They remained in the hospital for a few more hours, just enough time for Rain to take a shower, eat breakfast and fill some documents. Venice even went to Rain's house to get some clean clothes for him. Arm went back to the major family house while the rest of the group went back home.
"So, I will prepare something for lunch, you can go with Macau to relax a little bit in the guest room" Pete said after they entered the house. Rain turned to him and shook his head, then he said:
"I... I would like to help"
"No, you heard the doctor, you need rest" Pete responded.
"Please..." Rain added with his puppy eyes. Pete sighed and nodded, then he told him: "Ok, follow me"
Venice and Vegas went to the private dining room upstairs since they didn't usually have lunch in the dining hall unless they had many guests. Vegas was setting the table, Venice helped him a little but he kept going up and down the room.
"Stop it, you'll give me a headache" Vegas remarked.
"Dad, I need your help" Venice started.
"If you have to hide a corpse, then use acid, I'm too old to bury a dead body..." Vegas replied.
"I'm serious. I... I can't help but feeling guilty for what happened. On one hand I did the right thing since Rain hurt pa a lot, but on the other hand... how did you manage to deal with this feeling after getting married?" Venice asked.
"You mean because of the torture?"
"Yeah, unless you did other wrong things I'm not aware of..."
"Well, I haven't dealt with that feeling. To be honest there are moments when I wonder why Pete accepted to stay with me" Vegas responded.
"What? You can't be serious, there must be a way to move on" Venice said preoccupied.
"I can tell you what I did once..."
It happened two years after Venice was born. I was in my office and I felt thirsty, so I started pouring some water in a glass. Maybe I poured too fast and the glass fell onto the floor and broke. I knelt down to pick up the shards but I accidentally got cut.
I head Pete's steps from the hallway and decided to cover my wrist with that blood to see if he was going to get worried or not.
"Vegas!" Pete shouted as he opened the door, his eyes widened in terror as he noticed the blood on my forearm. He rushed to me and started crying while looking for something to stop the blood.
"Vegas! Idiot! Why did you do that!?" he shouted repeatedly, thinking that I tried to kill myself. I immediately regretted my decision and wiped away the blood with my sleeve.
"It was nothing! Don't worry ok? It was just a shard, do you see?" I admit that I've never told him that it wasn't just an accident and that I put the blood on my wrist on purpose because I'm certain that he would hate me for making him worry without an actual reason.
"Well, I guess I should go downstairs and see what they are doing in the kitchen" Vegas added as he left the room.
"Macau, could you go upstairs and see if Venice is still in the dining room? The food is almost ready" Pete asked after an hour of hard work in the kitchen with Rain. It wasn't exactly hard because the recipes were too complicated, but because he had to control Rain all the time, fearing that even the most insignificant mistake could make him feel bad.
"Sure" Macau responded with a smile and walked up the stairwell. After he reached the last step, he heard the loud noise of a bottle crashing onto the floor. He sighed annoyed and exclaimed:
"If someone just broke my expensive cognac I will kill them myself!"
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Tempest (Payu/Venice X Rain, Love in the air / Kinnporsche crossover)
FanficIn order to leave his past behind, Venice always introduces himself as "Payu". Even after he became an architect, the story of his talent (and beauty) continues to spread among the walls of his college. While Payu lives his life, loved and admired...
