Sturniolo Triplets angst/Other Things

𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕~ 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤+𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭

Nick overhears some of his friends talking shit about Matt, he ends up getting into a fist fight with them. Matt feels bad when he finds out, but Nick assures him it's alright.
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"I love Nick, but honestly Matt is so fucking annoying" An unidentified voice speaks from around the corner, unknowingly sharing every detail with a certain someone they called a friend.
"I know right! He's just so rude, and he's always bitching about being sooo skinny. Like no body cares" another voice, male. Most likely a friend of voice one, a sharp and uninviting giggle rings through the room, sending a shiver down Nicolas's spine. He listened to his so called friends take jabs at his younger brother, wondering how people could be so cruel to someone they knew that Nick loved, and adored. Someone Nick would die for, and there they were, berating him behind his back.
"I wish Nick would just cut him off or something" The famale voice spoke with a menacing giggle. Nick felt his blood boil with uncontrolled rage, hearing them talk about him like this was too much for the triplet. "Honestly, or he could just kill himself, or maybe I could do it for the puss!" The man laughs, the laugh is empty and emotionless. Nick's eyes widened, he's had just about enough.

"Hey!" Nick calls, finally showing himself. He watches the two gossipers jump halfway out of their skin, their heads whipping towards the shorter man so fast, Nick hopped they achieved whiplash. "Nick?! Uh-" the man gets cut off, "Save it, mother fucker. I heard everything you just said" Nick seethed, inching closer to the couple. The woman backs up, hiding behind the man like a coward.
"Oh, don't hide now bitch. I can't believe I called you my friends-- You can both go fuck yourselves!" Nick shouted, shoving the guy roughly. "Hey! Don't touch me!" The man yelled, shoving Nick back just as harshly. This made Nick's body fill with even more rage than he thought possible.
Before he knew it, the two of them were fist fighting. Nick got in more hits, making the guy bleed pretty bad, but hurting his hand. By the end of the fight, Nick's nose was bleeding slightly and his hand was bruised and bloody, the man he once called a friend was on the ground, wallowing in his own pathetic pity, holding his now mangled face.
"Don't ever come near me, or my brothers again. Either of you. Otherwise, next time I'll beat both of y'all's asses and take the assult charges. We aren't friends anymore, you're nothing to me" Nick spats, looking between the two of them before quickly heading off, deciding to call his brother and have him pick him up.
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This interaction was only a week ago, and Nick's hand is still injured. When Matt picked Nick up that day, he asked millions of questions that Nick didn't answer. He just said that he wasn't friends with "those fuckers" anymore, and just wanted to go home. So Matt took him home and dropped the subject, but he needed to know what happened, and he needed to know why this brother was so angry that day, and the days after that. So on this day, Matt was going to figure out what was wrong with Nick.

"Hey Nicky?" Matt says, voice small as he approached the tense man. Nick glances over at Matt with a grunt, as if to say, 'What.' Matt nodded absently and went over to him, "I wanna talk to you about what happened that night.." Matt starts, Nick looks at him and feigns confusion, "what night?" He asks woth mock Innocence. Matt glares at him, "Nick, the night I picked you up with blood on your hands and face! Dumbass" Matt says, Nick shakes his head, "Nothing happened Matt, literally nothing, I told you I fell"

"Oh, so you fell into a meat grinder? Look at your hand Nick! It looks like you went hand and hand with the concrete floor." Matt says, exasperated.
Nick rolls his eyes.

"Matt, for fucks sake! Why does it even matter?! It's over now! Leave it alone!" The red haired man shouted. His face beginning to match his hair.

"Nick-- It's important to me! I care about you, I didn't like that you got into my car with blood and spit all over your hands! Do you think I'm dumb? I know what fighting hands look like Nick! Who did you fight!--" Matt's rant is cut off.

"I fought Randy.."

Silence.

"You-- wait what- Randy? Our friend? Why? What'd he do? What hap--"

"He and Lily were talking about you Matt!--" Nick sighs and shakes his head, "I..was protecting you, okay? You're my brother and I needed to shut them up" Nick finished, looking over at Matt finally.
Matt's jaw hung open, feeling his body, mind, and possibly soul, fill with instant guilt. Nick did that..for me? He hurt himself over me? Why would he do that? Oh fuck it's all my fault-
"Matt, immediately stop thinking" Nick's voice sliced through the youngest's thoughts, "what-- Nick! Are you crazy?! Why would y--" Matt's eyes fill with tears, "no Nick- no you shouldn't have done that--"

"But I did. And it's over," Nick interrupts him, shutting down his thoughts and feelings of guilt. Matt looks at him with teary eyes and a quivering lip. Nick only smiled and took Matt's hand with his un-injured one.
"Look at me sweetheart" Nick says, as Matt's gaze began to fall to his lap, but with Nick's order, he slowly raises his gaze back up to meet Nicks. "I don't give a fuck who is talking about you, I wouldn't care if it was you, yourself. Anybody who finds it okay to talk about my brothers like the way those people were talking about you are wrong. And I'll show them just how wrong they are, Every. Single. Time. I couldn't give a fuck less if my hands fell off Matthew, I'd do it again, and again, and again for fucks sake." Nick takes a breath, hearing Matt sniffle softly. "Nobody's about to get away with that shit, if they try, then they'll be met with their consequences. I'll protect you with my life, Matty" Nick finally finishes, smiling at Matt who was now sobbing and had his head resting on the table.

It took a while for Matt to calm down. It took longer to calm Chris down when he found out exactly what happened, needless to say, he was ready to get his hands bloody too. All for Matt, all for their brother.

Rest assured that they'd do it for each other as well, and Matt would do it for them.
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