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(Closed) Rescue with a kidnapping!

WHO: Jirou, Kenta, Fai
WHERE: Fai's place to Jirou/Kenta's place
WHEN: The start of the event!
WHAT: Kenta got a concerning text from Fai and Jirou is on a mission to rescue the damsel in distress!
WARNINGS: Drunk people. Sad people.

It really had taken no time at all for him to gather up the troops for this. Troops being Kenta because he had a car and Jirou wasn't able to drive given his constant state of intoxication. Besides, between himself and Kenta they should be able to successfully kidnap Fai for his own good. Even if it was only for a few days.

And that was why Fai would hear from down the hall leading to his apartment: "Oh FaiFai! We're here! Time to let your gorgeous friends in!"

There was no getting out of this one. Jirou had made up his mind.

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Why had he ever thought texting John like that in the first place was a good idea? He'd clearly let his loneliness get the better of him. John was young, far too young for someone like Fai, and far too good a person to ever get involved with a walking trainwreck. John had texted back a short time after Jirou and Kenta had apparently left to come get him, and Fai had spent the whole time since then feeling some combination of shame and self-loathing, still accompanied by that bitter loneliness.

How could he possibly think anyone would want him, anyway? He was useless, like his father and his grandfather had always told him. If his own boyfriend hadn't even wanted to touch him....

The door wasn't locked when Jirou and Kenta arrived. There wasn't much point. Locking himself in the apartment would just make them worry and spend unnecessary time and energy on him. Maybe if they saw that he was fine, that he hadn't done anything stupid yet, they'd move on to something more important.

There wasn't any time left to clean the place up--it reeked of alcohol, bottles littering the coffee table. He'd been at this for a while.

"Come in."

Kenta followed Jirou in and looked around.

What he saw was... actually pretty much what he'd expected after receiving Fai's text, really. People did that after bad break-ups, drink and cry and try to forget the pain. Not that he'd know, because none of his previous break-ups before Jirou had become his boyfriend had really been that painful.

He went to open a window, and then started to gather some of the empty bottles before looking up again.

"Do you have a carrier for the cats?"

"We need to pack you some clothes too."

Jirou was already moving over to take Fai's hand in his own so he could guide him around to get what they needed, even get him to sit while he did things. Usually he was a lazy person but when the motivation was right...

"Come, come. Time to get you a vacation at Hotel KentaJirou."

For a long moment Fai just looked... dazed, as all of this activity suddenly burst in around him. Not that anything his friends did would surprise him anymore, but Fai's world had spent all day narrowing to only include his own misery; everything else seemed so distant, foreign. He let Jirou take his hand but didn't answer either of them right away, trying to formulate some sort of plan. Some way to make them see that he wasn't worth the effort, that he'd done this to them too often lately.

As such, he didn't even notice when lazy, smoky words coalesced above his head, forming a snippet of his thoughts:

can't keep doing this to them
they're going to hate me
I can't handle it if they hate me

As soon as the words appeared, Kenta stopped dead.

Slowly, he put down the bottles he has been gathering on the nearest available flat surface and went to sit next to Fai. He was very mindful of Fai's injuries as he carefully coaxed him into his arms.

Kenta wasn't much of a talker, but he still felt something needed to be said as well as done. And for Fai who ha done so much for them, he was ready to pull through.

"You're not a burden, Fai."

As Kenta took Fai into his arms, Jirou smiled at him. A little thought bubble appeared above his head in that moment as he actually said the words on his mind.

"You're family. We won't ever hate you."

With that, he went to go and start packing some of Fai's things.

At first Fai barely even remembered the thought bubbles he'd seen earlier above other people. All he knew was that Kenta had stopped and was... putting things back down...?

The hug certainly took him by surprise. Fai froze in place, aware only that Kenta was obviously trying to be gentle about his movements (which some small, coherent part of Fai's brain greatly appreciated). Still confused, Fai allowed himself to be folded up against the bigger man--and then his breath caught in his throat, first at Kenta's statement and then at Jirou's.

Not a burden.

Family.

So maybe he could be excused, just this once, for the way his face crumpled and he buried it against Kenta's shoulder.

Kenta just gently rubbed his hand up and down Fai's back. He kissed the top of his head and then allowed him.yonjusy hide against him for a little while.

Fai didn't need to be strong all the time or hide in front of them, and Kenta was now really glad that this text had somehow ended up in his inbox and not someone else's.

"We're here for you. We won't let go. I promise, Fai."

Since Kenta had Fai in hand, Jirou took care of the packing and got a number of outfits into a bag he found. He also got things like his toothbrush and other essentials he couldn't easily borrow from Jirou. Then he even went to pack up the cats.

Oh and he figured out what looked like work or school or whatever stuff. Fai would need those, he was sure.

Jirou puttering around the apartment didn't even register to Fai at first, as absorbed as he was in crying against Kenta's shoulder. He didn't even remember to be embarrassed about the original text that Kenta had intercepted, or how pathetic it made him seem. He was pathetic, no doubt about that, but somehow his friends didn't seem to mind so much. Maybe that was the difference between friends and family. Real family, the kind Fai had never really had, didn't care when you made an ass of yourself.

When much of the pent-up misery had finally bled out of him, another thought bubble popped up briefly before Fai pulled away from Kenta's now-sopping shoulder.

wish he could have met them
Fai sat up, still clearly upset but no longer falling apart, and brushed at the tears on his face.

Kenta wasn't sure who this 'he' was that the bubble was mentioning, but thought it better not to ask for now. But then, he also didn't notice the words above his own head.

'Fai deserved better than this. People have no right to keep hurting him like that.'

He caught the box of tissues on the coffee table and held it out to Fai with a smile, before gently tucking his hair behind his ear and petting his head at the same time. Fai probably needed a bubble bath with Jirou and then to go to bed with his kitties and his friends.

Kenta got up to go back to gathering the bottles, throwing all of them in a plastic bag as he went.

"Jirou, do you have everything? Do you need help with the cats?"

"I have everything. I found the cats too and got them in their carri...ers..."

Jirou tilted his head at the thought bubble over Fai's head. Once again he just said exactly what his own thought bubble said. Seriously, he was a person who really didn't keep things to himself ever.

"Who is he?" he asked Fai as he went to go help him brush tears from that pretty face. "Who do you want us to have met?"

Fai accepted the tissue from Kenta with the best smile he could muster--which wasn't saying much at the moment--and was just dabbing at his eyes when Jirou spoke up.

These thought bubbles were going to be the death of him, no doubt about it.

Eyes wide, Fai stared up at Jirou as his friend came near and brushed away some of the lingering tears. It wasn't that he didn't trust Jirou or Kenta. Far from it; by now he trusted them more than anyone else in the city, more than anyone else in his life. But he'd only ever mentioned him aloud to one other person in recent memory, and it was difficult to find the words or the will to speak them.

"My brother," he said quietly after a long moment of silence. "He would have loved you."

Kenta kept moving, gathering things to throw away with precise movements, even if he slowed down a little bit as Fai mentioned a brother.

It felt like something delicate, something that had taken Fai a lot of courage to say, and it was like stopping or exclaiming might break the fragile calm they had managed to reach right now.

He was sure Jirou would be much better at taking care of this than him anyway. He would know just what to say.

This was indeed Jirou's turn. He smiled gently at his friend and helped to brush tears again. "I believe I would have loved him too. Let's get you out of here with the babies. If you feel up to it you can tell me more about him."

With that he let Kenta hand carrying things while he went to get Fai down to the car. "You are welcome to be with us as long as you need."

Some of the tension eased out of Fai's chest at Jirou's reply. Not that he would ever expect his friend to treat a subject like that with anything less than kindness, but it was hard not to get defensive/protective/anxious about his twin whenever the subject came up. Fai knew a large part of that was guilt.

He barely spared a thought for his things or the cats as he trailed along with Jirou to the car, though whether because he was so upset or because he trusted his friends to have everything in hand was anyone's guess. Maybe a bit of both.

"I'm sorry. I just got out of your hair from the last time, you two have barely had any time for yourselves...." Especially since they'd just started dating during the monster fiasco. And now Fai was going to ruin their time together all over again.

Kenta had just finished loading Fai's suitcase in the trunk and was about to put the cats on the front seat - leaving the back for Jirou to sit with Fai - when he heard him start to apologize. Immediately, he set down the carrier and went to plant himself in front of Fai, cupping the man's cheeks to make him look up at him.

"Fai. I'm only going to say this once so please listen. I don't want to hear the words 'I'm sorry' from you again."

He hardly could believe that with the pain Fai was currently going through, he was still thinking of himself as a burden.

"You are not imposing. You are not in the way. You are not trouble. If we're here, it's because we want to."

And indeed, he and Jirou hadn't even discussed whether or not this should happen, really. They'd just put in into motion, naturally.

"You're a friend. I know you haven't known me long, but if you need to, just Jirou what this means for me."

"Kenta and I have had years to ourselves and we'll have years to ourselves in the future. We believe in our family and that's what you are."

He pressed a kiss to Fai's hair and hugged him from behind, nuzzling his hair gently. His poor friend needed him so badly right now. That was all he and Kenta could think about.

"We love you. So we'll be there."

Even though they'd just gone through a conversation strikingly similar, Fai stared up at Kenta with wide eyes until he felt Jirou hug him from behind.

Finally he nodded at Kenta, trying to take those words to heart, trying to stop the apology that was already forming on his lips. Instead he leaned forward to rest his forehead on Kenta's chest and simply enjoyed the feeling of being held and loved by two people he cared about so much. Being near them probably wouldn't stop all of the pain or the dark thoughts that had been rattling around in his chest for decades, but maybe it would slow them down. If he let it.

When he opened his mouth again a moment later he caught himself, yet again, trying to say "I'm sorry." He stopped, bit his lip, and then tried again.

"Thank you. And... thank you for not letting me push you away. I have a tendency to do that."

"I noticed," Kenta simply said, and after a few more seconds, he let go so he could get back to making the cats comfortable for the ride home.

He left Jirou the task of settling Fai inside and went to take his place behind the wheel, waiting until everyone was buckled up to start the engine and drive all of them back to their condo.

"You're not ever going to manage to push me away. And because of that you're stuck with Kenta too."

Making sure Fai was buckled in, he got in the back with him then pulled him close so he could pet his hair all the way back to their place. Kenta could handle the driving which gave him time to just take care of Fai.

"We love you after all."

It took a little bit of doing to jockey himself around in the seatbelt to cuddle with Jirou and also make sure that his ribs weren't aching, but eventually Fai managed to find a decent position and tried to relax against his friend. He'd already proclaimed--probably more than once--that he didn't deserve friends (or family) like Jirou and Kenta, so there wasn't much point in going down that road again. They were here, whether he felt he deserved them or not, and he was infinitely grateful for it.

"I love you too. Both of you. You're the best family I could have ever hoped for."

Having his twin back along with Jirou and Kenta would have been the best of all worlds, but in lieu of the impossible happening, this was a damn close second.

Kenta drove carefully, making sure that neither the cats nor Fai would be jostled too much. As they got near the condo, he called his place so a few of the bodyguards would be waiting for them when they arrived, and indeed there were three men in dark suits in the parking garage when they got there.

One of them carefully took the cats out of the car, the second one Fai's bag, and the third one kept doors open as they went through them. As soon as they were in Jirou's apartment - which had becomes Kenta's de facto residence as they planned the remodeling - the men left and Kenta went to open the carriers for the cats so they could decided whether they would let Kenti sniff them or hide.

"Jirou, you guys go and have a bubble bath. I'll feed the cats and ask Suzuki-san to bring us some food we can eat in bed."

"I can't really take a bubble bath yet but I'll sit on the edge to wash you up, FaiFai. I can get my feet wet!"

Jirou had been remarkably well behaved about making sure he didn't stress his injury when he didn't have to. That meant not soaking in water until it was healed as well. Still, that wasn't going to stop him from sitting on the edge to spoil his friend.

Kenti trotted up to the cats to give them a sniff then sat down because they were his friends as far as he was concerned. They were welcome in his home.

Jirou smiled at his dog then went to guide Fai to the bathroom so he could start the bath for him, leaving Fai to sit on a little stool they had in there. Usually used for when they took turns drying each other's hair but good for this now.

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