Really Important: Half way through writing this chapter, I had a terrible accident involving stairs. I fell down a staircase. Yup. I broke one of my hands and a few fingers on each hand. Ok that's not all I broke but that's really all that's affected my writing. I had to have my hand rebroken after it was pretty much healed. Painful stuff. I've been staying with my grandparents while healing, without my laptop and without any Internet whatsoever. Anyway typing kind of hurts, and because of this, chapters may take longer to write and chapters will probably be shorter. My clumsiness in heels in astounding.

Authors Note: If you find I've written Gwen a little to out of character, I'm not bashing her at all. I personally found her to be a way to serious character and feel that if she wasn't always with the guys saving the world and having her grandfather disappear, she'd be a giddy carefree girl like her anodite ancestors. So I've written her to have completely let everything go, she's alone with another girl and totally free. I don't mean to bash her she just needed some release ha ha.

Chapter Five

Ben pulled the large mass of warmth closer, breathing in deeply the scent of the brutish male in his arms. A few minutes passed as the brunette lay there cuddling the raven-haired teen while he slowly stirred into realisation.

A deep sleeping moan from the raven caused Ben to jump back away from his body. Sharp pain surged over his skin as he fell clumsily out of the bed, the blankets which covered the two falling down on top of him. Ben hissed at the pain as his head hit the floor beneath him. What on earth was he doing in Kevin's bed? His cheeks felt hot as he pulled the blankets off of his body revealing clothes, which were obviously Kevin's. He knew no one else who wore such large dark clothing.

Slowly Ben peeked his head over the side of the bed to check if the raven was still asleep. Kevin lay there on his back his head turned in the opposite direction and his black hair sprawled out over the pillow. Bandages wrapped around his chest with blood spots soaked through where the beast had clawed at him and thank god he was wearing pants. Ben let out a deep sigh of relief before looking down at himself.

Gently the brunette removed the oversized shirt over his head, and examined the bandages beneath. Kevin must have cleaned his wounds and then bandaged him. The thought of the raven caring for him so much while he was unconscious made his head spin, something so heroic from the roguish brute was unbelievably appealing. Ben's eyes were wide as he realised that Kevin would have had to touch him all over while tending to his wounds and not to mention seen his body completely naked.

"Ack..." Ben grunted loudly as he stood up fast, his body ached again but he shook it from his mind. Kevin's oversized pants fell to the ground, Ben looked down at himself again noticing the only parts of his body not bandaged were his privates and ass. The brunette promptly bent down and pulled the huge pants back up to his hips and glanced over to Kevin who was now awake and watching him with an eyebrow raised slightly.

"Could ya make ne'more noise Tennyson?" The raven half yawned. Looking the brunette over as he carefully sat up, putting all his weight on the arm behind him.

"K... Kevin! You are such a jerk! Y... you t... touched me! What else did you do with me while I was out?" The brunette blurted at Kevin, who stared at him bewilderedly.

"I did... what? I thought you'd be thankful that I you knew, stopped you from bleeding to death!"

"I... Err... Thanks? But... You... You should have left my clothes on! I mean at least my pants! You shouldn't have taken off my pants!" A blush crawled onto Ben's cheeks as he thoughtlessly yelled at the raven who was still quite bewildered by the brunette's anger.

Kevin used his free hand to brush his hair from his face, his eyes staring at Ben confusedly. He might have saved his life by bandaging his wounds. Though they may not have been much more then surface cuts, the blood that oozed from each puncture would likely be enough to kill him and if he hadn't cleaned and bandaged the wounds on his legs well the Tennyson boy would definitely not be in a good way. What on earth was Ben's problem? He'd rather die then have his wounds tended to by him?

Kevin raised an eyebrow, questioning Ben's anger, his voice soft and comforting. "Tch... Tennyson. I licked your wounds cause I didn't want you to die. Really, you should be happy I did."

The brunette's eyes shot open as wide as they could. "You licked my wounds!? What kind of a perv-...?"

"It's just a figure of speech Tennyson! You think I played Doctor just cause I wanted to see your body? I did it cause... I care about you and don't wanna lose you!" The words flew out of his mouth; Kevin was just as surprised by his own words as Ben was. He hadn't even figured out what the brunette was so annoyed about until he blurted those words. He lifted his free hand to cover his mouth, he really didn't mean

to tell Ben how he felt. Maybe he wouldn't notice.

The brunette's facial expression switched abruptly from that of anger to confusion, his voice quivering slightly. "Lose... me?"

"Yeah..." Kevin shifted his gaze to the floor, he hated himself for blurting out those words. I care about you... How much weaker could he sound. Not long ago a giant lizard almost tore his chest open, and here he was almost having it done again, though this time might have been somewhat worse. The worst that could happen last time, he'd die. The worst this time... well Ben could hate him, they'd be enemies again and that's a one-way ticket back to the null void. Sure he could just escape again but he wouldn't be able to come back to the brunette.

The raven turned his head to look back at the brunette, he was still standing there his hands were holding the pants up and he was staring off into nothingness till a loud grumbling noise sent them both back to the reality. Neither of the two boys had eaten in quite awhile, Ben climbed onto the bed and began sulkily crawling towards Kevin.

"Hey... Kevin... think we could go get some chilli fries?" His face was like a puppy dog begging for its dinner. Kevin let out a sigh, there was no way he could refuse Ben when he gave him such a cute and pathetic look.

He cast his view back to the floor, his eyes widened as he remembered last night. "Sure. I'll take you back to the rubble."

"Rubble? What are you talking about?"

"Think Tennyson. We fought an ugly lizard beast." A smirk slowly formed on Kevin's face as Ben lifted his hand to his mouth, furrowed his brow and began the difficult job of remembering.

"What about it?"

A small chuckle escaped the raven's mouth; Ben was so cute when he tried to think. "Well, it trashed the place. I'm pretty sure the kitchen's closed."

Ben's eyes shot open wide as he realised the beast had destroyed his beloved chilli fries. "Oh..." Pouting he turned to look at the raven-haired boy on the bed beside him. Kevin was clearly fighting the urge to laugh at him and the brunette soon let out a deep sigh of relief. "Thank god it wasn't the Mr. Smoothie!"

x------------o------------x

End of Chapter Five

Let me just tell you, this was so hard to write. So much pain I had to endure, but I think it was worth it. What do you guys think? I'm going to see if maybe a friend of mine can help me writing the next chapter. So much is going to be in the next chapter that my hands are going to be hurting so badly. I'm not going to want to stop writing it hehe.

Thanks for reading,

Val.