Title: Blame us cause we are who we are and hate us cause you'll never get that far
Author: alienangel19852003
Rating: M, language and adult situations
Summary: AU. Enter a world where Phil's the rebel, Pim's the well behaved proper girl. Keely's the shy girl, Seth Wassumer is the most popular guy in school. Owen's a closeted cheerleader and Keely's only friend. Whenever I hear a specific song I try to put whatever characters I'm working with together to see if they fit the song, this time I had to rework things so it would fit. Extremely OOC….for nearly all of the characters.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own POTF. If I did for starters it wouldn't be on the Disney Channel it would be on the WB or Fox and it sure as hell wouldn't be cancelled.
Author's Note: Well guys I'm back with a new computer and a new chapter, not as good as I hoped but I found it a little diffcult to write for obvious reasons, I've complicated the story line a lot but it just might work for what I've planned for chapter nine. It was my attempt to get Pheely back together and create some drama, however it seems I might have created too much but you be the judge of that.
"My heart is the worst kind of weapon"
Phil walked down the empty halls of H.G. Wells, the Homecoming Jamboree was in full swing and just about everyone had gone out to the stadium for the bonfire. Phil wasn't in the mood, he didn't get the whole football thing and he sure as hell didn't understand the homecoming tradition. It seemed everyone in the present day was caught up in traditions.
Signs and posters adorned the walls of the school, streamers and banners hung from the ceiling. But Phil didn't see any of it all he could see was Keely. He'd been thinking about her a lot lately, they spoke casually every once and awhile, it was always tense. He still wanted to be with her, he still loved her, even though it had been more than a month since they ended things.
He walked along in a daze climbing the stairs up to the empty second floor. He was glad for the time away from Via she had become a bit too clingy over the past few weeks and reading a bit too much into their relationship. He made it clear that their relationship was purely sexual. He could tell that hurt the British brunette's feelings but he'd explained this going into the relationship.
He could hear a soft melody being playing on an acoustic guitar; he managed to identify the source of the sound. The door to the music room was half opened and the sound was wafting out of it. He peered inside and saw Keely Teslow sitting on the floor with her guitar.
His breath caught in his throat, she was beautiful. He was transfixed by the way the sunlight, shone through her golden curls framing her face. She had taken the time to tame the sexy tangles. Her lips were pursed and her expression seemed purely angelic.
"Lovely," he whispered loud enough for her to catch him standing there.
She glanced up a startled look on her face, he steeled himself for forced chit-chat and unimportant small talk with someone he felt he could tell every secret he had to.
"Phil, hey…" she smiled a genuine honest Keely smile that seemed to light up the room.
He couldn't help but smile back, "Keel, do you mind if I come in?"
"Please do, I guess you're not caught up in the whole homecoming hoopla."
"The whole varsity thing isn't really my scene, doesn't seem to be yours either."
"Much to Owen's distaste, he tried talking me into going to that stupid bon fire."
"Via and Bruno still think that I'm going to show up." Phil smirked, "I'm so not going."
Keely tensed at the mention of Via's name. Phil regretted saying her name.
"I miss you…" he blurted before he could stop himself.
"Phil…we shouldn't get into that."
"Maybe we shouldn't but I can't help it I do miss you. Do you miss me?"
Keely sighed deeply and stood up and put her guitar into its case.
"I should go…"
"Answer me first." He said closing the door and stepping further into the room.
"I do I miss you," she looked up into his eyes unabashed need radiated off of her.
"Well,"
"What do you want me to do about it?"
"Be with me…"
"You're with Via…"
"I'm only with her because you decided you didn't want to be with me anymore. I love you Keely, and I can't take this being with her is the same as being alone."
"It would be better if you were alone Phil…"
"I'm not in love with Via. It's just sex it's the same way with you and Bryce."
"I don't go around town with that man hanging all over me for you to see me now do I? It hurts me to see you two together. Being with him wasn't really a choice I made."
"Being with Via isn't about making you jealous."
"What the hell is it about then Phil? Do you even like her a little? Or is she just a fuck?"
"Keely…"
"No, Phil you answer me right now…" Keely said.
"Whatever she is to me she isn't you, and you're the only one I want." Phil said smiling she was truly gorgeous when she showed her true emotions.
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As hard as she tried to walk out of that room she couldn't, and she knew she couldn't. He wasn't going to let her and she couldn't bring herself to leave.
"You can't have me. He'll never let that happen. And I can't risk him hurting Calli or him hurting you."
"Keely, we can be together."
"Yeah how?"
"We could tell social services, in detail everything he's done. We could get our own lawyer."
"Phil, that's too complicated. And what if it did go to trial? Everyone would know what he did to me, and that I let him." Keely whispered feeling entirely disgusted with herself.
"Don't get down about it, you really didn't have much of a choice. No one is going to think any less of you because of it."
"You said you thought I was weak."
"Yes, I did. But you have to be stronger than a lot of people to go through what you go through to protect someone you love. I was bitter about the break up and angry that you'd sleep with him." Phil said.
"I just want to be a real girl, like everyone else you know to actually be able to be with someone I care about without fear of consequence." She said finally letting it sink in how jealous she was of other girls.
"You will be able to. We're going to see a lawyer out in Los Angles, we can go tomorrow morning and come back in the afternoon. You can say you and Calli got detained with Owen at the mall." Phil said, "As for tonight Keely Teslow I'm going to grant your wish to be a real girl in the world. We'll meet up at Seth's party around eleven, we'll kiss, flirt and dance until it's early morning."
"I don't know about that, what if it gets back to Bryce that we were together?"
"I doubt anyone at the party will have very many functioning brain cells left. Seth and I put our differences aside to come to a mutual agreement tonight, I bring the Chronic. He pays and my people party his friends get blowed."
"Oh," Keely said, "So what if the lawyer does believe us, what do we do until he gets all that stuff together you know how long that legal stuff takes."
"We can get you two out of there for now,"
"Run?"
"We're running now don't you see? We're running from ourselves, from our feelings. I feel like if we don't do something now we'll never get a chance too." Phil said his brown eyes pleading.
He took her hand in his, "We could try. We could be together without him knowing until I get you out of that house."
"I'm scared Phil."
"Me too."
His lips descended on hers and nothing mattered anymore not Bryce's edict, not Via, not Owen, no one but them. He pulled her closer to him and they were making out full force, she couldn't deny what was between them any longer. Phil was right, she felt the urgency like she wasn't going to get another chance to kiss him like that.
She broke the kiss and they just gazed at each other.
"Every time I was with Via I had to pretend she was you." Phil told her.
"I have to do the same thing, no one makes me feel this way." She whispered, "I wish you would have made love to me that night."
"I would have baby believe me, if that prick hadn't come in talking all that shit."
"I need you." She whispered wondering how she'd gone from not speaking to him to, shy superficial conversations in between classes, to deep conversations, to making out, and finally to begging him to fuck her.
Phil's hands slid up from her hips. She groaned wanting more than just his fingers tickling her sides through her shirt, as he moved his mouth down to her neck. She fisted his shirt and let out a gasp, she'd forgotten how good this was.
"Tell me what you need…" he whispered.
"I need you,"
"You've got me Keel, I'm not going anywhere else."
"Phil," she mumbled as he squeezed her breasts.
"Keely, you can't say my name like that."
"Why not?" she asked.
He lifted his face up from her neck, "I don't think I can control myself another minute as it is, being away from you for so long and finally getting back together. It's taking every ounce of restraint I have not to put you on this table and fuck you like Deputy Dog never could."
"Why don't you put me on the table and show me what I've been missing?" she asked.
"As much as I want this now I want our first time together to be something more than any of the other experiences we've had with anyone else. I at least want it to happen in a bed."
"Phil, weren't you the one who said that if we don't do something now we'll never get the chance too?"
"I meant if we don't work on fixing things between us and getting you out of that house who knows what could happen."
"Are things fixed between us?" she asked.
"Well…" he paused to think, "We've affirmed we still definitely have feelings for each other."
"Yes, but what about Via?"
"I'll talk to her this afternoon, I don't intend to continue sleeping with her."
"Good, I don't intend to sleep with that man anymore either." Keely said.
"Hopefully, you'll be out of there before he gets it up again."
"Phil!" Keely admonished.
"What?"
"Nothing…" she whispered kissing him softly.
"I missed you so much, when we're not together I feel like I'm not whole." She told him.
"I feel that way too, I do whatever I can just to make it through the day. To tell you the truth I was drunk for the first couple of weeks after the break up, I couldn't really handle being alone."
"I'm sorry Phil, I shouldn't have given up on us. No matter what asshole threatened to do."
"I understand you want to protect your sister. She's innocent in all this." Phil said.
"I wanted to protect you too." She said.
"I'm going to be the one protecting you from now on." He said his eyes reflected the honesty of his promise and Keely knew he was sincere.
They talked and kissed for a while but it didn't go beyond making out if it had Keely doubted that either one of them would have been able to stop. The bonfire ended and everyone was coming back into the school to get their stuff to go home for the day. The noise level and the risk of being caught and having some tell that they were seen together made her send Phil away early. She knew Owen would come by looking for her.
And sure enough he pushed the door open not five whole minutes since Phil had gone, "Girl, you've been hiding yourself away in here for the whole bonfire. You are so going to that party tonight, and I'm not taking no for an answer." Owen said.
"Alright, I'll go to the party."
"You will?" Owen asked, "Who are you and what have you done to my little antisocial friend Keely?"
She laughed, "You heard me right, I'll go to the party."
"Will you let me dress you?" he asked hopefully
"Don't push it Owen," Keely said.
"Fine…can you give me a ride home then? I don't get my jeep fixed for another week, and I'm not driving Big Bertha to school." Owen said referring to his father's fishing truck.
"Okay." Keely smiled softly to herself as she picked up her guitar case and followed Owen out of the room.
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Phil made his way into his home unable to conceal the smile on his face. Pim noticed this immediately, she had walked home with Little Danny and they were in the kitchen having a snack.
"Did Via do a really good job today?" Pim joked.
"Nope, Via's over."
"Oh no. Where are going to find someone trampy enough to strip in a public place and have sex for whatever money your paying her?" Pim asked with faux concern.
Phil rolled his eyes, "I'm back with Keely."
"You are! That's great!" Pim said pulling him into a hug, he enthusiastically hugged her back and then they broke apart.
"Let's not do that again for another eight years. Okay?" Pim asked.
"We'll wait for your wedding or your college graduation whichever comes first." Phil agreed at the weirdness of the moment.
"You can't tell anyone that we're back together though Pim, Keely's life may well depend on it. Are mom and dad around?" he asked glancing around nervously.
"Fighting in the garage. Why do you want to know and why does Keely's life depend on keeping your relationship a secret? You haven't broken up with Via have you?"
"No not as of yet, her dad picked her up after school. I didn't get a chance to talk to her. But I'm going to need your help with something."
"You want to light up while mom and dad are outside and you need someone with a few brain cells left to cover for you."
"Wrong again sister of mine, Keely and I need to go out of town for a few days. I need you to cover for me."
"Why are you going out of town?"
"I can't talk about it okay, the less people involved the better chance I have making sure that she and her sister are safe."
"What are you talking about?" Pim asked.
"You ask too many damn questions. I can't answer them right now, you'll find out soon I promise. I'm not even doing anything illegal."
"What do we get out of it?" Little Danny asked.
"What do you mean what do you get out of it?"
"Yeah, what do we get out of it?" Pim asked.
"This isn't for me Pim it's for Keely."
"Alright, if this for Keely. But you're our chauffeur for the next five weeks." Pim said.
"Whatever, maybe the four of us will be able to go on some double dates or something."
Pim blushed and Little Danny smirked, "I think that'll be cool."
"I thought you'd like it. Now I've got work to do, if either of you breathe a word of this. What I do to you will make the Russian Mob look like candy stripers. You understand me?"
The two ninth graders were too shocked to say anything. Phil was satisfied with their reaction and walked upstairs to take a nap before the party. He needed rest to tell Via that it was over between them, she would no doubt throw a huge fit. He woke up around seven well rested and ready to deal with an angry British girl. He showered and then he called her phone, he got her voicemail every time he tried.
He called her house line, her father answered and told him she was grounded for her unsavory behavior at school. His words, to tell the truth Via hadn't done anything more than flood the girls bathroom by leaving the sink running through fifth period. She'd done way worse. He guessed her dad was just fed up.
He didn't know how to contact her but at least she'd be out of the way for the night. He started to kill some time by observing the mating rituals of Pim and Little Danny who were flirting over their homework while he pretended to watch TV. It proved to be more amusing than whatever was on NBC.
His phone which he had sitting in his lap buzzed the blinking screen proclaimed NEW TEXT. With closer inspection he found it was a message from Keely. He couldn't stop the grin from spreading across his face.
"Could it be the broody one is smiling today? Say it isn't so." His mother said.
"Mom," he rolled his eyes.
"Now that's the brooding son I've come to know."
"It's been really fun chatting with you Ma, but I gotta get ready for the party tonight," he got up off the couch wanting to read the message alone in his room.
"Would this be that unsupervised party out at the Wassumers place?" his father asked.
"Yeah, there'll be free beer on tap and crack in every bathroom. Don't make it sound so tragic. It's present day high school party. We both know he's done worse right here at home." His mother said.
"I'm trying to be a responsible parent Barbara."
"It never concerned you before, I've got this under control. Just go fix the Time Machine or something Lloyd."
"Do you think we trade them in for another set of parents?" Pim asked she and Little Danny had gone upstairs when Lloyd came home the yelling brought them down to the second floor landing.
"Well, you could try."
He ignored the exchange of insults between his parents as read Keely's text message. He smiled despite the progressing argument downstairs. He readied himself for their meeting tonight taking extra time to straighten the swoosh of hair hanging in his eyes. He got to Seth's a bit early.
Phil had always thought the day that he came to a truce with Seth would be the day that hell froze over, but who would have thought it would be the day that he set things right with Keely. He walked into the house optimistic that the night would turn out in his favor, but he didn't intend to give Seth the chance to one up him.
As soon as he hit the door Seth sidled over and talked to him like they were old friends before leading him away from the crowd.
"You got it?"
"Would I be here if I didn't?" Phil asked.
"Let's see it Diffy…" Seth said with a fake smile his eyes never left Phil's.
Phil didn't break the gaze he reached into his pocket and handed Seth three baggies of weed.
"How much do I owe you, you look a little destitute…"
"I don't need your money, but I'll stick around and have a couple of your beers."
"Help yourself, but I'll have you know come Monday things will be the same."
"We're good then," Phil said.
"I just wanted us to be clear." Seth started away.
"Trust me we are." Phil said.
Phil avoided Alice and Bruno for most of the time and explored Seth's huge house. No wonder Seth called him destitute, the guy was fricking loaded. It wasn't that Phil's family didn't have an obscene amount of money, it was that his father's family were total misers Phil grew up thinking that it was somehow wrong to flaunt money like that. It was pretty sweet crib, he glanced at his watch the time was now ten thirty Keely should be there soon he decided to have a couple of beers while he waited. By eleven forty the dissappointment that Keely wasn't going to show up had set in and he had moved on to the bottle of Jim Bean that was just chilling on the counter in Seth's kitchen. The longer he waited the more he thought Keely wasn't going to show up.
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Keely allowed Owen to pick her clothes for the party, he went home to get ready and she was going to come over once she snuck out. Bryce was in the living room drinking until she thought he'd passed out at eleven twenty, she couldn't go anywhere until she was sure he was out for the night. It was twelve fifteen and she was creeping out of her bedroom window when her door was pushed open.
"Where you going girl?"
"I…um.." she stuttered she wanted to cry for getting caught she wouldn't be able to leave later to go see the lawyer in LA with Phil.
"You're fucking sneaking out you dirty little whore." He slurred stomping toward her, it was Friday night and he was drunk.
"I was just going to go hang with Owen." She lied.
"You were going to that big party in town all the kids are going to don't even think you can lie to me. You wouldn't be going over to that gay boy's house all painted up like trash and dressed like a sale priced hooker."
Keely climbed back into the window, she didn't want him to cross the room to get her. If he had to she knew it would hurt worse than anything, he may well push her out of the window.
"Come here let me look at you…" he said.
She complied, walking closer flinching as he reached out a hand to touch her chin.
"Don't act like you don't want anyone to touch you, that's what you're going out for so any guy who wants to can touch you."
"That's not true!" Keely shouted angrily she was tired of this she needed to stand up to him once and for all.
"You know you're the only one I let fuck me! I want to be with Phil, I want to take my sister and get the hell out of here. You can have all the money in my trust fund, mom's insurance. I don't care. I just want to go." She said defeated.
"You aren't going anywhere, I've got you and you're mine you understand."
"I can't do this anymore, I want to live. I want to be a real girl. Not your slave. I'm done. You can beat me to death for saying that I don't care. I just want out I'm tired." Keely sobbed.
"You've been seeing that boy again haven't you? It was him you were going to meet wasn't it?"
"Yes,"
The first blow was unexpected, a slap to the face then he yanked her wrist and spun her so that she was no longer facing the door of her bedroom but now the window and of course him.
The second blow was a brutal punch to the stomach and she wobbled out into the hallway expelling a pitiful wail it was loud enough to draw her sister out of her bedroom. The blows began to rain down on her, he hit her so hard so fast she was soaring down the stairs in a blink of an eye. When she landed she wasn't there anymore. She could barely remember where "there" was. She was in a nice modern apartment, it was clean and the furinture was new and very nice. She knew she was waiting for someone, so she walked around for a bit getting a feel for the place before whoever she was waiting for arrived.
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Calli stood slack jawed watching her stepfather beat her sister for the hundredth time, unable to do anything. She was so scared. Not only for Keely but she hated to admit that she was afraid for herself as well.
Finally something she didn't expect happened, Keely went toppling down the stairs, she didn't hit any of them, she landed motionless on the floor downstairs. Calli could see the pool of blood coming from her head from where she stood. She put a hand to her mouth and rushed down there.
"Keely!" she shrieked it was to no avail Keely was unconscious, but she was breathing.
Calli looked up at Bryce who'd come downstairs as well with fire in her eyes, he seemed unaffected by what he'd done.
"You bastard." Calli hissed through clenched teeth.
She did something she'd always wanted to do, she punched him square in the nose while he was reeling from the unexpected blow, she raced to the phone. By the time she got there he had recovered and snatched the phone cord from the wall.
"You little bitch…" he remarked trying to stop the blood pouring from his nose, as he advanced on her.
She did the only thing she could think of she threw the phone at him, hitting him upside the head. It would have been funny under different circumstances, but she had to get out of there so she could get some help for Keely.
She leapt over an ataman to get to the front door, he grabbed her by the hair and slung her back. She yelped in pain when her long hair was pulled and she fell ungracefully on the carpet.
He tried to crawl over her and pin her down.
"Come here you little bitch you're not getting away from me, she couldn't and neither can you."
He successfully pinned her arms ripping her pajama top in the process as pressed his hips into hers so she could hardly move, but she managed to pull her knee up to connect with his crotch.
"I hate you!" she drug her nails down the side of his face as she screamed it.
He let go of one of her arms and slapped her hard on the mouth. She could taste blood in her mouth seconds later, he'd managed to bust her lip a little. She pulled herself off of the floor and kicked him in the head before making a mad dash for the door. This time she got out, she raced down the block in her bare feet, ripped pajama top and non matching pajama shorts and all. Her mouth was still bleeding and she had bruises forming on her wrists and she was sure she had more from their little struggle.
That and when the paramedics came from Keely would be enough proof to at least get them to investigate. Calli was more worried about whether or not her sister would even be alive by that time. She ran to the only place she knew she could get help. She went to the Diffys.
She pounded on their front door, feeling badly about knocking this late it was well past twelve, but it was a Friday so maybe it wouldn't be that big of a deal. She was sobbing so hard she could barely breathe when Pim pulled open the door.
"Calli what happened?" Pim wanted to know.
"My sister…" was all she could manage.
"MOM!" Pim shrieked.
Barbara came running into the room.
"What?"
"Calli's hurt and so is Keely." Pim said.
"Tell me what happened Sweetie," Barb said pulling Calli into a hug.
"We don't have much time we've got to help Keely. He hit her…she fell…" Calli sobbed.
"Did your stepfather hit you too?"
Calli nodded, "I was going to call for help after he knocked Keely down the stairs, but he wouldn't let me. I fought him off but he got a few slaps in, I'm okay really. She's there alone with him and she's unconscious."
"I'm calling the police." Barb said she ran into the other room, Calli could hear her frantic conversation with a dispatch.
Barb hung up the phone and walked back into the living room, "They are on their way over but we can get there faster."
Calli nodded and pulled open the door, she led the way down the street. They were all sprinting and the fall chill finally affected her, she hadn't noticed before. Calli saw that the door was still left open, but Bryce's car was nowhere in sight.
"He's gone…" she whispered.
"Probably looking around the neighborhood for you…" Barb suggested.
"What happened? How come you didn't tell me your stepfather hit you?" Pim asked.
"I didn't know how you take it." Calli said simply as they made their way into the house.
"I knew and I didn't do anything…I didn't know what to do…" Barb said, she sounded close to tears.
Calli forgot them when she saw Keely's prone form sprawled out across the floor.
"Keely…" Calli sobbed kneeling by her sister.
"Is she breathing?" Pim asked tears coloring her voice.
"Yes…barely though." Calli whispered.
"I hear the sirens from the ambulance they'll help her." Barb said.
Calli could hear the approach of the sirens herself.
Soon the room was bustling with activity, paramedics were checking Keely and some were checking her she waved them off.
"I'm fine please help my sister." She pleaded with them.
Calli was permitted to ride in the ambulance with Keely. Pim and Barb followed them in Barb's sliver SUV. Pim ran in the house to get her bag. It seemed none of the Diffys went anywhere without their stuff.
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By twelve thirty Phil was wasted, he kept looking for Keely and he ended up running into Via who'd snuck out for the party. He tried avoiding her and ended up picking a fight with Seth and getting thrown out.He couldn't stand on his own, he kept drifting in and out of consciousness. Bruno had to take him out to his car, Via was given the keys. Had he been conscious that would have never happened, he wouldn't let some drunk girl who was used to driving on the opposite side of the road drive him anywhere in his car. And from there well, he kind of passed out.
He dreamed the Keely dream they were in the room again, he realized that the room was a building down town in the future an apartment complex. They danced and he kissed her and they were happy, he could hear that song playing again. Something about Keely's eyes pulled him in coupled with the song he was lost in the moment.
"I don't want to go home, but I know he'll find me Phil…" Keely said.
He rubbed his hand along her back, "Who's going to find you?"
"I don't remember…there's a man and he's mad at me…I think…" Keely said frowning trying to remember.
"We're safe here, he can't come here."
"He can't?" she asked a puzzled expression on her pretty face.
"No, we're safe…" he kissed her nose, her eyes, her cheeks, and finally her lips.
Keely was dreaming the same thing.
"I love you," she whispered holding him close.
"I love you too beautiful," he whispered kissing her earlobe.
It was a beautiful blissful place but she felt like she had somewhere else to be as safe as she felt.
"We don't belong here…" she whispered.
"We belong together, and this is the safest place for us to be together." He said.
"Yes, but there was somewhere else…I can't remember, there was a man, and a woman and a girl. The man was horrible and the woman was sick and he made her go away." Keely said groping for the memory.
"Keely, it's okay. None of that is real here, it's just you and me in this big empty apartment. We can do what we want here, it's hard there in they don't want us to be together."
"Phil…" Keely whispered, "As much as I want this place to be real. It just isn't…" Keely said.
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Calli wasn't allowed in the room where the doctors were attending to Keely, they said she'd lost a lot of blood and now she was in a coma. Calli knew a lot of people didn't wake up from those. She still clung to the hope that Keely would, her sister deserved more of life than what she'd experienced.
She sat in the waiting room with Barb and Pim. Pim was crying and Barb looked a little green, the looked like they'd never set foot in an emergency room before. Calli was fuming as some paramedics were bringing in someone else who'd been hurt.
"We've got a seventeen year old Caucasian male who's been in a car crash. The car is totaled the girl who was driving died on impact." A paramedic was telling a doctor.
"Do you have a name, someone needs to get in contact with his family." The doctor said as they wheeled the gurney away.
"No, he didn't have anything on him. The car was too torn apart to find the title or registration in it. Too bad too it was probably such a nice car, a blue 1986 Firebird." The paramedic said.
She knew only one person with that car. Phil.
Calli jumped out of her chair, "Wait, I think I know him!" she called after them.
"What?"
Calli peered at Phil who was lying on the gurney, his hair was bloody and matted to his head. She decided she didn't like they way his legs were. Other than that he looked like he was going to get up and bitch at her for staring at him like he was the circus.
"He's my sister's boyfriend, and that's his mom over there."
"Barb!" Calli shouted.
Barb came over still looking queasy, "I thought we weren't supposed to go back here."
"It's Phil…" Calli whispered.
Barb didn't say anything for a moment she looked down at her son on the gurney as he was being pushed down the hall into a room.
"Is that your son?" the paramedic asked.
"Yes, that's my son what–happened to him?"
"He was in a car accident,"
"I can't believe this…" Barb whispered, "Is he okay? He's going to be okay right?" she asked the paramedic.
"He was wearing a seat belt unlike the girl driving. We got him stable on the way over here. I think he was asleep or passed out at the time of impact. If he wakes up–I mean when he wakes up the only problem would be his legs."
"His legs?"
"He'll most likely be paralyzed for most or perhaps all of his life."
Barbara didn't say anything again she looked even greener.
"Excuse me." she said finally making a mad dash for the restroom.
Pim came around the corner a second later, "Where did you guys go?"
"We've just been here. I think you should know something…Phil's been hurt he was in a car wreck."
"What?"
"He was in accident." Calli whispered on the verge of tears.
"Is he okay?" Pim looked around her eyes wide and frightened.
"No…" Calli whispered.
Pim didn't say anything she let out a wretched wheeze.
"He's in a coma like Keely," Calli whispered.
"I read things about when people are unconscious like that sometimes they go somewhere, in their dreams I guess, maybe they are together now." Pim said.
"They don't belong there, they should be able to be together here if they want." Calli said, "I need my sister!" Calli said vehemently.
"They'll be okay, I'm going to make sure of it." Pim said before she stalked away to go sit down.
Calli was finally allowed to sit in her sister's room. She was hooked to so many machines, it broke Calli's heart. She stayed with her all night occasionally going in to talk Barb who was in the waiting room while Phil was in surgery. Pim was sleeping in a chair. Mr. Diffy stopped by and got into an argument with Barb in the lobby and then she asked him to leave and he went.
Barb tearfully explained that she'd been having problems with her husband but he was harmless for the most part. Calli thought that Barb had picked the fight with him just because she was worried about Phil.
Calli was sitting in the chair dozing when she felt a chill in the room all of a sudden, she cast a glance at the door and Bryce was standing there.
"You really have a lot of nerve showing up here." She hissed at him.
"I will do whatever I damn well please, and you'd do well to remember that." He told her.
"You'd do well to remember that your game is over."
"Games are for little girls like yourself."
"I fucking HATE you!" Calli screamed launching herself out of the chair and onto him.
She was like a little ball of rage she managed to knock him to the ground, and when she didn't her fists were like lightening she was yelling all manner of obscenities at him. Some orderlies and a nurse came in the orderlies pulled her off of him.
"What's going on here?" a stout red haired nurse asked.
"This is my stepfather, he beat my sister and pushed her down the stairs." Calli said.
"Is this true?" she questioned him.
"Jeanie why would I do anything like that? Calli is a little liar, her sister fell down the stairs. Keely is real clumsy like that."
Jeanie looked at him like he was dirt, "I know that but I have strict orders to call security if you come back here, your daughter had bruises on her body that didn't come from her fall downstairs. Until she wakes up and talks to social services you can't see either one of the girls."
"You're going to believe these little lying sluts?"
"I think you should leave." Jeanie told him, "Before I call some of your buddies downtown."
He wiped the new blood off his nose and walked out of the room.
The orderlies let go of Calli.
"Now, you behave yourself. We've been trying to get a hold of your grandmother."
"She's up in Wyoming for a BINGO tournament thingy." Calli said causally, as if she wasn't standing at her unconscious sister's bedside after having just beaten the crap out of their abusive stepfather.
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Two nights passed since the incident and neither Keely nor Phil had made any progress on coming out of their comas. Phil made it though surgery alright, but the doctors held little hope that when he woke up that he'd be able to walk. Pim was waiting for her chance to be able to save them, her mother had warned against it but she was going to bring Keely out of her coma. She knew that that was the key to waking Phil as well.
Pim walked into the room and sat with Keely until the nurses passed and pretended to have a conversation with the sleeping girl, she had Little Danny stand watch at the door to alert her when someone was coming. She slipped the Virtu-Goggles on her head and and pair on Keely and she ran a cord from her own pair of goggles to the Wizard and into Keely's.
She switched it on, and suddenly she was in the Omni Columns, a really nice apartment complex from the future. The furniture was nice but it looked like Phil's taste, black leather and sleek sliver furniture. She glanced around and she could see a dark haired guy and a blonde girl slow dancing. She recognized them quickly; it was Keely and Phil she was right they were together.
Keely pulled away from Phil, she noticed Pim immediately.
She squinted and frowned her face taking on a confused expression.
"Pim?" she asked.
"What? Did you call my sister's name? Other guys I could see but my sister?" Phil chuckled.
"You don't see her?" Keely asked.
Phil looked right at Pim and he didn't see her, "No…"
"She's here are you seriously telling me you can't see her."
"I don't see her, I swear I don't."
"I must be going crazy then…"
"You're not going crazy, maybe you should get something to drink and I'll find another song to play." Phil suggested.
"Alright," Keely said.
"He can't see me." Pim told her.
"How'd you find us?"
"Keely, I must explain a few things to you first. My family and I are from the future, we have such devices at our disposal capable of anything. Do you follow?"
"I know you guys are from the future, Phil told me." Keely said.
"I need to get you out of here."
"Why?"
"Calli needs you, and I need my brother back. When you fell down the stairs two nights you hit your head and you haven't woke up since. Phil got into a car crash and he's in a coma as well. The two of you seemed to find each other on the astral plane and formed this reality for yourselves."
"This isn't real?"
"No,"
"The place I remember with my mother being sick and my stepfather beating me and raping me whenever he felt like it is real?" Keely asked tears forming her eyes.
"I'm sorry about that, but wouldn't you rather live a life that's real than be left to die in a fantasy?" Pim asked.
"What happened to Phil?" Keely asked.
"He was in a car accident. Via somehow got his car keys and decided to drive them home drunk. She rolled the car the bend coming from the Wassumer place. She died on impact, and Phil who was asleep at the time is in a coma. He needed two surgeries on his spinal cord. The doctors don't think he'll walk again. Living in the real world on your own terms despite that would be well worth it." Pim said.
"How do I get out of here?" Keely asked.
"You have to let it all go." Pim said.
"Alright, I think I can do that."
"I'll see you on the other side." Pim said removing her Virtu-Goggles.
Keely watched as Pim disappeared. She took a deep breath closed her eyes and let go of her fears. She opened her eyes when she felt a hand touch her face she saw Pim standing over her.
"Nice of you to join us,"
Keely tried to speak but her throat was really dry she glanced around at her surroundings she was in the hospital again.
"Phil," she managed to rasp, "I need to see him."
"Go to him." Pim said.
Keely climbed out of bed thankful that Calli made sure she was dressed in her pajamas and not that backless hospital gown. Her legs felt stiff when she stood on them.
"Where is he?"
"Right up the hall room 209." Pim stated.
"Thanks." Keely walked out of the room.
She made her way into his room, she saw him hooked to all those machines and it made her sob so hard she wheezed. It broke her heart, she could see a clean line of stitches in his head. She walked over to bed and sat beside and touched his face, she could feel her tears free falling already.
"I love you so much. I need you…come back to me…" she whispered.
She leaned in and kissed his lips first it was soft and gentle with no response, but she continued and she could swear she felt him respond and she pulled away.
His eyes fluttered open and he gazed at her, "Keels…"
She let out a broken sob and threw herself in his arms, "I love you so much,"
"I love you too baby…" he whispered, his voice sounded just as dry and raspy as hers felt.
"Keely, what's wrong with my legs I can't–I can't feel them." Phil said.
"Baby," she whispered stroking his cheek, "You were in an accident."
TBC