The Lovely Morning After...Trixie/Jay ATTN: DJ

[Trixie Michaels]

Trixie did not want to move. She was well aware what would happen if she did, "guys stop please. You don't understand. Please." She looked at DJ and then her brother. "Look DJ please he is having an issue. I can explain..." She tried to reason with DJ first because there was no talking to her brother.

However, Jay interrupted her, "Explain. You want to explain to him. No way. There is no explaining to a monster like him. He will never stop. He never stops. Just keeps coming and coming. And you call me a psycho. You have not seen psycho. I will protect my sister from you." Jay said pulling Trixie back out of the way. "I mean it Trix stay out of it."

Jay looked at his sister and then back to DJ. DJ intense blue eyes were just like Jay's fathers intense blue eyes. The same cold stare. "You do not want to mess with me. I am warning you. Leave Trix alone. I have told you before. I see one more bruise on her and your going to be sorry." Jay clenched his fist.

Trix could not watch this. DJ was an innocent guy. She doubt he could ever hurt anyone. "Jay listen to me. You need to stop this." She grabbed his arm and tried to turn him to face her, "he is not dad. You can't do this. Dad is dead. Stop it. Snap out of it." Trixie tried but Jay but lightly pushed her out of the way.

Jay smirked when DJ challenged him, "Guys like you will never learn. You do not mess with me anymore. Hell yeah I want a piece of you. You think I am the psycho well you are the beast who prays on innocent people for your own sadistic pain. Beating children and wives. Your going to stop." With that said Jay brought his fist back and flung it forward hitting DJ jaw.

Trixie watched horrified. "Please don't." She was begging. Was it selfish to think that now she figured she lost DJ for good. Yet she should not care right, but she did and Jay just ruined that.

[D.J. Mac]

"He's not the only one with issues, Trix, now for Christs sake get somewhere safe!" DJ's deep baritone voice bellowed out. If no one knew something was happening, they would now. He kept his sharp eyes locked and loaded on Jay.

"It takes a monster to know another!" DJ shot back like a poison arrow in a blowgun. "Maybe she needs to decide who she really needs the protection from, me or you? DJ's fist clenched tightly, that was when the whisper mill began brewing. People who knew DJ knew he'd never hurt a fly.

"Bruise? Where do you even see a bruise? I never laid a finger on her!" That was a lie as Trixie could attest to from last night. "You wouldn't do a thing, its a idle threat from an idle mind." It bothered DJ when Jay pushed Trixie out of the way, how ever gentle it was. "I'm the horrible man and yet you push your sister, looks I'm seeing the real beast before me!"

Suddenly everything seemed to go in slow motion. Jay bringing his fist around and contacting DJ's jaw knocking DJ some what off kilter. DJ reached up and wiped a small trickle of blood forming at the corner of his mouth.

He grabbed Jay by the shirt with one hand and held him against a locker, his other hand clenched in a fist. He snarled at the boy, "Let me tell you something, don't you ever *FUCK* with me! I can do a lot more damage to you than what you know!" His breathing was heavy and his jaw was starting to ache.

[Trixie Michaels]

"I would never beat my sister like you would. I am not a monster. I am the protector. She needs to be protected from animals like you." Jay said as DJ lifted him up against the locker. "You think you can hurt me or threaten me. Go for it. I can take whatever punch you throw my way. Just know that I will come back swinging until I take my last breath." Jay said struggling. Then he swung out a foot and connecting with DJ's stomach. Which of course made it easier to get out of DJ's grip. "I did not push her. I moved her out of the way. Looks like you are the only one in pain right now." Jay said fixing his shirt, "Trix let's go."

Trixie looked at DJ, "Are you okay?" She asked him. She was concerned. She knew how her brother could get when he was like this. "Jay stop this. I mean it. Leave him alone. Please." She said pleading. This did break down her ice queen exterior. This was flat out scary.

Jay shook his head and laughed bitterly, "After everything he did to us you are going to sit there and defend him. Trix he beat us to a bloody pulp almost daily. How can you sit there and tell me to back off. i finally stand up to the monster and you take his side. Some sister you are."

Trix looked up at Jay, "I am not on his side. This is not dad you are fighting. This is a guy from our school. Dad is dead. He died remember. He is not coming back to beat us or you. So stop. Now." She tried to say it in as hushed a tone as she could, but odds are at least DJ heard the whole thing. She looked around at people starring. Probably thought Jay was a monster, but he was just suffering from PTSD. Although there was more to it then just being beaten. So much more. Like the rituals their father would preform to show his loyalty to Satan. It was sick.

Jay just shook his head, "No. Not like he said. The only smart thing he ever said. Move out of the way."

[D.J. Mac]

Being in football, DJ was used to being hit in various location but he had never been hit let alone kicked in the stomach!! He dropped Jay to his feet as DJ wrapped his arms around his aching midsection. He didn't hear what was said other than Jay had asked no demanded that Trix leave.

DJ fell to his knees, trying to keep himself from getting sick. The tone in Trixie's voice showed that she really was scared for him and for that matter herself. He waved Trixie off, he couldn't answer her at the moment. DJ could feel the tears of pain running down his cheeks.

He listened to her brother, things were coming out that he didn't know. It did explain how Jay was acting though. He spoke through ached breaths. "If you...really cared," he tried catching his breath. "you'd listen to your sister."

Jay didn't seem to be buying Trixie's pleas, this wasn't going to be good. He'd talk to her later during the day when things had blown over. Slowly he rose to his feet, letting out a few groans of aches and pains as he did. "This is all far from over junior, you watch yourself!"

[Trixie Michaels]

Jay eyes DJ when he said this was far from over. "You have no idea. I see you even look at my sister again and you will regret it." Jay threatened. He looked at Trixie, "Let's go now."

Trixie looked at Jay and then DJ. He did not deserve this. She would have to explain and that was the last thing she wanted to do. She never considered Jay would react like he did. Which would just add to that wall around her heart. "No."

Jay turned to walk away and then turned back, "No. What do you mean no? You are staying with him." Jay pointed. He shook his head, "Fine. If thats what you want then fine. But when you can't get out of bed in the morning do not blame me."

Trixie looked at her brother. "Jay...." But it did not help. Jay walked away. He waved her off and left. She only stayed to explain. To explain just why her brother was a psycho.

She turned to look at DJ, "I am so sorry. He...um..." She had no idea how to explain. She eyed him and touched his cheek, but then withdrew her hand. "He....he has..." This was really hard for her, "I did not mean for this to happen okay. Please believe me on that. He is not normally like that. We have a not so nice history and he is still suffering the consequences."

[D.J. Mac]

DJ listened intently, but ready to rip the kid apart especially after his threat. 'I'll damn well see her if I want!' He thought as Jay walked away. He was at least pleased to see that Trixie had enough guts to stay behind.

He got to his feet, still feeling the effects of the boot to the stomach. Sure he wanted to have Trixie all over him but not in this way. He ran a hand through his hair, the pain slowly subsiding. His usual pleasant smile was now replaced with a scowl and his sparkling blue eyes were dull and cold.

"You don't have anything to be sorry about." DJ said shaking his head. It cut him deep like a knife when she pulled her hand away, he wanted to feel her touch. "And don't apologize for him, if he's has issues with me then he needs to deal with me." This sounded worse that what DJ had intended it too.

"He can't tell you who you can see and who you can't, only you can control your life." DJ explained, getting his second wind. "I...I don't care how much he hates it, I still want to see you." This went against what he was wanting to do but maybe junior needed a lesson in growing up and letting go.

[Trixie Michaels]

Trixie looked down for a moment. Her heart fluttered when DJ said he wanted to see her again. But that could not happen. It should not happen. Once he knew....things would be different. They always were. What could she say. It all made her family psycho. Hi my dad beat me and my brother, my brother killed in self defense and my dad worshiped Satan. Yeah it sounded nuts to her. Trixie looked at him a moment and then looked back down the hall.

"It was not you. His beef is not with you." She said softly. She sighed and did not know what to say. This poor guy that she met yesterday and had sex with still wanted to get to know her after getting hurt by her brother. What was with this guy? She liked it and that was the problem.

"See I knew you would want more of me baby. I just knew it. That is so sweet, but sorry baby. This ....was just ....a game. Me and you..... A one time ....deal. After today I don't ...expect to talk to you again." This might be more convincing if she was not stuttering a little each time she spoke. "Sorry. I appreciate you standing up to my brother like that but no need. I am done with you." It was a lie. The first time she told a lie and she did not even think she pulled it off. Trixie kissed DJ's cheek. "See you around....or not."

[D.J. Mac]

"Then who was it?" He asked nicely...at first despite how rough his voice sounded at the moment. "If it wasn't with me, then I think I deserve to know what was going on." He wasn't angry with her but at the situation and that there was more going than what was being said


It didn't take a genius to know she was lying, she was wanting him as much as he wanted her. "Cut the whole game shit Trix, I can see right through it." He gently grabbed her shoulder.

"I can appreciate him looking out for you but has no right to tell you who you can or can't see. If he doesn't approve well then tough shit for him. The only person who can approve of someone is you and you alone."

Maybe a moment of truth was in store here. Something his mother did when she wanted the truth from him. He looked deep into Trixie's eyes. "I want you to keep looking me in the eyes and tell me that last night didn't do something for you." He didn't move when she went to kiss him, he wanted the answers and now.

[Trixie Michaels]

Trixie stared into his eyes as she pulled back from kissing his cheek. She stared right back at him as he said the last part about saying last night meant nothing. She heard the other words too. Especially about being able to see right through her. That scared the crap out of her. Someone who was calling her on everything. She had met her match for the first time. It was easy to walk away from a guy who knew nothing, but DJ actually called her out. She could deny it, but her eyes were giving her away.

Trixie looked down and then back up and him and them to the side. She was trying to avoid this. looking at him, but her eyes kept coming back to his icy blue ones. "Okay...say last night got to me...say the whole damn day got to me...no guy has ever done what you did. I have always had sex and left but I actually stayed."

She started saying and paused a moment before continuing, "I hate lying." She admitted, "Yes it got to me okay. Last night got to me..." She admitted to him, "It was our father." She said softly, "He was fighting out father." Tears came to her eyes, but she blinked them back for now.

"He....he use to beat us back in Salem. Anyway long story short our dad is dead now, but you have to listen to me...there are things you don't know about my family. If you knew them then you would walk away and I would rather do the walking so I don't get hurt. I doubt anyone could handle the truth about my family. So its better...the games...it makes walking away easier." She could feel the tears but they did not fall yet. God she did not want to cry in front of him.

[D.J. Mac]

The sex conversation didn't bother him so much. From their time together he could tell she had experience, she knew her way around. He closed his eyes and nodded as she confessed about the night before. The news of her father however was different.

BOOM!

It hit like an Atom bomb. The beatings, and him being dead, it was no wonder Jay behaved the way he did. It was puzzling as to why it affected him more than it did Trixie. Looked like lunch would be spent trying to figure everything out, an afternoon at the school library, oh joy.

DJ gently wrapped his arms around her, almost to cradle her. "I'm sorry babe, I had no idea." He stroked her hair softly. "All of that is past now, I'm here and I'll make sure no one ever does that to you again." He felt her warm breath on his chest though his shirt, if only there were back at his place and no school at the moment. "Let it out Trix," he whispered to her after kissing the top of her head. "Let the anger, frustration, whatever you have just let out knowing someone does care."