What did I just do? (Tadhg)

[brooke]

Brooke felt sick. She couldn't believe she'd just done that. Said that. Even thought what she'd been thinking! And after getting herself all worked up, she wasn't feeling very well at all. Making her way to the nearest bathroom, she rushed into the stall and threw up.

Now fully equipt with a piece of chewing gum to try and cover up the taste of vomit, she exited the bathroom very pale with her hair pulled back into a ponytail. She had to get to the nurse... sent home... she couldn't see Blane again that day.

She stopped, however, as she saw Tadhg looking around the hallway. Was he looking for her? She stopped walking and watched him to see if he'd see her.

[Tadhg Kelly]

Tad spotted Brooke coming out of the bathroom and walked over to her, immediately letting go of his stomache: he didn't want to seem like a pansy.

"Holy fuck , there you are," he said quickly, in a concerned way. "Are you all right? I heard a bang before you came running. Did he hit you?"

[brooke]

Brooke was only slightly embarassed to be seen in such a condition. She was more proud of what she had just done, no matter how bad she felt after the fact. This must have been how Tadhg felt after he stood up to Blane but got his ass kicked.

"I'm okay. I mean, I'm not okay, but I'll be okay." She nodded, smiling. "He pushed me against the lockers, pinned me there. Pretty hard, I hit my head a little but it's alright." She didn't want him to worry about her too much, but she liked the fact that he was so concerned.

[Tadhg Kelly]

"Do you need to see the nurse?" he asked, glancing at the back of her head to be sure there wasn't any bleeding. "God, what an asshole."

[brooke]

Brooke shrugged. She knew there was no blood, but the lump on the back of her head was starting to grow. She could feel it. "I suppose I probably should... I think I'll go home sick. I have a few classes with him, and I just... I can't see him again. Not today." She stopped talking for a moment. "I can't believe I just did that." Her tone was that of disbelief, and not the good kind either. Blane was going to kill her the next time he saw her.

[Tadhg Kelly]

"I can walk you if it's cool," Tad offered. "I can't believe you did either. That took some balls, sorry guts. It was pretty amazing except for the whole locker thing, but look at that, you managed to come out of this with all your organs functioning properly."

He could feel his insides squirming and not because of the kick Blane had given him, but played it cool on his exterior.

[brooke]

"I wouldn't want you to be late to class," Brooke said, but didn't say anything else to stop Tadhg from walking with her. She still felt sick and a little dizzy now, and wanted someone there in case she got ill again.

"Thanks. He's going to kill me later, though. This is nothing... I'll be surprised if I don't end up in the hospital next." Brooke paused. "Sorry, I didn't mean to bring that up... just... sorry," she said, blushing slightly.

[Tadhg Kelly]

Tad didn't even flinch as she mentioned his trip to the hospital. He began to walk her down the hall to the Docotr's Office. He could tell he was going to be down there a lot this year.

"It's fine," he said, his voice suggesting he was over it. "He's not going to kill you. I- I wouldn't let him do that. I can actually fight pretty well when I'm not ambushed. I also make a pretty good human sheild, I've been told."

[brooke]

Brooke stopped walking, a very serious look on her face. "No. No... don't do that. I mean, I'm glad you'd stand up for me, but I can deal with it. I don't want you getting involved with this. I mean, he hates you enough as it is, but if you start defending me or something, it's only going to be worse. Please... please, just stay away from him."

Brooke usually blamed herself when bad things happened, and this was no different. From now on, if Tadhg got hurt by Blane, she would feel partially responsible. She should've known better than to talk to him and Audrey in the hallway, especially when she knew that eventually Blane would come looking for her.

[Tadhg Kelly]

"He attacked me in the park the other night, and I wasn't even trying to find him. I think it's safe to say I can't avoid him," he said patiently. "I want to get involved. Besides, no offense but I don't think you'd be able to stand against him if it came down to it. He's twisted."

He glanceed down at her wrist where a bruise was forming from Blane's hand. Stupid prick, he thought. He wished she'd just let him help her: he wanted to. Besides, he'd already put himself at risk just by walking her to the nurse, and frankly he thought it was worth it. He felt his face flush, something he wasn't used to. He didn't like wearing his emotions on his sleeves.

[blane]

Blane had been charging through the halls looking for Brooke where he finally spotted her walking along with that fucking Tadhg kid, just having a nice little fucking conversation. Blane was an idiot; he could tell by their body language what was going on. They clearly were having some type of flirting fest. It was bad enough that Brooke had run away from him, but now she was with him . . . .

Blane was walking behind them and quietly walked up behind Tad, grabbed him by the back of the shirt, and threw him against the lockers face first.

"YOU STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY GIRLFRIEND!" he cried furiously at Tad before turning to Brooke and grabbing a handful of her hair. "What the fuck is this?" he exclaimed pointing at Tad, "I thought I told you to stay away from this little fucker!"

[Tadhg Kelly]

Tad felt someone grab him by his grey jacket, and had a moment's comprehension before he hit the lockers rather painfully. He fell to the ground in a heap, and wiped at his nose. It had hit the locker first and was bleeding. . .again.

"Fuck," he groaned. Then he looked up and saw that Blane had Brooke by the hair.

"She can talk to whoever the fuck she wants," he spat, getting on one knee and punching Blane in the gut.

[blane]

The punched momentarily knocked the wind out of Blane who imediatly let go of Brooke. "That was very very stupid." he said calmly. After recovering for just a moment he grabbed Tad's head and bashed it with his knee Then kicked him in the gut.

[Tadhg Kelly]

"That's why I'm not in honors," Tad said before receiving a knee to his head. Fuck his long hair.

He quickly drew his hands to his head, but was then kicked in the gut. Luckily for him, he'd spent the last two days recovering, so he didn't hack blood this time, but he did feel tears at the corners of his eyes. He still had the fucking bruises everywear. He stayed on three limbs (his on arm was rapped around his chest), panting with his face towards the floor.

"If you wanted to leave now, that'd be a good idea," he said to Brooke.

He then balled his hand into his fist and punched Blane right in the nuts, as hard as he could manage. Fuck honor among men too. This guy was asking for it.

[blane]

Blane grabbed his friend and fell to his knees. After he took a moment to catched his breat he returned the favor to Tad by punching him in the balls then in the face before rolling over in his side and crying a little from the pain in his nuts.

[Tadhg Kelly]

Tad, let out a gasp of pain, and sat very still for 10 seconds after Blane had punched his nads. He didn't even want to imagine what he looked like anymore as Blane landed another punch on his face. He cried out, and clutched his face with one hand and his manhood with the other, falling over on the floor.

He lay their, panting still and not daring to move. He was afraid of what he'd feel or not be able to feel if he moved.

((wanna wait for Erica to post or not?))

[brooke]

((ooc- good call, because I would've broken this up sooner. Or at least gotten involed.))

Brooke couldn't force herself to move at all as she stood there, frozen. She watched the two boys go at it, knowing that she should run, get some help, find a teacher... but she couldn't. Her feet wouldn't move. This was her fight too, and she shouldn't be letting Tadhg fight it for her.

As the punches to the 'sensitive areas' began, she was suddenly shocked from her stupor. Tadhg couldn't last much longer, and she had to do something.

"Tadhg!" Brooke exclaimed, walking over to him. "Don't move," she advised, like he had an option. She then turned on Blane. "He was right. I can talk to whoever I want to. Anyone. Even this little fucker," she said, using his own words to describe Tadhg. "I don't know what made you think you owned me, that you CONTROLED me, but you were wrong." With that she landed her own kick to Blane in the gut, and she had to admit that it felt good.

[blane]

Blane grabbed Brooke's foot as she kicked him, he couldn't stop it from happening, but he did manage to pull the bitch down on the ground. He put his hands around her neck, got on top of her and began choking her right there on the floor.

"STUPID BITCH!" he exclaimed, "Why can't you just do what I tell you? huh?"

[brooke]

Brooke didn't even hesitate. Call it a survival instinct, but she suddenly didn't care about being nice any more. She'd lived her whole life by the books, being kind, giving people a chance. No more, at least not with Blane.

As her face began to turn blue by the sudden lack of oxygen, Brooke swung a hand up and punched Blane square in the nose with every ounce of her might. She punched him again quickly, and attempted to pry his hands off her neck while he was hurt.

[Tadhg Kelly]

Tadgh slowly got to his hands and knees, seeing that Blane had wrapped his hands around Brooke's throat. She was punching the hell out of his face. He came up from behind, and threw Blane off of her. He used the momentum to take Blane's head an slam it into the locker.

[blane]

Blane kept one hand around Brooke's neck and the other went up to take care of his nose. He felt blood dip in his hands. He let go of her throat and pinned her arms down with his knees. With a howl of rage he smacked Brooke across the face.

"See what happens when you punch me?" he exclaimed slapping her again, "Huh?" then again. Suddenly he felt himself get pushed off Brooke and his head hit the lockers behind him painfully. He was see spots but he could still make out Tad.

"WHY YOU!" he lunged at Tad, pinned him down and punched him repeatedly in the FACE.

[brooke]

Brooke's face was red and it stung, but that wasn't anything compared to the wounds of the two boys. She came up behind him as he punched Tadhg and tackled him, knocking him off his feet again. She had heard once that if you hit someone hard enough in the temple that they passed out... too hard and they might die, though. She doubted she had that much power, and she didn't care if she did.

Aiming her punch for his temple and hitting him right on the side of his head, she tried to keep him down, or at least away from Tadhg. "What's the matter? Can't fight a girl? Have to pick on the new kid who's already hurt and can't defend himself?" Her voice came in gasps as she was still recovering from the choking, but it wasn't that bad. Breathing hurt her still, though.

[Desmond Giuseppe]

Desmond had just been told by his best friend, Audrey, that he might need to break up a fight with Blane and the new kid, whom Audrey had told him she affectionately nick named "Noob" and Brooke. Desmond, of course, had stopped at the gym to get a nice baseball bat just in case he needed it before setting off to find them. It took him a little longer than he had expected to locate them, but when he did he could clearly see that all three of them were in pretty bad shape and still fighting.

Desmond sighed, got pretty close to the action, then hit the bat against the lockers as hard as he could creating quite the bang.

"Hello, Blane." he said calmly, "You wanna fucking scram before a use my little friend here?" He shook the bat menacingly.

[audrey]

Audrey came running up behind Desmond. "Look Noob!" she called, "I got you some back up!" she gave him the thumbs up.

[brooke]

((ooc- can I assume she was still on top of him?))

Brooke, taking advantage of a sudden rush of frustration and anger, kept hitting Blane in the face with every sentence she said. "WHY CAN'T YOU BE A DECENT BOYFRIEND?" Punch. "Why won't you let me help you?" Punch. "Why won't you CHANGE!" Punch. "Why did I waste the last year and a half of my life on you?" Punch. "Why did I let you manipulate me?"

She was wailing, losing focus and force with her hits as she spoke and got more and more upset over her situation. She'd wanted to do this for a long time, she just hadn't realized it until that moment. It was then that Desmond hit the lockers, and Brooke jumped off of him, backing up slowly. What had she done?