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PS: To add ambiance to this chapter, have Jewel's "Hands" playing in the background.
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Their immediate destination after leaving the mansion was back to the hospital. Their driver drove like a madman, but it seemed not to jarr the boys inside the car. Beaten and bruised from their ordeal and quite exhausted, they felt themselves drifting. Kaoru and Hikaru used one another for pillows. Honey was resting peacefully in Mori's lap, who was nodding off as well. Tamaki was curled up on the floor of the car, sucking his thumb like an infant.
Kyouya had not let go of Haruhi. She had passed out in his arms and he couldn't help but look at the girl as she slept. All new wounds, all new bruises. They hadn't bothered with a covering for her and he could see all her scars, including the re-sliced writing on her stomach. Her skin was caked in dried blood and semen. He guessed that for the week she was gone, Renge had forced her into this.
Renge. How could someone so close to them be this...cruel? How could she think they were the cause of harm after she had done this to her? To take a soul like Haruhi and to beat her down until she was nothing but flesh and bone...It was completely inhuman. He knew Renge acted out of her mind sometimes, but to come to something like this...
Her head tilted towards his chest a bit, listening to his racing heart. It seemed to soothe her as the pained expression on her face faded to a soft slumbering face. Kyouya bit his lip. There was so much here...so much in her...This was almost overwhelming. No, nothing was too much for the Ootori family.
Kyouya took a moment to look at his hands, coated in a bit of blood, knuckles bruised. These were the hands that had saved her life and ended the life of her captor, despite being a friend...He took one of her hands in his. So petite, yet so strong... He trembled softly as he held her closer to him, closing his grey eyes.
He never wanted to let her go again.