Sweet Blood (boyxboy)

Chapter 23: Bound by blood

"He's super rare, the most rare in fact!"
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John pulls back from Toby who is laying on the bed.  He grabs Toby's wrist, checking his pulse...it's weak, but still there.

"Toby hang on, please!" John is in panic mode. What to do? What to do?

He runs to the kitchen, grabbing his phone from his jacket pocket, calling the only person whom he has called at these times.

"Hey what's up?"

"Jamie... Please help me."

"John what's the matter?"

"Toby,  I hurt him Jamie. Please hurry I...I think he's alive, just! I'm at his place, I'll text the address."

"Ok I'll be right there...hang on."

John hangs up, messages the address and rushes back to Toby still slumped on the bed. He pulls the blankets from over the bed to wrap around his naked frame. "Hang in there Toby...please."

John can't help the tears from falling. He pulls up his own sweats before returning to Toby, gathering him in the blanket and holding him like a baby. "Please...stay with me. I'm so sorry." John runs a hand over Toby's pale face. Then leans in and sobs into Toby's neck.

Bang bang bang....

"John it's me, let me in."

John lifts his head up to the sound. He gathers Toby up in his arms and makes his way to the door. He manages to open it and Jamie pushes it open. John makes his way into the hallway of the apartment.

"Shit John!" Jamie looks upon Toby's pale skin. He is limp, like a rag doll in John's arms.

"We need to get him to hospital." John says under a tearful breath. "I don't care what they do to me. He cannot die."

Jamie nods and they hurridly make their way to Jamie's pickup, Jamie frantically texting on the way. Toby is slumped in the middle between them, John's arms still wrapped around him tight.

Jamie glances towards John. "Rowan. He's gonna meet us at the hospital. I need to drive around to the supplies entrance."

John nods, caressing and stroking Toby's hair. "Stay with me, stay with me."

"What happened?" Jamie looks across to John. "I thought you were both ok?"

John looks across to Jamie. "It wasn't as simple as I, as we thought. The transfusion wasn't completley successful."

"How so?"

"Well....I needed to feed from him as he..." John can't bring himself to say it.

"As he what?" Jamie glances at John, furrowing his brow.

"Something about a missing chemical, only present when people, you know." John nods slowly at Jamie, willing him to understand.

It takes a moment, but Jamie eventually catches John's drift. Jamie sighs looking at John clinging onto Toby's frame. "Why did you do it? If you knew how risky it was?"

"I swear Jamie, I told him not to invite me in, I was walking away, but..." John begins to create a fresh set of tears. "He didn't listen. He let me past. I couldn't hold back."

Jamie could feel the heartbreak radiate from John.  He didn't know what to say. The rest of the journey to the hospital was in silence.

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Jamie pulls up alongside two double doors around the back of the hospital. Rowan is already waiting by the entrance.

Rowan opens the passenger door and John shuffles out with Toby still wrapped in a blanket in his arms.  "Unconscious? How long?" Rowan asks, looking over Toby's body.

"20 minutes, John replies. "He still has a pulse but it's weak."

"Ok, follow me."

Jamie and John follow Rowan into a side room with a bed. Dr Lewis is already inside, setting up equipment and monitors.

"Lay him down, he's obviously lost a lot of blood. We need to correct the imbalance." John carefully lays Toby on the bed, keeping him covered.

Dr Lewis looks down at Toby then at John. "He must really love you." She comments before carrying on with turning the equipment on and attaching pads to Toby's chest, causing the machine to burst into life.

John forces a smile. "I love him too." He looks at the machine. The pulse looks weak.

Rowan hurries back into the room. He looks genuinely concerned. Even Jamie hadn't seen him so panic stricken. "His blood type. We have nothing!"

"What?" Everyone in the room's faces drops to the floor.

"He's super rare, the most rare in fact."

"What? So that's it? There's nothing you can do?" Jamie looks at Rowan, then at Toby.

"I...I'm sorry, I really want to." Rowan runs his fingers through his hair. We will just have to watch and wait....I don't know what else to do!"

"What about me?" John suddenly says. My blood?"

Jamie looks at John confused. 'You wanna turn him vampire?"

"No...would you listen to me! My blood is his blood Yeah? I'm rare because he is rare."

Rowan runs his hands down his cheeks. "Right... So you are the same!"

"But that's provided what has happened has worked." Jamie adds. "That you are in fact, a human."

"Isla get a testing kit! Test John's blood." Rowan seems to spring back to life.

"No." John says with a firm voice. There's no time. Look!"

Everyone turns to the monitor, the beeps getting slower as Toby's pulse becomes weaker. John looks at Rowan directly in the face "We need to do this now, or Toby is going to die!"