she/her. [18+ writing]. inventor of the corey x mr allen ship. i was once the most prolific brad dourif and slice-of-life sinclair brothers fanfic writer on this website. ask box is always OPEN for discusions and chatting, but requests are CLOSED (see: pinned post). main blog is @hersweetrevenge.
HOUSE OF WAX (2005) MASTERLIST (ft. bo and vincent, though lester makes an appearance or two)
HALLOWEEN ('78 & H40) MASTERLIST (ft. corey and michael)
MISC. HORROR MASTERLIST (ft. otis, baby, chop top and beetlejuice)
ASSORTED MASTERLIST (ft. kylo, lucifer, olaf and dewey)
CHUCKY AND CAZ VS. THE WORLD MASTERLIST (charles lee ray and carrie white au)
AO3 (please boost my stats there lol)
CURRENT CHARACTERS: corey cunningham, michael myers ('78/H40), assorted characters played by rohan campbell
PAST CHARACTERS: bo sinclair, vincent sinclair, lester sinclair, chop top sawyer, otis driftwood, musical!beetlejuice, charles lee ray, jack dante, billy bibbit, sheriff brackett, tommy ludlow, grima wormtongue, tucker cleveland and doc cochran.
first time writing fanfiction of a character : uughh i hope this is all canon accurate... it cant be canon innacurate at all or the enitire fandom will throw rocks at me...
10057th time writing the character: heres them working at a mcdonalds
this is sort of like a thematic companion piece to my first corey fic, mother is the name for god. it's a very short 'what if?' drabble, where corey never meets michael and his failed date with allyson is the first and last attempt he makes at venturing back into the world.
WARNINGS for corey's mommy issues, joan's total disregard for boundaries and implied child abuse.
Corey wakes up cold. The scrubby grass beneath him was wet with dew; the sky a crisp, stark grey above him. For a moment, everything feels good. The air in his lungs. The quiet stillness of the early morning. He felt alive. Then he feels the pounding in his head. His skull tender with concussion. The ache in his joints as he tries to sit up but can't quite manage it. He lies there for a long time, watching the clouds shift, listening to the rumble of traffic over the bridge.
He barely remembers walking home, stumbling back from a part of town he doesn't know that well, the part he hasn't had much of an excuse to go to before. Until last night, when a pretty girl asked him out and he let himself think it wouldn't be so bad if he agreed, just this once. Just this once.
Momma is furious with him. Why didn't he call? Where has he been all night? Why didn't he come home?
He looks himself over in the bathroom mirror, unfamiliar and bare without his glasses. There's blood beneath his nose, though he doesn't remember what happened for it to have been bleeding. The stitches in his palm have pulled, he can feel it throb beneath the bandage, grey with dirt from stumbling back up the embankment and onto the road. Corey finally unlocks the door.
"You were right, Momma. I should have stayed at home with you."
Momma softens, because that's all she's ever wanted from him. For him to see that she was right all along. All she's ever wanted is for Corey to stay with her, where he is safe. All she wants is to know exactly where he is, and what he's doing, and what he's thinking.
The bathroom is cold as Momma helps him out of his dusty clothes. The bandage is discarded in the sink, the long gash that splits his palm is red and raw and Corey cradles it against his bare chest. Goosebumps raise on Corey's arms as he sits, miserable, on the edge of the tub. Steam begins to rise as she runs the bath for him. Once it's full he climbs in, sits there and cries into the hot water.
He's still crying when she turns his face towards her, her hand gripping his chin tightly, when she wipes the blood from beneath his nose, the tears from his eyes, and then scrubs his face pink with a washcloth.
"Head back," Momma says, and Corey does as he's told. He lets her pour water over his hair, lets her wash it with firm fingers that comb through his soaked curls. When she rinses out the shampoo, he holds his breath and squeezes his eyes tight shut, water rushing over him so it's all that he can hear.
Another missed call from Allyson. His phone lights up again, silent, illuminating the room with it's blue light. He lets it ring off.
He's supposed to be asleep. Tucked up in bed, a kiss pressed to his forehead. Momma had watched until he's breathing levelled out, until she thought for sure he was asleep.
I don't think it's going to work out. Corey types. I'm sorry.
new cunningallen au just dropped 😎 theresa finds out about the affair so she and roger separate. roger moves out into a bachelor pad apartment and lets corey move in with him.
roger was never going to leave theresa to be with corey, would never throw his life away for a stupid fling, but she's made that decision for him now, more or less kicking him out, so he may as well try and make this thing with corey work. it'll be nice to have corey around the house, preserving some form of domesticity now that his family life is in tatters. corey who is so willing and obliging and so desperately wants to be useful. maybe roger's telling himself he's back in his prime, he has the freedom he had before becoming a family man, and corey still wants him even if theresa doesn't.
corey is desperate to get away from his mom, so he jumps at the chance to be roger's live-in boyfriend (not that they ever use words like boyfriend or partner, thought it's clear to everyone what is going on), and ignores that he knows it's pretty shitty of them to carry on while roger's marriage is falling apart. but roger makes corey feel like a grown up, and this is his chance to step out on his own and live (sort of) independently, while still having the safety that roger provides with his dad-like demeanour. corey isn't as naïve as roger thinks he is, he knows that roger is too old for him and the lines are getting increasingly blurry on how much they care about each other. but more is just never enough for corey, is it. plus, he's getting a pretty good deal -- that $50 has turned into free rent, food and a whatever else will keep him happy.
joan was naturally furious about the whole thing, in the space of less than a week it all comes out that not only was corey having sex (with a man! gasp!) but he was homewrecking a married couple, and now he's moving out to live with his married (gasp!) boyfriend (gasp!). clearly corey was being taken advantage of, clearly corey's doing it to hurt joan, clearly this is about her and it's her duty to protect corey from himself. corey lets joan rant at him, but he stands firm. corey hates to do it, but he still goes home to visit fairly frequently after moving out, even though it's never enough to make joan happy, but it stops her calling the cops on roger (not that she has anything legitimate to accuse him of) and corey still needs her help with his financial aid applications so it's best to keep her as sweet as possible. she spends every dinner they have trying to convince him to come home.
ronald is as surprised as anyone, but certainly not as upset as joan is. he's worried, sure, but doesn't feel it's exactly his place to interrogate corey about his choices. corey is grown, he can do what he wants. ron's known corey since he was a teenager, he doesn't want to watch him fall into a bad situation because he was too passive to do anything about it. he actually helps corey move some of his stuff to roger's apartment, and on the drive over he feels the responsibility to at least ask if corey is sure about this, asks if this is going to make corey happy. corey sort of shrugs, he doesn't want to talk to ron about it, but he's touched that ron is asking his opinion, something joan never, ever does. he says he's sure, and that roger is a good guy (despite, y'know, all the infidelity) who treats him well, and that he's as happy as he can be.
corey and roger try to keep it a secret, but this is a small town -- people talk. and it seems crazy that something would be going on, surely it's not what it looks like, but it is. they avoid going out together, instead driving to the next town over if they want to go out for dinner, or grocery shop together, or catch a movie.
they make a funny sort of domestic life for themselves. roger works and corey keeps up his community college classes, doing a couple of cash-in hand jobs still because he's getting serious about which engineering school he wants to go to now. it's not that roger expects corey to cook and clean (part of him really wants corey to concentrate on school so he can find that better life for himself that he deserves) but corey likes being useful so he starts doing that sort of thing anyway (very much having to learn on the job) and roger doesn't necessarily stop him. even so, they still eat more take out than maybe they should, and chores can fall to the wayside in favour of other things. they have a frankly gratuitous amount of sex for the first few months (corey is open for business). there's an adjustment period of them living together for the first time, when really the only thing they knew about each other before was the idealised version that each had in their own head. corey isn't used to seeing roger stressed with work, the kind of stress that isn't just fixed with sex. the first time roger is truly stressed/irritated over a work issue, corey is thrown off hard. he does his best to be supportive, to make everything else easier, but he's really not equipped to be a partner in that way yet. and living together makes roger realise just how young corey is: watching him do his homework at the table, listening to the shenanigans of corey's friends. corey's going out to parties increasingly frequently, and roger is unsure whether to wait up for him to come home (stumbling drunk) or not -- he's not corey's dad but he sure worries like he is. and no, roger isn't jealous that corey truly is in the prime of his youth and roger is only playing pretend with his bachelor pad and boytoy.
once things have vaguely settled down, roger starts having jeremy every other weekend. theresa is not happy about it. it's the most horrendously awkward time of any of their lives. jeremy doesn't really get it, like he knows what divorce is, but thinks the current situation is super weird -- his dad moved out and lives with the babysitter now in a white-trash apartment? weird. corey tries to stay out of the way during these visits, and roger takes jeremy out so they're not stuck in the apartment. he's trying very hard to be the fun dad, presumably so jeremy will forgive him in the long run. luckily no one is expecting corey to be any sort of figure in jeremy's life; he's in need of a dad himself, he isn't about to be a stepdad. jeremy still doesn't like corey anyway, but corey cares less about being on jeremy's good side now. there's a sick little part of corey that feels he kind of won -- he's the one who gets all of roger's attention, who gets to live with roger, who gets roger all to himself. at least for a while. their relationship was never built for longevity.
in the end corey goes off to college and there's an unspoken confirmation that him and roger are over. when corey comes back for the summer, he goes home to joan and ron. roger and theresa get back together, after a lot of marriage counselling, chalking the whole thing up to a destructive midlife crisis. theresa is willing to forget. corey meets someone at college and moves out of haddonfield for good with them once he graduates. it was a strange year or so of their lives that they don't necessarily regret, but knew would never last. corey was confused and lonely. roger was bored and had stopped cherishing the life he had. but it all worked out in the end.
thinking about making a snowpiercer third class seamstress s/i to romance the junior butcher, while we both try to survive the class war onboard a perpetually moving train.
sneaking into the cattle car so that he can show me the cows, and i as i pet one, i notice that their big brown eyes remind me of him. i don't think he'd be happy about the comparison though. he's looked into those eyes before they get slaughtered and he isn't so sure he wants to be as dumb and trusting as they are.
thinking about us getting a room reassignment so we can share a cabin. we stare out of the window together and tell each other what we remember about the world before the freeze, before the train. wind in the trees and grass beneath our feet, shopping malls and junk food. talking about the things we missed out on -- graduation, prom, a movie that we wanted to see but never came out -- and what our lives have become when our only goal is to stay under the radar and be useful enough to be safe after the revolution.
the allens feeling sorry for corey and inviting him to a barbecue one weekend, where he is subjected to psychosexual torture in the form of roger wearing an apron and grilling various meats with a beer in his hand.
God i love 45 year old men so fucking much. Cmere my little accountant. Ohhh you got a blackstone grill? Haha thats awesome.. show me your home movie theater and we can watch fear and loathing in las vegas until i unzip your raw denim jeans
I just wrote 8 pages when I haven't written in months and was beginning to think I'd never be able to again. Idk what it is, but I am sharing and manifesting this energy for every writer who sees this. May you write 8 quality pages effortlessly and find joy writing once more
I’ve wondered what would Roger actually do if confronted by his wife about his relationship with Corey….?
In the valentines story she actually handles the chocolates so if she,d read the note……she would have seen the truth or at least suspected so he’s obviously not above taking risks
He would lie and say that he’s watching out for him and maybe the chocolate thing was a little inappropriate but he just wanted to thank him
2. He would lie and say Corey was deluded and telling lies
3. Admit it but downplay to just being one off and a mistake
4. Confess everything and ask for forgiveness
[i'm sorry this took a few days, i was thinking on it very intensively lol it's actually something i've thought about before, like if their affair was going to end, i truly only see it happening if they either get caught or corey finally moves away to college. i think you're right about all of these reactions, in the right circumstances.]
i think roger's reaction really depends on what theresa confronts him with. no matter how careful they are, there will always be evidence, but some of it will be less damning. roger would definitely gauge what theresa thought was going on and change his response accordingly.
in the valentine's story, i imagined it as roger buying the chocolates (with theresa's guaranteed approval/knowledge), but then secretly writing the note, and putting them away for corey to get later, and just having faith that theresa wouldn't look at them, because why would she? if she did see the note, it'd be pretty damning, it goes beyond a misplaced thanks imo, but i do think he'd downplay it as a silly and, in hindsight, inappropriate in-joke that he and corey have. would it go over well? probably not, but it's better than confessing the truth.
if theresa had very solid evidence (like something physical, or someone telling her they've seen something, etc.) then i think roger would throw corey under the bus and blame him, but "admit" there had been a one time thing (maybe even a few times but certainly not serious), and it was a huge mistake, and it'll never happen again. i think they'd probably stay together if this was the case -- no use breaking up the family (and finances) over one mistake, it's better to just save face and deal with it at marriage counselling or whatever.
if she just called him out on there being a weird vibe between him and corey (like weird looks, or their demeanour with each other, etc.), i think he'd definitely try to downplay it -- maybe claiming that corey had made a pass at him but he obviously rejected him. i think he'd try and do some damage control though, and explain that corey was just confused and lonely, and he was honestly really embarrassed after roger rejected him, so they shouldn't hold it against him because he's a good kid really. i'm not sure that's fly with theresa, maybe she'd still fire corey, but it works to hide the real truth from her.
[in a scenario i've thought about wayyy to much] i think the only way roger is confessing to everything is if theresa literally catches them in the act. maybe roger still tries to insist it was the first time, but theresa knows it's not -- because they're too comfortable, too confident -- and corey gets thrown under the bus again, a homewrecking scapegoat who is never to be seen again. roger apologises, begs for forgiveness, spends the rest of his life with this mistake hanging over his marriage.
as time goes on, roger definitely gets more sloppy at hiding (i.e. the chocolates are definitely a risk, if they did go to chicago that is a big secret to hide, etc.), but the one thing he's certain about is corey not telling anyone. corey gets too much out the arrangement, or so roger thinks, there's no way he'd throw it all away to spite roger by telling his wife. if he did, roger would go with the option of saying corey is delusional, and it must be a crush that has spiralled into obsession.
if roger thought that theresa suspected something but didn't say anything, i don't know if he'd completely stop the affair, but he'd start limiting what he and corey did. back to the early days where corey really does predominantly do yard work and maybe sneaks in a fumbling 20 minutes on the couch when theresa isn't home. maybe it eventually slows down and stops naturally and they go about their lives like nothing happened.
and then of course there is the sexuality aspect -- is theresa more or less upset that roger was cheating with another man? roger is bisexual, but how often has he talked about that in a meaningful way? his excuse for it being corey is simply that he was the most convenient option (it's way easier to cheat with someone who comes to you than to have to go out of your way for it), the fact that corey is a man doesn't really factor in to the cause of the cheating. in fact, it only really matters to corey because it lets him "figure out" his daddy issues.
another angle i've been considering is if theresa figures out for absolute certain that roger is having an affair but she just doesn't know who with. corey overhears them arguing about it.
theresa doesn't tell him exactly what's going on, but he has a bad feeling he probably already knows. he offers his support in this trying time, and theresa thanks him for how considerate he is.
roger corners him and tells him to leave him alone, tells him that theresa knows he's cheated on her but doesn't know it's with corey. he tells corey to keep his mouth shut, but not without one last kiss.
[tags from @/slutforstabbings, blake how do you always find a way to get it more than i do ?? 💗🧠]
i feel like i'm always toeing the line of how much of an asshole roger is lol. his canon is limited so we're free-styling it always in the cunningallen camp.
now, he's done plenty of assholeish things, absolutely, but do we think he is malicious enough to gaslight theresa about the whole thing? or is his decision just down to him being stupidly selfish?
there doesn't seem to be any huge issues in the allens' marriage (not that they'd be unloading that on corey anyway) so roger having an affair could really be as simple as wanting some excitement in his life again. being married for so long, with a child, things probably aren't as thrilling as they used to be for poor roger 🙄 -- instead of working on his marriage, he takes the easy way out and cheats.
maybe he wants to regain a type of control that doesn't align with his clean-cut family man lifestyle. corey, young and inexperienced as he is, makes roger feel like he's in his prime again, like he's desirable, like the hot-blooded male he still wants to be. corey is susceptible to manhandling, likes it even, and he always gives in -- perfect for a sexual power trip to let off some steam.
or does he kind of just want to have his cake and eat it too? he wants his wife and family and good job and upper-middleclass lifestyle, but he also wants someone on the side to have fun sex with, who looks up to him, who boosts his ego. if he can have it all and no one finds out, then no one is getting hurt for it.
but then maybe he is malicious enough to do that, he's already cheating on his wife -- which on its own could be unforgivable -- and he's lying to her every single day. maybe saving his own skin really is more important to him than making amends for what he's done?
if the chicago trip happens; that is a very risky and very expensive betrayal to commit to, something he'd probably go to great lengths to cover up (because it's one thing to make the most of corey just been there, it's another to go out of his way to spend money on getting him alone for the weekend).
he's knowingly leading corey on with his affections, with the implication that roger loves him, while never intending to commit to corey (which corey knows, he does, but it doesn't make it hurt any less knowing he'll always be second best).
and the way roger knows corey will do anything he asks, manipulating him to do him favours of all varieties. is he doing it as a power play, making sure corey knows his place? or does it just "harmlessly" add to the taboo of corey being the help and that's what gets roger off?
adding to that, a recurring theme for them has been that roger is not above subtly convincing corey of things about their relationship that aren't strictly speaking true -- that corey is the one who prompted roger to make a move, that corey is insatiable, that corey is leading roger astray but roger does it because corey is too good to turn down. so it's only a small leap from gaslighting your lover to gaslighting your wife about your lover.
all in all, i am so deeply fascinated with the idea of him gaslighting her about it 😈
it'd be easy when she only has suspicions, but what if she finds more solid evidence? the bedsheets being changed too often, a transaction she doesn't recognise on the credit card bill, roger finding excuses not to go on family outings.
and it's a whole new level of fucked-up because corey is there and he knows that theresa knows, he knows that she's so close to the truth, but roger is ruthless in shutting her down, saying how crazy it is that she would think that, of course nothing is going on. theresa wants to believe roger, of course she wants an affair to be some crazy idea that could never be true. and maybe roger is right, who is he meant to be cheating with? he's at home most weekends while corey's there to do the gardening -- and corey's honest, he'd tell theresa if he noticed roger doing anything suspicious, wouldn't he?
corey feels even more guilty about it, because he never wanted to be a homewrecker, he never wanted anyone to get hurt over it. was he selfish to still want roger's attention even though he's married, even though corey knows his wife? maybe, but they were getting away with it. they weren't lying, they just weren't telling the truth. what roger's doing now though goes beyond just lying, corey knows that, but it doesn't mean he's going to stop -- like roger always tells him, he can never get enough.
that is also a very interesting point on if roger knows he's bi before corey or not 🤔 i think it could go both ways (lol); it's possible he knew but just repressed it because he thought it was just a college phase or whatever, or maybe he didn't know, and what him and corey have is him exploring those feelings with the good-looking and very convenient college kid who mows his lawn lol.
either way, when theresa is onto him about cheating on her, it is probably not the time to have a coming out moment.
I’ve wondered what would Roger actually do if confronted by his wife about his relationship with Corey….?
In the valentines story she actually handles the chocolates so if she,d read the note……she would have seen the truth or at least suspected so he’s obviously not above taking risks
He would lie and say that he’s watching out for him and maybe the chocolate thing was a little inappropriate but he just wanted to thank him
2. He would lie and say Corey was deluded and telling lies
3. Admit it but downplay to just being one off and a mistake
4. Confess everything and ask for forgiveness
[i'm sorry this took a few days, i was thinking on it very intensively lol it's actually something i've thought about before, like if their affair was going to end, i truly only see it happening if they either get caught or corey finally moves away to college. i think you're right about all of these reactions, in the right circumstances.]
i think roger's reaction really depends on what theresa confronts him with. no matter how careful they are, there will always be evidence, but some of it will be less damning. roger would definitely gauge what theresa thought was going on and change his response accordingly.
in the valentine's story, i imagined it as roger buying the chocolates (with theresa's guaranteed approval/knowledge), but then secretly writing the note, and putting them away for corey to get later, and just having faith that theresa wouldn't look at them, because why would she? if she did see the note, it'd be pretty damning, it goes beyond a misplaced thanks imo, but i do think he'd downplay it as a silly and, in hindsight, inappropriate in-joke that he and corey have. would it go over well? probably not, but it's better than confessing the truth.
if theresa had very solid evidence (like something physical, or someone telling her they've seen something, etc.) then i think roger would throw corey under the bus and blame him, but "admit" there had been a one time thing (maybe even a few times but certainly not serious), and it was a huge mistake, and it'll never happen again. i think they'd probably stay together if this was the case -- no use breaking up the family (and finances) over one mistake, it's better to just save face and deal with it at marriage counselling or whatever.
if she just called him out on there being a weird vibe between him and corey (like weird looks, or their demeanour with each other, etc.), i think he'd definitely try to downplay it -- maybe claiming that corey had made a pass at him but he obviously rejected him. i think he'd try and do some damage control though, and explain that corey was just confused and lonely, and he was honestly really embarrassed after roger rejected him, so they shouldn't hold it against him because he's a good kid really. i'm not sure that's fly with theresa, maybe she'd still fire corey, but it works to hide the real truth from her.
[in a scenario i've thought about wayyy to much] i think the only way roger is confessing to everything is if theresa literally catches them in the act. maybe roger still tries to insist it was the first time, but theresa knows it's not -- because they're too comfortable, too confident -- and corey gets thrown under the bus again, a homewrecking scapegoat who is never to be seen again. roger apologises, begs for forgiveness, spends the rest of his life with this mistake hanging over his marriage.
as time goes on, roger definitely gets more sloppy at hiding (i.e. the chocolates are definitely a risk, if they did go to chicago that is a big secret to hide, etc.), but the one thing he's certain about is corey not telling anyone. corey gets too much out the arrangement, or so roger thinks, there's no way he'd throw it all away to spite roger by telling his wife. if he did, roger would go with the option of saying corey is delusional, and it must be a crush that has spiralled into obsession.
if roger thought that theresa suspected something but didn't say anything, i don't know if he'd completely stop the affair, but he'd start limiting what he and corey did. back to the early days where corey really does predominantly do yard work and maybe sneaks in a fumbling 20 minutes on the couch when theresa isn't home. maybe it eventually slows down and stops naturally and they go about their lives like nothing happened.
and then of course there is the sexuality aspect -- is theresa more or less upset that roger was cheating with another man? roger is bisexual, but how often has he talked about that in a meaningful way? his excuse for it being corey is simply that he was the most convenient option (it's way easier to cheat with someone who comes to you than to have to go out of your way for it), the fact that corey is a man doesn't really factor in to the cause of the cheating. in fact, it only really matters to corey because it lets him "figure out" his daddy issues.
another angle i've been considering is if theresa figures out for absolute certain that roger is having an affair but she just doesn't know who with. corey overhears them arguing about it.
theresa doesn't tell him exactly what's going on, but he has a bad feeling he probably already knows. he offers his support in this trying time, and theresa thanks him for how considerate he is.
roger corners him and tells him to leave him alone, tells him that theresa knows he's cheated on her but doesn't know it's with corey. he tells corey to keep his mouth shut, but not without one last kiss.
for Corey what do you think draws him to his love interests….do you think it’s always the same thing or does it vary from person to person ?
i definitely think it varies from person to person !! though some qualities he values consistently.
i see it as corey often projecting his dysfunctional attachments onto his love interests: he expects the men in his life to leave him (or be otherwise absent), and he feels he has to have all of his emotional needs met by a woman in his life.
pre-accident, i think corey is fairly consistent in what he is drawn to in people of all genders. someone funny, someone laidback, someone who is verbal in their affection, physical affection as a bonus. corey isn't that shy natural, he's just awkward and under-socialised, he really just wants to feel at ease with someone.
post-accident, corey doesn't trust anyone. he pushes everyone away to protect himself and i think his mood swings take a tole on how he would navigate relationships in this era.
post-michael, i think corey has come into his new self and realised what it is he wants in life, and in a partner. he wants to give and receive devotion, he wants loyalty, he wants danger.
with roger, the main draw is that he is the strong male role model that corey never had while growing up. he's a source of validation and attention that corey felt has been missing, he's the kind of man corey thinks he wants to be.
with allyson, she is someone that corey knows has been through a trauma and who he thinks can understand him. he sees her as his lifeline back to normality -- maybe not normal normal, but a normal where they patch up their brokenness together.
with michael, he is corey's masculine ideal in many ways -- powerful, in control, strong -- but also someone who showed him empathy, something corey's very rarely experienced. it felt like kindness, and it gets all muddled with corey's own emotional/sexual dysfunctions.
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I’ve wondered what would Roger actually do if confronted by his wife about his relationship with Corey….?
In the valentines story she actually handles the chocolates so if she,d read the note……she would have seen the truth or at least suspected so he’s obviously not above taking risks
He would lie and say that he’s watching out for him and maybe the chocolate thing was a little inappropriate but he just wanted to thank him
2. He would lie and say Corey was deluded and telling lies
3. Admit it but downplay to just being one off and a mistake
4. Confess everything and ask for forgiveness
[i'm sorry this took a few days, i was thinking on it very intensively lol it's actually something i've thought about before, like if their affair was going to end, i truly only see it happening if they either get caught or corey finally moves away to college. i think you're right about all of these reactions, in the right circumstances.]
i think roger's reaction really depends on what theresa confronts him with. no matter how careful they are, there will always be evidence, but some of it will be less damning. roger would definitely gauge what theresa thought was going on and change his response accordingly.
in the valentine's story, i imagined it as roger buying the chocolates (with theresa's guaranteed approval/knowledge), but then secretly writing the note, and putting them away for corey to get later, and just having faith that theresa wouldn't look at them, because why would she? if she did see the note, it'd be pretty damning, it goes beyond a misplaced thanks imo, but i do think he'd downplay it as a silly and, in hindsight, inappropriate in-joke that he and corey have. would it go over well? probably not, but it's better than confessing the truth.
if theresa had very solid evidence (like something physical, or someone telling her they've seen something, etc.) then i think roger would throw corey under the bus and blame him, but "admit" there had been a one time thing (maybe even a few times but certainly not serious), and it was a huge mistake, and it'll never happen again. i think they'd probably stay together if this was the case -- no use breaking up the family (and finances) over one mistake, it's better to just save face and deal with it at marriage counselling or whatever.
if she just called him out on there being a weird vibe between him and corey (like weird looks, or their demeanour with each other, etc.), i think he'd definitely try to downplay it -- maybe claiming that corey had made a pass at him but he obviously rejected him. i think he'd try and do some damage control though, and explain that corey was just confused and lonely, and he was honestly really embarrassed after roger rejected him, so they shouldn't hold it against him because he's a good kid really. i'm not sure that's fly with theresa, maybe she'd still fire corey, but it works to hide the real truth from her.
[in a scenario i've thought about wayyy to much] i think the only way roger is confessing to everything is if theresa literally catches them in the act. maybe roger still tries to insist it was the first time, but theresa knows it's not -- because they're too comfortable, too confident -- and corey gets thrown under the bus again, a homewrecking scapegoat who is never to be seen again. roger apologises, begs for forgiveness, spends the rest of his life with this mistake hanging over his marriage.
as time goes on, roger definitely gets more sloppy at hiding (i.e. the chocolates are definitely a risk, if they did go to chicago that is a big secret to hide, etc.), but the one thing he's certain about is corey not telling anyone. corey gets too much out the arrangement, or so roger thinks, there's no way he'd throw it all away to spite roger by telling his wife. if he did, roger would go with the option of saying corey is delusional, and it must be a crush that has spiralled into obsession.
if roger thought that theresa suspected something but didn't say anything, i don't know if he'd completely stop the affair, but he'd start limiting what he and corey did. back to the early days where corey really does predominantly do yard work and maybe sneaks in a fumbling 20 minutes on the couch when theresa isn't home. maybe it eventually slows down and stops naturally and they go about their lives like nothing happened.
and then of course there is the sexuality aspect -- is theresa more or less upset that roger was cheating with another man? roger is bisexual, but how often has he talked about that in a meaningful way? his excuse for it being corey is simply that he was the most convenient option (it's way easier to cheat with someone who comes to you than to have to go out of your way for it), the fact that corey is a man doesn't really factor in to the cause of the cheating. in fact, it only really matters to corey because it lets him "figure out" his daddy issues.
