I bet I worried you, eh? Don't be scared though, Matt's not hurt. And sadly, I want to try and finish this up in the next chapter or two.

And, to make up for the really crappy, really short last chapter, I made this one extra long for you guys! If you don't reviewww, I don't updatee! (Oh, and btw, I started writing something new, again, at school, I know, how do I find time to write when Im in a kitchen, cooking? I don't know!, but I'm exciting to shareee itt!)

Yamato

It take me a few seconds to realise I'm being attacked by a giant tongue. But when I do, I start laughing, only to find my self gagging. I push Baby's snout away from my mouth.

"Baby, down, gross!" I snap. She jumps away and sits. I rub my tongue off on my sleeve. As I sit up, I can see Vincent and T.K, who have moved forward to help me, and off in the corner, Taichi. He stays near Vincent's car. My heart skips and my stomach flutters, although, I'd never admit it to anyone, not even Janet. Vincent helps me to my feet, and then, I am attacked again. This time by a small blonde.

"I hate you." He says against my chest as he squeezes me. I pat his head and he look up at me, annoyed.

"No, you don't." He's trying to mimic the look I give Taichi, but can't. Janet moves, and I follow her, dragging my brother along, without thinking.

"Since...when?" Vincent asks. I look up at him as I walk past him. Janet whispers something to him, and he nods. I grab at Taichi's hand as I move past him, but he pulls it away from me. Although it hurts, I ignore it, for now. Baby's cold nose removes the heat from Tai's skin. I pet her snout. T.K looks back at Tai.


Taichi

I follow behind the brothers, silently. It hurt me to pull away from him, but this just can't work. I hardly know the boy, and I love him. I think. I don't know. Maybe. My eyes meet T.K's, who is looking at me with something that's not quite hate. I offer him a small smile and a shrug, to which he rolls his eyes. He turns his attention to Yamato as we follow Vincent and the lady that had brought Yamato out. She leads us around the side of the building, and there is a huge, empty area. A field, I guess. There's a few benches here and there, flowers. The lady leads Vincent over to a bench and they sit, and talk in whispers. Yamato pulls Takeru as far away from this as he can without getting worried looks. I stay at the corner for the building and watch Yamato talk to his brother. I lean against the wall, and I watch Yamato re-position himself so that he can see me. My eyes drift down. Something cold touches my hand. I jump and my head whips to the side, and there is Yamato's dog, head tilted to the side, confused.

"What?" I ask her. Her one ear perks at my voice, and she turns her attention towards her owner.

"Go see him, silly." I realise I'm losing my mind, stupid Yamato. The black and white dog gives me a nudge towards the brothers.

"I can't yet, I need to think." I tell her. She looks at me for a a second, and then she snarls, and growls at me. I take a step away from her, which causes her to snap at me. I yelp and jump backwards. There's another snap near my face, and then,

"Baby, no! What're you doing!" Yamato's nearly sitting on me. I look at Yamato, eyes wide. My hearts racing and I'm scared. I pull myself into a sitting position and scramble behind Yamato. The hand that Vincent, T.K and the lady can't see moves behind Yamato, and touches my knee. He squeezes it gently, and I know it's his way of saying sorry. I peek over his shoulder at the dog, who has never been hostile towards me, and her tail is wagging.

"Baby, that's bad." Her ears drop slightly, but her tail still moves. Something makes me believe she did it on purpose. I touch the hand on my knee.

"It's okay, it's my fault." I mumble. Matt looks back at me, and my heart melts. He scans me quickly, and there's something in his eyes I've never seen before. Worry. I smile at him. His dog helped me make up my mind. Takeru crawls over to us, and I look over, to notice that Vincent and the lady he's speaking with didn't even look at us.

"What're they talking about?" I ask.

"Who the hell knows? Who fucking cares? I don't." Matt says. I stay behind him, still slightly alarmed Baby had attacked me. Takeru laughs at me.

"Scared of Baby?"

"She tried to bite me in the face, didn't you see?" I ask. T.K shakes his head.

"Baby's never bitten anyone." My eyes narrow slightly, and I stick my tongue out at the dog, whose ears perk back up.

"Matt, why'd you go?" T.K asks suddenly. I feel Yamato stiffen. I see it.

"Because..I had to. I'll be home soon, okay?"

"You are coming back?"

"Of course I am." There's annoyance in his tone. T.K either doesn't hear it, or ignores it. The young blonde continues to interview his big brother. I find out the lady's name is Janet, and is his therapist, and she's the reason we were allowed to come, although it's technically against the rules, hence the reason he came. So no one could come and see him until he was ready to leave. I listen to Matt's voice as he answers his brothers questions. Eventually, though, there's one that even I turn my head to.

"He was raping you, wasn't he?"


Yamato

The question chills me, and almost instantly my walls are up. I'm on my feet and heading towards the building, to safety, before I realise it.

"Yamato?" Janet calls after me. I ignore her, head down. Baby's right beside me.

"Matt, I'm sorry! Matt!" T.K's voice shakes as he speaks, and I know he got up and followed me. I don't look for Taichi, nor can I hear him. I hear Vincent, and Janet running to catch me. T.K following them, not quite running, still stuttering apologies.

"Yamato, what's the matter? What happened? Was it the brown haired boy?" Janet asks me, she has caught up. Vincent is somewhere between me, Janet and T.K

"I'm done, k? It doesn't matter. And no, it wasn't Tai."

"Tai? That's Tai? Talk to me Yamato, please."

"I don't want to talk about it." I snap. The tone of my voice stops T.K and Janet. However, Vincent, who is used to it, follows me. I run, desperately hoping I can make it through the security doors before Vincent catches me, but I don't get far enough. He grabs me and shoves me against the walls. My instant reaction is to shut down. So, I do. Security guards move towards Vincent, and he lets me go as I slip away. I am dimly aware of Janet speaking, and then Vincent's voice. Hard and cold.

"I'm not playing your games Yamato. Get up." I don't know how long they wait, but eventually Vincent gets fed up.

"Oh, whatever, you knew this would happen when you told us to come here, Yamato. Come on, Baby, let's go." I jerk into my body again, and throw myself at my not quite 9 month old puppy, and she yelps in surprise. Vincent looks at me, eyebrows raised, and I give him a dirty look.

"You owe your brother an apology." He says. I glare at his back as he turns and goes back outside. As he opens the door, I can see T.K sitting on the ground, by Vincent's car curled up in Taichi's arms. Tai's looking towards us, but I don't know if he sees us. Janet slides down to the floor next to me and Baby. Janet strokes the dog gently.

"You don't have to talk to them, Matt."

"Yes I do, I made him cry.." My hands come to my face in frustration. The fact that I made him cry hurts me more then anything else, that I've ever gone through. Except maybe the day my virginity was stolen. Janet sits silently beside me, waiting.

"I have to talk to him..."

"Come on," Janet rises to her feet, and helps me up, she leads me towards the security doors, towards the inner building.

"I ha-"

"Just come, Matt." I do silently. She unlocks her office door, and lets me in.

"Stay." She says, looking more at Baby then me. I sit in my chair, and Baby lays at my feet. I hear her footsteps fade. I stare blankly at the wall, and eventually approaching footsteps. The door opens, then closes again. I expect Vincent or Tai's angry voice.

"I'm really sorry.." The hardly audible voice chokes out. I spin to look at my baby brother. I get up and move towards him, and he shrinks away from me, which freezes me.

"T.K.." He looks at me with a tear stained face, with fear in his eyes. I can't stop myself from moving towards him again. I pull him gently away from the wall, and into my arms. I hug him close to me, which causes another sob to escape the young boy. His arms wrap gently around me, as he cries against my chest.

"Why would you think I was going to hurt you?" I mumble.

"I don't know..you were really mad.." Something flashes into my head.

"Dad's not hurting you, is he?" His tears stop and he looks at me with wide eyes.

"No, of course not! You just...really..have a bad temper.." My arms and eyes drop at the same time.

"I'm sorry. I really am." I tell him. He seems unsure of what to say, so stays silent.

"And, I'm sorry I got mad and left. That's just...it's not something you ask someone, like that.." He opens his mouth, probably to say sorry again, but I cut him off.

"But, yes, he was. That's why I'm here. I need to get better. I don't want to hurt you anymore." I watch the emotion go through T.K's eyes. Confusion, hurt, shock, fear.

"Oh.." He says eventually, and I can't help but laugh.

"Oh? That's all you have to say?" He blushes, and a small smile comes to his lips.

"It doesn't bother you..?" I sigh.

"Of course it does, but what am I supposed to do? It's not like I can just take it back. It happened. And if it didn't, we probably never would have met." T.K ponders this for a few minutes in silence, and I let him think about it. Baby hasn't moved from her spot by my chair, but she's looking at us with curiosity. I tap my fingers against my side, and she jumps to her feet. I run my hands through her fur and lean down to give her a kiss on the nose.

"I'm gonna be home soon, okay, Babydoll? I miss you." She whines like she understands me.

"I think Tai wants to talk to you." T.K says for no reason. I look up at my little brother, confused, but I can see that he's still trying to work out what I said, and the truth of it.

"Uhm..k.." I say. T.K turns, and moves towards the door, and I hear him tell Tai that I asked for him. I won't give him away, because it's kind of true. Tai comes in, and I smile at him. My heart is telling me to do something, but my brains telling me it's wrong, and I debate over it.

"Hi." Tai says, unsure.

"Hey." He shifts uneasily.

"Thank you..for taking care of T.K. I don't know why I reacted like that.." Tai shrugs, but won't look at me. I move so that I'm right in front of him. He glances up at me, and my heart wins the debate. My hands finds his, and I lace our fingers, and very briefly, and lightly, our lips meet. I look for something in his eyes, but there's nothing. It makes my chest feel like it's being ripped out. I drop his hand has panic consumes me.

"Oh, God. Don't do this to me, please.." I beg in a whisper, my voice cracking. Baby nudges up against me, trying to soothe me. Tai stares blankly back.

"Tai?" I choke out. He blinks, and then his tan cheeks turn pink, then red. His eyes go from blank, to confusion, to happiness, then to fear as he looks at me.

"What's wrong, what did I do?" He asks. I force the emotions away. My face blank. My eyes are blank. More fear in Taichi's eyes.

"You scared me." Amusement replaces everything. He smiles.

"I scared you?" He asks smugly.

"How would it make you feel, if you went against everything you've ever known and kissed someone, and they looked back at you with a blank stare?" I ask the boy, who is getting on my nerves. His smile widens. I roll my eyes and storm past him. I throw open the door, and move to my brother, who clings to my arm.

"We have to go..." He mumbles.

"Good, next time don't bring Tai with you, k?" Tai laughs from behind us, and I give him a dirty look.

"What did you do Tai? Five minutes and he's already mad at you!" T.K asks. I can hear the annoyance creeping into his voice, too.

"I didn't do anything." He says. He gives me a big smile as he heads towards the doors. T.K gives me another tight squeeze before letting me go. He lean down and kiss Baby, who licks me back.

"I love you," I whisper to the dog. T.K was smart, and brought her leash. He attaches it to the collar, and tries to tug her away. She whines and howls and starts chewing at her leash, and it takes Tai, Vincent and T.K to pull her away. As I watch them go, my vision blurs, and one tear escapes and trails down my cheek. That night in bed, after I finally stop crying, and mange to fall asleep, I dream about being home with T.K, Tai and Billy. And then, Andrew is there. Naked and peeking around the doors. At first, it's just me, and that's okay. But he somehow manages to overthrow T.K and Tai at the same time. And I wake up screaming and delirious.