Episode 3 Part 2:
Later as Giles was finishing his coffee Meredith got to feet and making her excuses headed off in the direction
of the powder room, well headed off in an effort to find where the hell it was in the first place through all
those damn plants. When after a few minutes scouting she still couldn't find it she headed towards the bar
intent on collaring the nearest waiter and getting some directions. However when she arrived the barman was
round the other side of the oval bar serving a customer who sat slumped against it several empty glasses
indicating he had been there for sometime although any further analysis was cut off by the barman's back
keeping him hidden from view.
"Excuse me!" Meredith called out, tinges of exasperation in her voice, her desperation beginning to mount due
to one of the more annoying symptoms of pregnancy.
"Yes Madam." The Barman muttered turning round and stepping towards her and revealing for the first time
to customer at the bar whose crystal blue eyes locked at first drunkenly then with increasing clarity on the
woman standing no more than ten feet away separated only by an expanse of marble.
"Madam?" The Barman repeated when Meredith did not reply, instead her attention was firmly focused on
the drunk opposite...
"Gavin" She whispered disbelievingly, slowly backing away and ignoring the repeated questioning by the
barman, she had to get out of here!
"Meredith wait!" Gavin slurred, getting to his feet and using the bar for support staggered round to try and
catch her up. "Please wait, dammit don't you owe me that much?" He demanded, causing her to pause
slightly, glancing back over her shoulder at him their eyes locking and for a moment Gavin caught a fleeting
glimpse of something it might have been pain or guilt he wasn't sure.
"Please just leave me alone!" Meredith croaked turning and dashing in back into the restaurant leaving Gavin
standing stunned for a moment before his pride and anger reasserted itself and he went staggering after her,
ignoring the exclamations of annoyance as he accidentally bumped into other people's tables as he ploughed
after her. It wasn't till he was a few feet away from her that he registered the fact that she wasn't dining
alone and although he felt the impulse to smash the pretty boy's face in he restrained it.
"Leave us we need to talk!" He ordered Meredith's companion glaring at him with such hatred that Giles
automatically stood up from his chair, and Gavin quickly slumped down into it, but when he didn't turn and
leave Gavin turned to look at him properly for the first time. "I told you to leave, and I didn't mean tomorrow
or next Tuesday I meant now!" Gavin snapped.
"Meredith, get your wrap we're leaving!" Giles hissed reaching out and pulling the unresisting Meredith out
of her seat.
"No the lady stays!" Gavin hissed getting up from his seat and closing the gap between himself and Giles until
they practically stood eyeball to eyeball. "You leave!"
"She comes with me!" Giles snapped.
"Giles please...." Meredith began. "Don't make him angry."
"You'd do wise to listen to the lady!" Gavin retorted. "We have a little unfinished business, besides you're
hardly man enough for her believe me I should know, having had recent experience myself!"
"So you're...." Giles gasped, glancing back over his shoulder at Meredith whose eyes widened pleadingly then
back to Gavin. "You're the..."
"Giles don't!" Meredith cut in, "This is my business!" She added before turning to address Gavin. "We have
nothing to say to each other Mr Cochran, nothing! Now if you don't mind my companion and I are leaving and
I suggest that you do nothing to stop us, unless of course you want me to start remembering certain
inconvenient details and relaying them to all interested parties!"
"You bitch!" Gavin snapped, suddenly pushing past Giles and grabbing Meredith roughly. "After everything
that I did for you...You'd gladly do such a thing, haven't you punished me enough?"
"Let me go!" Meredith hissed icily pulling out of Gavin's grasp and seizing her purse storming towards the exit
Giles hot on her trail and a fuming Gavin only a few steps behind.
As soon as they were outside Meredith pulled out her mobile and with a quick few words summoned her car
before turning to Giles an apologetic expression on her face. "I'm so sorry this had to happen on your first
night!"
"Well I didn't expect to meet the ex straight away, I take he doesn't know about the..." But Giles didn't get
the chance to finish his question as the door to the restaurant slammed open and out sauntered Gavin with a
few of his 'friends'.
"So what now?" Gavin taunted from the top of the steps. "Whisking this boy back to your boudoir for a little
action before booting him out first thing in the morning? You really are the biggest bitch I ever had the
misfortune to come across, perhaps this time you might get round to using some contraception unless abortion
is your preferred method of choice?"
"How dare you!" Giles snapped. "From what I've seen she obviously has good taste to get rid of a drunken
bully such as yourself..."
"Oh yes and taking up with a prissy mummer's boy such as yourself!" Gavin sneered.
"Please Giles lets just go home!" Meredith muttered tugging on his arm.
"Well at least when she's out with me she can wear heels!" Giles snapped back causing Gavin to visible
bristle, ignoring Meredith's pleads and stepping towards Gavin.
"Oh so you think you're better than me?" Gavin retorted shrugging off his jacket. "Why don't you come over
here and prove it?"
"Oh I don't need to prove it to you!" Giles replied smugly. "I think it's a matter of fact!" He added turning
and moving towards the car.
The next few seconds were a blur of movement, one moment Giles was opening the car door for Meredith the
next he lay slumped on the pavement holding his bleeding nose whilst an irate and staggering Gavin stood
victoriously over him.
"What's the matter mummer's boy, don't want to play with the big boys don't tell me you Yanks are
chicken..." Gavin taunted, unable to keep the twist of pain from flashing into his eyes as he saw Meredith
automatically go to her 'friend's' side her eyes blazing with fury as she glanced up at him.
"You really are a monster!" She spat helping Giles to his feet. "I can't believe I ever thought you were
anything else!"
"The feeling is mutual, but then when we met I didn't realise I had fallen for a calculating murdering bitch, I
doubt you even lost one wink of sleep after butchering our child...."
"That's it!" Giles blurted out stepping forward and landing a punch on Gavin's jaw, followed almost
immediately by another that cracked his nose, and another that winded him in the stomach. "You think you
are so all that, standing there...Not so cocky now are we? Why don't you call you trained dogs over...." Giles
demanded as he pushed himself off of Gavin turning to glance back at Meredith a look of surprise flickering
over his face as he saw the look of pain and concern on her face but what was more surprising was the fact it
wasn't directed at him but at Gavin.
"Meredith..." He whispered breaking her out of her stupor and watching with a pained expression as she
flushed with embarrassment immediately looking away from Gavin and studying the floor in fascination.
"I'm going home!" Meredith blurted out suddenly getting into the waiting car.
For a moment Giles paused glancing across at Gavin who had managed to drag himself up off the floor. "Are
we all finished here?"
Fuming Gavin wiped the blood from his face glaring up at Giles from under his furrowed eyebrows. "We're
done! But listen to me Yankee Doodle, what has happened between her and me is our business and your keep
your nose out do you hear me?.... But if I hear one whisper that you've hurt her in anyway, despite our
differences I will personally see to it that you get acquainted with the Thames from a unique perspective, do
you understand?"
"Yeah reading you loud and clear pal, but I don't think I'm the one whose going to hurt her, do you?" Giles
retorted pulling open the car door and sliding in beside Meredith, her eyes locked angrily with Gavin's until the
car pulled away and sped into the night.
"You ok Gavin?" Kelly asked sympathetically after Danny had given her a prompting push in his boss's
direction.
Whirling round Gavin shrugged off her cloying touch a sneer of disgust on his face. "Go home, call me when
you've finished growing up..." And with that he turned and shaking with anger hailed down a passing
hackney; he had been right before this was no way to spend the rest of his life, only one thing would make him
feel better again and that was get Meredith back.
Later as Giles was finishing his coffee Meredith got to feet and making her excuses headed off in the direction
of the powder room, well headed off in an effort to find where the hell it was in the first place through all
those damn plants. When after a few minutes scouting she still couldn't find it she headed towards the bar
intent on collaring the nearest waiter and getting some directions. However when she arrived the barman was
round the other side of the oval bar serving a customer who sat slumped against it several empty glasses
indicating he had been there for sometime although any further analysis was cut off by the barman's back
keeping him hidden from view.
"Excuse me!" Meredith called out, tinges of exasperation in her voice, her desperation beginning to mount due
to one of the more annoying symptoms of pregnancy.
"Yes Madam." The Barman muttered turning round and stepping towards her and revealing for the first time
to customer at the bar whose crystal blue eyes locked at first drunkenly then with increasing clarity on the
woman standing no more than ten feet away separated only by an expanse of marble.
"Madam?" The Barman repeated when Meredith did not reply, instead her attention was firmly focused on
the drunk opposite...
"Gavin" She whispered disbelievingly, slowly backing away and ignoring the repeated questioning by the
barman, she had to get out of here!
"Meredith wait!" Gavin slurred, getting to his feet and using the bar for support staggered round to try and
catch her up. "Please wait, dammit don't you owe me that much?" He demanded, causing her to pause
slightly, glancing back over her shoulder at him their eyes locking and for a moment Gavin caught a fleeting
glimpse of something it might have been pain or guilt he wasn't sure.
"Please just leave me alone!" Meredith croaked turning and dashing in back into the restaurant leaving Gavin
standing stunned for a moment before his pride and anger reasserted itself and he went staggering after her,
ignoring the exclamations of annoyance as he accidentally bumped into other people's tables as he ploughed
after her. It wasn't till he was a few feet away from her that he registered the fact that she wasn't dining
alone and although he felt the impulse to smash the pretty boy's face in he restrained it.
"Leave us we need to talk!" He ordered Meredith's companion glaring at him with such hatred that Giles
automatically stood up from his chair, and Gavin quickly slumped down into it, but when he didn't turn and
leave Gavin turned to look at him properly for the first time. "I told you to leave, and I didn't mean tomorrow
or next Tuesday I meant now!" Gavin snapped.
"Meredith, get your wrap we're leaving!" Giles hissed reaching out and pulling the unresisting Meredith out
of her seat.
"No the lady stays!" Gavin hissed getting up from his seat and closing the gap between himself and Giles until
they practically stood eyeball to eyeball. "You leave!"
"She comes with me!" Giles snapped.
"Giles please...." Meredith began. "Don't make him angry."
"You'd do wise to listen to the lady!" Gavin retorted. "We have a little unfinished business, besides you're
hardly man enough for her believe me I should know, having had recent experience myself!"
"So you're...." Giles gasped, glancing back over his shoulder at Meredith whose eyes widened pleadingly then
back to Gavin. "You're the..."
"Giles don't!" Meredith cut in, "This is my business!" She added before turning to address Gavin. "We have
nothing to say to each other Mr Cochran, nothing! Now if you don't mind my companion and I are leaving and
I suggest that you do nothing to stop us, unless of course you want me to start remembering certain
inconvenient details and relaying them to all interested parties!"
"You bitch!" Gavin snapped, suddenly pushing past Giles and grabbing Meredith roughly. "After everything
that I did for you...You'd gladly do such a thing, haven't you punished me enough?"
"Let me go!" Meredith hissed icily pulling out of Gavin's grasp and seizing her purse storming towards the exit
Giles hot on her trail and a fuming Gavin only a few steps behind.
As soon as they were outside Meredith pulled out her mobile and with a quick few words summoned her car
before turning to Giles an apologetic expression on her face. "I'm so sorry this had to happen on your first
night!"
"Well I didn't expect to meet the ex straight away, I take he doesn't know about the..." But Giles didn't get
the chance to finish his question as the door to the restaurant slammed open and out sauntered Gavin with a
few of his 'friends'.
"So what now?" Gavin taunted from the top of the steps. "Whisking this boy back to your boudoir for a little
action before booting him out first thing in the morning? You really are the biggest bitch I ever had the
misfortune to come across, perhaps this time you might get round to using some contraception unless abortion
is your preferred method of choice?"
"How dare you!" Giles snapped. "From what I've seen she obviously has good taste to get rid of a drunken
bully such as yourself..."
"Oh yes and taking up with a prissy mummer's boy such as yourself!" Gavin sneered.
"Please Giles lets just go home!" Meredith muttered tugging on his arm.
"Well at least when she's out with me she can wear heels!" Giles snapped back causing Gavin to visible
bristle, ignoring Meredith's pleads and stepping towards Gavin.
"Oh so you think you're better than me?" Gavin retorted shrugging off his jacket. "Why don't you come over
here and prove it?"
"Oh I don't need to prove it to you!" Giles replied smugly. "I think it's a matter of fact!" He added turning
and moving towards the car.
The next few seconds were a blur of movement, one moment Giles was opening the car door for Meredith the
next he lay slumped on the pavement holding his bleeding nose whilst an irate and staggering Gavin stood
victoriously over him.
"What's the matter mummer's boy, don't want to play with the big boys don't tell me you Yanks are
chicken..." Gavin taunted, unable to keep the twist of pain from flashing into his eyes as he saw Meredith
automatically go to her 'friend's' side her eyes blazing with fury as she glanced up at him.
"You really are a monster!" She spat helping Giles to his feet. "I can't believe I ever thought you were
anything else!"
"The feeling is mutual, but then when we met I didn't realise I had fallen for a calculating murdering bitch, I
doubt you even lost one wink of sleep after butchering our child...."
"That's it!" Giles blurted out stepping forward and landing a punch on Gavin's jaw, followed almost
immediately by another that cracked his nose, and another that winded him in the stomach. "You think you
are so all that, standing there...Not so cocky now are we? Why don't you call you trained dogs over...." Giles
demanded as he pushed himself off of Gavin turning to glance back at Meredith a look of surprise flickering
over his face as he saw the look of pain and concern on her face but what was more surprising was the fact it
wasn't directed at him but at Gavin.
"Meredith..." He whispered breaking her out of her stupor and watching with a pained expression as she
flushed with embarrassment immediately looking away from Gavin and studying the floor in fascination.
"I'm going home!" Meredith blurted out suddenly getting into the waiting car.
For a moment Giles paused glancing across at Gavin who had managed to drag himself up off the floor. "Are
we all finished here?"
Fuming Gavin wiped the blood from his face glaring up at Giles from under his furrowed eyebrows. "We're
done! But listen to me Yankee Doodle, what has happened between her and me is our business and your keep
your nose out do you hear me?.... But if I hear one whisper that you've hurt her in anyway, despite our
differences I will personally see to it that you get acquainted with the Thames from a unique perspective, do
you understand?"
"Yeah reading you loud and clear pal, but I don't think I'm the one whose going to hurt her, do you?" Giles
retorted pulling open the car door and sliding in beside Meredith, her eyes locked angrily with Gavin's until the
car pulled away and sped into the night.
"You ok Gavin?" Kelly asked sympathetically after Danny had given her a prompting push in his boss's
direction.
Whirling round Gavin shrugged off her cloying touch a sneer of disgust on his face. "Go home, call me when
you've finished growing up..." And with that he turned and shaking with anger hailed down a passing
hackney; he had been right before this was no way to spend the rest of his life, only one thing would make him
feel better again and that was get Meredith back.
