Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry I took so long. I had the chapter written and rewritten many times cause I had no idea how to convey what I wished to convey and yeah...Also Christmas came and well I had lots of things to do and places to be. Sorry! Sorry Sorry! :( Hope you like it. Here it is. I still don't like it that much, but I guess I'll never like it at all. More will be coming soon I hope. :) Enjoy.

Within the darkness I waited for my torment to pass, for this cruel torture to end. Within the darkness I feared for myself and the future that awaited me when this had come to pass. Would I ever get over this? How could I ever keep moving forward with the weight of this moment in my memories? God...What did I ever do to deserve this? Why? Why? Why was I receiving such punishment? In the dark, no answer came at first. But then came a wet feeling rolling down my cheek. And another came after that one and another and another. My once empty darkness became nothing but the wet sensations that came and went. And so, I dared to open my eyes and I saw Li...Truant's face...Truant's heart-wretching face. His hands fisting his hair, his eyes closed with tears falling like rivers down his cheeks, his mouth open in a silent scream of everlasting despair, his sickeningly thin and manhandled frame hunched as he sobbed. He was the picture of a God forsaken man, of a tormented and defeated man. At first, I had been scared by him. Even thinking about what had transpired between us and what could've been between us, sent shivers down my spine. But...upon seeing him suffer like that, seeing him cry like if he had all but been brought to this earth to suffer, my heart ached and beat with pain within me. Slowly with a shaky arm and a still dubious resolve I raised a hand towards his face and caressed his tear stained cheek. The contact of my skin on his made the damp brake and he collapsed all over me and hid his face in the junction of my shoulder and neck. He wailed so brokenly that even a small tear of mine made itself known. He clung to me as if I were a life line and I returned the embrace to reassure him I wasn't going anywhere. He wailed and sobbed, as well as murmured and whispered incoherent words and phrases. I just massaged his back and comforted him with some gentle and kind words. And in my comforting I felt the multiple lacerations and bruises on his back and I was careful not to cause further damage. Sometimes he will shiver as he sobbed when my touch crossed a recent or deep one. "Shh...Link...Shhh...It's alright. I am here." I kept on saying. "Nothing would happen to you. I am here." I soothed his lithe frame as my eyes took in the devastating state of his apartment. What had happened here? I felt his embrace tighten around me.

"Link." I called sweetly. "Come on. Let's sit, okay? Yeah?" I helped him sit up, the poor guy still sobbing nonstop. "Link...Link look at me." I grabbed his chin gently and force him to look at me. Yet his ice cold blue eyes aren't looking my way and his once incessant sobbing stopped all together. I tried to meet his gaze but even when my eyes landed on his, it seemed he could see pass through me. His entire demeanor was frozen on spot and whatever thoughts crossed his mind reflected on how quick his eyes scanned the wall behind me. From the looks of it, his thought process was fast and constant. "Link?" I questioned when the seconds ticked by one by one. "Link? Hey? Everything okay?" I placed my hand upon his shoulder and noticed that although the sobbing had stopped, the shivering was still ever present in his lithe and mangled form. Besides that, I could hear some sort of mumble coming from him. I reduced the distance between us in order to interpret the otherwise unknown words he was whispering. At first, he only said monosyllables. The word "no" being the most present. But then, the cadence of the words became phrases. Scary ones at that, that made me shiver as well.

"No...No...No...No...Stay back...No...No...Don't come any closer...Get away...Get away...Please..." His whispering was laced with terror. His words combined with the presence of his shivering made me feel a bit unsettled.

"Link?" Did he want me to go away? Was I something to be terrified about? I mean, I knew I wasn't actually the nicest guy around, but still...to be scared to the point of shivering was a bit out of hand. I tried to cross gazes with him, but even with my best efforts he kept staring at the wall. What was there that was so interesting to him? Or was he petrified by my presence? I leaned my head backwards so I could lay my eyes where his were. And...I found nothing. What was going on here?

"No...no...no...please...No...Stay back...Stay back...STAY BACK!" He out of the blue pulled, quite brusquely, away from me. His hand smacking strongly my cheek before he began to crawl backwards.

"HEY!" I reprimanded while I kneaded my stinging cheek. "What..." Anything I was about to say died when I saw his extremely pale face and bulging blue eyes. He was shivering so fiercely and I feared his teeth will crack with the force of it. I tried to reach him but he flinched and leaned as far away as possible.

"STAY AWAY!" He yelled once more and jumped out of the bed, landing poorly on his behind. "DON'T TOUCH ME! DON'T YOU FUCKING TOUCH ME!" He screamed as I tried to reach him with my hand.

"Link...Wait..." I stood up and walked his way, but he moved aside as if my touch were a deathly one. "Link!"

"I TOLD YOU TO STAY AWAY!" He screamed and pull at his hair. "LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE ME ALONE!" I couldn't understand what was happening. He was a roller coaster of emotions and outbursts. A second he was aggressive and the next thing you know he was as vulnerable as a sheep. I couldn't for the life of it know what to do or say. But...what was even more worrisome was that in his struggling he was straining his multiple wounds. I still held no clue as to where he got them from and I feared for his health with each harsh movement he made. There was just too much blood, too many bruises littered his body and his mental state was deplorable. I kept asking myself what could have possibly happened and how did I even fit in all this puzzling and dramatical play. Link lay beaten and broken before me. He looked so...so lonely. I tried to reach him once more but he recoiled and stood up. His eyes never looked my way, but rather all around the room. Almost as if...as if there was something there. Something that for him was real and absolutely terrifying. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" He screamed and ran for the bathroom. I tried to follow but the door was slammed on my face, a sudden crack followed by a stinging and burning sensation in my nose followed as I crashed down unto the floor.

"FUCK!" I exclaimed as I brought my hand to my nose, my watery eyes closed. I felt wetness flowing down my nostrils. I looked at my hand and saw red liquid staining my pale fingers. "MY NOSE! YOU BROKE MY..."

"GET AWAY! NO! NO! NO! NO! DON'T COME NEAR!" His voice echoed in the bathroom. I sat up a bit straighter, forgetting the pulsating pain in my nose.

"Link?" My anger was replaced with concern. "Link? Are you alright? What's going on in there?" I stood up and tried the doorknob. It was locked. Why was it locked?

"NO! PLEASE! NO! GET AWAY! GET AWAY! HELP! HELP!" He sounded terrified. Panicked was more like it. And it only spurred on my concern and worry. What was happening there? I heard something crash and a wail of despair reverberated through the room. I couldn't take it anymore. I banged the door hoping Link will open up.

"LINK! LINK! OPEN THE DOOR!"

"NO! AAAHHHH! AHHH! HELP! PLEASE! NO...No...NOOOO! CLOUD! CLOUD! HELP ME!" I banged and banged as hard as I could. My hands had become red and swollen and I swear I splintered the wood and managed to cut my palms and knuckles. But my pain was nonexistent when it came to Link's well being at the moment. Another crash and thud, and I was practically using all my body to bring down the door. He was calling for me! He needed me! And I wasn't about to let him down. Not this time. Not this time. NOT THIS FUCKING TIME!

"LINK!" I screamed when his painful cries came and came, louder and louder. I was physically shivering. What was happening in there? Why was Link in pain? WHAT WAS GOING ON? "FUCK IT ALL! LINK I AM BRINGING DOWN THIS FUCKING DOOR!" I took some distance and ran to break my wooden obstacle. The door finally yielded and I came through.

"Heh...you came...you really came..."

"..."

"Heh...never thought you will..."

"...Li..."

"It's alright...I am alright..."

"...Link..."

"Heh...They won't bother me...not anymore..."

"Link...What have you done?"

"Nothing... nothing matters anymore, though..."

"What have you fucking done?"