Chapter 23

Danny Pov

I was sitting down by Rex's bed, waiting for him to wake up. I know that we just escaped from that building a couple of days ago, but man does Rex look like shit. I think a shower and a hair cut will help him look less like a homeless person and more like a normal 20-year-old. Then again, Caesar and Noah probably thought the same thing when they saw me. I wonder if they'll let me cu-

"Why is your hair red?"

I jumped up from the chair and turned around to see Ben behind me. Now that he's taken a shower and had a haircut, he looks much better. I sighed in relief and sat back down onto the chair

"Look whos talking Cassius, part of your hair is white specifically near your right ear."

He looked at me for a second and ran to the bathroom. With my enhanced hearing, I could hear him freaking out for a little bit. He walked back into the room and pulled up a chair to sit with me.

"I guess my hair turned white because of the stress, but why did yours turn red?"

" Blood Blossoms, it can easily kill me, and it just so happens to be the color red."

"Oh."

"Yeah...when did you wake up?"

"About an hour ago, and don't get mad at them, I told them not to tell you."

" Ok, how are you doing?"

" I'm still alive so that's a plus. I'm out of that hellhole so that's another plus. I'm actually clean so another plus."

"I think I get it, Cassius."

Ben leaned in closer and whispered to me

"I've been meaning to ask you about that, why did you give us fake names?"

"We don't know who these people are, I'm not risking our safety just so they can know our names."

Ben was silent for a little bit and then sighed in defeat.

" You do have a good point, what about Danny Fenton, have you taken care of him yet?"

I was silent for a little bit, trying to think of a good cover story to tell Ben

" . . ?"'

Ben said this through gritted teeth, I know that it wouldn't help to lie to him

I sighed and took a deep breath, a lump was forming in my throat

"I-im scared to transform back. I'm scared that all of the experiments killed my human side. I'm scared that I won't be able to go back to my family."

I looked at Ben with tears flowing down my cheeks. He said nothing and hugged me tightly to his chest.

"Oh Danny"

He said nothing after that and we continued to hug until I stopped crying. When we finally separated, I noticed that his eyes were red too.

" Were you crying too?"

"What kind of friend would I be if I didn't cry with you."

" A shitty friend."

"Exactly."

We both started chuckling for a little bit but quickly stopped. For a while, we just sat in silence while we watched Rex sleep.

"How is he doing by the way?"

"Caesar said that he's underweight and that his injuries are healing well. He said the only reason he's still asleep is probably due to exhaustion."

" Considering he didn't get an infection after you threw us into that river, that's pretty good."

I started laughing at his remark" Don't remind me of that, I have done some stupid shit in my time but that was probably the worst"

"I think where I went wrong in this situation was becoming friends with you all those years ago."

"Rude, and all those years ago, it's only been three years."

At that thought, it brought down the mood.

"Wow, it's only been three years."

" Yeah, I don't know about you Ben but I've had enough experiences to last a lifetime."

"Ditto"

Again, we just sat in silence. I heard outside the door the voice of Noah and Caesar whispering.

"What happened, they were laughing a couple of minutes ago."

"I don't know Caesar, are you sure we should eavesdropping like this?"

" Yes, I'm sure Noah, that man in there looks like my hermano, he looks like Rex. The only difference is his long hair and because of it I haven't been able to get a good look at his face, so I'm not sure."

"You're going crazy Caesar, he died three years ago in an accident along with Dr. Holiday, Agent Six and Bobo. We went to their funerals. There's no way thats Rex in there."

" You seriously can't tell me you don't think that's Rex. You don't think that's your best friend laying in there. You know how Providence is Noah. And based on the scars that they all have. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some deranged scientist that was experimenting on them!"

" But Caesar, they're grown men, they'll tell us when they're ready."

"Grown men Noah? Noah, they're still boys, and what Providence did to them is unforgivable. They lost valuable years. Years where they could be falling in love, getting their dream job, tying the knot, starting a family. Providence took that away from them and if that is really Rex in there, I will go and kill White myself."

I stopped focusing on their conversation and more on our situation. We can either revel out identities and it really is Rex's brother. Or I can reveal them and we are kicked out before Rex could heal.

"Cassius, do you think Neo looks like Caesar?"

Ben stared at the wall for a little bit, and then leaned forward and moved Rex's hair out of his face to get a better look and stared at it too.

" Yeah, I think they look pretty similar, I would think if they were brothers if I saw them side by side and if Rex cut his hair."

"Yeah, I do too."

I was quiet for a little bit when Ben asked me why it was important.

" You remember how I have enhanced hearing right? Well, I heard Noah and Caesar arguing outside and Caesar said something about losing his brother, Rex, three years ago. That he died in an accident. Along with Dr. Holiday, Agent Six and someone named Bobo."

"OH! that note, the one that Neo couldn't read to us. It was from sergeant Alex, he said that he would save us along with Bobo, Holiday and Six. he was killed before he could though."

We sat in silence as the gears in our heads started to turn.

" Ben, this is way too much to be a coincidence."

"Yeah you're right, should we tell them?"

I lightly smacked Ben in the back of the head" What kind of stupid ass question is that?!"

"Yeah, do you want me to go and call them?"

"No I'll do it, you're still healing and they're in the hallway anyway."

"And you still smacked me anyway."

I stood up and walked to the door. I opened it and leaned my head out of the doorway and saw that they were at the end of the hallway, still arguing. I called out to them, making them stop and look at me

" Can we guys come in here? We need to tell you something."