Unresolved - Part 6
Unresolved - Part 6
By Kymley
About: Kevin and Scotty
Rate: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine. Just messing with the characters if B&S
Summary: Set in the episode Resolved because they still got back together too quickly on the show so I’m filling in the gaps for myself.
Kevin was glad that Scotty understood and knew him well enough to know that he needed sometime alone, to process the information.
It wasn’t as hard to hear as he thought it would be, Scotty actually seemed to be in more pain than he was. Back when they were happy and together he would have comforted Scotty but he didn’t know how to do that anymore, was it even allowed or could he have really done it. If he tried and failed it could have put Scotty in more pain than before.
Now that he was alone he isn’t even sure if he really wanted to be alone. He already knew that something happened, that there was someone else but this; he wasn’t sure he could cope with it.
From the way Scotty had described it; Scotty had known that kissing Marcus would have lend to more, he knew and he didn’t stop it. All because of the attention he was receiving. What would happen if he was away for a week and he couldn’t have contacted Scotty, would Scotty jump into bed with the first available guy that showed the littlest amount of interest? No, he believes Scotty when he says he wouldn’t do it again but how can he be sure. He used to know where Scotty’ emotions were. Used to be able to tell when he was happy, sad, needed a cuddle, had a secret. Obviously he was wrong, he had a secret, a big one and he didn’t even realize it.
That was the real problem, even if he did eventually forgive Scotty, how could he trust Scotty or trust his own instincts. He never suspected, not for one moment, that Scotty had done it. He knows that he was lost last year but these last few months together felt like they were back. How did he not see it, or had he and he dismissed it.
How had no one seen it? All that stuff with Sarah and Luc; her not trusting him and taking Scotty with him, all that happened that day lend Scotty to tell him. He wished he never had and he could help blaming Sarah for that. Why did Sarah have to be so insecure in her relationship that she basically nearly destroyed HIS relationship; if that happened he could have remained in his happy bubble talking about kids and a family with Scotty, planning a future instead of not being able to see a future.
Kevin could help himself; he took out his phone and rang Sarah. She picked up after a couple of rings. Kevin didn’t even bother to say hello before you started yelling at her.
“It’s your entire fault” Kevin said raising his fault “your own damn insecurities and your damn relationship. You had to take Scotty with you to that pool party, made him remember what he done and feel the need to come clean with me. Your insecurities were pushed down on MY relationship and pretty much destroyed it. We could have been adopting a kid by now, having a family and you destroyed it. I could have been happy never knowing about this” Kevin said without taking a breath.
“Wow, Kevin” Sarah said slightly taken back by his anger in his voice “no need to yell, what happen?” she asked wondering where all the anger was coming from, she was concerned about her baby brother.
“He told me what happened” Kevin said his voice still raised.
“So” Sarah said carefully “why are you angry with me... he” Sarah stopped when Kevin interrupted her “because you didn’t trust Luc, so you dragged Scotty to that party and he saw the damage it did to you and he thought he should do the same” Kevin said getting sarcastic about the situation “if it wasn’t for that day he wouldn’t have told me and I could have been blissfully unaware for the rest of our lives together and now I don’t even know if we have a future together” Kevin said truthfully unaware of the fact that Scotty had been listening to the conservation; he turned and walked away at that moment “I didn’t have to know he cheated on me” Kevin said with sadness, some of the anger had left him.
“But he would have still cheated” Sarah said deciding a direct approach with Kevin would be the right approach.
“But I didn’t have to know” Kevin said with tears openly running down his face, they were silent and Kevin was glad for that; he didn’t want Sarah nor Scotty hearing them.
“But you would have know” Sarah said remembering back to the day that the family found out about the cheating “No, I wouldn’t have” Kevin tried to argue but Sarah stopped him “If it wasn’t from Scotty, which by the way I am glad HE told you, I think one way or another he would have told you, but your forgetting the charity event” Kevin’ mind goes remembers the charity event but he doesn’t connect the details “What are you on about Sarah?” he really doesn’t understand until her next sentence “He, Marcus, was there, he basically told Justin, if Scotty hadn’t told you, Justin would have. Would you have preferred that to happen?” Sarah asks gently.
Kevin is slowly shaking his head and he doesn’t realize he hasn’t actually said anything until he hears Sarah literally screaming his name into his ear.
“No, it was better, but I still would have preferred not to know” Kevin admitted.
“What exactly did Scotty tell you?” Sarah asked the gossiper in her winning other the sister.
“Everything” Kevin said getting anger again “every last sordid detail, so go ahead and tell everyone, thanks for being there for me” Kevin started to remember why he was anger again “For telling me that everything might not be okay, that it was okay to get anger or pissed off or cry, that I didn’t have to forgive Scotty. Oh... wait... you didn’t... all this damn family did was tell me to make things better with Scotty, move back home. Well let me ask you this, Sister, would you have been so understanding if it had been Luc that was cheating on you. Bye” Kevin said hanging up the phone somehow more anger than he was before ringing Sarah. Damn it. He had wanted to cool down before seeing Scotty again and now he was worse than before; he still needed to see Scotty though.
Kevin heads to their room, knowing that that was where Scotty was. He saw Scotty cuddled up in a ball on his side of the bed and not caring if he was asleep or not he said “Scotty” in a raised voice.
Scotty looked at Kevin and knew that the denial stage had passed and he had hit the anger stage, just like their counsellor had said, except that Kevin didn’t just look anger, he looked furious.
Scotty sat on the bed and gulped, waiting for Kevin to yell, scream or even... maybe... hit him, he couldn’t help but flinch when Kevin moved closer to him.
***
“I could have been blissfully unaware for the rest of our lives together and now I don’t even know if we have a future together” Scotty could hear Kevin say into the phone. Scotty couldn’t stand there and listen to Kevin basically say they had no future together.
He never should have told Kevin the truth; now he’s lost him, maybe forever. He slowly walked into their room and called the one person who had been there for him over the last couple of weeks.
“Dad” Scotty sighed into the phone “I think he... he actually might leave... me” he was already crying by the end of the sentence “I screwed everything up”.
“Scotty, what makes you think he would leave you now... he only just moved back in a week or so ago” Wally said trying to reason with his son.
“I told him everything that happened that night” Scotty admitted.
“But he already knew, right?” Wally continued to try to reason with him.
“He knew that something happened but we hadn’t gone into the details until now” Scotty said as he tried to stop crying.
“Why hadn’t you discussed it before, why now?” Wally said trying to understand and be supportive at the same time.
“Because it’s Kevin and he didn’t want the details” Scotty really wished again for the 100th time that he hadn’t told Kevin or that he made up the details. In the end he knows that the truth was the only way that they were going to get through everything “Our counsellor basically said that until Kevin knew the details we weren’t going to make it, as a couple or hold together our marriage” Scotty explained.
“So, why now though?” Wally asked “why this moment?”
“Because Kevin asked and I knew it was the only time he would ask” Scotty said.
“So” Wally explain slowly “maybe he is ready, he’s prepared but he needs some time to process it, to get anger or upset, to say that maybe you guys weren’t going to make it” Scotty is getting more upset with every word “That doesn’t mean that he actually means the words, sometimes we say things that we don’t mean. He has a right to feel hurt and betrayed but that doesn’t mean that he won’t come back to you” Wally said trying to calm down his son, he wished he lived closer to Scotty, to be there for support.
“Do you really think he’ll come back to me” Scotty said, trying to be positive.
“I’m certain of it” Wally said as he heard Scotty snort in disbelief “I’ve known Kevin for quite some time and I see the way he looks at you. You are the centre of his world, you’re everything to him. I still remember the first time I met him; I could tell how much he loved you and I still believe that he loves you, maybe even more than then” he could tell that Scotty was starting to calm down now. The tears were starting to stop.
“I should go Dad, I’ll talk to you soon” Scotty said and waited until his Dad said “Goodbye Scotty, I love you” before he hung up.
Moments later he crawled up into a bowl on his side of the bed. His eyes were slightly stuff from the crying he had been doing earlier. He wasn’t sure how long he stayed there, it could have been seconds or hours but he didn’t move until Kevin came in and said his name.
End of Part 6