Fic: She Falls Apart - Four
Title: She Falls Apart - Four
Fandom, Pairing: RPF (Disney) Demi/Selena
Rating: Varies but we'll say M to NC-17 over most chapters. NC-17 for this one!
Disclaimer: This is a work of complete and utter fiction.
Summary: Following An Untitled Prologue which was written for a prompt over at colorwithme this follows what happens between Demi and Selena after.
Authors Notes: Thanks to Faye letscall-l for being the beta on this one - your comments have kept me working on this. So thank you like x100000 for all your input :D
So glad I'm pacing the weekly updates because I haven't written more fic this week, but never fear I have plenty waiting to be posted :)
Warnings: This fic deals with adult situations like sex (and on that note the girls are older now - obviously), alcohol consumption and some general adult themes.
This does deal with some sensitive issues of non-con/date-rape and rape - if this disturbs you please don't read it.
Chapter Four
Demi has the forward thinking to get between Miley and Michael when the furious brunette storms into the room. There is a murderous glint in Miley’s eyes that Demi almost instantly recognises, she seen this look before and knows Miley is on a mission to protect someone dear to her. Once upon a time it was Demi she was looking out for, but the rock star knows today she’s defending Selena.
“You fucking prick” She growls as she pushes against Demi’s arms which hold her back.
“What do you want?” Michael looks at her with displeasure as he slowly rises from his relaxed position on a couch.
“You sick pig” Miley has stopped struggling against Demi and instead turns to the other singer “You’re pervert of a friend drugged Selena”
Demi turns and looks at Michael. She stares at him, her back turned to Miley as she calculates what has to happen now that they know Selena was drugged.
“Michael” She puts every ounce of disbelief she can muster into her voice, she hopes it sound believable, like she had no clue.
“Oh it was just a harmless roofie” Michael waves his arm. Demi groans internally that he admitted it.
“You little shit” Miley is furious “What the fuck did you do to her?”
Demi suddenly realises, they have assumed the worst, the worst of him.
“Get out” She growls at him “Get the fuck out of my house, of my life. You’re fired” He looks at her a little shocked, like he expected her to stick up for him. He does a double take before pushing past them. He wouldn’t bother to argue and Demi knows he will be in touch soon, he has the truth to hold over her head. She turns and looks at Miley, careful to cover her emotions, she tries to play it off as shock and try to keep herself emotionless.
“I know he can be a bit of a sleaze, but did he really?” She asks
“It had to be him, no-one else would do that to Selena” Miley’s clenched fists drop and suddenly a sob escapes her throat. Demi quickly pulls the other girl into a hug. “Dem I can’t believe it, I keep thinking about what he might have done.” She chokes back another sob “God it just makes me want to puke, or beat him to a pulp”
Demi looks over at the door her friend exited through “Come on” She grabs Miley’s hand “Let’s go, Selena needs the support”
Miley nods and lets Demi pull her out the door. Demi feels an excitement build in anticipation of seeing Selena, she knows the other girl will be vulnerable and hurt. She feels an elation as she realises the assumptions about Michael have completely absolved her of blame, they would never think she was associated, that she knew about it or took advantage of the situation. She feels a sense of relief that she will have an opportunity to help fix Selena.
When Demi and Miley return Selena is curled up on the couch against Taylor. The blonde looks up and presses a finger to her lips to keep the other girls quiet.
“She cried herself to sleep” She whispers. Demi notices just how pained Taylor looks as she sits there with Selena’s head in her lap. She knows Taylor will be determined to look after Selena, she is like a big sister to the other girl.
“What happened?” Taylor asks, looking at Miley.
“Don’t worry Demi made sure I didn’t get arrested” She looks down at the sleeping girl, Selena’s face still creased with her distress in slumber “That asshole Michael won’t be so lucky.”
Taylor shakes her head “I tried to talk to her about it but she’s refusing to go to the police, there’s no proof he did anything” Taylor brushes her fingers through the girls hair “She refused to go and have the tests done”
Demi watches, quietly grateful Selena is refusing to go to the police, she doesn’t know what would show up on a rape kit but she worries they would somehow figure it out it was her.
“That’s stupid” Miley mumbles, her fists are clenched and Demi carefully pats her shoulder.
“Demi” Taylor shifts so she can get up “I’m sorry, but maybe you should leave before she wakes up”
Demi’s jaw drops, she snaps it shut and clenches it before speaking “Taylor, I just want to fix this. Michael’s an ass and” she pauses “this is my fault.”
Miley casually wraps and arm around her friend “It’s not your fault Dem, you didn’t know he was capable of something this awful”
“Yea, but you didn’t want him there and I brought him along anyway”
Taylor glances over at Selena still slumbering and pulls the other girls out of the living room.
“I know you feel awful Demi, but she told me things didn’t go well last time you two saw each other”
Demi nods, Taylor obviously doesn’t know the full story or she’d be flat on her ass by now. “I just think you shouldn’t be here when she wakes up”
“Tay she needs her friends” Miley counters “Demi might have fucked up in the past but she’s here now”
Demi puts and hand on Mileys shoulder to stop the girls debate with Taylor “I understand, I’ll go. Call me later?” She pulls Miley into a hug before turning to Taylor “Tell her I want to make it all up to her, just call me when it’s ok to come back” She offers a smile to the girls before letting herself out of Selenas home. She can’t help but feel like everything was going to work out perfectly. Selena needed her friends and Demi was determined to be there for the other girl, to be the friend she had failed to be for so long. As she walked down the path to her car she couldn’t help but smile, if she was patient it was only a matter of time till she would be holding Selena in her arms again. Her phone started to ring as she hopped into her car.
“Perfect timing” she muttered as she dug through her giant handbag for it.
“Hello” She answered as cheerily as she could muster after Michal flashed up on caller ID.
“We need to talk” he grumbled in return.
“Yea sweetie” Demi smiled against the phone.
“Oh fuck you Demi” He then hung up. She smiled and started the car, of course he was mad at her. But she couldn’t let him get away with drugging her BFF. Getting close to Selena again would mean cutting him loose. He’d been fun, but Miley was right, he was just a douche.
Michael glared at her over his coffee.
“I can’t believe you fired me”
“I can’t believe you drugged Selena”
“You were perfectly ok with it at the time Dem, you took her home, you had your fun and now I get cut loose”
“You didn’t really think it would be done and forgotten?” Demi looked at him, he could be so naive about the strangest things.
“I didn’t think you’d sell me out like that”
“What could I do?” She shakes her head “I’m sorry, but at least she doesn’t want to press any charges and I’ll keep it that way. I promise” She is sincere but they both know it’s to cover her own ass as much as his.
“I guess I taught you well” He shrugs and Demi can’t help but laugh bitterly at his comment and its truth. “I got offered a new job anyway”
“So quickly” Demi is surprised, she briefly wonders if he was planning to leave anyway. Working for her was a thin line of reckless partying while trying to uphold certain perceptions. There was a record label and managers hovering around watching them. For someone like him it meant reining in his behaviour.
“I went to see Vicky. She set me up with this band. They’re doing Europe so I’m gone next week. The bassist quit like, yesterday”
“So it’s not just back up, you’re part of the band?”
“Yea, guess it all worked out. We’re all cool then.”
“Not really” Demi grumbles “You did drug my friend at Miley’s party”
“I did it for you Demi, I know you had a good time” He gives her his trademark lecherous grin before standing up to leave.
“Shut up” She mumbles. He walks out of the coffee shop and Demi watches him go, she feels a stab at her heart as she watches him leave. He’d been a big part of her life over the past year, he’d been the one who really helped her let loose and enjoy her success. He was the one who always helped her get laid. He was gone now, because he’d pushed all their fun just a little too far. She would be grateful to him for many things in her life. She looks down at her lukewarm coffee and decides to leave also. She glances at her cell as she leaves. No word from Taylor yet but she can’t help but feel that everything will work out. Michael will be out of the country and not angry and trying to blackmail her.
It was working out perfectly.
Chapter Five