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Fight Fire With Fire; James/OFC, Het, 1999
Topic Started: February 17, 2013, 12:58 pm (18,433 Views)
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Great updates! I'm liking the story very much.

However, I don't know if I like the character of Ruth so much now that we've gotten to know her better. I wish I could say what it is that I don't like so much, but I can't. :( I think it's nice that she's close to her dad and it's nice of her to have given James a chance, even after he's acted like an ass.

But still... Maybe she's trying to be tough when she really isn't? I don't know :)

In any case, I will be following the story and I hope you update soon! :heart:
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A week later we were back in California. Gladly Maxine was out of the way. While we were still in Mexico, she never hid the fact she wanted James. She hung out of him when I wasn't around. I stayed in James’ house the night we got back because we got a late flight and I didn’t want to disturb my dad. In the morning I felt something tickling my lips. I opened my eyes and James was running his finger over my bottom lip.

“Sorry” he apologized for waking me. “You have pretty lips”

I smiled and stretched out in his bed.

“What do you want to do today?” I asked since we had a day off.

“We have to go to the hospital and get your stitches out”

“Oh yeah. Forgot about those”

“Then I was thinking we could take your dad out for dinner”

“Really?”

“Yeah it’s only fair. I thought we could get to know each other better” he turned to me and took my hand. “Look, I want to do this relationship thing properly with you so I want to get to know the people around you too. And your dad seems like an alright guy. Any girl I’ve gone out with in the past, their dads seemed to hate me”

“Sure, that sounds cool”

“And I should do something in return for him not giving me that ticket”

“I honestly think he’s forgotten about that, James”

We drove to the hospital in the afternoon and sat in the waiting room waiting to be called. I noticed James’ leg bobbing up and down nervously and he could sit still in his seat as he looked at all the sick people surrounding him.

“Hey, you okay?”

“Yeah…just…hospitals freak me out” he took a deep breath.

“It didn’t seem to bother you when we were here two weeks ago”

“Well I was panicking then…I thought I sliced your fucking arm off!”

“Relax” I took his hand and he smiled weakly back at me.

“Miss Bowe?” The nurse called me and I stood up taking James with me but he refused.

“Not coming in with me?”

“Ruth, I will throw up if I go in there”

“Please?”

He followed me into a small sterile smelling room and sat on a chair opposite me where I laid on the bed.

“Nice and clean, no dried blood around it; it healed really well” she said inspecting the wound and put on a pair off rubber gloves. She took out a tweezers and a pair of small scissors. I looked over at James and he was staring at the floor with no color in his face. The nurse started to snip out my stitches and they came out really easily like a piece of thread. She cleaned up the area with something clear that smelled funny.

“There we go. Just use some cocoa butter for the scar and it should fade in time” I checked out my arm and had a pink scar running down it.

“Thanks. Can I get one of those lollipops off you please?” I pointed to a giant jar of lollipops for kids. She laughed when I asked her but gave one to me anyway.

“Here you go” I handed him the orange lollipop and tried to make him smile but he just stared at me instead. “Let’s go”

“Thank god that’s over” he inhaled the fresh air when we got outside.

“I would have thought you’ve broken enough bones and seen enough blood that hospitals wouldn’t affect you like that”

“Yeah well it’s different when you’re responsible for it happening to someone, y’know…you like”

“Well it’s over now so forget about it all” he nodded and I went to kiss him but he tore the wrapper of the lollipop and stuck it in his mouth instead.

James dropped me home after the hospital and would pick me up again later to take my dad out.

“Hey dad” I found him asleep in front of the tv still in his uniform from work. “Dad?” I shook his shoulder to wake him.

“Oh hey honey. How was the tour?”

“Pretty good. It’s not over yet though”

“You’re tellin’ me. You’re hardly ever here these days”

“Hmm…anyway, James wants to take us out for dinner tonight. Are you up for doing that?”

“Tell him to come over here and I’ll cook. He doesn’t need to take us out”

“That’s what I said but he wants to say thank you for not giving him that ticket”

“Call him and tell him to come over here for dinner. I’ll do my famous meat loaf. He eats meat right?”

“That’s all he eats!” I laughed.

He agreed to come over and have dinner with us but I was slightly apprehensive about the whole thing. For some reason it felt like we were teenagers dating and he was coming over to do the whole ‘meet the parents’ thing. My dad spent the most of the evening in the kitchen cooking the meat and vegetable for later and I cleaned up the house. He’d been here before but I still wanted to impress.

At 7pm he knocked on the door looking clean and fresh in a black button down shirt and dark jeans.

“You look nice” I grinned and kissed him.

“Thought I should make an effort” I let him in and he handed me a bottle of red wine. “Somethin’ smells good”

“Hey James!” my dad came out of the kitchen to the living room in an apron. “Want a beer?”

“That’d be great, thanks”

“Feeling better after earlier?”

“What happened earlier?” my dad asked giving James a cold bottle of beer.

“He nearly threw up when I got my stitches out”

“I thought you were tougher than that, James” my dad teased and looked at my arm. “You literally scarred her for life!” he laughed, patting James on the shoulder and walked out to the kitchen. After he said that James looked extremely nervous.

“He’s kidding, chill out” I reassured him as he took a huge gulp of his beer.

My dad called us into the dining room a few minutes later. James sat beside me and we both faced my dad across the table. He cooked way too much for three of us.

“This is good Mr. Bowe”

“Call me Chris. Mr. Bowe makes me feel old! So, you two got something to tell me?”

“Uh…like what, dad?”

“This about more than a ticket, right?”

“Well…we’re going out. I hope you’re okay with that” James said.

“I have no problem with that. It was pretty obvious already. Just try not to injure her anymore!”

“I’ll try!” we both laughed.

After dinner and a few more glasses of wine and bottles of beer we moved to the living room to talk. James sat with his arm around me on the couch and my dad sat in one of the armchairs.

“What do you do when you’re not on tour, James?”

“I work on cars, hunt, go to football games”

“Did Ruth tell you I had a trial for the 49ers?”

“No!” he looked at me as if it was one of the first things I should have told him.

“Yeah back in the seventies as a linebacker but then I tore ligaments in my calf and I couldn’t continue to play so I became a cop” both James and my dad were suddenly getting along really well and were very interested in what one other had to say. “Wanna see my gun collection?”

“Hell yeah!” James followed my dad down to the basement and showed him his guns. I heard their deep voices and laughter echo up in the living room. I took advantage of the time they were gone to get another drink. I had a funny feeling it was going to be hard to get a word in now that they were friendly. Better than sworn enemies I suppose.

“Haha that’s a good one!” my dad handed James a photo coming back up from the basement.

“What have you got there?”

“Found a box of your baby pictures in the basement, Ruth!” my dad chuckled.

“Let me see that” I took the photo off James when he sat back down and looked at the photo and cringed. It was of me when I was around three with chocolate all over my face wearing a pink dress with cowboy boots. The laughter continued for the rest of the night and it made me happy that both of them got along so well. I hoped this happiness would last.
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Aw, look at those two, like father and son. I am really happy for Ruth! :heart:
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Haha its good that they are getting along. They are like totally best friends now. :D
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Aww this was so cute! Glad Maxine is out of the picture for now. However I see her making a comeback. More please!
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That was a cool meeting!

Moar! :D
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Thanks for commenting dudettes, makes my day :heart:


James obviously couldn’t drive home after having so much to drink so we slept in my single bed. When I woke up he was clinging onto me for dear life so he wouldn’t fall out of the bed with his arm around my waist and his leg over mine. I looked at the clock and it was 11.45am so my dad would be gone to work.

“Hey” I rubbed his leg “James wake up”

“Mmph” he moaned into my neck. I felt the vibrations of his deep voice on my back.

“You have a show tonight”

“I do?!” his head shot up off the pillow.

“Yeah in Sacramento”

“Ugh I forgot about that. I’ll tell them I’m sick and we can stay in bed all day” he said suggestively still looking cute with bbed-head and puffy eyes.

“But what about Kirk? He’d still need me even if you weren’t there”

“Fine I’ll go” he huffed like a child and stood up while I stayed on the bed. He stretched and his morning wood was visible through his jeans that were open. l laughed and reached to touch him but he swatted my hand away.

“Don’t start something you’re not prepared to finish” he warned.

He leaned down to give me a single kiss goodbye but his hand wandered up my top cupped one of my boobs.

“Don’t start something you’re not prepared to finish!” I told him.

“Alright I’ll see you at the gig later” he promised and left my house.

It was handy that the gig was in Sacramento. It meant that I could drive and could sleep in my own bed tonight.

When I arrived at the venue I checked the place out then followed the signs that were on the wall to the tuning room. I got to the room where Kirk’s guitars were but there was someone already putting strings on his Flying V.

“Dude, that’s my job” I said politely.

“Not today” James’ guitar tech looked up at me from the table. “They swapped techs so you’re doing James’ guitars for the day” I knew James had organized this.

“Alright. Where’s James’ stuff?”

“Next door”

I went into a smaller room and unlike Kirk; James had two cases of guitars and changed his guitars twice as often during set although they were quicker to string which made the job a bit easier. I started with his Ken Lawrence guitar and cleaned the fret board. He had better taste in guitars than Kirk too, that was for sure. When I finished stringing them I needed to know how he wanted them all tuned. I found him talking to Lars in the catering area.

“Hey! The two lovers on tour!” Lars shouted as I approached James.

“Can I talk to you for a sec?”

“Is that code for ‘let’s have sex’?” Lars quipped, thinking he was funny.

“Shut up, Lars. Let’s go”

He wrapped his arm around my waist and we walked back to the room I was just in.

“How do you want these tuned?”

“I’ll write it down for you”

He started to write it down and there was a knock on the door. I answered the knock and Maxine was standing there in her usual pencil skirt suit wearing a push up bra underneath that showed way too much cleavage through her shirt.

“Yeah?”

“I need James”

“Well so do I. You’ll have to wait”

“It’s important, Ruth” she crossed her arms.

“And so is this!” I got angry.

“Do I have to keep reminding you that I am the one you answer to on this tour?! You can’t speak to me like that! Tell James I need him when he’s done; it’s urgent” I slammed the door in rage.

“What did she want?” he said handing me the piece of paper with the tunings on it.

“She ‘needs’ you and apparently it’s urgent. She’s like a bad smell following us everywhere”

“Don’t pout, baby” he pecked me. “I have a few interviews to do right now so I’ll see you before the show, okay?” I nodded and he left after Maxine.

“Maxine and her fucking boobs” I mumbled to myself as I read what he’d written on the paper and set to work tuning his guitars.

The Ecstasy of Gold started to play and I pushed his guitars towards the side of the stage where I could hand them to him. During the show, I cringed when ever Kirk had to play a solo because almost all of them were out of tune after swapping techs and Kirk let James’ guitar tech know by shooting him endless dirty looks throughout the set. As good of guitar player Kirk is, if his guitar is out, everything turns to shit. And it did.

When the show ended I heard Kirk shouting, a rare thing but I heard him from the room I was sitting in and got up to see what was going on.

“We’re never swapping again, James. That was fucking stupid! I want Ruth back!”

“Calm down, man. It was just an idea” James patted Kirk’s back as they came off the stage.

“I know you guys are like going out now and stuff but she’s still my guitar tech and the best one I’ve had so just because you guys are fucking doesn’t mean you can steal her. Got it?!”

“From tomorrow she’s all yours again” he ended the conversation with an angry Kirk and came over to me in the corridor.

“Good show” I said after he kissed me.

“Kirk didn’t think so. He wants you back” he laughed and wiped his face with a towel.

“What did Maxine want earlier?”

“Legal stuff. No big deal”

“Cool. Go take a shower you stink” I laughed and he threw his towel in my face. “I’ll wait for you at the door” he left and headed towards the dressing room.

I packed up all of his guitars and wheeled them into a room with all the other gear. I waited by the door for James with my backpack and said bye to all the guys that passed me. After another twenty minutes of waiting there was still no sign of James. Almost everyone in the building had left. I got worried so I went to the shower room to look for him. I knocked on the door before I went in but no one answered me so I let myself in. I heard moans coming from inside the shower.

“James?” I called him.

“Fuck! Get up!” I heard him say to someone but it wasn’t to me. A girl emerged topless from a shower stall and picked up her t-shirt and ran past me through the door. I stood with my arms crossed waiting for James to come out. He came out buttoning up his jeans as best he could.

“I can explain this, Ruth”
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Explain it? He'd better! Bad James!
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Thaprick she should kick him in the fucking balls! How could he do that to her? After her telling him that she would not be another notch on his bed post and her promising that he wouldn't do that to her? All that about wanting to do the relationship right? Wow....way to fuck it up James....

More! :horns2
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Come on James...I hope that chick wasn't Maxine, but if it was I know Ruth would be really pissed.
James shouldn't have cheated too soon...
Then again why would he have a reason to cheat?
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A good explanation it must be... :rolleyes:
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slkjdksjdlskdjls :ugh:

Bastard! ;_;
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Thanks guys. Short part for now, should have some more up soon. :heart: :heart:

“Who was that?” I asked him. He stood in front of me looking pathetic with lipstick marks on his white tshirt.

“I don’t know” he said quietly.

“So she just marched in here and fell on her knees for you?”

“She’s related to Maxine or something. She introduced us earlier” I knew she’d be involved somehow. She hated us being together and was determined to see us split since we had gotten together. Looked like it finally worked.

“You planned this?”

“No! It just happened!” he yelled getting frustrated. “When I got back here after talking to you, she was already in here and started touching me and wouldn’t stop. I’m sorry…?”

“Are you asking me or telling me you’re sorry?”

“Telling you!”

“You could have just said ‘no’, that you had a girlfriend. That’s what any decent guy would have done”

“I tried, Ruth!”

“I’m sure you did, James” I sighed and turned the door handle to leave because I was tired of his bullshit and the fact he expected me to believe it pissed me off. His hand slammed the door shut and made me jump.

“Ruth, I’m fucking sorry alright? I messed up I know but gimme another chance, please?” his blue eyes pleaded with me. I knew that if I gave him another chance I risked him doing it again tomorrow and the day after that with a different girl.

“No. You know what your problem is? You’re spoiled. You’re used to having a different girl in your bed every night, doing whatever you tell them to. You want it all. When you can only have one, that’s not enough and the temptation gets too much for you. Now, I’m not saying I was the best girlfriend in the world but at least I was dedicated enough to not mess around on you. You couldn’t even last a week!”

“What does this mean for us then?”

“It means there is no ‘us’. The only time you talk to me from now on is if it’s work related. Got it?” he nodded and took his hand off the door. “Bye, James”

I left the room and went back out into the corridor and took a deep breath. The girl that was with James just moments ago was still standing outside the shower room.

“Can I go back in now?” she asked me. Talk about adding insult to injury.

“I don’t care. I’m not his girlfriend” I said coldly and walked to my car.

On the drive home I flipped the stations on the car radio. Every stupid sad break up song in existence must have come on. I settled on Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff and turned up the volume. Of course I was upset that he cheated, I didn’t even give him a reason but I was more angry than anything else that he showed such little respect for me. He convinced me we could have worked out but apparently not. The worst thing was was that I’d have to face him all the time and the other members of the crew too. Since Maxine was involved, word was sure to spread like wildfire.

I slammed the door shut when I got home, kicked off my shoes in the hallway and went straight to the freezer to grab a tub of ice cream and a spoon from the drawer. My dad was still up doing some paperwork in the living room. I sat on the couch beside him and crossed my legs.

“I need to borrow one of your guns, dad”

“What has he done?” he said not even looking up from the stacks of paper.

“He’s not who I thought he was” I stated through a mouthful of rich chocolate ice cream. “He couldn’t keep it in his pants”

“Wait, are we talking about James here?”

“Yes”

"The same James that was here yesterday?"

"Yes"

“He did that on you? Jeez, I thought he was a genuine guy” my dad shook his head.

“Well you think you know someone…” I stabbed the spoon into the frozen ice cream as I spoke.

“Honey” my dad took off his glasses and turned to me. “Don’t take this the wrong way but, James is a famous guy, girls are going to want to be with him. Surely you might have guessed something like this would have happened?”

“I know that. I’ve seen him with girl after girl but it’s the fact that he said he wanted to be in a relationship with me then threw it in my face is what’s annoying…I feel…used or something” my voice broke towards the end. The more I thought about it the more I felt like crying even though I swore I’d never cry over a man…but I really liked James.

“The best thing you can do now is concentrate on work as much as you can. I know it might be difficult at first but you gotta get through this” he started to clear up the paper and turned off the tv. “Go to bed honey, you’ll feel better in the morning. As they say, plenty more fish in the sea, right?” he patted my shoulder and left the room.

Too bad I didn’t want any of the other fish...
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James... you are stupid.

You've got a nice, cool, warm woman and you mess all that up because you cannot be faithful a whole week.
Yes, you're an idiot.
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James! You asshat!
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