Disclaimer: I don't own Weiss Kreuz, or much of anything really. If I did there'd be more man sex, I assure you. I also don't own the song bits at the beginning of each chapter. They are all from various Something Corporate songs.

AN: Ahh, my first venture into multi-chapter weiss kreuz fanfiction. In fact it's been a while since I've written anything at all. So, I hope you enjoy and leave me loads of comments 'cause they make me SO very happy and also guilt trip me into writing more.

Warnings: Bad language, Yaoi, ANGST, possible Character Death…oh and Drug Use/Abuse nods

Further More: I apologize in advance for sporadic updates, odd tense changes, unusually short chapters, OOCness and overly-dramatic sobbing bishies. I just can't help myself.

FYI: The prologue picks up just after the SS building goes down into Tokyo Bay. Disregards Gluhen, the CDs and the OVAs.

ENJOY!!

The Rising Tide

Prologue

"The rising tide will not let you forget me"

Ruthless – Something Corporate

Kudoh Yohji was beautiful.

Even soaking wet, retching up sea water, blonde hair turned dark, matted to bleeding head wound, Kudoh Yohji was beautiful.

His mind, however, was chaotic, his thoughts erratic and Schuldig had a hard time pulling himself away from all that insanity, from the pleading, gasping, searching thoughts that he couldn't sort out.

"Have to. . . have to find them. . .save! Omi, Ken, Aya! Oh god, Aya!" The kitten was meshing thought and spoken word and projecting all of it as he desperately tried to drag himself back to the waters edge, determined to rescue his teammates even in his feverish state.

"Relax mein katzchen," Schuldig whispered, soothing Yohji's mind, lulling him to unconsciousness to save both their psyches. "Relax."

"No. . .Aya," The blonde moaned, before his eyes slipped shut and his movement went lax.

Schuldig heaved a sigh of relief at the silence. Well, not silence really, but the tolerable humming of distant minds, a sound the telepath had long since gotten used to. He was shivering from the cold wind against his wet form and his clothes were drenched not just with the water of Tokyo Bay, but with his own blood. He touched the lacerations on his neck, gingerly. He'd had the kitten's wire around his neck when the building had gone down.

After a moment to catch his bearings, he checked the links. These links permanently tied him to other members of Schwarz. Still intact, proving that Crawford, Nagi and Farfarello were alive and out there somewhere, but he and Yohji seemed to be alone on the beach.

Weiss now. This was harder to do, he had to pick out the individual flavors of their minds against the hundreds and thousands in Tokyo.

Nothing. No taste of Aya's self-loathing or Omi's security-blanket naivety or Ken's slow-building madness. Nothing. That meant if they weren't dead they soon would be.

Schuldig glanced over to Yohji, sprawled out beside him on the beach. Could he really be the only one of them left? The German could still sense his desperation, even unconscious, could sense the urge to run back into the tide, to find his teammates. Wouldn't it crush poor Yotan to find that there was no one left to save?

A few strands of damp hair stuck to Yohji's face and Schuldig leaned over the distance to push them away.

'Such a pretty, pretty kitty,' Schuldig petted him as if he really were the cat he imagined him to be. 'My kitty.'

Mine. He liked the sound of it, liked thinking that this gorgeous man could be all his.

Schuldig pushed himself up into a sitting position, pulling Yohji possessively into his lap. Then closing his eyes, he followed the link to Crawford in his head. He had a proposition to make.

'I've always wanted a pet,' he thought, smiling to himself, even as the cold tide rushed back in.

I wrote this Prologue ages ago, perhaps a year, maybe even more. I've recently had the urge to keep going with it. So don't be shocked if the writing style seems different (better, we hope) Not sure if I'm keeping the SoCo lyrics in each chapter…what do y'all think?

Don't know where this is gonna go. But please, enjoy the ride with me...