Challenge Collection by Sessylove219 by Sessylove219

What Happens in Vegas...

Title: What Happens in Vegas....

Word Count: 1218

Prompt: History, with mention of rock

Rating: MA, for mentions of non-consensual sex

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, duh.

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"How could you?!" She cried, pounding her little fists against my chest. I tried to think of something, but I had no answer to give her. I stayed silent, waiting for her to make some decision. Would she leave, knowing I had no defense, nothing to mitigate the circumstances of the whole mess? Would she try to work it out, try to think of a reason to stay, something to cling to?

"You can't even say anything, can you?" she looked at me, her eyes showing so much pain and sorrow. She waited a few minutes, tears streaming down her face. "Fine. You know what? I don't need this," she took of her engagement ring, the huge diamond flashing in the sunlight. She threw the huge rock at my face. "Have all the whores you want. We're history."

I watched her walk away that day.

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No one ever plans on ruining their own lives and their own happiness. I must say, even with my reputation for cold calculation and perfect strategy, I never planned on this to happen. I never planned to sleep with her. I never planned on ruining my chances with Kagome. It just happened.

I was in a restaurant in Vegas when it started. There were a lot of people from my company there. We were there on a conference regarding an advancement in computer chips. It was going to change the world. As it was my company being touted by all as the hero of the hour, I could not leave, but I was bored. There are only so many times you can hear how great you are, how you are a genius, before you get irritated. Who would have thought that compliments get old? That you hate hearing it after awhile? Most would think this is not true. They go unappreciated in their lives. Trust me, hearing someone you don't care about tell you how great you are, simply because they want to be aligned with you to pad their pocketbooks or advance their own lives in some way makes you feel hollow. Makes you feel like you are only good for certain things. This kind of prestige will not help you find love. It will not bring you joy on quiet nights in your home, when you can hear the howl of the wind and feel the cool caress of winter. None of these fair-weather people will keep you warm on such a night. None will love you once the bloom has faded from whatever trinket or process you have developed.

Some don't learn that the regard and awe of people such as this is false. I learned it, and should have remembered it.

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I was having dinner in one of the casinos when I met her. She had eyes as red as a garnet. She had a wicked smile and an attitude to go with it. She was one of the heads of a business that was in a similar field as mine. I knew her name, it was Kagura, and she ruined my life. We were talking at a table leaned over to whisper something in my ear. I only know this because I have seen the video, not that it helped at the time. She put something in my glass.

After that one drink, things seemed to happen fast. Before I knew it, we were back in my hotel suite, all torn clothes and writhing bodies. I took my pleasure in her at the time...she was a voracious lover, but there was definitely nothing going on other than sex. I remember only bits and pieces, but I do remember that she was gone from my room when I finally awoke the next morning, with a splitting head and confused mind. I saw that she had left a card on the pillow next to me. It read simply:

"You should remember, I never fight fair"

I got dressed and called downstairs to have a maid come up and pack my things. I wanted to go home to my Kagome. I don't know how this mess happened, but I just wanted to forget the whole thing.

Turns out, it just wasn't that easy.

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I came back, and things were better. I still wasn't sure exactly why I went with Kagura, as I loved Kagome dearly. I returned to Kagome's loving arms, and thought everything was going well. Unfortunately, I found that my dealings with Kagura were not finished.

About a month after the disastrous trip to Vegas, I looked in my schedule that my assistants had posted and discovered that I had a meeting with her that very morning. They did not know that I did not want to ever see Kagura again, after all, I could not share what had happened with anyone, and refusing to see someone in a field very similar to mine was impossible.

She walked into my office and did not even react when I offered her my hand. She just sat in a chair across from mine and gave me a wink and a smile. I tried to avoid the topic of Vegas altogether. She had no such interest.

She told me that she wanted to merge our two companies. There was no way in hell I would ever consider such a thing, and I told her so. She then told me something that would send a chill through my heart. She told me she was pregnant, and that it was mine. I just stared at her in disbelief. I told her I didn't believe her, that there was no way to prove anything. She just laughed, and took out pictures that were of us, naked together, in Vegas. I don't know how she managed to get someone in my suite, but I could not deny what I was seeing.

She told me that if I did not agree to the merger, she would tell Kagome. I knew it would break her heart, but I had more people than just the two of us counting on how my company was run. I knew what Kagura would do; she would fire anyone she saw as redundant personnel. I just couldn't do it, and told her so.

She left in a huff, and told me that I would regret this. She was right.

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It has been six months since Kagome received the pictures and returned my ring to me. I had my private investigator search all of Vegas to see if there was anything he could find, anything at all. When he sent me the video with Kagura doctoring my drink, I thought that somehow, I would be vindicated. I managed to get Kagura to stay away from me and my company. All I had to do was show her the video and threaten police involvement.  Turns out there was no baby. Good.

I sent the video to Kagome in an overnight shipping package with a letter and her engagement ring. I told her how much I love her, and how I never would have cheated on her, and how sorry I was. I asked her to come back. I pretty much begged her. Desperate times call for desperate measures. She should have received it this morning. I cannot wait to find out what she will do...