Greyson POV
I panic though next minute I dash in front of the car and lift Nicolas up, I barely make it out of the front of the speeding car. Lief...he'd need to be here, that cold hearted fool is my last hope of living. I dial his number in one hand half dragging Nicolas along the pavement to the safest place there is, the restaurant again. I wait until Leif answers "What is it, little one?"
"Lief, there is someone out to kill me"
That woke him up. "Who"
"Alister betrayed us, hurry, there is a shooter now, sniper ontop of the shop at the corner"
I hear a lot of banging on his end then a car starting "I'm coming Little one" then the line cuts, I'm alone cornered with guns and cars all out for my blood.
"Shit, Alister, come on, let's, get, you, to, safer, ground" I say brokenly. Hopefully Lief is on his lovely little way. Then I hear it, the glass of the restaurant brakes. Lief is here. Guns go off and everything, my broken body gets dragged by Alister away from Nicolas, trying to seem like he is saving him. Fuck this guy is a good actor, I'll give him that.
Lief walks in his pajamas, damn I woke him...oh well nothing i can do now. I shakily stand before half crawling to Lief who has a gun pointed at Alister. Nicolas is stirring, "shoot now before he wakes up" and thank heavens Lief is a marksman.
If he wasn't I'd be dead by now. There is something I'd like to say to him if possible though not sure if I'd get the chance. Lief is kneeling at my side and I look up at him, the charming devil he is. If there was a time and a place it wasn't here. Lief has something going on, that he'd never tell me, it seems too personal to ask now. After all he just saved me yet again. Like a little girl who lost her toy over and over.
There is something different here, me with Lief and Nicolas holding Alister's limp body. I wish this were different, but Nicolas, i hope you learn this was worth it. Saving you, that is.
Lief picks me up ignoring my brother's pitiful cries and laying me down on a sofa in the restaurant.
"Stay with me" i whisper. Please do me this one thing Lief, please, i love you.
Lief does as I ask though his eyes dart around as if looking for something to say to me, as if there is anything. I look at him and then at my brother who walks up the stairs still holding that body. I shake my head, in confusion or anger, I don't know. Lief tries to patch me up though it's never easy with me. I hate nothing more than having the wipes over my sore tender skin, feeling the burn like hellfire. I'd rather have something sickenly sweet than that.
Lief frowns before bandaging my injured leg "Greyson, please, stay still for me, will ya?"
"It hurts...the alcoholic wipes make it worse. It hurts Lief, I just got hit by a speeding car"
"I know, though little one, if you don't stop moving I'll cut you, we don't want that, you know how i am with tweezers"
I roll my eyes, of course I know, he's patched me up heaps of times though there is something much more...personal with this time, as if he feels like it's his fault for being asleep at 1am in the morning and getting up and saving my sorry little butt.
The thought makes me hold in a laugh, which makes my bones scream at me. Tears form in my eyes and I turn my head away from all their prying eyes, no matter what I can't be reduced to this. This humor that will follow me for the rest of my days, dragging behind me like a dead wieght.
Lief holds my hand-this is new. There is something oddly nice about it though it feels odd, new. Unexplored territory that is soon going to be a normal thing, a promise. Lief smiles painfully before sitting the booking a doctors appointment for me, most likely. I don't have the energy to argue or to tell him that I'm okay, since every bome in my body is crying to me to stop moving, though I don't. I sit up and smile at Lief. Nicolas snaps "you killed him didn't you, Greyson?"
"I never, though he is the one who sent the car to hit you"
"I was following you"
"So? It hit you didn't it. Though Alister was one of the best he can be replaced-"
"No" he screams "he was mine to love, hold and...and you ruined it like you ruin everything"
"I regret saving him" Lief says coldly.
I stay silent afterall this is my fault.
There was nothing I could do to save my brother, he's badly injured. I stand even as Lief tries to pull me down. Something has sparked in me, I'm fuming with the injustice that has been caused today.
"Who do you think you are? My dearest brother's protecter? You're like glue to him doing his bidding when he doesn't dare do it himself"
I snarl "Listen here, Lief here just saved you're goddamned life, respect him or I'll shoot you, brothers or not, consider what pain you're causing here, people here could of died. You could of died, yet I dragged your body from the road, i called the shots so don't you begin pointing fingers or I'll cut them off one by one" I turn on my heel and i take Lief with me