Trust
A/N: So....there is a spoiler about a dangerous/unhealthy student-mentor relationship. It has been going around since before the ninth season even began. Now, alot of people suspect that it is KC and the new basketball coach. I went onto IMDB and someone mentioned how KC was a pretty big guy and he should be able to fight back. This is sort of my answer as to why he wouldn't. I have to wonder though, why is it that people believe that stuff like this can't happen to guys? I remember going to the Dr. Phil boards a long time ago and people were saying that these teachers didn't deserve to lose their job because boys thought of sex all the time.(it was a thread about an episode about teacher/student affairs.) Glad that it seems like Degrassi will have a storyline about it though. I mean...sure KC is tall but---when it really comes down to it, who has the power in the situation? KC is a foster kid who seems to have been physically/emotionally abused by his father, he's in the foster care system and in a group home, he's never had a real father figure, he's eager to please, vulnerable----all things that the coach can easily take advantage of.
Summary: Sometimes trust could be taken for granted.
Warnings: brief mentions of sexual assault and child abuse also brief mentions of attempted suicide.
A/N2: I may write a second part to this on Clare noticing that something is wrong with KC.(I think that she could easily recognize the signs what with what happened to Darcy and everything.)
Part One
Trust. That was a word that KC Guthrie hardly even knew before he came to Degrassi last semester. In his life, there'd never been anyone that he could truly trust. His father had been an abusive asshole who'd been verbally and physically abusive torwards his son and his wife for years before he'd been arrested. His mother was a drunk who didn't want to seem to give up her addiction. His teachers had always just assumed that he was a bad kid without trying to figure out the reason for his behavior. The so-called friends he'd had back then had more often than not, betrayed him or helped get him into trouble.
Then he came to Degrassi. He'd made friends, gotten put into the gifted classes at Degrassi, he'd joined the Bot Wars team, the basketball team, had gotten a girlfriend who was also his friend. Things had finally turned out well for him. He finally had people he could trust and depend on. People who cared for him. Then it all started to go to hell again. A new basketball coach had came to the school and had taken the eager KC under his wing. KC had been estatic and eager. He'd never really had a positive father figure before and Coach Carson seemed to be exactly the kind of dad that KC had always wanted. The kind of man who loved sports and gave good advice and really seemed to care for and understand him.
He'd been wrong on that account. The man that he'd trusted and had begun to think of as a father figure, was but a wolf in sheeps clothing and KC for all his brilliance and street smarts, had been fooled. He'd seen what he'd wanted to see and he'd let his eagerness and vulnerability get the best of him. He remembered the first time that Coach Carson had acted strangely around him, even though at the time he'd just brushed it off. He knew now that it had been a warning sign. When he'd first heard it, it had sounded innocent enough. Just the coach making a comment about not letting him out of his sight. It seemed typical. Normal.
And then, two weeks ago, KC had caught the coach staring at him. The intensity of his eyes had made KC shiver a bit. It had made him a little uncomfortable to say the least. Another incident that he'd just written off with almost as much ease as someone who'd shrugged off a jacket.
Another big mistake. That's what his whole life seemed to be filled with. One mistake after the other. And not just where the coach was concerned. Just a few days ago, Clare had broken up with him---after catching him kissing one of her best friends, Jenna Middleton. The girl who'd just came to Degrassi this semester and who'd immediatly bonded with Clare. It was something that both of them had regretted immediatly. A stupid "attraction" had caused the two of them to break the heart of a girl that they both cared deeply about.
And that had brought up another incident with the coach. The one that had made him realize that something was definitely wrong. He'd walked into the empty gym and had taken a seat on the edge of the bleachers. His head had been in his hands and he'd been concentrating too hard on what had occured that afternoon to notice Coach Carson walk in until he felt someone take a seat next to him and a hand land on his thigh, much too close for comfort. He could remember his whole body freezing up as his eyes had landed on the hand. Coach Carson hadn't seemed to notice his discomfort, or if he had he just didn't care. KC wasn't sure which it was.
The coach had so casually asked him what it was that had him so upset, sounding for all the world like a caring adult. He hadn't told anyone how uncomfortable the older man made him. He knew that he most likely wouldn't be believed anyway. Foster kids---especially ones with records---were never really believed or trusted. Not to mention how dirty this whole ordeal made him feel anyway.
And all the off hand comments, the looks, the touches had all led up to what had happened just this afternoon. It had led to the coach taking it much to far and doing something that KC hadn't wanted when he'd been in the lockerroom showers. He couldn't fight back otherwise, he'd be sent straight to juvie. That couldn't happen. The coach had the power in the situation and KC didn't.
Well....he thought he didn't. But then he opened up his hand to look down at the pill bottle he had in it--the one that he'd taken from Nash's bathroom cabinet . It would be so easy to just end everything. Everyone would be better off anyway. Clare, Jenna, Alli, and Connor could forget that they ever knew him, Jenna and Clare could restore their friendship, he wouldn't be a big burden on everyone's shoulders. And everything would just be over. The pain he felt would be over, the coach wouldn't be able to touch him anymore. It was something that could resolve everything. He twisted the cap off the orange, prescription bottle and then poured some of the tablets into his hand, staring at them for a few long moments....and then swallowed.
To be continued....
Last Part: Clare's noticed KC's distant and odd behavior. She's noticed how he's withdrawn into his shell and has an idea of what is going on because of what happened to Darcy. When it comes down to it, will she be able to help him? And can she tell Nash why KC would do such a thing?
