To rebuild our home

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Edd's POV

Mark just stood there a few meters away from him and was wiping away his tear stained face. He couldn't resist the urge to cry now as well. Before he was able to compose himself, but now he also broke down.

I didn't knew what to do or to say. Not only was he apologizing to me, but also to Jon who wasn't able to hear it, well or so I thought. He didn't needed to apologize to me because besides yelling and tying me up he hasn't done anything else to me. He just repeated 'Where is Jon? I wanna see Jon!' To me multiple times but other than that nothing really happened.
It is kind of a funny story on how he was able to tie me up.

Flashback

I went to his doorstep and rang the bell. Eduardo opened the door, his face was red and also his eyes were filled with tears. I reasured him that Jon was alive and in safety without telling him his location. After this he grabbed me on the collar of my hoodie and snapped at me. "How do you know this!? Why haven't you told us this already!? Tell me where he is!?" He screamed at me and shook me. His sudden outburst made me froze and then what happened right after went by so sudden that I didn't even had the time to process all of this.

He ordered Mark to carry a chair into the living room and although he was utterly confused he followed his order. Eduardo then dragged me to the chair and sat me down. After this he went into a room and took out a rope. He then quickly tied me up. I didn't even struggled, I just sat there, maybe it was the confusion or the curiosity or even the shook of hearing him yell at me that made me froze. I don't know what it was but what I knew was that I couldn't bring my body into moving.

Then he just asked me multiple times where Jon was and a couple minutes later Tom then returned and it seemed as if this made Eduardo regain his senses again. But while he was tying me up and asking me things Mark tried to make him snap out of this psychotic behavior, only when he saw Tom it seemed as if it did something inside of him. This probably happened because of the similar look that they both have. Eduardo maybe thought to himself 'What would Jon think about this kind of behavior?' But I could be wrong.

End of the flashback

His apology seemed genuine, he seemed to be very sorry about treating Jon the way that he did, but there was something else that didn't rubbed me the right way. He told me that because of him Jon isolated himself, lost his happiness, became fearful and even cutted himself. I would have never known that someone like him who always seemed child-like and cheerful would be able to get inflicted in such self destructive behavior.

Eduardo must have left him very scared with what he has done and this kind of behavior has been probably going on for a longer period of time. It takes a lot until someone decides to cut themselves or even thinks about suicide. I can't even imagine what he might have done to him and what Jon has to go through.

I needed to return to Jon so that I can talk to him further about this situation. So I just accepted his apology and walked out of his front door right after he loosened up his grip on me. I left him and Mark behind, heartbroken and sad. It pains me that I had to just leave them without having the opportunity to inform them further about Jon, but yet again it would be for the best eventually if Jon would keep his distance from Eduardo.

I would love to see them all together again, but I have to let Jon decide whether or not he wants to see them again. Firstly he has to recover from all the terror that he has gone through and then what happens next is up to him.