Hey everyone, here's the second episode of the series... actually had worked on it before, so it's come real soon after the first one.
Anyway, this might be a spoiler for some, but Fatal Attraction will be a 7 episode series. This is the second installment so there are five more to go.
And thanks to all those people who mailed me! Keep the mails coming!
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Episode 2
It was steadily getting dark as Damien walked home with a 6 year old. He never refused Mrs. Writer when she asked him to pick up her daughter from school or from the playgroup. The poor lady hardly had any time herself. A 35 year old divorcee, she had a hard time making ends meet. And Damien always tried to help her out by picking up her daughter from school and sometimes going to the park with her. And he absolutely cherished the time he got to spend with Valary, the little angel.
"Uncle Damien, what does gay mean?" the little girl suddenly asked as they were walking hand in hand back towards their apartments.
Damien turned eighty shades of red.
"What? Who told you that word?"
Valary looked up at the adult, her eyes wide and innocent. "Malchik said you were gay."
Malchik was a male nanny at the playgroup where Damien often picked up Valary from.
"He did?" Damien asked softly as Valary nodded her head vigorously in reply. "When did he tell you that?"
"When you dropped me off at the playgroup yesterday evening. He was talking to John that it was nice that you always came to take care of me and all. And that you always came to pick me up when mom couldn't and all. And that you'd probably never have kids of your own and..."
"Wait a second, wait! Damien suddenly stopped walking jerking the little girl backward with his hand, interrupting her fusillade of information "He said that?"
"Yes", the little girl nodded her head rapidly again. "And he was all..."
"Damn that Malchik. He should not be talking in front of kids like that!" Damien was annoyed at that. And to think he had the hots for Malchik. There went his plans of getting into Malchik's pants.
Valary was still looking up at her uncle. "So what does it mean uncle Damien?"
Damien squatted down in front of the girl till his face was at the same level as hers.
"It's grown up stuff."
"It is?" Valary's eyebrows shot up as her face scrunched all over.
"Yes it is. And don't use that word in front of your mother and the next time John or Malchik use it in front of you, tell them that your uncle Damien is gonna kick their, err, bottoms!"
"I can't ask mom?"
"No you cannot."
"And I can't even ask Malchik?"
"You are not going to discuss it with him either if he doesn't bring the topic up himself!"
Valary was confused now, but Damien knew this was all he could do for now. Damien sighed as he stood up and resumed walking with the little girl, her hand in his.
A few minutes later Damien entered his apartment. He was free now, with nothing to do. That meant he could go down to the racy bars and find someone for the night; especially since Duke hardly seemed to give him any time. He mumbled about how Duke wouldn't give him the time of day ever since he hooked up with that girl and the drop dead gorgeous guy.
The answering machine was blinking red and Damien played the messages as he changed his clothes.
The first message was from some guy called Mark who Damien couldn't quite remember. But apparently he had probably spent a night with him for Mark was asking if they could do it again. Damien sighed as he tried as best as he could to try and remember what Mark looked like.
The second message was from Duke, and Damien immediately stopped short with his shirt still halfway on.
'Hey Dame. It's me.' Duke's was cracking up on the recording. 'I think I screwed up and, ummm' and then there was a long pause.
Damien paced towards the machine to clearly hear the last few words in the recording.
'I'm going to the Mongers so.... Yeah that's all.'
An electronic voice announced that it was the end of the message.
Damien immediately picked up his cellphone to call Duke.
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"You're thinking about him aren't you?"
Scott snapped out of his reverie, it was Natasha looking at him with a knowing expression.
"About who?" he asked, though he knew who she was referring to.
"That nerd Duke; you've been thinking about him haven't you?"
"What? No!" Scott was hardly going to admit it to her.
"Oh save it and try fooling someone else." Natasha quipped. She knew Scott like the back of her hand. "You didn't have to sleep with him you know."
"What?" Scott asked even though he knew exactly what was being discussed. He knew this topic was bound to pop up sooner or later.
"You didn't have to screw him before you screwed him", Natasha replied with a wry expression her face. "That wasn't in the plan and you never do things unless they are in the plan."
"That just kinda happened." Scott replied defensively. "And no, I am not thinking about him."
"We have to perfect every routine," Natasha quipped imitating her partner as he scowled at her. "Please, for a guy who uses that line as his mantra, this was hardly expected."
"I'm not thinking about him okay!" Scott was indignant now.
"Fine, fine, whatever."
Scott waited for her to argue but she did not say anything more. It was evident who the winner of that bout was.
"Anyway there's nothing you can do about it now. We leave this town by midnight and you'll never see him again."
"Yeah." Scott replied trying to feign disinterest. Would he actually ever see BadgerKing again?
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To say Duke was gloomy was an understatement. He was positively lugubrious. He sat alone at the bar nursing his drink. He watched the pale brown liquid slosh in the glass as he wished he could somehow drown in it and die.
"Hey biker boy, fancy some company?"
It was Randy. Duke looked up and used all his will power to not reach out and smash his glass over Randy's head. Randy was the biggest asshole Duke new.
"Nope, run along and play with your daddies now!"
That would irritate Randy. Duke knew that. Randy with his platinum blond hair cut in the latest fashion. Randy with his red lips and soft blue eyes. Randy who did bareback videos with some porno company to earn a living. His screen name was Randy Rodriguez, and that's what everyone knew him as. He wasn't Spanish or Mexican though, just bronzed all over and his face was cut at the perfect angles. He weighed almost a hundred pounds over Duke, all thanks to the half a dozen hours he spend in the gym each day.
That same Randy had been enticing Duke since quite some time. Probably because he could have anyone he wanted, but not Duke. Duke always shrugged him off.
"Yeah?" Randy questioned with a frown on his face, "So pussy boy here doesn't want to play?"
Duke flipped him with a finger and turned his attention back to his drink.
With a sudden movement Randy grabbed Duke's collar and swung him around along with the bar stool. Randy was 6 feet 5 inches, and all of it was muscle, which included his most famous muscle of course.
"One of these days Duke, I'm gonna bang you like a street whore and you're gonna love every moment of it. In fact you're gonna..."
"Am I interrupting something here?"
Duke and Randy turned their heads to see the new entrΓ©e. It was Damien.
Randy pulled a face. "Pussy boy here was just begging for my cock and I'm having a hard time saying no to him."
Damien snorted as Randy let go of Duke's collar. "Yes, I'm sure of it."
Randy stepped back as he gritted his teeth at Duke. "One of these days Duke, remember that!" And with that he stepped back as Damien waited for him to be out of ear-shot before he flopped down onto the bar stool next to Duke.
"Ok, whats going on? First you completely ignore me for like a week and you find some new friends to hang out with. Then you leave some awkward message on my machine, I try to call you but you're phone's switched off and now I find you here lower than a pug's testicles having a drink?"
Duke stared as Damien continued, "Jesus! And you don't even have alcohol! Why the hell are you drinking now?"
Damien paused as he waited for Duke to reply, but no reply was coming. Just Duke's expressionless face slowly turning gloomy.
"So what happened?"
Duke swallowed before he answered.
"I fucked up." And with that Duke motioned the bartender to refill his glass. Damien could smell the alcohol on Duke's breath and it looked like Duke had had quite a few.
"I did a job with those two you met and they fleeced me real good. They ran away with the money."
Damien absorbed the news for a few seconds before he replied. "That's it? Someone milked you of your shady money and you're all torn apart? C'mon, I thought it would take way more than that to knock you down."
"It was fifty thousand dollars." Duke gulped down the contents of his glass in one go.
Damien's eyes grew wide in surprise. "Fifty..."
"And they disappeared with my share and that's not all."
Damien was still trying to contemplate the sum as Duke continued.
"That guy you met at my apartment the other day. His name's Scott. He slept with me."