Don't really matter." Vin said as he stroked Ezra's hair as his lover lay with his head in his lap.
Ezra kind of nodded half asleep so relaxed that he was almost asleep.
Just as JD was starting to flick through the channels the phone ringing brought Ezra fully awake.
"Don't get up. I'll get it." Vin said kissing Ezra before moving his head and going into the kitchen to get the phone.
"Standish-Tanner residence." Vin answered politely.
"Who is this and why the hell are you answering our cousin's phone?" an angry southern accented voice demanded.
"I'm his partner, Vin. Who the hell is this?" Vin asked as he noticed Ezra coming into the kitchen staring at him.
"I'm his cousin, Jeff. Put Ezra on the phone." Jeff demanded his voice gruff because of pain and drugs.
"Okay." Vin all but growled as he handed the phone to Ezra. "Says he's your cousin Jeff."
"Jeff?" Ezra demanded as he grabbed the phone. "Jeffy is that you?"
"Hey, Ez . . . got yourself a boyfriend huh?" Jeff said softly looking over to where Matt was allowing a doctor to cast his arm.
"Yes . . . what's happened? There's pain in your voice." Ezra said picking up on it easily.
"Matt and I . . . well we had a bit of a job-related accident . . . I was kind of hoping you could help."
"What? Where are you?" Ezra said thinking of calling in as many markers he had to get his cousins the best of medical care for their injuries and the meanest lawyers to sue their bosses.
"We're here in Denver . . . At Southwest Memorial hospital… Do you think you come get us?" Jeff hated sounding so pathetic, but hell he and Matt had just gone through a cage match against 'Taker and Kane. He had earned the right to be pathetic for a little while.
"Vin and I will be there shortly." Ezra said as he muttered his goodbyes and hung up. "My cousins have been injured. We need to go get them."
Vin was already pulling on his coat and handing Ezra his.
*****
"Who did you call, Jeff?" Matt asked as he slowly relaxed from the pain medicine while waiting to talk to the doctors.
"Cousin Ezra." Jeff said and grinned as Matt did too.
"I forgot that he lived here in Denver." Matt muttered as the drugs started making sleepy and he laid down on the hospital bed he had been sitting on.
"And you'll never guess who answered the phone." Jeff said as he laid down beside his brother as he started giving into the pain medication they had given him for his leg.
"Who?" Matt asked hoping it wasn't Aunt Maude. He couldn't put up with her long enough to rest before flying home.
"Ezra's boyfriend Vin." Jeff said with a chuckle.
"No way... I thought Ez was straight." Matt said yawning and letting himself fall into a deep sleep.
"Did too... Guess not." Jeff wasn't far behind his brother as they cuddled like puppies.
******
"I'm looking for Matthew and Jeffrey Hardy." Ezra said showing his badge to the lady at the main desk at the entrance of the hospital.
"Third door on your right." the receptionist said pointing down the ER corridor.
"Thank you, miss." Ezra remembered his manners at the last moment before running to the room.
Vin was right on his heels and almost ran over his smaller lover, as Ezra had stopped in the doorway.
In the room two young men cuddled together asleep in the middle of a hospital bed.
Even at a distance he could see the bruises and the cast on one's leg and another cast on the other's arm.
"Matty, Jeffy, what have you two gotten yourselves into." Ezra said softy going to their side and gently stroking the blue hair out of the thinner one's face.
"Ez?" the blue haired one asked waking up a little.
"I'm here, Jeffy. You just rest. Vin and I will get you released and then we'll go home. There you two can get some more rest." Jeff nodded at his cousin's drawled words and laid his head back on Matt's good arm and relaxed back into sleep.
"Vin watch over them. I'll go get them released." Ezra pressed a soft kiss to Vin's cheek and went to do just that.
After Ezra had left Vin studied his lover's cousins. They were total opposites, but it was easy to tell they were brothers.
Vin was just about to go see what was taking Ezra so long when a small-statured blond literally flew into the room.
"Jeff... oh god. Jeff wake up please." the blond said as he put his arms around the blue haired one.
" 'sokay, Shanny. Just a broken leg." Jeff said as he rolled over, sitting up and took Shannon into his arms. Then Jeff noticed the other man in the room and stiffened. "Who are you?"
Shannon spun and seen the unknown man and went on the defensive. "I'm here with Ezra." Vin said softly.
Then Jeff started grinning. "Oh yeah... I remember something about him having a boyfriend... Hey, Matt wake up. Ez's boyfriend is here."
The dark haired one woke with a shudder and barely opened his eyes to smile at the dark blond across the room. "Nice to meet you."
"Pleasure. Ezra's getting you released now." Vin said then walked out, uncomfortable.
He found Ezra walking back from the hospital pharmacy with the boys prescriptions in hand. "What's wrong with them specifically?"
"Young Matt has suffered from a broken arm and a minor concussion. While Jeff has a broken leg and a minor concussion of his own." Ezra walked into their room and smiled as the small blond once again turned ready to protect his wounded friends.
"It's okay, Shannon. This is our cousin Ezra and his boyfriend... Vin right?" Jeff sat up and smiled at the tall dark blond.
"Yep." Vin grinned at the boys. They were the first of Ezra's family he had met other than Maude. And he could honestly say he liked these two better so far. Inside he chuckled. So far the boys had mostly been unconscious and he still liked them better than Maude.
"Hey Matt... Matty, wake up." Jeff shook his brother and the dark haired brother woke up and sat up with Jeff and Shannon's help.
"Wha'... Oh hi, Ez, and... Vin?" Matt was a tiny bit confused from the concussion.
"That's right. Come on. We need to get you two home." Vin said as he noticed the nurse by the door with two wheelchairs.
"Who's your little companion?" Ezra asked noting the small blond standing holding onto Jeff.
"Shannon Moore, one of our best friends meet Ezra Standish, our cousin." Matt said politely.
"A pleasure." Ezra said as he allowed the nurse into the room and pulled the second chair into the room.
"The same I'm sure." Shannon said giving him a smile now that he wasn't so worried about his friends.
"Okay, boys, into the chairs." the nurse said as she held the first wheel chair and Ezra moved to hold the second.
After a few moments of negotiating the Hardyz were in the chairs with Ezra and Shannon pushing them to where Vin was pulling the car up to the doors.
Soon Vin was driving as Ezra sat watching the boys in the backseat and Shannon followed in his and the boys' rental.
"Love, turn around. They're asleep." Vin said as he pulled into the drive of his and Ezra's home.
To his great surprise there was an assortment of cars sitting out front. "Wonder who called in the cavalry."
Ezra turned and groaned when he seen their teammates cars sitting along the street.
Shannon pulled the rental in behind them and noticed the people standing in the door of the house. "Did they interrupt a party or something? I mean if they did I can take care of them back at the hotel."
"No... The gentlemen within the house are some of our teammates." Ezra said as he watched the five men came out as they were helping Matt and Jeff out of the car.
"Who's this?" Josiah asked as he literally picked up the wilting blue haired young man.
Jeff yelped and looked up at the unfamiliar man carrying him.
"These are my cousins, Mr. Sanchez." Ezra said as Vin and Buck put arms around Matt and helped him into the house.
"Howdy." Buck said as he helped the darker one to sit on the couch.
"Hello." Matt returned to the tall man with the kind eyes who had helped him.
"What, pray tell, is everyone doing in mine and Vin's place of residence?" Ezra demanded as Josiah sat Jeff beside Matt.
"OH MY GOD!" JD said as he came out of the kitchen where he had been making some coffee.
"What?" Chris demanded as he jumped because the kid had all but yelled his exclamation in his ear.
"The Hardy Boyz!" JD said as he literally started bouncing.
"A fan..." Shannon said drawing the young man's attention from the wounded duo.
"Shannon Moore too!" JD ran off to find something for autographs.
"I take it you're famous in your chosen profession." Ezra said giving his little cousins a soft smile. He had always had a soft spot for these two.
"We're professional wrestlers." Jeff said and grinned at the groan it got from Ezra.
"Why, pray tell, did you choose such a violent profession?" Ezra asked as he slid to sit beside Matt and Jeff.
"It's what we've always done... And I still remember you playing with us when you and Aunt Maude would come for a visit. You had a pretty mean inverted suplex." Matt said smiling at the memories.
Vin watched in amazement as his lover blushed and stuttered before coming up with a suitable response.
"I was a child. I wasn't really trying." Ez managed to get out as Vin sat beside him.
"The last time you were fifteen." Jeff said remembering that visit quite well. It was then that Ez had told them that he was going to become a federal agent.
"It makes no difference. What is part of the inner most working of our heart remains unchanged until such time as we pass from this world to the next." Matt said as he shifted his accent a little and everyone laughed at his impersonation of Ezra.
"I told you the same thing once upon a time." Ezra said softly as he gave Matt a questioning glance then shifted over to Jeff for a second as he raised his eyebrow.
Matt gave him a brilliant smile and put his hand onto Jeff's arm, who looked up at him and the love between the two brothers was almost tangible.
"Okay, it's time for all good southern boys to be in bed." Vin said rising and between him and the rest of the seven they moved Matt and Jeff into the guest room, where the boys stripped, uncaring of the others watching and crawled into bed, happily passing out.
"Everybody out. They need their sleep. Ezra, Vin, I won't expect you down at the office for a couple'a days. Take care of those two."
Chris said then with the rest of the seven left Ez, Vin and the little blond to watch over the injured.
"I guess I'll get back to the hotel and tell everyone how they are." Shannon said as he took one last glance at his friends. "Shane and I'll be over tomorrow to check on them."
With that Shannon was gone, leaving Vin and Ezra to their guests.
"They're too young to be part of such a violent profession." Ezra murmured as he and Vin moved to their bedroom so that they could get some sleep themselves.
"Some could say the same about us and JD." Vin said softly as they cuddled.
"Yes, but we take care of one another. What happened to them does not appear to be being taken care of, Vin." Ezra said with sigh as he relaxed quickly into sleep with Vin not far behind.
TBC
