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Enrique held his beloved Frenchman closer as the boy whimpered. The last few minutes had been horrible for them all, but it was worse for Enrique, and much worse for poor Oliver.
Flashback
Oliver fought against Enrique's grip on his arms, easily twisting them free when the Italian's grip slackened in shock. Oliver quickly covered his eyes again, whimpering. "It hurts…" He said to no one in general.
Enrique sighed. "I know it does Ollie."
"NO YOU DONT! YOU DONT KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE!" Enrique looked shocked once more, then took a deep breath.
"I know I don't. I'm sorry Ollie. I just... I want to help you, even if I cant."
"Enri…" Oliver started before stopping and trying to try to think of what to say. When he couldn't he growled under his breath and burst out, trying to make the blonde understand. "It hurts! I don't know what happened! There was music and eyes and I couldn't move and… I can't see, Enri! Why can't I see?"
Enri sighed and gently touched Oliver's arm. Oliver immediately stiffened up, but forced himself to calm down. When he seemed relaxed enough, Enrique pulled him into a hug. "I don't know why, Ollie. I don't know what happened to you, and why it happened to you. "
Bryan stepped into the room, slowly; mostly he tried to avoid any sort of emotional situation. But Tala had been telling him to go and see what was going on. Why the redhead didn't go himself was beyond hi-
"Shit." He said flatly. "What happened?"
He looked about the room, and winced. There was blood on the floor, no doubt it had dripped off the Frenchman's arms after leaving his eyes, which now had a piece of cloth over them to slow the bleeding. There was also blood on the bed.
Something tugged at his subconscious and he looked up at the ceiling. There, side-by-side, were two patches of blood, nearly exactly the same size.
"What happened?" He repeated again, tearing his eyes off the unnerving patches on the ceiling to look again at the two boys on the ground.
"If I knew don't you think I'd tell you?" Enrique asked harshly. "He needs an ambulance"
"We've already tried calling for one, but we cant get a signal. And we've tried going outside too and it didn't work there either."
"Has anyone tried walking to get one?" Enrique said, feeling his love shake in his arms.
Bryan raised an eyebrow and jabbed his thumb at the window. "You want to try walking in that and not dieing?"
Enrique looked outside to see a blizzard in full swing. He felt a box of despair close it's lid on top of him, trapping him inside. "We can't just not do anything!" He told the Russian angrily.
"What do you suggest then?" Bryan asked angrily. It was as if the Italian expected him to do something personally. And he couldn't think of anything. It was unsettling and wrong and Bryan did not like it. He was used to knowing what to do in any situations. What was he supposed to do here?
Enrique growled angrily, but soon realised that getting angry wouldn't solve anything. He took a deep breath.
"Sorry Bryan. I didn't mean to get all...snappy." Enrique looked down, noticing that Oliver hadn't moved for a while. "Ollie?" He asked quietly. When the Frenchman didn't move Enrique shook him. "OLLIE!" He looked up at Bryan pleadingly. "Is he de-"
"No." The Russian interrupted him. "Look. He's still breathing. It looks like he's passed out from the pain."
Enrique sighed in relief, then looked down at the Frenchmen sadly. "It must hurt so much..."
Bryan looked at them both, then looked away. "I'm gonna head back to everyone now. Last time I was there they were brainstorming what to do. Hopefully they have some sort of plan."
Enrique nodded slowly, delayed shock beginning to take over his body. "O-Ok" He said numbly. "I'll look after him." He looked at Oliver's blood all over the room. "Um… Who's room can we go into?"
Bryan blinked. There was a complete change of mood. At least it was one he could deal with. "Come into mine and Tala's. There's a double bed in there so you can stay with him." Mentally Bryan was going through the contents of the room he shared with his boyfriend and was trying to think if there were any overt signs of his… activities with Tala over the past day. He couldn't think of anything. He hoped there wasn't anything.
The lilac haired teen walked over to the two boys and made a move to pick up Oliver, but Enrique quickly stopped him.
"What are you doing?"
"Well I was going to carry Oliver into me and Tala's room, because I'm fairly sure you cant. But, if you don't want me to."
Enrique glared at Bryan for a second before handing Oliver's limp form to him. "Be careful with him."
"I wasn't planning to drop him" Bryan retorted. No. Must be nice. Must be nice He reprimanded himself before beginning to walk out of the room with Oliver in his arms.
Bryan shifted the Frenchmen until he was sure he would be comfortable, and walked out of the room with the blond Italian following after him. Once they had reached the room, which didn't take long, as Tala and Bryan were in the room next to Oliver's, Bryan gently kicked the door open and quickly walked over to the bed.
Before he placed Oliver down on the bed he discreetly checked for any sort of… stains. Seeing none, he gently put Oliver down on one side of the bed and straightened. "Ok. You stay with him. Tell us if he wakes up. We'll be in the sitting room."
"Which one?" Enrique asked softly, and truthfully. There were a few in the monster of a house.
"The one near the entrance." Bryan said, naming the one he had been sitting in when Rei had tried to teach Tala how to play mahjongg… was that only a few hours ago? It seemed like another lifetime.
Enrique nodded and lay down next to Oliver. He made sure he didn't look over at the dressing table, where a tube of what must have been lube sat proudly. Obviously, Bryan had forgotten about that.
Without saying another word, Bryan left Enrique to grieve in his own way for all that Oliver had lost while he hadn't been by the Frenchman's side.
Guilt sucks Bryan concluded as he made his way to the sitting room.
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Meanwhile, in the sitting room.
It was quiet. Everyone was sitting randomly in the room, shocked and confused about what had happened. Kai was sitting on the lounge, with Rei curled up on his lap, and Tala sitting next to them.
When Bryan walked into the room Tala jumped up to hug his lover. "How are they?"
There was no question about the 'they' Tala was talking about.
"Oliver's passed out and Enrique's shattered. I think he blames himself."
Rei curled more into Kai as both other Russians sighed.
They sat there in silence for several seconds, before Tala voiced the questions that had been on everyone's minds.
"How in all hell did it happen? How is it that Oliver lost his eyes? Its not exactly easy to have your eyes pulled out." Tala growled out and hunched over.
"Oh, and I guess you know from experience." Emily snapped.
When Tala didn't answer her Emily blinked. "You don't know from experience. Do you?"
"Boris was having a bad day. Then someone decided in their infinite wisdom to begin harassing one of the female scientists." Bryan explained, leading Tala to a couch before sitting on it and pulling the redhead into his lap. "Boris decided to teach him a lesson about roving eyes. That's not a day I'll ever forget."
Michael stared at them. "Shit. You're not joking."
Kai raised an eyebrow at him. "Why would we joke about something like the abbey? In fact, why would we joke at all?"
"And that wasn't the worst thing we saw there." Spencer said with a shudder. "It was there that we learnt that there are worse things then death."
"Ok. I hate to break up your trip down bad memory lane but we have something urgent to deal with. Your personal traumas can wait. You've dealt with them for this long I'm sure you can go a little bit longer." Johnny cut in.
He earned himself a slap upside the head from Robert and a muttered 'uncouth'
Kai rolled his eyes. "Well, genius. What do you think we should do? We can't get help. There's no signal on any mobile, the landline's screwed and we can't even run for help."
"Does anyone know first aid of some sort?" Rei asked from Kai's lap.
"I know first aid. But I don't really know what I can do here." Emily said. The Russians all raised their hands, saying almost the same thing as Emily. They all sat in thought for several minutes. What could they do?
"Guys? I'm sorry to ask you this but, you know how...you said that guy...at the abbey..." Michael said to the Russians.
"Yes?" Ian answered.
"Um, what did people do to him?"
Kai snorted. "Left him to die."
Michael blinked. "I'm sorry I asked."
Tala sighed and leaned against the comforting firmness of Bryan's chest. "All I can think of is that we give Ollie industrial strength painkillers. As long as his…" Tala trailed off, not wanting to say the word everyone was thinking. "… Don't get infected there's nothing the hospitals would be able to do for him anyway."
"I have some painkillers. They're fairly strong too." Mathilda said from where she was curled up with her boyfriend.
Kevin raised an eyebrow at her. "Now why would you have something like that?"
"Um…" Mathilda blushed and looked away.
"Yeah, Mati. Why would you have really strong painkillers? You haven't got anything wrong with you do you?" Claude asked her from his position lounging on one of the seats.
"No! I just get… cramps." She said before blushing and hiding her face in her boyfriends shoulder.
The roomful of mostly guys frowned, not understanding what she was talking about. The girls in the room made sympathetic noises.
Rei was the first to clue on. "Oh!"
He blushed heavily. The others, seeing his blush, started to ponder on the matter.
Miguel was the next to get it. Then Kai and Tala, who quietly informed Bryan, Spencer and Ian.
Mathilda was slowly hiding herself more in Miguel's shoulder as more guys figured it out.
However, there were some who couldn't. Like Kevin, for example.
"Cramps? What are cramps?"
Mariah thwapped him over the head. "God you're a freak." She told him.
"What do you mean by that?" Kevin asked indignantly. "Cramps could mean anything! They could mean-" He was interrupted by Lee pulling him up into his lap and whispering into his ear. "-WHAT?" He said loudly. "REALLY?" When Lee nodded he looked at Mathilda with new respect. "Glad I'm not a girl." He concluded.
Rei snorted, before covering his mouth with one hand and giggling. Mariah glared at Kevin, but the other two girls just smiled.
"Quite understandable. We have a hellish time. You guys have it easy."
"Yeah, but you girls have to go through hell to make up for the fact that you're smarter, will probably live longer, and are built to last."
"Not to mention the fact that you can carry life."
"And have perfected the art of nagging"
"TALA!"
Tala ducked to avoid the pillow Mathilda had throw at him. The pillow hit Bryan squarely in the face. The lilac haired teen raised an eyebrow at Tala's expression when he realised what his actions had done.
"What have I told you about insulting girls?"
Tala thought for a second. "Um… not smart?"
"Very good Tala! Gold Star effort!"
Rei smiled as Tala got picked on by Bryan and the girls, cuddling into Kai, who rested his head on top of Rei's. Rei sighed. All this talk was doing everyone good, and keeping their minds off what had happened.
Tala snapped back into being serious again. Rei was kind of disturbed at how fast the redhead could change from having the mental age of a three year old to being one of the calmest and most level headed people he knew. "Anyway, can we have those painkillers? You aren't going to need them anytime soon are you?" That earned him another pillow.
"No I wont, hopefully. Just let me go get them." Mathilda said, glaring at Tala. She made sure to 'accidentally' hit Tala over the head as she walked past, which sent him into a whining fit.
"BRY! Mati hurt me!"
Bryan smirked. "You aren't going to complain about being hit by a girl are you?"
Tala nodded emphatically, making Bryan roll his eyes.
Mathilda sighed and began to walk up the stairs toward the room she shared with Miguel. Tala's such a child sometimes She decided as she reached the landing and turned down the hall to go to her room.
She couldn't help but look into Oliver's room, to see if he was ok. But neither he nor Enrique was there, however she could see the next door along open. Tala and Bryan's room. She shuddered, wondering what horrible things might be in there.
That didn't stop her from peering in to see the two boys on the bed, curled against each other in sleep.
She blinked when she realised that it was Oliver and Enrique. Then stared at Oliver.
Enrique had realised somewhere in his practical side that he had to cover up Oliver's eyes and so had pulled a bandage from Tala's luggage to wrap around the Frenchman's head. He didn't want to know why Tala had medical supplies in hi bag. He had known that the answer would disturb him. So, having done that had fallen asleep next to Oliver, comforting him in the only way he knew how. By being there.
Oliver had curled into a ball on his side; Enrique was curled slightly around him, with one of his arms wrapped around Oliver's waist.
Mathilda gave the room a quick one-over, looking away quickly as she noticed the bottle of lube, and making sure to not look at the headboard. She wondered if Enrique had noticed them yet.
Handcuffs? No. I don't wanna know. I don't wanna know I don't wanna know She began repeating to herself before she walked down the hall to reach her room. She sorted through her bag until she found the pills she had been told to look for. If Tala uses all of these before I need them I will KILL him. I'd like to see Migi TRY to stop me.
Mathilda made her way back down to the sitting room, throwing the packet at Tala's head as she went, and sitting huffily in Miguel's lap.
Tala blinked as the packet hit his forehead. Then blinked again. Then... "PMS!"
Miguel rolled his eyes and wrapped his arms around Mathilda's waist, tickling the pink-haired girl and making her giggle. "Trust me, you'd know if PMS had anything to do with it."
Mathilda stopped laughing and bapped her boyfriend over the head. "That's mean!"
Claude snickered, which resulted in Mathilda cannonballing into his lap, foot first. His eyes widened and he let out a squeak.
All of the guys in the room looked at him in sympathy and discreetly covered their sensitive areas.
Mathilda smirked and stood up before moving back to Miguel and plonking herself into his lap, not noticing the look of apprehension he gave her.
Claude's eyes looked like they were about to pop out as tears of pain formed in the corners of his eyes. "Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"
He curled in on himself and whimpered. Aaron started to pat him on the back.
Tala, meanwhile, was laughing his head off at Claude expense, while Rei gave him a dry glare. "Tala stop it."
Tala shook his head. "No way! This is a great day for all! Claude will never have children! Ever! No Mini-Claudes running around and terrorising the world!" He looked up towards the sky. "Hashmeer, you have truly blessed us today."
"I'm going to kill you." Claude growled through gritted teeth.
"Sweetie, you can't kill me if you can't move." Tala said, winking at Claude.
"I'll kill you later. When you're asleep. So no one can help you."
"You're forgetting who I sleep with" Tala told him smugly. "He's not going to let you hurt me"
Bryan shrugged. "He's probably right there. What would I do without my Tala?" Tala squealed at that and snuggled into him, pulling his face down for a quick… er… very very long… kiss.
"Go Solo?" Someone in the room suggested, earning laughs and disgusted looks.
Though this person shall not be named it will be said that he had green hair and was not knee height to a grasshopper. Literally.
Tala gave him a withered look. "My Bryan will NOT be going solo. As long as I'm around."
"Which wont be long." Claude said, the pain starting to wear off, but only slightly.
Rei sighed. He was almost positive that everyone in the room had forgotten about Oliver. Why shouldn't they? Normally the Frenchman had nothing to do with them. Why should they worry about his injuries and what they meant? Why should they worry about how they had happened?
Kai looked at Rei as the others laughed. Although Rei was smiling at the others antics, it didn't reach his eyes. They usually lit up when he smiled (something Kai noticed from all of his time observing Rei. And his ass. Rei had a nice ass. ), but right now they seemed dull.
"Rei?" He asked quietly. "Are you ok?"
Rei blinked and looked up at Kai. "Hmm? Of course! Why wouldn't I be?" He asked back.
Kai raised an eyebrow and looked at Rei, making the neko-jin sigh and lean back into the Russian. "I just can't get my mind off Ollie."
Kai hugged Rei to him. "It's understandable. We really should be thinking of what happened. But we're sitting here laughing."
"I guess everyone is trying to lighten the mood. Something bad just went down, and to stop from panicking, we're trying to block it out. It's so human of us, to block out what we don't like."
Kai smirked. "You know we are human, don't you, Kitten? Unless there's more neko blood in there then I first thought." He said, poking Rei in the belly.
Rei squeaked and glared at Kai. "You know what I mean."
Kai grinned. "No, I don't think I know what you mean, love." He teased, tilting his head back and to the side slightly.
Rei gave him an exasperated look. Then whined. "Don't tease me or I'll leave you for Tala."
"I HEARD MY NAME!"
"It was nothing Tal! Jeez, his hearing is good."
Rei gave Kai a small smile and nodded before leaning back into the Russian and shutting his eyes. "I don't like getting up in the middle of the night." He told Kai grumpily.
"And you think any of us like getting up at this time?" Tala asked, once again showing off his hearing skill.
"Tala, you're the one who normally keeps us awake." Kai reminded the redhead.
Tala blinked a few times, then smiled innocently. "Who, me? No, it couldn't be. After all," Here he shot a challenging glare and smirk at Johnny, "I'M not the loudest person in this household, am I?"
Johnny raised an eyebrow and matched the smirk that had been directed at him.
"What's the matter, Tala? Sad that you're not top of the list anymore?"
Tala frowned. "You're keeping score? Got any other insecurities you'd like to put on the table?" He asked snippily.
Johnny smirked. "Why would I want to? Do you want to compare them as well?"
"Maybe. Shall we start listing the possibilities, Scotty?"
"What did you call me, ya wranger?"
"You're so dishonourable!" Johnny countered.
"I could have called you something worse, Klingon." Tala smirked at his Star Trek knowledge
"You're one to talk." Johnny grumbled. "I've never heard of a Romulan with honour."
"At least my race is civilised."
"Do you want to say that to my face?"
"I just did, idiot."
Rei was curling up into Kai's side. He generally didn't like conflict between friends, or...he guessed the two red heads were rivals, scary thought...and the fighting was upsetting him.
Though he did have to admit that it was amusing seeing both of them speak fluent Trek.
"You couldn't even tell a Dilithium Crystal from a Jeffries Tube, could you?" Tala asked, smirking.
"You couldn't recite the Borg's catch cry if it jumped up am bit you on the nose!"
"You-" Tala was cut off by Kai standing up, pulling Rei to his feet as well.
"If you're done proving who's the biggest nerd, Rei and I are going to bed. I suggest that everyone else does the same. Tala? Can you look in on Ollie?" He asked, looking at the redhead.
"Can do, Captain!" Tala said, saluting and marching down the hall. He returned shortly after to retrieve Bryan and to hiss, "This isn't over yet." at Johnny.
Johnny glared at Tala. "Seems that today is a good day to die for you."
Tala rolled his eyes and dragged Bryan upstairs with him, waving Mathilda's packet of painkillers vaguely at the rest of the group. "'Night."
Kai nodded in satisfaction. He didn't enjoy being woken up halfway through the night. He especially didn't like being woken up if something like this was happening.
It reminded him too much of the Abbey.
"Come to bed?" He asked Rei who seemed to be half falling asleep on him.
Rei looked up at him, eyes clouded by drowsiness. They seemed bigger to Kai. He yawned and snuggled into Kai more.
"Carry me."
Kai let out a loud, exaggerated sigh. "Must I?"
Rei nodded sleepily. "Unless you want me to fall asleep on the stairs…" He added as an afterthought, vaguely."
Kai sighed and scooped Rei up, bridal-style. "Happy your highness?" He asked his lover.
Rei nodded and rested his head against Kai's chest. "Very."
Kai smiled down at the bundle of Rei in his arms and started for the stairs, Kenny and Lee walking beside him. Kevin was currently pestering Lee to carry him, but Lee continually refused.
That is, until Kevin pulled the kitty eyes, a trick learnt off both Rei and Mariah.
The lion didn't stand a chance.
Kevin smiled happily from his place in Lee's arms. He could already feel the sweet sweet sleepiness of sleep beginning to take him over.
Lee continued to lumber up the steps. It only occurred to him as he pushed his way backwards into his and Kevin's shared room that Tala and Bryan had nowhere to stay. Not after… Not after what had happened.
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"Not happening." Kai said flatly, ignoring the puppy dog look Tala was giving him. "You are not sleeping in here with Rei and I."
"C'mon Kai! Please? We won't be loud, or watch you and Rei going at it like wild bunnies, I swear!"
Bryan grunted next to him. "Tala, it's about 5 in the morning. We wont be loud, because we wont be doing anything."
"That's not why you're not coming in here." Kai said as he began to shepard the overtly together couple out of the room. "Find another room. Now. This room only has two single beds. You and Bryan can't share one of those without some interesting noises happening no matter what either of you say. And I am not sharing a bed with Tala. No way. No how."
Tala pouted. "Please, Kai? Plleeeeaaaasssseeeee?"
Rei appeared at the door behind Kai. "Kai, just let them. If they start to do anything then Tala can sleep on the floor." He wavered on his feet slightly, then turned and went back to bed.
Kai didn't look happy but he turned to the two other Russians.
"You've heard the rules, now get to bed."
Tala smirked and pulled Bryan into the room. "Score! Saved by the Kitten!"
"You call me that again and sleeping on the floor will be the least of your problems." Rei said grumpily as he fell into the bed closest to the door.
Kai followed Rei's example and slipped in beside the neko-jin. "Night." He said sleepily.
"Morning." Rei replied before he began to sleep a deep and dreamless sleep.
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