What Will Be (Chibs and Juice)

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Juice wakes up in the hospital and at first he's confused. Then the throbbing of his head and the dryness in his mouth reminds him of what he'd done. He slowly moves his eyes around the room find the only other person in the space. Tig. He mentally groaned, he just knew this would be bad.
He thought about pretending to be asleep still but he'd already been noticed.

"Juice." Tig sighed out in relief. "I should beat the hell out of you. I'm not going too of course. I think you've done a pretty good number on yourself."
He walked over to the bed and patted him on the cheek gently.

"I didn't do it on purpose. I swear Tig." His voice was hoarse and scratchy.

"Want some water?" Juice nodded. "We didn't think you did. You left too many pills in the bottle for that."

Juice drank the water Tig gave him and tried to keep their eyes from making contact.

"I'm glad you called someone, but you know you could have called me. I don't want you to think that you're by yourself just because Chibs is inside."

Juice looked at him with confusion but nodded anyway.

"I know you two are close, you always call him when you're in trouble and that's fine. But, we're brothers man, I've got your back also. Also just so you know, Jessie isn't interested in anyone in the club."

Juice grinned at his statement. "I know. I called her because I only had my burner and I couldn't remember anyone's number. Hers was on the mirror." He swallowed, and took a deep breath raising his hand for Tig not to interrupt him. "I know you've got my back Tig, really, since all this happened you've been more helpful than you could know."

"Just doing my job kid." He sat back in the chair. "I told Chibs I'd keep an eye on you. He was so worried, you haven't been by to see any of the guys. I really think that now they've been transferred you need to get up there."

Juice sighed. "I know. I'm just not good at that kind of stuff."

Tig rubbed his hands over his face again and started to speak with Tara walked in.

"Hey Juice. How're you feeling?"

"M-fine."

"Great. Well then, I'm going to get you discharged and I'll see you tonight for a follow up." She nodded awkwardly and turned to leave.

Tig understood what she wasn't saying. There was no documentation of his being there and they were in a room secretly. He stood and grabbed the few items he'd laid about and put Juices clothes on the bed. A few moments later Tara came back in.

"I've got you two IV bags in here, as well as the supppies for them. You'll need to have these tonight and tomorrow. Put your cut in this bag on top of them. I'll meet you at your apartment?." Tig nodded, Juice looked surprised but started moving.

They made it back to Juices apartment without being noticed surprisingly much to Tigs relief. He, Juice and Tara were the only ones who knew about the incident and he wanted to keep it that way.

He got Juice settled on the couch and plopped himself down beside him.
"Juice. I need to tell you something."

Juice looked worried, he tried to sound calm.
"What's up?"

"I know Juice. I know about you and Chibs."

Now Juice couldnt believe what he was hearing. His eyes were wide and he felt the color draining from his face.

"Wh-What do you mean?"

"He told me. Well kind of. I just figured it out when you started to loose it when he was arrested. We'd had some interesting conversations, he uh. He never said who, just sorta poked around at the idea that he might be interested in a younger fella."

Juice felt like he was going to faint again. He was scared, he didn't want to be having this conversation.

"Don't be so scared. I'm not going to say anything till y'all are ready. I just want you to know, I'm here for you any way I can be. I understand you're hurting Juice."

"T-thanks. I think. Does he know you know?"

Tig nodded. "I told him I'd figured it out when I visited last. He asked me to keep an eye on you. I don't know everything. Based on the things he asked me, I understand y'all are a little kinky huh?" He tried to tease, make Juice feel better. All he did was blush and curl into himself.

"N-no. We haven't done anything. Just talked about it."

"Hey man, I was just teasing you. It's okay. Look, they get visitors on Thursday's. Come this time okay?" Juice nodded.

"Why don't you go get a shower before Tara gets here. I'm not allowed to leave you alone so, get used to my company."

Juice nodded and stood up. He wanted to see Chibs more than anything. He really hoped they could have a private meeting. He'd buy the room if he had too. He knew there was no way he'd hold it together any other way.

Tonight he was going to write him a letter. Sure it was cliche but he felt like it would make Chibs happy. He was going to be really upset when he learned about his incident, he needed all the good points he could get.