All of You (Sebastian Vettel)

10. Seb's Secret

The colour drained from Alyssa's face as Seb finished telling her what had happened in Bournemouth.  She'd known that something had gone down there, but she'd never thought for one moment that Seb and Joel had taken things so far.   

She began to wonder if she had ever really known Seb at all.  Joel, yeah she got it.  There was a lot of bad blood between him and Dean, and he probably thought he had a lot to make up for.   Seb?  She'd never thought he was capable of something so violent. 

He reached out and placed his hand on top of hers.   She snatched hers back. 

"Don't touch me!" she exclaimed, before she stood and fled, running down the hallway and up the stairs and into their bedroom. 

Seb felt sick to his stomach at her reaction to him after he'd told her his and Joel's secret.  She hated him.  He was going to lose her.  

After a short delayed reaction he stood and followed her up the stairs.  He found her sat on the bed crying softly. 

"Aly..." he began.

"Don't.  I'm trying to get my head around this.  Why would you do something like that?"

"He hurt you!  If Joel hadn't turned up he would have raped you Aly!" he said, trying to excuse his actions. It was the truth. The bastard might even have killed her!

"Just because he's a violent bastard doesn't mean it's ok to use violence on him.  I don't recognise this Seb."

"Well this Seb would do anything to protect you.  Anything! I'm sorry you had to find out like this."

"You mean you're sorry I had to find out at all?"

"Yes!" he admitted. "I'm not proud of what I did, but I did what had to be done.  And it worked!"

"Yeah, but it obviously didn't because now it's come back to bite you on the ass.  He's got you exactly where he wants you.   You're fucked.    You can't go to the police because you will get yourself in trouble.  If this gets out your career will be screwed!  You stupid, stupid man!"

"I'm more concerned about you.I swear to God if he goes near you..."

"What? You'll beat him up again? Threaten to throw him off a cliff again?" she said accusingly.

"Alyssa, I don't know what you want me to say. I could say I'm sorry for what I did, but I'm not.  I'd do it again to protect you.  You're my world and if someone is hurting you,  I'm hurting them. I saw red when Joel told me what Dean had done to you.  You'd already so suffered so much because of him! Please look at me.  I'm still me. I'm still your Sebby."

She flinched as he sat next to her and picked her hand up, but she didn't pull away.

"Aly, I promise you, I would never ever hurt you.  I'd never lay a finger on you that way.  Please baby, you have to believe me."

Alyssa hung her head, scared to look at him. She was afraid that she'd no longer see the man she loved.  She was terrified that he'd become just another violent man in her life.  "Alyssa, please.   Try to see this from my point of view.  You wouldn't speak to the police. I had to do whatever I could to stop him from hurting you again."

"And now he has everything he needs to bring you down."

"He would have gone to the police already if that was his aim."

"He can go to the press."

"It's his word against ours."

"Your reputation will be in tatters.  Seb, do you have any idea what you've done?"