Scene Song: Runaway Love-Ludacris

It was later that night when Carly was fixing a pizza in the kitchen, it was about eight at night, when Steven walked into the house, he slammed the door behind him. The smell of alcohol was so strong, Carly could smell it on his breath. Carly, being her usual somewhat naive self, smiled at seeing her father come in.

Carly: Hey dad, I'm making a pizza you want some?

Steven: (slurred speech from being drunk) I don't want no freaking pizza! I want you kids out of here! I'm sick of ya!

Carly's smile fades and she walks over to him as he plops down on the sofa and holds his head in his hands and yells loudly in anger. Carly sits beside him on the sofa and touches his back and looks with worry.

Carly: What's wrong dad?

Steven violently pushes Carly away HARD to the floor.

Steven: GET AWAY FROM ME! Do I look like I want you to play miss comfort to me? I'm sick of you kids!

Carly gets up off the floor and frowns with anger.

Carly: Sick of us? Why? You haven't even SEEN us in what months? Years? We should be sick of you.

Steven looks up at her with a "what did you say?" look. He stands up and looks angrily at her and quickly back slaps her hard, making her fall down onto the sofa. Carly screams as she falls down onto the sofa. Steven immediately starts taking off his belt.

Steven: First Spencer then you? I'm going to show you kids some respect and I'm going to start off with you tonight!

Steven takes off his belt and pulls her up violently up off the sofa as she screams out in pain from her grabbing her arm violently. She screams loudly….

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LATER:

CONTINUING SCENE SONG: "Runaway Love" –Ludacris/Mary J Blige

Spencer walks in the house with a bottled Pepsi soda in hand and it's a little after ten. The living room and kitchen is dark. He looks around the house.

Spencer: (looks at his watch) Carly? Dad? (says to himself) empty house on a Friday night, lucky me. (scoffs a bit)

Spencer walks up the stairs to Carly's room, thinking she might be there. He goes into her room and sees her lying on her bed, on her side, rocking back and forth. He can hear her crying severely but in a low tone. The room is dark except for a small nightlight on. Spencer frowns and stares at her with a confused stare.

Spencer: Carls? You alright? What's wrong?

Spencer walks over to Carly and sits in front of her on her bed and brushes her hair back from her face.

Spencer: What's wrong Carly? Why are you crying?

Carly tries to talk through tears but can't.

Spencer: Come on, come and sit up, tell me what's wrong.

Spencer grabs Carly's arm to try to pull her up but when he does, she yanks her arm away quickly and winces loudly with pain. She sits up and crawls away from him on the bed, with her back to the wall behind her and lowers her head and breaks into more tears. Spencer frowns.

Spencer: Carly, what's wrong? (moves closer to her on the bed) Hey, what's wrong, talk to me?

Carly hugs her self to him quickly, resting her head on his chest and breaks into loud tears. He hugs her back and rubs her back repeatedly.

Spencer: (sighs and thinks and a thought comes to his mind) What he do Carls? Hmm? What did he do to you?

Carly: (through severe tears) He—he beat me Spencer! He—he beat me with a belt! He—he came home drunk and—and he beat me! I—I screamed for him to stop and—and he wouldn't! Oh—oh God Spencer, help me!

Carly cries louder and Spencer hugs her tighter and looks at the ceiling briefly in rage. Light tears of rage fill his eyes.

Spencer: Shh, shh, don't cry Carls, alright? You—you're alright now. I'm here, I'm here honey, alright. Shh.

Spencer pushes her back gently and lightly pushes the hair back from her face and wipes her tears away and takes her hands into his. He sees her bare arms that have whip bruises on them. He gasps and looks in horror as he sees them.

Spencer: He—he did this to you?

Carly nods through tears.

Spencer: Um—um—is he still here? Where—where is he?

Carly: (through severe tears) Down—downstairs in your room. Spencer—don—don't confront him! Let's—let's just get some clothes and runaway! Let's just runaway and never come back!

Spencer gets up off the bed and starts pacing back and forth and shaking his head.

Spencer: No, no Carly. We're not—I'M not a kid anymore. This isn't ten years ago. Its one thing for him to hurt me but then he—he hurts YOU? YOU? I—I'm supposed to protect you. Mom made me PROMISE to protect you Carls! (sighs with rage) No, I—I'm not running away ANYWHERE.

Spencer storms off towards the door and Carly gets up and runs over to him and trips and falls to the floor by his feet and she gets up and grabs his arm.

Carly: Spencer, please—please, don't DO this! He—he'll hurt you too—again!

Spencer: No he WON'T Carly! If I don't stop this, he's just going to keep doing this! Its time for me to stop being afraid of him and to STOP running away and to stand up to him. (hugs her in his arms) You stay up here and lock the door after I leave and don't open the door until I come back up here, no matter what you hear downstairs, alright?

Carly cries more as she hugs Spencer tightly. Spencer lets go of her and opens the door and walks out and closes the door behind him and heads downstairs. Carly sits on the floor by the door and cries more. She then thinks and runs to her phone to call Sam and Freddie.

Scene Song—"The Final Fight" –Rob Duncan –(Buffy The Vampire Slayer Soundtrack)

Spencer walks down the stairs and takes off his jean jacket and walks into his room and busts open the door to his room and sees Steven sitting by the window drinking a big bottle of alcohol. Spencer sighed heavily, a little with fear but he knew now was not the time to let his fear show. He took in a deep breath and walked over to Steven and pushed him hard down to the floor and waited with an enraged expression for him to get up and fight back.

Steven: (jumped up quickly and threw his liquor bottle down to the floor and looked at Spencer in anger) What the HELL do you think you're doing?

Spencer: (swallowed hard and looked at Steven with anger) PROVOKING YOU. You go and act like a coward and beat up on Carly, well I'm home now. Beat up on me. (laughs briefly with anger) I promise this time I WON'T lose.

Steven laughs heartily at Spencer.

Steven: Boy, you don't know what in CRAP you're getting yourself into. I'll beat you all around this room and all around this house and have you leaving out of this house in a body bag.

Spencer looks away from his father and this sudden wave of braveness filled him. He laughed a bit and then pushes his father again as hard as he could against the wall behind him (Steven).

Spencer: Well do it then, hmm? Come on. I have HAD IT with you beating me up and then you whipped CARLY? (shakes his head) Patience has run out.

Spencer walked over to him and punched Steven and a fist fight ensued between them. They were locked in a brutal fist fight, both of them exchanging punches, knocking over the table and other furniture in Spencer's room and falling to the floor, still tangled in a fist fight together. Spencer was on the floor with Steven on top of him punching him hard in the face and body repeatedly. Steven then got up and pulled Spencer by the collar of his shirt and dragged him to the door in the room, while Spencer kicked and fought to break free from him. Steven picked Spencer up and threw him violently through the door of the room and out into the living room on the living room floor. Steven walked over to Spencer in the living room and by the time he did, Spencer had gotten to his feet and grabbed Steven and pushed him violently back into the glass bookcase, breaking the glass bookcase, glass falling all over the floor in the living room and started punching him repeatedly, both of them continuously throwing punches at each other. Steven kicked Spencer in the stomach repeatedly and then Spencer grabbed Steven and back flipped him onto the sofa, knocking the sofa over onto its back. By this time, as Carly had ran downstairs to see what was going on, Sam, and Freddie had walked into the house, due to Carly calling them and asking them to come over while she was upstairs. Carly ran over to Sam and Freddie just as Spencer and Steven had taken their fight all the way into the kitchen.

Sam: (smiles) OH WOW! I'm missing Spencer kicking daddy-o's BUTT! (Laughs)

Freddie: Sam this isn't funny! How did this happen? We should stop this!

Sam: Yeah I should go over and help Spencer kick Steven's butt!

Sam started to walk over to Spencer and Steven still fighting, knocking over things—glasses, dishes, the kitchen table in the kitchen, but Carly was staring at Steven and Spencer fighting and she grabbed Sam's arm to hold her back.

Carly: (still with her eyes on Spencer and Steven) N—no. Sam—let Spencer do this on his own. He has to.

Sam: What? Why? You KNOW I love a good fight.

Carly (says with a worried tone): Because! Spencer has to fight him on his own. This is his fight, he HAS to do this. Please.

Sam sighed with anger and stood back and watched with Freddie and Carly.

Continuing Song: -"The Final Fight"—Rob Duncan (Buffy The Vampire Slayer Soundtrack)

In the kitchen, Steven had Spencer on the floor and was kicking him repeatedly in the stomach and lower body. Spencer looked like he was almost out for the count, Spencer was close to going unconscious, his face was almost severely bloody but then—Spencer immediately thought of all the years before when his father would beat him over and over and over again, with sticks, extension cords, etc., when his father would beat he and Carly's mother severely over and over and over, he thought of how when he saw Carly just minutes ago up in her room beaten by Steven. No…Spencer couldn't let himself be defeated by Steven, a sudden wave of strength and determination filled him. Spencer grabbed Steven's leg and tripped him up. Steven fell to the floor. Spencer managed to get to his feet, despite him feeling dizzy and weak. He grabbed his father by the collar and pulled him up to his feet and pushed him hard against the counter and began punching him repeatedly while confining him against the counter, but the weakness in Spencer began to take a toll on him and Spencer let Steven fall to the floor. As Steven was about to get up again, Spencer punched him in the face, knocking him down to the floor again. Spencer began kicking him hard in the stomach repeatedly. As Spencer was about to walk away, Steven got to his feet and jumped on Spencer's back.

Sam: Beat him good Spencer!

Spencer back flipped Steven off his back and as Steven got to his feet again and lunged towards him again, Spencer took his foot and kicked Steven in the chest and face, knocking Steven onto the coffee table, breaking it into pieces. Spencer walked over to Steven and started punching him repeatedly in the face. As Steven's face became severely bloody, and Steven became close to going unconscious, Carly ran over to Spencer and pulled him off Steven.

Carly: Spencer, that's enough! He's unconscious! You don't want to kill him, he isn't worth it!

Spencer stopped hitting Steven and got to his feet and almost collapsed with fatigue. Carly helped Spencer to the sofa to sit down and Spencer lied down on his side on the sofa and let out a loud breath of tiredness and exhaustion. Carly wiped blood off of Spencer's bruised face and hugged him.

Minutes later, the cops had come and arrested Steven and took him away in handcuffs. The paramedics had asked Spencer if he wanted to go to the hospital but he declined. Hours later, after Steven was taken away to jail, Spencer limped out of his bedroom with Freddie and Sam, who had bandaged him pretty well. His body was still hurting from the fight he had with his father but he refused to leave Carly to go to the hospital.

Spencer: Are you serious?

Sam: Yeah, Sharpee's boss said Steven stole more than five hundred dollars from the store while working there. So the police can add that to the list of charges now that he's locked up.

Spencer scoffed and shook his head in disgust and unbelief at his father's actions.

Spencer: Do you know he lied about having Cancer? I read his journal this morning. It was all lies. He lied and told us he had it as a sympathy plea I guess. Talk about crazy.

Sam: (scoffs) He was a complete loser.

Spencer nodded in agreement.

When he and Sam and Freddie walked out of his bedroom, they saw Carly sweeping up the glass from the broken bookcase up into a dustpan. When Carly saw Spencer walk out, she stopped sweeping immediately and hugged him and he winced in pain and hugged her back.

Carly: Spencer, now—now that he's gone, are you alright now? Are we alright?

Spencer (weak voice): Yeah Carls. I'm going to make sure he's put away where he'll never hurt us again, alright? I promise.

Spencer takes Carly's hand and leads her and him over to Sam and Freddie and grabs Sam and Freddie and they all share a group hug…

Carly: I love you Spencer.

Spencer: (kisses Carly on the forehead) I love you too Carls.

THE END…