Chapter 5

Note:

I worked like crazy at this chapter. I know that everybody of that story are straight. I really don't want to offend anybody. Just it's my crazy imagination. I would love to big thanks all Carol team for just an amazing and breathtaking movie. I fell in love completely.

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Rooney sat at a table and looked straight into blue eyes of the elder woman. She grinned immediately.
I'll wake up in the morning and everything will be just a dream. She guess that I always dreamed about it. - the dark-haired actress thought, shaking her head in disbelief.

She noticed that Cate looked in the menu. She just wants to use another woman inattention for looked at her hands. They were slender, long. Short nails, without any polish.
I like her hands. I wonder how delicate is her skin. If I could only accidentally touch her hand ...

Rooney closed her eyes for a moment, trying to calm the "strange" thoughts inside her head. She tried to focus on the menu, lying in front of her.

-Hey, slowpoke! Did you choose something? I'm starved. - Cate said softly, a little coquettishly, staring intensely into her eyes.

-Not yet. Certainly not anything "heavy". Maybe some pasta and a glass of wine. - she replied, smiling. Pleasant warmth spreading through her body. This is all by her presence ... Suddenly she felt Cate's hand on her. Her heart sped madly. Is she reads my mind? - she asked herself, and looked at their hands. Cate lightly gripped her hand. Rooney noticed that Cate smiled barely noticeably - only with the corners of her lips, and the smooth eye of the observer would have noticed an unusual tension between those two.

The waiter came over and took their orders. The silence was not uncomfortable. Rooney sighed and said.

-Well, Did you miss the boys, right? - asked.

-Of course, boys are my treasure. We call each other very often. - said elder woman with a smile, but Rooney could noticed a shadow of sadness in the blue eyes.

-They should be wonderful. - Rooney said, and before she could bite her tongue she added. -Well just like their mother. - She felt how her cheeks burned immediately.

-I'm flattered. - Cate said, sipping a glass of wine. Blush on the cheeks dark-haired girl was ravishing.

Time passed. Both ladies chatted at best - a little about themselves, a little less interesting issues, also about work on the film.
Cate seemed to forget the sorrow hosted in her heart not long ago.

They paid the bill and slowly went to the elevator.

-I spent a very nice evening. - said Rooney, passing Cate in the door of the elevator.

-Oh, I also. You're just a wonderful girl. I do not doubt that we will be pleased to have worked together.

Silence. Just for a moment they stared at each other eyes.

-Maybe you care for a longer chatting with a good wine? - Cate asked, looking at the girl with higher interest.

-If You do not have other plans, of course, yes. - she said with a smile.

Wonderful - just wonderful.

Cate has opened the door to her room and let Rooney inside. She smiled to herself. She did not think that she such a rest mentally. She felt that she could tell this actress everything.

Before her eyes stood the scene where she kept her hand in the restaurant. Those girl has hot skin, soft to touch. Her heart was beating faster. I don't remember when I feel so comfortable and relaxed near by somebody's side. Near by her side.

Todd, you bastard, you were right, that only she can play Therese. Anyway, as you can clearly see Cate, there is a something special between you two.
When she returned to the room, taking wine and glasses - Rooney sat in a chair opposite the window

-Nice view. - She said quietly. They pour a wine into the glasses and looked at each other.

-Did you miss Charlie? - Cate asked, out of nowhere and took a sip from the glass.

-No. - Rooney replied and looked at her in surprise.So it was time now for a serious conversation? Previously they talked mainly about the film and co-operation. Cate tried to convince her that she should tried more at theater roles. According to Cate, she had this predisposition, and elder woman warm words has put her in embarrassment, but immeasurable joy.
They discussed much about the creation of characters, in which movie, both woman will take part. She felt watching blue eyes on her.

-I don't miss him. I like to live alone. Well I do not need to have constant contact with another human. We broke up because we could not longer to find a common agreement.

Charlie could not understand my excitement about this project. I just wanted to prepare and focus on it as well. Besides, as you well know - Cate, if you have a calendar of deadlines and none of them does not match to the another person. It is difficult to maintain a relationship in check, and the phones can't be enough, unfortunately. But your marriage certainly is doing well. You have wonderful children, and you and your husband are doing what you love. Do you have some magical method for this? - Rooney replied honestly, looking at Cate intently.
Cate sipped wine, but she looked away. Rooney could notice an extreme sadness in the blue eyes. She stopped herself quickly.

-Cate ... I'm sorry, I ... - she stuttered. The view of the elder woman clutched her heart. -I'm sorry ... If I could somehow help you...

The blonde looked straight into her eyes. She tried to smile slightly. Pretend that everything is just fine, but she could not.

"Grin and bear, just grin and bear" How much time can you live like that? - She thought. I can no longer pretend that everything is fine.

Maybe it was the large amount of alcohol consumed or perhaps by the fact that she felt with someone so freely - it doesn't makes a difference for her.
I am a mother, I love my boys, but he ... She felt inner pain. They had a wonderful marriage and wonderful time ... No one knew that her husband has a big problem with alcohol. He tried to cure, fight for her, but after the last row - he came frenzy. She told him that she was leaving earlier than she had been thought. The image stood clearly before her eyes. She started to cried softly. She couldn't longer lie.

Rooney can't move. Inside her veins she felt those pain of a woman sitting across her.

-Cate ... - She whispered softly. She heard quiet sobs. The greatest actress of recent times, sat in front of her completely naked. Not in this sense. Emotionally. Elder woman does not pretend. She was herself, she was so delicate ... -If I could help you... - Rooney said, walking over her and touching her shoulder. She felt how much woman's body trembling under her hand.

-Cate... - Rooney whispered softly, sitting down next to her and hugging.

Cate tried to calm down. She wiped the tears trickling down her face. -It is a very hard time for me, Rooney. - she said quietly, her voice breaking. -I do not want to pretend anymore. I can not live like this anymore. You asked me today about the Carol Aird - I could imagine her clearly and I feel her. I ... - she stopped for a while and took a sip of wine from her glass.
Maybe she wanted to add courage for herself? - thought the dark haired actress.

Cate knew what she may do. Her voice was too shaky. She couldn't talk more. Elder woman got out of bed and took off her blouse, throwing her to the floor.

At first Rooney eyes widened with surprise, unable to comprehend the situation.
I'm about to go crazy. My heart leap out of my chest. - she thought, but suddenly, in the dim light - she saw bruises on the woman's body.

Cate quiet voice pierced the silence which separates them.

-My husband has problems with alcohol. He tried to fight for us, went to therapy. When Todd called me and asked me to come before the time - I agreed immediately. I wanted to focus on the role, and bearing in mind my three sons, my husband and his therapy, and the problems that were happening between us for a long time ... I thought that it will not be a problem. I told him that it might be possibility that I would go there earlier. He came back late, he was furious and ... This was the first time. The first and last ... - she said quickly, her voice breaking. -I'm glad that the boys were at my mother's place. - she said, and sobbed quietly.

Rooney jumped up from the bed and went to her. Her heart was squeezed and broke into a thousand tiny pieces. This wonderful woman and ... She did not want to know what happened next. The worst scenes of "Girls with the Dragon Tattoo" stood in front of her eyes.
She did not know what to do, did not know what to say. Deep down under her pale skin - she knew that every word will be inopportune.

She took woman's face in her hands, trying to look deep into blue eyes. By fingertips she is trying to wipe away all the tears. Sometimes gestures mean more than any words. - Rooney thought, pulling the woman tightly. In the answer she could feel how tightly Cate's hugged her body.

The smell of her peachy skin acted on Rooney magnetically. This closeness ... She could not restrain on her voracious hands. Slowly she slid them up on elders woman back. She's so delicate, soft and smooth.- Rooney thought, feeling trembling arms of the another woman. Cate was extremely slim.

Suddenly she felt hot breath on her ear.

-I'm sorry, Rooney. - she heard a soft whisper. -I...

Rooney lifted her head and she felt incredibly hot breath on her lips. Their faces were divided by just a millimeters.
The tension between them was almost unbearable. The girl put her finger on full, soft lips of the another woman, interrupting her in a whisper.

-Thank you for telling me. Just please to don't pretend more ... If I could only help you ... - she paused, looking straight into blue, sparkling eyes from crying.

-You - already do it. Roon ... - Cate said softly. She breathed uneasily, could not calm the rapid beating of the heart. Not only by stress, nervousness, and now this girl ... She is so close to me... Cate closed her eyes. She had not expected that this evening unfolds so quickly. But she felt better, much better. As finally she threw off the shackles.

Rooney acted as like in a trance. The situation was quite frightening ... The Cate's words ... This whole situation. The hot breath and the warmth of longing body beside her. She did not think too much, and may the alcohol just hit her head.
She felt like Cate watching her, leaning against the wall. She felt the intensity of her gaze. If it was all so easy. If she did not need me in some twisted way, she certainly would have pulled it away, but Cate did not make the slightest movement. As if waiting for mine. And I ... I do not think straight any more. Rooney ran her hands over Cate's muscular stomach. The hot air of her breath, worked magically. She could not help herself.

She kissed Cate lips - gently, tentatively - losing in it completely. Just nothing mattered.

"If she could answer... If she could..."