Warnings:
-Mentions child abuse + being shot

Sapnap's POV

I woke up with a pounding headache, Jimmy was still closely in my arms. It seemed like he hadn't moved a muscle while I was asleep and his arms were tightly wrapped around my waist. The only thing that changed was the phone in his hands, scrolling through some texts he got.

I focused my eyes and glanced at the screen without thinking about anything bad that could possibly happen. However, my feelings quickly changed when Jimmy clicked a video his father sent to him. A video where his dad was pointing a gun at Jimmy...

My heartbeat sped up, shivers going down my spine. I swallowed and let out a gasp, my eyes widening. Jimmy heard me and quickly scrolled away but I managed to catch a glimpse of what his dad put below it.

Dad
look at your scared face, I can't wait to get home for another round of russian roulette :) your chest again or this time your head? ;p

I gasped again and abruptly sat up as I looked at Jimmy with big eyes, grabbing his phone straight away. 'Jimmy, what the hell is this?'

'Oh...' he stumbled, rolling his eyes with a playful smile. 'It's just a joke between my father and me... He finds the Russian roulette movies fun and just- you know?'

'Show me your chest,' I demanded, sitting down on my knees in front of him. 'Jimmy, has he shot you? You're going to answer me right now or I'll pull your shirt up myself. HAS HE SHOT YOU?'

'Chill,' Jimmy whispered with a shaky voice. 'It's nothing and definitely nothing serious, so don't worry about me. Have you slept well?'

'Jimmy, don't change the subject. Show me your chest. I'm not asking this again. Has your dad shot you and have you just been walking around with it as if nothing happened? Do you realise what that means? You can have internal bleeding and other serious injuries. Show me, NOW!'

'Okay, calm down. He shot me in my chest a few days ago, but I tried to remove the bullet myself and the bleeding stopped so it's fine. There's no need to worry anymore.' He let out a nervous giggle and tried to move away from me to stand up.

I held him back, pushed him down on the bed and lifted his shirt up, my face flushing red as I saw the bruise, bigger than my own hand. 'Jimmy, you're coming with me to the ER.'

I didn't wait for an answer and grabbed my phone to call Clay, not expecting my foster parents to be available to drive us to the hospital.

However, before I clicked the call button, Jimmy grabbed my phone and shook his head heavily. 'I'm sure it's fine, Sapnap. No one is allowed to know about this so please... don't call anyone.'

'Jimmy, I respect your boundaries, but I'm going to call no matter what excuse you come up with. There's a chance you're slowly bleeding to death or have another very threatening injury and I'm not going to ignore that, just to find you dead in a few days.'

I saw tears in Jimmy's eyes, his hand grasping onto mine. 'But Sapnap, please don't tell anyone about my father. He's just angry at me for what I've done, but I don't want him to go to jail for it. I understand why he's mad and he always apologises after he has abused me. He doesn't want it either, he promised me that.'

I swallowed and felt my heart rate speed up even more, seeing my own father in front of me again. 'Jimmy, that's what my father always said to me, but it's a lie. He purposely abuses you, he sends you these videos as well. He doesn't want to go to jail either and makes you believe you're in the wrong so he'll be safe.'

'But...' Jimmy started, a tear rolling down his cheek. 'I promise, it's nothing bad. I just took the bullet out and it stopped bleeding very soon so I won't have any injuries from it.'

'Have you had any weird symptoms?' I asked as he gently touched the skin around his bruise. 'Jimmy, I know this is a difficult step, but please, you need to go to the hospital. I won't talk about your dad for now, but I have to make sure you're okay.'

'I've just had some pain and trouble breathing in...' he whispered, intertwining our fingers. 'I don't know where to go without my parents, Sapnap.'

'I don't have my parents anymore either,' I replied. 'And I'm doing way better than I used to when I was still around my dad.'

'But you hate it here...' Jimmy sobbed softly and laid his head down on my shoulder. 'I don't want to leave my house and go somewhere it's even worse.'

'It'll never get worse, Jimmy,' I promised. 'I hate it here, but I hated it ten times as bad at home. I'm going to text Clay if his foster parents can pick us up straight away.

I went to his chat as Jimmy held me tightly and began to spam him with countless short messages so he would read his texts, a message with "chill dude" followed.

You
Jimmy needs to go to the hospital right now and we need someone to drive us there. would your parents be available? it's very important, he has to go to the ER

It stayed quiet for a while and Jimmy curled up in my arms, pressing a gentle kiss on my neck. 'I love you, Sapnap. Thank you for showing your love to me, I didn't think anyone would care about it.'

'I care way more about you than you even realise,' I answered, a text from Clay coming in.

Clay
I asked them and they are grapping the kies (the tings to open a car)

You
thank them <3 did I interrupt you?

Clay
I'm with my new freind Nola and she is hapie you masaged me so he can get help :) car is to smal for all of us so I'm not sure what I sould do

You

Clay
what does that mean?

You
that I'll text you as soon as I have more news :) thank you for helping me, I hope you've been okay. I'll try to come to you tonight if you're free then

Clay
I am, I miss you :( but I have good news! I asked fotser paterns if I could get a digaosis for dislexie and adhd and they agreed to let me get a test. they aslo ask me if I want to do socer so I'm alowed to join a teem!

You
I'm so happy for you, dude. we'll catch up about everything later today, okay? I'm going to make sure Jimmy is okay

Clay
he won't die right? :(

You
he won't, don't worry <3 see you, have fun with Nola!

Clay
good luck in the hopistal and get wel soon Jimmy :)

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