Kai stirred slowly in his sleep. He had never slept so well in his whole life. It was a deep warm sleep that don't come often. He rolled over hitting his arm on something very wet and soggy. Naturally he shot up and opened his eyes extremely fast only to realize that his head pounded in pain. He moaned at the pain and gritted his teeth so he could open his eyes to see what the wet substance that he touched was. Kai gasped as he realized that there was a small puddle of blood and a curled up Tala next to him. He looked over at Tala and noticed that his sleep wasn't so peaceful. In fact Kai could still see the remains of tears that sealed his eyes shut.

"Oh my god...what have I done?" Kai whispered as not to disturb Tala. Suddenly Kai's stomach flipped and he found himself forgetting about Tala for the moment and running to the bathroom. He kneeled in front of the toilet as waves of vomit erupted from with in him.

Tala stirred slowly. He didn't want to remember the event that had occurred just hours before. To his surprise he heard a gagging noise from the other room and shot up to make sure that Kai wasn't dying. After all he still loved him, even if he made a choice of very poor judgment. And even if he did hate him at the moment, he would have gotten over it and would never want Kai to die.

Tala ran to where Kai was crouching and went to put an arm around him, but Kai moved too quickly and looked at Tala, tears forming in his eyes.

"Oh god...Tala I'm sooo sorry!" All of the memories rushed back to Kai and he broke down hysterically begging for forgiveness. "Please Tala believe me I didn't want to! I'm so sorry! How could you ever forgive me? I wouldn't! I wish I never started to drink last night...Oh god..."

Tala sat down and slid next to Kai who now was sobbing into his hands. He put his arm around Kai which caused Kai to look up, still crying but now with puzzlement in his eyes as well as pain.

"Kai..."Tala took a deep breath, unsure of what he was going to say. He wasn't exactly ecstatic about what had happened but he knew that he was going to forgive Kai. It was almost as if he understood what Kai had felt and didn't want to torment him with past mistakes like most people would have. Kai was used to that. Not from raping people but from other incidents in his life. His own father sent him away to live with his grandfather when he was six because he gave his kitty a ride in the dryer only to discover that it wasn't a fun thing for animals. And just as soon as he lost his kitty he lost his father. That's what seemingly led to other mistakes that scared Kai's life.

"I'm not mad at you Kai" Tala almost sounded like a forgiving mother when a kid spills his milk and start to cry.

"Wha-...how could you not be!" Kai was shaking half from the tears and half from the shock of being forgiven.

"I forgive you Kai. I don't exactly know why but i do. I just want to know one thing" Tala peered straight into Kai's eyes.

"What is that?" Kai was once again puzzled

"Why you would ever think i would cheat on you! And what went through your mind." Tala let a small smile crawl onto his lips before he gave Kai a little hug.

"Well..." Kai took a deep breath and tried to stop his shaking. "Last night after you left around eight...I heard a knock and the door and when i answered it Ian was standing there" Tala's eyes flickered. Ian and Tala hadn't been getting along lately at all but to be involved in this was just too much! "well he came in and we were talking and he took out some vodka that he had brought and we started drinking it...He was starting to get drunk but i was no where near getting blasted yet...well you know Ian, when he gets drunk he'll hump anything that moves and when i told him no he told me about all the times he had seen you and the executives at Biocorp...well get it on..." Kai took a deep breath unsure if he should continue. "Tala I don't know why i believed him...it just kept coming back into my mind and i couldn't stand it! So i started to drink more and more to get it out of my mind...and when you came back i guess i just lost it...I'm sorry..." Kai's voice trailed off. He was now staring at the ground. Tala took his hand and lifted up Kais chin so he looked into his eyes. When Kai did he noticed that Tala was smiling.

"It's okay Kai...I would probably do the same ting...well not the raping part but ya know...so I forgive you! Just smile for me okay?"

And Kai did smile. He had never felt so whole in his life. No one had ever really forgiven him before and he was happy that it was Tala forgiving him!

"Kai wrapped his arms around Tala and whispered "Tala...I love you..." into his ear.

Tala had never actually heard Kai say that he loved him before. It had all just been assumed, but to hear those three simple words come out of Kai Hiwatari's mouth was like being in heaven.

There was a loud bang at the door and they heard footsteps running to where they were. A large man loomed in the door way and another smaller man appeared.

"So Kai...we heard what you and Tala did last night! I think you deserve a punishment; fore that type of behavior is NOT to be tolerated! ARE YOU LISTENING GRANDSON!" Fear shot into Kai and Tala's eyes as they could only guess what was to happen with Voltaire and Boris punishing them. It didn't seem like the normal times when they're punished...Boris and Voltaire had a twisted look in their eyes and a nasty grin on their faces...