[Original 2006]A/N: Okay so the language is going to get worse but only briefly so use discretion and all of that. Enjoy!
Chapter Four:
Reid went back into Nicky's and he could still feel the rush from confronting Aaron and from using. He loved it. It was so euphoric. Like he was on the top of the world. He loved it even more knowing that Victoria was watching him. He was starting to wish he could show her just how powerful he was now.
Suddenly Victoria, who was walking in front of him, stopped and turned on her heel to face him. He could just stop to avoid knocking her over.
"What the hell were you thinking?" She snarled hitting him in the shoulder and glaring up at him.
"What?" He scoffed, "You don't think I should have kicked his ass?" He asked. Reid could almost taste her contempt. He knew she was too good to be true; she would get all preachy about turning the other cheek and all that other crap that girls spouted, he had no time for it.
"No!" She snapped, "I wanted to see you kick that jack ass's face in but I didn't want to see you start using in front of six witnesses."
He stared at her a little surprised by her answer. He crossed his arm over his chest feeling his pride being rubbed the wrong way.
"What, you don't think I could have gotten away with it, didn't think I was strong enough?"
She scoffed and rolled her eyes, "I didn't mean it like that, it is just if one of them realised what you were doing-"
"Those idiots wouldn't know if a girl was screwing them." He snapped. Victoria looked like she was frustrated but not offended by his language; Reid had never met a girl like this, a girl who didn't mind him being himself.
"That isn't the point Reid, you shouldn't use like that." She countered.
He rolled his eyes, he knew what was coming, "Don't get started with the addiction shit, I am not in the mood. You don't want to hang out fine, leave! I get it enough from Caleb, I don't want it to start coming from you."
Victoria looked affronted by his harsh tone. She was also starting to look conflicted, whether to go the moral route and keep at him, or to just ignore it and stay. Reid started to wish he hadn't said that because the last thing he actually wanted was for her to leave.
She bit her lower lip and looked at him again. "Okay, I'll stay but don't use in front of me."
He scowled at her, "I don't remember offering that,"
"I don't care, I wanna stay, I was having a good time but I don't want you to get all worn out from using all night." She stood in front of him crossing her own arms, "Take it or leave it."
He studied her, "So, what you aren't going to give me a long winded lecture about how I am ruining my life?"
"What would it accomplish; you aren't going to listen to me."
He watched her, he hated the fact he was about to swallow his pride but he had no choice. "Fine,"
She laughed, "Don't sound so enthused,"
He watched her and soon her smile infected him and he found himself smiling as well.
"Alright, alright you get a table, I'll get the drinks."
Victoria smiled, "Great," she turn on her heel cocking a shoulder up at him and winking to keep the mood light. Reid rolled his eyes but stayed smiling.
Victoria headed through the crowd until she saw a table. She waded through the people and almost made it until a hand grabbed her upper arm and dragged her around. At first she thought it was Aaron bugging her again but soon she was confronted with the face of Pogue Perry, as she tripped backwards onto his rock hard chest.
"What the hell are you doing here?" He demanded looking mad.
She looked at him and wrenched her arm free, pushing herself off his chest, trying her best to ignore the shiver that shot up her spine when she touched him. God, what was going on with her and her brothers friends since she got home? "Oh, I am sorry, I wasn't aware you were my new big brother?" She snapped.
"No but I am best friends with him and you shouldn't be here." He glared at her.
"Oh yeah, says who?"
He shook his head, "Your mother,"
"You don't know what the hell my mother said so don't presume to." She snapped getting mad at his assumptions.
"Look you shouldn't be here. If Caleb knew, he would lose it. Just be thankful I saw you first."
"Thankful? Oh I am positively jumping for joy." She scoffed crossing her arms.
"Who brought you here?" Pogue suddenly asked narrowing his eyes.
"Oh what? I couldn't have just come here to wind down?"
"You aren't like that." He said simply, shaking his head.
Victoria glared at him, "Clearly you don't know me very well." She snapped. Pogue's eyes flashed when she said that and although she didn't understand what she saw in his eyes she was happy she hit a nerve.
Reid looked around with the two cokes he had just bought in his hands and looked for Victoria. He finally found her and thought she looked rather angry, which was weird until he saw Pogue who looked like he was yelling at her and she was yelling back.
Reid put down the drinks and headed over to them. He could hear Pogue yelling at her about being there.
Reid came up behind Victoria and put an arm intimately around her neck. She looked up at him a little surprised but Reid kept looking at Pogue who also looked...pissed? Reid couldn't quite tell because his friend soon rearranged his features to look simply unimpressed.
"I should have known you would be behind this," Pogue said crossing his arms.
"'Behind this,'? Oh yeah, it was a real evil scheme that was coming together perfectly until you foiled my plans. Damn, Pogue we're at Nicky's not exactly a house of ill repute."
"Ill repute'? I didn't know your vocabulary stretched that far, Reid." He snapped back.
Reid took a step forward but Victoria stopped him putting a hand on his chest. Reid look down to meet her eyes caught off guard by her touch.
Pogue looked between the two of them. "Look, I don't know what the hell is going on here, but you are going home now." Pogue grabbed Victoria's arm and pulled her away from Reid.
Reid took another step until he was only centimetres away from Pogue's face, "I suggest you let her go," He said quietly, Pogue looked at him.
"Oh? Or what?"
Reid went to shove him but Victoria spoke, "Get a hold of yourselves," They both looked at her. She wrenched her arm out of Pogue's grip again. "Look, Reid don't start again, we have already been through this once," She said looking him in the eye.
"'Already been through this'? What the hell has been going on?" Pogue snarled again.
"And you!" She snapped turning on Pogue, She stepped between Reid and Pogue with her back brushing Reid's chest, "Try and order me around again and you will regret it. Oh the regret will be endless. I have no intention of going home, so why don't you go and deal with Kate,"
Victoria pointed over Pogue's shoulder, Reid and Pogue both looked. Kate was standing in front of a table with her arms crossed glowering across the room at the three of them.
"Shit," Pogue said to himself.
"Yes, shit indeed, so why don't you just go a deal with her and leave us alone?"
"Fine," Pogue said throwing up his hands, "It isn't worth the aggravation, but you better hope that the next person to see you two together isn't Caleb."
"Well why don't you call him?!" Victoria yelled at his back as Pogue walked away ignoring Victoria.
Reid looked at her who was still shooting looks in Pogue's direction. "You okay?" He asked out of amusement more then anything else.
"Oh freaking peachy," She turned around and faced Reid, "Could you believe him, ordering me around like I was his underling! My god I could just…"
"Just…" prompted Reid smiling down at her. She looked at him.
"I won't ruin our evening by going in to gory details." He laughed and threw his arm around her again.
"Come on, I got us cokes."