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.
Author's Note: Well…I definitely didn't see this chapter going like this but I needed some closure for Keely. Thank you guys so much for reading and reviewing over the past month or so. This story has been everything I could hope for as a writer, and I can see how much my stories have changed over the years. I finally sat down in one place and gave you a finished product, I hope you guys like it enough to give me seven more reviews so I can finally break 100 with this story.
"I've become part of your past"
Phil and Keely worked hard right up until graduation. Phil managed to take the title of valedictorian and Keely just barely managed to get all of her stuff turned in time to graduate with the rest of her class. Cadence was now four months old, and as cute as ever with wisps of blonde hair around her head and dark curious eyes and the center of Phil and Keely's world.
The day before graduation was intended to be a lazy day; Lloyd and Barb were out taking Pim to get her permit. Keely was hanging out with Phil and Cadence in the main house they were just watching movies and spending time with their daughter. Cadence had fallen asleep and Phil had to take a call from work, Keely was bored there were only so many times one could watch Sweet Home Alabama before getting sick of it. She realized her limit was thirty two, she smiled Phil had suffered through the romantic comedy at least twenty times with her.
She stopped the movie and went into the kitchen with every intention of making herself a glass of juice. She gazed at the counter top as she drummed her fingers against it, as she realized that today was the anniversary of the day…the day that everything changed for her.
One year ago Keely had been raped. The worst thing to possibly happen to her actually turned into the best thing for everyone involved. Had she not went out with Bruno maybe she and Phil would be just two friends about to graduate high school. They'd be moving off in different directions away from each other and she wouldn't have Cady, she wouldn't be building a relationship with her father but suffering through one with her mother.
"Keel…were you listening to a word I said?" Phil asked.
"Phil…" she looked up sharply at her husband standing across from her.
She crossed the small space and threw her arms around him, "I love you…" she whispered in his ear.
He held her tight, "I love you too Keel…" he whispered.
She closed her eyes, "Phil…you know what today is…" she said.
"Yeah…how are you doing…you didn't seem to remember earlier."
She smiled, "I'd forgotten, but then I remembered. I'm okay Phil. If that wouldn't have happened we wouldn't be standing here like this, and we wouldn't have Cady, I wouldn't trade this past year for anything."
He kissed her cheek, "I want you to be happy Keel,"
"I am…and it's because of you…" she said kissing him, determined to prove she was happy.
He moaned into the kiss, "Keely, my parents are gonna be back with Pim any second." He whispered.
"I know." She whispered shivering under his gaze, "We should do something today…" Keely said.
"Anything you want…" Phil said he slid his hand down her bare shoulder.
"Let's go out to the vineyards and play…" she said, "I've always wanted to do that and we've never got a chance." She pressed her body up against his in an attempt to make it clear what she meant by play.
"I'll ask mom to watch Cadence for the day, and we can do that." He whispered.
She smiled leaning in to kiss his lips as the back door opened.
"Damn it!" he said once he realized that Alicia had entered the room talking excitedly.
"I don't know what I'm gonna do…" Alicia whined.
Cadence started to cry in the other room, it seemed like whenever he had Keely all to himself someone had to interrupt the moment. He sighed it was just as well another few minutes alone with his wife they might end up sprawled on the floor in compromising position and Phil was not prepared for such things. He didn't have any condoms on him and Keely could not go on birth control until she stopped breast feeding. So they had to be extra careful.
"I'm gonna go check on her. It seems like someone is hungry." Keely said rubbing Phil's shoulder before exiting the room her touch only exicted him more, with the promise of more to come he was ready for some alone time with Keely after not being able to make love for the past week due to conficliting schedules, crying babies, nosey sisters, and crazy friends popping up every time they two got close.
Phil half listened to Alicia, and when Keely returned she seemed to sympathetic to what Alicia was saying.
"My parents are driving down for graduation tomorrow, what am I going to do…"
"They are here because they support you and they want to see you graduate," Keely smiled, "I think it's quite nice."
"Well, it's a step in the right direction them accepting you and everything, you don't have to go back there if you don't want to you can go to Pickford Community College with me and Keely next semester." Phil said.
"Them showing up here doesn't fix how they threw me out of the house and the things they said to me." Alicia said.
"You should tell them that, I told my mom how I felt and it was less I had to carry around," Keely said hoisting Cadence on her shoulder.
"I will but first I need some major retail therapy to take my mind off things, I'm talking CD's, clothes the works. You wanna come with me?" Alicia asked Keely.
Keely looked at Alicia and then back at Phil.
"Sure…" Keely said trying to smile.
Phil nodded he really wanted to spend some time alone with Keely, but he understood that Alicia needed her, and Keely would do anything for a friend.
"I gotta go baby, will you look after Cady for me?" Keely offered him an adorable pout.
"Only if you promise we can get together later tonight."
"I promise." She kissed his cheek and passed Cadence off to him.
"I've just got to change into something a little less comfortable," she gestured to her navy blue Juicy sweats.
"You guys take care." Phil said.
"You too…" Keely blew a kiss at him.
"Wait one minute here, hand over the check books, the credit cards, and the cash." He said.
"Come on Philly-Willy…just one pair of shoes."
"Nope…you had some last week."
"A broach?" she asked.
"Keely…" Phil said.
"Fine," she said, "There's my purse everything is in it."
She poked out her lower lip, "Here I go walking out the door, heading to the garage, to go change clothes and heading to the mall with no money, not even enough for a bag of caramel popcorn…"
"Fine. You can take your purse, I trust you Keel…"
"I want let you down. You're the best Little Daddy." She threw her arms around him and kissed him.
"Keely, why do you have to always…make me so hard…" he whispered.
She smiled, and held him tighter, "Yes…I want you to stay rocked up till I get home." she said.
"Oh it isn't going anywhere." Phil said.
"Good…"
"Let's go…the Mall is gonna be packed once school lets out." Alicia said.
"Alright…" Keely said following Alicia out the door.
Phil sighed watching her go. She'd changed so much in the last year, but there were a lot things about that would never change. He was glad the past year only tested her spirit it didn't break it. It made their love stronger and more real. Without the challenges he seriously doubted that they would have gotten together much less made it past graduation before going off in their separate directions. Some things were just meant to be.
He'd become part of the past, a part that he hoped would last. The Time Machine hadn't been mentioned in months, and his parents marriage seemed to be all the better for it.
"Your mommy is one amazing woman." Phil told Cadence, "Now…lets see about watching some TV shall we…?" he asked.
Pim came in with their parents a while later waving her learner's permit. She celebrated all through dinner, and by the time Keely and Alicia returned from the mall Phil was sick of hearing about how well Pim had done on the test.
"I only bought one pair of shoes." Keely said triumphantly as she stepped into the apartment.
Phil was in bed flicking through the channels on TV in search of something decent the watch.
"How much were they?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
"They were on sale, thirty six dollars and ninety five cents." She replied.
"Frugal and stylish, sexy combination." Phil smirked.
"Mmmm…I think we're a sexy combination." She said walking over to him.
"Really…" he said.
"Uh huh, where's Cadence?" Keely asked.
"She's spending the night out at the main house; we've got the place all to ourselves." Phil said.
Keely slinked across the room removing her camisole and flicking open the top button on her jeans before climbing into the bed with him and she straddled his hips.
He laughed, "Is this your subtle way of letting me know you want me?"
Keely didn't say anything she just leaned in and kissed him so hard it stole his breath. Phil was never going to get enough of her, no matter how many years they stayed together he'd always feel like a newlywed who just can't get enough of his wife.
He rolled her over and worked on the front clasp of her bra, attacking her neck with lips, teeth, and tongue. She writhed beneath him, one minute she was begging him to make love to her and the next she was begging him to stop.
"Keel…what's wrong…" he asked rolling off her and setting up.
She did the same and pushed her hair out of her eyes, and looked up at him tears glistening on her face.
She tried to smile but she couldn't hold it.
"I'm sorry Phil…it's not you, it's me."
"Keel...what are you saying."
"I love you Phil…you're amazing…it's just today…I thought I could but I can't not tonight. I'm sorry. I don't mean to be a tease." She sighed.
"Baby, you are not a tease. It's only natural you might feel weird about making love tonight…" Phil brushed away her tears and kissed her forehead.
"Will you hold me?" she asked.
He nodded and he did what she asked.
Graduation was totally insane. Owen and Seth showed up totally drunk and Phil ended up wrangling them. Keely was totally exhausted she'd gotten very little sleep. She couldn't believe she'd gotten so upset the night before, it had been over a year and she rarely thought of the night she lost her innocence.She couldn't understand why it affected her so much now, a year later.She'd stayed up all night trying to figure it outand she'd spentthe whole day she spent being the buffer between Alicia, and her parents. It was exhausting so by the time ceremony rolled around, she was holding a fussy Cadence and dressed in her cap and gown fighting sleep.
The other girl in her class kept giving her dirty looks but she was much too tired to care.
"Keely Diffy." Vice Principal Hackett announced.
"Keely," Phil whispered loudly.
"What!" she snapped.
"That's you…you have to go up and get your diploma."
"Shit." Keely said passing the baby off to Via who was sitting behind them.
Keely walked fast to get her diploma smiled for the picture with Principal Tillywack it was the first time she'd ever seen the man. He was always mentioned but she'd never seen him around the school. She waved her diploma at Phil who was right behind her trying not to laugh; she wouldn't have it any other way.
Five years passed quickly, times were crazy stressful and so full of life and love, Keely and Phil were devoted to each other and their growing family. Three years after graduating from high school Phil had graduated college, Keely got pregnant again with their second child. Liam was another surprise, but they were stable enough to handle things better this time around.
They had bought there own place not far from Phil's parents, and they were raising Cadence there. Keely was working as a weather girl for the local TV station, a far cry from an anchor gal but it was something at least.
When Liam was one and half Keely found herself in the same situation. They were all geared up to welcome their third child into the world. Things with Mandy were still strained, she was constantly in and out of rehab she'd lost her real estate firm and almost everything else. Keely felt badly about abandoning her mother, but she had done all she could do for her she had her own children to take care of.
Now twenty three Keely strolled through Pickford's Best Value pushing a cart with her two children in it five year old Cadence, and two year old Liam. She was eight and a half months pregnant with her third child, and loving every minute of it. Phil was wandering around a few aisles over trying to get a peek at the magazine rack. He didn't know she knew but she'd known that he'd walk around peeping at the magazines he wouldn't dare pick up since they were fourteen.
She found it so hilarious that sometimes her husband could be such a prude. She picked up some Jell-0 and set in the cart with Cadence.
"Mommy, can I have animal crawackers?" Cadence asked.
The lisp was so adorable, she'd grown into the cutest little girl with blond hair and big dark eyes with the longest thickest eyelashes Keely had ever seen. Keely could see traces of Bruno in her as far as her looks and the shape of her mouth, they'd done an excellent job making it seem like that night never happened, but the older Cadence grew the more thankful Keely was for that night.
Keely shuddered not because of the chilly air from the freezer section.
She picked Cadence up out of the cart along with Liam.
"You guys go find Daddy he's right around the corner and get some snacks. Cady watch your brother okay. Mommy will be right behind you guys." She said.
Cadence took Liam by the hand and they went bounding around the corner, Keely followed as quickly as she could but she sensed someone behind her.
"Keely…Teslow?" an unfamiliar yet familiar male voice asked from behind her.
She turned slowly, it must be someone she hadn't seen in years.
"I'm Keely Diffy now…" she said before she came face to face with a man she hadn't seen in years.
Keely's jaw dropped at the sight, it was Bruno he was a lot bigger than she remembered. She hadn't seen him in years, she'd forgotten what it was like to be afraid of him, she remembered quickly however and found herself frozen in place. She'd heard about him occasionally on TV, he had won the WWwhatever they were calling themselves these days championship. She'd been fine, up until now everything she'd felt at seventeen came rushing back.
"Mommy! Mommy! Daddy gave me candy can I have it? Can I have it?" Cadence shrieked excitedly running back to the aisle and wrapping her arms around Keely's thighs.
Keely could hear Liam laughing and Phil saying something to him.
"Get away from her." Phil said, Keely didn't have to turn to see how angry he was she could hear it in his voice.
"I was just saying hi…Jeez Diffy, chill would ya?" Bruno asked, "The hometown hero can't say hi to the one that got away."
"Mommy what's wrong, why are you crying?" Cadence asked.
The tears in her daughter's eyes broke her heart.
"I'm surprised you have the balls to show up in this town again and think you can speak to her." Phil said, putting Liam back into the cart again, he was really starting to lose it, worse than before.
Keely had backed up nearly into the frozen foods. She didn't want to be caught in the middle of this.
"This time is different, there aren't any lawn gnomes around." Bruno said.
"I told you last time I'd kill you for looking at her." Phil said stepping closer.
"Phil…don't!" Keely shrieked, startling everyone, and making Cadence and Liam cry.
"Now…" Keely whispered glaring at Bruno.
"I thought I was over what you did to me. I got so wrapped up in my life, and I managed to move forward but I never got to confront you and tell you what you did to me was wrong." Keely said.
"Whatever I did to you was something you wanted me to do to you."
"You don't actually believe that. I don't care how drunk you might have been you heard me say no, you held me down…and…" Keely couldn't continue she was crying so hard they were all crying with the exception of Bruno who stood there with a stupid smirk on his face.
"A man like me, doesn't have force himself on anyone. Come on…" Bruno waved her off.
"You RAPED her you asshole! You had one of your flunkies just dump her out on the lawn. And you want to stand here and pretend it didn't happen you stupid son of a bitch, you'd better be glad I've got my kids with me cause I'd mess you up worse than I did with those lawn gnomes." Phil shouted pointing an accusing finger at Bruno.
Bruno ignored him, "You try to come off as the sweet suburbian mom but I know you're still the nasty girl who begged me to fuck her in the backseat–"
Keely couldn't help herself, she swung her fist connecting with Bruno's jaw and sending him to the ground before he could utter another word.
"I did no such thing. I told you NO! You stupid jerk! I know what happened, and I forgive you. If you hadn't hurt me. I wouldn't be standing where I am. Thank you, I hope those few minutes of pleasure you got from it was as good for you as my family is to me." Keely said picking up her squalling daughter.
She shoved the cart over on Bruno and took Phil's hand as he balanced Liam on his hip and they walked out of the grocery store. Leaving customers and teenage grocery baggers gawking.
"How did that feel?" he asked.
"Great. It was a long time coming." She said.
"Are you okay honey?" she asked Cadence.
The girl nodded, "How come you and Daddy were crying and being mean to that big man."
"Cady, that big man was really mean to Mommy a really long time ago, and I've never really got the chance to tell him that he hurt my feelings. And Daddy was just protecting me."
"What did he do?" Cady asked as Keely brushed away the little girl's tears.
"I'll tell you about it when you get to be a big girl okay?" Keely smiled stroking her daughter's cheek.
She decided she couldn't hate Bruno, he gave her Cadence. Forgiving him was the only thing she could do to be able to really move on with out cowering in fear the mention of his name.
"Scawry." Liam said finally calming down.
"Daddy can be real scary when someone tries to hurt you guys or Mommy." Phil said.
"Do you think that their okay, that we didn't scar them for life or anything." Keely asked.
"If walking in on my parents didn't scar Cadence for life. I seriously doubt this will. I shouldn't have said those things in front of the kids." Phil said as they walked down the street with the kids.
Keely laughed, "Maybe I shouldn't have decked him."
"I would have done a lot more than deck him that's for sure. If you and the kids hadn't been there…Bruno Casblancas would be a dead man."
Phil smiled, they'd known each other for ten years, and nothing Keely had ever done had ever surprised him as him as much as the way she punched Bruno's lights out. He'd always known she was amazing, he'd seen her strength many times, but seeing his wife who was eight months pregnant knock out the heavyweight champion of the WWE was a once in a lifetime thing.
Phil seriously doubted Bruno would bother them again after being punched out by Keely. She seemed different everything she'd once held on to she'd finally let go. He was so proud of her and so very much in love with her. They loaded the kids in the car, and drove away.
"We still need milk…" Keely said nonchalantly.
"We'll go to Handsome Town Heights Grocery and get some things." Phil said.
"Can I get some more candy?" Cadence asked.
"So much you'll have cavities." Keely said.
"And animal crawackers?"
"You got it girlie." Phil said taking Keely's hand in his.
He'd become a part of the past, and he hadn't been happier.
Finis