A/N - In my opinion Kim is a Liar. I have never believed Drew is actually Oscar's father, so I wrote how I thought this should go down. This will play out over several chapters.
Kim sat alone in her office staring at the picture of Oscar, her sweet, loving boy who now wanted nothing to do with her. As she stares at the picture she begins to cry and lament to herself. "Oh, Oscar, I wish you could understand. I only did what I thought was best for you. I wanted to help you so badly, I wanted to give you the life and the family that you craved. Why can't you understand that?"
"Why?" Oscar questions angrily as he overhears Kim when he walks in. "You want to know why? Because you are nothing but a liar! That's why," he shouts.
"But, Oscar, just please listen….." Kim begs.
"No! I'm DONE listening to you and now the court even says I don't have to listen to you! I won my emancipation and now I plan on acting on it." Oscar seethes. The judge had returned her verdict earlier that day and had ruled in Oscars favor. So many things had happened at the hearing that Oscar did not expect. He started out just fighting his parents for the right to decide how to handle his medical treatment. He had gotten so much more than that.
"Oscar, honey, just listen, I can explain. Just come sit down." Kim pleads.
"As usual you aren't listening to me. I told you I'm done," Oscar spits out harshly.
"The judge says I can make my own decisions and my very first one is to get as far away from you as possible. I only came to tell you to your face, don't contact me anymore, stay as far away from me as possible. I don't plan on contacting you and I won't answer you if you contact me, you don't get to know what's going on with me anymore!" Oscar was filled with hate as he spoke to his mother. He wasn't even sure he could consider her his mother anymore, she had spewed so many lies and made such a mess of his life, how could he ever forgive her? Oscar had had enough of this woman, he needed to get out of the office right now, as he turned to open the door, he heard Kim begging one more time.
"Oscar, please!" Kim had tears streaming down her face as Oscar stormed out slamming the door so harshly it left the blinds swinging. "No, Oscar! Please wait!" Kim cried out lunging forward to try and catch him as he stormed away. Kim fell to the ground sobbing uncontrollably. She lay there holding her knees up to her chest in the fetal position. She was so crazed and caught up in her own pain that she didn't even notice when Julian walked in. Julian saw Kim crumpled there on the floor in a heap. His heart hurt for her. He had been out of town for several days but had heard what the outcome of the hearing was. He had been looking for Kim everywhere to offer his support. As Julian bent down to take Kim into his arms she looked up startled, but with a small glimmer of hope. Her face quickly dropped again as she realized it was not Oscar who had come back. However, she was glad to see a familiar face, a face of someone she hoped would understand. Julian sat down on the floor next to Kim and held her.
"Oh Charlie," she sobbed. "It's so bad, you have no idea." Kim gasped out between cries.
"Hey, sweetheart, I've been looking for you everywhere. I heard what happened," Julian calmly and sweetly said as he hugged her closer.
"You heard?" Kim asked apprehensively.
"Yeah, I heard that Oscar won his emancipation claim." Julian says matter-of-factly.
"Oh, is, is that all you, you heard?" Kim stammers out.
"Yeah, why, what else is there?" Julian asks as he brushes hair out of Kim's face.
Kim looks up with an embarrassed and scared look on her face. Would he really understand? Could she trust him not to turn his back on her too? She really needed someone to lean on, she wanted to trust him. He had been there for her during this whole Oscar ordeal, even when she wouldn't tell him the whole truth of what was going on and tried to break up with him, he wouldn't leave. How did she deserve him? He was so good to her.
"Look, Kim, whatever it is you know you can tell me, right? I am not going to judge you or leave. I am here for as long as you'll have me. I thought we had agreed on that, right? Remember, I have a past of my own, a past that you accepted, so believe me I am in no position to judge anything you may have done," Julian explains softly. He was hoping he could console her and encourage her enough to trust him. He knew she always had trouble trusting him and relying on anyone, but he hoped she would allow him in with this problem. As he sat there holding her he began to rock her back and forth in his arms and stroke her hair. He really had fallen for this woman. She was so strong and capable, being a single mother for all those years, being able to complete her residency while raising a son on her own, that was truly something to be proud of, he often wondered how she did that. Right now though, she was so frail seeming and fragile, like if one more thing happened she would be completely destroyed. He grabbed onto her a little tighter and guided her off the floor to the couch that was across the room. He settled them on the couch with Kim laying beside him, her head in his lap. Julian continued to stroke her hair and rub the side of her arm tenderly.
"Hey, do you want some water or something?" He asks quietly.
"Yeah, that would be great." Kim says as she sits up. Her voice cracking from the amount of crying she had been doing. Julian gets up and grabs a bottle of water from the table in the middle of the room. As he moves back over to the couch and sits down, he opens the water and hands it to Kim.
"Thanks," she says taking a small sip. Kim looked over to Julian and scoots in closer to him snuggling under his arm a bit. She takes a deep breath to continue to calm down and decides she has to trust him. She was tired of hiding, tired of running from her past. If anyone could understand she believes its him.
"So, are you ready to tell me what is up? What is going on? This seems like so much more than the ruling went in Oscar's favor," Julian says calmly.
"Yeah, there, there is definitely more." Kim sighs. "The hearing going in Oscar's favor, that is obviously not what I wanted to happen, of course, I mean that was bad enough but everything else that happened, it was a, a complete disaster," Kim stammers out nervously. She decides there is no going back now, she needs to tell Julian. Besides with how everything came out he would probably find out eventually anyway and the least she owed him was for him to hear it from her first. She takes a deep breath and prepares to lay the whole story out to him.
"Charlie, you believe I love Oscar right and everything I have ever done is because I love him and want to protect him and give him the best life, right?" Kim inquires shyly.
"Yes, of course. I've seen you fighting for Oscar every day, always wanting to give him more time and a better life." Julian says confidently.
"Yes, I have always fought for him to have a good life and so that's why," Kim paused for a moment, this was it, she was going to let Julian in on all of it everything she had done that led to this point. "So that's why I….." Kim stops when she hears the door being thrust open. Peter August storms into the room with a look on his face that was familiar to Kim, he knew. She knew why he was here, he wanted the truth and he wanted to hear it from her. This was going to get interesting. Kim and Julian both stand up when they hear the door opening. Julian looks surprised to see Peter August and looks over to Kim, who doesn't seem surprised at all, which perplexes him.
"Is it true?" Peter asks angrily.
"Hey buddy, I don't know what you're doing here but you aren't going to come storming in here like this and start attacking her!" Julian shouts protectively while pointing at Kim.
"No, Charlie, it's okay, he's got a right to be angry." Kim moves in front of Julian and puts her hand on his chest as if to keep him from lunging at Peter.
"What are you talking about?" Julian asks, now really curious as to what was going on.
"Just tell me if it's true!" Peter screams and steps in closer toward Kim.
"Look, Peter please, if you can just calm down I will explain everything, I promise." Kim replies reassuringly. "Please, come in and sit down. Julian, I would like it if you would please stay and hear this as well."
"Yeah, sure whatever you need." Julian places his hand on her lower back and rubs it slightly.
Kim walks over and closes the door to her office as both men stride over to the couch to sit down. Kim knew this wouldn't be easy, but after this it would be over, it would all be out in the open and she could finally be free of her past. Her only hope is that eventually she could gain the forgiveness of Oscar and Drew and everyone else she had hurt along the way.