Forgotten But Not Gone - Reid~Tyler - 15 atm - Part 2
Title~Forgotten But Not Gone
Part~2
Pairing~Reid-Tyler
Summary~Many years ago in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 the Garwin family lost their money and their social standing within the small minded town of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Looked down upon by the self righteous citizens of Ipswich and abandoned by the other Covenant members, the family have been forgotten by the older members and were never known to the younger generations, until the youngest descendant of the Simms lineage happens to need a cheap mechanic. (Slight AU, still with powers, the events in the film could have happened just remove Reid from them! Which isn't too hard as his part wasn't nearly big enough!!!!!!!)
Disclaimer~I do not own the Covenant I have merely purloined the characters! In addition the basic plot for this story comes from 'The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love' which I strongly recommend!!
Warning~This is slash! If it offends do not read!!
A/N Ok, so who hates me? I am a very bad person for leaving this update sooooooo long, I hadn't actually realised it had been over a year so if no one reads this I will totally understand! Anyway thank you so much to all the lovely people who wrote reviews for this and I hope this chapter doesn't disappoint! I am going to write some more of this now so hopefull there won't be such a huge gap between chapters this time. Again... very sorry!
Tyler stared absentmindedly at his Coke, ignoring the crowd jostling around Nicky's and tried to work out where his life had gone wrong. Had it always been this way and he hadn't noticed before or was it a recent development? He supposed he was showing how spoilt he was by moping about his life when he attended a private, fees only school, had a massive car and was dating one of the most attractive girls in the area, but... on the flip side, he hated his school, it was full of posh dicks, his car meant he was designated driver for everything and his girl friend was also one of the most annoying girls in the school; and his eighteenth birthday was looming ever closer and wasn't that an issue he wanted to avoid.
"Ty Ty?" 'Oh yeah, his girlfriend was also the most airheaded person he had ever met'
"Hmmm?" 'Don't give her an excuse to talk, don't give her an excuse to talk'
"You're being really like spacey, Sarah and Kate are gonna think you're on drugs or something and I so cannot date you if they think that" Tyler bit his tongue, then worried his teeth into the burning pain in an attempt to over-ride the response that was pleading to be used. Luckily before he lost the battle the aforementioned females arrived and provided a distraction. Unfortunately that led to an all consuming need to escape the squealing and the 'OMG did you see such and such' conversation.
Without bothering to interrupt the flow of giggling and gossiping to make an excuse he pushed back his chair and without a backward look weaved his way through the gyrating bodies packed into every inch of Nicky's and headed for the relative quiet of the bathroom.
"Fuck me" he slumped again the once white concrete tiles of the bathroom and let his head thump back painfully, hoping the shock might jolt his brain into a new thread of thought.
"Well, we've only just met..." Tyler's eyes flew open and he looked frantically for the source of the strangely familiar voice. Suddenly he noticed a plume of smoke coming from the end cubicle, the door slightly ajar and steeling himself, he crept, why he crept he didn't know, down to the end of the bathroom and pushed the door open.
"Boo"
"R-Reid?"
"Y-yes! We meet again oh spaced one! Destiny has brought us together once more. Fag?" Tyler stumbled back slightly.
"Pardon?"
"Would you like a fag? A cigarette? A cancer stick?" Tyler blinked and looked down at the crumpled packet of cigarettes being thrust at him violently and almost sighed in relief before realising with a jolt that Reid was still waiting for a reply.
"I don't"
"I bet." Reid smirked before removing a cigarette from the packet which he then pocketed and sticking it in Tyler's mouth before he could object. He then whipped out a battered looking lighter, grin widening.
"Breathe in" Unable to do anything other than what he was commanded Tyler inhaled sharply and then spluttered uncontrollably as acrid smoke filled his lungs and choked his breath out of him.
"No need to try and swallow the thing!" When Tyler's eyes cleared from the moisture that had filled them during his choking fit he saw Reid was grinning down at him holding Tyler's cigarette in one hand, the lighter in another and had a fresh cigarette clamped between his teeth.
Tyler straightened and snatched back the smouldering cylinder sticking his tongue out at the still smirking blonde.
"Gently with that fag! They cost me... oh well technically they should have cost me $6.50 and just because they were free doesn't mean you can abuse them.
Tyler grinned and took a second drag on the rapidly diminishing cigarette pulling a face at the hot taste.
"How can you like doing this?" The smoke caught in his throat making him gag on the words but he managed to make himself understood, or at least he hoped he did. Reid laughed anyway and puffed out a perfect smoke ring.
"So, what's got you moping in here when you could be out there gyrating to the latest noise" Reid flopped back against the chipped porcelain sink and stuck his cigarette back into his mouth whilst patting himself down, Tyler presumed in search of another.
Sighing Tyler settled next to him, handing his barely touched cigarette back and watch Reid's pale, nimble fingers pinch out the end and tuck it behind his ear, catching a wayward strand of blonde hair as he did so.
'Oh shit' Tyler shook himself violently, he was staring at this guys hands. Not a good idea. In fact the perfect way to get himself beaten up. He realised Reid was watching him, still grinning, still waiting for an answer.
"Just... bored. And my girl friend is... well you think I'm an air head? I am nothing compared to her!" Reid said nothing but his smile softened notably and he dipped his head slightly, fiddling with the zippo lighter in his right hand.
"What? What!" Tyler didn't understand, anyone else looked at him like that he'd have come over all paranoid and clammed up or got defensive but with Reid, he'd known the guy for approximately a day, only half an hour if you just counted all the time they'd actually spent in each other's company and yet even though Reid was probably about to mock him to death or something, he didn't care.
"What!" Tyler poked Reid in the side and to his delight the blonde squirmed away. Tyler's grin spread and he began poking Reid violently in his side until the blonde boy held up his hands in surrender, pressed up against the wall of the bathroom and Tyler was almost crying with laughter.
"Sorry" Reid smirked. "I was thinking you aren't an airhead. You're just a little spacey sometimes" Tyler found himself blushing madly and not knowing what to say shuffled back over to his previous place by the sinks. Reid's grin shone and after lighting up another cigarette he positioned himself in front of Tyler and proceeded to study him.
'Ahh there it is' Tyler was almost relieved to have the familiar feeling of panic return as Reid stayed silent and continued to stare at him.
"Will you just say something" Finally he snapped and whacked Reid on the arm, harder than he intended but he couldn't bring himself to care.
"Sorry, I was just wondering what else you were worked up about. I mean, it can't just be your girlfriend. Girls can be bad, but not that bad." Tyler shot back a half hearted smile and was slightly unnerved to find he was considering it, actually considering telling a guy who already thought he was a little spacey that he... well it was definitely a bad plan.
"I dunno! You don't know Amanda like I do."
"Amanda Reynolds?" Tyler nodded.
"Hmm she is a bit of an air head, ace in the sack though." Tyler choked on his own air and gawped at Reid, eyes wide in disbelief.
"She slept with you. No offence but you, a non trust fund son of a..."
"Watch it!"
"Garage owner! I was going to say garage owner" Reid looked dubious then grinned.
"Yeah. She and me, nothing deep and meaningful you understand just a few times round the boat deck. See the thing with rich girls is, they look down on you, find you disgusting but a few dirty words in their ear and they are ripping their panties off for you."
"Reid!" Reid couldn't help but burst out laughing at the almost scandalised look on Tyler's face.
"Tyler!" Tyler glared at Reid's mocking but he had to admit he was rather half hearted in his taking offence. Reid's laugh was infectious and his blue eyes were sparkling again, shimmering in the pale bathroom light.
"So, tell me! What is going on in your little head?" Reid settled next to him against the sinks, rapping his knuckles gently against Tyler's skull and grinning at the mock reprove he got in return.
"I don't know. I guess I'm gonna sound really 'spoilt brat' when I say this but nothings right. I have an allowance that is more than enough, I go to an amazing school, I get great grades, I have a beautiful girlfriend and really good friends but nothing is right. And on top of that I'm going to be eighteen soon and that is just a whole other mess."
"How come?" 'How come what? oh... crap'
"I... well..."
"Is it your ascension that's bothering you?" Tyler thought he'd gone deaf, his ears rang and his head span, did Reid just say...
"You ok?" Tyler was suddenly aware of Reid's face very close to his own.
"Huh?" Reid sighed in relief
"I said are you ok?"
"Yeah I'm... did you say ascension? As in The Covenant? Sons of Ipswich? Witches?"
"Yeah. I'm the fourth. Garwin. 'S my second name."
"I'm... I didn't know there... I always thought there were three. Three families; Danvers, Parry and Simms. I didn't know."
"No sweat. We've not exactly been major news in the town of Ipswich recently, I doubt even your parents know." Tyler felt sick. He knew from Caleb and Pogue's ascensions that you had to have at least one member of the current Covenant with you during the ascension to ground you and stop the power choking you from the inside as it was released. Reid must have had no one.
"Why. I mean I thought we were supposed to stick together! How did you end up all alone. That's not acceptable! It's dangerous." Tyler noticed Reid had a distant look in his eyes, something akin to an actual smile playing around the corners of his mouth and he stopped his rant.
"What?"
"Hmm?" Tyler shook his head grinning. Then it hit him again and his grin faded with the sinking in his stomach.
"How did it happen?"
"What?"
"The, your family, getting ignored?"
"Oh." Reid looked slightly embarrassed and Tyler was about to change the subject when Reid suddenly continued.
"My Great Grandfather lost all of his money in the Wall Street crash. After that the Covenant members at the time kinda started to ignore him, look down on him. By the time my Granddad was of age the family wasn't spoken of at all. The others pretended we didn't exist and by the time my Dad was eighteen it was like we never had. I don't think any of your parents; even your grandparents were ever told that there was a fourth family. No sweat though. We're better off really. We've got the garage and we don't have to come to any of those silly Covenant meetings that get held whenever there is a threat in town." Reid was grinning but Tyler's stomach was still revolving and he couldn't bring himself to even pretend.
"Did it hurt?"
"Did what..."
"Reid!"
"Yes. Like a bitch." They both sat in silence listening to the distant hum of the music and dancers outside before Reid couldn't take it anymore. He pulled the cigarette from behind his ear and dug in his pocket for his lighter and Tyler found himself watching again, taking Reid's distraction as an opportunity to observe the boy whom he had so quickly become close to.
"So your girlfriend..." Tyler jumped violently and he caught Reid trying to hide his smile behind his hand and couldn't help the grin that spread across his own face.
"What about her."
"Who?
"My girlfriend."
"What about her?"
"What?"
"What?"
"Reid!" By now the two of them were grinning again and Tyler's thump to Reid's arm was half hearted at best.
"Sowwy Ty Ty" Tyler shuddered.
"Urgh don't! She says that!" Reid snorted and took a long drag on his fag.
"If you hate her that much, dump her for god's sake."
"If not for my own" Tyler giggled at his own joke and then realised Reid was frowning at him.
"What" A self conscious flush rose through his body and he looked down.
"Sorry" Reid laughed suddenly "I was just surprised that the spaced out guy can think of a comeback so quick!"
Before Tyler could react the door to the bathroom banged open to reveal a very cross looking Nicky.
"No smoking inside blondie!" Nicky jabbed at the very obvious 'no smoking' sign by the door and glared at Reid before shooing them into the main room Reid giving him back chat the whole time.
Tyler looked around, trying to ignore the increasingly heated argument behind him and noticed his friends and the girls watching him from their regular table, all looking a mixture of annoyed and shocked. Suddenly irritated by their predictable reaction he turned to speak to Reid again only to see him being manhandled towards the door by a fuming Nicky. Reid was shaking with laughter which was preventing him from walking right so Nicky was practically carrying him.
"Reid?"
"I'll see you around Tyler. Don't be too spacey!" Tyler grinned. He had to go and sit with Amanda, so he definitely couldn't make any promises not to day dream. He was also not admitting that Reid's assertion that he'd see him again had left him with a very warm glow in his stomach.
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Part~2
Pairing~Reid-Tyler
Summary~Many years ago in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 the Garwin family lost their money and their social standing within the small minded town of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Looked down upon by the self righteous citizens of Ipswich and abandoned by the other Covenant members, the family have been forgotten by the older members and were never known to the younger generations, until the youngest descendant of the Simms lineage happens to need a cheap mechanic. (Slight AU, still with powers, the events in the film could have happened just remove Reid from them! Which isn't too hard as his part wasn't nearly big enough!!!!!!!)
Disclaimer~I do not own the Covenant I have merely purloined the characters! In addition the basic plot for this story comes from 'The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love' which I strongly recommend!!
Warning~This is slash! If it offends do not read!!
A/N Ok, so who hates me? I am a very bad person for leaving this update sooooooo long, I hadn't actually realised it had been over a year so if no one reads this I will totally understand! Anyway thank you so much to all the lovely people who wrote reviews for this and I hope this chapter doesn't disappoint! I am going to write some more of this now so hopefull there won't be such a huge gap between chapters this time. Again... very sorry!
Tyler stared absentmindedly at his Coke, ignoring the crowd jostling around Nicky's and tried to work out where his life had gone wrong. Had it always been this way and he hadn't noticed before or was it a recent development? He supposed he was showing how spoilt he was by moping about his life when he attended a private, fees only school, had a massive car and was dating one of the most attractive girls in the area, but... on the flip side, he hated his school, it was full of posh dicks, his car meant he was designated driver for everything and his girl friend was also one of the most annoying girls in the school; and his eighteenth birthday was looming ever closer and wasn't that an issue he wanted to avoid.
"Ty Ty?" 'Oh yeah, his girlfriend was also the most airheaded person he had ever met'
"Hmmm?" 'Don't give her an excuse to talk, don't give her an excuse to talk'
"You're being really like spacey, Sarah and Kate are gonna think you're on drugs or something and I so cannot date you if they think that" Tyler bit his tongue, then worried his teeth into the burning pain in an attempt to over-ride the response that was pleading to be used. Luckily before he lost the battle the aforementioned females arrived and provided a distraction. Unfortunately that led to an all consuming need to escape the squealing and the 'OMG did you see such and such' conversation.
Without bothering to interrupt the flow of giggling and gossiping to make an excuse he pushed back his chair and without a backward look weaved his way through the gyrating bodies packed into every inch of Nicky's and headed for the relative quiet of the bathroom.
"Fuck me" he slumped again the once white concrete tiles of the bathroom and let his head thump back painfully, hoping the shock might jolt his brain into a new thread of thought.
"Well, we've only just met..." Tyler's eyes flew open and he looked frantically for the source of the strangely familiar voice. Suddenly he noticed a plume of smoke coming from the end cubicle, the door slightly ajar and steeling himself, he crept, why he crept he didn't know, down to the end of the bathroom and pushed the door open.
"Boo"
"R-Reid?"
"Y-yes! We meet again oh spaced one! Destiny has brought us together once more. Fag?" Tyler stumbled back slightly.
"Pardon?"
"Would you like a fag? A cigarette? A cancer stick?" Tyler blinked and looked down at the crumpled packet of cigarettes being thrust at him violently and almost sighed in relief before realising with a jolt that Reid was still waiting for a reply.
"I don't"
"I bet." Reid smirked before removing a cigarette from the packet which he then pocketed and sticking it in Tyler's mouth before he could object. He then whipped out a battered looking lighter, grin widening.
"Breathe in" Unable to do anything other than what he was commanded Tyler inhaled sharply and then spluttered uncontrollably as acrid smoke filled his lungs and choked his breath out of him.
"No need to try and swallow the thing!" When Tyler's eyes cleared from the moisture that had filled them during his choking fit he saw Reid was grinning down at him holding Tyler's cigarette in one hand, the lighter in another and had a fresh cigarette clamped between his teeth.
Tyler straightened and snatched back the smouldering cylinder sticking his tongue out at the still smirking blonde.
"Gently with that fag! They cost me... oh well technically they should have cost me $6.50 and just because they were free doesn't mean you can abuse them.
Tyler grinned and took a second drag on the rapidly diminishing cigarette pulling a face at the hot taste.
"How can you like doing this?" The smoke caught in his throat making him gag on the words but he managed to make himself understood, or at least he hoped he did. Reid laughed anyway and puffed out a perfect smoke ring.
"So, what's got you moping in here when you could be out there gyrating to the latest noise" Reid flopped back against the chipped porcelain sink and stuck his cigarette back into his mouth whilst patting himself down, Tyler presumed in search of another.
Sighing Tyler settled next to him, handing his barely touched cigarette back and watch Reid's pale, nimble fingers pinch out the end and tuck it behind his ear, catching a wayward strand of blonde hair as he did so.
'Oh shit' Tyler shook himself violently, he was staring at this guys hands. Not a good idea. In fact the perfect way to get himself beaten up. He realised Reid was watching him, still grinning, still waiting for an answer.
"Just... bored. And my girl friend is... well you think I'm an air head? I am nothing compared to her!" Reid said nothing but his smile softened notably and he dipped his head slightly, fiddling with the zippo lighter in his right hand.
"What? What!" Tyler didn't understand, anyone else looked at him like that he'd have come over all paranoid and clammed up or got defensive but with Reid, he'd known the guy for approximately a day, only half an hour if you just counted all the time they'd actually spent in each other's company and yet even though Reid was probably about to mock him to death or something, he didn't care.
"What!" Tyler poked Reid in the side and to his delight the blonde squirmed away. Tyler's grin spread and he began poking Reid violently in his side until the blonde boy held up his hands in surrender, pressed up against the wall of the bathroom and Tyler was almost crying with laughter.
"Sorry" Reid smirked. "I was thinking you aren't an airhead. You're just a little spacey sometimes" Tyler found himself blushing madly and not knowing what to say shuffled back over to his previous place by the sinks. Reid's grin shone and after lighting up another cigarette he positioned himself in front of Tyler and proceeded to study him.
'Ahh there it is' Tyler was almost relieved to have the familiar feeling of panic return as Reid stayed silent and continued to stare at him.
"Will you just say something" Finally he snapped and whacked Reid on the arm, harder than he intended but he couldn't bring himself to care.
"Sorry, I was just wondering what else you were worked up about. I mean, it can't just be your girlfriend. Girls can be bad, but not that bad." Tyler shot back a half hearted smile and was slightly unnerved to find he was considering it, actually considering telling a guy who already thought he was a little spacey that he... well it was definitely a bad plan.
"I dunno! You don't know Amanda like I do."
"Amanda Reynolds?" Tyler nodded.
"Hmm she is a bit of an air head, ace in the sack though." Tyler choked on his own air and gawped at Reid, eyes wide in disbelief.
"She slept with you. No offence but you, a non trust fund son of a..."
"Watch it!"
"Garage owner! I was going to say garage owner" Reid looked dubious then grinned.
"Yeah. She and me, nothing deep and meaningful you understand just a few times round the boat deck. See the thing with rich girls is, they look down on you, find you disgusting but a few dirty words in their ear and they are ripping their panties off for you."
"Reid!" Reid couldn't help but burst out laughing at the almost scandalised look on Tyler's face.
"Tyler!" Tyler glared at Reid's mocking but he had to admit he was rather half hearted in his taking offence. Reid's laugh was infectious and his blue eyes were sparkling again, shimmering in the pale bathroom light.
"So, tell me! What is going on in your little head?" Reid settled next to him against the sinks, rapping his knuckles gently against Tyler's skull and grinning at the mock reprove he got in return.
"I don't know. I guess I'm gonna sound really 'spoilt brat' when I say this but nothings right. I have an allowance that is more than enough, I go to an amazing school, I get great grades, I have a beautiful girlfriend and really good friends but nothing is right. And on top of that I'm going to be eighteen soon and that is just a whole other mess."
"How come?" 'How come what? oh... crap'
"I... well..."
"Is it your ascension that's bothering you?" Tyler thought he'd gone deaf, his ears rang and his head span, did Reid just say...
"You ok?" Tyler was suddenly aware of Reid's face very close to his own.
"Huh?" Reid sighed in relief
"I said are you ok?"
"Yeah I'm... did you say ascension? As in The Covenant? Sons of Ipswich? Witches?"
"Yeah. I'm the fourth. Garwin. 'S my second name."
"I'm... I didn't know there... I always thought there were three. Three families; Danvers, Parry and Simms. I didn't know."
"No sweat. We've not exactly been major news in the town of Ipswich recently, I doubt even your parents know." Tyler felt sick. He knew from Caleb and Pogue's ascensions that you had to have at least one member of the current Covenant with you during the ascension to ground you and stop the power choking you from the inside as it was released. Reid must have had no one.
"Why. I mean I thought we were supposed to stick together! How did you end up all alone. That's not acceptable! It's dangerous." Tyler noticed Reid had a distant look in his eyes, something akin to an actual smile playing around the corners of his mouth and he stopped his rant.
"What?"
"Hmm?" Tyler shook his head grinning. Then it hit him again and his grin faded with the sinking in his stomach.
"How did it happen?"
"What?"
"The, your family, getting ignored?"
"Oh." Reid looked slightly embarrassed and Tyler was about to change the subject when Reid suddenly continued.
"My Great Grandfather lost all of his money in the Wall Street crash. After that the Covenant members at the time kinda started to ignore him, look down on him. By the time my Granddad was of age the family wasn't spoken of at all. The others pretended we didn't exist and by the time my Dad was eighteen it was like we never had. I don't think any of your parents; even your grandparents were ever told that there was a fourth family. No sweat though. We're better off really. We've got the garage and we don't have to come to any of those silly Covenant meetings that get held whenever there is a threat in town." Reid was grinning but Tyler's stomach was still revolving and he couldn't bring himself to even pretend.
"Did it hurt?"
"Did what..."
"Reid!"
"Yes. Like a bitch." They both sat in silence listening to the distant hum of the music and dancers outside before Reid couldn't take it anymore. He pulled the cigarette from behind his ear and dug in his pocket for his lighter and Tyler found himself watching again, taking Reid's distraction as an opportunity to observe the boy whom he had so quickly become close to.
"So your girlfriend..." Tyler jumped violently and he caught Reid trying to hide his smile behind his hand and couldn't help the grin that spread across his own face.
"What about her."
"Who?
"My girlfriend."
"What about her?"
"What?"
"What?"
"Reid!" By now the two of them were grinning again and Tyler's thump to Reid's arm was half hearted at best.
"Sowwy Ty Ty" Tyler shuddered.
"Urgh don't! She says that!" Reid snorted and took a long drag on his fag.
"If you hate her that much, dump her for god's sake."
"If not for my own" Tyler giggled at his own joke and then realised Reid was frowning at him.
"What" A self conscious flush rose through his body and he looked down.
"Sorry" Reid laughed suddenly "I was just surprised that the spaced out guy can think of a comeback so quick!"
Before Tyler could react the door to the bathroom banged open to reveal a very cross looking Nicky.
"No smoking inside blondie!" Nicky jabbed at the very obvious 'no smoking' sign by the door and glared at Reid before shooing them into the main room Reid giving him back chat the whole time.
Tyler looked around, trying to ignore the increasingly heated argument behind him and noticed his friends and the girls watching him from their regular table, all looking a mixture of annoyed and shocked. Suddenly irritated by their predictable reaction he turned to speak to Reid again only to see him being manhandled towards the door by a fuming Nicky. Reid was shaking with laughter which was preventing him from walking right so Nicky was practically carrying him.
"Reid?"
"I'll see you around Tyler. Don't be too spacey!" Tyler grinned. He had to go and sit with Amanda, so he definitely couldn't make any promises not to day dream. He was also not admitting that Reid's assertion that he'd see him again had left him with a very warm glow in his stomach.
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