Hey guys! Carroll here! I've taken to writing another story! It's just so much fun! Here's a Niff story! This will be a multichapter fic! And if you're following my other story, I'll Sing to You, which is a Wevid story, chapter 4 is in progress! And chapter two on this one will be uploaded by at the latest 1 a.m. Saturday morning! If it's late, you can complain! Reviews are love!
Nick was walking down the street, whistling the song they were going to sing at
regionals and swinging his Westerville Supermarket bag. Red Vines, check. Latest
Harry Potter movie, check.
He was getting excited about this weekend, he was ready to spend time with Jeff, just the two of them. Jeff had named it the Weekend Dorm Date.
Nick laughed out loud. But stopped cold at the sound of a cold, mocking voice, yelling at him.
"Hey fag, what's so funny?" Nick flinched, willing himself not to run. He heard snickering, Fantastic, He thought, there's more than one.
Another voice broke his thoughts, "Answer his question, homo."
Nick could practically hear the sneer in the mans voice. He was shoved roughly into the alleyway that he was standing in front of How convenient, this is like something out of a bad movie!
That was Nick's last coherent thought before a loud smacking sound rebounded off the bricks around them. Nick gasped in shock and pain as he felt a fist make contact with his face. Damn that hurt. He had his legs kicked out from under him, his head making a sickening thud as it connected with the cold concrete below him. "This is what you deserve, fag! And you know it!" one of his attackers said, Nick watched through bleary eyes as two of them threw their heads back and laughed, both finding joy in this. He only managed to get a quick look at each of their faces before he tightly shut them in pain. A number of kicks were aimed at his stomach and chest, He lost count after five.
Another blow to his upper stomach, and he heard something crack. Nick screamed in pain, instantly regretting it as he was hauled to his feet by his neck.
"Yell one more time, and you'll regret it even more than you do now." his attacker growled, before he pulled his hand back, curled into a fist, and brought it forward, full speed into Nick's face. Nick's head flew back into the brick wall with a crack.
He started breathing erratically, before his knees buckled and he fell to the ground. He heard the men whispering frantically with each other. He heard the sound of feet retreating before everything faded away.
Jeff hated hospital seats. He had sat in them enough when his father battled his long battle with cancer. He was absolutely cranky, hadn't eaten in at least twelve hours, and could feel how puffy his eyes were from crying.
And then he remembered that he was crying, because Nick was in the hospital. His Nick, his best friend, his dorm mate, his boyfriend. My boyfriend, he thought angrily, my boyfriend is in the hospital, because some low life scum attacked him.
Jeff was enraged. He had been called into the Dean's office at eight o'clock on a Friday night. Nick had been late getting back from the store, and he had been worried, all he had wanted to do was wait for him in their room. But the second he entered the office and saw Nick's parents, he knew something was wrong.
Jeff shuddered at the thought of what happened after that. How he frantically demanded to know what was going on. What they told him broke his heart, it brought him to his knees.
"He's in Westerville Memorial, Jeff. He was attacked." Nick's mother had never sounded so dead, and so void of feeling. Jeff couldn't take it, he opened his mouth to speak but no words came out, just a strangled sob. He remembered her standing up, and opening her arms. He had ran to them throwing his arms around her and began crying openly. After that everything was a blur, until he had reached the hospital.
Jeff sighed and ran a hand through his hair. He turned to the stark white hospital bed that he was residing next to.
"Oh Nicky." Looking at Nick made his stomach churn, the busted lip and black eye, the cuts and bruises. And that was simply what wasn't hidden by the hospital blanket. "We'll get through this Nicky. I promise, I'll hold your hand all the way through it." Jeff's eyes watered with more tears. He needed Nick to wake up, he wouldn't feel relief until he saw those blue eyes that he couldn't get enough of.
"Nicky, I need you to wake up, okay? I know you have a concussion, and that sleeping is going to help you get better, but-" He trailed off when he felt the slack hand held tightly in his begin to move. He let out a huge sigh of relief that he hadn't even known he was holding.
"Jeff, it's too fricken bright in here." He heard Nick mumble. Jeff gave a watery laugh, "That's the Nick that I know." He watched as Nick cracked his eyes open and attempted to smirk at him, but he could see the pain he was in.
"I'll be right back Nick, I need to get the nurse." Jeff pressed a gentle kiss to Nick's cheek and left the room swiftly.
He returned seconds later, "She'll be in shortly. Are you in pain?"
Nick ignored his question, instead gesturing to the spot he made on his bed. Jeff walked over and sat down, leaning down to kiss Nick's forehead. Nick tried to curl himself around Jeff, but hissed in pain. "Woah, woah. Easy there tiger, you have a few cracked ribs" Jeff told him gently "Here, let me."
Jeff wrapped Nick securely in his arms, without out putting too much pressure on his injuries. He sighed in contentment, before he became alarmed when he felt his shirt getting wet. He sat up a little, "Oh, Nick." Jeff shook his head, he should have expected this, real smart Jeff. Who wouldn't cry after being attacked? He let Nick cry, but when the sniffles turned into the full fledged sobs, he pulled Nick up too.
But right as he was about to go into full on comfort mode, the nurse walked in. "Well well well, Mr. Duval. You gave us quite a scare there!" She either didn't see the tear tracks on Nick's bruised face, or chose to ignore them. "You got a mighty concussion, and you have a few cracked ribs. Other than that, you have very mild, minor injuries. Nothing some ice and sleep won't be able to handle" She said cheerfully.
Oh good, Jeff thought sarcastically, we got the overly peppy one. He didn't have time to dwell on the headache he was getting just from hearing her talk, because he had a cup of water and several pills pushed into his hands. He tuned back into the nurse when he figured out that what she was saying was actually important. "-just give him these pills and he'll be set to leave in a couple of hours when his parents are done filling out his discharge papers!" When she finished her apparently long monologue, she gave them one last blinding white smile, and exited the room.
"Your parents! I totally forgot about them! I promise that they are in fact here, they just went to get coffee" Jeff quickly explained to Nick, who only gave him a short nod.
Of course, his parents chose to walk in at that exact time, Nick's mom almost spilling her coffee on herself when she saw that he was in fact, awake.
"Oh, Honey! You're awake and well! Oh, oh, I don't even know what to say!" Nick's father stepped up to his bed, placing a consoling hand on his wife's shoulder.
"Good to see you up and awake Nickster" His father said with a smile.
Nick smiled back at his father, but Jeff watched as it didn't reach his eyes.
"We're going to sign you out and then we'll drive you two back to Dalton. I'm sorry honey, but your father and I can't cancel our business trip to New York on such late notice. Believe me, we tried the second we got the call from the police. The nerve of our-" But Nicks dad cut her off, "What you're mother is trying to say Son, is Jeff here is going to take care of you for the next week at school. We've already requested that both of your all's work be sent to your room everyday. I hope that's okay."
"It's perfect Dad, thank you. Will you go sign those papers now?" Nick asked, speaking for the first time, fully, since he had waken up.
His dad nodded, leaving the room. His mother placed a change of clothes at the foot of his hospital bed, silently asking Jeff to take care of it. Jeff just nodded, and watched as she followed her husband out of the hospital room.