Hee hee, I'll be nice and not make you wait to see what happens. It took me some time to really think about how this would go, so I hope you all enjoy it and review as always.
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Chapter 7: I need you.
"Sam? What are you doing here?"
Sam stood silently looking at Freddie for the first time. He looked a bit better, his hair was short again and he was gaining a bit of weight back, but what she noticed most was his eyes. They weren't cloudy anymore and they looked slightly less haunted...in short he was slowly starting to look like Freddie again.
"Sam?"
She jerked out of her trance and shrugged "Spencer told me where you were, and I guess I just wanted to see if you're ok."
He shrugged, shoving his hands in his pockets so she wouldn't see the slight shaking to them "I'm alright...yeah I'm good."
Sam quirked her eyebrow and shook her head "Don't lie to me dork, I know you remember? I can tell when you're lying."
Freddie smiled crookedly "And I'll say it again as I've said many times before, that is a very irritating truth."
Sam felt her heart leap slightly at his smile and crossed her arms "As irritating as it may be it's true. So are we going to stand here all day dancing around the subject till you tell me, or will you tell me willingly so I don't have to beat it out of you?"
Freddie tilted his head and then grabbed her hand, taking her over to a bench.
He sat down and she sat beside him and he sighed "You wanna know the truth?"
Sam nodded "Yeah, I do."
He looked over at her "Why? You never cared before."
She was quiet for a minute and he sighed again "Sorry Sam, that was rude."
She shook her head "Please, I actually deserve worse then that. You have every right to question it, but...I want to try and help. I'm part of the reason you got into this mess in the first place, I want to help you get out of it."
Freddie looked at her silently before saying quietly "It's hard. I haven't had a drink in like a month, and I want one so bad some days that it hurts. I do some small jobs around the center with a friend, and that helps a bit, and when it gets really bad I talk to Kolby.."
Sam held up a hand "Who the heck is Kolby?"
Freddie laughed quietly "Sorry. He's my counselor here. He's helping me with everything. The accident, the aftermath. I tell him everything."
Sam rolled her eyes "Fantastic, I'm sure he just LOVES me."
Freddie shrugged "I said some...not so nice things about you at first, but not anymore. I'm all good now."
Sam stared at him blankly and he stood up, motioning for her to follow.
"It's like this Sam. All the feeling guilty, and the feeling angry...and the feeling guilty about feeling angry...well that's always what made me drink. So I'm working really hard to move past those feelings."
Sam nodded as she fell into place to walk beside him "How are you doing with that?"
Freddie looked up, shoving his hands in his pockets "I know now that it's not my fault, that there was nothing I could do, but I'm still working on the guilt part, from both the accident and other things."
Sam looked over at him curiously and they stopped walking "What kind of other things?"
Freddie looked away and Sam grabbed his arm to turn him around and he shrugged "Us? I fell apart after the accident and I probably should have handled it better."
She laughed humorlessly and shook her head "No, no. You don't need to take the blame for that one. That was all me, and my typical Sam-ness of walking away from things when they get too complicated."
Freddie nodded "Doesn't matter who's fault it was I guess, it happened."
Sam nodded slowly "Yeah, it happened. So like, when do you get out of here?"
"When I have somewhere to live, I can't live alone till I'm sure I won't relapse again. And besides, I'm not ready to leave yet."
"Well you'll know when you're ready. But I should go, Carly and Gibby are watching Ayden." Sam said as they got near the door to go back into the center itself.
Feddie nodded and handed her another envelope "Was gonna call Spencer to bring this to you too, but since your here, it's another month or so of the child support I owe you."
Sam smiled and put the envelope in her sweater, biting her lower lip in debate before she reached up and hugged him "Thank you...I'll come see you again soon."
Freddie hugged her back tightly, remembering how it felt and how it made him feel before pulling away "Thanks Sam. Tell everyone I say hi."
She nodded and hurried out of the center, trying to ignore how she was feeling.
Back at Carly's house
'Hee hee Unca Gibby, I win. My tower didn't fall over like yours" Gibby laughed and started picking up the Lego pieces "Good job buddy, you make much better towers then me."
Carly watched them with a smile, making supper when Sam walked through the door and she turned to look at her "Hey Sam, how was it?"
Sam looked over at her and walked over to the couch and fell face first onto it, causing Carly to shoot a look at Gibby who nodded "Hey buddy, let's go for a walk ok?"
Ayden nodded happily and Gibby picked him up and they walked outside, while Carly went and sat down on the edge of the couch Sam wasn't covering "What's wrong?"
Sam buried her face deeper into the couch and groaned, lifting her head up "Nothing, that's the point. He's starting to look more like Freddie and he was acting more like him and..."
"Your afraid you'll start to love him again?" Carly finished off for her."
Sam nodded and flopped her head back down and Carly ran a hand along her back comfortingly "There are probably worse things that could happen."
Sam sat up on the couch and shrugged "I'm glad he's getting the help, but it was hard to see the struggle he's going through."
She turned her head to the kitchen and sniffed "Your making food?"
Carly laughed "Yeah, you staying for supper?"
Sam leaped off the couch "As if you have to ask that."
Ok, so I just wanted to put some bonding between them, to try and move on the Seddie storyline a bit. I hope you love it and review!
