So every single week I tell myself I'm going to start this fic and then I put it off after each new episode because I think, 'well, I predicted that all wrong so I'll just not bother.' However, I gave in and I read the spoilers and though this fic won't be anything like the rest of the series I'm going to do it anyway. There are so few Dynasty and Kevin stories on here and I just wanted to give them a little bit of time together.

P.S. I'm starting off at the beginning of what would be my 'Revenge' episode.

Most chapters will be a three way narrative; Kevin, Dynasty, and Teachers, unless any of those are together in which case they will share and that part will be longer.

*For my 'The Human' readers: Don't worry, I haven't given up on it, I've just been stretched a bit thin recently. An update will be uploaded by the end of the week.*

Because line breaks don't show up on this site I've started each new narrative with bold.

Chapter One

It was a crushing numbness that Kevin had never felt before. The heated anger that coursed through his veins when Chalky was being overbearing, or Barry Barry decided he was king of the schoolyard, couldn't compare to the dull ache lodged deep within his chest.

Beyond the gates of Waterloo Road, Steve-O lumbered around Barry's car and helped Dynasty out. She seemed to wobble uneasily on her heels before steadying herself on Steve-O's arm.

Kevin watched as Steve-O wrapped his arms around Dynasty's waist, his hands drifting lower until Kevin turned away, fighting the overwhelming urge to be sick. In his peripheral vision he thought he saw Dynasty's smile fade for a moment but Connor's hand on his back prevented him from turning back to her.

"You're better off without her, mate," he said, clapping a hand on Kevin's shoulder as they began to make their way into the school.

"Yeah?"

"Straight up," Connor affirmed. "If she thinks that weirdo's got anything on you then clearly she's out of her mind."

Kevin nodded, hitching his bag up on his shoulder. "Yeah, well that's easy to say when you've already got a Mrs."

Connor chuckled, pushing between crammed students towards his mother's classroom.

"Look, no offence but I'm not sure Dynasty Barry is exactly 'Mrs.' material," Connor replied.

They both nodded to Connor's mother and took their seats. Kevin closed his eyes in defeat as Connor continued with his list of 'unmarriable' credentials that Dynasty apparently embodied.

English passed in a blur and as Kevin gathered his things he noticed Dynasty's empty seat beside Imogen. He couldn't remember whether she had been there or not but eventually he decided he couldn't have not noticed her. Not knowing whether he cared to look for her or not, Kevin packed away his things and trailed out of the classroom behind Connor and Imogen.

"I was hoping I'd never see that again," Tom Clarkson noted as Michael sighed and shot a questioning glance at Dynasty.

Dynasty's hands hung limply from Steve-O's broad shoulders as his lips crashed down on hers. Tom frowned as Dynasty's tight smile slipped when Steve-O enveloped her in a crushing embrace.

"Two weeks ago Dynasty Barry was begging us to let her stay at school and now this," Michael said, gesturing to the oblivious couple.

Tom shrugged, taking a sip of cold coffee from the chipped mug in his hand. He shouted various admonishments at groups of students that ignored the trilling bell and took another chilled mouthful.

"She's a bright spark; she knows she's better than this," Tom huffed as Dynasty began to strut unsteadily towards the school.

Despite the distance, Tom caught a glimpse of what he thought was redness around her eyes, hidden artfully by smudged lines of black. He eyed the heaving breaths that seemed to shake the young girl from head to toe and turned back to Michael.

"Does she look right to you?" Michael asked, focussing his gaze on Tom again as Dynasty disappeared into the school.

"No," Tom replied simply.

As the last of the resistant students filed into the school, Michael and Tom followed them in, turning with a hurried goodbye to go their separate ways. Michael, however, paused, having taken only too steps, before spinning back around and calling after Tom.

"Tom, keep an eye on Miss Barry for me?"

Tom nodded again as a reply and walked back to his classroom, his mind swimming with Steve-O's smug smile and the words of their first meeting: "I'll be sticking around for awhile; got a lot of making up to do."

Dynasty's legs shook as Steve-O released her with a whispered, "You're mine, babe."

His lips burned Dynasty's skin uncomfortably as he kissed her quickly and jumped back into Barry's car, filling the air with suffocating exhaust fumes as he sped away.

The memory of Kevin's eyes, glistening with unshed tears, churned Dynasty's stomach. She took a deep breath in an attempt to sooth the tremors that radiated from her very core but no amount of calming thoughts could displace the crawling feeling that covered her skin or the revulsion that tasted like acid in her throat.

Shifting her bag onto her shoulder, Dynasty smoothed her hair and began what she hoped was a confident saunter towards the school. She dipped her head and allowed a wall of thick curls to fall over her face as she passed Mr Clarkson and Mr Byrne.

The corridors were all but empty when Dynasty entered and after concluding that she was already late, Dynasty crumbled to the cold sweat that covered her skin. Forcing her way into the girl's bathroom, Dynasty collapsed inside the nearest cubicle, choking on the bile that heaved from her empty stomach. When the retching ceased, Dynasty forced herself into a sitting position, wiping her mouth on some tissue and flushing it away with the evidence of her disgust.

The recollection of Steve-O's hand on her flesh forced a long contained wave of sobs to break from her lips and hot, wet tears dripped down her cheeks. The salty taste of tears and ruined makeup only caused a new wave of retching but produced nothing but doleful coughs from a broken girl.

Short, I know, but I had a much clearer vision of the next chapter. This one was just too kind of get it going a bit. Anyway, if you love these two together, let me know. :) If not, I'm pretty friendly so just drop a line.