Chapter 29

Present time, 3:30pm and Tori was getting restless, sitting on the sofa nervously with her patience running extremely thin. Kai had texted her earlier and told her he was going straight to the appointment and will be home later. The appointment had started at about two and since then Tori was getting afraid, nervous and just slightly happy that he was getting some help, then again she didn't know how he was handling things so that happiness was invisible even to herself at times. She was beginning to get too impatient, worry rising as it almost always did. Although, this worry was different. This kind of worry was the kind she felt back when they'd first met, the kind of worry that really made her wonder at times why she was worrying at all or…well just to put it simply it was different, indescribable but it just felt like a different kind of worry. Maybe because now she wasn't really worrying as someone she was in love with but maybe because she went back to worrying about him just like she would for a friend.

"This is taking far too long." Tori muttered. She slammed her hands by her sides on the sofa cushions before huffing, obviously frustrated as she stood up and walked into the kitchen. Blowing a strand of auburn hair out of her face, the front bit that was growing the quickest kept getting in her face and by now she had no more patience for anything else. She slipped a mug out of the cupboard while boiling some water, making herself a nice cup of hot herbal tea, hoping that since that had helped her in other times of impatience it'd work again. She paused when she was about to drop the tea bag into her mug, stopping and placing it by the mug. She kept her hands on the edge of the counter, gripping it tightly when she'd heard the door creeping open. She closed her eyes, breathing quietly, waiting to see whether Kai would go next to her or avoid her.

Her sharp senses heard the door across the hall being closed very quietly before she was able to see Kai walk past the kitchen out of the corner of her eye after she'd opened them upon hearing him getting closer to the room she was in. Obviously Kai was avoiding her and had walked into the bedroom, being sure to close the door behind him in hopes of avoiding Tori for a while longer. He can lock the door for all Tori cared but that would never keep her away from him. She pushed herself away from the counter, abandoning her drink as she slowly walked to the end of the hall where she opened the door to the bedroom. She peeked inside the room; Kai clearly hadn't noticed her yet. He was lying on his stomach, elbows supporting him on his pillow, music blasting loudly into his ears from his headphones.

Tori stepped into the room, closing the door behind her discreetly, walking over to Kai and crawling onto the bed, lying down beside him in the same position he was in. She kept her eyes on Kai and once he had noticed her, he slowly lifted his hand and removed the headphones from his ears, muttering a faint, "Hi."

Tori tried a small smile on her face, it being so small since she didn't know yet if it was a time for smiling but she was just trying to be supportive in a way, "Hey. You want to talk about how it went?"

Kai turned to just look at his hand on the pillow, avoiding her eyes and her smile, "There isn't much to talk about. It went fine…I get some results in about three days."

"And you can handle that? You're not going to keep worrying for days are you?" Tori asked very quietly, then raising her eyebrow at Kai once she saw him opening his mouth to speak. "And when I ask that I mean you should answer honestly." She added.

Kai looked at her out of the corner of his eye, glaring at her at the same time, "You do realizing you're not helping now, right?"

Tori smiled slightly, placing a hand on his shoulder softly, "I'm sorry but I know what you're like with things like this."

"Then you know that you're stressing me out but you're still doing it? Some girlfriend I have."

"Cut it out, I'm serious."

"So am I." Kai muttered coldly.

"You're already stressing yourself out, you have been since I got out of hospital."

"It can't be helped."

"But you're stressing out over something that can't be changed. I know you…at least well enough to know that the next few days is going to be tough on you because you think something is actually wrong with you and you want to know what."

Kai took a deep breath, resting his head against Tori's shoulder, "You aren't going to leave yet are you?"

Tori smiled contently, stroking Kai's hair soothingly, "Until you tell me to stop, I'm going to keep being here."

Kai smiled just slightly, mild sadness in his crimson eyes though, "Thanks."

Tori lay down properly on the bed, Kai joining her as he just rested his head on his arms, not protesting against Tori's hand running along his hair and shoulders. The dark-eyed girl watched him carefully, wondering silently about what was going on in Kai's head, wondering how man emotions where running a muck in there while she couldn't say anything about it in case it made things worse.

Tori started quietly, "Are you…"

"Okay? I'm fine."

Tori smiled, what he said was expected, "I was going to ask if you're tired."

"I don't know…maybe."

"You don't know if you're tired or not?" Tori asked quietly. Kai remained silent, just staring down at his hand, then shivering when he felt Tori's hand tighten slightly in his hair. "Talk to me…a little."

Kai glanced over at her, her words taking a bit of an affect on him as they usually did, "Yeah, I'm tired."

"Then you should have said so and have gotten some sleep the moment you got here instead of lying here trying to deafen yourself."

Kai took in another breath, resting his head deeper against his arms, looking almost like an upset child, "You know as well as I do that I won't sleep." He muttered, making it only loud enough for her to hear him well.

"But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't try."

"What's the point?" Kai's voice finally began to crack, leaving him with nothing more than a stinging in his eyes, a heaviness in his heart and a crack in his tone of voice.

Tori had a tear in her own eye, wiping it away hurriedly, "C'mon, Kai."

"There's nothing I can do."

Tori moved herself closer to Kai, wrapping her arm over his shoulders, nuzzling her face into his neck as she kept soft kisses against the skin. "You're too hard on yourself sometimes." She informed.

"Maybe I am but…I can't change that."

Kai turned over onto his back, getting off the bed in a hurry before racing out of the room, out of Tori's sight and ear-shot. He ran into the bathroom, choking on his own breath as he closed the bathroom door behind him and fell back onto the ground, resting his back against the wooden door.

He took a slow deep breath, closing his eyes, drawing his knees to his chest and resting his head there, concentrating on passing off the irritating and uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach. The suppression only began to make him shiver and shake violently against the door, making him press back against it in some hope it would all stop.

---With Tori---

"I'm sure he'll be fine." Toru muttered to herself positively.

'Of course he will be.'

'You think so?'

Denzelle smiled slightly, rolling her eyes at her Mistress, 'You just said yourself that you were sure that he'd be fine.'

'I was just trying to be positive, I can't believe myself when I say that!'

'You're hysterical.'

'Most likely but that's not the point.'

'I know it isn't but you really need to stop worrying about him.'

'Don't you think it's a little late for that?'

'It's never too late.'

Tori fell back against a pillow, staring at the ceiling with a tired look on her face, 'That's the kind of crap I use on Kai, it doesn't work on me.'

'Hey, I thought I'd give it a shot.' Denzelle defended herself, not much else she could really do. 'But seriously, there's no reason to worry about him at the moment. Dranzer is a good enough friend to him to be able to talk to him about what's wrong, Kai will talk to you about everything eventually.'

'I'm not worried about him talking or not. I'm just a bit more worried that he's stressing himself out on an act of self-loath.'

'He hated himself long before you even knew him, he can't help the fact that some self-loath is still there and it rises when he's in a bad state, none of that can be helped and he hates that but there's nothing he can do, not now at least.'

'I just hate that he feels that he can't stand himself and he has to do this alone.'

'He knows that, and he's trying to adjust but you have to give him time to do it.'

'This is going to take ages and I'm running out of patience, I can't leave him alone forever.'

'You aren't leaving him alone, you can still help, you just need to be careful how you do it.'

'Yeah, but you think I should go check on him?'

'I'm sure he just needs to cool off and so should you, get some sleep, you deserve it.'

'I'm not tired.'

'Yes you are. You're still weak from the surgery, you still need a fair amount of rest.'

'Maybe you're right.'

'Yes, I am so rest.'

'Yes, madam.' Tori joked, curling up beneath the covers of her bed, closing her eyes too as she rested comfortably against the pillow and mattress. 'Keep an eye on Kai and wake me if he needs anything.'

---Two Hours Later---

Tori yawned, walking down the hall slowly and almost stupidly from her sleepy daze as she ran her hand through her hair. She looked at the bathroom door as she walked past it, seeing it open and just continued passing it to go to the kitchen, walking in and was about to start making herself a cup of tea before she saw Kai through the kitchen window that looked over into the living room. She smiled and walked out into the living room, smiling and carefully sitting down beside Kai's sleeping form.

The boy looked peaceful yet exhausted, not realizing nor caring for the world around him and the fingers that where carefully going through his hair caringly. "He's exhausted…" Tori whispered, smiling softly down at the boy.

'The hospital got you so used to talking to yourself.'

'Sadly, I can never talk to myself because I'm always being interrupted so thanks for it, Dranzer.'

'Forgive my intrusion but I thought you might want to know a little more about my Master.'

'You're forgiven, now start talking.'

'Go to the bathroom.'

'Excuse me?' Tori asked.

'Kai spent his last hour and fifteen minutes in there.'

Tori raised an eyebrow, really not understanding why the bathroom was such a big issue but decided to get off the sofa to find out. Before she left to go to the bathroom though she picked the blanket off the edge of the seat, opened it up and placed it over Kai. Clearly the boy didn't think he was going to fall asleep, otherwise, even though the heat was strong, Kai was shaking and he would have been smart enough to pull the blanket on if he intended on sleeping.

She walked quietly back out of the room, stepping into the bathroom which just made her look around. 'So?'

'What do you see?'

'A bathroom. Can we speed things up a little?'

'Kai has become an expert at hiding things from people but some things make him tired and if he's ill he tends to leave behind traces.'

'Look Dranzer, no offence or anything but what Kai does in the bathroom is not my business.'

'I don't mean anything like that. I mean he was feeling ill earlier, he tried to clean it up but didn't notice that he left blood on the floor by the bin and toilet.'

Tori looked sharply over at the bin by the counter, eyes widening at the sight of the dried blood by it. 'Wait, you mean he hurt himself again?'

'I don't know, do you count worrying till he threw up blood as hurting himself?'

'That's more indirect but I know what you mean. Now I just wish I was awake.'

'You couldn't have helped. He wasn't about to let you in to help so it wouldn't have made that much of a difference.'

Tori sighed, looking on at the blood, hating to admit that Dranzer was right. She sat down on the side of the bath, looking around the room from there, 'How'd it happen?'

'I'm really not sure about the direct form of it but I think it was all triggered by his worry. He was worrying, his heart rate sped up and he was trying to slow it down but it didn't work so the more he worried the quicker this happened. Once he'd finished throwing up he cleaned things up, or tried to at least but got tired and went to lie down for a while.'

'But he ended up falling asleep.'

'Throwing up takes more out of him than you think, he got tired and fell asleep, since then things have been fine but I thought I'd inform you of things.'

'I'm glad you did, thanks.'

'Mistress Tori, I know that you care about him but please be careful with him.'

'Denzelle and I spoke a lot today and it made me think that I need a new approach with most things, maybe things wont change completely but I'm going to be more careful, especially for the next few days.'

'A change isn't needed; I just ask that you're careful.'

'I will be, don't worry about it.'

'Like you, I really do worry about him and I've been trying to look after him ever since he was a child.'

'Has the child part changed? I mean he looks like a sweet, innocent, little kid when he's asleep. He's pretty adorable when he's like that.'

'Sleeping is one of those rare times where he can just be himself, and be that child he didn't have the chance to be when he was younger, then after a while that was tainted too.' Dranzer sounded mostly upset but some frustration was in there too. Frustration for the nightmares and pain Kai was going through, while anger was directed towards his Master's abusers, the ones responsible for all the pain.

'I'm going to fix things; I'll make sure that things will get better for him.'

'Thank you.'

'Now…you go and relax and take it easy and I'll take over looking after Kai for a couple of hours.' Tori confidently pushed herself off the side of the bath and walked out of the bathroom, resting her back against the wall.

'Well alright.'

Tori peeked into the living room, bit down painfully on her lip, so much so that she felt a coppery taste of blood. She walked back into the bathroom, checked the mirror, seeing that thankfully there was no blood erupting from her pale pink lips. She walked into the living room, seeing that Kai was now awake and shaking more violently than before as he tried harder to warm himself up, moving closer down against the cushions of the sofa. Tori tried to put a small gentle smile onto her face, sitting beside his form, running her hand over his shoulder quickly which added to a bit of warmth for him, "Hey…how are you feeling?"

Kai turned onto his back, arching backwards a little when trying to suppress another shiver. He pushed himself up into a sitting position once taking into account what Tori had whispered to him and realized he had to give an answer, "I'm fine." Another failed attempt at trying to prove himself to Tori as he lost focus on the task at hand and collapsed forward.

Tori caught Kai in time, holding tightly onto Kai's shoulder with one hand to keep him upright, using the other hand to fix the pillows behind Kai and pushing him back against them gently. "You're a terrible liar when you're ill." She informed him.

"I'm sure I'll be fine." Kai whispered, trying a smile of his own.

"I'm sure you will be."

Kai slowly pushed himself up again, trying to regain some composure, that of what he had left at least.

"Hey, get back down." Tori ordered quietly, pushing him back again, a bit of alarm set.

Kai put his hands behind his back, moving up again, "I need some water." He whispered hoarsely.

Tori grit her teeth and pushed him back again, then releasing the tension and going back to her calm façade, "I'll get it for you, just lie back and relax." She got up and walked out of the living room and back to the kitchen, pouring out a tall glass of water.

"I'm not helpless." Kai called after her, regretting it once the burning of his throat sunk in.

Tori walked back in, sitting down by Kai and handing him the glass, "I know you're not but you're sick and you shouldn't be expected to do things while you're sick." Kai raised his eyes to look at Tori, taking the glass from her and sipping the water slowly as he kept an eye on her. Tori looked on carefully, making eye contact with him the whole time, "I know about what happened to you today."

"That damn traitor." Kai muttered bitterly.

Tori shook her head, "Don't blame Dranzer, he just helped me to try and help you."

"How bad do you think it is?"

"I have no idea but it's probably just stress and I want to ask my parents for some advice on it, to see what it is."

"Wouldn't a doctor round here just be easier?"

"Since when do you look forward to seeing a doctor?"

"I don't but the doctors worry less than your parents."

"I'm sure about that but doctors may take a while to give you results and you're already struggling with that and we don't have time to waste and besides, mom and dad want to know how you're doing."

"And it'd be wonderful to tell them that I've been throwing up my own blood over worrying about some results that I wouldn't usually care about." Kai said sarcastically to her, placing the glass back onto the table beside the sofa.

"At least we'd be telling them the truth and maybe they can help."

Kai shrugged before lying back down, "Maybe. I don't know."

"Right now you shouldn't worry. Now you should be relaxing, not worrying about anything and you should be taking advantage of the fact that I want to help you. It's tough but please try."

"I will."

"Good." Tori smiled happily, then turning on the sofa, lifting her legs up and lying down beside Kai, cuddling close as she pulled the blanket tighter around him for added warmth. "Now you can go back to getting some sleep." She told him.

Kai looked down at her, looking confused beyond belief while a little concern and happiness in his eyes, "You're going to stay here?" he asked her.

"You're freezing but it's too hot to put on the heater so you've got a human one."

Kai smiled, pulled an arm around Tori, letting her rest properly against him as the two lay back, Kai fell asleep and Tori kept a close eye on him to make sure he was okay. The boy's skin remained cold for the most part but after a while the shivering subsided completely which was an improvement that Tori was thankful for, considering that the shivering was worrying her beyond her belief. Now Kai looked so calm and peaceful, like the sweet child that he had described to Dranzer, the innocent boy that she found really sweet for the innocence she didn't see him with when he was awake.

After a while Tori slid her phone out of her back pocket, remaining close to Kai but flicking it open and quietly typing out a message to her dad for help, at the same time trying not to wake Kai. She finished up as quick as she could, closing her phone and placing it behind her on the table. She encircled her arm around Kai's waist, resting her head back onto his shoulder as she lay there with her eyes closed, listening to the quiet rhythmic beat of Kai's heart.

Tori looked up at him, locking eyes with Kai again who had woken up and was staring down at her without her noticing. "Get back to sleep." She whispered.

"I don't need to sleep alright?"

"You're sick and till I get an answer from my dad I want you to keep resting and to make sure you do so, I'm calling the rest of the team."

"What? No way, that's cruel."

"It's only to help you, trust me, it's not evilly intended."

"Yes it is." Kai said, almost in a whining tone.

Tori smiled, kissed him on the cheek quickly and got off the sofa, "The others will be here soon." She smiled a little sadistically, turning away and walking out the door so Kai wouldn't see her.

"Thanks a lot." Kai called, sarcastically of course, with a lot of anger cooped up into his hoarse voice.

Within half an hour Tyson, Max and Ray where at the apartment, grouped up around the sofa Kai was sitting on, keeping a close eye on him. Tori had joined in on it earlier but then she got a call from her dad and had gone down the hall to her bedroom. She'd just entered the living room again when she closed her phone again and jumped down onto the armchair by Kai's sofa. "So how insane does your dad think I am?" Kai asked her, sitting up properly.

"He doesn't think you're insane."

"So what's wrong with Kai? He's possessed right?" Tyson asked Tori, in his usual joking manner that got him into trouble.

"I'm not possessed now but I will be tomorrow during training to you just for that stupid comment."

"Kai, cool it. Tyson, shut it." Tori refereed sharply. "Now, my dad just said that it's between hemoptysis, which is coughing up blood and hematemesis, which is actually vommiting blood. If its caused by stress then it can be either of them."

"So what happens in both then?" Ray asked curiously.

"Well my dad's exact words when I asked where, 'I'd love to help you and your friend but you have a laptop with a very good available internet connection so use it' so I really don't know that much about any of them but dad said that if you just keep your stress and alcahol consumption at a good level and make sure your blood pressure is normal, with a little rest it'll lighten up."

"That means no training tomorrow!" Tyson cheered happily.

"Don't be a wise ass, I'll be taking training over for the next few days." Tori informed him, acting almost…cold in a sense.

Kai calmly, was the first and quickest to object to her words though, "You're still recovering from your surgery, you shouldn't be training."

"I'm not going to do anything to myself, I'm just going to keep an eye on them and make sure they train."

"Which is stressful enough." Kai pointed out to her.

"I'll be fine, I'll just stay on the porch and order them about."

"And probably run after them if they refuse to do as you tell them."

"Most likely." Tori answered hurriedly. Kai glared coldly at her, some sadness that was unnoticeable to the rest in the room aside from Tori. The auburn-haired girl sighed and turned to the rest of the team, "Guys, are you all going to listen to me tomorrow and cause as little problems as you can?" she asked, almost not believing the words that where even crossing her lips with such a calm heir in her voice.

The team looked at her, worried in a sense, Tyson also a bit annoyed that there wasn't much of another option to take. All three nodded quickly to her question which made Tori smile and turn back to Kai, "See."

"No, I don't see because most likely they're going to go back on their word and you could get hurt."

"We're not that untrustworthy, Kai." Max pointed out to him.

"Not all of you at least." Kai said coldly.

"Both of you, just shut up." Ray ordered almost angrily. Tori and Kai looked at Ray confusedly, blinking in almost disbelief at Ray's sound of authority, something new to the boy's voice. "Neither of you are taking over training. You're both staying home, Tori is going to rest and Kai is going to stop worrying and I'll control training, got it?"

Everyone in the room went completely quiet, each and everyone looking at each other almost blankly. They all realized that no one was attempting to speak and Tori took it upon herself to start, "I think I can live with that, Kai, what about you?" she was quiet again, it sounded like she wanted to avoid an argument with Kai.

Kai looked up at her blankly, a small amount of coldness in his eyes, even when he nodded and replied with, "Fine."

---Hours Later---

Tori remained lying on the sofa Kai had previously been on when the team was there. She was lying on her side, watching Kai intently as he stood outside on the balcony, looking out in absolute silence. She sighed, resting her head on her hands as she continued to keep an eye on him. After the team had left the two had…made up for lack of a better term. The two hadn't been arguing much in the first place, they were just a bit upset with each other that the other wasn't taking much care of their feelings. Kai was obviously upset that Tori wasn't taking care of herself as much as he'd liked and it was the same with Tori; she would have preferred it if he were being more careful.

So the two made up and made out after a while, you'd think, what's a better way to make up then sex? Well the two started out that way, it was great just because they were fine, they were okay with each other but as always they hadn't gotten far before something happened like something always did. Kai had just gotten as far as taking his shirt off but when Tori was touching his back and side it was as though he couldn't take it, he just jerked away from her, looked a bit scared but that's all Tori really noticed. She'd put a hand on his shoulder but he seemed almost afraid of it at the time. Then he got dressed and walked out onto the balcony and Tori just let him go, assuming he didn't want to talk for a while.

That was all probably about an hour ago, or almost close to an hour but you get the idea, he'd been alone for a while, she was worrying, nothing new about that right? Wrong. Something was strange about both of them. Tori was fading in and out constantly, always feeling light headed while she was lying down, feeling like she was being dragged into a sleep. Kai on the other hand, Kai was being Kai, it just seemed like he wasn't ready to get intimate with anyone, even if the relationship was a close one for a long time. For a long time, it looked like Kai was frozen into place or something, he wouldn't move from where he was. His mind was set onto the sight in front of him as long as he was going to keep thinking.

Tori got off the sofa and into the kitchen, once feeling her throat was getting dry and her pale lips where starting to crack from their dryness. She made herself an icy cold drink, the only thing that she considered her actual savior to the horrible summer heat that was felt. Biting down on her lip she looked out of the kitchen window, the one dividing the kitchen and the living room. From that same window she could look over the balcony where Kai remained and probably would remain unless she decided to go to talk to him.

Tori jumped onto the counter and sat there quietly, sipping her water with many thoughts in her head as she slowly went through everything that was going on at the time. She cursed rapidly in her mind, dropped her mug into the sink and jumped off the counter. She walked into the living room, stopped for only a second of thought before slowly walking over to the balcony screen door. Taking a steady, careful breath she slowly and quietly opened the door and stepped outside. She stood just beside Kai, in the same position he was in, resting his forearms on the black banister as he stared over the edge.

Tori glanced over at him, looking worried but a little more hesitant compared to usual. She looked over the edge again, down below to the stone-tilled streets beneath them, "Did I hurt you?" she whispered.

Kai shook his head carefully, no sign of emotion on his face, a blank stare taking over the pale features of the teenage boy, "No."

"You want to talk about what happened?"

Kai glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, taking a look at the sweet look in her eyes, figuring he might as well say something, even if it wasn't direct. "You ever been self-conscious, about your body and stuff?"

"Sooner or later, for however long it is, every girl is eventually." Tori smiled sweetly at him, but still knowing that he wasn't looking at her. She sighed with a bit of annoyance but decided to answer his question anyway, "Yeah I have been. I hadn't gone swimming ever since I found out about my condition. The medication was messing with my body so the only times I've even hit water was for a shower or bath but that's about it. You remember that time you were ill and I told you to sneak out of the Dojo?"

Kai remembered that time too well, it was the first time the two had some time together alone outside the Dojo without arguing with each other.

---Flashback---

He arrived down by the beach and from where he stood he could see Tori's thin silhouette by the water, dipping her feet into the cold water as she stared out where the moon reflected on the clear waters. He walked up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder, making her turn around in fright. Once seeing who it was she visibly calmed down and smiled sweetly, "Hey there!" she said happily. "How are you?" she asked when she didn't get a greeting.

"I'm fine. Why'd you call me here?" Kai asked, getting straight down to business apparently.

"Friendly gesture. I thought that maybe you'd want to get out of there for a while but I'm not really trusting you to go out by yourself."

"Really? What could I possibly do that's so bad?" Kai asked her, folding his arms across his chest.

"I wouldn't know, that's why I don't trust you." Tori said with a grin. "So anything you want to do?" she asked him.

Kai shrugged, walking ahead of her along the beach with nothing really to say to her.

"Let's just go for a drink then, that good?" Tori asked him, watching as Kai nodded in reply.

---EndFlasback---

"Of course."

Tori nodded and remained with her eyes locked on the street, "Well that was the first time in about five years that any part of my body touched sea water."

Kai looked at her with a bit of amazement in eyes, "Really?"

"I was too worried about what I looked like to ever go swimming. The night Denzelle and I pushed you into the water and you pulled me in with you was the closest I've been to swimming in years." Speaking, she sounded hesitant, scared, maybe even a little ashamed of the fact since she was blushing a light pink. "Does that answer your question?" she asked him.

"Yeah."

"So if you're self-conscious, I'm sure you have a reason for it."

Kai sat down on the chair, resting his arm on the table as he kept his sight marked on the floor, glaring intensely at it. Tori turned, resting her back against the banister before walking up to Kai and sitting on his lap, wrapping an arm around his neck, looking at him with an urge for him to speak which he did. "The night that my grandfather stabbed me…"

"Kai are you alright talking about this?" Tori asked, interrupting quickly once realizing the subject.

Kai nodded hesitantly, then slowly opening his mouth to speak again, "He wanted to take advantage of how much blood was pouring out of my cuts. He put his hand into the biggest wound on my side, showed me the blood on his hand, he probably wanted to rub in the fact that I was going to die. It's not that big of a deal but it's just that sometimes I can still feel his fingers in the wound."

"You can't say that it's not a big deal, I'm sure it hurt a lot and I get why you're hurt by him but your grandfather is in prison, maybe even dead for all you know."

"I know that but it doesn't change anything for me."

"I know and I see that but I know you'll handle it all well. Just take it easy and don't worry so much, in the meantime I'll keep my hands off you to make sure I don't hurt you."

"You didn't hurt me. I just can't trust myself, I can't deal with anything."

"That's because you're stressing out, you always have been. You always look so calm and tough but really you're tough because you're breaking from forcing so much stress on yourself."

"You know I can't help it."

"I know, that's why I'm not forcing anything else on you so let's just get through the next few days as best we can, alright?" Tori got off Kai and placed a hand out in front of him for him to take.

"Sure." Kai ignored her hand though and walked back inside the living room, sitting back comfortably on the sofa, Tori joining him after only a second. Kai looked at her before wrapping an arm over her shoulders, pulling her closer to him so she could rest against his shoulder as always.

Tori rested her head against his shoulder, then crept her hand onto his stomach, avoiding the area of the shirt where she knew the worst wound on the boy's body was. "You're alright with this?"

"Yeah, of course."

"And you don't think that us being together is a mistake or anything?" Tori asked sadly.

Kai smirked, looking down at her and holding onto her tighter, "If it is, then I guess I'm going to make it again." His words made Tori look up at him quickly, the reaction he was intending as he then carefully set his lips on hers in a sweet and tender kiss before the two pulled away and sat quietly there for a few minutes, holding onto each other for their lives.

A/N: Forgive me that this chapter is so late but I've had a stressful couple of days and over the weekend my little sister got very ill and I had to take care of her so there was very little time left for writing. I hope this chapter turned out okay, even though its short like some of my recent chapters, forgive me. Please review and tell me what you think and I'll have next chapter up as soon as I can. Take care everyone!