Tearing Up My Heart {Simon & Sam}

[simon]

Simon hadn’t really left the scene, he had been keeping a low profile and lurking in the shadows while he watched Dominic do his sound check which he had to admit he sounded wonderful and then he watched as Dom got his hair and make-up done. By the time he was finished Simon thought he looked more beautiful than ever and he felt truly sick to his stomach that he had missed out on love with Dom. He should belong to him not that Sam. But he felt that he had burned his bridges with Dom, he had made it pretty clear that he didn’t want him back and in a way Simon knew that he had to come to terms with that and yet he still couldn’t leave the scene, instead watching Dom from afar in the hope that maybe there might still be the slightest chance that Dom would see that being with Sam was a huge mistake.

Soon enough the concert was underway and Simon kept himself out of sight but close enough to hear and see what was going on. He got a massive ache when he heard about the song that Dom had written for Sam and the dedication made him screw up his face and couldn’t help but think that it should be him that song was written for. If only he hadn’t been so jealous back when Dom had been on American Idol, why did he have to be such a tool, he could be his now, but he wasn’t, he didn’t belong to anybody. The concert seemed to go in really quickly which surprised Simon and all too soon Dom was back out to do his encore. The crowd went wild as the song began to play and Simon knew which one it was as despite everything he had Dom’s cd and he loved it. However he hadn’t expected to see what happened next as Dom began to kiss his bass player, the very guy who had knocked him off of Dom earlier.

His body began to shake with rage and jealousy, how can he say he is getting married to this Sam with a baby on the way when he can kiss one of his band members like that? And more to the point what kind of guy must Sam be to sit there and watch it happen and not say anything? He wanted to run to Sam and shake him and scream ‘Why aren’t you doing anything about that?’ but he stayed where he was as he then saw Dom leave the stage and head toward where Sam was sitting. Dom then did the very same move he did on his bass player on Sam but Simon could see there was more passion behind it. Not that it mattered, you didn’t kiss your band member like that, you just didn’t. More the fool Sam for putting up with it he thought. The jealousy was raging within Simon and as he watched Dom head back onto the stage he couldn’t stop himself from doing what he did next. First blocking Sam’s mind from the illusion he was about to create so that Sam could still see what was really happening, he created the illusion that the crowd were no longer at the concert at this location but at another concert altogether and then he walked first toward Sam.

“How can you watch him do that? You both say you love each other, but you don’t do that to people you love, how can you sit there and watch him kiss his band member like that? Does Dominic mean that little to you that you would let him do that?” Simon spat the words out to Sam but really he wasn’t the one he was that angry at, he was angry at Dominic and he could see the smoke forming around him as he was getting to finish the song. Something in Simon snapped and he quickly went onto the stage and using his telekinesis he flicked his wrist sending the band members flying toward the back of the stage and then he used his telekinesis again to pin Dominic to the side wall of the stage.

“How can you say you love him.” He yelled as he pointed to Sam, “When you can kiss your band member like that? See, this is exactly the kind of thing that I was scared you would do when you were with me. I hate you, no I don’t, I love you, I love you and that’s why all of this hurts so much. You must either have a very trusting partner or a very stupid one.” Simon yelled as the anger continued to grow within him, then not realising what he was doing in his blind rage he reached into his back pocket and before he knew it he had plunged the knife into Dom and the soon as he had done it he collapsed onto his knees and blacked out. As he blacked out the illusion he had created disappeared leaving the crowd to see what had happened to Dominic.

[Samuel Carhill]

Sam gave Dom a bright smile, when he thanked him for what he said. He then said that Dom didn't need luck, when Dom said to wish him luck. Sam listened to what Dom said next, and nodded slowly. "More than enough confidence. I know I couldn't do what you are doing. Don't like being the centre of attention." Sam had always been that way, not wanting to draw attention to himself. Maybe that was why he was the most quietest with everything.

Hearing Dom say that he was going to love dedicating the song to Sam on stage made Sam blush slightly. He just hoped that the spotlight wouldn't be brought onto him that much, despite loving the song that Dom had written with him in mind. Sam watched Dom walk away to start the concert.

Dom sang a handful of songs at the start, then it came for him to sing the one song that meant the most to Sam, If I Had You. His heart began to skip a beat when Dom mentioned his name, and a couple of people next to him turned to look at Sam. His face, he felt, started to get a bit hot, and he kind of waved at them, giving a bit of a smiled. Sam hated this, being noticed, but he loved Dom, and Dom knew what he was like. But he could tell that Dom was so proud of Sam as his lover, and Sam likewise. They had talked about this, and really, Sam was fine with it, but sometimes he just had to hold back his shyness for it. Sam knew that after a while he might grow out of that, he had to, especially at his age. Thinking like that made him chuckle to himself, and his eyes diverted to Dom as he sang the song. Locking his eye with Dom, all Sam could do was smile widely at him, and recalled the day that Dom sang the song to him on the beach.

**** Approximately 1 hour later ****

Sam was just so proud of Dom, and the show he put on for his fans. He wondered what song Dom was going to sing next, when he saw Dom walk back on stage, and heard the first few notes to Fever. Sam knew what was to come, as Dom had spoken to him about it. He was fine with it, as he knew that Tommy was most definately straight, and that it was all an act for the song and the crowd.

Dom began to sing the song, and then moved towards Tommy, right when he had a fair idea he would. Sometimes Sam would be okay jsut sitting there, but it seemed as Dom began to really kiss Tommy, visually seeing him put his tongue in Tommy's mouth, Sam moved a little, and began to feel a little turned on. Luckily for Sam, it didn't last that long, as he saw Dom part from Tommy, then poke his tongue out at the crowd. Sam shook his head, chuckling a little, then turned back to see Dom continue to sing, and then walk towards him off the stage.

He wondered what he was going to do, though it was obvious to him that Dom was coming down to sing some of the song to him. Though didn't expect it when he felt Dom's finger under his chin, feeling his heart beat faster, and then felt Dom's tongue in his mouth, and his lips kissing is own. Sam forgot about the audience and just kissed Dom back with so much love and sincerity. He didn't like it when Dom stopped kissing him, but he knew that the song was still to be finished.

Sam sat back in his chair, feeling a little breathless from the passionate kiss then. He felt like just getting up and kissing Dom right there and then, but he just stayed sitting and watched Dom continue to sing some of the song in front of him. After a verse, Dom sang the chorus, and watched him wave his hands when he sang the words 'fever', which made Sam chuckle a little, then watched Dom walk back on stage, to sing the rest of the song. Soon it was finishing up, and Sam remembered from some of the concerts that he had been too that there would be smoke, but something happened.

Sam looked around him, and noticed that the audience around him sitting in the chairs didn't seem to see the crazy person having a go at him. His heart began to beat fast as he watched Simon head towards him. Now Sam was never one to get full on angry at anyone, maybe that one time with his last lover, Joel, but he didn't go full on with him. But seeing Simon coming towards him, Sam felt his hands clench into fists. He saw Simon's face right there, and he just wanted to punch it so that he wouldn't have to look at it.

Simon then spoke to him, and the anger and rage inside of Sam was building. He was always one to keep things bottled up, but Sam felt like he was going to pretty much explode into a million pieces, letting them all rip into Simon. Sam could feel his teeth clenched in his mouth, and looked at Simon with all the anger he had on his face. His breathing was getting harder, letting his chest rise and fall heavily. Sam stood up, and just glared at Simon after he finished what he had to say, clenched fists at either side of his body. He could tell that his voice was going to be rather firm, and would try and hold back anything he might regret saying or doing. "We do love each other, more than you know. It is an act. But really I should be defending anything as you should be able to see that. Dom means the world to me, so don't go about saying he means nothing to me. I trust him! Trust him more than you ever did." Sam waited to see what Simon might say to that. He hated feeling all this anger inside himself, and in a way it was making him sick to his stomach.

Sam then watched Simon head up on stage, and watched the band go flying to the back of the stage. Then watched as his lover was pinned to the side wall of the stage. Now Sam was feeling scared for Dom. What could he do? He had no idea what Simon was capable of, despite seeing what he had been capable of now over the last few moments. He slowly made his way along the front of the grassed area, heading towards the stage. The whole while his eyes were glued to Simon and Dom. Sam could hear Simon yelling at Dom, pointing to Sam as he spoke. Something was seriously wrong with Simon, it was becoming more and more apparent in Sam's eyes, but he had never doubted anything that Dom had said about Simon. Just seeing Simon like this was just downright scary and it made Sam just want to use all of his energy to break whatever Simon was doing.

The words of love that came out of Simon's mouth made Sam feel even more sick. Then hearing him say that Dom must have a trusting or a stupid partner made Sam move faster towards the stars that led up to the stage. The next thing that Simon did, or bring out made Sam's eyes grow wide in shock, and watched in what felt like slow motion the knife get driven into Dom by Simon. Sam let out a scream, with his hands flying up to his mouth. As he ran towards Dom, Sam watched Simon collapse onto the ground. He didn't worry about that right now, all that mattered was Dom.

Sam ran and stopped right in front of Dom, "Oh God! Oh God, Dom, sweetie. Oh God!" He waved his hands over where the knife was, not sure wheather to pull it out or leave it. All the times he had had first aid training, it all flew out of his head, and now he had no idea what to do to save his lover. Tears streamed down his face, looking around now at the crowd who seemed to now be reacting to what they were obviously seeing on stage. He heard a few screams and shouts from the people, but they were the least of his worries right now. Sam felt like he couldn't breath, and just collapsed onto the floor of the stage, crying and looking at Dom. His chest heaving with sobs, but then it went as fast as it started.

Sam got up, and turned to the unconscious body of Simon on the stage. He moved quickly over to him, and with his fists, began to punch Simon with everything he had. Throught fresh tears, Sam yelled at him, "This is for Dom, and everything that you did to him, and what you just did!"

[Dominic Salvatore]

When Dom had thanked Sam for the obvious confidence he seemed to have in him he had to give Sam a weak smile when he replied saying that he had more than enough confidence adding that he couldn’t do what Dominic does because he doesn’t like being the center of attention. Dom knew that about Sam, but what he loved about Sam was that he knew how flamboyant he was and Sam never let it put him off, falling in love with him anyway and Dominic was grateful for that. “I know you don’t my Prince, but you might be, just a little tonight.” He replied as he wrinkled his nose slightly and grinned at Sam thinking about what he was going to do later during the song ‘Fever’.

When Dom said he was going to love dedicating the song to Sam on stage he saw him blush a little and for a brief moment Dom wondered if he should do that, knowing that it might put Sam in the spotlight, but Dom was proud of Sam and proud to have him in his life and he figured that he had to let the world know. Besides it would only be for a few seconds, it wasn’t as if he was hiring photographers to snap their every move, even Dominic had his limits when it came to the paparazzi. He didn’t say anything to Sam about it though and just made his way to the stage to start doing his thing.

When Dom introduced the song he had written with Sam in mind, ‘If I Had You’ he could see even from the distance how red Sam’s face was getting and then watched him wave to some of the people that had turned to look at Sam. He knew how it would be making Sam feel but Dom would shout it from the mountain tops about how much he loved Sam if Sam would let him. He mouthed a very quick ‘sorry my darling’ to Sam and then blew him a kiss before finally breaking into the song and seeing that wonderful smile of Sam’s made him feel warm inside knowing that he had found his perfect match.

**** Approximately 1 hour later ****

When the first notes for ‘Fever’ began to play Dom knew that Sam would know what was coming, as he had spoken to Sam about it, explaining that Tommy was straight and that it would all be an act for the fans as it was what they wanted, thankfully Sam was fine with it. However, he never made the kiss last for long, because he much preferred the taste of Sam’s kisses now and that was never an act. When he had parted from Tommy and stuck his tongue out in general to the fans as if letting them know that he had enjoyed the act he saw Sam shake his head and chuckle a little which made Dom giggle slightly through a couple of the lines of the song but he soon went back to being his professional self as he ventured off the stage toward Sam. Dom wasn’t sure he should do what he did next knowing about how Sam feels with attention but he just couldn’t help himself and kissed Sam with so much more passion then the one in the act.

The crowd went absolutely nuts then, knowing fine well that the guy Dom had just kissed like that was his partner. They seemed to be happy for Dom and that made him feel good, but he also knew that if he ever got the chance to speak to the press again to make it clear not to chase Sam around too much due to how he feels about attention. Dom had then continued to sing some of the song in front of Sam to the point where he waved his hand when singing the fever lines and couldn’t help but grin through his singing when Sam chuckled at him. Dom had then left him to go and finish the song off on stage where he would ordinarily disappear in a puff of smoke. It didn’t quite finish like that however. Dom was so busy singing the last few lines of his song he didn’t see Simon approach Sam because if he had, he would have stopped and been down there like a shot, instead he was unaware because some of the smoke was beginning to form and so he didn’t see or hear Simon at all until he saw him flicking his band members off their feet and hurling them across the stage.

Even then he wasn’t quick enough to do anything about it before Simon had him in a telekinetic hold to the wall at the side of the stage and then he began yelling at him asking him how he could love Sam when he could kiss his band member like that. He had then gone on to say that it was exactly what he was scared of when Dom was with Simon adding that Sam must be either very trusting of him or very stupid. This got Dominic angry and he glared at Simon even if he couldn’t physically move at that point. “Don’t you dare speak about Sam like that, you have no right to speak about him like that and he trusts me completely because I would never ever cheat on him, just like I would never have cheated on you. But I told you already, you’ve lost me and so I don’t know why any of this matters. Just stop it Simon please for the love of god darling go and get that crazy head of yours checked.” So maybe Dom shouldn’t have called him crazy for the second time that day but he was so angry that the words just came flooding out of him and now they were said. Dom just didn’t realise that he was going to pay a very high price for it.

Before Dominic could say or do anything else he felt a sudden sharp and dull ache in his abdomen as the knife plunged deep into him and all he could say before blacking out was “Why?” Of course he didn’t get an answer because even if he had he wouldn’t have heard it, but Simon had blacked out himself unaware of the crime he had just committed. The crowd were beginning to scream out Dominic’s name in a state of stress, sadness, panic and anger and it was evident that some were so heartbroken by what they had seen they were on their knees sobbing their hearts out. Dominic didn’t hear Sam’s words when he was saying ‘oh god’ and calling him ‘sweetie’ as he had completely blacked out at that point with the immense pain.

Dominic soon started to drift in and out of consciousness and could hear the screams of the crowd but what he heard most of all was Sam’s voice and he used all the energy that he had in him to open his eyes to see Sam pummelling into Simon and yelling at him. Dom couldn’t quite hear what was being said as he was in so much pain that even his super hearing wasn’t working too well right now but it was clear to Dom that Sam was very angry and was saying something about everything that he had done to Dom and what he had just did. Dom once more tried to gain as much of his strength as possible as he tried to climb up the wall to stand on his feet with one of his hands grasping the side of where the knife was sticking out of him. He tried to talk then, “Sam...Sam...” But his voice was dry now and the pain was unbearable. He then tried to walk over to where Sam was pummelling into Simon and he slow but sure made it over. “Sam.” He said and coughed a few times and noticed that blood was coming out of his mouth and even Dom knew that wasn’t a good sign.

He wiped at his mouth, and put his free hand on Sam’s shoulder squeezing it as tight as he could, which wasn’t much. “Sam..., Sam my darling... just leave him, he’s not... worth....the....” He was going to say the word anger, but that was all his energy gone and as he coughed again more blood came out of his mouth and his legs finally gave way as he began to collapse onto the ground completely unconscious and unaware of anything going on around him.

[tommy]

As far as Tommy was aware the concert was going without a hitch and the kiss in the act during ‘Fever’ was received well, even more so when Dominic had then gone down to where Sam was sitting and kissed him also. Seeing that made Tommy smile, it was good to see his friend so happy with his life. All the band members and dancers were in position for the final few lines of the song, where Dominic would disappear in a puff of smoke while the dancers and band members continued on to allow Dom time to get to his changing room without hopefully being attacked by fans when Tommy was suddenly knocked off his feet. Everything was happening so fast. The band stopped playing as each one of them were flicked off their feet and hurled across the stage, including the dancers. Right away Tommy could see who had done this and rage filled him. He was going to tear that fucking bastard to shreds, well he would if he thought he could get away with it, with his power of superhuman strength he could do it as well.

However he soon realised that being flicked off his feet was the least of his worries when he saw Simon attacking Dominic. Everything else went so fast it was a blur for Tommy and he didn’t have the time to use his superhuman speed to pull Simon away from Dom in time as his eyes caught the knife sticking out of Dom’s abdomen. Then Sam was going crazy over Dom which was only natural but then he seemed to get a fit of anger as he charged for Simon. Tommy knew that this anger was unlike Sam from what Dominic had told him but he couldn’t blame the guy for wanting to have a pop at Simon, he wanted to do the same thing himself. But someone had to call for an ambulance, and that was exactly what Tommy was going to do. He pulled his phone out from his pocket and dialled the emergency number ‘911’. “Hi mate, ya need to send an ambulance and police as soon as possible, to the open air concert held by Dominic Salvatore, he’s just been stabbed.” With that he shut his phone and now that the important business was taken care of he saw Dom struggle to his feet and make his way over to Sam.

Tommy decided to see what was going to be said first and it broke his heart to see his friend in obvious pain as he tried to stop his lover Sam from beating up on Simon. Tommy noticed the blood coming from Dom’s mouth when he coughed and he knew that was a bad sign and Tommy’s heart began to beat furiously, it meant that Dom had internal bleeding and if an ambulance didn’t get to him soon they might lose him. When Dominic began to collapse Tommy used his speed to quickly catch him and break his fall as he gently laid him on the stage floor. He then turned to Sam and put both hands on Sam’s shoulders pulling at him gently. “Sam, reserve your energy for Dominic, he needs you. Leave that fucking bastard to me.” He waited to see if Sam would answer him or react before grabbing at Simon and could have ripped him apart, but looking out at where the audience had been most of them had left, but there were the few dedicated fans who were still on their knees and sobbing and Tommy knew he couldn’t be seen to rip apart a human. So instead he just threw him onto the ground and began punching him in several places.

“I told ya earlier to fuck off, and you’re still here. Ya best leave them alone, I swear, I’ve called the police and when they arrive I’m gonna make sure they lock you up and throw away the key for what you have done.” Tommy punched Simon in the face or stomach about six times as he spoke to him and then he just stood up and wiped at his forehead, “Ya ain’t worth this shit.” He then looked at Dominic and then decided to call for the emergency services again to see where the hell the ambulance and police were.

[simon]

As Simon filled with blind rage he first attacked Dominic’s new lover Sam asking him why he let Dominic kiss his band member if they were supposed to be in love. Sam of course replied going on about the fact that they did love each other and it was an act and Simon should be able to see that. Simon couldn’t see that, all he could see was Dominic kissing his band member with what looked like some force from where he was standing. The fact that Dominic had then kissed Sam with obviously more passion didn’t even register in Simon’s brain as he was just so fired up about the so called ‘act’ he had witnessed. When Sam said that Dom meant the world to him and he wasn’t to go about saying he meant nothing and that he trusted Dom more than Simon ever did Simon wasn’t sure how to respond to that because really what Sam was saying was the truth. “I actually believe what you’re saying Sam, but should you trust him? Come on, seriously, which bloke who is totally in love with his partner would think it right to kiss his band member on stage like that? Can you imagine the things that would be said if Dominic was straight and kissed a girl band member like that? It’s no different I’m telling you.”

Simon realised that he was wasting his time with Sam, it was obvious that he would never get through to him, he trusted Dominic way too much and no matter what he said Sam wouldn’t listen to him that much was very clear. So he just shook his head in a pathetic way and left Sam as he headed toward the stage so that he could have a pop at Dom. The first thing he did was to flick all the band members and dancers so that they went hurling to the back of the stage away from him and Dominic, he didn’t want anybody getting in the way. He then glanced and saw that Sam was heading toward the stage and he so wanted to flick him away but didn’t, instead concentrating on what he was saying to Dominic. When Dom spoke back to him Simon began to feel a mixture of emotions, love for the man that he could have had and so obviously lost and hatred because of what he was saying to him saying for the second time that day to get his crazy head sorted.

“I’m not crazy Dominic, or maybe I am, but if that’s the case then it’s you that made me this way.” He yelled and then without another word he had plunged the knife deep into Dom before blacking out and collapsing onto the stage floor. He wasn’t aware of the crime he had just committed but he soon felt himself being punched and the familiar voice of Sam yelling at him. Simon quickly put his hands up to his face so that he could protect himself and wasn’t sure why he was being attacked like this. “Are you crazy, what are you doing this for?” He began to ask in a pained voice as the punches coming at him were hurting like hell. Then Simon heard Dom’s voice but it sounded pained and very faint. He looked up and could see the blood around his mouth and then his eyes began to divert down to where the knife was sticking out of Dominic and usually when Simon blacks out after a blind rage he never remembers anything, but it was like a block was lifted from his mind and he began to remember everything.

He remembered the night he raped Dominic and all the fights they had, all the abuse he had given him in the past and he remembered other people he had fights with but most of all he could remember clearly stabbing Dom. “I’m... I... I don’t know why, I... never meant to, oh god I am so sorry.” Simon stuttered the words out and then the guy who had tried to warn him away from the place earlier was upon him and he too was punching him like there was no tomorrow. “You have to believe that I didn’t know what I was doing.” But Simon couldn’t speak anymore as the emotion got the better of him as he watched Dominic fall to the ground unconscious and the thought of knowing that he might have killed the best thing that had ever happened to him in his life made him sick to the stomach. Thankfully the guy finally stopped attacking him and it was very clear to Simon that there was no way this guy was gay, what Sam said about it being an act must have been true.

“Dom’s right, I do need help.” He muttered and then the last few words of the guy who had just been attacking him went running through his mind. He had called the police, he couldn’t be here when they arrived, what he had done was wrong, but he hadn’t been aware of it. Just like he hadn’t been aware of raping Dom but with everything coming flooding back to him, he knew that he needed to get help. He scrambled to his feet and watching everyone fussing over Dominic, Simon made his move and fled from the stage and then fled as far away from it all as he could so that he wouldn’t be caught. Once he was back home, he would go to the doctor maybe, and explain about what had happened and maybe something could be done to help. Or maybe he would just go and lock himself away in his house never to venture out again, after all its what he deserved.

[Samuel Carhill]

Sam had to smirk a little, hearing that he was going to have to be the centre of attention just a little that night. "Well for you, I will do anything." That much was true for Sam with Dom, but it was going to be in the privacy of their room, which was fine with Sam.

After Sam kind of waved at the people who were looking at him, he had turned to Dom, and saw him mouth 'sorry my darling'. He just waved his hand slightly, pretty much saying with that gesture 'don't worry about it'. Sam shook his head a little, hoping that Dom got the idea that it was okay. The looks didn't really stay on him for that long, as Dom sang the song, so all eyes were on him.

**** Approximately 1 hour later ****

Sam soon told Simon what he thought after he questions his love for Dom, adding a lot more about it, speaking about Dom kissing Tommy. He had no idea how Simon was going to react to what he said, and listened to what Simon said nonetheless. A wave of relief swept over Sam, hearing that Simon believed what he said. But then the questions started flying again. Sam started to have doubts then at what Simon ways saying, and he looked away for a brief second, thinking about what Simon was saying. But he soon heard Dom's words, stating that it was all an act, and the knowledge that Tommy was straight came flooding back into his head. Sam looked Simon right in the eyes, "I trust Dom with my life. And that is all I am going to say."

Sam then watched Simon walk away, shaking his head. He frowned a little, wondering what was going to happen. He then watched Simon do his thing up on stage, which had made Sam get up and slowly walk towards the stage. Sam heard a few things of what Dom said, since now there was no music playing at all. Everything that Dom was saying was true. Well Sam did his best to love Dom, and he loved Dom with all his heart. After everything that Simon had done today was going to not do much to the friendship Simon wanted with Dom. Hearing Simon's reply back made Sam feel even more scared for what he was seeing happening to his lover.

Then in horror Sam watched as Simon then stabbed Dom with a knife. All Sam could do was run and get all confused as to what he should do with the knife that was in his lover. He heard the crowd in the background, but it was only in the background, and all that mattered was Dom. It was evident that the trauma of the stabbing had effected Dom, and he was now unconscious in front of Sam. All he could think of was that Simon had killed Dom, and he was going to pay for what he did.

Sam soon snapped, and headed towards Simon, and began to punch into him with everything he had, and yelling at him for what he had done, and what he had just done to Dom. Due to his back being to Dom, Sam couldn't see that Dom was trying to move, but saw Simon put his hands up, asking Sam what he was punching him for. Sam stopped, but then that was only for a split second, as he punched him in the stomach, in the same area that Simon had stabbed Dom. Then Dom's voice came into his head, and he slowly turned around, just in time to see Dom cough, and then the blood was just as real to Sam in Dom's hand. He swallowed a little, feeling tears sting in his eyes. A sign of blood coming out that end of Dom was not good, and he just looked at it wide eyes, feeling one tear fall down his face.

The feel of Dom's weak touch made Sam just want to forget Simon and what he had done, and just take Dom in his arms and just help him as much as he could. Dom then spoke slowly, and as he got to the end of what he was saying, or trying to say, Sam nodded, knowing that he shouldn't bother with Simon now. Though Dom didn't get to finish what he was tyring to say, when he coughed again, then collapsed in front of Sam. Sam's eyes grew even wider, then turned to Simon. The tears that had begun to fall were ceases, and anger grew in his eyes again.

Sam pulled at Simon's collar of his shirt, lifting him up slowly with all the strength he had, and just glared at him. "If Dom's dies it is all your fault!" Sam then felt a pair of hands on his shoulders, pulling him slightly, and he turned out quickly, reading to get angry at whoever it was. Though he saw it was Tommy, and he then felt a sadness wash over him. "I... he deserves everything I have... I just ... I just can't let him go!" Sam then let go of Simon, and just put his head in his hands, crying over what had just happened.

In the background, Sam could hear Tommy now having a go at Simon over it all. Sam removed his head from his hands, and looked at Dom, unconscious on the stage. He moved forward towards Dom, placing his hand near where the knife was, and then moved his other hand over Dom's head, running his fingers through his hair. He got so close to Dom so that he could say something without anyone else hearing, "What am I going to do if I lose you?" Then Sam lent his forehead on Dom's and began to cry.

[Dominic Salvatore]

After Dom had said to Sam that he might be the center of attention for a little bit that night he saw that smirk of Sam’s which made Dom pout at him and wink and then when Sam replied saying that he would do anything for Dom he couldn’t help but say what he said next, “That’s a very dangerous thing you said to me my darling.” He gave Sam one of his smouldering looks and raised his eyebrow before going into a fit of the giggles. Later on stage after Dom had introduced the song he wrote with Sam in mind he had mouthed an apology to Sam and saw him wave his hand and shake his head and Dom knew with that gesture that Sam was telling him it was alright so Dom gave him a wink and carried on with his song.

**** Approximately 1 hour later ****

The concert had gone well until Dom had done his encore which unknown to him hadn’t gone down too well with a certain ex he had no idea was still floating around. Dom was soon faced with Simon obviously very angry, he had no idea that he had already attacked Sam as he had been too busy with continuing to sing his encore song ‘Fever’. Dom just felt that he couldn’t take anymore from Simon and told him again that he had already lost him and that he really should get his crazy head checked. When Simon replied saying that he wasn’t crazy and then said maybe he was but it was Dom that made him that way all Dom could do was laugh out loud in his face. Not even his usual giggle because right now Dom was feeling far from feminine, he was getting so pissed off with Simon that he wanted to rip him apart if he could move but he couldn’t. He decided that there was no need to say anything back to Simon, laughing in his face would be enough for him Dom felt. That was when Simon stabbed him.

Dom had blacked out initially but then managed to find the strength from somewhere to scramble up the wall and make his way over to where he could see that Sam was beating up on Simon. It wasn’t in Sam’s nature to be like that and it was breaking Dom’s heart to see him act like that and he had to do something to stop it despite his pain. As Dom tried to pull Sam away from Simon he soon heard Simon try to utter an apology for what he had done but Dom wasn’t in the least bit interested, he just wanted Sam away from Simon because he didn’t want Simon to maybe snap again and then stab Sam. Dom unable to stand the pain any longer then began to fall to the ground unconscious again and unaware that Tommy his good friend and band member ran to catch his fall and place him on the stage floor carefully.

After collapsing like that, Dom kept drifting in and out of consciousness and could hear muffled sounds of what was going on around him but he had used the little energy he had to try and stop Sam from pummelling into Simon that he had no energy left as such to do or say anything else other than to just lie where he was. The one thing that seemed to bring Dom back around again momentarily was the feel of Sam moving near him, he tried to open his eyes but felt like they were just too heavy. He could feel Sam’s fingers running through his hair and then the soft words spoken by Sam asking what he would do if he lost him. Dom wanted to scream that he wasn’t going to lose him but he was too weak and he knew that the blood that he had been coughing up and the blood that was now trickling out of his mouth was not a good sign at all.

When Dom heard Sam begin to cry as he leant his forehead on Dom’s that was when Dom got just the slightest bit more energy and slowly lifted his hand on his good side and placed it gently on Sam’s back and then using the very last of his energy and breath he said in broken words, “You’re.... not.... going.... to.... lose.... me.” He then took in another deep breath and let it out slowly and then took in another, “I.... love....” But he couldn’t finish it as it felt as if everything was just beginning to shut down and the world was beginning to turn black. Dominic was dying and would if nothing was done about his condition fast.

The sirens of the ambulance and police could be heard and after what felt like an eternity a couple of paramedics from the ambulance were on stage along with the a couple of policemen. It would seem that the police were clever enough not to ask Sam any questions seeing his obvious distress at the state of Dominic, so instead they began to question Tommy. “Hi there I’m Detective Scott can you tell me what happened here and what your name is sir please?” While the Detective and his partner questioned Tommy the paramedics began to take care of Dominic the best they could. The girl paramedic put her hand on Sam’s shoulder gently, “Hi there, I’m Pam, and I know it’s difficult but can you sit back a little to let us in to help him please, thanks.” Once Sam had moved out of the way Pam and her partner Anthony began to check Dominic over.

Pam began to talk, “His blood pressure is very low and he’s lost a lot of blood, the blood coming from his mouth indicates internal bleeding. You did very well not to move the knife, you could have made things a lot worse for him.” Anthony began to check his pulse, “His pulse is very weak too, if we don’t get him to the hospital soon we might not be able to save him, he’s sustained a pretty fatal wound I am afraid.” Anthony and Pam between them gently lifted Dominic onto the stretcher and gently and carefully strapped him into place and then moved him into the ambulance. By this point the Detective and his partner had finished questioning Tommy and said they had all they needed for now.

“Would you boys like to come in the ambulance with us?” Pam asked Sam and Tommy and once they had a response Anthony made his way to the driver’s side of the ambulance and Pam went inside along with Sam and Tommy if they both agreed to go into the ambulance. The soon as the door was shut Anthony put the sirens on and put his foot down on the gas. Pam knew it was going to be difficult for Dominic’s partner but had to ask the obvious questions. “Can you please give me Dominic’s date of birth and his full name and let us know if he had been drinking at all and not that I believe he would but if he may have taken any drugs? I’m sorry to ask but they’re just regular safety questions that I have to send answers through to the Emergency Room who will be receiving him soon.” Once she got the answers she tapped them into the screen along with the vital statistics they had taken already and sent them off. No sooner had she done this than Anthony pulled into the Emergency Room ambulance bay.

Pam soon had the door opened and Anthony came round and helped Dominic in the stretcher into the Emergency Room where he was quickly rushed to a room to be assessed. While Dominic was being assessed a nurse came out to speak to Sam and Tommy. “If you would both like to wait in here I am sure a doctor will be out to give you an update on your friend soon. There is a drinks machine there if you need anything.” With that she opened the door to a family room and soon left them. Meanwhile in the room where Dominic was being assessed the following scene began to play out.

“He’s lost a lot of blood and the pulse is very weak, this is definitely a fatal wound he has received. We need to give an x-ray to determine exactly where and what the knife has punctured.” The doctor said, a nurse soon turned on the x-ray machine and quickly took some pictures which the doctor put onto the screen to check right away. “Oh, oh this isn’t good at all.” The doctor said just as a nurse shouted out, “He’s going into renal failure, how can this be possible? Even if one kidney is damaged he shouldn’t go into renal failure so soon.” The doctor turned and gave the nurse a very grave look, “He’s going into renal failure because he only has one kidney, it must have been a defect from the day he was born, and his only chance of survival is a transplant with a perfect match.” The nurse gave the doctor an alarmed look, how would they be able to get a perfect match so quickly as their patient was losing blood at an alarming rate and his pulse was getting weaker and weaker. “I’ll get into finding out as much information as I possibly can from the boys outside.” The nurse said as she walked out of the room and made her way to the family room where Sam and Tommy were waiting.

She knocked on the door before entering. “Do either of you know of any family members who may be close to the area at all? We need to get in contact with a family member of Dominic’s as soon as possible.” The nurse said and then wondered if she should tell the reason why and knew that she was probably going to get hurled with a lot of questions anyway if she didn’t say anything. “I’m sorry to have to tell you this but it would appear that the knife has damaged the only kidney that Dominic has, the doctor says he was born with a defect and he is in renal failure right now, he needs an emergency transplant from a perfect match or I am afraid Dominic will die.”

[tommy]

Tommy had made his way over to Sam to try and stop him from beating up on Simon as he knew that it wasn’t in his nature to be like that and a part of him knew that Dominic wouldn’t want to see Sam be like that for his benefit. He had gently pulled at Sam’s shoulders and he turned round quickly and at first Tommy thought Sam was going to yell at him but he didn’t. Tommy could only think that maybe Sam thought that it was someone trying to defend Simon. When Sam spoke to him Tommy felt so sad for him and he could understand why Sam would want to do what he was doing. “I know he deserves everything mate and I understand, but ya need to be with Dominic, I’ll have a go at Simon, I ain’t gonna let him away with anything I swear.” Tommy said as he gave Sam’s shoulder a gentle tap before laying into Simon.

Tommy wasn’t interested in Simon’s words and after a certain length of time of smacking Simon even Tommy could see that he just wasn’t worth it and stopped. When Tommy heard the muttered words of Simon saying that Dom was right and he did need help Tommy felt like saying that it was a little too late but decided to keep his mouth shut because if he started on Simon again now he was worried he might never stop. He then made another phone call to see where the ambulance and police were and hadn’t even noticed that Simon had slipped away unnoticed by anyone.

After what felt like an eternity the ambulance and police finally arrived and while the paramedics went to work on Dominic a couple of policemen came toward Tommy. One of them introduced himself and began to ask Tommy what had happened and if he could give his name. Tommy shook the Detective’s hand. “Pleased to meet ya Detective Scott, I’m Tommy Joe Merlotte and sure I can answer some questions. Dominic’s very jealous ex had been a part of the team who set up the stage and as the show went on his jealousy became more apparent. But I’d chased him away earlier, ya know we all thought he had gone. Obviously he hadn’t and then in a whole blur it would seem he just stabbed Dominic.”

The Detective took everything down that Tommy said to him, “Do you know the name of the ex who carried out this crime?” Tommy nodded his head, “His name is Simon Carter, he raped Dominic a couple of years ago but it seems that he has no recollection of it, he didn’t remember stabbing him either but then it all seemed to come back to him.” Tommy looked around so that he could point Simon out to the Detective but then noticed that he was no longer around. “And typical, it would seem he’s fled the scene, I have no idea where he usually resides, but hopefully his name is enough for ya to go on, if anything I would say that he needs help.” Tommy said and then shook his head giving the Detective a sad smile. “Thanks for your time, we’ll leave it here for now and come back if we need to know more.” Tommy nodded his head, “Sure.” He replied and then slowly made his way over to the scene where the paramedics were working on Dominic.

When Pam asked if the two of them wanted to travel in the ambulance Tommy didn’t hesitate. “Yeah, I wanna go, be there to support Sam if nothing else.” He then turned to the rest of the guys and dancers on the stage. “You guys alright to clear up without me?” They just nodded their heads as if they were on automatic pilot and Tommy then followed Pam and Sam into the ambulance. Tommy felt like he was in a world of his own as Pam asked Sam the obvious safety questions, he just couldn’t believe that Dominic had been stabbed and it would seem in a fatal way. Tommy then thought of something. He knew that Dom had a good friend called Stacey and figured she would want to know and since he didn't know her number he put his hand into Dominic's pocket and got his phone and sent her a text to let her know what had happened. Soon enough they had reached the hospital and they were soon ushered to a family room to wait where they were told someone would be out to talk to them soon.

It seemed like forever to Tommy before a door opened and when a nurse came in and he listened to what she said Tommy’s ears began to make a buzzing sound, it was like he had turned deaf and didn’t want to hear what was being said to them. If this was how he was feeling about what was being said, then what was it going to be like for Sam. Tommy put his hand without thinking on Sam’s arm gently and then not sure whether Sam would be able to say anything or not he felt he had to. The ringing in Tommy’s ears began to stop and he found his voice, “None of Dominic’s family are here, they live in Laughlin, Nevada, he was on holiday here with Sam and he just decided to put on a show but I do know that a twin brother was recently reunited with the family, maybe he could help but I’m not sure how easy it would be to get him or any of his family here for that matter.” Tommy explained and then gave Sam a sympathetic smile before gently squeezing Sam’s arm.

[simon]

Simon felt good that his words about the whole act and did Sam really trust Dom seemed to have the right effect on Sam but it didn’t last long when he heard Sam say that he trusted Dom with his life and that was all he was going to say. “Whatever.” Simon replied unable to face Sam any longer and heading toward the stage where after some volatile words between him and Dominic and after Dom had laughed in his face he had stabbed him in a blind rage and then blacked out not knowing what he had done. However he soon felt himself being punched and heard Sam’s voice which soon brought him round. He still didn’t know what he had done until he heard the pained voice of Dom and saw that he had a knife sticking out of him and everything that Simon had ever done during his blind rages came flooding back into his mind as if a block had been lifted. It looked as if Sam was going to leave him alone but then Dom began to fall to the floor again and soon enough Sam was attacking him again.

A part of him couldn’t blame Sam for reacting the way he was but he hadn’t meant to do it, and that was hurting Simon, he had never meant to stab Dominic and if Dom died he had definitely never meant for that to happen. Simon could see that he had burned any chance of ever having even a friendship with Dom, Dom wouldn’t want to know him now and even if he did he had a feeling that Sam would never want him anywhere near his lover after what he had done and he couldn’t blame Sam for that. Sam was saying if Dom died it would be his fault and all Simon could do was to nod his head as he knew it was true. “I’m sorry, I really am sorry.” Simon said but he knew the words were too little too late. Simon then watched as the guy he remembered through the media to be Tommy pulled Sam off of Simon.

He then watched as Sam and Tommy began to fuss over Dominic and Simon knew that this was going to be his best chance at getting away from it all before the police arrived. Maybe he would turn himself in later when he could get a doctor’s certificate to explain his condition as he was sure now that there was definitely something wrong with him, but for the moment, there would be no proof and he could get locked away for what he did and he didn’t want that. So Simon fled the stage and the area as quickly as he could and as he ran he began to sob for the love he had lost and for the hatred he felt toward himself for doing what he did to Dominic and prayed that a miracle would make him survive because Simon knew that he would never be able to forgive himself if Dominic died.

{ooc - Simon out until he may or may not be needed again in another thread}

[Samuel Carhill]

Sam chuckled a little when Dom made his comment about it being dangerous what he just said to Dom. The look Dom gave him was enough to just get his body to just jump on Dom's own, and not let him go. But Sam wouldn't do that as he was needed on stage.

**** Approximately 1 hour later ****

Simon soon replied to what Sam said, just saying he was sorry twice. Sam could still feel the anger in his eyes, feeling the smouldering volcano inside him ready to explode any second. Thankfully Tommy intervened at that time, or who knew what would have happened. Sam spoke to Tommy, and hearing what he said, it made sense, well in Sam's head it did. But all he still wanted to do was keep going till Simon got what he truly deserved. He bowed his head a little, "Okay." Though Sam still wanted to just continue on with doing what he was doing to Simon, but the words that Tommy said kept ringing in his head: 'ya need to be with Dominic'.

So while Tommy had his go at Simon, Sam went to Dom, and spoke to him, and then began to cry. While his forehead was touching Dom's, he felt a hand on his back, then hear Dom speak to him. He quickly moved his head to look at his lover, and swallowed, trying to control his tears. Sam couldn't answer him, and then watched Dom take a breath, and begin to say 'I love...' when that was all that was said. Fresh tears stung his eyes, and he blinked at them to go away. He soon found his voice, which was quiet, "Dom... sweetie... oh God!"

Sam moved his hand to Dom's face, gently caressing it, and saw more blood had appeared out of his mouth. His eyes grew wide, and he moved his hands all over Dom, not knowing what to do again. "Dom! Come on, you gotta pull through this. You just have to... sweetie, come on." Sam heard the sirens approaching, but his eyes didn't divert from Dom at all. He soon felt a hand on his shoulder, and thought it might be Tommy again, but he soon turned to see a female behind him. She introduced herself, and asked him if he could sit back a little to let them in to help Dom. Sam looked back at Dom, not wanting to leave him, but he then nodded, and slid back on the stage so that the paramedics could do what they could.

Sam just couldn't stand up yet at all, just wanting to sit and wait. He heard what the paramedics were saying about Dom's vitals, and it didn't sound too good to Sam at all. He felt the tears fall down his cheeks, but didn't bother to wipe them away at all. Just didn't have the energy at all, after how he was with Simon it just took it all out of him. Pam then asked if they wanted to come in the ambulance with them. Sam swallowed again, and could only manage a nod. So he slowly got up from the stage, and followed them towards the ambulance slowly. He then hopped inside, sitting opposite where Dom laid on the stretcher. Sam then ran his hands through his hair, and slowly looked back at Dom with red eyes.

Pam then asked him some questions, and he had to swallow again, trying to clear his head. "Um, yeah. It's the twenty-ninth of January nineteen eighty-two. And Dominic Enrico Salvatore." Sam then wasn't sure whether Dom had had anything else to drink, alcohol or otherwise, but did remember the concert. "Alcohol probably wasn't since last night, but he had some water during the concert." Thinking about the drugs, Sam had never known Dom to take anything, and knew deep down that he would have said if he did. "And I think that he is clean with the drugs. Never taken any that I am aware of." Sam hoped the information he gave was enough for now, as he just wanted to know that Dom would be okay.

They soon reached the emergency section of the hospital, and Sam followed them all inside the hospital. Though he and Tommy were soon told to wait in a room nearby. Sam wanted to protest, watching his lover being moved out of sight, but he went anyway to where they were told to go. He slowly drudged towards an empty seat, and just plopped into it, head soon his his hands, and eyes just staring at the floor. Sam wanted to be in there to see what was happening, but he knew he wouldn't be much help at all.

Sam almost didn't hear the knock at the door, and his gaze moved from the floor, and up to the nurse now in front of him. She then asked a question, and Sam couldn't find his voice at all to answer. Here he was, getting ask a question, and he was completely useless. He put his head back in his hands, and watched a couple of tears hit the floor. Soon Sam felt a hand on his arm, and soon turned to see it was Tommy's. He felt relieved when Tommy started to talk for him, and knew that he would have to thank him for doing what he did later, when the circumstances were better. Sam sat up a bit then, and then felt Tommy squeeze his arm gently.

His eyes diverted to the nurse, clearing his throat a little, "I have numbers if you like." Sam shoved his hand in his pocket, and pulled out his phone. He soon told the nurse Dom's parents number, Ryan's number, hoping that that would be enough. When they were alone, Sam looked through a few more numbers on his phone, and gasped out loud, looking at Tommy, "I haven't contacted Stacey. She needs to know more than anyone." He tried to fiddle with the phone to either call or text Stacey, but he could see through his blurry vision.

[Dominic Salvatore]

When Dom had felt Sam’s head on his own saying he didn’t know what he would do if he lost him it had made Dom find some energy from somewhere to put his hand on Sam’s back and say in broken words that he wasn’t going to lose him. He had then tried to tell Sam that he loved him but never finished the sentence as more blood came out of his mouth and he felt as if the world was turning black. He could still hear Sam and could still sense his closeness but Dom had used every little bit of strength in him already and he had a feeling that despite wanting to fight to live for Sam that he was losing the fight and instead just kept his eyes closed and said nothing back to Sam this time. He hated what Simon had done to him, hated that he would be leaving his lover and family behind and most importantly, hated the fact that he would never get to see their baby girl grow up into the beautiful daughter she had become.

Dom then felt Sam’s hand on his face and despite his obvious pain and the fact that he was dying, he could still enjoy the feel of it there and his eyes opened again briefly, but they weren’t the bright sparkly eyes that everyone was used to, those eyes that could light a room, those eyes that could spell love, lust, mischief, fun, care and concern with just one certain look, they were dull and pained but they were still their unique gorgeous colour. He wanted so much to say something and heaved in a deep breath and let it out slowly and made to open his mouth but as he did instead of words, he coughed again and more blood came out. He could feel his life slipping from him and yet wanted to be strong for Sam knowing how he would be feeling right then. He knew that he had to tell Sam that he loved him just one last time, if he was going to die and he felt like he was he had to say it, he didn’t get to say it earlier.

He took in a deep breath and opened his eyes slowly, the eyes that the life was draining out of, “I... love... you... so... much... never... forget... that... Sam.” Then using the very last bit of strength he had in him, having the power of being superhuman probably had a lot to do with the growing strength he kept finding but even that couldn’t and wouldn’t stop him from dying, he lifted his hand up and put it under Sam’s chin and brought him to his lips and kissed him softly, “Look... after... Beth.” He said and then once more the strength left him and with another cough and more blood and a deep painful moan escaping his mouth involuntarily, Dom’s eyes closed once again and this time Dom could hear nothing but ringing in his ears, the world once again turning black as his life continued to slip away from him.

It was at this point the ambulance and police finally arrived on the scene and the paramedics didn’t waste any time in checking Dominic and his vitals, making it clear that they weren’t good. Realising very quickly that Dominic’s wound was fatal the paramedics soon had him in the ambulance and after asking the two boys if they wanted to jump into the back they were all soon on their way to the hospital. While on their way Pam had asked Sam some important safety questions even though she knew it would be difficult for Sam but it had to be done. She gave him a sympathetic smile as he answered her. Pam typed up everything Sam was telling her onto the screen. “Thank you Sam, you did very well, I know that wasn’t easy for you.”

They soon reached the hospital where Sam and Tommy were told to wait in a family room while Dominic’s injury was being assessed. The outlook was bleak and soon enough a nurse had gone to the room where Sam and Tommy were waiting and told them what they knew already and that they needed to get in touch with a member of Dominic’s family with the possibility of there being a perfect match for a transplant. She looked from one to the other and eventually the one that seemed as if he may have just been a friend of Dominic’s rather than a lover as he was more together, began to speak. The nurse gave Tommy a sad smile, “Thank you for the information, I will have to speak to the doctor but I think we’re going to have to get Dominic back to Nevada somehow and I just hope we have the time to do that.” The nurse said giving both Tommy and Sam a sympathetic smile. Then Sam began to talk saying that he had numbers. The nurse nodded her head, “That would be very good, I’m sorry I didn’t get either of your names.” She said and then waited for Sam to give her the numbers. “Thank you. I or the doctor will be back with more information as soon as we can.” With that the nurse made her way back into the room to speak with the doctor.

“Doctor, I found out that Dominic is on holiday here and that his family are at home in Nevada. There was mention of a twin who has been recently reunited with the family and he could be a possible perfect match? I was given the telephone numbers of the parents and of the twin, should I make some calls?” She asked the doctor as she looked at the vitals screen and could see that Dominic was clearly deteriorating with each minute. “That would be good, but we do not have the time to wait for the family to get possible flights to get here, it is going to be far better for us to air ambulance Dominic to Nevada, I just hope that we can get him there in time. We may have to hook him up to a life support machine until he gets to his local hospital in Laughlin.” The nurse nodded her head, “I will make those phone calls now as they need to know about his imminent arrival.”

The nurse then left the room to make the phone calls which hadn’t been easy. When she called Dominic’s parents number it was his mother who answered the phone and quite rightly she was devastated. The nurse soon explained what would have to happen and for the family to be at their local hospital in Laughlin for around six hours time or slightly less and explained that they would have to expect the worst but that they were going to do all they could. She then contacted Ryan who was the twin recently reunited with the family and like the mother, he was pretty much devastated also but said that he would do what he could to help and that he would naturally be there with the family when Dom arrived at the hospital.

The nurse went back into the doctor, “The phone calls have been made and I contacted their local hospital in Laughlin and explained the situation and they said they would be ready to accept him. I will let the boys know and then help you with getting Dominic into the air ambulance along with the boys as I imagine they will want to go.” The doctor nodded his head and gave the nurse a small smile, “Thank you Delores I appreciate that. I will start getting Dominic ready for the flight; I have already hooked him up to a life support machine as it will have to keep him steady until he can hopefully get operated on.” The nurse nodded her head and made her way back to where the boys were waiting.

She opened the door slowly and gave them both a sympathetic smile and then in a sympathetic voice began to speak. “I have contacted his parents and his twin brother. They were naturally devastated at the news but Ryan has said that he will do whatever he can to help. They are going to have to air ambulance him back to Nevada, the normal flight time is six hours but we’re hoping for it to be a little less time than that. The doctor has hooked Dominic up onto a life support machine for now as we feel that given the length of time it may take us to get him to Nevada that doing this will be his best chance of survival until he gets that much needed transplant. The doctor is getting him ready for the air ambulance now, so if you want to follow me, I’ll take you to the heliport so that you can go with him as I assume you will both want to do that.” She explained and then waited to see what they would say before she began to make her way to where they needed to go.

[tommy]

Tommy had gone to Sam and tried to get him off of Simon knowing that it wouldn’t be doing Sam any good despite the fact that Tommy wanted to rip Simon apart for what he had done to Dominic and for what he was putting him and Sam through now. It wasn’t right, Dominic had done nothing to deserve this, he was the sweetest guy Tommy had ever had the pleasure of knowing. When Sam spoke saying ‘okay’ Tommy could tell that Sam still wanted to lay into Simon. “I know ya wanna knock him out Sam, but trust me he ain’t worth it, he’ll get what’s coming to him eventually, people like that usually do.” Tommy said in a sad voice and despite getting Sam to stop having a go at Simon, Tommy himself wanted to rip the guy apart. He didn’t quite do that, but he definitely threw a good few punches in at him and it would have been more but he took his own advice about it not being worth it and stopped.

He had then walked over to where Sam was with Dominic and the scene was killing him so god only knew how Sam was feeling. Hearing what Sam was saying and watching Dominic struggle to talk back was breaking Tommy’s heart and he couldn’t take it anymore. He didn’t have Simon to punch the hell out of but he had to get his frustrations out somehow. He made his way over to the back of the stage and began pulling at the stage set and ripping it off and tearing it up as easily as if it was paper in his hands due to his superhuman strength. He walked along the whole of the back wall of the stage and did the same move with every single bit of the stage and then began to kick the sound boxes and lights, he knew it was wrong but he couldn’t help himself. He would pay for the damages, he would send the stage production people a cheque but all he could think of right now was getting out his frustrations and this seemed to be doing the trick.

After the detective had spoken to him and he had made his way over again to where Sam was with Dominic he couldn’t believe what he was hearing from the paramedic although he had a fair idea that it hadn’t been looking good for Dominic due to the blood coming from his mouth. Tommy was never one for raw emotion, sure he could trash a few things in his anger, but actual raw emotion was something he found hard, but watching one of his best friends die in front of him and Tommy knew that he was dying, was too much for him to take and he slid down onto the floor bringing his knees up and put his hands over his face and for the first time for as long as he could remember Tommy began to cry.

Tommy soon came round however when he heard the paramedic talk of them going into the ambulance with Dominic and he pulled himself together, he knew he was going to have to be strong for Sam, he had gotten his anger and emotion out, it was time to be strong. While in the ambulance for some reason Tommy thought about Dom’s other best friend Stacey and knew he had to send her a text, so he had taken Dom’s phone from his pocket and did just that and soon enough he got a reply but didn’t want to reply back again until they knew more about what was happening. He kept a hold of Dominic’s phone and put it into his pocket.

Once they were in the hospital they had been told to wait while they assessed Dom’s injury and all Tommy could do was sit in silence with his finger up to his mouth. He didn’t want to think bad but looking back at how Dom was on that stage he knew that he was dying, it was going to take a miracle to get him sorted. Soon enough a nurse had come in and explained the situation, a situation which didn’t sound good at all. Tommy could tell that Sam was in no state to do any talking and had given the answers the nurse was after. Tommy then heard Sam speak saying he had numbers and the nurse said that she would take them adding that she hadn’t got their names. “I’m Tommy Joe and this is Sam.” Tommy replied and gave her a weak smile. Once the nurse was gone again Sam spoke in what Tommy could only describe as a panicked voice about contacting Stacey. Tommy placed his hand on Sam’s arm again. “It’s alright mate, I’ve already sent her a text, sent it from Dom’s phone and explained it all.” Tommy then moved his hand and put his hands over his head again as he began to messily run it through his hair. He hated waiting.

He was desperately trying to keep his emotions and anger at bay but knowing that Dominic could die, and that he would never live to see his baby grow old and be with Sam was tearing at his heart and he just lost it again. This time he got up and picked up a chair and hurled it across the room and then another and another until he stopped and just began to bang his fists on the wall being careful not to make holes what with his superhuman strength. “I swear to fucking god, if I ever get my hands on him when I’m alone I will rip him apart from limb to limb and throw them in a fucking mincing machine and make burgers out of them to feed to the dogs.” Then knowing that it wouldn’t be helping Sam he turned to him as he ran his hand through his hair, “Sorry about that mate, guess my emotions are getting the better of me.” He picked up the chairs he had thrown and put them right and then moved to sit down next to Sam again just in time for the nurse to come in and speak to them again.

When the nurse was finished Tommy stood up, “Damn right I wanna go, and I know Sam will too.” He then put his arm around Sam’s shoulders and waited for him to stand up and when he did, he kept his arm there to support him. Despite how Tommy felt about the situation he knew he had to give Sam some encouragement. “Come on Sam, let’s go, Dominic’s a fighter, he has Italian spirit in him, he’ll get through this and I’ll give ya all the support ya need until Dom’s back on his feet, ya hear me?” Once Sam began to move Tommy moved with him and followed the nurse to where they had to go for the heliport as he kept his arm around Sam’s shoulders, he didn’t care that he was straight, Sam needed the support right now and that’s what he was going to give.

[Samuel Carhill]

Sam could only manage a slight nod, when Tommy spoke more to him. He knew he was right, and soon left Simon alone, and moved towards Dom, just wanting to be close to him now, before it was too late. After Dom tried to talk to Sam, he soon stopped, and this made Sam will for him to stay with him.

When Sam had put his hand gently on Dom's face, he watched his lover's eyes open. He just loved Dom's beautiful eyes, but now they didn't look the same to him. Sam had to swallow back tears, just wanting his old Dom back, safe and sound, and good as new. Seeing and hearing Dom breathe in, then breathe out, and opening his mouth, Sam quickly spoke, "Shhh sweetie. Don't...." But then Sam saw Dom cough, then more blood came out of his mouth. Sam's eyes grew wide, and felt sick. Sick, knowing that Dom might not pull through, despite saying before that he basically had faith in Dom. It was at that time Sam heard noices at the back of the stage, and as he looked over, Sam watched Tommy kicking boxes of some sort, and lights. He hoped that that wouldn't be hurting Tommy at all, but he guessed he was needing something to get his anger out on, but wasn't sure if doing damage was the way.

Sam then turned, and watched Dom take in another breathe, and watched his eyes open again. Hearing what he was saying slowly made him begin to sob. Sam swallowed, then closed his eyes, feeling the tears roll down his cheeks. As he opened his eyes he felt Dom's hand under his chin, and then brought Sam down to kiss him. As Sam's eyes closed again with the kiss, he heard Dom say to look after Beth. He moved away from Dom's lips, and gasp silently, seeing Dom just laying there now. Sam lent forward, and kissed Dom on the forehead, and whispered, "I will never forget, and I will." Sam knew he would as having a child meant the world to Dom, and now he would never see her grow up if he did not make it.

They were all in the ambulance, and Pam had asked Sam some questions to send through to the hospital. He watched her add it to the device she had, and then she thanked him, adding that she knew it wasn't easy for him. All Sam could do was nod, and then leant back against the inside of the ambulance, and let out a breath, hoping it wouldn't take long for them to get to the hospital.

After waiting, a nurse came out, and spoke to Sam and Tommy. Tommy soon spoke for both of them, and the nurse thanked Tommy for the information. Sam had soon found his voice, and said he had the numbers of Dom's parents and twin brother, which he soon gave over, as she asked their names. Tommy said their names, and Sam nodded a little. He gave the nurse a weak smile, as she thanked him for the numbers. Sam then nodded again, as she said what she would do.

For some reason Sam had forgotten about poor Stacey who was Dom's best friend. He soon made it known that he needed to contact Stacey. Sam felt Tommy's hand on his arm again, and felt a wave of relief wash over him just a little, hearing that Tommy had contacted her already. "Thanks." He would feel bad if she never knew till it was too late. Sam then sat back in the chair, and rested his head against the wall, and started to pray that Dom would pull through.

Sam slowly closed his eyes, feeling so exhausted from crying, and from being angry, and from any other emotion that he had felt that afternoon to late afternoon. It was all too much, but he knew he had to keep it together for a bit longer till he knew what was happening with his lover. Sam practically jumped out of his chair when he heard something crash in the room. His eyes flew open, and he got up, not knowing what the hell was happening. Sam's hand moved to his mouth, just watching in shock at Tommy throwing chairs around the room. Without thinking he screamed at Tommy, "Stop! Please stop!" Tommy soon stopped throwing the chairs, and just sat back into the chair, and began to sob at seeing how it was effecting Tommy, as much as it was himself.

Though the anger didn't stop showing through, when Sam then watched Tommy banging his fists on the wall. Sam brought his legs up, and planted his feet on the end of the chair, where he then wrapped his arms around his knees, hugging them to himself. He took a few deep breaths, trying to calm himself down. Hearing what Tommy said was probably about right. That creep so needed to be taught a lesson for messing with Dom the way he did. Sam wiped at his eyes, feeling like there were no more tears left in him, and feeling totally exhausted all over again. He just looked at Tommy as he apologised, and then slowly shook his head. Sam went to speak, but then cleared his throat a little, "It's okay. Everyone needs to let it out somehow."

The nurse then came back, which led to Sam let go of his legs and sit in the chair better. He listened to what she said, and when it came time for her to say that she asumed that they both will want to go with them, Sam nodded. He watched as Tommy got up, and exclaimed that he wanted to go, then said that he knew that Sam will too. Sam was glad that Tommy was there with him, as he had no idea how he was goign to go if he had no one there to just be there if he needed them. Sam slowly got up out of the seat, and stood up beside Tommy. It felt good to have Tommy there, and he turned and gave him a weak smile. As Tommy then spoke to him, Sam looked down for a second, taking in every word that was being said to him. Once he was finished, and when Tommy said that he would support Sam until Dom was back on his feet, Sam looked at Tommy, "Thank you." That was all he got out before he moved his arms around Tommy, giving him a quick hug, "Thank you so much."

Sam then walked out with Tommy, following the nurse to where they had to go. He kept one arm around Tommy, not wanting to let go, just in case there was any bad news, knowing if that happened, his legs might just give way.

[Dominic Salvatore]

Dom had desperately wanted to tell Sam that he loved him but when he had gone to open his mouth no words had come out and Sam basically made to tell him not to say anything and just hearing Sam calling him sweetie, that nickname that Sam had for him that he loved hearing him say so much and despite the pain he managed to give a very small smile but then he had coughed up even more blood and could tell from Sam’s eyes opening wide that it couldn’t be looking very good at all but then Dom knew that he was dying, he could feel that he was dying, he could feel his life slipping away with each slow and painful breath he took. But Dom wanted to tell Sam that he loved him for what felt like it could be the last time. As he said the words slowly he heard Sam begin to sob and he wanted to fight back and tell him that everything was going to be okay but he didn’t think it was going to be okay. He then brought Sam down to his lips and kissed him softly and right after asked Sam to look after Beth. Dom then felt Sam’s lips on his forehead barely and then just about heard Sam’s whispered words as he said that he would never forget and that he would look after Beth, Dom felt like he could let go of the world now.

After a couple of phone calls were made it soon became apparent that Dom would have to be sent to his local hospital in Nevada by air ambulance. However the doctor knew that it would take time and it was time that he felt they didn’t really have on their hands. The only way they would be able to get Dominic to the hospital in Nevada without a chance of him dying would be to hook him up to a life support machine. This is what the doctor done and the nurse Delores went out to tell Sam and Tommy what was happening. She had assumed that both the boys would want to go in the helicopter with Dominic to go back to Nevada. She had assumed right when Tommy said he wanted to go and that Sam would too and a nod of Sam’s head confirmed this. Delores gave them both a weak smile, “I thought you would want to come, so if you just follow me.” She replied and soon had them at a lift and pressed the call button. A couple of moments later the lift arrived and the doors opened and Delores stepped inside and once the boys had followed her in she took the lift to the top of the building.

“There are a few stairs we will still have to climb, as obviously the elevator can’t take us to the roof.” Delores explained hoping that the boys’ legs would be able to carry them up the stairs knowing how difficult it must be for them to take all of this in, especially Sam, somehow Delores just knew that Sam was Dominic’s partner. The lift soon stopped and the doors opened and Delores continued to the stairs and soon opened the door onto the roof. “Just have to warn you before we get out that sometimes it can be a bit windy, so just be careful how you move.” She warned and then led the way to where the small helicopter with Kahala Hospital Air Ambulance written on the side with a hospital red cross on its tail. She then turned to Sam and Tommy, “He isn’t here yet, so if you can just wait outside it will be easier to get Dominic into the helicopter first and then you can both climb in afterward.” She explained and gave them a weak smile.

About five minutes later a couple of doors on the opposite side of the doors that they had all come out of opened and out came a hospital porter pushing a stretcher bed and the doctor pushing the mobile life support machine. Dominic was completely unconscious now, not aware of anything that was going on around him. The pilot inside the helicopter soon lowered a ramp and the doctor and porter pushed the stretcher up into the helicopter and a couple of minutes later the porter was back out. He nodded at Delores and the boys, “You can make your way in now.” Delores turned to Sam and Tommy, “After the both of you.” Once the boys were inside Delores climbed in after them. The helicopter was big enough for one patient bed and up to six passengers, so luckily there was manoeuvring room. Once the door was closed over the pilot started up the engine and the blades began to rotate and soon he had them up in the air heading in the general direction of Nevada.

**** Approximately four hours later ****

They had been in the air for around four hours now and the doctor had been keeping a close check on Dominic the whole time and so far everything seemed to be going well. It was at this point the pilot put out an announcement, “Flight path has been clear, so I should get you guys into Nevada within the hour, how’s it going back there?” The doctor checked over Dom’s vitals and could see that all things considering everything seemed to be going well. “He’s hanging in there, but I think the life support machine has something to do with that.” The doctor shouted through to the pilot, “Well if the flight path stays as clear as it is then I see no problem for us getting into Nevada even sooner than the hour.” The pilot replied and went back to concentrating on his job.

However about fifteen minutes later they hit their first bit of turbulence and the helicopter began to shake and the doctor knew that it wasn’t a good sign given the fact that he would now have to make sure the life support machine wasn’t somehow dislodged. No sooner did he think about that there was a massive dip and the helicopter shook violently with the strong turbulence. “I’m sorry folks we seem to have hit a really bad air pocket, things could be like this for a little while, I’m going to do my best to get out of it and take a slightly different path.” The pilot shouted and in the meantime the doctor kept a close eye on the screen that was monitoring Dominic’s situation. The pilot was doing his best to find a clear path to take and after getting clearance from air control he began to make the helicopter swerve to get into a new flight path but as he did so he hit another massive bit of turbulence and this time it knocked the life support machine over and the doctor wasn’t quick enough to catch it.

What he didn’t realise however was that the machine had managed to dislodge from Dominic and the next sound to be heard was the sound of someone’s heart stopping as the screen began to give out a flat line. Delores knew that they would need to use the defibrillator on Dominic and lifted the paddles rubbing them together to charge them and the doctor counted her in. “One, two, three, go” She pressed the paddles down onto Dominic’ chest and then the doctor massaged the heart a few times and glanced at the screen and shook his head, “We need to do it again there was no response.” Delores rubbed the paddles together again and once more pressed them onto Dominic’s chest after the doctor counted her in and again he massaged the chest. Once more he glanced at the screen to see no response. “Come on Dominic, I’m not going to lose you now, not when we have brought you this far. Delores one more time, if there is no response this time...” He trailed off as he didn’t want to say it not when Dominic’s friends were in the helicopter with them.

Delores charged up the paddles one more time and on the doctor’s count again pressed them onto the Dominic’s chest, this time a faint noise began to bleep from the screen. “We have him back, barely.” The doctor got the life support hooked back up to Dominic and then shouted through to the pilot, “We nearly lost him there, do you think we can still make good time?” Luckily the pilot had managed to get them onto a clearer flight path and hopefully everything would go smooth from that point onward now. “Hopefully sir, I have managed to get us onto another clear flight path, another half an hour possibly should see us right.” The pilot replied and the doctor looked at Delores, “I hope we can make it.” He then turned to the boys and gave them a very sympathetic smile, “I’m sorry about that, the turbulence made the life support dislodge and that’s why Dominic flat lined, but we’re hoping that everything should be fine now until we get him to the hospital in Nevada.”

[tommy]

When Sam had panicked over forgetting to let Dominic’s best friend Stacey know of the situation Tommy had put his hand on Sam’s arm and let him know that he had already sent a text from Dom’s phone explaining what had happened. Sam naturally thanked Tommy and he just gave a slight nod of his head. “Not a problem mate.” He replied and gave Sam a weak smile. It was definitely a harrowing time. For everything he thought could have happened at the show today seeing his friend Dominic stabbed like that most definitely wasn’t one of them. Now it seemed as if the greatest voice to ever come out of American Idol in a long time was going to leave this world. It didn’t bare thinking about.

The emotion and the waiting had begun to take its toll on Tommy however and like earlier when he had gone around and smashed up some of the stage he decided to take it out on the chairs in the room they were in and began to hurl them across the floor. He knew that it wouldn’t be helping Sam any but he somehow just had to get his frustrations and anger out and right then that seemed the only way to him. He soon heard Sam scream for him to stop and it was like reality hit him and he stopped throwing the chairs. He wanted to apologise to Sam but he couldn’t find the words right then, anger still coursing through his veins. So to get it out this time he began to bang his fists onto the wall and then proceeded to use some profanity as he quite clearly stated what he would do to Simon if he ever got him alone.

Tommy then sat down again and apologised to Sam for his little outburst and when Sam replied saying it was okay adding that everyone needed to let it out somehow he just gave Sam a weak smile. “I guess, but it ain’t helping the situation any is it? All it did was make me feel a bit better getting those frustrations out, would rather it was Simon’s face I was ripping apart mind ya.” Tommy said as he lifted his finger up to his mouth and began to chew on the knuckle slightly. It was soon after this that the nurse came back into the room and explained what was going to happen next as she spoke of them having to air ambulance Dominic to Nevada and how he was going to be hooked up to a life support machine. Tommy hadn’t hesitated in saying he would want to go adding that he knew Sam would too and he saw Sam nod his head to confirm that. Tommy saw that weak smile that Sam gave him and he returned it with one of his own as he then told Sam that he would be there to support him until Dom was back on his feet.

Sam then turned to him and thanked him and then he felt Sam’s arms go around him as he gave Tommy a hug. Tommy without hesitation wrapped his arms around Sam and hugged him back. “You’re welcome Sam mate, that’s what friends are for. They stand by each other through the good and the bad.” He then patted Sam’s back twice gently and pulled apart from the hug but kept his one arm around Sam’s shoulder to support him physically. The nurse then told them to follow her and that’s exactly what Tommy did taking Sam with him as his arm was around Sam’s shoulder and he felt Sam’s arm around him. They were soon taken to a lift and were told that they would still have a few stairs to climb as obviously the elevator couldn’t take them directly to the roof. Soon enough they were up those stairs and getting ready to go out onto the roof when the nurse told them to be careful how they move as it can be very windy. “I think we’re supporting each other well enough, but thanks for the warning.” Tommy said and gave the nurse a smile.

They were then told that Dominic wasn’t there yet and they would have to wait until he was, as it would be easier for Dominic to be put into the helicopter first, which made sense to be fair. “Not a problem.” Tommy answered and stood with Sam and waited. Soon enough Tommy could see a porter with a doctor and Dominic lying on the stretcher. Tommy couldn’t help but think to himself how fragile Dominic looked right then. Which was ironic considering Dominic had the power of being superhuman and yet looking at him you would think that he had no strength in him whatsoever. In a way he looked almost peaceful if it weren’t for the great big wound dressing on his abdomen with the blood seeping through at an alarming rate. Soon enough Dominic was inside the helicopter and they were told they could then go inside. Once they were all inside, the helicopter began to move and soon enough they were on their way to Nevada.

**** Approximately four hours later ****

The flight seemed to be going well from what Tommy could tell, but for most of it, he hadn’t really said much, but then figured that there wasn’t really much to be said. He kept drifting in and out of sleep during the four hours, because really with a doctor and a nurse there with Dominic, what could he do anyway? There was some talk going on between the doctor and the pilot and Tommy seemed quite content knowing that everything was still going to plan. He just wanted his friend to get to that hospital and get his much needed operation. He had told Sam that Dominic was a fighter as he had Italian blood in him and Italians were always fighters, but it was clear to see that Dominic wasn’t in a good way at all.

Then they hit some turbulence. Tommy was used to it with the many flights he had taken, so at first didn’t really think anything of it. Even when they dipped and the helicopter shook violently he still didn’t think anything of it until he heard the screen that was keeping a check of Dominic’s vitals flat line. Tommy had heard the noise in hospital television shows and movies often enough to know what that meant and he immediately sat up and without thinking what he was doing made a grab for Sam’s hand and began to squeeze it tight. Whether he was doing it for his own benefit or for Sam’s he wasn’t sure, but he just needed to do it.

The scene that began to play out was like something from a horror movie. Keeping his one hand firmly in Sam’s and squeezing it every single time the defibrillator was used and his other hand up to his mouth chewing on his knuckle. He just wanted to hear that screen show the heart beating again but after the second round there was still no response and Tommy could feel his emotions getting the better of him again and tears began to fall from his eyes involuntarily. He didn’t want to cry, he had to be the strong one for Sam, but watching the scene and thinking that Dominic was going to die in front of them on the helicopter when they were so near to getting back home was too much for him to take.

On the third attempt the screen began to bleep again and Tommy squeezed Sam’s hand really tightly once more and turned to look at him. “Thank god, I thought we were going to lose him, I couldn’t handle that so I don’t know how the hell you would have.” Tommy said and then realised that he was still holding Sam’s hand. “Uhm, sorry about that mate, I guess I just, what does it matter, we both need the support right now.” He gave Sam a weak smile and kept his hand there, if Sam wanted to remove his then he could. The doctor then turned to him and Sam and apologised for the scene that had just played out and explained why Dominic had flat lined. “Thanks for everything ya did to bring him back, and I sure as hell hope so.” Now it was just a waiting game until they got to Nevada and to see how it all goes with the operation.