Adrian was woken up in the middle of the night when he heard Brody hiss in pain, because he accidentally laid down on top of his injured hand. No longer waiting until the morning, Adrian convinced Brody to get it checked out.

They sat in A&E together as it was hours until Brody got his hand looked at. When they were asked what happened, Brody made up a lie about saying how he got his hand crushed in a car door.

But the look on Adrian's face didn't convince anyone in the room. Fortunately for them the nurse was too busy to delve into the mystery behind the injury.

The sun was beginning to rise when Brody was let out of the hospital. After waiting so long for a scan on his hand, Brody was given a temporary cast to wear for at least a week, and painkillers to deal with the pain from fracturing his knuckles.

"You think it looks cool?" Brody elevated his hand to give Adrian a good look at his new cast.

A drowsy Adrian heavily yawned as they both haven't had a decent amount of sleep. "Sure."

Brody gleamed as he admired it. "It's kind of like a badge of honour, don't you think?"

It was definitely a weird way to phrase how Brody was proud he violently attacked Elliot so bad that he fractured his knuckle. But then again it showed how much he cared, and Adrian was never going to forget that.

"My hero." Adrian replied with a hint of sarcasm.

Brody shoved Adrian as he laughed. "Alright grouchy, let's get you to bed.

"Pleeeaase," Adrian dragged out, "Sleep sounds so good right now."

When they finally made it back to Brody's apartment, they were practically knocked out as they had spent the whole day asleep in bed together.

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"Adriaaaan?" Brody whined from another room.

Adrian sighed as he was called by his demanding boyfriend for help. When he offered to personally look after Brody, partially because he was a factor that led to his injury, he didn't expect to be put into so much work.

The first night with the cast on his hand, Adrian had offered to cook them dinner. But because he wasn't particularly skilled with cooking a tasty main course, Brody over sought every action he did.

It was either too much salt, or not enough seasoning, or not turning the chicken that was in the oven. Adrian loved the guy, but Brody's nitpicking instruction was getting on his nerves.

Brody knew he was overdoing it with his pickiness, he saw the little ticks from Adrian. He wasn't being extra needy because of malicious intent or incompetence, but he thought it would be a little fun to mess with Adrian.

Brody really enjoyed the domestic bliss they were currently in, being able to boss Adrian around over the smallest things, and knowing that there was still love behind everything.

He was shameless, because of the idea that Adrian would be there for him whenever he needed him, and Brody wanted to indulge in this lifestyle.

"What?" Adrian asked grumpily, his washing up gloves were soaked with suds and water as he was interrupted from cleaning the dishes.

"I'm thirsty," Brody pouted. "Could you get me a drink please?"

Adrian stared daggers into Brody's eyes when he looked at the glass of soda right by Brody's bedside table. Brody shamelessly opened his mouth wide, gesturing for Adrian to help him drink.

"You've got to be kidding me..."

Brody mischievously smiled because of how Adrian was cracking over the little things. He knew the that Adrian would help him with the stupidest demands, partly because of the game they were playing, and partly because he knew Adrian would do it whilst pretending to resist it.

The last couple of days had been rough on them both, but Brody hoped this lighthearted fun will make them happier.

"Fine, here." Adrian walked over and held the glass up to Brody's lips. "Hope you don't choke on it while you're drinking." He said with a hint of a dark undertone.

After taking the smallest of sips, Brody took the glass and put it down. "All better now, thanks babe."

"Ugh, I'm going to finish cleaning so I don't have to look at you." Adrian protested.

"Love you too!" Brody beamed as he watched Adrian walk away from him.

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The next evening, they had plans to eat at the diner with Adam and Ashley. They didn't have the full picture of everything that happened the night before - the stuff with Elliot and why Brody became a monster to protect Adrian.

Sitting across them, Adam was astonished by the sight in front of him. Sitting extremely close to each other, as if their sides were melded together, Adrian was helping Brody cut his steak since he couldn't use both of his hands.

The overload of sweetness was too much to watch, as Adrian fed Brody the cut up piece of steak. "Adrian, buddy, what the hell?"

Taken out of their private world, Adrian looked at his best friend like he didn't know what was the problem.

"I know Brody's got a cast and everything, but are you his maid as well as his boyfriend?" Adam asked curiously, as another new side of Adrian came out ever since he met Brody.

"Kind of." Adrian shrugged as he took a bite out of his own food.

Ashley interjected, "I think it's cute!"

"Buddy, do you want me to see if I can find your backbone from behind the dumpster?" Adam joked, "Why are you doing this?"

"Because he loves me." Brody effortlessly explained as he kissed his boyfriend. "And that's what boyfriends do."

Adrian let out a little smile after he kissed Brody again. "Also because he knows he can use my feelings for him against me, to do whatever he wants."

Brody leaned forward a little so that he could nudge his nose against Adrian's, and kiss it sweetly afterwards. "Mmm, and I love you too."

After finally dealing with Elliot once and for all, they were back to their honeymoon phase again. They were out of the storm and now they could blissfully enjoy being with each other - without anything stopping them.

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They had just finished dinner when all of their phones started blowing up with text messages and notifications.

Earlier in the day, Adrian had told Adam and Ashley the truth about everything Elliot has been doing. It was a difficult conversation to go through again, but there needed to be an explanation for why Brody was attacking Elliot.

They both took the news differently. Ashley was more sympathetic as she's had her own experience dealing with unwanted attention from strangers.

Adam had a murderous look on his face after hearing everything the weasel Elliot has been doing to his best friend. He had felt equally guilty for not noticing anything, and for helping include Elliot in their lives. The only reason he didn't go round and deal with Elliot himself was because he saw, first hand, that Brody assuringly dealt with it himself.

"Now everyone knows." Adrian said as they all collectively read the bombardment of news on their own phone.

They weren't sure about going to the police with everything Elliot has been doing, because of the repercussions that Brody might face for assaulting Elliot violently.

Brody did what he felt he needed to do at the time, and he didn't regret one second of it. But just because it felt right, doesn't mean that it will be seen as right by the police.

So they had to send some kind of warning and follow through with everything that happened. Ashley had blurred out Adrian's face from the video that Brody sent her, and even took a picture of a beaten up Elliot to spread on social media. Now that Adrian's identity was protected, everybody could see and hear how much damage Elliot has been causing.

The constant harassment and the inappropriate touching in the video was shared by hundreds of people that they knew. There was no way now that Elliot could carry on and pretend everything was normal, he had to deal with the fallout from the problems he started.

"You okay?" Brody whispered to Adrian. He saw Adrian was slightly clutching his phone as he read all the text messages of how people were calling Elliot out for the fake persona he was showing everyone.

Adrian nodded his head, knowing that things were only going to get better now. "People had to know about that asshole. At least now people won't know it was you that attacked him, there would be no point in him dragging you under the bus anyway. And then we can both carry on like it none of this ever happened."

Brody pulled Adrian close to him, and lovingly kissed the top of his head. Brody kept his arm around Adrian, keeping his back pressed up against his own chest, as they sat in a comfortable silence.

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"Oh my goodness Brody, what happened to your hand?" Sally joined them when they were eating desert so she could talk to her son, that was until she noticed the cast on Brody.

Adrian cursed in his head as he realised his mother didn't know about anything. When he turned to look at Brody to ask him what they were going to explain, Brody silently nodded as if he knew what Adrian wanted to do.

"He got into a fight with one of the guys at school." Adrian explained, without telling her the build up towards it.

"You can't exactly call it a fight if it was clearly one sided." Adam joked with the inappropriate timing.

"Oh sweetie, what happened? How bad is it?" Sally asked out of concern.

"It's just a fracture mom, but I'll explain everything on another day, just not right now." Adrian pleaded, he was going to tell her the truth about Elliot eventually, but just not today.

"As long as you're alright sweetie." Sally walked next to Brody and placed a motherly kiss on the top of his head. "Anyway Adrian, I wanted to remind you about Monday."

"Monday?" Ashley asked.

"Adrian's cousin is getting married on Monday, and we're staying over there for a few nights as well." Sally told them all.

"I thought that was next week?" When sally gave her son a knowing look for forgetting about it, Adrian didn't want to go anymore. "Do we have to go? I haven't even spoke to Alex for years."

"Of course we have to go! You and Alex were really close when you were a baby - she's family. Me and your aunt Susie have been really looking forward to this for months, so you're going as well mister." Sally ordered as she got back to work.

"I hate weddings." Adrian cursed out loud.

Ashley was curious as she asked out of interest, "How come?"

"It's just a pointless celebration to spend lots of money to tell everyone how much people love each other. You can say that with words, there's no need to spend thousands of dollars, and force people to spend time with others that they have never even met before." Adrian ranted.

"Tell us how you really feel." Brody snickered.

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