Chapter 12
Yawning, Rei rolled over on to his side and came face to face with Kai. -Ah, yes. I don't think I'll be getting used to this anytime soon.- Rei thought, smiling as Kai opened his eyes.
"Good morning." Rei said, stroking Kai's cheek with his thumb. "Sleep well"
"I'm not sure. Am I awake yet?" Kai asked, shifting closer to Rei.
"I think so." Rei answered, hugging Kai. "And I hope so. Because we have to get up. We have a race to lose today and we don't want to miss it." Rei told him.
"So optimistic." Kai said, sitting up and gently kissing Rei before getting out of bed.
"I try." Rei responded, getting up as well. "Who's going to win today?" Rei asked, finding his brush and taking his hair out of it's wrap.
"I say Jr." Kai answered. Rei heard him return to the bed and was soon pulled back down to sit in front of him. Kai took the brush from Rei's hand and began to brush it. "What do you think?" Kai asked.
"I don't know. This track is terrible. There are cracks everywhere and it's slick. I can't tell who will do good and who will do bad." Rei commented. (A/N: o.o Apparently they had to stop the race because a huge chunk of the track came off and hide Jeff Gordon's car.) "I agree. It's extremely hard to race on." Kai said, finishing with brushing his love's hair and returning the brush to him. He picked up the wrap that Rei used and re-wrapped his hair before get off the bed again. Stretching, Kai wondered if they were ever going to make the track any better.
"Let's just hope we don't do too bad today." Rei said, getting his clothes out of his suitcase and setting them on the bed.
"It's hard to hope for anything when you've got a bad feeling." Kai commented, finding his clothes and setting them on the bed as well.
"How often do you get bad feelings, love?" Rei asked, removing his sleeping shirt, folding it, and placing it in his suitcase.
"Heh. Too often, actually." Kai responded. Since he had no sleeping shirt, Kai only had to pull his shirt on over his already bare chest. Rei glared at him. "What"
"You probably do that just so you can get to the bathroom before I do, don't you"
Kai grinned. "Maybe." Kai grabbed his pants and fled to the bathroom before Rei could say anything else.
"Hmph." Rei threw Kai's pillow at the bathroom door. "I hate you"
"Uh-huh." Was Kai's only response.
"My god, this track is in desperate need of a doctor." Rei said.
"Damnit, yeah. God. It might as be alive." Kai said, glaring at the vein-like cracks on the track before him. "Hey, baby"
"Hmm"
"We're surrounded." Rei said.
"Holy...shit." They -were- surrounded. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, and Jimmie Johnson were ahead of them in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. On either side of them were Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman. Behind them, holding Dale Jarret, Kevin Harvick, and Kasey Kahne off were Robby Gordon, Michael Waltrip, and Greg Biffle. "Oh, man. This is not good." Rei couldn't believe they'd let themselves get surrounded like this.
230 laps into the race, Rei and Kai realized that this race wasn't ever going to be finished. They were still surrounded and the drivers around them were being dangerously aggressive. "Be careful, Rei." Kai warned.
"You too." Rei glanced anxiously at Kurt. He was close to rubbing up against the side of the Team Husar car and they'd be in trouble if Rei spun out.
But Kurt didn't seem to care. He rammed in to Rei as they were coming around turn 3. Rei was able to keep the car under control but there was no way for him to avoid clipping Kai's car in the nose and sending him into the wall.
"Damnit, Rei!" Kai growled.
"Kai! I'm sorry! I couldn't keep the car from hitting you"
Kai was to angry to respond. The rest of the cars that had been surrounding them passed him, shoving him into the wall again as they closed in around Rei.
"Rei! Watch out!" Kenny warned, not bothering to ask Kai if he was okay. He knew that Kai was definitely -not- okay and that Kai was to pissed to answer him anyway.
"There's nothing I can do! They wont let me out!" Rei was starting to panic. With good reason, too. Kurt and Ryan both came to his sides and shoved him. But Ryan shoved him too hard and sent him into Kurt. In an attempt to avoid Rei, Kurt spun out. The rear of his car slammed into Rei and the side of Rei's car collided with Jr. and Jeff Gordon, causing them to spin out as well. Jimmie Johnson failed to pull out ahead of it and ended up hitting the wall and causing Ryan to slam into the rear of -his- car. After that, it was obvious that the race was over. It was impossible for any cars -but- the lap-cars to avoid crashing. Kai collided with Robby, Michael, and Greg as did the three behind him. The race was red flagged and the emergency crew came out on to the track. Cursing, Kai got out of his car and threw his helmet to the ground before rushing past the destroyed cars to Rei's. The paramedics were yelling at him to come back but there was no way he was leaving without Rei. When he reached Rei's car, he tore down the safety net. It was clear that the crowd thought he was going to hit Rei or something because they either gasped or held their breath as Kai reached into demolished car.
Rei allowed Kai to help him out, slinging and arm around his lover's shoulder when he nearly fell in an attempt to stand. "Sorry, Kai." Rei murmured, worried that Kai was still angry.
"Damnit. Shut up, Rei." Kai responded, starting forward and helping a limping Rei along with him.
Kenny finally convinced the nurse that Kai would go see Rei without permission if she didn't let him go and visit the rookie. When the nurse agreed to let Kai in, she warned him not to cause trouble. Kenny had a feeling she was one of the people who listening in on Kai's radio. She must have heard what he'd said to Rei when the rookie had accidentally bumped him.
Closing the door behind him, Kai made his way to Rei's bed. Rei had been dozing until he heard the door close. He watched Kai approach now, giving him a small smile. "Hey"
Kai sat on the edge of the bed and returned the smile. "The nurse wont tell us what you broke." Kai said.
"Why not"
"Says its not the business of other teams. Kyra's busy trying to dislodge Drigger and Dranzer from the engines so she's not here." Kai answered.
"Ah. Well, she says my leg is as a few ribs. Which must mean there was something wrong with my Hanz device if I manage to hit the steering wheel in the crash. Please tell me they got in trouble for that." Rei said.
Kai grinned. "You have no idea." Rei cocked an eyebrow at this and Kai couldn't help but laugh. "Ryan and Kurt are both banned from all racing for the rest of the season and the other ones have been fined and put on probation." He told Rei.
"There is a God." Rei deadpanned.
. I love that. Fun chapter to write. Don't worry. The race was put off until the end of the season so Rei will be allowed to race in the race after Fontana. :) So, he'll be racing at Richmond. Two races from now. Meanwhile? He's Kai's spotter XD My favorite quote from this chapter:
"My god, this track is in desperate need of a doctor." -Rei
. Hope you all liked that chapter. Thanks for reading and please review! I'm going to go to the library and post this now. Later!
A million months later(today)- .; Yeah. Watching the Daytona 500 today...I kept thinking about this and I couldn't resist bringing it back. I'll have to read through everything again to know where I was at and what I'm going to do next. .; Uhm...I'll in and put the indentations in later. Too lazy right now.
DJ! annoyed DJ started on the pole and ended in like...15th or something sighs Oh, well. .;
Was going to say something else Oh! Yes...I'm going to try and update my other fics...I know...I kinda...really badly...neglected them. I think Communication will be first and then...Maybe War of Darkness. .;
Answers to the reviews I just got .-
Dev:D I'm glad you're still willing to read! . And thank you! is really glad she's trying this again .- I'll update with Ch. 13 as soon as I can! hugs
Iwonn- .- You don't have to wait. This is a fic I had a while back and I deleted it because I didn't want to work on it anymore. But I'm taking another shot at it. :D Sorry to say this but some of the chapters ARE really short. My shortest is 100 words O.o The longest is...2000-something, I think! .; I'll try and make them as long as I can. Thanks for reviewing!
Well! Gotta go put everything up and finish reading through :D Hopefully some of my old reader/reviewers are still interested!