Strangelove

Ch 5

(Author's Note: Special note on this chapter. I'd like to dedicate it to Petra and "Scented Candles" (sorry I don't know your real name!). Thanks sooo much for picking me up when I needed it- you guys got me over my emotional hump with this story! And to everyone- sorry- I know it's been a wait... I'll try to update this one more often, too- I just didn't think that many people liked it anymore... Happy to be wrong (I was, right?)! Hope you all enjoy...)

Ch 5

Sadie's spite continued, as she continued to unobtrusively stalk her sister for the next few days. She monitored Jude's every move, waiting for the moment when she and Darius could effect their plan. Several nights later, the chance arrived.

As agreed, she signaled Darius, and he returned her message. Everything was ready.

In Tommy's remote house that night, he and Jude now lay naked, sweaty, but entangled on the wrinkled sheets of his queen-sized bed.

He ran his large hand through her disheveled hair as she panted in his arms; mirroring his own heavy, deep breathing. Suddenly, she shivered

"Jude?" he asked.

"Just cold..." she answered.

He drew the thick, heavy black comforter around her, but she trembled still.

"Jude? What's wrong? Baby, you're shaking..."

"I don't know..." she replied, trying to dispel the eerie feeling that now consumed her.

"I don't know what's wrong with me ..."

"Nothing was wrong with you a few minutes ago." Tommy quipped, unable to resist.

Jude smiled.

"Glad you noticed."

"Always, girl..."

"I guess... I'm just tired... Maybe I shouldn't have come tonight..."

"Dammit, girl!" Tommy scolded. "Of course you should have!"

"And of course, you're tired... I've been working you pretty hard... And not just here..." he insinuated.

She smiled again.

"You get some sleep, girl. Right here. Right now..." he ordered.

Obediently, Jude placed her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes, as his lean body curled protectively over her own.

Just after dawn the next morning, two cars parked carefully just down the road. Darius emerged first from a white, vintage Porsche. At the sight of him, Sadie opened the door of her far more modest Volvo.

Darius extended a thick hand to her as she approached.

Sadie smiled sexily as she took it.

"Hi there!" she greeted her co-conspirator, her soft ice blue eyes penetrating into his ebony ones.

"Hey" Darius responded cooly. "Ready?"

"Hell, yeah!"

"I've been ready for this for some time now" Sadie thought meanly.

"No doubt in you girl, is there?"

"Confidence is sexy!" she retorted quickly.

"Yes... you are..." Darius thought "But first we do this... then we'll see what else there is for us to do..."

"Yes" he answered simply.

"Let's go do it..." she said.

"Make anything you want of that..." she thought of her suggestive comment.

Stealthily, they climbed the steps of Tommy's house. Sadie withdrew the keys from the pocket of her deep brown Italian leather jacket; foresight prevented her from returning them to Tommy after their breakup. Quietly, they entered the silent house.

"Don't hear em.'" Darius said softly.

"That is surprising." Sadie whispered knowingly.

"Guess she's not that good after all..." she smirked.

As noiselessly as possible, they approached the bedroom and thrust the door open.

Sadie gasped at what she saw. Tommy's nude form was draped possessively and protectively over Jude's. Her arms wrapped tightly around his back as if to keep him right there, in that place with her, forever.

Sadistic rage engulfed Sadie as the couple slept on, oblivious to her presence. Tommy never treated her with such obvious and potent affection.

"He never loved me... Never cared..." she realized, flashing back to numerous scenes from their past.

"It's always been about her..." she finally concluded, horrified and seeing everything clearly for the first time.

"Get up!" she barked vengefully at them.

Tommy jumped in shock, but still kept Jude carefully in his arms, as she clung to him in fright.

"Busted!" Sadie yelled, gleefully.

"OMG!" Jude shrieked, reaching for the blanket and tightening it around herself and her lover.

"Don't bother hiding anything... We've seen it all..." Darius remarked snidely from the doorway.

"That's for sure!" Sadie gloated.

"We're giving you exactly ten seconds to get decent. Then Jude, you will go home and stay there until I'm ready to deal with you... Sadie, you follow her and make sure she does exactly what we want..."

"Who says you get to come here and give us orders!" Tommy yelled angrily.

"My contracts, you fool! I am Jude's manager and the owner of her record label... As Liam would say, that's trump! I own her! She'll do whatever I want... Everything I want... And as for you..."

"You think you own me!" Tommy shot back proudly.

"Yeah, idiot, I do... You have a contract too! And screwing our underage artists sure wasn't part of that deal..."

Tommy swallowed carefully, desperately searching for a response; none came.

"Ten seconds... We'll be in the hall, listening... Don't even speak to each other! There's nothing for you two to say anymore! You two are finished..." Darius warned them as he and Sadie exited the room, closing the door behind them.

Springing up from the bed, Jude and Tommy threw their clothes on. Her face was ghostly white and her eyes huge in her terrified face.

"Everything is going to be okay." Tommy tried to silently reassure her. He failed; he was equally frightened.

"Darius is capable of anything..." Tommy knew from experience.

"Sadie is a psychotically jealous, nasty slut..." Jude realized.

He squeezed her hand quickly, immediately dropping it as the door opened.

"Let's go, Jude." Sadie demanded instantly, roughly yanking on her sister's arm to lead her away.

Tommy could only watch wordlessly as Jude was torn from him.

Darius shook his head, disgustedly.

"Tom is still pathetic... Too damm easy to read! Even easier to play! What is this thing he had for Jude, anyway... Had to fuck a 17 year old girl... Like he couldn't get anything else..."

He remained silent for several minutes, playing his mind games and positioning himself psychologically. Finally, after watching Tommy's eyes squirm uncontrollably, he spoke.

"Ok. Here's what's gonna happen now... No choices... No negotiation..."

(Author's Note: You like? Seriously, what is it with Darius and Sadie... it's just too easy to portray them as completely evil... although neither has been this nasty in the show, not yet, anyway... Seriously, let me know what you think...)