Who: Henry Tudor & Gabriella Montez What: Smutty-fun-times-make-up-sex after Gabby finds out some of what Henry has been lying about. Where: Henry & Gabby's Las Vegas Penthouse. When: After Henry has gotten yelled at by Charles for being a jerk to Katherine thanks to the entire Halloween mess. Warnings: Oh, it's Henry, so NC-17.
Gabriella was beginning to feel a little bit better about the entire Katherine mess, but she wondered why Charles wasn't talking to Henry much. It was strange, but she didn't ask. He was busy a lot lately, with more tours and stuff. She ended up spending a lot of her time with Sharpay, which actually worked out okay.
Then, she saw the news while Henry was out.
Katherine wasn't going to let him go -- in fact, she still claimed she was married to him. It made no sense! Some TV show was doing a whole segment on "Whitehall" and its' problems. She was about to turn it off when some girl -- 16, maybe? -- was interviewed, claiming she'd slept with Henry.
He'd promised her, though, that... well, she didn't want to know. Did she? Jade was one thing, she supposed, but some random girl younger than her? Some groupie? It felt like nothing Gabriella did or said would make things right. She was wiping the tears from her face when Henry finally came in through the door, looking tired from his tour. She didn't say anything to him; she simply pointed at the TV screen and the interview segment going on with a girl called Alex Russo. When it was finished, it went on about troubles between the newly married Charles and his best friend, Henry, and something about Jane? Charles' new wife?
Gabriella shut the TV off and played with her promise ring, afraid to talk, but finally sniffed away enough tears to whisper, "Welcome home," to Henry.