Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:24:09 +0000
From: Lady Misterious <lionessy@hotmail.com>
Subject: where can we go from here 11

CHAPTER 11 -

         Little by little Brian began to feel worse. He knew the boys were
probably in their own bedrooms by now, Kevin told them they had to sleep
early. To rest.  Did Kevin really say anything besides this? Brian shook
his head. It was throbbing badly and he felt hot. He knew he had fever.
         At least he was being able to handle it alone. He just didn't want
to bother anyone else with this. He was sure he'd be fine. In case it got
worst he would go to Kevin's room. But only if it was really necessary.
         Brian laid on his bed and tried to sleep. His breath was unsteady
and he felt as if the world was lying above his head. It was heavy, he felt
sick, like throwing up. His eyes burning, making him wanna close them but
still sleep wouldn't come. He was just too hot and too cold to sleep.
         He rolled on the bed several times and decided to remain quiet,
not moving, shutting his eyes.
         "Hammm hm...." - Brian moaned feeling his body shiver and burn in
fever.  Always at night... its when it gets worse. But again? He got over
it yesterday...
         "It will go away..." - Brian tried to convince himself.
         He looked at his clock. It was a quarter past midnight. He
couldn't lay anymore, he was damn sick.
         Brian stood up and took a glass of water, his throat was dry and
his mouth had a weird taste. Something between blood and a metal one. Just
when he finished the drinking Brian pressed his hand to his mouth and ran
to the bathroom.
         The water in his empty stomach was the one thing needed to have
him throw up. As Brian was finished a weird and bad feeling took his
body. He knew he was burning but at the same time he was cold. He sat
against the wall of the bathroom with no strength to move. He couldn't get
up, it was just too hard...


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         Nick knew he had to sleep, but his eyes insisted on being opened.
He wondered if Brian was really fine... Maybe he needed help, maybe he
should stand up and go check him... Or maybe he was being overprotective,
maybe he was turning into Kevin.
         He shut his eyes and tried to sleep.


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     Brian was into a fight to breath as sweat ran down his face while he
was laid against the wall. Something was wrong... very wrong with him. His
vision was fuzzy and his thoughts confuse. He knew he needed help. Brian
forced himself to stand up. If he didn't do something he would probably die
there alone.
         "Kevin..." - Brian whispered leaving the bathroom, the fever
within his body. He needed to reach his cousin, Kevin would know what to
do.
         Tripping on everything and holding on to the walls, Brian opened
the door of his room and stepped out. He began again that fight to walk as
sweat and chills were forcing him to give up. His heart... his heart was
aching. Could it be...? Maybe, he had this when he was a child, but he was
cured now!
         Anyway, it just didn't seem so. Brian stopped in front of the
first door beside his own. He knew it was Nick's room. Brian tried to
ignore it and keep going, Kevin's door was only a few steps away. He
couldn't bother Nick! He had kept him up last night, his friend needed to
sleep! Brian wouldn't make him stay up during all this night cause of
him. It wasn't fair.
         Breathing was so difficult it was only making his headache even
worse.


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         Nick opened his eyes to think better. Was he really hearing noises
coming from the hallway? Yes... it seemed so. Nick stood up and headed to
the door.
         "Brian!" - he exclaimed in shock seeing his friend there, fighting
to breath.
         "Oh, God, Nick!" - Brian walked towards him and passed him by,
entering his room and heading immediately to the bathroom. He needed to
throw up again.
         Nick watched him and closed the door before following him.
         "Brian, what happened? You bad again?"
         "Y-yes..." - Brian was washing his mouth in the sink. - "But don't
worry, I'll go to Kevin's room. You go back to sleep, Nick..."
         "No way! You're gonna be here, come'on..."
         Nick helped Brian walking to the bedroom. He wanted to go only coz
he needed to. He couldn't bother Nick again. But... but it was so
good... Brian wanted to be there with his best friend, he wanted Nick to
take care of him, he knew he could feel better with him. But the guilty
feeling of keeping him from sleep was killing him. And on his state he
wasn't capable of doing much thinking. He just put in his mind that
although he didn't want to, he had to leave that room.
         "Nick, no... please... Kevin... he's my cousin, he'll take care of
me."
         "And I'm your best friend! I can take care of you too!"
         Nick wasn't willing in letting Brian go. Of course he trusted
Kevin to take care of him, but the truth was he wanted to do it himself. He
wouldn't sleep anyway knowing Brian was bad.
         Brian weakly struggled against Nick, he was trying to reach the
door and go away but Nick was keeping him.
         "Brian, stay!"
         "No! No, I have to go, I have to go... you need to sleep, Kevin.
Kevin...  lemme go, Nick... let me go."
         "No!"
         "Let me!"
         "No, Brian!"
         He didn't know what he was doing, he just knew he couldn't bother
Nick.  He had to get away, and the way he was Brian didn't even think of
what he did when he slapped Nick on the face.
         They looked at each other in shock for some seconds. Nick
specially.  Brian soon walked away and headed to the door. Nick didn't turn
around. He was in awe.
         When Brian touched the door he lost it. His knees got weak and
strength fled from his body.
         "Nick..." - he called softly.
         He wouldn't have turned around haven't it sounded to weak, so
pleading...  And when he did Nick still had the time to hold Brian's body
when he fell fainted into his arms.
         "Oh, damn! Brian! Brian!" - Nick laid him on the floor and slapped
his face slightly, trying to make him open his eyes. He kept this up for
some minutes and as he didn't succeed he carried Brian to the beds that
were still joined together and laid him there.
         Minutes later Brian seemed to come to, but he didn't seem to be
conscious.
         "Hm... huh....." - Brian moaned with closed eyes, his body lifting
a little from the bed.
         "Oh, God... you're burning in fever again!" - Nick touched his
face and Brian was shivering at the same time he was hot.
         His breath was so hard his body shook whenever he inhaled deeply.
Nick ran a hand through his wet hair and tried to call him. Once, twice,
but Brian was in another world.
         "No... where goin... here, back, gotta leave..."
         "What?" - Nick asked, trying to understand the words Brian was
half whispering and half moaning.
         "Can't... wrong, right. Today...we'd go..."
         "Brian, what are you you trying to tell me?" - Nick leaned down
trying to decipher the meaning of those words.
         "Hmmm!!" - Brian moaned closing his eyes.
         Nick knew he was in delirium, having no idea of what he was
saying.  Just like he had been in the car. He said he loved him... Nick
smiled slightly.  Poor Brian, was so bad he didn't even know what he was
saying.
         As Nick saw the sweat on his face and his eyes rolling at the back
of his head he immediately stood up to do the same thing Kevin did with him
yesterday. He took some clothing and a recipient to put water. He went to
the freezer and took some cubes of ice to throw into the water. He needed
to fight this fever. And for sure Brian would have to see an hospital after
this.  This kind of thing doesn't happen so powerfully without a reason.
         When Nick had everything he wanted he climbed on bed and sort of
got himself atop of Brian. He unbuttoned his shirt. Sweat was covering his
chest as his friend kept babbling some nonsense words.
         "Calm down, Brian... you are gonna be ok..." - Nick watered the
clothing and looked at the clock. Two in the night.
         Softly he pressed it to Brian's chest and let the water run
freely.  Brian moaned and shuddered at the cold feeling. His body was
freezing at the same time his head was burning. Sometimes he fought to open
his eyes and be aware of what was going on, but the feeling of being sick
was just terrible.
         Nick let water drop into Brian's neck, the younger boy's eyes
widened in fear. He had never seen Brian like that! What should he do?
Kevin? Yeah, Kevin!
         "Brian... Brian can you hear me?" - Nick cupped his face.
         "Huhmmmm"
         "I'll go get Kevin, he'll know what to do."
         "No!" - Brian exclaimed loudly.
         "But... he will know what to do!"
         Brian opened his eyes and stared at him. For the first time he
seemed to be aware, although his breath was still heavy and his eyes
closing in fever.
         "Don't go... don't leave me, please... I'll be all right, I
will...  stay here."
         "But you need someone!"
         "I already have someone. Kevin won't do anything you aren't
already doing yourself..." - Brian finished with a heavy sigh and closed
his eyes again.  His breath increasing, his chest now burning under Nick's
hands, those same unreal words playing on his lips together with those
painful moans.
         "Oh, Brian! Damn it! I'm afraid I can't help you! You are so bad!
I wanna do something, but I don't know what!"
         Nick felt tears forming on his eyes. He hardly cried but he had
never been so scared as he was now of losing Brian.
         "Please... please get better..." - Nick's sobs shook his body and
he buried his face on Brian's neck and cheek.
         He felt the burning fever against his face burning together with
his tears.
         "I love you... please get better..." - Nick cried.
         Slowly he lifted his head and looked at Brian. He softly leaned
down to press his lips against his friend's. They were also hot, Nick could
feel it through the brief time his lips were pressing against Brian's.
         When he pulled away he dried his own tears. Brian's breath was a
little easier now, but still the fever wouldn't leave his body. From time
to time he would moan and try to open his eyes, that ended up shut again.
         Nick took a small cube of ice and ran it over Brian's forehead,
hearing his sighs and seeing his lips open in his fight to get over what he
was feeling.
         Slowly Nick dried the sweat and the water from his body. It was
three o'clock now. He sat there on the bed watching Brian, touching his
forehead and controlling as the fever slowly let go of his body.
         Time was nothing but that. Brian in his painful sleep while Nick
was just there staring. Ready to call whoever to help if he got worse. But
he didn't.  Slowly Brian stopped moaning and at some time really late that
night his eyes closed and didn't open again, his breath was easy and he was
no longer hot.
         When Nick realized he was finally fine he allowed himself to lay
down too. He got into the sheets and cuddled Brian's head in his chest, so
that he could control whether the fever decided to come up again. But it
didn't and they slept those last hours peacefully in each other's arms.

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