A/N: I just wanted to make something up. This idea random popped into my head today and I thought it could be pretty good. Drew/Zane friendship. No Slash (at least not between them). One-shot or more if you want to. Hope you guys like it! PLEASE review.

Enjoy!

You Of All People

Zane Park. Degrassi football kicker, hallway hottie, and gay. Most people think that people of the LGBT had a bit of a hard time, but they have never thought that about Zane. They thought Zane was perfect. Likeable, trustworthy, smart, a smile that could make girls faint. But all that is FAR from valid.

Zane knew that no one was perfect, especially himself. Almost every day after school, he'd go home and lock himself in his bathroom. Inside he adds one new scar to his forearm. Yes, Zane cut himself. All of the lessons that he taught in LGBT meetings worked, but he never used them himself. He refuses to try. All he wants is for everyone else to be happy.

No one really looked at his arms, and if they did, they'd be staring at the sleeves from his jacket. Before they broke up, Zane hesitated to answer all of Riley's 'Aren't you hot?' questions. Riley was the love of his life and he knew it. Riley had told Zane a million times how much he loved him, in fact he still does occasionally. But Zane found it hard to believe. He felt abandoned, like Riley just threw him out like yesterday's trash. At the same time, he had realized his impatience, putting more stress on himself due to self-blaming. No fooling, Zane was a mess.

He had just got out of what felt like the longest day of school, occasionally flashing that fake, yet believable smile of his. He decided not to go home just yet, he needed some air. It was right after hockey practice so it was already nighttime. He walked over to his favorite park and sat on a bench. Luckily, no one was there, so he started to cry. It's not like someone would notice, but then again, he didn't want people to notice. Blowing his cover was something he didn't want.

"What's your problem princess?" he heard behind him. "Did the little queer get his heart broken?"

Zane turned around to see three men. They were all taller than him, and bigger than him. Zane got up and started to slowly back away.

"Guys please. I don't want any trouble."

"Of course you don't." he said, putting an arm around him. "We just want fagboy to be happy"

"I have to go." Zane said, starting to walk away. One of the guys snatched him by the hood of his jacket.

"Not so fast!" he said "You're not getting away that easy."

Then, Zane felt a cold fist deck him in the face. it was overpowering and Zane fell to the floor. Then, the three men started to stomp him while he was down.

"Feelin' better fagboy?" One of the men shouted.

By the end of the beating, Zane was battered, bruised, and bleeding. He could barely move. They had taken his shoes, socks, and his jacket.

"I think Mr. Gay is feeling a lot happier. Let's go guys." One of the men said with a laugh.

Zane felt hopeless. All he could do was curl into a ball and sob. About five minutes later, he heard someone walking over to him.

"Hello?" the voice said, walking closer. "Are you ok?"

Drew was walking through the park after a fight with his mother when he saw some random barefoot kid crying on the floor. He didn't look homeless so he decided to help.

"Hello?" he said quietly.

The body started to tremble and he began to sob harder "Please don't hurt me." He said.

The voice sounded familiar to him, but he couldn't quite figure out who it was.

"Are you ok?" he asked, turning him over and seeing who it was. He was in shock. "Zane! Jesus… What happened?"

"They…. They…" he couldn't finish his sentence and started to cry even harder.

Drew didn't know what to do. Zane wasn't really a close friend of his, but he couldn't just leave him there.

"Shhh it's ok Zane. Come on, I'll take you to my house." He said, trying to help Zane to his feet.

"AH!" Zane screamed in pain, falling to the ground.

Drew picked him up (he was surprisingly light) and carried him on his back to his car. Drew sat him in the front seat and started driving home.

"Do you know who did this to you? I swear to God I'll-"

"I don't know." Zane told him, not really knowing why Drew said that. The rest of the ride home was silent.

When Drew got to his house, he took Zane and carried him out through the back door. He helped him into his room and put him down on his bed.

"Let me get you some ice man. Your eye looks pretty bad." Drew said, walking out of the room.

On his way back, Adam caught him halfway down the hallway.

"What's the ice for? And who were you talking to in there?" he asked

Drew lowered his voice into a whisper. "Don't tell mom, but um… Zane's in there.

"Zane? Why?... wait, are you two…"

"What? No! I just… I found him."

"Then why is he here if you just ran into him?"

"I think you should see for yourself."

So Adam and Drew both walked in and Adam couldn't control the gasp that escaped his lips.

"Zane! Oh my God what happened?" he yelled/whispered.

He didn't say anything. Tears just fell from his eyes.

"I'll talk to him, just go back to bed." Drew said.

Adam nodded and walked back to his room. Drew walked over to Zane and sat on the bed.

"Talk to me Zane. What happened?" Drew pleaded. Drew didn't exactly know why he was so concerned. He barely knew Zane, but for some reason seeing him in such a horrific state infuriated him.

"I… I was… bashed." He said with a sob escaping.

Drew put a hand over his mouth and gasped. He didn't think anything like this could happen to Zane. Drew knew that Zane was gay, and was perfectly fine with it. It had seemed like everyone was perfectly fine with it, so Drew never really expected anything bad to happen to Zane. Maybe a little harassment here and there, but this was a bit extreme.

"Zane I'm so sorry." He said, angry. "Are you sure you don't know who did this? I ASSURE you I'll-"

"I don't know Drew. I swear." He said. Zane then began to wonder. Why did Zane sound so important to him? They both never really talked at school. They were basically friends through mutual friends.

"Why do you care anyways?" Zane asked.

"Why do I care?" Drew asked, slightly hurt that Zane would think he wouldn't care. "Zane, you just got brutally beaten by some ignorant jackasses that know absolutely nothing, why WOULDN'T I care?"

"Well, no one really does." Zane said. Drew raised an eyebrow and Zane explained. "I'm not saying no one likes me or whatever. It's just that people seem to just judge me just by looking at me. All my friends, my family, Riley, they all think nothings wrong with me just because I'm Zane, so they just don't ask. So technically, no one really cares."

Drew felt really bad. He never expected this from Zane. He couldn't help but feel guilty because he realized that he was actually one of those people that didn't really care about Zane. Well, sure he cared in a way, but he felt as if Zane's life was perfect so he didn't really need to, but he was totally wrong. Drew looked down at Zane's arm and noticed his scars.

"Oh my God Zane! They cut you?"

Zane just shook his head. "See? That's the crap I'm talking about!" Drew looked confused. "They didn't do that. I did."

"Wha-… Why man?"

"Well Riley was pretty much the only person I could confide to. Now that he's gone…"

"Gone?"

"He dumped me a couple weeks ago."

"Oh… I'm sorry man. Sucks."

"No use being sorry now. Once I leave, everything's going back to normal." He said, sitting up. "You can just forget this happened and-" Zane was interrupted when Drew wrapped his arms around him. He winced out of pain, but he didn't reject it.

"Zane, I'm so sorry man. I do care about you. And now I feel like an idiot for not even trying to talk to you, or anything." Drew let go of him. "If you need me, don't hesitate ok?"

"Drew you don't need-"

"I know, but I want to, man."

Zane felt a huge weight being lifted off of his shoulders. He finally had someone go to for anything. Though he didn't really expect it to be Drew, he was happy that it was.

"Drew…" Zane said. "I thought they were gonna kill me." He said, breaking down.

Drew had an immediate flashback of what he endured during Spring Break. He knew exactly how Zane felt. Being completely helpless while people just wail on him. Except Drew was beaten for what he did, he couldn't imagine how humiliating it must have been for being beaten because of who he was. Drew pulled Zane into another hug . His own eyes began to tear up as well.

"I'll make sure they'll never hurt you again ok?" Drew said, tightening the embrace.

The only thing Zane could say was "Thank you."