Stick and Stones Chapter 8, a camp rock fanfic

After a little while Shane's eyes slowly close and he falls asleep still keeping the ice on Mitchies stomach. Mitchie wakes up feeling completely uncomfortable. She tries to lay on her back but it hurts really badly so she tries her stomach and it hurts just as bad. She sees the ice and tries to hold it on her stomach but she keeps pressing it too hard onto her stomach and it hurt. She sees Shane sitting on the chair and gets and idea. She rolls over to the side of the bed he is on, sits on his lap facing him, grabs the ice, brings it to her stomach gently, puts his hand on the ice, and puts her hand on top of his to keep it in place. She nods at it all then leans towards him and puts her head on his shoulder. Mitchie feels completely comfortable and falls asleep on him. When Shane wakes up he notices Mitchie sleeping on him. He kisses the top of her head and realizes his right hand feels really cold on one side and warm on the other side. He looks down at it and realizes that he had been holding the ice to her. Mitchie wakes up and sees him wondering about the ice. She whispers, "It hurt too much for me to hold it myself and so I figured if your hand was there then it wouldn't hurt. You never hurt me."

Shane jumps at the sound of her voice but smiles down at her. He whispers back, "I would never hurt you."

He takes hold of her hand and she whispers, "I know."

Mitchies doctor walks in as they just look into each others eyes deeply. He tells Shane that he need to put the cream on her and possibly give her pain pills. Shane agrees with the pills so as Shane puts the cream on her as the doctor goes to get the pain pills. When the doctor comes back in Mitchie is sitting on Shanes lap again. He hands Shane the pills and walks out the door again. Shane gets the water from beside her bed and pours her a cup. He never stands up in all of this. Mitchie takes her pills cautiously. Shane whispers, "Everything will be okay, im here to stay. I will always be around to protect you."

Mitchie looks up and locks eyes with him. She whispers, "Sing me a song please."

Shane murmurs back, "Does it have to be a song from Connect 3?"

Mitchie nods slowly, "Only this time."

Shane nods and starts singing.

Called you for the first time yesterday
Finally found the missing part of me
Felt so close but you were far away
Left me without anything to say

Now I'm speechless
Over the edge, I'm just breathless
I never thought that I'd catch this love bug again
Hopeless, head over heels in the moment
I never thought that I'd get hit by this love bug again

He watches as Mitchie slowly closes her eyes and relaxes comfortably.

I can't get your smile out of my mind
(I can't get you out of my mind)
I think about your eyes all the time
You're beautiful but you don't even try
(You don't even, don't even try)
Modesty is just so hard to find

I kissed her for the first time yesterday
Everything I wished that it would be
Suddenly I forgot how to speak
Hopeless, breathless
Baby can't you see?

He hums the rest of the song while putting her in bed.

Ohhh
Love Bug again

Her eyes open right after he stops and he kisses her forehead. Shane says, "Hey Mitch, I will be right out side for a little while. I need to call Nate and Jason. It should just take a minute."

Mitchie nods slowly and grimly. Shane laughs at her expression and walks out of the door. He asks the nurses if it was okay if he used their phone. The nurse looks up, sees it's him, and eagerly agrees. Shane quickly dials Nate's cell then faces Mitchies door as he listens to the phone ring. Nate doesn't answer so Shane leaves him a voicemail telling him to come soon with some clothes and possibly a comb. Shane then hurries into Mitchies room after seeing some man he doesn't know walking in. Mitchie is crying but there is no one in the room anymore except him and Mitchie. He gives Mitchie a questioning glace and she points to the window. Shane looks down as he reaches the window and sees the strange guy running towards the front road. Shane comes back to Mitchie and gently hugs her. "Who was that," Shane questioned softly.

Mitchie whispers, "That was the guy who kidnapped me. He was also in charge of the torture…"

Shane gently asks "Do you want to tell me about it? I won't pressure you but it might be better if we knew something about them and if you didn't keep things bottled in again. I will even let you hit me again if it would help."

Mitchie smiles softly then looks as if she doesn't really want to talk about it. She nods and whispers "Lock the door first. I only want to tell you but you can tell the others when im done."

Shane nods and head over to the door. He quickly locks the door and heads back to Mitchie. He sits down on his normal seat and she climbs into his lap and tells her story, "Okay so I was just walking around camp when I was hit over the head and lost consciousness. When I awoke I had no clue where I was so I tried to move but I was stuck to the chair. Chains where keeping me form moving. I couldn't feel my phone in my pocket anymore so I knew they had taken it, and then all of a sudden someone comes in with a needle and a whip. They stick the needle in my arm and I started to lose consciousness. That's when I could fell something hitting me. I partially noticed that I wasn't on the chair anymore. When I gained consciousness again I could barely move and I notice that I am not wearing my sweats anymore. My body felt like it was on fire. That's when I realized that my phone was next to the bed so I grabbed it and texted the only person I felt like I could trust at the moment…you. After I texted you I hear the key in the lock and started to cry. I figured it was the kidnappers but then I heard banging. I whispered and it sounded like you could hear me. The banging stopped and I started to lose consciousness. When you come in I was fighting and was able to open my eyes when you touched me. You touch one of my bruises and I flinched slightly before opening my eyes. I am able to talk to you before losing consciousness because of the pain. The pain seemed not so bad when I was in your arms but I knew I could trust you with my life."

Mitchie cries softly at the memory. Shane holds her in his arms until she calms down. Shane jumps at a knock on the door and a familiar voice whispers, "Its Nate but you kinda gotta unlock the door if you want the stuff."

Shane looks down at Mitchie and sees her sleeping. He gently puts her into the bed on her side then unlocks the door. Nate and Caitlyn stood right outside the room. Shane laughs and grabs the clothes from Nate, "Can you watch her while I change?"

Nate sees the pleading in his eyes and nods. After Shane heads down the hall, Nate turns to Caitlyn, "Can you go get him some food? We both know he probably hasn't left Mitchies side for very long."

Caitlyn nods and heads downstairs to the hospital cafeteria. Nate continues into Mitchies room and notices a chair incredibly close to her bad. Nate chuckles slightly at it then sat on the couch on the other side of the bed. Shane ran into the room and sat down on his chair. He puts his dirty clothes in the bag and set it on the floor then gently pushed the hair out of Mitchies face. This was a gesture Nate had never seen him do before. Nate just stared at him. Mitchie woke up and climbed into Shanes lap like she had been doing throughout her hospital visit. Nate was freaking out inside, he never let a girl do that either! Caitlyn walked in with a tray of food and almost dropped it at the sight she saw once walking in the room. Shane Gray never did that. She wanted to chuckle at the look on Nate's face but she was just as surprised as he was. Caitlyn walked over to Shane and put the food on the table next to him. She then walked over to Nate, shut him mouth, then sat down next to him. Nate turned to her and whispered, "This is not the Shane I know, well it was when we were younger but he wouldn't do this now. He really changed after she hit him."

Shane laughed, "I can hear you. Hospitals aren't really private spots. Yeah I have changed but only back to who I was."

Nate and Caitlyn smiled at him. "Hey does Mitchie need anything? Like ice or possibly good food," Caitlyn questioned.

Shane thought about it, "Yeah ice would be nice but I think you have enough food for the four of us easily. I think she will be fine."

Caitlyn headed out for ice and to just harass the nurses, she had heard about them flirting with Nate. When she came back in Nate was staring out the window and Shane looked kinda ticked off. When Nate turned he looked like the sky before a storm, peaceful but anger slowly coming. She handed Shane the bag of ice and asked, "What just happened in here?"

Shane glanced at Nate as to say you tell her. Nate got the message and replied, "Well we just got a call and it was the kidnappers and they said that Mitchie would be out of our hands soon. As in they are going to take her again."

Nate was fuming when he finished speaking. Caitlyn saw Mitchie waking up. "Nate out the door now," Caitlyn demanded.

Nate walked out the door. Caitlyn whispered to Shane before leaving, "You can decide to either tell her or not but you really can't be this angry when she sees you."

Shane nods as she walks out the door and closes it behind her. Mitchie wakes up completely. She looks up at Shane smiling but immediately frowned. "What happened Shane?"

Shane tried to distract her with the bag of ice Caitlyn had given him. She let him put it against her stomach but didn't let him get away with distracting her. "Shane what happened?"

She was really getting angry with him. Shane sighed, "Mitch, I really don't want to have to tell you, especially not with me going on tour soon."

"Shane Joseph Gray you tell me right now," Mitchie demanded.

"Wow, full name. Okay but I will regret it."

Shane then tells her what happened while she slept, well other than the conversation with Nate and Caitlyn. Mitchie looked freaked and that was when Shane got the perfect idea. "Hey Mitchie, how much would you love to go on tour with Connect 3?"

Mitchie looked up questionably and then realized what that meant. She asked, ""Would I be able to?"

Shane grinned like the Cheshire cat, "I can always throw a fit if they won't let you. Im going to go call them and ask: this time in the room with you."

Mitchie nodded quickly. Shane quickly called Connect 3's manager. When he hung up he turned to Mitchie, "You can go but you can't tell anyone but your parents. We don't want the kidnappers to know."

Mitchie nodded then called her parents and they agreed to let her go since she was safest with Shane. Mitchie turned to Shane, "I can go but you need to sit down right now."

Shane sat but asked, "Why?"

Mitchie sat down on his lap and gave him the ice, "'Cause im tired and you have been my bed the past who knows how long."

Shane laughed and let her get comfortable before putting the ice on her stomach. He chuckled gently at her child-like behavior as she slowly closed her eyes. She whispers, "I can hear your chest rumbling."

Shane smiled, "Yeah but your just too cute not to chuckle at."

Mitchie looked angrily at him, "You callin' me funny looking or something?"

Shane replied, "No im calling you a child-like cute. Like when you see this really young kid, well that's cute not ugly and you are all 'Awww' and then you have to smile. Well for me I chuckle."

Mitchie laughed, "Wow that was…an interesting…and detailed response…yeah it didn't help your cause very much but I think it was kinda cute."

Mitchie kisses Shanes cheek and she pulls away blushing. She looks away and Shane grins down at her. "Hey Mitchie you pull the child-like thing very well."

Mitchie looks up with a smile. "There is the cute girl I know."

Mitchie and Shane smile at each other.