Idea by Joyce (Fanfiction): Was wondering if you could do a story in which, there's some type of situation going on with the Braxton brothers, so Kyle decides to sacrifice himself and he gets really badly hurt. And because Kyle doesn't feel like he's part of the brothers… It could be a kidnapping or something maybe? Perhaps Kyle gets stabbed.

Chapter 27 – Sacrifice

7:35pm….

Middle of Nowhere - Abandoned Building – Empty Room

"Hurry up Heath!" Casey shouts as his brother undoes the rope that is currently keeping his handed behind his back.

Eventually getting the rope undone, Heath says to his brother: "Will you be quiet, they might hear you."

"Heath is right, Case we need to be quiet." Brax informs his baby brother while freeing Kyle.

"Well I'm sorry if you are ok with this but I'm not." Casey exclaims.

Standing up once he was free, Kyle walks over to the door and puts his ear to it in hopes of hearing what was being said on the other side.

"What is he doing?" Casey asks when he notices Kyle.

"I'm trying to hear if there is anyone on the other side of the door." Kyle responds.

"And?" Heath asks him.

"It doesn't sound like there is so for now we are safe." Kyle sighs and wanders back over to his brothers.

"Safe? How are we safe, Kyle? They could come back at any minute!" Casey says starting to panic.

Brax walks over to the youngest Braxton and puts his hands on either side of his face and tells him: "Casey, you need to calm down. Getting yourself worked up like this isn't going to help the situation. Kyle is right, if there is no one on the other side of the door we are safe for now."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure, we now need to figure out what we are going to do." Brax says as he releases Casey's face from his hands.

Kyle looks at his three brothers, then suggests: "Well we have two options, first one being we wait and take what is coming or the second option try and escape."

"Are they really the only two options you could come up with?" Heath says loudly.

"Well I do have a third, but you aren't going to go for it." Kyle mentions to them all.

Brax considers the first two options then turns to Kyle: "What's the third option?"

"One of us becomes the bait to allow the other three to escape. If we choose this option, I will be the bait."

"Not happening!" Both Heath and Brax yell.

"Why not?" Casey says standing up and walking over to his brothers.

"Because it will be a suicide mission Case that's why." Heath explains to him.

"One which he offered to take." Casey pointed out.

Kyle had enough of listening to them and decided to speak up: "He's right Heath. Look you three all have someone waiting for you to come home safely plus if one you three died in this situation how will the other two cope? With me I have nothing to lose. No one waiting for me. Plus, can you three honestly say you will miss me as much as you would if it was one of you three?"

The other three Braxtons just looked at Kyle speechless. Deep down they knew they wouldn't cope if it was one of them three that died considering it had been the three of them against the world since they can remember. However, Kyle was their brother and they had only just found him and the thought of not having him in their lives would be painful too.

"Come on Brax you know it's the only way of any of us getting out here. So please you need to let me do this." Kyle turns and begs his brother "Let me prove to you all that I can be like you three."

What do I do? I know what Kyle is probably right, but I can't let him do this. Yet again he is capable of looking after himself he did it for yours before he found dad and us. Maybe I should let him do this. Stop it Brax! You cannot do this to him, after all he is still a kid himself and he has so much to live for.

Brax stops thinking to himself and turns to Kyle then informs him: "You won't be doing the third option Kyle."

"Come on Brax!" Kyle shouts at him.

"We are all getting out of here together or not at all." Brax says and makes sure that they all understand that clearly.

With that being the end of the conversation, the four brothers come up with a plan to try and get out of where ever they were alive.

(9:47pm) 2 hours and 12 minutes later…

"What on earth is taking them so long?" Heath demands to know.

"I don't know but that might be their plan to get us when we least expect it." Kyle points out.

"Not helping Kyle!" Heath yells.

Kyle apologises and they all go back to sitting in silence.

(12:04am) 2 hours and 17 minutes later…

Waiting for what was to come had started to get boring and soon enough three of the Braxton clan had fallen asleep. However, Kyle was still awake watching and waiting for their kidnappers to come back.

Technically, they are adultnappers when I think about considering kidnappers take kids and none of us are kids. I wonder what is taking these people so long because this is ridiculous now. I can't believe them three can sleep at time like this…

A noise from the other side of the door startles Kyle from his thoughts and he quickly wakes the other three up.

"What's going on?" Casey asks.

"Ask Kyle as he just woke us all up." Brax says.

"Listen." Kyle says pointing towards the door.

"Is that voices?" Heath quizzes them.

"Yeah, something tells me we are about to meet them." Kyle replies just as the door opens and five men enter the room.

The five men stand in front of the four Braxtons and stare at them for a couple of seconds then one of them steps forward: "Eventually I get the pleasure of meeting the famous Braxton brothers."

"Who the hell are you?!" Heath shouts at the guy.

"I'm shocked!" The guy says with a surprised look on his face "Did Danny never mention me to you boys?"

"Callum!" Kyle says to himself.

"So, he did mention me, I'm going to assume that you are Kyle." Callum says to him.

"He only told me that if you ever came knocking to run and don't look back!" Kyle tells him remembering what his dad had said to him.

Not liking the fact, he didn't know what was going on, Brax interrupted the conversation: "I'm sorry but unlike Kyle, Danny never mentioned you to us three so care explaining?"

Walking over to the brothers, Callum responds with: "I'm going to guess that your Brax, Heath and baby Casey. So, Danny told Kyle about me but not you three this shall be fun. Once upon a time me and your dad did some business together, but it went belly up and he left me hanging, high and dry with no money and a one-way ticket to jail. So, for the last 13 years I've been planning what I will do to him, but shock turns out little Casey here already took care of Danny so that means I have to take it out on you four."

"We haven't done anything to you so just let us go!" Casey snapped at the man.

"Shut up Casey!" Brax tells him as he didn't want the situation to be made worse.

"I like this one! He can be the first one, take him." Callum says to the other men in the room and then leaves.

The four men close in on the Braxtons ready to grab them and take Casey but before they had a chance Heath punched one of the men which confused them all giving the brothers a chance to run.

(12:42am) 38 minutes later…

Middle of Nowhere – Abandoned Building

The four brothers keep running until they come to a dead end.

"Now what?" Casey asks.

"No offence Casey but I didn't think to ask them for directions." Heath tells him.

"Let's just head back and find a different route out of here." Brax says quietly.

Kyle stays quiet and just follows his brothers back the way they came.

(12:59am) 17 minutes later…

Middle of Nowhere – Abandoned Building – Exit

Up ahead the brothers could see the exit and quickly they ran as Brax, Heath and Casey left the building they stopped noticing that Kyle was still inside the building.

"Hurry up!" Heath yells.

"Go, I'll hold them off." Kyle informs them.

Running over to Kyle, Brax grabs him and pulls him along into the trees.

(1:35am) 36 minutes later…

Middle of Nowhere – Woods

"Where are they?!" Callum shouts at his men "Find them now!"

Not realising the brothers where actually closer than Callum knew, the man and his thugs headed off in a different direction.

"Right we need to go now." Brax says quietly and starts moving away from the direction their kidnapper had just walked off in.

The other three Braxtons followed knowing that to survive they had no other choice but to head back towards the building.

(1:45am) 10 minutes later…

As the Braxtons were heading back towards the building, Callum had also had the idea that they might head back there to try and call for help so while his men were searching the woods, he retraced his steps.

Suddenly he heard voices from just up ahead. Spotting the brothers, Callum darted behind a tree.

It's now or never! You are only going to get one chance so pick carefully. Which one will be the easiest to take? I know Casey, the baby and the one they all sought to protect but that makes it more fun!

Quickly, Callum runs after the brothers to try and catch up with them.

(1:53am) 8 minutes later…

"Brax, are you positive this is the right way?" Heath asks the oldest Braxton.

"Yes." Brax responds quickly.

Kyle ignores his brothers and continues walking then stops as he hears a noise like a twig snapping when stood on coming from behind them.

"Guys." Kyle says loudly but not too loud.

"Not now Kyle." Brax answers.

"I think we are being followed Brax."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I just heard a twig snap from behind us."

"It was probably an animal." Casey interrupts.

"No, it sounded too heavy to be an animal Case." Kyle mentions.

Knowing that he had been found out, Callum thought it would be a good idea to show his face.

Stepping out from behind the tree, Callum speaks: "Now that is just insulting. I'm not that heavy!"

The four Braxtons just stand there and watch the man.

"Well you look it!" Kyle retorted back at the man.

"Kyle, stop it!" Heath and Brax both say.

"Yeah Kyle stop it." Callum taunts Kyle.

Noticing that the man he had left at the building was stood behind the brothers, Callum smiled and ran at the unexpected brothers.

Bang…

(1:55am) 2 minutes later…

Time seemed to slow down and none of the brothers knew what was happening. Until Callum and his man got up off the floor and ran off not wanting to stick around in case someone heard the gunshot.

Standing up Brax walked over to Casey and helped him up: "Are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine Brax what about you?" Casey asks his big brother.

"All good. Heath?" Brax calls out.

"I'm fine Brax don't worry about me." Heath says as Brax and Casey quickly walk over and pull him into a hug.

While them three were in the middle of a hug, Kyle was stood looking at the night sky.

"The sky is pretty at night." Kyle said out loud which alerted his brothers to the fact he was still there.

Walking over to Kyle, Brax tapped on his shoulder to get him to turn around. When Kyle did, all brothers gasped when they saw the blood starting to turn his white t-shirt red.

"Kyle, did they get you?" Brax asked.

Looking down, Kyle looked at his top: "He was going to shoot Casey, so I pushed him out the way. I guess he got me instead."

Before they have a chance to say anything else, Kyle collapses in a heap on the floor.

Brax throws himself on the floor and tries to wake Kyle up. He then places his fingers on his brother's neck and can't find a pulse so starts to administer CPR. The other two Braxtons just watch as Brax desperately tries to save their brother…

3 days later (11:34am)...

Yabbie Creek District Hospital – ICU – Kyle's room

Darkness.

The only thing he can see is darkness, then slowly he starts to open his eyes and quickly closes them again when the light hurts them.

He can hear voices asking him to open his eyes again and someone, Heath saying he'll go grab the doctor.

Forcing them open, Kyle opens his eyes again and moves his hand towards whatever was sticking out of his mouth.

"No Kyle!" Brax says to his brother as he grabs his hand, to stop him from pulling the tube out.

"Someone decided to wake up eventually." Sid speaks as he walks over to his patient. "Kyle, I'm just going to shine this light in your eyes."

Stepping over towards the other side of the room, all three Braxton brothers look at Kyle was relief and sadness knowing that there was a chance Kyle could have died not knowing they really did see him as part of them.