*TequilaSidenotes- This is a gift for Castaway5, who wants me to publish something he can read. ( I typically write yaoi, he's extremely straight. Extremely.)
This is NOT slash, just to clarify.
This is a male/female OOC (out-of-character), slightly AU (alternate universe) story.
Don't like?
Don't read.
DON'T FLAME!
Cus no one likes flames.
All flames will be used to make coffee and s'mores to keep me up to write an extremely slashy scene between Tancred and Fidelio instead of just implying it. Think I won't?
Try me.
And no, to those of you that read my slash story Way to ADD, I haven't quit at it, I just work from two different computers and the second chapter of that is on the other computer.
JFYI-They are 21, have left Bloor's Academy behind them and have moved out on their own. I have not read past the Castle Of Mirrors, so please, don't tell me what happens.
**DISCLAIMER- I do NOT own Charlie Bone! The Characters are owned by Jenny Nimmo! If I did own them, Fidelio most certainly would be a raging, flaming gay. Sorry Chris.
I also do NOT own Show Me Love. The song is owned by t.A.T.u.
Sweet Illusion
A series of CharlieXOlivia Songfics
This one IS connected to Decode
2. Show Me Love
Charlie Looked around The bar, vision blurred. He sighed and felt a warm hand on his shoulder, then turned to see Emma. She smiled and said, "you're totally gone, Charlie. Maybe you should sleep it off? I have a bed…" Her words trailed off in his mind and the minutes blurred together as she led him to her flat down the street and put him to bed. Hours later, he awoke and saw Emma next to him, facing the opposite way, dressed in her work uniform and clearly sleeping. He silently wondered where the hell his shirt went, found it, redressed and left.
This was an accident
Not the kind where sirens sound
Never even noticed
We're suddenly crumbling.
Olivia slept restlessly on the living room couch. He was late again, which would have caused worry in the standard female, but Olivia was not standard. The lock clicked and she stirred, rubbing her eyes. As a dark figure walked in. She yawned, "Charlie?"
The figure froze in place and said, "go back to sleep, Liv."
"no." she sat up. "where have you been?"
"I have a job."
"you get off at seven thirty."
"I put in overtime."
"how the hell do you put in overtime doing customer service at an office that closes at seven???"(1)
"…stay back and put the books in order."
"until 2 am?" He knew she had raised an eyebrow as she spoke and retorted,
"don't look at me like that."
"you know I know you're full of it. Look, I'm not a slave driver, feel free to go out, just tell me before you do, so I don't fall asleep on the couch." Charlie rolled his eyes and cut on the light. "then why are we talking about this."
"I don't want to fight."
"then stop talking." He regretted his words as soon as he saw that she was clearly upset.
"why are you so mean lately? I didn't do anything to you! TELL ME!" He sighed. "You'd kill me if I did."
Tell me how you never
felt delicate or innocent
Do you still have doubts that
us having faith makes any sense?
She looked at him as if he had three heads.
"what are you trying to tell me?" Charlie sighed and said, "no don't get mad, because you like to throw things when you get mad."
"I'm about to start throwin shit right god damn NOW if you don't spit it out."(2)
"promise me you won't throw anything until you hear the full story."
"fine."
"okay, me Tancred, Fido and Lysander went out tonight and had some drinks. Then I ran into Emma and-"
THWACK.
"YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T-"
"you cheated?!?!?"
"see that's why I said, 'don't throw stuff until I finish, Olivia!' I didn't! I'm home as late as I am because Emma was bartending-"
"okay, PLEASE tell me this wasn't a gentlemen's bar-"(3)
"and what ever the hell she gave me got me really drunk so I went to sleep in her flat until about half past midnight then woke up, she was next to me-" he dodged a well-thrown shoe that was headed for his face and said, "FULLY CLOTHED! So I got up, drank a lot of coffee, drove the guys home and the came back here." Olivia sighed and hugged him apologetically.
Tell me nothing ever counts
Lashing out or breaking down
Still somebody loses,
Cus there's no way to turn around.
Later that week, Billy, not watching his feet, tripped over that shoe that Olivia threw-and could not locate-and fell on the table, once again scattering photos.(4) He cursed loudly as he stood and Olivia ran in, having heard the crash. She sighed and helped him up, muttering something about, "that damn table." she picked up a picture of Charlie the day they graduated. He'd changed so much since then…She sighed as a list ran through her mind of good and bad.
"you alright Billy?"
"I've had worse, Livvy. I'll be fine. I'm going to work."
"ok, Tell Mr. Ominous and the flames I said hi." Billy was out of the door and Olivia sighed as she looked in the bedroom she and Charlie shared, to see him still sleeping. She sat on the bed and looked at him, sighed, abd realised she still held the photo.
Staring at your photograph
Everything now in the past
Never felt so lonely
I wish that you could show me love
She laid down next to him and toyed with his hair, as she often did when thinking, when se stirred slightly and wrapped his arms around her. She played with the cross around his neck and he inhaled deeply before whispering, "something's the matter."
"what? nothing." Charlie pulled her tighter. "yes there is…wanna know how I know?"
She nodded slightly. He smiled and said, "first of all, you're playing with my cross like it's a worry stone(5); if it were fake silver, not gold, it would have tarnished. Second, right before that you'd been toying with my hair, which is something you only do when upset, and finally, your voice cracked when I asked you if something was wrong. Now what's bothering you?"
"...what's been wrong lately? You've been all distant and mean…"
"…I've just been tired lately. How about this, month, I take two weeks off and we go on that cruise we've been talking about?" She smiled and said, "that'd be great! But what about Billy?"
"he won't die if he's left alone for a little." Olivia smiled.
Show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love
Till you open the door
Show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love
Till I'm up off the floor
Show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love
Till it's inside my pores
Show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love
Till I'm screaming for more
Olivia and Charlie shook there heads at the television as the newscaster told the details of yet another murder. Charlie grabbed the clicker and changed the channel as Olivia sighed, "it's stupid. It's just really bloody stupid."
"what, the fact that the world has no better news to tell then who this or that star fucked?"
"what the bloody hell are you on…"she looked at the TV and saw some story about that Cole Sprouse dude hooking up with that Dia(6) Supernova chick From that band Honour Code Violation.(7) Olivia Chuckled and said, "what's her real last name again?"
"uh…Alexandria I think. Isn't she that chick that acted with that Josh Hutcherson dude in That One Movie, Miss Murder(8), like 2 years ago? Where he was the stalker's target and she played psycho-bitch?"
"No that was another movie, Dancing With Danger and she acted with Mitchell Musso. In Miss Murder she was Spy girl who screwed Josh Hutcherson and shot the Crazy Bitch who was played by that Hanna Banana-"
"Hannah Montana"
"Hannah Montana trick(9) and…anyway, not the who's fucking who thing, but the fact that everyday someone's been killed! It's just random acts of mindlessness! And only you can make me ADD when I'm proving a point!" He hugged her. She was such a peacemaker…until you pissed her off…then you were subject to be the target of flying footwear.
Random acts of mindlessness
Commonplace occurrences
Chances And Surprises
Another state of consciousness
Olivia zipped up the last of her suitcases, smiling at Charlie from across the room. This made up for every stupid or mean thing that he had ever done ever. She walked up behind him as he attempted to close his suitcase and wrapped her arms around his waist, whispering, "I'm all packed." He groaned, the gave a triumphant "HAHA!" as the suitcase closed then pushed it on the floor and said, "so am I." She smiled, The walked into the living room, laying on the couch and grabbing the clicker to watch TV. Charlie soon joined her, her using his thigh for a pillow as they sat through a couple of episodes of a highly addictive shw called NCIS. Olivia turned over halfway through the third episode and said, "Charlie…"
"hmm? What love?"
"Know what I want?"
"a three story house and a cobalt blue Spyder?"(10)
"well, yes, but not right now." Charllie cut off the TV and said, "then what?"
"well, we're packed, Billy's gone out, Fido's running off somewhere with Tancred doing god knows what, and the house is ours."
"are you implying…"
"Well, I don't want to jump on the bed…not in the childish sense anyway…" Charlie smirked and lowered her onto the bed, setting his knee between her legs as she propped up n her elbows and…
the front door opened.
Charlie and Olivia stared as Billy came stumbling in with some nameless girl and went to his room, locking the door as she giggled, making it obvious they were intoxicated. Charlie groaned and got up as a sexually frustrated Olivia fell back onto the bed, thinking up 27 ways to kill Billy and the drunken slut that looked like a Barbie.
Tell me nothing ever counts
Lashing out or breaking down
Still somebody loses
Cus there's no way to turn around
Olivia beamed as she saw the rental car they had gotten, a cobalt blue Spyder.
Oh that totally made up for everything in her eyes.
She hopped in the drivers seat and revved the engine a few times until Charlie gave her a look. She removed The keys and wrapped her arms around him and kissed his neck, muttering, "do you have any idea how fucking much I love you right now-"
"ahh! St- Olivia! In…public…god that…STOP GOD DAMN IT!" Olivia pulled away and a red faced Charlie grabbed the keys and got in the car, muttering something about his neck as she got in. A few hours into the trip and she was asleep
***
Olivia giggled drunkenly and fell on Charlie's lap. He looked down at her face in the light of the twilight and said, "oi." She laughed and said, "wanna hear a secret?" He knew what she was gonna say and said, "Olivia-"
"shh! I'm gonna tell you!"(11) He laughed and said, "what?"
"I love you!" she laughed harder and fell off of his lap as a familiar voice said, "Charlie? Olivia?"
"Emma?" Olivia giggled a silly, "Hi Emma! Whatcha doin here?" Emma smiled, "bartending. I got a new gig. And you're obviously here for fun."
"yup!" Her smile quickly faded and she ran for the bathroom. Charlie groaned and said, "maybe I should be getting her back to the room." Emma smiled, green eyes twinkling and said, "come back and talk to me later?" Charlie nodded as Olivia came stumbling out of the bathroom and said, "'m fine!" Charlie picked her up and said, "no, love, you aren't. time to go."
"aw. Bye Emma!" Charlie carried her like that back to the room, giving cold glares to those who stared. He helped her out of her clothes, into pyjamas and gave her two aspirin and a glass of water before putting her to bed and returning to the bar.
***
Charlie was wasted.
Again.
And it wasn't the spinning room that was tipping him off, or the sounds running together. No, it was the fact that his fingers were currently tangled in Emma Tolly's blonde hair and his lips were crushed against hers in a bruising kiss and his body was pinning hers against a wall and he had no clue where the fuck his shirt was, or his belt for that matter.
And God it felt good.
It was Good and right and sweet and twisted and sickening and oh so fucking wrong!
So wrong, in fact, that for that moment it was right.
He knew he shouldn't be here. And when he walked back in his room at midnight, and curled up next to Olivia, he still knew he shouldn't have been there. She flipped over and buried her face in his bare chest, as she usually did and sighed contentedly.
Fuck, he could have cried.
You play games, I play tricks
Girls and girls, but you're the one
Like a game of pick up sticks
Played by fucking lunatics
Olivia was pissed.
So unbelievably pissed.
She was pissed and sad and hurt and god it hurt, it hurt so fucking bad she couldn't breathe. The only words she could form were;
"you had…with Emma…when I was…and…huh?"
"I'm sorry." was all he could murmur, and somehow, she knew the words had some meaning. Her fury bubbled up as there was a knock and Charlie let Emma in.
"good morning Charlie, O-"
THWACK.
Olivia's fist smacked against her cheek with a satisfying sound. Within moments there was biting and scratching and screaming and kicking and fists tangled in hair in a rather painful way.(12)Charlie finally pulled them apart when Emma yelled something that was truly stupid given the situation.
"you're just mad he still loves me more!"
"you dumb bitch." Olivia looked at Charlie, who was staring at Emma's shocked face, not caring that his words must have cut deep.
"b…but you said…"
"that was years ago. Let it go. Gabriel's been chasing you, dumbfuck, go after him!"
"but he's no you!" Charlie plucked her up by an arm and dragged her to the door before saying coldly,
"deal."
And slamming the door in her face. He turned back Olivia and said, "I didn't mean for any of this to happen."
"that's what Tancred said." He sighed. "I'm not Tancred! How can I prove that to you?" She looked up at him and said, "do what you did to her to me."
"What, drag you out of the door?" Charlie said rather densely. Olivia looked at him as if stupid and the message clicked in his head.
"oh! Oh…"
Show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love
Till you open the door
Show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love
Till I'm up off the floor
~*insert sex scene-that I left out so as not to warp my friend Chris' mind more than I already have-here*~
Olivia turned on her side and faced Charlie before whispering, "I believe you." and falling asleep.
Show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love
Till it's inside my pores
Show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love, show me love
Till I'm screaming for more
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*~TequilaSidenotes-
Eh, I'll post the sex scene if people ask for it. And if I do, Chris, you better not say jack shit if it's poorly written or have any sort of a TMI moment.
1- I Have no idea when most offices close. i just know when the Mall does.
2- GHETTO BITCH MOMENT! XD! sorry, I'm stupid like that.
3-Emma working at a "gentlemen's" bar probably shattered your whole image of her, but it probably got the desired effect.
4-That Damn table-and everyone will have one at somepoint- is gonna cause hell in every story. JFYI.
5-My mother tells me a worry stone is like a little rock or something that someone plays with when nervous or worried and gets worn and smoothed over time. IDK really.
6-Dia Supernova is Me. It's an alias for websites like Youtube.
7-Not a real band. It's a name me and some friends considered for a band name for us and we were gonna dress like catholic school girls...*train of thought derails*
8-Real song, fake movie to my knowledge.
9-I get to shoot Hannah Montana! *laughs manically* Chris knows my issue with her...i think...*train of thought derails again*
10-Don't we all? Well i do...*stupid train keeps derailing*
11-She's a funny drunk!
12-Girlfights suck. A lot. And I have battle scars that say so. (I don't fight fair.) *train of thought crashes*