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, Mark Anderson and some other numerous things/characters 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, Target, Sams Club
A/N4: Thanks you guys! I appreciate that most of you were really honest in doing my reviews. I would like for you guys to do that again in the next few chapters and in my other stories that I'll be updating soon. I think I'm gonna try to finish Throughout The Years chapter that is partially written.
A/N5: This is Kevin's life as a Police Officer with a little Lucy/Savannah thrown in as well. Oh yeah I'm so sorry that this chapter is super long! I couldn't stop writing but you'll see why in the next chapter!
A/N6: Oh yeah, thanks to LucyKevinfan who gave me the idea for the ending storyline.
CHAPTER FOUR
BEEP…BEEP…BEEP…BEEP
Kevin groaned and swung his hand hard over towards the small nightstand table that he had purchased the night before he moved into the swanky apartment and slammed his fist across the sleep button on his radio alarm clock.
He rubbed his eyes so they could get adjusted to the light that was streaming in from the curtains that he hadn't bothered to close last night.
He just laid there, listening to the stillness of his apartment. No dog barking, no little girl laughing and running after the dog trying to catch her tail.
There was nothing but silence.
And he hated the silence.
He swung his legs over to the side of the bed and touched the dark brown, dingy looking carpet and walked across towards the bathroom to shave. He had enough of this "rough" looking style he wasn't trying to grow and decided it was time to shave it.
He walked into the bathroom and grabbed the white towel off of the rack and opened the cupboard doors and started to search for some shaving cream and his trusty old razor.
He searched the first two cupboards with hardly any luck. Oh, he did find shaving cream but it was all gone. He searched the cupboard that was underneath the first one to find his razor and if he was lucky maybe he'd find another bottle of shaving cream.
No suck luck. "Damn it" he muttered to himself as he slammed the cabinet doors shut only for them to bounce back. He hated running out of things. Ever since he moved into this apartment he made sure that he had stocked up on everything, besides food of course that he would need so he wouldn't have to risk running into Lucy and Savannah or even the Camden's at a grocery store or at their Sam's Club.
But now, he was out of shaving cream and really didn't have time this week to stop off at Sam's Club and get 20 cans of shaving cream for 20.00. That meant he would have to take a quick trip to Target, since it was just around the corner from the Glenoak Police Station.
He turned the faucet on and ran the cold and warm water together until he could find a comfortable temperature he could work with and washed his face. He grabbed the towel off from the side of the sink and rubbed his face clean. He didn't feel like taking a shower today.
25 minutes and a black coffee later Kevin arrived in the parking lot of Glenoak Police Station. He parked the black Trailblazer that he was driving and grabbed his briefcase and headed indoors.
He nodded to a couple of police officers that were standing in the door way and kept on walking towards his department.
He got to the glass doors and pushed them open to reveal the busyness ofthe homicide department.
That was what got him into this mess.
"Luce? Savannah? I'm home" Kevin yelled loudly as he shut the backdoor.
"Daddy!" cried two and a half year-old Savannah as she came racing into the kitchen and rushed into Kevin's open arms.
"Hey! There's my kiddo! Where are my kisses?" he asked closing his eyes as Savannah gave him her famous butterfly kisses that he had been teaching her for the past few months.
"Bring me?" Savannah asked innocently with her hands turned up in the air.
Kevin held back a smile and shook his head. "Sorry kiddo. Not this time" he replied giving her a sad face. Little did she know there was a surprise hidden outside the backyard.
"Where's momma?" he inquired walking around the kitchen table that looked like it had been set and ready for dinner hours ago.
"Sleeping" Savannah replied putting both her hands together and closing her eyes.
Kevin frowned. It wasn't like Lucy to fall asleep at 7 o'clock at night.
"Let's go and wake her up quietly" he told his daughter setting her down softly on the kitchen floor and grabbed her hand as they walked into the hallway towards the family room.
Sure enough, as they rounded the corner he spied Lucy fast asleep on the couch with a children's book on top of her stomach. She must have been reading Savannah a bedtime story and fallen asleep her self. The quite opposite of what she must of wanted.
"Luce" he whispered. He got no response, not even a stir.
"DUCE" Savannah mimicked him, but much louder of course considering the fact that she was at that age that whispering wasn't in her vocabulary.
Kevin tried again. This time a little bit louder. "Luce?"
"Mmmm?" Lucy mumbled as she turned her back towards him.
"I have a b-i-r-t-h-d-a-y s-u-r-
r-i-s-e for S-a-v-a-n-n-a-h and you outside" he told her spelling the letters he knew his daughter wouldn't understand.
"What's that?" she replied sleepily, finally starting to wake up.
Kevin gave a short laugh. "I'm not telling you or it'll ruin the surprise" he replied but instantly groaned as soon as he said that.
Savannah squealed as loud as she could "Sutprise? I want sutprise daddy!" she hollered at him.
Kevin cursed to himself and knelt down towards Savannah. "I'll give you the surprise if you can get mommy to come with us" he bribed the little girl.
Savannah went rushing over to Lucy who had started to slowly wake up. "MOMMA up! Up! Daddy has sutprise for me!" she proudly announced to Lucy.
"What kind of a surprise?" Lucy replied giving Kevin a look.
He shook his head. "Not telling"
"Come momma come" Savannah told Lucy, grabbing her hand and tried to pull her up off the couch.
"I'm coming. I'm coming" Lucy muttered grouchily as she got up off the couch and took the little girls hand.
"Where would this surprise be?" she asked.
"Outside"
"Why would the surprise be -" she started to say when she stopped in her tracks.
"You didn't"
Kevin smiled. "I did"
"I thought we were going to talk more about this?" she replied.
"We did"
"So, you just went ahead and -" Lucy started to say before she felt herself being tugged towards the backdoor by Savannah.
"Momma hurry!" the little girl practically yelled.
Lucy had no choice but to follow her daughter through the backdoor and onto the back porch when she gasped and Savannah let out a squeal of excitement.
There tied up around a tree was the prettiest puppy anyone could have picked out. She had a white stripe down the middle of her nose and a full white ring of hair on her neck and then her body was a beautiful shade of brown. The best part about the little puppy? Her tail was brown up until the end where there was a little white tip. The little puppy started to bark out of excitement when Savannah started to run towards her.
"Oh Kevin" she whispered softly.
Kevin smiled and wrapped his arms around his wife from behind. "Oh Kevin what?"
"She's gorgeous, how old is she?"
"How do you know she's a girl?" he replied with a little laughter in his voice.
"I—I don't"
"It's 9 month's old and it's a she"
"What kind of a dog is she?"
"A Shetland Sheepdog" he replied rocking back and forth.
"Does she have a name?"
"Nope, I thought maybe you and Savannah would like to name her since you two would be spending a lot of time with her"
"What do you mean a lot of time?" Lucy responded back turning around to look at her husband in the face.
"I'm working on a promotion at work. I told you this"
Lucy squared her eyes and glared at him. "No you didn't! This was the first time you told me about a promotion"
Kevin looked confused. "No, I told you about it4 weeks ago when we were discussing buying a dog to keep you guys safe while I was gone"
Lucy started to get annoyed and bit the side of her lip. "You did not tell me!" she cried stomping her foot on the porch floor. "I would have remembered you telling me about going for a promotion"
Kevin opened his mouth to reply when Savannah came up the stairs, dragging the puppy by her collar.
"Look momma. Puppee" she squealed again.
Lucy bent down and gave Savannah a big smile. "I see the puppy. Isn't she pretty?" she asked the little girl as she gently removed the puppies' collar out from Savannah's arms. "And guess what?"
"What?"
"Daddy said you and I get to name her! Isn't that exciting?" she asked Savannah with enthusiasm in her voice.
The little girl's eyes widened and her head started to bobble up and down.
"We can name her anything we want. How about…we call her Savannah?" Lucy asked with a little seriousness in her voice.
"That's my name!" Savannah replied proudly.
"Your right it is!" Lucy replied, pretending to sound shocked. "I guess we'll have to call her something else then now won't we?". Savannah nodded her head and started to pet the puppy.
Lucy watched her daughter think for a moment before her eyes got really wide and she looked up.
"Molly" she replied tapping the puppy on top of her little brown head.
"Molly?" Kevin replied confused.
Lucy handed the little girl back the puppy and stood up. "Remember when we went to visit your mom and Frank last month? Their next door neighbor had a cat whose name was Molly"
"Oh, I remember now she adored that thing"
Lucy nodded her head and walked over and sat down on the porche swing they had bought just after Savannah was born.
Kevin followed and sat down next to her. Since he was 6' 0 he'd be able to watch Savannah and the new puppy more than Lucy would. "Is there something wrong Luce?"
Lucy didn't answer back. She was to busy staring off into space when she sighed and turned to him. "Yes Kevin, there is something wrong. I love you but when you go and do things and not tell me and then just turn around and spring them on me I can't handle it."
Kevin rubbed his face and sighed. He could have sworn he had told her that he was going after Mark Anderson's position in the Homicide department. After all it would be better hours and it would bring a lot more money into their life.
"Mark Anderson had applied for a position in Detroit as Police chief and was offered the job three weeks ago. He had until last week to give them a final answer."
"So? What does that have to do with us?"
"I'm not done"
"Oh"
"Anyways, Captain Michaels pulled me aside a few days ago and asked me if I was going to apply for Mark's position. I told him I hadn't thought about it and I would come home and talk to you about it before I did anything. He told me that I had better do something now because I was one of the most qualified candidates there and would rather see me get Mark's supervisor job than anyone else. So I thought about it and decided that I'd go ahead and apply for the job"
"And?"
"And nothing, I have to wait until they go through the selection process and then they start the interview process. It's going to be a tough job Luce and I'm going to have to work twice as hard if I want to get it. That means I won't be home as much as I use to. That's why I got you and Savannah Molly"
Lucy pulled her feet up closer to her body. "If you get this promotion. What kind of hours will you be working?" she asked seriously.
Kevin gave her a small smile. At least she was asking questions." Well Mark usually only worked 8-5 unless it was some big important case. Plus he had one weekend off a month" he replied leaning over closer towards Lucy. "Which means if I get that job you and I can go somewhere special" he whispered lowering his voice so Lucy could only hear.
Lucy looked confused. "What do you mean you and I? What about Savann -" she stopped in the middle of her sentence and blushed.
"Oh" she responded softly.
Kevin just laughed at his wife's blonde moment before Savannah walked up to the porch swing tugging Molly behind her.
"Whatcha doing?" she asked climbing up onto the swing and sat in Kevin's lap.
"Laughing at your mom"
"Why?"
"Because I love her" Kevin told his daughter snuggling her closer to him.
"HAHAHAHAH" Savannah screamed loudly.
Lucy jumped 10 feet into the air and looked crossly at Savannah "What was that all about?"
"I love you" the little girl stated.
Lucy's crossed look melted and she scooted closer to Kevin and Savannah giving Molly enough room to jump up into the swing as well.
"I love you both" Lucy replied with a soft smile giving Savannah a kiss on the forehead and Kevin a soft but sensual kiss on his lips as he wrapped his free arm around her.
They stayed like that until the sun started to rise the next morning.
"Morning Kinkirk" Detective Jones said as he walked by Kevin.
"Morning Jones" Kevin replied as he walked past a few more desks and into the office that stated 'Kinkirk' on the front door and pushed it open.
Inside his office it was a national disaster. Paper strewn over places. The garbage can filling up with junk and remnants of him staying those extra night at the office were still apparent.
He threw his briefcase onto the couch and sat down at his desk and started to rifle through things that were strewn over his desk and started to put them into three sets of piles. First pile was to be filed away, second pile was to be updated and placed back into the correct spot and the third was to be tossed into the trash.
He started to work on the piles and before he knew it almost two hours had flown by and his office was starting to look like someone who was of importance finally worked there. He glanced at a crystal clock that Savannah had given to him as a congratulations gift and yelped. Today was March 3rd and it was his "selected" day to call Savannah and talk to her.
He picked up the phone and dialed the ever so familiar number and waited for someone to pick up.
"Hello?"
"Annie? It's Kevin"
"Hello Kevin" Annie responded coldly to her soon-to-be ex-son-in-law.
"Is Savannah there? I'd like to talk to her" Kevin asked ignoring the tone Annie had given him. He heard her sigh and put down the phone and could hear her yelling for Savannah.
"Hi daddy" Savannah spoke into the phone a few minutes later.
"Hey pumpkin how's my special girl doing?"
"Good" came the one word reply.
"Have you done anything fun lately?"
"Uh huh, mommy and I went to the park and played on the swings"
"Did you go really high?"
"No"
Kevin looked puzzled for a moment. "How come you didn't go really high sweetie?"
"Cuz, you weren't there to push me. Mommy said that she couldn't push me as high. When are you coming home daddy? I miss you. I think mommy misses you, but she won't tell me. Her and grandma says that when I grows up I'll understand" the little girl told him.
Kevin's heart just about broke into a million pieces.
"Sa-"he started to say but his throat was all choked up so he cleared it and tried again. "Savannah, your mommy and grandma are right. When you do grow up you'll understand why I'm not home"
The little girl started to get tearful. "But daddy, I love you please come home! When I say please your 'pose to do what I want"
Kevin gave a little chuckle. That was his Savannah alright. Always willing to make a bargain with someone.
"I'm sorry sweetie…I -just can't come home now" he told his little girl.
Savannah burst into tears and threw the phone down and ran out of the room. Annie, who had been watching the whole thing bent down and picked up the phone.
"What the hell did you say to her Kevin?" she demanded.
Kevin groaned inside. Now he was going to have to deal with Annie. "I told her the truth. What else do you think I told her?"
Annie sighed. "Kevin, I don't think it's a good idea for you to be talking to her anymore. It's just making her all upset about the whole thing. I'll talk to Lucy tonight. Goodbye Kevin" she told him hanging up the phone.
Kevin was speechless. That was the first time in the 6 years knowing a Camden that they said goodbye to someone on the telephone. But it was also the first time that someone had told him they didn't think it was a good idea to talk to his little girl anymore.
Something had to change.
He got out of his chair and slammed it back into the open spot and grabbed his suitcase and was about to open his door when there came a knock.
"Come in" he growled.
"Kinkirk? Everything all right?" Captain Michaels asked stepping into his office.
"Everything's fine. What's up?"
"Kinkirk, we need your help" Captain Michaels told him seriously.