Dreams that Fall Apart by Luke's Dragon

A/n

Note to self, update fics more often. Sorry to anyone who's been waiting for me to get moving and write anymore of this fic. But I've got about three on the go as well as other stuff and I never seem to have any spare time lately. Still its freezing cold and raining so I've nothing else to do today so I'm really going to make an effort to finish this. The song is "Forest" by System of a Down. I dunno why, I just like it and its my fic so I'll put whatever songs I like in it.

Slight Tai bashing I guess, hey I like Tai, I just need a villian.

Special thanks to Dai who not only reviewed but also gave me some ideas for the rest of this fic so cheers.

Also I'm still a little unsure where to go. Give me advice and help… please? Daito or Yamasuke? Who's going to end up with a broken heart?

Chapter VI- Dancing in the Fires

~~~ Ishida Apartment 21.20 ~~~

Although Tai had been gone for over an hour now Matt's head was still spinning circles his mind overflowing with far too many thoughts all seeming to bark and bite and snarl for attention all at once. Just yesterday Tai had been totally out of his thoughts forever, and now that jerk had the audacity to come right back into Matt's life as though nothing had ever happened.

Well damn it all Tai could just go back to whatever he'd been doing for these past three years. He had no right to think he could just waltz back into his life as though nothing had ever happened, as though all the hurt and pain Tai had caused could just be forgotten. Tai and Matt had ended a long time ago it was dead and buried Matt had long since moved on. He had Davis now and he'd forgotten about Tai, just like he was going to do all over again.

The problem was that maybe he had never forgotten about Tai, maybe it was true what they said, that you never forgot your first love and that true love never really died. No after everything he had been through whatever messed up relationship the two of them had it certainly was never true love. Screwed up, messy and intense maybe but never true love.

And maybe if he could just cling onto that idea thing would work out all right in the end. Wondering just what had happened to Davis and hoping that there was a damn good excuse Matt decided to turn in for an early night. With any luck Tai would get hit by a bus tomorrow.

~~~ Motomiya Apartment 11.54 ~~~

Davis did indeed have a really good excuse for not being at Matt's that night. It was just as Matt had suspected Davis had forgotten that he was supposed to meet Matt tonight. In the world of Davis he was certain Matt had said eight o clock the following morning. Davis had been slightly disappointed to learn that such a time actually existed and that Matt would want anything to do with such an early hour. Still Davis was prepared to make the sacrifice of waking up so early if that's what Matt really wanted. With a sigh Davis collapsed into bed. Tomorrow was going to be an eventful day, he was sure of it.

~~~ Ishida Apartment 7.59 ~~

Matt was awoken by the sounds of what sounded like a battering ram attacking his front door. Looking at his bedside clock he groaned at the time and hide his head under the pillow, hoping that whatever was attacking his door would get bored and go away. This plan was quickly snuffed out by the fact that unlike wasps loud banging on doors did not go away if you ignored it. If anything it got louder and more urgent. Deciding he had to move before the whole neighborhood was woken up Matt fell out of bed and staggered to the front door.

Opening it cautiously half expecting a SWAT team to be there, although minor speeding offences probably didn't warrant such noise he was instead confronted by Davis, looking far too happy for his own good.

"Hey I'm here"

"Uh"

"Well let's eat then"

"Uh?"

"Hellooo? Come round at eight and we'll eat. Remember"

"That was last night"

"Yup, you told me last night"

Matt knew he should really be annoyed about the wasted dinner, about being woken up and about stupid people who couldn't tell the time but he couldn't bring himself to do anything more than beckon Davis inside. Maybe it was because it was too early for his brain to work properly; maybe it was because of the sheer infectious nature of Davis' cheerfulness that stopped him. Matt staggered into his room to find some more flattering clothes than the boxer shorts he had worn to bed. He was at least grateful that he had worn them, in his sleep filled state he wouldn't have noticed if he was naked, which may have served Davis right. Deciding that although it would be 'interesting' to walk out naked to see what Davis would do he thought better of it. Besides they had the whole day to work towards that.

His thoughts were shattered by Davis turning on Matt's sound system at full volume and shaking the walls with whatever had been put on. Still somewhat groggy Matt figured that his neighbors would not appreciate this so early so had to put a stop to it.

"Davis turn it down!" Or at least that was what he was supposed to say. His words were lost though beneath the 'song' if that's what it was.

#Why can't you see that you are my child? Why don't you know that you are my mind? Tell everyone that…#

Matt turned the stereo off before he and the rest of the building suffered permanent hearing damage. Davis appeared not to notice and still continued to bounce around doing his best interpretation of the word singing.

After a few moments of this Davis seemed to notice that the music had stopped.

"Hey I was listening to that!"

"Yeah but no-one else wants to"

"I like it. I brought it round so you could hear it too"

"I heard it"

"Well you certainly aren't cheerful this morning"

"Let's just eat"

The whole eating plan was confounded by the minor fact that there was nothing worth eating in the kitchen. Certainly nothing that wouldn't cause major food poisoning to whoever ate it. Matt groaned he really had to remember to go shopping sometime soon before he starved or worse tried drinking some of the milk that was in the fridge. Well it used to be milk, now it had mutated into some blobby, smelly thing that was growing out of the carton.

"Davis, change of plan. We're going out for breakfast"

~~~ Café de Paris 9.25 ~~~

Matt and Davis sat in one of the few theme café's in the city. This one was apparently French; Matt had been several times before with Sora who had introduced him to the concept of breakfast he quite liked to come here once a week. Davis however looked unimpressed.

"What that supposed to be?"

"It's a croissant"

"And that?"

"Umm, it's a baguette"

"Huh. Where's the cereal?"

"They don't do cereal"

"Oh, I'll have the orange then"

"That's just decoration"

"What am I supposed to eat then? All this stuff looks… odd"

Matt bit his tongue. There were several sorts of pastry things and breads but Davis was not happy about the idea of bread for breakfast. Eventually he managed to persuade Davis to try something more advanced than just jam. It was something of an experience watching Davis eat, when he figured that the food wasn't actually going to kill him he moved into a full scale feeding frenzy taking full advantage of the all you can eat promise.

Eventually, surrounded by the remains of the buffet Davis admitted defeat, downing the last of the orange juice he grinned at Matt.

"That was quite good I suppose"

"Yes, for someone who didn't want to come you certainly made a mess"

"I don't like new things"

"Really?"

"Yeah, they're scary"

"Some are quite good though"

Davis laughed and took advantage of the distraction to steal the orange that was apparently only for decorative purposes.

~~~ Tokyo city park 13.00 ~~~

The near constant Tokyo rain had held off all morning so Davis and Matt had gone to the city park, a place neither of them had been for quite a while. The day was nice enough for them to spend the afternoon just laying in the sunlight. Technically it wasn't really sun, more light clouds but compared to the recent weather it was a practical heat wave.

"Matt?"

"Huh?"

"Why are we together, I mean what do you see in me? You could have anyone you wanted so why me?

"I couldn't have anyone I wanted Dai, but I do want you… that's not much of an answer huh?"

"Not really"

Matt sighed for what seemed like the hundredth time today. This wasn't going to be easy, but in a way Davis deserved to know what he was getting himself into.

"Did you know about me and Tai… dating?"

Davis' eyes widened in surprise, "No"

"Damn, I guess that means I'll have to tell you all about it"

~~~ 4 years ago ~~~

Although they were older now Matt and Tai had been a couple since just before the second wave of Digi-destined had come along. Matt still wasn't sure when he had fallen for Tai, but Tai had always said for him it was when Matt had left the group when they were fighting the dark masters. They had never had a stable relationship, in fact sometimes Matt thought all they had in common was that they liked to fight each other, still they had been fairly serious for what seemed like forever. It wasn't perfect but it was something that they had both grown used to and there was still the friendship between them but things were getting stale.

Tai had wanted them to sleep together since they had both turned sixteen but Matt had never wanted to take that step, certainly he didn't want it to be something planned and as organized as Tai wanted. Yeah that was right Taichi "act first" Kamiya wanted plans and certainty where as Matt wanted something impulsive and one the spur of a moment. Strange how things work out sometimes really. Just when you think you knew someone they spring something totally unexpected on you.

In the end they had done it Tai's way. There was a bitterness that Matt felt that they always had to do things Tai's way. Perhaps it was from listening to too many sappy ballads but Matt had expected things to be slightly more romantic rather than just a hot, sweaty slightly painful experience. But that had not been the really bad part, that had happened afterwards.

Tai had seemed to change so much, he had avoided Matt for a week before breaking things off over the telephone, saying that 'it wasn't what he had wanted' to this day Matt wasn't sure what exactly Tai hadn't wanted, sex or him. Two weeks later Tai had vanished and Matt had only found out through TK that Tai had gone somewhere to pursue a professional soccer career.

~~~ Present day ~~~

"And after that I hadn't seen him until last night"

Matt had tears in his eyes as he finished his story; Davis seemed to be shaking with rage. There was a fire glowing in his eyes, it was the sort of fire Matt hadn't seen for a long time, it was the sort of fire you could fall in love with, or be destroyed by.

"I'll kick his ass for you if you want" Davis said eventually

"Thanks, but I can fight my own battles, besides it's over now"

"Do you still care about him?"

"I still think about him"

"That's not an answer Matt"

"No, it's not, because you're too emotional right now" Davis shrugged his shoulders causally, it was a side to him that Matt had not seen before, the leader, the fire, the Tai in Davis that was appealing but slightly frightening all at once.

"With just cause, I can't believe he'd treat you like that"

"Dai, it's fine don't worry about it"

Davis didn't seem happy about it but relaxed slightly, instead he wrapped his arms around Matt and held him tightly. For a while at least Matt felt like he could relax and drop his guard and his ice cool persona and just relax, feeling safe and secure in Davis' arms. But what chance did he have, all his icy walls were no defense against Davis, he could just make them melt away like nothing. And just for a little while at least he could feel like he did when he was sixteen, a little needy and weak, but happy in the warmth of his lovers fire.