My plan had already been foiled, yes but a new hell was already on the horizon for him. As someone ridiculously famous used to say;

"If at first you don't seduce..." And so I crawled into bed that night with a seed of lustful revenge planted in my head. Those were interesting dreams to say the least.

A couple hours later I was woken my the sound of giggles. I strong emotion was building in my brain as I crept to the door and looked out. Something like a bomb about to go off. What I saw made me want to punch a puppy. The kind with big eyes. And floppy ears. Hard.

Eddie was sitting at his monitors but he looked a bit distracted. Probably because there was a little brunette whore leaning towards him. The ticking time bomb went off like one of Joker's finest explosions! My teeth clenched and my vision blurred. I wanted to rip her limb from limb, have her screams make my ears hurt-

"Ah, Beth!" Came a relieved voice. Eddie tugged me out into the open, his hands on my shoulders as if using me for a shield and obviously not noticing my rage face. Her sharp eyes lingered on my short shorts and the flimsy tank top I had been sleeping in. She looked very well dressed in her navy low cut business suit, she must have been a high class prostitute. Very high class, if I hadn't been so pissed I might have felt self conscious. She strutted towards us with a pitying yet dangerous look on her face.

"Eddie..." She came behind me and hooked her arm around his, tugging him away from me. "Who's this?" My head pounded with fury. That hand along with all it's pretty little fingers were going to get torn off-

"Beth, this is Jessica" He gestured behind with a roll of his eyes, tossing his hand carelessly. I could see he was trying to give me signals that said he was annoyed, but the way she clung onto his arm made up for his negative signals nicely. "We met-"

"At Eddiekin's coming out party daddy threw for him!" She grinned and grabbed his hand.

My mood lightened considerably. That sentence was punishment in it's own. There was still anger, but I pulled a hood of sarcasm over it to see if it would throw her off any.

Oh Eddiekins!" My voice went up several octaves in a mockery of hers as I draped myself around his other side. "I didn't know you had a date! I'll just go wait in our bedroom. Tell me when you're done." I put special emphasis on the word 'our', hoping to confuse the little tramp.

"Excuse me-" She started huffily.

"You're excused." I snapped. I saw Eddie's mouth twitch up for a few seconds in my peripheral vision.

Jessica and I glared at each other for a few seconds. He better not have been enjoying this, but something told me he was having the time of his life behind the serious face.

"I happen to be his girlfriend." She said with a flip of her hair.

Edwards eyebrow raised and he glanced at her. "No you're not..." he snapped.

She fixed him with a meaningful stare, hoping he would help her out. Then she gave up and focused on me once again.

"Well I'm certainly worth more to him than some jealous hooker like you."

That was it. Next thing I knew her perfectly brushed highlights were in my hand and her head was being jerked down to make a sickening CRACK on the floor. She barely had time to start squealing in pain from that before my fist collided with her nose. I felt the sickly satisfying snap of cartilage on my knuckles and the soft spurt of blood. I didn't care Edward was laughing softly while trying to drag me off of her, all I knew was that I wanted to peel her like a grape and set what was left on fire! I struggled and screamed and fought and elbowed at her, but Edward was evading my escape tactics way too well for my liking.

"You're paying for my new nose job you bitch!" And she limped out the door, taking the gag-worthy scent of Chanel no. 5 with her.

"Yeah try and come back so I can break both your fucking legs!" I screeched after her and went limp with Edward holding my waist. I didn't know you could tear up with rage, but I'd be damned if I didn't let a few slip out. My breathing steadied and I involuntarily leaned into him. I knew I could fight like that, but not at that level of...possessiveness.

"I suppose I should thank you." He said from over my shoulder. "I've been wanting to do that for months. Warn me next time and I'll let you borrow my cane."

"Oh, a high honor indeed." I said paying little attention. The one thing that had shot through my mind before attacking was 'he's mine'. I almost reprimanded myself. You couldn't just tag someone for your own, could you? An idea came to mind causing a smug smile to don my mouth.

And it would go along with my plan for this evening too. I twisted out of his grip and started ruffling through the drawers of his desk.

"Hey! What are you-" My hand came up with the key ring and I plucked number five off, missing four on purpose.

"I passed." Tossing the keys at him I quickly made for my room in hopes of him not noticing I had purposely skipped one. I was going to get this over with soon.

Before going in my door I saw he had sat back down and lit a cigarette. Oh, that dirty habit just bugged me to no end, the smell always made me retch. The keys were already put away, so I figured it was safe to antagonize him a little!

"Get that-" I plucked it from his lips then noticed there wasn't any smell. I looked closer at it, puzzled.

"It's a n e-cigarette." He said, snatching it back. "It helps me quit."

"But how?"

"There isn't any tobacco, I exhale water vapor and I still get my nicotine fix." He talked as if I were a five year old learning to brush my teeth for the first time. I didn't quite know what to say. My head tilted as I watched him put it back in his mouth. For some reason I found myself studying the curve of his lips, making me want to kiss him twice as hard. I took the cigarette between my index and middle finger and slipped it out again.

"You have nothing to worry about, it has a freaking battery-" My kiss lasted for only five seconds but it was just to get the yearning down to a bare minimum. He hadn't been lying because he didn't taste like cigarettes at all. I broke away and placed it back in his mouth.

"Don't smoke during the previews!" and I turned to walk into my room with a wink.