Author's Note-Hm. I'm kind of in too far for that whole disclaimer/ warning thing, aren't I? Well, if you're stupid enough to think I'm trying to make money off this or think its going to be the equivalent of Goodnight Moon, then you probably can't read anyway.
Lisa pulled up in front of the hotel just as the carclock time switched to midnight. She and Adella stepped out of the car and walked up to the room in silence. Lisa raised her hand to knock on the door but paused when she heard voices.
"You asshole."
"You're so polite."
"Well, its in the genes. Now give it to me."
"We are not going to watch The OC."
"I don't want to! I want to watch Great Hotels!"
"Oh, well in that case..." she heard laughter. Two sets of laughter. She stared at the just as shocked Adella and knocked on the door. The two voices hushed inside and a moment later Jackson opened the door.
His eyes briefly skimmed over Adella but lingered on Lisa. She shifted in annoyance under his inspection.
"Give me my daughter, Jack," she ordered shakily, trying to move past him. He blocked her path.
"She's my daughter, too."
"Jackson!" Lisa hissed, shoving him in the chest, and in his shock he stumbled back into the room.
"Its okay, Mom," Kat said calmly, standing from the bed where the empty pizza box lay. Lisa looked upon it in confusion. Kat quietly shut the door. "He told me."
"You-you-"
"I did."
"Why?" Lisa screeched angrily. Jackson cringed as Adella ran to Kat's side.
"I had to. It was the only..." he took her shoulders to comfort her but she reeled back her arm and punched him hard in the face. He reacted quickly and slammed her against the wall. Adella inhaled sharply, turning away and gripping Kat's hand.
"I don't want to hurt you, Lisa," Jackson was hissing. "But I'm going to get my way and whether you and Kat come willingly or forcibly it makes no difference. But make no mistake in knowing that all you do by trying to resist is piss me off."
Adella looked at Kat. "What?" she whispered. Kat shrugged helplessly.
"You have no right," Lisa sobbed. "You have no right to do this to us! I realize I made you angry fifteen years ago. But can't you see how much damage you've done now?"
"This isn't about revenge anymore, Lisa," he corrected, still gripping her arms. "This is about what does and always has belonged to me. You and Kat belong to me."
"You may be Kat's father but by no means are you her dad," Lisa snarled. Kat's eyes filled with tears. "Luke is her dad."
"He's never been there for her!"
"Neither have you!"
"Dammit, don't you understand?" he shook her. "If I could have been, I would of! But I was in jail, serving time for what you accused me of! So who's fault is that!"
"Oh, so I' m the bad guy just because I put a man in jail who tried to kill me?"
"No, you're a bad guy because you slept with him!" Jackson yelled.
"Excuse me for thinking it would give me a chance," she was crying freely now. "For thinking that there was a tiny bit of human in you that would let me off the hook."
Kat took Adella's arm and together they sat in the bathroom. They couldn't take listening to this. Adella, with her ignorant mind, and Kat, with her overexposed one.
Author's Note-If you want, I already figured out the cast of this. In my mind. Of course there's Cillian and Rachel as Jackson and Lisa, and Brian Cox as Joe, but I have Kat as a young Janaya Stephens, Adella as an older Brittany Oaks, and Luke as Gordon Currie. Likey? I do. But I was also watching Left Behind, so forgive the Janaya/ Gordon.
