Here is the long awaited chapter 5. I took everyone's thoughts and ideas into consideration, so hopefully this will have a little bit more emotion throughout this chapter. Also some songs will be included with some chapters because it will let all of you better understand the atmosphere of where I am taking the story. With this chapter, I couldn't find the lyrics but the song is called "Fade in/Fade out" by Daniel H Harmann.
It was 2:00 in the morning, and Wildwing was sitting on the couch waiting for his baby brother to come home. Ever since Bobby's funeral the entire team noticed Nosedive acting really odd, one minute he would lash out at anyone who even walked past him, but then the next minute he would be laughing and acting like nothing happened. At first Wildwing though it was the grief talking, but things started disappearing like bottles of medicine from the med lab and just different things that started to raise an alarm. As a big brother, Wildwing wanted to turn the other cheek and just brush it off, but as a parent, he wanted to lock up his brother and keep him safe from all harm, so instead of breaking into Nosedive's room, he decided to be the big brother and try to talk to him, which he decided was a good thing, because he didn't know Nosedive was sneaking out at all hours of the morning.
He was about to try Dive's cell phone when he heard the door open and saw the shadow of his brother come through the door, so he turned the light on and startled his brother.
"Jeeze Wildwing you scared the hell out of me, what are you doing up?"
"I was going to the kitchen to grab something to eat, when I noticed you weren't home, so I decided to wait up for you."
Looking around very nervously and trying very hard not to laugh or fall over, Nosedive smiled.
"Oh ok, well that is very nice of you to do that thank you."
"Your welcome. Now where were you?"
"Over a friends house studying for a test."
Wildwing took a deep breath and tried to remain calm.
"That's good, can I talk to you for a minute?"
"of course you can talk to me, what would you like to talk about?"
"Well for starters your drunk and don't tell me your not, because I know what drunk is and you are drunk. Secondly its 2am and don't tell me you were studying because you weren't, so my question is what's going on with you?"
Nosedive looked at his brother with confusion and shock
"Nothing is going on and I am not drunk, I'm just a little sleepy that's all, and I am hurt that you would assume things, don't you trust me?"
Wildwing got up, from the couch, and walked over to his brother.
"I want to, I really do, but your behavior this past week is drawing up a lot of red flags, so I am going to ask you this one question…are you taking anything or drinking?"
"No and that's the truth."
Wildwing nodded his head and let Nosedive go to bed, but he still had that feeling that something was going on.
The next day, while Nosedive was at school, the rest of the team was sitting around the table talking about what happened earlier.
"I really hate to suggest this, but maybe we should check his room, just be on the safe side."
"Phil's right, I mean if we don't find anything then we'll try another approach, but if we do find stuff, then we'll talk to him about it and get him help."
Wildwing looked at his manager and Duke and just shrugged.
"Maybe you're right, I just don't want to do that."
Just then the phone rang and Phil got up and answered it.
"Hello"
"Hello this is the principle at John Adams High school, is this Mr. Phil Palmfeather?"
"Yes it is."
"Good I am calling to inform you, that Nosedive Flashblade has been suspended until further notice and you may come to the school and pick him up."
"Ok, can you please tell me why?"
"Yes he was caught with 4 bottles of alcohol in his possession and when we opened his locker, we found 2 bags of cocaine."
Phil almost dropped the phone when he heard that, but quickly composed himself and answered.
"I will be right there thank you for calling."
When he hung up the phone he turned and looked directly at Wildwing.
"That was the school. Nosedive has been suspended until further notice for possession of alcohol and drugs. I have to go pick him up."
All the color on Wildwing's face left him when he heard that, and after Phil left he walked out of the kitchen, with the team behind him, and walked straight into Nosedive's room, where they found empty pill bottles all over the floor and 2 half empty bottles of vodka on his dresser.
"I'm going to kill him when he gets home. How could he do this, why didn't he come to me and just talked to me, why did he have to…"
Then he just collapsed onto the bed and started to cry.
"I cant loose him guys, I just cant. He's my best friend, he's my baby brother. I'm supposed to protect him."
Duke sat down beside him and put his hand on his shoulder.
"We all didn't know, but this is not just your fault, we are all to blame here. We should have known something was wrong, but we didn't. I promise you, you are not going to loose him, we are going to try and help him."
Just then the front door opened, and as fast as he could, Wildwing walked into the living room, grabbed Nosedive's hand and pulled him into his room.
"What the hell is your problem man, I think you just broke my hand!"
"I don't care what I just did, what the hell is all of these bottles doing in your room!"
"They are for a science project."
"Bull shit they are, what the hell is going on and don't you dare lie to me!"
"Nothing is going on?"
"YOU WERE JUST SUSPENED FROM SCHOOL BECAUSE OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG POSSESSION. I COME IN HERE AND FIND ALL OF THIS, NOW FOR THE LAST TIME WHATS GOING ON!"
Nosedive was now crying because he never heard his brother yell at him before, and it started to scare him.
"I told you nothing, now stop yelling at me, your scaring me."
"I'm scaring you…I'm scaring you…you're the one whose scaring me Nosedive, do you know what is was like for me, to come in here and find these bottles empty!"
Before anyone said anything else, Mallory stepped in between the 2 brothers with her hands out.
"Ok everyone just calm down, shouting is not going to solve anything. Now Nosedive all we want to do is help you, but we cant do that unless you tell us what's wrong?"
"But I already told you, nothing is wrong."
With tears in his own eyes, Wildwing just walked out of the room and slammed the front door, leaving the others to deal with Nosedive.
Tanya looked around the room and just sighed.
"Duke, Phil, why don't you guys try and find our leader and the rest of us will help Nosedive clean up and then maybe once everyone is calm we will be able to come up with some type of plan."
Everyone nodded and just did what they were all told.
It took a few minutes, but Phil and Duke found Wildwing sitting on the roof of the arena just staring out into the city.
Knowing that they were there Wildwing began.
"The last time I was up here was when Nosedive and I had a fight and he took off. He said that I was being more of a parent then a brother and I should back off, so I did and as a result he got into a car accident and I almost lost him, well I refuse to go through that pain and worry again. So this is what we are going to do. We are going to watch his every move. If something is missing, we are going to confront him about it. We are going to watch what he puts into his mouth and what he drinks. As for night time, he will stay with either me, the 2 of you, Canard, or Grin, and while he is in our room, we will keep the doors locked with a special code, that only we will know."
Phil walked over to his friend and sighed.
"He's not going to like this at all."
"I don't care, he lost that privilege to care about what he does."
Then looking at each other, the 3 friends walked into the pond to let everyone know the next plan of action.
Finally this is done. I hope you all enjoy and please read and review and no flames.
