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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 Seven
"So I figured something out, here!" Andy sank down onto the picnic table where Felix (fully recharged and back to normal), Sam and Jake were eating and talking during their break.
"What is this?" Sam let a small stone pendant with symbols carved into it dangle in front of him, a chain looped around the hoop that kept the stone attached to the chain.
"So after some testing and trial and error I figured something out to stop from what happened to Felix from happening to any of us again." Andy beamed clearly proud of himself.
"Necklaces?" Jake tried to make sure he didn't sound too insulting but he just didn't understand what their resident genius was trying to get at with these stones.
"These symbols, they represent us." Felix said in understanding as he traced the lines that were painstakingly engraved in the smooth surface.
"Exactly! They mean Fire, Earth, Air, Water and Spirit! I figured out if we do a spell, like what we did before with all of us together we can spell these necklaces to keep apart of each of our elements so when we are separated we won't fall into coma's." Andy gave Felix a pointed look making the Goth duck his head; hey he didn't know that would happen.
"That's brilliant! We can do the spell after school!" Sam beamed as he pulled the pendant over his head proudly wearing it against his chest while Jake, Andy and Felix hid theirs under their shirts just as the bell to signal the period had ended rang loudly.
"See you guys after class!" Sam waved as he hopped on his skateboard to speed down the hallway to his class to avoid from being late.
Sam's class went by rather fast as Sam to be honest spent most of his time drawing in his sketchbook for the class he and Andy were taking together, he blinked at the way the symbols on their pendants had managed to sneak into his drawing, but he liked how it looked so he decided he would keep them there. He figured the guys would get a good laugh out of it later on. Everything was finally going fine so of course that was when it would change.
"Yo Sammy!" A hand landed on his shoulder not startling Sam as much as the name did. His heart race picked up like a shot of adrenaline and his head whipped back and forth like he was looking for his replacement from the other world.
"Sammy, what's going on with you man?" Another voice came from his right and Sam was an inch away from punching the teen in the face.
"I'm NOT Sammy, I'm not him!" Sam snapped out, his breathing picking up dramatically as the wind picked up around the teen. The windows of the classroom they had just exited rattled dangerously while cries from other students went in one of Sam's ears and out of the other.
"What the hell?" A voice muttered but Sam couldn't hear it at all, all he could focus on was the fact he wasn't Sammy. He wouldn't turn into that asshole and he refused to.
Felix had just been walking to his locker when the metal started to rattle and the wind blew around him dangerously.
"Oh no, Sam!" Felix turned on his heel and sprinted towards where Sam's last class was located. He gripped his shoulder bag and hefted it up higher as he spotted their Air in the middle of crowd of teenagers.
"Move it, out of my way!" Felix elbowed and pushed his way through the mess of teens to get to Sam.
"Sam, Sam! Come on man, come with me." Felix grasped Sam's elbow noticing how the teen was muttering and his fingers were flexing and un-flexing.
"Move it!" Felix glared at the teens until they moved out of his and Sam's way. Felix tugged Sam into a nearby thankfully empty classroom and gently pushed their Air down onto a chair before kneeling in front of him.
"Sam? Come on back buddy, talk to me." Felix said soothingly before the doors slammed open as Jake and Andy stumbled into the room both looking panicked.
"What the hell happened?" Jake asked while Andy hurried to Sam's side.
"I'm not him, I will never be him, never." Sam was muttered under his breath and it clicked for Felix.
"Oh Sam, we all know you're not Sammy. You are Sam Conte you are our Air and no one can replaced you not Sammy, not anyone." Felix was quick to reassure Sam and he saw the moment it clicked for the others.
"Yeah Felix is right, you're ours no one else. Sammy didn't hold a candle to you and never will." Jake promised.
"Yeah I mean that Sammy was total jerk! He was the absolute worse. You are nothing like him!" Andy jumped on with the reassuring and the windows had stop rattling as Sam got control over the air around them.
"I need you to breathe with me Sam, can you match my breath's?" Felix took Sam's hand in his hand pressing it to his own chest and soon their breathing was syncing up and it was obvious to see that it was calming Sam down and he was backing away from the panic attack he had been on the verge of.
"You okay now?" Jake asked quietly once he thought it was safe to speak, not wanting to break the moment between the two.
"Yeah dudes, I'm all good. I just got called… That and I don't know… I just wasn't all there anymore and I…" Sam rubbed his eyes once Felix released his hand and backed off a bit.
"It looked like you were having a panic attack or at least the starts of one." Felix said softly.
"A panic attack?" Sam's eyebrows furrowed together. "I guess that makes sense… I just can't believe I got a panic attack just because someone called me that name." Sam sounded annoyed with himself.
"This isn't something that you can help Sam, you had one of the worse experiences with our family in the other world so it only makes sense that you would have some… Adverse reactions to the name." Andy tried in his own way to make Sam feel better and their Air gave a weak smile.
"Thanks for helping me Felix." Sam turned to the Goth of their group.
"Don't worry about it." Felix waved it off.
"How did you know that would calm him down?" Jake sounded curious.
"…After Oscar's accident I used to get them and I only dealt with them because Oscar started to get them so I learned the fastest way to stop them. It's not a big deal." Felix explained, fiddling with the Talisman that was still around his neck.
"Well thanks for helping me dude." Sam picked up on how Felix really didn't want to be talking about this and decided to not focus on it.
"Anytime." Felix flashed a small smile.
"In the meantime let's head out to the shelter, we can jumpstart the pendants and figure out a way to deal with everything and maybe hash out what else might set one of us off in the future… Maybe you can teach us how to stop panic attacks just in case?" Andy shot Felix a side-glance.
"I think that's a good idea." Felix agreed, he never thought he would be happy to go back to that shelter of all places.
"Yeah maybe we can spend some time and get it up to shape so we can use it as a base of operations of sorts?" Jake suggested and grinned when Sam and Andy's faces lit up at the suggestion.
"This will be like one of those renovation shows my mom watches! It'll be great bonding time!" Andy beamed.
"Oh yeah Andy, the shows your mom watches." Jake teased playfully making their Water sputter and start denying making Felix chuckle and Sam grin at the sight of his friends around him, keeping him calm and doing everything they could to help him and he will do the exact same for them. He would not be Sammy, he promised himself he wouldn't be.
