Beyond the Night

Hits Ya Like A Ton Of Bricks

Note, Timeline, Misc: See One

In the lonely light of morning

In the wound that would not heal

It's the bitter taste

Of losing everything I held so dear

The next morning Kira smiled as she awoke to tender kisses from Tommy, his lips on her bare neck, she rolled over and looked into his face. Gently bringing her hand up she cupped his cheek and kissed his lips, feeling at home in his arms.

"Good morning to you too Tommy." She whispered, breaking the kiss, he smiled and brushed stray hair from her eyes, she placed her hand on top of his and stared deeply into his eyes as the words tumbled from her lips. "I love you." She stated, he stared in wonder and kissed her, wondering if he said it, would he really mean the words, when he couldn't bring himself to say it he saw hurt in her eyes but she sat up and kissed him again and whispered. "Its ok, I understand you don't have to say it." He watched her leave the room and he sighed once she closed the door, tucking his folded hands under the back of his head he began to think, wondering if he could ever bring himself to tell her those words she wanted to hear.

Kira sighed as she headed into the kitchen to begin to make coffee, when she entered the kitchen she got a small surprise. The coffee was already brewing and there was a small bouquet of flowers sitting on the table with a small card attached with a yellow ribbon, opening it she saw in an untidy scrawl "To Kira, Love Conner". She smiled over to the couch where Conner was watching her, a hopeful smile on his lips. She walked over to him and kissed him on the cheek.

"Thank you Conner, they're beautiful." She said, Conner smiled and patted the couch beside him.

"Good, I'm glad you liked them." He said, Kira nodded and sat next to him as the smell of coffee began to infuse the air around him. "Would you like to go see a movie with me today? My treat and you can see whatever you want." Conner promised, Kira grinned and surprised him when she agreed. "Ok then, what are we going to see?" he asked, Kira shrugged, and lifted the newspaper, and scanned the movie section. Finding nothing interesting she looked to him, an idea coming to her.

"Why don't we go to my parents house and rent some movies? They are on vacation and we'll have the house to ourselves, they said any time I wanted to use the house I could." She explained, Conner nodded, liking that much better, hoping it would be easier to seduce her then.

"Sounds good, we have a movie fest all day and then we can come back here for dinner." He said, Kira nodded and he had to ask, to make sure he still had his front on. "What's the matter did you fight with Tommy?" She shook her head 'No' but he knew she was lying. "Don't lie, what's wrong? What happened?" he asked, she glared.

"That's none of your business McKnight." She said icily, he held up his hands.

"You're right, sorry." He said, she said and pushed herself off of the couch and got a cup of coffee before she headed back to the bathroom to take a nice long shower to think things over. Carrying the cup gingerly down the hall she passed Tommy and refused to let herself look him in the eyes, not wanting him to see the hurt. For a moment she thought he was going to stop her and apologize but wasn't surprised when he didn't. Tommy felt a sting as she refused to meet her eyes and knew that it was his fault, and he sighed heavily as she closed the bathroom door and locked it behind her. He knew that he needed to amend for not telling her how he really felt because he realized that he didn't know what he would do if he lost her to anyone else.

Hour's later Trent came in and found Ethan, Hayley and Tommy sitting in the living room, Hayley was reading Ethan was on his laptop and Tommy was brooding in a chair in the corner. Trent arched his eyebrows as he sat in the chair next to Tommy's.

"What's up? Where's Conner and Kira?" he asked, Tommy blinked and looked over, worry in his eyes.

"They went out. How was it with Stacia last night?" he asked, changing the subject, though Trent wasn't easily distracted, he sighed, knowing he had to tell Tommy what Conner had told him.

"You do know that he just wants to break you guys up so he can have her again, right?" he asked, Tommy nodded and sighed heavily.

"I know, Kira can do what ever she pleases, she can make a choice about who she wants to be with and if it's him so be it." Tommy said, Trent could hear the hurt behind the words and touched Tommy's shoulder.

"She loves you, and I know you love her." He said, Tommy nodded and met Trent's dark eyes.

"You're right, I do love her, but I couldn't tell her, now I might lose her." He whispered, in a tone of sorrow.

Meanwhile Conner and Kira were on the couch in the living room, she was concentrating on the screen in front of her, and she hadn't noticed that his hand was now resting on her cold thigh, the tips of his fingers brushing against the yellow fabric of her skirt. He leaned over and kissed her, she moaned and let him lean her back until she was laying on her back on the couch. Then she stopped, for a minute he didn't even think she was breathing.

"Kira?" he asked, and was startled when she started crying, she slapped her hands over her eyes and cried. "What's wrong?" he asked, and she shoved him off of her and pushed her skirt back down and she stood up.

"I love him! I love him! The whole time I was thinking of him, I damn near moaned his name! I love Tommy! I love him and I can't even think about being with anyone else! Dear God, I hope I didn't fuck everything up! Please if you know what's good for you accept that I am in love with our ex-Science Teacher and that I only want to be with him. Actually I don't care if you accept it or not just take me home! I need to get back to him!" Kira exclaimed, Conner sighed and Kira couldn't stop the tears from falling down her face. It had hit her so hard that she couldn't contain her emotions from controlling her. Wordlessly they shut off the TV and DVD player and headed back home, to Tommy.

Trent was staring at Tommy, still concerned when the door was thrown open and Kira dodged inside, tears streaking her face.

"Tommy, we have to talk!" she said, and he immediately stood up and went to her, taking her into his arms.

"What's wrong honey?" he asked, she hugged him back and merely continued to cry.

"Nothing, just please come with me, it's very important." She insisted and dragged him to their bedroom and closed the door behind them. Conner came in, with a look on his face that made Trent glare with hatred.

"What did you do?" he asked, his tone monotone for the statement, Conner sighed and sat on the couch.

"I don't have to tell you anything." The jock stated with a sigh, Trent continued to glare, Ethan looked from Trent to Conner and back again, then sighed and hung his head. Turning from his laptop he stood in the middle of them.

"Look you two goons, Kira and Dr. O's life isn't our business, it's theirs and they don't need anyone interfering in it. It's their choice about their relationship so shut up both of you, I need to think and I want silence now!" Ethan said, snapping at the both of them. Conner sighed and looked to Trent deciding not to listen to Ethan about being silent.

"All I did was kiss her and she freaked out and she yelled that she couldn't even kiss me without thinking of him. She doesn't want me! She wants him!" Conner said, and sighed heavily.

"And have you accepted that?" Trent asked, his glare lessening, Conner shrugged.

"I don't think I ever will." He said in a hushed whisper.

To be continued

The next part is the last part and it will be short like this one was, sorry.