Jay had never felt this much fury in his life as he pounced onto on Chad. He had obviously taken Chad by surprise by the startled look in his eyes. For a brief millisecond Jay almost felt a tug of regret for him due to the sheer terror on his face. It quickly vanished when he thought of Carlos lying on his hospital bed. 'How dare you, you absolute piece of shit. How could you hurt him?' Jay screamed furiously as he landed a punch on Chads face which sent him flying to the ground. Crouching down Jay tried to pin Chad to the group but before he could Chad had landed a blow on Jay which startled Jay enough to let Chad wriggle free. As Chad tried to stand Jay tackled his feet, slamming him to the group. Chad violently kick out trying to escape, narrowly missing Jays face. 'Stop struggling. You deserve this. HOW DARE YOU HURT HIM' Jay sneered as he dug one of his knees onto the back of Chads legs and one on the middle of Chads back, effectively pinning him to the ground as Chad let out a string of profanities. Jay scrabbled to grab chads hands and pinned them to the floor. 'Stop struggling' Jay commanded. However Chad didn't listen. He fought all his pathetic body to do. Jay was much stronger than Chad was and could have pinned him all night but Chad cheated. Slipping one of his hands free, Chad quickly used it to whistle. The whistle was loud and rung throughout the previously silent corridor.
Suddenly everything changed. Black smoke filled the hallway swirling to the left of Jay and Chad. The smoke swirl began to concentrate, morphing in to a human shape. Staring up Jay watched in disbelief as a girl was forged from the the smoke, stepping clearly from it. She did not look happy. Her light grey eyes narrowed burrowing into Jays head as she approached the pair. With a simple flick of her wrist, Jay was powerfully flung off of Chad. Jay's back smashed painfully against some lockers. 'A little help here?' Chad asked with a smirk towards the girl. She sighed out of annoyance. Jay remained pinned to the lockers by some invisible force as the mysterious girl leaned down and shrouded Chad in her black smoke. He felt his anger dissipate a little as he felt himself replace his rage with confusion. Who the heck is that? What is she doing with that smoke? When the smoke cleared after a few seconds, Chad appeared upright as right as rain. His look of terror from before replaced with his smirk of pure slimy evil.
'Thanks doll' Chad smirked winking at the girl who had healed him. She looked disgusted at him. 'My name is Jenny, you pig' she relied strongly. Although Jay was unable to move his body, he was able to look at the pair in front of him. The girl with the smoke who called herself Jenny looked about 15 years old. She had short cropped black hair in a pixie cut and sharp grey eyes. She wore a long flowing dark blue dress with a red belt synching her waist over her slightly tinted blue skin. Jay worried slightly for the girl slightly as chads eyes narrowed on her. 'Now now Jenny is that anyway to talk to your master?' Chad sneered wickedly as Jay watched in fear. Master?! With his comment Chad approached her. With Chad towering above Jenny was forced to cower. 'No, I take it back. You aren't a pig, please don't hurt me' she muttered sinking lower to the ground.
Chad smirked triumphantly. 'That's right Jenny, as long as I have this I own you and more importantly I own your power' he sneered producing a small ornate lamp about the size of an eraser out of his pocket. That's when Jay realised what was going on. Jenny was a genie. Probably the daughter of The Genie himself. Jays father had told him all about the prize of finding a genies lamp and here one was right in front of him. Every part of him should want to steal that lamp and take the power for his on. It's what he had been raised to do. But at this moment as he looked down at the terrified and defeated Jenny, all Jay wanted to do was help this poor innocent girl and hurt Chad even more. He had no interest in power. He felt himself hate his father a little more for not only condoning but hoping to claim the 'prize' of this girl's slavery. This was sick. How could anyone think controlling another being was acceptable?
He was pulled of his thoughts as Chad turned to him. Chads eyes were blazing with anger. Jay couldn't even struggle against Jenny's power as Chad swaggered up to him. He was trapped. He hated being trapped. Leaning on the lockers with his hand beside Jays head, Chad leaned in close to Jays face. His smarmy face concentrated on Jay.
'Now for you, you lowlife scum. Who do you think you are attacking me? I, a prince. You're no one. 'That's why I hurt your precious boyfriend.'
That's when something inside Jay broke. His anger returning to him stronger than ever 'You're evil. Worse than most of the true villains I've ever met. We aren't the real villains, you are!' Jay spat back, attempting to struggle free. A low and menacing laugh erupted from Chad. 'Did I touch a little nerve there? I mean I always knew he was a little poof, makes sense that you're a fairy too. You 'guys' make me sick.' Chad spat disgusted. Carlos was gay? Jay had always had suspicions and he'd be lying if he said he'd never thought about Carlos in that way before but he never thought it would be true. Villains kids don't get true love. They don't get happily ever after. Chad must of seen the surprise on Jays face as he continued. 'You didn't know did you? Aww how cute. You can be disgusting abominations together.' Chad sneered. Jay saw red. He was livid. Unable to move, Jay did the only thing he could to hurt Chad for insulting Carlos. He spat right in his face.
Chad looked stunned for a second, before pure rage returned. Using his arm he wiped of jays spit from his face before a delivering a loud and nose crunching blow to Jays face. Grabbing him by the neck Chad thrust his knee into Jays stomach. If he was able too Jay would have been doubled over in pain. He felt useless, he couldn't retaliate. Trying to focus on not throwing up he closed his eyes. Chad seemed to take this as a act of defeat.
'You and all the rest of your friends are scum. I'm so much more than you will ever be. I was born to be king, you were born to die in a hovel across the water. You are the villain. Carlos is a villain. Mal is pure evil. Even that daft bitch Evie technically counts as a villain. Ben is weak and will always be a weak King who sides with villains and that tramp of a girlfriend of him. You all are corrupting society. You need to be put down permanently. And I'm the man to do that. I can't have any of you in my way when that happens.' Chad spat nasty at Jay. Jay felt woozy but Chads words startled him into alertness.
'If you hurt any of them I'll…' Jay started before he was cut off by chads mocking laugh. 'You'll do what? You can't even protect yourself right now. Anyway it's not like I can let you remember this conversation.' Chad said and he pointed at Jenny to approach him. Jay eyes flared at this. 'That's right villain, you're going to experience the almighty power of a genie. Isn't that what you always wanted?' Chad smirked cruelly. Jay couldn't let him win. Jay knew he was no match for Jenny's power but he couldn't let himself be defeated. 'You'll never be king…' Jay smirked.
'Oh Jay, you see. That's where you are wrong. I will be. And when I am, you and all your little friends will be extinct. The real kicker? Before you perish you you will wish that you'd had a warning, that only you'd found out sooner so you could say those who you love. Well no such luck. Jenny erase his memories of tonight. Make him think he just went for a walk. Oh but let him remember that it was us that hurt Carlos. That should be interesting watching him suffer with that knowledge….' Chad commanded cruelly. Jay opened his mouth to retort but was stopped as a cloud of black smoke engulfed him.
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Like a typical storybook cliché the birds were chirping and a single ray of sunshine broke through the curtains onto Carlos' face as his eyelids began to flutter open. His head felt groggy. Carlos was confused. He felt like he was forgetting something important, something really important. His whole body felt out of place, like something was wrong. Why was this bed so comfy? His bed wasn't this comfy… Where was he? He wondered. As he blinked into consciousness the lights above his head blinded him. Why was it so bright? He tried to move his arm to try and wipe sleep out of his eyes but his arm screamed in pain when he twitched his fingers. With this painful jolt his eyes flew open. Before he could stop himself, a surprise scream escaped his lips.
'Carlos?' He heard a voice ask softly but filled with hope. Flicking his eyes forward he tried to focus on the shapes in front of him. He was careful not to move his face as it was radiating agony. Suddenly the shape morphed into a face. As he looked at his friend, his memories snapped back into place. The locker room, Chad, the punches, the blood, the pain,Ray and Sonny, a ball hurtling towards his face, the feeling of being lifted….
'What's the damage?' Carlos sighed. 'On a scale from Scar to Esma how messed up is my face?' Carlos tried to crack a smile but even that hurt. Winching slightly at the pain, he hoped Jay hadn't noticed. Although one look at Jays face and he knew he had.
'Your face has healed Carlos. You look as good as you do every day…' Jay said offhandedly, trying not to notice that Carlos was blushing. 'More importantly how do you feel? You've been out for days' Carlos had not been expecting that. He'd guessed a hour tops. How could he have been out so long? He hated to see the worry on Jays face. He'd caused that and it made him feel even worse than he already did.
'I'm okay as I can be, I'm suppose. My body aches all over and my face is on fire but nothing I can't handle..' Carlos said failing to sound genuine. Worry was plastered across Jays face. Carlos didn't know if it what was the cause but Jay was acting off, like he was just going through the motions. His face was filled with worry but his voice was almost robotic.
'I was instructed to give you this potion when you woke up to deal with the pain' Jay continued, lifting a vile with a luminous pink liquid inside. Carefully Jay stood above Carlos, gently cradling his head as he lifted the vile to his lips. Carlos drank his medicine, with content with the fact that Jay was playing nurse.
The results of the potion were almost instantaneous. Carlos's whole body felt stronger and more solid. Gingerly testing his right arm he tapped one of his finger successfully with zero pain. This caused a smile to burst onto his face. Turning his head towards Jay he noticed that he had returned to his chair, slouched over. Carlos frowned. Something was wrong. 'Jay? Are you okay?' Carlos asked tentatively,
'I know about Chad and what happened.' Jay said calmly trying to hold back his emotions. 'I know what he did, what they did.' Jay took a large gulp of air. Trying to keep his emotions in check was really difficult. He shouldn't be doing this now. He should be waiting until Carlos was better. He should just be happy that Carlos was alive and awake. But worry and sadness had formed a gigantic put in his stomach.'Why didn't you tell me?' His voice nearly broke with his question. He reached towards Carlos. He had to understand why Carlos had kept him in the dark.
Carlos was stunned. His head began to feel fuzzy again. He felt tears prick at the back of his eyes. He didn't now what to say. How did Jay find out he thought. He felt himself take a large gulp. Carlos couldn't look at him. He couldn't handle the heart broken look on Jays face. This is what he had been trying to avoid. He never wanted to hurt Jay, he was too important. He took a deep breath, while his eyes burrowed deeper into his sheets.
'I couldn't tell you, okay?' He started, shocked by his own voice. 'If you found out, you would have hurt them. That would get you sent back to the island, away from here. Away from me…' Carlos finished quietly, as he raised his eyes towards Jay a tear spilled down his cheek. With that Jay was over come with emotion. He pulled Carlos closed to his chest hugging him tightly. 'I c-can't loose you. I-I just couldn't. I'm sorry, please, please don't leave me….' Carlos stuttered through tears as he clung to Jay. At this point Carlos was beyond caring how this looked. He couldn't lose Jay. That's what his vow of silence had been about. Protecting Jay. 'I'm so sorry', Carlos finally spluttered, clinging to Jay as if he was a life raft.
Jay was in complete shock. Carlos honestly thought that Jay would leave him alone? That Jay didn't care? Jay pulled him closer as he fought back his own emotions. 'Carlos.I'm not the best with feelings and emotions. You know that. Probably better than anyone. But believe me when I say that I will never leave you. No matter what you do. No matter what happens. This friendship between us is unconditional. There is nothing that I wouldn't do for you. Believe me. Nothing.' Jay felt Carlos take a shaky breath as he gripped tighter. He needed to know he was real, that he was back and that he was safe. It was in that moment that Jay realised how far he would go to keep Carlos safe. Nothing would ever hurt him again, not if Jay had anything to do with it. Now only if he could run into Chad and those two idiots, he would cause them severe pain…