Stolen Time

Chapter III

Blink lay on the floor, naked and unable to move, yet shaking uncontrollably. Erik had left a few minutes ago. His body hurt all over as he wished that he could just die, or disappear. He heard a car pull up in the driveway and prayed that it wasn't his mom. The car door opened, then shut as Blink tried to stand up, but his legs were unwilling to support his weight, he fell to the ground again.

The footsteps came up closer as the front door opened.

"Blink?" On the bright side, it wasn't his mom, but it was Race.

"He's not home!" Blink yelled trying to do his best Erik impersonation.

Needless to say it didn't work. "Blink, what the hell did that bastard do to you?" Race said as he got up the stairs and stood staring at Blink.

Blink just grunted. "It was my fault, I spilled some grape juice on all of my clothes, so I was walking around naked. And he wasn't happy, so he punched me, that's all."

Race would have laughed if it weren't for Blink's current condition. "Blink, you're an awful liar."

Blink stared at Race, "Please, Race, don't look at me. I don't want anyone to see me like this."

Race sighed, "It's okay, Blink. I'm your best friend, it's my job to help you."

He helped Blink up, "Come on, you need a bath."

"Good, then I can drown myself."

"Blink, Don't talk like that!"

"Why not Race?" Blink yelled. "I think I have every fucking right to talk like that! My foster BROTHER raped me!"

Race stopped. "Erik did what to you?"

"You heard me, but now you can never tell anyone, especially not Mush. He'd never forgive himself for not forcing me over to his house like he had a feeling that he should."

"Blink... Aleks, are you s-"

"Gee, Race, I wonder, what else could he have done when he was on top of me and we were both naked... I don't know... was that playing tag?"

"Aleks?"

"Just get the HELL away from me, Race. I can take care of myself."

"Blink?"

"Go! Just leave!"

Race sighed as he started to walk away from Blink, "Be careful, Aleksander. Mush would kill me, and you if anything else were to happen."

Blink looked at his close friend trying to break down in tears, "Just go, please?"

Race smiled slightly, "Good-bye Aleksander."

Blink slowly walked over to the phone. Before carefully typing in Mush's all too familiar phone number.

"Buddy the elf, what's your favorite color?" Mush chirped happily from the other side of the phone.

"Mush?" Blink said quietly as he broke into tears, dropping the phone.

"Kid! ALEKS! Are you okay, why aren't y-"

-CLICK-

Blink looked down at his phone again and then walked over to the bathtub to fill it.


Mush continued to scream into his phone for a few minutes before it hit him, Blink had hung up.

"MOM!" He yelled out. "I'm going over to Aleksander's!"

"Why?" His mom asked him softly. She never seemed able to yell or even show anger in her voice. Mush was always trying to be like her.

"I think he's in trouble." Mush said as he started towards the front door.

"I love you Mom."

"See ya later, Philokrates."

Mush sighed wishing that his mother and Blink's mother hadn't agreed to name both of their sons Greek names... Sure, Aleksander wasn't too bad, but come on Philokrates! Can you imagine what Elementary was like for this kid?


Blink sighed as he placed his razor up to his leg, cutting deeply about two inches above the knee. He repeated this process, hoping that he could bleed out the memory. He then lay down in the warm water to sleep and bathe.


Mush smiled as he arrived at Blink's house, everything seemed to be in place. Erik wasn't home, which was a bit odd, but other than that it was normal.

He knocked loudly in his and Blink's "top secret best friend" knock. He waited about five minutes, but there was no answer.

He stood on his toes and traced his fingers along the top of the doorframe. "Bingo," he said as his fingers grabbed onto the spare key the Blink had placed there when he used to sneak out late at night.

He placed the key into its hole and slowly turned it. The door slide open as Mush took a step inside.

"Kid?" There was no answer, but he could hear water running.

He started walking up the stairs... As he reached the top the carpet felt wet. "Aleks, what are you doing? Your mom's gonna kill you!"

There was still no answer as Mush closed his eyes and stepped into the bathroom. "Aleksander?"

He could barely hear breathing over the sound of the running water.

Slowly his eyes opened. Blink was lying in the bathtub, surrounded by blood red water.

"Aleks?" Mush said was he walked over to the bathtub. He reached over and turned off the water. "Aleksander?"

Blink moved slightly at the sound of Mush's voice.

"Oh God, Kid. What did you do?"

Mush felt tears coming down his cheeks, "You're gonna come home with me."

Blink was still silent.

Mush walked out of the bathroom, into Blink's room and grabbed a pair of pajamas. He slowly walked back into the bathroom and grabbed Blink, forcing the clothes onto him. He grabbed a bandage and placed it on his leg over his cut.

"Just don't die Aleksander, just don't die on me."

A/N: Lookie! I finally refinished it! See, I had it like eight pages long, then I forgot to save it! Can you believe that? I mean it was so dumb, and I hated myself right after it. Oh well, I hope you liked the second version of Chapter 3.... Now to the shout-outs... Sorry that they are going to be a bit short today...

SHOUT-OUTS

Dreamless-Mermaid: I'm so sorry that I made Blink go though that, I swear that it was Spot!Muse's fault... and the Confidential Confessions manga... Thank you for the review.

Kid Blink's Dreamer: Sorry, that it took so long for me to update. And I'm also so sorry that I shocked you so much, I know that it's different... Well, thank you for the review.

Buttons14: See, I'm kinda obsessed with different spellings of names... and I was reading my history book, and I was like wow I like that spelling! And that's what started this entire story...well, that and being upset with friends . Thanks for the review.

Bronwen: I updated! YAY! Well, thanks for the review.

Rannoch: YAY! Ari, you finally reviewed! I love you Ari. Well, thanks for the review!

Shadowlands: (for chapter 1 review) bows sorry that it didn't get nicer... (for chapter 2 review) Wow, it was as bad as a dentist? Wow, I didn't think it was that bad... Well, I'm sorry that you aren't sad right now, I'll try to make it better! Well, thanks for the reviews.