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The Hardest Test	By : NMI Category: 1 through F > Family Matters Views: 4547 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Family Matters, nor the characters or stories from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story. All sexualized characters are eighteen ears of age or older as this story takes place.

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Laura looked down to her lap and fiddled with the blanket. The memories started to flash before her eyes. She saw herself throwing herself at him. She felt her lips pulling at his and her tongue urging his to play. She heard herself practically begging him to keep her under his spell. She felt, for a moment, those new feelings. Before last night, she thought she’d felt love before, but now she was doubting herself. She had certainly never felt anything like that before. Is that how Steve feels all the time? Or was that something completely artificial?
As her mind came back to the potion, her feelings switched quickly to anger.
“How could you do that to me, Steve?!” she snapped, standing up, as he recoiled from her glare.
“It was an accident, Laura! I swear!”
She rolled her eyes, “Oh, sure,” she spat as she stood up, “You’ve been chasing me for over a decade and you just happened to stumble on a way to make me your sex slave.” She crossed her arms protectively over her chest.
“Laura! I didn’t! We didn’t! I wouldn’t!” Steve said firmly.
“Don’t think your last minute save by your conscience excuses what you did to me, Steve!” She was beginning to shout. “You used your freaky brain to create something that would make me want to have sex with you, you waited until my parents were out of town, you drugged me, you waited until we had the house to ourselves, and you made out with me in front of a roaring fire. My God, Steve! Thanks so much for stopping before you took it too far. You’re simply a gift to womankind,” she fumed sarcastically.
“It wasn’t so you would – do the forbidden polka with me,” he said barely above a whisper with his eyes glued to the floor.
“What?” she said.
“It wasn’t so you would make love with me, Laura,” he stated more firmly, looking up, but still avoiding her glare. “It was so you’d love me.”
“Oh, like that makes any difference at this point,” she snarled.
“It should! I’m not just some pervert, Laura, I love you. And because I love you, you should trust that that despicable tale you just told is not the whole story. That’s not what happened. Will you please give me a chance to explain? I’m not trying to excuse myself. I still made some mistakes, but that’s not how it happened, Laura. Please, believe me.” His pleading eyes met hers again as he begged for her attention.
Her eyes narrowed at him, but she eventually relented. She sat back down on his bed, arms still folded across her chest, and crossed her legs. She looked at him suspiciously, expectantly.
He took that as his invitation to explain. Embarrassed by the heat of her stare and the story he had to recount, he looked down at his hands again. “Sweetums, when I invented Woowoo Juice, of course I had you in mind. There is no point in denying that. I wanted to find a way to make you love me. I was desperate, lonely, and much younger and dumber.”
“Wait, when was this?” Laura asked, already surprised by his version of her story.
“Three years ago, I think. I could pull the date from my logs if that would help, but yeah, we were fifteen and I made a dumb mistake. I figured out how to make it, I made it, I tested it, and only then did I begin to consider the moral implications.”
“How did you test it?”
“Only on mice, I swear. The tests went well… very, very well. When I imagined myself for just a moment as that little male mouse and you as those many, many lady mice… The results were promising.”
Laura cringed at his rodent comparison.
“Then I thought about how I could do it, so it would only affect you. I thought about when I could do it. I had this whole evil scheme and then I saw you again. The conception, invention, and experimentation were all done over a weekend. The next time I saw you, I intended to use it, but then I looked at you and I realized immediately that it was wrong. I had been so goal-oriented that I had forgotten to consider anything that stood in my way, like morality or your actual feelings for me. I went home, put the potion back on the shelf, and didn’t look at it again until yesterday morning.”
“Why? What happened yesterday?”
“Nothing significant. Eddie was talking about swimsuit models and I mentioned the potion without thinking. Then he…”
“Immediately tried to use it on himself while ignoring your grave warnings?”
“Exactly,” Steve mumbled. “I tried to talk him out of it, but when that didn’t work, I tried to take it from him and it spilled all over me.”
“Isn’t that all a little convenient, Steve?” Laura mused skeptically, “Why should I believe that this was all just some crazy, inexplicable series of events? Think of it from my perspective. Wouldn’t you come to the same conclusions?”
“Probably, Laura. I know it seems unlikely, but I promise it’s the truth. Ask Eddie, if you’d like. I had hoped I could sneak off to my lab without running into anyone, but fate is far too cruel for that. You walked in just after with my loofa.”
“That’s when things start to get fuzzy for me. I remember thinking about how good you smelled and I remember thinking… Well, other things,” Laura stopped herself before going into detail about what went through her mind in that moment. “If Eddie hadn’t been standing right there…”
She stared off into space, and Steve took that as his opportunity to continue his side of the story. He had had enough of what-if situations for a while.
“So, when you left the room, I fainted. As soon as I regained consciousness, I broke into the school’s chemistry lab and started working on an antidote. At about midnight, I assumed it would be safe to sneak into the house.”
“But if you had the antidote, why didn’t you use it before you came home?”
“Well, I’d like to be able to say it’s because I had more tests to do on it. That is true and that is what I told myself as I was driving home, but I’ve been thinking about that a lot today, and I don’t think that’s the full truth. I think…” he paused, looking away from her again, “I think I wasn’t ready to give up the opportunity. I knew it was wrong. I told myself over and over again that this was not an option, but there was a part of me that was stalling, hoping I could find some way to justify my desires.”
Laura looked away from him, too, uncomfortable with his explanation.
“When I got home, and I saw that you were asleep, I really tried to sneak by undetected, but I ran into something and… It just wasn’t a good plan. What do you remember about the conversation we had on the couch?”
Laura hesitated, “I remember telling you that I loved you and I remember you kissing me.”
“Hey! I think it’s fair to say that we kissed each other,” Steve interrupted clinging desperately to what little leverage he had.
“Fine,” Laura conceded, “We kissed and then I remember you freaking out and calming down and freaking out until you finally told me what was going on.”
“And when I told you that your feelings weren’t real, what did you say to me?”
Laura pursed her lips and sighed deeply. “I told you that I didn’t care, that I loved being in love with you,” Laura admitted.
“And then, despite all that, despite the fact that I hadn’t intended to use the potion, despite the fact that I tried to avoid you all day, despite the fact that I told you that you were under the influence of science, and despite the fact that you told me specifically to throw the antidote in the fire, I still refused to take advantage of you. I still used the antidote. That’s my side of the story. I didn’t do everything right, I’ll admit to that, but I respect you, Laura. I respect you more than anyone else in the world. I’m sorry about everything that happened yesterday, Laura. I truly am.”
Steve stared her down as he pleaded his case, finishing his closing arguments, but she refused to look him in the eye. She sat in silence, curled into herself on the edge of his bed. As she continued to ignore him, he slowly stood and walked to where she was sitting. He took a seat next to her, leaving a respectful distance between their thighs. “Laura,” he cooed gently, “Sweetums? My love, please, look at me.”
She still wouldn’t. When he finally heard her voice, it was clear she was holding back tears. “Steve, you have made me very uncomfortable over the years, with your constant pursuit and complete refusal to respect normal social boundaries, but…”
“But what?”
“I’ve never been afraid of you before today.”
His mouth fell open, shocked to hear her true feelings. Afraid of him? He cared for her more deeply than anyone else in the world. He could never do anything to hurt her, at least not on purpose.
“Laura, c’mon. You have nothing to be afraid of. I would never, ever hurt you,” he insisted, his eyes welling with tears at the very thought. “It was a little mistake.” He reached for her hand and she recoiled.
“There was nothing little about it, Steve,” she said very calmly, finally turning to face him. “You keep saying that you would never ‘take advantage’ of me, but we need to be very clear about this. What almost happened last night was not ‘taking advantage’. It wasn’t like hitting on a girl who was devastated because she just broke with her boyfriend. It wasn’t like sleeping with a girl who was just a little bit tipsy. Steve, I was drugged, and on accident or on purpose, I no longer had control over myself at all. Last night, you almost… raped me.”
“Laura, n-no. N-n-no. I-I-I…” Steve stammered, beginning to feel his heart in his throat, “I didn’t. I w-would never…”
“No, you didn’t. I know you didn’t, and I believe that you spilled it on accident, and I believe that you spent the day trying to avoid me and trying to fix it. I just can’t handle the fact that it was even a possibility. I never would have thought…” Laura shook her head in disbelief. She was losing the battle against her tears.
Steve was trembling now. He tried to focus on what she was saying but it was difficult to hear her with his pulse roaring in his ears.
“Steve, I just don’t know if I can trust you now,” Laura said, standing to leave.
When he saw her rise, Steve threw himself at her feet. He begged her shamelessly as tears streamed down his cheeks. “Please, Laura. Please, don’t go. We need to talk about this. This can’t be happening,” Steve sobbed, wanting desperately to wrap his arms around her legs to prevent her from leaving, but he realized that wouldn’t help his case.
“I think,” Laura said through her tears, “I need some time, Steve. I can’t deal with this right now.” She turned and walked out of the room.
Steve remained in his position, lying on the floor and sobbing, until he eventually fell asleep.
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