Disclaimer: I do not own Holes or the movie. Sadly that honour is for the wonderful Sacher and Disney. Please reading the warning below and take note of it.

This is a slash story and it will have references to ZeroOMC and possible ZigzagSquid. I am giving you this warning now because I refuse to be flamed. If you do not like slash then not read this story, it's as simple as that.

If you do not like original character then you may not like this story. If you do not like OOCness then I suggest you do not read this story.

The characters are based on the movie ones with small changes.

I have given you fair warning.

IMPORTANT:

This story takes place after Stanley offers to teach Zero to read. It starts during his first reading lesson. It will follow the basic plot line for some time and then I might have a play with it. The end result will be along the same lines as Sacher's but with some twists.

And off we go...

Stanley Yelnats was in pain. His hands stung, his back ached and his neck burned. Moreover, he was happy.

"R-E-A-D" he spelled out on the paper for Zero, who sat next to him.

Laboriously, Zero spelled it out and copied it down on the paper beneath Stanley's letters. "Read" he said triumphantly.

Stanley nodded and clapped him on the back. Zero grinned up at him though the mess of dark curls on his head, eyes grinning against the olive skin. Stanley grinned back running his hand through his own messy brown hair. Blue eyes and white skin made him the total opposite to Zero but they were friends anyway.

Dinner was announced over the speakers and the two boys made their way over to the Mess Hall. Collecting their trays, the two joined the end of the line for the food. Once receiving the slop that passed for food, they sat down at the D-Tent table. X-Ray, Zigzag, Armpit, Squid and Magnet were already sitting there, laughing, joking and pushing each other.

At least every-one but X-Ray was. Stanley and Zero slotted themselves on the end of the benches, one on each side and dug into their dinner's.

"Yo, wassup X?" Armpit said, when he saw that X-Ray wasn't eating.

X-Ray shrugged the said "He's coming back..."

"Who?" Stanley asked.

"Blood-Scar Violence" X-Ray said quietly. All the boys froze except Stanley.

Zero froze in his seat, all the colour draining from his face. He said "you sure?" to X-Ray. When X-Ray nodded, Zero's face slowly split into a grin. Stanley suddenly felt a shiver go his spine.

"Who is Blood-Scar Violence?" he asked Magnet.

But it was Zigzag who answered him, "He's only the youngest ever Mafia man ever. He's the son of the king of the American Mafia, and he's ,like, the best of them already. He's not someone you can mess with and get away with."

X-Ray cut in "You know, we told you Barf-Bag stepped on a rattle snake? It wasn't an accident. Blood-Scar Violence told Barf bag that he would be fighting him after dinner. Barf-Bag knew he would lose against him so he stepped on the rattler-"

"Why wouldn't he win?" Stanley cut in.

"Because" Armpit told him "He's like a friggin' fightin' expert. Ju-jitsu, karate and kick-boxing. He can turn anything into a weapon, a chair or a ball, even the air we breathe he can turn against you."

Magnet cut in "Even the Warden is scared of him. And Mr Sir and Mom are like, freaked out by him."

Zero stood abruptly. He stormed out of the Mess Hall, everybody watching him as he made his way out of the building.

"What's got into him?" Stanley commented.

"Blood-Scar and him are real close," X-Ray said.

"What like brothers?" Stanley said.

"Real close" X-Ray said. Stanley didn't get it until he saw what Zigzag was doing; making the okay sign with one hand and moving one finger in and out of it; the universal sign for sex. Stanley felt his mouth drop open. Zero was a what?

"They never told us but everyone knows," X-Ray continued, enjoying being the centre of attention, "He gives Zero his bread and always says stuff like "You be skinny" and comments on his height. You know, stuff only people real close get to talk about.

And like one time, when Zero had nightmares about something we don't know about, Zero ends up sleeping in Blood-Scar's bed and they have they legs all tangled up and his arms are around Zero all possessive-like. That gave mom a real shock." The other boys started laughing as they remembered.

"What's his real name? And has he been here before?" Stanley demanded. He wanted to know more about this mysterious person.

"His real name is Blood-Scar Violence and he's been here twice; once when only me and Magnet were here for about two months and once about three months before you came. Zero came at the same time as he came three months before you came. And no-one knows why they is here, 'cause they don't tell us."

Stanley finished his dinner in silence as he mused. How was this new prisoner going to fit in here? And, this was the first time he had heard of someone who came back not once but twice.

Making his way back to the tent, he saw Mr. Sir carrying something that clanked and clinked as he moved. As Mr Sir got closer, he could see the things more clearly; they were chains. Long ones and they had cuffs for legs and wrists. Stanley shivered again. Whoever Blood-Scar Violence was, he was not a normal juvenile delinquent.

When he finally reached his tent, X-Ray, Squid, Magnet, Zigzag and Armpit had arrived before him. He sat down on his bed and asked "So how do we act with him?"

"Blood-Scar?" Zigzag said, "You act real nice, but you don't suck to him because he don't like that. You be honest with him though and you never, ever try to pull something on him. And you are real nice to Zero. Zero's his-"

"Whole life" Magnet interrupted. "that's what Barf-Bag did, and look where he ended up." He shivered, wrapping his arms around himself.

Zigzag continued "You is nice to Zero then he'll be nice to you, but if you is mean like try to beat him up then you is dead meat."

"you know why you never see Zero without a shirt on?" X-Ray cut in "Because he's got some serious ink. Like, proper stuff that cost real cash. And I've seen them once, and I gotta tell you they is wicked cruel."

"So he won't hurt me will he?" Stanley asked

"You is teaching him to read ain't cha?" Armpit demanded from his cot, "you is being real nice to Zero, therefore he will be good to you."

Zero came through the tent flaps, his hair even more messed up than usual. He grinned as he saw them all looking guilty as he stretched out on his cot. Zigzag winked at Stanley as X-Ray asked "Lookin' forward to meeting Blood-Scar again Zero?"

Zero flipped over so he was facing the other boys, "Are you?" He asked, his face in a smirk. He laughed softly at the faces of the others before kicking off his boots and pulling his sheets over himself.

Stanley and the other's copied Zero and soon the tent was silent as the boys fell asleep.

Stanley couldn't sleep. He wondered just how Blood-Scar would react when Stanley told him that he was teaching Zero how to read.

He rolled over, wincing as the bed springs squeaked. Tomorrow promised to be an eventful day he thought as he drifted off to sleep...