The animosity between the Fallen Angel server team and new bar recruit Ruddy doesn't get better. The homophobic and disobliging remarks of the apprentice stir up the anger and discontent of the angels. Ritta tried to appease the situation by being nice to the young man, but he treated her like a nobody… Sweetheart doesn't know what to do, the situation stresses him. He feels guilty.
So he figures it's time to have a talk with Ruddy. After the service where once again he has either disappeared or been lazy, the bartender leads his apprentice into the shed.
After taking a deep breath to give himself courage, he gently explains to him, “Listen Ruddy, I am well aware that you have absolutely no desire to end up in a gay bar and that just the fact of working with us disturbs. But no one here wants to hurt you. I'm sincerely trying to teach you how to be a bartender. So I would just ask you to be involved in your training and respect the staff at the venue please.”
The man giggles and says “If not what? With your girlish physique, what are you going to do? Seriously, I really had to find myself in a gay whore bar!”
This last remark makes the angel usually very calm, mad with rage. It's no problem to insult him, but not the angels, not his friends!
"Who the fuck you think you are?" he explodes. "Do you seriously think a dirty little wanker who's only ever known his right hand scares me?" With a nervous chuckle, he continues, “You’re just a poor failure, you don’t know how to do anything, not even a basic cocktail. You’re so bad that you’ve been sent here to finally teach you something. But you're so stupid that in the end you'll leave as bad as before! And what do you believe? That gangsters will have scruples about firing you because you don't know anything about your job and you're making them lose money?”
Ruddy takes the full force of sweetheart's fury, feeling insulted and since he obviously has no answer, he pushes him suddenly, the unbalanced angel falls to the ground. The recruit throws himself on him and raises his fist in order to crush it on the young man.
"Gale, did you send Marc, Jack and Ricky to show up at other bars like I asked you."
Gale, sitting across from him, watching the security screens set up on the wall to his right “Yes sir. Your scheme looks like it's working, the cops think we're still in the South Quarter.” Black asked Gale to send the men best known as his lieutenants to show up at other bars owned by him in the Southside. The goal is to keep the police away from them as much as possible.
Suddenly Gale lets out a "Strange!"
Black going back to staring at the screens “What did you see?”
Gale “The bartender just dragged the rookie into the shed sir.”
Black jumps up and rushes towards the door which he opens roughly, his lieutenant in his coattails. He descends the stairs four at a time, ignoring Gale's calls and rushes into the storage room.
Entering, his blood only turns, Sweetheart is on the ground, his arms raised to protect himself from his apprentice who raises his fist above him. Black violently grabs the man and with a roar smashes his fist in his jaw.
“Gale, throw this dog in the river! I never want to hear about it again!” He screams.
The latter and a few men, alerted by the uproar and dragged out Ruddy with his face full of blood.
Black squats down, and once again gently takes Sweetheart in his big arms.
Titus bursting in behind Gale "I'll take care of it sir, Ritta lives just above, we'll fix it."
Black gets up, his angel in his arms, glares at his old friend and in a heavy voice "Nobody touch my angel!"
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Titus is stunned, he had never seen that look in Black's eyes. He steps aside letting him pass. In a heavy silence, Black goes back to his office “Let no one come in!” he says before slamming the door.
He gently places SweetHeart on his desk and lowers to eye level, placing his face a few inches from the bartender's.
"Now explain to me why you ended up alone in a closed room with another man?" Black scolds.
The boy raises his eyes filled with tears, deciding to face the ardent gaze of his boss. “Mister Black” he begin with a trembling voice “Ruddy has been causing problems with the team since his arrival. I just wanted to clear things up with him.“
Black's gaze and voice softened somewhat. "What's the matter?"
In an uncertain voice, SweetHeart explains: “He makes homophobic and derogatory remarks. He disappears during the service, he refuses to follow my directives and is not involved in his training.
The tall dark man caressing his angel's cheek with the back of his hand “You don't listen to what I tell you, my stubborn angel. When you have a problem you must come to me!”
Then the little bartender stiffens and insists “Sir! You gave me the opportunity to be a trainer and I thank you for it. I didn't want to fail you. I just wanted to do my job the best I can and fix the problem I created with the training of this man on my own!”
Black is surprised, usually when someone argues with his orders he suddenly has murderous urges. But there, he finds it cute! In an ironic tone. "Oh, so you thought you could reason with a mafia-savvy bully by kindly explaining things to him?"
SweetHeart realizing he may have been naive. “I just wanted to find common ground.”
Black lets out a sigh and an amused look “Please never put yourself in danger again. My heart couldn't take it!”
This last sentence uttered by Black leaves SweetHeart wary: he tilts his head to the side, frowning, he doesn't understand!
Seeing his troubled angel, Black in his softest and most peaceful voice "Angel, when I asked you to speak to me it wasn't from employee to employer! I have seen that things have not been going well for several days!”
What his boss just said confuses Sweetheart even more.
"If it's not employee to employer then why ask me that?" he asks. He's had enough, he doesn't understand this man's actions. So he figures it's time to clear things up with him too!
Black seeing the incomprehension in the eyes of the young man, finally realizes that indeed things are not clear.
He kneels down, gently takes sweetheart's ankle and kisses it under the dumbfounded gaze of the latter. Then he gets up slowly, keeping his lips a few millimeters from the boy, marrying each of his shapes by letting his hot breath trail there: leg, knees, thighs, groin, belly, chest, shoulder, neck, ear and goes back down to his mouth. .
“I thought you understood my angel, I want you! I want you to be my life partner, my haven !” Then he kisses him bluntly, inserting his tongue into the mouth, chasing the young man in shock essence. His hands slide over the fantasized thighs to the boy's slender waist, preventing him from escaping.
Sweetheart, groggy, limply tries to push him away with his hands. But Black's kiss doesn't disgust him, on the contrary, he loves the taste of his mouth and the warmth of his body.
Then, gently, Black releases the lips of his angel with wet and lascivious eyes “If you look at me like that I will not be able to hold back my angel!”
Sweetheart, cheeks burning, understanding full well where Black is coming from, looks down and stutters "It's kind of sudden."
Then the tall man smiles at him and pulls him against his chest, gently stroking his hair. "I know, we don't know each other well yet, you and I. I just want you to consider dating me. I want to build a serious relationship with you.” pausing. "I'm not going to lie to you, the first time I saw you, it was your body that I wanted. I desire you and only desire you ever since. But not only your body, I also want your laughter, your tears, your kindness, your perseverance, your courage, your weaknesses, all your qualities and your faults. I want to see you walking around in my field of vision with cute clothes or just my shirt that's too big for you. I want to watch your little cheeks swell and move when you eat with appetite. I want to listen to your pretty voice tell me about your life, what you feel, or just tell me what's going through your head. I want to be the one who catches your first gaze when your eyes open and the last when they close. You are for me the light that has been so lacking in my life.”
He slightly releases the boy who raises his head to look at him and says to him in a warm voice "SweetHeart, can you love me?"
SweetHeart is stunned, he's had boyfriends before, but Black definitely doesn't look like the kind of man he dated. Moreover, he is much older than him.
None of his exes had ever treated him with such gentleness and kindness. This is the most beautiful confession he received. So he smiles, moved and replies "I can’t promise you anything Black, but I think if we get together, I might, after a while, give you a clearer answer."
Always smiling “Thank you my angel, I will do everything I can to win your heart!” says Black.