It's been 2 weeks since Peter and Kraglin had left the Eclector and they were already feeling the repercussions. There wasn't much that Yondu could do about Peter leaving since he had given the man permission to do as he pleased since he paid the ship off but Kraglin on the other hand was being viewed as a deserter. The bounty on his head had grown to 75,000 units and Peter wasn't going to let that get in the way of them making the money and paying it off. They were both determined to not have Yondu get Kraglin back because they had a good feeling that it would be death for one of them, if not both.

Week 3 started with the usual notification. The bounty had increased by 10,000 units but this time Peter and Kraglin had enough between them to pay it after doing a few missions for The Broker.

"Well, this is it. Hand him the money and go." Peter said as he brought the Milano into the mini ship bay of the Eclector. To say he was nervous was an understatement. Kraglin was not on the Milano but rather at a safe location on Xandar. Peter had made arrangements that Yondu would accept the cash in return for Kraglin and essentially give him the same freedom that Peter had. That was the plan but what Peter never saw coming was that they had a tracking device on Kraglin and had not only already gotten to him but had him on the Eclector and was going to use him to extort even more money from Peter.

"Yondu, I have the 85,000 units like we agreed to." Peter said as he walked into the central meeting area only to be hit from behind on the head, knocking him unconscious.

"Ugh, what the hell was that?" Peter said as he rubbed the back of his head and could feel dried blood. He looked to his left and could only shake his head. Kraglin was sitting on the bench with his hands tied behind him. It all clicked for Peter now. The agreement, the location of the agreement, the fact that Yondu was so willing to let his second in command go for such a little amount. It all made sense now and Peter was kicking himself in the ass.

"Well, well, well. Look what we have here. Seems our little foul mouthed birdie and his star crossed lover have returned." Yondu said as he walked into view from the shadows outside the cell they were in swinging a heavy chain.

"Whatever it is you want I won't let you have it." Peter protested as Yondu got closer.

"Oh, I could care less about you. I just need to teach my men a lesson on what happens if they run." Yondu said has he turned his attention towards Kraglin and started swinging the chain even faster. With one swing of the chain the chamber was filled with an echoing scream of immense pain. Peter had closed his eyes and now was afraid to open them since he knew what he was going to see. Sure enough when he opened his eyes he found Kraglin on his side bleeding from his face with a few new chipped teeth and a couple that were completely missing.

"Now that I'm done with them hold them for a couple more hours and clean out the Milano. They'll get the freedom they want but will have to start from nothing again." Yondu said as he walked out of the room, throwing a first aid kit behind him, to have the door slam shut.

"I'm so sorry he did that. How did he find you?" Peter asked as he untied Kraglin.

"Well, you remember your little 'buddy' Rocket?" was all Kraglin had to say and Peter was ready to skin said raccoon alive.

"We'll deal with him later. For now we have to get the bleeding to stop." Peter said has he got the first aid kit and looked for the stuff to make bleeding at least slow down.

"Shit. There is next to nothing in here." Peter about screamed in anger as he looked around in the first aid kit, eventually throwing it across the room.

"Don't worry, it's already stopping on its own. I wonder how bad we're going to have it when he does release us." Kraglin said, turning towards the small opening in the door, letting in a single beam of light.

"I don't know but I know of a certain little rodent that is worth about 250,000 units to Half World and I have a feeling I know exactly where to get him at." Peter said through gritted teeth.

"We'll get him after we get the hell out of here." Kraglin said as he stood up and spit some of the blood out of his mouth on the floor, knowing that Yondu hated it when people spread blood in his ship.

A couple hours pass and they hear the door unlock. Light floods the room as they turn from the light and realize that Yondu is standing at the door with a smirk and a mop.

"You'll go when the floor is clean." he says as he throws the mop in and turns on the single LED light unit in the middle of the ceiling, giving everything a dim light. Peter mops the floor while Kraglin sits on the bench and does his best not to let any more blood hit the floor.

"Okay, it's clean, now let us out fuckwad." Peter yells through the slit in the door.

A few seconds later the door opens and in rushes Yondu, grabbing Peter by the neck; pinning him to the wall.

"Listen here, if you want to make it off the ship alive and in one piece you'll do two things. You'll shut up and you'll run. Do I make myself clear?" Yondu says, dangerously close to Peter's face.

"Yes." is all Peter can choke out before he's thrown to the ground.

"You have 3 minutes to be back on the Milano or you'll be considered to be recaptured." He says, moving out of the way.

Peter and Kraglin get to their feet and take off in a dead run in the same direction, wanting to get to the Milano as fast as they can and they make it with a minute to spare.

"We'll get out of here and head to Knowhere to refuel then we'll hunt for Rocket. There is a tavern that he frequents and I know he's pissed off a couple people down there so I'm more than sure that someone will give him up." Peter says as he takes his seat. Kraglin takes his seat next to him and Peter doesn't even bother waiting for Kraglin to get his harness on, he guns it out of the mini ship bay with the door coming closed behind them.

Half an hour passes and Peter checks the radar around his ship and sees that there are no ships following him and breathes a sigh of relief before he stands up and sees that Kraglin is bleeding again.

"Here, I know we have stuff in the med bay for that." Peter says as he walks past Kraglin. He walks into the main room of the ship and opens the orange cabinet door for the first aid supplies and groans. He wasn't joking about having to start over from scratch.

"Never mind, they cleared everything out of there and I'm guessing they cleared all the other supplies too." Peter says as he takes a seat on the bench, resting his head in his hands. All this was making him feel helpless and hopeless at the same time. Helpless because he couldn't even help the one he loves and hopeless because he didn't know if they had also emptied their account with Xandar or not.

Peter decides to check their account and he realizes that it hasn't been touched but there have been several attempted withdraws from it but they were blocked because they didn't have the proper authorization code.

"Okay, change in plans, we are going to Xandar to get you medical attention, then we're going after Rocket." Peter says with a smile. Just as Peter get ready to stand up he feels Kraglin sit down next to him on the bench.

"Don't worry about it. I can't go back there anyways, too many warrants; and it's already starting to stop on its own. I don't blame you for this, if anyone I blame myself." Kraglin says, lowering his head. From his tone Peter could tell that he was close to crying. Something Kraglin was never known for.

Peter reaches out an arm and pulls Kraglin into his side just to have him rest his head on his shoulder and start crying.

"It's going to be okay. For now we need to focus on getting your face fixed before things get bad." Peter says, making Kraglin laugh.

"We're 3 days from Knowhere. We can take our time and you can recover and if you still need medical attention when we get there we'll get it." Peter says, rubbing Kraglin's side. Kraglin only nods his head before looking deep into Peter's eyes.

"Even though I know this would have never happened if I just stayed behind when you left I know I couldn't have dealt with myself being away from you. I don't regret leaving at all. I would have regretted it if I let you leave without me that day." Kraglin says before pulling Peter in for a kiss.

It only lasted a few seconds but it left both of them breathless and left Peter wanting more.

"Are you sure that didn't hurt you?" he asked in a panicked tone.

"No, it didn't hurt me at all. Like I said, things are already starting to heal." Kraglin says as he pulls Peter in for another hug. "I think we should call it a day for now and go to bed." he says. Peter just nods his head in agreement.

As Peter walked into his room he heard his door open again. He turned around and found Kraglin standing in his room, just looking at him.

"Do you care if I join you?" he said as he walked closer to Peter.

"No I wouldn't. I would actually like that." Peter said as he took his shirt off.

"Hope you don't mind but I'm used to sleeping in my underwear." Kraglin said as he took his shirt off.

Peter stood there, just staring off into the distance over what he was just told.

"That's fine, figured eventually we'd see each other that way anyways sooner or later." he said, cracking a smile.

Peter watched as Kraglin stripped and without realizing it he had started to gain the others attention.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Kraglin asked as he slid off his pants, revealing a scar running the length of his right leg.

Peter winced when he saw this and remembered when it happened. His mind went back to the battle where Kraglin jumped in the air to avoid being shot to only have one on Yondu's arrows fly into his leg then run its course all the way to the foot before coming out with blood following it. Peter gave an involuntary shudder at this memory and sat on the bed, looking down at the floor.

"You know, I remember that day too, I also remember most of the times when you got your scars too. It's going to be interesting but I'm looking forward to it." Kraglin said, taking a seat next to Peter.

"Yeah, it will be interesting. I'm too tired to undress." Peter says as he lays down.

"Oh I don't think so. Your legs will cramp if you don't take the pants off at least." Kraglin says, undoing Peter's belt. All Peter can do is raise himself up as Kraglin slips them over his waist, accidentally grabbing Peter's boxers in the process.

"Not bad." Kraglin says as he pulls the boxers up only to be met by a really sleepy look from Peter.

"Now that we have freedom let's just focus on recovering." Peter says before scooting over in the cot to make room for Kraglin.

Kraglin gets in next to him and pulls the single blanket over the two of them as he hears Peter start to softly snore behind him. He lets out a sigh before looking around. He never expected today to end this way and he is glad it did. Sure, getting recaptured and being tortured was not something he wanted to go through again and he knew that if Yondu had seen him like this he would certainly say he had 'gone soft' but Kraglin couldn't care less. He could tell he was accepted no matter what happened and that was enough for him

"Just turn the lights off already and lay back down." Peter says from behind Kraglin, breaking him out of his musing about how the day went.

"Sure." is all Kraglin says before giving the simple command for the lights to turn off. In the darkness of the room he feels something unexpected. He feels Peter drape an arm over him and pull him closer.

"You have no idea how much I love you." were Peter's last words before all Kraglin could hear was a soft snoring behind him.

"Yeah, well it's mutual." Kraglin says before adjusting the pillow and closing his eyes to be met by dreamless sleep for the first time in his life.

A/N: I'm going to probably make this one a couple chapters and develop things out before they get really interesting. For more back story I highly encourage you to read 'Let's Leave' by ClassicalTorture (Story ID: 10692779) as I was given permission from them years ago to do a sequel and I guess you can say I finally got around to finishing it. Anyways, hope you enjoyed it and as always reviews help development.