Julie lazily opened her eyes and yawned loudly, stretching her arms and legs as much as she could, then relaxing and looking up at the roof, sighing heavily. She couldn't hear a sound, a deafening silence surrounding her, yet she had the weird sensation someone watched her. In reaction, Julie lifted her head up and looked toward the foot end of her bed. Her green eyes met his deep blue ones; staring right at her.
"God!" She shouted, laying back, pulling her sheets over her head, desperately trying to hide. "You're creepy. You know that, right?"
"Yeah." Billy answered, an amused twitch in his tone. He got up from the couch, made his way to the bed and sat down on the edge, right by her side. He only had his jeans on and carried a coffee mug. "Good morning." He smirked at her and handed her the mug.
She took a sip from it, frowning. "Where did you get this?"
"Downstairs." He answered casually.
"What?!" She almost dropped the mug, but managed to hold it before staining the white sheets. "You went downstairs, like… really downstairs?"
"Is there any other fucking way?"
"What time is it?"
"Nine."
"You went there dressed like that?" She pointed at his bare chest.
He smirked. "Got a problem with that?"
"God!" She slapped her head. "Why the hell did you do that?"
"Jules, what the fuck is your problem?"
"Everybody saw you!"
"So what?"
"Damnit!"
"What?" He was losing the little patience he had.
"Do you realize the crap I'm gonna face when I get down there?"
"Jules…" He bent over to kiss her neck. "You're mine. People need to fucking know that."
"Watch it Darley. I'm not your property."
"Yes you are." He crashed his lips against hers in a dirty passionate kiss, but it didn't last long. They broke apart because of Julie's painful scream.
"Fuck! Ow!" She grabbed the sheet and tried to dap the hot liquid off of her body, having dropped the mug onto herself. Considering she had only her black lace lingerie on, it burned her skin. Billy quickly got up and ran to the kitchen. He got back with a wet cloth and placed it on her belly, taking the mug out of her hand and placing it on the nightstand. Julie left out a small groan as the cool cloth met her hot skin. "Ouch! That was your fault!" She pointed at his face, an accusing waver in its motion.
Billy smirked before lightly biting her finger. "I wasn't holding the mug."
"But you almost jumped on me, even knowing I was holding it. Besides, you were the one who handed it to me. And then, you kissed me. If you hadn't done that, I wouldn't have lost control of it and it wouldn't…"
"Jules!" He cut her off.
"What?"
"Shut the fuck up." She didn't have time to respond, as his lips met hers once again.
"I have a question." Julie said as they broke apart. Billy growled and rolled over the top of her, landing on the spot beside her.
"What?"
Julie got up, went to the bathroom and came back with a tube. It was the ointment Mark had given to her, maybe it'd help the burn. It wasn't that bad, it was just a bitchy pain.
"In fact… I have two." She laid back beside him.
"You look fucking sexy with that." She looked up at him, he smirked, looking at her chest.
"Perv…" She reprimanded under her breath and he looked up at her, laughing. "If you think I'm blushing, I'm just a little sun burned. Alright, first one: where were you these passed two weeks?"
Billy growled again. "You're such a fucking nosey woman." He snapped the tube out of her hand and, as gently as he could, splashed the ointment on her wound with his fingers.
"Ew! What do you want me to be? A fucking man?" She mocked, disgusted surprise.
He glared at her, Julie smiled innocently in response. Then Billy looked down at his task and took a deep breath before answering. " I was trying to track Rawson down."
"Did you get him?"
Julie watched him carefully, noticing every single flash of amusement had left Billy's face. "No. He's fucking disappeared. We could only find a couple of his guys, who were fucking useless."
Julie swallowed hard. "Did you kill them?"
He glared up at her. "Is that your second question?"
She considered for a moment. "No."
"Then I'm not gonna answer it." Julie knew perfectly well that he had killed Rawson's guys. But on the other hand, it was very nice of him not wanting to involve her in this, even though she already was drowning into the depths of his business.
"Fine. The second is: what are you still doing here?" Billy seemed to be taken aback by that, but he covered up his surprise quickly. "Don't take it wrong. I mean…" The last time he took off probably before she could even begin to dream.
"I know what you mean." He cut her off and then shrugged. "I wanted to stay."
Julie laughed and he frowned. "You're so mushy Darley!"
"You're a fucking pain in the ass." He said harshly and sat on the edge on the bed, his back turned to her.
"Aaww Darley…" She laughed, but he didn't turn back. "Billyyyy… Come on." She kneeled behind him and ran a hand from his lower back, up to his shoulder, then slid it on his muscular tattooed arm. She finalized the quick teasing act with a kiss between his shoulder blades. "Don't be mad, Tiger…"
He finally turned to face her, his eyes were burning. Her touch on his bare back surely had lit the damned fire of desire. At the moment their gazes met, Julie bit her lower lip. He grabbed Julie by her shoulders and pulled her on his lap.
"Don't you have to fucking work today?" He reluctantly asked.
Julie shook her head lightly, still keeping eye contact. "Day off." He smirked before leaning to kiss her. As the temperature stated raising between then, Billy's hand went down to grab her waist, right on the place where her white skin was red colored.
"OW!" She yelled and he broke apart, quickly remembering what had made her yell.
"Shit." He cursed under his breath. Julie sighed and crawled up to lay down on her bed. "Now I have a question." Billy said while he laid down beside her, carefully pulling her closer.
"Shoot."
"Why weren't you speaking in your sleep today?"
Julie chuckled. "I don't know… I never went to a doctor to have it checked out. I guess it happens when I'm worried about something or someone."
"So you were worried about me in the hospital, huh? Then you say you don't fucking care about me…"
"Get over yourself. I was just being nice."
Billy chuckled as he played with her hair. "Tell me more about you."
"What you wanna know?"
"Anything."
"Like what? My story?"
"Yeah."
Julie took a deep breath. "Hmm… I was born in Minnesota and lived there until the end of my first semester of university. My mom died when I was a kid and my dad is a general. So, I was pretty much raised with soldiers and tanks were a reality for me, not like you see in the movies. I got my self defense training from those guys. So be aware Billy Darley, I can kick your ass!"
He laughed at that. "What were you studying at uni?"
"Art."
"What?" Billy left an amused laugh out. "That sucks!"
"Why do you think I dropped it?"
"How did you end up here?"
"I wanted to leave Minnesota. And I could only gather enough money to come here, where a friend of mine had a cousin, Ally."
"Hmm… Why didn't your dad just book you a helicopter trip to wherever you wanted to go?"
"Because he didn't want me to leave at all. I haven't spoken to him since I left."
"Really?" Billy's eyebrows flew up. He hadn't expected that from her.
"Yup. The general has a better shoe to fill than the father figure one." He felt her shrugging. "I grew up like that. So it doesn't bother me as much as it probably should… Your turn."
"What's left to say? I grew up here, helping that asshole that I'm meant to call my fucking father. He sells drugs, I sell drugs for him, not to mention having to take care of my baby brother. As time went by, I managed to get myself my own gang, and for that I have to pay a lot of shit. I don't know any other world, I don't know how to do other things but protect what's mine."
"What about your mother?"
"Died right after Joe started walking. She was very sick." Julie placed a sweet kiss on his bare chest and he replied with a half smile playing on the corner of his mouth.
"What about music? What's your favorite band?"
"I hate music."
"What?! Why?"
"It fucking pisses me off."
Julie shook her head. "You're totally messed up."
"You play that?" Billy pointed at her black guitar.
"Yup… Wait. You also have one. How come you hate music?"
"I hate it now. There was a time when I thought it was cool."
"Is there anything left that doesn't piss you off?" Julie asked with a smirk so it wouldn't sound so harsh.
"Your kiss." He answered after a moment, looking straight into her eyes. His answer totally caught her by surprise, her expression turned serious as she analyzed his face, trying to figure out if he played with her. Billy took a deep breath, he hated to have to prove himself. "It makes me forget whatever I have in mind. You're a fucking pain in the ass, but I like it."
Julie laughed. "And then people say I'm the weirdo."
His phone rang, making both of them growl. Billy got up to get it and walked away, he only said three words: 'what', 'when' and 'yeah', then he hung up.
"Where's your phone?" He asked, walking back to her.
Julie frowned. "On the coffee table. Why?" She watched as he walked to the living room and reached for the little thing. Since there were no walls dividing the small apartment, except for the bathroom, she could see whatever was going on in every dark corner of her loft.
"I should have done this long ago. I saved mine, Joe and Bodie's number in here. If you need anything, call me. If, by some reason, I don't pick up, call the others. Joe won't do much, so just call Bodie first. You can trust him."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"For you to be safe."
"I've been just fine so far Darley. You don't need to play my body guard."
"Will you just stop being a fucking bitch and do what I say for once? If anything unusual happens, call me."
"Fine, dad!" She shouted, terribly annoyed.
Billy smirked and stood by the edge of the bed. "Do I look like a fucking general?"
Julie kneeled on the bed and looked up at him as her fingers traveled around his abs. "No. Generals are scary."
"I don't scare you?" He bent to level his head with hers, his stern eyes penetrating through her very being.
"Not even a little bit." Now he didn't. Besides, to scare is different from to intimidate, to dare or even to be creepy. Leave alone the other things he made her feel.
His hand went to the nape of her head before he angrily crashed his lips against hers. "You should learn some shame Jules." He whispered in her ear with his intoxicating voice.
"You're the one to talk." She answered, placing a kiss on his neck. Billy kissed from her shoulder up to her neck until he got to her ear.
"I just protect what's mine." He whispered again in his deep husky voice, then placed a kiss on her forehead. "I'll see you later. Keep your ass out of trouble." He grinned while backing away.
"Sure." She smiled at him and dropped herself back on bed. Billy put his t-shirt and shoes back on and left her place without another word. Julie got up and went to take a shower. After getting dressed for the day in dark skinny jeans, a loose purple shirt and dark brown boots, she tied her hair up, and finally headed downstairs, dreading the upcoming confrontation and resulting comments.
…
"Where the fuck is he?!" Billy hissed as he met up with his gang in the office.
"We don't know Billy. The fucker disappeared." Spink answered. A person had seen Rawson walking around and told the Darley gang. Bodie had hurried to call Billy.
"What the fuck do you mean by 'disappeared'? He's not fucking smoke to go up in thin air!"
"Dude, he was around here. If he wasn't up to something, he wouldn't show up so fucking close. He knows you're looking for him." Bodie tried to put some sense into his friend's head.
"He expects you to go get him Billy," Tommy continued, "he's trying to make you follow his stinking trail."
"And what the fuck are we gonna do? Sit and fucking wait?" Billy sat on the chair near him.
"That and keep our eyes fucking open," Baggy completed, "if his plan doesn't work, he's gonna try something else."
Billy sighed heavily. "I should have shot that fucking asshole a long time ago."
"You couldn't have known he'd be made the leader of the Halls, Billy." Jamie replied, heading to the window so he could take a look outside. Everything was quiet, except for a car that hurried through the street.
…
Ally greeted Julie with an amused loud laugh, followed by a huge smile. Julie rolled her eyes, but she couldn't hide the happy content smile.
"Looks like someone is all giggles today!" Ally shouted smiling as Julie sat on the high stool in front of the counter.
"Does he get a pat on the back?"
"For making you happy? Yeah!" Julie smiled in response. "You might want to let your hair down Ju, you've got yourself some pretty distinctive marks in your neck."
"Shit! I forgot about them!" Julie immediately undid the tie on her hair and her highlighted locks fell on her back. "Is it that bad?"
"Yup!" Ally laughed. "Now I've got a question."
"Only one?!" Julie happily asked.
"The first of this minute."
Julie growled. "Shoot." While Ally talked, Julie started gathering her breakfast.
"What the hell did he do to you for you to wear that loose shirt? Looks like you're five months pregnant."
"Thank you very much." She sarcastically replied. "He did nothing. I burned myself with that hot coffee he got down here. My skin is sensitive as hell right now."
"Oh right, about that… I never realized he had those abs! I mean, now I understand you! He's hot as hell, literally speaking! He scared the shit out of me when I saw him come down and he's definitely not the chatty kind of person, I should add. But come on, tell me!"
"Tell you what?" Julie looked puzzled at Ally and she giggled back. "Ew! No! No! Not a chance!"
"Aaaww Juuuu!"
"Nope! I'm not gonna describe it to you… besides, I'd be at a loss for words to describe him and it."
"Julie Lane doesn't know what to say?! Whoa! Red alert everybody! Chicken Little is gonna tell us that the sky is falling!"
"Ha-ha! Fuck you!"
Ally laughed amused for a long moment. When she caught her breath back, she started showering Julie with questions concerning Billy Darley's performance in bed. Not that Julie's state afterwards didn't answer this question for itself. The bruisers and the foolish smile, playing on her lips, totally gave away that she had had an active night.
Joe Darley walked in the Falcon, his eyes soon met who he had been looking for. "Hey Hottie! What's up?" He greeted with a smirk.
"Hey Joey!" Julie answered while he sat beside her. She shrugged. "The usual. You?" She took a bite of her croissant.
Joe laughed, motioning to her neck. "Billy really marked his territory right there, huh?"
Julie rolled her eyes and Ally, who was taking care of an order, laughed. "What do you want Joey?"
"You know, my birthday is just around the corner… I was thinking… Maybe if we paid you to do a little private show, you'd go for it? And you could do us a fair discount, if you consider that you're with my brother."
"Sure Joe! What would you like me to wear as costume?" She threw him a wide cocky smile.
His eyes popped out. "You serious?!"
"Yeah. It's not like I haven't done it before."
"Wow. Hmm you could be… A nurse, maybe?"
Julie laughed and threw a mashed napkin at him. "Idiot!" She took a long sip of her orange juice.
"Fuck… I though you'd really go for it." He smirked.
"Urgh!" Julie growled and jerked her head backwards. "Oh, do you want something to eat?"
"Nah. I'm cool, thanks." Joe observed Julie for a while, while she fed herself.
She felt his eyes on her. "What?"
"You're nice."
She frowned. "Er… thanks?"
"Yeah, it's a compliment. Take it, cause that's not normal, coming from a Darley." He laughed at his own joke. Joe had such a lighter vibe around him, compared to the rest of the gang, including his brother. He had probably been kept away from the really harsh stuff by his protector.
Julie laughed. "I could change your idea about that." Billy had complimented her a couple of times, in his own peculiar way.
"No, I'm good. Anyway, we're gathering at the Four Roses for my birthday and I want you to come."
"Four Roses? Gee Joey!"
"What?!"
"It's your birthday. Don't you want a better place to celebrate?"
"It's not like there's much to celebrate…" He mumbled.
"Stop being a jackass! We're going to somewhere fun. Somewhere like… Hell's Angels?"
Joe's eyes sparkled, but as he blinked, the light faded away. "Billy's a fucking ass. He doesn't like night clubs. Let alone a quick ass like that one."
"Hey Joe!" Someone called and both turned to see Tommy walking towards them.
"Hey man!" Joe greeted. Tommy looked at Julie. He had forgotten her name, but he knew enough to know that she was now Billy's girl, therefore not to be touched by anyone but Billy. He simply nodded at her.
"Hi." She gave him a small smile.
Joe chuckled. "That's Julie, Tommy."
"Yeah, hi." He managed to say. "Hey man, I came to pick you up. He gotta a couple of stuff to do."
"Fine." Joe growled and got up. "I'll tell you what Hottie: If you convince Billy to go, we all hit the Hell's Angels for my birthday instead of the Four Roses." He extended his hand at her and Julie shook it.
"Deal!" She smiled at Joe and Tommy. The last wasn't looking at her, Julie followed his gaze and found out it was set on Ally. She couldn't help but chuckle when she realized they were staring at each other. Joe smirked as he noticed the same.
"Bring your friend. See ya Hottie!" Joe headed off with Tommy. At the moment they were out, Ally walked closer to Julie.
"Who's that?!"
She laughed. "Tommy."
"He's hot!" She smiled, but then let it drop. "Damn, he's into the gang thing too, huh? Duh! What a retarded question! Of course he is! So, his name's Tommy right?"
"Yeah" Julie laughed amused at her friend. "Hey, what about Jimmy? You guys never got back together after the club thing?"
"Hell no! Jimmy is so in the past! Now… I'm starting to think you're not the only one who has a thing for bad guys…" Julie cracked a loud laugh.
…
It was lunch time, Julie had been walking around, as she often did on her day off. She was only a couple of streets away from the hospital, so she thought about paying Mark a visit. She walked through the emergency doors and started looking for him. He was nowhere to be seen, so she asked to a nurse for him.
"He didn't show up today."
That got Julie concerned. "Do you know where he lives?"
"I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to give you that information."
She sighed. "Ok, thanks!"
While she walked out, Julie took her cell phone out of her back pocket and searched for Mark's number. Julie waited and waited, but no one picked up, so she just left a voice mail saying that she was worried that he wasn't at the hospital today and asked for him to call her back.
…
After having lunch by herself at her apartment and watching a movie, Julie spent the afternoon playing online games on her laptop. When she finally got enough of it, she turned the radio on and went to take a long shower. Afterwards, she laid on her bed, breathing slowly and paying attention to the lyrics, it's been so long since she had last heard Bon Jovi. Not doing anything really bothered her, so she picked up her guitar and started playing along with the song.
Billy heard the melody coming from her apartment as he stood in front of the door downstairs. Not wanting her to stop, he used his many years experience of breaking into places to walk into her apartment without making a noise, the music being loud helped his sneaking in.
"Take my hand- We'll make it - I swear…" Julie finalized with a soft voice and a last move on the strings. She had a happy smile playing on her lips before she looked up and her eyes widened in surprise. "Holy shit!!" She yelled and threw her guitar away on the bed. Her hand went up to her chest while she tried to catch her breath back. Billy's tall figure leaned against the door way, his stare on her and a smirk on his lips. "Jeez Darley! Oh God!" This time he really laughed.
"Did I scare you?" He asked, coming towards her bed.
"No, I yelled just 'cause I thought it'd be fun." Julie glared at him.
He chuckled as he sat down beside her. She had no time so say something else as his lips met hers in passionate kiss. Julie tried to break away, but Billy's hand on the back of her head kept her in longer. He finally allowed her to get away to catch his own breath.
"Are you intending to take the whole 'breath taking kiss' to a literal level?"
He didn't answer, it was no use. "Let's go." Billy said in his usual deep voice as he got up from the bed.
"Where?"
"Put a jacket on." He already headed for the door.
"But where are we going?" Julie insisted impatiently.
Billy turned and glared at her. "Do I have to fucking come closer and pick you up?" He asked harshly, but his girl played along.
"If you want me to go…" She half sang, lazily throwing herself on the bed. An amused and naughty smile playing on her lips.
Billy realized she was messing with him, but kept his hard face. "Such a pain in the ass…" Julie squealed when he came and grabbed her by her waist, thankfully the burn from early this morning didn't hurt anymore. He yanked her off the bed and then threw her over his right shoulder. Julie laughed as they made their way out, Billy grabbed a jacket that hung on the little couch's arm and closed the door behind them.
"If I tell you where the fuck we're going, will you shut the fuck up?!" Billy shouted at Julie, who had already asked at least twenty times where they were heading to. It was dangerously amusing to watch him lose his temper like this. Julie laughed at his question but nodded childishly. "The Four Roses." Billy looked at the road, holding the wheel with only the right hand, the other held a cigarette when it wasn't in his mouth.
Julie made a face. "Ew! Why?"
"You really feel like making me lose my fucking patience with you today, don't you?" He hit the brakes as they reached the road, cars wouldn't stop passing by.
Damn, she didn't want to go to that place. Though she didn't know exactly why, Julie had a bad feeling about that bar. She needed to change his mind, and quickly. Taking advantage of them being stuck because of traffic, Julie turned to him. Billy noticed her shifting and his eyes met hers. She bit her lower lip and looked at him seductively as she placed her hand on his tigh. "Do you really think that's the best place?" She asked and Billy saw the insinuating light burn in her green eyes.
"I've got business to take care of." He replied, not taking his eyes away from her and doing his best to keep his control.
"I bet it can wait…" She whispered as she slowly moved her hand up, caressing the jeans that rubbed his skin underneath, dangerously close to his groin. He glanced down at her hand and then looked up at her once again, a smile played on her lips.
"Fuck it!" He cursed and hit the gas a second before the traffic light actually went green. Billy made a wild u-turn that had Julie gripping on the door's side to try to keep herself in place. Within less than three minutes, he pulled up in front of his apartment complex. He dragged her upstairs and was back to her in record time after kicking the door shut. Billy pressed Julie's body against the wall, fiercely kissing her. His hand made its way up and down under her shirt when they heard a loud noise, they jumped apart.
"What the hell was that?" Julie frowned. Billy was already at the window, gun in hand. He looked outside, the street seemed quiet as usual, nobody in sight.
"Stay here." He commanded, walking out through the frontdoor. Julie shrugged and dropped herself on the couch, leaning down her head and closing her eyes. Billy came back a couple of minutes later, his features had become hard and he breathed heavily.
"What's wrong?" Julie asked when he sat by her side, Billy had already hidden the gun in his waistband.
"Nothing." He answered coolly and she decided to switch subject.
"So… I talked to Joey today…" She started, making him frown.
"What did you talk to Joe about?" He'd be pissed at his little brother if he had spoken about Rawson to Julie. He didn't want her to know, she wouldn't let him protect her, not consciously anyway.
"About his birthday." Julie didn't notice Billy's posture relaxing a little bit. "I don't think it's cool to celebrate it at the Four Roses."
"What do you have against that fucking bar?"
"Nothing!" He eyed her suspiciously. "Ok! It stinks! Joe deserves a better place to party… The Hell's Angels, perhaps!"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because I said so."
"Come on Billy! He wants it! He just won't tell you this 'cause he knows you won't go for it."
"And he came cryin' to you so you'd convince me?"
"Not at all! It was my idea."
"No." He repeated his former statement, the same reprimanding voice.
"Pretty please?" She smiled innocently at him.
"No! That's a fucking piece of shit!"
"Of course it's not! It's clean and really cool! Just 'cause there ain't dirt around and graffiti crawling on the wall it isn't a good place for you? Think about Joe! He's young, he needs to have fun! I know you've kept him away from most of your shit, why can't you just stand a night there? Why can't you stand to be there for him?!"
"I said no! We're not going! Fucking period! Let's go, I've got to talk to the guys." Billy angrily got up from the couch and walked towards the door, wanting Julie to follow him. When he didn't hear the clicks of her boot's heels, he looked back at her. "Come on." He ordered.
"No." She stubbornly replied; sitting back and crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"Julie get the fuck out of that couch and come with me!" He shouted.
"No!" She yelled back.
"Fine! Then fucking stay there!" He harshly kicked the door shut behind him. Julie got up from the couch in a jump when she heard him locking it.
"Darley! What the hell are you doing?!" He didn't answer and she banged the door. "Darley!" She twisted the handle, he really had locked her in. "Darley!! Open this fucking door! You son of a bitch!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. He could hear her while going to his car. Each yell made his blood race through his veins, anger seeping through his pores.
"Stinking asshole! Jerk! Argh!" She was stuck in this place all by herself. It irritated her over the edge. In a stupid attempt to get rid of the anger, Julie punched the wall. "Ow!" She yelled a dozen of times in pain. Her right hand was numb and it hurt. She tried to move her fingers, they all responded, good sign. While cursing herself for the idiotic idea, she searched for the bathroom, needing some kind of bandage.
…
Billy arrived at the Four Roses. By the time he got indoors, his crew knew something had happened. Bodie happened to be the only one to have the guts to ask.
"Is everything alright, man?"
"Does it look like everything is fucking alright?" He sat on the chair in front of his childhood friend.
"No dude. That's why I'm asking!"
"I'm fucking trying to protect her ass and she stands up with that fucking bitchy attitude! Whore!" Billy angrily said out loud to himself, but it served as an answer to Bodie.
"Having problems with the muffin girl?" The other guys stood in silence, not daring to interfere.
"I looked her in my apartment. She is so fucking stubborn!"
"That's why you called Spink to watch your apartment, eh?"
"Yeah. If Rawson wants me to fucking come looking for him, my place is a fucking hotspot."
"Ah, about that…" Heco began. "I was selling some shit to a dude and he said he saw the fucker walking down the road not long ago."
"Why the fuck didn't he tell us?" Billy asked and as that, the discussion took its direction down to business and Billy pushed his personal problem aside, for now.
…
Julie had improvised a clamp with what she found in his bathroom. Curiousity getting the better of her, she walked in Billy's bedroom and looked around. It was somewhat organized for a man, especially a man like him. There were a few clothes hanging on the chair along with his overused long leather jacket, today he was wearing a long sleeve dark gray t-shirt. Julie looked at the closet and felt a strong urge to open it. Had he done the same while she slept in her apartment? She had no idea.
A quick look wouldn't harm anyone. Besides, what else could she do? She opened the first door, only dark colored shirts and sweaters and on the lower part, a few pairs of shoes, they all looked like the short of biker boots he always wore. The inside of the second door was almost empty, except for the drawers that contained his t-shirts, the huge majority of them being black. Julie couldn't help but laugh when she found a red one, he probably hadn't worn it for quite some time. Then came his underwear and socks, nothing weird about those. Julie finally decided to move on to door number three, again, almost empty. However, one little sack with a white powder, of which Julie knew what it was. It was so sad that he made a living by addicting people, among other extra activities. A few packs of the same cigarette and a light brown flat box. Julie carefully took it in her hands and placed on the bed. She sat down and opened to see what it contained: photos.
She started looking through them, there were actually more of Joe than of Billy. He probably hated having his picture taken, the face he made on some of them said that much, almost always frowning. Julie gasped when she picked up a pic that showed a tall teenager, with baby shaved skin and long blonde locks. It was the young Billy Darley, she could tell because of his eyes. He had no tattoos and an amused smile played on his lips, his eyes shining. A even younger Joe Darley was under his arm, laughing. Julie fought against the urge to take the pic for herself and placed it back inside. The last pic she saw was one of a beautiful blonde woman, she recognized the smile, it had to be Billy's mother. With a sigh, Julie closed the box and placed it exactly where it had been before. If he found out she had been keeping herself occupied with rummaging through his stuff, he'd have a freaking fit.
Julie walked back to the TV room and tried, once again, to open the door. Still locked. "Damn!" She cursed lowly, then froze, she had heard a loud sigh on the other side. Frowning, she kneeled and brought her face to the floor, she could see by its shadow, that on the other side, someone held watch. "Hey!" She yelled. The shadow moved as if the person had jumped. "Hey! Get me out of here!"
Spink didn't know if he was supposed to let Billy's girl know he was there or not. He preferred to keep quiet and step back, not feeling the urge to get on his boss' bad side.
"Hey!" She called again. "Who's there?" The shadow had moved away, probably a resident or something. Julie sighed and looked around, her eyes laid on the window, that meant the fire escape. Disappointment took over her as she saw it was way too high to jump off, it had been broken so it couldn't be used. "Stupid ass." She had no doubt it had been Billy's idea.
Julie wasn't hungry, but sleepiness suddenly took over her body. Yawning, she made her way back to Billy's bedroom and got comfortable on his bed, her thoughts wondering about the picture of the two young brothers, not longer after, her eyelids fell shut.
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Billy opened his apartment door, readying himself for the cursing and convinced that a solid object would try and make contact with his head. He frowned, realizing the only noise he heard, came from outside, the car that had just passed him on the street.
"Julie?" He called, just a tad worried now. Spink had been there all the time, he had been keeping watch right outside the door when Billy arrived. She had to be in here, alone. Billy walked fast to inspect his place, kitchen and lounge empty and dark, bathroom with open door and the lights off. When he moved to the bedroom, his heart beat slowed down as he found Julie laying on his bed, her eyes closed and her breathing calm. He chuckled, she looked so different from the screaming figure he had left behind a couple of hours ago.
Kicking his shoes out, taking his t-shirt, jeans off and tossing everything on the chair near the bed, he quietly stretched beside her. Billy remained careful and tried to get into bed without shifting the mattress. He knew that if she woke up, he'd have hell to pay for closing her in like that, she'd start yelling at him again, and he really didn't feel like dealing with her like that right now. He just wanted to sleep quietly beside her. Billy gently lay his arm across her bare waiste, her top had crawled up. Julie shivered slightly when his warm skin met her cold one. As Billy touched her, she unconsciously accommodated herself nearer him, cuddling up to the safety of his body. Billy smiled cockily, the yelling wouldn't be that bad at all.
I just seen trouble, he's calling out your name tonight
Billy get your guns
You could walk away but I know you were born to fight
So Billy get your guns
The bandileros are strung out in the promenade
Billy get your guns
And the wind whispers softly that the devil's to blame
Billy get your guns
Billy get your guns
There's trouble blowing like a hurricane
Billy get your guns
That's the price on your head for the price of fame
And it'll never change
Billy get your guns
They christened you with whiskey
And there's fire running through your veins
Well you're an outlaw just the same
And every night a bullet wears your name
Billy get your guns - Bon Jovi