At Southfork Ranch in the kitchen have JR and Sue Ellen just been caught in a passionate embrace by Don Lockwood. “Don,” Sue Ellen’s face paled when she realized that her husband had caught her kissing her ex. She felt like such a fool for kissing JR and especially when she knew that her husband was in town. Surely it was just a question of time until he’d try to see her. Yet she hadn’t expected to see him tonight.
“Sue Ellen what the hell are you doing?” Don yelled.
“I was just…” Sue Ellen was having a hard time getting out the words, as she was just so embarrassed that she wished for the ground to open up and swallow her whole.
“Lookwood, what the hell are you doing here?” JR cut in. “This is Southfork and we normally invite our guests!” JR was none too happy about the interruption. Because chances were that if Don hadn’t shown up he’d had Sue Ellen back in his bed tonight.
“Me?” Don screamed. “I just came to see my wife. I didn’t know I needed an invitation to see my own wife!”
“Well maybe you should have called first?” JR suggested. “I mean we were sort of in the middle of something here...”
“Oh I’d say. Ewing you’re a bastard!” Don yelled at JR. “Sue Ellen’s my wife now so you have no right to…”
“Well don’t you think I know that?!” JR yelled back.
“Then why are you making out with her?” Don demanded to know.
“That’s none of your business!”
“You’re wrong. She
is my wife and that makes it my business,” Don screamed, as he took a step forward and snatched Sue Ellen from JR’s side.
“No Don, let go of me!” Sue Ellen objected.
“She told you to let go!” JR said threateningly.
“And if I don’t, what are you gonna do then?” Don asked. “Are you gonna stop me?”
“If I have to yes,” JR said threateningly, as he took a step forward and grabbed Sue Ellen’s other arm.
“Stop it!” Sue Ellen broke free from both their grips. “The way you’re fighting over me is ridiculous!”
“I’m sorry darling, it’s just that we had such a wonderful time until this clown showed up and ruined everything,” JR apologized.
“I know that but he
is my husband,” Sue Ellen pleaded with JR to understand.
“Oh so you finally remember that?” Don said bitterly. “I mean what were you doing with JR anyway?” Don demanded to know. “I thought you hated him.”
“I don’t hate him,” Sue Ellen replied.
“Well obviously, Cliff tried to warn me about you two, but did
I listen?” Don said sarcastically. “Oh no, I just went ahead and fell for you anyway even though you’re a slut and…”
“Don’t talk like that about Sue Ellen,” JR came to Sue Ellen’s defense.
“Oh right like you never have.”
“Well that was a long time ago.”
“That doesn’t make it right,” Don yelled. “How could you do this to me Sue Ellen?”
“Don please calm down!” Sue Ellen pleaded with Don.
“Calm down?” Don exclaimed. “That’s easy for you to say. You’re not the one who’s just been betrayed by the person you love.”
“Yes I am, don’t you remember the movie Don?” Sue Ellen argued.
“Of course I do, it just opened here in Dallas last week.”
“I know even after I told you to stop the US release, which you promised me to do. So if anything I think you owe me an explanation. What the hell happened?”
“Look, I tried to stop it but it couldn’t be done, the distribution company threatened to sue us…”
“I see,” Sue Ellen replied thoughtfully. “Still that doesn’t change the fact that you should never have made a deal without me to start with. You knew I didn’t want to release that movie and yet you went ahead and did it anyway!”
“Oh don’t be silly when we did the movie you were all for releasing it. All you talked about was how you were going to show the world who the real JR Ewing…”
“What the hell are you talking about?” JR asked.
“You and Sue Ellen, I figured it was about time the world got to see the living hell
you turned her life into,” Don pointed out.
“And what gives you the right to meddle in our private lives?” JR argued. “You don’t even know me and yet you throw dirt in my face. There is only one word for people like that, you’re a hypocrite Don.”
“I’m not a hypocrite.”
“Damn right you are!” JR insisted. “You just come in here thinking you are better than I am when you can be just as rotten as I am.”
“Don’t flatter yourself Ewing. You are much worse than me,” Don yelled. “I mean I’ve never slept with another man’s wife.”
“Of course not let me guess you’re a boy scout too,” JR said in a mocking voice.
“As a matter of fact I was,” Don replied.
“Congratulations Sue Ellen, you’ve really outdone yourself with this one,” JR laughed.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Don asked.
“It means that you’re a wimp Don. No wonder you couldn’t keep Sue Ellen satisfied in bed,” JR mocked Don who finally snapped and punched JR in the face. “Aw,” JR exclaimed as he touched his face with his hand.
“JR, are you ok?” Sue Ellen asked worriedly.
“That bastard just split my lip,” JR said angrily.
“Well you deserved it!” Don yelled.
“Well don’t just stand there. Get me some ice!” JR whined.
“Okay,” Sue Ellen agreed and went and got some ice.
“Are you happy now Lockwood?” JR asked.
“No I’m not happy.”
“Then why did you turn me into your punching bag?”
“Because you seduced my wife,” Don replied angrily, just as Sue Ellen returned with a bag of ice.
Sue Ellen handed the ice to JR who put it on his lip. Then she turned to her husband, “Don I think you’d better leave now.”
Don shook his head, “Oh no, I’m not leaving without you.”
“The lady just asked you to leave,” JR gloated.
“Well the lady happens to be my wife,” Don said angrily. “Remember that Ewing, Sue Ellen is still my wife even if you’re sleeping with her!”
“You’re crazy, I’m not sleeping with your wife,” JR denied it.
“Don’t deny it. I know what I saw.”
“You saw nothing. It was just a kiss…” Sue Ellen objected.
“No it wasn’t and we both know that you would have cheated on me with your ex if I hadn’t showed up here tonight. So what more is there to say?”
“There’s a lot more to say,” Sue Ellen argued.
“Alright then, let’s go somewhere where we can talk, just the two of us,” Don insisted and Sue Ellen sighed, since deep down she knew that he was right.
“You’re right, we need to talk,” Sue Ellen bit her lip, as she threw a glance in JR’s direction. “JR, can I have a moment alone with Don?”
“Sure, I’ll be in my room when you’re done with the Englishman.”
“No don’t wait up for me,” Sue Ellen shook her head. “We’ll talk in the morning instead.”
“Okay if that’s the way you want it,” JR sighed in defeat.
“It is, thanks for understanding,” Sue Ellen said and JR got up and left the room.
Once Sue Ellen and Don were alone in the kitchen Don turned to his wife and crossed his arms. They glared at each other for a moment before Don finally said, “Sue Ellen I am so disappointed in you. I don’t understand how you could do this after everything that this man has put you though…”
“I know I don’t understand it either. There’s just something about JR that I can’t shake.”
“So is that why you were kissing him when I walked in?” Don yelled. “Do you have any idea how it made me feel when I saw that?”
Sue Ellen looked down in shame since she knew exactly how it felt to see the person you loved with someone else. Over 7 years had passed by since her marriage to JR had crumbled for the last time and yet the image of JR kissing Kimberly Cryder in that glass elevator was hard to erase from her mind. “I think I do and I’m so sorry Don. I never meant to hurt you. But I’m just so confused…”
“I’d say, so why don’t you tell me what’s going on?”
“Nothing’s going on,” Sue Ellen replied defensively, as she crossed her arms.
“That kiss didn’t look like nothing to me,” Don argued. “So what were you thinking kissing him like that?”
Sue Ellen sighed, “I honestly don’t know…”
“That’s great, my wife’s cheating on me and she can’t even explain it to me!”
“I’m not cheating on you…”
“I've got eyes Sue Ellen!”
Sue Ellen bit her lip, “Alright, I admit that I kissed him. I just…” Sue Ellen licked her lips nervously. ”I’m sorry Don, I can’t explain it. There’s just something about JR that makes me lose my head. You have every right to be angry with me. I know I would have been if I’d found you kissing some tramp,” Sue Ellen tried to apologize to Don but when he remained silent she went on. “Look Don, I don’t blame you if you’d want to divorce me after what you saw tonight…”
Don flinched when he heard her talk about divorce, knowing that she wanted to throw them away just like that made him angry.
No way I’m gonna set her free to run into Ewings waiting arms. Don knew that he didn’t wanna make things easy for her. “Well I don’t want to divorce you,” he said in a solemn voice.
“You don’t?” Sue Ellen wondered, not sure how to feel about that.
“No I want you to come home with me immediately.” Don said to her surprise.
“Even after what you just saw?”
“Yes,” Don nodded. “Say you will?”
Sue Ellen felt even more confused from his words as this was the last thing she’d expected him to say. Ever since the movie had its US premiere she’d been so focused on divorcing Don that she’d never even taken his feelings into consideration. So to find out that her husband was not ready to let her go was quite a curveball for her.
What am I going to do now? Sue Ellen pondered the situation silently before she spoke out loud. “Give me one good reason why I should go with you.”
“Because you’re my wife and I love you,” Don laid it all on the line.
“That’s two good reasons,” Sue Ellen admitted.
“I’m glad that you think so,” Don smiled. “So does that mean you’re coming with me?”
“I don’t know,” Sue Ellen sighed. “I’m sorry Don, I know that’s not what you wanted to hear but I am not sure I can leave Texas again.”
“I’m sorry too,” Don sighed.
“Still that doesn’t mean that I want us to be through. So why don’t you move here with me?” Sue Ellen asked.
But Don just shook his head, “I don’t know if I can do that. My whole life is in England…”
“So where does that leave us?”
“I don’t know,” Don sighed. “Are you sure you’re not coming back to England with me?”
“I’m not sure about anything right now,” Sue Ellen replied honestly.
“Good then there’s still a chance for us.”
“Yeah I guess so,” Sue Ellen reluctantly agreed.
“So how about coming with me to New York tomorrow?”
“New York?”
“Yeah it would give us a chance to work things out, and I think it could be really good for us. Just consider it a second honeymoon…” Don said and Sue Ellen sighed, since a part of her knew that was just what her marriage needed. Besides she was horny as hell right now so some time alone with Don did sound appealing. Not that sex with Don could ever compare to sex with JR, but since she was determined never to fall back into JR’s bed it would just have to do.
“I’d like that,” Sue Ellen smiled.
“Good so you’ll come with me?” Don asked.
“I think so but I can’t go tomorrow…”
“Why not?”
“Because I need some time to explain it to John Ross…”
“I see…”
“Don’t look so disapproving, he’s my son,” Sue Ellen said defensively.
“I know,” Don sighed. “So will he be going back to England with us or is he staying with his father?”
“Not so fast, I said I’d go with you to New York. But I haven’t promised I’ll go back with you to England yet…”
“So I guess that means he’s staying here?” Don saw right through her.
“Yes,” Sue Ellen nodded sadly.
Don tried to hide a smile, as the kid had been a thorn in his side ever since he’d come to live with them and he couldn’t wait to get rid of him. “Well I can’t say I’m sorry to hear that.”
“I know you’re not, but I am. So you could at least fake some compassion for me,” Sue Ellen said in an annoyed tone of voice.
“What can I say?” Don said. “I’m not very good at faking things.”
“Obviously not,” Sue Ellen snorted.
Sensing that she was getting angry with him again he hurried to steer the conversation back on track. “Anyway as for New York you’re coming with me or not?”
“I’ve already said I’m coming with you.”
“Good so let’s leave tomorrow…”
“I can’t tomorrow, I need more time…”
“I know but I don’t have more time…”
Sue Ellen’s eyes narrowed, as she heard that. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
“That I must be in New York tomorrow afternoon…”
“Why?”
“Because we’ve got a TV appearance booked in New York tomorrow afternoon,” Don explained.
“TV appearance?” Sue Ellen spat out the words, as if she couldn’t believe what she was hearing.
“Yeah for the movie...”
“There you go again with your movie. What’s most important to you Don, that
precious movie or I?”
“You are!” Don insisted.
“I’m glad to hear you say that,” Sue Ellen said. “So does that mean that you’ll wait for me here and we’ll go to New York together in three days time?”
Sue Ellen’s pleading hazel eyes were really getting to him and Don knew he should say yes and yet he just couldn’t, “I’m sorry but I can’t.”
“You mean you won’t,” Sue Ellen sighed.
“I can’t, I’ve signed a contract.”
“Contracts are made to be broken…”
“Oh come on Sue Ellen, you can’t mean that you’d rather be sued for a bunch of money than to earn them.”
“I do, how many times to I have to explain to you that money don’t mean anything to me?”
“It’s easy to say when you have them. This movie is my big break Sue Ellen. We’ve earned more money than I’ve ever seen in my life and…”
“Well good for you, so was it for the money you did it?”
“Did what?”
“Released the movie behind my back!” Sue Ellen spelled it out for him.
“No, the money is just a bonus.”
“So why did you do it then?”
“Because the movie’s good business Sue Ellen, do you have any idea of how many doors it has opened for me?”
“I am sure it has, just too bad that you’re using me to advance your career,” Sue Ellen said sadly. “I swear sometimes I don’t know who’s worst, you or JR!”
“That’s unfair. How can you compare me to JR, we’re nothing alike!”
“I’m not so sure of that. From where I’m standing you are both as ambitious and power hungry. It’s like you won’t stop at nothing to get what you want. It doesn’t matter who you hurt in the process. I didn’t think you were like that, but I was wrong about you Don.”
“Hey don’t lay all this shit on me, I told you before we married that I wasn’t as perfect as you wanted me to be.”
“I know, you warned me and maybe I was too blind to see you for who you are then. But I sure as hell do now and I don’t like what I see…”
“Well neither do I. It’s like I look at you now and I don’t even know who you are…”
“I’m still your wife Don!” Sue Ellen reminded him.
“Well I wish you would have thought of that before you and JR…”
“Are we back to that?”
“Yes, when you told me you were going back to Southfork I wasn’t happy. Yet I wasn’t worried since I thought that I could trust you.”
“So did I,” Sue Ellen said sadly. “Hell I trusted you more than I’ve ever trusted any man in my life. I opened up to you. When I let you read my diary, I shared my innermost thoughts with you. I thought that made our relationship special. Yet you broke my trust. You read my diary on TV Don!”
“So you knew about that huh?” Don said sheepishly.
“Yeah JR saw it on TV and couldn’t wait to throw it into my face!”
“Oh.”
“Is that all you’re going to say?” Sue Ellen asked. “You’re not even going to say you’re sorry?”
“Alright I’m sorry. I guess I took it one step too far.”
“You did!”
“Still I want you to believe me when I say that I never wanted to hurt you…” Don said. “I only did what I did because I thought it was the right thing for us…”
“The right thing for you yes, not for me!” Sue Ellen spat out. “Doesn’t it even bother you that you’ve used my life story to advance your career?”
“No, because it was you who wanted to make the movie in the first place. You wanted the whole world to know what a bastard JR was.”
“Well that was then, this is
now and it’s
my life so don’t you think I have the right to change my mind?”
“Not when it hurts my career I don’t…”
“I can’t believe how insensitive you are. I thought I meant more to you than your career but obviously I was wrong. God I can’t believe how stupid I was to ever fall in love with you Don. Since it’s clear to me now that our love means nothing to you…”
“That’s not true. I do love you Sue Ellen!” Don objected.
“No Don, you don’t love me. You sold me out for money, so as far as I’m concerned, money is your true love.”
“I didn’t sell you out…”
“Yes you did, your career is more important to you than I am, so I guess when it comes right down to it, our marriage isn’t worth a damn thing.”
“Well presumably not since you’re here sleeping with the enemy,” Don yelled.
“Don how many times do I have to tell you I am not sleeping with JR,” Sue Ellen argued.
“
Yet you mean?”
“Don’t be silly Don. I have no intention of ever sleeping with JR again…”
“I don’t believe you,” Don yelled. “You know what I think?”
“No but I bet you’re gonna tell me anyway?”
“I think you’re not over your ex.”
“That’s ridiculous!” Sue Ellen said defensively.
“Is it?”
“Yes I can’t even believe you’d say such a thing!”
“I can’t believe I couldn’t see it before now. I mean I should have known it the moment I caught you holding his tie in your old bedroom when he was marrying Cally.”
“That was a long time ago!”
“Well how about all the times I’ve caught you staring at his photo in John Ross’ room back in England…or how you changed your mind about the movie. You say it’s for the sake of John Ross and Miss Ellie but I think JR has something to do with it too. You’ve grown weak whereas he’s concerned.”
“I haven’t. I just grew tired of arguing with him that’s all.” Sue Ellen explained. “Besides he can be quite good company when he wants to.”
“Oh I bet he can. You know what, I think he’s the reason you don’t want to leave Southfork right now.”
“You couldn’t be more wrong. I am not staying at Southfork for JR’s sake. I am here for John Ross.”
“Oh so that JR lives here of course have
nothing to do with that you won’t go with me…”
“Stop it Don, this has nothing to do with JR. He’s just John Ross’s dad that’s all,” Sue Ellen said defensively.
“Well we can all make a mistake.”
“You’re calling my son a mistake?” Sue Ellen yelled.
“Well you got to admit that it was a mistake that he came to live with us.”
“No it wasn’t. He’s my son and I love him!”
“Because he reminds you of his father?”
“Because he reminds me of myself, don’t forget that half of John Ross is me!”
“Well it’s the other half I’m worried about. Surely you can see that the boy is a Ewing?”
“So what’s wrong with that?”
“The Ewings aren’t nice people, Sue Ellen. Don’t forget that they inspired the movie we made. After reading your diaries I know everything they did to you and unlike you I’m not emotionally invested and look at things objectively. I can tell you that the smartest thing you ever did was leaving JR and making this movie about him…”
“I disagree, making the movie was a mistake and I wish we’d never made it!”
“I don’t, as it’s made us a fortunate. Also don’t blame me because you’ve changed your mind. If anything you ought to thank me for making you a success…”
“Thank you?” Sue Ellen asked angrily. “Are you nuts, all you’ve done is embarrass me and you’ve embarrassed the Ewings and…”
“Well who cares about the Ewings?”
“I care!”
“Well maybe you shouldn’t. I mean they sure as hell never were there for you when you needed them. Face it Sue Ellen they were never on your side. They let JR lock you away in that Sanatorium when you were pregnant, they let you be arrested for JR’s murder they…”
“Stop it Don, they are my family!”
“Well only by marriage and if you ask me marrying JR was the dumbest thing you ever did. Let’s face it your life would have been much better without him!”
“Maybe so but he did give me my son…”
“You could have had other children. So I’d still say marrying JR was a mistake. But it’s okay we can all make mistakes and…” Don said in a smug voice and Sue Ellen could feel the anger inside of her finally boil over.
“You are right my mistake was to marry you. I want a divorce Don!” A part of her regretted it the moment she’d said it, yet it was too late to take it back now.
Don stared at her as he had a hard time to believe she’d really asked him for a divorce. Yet he was too angry to try to reason with her. So he went along with it. “Fine you’ll hear from my lawyer,” Don said thru gritted teeth.
“Tell him to hurry and by the way when you throw mud at the Ewings, you throw mud at me because I’m a Ewing too and I’ve always been a Ewing no matter what you say. I’ll see you in court Don!” Sue Ellen yelled angrily. Don glared at her in anger before he turned around and left the room in defeat. JR smiled where he was standing behind the kitchen door, eavesdropping on their conversation.
I still enjoy reading your story daily.
However, it might take me some time, so please bear with me! :hiding:
You just made me feel a whole lot better! 
I''m so excited to know more about what happens next! 
Are you able to see why I'm confused? 
"Sue Ellen looked down in shame since she knew exactly how it felt to see the person you loved with someone else. Over 7 years had passed by since her marriage to JR had crumbled for the last time and yet the image of JR kissing Kimberly Cryder in that glass elevator was hard to erase from her mind." 
“No Don, you don’t love me. You sold me out for money, so as far as I’m concerned, money is your true love. ... ... Your career is more important to you than I am, so I guess when it comes right down to it, our marriage isn’t worth a damn thing.”
Lots of others storylines that need to be continued! 
I guess that it's only funny for those of us who "know" the characters really well! 
... ... It's still on my to-do list (which is really long, I'm afraid)! 
