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Bryan sat in a dark room. Not that he'd know. Potentially temporary blindness rendered it a moot point anyways. What was important was what he was thinking about. He was thinking about his life. Actually he was feeling rather existential. It was a new emotional and personal depth he had reached and he couldn't help but feel rather pleased with himself.

That aside, he had managed to sum up his life through a short list of rather crappy events.

-Abandoned by parents

-Taken into the abbey and turned into mad super soldier (which was just one giant cluster fuck)

-Freed! (By Tyson which made the whole event even more traumatic)

-Make giant emotional breakthrough and get girlfriend (Boom bitches)

-Fuck up everything and go blind (AGAIN)

Overall his life was a pretty steady stream of suckage. He frowned deeply at the mental list that was floating around in his mind's eye. He'd been editing this list for a few hours in between bouts of kicking whatever he walked into and cuddle time with The Captain (because cuddle time makes everything better) despite the outrageous amount of slobber.

He could hear the others shuffling around the hotel suite. The new hotel suite, that is, because the other one hadn't been built to hold so much crazy. They honestly hadn't meant to do it. It just sort of slipped out in a horrendously violent and unexpected manner. Anyone could see it coming if they knew what to look for. Problem was no one knew.

People didn't see the massive chunk the breakup had taken out of Bryan's self-esteem, confidence and anything else self-orientated he could think of, or how his failure had bled into the rest of the team (because they were all co-dependent screw ups). It was as if they all silently agreed that if he couldn't succeed at becoming a normal teenager then none of them could so they might as well get a head start on the inevitable backslide into insanity.

He frowned so hard he felt his face might fold in on itself. They were well on their way to the loony bin. Spencer had sailed straight past clingy and gone into complete co-dependency. Tala was heading towards anorexia whilst Kai was all aboard the coo coo train and riding it all the way to crazy town (coping mechanisms FTW).

Scrubbing a rough hand over his face, Bryan leant forward and sighed. They were fucked and he didn't know how to fix it.

He thought back to his conversation with Miriam a couple days earlier. She'd said everyone thought Mariah and he should get back together. He wanted it too. He'd wanted to go find her and run into the sunset like in the movies. But he also wanted her to be happy. And she was with Richard (Roy? Roger? Who cared), he was…alright, sane at the very least and had his full range of vision, but was she happy with him? Then there was Bryan, half mad and now blind and he knew she had been happy, that he could make her happy.

He loved her and surely that meant that- wait, holy shit, he loved her. That was a breakthrough he wasn't expecting. He suddenly didn't care that he was mad or blind. He honest to goodness loved her which meant he simply didn't care about any of that.

"I love her!" Bryan yelled out.

"That's nice" was Tala's only remark from somewhere in the suite.

"I need to find her" he yelled again, surging up from his seat and launching himself forward (straight into a wall).

"I'm noticing a very linear thought pattern here" Tala said. His voice was drifting closer.

"Get me my stick!" Bryan yelled, cradling his head and a near maniacal smile stretched across his face.

"Of course, my liege," Tala drawled as he placed the cane in Bryan's hand and steered him towards the door. "You want any help, since you know, you don't want anyone knowing about the whole blind thing."

"Just got kicked in the nuts by love, dude. My pride over the whole blind thing is so low on my priorities right now" said Bryan. He was already wandering off down the hall.

"Elevator is the other way, dumb ass"

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She was so, so…she didn't know what. There was this horrible feeling crushing her chest and pressing down in her stomach all at the same time. She really wanted to throw up. Or smack the blue haired tart in the face.

That's mean, she thought to herself but quickly found she didn't care. It wasn't until she almost bowled over Enrique that she realised she was even walking. And sobbing. There was a lot of sobbing. It was really kind of gross and she looked like a puffer fish. On drugs (she hadn't seen her reflection but she knew it). Honestly she felt like one too.

And then she saw her. Standing in the hall looking all nonchalant and… and if only her brain would work so she could think up mean nasty things to say.

"Miriam!" she hissed in the friendliest way possible.

"Mariah…" Miriam said slowly. She looked around uncertainly only to find that they were almost completely alone in the corridor. Almost meaning Kenny was milling around the other end but he didn't really count.

"Are you happy?" Mariah seethed. A tiny sane part of her brain screamed at her to shut up. "Because you look happy now that you're all chummy with Bryan. That must be nice." She felt mad, the crazy kind, and from the way Miriam was looking at her she looked it too.

Shut up, shut up, shut up

"I'm sorry, but, the hell?" Miriam said. The girl packed an amazing amount of sass into one sentence.

"I saw you. Outside the hotel getting all snuggly" she continued. "Who do you think you are?"

Oh dear sweet Jesus, shut up

"Who do I think I am? You aren't his girlfriend anymore. What right do you have? And we weren't getting snuggly. He couldn't see properly so I helped him inside" Miriam bit out, complete with finger snaps.

And just like that all the anger flew out of her and she was left with that horrible weight in her gut. And she was sobbing again.

"I think," Miriam said slowly, "I think that you may have some unresolved issues here and maybe some feelings that I frankly don't want to hear about, but you do realize-"

"But what am I meant to do?" More sobbing and a very ungraceful snort which made both girls scrunch up their faces in disgust. "We broke up and I met Rick and things were nice but then I see 'sareallyniceguybutIcan'"

Shut up, pleeeeease shut up. You sound like a bad teenage romance drama.

"Okay, I don't know exactly what you said but I heard a lot of feelings in there, precisely the ones I didn't want to hear about. But continuing with what I was trying to say before you interrupted me," Miriam said as she tried to scoot around the sobbing girl towards the elevator but found herself ensnared in Mariah's arms. "Please, dear God, let go of me!"

ITS TOO LATE TO TURN BACK, THIS SHIP IS GOING DOWN AND I'LL TAKE EVERYONE WITH ME

"Butwhatamigoningtodo? Imsoconfusedand I, I, I- " Mariah was brought to a snuffling halt when Miriam slapped a hand across her mouth. It wasn't until she felt the moisture, from what she prayed were tears, did she regret this action.

"I swear you and him are the only ones who didn't see it. Let me spell it out, you like Rick but not the same way you like Bry-"

"Love!" Mariah blurted out before she could stop herself. The two girls stared at each other a moment. It was all suddenly serene and clear. Miriam half expected small animals to appear and to break out into song.

"There we go. You love him. Now go get him, lord knows that's what everyone has been thinking" Miriam said with a light punch on the arm.

"What about Rick? Oh no. I don't want to hurt him" Mariah said, her serenity slipping away.

"You think he'd rather stay with you when you love someone else? Just go find Bryan. Tell him all your mushy feelings and worry about Rick later" the taller girl urged. She gave a sudden twist and freed herself from Mariah's grip and launched at the elevator. The doors pinged open and she hurled Mariah in. "Find him. Tell him you love him. Break up with Rick, he's a big boy who's used to rejection, he'll survive."

"You're like a fairy godmother" Mariah said.

"If I were your fairy godmother I'd fix your hair and get all the snot off your face" Mariam snipped back. Mariah opened her mouth to yell at her but the doors closed.

Line Breaky break time.

In hindsight, he probably should have brought Tala along with him. Bryan had already bumbled his way to the White Tigers suite only to find it completely deserted. He knew this because no one attacked him after he forced the door open (nothing says I love you like breaking down the door to your hotel room). Now he was left to wander around the hotel trying to figure out his next move.

"Bryan! Hey, buddy! We were thinking of going to visit Kai! Which room are you guys in now? What are you looking at? What's with the cane?"

Bryan whipped out the cane and smacked the speaker over the head.

"Inside voices, Tyson, inside voices. Have you seen Mariah?" Bryan asked quickly.

"Ouch! What the hell dude? Did you mug a blind guy or something? And yeah, she came storming through the lobby a moment ago. Damn that stings, did you have to hit me so hard?" Tyson whined.

"Did she say where she was going?" Bryan asked, losing patience.

"Mariah? No. Dude, are you okay. Your eyes are all dilated and weird looking…" he trailed off.

"Wave your hand in my face and I'll stick the cane up your ass and use you as a puppet," Bryan seethed before the other boy could even raise his hand. "Now just tell me where Mariah went."

"You trying to find Mariah?" said a girl's voice. Miriam. Finally someone helpful.

"Yes" Bryan said, turning towards the sound of her voice. "You know where she went?"

"Your blind" Tyson said in disbelief. It was at that moment that everyone else in the lobby decided to go completely silent.

"Tyson you truly do have spectacular timing," Bryan sighed. "Miriam. Mariah, now please?"

"WHY ARE YOU LOOKING FOR HER?" roared another voice. Brilliant, Bryan thought to himself.

"He's not looking for anything, he's blind" Tyson said unhelpfully.

"Wait, what?" Rick paused a moment before realizing he didn't care. "Never mind, what do you want with My Girlfriend?"

"To tell her I love her. Now can you piss off so I can go find her?" Bryan wanted nothing more than to punch Rick in the face. He then proceeded to do so. Bryan almost missed but had enough force behind him that it didn't really matter. Rick still hit the floor like a ton of bricks.

"Miriam, help me find Mariah, preferably before Ryan gets back up" he said a bit desperately. She nodded her head before realizing he couldn't see it and quickly agreed.

Line break, oh yeah, break it down.

Mariah ran down the hallway and slammed into the door before she could stop herself. It swung open so fast she fell straight through the doorway and landed face first on the floor.

"Did you find her? Wait, you're not Bryan," Tala frowned. "He's looking for you."

"Really?" Mariah said hopefully whilst simultaneously trying to keep The Captain from smothering her. "I'm looking for him too. I need him to know that I- "

"Love him?" Tala cut in. "Well that's a nice little coincidence"

"Wait, are you saying he said he loves me too?" Mariah said, grabbing Tala's hands and doing an odd bouncing up and down thing which Tala joined in with.

"Yes. Now. Let. Me. Go. So. We. Can. Stop. Bouncing" he said between jumps. She quickly let his hands drop but continued to bounce on her own. She noted how thin he looked. She'd have to feed him once she got everything sorted out with Bryan.

"Where is he now? Is he here?" Mariah asked, her head swooping around in an oddly owl-like fashion.

"No he's out there looking for you. He's said he was going to your hotel room but he's probably in the lobby by now" Tala had barely got the words out of his mouth before she bolted down the hallway towards the elevator once again.

Line Break time again

"Mariah!" both Bryan and Miriam yelled. They jogged towards the Blitzkrieg Boys suite.

"You just missed her," Tala yelled from the doorway. "She went back down to the lobby so she can find you and tell you she loves you."

Bryan gave a cry of both frustration and joy before turning back towards the elevator.

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"BRYAN!" she yelled as she stepped out of the lift. She swivelled around desperately trying to find him but was greeted with a very different sight.

Rick was lying on the ground near the elevator with a small crowd and a paramedic huddled around him. There was an unbelievable amount of chatter filling the large room. She heard both Bryan and Rick's names being mentioned with unnerving frequency.

"MARIAH!" Tyson screamed, gaining the full attention of everyone within the immediate vicinity.

"What…what happened?" Mariah asked slightly taken aback but still hunting for Bryan's face in the crowd.

Tyson went to open his mouth before Hilary smacked her hand across his mouth and proceeded to very quietly and discreetly inform Mariah about what had happened moments earlier. From the looks the crowd was giving her they already knew everything but Mariah still appreciated her friend's discretion.

"He's blind?" she whispered in disbelief. The elevator doors pinged open behind her. She knew it was him before she turned around. "YOU'RE BLIND?"

"I love you too" Bryan said dryly.

"Miriam, out!" Mariah yelled as she stomped into the elevator and pushed a number at random. The other girl was more than happy to comply. Once they were up several floors Mariah slammed on the emergency stop button and the lift shudder to a stop.

"You're blind" she repeated, quieter, calmer this time.

"Yeah, it's kind of old news but I guess you want an explanation" Bryan sighed. "In short, mad scientists, illegal experiments, super vision and blindness. Overall fun times."

She couldn't help but smile at his nonchalance. "I love you." She said.

"I know, Tala told me," he smiled. "I love you too."

"I know," she giggled. "Tala told me."

"Well he just went and ruined that surprise" Bryan said. He reached out a hand to her. He didn't know exactly where her face was but she met him halfway and pressed her cheek against the palm of his hand.

"I think he has enough on his plate to worry about. You all do. Maybe now you can focus on that" she said, the smile fading from her face a little. "Is this my fault? Because we broke up? You guys all seemed to fall apart after that."

"It was my fault for letting you go…dear god did I just say that?" Bryan scrunched his face up in disgust.

"I feel like I walked into the dairy isle it was that cheesy" Mariah agreed. She reached out her hands to his face and smoothed out the wrinkles. She smiled again.

"I'm blind" he said, as if her knowing would make a difference.

"I still have a boyfriend unconscious in the lobby" she replied. "But I think we can handle both of those."

END.

You may ask why? After three years. Why? Damned if I know. Sorry if the beginning is a giant repetition of anything I wrote in previous chapters. What would long time readers know? It's been three years. So yeah that's it. It may be bad and not flow properly but its 3 in the morning and my brain hurts. BYE BYE.