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Nowhere Boys

The boys are back in their world with new elemental powers, but Alice isn't around. Only the four and Oscar know of what really happened in the other world, now they just have to brave their world with their new powers and a better relationship/understanding of each other.

Season 2 AU!

Disclaimer: I do not own the beautiful, awesome and Australian gem that is Nowhere Boys.

Chapter One

"Where are we?" Sam asked as he slowly pulled himself up onto his own feet, looking around still on guard for demon possessed Bates, Roland and Sgt. Riles, but paused when he didn't see any of them nearby.

"Are we back?" Andy asked hopefully as he stood up as well. "Where are Phoebe and Oscar?"

"I think someone is coming!" Jake spoke in a low warning tone as he spotted colors of shirts moving between the trees.

"Felix time to get up." He leaned down and whacked the goth's thigh, but the teen didn't move.

"Felix?" Jake looked down to see Felix unconscious, his pale skin looking even more pale than usual. He dropped to his knee next to Felix and pressed his fingers to Felix's pulse point on his throat and let out a relieved sigh when he felt it there, slow and weak, but there.

"Is he okay?" Andy asked as he scrambled over to them while Sam stood in front of the group protectively, keeping his eyes on the people moving towards them.

"I think that spell we used took it out of him, remember when we cured our mom's? He fainted after it and that was minor compared to jumping worlds while fending off a Restoring Demon." Jake theorized as Bates came into view with an older man who looked like an adult Sam.

"Sam! Sam!" Mr. Conte shouted as he spotted his son.

"We found them!" Bates blew his whistle loudly, relief on his face.

"Dad?" Sam questioned as he moved towards his father who went to engulf him in a hug, but Sam tugged on his arms instead.

"Felix isn't waking up!" He said pointing back to where Jake and Andy now stood; Felix cradled in Jake's arms his head resting on Jake's shoulder.

"Jake!" Sgt. Riles, well just Mr. Riles now shouted in joy as he spotted his son.

"Andy!" Mr. Lau chanted as he rushed towards his son.

"Felix? No, Felix!" Mr. Ferne went pale and wide-eyed at the sight of his eldest son unconscious in Jake's arms.

"We think he's just unconscious Mr. Ferne, he'll be ok." Andy assured Felix's father from his place in his father's arms, but his eyes never left the other three.

Mr. Riles knew from the stubborn look on Jake's face he wasn't going to let go of the other boy so he settled for slinging his arm over his son's shoulders keeping him close as the group headed back down to the base they had made over the past two weeks, an ambulance pulling up as they reached the base.

The EMT tried to take Felix from Jake's arms, but Jake merely tightened his hold and glared at the EMT, Sam slid in between the two and held his hands up in a placating manner.

"Just show us where you want to put him down and we'll do it for you bud." Sam said smoothly, the EMT took another look at the protective hold and stubborn look on Jake's face and nodded.

"This way." The EMT walked back to the ambulance where the stretcher was brought out by his co-workers.

Andy and Sam stood at the other side of the stretcher watching Jake and Felix worry on their faces; their father's hovering behind them as they started making calls on their phones. Gingerly Jake placed Felix down on the stretcher and reluctantly moved out of the way so the EMT's could do their job. Jake then allowed his father to pull him into a bear hug and Jake took the moment to revel in the fact his loser father was back and wasn't a cop who didn't know him.

However when the stretcher was moved into the ambulance he tore himself out of his father's grip and stepped to follow after the stretcher, Sam and Andy right beside him.

"You can't come in here, family only." The EMT said bravely, noting the hidden fury in the three teen's faces.

"We're not leaving him." Sam said fiercely, ignoring their father's attempts to tell them to leave Felix to the professionals, they had too many bad experiences with 'professionals' in the other world and those trust issues were not about to go away.

"But we were missing for two weeks too! Who knows what we picked up while we were out there in the wilderness," Andy waved his hands, ready to go into full on 'nerd-mode' if it meant getting them in the ambulance with Felix.

"We should get checked out, you know just in case." Jake flashed a smile.

"I suppose you should be checked out as well…" The EMT hesitated.

"Excellent, we'll just join Felix in there then and we'll all go to the hospital together! You know save the hassle of bringing another ambulance out here." Sam slapped the EMT's upper shoulder as he hauled himself into the back of the ambulance, Jake and Andy grinned as their followed their skateboard-loving friend.

The EMT just sighed seeing the teens were not going to budge and nodded at the other EMT's who rolled their eyes as they shut the doors.

Sam had reached out and placed his hand on Felix's black hair, it was still soft considering everything they went through he had expected it to be grimy and coarse. Jake latched onto Felix's wrist, fingers pressed against the beating of Felix's pulse and Andy finger's curled around Felix's ankle.

"He'll be ok, from what we can tell he just needs rest, some fluids and food." The EMT said softly seeing the touching scene before him and now he didn't feel so bad in being tricked into letting them into the ambulance. The four teens in front of him must have bonded wherever they were because it didn't seem like anything would tear them apart now.

They arrived at Bremin General rather quickly and the conscious boys jumped out of the ambulance in order to let Felix be brought down onto a waiting bed. They watched nervously as he was wheeled into the ER with nurses and Doctor's surrounding his bed.

"Come with me, we'll get you all checked out." The EMT gestured towards the doors next to the ones Felix was just wheeled through.

"In the room Felix is going to right?" Sam clarified and the EMT looked at the clearly worried teens and nodded in agreement, after what he witnessed in the back of the ambulance he wasn't going to be the one tear the four apart.

He led them into the room Felix Ferne was going to be put in after he was examined and called some nurses in to start the examinations of the three boys.

The results were the same for all three boys, scrapes, bruises, slight dehydration, and slight malnutrition. They were also in need of a shower, new clothes and plenty of rest.

"Jakey!" Sarah Riles shouted as she rushed into the room where the three boys were resting and waiting for Felix, Gary Riles close behind her.

"Mum!" Jake's face lit up with a smile at the sight of the version of his mother he that knew him. He let himself be wrapped up in a hug from his mum and rested his face against her neck, hugging her tightly.

"Sam!" Dee Conte cried out as she, Vince and Pete and Mr. Conte (no known name for him) appeared next; she wrapped her baby boy in a tight hug while Sam's older bothers ruffled his hair taking in the sight of their little brother.

"I'm back mum!" Sam said not helping the smile on his lips as his family surrounded him, a family that knew him and didn't replace him with 'Sammy'.

"Andy!" Nicole Lau rushed towards her son; happiness on her face as her husband Michael, daughter Vivian and Nai nai followed behind her all looking happy to see Andy. Andy let them surround him, dotting on him happily listening to his family about how dirty he is, how they were happy to have him home.

"Felix, where is he?" Oscar asked as he wheeled himself into the room, looking around wildly for his older brother, Ken and Kathy Ferne following behind him along with Ellen.

"He's with the doctor's, he should be out soon through." Sam extracted himself out of his family's grip as Andy and Jake did the same so they could see Oscar, wincing at the sight of him back in his wheelchair, looking lost without his brother. Now they could see why Felix had used the Unmaking Spell in the first place, if they had a brother in Oscar's situation then who is to say they wouldn't have done the same thing?

"Don't worry about Felix, he's way tougher than he looks." Jake promised and Oscar looked at the three confused while Ellen eyed them distrustfully.

"I need you three to take a seat while we set up your IV's." The nurse spoke up seeing a lull in the reunion.

Andy and Jake willingly sat next to each other on the empty bed in the room while Sam slid into a chair next to where he figured Felix would be placed. They all winced but stayed quiet as the IV's were inserted into their hands. Their families all crowded around their son's, taking in the sight of their returned family members.

"Felix!" Sam jumped up, careful of the IV in his hand as the door opened and a bed with the still unconscious Felix in a hospital gown was rolled in and Oscar slumped in his seat as he stared at his brother in shock.

"Is he okay?" Ken Ferne asked the doctor nervously.

"He has some nasty bruises on his torso, elbows and ankles, he also like the other three have slight dehydration and slight malnutrition and he needs rest. He will be fine Mr. Ferne." The doctor rattled off and the three boys winced at the mention of bruises that must have been when he had been kidnapped and tied to that tree.

"Come on, we should leave Felix with his family." Dee tried to pull Sam away from Felix's bedside as Jake and Andy moved slowly over to stand beside Felix's wary of their own IV's.

"I'm not leaving." Sam said stubbornly.

"If it's all the same to everyone we are going to stay until Felix wakes up." Jake said firmly.

"No matter how long it takes." Andy confirmed.

"Andy?" Nicole murmured looking at her son in shock while Sarah sighed knowing that tone of voice nothing she could say would change his mind and Dee nodded her head with a small smile seeing how protective Sam was of the other boys in the room.

The three boys looked at the Ferne's who were giving them odd looks, but before they could say anything a groan came from Felix as he shifted on the bed.

"Hey goth dude, you can wake up now." Sam coaxed their friend.

"Yeah we know you like sleep and everything, but this might be over doing it." Jake laughed softly as Felix's hazel eyes fluttered open and he squinted up at them in confusion.

"What happened?" Felix asked slowly, not looking any further than the three boys.

"We're home, we're safe we promise." Andy promised.

"Home?" Felix asked unsure still not looking away from the three.

"Yeah it worked." Sam smiled happily and the trio moved to let Oscar wheel himself closer to his brother.

"Oskie." Felix breathed out as he saw the wheelchair bound teen, he swallowed before he reached his hand out and Oscar gripped it tightly.

"You're back." Oscar breathed out in relief. Jake, Sam and Andy stepped back to let Ellen, Ken and Kathy Ferne get closer to their son and let their families crowd them around them again.

"We'll come back tomorrow, promise." Andy spoke up looking at Felix who was looking overwhelmed and confused at all the attention his parents were giving him.

The boys knew they wouldn't be able to stick together for the night because there was no way their parents would let them out of their sight, not for a little while at least.

"Guys, thank you and I'm… So sorry." Felix swallowed, hand still clutching Oscar's.

"Don't worry about it dude." Sam laughed it off, giving Felix a real smile and Felix smiled back knowing he was forgiven.

"See you tomorrow and don't try to move too much!" Jake advised as he was steered out of the room by his mother and loser father once the nurse's removed the IV's in his hand, quickly the other families followed the lead and the three remaining boys nodded at each other before they were bundled into their families cars.