When Life Becomes Hell

Summary: Sequel to Capable of Love. The family discovers Michael and Gob’s relationship and Maebey has something to tell George Michael. What chaos will ensue? Michael:Gob, George Michael:Maebey.

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Chapter 3: Facing the Facts

“You're what...?” George Michael asked, his voice sounding very high pitch. His wife just told him she was pregnant. This wouldn't be a problem for most couples, but most couples weren't secretly married teenage cousins.

“I'm pregnant” Maebey said. She waited anxiously for George Michael's next response.

“But we used a condom...” was all George Michael could say.

“They don't always work” Maebey said.

“So... what do you want to do about this?”

“Well I'm not getting an abortion like my mom did all those times she got pregnant,” Maebey said, “I don't think I could ever do that, and I'm sure once I hold this baby in my arms I couldn't bear to give it up for adoption. What do we do?” Maebey was scared of the way she was acting in this situation. It seemed like she grew up due to the recent events the family had to endure. Not to mention that Michael and Gob were fighting for their love, even if it was wrong. Maybe she and George Michael could make it, too.

“Well... I was thinking... that we could have this baby and raise it,” George Michael said, holding Maebey's hand, “That we could be a family”

“What about your dad?” Maebey asked, “When he finds out he'll flip. We'll have to come clean about our marriage, and then what?”

“I don't think that's going to be a problem, Maebey,” George Michael said, “He's okay with us being together, and the whole family knows about him and Gob, so I don't think it'll be a big deal to him” Maebey knew that George Michael was right. If Michael did object to them having a child then he'd be a hypocrite and so far that hadn't worked well for him.

“True. Man, therapy is going to be hell for those two”

“So we're going to do this?” George Michael asked.

“Yeah. Let's have a baby”

XxX

So far Maebey's statement about the therapy was true. Not even five minutes into the session and Michael wanted to shoot himself in the head. He and Gob were sitting on the couch in Dr. Gayman's office, preparing to be asked ridiculous questions about their relationship at a useless attempt to make them stop loving each other, “So, how long as this been going on for?”

“A month” Michael answered.

“Your father tells me that your sister caught you two having sexual relations”

“Oh come on! All we were doing was making out,” Gob said, “... from what she could see”

“I see,” Dr. Gayman responded while writing something down on a notepad, “So, Gob, how long have you been attracted to your brother?”

“A long time. I've lost count, though,” Gob answered, “I think it started when I entered puberty and became sexually confused”

“And Michael, since when have you had these feelings towards Gob?”

“I'm not even sure,” Michael answered, “I realized I had those feelings when we finally got together, but... I'm not sure when they started”

“Okay, so... how did this happen?”

“Gob was drunk and ranting about his ex-girlfriend,” Michael answered, “And then out of nowhere he comes onto me, and... I just let go. Next thing I know-” that was when Gob cut him off.

“We were in his room humping like dogs in heat” Gob said.

“Yeah, something like that,” Michael said, a flush coming to his face from his brother's shameless words, “I wasn't sure how I felt about Gob at first, but eventually I realized that I loved him”

“So, you two are... homosexuals?”

“No!” they both answered defensively. Dr. Gayman wrote something else down, and gave them a look that said, “You aren't fooling anyone”

“I was married,” Michael said, “I have a son”

“And I have a kid, too, maybe even more than the one I know of. I've (bleep)ed, like... hundreds of women...” Gob said, only to start telling the truth a few seconds later, “You wanna know the truth? I haven't had sex with as many women as I tell people. A lot of times all I did was cry, and even when I did (bleep) them I would usually cry afterwards. I only whored around so much because if I didn't I would've done something to Michael I'd regret. I'd cry because I felt like I was cheating on Michael”

Narrator: “That held true Gob's whole life, even when he was a teenager”

(Clip of Gob at a makeout party when he was fifteen, crying in the corner after being in the closet with a girl)

“The only time I was ever really determined was when I was (bleep)ing the women Michael was interested in” Gob went on.

“So you slept with women your brother was dating,” Dr. Gayman said, scratching his beard, “It seems like even though you have feelings for your brother there's still sibling rivalry”

“Okay, maybe that had something to do with it,” Gob admitted, “But it was mostly because I didn't want Michael to be taken away from me again. After he got married I didn't see him for so long and that killed me, knowing he was with someone else. I always said that I hated Tracy because she was a bitch, but it was really because I was jealous”

“Not to mention obsessed” Michael added, hinting to Gob's vouyeristic tendancies.

“That too,” Gob said, “But I put up with her because she made Michael happy”

“You never told me that” Michael said, placing a hand on Gob's shoulder.

“I don't like bringing it up” Gob said. Michael could understand why. Gob had apparently been in love with him for years, and seeing someone you truly loved with someone else hurt. Michael was amazed, though, that Gob actually put Michael's feelings before his own.

“Well, I can tell that this is going to be interesting” Dr. Gayman thought, writing down on his note pad, “Patients' feelings for each other seem to be genuine and not based solely on physical attraction. Gob appears to be insecure, especially with his sexuality, but not as much when Michael is involved”

“Although I did get back at her for stealing you when I set her hair on fire during your wedding reception,” Gob commented, “I didn't do it on purpose, but for me it was the only good part of that day”

“Gob also seems to be a bit posessive and vengeful” to be honest, Dr. Gayman didn't think there was anything wrong with their relationship. Aside from the incest it was pretty normal, “So Michael, before you started to have feelings for your brother, how did you feel about incest?”

“I thought it was wrong,” Michael answered, “My son is in love with his cousin and when I first found out about it I tried to keep them from being together, which didn't work. I was against the whole thing until Gob and I had sex”

“And you didn't have a choice after that because otherwise you'd a hypocrite,” Gob said, “Especially with how much (bleep)ing we do. We had a quickie before we got here” Michael was sure that by the end of the session he'd have a blush permenantly on his face.

“Gob, what did I tell you about saying those sorts of things?” Michael said, “I told you I didn't want this guy thinking we were perverts”

“I see,” Dr. Gayman actually seemed very calm about this, even for a shrink, “So how many times in a week do you two have sex?”

“About eleven times a week,” Gob answered, “But that's not counting if we do it a bunch of times in a row” he could practically feel Michael glaring a hole into the side of his head.

“Gob seems to be very proud of the sexual aspect of the relationship, while Michael appears to be embarrassed by it”

“Do you have to tell him stuff like that?” Michael asked.

“Well he asked about it,” Gob said, “I wasn't going to say that we were like those married couples that are pissed off at each other all the time and when they actually do have sex you can barely even call it that”

“And Michael, when was the first time you were aroused by your brother?”

“I am not answering that” Michael said.

“Why not?”

“Because it's weird and embarrassing” Michael answered.

“Michael, we're seeing a shrink because the family knows we're (bleep)ing each other, I don't think you admitting something like that could make things worse” Gob said.

“Fine... It was when I was seventeen,” Michael started, “We were playing truth or dare and for some reason our brother Buster dared me to make out with Gob. I refused at first but then Gob started doing the chicken dance, so I kissed him, and while we were making out I got an erection”

“I knew it!” Gob beamed, “I knew I got you hard”

“Says the guy that stuffs birds down his pants” Michael commented defensively. Dr. Gayman raised an eyebrow and continued to write on his notepad.

“Gob, why exactly do you keep birds down your pants?” he asked.

“I'm a magician,” Gob answered, “I keep doves down my pants. The only problem is that they keep dying” Unfortunately the other two occupants of the room could tell that wasn't all.

“Still, why would you keep them down your pants?”

“Well where else am I supposed to keep them?” Gob said, starting to feel uneasy, “In my coat?”

“Yeah”

“Well the last time I kept one there a door killed it” Gob explained.

“Are you sure that's all?” Dr. Gayman asked.

“Okay, so I'm kind of insecure about... my size down there,” Gob answered. He was surprised when Michael almost started laughing, “What's so funny?”

“Gob, I may or may not be the best judge of this, but speaking as your lover, I don't think you have a problem with that” Michael said, taking hold of Gob's hand and nuzzled his face. Lately it had been easier to show Gob his affection. Gob returned the gesture wholeheartedly.

“Wow, are they ever fruitcakes” Dr. Gayman thought, watching the public display of affection.

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“Where did we go wrong, George?” Lucille asked desperately. She was on her eigth martini that day and wasn't planning on stopping any time soon.

“I don't know... I tried everything to keep (bleep) like this from happening. I thought that they hated each other,” George Sr. answered, “But now they're gay lovers and they gave me a (bleep)ing heart attack. This just... this isn't normal. Sure, I'm one to talk, I shipped my brother to China for not listening to my last warning about staying away from you, but that's not the point”

(Cut to a scene of Oscar in a box on a ship headed to China)

Oscar: “Let me out! I need pot!”

(Back to Lucille and George Sr.)

“Really? Are you sure you and Oscar didn't experiment as teenagers?” Lucille said in a joking manner. Her husband, however, took it seriously.

“Are you crazy? I'm one of the first people to feel sick from that kind of stuff,” George Sr. said defensively, “I can't even look at hot dogs or cucumbers anymore thanks to those two sickos”

“And you didn't even see anything,” Lucille said, shaking her head, “I could only imagine what Lindsay's going through. She's the one that saw them”

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“That son of a bitch Michael is a God damn ass (bleep)ing hypocrite!” Lindsay shouted the moment she walked through the door, “I can't believe he'd lie through his teeth the way he did!” her husband, hearing her shouting from the kitchen, knew that she was not going to let this whole incident go very easily. She said she wasn't jealous, but she kept complaining about Michael being a hypocrite.

“What is it now, dear?” he asked when she walked into the kitchen.

“That new consultant for the company, Nelly, used to be a prostitute and Gob was her pimp,” Lindsay answered, “I talked to her about this and she knew the whole time. She knew that Gob had the hots for Michael. Gob cried to her all the time about it. She actually tried to help Gob get Michael in bed once. That's not even the wrost part. Michael actually said to her that he didn't even feel guilty about the incest anymore. He's not ashamed that he's doing his brother but he won't (bleep) his adopted sister?” that was definitely an earful of info.

“What does a prostitute have to do with any of this?” Tobias asked, “And Gob's a pimp?”

“What do you expect? There's a lot of secrets those two keep from people,” Lindsay said, rolling her eyes, “What's next? Michael's pregnant and they're going to get married so the kid won't be a bastard?” it was then that George Michael walked in, only hearing as early as the word pregnant.

“Who's pregnant and getting married?” he asked, panicking for a moment that he and Maebey were already found out.

“Nothing, she's just venting about this whole thing with Gob and your father,” Tobias elaborated, “She'll be fine”

“Oh, okay,” George Michael said, “I'm going to go... somewhere else” neither of the other two noticed how strange the boy was acting.

“What does Gob have that I don't?” Lindsay asked.

“Lindsay, don't you think that by now it's kind of obvious?” Tobias asked.

“No”

“As hard as it may be for you to hear this, I think that Michael and Gob might be... gay” Tobias explained.

“What? No way! Michael's not gay. Gob, maybe, it's kind of hard to figure him out,” Lindsay said, “Michael could possibly be bi, he's not enough of a jerk to be completely straight, but gay? He was married, he got her pregnant before that too”

“Well it's just a thought,” Tobias said, “There's no reason to be all defensive about this”

“It's just that... you have no idea how this makes me feel,” Lindsay said, “He rejected me, but he chose some idiotic, barely literate, overly emotional, possibly insane, spaztic man whore, whom he is actually related to”

“Don't you think that's a bit harsh?”

“I'm allowed to be harsh. Michael's being a freaking hypocrite. If he'd just said he didn't feel that way about me I could live with it.” Lindsay said.

“I guess” Tobias was trying to take Lindsay's behaviour well, but deep down he was hurting over his wife's jealousy for the brother she said she was over.

XxX

“Michael, do you have more than fatherly feelings towards your son?” Dr. Gayman asked. Michael's over protectiveness of George Michael was brought up, and the next thing Michael knew he was being asked if he was attracted to his son.

“No. What the hell would give you that idea?” Michael asked, very agitated.

“Well apparently you very much disliked his first girlfriend, Anne, and you're very touchy-feely with him” Dr. Gayman elaborated.

“Nobody liked her. And so what if I'm close to my son? It's not as severe as... well you know” Michael said, gesturing to his brother while saying that last part.

“It's true,” Gob said, “She was a complete drag. And yeah, the contact between me and Michael kind of boarders on molestation”

“I see”

“I mean, that would be like me getting turned on by seeing my parents have sex,” Gob said, “And I think I just made myself almost throw up”

“I see...” Dr. Gayman said, “Well, our hour is up”

“Thank God!” both brothers thought. They stood up and were about to hurry out there door until Dr. Gayman spoke up.

“There's just one thing I'd like to say about this,” Dr. Gayman said, “And it doesn't matter whether it's my professional or personal opinion, because they're both pretty much the same. I don't think there's anything wrong with your relationship aside from the incest. As for your own individual problems, you seem to be helping each other overcome them” it made sense to Michael. He was never good at letting people in, he was afraid of getting hurt. It had taken Tracy forever to get past those barriers, but Gob... somehow he got to Michael. Gob had changed too. He was never like this in his other relationships, which from what Michael could understand, were all a front. And as far as he knew, Gob never cheated on him.

“Well, thank-you, Dr. Gayman,” Michael said, while Gob giggled, still not over the man's last name, “And to save us all a lot of time, I don't think we'll be coming back any time soon”

“Yeah, see ya, Dr. Gayman” Gob said.

XxX

“I don't think I'm ready to tell my dad, Maebey,” George Michael said, panic audible in his voice, “He doesn't even know we've done it, and he's going through a lot right now...”

“Don't worry, I get it,” Maebey said. She knew that George Michael was under a lot of stress right now, with them having a baby and the whole thing with his dad, “We've still got time before we have to tell him”

“I still can't believe we're going to have a baby” George Michael said with a smile, hugging Maebey. Then they heard the door open, signaling that Michael and Gob were home and had to keep quiet about the baby.

“How was therapy?” Maebey asked.

“Hell,” Michael answered, “You would not believe some of the things that quack asked us”

“Told you” Maebey said to George Michael.

“On the upside, the therapist thinks there's nothing wrong with us,” Gob said. Gob knew it himself all along, but it helped to hear it from a shrink, “Wait till Dad hears about that”

XxX

“He doesn't think there's anything wrong with you?” what kind of therapist didn't think there was anything wrong with two brothers dating each other? George Sr. was infuriated at the way his sons were smirking at him. They were pretty damn pleased with themselves about this.

“That's right. In fact, Dr. Gayman said that it's a good thing we're together,” Michael said, “We won't be going back there any time soon, and you can just forget about this ending. Dad, you are just going to have to face the fact that Gob and I love each other” as Michael and Gob walked out the door, holding hands, George Sr. was starting to think that maybe there was nothing he could do about this.