Chapter 29

Danny POV

Caesar and the others ended up taking more than 10 minutes. I stood up to go and get them when I realized that I still don't know where the kitchen is, only the dining room and the living room.

"Uuh, Igris?"

"What is it Neo, and why are you whispering?"

"You'll find out if you turn around."

I turned around to see that Ben was asleep with his head leaning on Rex's head. Rex was holding him up but he was slowly falling off the armrest onto Rex. I quickly walked forward, with my hand, I carefully pulled Ben back onto the armrest.

I huffed in frustration.

"I told him not to fall asleep."

"Come on, we are all exhausted and need rest. We're lucky that Providence hasn't found us yet, so we need to rest all we can."

"Yeah, ,you're right."

"Neo, help me get him onto my back, so I can take him to his room."

Rex helped me get Ben onto my back, it took some finessing but we were able to get him on without waking him up.

I was going to start walking to his room when Caesar and the other finally came back, with their drinks in hand along with ours.

"Did he fall asleep?"

"Yeah, sorry about that Noah, it is probably because he woke up earlier than usual.I'm going to go ahead and take him to his bed."

I turned to walk away when Gwen stopped me.

"Can I go with you?"

Me and the others exchanged a look, hesitantly I said yes.

I started to walk down the hall toward his room with Gwen close behind. I walked through his open doorway. I avoided the wood pieces on the floor and took him to his bed. Gwen moved the covers so I could set him down. I sat down on the bed and carefully leaned back to set him down. I untangled myself from his arms and legs and straightened him out. Once I was done, Gwen covered him with his blanket.

Gwen kneeled down and brushed his hair back in a soothing manner. I could see that even while he was asleep, he leaned into her touch. Gwen kissed him on the forehead.

"Thank you for coming back alive Ben."

I quickly left the room, to give them some privacy. After a couple of minutes, she came out, wiping away the tears on her face.

"Ready to go back?"

"Yeah, let's go."

I escorted Gwen back to the living room where everyone else was waiting for us. I sat back down on the armrest while Gwen sat down with Kevin.

"Do you guys have any more questions?"

"Caesar, do you know when Ben can come back home with us, so we can take him to see his parents and grandpa?"

Caesar was silent for a while, thinking about when Ben will be healthy enough to go. I decided to speak up.

"When you guys take Cas back home, I and Neo are going to have to go with you guys. We don't know when Providence is going to try and get us back into their facility."

They both looked offended.

"We don't need your help protecting Ben, so back off grundy, me and Gwen are enough to protect him."

"Obviously, you weren't enough to stop Providence from taking him in the first place."

I looked at Rex in shock. Shocked that he would be crazy enough to say that to their faces.

"What did you say?!"

Kevin stood up, ready to prove that he could protect Ben.

"Now, everyone calm down, I'm sure he didn't mean it."

I looked back at Rex for reassurance.

"I definitely meant it."

"Neo!"

Rex stood up from the armchair, ready to back up his words. Gwen was holding Kevin back. Having enough, I used my ice powers to freeze their feet to the ground.

"That's enough, stop trying to prove who has the bigger balls and who can protect who. We will be going with Ben to his home to help protect him and that's the end of it. Do I make myself clear?"

I flashed my eyes green to prove my point. Kevin and Gwen finally calmed down along with everyone else and sat back down on the sofas. Or at least they tried to.

"Oh sorry."

I melted the ice on their feet so they could sit down.

Everyone was starting to relax again when we heard Ben's blood-curdling scream pierce the silence.

"Shit."

I jumped up and started to run towards Ben's room. Everyone else was close behind. As soon as I walked into the doorway, I had to duck to avoid this green beam from hitting me. Ben was having a night terror. And those weird green beams that were coming from his hands were all over the room thrashing. I started to walk forward to his bed, making sure to dodge the green beams.

Rex was with me, trying to get to his bed as well. All of a sudden, these pink beams started to hold down the green ones. I looked to see Gwen holding them down and Kevin protecting her from the other beams that were still going wild.

Ben was still thrashing around in his bed. He had a face of pain with tears rolling down his face.

"No, stop it! Please, no more, get away from me!"

I climbed onto his bed and grabbed him along with Rex. We both held him to our chest and whispered reassuring words until he stopped moving. We felt his body relax as the green beams disappeared. And he fell back to sleep. Rex climbed off and carefully handed Ben to me. I gently put Ben onto his bed again and climbed off as well. Soon, Ben was laying there peacefully under his blanket with a tear-stained face.

"What happened to him?"

Caesar was the one to answer Kevin's question.

"A night terror, the boys been having nightmares since they broke out of Providence. But, this is Ben's first-night terror."

"Why didn't Igris and Neo just wake him up?"

"It is difficult to wake someone up while they are having a night terror. The only thing they could do was hold him down so he wouldn't hurt himself even more. Let go back to the living room to talk more."

We all nodded in agreement. I and Rex looked at Ben one more time before we turned around to leave. I was already halfway outside the door when I realized that Rex wasn't behind me.

"Neo,what are you doing?"

Rex looked back at me and gestured me over. I walked back to Ben's bed to see that Ben was holding onto his hand.

"Please, don't go."

I grabbed Ben's hand to reassure him

"Don't worry Ben, I and Danny will stay here until you wake up again."