Falling

Disclaimer: If we owned Digimon why would we be writing Fanfiction… and more importantly, why would we have done such a crappy ending to Season 2?

Chapter 9.

Davis was sulking. If you had of asked him he would have denied it, but he was sulking nevertheless. Ken had been ignoring him all day, and Davis hated being ignored. He had woken up, hoping to do something with Ken, maybe snuggle a little, play soccer. Hell, anything was good as long as it was with Ken…

Davis sighed and looked over at the door, willing Ken to walk in. It didn't work. He got up and pouted, if Ken wouldn't come to him, then he would come to Ken.

Brushing back his hair, and wishing futilely that he hadn't childishly flung the goggles at Tai the adorable redhead began to search Kens base for his wayward boyfriend.

"Ken!" He called, "Ken-chan where are you?"

There was no answer. Not that Davis had been expecting one. Ken had no sense of fun. He began randomly opening doors. He'd found that this was an effective way of finding people. If you opened enough doors sooner or later you'd find them.

Finally, after a good half an hour of opening doors Davis finally found Ken. Aforementioned genius was bent over his bench in his laboratory studying something on his bench, his face set with determination and a hint of regret.

"Ken-chan! I found you!" Davis called out happily glomping the bluenette.

"Davis?" Ken said, sounding pleasantly surprised, then his voice changed, "Davis! I told you not to come into my laboratories. I'm busy!" He looked stressed but Davis didn't notice that. The only thought in his head was that Ken didn't want him there. Ken didn't want him…

"I only wanted to ask if you wanted to eat lunch with me?" Davis choked out.

"I… Not now… I'll eat dinner with you, okay love?" Ken said, his voice softening.

"Hai… Ken. I'll see you then."

"Of course. Till tonight." Ken said turning back to his project. Davis stared at him for a moment then ran back to his room trying to keep the tears from his eyes.

Davis reached his room and threw himself onto the bed. Why had Ken been so mad at him? He sighed, dismissing the question. He'd forgive Ken, and then do something super nice to cheer the other boy up. He bounced on the water bed excitedly. He was gonna do something really special… something that would make Ken happy…

Three hours later Davis had a plan, a good plan. He stopped bouncing and hopped off of the bed, trying to remember the last place he'd seen Wormmon.

"Wormmon?" Davis called as he walked into the kitchen. The little bug type digimon scurried over

"Ma-Davis?" It asked looking up at him curiously.

"Ken's cranky," Davis explained, "So I'm going to give him a surprise."

"A surprise?" The little green caterpillar questioned.

Davis nodded, "Only I need your help. I want to make him a special romantic dinner."

Wormmon smiled, "Of course I'll help Davis. Ken will be so happy."

Davis beamed, "Yeah, he will. Tonights the night…" He said, tingling with anticipation and nervousness.

@-^-

Davis carefully sliced the carrots just as Wormmon had shown him. He was still in that euphoric state you sometimes achieve when you're doing something for the one person in the world you love more then yourself.

"Wormmon? Do you think Ken would like the chicken roasted?"

"I already told you Davis. It's his favourite." Wormmon patiently explained.

Davis nodded, "His favourite…" He repeated. He put the knife down and carefully took a deep breath. At that moment the smoke alarm went off.

"Oh shit! My sponge cake!" Davis dived for the oven and opened it to reveal a slightly burnt chocolate sponge cake.

"Nooo!" He wailed, "It's ruined!"

"No. It'll be fine." Wormmon soothed, "We'll just grab some whipped cream and cover it up." Davis looked hopeful,

"Are you sure Ken won't notice?" He asked.

Worrmon shook his head, "It'll taste fine Davis. Go and put the chicken in the oven."

Davis nodded and quickly put the chicken into the already hot oven and then rushed over to turn down the boiling water.

"Should I put the vegetables in to boil now?" Davis asked unsurely.

Wormmon looked up at the boy exasperatedly, "From the way you're behaving one would think you'd never cooked before."

Davis blushed, "I haven't. Today's gonna be a first for a lot of things."

Wormmon looked slightly apologetic, "You're doing a good job Davis. How about you go set the table, and I'll finish up in here."

"Okay." Davis agreed amiably, "Are you sure-?"

"I'm positive. Scoot" Wormmon said, pushing the redhead out of the kitchen and breathing a sigh of relief.

Davis got out the best silverware and set the table carefully. He looked over and checked the time. It was nearing 9 o'clock.

'Oh god. Ken'll be here any minute! I have to go get changed!' Davis realised and promptly dashed out of the room.

Davis decided not to bother with boxers and simply pulled on the black near see through robe he'd bought and ran a brush through his hair. He beamed at the mirror.

"Perfect!" He exclaimed. And ran out towards the dining room. Halfway he slowed to a walk, and tried to look sexy, and seductive. He tripped over his feet. He looked up his face red, and breathed a sigh of relief when he realised Ken hadn't arrived yet. 'Thank god he didn't see me make a fool of myself. I have to be the best for Ken. Otherwise he'd never want to be with me.' He settled himself on the chair and tried to arrange the robe to look 'alluring.' He'd researched this very carefully. He'd read about 5 romance books in the past 20 minutes. Well… he hadn't read the whole book, but still. He had tried, he had to make this perfect for Ken.

@-^-

Davis's eyelids were dropping. He pinched himself. 'Mustn't go to sleep.' He sat up straighter and looked towards the doorway. 'Any second now. Any minute Kens gonna burst through that door and apologise for being late.' Davis thought staring at the door, planning the whole thing out in him mind. 'Then I'll smile and say it's okay, and he'll realise what I had planned, and he'll kiss me and sweep me up and carry me to our room then…' Davis's eyes closed completely and he didn't even realise when he drifted off into sleep.

@-^-

Davis's eyes snapped open and he stared at the clock on the other side of the room. 12:56am. "Ken?" He whispered hoarsely. There was of course no reply.

Wormmon scurried out, "You should go to bed Davis." He informed the redhead.

Davis nodded, "Yeah, y'know something…" He mused aloud.

The caterpillar looked up at the boy curiously, "What Davis?"

"I really thought Ken would come." He sounded bitter.

"I'm sure he…" Wormmon began but Davis cut him off,

"Save it. I'm going to bed." Davis turned his back on the digimon and stalked towards his bedroom. Throwing himself on the bed he began to weep. Angrily he brushed the tears away but they continued to fall long after he'd fallen asleep.

@-^-

Kens brow furrowed in concentration. "Why isn't this working?" He cried flinging the tiny tweezers he was using at the wall. There was no reply to his question. He sighed and looked down at his watch. 1:52am. There was something he was supposed to be doing. Suddenly it clicked.

"Oh god Daisuke!" He brushed the tools to one side of his workbench and turned off the light. He ran towards the room where he usually ate with Davis and froze when he reached the doorway. There was a flickering light cast by the candles that had burnt down to nearly stumps, and roast chicken and vegetables on the table.

"I'm sorry…" He whispered to the empty room, realising he'd probably spoilt all the effort Davis had gone to, to order the digimon to prepare the meal. He dropped his glasses on the table and walked into the bedroom kicking off him shoes as he did so.

Davis lay on the bed, brow furrowed in sleep, and his cheeks still damp from tears. Ken reached out and gently brushed the darker boys cheek.

"I'm sorry Daisuke. I'm so sorry."

He carefully took the other boy into his arms and soothed him when he cried out. Davis slowly slipped into gentler dreams, knowing Ken was there.

When he woke up the next morning Ken was gone.

A/N: I feel so horrible about waiting so long to get this out. *Blushes* But it's a good chapter. Nice and long… kinda. It's longer then any of the others anyway. O_o I feel that a few of the people who reviewed deserved some sort of response. Reenimon I felt really bad about making you wait… until I realised you haven't updated either. How could you do this to me? I love your fic. I adore it. It's Taito!!!! ^_^' Sorry… Anyway, in response to questions, yeah the digidestined are kinda homophobic at the moment. Don't worry that'll change. What makes you think Matt and Tai are together *looks shocked* Would I do that. Of course they're not together… yet… ^_~. Anyway, Ken and Dai still have problems… after all, you don't think Ken being in love with Dai is gonna mean he'll make ALL the right choices, and Dai's still got a few issues too, especially with being good enough for Ken and vice versa. I got asked why it takes forever to update, and I already apologised, but I'll try to give an explanation, my parents will SLAUGHTER me if I fail any of my classes, because I'm still at school. I get about a million of hours homework a week. On top of that I'm trying unsuccessfully to balance my social life, which means that occassionally my writing suffers. My apologies. Be critical, I'll probably cry if you do, but do anyway, I wanna know how I can improve this because I know I'm not the greatest writer in the world. It will get better, but of course it has to get worse before it gets better. I don't think I'm even halfway through this yet. Isn't that awful? Anyway, the homophobics create conflict etc. Which you need in a fic, at least according to my english teacher you do. So you probably don't *grins* Anyway, if anyone actually got to the end of this note, congratulations. It's so long. I just wanted to make sure people understood. Anyway, this one's for K-chan, who's 17 today.

A/N 2: If anyone's wondering why this is weird it's because I'm being forced to listen to the Queen Mothers funeral. Why me? I'm not related to her! I'm not even English!