Life
In celebration of Bloomsday, the 100th year anniversary of James Joyce finishing his greatest novel Ulysses, I'm taking a break from Intoxication and experimenting. I wanted to make a fic with no descriptive writing, so all the text will be quotes and the readers can fill in the blanks. This is also a Rei/Bryan yaoi fic, my first so far. Anyway, here goes.
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" Hi."
"…Hi."
" You okay?"
" Yeah, I'll be fine."
" You were up there for a while, and now that you're finally back you've got all your stuff in a duffel bag. So I guess they didn't take it too well."
" No, they didn't. I don't think it was that I was gay, more that I'm with you. Took it as a betrayal, I suppose."
" That's ridiculous. If this is the way they're going to react, maybe you're well rid of them."
" Maybe. sniff
" Oh, ssh. Don't cry. I hate seeing you cry."
" sniff …I'll be okay. How did it go with the Demolition boys?"
" About as well as I thought it would. We weren't exactly close, just fellow recruits of a crazy regime. We never had anything in common to start with. I'm off the team though."
" So what do we do now?"
" First things first. How much money do you have?"
" Not much. Mr. Dickinson was paying my room and board. I've got about ten dollars to my name."
" Me too. Maybe fifteen at the most. That's not enough for even a cheap motel….Hm."
" Any ideas?"
"….."
"….."
"…..Yes! Got it! Follow me!"
" Where are we going?"
" You'll see… hurry up!"
" I'm going as fast as I can…Ow!"
" Sorry… we're nearly there… Here!"
" The airport? Bryan, if we can't afford a motel how can we afford a plane ticket?"
" Just wait, you'll think I'm a genius. Now, here's the security guard, look straight ahead."
" What are you…"
"…."
"…."
"……….. Good, he's gone. For a minute I thought he was gonna stop us. We'll go to the second storey."
" Bryan…"
" Okay. See all these cars?"
" Of course. It's a car park, after all…"
" Correction, it's an airport car park. And most of these are registered for at least two weeks."
" Is this going where I think it's going…"
" This one's pretty old looking, I doubt it's got any alarm…. Okay, we're taking this one."
" Bryan!"
" We're not 'taking' it. We're just camping in here for the night. Do you have a wire or screwdriver or…"
" No, I don't. I tend not to carry carjacking equipment around with me…"
" It'll do for tonight. We can figure something out in the morning. Of course, if you don't want to, you can tell your friends it was a mistake…"
" No! I said I'd take the bad with the good….I think I have a scissors in my bag. Will it do the job?"
" Absolutely. Give it here…………….grunt………………got it! Hey, there's a blanket in here!"
" Do you think we'll get caught?"
" No way. They don't actually check these very often. Climb in."
" Okay… How did you know about this?"
" Tala showed me once. He must have thought it'd come in useful sometime."
" I thought you weren't close."
" We weren't. He showed all of us, not just me. And it's proving pretty useful now, right?"
" Yeah. Scoot over."
" No.. put your head here and stretch out….There. Comfortable?"
" Mm. It's not the Hilton, but the company's first-class."
" Ouch! That's cheesier than France."
" Well, I mean it. I love you."
" I love you too, Rei. More than I've ever loved anyone. I'll find us somewhere better tomorrow."
" This is just fine, as long as I'm with you."
" Stick with me, babe, and I'll have us living in a penthouse apartment with a view of the city."
" Which city?"
" Any city you want. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Moscow, Paris, Dublin…. All of them, if you want."
" Hm. I've always wanted to visit Dublin."
" Really? There's no Beyblading there, you know. It's too crammed with poets and musicians and farmers…"
" Sounds ideal. I doubt we'll ever be part of a team again. Maybe getting away from Beyblading would be good for us…"
" First thing tomorrow I'm going to look for a job. Then I'll put a roof over your head."
" Don't take it all on yourself. I'll work too."
" I know. I wouldn't be able to stop you even if I wanted to. Get some sleep, we've got a long day ahead."
" Okay. G'night. Love you."
" Love you too. Goodnight."
"……."
"……."
"….It's bloody cold in here."
" I know how we can warm up…"
" Bryan, no! Sleeping here is one thing, but no funny stuff in someone else's car!"
" Dammit. The sooner we get our own place, the better."
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" How's it going, love of my life?"
" Lousy. There's a dirty old man comes in every Tuesday, keeps offering me money to go to his hotel room with him!"
" Bastard…… You didn't, did you?"
" If you want to live you shouldn't ask questions like that."
" Gotcha. Just checking."
" Why are you lying like that?"
" Pulled a muscle at work."
" Bryan! What did I say?"
" Um…"
" Don't play stupid…"
" You told me not to carry more than one stack of roofing at a time. I didn't, though. The new guy dropped a lead pipe while we were carrying it. It's not too bad."
" I'm going to the chemist to get something for it."
" Don't bother. Put the cash in the kitty and give me some TLC. That's all I need."
" I can make the money up later. I can give you TLC when I get home…"
" Don't call this our home, Rei. We're not going to be in this shithole forever."
" I know. One more day's not going to kill us, is it?"
" I might. Twenty percent of murders take place in hostels."
" Speaking of which, I'll get a paper too. The newsagent leaves out the ones the don't sell before they close. I can get two, actually."
" Be careful, babe. Someone was shot out there last night."
" I'll be fine. Back soon!"
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" Keep your eyes closed, Rei! I'm not gonna tell you again…"
" They're closed! Now where are we going? If you took any money out of the kitty I swear…"
" Here we are. Happy birthday babe!"
" Oh…"
" I know it's small, but it's ours."
" Oh my God…"
" It's not a bad area, either…oof!"
" Bryan, I love you so much! It's beautiful!"
" I wouldn't go that far… you're crushing my windpipe…."
" A bed! We have a bed!"
" It's a single, but we'll get a bigger one soon…"
" Windows! We have windows!"
" Oh, yeah. I need to get a pane for that one, and some curtains…"
" A sofa! Bryan, a sofa!"
" Came with the flat…"
" A shower curtain!"
" So, what do you think?"
kisskisskisskiss
" I guess that means you like it…kiss
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"Ah….little harder….ah!"
" Oh, that's good…."
" Oh, yes, just like that…Yes….YES!
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"…….. What was that?"
CRASH!!!!
"….Ow…"
"…you okay?"
" I think I pulled something again… Damn, you broke the bed."
" I broke the bed?"
" Okay, we broke the bed. Shit, we can't afford a new one yet."
" Well, I suppose we could camp out on the sofa for a few nights."
" Good idea. Now, where were we?"
kiss
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" Would the defendant, Mr. Kunestov, please rise?"
creak
" Mr. Kunestov, you have been charged with aggressive assault in the second degree against a Mr. Cooney. How do you plead?"
" Not guilty, your honour. I maintain that I was provoked."
" Care to explain yourself?"
" Well, your honour, I would like to counter that I was provoked into attacked Mr. Cooney in retaliation to some unsavoury behaviour towards my lover."
" Ah, yes, that's Mr. Kon in the dock. Mr. Kon, do you agree with your partner's statement?"
" Yes, your honour."
" What kind of behaviour are we talking about? And I refer to the date of the incident."
" Well, I came home at about four o clock to find Rei in a very distressed state. He suspected that Mr. Cooney had been using some sort of surveillance equipment to spy on us."
" Okay. Have a seat, Mr. Kunestov. Mr Kon, rise please."
creak
" Mr. Kon, do you correlate Mr. Kunestov's statement?"
" Yes, your honour."
" Could you tell me exactly what happened?"
" I came home at around two o clock and headed for the shower, and when I got out I saw a glimmer from the apartment across from ours."
" Had you noticed this before?"
" Yes. On several occasions."
" And you didn't think anything of it?"
" I thought it might have been a bathroom mirror. But the day of the incident, it seemed brighter than usual."
" So what did you do then?"
" Bryan keeps a set of binoculars in our bedroom, so I used them to try and determine the cause of them glimmer."
" And what did you see?"
" A telescope. It was trained on our flat. Then Bryan came home, and I told him about it."
" How did he react?"
" He was very angry. He stormed over to the apartment to have it out with the resident."
" Thank you Mr. Kon. You can sit down. Mr. Kunestov?"
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" What did you find when you went to Mr. Cooney's apartment?"
" I found the telescope Rei was talking about. You could see right into our flat, especially the bathroom. I also found pictures."
" Pictures?"
" Of Rei."
" And it was then that Mr. Cooney arrived home?"
" Yes."
" And then what happened?"
" I asked him to explain what he was doing. He said it wasn't against the law, and that he wouldn't stop. Then I attacked him."
" Resulting in £500 in medical bills and £1500 for a high definition telescope. Tell me this, Mr. Kunestov. Why didn't you have any curtains on your windows, if you were worried about peepers?"
" We can't afford curtains, your honour. And we weren't expecting peepers."
" Can't afford curtains?"
" We are currently saving for a bed. Then we can get curtains."
" You don't have a bed?"
" We got one with the apartment, but it broke recently."
" How?"
" It broke when we were ahem making love."
" I see. But couldn't you buy the curtains first? After all, they're not that expensive."
" We have a strict system when it comes to buying stuff, your honour. We need the bed the most, so we save for that first. Then we need to buy a proper cooker. Maybe then we can get the curtains."
" You don't have a cooker?"
" We had a Primus stove, but it nearly blew up last week. We had to throw it out."
" How long have you and Mr. Kon been living together?"
" In that apartment, two years. We've been together five years."
" How is your working situation?"
" Rei works a late shift at a bar, and during the day as a waiter. I work full time at a hydro-electric plant. I used to do construction work too, but I had to quit when I injured my back. Right now I'm looking for another job. Between us we just about manage the rent and food cost."
" So how much do you have towards the bed at present?"
" None, your honour. Rei used the bed money to bail me out of jail."
" I see. I find in favour of the defendant. Mr. Kunestov is awarded damages in the amount of £15000. Mr. Cooney, I'm sure your insurance will pay your medicals. Next case!"
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" I miss our old place."
" It was a dump, Rei."
" Yeah, but it was our dump."
" Well, I could go break some windows, pour filth all over the carpet, anything to make you happy, babe."
" Don't you dare. Look at this, our own house."
" Yep. Beautiful, isn't it?"
" I can hardly believe it. We have stairs!"
" And a second storey. And to think, six years ago we were camping out in someone's car."
" I love you."
" I love you too."
" And I love this house."
" Which do you love more?"
" Erm…"
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I might add more. Not sure yet. I don't know how to spell Bryan's last name.