Chapter Fifteen- What If I Was Nothing?

" You don't know anything about that day Everheart." Cloud hissed, teeth clenched. He rose to his feet, fists balled at his sides as he stood in front of Leon, staring down at him. Kadaj was afraid to startle either of the men for fear of propelling them further into what ever bucket of crazy they were obviously drowning in. Instead he prayed that Axel would get home quickly and know what to do because frankly, Kadaj didn't have any fucking idea.

"Right, I don't...I don't know anything. I know everything Cloud. I know!" He gave this half-hearted, pitiful laugh and soon found himself lifted off the floor and slammed against the wall repeatedly. Cloud's face was inches from his own when the blonde spoke, slowly.

"Stop talking Everheart. You don't know a goddamn thing." Cloud set the brunet down and turned to walk away but suddenly the normally quit Leon started talking. And he didn't stop. It was like word vomit, it just kept spewing out and he couldn't get it to stop. Cloud made it stop.

"SHUT UP!" He screamed, his fist meeting Leon's face for the first time since the brunet had came storming over. Like a man possessed, he kept punching Leon and Kadaj was afraid that Leon was going to get seriously hurt but he finally found his bearings and started swinging again.

"I was THERE Cloud! I was fucking there! I was in that car, I saw everything! Don't tell me I don't know!"

"I'm fucking warning you Leon." The two men just kept circling each other, sweating and breathing hard, bloody and irrational.

"Who was he Cloud, that man? He killed my family!"

"Stop it."

"Who was he?! Huh?! He took everything from me!"

"STOP IT!" Cloud lunged for the brunet as Axel walked in. Axel immediately lept into the fray and had his arms around Cloud's struggling, screaming form. Kadaj and Yazoo restrained Leon.

"He took everything Cloud! Were you just trying to get back at me? Were you just trying to fuck with me some more, huh?!"

"FUCK YOU! You're not the only one who lost everything Leon! SO DID I!"

The room fell into agonized silence. No one moved. No one spoke. Axel's phone ringing broke the silence and after a worried glance at Cloud, he released the blonde and answered it. If anyone in that room had thought the day couldn't get any worse, they were about to be proven wrong as Axel's face turned a ghastly shade of white and he dropped the phone.

"That was Twilight Hospital."

The silence stretched out and no one seemed willing to break it. No one wanted to know what kind of news that the Hospital could be calling with. No one wanted to relive the horrible nightmares again. Cloud was the first to step, his voice breaking at first.

"W-what...what happened?" He shoved bloody hands into his pockets, shifting awkwardly on his feet. Leon licked his lips and winced, his busted lip cracking, as he moved in closer, waiting for Axel to brake the awkard silence.

"Zack just checked himself out." Axel's jade eyes bore into Cloud's accusingly, forcing the blonde to look away in shame. Axel slipped his phone back into his pocket and looked at Yazoo.

"Let's go?" Yazoo gave him a sad half smile and jerked his head towards his car and the two left.

Cloud and Leon were left standing awkwardly before Leon cast a desparaging look in Cloud's direction and followed the others. Cloud stared after them long after the headlights disappeared.

There was a extended moment where the world stopped, their hearts stopped, shattered into a million pieces and started beating frantically as they bolted from the Fair house, Leon and Kadaj sped off in their suburban at an ungodly speed and Axel's stomach twisted. He looked at Cloud and jerked his head towards the direction the others left in,

"Let's go."