Pavi had quite honestly received worse injuries from Luigi as a child, he was feeling better and back on his feet within a day and a half. In short it had looked much worse than it actually was. Graverobber was glad Pavi wasn't hurt too seriously because while Graverobber had been staying to make sure Pavi was okay, Pavi had reminded him almost every hour on the hour that he blamed him entirely for the whole thing and that if he had just admitted his feelings when Pavi had asked, the whole incident could have been avoided. If it had been anyone else, Graverobber would have said 'fuck this' and walked out, but no, he had feelings for Pavi now and so he just had to deal with it, but that didn't mean he took the blame quietly, he retorted that it was actually Pavi's fault for getting so offended over something that wasn't even a rejection and storming out on a Zydrate trip. Whoever one chose to believe, one thing was obvious, they both couldn't stay mad at each other for too long, even when the argument was so annoying that Graverobber wished Pavi was on life support so he could pull the plug on him and Pavi wished he was strong enough to get up and shove Graverobber out the window.
Despite the occasional homicidal thought towards Pavi, Graverobber was glad the other man was alright. He wondered though if there was any psychological damage, Pavi seemed not to really be fazed at all by what had happened. "Pavi….You were raped before I found you in the alleyway, weren't you?"
"Yes-a…" He replied, wincing a little, he could barely remember it because of the Zydrate he'd been hopped up on at the time.
"You…don't seem to be reacting the way most people do…See…from what I've seen, most people kind of either collapse into themselves or freak out…You've done neither. In fact, you haven't even gotten upset about it." Graverobber said.
"It's-a no worse than what-a Luigi's done to me in-a the past." Pavi shrugged.
"Oh…" Graverobber winced at the thought of that. "I'm….well, I'm sorry that…er…happened to you."
"It-a doesn't hurt so bad-a now that I've-a actually beaten the shit out of-a Luigi." Pavi grinned. "It's-a what they call-a 'closure'"
"I see… Well, Pavi, I think it's time I stopped slowly killing you…You've had enough shit to deal with and now this…" Graverobber decided. "I'm not going to sell you Zydrate anymore."
"Wait-a…What!?" Pavi gasped, sitting up in the bed and glaring. "No! You can't-a do that! I need-a it!"
"I don't care. It almost got you killed; I can't be responsible for you getting hurt anymore. I…I can't believe I'm saying this, but I can't lose you."
Pavi's eyes widened and he blushed beneath his mask. "You really mean-a that?" Pavi got up out of the bed now that he was able to and strode over to Graverobber, studying his face up close as though trying to tell if he was messing with him. Graverobber grabbed Pavi's shoulders and held him at an arm's length, looking at him intently.
"Yes, unbelievable as it seems, yes I do mean that." Graverobber smiled a somewhat awkward smile.
"Graves…" Pavi said softly, moving closer to Graverobber and kissing him passionately on the lips. Most people would find it odd to be kissed by two sets of lips at once, but Graverobber had come to enjoy it. He held Pavi close to him with one arm around his waist and the other around his shoulder with his hand grasping the back of Pavi's head. Pavi let his own arms slip up around Graverobber's shoulders. The hand that had been on Pavi's hip slipped into his pants, rubbing gently. As Graverobber did that, Pavi reached down to undo Graverobber's pants. When Graverobber's pants were unbuttoned and unzipped, he and Pavi broke away from their kiss, a small string of saliva still connecting their tongues. "You want-a to have some fun right-a here in the hospital room?" He asked with a coy grin.
"Ahem!" Came a voice from the doorway, both Pavi and Graverobber turned to look and see who it was, both their jaws dropped when they saw Rotti standing there, glaring
"Oh fuck." Graverobber cursed.
"What are you two doing!?" Rotti asked angrily. It was a rhetorical question; he knew exactly what the two of them were doing. He kept looking at them as though he didn't believe his eyes.
"Um…."Pavi struggled to come up with a way to pass this off as something completely innocent.
"Paviche! What did I tell you about this…this…person." Rotti's face was red with rage.
"Nothing really, you just-a said you didn't like-a him and he was-a corrupting me and Amber" Pavi replied. His dark eyes cast downward.
"I'll make this very clear to you…" Rotti said, rounding on Graverobber. "If I EVER catch you with my son OR my daughter, I will personally see to it that your organs are stocked in my warehouse with a Geneco barcode slapped across them. Do you understand, boy!?" Rotti asked, glaring coldly as he grabbed Graverobber by the front of the shirt and pulled him so he was face to face with him.
"Yes, I understand." Graverobber replied, he was smirking though and that smirk never left his face. If Rotti thought he could keep Graverobber from Pavi, he was insane.
"Papa! Leave-a him alone!" Pavi demanded. However, instead of leaving him alone, Rotti threw Graverobber out of the room, literally grabbing him by the neck and tossing him out.
"You know-a if not for him, I'd-a be dead." Pavi said coldly and angrily to his father.
"If not for him you wouldn't have gotten into that situation, Paviche." Rotti replied coldly. "He doesn't care about you all he wants to do is sell you his drug, use you and toss you aside."
"You're-a wrong, papa." Pavi said, turning and walking out of the hospital room. He thought about his father's words and realized the old man was speaking out of hurt, he didn't understand love, especially after how Marni walked out on him. In Pavi's mind, Rotti also cared about no one's happiness but his own. Pavi remembered how he'd acted at Marni's wedding.
It was the day of Marni's wedding, the happiest day of her life. Marni was being dressed in her wedding gown by her mother and bridesmaids and Nathan was trying to talk politely to the Largo men, two of whom seemed to want him to die on the spot. Luigi commented that Marni was probably…unclean…if Nathan caught his drift. Rotti remained cold and business like while Nathan told him he hoped there were no hard feelings about Marni's decision. Then he turned to Pavi. Pavi had only seen Nathan before, never met him.
"And you must be Paviche." Nathan smiled. "Marni's told me so much about you; it's a pleasure to meet you in person. You're not around your father's office as much as your brother, are you?"
"No, mister-a Wallace, I don't like-a it there, much too much stress-a." Pavi laughed as he shook Nathan's hand. On the one hand, he didn't like Nathan for stealing away Marni, but on the other hand he made Marni so happy that Pavi couldn't possibly hold too much of a grudge against him.
"Well, Marni thinks you're an amazing kid, so you must be one." Nathan smiled warmly. "I'll do my best to make her the happiest woman in the world and you're welcome to visit us any time because you make her happy."
"Thank-a you, Mister Wallace." Pavi smiled brightly. Good. He'd still get to see Marni.
"Please, Paviche, call me Nathan." Nathan smiled.
"Then-a please, Nathan, call-a me Pavi." Pavi smiled back.
The wedding began and Pavi got a seat in the second row with his own family. Carmella wasn't sitting with them because Marni had asked her to be the flower girl, so little Mellie walked down the aisle sprinkling rose petals all over the floor as Marni walked down the aisle with her father. When she came to the second row she gave a warm smile in Pavi's direction and he felt like his heart would implode right then and there.
Although Pavi knew Nathan was the one who made Marni happiest, Pavi couldn't help but imagine himself in Nathan's place, marrying his beloved Marni. As soon as the vows were over, the happy couple kissed and then left the church together for their white limousine (provided by Geneco) and rode off towards the reception held at the nicest place in the city (also provided by Geneco).
During the reception, Marni spent most of her time with Nathan but near the end, she walked over to Pavi, hugged him and said "One day, Pavi, you'll find someone who makes you as happy as Nathan makes me…Don't listen to your dad when he tells you it's wrong to do things before your married, sometimes you need to shop around a little before you find the right fit. Of course, I don't mean just go with anyone, but if you really like someone, give them the chance they deserve, that's what I did for Nathan and look where I am now!"
"Thanks-a, mama Marni, I'm-a glad you're so happy." Pavi smiled up at Marni
Well, Pavi felt like he'd found his perfect fit and here was his father, as Marni predicted, trying to keep him from what he considered to be his soul mate. Pavi looked through the hospital for Graverobber and finally found him on the bottom floor walking out of the building. "I won't-a let my father come-a between us." Pavi said, walking up next to Graverobber. "We'll-a be together, just wait."
"I know, Pavi." Graverobber smiled. "I know we will never be the same."