Chapter 2
22 year old Phineas Flynn sat on the bed in a dingy motel room with a bottle of whiskey in his hand. A woman walked in with a shopping bag closing the door behind her with her foot.
"Hey Phineas I'm home. I'm sorry but I couldn't get any beer for the game tonight."
"You couldn't even get stupid beer! What the hell were you doing out there then!" Phineas slammed the whiskey down and stood up. The woman took a defensive step back and cringed involuntarily. Phineas saw this and fell back to sitting on the edge of the bed.
"What happened?" he mumbled under his breath
"Well I was at the store and.."
"No that's not what I mean I mean, what happened? I got up angrily and you cringed." he paused "I was angry because you couldn't get beer! Since when has that happened?"
"Oh Phineas I know you'd never actually hit me."
"But that's just it Isabella. You don't know that. I don't even know that anymore. I'm drunk. I've been drunk for the past 6 months. You're heart is telling you I would never hit you but your most basic instinct is telling you to protect your face."
"Phineas its fine nothing happened."
"But its not fine look at us. I failed out of college and then dragged you with me here. To live in a motel? Isabella answer me this, WHY do you love me?" Isabella had a confused and thoughtful look on her face. After 5 seconds Phineas interrupted her thinking "You don't even know anymore. I don't even know why you would. The Phineas you fell in love with was creative, caring, and did everything for fun. I don't even know that Phineas anymore. I haven't talked to Ferb in over a year for crying out loud!" Phineas calmed himself and his voice got quieter "When my mom told me about my father she began to cry and I assured her it was okay, he wasn't worth any more of her life than he had taken. And look at me. Here I am, probably the closest anyone will ever come to being that man. Why did you stick with me Isabella. We both were smart, inventive, creative, and were granted scholarships to any college we wanted. We could have been famous at the push of a button. But I went down and you followed me."
"Phineas I followed you because I love you. I've loved you since you believed in cooties and I sure as hell wasn't going to leave as your life took a slight turn downward." Phineas gave her a look "Okay a big downturn but you've made it out of worse spots than this. Phineas your capable of doing anything."
"Capable of anything" Phineas muttered. Then he sat up straight. "Okay I'll try and become the person I used to be. The one that was fun to be. And you try and become more like your old self. At the first sign of danger the Isabella I knew would never take a step back. She would take a step forward and force anyone else to back down. Between the two of us we were able to do anything." He was quiet for a second, deep in thought. "We still can be those people can't we. We can still do anything!." His voice rose with his old determination as opposed to his usual drunken anger. "I'll get better. I won't be my father. I'll be me. But more than that I'll be the me that was fun to be." Phineas threw away the bottle of whiskey sitting next to him. "And as soon as this hangover goes away then I'll know what I'm going to do tomorrow."
The End
(A/N I left the ending there on purpose. You get no back-story on how he got there or information on what hes doing tomorrow I feel that that constitutes an ending by itself)