Summary: The sequel to Desire.
Rating: NC-17 at times but alright for the most part.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, the Tribe and the characters and the property of Cloud 9 and Mr. Thomas.
Chapter Six
Java lay in Mega's arms, his soft breathing making her smile as she realised that he was human after all, even if he did not always show it.
"Mega", she started, her quite voice disturbing the silence. It felt strange to talk, as if they were together, naked, in his bed, they should not be talking, yet there were too many thoughts on Java's mind for her to be able to keep quite any longer.
"Hmm", his muffled reply came, as he looked up at her with interest.
"Do you still love me?" She asked, she had to know. They had now been together for a few weeks but she still did not know where she stood with him. Was she nothing but a notch on his bed post or did he really care about her? Her head was filled with different thoughts, none of which made sense until she settled on one. She had to know the truth.
If she was never going to mean anything to him then she could accept that but if that was the case then there was no point in trying to make this go somewhere, but if they might have something then she needed to absolutely obliterate Ebony's modelling career, rather than just leaving it maimed as she had.
Mega's heart gave a jolt of panic; he did not know what to say. Of course he loved her, he had loved her from the first time that he had laid on her and would until death closed his eyes one final time but he could not say that, that was not what Mega did. Java had taught him how to be strong, and so he was.
"Love? Do not be ridiculous. No one can love without a heart and your ripped mine out and fed it to the dogs long ago", the bitterness welled up inside him, "You are nothing to me, less than nothing, you were just a shag for the night".
Tears prickled Java's eyes but she refused to let them fall, "Well in that case I think that I had better go", she said as she got up, got dressed and left without another word, all the time thinking about the things that she was going to do to Ebony and Mega in order to get her revenge.
Mega screwed his eyes shut, hoping that when they opened his heart would have left him and as such he would not longer have these problems. But that did not work and so he decided to drown his sorrows. Soon he was in a bar slash strip club the pounding music giving him a migraine and the bitter taste of alcohol making him almost vomit.
Aching all over he rested his head on the bar for a moment before looking back up at the stage through bleary eyes to see Ebony performing a slow striptease. Without giving it another seconds thought he jumped up from the bar and battled through the pain in his head to her, grabbing her arm and dragging her into one of the back rooms.
"Oh great, Mega. Come to see what I have been reduced to, by your handiwork?" Ebony spat at him, wrenching her arm from his grasp".
"What are you talking about?" Mega asked, taking off his jacket to wrap around her, it was okay from him to see her like that but not other people and not against her will. He noticed a tear and moved to brush it away but felt her slap him hard across the face.
"How could you, you or all people who claimed to have feelings for me, do this to me? I do not expect you to help, but for God's sake why do this?" She cried at him.
"Ebony, I do not know what happened here but you are here of your own free will, I had nothing to do with it", Mega tried to convince her reaching out to touch her before remembering that it upset her and so keeping his hands to himself.
"Oh so are you trying to tell me that it was not on your orders that your bitch called up every person in the business and slandered me so that I could not get a job? That you knew nothing about her hacking into my accounts and getting rid of all my money? About her masquerading as me and buying crack off these guys so that now I am held her having to work here so that I can pay it back?" Ebony asked looking him dead in the face.
"I never knew that she had done any of that", Mega swore, truthfully, "Ebony I would never try and hurt you".
"Well it is too late for that now. I cannot get out f here for another two years with the amount that I am meant to have taken from these people and Java called this morning and threatened to kill me. I am not going to allow her the satisfaction", Ebony said drawing a knife out of her pocket and holding it to her stomach.
"Ebony no", Mega said moving towards her to try and grab the knife from her grip.
"Oh let her do it", a voice said from behind, "it will save me the trouble".
Mega did not need to turn around to know who it was, "How could you do this to her. The woman that I love is vicious, but my Java, how could you have reduced her to this?"
"Your Java? Strange this morning I was just a quick shag, now I am yours. You could not decide who you wanted, now I have made your choice for you", she cackled.
Ebony glanced from Mega to Java and back again realising that Mega really had not know what Java was putting her through and with a smug smile changed her hold of her knife, Java saw this.
Mega's eyes widened as the fight ensued, sick to his stomach that he had caused this, that through his pride and arrogance the two women that he loved were fighting. He dove in, trying to break it up although he was not sure which one he was protecting but each time got pushed back out.
His Java. His soul mate. The woman that had made him who he was today - without whom, he could not have survived. But on the other hand there was his Ebony. She had all of the things that he loved about Java and could see himself spreading the rest of his life with her now quite happily, but she was not his soul mate.
As he stood up, from where he had been knocked over his choice was made, he knew that there was only one woman to be with but as he stepped forwards his eyes widened in horror and his blood ran cold as hers spilled from her beautiful body.
The Epilogue
In my effort to be clever I was stupid. I thought that I could play them against each other and hurt them for the hurt that they caused me but now I know that I cannot, and that there will never be another one like her, but still I carry on with my braided beauty under my arm and my bride of passion buried but in my heart.
The End