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- MoriartysHolmie

Thomas POV

It's been 2 weeks since Daniel disappeared. I still can't process it.

I need him, I miss him. He made me feel whole again. Please come back.

2 weeks later.

It's been a month since Danny's been missing. I'm sure we'll find him soon. I hope we'll find him soon.

2 months later

Baxter POV

"Thomas?" I knocked softly on the under butler's door.

" Go away." He replied groggily, and in pain.

" Are you alright? " I whispered.

" Yes I'm bloody alr-" a painful whimper came out of him.

" I'm coming in." I demanded.

"No. Don't. " as soon as he said that I opened the door.

His eyes were bloodshot, his skin was even paler than usual, and he had at least three needles sticking in his arms.

" I told you I'm ff-fine." He shivered.

I closed the door. " Thomas why are you doing this to yourself?"

"I said leave me alone!" He shouted in painful agony.

"Not until you tell me why you're doing this." I stood firm.

" I-I just want to be normal." He cried.

"You are normal." I knelt beside him.

"No I'm not. " He sobbed.

" Yes, you are." I comforted.

" I like men! Do you think that's NORMAL?! TO HAVE TO HIDE OR HAVE EVERYONE MOCK YOU?"
He screamed, strained because of the pain he was in.

" It doesn't have to be like this." I told him.

" But it does... Without Danny. I'm. I'm back to feeling useless and outcasted. It hurts Baxter. I need to be different. " He put his head down.

I packed up the needles, secretly throwing them away. "Thomas. Let's get you to bed."

"Okay." I walked him to bed and felt a tear come to my eye.

As I closed the door I heard Thomas's soft sobs echo in his room.

It truly made my heart ache.

Daniel POV

(2 months ago approximately)

" Walk with us for a while Danny."

"Yeah walk with us."

" Well okay."

I walked with them for a while. " Hey where are we going?" We turned into a dark alley with a few ruffians at the end of it.

"Come meet our friends Danny." Andrew said.

" Hello." I waved to the men in the alley.

" Boy have we got a story for you fellas." Martin said in a sing song voice.

" Yeah. Ol' Danny Boy here is a little bit of a Benny." (British slang for homosexuals) Andrew taunted.

"Is that so?" One of the men shouted standing up.

" No. Wait." Before I knew it they had my arms tied behind me and threw me into a car.

" Filthy wretch like yous. Ought not to be alive." Another heathen yelled, hitting me so hard I blacked out.

When I became conscious, I was confused by my surroundings. This wasn't the pub or the hotel.

" Well good morning Sleeping Beauty." A stabbing pain in my skull reminded me of who these men were.

" What am I doing here? Who are you?" I crawled back to a small corner of the room.

" Hey. We're just here to help you, friend." One inched closer to me.

"S-stay. Away from me." I stuttered.

"You're sick. You need help. We can help."

"No I'm fine. " I explained.

" Did you not tell those men you slept with a man?" The burliest of the closer men asked.

" Yes...no...no." I mumbled, scared out of my wits.

"Just sit back and we will help." Another man from out of the dark came towards me with a box of medical instruments.

" No. No! Please no!" I yelped.

2 months of agonizing pain and torture I went through.

All the while, the only thought to keep me going, being a little voice. It kept saying, I'll always be there to protect you. Finally, when the ones sent to guard me came to bring food, I escaped. I discovered I was in an abandoned pub near 5th Street. I crawled out of the hatch in the cellar and reached the pantry above me. The light stung my eyes as I looked through the windows. I somehow found the strength in my legs and sprinted out the building, down the street. I had no clue where I was going and fell after running into someone.

" Hey watch where you're, Danny??" A voice asked.

Jimmy POV

" Ji-Jimmy?" He looked at me before I squeezed the air out of his lungs.

"Danny we've been worried sick. Where have you been?" I frowned, then noticing all of his bruises.

" You're really hurt. We have to get you to the doctor." I helped him up and luckily there was a clinic a block away.

" I'm afraid I have some bad news. Your brother in law has been badly beaten and from what I can tell, has been given drugs and electric shock therapy." The doctor said.

" What? "

" Dalmane and ECT cause memory loss and he has some severe bruising, you're lucky you brought him in when you did." He continued.

"My god. " I shuddered.

"You can talk to him now." He said pulling back the curtain.

"Hi there Danny."

" Hello Jimmy." He said in a hoarse tone.

"How are you feeling?" I knelt next to the bed.

"Considering the hell I've been through...I'm pretty good but it hurts." He mumbled.

"Thomas will be thrilled to see you." I remembered the depressed under butler.

"Who?" He looked confused.

"Thomas?" I answered.

" Who's that?" He frowned.

" Thomas. Your boyfriend."

"I don't have a boyfriend. "

"Yes. You do."

"I don't understand. "

" You do though."

"I don't remember."

"Of course you do."

"Jimmy I don't."

"Don't you want to see him?"

"Come on Jimmy I'm exhausted."

"Fine then."

" Bye Jimmy. "

At Downton. A few hours later.

" Thomas! " I shouted, running into Downton.

"Jimmy? What on earth are you doing here? " He ran to meet me.

"We've found him!!!" I shouted happily.

"Danny?" He looked to me with hope.

"Yes!" I shook him by the shoulders.

We hurried back to the clinic where Danny was. Until I remembered his reaction to Thomas's name.

" Thomas before you go in...something happened to him while he was missing. " I warned.

"Like what?" He asked, concerned.

"Like. He lost his memory. Thomas they did something to him. He doesn't remember you." His face fell as I uttered that sentence.

Thomas POV

"Danny? " I asked with trepidation.

"Hello. Do I know you? " He looked, head tilted.

" I'm T-Thomas. Your boyfriend. " I reached for his hand.

He pulled his hand away suddenly. "I'm sorry but I think you have the wrong person."

"But Danny it's me." I started to tear up.

"I don't know you." He turned onto his side to block me out.

" Danny I'm so sorry. I promised to protect you, always. I failed and I can never forgive myself. " I whimpered, walking out of the room.

Daniel POV

" Who was that?" He seemed so familiar, yet so foreign.

It wasn't until he said the he'd always be there for me that he made me realize he was special. I just can't place it.

" Wait!" I yelled, hopeful that he hadn't left yet.

Luckily he heard me."Yes?"

"Who are you? " I asked the tall, dark hair gentleman. "Do I know you? "

"I told you, I'm Thomas, your boyfriend. " I could see the pain in his eyes.

" How do I know you? " I whispered.

"We both work at Downton. I saw you when we were stacking crates. I love you Danny. Please remember." He bent over my bed, eyes red from crying and worry.

Just that confession somehow jumpstarted my brain and everything from the past months came flooding back.

"Thomas?" I was so startled that all I could do was embrace him in the tightest hug, afraid I'd lose him again.

There you go. Sorrryyy.
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