Welcome To The Fallout - A Crown The Empire fic

Clean up the previous battle wounds

Brandon turned around from the sink with a blood-stained paper towel in his hands. "Can you help? it's hurting too much to wipe all the blood off myself."

"I'll help, don't worry." I dabbed the paper towel on his cheek.

"Thanks, I see you also have a battle scar too." Brandon eyed the long line on my neck.

"Yeah... Battle scars..." I tried to stray away from the subject. It's too much to handle for me.

I kept dabbing the water onto the fresh cuts on his face lightly. I felt so bad for him, nobody deserves that at all. Especially not him. I see him wince in pain when I dabbed the cold water on the cut.

"I'm so sorry, hun. It needs to get clean." I kissed his lips lightly.

There was a little bit of his blood on his lips. It tasted very bitter. I pulled away and kept cleaning off his face.

"It's okay, I know I need to get my face cleaned off. It's going to hurt more if they are untouched."

"I still care about you and you don't deserve to be in pain." I ran the towel over all the blood spots that were just dried up blood.

"You don't either." Brandon picked up another towel, ran it under cold water, and applied it to my neck. I flinched a little, "Don't move, you're going to make it more painful." 

He cleaned off the cut on my neck and I was able to clean off the rest of his face.

"Thank you, Tiffany. It would have taken me hours to do all that. I swear it." Brandon put his arms around my torso and pulled me into a hug.

"You're so welcome, hun." I placed my head onto his bloody shirt. "I think I'll need to shower, all the blood is somewhat all over me."

I pulled away slowly, and went to my bags to get a You Me At Six shirt and leather leggings. I stood up and realized Brandon was behind me.

"Do you mind if I join you? I think I need to get the blood that seeped through my shirt off of me and-" I cut Brandon off.

"It's fine, just make sure you shut the door and lock it." I say as I walked towards the bathroom and sat my clothes down on the sink. 

I started taking off my pants and shirt slowly as the door was still open, waiting for Brandon to get there. I took off the remaining clothes I had on and pulled the curtain aside. The water in the shower turned on once I stood inside the shower and closed the curtain. I heard the door close. I was hoping it was Brandon and not anyone else.

"Brandon?" I asked.

I stuck my head outside the curtain to see it was Bennett. I was shocked, and I covered myself with the curtain.

"Bennett, what are you doing?" I asked again.

"Tiffany, I need to be honest with you." Bennett stood right in front of me.

"What do you want to tell me?"

The water started getting colder and it's pushing me further and further out of the shower.

"I love you. I'm not just saying that." Ben admitted.

I was in shock. Why did he just admit he had feelings for me now? Does he realize I'm back with Brandon?

"I'd be lying if I said I didn't have any feelings for you." I couldn't filter my mouth.

"Woah, I'm surprised you said that." 

"Well, I couldn't lie to you. I trust you."

Ben's lips reached mine again. I did miss them, but I can't do this again. This would be crossing forsaken boundaries again. I pulled away quickly. 

"Ben, you know and I know I'm with Brandon, if Brandon came in here and saw us, I know I'd be dead." 

Shit. The door opened. Brandon walked in slowly. I bet he was unhappy just like the last time. 

"Tiffany, why is he in here?" Brandon asked.

"I don't know, he came in here and I thought that it was you, but he had to tell me something really important." 

"That doesn't seem like that happened."

Bennett backed up and walked backwards  to the doorway, "I'm just gonna go-"

"No you're not. You're going to talk to me about what you just did." Brandon snarled.

"Brandonnn, the water's getting cold, get in hereeee..." I exaggerated the words to make me sound needy of him.

"Okay, I'll be in there in a few minutes." He replied back to me.

Brandon said one more thing to Ben before shutting the door. I could immediately hear the clothes drop to the floor. I started to get goosebumps along my arms and all over my body. Brandon walked in behind me and closed the curtain. 

I turned around to face him. I crossed my arms in front of my chest, "What was that for?" I asked.

"You seemed suspicious. Ben seemed suspicious. You both seemed suspicious." 

I rolled my eyes, "We did absolutely nothing, you're just making it seem like there's something more." 

"You sure about that, sweetheart?"

"Yes, I'm completely sure." I turned around.

I didn't want to face him after he accused me of something that happened.

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Wow, a love triangle. Well, I watched The Blacklist and I think I cried enough tears from Sunday to today. I'm going to try to not make you cry. -- Renee