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Time: 11:25am
Currently listening to: Killing Joke - The Death and Resurrection Show
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Depressing Motives.
Part 12
Two whole weeks had passed. Two weeks of Reid struggling to move on with his life, to find his place in the new town. Two weeks of Tyler, Caleb and Pogue endlessly searching for the blonde boy missing from their group. They were tired, fighting with each other constantly and breaking apart. Caleb was trying to take control of a situation that was completely over his head. Pogue was constantly reminding them that they had been reckless in jumping on the next available flight without a second thought and Tyler was breaking down by the hour. His emotional stability was crumpling beneath him and he was making no effort to pick it back up. It was obvious to the remaining two boys that he was becoming nothing more than a zombie, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't find his missing link.
"Tyler?" Caleb asked gently, entering his friend's room. He walked as softly as a man with his body build could, but failing to keep his movement undetected. When he received no response, he sighed. Lately he and Pogue had felt like they were walking on egg shells with the boy, like he would break with the slightest added pressure.
"Tyler?" He tried again, a little more forceful than before, but not too much, hoping that another wave of tears wouldn't fall from his eyes.
"I can hear you Caleb, what is it?" Tyler spoke suddenly, his voice startling the other boy in the room to the point of taking a step back. His voice was strong, but quiet, holding a line of anger and a trace of heartache. He sounded worse than he looked, and that was something Caleb didn't think was possible.
Just to look at him, nobody would have guessed that Caleb was just as torn up about the situation as Tyler was. He was cool, calm and collected; not an emotional train wreck or time bomb ready to explode any second. He appeared exactly how people needed him to be. Strong. The leader. Somebody who they could turn to for comfort and protection.
"Reid is using" The boy smiled slightly as the youngest of them grew hopeful, something in his eyes that had been put out the minute Reid walked away from them had been lit again. Was the old Tyler coming back to them? Or was this just a good mask that he had been practising over the last few weeks. He wasn't sure if he knew Tyler anymore. It was almost like a brand new mind had corrupted what used to be his best friends and thrown him out in the cold. Where was Tyler now? Was he asleep inside there somewhere? Would he ever resurface? Who was this new Tyler that had taken the old ones place?
"What are we waiting for?" Tyler asked once he was stood firmly on both his feet, a look of confusion wrote all over his face. His eyes looked directly at Caleb, a burning emotion in there somewhere but Caleb couldn't figure out exactly what it was.
"Well, we have a problem. We know he is using, but we don't have a location. I don't suppose we ever will either. We just need to look, find out if there have been any fights or destruction somewhere around. My guess is that it would be Reid, no doubt he would be staying local to his rage implemented tempter tantrums for lack of a better phrase" Caleb explained, looking as anger, an emotion he would never not be able to figure out, ran across Tyler's face.
"For fuck sake Caleb, what do you want from me? You tell me now, that we can't locate him, after weeks of filling me with hope. This is un-fucking-fair and you know it" Tyler snarled, collapsing back on the bed and running his fingers through his hair. How could Caleb do this to him, now, of all the times, he had to pick now. Why couldn't he have told him before the came here. It wouldn't have made a difference to what Tyler did; he would have come anyway, with or without his friends by his side. But he wished Caleb would have told him this vital piece of information earlier, instead of letting him build his hopes up to this extent.
"Look, Tyler, don't go all bitch on me just because we didn't know. None of us did, so cool your heels and start acting your age. At least he's alive. Now all we need to do it begin looking through news papers and look for something unexplainable" Caleb sighed, running his hand through his hair before turning on his heel and walking out the room, leaving a dumbfounded Tyler on the bed.
"Wait, Caleb! Where are you going?!" Tyler yelled, running out the room in an attempt to catch the eldest of them all.
"To go get the news papers. It won't do any good looking if we have nothing to look at" Was the reply before the door slammed shut.
"Now what do we do?" Tyler asked helplessly while his gaze travelled slowly to the floor.
"We wait for him to get back, then we make coffee, and go for it" Pogue grinned, walking from the bathroom into the front room before putting his hand on the other boys shoulder, hoping that even if it was small, it was some comfort.
"Do you think we'll find him?" Tyler asked, raising his vision to the taller boy at his side.
"Yeah, we will. We just have to keep it together. Just remember, when we find him, no matter how together he looks, on the inside, he'll be torn apart more than all of us three put together" Pogue smiled sadly before dropping his hand and walking towards the kitchen.
Tyler sighed and looked at the ceiling. Would they really find him? He might not even be in London now, he might be somewhere else. He cursed under his breath before following Pogue's direction, towards the kitchen, where they would wait for Caleb to return with what Tyler hoped, would be good news.
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He stormed out the hospital with his left hand wrapped in a bandage. That stupid bastard. He glared at a random person walking the opposite way, passing him. His right hand began to fiddle with the bandage, not hoping to remove it, but it was something to keep his hand busy before it went forward and smacked somebody. His eyes began to turn from blue to black each time he blinked. His anger was boiling and in turn, containing his power was even harder. He wanted to lash out at somebody, have them flying through the air and crash into a solid wall then hear the sound of their body breaking when it landed back to earth. His power rose, his eyes stayed black for longer. He was losing to the addiction. He wanted it, he needed it. He needed to do something with it, he just had to. It was almost eating him from the inside out, like a lion kept inside a cage and now it wanted free. There was no way to contain it. He had to let it out. Before he could fully register what was happening, he was grabbed by the upper arm and shoved against a wall, a hand placed firmly over his mouth.
"Calm the fuck down!" A voice hissed at him before he felt a hand grab his right wrist before he even had the chance to move it.
Within seconds, his eyes turned pitch black again and he attempted to throw them off him. When they didn't move, his eyes widened slightly and his breath got caught in his throat when he was staring into eyes the same colour as his own.
He felt the hand over his mouth move away, allowing him to scream and shout at the people who had him pinned to a wall.
"You…" Reid whispered before his gaze dropped. Of all the things to say, he chose that. He sounded weak, pathetic. How could he have allowed himself to sound so much like his mother?
"Reid, Reid stop, look at me" Caleb spoke, releasing his hold on the blonde's body and nudging Pogue who quickly let go of the right hand.
"I—I, what are you doing here?" Reid asked, power suddenly filling his voice as his gaze flew up and his blue eyes burnt into Caleb's.
"Were here to bring you back home. The real question is what are you doing here?" Caleb grinned, patting Reid's shoulder with his hand and pushing him forward slightly "plus somebody has been a mess without you around".
Tyler. His Tyler was there. In front of him. What happened to him? He wasn't Tyler. He was somebody else. He looked so different, he looked so down. He wasn't the Tyler he remembered.
"Reid?" Tyler whispered, looking at the boy in disbelief. Was it actually him? Was he going to run away again? Was he going to abandon him again? He wouldn't cope a second time.
Without another word, both boys wrapped their arms around each other, clinging onto the other like they were their other half. They were together again, Reid sighed, he would never leave Tyler again. Not if what he was looking at was the result. Where was Rachel? That thought managed to make him pull away from the brunette and begin to look around frantically. They needed to know the truth about her; he couldn't allow her to carry on lying to them all.
"She's not here, Reid" Pogue smiled, knowing full well what the boy was looking for. But he wouldn't tell him why, that was Tyler's story to tell, not his.
"What happened?" Reid asked suddenly, looking at the boys with confusion, his gaze jumping from one to the next.
"She lied. About everything" Tyler whispered after a few minutes of silence. His gaze was on the floor, more out of shame than anything else. He had fallen for her lies, and thought he had fallen from her. But after looking at Reid again, he knew completely where his heart was, he just didn't think that Reid wanted it there.
"I know" Reid sighed, his voice almost silent. Everybody stopped. Nobody knew what to say. He knew. He knew all along that Rachel was lying to them all. Tyler held back tears from his eyes. His best friend knew that Rachel was lying to him, to them all, and he said nothing. He made no indication to knowing such a thing, what kind of a friend was he?
"You knew?" Tyler hissed at him after a while of silence.
"I found out, before I left. I saw her and her mother together" Reid explained quickly, hoping that they would believe him. He needed them to believe him, he needed them around. In such a short period of time, meeting them again, he realised that he did need them, in every way possible. They were his best friends, his brothers; he wouldn't survive properly without them around.
"But, you never said anything…" Caleb stated suddenly, his voice barely above a whisper as he looked at the floor. He couldn't understand it, why didn't he mention anything?
"Would you have believed me? Would you not have presumed I was lying because I missed my best friend? Don't lie, Caleb, we all know that would have been exactly what you would have thought" Reid laughed bitterly while Tyler's accusing gaze softened until it turned to sympathy. To Reid, that was just as bad, if not worse.
"About what you told me…before you left…" Caleb started, not really knowing how to word what he wanted to say.
"Okay, two things. firstly, if we are going to talk about this, then lets go somewhere more private, lets not have our dirty laundry hung out for all to see and secondly, forget about what I told you, its not important" Reid shrugged. He did not want to dwell on such a conversation, it made him feel weak, pathetic, venerable, not things he liked to experience all over again so soon.
"Reid, we know…" Pogue sighed, looking as the blonde's eyes widened slightly at the statement.
"We believe you" Tyler finished off, looking as his best friend visibly relaxed at the knowledge that they weren't going to accuse him of lying.
"When…?" Reid asked, confusion dancing on his face as his gaze jumped from one boy to another quite rapidly.
"Caleb told us, not long after we arrived…" Tyler explained quietly while his vision focused on the ground below. How would Reid react, knowing that they all knew his secret? Would he run away again? No! He couldn't! He wouldn't allow it! He needed him god damn it!
"And you all still came looking for me…" Reid mumbled, it was more or a statement than question. Almost like he had to say it out loud for him to believe it.
"We'd always come looking for the missing link, Reid" Caleb grinned while taking a few steps forward to pat him on the back.
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Two hours later, Reid closed the hotel room door after himself and Tyler had entered the room. They had all agreed to meet at the airport tomorrow morning for their flight back to Ipswich. Caleb and Pogue had gone back to their hotel room, and Tyler had come back with Reid to his, after all, they needed to talk about things.
As soon as Reid turned around to face the other boy in the room, Tyler's voice broke the silence and caused Reid's breath to stop in his throat, "I love you".
"…..Wha?" Reid asked a few seconds later, reality not quite sinking in.
"I love you. I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't say this, but it's true…" Tyler spoke strongly, his voice sounding confident even if physically he looked ready to crumble beneath himself.
Reid couldn't speak. No words came to mind. He loved him back, of that he held no doubt, but the words didn't seem to form vocally. He saw Tyler's face fall, sadness sweeping over his features. He hated him with that look, so he did the only thing he could think of to do. Tyler felt Reid's lips upon his own, startling him to the point of him nearly loosing his balance had Reid not grabbed a hold of him by his waist.
"I love you, too" Reid grinned, resting his forehead against Tyler's.
"I love you more"
"Not possible" Reid grinned before Tyler shut him up with his own lips.
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"Home sweet home" Reid smirked as the four of them walked out of the terminal, into the main area of the airport. Tyler's hand suddenly fell into the blonde's to which he received a squeeze and a quick kiss.
"I still
can't get over you two, I mean; it doesn't freak me out in that
sense, but who would have thought, seriously" Caleb laughed
slightly before he stopped in his tracks, Pogue doing the same quite
quickly, their gazes falling upon the same thing.
Reid and Tyler
were too engrossed to realise that the other two members of their
group had stopped, but suddenly they stopped too when they saw what
had caught the other boys attention sooner.
"Tyler, I'm three and a half months pregnant…"
And this is where I leave you all I really am getting into this story again, and so it is safe to say, in bold underlined words:
I HAVE FALLEN BACK IN LOVE WITH THIS STORY!!
Yes, no joke, I am back in love, so expect chapter 13 in the next few days, three at most. I'm on a role here haha. And see! Told you all I had great plans for this story! This is where the story really unfolds and the drama REALLY starts. It's going to be one hell of a ride, so ladies and gentlemen, children and elderly, psycho and murderer, buckle your seatbelts and be prepared for the ride of your life.
O.o sorry, I've just always wanted to say that, and now seems appropriate. Please do review for two reasons. Firstly, it lets me know what you guys like and what you don't like, and secondly, my ego doesn't complain :D
Till chapter 13 xxx
