V's Diary (One shots)

I was never there (pitBabe) [6/8]

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What do you do when you wake up when you are not supposed to? It can be an awkward situation, or maybe you fall asleep after a lot of effort just to wake up too early, or maybe you wake up when you aren’t expected to, like in that one movie where the guy wakes up in the spaceship while traveling, anyway not the point here.

The matter of concern is the fact Charlie woke up. He didn’t plan on or expected to but he did. He was alive, awake, and very much at odds with his only family member. No, they didn’t have an outright confrontation but it was brewing, just beneath the surface of the calm water.

He knows his brother, Jeff has been his subject of focus for as long as he remembers. All that's human in him is because of his younger family.

Now the question is, how do you tell your own brother, who is very much capable of tearing you down to shreds with his words, that death, then felt peaceful, and the only option?

Surely he won't be able to present his thought process, because there was no way to lay it all out without painting his ex?-Lover in a bad light.

Babe was already skimming over hot waters. The thought was horrifying, to say the least. Jeff being against Charlie was one thing, but Jeff being against Charlie AND Babe, it would be an impossible task for them to get back together.

If they got back together….

That brought another set of terrorizing turns of thoughts. Will he ever be able to face Babe again? The conversation in the hospital felt like he was ripping his own heart out, he had to do it, there was no other way.

But it didn’t mean he liked being away from Babe, there were countless unwanted possibilities he could think of as a consequence of these turn of events.

What if Babe realized he could live without Charlie just fine? What if he moved on? And worst of all, What if he forgot about Charlie soon? Another constant fear made home inside the younger alpha’s heart.

The fear of being left behind.

Jeff was by his side every second he could, they lived in a single-room apartment, with an opening and clear view of the ocean, just like he mentioned back in the hospital. It has been almost a month with no contact with anyone except Pete, that too for their accommodation and nothing else.

Charlie knew he wasn’t anyone special, he wasn’t the kind of person you’d remember in the crowd, he was disposable, easily replaceable. He never expected otherwise, if anything, it made hiding much easier. But this was the first time he didn’t want to be forgotten, left behind by the team or Babe.

The pack has almost been his family, it was one of the reasons why he so readily gave up on his life. However, he couldn’t let Jeff down too, not again.

Living alone without the burden of anything else also came with some perks. He gets to spend time with Jeff, and he’s also starting to learn how to relax, his wounds have almost healed, and in a blink of an eye, it has been a month since he left Bangkok.

He has settled down into a routine, waking up next to Jeff, bickering over light breakfast. He spends the day doing mundane things, skimming over the news, watching games, doing light exercise, and he’s getting better, and stronger.
And then he reads the news that tilts his world off the axis again.

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Before anything else, the team needs to get rid of the threat to the brothers. The announcement of Babe’s temporary retirement was on hold, they waited for a month after the brothers left to post the video, stating vague reasons, and partial truths, and finally, Babe is off the grid publically.