Unity - an alan walker fanfiction

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#20913/ Tim PoV

I was woken at some ungodly hour of the morning by a phone call. To be fair to Alan, he probably didn't know it was an ungodly hour of the morning, due to me and Marty not exactly telling anyone we were going on holiday halfway across the world. 

Oh well.

When I picked up, snuggling back against my boyfriend for warmth, Alan sounded rather lost.
"Mate, what the fuck do I do? Ise has literally just passed out on me after crying for like 6 hours straight. Please help, how the fuck do I take care of a grieving teenager?" 
"Woah! Hold up, that's a lot of information right there Al." I felt Marty shift against my back and he whispered in my ear
"Is everything OK liefje?"
"Dunno? Probably not. I'll tell you in a minute. Alan, First of all, I thought Ise had gone home? Why are you taking care of her?" 

I heard shuffling of the end of the line, and then a loud sigh.
"Fuck only knows what happened. Even I have only had the bare bones of the story, but push comes to shove, her sister's dead, her dad didn't make it out of surgery and her mom's in a long term coma. Hence the reason I'm asking how the fuck to deal with a grieving child because for some fuckass reason, its been decided that I'm supposed to take care of her. Which, y'know, I'm not complaining about, I love her, but also, am I really the person best fit for that role? God-" He sighed again and I heard more fidgeting on the other end. I reached behind me and squeezed Marty's hand tightly. 
"OK, fuck, yeah, that- Do you need me to come over? Where are you? We're in Madagascar right now, but we can get there ASAP if you need it." 
"I- God, yes, please. I'm so lost. We're at Birmingham university hospital, don't think the nurses are very happy with letting us go at the minute given Ise's current condition. I'm sorry, I didn't know who else to call-" 

I tugged my boyfriend along as I crawled out of bed, reaching for the light switch.
"Honestly, shut the fuck up, Alan. You're stressed, worried, probably well on your way to having a panic attack. We're your friends, we help you out in this situation. We're on our way, OK. Sit tight." I heard a shaky breath before he responded with a quiet 'OK' as I hastily shoved my clothes into my suitcase. I could hear Martin on the phone with the plane crew in the background, muttering dutch into the microphone while he tried to pull on a pair of sweatpants one handed.

Somehow, miraculously, we made it to the hospital by 6pm, Marty trudging slowly behind me as I messaged Alan to let him know we were here. Iselin was draped over the younger man's shoulder, clear tear tracks running down her cheeks, when we walked into the room.
"Hey sweetie, you OK?" I asked her, letting her move on her own while I pulled up chairs for me and my boyfriend. He quickly turned to talk with Alan, but clearly seemed shocked at the state she was in. She was quick to grab my hand, and I noticed that she was still holding on tightly to Alan, but she didn't really look like she was in the mood to talk.

"You don't want to speak? That's OK, you know. Do you want me to talk about something instead?" She nodded slightly, sniffling.
"Hmmm. OK. Did I ever tell you the story of how Martijn over there got attacked by monkeys?" 

A quick shake of her head.

"Well, me and Marty like to go on holiday to Madagascar, yeah? We used to do it, like, every year. but the first time we went, he was a bit silly and didn't read the warning signs about not feeding the monkeys and ended up completely covered in the things. I think he was probably having a breakdown, but it was very funny to watch baby-faced Martijn trying to escape these tiny monkeys. He has been very reluctant to go anywhere near them ever since." She smiled slightly when I showed her the video on my phone of my boyfriend from many years ago.

The next few days passed without any major incidents, Marty and I managed to get some slots at a nearby recording studio and alternated that with running errands for Alan. I told Iselin a lot more stories; funny things various friends of ours had done, things I'd experienced in the base, and Martijn's general antics. She seemed to like hearing me talk. Eventually, she started telling stories back, about her friends from the base or people she knew online, some from when she was on tour, though she always went quiet after that. When Alan told us that they were heading back to the states, I immediately offered to help in anyway I could.

Seeing the state Iselin's house was in was hard. I hadn't seen it before whatever happened had happened, but it wasn't hard to see that it wasn't supposed to be like this; windows boarded up, pictures smashed and furniture burnt. Ise barely made it through the front door before she started hyperventilating. I had to make sure I kept her out of the kitchen when I saw the condition it was in; not because it was covered in any mess of ash, broken glass and blood, but because it wasn't, and I figured that CSI had to have been though there pretty thoroughly for it to be in that condition. Luckily, her bedroom seemed to have not been damaged too badly, and we managed to salvage a lot of her things; clothes, posters and most of her electronics. 

She seemed broken when she realised the photo of her and Ed that sat on her desk had been smashed up (despite Alan's promises to replace the frame) which, to be fair to her, I can see why that would be pretty frustrating. 

She fell asleep between me and Alan on the flight to the states, curled up into his hoodie and holding tight to my arm while I played chess with Martijn.

I think she'd earned the rights to that, at least.

A/N: Woooooooooooo im aliveeeee. pls take everything in this chapter with a pinch of salt, i cant fuckin remember if its madagascar that has the angry monkeys or not, and im too tired to check sooooo. anyways.

this chapter brought to you by Kaarija and the return of my zoom zoom cars :D 

i am genuinely sorry about the trauma i put Iselin through :( i promise she gets better from now on. any ways, pls let me know if there is any spelling or punctuation/ grammar errors here, i wrote this entire thing without spellcheck and im tired/ not wearing my glasses etc so no guarantee that i have got everything that i ignored first time round

see yall in the next updateeeeeee (itll probably be another month sorry)