Chapter 17

June 25th 2012 – Doctor Fronz P.O.V

Just over a month ago the board were given their final evidence that they need to help them make their decision on whether or not these hybrids I have in my care can be released into a home where they are independent. George and Danny went on a huge date day yesterday as I wanted to give them a piece of what is to come if they do get released from the hell hole. I swear this place should just be abandoned and left for the paranormal guys to come and investigate. Especially now that we have a good amount of evidence to believe that Claudia only affects Danny while he is here and he's not affected anywhere else he has ever been apart from the hospital when he was attacked. I have to leave the lads I have come to love for the day while I go to the meeting and discover what it is the board has to say.

I have my suit on and I have all my files and I am ready to head to the meeting. I didn't go into the hospital this morning to see the boys, but I told them that I would come as soon as I know what the outcome is. I even have a few pages on research into a secluded beach house which would happily accommodate the 6 males if they leave which is the ideal house for them. I have taken into account their desires as well as what would be best for them in terms of their wellbeing and getting them settled. The beach house is a perfect choice because they will be far away from people and they can get used to being free without fear of being revealed. It is hard for them to get used to wearing beanies and hats to cover their ears outdoors when they haven't done so for so long.

"Good morning everyone, as you know the purpose of this meeting is to discuss what our plans are for the group of hybrids currently under the management of the wonderful Doctor Fronz at the Linda Vista Community Hospital in Los Angeles," the leader of the board says when the meeting starts. Then he goes into detail about what the condition was like for the 6 males before we had intervened. There were some new people who were going to help make the decision and the details were pretty rough for them to deal with. "Right Doctor Fronz, why don't you tell us about the progress these young men have made while you have been with them," the board leader tells me, and I quickly flip to my notes where I have what progress each male has made.

"They have all made incredible progress since we first intervened. They have all earned their high school diplomas as well as made excellent progress towards their independent living skills. George who is the eldest of the six has made great progress in his anger management and has more respect for the doctors than he did before. Then there is Jorel who is George's twin brother who has been making great progress with his emotions and his depression. Next is Matthew who has been showing more confidence then when I first met him. Then there is Dylan who has made great progress in a lot of areas, but he does still need to work on realising that one of the other lads is safe and hasn't past away. Jordon is doing great and he has excelled in a lot of areas. Finally there is young Daniel who has probably made the most progress in terms of his recovery and how he has adapted to us being involved and getting him reunited with the other guys," I tell them.

There was a lot more I could say on Danny than I had on the other 5 as the levels of abuse definitely varied and as soon as we started interacting with them and actually treating them like they were people who needed the care and attention that they weren't getting before. There weren't even mentally ill before they arrived, but they have all mostly overcome their problems. Since their problems originated in the hospital it would probably be better for them to leave the hospital to continue their recovery, but I don't have the power to make that decision. I did however go into as much detail as I could about each male and what they went through. I saved Danny's for last because bloody hell has that dude gone through hell and then some.

Especially that moment where he was found when they removed his tail and he was comatose for three weeks after that. George was really struggling to cope with what happened to Danny that day and took it hard personally. I love the soulmate bond that those two have over each other. They aren't separated often, but when they are they get the tightest hugs from each other when they do return. I didn't disclose their romantic relationship because it is not something which we feel that the board needs to know because once this whole thing is over there are not going to see these guys again after the twelve month mark. They will check up on them to make sure they are doing well if they do get released but then theirs and my involvement stops there.

I think we spent a while talking about how the old care team had targeted Danny and separated him for a long time before I managed to bring him back together. They even watched some of the videos. Even Steve told them what happened and how well Danny acted when he was in court when the police trial on the tail incident happened. It was pretty helpful towards the board letting them go on all of the day trips that they had been going on as of late and how well they had done. They even had some interactions with people when I have taken them out to the store and made them buy ingredients they could cook or some snacks they could enjoy movie nights with. Christmas was the biggest success; I loved the look on their faces when they got cards and presents from their families.

They said they were making their decision today so we spent at least 4 hours going through all of the evidence that we had and thoroughly discussing it and combing through every detail to make sure that we had it right and I made sure that I presented all the evidence that I have that will prove that the 6 males deserve the freedom that they should have had when they were all teenagers. We are having lunch now and then it gives some time for the new people to start considering what is going to happen and what their decision is going to be. I am sure that even though it is 1.30 pm now that it is going to take the rest of the afternoon for any real decision making to happen. There are a lot of things they need to consider to make an informed decision.

I called to check on the lads and Sean told me they are all doing well apart from Dan who seems to have a little chest infection going on. I told him to keep an eye on the pup and if he needed to call one of the GP doctors out to just give him a once over. That way should he need to be put on a course of antibiotics then we can arrange it and I could even pick them up before I spend my evening with the lads. The others had the same thing so I am probably going to be send a text later by either Sean or Kalan being like hey could you get Dan's prescription on your way back. I'll check my phone again before I leave the meeting. Right now though I have to concentrate a little more on what we are doing. I have been praised more than I have ever done working on a case.

However, this case is different than any other case I have ever worked on. It is a lot tougher on you both physically and emotional when you realise that for the last 15 years while you have been working on other cases they have been emotionally, physically, and sometimes even sexually abused and you don't even know about it. I can't really blame myself though, I don't possess any super powers which would have alerted me to these poor guys' suffering. I got to it as soon as I was alerted to it and I have been working incredibly hard to put things right and to make sure that they don't suffer any longer than they had to. I already felt bad enough for them going through the stuff they had done since the late 1990's there is nothing I can do to go and change that though.

It was about 6.30 pm before we made the decision and we could leave. I can now deliver the news to the eagerly waiting pups back at the hospital. I was right, I got a text from Kalan about two hours ago asking to stop by Walgreens on my way home to get Danny's antibiotics as the poor dude does have chest infection. It's not too bad and in five days he will be back to his perfectly bubbly self again. He just needs to take tonight's dose and then the rest of them and he will be fine. It gives me perfect time to set something up for them for when Danny is feeling better and there isn't a risk of any of them getting sick again before I can carry it out thought. I need to go to several stores though, luckily I have all the money I need.

George p.o.v

Fronz is on his way back and we are finally going to know the news that he has been given today about our futures. The other doctors don't know yet either, they have been focusing on us and little pup who has now gotten the same chest infection we all had a week ago. He's pretty tired, but he is forcing himself to stay awake because he wants to be here when the news is given to the rest of us. It is not like Fronz is going to deliberately leave him out. He would let us all know at the same time. Danny was sitting on my lap in just shorts because he was getting quite sweaty with the fever he had. I didn't mind the view I was getting either; he is getting quite muscular now with all of the workouts he had been doing until he got sick.

I fell in love with him way before that. There are only 5 years age gap between us and boy has he grown up to be a fine young man in front of my eyes. He was only 15 when I properly met him and that was almost ten years ago. I hope that we can celebrate his 25th birthday out of here. I knew that mine and Jorel's was going to be spent in here but Jordon and Danny have a chance. We just need to wait and see what Fronz has to say. Danny had only just fallen asleep in my arms so I was hoping that he could at least squeeze a twenty minute nap in before Fronz returns especially because he has to go to Walgreens first and there might be a queue. He said we are having pizza tonight no matter what the outcome was so he might as well get that too.

"Dan chose the right time to nap, Fronz just told me there's a long queue for the pharmacy and he also wants to grab the pizza on the way back so he'll be a while." Kalan tells us. I wasn't going to wake Danny up until Kalan gave us a five minute warning so he wouldn't be as groggy when the person who has saved all our lives has some potentially amazing news for us. "Yeah, he spent most of the night coughing so I was half expecting him to fall asleep after the doctor had been to see him," Jorel says. He had told us many times last night to go to sleep but we said we wouldn't let him suffer alone. He was there when we were coughing a lot and feverish so now it is our turn to look after him while he's got the nasty cough and the fevers.

"Bless him, he always complains the least though," Kalan replies. It was only Dan, Jay, and I in the room at the moment with Kalan. The others are in their rooms waiting to be called in to let them know what the board have said. "He does, he could have complained a lot especially over the last eleven years or so but he hasn't. He's just listened to us whine like man babies," I tell them. It's true though, we get one little sniffle and that's it. It was only after he had a coughing fit which left him a bit breathless which made Kalan say he was calling the doctors. We don't want to rush the poor pup to hospital where he'd end up being alone again. It was bad enough when he was there after the old care team's final attack on him and only Fronz was allowed.

I had Danny's head on my shoulder and he seemed to be able to breathe a little easier while he was in that position. His right puppy ear kept flicking against my neck at the contact. It felt weird at first but I was quickly getting used to it because I knew my little love was asleep and peaceful and I was at least able to help him a little bit. It is not much, but there is literally nothing else I can do to support my boyfriend while he has this chest infection. It's not like I have the magic touch that would just cure him instantly otherwise Fronz wouldn't be stuck in a massive queue at Walgreens right now waiting for the prescription to be filled. "At least we get your favourite tonight though," Jorel tells me. He always makes fun of my pizza love.

We are twins, yet we couldn't be more different from each other. Jorel doesn't really like junk food all that much and wants to be a vegetarian and I could not get enough pizza in my life. Then again I don't think I would be able to cope if Jorel was exactly like me in all the different ways. I like that we have our differences as well as the few similarities we do share. "Yeah, any night is a good night when there is pizza involved," I tell him. Well, there could always be something better than pizza, but I can't make assumptions right now. "Are you sure Danny isn't going to wake up with a sore neck?" Dylan asks when he walks back in. Danny was awake the last time he saw the younger guy. He also didn't have a good view.

"He'll be fine. He's being cushioned by my shoulder. If it weren't helping his breathing so much and it wasn't actually cushioned then I would have moved him," I tell him, as he walks around to come and sit next to me. Then Kalan called Matt and Jordon in saying they had a five minute warning for Fronz's return. that also means that after Danny's one hour nap I have to wake him up and get him less groggy for when the food, medicine and hopefully the good news come. "I have to wake him up now anyways," I tell Dylan as I gently nudge my boyfriend awake. He was not happy to be woken up, but I kissed him on the cheek and he kissed me back.

"Fronz is going to be back in five minutes baby," I tell him. He was sitting up as normally as he could on me but I knew he was still a little grumpy. He is also probably getting hungry because he didn't eat much of his lunch. "Really? How long did I sleep?" He asks me. I knew his voice was going, but I could still understand him. "An hour bud. It took Fronz a while to get your medicine and the pizza," I tell him. He did not like the sound of having medicine, but the pizza perked him up a little. That's my little pup. I know more things beside pizza make my little pup happy. I know I make him happy and so do the other crazy people we live with. "Can I go back to sleep after pizza?" Danny asks me. I knew he was feeling pretty rotten.

"Yea of course you can my love. I know it is late and you're hungry and tired and not feeling too good," I tell him. When he wants to go to bed I will go with him so that he is not alone. If he wants me to stay because he thinks I should spend some time with the others then I will respect that as well. I want him to be happy and the best way I can make him happy is by respecting what he wants to do. Fronz walks in and the first thing we do is get plates ready for the pizza and get some medication into Danny to help him feel a little better. "Right then, I have the news you have all been desperately waiting for. The board have made their decision today on what is going to happen with you guys," Fronz says, with a perfect poker face to keep us on our toes.

"The board have decided…. That you guys… are going to be free," Fronz says, really taking his time between the gaps in his sentence. However, he said the news we were desperate to hear. We all cheered, even Danny who couldn't cheer to loudly or he would definitely would have lost his voice. "I have some more news as well. The board have given us a grant to buy and redecorate the beach house that Danny found. They said you deserve to decorate the ideal place for you to live in. They are going to work on buying it while we work on getting you all healthy and start planning the rooms carefully so everyone is happy with it," Fronz tells us. I don't think there could be any better news than that to be honest with you.

We all happily ate the pizza. We weren't going to start planning it until next week but we could start our research as early as tomorrow. That way we are not rushing into our decisions and if Danny doesn't feel well enough to do any of the work then he is not going to be missing out on anything. He is just as important so he should be there for when we make the decisions. We all have to be happy with the home were are going to spend who knows how long living in, especially since it is our dream home. Nothing is going to be done tonight though, Danny is very tired. "Want to go to bed now Dan?" Fronz asks, and I feel him nod against my neck.

"Aw goodnight Danny. Hopefully, you'll feel a little better in the morning," Fronz says. We both say our goodnights to the celebrating lot and I carry Danny to our room. He had a loose grip on my shoulders and he was quiet the short distance it took for me to get him to the bathroom to brush his teeth then to our room to get him into some clean shorts and lay with him on the bed. "You should go and celebrate with the others. You don't need to be stuck with miserable little me," he tells me. I know how I said that I didn't want to disrespect his wishes earlier but now he is making me feel a little sad. "I want to stay with you. We can celebrate this amazing news for weeks to come. I want to save my excitement for the first night we climb into our bed in the new house. You stayed with miserable big me when I was poorly and I want to do the same for my little pup," I tell him.

I am sure that we will be celebrating more as the days go on. We will be a little distracted by all the painting and decorating we will be doing, but that first night of freedom is going to be the best night ever. I was also drawing little circles in his back with my finger. Fronz said that he was going to let all of our parents know the news before they could hear it from anyone else. When we get an official address they will be able to visit us whenever they want to which I am sure they will do because they have been desperately missing us. I can't wait to meet Danny's mom and dad, I bet they are the loveliest people ever. It is clear from the few childhood memories Danny has left that they really cared about him. She sent him a letter after Christmas telling him about how she spent 3 weeks looking for him when he was originally dumped here only for her brother to tell her that he left him in a mental hospital.

If I ever meet Robert he is going to regret that moment. I've been working on my anger management but he really pisses me off. True if he hadn't of left Danny here then we probably never would have met or fallen in love with each other, but Danny didn't deserve any of the abuse he went through because he had been left here. I had managed to convince Danny that I wanted to stay and he was getting too tired to argue with me anyway not that he would argue with me. I had comforted him enough that he had fallen asleep in my arms in record time. Now I should probably get some sleep. I have a sketch I had done of what I would like mine and Danny's room to look like. I can't wait to show him and see what he thinks of it.

1 month later – Danny p.o.v

Tonight we are finally moving into the house of our dreams. We have spent the last three weeks planning and decorating the beach house ready for us to finally move in tonight. Today we are spending the day there doing little touch ups and making sure everything is how we want it to be. It is the last time we are leaving the hospital and man does it feel amazing. Bye bye Claudia cause I ain't never gonna see that hoe again. I really hate that woman and yet she is already dead so I could not plan anything againsther. "I bet your glad to be getting rid of her for good today?" Fronz asks, I was getting dressed into one of the many new outfits I had bought.

"I never though that day was going to come. I am so excited, no more medication and no more stupid bitchy voices in my head telling me how stupid I supposedly am," I tell him. I didn't take my medication this morning and I felt rather good. She was angry though because she knew she had completely lost her control over me and once I walk out of those doors I am never coming back. She could not even try and make me hurt myself this time. "Yeah, I am glad we managed to figure it all out and that she has no effect on you outside of these walls apart from that one hospital visit but I think she clung on that time," he tells me. He was right, I remember when I woke up in the medical hospital and I felt her there but I could tell shewas weaker than normal.

Soon enough George and I are holding hands and we are about to walk over the threshold of the hospital as free men. It kind of sounds like prison but that is how we all feel about this place anyways. It has been like a prison and we were all maximum security who were not allowed out for even one hour a day until Chris Fronz showed up and changed all of our lives. We managed to hide another gift for him in the new house which we are planning to give to him when we finally say goodbye. It's going to be bittersweet because he has done so much for us and the new care team has been such good friends. At least we will be able to carry on our friendship in a less professional setting which would be good for us. He had started to become more of a friend than a doctor to us anyway.

"Well congratulations you are all free men," Fronz says, as we climb into the minibus for him to take us to our home. Tonight is going to be so weird, my first night in a decent bed in a house for over 11 years. Don't get me wrong, the double bed I have been sleeping in since I was moved into the wolves' room is amazing, but the budget only stretches so far. This one has been chosen by George and I with the budget the board gave us. I think we still need to finish decorating our room. We've been so busy with the living room and the kitchen diner as well as the other guys rooms we have sort of neglected our own. Especially when I couldn't do much for the first week of actually decorating. I was mostly over the chest infection but I still had the cough and they didn't want me around the paint fumes.

George made himself stay at the hospital with me while I was still coughing which he didn't have to do. I managed to come to an agreement with him on every part of our room and he could have gotten on with it himself. He told me that it was part of his idea to make new memories with me that I am there every step of the way and that we can get pictures to put in the scrapbook he had started. Fronz had given him a lot of pictures from our trips out that we have done and all the dates and movie nights we have done both in the hospital and out. We do want to remember that hell hole because it is what made is who we are today and it is going to remember the good times more than the bad times. There were plenty of good memories in the last year or so.

It feels so good to walk into the beach house. George and I walk straight to our room which has more done to it that I thought it had. 3 out of 4 of the walls have been painted. I think I was going to be painting that one and we focused on the living room and dining room because the others focused on their rooms and the bathrooms. "Right, let's get painting and then start assembling furniture while we wait for the paint to dry," George says, and I love that plan. Fronz is on picture duty because he said he wanted to spend more time with us before he has to leave us to our independent life. I quickly changed into my painting clothes which we had left here. Yeah they were the hospital gowns we have spent too long wearing but I can ruin that without feeling to bad about doing so.

Everyone chose those stupid tunics and pants to wear during this. We went to a room where we lay protective covers on the walls and floor and just had a paint war so they are covered in paint regardless. It was a lot of fun and it was a good way to start our new lives. It was not like we had an unlimited choice in what we wore while we were in the hospital. We slowly started gathering a collection of normal clothes for our styles but it took years to do that. Fronz helped the most with that because he was the one who could go out and buy all the clothes that we needed for the trips out and all the dates and things. He also wanted us to feel like we were not in a hospital as much by letting us wear more casual clothing and less of those darn tunics.

We painted the final wall and then started working on the furniture. We have a closet, but we also want a small dresser for the items that don't go in the closet like our underwear, socks and pjs. "I see the streets burn every time I fall asleep. I'm losing all my sanity, I can't hide from the voice that speaks inside of me," I sing, and George smiles. We have been working on a lot of chunks of different potential songs and that was one I was working on. It does reference Claudia a little bit, but no one is going to know about that apart from those that already know. "That's a good song baby, we should work on that at some point," he tells me. I smile, I like the song. I had my chorus written down as well as my verse but it doesn't have a lot of lyrics to it.

"Yeah maybe. I wrote it when I was all alone. I would love to actually make something with the lyrics I have though," I tell him. We did have a few belongings that we actually wanted to keep which are in small boxes with our names on. That is currently where my little battered notebook currently lives. "Jorel and Jordon would probably love to help with it," George tells me. I know they would, even George would have a good verse on this I think. I feel like it is a good song to represent the hell we all just became free from without giving away too many details. Whenever we do get signed and put out albums we are going to be hiding our ears and tails whenever we are out in public like we have always done up until this point. We could wear masks so we would have to wear a hat or a hood anyways.

Once we assembled the dresser we put the second coat of paint on the wall. It would probably be the last one that we need and tomorrow we can put our bed together. For now though we are going to sleep on the mattress on the floor. We can put our desks together though and the bookcase. That will give us plenty to do in the meantime. Especially since we both seem to be struggling with the Ikea instruction sheets. I have admittingly never put furniture together before now so all of this was new to me. George has some experience with it because he used to help his father put bookcases and other small items of furniture together. "God they could have made these instructions clearer," we hear Jordon shout from his room.

"At least we aren't the only people having issues," I tell George who just chuckles at me. I am fairly sure I managed to put something on wrong, so I took it off and flipped it over. "Yeah, you would think that you would have to have like a master's degree in putting furniture together to figure these out," he tells me. I laugh, we are quite clever though and I am sure we can work this out as I manage to put the top on the desk. I was working on my own desk which is quite small but I would only need it for my laptop, notepads, or sketch books. Maybe when I am more used to technology I will invest in a proper desktop computer or a TV to go into the room. We used to watch television all of the time because we had nothing better to do.

It took us until dinner time to get all of the items of furniture bar the bed built. Tomorrow is going to be when we build the bed if we don't need to put another coat of paint on the wall it is going against. Jorel decided that he was going to cook our first meal in the new house. It wasn't going to be anything fancy but I know it is going to be amazing. Jorel is quite a good cook and I can't wait to eat dinner. Fronz had left after taking a bunch of pictures because he said he had some more paperwork to do and his final goodbye as our doctor was going to be tomorrow instead. We all sit down at our dining table and tuck into the pasta bake Jorel had made for us. "Thanks Jay," I tell him, and the others are quick to follow. I believe there might be some champagne later.

"My friends, we have finally done it. We have achieved what we all thought was impossible. We have made it out of that rotten hell hole we were all forced to call home for way too long. Obviously Fronz and his team were amazing in their assistance and so were all of us for opening up and letting them know what is going on so we can all live free independent lives," Matt says, as he pops open the bottle of champagne. We all jumped at the noise and then started laughing. I only wanted a little bit because I haven't quite developed a taste for alcohol yet. After a while George and I decide that we should go to bed because we were both tired.

"Don't tell Jorel this, but I love that tonight is our first night alone as a couple," George tells me. I had stripped to just my boxers because I hadn't found my sweatpants yet. I know George was loving watching me. He walks up to me and places his hands on my hips. "Yeah, I liked having his support but now we get some alone time," I tell him. He is my first ever partner, so I have no idea what I am doing, but I take his shirt off him and put my hands on his hips. I look up into his eyes and wait for him to make the next move. He presses his lips on mine and I kiss him back without a second of hesitation. We're not going to go much further. I know about what the next steps are in relationships, but I am not ready for any of that just yet.

That is the end of another chapter! Hope you enjoyed! I am so glad I can end the horribleness and focus on the new and happier memories to come. Let me know what you think!

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