A Helping Hand
Authors note: Hallo everyone, just a couple of things. First off, I do not own digimon (obviously). Seconded, I'm now going to be switching through people's point of view, I'll put something up to indicate that, the Character list hasn't changed yet, but as it goes on it will. Now that's out of the way, on with the story. One last thing, for certain things I will have the characters sing, now these songs I do not own and will probably not be from that year there in, but I've found a lot of songs that will work for different parts of the story, and I will put up the tittle the song before they sing it so you can check it out and tell me if I'm right or wrong if it fits with that song. NOW on with the story.
Tai and Kari's mother POV
I had left home on a small vacation, after all that mess with the monsters and the children going off to save the world, or worlds as Tai had put it, I just needed to get away from it all, if only just for a week. I had told Tai that he needed to look after Kari until I got back, "And try not to burn down the kitchen again like last time" I had said to him, he agreed with the catch of inviting Sora over for a sleep-over as he put it, but my mothers intuition told me otherwise. Anyway, Kari was sleeping over at a friends place tonight so my son and Sora would have the hole house to themselves, which made me worry just a bit. But never the less, I wen't down to the subway in Highton View Terrace and was now walking down the stairs after getting the ticket from the machine, as soon as my feet touched the stone cold ground, I heard sobbing. I was surprised that there was anyone here at this time of night, usually there wasn't anyone hear unless they really needed to get somewhere. I tried to locate the source of the sobbing, I didn't need to look far as I found that it was in fact a little boy, my best guess was that he is 8, but something seemed oddly familiar about him, maybe the way he dressed. He was obviously soaked, probably from the rain, and his right knee was grazed and slightly bleeding. The boy sneezed, turning his face for the slightest moment, he didn't notice me but from the glance I got at his face, I realised just who the child was.
"T.K?"
POV
"T.K?" I heard a voice behind me ask.
I turned at the sound of my name, and to my surprise it was Tai and Kari's mum, mrs Kamiya. She was wearing an orange buttoned shirt, blue jeans and brown high heels, her dark brown hair was tied back into a pony tail.
"Um, hi mrs Kamiya" I said, my voice nearly cracking in the process as more tears threatened to come out. I couldn't be crying in front of her, I rarely cried in front of mum, a bit more in front of Matt, but not with friends or people I didn't know. She wasn't someone that I didn't know but I still wasn't going to, I was 8, I couldn't be crying like a crybaby!
"Oh T.K what on earth are you doing hear, your knees bleeding, what happened" she asked, obvious concern in her gentle voice. " I... I was getting off the train and the door caught my foot and I tripped" I stammered out, the tears were getting harder to hold back, and the stinging wasn't helping.
"Oh dear, alright, just wait here, I'll be back in a seconded" she said as she turned back and jogged up the stairs, I chanced a couple of tears, they trickled down my cheeks and dropped to the stone cold floor. I heard her jog down the stair case and quickly wiped my tears away. She made her way over to me and bent down on one knee, she pulled out a bandied and looked at the graze for a moment before placing it on. The stinging increased, making me wince, but it quickly stopped. I can't believe she was doing this, she barley knew me, well I guess seeing as Matt and Tai are best friends, she might have heard from them, and maybe she saw me with the others before we went back to the digital world, also when I had gone over to Kari's apartment she had quickly introduced me to her and said nice to meet you, but still we hadn't really talked each other. But I guess I should be grateful.
Mrs Kamiya then got up and looked around, then turned back to me "Wheres your mum?" she asked. I turned my head away so he wouldn't see the tears, I completely forgotten why I was even down here with her act of kindness, but now I didn't now what to say, my words would probably come out in a pitiful sob, my mouth stayed shut.
Mrs Kamiya's POV
T.K turned his head away as soon as the words left my mouth, though he probably was trying to hide them as best as he could, I could clearly see a stream of tears escape from his innocent blue eyes. It was obviously unpleasant to talk about, so I decided against pressing further, I looked down at the small bag I had gotten the bandied from, it was a small medical bag, I had gotten used to taking t in the car when Tai was a toddler, he got grazes ALOT when he was younger, and I never grew out of the habit of taking it with me. I opened up the black bag again, and pulled out a couple of tissues. I turned back to him, I reached over and gently pulled his head so that he was facing me, tears were definitely coming out, I took the first tissue and wiped away his tears. T.K then sniffed, his cold was taking effect, I pulled the next tissue from my hand and held it up to his nose.
"Come on now, blow" I said gently.
He blew, yep, definitely a cold, as soon as he stopped, I folded up that part of the tissue and used the other side to wipe his nose. He started to squirm a bit, probably didn't like being babied, but he stopped when I was obvious that I just wanted to help. After I finished, a slight tear came back to his eye.
"Th-thank you" he whimpered, it looked like he was trying not to cry again.
"No problem" I answered with a smile "you know if you want to cry you can, I've got plenty of tissues so I'm not gonna run out anytime soon" I added. He immediately shook no, I laughed at this. But now was the thing of what to do with him, but the answer came to me easily enough. I stood up and dusted off my jeans (it's underground, I imagine it would be really dusty), after that I looked down at T.K again and extended my hand. He hesitated for a moment, wondering what to do, but he eventually got off the seat and with a cold, wet, shaking hand, he took mine. His eyes seamed to light up, as if he'd bin given an new hope after going through hell and back. I lead him back to the stone staircase and we made our way back to my car, where he sat in the back (it would probably be a disaster if there was a crash and he was in the front) and we drove off back to my house.
Kamiya's apartment, Tai's POV: 9.30PM
How on earth did she get so good over one WEEK! I had invited Sora only a week ago, and one of the things that we had played "Fifa 2000" and I had thrashed her, and laughed a little when she lost. But now, when I had invited her again, as soon as she gotten through the door was challenge me to it, and now I was the one being laughed at.
"Come on Tai you can do better then that!" she taunted as her character easily manoeuvred the ball around mine.
"How on earth is this happening!" I yelled in frustration as her character scored it's 10th goal in a row. "Easy, I just moved the joystick and while your guys were taking a nap on the field, my guys went through and got the goals" she taunted sarcastically.
Her character lined up for another shot, the doorbell rang out, startling Sora as her finger slipped on the stick and the shot went over the goal. She cursed herself and the door, and looked over the the soft grey coach. She was wearing a blue and pink striped shirt and red jeans, her caramel brown hair was held in place by a purple butterfly hair-clip.
"Who would that be, did you invite someone else?" she questioned, her eyes darting to me then back to the hall. "Relax, mum probable just forgot to get something and came back for it" I answered "though how mum forgets that she can just use her keys to get in is beyond me" and with that I quickly started moving the joystick and took the ball, lined up the shot and kicked. The ball went hurtling through the goal, Sora turned her attention back to the screen on the tv and looked at me with a half angry, half joking glare.
"That wasn't fare, I was distracted!" she yelled, though a smirk was obviously creeping up her face. "By what, the door bell or my un-resistible looks?" I laughed, she quickly grabbed one of the small cushions and hit me with it, laughing all the way.
"Yah, so when should I get the wedding ring out?" a voice said.
Our eyes shot over to the kitchen, standing there trying not not to laugh, is mum. We both looked at each other and her cheeks turned bright pink, and I'm pretty shore that mine were as well.
"Look you two I was joking, anyway Tai can you please be a dear and get a towel from the bathroom?" she asked as she took some tissues from that black bag she always had in the car and bent down, the kitchen bench obscuring her from view.
"What for?" I asked back, then a loud noise that sounded like someone with a cold blowing there noise could be heard from the kitchen. I turned back to Sora, who did the same, we both got off the couch and walked over to the kitchen, we both stopped just short of the bench. The noise was sounded again, and with that we looked over the bench and I saw my mum handing tissues to a drenched, slightly red faced T.K, who took the tissues gratefully and blew into them again. I turned to Sora, and she was wearing the same expression as I was, dumbfounded.
Sora's POV
Tai turned to me, and saw that I was wearing the same look as him, though surprised would be an understatement. Tai was wearing a blue T-shirt with a red flaming soccer ball in the middle, black long paints which were pretty worn and the same goggles around is outrages hair that he had at summer camp. We turned back to mrs Kamiya and T.K as he blew into more tissues, Tai then made his way towards the bathroom to get the towel that his mum needed as quietly as he could, though it was obvious to who it was for. As he started to wipe his noise with the tissue, his blue eyes finally caught sight of me and his face lit up with happiness as a his famous smile spread across his face.
"SORA!" T.K cried as he quickly dashed from mrs Kamiya and made his way around the bench, his shoes squelching as he ran on the wooden floor. I bent down on one knee and as he ran towards me I pulled him into a hug, his hat fell off in the process and it's round shape made it roll across the now wet floor, something just told me that he needed it right now, something was clearly wrong otherwise he wouldn't of risked getting drenched out in the rain. T.K didn't struggle and gratefully returned the hug, his hole body was freezing and damp, water is still dripping to the floor.
"I'm so happy to see you, it's bin a really long time" he said happily, even as I felt a shiver run down his body from the cold, nothing could dampen his excitement.
"I'm glad to see you to. What happened, your all soaked, we're you caught in the rain?" I asked, stoping the hug and pulling him so we were at eye level. But before he could say a word, a big white towel fell over him and covered his face. I looked up to see Tai standing there grinning as he took the towel off face and and ruffled his damp blond hair affectionately. grin came back in full force as he quickly turned around and tackled Tai into a hug, but he hadn't expected the hug as Tai lost balance and fell to the floor with T.K still on top of him, the towel gently floating down to rest on the floor. They landed with a thud, T.K was the first to recover, realising he was siting on Tai he quickly got off, T.K turned back with a look of concern on his face.
"T-Tai, you alright?" he asked timidly as my our friend groaned and sat up.
"Wow, is it just me or did you get stronger since the last time I saw you?" Tai returned with his own question as he grinned at him. T.K giggled as he went over and hugged him again, Tai returned the gesture with ruffling his hair again as his other hand half hugged him. I saw the towel laying on the floor and quickly picked it up and walked over to the two boys, I gently raped it around T.K, who looked up at me and smiled. I smiled back, it was hard not to, he was so innocent and kind, I don't remember him ever being selfish or hurtful unless provoked. My thoughts were interrupted as T.K sneezed again, mrs Kamiya quickly came over and handed him a tissue and he blew, then wiped his now red noise, the cold wasn't getting any better. I lightly started to push him over to the soft coach, he didn't resist and let me lead him to it, he sat down on the coach and I made myself comfortable next to him. T.K lightly coughed, that isn't good, his cold is getting worser by the minute, and it is now taking its tole on him. His berthing is slowing down, most of his energy from before was going away and instead of just normally sitting or leaning foreword, he was leaning back into the coach and all the excitement was drained out of his blue eyes as his eyelids started to get dragged down, only managing to keep them half open. My hand reached over and gently stroked his head, a couple of droplets falling off as I did so. T.K gave a little smile and yawned, and my stroking seemed to be all the initiative his eyelids needed as they slowly started to close, and when they were, it was obvious that he was in fact, asleep. I kept this up for about a minute, I didn't want to wake him up with my hand suddenly stoping, but he gave a small snore and I slowly took my hand away. He looked so cute when he was asleep, I herd the sound of he door shut and craned my neck back to see that mrs Kamiya had left, Tai walked back over with T.K's hat in hand and placed other soaked thing on the table coffee in front of of us, he sat down on the left of T.K and turned his head towards me.
"Well, we're not alone anymore, T.K is now staying here until we figure out what's happened" he told me as he glanced down at him "we need to wake him up and tell him the news"
"Give him a brake Tai, it looks like he's had a rough day" I plead.
"He can sleep later, after all, he's got my parents bed"
"Oh fine, but let me do it, knowing you, it would have bin un-pleasant" I say as I put my left hand on his right shoulder and gently shook him.
"T.K, come on, wake up" his eyes slowly opened as he gave another yawn. T.K turned his head to look at Tai, then back to me. "Guess who gets to stay here for a while" Tai said, and with that, face instantly lit up with new life, then as quickly as it had appeared, it disappeared as he sat up and looked around, after that he turned back to Tai. "Did mrs Kamiya go already? I was hoping to say thank you to her" he moaned.
"Don't worry, she told me to say it was no trouble just incase you asked, now come on, time for bed" Tai stated as he got off the coach, T.K looked confused.
Tai turned back and saw that he wasn't following "if your wondering were your sleeping, mum said you can ave the parents room, dads on a business trip for a week so he won't mind, and I've got some old PJs that you can borrow until your clothes are dried"
T.K got up from the coach and went after him, I probably should get my PJ on as well, I moved over to the dinning table were my red and yellow bag rested on a chair, I reached for the black strap and clenched it as I made my way to the bathroom.
Tai's POV
T.K had gone into my room to get changed, he came out in my old red PJs with a yellow race car on the shirt, and smaller identical race cars scattered all around the long pants. They were a bit big for him, but he didn't seem to mind that much. I had put his wet cloths into the dryer, but I didn't know what to do with his shoes and hat so I just left them to dry on there own. I led the now exhausted T.K to my agents room, as soon as we got in there, he didn't even bother with looking around and crawled into the bed and curled up under the covers. Sora stood next to me, I didn't even hear her walk in, then again, there was the light green carpet to soften her steps. Our small friend looked up, his blue eyes dazed as sleep began to take over.
"Thank you guys for letting me stay" he half yawned as he thanked us.
"No prob buddy, now get some rest, we don't need you all grouchy tomorrow" I joked.
"Night T.K, sweet dreams" Sora said gently as she led me out the door and closed it as quietly as she could, and we made our way to bed for the night.
2 hours since they went to bed, POV: 12.30PM
"MATT!"
I quivered as the nightmare replayed in my mind, my fingers clutched to the cream coloured blanket in hopes for a comfort that it wasn't giving. More tears came down from my eyes and dropped onto the fabric as I whimpered, what happened would never... Would it? I pushed it from my mind as I herd footsteps out in the hallway, at least two seconds past and Sora walked into the room and came to over to the bed.
"T.K, are you all right?! I herd a scream and came here" she said as she sat by the side of the bed and hugged me, the tears continued to flow out like waterfalls as I continued to whimper and sob, I wished I could stop, she was a great friend but I can't be crying in front of her! But the tears were out and they wouldn't stop.
"Shhhhhh, shhhhhhh, it's alright, your safe now" I could hear her say in an effort to calm me down as she stroked my hair with one hand and the other hugged me. The images of my nightmare kept flashing before my eyes, they wouldn't go away. I sobbed even more as the tears continued to crawl down my cheeks "shhh, its alright, tell me what's wrong"
She pulled me out of the hug and looked me in the eyes "I-I had a night m-mare" I whimpered, my eyes caught sight of her pale blue night gown with my tear marks easily see able "I'm s-sorry I cried on y-your gown"
"Its fine, tears don't stain" she replied with a kind smile, she really is like a second mum to me, but a lot kinder. when she got her crest, everyone was right, it fitted her perfectly.
I saw her grab something on the bedside able, she pulled it back and I could see it was a tissue, her hand and reached over and she carefully whipped my tears away.
"Now come on, try and get back to sleep" she told me as I leaned my head back down on the soft caramel brown pillow, I really didn't want to go back to sleep, the nightmare still spun around my mind.
"I-I can't" I replied.
"Nightmare still scaring you?" she asked, I wished I could say no, but I nodded yes, she just smiled.
"Don't worry, I'll help" and as she finished that, her song began.
Safe and Sound, by Taylor swift
I remember tears streaming down your face when I said "I'll never let you go"
When all those shadows almost killed your light...
I remember you said "don't leave me here alone"
But all that's dead and gone and passed, tonight...
She can sing that good?! I remembered her saying that she used to sing when she hung her cloths to dry so no one could hear her but she is amazing!
Just close your eyes,
The sun is going down
You'll be alright,
No one can hurt you now
Come morning light,
You and I will be safe, and, sound...
My eyes are starting to feel really heavy, it was working. I didn't feel scared anymore!
Don't you dare look out your window darling, everything's on fire
The war outside our door keeps raging on...
Curled up to this lullaby
Even when the musics gone, gone...
Just close your eyes,
The sun is going down
You'll be alright,
No one can hurt you now
Come morning light,
You and I will be safe, and, sound...
...
End of chapter 2
Authors note: Aww, Sora sung T.K to sleep, can you excuse me for a moment (goes and blows in tissue) ok were we're we, oh yah. Anyway, that wasn't the full song, but the rest was just vocalising and one last art with the chorus, so I cut it. Anyway, look up this song, tell me if you think it fits, and if anyone knows a song that T.K could sing I'm all ears because I've got no idea, I've got most of this part of he story planed out, but suggestions are always welcome. So until next time, goodbye and good luck with everything you all do, and don't worry, there will be Kari in the next chapter, anyway, chow for now XD
