Title: Falling Through

Author: alienangel19852003

Summary: Phil and Keely are best friends, and they've been that way for three years. Despite the fact that both of them want to be so much more. Keely decides to go out with someone else just to shake Phil up so that he'll admit his feelings, it ends up scarring the both of them more than they can ever imagine. The secret they have to live with ends up bringing them closer than ever.

Rating: M, rape, violence, teen partying, teen pregnancy.

Disclaimer: I do not own POTF, I cannot stress that enough. Title comes from Over My Head (Cable Car) by the Fray.

"Take back your life let me inside"

Phil didn't sleep at all he stayed up all night watching Keely, she had woke up crying around five crying from a nightmare, or perhaps a flashback from earlier in the evening. He held her and tried to tell her everything was going to be alright. He wished he could make it alright for her but she'd have to do that herself and he would be there every step of the way.

Keely's mom called at eight hysterical, she'd finally noticed her daughter wasn't in her room when she went in to wake Keely up to let her know she was going into the office. Phil's mother was able to calm her down by letting her know that Keely had spent the night there without offering any of the ugly details from the night before.

Phil finally left Keely who was sleeping peacefully in his bed to go downstairs for some much needed caffeine.

"Good morning." Phil's father said cheerfully.

It was far too early for cheer and excitement.

"Hey Dad." Phil mumbled.

"Next time Keely spends the night make sure she tells her mother, and also it would be more appropriate if she slept in Pim's room next time."

"Sure thing Dad." Phil rolled his eyes, his father had never really been concerned about Keely sleeping over before mainly because all the other times it was usually on the couch in living room and he could check on them as often as he liked.

Having a physical relationship with Keely was the furthest thing from Phil's mind, he still wanted her but she'd been through a lot and he wasn't about to take her through anything else. He was content just to love her from a distance.

Phil was pouring himself a cup of coffee when his mother walked in.

"Phil did you get any sleep?" she asked pointedly.

"What do you think?" he asked seriously not being sarcastic.

"Figured you wouldn't. It's not like you have school today," she said.

"No…I have other matters to attend to." Phil scowled.

He was going to confront and perhaps kill Bruno Casablancas today, and he was truly looking forward to it.

"Are you looking for a summer job?" his father asked.

"No, I'm going to kill someone." Phil said deadpan serious.

"Did you switch bodies with your sister again?"

"You are not going near that boy Phil. You're going to make things worse for all of you." His mother said.

"You were there you saw what he did to her. Bruno Casablancas will rue the day he laid a hand on my friend. I have seven hundred and eighty dollars in the bank it should cover my bail." Phil said seething with anger.

"Bruno? Is that the football stud that is taking Keely out?" his father asked.

"Not anymore." His mother said a bit too harshly.

"We all wanted Keely and Phil to get together. But some things just…don't go the way we plan…"

"Lloyd, go play with your virtual goggles and get out of this kitchen." Barbara said.

"Don't you mean go fix the Time Machine?" he asked.

"We all know that you'll never fix that hunk of junk until we get so many roots put down that it'll damn near kill us all to leave. So why don't you just give it up!"

"Barb, are you feeling well?"

"Yes, I'm fine." She said.

Phil had never seen his mother so upset. But he figured his father's silliness would get old after a while. He knew what happened last night had a lot to do with her short fuse.

Phil watched is father shrug and walk out of the house, "I'm gonna be late for work anyways." He muttered.

"Sometimes I cannot stand that man." His mother sighed relieved that her husband had left the room.

He eyed her curiously as he sipped his coffee.

"What? Don't give me the Bambi eyes, you know just as well as I do though we love him your father can be a bit silly at times to the point of being ignorant."

Phil shrugged, "I'd give anything to be blissfully ignorant. From what I've read it's a good feeling."

"You take things far more seriously than you should and your dad doesn't take things seriously at all. I don't know what I'm going to do with either of you."

"Hopefully, you'll let us stick around."

"Is Keely still sleeping?"

"Yeah,"

"What about Pim?"

"She's still snoring like a wild bore."

"Last night the nurse in the ER offered Keely the morning after pill to prevent pregnancy, and she didn't take it." His mother whispered.

"Yeah, I didn't think she would, she's pro life you know anti abortion. She's a lot stronger than I thought." Phil smiled grimly, "I think it's a beautiful thing to do or perhaps not do."

"But…what if she is pregnant?"

"We'll deal with it when the tests get back."

"Phil do you realize what you're saying? You are going to give up your future to raise another man's child with a girl who is so broken she doesn't even know which end is up anymore."

"I know exactly what I'm saying Mom. I don't think you realize what you're saying. Keely is my future, I've seen it. A while back we used the Giggle to see if she'd be a news reporter in the year 2030. That didn't go so well, we slacked off before one of Messerschmitt's tests and ended up changing the future, so we changed it back and we saw the wedding ring on Keely's finger." Phil explained.

"She didn't want to look it up, but it was killing me so I did. I saw us together and I could hear children, I stopped it before I saw too much. But I know this definitely meant to be."

"I wish I had half the courage and commitment you have now when I was seventeen." His mother smiled, "But it's gonna take a lot of work to get what you saw on the Giggle especially now…" she told him.

"I know..."

"Now sit down and let me make you something to eat." His mother commanded.

"Alright."

Phil ate and talked with his mother and then went up to take some food to Keely, he hated waking her but it was nearly noon. And Pim and Little Danny were racing lawn mowers in the backyard she was bound to wake up sooner or later.

"Keely," he whispered, gently nudging her awake.

"Phil," she whispered blinking.

"It's me."

She smiled, "I had a dream about you…I was hurt…and you came and rescued me…like you always do."

Phil wanted to cry, maybe it would be better if she thought last night was a dream.

"I know it wasn't a dream…it hurts too much to be a dream."

"I'm sorry Keel."

"I'm better today, I just have a headache." She told him.

"You need to eat something." He told her.

"I'm not hungry," she told him.

"Just a little…please… for me." he attempted to bat his eye lashes the way she did to make him do just about anything she wanted him to.

"Alright…" she sat up, "What you got?"

"Blueberry pancakes, bacon, eggs, toast and juice." He told her.

"Sounds good…smells better…" Keely said realizing she was ravenously hungry, she hadn't eaten in over twenty four hours.

Phil set the tray across her lap and stretched out next to her.

"So your mom called."

"Great…did she call the CIA?"

"No."

"Batman?" Keely tried to joke but it was too hard to go back to their old routine.

"No. She just wanted know where you were." He said.

"Yeah." She said slowly taking a bite of pancakes.

"I talked to my mom about last night about everything, she told me about the pill the nurse wanted you to take.--"

"Phil, if you are going to try to convince me to end a potential life before it even begins I swear I'm going to scream."

"No, Keel. It's not like that, I'm proud of you."

"Well, I couldn't do that to a baby if it shares Bruno's DNA." She mumbled.

"You're amazing Keel, did you know that? I'm the one who doesn't deserve you."

"You're pretty damn amazing yourself Phil Diffy, I just wonder…how come we waited so long?" she asked.

"I was afraid…" he said.

"Of what?" she asked around a mouthful of food.

"Telling you how I felt and having you not feeling the same."

"Me too…" she said.