*I don't own any of the Characters and only some of the plot line is original. My take on Season 3, what I want to happen.
Pairing: Marco/Dylan, Paige/Spinner, Jimmy/Hazel, Emma/Sean, Ash/Craig, Spike/Snake (all the pairings that are in S3, except M/D, might be later on in the season)
"I'm not as bad as them. I would never do that. You know that right?"
"Spin, just stop all right. You may not have hit him or anything, but you practically hate him now, because he's gay, and what you wrote on the wall. It's still bashing."
"How do you know about all of this stuff, how do you know if I was bashing him."
"Spin, hun, Dylan is gay too. He went through all of this when he came out. He can deal with it, he fights it. Marco can't."
"Why can't he just date Hazel? Why does he have to be gay?"
"He can't change it. He was born that way. Just like you like girls, he likes boys. It's natural to him. It would be like you trying to like boys; you wouldn't want to do that, would you?"
"Like boys? That's disgusting. It's not normal. Kissing another guy, touching another guy."
"Well, kissing a girl isn't normal to Marco. Being gay is what he knows."
"Why didn't he tell us when he first moved here then?"
"He probably didn't know. Dylan didn't come out until he was in 9th. Anyway, why would he? They way you reacted? He was probably scared everyone would do that. Luckily for him Jimmy, Ellie, Dylan and me are cool with it. Ash is too. She thought he might be a long time ago. I talked to Ellie about how he was acting. Dylan told me he was weird."
"You talked to Ellie. The vampire?"
Yes. It's not like I've never talked to her before. She said that Marco is scared. After what happened with you and those guys in the park, he's not going to be anything. He won't even tell his parents. And now any chance of him and Dylan is out. Speaking of Dylan, I need to talk to him. See you at lunch."
"Bye."
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"Hey, Dylan." Paige hurried to catch up with him.
"Socializing with the brother at school, something must be wrong."
"Ha, ha, very funny. I need to talk to you about Marco."
"Is something wrong? He's okay, isn't he?"
"Yes. Aww that's cute, and you aren't even together yet." Dylan blushed. "Lets go over here."
"Okay," he followed his sister to the side of the hall. "Out with it."
"You were right."
"I was right about?"
"Marco is," her voice dropped so no one would hear her, "gay."
"I know. I could tell. Not that it matters, he won't even talk to me."
"I wanted to talk to you about that. Maybe you should help him deal. You can handle it."
"How am I supposed to? He won't talk to me, he won't look at me. He's not comfortable with it. If he were he wouldn't care what people thought. He has to be comfortable with who he is or I can't help. He might not even want help."
"I talked to Ellie, Marco likes you. She could tell."
"So could I, trust me. We both do, but he's not comfortable with it yet."
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"Marco. Will you stop this already? You can't just ignore it." Marco kept walking. Ellie walked faster to stay with him.
"Ellie just leave me alone. I'm ignoring it, it's working fine." Ellie grabbed his arm to stop him.
"No, it's not. What Spinner wrote is still there; people are going to see it. And people know, Marco. Ash told me a long time ago that you were, when I liked you. I didn't want to believe it, but I could tell too." He looked up at her his dark eyes filling with tears.
"I know. I lied about getting beat-up, they knew. They bashed me because they hate it. People hate it. I can't be something people hate."
"People hate everything, sometimes. But it's what you are; you can't forget what you are. And what about Dylan? Are you going to forget that too?"
"I don't want to, but I'm not sure I can deal with a relationship. I like him, but I'm not sure I can."
"Just talk to him, he's been through it. Maybe he can help. Okay, Marco? Promise me you will. Anyways, maybe you two can get together." Marco smiled.
"All right, I'll talk to Dylan." Ellie walked off to class leaving him alone, with everyone else. Most of the school knew about what was written on the wall of the boy's bathroom 'MARCO IS GAY'. Some of the girls giggled when he was around, a few people reacted like Spin, a few it didn't seem to bother, the ideal reaction. It seemed like they were used to it, having been through it with Dylan.
Marco smiled remembering how Dylan dealt with Jay. I wish I could do that. On his way to talk to Dylan, he got stopped. Jay came up behind him and said the one thing that he didn't want to hear.
"Looking for your boyfriend?" Marco took a deep breath. He thought back to how Dylan had handled him. I can do this. He turned around and stared Jay in the face; he hardened his expression and confronted him.
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Dylan stopped in the middle of the hall. He watched Jay come up behind Marco. He said something that Dylan couldn't hear, but he thought he knew what it was anyway. He had seen that latest bathroom graffiti. He was about to tell off Jay when he saw that Marco had it covered. Marco faced Jay. He got a little intimidated by Marco; he didn't expect to be faced by him.
Dylan smiled and walked up to Marco as Jay left.
"Hey, Marco." Marco turned around to face Dylan.
"Hey," he smiled shyly and looked Dylan over. "I was just on my way to talk to you."
"So you're talking to me now? Talk about what?"
"Sorry about that, I was upset. I promised Ellie…I'd talk to you about.." his voice dropped off.
"All right. What about it?"
"How you handle it."
"Listen, why don't we meet up after school." Dylan grinned as Marco nodded. "Out in the foyer."
"Sure, see you then." Dylan reached out and touched Marco's arm as he left.
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"What did you have to talk to Dylan about?"
"Marco." Spinner sighed.
"Don't tell me you're still trying to get them together?"
"Why not? They'd be cute together. Anyway I don't have to try." Spinner scrunched up his face.
"You don't mean they're already…" Paige laughed.
"No, but it's obvious they like each other." Spinner shook his head.
"Hey, Jimmy." Jimmy looked at Spin and rose and eyebrow.
"Are you still mad at me about Marco?"
"What do you think Spin, maybe you've forgotten, but I haven't.
"I haven't, between you and page, how could I." He walked off.
Jimmy shook his head.
"He's got to get over it, Marco is his friend.'
"Sure, Paige, he will eventually."
