A/N: Hey guys...so, thank you to all the people who wished me to get better. Unfortunatedly, I'm still sick, yeah...I know, it sucks. It was a little more serious than I'd initally thought so...no worries, it's nothing lethal, but I HAVE been given anti-biotics so, yeah, it sucks.

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Ch.9: Remember Me

1 month later…

It so happened that Kendall was by himself, his mom and sister having gone to San Diego for the weekend and Carlos and Logan out on a date, when it happened, exactly a month after James had woken up.

Coming into the apartment, sweating, for he'd come from the gym, James smiled at Kendall.

Kendall smiled back and attempted to ignore how the brunette's sweaty, well-toned body and washboard abs that were visible from his tight, black T-shirt got him hot and bothered and aching to touch the brunette in a way which he knew he wasn't allowed to anymore.

"Hey Kendall," James said.

"Hey," Kendall responded "What have you been up to?"

"Nothing much," James said with a shrug "Lucy didn't want to hang out with me by the pool so..."

"Don't you think you should just give up?" Kendall asked, a little bit irritated by the brunette's fixation with the rocker girl "I mean...yeah, I get it, Lucy Stone is pretty amazing...but she's not the ONLY amazing girl in this world" he said, feeling slightly sick to his stomach when he said the word "girl".

"I guess..." James admitted begrudgingly "Anyways, moving on to the next topic...I never DID get around to asking you guys' this but…how DID I end up in the hospital in a coma for 7 months, anyway? What happened?"

"You-you were shot, you know that, we've told you the story before..." said Kendall, swallowing the lump in his throat, his palms sweating like crazy. This was exactly the question he, Carlos, and Logan had wanted to avoid all along. Because it brought James dangerously close to the truth about his old life. His relationship with none other than Kendall.

"But-why?" James pressed.

"Why do you want to know?" Kendall fired back "It's all in the past now, James,"

"I just do, please Kendall, please, tell me what happened..." James begged and Kendall silently cursed his inability to deny the brunette anything.

He shrugged.

"I don't know," Kendall said "Some idiot just came up to you during an interview and shot you…"

"It seems rather odd and random, don't you think?" James said softly, touching Kendall's arm in the process and Kendall cursed himself from getting butterflies in his stomach from the slightest of James' touch. He should be able to exercise better control than this...not want to jump his best friend every time their bodies touched.

"Well…this man…he was- against gays…" Kendall said finally, shaking out of his dirty thoughts, "So-so he shot you…out of hatred for…what you were. He actually aimed for your boyfriend- you just jumped in the way,"

"Wait-people KNEW I was gay?" James exclaimed shocked.

Kendall nodded.

"It was no secret," he said "Even the press knew...we just- haven't showed you those tapes for fear they'd upset you..."

"So, so where IS my-my boyfriend now?" James asked, shuddering when he said the word boyfriend "I nearly DIED for him! He could've at least said thanks,"

At this, Kendall avoided James' gaze at all costs.

"Yeah well, he was sort of sulking around you for the 7 months you were in a coma but then…you woke up and you'd lost your memories about the two of you and wanted nothing to do with him. He-he was heartbroken but he just…moved on, eventually, found another girl and all…after all, what more could he do? He just wanted you to be happy…" Kendall said bitterly.

"You talk like you knew him," James said, eyes narrowed "Like really, REALLY knew him,"

"He was your boyfriend, 'course I knew him," Kendall said avoiding James' eyes.

James caught Kendall's hand on his own. Kendall stared wide-eyed at their intertwined hands, the butterflies in his stomach going berserk.

"It doesn't make any sense," James told him, looking deeply into his emerald green eyes "You talk as if you were the one hurting…like if you were…him."

"Yeah...about that, I never really got around to telling you, thanks for saving my life man," Kendall said, offering James a fake smile "So, since it's all figured out I'll just leave now and-"

"Kendall wait…" James said softly, Kendall stopped and looked at the brunette with pain-filled eyes.

"What James?" he asked, hoping his voice didn't shake.

"Since it was you…Do you hate me now?" James asked him.

Kendall laughed sadly.

"No James," he said "I can never hate you…"

"Even after everything I've said the last couple of weeks?" James said quietly.

"I mean it James...nothing you ever say or do can make me hate you..." Kendall said softly and James' heart broke, hearing Kendall sound so heartbroken.

"Do you really love Jo?" James asked in a really small voice.

Kendall stared wide-eyed at James in surprise, eventually recovering enough to answer him.

"There's only one person I'm in love with and he's sitting here in front of me…" Kendall whispered "Not that that makes any difference…you're not who you used to be…"

"Aren't I?" James asked softly before he got up and kissed him, pulling the blonde closer to him. Kendall moaned into the kiss, unable to believe what was happening.

Surely this wasn't real, surely he was dreaming.

Surely that wasn't James' tongue that was now in his mouth, fighting for dominance on the kiss with his own, or James' own hands lightly and lovingly caressing his back.

All he could think of while he returned James' fever hot kisses was:

'I love you James. I missed you. Come back to me, please, baby…remember me...'

A/N: Sooo...do I deserve some Big Time Loving now or what? Lol.

Love me, love me, say you're gonna love me...or at least this story anyways, yes, so...

Just to make it clear, this is merely part one of your Kames reunion, there's more to come next chapter. I'll bet most of you won't review now, though, because Kendall and James are back together...I hope that's not so, or I'll be encouraged to write more angst.

*Laughs-coughs-evilly*

Alright-y time for me to say good-bye, I need to rest if this cold's ever going to go away.

Again, if this was too short, I apologize, blame the stupid cold...next one will be better, hopefully!

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Cheers,

Franshes