Beating Hearts Baby (Kate)

[Kate]

Why did he have to put her through all of this?!?!? Honestly, why? Why did things have to be complicated? Kate liked him, he liked her. She wasn't ready for titles and things, he knew that. So why did he pull this shit on her?

He kissed her, and Kate didn't move from it. Her body was tense, and her eyes stung like she was going to cry again. No! Kate would not let herself cry two times in one fucking day. That was asking too much. She slapped a hand on his chest, and pushed gently. Breaking the kiss and getting some space.

"I'm not explaining myself twice in one day Adrian. I was forward at my house. This is your house, your game."

As if that would explain everything. She walked past him and picked up the movie before shoving it back into place. She would not be watching that movie. Instead she plucked up something better, and not even a chick flick of sorts. It was a horror movie. Strangers.

"We're watching this. If you have to hold onto me, I'll understand."

[Adrian]

She pushed him away from the kiss, a move that stung a bit, but, slowly but surely, the boy was starting to get the pieces put back together. He let out a little breath, and closed his eyes a moment, listening to her speak. She spelled it out as clearly as could be for the boy, and he nodded, his eyes still closed.

~"We're watching this..."~

Adrian's eyes fluttered open, as the word 'this' couldn't adequately describe the film to Adrian's available senses. He saw the cover, with that ominous bagheaded man, and couldn't help but smirk.

~"If you have to hold onto me, I'll understand."~

Adrian shook his head. His head hadn't been clear before. He was frazzled from her anger, from the streaking, from almost going face-to-crotch with the Varsity Captain, and a score of things that had gone on through his head. He was Adrian Hanlon, the last hope for the Hanlon family name, and he had fallen head over heels for Kate McHallin.

He just had to show her. Words wouldn't be enough, he'd said that once before already.

"Yeah, alright, Kate. I'll remember that when you've got nail marks all up and down my arm." He rose his eyebrows at her, smirking. He walked over and took the case from her, and nodding toward the couch, signaling her to go ahead and get comfy. He reached over to Playstation 3, turning it on from the system and stealthily grabbing something Kate would hopefully not notice. He put the Blu-ray into the player, and with the remote he snatched hidden in his right pocket, he sauntered over to take the seat next to her, leaning his left side into her somewhat, his hand snaking over to rest on her thigh.

Adrian looked over at her, grinned, and reached for two remotes. One remote controlled the lights in the apartment, and with a few presses on the touch-screen, Adrian had dimmed the lights to the perfect pitch. The second remote activated the surround-sound system, and turned it up to a loud, but not painfully so, volume. Adrian watched a lot of movies and TV, and had gotten very good at adjusting his settings perfectly. He set the two remotes down at the end table they sat on previously, and picked up the PS3 controller to start the movie.

His head would lean down to rest on Kate's shoulder as the movie began. She wouldn't see it, but a dark grin crossed his face. They would soon see who was holding onto who.

[Kate]

Kate had settled down on the couch as he cracked his joke. There was a smile on her lips, almost feral from how she was flashing it at him. Nail marks? Did he really want to go there? Really??? Kate chuckled before replying.

"Darling, the only place my nail marks would be on you... would be your back."

Such a sweet angel like voice, such a sweet smile. Tilting her head to the side and smiling at him, blonde locks falling on her shoulders. The pale girl lifted an eyebrow when he sat down and settled everything to his liking. Men were interesting some times, even more fussy than women were. When it came to certain things.

The movie started up and she shivered. Not because it was OH TEH NOES scary movie... it started in a wedding after all. But rather, because he was breathing on her shoulder... which showed around the tank top she was wearing. His warm skin.... breath... fuck. Truth be told Kate was a forward girl, but in most cases she liked the guy to be forward. Why? She was old fashioned in some sense.

[Adrian]

As the movie began, Adrian was leaning his head on her shoulder. However, as the wedding scene began, Adrian's head turned and his lips started playing over her shoulder, around the tanktop she was wearing and up to her neck. Quickly, though, he would pull himself back, and just lean there once again, as if he hadn't done anything.

Throughout the first part of the film, he would do this, wordlessly. Everytime he thought she was about to do or say something about it, Adrian would stop. He was toying with the girl, hoping to get her to finally make some mention of it.

In the movie, Scott Speedman had just gone to the store to get cigarettes. Things were about to hit the fan, and not only in the fictional world of The Strangers. In the dark, Adrian smirked again, and one more time, went back to his little kisses on her exposed warm skin.

[Kate]

Pft. She wasn't going to give in to that!!! Even if she had to fight shudders every damned time he started with that. Warm light kisses on her skin. So... damned nice. Kate really had to fight her eyes going shut and her body swaying over for a real damned kiss. Then of course, the man in bag thing came out of the hall way. She had been paying attention to Adrian and his kisses... so it made her visibly jump.

She growled under her breath at him... but still didn't say a damned word or move. This was his place, the ball was in his court... so how ever he wanted to warm up was up to him. Let him tease and taunt her. She just might loose it, forget the movies, and rape the damned boy.

And he'd like it too. Kate knew that, so she was refraining from it. Instead those emerald eyes were now glued on the screen so she wouldn't be startled again. And yes, Adrian was right... his tv was only JUST slightly bigger than hers.

[Adrian]

All the time he was teasing her, Adrian had been keeping at least one eye on the movie. When the baghead dude showed up, Kate jumped, much to Adrian's delight.

Oh yes, we'd see who was holding who after all. Time to really make things interesting.

"Oooh, scary, Adrian would joke, his lips beginning to press themselves on Kate's neck and jawline, getting a little more bold in his caressing than he had in previous teases. However, when he did that, he pressed a button, surreptitiously, on the remote in his pocket.

The doorbell would ring. Just after the girl would knock on the door in the movie.

Adrian jerked up suddenly, looking towards the door. "What the hell...?" he grumbled, making a pretty good show of it. "Not expecting anyone..."

He left the movie running and got up to presumably get the door. "Stay here a sec, Kate," Adrian said, his face looking more concerned than anyone should have been at the doorbell ringing. He went to the door, a short wall blocking the girl's view, and he pulled the remote from his pocket, using the touch screen on it to make a few calculations, and then, moving a few sliders on the touch screen, the lights and volume in the living room would fluctuate strangely, and he would press another button quickly a few times, activating and deactivating a shutdown switch on the TV that caused it to look like it would flicker.

The first round done, Adrian slipped the remote in his pocket again, and went back to sit next to Kate. "No one there, weird..."

Adrian trailed off the thought, and went back to his previous position, head leaning against the girl's shoulder. This time, however, his tease wouldn't be kisses, but hands. His hand, resting on her thight, would start massaging her upper and inner thigh, gently and sensually, before stopping again, once again, all in an attempt to get her to say or do SOMETHING about it.

And all the while, Adrian couldn't stop grinning.

[Kate]

She almost, almost jumped out of her skin... but didn't. Kate refrained after the door bell. But the lights being all weird and shit? That put her on edge. Quickly, the blonde looked around all all entrances and possible exits. The closest window, hallway, the entrance to the main door, etc. Every way she could make a run for it and drag Adrian along with her. Call it the past making sure she was ready for whatever.

He came back, grumbling... and put a hand on her thigh. She relaxed and concentrated on that feeling instead. It was hard not to just have her way with the boy on the couch. She smirked, and a hand shot out before he could stop it to catch his hand where it was on her thigh. Fingers almost lacing through his and keeping it there. She looked at him, emerald eyes dancing.

[Adrian]

Kate's hand reached his and her fingers laced into his. Right then and there, Adrian's heart melted, and he almost decided to forego any further scares. Almost. Regardless, he sat there, just smiling warmly at the feeling of her hand against his, until he realized she was looking at him. His head raised and didn't even miss a beat, skipping the part where he'd usually meet her eyes and simply leaning up and kissing her lips deeply, letting all that emotion he felt for her up and out, the kiss speaking volumes where his words had previously failed to match up. His hand, laced in hers, would run up and down her leg gently as his lips played over hers.

He put himself so deeply in the kiss, however, that a sudden noise in the movie took him by surprise, causing him to jump slightly, breaking the kiss by accident. He knew he'd be caught jumping, so he didn't even try to deny it. He just stopped and looked into Kate's emerald green eyes, smiling sheepishly at the fact.

[Kate]

And there it was. About fucking time too!!! He was taking to long, going to slow... Except for the fact she was trying to hold out on him. Trying to frustrate him. Granted, Adrian Hanlon could probably have any girl he wanted in his bed in about two seconds... she was the same with the guys... but the trouble was... Even if their bodies were some what satisfied, it wouldn't be enough. Because it wouldn't be Kate, or wouldn't be Adrian.

He broke the kiss with a jump, and Kate chuckled. Yeah, she enjoyed it. A hand lifted, and her eyes were on him, not the tv. One finger crooked back toward her, and she tapped it on her lips. There was no room for doubt, the blonde wanted his lips back on hers bad. And now. Waiting might not be a good thing.

[Adrian]

She loved the fact that he jumped, he could tell, just as he knew she would. The way she smirked at him and chuckled, it just cemented in his mind that he wasn't done screwing with her just yet. She thought it was funny when HE jumped? He couldn't wait to get the last laugh.

That, however, could and would wait. Right now, there was one thing Kate wanted, and Adrian would waste no time giving it to her. His arm would come up and over her shoulder, pulling her to him as he leaned into her, getting back to that intimate kiss they were sharing. Their lips played over each others, once again ignoring the movie. Adrian, however, wasn't QUITE ignoring the movie, partly because he didn't want to make himself look scared like that, and partly to find a good spot to use his little trick again.

As Adrian and Kate were making out, he adjusted himself somewhat, presumably to get more comfortable, but in reality it was a ruse to get his hand to his little remote. He pressed the doorbell button, this time holding it a bit, making the tone draw out a bit longer than someone would usually press it.

"Oh what the fuck?!" Adrian would get up quickly and storm over there. As soon as he was out of sight, he would grab his telephone from his pocket, his fingers flying over the keypad to send a text message to someone. As soon as that was done, he came back to the couch, shaking his head. "Either I'm going crazy, or somebody knows that we're watching a scary movie and is messing with me," he said, laughing. However, his words were chosen carefully. Just why, exactly would someone know they were watching a scary movie, anyway?

Adrian, looking to be a bit spooked, decided not to continue with the kissing. Kate would either be disappointed, or also nervous to do something that required so much personal attention when something weird was going on.

Which is why Kate, if her eyes ever traveled to the reflective glass panels in front of the video game systems, would be the first to notice the silhouette on the balcony, seemingly looking in at them.

[Kate]

She was enjoying her kiss... right when the door bell rang again. Something was up, something odd was going on. She didn't like it in the least bit. The hairs on her neck wouldn't go down, and she felt edgy even as Adrian sat back down. Her eyes drifted... and then THERE. She caught it. Someone watching them from the balcony. Just like the movie. Just like the fucking movie.

Kate's entire body froze, and got wound up. Adrian was no longer a factor. There was a threat, and she had to take care of it. Kate was the stronger of the two, she would be able to handle it IF she struck first. Even if they had weapons like shotguns or knives. Kate could handle knives... maybe not shotguns, but knives and bats for sure.

Poor Adrian. He was going to get his ass handed to him later.

The blonde moved, and moved damned quick. She jumped off the couch, picked UP his coffee table, turned, and FLUNG it straight at the mofo on the balcony... then shoved him into the couch while she flew over it.

There was a threat, she was going to handle it. The coffee table? That was to startle the guy and make a way through the glass that was between them. Glass meet barefoot Kate!!! Wooo!!!!

[Adrian]

Adrian's eyes went wide when Kate flipped out, throwing his glass coffee table through the glass window to the balcony, causing a massive explosion of shattered glass. He let out a stifled little "Umph!" as she shoved him into the couch while she leapt over it, going after the 'man' on the other side of the balcony.

Only the man wasn't so much a man after all. Well, he was male enough, Adrian would suppose, doing his damnedest to stifle the laughter that was threatening to blow his cover sky-high.

When Kate leapt over the couch, just before her feet hit the shattered glass, thankfully, she would likely be able to see what was on the other side of the window. It wasn't a person, at least not a living one. And since it was still broad daylight, it would be hard to miss the obviousness that it was what was behind the window.

It was a Bob bag, an extra that Adrian sometimes used in his boxing practice. And oh yes, he had had one of his retainer guys climb up and put him there, and haul ass afterward.

Adrian, hoping to diffuse the situation, peeked his head up over the couch, knowing exactly what he was going to see. "Huh," he said, as if surprised. "I knew I put that guy somewhere. Forgot I left him outside. I see you've met Bob," Adrian said, raising an eyebrow at Kate's overreaction. Of course, had it been for real, it wouldn't have been an overreaction at all. Adrian was actually rather touched she had shoved him into the couch to save him.

"Maybe I should call someone about that window..."

[Kate]

It made sense. Kate didn't know how he did it, but from his reaction it was pretty easy to see that he had set the whole damned thing up to play a prank on her. Just because she saw it was a dummy after chucking the table didn't stop her. She walked on the glass, bled on his carpet, and grabbed the thing off the balcony. Then she'd walk straight back, death in those emerald eyes. Then she'd shove the thing in his arms.

"This is the only thing you'll be touching for quite some time Adrian Hanlon. You will not touch me, look at me, or kiss me. Have a nice life."

Really, she was just angry. It would take a good amount of pleading and such to get back on her good side now. She picked up her cell phone and sent a quick angry text as well. Her boys were on the way to pick her ass up from his place. One finger pointed at him.

"Over the line. I'd like to feel safe in your arms... not scared you dumbass."

Yeah, beyond pissed. Kate had trust issues. Adrian really wasn't helping his case in the least bit. She could handle a "Boo" jump from a closet or something like that, if it was followed by tackling, tickling, and kisses as a joke. But this? This was too much.

[Adrian]

Adrian's jaw dropped.

"Kate..."

He'd gone too far. He pushed a little joke, just to try to prove a point to her, and now he'd suffer for it. His stubbornness had, for what seemed like the first time, come around and bit him in the ass. She had shoved the punching bag in his arms, and told him she was leaving.

"Kate, wait! I'm sorry!"

His face fell, and he knew words weren't enough. He saw her send a text message, and he knew what that meant. Croaker and the boys would be here soon to take her home. Adrian jumped from the couch, dropping the Bob to the floor hastily. He went to stand between her and the door.

"Please don't go. You know how I am. You challenged me with that stupid 'holding you' comment earlier. I over-reacted. I'm an idiot."

Once again, the boy was just blathering, saying anything he could to get her to listen. WHen he was fairly sure that none of them were working, he stopped, took a deep breath, and tensed himself significantly, issuing forth the final word on the matter, at least for now.

".... I'm not moving from this spot," he said, standing in front of the door. "I'm not letting you leave until you know that I'm sorry, and I'll never do anything like that again. I'll take on Croaker and all seven others if I have to. I'll take YOU on if I have to, I'll let myself be broken into a thousand pieces..."

Adrian paused, his eyes showing no hint of regret for his words. He meant every one, and even in her pissed off state, she would see it.

"Just to prove to you that I care. So if you want me to move, you're going to have to throw me off that that balcony."

Adrian gulped, and held his ground. His light blue eyes were boring holes in Kate, who was beyond pissed off, and rightfully so. Regardless, he would not back down. He said it himself, when it was time to show how much he cared, he'd do with actions and not words. And here, in the wake of his mistake, were his actions, take them or leave them.

[Kate]

Such a cold smile crept on her lips. She had enjoyed being in his arms. Enjoyed his kisses, his hand and hers twined together... had hoped that... Maybe sooner or later she'd trust him enough to be able to call her her... boy-- She took a deep breath and just looked at him. Croaker, the other seven, and herself? He wouldn't last a minute. Not on all nine of them. It'd be too easy. Kate hadn't put her shoes on, with glass in her feet and all it'd hurt to put them on and drive the glass further into her flesh. That scowl, those eyes, all of it speaking volumes of death.

"Do not tempt me Mr.Hanlon, I just might do it."

That's right Mister Hanlon. No longer Adrian. She was so angry, so pissed, soooo GOD SHE WANTED TO KILL HIM! She slammed a fist into a wall, breaking a hole into it.

"Do you understand how pissed I am? I might just go buy your contract off of Mathew and make your life living HELL. Absolute hell Hanlon. I'd ship your ass off to Alaska, or somewhere else so I could never see your damned face again, and take away everyone you damned well cared about so you could come to understand why I can't trust anyone. I was SCARED... for you. For me. For stuff even I don't understand. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!?!!?"