Sweet Dreams - Ace Merrill

Perfect for Ace

Eyeball made the phone call to Billy to get him and the others to come bail them out.

Eventually the three were having their cells unlocked and they were being led out.

"Thank fuck I can leave and never have to see you again." Vivian grumbled as she glared at Ace.

"It will be my pleasure to have you out of my house." Ace snapped back as the officers gave him a nudge out the cell room to reception.

"Oh I wouldn't stay there again if you paid me." Vivian scoffed out as she took her necklace again and re clipped it around her neck.

"Oh so you're the girl has to be paid now?" Ace taunted as the pair seemed happy to have it out in the middle of the reception.

"Be fucking lucky or you'd owe me for that night." Vivian snapped.

"We didn't even have sex!" Ace shouted as he waved his arms about, ignoring the officers trying to push them slowly out as he remained firm.

"You know even if I was a prostitute I still wouldn't sleep with you!" Vivian snapped as she shrugged off the officers arms as he tried to guide her out the station.

"Well that's a relief! Wouldn't want his sloppy seconds!" Ace snapped as he continued to ignore the officers.

"Believe it or not, they're actually in love." Eyeball mumbled as he leant over to one of the officers, who was staring at the couple in disbelief.

He turned his head to face Eyeball as Eyeball nodded quickly.

"Straight up, no lie." He blurted out quickly. "They just can't quite admit it."

"I fucking hate you so fucking much!" Vivian shouted as she stormed out the station.

"Right fucking back at you bitch!" Ace shouted as he stormed out after her.

"They can admit something alright." The officer mumbled as Eyeball nodded.

"Yeah..." his voice trailed off slightly. "I got a fair bit of work to do."

And with that, he too followed Ace and Vivian. They were all greeted with the cobras as Vivian raced over to her brother, taking John from his arms as she fussed over her son, hugging him tight.

"Right, we done here?!" Ace snapped as he glared straight at her, now ignoring the cobras.

"Oh we're fucking done." Vivian snapped back as she returned the glare at Ace.

The pair seemed to ignore the others as they both turned and took off down the street, going in opposite directions.

The cobras all turned to Eyeball in shock and confusion as he slowly stepped forward.

"We're so not done here." He mumbled as he began to tell them all what had happened.

"Bloody hell..." Charlie mumbled as Eyeball finally finished.

Eyeball nodded slowly. "Swear they would have killed each other if they'd been in the same cell."

Alex nodded slowly. "Could have warned you, my sister has a temper and a half."

Billy nodded. "Perfect for Ace." He forced a laugh.

The others all agreed.

"Well they don't exactly see it that way." Jack mumbled as he looked down the street, Ace was heading straight for Irbys, of course.

Eyeball shrugged his comment off. "They just need a little nudge."

Alex turned to him and coughed as he raised his eyebrow.

"Okay so they need a big nudge." Eyeball corrected himself.

"Who wants to go talk to who?" He asked as he glanced around at them all.

None, not even Alex spoke.

"Seriously?!" Eyeball snapped. "You're all fucking scared of Ace that much?!"

Jack held his still bandaged hand up slightly. "Actually I'm more scared of her."

Eyeball nodded slowly as Alex laughed and pointed at his hand.

"She's done that to me so many times I'm surprised my hands still attached." He said laughing, finally happy it wasn't his wrist she'd broken.

"Am I seriously on my own on this?!" Eyeball snapped.

Alex sighed but shook his head. "I'm with you."

Eyeball gave him a small smile but Alex quickly spoke up again.

"But I ain't dealing with her, she'll hang me up by my balls."

"Oh but she can hang me by mine?!" Eyeball scoffed out.

Alex shrugged and nodded. "I'll talk to Ace. You can deal with her."

Eyeball sighed but nodded. Turning to the others,

"Shame on you pussies." He pointed at each of them.

"Your funeral." Billy mumbled.

Eyeball shook his comment off as he gave Alex a final nod and took off in the direction of where Vivian had stormed off with her son.

Alex took a deep breath as he turned and began down the street, following in the direction Ace had gone. He didn't need a map to know Ace would have gone straight to Irbys.

As he walked in slowly he saw Ace leaning over a pool table getting ready to take a shot. An already half drunk bottle of whiskey resting by his side.

"Merrill." He mumbled as he walked over.

Ace looked up at him before looking back down as he took a shot.

"Need an opponent?" Alex asked, trying to break the ice and tension he could feel surrounding them.

Ace shrugged as he straightened up and eyed up the brother of her.

"You any good?" He questioned.

Alex shrugged. "Got my moments." He mumbled as Ace grabbed his bottle and sauntered over to Alex.

"You ain't gonna try getting me to talk to her are you?" He fired his question harshly.

Alex shook his head quickly. "No, just fancied a game."

Ace nodded slowly as he offered Alex his cue, taking another swig from the bottle as he turned back to the table to set up a new game.

Eyeball found Vivian sat on a bench, bouncing John in her lap.

He took a small deep breath as he walked over slowly.

"Hey trouble." He mumbled as he cautiously sat down next to her.

He watched as her grip on John tightened and she eyed him up slowly.

"Fancy a chat?" He offered slowly, having paid attention to Alex's warning on her temper.

"You ain't gonna get me to fucking talk to him are you?!" She snapped harshly.

Eyeball quickly shook his head. "No, just fancied getting some food and wondered if you and him were hungry." He spoke calmly as he nodded down at the baby.

Vivian glanced down at her son before back up et Eyeball. A small nod came from her as she stood him, balancing John on her hip as the pair began a quiet walk to the diner.