The scene was tranquil. Their friendship and bond was blossoming as they walked along hand in hand. And yet, a something was lurking on the horizon. Death!. For the first ten minutes they sort of ignored the situation. Both situations that needed to be discussed!. The conversation going on about these topics was silent. It was in their body language!. Instead of discussing the pressing matters, Sebastian decided to just crack random jokes. Kathryn laughed. Instead they briefly got to know each other. But, they just couldn't bring themselves to discuss what happened back there!. For a start, they didn't know what to say to each other!. What could Kathryn say to the boy who's mother she'd just attempted to kill?. Was he angry?. Did he think she inherited her father's violent nature?. What did he think?!?!?. Meanwhile, what could Sebastian say to this girl?. He knew she was going through a life changing experience. He knew he couldn't comprehend the betrayal and pain she felt. He hadn't know this situation before!. But, he wanted to comfort her. He wanted to comfort her so badly!. But, how?. What would she think if a stranger come onto her trying to hug her and touch her - when she's just found out that the man she trusted most in all the world has been 'taking advantage' of her. Even if she expected the comforting, he just wasn't sure if he'd upset her by talking all this stuff. Did she want to talk about it?. Was it that easy?. They didn't know because they didn't know each other!. They were strangers. And the strange thing was despite being strangers he knew her deepest darkest secrets. She didn't want him to know!. It just happened!. She didn't know him!...not really!...so how did she know if he tell everyone or not!. The strange thing is he knew what she was thinking. It must have been among that silent conversation they had!. He didn't know what to say about what happened...but he knew there was one thing he had got to say!. "I won't tell anyone!" he blurted out in a midst of tranquil silence. Of course, that tranquil silence had now turned to an icy cold tension through no fault of their own but by the situation's fault. "What?" Kathryn asked surprised he'd dared to mention she couldn't. "It's your secret to tell not mine" he said. And he stopped. Kathryn never forgot that moment because Sebastian kept his promise - well ,except for Blaine! he told Blaine! But he said he was trying to help! - other than Blaine! Sebastian never told anyone. He stood on that mountaintop and he promised not to tell anyone. He didn't even write it in his journal!. That was one thing Kathryn feared about the journal!. That he'd write it in there!. But, Kathryn's secret was never revealed to most people until she was 35 years old. She kept that secret for 26 years!...more than that!...29!. That secret begun the day her father came into her room when she was 7 years old. Her mother kept her secrets for 37!. And throughout the Merteuil women's difficult times the only thing they could reply on, the only thing who knew the truth was a Valmont!. Caitlin, Kathryn and Leonie the true Merteuil women!. There were times over their teenage years when Sebastian or Nathan Valmont would tease their Merteuil woman about their secret!. Sebastian would call Kathryn: "Whore" for sleeping for her father in turn for gifts, and, "Murderer" for murdering their parents - even though he knew neither was true!. Murder equals Death!. And you knew Death was coming. The story goes Merteuil mum marries Valmont dad and all live screwed up in the Valmont home. No Valmont mummy and no Merteuil daddy! Good-bye to the old and in with the new! - and that's exactly what Leonie and David did. Their business joined to make "Valmert media corporation"!...thanking the New York post for the concept of adding those names so beautifully together in their media coverage of the kidnapping. Leonie and David wanted a new family. Neither had been happy in their previous marriages and now wanted a family in their happier one. Indeed, the new Mr and Mrs Valmont were very much in love. They were truthful in their protests that they never had an affair before their spouses died. They claimed after the accident to just be friends supporting each other through the loss. Because in the same way that Kathryn and Sebastian were thrown together to comfort each other in this critical, so too were David and Leonie. And that is how it continued. Valmont Senior and Merteuil Senior would comfort each other. And Valmont junior and Merteuil junior would comfort each other. Through this tragedy they were to find their best friend. Indeed, Kathryn was having to form a new identity at this time - she had to reassess her whole life. Sebastian was the only one there at a crucial time!. Plus he was the only one who knew the foundations of what that life was build on - the hurt, the pain...the betrayal!. In the next few years, he would excuse, cover up and sympathize we've the evil bitch he saw form in front of his eyes...just because he knew the foundations. He knew or could guess every motive!. If people bitched about her then he'd be the first to jump in to her defense, claiming that they didn't know what she'd been through. Except of course when it was him who was 'bitching'. Then one day Sebastian snapped. Kathryn turned double crossed and rejected the only person who had stuck by her through thick and thin - the day she said she tricked him into dumping Annette, he realized every piece of her shattered heart had eventually burned away through the angry. Was there a heart left?. He knew the only way to sort Kathryn's life out was to show his journal to everyone - He knew he could rely on Annette!.