medicine ; luke hemmings au **CANCELLED unfinished**

three

he hit her. hard. 

cody was still breathing heavily over kelsea with clenched fists as she trembled, hands running through her hair as she realised the situation. tears fell down her cheeks without realisation as she tried to process that her loving boyfriend of two years hit her. 

cody's breaths calmed and he unclenched his fists. 

"oh my fucking god..baby i'm..i'm so sorry." he tried to help her up but she pushed his hand away with the little strength. she stood up shakily. "i-i love you. please talk to me baby." she shook her head as she tried to walk out, her feet failing her a bit. "kelsea..please, just listen. i-"

"no, cody. just- don't call me." she gained her balance and ran out the door, dialing luke's number in tears. 

she went into the front porch light, opening her front camera and examining her face. there was a slight red mark, but it was able to be easily covered. she sniffed her tears away, still wanting to break down as she walked away from the house, walking the lonely sidewalk while waiting for luke to pick up.

'he's probably asleep. it's nearly midnight.' she thought. just as she was about to hang up, she heard a rustle on the other line.

luke's deep, raspy voice rang through the speaker, "kelsea? why are you calling me? i thought you were with-"

"please just pick me up by 6th street." she whined, trying to steady her voice.

"o-okay. i'm on my way, stay put." he whispered and hung up. kelsea couldn't hold her tears back again as she stumbled to the corner. 

she stopped crying a little. 'he didn't even try to..' her thoughts were interrupted as she recognised luke's care speeding up the way, going at least 30 miles over the speed limit. 

he quickly opened the door on the passenger side, not moving from his seat as kelsea weakly climbed in. luke automatically grabbed her hand as soon as she was within reach and looked at her with worry.

"what happened?" he said, pain obvious in his voice.

"nothing. please just..take me to your place. i need to sleep well." kelsea sniffled. he nodded and slammed on the gas, getting to his house within 3 minutes when it was about 5-7 away from cody's. he was going really fast and it worried kelsea a bit, but luke was in a hurry to care for her. he wanted her to feel safe and okay because she was obviously feeling the exact opposite right now. 

he quietly opened the front door to his house, careful not to make too much noise. his mom and dad were asleep in the next room over and, although they wouldn't care how late he was if it wasn't past curfew, he didn't want to wake him. he led kelsea to his room, holding her shoulder lovingly and told her she could lay down. she mumbled a quick thank you and fell onto the bed exhausted. 

"do you- do you wanna talk about it?" luke stuttered, worried to say the wrong thing. 

"uh, yeah. i guess." he stood there awkwardly until she jokingly rolled his eyes and grabbed his hand to bring him onto the bed to sit next to her. 

"it's-" she sighed, rubbing her temple, "it's just cody. he's always been the jealous type, but it's been getting out of hand..he acts like he controls me or something. we got in this huge argument and it got heated really quick and he-" she stopped herself before she could say more about it to luke. kelsea trusted luke, but she didn't want anyone to know what cody had done. she got choked up by the time she could get to that part, anyway. 

"kelsea, what ha-"

luke was interrupted by kelsea sobbing into his shoulder, unable to hold back the tears any longer. he wasn't sure what to do at first. should he hug her? should he hold her hand? he just followed his instincts and put his arm around her back. he pulled her closer to him as she wrapped both her arms around his torso as well, nuzzling her face closer into his neck as she continued to cry. 

they stayed like this for awhile, just holding each other while kelsea cried. luke finally put his face into her hair, kissing the top of her head comfortingly. she soon stopped crying, but didn't pull away. she felt safe in his arms. she felt at home. 

when she pulled away, her eyes met luke's, both filled with love and care. she broke the silence with an embarrassed laugh. 

"god i probably look so bad right now." she laughed, taking her sleeve and removing the eye makeup under her eyes only slightly. 

"no you don't. you look fine." his hands still rested on her, but moved to her hands instead. 

she shook her head, "i guess i'm just used to people seeing me in makeup. cody says it makes me look pretty. so i've worn it since." she laughed, trying to cover up her insecurities. she'd been wearing makeup since seventh grade, but never really cared if she didn't. the day she wore a little more eyeliner than usual, cody called her beautiful, and she'd been wearing it since - afraid he might not think the same when she was without it. 

"well," he took the sleeve of his sweater and got the makeup she couldn't get. he smiled shyly, rubbing her soft hands with his warm ones. "you were beautiful before he said you were." 

a/n: short chapter again !!! sorry :-( the rest of the idea i had for this chapter would've made it too long so i stopped on the cheesy lil baby luke aw :-)))))