The broken boy

The rescue

My team and I waited outside Dave's house. When I saw his car leave, we moved in. We went through the back. Walking in, I gestured half to follow me and the other half to look around. I walked to the door next to the window. The door from the video. When I opened it, I noticed the stars down. The entire house was luxury expect the basement, the stairs were unfinished and walls were padded. I turned on the light to see Kyle hunched over and hugging himself in the corner of the room. When he saw the lights, he tried to make himself smaller by pushing his body into the wall. I walked closer, but its as if he doesn't see me. He pushed him self more and then got on his knees. I dropped down trying to pull him up and stop him from hurting himself.

"Kyle, its me. Please stop. Look at me! Look at me!!" I said trying to hold his head so he can see.

He looked at me, it took him a moment to recognize who I was. Relief. Then he whispered "you came..." I scooped him up as gentle as I could and carried him out.

When we got to the black SUV, I took my shirt off and put it over his body.

Beep beep beep beep beep

Laying on the sofa next to Kyles's hospital bed, I waited impatiently for him to wake up. My family's medical staff had been tending to his needs for the last 2 days.

Nikey walks in to check on his progress. She examined his bandages, looked at the computer monitors and charted down a few things. Then she turned to me.

"How are you doing? Have you gotten any sleep yet?" She asked worriedly.

"I'm fine" I gave her a smile.

She pulled out a steak burrito and gave it to me. "I know you must be hungry"

"Thanks, how is he?"

"Everything looks good, he should be waking up soon. Zander... Listen, he has been through a lot... it would be best if you let him have his space for a while, he will come around."

I nodded.

Kyle POV

Beep Beep Beep Beep

I woke up to the sound of machines. When I opened my eyes, there was a dim light but mostly it was dark. I sat up as much as I could. Needles?... I pulled most of it out and hugged my self as flashbacks started to occur. I softly sobbed, feeling empty and dirty.

Out of the corner of my eyes, I saw someone wake up from the sofa and started to walk towards me. Oh no! my cries are too loud, stop crying!! You will make Dave mad again and he will beat you again!! Stop!!! I screamed in my mind. Unable to register that I wasn't with Dave anymore and I was in a hospital room. I started to have flashbacks of Dave getting mad at me for crying or making to many sounds. I quickly covered my mouth and squeezed my eyes. In a whisper I pleaded "please I won't make another sound, please I am sorry." My body started to shake violently and my sobs got louder.. The more I pleaded and closer he got, the louder I became. I saw nothing but darkness. I screamed louder before feeling drowsy again. I felt hands touch me and lay me down on the bed.

They are going to use me again. No... I am disgusting.

"Please Please no, no more. Please" I pleaded through tears.

Zander

I stared at the boy laying in the bed. He looked so calm and at peace right now. I hope he stays this way.  I don't want him to have another panic attack. I know it will take time for him to heal but this... I have never seen anyone so damaged.. so broken.

Nikey walked in with a coke and ham and cheese sandwich.

"here" she said handing me the sandwich.

"thanks."

We ate in silence. Letting the seriousness of Kyles condition take over. when we were done eating Nikey held my hand. She said "it will be okay." And gave me a weak smile.

I returned the smile.

Just then Kyle woke up. We both held our breaths looking at him. hoping that this time, it wouldn't be one of his episodes.

I watched him sit up and look around. He stopped when he met my glaze and looked down. God he was so beautiful. Nikey seeing that he had came back to reality, she walked up and said "Hi, I am doctor Nikey, on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being completely fine and 10 being feeling lots of pain, how to do you feel right now."

Silence

Kyle just stared at Nikey with his big brown eyes.

Then he said "1"

I shot Nikey a glance, seeing if she knew he was lying. She nodded in response.

"okay, that's great. We can get you out of here as soon as we can." she said to Kyle.

To that, Kyle flinched.

Knowing what kyle was thinking, I stepped in.

"we will go to my house when you are discharged." I said trying to reassure Kyle that he is safe and not going back to Dave.

He looked at me "no thanks..." he said in his soft voice.

"That wasn't a request" I said, louder and angrier than I wanted to and making Kyle flinch in the process.

Shitt

"I meant, Kyle. You can come stay with me if you want. You will be safe at my house. No one can hurt you." I tried again, this time more calmly with Kyle as the main focus.

"no." was all he said.

I couldn't help myself but ask "WHY!? So you can go back to that bastered that did this to you?!!?!?!!?

He looked at me, wide eyed.

Shit!

Nikey finally decided to step in and help me.

"What Zander was trying to say was that we are able to help you. We don't know what you have gone through, but we know enough to want to help you. We can offer you a safe place to temporary stay at until you get better. We can hide you from your uncle. You can trust us. We just want to help." Nikey explained to Kyle.

Tears started to run down Kyle's face. "no one can help me...... you don't understand. Dave will find me. I need to go back."

"okay, we will let you go back once you are healed, I am a doctor. I will not let you leave my care until you are healed." Nikey said firmly.

"ok" Kyle said looking down.

"Do you want to eat anything?" Nikey asked

Kyle just shook his head and laid down again staring into the celling.