Because of You
By: GeorgeStultsFan
Summary: Something you never thought tore them apart and one of them has to raise their daughter by themselves. But, what happens when something you never thought would have happened brought them back together?
A/N: I don't own 7th Heaven but I do own George Stults World so that'll get me closer to owning 7th Heaven then most people. So please don't sue me if you don't like this story.
A/N2: This is story is set around February 28th, 2008
A/N3: I own Jen's Creations, Kid's Playhouse and some other numerous things in this chapter/story. If you don't think I do please e-mail me and let me know so I can research it myself and hopefully make the correct changes it needs. But I don't own COPS, Aura by American Eagle,
CHAPTER TWO
On the other side of Glenoak in a small dingy looking apartment Kevin Kinkirk was staring at the TV that currently had COPS on mute.
He rubbed his face, where it was normally clean shaven; a goatee was starting to grow. He had dark circles under his eyes from the lack of sleep he had been getting since he was working about 24 hours a day for the last three weeks.
That's all he had left in his life. Work, work and more work. Heck maybe if he was even lucky he'll be able to throw a little sleep into his life.
He threw the remote control at the TV and it just bounced back onto the floor. His life wasn't supposed to be like this. Everything had been planned out to a T. Nothing was supposed to go wrong. He loved his wife and little girl.
"GET OUT!" Lucy screamed at him throwing his car keys at his chest.
"Luce, please calm down" Kevin begged, walking closer to Lucy. "Savannah will hear you"
"WHAT THE HELL DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? I SAID GET OUT! I HATE YOU!" Lucy spat at him.
"Lucy, you can't mean that. You're just mad." Kevin tried to reason with her.
"MAD? MAD? " Lucy replied with a scary laughter tone to her. 'YOU REALLY THINK I'M MAD? WELL I HATE TO TELL YOU BUCKO BUT I'M FUMING MAD AND RIGHT NOW YOU'RE MY TARGET" she yelled at him.
Kevin took a short breath and stepped back. Something wasn't right here and he couldn't put his finger on it.
"Luce, I –"Kevin started to say in-between the silence.
"What didn't you understand about me wanting you out of my house?" Lucy hissed at him. "I want your stuff gone and packed by tomorrow morning before I get home from taking Savannah to my parents house. I don't want you to come into this house again as long as Savannah or I are home. Do you understand me?" she threatened him, violently shaking as she spoke those words.
"Lucy, you don't mean that"
"I mean every word Kevin Kinkirk" she responded coldly to him as she walked out of the living room and climbed up the stairs to their bedroom and slammed the door shut.
Every time he thought about that night that got everything started he wanted to go back and erase it from their lives. Make it so it never happened. Make it so that they were still together and still very much in love.
But that was all gone now. He was here and she was living in the house that he had bought for her as a surprise baby shower present was up for sale and there was nothing he could do about it.
Or was there? He knew that he should have done something that night. Laid his foot down, demanded her to tell him what was wrong. Whatever it was it must be still eating her alive.
Oh how he missed his little girl. Her dark, warm, chocolate colored eyes with her dark brown hair. He missed the hugs and the big butterfly kisses that he was greeted with each night he came home from his long hours at work.
He longed to smell the peaches and strawberry shampoo that Lucy washed her hair with. He missed the smell of her perfume "Aura" by American Eagle. He missed being in a bed next to her, watching her sleep peacefully.
But now, instead he was here. Sitting in a small square box pining away for something that he knew he probably would never be able to see again. That's what he missed the most.
He turned off the light and sat in complete darkness. He watched the street lights flicker on and watched as the world around him went about their business, while he was inside wanting to paused everything and try to rewind.
He must have dozed off because his cell phone startled him out of his sleep. Groping around to turn the lamp on to find his phone the ringing stopped.
Cursing to himself for missing what could have been an important phone call, he got out of his chair and looked under the pile of Glenoak newspapers for his cell phone.
He heard it start to ring again and so he searched harder for his phone under the mess. Getting so frustrated he took both his hands and threw all the newspapers and anything else that was on the table onto the floor and he still couldn't find his cell phone.
The cell phone was starting to become annoying since he couldn't find it. He started to search in the kitchen, went back to the living room where he found it. Right where he left it…sitting next to his chair on the coffee table.
Muttering angrily to himself he picked up the phone and hit the answer button. "Kinkink"
"Where the hell have you been? I've tried to call you a thousand times" he heard his mother's angry voice over the phone.
Grimacing, Kevin flopped down in his chair and closed his eyes. He was in for another lecture.
"I couldn't find my phone and I had to look for it"
"Well that's no excuse! You should have put it in the same place. How many times have I told you and your brother that?"
Rubbing his temple, Kevin could feel his anger starting to boil a little bit. "What's the point of this call mom?"
"I wanted to know if you had talked to Lucy yet?"
"No, I haven't talked to Lucy. Why don't you call her and ask the damn question you keep asking me and get it over with?"
"Don't take that tone with me"
"I'm 30-years-old I can take whatever tone with you I want. I'm not a child anymore"
"The hell you aren't a child. Can't you see what this is doing to poor Savannah? I talked to her yesterday and when I asked her if she and mommy were doing anything fun she told me that they went to the park all day and played on the swings. My heart just about broke when she said she wished you were there pushing her"
Kevin pinched the spot between his nose and braced himself for what was coming next.
"I don't understand why you two are doing this. It's ridiculous is what it is. To think that the two of you have been through so much in these past few years only for a piece of paper to ruin everything. I can't believe you two aren't even talking to each other? NOW how childish is that?
"Mom -" Kevin started to warn her.
"I'm not done Kevin Andrew. I still CAN NOT believe that you just gave up the fight for your daughter. What is that going to tell her when she is older and she wants to know she was always living with Lucy? What are you going to tell her then?"
"I'm going to tell her that my job was to danergous for a little girl to be around. That I wasn't home a lot and that sometimes I don't even come home is what I'm going to tell her, but don't worry I'll make sure that I still see her and that I'll have her during the summers." Kevin told his mother point blank.
Karen heaved a sigh. Her older son was being so bullheaded he couldn't see straight. "Fine, you do what you want with your life but if anything happens…"
"Don't worry nothing will"
"You worry me to much Kevin. This isn't your nature."
"I know mom. It's just the way life is"
"Not your life Kevin."
"I have to go"
"I'll talk to you later then"
"Fine, and tell Frank I said hi" Kevin replied hanging up the phone. Even after only 6 years of being around the Camden's he still couldn't break the habit of not saying goodbye before hanging up the phone.
He tossed this cell phone into his chair and turned the light off and walked towards his bedroom.
He was starting to feel the effects of his failed marriage and just wanted to get some sleep. At least in his dreams they were still one big happy family.
Oh god did he miss her.