Episode 3

...Chapter 3...

...Reunion...

Isaac walked heavily towards the control room. His huge black jacket flapped with each long step he took.

As he approached the metal door, he was attacked, probably by one of the enemies.

He spun on his own axis before being hit by the man and punched in the left side of his face.

The man slammed into the wall and passed out, near some of his teeth that were on the floor.

"Tsk! Maggot," he grumbled in a low tone. He opened the door and faced Cedric and a few henchmen inside.

"Sir," the seven men said in unison, bowing forward with their hands behind their backs. Isaac just nodded.

"Situation?" he snapped, looking at Cedric. He approached the screens and saw someone familiar on the cameras.

People started running in all directions, desperate. A gang battle had started somewhere near the location. The sounds of gunshots and desperate screams only added to the chaos.

It was hard to move in the crowd of people coming from all sides. Tyler crouched on the ground, leaning over Kalel, protecting him from any stray bullets.

Seeing some people fall to the ground being hit, others started lying down to avoid being hit.

On one side, members of one gang, and on the other, members of another. They blocked the only exits of that corridor with white walls tainted with blood.

"What...?" Kalel widened his eyes. The body protecting him was on top of him, breathing heavily. He felt something wet dripping on his body and hugged the body above him. "Tyler! Tyler!"

Without caring about the fight happening behind him, he laid the body on the ground and covered the hole with trembling hands. "Don't die! Don't die!" he pleaded to some entity that had the power to change something. His chest tightened. Why was his breathing getting so shallow?

All the sound in his head was hollow. His blurred vision desperately trying to contain the bleeding that gave him no rest.

And then the sound stopped. A hand grabbed his arm. The shots ceased, and the terrified people on the ground raised their heads, confused.

The dark-skinned man had acted impulsively, as he had not done in a long time. He eyed the smaller body he held possessively. It looked similar, but maybe it wasn't the same.

As soon as he saw the man approach on the security camera, he ran from there as fast as possible, trying to prevent the death of someone who seemed very important to him.

Kalel moved away from the man's hands and was about to curse him when he went into shock. That face, the same face.

Isaac was no different. His deep blue eyes welled up with tears. Tears streamed from his blue eyes; he was happy. And sad too.

Kalel did nothing, just stood still, unable to move a muscle.

That couldn't be him, could it? The man he tried to erase from his memory for years. The man who left him like that.

No, it couldn't be him!

Why him? Out of all the people in this damn world! Why did he have to meet him again now?

All his progress couldn't go down the drain.

His heart raced...

Butterflies in the stomach...

The cold chill down the spine...

Everything came back again.

The good feeling when that body touched his.

Kalel even thought about how he would act when he saw him again. Would he collapse?

He spent five years locked up in a mental hospital! And another ten recovering. Why did he come back just when he was doing fine?

When he had moved on, when he had found someone who loved him and took care of him.

With trembling hands, he held onto the black clothes of the tall man who shed tears on his face.

"Why?" He asked with a broken voice. Damn it! It hurt. It hurt a lot! Did he not realize the harm he had done to Carter?

The brunette looked at him confused. Furrowing his brow. Did he actually expect Kalel to welcome him with open arms and a smile on his face?

...Seriously? After everything?...

Cedric arrived and looked around confused. Why did his boss run amidst bullets and enemies to save that blond-haired man?

"Leave me alone," he pushed the man in front of him away and knelt down, taking care of his boyfriend's wound. He was shaking all over with a pained look in his eyes.

"Kalel... I..."

"Don't talk to me! Go away! Go away! Go away! Stay away from me!" He seemed to be having some kind of crisis, pushing his hands into the bullet hole in the other man's body. With no control at all. The constant tears were the only things filling his vision. Uncontrollable.

Isaac held his trembling hands, preventing him from worsening the other man's injury. He knew how much that poor man hurt him.

But...

"Stop... Kalel... you're making the wound worse..." He pushed the blonde away from the unconscious man on the ground, placing him in a corner and hugging him. "Cedric, take care of this man's injuries," he gestured towards Cedric and then to Tyler.

He no longer cried. He had accepted that this reunion was just fate playing tricks. He was someone who didn't deserve love. He only hurt someone who had once loved him...

The first person to love him...

This reunion was just a slip of the Damned Destiny...

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