back to the printer to grab some things she printed out. So how are you?" Babe asked.

"I'm good. How is little A?" Bianca wondered.

"He is... he is great." Babe smiled.

Bianca also smiled, "Babe, I have a question for you, if I can ask. It's kinda personal."

"Of course!" Babe told her, "Ask whatever you want."

"Its about you and JR, you guys seemed pretty close when I saw you last."

Babe nodded and sat back down, "Well, our son was missing."

"I know, but I think it was more though. The last time I was here, JR would have blamed you and put you in jail if his son went missing, not give you comforting hugs."

"Lots of things have changed around here." Babe sighed, looking up at Bianca with pain in her eyes.

"You care about him, don't you?" Bianca accused more than asked.

"Well..." Babe started, but Bianca cut her off.

"Babe, after everything he has done to you? He drugged you, sued you for custody, taken your son. Hundreds of other things, too." Bianca tried to talk some sense into Babe.

"I know what you say, and I couldn't agree more. But this feeling won't go away." Babe told Bianca while looking down.

Bianca stepped back, looking as if she had been slapped, "Oh my god, you love him again?"

Babe went to respond but Kendall walked out, "What in the hell do you think you're doing!"

Both Bianca and Babe looked towards Kendall, who walked up to Babe.

"How dare you talk to my sister, after everything you have done to her!" Kendall yelled in Babe's face.

"Kendall, don't." Bianca told her, but she didn't listen.

"You stole her child, you baby stealing bitch, and now you think it's OK to talk to her?" Kendall asked.

"No." Babe shook her head.

"Then why the hell did you even talk to her? The next time you see my sister, you turn and..." Kendall was cut off.

"Kendall, STOP!" Bianca yelled, and both Babe and Kendall looked at her, "I came up and talked to Babe. I wanted to talk to her."

Babe interrupted, "I'm gonna leave you two alone."

Kendall was about to say something but Bianca held up her hand to silence her. After Babe had left the room, Kendall said,

"Why, why would you want to talk to her after everything she has done to you? Bianca, throw the forgiving part of you out the window and think about what that... that bitch did to you. She stole you're child. You shouldn't even have to talk to her."

"Kendall, I have not forgiven Babe for what she has done, but I don't hate her either. I will talk to her if I want too, and you're not going to stop me." Bianca said.

"Binks..." Kendall started, but Bianca shook her head.

"Don't Kendall. And you need to start making things easier for Babe around her too. This is the first time she has had a job like this."

"Yeah, one that doesn't include her naked and guys naked." Kendall said.

"Kendall..."

"What, no way! I am not making it easier on the skanky baby stealer." Kendall said.

"I am not asking you to become best buddies, but give her some slack. Show how her to do some things. That way you won't sink this business and you won't even have to talk to her." Bianca said.

She hugged her sister and then turned and walked out of the office.

"You know, there is some truth to what she said." Simone came out and walked up to Kendall.

"I don't want to make things easy for her. Not after what she did." Kendall said.

"But Bianca wants you to. Shouldn't what you sister wants matter to you?" Simone asked.

"But Bianca is way too forgiving, that's why she wants me to do this. I am not gonna stop hating Babe just because Bianca has."

"No one asked you to Kendall. All we need to do is help her out a little bit, that way Fusion can still be OK." Simone told her.

At that moment, Babe walked back into the room, looking at the two women.

"The timing in this place is beautiful." Simone said.

"Fine, but I'm not doing it." Kendall growled, and walked away.

Babe looked at Simone quizzically and Simone said, "Didn't you need help with some files?"

Babe nodded, "OK, let me see if I can help you." Simone said and Babe smiled.