Chapter 6

"Now, where did Gilbert went?" his blue violet gaze were roaming around the darken alley halls as he continued his journey to find his best friend. The mall has been closed already and he was forced to get out from then, now he ended up walking his way towards the parking lot outside the mall to find his distressed friend. It was getting cold in there so he hugged himself and clutched to the stuff chick in his arms, he was completely worried at Gilbert's lost, yet his mind is comprehending that Gilbert may have gone home already, knowing its already late at night, but in the back of his mind he knew that Gilbert is not the type of person who would leave her company behind." Where are you, Gilbert?" Matthew said to himself, he was silently hoping that Gilbert is alright or better yet, she had gone home safe and sound. That is when he was about to take a leave, he heard a faint whimpers; a girl's whimpers. His eyebrows furrowed in mere confusion, and his chest began to pound nervously, his step sped up and took the direction towards where the faint whimpers came. Then, the whimpers turned into a desperate sob, someone's crying out there, yet also he heard some laughs of mockery in the surroundings echoing to the darken alley blocks, like they were sort of having some fun but still, he knew its was awfully peculiar and the voice is somewhat familiar in his own sense of hearing. His eyes widen in shock as the sobs suddenly turned into a loud scream..

""NOOO!!!! STOP!! MATTHEW HELP ME!!!! "MATTHEW!!!! HELP!!!" It was Gilbert's voice screaming."MATTHEWWW!!!!!!!!!! PLEAS—" and then it was cut off by someone. It mustn't be—

"NO! Gilbert!!" without any second thought, Matthew runs towards the darkest alley like his feet has wings on it, as his hands began to curled into a ball, just ready to punch someone, who did such atrocity to his best friend; like he would let someone defile Gilbert. "Fuck it!" he swore angrily, until he reached his destination and saw the three wicked guys tagging along with Gilbert's defenseless body and she struggled to their holds. He saw one of them was holding her mouth shut, to restrain her from shouting and ask for some help, and her clothes were torn apart.

A burning anger shot into his mind, never in his life, he'd ever think that he wanted to kill someone. But now, he will never regret if he could kill some filthy human beings right now, just looking to his best friend's situation. His eyes were shut closed and his body moved fast and charged himself towards the three guys and grabbed one of them by his collar and gave him a strong upper cut to his face, causing the guy to be thrown backwards and hit a garbage bin with a broken jaw. He may not be as strong as Alfred, but he also has inhuman strength as Canada, just enough to kill those guys who did defile his precious friend.

"Just what the fuck do you think your doing to Gilbert!" He shouted angrily and grabbed another guy by his collar and strangled him with only his one hand and place a dead glare to his ugly looking face. The guy was struggling in his hold and begging for his mercy, but Matthew didn't reconsider and threw the guy against the bricked wall with a strong force and it hits with a loud thud causing his head to bleed and had his ribs broken, as the other guy was kneeling down in the ground and frightened at his sudden arrival.

"Please spare me sir, I didn't do anything" The chubbiest one pleaded and beg knowing that he is facing a monster in his front and his friends was beaten into pulp already by this young man, he crawled down to his feet and wrapped his arms around his leg, just merely asking for forgiveness. He was frightened knowing that this kid has guts and send his friend flying effortless with his bare hands, Matthew may look weak outside, but the flaring anger in his face, had shown such a monstrosity, effectively intimidating and telling his prey that Matthew Williams has gone berserk."Please sire, I had done nothing, we didn't even succeed in raping that girl, so please spare me."

"You what?!." Matthew glared down to the kneeling man in front of him. "But you hurt her, and if I didn't come, you had raped her!!"

"But, we didn't succeed." The man was crying on his feet right now and his friends were lying bloody soaked in the ground, yet barely breathing alive.

"Get out of my sight, before I could kill all of you! And get your friends into the nearest hospital." Matthew ordered angrily to the man beneath his knees, he still hasn't lost his mind and showed some mercy, he knew that beating them up will teach them a lesson already.

"Aye, aye, sire thank you.. thank you and tell your friend that were sorry" The chubby man stood up clumsily and bowed his head down to Matthew, horrified. He took his beaten friends from the ground, now that they're conscious enough to walk and guide them thoroughly and headed out from the dark alley.

Matthew had found Gilbert lying against the cold bricked wall and her body was curled into a ball, effectively hiding her naked body and sobbing silently. His heart sank at the perturbed sight of his friend and felt his eyes moisten with some tears, yet he retaliated, he wouldn't want to show Gilbert his weakness, it'll only weaken her spirit if she'd saw, so he restrained himself from crying and immediately got close to her and hugged her shivering body. "I'm so sorry Gilbert, If only I arrived earlier, this will not happened to you." Matthew pitied the sight of her bruised body, those guys has done a real number to her, with her body is lacing with bruise and cuts. He held her body much closer to him, feeling the warmth of her tears as she buried her face down in his neck.

"See, birdie.. If only I were a man, those guys were bloody pulp in the floor by now. But I wasn't, that's why it happens, I felt dirtied and humiliated.." she mumbled between a few series of sobs and hiccups and clenched to Matthew's clothes tightly.

"Hush.. Gilbert. I promise, I will protect you now on, you've always been protecting me back when you're still a man, but now It's my turn to protect you.." he asserted a few sincere words and run his fingers through her silver hair, lovingly.

"Matthew.." stared up to meet his sincerity and rubbed her eyes to see it more clearly without the clouding tears blurring in her eyes. "I'm still awesome right?"she asked, despite the few lumps that is barricading in her throat.

"Yes, you are Gilbert."

"Thanks." She gasped and finally extended her both hands up to his neck and hugged him to seek warmth in his body and cover her cold shivering body."Birdie, please don't tell West about what just happened"

"But, Gil, he will see through the bruise marks in your body."

"I don't want to go home right now, please take me with you. I will just reason with West when these bruise will heal"

"Okay, let's go home then." Giving in her request, he tugged his red hoodie off, luckily he has another shirt inside and give it off to Gilbert, for her to wear."Wear it.." he asserted before closing his eyes to give her some privacy to change.

"Thanks," she huffed and took the hoodie from his hand and changed her clothes for a bit.

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It was 3:00 am in the morning since they did arrived at Matthew's house, they both felt tired and exhausted. The whole day sure is stressful for both of them, most likely for Gilbert, she almost got raped and that is sure paining her inside and out. The Albino fell silent as the two of them walked into the house. She indignantly let a painful groan, because her body is enticed with such throbbing pain, not to mention she got mentally and emotionally shocked of what just happened to her in that ill-fated day. She only had one thing in mind right now, to take shower immediately and clean her soiled body. Because it only gave her some goose bumps upon remembering that those men laid their filthy hands into her body. She gritted her teeth and bit into her own lips thereafter, feeling the indecent pain in her whole body she barely manage to asked for another favor to Matthew; albeit, to her own decadence obscuring against with her mindless thoughts. "Can I use your bathroom?" she dreaded, with her voice feigning with a sly doubt.

"Sure, what else do you need?" said Matthew.

"A tub full of lukewarm water and soaps, many soaps" she replied flat toned and walk towards the bathroom door absentmindedly, likewise almost a zombie walk.

" Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I just wanted to clean myself, that's all.." she replied nonchalantly before taking steps onwards the bathroom's opened door while Matthew is following after her back. "Would you mind it I took sometime?"

"It's alright, just do what you like. I'll be waiting on the couch after you got finished," he tried to smile to her hoping that her gloomy appearance will be just blown away, but sadly it is not. Gilbert looked more distressed than ever, her eyes mirrored her baffled feelings whenever her gazed meet up with Matthew's.

"Thanks again Birdie.." with that she closed the bathroom's door behind him, and leaned against the closed door, wrapping her arms around her own body and began to sob quietly without Matthew viewing her. While, Matthew on the other hand, also began to let his long held tears to flow freely in his cheeks, although, he did save Gilbert back then, yet the mental shock she gained from there won't get easily vanished. He regretted for not arriving earlier, and had her almost defiled by those ruthless bastards. If only he could wash her pain away, he will do whatever he could just to make Gilbert happy. He loved Gilbert, ever since the day he and Gilbert decided to become best of friends with each other and it was a kind of love, that Gilbert wouldn't appreciated if she only knew, knowing Gilbert did not believe in a thing called 'Love'. He was secretly in love with Gilbert without her knowing, he even loved Gilbert as a man before she was a woman. He is being contented to be her best friend, yet his heart aching for some love, which is clearly his best friend and It pained him to see her down like that. Then, he decided, he will do anything just to get Gilbert out of that distressful slump she's feeling right now.

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He sighed in relieved as Gilbert finished bathing after an hour, he was applauded to see her more refreshed after taking a bath wearing his borrowed bathrobe which is clearly is much bigger for her body frame, yet it do works for her because it's wrapping her body much tighter, and then Gilbert walked towards his direction with her face now more livelier that before and eventually took a seat beside him.

"Sorry if I had you waiting, birdie" she said

"It's okay, would you like something to eat?"

" I'm not hungry, I just want to stay like this for a while" she hummed as she took advance and stood up just to sat in Matthew's lap, and caused the blond Canadian to blush.

"Gilbert? What are you doing?" Matthew gasped as Gilbert slowly untied her bathrobe's tie and showed off a bit of her whitened skin to his startled gaze.

"My body is tainted, Matthew. I want to erased it all, but It won't get erased when I took a bath." She began to cry desperately and looked up to her best friend's confused looking face. "I want you to erase it for me."

"Wh-What?" Matthew's words began stuttering as Gilbert's slowly undressing in his lap, yet her eyes is pleading for something, that he knew that is not right for the both of them, and they will also regret in the end.

"Please Birdie.. I don't want those filthy marks into my body, I felt dirtied when those men touched my body" she cried desperately and held into her mouth; bowing her head down as she looked downward, feeling so utterly helpless.

"Gilbert.." He paused and wrapped the weeping girl in his front with a loving hug. "What should I do then?" he whispered to her ear, stating that he finally gave in to her will. He will do everything, just to make her happy.

Gilbert stared up to him with her tainted red eyes, glinted with a smug look yet, slightly rekindled lightly and placed her delicate fingers to his parted lips."Matthew, take me--" she whispered desperately."--And make me forget everything.." and ended profusely with her mouth now parted half heartedly, she leaned forward locked it with Matthew's parted lips to catch him into a deep open mouthed kiss, as Matthew held her soft body tighter in his grasps, and held her down, gently placing her body lying into the sofa without broking the kiss, that the two of them is sharing right now.

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yay! another chapter updated! please don't kill me with this.\ToT/ some grammar error may occur. ugghh.. english failed...oh noes.. critics and comments are really highly appreciated!!! *huggles to all* banzaii!!!!! *wiggle dance*