Thin Bond between hate and love

A/N: I do not own the characters or anything from the show.

This is the second chapter of this story.

Oh, and all of this happens after Scott told his father about Elaine. But it's like the episode 'Seductions' never existed. Also, everybody knows about Shelby's past.


CHAP/2

Sophie sat in front of Peter as he was reading some papers.

"Hey, do you want something?" He asked looking up from his work.

"I saw Scott leaving your office, what happened?" Peter looked up from his paperwork and made a face.

"What do you mean?"

"I do think he was pretty upset. Is this about his relationship with Shelby?" Peter shook his head.

"His father is coming to Horizon in a few days."

"Oh. So you asked him if he wanted to see him."

"Yeah. The thing is that he didn't really look happy to hear that. Last time he saw him, he called him a liar."

"I could try to talk to him if you want?"

"I don't think he is ready to talk, in any case not with a counselor. Maybe his relationship with Shelby will help him."

"I hope you're right."

"So you wanted something else?"

"Yes. Shelby requested something really interesting when I was with her. She wants Scott to sleep with her in the infirmary tonight. Are you okay with this?"

"Are you serious? I won't even consider it as a question. He has no reason to stay with her there. Where does she think she is?" He asked smiling a bit.

"I knew you wouldn't allow this. You know better than letting two teenagers in the same room all the night, without surveillance." She said slightly mocking him.

"Yeah, even more when we know that the two are already close." Sophie nodded and got up

to go bringing the news. Peter noticed and went to stop her.

"Where are you going?"

"To tell her you don't want Scott to stay with her."

"Oh, come on, you'll have time tonight, let just her hope a little…" Peter smiled and Sophie shook her head smiling a bit.

"You're cruel."

"Yeah, I know" He said grinning, wrapping his arms around her waist.


"Oh, come on Peter, you know we wouldn't do anything here!" Shelby said the mouth full of pasta.

"I'm sorry Shelby but I can't allow this here, you know we have rules against those kinds of things. He has to sleep in the dorm like the others." Peter said kindly to Shelby who had trying to play her case in front of him. He was sitting on the chair next to her bed watching her eating with a big appetite. The girl, who was always saying Horizon's food was disgusting, actually liked this food. Of course she would never admit it, giving the reason she was starving like a dead. He smiled to himself and followed her gaze as they heard a knock on the door. They both knew it was Scott.

"You can enter Scott!" Peter said loud enough for him to hear. In not even a second Scott went inside, a pretty big smile on his face. Peter smiled back at him.

"The only thing I can do is leaving you two now and come back just before lights out." The two teens nodded and Peter got up, took the tray from Shelby's table and left as quickly as he could.

Once alone with his girlfriend, Scott drew her and sat on the side of her bed. They intertwined their fingers and Shelby looked at him questionably.

"What is it?" The tone of his voice was gentle but a little strange.

"Why did Peter want to talk to you?" She asked curiously.

"Uh, mydadis coming and he needed to know if I wanted to see him."

"Oh. And do you want to?"

"I'm not sure. Look can we talk about something else; I don't really want to bring that subject now." He was still insecure if he could tell her about his life before Horizon and preferred to drop the subject. Shelby tiny smiled and stroked his hand with her thumb.

"Okay. So what do you want to talk about?"

"Uh, what about us?"

"What do you mean what about us? I thought we were fine?" She said becoming a little agitated. Scott just smiled.

"Relax, we are. I was just thinking of doing something more interesting than talking …"

"Oh, I see." She said knowingly pushing herself against him as he wrapped an arm around her shoulders. Scott leaned down to meet her lips in a sweet honey kiss.

After a good make out session, Scott knew he should come back to his dorm and left his girlfriend alone since he still felt her weaker. With one last kiss, he said goodnight and left her for the night.


"Hey Shelby, how are you holding up?" Daisy asked as she entered the dorm with Juliet by her side. Shelby was laying on her bed reading some book Sophie had given her. The doctor had allowed her to stay in the dorm but she was still on rest.

"Good I guess but still a little tired."

"See Shelby, I knew you weren't so strong that it appears." Juliet piped taking a magazine from under her bed.

"Would you just shut the hell up Queenie, no one talked to you." Shelby said madly.

"You're right I have better things to do anyway."

"Good for you" Shelby muttered. Juliet smirked at her and quickly left to meet Auggie by the field.

"What a pain in the arse…" Shelby added as she closed the door.

"I heard that slut!" Juliet yelled from outside as she passed next to the window. Daisy just laughed at them and sat at the edge of Shelby's bed.

"I heard somewhere that Scott visited you last night?" Daisy asked curiously.

"Uh, uh." Shelby nodded a smile appearing on her face.

"Shel, what's that smile?" Daisy said suspiciously.

"You know what it is. Scott and I we're going out now." She confessed looking up at her. Daisy raised her eyebrows and smirked at her.


"Hey Scott." Shelby said quietly as she spotted him sitting alone on the steps. She sat next to him and looked over at him. "You okay?" She whispered, nudging him slightly.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just worried. I don't know what to expect from my dad visiting me. I don't even know if I want to see him."

"I know that feeling. Is your stepmother going to be here too?"

"Ithink not."

"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked taking his hand in hers. She knew about what had happened to him in the past, and since she had had the similar experience, she was able to understand how he was feeling.

"Not now okay?" Shelby just nodded. And Scott continued. "I know you want to help but right now all I need is to be alone." He said his lips turning into a sad smile. Shelby, however felt rejected and got up without saying anything. She walked towards the docks without looking back once. Scott just watched her leave regretting being so hard with her when all she wanted was comforting him.


As she was walking down to the docks, Shelby heard someone following her and was sure it was Scott. She walked faster and wiped her tears. She didn't want him to see she had been crying, just because of what he had said. Right now, she felt kinda stupid for leaving like this. She sat on the bench and waited for him to join her.

"I'm sorry." He said quietly, sitting next to her.

"No, it's okay. I overreacted as always." She muttered looking down at her hands, feeling bad. Scott noticed her uneasiness and moved closer.

"I want to talk about it, I swear. I'm just a little confused right now. I don't know how to tell you what happened; I don't want to give you details because it's bad and hard."

"I understand. I'm not ready either." She admitted slowly stroking his face with the back of her hand. "But Scott, I feel something strong for you, and you rejecting me is really hard to accept."

"I feel something for you too." They enjoyed their moment of peace before heading back to horizon hand in hand for a group session.


"Did the lovebirds have fun?" David asked as he saw them entering the lodge. Shelby glared at him and they both ignored him as he began to mock them.

Sophie arrived just after them and all the Cliffhangers sat down.

"Okay, today, we're going to start by talking about Christmas. This year, Peter decided to do a party and invite your old friends.

"This should be good…" Shelby muttered. Scott looked at her puzzled and was about to ask her something when Sophie spoke up.

"You have something to say to the group Shelby?" Sophie asked looking at her in the eye. Shelby cracked a smile and shook her head no. "Good. So I was saying you could invite over some of your friends but not if they are involved with the bad part of your past. Since it's kinda new for us, the party won't be very big. Now I need to know who's going to go back home." She paused and noticed Juliet's and Auggie's hands up. Ezra tentatively did the same. Sophie noted their names on a paper and smiled to herself. Three was definitively a good number. "Okay, so that will leave Daisy, David, Shelby, Scott and Kat here. Any questions?" Scott raised his hand which surprised Sophie. He wasn't habitually listening in group. "Yes Scott?"

"Uh, I was wondering, when you said old friend, does that mean we have to invite someone who we can rely on or just someone we can have fun with?"

"Is that a serious question?" She asked suspiciously. Shelby smiled at this.

"Uh, I guess." Scott said not quite understanding. The women! He thought to himself.

"And if we don't want to see them?" Shelby asked before Sophie tried to answer Scott's question.

"Oh, you mean if you don't have friends?" David said sarcastically trying to hurt Shelby's feelings.

"Just shut up David!" Scott hissed defending his girlfriend pride.

"You-" David began before he could go any further as Sophie cut him off.

"Stop it everybody! David and Scott, you'll have one week of kitchen together. Shelby, you're not forced to invite someone, don't worry. And Scott, I didn't quite understand your question." Scott sighed and took his face in his hands.

"I think that's a bad idea." Daisy spoke up for the first time since group had begun. Everybody looked up at her, expecting for her to continue. "Yeah, we already have lots of difficulties with our families to have our friends coming here."

"Okay, we're going to proceed differently. Who'd like to invite someone?" Sophie said finally, it was her last idea.

"Me" Scott said alone. "Okay…" He trailed off, noticing he was the only one. Shelby smiled at the cute face he made and promised herself to give him the kiss she had thought about since the beginning of this group session.

"Anybody else?" Kat raised her hand.

"I'd like to invite a friend but I don't think you'll be okay with it. It's Hank."

"Okay, we'll talk about it later." Sophie was not surprised by Kat's request. So the topic today is why would you want, or not, to see your old friends. Go on Juliet.

"I'd like to see my friends from my old school. I was pretty popular and I'd have a lot of people to see. I think that's a shame we lost contact." Juliet said sadly rethinking of the moments of fun she had had with them.

"Good Juliet." Sophie said smiling nicely at her. "Go on Kat."

"I don't know if I would like to see my old friends because they inevitably belong at my past." She said handling the stick to Auggie.

"All my friends belonged to the gang, so no." He said quickly hoping that would be good enough for Sophie. She nodded as if to accept and motioned for Ezra to go on.

"I didn't really have friends back home. They all thought I was a freak…" He said sadly, giving the stick at Daisy.

"How come that doesn't surprise me?" David said with a low voice.

"David! That's enough. You add one word and it's a week of chopping wood!" Sophie said mad. "Daisy you can go."

"Like Ezra, I didn't have lots of friends. Maybe I'd like to see the girl who lived across the street thought. She was pretty nice and let me sleep at her house several nights when my parents were drunk." She handled the stick to Shelby.

"I had some good friends back home, but I'm not sure if I'd like to see them again. They didn't know anything about me, apart from what I was showing them."

"Like I said before, I'd like to see my old friends. I think that's the same situation as Juliet. I was the captain of the football team and had lots of friends I'd like to see again." He threw the stick at David who caught it easily.

"I think that Juliet and Scott are stupid because they think their old friends are going to appreciate them now that they aren't popular anymore." He said simply receiving glares from everyone but Daisy who thought he was right.

"Okay, thank you for your statement David. You just won your week of chopping wood. Nobody has something else to say?" All the Cliffhangers shook their heads and waited for her to dismiss them. "Good. You can go Lights out in half an hour. Feel free to do whatever you want."

Oh, I know what I want. Shelby thought looking over at Scott.


"Um…" Scott murmured against Shelby's sweet mouth as they pulled away for air. As soon as group had been over, she had led him behind a tree to make out. Shelby looked up at him, a smile dancing on her lips. She slowly began to run her hands through his hair and began to kiss him again. Scott wrapped his arms around her waist slowly moving them up under her blouse. Shelby gasped and broke the kiss as she felt his cold fingers on her stomach.

"God Scott…" She shivered slightly as he began to kiss her neck. Shelby needed something to hold on to and just turned them to rest against the tree. Scott continued to kiss her neck for a while, before finding her mouth again. He soon began very aware that he was being aroused by Shelby and reluctantly pulled away from Shelby's soft lips before they had sex right there. Shelby pouted a little at first, but then realised why he had stopped. She smiled seductively at him and wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Have a hard time controlling yourself?" She made fun of him, bringing her chest closer to his dazed blue eyes.

"Shel…" He moaned before kissing her again. It was like he couldn't keep himself from doing this. He wasn't even aware of Shelby's fingers unzipping his pants until he felt her hand stroking his penis. He expressed a whine and took her hand in his to stop her actions. "Stop it please." He said gently regaining his strength. Shelby looked at him questionably but pulled away quickly.

"Sorry." She apologized recomposing herself too. Scott grinned at her and wrapped his arms back around her.

"It's okay. But we can't get carried away right here, when we know it's almost lights out. You imagine if Sophie or Peter had found us?" He said softly looking down at her. She smiled at him relaxing in his arms and kissed him quickly on the lips. Just as their lips separated, they heard someone coming from behind them.

"Ah, I finally found you two!" Peter exclaimed smiling knowingly. "Go to your dorms, lights out in ten minutes. Oh, and Scott, do you have a response concerning your parents visiting?" Scott shook his head no and followed Shelby who was already heading back.

"Are we going to meet tonight?" Scott whispered in Shelby's ear as he caught up with her. She couldn't help but smile at him and nodded vigorously.

"Great! See you at midnight in the equipment room?"

"Sure. Goodnight Scott." She said sweetly as Peter passed by them. Scott smiled at her and left after giving her a kiss on the cheek.


"Could we talk Shel?" Scott said pulling away from her.

"Uh, sure what's up? Is this about what happened earlier, becau-" Scott cut her off pressing his finger against her lips. He removed it quickly and they smiled at each other.

"It's okay, it's not about that. It's about my father wanting to come here for Christmas."

"Oh…" She said slightly uncomfortable. She wasn't the best to give family's advice. "Go on, maybe I can help…" She offered gently.

"See, the thing is that I don't know what to expect from him. The last time I saw him he called me a liar. What if he still blames me for what happened?"

"Look, I think that he has remorse if he wants to see you." She said gently, lacing his fingers with hers. "And he isn't with her anymore, right?" Scott nodded. "So, maybe he realised that he made an error with you…" She suggested looking up at him. He gave her a smile.

"Thank you Shel." He said leaning down to give her a kiss, before hugging her tightly.

"Anytime Scott." She said jokingly. She gave him another kiss, more passionate and they soon decided to head back to bed.


"Where the hell were you?" Juliet asked as soon as Shelby entered the dorm. Shelby let out a sigh.

"None of your business Princess." She snapped, taking away her jacket and climbing into her bed. She put her head under the cover and closed her eyes.

"Is it the truth that you're going out with Scott?" Juliet asked curiously.

"Please Juliet; I'd like to sleep now."

"Look, just tell me and I leave you." She dealt.

"Yes. Happy?"

"Ecstatic." Juliet said. Shelby was pretty sure she was smiling too. "So you were with him, right?"

"God, will you just shut up?" Shelby asked becoming annoyed. "Gopuke or something, but leave me alone!" She said rudely.

"You're so mean." Juliet said before adding something that she sure would really get to Shelby. "You know, he just wants you for sex, like the others. That's all you know about relationships with guys anyway, right?"

"Goodnight Princess." Shelby resisted to the need to laugh at her and smiled to herself. Little things did she know about Scott and her. But Shelby knew it was more than a phisical attraction with him.


Please review, I really need to know what you thought of this chapter. Because I feel like it's kinda 'already seen', don't you?