I know its much shorter but I wanted to get something up :)

This chapter is very tame so no real warnings

As always I own nothing.

Kai's Rescue Kai's Point of view

He had been sleeping, dreaming, dreaming of something people smiling not like Voltaire's smile no it wasn't malicious they were kind they talked to him as an equal and in the dream he spoke back. The dream was soft and warm and he felt safe but all too soon he was brought back to reality by a hand on his shoulder.

There were people and they weren't Voltaire they were familiar but not, they said his name but he had to get away he had to obey the rules and if Voltaire wasn't there he couldn't obey, he couldn't go with them even if he he wanted to escape his pain but he had to listen he couldn't leave Voltaire would find him and then he would be in even more trouble.

He couldn't he had to obey he had to he had... and with that his consciousness fled and the world went dark.

When he woke he was somewhere different sounds were everywhere it was nothing like his small room. He was Lying on something soft but not his mattress, no this wasn't right this wasn't right.

His eye snapped open and he quickly shut them, this room was so bright, why was it so bright?

He opened his eyes again slowly this time, at first everything was just a white blur, but soon his vision cleared and he could see around him.

He was in a room with machines that he assumed were causing the noise... wait a hospital?"

No.. NO! He couldn't be here Voltaire would be angry so angry. He had to leave. Kai started to get up, he was hooked up to an IV and he went to pull it out, it hurt but not that much. He had to go he couldn't stay. As he moved to get out of the bed the door opened

"Ah your awake I'm doctor Brown, hey you need to get back in to bed you rely shouldn't be moving to much right now, wait stop." As the doctor spoke Kai continued to get out of bed feeling a bit stronger and fulled by adrenalin he looked around the doctor for a way out. He had to get back he was going to be so angry!

"It's alright Kai just calm down and get back in to the bed" The doctor said pressing his pager button calling for help.

Kai didn't know what to do, he had to obey Voltaire but the rules also said he had to obey in general so what was he supposed to do. His mind was racing so quickly he couldn't forum coherent thought, as he stood there frozen more doctors and nursers came in to the room. He looked around he ran to the bed sliding under the only place to hide. The doctors surrounded the bed trying to remove him, at this point he had ripped some of his stitches and was bleeding but would not let them treat him. One small nurse bent down took a syringe and jabbed it in to his arm and quickly the world became dark again.

Every time his consciousness returned he would try to find a way out, a way back back whatever they were giving him made it hard, the world was fuzzy and time passed strangely. He had few clear moments but during one of those rare times, they told him he was going to stay with the Granger's, the name sounded familiar and when he thought he caught glimpses of his dreams that he thought were just dreams but he couldn't be sure. They told him they were friends and they were going to take care of him. But what did that mean how was he supposed to act, how could he follow the rules...

On the day he was going to Granger's the doctors gave him more drugs, they told him it would keep him calm, but he just stayed fuzzy. But he wouldn't try and run he understood now these were new rules they were different and confusing but rules still. He needed to follow them until Voltaire came back, and Voltaire wouldn't be angry then because he still followed the rules, no not angry he could that, he could.

The Dojo normal POV

The first couple days at the Grangers passed with difficulty. The doctors had instructed to give Kai his space and let him come to them. The problem was that meant he simply stayed in the room they had given him, not sleeping, not eating just sitting there. When they came in to the room he would freeze up then hide under the bed shaking so that didn't seem to be a good option either.

"OK this isn't working." Sighed Ray after another failed attempt at engaging Kai.

"I guess we just leave him for a while we can leave food and he can eat when he's hungry." Kenny supplied

"Will he though, he looks dead on his feet but he isn't sleeping, and hes so underweight I doubt he even understands what hunger feels like anymore. No we need a different approach."

"Well we are all ears Ray, My Dad and Max's parents are at a meeting with the social worker so this is on us, so it better be good."

"Maybe we just need to tell him what we want."

"Yeah like we didn't think of that." Tyson replied a sarcastic tone in his voice

"No Tyson we have been saying hey are you hungry not you need to eat, maybe its to much we don't know what went on those past years but we can assume there wasn't much choice involved."

"I guess but just don't be mean he's already scared enough." said Max putting a hand on the door to Kai's room.

The Four entered the room cautiously, as previously the moment Kai saw them he bolted under the bed.

"Kai." Ray said knelling down. "I know your scared but you need to come out and eat some food." When Kai didn't move Ray hardened his tone. "Kai come out now." With those words Kai's eyes widened but he slowly moved himself from under the bed, still shaking but he had come out.

"Ok that's good, now Max has some soup for you, you are going to at least eat some of it." Max passed the bowl to Kai who took it tentatively while keeping his eyes on Ray took the spoon and had a small bite.

"Ok that's good, you don't have to eat it all but try to eat half."

Kai nodded, hands shaking he managed about five bites before he felt sick, Ray seeing his struggle sighed and took the bowl from him.

"Ok now go lay down and get some sleep. We will leave you alone for awhile." Kai still didn't say a word but keeping his eyes on Ray laid down on the bed and then closed his eyes. Within moments he was asleep.

The four quietly exited the room and exchanged a collective sigh of relief.

"Ray that was frigging amazing!" Exclaimed Max

"Yeah sorry I doubted you, but hey you don't look happy whats up?" Asked Tyson

"I just didn't feel right talking to him that way and if this is what he responds to then what does that tell us about where he was?"

"Yeah it sucks but I think we should take our victories where we can get them, now I'm starving lets go and eat!"

The four boys headed to the kitchen, as they entered Bruce, Judy and Max's father came through the door.

"Hey guys hows it going?"Bruce asked sitting down at the kitchen table.

"Good we got him to eat something and now he's sleeping." Tyson said walking to the cupboards to find him self food.

"Wow rely that fantastic I know it might not seem like much but that's a rely big step!"

"Yeah lets just hope we can repeat the results." Said Ray sitting across from Bruce at the table. "SO how did it go at the with the social worker?"

"Alright, Voltaire is still no where to be found and the police have searched the Cabin where you found Kai but there wasn't much there. The investigation is ongoing but with out Kai talking it's hard to know what rely happened."

A couple more days passed at the Dojo and things passed in relative calm, after Kai fell asleep he slept peacefully for almost a whole day his body clearly needing the rest. When he woke up he was scared but seemed to calm down a bit after realizing where he was. Kai would do what was asked of him but that was it, he ate when they told him, slept when they told him, the only thing he would do without promoting was go to the washroom and even that was not frequent as he barley ate.

They were working on slowly drawing him out of his room and in to the rest of the Dojo and hopefully outside. As well as getting him in to some sort of routine.

But if was going as well as could be excepted, that is until the nightmares started. Before Kai was so tired his brain had no energy for thought but now that he was eating and sleeping semi normally. There was space for thoughts and memories.

The screaming is what woke them up, the boys were asleep in the main room when they heard it.

"What is that is that Kai?" Tyson said sitting u and rubbing his eyes

"Yeah I think so lets go." Said Ray getting out of bed "Let me go alone to many people will just freak him out more."

"Your not going with out me!" said Tyson indignantly

"Fine but just you."

"Ok Ray if you guys need help just holler." Said Max laying back down.

Ray and Tyson made there way to Kai's room the screaming getting louder, when they entered Kai was thrashing on the bed, covered in sweat, his breaths coming out is short gasps amid his yells.

"We need to wake him up." said Ray walking over to kneel beside the bed. Ray put his hand on Kai's shoulder and shook him gently. As before when someone had touched him Kai woke immediately, fear in his eyes. Kai sat up fast and backed up in to the wall. But the difference this time was the tears falling from his eyes.

"Kai it's OK your safe." said Tyson coming to stand beside Ray, Kai watched them putting his arms around him self he continued to cry.

"Oh Kai, I'm so sorry we didn't find you sooner." Said Ray in a whisper as he climbed on the bed and gathered Kai in his arms. At first Kai stiffened but being too tired to fight he collapsed in Rays arms sobbing in to his shoulder.

"Shh, it's Ok, your safe." Ray hushed Kai rubbing his hair he repeated the those words like a mantra for the next twenty minutes until Kai utterly exhausted fell asleep in his arms. Ray looked up and realized Tyson had left the room, hopefully he went back to bed. Gently Ray lowered Kai to the bed and covered him up. Feeling exhausted him self Ray went back to bed but not before casting one last glance at the face of his sleeping friend.

'what happened to you?'

Hope you liked it!

Next chapter will be Kai flashback and is going to be grim so just a heads up.