Two broken souls (Lams)

Quatre

(This is just a filler chapter but kind of important)

Time skip: Over the next few days John and Alex grow closer. John begins to heal and feel better. He also starts to smile more. Henry texts and calls constantly but John ignores them.

No one's POV:

After breakfast Alex is doing the dishes when John walks in and sits on the counter. He grabs a bottle of water nearby "Morning." John takes a sip of water as Alex answers "Good morning." They sit in awkward silence before John breaks it "Have you heard about the killer on the loose." Alex chuckles. "What." John asks thinking over what he said and starts to chuckle too. Alex rolls his eyes "That's a way to start a conversation." John shakes his head "Yeah well you weren't going to say anything." Alex goes back to clean "true but do they have any idea who the killer is?" John shakes his head no and hops down. Hercules and Lafayette come walking in holding the car keys "Were going to the store want to come?" Alex shakes his head no and John smiles "nah i'll leave you two love birds alone." Lafayette punches John in the arm "tais-toi mec." Hercules glares at John and then the two walk out. John turns back over to Alex who is still cleaning "Ima be up stairs." Alex just replies with "OK." John goes upstairs and into the guest bedroom. Alex finishes cleaning and sits on the couch scrolling through random movies and shows. Once he finishes a show he stands up and walks up to the guest bedroom "Hey John want to watch a movie?" John looks up from his drawing of a turtle "sure why not." He stands up and they walk down to the living room.

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John scrolls through the movies trying to decide what to watch since Alex won't answer. "This one?" John clicks on a movie called Hurricane tortial. Alex shrugged, not paying attention to what her put on "sure." Alex snuggles up in the blanket eating popcorn. John starts the movie, it starts off with a storm sense not scary but for Alex it caused the memories to flash through his mind. Alex froze with fear watching people be flushed away. John was so busy watching to realize Alex was white in the face, eyes wide hiding in his blanket. He closes his eyes hoping if he doesn't see it then the memories will stop but that only makes it worse. He is now in the hurricane screaming for his brother "James!" he can't do anything he wanted to run back down to the low ground but can't. He wants to swim away but the waves are too strong. He wanted to just drown but he just couldn't seem to die. Then things turn black, Alex hopes that the memories stop but they skip to when the water dies down and everyone is now looking for the bodys or signs of their loved ones. Alex is screaming "James." even though he has no hope. When he comes across people standing in a circle. Some men are trying to lift a pole. Alex pushes his way through the crowd to see what's going on. Once the rubble is gone the sight horrifies Alex nearly to death. James. Dead cold body. Alex runs up to him holding him tight, crying and screaming, people trying to comfort him then Alex snapps back to reality as someone wraps an arm around him. Alex opens his eyes to see John had laid an arm around him, snuggled up next to Alex. John notices Alex is now looking at him still terrified "Hey hey i'm right here." Alex lays his head on John's shoulder. John runs his finger through the back of Alex's hair "it's okay." Alex still shaking barely nods "I wish." he mumbles under his breath. John picks up the remote with his free hand "want me to change it?" Alex quickly nodded "Yes." John changes it to some random movie. After a while Alex calms down but is still shaken up about everything. He shifts to lay down, resting his head on John's lap. John plays with his hair smiling paying attention to the movie only now and then. John thought about it before asking but then finally decided to ask "Whos James?" Alex tensed up again. "Hey if you don't want to talk about it you don't have to." Alex breathed slowly then smiled "he was my brother. The only family that truly understood me." Alex started to cry a little but continued to tell John about all the great things the two did together. Then Alex frowned, "I lost him the day Maria hit." John played with Alex's hair some more "I'm sorry." Alex shook his head "Don't be." The two fell silent. Alex sat up "John." John looked over at Alex "hmmm." Alex sighed "I love you." John leaned in and plucked Alex on the lips "I love you too." Alex leaned in for another kiss when Johns phone started to ring. John picked it up then tossed it behind him "Father again?" John shook his head "Yeah but he's not important." John pulled Alex into a long kiss. Then they laid down snuggled up next to each other wrapped in a blanket. John kissed Alex on the forehead "Good night."