A/N: Okay finally my first chapter to start off with. In the movie I don't think they told us where Charlie's school is actually located or maybe I wasn't listening right but I just decided to make it up somewhat. Well here goes nothing. :D
Scent of a Woman
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Chapter One: Busy day
Preparatory School of Wisconsin,
Charlie was struggling so much with his bags in his dorm and everything else of his possessions, he just felt like giving up but this was his last week here and Charlie took Colonel Slade's advice and decided to visit him and his niece and besides Christmas was only a few weeks away and it would make Frank's day to come see him before actually going back home.
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Several hours after getting most of his wanted things together, he knew it was best to take a break from all this and he laid down, losing himself in the comfort of the sheets and blankets that wrapped around him as he shut his eyes.
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He didn't dream at all during his short-period nap, but he was jerked awake by a frightening feeling against his skin and it was chilling to the bone.
He was breathing hard but not heavy and he sat himself up and got to his feet. He looked at the clock just above his door and it was nearing 7:45. He cursed to himself and had just now realized how long a drive it was from Wisconsin all the way to a small town, which Colonel Frank Slade lived with his Niece, her husband and their two kids. Mumbling a few words to himself Charlie looked at his bags that sat in a corner of his room next to his desk, and held his head in his hands.
Just an hour later of just sitting there on the edge of his bed, Charlie took his bags looked one more time at the clock and left his dorm for the last time.
On his way down the thousands of stairs, passing down the many halls and finally out of the large front double doors of the beautiful building, Charlie stood there on the top step and turned to get one good last look at the Preparatory school he unfortunately came to like somewhat, and turned back to the large school yard ahead of him and saw a jet black limousine along the curb waiting for him.
He was in total shock. It had to be him, Colonel Slade. Why would he be here? Wouldn't it just be easier for Charlie to come down there instead?
Anyway, the sight of it possibly being Slade made the kid excited.
Charlie took in a good deep breath of the warm atmosphere surrounding him and walked down the school pathway, giving his entire attention to the dark limousine that was ahead of him. The back window suddenly caught his eye and he had to stop and look.
It slowly rolled down and what he saw next made his heart skip a beat and made his eyes sparkle. "Charlie, are you there son?" the older man called out in his most loved and admired scratched hardy voice that Charlie couldn't get enough of. The prep-school boy smiled and held his mouth open ready to speak but unfortunately nothing came out.
It made the Colonel think that the boy was kidding with him. Before he had any chance to repeat himself, Charlie scooted up against the side of the black vehicle and greeted him. "Yes Colonel, I'm right here." He nearly startled Slade to death after his quick so-sudden jump. That hasn't happened to him for quite a while. "Damn Charlie, at least you can tell me before time." He snapped at the smiling boy who still stood beside the car, waiting to be invited in the vehicle.
"Get in son we haven't got all day." Slade told him in his demanding tone and before long Charlie was in the car and already sitting alongside the elder man, whom was as close as a father to him.
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After the limo started began to move again, the atmosphere in the car was ghastly perfect. In fact almost too perfect it kind of bothered Charlie as he scratched the back of his ear, and that's when the silence was broken:
"I didn't actually think you were going to come, Charlie. I'm just an old man." Colonel Slade was the first one to talk holding his cane in his lap with hands securely around it. Charlie furrowed his brows and turned his eyes back ahead of him, where he could see some of the driver's back of the head through faded windows.
"I don't think I'd miss it for the world, Colonel." Charlie smiled at his delicate blind eyes that searched around moving vigorously like he had something on his mind.
Colonel didn't respond to that. But he did smile few minutes after.
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E/N: Wow that was some short ending. I kind of like this pairing. Not in an intimate way so to speak but in a father/son way and sort of the romantic way. I just don't see Al Pacino gay even though he has played a gay man before in one of his older movies. But anyway, you might see a bit of slash between the two in later chapters. Probably nothing super serious, but still will be some :D enjoy!
