Tempest (Payu/Venice X Rain, Love in the air / Kinnporsche crossover)

Chapter 51

Rain woke up in the middle of the night, he patted the space around him in a vain hope to find his beloved Payu sleeping next to him. He obviously wasn't there and he had to deal with the fact that the recovery journey was still very long and difficult. The bluish light of the night that came from the window frightened him, it covered all the objects of the room in a strange way.

The sleepy boy soon realized the reason why he woke up, it was a weird noise coming from the bathroom of the room next to his. It was like water flowing from a sink. He slowly walked to the next room, which was Payu's proper room. Rain slowly opened the door, hearing the noise of the water much stronger than before. He walked inside and repeated his lover's name a few times, getting no response at all.

As he entered deeper inside the room, he started to notice another, much softer sound. It was Payu, he was moaning annoyed as he rubbed the skin of his hands and forearms continuously. Rain finally reached the door of the bathroom and looked inside. It was all dark, only the dim light of the night made possible for him to see the person in front of the sink.

Rain didn't understand what was going on, he felt like he had to say something but whenever he tried to open his mouth, the words died at the bottom of his throat. He observed his nervous boyfriend more carefully, the skin of his forearms was getting red after getting rubbed like that. Rain didn't know if Payu realized that he was there or not, however he heard him whispering some sentences:

"Dirty... filthy... I have to... clean it... clean it..."

Rain came closer and patted Payu's shoulder to make him turn to him, however Payu reacted like he was totally terrified, he immediately moved Rain's hand away and hid in a corner of the bathroom. Rain switched on the light of the bathroom and tried to speak as softly as possible as he saw Venice sitting in the corner, hugging his knees and mumbling something with his eyes shut.

"Payu, it's me... I'm Rain, what's wrong? Do you want to talk to me?"

"Get out... please..."

"it isn't Gun, it's me... don't you recognize me?"

"Rain... please... get out..."

"I want to help you, P' Payu... but I need you to talk to me... I need you to tell me what I can do for you"

"Do you want to help me?" Payu asked as he looked up at him. Rain smiled and nodded.

"If you want to help me... then leave... I want to stay alone... I... I don't want you to see me like this..." Payu added.

"Payu..."

"I beg of you... leave me alone..." Payu repeated until Rain eventually accepted that his boyfriend didn't want him around and left. He went back to the corridor and waited there, trying to understand what Payu was going to do. He noticed that he didn't continue washing his hands in the sink since he didn't hear the water flowing, what was he possibly doing?

Maybe that's what he needed, some time alone with his thoughts, no... that couldn't be the right answer to that problem. Rain stayed there a few more minutes until he heard a loud noise, like something hitting against...

Rain didn't even have the time to finish his thought, his instinct started leading his body back into the room and to the bathroom. His eyes widened in shock as the most terrible of his fears became real. The love of his life was in front of him, on the floor in a pool of blood coming from his head.

"Rain! Rain!" Payu shouted shaking the boy's shoulders until he woke up. Rain panted, he was fatigued, his mind couldn't handle it anymore, his hair was drenched in sweat. He tried to focus and finally saw Payu sitting on the bed with his soft hands still on his shoulders.

"Rain! What happened?"

The young student was surprised, he felt worse than ever: his boyfriend, the man whom he loved the most and who went through one of the most terrible fates, was there, in his room, in the middle of the night, worrying about him. How could he wish for someone better? How could he be a worse boyfriend for Payu? These were the questions that the demons inside Rain's head kept repeating, forcing him to cry until he could feel like death would be a better fate than surviving in that hell on earth.

"Rain, what happened, talk to me!" Payu repeated again until Rain, with tears flowing from his eyes, hugged him tight to the point that Payu started feeling like he couldn't breath anymore.

"Payu... how can I help you if I can barely help myself..." these were the words in Rain's head, however, Venice managed to understand them only with great effort considering the way Rain murmured them.

"Rain... please, I'll do whatever you want, I swear... I'll do anything to see you smile again... please..."  

A.N. I hope I had you in the first half...