Good morning everyone! Another day another chapter nn Thank you for the kind reviews! I will continue LOL

WARNING: Shuichi has flashbacks of both rapes…not too extreme but enough to upset people if they don't like to read it. It's right at the beginning.

Chapter Nine

Shuichi's POV

"You can bring Yuki Eiri down with you," says one voice as a man advances towards me.

"When you tell me, I will stop," another voice whispers before I see myself being thrown on the bed.

"Aw…that's too bad," the first voice says again before I feel my clothes sliding down off me. I refuse to fight back thinking only of Yuki.

"Last chance," the second voices echoes. I can barely comprehend anything at all. All I feel is the pain of the cuts on my back and legs.

"No," I whimper, "Please no…not again. NO!" I shout jerking up from my sleep. The mattress below me is softer than the one I've been on in the dream. I wipe the sweat off my forehead along with the tears that must have fell in my sleep. I cling to the covers looking around trying to figure out where I am. My mind is so groggy that I don't even remember how I got here.

"Are you okay?" asks a voice as I jerk my head over to the door. Yuki…that's right. I'm home. He stands leaning against the doorway with his glasses on. He must have a deadline due. Pulling an all-nighter.

I nod my head. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to disturb you. It's just a dream," I say. Just a dream now. It's all in the past. I'm safe. I just feel bad about interrupting him.

He walks over to me taking his glasses off and setting them on the nightstand. He runs his fingers under my eyes. I didn't even feel myself crying again. "The editors can wait. You are more important right now," he says as more tears fall down my face. I can't believe he actually said that.

"Yuki," I whisper pulling my legs up and holding them. It hurts slightly to do this but not as bad as the first few days.

Yuki pulls me down so that my head lies on his lap. He runs his fingers through my hair. (That is my favorite picture! With Shuichi lying in Yuki's lap sitting on the couch nn) "Do you want to talk about it?" he asks softly. The smooth motions of his fingers are enough to calm my heartbeat.

The doctor said not to hold anything back and talk about everything. Talking will ease the nightmares and Yuki's been so sweet to me lately. He's been willing to listen even though I know what happened in his past. I know it must be difficult to listen to. "It was both of them," I mumble fighting back the tears that want to fall again. Yuki continues to run his fingers through my hair and around my ear. "At first it was just voices…it was Taki Aizawa first and then Ralph. It was the first phrase when I realized what was going to happen. Then Taki speaks again and I see the two men holding me while the third walks up to me sliding my pants down," that was all I needed to say before tears roll down my cheeks. "Then it moves over to Ralph. I feel the pain of the cuts all over again, and he tells me last chance. Yuki, I just want to forget," I say crying more freely clinging to his pant leg.

Yuki's hand moves from my hair and slides down my back avoiding the cut that still hasn't healed. "Everything is going to be alright. I won't let them hurt you again," he says as I sit up and look at him.

"You are much nicer to me ever since I got back. Why?" I ask looking at him. I must be a huge burden to him now more than ever.

He leans in and kisses my cheek. "For the first time, I thought I was going to lose you, and it wasn't going to be because I just pushed you away. It was going to be forever."

I wrap my arms around him and cry into his shoulder. "Yuki, I'm sorry," I say unable to figure out what else to say.

"Don't be sorry." He lies me down on the bed and tucks me in. "Try to get some more rest. The doctor wants you to rest for the first week out of the hospital." He stands up and grabs his glasses off the nightstand. "I just have a few more pages left, and I'll come to bed. Okay?"

I smile and nod. "Okay," I say like a little kid shutting my eyes. Please no more nightmares. It's been every day this week. Please just a peaceful sleep.

Third POV

"He just left the bedroom," the man says in the phone. He has binoculars and watches the movements in the house very careful. "Should I get him now?"

"Negative. It's too risky now. Wait until the writer leaves," another voice says through the phone.

"Alright, I'll continue to watch." The man in black hangs the phone up and goes back to watching the two in the house. Yuki sits down at the computer continuing to type the rest of his book while Shuichi curls back up on the bed. The traffic around the building has died down. It has now reached midnight. The media has stopped camping out front to get a small glimpse of Shuichi and/or Yuki. The man sits down on the chair in the shadows. Not even the street lights or the lights on other buildings can catch his appearance.

OH NO! LOL nn not the end yet. I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Thank you for reading please review

Angel Dove