A/N: Ok here’s the next chappy, enjoy. And yes I do know that its actually the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, but I figure somewhere along the production line there must have been some morphine...

Mighty Morphine Power Rangers

Liam walked around Will’s room, ok stuff for Will to do, he should know this... He didn’t have a clue what Will liked doing. He looked to Fred for help, “Ok I’ll find his clothes and you find stuff for him to do.”

“Ok,” Fred agreed and picked up his discman, damn, Liam should have guessed that one, it was a given. “So are you two?” she asked.

Liam looked at her confused, “Oh you mean about before at the hospital?”

“Yeh,” Fred said.

“Umm... yeh we kinda are...” Liam said nervously, she was the first person to know, this was so awkward.

“That’s so cool,” Fred said, surprising Liam, “he’s never had anyone that he really cares about ya know?”

“Really?” Liam asked shocked, “I thought he would have heaps, I mean have you seen him?” Liam burst out and then stopped suddenly realising what he had just said.

“Yeh he hasn’t, mostly cos of the whole gay thing, not many people are at our school.” Fred said.

“True, speaking of which, I haven’t told Cordelia, Doyle or Wes yet.”

“I wont say a word,” Fred said, “but you do realise that they are starting to kinda suspect something’s up...”

“It’s that obvious?” Liam asked genuinely surprised.

Fred wondered if he really didn’t think it was obvious, “Well yeh, just a bit...”

“Oh,” Liam said sincerely surprised. “I will tell them though, just not yet.”

“Ok,” Fred said. “Do you know where he hides his smokes?”

“Didn’t even know he smoked till just before...” Liam replied, then he thought of something and walked over to Will’s closet and on the top shelf he snaked his hand through the clothes and pulled out a packet. “Then again...”

Fred was surprised at how well Liam knew Will. “I wish I had someone like that,” She said and then realised what she had just confessed.

“Takes time,” Liam said, “but I think you would be surprised at Wes.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well for example, he knows that you only like red sugar babies, stuff like that.”

“How does he know, and how do you know?” Fred asked.

“I know cos he told me, and he knows because he has what I believe is bordering an obsession with you.”

“Really?” Fred asked excited.

“Yeh,” Liam said, “He really does like you, he’s just shy.”

“I know,” Fred said, “its one of the things I like about him.” She couldn’t believe that she was telling Liam all of this stuff, but he seemed like one of those people you could talk to, like really talk to.

Liam held up a pile of clothes and Fred nodded her approval. Liam grabbed an overnight bag out of Will’s closet. It felt kind of weird being in his room without him.

Fred blushed slightly, “Aren’t you forgetting underwear?”

Liam coughed, “He uh, he doesn’t wear any...”

“How do you know?”

Liam coughed again, wondering if she seriously didn’t know, then seeing the look on her face he decided she was serious, “I, uh, umm,” Liam was racking his brain trying to think of an eloquent way to put it, “I’ve seen?” He tried.

“Seen wha- ohhhh,” Fred went bright red with recognition, “Ok then, I’m gonna find some CD’s to go with the discman.”

“Ok.” Liam said. “I think that may have been too much information...Sorry about that.”

“No its ok, I’m glad you’re both happy.”

Liam smiled, Fred had taken it all so well she had really surprised him. He knew the others would be ok with it too, he just wanted to wait a little bit and he knew that Will did too.

“So what else do we need?” He asked.

“Umm... clothes – check. Cigarettes – check something for him to do – well we have the discman, what else do you think he would like?” She asked.

Liam had no idea, he knew that he should know but he didn’t. ‘Lets see,’ he thought, ‘what did Will like doing when I was here, ok maybe not that...’ He paused, “I know, a loofah, he likes those!” Liam burst out and then realised how stupid that sounded, and how sus... “Books? Magazines?” He paused again, “His laptop!”

“Great idea,” Fred said obviously pleased.

Liam packed it all up in the case, “I think we’re good to go.”

“Yeh,” Fred agreed.

“I was thinking,” Liam started, “We took his car here cos I left mine here yesterday, so we should probably take mine back.”

“Makes sense,” Fred said. “Can we pick up Wes on the way back?” She asked. The others had all gone home to get a bit of sleep.

Liam knew that there was no way that Wes could have possibly gotten much sleep in the little time that they had been gone, but he couldn’t say no and he knew Wes wouldn’t mind, “Sure,” He said, “we’ll stop off at Wes’ place, but he might drive his car, so that way he has a bit more say in what time to leave.”

Fred nodded understanding what he meant.

They both paused before leaving, “Well if there’s anything we’ve forgotten we can always come back and get it.”

“Yeh,” Fred agreed.

“Ok let’s go,” Liam said and Fred followed him out.

They walked down the stairs and Liam spotted a cell phone that he knew belonged to Will and picked it up and took it along with them.

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They reached Wes’ place before long and both Liam and Fred got out to knock on the door. A very sleepy looking Wes came out to greet them.

“Hey guys,” Wes said opening the door, “Whatcya’s doing?” He asked.

“Well we were about to go up to the hospital again and I- I mean we were wondering if you wanted to come with us.” Fred said.

Wes noticed her slip and smiled, “Sure, I’m gonna have a quick shower, do you want to come in for a bit?”

“Ok,” Fred agreed.

“Actually guys, I might go up there, knowing Will he’s probably bored, but you guys take your time.”

“You sure?” Wes asked.

“It’s ok,” Liam said happily, “Actually now that I think of it do you mind if I have a quick shower and then head up?” He asked.

“No go for it, you want one Fred?” Wes asked, knowing that she hadn’t been home. “I didn’t mean to imply that you needed one or anything,” Wes continued realising how it sounded.

Liam smiled at the awkwardness.

“I do, but I don’t have any clothes with me,” Fred said.

“How about this,” Liam intervened, “Wes and I will have one here then Wes can take you back to your place for a little bit and you can have one there?” He suggested.

“Sounds good,” Fred said, “Is it ok with you?” She asked.

“Sure,” Wes said more than happy to oblige.

“So Wes you want to go first or shall I?” Liam asked hoping that he could go first so that he could get back to Will.

“You go first,” Wes said, “it makes sense since you want to get back there first.”

“Ok,” Liam agreed and took off for the shower.

“Hey Liam, help yourself to some clothes,” Wes said, noticing that he was still shirtless.

“Thanks Wes.” Liam replied and headed into Wes’ room before the bathroom.

Wes led Fred up to his room, noticing for the first time all the books that he had lying around on his floor. “Sorry about all the books.” Wes said.

“It’s ok, I’m the same,” Fred replied, “As you’ll see when we get to my place.”

Wes smiled, she was so perfect, ok its now or never Wes, he told himself. “Fred, I realise that this isn’t great timing with Will and all, but there’s something I need to tell you.” He paused.

Fred’s heart fluttered, she hoped that what she thought was coming next was well coming next.

“I’ve had these feelings for you, for a long time and over the last few days I’ve gotten to know you and I really like you.” Realising that it was a little vague he quickly added, “as more than a friend.”

Fred blushed and smiled, “I like you too, as more than a friend.”

“Really?” Wes asked surprised even though the others had already told him that she liked him.

“Yeh,” Fred said.

“Well I was wondering,” Wes continued, “Will you go out with me?”

“Yes,” Fred replied and leaned forward and kissed him. She knew that it was a little early but she hoped he wouldn’t mind. He didn’t, he kissed her back and wrapped his arms around her.

Liam walked into the room, “Hey, I’m done.” He said and then saw them kissing, he wished he had of looked first and he saw them breaking apart. “Sorry...” He said.

“It’s ok,” Wes and Fred both replied, Fred blushing.

“Anway, I’m gonna head up to the hospital now,” Liam said towel drying his hair. “I’ll see you guys up there, take your time.” He finished hoping that they would take their time.

“Ok, we’ll see you there,” Wes replied. “We shouldn’t be long.”

“Hey Fred, have you eaten yet?” Liam asked, trying to buy him and Will some time.

Fred shook her head.

“How about we grab something to eat on the way there?” Wes asked.

“Ok,” Fred replied grinning at Liam, knowing exactly what he was doing. “Tell Will that we said hi.”

“Yeh,” Wes said.

“Will do. See you both later,” Liam said taking off for the hospital.

“He seemed eager to get there,” Wes said.

“Yeh he did,” Fred replied.

“I’ll be back in a sec,” Wes said and went to take a shower.

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Liam arrived at the hospital less than 10 minutes later. He walked into the open room and saw Will lying there. He sat down next to him, watching him sleep. Will opened his eyes and saw Liam sitting next to him. “Hey,” he said, “Are you alone?”

“For now.” Liam replied getting up and shutting the door and closing the blinds.

“So what did ya bring me?” Will asked.

Liam passed him the bag full of stuff. “Oh good, you brought my laptop.”

“Yeh. Fred wanted to know how I knew you didn’t wear any underwear.” Liam said.

Will laughed, “What did you tell her?”

“That I saw,” Liam said.

Will laughed more. “I wish I was there.”

“Ill bet.” Liam said, “oh and guess who I saw kissing?”

“Who?” Will asked, “couldn’t be me cos my boyfriend wont kiss me...” Will said and Liam kissed him.

“Better?” Liam asked.

“Much.” Will replied, “So let me guess? Fred and Wes?”

“It’s no fun when you guess straight away.” Liam said grumbling.

“Oh guess what?” Will said brightening up, lighting a cigarette. “My mother is trying to convince the doctors to let me go home early.”

“You got shot Will!” Liam said, “You should be here for days.”

“I’m bored,” Will said, “I can’t sit still, besides the shot wasn’t that bad, it was through and through, only reason they needed to operate was to see that nothing got disturbed, and my mom decided to get a visiting nurse or something.”

Liam was pleased Will would be going home, and even happier that he was ok and the shot hadn’t been that bad.

“Doc’s say that I’ll have to hobble around on crutches though for a bit.”

“Better than nothing, you were really lucky Will.” Liam said kissing him.

“Will I be getting lucky though?” Will asked.

“Maybe when you get out of hospital.” Liam said.

“This is some sort of punishment isn’t it.” Will replied.

Liam was about to reply when something caught his eye, the three Power Rangers that he had given Will had been arranged in a rather interesting fashion, it looked like they were having a mass orgy. “Will whats with the Power Rangers?”

“Speaking of which I now know exactly how gay you are...” Will started.

“You had doubts?” Liam asked raising his eyebrow.

“You got me all male ones.”

“No I didn’t, look at the red one.” Liam replied.

“That’s a guy.”

“No its not.”

“Yes it is.”

“No its not.”

“Yes it is.”

“No its not.”

“Yes it is.”

“No its not.”

“Yes it is.”

“Red is a girls colour,” Liam explained.

“Apparently not, I swear mate, the red one is a guy.”

“It so isn’t.” Liam said, “I’ll bet you anything its not.”

“Sexual favours?” Will asked.

“Anything.” Liam confirmed.

“Ok, well when we see that your wrong be prepared.” Will said.

“Always am,” Liam replied.

“Smartass.”

“You love it.”

“That I do,” Will replied and kissed him.

They heard a knock at the door and they quickly separated and Liam opened the door and Cordelia and Doyle breezed in.

“Why was the door locked?” Cordelia asked.

Liam pointed to the cigarette which Will was still smoking.

“Oh,” She said.

“Oi Doyle,” Will started.

“Yeh,” Doyle said.

“Was the red power ranger male or female?”

“Male.” Doyle replied instantly, “Why?”

“Well Liam here seems to think its female.”

“Someone’s bored,” Cordelia said and started arranging the stuff in Will’s room.

“I have a lot of time here,” Will replied.

“I can imagine,” She said.

“Anyways its male, therefore you owe me Liam.”

“You guys bet over Power Rangers?” Cordelia asked.

“Yeh,” Liam replied sheepishly.

“What did you bet?” Doyle asked curious.

“Cigarettes.” Will said at the exact same time that Liam said “Money.”

Cordelia looked at Liam first then Will and raised her eyebrows, “I don’t want to know if its some gross guy thing, like who gets the next hot girl.”

Liam was thankful that she hadn’t thought it would be something sus, he wanted them to know, but not like this.

“So anyway, who thinks I can get internet access from in here.”

“Won’t that interfere with the hospital equipment?” Wes asked as he and Fred walked through the now open door.

“Good point.” Liam said.

Will shrugged, “shouldn’t cos you think they have computers out there,” he said pointing to the reception.

“Another good point,” Wes said, “I guess it will be fine then.”

Liam plugged in the laptop for Will so he wouldn’t have to get up.

“I’m not a bloody invalid,” Will protested.

“Humour me.” Liam said.

Wills mother came in and rolled her eyes at Will smoking. “You should at least close the door Will, I can smell the smoke from down the hall.”

“Sorry mom,” Will said. The others were surprised that Will’s mother didn’t care about him smoking.

“Anyway, I talked to the doctor, you can go home tomorrow.” She said. “Your father will be back tomorrow too.”

“Ok,” Will said. “Are you still going away for that business thing this weekend?”

“I don’t know yet, it depends if you’re better, the weekend is only the day after tomorrow remember.”

“True,” Will replied.

“Liam are you still able to stay with him?” She asked.

“Yeh of course.” He replied, “I’ll probably end up staying tomorrow night too if that’s ok.” Liam finished looking to Will for approval, Will gave him an ‘of course it’s ok – you don’t have to ask’ look.

“Of course its ok honey.” Will’s mother replied, “Anyway you should be still able to go to that school trip Will.”

“I never told you about the school trip,” Will said raising an eyebrow.

“The school sent a letter sweetie,” She said and patted his leg.

“Fuck,” Will yelled, “That’s the leg I got fucking shot in.”

Wills mother was unperturbed by his language choices, “Sorry.”

Liam looked over at him concerned, that would of hurt, “You ok Will?” he asked.

“It fucking hurt.” Will moaned.

Liam wanted to make him feel better, he would have done anything to ease his pain. He crawled up closer to Will sitting on his bed next to him. Will tried to smile, his leg hurt so much but he felt better having Liam close.

“So you’re still going to Hawaii?” Will asked hopefully.

“Don’t sound so happy about it Will,” his mother said, “But yes we probably will, there will be a nurse stopping by to make sure you’re ok and you’ll have Liam there too in case anything happens.”

“Good,” Will said.

“Anyway I’ll see you later, bye Liam, bye Fred. I’m afraid I don’t know any of your names, I’m Will’s mother, call me Chloe.” She said.

The others all took turns and introduced themselves.

“Well nice meeting you all, I better go, see you all later.” She said and left.

“That fucking hurt.” Will said.

“Want me to see if I can get them to give you something for it?” Liam asked.

“No its ok, it just hurts so much. It hurts all the time but then you get used to it until something sets it off.”

“Your mom seemed cool though,” Doyle said.

“Yeh she lets you swear, smoke and god knows what else.” Cordelia said, “And she has a great fashion sense.”

Will just rolled his eyes at the last comment, “Yeh she’s usually ok.” He paused as though thinking, “I need a cigarette,” he said.

“Another?” Fred asked.

“Helps distract me from the pain.” Will explained.

“Oh,” Fred said opening a window. She saw the look on his face, “You know it doesn’t bother me I just wanted to make sure that the room doesn’t become a fire hazard.”

Will smiled.

“So whose coming to my place when my parents are out?” he asked. “Other than Liam obviously...”

“I am,” Fred said.

“That means I am too,” Wes said smiling at her.

“Are you two finally together?” Cordelia asked.

“Yeh,” Fred said grabbing his hand.

“So you and Doyle in?” Will asked.

“Yeh,” Doyle said answering for both of them.

“So what should we do?” Liam asked, “You’ll still be injured Will.”

“How about a video night?” Cordelia suggested her face lighting up.

“Sounds good princess, lots of war movies...” Doyle said hopeful.

She rolled her eyes, “So how bout it Will?”

“Works for me, I’ll still be injured,” he said mocking Liam who just smiled at him.

“Ok, I’ll pick the movies.” Cordelia declared, “Fred can help.”

Fred just smiled.

“How about a horror night?” Liam suggested.

“That could work,” Wes spoke up.

“Ok,” Cordelia consented.

“Slashers?” Will asked.

“I know!” Cordelia said, “We can watch scary movies until we’ve all screamed once.”

Fred looked at her, “That wont take long.”

“Liam doesn’t get scared,” She said. “Well not in movies anyway.”

“So how was school today?” Will asked jokingly.

He heard a trail of cursing.

“I take it everyone forgot?” Will asked.

“Oh well, we had more important things to think about.” Liam said. “Anyway, I’m going to go get something to eat.” He said wanting to let Fred and Will catch up a bit, and besides, he wanted to talk to the others. “Who’s coming?”

The others except Fred volunteered, she had caught onto what he was doing, she was generally fairly perceptive. Will smiled at him gratefully, he loved the way that Liam understood him.

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Liam pulled himself away from Will and started heading downstairs to the cafeteria.

“Is that the first time you’ve left him?” Cordelia asked.

“No,” Liam replied, “I went to his place today and got him some clothes and stuff and then to Wes’ and had a shower...”

“You’re like obsessed with him,” Cordelia said.

Liam didn’t know what to say, so he stayed silent.

“You two are close aren’t you?” Doyle said.

“Yeh we always were..” Liam replied.

“But not like this?” Wes said.

“No, it was a bit different.” Liam said sensing that they were catching on.

“How close are you?” Cordelia asked.

“Very.” Liam replied.

“Uhuh,” Doyle started trying to get it out of him, “So I take it you know he’s gay?”

“Yes,” Liam said.

“And you don’t have a problem with that do you?” Cordelia asked.

“Do you?”

“You know none of us do.”

Liam saw in their eyes that they didn’t.

“Just so we’re clear, what kind of relationship do you two have?” Cordelia asked, willing to be the one to do it. “I mean you two seem very ‘close’ as you say, and so far everything you have done can be seen as platonic, but I think theres something there...”

“I like him,” Liam replied.

“Like like?” Doyle asked.

“Love.” Liam confirmed.

“I’m so happy for you.” Cordelia said hugging him.

Liam was surprised, he knew they would be ok with it but he had never thought that they would be this ok with it, “Are you guys ok with it?”

“Yeh.” Wes replied, “He’s a great guy.”

“Your just saying that cos Fred likes him.”

“She’s a good judge of character.” Wes said defensively.

“Back to me and Will,” Liam said wanting to get it all out in the open. He took a deep breath, “we’re in a non-platonic relationship, as in lovers, as in he’s my boyfriend. God that sounded gay, but I guess I am aren’t I?” He finished, “I really do love him and it means a lot to me what you guys think about that.”

“Liam,” Cordelia said seriously, “to us it’s no different than if you were seeing a girl. Not that I’m saying that Will’s a girl, he’s very manly and muscly and... ok you get my point,” She continued, “Anyway we all want you to be happy, and we all have seen how happy he makes you, we want you to feel free to be with him.”

Doyle and Wes nodded, she had put it well.

“Thanks guys,” Liam said, “But just so you guys know, we’re not going to tell anyone else yet...”

“Your secret is safe,” Cordelia said. “Now lets go get some lunch.”

Liam couldn’t believe how easy that had been, they had all been so good about it. They walked into the cafeteria and all ordered sandwiches, getting two extra chicken ones for Will and Fred.

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They got back to Will’s room Liam smiled at him and resumed his place by Will’s side.

“Fantastic, some half decent food.” Will said excited. “I am so sick of jelly.”

“You haven’t even been here a whole day,” Liam pointed out.

“Don’t care,” Will said.

Liam smiled and took a bite out of his sandwich. He watched the others all eating.

“I have an idea,” Cordelia said, “It can e a pajama party.”

They all looked at her blankly.

“At Will’s, it can be a pajama party, we can all go wearing our pajamas, or get changed there and we can have a group sleep over.”

“Sounds like fun,” Will said.

“Yeh,” Liam said, slightly disappointed that he and Will wouldn’t get to fool around.

The others all agreed that it would be fun.

“We forgot drinks!” Doyle declared, “we’ll be back.”

“I’ll be back in a tic,” Liam said to Will, “what do you want Fred?” he asked already knowing that Will liked sarsaparilla, he personally found it disgusting but each to their own.

“I’ll just have a coke,” Fred said.

“See you later guys,” He said patting Will’s shoulder. Will looked at him and raised an eyebrow, patting his shoulder, that’s what you would do to a cat...

Cordy, Wes, Doyle and Liam all left again.

When they got outside Cordelia pulled Liam to the side, “you don’t have to hold back.” She said plainly.

“What do you mean?” Liam asked.

“You patted his shoulder.” She said, “You patted his shoulder, you’re seeing him, hell you’re probably sleeping with him and you patted his shoulder.”

“And?” Liam asked meekly.

“Liam I think we both know that if all of us were gone you would have at least kissed him,” She said.

“It wont bother you?” Liam said.

“I’m actually offended that you even thought that,” Cordelia said outraged.

“I’m sorry, its just weird,” Liam said.

“I know and its gonna keep being weird until you break that ice.” She said.

“True,” Liam replied, “I’ll try.” He promised. “But are Doyle and Wes honestly ok with it?”

“Yes,” Cordelia said persistently.

He smiled at her and they joined the others again. They walked over to the vending machines and got out the drinks that everyone wanted and went back into Will’s room.

He passed Fred and Will their sodas and sat down in his spot.

“Whats the time?” Will asked.

“10:00” Wes replied looking at his watch.

“Already?” Will asked. “Visiting hours finish at 10:30,” he grumbled.

“Yeh,” Liam replied, “Do you rekon they’ll let me stay here tonite?”

Will stared at him, “I’m not dying.” He said, and I’m not an invalid.

Liam just smiled at him, “Never said you were.”

“Better not.” Will said.

“I don’t think they’ll let you Liam.” Cordelia said.

Liam looked upset.

“You’ll see him tomorrow,” Cordelia promised. Will raised an eyebrow at this figuring that Liam must have said something.

There was a knock at the door and the nurse came in.

“Hey guys, visiting hours are just about up, I’m afraid you’ll have to clear out of here.” She said and left.

“Well I guess I’ll see you tomorrow,” Liam said.

“See you Will,” Cordelia said.

The guys said goodbye too.

“Bye Will,” Fred said.

Liam got up to leave and Cordelia glared at him, he smiled at her. Its now or never he figured and he kissed Will goodbye in front of all of them. Not just a peck but a passionate, tongue in mouth kiss.

Will looked surprised. He looked around and saw that none of the others seemed at all bothered by it, in fact they reacted the exact same way as they would have if it had have been Cordelia and Doyle kissing.

“Well I guess you told them,” Will said smiling.

“Yeh, I figured ti was better than patting your shoulder for the rest of our lives.”

Will smiled at Liam’s reference to their future together.

“Well I guess I’ll be seeing you tomorrow, remember that you’re staying at my place tomorrow night.”

Liam kissed him again and went to leave.

“Oh and bring me some smokes,” Will yelled out after him.

“And some more Power Rangers.”

“And some gum.”

 

 

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