Rating : T
Pairing : Still Marki
Summary
: When a boy not as lucky as the other, he's trying to regain his
happiness, of course with his beloved family and friend helps.
Warning : Violonce, Physical abuse, Emotionaly wrecked
Part 8 – Mrs. Sullivan and
Shane Sullivan
“The next morning, I was woken up by Nicky
who rushed to me after ‘he’ was released from the closet. Nicky so worried
about me, and didn’t think I could go to work that day But ‘he’ wants me to go.
And I think that would be better than I have to stay at home with him, even I
didn’t know how to work on this condition. I couldn’t even walk to the factory!
Nicky had to lift me to the dock!”
“Thankfully Mr. Doyle were so nice. He looked
my condition and letting me to take a rest, doesn’t have to do my job. He even
let me rest in his office. He took care of me. But of course, I couldn’t stand
with the kindness. I should working. There’s letter I should deliver. And
somehow I go to work. I tried, I swear! But it was torture, my
shirt rubbed the wounds mercilessly and my legs were giving up as well my back.
And when I came back from delivering, I gave up, and fell to the street right
before a wagon passing me. I thought they would hit me, but I didn’t feel
anything as I fell into unconscious.”
“They found me, Mark. Mrs. Sullivan and her
son, Shane. They pulled me out from the street. She was a great lady. I got a
fever when they took me to their house.
Flashback
Kian was woken
up by the hands who bathed his wounds. He thought it was Nicky, but no, there’s
no Nicky! It was a lady who bathed him. And he went hysterical full of fears.
“Easy, son, don’t move.”
But Kian kept
struggling and tried to turn his body back.
“Kian?” a familiar voice rushed into him.
It was Nicky. Nicky was here! Kian grabbed his brother and hugged him.
“It’s okay, Ki, they are just bathing your
back, I’m here, Ki.”
With Nicky
beside him, Kian was calming, and stayed on his belly.
This lady was
tried to be gentle and careful. Then
wait the doctor to examine him.
As the doctor
came, he checked and examined the little boy. Kian was lay quiet still in
Nicky’s arm, hold all the pain. Anything doesn’t matter for him as long as
Nicky was there.
The doctor
sighed as he finished, “Don’t worry, son, you’ll be okay. Get some rest,” he
ruffled Kian’s hair with smiled, then asked the lady to come out.
Kian was still
in pain, he couldn’t move his body. He was so tired then fell to sleep in Nicky
arms.
Kian was
trapped in a world of pain and fever, his back hurt, was sore and his whole
body ached. Dark dreams held him captive, ‘him’ and the belted, the beats, the
rats,. He struggled to surface and escape.
He could hear
Nicky’s voice, wrapped him and settled him. But there’s another voice and
hands. A lovely soothing voice, warm and gentle touch and, kept him in safety.
Was it mam? Mam held him tight, comforting him, and ready to take him with her?
Mam he never saw, mam who bled for him. Yeah, she must be here, she came for
him, came for taking him with her to heaven to stop his suffer. And he was
ready to go, then fell into her arms with deep peaceful sleep.
Kian
slowly became aware of his surroundings. He was laid in a nice bed, not his
bunk. Sunlight shine through the window, warming the room. He didn't know where
he was, how he'd got there, what he could only remember was pain and fear, and
dark dreams with the belt and the rats.
“Hi,
Kian,” a warm smiled and sweet voice from a lady greeted him
Kian was confused, he focused his eyes.
“You got
fever last night,” Mae Sullivan knew this boy was so scarred, and she doesn’t
want to scar him more.
That clicked him. He wasn’t at his room. He
scanned the room, then fear through him.
“Don’t
be afraid, you safe here, son. Don’t you remember? You got hit by wagon
yesterday? We hit you. But don’t worry, doctor had treated it all as well your
back.”
It clicked him once again. His father! And Nicky!
He’s looking his brother, but he was not found. The fear even wider. He tried
to get up, and this lady was held him,
“Where
are you going, son?”
Kian couldn’t answer and he’s struggling to get up
and get out from here. He has to find Nicky.
“Calm
down, Kian, Nicky will come.”
With Nicky’s word, Kian stopped struggling.
Mae nodded, “Nicky would be here, he’ll come for
you, after his work. You know he has to go to work, right?”
Kian still looked at her, try to believe.
“He knows you here, and he will come after
working. Don’t worry, Kian, he will come, he’s not leaving you.”
Slowly Kian
believed her.
“Now, go back to sleep, you still need
rest. I promised, he would be here when you woke up.”
Kian had to
believed, beside, his back gave up, he didn’t have any strength to fight again.
He just wanted to sleep
“Don’t worry, you safe here, no one is
going to hurt you, I promised,” she said and guided him to laid back.
And Kian was back
to sleep to be found Nicky was there when he woke up. Nicky was not leaving him.
End flashback
“She took after me, she bathed my wounds, and
she fed me and wrapped me while I’m lost in dark pain fever world, just like
Nicky did. I didn’t know was it a pity or what, but they show me love. They
like me. I was put in the big room with a nice bed and treated like a young
master. She even bathed me, washed my hair and gave me fine clothes. She showed
me love. Shane was too. He was there to accompany me and took me to a great
conversation,” he smiled little; “I know it was fool, I couldn’t talk while he
always talking, tell me everything. But he doesn’t seemed care. He liked to
stay with me. I think he liked me too. Well they were like me, Mark, Mr.
Sullivan, Mrs. Sullivan, and Shane. They love me!! For two days in my life I
feel so happy again. There’s someone who love and taking good care of me beside
Nicky. I want to stay with them, Mark,” I smiled for the memory
I smiled too,
imagined his happiest moment.
“So, Nicky left you there, to stay with
them?”
But he shook his
head sadly. “’He’ found me, Mark. Like I told you, never dreaming for what you
could never had. ‘He’ picked us from that great house and back with ‘him’, and
there’s a high price I should pay.”
“He beat you up?”
“Worst. Nicky tried to protect me. He
covered me up and took the beating for me, but I know he wouldn’t leave me
alone. So he beat me a lot worse than I never had before. He knocked me down
and locked me in the closet for three days. No water, no food, with body
bruised bleeding. I heaved out. I peed myself, and vomited myself. I didn’t
think I would survive. But I did. I even didn’t aware when Nicky finally took
me out, I just glad to get out from there.”
I silent for a
moment and took a deep breath. I didn’t know if I could stand to hear another
story. It wasn’t like I expected. This a lot worse!!
“That’s why I scared of the dark.”
Yes, Ki, I could
see that.
“I got fever again from the onslaught. But
he never cared. “
I sighed in
pain.
TBC
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