A/N: Hi there! Thank you so much for the lovely reviews in the last chapter, it means a lot to me that you're liking the story! In the last update, I said my updates this week could be irregular, but I'm having no problems with it. However, I'll be spending next week in a friend's house, and we won't have Internet... So I will probably update Friday night if everything goes well, and I'll only update again next Thursday. Sorry about that. Anyway, enjoy this chapter, and please review!
Tom ran down the steps, with Dougie behind him, and Harry shuffled from the living room with tired eyes to investigate what had woke him up, his eyebrows furrowing when he glanced at Danny on the floor, unconscious. Tom kneeled next to Danny, shifting his straightened bangs away from his forehead, where was a long gash bleeding quite profusely down his face.
'Wake up, Danny, please, please wake up...' Tom murmured as he looked back and forth between Danny's face and is now bloodied hands and fingers.
'We need to take him to the hospital.' Harry stated, his concern hidden by how tired he felt, and by the way he was trying to keep control of the situation.
'I-I know, but I wanted him to wake up first because- because- oh, I don't know, Harry!' Tom stuttered at first, and Harry could see he was starting to have a panic attack.
'Hey, calm down, mate.' Harry put a hand on Tom's shoulder. Then, he turned to Dougie, who was right behind Tom.
'Go get some towel kind of thing; we need to stop the bleeding.' Dougie nodded fast and run upstairs as fast as he could. Harry kneeled beside Tom, placing a hand on Danny's wrist and rubbing his temples with the other, trying to make his headache stop. Danny's eyebrows moved a bit and he frowned, trying to take one of his hands to the cut, but Tom took a hold of his hand before he could.
'Danny!' He gasped, not really knowing what to tell his friend, and he noticed Dougie wasn't with them anymore. Danny moaned in pain and squeezed his eyes shut.
'I feel sick.' He said simply, his voice cracking halfway through the sentence. Harry glanced quickly at the stairs, realizing Dougie was taking way too long to get a simple towel.
'Do you feel like throwing up at all?' Tom asked Danny, watching his face get paler by the second. Danny nodded, his few movements small and slow.
'Oh, God damn it, Dougie, what is taking you so long?!' Harry groaned before racing to the kitchen, returning with a red plastic bucket and a washcloth. Tom took the washcloth of his hands and pressed it against Danny's forehead where the cut was, and dabbing it across his cheek to clean up the blood.
'Tom...' Danny whispered, sounding plain sick and broken. Harry got his hint and placed quickly the bucket under Danny's chin. The Boltoner sat up suddenly and threw up violently inside the bucket. When he was finished, Danny wiped his mouth in his sleeve and rested his back on the wall, Tom still holding the cloth to his forehead.
'Where did Dougie go?' Tom remembered, looking at Harry. 'I told him to get a towel for Dan like five minutes ago.' Harry replied. Tom paled.
'You told him. To get a towel. On his own.' Tom said nervously, looking at Harry, who had a confused look on his face.
'Uh, sure... I mean, he is fifteen after all, I think he is old enough to go around the house to get stuff, maybe?' Harry replied with a hint of sarcasm, but Tom didn't want to listen. He was now way more worried about a Dougie left alone with Lilith, and he ran upstairs, murmuring a 'stay with Danny' in the way.
Thinking Dougie could have gone search for a towel in Danny's en-suite bathroom, he went there, but upon entering Danny's room he noticed something clearly wrong.
The balcony door was open.
Tom ran to Danny's balcony, observing the big tree in front of him, searching for his friend and praying for not finding a mangled mess of human bones on the floor of the backyard. Finally, in a high branch near the pool, he saw Dougie with a lost look on his face, hung by his boxers. When he finally noticed Tom, his cheeks turned bright red.
'I, uh, don't know how this happened. I mean, I was in Danny's bathroom, and suddenly...'
'Try not to move, okay? I will be right down.' Tom ran off once again, passing next to Danny and Harry in the bottom of the stairs, who eyed him with curious looks, and arrived to the backyard, looking up to Dougie's face. Tom was going to try and think of a safe way to get Dougie down, but before he could even do it, he heard the branch break and saw Dougie fall to the ground, landing a little too far for Tom to try to catch him.
Tom heard a loud crack followed by a cry of pain coming from Dougie, who rolled around clutching his chest with his right arm, with tears rolling down his face.
'Dougie, are you alright?' Dougie tried to sit up, with no success.
'My chest really hurts... And I think I did something to my wrist.' He showed Tom his left arm, which was bent in an odd angle. Tom sighed and picked him up bridal style, taking him to the back seat of his blue Mini. Dougie was sprawled across the whole back of the car, and curled up on his stomach, his left arm holding his ribs once again.
'Hang in there.' Tom told him, speeding up to where Danny was. 'Harry, help me getting him up.' Harry nodded and helped Danny get on his feet, with an arm around his shoulders. The three shuffled to Tom's car, getting Danny to the passenger seat. Harry glanced at Dougie in the backseat, whimpering in pain.
'Tom! What...' 'I'll explain later, Harry. I'm taking them to the hospital.' Tom sat in the driver seat and turned on the car. 'Call me if you need anything.'
'But Dougie is...'
'I said I'll explain everything later!' And Tom drove off, leaving Harry looking at the spot where the car was, before getting in the house again.
FLOYNTERXxx: Haha, sorry about the cliffhanger, it seemed somewhere good to end the chapter! I have a feeling that you will like the next one then, you can predict what is going to happen next most of the times! And thank you, I'm really enjoying the workshop kind of thing, made lots of friends already (and covered myself in blue paint too!).
deeplyinloves: Well, thank you for reviewing, it's good to know you're liking this! And yes, I'm mean to these boys, haha!
Galaxy-Defending-Hopeful: Wow, thank you so much! I don't really know what to say, I mean, I'm truly enjoying writing this, I hope you are loving reading it as much as I love writing it :D Hope you liked this chapter by the way :)
