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Warning: Yaoi/slash/BoyxBoy. That is all

Chapter 4: Curse of an Angel

T.K.'s PoV

T.K. looked into Tai's eyes. He couldn't think about where to start. It wasn't that he didn't want to own up to Matt's catotonic state, it was just that T.K. didn't know what to say first. Tai had been gone so long that it wasn't even funny anymore. It felt like years not just months. Finnaly the younger Ishida spoke up, his voice trembiling only slightly.

"It started before you and Yamato arived with Keenazmon. Almost two years ago actualy. The 'Digital Angels' got to Hikari and myself the day we graduated highschool. They did something to us, our minds were fogged, our emotions confuzed. We helped them get the leverage they needed to capture every one of the other Digidestined, but you being with Yamato threw our plans for a downward spiral." T.K. couldn't belive that he could finaly tink clearly for once. His mind wasn't being altered or effected in any way here. Or maybe it was who was here that allowed this full range of thought.

"We weren't even fully in controle of our actions, or our thoughts. We were aware though. The first person we got to was Ken. He wasn't with us, but he was still there, one of the original Digidestined. A Crest wielder. The way to him, was through Davis. The one thing he loved more then life it's self. Davis came with us, because he trusted us, we betrayed him. We betrayed all of you. But thats the nice part. Mimi we stole Palmon and used her for ransome. Then we used Mimi to get to Joe. Izzy was always a hard one to get to, we had trouble getting him to submit his will, but we offered him Tentomon's programing in exchange for him to meet with the Digital Angels. Yamato would have been an easy mark for Sowilomon to gain control over had you not been there. I'm glad you were though. Something inside Yamato changed right before you were thrown into the portal. Even Kari and I felt it." The younger boy looked at his old teammate with a bit of awe. Tai was the only one that had been able to escape the Angel's hold on every one. Not even Yamato had been able to fully resist.

"We all tried to resist there power over us. Kairi even tried to fight one of them after you were thrown through the portal. But Wunjomon reestablished his hold on her with out much effort." T.K. looked away from Tai's steady gaze. The older boy's eyes burning, not with hatred but with pitty, and warmth. Even his voice was soft when he spoke.

"T.K. I need to know how those damn 'Angels' got you and Kairi. You were supposed to protect her." T.K. knew that Tai was holding himself responsible for the two youngest Digidestined falling to the 'Angels'.

"Kairi has always been more intouch with every thing from that side then we have. Her Light makes her almost like a Portal for there powers. She even amplifies any Angel she is with. We can't understand it. But some how, they took her from the inside. Not just her mind, but her heart too. Once they had her, they told me if I didn't give in imediatly, they would force her to kill the one person she loved even more then me, they were going to make her kill you, Tai. I wouldn't let them do that to her, or you. You mean to much to this group, and to her. And she means to much to me to let her do something that would kill her light forever. I did what I did for love."

Tai just shook his head. T.K. could tell in the way his eyes were that he could understand.

"After you were thrown through the Portal, something changed. All of us would get a few sparce moments of time when we would be more ourselves then there slaves. I don't know if they were doing it, or if some how, your sacrifice had given us all the courage to resist. We couldn't do anything but there biding untill recently. Yamato was always the one the 'Angels' had trouble controling, they made sure he bounced around more then the rest of us. Never really getting a chance to reast, porbably to keep him to weary to resist. There hold on him was sparadic at best, but he didn't know it wasn't like that for the rest of us." T.K. was getting to the part he really didn't want to tell Tai. The part about how Sowilomon had tricked him, gotten him to probably, granted inadvertenly, stop his brother from compleatly breaking free from the Digital Angels.

"Finaly yesterday, Sowilomon was talking to Matt, and I was in the room. He made sure I could hear every word they both said. Matt was talking about turning in the leader of the Freedigi, bringing him directly to Wunjomon himself. He wanted my help to do it too." T.K. finaly broke into sobs. They had been building up since he had started telling Tai every thing. He hoped that the Digidestined of Courage could understand the rest of what happened, and forgive him...

Tai's PoV

They were still in Matt's room. His sleeping form a constant reminder of what had happened. Tai had heard T.K.'s story, and didn't hold the boy responsible for anything more then a bad judgement call. They had all been guilty of it at one point or another. Matt had tried to kill both Tai and Agumon at one point in time, and then didn't show up until the last moment in the fight with Pidemon. That was when they both had made the same vow.

~Flash back~

Tai coudln't help but feel that his body was starting to go numb from the effort of the fight. Izzy was distracting him. Why couldn't he just listen to Tai, and protect Kairi? Then WarGraymon was hit with a devistating attack, his armor and weapons destroyed. Tai's heart started to sink, he couldn't see a way out, but it was up to him to keep on fighting until the others got there. Then he heard it, the most beutiful voice, out of the night. His own personal Gaurdian Angel. Matt was back with him. When the vow was made that Matt would never leave him again, his heart swelled and the blond's Crest reacted to there bond. Garurumon's body glowed as he nuzzled the fallen digimon, and the energy was transfered to renew WarGraymon's power. Togeather WarGraymon and Metatel Garurumon stood aginst Piedmon. Yamato stood where he belonged, beside Taichi.

~End Flashback~

"T.K. I can't tell you you were wrong. You were being infulenced by these Evil digimon, but you allowed it to happen. You could have warned the rest of us, we would have helped you to free Kairi. But I understand why you did it. Love makes you do stupid things." Invonlentarily Tai looked over to the sleeping boy, his blue eyed wolf.

"I don't know how to wake his ass up, but I'm going to try. I promised him I would be there for him when he needed me. And here I am." Tai's voice was low, intimate, and kind.

"Wait one second..." T.K. said, his voice filled with confusion. Tai looked over, a blush on his face. Tai was just glad that T.K. had put on some cloths before he had come in and talked to him.

"You mean to tell me, that your in love with someone, and that someone is in a catatonic state?" T.K. was finaly understanding all that Tai hadden't said, and his face flushed. Tai's laughter made the poor boy blush even deeper.

"Yeah, and his little brother was the one that put him there." Tai said trying his hardest not to laugh at the poor boy. T.K. turned to Patamon with worried eyes.

"Did you know about this?" He pleeded with Patamon to answer him with a 'no'. The digimon just started laughing.

"How could I not know, T.K.? It's plain in the way they have always acted. Personaly I think Matt is just as in love with Tai, too." Patamon didn't even understand why the humans just blushed at his statement.

T.K. looked at the other Digidestined and smiled warmly, "I'm sorry Tai. I didn't meen to sound homophobic. You know I hang out with Davis and Ken on a regular basis. It's just that you and Matt? It just blows my mind. I'm gunna give you guys some privacy so you can do what you do." T.K. exited as if he didn't have a care in the world. Leaving Tai and Matt alone. It was time for Matt to wake up, and Tia figured one way to try was the tried and true 'Fairytale' kiss...

Matt's PoV

It was dark inside here. and all to famillier. It was as if the Darkness in his heart had returned. Only this time there was no T.K. to think about. No Tai to help. No Gabumon to bite him to get a responce. It was only him. He didn't know what to do. he was drowning in darkness again. Then there was suddenly a single beam of white light. Pure and brilliant. A voice spoke from the light, a voice all to familer to him, it was Kairi.

"Matt, don't give up. Tai is on his way to you. T.K. was being used, and fighting with you helped him gain control over his own actions again. Don't give up on the power of your Crest Matt! I won't let you, and neither will T.K. or Tai. Just have faith in there friendship." Then Matt could see her, outlined in the brilliance of her Crest's power. Light, the only Crest that could allow no room for darkness. Then slowly more lights showed through the Darkness, and in each one stood a Digidestined and there Partners, but the only one who would acknowledge him was Kairi.

"You aren't the only one fighting Darkness Matt, we all are. And even Tai is fighting the Darkness these Digimon use. He just dosen't know it." Then Matt relized that there was one pair missing. Tai and Agumon wern't among the glowing teams. Even Ken and Davis were there, but Tai wasn't anywhere to be seen.

"Kairi, where is he?" Matt asked almost in tears. He thought that Tai would be seen in this dream, if that's what it was. But Kairi just smiled and waved bye. Matt begane to actualy sleep, his mind turning from this vision to another one, one that never happened except in his dreams.

Matt and Tai were sitting beneath a willow tree outside of the camp where they had first met. They were as old as they had been back then. The innocent age of 13, and he could remember the feeling of wanting to kiss the brunet, and in his dream, he had had the courage to do it. He leaned over to Tai, catching the nape of the other boy's neck with one hand and turning his face to meet him with the other. Liquid blue eyes meeting fiery chocolat ones, there eyes slowly closing, and there lips meeting. All of Matt's feelings seemed to melt into the other boy, and Tai's into Matt. They knew every secret the other had for that one moment, that one instant of pure emotion. Matt drew back reluctently, he didn't want to spoil this dream with later learned urges. He wanted to keep it as pure as possible. But this time, when he opened his eyes, there, sitting on the bed with him, his eyes clouded over with tears and his dopey smile on his face, was Tai. But not the Tai from the dream. The real flesh and blood boy.

"I knew the 'Fairytale' kiss would work." The boy said with as he curled up to Matt. Both slipped into a deep sleep without even relising it.