Zoey and Jake were shocked at their children's disregard for someone else's well being.
"I thought we raised them better than that!" Zoey complained.
"Apparently they've had too much real world experience and it's overridden our teachings." Jake said.
"I suppose." Zoey said, then turned to Noah. "Are you alright Noah? Do you want me to help you get home?"
Noah shook his head both as an answer and to fight off the dizziness, "No, no I'm fine."
"Well if you're sure here's the basket of things you asked for." Zoey said.
Noah did his best to smile and was slightly disappointed to see Mokuba was gone, but then said, "I'm fine. Thank you." Then he took the basket and headed home.
Zoey and Jake went back over to where Bakura was just now getting the horses out.
Zoey looked at them. "I am disappointed in both of you. How dare you do that! Ryo you had no right to throw poor little Noah into that tree!"
"The same can be said for you Bakura. Your mother asked you to help an injured person home. What kind of knight are you?" Jake asked.
Ryo glared at them, "I never laid a hand on 'poor innocent wittle Noah!'"
Bakura also glared at them holding his and Ryo's horses, "As for what kind of a knight am I. I'm the kind who cares about the welfare of the innocent. When Noah was younger he may have been innocent as you say. But a bastard who rapes children does not deserve my help or sympathy!"
"You honestly think that Mokuba was laying in the snow with his pants and underwear down for the fun of it!" Ryo asked.
"Not to mention the fact that Noah still has stuff all over his face. Or was that from nonexistent foods he ate while he was alone with the boy." Bakura asked.
"I trusted you! When I told you of Mokuba's past, whether you knew it was that Noah or not, that wasn't the point! I told you about his past, about what happened and you turned your back on him!" Ryo said.
"You honestly want me to believe he raped the boy here where we could hear and in the snow?" Zoey asked.
Before Ryo could respond, Bakura said, "Forget it Ryo. You're wasting your breath. Let's get going."
Ryo signed and agreed.
"Are you sure we have everything?" Zoey asked.
Ryo just ignored her and climbed onto his horse.
Bakura too ignored her and climbed on his horse. Then he said, "If you forgot anything we can get it later. You're probably going to want to get going after the storm passes so I don't see why we have to pack everything."
"I agree with Bakura, half this stuff could have been left for your return." Ryo said.
"Well I am sorry boys' but this will save us a lot of time." Zoey said.
"Whatever, let's just get going." Bakura said.
As much as their parents wanted to protest more, the wind picked up a little. It had long since stopped snowing. Even though the possibility that the storm may hit at any time right now, it was only a heavy wind that forced everyone to decide to hurry in case it started snowing. They didn't relish the idea of trying to ride through blinding snow.
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Noah returned home but his head was still killing him. He was afraid to go home. Afraid that if there was a bruise or something forming his mother would panic and take him to the hospital. Even though there was no 'true hospital' in Draglor, the closest fully functional and high tech for the time was in Cascadia. Other countries like Draglor had something close to a hospital. It was always a large house and sometimes makeshift buildings and/or tents to house people that needed to stay for treatment. He hated it when he was forced to stay the night there. They'd often poked and prodded him. He remembered clearly for years the doctors would tell his mother he won't live to his next birthday. When he was 9 they asked her if she had a gravesite picked out. He remembered that clearly because he'd been sick for a week and the doctors told his mother that it was time. Though they were told no child ever lived beyond 10. His mother, refusing to give up, took him to Cascadia where they were told that was not true. There were a handful of people with Elinoreus that did go on to live longer lives. Few of them died of old age but all but a couple lived beyond 21. Of course you had to take some foul smelling medicine and shots.
He sighed as he walked in; his mother gasped when she saw him.
"Noah, honey what happened?"
Not even daring to tell his mother what he did he said, "Nothing. I was invited to tea and cupcakes." Noah said to explain why he was gone longer than he should have been. Then the sun was shining and blinding me slightly with so much snow. Then the wind picked up."
"Oh you poor baby. What happened to your head?"
"Oh, I guess I must have run into a tree. I don't remember. But I got everything you asked for. I think I'm going to go take a nap."
"Are you sure you're alright?"
"Yes, mother I'm fine and no I don't want to go to the hospital."
Ivera didn't like it but chose to let him be. "Well if you need anything…"
"I promise to call."
Noah fell asleep almost the moment his head hit the pillow.
Then he started to look around the room. "JJ, I knew you'd come back to me! We'll be together forever!" Then he quickly discarded both of their clothes. He moaned and cried out. "Oh yes! I knew it kid, I knew you'd be able to please me if you wanted! Yes, oh I knew all it would take is for me to blow you once and you'd get the hang of it! But I guess the second time was all you needed!" Then Noah felt himself close. "Wait I want to finally fuck you let's get started. He thought it strange that JJ only nodded and didn't say anything but wasn't going to argue. Soon he'd prepared the boy and was inside him. "Oh, gods! I knew it! I knew you'd be tight!" Then as he started to move and moan louder he heard the door knob wiggle and then much to his horror his mother walked in with some of the women from her church and club group.
"Oh, my lord! Noah…."
"Ivera, how could you have such a child! It'd be one thing if he was up here with a girl, but with a child!" A woman said.
"A boy child no less!" Another one said.
"Noah! How could you!" Ivera said, crying.
"You probably knew, all this time. Now the whole town will know." Yet another lady said.
"I can only imagine what the people will say!" another lady said.
"Most will probably ignore or avoid him." a woman said.
"Yes, don't forget they'd want to make sure to keep their children far from him. Look at him, he's still inside the boy obviously not as ashamed as he should be!" another woman said in disgust."
"Yes, let's go before we become infected too!"
As his mother gave him one last longing look and turned away Noah snapped back to reality, "No, mother wait!"
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Noah sat up groaning and rubbing his head.
Ivera burst into the room. "Noah, honey, are you all right. I heard a loud moaning and then you shouting for me. Is everything alright?"
Noah sighed, "I'm fine mother, don't hate me for what I was doing with JJ, I couldn't help it!"
"Noah honey what are you talking about? What did you do to JJ? You know I'd never hate you. Is there something you want to tell me? Perhaps why the king and everyone seems to think you raped him?"
Noah turned and glared at her. "What the hell do you think?! You saw me fucking him with your own eyes not two minutes ago!"
Ivera's eyes went wide! "What? Were-were you just having a nightmare?"
"No, look I…" Noah trailed off as he looked around and saw no signs of JJ anywhere or his clothes and looked down at himself and saw he was still in his pajamas and a wet spot was forming in his pants. That's when he noticed the ring Zariah had given him. She'd called it revenge. Even now it was glowing slightly. His eyes went wide as he realized what it meant. It meant that the ring was set up to bring about realistic fantasy dreams and turn them into living nightmares!
His mother continued to stare at her son with wide eyes as he attempted to get the ring off to no avail. It seemed to only tighten rather than loosen. It even cut off the circulation till he stopped pulling on it.
"I'm sure whatever it was, was just a bad dream. We'll drop the cakes and things off at the club then go out to the hospital to have them look at you. That bump on the head must have been bad to make you go crazy like this."
Noah could only sigh and nod. Not having the strength to argue. Though he really wondered if his mother was ignoring what he'd said or was just to blind and stupid to believe he'd ever actually do anything. Still having him as a five-year old stuck in her head and it made her forget his true age. He wasn't really sure if that was a blessing or a curse. He cursed that ring and settled back into bed hoping that if he had any more wet dreams they wouldn't turn into nightmares as well.