Authors note: Okay, this chapter will be one of those "Try to get as much information in little time" kind of chapters. Excuse some of my sarcasm!
Paloma, despite Alistair's threat, continued to see Jason every day for the next 8 weeks. And she got away with it too considering Alistair had his hands full with his new wife, Theresa.
"Let's go for a walk. To the park maybe. It's a nice night out, what do you think?" Jason asked kissing Paloma's neck. They were sitting on his floor facing the fireplace.
"Are you kidding?" She laughed. "We're fine right here." He bit her ear gently causing her shoulders to shoot up in defense. "Jason!" She shouted flirtatiously.
"No, let's go!" He stood up grabbing her hand to help her up. Making a puppy-face he pleaded, "Please?"
Paloma huffed in defeat. "Fine." Jason had to basically pull her along as they made their way to the local park. It was quite romantic there. Trees, fountains, moonlight sky…and Jason had a midnight picnic waiting for them… He was going to ask her about moving in with him but he wanted a nice atmosphere to do so…and cozying up by the fireplace wasn't good enough for him.
Alistair was drunk out-of-his-tree. He had a run-in with Gwen, Sheridan, Ethan and Theresa. And ended up hitting 2 birds with one stone! Alistair earlier had pulled a gun on Theresa because she wasn't, in his opinion, being a fit wife. When he pulled the trigger Ethan took the bullet, but not after it grazed Theresa first.
Sheridan, with the help of Katherine rushed both Ethan and Theresa to the hospital. Gwen and Rebecca followed in Ethan's SUV. And eventually everyone ended up at Harmony General, including Dr. Russel, Pilar, Martin, Ivy, Sam, Kay, Fox, Noah and Fancy. Don't ask why…it's Harmony!
So anyways, Alistair was drunk-out-of-his-tree and decided to go for a walk…in the park…where Paloma and Jason were.
"So Paloma, I wanted to ask your opinion about something. We've been together for almost three months and…" Jason began to ask her about moving in with him but was interrupted.
"Didn't I tell you not to see this boy anymore?" Alistair stomped his way furiously towards them. Jason and Paloma stood in defense, "And you know very well what the consequences of disobeying me…"
WHAM! Jason punched Alistair so hard, the old man fell over. Jason, pretty sure the conversation was over took Paloma's hand and both began to walk away.
Alistair yelled voraciously, "Don't turn your backs on me! No one walks away from Alistair Crane!" He picked up a rock and threw it and hit Jason square in the back of the neck, "Ha..."
Well that move really pissed Paloma off...it was a big rock and knocked Jason out cold. "Usted Hibrido! Le matare!" She yelled running at Alistair with full force. She knocked him over and started to pound on him as hard as a 5'1, 103lbs girl could... (not very hard), but hey, its the thought that counts.
Alistair laughed as Paloma's tiny fists failed to cause him any significant amount of pain, or even discomfort for that matter. As a sick gentleman who liked to inflict pain on others, vice versa. it just bounced off of him (also because he has a fine coat of flab where she was punching him in the torso.) "Oh Paloma, you've got that Latin flare just like your sister and mother, I just adore it." He immediately grabbed her wrists, and in one maneuver flipped her off of him with such brute force she slammed into the ground next to him, and while still holding on, he mounted himself on top of her (not in that way if that's what you think) gaining total control, and pinning her arms to the Earth. "Now, maybe if you would knock off all that ridiculous squirming, and ridiculous Mexican rambling, you'll listen for two seconds."
The wind had been knocked out of her as Alistair slammed Paloma to the ground. Breathlessly she exclaimed, "You have nothing to say to me Alistair!" She tried to squirm out of the lock her had on her.
She was correct, as Alistair was playing it by ear. Subconsciously he was making an example out of her for what Theresa had just done to rain on their deal. He was in the mood for some loving, "And I'm going to get some at my leisure. And I'm choosing to use it at this moment!" With that he puckered up and leaned in to smooch on Paloma, 200 years his younger.
Paloma turned her head to the side trying to avoid Alistair's kiss...With all her force she brought her knee up and sacked up as hard as she possibly could. "Get off of me you devil!" She tried to squirm away from him hopefully the groin was enough.
Unfortunately for Paloma, Alistair didn't feel a thing. But then, his drunken state finally caught up to him, and he passed out right on top of Paloma, all dead weight trapping her beneath him.
Paloma was so relieved that he passed out. Her heart pounded heavily and she decided to catch her breath before using all of her strength to roll Alistair off of her. And when she did, she crawled back over to Jason. He was still out cold and he was bleeding from the back of the head. And lucky for her she only came out of the struggle with a few bruises and a scrape under her right eyes where a stick cut her when Alistair slammed her to the ground.
"Jason? Por favor, wake up!" She rolled him onto his back. "I need to get you to the hospital." She said to him, of course he couldn't hear...
After a few minutes of trying to stand him up, Jason came semi-to. He moaned in pain.
"Oh gracias dios!" She sighed in relief. "Can you stand?" Jason was weak from the blow to his head complied, but Paloma still had to hold him up to keep him steady.
The hospital thankfully was only a few blocks away from Pilar's house where Paloma's car was parked. She shoved her hero into the car and drove the rest of the way there.