Life is Worth Nothing

“And why did you leave Philip?” Eriol bit his lower lip
whishing the questions to stop, “Be…because…we had a fight…so I left…” Markus
nodded “And what kind of fight was this…a verbal fight or physical?”

Eriol frowned as he ed ted to the man “does this really
matter, I’m going up against my father not Philip” Markus shook his head as he
smiled kindly, “Yes is does matter, because if your father brings something of
this up I need to know what happened so I can defend, Arthur will use various
incidences against you and I need to know ‘exactly’ what happened” Eriol nodded
as he once again turned his attention to his lap, Syaoran looked to the lawyer
“How do you know Eriol’s father’s name?”

Markus turned to the
boy with shock “I…I looked at the files…his name is mentioned in here” Syaoran
frowned as he looked to the desk, the file was closed, the man hadn’t looked at
them yet, frowning he shook his head; he must have looked at the files when I
wasn’t watching.

“Sorry” looking to Eriol he smiled slightly, Markus nodded
as he turned back to Eriol, “Now, what happened between you and Philip?” Eriol
frowned as he remembered the incident.

“Philip called my father…I had run away and asked Philip not
to tell anyone that I was staying with him…but after the two years he called my
father and told him where to find me…” trailing off Eriol looked to the lawyer
who nodded as he wrote it down.

“And may I ask why you ran away from your father and why
your friend would turn you in like that?” Eriol looked to the man with worry.

“I…I ran away because my father and I never got along…and my
friend turned me in because of our fight…” Markus frowned, “I need more
information then that, what didn’t you like about your father and what was this
fight about with your friend?” Eriol frowned as he looked to Syaoran.

Syaoran smiled as he nodded for Eriol to continue, Eriol
turned back to the lawyer “My father and I had a lot of fights…verbal
and….physical…he…he normally came home drunk and angry…and would take it out on
me…and Philip and I had a fight over reasons I would rather not discuss, my
father doesn’t know of them so I doubt he will bring it up in court” Markus nodded
as he sighed in defeat for a straight answer.

“Okay then who did you live with when you moved here?” Eriol
relaxed seeing the pressuring of answering about Philip ease.

“I didn’t live with anybody…I had made enough money to rent out
an apartment…and I lived there up till a month or so ago” Markus nodded, “And
now you live with” moving the pen to point to Syaoran he looked to Eriol
questionably.

Eriol nodded “yes, Syaoran is letting me stay at his place
for a while” Syaoran nodded when Markus looked to him.

“And how did you two meet?” the man asked as he looked to
the two boys, Eriol bit his lower lip not liking where this was heading.

Syaoran looked to the man “We met in the hospital,” this
seemed to spark the lawyer’s interest as he looked to Eriol, “Hospital?” Eriol
nodded.

“I injured myself and Syaoran found me and took me to the
hospital…”Markus raised a brow, “You were…injured, in what way?” Eriol closed
his eyes not wishing to tell of his foolish acts to end his life.

“I…I was going through depression….and…I tried to cut
myself” trailing of Eriol’s bit his lower lip and tried to stop his hands from
shaking.

Markus nodded as he looked to Syaoran, “and how did you come
across him?” Syaoran looked to Eriol then back to the man.

“I found him in a room…I had heard noises and tried to see
what it was…when I knocked no one answered I was about to walk away but I heard
someone fall…it sounded like somebody collapsing…so I broke down the door and
found Eriol lying on the floor unconscious, that’s when I yelled for someone to
call the ambulance…and then he woke up and the doctor said that he was to stay
with me until he recovered…” looking back to Eriol the older teen watched as
the boy frowned with the memory of the unwanted save.

Markus nodded, “So you two boys are close friends?” Eriol
looked up from his hands and over to the lawyer, then looking to his lover he
tried to think of an answer.

Syaoran shook his head “Eriol and I are dating….” Markus’s
eyes widened as he heard the news, his gaze moving from Eriol to Syaoran as he
slowly nodded, “This does turn things” Eriol looked to the man.

“Turn things? What do you mean?” Markus placed the pen down
as he looked to Eriol with a solemn expression “does your father know of this
relationship?” Eriol and Syaoran noddMarkMarkus sighed “your father can use
this piece of knowledge against you” Eriol frowned.

“But what’s it matter about my love life…what does that have
to do with my father winning custody over me?” Markus shook his head, “Your
father can use this as a strong argument to win you back and he can basically
win you with just bringing this topic up” Eriol frowned still not
understanding.

“But I don’t understand” Markus didn’t seem to hear this as
he started to write again “maybe we could use it against him…but then we have
your depression acts…unfortunately your life’s actions don’t seem to be putting
you in the good” Eriol frowned as he looked to Syaoran who could only shrug,
turning back to the man Eriol watched as he wrote in the small book and talked
mainly to himself.

“My life’s actions?” looking up as if noticing that the boys
were still here Markus nodded to Eriol.

“With your depression and…love life, your father can easily
seduce the court into believing you moving back with him is for the best, for
your health and others” Eriol frowned as he shook his head.

“But it’s not for the best…I’d be worse off moving back with
him” Eriol looked to Syaoran silently asking for help, Syaoran turned back to
Markus.

“Its true, Eriol has come a long way from when I first met
him, he doesn’t cut himself any more and his happy” Markus nodded “I’m not
doubting that but I am doubting that the court isn’t going to see it that way”
shaking his head Eriol looked back to his lap.

“I don’t understand…why does my father want me back?” Markus
only sighed and leaned back in his chair.

“We can only find that out when it comes to the court
hearings. I’ve asked enough questions for now, so I want you boys to go back
home and get some rest, I don’t want you worrying over the court hearing. I’ll
be dropping in at your house soon there are a few more questions I need
answered, but for now it will do” Eriol and Syaoran nodded as they both stood.

Markus and Syaoran exchanged address’s and phone class=GramE>number’s encase of need in contact before Syaoran met Eriol
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Markus shook his head as he walked back into his office when
his phone started ringing.

“Tokyo Lawyer industry, Markus Wright speaking” speaking
formally into the phone the man frowned when he heard laughter coming from the
other end.

“Markus my dear friend, I’m watching the boys leave the
building, I’m taking you were successful?” a deep voice asked from the other
end, Markus sat in his chair as he leaned back picking up the note book as he
did.

“Yes Arthur the boys have no idea, though that Syaoran boy
seems to be a little suspicious” the voice laughed from the other end again.

“Syaoran will be helpless; he won’t be able to figure it out
in time. You know what to do from now on” Markus nodded as he read over his
writing in questions and answers he had done with Eriol.

“Eriol has grown up a lot, I almost didn’t recognise him,
but I have found out enough to assure your win” more laughter from the other
end, Markus frowned as he turned the page.

“Good, now you keep up the act of the helpful Lawyer for the
boy and let me do the rest, all you have to do is give me the information I
need” Markus nodded as he sat upright in his chair.

~~~

Walking down the street, the sun almost set, the two boys
walked in silence.

“Eriol” looking up from his feet that moved under him Eriol
looked to the taller teen, “Yes?”

“Syaoran sighed as he stopped moving, Eriol did the same, “Can
I ask you something?” Eriol nodded as he sat on the long park bench behind him,
Syaoran sat next to him.

“This Philip person…what did you fight about?” the dark
haired boy looked to Syaoran, seeing there was no escape from the boy’s
question Eriol sighed as he looked to his hands.

“Philip was a friend of mine…we met in school…Philip was,
well, into drugs and stuff…a few times he tried to get me to try some…I tried
some stuff but soon I didn’t like the effects…so I stopped…but Philip still
tried to talk me into trying them, he kept telling me that it will help…after a
while he kind of gave up on it, it was going well for a while…until my twelfth
birthday came…he slipped some kind of drug into my drink, I don’t know what it
was but I think it was cocaine…or something along that line…” Eriol trailed off
as he looked to Syaoran, who nodded for him to continue.

“Well I didn’t realise it at the time and I also failed to
realise that Philip kept toping up my drinks. By well into the night I was…well
kinda drugged up…Philip took me into his room, we were both full of different
kinds of drugs so I didn’t know what was going on but Philip did, it takes a
while for him to loose control of himself…but when he took me into his room he
started to….kiss me and…and he pushed me onto his bed….I was too out of it to
even consider fighting him away, he moved on top of me…and…” Syaoran’s eyes
were wide as he looked to Eriol.

“Y…you mean….you and Philip….” Syaoran trailed off feeling
pain at the notion that he wasn’t Eriol’s first, Eriol looked to Syaoran his
eyes wide, he shock his head.

“NO….no Philip and I never…had sex…he tried too…but I
started to realise what was happening…I kept telling him to stop…but he
wouldn’t he kept telling me I’d enjoy it…so I grabbed a lamp shade that was
near me and hit him with it….he was out cold…for a while I thought I had killed
him…. I got out of the room and went into my own….I was there for about two
hours…I was too out of it to even consider running away.” Syaoran frowned as he
looked to Eriol.

“What happened next…I mean did you run away in the end?”
Eriol looked to him and nodded.

“Yes, after two hours I started to get my senses back so I
packed my stuff and went to leave, but when I opened the door I found my father
standing there…when I turned around I saw Philip sitting on the lounge…he had
called my father while I was in my room and turned me in because I wouldn’t
sleep with him….my father took me home that night…” Syaoran frowned.

“But I thought you said when you were twelve you moved
here?” Eriol nodded “I did, a week later I ran away again I had enough money to
fly to Tokyo
and I’ve been living here since” Syaoran nodded as he looked to his hands.

“So…Philip wasn’t your…first…?” Syaoran felt a blush creep
up onto his cheeks as he asked the question, the smaller teen looked up and
over o his now blushing boyfriend, smiling he placed his hand softly on
Syaoran’s cheek where he brought his lovers face to look at him.

“No Syaoran, Philip wasn’t my first, you were” Syaoran
smiled as he nodded.

Leanforwforward Eriol placed a light kiss on the boy’s lips,
Syaoran soon deepened it with the relief in knowing more about Eriol’s past.

TBC…