CHAPTER 38:
I told you.
Quinn

"I don't know how to say this any plainer. Eagle Fang and Miyagi-Do have to work together!" Sam exasperated.

"Even if we wanted to team up, it'll never work. I was in Cobra Kai and mixing it would be like-"

"Oil and vinegar?" Nathaniel guessed.

"No, not salad dressing. I was gonna say like the Bridge Bulldogs and the Heart Foundation," Chris explained.

"They were friends, dipshit," Mitch retorted.

"And here we go," I muttered.

"Not at Wrestle Mania 3, penis breath."

"You can't call me penis breath, only they can call me penis breath," Mitch emphasized his dojo.

"Why are you okay with anyone calling you penis breath?" Chris questioned.

"You know what, screw this. Come on, let's go," Mitch started towards the door with his dojo following.

"Guys, please. We're better together," I was so tired of trying to be happy with our situation but I couldn't stand sitting by and letting everything fall apart.

"Hey pussies!"

What the fuck?

Demetri stood up, "This is exactly what those assholes at Cobra Kai want. Since you were one of them, you're an asshole too. So were you! So was I! Atleast, I wanted to be one, but now Cobra Kai is the worst collection of assholes in the Valley. Run by the king of all assholes, her grandfather, surprisingly! So if this cinnamon roll can stay incorrupt and cooperate with Miyagi-Do and put up with all this bullshit, so can you. So by merging with Eagle Fang, weird name by the way, can keep us all from getting shit on anymore, then we'd all be assholes not to do it."

Cinnamon roll?

"Sorry for all the assholes, I usually take pride in my delinquence. It's an emotional time," Demetri excused his harsh vocabulary.

But it inspired them enough to sit back down.

"Now, where do we start?"

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I excused myself from the entire mess of combining dojos just to think. I didn't even know if I wanted anything to do with karate anymore, let alone discuss two rival dojos combining to face one.

If this was going to be an all out war, I didn't want to be involved. I was already hurting from just permanently tearing myself from Hawk and confessing that I was raped as a child, I definitely didn't need to stay.

You can tell them.

They'll understand.

Just as I was reaching to unlock the bathroom door, I heard a loud ruckus that I hadn't noticed until now and hesitated.

Yelling?

Are they really fighting?

Unfortunately, I unlocked the door and stepped out only a couple of feet to find Cobra Kai here. In Sam's home. Fighting.

"N-no," I whispered, but I was spotted.

"Get her!" I quickly sprinted back into the bathroom, locked the door, and kept my back against it as two boys started banging on it or smashing themselves into it.

"Stop!" I cried out, hyperventilating as I tried my best to push my weight onto the door.

"Open up!"

"Sounds like she's crying!"

Shut up!

All I could hear was my heart in my ears as the pounding and the teasing faded away, and I weakly fell to the ground. My arms tried to keep me up as I felt myself start to cry and my chest quickly rising up and down, barely acknowledging that this was a panic attack but not knowing how to calm myself down from it.

I'm going to pass out.

They're gonna get in.

I let myself lay down on the bathroom floor as my vision started to get cloudy and the tears just plopped onto the cold tiles.

Please. . .just stop. . .

I-I can't. . .

I didn't know when they stopped but they were gone. Now all I heard was my breathing and someone shouting my name, someone familiar.

My panic heightened as the door was being unlocked with a key, but I didn't even flinch and almost accepted it. But in came someone I thought I wouldn't see again. Hawk saw me lying on the ground and immediately ran to me, getting me sitting upwards but that didn't stop anything.

"Quinn?! Are you alright?!"
That's when he noticed.

"O-okay, okay. Just breathe in and out slowly and count five things you can see in here, okay? That'll make this stop," He reassured me, adjusting me as I was on his lap and his arm remained around my back.

"It-it hurts," I wheezed out.

"I know, princess, I know. That's why you have to breathe in and out for me. Breathe in. . .breathe out. . .breathe in. . .breathe out," I didn't care how long it went on for because I just wanted this feeling to go away.

At the end of it, my breathing was once again normal and I didn't hear my heart in my ears anymore. I didn't even hear the yelling.

It was just. . .silent.

"I told you I wasn't going to let go," He whispered, wrapping his arms securely around me.

"I left Cobra Kai."

Those words registered in my mind so fast that I couldn't believe it. I know it's something I wanted but I just thought that maybe my mind was telling me things.

"I realized just how much of a dick I've become. I became the bullies we hated. . .I've left for good," I guess he assumed I wasn't going to forgive him when I didn't speak because he said this next.

"But. . .I get it if you still don't want to see me again," As his grip started to loosen, I panicked and tightened my hands around his shirt.

"I want you to stay," I told him, my voice cracking.

"I want you to be in my life, I want you to become my safespace again. . ." I teared up at the word.

"I want there to be an us," I whispered, almost afraid he would reject me as a tear slipped down and my head remained on his chest.

"Anything for you," And he kissed the side of my head. We stayed like that for awhile, just holding eachother.

But we deserved it.

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I hope you all have enjoyed! There's still a chapter or two until I officially finish up s3, and then we'll wait for s4. In the meantime, you can check out my Miguel Diaz or NEW Hawk fanfic when they're up!