One-With-Darkness: Here's the second chapter! =^,^=
'I don't want to die, please...help me!'
A young man named Sora was just getting ready for bed when his brother, Roxas burst through the front door.
Not to say Sora wasn't shocked in the first place but what shocked him more than Roxas' haggard appearance, was the tears running in rivers down his face and the unconscious, silver haired teen in his arms.
"What happened?" was the first thing out of Sora's mouth.
"T-there's no time to explain, please! He needs help! "
Sora was even more shocked by his brothers exclamation, but quickly recovered, seeing the state that the silver haired boy was in.
Quickly grabbing his keys, jacket, and cell phone, Sora headed out the door to his car, not caring that he was in his pajamas and that he wasn't on call at the hospital, he wasn't about to turn away someone in need.
"Come on, we need to hurry, we don't know how badly he's injured" he told the blond as they got in the car.
"I know enough" Roxas growled in a dangerous voice, one that Sora knew, promised physical harm to the one responsible for getting him angry.
"Tell me then" Sora asked as he drove quickly through the snowy town.
After calming himself down and rearranging the silver haired boy in his lap to rest more comfortably against his chest, Roxas told him what he had seen on the other teens body.
Needless to say, Sora was pissed.
"Don't you worry Roxas, were almost there and as soon as I know he's stable in going to find out who did this to him." an uncharacteristic smirk spread across Sora's face. "DNA testing is a wonderful thing isn't it" he said as they pulled into the hospital.
Roxas nodded, looking down at the poor unconscious boy in his arms.
'Don't you worry dark, I'm going to get you help, then I'm never letting you go. Not ever, I promise' he thought.
~At the hospital 4 hours later~
Roxas sat anxiously in the waiting room, waiting for Sora to come back from the ER to tell him how dark was.
He knew though, that what Roxas would tell him would be bad.
Just as he thought this, an exhausted looking Sora came out of the ER.
"Roxas, come on, I'll take you to his room" Sora said, seeing Roxas stand up as soon as he came into the room.
Roxas nodded and followed Sora to his silver haired friends room.
What he saw shocked him, though he could only see Dark's upper body, he could tell that Dark was in very bad shape.
Darks long hair was tied in a messy, tangled pony tail, most likely to keep it out of his wounds while they had been working on him. His torn ear had been cleaned and a bandage had been put over the cut so it wouldn't get infected. Dark's entire chest, neck and wrists were covered in bandages, though the ones around his neck weren't bloody, like the ones on his chest and around his wrists were. And not only that, but Dark was extreamly thin, too thin to be healthy. But what worried him the most was the fact that Darks breath was harsh and labored. Though he was extremely happy that dark's skin had gained back its normal shade of pale.
"Why is his breathing like that?" Roxas asked as he pulled up a chair next to Dark's bed and sat at his side, taking his hand gently in his own.
"Well he had several cracked/broken ribs, so he'll be like this for a while" Sora said sadly.
Roxas looked pleadingly up at his brother
"Please tell me he'll be ok" Roxas' voice was barely above a whisper. "Please" he pleaded "I can't live knowing that it's all my fault that he died"
Sora could have cried at how broken his brother's voice sounded
"It's not your fault" he said, laying a hand on Roxas' shoulder.
"B-but it is..." Roxas' voice cracked as tears filled his eyes. "I-if I had just t-taken him with me..."
"Roxas, look at me"
Roxas looked up at his brother, tears beginning to make their way down his face.
"It's not your fault" Sora said firmly, "There was absolutely no possible way for you to know this was going to happen. And even if you did, how would you have helped him? You had and still don't have any idea where he lives, so stop beating yourself up because of this. Your here now, and that's what matters, ok?"
Roxas nodded, but the tears didn't stop.
Sora sighed and grabbed a tissue from the nearby table and whipped them away.
"Stop crying ok, he's going to be fine. Now calm down and I'll tell you what we know"
Slowly, Roxas was able to calm down and had stopped crying.
"Alright" Sora said, grabbing a clipboard from the end of Darks bed. "From the way you are acting, can I assume this boy's name is Dark?"
"Yes, he's the other boy who was with me when I was kidnapped"
Sora nodded and wrote 'Dark' at the top of the paper the clipboard held, since he knew the boys name now, then looked back up at Roxas.
"Well at the moment, Dark is extreamly malnurished. He has broken and cracked ribs, along with severe lacerations all along his back, chest, around his ankles, thighs and wrists, several on his back and chest seem to have been caused several months before now because they are already scars." Sora said with a frown. "So far we don't know who did this, as the results for the DNA samples we took haven't come back, but we do know that whoever did this, caused a lot internal bleeding when they raped Dark"
Roxas growled silently when he heard the word 'Raped' but allowed Sora to continue without interrupting him.
"But there's something else. We don't know how it was caused, but it seems as if Dark's vocal cords are working, but he can't speak. He was awake for a few minutes during the operation and it seems that he can make noise, but other than that, we got nothing." Sora said as he set the clipboard down tiredly. "Can you think of anything that could have caused this Roxas?"
Roxas gave a sad sigh.
"Yeah, I do" He said, looking down at the unconscious silver haired boy. "It was them, Organization XIII took his voice away"
"How the hell did they do that?"
"They were experimenting with the human voice. They wanted to make it so that Dark could speak in someone's mind, but the experiment wasn't a complete success. Dark lost the ability to speak out-loud, now all he can do is make sounds. The only way you can hear him speak is if you have skin contact with his lips and, depending on the intimacy of the touch, the clearer his thoughts become. For example, if I were to kiss Dark, I could hear every single thought that passed through his head as long as the contact remained, but if it was just my hand, I could only hear what he wanted me to" As Roxas spoke, he reached up and stroked Dark's cheek gently, keeping his other hand closed around Dark's. "And because the outcome of the experiment wasn't what they wanted, they tried to dispose of Dark, and that was the night we were able to escape"
Sora, who had been silent throughout Roxas' explanation, finally spoke up
"Strangely enough that actually makes sense" he said.
Roxas smiled sadly at Sora before a yawn escaped his mouth.
"Tired?" Sora questioned softly
"Yeah, a bit"
Sora stood and grabbed a blanket from the a cabinet in the connected bathroom and handed it to Roxas.
"I'm going to go write up a report, the DNA test should be done in the morning, get some rest. If he wakes up, calm him down first then call me ok?"
Roxas took the blanket and stood to hug his brother, letting go of Darks hand for a moment.
"Thank you so much Sora, I'll call you if anything changes"
Sora smiled and hugged him back
"You're welcome, I'll see you later" he said, pulling out of the hug "good night"
"Night"
After Sora left, Roxas took his place back next to Dark and sighed.
"I'm here Dark. I'm never leaving you again"
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