Since it was getting colder out T.J. wanted to stay at the Cabin a few more times before winter came around and showed its ugly face. So it was another trip to the cabin by the lake, T.J. never told his parents about the cabin events in earlier months , so he was allowed to go again with his group of friends. I say group as Lawsons gang and T.J's sort of just merged together. The two groups just always seemed to hang out now, lunch, after school to play sports, bug each other (for those who had part time jobs) at their work, just normal teenager stuff.
Jump to T.J. and Lawson sitting in the older teen's car, driving to Vince's house to go get him and his shit so they could go to the next house and so on. As T.J. and Lawson Drove they passed the time by talking about stuff, working in a fast food joint let Lawson hear about stuff from other schools.
"So I heard that some kids from apple lane high school have some crazy shit going on, I was told by my coworker that a bunch of the guys have come out as getting sexually assaulted by a group of the teachers there."
T.J's head whipped to look at the other's face, as T.J. had been staring out the passenger side window for a time, so hearing this made his attention spar quickly.
"A-Are they okay?"
"Well, as okay as they could be, or out of what I have been told, which is not much," he turned down a road and continued ,"Out of what I can gather it's going to be on the news soon." He glanced over to T.J.
T.J. stared up at the other while listening to him talk, ' oh fuck, this is happening to others, not just me, this is not good, but what the hell can I do?' T.J. turned back to the passenger window, his body tensed up, but his attention was pulled away.
"BABE," Lawson loudly said "are you okay?, you don't look to good, and you seemed to space out, are you sure you want to go this long weekend?" Apparently Lawson had said his name at least two times and babe four before getting the attention he was requesting.
"YEAH!, yeah…. I'm fine!, really I am"He gave a warm smile and then laughed when he felt Moose try to break free from the back seat area into the front and onto his lap. "Moose!, you are not a lap dog!, come on!" T.J. burst out laughing as he held a very large pit-bull on his lap without getting a paw to the dick.
Lawson chuckled, but he was still worried for the other, glancing over a few more times, but let it go when he saw his small boyfriend was now just occupied with the wrinkles and folds on poor Mooses face, though Moose seemed to not mind one bit at this time.
Lawson pulled into the driveway where Vince stood, bag slung over his shoulder and pillow + sleeping bag under his other.
T.J. rolled down the window before asking, "What's with the sleeping bag and pillow?
"The couch made my back sore for the rest of the fucking week." he opened the back, only after placing the sleeping bag and pillow down to give Moose some head pats and ear scratches. Vince tossed his stuff into the back and slid onto the seat. Vince turned his face to see a Moose in front of him, or at least a smiling dog with his tongue lolling out of his mouth and looking to him for more loving.
Vince snickered before reaching out and gave him some more pets, then having to buckle up into the seat and get driven down to the others homes so they could also get picked up.
"Yo Vince, you hear about the game cancellation?," Lawson glanced back in the rear view mirror to see if he got the males attention.
"Yeah, but everyone is confused on why-do you know why they did it?" he scooted up closer to the edge of his seat, that is as best he could being buckled down but the seat belt and all.
"Out of what I know, a group of the teachers sexually assaulted a majority of the players."
"Oh sweet Jesus, what the hell." He leaned back into the seat, this was a shock to him.
Each time a new friend was picked up this was told to them, each one had a similar reaction, but nothing like T.J's so this made Lawson start to worry, but T.J. had not talked to him about anything, so it should be just fine, right? T.J. seemed alright enough.
T.J. was the first one to hop out of the car and let Moose out at the same time, everyone else slowly moved to get their things out and into the house, Moose was free to sniff around since he never went far from T.J. anyway. T.J. made his way to the Drivers side just like the last time they had come here.
T.J. leaned on the driver's side once more, a smile on his face and eyes soft, "Come back quickly, yeah?"
This request was meet by lips to his own, pulling back to speak," I'll try as hard as I can to get my slow fucking friends to get inside the car, okay?" he chuckled, but it stopped, he needed to ask. "Hey babe?"
"What is it Lawson?"
"Are you okay?, I noticed the way you reacted when I brought up the information about the stuff, is something going on?, you know if there way you can always tell me, we are boyfriends after all, what good would I be if I never listened?"
T.J. blinked, now that he thought of it he had reacted differently. "it's just a shock, I also was thinking about the night the house was broken into and some of my…. Well my stuff was taken, what if that was the same teachers?, or someone else they have not caught yet?, anyway it's nothing to worry about, really." he smiled and gave the other some more kisses, pushing himself off the driver side door. "Now go and get everyone else, I'll be waiting."
Lawson sighed when he was answered but rolled with it, the second part he could understand, that could be freaky to think of. "okay, I'll see you in a little bit than." he pulled back inside the car and looked back, watching where he was driving and pulling out to be back later.
Moose looked up at T.J. smile and butt wagging.
"Come on buddy, let's go in before Vince calls the master bedroom his." he started walking to the porch, Moose trotting along next to him. Lucky for T.J. Vince only realized what he could have done when he saw T.J. walk in, letting out a loud curse in frustration.
"To late!, all mine now!" T.J. had won, this made him happy, and also brought him off those thoughts he was having.
T.J. was standing on the porch, his arms wrapped around himself as he watched, Moose was sniffing around the yard again and T.J. did not feel right just leaving him alone. There was a honk sound and T.J. knew, it was Lawson, it just sounded cocky.
Moose barked and ran over to the car then along side it, waiting for Lawson to step out before whining and wanting love from him. Lawson was easily able to pick up Moose, and carried him to the porch, setting him down, as he stood up he gave T.J. a soft peck to the lips"Told you I would be back as soon as I could make it Babe." chuckle left his lips seeing the other with a dorky smile, because of him!
"Where the hell are you going this late?" Vince has noticed T.J. was over by the door with Moose, T.J. was pulling shoes on, it was almost 11.
"I'm taking Moose on a walk, what the hell does it look like I'm doing?"He cocked an eyebrow in confusion.
"Well it's like, dark out, and it's in the forest, do you really think that's a good idea?"
T.J. just shrugged back to the other, he noticed a groan come from the couch and looked to the one who made the sound, it was Lawson who looked unhappy to be getting up.
"No way am I letting you go out at this time into the fucking forest." he started to pull his own shoes and coat on.
"It's just a wal-" T.J. was cut off, and what came next both made him upset but more lovey dovey fuzzy.
"In the forest, in the dark, with the knowledge that some fucking pedophile could be stalking through the woods because it's said that there is a dark cult attached to them."
It was silent, a pin could be heard dropping if someone had done it.
Lawson reached over T.J. and pushed the door open. "Let's make the walk quick."
T.J. just turned and moved to step outside, waiting on the porch for Lawson to follow along, he watched the other close the door, then turn to him and wrap his arm around him.
"Look, I did not want to freak you out, but I really don't feel okay letting you go out here alone."He looked the other in his eyes, a small smile, a caring smile, something that just wanted to protect the one he loved.
T.J. let out a sigh and leaned into Lawson, the sigh going into the other's chest. "I'm glad you want me safe, but you could have been a little less pushy about it, come on" He pushed himself off the lanky man and started to walk, Moose trotting along with his leash on.
The forest was different at night, and in summer. It always seemed so warm and magical, but right now T.J. was spooked if not scared of the woods around him, he should have walked Moose earlier.
The walk was going fine, they were making good time and Nothing had happened thus far.
A snap behind them made T.J. whip his head and body around, looking for the sound in the dark, but nothing seemed to be there, he must just be hearing things.
"Babe, you okay?" Lawson questioned, he turned back to look at what T.J. was up to. Moose doing the same.
"...Nothing, guess I just was hearing things, come on." he quickened his steps now, "I just want to get inside now." he pouted to hurry the two up, it worked on Lawson, I think Moose was just ready to get inside on his own at this Point.
They survived being able to get back to the cabin, thank god for that one. T.J. un-clipped the leash from Mooses collar before getting his own coat and shoes off, turning to the door and locking it up, double doing it because of nerves. T. a kiss to his neck, long arms around his body, pulling him in.
"It's fine, come on, it's late, let's head off to bed."
Everyone else had already settled in for the night to T.J. agreed and let Lawson lead him off to the master bedroom, T.J. changed in the bathroom, looking at himself, hair was longer, he could see stretch marks on his stomach and how squishy he was. 'I need to start working out more or something…' he then shook his head, not his thoughts.
T.J. walked out and crawled into the bed, no arguing about who was little or big spoon. Moose was little little spoon, T.J. was little spoon and Lawson was big spoon, the perfect fit for the bed.
T.J. looked at the clock when he woke up, it was a little bit before 3 AM, why the hell where the guys in the hallway in front of the master bedroom at 3 AM? T.J. was able to shuffle himself out from the two boys, he grabbed a sweater and pulled it on, he opened the door, eyes narrowed in the dark, the group of at least 4 or more teen guys and 2 girls swiftly pushed their way into the bedroom.
"Oh gee, thanks for knocking…" he sighed and closed the door, rubbing the sleep from the corner of his eyes before asking,"Okay, what the hell is going on?, why are you in my room at 3 in the fucking Morning?"
"Sounds from the basement, it scared the shit out of us." Well at least Mikey was honest.
"Okay, did any of you think it might just be a mouse or something?" he looked up in a half awake state, Lawson was now up and not a happy camper.
"To big, at least the size of Gus, if not bigger." Okay that made T.J. confused, Gus was fucking huge, but then again that brought another question to him.
"Okay, so did anyone lock up everything else before they went to bed?" this was a big stupid to ask but T.J. has had bad experiences with not knowing things had or had not been locked.
They all agreed they had made sure things had been locked up, so this only left one option.
The whatever had been waiting till night to come out.
"Okay, stay here." he commented and walked to the bed, crouching down and digging around, he reached around till he found what he wanted, a metal baseball bat.
"Where the hell do you think you are going?"Vince questioned bluntly.
"To go see what the hell is so big in my cabin," he shrugged and spun the metal baseball bat in his hand.
"Oh no you don't, not in boxers an a fucking Sweater you are not," Lawson protested.
"Well to bad, I'll yell if I'm in trouble, and if yell call the police, do it. You have to run to the kitchen but do it if cell phones won't work.." T.J. may be short but as said, he was built like a brick wall, heavy and strong.
"You are no-" Lawson was taken aback by this response that interrupted him.
"I protect my friends and family, not the other way around" he spun the bat again and made it to the door, opening it and let himself out into the hall, he could hear the sounds from down the stairs, they seemed to be getting closer.
'Shit'
T.J. slid himself to the side, and listened, slowing his breath down, waiting for whatever was coming.
The steps up the stairs creaked softly, slow and did their best to not make that much sound. T.J. could hear it, that and his heart pounding deep inside his chest.
T.J. saw a huge fucking figure in the dark, Adrenalin being his biggest push to fucking whale on whoever that was as hard as he could, he got to guy in the gut and made him fly back down the stairs, thudding and crashing into things as he did.
T.J. did his best to scramble down the stairs while he could hear his friends yelling from the master bedroom.
Everything else for a while was a blur, all he could remember was seeing some broken bones and blood.
T.J. was sitting on the back of an ambulance, head pounding, his parents had been called and they drove down as fast as they could.
"T.J., you are such a fucking dumb man." Lawson pulled him in close, T.J. shook into the other's hug and sighed, a long and heavy one, grabbing onto the other's shirt.
Turns out this guy had been wanted for murder of many other teens in other places around the state. Once again T.J. was in the news for saving his friends and for stopping a fucking teen murderer.
The long weekend at the cabin was cut short, but since no one was hurt they were allowed to go home. T.J. and the whole group went to his house and just slept in the living room, waking up at 12 to some brunch made by Vince.
Hope you guys enjoy this long ass chapter, took me like a few hours or whatever, more frequent updates are going to be a thing, so just wait and see. :3