Sam winced as Rocky dabbed a wet rag over the large cut making it's way up the younger man's arm. Rocky ran a comforting hand through Sam's hair, "It's all good Samtastic. You handled some pretty rough torture, I think you can handle a little water. I mean, I did rip up my own shirt for this, and I kind of liked this shirt."

The blond let out a weak laugh only to wince again, "Don't make me laugh Rocky, besides, only Spike can get away with calling me that."

Rocky shrugged silently, going back to tending his friends numerous cuts. Whoever this guy got to torture Sam, they sure knew what they were doing. Most of the injuries were superficial, but were made in such a way that they would hurt like hell. Sam sighed, staring up into the darkness invading his vision, "You think this is temporary? This blindness thing going on... I don't know what I would do if it was permanent."

The older man scowled, "Just what you always do, survive and kick ass. Besides kid, it's probably just a side effect of whatever they drugged us with or that nasty dent in your head. It's nothing to worry about."

He did worry though, he was a sniper and without his eyes... Sam just wasn't sure. It didn't matter if he could hit a guy in the face with a rock from six feet away if he couldn't hit a bulls eye with his rifle from half a block away. Sam wasn't even sure what to do in his situation. He had gotten his friend dragged into something that he shouldn't have been. Matt was his fault and now Rocky was in danger because of it. Why was Rocky even here anyways, what did Matt's dad have to gain by having him here? Sam wasn't entirely sure he wanted to know.

~*~*~*Flashpoint*~*~*~

When he woke, Sam certainly wasn't expecting to be greeted with a rush of freezing cold water. The SRU Constable gasped, trying to ignore the sudden shock to his system. Rough laughter filled his ears, causing his head to swing in the direction of the noise. "You have a good rest there Sam?" it was Matt's father again.

Sam took in a quick breath, "Why are you doing this? I know you said it was because of Matt, but why have Rocky her? Why don't you just kill me? Why are you playing these games?"

The older man sighed, "You don't understand do you? Matt never knew, that he was killed, betrayed by his best friend. But you will. I'm going to hurt you, do everything I have dreamed about since I got that call. And then I'm going to watch as your friend kills you."

Rocky snarled, "I would never kill Sam."

Matt's father just smiled, "You will."

~*~*~*Flashpoint*~*~*~

Sam was tired and dripping blood, and he couldn't even see his own damn hand in front of his own damn face as Rocky cleaned him up again. Rocky mopped up blood and water from his young friend and shook his head, "I don't know what that man is thinking, I wouldn't kill you."

Sam was silent a moment, "I'm not sure he meant it like you think. You don't know the things he wants to do... you know he used to send me letters, after they told him what happened. I always made myself read them. He would go on for pages about how it was all my fault, how I was a terrible person for killing Matt. He even wrote some of the things he wished he could do to me. My mom found out about the letters and made them stop, burned all the ones I had. But I still think about them, about how what I did turned a man I used to look up to into a monster who could think about things like that, say things like that. I used to think he was right too. I wished that I could let him kill me so I didn't have to face another day knowing that I killed my best friend, so that I wouldn't have to wake up every morning and see the picture of Matt I had taped to my bathroom mirror and know that my best friend was gone and it was my fault. He doesn't want you to kill me, he wants to turn me into a cowering mess that begs him to kill me and then he will hand you the knife and finally put me out of my misery."

"That's not true," Rocky put the rag down and grabbed Sam's face in his hands, it didn't matter that the younger man couldn't see him, Sam needed to know how serious he was. "It wasn't your fault, none of what he said was true and I know you feel guilty, but you shouldn't. You had no idea Matt was down there and know way of finding out until after everything went down. What this guy is doing to you, that makes him the real coward. He is hiding behind his goons instead of looking his son's best friend in the eye because he can't let himself admit that it wasn't your fault. He wants someone to blame and you just happened to be a convenient scape goat."

Sam sighed, "It doesn't matter, because he is still going to kill me."

Rocky smiled, "No he won't because I've got a plan."

~*~*~*Flashpoint*~*~*

A/N- Ohmygosh I am so so so so so so incredibly sorry. I've been meaning to update but I've been super busy and my Mom had to have surgery. So please don't hate me for being away for so long. I hope you like the update and hopefully it won't be very long till I post the next update and that is when we will start seeing BAMF!Sam again. I love you all for sticking with me.