Consequences

Rated M

Author's Note: Hi everyone! Thanks for your continued support on this story, and the feedback on the angst bit. You will have to wait and see where I take it, and in the direction I go huh?

This chapter is the shortest yet for this piece, but I felt it was a perfect place to stop. I am still working out exactly where it's going next. I know the middle and ending, it's just getting there and trying to decide how I get them there that's hard. Next time, of course after Daddy, Don't Hurt Me, I will have to have a long drawn out outline. But then, the characters wouldn't tell me how they want to be formed. Okay, that's just weird, no my character's don't talk to me. I am not schizo, just eccentric. Anyways, expect a new chapter soon, and I hope you enjoy this one.

I do hate that it' so short, I feel like I am being cheap after making you guys wait so long.

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Chapter Eight

"Serena!" He yelled down the hall trying to catch up with her. All he received back in response is the clacking sound of her flip-flops hitting the ground. "Serena, please hear me out!"

At his last request she flipped around to glare at him. "Hear you out? Hear you out? Oh the irony in that statement." She turned to hit the button on the elevator.

"I know I was an asshole."

"Asshole is an understatement."

He huffed, catching his breath more and more. What did she want him to do, beg for forgiveness? Not that he could say he didn't deserve this treatment.

"I'm sorry. You just don't understand what was going through my head."

With his new statement, she had to laugh. Her bark of laughter resonated along the hall. "Again with the you in the whole situation. Have you stopped to think about what I felt through this whole ordeal?" She crossed her arms in defense, not letting him see the hurt that flashed quickly through her eyes. "I was rejected by a man I gave my life to for years. All because he didn't trust that I would remain with him on his terms. He didn't trust me enough, so I left him.

"Then, I meet this great, gorgeous man in a bar. Yes, I am drunk off my ass, but I felt something there. We end up sleeping together and in the morning I wake up without even a word as to why he left." She paused to shoot a haughty look at him. "I can't remember his name, so I am resolved to deal with having a great night and moving on, but oh, wait. I can't move on. I am pregnant with what turns out to be a jackass's child.

"Not saying that I am upset I am pregnant, just the situation is ideal figuring I despise my unborn child's father. So, again Darien, why is that I am supposed to understand what was going on in your head?"

"I deserve that." He looked down, somber, and began to shuffle his feet in shame. The doors to the elevator opened and he followed her in. Slamming her finger on the basement level button, she turned to him.

"You deserve a whole lot more."

"You're probably right, but..." She cut him off.

"No, I am right. You deserve so much more. Like castration." Not that she really wanted him to be castrated. It would be a shame to the female population. A blush was beginning to creep up in her cheeks as she shot down her gutter-like thoughts.

It didn't help that he was wearing a sultry musk. Sandlewood, her favorite. She shook her head. Focus.

This man was evil.

The devil incarnate.

Why was the devil always so tempting?

"Ouch. That's a little harsh don't you think?"

She rolled her eyes. "Maybe. But in your case, I think we may be able to make an exception. We wouldn't want you going around the city sleeping with half the female population. We already know you are fertile."

"And gorgeous."

"And-" Gorgeous? What? "Wait, what?"

"You said it yourself."

Crap. Did she really say that out loud. No way. That was impossible. She was going to play dumb. "There is no way possible I said that." She wouldn't meet his knowing eyes.

A smirk played at his lips. He had her. "Yes, you did. How did you put it. You met this great, gorgeous guy at the bar who you ended up pregnant by." Damn, he had a good memory. "Unless I was right about you being a floozy, the impregnating man would be me."

"Wait, you called me a floozy?"

It was his turn to mentally call out his mistake.

"Well...not floozy persay, but I did tell Amy you slept with half the city. You heard that yourself." He would most definitely not let her know he called her a floozy in private. Something like that would definitely not earn him points in her book.

He shot a look at her. She definitely look un-amused. There had to be something he could do to salvage this. "Listen, I said a lot of stupid things, all right?"

"Stupid is an understatement." The door flung open and she continued to walk, letting him follow her, already being irritated by the smack her shoes were making on the cement in the parking ramp.

"Okay, can we get passed this whole I am the biggest idiot in the world thing already? How many times do I have to apologize?"

She thought about it for a second and put up her pointer finger in enlightenment. "Until your face is blue."

"If my face turned blue, it would be from lack of oxygen." He rationalized.

"I know. Hence, why I said it."

"So you want me to continue to apologize until I can't breathe?"

"The point of it is you can keep apologizing, they are just words, Darien."

"Exactly. What I said back there, all the bad things. They were just words."

Serena was growing tired of fighting with him. The smell of him wafted as he invaded her space. How could such an attractive, amazing smelling man be so infuriating.

He leaned in closer, and her heart began to speed up. She could not believe her body, it was betraying her. "Your actions Darien, the way you said it, and not to mention the fact that your first impression still lingers on."

"The part where I was great and gorgeous?"

"God!" Exasperated was putting it mildly, Serena was utterly irritated with him. "Could you for one minute get over yourself! It wasn't because you were gorgeous."

"So, you admit that I am attractive?"

"If that makes you happy, yes Darien. You are attractive. Why would I have slept with you otherwise?"

Pulling out her car keys, she hit the unlock button and yanked on the door. He leaned into her door stopping her from opening the door. His eyes locked onto hers and the garage suddenly became really small.

When did he get this close? Had she even noticed the little flecks of silver splashing around his eyes? Oh dear, his scent invaded her senses causing her to shudder.

"I wouldn't be opposed to repeating the other night." He whispered huskily. Something fiery flashed in his eyes. Before she could stop him his lips closed the short distance to hers and she groaned in pleasure. His kiss was soft and sweet, caressing her lips ever so lightly.

Her body, going against her better judgment, responded to his slow invitation. Dropping her keys on the ground, her hands flew up to lace themselves in his hair.

This man knew how to kiss. Deepening it, he traced her lips with his tongue, and she responded by allowing him access to her mouth as their tongues began to fight for control. As his hand reached down her lower back to touch her hot skin, warning signs began to bellow in her head. Reacting fast, she shoved him away from her.

Face still flushed, she quickly picked up her keys.

"You." She whispered menacingly.

"Me." He said, desire lacing his deep voice.

She bit her lip in frustration. "This isn't going to work." Frustrated, she ran a hand through her hair and smacked her head against the window of her car.

"Not if you resist me."

"Could you be any more egotistical? I wasn't talking about kissing you."

"But you want to."

"That's beyond the point."

"You didn't deny it."

"Damn it! Could you act like an adult for one second?" All she wanted to do was strangle the sexy man that stood next to her. Oh goodness was he sexy. Maybe a little too sexy.

If she wasn't careful, she would take him up on his offer.

Her car had a backseat.

That would be new. Seiya was never one to have fun with sex. It was always boring bed sex. Not that Seiya wasn't good. Serena had loved Seiya.

Hell, Seiya really wasn't that great, obviously. Here she was trying to defend Seiya to herself when Mr. Sex Appeal was standing right next to her. By her car, kissing her into a dizzy haze.

It wouldn't hurt to ask him.

She opened her mouth to proposition him and stopped herself.

Serena Carlisle did not proposition men.

Especially men who insulted her integrity. Not to mention, he had confused her for Mina. She refused to rationalize that one. They were like night and day.

Okay, she couldn't count against him for that one. They had one date, and it ended up badly. Mina said he was a bad kisser. Transfixing on his bruised lips, she thought about what Mina had said. He was lousy.

Right. Lousy.

That's why she wanted him to assault her again in her parking garage.

She pounded the glass. "Ouch. That friggin' hurt."

His laughter warmed her belly. His voice was so deep and manly. It made her want to jump him. They had a connection.

That's right. She was forgetting. Her hormone level was on the fritz. That's why she wanted him. He was the father of the baby she was carrying after all.

"Serena? Have you heard anything I have said in the past couple minutes?" He looked at her with concern etching his furrowed eyebrows.

"What? No." She looked up at him. Man, she was in trouble. Game face, Serena, Game face. He was the enemy.

"I said, I want to act like an adult. Just give me a chance to prove it. You are pregnant, and it definitely takes two to tango. I don't want to be that guy that let his responsibility slip and end up regretting it."

So, that's what his prerogative was? He was worried about shirking his responsibility? Part of her knew that she was being absurd. No one kissed a simple responsibility like he just kissed her, but there it was again. Ms. Serena Carlisle's pride. It's what ended her last relationship after all.

"Is that all I am to you Darien. All this baby is to you? Some responsibility?"

Shock fell over his face, widening his eyes as he tried to defend himself. "No! Damn it Serena! You keep taking what I say and twisting it. I want to be there. For the baby. For you."

"Well, I don't need you to be there for me." She opened her door and slammed it in his face.

As she drove turned the engine on, he yelled into her window. "You can't get away from me that easily Serena. I know who you are now, and I know you don't want that baby to grow up without a father!"

He watched as she sped off. He'd give her time to come around, but he definitely wasn't giving up. Serena Carlisle was in for a big surprise.

End! Okay, so not the end of the story, just Chapter Eight.

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