Chapter 6: Brotherhood
This time, he more like drifted back through the edges of consciousness, rather then came suddenly awake, possibly due to the accumulative effects of the different sedatives they used on him. Voices grew louder, and when his eyes met with the lights above he had to shut them again. At the same time, Sam told him he was in safe hands.
"How?" he stared up, squinting, "I knew you were going to come sooner or later because of the emergency signal I managed to give to you through my cell when they attacked me, but so soon?"
Sam laughed, "it's not exactly soon. Christian has already went in for you all by himself before we got there."
"Christian Troy?" John wondered as if there would be any other Christian they could be talking about.
"Yes. Merrill Bobbolit blackmailed him to do what he asks, cause he has his brother. And he did. He was in the middle of the surgery when we raided."
"But...? He didn't know I was his brother."
"Apparently he did. He asked for his adoption records himself and figured out the rest."
"Do you think...he must just be a good man. He would've went in for anyone, he didn't go for me in particular."
"I don't think so. But you can ask him yourself. He's outside."
"More like in," Christian said from the doorframe, and stood out the way so Sam could leave.
"Oh, I must say I'm surprised," John stated.
"So am I," Christian pursed his lips together, "so, you are my little brother," he said matter of factly, then laughed mockingly.
"If you'll take me, yes."
"Well, not as if I'll have to pay your college funds."
They stood for a moment, looking at each other, neither taking the slight joke as a sign to transfer their nervousness into a titter. Instead, their eyes met, the pain of loneliness in both their looks. Awkward as it seems, but they reached out with that look. Neither men of words or lengthy meaningful conversations they felt like they had just spent hours talking. It was the mutual understanding between two persons who could never have the childhood they deserved cause they shared the same father. Two man who never dared to have their own family for the maltreatment they have suffered during those early years. John also understood that Christian wasn't rejecting him. He reassured him instead with the same look that everything would be all right between them. Because the other could fill the void, what they were missing. A family of unconditional bonds. They both have fairly proved that to each other.
The End.