Chapter 5

Coup d'etat

The Warblers were in a state of panic. Their former captain was known for a weak stomach and was a little short tempered. But he was delirious.

Clark approached Sebastian. He looked off. They all were after being subjected to what Hunter's drugging. But Sebastian looked a little more worse for wear than the other Warblers. He sat by himself at the overstuffed armchair at the corner of the room away from the others. And he was murmuring to himself.

"Sebastian?"

He looked up. He looked exhausted; his hair disheveled, dark bags under his eyes and his eyes bloodshot. When he looked up his eyes widened in terror. He jumped to his feet which startled Clark and caught most of the Warbler's attention.

"Are you okay? Do you need to go to the nurse or something?"

"Stay away from me!" he exclaimed in fright.

"What's wrong?" I asked stepping closer. He jerked back and broke one of the vases on the table.

"Bas!" Clark exclaimed which caused most of the Warblers to come closer to help.

"Stay away from me!" he exclaimed again his arm scratched on the glass more and he looked down in his hand in terror blood flowing freely down his arm and he fainted.

"Sebastian!" Clark exclaimed getting to the fallen Warbler. Which caused some of the older Warblers to take charge.

Nick used his sleeved arm to push the broken vase away as they assessed the situation.

David pulled out his tie and tied it just above Sebastian's arm to stop him from bleeding out while Nick was patting Sebastian's face.

"He's out cold." Nick said paling.

"Jeff, run to the Medical Wing tell them what's happened and we're bringing him there." David said which caused the blonde to run out of the room. "John help me with him."

John picked up Sebastian's legs while David has his arms and they carried him to the Medical Wing. Nick made sure that they didn't bump into anyone and that nothing happens on the way.

The students were staring at the Warblers as they ran through the hallways in urgency with their former captain in their arms. In an all boys' school of the priviledged, this is a rather unusual occurrence. And none of the students knew what to make of it.

They met Jeff and the doctor (who was thankfully still at Dalton at the time) at the Clinic they already had a bed open as soon as they got there. The nurse shooed them out of the room as they got to work.

Being a boarding school and slightly away from what could be considered as civilization in Westerville Ohio, The Warblers felt they haven't been luckier to have a doctor on call in campus.

Especially with two of their own in the hospital after everything that is going on. They really need help. But who can they to turn to?

~()~

Thad woke up in the Medical Wing. He had been running a high fever for the past week or so. With the whole issues with Hunter and the Warblers being driven to the ground along with schoolwork, Thad got sick and took a bit of convincing for Trent to drag him to the Medical Wing.

He was feeling a little better compared to when he went into the Wing that morning. His head had stopped throbbing. And he felt less sore than when he entered leaning heavily on Trent.

He looked around the Medical Wing. He rarely went to there. Or at least he rarely got confided. He turned to the side and saw another student who he was sure wasn't there that morning.

The boy groaned and turned his head.

"Sebastian?"

Sebastian's head was turning back and forth and he was whispering in his sleep.

"No.. Please…I am not your father… I love you, Vanessa…Don't."

Thad got off the bed and started to shake Sebastian awake.

"Bas, Bas! Wake up!"

Sebastian woke up with wide eyes. He quickly sat up and Thad stepped back.

"Are you okay?" Thad asked. Sitting on the corner of Sebastian's bed.

"Yeah." Sebastian said pulling his old persona. "Why wouldn't I be?"

"Well, one doesn't end up in the Medical Wing without a valid reason." Thad said sarcastically.

"What are you doing here then?"

"I was feeling a bit off." Thad said honestly. "Over work and stuff."

"I see." Sebastian said. Moving his hand back under the cover. Thad looked at Sebastian's hands.

"What happened?" Thad demanded grabbing hold of his arm. The scars were deep. There were six parallel lines and one long line cutting through the middle.

"Nothing." Sebastian said pulling his hand back

"This isn't 'nothing' Sebastian." Thad said. "No matter how bad your past is. This is really bad. You need to talk to someone about it."

"Well it's nothing I want to talk about so shut it."

"Who's Vanessa?"

Thad watched Sebastian's eyes go wide.

"W-Where did you hear that name?"

"From you." Thad said. "You were whispering about a Vanessa in your sleep. You loved her."

"No I didn't." Sebastian said. "She's just someone in my past. That is not important."

"Sebastian."

"Nothing. I don't need your pity or your judgment."

"I am not saying anything of that sort." Thad said. "Sebastian. I am your best friend."

"Say's who." Sebastian said bitterly. "The last time I had a best friend. They deserted me when things went bad. So I am sorry if I don't take your word."

"Sebastian."

Thad started to cough.

"You really need to get back to bed."

"I will." Thad said. "After we talk."

"You'd end up sleeping on your feet." Sebastian said.

"Fine then I'm sleeping here." Thad said forthright. He then pushed Sebastian slightly and got himself settled on one side of Sebastian's bed. Which made Sebastian very uncomfortable. He moved a little which put a bit of pressure to his arm. Sebastian yelped in pain.

Thad caught sight of the bandaged arm.

He grabbed his hand he pulled it closer. There was some blood seeping from the bandages.

"What happened?"

"Just an accident. In the Warbler Room." Sebastian said.

"You don't get accidents." Thad pointed out.

"Fine. I've been feeling a little off." Sebastian admitted. "Lack of sleep that's all. Now would you please go back to your bed?"

"Not until you tell me who Vanessa is."

"She was my ex girlfriend."

"You had an ex- girlfriend?"

"Had."

"What happened?"

"She's a psychopathic bitch who tried to kill me."

Sebastian absentmindedly rubbed the scars.

"She did that?" Thad asked. "Why didn't you tell us?"

"I can't."

"Why?" Thad demanded. "Because of your so called image. What about the Warblers! We're brothers. We'll understand!"

"It's not that." Sebastian said. "I can't handle the look that you will all give me if you find out."

"This is about pride!"

"No it's not." Sebastian said. "I just don't want you all to see me that way."

"What? With pity?"

"No. Sebastian said looking away. "I just don't want you all to see me as broken."

"We wont." Thad reassured then started coughing again.

"You need to rest." Sebastian insisted. "You still seem a bit warm."

"Fine." Thad relented "But we're going to talk about this when I wake up."

"Sure." Sebastian said. "Go back to sleep."

"Okay." Thad said sleepily. "Good Night, Bas."

"Night." Sebastian said looking away.

He wasn't really looking forward to having all the cards on the table. But he is one hundred percent certain that Thad is not going to let him out of it.

~()~

Unfortunately, they weren't able to talk until a little after Sectionals. And it wasn't in the more comfortable setting.

Thad and Trent knocked on Sebastian and Hunter's room.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Trent asked. "I mean I know that Sebastian is our friend and all. But from what I know of how long we've been with Sebastian. He has to come with it at his own terms. Or he'll shut down."

"It'll be fine." Thad said. "Sebastian promised me. One thing he never does is dishonoring a promise."

Trent knocked on the door. No one answered the door.

"Maybe he's not inside."

"He doesn't have lacrosse practice." Thad said. "Where else would he be?"

Trent shrugged. "Scandals?"

"He hasn't gone to Scandals after what happened with Dave Karofsky".

"I did not know that."

"Well, Sebastian isn't the most open person."

"Well, there's that."

Thad knocked again but this time a girl opened the door. The girl was gorgeous she was wearing a very revealing dress which shocked them both considering who's room it was. She had long brown hair and these stunning grey eyes.

"Can I help you?" she asked them sweetly.

"We..uhm."

"We were looking for Sebastian." Trent said interrupting Thad's incoherent speech.

"He's not here." She said keeping the door focused on her not letting the two warblers see the room. "He went to track practice."

"Sebastian doesn't do track." Thad pointed out. The two exchanged a look then all hell broke loose. The girl quickly tried to shut the door in their face. Thad managed to barge through the door. Trent kept a hold on the girl. Not knowing what might happen. They found a squirming form under the covers and Thad swiftly threw off the covers.

What they found shocked them.

Sebastian was just in his underwear in the middle of the bed. His hair was a mess and he was sweating like crazy. His hands were bound with a long piece of rope on the bedframe and he had a rope around his neck. He had a tie wrapped around his mouth and when he saw Thad he started to struggle more.

Sebastian got drunk so many times that they know Drunk Sebastian was a very happy Sebastian. But this one is angry. And there was this scared look in his eyes that is rarely ever seen in Sebastian.

Thad quickly removed the gag around his mouth and started to untie the bounds on his hands.

"Thank you." Sebastian whispered to Thad. As soon as he was released from the binds he frantically removed a silver ring from his finger that Thad hadn't noticed before. But what surprised him the most was the fact that Sebastian started to cling to Thad. He was hyperventilating and Thad was doing everything he could, trying to calm the usually well put together Warbler.

"Leave him alone!" the girl exclaimed struggling from Trent's grip. "You're ruining him!"

"Who the hell are you anyway?" Thad demanded his arms still around Sebastian as he started to calm down but the shivering has yet to stop.

"Vanessa." Sebastian whispered.

"Your psychotic ex girlfriend?" Thad asked increadulously. He didn't think that Vanessa was so pretty. But then again it was Sebastian.

"I'm hurt, Chris." Vanessa said in her sickly sweet voice. "I thought you loved me."

"My name is Sebastian." Sebastian said shakily. "Chris died. He died two years ago. You killed him."

Thad kept his arms around his fellow Warbler. He looked around the room.

It was clean.

It didn't look lived in. It barely looked like someone was sleeping in the room. It didn't look like a home for the school year.

He looks down at the hysteric Warbler in his arms. Sebastian is not going to be able to help in this. He needs to step in.

~()~

The door opened the Senior Warblers started to get themselves comfortable. They met at Thad's dorm room thinking and planning on how to go about this. Nick was the last to enter the dorm room.

"Where's Jeff?"

"He's taking care of one of the Freshman Warblers. Hallucinations."

"This is getting out of hand." Thad said.

"But there is nothing much we can do." David said. "The administration assigned Hunter for this role."

"And Sebastian is practically threatened to silence." John pointed out "He is the only one who can be considered as a witness that Hunter was the one who bought the drugs not anyone else.

"He is the only one who could argue the point that we need to get across." Nick said. "No matter how frightening he could be. He is one of the most persuasive people I know."

"What is wrong with all of you?" Thad demanded catching them all by surprise. "Sebastian is not the only one fighting this fight. We all are."

"Thad the past few years we are nothing more than students in this school." David pointed out "Just names in a long list of students."

"And why can't we be more than that? Are we not allowed to fight for ourselves?"

"What do you suggest we do?" Nick asked.

Thad looked at his fellow Warblers. Senior Warblers or not, they were all affected by this. The older Warblers are about to leave the school. And are most probably afraid of having the backlash if word got out before they graduate. But they all know deep inside that they cant just stand around doing nothing.

"We fight back." He said confidently. "We have to."

Wow that was a hard chapter to write

Anyways. I honestly didn't know there were still people reading this story until I got reviews recently about this. I almost forgot about this story. It's almost done anyways soo :D

I just got my laptop reset. (because certain programs stopped working right when I needed it the most and I couldn't reinstall it so drastic measures were taken) So most of my works are lost. Well notes mostly. Works are all backed up but all my notes for all my stories are gone. New ideas, new chapters, random thoughts. EVERYTHING is lost in the world of…erased content.

I think I'll end this rant here hehe

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