My Dearest Enemy - GeminiFourth AU

21. NuNew as an expert

After a long day, an even longer evening came. This time, Gemini didn't care at all about how he looked. He didn't even look at his reflection in the mirror as he left the room to head to his favorite bar. He left Fourth under the relatively safe supervision of Phuwin and Dunk, who would later be replaced by Chokun and Aungpao. Doctor WanDee went to the office of his boss, P'Off, to tell him everything. Doctor Jimmy, just in case, checked Fourth's body temperature twice, who was hooked up to devices that Gemini didn't even know how to use. One of them registered the steady and much calmer heartbeat of the young Knights of Light Academy adept.

Fourth was sleeping soundly after Doctor Jimmy gave him a potion of peaceful sleep.

“Sleep is the best medicine for him now, don't worry, we will do everything we can to help you”, P'Jimmy tried to comfort the worried Gemini.

Norawit hoped it would be a little easier if he told someone. Someone who wouldn't use it against him. And Gemini only knew two other people like that: P'Boun and P'Sammy.

«I'll go there, I need to tell this to someone who doesn't know Fourth better than they know me, who won't take his side and won't judge me and can tell me something useful but what if...? Why is this so freaking difficult?! As if my life wasn't already complicated! I didn't need this! Fuck, how could I be so stupid and so naive? This never happened to me before, never! I swear I'm the one who is made to be a king but now I feel that if they choose me, I'll fail and disappoint them. And Fourth can be pregnant... What if...? My dreams... Maybe my dreams are about this? What if in that other life when Evie died we did or said something and now Evie will come back us our daughter again? If that's the case I must protect them. Last time Evie died, I won't let this happen again, I can't let this happen again!»

He thought as he was walking towards his friends' bar.

An hour later, Gem didn't feel any better.

“Come on, Sammy, you know I'm not like that”. He tried to explain but his friend knew better. As always. He was tired of this. He wanted someone to understand him, someone who will be by his side and he believed that Sammy can be that person. Yet, when he told his story, he was meet with bitter disappointment.

“Seriously? But think about it. If you didn't want to fuck him, you wouldn't have. This is simple. You wanted to, you can't deny it, I know you, you're a stubborn ass, if you say 'no' it means 'no' and that's it, and you did it, we have it in black and white”.

Sammy earned a murderous look for that statement. Gemini thought that at this moment he wanted to kill Sammy. It didn't matter to him anymore that she was one of the closest friends, what she said didn't fit to what he wanted to hear.

“Okay, okay, I'll say no more, but let me ask you one last question”.

“Ask, I guess I don’t have much left to lose anyway. In any case, I lost my self-respect a long time ago. Feel free to ask.”

Gemini was playing with the almost empty glass of alcohol. The tea-colored liquid rippled as he moved the glass, and he stared at the phenomenon, fascinated. He had come here to escape from his problems, from his thoughts and memories, but they caught up with him even here. He felt an unbearable weight on his heart, which did not decrease with each subsequent sip of alcohol or sentence he uttered.

“Does this mean that... you know... Fourth will... Fourth will have a child?”

“We don’t know that. It’s too early. Doctor WanDee says that the earliest we will know is in about two weeks, I have to wait long fucking two weeks! It's gonna kill me before I kill you for what you said before.”

“Oh fuck, so it’s possible?” Sammy’s eyes lit up, as if it was very exciting news.

He didn’t answer. He drank the remaining alcohol in the glass in one go. He felt uncomfortable. Suddenly his world turned upside down.  Everything changed, his plans went to hell. His promise to himself that he would stay away from Fourth and hate him in order to protect him was broken.