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"Hey" Taylor walked into Tyler's overcrowded bedroom "How are you?"

Everybody in the room - the brothers, two doctors and many men in suits - looked over at the doorway.

Tyler smiled from his lying position on his large bed "I'm great"

Taylor looked at Tyler's previously wounded shoulder; there was not a scratch left.

"He just needs Auntie's cream" Theodore informed from the floor beside Tyler's bed where he sat Indian style.

"You don't have to worry about me" Tyler assured, sitting up.

The suited men and the doctors all went to help him in an instance "Do you need something, master?"

"I'm alright" Tyler replied, rising his hand to dismiss them all "You can all leave now"

The doctors and men didn't hesitate before basically running out, fearing a punishment. The door was closed in the softest way possible, not to disturb the brothers in any way.

"Hey, good job guys, really" Troy exhaled proudly.

"I'm sorry about not covering for you, Tyler" Thomas said sadly, looking down at his feet in front of him.

"Forget about it Thomas. We've all gone through this a million times already. Everybody makes mistakes" Tyler rubbed his brother's shoulder, smiling at him as Thomas slowly rose his head for their eyes to meet.

"What the hell do they want from us?" Theo frowned in thought, completely ignoring any happy moment his brothers were sharing.

"They want to kill us so Father can surrender to them" Taylor answered, shrugging as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"I know that" Theo continued, rolling his eyes in annoyance "I just don't see why would they want to take Father down"

"People want to rule" Thomas shrugged, that actually was pretty obvious.

"But our Father is amazing. He never did any harm to anybody" Theo said angrily through gritted teeth.

"And we never killed somebody unless it was defensively" Troy added, sighing deeply.

Tyler's phone then rang. He picked it up.

"It's Josh" he stated, eyeing all of his brothers.

"Okay" Thomas stood up, patting Tyler's head lightly a few times "We'll leave you lovebirds alone"

Theo rolled his eyes as he left, Troy gave no reaction and walked out. Taylor sighed. Thomas pulled his hand as dragged the youngest brother out of the room.

"Hello?" Tyler finally answered Josh's call.

"Tyler?"

"Yeah, it's me" Tyler chuckled, flexing his arm to test out his previously wounded shoulder.

"Are you okay? How's your shoulder?" Josh asked worriedly.

"Fully cured" Tyler smiled warmly, even though no one could be blessed to see that smile at the moment "Don't worry about me"

"Can I come over? Brendon and I had a fight..." Josh asked quietly.

Tyler frowned "Over what?"

"Pizza"

"I don't even wanna know" Tyler laughed, waving Josh off even though he could again not see him "Sure, come over"

Josh squealed happily. The sound made Tyler laugh softly.

Josh was soon in front of the building, unsure of the way he'll get up there. He stared at it, not even being able to see up to the top floor due to the sun shining directly into his eyes.