Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ I Wish I knew ❯ Breakdown ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

I wish I knew: Breakdown.

Don't own anything but my very sick mind.

You know I want to know why they're abusing him. I think we'll find out in this chapter. And on a lighter note: I finally have a plot!
T.K.: You do? Great...
Well, I thought it was a good thing. I really did.



Ms. Knight walked back into her office to find T.K. sitting in a chair with a half-asleep redhead in his lap. Daisuke's head was on T.K.'s shoulder so she couldn't tell that he had been crying.

"You're both suspended." She announced sitting behind her desk. "Takeru, I told you if you got in trouble again I was kicking you out and Daisuke this is the seventh time you've been caught skipping school." Neither boy responded and Ms. Knight finally took a good look at their position. "And I'm not going to even ask why you're sitting like that."

"Okay." T.K. said looking up from his friend for the first time in over ten minutes. "Should we leave now?"

"That would be best."

T.K. shook Daisuke a little. "Time to go." Daisuke nodded and stood up. He didn't look at Ms. Knight and headed out of the door silently. T.K. was about to leave as well when Ms. Knight spoke again.

"Is something wrong with Daisuke?"

T.K. looked at her over his shoulder. Something flashed in his eyes and he looked ready to say something then he shook his head. "Everything's fine I think. Why?"

"Just wondering." The green-eyed woman said leaning back in here chair some. "That is my job you know and you two do seem close."

"Maybe." T.K. said then left the room. Daisuke was standing outside the office eyes trained on the floor. He didn't look up when T.K. walked out. "Do you need to grab anything out of your locker?" Daisuke shook his head no and T.K. nodded. "We're going to my place."

"Okay."



"Mom!" T.K. shouted. No answer. "Guess she's not home." Daisuke leaned against the wall wearily and looked up at him.

"Did you tell her?" T.K. blinked. "Ms. Knight, did you tell her about this?" Daisuke's voice took on a note of despair. "Please tell me you didn't."

"I didn't." T.K. said scowling at the wall. "I should have though. I mean if someone's hurting you don't you want them to stop?"

"Of course." Daisuke said gaze falling to the ground. "But 'they' are my family as much as the hurt me. I don't want them to get in trouble."

"Why not? They'd deserve it!" T.K. shouted, sounding harsh though he didn't mean it. But whether or not he meant it wasn't what was important to Daisuke. The fact that T.K. was shouting at him made Daisuke wince. He hated it when people yelled at him.

"Don't yell. Please." Daisuke said softly. "My parents always yell at me when I make them mad."

"Sorry but-" T.K. stopped and stared at him. "When you make them mad? Is that why they hurt you?"

"Sometimes." Daisuke said then shook his head. "I don't want to talk about this."

"I don't really care about that." T.K. said a hint of anger returning to his voice. "I care about you and want to know what's going on."

"No. No no no no! You don't care about me and you don't want to know and I don't like you and it's fine! Everything is fine." Daisuke slid down the wall as tears started to flow again. "I just do bad things and they try to fix them because they care."

"Shut up." T.K. ordered taking a few steadying breaths. Daisuke's parents abused him because they cared but when T.K. said he cared he didn't? That didn't really make sense. Was he supposed to hit Daisuke instead of kiss him to show he cared?

"I made you mad." Daisuke said looking up a trace of fear in his wet brown eyes.

T.K. cringed as he caught on. Daisuke thought that T.K. might hit him. "No, you didn't. You've just confused me a little bit. I don't understand and you won't help me."

"I'm not supposed to tell." Daisuke said biting his lip. "I'll get in trouble and they'll be mad at me again."

"I won't let them hurt you." T.K. promised. "I'm not planning to let you out of my sight for a while, but if you want me to help you, you have to talk to me and tell me why they're doing this to you."

"I make them, my parents, mad sometimes. I do bad on test, I yell at Jun, I sit around and write all day, I'm lazy, I'm always disappearing, I'm...gay." Daisuke's voice cracked. "I'm stupid and I never do anything right. I talk to much and I'm loud, I can't sit still and I don't appreciate what they do for me because they're just trying to fix it and make it better because they're my parents and they care."

"Did they hit you for kissing me?" Daisuke nodded and T.K. sighed. "When don't they hit you?"

"When I sit at home and don't make a sound." Daisuke said hollowly. "When I'm being perfect like Jun. Jun's perfect and never does anything wrong, I should be more like her."

T.K. looked the other way, not wanting Daisuke to see how disgusted he really was. "But you don't want them to get in trouble?"

"No, I don't." Daisuke confirmed.

"You're staying here from now on." T.K. said roughly. "That's the only way I'm not telling."

"Okay."

"I think I need to go to bed, so get up and come on." T.K. didn't look at him as he walked down the hall to his bedroom. He kicked his shoes into a pile of clothes then collapsed onto his bed. He looked up then. Daisuke was standing in the doorway looking nervous.

T.K. made a 'come here' motion.

"In the bed with you?"

"That's the general idea."

Daisuke swallowed and wiped at his eyes before walking over to T.K.'s bed. He sat down cautiously and T.K. pulled him down the rest of the way.

"I don't bite."

Daisuke turned so he was facing the blond who was watching him intently.

"What?"

"All of those times you got beat up by kids in school it wasn't really the kids, was it?"

Daisuke sighed quietly. "Sometimes I was, but not usually. And yes, that's why I've skipped school so much, on those occasions where I'm too sore to move I stay home for a day or two."

T.K. frowned at him. "Okay. Just get some sleep, I'll sort the rest of this out later."

"You'll sort it out?" Daisuke asked curiously. "It's not really your problem."

"I'm making it my problem baby, get over it."

"Baby?" His eyes twinkled with real amusement; something T.K. had never noticed didn't exist in those melted chocolate eyes. "I think I can get used to that."

T.K. kissed his forehead then shifted the redhead's weight in his arms. Daisuke closed his eyes and stifled a yawn as the tired feeling he had been ignoring for four days finally won. It wasn't long before he was in T.K.'s arms fast asleep.

T.K. frowned as his fingers tangled themselves in the spiky red hair of the sleeping boy. He knew things weren't going to end this simply but he really didn't want to find out how things could possibly get any worse for Daisuke as he was sure things would soon do. Daisuke didn't deserve any of this. No one deserved any of this.

But what he thought wasn't going to change what was going on. He was going to have to change things on his own. He was going to protect Daisuke from now on.

'Mom is not going to like this'



T.K. woke a few hours later a dazed expression on his face. Something had woken him up but what was it? A soft whimper gave him his answer. Daisuke was shaking in his arms and a pained expression was on his face.

"Please don't hurt me anymore. I'm sorry I'll be good."

'Oh, he's having a bad dream.' T.K. sighed and held the other boy's shoulders then shook him gently. "Wake up Dais, it's okay."

"No, I'll be perfect, just don't hurt me. NO!" Long silence. Heavy breathing. "T.K.?"

"Are you oka-"

T.K. didn't finish as his door opened and bright light filled his room. He blinked a few times and stared at his mother and his brother. Both looked worried but that quickly changed to surprise when they realized he was in bed with Daisuke.