Grayson's Revenge (a Chandler and Grayson Riggs fanfic)

Chapter 27: It's Time

Grayson's POV
"Daniel's grave was robbed!? Who the fuck would rob his grave!? I swear to God if it was his murderers, I WILL TRACK THEM DOWN AND KILL THEM!!!"
"Whoa! Too far Grayson, and you need to take a chill pill."
I slapped my brother hard across his face.
"Don't tell me to take a bloody chill pill!"
"Are you ok Chandler?"
"I'm fine mom. I've dealt with this kind of behaviour from Grayson before. I'll get him to calm down eventually."
I swept Chandler's leg from under him, causing him to fall down, I climbed onto him and held my forearm right across his neck, just like Daniel did to me, but I didn't apply any pressure.
"Leave me alone! I don't want to talk! Right now I just want to find Daniel's murderers and kill them! And you can't stop me!"
"Now's not the time Grayson. You're not ready. And I can tell that you want to punch something, so go for a thirty minute workout at 9round, and hopefully you'll feel better afterwards. I'll even do the workout with you."
"Fine!"

1 hour later...
Since we went for a total of eighteen rounds, since we did the workout twice I was starting to feel a little better, but I was still angry.
"So, how do you feel?"
"I'm still angry, but I do feel a little bit better."
"So what do you want to do now?"
I took a few deep breaths and then sighed. I then ended up punching my brother about forty five times, I then ended up kneeing him in the stomach about twenty five times. A few people tried to get Grayson to stop, but Chandler told him that he was just releasing his anger and that he didn't mean any of this.
I was about to punch my brother a few more times, but I stopped myself.
"Feel better Grayson?"
"Yeah, I do. I'm sorry that I went too far."
"That's ok. I'm just glad that you finally got all of that anger out of you. Now let's head home."
"So how are we going to explain these bruises and my bloody nose to our parents?"
"That we got jumped and I tried to protect you to the best of my ability but failed."
"And how are we going to explain the fact that you failed to defend me?"
"That I was knocked out. And if I'm being completely honest when I found out that Daniel's grave being robbed, that's not the only thing that pissed me off."
"So what did you think about?"
"That nightmare I told you about."
"The one where Daniel tried to get you to kill yourself, and was telling you how you don't deserve to be loved or be alive?"
"Yes. That's why I slapped you, made you fall to the ground and did the same thing Daniel did to me that one time, when he had his forearm over my throat and was applying pressure, but I didn't do that to you. And even though I was still mad after those eighteen rounds we did, I not only gave you a black eye and a bloody nose when we left, but gave you that bruise on your stomach. And when I stopped myself from punching you a few more times, I was actually going to hit your head against the wall behind you. But I didn't want to hurt you even more than I did already. After all I love you bro."
"I love you too."
"Once again I'm sorry that I went crazy."
"It's ok."
Chandler and I hugged it out for a few minutes and then started our walk home.

On the way home...
"So if you also thought about that nightmare, why didn't you start crying?"
"Because I was blinded with rage, and I took it all out on you after our workout and at home a little bit."
"Remember, me and our parents will always be there for you if you ever need to talk to us. And I understand why you were yelling, but you should've took some deep breaths beforehand."
"I know. I'm sorry."
"It's ok. You're my little brother and I'm always going to love you no matter what."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."

Home...
"So, how was your..."
"Oh my God, what happened to you Chandler? Are you ok?"
"I'm fine mom."
Chandler then whispered in my ear, "we have to tell the truth."
"Ok. And if I get grounded I'll be fine with that."
"Well? What happened?"
"You see mom, after we did the 9round workout twice in a row, Grayson was still mad and took out the last remaining anger on me. I didn't fight back because I knew he didn't mean it. I just wanted him to let out his anger. He apologized quite a few times and I accepted his apology every time."
"Grayson? Is this true?"
"Yes, it is mom. And if you're going to ground me for a few weeks, I'm fine with that. I didn't mean to go as crazy as I did, but I will admit that I took my frustration on my brother too far, and once again I'm sorry Chandler, and I'm sorry to you as well mom."
"It's ok bro."
"And this is the truth? You two didn't get jumped or anything?"
"It's the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
"Grayson, what you did was wrong and it's understandable why you did it, but since you took your frustration on Chandler a little too far. I'm going to have to ground you for a whole week. Starting tomorrow."
"Why tomorrow?"
"Because it's our usual family movie night and we want you to be apart of it."
"Thanks mom."
"You're welcome. And mom?"
"Yes Grayson?"
"I know that I'm not allowed any electronics, but can I still go outside to sit on the steps to get some fresh air and listen to the radio on my alarm clock?"
"I'll talk it over with your dad and let you know before you go to bed, ok?"
"Ok."

2 months later...
*knock knock knock*
"Come in."
I opened Chandler's bedroom door and stepped in, closing the door behind me.
"Oh, hey Grayson. What's up?"
"Not much. May I sit down on your bed? I want to talk to you about something."
"Of course."
I walked over to Chandler's bed and sat down. I took a few deep breaths and then let out a sigh.
"I know that you're getting tired of this, but I'm really sorry about what happened a month ago, but that's not the real reason why I'm here."
"I've forgiven you about twenty five times now, but I still forgive you. Now what did you want to talk about?"
"Before I get to that, I just want you to know that I wasn't angry at you, but back at home when I slapped you and then held my forearm against your throat I was a tad bit angry at you, but I didn't want to hurt you. And I'm sorry about that as well."
"Please stop apologizing Grayson. I already told you that it's ok. Now please tell me what's on your mind. Did you have another nightmare that's causing you to cut yourself? Are you thinking about what those people who robbed Daniel's grave and what they might be doing to his body?"
"Yes I am. They could be raping his dead body, they could be mutilating his corpse, there's endless probabilities that they could be doing to his body, and I really want to find them and bring Daniel home. Because I want Daniel to be safe and sound, even if he's still dead."
Tears started cascading down my face, Chandler approached me, knelt down and wiped away my tears. He then took off my shirt and started to tickle me, causing me to laugh, I tried to roll off his bed to get him to stop, but I couldn't. He got on top of me and continued to tickle me.
"Ok, Chandler. That's enough."
Chandler stopped and got off of me, he even tossed me my shirt, which I put back on.
"Feel better? Or am I going to have to go for round two?"
"That won't be necessary."
"Good."
"We'll find Daniel, but not right now. Because the people who took him are probably extremely armed with military grade weapons. So we'll have to train a lot if we want to defeat them and save Daniel."
"But what if they chopped of his head so he can't come back to life? What if them burnt his corpse? What if they..."
"Even though there's no way to tell, I can assure you that Daniel is perfectly fine. And if it was Daniel's murderers, they're probably trying to lure you into finding him so they can trap you, or kill you. You don't want that to happen, do you? Because I don't."
"I...I just...*sighs*, yeah...you're right. It's just that I want to make sure that he's ok."
"I know you do, but we can't rush this otherwise you'll end up dying...we'll end up dying."
"You're right. I'll try to be more patient."
"We will see Daniel again, we just need to have faith, ok?"
"Ok."
"I'm not trying to upset you, I'm just trying to get you to understand that we just need train ourselves more, and that we..."
"Need to be more patient and prepared."
"Exactly."
Chandler and I hugged for a few seconds and then I left his room.

Later that day...
"Chandler! Grayson! Can you come down to the living room please? We have something important to discuss with you." Mrs. Riggs states.
So Chandler and I ran downstairs and entered the living room and sat down on the couch.
"As you are aware, not only have we've had a few more break ins lately, we discovered that our address has been leaked on the internet, so William and I came to the conclusion that it's time that we moved. Because if this continues to happen all of us may end up dead, and we don't want that to happen, especially to you two. So we need to start packing immediately, and not only are we going to have to move, but we're going to have to change our contact information." Mrs. Riggs proclaims. "We understand that you might not want to change your contact information, but it's for our safety, and the same goes for moving. And I know that you may feel like your abandoning your friends, but they've already been notified as to why we're moving. William and I contacted them and explained our situation. I'm sorry that it had to come to this, but it's like I said earlier, it's for our safety. So go pack your bags, and meet us down here in an hour."
"Ok."
"I'll miss this place."
"We know you will Grayson, because it's where you made a lot of memories with Daniel and a lot of your other friends and our family, but it's times like these where we have to think of our safety."
"I know mom."
"Now go pack your bags please. We leave in a few hours."
I really don't want to leave this place, but it's like mom said, "it's for the best and for our safety," and I completely respect that, but my only concern is that I may never see Daniel again now. I hope that isn't true. But only time will tell. I just hope that Chandler's right, that Daniel's corpse is still in one piece. If it's not then all my hard work will have been for nothing. Chandler did tell me that I have to have faith, and that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'm not going to have any more doubt, from now on I'm going to have faith. It's time that I stop living in the past and focus on the present, but I'm not going to give up on Daniel. So I'm going to trust my brother and follow his advice. He's been helping me out ever since Daniel died, now it's my turn to help him by not only having faith, but by telling myself that everything will work out and that I trust him unconditionally and with all my heart and soul. He's my brother and I love him, and you can always trust your family.