Chapter two, yay! I'm writing a lot this week.
Caine groaned loudly, finding himself in his bed at the secret moof base Sam had created. Someone had removed his shoes and jumper, that someone was in the room came into the room.
'How did you manage to get yourself tranquilized?' Astrid sound like Diana, sarcastic and laughing at him all the way.
Caine tried to get up, swinging his legs out of the sheets to fast, going dizzy. The next thing he knew, Astrid was holding him up, pushing him back onto his bed.
Astrid had to push him back twice before he gave up trying to get up and just laid there. She laughed; he was funny when he was drugged up. He tried to glare, but it didn't work with out of focus eyes.
Astrid went to work on the red hole in his side, pulling his loose black polo shirt up. He told her the leave him alone and she poked the sore skin around it, he yelled out, and slapped her hands away weakly.
She laughed and he growled, glaring at her. Astrid met his still kind of dilated eyes, smiling.
'You're evil' he mumbled weakly. She laughed and he tried to get up again, landing in her arms. Astrid pushed him down hard, the world spun and she bandaged the wound.
Caine moved an uncoordinated hand, missing the bandage. Astrid moved his hand.
He mumbled a thank you, and then asked for some water.
Astrid came back and lifted him into a sitting position, putting the glass to his mouth. He accidently put his hand on top of hers to drink from it, pulling back quickly.
Astrid looked at him weird, and then smiled. Caine gulped it all down then patted his pockets. 'Sam's got your phone.' Caine nodded, and then told her about Pete. She hugged him tightly before pulling back to look at his bewildered face, thanking him for giving her hope.
The world went blurry again; she helped him down and watched as his eyes fought to stay open.
She went to stand up but he grabbed her arm, 'Thank you Astrid.' She turned back to him, only to find he had fallen asleep.
That was one of the things that had changed about Caine since the FAYZ ended. He hadn't been one to thank people.
Astrid was happy knowing the location of her brother, all she needed now was to make a plan to rescue him. She walked down the hall into Sam's room. Sam had changed too; he didn't smile as much and had horrible nightmares every night.
Sam was flicking through Caine's phone, copying the information out into a note book. Next to most of the names Sam was writing the powers of the kids that he knew. He sighed and looked up at her; she hated how depressed he was nowadays.
'How is he?' Astrid started crying inside; she missed the old Sam, the Sam that got up and hugged her whenever they met, and the Sam that knew when she was upset and asked what was wrong. 'Fine' she answered, hiding her emotions.
Sam sighed and got back to his work. Astrid left the room quickly before she started crying.
Dekka and Edilio watched as Astrid hurried off, they exchanged looks. The girl was obviously upset. Dekka headed after Astrid and Edilio knocked on Sam's door.
'Astrid?' Dekka lent against the wall next to her bedroom door, listening to Astrid's muffled sobs.
Edilio open the door, Sam was writing in a note pad- frowning, as was his custom nowadays. Dekka ran in behind him when he was about to talk to Sam, pulling him out of the room, shaking her head.
They both walked away.
Caine drifted in to consciousness much later that night, the clock on his bedside read 00:27. He strained his ears, someone was crying- it sounded like Astrid next door. Slowly, Caine slipped his feet out onto the cold night floor, changing his holed shirt for a clean grey t-shirt and swapping his black cargo pants for borrowed jeans.
Caine tiptoed out of his room and knocked on her door. The sobbing sounds stopped, he heard her sniffing and sipping her face of tears.
The door open and Astrid looked surprised, 'I didn't expect you to be able to stand until the morning at the earliest! What are you doing up?'
Caine smiled, leaning against the door frame, 'I couldn't sleep, are you okay Astrid?...'
She dipped her head and wiped her eyes again, 'I was crying that loud?...' Caine went dizzy again, grabbing the door frame as the hallway spun. Her eyes flew up and she held him steady until his world realigned. 'Are you okay?' she asked, not wanting to answer the question
'Fine, for someone that got drugged,' he looked at her, concerned, 'what's wrong Astrid.' Not a question, an order for her to tell him, Caine hadn't changed that much.
'Nothing' she sighed, he wiped a stray tear off her cheek. 'Nothing? You don't cry over nothing. Is it you're brother?' she shook her head, 'is it my brother?' Astrid looked at the white rug on the floor of her room, curling her toes in it.
'What's happened between you and Sam?' Astrid met his worried eyes.
She had been holding it in too long, 'I-'
Caine nearly collapsed again, his knees giving way. She caught him, practically dragging him to sit on her bed while his vision blurred.
Caine smiled weakly. 'Sam's changed, he doesn't look at me the same, he doesn't smile, doesn't laugh at my jokes. I'm just...' Astrid sighed, 'It's making me depressed.'
Caine put a hand on her shoulder, comforting yet still to hold him up as his eyelids turned to lead. Astrid noticed him falling asleep and helped him stand. He yawned as she held him up in a hug, Caine went to make his own way back to his room, but Astrid wouldn't let go. He hugged her back as she cried into his shoulder.
Caine was practically falling asleep in her when she let go, she muttered and apology. He yawned again, wider. Astrid helped him down the corridor.
She opened the door to his room, Caine leaning half-asleep against the wall. She went to help him inside but he thanked her and insisted on walking the last two metres to his bed, smiling as best he could.
Then Astrid shocked him by kissing him on the lips before he could stumble into his room, pushing him against the wall. He didn't move, even as she pulled away and flew back to her room, slamming the door.
Wearily, he stumbled into bed, too tired to think.
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