The Day from Hell (Dominic/Beth)

Dominic had agreed to do a small tour to promote his new album which was due out on March fifteenth although at first he had asked if he could leave the tour until after the album was released because he had been having too much fun spending time with his best girl Stacey and his mini best girl Ebony. However Xander had insisted that he do the promoting before the album was out to give his fans a taste of what was to come on his new album. Xander said it would only be for a week and only wanted him to visit the States he felt would give the most impact starting with New York. So right now Dominic who was dressed in his casual clothes which consisted of a black t-shirt, denims and a black leather jacket was sitting in the back of a car belonging to Matthew Tobruk, the security guard from the Government who had been assigned to protect him and he was currently on the phone talking to his sister.

Of course it was just a one sided conversation to Matt and it was going something like this:-

“Oh my god Li you have got to be kidding me.” “Really?! I don’t believe that, are you sure?” Then he would giggle furiously, “I still can’t believe that Li. She’s only five.” Dominic was referring to his sister telling him that his five year old niece had just managed to fix a broken digital clock that had been driving her mother mad. It would seem that his niece Chloe had the ability of Technopathy and with one single touch had fixed the clock, but before hand she had been messing around with it and when it started working again Lianda had just assumed that her daughter messing with the clock had fixed it, when it had only taken one touch. Then Dominic had decided to tell his sister about the girl he had approached that day in the cafe with Stacey.

“Oh I never told you Li, sugar, the day I met Stacey again we were in this cafe having an ice-cream and this girl walked in wearing a really small yellow skirt with purple leggings and I was like oh that’s so wrong. I went up to her and said, No, no, no sugar, you have it all wrong. You shouldn’t wear leggings like that, and especially not with a skirt, and definitely not with the colour, it’s all wrong. Your top is just perfect, but you should either have a longer a-lined skirt on or a pair of loose leg trousers. Purple leggings with a yellow mini skirt is a big no sugar. Well I didn’t get the reaction I had hoped for, she told me to shut it and called me a shirt lifter and told me to stick to my day job as it’s what I do best. I just went meow and told her I was only trying to give her advice.” Dominic’s sister burst out laughing which made Dominic giggle furiously down the phone.

He then realised that they were getting closer to the airport and noticed that the driver of the car, Matt was looking at him through the rear view mirror and shaking his head. Dominic bit on his bottom lip slightly as his top lip curled at the corner realising that he must have been pissing the guy off a bit. “Look Li sugar, I have to go, give Chloe and Ryan big kisses from Aun...Uncle Dom.” He was going to say ‘auntie’ which was how he always referred to himself for a laugh but had a feeling it may not have gone down well with Matt so changed what he was going to say. Lianda said bye and soon Dom put his phone back into his pocket.

Dominic wasn’t a complete jack ass, and because he knew that his conversation seemed to have irked the guy driving him to the airport he leaned forward in the seat a little, “Hey, sorry about that darling, didn’t realise I was getting so excitable, I’m not usually in the habit of upsetting people, at least not on purpose anyway.” Well it was just good manners, that’s why he apologised, even if he did call Matt darling, but that was something that came natural to Dominic when speaking to guys he didn’t really know too well. Soon enough they were pulling into the car park of the airport and once Matt stopped the car Dominic jumped out and got his bag and began to make his way into the check in queue.

When Dominic had leaned forward to apologise to Matt for his rather excitable telephone conversation once he saw the looks he had been giving him in the rear view mirror he honestly thought he was doing the polite thing in saying sorry. However in typical Dominic fashion he had called Matt darling like he does with all guys and he was met with a pretty frosty reception, if Dominic didn’t know any better he would have sworn that someone had used cryokinesis in the car to bring the temperature down.

Then Matt turned to him and more or less tore strips off of him for calling him darling. Dominic made an apologetic face and put his hands up in a slight surrender mode. “You only had to ask nicely. I’m sorry it’s a part of me, but if people rather I didn’t refer to them like that, all they have to do is ask. So I’m sorry Mr. Tobruk.” In his thoughts all he could think was bitch, and desperately wanted to go ‘meow’ but thought better of it and sat back in the seat again and shut up the rest of the journey to the airport.

Soon after they had reached the airport and Dominic got out and collected his bag carrying it himself, he had none of this entourage of people he couldn’t stand it. The only person who usually came on tour with him other than the technical and stage people who didn’t even travel with Dominic was usually Xander his manager but even he wasn’t able to travel with him this time because he had a meeting in New York two day previously and had flown up ahead of Dominic and was already there.

As Dominic made his way to the check in queue which was fairly long but Dominic wasn’t in a rush, well as much of a rush as everyone else when you only have so long to check in before your flight, but standing in a queue was nothing to Dominic. He placed his bag on the ground at his feet and shuffled it with his feet every time someone at the front was checked in and moved away and the queue moved further down the line.

While in the queue there was suddenly a commotion to the left of the queue where a few teenage girls who were possibly flying on holiday somewhere had recognised Dominic and began flying toward him screaming out his name. Dominic looked up to see about ten of them come toward him and grinning. He just hoped that none of them would do their usual stint on him and lift their tops to sign their breasts as had happened to him a couple of times, he just had this feeling that despite the fact ‘Mr. Tobruk’ was straight he might not approve of that kind of behaviour. As it happened they were mostly young teenagers this time and not really into the whole signing breasts thing and just handed him over autograph books.

He grinned at them all, “Hey girls, okay one at a time please.” He said as he took the books from them and one by one went through all ten girls until he had gotten their names and signed their book out to them personally. Then one of them brought out their camera and asked if they could get their picture taken with him. Any other superstar celebrity who was desperate to get on their flight would probably have sent them packing by now, but not Dominic, he knew if it weren’t for his fans, he wouldn’t be where he was today. So he grinned and replied, “Sure thing sugar.” One by one they took it in turns to snap a picture of Dominic with each of them and soon enough they had all group hugged him as he giggled along with them a little and then quite satisfied they had made their way to whatever it was they were doing before they had spotted him.

By this point the queue had moved half way down the line and Dominic began to wonder if Mr. Tobruk would be getting annoyed at the fact he wasn’t pushing his way forward to get them on the plane quicker. So he turned to him even though earlier Matt had told him to leave him alone, “I’m sorry that I’m making you wait in the queue with me, but I don’t believe in being all diva style to get checked in before anyone else.”

When the group of young girls had come running toward Dominic he wasn’t too bothered about it what with knowing that if it weren’t for his fans he wouldn’t be where he was, but he heard Matt saying ‘ah shit’ which made Dom turn to him and gave him a sort of glare, even though Matt had said it quiet with Dominic having enhanced hearing due to being superhuman he had heard it clearly. Matt went to stand in front of Dominic and again he glared at him and sighed as he said to let him handle it.

“Really, it’s alright, I’m more than capable of handling a few fans you know.” Dom said and then took the situation into control by telling them that he would deal with them one at a time. He then went through all of them signing autographs and then allowed them to have their photo taken with him. When they had left him quite happy in their accomplishment he had turned to Matt and gave him a weak smile. “I appreciate what you did there, but you have to know that fans running up to me like that does not bother me, I mean really if it weren’t for them I wouldn’t be where I am now, they’re who make me what I am.” Dom explained and then he shuffled up in the queue again as it had moved. He had noticed that while he was busy with the girls that some people had skipped ahead of him but really he didn’t give a damn as he moved along the line anyway. They were all in the queue to check in, so what did it matter if some went ahead of him, he’d get there in the end.

When Dominic had apologised to Matt for waiting in the queue he had turned to him with a raised eyebrow and then asked him why the hell he was apologising for agreeing that he didn’t have the right to get checked in before anyone else. Ooh thought Dominic angry much, but instead he just gave him a smile, “Well, I’ve had bodyguards get pissy about it before now that’s all, so I just thought I would explain why, I don’t like being told what to do which is why they are no longer my bodyguards.” Dominic explained to Matt and then the young boy in front of him dropped his game and it smashed onto the floor. The boy began to cry pulling at his mother’s sleeve about how his game was broken. It was one of these multi handheld games, nothing too fancy but it was obviously something the kid treasured by the fact he was very upset over it being broken now.

Dominic tapped the young boy on the shoulder and bent down to his level. “I see that you broke your game sweetie, you’re going to have a very boring flight unless you have a new one right?” The boy was staring at Dominic with his eyes opened wide but nodded his head to answer Dom and then Dom went into his bag that he was taking on the flight and brought out his handheld PSP and then handed it over to the young boy along with the games he had for it. “There you go, maybe this will make up for it?” The boy’s eyes opened wide again and then gave Dominic a massive grin and turned to his mother and pulled at her sleeve and began pointing and explaining to her what Dominic had just done. The mother turned to him and smiled brightly, “Thank you so much that was very kind of you. I also know that half your royalties to your recent single has gone to your friend’s daughter, I think you are amazing Dominic Salvatore, you are most definitely one of the most unselfish pop stars I’ve had the pleasure to read about.”

Dominic grinned at the woman, “Why thank you sugar, that is very kind of you to say so, and really it was no bother, I can easily get another games console, I imagine it wouldn’t be so easy for you to replace the one your child had.” The woman turned round again after thanking him one more time and again the queue shifted slightly and Dominic shuffled down once more and again not caring how much longer it was going to take for them to check in although they were getting closer to the check in desk now.

After Dom had signed his autographs and such, he told Matt that he didn't mind if his fans were coming up to him and then made a small speech about how the fans made him who he was and such. Matt just looked at him with a raised brow.
"Right... Do you practice that speech in the mirror every morning? Or you just used to saying it when you do an interview..." Matt said with a cold tone, turning back around.

Jesus, if this guy likes being hoarded by fans and such, why the hell am I here Matt thought to himself as they continued to slowly crawl through the line, with Dominic replying to Matt's comment with about how he didn't like bodyguards who got pissy about these sorts of things and he didn't like being told what to do. Matt just turned around to face him.
"Hey, so long as you don't piss me off, I don't care what you do. I just wanna get you to New York, and go home." Matt said turning back around.
"Shoulda just teleported the guy there..." He said to himself in a low tone.

It was then and there some random fan decided to pop up, excited over the fact it was Dominic and the rest of the typical fan nonsense. Matt just stood aside and let the girl do her thing. The girl noticed him and began to drabble on like Dominic. If he didn't know better, he would've sworn that she was related to him. however it was then, with his telepathy on, he caught some of the girl's stray thoughts and it was something about how similar she looked to someone and hoping Dom wouldn't catch on. Matt just kept his mind on her, listening in for anything else.

Beth couldn’t believe it when her father turned to face her and gave her a bright smile, he was still as handsome as she had always remembered him the whole time she was growing up only there was one major difference, he was on his feet. Beth had only ever remembered him to be in a wheelchair, she knew nothing else. Of course this was why she was here, to stop him from getting on that plane which caused him to be in the wheelchair in the first place. She knew she was going to have to try and keep her true feelings in check because she didn’t want him to know who she was at least not right away. Dominic then said he could sign the cd for her and took it from her asking who he was to write it to.

She smiled brightly at him as she ran her hand through her hair slightly, “Oh, Bethany, make it out to Bethany please, thanks.” Beth replied and grinned at him again as she waited for him to sign her cd and then she had spoken to the guy who was with him, his security she imagined and apologised saying she just loved him. The guy never said anything and she just shrugged her shoulders slightly and turned to look at Dominic again. Beth then began to jump up and down slightly and giggled, “I still can’t believe it’s you, I can’t believe I found you where they said you would be.” She then sighed gently and thought to herself that hopefully she was going to do it, she was going to stop him from getting on the plane.

She had gotten him to sign her cd and now all she had to do was stop him from checking in so that he would miss the flight. She tried racking her brain for ideas on how she could do that. She looked down and saw that the queue wasn’t that big anymore and if she didn’t come up with something he would be there checking in and she couldn’t have that. “So, I’m a singer myself, do you have the time to maybe sing something acapella with me right now?” She asked and biting down her bottom lip unsure of what else she could have suggested to keep him from getting to that check in desk.

Dominic hardly ever hated anyone it wasn’t in his nature to be like that but the way this Matt was acting toward him was really beginning to piss Dom off. When Matt closed his eyes and face palmed him all Dominic could think was that this guy was a rude bastard. Bitch didn’t even fit for this guy, it was too good for him, it was just that Dominic never swore as such, it simply wasn’t in his nature to do so.

When Matt did eventually say something it would seem that Matt was having a bit of a meltdown and Dom wasn’t sure where to look. Why assign someone to be a bodyguard when they did nothing but treat the star like shit? Dom was beginning to regret agreeing to this guy being his bodyguard. As Matt continued to talk to Dominic and mentioned about killing fifty mafia men a couple of weeks ago Dom wasn’t sure where to look or what to say, so he just sort of gulped. However he was thinking who the hell in their right mind assigned a killer or assassinator to look after a star, that was just ridiculous. Not that Dominic thought of himself as a star, he was just a regular guy who had made it big due to a talent show, but he knew that the general public saw him as a star.

So when Matt finished his little speech asking if he had made himself perfectly clear Dominic just gave him a glare and turned the other way, away from him. Well he wasn’t about to say or do anything which might fire this guy up. However he truly did think that the guy was a complete bastard, he just wouldn’t voice his opinion about it.

Then the pretty young girl who was an obvious fan of his had come running up to him and asking if he would sign her cd for her. Dominic had naturally agreed and asked who he should sign it to. When the girl replied he gave her a bright smile, “Oh my god, I just love that name Bethany.” He then signed the cd and handed it back over to her knowing that he would call his daughter that name if he was ever blessed to have a child of his own. Then she told him she was a singer herself and did he have time to sing something acapella with her. Dominic hated to let down his fans but as he looked at the queue and saw that it was nearly at the desk he wondered if he should say he didn’t have the time.

However looking at her again he knew that he couldn’t let her down but then his mind drifted back to what he had thought about before that if he didn’t know any better he would have sworn that she was his sister except this girl was a lot younger than Lianda. “You know, you’re very like my sister Lianda, I mean like, you could be a younger version of her, it’s quite uncanny and sure I’d love to sing something with you.” He didn’t even dare say anything to Matt, in fact he was more worried about the young girl getting hurt now if this guy decided to blow up at him.

Matt watched Dominic's expression soon showed Matt that he understood that if he continued to piss Matt off, he'd go to New York in a body-bag. So with that Matt just watched as Dominic gave a glare at Matt and turned away.
Eye-ball me again you asshole... I fucking dare you... Matt thought to himself as he turned around, watching as they were about to check in, just before a fan decided to show up.

However as soon as he had his suspicions about her, due to her stray thoughts, he asked her telepathically what her purpose was here. She then replied back in her thoughts, saying that she was here to stop Dom from getting on the plane as he got injured from it. He also learned that he was her father. Matt's eyes widened at that prospect, about to say something out-loud but stopped himself. She was his daughter. He wasn't old enough to have a kid her age... at least not yet... Oh god, she was a time-traveler!

Matt decided now was the time to step in, especially since the line was closed. Matt looked at Dominic as he stepped in between the pair.
"Ok, you know what Dom. We've just missed our check-in. Do you mind if you just go down there and ask them if they can still get us in? The plane doesn't leave for another half an hour, so maybe they will let us in." Matt said to Dom, whilst using his telepathy at the same to add some influence to his voice so that Dom would do it, without being a total bitch about it.

Matt then turned to Beth and gave a look as he reached out to touch her hand, his own glowing for a moment as he absorbed her power. Immediately, while his hand was on hers, time began to slow and then come to a complete stop. Something he had never done before. Alex's time power only altered time around objects. It seemed this young woman could control it. So with time frozen for the moment, he let her go and looked at her.

"What the hell do you think you're doing? Do you have ANY idea how dangerous it is to play with time?" Matt scolded at the girl, looking at her with a angry look. He was totally against time traveling, as well as altering events to suit one's needs.