“What are you looking at Eve?” T.C. asked.
She didn’t answer him; she went to the door and opened it before Julian had a chance to knock. He stepped inside, kicking the snow off of his boots.

“Julian, what the hell are you doing here? You are not welcome in my home.” T.C. said.

Julian didn’t say a word, but simply smiled at Eve.

“Let me take your coat Julian.” Eve said.

“Thanks.”

“I asked you a question, what are you doing here?” he said annoyed.

“Eve asked me to come over.”

“Eve, what the hell?” T.C. said looking at her.

“T.C., we need to talk to you, Julian have a seat.”

Julian walked over to sit, but T.C. got up and stood in front of him.

“Oh no you don’t Crane, you are out of here!” he yelled.

“T.C., I want you to sit down please, I don’t want any fighting, and Julian has to stay.”

“I am not allowing a bastard like him in my home, I want him out now!”

Eve could see the rage in T.C.’s eyes; this was going to really be difficult.

“T.C., I am not going to ask you again, leave Julian alone and just sit down!” she demanded.

“No I will not!”

“Why don’t you just listen to your wife T.C. or do you need a lesson in learning to pay attention when others are speaking? You need to work on having good manners.” Julian said dryly.

“Shut the hell up Julian, you are making me more pissed off by the minute!”

“Julian, please don’t.” Eve said touching his arm.

“Where do you get the nerve to stand up to me anyway?” T.C. asked.

“Oh don’t you worry T.C., I have plenty of damn nerve!” Julian said coldly.

“Prove it you bastard!”

Eve looked at Julian and shook her head, letting him know that it wasn’t a good idea to face off with him.

“Come on Crane, I could take you with one hand tied behind my back!”

“T.C., stop it now!” Eve said.

“I am not interested in fighting you T.C.”

Julian made the mistake of turning his back to him to look at Eve and he came behind him, grabbing Julian around the neck.

“Let go you maniac!” Julian said trying to breathe.

“Not until you apologize for that mouth of yours.” T.C. said.

“I am not apologizing, you are the one who can’t control your temper.”

T.C. turned Julian around and pushed him very hard, that he almost lost his balance.

“What are you waiting for Crane, if you aren’t going to say sorry, then let’s go, right here, right now.” T.C. said rolling up his sleeves.

Julian just stood there; he didn’t want to resort to violence especially in front of Eve. But T.C. gave him no choice, when he lunged forward at him. Luckily Julian was getting used to T.C.’s punches and he missed him when he tried to swing.

“Better luck next time T.C.” he said smiling.

“I will kill you!”

T.C. was so angry that he started to fight dirty and caught Julian on the side of the mouth. He looked at T.C. coldly, and just wiped his mouth, which was bleeding slightly.

“Julian!” Eve said running to him.

“Eve, I don’t want you to get hurt dear, so please just stay over there.” He said looking at her.

“But you are bleeding, let me get my bag.” She said looking at his mouth.

“No it’s okay, really.”

T.C. then grabbed Julian by the shirt and stared at him for a moment.

“You are going to be so sorry that you crossed me Julian.” He said angrily.

He punched Julian again, hitting him quite hard.

“T.C., stop it, you are going to kill him!” she said panicking.

“That’s the idea.” He said smiling.

Julian shrugged it off and didn’t let the punch affect him too much.

“I am surprised you are still standing Crane, considering what a loser you are, you should be out for the count by now.” He said rudely.

Julian could feel his own temper start to flare a bit.

“You know what T.C., you are the loser because you resort to violence, and you are out of control. Not to mention the fact that you really getting on my nerves now, so you leave me no choice.” Julian said angrily.

“No choice for what?” T.C. said.

“This!”

Julian punched T.C. in the face with all of his strength, knocking him off of his feet, making up for all of the times that T.C. had hit him.

“You bastard, I am bleeding!” T.C. said touching his face.

“Julian.” Eve said sadly.

“I’m sorry sweetheart, I had to do it, go ahead and fix him up.” Julian said looking at him.

“I don’t need anything, I am fine!” he said pretending that his pride wasn’t hurt.

“All we want to do is talk to you, we didn’t have to take it to this level, but now that we did, are you ready to listen to what we have to say T.C.?” Julian asked.

He got up off of the ground and looked at Julian.

“Fine, whatever, just make it quick.” He said irritated.

T.C. sat down on the couch and Eve and Julian sat across from him. Julian took her by the hand, knowing that Eve was quite scared. T.C. got up immediately.

“Don’t go there T.C.!”

“Then don’t touch her your pervert!” T.C. said.

“T.C., just sit down and shut up!” Eve yelled.

“He is touching you!”

“Don’t be so damn jealous!” Eve said.

As annoyed as T.C. was, he sat back down.

“That’s better, do you want to go first Eve or shall I?” Julian asked.

“What’s going on?” T.C. said angrily.

“What did we say, less talking, more listening.” Julian said.

T.C. sat there in a huff, trying to be patient, which wasn’t easy when it came to Julian.

“T.C., first of all, I want you to know that I do love you, I always will.” Eve said.

“Sometimes I really have to wonder that Eve.”

“You know I love you, we have been married for a long time.”

“Yeah okay so you love me, but would you just get to the point?” He said crossing his arms.

“Okay.” She said, her voice a bit shaky.

Julian leaned over to her.

“Sweetheart, I know you are scared, but I am right here.” He whispered.

“Quit mumbling both of you and just tell me.”

“Alright T.C., but before I do, I want to talk about you.”

“Me?”

“Yes T.C., I want you to know that I know about you and Liz.”

“What do you mean?”

“I know that you slept with her.” Eve said bluntly.

T.C. eyes just about popped out of his head in shock.

“What, how do you…”

“I just know okay, and I am pretty sure that you have done it more than once, I was angry at first, but there is nothing I can say or ask you, I don’t want to know why or anything, I just wanted you to know that I found out.”

“Oh Eve.” He said looking downwards, a feeling of guilt coming over him.

“Do you love her?” Julian asked.

“Was I talking to you Crane?”

“Be honest with Eve.”

“T.C., if you do, then just tell me.” Eve said.

“No I don’t love her, sure she is attractive, but it was just sex, I was mad at you Eve, well mad more than once actually.” T.C. said dryly.

“I figured that, I know that you seemed quite annoyed with me because we didn’t make love that night in the hotel.”

“Do we have to discuss our sex life in front of Julian Crane? This is personal Eve.”

“Listen T.C., what’s done is done, so you had sex with her, but there is something else I need to tell you.” Eve said.

“Yeah?”

“You had sex with my sister.” Eve said staring at him.

“What are you talking about, you don’t have a sister.”

“Liz is her sister.” Julian said.

“What is he talking about? Did I hit you that hard Julian?” T.C. asked.

“It’s true T.C., Julian is right.”

“What, I don’t believe this, oh my God! The woman that ruined her life, the one she always talked about, the one who wasn’t there for her, this has to be a dream.”

“It’s not T.C., I am the woman and believe me I have tried to make amends with her, to try to make her understand how much I have changed, I am sorry for everything that happened. But she won’t listen to me.”

“The way she made you sound you were a terrible sister, but this just can’t be real, you are perfect Eve, the perfect wife and mother.”

“No T.C., I am not perfect at all, I am human and you are about to find out just how much.” Eve said.