Thin Bond between hate and love
A/N: I don't own anything from the show, but you already know it.
Be aware this chapter is for the mature public, due particularly to one scene .
It's also the last chapter of this story; I hope you enjoyed reading as well as I loved writing it.
Chap 4
"Um…" Shelby moaned waking up, opening her eyes slowly. She shivered as she noticed she wasn't in her bed and sat straight up slightly puzzled, letting the cover falling. It took her only a few seconds to realize Scott was lying next to her, still sleeping, and just as naked as she was. Um, what a wonderful night. She thought replaying in her mind what had happened between them. They had made love together, for the first time of their lives. Of course, they both already had had sex with the opposite side. But they had never loved their partners. She smiled at the thought of Scott telling her he loved her. She hadn't said it back, but she was in love with him too, even if it was short notice. She heard Scott stirring behind her and turned around to look at him.
"Good Morning." She breathed softly, lying back under the cover next to him. She gave him a light kiss and sighed happily.
"Hi!" He said tiredly, reaching for his clothes.
"Where are you going?" She asked panicked at the idea he was going to leave her alone after their night, like so many guys were used to do. Scott just smiled cutely and took his watch out of his pockets.
"Relax, I'm not going anywhere, don't worry like this." He reassured her, getting on top of her and rolling them over. "Shel?"
"Uh, uh?" She said rather distractively, lost in the gaze they were sharing.
"I love you." He said before kissing her softly. He loved telling her things like that; he knew how it made her feel inside.
"Scott?" She asked with a small smile.
"Yeah?" He said smiling back at the gorgeous girl lying under him.
"I love you, too."
"So, where's my son?" Martin Barringer asked as Peter entered his office without Scott.
"I'm sorry, he wasn't in his dorm." Martin was about to say something but Peter continued.
"Don't worry, he didn't run away like the last time. We are sure he's fine."
"Yes, he probably decided to take a walk in the woods with his girlfriend." Sophie added. Peter looked at her disapprovingly and Sophie gave him an apologizing smile.
"Girlfriend?" Elaine asked puzzled. "I thought those sorts of relationships were not allowed here?"
"Yes, except when they can help, and I can tell you she's helping him a lot."
"We can see it." Martin said. "Not even here when we are coming. He knew we were coming, right?"
"Of course I do." Scott said as he entered the office. Peter gave him a warning glance as if to say 'don't ever do this again'. Scott just smiled at him and went out to call Shelby. He didn't want to affront his father and the Skank without her.
"Dad, this is Shelby, my best friend here." He said smirking at Elaine. He felt so much stronger with Shelby by his side.
"Hello, young miss!" Martin said smiling at the girl. She was rather cute and seamed well-educated. He extended his hand for her to shake it. Shelby smiled back at him and shook his hand firmly.
"Good morning Mr. Barringer. It's really nice to meet you." She said politely smiling up at him. Peter and Sophie just stayed behind gladly surprised by Shelby's behaviour. Elaine stood up and went to welcome her.
"I'm Elaine, Scott's stepmother." She introduced herself, extending a hand. Shelby looked at her slightly disgusted. She absolutely didn't want to touch this woman. But she decided otherwise when she saw Peter giving her an authoritative glare.
"Nice to meet you." She said shaking her hand rather reluctantly.
"Good, now that we all know each other, maybe it would be good if we left Scott talk with you?" Peter asked Martin, hoping Scott would just accept without making a scene. Father and son both nodded and Peter dismissed everyone out of his office. Elaine was about to protest at first, but then thought of something: it was her chance to talk to that little girlfriend of Scott alone…
Martin sat back on the chair and looked expectantly at his son. "What was all this show with this girl Scott?"
"What are you talking about?" He asked defensively.
"Is that girlfriend of yours?"
"Yeah, she is my girlfriend. But this has nothing to do with what you want to talk about, right?"
"No. Scott I was serious the other day. I want you to come back with us after our honeymoon."
"I know you were. And I was too. I don't want to leave Horizon."
"What about your future Scott? Think with your mind for once!"
"I am, and I perfectly know what is fine for me. And actually, Horizon is. You can ask Matt, he'll tell you I'm doing fine here."
"Matt's here?" Martin asked dumbfounded. He had always liked this boy.
"Yeah, he came spending a week here."
"That's great!" Martin exclaimed. Maybe he still could convince him, with the help of his best friend.
"It is. I'm glad that all the others adopted him this quick, especially Shelby. They're good friends together." Scott said smiling. He was finally having a real conversation with his dad. No yelling, no crying, no scenes.
"So, since how long are Shelby and you going out together?" Martin asked slyly. Scott blushed.
"Well, not very long, only a few weeks. But it's like I have known her all my life. She's so great…" He said dreamingly. Martin just laughed at the face his son was making.
"So you're his girlfriend, right?" Elaine asked as she found Shelby sitting at a picnic table, doing some homework Peter had given her after what had happened with Scott. Not the sex, of course, but the fact they had disappeared for a while this morning. Shelby thought they had done well not coming back of the night. Juliet wasn't there so she wouldn't relate she hadn't been in the dorm at all. She didn't even look up when she heard the voice, she knew who it was.
"What do you want?" She asked harshly, writing furiously on her paper.
"Talking to you, little Miss." Elaine sat in front of her and tried to bring her attention.
"Well, maybe I do not want to talk with you, think about it." Shelby said gathering all her things and getting up to leave. Elaine reacted quickly and followed her. She took her by the wrist and forced her to turn around. That caused Shelby to drop her things. "Leave me alone!" She yelled struggling. Elaine smiled devilishly but didn't let go.
"Now, you listen to me. I know what you think. You think I would rape my own stepson, or something, you're wrong. He wanted it, and I know you do know that inside of you. He's just going to use you like he did the others. If you knew the amount of girls he brought back home, you wouldn't react like this. Just think of it." She said not letting her saying something. She dropped her wrist and turned around, walking back towards the offices.
"Whore." Shelby said under a breath. She hadn't believed a word of she had just said. She knew Scott and he wasn't like that. She just knew it.
"Shel?" Scott whispered into the night. They hadn't seen each other the rest of the day, and he was dying to meet her again. He knocked softly on her window and waited, glancing around. Suddenly the window opened and her face appeared. She was smiling but he could tell he had woken her up.
"Hey." She greeted him, climbing outside. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him softly. "I missed you. Where were you at dinner?" She asked curiously.
"With my father and Matt. We ate at Rusty's. Next time you'll come with us, I made him promise it. " He smiled at her.
"That's great you made peace with him!" She said excitedly, a little loud.
"Ssh!" Scott whispered, leading her away from the dorms.
"Sorry." She whispered back.
"You know, I think my father likes you." He stated, bringing her closer to his chest.
"Well, I don't think it's going to last if the skank says something to him." She said sadly.
"What are you talking about?"
"I received her visit while you were talking with your father. I think she was mad because she couldn't stay with you. So she took all her anger on me, but I didn't let her speech bother me. And when she left, she was pretty mad."
"What did she say?"
"Scott, this isn't great, I would rather not telling you this." She supplied him with her eyes. She shouldn't have telling him about their conversation.
"Okay, as you want." He said dropping the subject. In fact, he preferred not knowing too. He looked over at Shelby and noticed she had a nice outfit on her. He slowly began running his hands over the sides of her body, slowly lifting her nightdress. She moaned against his chest, enjoying his 'massage'. She began to be aroused by his actions and untied his pants quickly, as he passed a hand on her bare breasts. She slowly slid on the ground, and he followed, getting on top of her. "Are we going to do this here?" He asked slightly uncomfortable. She looked up at him and brought his head down to meet her lips.
"Why not?" She whispered seductively, unbuttoning his shirt.
"Well, we're on the ground, and it's wet and cold." He said slightly disgusted.
"Well, that's not the only thing wet here." She teased him running her tongue seductively on her lips. Scott couldn't control himself anymore and passionately kissed her, going lower and lower, taking her clothes at the same time. They both moaned and Shelby rolled them over, taking control of everything. "I love you." She whispered kissing his neck gently.
"I love you more." He teased her taking her underwear off of her. He softly bit her lip teasingly and rolled them over. "It's my thing to do." He whispered taking a condom of his pocket pants.
"You had everything planned, uh?" She asked amazed he had this thing with him.
"You know it." He smirked putting his protection on his member. "I'm good." He said slowly lying back on her, kissing her again, and wrapping his arms around her waist. He quickly entered her and began moving up and down inside of her. Shelby pushed herself against him wrapping her arms tightly around his waist, pushing him inside, wanting to make one body with him. She sat up a little as he gave her everything he could give her and let out a cry at the same time Scott did as the orgasm came.
After some time, they both relaxed into each other arms, completely wet and feeling a little cold. "We're going to be ill tomorrow." Shelby said wrapping back the cover around them.
"Shel?"
"Uh, uh?"
"What did Elaine tell you about me?"
"Lies, only lies. But don't worry about it right now. I really don't think it's an appropriate moment to talk about her." She said giggling a little, kissing his cheek affectionately.
"And what's appropriate to talk about here?" He asked with a small smile.
"Uh, what about what you're going to offer me for Christmas?"
"I already told you it was a surprise. And besides, I already offered you something big."
"How really, and what was that present? Because I don't think I have even seen it."
"Oh? And what about what happened in the shed the other night?" Shelby raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything. "I presented myself at you nonetheless." He said stubbornly, joking around.
"Yeah, right." She said jokingly, tickling him on the ribs.
"Hey, you disappeared again last night…" Matt whispered at breakfast smiling as Scott nodded, blushing slightly. The two friends were still alone, as David hadn't finished with his shower and the girls hadn't shown up yet. "You were with Shel, uh?"
"Why do you ask when you perfectly know it?" Scott said annoyed.
"Oh, I see you didn't have much sleep tonight!" He said still joking. That was Matt, when he began something, he just couldn't stop. Just like David. That was one of the reasons David had been so cool with him.
"Stop it." Scott said firmly, not smiling.
"What is it?" He asked surprised by his behaviour. Of course, he knew Scott wasn't a morning person, but he knew something was bothering his friend.
"I…I was wondering how you figured out about what happened to me." Scott said quietly.
"David told me, I'm sorry."
"He's really a jerk." Scott muttered, spotting the girls entering the cafeteria. He checked Shelby over, noticing she had his favourite jeans on her. He smiled a little at her as their eyes met.
"So it's love?" Matt asked glad to see his friend so happy. He had seen him falling down a year before and was glad to see this period was over.
"Oh, yeah, all the love of my body." Scott said jokingly. Matt laughed a little, and began checking a girl he had never seen.
"Hey, who's that?" He asked pointing the girl."
"Oh, she? She's a ridgerunner; Ezra told me she was really nice. You should try to talk to her; I think she hasn't a boyfriend. And if something good happens between you two, I'm sure I'll see you more, uh?" Scott said jokingly. Matt hadn't heard half of what Scott had just told him, too concentrated on the girl.
"Uh?" He said slightly puzzled.
"Nothing man!" Scott laughed a little, making room for Shelby as shestood in front of him, waiting.
"It's about time cowboy!" She exclaimed smiling.
"Sorry." Scott mumbled.
"Relax, I'm kidding."
"I knew you were." Shelby didn't believe him, as well as everyone. "I knew it!" he said stubbornly. Everybody laughed at him and Shelby patted his tight.
"Don't do that, you know how it's making him!" Daisy said smirking at Scott.
"Nice comeback Morticia." Scott said feeling slightly exposed as everyone looked at him smiling. "I think it's my day." He added sighing.
"Hey, we're not the Perfect day!" David said sitting up in front of him. Scott just ignored him, pouting a little.
"Oh, look what you've done David, making my baby sulking!" Shelby said laughing, kissing Scott's cheek. Scott smiled inside and pushed himself against her asking for another kiss. "Not here." She said reluctantly noticing Peter coming over the table. This time Scott really sulked and she couldn't do a thing.
'Oh, Boys!' Daisy thought pensively.
"Okay, we're going to go fast since some of you are in a hurry to unwrap the presents." Sophie said this night of Christmas' Eve, particularly looking at Scott and David who couldn't stay in place. Kat wasn't there because Peter had authorized her to go at Rusty's with Hank. "Just tell me something about a Christmas you liked and why you did. Daisy, would you want to do us the honours?"
"Sure, it'll be my pleasure." She said sarcastically catching the stick. "I don't remember one Christmas that was fun when I was little. But I remember a present my grandmother had given me. It was a big doll, she was so beautiful. She had blonde hair and blue eyes, and I remember me saying I would like to be like her when I'll be older." She passed the stick to Shelby but before she could begin, David said something.
"I'm glad you're not looking like you old doll. There's already too much blondes brains here!" He said looking at Scott and Shelby challenging them."
"David, that's enough. Just because it's Christmas tomorrow, I'm only going to give you an advice. But you say something else, and you'll be on kitchen duty tomorrow. Shelby gave him a smirk, happy to see he was a bitafraid of Sophie's menaces. "Go Shelby."
"Okay. Um, I remember the Christmases before Walt came into view. And one particularly: that was when my mother offered Jess and I the same outfit. At first I wasn'tparticularly happy to have exactly the same. I mean, Jess was always copying me already. But after a while, I realised that she kept doing this because she was admiring me. And she still does, even if I don't understand why."
"I don't understand either!" David let it escaping from his mouth. He covered it with his hand and Scott smacked him behind the head.
"He deserved it." Scott defended himself as Sophie glared at him.
"Okay, he deserved a punishment, but it's not your job to do it. Let me deal with it alone. And David, you can thank Scott. Because of his intervention, you'll have half of the duty I planned to give you."
"Wait, wait, this isn't fair, it didn't do anything!" Scott protested about to get up.
"I didn't say you would be his partner Scott." Sophie said reassuringly. Scott relaxed a little, sinking more into the couch he and Shelby were sharing.
"Well, anyway thank you Scott. I'm grateful to see you are here for me my friend." He said sarcastically, smirking at him. Scott ignored him and took the stick from Shelby's hand.
"I remember the Christmas of my twelve years. Mom and dad surprised me with a trip in France. It was really nice."
"You went in France?" Shelby asked amazed. Scott nodded smiling. "And how was it? Did you see Paris, and the Eiffel tower?"
"Yeah, I saw all of those things. But we only stayed a week. We didn't have the time to visit a lot of monuments." He said sadly.
"Oh, so sad. Only one week! Little rich boy didn't finish to cultivate himself!" David said smirking at him.
"Hey, David, since you're so eager to talk, why don't you just go?" Shelby said, taking Sophie's place. Sophie smiled at her, nodding along.
"Well, I don't remember any funny Christmas except the one when my mother and the general ended the evening yelling at each other. I really laughed because it was so stupid."
"You thought that seeing your parents arguing was a funny thing?" Shelby asked confused.
"Oh, yeah, but you don't know a thing about it, so why don't you just shut up?"
"David, that's enough! You don't talk to her like this; she was only asking a simple question. And since you seem mad for nothing, an essay of 3000 words about the feeling of anger will make you think about the reason you're so mad."
"3000 words? Did I hear correctly?"
"Oh, yeah you did…" Daisy said smiling a bit.
"Come with me." Scott whispered in Shelby's ear as she was talking with Daisy. She looked up at him slightly surprised and followed him outside. Daisy just shook her head. This boy couldn't do a thing without her! Scott ledShelby to the boys' dorm and closed the door. Shelby just didn't ask anything. She knew he was up to something. "Sit down on my bed." He ordered, searching for something in his pocket. Shelby did as she was told, smiling at the cute face he made to her. He finally sat next to her and took her hand in his. "Merry Christmas." He whispered in her ear as he slowly passed something around her neck.
"What is- Oh Scott it's so beautiful!" She exclaimed looking down at the necklace amazed. "Where did you find it?"
"My mom sent it to me. I told her about you."
"Wow, you're so wonderful!"
"Well, if I am, it's because you made me like this."
"I love you Scott."
"I love you too. Well, anyway it was my grandmother. My grandfather gave it to her when they were our age I think. They stayed married during 51 years,can you believe it?" He asked her incredibly.
"Well, I hope it's not an argument to tell me things won't work between us, uh?"
"No arguments here!" He said jokingly, leaning over to give her a kiss.
"I'm sorry; I don't have somethingthis special for you." She said sadly looking down. Scott lifted her chin to force her looking at him.
"You're here, that's more important than anything." He kissed her again, wrapping her in a big embrace. She broke the kiss after a few minutes.
"You know, we should head back to the lodge. Either way, Peter will put us on shuns." She reminded him slowly getting up.
"You're right." He agreed, following her, lacing his fingers with hers. They both walked outside and noticed it was snowing. Scott wrapped his arms around her, pulling her closer as he felt her shiver. He kissed the top of her head. "I love you." He looked up at the black sky and noticed there was an only star, a really brilliant one. He had still so many doubts. Maybe his father was too blind to see the truth, maybe he will stay with Elaine and will still try to convince him to come back home. But Scott knew something: he wasn't ready to go right now, but with Shelby by his side, he knew that one day he'll be able to face Elaine without any fear. And he knew Shelby felt the same about Walt, he just knew it.
"I love you too Scott."
The End.
I know the end was a little strange. Well I tried my best to finish it on a good hope. The thing is that I love this story so much, and with this end, there's always place for a sequel...
