Quicker Apologies (Total Drama, Noco)

31 - Unwanted Events

Third Person Friday

TW: homophobia, mention of blood, abuse

•At Riley's house •

"What is wrong is everything!" Cody shouted angrily. Cody wasn't angry with Noah, just at every part of their situation. It had all clicked as they arrived at the park.

"Why are you so upset, Cody?" Noah said as he furrowed his eyebrows.

"Why am I- I am trying to make sure you're fucking okay and your needs are met, while simultaneously running and hiding from the police, Noah!" Cody said with a yell. He couldn't tell if the love of his life was about to cry or argue back.

Noah did neither of those things though.

He ran down the stairs and out the door quicker than Cody could say he was sorry.

Cody heard the door slam and he let out a long sigh of both relief and sadness. Probably a bit of anger towards the darker boy too.

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Noah had ran, he didn't know where he was running, but he just wanted to run. He began to slow down once he heard a bit of yelling from not too far away.

"What you staring at? Wanna fight, tough guy?" A kid who looked about sixteen yelled to Noah. There were five other kids. They all looked a bit older than the shouting boy besides one blonde short kid, who was probably no older than fourteen.

"No thanks little man," Noah said while wheezing and gasping for air. Sure, sports weren't his forte, but the boy can run. Hella fast, if one must say.

The kid thought that the genuine gasps for air were a sense of mockery; he scoffed and within a second threw a quick punch at the tallest and oldest male. Noah instantly fell to the ground with a bloody nose.

"Don't see why you asked if you'd do it anyway," Noah said between coughs. He was hurt like fuck, but he couldn't miss out on a snarky comment.

"Shut the hell up you fucking fairy," the kid said before kicking Noah, who was laying on the pavement, in the gut. Noah began coughing up blood and tried to crawl away.

"Not gonna fight back?" The smaller kid said in a mocking tone. Noah would've punched him, if he wasn't already coughing up blood and had scratches and cuts covering his face. The kid was young, but he could fight damn well.

"I'm good," Noah said in a cough before attempting to crawl over to the waste bins down the alley to his left. The kids followed of course, not wanting to stop this one-sided joyful attack.

And for the next five minutes, Noah blacked out. There was so much pain he had felt, not only from the teenage boys kicking and punching him; but from Cody too. He had hoped Cody would chase him outside and ask for forgiveness, but he never did.

Well, he wouldn't be able to tell if Cody came for him soon anyway.

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The fake blonde had finally decided on how he wanted to apologise; Noah, i'm really sorry. I didn't mean what I said about taking care of you being a nuisance and bother, I really love you, it's okay if you hate me just please, i'm sorry.

It sounded right in Cody's mind, hell if Noah came to him with that apology he'd accept it easily. Now all he needed to do was find Noah. It had been an hour since he left and he still hadn't come back.

Cody had walked out the house and along the pavement for about two minutes before deciding to ask what the crowd in front of him was for. Or rather who was getting that attention.

"The ambulance are on their way," A woman said to another person near. Cody was even more confused, was there a dead guy?

"Some boy got jumped and is bleeding out unconscious," A younger girl answered Cody's confused look. He was even more confused, according to Riley this town was fairly nice. Then it had clicked, that unconscious guy was Noah.

He ran and squeezed through the crowd to see low and behold, his boyfriend who he had yelled at just an hour before.

"Noah, please wake up please. I'm sorry for what I said, i don't know what happened but i'm really sorry and i'm sorry for yelling at you just please wake up!" Cody had yelled while cupping the tanner's face and shaking him in attempt to wake him up.

"Noah, please!" Cody yelled before hugging Noah. He wanted anything besides for Noah to be dead. He wanted anything but the last words he'd said to Noah were to be angry ones.

The ambulance quickly arrived and took him away. They'd told Cody that he could follow them to the hospital, but couldn't ride in the ambulance and he might have to wait a bit to actually see Noah.

And that was fine with Cody, as long as everything was okay and Noah was safe and alive, he didn't care.

So he waited, minutes, seconds, and hours, in that waiting room. Until the doctors came out to tell Cody news.

"He's still alive now, but not awake. He's going to need surgery because of internal damage and bleeding, but you can come see him if you want." Cody stood up without hesitation and followed the doctors.

That night he went back home to tell Riley the news and lay in bed restless and nervous. He stared at the telly, he was watching The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Noah's favourite film. He got a call from the doctors, and he'd never picked up a call quicker.

And with the news he'd received, he'd wished he hadn't.

They couldn't get him surgery in time. Noah Sterecra had died. All of Cody's daydreams of how their wedding would take place and how he'd propose the same way he had asked him out two years ago, they were nothing now. All those daydreams and hopes began to go black and white along with every memory that was being dug up in his head that the two had shared.

Cody could've moved passed this, Noah could've dodged death like how people in movies dodged bullets. But Cody just had to yell at him, and he didn't know if he should blame himself, the kids that jumped him, or his dad for passing down the anger issues like a genetic.

Cody couldn't do anything but cry. He knew he should tell Riley and all of Noah's friends and other family, but he couldn't. He couldn't move. He could only cry.

And if he weren't already upset, he definitely was after Beau had hopped onto what used to be Noah and Cody's bed, now it only being Cody's mourning space. Beau had loved Noah quite literally to death, what would Owen do after hearing the news?

After thinking that, he'd realized he had better tell everyone that was close with Noah the news.

He wasn't going to enjoy it one bit.

A/N: in attempt to lighten the mood, you guys get chapter titles now for like 2 or 3 more chapters :)