Less Than Predictable
Summary: SamPhil. Inspired by a scene from the film Elizabethtown. He had always been less than predictable but she loved him for it and wouldn't change him for the world.
This is my first SP oneshot in a while, I love writing them but I'm not feeling as inspired recently. I think my TB muse has gone into early hibernation. I'm not sure about this fic but it was inspired by a scene from the movie Elizabethtown where Phil's are described as being 'less than predictable' and I just had to turn it into a fic idea. Please review! Xx
'Everything you do makes my life seem like a breeze.' I told him once and I was only half joking. Phil Hunter is like a magnet for trouble whether he tries to avoid it or not. He's a fool for a beautiful woman that's for sure and it's his biggest weakness. We both know it but he falls into the same trap again and again. It would almost be funny, it used to at least be ironic, but that was before I started developing seriously inappropriate feelings for him.
I can almost see the mistakes he is going to make before he even makes them. I can almost predict what is going to happen with Dreyfuss and his typically beautiful young wife. It's heading for the same territory as Zain Nadir's professional and personal involvement with Kristen Shaw and I would have thought Phil would have learned from that. But maybe I am just overly aware of this because I am jealous. Of course I'd never say this out loud or admit it to Phil. Neither of us are getting any younger but Phil still seems to be able to attract the pretty young girls whereas I'm lucky if I attract a second glance from anyone now. I sometimes catch Phil looking at me when he thinks I'm not watching but he never looks at me in the same way that he used to. I can't blame him though, it is my fault for hurting him so badly.
I always thought Phil Hunter was the predictable stereotypical womaniser. To begin with he proved me to be right and I admit that I really did hate him, at least until that day in the tunnels. It changed everything between us and everything about out relationship. From then on things seemed to change about him too. He gradually became much more caring and even sensitive at times. He really tried to turn his life around and he made a special effort to show me that he had changed, although it wasn't like I hadn't already noticed. He proved himself to be the best kind of friend and a good man when I was pregnant with Stuart's baby. The two of them never got on and I could have understood if he had taken a step back when I became involved with Stuart but he didn't, he was there for me more than ever before.
Somehow it was in Phil whom I confided my deepest, darkest secrets who had once been a man I wouldn't have trusted as far as I could have thrown. We were 'just friends' then but I could trust him and tell him more than I could my own boyfriend. Looking back I can now see that it was because Phil loved me and my faults whereas Stuart only loved the things in me that reminded him of himself. I can see how foolish I was to throw Phil's love for me back in his face and I am ashamed of it, even now.
Months have passed now, nearly a year, and I know it's not fair of me to expect him to feel the same way as he did. Maybe that explains my recent behaviour towards him? I would prefer to make him hate me than to know that he doesn't love me anymore.
Typically he wants to pursue workig with the Dreyfuss case and why wouldn't he? Some may say that he's just returning to his old ways but I know better. To me, and after all we've been through as enemies, friends and lovers, Phil Hunter will always be a little less than predictable. I just hope that one day I can predict that he will come back to me.