Hi so a massive thank you to everyone who favourites this story. I also want to say thank you for the kind messages I got from the two last chapter =) As usual I will start with the warning. Warning: story contains BoyxBoy, swearing, mentions of abuse. I hope you enjoy it and have a nice day where ever you are =)
-Flash back-
He slowly groaned as he heard his phone going off . He had to answer it and listen to Kenny carry on talking about their deal and how Alex should be there now... He didn't care about that stupid game any more. His care went only to the family of his elves who he had to look after. That was all that mattered... well them and most importantly; Kyle.
Speaking of which.
He was soon comforted in the fact that he felt a strong arm around him as they were both laid down in one of the elven hiding dens. No more. He gave a quick swipe on the phone and hung up without another care. The last couple of days had been growing quite rough on Alex. It was as though with every thought he had, more pain seemed to constantly follow without mercy. His mother said that he needed to talk to someone, he had done that before, sat down on some seat while someone just asked him to keep talking? If talking was going to help him, then he would have noticed something with the last five damn shrinks he had to see.
"Hey sleepy head." He looked up to see Kyle's face as his soft voice cooed to him while he blinked sleep out of his eyes, "Bad dreams?"
"I'm not sure." Alex frowned slightly as he tried remembering it but it seemed to be slipping away faster than he could recall it. He shook my head before he looked at his phone and pressed ignore call again as he saw it was his mother's and Kenny's number which had tried calling him.
"Is everything okay?" Kyle whispered softly.
"Honestly? I don't care." He smiled as Kyle placed a linked crown of daisies on Alex's head and a rose without a stem in his hair. "Are you having fun dressing me up here?" He laughed then stopped as he thought heard a nearby branch snap. His eyes quickly darted around the clearing as he looked for any disturbance as he couldn't find anything. "I thought I heard something." He said quietly.
"Me too." Kyle agreed.
"K-Kenny what are you doing?"
Alex's eyes snapped around and he felt Kyle tense as his focus was totalled onto the couple that stumbled into our small clearing. A tall pale boy was laughing as he fell over onto a smaller boy who was slightly taller than Alex but smaller than the blonde boy on top of him. The smaller of the two was blushing brightly while the taller one's pale face remained perfectly graceful and elegant as though this was all a perfect act to him. "Oh Kenny stop!" the smaller boy whispered and stumbled on his words as he embarrassment was flaring at the position they were in.
"Yes Kenny, please do stop."
Both slowly turned their heads finally noticing me.
"Sorry, we thought that there would be no one here. You're more than welcome to join in." the boy's face lit up as he grinned and Alex felt Kyle wrap his arm around his waist before he could run forward and smack the stupid blond boy. Who does he think he is? "I'm good thanks." Alex muttered before he clutched Kyle's hand tightly and began to walk away.
"Excuse me?"
Now he came skidding to a halt as the boy looked at him incredulously as though he had said the strangest thing he had ever heard.
"I said." Alex coughed dramatically as though he was clearing his voice before speaking in the single flat tone, "I'm good thanks." He looked at Alex with a warm smile as the light in his perfect eyes danced. "Do you know who I am?"
"An arrogant prick?" Alex shrugged and Kyle let out a laugh as he placed a kiss on his boyfriend's lips.
"Interesting."
"What?" Alex sighed as he turned to look back at him.
"I like a good game to get someone. It's so boring when they just roll over like a dog." He glanced down at the boy under him who Alex guessed was the boy Butters. "No offence." Kenny whispered softly.
"None taken." The boy pulled him into a kiss and Alex rolled his eyes in disgust as Kenny winked at him before he walked away taking his little pet with him.
Kyle let out a soft sigh before running his fingers gently across Alex's cheek. "Come on." He slowly pulled out a large leather bound book from his nearby bag. "You can read some of this to me if you like?"
Alex just smiled at this idea as he laid back resting his head in Kyle's lap while he read the story he had wrote for future novels. He ad always imagined some perfect romance when he was younger... he had never planned to meet the perfect boy after having to go through so much first... it was as though meeting Kyle was his compensation and his reward for surviving being raped and watching his sister murdered in front of him...
"As the pair walked back after a day at school, they took the long route back home. Through the city park which now blossomed in as much beauty as Russell imagined his world of ink did. It was pretty empty, so the boys sat in the sunshine by the river that was glistening happily.
"How is this even possible? Are you real? Is this real?" Russell asked, bewildered.
"This is very real." The taller boy whispered. Henry smiled to himself, and shuffled closer to Jonathan in silence. He didn't know what else he could say, apart from: "I...I think I love you, Jonathan."
The boy smiled, and cautiously put an arm around Russell, "I think I love you too."
Russell's heart raced once again, as he took Jonathan's hand and led him into the tree canopy of the park, his most favourite place to write. Now, in mid May, life danced about them as the cycle of summer continued around them, with the empowering beauty life.
Jonathan smiled and clutched Russell's hand as tight as Russell clutched his in return. Both of them laughed as they twirled around, holding each others bodies close. As they hugged each other, standing, Jonathan backed him onto a tree trunk. As he did so, the tree shook and each of them were showered with soft, pink petals. Their hair was covered in flowers, and Jonathan playfully shook his hair free of the petals, almost all of them landing in Russell's face.
Their eyes met, as if for the first time, and both trembled with nerves. Jonathan's body was pressed close to Russell's, who held it there. He hugged him closer, maintaining eye contact as their fingers once again became intertwined.
Time seemed to slow down.
As his lips trembled forwards, he tried to find Jonathan's, and inched himself forwards. He licked his lips, and his tongue lightly brushed against Jonathan's soft lips, that were slightly parted. They both smiled, and Jonathan's hold on Russell's hands grew more desperate, and loving when they both managed to inch themselves towards each other. Russell clenched his eyes shut, and held back the tears of joy, and unimaginable amounts of love." I looked over to see Alex lost in the sea of words.
It took him a few seconds longer to emerge from the image that Alex had created for him him before Kyle leaned down and kissed his boyfriend's forehead softly. "Why does that sound partly familiar?" he wondered with a grin.
"Work with what you know, right?"
"Just promise you won't go into any more detail. Okay?"
Alex's face broke out bright red and he slapped him softly on the leg.
"Hey!"
"Sorry." He apologized half heartedly before a rustling in the bushes disturbed both of them before they could pursue their kiss even further.
"Hello love birds."
Alex groaned as he looked over to see Kenny walk back into the clearing arrogantly. "Is that any state for the beloved Elven Queen to be in? After all, I think chains and those shorts suit you better. A submissive you is so much more fun to have." He laughed and Alex lunged forward only to be pulled back by Kyle. He hated to be reminded of what those stupid morons had made him become after that god damn stupid trick.
Their gazes locked and Alex saw what Kenny was thinking. He wasn't anything special to him, just a prize to be won from a difficult game which he hadn't been given before. Why should he play such a stupid game when he was the prize? An arrogant, stuck up, no good… no, If I carried on listing everything about him then I would be here for two days. "Kenny, just go and play with your little Butters bitch. After all, I'm sure there are plenty of people who will simply roll over for you."
"When you get tired of tall, crimson and nerdy over there. I will be waiting."
"Then you will be waiting a very long time." Alex assured him as he glared while the first few flakes of snow began to fall. "A very long time indeed."
-End of flash back-
The beat of music played quietly in the room, just above the sound of a heart monitor as it constantly let out that persistent beep. The piano of the soundtrack was pleasant enough but the lyrics still made the figure in the room pause as they thought about the reason the boy had them on his Ipod. "I Must, go on standing. You can't break what isn't yours. I must, go on standing. I'm not my own, it's not my choice."
Kyle paused what he was doing as he gently dabbed at Alex's arm with the wet sponge he had been given. When the doctor had come in and said that it was time to clean Alex up, Kyle had almost lunged for him at the idea of someone else doing it. But eventually and with Katherine's help, he managed to be able to do it himself. At first he had to stop himself from crying when he had seen Alex's torso. It was covered in large scars and thick bruises.
He had managed to clean a lot of the cuts and re dressed the wounds himself. "Look at you." He said softly. "Oops, looks like I made a clean spot... oh well, better finish the rest of the job." He smiled gently and began to clean the last bit of Alex's arm. "I brought your photos over for you." He looked over at the nearby table they had brought into the new room they had managed to get Alex transferred to. It wasn't massively bigger but it allowed for a few more objects and items. It meant that Alex could set out the pictures that Alex had taken of them two, some of his mother and some of a girl who the boy assumed was Isabella.
Katherine had told him that she had once said they were twins born across a different time... and it was true.
By looking at the pictures even with the massive six year gap difference between them. They were almost identical in every way! The way their golden hair shined in the light. The way their faces were framed... except for two big differences.
And the picture explained something Kyle had always wondered.
In the picture both kids were holding one contact lens up that they weren't wearing. Isabella held up a golden amber one and Alex held up a Emerald one.
Isabella's eyes were a deep emerald... but with the contact lens in she made them look the same colour as Alex's natural gold. "So that's why Alex put in emerald contact lenses." He said quietly as he looked at the content and happy faces in the picture. Both siblings had their tongues stuck out cheekily though Alex was held in a hug by his big sister. "I bet you miss her." He sighed softly and looked back down at his boyfriend as he changed the song and finished cleaning him. "Even in this blizzard and cold, you're hanging on to that tan aren't you?" Kyle chuckled.
The snow hadn't been able to stop... even after a week of them now being in here, the snow hadn't stopped coming down. It had resulted in them just getting snowed into the building. "Guess you're stuck with me until the snow melts or at least goes down a bit." Kyle smiled gently and walked over the other side of the bed where the flowers rested on a window sill in a cold tank of ice cold water.
"Still nothing huh?"
He turned slowly and saw Craig get pushed into the room in his wheelchair while Tweek stood behind him with a smile. "Nope. Just a slight temperature is the only change. They think he may have caught a bit of a cold from being in the snow. Nothing to worry about though." Kyle reached down into his second bowl he had mainly for just the purpose of keeping the boy's temperature under control.
He squeezed out a small cloth and folded it before he placed it on Alex's brow. His hand brushed over the now shaved and cut blond hair. "God help them when you wake up and see that they cut your hair. I hope they will be able to defend themselves against you."
He paused for a moment and looked down at the pale face. "Please. Please wake up soon."
It was mostly quiet in the room and in fact it was pretty tranquil except for the beeping on Alex's heart monitor. Even Craig and Tweek said nothing as the boy was beginning to take quicker breaths. Flowers rested on the side table by the white silk bed and Kyle fluffed the pillow behind his boyfriend's head and pulled an extra blanket over him when he saw the boy shiver in his sleep even though his temperature had increased just the slightest of a fraction more. Alex was going to be okay wasn't he?
Kyle was calmer until the doctor came back with the news... but it was kind of a waste...
Because it was the exact same time in the moment that Alex had begun to wake up.
Alex had just locked those fearful golden eyes on him as they burst open like they were spring loaded. The boy's good wrist shot up sharply though it was covered in bandages and manacled still to the side of bed. Even though at first the top of his head was bandaged the most where it had taken the greatest hit, looking now at that panic emotion which burned in the golden orbs, Kyle wanted to back away in fear.
Alex began to struggle, trying to begin sitting up, taking panicked breaths as he looked around. It was as though he was a cornered dog. The doctor quickly added the restraints and ordered the nurse in with a sedative.
Katherine rushed about quickly as she moved from the drip to trying to hold her son down, who writhed under every single touch which was placed onto him. "It's going to be okay." Kyle whispered as a smile spread across his face seeing his love wake up. He knew Alex would wake up! He just knew it! He knew that the boy would pull through! Alex was a fighter! He would never go down without a fight! It would take a lot more than a car hitting him to-
"Who are you?"
Three words that destroyed his world in seconds.
"Where am I!?" he looked around at the people pinning him down. Katherine had to stop herself from screaming slightly as she had to pin his arms down so she could get the syringe into it. "Who am I?" the smaller boys breathing becoming alarmingly fast as the doctor lent over him trying to assuring him. But it was no use. Alex was going into a panicked melt down. It took all of Kyle's efforts not to cry out in pain or scream the boy's name as they finally got the needle into his arm and got Alex to drift of back to a peaceful realm of sleep.
Kyle turned on the doctor and grabbed him by the collar as he pinned him against the wall viciously. "WHAT HAPPENED?!" he snarled. He felt Katherine as his shoulders trying to pry him away but it was no use. He had never felt such a built up rage in his life. He had never had something so expensive and important to him given into his fingers, only to have it pried away and destroyed before he could close his grasp on this. "Don't hurt him. They will kick you out." Katherine hissed before fleeing back to her son's bed side.
"The scans show there was extensive damaging and trauma to the head. He's lucky he didn't die. You both knew that he had taken serious damage and swelling." The doctor pushed Kyle off of him just as the boy heard the doors open. He probably guessed it was Tweek taking Craig back into their room. He was glad for that, he didn't want them around to see him like this. To see him looking beyond anger.
Katherine was staring at her son as though he was a complete stranger... it was ironic. Considering that now she, Kyle and everything around him was new to the sleeping boy.
"Lucky?! Trauma… what has happened to him!"
"He's got amnesia." The doctor said bluntly and then caught the boy as he stumbled back. "You need to take a minute and breathe young man. You're not going to be any use to him right now as this."
"Can you… can't he…?"
"Amnesia?"
Kyle turned his head slowly. The only thing right now that was keeping him from lunging out and punching the person till his fists were covered and broken with blood, was the fact that being by Alex when he woke up was more important than anything else that would ever matter.
However.
His blood boiled at the sight of Kenny.
He stood there in his raggedy, torn clothes. They hung from his body horribly making it look just how worthless he was to not having anything to afford real ones. His jeans were scraggy and torn quite badly up the front of his legs. His dirty blond hair stuck out like a sore thumb. He trembled slightly as his voice shook just as much. "Amnesia? He… he can't remember." Kenny stared at the boy as though he was beginning to just see a complete stranger.
"No." the doctor shook his head in agreement, "We've tried to control the amount of the swelling and damage to the head... but we just weren't able to contain it. I guess we just messed up-"
"MESSED UP!?" Kyle and Kenny screamed, watching the man begin to shuffle nervously and move away from their looks. "Listen, he may remember." The doctor said less than half heartedly.
"What are the chances?" Kyle's voice was low and deadly.
Just like his gaze.
"Less than a twenty five percent chance." The doctor said laying a hand on the boy's shoulder, only to have it instantly shrugged off. "I'm sorry but... you can't even tell him his past. His mind wouldn't be able to handle it. The bare minimum you can tell him is his name. The rest he will have to try and fix by himself or…" the doctor shook his head unable to think of the consequences that would arise from such a situation like that.
"So, he can't remember his past and we can't tell him. WHAT KIND OF STUPID DOCTOR ARE YOU!"
"I'm sorry. We have done all we can. I'll be back soon to check his vitals." The doctor sighed and left the room leaving just the two boys and the one they loved in the room with the boy's mother.
It wasn't until he was halfway down the hallway did Kyle finally make his first move. "This is your fault." He growled quietly.
"What?"
"THIS IS YOUR FAULT!" He screamed and punched his old friend as both went rolling out the room and into the corridor.
Both exchanged punches and blows quickly as they expressed their pain and sorrow in only one way possible... by causing each other pain. "This is your fucking fault Kenny!" Kyle screamed.
"Get out!" Katherine bellowed making both pause as they finally realised that she had witnessed the fight. "Just get out and stay the hell away from my son!"
Kyle didn't know what hurt more... that look of disappointment in her eyes.
Or the fact he hadn't made Kenny hurt more than he did.
