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Decision

(S01x10 – Part 1/2)

He was sitting in the chair in the old cement factory nursing a bruised rib or two. Actually, he would not be surprise if it would turn out they were broken. He shifted in the chair and winced in pain. Yeah one was certainly broken. He was breathing hard and was so beaten up, he couldn't remember the last time he was this messed up. Besides the bruised – probably broken – ribs, he had the puffy black eye and his swollen jaw. His side, back and stomach hurt so much he found it difficult to see right at first. His lips were cut and bleeding and he smelt dirty and of smoke. All because he let that mother fucker win. All because he wanted to teach Max a lesson, because he wanted her to lose.

"Cheer up Barbie. You know the house always wins." She said offering a bottle of whisky to him.

He leaned back against the chair, pulled a face and turned away in disgust. He was disgusted… of the dirty place and the dirty woman and of the whole day. It was like a sample of his old life.

She walked over to him and straddled his legs, wrapping her arms around his neck.

"Tonight was rather successful wasn't it? I won. You.. helped me." She whispered with a sarcastic grin clearly enjoying the situation and that she again had the upper hand. She also smelled like whiskey and smoke.

Suddenly she shifted and now instead of straddling him she popped down on his lap causing him to take a breath in pain. His whole body hurt, not that she seemed to care. No, she was enjoying it one more proof she thought she owned everything, that she thought she could have everything.

"I have always known and I think you have too that we make a damn good team. And as long as this dome is around, I could see us making this town our playground." She said, now trying to get some kind of reaction out of him as she leaned down to kiss him.

Thoughts after thoughts run through his head. He tried his very best all day to defeat her, to trick her, but here he was in this damn hellhole, doing her dirty job, being nothing else but a toy in her hands. She was his old life and no matter how hard he had tried to fight it, he slipped way too easily back into it. There was no other proof needed then how he ended up all beaten up in a dirty underground room with a woman on his lap who he had no feelings for, who was blackmailing him, who was not Julia.

As an image of Julia from last night with bright eyes and an affectionate smile on her full lips which he had kissed senseless only minutes before crossed his mind, he turned his head breaking the kiss he was anyway not responding to.

"These people aren't gonna let you win. Yeah you got a few that owe you something now, but at the end of the day that ain't a whole hell of a lot." He almost hissed at her his body tense with defense and alert. That she was cleaning the blood from his bruised lips so calm like his words meant nothing to her, like she had the right, made him so angry his hands curled into fists.

"Yeah, until more people owe me and then more people on top of them. I will live the way I want Barbie, we will live the way we want." She said and her eyes gave her away. She was really 100% sure of herself, of her plan. That she could rule the world under the dome, that she could blackmail him to do anything for her. Well she was mistaken a big time and a plan already formed in his head.

"What if you don't get more? Huh? You don't get your whiskey? You don't get me?" He asked enjoying the momentarily disbelieve running through her eyes. Yes, he will end this, right here right now.

"Then I will burn the place down." She answered like a spoiled little brat. Had she really always been this shallow and selfish? Had he been just like this? He felt more and more disgusted with her and the more time he spent with her, working for her, the more dirty and unworthy he felt. With a sudden movement he pushed her off of him and stood up. He winced in pain and grabbed his side immediately.

"What are you doing?" She asked now annoyed but a tiny bit of surprise mixed with insecurity ran through her eyes.

"What I should have done a while ago." He murmured making his way to the door. God did his ribs and stomach hurt.

"Oh, you do not want to piss me off, Dale. Not when under your feet lies a body belonging to Peter Shumway. You do everything I say or the truth about him will come out." She snapped at him and he started to see red from anger.

Yes, that secret was all she had on him. It was a huge one, it was one that could destroy him, that would destroy him, but being here with her, like this, doing things like this, it was destroying him anyway. He could not walk home to Julia every day for who knows how long living this double life. He could not do that to her. He was NOT going to turn back to who he used to be no matter what Max had on him.

He walked up to her grabbing her hand so tight in anger he was sure it would leave a mark.

"That is… See that is the old Barbie." She hissed with a grin.

That sentence made him let her go like she was on fire and take a step back immediately. The very thing he was afraid of was creeping its way back to him the more time he spent with her. But it was going to end now. Throwing one last glare at the woman he turned on his heels.

"We are finished Max." He said as he closed the door behind him. And he meant it with every fiber of his body.

I know it is short and first I wanted to make this one and well THE talk together in one chapter but I changed my mind. So please let me know what you think!

knuckles99heidi: Thanks a lot, I really loved to write the last part of the last chapter too!

yas-m: Your one-shot was amazing! I LOVED it! So don't ever feel insecure, keep writing those amazing stories I can't get enough of them! (:

Romantic In Denial: If I were to write for the show all we would have would be Jarbie! (:

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maricejayo: Yeah, I hate it when they have a fight… Next chapters won't be easy…

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