RWRB AU

Part 7 - Awaken

Alex is back home with his parents with his friends and family altogether in his brownstone house. His mother made him go back to clean up his messes. As he was sitting in the living room, Tom is there explaining to his mum what happened tonight. Alex had washed off the blood on his knuckles and can't help but sitting like a kid waiting to get sent to his room.

"We already covered up with stories of him jumping from the balcony to cover the broken leg but the face and all." Tom said and he could hear Ellen sighed. "You can just say he got beat up." Alex added as his mother gave him a look, "Hush!" She scolded him.

"Mijo, let's get this sorted." Oscar tried to ease the tension away by pulling Alex upstairs. June couldn't help but snorted a laugh. Her father always knows how to ease the tension. "Dad, I don't think bringing Alex out from this conversation would change anything." June claimed and Nora nodded.

"Doesn't matter, I know it's that I had to face the consequences of my own action." He stood and grabbed the duffle bag from the floor and headed upstairs followed by his father. As he reached his room, he placed the bag on the bed and planted his face on the mattress next to it. "Someone fix the door?" Oscar commented as he walked in to a clean room and not expecting any blood trace anywhere. Alex groaned in response saying something from underneath the mattress which Oscar didn't bother to ask him to repeat.

They had thrown away the rug that stained with his beloved blood away so he has to buy a new one soon. He turned on his back and let his body flat on the mattress with his arm spread out feeling the coldness of his empty bed. He hasn't sleep in his bed since what happened cause he felt like he's gonna wake up seeing Henry's bloody body and all.

He heard a zipper unlocked and had his eyes turned to his side seeing his father starts to unload whatever he had in the bag. He took the suits and placed them on the bed to have it pressed later, it's late anyway so it need to be done tomorrow.

"Dad." Alex called raising his body on his elbow, "Yes mijo." He replied, "Do you think Henry is gonna come out of it?" He asked, his eyes glistened with hope as Oscar sees it. "God works mysterious way son. Never lose hope. Because Henry needed all of our prayers to recover." Alex sighed as he sat up from his position and leaned his body forward resting his elbow on his thigh. Oscar brought the item one by one into their dresser and have them sorted how Alex wanted it before moving the cufflinks into their walk in closet.

They spend about half an hour before he was joined by his mother in his room. He never had this much of people here since it always had been Henry and him in the room. "How was it?" Oscar asked as she took a seat by the foot of the bed and sighed rubbing her temple. "Luckily the guy promised not to say anything about Alex beating the shit out of him and plead guilty." She said and Oscar could never felt such relief.

Alex's head peaked from inside the walk in closet after done organizing his stuffs before finding his mother on his bed. "Are you still mad?" He asked and Ellen sighed.

"Come here." She gestured her palm out and he dragged his feet towards the bed and sat next to her. He waited for her to give him hell but surprisingly she didn't. Instead, she had her arm wrapped around Alex's shoulder. He leaned his head on her lap feeling her fingers running through his soft curls. How he missed this, his mother and his father comforting him.

"Henry is going to be fine Alex, he has you remember?" She claimed as she stroke his head. "I hope so mum. I miss his voice. I miss his laughs, his hugs. Gosh I miss him mum." He continued and his mother chuckled softly. "As long as you promised me not to behave like this anymore. Whatever it is we have to let justice of law do their job, we are not Law abiding Citizen and you are not Gerard." She stated with her deep southern accent and Alex snorted before he breaks into a laughter. "I could if I wanted to, only Henry can do his Scottish accent way better than me." He sat up and winked at his mum.