Chapter 20: Into The Blue
A/N: I feel accomplished because I finally updated "Big Time Competition" but now I am sleep deprived so let's see how good or bad I do in this chapter, I'll try my best guys ok. I believe that this is probably the last chapter for "Big Time Funhouse" I feel accomplished I felt like I wasn't going to finish this story but all your reviews encouraged me to continue each chapter thank you all for reviewing and leaving such positive things about the story. I definitely owe my readers a huge favor for making my first ever story a success, so I shall make this chapter as long as it is intended to so you all can enjoy it *smiles*.
Disclaimer: Last time I have to say on this story "I do not own Big Time Rush" oh and for those of you that are wondering I played ninja and reclaimed Carlos, James, and Kendall…so I have all the guys again, guess they're going to join me for "Big Time Competition" don't tell Megan Pena! So yes, on with the chapter!
Through the fire through the rain, Through the joy and the pain, Este Amor remains the same, I'm a give you the world, Through the fights through the change, Through the nights through the days, Este amor remains the same, I'm a give you the world
The Dey-Give You the World
Carlos POV:
It has been a week since the incident of Simon, and Logan was not up yet, either he was really tired or worse he was in much more pain than I thought, my guess was on my first option…I prayed that was the case not the second one.
The nurse did say she gave him some anesthesia for the pain…maybe she put too much of it…whatever that is.
We had been exchanging shifts James and I got to visit and sometimes stay a night with Logan on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Kendall, Katie, Mrs. Knight would visit on Mondays, and Wednesdays.
The girls would all come in a group on Saturdays and help in case something happened to Logan, thank heavens nothing did.
We hadn't forgotten to check up on Snow as well, she was doing a bit better but she was recovering much more slowly than Logan was.
Today was the day that completed Logan's week of staying in the hospital, a lot of the residents of the Palm Woods asked what happened to him, but we tried to say he was in an accident rather than tell them the truth.
Guitar Dude made a get well song to Logan and The Jennifer's promised to treat Logan a bit better, at least till he recovered fully from his injuries…it didn't sound much but hay it was something for Logan to look forward to.
Mr. Bitters just was glad that we weren't making our usual ruckus in his lobby; we had Katie do that for us.
The automatic doors to the entrance to the hospital opened and the smell of medicine filled the air, maybe a mixture of the cafeteria food…I learned my lesson eating at a hospital.
James was holding a yellow bouquet and I was trying to make sure I didn't lose the "Get Well" card everyone at the Palm Woods wrote on and signed for Logan.
James took out another bouquet of the same color, my guess was for Snow, and she did save our lives after all.
As we walked in to the hospital we reached the desk, "Hi, were here to see Logan Mitchell." The nurse smiled her nice smile, she was the nice one, according to the girls there was a mean ratty nurse on Saturdays that made their lives harder than it was.
I was grateful to not have Saturdays, I looked up at James and made sure he was read to go see Logan; he gave me a nod and then stared back at the nurse who was still trying to work the computer.
"Ok, sorry for the wait the system is not my friend today." She said with a smile, then she just nodded and we continued our way to Logan's room.
I for one never liked hospitals so many bad things happen in here, but some were great moments, like child birth…after the whole screaming.
I was eager to reach to Logan's room, I had my helmet on and ready to greet him, even if he wasn't awake, it was worth it because he was breathing that is fine with me, I just hope that he gets up soon.
James grabbed the door knob and turned it slowly, due to the stuff he was carrying, "A little help Carlos!" I just nodded and grabbed the bouquets he was carrying and then he was able to open the door.
Logan's room was just how it was everything was in place, but something was missing, I tried to search, but no sign of Logan.
"Logie?" I walked in and observed the room, I just saw the bed wasn't made, so maybe Logan barely got up, but he was injured he shouldn't be up.
James grabbed the bouquet in my hands and placed them on the table next to the door and walked in as well to try to find Logan.
"Logan!" James was trying to search every corner but nothing; we started looking at each other, what happened to Logan?
The nurse walked in and saw that we were trying to find our best friend, she smiled, "Your friend Logan Mitchell was taken to your other friend Snow's room, he insisted on checking up on her."
It was the same nurse that we had talked to at the desk. James rolled his eyes and knew that he had to carry everything again to Snow's room.
One thing that was a relief was that Logan was ok; I couldn't wait to talk to Logan, maybe even Snow.
We reached the end of the hall and turned left and found a bright light on one of the rooms, I checked the room number and found it to be Snow's room.
When James and I entered the room we started feeling a small breeze and saw Logan sitting on his knees he was shaking, he also had something in his hands.
James and I ran to his aid worried that he probably hurt himself, but he was fine he just insisted on just staring at the wall.
I saw that some tears where on his eyes, I then saw the object in his hands and it was a folded up paper, I wasn't sure what this was all about.
"Sh…"Logan tried to say something but then he sniffed, without saying anything else he handed the folded paper to James.
"What's this?" even James was confused to what Logan had handed to him just now, he started unfolding the paper and saw that there was a note.
"It's a note…from Snow…" James sounded like he was having the hardest time trying to go on, "What's it say?" I was more curious now that it was from Snow.
James tried to clear his throat and then he started to read.
Dear Big Time Rush,
You guys were amazing to me since we met at that horrible incident with Simon; I still regret changing sides that brief moment. If I could go back in time I would change that moment in life, I didn't mean to cause Carlos pain of betrayal or to Logan…I just had a lot in my mind at the time. You guys may not know this about me, but Simon was my reason on coming to Los Angeles and attending the circus that was in town. There was a moment in my life were I had nowhere to run or no one to talk to as I felt like the world on my shoulders was getting heavier than I thought I could carry it. I had bumped into Simon through my last "friend" and ever since Simon has…been there for me, he was the person I could go and talk to about my problems and I could cry to. He knew everything about me, how my parents were on the verge of a divorce and how they had very little funds to help pay the bills around the house. Things were getting out of hand and I had to put a stop to it and gain happiness in our home. Simon had suggested a job that would pay a lot, he told me the money for this "job" was greater than any other everyday job, and that I would be good at it…if I played his ways. I didn't know what to do so I decided to lie to my parents and tell them that I had gotten accepted to Roque Records for a singing contract. The guilt to this day has been eating me alive and I hated lying to my parents that day, but I always told myself that this was for them, for our happiness, for us not to worry anymore. So I took a plane to Los Angeles and decided to meet up with Simon….but….the night we first arrived Simon had gotten told to get rid of a couple of teenagers that were snooping around and they had heard a conversation of the people that Simon works for and he ran. Simon was given the mission to seek and destroy, I had no idea what was going on till Simon bought back a young boy around you're guys age. He violently tossed him to the floor, then I asked him what he was doing with him, then he just started torturing the poor child and said those horrifying words, "I'm getting paid." He had said it with no voice anymore, seeing this scared me a bit and I walked out of the hotel….when I came back Simon was gone and the child that was once alive was dead and his head was chopped. I didn't know what to do I just screamed in horror and ran out of the house. I was traumatized on what Simon was sent here to do, and then while I was walking down the streets of Los Angeles Simon came out of the dark and handed me his hand and said, "We have much more work to do and so much payment, this job is much big and is hard to refuse, I will gladly share with you the money split, if you assist me on my quest." I wanted to quit and go back home and tell my parents the truth before anything else went out of hand, but I didn't I couldn't I had to come back with money. The worst part of all this was that Simon had never told me that the ones he was after were you guys "Big Time Rush" I put the pieces together when I met Logan and Carlos, I knew I couldn't go along with Simon's plan so I needed to help you guys out, but when Simon found out I was helping you guys out, I had to confuse him and make him think that I was just leading you boys on, this was the hardest part ever. Luckily, it all worked out, I am ever so deeply sorry that I didn't get to help you all since before Logan had gotten kidnapped. I did what I did to help repay for my stupidity, as I write this letter to you boys I feel like I have known you all for a while, but I also know that some friendships are hard to let go…I for one have to let go, I need to go back to my family back in Florida. I decided to come out clean and tell them the story; hopefully I won't get as much trouble for telling them. By the time you all read this letter I am probably an a ticket back to Florida, thank you all James, Kendall, Logan, Carlos, Amy, and Megan for being there and helping out even when it should be the other way around to me. Don't feel saddened by this it's not goodbye, that's for those that have lost loved ones, but more of a "see ya later" kind of thing I guess….so before I take up some more time I would like to say thank you, all of you and see ya later.
Sincerely Snow
James was shaking as he read the letter; I was in utter shock on what the note had said. We walked up to Logan and placed our hands on his shoulder and tried to calm him down.
I felt like he was blaming himself for letting Simon kidnap him, but he did it to protect us, no matter how much we tried to blame ourselves there was nothing we could have done any better to protect one another and that was what we felt Logan was, he was trying to protect us just like Snow was protecting us.
We picked up Logan and carried him back to his room, we had to be extra careful due to his injuries every movement gave him more tears in his eyes.
We had passed a couple of nurses that were willing to help us carry Logan; some even asked if he was ok.
James and I would just shake our heads sideways to tell them that we had it under control; the nurses just looked at us doubtfully.
"Ok, Logie, here we are back into your room nice and cozy." I left to try to find a pillow for Logan.
Luckily James was here and he was being a much bigger help than possible. I was searching around and found that the lady that would pass by with extra stuff was not around, and then I decided to go inside an abandoned room.
I saw that the hospital bed was empty and I saw that the pillow was just there and I took it, then I felt a sudden cold air lift from the window in the room I was in.
"Weird, I didn't open a window?" I turned around to find out I wasn't talking to myself anymore, right in front of me she was standing, she had a lot of bandages and a cast covering her injuries from before.
The wind was blowing her hair along the cool breeze as she just stood there on the ledge, "Snow…" was all I could say.
She just stared at me as I debated on whether to run to get Logan and James or try to prevent her from jumping.
She smiled at me and turned to the opposite direction, I knew she was going to jump so I tried to form words.
"Wait! Snow…I…" she paused for a brief moment and turned.
"Carlos, I think I have caused enough harm…I think it's best if I just go off now…" her voice was monotone and something was off on the way she had said that she wanted to leave, something told me she didn't want to leave.
"Snow…you didn't cause any harm at all, in fact…we wouldn't be here today if it weren't for you." I hadn't noticed that Snow had finally turned back on my direction.
Her eyes faced the ground, "How could you say that…after I decided against all odds to try to help out…Simon. You said it yourself "This was my entire fault" I wouldn't be able to live with the guilt about the recent incident that occurred these past few days…"
I heard footsteps come into the room, but I had no intension to turn around to try to figure who came in.
"No Snow, I was stupid…I was caught in the moment…how was I supposed to react to all of the recent incident that happened these past few days, I was just so angry, so torn that someone so vile like Simon was roaming around willing to hurt innocent people." Saying the word Simon sounded all too foreign when I said it.
"That doesn't change the fact that I stupidly fell for Simon's antiques Carlos!" I saw that tears were now falling from her eyes and I knew that this hurt her.
"You couldn't help it he played your family into this." I turned to see that James was behind me along with Logan, Megan, Amy, and Kendall.
"Snow just listen to us, we really would feel awful if you just left without a trace, we wouldn't have ever had the chance to say thank you." James sounded more confident than ever before.
"I wouldn't have been able to face my fears of clowns if it weren't for the fact that we went through all this Kamikaze." Logan smiled, his eyes were still red but he wasn't crying anymore.
Everyone else turned in confusion on what Logan had just said, "You were afraid of clowns?" James and Kendall said.
"Whoops, I guess the cat is out of the bag huh Carlos…." Logan just smiled apologetically, I just turned to Snow.
"Snow, please we would appreciate it if you could come and live at the Palm Woods, we could help you and your family…you can stay there in the meantime as you try to get a great job here in LA." I knew I had to pull as many strings with Mr. Bitters on this later but it was a risk I was willing to take to keep Snow around to not give up on her parents.
Her eyes were still gazed at all of us and then they would trail off a lot of the times out the window, "I…can't accept that, I have decided as I wrote in the note Carlos and I don't think living in the Palm Woods would change anything…I am utterly grateful that you accepted my apology, but I will forever carry on that moment when I selfishly stood against you all."
"Thank you guys for hearing me out, but please one thing I would love for you all to do is to stay together you all are like a puzzle piece…without the other the puzzle couldn't be complete." Without deciding she jumped off the window.
We all ran to see where she jumped to, and nothing we saw nothing…no sign or trace of Snow what so ever.
The cool breeze struck our faces and then we were back at the empty bed.
It was Kendall who spoke and broke the silence in the room.
"Guys, listen…Snow knows what she's doing and I think we should consider that she was even able to say goodbye to us." Megan walked to the window again and then turned to us.
"So…does this mean that Logan gets to go home now?" we all just turned to face Logan, who was facing the ground.
"We wouldn't know, the doctor hasn't said anything." Logan looked up and finally accepted what Snow had said earlier.
"I think I rather stay to recover for brief while longer guys." Megan and Amy sighed in annoyance and then we just got up and hugged them.
"I think the doctor would be the judge of that." James said.
It had been over two days since Logan had left the hospital and things seemed to be back to normal.
James was soaking up the sun, Camille was still all over Logie, of course Logan hated the fact that the doctor gave him a cast, he never wore it.
Doesn't mean that it isn't in good use, because I got it…I would sometimes play pranks and get hurt trying to do some crazy things, so the cast came to excellent use.
Kendall and Jo were on a date so they were somewhere else…Mr. Bitters was still Mr. Bitters, Katie was more than happy to have all of us back, and so did Mrs. Knight.
I had recently gotten a phone call from my dad explaining that he had to go back to Minnesota, which was ok because he deserved a day off after what had happened.
And me…well today I was bummed because Megan had gotten a phone call from her mom saying that she was not going to live at the Palm Woods, she was willing to accept Megan to her house until she got another job.
"Do you really have to go?" Megan stared at me; she was wearing my helmet as she was packing her things.
"Yes Carlos, my mom won't stop calling me begging for me to go home." I stared at her in confusion.
"Come on it can't be that bad?" Megan opened her phone and showed me all her missed calls, and then she started dialing something.
"What are you…" "Wait" Megan interrupted.
"Hear this." She placed her phone in my ear, "Honey, please you have to come home….your dad is being himself again." The beep of the next message came on.
"Call me when you get home honey…hopefully really soon." I stared at the phone and back at her "Whoa"
She laughed then she got all serious.
"I have over 30 messages of her asking me to come home, not to mention texts of her constantly nagging to get to her…it annoys me so…until I finally called her back and told her that I was leaving, then she stopped calling." I chuckled at the fact that Megan was all annoyed by her mom's constant worries.
"You definitely have to come and visit, just like Amy does…by the way did Amy already leave to go back home today?" I tried to find her, but she wasn't in site.
"Yeah, she told me to tell you to tell James that she'll come visit maybe next weekend…" she giggled and then started closing her suit case.
"So, you ready Carlos?" I was still trying to figure out what she told me about James still, "Oh, huh?"
"To take me to the airport…" she stayed quiet and then quickly hugged me. I hadn't noticed but Megan and I had been giving each other a lot of hugs and have hung out a lot together.
I could still remember the resent moments I had with Megan here at the Palm Woods, even though that Kendall did try to tell her that he wasn't ready to move on from Jo, she wasn't so mad or sad about Kendall's decision.
I guess that was why we hung out more these past few weeks that Logan was at the hospital.
"I really hate leaving you like this…" I blinked for a brief moment and just looked at her.
"This doesn't have to be a goodbye you know, it could be more like a…see ya later kind of thing." I shrugged my head trying to make sense of it all.
Megan smiled and pushed her hair that was in the way of her face, "Yeah, that's true, and if my parents don't let me come to visit, I'll make sure I run away and I'll know who the first person will be to greet me."
"Ha-ha yeah, just make sure you don't REALLY run away, I don't want your parents coming after me or anything." I said shaking my hands in the air.
"I'll go get Mrs. Knight and let her know that you're ready to leave…" I turned, "That would be great." Was all Megan had said.
We were already in the car on our way to the airport, Mrs. Knight was driving, Katie was on the passenger's side, and Kendall, James, and Logan were in the seats behind Mrs. Knight and Katie.
Megan and I on the other hand were in the far back of the car, I was debating throughout the whole ride whether to hold Megan's hand or not…I wasn't really good with the ladies, James was.
Luckily Mrs. Knight ran through a bump and I had grasped Megan's hand in contact. We both had blushed and turned away for a brief moment.
From my side of the window the airport was in sight as we reached to search for a parking spot.
As we got off the car, I ran straight to the trunk and retrieved Megan's luggage, "I can take your bags."
Megan smiled and just nodded. The walk to the airport was sort of exhausting as I was carrying a bunch of luggage, I felt like a hound.
As we made it to the gate entrance I immediately dropped the entire luggage and made a loud "sigh".
"Carlos, we could have helped out with the bag you know…" my eyes must have dilated as I turned, because everyone just backed away a bit.
I ran to one of the seats that were provided for the people waiting for flights and tried to catch my breath after carrying Megan's entire luggage. I saw that Megan had walked up to my left side holding on a big grin.
"You're not making it any easier for me to leave Carlos." I felt a stupid smile show as I knew that she didn't want to leave anymore.
"Megan, hurry or you're going to miss your flight!" Mrs. Knight said breaking the moment, I couldn't believe that this probably going to be the last time I see Megan.
"I'm going to miss all of you so much; we all had such a crazy adventure." Megan walked up to Kendall first.
"Hay kid, take care of Jo…she's a lucky girl and she's really not that mean once you've hung out with her." Kendall smiled and hugged Megan. "Thanks for understanding Meg….I…we will definitely miss you." Kendall said breaking away from her hug.
Megan walked up to James, "James you look terrible!" James took out his portable mirror and let out a girly shriek, "I DO!"
"No, you're hot, now stop worrying." Megan giggle, "I'm going to miss doing that to you James." James stared at her evilly then just smiled and hugged her.
She walked up to Logan, "I'm going to miss you Logan, make sure these boys don't drop out of school ok, you're their only hope." She giggled and Logan let out his grin.
"Hay, I got a "B" in the last project…technically I'm smarter than him…" Logan smiled, "But I did all the work you just had to spell your name Einstein." I mimicked him and then we started smacking each other.
"Oh you guys stop….STOP IT!" Megan grabbed our hands and pulled them off, "Carlos, please don't try to kill Logan…also, I'll try to convince my parents to stay in the Palm Woods…I don't guarantee you I will come back, but hay it's worth a try…I'll call you when I can ok."
"Awesome, make sure to text me first and I'll tell you if we are with a day off or not ok." I said with my stupid smile in my face.
"Ok, Kendall please tell Katie I said goodbye." Megan turned around and started walking to the line going in the plane.
"Come on guys we have to go, Gustavo says he needs you boys to start recording again." We all groaned knowing that we had to go back to all the yelling, but hay…it was worth it.
Before we walked out of the airport we saw Megan sitting in the plane as it started taking off, she turned and spotted us and waved.
All of us started waving and then the plane she was on started moving and it lifted to the sky.
As we saw the plane disappear into the sky, we all just walked back in the car; we knew that we were going to be doing a lot of work after Gustavo issued us a "Vacation"
As we were sitting in the car I saw that Logan was actually much more happier than when this whole adventure had started, he was nervous and quiet and now he's more open minded and he started talking to Camille like if he wasn't afraid of her anymore.
"What you staring at Carlos?" Logan asked in confusion, I just smiled, "Nothing Logie, nothing at all."
A/N: I can't believe that this story took me longer than I had expected, I had to download another Word, not to mention college is now in session…I despise writer's block because that's all I got while trying to update the last and final chapter…but after going through Homework, School, Word expiring, writer's block, and my Insomnia, I have finally updated this chapter. I am now fully dedicated to "Big Time Competition" please review and tell me what you thought about this story, it being my first and all. The O/C's for "Big Time Competition" the deadline is on Friday 28th, so make sure to submit, that day I will post up the winners of the O/C contest and the first chapter of "Big Time Competition" because the first one was a Prologue so Chapter 1 will begin after the deadline so submit ok you guys…I feel strange as this is the last author's note for this chapter…
