Chapter Seven: Justin!
WARNING: Sadly I don't own QAF:'(
AUTHOR'S NOTE: There will be one more chapter after this one! I'm gad you guys enjoyed my story:) so far one person has asked for a sequel, I'll need more than one person asking for it if you guys really want a sequel. ANYWAYS, this chapter will be very long and it'll get graphic at times, it'll also get more depressing before it possibly gets better:p
"Talk"
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Chapter Seven: Justin!
Mikey's POV:
"Don't worry Michael, we'll find Justin and bring him home." Ben said startling me out of my thoughts. I looked at him and smiled before reaching over and taking his hand into mine and squeezing it as tight as I could, smiling when I felt him squeeze just as tightly.
"I know we will. We've not come all this way to not bring boy wonder home. I'm just worried about what Brian's gonna do when he gets there." I told him look at the speeding jeep in front of us.
"Why does it matter what he does? Brian, as well as the rest of us, will take that bastard out the most painful way imaginable." Ma said from the back. I turned to face her and smiled a little when I saw Hunter asleep on her shoulder and Ma had an arm around him.
'I can't imagine what Brian's been through these past two months. I don't think I'd survive if anything like this happened to Hunter, or Ben for that matter.' I thought before looking back at Ma. "I know that Ma, what I meant was I'm worried he's going to get so out of control that he'll wind up scaring Justin more than the poor kid already is." I told her and she gave me a stern look.
"I don't want you stopping Brian from whatever he decides to do unless you think it'll hurt him and/or Justin, OK." she said and I nodded and looked at Hunter again and turned back to the front.
Thirty minutes later we began to slow down and I looked out the window and saw Crystal Lake. Looking at it I couldn't help but feel my hope grow more than it had in months. When we parked I turned to the back sit and shook Hunter awake. "Hunter wake up, we're here." I said gently and watched as his his fluttered open and he looked at me.
"Dad? Where are we?" he asked stretching and I laughed a little.
"We're at Crystal Lake-" I began but Hunter's eyes widened at the name and he bolted out of the car before I could even get the next would. I looked up and saw him at Ben's side looking ready to run in any direction we told him to.
"Come one! We're this close to finding Uncle Justin! Let's go already!" he said and I shook my head in amusement and Ben laughed and ruffled Hunter's hair. I looked over at Brian and noticed that he looked even more anxious than Hunter did. I walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. He looked at me and I smiled brightly at him.
"Let's go get boy wonder." I told him and he smiled at me and made a beeline to the board walk. I caught up with Ben and Hunter and followed Brian to the board walk. 'Just you wait little bro, we'll have you back and everything will be normal again.' I thought as we made it to the board walk.
Emmett's POV:
'We're here baby, give us a few hours and we'll have you back with us in no time!' I thought taking my place by Brian on the board walk and looked around for the 'tall' thing Stockwell talked about in the clue.
"What the hell did Stockwell mean by 'think tall'?! All I see is the buildings we had pictures of and trees!" Debbie yelled and I couldn't stop the amused smirk that came to my face. I continued to look around before something caught my eye. Turning my attention straight ahead of the board walk I looked carefully and noticed something tall in the distance.
'Stand on the bridge and think tall...' I thought and then it hit me. "Bri I think I found it!" I yelled at him forgetting he was standing beside me.
"OW! Geez Em did you really have to shout? I'm standing right beside you!" he said with an annoyed look. I just shrugged it off and pointed to the tall thing.
"Get me back later, look right there straight through the trees. I think that's a building and it's pretty tall to me and we can see it clearly from here." I told him and his eyes widened and he smiled brightly at me.
"Good work Em! No wonder we didn't see it anywhere with the info we have. That's a building in the nearest city!" he exclaimed and we all smiled and ran to the cars. When everyone was in a car we sped off to the city which was no more than a ten minute drive.
Getting to the city was the easy part. Getting to the right building was going to be a challenge. "All the buildings look the same from down here." I said aggravated.
"Maybe if we ask a local they'll know the building we're talking about." Ben said trying to keep everyone together.
"That's not a bad idea Ben." Brian said and looked for the closest, and nicest looking, local walked over to them. "Excuse me sir?" He asked a man who looked to be in his early 50s. He turned and smiled at him.
"How can I help you?" he asked smiling at Brian.
"Could you tell us where the tallest building in this city is and the name of it? We're tourist and we're kinda lost." he lied to the man.
'Well, it's not a complete lie... We ARE lost and looking for the building.' I thought before turning back to Brian and the man.
"Oh you mean the Seashore Hotel. That's just around this corner here, the entrance is hard to miss." the man said smiling. Brian smiled back at him.
"Thank you sir, have a nice day." he said and we all took off around the corner.
'Damn that wasn't kidding, that's one hard entrance to miss.' I thought staring at the doors with a big flashing sign above them blinking 'Seashore' every second.
"Alright we made it to the tall place. What does the rest of the clue mean?" Hunter asked taking the clue from Brian and looking at it. "It looks to be some kind of directions. Let's ask if this place has a basement." Hunter said and ran inside with the rest of us following him.
'Please, let us be right about this.' I thought as we made it inside.
Brian's POV:
"Excuse me ma'ma, does this place have a basement?" Hunter asked the lady at the check in counter. She gave him a funny look but answered anyway.
"Yes this place has a basement. It's quit big too, we don't even use half of it and sealed off the half we don't use." she said and looked back at the computer clearly saying, 'I don't like you nor want to talk, leave.'
Hunter turned and smiled at us, "Fifty dollars says that's where he is." Hunter said trying to smirk like me. I gave a smirk myself and ruffled his hair.
"I'll give you fifty for being a big help." I said and he just smiled brighter while his dads hugged on him. I turned to the elevator and pushed the 'down' button. When it came we all filed in and Em pushed the button for the basement. 'Please let him be here. Please.' I begged as the elevator stopped and opened to reveal and fairly nice looking basement. Not bothering with admiring something so unimportant I turned back to Hunter.
"OK we're in the basement, where do we go now?" I asked him and he looked at the clue.
"The clue says to go down until we can't anymore then take a left, then a right, then another right, and finally another left. Then go through the black door with a red door nob." He said and I nodded and turned left and ran until we could turn right and turned and kept going. At the next two way stop I turned right again and ran a few feet before coming to the final left and turned.
I stopped for a moment to catch my breath and let the others catch up with me. When everyone was here we began to look for the black door with a red nob. 'Do all the freaking doors have to be black?!' I asked myself looking at each of them closely.
"Bri I found it!" Mikey yelled and I turned to see him in front of one of the doors and smiled when I saw the red door nob.
"Great job Mikey! Now let's go through and find Sunshine!" I said happily and went to open the door.
Only to find it locked.
"NO! We came all this way and got so far just to be stopped by a fucking locked door?!" I yelled and began to kick the door over and over.
"Brian calm down! You don't want anyone to hear us do you!" Em yelled over the echo the door made every time my foot hit it. I stopped kicking and glared at all of them.
"I don't fucking care anymore! Stockwell take my Sunshine and tortures him for two months then he leaves us fucking clues that barely making any since and when we get to the fucking spot the DAMN DOOR IS LOCKED! So no I don't care if everyone hears us down here!" I yelled. I was shaking and panting hard from anger and sadness and everyone was staring at me in shock.
Mikey started to slowly make his way to me holding is hands up in a submissive way. "Brian please calm down. I know you're pissed, we all are, but I don't think having everyone that can hear us coming down here and getting in our way. Stockwell might have left a key or something to help us get in. Remember what the check in lady said? She said that the part of the basement they don't use is locked up and maybe this is that part. Just calm down and we'll find away to get the door open, OK." Mikey said gently.
By the end of his little speech had felt tears running down my face but I made no move to wipe them away. I looked back at Mikey and nodded saying I understood and began to take calming breaths. When I felt like I was more in control I looked back at the others, "Sorry about that guys. I guess all the shit that's happened so far has finally caught up with me." I said and looked down at the floor. I jumped a little when I felt arms encircle me.
"It's about time you let your feelings about this out. I was getting worried we'd have to drug you in order to get it out of you. No one blames you for what you just did. I'm more than sure we've all hit something these last two months when everything hit us as well. You've let some of your steam out so now you'll be able to focus more. We'll find him and bring him home, that's a mother's promise." Deb said and held me tighter. I brought my arms up and hugged her just as tightly, needing the comfort of a mother. Deb's been my mom more than the bitch that brought into this world.
I pulled back and smiled at her and kissed her cheek before stepping back and looking at Carl. "How can we get into this door if we can't find a key?" I asked and he looked up and closed his eyes in thought. A minute later he looked back at me then at the door.
"The only way I can think of is to lock-pick it." he said and nodded and looked at the others.
"Does anyone know how to lock-pick a lock?" I asked and looked at them all and which of them shook their heads sadly. Hunter however slowly stepped forward with his head bowed.
"You know how to pick a lock Hunter?" Ben asked in shock and we all stared at him with the same expression. He nodded and looked at the girls.
"Do any of you have a bobby pin?" he asked and Linds went straight up to her hair and pulled one out and handed it to him. "Thanks." he said softly and went to the door. A few seconds later the door clicked and he opened it and stood up and handed the bobby pin back to Linds.
"Where'd you learn to do that Hunter?" Mikey asked and Hunter looked at him with sad eyes.
"The same place I learned to be a hustler." and that was the only explanation any of us needed. Ben and Mikey looked ready to kill but I just walked up and placed a hand on Hunter's shoulders.
"That little trick of yours came in handy at a good time." I said instantly making him cheer up and Mikey and Ben calm down slightly. "Now let's go find Sunshine." I said and headed into the door with the family close behind.
looking around it looked like we were in a hallway that had other hallways coming off of it and at the end of it was another black door with a red door nob. "Let's try that door out first then we'll split up and check down these hallways and we'll call if we find anything OK." Carl said and all nodded at him. We hadn't even taken a step yet before we heard someone coming towards us from one of the hallways.
"You got here quicker than I thought you would." came a voice I knew I'd never forget and growled angrily at it.
"Stockwell you bastard!" I yelled and he laughed and stepped out of the hallway closest to us on the right hand side and leaned on the wall the his arms and ankles crossed.
"Is that anyway to talk to the man who holds your Sunshine's life in his hands?" he asked in mock sadness which raised my anger more.
"Tell me where the fuck he is NOW!" I yelled and he smirked at me.
"He's through that door down there." he said and pointed to the door at the end of the hallway. Instinctively I stepped towards it only to have Stockwell lean away from the wall and stand in front of me.
Now, now, let's wait for a moment here and get caught up with one another shall we?" he asked and I growled at him again.
"Get the FUCK out of my way." I growled and he smirked at me.
"Honestly I'm doing you a favor right now. He's not doing to good and he looks just as bad, I'm saving you from having to see that right away." he said smirking still and I saw red. Before I knew it I had Stockwell pinned to the floor and I was beating the shit out of him.
"He wouldn't be like that if you hadn't taken and hurt him!" I yelled between punches. After awhile I felt hands on both shoulders and looked up to see Em and Mikey staring at Stockwell with murder in their eyes.
"You go to Justin, we'll stay here and have a nice "chat" with Stockwell here." Em said in such a cold voice it made us all shiver.
'Stockwell's fucked now.' I thought and smirked down at him before standing up and bolting to the door. When I got to it I turned and enjoyed the show of Em punching any skin he could find while the family kicked Stockwell and yelled as loud as they could at him and cheering Em on. 'I guess these walls are sound proof if people aren't flocking here to see what's the noise about. Wonder if that's why no one heard Justin whenever he screamed in pain.' I thought and shuddered at the thought of my baby screaming in pain.
I turned to the door and stared at it for a few moments before gulping and slowly opening the door.
The room was pretty much dark except for the window to the left of the room, it let in just enough light to be able to move if you needed to when the door was shut. Looking under the window there was a dirty bed with a small lump on it. Looking at the lump closer my eyes widened and I felt my dinner coming back up when I realized the small lump was my Justin.
Walking slowly over to him I noticed that his back was to me and I could see it was littered in what looked like welts, bruises, and scars. His arm that I could see had both wet and dry blood on it along with more bruises and scars. He clearly hadn't been fed in along while because I could see his shoulder bone popping out and his ribs, even from this angle.
He hadn't moved yet so I assumed he was asleep and stepped a little closer to him. Looking back at his arm that was visible I noticed it looked like he was trying to cover up a wound. Though I couldn't see it, I knew it had to be one of the worst ones if he's trying to keep it covered even in sleep. 'Dear God Sunshine what did that bastard do to you?' I thought to myself and gently placed a hand on his paler than normal arm and froze to see if he'd move. When he didn't I carefully sat on the bed and rubbed his arm lightly.
'He's so cold.' I thought sadly and looked back at the wound he was trying to cover and carefully lifted his arm to get a better look at it. What I saw had me fighting to keep my dinner down. "The fucking bastard branded you?!" I yelled softly as to not startle and/or wake Justin. I put his arm back down and just looked at him and softly ran my hands threw his still soft but greasy and dirty hair.
'I knew I'd find you Sunshine. I knew I would.' I thought to myself and was startled a little to hear a soft moan coming from the figure on the bed. Justin slowly opened his eyes and looked at me. I nearly sobbed when I saw that his eyes were no longer the beautiful sky blue eyes that sparkled with life; now they were a dull blue that looked like he had no life in him.
"B-Brian?" Justin asked in a very hoarse voice that made me flinch a little.
"Yes Sunshine, it's me." I said and he shook his head sadly and looked away a little.
"You're not really here. This is just another dream and I'll wake up any second now." he replied in a broken voice and this time I couldn't stop the tears that came.
"This isn't a dream Sunshine it's real. I'M real, I'm really sitting beside you." I said and rubbed his arm but he flinched a little at the unexpected contact. I nearly pulled my hand away but stopped when I saw his confused look.
"Stockwell's never gently and dream Brian only ever held me, never rubbed my arm like this." he said and looked back at me with hope in his eyes this time. I smiled at him and continued to rub his arm.
"Like I said baby this isn't a dream. I'm really here." I said and I must've said something because next thing I knew I had my arms full of the blond who was sobbing into my neck.
"Dream Brian only ever calls me Sunshine, never baby. You really are here, you came for me." he cried and I held him as tightly as I dared loving the feeling of having him in my arms again where he belongs.
"I'll always come for you baby, even if I have to go through hell, I'll come for you." I whispered and he cried harder and snuggled closer to me.
"I-I was so s-s-scared." he whispered and I leaned up and kissed the top of his head.
"I know you were baby. I'm sorry it took me so long to find you." I said and he shook his head.
"You came, that's all I care about." he whispered and I smiled at him and kissed his forehead this time. He looked up at me and I couldn't help but lean down and capture his lips with mine. He was stiff at first, but he slowly relaxed into the kiss and kissed back with such force was almost like he wanted to make sure I didn't disappear. I kissed him back for the same reason and felt such joy and being able to kiss him again.
We pulled back after a few minutes and I smiled at him and he gave me a little smile. I pulled him to me and just hugged him tight as he snuggled into me for warmth and comfort. "I'm tired Bri." he whispered and I held him closer to me and smiled at him.
"Then sleep, I'll protect you." I said and he gave another little smile and fell asleep in my arms. 'What I wouldn't do to see that sunshine smile again.' I thought sadly and looked up when the others filed in. I held up a finger.
"Shh, be quiet he's asleep." I whispered and they all nodded and slowly walked up to us. Em sat down at his head and slowly stroked his hair with tears in his eyes.
"What did that bastard do to him?" he whispered and shook my head sadly and slowly lifted his left arm.
"The one I'm worried about the most right now is this one." I whispered and heard them all gasp and Mikey all but ran out of the room and we could all hear him puking.
"The son of a bitch branded him?!" Ben whispered with anger clear in his eyes. I nodded sadly and looked at the blonde in my arms.
"I knew we'd find him, I just knew we would." I whispered my earlier thoughts while looking at Justin still missing Mikey coming back with tears in his eyes and in everyone else's. Mikey slowly sat by Em and ran his hands through his hair too.
"He's really here, he's not a dream." Mikey whispered and I smiled at him. I looked at Carl in confusion.
"Where's the bastard?" I asked and Em smirked and I quirked an eyebrow at him.
"Let's just say he's going to jail with a lot of missing teeth, two black eyes, I'm pretty sure broken ribs, and a concussion." he softly said proudly and I smirked at him.
"Remind me to never piss you off to that point." I told him and we all laughed softly. I smiled at everyone as they laughed and looked at Justin. 'We've had you back barely ten minutes and you've already brightened our world up again baby.' I thought and kissed his forehead again. I looked up and everyone was smiling at us.
"There's paramedics waiting just outside the doors to take him to the hospital now, I probably don't need to ask if you're going or not do I?" Carl asked and laughed when I pulled him closer to me.
"I'll get your jeep Bri, you take care of Sunshine." Em said and I smiled at him. and ran Justin to the medics and followed them to the ambulance and got in and took his hand in mine.
'You're safe now baby. I'm not going to let anything happen to you.' I said as the medics got to work.
AT THE HOSPITAL ABOUT 3 IN THE MORNING NOW
Brian's POV:
We waited in the waiting room for what felt like years to hear something about Justin's condition. "What the hell is taking so long! I wanna be with my Sunshine!" I yelled in annoyance and Deb half- heartedly glared at me.
"You have to be patient Brian. He was in pretty bad shape when he was brought here and it might take awhile to get everything healed and figure out if anything's wrong." she said and I stopped and looked at her.
"What's wrong is that I'm out here and Justin's in there. That's way to far for me to be from him after two months apart." I said and continued to pace and she just sighed and gave up on calming me down.
Not ten minutes later the doctor came out looking very tired but relief was very clear on his face making us all relax and smile a little. I ran up to the doctor and nearly knocked him over when I got to him.
"How's Justin? Is there anything wrong? When can he go home? Will he die?" I kept asking questions never once letting him speak. Em finally came over and placed a hand on my shoulder shutting me up to look at him, but he was looking at the doctor.
"I'm sorry about this one. Two months away from your partner and knowing he was getting hurt kinda made him WAY more protective than he originally was." he said and the doctor just smiled and shook his head.
"He's no trouble, I've seen people like him all the time. It's nice to see how protective partners get over each other these days. And I don't blame him at all for wanting to be near Justin right now, if something like this were to happen to Drew I think I'd be acting just like him." the doctor said still smiling but we were all staring at him in shock.
"S-so you're..." Mikey began but couldn't finish.
"Gay? Yes I am. Drew and I, oh sorry I didn't give you my name did I? It's Laurence. Anyways, Drew and I have been married for three years now and I'm just as protective of him as he is of Justin. Justin's lucky to have him." Laurence said smiling.
'What are the odds of us getting a gay doctor to look at Justin. Gods on our side today.' I thought to myself and shook out of my shock and looked at him again.
"So, Laurence, how is Justin?" I asked and held my breath waiting for him to answer. Laurence smiled at me.
"Justin's going to be just fine. Most of the scars you saw there were actually scabs and will heal without leaving a single scar. The only places there might be scaring are his back, his chest, and obviously the... Brand." Laurence said the last part in a whisper. Clearly that had gotten even to the doctor. I looked sadly at the door then back at Laurence.
"Will he be OK mentally?" I asked and the whole family tensed at that question.
"With time he should be. He'll just have to get reused to people touching him and not wanting to hurt him and he might have nightmares for a while, but I'd say he should be completely fine within the next couple of months. Especially with the love and care you guys will obviously give him." he said smiling at us. I smiled at him and held my hand out to him.
"Thank you for looking after my baby for me. I don't know how to repay you." I said and he shook his head.
"Protect him with your life and that's more than enough repayment." he said and I nodded.
"Can we see him?" Deb asked and he smiled at her and nodded.
"Of course, and if you guys can stay quit then I can make sure you sleep in his room tonight instead of leaving him." he said and I smirked at him.
"Why doc couldn't you lose your job for that?" I asked and he smirked.
"What fun is being a doctor if you can't have fun while doing it?" he asked and walked towards the doors with us laughing at him.
'The guy's great.' I thought and followed him to Justin's room.
When we got there I instantly went to his side to see they had cleaned him up and bandaged the cuts up and he was sleeping. I ran my hands through his now clear hair and smiled at him. "I'm here now baby." I whispered and climbed into the bed beside him as best as I could and settled to to where he was laying on my chest and continued to run through his hair with my fingers.
Laurence smiled at us and left promising to be back in a bit.
A few minutes after he left Justin started to wake up and he blinked a few times before looking up at me and smiling. "It really wasn't a dream." he said and I looked to see the whole family smiling with tears in their eyes at hearing his voice again.
"There's others here to see you baby." I said and nodded to the family. He turned slowly and looked at them with wide eyes. Em got up slowly and Justin snuggled closer to me eyeing Em with fear. Em looked a little hurt but stopped walking and looked at me.
"Baby that's Emmett, he's not going to hurt you." I told him and he looked back at Em who smiled at Justin.
"That's right baby, I won't hurt you." he said and slowly sat on the bed only to have Justin throw himself at him. Em was shocked at first but pulled him into a tight hug and petted the back of his hair.
"All of you are real, I'm not dreaming." he whispered and Em pulled him closer and the others surrounded him smiling at him.
"No boy wonder you're not dreaming." Mikey said and placed a hand on the top of his head since Em was hugging the rest of him. Justin smiled at them, though it wasn't his sunshine smile, it sure as hell was brighter than the one he had at the lake.
Justin crawled back into my lap and snuggled closer to me and yawned and fell asleep.
"Welcome home Sunshine." Debbie said sitting by me and the bed and started to run her hand through his hair.
Justin, even though he was asleep, had a little smile on his face.
OK, I'm sorry if it was to long for some of you, but I thought you'd guys want a long one to know what happens next so I made it long:) the next chapter is the last one!:) hope you guys liked this chapter and I hope you liked the story:) again, I need more people to want one before I make a sequel. I will tell you I'm getting ready to make a QAF crossover and you'll never guess with what I'm crossing QAF with:) hope you liked it:)