So this is my first Four Brothers fic, so hopefully it's a good one.

"Back to You"

Bobby's POV

Bobby walked into the house after Sophia called for dinner, but he didn't go to dinner. Instead, he climbed the stairs, trying to keep his mind turning to his room, only to have his feet take him there anyway. He twisted the loose knob and cracked open the door, trying to keep the hallway light from filtering in.

The figure on the bed was still, too still and Bobby could feel his already furious heartbeat speed up further. He sucked in a sharp breath and embarrassingly enough, choked back a sob of relief when the lanky figured stirred slightly.

"Bobby?" Bobby's tense shoulders sagged when he heard his baby brother's groggy voice. Groggy from all the pain meds and lack of sleep most likely. Last night, after kicking Bobby out and trying to sedate an angry and upset Jack, who kept yanking his IV out and yelling at the doctors to either let Bobby in or him out; the doctors had finally relented and let Jack come home. Having Jack home was a blessing to everyone, but seeing Jack in the condition he was in only made Bobby think about the events that had happened. What had seemed like a lifetime, was in reality only two short weeks.

The ambulance had taken Jack away, carrying with it Jack's little to no chance of living. Bobby hadn't gone to the hospital, he had gone after Victor Swede because he couldn't sit around waiting to hear whether or not Jack had given up on the operating table.

The day after Victor Swede's unfortunate demise, Bobby had staggered into the hospital and told a comatose Jack all about what his brothers had done for him and "informed" his baby brother that no one was allowed to hurt him, except for Bobby himself. That's when Jack cracked open his beautiful eyes and told Bobby that anyone else could hurt him and he wouldn't feel it anyway, but when Bobby did it, it broke him. Bobby could only grab Jack's limp hand and kiss the back of it, willing the tears to stop falling and stop making him look like a pussy.

He told Jack that he was done running, done pushing him away, done hurting him... Jack had only nodded, closed his eyes, and drifted back into a drugged sleep, but Bobby could tell that the younger Mercer was doubtful. And that made Bobby only want to prove it to him.

Six years ago, after Jack had tuned eighteen, he had finally made a move for Bobby. Bobby, who would have never initiated the kiss only because he had been made very keenly aware of Jack's abusive past that Evelyn had taken Jack away from only two years prior, had responded with a passion that had surprised both of them.

They were together about a year when they told Ma. She'd only smiled and told the that she knew way before even they did. A few weeks later, she pulled Bobby aside and told him that Jack had fallen hard and that this couldn't just be a fling to Bobby anymore. She made him consider his priorities and make sure he knew what he was doing and what it was doing to Jack.

Needless to say, Bobby bolted... terrified of the thought of someone loving him... relying on him... expecting things from him... So he ran. He ran from the expectations... from the fear... from Jack.

Sure he called and asked how Jacky was doing, but whenever Evelyn offered, Bobby just couldn't bring himself to hear Jack's hurt, angry, and broken voice. He only came home for Ma's funeral. Before that he couldn't bring himself to burst back into Jack's life. Jack had moved on, had gone to New York and had forgotten about Bobby. So he made sure that Jack knew that there was no way they could go back to the way things were. So, he started calling Jack a 'fairy', calling him gay, and twisting the friendly childhood nicknamed of Cracker Jack into something, not quite so innocent... And then when Bobby offered Jack his jacket... his old, worn leather jacket, as a desperate attempt to tell Jack that he still loved him, silently willing Jack to understand, Bobby knew that he had gone too far.

When Jack had first come to Evelyn at sixteen, he'd been physically and emotionally broken and so scared, he'd make himself sick, Bobby had offered his leather jacket as a peace offering. Jack took it on as his security blanket.

It was a year after Bobby had left and Jack had run to New York, that during one of Bobby's routine calls, Evelyn had off- handedly mentioned that Bobby should come get his jacket. After Bobby's alarmed "Why?!" Evelyn had told him that Jack left and had left the jacket hanging in his closet. Bobby then knew just how much he had hurt Jack. Even when they were younger; even when Jack was pissed at Bobby, which was pretty often, Jack had always slept with that jacket draped over him.

It had made Bobby throw up to know that he'd finally succeeded in hurting Jack so much that he'd left the coat behind. But now that Bobby had him back, by some miracle twist of fate, he was never letting his Jack go... ever.

"Hey, Jacky." Jack grumbled when a spear of light hit his eyes as Bobby opened the door a little wider to slip through before closing it again.

"Come here, Bobby." Jack said, his eyes sliding closed after Bobby knew that Jack saw his nervous hovering. So Bobby did. Mindful of the splint on Jack's leg and the white gauze covering Jack's sinewy torso, Bobby spooned up behind his brother and with a strong arm around Jack's waist, pulled the younger man back flush against his chest.

A quiet sigh from Jack and a whispered, "I love you, Bobby," was all Bobby got before Jack descended back into a now blissful slumber.

Bobby blinked back tears of pure relief and happiness, knowing his brother was safe here in his arms. He kissed Jack's soft hair, taking a deep inhale of a scent that was purely Jack, and whispered an, "I love you too, Cracker Jack."

Bobby closed his eyes, eager for the first nightmare less sleep in five years, while sharing the same quiet, content smile as the man in his arms. He'd protect Jack until he died, something Bobby was going to make sure didn't happen any time soon. Bobby was relieved to see that Jack didn't seem to mind.

Hi, so I hope you liked it. There will be four more chapters. Review, tell me what you think!