Hello guys! Chapter 5! Anyway, for those of you that reviewed, thank you, for those that are going to review, thank you. Anyway, nothing to say right now other than, 'their father's a jerk!', so I guess it's on with the fic.

-Saph

Halle sat in the darkness with Alle lying, shivering, in his lap. He was still in the soaked, soapy clothes he had been wearing when he was thrown into the machine, and Alle still had his jeans partway down. Both were in no mood or condition to do anything but sit there and sob.

The two are enveloped in complete silence in the pitch darkness, neither saying a word.

"H-Halle..." Alle whimpers, breaking the silence. It's a while before the older registers that someone is talking.

"Alle?" Halle whispers, instantly snapping his attention to his younger brother's first words other than the muttering he's been going on about.

"H-Halle...what are we going to do?" Alle stutters. Tears still mark his pale face and he can't stop them from flowing.

"Don't worry, Alle. I'll find a way to get us out of here, I promise." Halle vows mostly to himself. His face is dead set in a death glare at the memory of the man that had done this to them. Alle sits up.

"Halle, shouldn't you change?" He asked, noticing his brother's soaking clothes.

"Right." Halle states, only now realizing how cold it is. "I'll be back in a bit." He whispers to calm Alle as he climbs the iron rung-ladder to their room. While he's gone Alle sits in the darkness letting out a sob every few seconds. He thinks how he is going to live when Halle leaves for soccer camp. He can't stay down here all week, their parents would call the police. Or so he thinks. His mom doesn't really see them, one wonders if she even remembers she has 2 sons; and their father is...well, what he had just done showed how much their father 'cares' for them. Still, if he stayed down here for a week the teachers were bound to notice and call his parents, or the cops. What was he to do?

He was shaken from his thoughts when he heard his brother returning.

"H-Halle?" He squeaks.

"Yeah? I'm right here." The kind voice of his brother makes him breathe a sigh of relief before he is startled when something grabs his face.

"Ow! Halle!" He squirms.

"Shut up! I'm trying to fix this!" Halle yells as he applies a bandage to the scratches their father made. When he's done the two sit in silence for a while, both thinking their own thoughts. "Alle?"

"Yeah?"

"I don't think I'll go to the soccer camp." Halle states. Alle sits up.

"What?"

"I've decided that I'm not going." Halle says it as though it's nothing.

"But this is the thing you've been waiting for! You said that you were going to meet all of the great players, and that you were selected as the starting forward! You have to go!" Alle says.

"I don't want to anymore." Halle states, turning around so that he has his back to his brother. "Now, I'm going to sleep. G'night." He pretended he was asleep, not wanting to admit that Alle was the reason he wasn't going. He didn't want that man picking on his little brother anymore. Alle flopped down beside his brother.

"You're going." He stated, finalizing it.

To be continued...

What will happen? Will Halle go to the camp and leave his brother alone? Will their father get his act together or destroy the bond between them forever? What will happen to the brothers once they're separated? Find out, but only if you review.

Halle: SWEET! SOCCER CAMP, HERE I COME! *does dance*

Alle: Uh...um...Halle? *tries to reason with dancing brother*

Saph: Forget it Alle, he won't listen when he gets like this.

Halle: *stops dancing* Shut up!

Alle: Ah! Um...that wasn't very nice, Halle.

Saph: If you want to go to the soccer camp you'd better be good.

Halle: *sits up like a good dog* I'll be good!

All: Review!