Bagels

The all stood around him, Pogue and Caleb on one side of the bed, Reid on the other. Reid practically had all his weight resting on the handle of Tyler's bed, his head was bowed down, but his eyes stayed locked on his unconscious brother. Caleb and Pogue looked calm enough, but their faces were like ghosts, and their chest's rose and fell fast and harsh.

Tyler looked bad, his face was just one big bruise, a patch lay above his right eye. Stitches probably. An oxygen tube ran in his nose, an IV ran from his arm to a bag of blood. They couldn't see his chest, and they were thankful, this was enough.

"Cant we just Use a little on him, heal him just a bit?" Reid picked his head up, his eyes were bloodshot, his face was contorted with pain, his voice was rough and it broke on certain words.

Caleb shook his head no. "Reid, we talked about this." Caleb was trying to be as gentle as possible, he spoke softly and slowly. "It would heal him if we did Use on him, but it will only increase the chances of him going into a coma. I'm sorry, but I cant take that chance."

Reid clenched his eyes shut and his head dropped back down. "Reid." Pogue was suddenly next to him. "Reid, he's going to be ok. He'll wake up, just give him time." Pogue was gently massaging his shoulder. "This isn't the worst that could of happened, don't lose it now."

Reid's knuckles were turning white as he grasped the bed handle with all his strength, he sucked in a quivering breath and looked up, trying to gain control of his emotions. "He'll be ok." Reid repeated Pogue's words, and tried to make himself believe.

"He will be, just take it easy." Pogue let go of Reid and took one of the seats next to the bed, motioning for the others to do the same. The complied.

They all sat in silence, concentrating on the light beeping sound. Caleb had his hand on his chin. Thinking.

"Hey, you guys remember that time Tyler pushed Reid's head into his birthday cake? What was it your 12th birthday?" Caleb was staring off into space remembering that day.

Reid let out an awkward laugh and sniffed, "Yea, it was. I was so pissed, I chased him around for hours."

Pogue laughed to. "Tyler sure is fast when he wants to be."

"Hell yeah, but thank god he's a clumsy kid, or else I never would have caught him." Reid shut his eyes, trying to picture his "innocent" days.

"And Tyler just laughed when you began cussing up a storm at him." Caleb was shaking his head, a smirk playing on his lips. "I think me and Pogue were rolling on the ground laughing, you looked so hilarious Reid."

"Yea, yea, shut it." Reid gave a playful glare towards Caleb, who laughed in return. "I got him back though, remember? When he was talking to that girl…Candace, I think it was. I went up behind him and pulled his pants right down, I think that's when he learned to wear a belt." Reid laughed more, laughing made him feel better, made him gain better control.

"I think he came crying to me that night." Pogue said trying to conceal a laugh. "He was mumbling and crying, and when I finally got him to tell me what happened he said, "Reid pulled my pants down in front of the girl I almost had a date with!"" Pogue finally let his laugh loose, the others laughing as well.

"Baby Boy is defiantly the most emotional of us all, the most innocent." Caleb looked at Tyler's unresponsive face, "But he sure can get away with anything using those puppy dog eyes. I have fallen victim to them numerous times."

"Yeah I know what your saying Caleb, I think we all have let Tyler off with things we normally wouldn't have." Pogue said.

So that's how it went for the next few hours, they just sat and talked about past events. It released the tension, it helped them cope, it helped them believe Tyler would wake up, and soon all three were sound asleep in the hospital chairs right next to Tyler.

8:30am

Lights. Florescent lights. Very very bright lights, people talking, beeping. What the hell? Reid groaned and slowly opened his eyes, his neck was stiff. Where the hell was he, a glance towards the bed, oh yeah. He almost thought the whole scene was a nightmare, but it wasn't.

"Mmm, what time is it?" Pogue stretched in the seat next to Reid. Caleb seemed to have woken up long before them, but he still looked tired and ruffled. No one answered Pogue so he tried for, "How's Tyler?"

The nurse that was in the room, who so rudely turned the damn lights on, looked at the sleepy biker boy. "He's stable." That's all she said, Pogue gave her a weird look from behind her back, Caleb saw and surreptitiously shook his head.

By this time all three of the brothers were standing up, watching every move the nurse made. She quickly pulled out the IV in Tyler's arm and put the needle in the biohazard trash, then she checked his stitches in his head, and finally pulled the covers off him, revealing his bare chest. The boys gasped.

His chest looked like it just came out of a meat crusher, it was bruised badly, cuts were spotted all over, and then there was the huge bandage that the nurse started to take off.

Reid wanted to shut his eyes when the bandage was removed, a big crescent shaped, bloody, meaty incision was there, followed by blue stitches holding the two pieces of skin together. They all stared, they couldn't look away. The nurse took a wet cloth and carefully cleaned up the blood that had leaked out over the night, she then placed a meditative liquid on the cut to prevent infection. Finishing she bandaged him back up, threw the covers over him and walked out, taking the EKG machine with her.

Caleb, Pogue, and Reid looked at Tyler in horror. Tyler's lack of conscious saved him from one thing…pain. Pain was defiantly in store for him when he woke up, they all knew that, but they would be there for him.

Reid sat down in his chair with a "oomph" sound. The others sat down more carefully.

"Shit. That looks horrible." Reid said with difficulty.

Caleb's head snapped towards Reid, fearing Reid would go into shock again. "It looks worse then it is, just remember that ok?" Reid wearily shook his head.

"That nurse was a bitch." Pogue stated clearly, trying to get the image of Tyler's nasty chest out of his mind.

"Pogue. She's helping Tyler, she probably just had a long night." Caleb gave Pogue a cross expression.

"We had a long night." Pogue was cranky, as they all were.

"Your right, listen. You two go back to the dorms, get cleaned up. Something to eat. Then come back and I'll go do the same." Caleb was using his leader voice, but Pogue and Reid didn't move.

"I'm going no where." Pogue stated defiantly.

"Me either, I'm not leaving for a second." Reid locked eyes with Caleb, showing he still had his resistance for doing what he was asked inside of him.

"Fine, but we should call Kate and Sarah." Caleb got his phone out and dialed Sarah's number.

"Hey Sarah." Pause. "Yes, he's ok." Pause. "No he's not awake yet." Pause. "No, no you don't have to come down here, rooms crowded as it is." Pause. "I'm going to be here probably all day." Pause. "Ok, love you." Caleb clicked his phone off and stuck it in his pocket.

"You didn't tell her everything." Pogue gave Caleb a questioning look.

"I didn't want her freaking out." Caleb said, "Kate says she loves you by the way."

"Where are they?" Pogue was just trying to make conversation now.

"Where do you think? It's Saturday morning, at 9:00. There obviously still in bed." Well Caleb was defiantly not a morning person.

"Ok then grumpy, anyone hungry? Dunkin Donuts in the lobby." Pogue clapped his hands together, standing up.

"Coffee. You know how to make it Pogue." Caleb said softly. "Bagel with butter."

"Reid?" Pogue shifted his attention to his oddly silent brother.

"I'm not hungry." Reid still had his eyes on Tyler.

"You have to eat something, you haven't eaten since one yesterday." Pogue felt like his mother.

"I'm not hungry Pogue." Reid said silently, he had a scary calm about him.

"Reid, why don't you go with Pogue. Stretch your legs a little." Caleb noticed Reid's weird mood and tone, and concern made his earlier grumpiness flee away.

"No." Reid looked up at Caleb. "Can you go with him? I just want to talk to Tyler for a second."

Caleb's face showed he did not want to leave Reid alone, but to everyone's surprise he got up and walked to the door. "We'll be back soon." And with a finale look towards Reid, Pogue and Caleb left.

Pogue and Caleb

"You sure we should have left him?" Pogue asked with hands shoved into his pockets.

"No I'm not sure, but he wants to talk to Tyler. It could help him." Caleb was staring at the floor as he walked.

"Don't you think its weird?" Pogue suddenly asked.

"What's weird?" Caleb still wouldn't look up.

"Reid. He's acting so weird. One minute he's crying, next he's pissed, next he's laughing, and then he's in a weird trance." Pogue kept glancing at Caleb.

"No its not weird. His emotions are fucked up, Tyler's his best friend. Yea we're all best friends, but those two are always together, just like we are." Caleb finally looked at Pogue, his expression unreadable. "Reid has always been on the verge of breaking, and finally he broke. But its normal, he'll be fine."

"Hope so." They reached Dunkin Donuts and stood in the long line. "I'm ordering Reid a bagel to."

-So, next chapter will be up soon. Hope you guys like this one, I really wanted to get it up today but I kind of rushed because I have go out, so if its bad then that's why. Sorry if it is. Review! Thanks!-