Brian and Shawn woke up and dressed for the day. They felt slightly sluggish and sad but they knew the reasons and they knew they had to push it aside. They had a job to do and they had to do it well. They could cry later.

"Ready?" Shawn asked.

"Yeah." Brian answered.

They walked out of their rooms and back to the main house. They went to the ballroom first to help out. They walked in and saw the soot.

"What happened here?"

"Someone set the plants on fire." Wade said as he walked up to them. He handed a broom and a dustpan to Shawn. "You have to clean up all of the ashes with Heath and Brian, get the ladder and take the decorations down. Dolph will be here in a moment to help you." Wade said and walked away.

Shawn walked over to Heath and started to help him. Brian set up his ladder by Shawn and Heath so he would have someone to talk to since Dolph wasn't here yet.

"They had a wild party last night." Heath commented.

"Yeah, they did." Brian agreed and climbed the ladder and started taking down the decorations.

Hunter and Bret walked into the ballroom, talking among themselves as the assessed the damage and talked about more plans to get their blondes. Hunter didn't want to talk about this in his office because he was quite tired of being in his office. A fresh place could bring him some fresh and new ideas.

Brian and Shawn tired to keep their cool but with the king and general so close to them, this proved to be a very hard task. Shawn and Brian decided to not look up from their work. Because of this, Shawn didn't see Dolph come around the corner with a big box. Shawn also didn't see Dolph trip over a cord in the floor so Shawn didn't see the large and heavy box flying towards his head so he didn't duck.

"Ah!" Shawn yelled as the box connected with his head. The force was so great that he fell over and hit the ladder, knocking it off balance. Brian tried to hold on for dear life but it was of no use, the eighteen foot ladder was falling over so Brian reached out and grabbed the tinsel but the plastic decoration broke under his weight and he started to fall along with the ladder.

"AH!" Brian yelled as he fell off the ladder, expecting to hit the hard marble floor at any second. He closed his eyes and waited on the pain. Surprisingly, he never felt any.

"I don't know what I'm going to do Bret." Hunter said. "I'm going crazy."

"I know what you mean." Bret started. "I can't do anything without-."

"Ah!" Bret and Hunter looked up when they heard the scream. They watched as a tall blonde grabbed his head and fell over. Bret felt this sense of urgency to see if he was OK, so he rushed over there. Hunter watched as the ladder started to tip over and the blonde on top of it started falling to the floor. Hunter rushed over to him and got under him, saving him from a harmful fall by catching him.

"Are you OK?"

Shawn's breath was caught in his throat. He knew that voice. He could pick that voice out of any crowd. Shawn opened his eyes and looked up. Bret was looking back at him.

"Is your head OK?" Bret repeated again.

"Yeah, it's just a little pain." Shawn answered as he held the left side of his head.

That voice…it's so familiar. Bret thought. Bret tucked some of Shawn's blonde hair behind his ear so he could get a better look at his face.

Shawn shifted his eyes so Bret couldn't see them. Bret hadn't seen much of his face, only his lips down, but Bret had seen and looked longingly into his eyes. He knew Bret would recognize him if he saw his eyes.

"Wow." Bret said under his breath but Shawn still heard him and blushed. He couldn't believe how beautiful he was. He was picture perfect. "Are you sure you're OK? I can't have someone as beautiful as you getting hurt on my watch." Bret said and Shawn blushed more.

"I-I'm fine. I promise." Shawn said and Bret smiled. He knew that voice from somewhere.

Brian opened his eyes and looked up. The king was staring down at him with a smile on his face. "You alright?"

Brian scrambled out of Hunter's arms and looked down. "Yes, I'm fine…thanks to you. Thank you." Brian managed to get out. He really hated not being in Hunter's arms. He was only in them for a minute but it felt so good, so right.

Hunter placed his finger under Brian's chin and made him look up. Brian cut his eyes away from the king as he examined him. "Are you sure, cutie?" Brian giggled silently and blushed at the nickname.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Brian repeated.

"What happened in here?" Brian looked over and saw Wade come over. "Your majesty." He bowed to Hunter and then turned to Brian.

"What happened. I heard screaming."

"I…fell off the ladder."

"Oh My God, are you OK?" Wade asked.

"Yeah, um, his majesty caught me." Brian said and Wade looked to the king.

"Thank you, your majesty."

"Don't worry about it but we should invest in some sturdier ladders. I don't want a cutie like him getting hurt under my watch." Hunter said to Wade and Brian blushed some more.

"Wade." Wade turned around and saw the general kneeling next to Shawn. "You need to take him to see the doc."

"I'm fine." Shawn squeaked.

"No, come on."

"I'll take him." Brian said and went over to Shawn and helped him up. "That way I can get checked out to. Come on." Brian said and grabbed Shawn and drug him out of the ballroom.

Bret went over to Hunter and watched as the two blondes walked out the room.

Bret whistled. "Damn, he was fine."

"You telling me, the smaller one is so cute."

"You know." Bret turned to Hunter. "The tall one felt some what familiar. It was like I had met him before…his voice."

"Yeah, the little one…his voice was familiar too." Hunter looked at Bret. "You don't think…"

"Barrett!" They both yelled and Wade came running over.

"Those two. What are their names?" Bret asked.

"The taller one is Shawn and the shorter one is Brian." Wade answered.

"Take us to where they stay." Hunter says.

"Follow me."

Brian opened the door and helped Shawn into the palace hospital. It really was like a mini hospital. When you walked in they had a nurses station and a small waiting room off to the side. In the back were the treatment rooms and they had all of the equipment that a real hospital should have.

"Brian, what happen?" Josh said and rushed over to the blondes. Josh was head nurse here at the palace.

"He hit his head and I fell off of a ladder."

"You fell of a ladder?" Josh couldn't believe it, considering the fact that Brian was walking on his own.

"The king caught him but a box hit me in the head but I'm fine." Shawn said.

"You guys aren't fine until we check you out." Josh said and grabbed Shawn. "Todd take Brian and get him checked out." Todd came over and grabbed Brian and took him to an exam room.

Shawn sighed and looked at Brian before going to the back. It was just a bump on the head.

Wade opened the door to Brian and Shawn's bedroom. "This is where they sleep." Wade said and allowed Hunter and Bret to enter.

"Thanks." Bret said.

"And this stays between us." Hunter says and Wade agrees before leaving.

Hunter and Bret started looking around the small bedroom.

"What exactly are we looking for?" Bret asked as he went through some papers.

"I don't know, just look." Hunter asked as he looked under one of the beds.

Bret went over to the dresser and went through it. All of the drawers just had clothes in them. Bret went to open the bottom drawer but he couldn't.

"What the." Bret knelled down and looked. There was a piece of wood under the drawer that was blocking it. Bret pulled it out and opened the drawer.

"Hunter, come here." Bret said and Hunter knelled down next to him.

"I think I found what we were looking for." Bret said and pulled out the white and silver masked that his beautiful blonde wore the first time they met.

Hunter looked in the drawer and picked up the black and silver mask that his little one wore the first time they had met.

The two best friends looked at one another and smiled. They had found their lovers, their soul mates. Hunter and Bret took all of the mask and walked out of the room, closing the door behind them.

"So how do you want to approach this?" Bret asked. Hunter just smiled. He knew exactly what to do.

Shawn and Brian walked back into their room after being force by Wade to take the rest of the day off and they were happy about that. After spending most of the afternoon in some type of scanning machine, they were ready for a rest.

Shawn put the pill bottle on the dresser. The doctor had given them Ibuprofen just in case they had any pains or aches.

Brian sighed and through himself on his bed. He was beat. "That was so close today."

"Yeah, too close." Shawn said and looked down at the dresser, something wasn't right about it.

"He called me cutie." Brian said.

"You are cute." Shawn said and knelled down.

"I wonder if he was just saying that to be nice."

"No, I'm pretty sure he meant it." Shawn said as he opened the bottom drawer. "Did you move the mask?"

"No, they should be in the bottom drawer." Brian said.

"They're not here." Shawn said. Brian jumped off the bed and ran to Shawn's side and looked into the drawer.

"Oh my God." Brian sighed.

"Who-." Shawn was cut off by a knock at the door. "Come in."

Wade opened the door. "Brian, the king wants to see you and Shawn they general wants to see you." Wade said and walked off.

The two best friends looked at each other with wide eyes. This couldn't be happening.

"Maybe, they just want to see how we're doing." Shawn suggested and Brian agreed.

"Yeah, you're right. I think we just misplaced the mask." Brian said as he and Shawn walked out of the room.

"Right, you're right." Shawn said trying to convince himself. "You are right."

Brian sighed. A part of him wanted him to be right but the other half wanted him to be so very wrong.

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