DISCLAIMER: The Mighty Ducks is property of Disney. Kaley Bombay, Stella O'Brien, and Joshua O'Brien are property of me.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Hello, I'm back. This is the third in my New Series. It's also by far the most intense. Writing it was difficult; I have never written anything so horribly angsty before. The next three are much more lighthearted, I can assure you of that.
WARNINGS: This story does deal with child abuse but it is not graphic. There is one "fade to black" beating here in the prologue, and that is the extent of it. This is rated PG13 only because it deals with child abuse. There is no profanity, sex, or anything else to merit this rating. Rest assured that this story has a happy ending.
RATED: PG13 for the aforementioned reasons.
A NEW BEGINNING – PROLOGUE
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Conway sat huddled in his bedroom. He could hear banging sounds from outside. He recognized the noises-Scott had returned.
Scott Farquhar was Charlie's stepfather. When Charlie's mother, Casey, was around, he seemed the perfect husband-charming, gentlemanly, loving, and caring. But when Casey wasn't around, Scott became a completely different person. Tonight Casey was out of town visiting her sister Helen, leaving Charlie and Scott alone. Charlie knew it was going to be a bad night. Scott would go out and get drunk, and then come home and hit Charlie.
You should tell your mother, some little voice in the back of Charlie's mind told him. But Casey was finally happy. After her disastrous first marriage, she'd found a man who made her happy. Charlie didn't want to ruin that.
The door to Charlie's bedroom banged open, and Charlie closed his eyes, Oh, I knew I should have had Coach Bombay fix that lock…he thought to himself.
A rough hand seized Charlie by his collar. "I found you, you little brat," Scott slurred. "And this time, you're gonna get it good."