((A/N Heyheyhey, little curtain poles. Wow, I try and be creative with a nickname and this is the first thing I come up with. *slow applause*. Anyway. This IS going be used in a future story, one that will be a long full length fic, because there's three schoolbooks full of what I've written of it. Yup. Been in the works since before Christmas. But here's part of it, the part about how Beef ended up with the guys. **This actually is different to the story, but only really character and event wise. Also rewritten with no reference to the real story, only memory** It is also short and unfinished, at just over 500 words, as you can tell when you get to the end. Enjoy, and good day/night! ... My little curtain poles. That's gonna stick, just you wait ;) ))
"Stop! No, no -!" The guy was cut off by a yell of pain.
Pause stopped cold. Don't stay still, you idiot, help him!
Pause sprinted in the direction of the voice.
"Don't you know what you've done?" A man hissed, a different one. "You should have let me kill the child. At least I get the joy of killing you."
Pause couldn't run any faster, but two figures came into view. One on the ground and the other standing over him with a sword.
"No you won't!" Pause shouted, leaping at the standing man and pinning him against a tree. He was a good three inches taller than Pause, but Pause was strong. The man struggled, but couldn't get out of his grasp.
"Let go of me," he hissed.
Pause laughed. "Why should I?"
"What do you plan to do? If you try to reach for a weapon, I'll reach for mine when you let go. You can't stand here forever, either. And we can't forget about that dying idiot over there. He's gonna be no help," the man grinned at him evilly. The man on the ground coughed, his hand coming away from his mouth covered in blood.
It was true, the but was gonna be no help. He was lying on the ground, arm over a stab wound in his chest. Pause suddenly remembered how serious this was.
He threw himself against the man, keeping him pinned to the tree, while he unsheathed his knife.
"And you said I wouldn't be able to," he said, pressing the knife against his throat. The man let out a low growl.
"If you came to save him, he's gonna die anyway,"
"And so are you,"
Pause slit his throat, deeply, and ran over to the man on the ground, dropping him.
"Hey, hey, hey, sorry that took so long. What actually happened?"
Pause hit the emergency button in his watch, and typed a quick explanation.
"I was given a kid to look after... Etho... He was wanted by a lot of people... For whatever reason... That guy attacked... I fought him to keep Etho safe... Here I am now" the guy managed, voice sounding almost strained.
"Oh God... Look, there's a couple of people on their way now, to help out. What's your name?"
"VintageBeef... Call me Beef, though..."
"Okay. I'm Pauseunpause, but you can call me Pause. How old are you?"
"I'm 22,"
"Ohh, that's quite young, actually."
Pause took in what the guy looked like. He had light brown hair, and a short, fluffy beard. When his eyes weren't shut tightly because of the pain, his eyes were a beautiful deep blue colour. He had many cuts and gashes on his arms and face, and Pause could see he had more injuries like this on his chest and legs, just by the state of his clothing.
"Hey, Pause!" He heard.
"Yo, Jsano, Zisteau! Here,"
Two guys appeared. They looked kinda shocked at the state Beef was in, not expecting him to be as injured as this.
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Aaand I stopped there, because I didn't know how to finish it :P
