Fallen  - Chapter 28 (Kantonio/ Evian)
by Namjr
 
 

~@~@ Fallen Ch.28
 

*** I’m changing the history of Eve and Julian, of course Passion does that on a daily basis, but I’m changing it form the Hidden Passion’s version, which I usually like to stick with.

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“I can’t believe I listened to you.”

Sheridan looked over at her brother through the prison bars, and shook her head. “No you didn’t because if you listened we wouldn’t be in jail.”

“You told me to let them fight.”

“Yes I did, and if you done that instead of getting in-between them, we wouldn’t be here.”

“What was I suppose to do, let them duke it out like WWE Superstars?”

“YES.” The threesome consisting of Sheridan, Jody, and Simone, said glaring daggers at the man seated in the other cell.

Jody turned and looked at the man shaking her head, as she rested her elbows on her knees and leaned forward.” You see Julian, with dominant personalities like the one me and little sister possess, its best if it’s established earlier on who is the MORE dominant of the two.” At his blank look she sighed.” By kicking her butt, I let her know who was in charge.”

“You didn’t kick my butt, it was a tie.” Simone said from her cot before turning back to continue staring at the wall.

“Why don’t you TIE a yellow ribbon around that delusion?” Simone keeps her back to the wall ignoring the woman, as Jody shakes her head.” Were you conscious during the fight?”

Fed up Simone jumps off the cot, and glares at the older woman. “I got some good shots in.”

“Yeah, at Sheridan.” She scoffed, before looking over at her new Aunt.” How’s your eye?”

“Black and Blue, but I’m probably doing better then him.” She nodded toward Julian, who admittedly got the worst of the bar room brawl. He had foolishly tried to help Simone up, after the first punch Jody threw drop the girl on the floor, but he didn’t count on T.C.’s daughter trying to charge her oldest sister, or not being able to move from her path in time. When he regained his standing, he found himself in the middle of a burgeoning war, and trying to defend the three women he was concerned about, much less himself was an impossibility of the largest scale. “How are your ribs Julian?”

“Broken, as is my pride and my faith in Crane Security.” He winces slightly as he lifts his broken body of the cot, and tilts his head to an angle that doesn’t cause his jaw to ache. “Tell me Miss Russell; was it necessary to hit me, with a chair?”

~~~

“My father wasn’t a good man.” Eve leaned against the window, and looked out at the Crane grounds.” He was college professor with a very dark side.” She let her mind wander back to her home in Boston, the small Victorian on Delaney Avenue. She could close her eyes and see the front porch where she and Liz would play, the tree outside her bedroom window that became her escape, and most of all she could see her father’s angry face, as he beat them and their mother. “It was all smiles in public and tears and bruises when we got home.”

“Arthur Johnson was a perfectionist, and everything was done his away, or not at all.” She sat down in a chair near the window, unable to meet her daughter’s eyes. “It was only because of its prestigious history that he even permitted me to attend Boston College.” “He wanted me at his school, where he could keep an eye on me.”

“ Once I started school, I felt free, after years of having to check in with my father, and watch my step, I was given these new liberty’s, he didn’t get angry when I was late for dinner, because he assumed I was studying and wanted me to do well, I was making friends something I couldn’t do before.”

“ One of my friends talked me into going to this Jazz club, called ‘Claude’s’ , I liked jazz it was one of the only things me and my father had in common, so I went , and that’s where I met Julian.” She finally turned to her daughter and gave a small smile.” The man that greeted you tonight was the man I met, the one I loved.”

“I’m sorry Dr. Russell; I just find it really hard to see Julian Crane, as the guy you’re describing.”

Eve nodded.” Trust me, Chad I know, I saw the change and could hardly believe it myself, but it’s true.” “I resisted Julian, at first, he was everything my mother and father warned me about, but he has a way about him, that makes you want to know him, save him, and that’s what I wanted to do.”

“ I had taken a job at Claude’s, things had started to get really bad at home, and the only time I felt half way decent was when I went there, so started singing, at Julian’s encouragement.”

“Mom?”

“Yes?”

Whitney hesitated with her question, fearing the question almost as much as the answer.” What was going on at home?”

Eve’s eyes darkened as she remembered her sister angry confession about just how sick and twisted Arthur Johnson was, before turning to look at her daughter, shaking her head softly.” I’m sorry Whitney, but that not my story to tell, suffice to say my father took evil to new heights.” “Strangely enough I think he and Alistair would get along, because it was at the same time that Julian began getting pressured to be more of a ‘Crane’, and it was working.” “ The charming man I meet the first night was coming around less, and less, and more often he would just sit at the bar drinking until the early morning hours.”

She looked at Whitney, and felt tears prick her eyes.” I wanted to save him, so I tried, no matter what mood he was in he was a gentleman, always offering to drive me home, so one night I let him.”

Flashback

“I really appreciate you taking me home Julian.”

“No problem.”

She watched him, with concern he was barley paying attention to her choosing instead to focus on the taillights in front of him. “I’m glad you came tonight, the place was starting to get pretty dull.”

“Yeah.”
 

“Julian what’s wrong?”

“Nothing.”

“ That’s not true, Julian usually by now, you would have asked me out at least 8 times, you’d be telling jokes, not just staring blankly ahead, I thought you said I was your friend?”

Julian stopped at the light and turned to look at her, noting the sadness in her eyes.” Of course you are.”

“Then tell me what’s wrong?”

“You wouldn’t understand, you don’t know what it’s like not to be good enough.”

“Yes, I would.” Eve covered his hand on the gearshift.” Julian trust me, I know what you mean.”

He met her eyes, and saw the understanding, the kind of understanding that came from painful experience.” Eve would you like to get some coffee?”

“No.” She watched his face fall, and gave a little grin. “But I could use nightcap.”

Julian face broken into a large grin, as he shifted gears, and made a U-turn, heading toward the heart of the city.

“ That’s how it started, two friends consoling each other over their bad fathers, as times got worse we used other things to get us through, eventually we fell in love and into drugs, and by that time, I couldn’t hide it anymore, and I didn’t want to.” “So when my father confronted about my failing grades, I just left, I went straight to Julian’s and stayed there.”

“Things were good, or as good as they could be when you’re constantly drugged, but then I got pregnant, and it started it fall apart, Julian’s mother had just died, and Alistair had spent the bulk of his time managing the company, and being with her, and with her gone, he finally noticed what was happing in Julian’s life and he wasn’t pleased” Eve looked at Whitney and gave a sad shake of her head.” Your father has always been right about one thing, Alistair Crane is a racist, you won’t find a bigger one in the country, so his son, living with some black junkie wanna be jazz singer, wasn’t at all acceptable.” “And the baby made it worst, the baby was proof”

“I liked to say that Julian stood by me, but… he couldn’t his mother’s death, it took all the good that Julian had in him, and so when Alistair threatened him, Julian caved, and I was alone.” Whitney eyes began to tear, and Eve moved forward to wipe away the tears. “Honey, its okay Julian leaving was for the best; if he hadn’t left I wouldn’t have gotten clean, or began going back to school.”

“But you lost your baby… Mr. Crane stole your child.”

“Yes, Alistair did.” She picked up her daughters hand and held next to her heart. “But, if he hadn’t I wouldn’t have meet T.C., nor had you or Simone, and I can’t imagine my life without you I just wish…”

“That Jody could have been part of it.” Whitney said as she nodded, wondering if the father could have ever accepted Jody, or if Simone ever would.

Eve opened her mouth to speak, stopped when some noise from the hallway, caught her attention, she looked at her daughter pleadingly.” God please don’t let there be more.”

“I got it Dr. Russell.” Chad stood and opened the door, interrupting two maids who were chatting furiously in the hall. “Excuse me, what’s going on?”

Phyllis looked at the other maid, who merely shrugged and walked away, before answering.” We’re sorry Mr. Harris; it’s just that we’re looking for the young Mr. Crane.”

“Fox.” At her nod, Chad gave a sigh.” Fox left with Theresa a while ago.”

“Oh dear.”

“Why, what’s wrong?”

“It appears that the older Mr. Crane and Miss Crane went to help the newest Crane, and have well…” She stepped closer to him, and lowered her voice, to a whisper.” They’ve ended up in jail, sir.”

“What?!?”

Phyllis, looked past Chad’s shoulder, and stared in horror, as Eve and Whitney, moved into the doorway, shock and confusion blatant on their faces. She looked at the young man, muttered an ‘I’m sorry’, before scurrying away.
~~~

“How the hell did you three, end up here?”

Sheridan whipped her head around and tried to come up with an answer to Luis’s question, when another voice interrupted.

“SIMONE JOANNE RUSSELL, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?”

Jody looked at her red-faced step-father, and rolled her eyes.” Oh fear not peasants, the voice of reason has arrived.”

“Shut your mouth CRANE.”

“ golly Russell.” Jody said mimicking his gruff voice, and angry tone.

T.C. charged toward the cell, and pointed an accusing finger at Jody.” Don’t think I don’t know your role in this.”

Jody moved toward the bars, and glared at him.” Don’t go thinking I care.”

“Can we please stop this?” Sheridan asked stepping closer to her new niece and pulling her away, motioning for Luis to do the same with T.C. “I think we’ve had enough drama and animosity to last a lifetime, much less the night”

“Stay out this Sheridan.”

“Don’t take that tone with my sister.” Julian slowly rose from his cot, and tried to straighten his posture, but the bruised flesh, and aging bones prevented the aura he was going for, and Instead he looked drunk and like he was about to fall.

“For once I agree with Julian, there’s no need to get upset with Sheridan she didn’t create this situation, T.C.” Luis said as he yanked the man back from the bars.

“Yes, we have only my lying tramp of a wife to blame for this MESS.” The last word was yell, and clearly directed at Jody, who merely looked him up and down, before she laughed and sat back down.

“STOP IT.” Simone jumped up and ran toward the bars, her brown eyes blazing with anger.” You don’t the rights to call her that.”

“Honey bear…”

“DON’T CALL ME THAT.” She stepped back as he reached for her, and shook her head in disgust. “You don’t get to act like you care about me when you treat my mother like garbage.”

“It’s complicated sweetheart…”

“No it’s not, you’re both screwed up, and I don’t want to deal with either one you.”

T.C. stepped back like he been punched in the gut, and drew in a ragged breathe.” Well you’re going to have to, because I just paid your bail.”

Jody moved and shook her head, while pointing a finger at her step father.” Two things, first I ‘d think you more then anyone would know that slavery was outlawed, so by paying her bail you didn’t actually buy her, second thing directed to Luis….” She looked at the officer, and raised an eyebrow.” Where’s your brother with my bail?”

“I’m here.” Antonio walked into the holding room, with Kay behind, who looked to stunned at the people in the cell to do anything more then let her jaw drag on the floor.” Your bails been paid, along with Sheridan’s.” The woman behind him, hit in the head, and he briefly glared before he muttered something.

“What was that Tony?”

“He said Julian too.” Kay shoots a brief smile, toward Julian.” You’re free to go Mr. Crane.” An officer comes from behind her, and moves toward the cell door, opening them both up, allowing them to go.

“Come on Simone.” T.C. gave his daughter a pointed look as motioned toward the door.

“I’m not going anywhere with you.”

“Really and where are you going to go?”

“She can stay with me.” Jody threw an arm around the young woman shoulders, and glared at T.C.” As long as I got a home, my baby sister got a home, let’s go.” They walked out of the cell past T.C., but stopped at the door, where Eve stood leaning against the doorjamb, with tears in her eyes. “If you’ll excuse us?”

Eve stepped out of the door, and watched as Simone and Jody walked out arm in arm, barley acknowledging her presence. She turned back to the room, only to find T.C. stand less then a foot away from her, radiating more anger then she ever remembered.

“I hope you’re happy, because this is ALL YOUR FAULT.”

She looked back as she watched two of her children walk out together, and gave T.C. a tearful smile.” Actually T.C. that is one of the greatest sites I had ever seen.”
 
 
 

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