A New Years tradgedy(Chapter 17)

Story by Xiuh on SoFurry

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#15 of Highschool Days


All characters are mine, if you are under 18 or 21 depending on where you live, if you do, don't get caught.

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Raymond woke up to see Gideon's smiling face hovering above his own, Gideon kissed him passionately. "Happy New Year's Eve." Gideon said, grinning at Raymond.

Raymond panted for a minute, catching his breath before saying, "Back at ya."

Gideon leaned down and kissed him again, "I love you so much."

Raymond smiled back, grogginess slowly fading, "I love you more."

"Nu uh!" Gideon said, grinning at Raymond.

Raymond smiled and pushed Gideon off, "Have to get ready for your party tonight don't we?"

Gideon sighed and said, "Oh ya, we do."

"Maybe after." Raymond said, patting Gideon's crotch playfully.

Gideon growled slightly and leaned his head down to Raymond's neck and exhaled. Raymond yelped in pain and Gideon laughed before hugging Raymond tight and saying, "I'm sorry."

He used a child voice that made Raymond laugh and nip at Gideon's muzzle. Raymond hugged Gideon tightly before saying, "Come on, time to get dressed."

Gideon whined a bit before getting up and grabbing some clothes randomly out of his drawer, throwing them on, for once getting the zippers up without any help. He turned around and Raymond was pulling his shirt on.

Gideon walked up behind him and grabbed him while his shirt was still blocking his eye sight. "Mine!" Gideon said as he hugged Raymond tightly.

Raymond laughed before slipping out of Gideon's grip and pulling the shirt the rest of the way down. Raymond stuck his tongue out before hugging Gideon, "Mine." he whispered to Gideon.

Gideon smiled before sighing and saying, "Come on, we have to go upstairs and start setting everything up." He looked at the clock and said, "The party starts at six and we slept in. It's four thirty already!"

Gideon rushed upstairs, Raymond following closely. Gideon instantly set about clearing furniture out, grabbing his laptop from above the fireplace where it was charging he set it on top of a stereo set that plugged into it.

Gideon set about making a play list while Raymond started getting snacks and everything else out of the kitchen. Carol came downstairs to help cook, there were a lot of people coming to the party and they were having a lot of food and punch made just in case.

Raymond smiled at the back of Gideon's head every time he walked in to put food on the table. Time flew by as they were setting up the party, food put out on tables, banners being hung that said, "Happy New Years!" or "Hello 2010!"

Once Gideon was done setting up the playlist for that night, making sure to throw in a few slow songs and making sure that once it got close to midnight it would start counting down from sixty.

Gideon started helping putting up decorations and everything else, setting up tables so people could sit down and play card games, poker mostly.

Once they were done setting up it was exactly six and the doorbell rang. Gideon opened the door and a flood of people came in, freshmen, sophomores, juniors, even some seniors surprisingly. Gideon was incredibly popular.

Like always, Gideon was attracting stares, mostly from girls but some guys were staring too. Gideon quickly walked over and started the music, the music loud and booming almost automatically a few people started to dance while others walked over to the food table, tasting some of everything.

Gideon grinned at the non-stop flow of people coming through the door. He found Raymond and dragged him onto the dance floor and tried to dance with him. Of course, Raymond stumbled over his own feet and Gideon ended up picking him up and placing each of his feet on his own and dancing like that.

Raymond laughed joyfully as he leaned into Gideon who was spinning rapidly. "Ok, ok stop." Raymond said suddenly. "I'm dizzy."

Gideon grinned as he walked over to the edge and set Raymond down in a chair before saying, "Hold on, I forgot something downstairs."

Gideon walked down to the basement and started rummaging through his dresser drawers for a necklace he had gotten for Christmas. He heard someone coming down the steps and turned around and was shocked to see a senior football player standing at the bottom of the stairs. "What are you doing down here?" Gideon said as the bigger bear walked up to him.

"I'm down here for you." The bear said, pushing him down onto the bed and getting on top of him, rubbing his crotch across Gideon's body.

"W-what the fuck are you doing." Gideon asked, fear in his voice.

The bear laughed and put Gideon's paw on his crotch and his own on Gideon's crotch. The bear leaned down and kissed Gideon deeply and Gideon heard someone coming down the stairs, then a pained gasp.

Gideon looked and saw Raymond, who had a look of hurt in his eyes, an aura of betrayal filled the basement as Raymond started crying openly. Raymond ran up the stairs, ignoring Gideon's shouts.

The bear barked a laughed and continued rubbing Gideon's crotch. Gideon, rage painting his face, started to push the bear off and surprisingly, to the bear and Gideon, the bear flew off of Gideon and hit the wall with a thud.

The bear sagged forward and was obviously unconscious. Gideon left it at that and ran up the stairs, looking around the living room for Raymond. He didn't see the white wolf and ran upstairs and checked Wyatt and Troy's room.

He wasn't in there so he checked Clarice's room and, surely enough, Raymond was there, leaning into Clarice and crying. Gideon entered the room and got glares from Clarice. "How could you?" She yelled at him.

Gideon just sagged onto the bed next to Raymond, who stood up as if to leave but was forced to sit down by Clarice. "I didn't, I went downstairs to get a necklace and he came onto ME!" he put extra emphasis on "me"

Raymond just sniffled and said, "Ya right."

Gideon just looked sad, as if he was going to cry as well before saying, "Raymond, I love you, I love you more than I have ever loved anyone or anything. I gave you a promise ring, I'm yours and only yours." By the end Gideon was crying himself.

Raymond stood up and turned to look at him before saying, "I need time to think."

Raymond walked out of the room and Gideon continued to cry. Eventually he stood up and walked downstairs to the basement. He picked the bear up by the back of his neck and walked upstairs, throwing him out.

Gideon, still crying, walked back downstairs and fell on his bed, and continued to cry, ignoring the sounds of the party going on upstairs he cried himself to sleep. It was anything but a restful sleep. He tossed and turned, had nightmares of Raymond glaring at him as he was on his knees, pleading.

Gideon woke up in the middle of the night to the sounds of cheering upstairs, he reached over instinctively to grab Raymond before remembering what happened. Gideon started crying again and he heard someone coming down the stairs.

He sat up, ready to make anyone who came down the stairs leave again until he saw it was Clarice. Clarice walked over and sat down next to him, putting her arm around his shoulders. "Raymond's going to stay with Kevin and Xatrin for a while."

This just made Gideon cry harder as he leaned into Clarice. He cried well into the early morning, eventually hearing the party disperse upstairs. Gideon fell asleep again, Clarice laid him gently onto his bed and walked upstairs.

Carol looked up from her cup of coffee and asked, "Is he ok?"

Clarice shook her head and sighed, "He's been crying. All night."

Carol shook her head, "I hope they can make up soon."

Clarice nodded and said, "I hope so too."

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Gideon heard a knock at the door and answered it to see Kevin and Xatrin standing there. They both had looks of shock on their face after examining Gideon.

Unlike normal, his scales were bent revealing patches of the gray skin beneath, his black hair wasn't gleaming like usual, and most noticeable of all, his normally gleaming yellow eyes that were bright with a youthful fire were dull, colorless, lifeless, resigned.

"Hey guys." Gideon said in a droning monotone, a voice that made Xatrin shiver.

"How could you cheat on Raymond?" Kevin burst out angrily, "He loved you and you betrayed him."

Gideon slapped Kevin as hard as he could, "I didn't cheat on him, that bear came onto me and I can't make Raymond believe it."

Kevin stood up, rubbing his face and glaring at Gideon. "Well, he's at my house crying his eyes out." Xatrin said angrily.

Gideon turned his lifeless glare on to Xatrin and said, "He doesn't want to listen to me."

"Try. For god's sake Gideon, TRY!" Xatrin said, yelling the last word, grabbing Kevin and leaving, slamming the door behind him.

Gideon walked back and sat down on the couch, putting his head down on the back and falling asleep.

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Gideon woke up and looked at the phone and saw that their was a message. He hit the play button and heard Xatrin's voice.

"Hey Gideon, Kevin, Dean, Paulie, and I are going out, if you want to talk to Raymond the door is unlocked." The message ended and Gideon sighed, thinking he might as well go talk to him.

Gideon left a note for his mother, who was out with his father, his sister, and his cousin. He walked outside and stretched his wings before taking off, flying towards Xatrin's house at top speed. He landed in front of the house and opened the door, walking upstairs to the guest room.

He smelled a weird scent, a coppery smell that he recognized to be blood. He opened the door quickly and saw Raymond, lying on the bed, blood soaking his arm and the sheets. "Oh my god." Gideon yelled, knowing no one could hear him.

He was crying as he ran to pick Raymond up. He knew there was no one he could get a ride off of and his wings were strong enough to carry two people yet.

Raymond felt cold in his arms as he ran out the door, sprinting down the street, starting the ten mile run to the hospital.

He pushed himself as hard as he could, his legs burning with the effort. Gideon was crying the whole way, he was tired and weak, he hadn't eaten at all that day, but he kept pushing himself. His blood was pumping adrenaline through his veins.

Gideon knew his legs would give out soon so in one, last desperate attempt he opened his wings and was shocked when he took off into the air easily, flying at incredible speeds, speeds he had never reached before.

He didn't have time to be amazed though, he kept flying and landed in the parking lot of the hospital minutes later. He walked inside and yelled "Help!"

He fell to the floor, the edges of his vision turning black, the last thing he saw before he went unconscious was a bunch of nurses rushing towards them.

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Gideon woke up to the smell of Pinesol a few hours later, he sat up from the hospital bed he was in and looked around. A doctor came in and said, "I see you're..."

"Where's Raymond?" Gideon asked instantly.

"Raymond's in another room. He lost to much blood. He's in a coma." The doctor said sadly.

Gideon stood up, wobbling a little since he was a little weak from exerting all that energy in running and flying Raymond here. "I want to see him, please."

The doctor shook his head, "You can't leave this room yet, you're still to weak."

Gideon walked up to the doctor and stared him in the eyes, "I ran five miles and flew even farther to get him here, I want to see him. Now!"

Gideon's eyes burned with a fire that wasn't at all youthful, it was a menacing, threatening fire. The doctor looked shocked that he could stand, let alone speak with so much fire in his voice. "Ok, but you're eating the food that gets brought up."

"Fine, I just want to see Raymond." Gideon's voice turned to pleading at the end and the doctor led him to Raymond, stopping a nurse on the way and asking her to bring a tray of food to Raymond's room. They finally got to a room which they stepped into and the doctor said, "Here we are."

Gideon walked in and instantly walked to the bed that was sitting in the middle of the room, pulling a chair up he sat at Raymond's head and put his head down, staring at Raymond's closed eyelids.

He sat like that until he heard the door open and looked up to see a nurse standing there, she smiled at him and put the tray of food on the bedside table next to him. The nurse left, still smiling at him. He didn't understand how anyone could smile, he sure couldn't.

He just resumed looking at Raymond's closed eyelids and crying silently. The doctor came in and said, "Hey, you promise you would eat the food the nurse brought up."

Gideon looked at him and nodded, sitting up and grabbing the now cold tray of food. He started to eat the disgusting hospital food, he had to admit he was hungry. The doctor smiled again before setting about checking the monitors surrounding Raymond's bed, writing down what he saw on a clipboard he had with him.

The doctor left, muttering, "Good, good." under his breath. Gideon finished eating the hospital food and put the tray down on the bedside table, staring at Raymond's eyelids again. Tears started rolling down his muzzle and he started muttering under his breath.

Eventually he picked up Raymond's hand and held it between his. He noticed after a second that the promise ring he had given Raymond wasn't there. He checked Raymond's pockets and found it. He slipped it back on Raymond's finger and grabbed his cold hand, holding it between his.

Gideon put his head back down on the bed, closing his eyes while still holding Raymond's hand.

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Carol walked into the house, closely followed by Ron and Clarice. The first thing she noticed was that Gideon wasn't awake. "Gideon must be asleep."

She walked over to the phone and checked the messages. She replayed the first one that Gideon had gotten, then she played the second one and almost started to cry. "We have to go to the hospital." she said, pulling her coat back on.

"Why?" Ron asked.

"Raymond's been hospitalized and that's where Gideon is." Carol said, still holding back tears.

Ron pulled his coat back on quickly, Clarice doing the same and they rushed out to the car. Ron got into the driver's seat, starting the car and throwing it into reverse and pulling out of the driveway quickly, then putting it into drive and speeding towards the hospital. They got to the hospital quickly because of how close they live.

They asked for Raymond's room and were led to it. They looked through the observation window and saw Raymond apparently sleeping on the bed with Gideon sitting at his head, tears rolling down his muzzle even in his sleep.

Carol couldn't stand it anymore and she bent her head to her chest and started to cry, her shoulder's shaking in silent sobs. Clarice came over and tried to comfort her, "At least Gideon is ok." Ron said, instantly regretting it.

Carol glared at him, "Is he ok? Think on how he acted today before we left and multiply that. Gideon's going to be worse until Raymond wakes up and if he doesn't Gideon will be worse than he is now. If Raymond dies he will never be alright."

Ron nodded and Carol went back to looking through the window. Gideon woke up in the room and Carol slipped in and pulled a chair up next to him. She put her arm around him as he started to cry again.

"Shhh. Shh. It's gonna be alright, it's gonna be alright." Carol started telling him over and over again.

Gideon leaned his head onto her shoulder and started muttering under his breath, "It's my fault. It's all my fault."

Carol just rubbed his back and said, 'It's not your fault. It is not your fault."

"It is my fault." Gideon said, "That bear came onto me, I could have stopped him and I didn't. This is my fault!"

After that Gideon just put his head on his mother's shoulder and cried, cried like he never had before. Carol just hugged him and rubbed his back, letting him cry. Gideon cried until the doctor came in and said, "I'm sorry, but visiting hours are over Mrs. Restin. You and your family are going to have to leave."

"Can my son stay?" Carol asked quietly.

The doctor looked puzzled for a moment, "Didn't he tell you? He was put in here too because he decided not to eat and then tried to work himself to death getting him here."

Carol looked at her son and he looked her in the eye and said, "I had to get him here." He looked down and muttered to himself, "I had to."

Carol nodded and stood up, leaving the room and telling Gideon to get some sleep, she told her family, "We have to go home."

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Raymond floated in the dark, he couldn't feel any part of his body. He was aware of his breathing and his faint pulse but he didn't know what was going on.

He felt warmth on his body and felt himself moving, moving fast. He didn't know what was happening but he vaguely felt the impression of wind on his body. Then, all of a sudden, he was moving even faster, a stronger impression of wind pressing against his body.

Before he knew it, the wind stopped and his heart was beating at normal speeds again, his breathing quickened. He felt something warm on his hand then registered the feeling of a ring on his finger. He looked down at the ring and saw the ruby of the promise ring Gideon had bought him and he knew he had to fight to stay alive in this dark place

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Alright, positive and negative feedback please, I know I rushed this if you see certain points where I rushed it more than normal. And I am very sad to say it, but I think that my series is coming to an end soon. I can guarantee two more chapters at least, can't forget Alec's wedding and Raymond has to come out of his coma. But I can say, I can't leave this series with a sad ending, heck, I cried doing this to the characters :_(

Anyways, I'm done babbling now :)

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