Reddit Challenge story #18

This was a special one. I got a direct message on Reddit that asked me to write a story for the message sender's friend Cosmo (real name) for Cosmo's birthday, he gave me this prompt:

"He and I were childhood friends, but I moved away after an accident with a panini maker. Years later, we both got kidnapped by secret police, escape together, and have to fight to the death with 4 agents. The optional ending is we fall in love. Neither of us are gay, but it'd make him laugh a hell of a lot :P "

So, without further ado, here is my take. Happy birthday, Cosmo:


Nineteen years. That is how long it had been since Cosmo had seen Brian, but that did not stop Cosmo from remembering every second of their lives together. Growing up in southern California Cosmo knew from the minute he saw Brian playing in his kindergarten class with the same Tonka Truck he like, that him and Brian would be best friends. And best friends they were, playing together after school every day, hanging out on the weekends enjoying video games (when their mother didn’t make them stop and go outside.) All was well in Cosmo’s world until the unfortunate accident with the Panini maker.
It happened one night when Brian- 15 at the time- was sleep walking, which was typical for him, and his parents knew about it; they decided the best cure would be to set up the house so that he could walk around and not hurt himself. That night though, Brian’s father made a grave mistake: he left the Panini press out on the table. Sleep walking Brian spotted the Panini maker and in his half-awake state determined that a white bread and human finger Panini would be delicious. The burns discovered by doctors when Brian arrived at the hospital in the middle of the night were so bad that Brian had to be taken to a special Panini-burn ward in the only city where there were enough Paninis for this to be a serious problem: Rome. For the next 19 years, Cosmo would not hear from Brian once, not until now, with Brain standing right in front of him in a Turkish prison.
The thoughts on both of their minds were surely curious ones; neither man had any idea why he had been taken from his home, flown to a Turkish prison and locked away with his former best friend. Cosmo was the first to act, telling Brian that he missed him and that the only important thing was that they escape. Brian agreed, so at midnight, they decided to stage a prison break. Luckily, both Brian and Cosmo had been trained in martial arts and they easily overcame the first guards. Soon their real threat would come.
As the boys neared the prison exit, four men in dark suits suddenly blocked the doorway. Cosmo and Brian knew what to do and in an instant they jumped into action taking on the men in hand-to-hand combat; within seconds all four men were down. Standing face to face, each brimming with testosterone and adrenaline, Cosmo and Brian suddenly and passionately began kissing, standing right over the bodies of the men they just killed. However, not all the suited men were dead.
A few feet away from the now deeply engrossed Cosmo and Brian, one of the suited men begins to shuffle on the floor. He was barely able to move his arm, but still he managed to lift his gun out of his holster. Out of the corner of his eye Cosmo spotted the gun but before he could say anything it was too late. Brian took the bullet directly in the heart and as it struck his back arched and he writhed in pain, falling instantly to the floor. As Cosmo stared down at the only man he would ever love, only one word could escape his lips “nooooooooooooooooooo!”