Blame Us Cause We Are Who We Are

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.

A/N: Keely’s sister Calliope, is of course AJ Michalka if you’ve read Falling Through at all, she has kind of cameo in that one.

“Screaming out the window at the stars”

Keely enjoyed a nice romantic comedy with Phil and a dinner that was interesting to say the least. He seemed different, she couldn’t put her finger on what it was but he was most certainly a little off. He would laugh at weird intervals, and he knocked his glass off the table about eight times.

“Keely, I’m sorry this hasn’t been the most perfect evening. It’s my fault, you gave me a chance and I blew it.” He said looking down at his napkin.

“Phil, the evenings been great. You haven’t blown anything with me.” She said placing her hand on top of his, “This restaurant is lovely, I can’t believe you went all out like this for me.”

“I’d do anything for you.” He said.

“Phil, that’s the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me.” She said, feeling her heart skip a beat.

There came a surging of hope inside her a warmth that reminded her of drinking her mom’s hot cocoa after skiing with her parents as a little girl.

“I mean it Keely. God, I think I’m falling in love with you.” He said.

Keely was shocked to say the least.

“I’m sorry, I’m doing that thing again where my mouth moves to fast to keep up with my brain.” He said, before muttering something about, “smoking that stuff” under his breath.

“Oh…” Keely said waiting for her panic to set in, when it didn’t she responded with exactly how she felt, “I might just be falling for you too Phil Diffy.”

“K–Keely…” he whispered drawing her name out so that it almost sounded like a prayer.

She shivered the look in his eyes was nearly too much, his dilated pupils from the start of the evening had returned to normal. He was so stunning the sparkle in his eyes, the way he bit his lip when he was pensive, and the way he said her name.

“Phil, you didn’t have to go all out to night this place is pretty fancy… and expensive…really you shouldn’t have.” she said changing the subject she was flushed and he was still staring at her.

“Please, Keel you deserve this and more. Though I might be a total line stepping, law disregarding, klepto, I’ve got plenty of money and I’d like nothing more than to spend it all on you.” Phil told her.

“I’d rather just have you spend all your time with me.” She said.

“Don’t worry, I fully intend on doing that too.” Phil said, “What do ya say we get out of here?”

“Okay…” Keely whispered hoping the evening wasn’t coming to a close.

Phil paid for the check and tipped the waiter who’d came and brought him a different unshattered glass several times very generously and they left the restaurant.

They drove around for a bit, “I love that field over there by the windmills. I never really understood why Pickford would need one but it’s really pretty. With the moon hanging over it. Sometimes I go out there at night and sit there. I sneak out and drive there when he thinks I’m asleep.” Keely revealed.

“Show it to me.” He said.

He could have commanded her to do just about anything at that point.

She pulled over and parked in a gravel driveway, belonging to some old guy who died way on back but they still haven’t torn down the beautiful but rickety two story house he lived in down. It was right next to the field, the old guy was some sort of farmer or something, Keely didn’t know the details but that didn’t matter. What mattered was she was going to show Phil her favorite place in the world.

They got out he opened her door for her like he always did and took her hand and they walked out into the field of sunflowers. It was dark but the moon was a fairly decent source of light and boy did it create a mood.

“You were right Keel, this place is amazing.” He spun her around she giggled dizzy, not from the spin from him.

He pulled her back close to his body she was still wobbly from his complicated spin move. He dipped her it was all Fred Austere and Ginger Rogers. He kissed her hard, as he righted their positions.

“Phil,” she whispered, “Where did you learn how to do all that?”

“My mom taught me how to dance when I was twelve, she’s big into those old black and white dance pictures.” He said.

She was taken aback by the fact that he used the term, pictures to describe a movie. Just when she thought he couldn’t shock her anymore he really pulled out the stops.

“Wow…”Was really all she could come up with.

“I like the way the moonlight shines your hair, not that it doesn’t nearly sparkle on it’s on but it’s a different kind of light, it moves me. You move me though Keely. I’ve done just about everything there is to be done, I’ve been everywhere. I’ve traveled space for crying out loud, but I’ve never felt like this. I’ve never seen a night like this and I’ve never met a girl like you.” Phil said.

“I’ve never met a boy like you Phil…” she said before rewinding his statement in her mind, “Traveled space? What are you saying Phil.” Keely asked.

“Yeah, I’ve traveled time and space. Keely, I’m not from around here that’s what I’m saying.” He said.

“Oh holy…” she said moving a few paces away and staring at him, “Where are you from?”

She was just waiting for him to say some stupid crap out being from outer space, and sending all her romantic fantasies about this perfect guy crashing to hell.

“I’m from the future, Keel. The year 2124 to be exact.” Phil told her.

“What the…” she breathed stumbling even further away from him, “I knew this was too good to be true you’re some total whack job aren’t you. I should have known. I should have fucking known.”

“Keely, don’t go.” He said pleadingly.

“Phil, this is crazy. Verging on total insanity, now either you’re playing a horrible joke on me or you’re so far removed from reality that you would need time travel to find your way back.” She said spinning around.

“I’m not crazy, and I’m not lying. I can prove I’m from the future will you let me?” he asked.

“Phil, I can’t stand here and listen at this bullshit another minute. You know, I knew the second you starting talking to me I knew you must be crazy. Out of all the girls in the world why me?” she asked sobs catching in her throat.

“You’re special Keely, and I know I’m not near good enough for you, but if I’m any kind of crazy I’m crazy on you Keely.” Phil smirked.

“You listened to them?” she asked perking up at the Heart reference.

“Yes. Every song, including the one you like. I found them on my Wizard.”

“A what now? Here we go with this future talk right?” Keely said.

“My Wizard.” He exclaimed reaching in the pocket of his leather jacket he drew out a bag of dried grass that Keely realized must have been marijuana.

“You’re high? You know I can over look this whole future thing, because you’re stoned out of your mind and you don’t know what you’re saying.” Keely said.

“I’m not stoned, why does everyone keep asking me that! I smoked out a little bit more than an hour before you came not even half of a half of a roach.” Phil said putting the baggie back into his inside pocket and drawing out what looked to Keely like a remote.

“I can prove to you I’m from the future. Come here.”

“You’re going to prove to me you’re from the future with a remote?” she asked, “I’m not coming over there thank you very much I think I’ll stay right here.”

“Fine.” He said extending the remote in his and aiming it at her car.

Much to her shock a greenish colored beam shot from the device and it turned her car into a candy pink.

She stared at her car in shock, it was beautiful, but she hadn’t time to think about how pretty the paint was she was too caught up on how it got there.

“What did you do to my car?” she asked.

“I just changed the color of the paint using my Wizard.” He said calmly as if he were reading the paper, “I can change it back if you want.”

“It’s fine.” She snapped she softened a bit, “How did you do that to my car I know you have your Wizardry thingy but I don’t understand how that little remote turned my car pink by you just aiming at it.”

“It’s all complex quantum mechanics,” he began.

“That’s math right?” she asked.

“Physics, actually.” He smirked.

“Okay,”

“This really smart guy will invent and patent this all in one everything device in the year 2030, I cannot tell you his name or much else about him for the sake of changing the future. But I can tell you that I changed the molecular structure of the paint on your car.”

“Okay…I still need more proof, I’m still not sold on the fact that you’re from the future. I’m beginning to think my first hunch was right that you’re an alien.” Keely said taking a cautious step toward him.

“Keely, Keely, Keely I am not an alien. I’ll let you in a secret, if you ever get close to an alien but I doubt you will. They won’t make their presence known in the universe for another like eighty years. You can always tell by their heartbeat. They can look like any other ordinary human if they do so chose. But their hearts always give them away.”

“What does it sound like?” she asked completely taken in again by his eyes, she still wasn’t sure she believe him but she knew she trusted him still with her life.

They moved closer to each other until he was standing right in front of her.

“For starters, it’s not located here.” He put a hand over her heart, she wasn’t even bothered by the idea of him touching her breast, it wasn’t exactly titillating either but it wasn’t terrifying.

She could hear the beat of her heart and feel his pulse race through the palm of his hand, the beats seemed to sync up. She looked at him with hooded eyes, she believed.

“It doesn’t beat, it kind of blips a little bit making a very unattractive hospital noise.” He told her.

“So let’s say I believe you, you’re from the future. Why are you here?” she asked.

“Our Time Machine broke down, because big dummy went and bought it at a crappy Used Time Machine dealer just because the guy had a water slide.” Phil said with a scowl.

Keely laughed, for the first time since his whole confession blunder.

“For the first time ever, I think I’m glad he’s so oblivious, if he had any sense he would never have rented it from there and I wouldn’t have met you. My life wouldn’t be complete.”

“Phil…you’re the sweetest alien I’ve ever met.” Keely giggled, she knew he wasn’t an alien now.

He laughed, “I don’t think he’ll ever fix it. And I really don’t want him to. I want to stay here in this time with you.” He said with such conviction, she shuddered.

“You would give up your home everything you know and love to be with me here?”

“In a heartbeat.” He whispered leaning in and kissing her.


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They talked for a long time about him being from the future; Phil knew she still wasn’t convinced so he ran every conceivable application on the Wizard showing her nearly everything it could do.

“We have tons of other future gadgets. We have spray food that comes out of a can. Whatever you’d want to eat spray it a bam! There it is.” Phil said.

“Wow…are you kidding me?”

“You should know that by now.” He said.

“I do, and I love your honesty. What made you want to tell me all this?”

“When I looked in your eyes that first day, I knew I could trust you with my secret. With my very life. If this gets out who knows what will happen–”

“You don’t have to ask. I’ll protect your secret till the day I die.” Keely said, “Which might actually be sooner than later.”

“What?” he asked, “Are you sick?”

“No…remember when I said that someone hurts me sometimes?”

“Yeah,”

“That someone it’s my step dad,” Keely averted her eyes and pulled her knees up to her chest, they were sitting in the low part of the grass that looked like it hadn’t been mowed in ages.

“I kind of figured that. The bastard. Was he the one who bruised your ribs?” he asked.

“How’d you know they were bruised?”

“Wizard has an x-ray function I got you when you weren’t looking after math.”

“Oh…Phil, I’ve never told anyone this. Promise me you’ll keep my secret safe too, and I’ll tell you everything. You should know before you decide to get involved with me.” Keely said.

He took off his jacket and put it around her trembling shoulders, she wouldn’t look at him. He knew she wasn’t trembling from the slightly chilly Autumn air. She was crying and that upset Phil more than anything.

“I’ll try but I really want to keep you safe Keels. I want to kill that jerk for thinking that he can hurt you and get away with it.” Phil said.

“Phil, I don’t want you to get involved in this, it’s my fight.” She whispered fervently with such strong conviction, her voice breaking his heartbreaking along with it.

“I can’t make that promise. This isn’t a fair fight and you know it. I don’t care how much feminism has advanced, it’s not fair for some guy to pick a girl it’s not right and I won’t stand for it. I might not have had the best relationships with girls where I come from but I sure as hell didn’t hit them.” Phil said hotly.

“Phil…it’s still my fight, my problem, my life. Being hurt and jerked around by men has been the constant in the whole of my life. It seems pain is the only thing I know better than myself.”

“I want you to know that I’d die before I become one of those guys that hurt you.” Phil said.

“I know, and I already love you so much for it. Because you saw me when I was invisible. Sometimes I wish I was invisible. I used to ask God to make me invisible, when he would come looking for me at night. I would hide under the blankets with my eyes shut so tight, thinking that because I couldn’t see him he couldn’t see me either. I was so naïve at thirteen.” Keely scoffed, “But I learned quickly though.”

“Don’t tell me he–”

“Yes, Phil…he did. And he still does. I hate to destroy this precious illusion you have of me as some sweet innocent virginal girl, I haven’t been that in a long time.” She said hopping to her feet tears were streaming down her cheeks, she looked more beautiful more passionate than he’d ever seen her.

“Keely, I don’t care about that. I care about you. Fuck…I just can’t believe he did that. I’m going to have to kill him.” Phil whispered aware of the tears on his own face now.

He was seriously contemplating searing the flesh off that man with the laser attachment for his Wizard. If he didn’t just peel back the man’s skin himself. He deserved much more to do such horrible things to a girl as sweet as Keely, and his own stepdaughter. That crooked cop deserved nothing more to fry in jail himself like the pig he was.

“I certainly hope someone does as wrong as it sounds, but I’d never want that to rest on your conscience or mine.” She said.

He stood up and pulled her into his arms.

“I love you Keely, so much. Why did you think this would change the way I feel about you?”

“It’s seems every male I’ve ever encountered has a love for me based on conditions on whether or not I let him put his hand in my underwear. Or whether I let him make me his personal servant.” Keely told him.

“I’m not like that. I love you because you’re you Keely. It’s not based on conditions, my love is the condition. I’d be sick without you.” He told her as he smoothed her hair.

“I don’t know if I can believe that with everything I’ve seen. My father’s love for my mother and even for me and my sister was conditional only for a short time.” Keely said pulling away from Phil.

She laughed and hey eyed her strangely, not knowing what to make of her.

“They got married in a fever…” she sang.

“What?”

“June Carter and Johnny Cash…Walk the Line? I forgot you’re not from this century; I’ll have to show it you some time. It’ll make more sense.” Keely explained.

“Oh…” Phil said, “Keely…”

“What am I going to do?” she asked.

“I don’t know Keely. I personally want to choke slam the guy, but I know if I do that I could wind up losing you.”

“I’m scared I’m so scared that he’s going to beat me to death one day for some stupid crap. I want to get out of here away from him away from this town that fucking adores him! If I told anyone else, I swear they’d probably have me committed just like he did my mom.” Keely shouted.

She was nearly hysterical.

“I believe you Keely.”

“You’re Phil of the Future the 22nd century man, of course you believe me.” She shouted rolling her eyes.

“Keely! We can tell my mom she’ll help. She’ll believe us.” Phil said.

“He said if I told anyone, and if there was an off chance that they’d believe me. He’d have them committed, killed, or worse.”

Phil paused to wonder what could be worse than death itself.

“We can’t tell anyone okay…I just wanted you to understand me. To give you a choice of whether or not you wanted to be with me.” Keely said.

“I want to be with you Keely. But I want to keep you safe too.”

“You want to keep me safe?” she asked stepping closer to him.

“Let’s run away. Now, let’s go anywhere that’s not here.” She whispered.

“What about Calli? Are you just going to leave her with him?” he asked.

Keely paused looking stricken; her green eyes were haunting in the moonlight.

“We could take her with us.” Keely said.

Phil shook his head, “I love you and I think your sister is really cool but we can’t do that. I’ve never run away from a fight in my life. And I’m not going to now.”

He took her hand in his, “You’ve got yourself a partner. We’re going to figure a way to get you out of this.”

“Phil…you don’t know what you’re getting into.” She said as the sound of a wailing siren approached.

“Oh fuck.” Keely said staring at the truck as it zoomed toward them, “It’s him change the car back quick.”

Phil zapped her car with the Wizard turning it back to its original color.

He watched as the police SUV pulled up alongside Keely’s car. A man got out and walked around, he was suddenly face to face with Keely’s tormentor. The Wizard clutched tightly in his hand, he wanted to kill the man but he knew he couldn’t. Taking his life would make him just as bad if not worse than Bryce himself.

Phil sighed, as the man stalked over to them.

“I got a call about some kids up here yelling and disturbing the peace from old man Brickwell.” He said in self righteous tone of voice his blue eyes were ice cold and his overall stance was cocky.

“Mr. Brickwell? I thought he had passed…” Keely said.

“Apparently, you weren’t thinking bringing this little hoodlum friend of yours up here.” Bryce barked at Keely who flinched visibly beside Phil.

“You should have known I’d find out, sneaking out to go on a date are we? And having a little fuckfest up here under the Windmill.” Bryce said in a whiny tone of voice.

“It’s not like that okay. I’m new in town she was just showing me around is all.” Phil said trying with all his might not to jump over there and beat the shit out of that man.

“I bet, what’s your name boy?” Bryce spat stepping closer to Phil.

“Phil, Phil Diffy.” Phil sneered right back; he wanted nothing more than to drop kick that smirk fight off the other man’s face.

“Phil won’t you come talk to me over here by my car.” Bryce said his hand on the barrel of his hand gun.

“Phil…no…” Keely whispered she was sobbing so hard she could barely stand to draw breath.

“You stay cool, holding to this.” He said handing her the long discarded jacket; he slipped his Wizard back into the pocket first.

Keely nodded biting her lip.

Phil walked over to the police car in front of Bryce which he should have known it was mistake. In seconds he was slammed onto the hood of the car and his hands were pinned firmly behind his back. He didn’t struggle he could have gotten out of it easily, if he would have liked to. But he wanted the asshole to feel like he had the upper hand for at least a second.

“Phil!” Keely cried from where she stood.

“You stay out of this you two bit tramp!” Bryce shouted and Keely sobbed harder disappearing behind her car.

“Do you know that that is my stepdaughter you little punk?” Bryce demanded.

“Yes,” he said calmly.

“Do you know how colossally fucked you are right now?”

“I’ve been in tighter spots than this, I can guarantee that.” Phil said.

The calm voice seemed to enrage the man more he pressed Phil harder against the car till it really hurt. He was gasping for breath.

“What’s that you little shit?”

“What’s more important is that I am a minor, Officer. And I haven’t been read my rights or anything. And what you’re doing constitutes as police brutality.”

“Please, kid like you can prove anything. You’re a bottom feeder, you’ve probably got a record a mile long. You look like a felony waiting to happen.” He released his hold on Phil.

“I’m not the one who’s raping my stepdaughter.” Phil bit out before he could stop himself.

Bryce made a horrible growling sound and lunged at Phil who managed to side step the attack and sweep Bryce’s legs from under him causing him sprawl very gracefully on to the pavement. Phil was on him in an moment beating him with his fists. He’d never been so mad before. He could hear Keely crying in the background. Begging him to stop.

He did shaking the blood off his fists and getting off the other man, “You are so lucky you stupid son of a bitch.”

Bryce grunted and swept Phil’s legs from under him this time he stood and began to kick Phil until he was so tired he had to lean on the truck for support, which was about a dozen kicks. They were both battered and bruised glaring at each other.

“Stop it! Stop it! Fuck!” Keely screamed.

“Keely, get in the truck now.” Bryce said.

“I’ll do whatever you want me to do, if you let Phil go.” Keely sobbed.

“Not good enough…”

“Keely, you don’t have to do this.”

“Yes, I do.” She told him.

“If I get in that truck I’m going to radio the station and I will tell them everything, and I do mean everything. I don’t give a damn if they believe me or not. You’ve taken just about everything away from me! You will not hurt my boyfriend anymore.” Keely said.

“Get in the car Keely.” Both Bryce and Phil shouted.

Phil pulled himself to his feet tucking his now useless right arm against his body; it was broken at the least sprained. He had been using it to block some of Bryce's blows and it had taken the brunt of the trauma.

“Fine…it’s up to you…” she opened the door and pulled out his Nextel Walkie Talkie phone.

A look of cold determination was on the girl’s face.

“They’ll never believe you.” Bryce said trying and failing to stop the steady flow of blood from his nose.

“We’ll see in a minute.” Keely pressed the button and the female dispatch began to speak.

Phil cocked an eyebrow; Bryce looked torn for a second.

“Fine gets in the damn truck Keely.”

She clicked off the Walkie Talkie, “I wanna hear what you’ve got to say.”

“I’ve got to say, that we’ll deal with this at home. You are not to see this boy anymore. And Phil Diffy if you were to breathe a word about this, I’ll kill your little whore.” Bryce hissed.

“You honestly don’t think I’m letting you go home with her?” Phil asked.

“You honestly don’t have a choice, goodnight Mr. Diffy.” Bryce said limping past Phil, and pushing Keely into the truck and going around to the other side.

Phil stood there glaring long after they’d left, he was completely at a loss, and he’d never been more confused in his whole life. He stood there watching the tail lights as they departed. He wondered if he’d ever see Keely again. Alive at least. He wasn’t sure that Bryce would kill her though. The man seemed to take such pleasure in hurting her. He wanted to rip the twisted smile off that assholes face. He seemed to get off on her pain.

Phil wouldn’t rest until he saved her. He didn’t know how he was going to do it but he would, for once Phil could surely say that time wasn’t on his side.