Minor Char DeathI would like to thank my friends for making me keep writing.LOL Also I want to say that due to the holidays my beta's became to busy for me so any mistakes are their fault since they weren't here to fix them....JUST KIDDING..all mistakes are mine. I love my betas..C and T hurry back home we miss you.
Brian Pov:
I pull up to the school and see a lot of police cars and ambulances. I close my eyes and open them as I run up to the school. A cop grabs me and pulls me to the side.
“I have to go in there. My partner and best friend are in there.”
“Sir, you can’t go in there. It’s not secure yet.” As I look up I see them bringing someone out on a stretcher. As they bring it down and start to place it in the ambulance beside me I look at who it is.
“Oh Shit. Daphne.” I push the cop away and run over to her.
“Daphne, are you okay.”
“Sir, she’s unconscious at the moment. She was shot and hit her head when she hit the floor.”
“Is she going to be okay?”
“Not sure sir. We have to get her to the hospital. Are you a friend?”
“Yes sir.” Would you like to go with us?”
“I can’t my partner and my best are in there. Any news on them.”
“No sorry, we need to go.” As he jumps in and closes the door. I watch as the ambulance goes out of distance.
Fourteen minutes earlier:
Justin POV:
I hear the shot go off and I am paralyzed in the spot I am standing in. “Michael” I whimper out and run to him.
But before I could get to him I am pulled away and four police officers run over to where they are, lying, unmoving.
They pull Michael off Ethan and I see a lot of blood on Michael’s clothes. “NOOOO” I scream as I try to get away. The officer holding me let me go as I ran to Michael’s side.
I lean over and put my head on his, crying. “I’m so sorry, I’m sorry Michael.”
“Justin?” I hear from below me. I left my head up and see Michael’s eyes looking into mine.
“Justin, are you okay?” He asks me.
“Thanks to you I am. Oh god Mikey I thought you were dead.” I cried as I held him.
“Sir let me check your friend out.” The paramedics told me. I move out of the way. Mikey grabs my hand and doesn’t let go.
“You were shot through the arm sir, but it is a graze. It will be sore but we still need to take you to the hospital.” One of them said.
The pick him up and I stand up. As I turn around I see Ethan, lying there in a pool of blood. I feel a panic attack coming on and seeing Ethan’s eyes open was the last thing I saw before passing out.
Brian POV:
I stand there pacing when I see them coming out with three more stretchers. I run to where they are bringing them out.
I see Michael on one and Justin on the other. But Justin wasn’t moving. “Justin” I scream and Mikey looks at me. I look over at the third one and they have it covered up. I look at Mikey and he mouths ‘Ethan’ and I nod my head as I push through to get to them.
“Sir, what are you doing? You can’t go over there”
“Bullshit, that’s my partner and that’s my best friend and if you don’t me go they will need another stretcher.” He lets me go as I run to Mikey and Justin.
“Justin” I take his hand and look at the paramedic. “He’s ok. He’s had a panic attack and when he saw the boy dead on the ground he passed out.”
I look at Mikey and he nods his head. “He was shot in the arm. It grazed it. He will be fine as well but they need to take them both to the hospital to be checked out.” I nod my head, looking from my best friend, to Justin.
“Ride with him, I’ll be ok.” I smile my thanks and hop into the ambulance that they just put Justin into.
We get to the hospital where they take us into a room. Mikey asked to be put in the same room as Justin. Normally I would be jealous of that, but due to what they both just went through, I understand.
I didn’t want to ask about what happened until I knew Justin was ok. He opened his eyes and looked at me.
“Mikey?” He asks me.
“I’m here Justin. It’s over. We are all okay.” Mikey tells him
He nods his head and I can’t believe Mikey didn’t correct Justin on the name. I guess it goes with not caring until they are out of here. Justin looks at me and smiles.
“Brian, I am so glad you are here.” I take his hand and kiss it.
“I was so worried when I heard about the shooting.”
“Oh MY GOD. DAPHNE. How is she?” Just starts to yell.
“We aren’t sure yet. They haven’t told us.” Justin starts to cry and I lean up and pull him into my arms. Letting him cry.
“Why did he do this?” He starts to ask.
“I don’t know Jus. But you are safe now.”
“He’s dead,” he said in a quiet voice to where I had to strain to here him.
“Yes he is. But you aren’t” I whisper to him.
“Ya, because of Mikey.” he said looking at Mikey.
The detectives came in and asked if they could speak to Michael and Justin. They both wanted me to stay so I did.
“Ok who wants to start? Who knew the shooter?” The one with dark hair asked.
“I did. We were together for two years. We just broke up not long ago. He didn’t want me to leave him.” Justin states and I put my arm around him to give comfort and support.
“Okay, there’s the motive we wanted. But I need to know what happened today at the school” He looks from Justin to Mikey who were looking at each other.
“We were walking down the hall when we heard a gun shot. We rounded the corner and that’s when, that’s when” Justin started to cry again. Mikey came over to sit next to Justin as well. He took over talking.
“That’s when we saw Daphne lying in a pool of blood.”
“Daphne Chandlers?”
“Yes, she’s a friend of the families. Justin’s best friend.”
“Why do you think he shot her?”
“To get to me. She is very protective of me. She didn’t like Ethan or like him.” Justin told the officer.
“Ok, what happened next?” The officer asked.
“Ethan was talking to Justin about another chance or he would kill him and kill Brian for the hell of it because Brian took Justin away. Or that’s what he thought.” Michael blurted out.
“Justin was trying to fool him into believing he would go back to him but it didn’t work. I was trying to talk him into giving up and giving me the gun and that’s when he raised it and said that he already shot someone and cocked the gun” Mikey continued, my blood boiling over from the information he is giving.
“I grabbed the gun before he could shot Justin, knowing that if Justin was shot, Brian would kill me. Not literally. Anyway, we were fighting for the gun and it went off. We both fell to the floor and I could feel the blood and Justin screaming my name. That’s when I lost consciousness.” Mikey looked at Justin who was smiling at him.
“He saved my life. I was afraid he was dead and that Brian would hate me for letting his best friend take a bullet for me.” I look at Justin who is looking at me.
“I would never hate you. I love you. It would upset me that Mikey was gone, but I would have totally praised him for it. Mikey. I owe you a lot. You are the best.” I tell him as I lean in and kiss them both.
“Okay, then I guess that’s all we need from you right now. I have your home address and numbers in case we need to get hold of you but this is pretty much open and shut case. I’m sorry for your lose in the ex and glad you have people who are willing to risk it all.” He winks at Justin and walks out.
“Mikey, I do owe you a lot in saving Justin. If you weren’t there, Justin could be.” I couldn’t finish that thought.
“No problem, I care for Justin to.” Mikey smiles at Justin who is almost asleep in my arms. I lay him back and run my hands through his hair.
“Mikey, I mean it. Thanks.” I kiss him and lay down next to Justin.
“No problem Brian. You would have skinned me alive if I let him get hurt.” He smiles and lays down on the other side of Justin. Pretty soon we are all sleeping.
Justin Pov:
I awake to find myself in the middle of Brian and Michael. On any other day, this would be scary, but at this moment, it’s not. I have my lover on one side and my lifesaver on the other.
Mikey opens his eyes and looks at me. “Hey” he smiles at me.
“Hey” I look at Brian who is still asleep.
“You scared me when you went down. Mikey I never thought I would be indebted to you. I never thought I would see you do something like that for me. Specially when you found me a threat to you and Brian.” I look at his face.
“Justin, it’s not that you were a threat to Brian and me.”
“You are a good friend, to both of us.” I kiss him on the cheek and he smiles.
“Justin, I just want to say that I would do it all over again if I had to. You mean the world to Brian and me. I mean Brian means the world to me. He’s happy with you and that’s what matters to me.” I smile at him but there is something in his eyes that tell me there more.
“Glad to hear that Mikey.” Brian opens his eyes and smiles at us both. “For a moment I thought you were making a move onto what is mine.” Brian laughed.
“Never do that Brian. You would have my balls chopped off and shipped across country.” Mikey replies and we all laugh.
“Brian can you get the doctor?”
“Why Sunshine are you hurting?”
“No I want to know about Daphne.” I tell him and he nods his head.
Brian goes out of the room and I look at Mikey who is staring at me. “What?” I ask laughing.
“Are you sure you are okay?” “Yes Michael, I’m fine.”
He leans over and gives me a kiss and my eyes fly open. “Michael?”
“It’s just a friendly kiss like I give Brian. I just want you to know that we are friends.”
“Mikey we were friends before this happened.” I remind him and he just smiles at me as Brian comes in with the doctor.
“Heard you want to know about your friend?” I nod my head, looking away from Mikey.
“How is she?” I ask
“Well she lost a lot of blood because they couldn’t get to her until things were secured. She was in surgery a few hours but is doing better now. She wants to see you. She also wants to see Michael.” I look at Michael and he shrugs.
“Why me?” He asks.
“She wants to say thank you.” Michael nods his head.
“Well when can we see her?” I ask again.
“How about now?” I nod my head.
“Can Brian come to?” The doctor nods his head and he puts both Michael and me into wheelchairs and takes us out in the hall.
“Justin?” Mikey looks at me with a wicked smile. “Ya?” I look at him. “I’ll race you”
I smile and look at the doctor and Brian talking and nodded my head. “OK, on the count of three. One, two, three.” As we both start wheeling ourselves down the hallway.
“Justin, Mikey.” We hear Brian yell to us. We stop at Daphne’s room. We are both laughing and Mikey puts his hand on my arm. “You won Boy Wonder.” I smile at him and nod. “But you only won because of my sore arm which fuck it hurts now.” Mikey looks at me with puppy eyes.
“Ok, you want me to say I will give you the race?” He nods and I shake my head.
“Umm no.” We both start laughing as Brian and the doctor come over.
“You boys are in so much trouble” Brian leans over, kissing me.
“Promise” I ask him and he nods.
We walk, well Brian walks in, Mikey and I push our chairs inside Daphne’s room.
“Justin.” She looks at me and smiles and I get up and go over and hug her to me.
“Daphne I am so fucking sorry I got you into this.” I cry to her.
“Oh shut it Taylor. I told the fucker off before he shot me. He wanted me to tell him where you were and I wouldn’t. Justin this isn’t your fault.”
“Are you okay?” I ask her.
“Hell ya, you think I will let a bullet keep me down? Especially one from a loser like Ethan” She smiles at me. “I love you Daffy.” I whisper to her. “Love you to Justers” We hug for a few minutes then she pushes me beside her.
“Novotney, get over here.” Daphne tells Mikey.
“I’m here.” Mikey steps up by her. She runs her hand over the place he got shot, for me, and she reaches up and pulls him into a hug as she starts to cry. “Thank you so much for saving my best friend. You are now officially off my shit list.”
“It’s no biggie. It was either die saving Justin or die of not saving Justin.” Michael told her and she nodded. Mikey pats my hand and smiles at me. “See Justin, if I didn’t save you, Daphne and Brian would take turns ripping my balls off.” We all laugh.
“Guys can I have a few minutes alone with Justin?” Daphne asks.
“Of course. “ They both say in unison.
They walk out after Brian kisses me “I’ll be back” he said in his best Terminator voice.
After they were gone Daphne looked at me. “Okay Taylor, I know you. Spill it.”
Brian POV:
We walk out of the room and Mikey tells me he is going to go back to his room. I told him I would be there in a minute that I needed to ask the doctor something. As I was walking away I heard Daphne ask Justin to spill it. I can’t help myself I need to know what’s going on. I listen in. I know I shouldn’t but it is the only way to find out how he is really doing.
“Okay Taylor, I know you, spill it” I Hear Daphne tell Justin.
“What are you talking about Daphne? I’m fine.” Justin answers way to quickly.
“Justin, talk to me please.”
“Ok, it’s just that I should have known Ethan would be fucking crazy enough to do this. Now my best friend is in the hospital after being shot and my lover’s best friend risked his life for me. Then seeing Ethan’s eyes still open when he was lying on the floor. He had the same look when we met, innocent and loving. Not the Ethan that went on a shooting spree.” Justin answers her. How can he blame himself. He can’t control what that asshole did.
“Justin. It wasn’t your fault what he did. Ethan was a bad egg from the start. I told you that.” I knew I liked her.
“Daphne, I was with him for two years. Not all of it was bad. I was happy with him for a long time. I loved him.” My heart leaps at that.
“I know you did, but you fell out of love with him.”
“Yes I did, and I should have been honest with him. I just didn’t want to hurt him. Look where not being honest got us. You and Michael get shot and Ethan is dead.” I hear Justin sob and my heart breaks for him.
“Justin, listen to me. Ethan had the choice on how to handle it regardless how you told him. I don’t blame you and as I can tell, neither does Michael.” She is right, Mikey seems to not have any hard feelings towards Justin.
“Ya, I know he doesn’t. To tell you the truth, if it wasn’t for him, I would be dead. Or seriously injured. I can’t begin to thank him for that. He said it’s because of you and Brian, but I don’t know.”
“What do you mean? I noticed he touches you when he can and is looking out for you. Oh my god, Justin, has he made a move on you?” My heart goes to my throat at the thought of my best friend making the moves onto my boyfriend.
“No, he hasn’t. I mean he has touched my arm and my face and stuff, and he kissed me earlier. Like he kisses Brian. He even said that he kisses his friends like that, and I’ve seen him do it.” Justin admits. Mikey kissed him earlier? I will have to find out more.
“Justin, I think Mikey has a little thing for you and to tell you the truth, I think you like him.” Shit, she didn’t just say that.
“I like Mikey. He saved my life and I have always tried being his friend. But as far as me wanting more then a friendship with him. No I don’t. I am in love with Brian. I won’t say that this fucked up incident won’t put Mikey and me closer, but I could never love him like I do Brian.” Oh thank god. I am so pleased to hear Justin say those words. I relax a little until the next thing Daphne said.
“Justin, I think Michael likes you for more then a friend. I saw how he is looks at you. I mean come on, You don’t put your life on the line for someone just because you are afraid of the best friends. You don’t put your life on the line unless you care for that person. A lot. Jus, I know that you love Brian. And I know Brian loves you, but Michael wouldn’t have done that unless he cares more for you then he saids. It was a way to get you out of Brian’s life so that he can somehow live out the fantasy of getting with Brian, but that isn’t the case. Justin, Michael did it because he wants you around. “
“You are out of your mind. I think you hit your head to hard. Michael knows I am with Brian and we have become friends. Friends do crazy shit like this for friends. Plus he would never cross that line of friendship because he knows it would hurt Brian.”
“Okay Taylor. I won’t say anymore, but just remember what I said.” She tells him.
“Ok, Daffy, I won’t forget. But you are wrong about this.”
“I hope I am Justin because I wouldn’t want to see how Brian deals with it.”
And I agree with her. I hope she’s wrong to. I will defiantly keep an eye on the situation. I walk away after that, hearing the laughter from the two friends. I will have to make sure of my best friend’s motives and keep an eye on Justin. This is harder on him then he is letting on. Thank god for Daphne.
I walk to Mikey’s room to find him reading a comic book.
“Hey Mikey, how you feeling?”
“I’m fine. Where’s Justin? I thought you were going to wait for him since you didn’t come right away.”
“Ya, I decided to hang out a bit. I’m glad you are ok and that Justin is okay.” I sit next to him.
“Brian, I’m fine. I’m glad we are all okay. It would have destroyed Justin if Daphne didn’t make it. “
“It would have destroyed me if something worse happened to you or Justin.” I look at his eyes.
“Brian, can we not talk about this? I want to forget it.” He looks away from me.