The Road To Egot Season 02 Pt 19

I woke up the following with my head and abdomen on fire. I quickly ran to the bathroom and vomited. When I was done, I sat on the cold bathroom floor, breathing heavily. I had to slow down. Had to give my body time to heal. The beating I took, as well as the fucking, was taking a great toll. I eventually got up, brushed my teeth and took a shower. I gingerly made my way to the bedroom and sat on the edge of my bed.

I sat and thought about what would be my next move. I had to act quickly before Derek retaliated. My phone rang. I frowned as I saw it on my nightstand. I crawled to it and answered.

"Hello." I said.

"Duncan, it's Mike." Michael Ellenberg was my boss. He and Casey Bloys were the head of production over at HBO. They had been very good to me since I had signed on. The sound of his voice letting me know right away that something was going on.

"Hey. How are you?" I asked wearily.

"Yeah all's well here. I was wondering if you had the time to come by the office today. Just wanted to talk and touch base."

"Yeah sure. I can be there in a couple of hours."

"Great, see you then." He told me before hanging up. I got dressed and made something very quick to eat. I got in my car and drove towards the HBO offices. I walked into the elevator and leaned against the back wall. Someone slid their hand to keep the doors from closing. I looked up and saw Ben Affleck. He was huge. Taking the role to play Batman had forced him to get himself as big as he could. We had both been at Stamp's dinner a few months but hadn't had the chance to speak. A look of recognition swept across his face.

"You're Duncan right?" He said holding out his massive hand to me.

"Yeah, how are you?" I said shaking his hand.

"I'm great. Congratulations on your Emmy win. I've been watching your show. You do great work." He said sounding incredibly sincere.

"Oh thanks. I've been watching Project Greenlight. It's really something special what you and Matt do."

"Thanks man, that means a lot. What do you think about my next role?"

"You mean Batman?" He nodded. "I'm not going to lie, I groaned when I heard you got picked." He laughed.

"I bet. I think the whole world groaned simultaneously." He said laughing.

"Yeah but seeing the trailers and the images, you look great. I think you'll do a great job."

"Well I can't wait for you to see it. You know Margot, talked to me about you when I was in Toronto."

"Yeah, we're good friends. She's really something special."

"Oh, she sure is. Boy I tell you!" We both laughed as we reached his floor. "Look Duncan, i'd really like to keep talking." He pulled out a card and handed it to me. "Give me a call sometime next week."

"Yeah sure no problem." We shook hands and he went his way.

I got to Michael's office and his secretary told me to go right in.

"Duncan. How are you?" He asked standing from his desk.

"I'm good Mike. How are you?"

"Have a seat. Things are going well. We're excited about the second season. You outdid yourself."

"Thanks Mike. You guys make it really easy. It's a great place to be."

"Thanks for that. With that said Duncan. I'm sorry but I have some bad news."

"Oh wow, you're not canceling the show I hope." I asked halfway kidding.

"No, no not at all. We love the show. And we love you working on the show. But circumstances have arisen and we have no choice but to let you go." He said looking away from me. I didn't move. I barely reacted. All things considered I saw this coming a mile away. I looked at Mike and waited for him to look back at me. When he finally did, I held his gaze.

"I won't even ask you why. Derek Stamp is making you fire me isn't he?" His eyes slid to the left. I caught it quickly enough. "Mike it's alright. You've always been straight with me. Don't stop now." He blew out a heavy breath.

"Okay. He did ask us to let you go. He threatened to not work with us anymore. With his roster we really don't have a choice. We need top talent to continue to put out the quality we are known for."

"Mike, I understand that. But that talent wants to work for you. You don't think that they'll push back against Stamp if he stops working with HBO. He's bluffing."

"That may well be the case. But it's not a risk we can take. There are way too many competitors in the market currently. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Showtime continue to put out quality. We need to stay ahead of the pack. Getting top notch talent is one of those ways. And you're an incredible writer, but stars get us exposure."

"You can fight back Mike. You don't have to be at his mercy. Stand up to him."

"Duncan, i'm sorry. It's done. You'll get a full severance package. As well as a glowing letter of recommendation from me. You'll still be credited for all your work. But this is just the way it has to be."

" Alright." I told him standing up. The meeting was clearly over. "Thanks for everything." I said as I walked to the door.

"Duncan." Michael called to me before I stepped out. "Whatever your troubles with Derek, get them settled. As long as he has a grudge against you, it'll be very difficult for you to work."

"Don't worry Mike. I'll get it settled." With that I left the office closing the door behind me.

******************************************************************************************************

I sat in my BMW for a long time in the parking lot. I knew that Derek would pull a stunt like this. I thought that I was prepared for it. It hurt more than I had imagined it would. My phone buzzed in my pocket. They had already announced my departure from the show. It was my second firing in as many shows. I would start to garner a reputation. I lay back against the headrest, closed my eyes and breathed out a deep sigh of frustration and anger. My phone continued to buzz like crazy. I reached for it and saw Ariana was calling.

"Hey." I answered trying to keep my voice light.

"Duncan are you alright? I just heard the news." She said sounding clearly worried about me.

"Yeah, it's getting around quickly. I'm doing okay." I told her hoping that I was convincing.

"What happened? They're claiming creative difference."

"Yeah, I figured they would say something like that." I replied feeling more than a little resentful.

"Duncan, what's really going on?"

"It's complicated." I told her.

"Duncan, enough! I'll be at my house in 20 minutes. Meet me there okay?"

"Okay. I'll be there." I conceded. I had nowhere else to go.

I turned my phone off and took my time driving towards Ariana's. I couldn't help but feel sad. I loved working on this show. Stamp had taken away something else that I loved. I couldn't fully blame him, I knew that. It was my decision to go after him. If I had kept my head down, none of this would have happened.

I arrived at Ariana's, we were both pulling in at the same time. She left her car and ran towards me as I was getting out of mine. She wrapped her arms around me and pulled me close to her. She was wearing a short dress. She looked and smelled wonderful. Just feeling myself with her helped to forget the sadness that had enveloped me.

"You don't look so good." She said running her warm fingers along my face.

"Yeah, it's been a rough few days." I admitted.

"Come inside. I cancelled my day. We'll talk." I nodded and allowed her to drag me inside. I watched her small frame and couldn't help but smile. "Sit on the couch, i'll order some food." I just nodded. I sat on her couch and looked around her house, once again loving the cozy feel of it. The piano at the side of the kitchen quickly caught my eye. "Food's on its way." Ariana said as she sat down next to me on the couch and held me tightly. "What's going on?"

"I got fired. It had nothing to do with my work. I got fired because of something else I did."

"What Duncan? What did you do?" I could have told her. I didn't want to. I didn't want to drag someone else into this darkness that I was in.

"Ari, please don't ask me. I can't tell you. I don't want to lie to you." I told her putting my hands in my head. She cradled me and placed my head on her chest.

"It's okay. You know what. Let's not talk about it at all." I took a deep breath. Her sweet scent and warm body felt so good and right at that moment, I thought I could stay here forever. For a second there, I wished I could. We lay like that for what seemed like a long time. Ariana held me and continued to run her hands all over my back and arms. I felt so grateful to her. I looked up at her and she smiled softly, letting me know everything would be alright.

Instinctively my lips made their way to hers. The next thing I knew we were kissing feverishly. I wrapped my arms around her tight little body and groaned in excitement and lust. Ariana returned my passion with the same intensity. Her arms were around my neck, her nails scraping my skin and making me want so much more. I laid atop of her, never breaking the connection between our lips. The feel of her tongue entering my mouth making me want her all the more. Her tongue sought mine like a heat missile. They quickly found each other as I raised the hem of her dress, revealing her smooth thighs and her panty covered pussy. I ran my hands on the insides of her thighs, making her groan and pant inside of my mouth. My finger gently ran across her cunt. I could feel the wetness seep through her underwear. Ariana moaned even louder as I continued to tease her.

"Mhhhmmm." Ariana moaned moving her lips away from mine. Her hands were busy fumbling with my pants, trying to get them down so that she could have access to my cock, which was at this point ready to burst. I hooked my thumbs into the sides of her panties and pulled the soaked garment down her legs. I returned my lips to hers and pushed one of my fingers into her pussy. Ariana was always incredibly tight, I was reminded of that fact as the walls of her pussy quickly wrapped themselves around my penetrating digit. "Fuck, Duncan." She moaned into my mouth as I fucked her slowly.

She was finally able to pull my pants down. I kicked them off along with my boxers. I was too far gone and didn't want to continue teasing her. I lined my cock with the tight opening of her cunt. I pushed slowly and felt my cock head encapsulated by her warmth.

"Fuck!" I moaned into her mouth.

"Shit! You feel so big." Ariana said with a huge grin. I smiled back before kissing her again, loving the taste of her mouth and feel of her tongue. I continued to push my cock into her slowly, allowing her to feel every inch of my thick cock as it barreled it's way into her. "AHHH!" She screamed when I had finally pushed into her to the hilt. I held her even tighter as I began to pump in and out of her soaking wet pussy. She was so tight that every movement caused pure pleasure. I squeezed the firm and smooth skin of her ass and held on tightly as the movement of my hips began to speed up.

"Fuck, fuck!!" Ariana moaned as she felt my dick blaze in and out of her. "Fuck me, god, fuck me." She continued to moan and whisper in my mouth. She sucked on my earlobe, creating another sensation that I adored. I kneeled on the ground, placing Ariana's lovely legs on my shoulders. She was now spread much wider, giving me better access to her sweet juicy cunt.

I fucked her hard and fast now. I couldn't stop thinking about how incredibly sexy she looked. Her tight body writhing every time I stroked into her. Her bouncing tits still confined within the tight dress she was still wearing. It was bunched up around her hips, just enough that I could fuck her for all I was worth.

"Duncan, I'm gonna cum!" Ariana told me as her pussy got even tighter. I grit my teeth trying to hold back on my own impending orgasm. "Oh, oh oh, I"m CUMMMING!!" She finally let out as her pussy was saturated with even more of her cunt juices. Her cunt walls clamped down on me, as the tingling in my cock head simply continued to get stronger.

"ARIANA!" I shouted as I let myself go and flooded her cunt with one of the most powerful orgasm I can remember having. I came for what felt like hours, as i felt more and more of my seed pump into the beautiful young singer.

We crashed onto the couch and both strained to catch our breaths. I felt the fire in my abdomen and remembered I hadn't worn the bandages today. I looked over at Ariana and forgot all about it. She was so pretty and sexy, that you couldn't look at her and think bad thoughts.

"You feeling better?" She asked me with a sly smile.

"Fucking you always does wonders for my psyche." I replied placing a soft kiss on her lips.

"Well, i'm at your service." She said before we heard the doorbell. "The food is here. You go get it while I change." She said as she rose from the couch and went upstairs. I put my pants back on and got the food. I cleaned up and waited for Ariana to come back. When she did I was ready to jump her again. She was wearing a tank top and a pair of incredibly tight booty shorts.

"You like?" She said posing for me.

"If you're not careful, all you'll get to eat is my cock." I told her pulling her in for a tight hug and kiss.

"Hmm, as good as your cum is, I don't think i can get all the nutritional value necessary to carry on fucking you the way you fuck." She said with a big grin.

"I totally agree. Let's eat." We sat down and started eating. The quick fuck we shared had created quite the appetite for the two of us. "So. Victoria came by last night." I told her as she was biting into an egg roll. Her eyes bulged out and she almost choked on it.

"Really? How did that go? Why didn't you open with that?" She said excitedly.

"I just got fired. And you looked so good it was hard to resist." I told her as I laughed.

"True. I am cute. But don't distract me. What happened."

"We talked. She apologized. Said that she was in the wrong, and told me that she wanted me to give her another chance."

"Oh wow. And what did you say?"

"I was honest with her. I told her that I needed time to figure things out. That I wasn't in a place to jump into a relationship right now."

"You're not. And I think you did the right thing. But still it must feel good to have heard all that."

"It did. I feel like all that anger I had is gone now. I can really fully move on. Just not sure if that means with Victoria."

"Well atleast you know the option is there. Did you two... you know?" She said with a glint in her eye. I just smiled and looked away. "I knew it. Tori is so damn hot."

"She really is." I agreed. "What about you? Anything new with you."

"I'm good. Been working on some music."

"Really? New album?" I asked.

"I wish. They would never let me record this type of song. It's just for me you know."

"Can I hear it?"

"Sure, but I don't have the music here."

"I can play the piano."

"You play the piano? Why Duncan Bryant aren't you full of surprises."

"My mom taught me. Those along with some ballroom dancing lessons are things i'll take with me to my grave."

We both sat down on the piano bench. Ariana handed me the sheet music for her song. I played the first few keys and I cringed at how bad it sounded.

"I thought you said you could play?" Ariana joked with a cocked eyebrow.

"I can. Just a little rusty." I started again. It took me a few tries before regaining the swing of things. I was really out of practice.

"There you go!" Ariana shouted excitedly as I finally got it right. As I played, Ariana began to sing. I was blown away by her. I had heard her recorded, even live on stage, but nothing compared to having her sit next to me singing this song she had written by herself. And my god, the words were beautiful. It was a song about losing someone you loved. That even if you knew it was better to let go and just move on, she still couldn't.

Just like when I read Jeannette's script months ago in Vegas, and knew who she had been writing about, listening to Ariana sing this song, there was no doubt as to who she was reaching out to. I kept stealing glances of her from the corner of my eye, there was no doubt how emotional she was getting singing those words.

"Wow." I said as we finished the song. "Ariana that's an incredible song."

"Thank you." She said still clearly feeling the effects of the song. I pulled her into me and kissed her on the forehead.

"You okay?" I asked her earnestly.

"I'm fine. Sorry, just this song reminds me of someone."

"Sean?" I asked her. She looked at me with those brown eyes of hers. I knew in that moment she wanted to tell me. She wanted to open up to someone and admit all that she had been keeping in. She looked up at me and I saw the look in her eyes. The sadness she had felt was coursing through her. Seeing that reminded me of why I choose this path. I ran my hand across her cheek and felt so much warmth and a wave of affection for this beautiful woman. I was not only fighting for myself. I was fighting for her, for Victoria, for Jeannette, for Danielle, for Marty.

I kissed Ariana. Softly and slowly. She quickly began kissing me back. Her lips were always so soft and tasted like cherries. I wrapped my arms around her small frame and lifted her up and settled her down on my lap. Her arms wrapped themselves around my neck. My dick began to grow hard as Ariana soft bottom grinded against it. I groaned into her mouth as our tongues crashed into each other bringing forth a new wave of sensations. My hands caresses her thighs and her toned legs. I slipped one hand into her tank top and squeezed her right breast.

"Mhmmm." She moaned as my large hand encircled her breast. I pinched and toyed with her hardening nipple causing Ariana to kiss me even harder. A naughty thought came to me as I decided to lift Ariana onto the piano. She yelp cutely at the unexpected gesture. I pulled down the red shorts that had been driving me crazy since she came down. I settled in between Ariana's thighs and lowered my head to her already wet pussy. I took my time kissing and licking the oversensitive nerves at the top of her thighs. I felt her legs quiver with the contact of my tongue.

"Ohhh, shit!" She moaned as I finally licked her pussy. My tongue started from the bottom of her cunt all the way to the top, spending a few more beats on the hood of her clit. "Damn!" Ariana shouted as I repeated the movement. Ariana's juices were nothing short of delicious. I enjoyed every drop that her body felt I deserved to have. I hooked my arms underneath her legs and pulled her pussy even tighter against my face. I pressed the tip of my tongue against her opening, slowly penetrating the petite songstress. It wasn't long until I felt Ariana's hand on my head, pulling me deeper into her cunt.

I groaned as more and more of her juices fell into my mouth, tasting like the sweetest fruit. I move my hands across her body, until they reached her breasts. I kneaded the soft flesh as my tongue sought out Ariana's clit. I wasted no time in wrapping my lips around the little bundle of nerves.

"Ahhh fuck!" Ariana belted as I sucked her clit into my mouth and used my tongue to dazzle her. "SHIT! That feels so good." Ariana moaned as I continued flicking her with my tongue. I brought one of my hands back to her pussy and pushed one of my fingers into her. "oooooo, Fuck me." Ariana cooed as the assault on her pussy continued and intensified. I twisted and sawed my finger inside of her, my tongue gained speed as it stroked her clit. "Duncan... Dun...AHHH!!" Ariana's voice pitched another octave as I added a second finger into the depths of her. "I'm gonna cum, I'm gonna cum!" Ariana moaned as her hips began to hump my face.

"What! NO NO, don't stop!" The singer whined as I removed my fingers from her pussy and slowed the movement of my tongue. I looked up at the singer through her wobbly thighs with a wicked grin on my face. "Don't, don't tease me." She begged as I returned my full attention to her cunt. I slowly build her up again, using my tongue and fingers to bring her close to orgasm once again. My tongue was doing laps around her clit and my fingers were buried inside of her. I was pumping hard and fast. Her pussy was so wet I was able to add a third finger.