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Last time-

"Shit Evi, what happened to you? Are you okay?" Kai knew the last part was a stupid questioned and that she was obviously not okay but it was a natural reflex. Kai dropped to his knees and gathered Evi into his arms. He pulled her close to him and looked down into her face.

"Fuck! Evi!" Kai shock her slightly. "Evi." She shock her again. "Evi open your eyes."

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Chapter 12

While my heart is breaking.

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"C'mon Ev, don't do this to me!" Kai begged as Evi lay in his arms. Evi didn't stir as she lay against Kai's chest.

Kai looked around in a blind panic, his heart pounding. He had no idea what had happened to her, she didn't seem to have any broken bones or open lesions. Kai struggled to his feet with the dead weight of Evi in his arms.

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Evi blinked and looked around the unfamiliar room before her eyes focused on Kai sitting beside her on a chair.

"Where am I?" Evi felt a jolt as Kai started and realised that Kai had been holding onto her hand. Evi gave his hand a quick to reassure him.

"You're awake. It's a hospital." Kai wasn't quite sure what to say to Evi. A doctor had examined Evi whilst she was unconscious and Kai now knew exactly what had happened to her.

Kai had called Tala to tell him that Evi was in hospital and was told that he would be down with the others when Evi's parents finished work.

"Kai why am I in hospital?" Evi asked in a voice that sounded husky from all her crying. Kai looked around the room trying to buy himself some time.

"Evi, do you remember anything?" Kai looked at Evi and felt a pang in his heart. She looked so frail a weak laying there, her dark honey blonde hair a stark contrast to the overly white sheets.

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Just over an hour later Tala, Bryan, Spencer, Bret and Mr and Mrs Smith came into the hospital room all with worried faces. None except for Tala and Kai knew what had happened to Evi.

"Oh god darling are you alright?" Mrs Smith asked as she hurried over to her and began fussing with Evi's sheets.

"I, I think I'm fine mum." Evi told her while she smiled to everyone in the room in form of a greeting. But the conversation didn't have a chance to go any further because a nurse came into the room acting all business.

"It's time for some more tests Evlin. By the time the tests are over visiting hours will be over but I'm sure we can make an exception for your family." The nurse walked over to the bed after bringing a wheelchair into the room. After pushing Mrs Smith out of the way the nurse began to remove Evi's covers and get her into the wheelchair. When she got to the door she paused and turned back to Mrs and Mr Smith. "The Doctor would like to speak to you as well. If you come with me I will show you where his office is." Mr and Mrs Smith followed the nurse as she wheeled away their daughter.

The five boys looked at each other for a few moments before Kai spoke. "I think you should go with you parents Bret, you should know what happened to her." Bret gave Kai a blank look before he left the room to follow his parents and miss prim and propper.

Tala turned to Bryan and Spencer. "Go and get some coffee, I need to speak to Kai." Both boys looked surly at the idea but follow the command of their leader.

Tala pushed himself up on to Evi's bed and got comfortable before he turned to Kai. Now that the others had gone his bravado melted away. "How the hell did this happen to her?" his voice shook with anger. "You were meant to be looking out for her."

"I don't know how it happened Tala, I'm not enrolled in her school and I'm not in her all classes watching over her every minute of the day." Kai looked across at his friend, he knew exactly how he was feeling but he was better at hiding his feelings.

"You will be." Tala told him in a stern voice. "I mean she was- is so strong who the hell did she let this happen to herself. After all those years of protecting her from Boris and then this happens."

"No she isn't Tala." It was a hard thing for Kai to say about someone that he cared so deeply about but Tala had to understand. "Evi was never strong she just used the tricks Biovolt taught her to bluff her way through it. She never stood up to Boris by herself. Remember the line ups, one of us was always holding her hand when she was getting a dressing down. If it wasn't you it was me. She was just a frightened little girl Tala." Tala stared at Kai, disbelief written in his eyes and across his face.

"It's only bravery if your scared Kai." Tala sat in silence and pondered what Kai had said once he got the last word in.

­FlashBack

­Tala stood beside Evi in the third and back row of the platoon. Kai stood on the other side of Evi with Bryan beside him and then Spencer. Boris was marching up and down the rows yelling in people's faces trying to get a reaction of any kind so he could punish them with what ever sick and twisted idea took his fancy that day. Torture from Boris was always a very nasty affair and always involved blood but he was always creative in the way in which he drew the crimson liquid. No matter what way he chose to inflict the torture however never left a scar, the same way bruised kidneys never showed on the surface.

Boris marched down there row and stopped infront of Evi who seemed to be a favourite target for the belittling outburst he delivered at regular intervals. It was obvious to the boys what Boris wanted to do to Evi so they never gave him the chance to get her alone.

Boris began to shout right in Evi's face leaving next to no space between the two of them. They way he invaded Evi's personal space made Tala want to hit the old sick bustard right in the face. Right on that big fat Russian nose and make his blood gush all over the floor and stain the uniform that seemed to bring him so much pride.

Tala squeezed Evi's hand tighter behind her back as he felt it shake. Reinforcing that she wasn't on her own brought her comfort. Evi's grip on his hand tightened as the verbal assault continued and at one point Tala thought his fingers were going to fall off from pins and needles but that soon wore off as his fingers went to sleep completely from lack of circulation.

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Tala was snapped out of his memories by Kai's voice.

"She may not be like us Tala, but she is one of us."

Just for the record I have nothing against Russians and I am not a raciest person. If my comment about Boris having a big fat Russian nose upset anyone I do apologise, I meant no harm by the comment. Now I know that that was a relatively short chapter compared to most that I write but I'm having minor writers block and I promise that the next chappi will be longer.

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