Jem…Chapter 46
Chapter 46
Early evening in the back corner of the Jackson Pub in Harpers Point. Two darkly dressed men in hoodies under leather jackets and sunglasses sat together nursing a bottle of Sauza Gold and watching the two McWhitter brothers sitting together at the bar reeking of fish and drowning their sorrows.
“So?”
“So what?”
“Mikey’s got some new friends.”
“Those fucking losers? C’mon.”
“No exactly those fucking losers they’re cranked all to shit and they don’t exactly look like they’re the sharpest knives in the drawer.”
“And…your point…”
“Marshal want’s Mikey dealt with or fucked with at the very least, these two morons don’t like Mike so we get them to do the job for us.”
“Okay, so what about Marshal you know that little shit’s going to hold this over us.”
“Yeah well I’m not really worried about that.”
“So you have a plan?”
“Oh I have a hell of a plan.”
“Okay this I’ve got to hear.”
*Adam….
He walked around the place looking things over and while he really didn’t know that much about the stuff that these guys were installing it really didn’t matter he could just hire the techs to do all the stuff for the studio.
He saw Summer and smiled a bit she was walking and pacing with a bunch of papers in her hands and she was dressed to fuck. Black lace bra and no shirt just her buttoned just at the bottom cropped jean jacket and those skimpy flared club pants.
He’d just have to take her in with his eyes…he wasn’t sure where the hell he picked it up but he’d had the worst fucking case of food poisoning. It was e-coli according to the doc that came to the house and he was pissed…he’d loved to have punished whoever fucked up in some really nasty ways but he could have gotten it anywhere.
It was a really bad fucking night and morning so far but he was finally recovering. But he didn’t feel like he could do to Summer what he wanted to do to Summer.
“You’re here so you have the papers?”
“Yeah all signed and shit. You’re really going to like pay us an hourly rate while we work here in the studio?”
“Oh course you gotta eat right, we can settle those things after you’re making the big bucks.”
“Settle?”
“Yes, I’ll be paying you out of my pocket so you’ll have to pay me back but it’s not a big deal summer I’m not worried about my cash.”
“Well hell yeah why should you be we’re going to really rock the shit out of this town.”
“Yes that and I’m a Marshal my dear, I know a great investment when I see one and you my dear are a great investment.”
He smiled at the way she was looking at him all doey eyed and simple. He could see the standard dollars signs and stuff drifting around in her head but he could also see her responding to the little massage of her ego.
~Fucking women…~ He thought.
~They’re all the same massage their ego and tell the bitch that she’s special and flash the cash and they are all yours, they just think they have guys completely snowed and are already planning stuff.~
He took the contracts from her and passed her a book from his briefcase.
“What’s this?”
“New music and new songs you can’t use the stuff from when you where in Starlight Butterfly.”
“Why the fuck not? They’re mine!”
“Yes I know Summer, but they had some nasty footage of you saying that these songs where written by that girl that put you through hell and it’s online.”
She turned several shades of pissed off. “I’ll….we’ll….Adam…fuck can’t we fight this in court?”
“Honestly it’s a she said and she said thing Summer honey and they have this footage that’s up and it’d just be a waste of cash. But I am sending them a letter saying these songs are co-owned as part of your common-law domestic partnership and that while K&T will stop playing these songs you would ask the same thing from them out of respect for the relationship that you both once had together.”
Adam could see the wheels turning in all that blonde space. “So she can’t play them too?”
“Well she could but you both own the songs and you could take her to court, well the studio will be taking her to court if she tries.”
“Oh, so I’m like clean and clear then.”
“Hey, I’m your investor, your manager, I’m just looking out for my investment and it might just so happen that I might see something there too.”
She looked and him and he smiled and blushed a little bit for her…in reality he had held his breath just enough to get a hint of red faced…women did the same thing to men for a long long time and Adam was actually a pretty decent actor getting all sorts of women to fall for the there’s something good in him act. He never really got how they could want to actually save a guy and manipulate the shit out of him at the same time.
Crazy women…
No he actually believed that most of them believed in their “game” that much that they were really able to do that kind of stuff. He’d seen it all the time too. It’s why he was so good at getting them to fall completely in his thrall. He used their bullshit they thought and believed in so much like summer and all the others to get themselves so deeply buried into him and his traps that they became his little playthings.
“So…Adam what about these songs here.”
“I was lucky enough to find some decent songwriters willing to sell me their works. We’ll go through them and then we’ll try them with your sound and then we’ll work on other things.”
“Like?”
“Like, your look…”
“My Look?”
Adam smiled and he took out a company credit card. “Mmmm, so you want to go shopping?”
She squealed and actually snatched the card from him like lightning. He offered his arm and she took it almost bouncing along with him. She had no clue that she’d already signed on for the card…it just was one made for the company but the account to the card was in her name. The bills would come to the studio and he’d pay the minimum balance but the trap was already starting to work.
It always works.
And when he finds out just what’s what with Starlight Butterfly and their money situation he’d get Angel into his trap too and he’d make her just as much his little whore as the others were.
He was all smiles as he secured his briefcase inside the trunk and started to drive them out of town to some of the better malls in Sudbury.
Comments
Eek!
Why do I feel like I need a bath after reading anything from the 'other' point of view with this story? I'm so glad Angel is taking steps to secure their finances now before A-dumb can slime them. He's so bad I wonder if he leaves a trail behind him. Yuk!
It figures a mining family would use that old scam. "I owe my soul to the company store!"
hugs
Grover
Oh...oh! Adam does that to a T.
He gets these girls and not just Summer and he gets the ones that are money hungry and baits them with a credit card...or he gets a nice girl he wants with that I'm an asshole but showing this faint crack of a human being there and will give them a credit card saying "I've never done this before...I don't let people in but you're different..."
In either case he has the card in their name getting them to sign it saying usually it's for the cards life insurance....since they all have those policies now with the cards and he has the billing sent to him then just pays the minimum until he feels she's going to start really spending and encourages them to do so...
Then...
"You're in huge debt...you'll never get good credit, you'll never get a student loan...a car...or a house...not...not unless you do exactly what I fucking tell you to when I tell you too."
And they're so scared of that and of him they literally become his slaves and playthings.
He's got over a dozen women like that.
Yeah Adam is not a nice guy.
Actually he's a sociopath.
Bailey Summers
<- keep imaging an 18 wheeler
<- keep imaging an 18 wheeler and a few foots of several different peepz. Hey it got 18 wheels so a lot of room
PS and just to be clear. I hadn't read the last S&L yet ...
Yeah, I think some people would agree
And some people would think that's still not enough for these people.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
lolz but hey I wouldn't land
lolz but hey it wouldn't land me in jail for them being so stupid so I'd get at least a foot per person. >grinzz< but it 'll put , maybe,some peepz in plaster.
Besides you now got me thinking about a Starlight Butterfly truck with that talk about going to festivals and stuff in the previous episode and it being festival season here>missing Werchter :( <. Ok at least about the paint job ;)
L
It'd be hard for K&T to play in footcasts.
Maybe people'd think it was a gimmick.
Nice thought though.
*Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Chapter Ewww!
"We are the misfits the misfits and we're going to get her but we're the misfits our songs are better..." Or at least that's clearly Adam's thinking but engaging professional songwriters for the band.
Of course, he also knows Summer can't write and Rayne did write those songs despite his platitudes. The compromise on the songs proposed by Adam actually to my mind works well. Rayne needs to almost let them go and move on, particularly now she's won the argument in the court of public opinion, and focus on her new stuff with Jem. By the same token, Summer not being able to sing them eases the pain it inflicted on Rayne every time she heard Summer claim them and sing them. Not an ideal solution given they were Rayne's songs I'll admit but a heck of a lot better than ending up in court.
Adam's hold on Summer, if she did indeed sign the contract properly without giving it thorough going over because for all her faults she excels at being devious herself, strikes me as being transitory at best. She's fairly rootless and there is nothing to stop her disappearing and starting a new life elsewhere if things got too hot or a better deal comes along. She certainly doesn't strike me as someone who understands the concept of personal responsibility.
Adam is just... ewwwwwwwwwwwww!... as always. Clearly the defending champion for Canada's 'Most Misogynistic Man in a Fictional Setting'. His very presence leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. Talking of nasty tastes in the mouth, I couldn't help smile at poor Adam's illness. *snicker* Bad Summer, Bad (not).
Interesting to see that it looks like Adam's henchmen have their own plans for getting out from under his thumb as well. Here's hoping that Adam finds out that there are people out there who don't care about him being a Marshall if he crosses them. The co-opting of Brook's brothers into a revenge scheme on Mike is a little worrying. He's shown he can take them two-on-one but they may not play quite so fair next time.
Thank you for another chapter of
JemAdam and the Misfits."Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Yeah Jemima, The biker guys really didn't like that little...
shit pulling the whole he's better and badder than they are so they have a plan for getting out from under Adam's ass.
Adam knows better than to fight over the songs but he's more than willing to use the issue as a weapon with little digs using Summer to hurt the girls more and more.
Summer is pretty much capable of taking off if things get rough and that's her usual way of doing things when it suits her but Adam being snowed by her is tickling her greedy bitch side especially with this on the company shopping trip.
Adam's trap with her is a play on the stuff he does with other girls.
He's a very un-nice guy.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
e-coli
So far that's the brightest thing Summer's done.
That was a creepy chapter, but we knew he was slime when we started reading.
Thanks
You can almost feel Adam sort of dripping down your neck...
in just how creepy and nasty he is and he's just starting to get up to speed like the rest of his family. If he ever found out though it was her he'd beat her to death. No, seriously he would.
*Hugs and Howls.*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
*blinkblink*
Wow, glad I hopped on to check before I showered this morning. If you'll excuse me...
Yeah hard choice on who's worse.
But they are all pretty filthy souls.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Watching old Nickleodeon?
Truly, I've not seen so much slime in a while. Dang, I even feel greasy!
Skummerslut is slippery, but Adumb...Wow. I worry about the bad guys and their plans for Mike. I hope everything falls apart on them, but someone could still be seriou8ly hurt. If something happens to Mike, it'll kill Brooklyn.
Don't do that, PLEASE?
Wren
BTW, Jem AND S&L? Excellent!
No I don't get Nickleodeon here...:(
I have to You Tube the shows but I'm getting my Video-Store guy to get me a boxed set for the show. The rest well...people were asking for stuff to happen and stuff so...
*Evil grins.*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
No deep comment here
Just glad to see what the opposition is doing. Hope Mike is on his guard.
It is kind of amusing for Skummer and Adam trying to outscum each other. Between them they may very well tangle each up at the wrong time, leaving an opening for Angel and company. Like others have said, he is just a jumped up misogynistic asshat who has enough money to indulge in controlling and hurting people for the sheer fun of it.
Kim
Yes that's true Kimmie.
they might just end up getting really in each others way. Adam is so much worse than people on the outside know even his so called friends.
He's allowed to control people, he's a Marshal.
Too many people these days forget what that means.
*Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
trying to trap Angel?
Not that easy, buster. Angel is a lot smarter than Summer, for one thing. The only weak spot Angel has is Jason - if Adam figures out her secret identity, he will be able to hold that over her. But baring that, I cant see how he could get them under his thumb.
Jason is jem's strength.
As long as adam doesn't find out. Adam can't snow jem the way he plans to. Jason knows too much about him. We're not seeing all the precautions that mike and co are taking, that would ruin the suspence. Jason could run quite the scam on adam if they so choose to go that route.
He'll still try, he wants to control her...and do things to her.
And he's not even sure what but the fact she's resisted him...is defended...related to Jason.
He wants to maul her soul like a rabid thing.
*Great Big Angel Hugs*
Bailey...A Proud Big Brother.
Bailey Summers
It looks as though summer...
...is going to feel the grip of the vice that she put raven in. This is the one that should have been labeled karma. I'm just wondering if this will actually teach summer a lesson?
Yeah Karma can be harsh sometimes...
and yet Rayne's so not the only one that she's hurt so she's kind of due. Adam's Karma response well....
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
No pity here.
.
.
Oh, who am I kidding? Screw the bitch, and the horse she rode in on.
I don't even feel bad for the horse, seeing as it was stupid enough to fall in with a tramp like Summer.
.
.
The girl in me. She's always there,
occasionally letting her dark side peek out.
Don't blame the horse Lora.
Summer treating an animal...just imagine if she treated them like the way she treats people the poor thing'd have scars.
*Big Hugs.*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
I have to have pity...
...on summer as she is being mouth raped. It seems she has a dude tude where her interaction with women are concerned. It may be an interesting backstory to explore how she got that way.
The bible says the wicked will be caught in their own devices and I don't have a problem with that. I have quick feet to forgive.
I'm sort of saving Summer's real story for later on.
But I'll admit to being really confused sometimes at the way that girls and women can treat each other so differently and nastily too.
*More Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Adam
It looks as though a few more cracks are appearing in his omnipotence - in addition to Starlight Butterfly being immune to his efforts so far, a pair of his goons are plotting something against him (though I'm not entirely sure who they're planning to subcontract to 'deal with' Mike - and whether they're doing it out of laziness or because they have a hunch it won't go according to plan so allowing themselves to keep their noses clean) and he's succumbed to food poisoning (which may not be entirely accidental...)
Now we know Skummer's a devious little so-and-so, so I can't help but wonder if she really did just blindly sign the contracts, or if she was smart enough to use her noggin, carefully read through the contracts, tweak them slightly in her favour, and then use her appearance and small talk to distract Adam from reading through them.
Meanwhile, Adam's going to find it tough to lever any financial trojan horses over Starlight Butterfly, given they're already making a small profit, they're more interested in doing everything slowly and by the book rather than instant reward, and they're now banking with a new branch that hasn't fallen under Adam and family's influence (yes). Oh, and given Angel!Jase's attitude towards everything, (s)he's the type to carefully read through financial documents multiple times - including the small print - before committing.
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Yeah you're right Mittfh;)
Adam has some cracks going on he doesn't know about chiefly that Summer is just as nasty as he is and she's exactly the kind of girl he assumes women are.
Then there's the henchmen, well he thinks they're under his power but has no clue what he did threatening them. You don't punk-jump real criminals and threatening their families especially bikers.
And lastly like some people have said Angel knows Adams shit enough that he hasn't found an Angel yet and that'll keep her and the girls safe or safer than everyone else. Angel/Jase is careful enough to read everything over and get things explained to her if she needs to.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Also...
International Intellectual Property laws don't let IP fall under community property. If an artist paints a masterpiece, then divorces her wife, she does NOT suddenly own half of the painting. Same with a book, same with a SONG. Sorry, them being together even in a LEGAL marriage wouldn't give Summer half-ownership of those songs, let alone a common law one (which has been ruled non-binding for legal purposes in most places).
Probably right, but...
.
.
The girl in me. She's always there,
with the motto "lawyers can kiss my butt".
Oh It's definitely right but Adam would...
just drag it through the courts if he thought that he could stretch it out to a point where he could hurt them with the legal fees even if they did lose.
*Big Hugs for both of you:)*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Adam is a creep!!
And his big ego is going to get him into trouble!!!!
Wait till Angel is done with him!!! He is so going
down!!! Couldn't happen to a more deserving A#$h*ole!!
Pamela
I take a great compliment that you hate him so much Pam:)
The bad thing is he's kind of based on a few men/guys I know molded together and with a bit of artistic flare. But he's a really nasty guy.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
A Beautiful Story
tender, romantic, with lovely characters and nasty villains who seem to be getting their cumuppance...
BUT, many spelling mistakes and mistyping makes it sometimes hard to figure out what is being said. I do beg you please to get a spellcheck programme that works and even have an Editor check things for you, as it spoils the tale quite a bit when one has to keep guessing.
Sorry, but you need to know this. Please carry on though, it really is a lovely story. Your plots are brilliant.
Briar
I hate spelling mistakes as much as the next girl
But Bailey has a LOT of irons in the fire and I rather have him write ideas as his juices flow than have him spend his limited time doing the spelling and grammar thing.
I will ultimately one day edit a copy of a story that I really like for myself that cleans up the mistakes and keep it private, of course.
For an author who does not put out much, well, there is no real excuse for laziness.
Kim
Also agree
As another author who doesn't post stories often, I would have to echo Kimmie's comments on both counts. Given we get 3 or 4 chapters of stories a weekend sometimes from Bailey, I think the odd typo is a price worthwhile paying. :-)
*Hugs*
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
*Great Big Yayness Hugs for Kimmie and Jemima!*
You girls are all kinds of awesome. If Awesome were ice cream you'd be Death by Chocolate:)with lots of Awesomesauce on top!
Seriously off to work now but you two made my night, it can't suck from here on out.
Love You girls.
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
adam
ya someone should bend adam over and let him feel whats its like to get it in the butt.
I Believe A Major House Cleaning Is In Order For ....
the Marshal family that involves a hail of bullets from some of the lackeys they have double crossed through the years, culminating in the whole family being wiped out and never again able to do anything to anyone else. On the other hand, my comedic side likes the idea of what happened to the Black Widows Motorcycle gang in the Clint Eastwood movie "Every Which Way But Loose" where they went through a spray of black tar and had to be peeled like bananas. They ended up losing their hair and having to pick out cheesy looking wigs. But my first choice is the one I see happening, because people like them,have made so many enemies and have destroyed so many lives , that I believe they are like a bunch of rats or roaches and sooner or later , someone will exterminate them.
Wow I can't believe Skummer
Wow I can't believe Skummer is really that stupid. But apparently she's really just a whore. A guy just needs to flash some money in front of her and she'll fall for it. I can' believe she actually signed those papers.
She's really the worst kind of woman.
Thank you for writing this captivating story,
Beyogi
Skummer is certainly colorful.
The way she's see's things though if things go south she'll do what she always does.
Cut and run.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Adam is such an ass, and
Adam is such an ass, and Summer is just stupid, obviously she and the band didn't read the contracts, guess Summer will will reap what she sowed, kind of pity her in a way. She thinks she's top of the food chain but at this rate she'll be lucky to work in a brothel he might own, in fact that might end up as her fate, coked up to her eyeballs turning tricks.
Adam really needs to lose big time.
Big hugs
Lizzie :)
Bailey's Angel
The Godmother :p
Adam
You don't get it, you think that kind of thing always works? no, it only works on the dumb and the weak-willed. Something like that would never work with Starlight Butterfly and certainly not with Angel around to keep them held together.