Beyond The Break
By: Riley
Summary - [Re-write of Darkness of My Past]. "There are two ways to go about having a secret; confide in someone you trust or keep your mouth shut. Guess which option I chose." A past that was kept hidden is coming back full force and not only does it shake Big Time Rush to the core, but knowing that they're one of the few people that can help makes it that much more dangerous.
.:Prologue:.
Kevin never should've got up that day.
He knew it, his empty apartment knew it, and he was pretty sure that the damned world knew it as there seemed to be a gray cloud hovering over him that day. But really, how could he his world was going to implode because he had decided to go into work that day when all he wanted to do was take a well deserved day off.
But his alarm, which he was sure he had turned off the night before, had shrilled him awake. And when he was awake there was nothing that could lull him back to the sweet salvation of sleep that he needed.
In fact, he knew he should've gone with his first jarring thought and beat the sucker to death. And now as he sat in the tail end of a meeting, knowing what was waiting for him back in his office made him—funnily enough—want to stay in the meeting as long as possible just so that he would be able to put it off as long as he could. It was the lesser of two evils though as one of his bosses droned on he was silently wishing that he had given his alarm clock a more violent death than it being beaten.
It being shot was even better.
For the reason that if he had missed work that day he wouldn't have heard the message on his—almost full—answering machine. If he hadn't heard the message it wouldn't have been the signal to bring in the package that had been waiting for him. And if he hadn't gotten the package, knowing what was inside due to the postmark, he wouldn't have had opened it and looked at the shocking contents right before going out to the meeting.
He needed the contents, it cured the curiosity that he had since meeting his son's and daughter's friends. But it opened a whole other can of worms he wasn't sure he even wanted to get into.
"And I'm hoping this will bring in even greater numbers for the law firm, so keep up what you're doing and I'll get in contact with you individually about your trajectories for the next year."
Kevin pushed back his seat and straightened out his tie before picking up his PDA—filled with notes on his boss's ramblings—and headed towards the door of the conference room. Grasping the door of the glass conference room, Kevin pumped it open and started to make his mistake.
"Knight! May I have a word with you?"
Teeth gritting in slight irritation, Kevin composed himself; nodding as his colleagues left the conference room and turned to his boss. Mark Richardson waited until the door gently swished closed behind the last of the colleagues before addressing Kevin. "I thought you were going to be taking off today? You deserve it, you've been working non-stop for months and I'm sure you want nothing to do but get away from here."
Kevin formulated his thoughts before responding. The last thing he wanted was to offend his boss, however the man made it his business to know what was going on with each and every one of his workers to help them out. "There was something I had to take care of today that couldn't wait."
That was slightly true. Mark didn't need to know what that if he hadn't had come in the message would've automatically been erased due to his ever filling inbox and he wouldn't have gotten the incriminating news. He wasn't going to say evidence. That was too strong of a word.
"Well, when hockey season starts again, which it will in a couple of months, expect me to take a lot of vacation time that I've racked up," Kevin said with a disarming smile. "It'll be like I'm not even here."
Mark reached out and slapped Kevin on the shoulder. "I'll notice. My top partner won't be working here. But seriously, Knight, take some time off when you can. Things were already pretty rough after that last case you lost, you haven't seemed to bounce back from it."
A vein in Kevin's neck twitched but he didn't verbally respond. Instead he nodded, turned, and left the conference room, heading back to his office. After instructing his secretary not to bother him unless it was something of the utmost importance, he closed his office door behind him and took off the jacket of his three-piece suit, draping it over the back of his chair.
He dropped down into his chair and picked up the interoffice folder that he had received earlier that day and glanced at the pictures on the front—the mug shots—and the unofficial list of offenses that fanned out underneath.
He really should've stayed in bed that day.
A/N: First thing I'm going to tell you guys is, YES, this story has my OCs and they have a pretty big part, though it's mostly BTR and Kevin that are running it as they react to the OCs' part of the plot. I'm telling you that now. This time around I have a better plan of making the other canon characters integrated more.
Anyway, to think of where this would be set in the our timeline, this would be happening during 4 as it is set around the time of DE going back home for the ARIA awards. However, this is a standalone story like Darkness of My Past was. It has no placement in any of the series I have written, especially with some things that'll happen. When it gets to this point in one of the stories that gos through season 4 (which I, hopefully, am able to still do) it will play out different, which will be canon to our BTR/DE timeline.
Because it's my friend Mandy's (bbalgirl22) birthday and she'd been waiting for this story since I first mentioned it to her, I decided to upload the first chapter today. My updating schedule isn't really a schedule anymore, I update when I can. Thank you all for being patient with me.
Cheers,
-Riles