A Haunted Dream; BOS 6

One Big Obstacle

"How dare you?" Lillian snarled. She stood staring at her film director, eyes narrowed and blazing, her hands clenched into white knuckles fists.
"Miss Morgan you have a visitor." Lillians deputy assisstant says as she hurries into the room.
"We're not finished." She spat lowly and her director nods shakily before she walks briskly out of the room. The other female actresses in the new movie stood with their eyes wide, staring at something just around the corner. When Lillian steps around the corner she froze to the spot.
Alex was leaning against a column with an ear bud in one ear. He was watching something on his phone. Shaking out of her shocked daze she walks over to him. "What are you doing here?" She hissed lowly.
Alex looks up from his phone. Lillian glances at the screen to see a video playing. "I came to pick you up. The girls gave me no choice in the matter." He replies flatly.
Lillian sighs. "Let's go then. If I don't get out of here soon I'm gonna kill the director."
Alex doesn't question her and leads the way. As they pass a group of actresses they give Lillian dirty glare. She stops and turns to face them. "What?" She snaps and the actresses laugh.
"It's just we find it unfair that Alex has to spend time with the likes of you when he could be with the likes of us beatiful actresses. Your just a fluke actress with beginners luck." One of them says and twirls hair around her finger.
"At least I'm not half plastic." Lillian says sharply.
The actresses scowl and spread out in a semicircle around her. "What gives you the right to insult us like that?" They ask with dagger sharp glares that Lillian returns.
"The same thing that gives me the right to kill you if you piss me off any more." She replies as her fists tighten, nails biting into her palms.
"Nobody has the right to kill people you slut." One of the actresses growl.
Lillian dives at her but strong arms wrap around her waist and pull her away, her back pressed up hard against a firm chest. She knew who it was and huffs unhappily. "Let me go Alex. I want to kill them. I want to stain the floor with their blood." She snarls and the actresses take a wary steep back.
"That's not a good idea. One of them is friends with Macy's younger sister." Alex murmurs quietly, his warm breath tickling her ear. Lillians jaw clenches and turns in his arms.
"Get me out of here right now." She hissed.
Alex let go and kept a hand on her lower back as he lead her outside and over to his car. He opened the passengers side door so she could get in before closing it and quickly jumping into the drivers seat and driving off. "Why do you want to kill the director?" He asks and Lillian looked out the window.
"Just a person who's to be playing the main guy in the film. He's an ex boyfriend who I really don't want to meet again after he almost killed me in the last movie we starred in together. The director who is fully aware of this decided to do it anyway. This film is a romance. I'd have to do things with that guy." She replies dryly and Alex's knuckles went white as his hands tightened drastically around the steering wheel.
"I see." Alex grumbles.
Lillian glances at him to see the pain on his face, the way his hands clutched the wheel tightly, how his eyes glistened slightly with almost formed tears. She looks away quickly at the pang in her chest. I can't have feelings for him. Not now, not again, not ever. She scolds herself.
Alex pulls up outside a building with a sign out front saying 'The Heat'. Lillian gets out slowly and follows Alex inside cautiously.
He takes her up to a VIP reserved floor where the other 8 Riches along with their wives were all sitting around waiting. "What took you guys so long?" Antonio asks.
"Ran into some of Lillians old friends. Nothing major." Alex replies flatly before sitting down.
Lillian takes a seat away from him but in a place where she could still see him out of the corner of her eye. "We were wondering if you'd like to join us at a charity event on Saturday." Alysha says.
Alex stands and gets a beer from the bat before walking to the dart board. Lillian watches him from the corner of her eye and her face heats up when he sees him glance at her between throwing darts. "Sure. I'd love to." Lillian replies and spots the smallest smile on Alex's lips before it disappears.
"Great. Make sure to not only wear nice but showy. Show people what they're missing." Delance says and Lillian spots Alex throw a dart yet it was well off while all the others were either bullseyes or close to it.
Lillian nods before standing up and walking over to Alex who was leaning on the pool table, his head handing. She put a hand on his shoulder and another on his hand. "Deep breaths Alex. Calm down. I'll stick close if you wish me to." She whispers. He shakes his head with his eyes clenched shut.
He lifts his beer to down it but Lillian knows what he's going to do and takes it from his hand and places it away from him. "You are not getting drunk. All you have to do is tell me. I don't like to cause people pain unless that mess with my family and I know you'd never do that." Lillian hissed in his ear and Alex turned his head so their noses were almost brushing. He locked eyes with her and was overwhelmed by how green her eyes were.
Lillian couldn't look away. She was entranced on the soft brown of his eyes. She could feel herself falling in love with them slowly yet she couldn't pull away. She couldn't stop herself. Neither of them spoke. They only stared at rack other intensely. The others were watching them in shock and confusion.
"Duck." Lillian said and swiftly swiped Alex's feet from under him. He fell to the ground with her ontop of him as the section of the roof directly above them broke away and fell.
Lillian clenched her eyes shut and Alex swiftly rolled so his body shielded hers. The ceiling landed on the two pool tables and stopped. "Alex, Lillian. Are you okay?" Liam calls.
Lillians body was shaking as she clutched Alex's shirt tightly. Alex couldn't bring himself to let go, he too was shaking. "Macy is determined to get rid of you isn't she?" He asks quietly.
Lillian nods without opening her eyes or moving away. "She'll kill anyone in her way and anyone to make me give in."
The section of fallen ceiling was quickly moved. Lillian was the first one to let go and both she and Alex shakily peeled away from each other. "The bitch won't give up. She'll kill all of you if she has to. But to do that she'll have to go through one very big obstacle." Lillian says as she gets to her feet and helps Alex up.
"What's that?" Steve asks.
"Me."