chapter 109

word count: 1763

gil leaned stiffly against the wall just outside of the cell that housed simone and trudy.. sure he had seen girl on girl action on film before,, but had never been privy to it in real life.. as with most men,, it had always been a fantasy of his,, but something about his male ego had always held him back from trying it himself.. suppose the girls paid more attention to each other than they did the gil machine?? his testosterone driven ego could never have withstood the insult.. 

but this was something else altogether.. he was caught between being totally aroused,, and feeling dirty in some way,, like he had watched the whole thing through a peep hole in one of those sleazy sex joints in the filthy underbelly of the city.. 

‘what do i do now??’ he couldn’t help but ask himself.. he had come here to see if he could get any information out of simone,, maybe even find out why she had targeted him.. but what he had got instead was an eyeful of something it was not likely that he would ever forget.. 

“just act natural.’ gil had to remind himself,, checking to make sure his erection was not painfully visible,, as he was sure he was under the watchful eye of the cute young matron at the front desk who had made an exception in his case,, and let him in the cell block only because he had laid it on thick,, and sweet talked his way into the past her by feigning interest in her,, even going so far as to invite her out for a drink after her shift.. 

he had to do what he had come for,, otherwise he would draw suspicion.. but after what he had just witnessed he was unsure as to how to approach the situation.. he hadn’t expected to find the two of them housed together,, let alone tangled up in each other doing things he had only ever dreamed about.. 

he took a deep cleansing breath,, cleared his throat loudly and  called out, “simone!!” as he approached the small wire reinforced window of the cell.. 

both women jumped up off the cot as if someone had set it ablaze.. they looked at gil,, and then at each other..trudy still flushed,, adjusted her disheveled clothing as simone sprang into action and lurched toward  the door and opened the drop down mail slot type door so they could hear each other..

“who let you in here?” she spat at him.. “wadda ya want?”

gil looked past her at trudy.. she was doing her best to act natural,, but the rise and fall of her voluptuous breasts was unmistakable.. his mind flashed quickly to a moment in time when those magnificent breasts had heaved for him in much the same way.. 

“trudy?? what the hell are you doing here?” gil played dumb, acting as if he had no knowledge as to why she was being held,, knowing  there was no way trudy could have been any the wiser.

“leave her out of it!!” simone barked. “ you came here looking for me.. so spit it out!! what do you want?”

“well,, i guess i just needed a little bit of closure on this whole thing.. i was gonna ask you…” gil paused briefly,, then continued. 

“maybe we should take this matter up in private?”

“there’s nothing you need to say to me that you can’t say in front of trudy.. i’m gonna ask you for the last time, what do you want?”

gil hesitated as his mind kept flashing back to the two of them intertwined on the cot.. the mere thought of it caused him to lose his focus.. and the fact that his male parts were reacting visibly to the scene as he replayed it in his mind didn’t help either.

he stammered, “i just can’t figure this whole thing out.. i guess i just need to know why me?? what did i ever do to you?”

“oh get real!!” simone thundered. “you of all frickin’ people should know i have nothing to say to you.. anything i say can and will be used against me!! you know the drill.. quit trying to play stupid with me!”

“yeah!!” trudy chimed in as she took her place alongside simone.. the flush of passion now erased from her face,, and replaced by a defensive stance even gill was hard pressed to understand.. 

“you fucked both of us over, valentino!!” trudy all but screamed at him. “maybe you just about got what was coming to you!!”

“stay out of this trudy!!” gil barked, “this has nothing to do with you! you see that is why i wanted to..”

simone gave trudy a look that trudy rightly understood to mean she had this,, and then laid into gil full force.. 

“don’t you dare talk to her like that!! after how you used and abused her,, after how you played with her emotions,, seduced her,, used her as your own personal plaything,, you have no fucking right to even breathe the same air.” simone huffed at him.

“just go the fuck away.. no one here has anything to say to you,, and even if we did you wouldn’t be man enough to take it!!” 

with that simone stepped in front of trudy,, as if she was protecting her from some sort of invisible danger. her shoulders held erect,, her body stiffened as if she was preparing for a fight.. 

trudy willingly stepped back,, and looked on in awe as simone jumped to her defense.. no one,, no man,, had ever stood up for her like that before.. she was instantly mesmerized by simone’s loyalty.. her heart skipped a beat as she realized as if for the first time,, this is what it felt like to be loved. .

simone stared gil down.. not saying a word,, not needing too.. the look of disgust on her face said it all.. 

“jeezus!!” gil exclaimed. “you know what?? you two deserve each other!!”

with that he turned and disappeared from sight.. 

“fuck wad!!” simone yelled after him, as she listened to him hastily retreat down the hall.. “who the fuck does he think he is!!!”

“yeah,” reiterated trudy, “who the fuck does he think he is!!”

simone turned to trudy,, kissed her gently on the forehead and said comfortingly,, “don’t you worry about a thing, baby.. you got me now,, and i will never let any man speak down to you or mistreat you in any way.. never again.”

trudy just looked at her as if she was seeing her knight in shining armor for the very first time.. she was literally glowing.. she felt safe,, protected,, loved.. three things she had never felt before.. and damn it.. it felt good.. 

***

hank had put in a call to lisa and found out they were at the steak n shake.. lisa explained to him that for the first time the boys were putting up a united front.. they were interacting with each other,, laughing and joking and for the first time ever seemed like they might actually pull together,, and allow her and john to solidify this mix matched group into something that resembled a real family.. 

she tried her best to let him down easy,, by explaining they had had enough police interaction today and she just kind of wanted to let things unfold without any further police presence... she didn’t want to bring up the events of the day,, and she feared hanks presence would make the boys feel as if they would have to do just that.

she had done it in a most gentle, loving way,,  but it still kind of hurt that she made it clear that she just wanted to be alone with john and the boys.. it had been a rough day on all of them she had explained,, but something good had come out of it.. the dynamic of their relationship had visibly changed,, and she just wanted to savor the moment.. hank said he understood,, but that didn’t ease the pain of feeling left,, no pushed,, out of the loop.. 

a dejected hank pulled a u-turn and headed back to the precinct. he really had nowhere else to go,, and didn’t feel like being  home alone with his thoughts, stuck in front of the tv set.. he had more than enough paperwork to catch up on and decided the precinct was the best place to be.. at least there he felt as if he was needed.. 

hank said his perfunctory hello’s as he crossed the squad room,, but kept moving toward his cubicle as he really didn’t feel like being engaged in any conversations.. he settled in, powered up his computer and sifted through the mound of papers that seemed to have multiplied tenfold since his last trip into the office.. he set about organizing them in order of importance hoping he could drown his sorrows in them sufficiently to get what he perceived as lisa rejecting him, yet again, off his mind.. 

she had been his whole world since her mother died.. but he could feel her slipping away,, becoming part of a whole new world,, a world hank feared would include him less and less as time moved on and she and john concentrated their efforts on their new found family.. 

just as hank was achieving what looked like some semblance of order as far as the paperwork was concerned,, he heard a voice above the crowd exclaim, “oh my god!!! mick!! we thought you were dead!!”

hank jumped up to see mick johnson surrounded by a crowd of detectives and uniforms alike.. from the look on his face,, he could tell mick was in shock..

“johnson!!” hank yelled out above the din of the overly excited crowd.. mick shot him a bewildered glance,, and made a concerted effort to cut his way through the crowd and head over to the virtual safety of hanks cubicle.

“jesus christ!!” hank exclaimed as he reached out and embraced mick in a tight man hug... 

“i can’t believe it!! you’re alive!!”

“what the hell is going on?”  a visibly exasperated mick almost whispered in hanks ear.. 

“you’re not gonna believe this buddy,, but we pulled you out of the wreckage at the junk yard today.. gunshot wound to the head.. deader than a doornail!! i mean,, i thought we did.. but here you are!!”

a  look of sheer terror overtook micks face as he exclaimed, “oh my god, no!! my brother,, my twin brother mark!! oh my god!! i gotta call my mother!! dear god please let him be ok!!!”