Finding Love...in an elevator

Just to let you all know..I'm going to be nice and not start my next fanfic before I finish this one because everytime I do that and try and focus on two fanfics at once, both of them always suffer so I'm just not going to do that this time...

Disclaimer: I still don't own Kai or Tala, I wish I did but Tala-Baby and Kai's-baby kinda would kill me if I did so I'm going to just be content with the fact that I can make them do whatever I want for the time being.

P.S- the chapter title has nothing to do with actually dying...I'm not going to kill anyone in this fanfic...I repeat NO DYING!

Chapter Ten- Dying Hearts...in an elevator

Krys watched as Kai's muscles constricted together, causing him to look even more hot than he usually did. Though they were in the middle of a really gruesome situation, Krys couldn't keep herself from thinking about Kai. Well actually Kai and her, alone.

Hannah, Rei, Macy and Raye, all stood around, watching Kai pull, not too far away from the rope themselves, ready to lend a helping hand should Kai ask for one. Not that Kai was going to ask for one though, he'd probably rather die than ask for help. Even if it was from Rei or one of his other teammates.

Rei was watching Kai's face intently as if he was looking for something. Krys felt her anger flare up like a barrier of fire ready to scorch Rei alive. How dare someone, anyone really, look at her Kai that way. Especially someone like Rei.

Krys then realized that she was probably just over reacting, Rei wasn't interested in Kai that way, he was probably looking at Kai for a reason other than what Krys had jumped to conclusions about. After all, Rei and Kai worked together almost twenty-four hours a day.

Then again, there had been times where Krys had seen the bladebreakers on tv and Rei or Kai would win a match and Rei would go all hyper and hug Kai or something. Krys found her subsiding anger go back up again. How dare Rei!

All of a sudden, a jerky motion from Kai brought Krys back to the 'real world'. He was slipping, sweat pouring down his head. Rei immeadiately grabbed the rope and began to help pull, not even looking at Kai to see if what he was doing was right. As if Rei thought he could just read Kai's mind. Krys chuckled at that. Like anyone could read her Kai's mind.

But Kai didn't tell Rei to go away like Krys had been counting on and that fueled her anger anymore. Why in the hell was it alright for Rei to do something that had gotten her snapped at just a few minutes before?

Krys couldn't take it and walked up behind Kai and reached around him, wrapping her arms around him and pulled. Kai froze, his back straight, his breathing heavy. Then he turned around, his eyes darker and more scary than Krys had ever seen before.

"Don't touch me." Kai said sternly, every word formed with a single breath and more emotion than Krys had ever seen come out of Kai. But then again, this was anger and that seemed to be all Kai had.

Krys pulled away from Kai, glaring back at him, hiding her hurt emotions behind the wall of her indifference. Then Krys turned around and marched to the corner, hiding her face from the rest of the room and trying not to let her tears run past her barrier.

"Krys? Are you alright?" Macy asked, coming up behind Krys, not forcing Krys to look at her but merely standing there.

Krys didn't respond, she just stood there, staring at the wall and wondering what had gotten into Kai.

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{a/n: for those of you out there that think I forgot that in the last chapter Tala was slipping off of Bryan's lap, you're wrong. I didn't forget, I just had to write something else first...yah that's it..}

Tala felt scared as he held on to Bryan but nothing but the hand that had grabbed him just seconds ago as he had almost fallen off of the other boy. Unfortunately, Bryan wasn't strong enough to pull Tala back up, so Tala was stuck like this and it wasn't the most comfortable position in the world.

"KAI!" Bryan yelled, trying to get Kai's attention. "KAI!"

Kai seemed to be pre-occupied with something but nonetheless the pulling stopped. Bryan breathed in relief and reached down with the hand he had been using for balance and began to pull Tala up.

Tala gritted his teeth as the pain in his leg became more and more intense. It was like all the pain he had ever felt was back and focused on this one spot in his body. Sure, Tala had been trained to ignore pain but no one could expect him to ignore this, this was just too much for any mere mortal to deal with.

Tala was almost back on Bryan's lap, when Bryan lost his grip on Tala and Tala was falling down again. Tala's instinct told him to grab something and so he did and by Bryan's cry, it wasn't the right thing to grab.

Kai's voice was suddenly heard by the two boys that were in an...awkward position. "What's going on down there?"

Bryan replied, his voice hoarse and full of pain. "Tala slipped."

Kai sighed. "Alrighty then, tell me when I tug on Tala's rope."

There was a tug on Tala's rope and Tala yelled up. "There you go."

Then Tala's rope was raised and soon Tala was back on Bryan's lap, safe and sound. Bryan's grip around Tala's waist was a lot stronger than it had been last time, probably because he didn't want to repeat what had just happened again.

Not that Tala blamed him.

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Raye felt sorry for Krys, really sorry for Krys but Raye immeadiately forgot her concern for the girl when Bryan's head could be seen in the elevator door. Raye ran over to the door, ready to pull Tala in as soon as she could. At the moment, Raye didn't care if Bryan was gay or not, at that moment, all she cared about was the fact that the guy she had a crush on {a/n: yes people, she has a crush on him} was going to be alright.

Hannah and Rei pulled Tala off of Bryan and immeadiately told Macy to go and call 9-11. Guess Tala's leg was pretty bad. While everyone else was worried about Tala, Raye held her hand out to Bryan, who took it and let Raye pull him inside to the safety of the floor.

Not caring what Bryan thought, Raye threw her arms around Bryan and hugged him tight. When Bryan didn't return the hug, Raye remembered that Bryan didn't like her that way and she pulled away, feeling like her heart was going to die.

To add insult to injury, Macy ran back in the room with Lee at her heels, whose cellphone she held in her hand. Bryan pushed Raye away and ran over to Lee, their hug was just the thing that Raye had been craving just a few minutes ago but hadn't received.

The paramedics came soon enough and put Tala on a stretcher with everyone over-looking the procedure, well everyone but Bryan, who was too busy holding on to Lee to notice anything else.

They all followed the paramedics out of the building and to the ambulance, Raye at the end, her feet dragging on the floor. Why did these things have to end like this.

While the other seven people that Raye had been trapped with, organized the ways that they were going to get to the hospital, Raye stood off to the side, kicking the odd pebble. Bryan noticed that she wasn't getting involved in their discussion and told Lee to wait for him for a moment and then went over to Raye.

"Hey, what's the matter?" Bryan asked. "You're free! You never have to look at any of us again if you don't want to. You should be happy, not looking like you just got into the worst situation ever."

Raye sighed and looked at Bryan, who was trying to cheer her up. What the hell. Raye leaned in, pulled Bryan to her and kissed him again, remembering how his lips had felt last time.

And the reaction that Bryan gave her, was something she never would have expected, not in a thousand years.