#but of course we can’t talk about murder on pbs kids so we gotta say it in a way that the kiddos wont question

[xxjustavexx]

The PBS-Friendly version of a death threat

[freakynerd85]

Take A Bow

Title: Take A Bow

Pairing: James Ashton x Vivian (MC)

Rating: Angst

Word count: 911 words

My disclaimer: This character is owned by PB, I just enjoy some elaboration. I really love James Ashton and I love Choices fanfics, especially nasty ass stuff but there isn’t much featuring my original bae, James Ashton from The Freshman series

So, I decided to put my amateur ass talent to work and write with James being the *star of the story*

A/N: * is a separator due to scene change, use of Daddy. My pc is broken. This is my first time posting from my phone (a full story). Don’t judge me too harshly lol.

"That note you found looks like Shaun's handwriting"

Vivian stood rifling through the closet, although her back is facing  James she can still feel the shift of emotions when she says Shaun's name.

"Oh, so that note is from when you were fucking him."

James doesn't even attempt to disguise his dismay regarding Shaun.

"James!!" She exclaims at the vulgarity of his word choice. "Don't talk that way. You only speak that way when we're being intimate and I like it like that. AND I never had sex with Shaun."

"He flirts with you incessantly, He's even attempted to pursue you to leave me while I was holding your hand. And I am to believe that you didn't fuck him,you only kissed him?”

"Yup. You're the only one for -" she's interrupted by the sound of her phone. She picks it up and is silent as she reads the screen.

"You went suddenly silent. Is everything okay? Your mom?"

"Yeah....you know....you know I can't multitask. Shaun texted I was texting back."

"Are you fuckin kidding me!? You stop talking to your HUSBAND to respond to your boyfriend!?" He snatches her phone out of her hand and dashes for the bathroom, locking the door behind him.

She bangs on the bathroom door as James sits silently reading her messages to Shaun.

"James, give me my damn phone!"

"My kids are at home today, I don't need to see you anyway" James reads aloud to inform her that he's in her messages when his yelling comes to an abrupt cease.

Vivian continues banging on the door "James, what the hell!? Open the damn door!". To her surprise, James opens the door and throws her phone at her, wordlessly leaving the house.

"What the...?" She speaks aloud after he slams the door, looking at her phone to see exactly what causes James to leave. Her eyes widen as she frantically dials Shaun.

"Shaun. He found out. He knows! Oh my gosh, he knows!" Her words are clear but frantic, a tone of emergency behind them.

"Slow down, sexy. Who knows what?"

"James knows that I poisoned Reyna and that you helped me!"

Shaun trades his cool demeanor for urgency,

"WHAT!?!? How does he know ANYTHING!?"

"He took my phone, read our messages."

"Why did you keep those!? Fuck!"

"I don't know! I don't know! I wasn't thinking! What are we gonna do?"

"You know what? You have that man ready to do anything at your request. He ain't calling the cops or nothin. Y'all will argue and make up."

Vivian sits on the couch,

"Yeah. Yeah, you're right. He loves me unconditionally. Thanks for the reminder, Shaun. You always save me."

"And always will. Text you later."

"Okay, bye"

**

"Hi, I'm here because I have new information on a cold case."

"What case?"

"The Black Mamba case"

"Oh, you're gonna need to see Detective Lee. Let me see if she's available."

"Thank you officer" James remains standing in front of the officer, hoping it is showing his commitment to the urgency of his information. Looking through his phone to refrain from staring at the officer while he waits. After moments pass,

"Detective Lee will see you. Straight through the first door on the right" He leans to shake the officer's hand, "Thanks again Officer." and walks to the necessary office.

"Hmph. What a good citizen." The officer mumbles to himself while watching James open the door to Detective Lee's office.

"Hello. Have a seat, Mr...."

"Ashton. Or you can call me James "

She sits tall in a blue suit with her hair pulled back tightly in a neat, high ponytail.

"So what have you got for me?"

Grabbing his phone while maintaining eye contact with the detective, "I know who did it."

The detective quits shuffling through the paperwork on her desk.

"There's no trace evidence. How does this guy know whose guilty.?"

Realizing she said that out loud and not in her mind as she intended, she quickly speaks n correction

"What I meant was, who?"

"My wife. Vivian Ashton"

James winces at the words, ashamed to acknowledge he's married to a murderer.

"Your wife? How do you know?"

Placing his phone on Detective Lee's desk.

"A text message between her and her boyfriend. I took a screenshot as well as forwarding the entire thread to myself. Her boyfriend, Shaun, was definitely involved."

"Wow. An accomplice is something I never would have considered. Can you send me the transcript?"

"Of course. Where should I send it?"

"Fax it. You can get the fax number on the way out." She unbuttons a few buttons from the top of her shirt.

"And I'm sorry about all this. I know its gotta be difficult. Finding out your wife is cheating and she's a murderer. You know how to reach me." She winks at James and he smiles in return. "Thanks, Detective."

James printed and faxed the message thread between Vivian and Shaun to Detective Lee.

Shaun has since been arrested and immediately plead guilty to murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to 31 years. He has a lengthy criminal record and that worked against him.

Vivian was questioned and released. Having been tried and found innocent means she can't be tried for the same crime due to double jeopardy.

James stayed single and dedicated to his two kids. Logan wants to write an original comic book.

Giselle wants to anchor the news...

[choicesatnight]

Devoted Fiend

Title: Devoted Fiend

Pairing: James Ashton x Vivian (MC)

Rating: Angst n stuff..?

Word count:  2,048 words

My disclaimer:  This character is owned by PB, I just enjoy some elaboration. I really love James Ashton and I love Choices fanfics, especially nasty ass stuff but there isn’t much featuring my original bae, James Ashton from The Freshman series

So, I decided to put my amateur ass talent to work and write with James being the *star of the story*

A/N:  * is a separator due to scene change, use of Daddy, Italics are James thoughts

Four months later, Vivian is the only suspect in Reyna’s murder although they cannot link the poison to Vivian as the autopsy revealed Reyna’s cause of death as extreme amounts of black mamba venom. They did find an empty vial in Vivian’s purse which is the sole reason she is a suspect. Out on bail, thanks to James, she gave birth to a healthy boy who currently resides with his father.

After putting Logan down to sleep, James sits down to dial Comfort.

“Hey hun"

“Hey C, where are you?”

“Almost at your place”

“Good. Logan misses you.”

“Oh, does he? Logan's got some explaining to do"

“Uh oh.”

“I'm here.” She hangs up the phone and opens the door.

Comfort walks in wearing her usual type of outfit. An oversized top, formfitting jeans, and heels. The top is so long it hides the part of her bottom half that James likes to see the most.

“You look nice" he kisses her lips.

After the kiss, “I'm going to see Logan. Sit down, hun. I'll be right back.”

Seconds later she returns from the nursery and sits on the couch beside James.

 “He's sleeping.”

“Hopefully for a while. He’s quite the night owl.”

“That’s the complete opposite of you.”

James' eyes scrunch in confusion, why does she think I’m not a night person at all? I can hang late at night. Shouldn’t she know this by now?

“I guess. But it’s exactly like his mother.”

Comfort rolls her eyes,

“Why are you talking about murderers?”

“You know I believe in her innocence. Regardless, she’s still Logan’s mom.”

“She's a murderer which brings me to my next point. James. You paid for her LEGAL TEAM!?” raising her voice in absolute disapproval of what he’s done.

“Yes. She's Logan's mom”

“Babe. She's a damn MUR👏🏼DER👏🏼ER"

James smiles, “You called me babe.”

Like Vivian used to.

Her mouth flat and eyes full of anger

“Listen, if she gets free you will be responsible for a murderer on the loose. She's obsessed with you so I'm next and when I wind up dead it's on you. Know that.”

“Comfort, I'm sorry we disagree about her role in Reyna's murder but she's Logan's mother and I’m always going to look after the mother of my child.”

“Okay honey remember you said that when I'm dead and you ultimately end up back with her because you're soft for her.”

“Soft for her? Comfort, we were together for nine years. She's the mother of my son. I have a right, no – a VALID REASON to stay in her life and excuse me for being polite and using the money I have for things” He takes a breath before he continues, “and PEOPLE that are important to me! I’m only looking out for her.” His tone is elevated, he’s standing and looking at her with furrowed brows as he speaks. How dare she speak so ill of Vivian!

She stands up and gets in his face,

“Really James? Do you think raising your voice is gonna back me down off of the fact that you’re taking care of a murderer? I don’t care how long you were together, she’s a killer and this is not cool. You need to have a seat, get the hell outta my face and go tell her to stay in her damn place!”

Feeling even more frustrated, he sits down without a word. Comfort remains standing.

“Exactly. Sit down. Don’t try to argue with me about that damn murderer. I got this argument.”

Did she just tell me what to do?

Nothing. James says nothing.

“You act like you're still together. The only difference is that you're having sex with me and I have a key to your apartment.”

“Are you saying you think this is only about sex?”

“I hope not.”

 “I’ll talk to her, okay?” He has no intention of talking to her about this situation. She’s innocent and not even Comfort can convince him otherwise.

“That’s all I’m asking, at least. Man up.” James thoughts linger to Vivian. She would never talk to him this way, nor would she be so demanding.

“Okay, well…”

“Um, yeah, I’ll call you later, okay?” Comfort attempts to kiss James though he bends as if he’s looking for something and she leaves.

What Comfort doesn’t know is that James also paid her bail, so by her definition he’s already let a murderer loose.

**

Vivian sits at home alone. Thinking of the situation she's gotten herself in when her phone rings "Sweet Love" and steals her attention. Upon grabbing the phone, she sees its lit with notification. Today is...or would have been, her 10th anniversary with James. Imagining how amazing the day and night would have been if they were together and if she were not facing a murder conviction leads her to dial James. 

"Hey James"

"Hey" she can hear the tiniest cry near the phone. 

"Awww is that Logan?"

"Of course, it is. I'm feeding him."

"Can I come by? Do you have company already?" He knows she's asking about Comfort. She always avoids saying her name. Is Comfort equivalent to Voldemort to Vivian? 

"Only Logan and I are home. Come by." 

"I miss my baby. See you soon" she hangs up the phone and heads to James apartment.  

Once there, she kisses James on the cheek and sets her purse and keys on the table. Removing her coat reveals the low cut, form-fitting shirt she is wearing. He gets lost remembering the way she'd call him Daddy when he'd bite her nipples simply by staring at her top and maybe a little from the warm familiarity of her perfume. But he is pulled from his memories when Vivian repeats "I'm gonna go see Logan.” Until he responds “Okay.”

She walks to the nursery and rocks baby Logan in her arms while singing. "ABCDEF is for Frugal which your father is not. And hey! Father. F is for father GH is for Hoe. The kind of partner you shouldn't commit to IJ..." James walks in "Those ABC's don't sound appropriate for an infant." He smiles, only to show that he is not chastising her. "He'll know his letters and some adult lessons by the time he's three. He'll be a scholar and know how to avoid getting hurt. He'll be better than his mom. He'll be like his dad." 

James walks behind her wrapping her in his embrace, hands rested on her stomach 

"You're a wonderful woman." She softly places Logan in his crib

"I wasn't good enough for you."

He releases her from his embrace only to make her face him,

"Vivian, are you kidding me? You're the love of my life. You don't seem to understand the change I had to go through after realizing that you were not committed to me. It broke my entire person. But I emerged."

"And started dating her. I pushed you to her and that’s who you share your happiness with.”

“It’s not happy” Fuck! I shouldn’t have said that. Vivian doesn’t need to hear about this…

“What’s wrong, James? Why aren’t you happy?”

“Okay,” he visually relaxes after deciding its okay to share this with Vivian.

“We argued and she talked down to me. Spoke to me like I were an idiot. You know how intensely I feel for words. She changed the way I see her plus I’m still mad.”

She steps closer to James “So now she's talking you crazy. Treating you like less of a man. Babe. You don’t deserve that.”

James is hardly able to resist Vivian, she's like kryptonite to him, but with the strength he has he says “Give me a second, gotta take advantage of this time while you're here with Logan" he laughs heading toward the bathroom.

Vivian can't help but notice James phone left on the baby`s changing table.

“My trusting lover never fails me" she laughs at the ZERO methods of protection on his phone and looks for her name “Vivian (Logan's mother)” to change it to “Soul Mate (Logan's Mother).” She's proud of her son, there’s no reason to change that. Next, she looks for Comfort. And finds her under “My everything (Comfort ❤).” Thank goodness for his parenthesis or she wouldn't ever find her. She changes her name to “Temporary Bitch (Comfort)” and puts his phone down. Just in time as he is walking back to her.

Now in the living room, James returns to Vivian

“Thanks for allowing me that quick shower. I felt pretty grimy. Logan doesn't deserve a grimy dad" he laughs

She joins in the laughter.  “You're definitely the type for Dad jokes.” 

“Oh, I'm a comedian. Comfort has extracted parts of me I didn't know existed.”

“Did she do that when she was screaming at you what to do?”

James is silent. Vivian knows exactly how to finish James, how to make herself irresistible to him.

“Hey, come here” she grabs his hand, pulling him into the bedroom and sitting on the bed. She gets on her knees behind him, massaging his shoulders.

“Close your eyes. Just relax to my touch…Daddy”

James is ready to relax but the flame ignites when she calls him Daddy. He turns his head around to look at her and they begin to kiss as attempts to pull her unto his lap. The movements are a little tricky, but she ends up on his lap as they continue kissing.  He pulls away long enough to say,

“I need you, Viv" before returning immediately to kissing her, deepening the kiss unknowing where to let his hands roam. For once, he just wants to kiss her until they share breaths, but she pulls away

“I missed you so much"

“I missed you too, Viv. I didn’t know how much.”

“Will you come to court with me tomorrow?”

“Yeah, of course.” He kisses her. “I'll be there every day. I testify on Tuesday.” He kisses her again.

“I love you so much"

Vivian smiles, laying her head on James' shoulder. She’s getting everything she wanted in spite of Comfort still being alive.

“I love you too, James"

“Stay here. I’ll be with you tomorrow anyway.” His fingers combing through her hair as she sits on his lap.

“What about your place holder?”

He laughs when she refers to Comfort as “place holder"

“Who cares. She predicted this would happen anyway.”

“She predicted us getting back together?” she laughs

“Yup. She said I`m soft for you…but I'm definitely not soft right now"

She laughs even harder, “Freaky as ever! I missed that.”

They kiss. “It feels like home being back with you. It will be us forever, baby. You, me and Logan."

 “Yup."

**

DAY 1

THE PEOPLE VS. BLACK MAMBA

Both sides have presented their argument and Vivian stands with James and her attorney

“Sounds like the prosecution has no real evidence against you. They only called upon the testaments of forensic professionals. We're going to win.” The lawyer looks at James, “Who is this? Who are you? Vivian, are you entering a new witness?”

Vivian giggles and grabs hold of James' hand, “No. Michael. He paid for you to defend me"

Michael straightens his stance and offers his hand to shake “Mr. Ashton! Michael Board. It's nice to meet you, sir"

James laughs briefly while shaking his hand, “You're thinking of my dad. You can call me James.”

“Jay, Jim, Jimmy" he points finger guns toward James with expecting eyes.

“James.” James' voice is unmoving in tone, indicating tedium.

Vivian moves closer to James, still holding his hand “You can tell him anything. He's should be included in all of it.” James raises their intertwined hands to kiss hers.

“Are you married to James? Vivian, this will be amazing for your image.”

“Well, n-" James cuts of Vivian before she can finish answering

“Yes. I’m her husband.” He stares in her eyes as he speaks

“Perfect! The jury will not convict our brand-new mother and wife when she’s got no evidence tying her to this murder. Mrs. Ashton, consider this case won!” Michael is trying his best not to break out his “We're winning” dance moves when Vivian and James are still locked holding hands and staring into one another's eyes.

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