Don't Leave Me
Chapter 1

Contains: PreciousMetalShipping (Gold X Silver). Yaoi (Guy X Guy).

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Silver coughed and hauled the other teen up onto the rocky river bank. He wiped the water from his eyes and started squeezed water from his dripping, red, shoulder-length hair while the boy next to him hacked up whatever water he had inhaled in his time spent in the water. After getting as much water out of his hair, he sat down and tried to figure out exactly what had happened.

Silver had, had an argument with his father earlier that day and had come to the river because it always made him feel better. After sitting at the river for a couple hours, Silver saw the black haired boy drowning in the waterway. He wasn't sure what had came over him but he had been on his feet and in the water before he even realized he had moved. Since he was already in the water he had might as well save the guy.

The fact that he had even went in the water at all was what surprised Silver the most. He didn't like people and nobody cared or liked him, so he didn't see why he should save a complete stranger that would more than likely hate him like everyone else.

A laugh startled the redhead out of his inner musings and to the dark-haired teen next to him. The boy had black hair that was fairly short but had long bangs on his right side that went past his nose. In his hand was a familiar hat that told Silver exactly who he had saved.

Silver inwardly groaned. He had saved the loud mouthed Gold. They went to the same high school and Gold had a reputation for being the loudest person in school. He was also one of the few openly gay guys at school. He always wore that black and yellow hat.

"Th-Thank you!" Gold grinned staring at Silver with shining amber eyes. "You saved me!"

Silver narrowed his eyes at the annoyingly loud boy and asked harshly, "What the fuck were you doing in a river if you couldn't swim?"

The black haired teen didn't look the least bit put off by the redhead's harsh words though his smile turned sheepish as he started trying to wring the water out of his precious hat. "Well, you see, I was walking by the river because it's really pretty out here. And this large gust of wind blew my hat off my head and into the water. I went in to get it but accidentally went in to far and got swept up in the current. If you hadn't been here I probably would be swimming with the fishes. You saved my life. What can I do to repay you?"

Gold looked up at Silver with a pleading expression and Silver just looked at the other in disgust as he stood up to leave.

"You can leave me alone and never mention this to anyone ever!" Silver growled out walking away from the river and toward the forest that separated him from his house.

"W-wait!" Gold called before suddenly he was in front of Silver.

Silver's eyes widened slightly in surprise before narrowing them at the boy who blocked his path. "What do you want now?" Silver asked sharply.

Gold smiled up at Silver. "Do you want to come over to my house to dry off?"

He looked down at Gold in disgust before pushing past him, "No, I don't, you queer."

"Wait, Silver, you didn't let me finish!" Gold called from behind him.

Silver paused at the use of his name. Rarely anyone called him by his name, they only knew him as Giovanni's child. Everyone knew who his father was and therefore him. So it didn't really surprise him that Gold knew who he was.

He looked over his shoulder at Gold and raised an eyebrow. Gold smiled, "Well, your parents probably won't be to happy about you coming home all wet. My dad is on a business trip and my mom won't be back until late so I thought maybe I could let you use our dryer and borrow some of my clothes until yours dry. Then you can go back home and your parents won't even know a thing happened."

Parents? Plural? His mother had disappeared mysteriously when he was just a child. Silver assumed his father had his mother killed because she didn't like how he was treating him. Which led Silver to believe that Gold might not even know who his father was. How did Gold know who he was?

Instead of asking that, Silver narrowed his eyes and thought about it. His father would not be happy if he came home dripping wet and he would ask Silver about it. He would refuse to tell and his father would beat him again. He didn't really want to risk another avoidable beating.

"We're only going to go there to dry my clothes, right." Silver asked and he could see Gold suddenly look hopeful as he nodded.

"Yes. You can leave right after if you want!" Gold said and pulled his hat on, deeming is dried out enough to wear.

Silver gave a slight nod and stared at Gold. A few moments of silence passed before Silver ground out, "Are we going? I don't exactly know where your house is."

Gold shook himself and nodded, "Sorry and yeah!"

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This day was absolutely fantastic!

Not the whole almost drowning part, but the fact that he had finally met the boy he'd had a crush on for years. Not just met either Silver had saved him from drowning. It was almost too unreal to be true. It was every girl's dream to be saved by the one they loved. Of course he wasn't a girl, but he had been imagining what it would be like to finally meet Silver face-to-face.

He had instantly liked the redhead when Silver had moved to Johto from Kanto a couple years ago. Gold had seen him as he was walking out of the principle's office. It was around the time that Gold had come out about being gay and everyone wanted to pick a fight with him because of it. Silver had been sitting on one of the chairs outside the office with another boy sitting a few chairs away from him, both boys were bruised and their clothes and hair were all a disarray. The other boy had the worst of it. In that moment Gold had gotten a crush on the redhead.

His red hair had been everywhere and his signature black and red jacket had been ripped. He had a dark-blue and purple colored bruise growing on his cheek. But what really stood out to Gold were the fiery silver eyes and the small smug smile that crossed the boy's lips when he thought nobody was looking. The smile had been gone a second later but it had been enough. Gold had found out what had happened later, apparently the other boy had tried to 'put him in his place' and Silver had retaliated. He also came to find out what an attitude the redhead had but it didn't make Gold think any less of him. While most people were put off or angry, in his opinion the pissed off, I-hate-everything attitude made the redhead appear hotter.

And as the years went by Gold watched Silver from afar. Strangely they had all their classes together every year. His crush on the redhead grew stronger and he was positively giddy to have the redhead inside his house. It made him feel like the luckiest person on the earth because he knew that Silver would never have come to his house in any other circumstance. And now that he had finally met the redhead, their meeting by being far better than he could have imagined, he was not going to let the redhead go as easily as he wanted. He was willing to tolerate the redhead's attitude so he wasn't going to let the redhead walk out of his life without putting up a fight.

"Here we are!" Gold chirped as he walked in, letting Silver in before closing and locking the door.

Silver merely grunted and narrowed his beautiful silver eyes at him. Even narrowed those eyes were the most beautiful things he had ever seen.

Gold ushered Silver towards the bathroom, "This is the bathroom. You can change out of your clothes in here. I'll get changed out of my clothes and go find you something that will fit you." With that Gold did as he said he would.

Gold walked back in dry clothes, and handed Silver the change of clothes. "This should fit you, you are taller and your shoulders are wider than mine though. Anyway, I'll be back to get your wet clothes." he said and went to throw his own clothes into the dryer, he refused to take off his hat though.

While he waited for Silver to finish changing, he found his cell phone (luckily he had left it at home) and proceeded to text his mother about Silver saving him from drowning. Her break wasn't till late so she wouldn't be able to reply soon. Gold decided to check on Silver.

And there came his first mistake. Figuring Silver would be done by now, and slightly hoping to see a half-naked Silver, Gold opened the bathroom door (which was unlocked) and came face-to-face with a badly scarred and faintly bruised back. Silver quickly pulled the slightly to small shirt over his head and before Gold could react further than gaping wide-eyed at Silver, the redhead had Gold pinned against the wall by his neck.

"You will never speak of what you just saw to anyone. Ever. If you do, you will wish you hadn't been born." Silver's tone was hard and his eyes blazed with fury. It made the threat much more menacing and the way the redhead's hand tightened slightly around the amber eyed boy's neck made it much more so.

Gold, not stupid enough to question what he saw right away. He would heed Silver's threat about not telling anyone else but the redhead didn't say anything about talking to him about it. However, if asked Gold knew the redhead would just blow up at him about it, so he'd have to wait until Silver calmed down and wasn't in a position to argue with him about it.

So instead of trying to piss Silver off more than he was, Gold went for try to defuse the anger as much as possible. "Your clothes?" Gold asked quietly.

Silver blinked at the other boy, for a moment taken aback by the sudden question, having expected the other to cower in fear of what the redhead might do to him and beg him not to hurt him. It was what others at school would have done if Silver had them by the throat. It both left him flabbergasted and aggravated with the boy. But he could tell the threat had stuck nonetheless so instead of answering, Silver narrowed his eyes and snarled at the black haired boy before leaving the bathroom.

Gold let out a breath that he hadn't realized he'd been holding and slid down the wall until he was sitting on the floor next to his hat, which had fallen off when Silver had slammed him against the wall. He would admit that despite his feelings for the redhead, the other could be scary when his wrath was directed solely on him and when the redhead was infuriated instead of just annoyed. He might actually wait a day or two to bring up the scars that were distinctly whip marks and the other scars, cuts, and bruises that suggested abuse and torture. It was obvious Silver didn't want to talk about it, the reason was even more obvious since Gold doubted he would want to talk about it if he was in Silver's position.

Gold gave a slight sigh before picking up his hat and the wet clothes that Silver had left on the counter and going to put them in the wash. When he was finished he walked into the living room to see Silver sitting on one of the couches, glaring angrily at one of the walls. He looked up and glared at Gold as he walked in.

Gold gave him a smile, "You want something to eat or drink." He gave another sigh as Silver just glared at him, "I'm sorry for just walking in but you could have locked the door." Silver had nothing to say to that and just looked away to glare at the wall again.

He sat down on the couch next to Silver, who didn't look the least bit happy about it but didn't say anything. He set his hat down in his lap and fiddled with the pokéball button that he had pinned to the front of it this morning as he glanced over to watch Silver.

A silence passed over the two as Gold watched Silver and Silver glared at the wall before Silver seemed to get tired of being stared at. He turned his glared at Gold and growled, "What!"

Gold gave a looked that clearly stated you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me, and his voice was quiet as he spoke, "You should know very well what."

Silver scowled, "Not much to tell."

"Like what those were?" Gold asked sharply.

"You should know very well what made those." Silver shot back.

By now both were glaring at each other and Gold's hat lay abandoned on his lap. After a moment Gold's expression softened, "Who could have done this to you?"

Silver's face changed from anger to confusion, "You really don't know who my father is?"

Gold blinked in bewilderment, wonder why who his father was could mean anything. Unless the redhead's father…

"Who's your father?" Gold asked, figuring his other question could be asked on a later date.

Silver stared at Gold for a moment before shaking his head and turning back to stare at the wall. That was all that was said on the matter for the rest of the time they spent at Gold's.

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Silver walked silently home, wondering how Gold could possibly know who he was but not know his father. After Silver had mentioned his father, he had expected Gold to ask if his father had done it. He wouldn't have answered even though it was partly true. Instead, Gold had asked who his father was. It could be that Gold had heard the rumors about how many kids Silver had beaten up since arriving in Johto a 6 years ago. But if he heard those rumors then he would have surely heard the ones about his father.

He shook his head, for his own sake the gold eyed boy better not tell anyone about what he had seen. He wasn't just pissed off at Gold he was pissed at himself for not locking the damn door like he should have.

A sudden thought came to him as he walked. That had been the first time he had heard Gold speak in such a quiet voice. It made his voice sound much softer and musical than it did when he practically yelled everything. He had to admit that he liked Gold's voice better when he spoke quietly.

Silver stopped walking, surprised at himself for even thinking such a thing. He began walking faster this time, people walking past gave him an even wider berth than normal because of the glare he sported. He didn't like Gold or his voice for that matter and he sure as hell didn't ever want to see the loud mouthed hat wearing homo.

Hopefully Gold knew what was good for him and left Silver alone.