Killer Heels and Prada (12/?)
TITLE: Killer Heels and Prada
AUTHOR: merylandrebafan
PAIRING: Miranda/oc
RATING: M
DISCLAIMER: Oh if only I owned them!
A/N: Thanks to mammamiafreak and surena_13 for their support! Sorry this has taken so long to post! Please forgive me!!!!!
SUMMARY: How does it feel to be the last one standing? Miranda Priestly should know. All of the RUNWAY editors but her have been viciously murdered, and now the Killer is after her, revealing she was his main target all along. The best agent available is sent to protect her, 007 himself. Will he be enough to stop this vicious murderer? Who is this psychopath? And just how close will Miranda and James get?
CH. 12
“Damn it Irv don’t just stand there help him up!” Miranda said in an icy voice. Irv moved to help him but Roy had pulled up and rushed out of the car and helped James up off of Miranda. Then in turn he helped Miranda to her feet. Miranda looked at her blood stained clothing and saw that the press were having a field day. Miranda saw the ambulance and turned to James who was leaning against Roy. She quickly composed herself and asked “James are you alright, you’ve lost a lot of blood.” James saw that her tone was detached and formal, and he felt his heart clinch slightly. “I’m fine, the bullet went right through my shoulder. I’ve had worse.” he said. The paramedics rushed to his side and made him lie down on a gurney. One paramedic took Irv off and examined him while Miranda climbed into the first one with James. “Ms. Priestly are you hit?” one of the paramedics asked once she sat in the ambulance. “No, I’m fine, the blood is all his.” she replied firmly. The ambulance began to move and the paramedics started to clean James up and take his vital signs. His breathing was shallow so they put an oxygen mask over him and continued their work.
They arrived at the hospital a few minutes later, and Miranda was made to out in the waiting room while the doctors looked him over thoroughly to determine if surgery was needed. “Emily, clear my schedule for the rest of the day, cancel all of my appointments and reschedule them accordingly. I want a change of clothes and Starbucks here within the next 10 minutes that’s all.” Miranda said and hung up her phone. She began pacing back and forth up in the waiting room. “He’s going to be ok, he’s going to be ok.” she kept thinking to herself. Her phone rang and she answered it without even looking at the number. “Hello” “Miranda, I was just informed of what happened is 007 going to be alright?” M said. “they are examining him to find out is surgery is required as we speak” Miranda replied dryly. “Miranda, I’m so sorry about all of this, I fear whoever is behind this is realizing we are on to him and that’s why he pulled this, I’m sure James has told you whoever is doing this is likely to become more desperate, and it looks like he is. Are you alright? And I don’t want one of your snippy remarks I want an actual answer, I know you, Miranda.” Miranda sighed. “M I’m fine, physically, it’s quite disturbing when people keep shooting at you and try to blow you up.” Miranda said quietly. “I know, hang in there, I will call later for a report on James.” “Very well.” Miranda hung up the phone and Emily came scurrying towards her.
Miranda took the coffee from Emily and took a sip. Just as Emily handed her a change of clothes a nurse came up to her. “Ms. Priestly, if you follow me you may change in an empty examining room. “Acceptable.” Miranda said to the woman and Emily and the nurse both were shocked as Miranda flashed her the briefest of genuine smiles. Miranda followed the nurse to the examining room and closed the door. She opened the bag and found Emily had brought her a pair of black Dior slacks as well as a matching off the shoulder long sleeve, sapphire colored shirt. She changed quickly and headed back out to the waiting room where Emily stood and handed her, her blood covered clothing. “take these to my dry cleaners, then you are to go back to RUNWAY. That’s all.” she said “Yes Miranda” Then Emily turned on her heel and scurried away.
Miranda started to pace up and down again when she saw the doctor coming towards her. “Ms. Priestly, I’m Dr. Randall.” “Hello Dr.” Miranda said. “How is James?” “James is a very lucky man, the bullet went right through his shoulder, and that’s why there was so much blood. He will be just fine, in fact I’m rather impressed by the progress he has already made, we game him a unit of blood, and he should be fine to leave the hospital in 24 to 48 hours, his arm will be in a sling, but everything should be completely healed within about 5 to 6 weeks.” Dr. Randall said. “May I see him?” Miranda asked. “yes, he has been moved to a room on the second floor, I will take you there now if you wish.” “Yes.” Miranda said and nodded her head. The doctor turned on his heel and walked towards the elevators. He pushed the up button and Miranda suppressed her dislike of riding in elevators with other people and stepped in with him. A couple of minutes later Miranda was lead into room 210. Miranda’s eyes landed on James’s sleeping form. She saw the bandages on his shoulder and the sling that his arm was in and fought back tears. “A nurse will be in every hour to check his vital signs for the first 8 hours or so. I will leave you two alone now, when he wakes up he will still be very groggy and probably fall asleep again within a few minutes for the next couple of hours.” Dr. Randall said and Miranda nodded her head, then he turned and left the room. Miranda pulled a chair up beside his hospital bed and sat down and took his hand. She was only sitting there a few minutes before James stirred and opened his eyes. “Hey gorgeous.” he said in a hoarse whisper and with that Miranda let a few tears run down her cheek. “Hey, don’t cry I’ve had so much worse than this believe me.” “It’s my fault you’re here.” Miranda said. “Miranda, it’s my job to protect you, I would do it even if it wasn’t my job. Now why are you in that chair? I will feel much better with you up here with me.” he said groggily. Miranda could tell he was already ready to fall back asleep so she slipped of her shoes and climbed into the bed beside him on his uninjured side. “There, I feel better already.” Miranda couldn’t help but smile and she leaned up and gently kissed his lips, and just like that he was asleep again.
Miranda gently slipped out of bed with him and called Emily. “Emily, go to my townhouse and pack me an overnight bag, I will expect you to bring the book here tonight, and inform Nigel, that’s all.” she said and hung up the phone. Miranda then dialed M’s number and filled her in on James’s condition. When her conversation with M was over a nurse came in and checked James’s vital signs. “Will you be staying with Mr. Bond tonight?” the nurse asked turning to her. “Yes.” Miranda replied. “Well then, after dinner is served for the patients later I will bring you a blanket and a pillow. I just started my shift so I will be here until 11 tonight, I’m Nurse Alice, Ms. Priestly.” she said and smiled shyly. Miranda nodded her head and the young woman scurried off. Miranda called Caroline and Cassidy and spoke with them briefly explaining that she was fine.
Emily brought Miranda’s overnight bag over later that evening, along with the book and a steak for Miranda’s dinner. “Emily, tell Nigel that he will more than likely have to take over at RUNWAY for me tomorrow, tell him I will be in touch with him later and let him know, that’s all.” The Nurse brought James’s liquid dinner. “We don’t want him to eat anything too heavy because of all of the medication and the anesthesia. Then Nurse Alice walked back out and came back in with a blanket and a pillow. That chair that your sitting in reclines and the bottom pops out, I hope you will be comfortable enough. Let me know if you need anything. I will be back in in an hour to take away his tray and check his vital signs.” Miranda nodded and then Nurse Alice left the room for good. Miranda walked over to James’s bed and gently woke him. “Your dinner is here and you need to eat darling.” she said in his ear. James smiled and Miranda raised the bed up and set her steak on the little table next to James’s try and rolled it over to where they could both reach it. “Your dinner is just liquids I’m afraid James, they don’t want you to eat anything heavy because of the medication and the anesthesia.” she said and opened his broth. Then she opened up her carton that held her steak and James scoffed playfully. “So you are just going to torture me by eating that in front of me?” he teased. Miranda smirked at his tone, cut a bite of steak and put it in her mouth. “Yes.” she said and started chewing. Miranda swallowed the bite and leaned over and kissed James. Sliding her tongue into his mouth slowly. She broke the kiss a few seconds later and pointed to his tray. “Eat” she said. James smiled and took a sip of his broth. They ate in silence, and when they were finished Miranda pushed the table away. “How are you feeling?” Miranda asked. “I honestly don’t feel that bad, my shoulder hurts, but like I said I’ve had worse. Besides, having you here provides for a most wonderful distraction.” He said eyeing her. Miranda smiled. “You do feel fine I see, you sound like your old self.” “Oh, and just what does that sound like your highness?” James asked coyly. “Overly sure of yourself when it comes to hitting on me, and throwing out lines a teenage boy would know better than to use, because they sound so cliché.” Miranda said and raised an eyebrow. James laughed. Nurse Alice came back in and smiled. “I see your feeling better, your vitals look good, and you ate everything on your tray. Very good Mr. Bond. I go off duty in a couple of hours, and I will talk to the doctor, but with as well as your doing, I think we can minimize the number of times we will be walking in to check your vitals, it‘s been about 4 hours since you were brought to the hospital, just buzz me if you need anything.” she smiled and walked out.
A few minutes later Dr. Randall walked in. “Well Mr. Bond it appears you are doing much better than expected, we will now only bug you every 3 hours or so, and with the way your looking you will be able to check out in the morning. Oh, and there’s one other thing. Some security has been sent over to stand outside the door, for your and Ms. Priestly’s safety. They said if you had any questions to call M, because she is the one who spoke to their commissioner and had them sent over.” “That won’t be necessary it doesn’t surprise that M did so.” James said and Miranda nodded her head in agreement. “very well, I will be back in the morning to release you. Good night Mr. Bond, Ms Priestly.” Dr. Randall said and walked out. “Well there goes my plan to thoroughly ravish you between vital check ups.” James said and smirked. Miranda rolled her eyes. “Oh yes, your plans were to ravish me, did you hit your head on the pavement when you pushed me down under you earlier today? Because you do realize if your heart rate gets too elevated those lovely machines over their would go off like crazy and the nurses would think you were having a heart attack and you can just imagine the surprise on their faces when they walk in to find, the cause of the increased heart rate would be your teenage level hormones.” Miranda said. “Your right your highness.” James said. “I’m always right James.” Miranda countered and grabbed the book and her glasses and began to work. “So what now your going to ignore me?” he asked. “I’m going to do my best, why don’t you turn on the television it might keep you occupied until you get sleepy again.” Miranda said not looking up from the book.
Miranda finished the book a couple of hours later. It took her longer than usual because James would find something on T.V. that he knew would annoy her. Miranda closed the book and took of her glasses just as she heard the themes song to sponge bob square pants began to play. “Must you be so childish?” Miranda asked and put the book in her bag. James smiled and then shut the television off. “Only when it suites me. Now that your done with the book I would like to talk to you.” he said. “Alright, go ahead.” Miranda said motioning with her hand. “I want to know more about you and now seems like the perfect time. What’s your favorite movie?” he asked. Miranda slipped her shoes off and tucked her feet in under her. “It’s a tie between two movies, one is Out of Africa and the other is The Bridges of Madison County.” she said smiling. “Why are they your favorites?” he asked. “Well because they are both about love, and experiencing new things, but in the end the both seem to remind me of myself. No matter how much both Francesca and the Baroness loved, they both had to let it go in the end. Francesca gave up the love of her life for her family, and Karen not only lost her great love in a plane crash, but she had to leave Africa, the one place she was happiest.” Miranda said quietly. “It reminds me of myself, because the only 3 things in my life that have seemed to stay with me are My girls and RUNWAY. RUNWAY, one day will no longer be mine. My girls will always be mine, and they will always love me as I love them, but they will grow up and move away, get married. I do know that they will always be with me in some ways though, they’re really the only thing I can count on in life, and as much as I love you we don’t know how this will end now do we? Don’t say we do because you and I both know it isn’t so.” she stopped James before he could open his mouth. “I think we should leave this particular discussion for later though.” she said. “As you wish, thank you for opening up to me though.” James said and smiled. Miranda smiled back and a new nurse came in to check his vitals and left quickly. Miranda got up and picked up her bag and smiled at James as she walked into the bathroom to get ready for her night in the chair.
When she returned in a pair of silk pajamas and her make up removed James slid over slowly and motioned for her to join him on the hospital bed. It was still sat up so they were in a reclining position. “What’s your favorite movie?” Miranda asked. “Well as you know I am a huge ABBA fan and so therefore I have to say Mamma Mia! And I’m swearing you to secrecy on that, it would not do well for it to get out that 007 likes musicals.” Miranda laughed, and then kissed his cheek. “Have you noticed that both of our favorite movies star Meryl Streep?” she asked. “Yes I have, and I have to say she looks a little like you.” he said smiling. “I’ve heard that before actually. Have you ever heard that you look like Pierce Brosnan?” Miranda asked. “Actually, no I have never heard that.” James chuckled. “Hey they get married in Mamma Mia! It’s a sign we’re meant to be together” he joked. Miranda laughed, and softly started to sing Super Trouper from the movie. James looked at her shocked. “You can sing?” he asked. Miranda smiled. “I’m just full of surprises aren’t I?” Miranda asked and kissed him gently. Miranda’s phone started ringing and Miranda got up rather irritated. “Who would be calling me at this time of night?” Miranda scowled. She picked up her phone and caught her breath. It was an unknown number, and Miranda had a horrible feeling she knew just exactly who it was that was calling her. “James I think it’s him.” she said nervously. “Put it on speaker.” James said. “Hello?” Miranda said as she hit the speaker button. “Hello gorgeous, I just thought I would let you know that there was no need for you to fear for your life today. I just wanted to once again scare you, trust me, when the time actually comes you will know. As for your bodyguard, who I am sure is listening, that was just a warning for you as to what will happen to you if you continue to stand in my way. Stop trying to figure out who I am, I guarantee you will not discover who I am until it’s too late, and even then you and Miranda will not be alive long enough to tell anybody. Sweet Dreams my beautiful devil, my dear Miranda.” the voice said and hung up. Miranda had tears streaming down her face and James was trying to calm himself down so that the monitors would not go off. “that son of a bitch!” James growled. Miranda’s phone rang and this time it was M calling. James answered it immediately putting it on speaker. “James he doesn’t realize it but he slipped up big time, we have a location on him, we are going to monitor him for several hours and then we will be able to capture him.” M said. “Good, and I want to be there when you do, I’m tired of his shit!” James said. “James if you feel well enough you will be allowed to help.” M said. “Don’t worry Miranda, it’s almost over.” M said and hung up. “Looks like his words will not hold up Miranda, he is not near as confident as he appears.” Miranda nodded her head. She had calmed down. “Now, I don’t want you sleeping in that chair. If the nurses have problem with you sleeping on here with me then tough, I’m not letting you get within a few inches of me tonight if I can help it.” He said. Miranda smiled and James lowered the bed all the way and helped Miranda under the covers with him. “I love you gorgeous, pleasant dreams.” he said. Miranda closed the gap between their mouths and kissed him slowly and deeply. “I love you too.” she said and snuggled up closer to him and they both fell asleep……TBC
AUTHOR: merylandrebafan
PAIRING: Miranda/oc
RATING: M
DISCLAIMER: Oh if only I owned them!
A/N: Thanks to mammamiafreak and surena_13 for their support! Sorry this has taken so long to post! Please forgive me!!!!!
SUMMARY: How does it feel to be the last one standing? Miranda Priestly should know. All of the RUNWAY editors but her have been viciously murdered, and now the Killer is after her, revealing she was his main target all along. The best agent available is sent to protect her, 007 himself. Will he be enough to stop this vicious murderer? Who is this psychopath? And just how close will Miranda and James get?
CH. 12
“Damn it Irv don’t just stand there help him up!” Miranda said in an icy voice. Irv moved to help him but Roy had pulled up and rushed out of the car and helped James up off of Miranda. Then in turn he helped Miranda to her feet. Miranda looked at her blood stained clothing and saw that the press were having a field day. Miranda saw the ambulance and turned to James who was leaning against Roy. She quickly composed herself and asked “James are you alright, you’ve lost a lot of blood.” James saw that her tone was detached and formal, and he felt his heart clinch slightly. “I’m fine, the bullet went right through my shoulder. I’ve had worse.” he said. The paramedics rushed to his side and made him lie down on a gurney. One paramedic took Irv off and examined him while Miranda climbed into the first one with James. “Ms. Priestly are you hit?” one of the paramedics asked once she sat in the ambulance. “No, I’m fine, the blood is all his.” she replied firmly. The ambulance began to move and the paramedics started to clean James up and take his vital signs. His breathing was shallow so they put an oxygen mask over him and continued their work.
They arrived at the hospital a few minutes later, and Miranda was made to out in the waiting room while the doctors looked him over thoroughly to determine if surgery was needed. “Emily, clear my schedule for the rest of the day, cancel all of my appointments and reschedule them accordingly. I want a change of clothes and Starbucks here within the next 10 minutes that’s all.” Miranda said and hung up her phone. She began pacing back and forth up in the waiting room. “He’s going to be ok, he’s going to be ok.” she kept thinking to herself. Her phone rang and she answered it without even looking at the number. “Hello” “Miranda, I was just informed of what happened is 007 going to be alright?” M said. “they are examining him to find out is surgery is required as we speak” Miranda replied dryly. “Miranda, I’m so sorry about all of this, I fear whoever is behind this is realizing we are on to him and that’s why he pulled this, I’m sure James has told you whoever is doing this is likely to become more desperate, and it looks like he is. Are you alright? And I don’t want one of your snippy remarks I want an actual answer, I know you, Miranda.” Miranda sighed. “M I’m fine, physically, it’s quite disturbing when people keep shooting at you and try to blow you up.” Miranda said quietly. “I know, hang in there, I will call later for a report on James.” “Very well.” Miranda hung up the phone and Emily came scurrying towards her.
Miranda took the coffee from Emily and took a sip. Just as Emily handed her a change of clothes a nurse came up to her. “Ms. Priestly, if you follow me you may change in an empty examining room. “Acceptable.” Miranda said to the woman and Emily and the nurse both were shocked as Miranda flashed her the briefest of genuine smiles. Miranda followed the nurse to the examining room and closed the door. She opened the bag and found Emily had brought her a pair of black Dior slacks as well as a matching off the shoulder long sleeve, sapphire colored shirt. She changed quickly and headed back out to the waiting room where Emily stood and handed her, her blood covered clothing. “take these to my dry cleaners, then you are to go back to RUNWAY. That’s all.” she said “Yes Miranda” Then Emily turned on her heel and scurried away.
Miranda started to pace up and down again when she saw the doctor coming towards her. “Ms. Priestly, I’m Dr. Randall.” “Hello Dr.” Miranda said. “How is James?” “James is a very lucky man, the bullet went right through his shoulder, and that’s why there was so much blood. He will be just fine, in fact I’m rather impressed by the progress he has already made, we game him a unit of blood, and he should be fine to leave the hospital in 24 to 48 hours, his arm will be in a sling, but everything should be completely healed within about 5 to 6 weeks.” Dr. Randall said. “May I see him?” Miranda asked. “yes, he has been moved to a room on the second floor, I will take you there now if you wish.” “Yes.” Miranda said and nodded her head. The doctor turned on his heel and walked towards the elevators. He pushed the up button and Miranda suppressed her dislike of riding in elevators with other people and stepped in with him. A couple of minutes later Miranda was lead into room 210. Miranda’s eyes landed on James’s sleeping form. She saw the bandages on his shoulder and the sling that his arm was in and fought back tears. “A nurse will be in every hour to check his vital signs for the first 8 hours or so. I will leave you two alone now, when he wakes up he will still be very groggy and probably fall asleep again within a few minutes for the next couple of hours.” Dr. Randall said and Miranda nodded her head, then he turned and left the room. Miranda pulled a chair up beside his hospital bed and sat down and took his hand. She was only sitting there a few minutes before James stirred and opened his eyes. “Hey gorgeous.” he said in a hoarse whisper and with that Miranda let a few tears run down her cheek. “Hey, don’t cry I’ve had so much worse than this believe me.” “It’s my fault you’re here.” Miranda said. “Miranda, it’s my job to protect you, I would do it even if it wasn’t my job. Now why are you in that chair? I will feel much better with you up here with me.” he said groggily. Miranda could tell he was already ready to fall back asleep so she slipped of her shoes and climbed into the bed beside him on his uninjured side. “There, I feel better already.” Miranda couldn’t help but smile and she leaned up and gently kissed his lips, and just like that he was asleep again.
Miranda gently slipped out of bed with him and called Emily. “Emily, go to my townhouse and pack me an overnight bag, I will expect you to bring the book here tonight, and inform Nigel, that’s all.” she said and hung up the phone. Miranda then dialed M’s number and filled her in on James’s condition. When her conversation with M was over a nurse came in and checked James’s vital signs. “Will you be staying with Mr. Bond tonight?” the nurse asked turning to her. “Yes.” Miranda replied. “Well then, after dinner is served for the patients later I will bring you a blanket and a pillow. I just started my shift so I will be here until 11 tonight, I’m Nurse Alice, Ms. Priestly.” she said and smiled shyly. Miranda nodded her head and the young woman scurried off. Miranda called Caroline and Cassidy and spoke with them briefly explaining that she was fine.
Emily brought Miranda’s overnight bag over later that evening, along with the book and a steak for Miranda’s dinner. “Emily, tell Nigel that he will more than likely have to take over at RUNWAY for me tomorrow, tell him I will be in touch with him later and let him know, that’s all.” The Nurse brought James’s liquid dinner. “We don’t want him to eat anything too heavy because of all of the medication and the anesthesia. Then Nurse Alice walked back out and came back in with a blanket and a pillow. That chair that your sitting in reclines and the bottom pops out, I hope you will be comfortable enough. Let me know if you need anything. I will be back in in an hour to take away his tray and check his vital signs.” Miranda nodded and then Nurse Alice left the room for good. Miranda walked over to James’s bed and gently woke him. “Your dinner is here and you need to eat darling.” she said in his ear. James smiled and Miranda raised the bed up and set her steak on the little table next to James’s try and rolled it over to where they could both reach it. “Your dinner is just liquids I’m afraid James, they don’t want you to eat anything heavy because of the medication and the anesthesia.” she said and opened his broth. Then she opened up her carton that held her steak and James scoffed playfully. “So you are just going to torture me by eating that in front of me?” he teased. Miranda smirked at his tone, cut a bite of steak and put it in her mouth. “Yes.” she said and started chewing. Miranda swallowed the bite and leaned over and kissed James. Sliding her tongue into his mouth slowly. She broke the kiss a few seconds later and pointed to his tray. “Eat” she said. James smiled and took a sip of his broth. They ate in silence, and when they were finished Miranda pushed the table away. “How are you feeling?” Miranda asked. “I honestly don’t feel that bad, my shoulder hurts, but like I said I’ve had worse. Besides, having you here provides for a most wonderful distraction.” He said eyeing her. Miranda smiled. “You do feel fine I see, you sound like your old self.” “Oh, and just what does that sound like your highness?” James asked coyly. “Overly sure of yourself when it comes to hitting on me, and throwing out lines a teenage boy would know better than to use, because they sound so cliché.” Miranda said and raised an eyebrow. James laughed. Nurse Alice came back in and smiled. “I see your feeling better, your vitals look good, and you ate everything on your tray. Very good Mr. Bond. I go off duty in a couple of hours, and I will talk to the doctor, but with as well as your doing, I think we can minimize the number of times we will be walking in to check your vitals, it‘s been about 4 hours since you were brought to the hospital, just buzz me if you need anything.” she smiled and walked out.
A few minutes later Dr. Randall walked in. “Well Mr. Bond it appears you are doing much better than expected, we will now only bug you every 3 hours or so, and with the way your looking you will be able to check out in the morning. Oh, and there’s one other thing. Some security has been sent over to stand outside the door, for your and Ms. Priestly’s safety. They said if you had any questions to call M, because she is the one who spoke to their commissioner and had them sent over.” “That won’t be necessary it doesn’t surprise that M did so.” James said and Miranda nodded her head in agreement. “very well, I will be back in the morning to release you. Good night Mr. Bond, Ms Priestly.” Dr. Randall said and walked out. “Well there goes my plan to thoroughly ravish you between vital check ups.” James said and smirked. Miranda rolled her eyes. “Oh yes, your plans were to ravish me, did you hit your head on the pavement when you pushed me down under you earlier today? Because you do realize if your heart rate gets too elevated those lovely machines over their would go off like crazy and the nurses would think you were having a heart attack and you can just imagine the surprise on their faces when they walk in to find, the cause of the increased heart rate would be your teenage level hormones.” Miranda said. “Your right your highness.” James said. “I’m always right James.” Miranda countered and grabbed the book and her glasses and began to work. “So what now your going to ignore me?” he asked. “I’m going to do my best, why don’t you turn on the television it might keep you occupied until you get sleepy again.” Miranda said not looking up from the book.
Miranda finished the book a couple of hours later. It took her longer than usual because James would find something on T.V. that he knew would annoy her. Miranda closed the book and took of her glasses just as she heard the themes song to sponge bob square pants began to play. “Must you be so childish?” Miranda asked and put the book in her bag. James smiled and then shut the television off. “Only when it suites me. Now that your done with the book I would like to talk to you.” he said. “Alright, go ahead.” Miranda said motioning with her hand. “I want to know more about you and now seems like the perfect time. What’s your favorite movie?” he asked. Miranda slipped her shoes off and tucked her feet in under her. “It’s a tie between two movies, one is Out of Africa and the other is The Bridges of Madison County.” she said smiling. “Why are they your favorites?” he asked. “Well because they are both about love, and experiencing new things, but in the end the both seem to remind me of myself. No matter how much both Francesca and the Baroness loved, they both had to let it go in the end. Francesca gave up the love of her life for her family, and Karen not only lost her great love in a plane crash, but she had to leave Africa, the one place she was happiest.” Miranda said quietly. “It reminds me of myself, because the only 3 things in my life that have seemed to stay with me are My girls and RUNWAY. RUNWAY, one day will no longer be mine. My girls will always be mine, and they will always love me as I love them, but they will grow up and move away, get married. I do know that they will always be with me in some ways though, they’re really the only thing I can count on in life, and as much as I love you we don’t know how this will end now do we? Don’t say we do because you and I both know it isn’t so.” she stopped James before he could open his mouth. “I think we should leave this particular discussion for later though.” she said. “As you wish, thank you for opening up to me though.” James said and smiled. Miranda smiled back and a new nurse came in to check his vitals and left quickly. Miranda got up and picked up her bag and smiled at James as she walked into the bathroom to get ready for her night in the chair.
When she returned in a pair of silk pajamas and her make up removed James slid over slowly and motioned for her to join him on the hospital bed. It was still sat up so they were in a reclining position. “What’s your favorite movie?” Miranda asked. “Well as you know I am a huge ABBA fan and so therefore I have to say Mamma Mia! And I’m swearing you to secrecy on that, it would not do well for it to get out that 007 likes musicals.” Miranda laughed, and then kissed his cheek. “Have you noticed that both of our favorite movies star Meryl Streep?” she asked. “Yes I have, and I have to say she looks a little like you.” he said smiling. “I’ve heard that before actually. Have you ever heard that you look like Pierce Brosnan?” Miranda asked. “Actually, no I have never heard that.” James chuckled. “Hey they get married in Mamma Mia! It’s a sign we’re meant to be together” he joked. Miranda laughed, and softly started to sing Super Trouper from the movie. James looked at her shocked. “You can sing?” he asked. Miranda smiled. “I’m just full of surprises aren’t I?” Miranda asked and kissed him gently. Miranda’s phone started ringing and Miranda got up rather irritated. “Who would be calling me at this time of night?” Miranda scowled. She picked up her phone and caught her breath. It was an unknown number, and Miranda had a horrible feeling she knew just exactly who it was that was calling her. “James I think it’s him.” she said nervously. “Put it on speaker.” James said. “Hello?” Miranda said as she hit the speaker button. “Hello gorgeous, I just thought I would let you know that there was no need for you to fear for your life today. I just wanted to once again scare you, trust me, when the time actually comes you will know. As for your bodyguard, who I am sure is listening, that was just a warning for you as to what will happen to you if you continue to stand in my way. Stop trying to figure out who I am, I guarantee you will not discover who I am until it’s too late, and even then you and Miranda will not be alive long enough to tell anybody. Sweet Dreams my beautiful devil, my dear Miranda.” the voice said and hung up. Miranda had tears streaming down her face and James was trying to calm himself down so that the monitors would not go off. “that son of a bitch!” James growled. Miranda’s phone rang and this time it was M calling. James answered it immediately putting it on speaker. “James he doesn’t realize it but he slipped up big time, we have a location on him, we are going to monitor him for several hours and then we will be able to capture him.” M said. “Good, and I want to be there when you do, I’m tired of his shit!” James said. “James if you feel well enough you will be allowed to help.” M said. “Don’t worry Miranda, it’s almost over.” M said and hung up. “Looks like his words will not hold up Miranda, he is not near as confident as he appears.” Miranda nodded her head. She had calmed down. “Now, I don’t want you sleeping in that chair. If the nurses have problem with you sleeping on here with me then tough, I’m not letting you get within a few inches of me tonight if I can help it.” He said. Miranda smiled and James lowered the bed all the way and helped Miranda under the covers with him. “I love you gorgeous, pleasant dreams.” he said. Miranda closed the gap between their mouths and kissed him slowly and deeply. “I love you too.” she said and snuggled up closer to him and they both fell asleep……TBC