Killer Heels and Prada (22/?)
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!
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. 22
Miranda awoke early the next morning and dashed to the bathroom. After emptying her stomach she stood and cleaned off her face and turned to see two red heads staring back at her. “Mommy, did you get the flu?” Cassidy asked. Miranda looked at her daughters and watched them walk towards her and wrap their arms around her. “If you’re sick then we can take care of you like you took care of us. Is that why Daddy brought us home?” Caroline asked. Miranda shook her head. Leave it to her eleven year olds to get right to the point. She knew she wouldn’t be able to hide anything from them, they were after all her children and they would know she was lying if she told them yes. “Come with Mommy, I need to tell you both something.” She said She took both of their hands and led them back into her bedroom and they all climbed on the bed and she sat one on either side of her. “Mommy does not have the flu.” Miranda said softly. “Then what’s wrong with you? You were throwing up.” Caroline said “I know darling. Mommy is not sick. Now what I’m about to tell you is a secret, so I am trusting you to keep it. Daddy knows and so does Uncle Nigel.” Miranda said. The twins nodded their heads, eager to be let in on the secret. “All right, the secret is, Mommy is having a baby.” She said and she watched her daughters eyes grow wide. “A baby?” Cassidy squeaked. “yes my darling, a baby.” Caroline thought for a minute and then nodded head. “We are going to have a brother or sister?” Cassidy suddenly said excitedly. “Yes darling you most certainly are.” Miranda said and smiled. Miranda could see the question in Caroline’s eyes and she knew she was not prepared to answer it just yet. “Now, we will talk about this some more tonight. Mommy has to get ready to go to work and then when Mommy gets home we can discuss this some more. If I’m not mistaken your father wants to take you skating today, so you should go and get ready while Mommy gets ready for work.” The twins nodded and kissed Miranda on the cheek and ran out of the room. Miranda stood up and entered her closet and pulled out a pinstriped pair of slacks and an of the shoulder, deep blue, form fitting top. After getting dressed and doing her hair and makeup she looked in the mirror and sighed. Pretty soon she was going to have to call up the designers and have them make maternity clothes for her. She said goodbye to the twins, the house keeper had just put their breakfast in front of them and Miranda turned green, then she donned her coat and went out the door into her waiting car and headed for RUNWAY.
Miranda breezed through the door of her office with Emily on her heels relaying her schedule. “You have a 5 p.m. meeting with Donatella, a meeting with the board members at two and…” Emily was cut off by Miranda. “Move my meeting with Donatella up to one, and inform the members that I will be unable to attend the meeting, send my apologies. Call the twins’ father and let him know that I want him to have the girls back before dinner, then call James Holt and tell him I approve of all of his designs for the first issue of MEN’S RUNWAY, and to go ahead to print. Tell Nigel that I wish to see him immediately..” Miranda paused at her desk and she saw her Starbucks waiting. “And tell Emily to go to Starbucks and get me a decaf latte, and get cup out of my sight, that’s all.” She said sitting down behind her desk. Emily hid her shock over the change of drink choice, but managed to stammer “yes Miranda” and she grabbed the cup and headed out of the office, sending the second assistant flying towards the elevator. A few minutes later Nigel walked through the door holding a small container. “I figured since you probably hadn’t had anything to eat this morning I should bring you something.” He said closing the door. Miranda’s face paled slightly and he chuckled. “relax, it’s just some grapes and melon. If I remember correctly it was one of the few things you could keep down in the mornings, hopefully this time will be no different.” Nigel said and set the fruit and a fork in front of Miranda. She took the lid off of it and carefully took a small bite of melon and then nodded. “thank you Nigel.” She said softly. “How did everything go last night? From what I heard when I left James isn’t thrilled.” Miranda shook her head. “He doesn’t want anything to do with me apparently, and thank you for having Greg bring the girls home.” “You’re welcome.” Nigel replied. “Anyways I informed Greg, and Nigel, he wants to claim to be the baby’s father.” She looked at Nigel who’s eyes had widened and his jaw had dropped. “Miranda, I….well….actually that shouldn’t surprise me. I saw the way he looked at you at the twins’ party. I know how worried he was about you when you were in danger. It would keep the press at bay, well in a manner of speaking, they wouldn’t be hounding you about the father’s identity, and that would be a very good thing. What do you want Miranda?” Nigel asked calmly. “I don’t know Nigel, I don’t know if I can handle this.” Miranda said. Nigel stood calmly. He knew that was all he was going to get out of her to talk about at work and he didn’t blame her. “Well, you know my number. I’m going to a meeting.” Nigel said and left the office. Miranda sighed and took a bite of a grape.
Miranda finished up her meeting with Donatella by four and then Nigel entered her office. “I forgot to tell you this morning, but I made you an appointment with a an excellent OBGYN. I figured it would be better if I did it then one of the Emily’s, plus she is highly recommended.” Nigel said. Miranda looked at him with a stunned expression. She had been so busy trying to get over the shock of the news that she hadn’t thought to contact a doctor. “thank you Nigel, I don’t think I would have thought to do that right now.” Miranda said. “Well I know how you hate waiting so I pulled some strings and since your schedule for the rest of the day is now clear, your appointment is in an hour.” Miranda got up and walked around her desk. “Nigel, you are truly a much better friend then I deserve.” Miranda said. “You do deserve it Miranda and you know it. Anyways, I can either go with you, or you can go by yourself.” He offered. Miranda nodded her head. “Yes, I would like that.” “Roy is waiting.” Nigel said. Miranda nodded her head and sauntered out of her office. “Coat, bag.” She said in a cool tone and the second assistant jumped up and handed Miranda her bag and coat out of the closet and her and Nigel walked towards the elevators.
An hour and a half later Miranda was sitting in the doctor’s office with Nigel, she had finished her check up. “Congratulations Ms. Priestly you are indeed pregnant. You are two months along and as far as we know everything appears to be normal. We will be able to know more in the following weeks when we will begin to hear the baby’s heartbeat and can run more thorough tests. Here are your prenatal vitamins.” She said handing them to Miranda, Miranda took the box from the doctor and put them in her purse. “Having been through this before I’m sure you know all about dietary needs and exercise.” Miranda nodded. “I will speak to my trainer, and she will put me on the same exercises I did when I was pregnant with the twins. My cook is also well aware of what my dietary needs are going to be over the next several months.” Miranda said. The doctor nodded. “Well you are older now, so we will want to keep an eye on you and they baby, as I have explained there are several risks at conceiving at this age. However, you are in perfect health and given the fact that you were an older mother when you gave birth to you other two I am not too worried about you. I will see you again in 3 weeks for your first ultra sound. We will be able to hear the heartbeat by then.” Miranda and Nigel stood and shook hands with the doctor. “Thank you Dr. Peterson.” Miranda said and they left the office.
Roy dropped Nigel back off at Elias Clarke and then drove Miranda home. Upon arriving she found Greg and her children there. “Mommy, we are having roast for supper.” Caroline said and Cassidy nodded. “can daddy stay?” they asked. “If he wishes he may.” Miranda said and Greg nodded. The twins hugged their mother. “Go set the table, it smells as if it’s almost done. The twins bounded off towards the dining room and Miranda turned towards Greg. “ I went to the doctor, and everything is fine so far.” She stated. Greg nodded. “Have you thought about what I said? He asked. Miranda nodded. We will discuss it after dinner. He nodded and followed Miranda into the dining room. Dinner was quite, other than the twins bursting with questions about what to name the baby. “Darlings we have plenty of time to decide that later.” Miranda said. By the end of dinner Miranda found the twins could barely keep their eyes open. She silently rejoiced. She still was not ready to answer the questions she had seen in Caroline’s eyes that morning. Greg helped Miranda to carry them up the stairs and then put them to bed. Once that was done they walked back to Miranda’s study and Miranda braced herself for the conversation ahead. “So everything checks out so far?” Greg asked concerned. Miranda nodded her head. “Miranda, I know this is sudden, but with everything going on we would have to act fast on this, do you want me to be the father of this baby? You know I’m not just talking about for the press either.” Greg said. Miranda nodded “I know, you have to understand how confused I am right now, Greg.” Miranda said. “I promise I will make a decision soon, it will just take me a little longer to sort this out, I’ll have an answer for you in the next couple of days, after I’ve thought about it some more.” Greg nodded his understanding. “I don’t want you to rush into anything, I’m just offering you the protection if you want it, that and the love I can give that child, and you. We may have a pretty messy divorce that we still think about. The truth is though, when Irv was holding you captive, and we had no idea if you were dead or alive, I realized I still had feelings for you, and not just as the mother of my children. I’m sorry for the way things ended between us, If I could I would go back and fix it in a heartbeat. I still love you Miranda.” Greg said. Miranda’s breath hitched as he neared. Then his mouth was on hers and she wasn’t stopping him. She let him kiss her, and she kissed back. When the kiss ended Greg smiled. “I’ll show myself out.” Then he turned and left. Miranda put her head in her hands. She was a terrible person for letting him kiss her, and even more so, because it was not him she was thinking about when she had kissed him. It was James.
~*~
James opened his eyes. He was in Moscow, had been since he was briefed on his assignment. He had dreamt of Miranda again. He got up and got dressed. He could afford a walk down the street to get a newspaper. He didn’t have to meet anyone for a few hours, and no one knew who he was here. He dressed quickly and walked down to the corner. He found a stand and looked over several. Amazingly enough he found an American rag and decided to purchase it. He opened it up to page six and the headline struck him and caused him to lose his breath.
SNOW QUEEN KNOCKED UP!
Our sources have confirmed that in fact the Dragon Lady herself, the Snow Queen herself, Miranda Priestly is expecting. She had a doctor’s appointment yesterday and it is indeed confirmed, but who is the father of the little dragon growing inside of her? We know she is hot, but who dared to cross the lines and woo that icy heart into submission?
James stopped reading and did his best to catch his breath. The child had to be his, he knew it. If it was anyone else’s no one would know yet. He thought desperately. “Why the hell hasn’t she told me? Does she hate me that much?” he got out his phone and angrily dialed M’s number. He was going to get to the bottom of this…….TBC
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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!
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. 22
Miranda awoke early the next morning and dashed to the bathroom. After emptying her stomach she stood and cleaned off her face and turned to see two red heads staring back at her. “Mommy, did you get the flu?” Cassidy asked. Miranda looked at her daughters and watched them walk towards her and wrap their arms around her. “If you’re sick then we can take care of you like you took care of us. Is that why Daddy brought us home?” Caroline asked. Miranda shook her head. Leave it to her eleven year olds to get right to the point. She knew she wouldn’t be able to hide anything from them, they were after all her children and they would know she was lying if she told them yes. “Come with Mommy, I need to tell you both something.” She said She took both of their hands and led them back into her bedroom and they all climbed on the bed and she sat one on either side of her. “Mommy does not have the flu.” Miranda said softly. “Then what’s wrong with you? You were throwing up.” Caroline said “I know darling. Mommy is not sick. Now what I’m about to tell you is a secret, so I am trusting you to keep it. Daddy knows and so does Uncle Nigel.” Miranda said. The twins nodded their heads, eager to be let in on the secret. “All right, the secret is, Mommy is having a baby.” She said and she watched her daughters eyes grow wide. “A baby?” Cassidy squeaked. “yes my darling, a baby.” Caroline thought for a minute and then nodded head. “We are going to have a brother or sister?” Cassidy suddenly said excitedly. “Yes darling you most certainly are.” Miranda said and smiled. Miranda could see the question in Caroline’s eyes and she knew she was not prepared to answer it just yet. “Now, we will talk about this some more tonight. Mommy has to get ready to go to work and then when Mommy gets home we can discuss this some more. If I’m not mistaken your father wants to take you skating today, so you should go and get ready while Mommy gets ready for work.” The twins nodded and kissed Miranda on the cheek and ran out of the room. Miranda stood up and entered her closet and pulled out a pinstriped pair of slacks and an of the shoulder, deep blue, form fitting top. After getting dressed and doing her hair and makeup she looked in the mirror and sighed. Pretty soon she was going to have to call up the designers and have them make maternity clothes for her. She said goodbye to the twins, the house keeper had just put their breakfast in front of them and Miranda turned green, then she donned her coat and went out the door into her waiting car and headed for RUNWAY.
Miranda breezed through the door of her office with Emily on her heels relaying her schedule. “You have a 5 p.m. meeting with Donatella, a meeting with the board members at two and…” Emily was cut off by Miranda. “Move my meeting with Donatella up to one, and inform the members that I will be unable to attend the meeting, send my apologies. Call the twins’ father and let him know that I want him to have the girls back before dinner, then call James Holt and tell him I approve of all of his designs for the first issue of MEN’S RUNWAY, and to go ahead to print. Tell Nigel that I wish to see him immediately..” Miranda paused at her desk and she saw her Starbucks waiting. “And tell Emily to go to Starbucks and get me a decaf latte, and get cup out of my sight, that’s all.” She said sitting down behind her desk. Emily hid her shock over the change of drink choice, but managed to stammer “yes Miranda” and she grabbed the cup and headed out of the office, sending the second assistant flying towards the elevator. A few minutes later Nigel walked through the door holding a small container. “I figured since you probably hadn’t had anything to eat this morning I should bring you something.” He said closing the door. Miranda’s face paled slightly and he chuckled. “relax, it’s just some grapes and melon. If I remember correctly it was one of the few things you could keep down in the mornings, hopefully this time will be no different.” Nigel said and set the fruit and a fork in front of Miranda. She took the lid off of it and carefully took a small bite of melon and then nodded. “thank you Nigel.” She said softly. “How did everything go last night? From what I heard when I left James isn’t thrilled.” Miranda shook her head. “He doesn’t want anything to do with me apparently, and thank you for having Greg bring the girls home.” “You’re welcome.” Nigel replied. “Anyways I informed Greg, and Nigel, he wants to claim to be the baby’s father.” She looked at Nigel who’s eyes had widened and his jaw had dropped. “Miranda, I….well….actually that shouldn’t surprise me. I saw the way he looked at you at the twins’ party. I know how worried he was about you when you were in danger. It would keep the press at bay, well in a manner of speaking, they wouldn’t be hounding you about the father’s identity, and that would be a very good thing. What do you want Miranda?” Nigel asked calmly. “I don’t know Nigel, I don’t know if I can handle this.” Miranda said. Nigel stood calmly. He knew that was all he was going to get out of her to talk about at work and he didn’t blame her. “Well, you know my number. I’m going to a meeting.” Nigel said and left the office. Miranda sighed and took a bite of a grape.
Miranda finished up her meeting with Donatella by four and then Nigel entered her office. “I forgot to tell you this morning, but I made you an appointment with a an excellent OBGYN. I figured it would be better if I did it then one of the Emily’s, plus she is highly recommended.” Nigel said. Miranda looked at him with a stunned expression. She had been so busy trying to get over the shock of the news that she hadn’t thought to contact a doctor. “thank you Nigel, I don’t think I would have thought to do that right now.” Miranda said. “Well I know how you hate waiting so I pulled some strings and since your schedule for the rest of the day is now clear, your appointment is in an hour.” Miranda got up and walked around her desk. “Nigel, you are truly a much better friend then I deserve.” Miranda said. “You do deserve it Miranda and you know it. Anyways, I can either go with you, or you can go by yourself.” He offered. Miranda nodded her head. “Yes, I would like that.” “Roy is waiting.” Nigel said. Miranda nodded her head and sauntered out of her office. “Coat, bag.” She said in a cool tone and the second assistant jumped up and handed Miranda her bag and coat out of the closet and her and Nigel walked towards the elevators.
An hour and a half later Miranda was sitting in the doctor’s office with Nigel, she had finished her check up. “Congratulations Ms. Priestly you are indeed pregnant. You are two months along and as far as we know everything appears to be normal. We will be able to know more in the following weeks when we will begin to hear the baby’s heartbeat and can run more thorough tests. Here are your prenatal vitamins.” She said handing them to Miranda, Miranda took the box from the doctor and put them in her purse. “Having been through this before I’m sure you know all about dietary needs and exercise.” Miranda nodded. “I will speak to my trainer, and she will put me on the same exercises I did when I was pregnant with the twins. My cook is also well aware of what my dietary needs are going to be over the next several months.” Miranda said. The doctor nodded. “Well you are older now, so we will want to keep an eye on you and they baby, as I have explained there are several risks at conceiving at this age. However, you are in perfect health and given the fact that you were an older mother when you gave birth to you other two I am not too worried about you. I will see you again in 3 weeks for your first ultra sound. We will be able to hear the heartbeat by then.” Miranda and Nigel stood and shook hands with the doctor. “Thank you Dr. Peterson.” Miranda said and they left the office.
Roy dropped Nigel back off at Elias Clarke and then drove Miranda home. Upon arriving she found Greg and her children there. “Mommy, we are having roast for supper.” Caroline said and Cassidy nodded. “can daddy stay?” they asked. “If he wishes he may.” Miranda said and Greg nodded. The twins hugged their mother. “Go set the table, it smells as if it’s almost done. The twins bounded off towards the dining room and Miranda turned towards Greg. “ I went to the doctor, and everything is fine so far.” She stated. Greg nodded. “Have you thought about what I said? He asked. Miranda nodded. We will discuss it after dinner. He nodded and followed Miranda into the dining room. Dinner was quite, other than the twins bursting with questions about what to name the baby. “Darlings we have plenty of time to decide that later.” Miranda said. By the end of dinner Miranda found the twins could barely keep their eyes open. She silently rejoiced. She still was not ready to answer the questions she had seen in Caroline’s eyes that morning. Greg helped Miranda to carry them up the stairs and then put them to bed. Once that was done they walked back to Miranda’s study and Miranda braced herself for the conversation ahead. “So everything checks out so far?” Greg asked concerned. Miranda nodded her head. “Miranda, I know this is sudden, but with everything going on we would have to act fast on this, do you want me to be the father of this baby? You know I’m not just talking about for the press either.” Greg said. Miranda nodded “I know, you have to understand how confused I am right now, Greg.” Miranda said. “I promise I will make a decision soon, it will just take me a little longer to sort this out, I’ll have an answer for you in the next couple of days, after I’ve thought about it some more.” Greg nodded his understanding. “I don’t want you to rush into anything, I’m just offering you the protection if you want it, that and the love I can give that child, and you. We may have a pretty messy divorce that we still think about. The truth is though, when Irv was holding you captive, and we had no idea if you were dead or alive, I realized I still had feelings for you, and not just as the mother of my children. I’m sorry for the way things ended between us, If I could I would go back and fix it in a heartbeat. I still love you Miranda.” Greg said. Miranda’s breath hitched as he neared. Then his mouth was on hers and she wasn’t stopping him. She let him kiss her, and she kissed back. When the kiss ended Greg smiled. “I’ll show myself out.” Then he turned and left. Miranda put her head in her hands. She was a terrible person for letting him kiss her, and even more so, because it was not him she was thinking about when she had kissed him. It was James.
~*~
James opened his eyes. He was in Moscow, had been since he was briefed on his assignment. He had dreamt of Miranda again. He got up and got dressed. He could afford a walk down the street to get a newspaper. He didn’t have to meet anyone for a few hours, and no one knew who he was here. He dressed quickly and walked down to the corner. He found a stand and looked over several. Amazingly enough he found an American rag and decided to purchase it. He opened it up to page six and the headline struck him and caused him to lose his breath.
SNOW QUEEN KNOCKED UP!
Our sources have confirmed that in fact the Dragon Lady herself, the Snow Queen herself, Miranda Priestly is expecting. She had a doctor’s appointment yesterday and it is indeed confirmed, but who is the father of the little dragon growing inside of her? We know she is hot, but who dared to cross the lines and woo that icy heart into submission?
James stopped reading and did his best to catch his breath. The child had to be his, he knew it. If it was anyone else’s no one would know yet. He thought desperately. “Why the hell hasn’t she told me? Does she hate me that much?” he got out his phone and angrily dialed M’s number. He was going to get to the bottom of this…….TBC
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