“Don’t wanna close my eyes….I don’t wanna fall asleep, cause I’ll miss you, baby, and I don’t want to miss a thing…”
— Kyle —
Fuck. I had been shot…
— Flynn —
I broke down. When the guys told me Kyle had been shot downstairs. My ears were ringing just like the scenes in the movies when the character would get bad news and all voices and noise were drowned out with my sobs and cries for Kyle. “I can’t lose him. I just can’t!” I cried out loud. One of his fellow officers gently held me and let me cry. “Flynn it’ll be ok. I know Kyle and he will pull through just fine!” He told me. I was a mess and I can’t believe I’m back to square one with losing someone I care about. I don’t know if I can do this…
— Kyle —
I felt the burning pain of being shot and realizing what had happened. My life began to flash in front of me. My dad and my mom and sister growing up. Happier times. My dad’s death and that smug assholes face. Flynn. Oh no Flynn. If I die it’ll kill him too. I was drifting in and out of consciousness and I could barely feel the medics handling me and getting me up off the floor. Here I am shot and possibly dying and all I can think of is Flynn upstairs. Damn I love him so much. I was a mess. Drifting in and out of consciousness and crying. I hope I make it.
— Flynn —
I calmed down a bit to see them leading Lewis out in handcuffs and shoving him into the back of a cop car. I saw Kyle on the gurney being wheeled to the ambulance. I ran to him and he looked at me and his eyes were wet with tears they let me in the ambulance with him. I grabbed his hand. “Kyle oh my god…stay with me I can’t lose you!” I sobbed and laid my head next to his. He had the oxygen mask on but he reached out and grabbed my hand. “I love you Flynn…” he managed to get out. He winced and starting going unconscious again.
“Hold on officer Roberts….we are headed to the hospital!” One of the medics said. And we were off to the hospital.
The next few hours were a blur. They rushed Kyle into surgery and I had to wait in the waiting room. At first the nurses didn’t want to tell me any details as Kyle and I weren’t married or anything like that. But the officers that came in vouched for me and they began keeping me up to date. He had been shot in the left shoulder right above his heart and they weren’t sure if the bullet had clipped any arteries. I was prepared for the worst and the best.
Somehow I had fallen asleep from crying and realized I was leaving on someone. I looked up and it was my big brother Bryan. “Hey sleepy head. Are you ok?” I grabbed and hugged my brother and began to cry again. “No! I’m not ok. Those two pieces of shit broke into Kyle’s house while we were upstairs. Lewis tried to rape me and Kyle was shot. And I can’t stand the thought of losing him Bryan. I just can’t. I know it’s only been a year but I love that man so much I’d be lost without him. I can’t stand the thought of losing him. I’ve already lost mom and dad…” I rambled on. Bryan hugged me back and I just cried on my brother’s shoulder. “I know Flynn. I hope Kyle is ok too. He’s already like another brother to me. And I love seeing you too happy together. Makes my heart feel full on how much my little brother found someone so right for him.” I smiled and tears still fell down my face. Well it won’t matter if Kyle is gone I thought to myself.
— Kyle —
I was surrounded by white. I had no clue where I was but all of a sudden I saw my dad. Clear as day. “Dad!? Is that really you?” I ran to him and gave him a huge hug and began to cry. “Dad. I’ve missed you so much all these years.” Jamison Roberts looked at his son, the younger mirror image of himself at that age. “I’ve missed you too son. I hope you’ve been doing right and watching out for your mama and sister?” “Yes sir I have. I followed your footsteps. Oh and I met the most wonderful man, Flynn, I wish you two would have the chance to meet, you two would love each other. He lost his parents too.” Jamison just smiled at his son. “I know all about it my boy. And then out of no where two other figures walked up and greeted Kyle. The woman looking just like Flynn and the other looking just like Bryan. “Oh…are you? Flynn’s parents? He was right. He does look just like his mom.” She smiled. And Flynn’s dad smiled at him as well. “So glad that you are taking care of our boys and the love that you and Flynn share is pure and special.” His mom replied. “Please keep him out of trouble.” His dad replied. “Yes sir I will….well I hope I can…because if I’m here and you guys are here…that must mean…oh no…” I started to cry. “Im….did I?” All three parents laughed and looked at Kyle. “No son. It’s not your time. Go. Go back to Flynn, your mother and sister. Go back to living your life. I want you to know. No. We all three want you to know. That we are so proud of you boys and your sister. Please don’t let what happened to us in the past ruin anymore of your beautiful future. We will always be there with you.” All three hugged Kyle. “Goodbye son. Goodbye dad. Goodbye Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs. I promise I’ll take good care of everyone.” The three of them smiled and said “Goodbye Kyle.”
All of a sudden I awoke and took this big deep gasp for air. My eyes were blurry and covered in tears. I blinked and heard beeping from a hospital monitor and then realized. I was alive. Oh thank god. I’m alive. And as my eyes cleared…there he was. My handsome man asleep in my hospital room waiting for me to wake up. I tried to move and oh fuck the pain hurt. I started to look around and saw myself all bandaged up and the pain had swept over me but I was grateful I was still here. Still able to look at that sweet handsome man waiting for me. Like I waited for him when we first met.
“Flynn…hey gorgeous…wake up…” I said to him hoping he would wake up to the sounds of my voice calling him. He started to shift around and his eyes fluttered open looking around and then his eyes landed on me. I was smiling back at him. “Hey babe.” I said. He shot up out of that chair and came to my side that wasn’t bandaged up and gave me a big kiss and started to cry with his head on my shoulder. “Oh my god Kyle. I thought I had lost you and I couldn’t bear to think about never seeing you again…” I smiled and tears ran down my face. “Me too Flynn. When I was in the ambulance and you were right there with me I was scared I’d never see your handsome face ever again.” We held each other as much as we could possibly do on this tiny hospital bed.
“Flynn the strangest and yet most wonderful thing happened before I woke up just now.” He sat back holding my hand looking at my face. “What happened?” He asked. I took a deep breath hoping he would believe what came out of my mouth next and didn’t think I was crazy. “I saw my dad for the first time in years. I got to hug him and hear his voice and hear how proud of me he is. I also met your parents. They’re so wonderful. You look just like your mom with that beautiful golden hair and those eyes. They all said they were glad we found one another. They’re all happy for us Flynn. I hugged them one more time, said goodbye and then woke up here. To see my wonderful handsome boyfriend sitting there waiting for me like I did a year ago for the most beautiful stranger that I had ever met and wanted to get to know better.” I smiled. And Flynn was speechless and tears steaming down his face. “I love you Kyle.” He said. And hugged me gently. “I love you too Flynn.”
— Bryan —
As I sat in that emergency room holding my brother I was scared for him. He was a wreck after our parents died. Then Kyle showed up and saved him and the two of them together, it’s like no one else was better matched for eachother than those two. I was so happy Flynn was back to himself and getting back to school and getting his life back together. And now this. I hope Kyle pulls through because I can only imagine what Flynn would do if he didn’t.
It was a few hours later when they came out and got us. Flynn was asleep on my shoulder and I nudged him awake.
“Mr. Jacobs? Flynn?” The doctor asked. “Yes sir that’s me. Is he? Is Kyle ok? Please tell me he didn’t…” I held onto Flynn while we waited for the doctor to tell us Kyle’s fate. “Flynn. Kyle is alive and will survive. He was shot in the shoulder and luckily the bullet missed his heart and arteries by mere centimeters. He will have quite the recovery because it did tear through a muscle that we had to repair but…that beats the alternative. He’s being moved into a room right now and here shortly you can go see your boyfriend.” The doctor explained. I just felt Flynn relax against me when the doctor told him Kyle was going to be fine. “Oh thank you doc. Thank you so much for saving him.” “No worries young man. Just let him rest for a while and you can go see him.” The doctor shook our hands and left.
Flynn hugged me so tight. “Thank you so much for being here for me Bryan. I couldn’t have done this waiting without you here bro. I love you so much.” I smiled and hugged him back. “Anytime little bro. Anytime. Let’s run home and get changed and then you can come back up here and spend time with him.
— Kyle —
I was released from the hospital about a week later and Flynn drove me back to my house. Some of my buddies from the department had come back to the house and cleaned it up once the crime scene people had finished their sweep through. My mother and sister were still out of town and were going to rush back but Flynn had called them and told them that I was ok and released and just needed to rest per doc’s orders. They agreed to not come rushing back and my mom thanked Flynn profusely. She loves him so much already. I’m so glad too.
It was about two days after I had been back home from the surgery. I was wondering what exactly happened to Craig and Lewis for breaking in and attacking Flynn and myself. I looked around and found my cell phone. I called the Chief, I wanted some answers.
“Roberts? What are you doing calling work already? You need to relax buddy!” He chuckled. “But seriously are you ok? You and Flynn need anything?” I laughed. “Thanks Chief, but we are ok. I just need to know something about that night. Everyone has been so hush-hush about things and I want to know….what happened to those two assholes that broke into my house?” I heard him take a breath on the other end of the phone. “Well for starters the younger one, Lewis, that has history with Flynn and tried to rape him that night, he’s is jail. Awaiting trial on attempted rape and kidnapping and it’s safe to say he will be going away for a long time. Especially since your fellow officers found him trying to force himself upon Flynn.” I breathed a sigh of relief on that one. Flynn will be happy to know that. “What about Craig? Did he shoot me? What happened to that asshole?” The chief was quiet and then answered my question. “Now don’t jump too much for joy now, but, yes he’s the one that shot you, but he’s now where he’s belonged ever since that night he killed your father. The sorry asshole is burning in hell. He’s dead Kyle.” I was quiet. Finally that guy was gone and got what was coming to him for killing my dad. “Who shot him?” I asked. “It was actually you Kyle. He went to shoot you in the head when he heard the other guys coming but they saw you make a last ditch effort to shove Craig off of you and out of the way. His gun went of and you moved just enough that he didn’t get you but when he shot your gun went off and well let’s just say…those crime scene guys made sure your floors and walls were clean afterwards.” I was in shock. I had killed him? But. It was either him or me and I wasn’t going to let him have the satisfaction of killing two cops and getting away with it. Luckily it was labeled self defense not to mention assault to an officer so I didn’t get in trouble. “Thanks chief. I needed to know that. I’ll see you in a couple of weeks.” “Take care Roberts. I’ll see you soon.” And we hung up. I just sat there thinking…it’s over. I no longer have to look over my shoulder for him to pop up anywhere. I can finally move on from this nightmare after all these years.
— Flynn —
Kyle was back home and while we hadn’t really officially moved in together, I was practically living with Kyle right now. Helping take care of him while he recovered. It had been about three weeks from those events. Kyle had filled me in on what happened to Craig and Lewis. To hear that was such a relief.
I was walking into the house and I smelled something good coming from the kitchen. What was he up to? I thought to myself. I set my backpack and stuff down, locked the front door and walked towards the kitchen. I stood there watching him cook. He was wearing his workout clothes. He had on his gym shorts and his cutoff shirt on. Watching his muscles move while he was cooking and humming along to the song on the radio. Watching him attempt to cook while still having a sling on one arm was cute. Listening to the radio…I could hear him humming “and I don’t wanna miss a thing..” I chuckled and he turned around smiling. “About time to turn around.” I tell him. Kyle set what he was doing down and came up to me and kissed me. “I love you. How was school? How was your day? He asked me. “Good. Even better now that I’m here and see you.” Kyle smiled. “Dinner is ready and this time. Let’s eat!” It was the first time in weeks we had alone time and we never got to eat the dinner I made him that night.
— 6 Months Later —
— Kyle —
I had finally healed up nicely. I was back to work and Flynn had finished up his first full year at school. Two months ago we took the plunge and moved into our own place, just the two of us. Not that living with my mom and sister wasn’t bad but I was time I grew up a little. I knew they’d be ok without me living there. Flynn wanted to finally be on his own and out of the house he grew up in also. For being almost 30 and Flynn being almost 23 it was time to spread the wings a bit. We had got into a nice routine with me back at work and Flynn working part time at the cafe where we had our first official date. When he wasn’t working he was working on his class work. Now that the first year was over. He could relax. Another fun fact about Flynn and myself is that our birthdays are a week apart and I loved that was one other thing we had to share between us. I had secretly been planning something for us to go do for our birthdays soon.
But for part of that something…I had one other thing that I needed to do first.
I already knew that I would know the answer. But I was still nervous as hell.
It was a day off and we had spent the day getting lunch and shopping for things for our place. I was driving around and found myself driving towards that bridge. I was getting nervous the closer we got to the bridge. Flynn was enjoying the drive but he too was wondering why we were heading that direction. I pulled off out of the way and the spot I picked we had a clear view of the bridge that brought us together that fateful night almost two years ago now.
I sat there a reached for Flynn’s hand. He grabbed mine and squeezed it back. “Hey come with me for a minute.” I said and let go of his hand and got out of my truck. Flynn followed and met me in the back of my truck. I grabbed his hand and smiled at him and we kissed.
I was nervous but it was now, this is the time.
I reached into my pants pocket and started to kneel on one knee. His eyes got huge like saucers watching me kneel down.
“Flynn Jacobs, the moment I met you over there on that bridge that night, I knew there was something special about you. Once I got to know you and love you, it made me so happy I was the one to find you. You needed me just as much as it turned out I needed you. I know the time we’ve been together has had its really rough parts but if it wasn’t for you…I never would have made it through. I thank god for all of the chances that he’s given us. And I’d like to take one more.” I pulled out the silver band I had made specifically for him. Flynn had tears forming in his eyes as he watched me intensely. “Flynn. You are the love of my life and other half of my soul. I can’t imagine doing life without you and I hope you feel the same way. Flynn. Babe. My love. Will you marry me?”
Flynn was quiet but fighting back tears. He slowly got down on his knees in front of me and looked me in the eyes. By now we both were teary eyed and a mess.
“Kyle Roberts….yes! Yes yes yes yes yes!!! I will absolutely marry you!!”
