"I don't think that he'll do this", said a third voice.
Tai let go of Matt and looked at the door.
"You!?", he cried.
"What do you want?! Get out!"
Matt leaned against the wall and held his injured hand to stop the blood from flowing.
"When you say so", the man said.
"Matt, you stay here and I'll take care of this", Matt could see that Tai din;t want to hear anything in response.
Tai stepped forwards and grabbed the persons arm and dragged him out of the door.
"I;m not scared of you, Kev", Tai said when he wanted to throw Kev out, but another hand got a hold of his neck and pressed down.
Tai let go of Kev and grabbed the hand that threatened to stop him from breathing.
"Let go!"
Tai looked over to the other person who spoke.
Dean came with Matt into the living room.
With a well aimed punch Dean knocked Matt out.
"Matt?", Tai couldn't do anything, because Kev got a hold of his hands.
Dean put Matt onto the couch and turned to Tai and his two friends.
"Well, well. You convinced Matty- boy to go to the police.... how stupid of you, Tai. We can't let this happen...", Dean said and his calm voice sent shivers down Tais spine.
"Am I right, boys?", Dean asked and his friends nodded in agreement.
Tai couldn't see the grin on Seans and Kevs faces.
"What shall we do with our little friend over here", Dean said and pointed at Tai, "to make him understand tha twe mean what he said?"
Dean scratched his chin just to show that he was trying to think over something really terrible.
He knew exactly what he wanted to do with Tai, but Dean wanted to enjoy this moment.
Tai reached a point where he stared to get really nervous, he couldn't do anything to prevent Sean, Dean and Kevs actions.
He was sure that he could knock one out, maybe two of them, but three?
Tai looked at the couch and saw that Matt was still unconscious.
Dean followed Tais view: "Don;t worry, Blondie will get what he deserves soon enough."
"Don;t get Matt into this, he hasn't done anything", Tai tried to sound brave, but he heard his voice wavering.
"You heard that? He said, that Blondie has nothing to do with this hole thing. I think that someone doesn't understand: Everything centers around him", Dean laughed.
Tai knew that he told them nonsense, Dean was right: Everything is about Matt.
"Shall we?", Kev asked.
"Jepp", answered Sean.
For a moment Kev let go off Tai, but as soon as Kev left Sean was there to take his place.
The boy grabbed Tais wrists and twisted them behind his back.
The pain made Tai cry out, he wasn't prepared for such a harsh action.
"Oh, does it hurt?", Sean asked.
"Just wait until we're finished with you. Believe me Tai, you don't know what pain really is", Kev grinned.
Kev grabbed Seans hand and twisted it further behind Tais back. Tai's pain was unbearable.
When Dean hit Tai in the stomach the brunette forgot the pain in his arm and back.
Dean and Kev kicked Tai all over until he couldn't look straight anymore.
His face was red with blood and his lip was split.
The red blood flowed into the carped.
Beep! Beep!
"What the heck?!", Dean cried as if he was afraid of being caught.
Even Tai stopped moaning in pain and looked around.
Where did that come from?
"Blondie!!", Kev cried happily as he pointed at Matt who was wide awake by now.
"What have you done?", Dean asked, he let go off Tai and went over to where Matt was sitting on the couch.
Matt didn't dare to breath, Dean looked really mad.
"Nothing", he whispered and tried to find a way out.
But there was nothing he could do: Dean was approaching him and he backed away until his back hit the wall.
Matt was trapped.
"I'll ask you again: What have you done", he grabbed Matt with both of his hands around the blonds neck.
Matt tried to break out of Deans deathgrip, but there was no use in even trying it.
"N-Nothing", Matt was able to say just before Dean slammed his head against the wall with full force.
The blond tried to catch his breath.
Dean threw him into the small glass table that stood in the middle of the living-room.
The glass broke and some of the pieces cut through Matts cloths and into the boys back.
Blood was running out of the new wounds and onto the ground.
Dean still stood from where he had thrown Matt through the table.
Kev and Sean just looked at the whole thing with a smirk plastered onto their faces.
Tai was speechless.
The other two boys looked at each other and shrugged, they started beating Tai again.
Dean followed Matt who was able to stand again on quivering legs.
The tall boy just had to slap Matt across the face and the blond was taken down again.
This time one of Deans boots found it's was onto Matts back.
Sean let go off Tais arms and came over to Kev and together they tried to beat tai senseless.
When Tai tried to get up Sean kicked his legs away.
Again Tai found himself on the ground next to the chest of drawers.
What happened next came unexpected to Sean and Kev.
Tai grabbed the bag which lay next to him and hit Kev with as much force as possible over the head.
Kev cried out in pain and stumbled backwards. The boy hit his head on a chair and was out cold.
"What the ..?", Sean took a step back.
Now he wasn't so sure about putting up with Tai alone.
Tai managed to get back up.
"You'll pay for this", Sean growled and jumped at Tai.
When he had to fight he would do it as best as he could.
Sean tried to punch Tai, but Tai managed to avoid the fist and within the movement he was able to punch Sean right into the face.
Tai could feel the bone breaking under his hand.
His victim sank to his knees.
Even if he wanted to do something, Tai wasn't able to move anymore.
This attack took all his strength.
Dean never looked at the whole scene.
He was to occupied with torturing the poor blonde.
Slowly Kev came back to reality.
Dean choose this moment to look his friends, when he saw that Kev was back he turned back to Matt.
"Bye, bye blondie", he laughed.
The apartment door flung open just as Dean wanted to hit the blond boy. A small group of policemen came running into the apartment.
Dean was so shocked that he forgot how to move when the police man aimed a gun at his head.
"Don't move", the man said calmly
Meanwhile Kev and Sean got arrested by two other policemen.
Next to tai another man was kneeling .
"What is going on?", Mr Ishida stood in front of the open door and stared at the whole scene.
A policemen walked up to him.
"Matt!Tai!", the man said as he saw his son, now he didn't understood anything anymore.
"I would guess that you are the father", the man said as he eyes Mr Ishida.
"Yes, what happened?"
He ignored the man and kneeled next to his son.
"Matt? Are you okay?", he asked.
Matt tried to smile: "it's not that bad."
Tai nodded , but he could feel every muscle inside of him.
Matt and Tai were brought to the next hospital.
Mr. Ishida wanted to go to, but there wasn't enough room for him in the car, so he had to go on his own.
As he wanted to get into his car a policemen came up to him.
"Mr Ishida?"
"Yeah?"
"I need to talk to you."
"Okay", he said even if he just wanted to go to the hospital.
"What happened?", he asked the man.
"This is exactly what I wanted to ask you. We thought that you might know what happened.
Ten minutes ago we got a call and someone said that there was a robbery at your place. When we arrives at the apartment we heard a scream and broke the door. You already know the rest", the policeman explained.
"I'm sorry, but I can't help you.!"
"Well, if you say so. I guess that we'll see each other at the hospital."
In recordtime arrived Mr Ishida at the hospital.
"I'm sorry, but could you tell me where my son is, Matt Ishida?", he asked a nurse.
The woman seemed to think about the question before she said: " I can't help you sir, but you could ask someone at the information desk."
Within five minutes Mr Ishida got the wanted information and arrived at Matts room.
He knocked at the door and when he got no response he carefully opened the door.
"Matt? Tai?"
"Over here", he could hear Tais voice coming from his right.
When he took a closer look at the small room he saw that one of the two beds was empty. Tai said, with his arm around Matt, on Mats bed.
2ow are you?", Mr Ishida asked.
"It's okay", was Tais response.
"What happened?" asked Mr Ishida.
"That's really difficult to explain..."
"Try me."
"Okay..... Sean , Dean, and Kev, the police took them... well they..."it was hard for Tai to speak it aloud.
He himself couldn't really believe what had happened.
"What did the do?"
"Well.. theyrapedMattandnobodynoticedandwhenIfoundoutwhathappeneditwastoolateandtheygotus" Tai said the words without breathing
"What?! Oh my god .. is that really true?"
Tai nodded and looked at Matt.
"And I noticed nothing. What a father I am..."
"It's not your fault. Nobody noticed"tai tried to lift the weight from Mr ishidas shoulders.
"Maybe your right Tai .. maybe your right..."
"How long will it take until we can go home?", Tai tried to change the subject.
It was their fault and nobody else had done anything wrong. They would have a long time to think about their actions.
"I don't know. I'll go and ask if you want me to. I'll be right back.", the man said and left the room.
Tai started to play with one of Matts blond locks, everything he cared for at the moment was Matt. Nobody would hurt him here.
His own pain forgotten Tai closed his eyes.
How long he slept he didn't know, but when he opened his eyes he could see that the sun was about to rise.
Tai tried to sit up, but the pain and something on his chest stopped him from moving too much.
The events from yesterday came crashing back down on him.
"Matt?", he murmured without really expecting an answer.
Tai looked around.
In a chair next to them Mr Ishida slept peacefully.
A movement in his arms caused Tai to forget about the elder man.
Matt was about to wake up.
"Morning."
"Morning", a sleepy Matt answered.
As soon as Matt saw his dad in the chair next to them he tried to get up and out of tais arms.
"Matt, it's okay .. he knows."
"but .."
"Shh . Your father is still asleep."
"And...?"
"Nothing."
„Hm ?"
"he said nothing", Tai whispered.
"Nothing?"
"Nothing."
"but...", Matt stopped because his father stirred in his sleep.
"Matt? Tai?", Mr Ishida opened his eyes .. „How are you guys?"
"It's okay, I think" was the blonds answer. "And you? You slept the night in a chair."
"I must have fallen asleep, but I have good news for you. In a few days you can come home."
The rest of the day was spent with friends or family or police.
In the evening Matt and Tai were alone again.
"You know what i don't understand?", Tai asked.
"No."
"I don't understand how the police found us..."
"i called them."
"You called them? When?"
"I called them and the stupid thing had to beep..."
So this was the noise Sean and the others heared during their stay at the Ishida residence.
"Now I understand much more..."
After four long days the boys could leave the hospital.
When they got home Matt sat down on the couch.
Somebody had taken care of the chaos and everything looked like nothing had happened.
Mr Ishida had to work again, he couldn't allow himself to take too many days off.
"What o we do now", Tai asked.
"Don;t know .."
Tai took the remote control and started zapping through the channels.
He took Matt in his arms and after they found a comfortable position Tai found a movie that was watchable.
After some time Tai couldn't suspress the noise coming from his tummy.
"Hungry", Matt asked.
"Only a little, I'll go an see what you got."
Tai came bak into the living-room.
The movie was over and Matt was asleep on the couch.
Tai lifted his weightless partner from the couch and walked with him in his arms over to Matts bedroom.
Gently he layed Matt on the bed.
Carefully as not to wake him he slipped under the covers and took Matt back in his arms.
His last thoughts before sleep overtook him was the Matt was finally save and that they would overcame every barrier in their lives
The end
It was a pleasure to write this and I hope that you all enjoyed the fic.
I want to apologize again, that it took me so long to finish this, but I had some ups and downs during this time and I never felt like writing. I hope that the last part of the fic wasn't that bad. I tried to keep the level up, but I think that I fail during some passages...