Did you wake in the morning with the sun in your eyes but you don't have a song to sing for your lov
A/N: This was my entry for fanfic competition (matthew rhys forum).
A/N: The title was inspired by a song played during the scene when Gwen leaves Mateo, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvvcWGs9BtA
Patagonia-Brothers & Sisters AU
If you haven’t seen Patagonia here is a short recap: Matthew plays Mateo, a welsh-patagonian man who works as a guide to photographer Rhys and his girlfriend Gwen. They travel for days to photograph churches. In between the long drives and Rhys being busy with his camera Gwen and Mateo start flirting ending up with them together in Mateo’s motel room. Gwen couldn’t bear children - although Rhys thought he was the one that couldn’t get her pregnant. They have a big fight and he leaves but then Mateo finds him and help them get back together knowing he was just a fling. Mateo is a very vulnerable and sensitive man, it even seems to me he fell a bit for Gwen (if you watched the movie I refer to the scene in the barn).
In my AU though I will go for Rhys being sterile so this makes more sense.
***
Did you wake in the morning with the sun in your eyes but you don't have a song to sing for your love?
Mateo enters the office and sees the man sitting in his chair admiring the view with his back to him. He hasn’t acknowledge his presence yet.
- Mr. Walker? - Mateo’s voice is weak, almost as he was afraid to disrupt the silence in the office.
The man turns around in his chair and offers him a smile. Mateo smiles awkwardly and then focus on his shoes.
- Mateo Evans?
- Yes... we have an appointment?
- Yes, yes of course, take a seat please.
Mateo does as he is told and stays quiet.
- Mr. Evan -
- Please call me Mateo, I am an ordinary man, no Mr. please. Kevin is taking off guard, in any other situation he would have insisted in saying professional bu there was something about this man that told him that it was ok to cross that line.
- Ok, Mateo... I heard from my secretary you want to discuss custody?
- Yes... I... I met a woman, a welsh woman in Argentina, we have a son together
- Were you married?
- No... we only met for a couple of days - Mateo answers and looks down in shame. She is in relationship and they are raising the child together but the child is mine
- Did you have dna test? -Kevin asks as he takes notes
- He can’t have children she told me
- Maybe it is someone else’s?
- It is mine, I confronted her and she told me the truth. They are living here in California, she is an actress working in a tv series and her husband is a photographer for a fashion magazine.
- They are married? Youust said they were in a relationship, big difference.
- They did a few weeks before my son was born
- How old is the boy?
- My son is 5 years and a half
- Why didn’t you do this earlier? That boy identifies her husband as his dad - kevin asks the obvious question
- I just found out... she left and never heard from her until a few weeks ago. I came to LA to present my book... for years I have been taking pictures of patagonian life, just candids really, and I met some influent people on my work as a guide and we put it all together. I cannot believe she kept my son away from me, she knew where to find me all along. This is the very first time I leave Argentina - Mateo closes his eyes, he doesn’t want to cry in front of a stranger but he is having a hard time dealing with his feelings right now.
- Mateo...
- Yes?
- Are you ok?...
- I just want my life with her back, and if I can’t at least my son. You have no idea how much it hurts to know there is a piece of you out there and you are not allow to be around.
Kevin closes his eyes for a moment, he knows what Mateo is talking about, he went through the same with Daniel, having your son kept away from you, no one should ever be put through that misery. It destroys lives, and marriages.
- Mr... Mateo... if we can prove with a DNA test that the child is indeed yours, I think we have a case.
***
Scotty is finishing setting the table while humming a song, the kids are by the sofa playing with legos and although he is giving his back to them, he is very aware of the fact that Olivia is about to be hit on the head. Again.
- Daniel, do not hit your sister, she is just giving you the help you asked for - Scotty reprimands his child and he hears a gasp from him, and a chuckle from Olivia. He takes a moment to enjoy the sweetness of parenting and sports a smile and then he turns around, dead serious face which Daniel obviously believe is real and gasps again.
- No more legos for 3 days if you try to hurt your sister again, now you both put them back where you found them and go clean yourselves, dinner will be served as soon as your dad...
Scotty couldn’t finish the sentence because they hear the click of the lock that let them know the 4th member of the family was already home...
- Hey guys, how was your day? - Kevin leaves his briefcase by the door like every day and walks up to his husband first which he kisses tenderly on the lips and then he turns around to face his children. Daniel who has already forgotten all about Scotty’s threat hands him a lego and Kevin kneels in front of him and helps him finish his tower.
- Scotty just said we have to go clean ourselves and get ready for dinner
- Just a moment?- Kevin turns around and gives the other man his very well rehearsed puppy eyes
- Kevin, it is past 6, Daniel’s bedtimes is coming soon and Olivia still needs to finish her homework - Scotty tries to reason with his 4 year-old husband
- Just a little longer? I will help olivia and get them both ready for bed? Please?
Scotty doesnt know what got into his husband, not that he doesn’t enjoy quality time with the kids but he is more like a neanderthal when it comes to dinner and that is always his first priority once he crosses the threshold
- 5 minutes, then we eat - Scotty finally gives in and leaves the living room before he changes his mind. Kevin smiles widly and focuses again in his children and the tower they are building
- Is this because of the case? Olivia asks after a moment
- What? - Kevin is currently stopping Daniel from chocking with one of the small lego pieces and he is not paying attention to his daughter.
- The case, the argentinian man fighting for his son?
Kevin gives her a questioning look, Olivia is used to this so she just sighs and elaborates
- The case you have been working on the last couple of weeks? He had an affair with this woman and she got pregnant but she left and he never found out until recently? But she is married and the kid think her mom’s husband is his dad?
- How do you know so much about the case?
- You’ve been on the news all over!
- You watch the news? - kevin asks almost in a whisper not to wake up Daniel who is now almost asleep on his arms.
- I am Kitty Walker-Macallister-Wetley’s niece, of course I watch the news. Kevin smiles and his heart is about to jump out of his chest of pride and love.
- Yes, No... maybe
- You want to spend as much time with us as you want because you feel bad for that man?
- Mateo Evans
- Yes, him
- I... Olivia, you know what having you both means to me, and you know what we went through with Daniel (and Elizabeth but he cannot break those news to her 10 year-old daughter) and today... we had a meeting with the judge... sorry, I cannot discuss the case with you.
- Oh c’mon! What am I gonna do? Twitter it???
Kevin knows his daughter, she has never made a comment of any case he has worked on outside their home.
- chances are not good
- why? He is the father, just like Scotty and you are Daniel’s
- it is different, he is in school already, he does recognize that man as his father, daniel was a baby on diapers.
- Does that mean he will lose his son?
- Seems like it...
- That is not fair
- It is not...
***
3 days later
Mateo is back home, he is shearing his sheep and he is glad he’s got a technique or he would have cut a few so deep they wold have bled to death. He needs to focus on something, anything. His back hurts from the long flight in tourist class and his bending position is not helping one bit but he doesn’t stop. Somehow, unconsciously he is punishing himself.He knew he was a fling, he knew Gwen and Rhys were in a long-term relationship and no welsh/patagonian who only met her for a couple of days was going to change that. And he was ok with it, actually, he was the one that brought them back to each other’s arms when Rhys left her but he also wanted a family. He had been single most of his life, some affairs with gringas here and there but nothing longer than the holidays that brought them there. He had never felt he wanted to be part of something, or someone until he met her; he knew it was forbidden, maybe that is why he tried so hard. When Gwen showed up on his room telling him that Rhys was gone, he knew what he had to do, he walked up to her, took the sweater from her shoulders and let it rest in a chair, and the rest is a blur; kisses, moans and sweat. Rhys did come back and then left again, this time for real. He could hear their fight from his room, he heard the slam of the door and Gwen’s cries. He did what any good man would do, although he wasn’t sure he was a good man himself. He took her to his home and offered him a good life, but she was the one who left this time. So he went after Rhys, he couldn’t let her be alone in a place so strange to her. and then he went on with his life, treasuring the days he had with her, and waking up every day with the worst feeling of regret. He should have fought.
For his Blodeuwedd.
A/N: The title was inspired by a song played during the scene when Gwen leaves Mateo, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvvcWGs9BtA
Patagonia-Brothers & Sisters AU
If you haven’t seen Patagonia here is a short recap: Matthew plays Mateo, a welsh-patagonian man who works as a guide to photographer Rhys and his girlfriend Gwen. They travel for days to photograph churches. In between the long drives and Rhys being busy with his camera Gwen and Mateo start flirting ending up with them together in Mateo’s motel room. Gwen couldn’t bear children - although Rhys thought he was the one that couldn’t get her pregnant. They have a big fight and he leaves but then Mateo finds him and help them get back together knowing he was just a fling. Mateo is a very vulnerable and sensitive man, it even seems to me he fell a bit for Gwen (if you watched the movie I refer to the scene in the barn).
In my AU though I will go for Rhys being sterile so this makes more sense.
***
Did you wake in the morning with the sun in your eyes but you don't have a song to sing for your love?
Mateo enters the office and sees the man sitting in his chair admiring the view with his back to him. He hasn’t acknowledge his presence yet.
- Mr. Walker? - Mateo’s voice is weak, almost as he was afraid to disrupt the silence in the office.
The man turns around in his chair and offers him a smile. Mateo smiles awkwardly and then focus on his shoes.
- Mateo Evans?
- Yes... we have an appointment?
- Yes, yes of course, take a seat please.
Mateo does as he is told and stays quiet.
- Mr. Evan -
- Please call me Mateo, I am an ordinary man, no Mr. please. Kevin is taking off guard, in any other situation he would have insisted in saying professional bu there was something about this man that told him that it was ok to cross that line.
- Ok, Mateo... I heard from my secretary you want to discuss custody?
- Yes... I... I met a woman, a welsh woman in Argentina, we have a son together
- Were you married?
- No... we only met for a couple of days - Mateo answers and looks down in shame. She is in relationship and they are raising the child together but the child is mine
- Did you have dna test? -Kevin asks as he takes notes
- He can’t have children she told me
- Maybe it is someone else’s?
- It is mine, I confronted her and she told me the truth. They are living here in California, she is an actress working in a tv series and her husband is a photographer for a fashion magazine.
- They are married? Youust said they were in a relationship, big difference.
- They did a few weeks before my son was born
- How old is the boy?
- My son is 5 years and a half
- Why didn’t you do this earlier? That boy identifies her husband as his dad - kevin asks the obvious question
- I just found out... she left and never heard from her until a few weeks ago. I came to LA to present my book... for years I have been taking pictures of patagonian life, just candids really, and I met some influent people on my work as a guide and we put it all together. I cannot believe she kept my son away from me, she knew where to find me all along. This is the very first time I leave Argentina - Mateo closes his eyes, he doesn’t want to cry in front of a stranger but he is having a hard time dealing with his feelings right now.
- Mateo...
- Yes?
- Are you ok?...
- I just want my life with her back, and if I can’t at least my son. You have no idea how much it hurts to know there is a piece of you out there and you are not allow to be around.
Kevin closes his eyes for a moment, he knows what Mateo is talking about, he went through the same with Daniel, having your son kept away from you, no one should ever be put through that misery. It destroys lives, and marriages.
- Mr... Mateo... if we can prove with a DNA test that the child is indeed yours, I think we have a case.
***
Scotty is finishing setting the table while humming a song, the kids are by the sofa playing with legos and although he is giving his back to them, he is very aware of the fact that Olivia is about to be hit on the head. Again.
- Daniel, do not hit your sister, she is just giving you the help you asked for - Scotty reprimands his child and he hears a gasp from him, and a chuckle from Olivia. He takes a moment to enjoy the sweetness of parenting and sports a smile and then he turns around, dead serious face which Daniel obviously believe is real and gasps again.
- No more legos for 3 days if you try to hurt your sister again, now you both put them back where you found them and go clean yourselves, dinner will be served as soon as your dad...
Scotty couldn’t finish the sentence because they hear the click of the lock that let them know the 4th member of the family was already home...
- Hey guys, how was your day? - Kevin leaves his briefcase by the door like every day and walks up to his husband first which he kisses tenderly on the lips and then he turns around to face his children. Daniel who has already forgotten all about Scotty’s threat hands him a lego and Kevin kneels in front of him and helps him finish his tower.
- Scotty just said we have to go clean ourselves and get ready for dinner
- Just a moment?- Kevin turns around and gives the other man his very well rehearsed puppy eyes
- Kevin, it is past 6, Daniel’s bedtimes is coming soon and Olivia still needs to finish her homework - Scotty tries to reason with his 4 year-old husband
- Just a little longer? I will help olivia and get them both ready for bed? Please?
Scotty doesnt know what got into his husband, not that he doesn’t enjoy quality time with the kids but he is more like a neanderthal when it comes to dinner and that is always his first priority once he crosses the threshold
- 5 minutes, then we eat - Scotty finally gives in and leaves the living room before he changes his mind. Kevin smiles widly and focuses again in his children and the tower they are building
- Is this because of the case? Olivia asks after a moment
- What? - Kevin is currently stopping Daniel from chocking with one of the small lego pieces and he is not paying attention to his daughter.
- The case, the argentinian man fighting for his son?
Kevin gives her a questioning look, Olivia is used to this so she just sighs and elaborates
- The case you have been working on the last couple of weeks? He had an affair with this woman and she got pregnant but she left and he never found out until recently? But she is married and the kid think her mom’s husband is his dad?
- How do you know so much about the case?
- You’ve been on the news all over!
- You watch the news? - kevin asks almost in a whisper not to wake up Daniel who is now almost asleep on his arms.
- I am Kitty Walker-Macallister-Wetley’s niece, of course I watch the news. Kevin smiles and his heart is about to jump out of his chest of pride and love.
- Yes, No... maybe
- You want to spend as much time with us as you want because you feel bad for that man?
- Mateo Evans
- Yes, him
- I... Olivia, you know what having you both means to me, and you know what we went through with Daniel (and Elizabeth but he cannot break those news to her 10 year-old daughter) and today... we had a meeting with the judge... sorry, I cannot discuss the case with you.
- Oh c’mon! What am I gonna do? Twitter it???
Kevin knows his daughter, she has never made a comment of any case he has worked on outside their home.
- chances are not good
- why? He is the father, just like Scotty and you are Daniel’s
- it is different, he is in school already, he does recognize that man as his father, daniel was a baby on diapers.
- Does that mean he will lose his son?
- Seems like it...
- That is not fair
- It is not...
***
3 days later
Mateo is back home, he is shearing his sheep and he is glad he’s got a technique or he would have cut a few so deep they wold have bled to death. He needs to focus on something, anything. His back hurts from the long flight in tourist class and his bending position is not helping one bit but he doesn’t stop. Somehow, unconsciously he is punishing himself.He knew he was a fling, he knew Gwen and Rhys were in a long-term relationship and no welsh/patagonian who only met her for a couple of days was going to change that. And he was ok with it, actually, he was the one that brought them back to each other’s arms when Rhys left her but he also wanted a family. He had been single most of his life, some affairs with gringas here and there but nothing longer than the holidays that brought them there. He had never felt he wanted to be part of something, or someone until he met her; he knew it was forbidden, maybe that is why he tried so hard. When Gwen showed up on his room telling him that Rhys was gone, he knew what he had to do, he walked up to her, took the sweater from her shoulders and let it rest in a chair, and the rest is a blur; kisses, moans and sweat. Rhys did come back and then left again, this time for real. He could hear their fight from his room, he heard the slam of the door and Gwen’s cries. He did what any good man would do, although he wasn’t sure he was a good man himself. He took her to his home and offered him a good life, but she was the one who left this time. So he went after Rhys, he couldn’t let her be alone in a place so strange to her. and then he went on with his life, treasuring the days he had with her, and waking up every day with the worst feeling of regret. He should have fought.
For his Blodeuwedd.