The Sides We Take.
Chapter 2: Road Trip.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: If I said I owned them, I lied.
Author's note: It's short, I know.
Griffon's winning woke her up. "Daddy! Pwease!" He wailed.
"What's going on?" She asked him, sitting up straighter.
"He want's out of the car seat." Scott answered, keeping his eye's on the road. He hadn't looked at her since they had left the apartment complex.
"So then let him out." She said.
"Shannon, it's not safe." He told her.
"Scott, in this piece of tin, if we get hit, that car seat isn't really gonna keep him safe."
"Fine, do what you want." He said, sounding irritated.
"That's the general idea." She said with a warm smile, which he didn't return. She unbuckled her seat belt and turned around. She unfastened his car seat belt and he hopped out. He crawled up front and sat on her lap.
"I guess he gets that 'non-sitting still' part from you." Scott mumbled.
"Scott, you know how he gets. Do you honestly expect a three-year-old to stay in a car seat for eight hours?" He didn't say anything, just kept his eye's on the road. Griffon turned around and whispered in his mother's ear, "Why is Daddy so grumpy?"
"I don't know," She whispered back. "But he'll be happier soon."
Scott kept his eye's on the road.
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When they hit the New York state line, Shannon's stomach jumped. They were only an hour away from everything she had helped Scott run from. Actually, she had to admit, she kind of had Jean to thank for her son. If Scott hadn't of been so devastated, he never would have walked into Joe's that night.
Griffon was back in his car seat, asleep. Shannon finally turned to Scott and said, "So, why did you bring us with you?"
"Why wouldn't I?" He asked her.
"Because, we both know that the second you see Jean-"
"Shannon, please don't do this." He said, cutting her off.
"Don't do what? You know that I'm right."
"And you know that you're just trying to find a reason to be mad at me." He told her.
"Oh, I already have a reason, Scott. And he's sitting in the back seat." She said, turning back to the road. As much as it pained her to admit it, she knew that he still loved Jean. She also knew that he loved her and their son. And that the second he saw Jean, their whole relationship would be compromised.
She was just going to have to wait and see.