Disclaimer for the whole fic: not mine.
Chapter one
BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGG!
Yohji grumbled and turned over on his side in bed. "duwanna geddup…s'too early…" he
mumbled. He shifted a little, then settled back for some more sleep.
"YOHJI! WAKE UP ALREADY!" There was the sound of footsteps stomping up the
stairs, and then a very mad Omi stomped into the room. "It's your turn to take the
morning shift, you baka! Get up! Customers are already downstairs!" He grabbed a
pillow and started to whack Yohji over the head with it.
"Itai! Itai! I'm up, I'm up!" Yohji rolled out of bed with a whump and pulled on his
clothes. Damn, this definitely wasn't the way he preferred to get up in the morning. Omi
chased him all the way to the stairs, yelling as he scrambled down the stairs,
"And you'd better not slack off!" Then he turned and went back into his room.
"Okay! Jeez…" he muttered as he hurried past an indifferent Aya, who was drinking his
tea and reading the paper, his face emotionless. He put on his apron and joined Ken at the
counter, smiling at some of the teenage girls that flooded the shop, making them giggle
and swoon. "Hey there! How can I help a pretty girl like you today?"
Another day in the Schwartz household. 7:30 am.
"Shit! I'm going to be late!" Nagi ran out of the door. Schuldig wasn't up to give him a
ride in his car. But then again, he almost never was up before noon, so- yeah. Nagi ran to
the train station, barely making it before the doors closed. As the train moved out, he
made his way over to a vacant seat, sighing and pulling out a thick textbook as he did so.
They had a test today in Biology. Nagi didn't like the subject, it made him think of
Masafumi's experiments. He shuddered. But it was school, and he couldn't argue.
Brad left for work at 7:45 am. He arrived at the office at 8:30. As he walked throgh the hallway of the building, he felt a familiar slight disorientation, stopped walking, made his way over to the wall and leaned against it as the vision hit.
"You-!"
Guns. Shooting. No time for Nagi to get up a shield. It was a raid on their house. He looked down at himself, covered in blood. Schuldig-he didn't want to think about his lover laying on the ground covered in his own blood.
Farfarello snarling, in a blind rage as Nagi dropped to the ground, bullets whizzing, ripping holes in pale scarred flesh, vision graying, he saw the face of one of the raiders, a lock of red hair-and he had a jolt of recognition before he faded-
Manx. The woman working for Takatori…
Fade to black, vision swimming once more, images floating, Weiss being shot down by Manx… cold smirk on Persia's face…
Crawford snapped out of the vision, panting. He could feel the sweat on his face as he grasped the wall weakly for support, glad that there was no one there right now. He staggered over to his office and sat down heavily in his chair. Both Schwartz and Weiss were in danger, he realized. Kritiker was turning on them both. For what reason, he had no idea. He took a deep breath. Then he contacted Schuldig through the Schwartz mindlink.
It's me.
Hallo, Brad. What's up? Schuldig mindspoke in German. Brad mindspoke in English.
Listen carefully. About five days from now Kritiker will attack both Schwartz and Weiss's strongholds. We need to contact Nagi and Farfarello, get them ready immediately for a fast move. We need to be out of here in at most three days, the faster the better.
Kind of sudden, na? Why are they attacking?
I have no idea. On second thought, take Weiss too, we might need their help sometime.
Ja, The kitties are so amusing!
Schuldig, I am dead serious. Crawford's mindvoice was clipped. Schuldig understood the gravity of the situation, he trusted his lover.
Okay, then, see you. They broke contact.
Crawford sighed and leaned back in his chair. He had a lot to do if he was to disappear silently from his office one day. He got to work.
"Whew!" Yohji wiped mock sweat from his brow, leaning on the table during his lunch
break.
"That was almost intimidating. I've never seen so many of the girls before!" Ken looked nervously at the teeming horde in the shop, grateful that his shift was over and Aya and Omi had to deal with the girls. Maybe there was an illusion, and they weren't really humans, but animals in disguise! He actually wouldn't be that surprised if they were, and that kind of scared him.
"IF YOU AREN'T BUYING ANYTHING, THEN GET OUT!" Aya's voice roared throughout the house. Ken winced.
"How do put up with a temper like that all the time, Yohji?" he asked the brunette.
"I don't. He usually isn't like this." Yohji replied.
From outside there was dead silence.
"Guess it worked."
"Yeah."
Suddenly there was a shout:
"Schwartz!"
accolay: Well, there you have it. My first wk fic.
chibi-me: It's kinda short.
accolay: Shut up! I have to do my English essay!
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