Seeing, But Not Believing

(Corny/Luis Pairing. After IronSide . . . ) For warning this will intertwine with a totally different story and I will get something wrong, because it's been a while since I read the books. Correct me when you can, please!

The sky was black and threatening to breaking into rain. The streets were empty of cars and people, with the exception to Corny. He stood in front of the Fairy Safe House, staring slightly at the darkening sky. The clouds rolled menacingly toward him. The wind blew hard, running gentle fingers through his died black hair. Corny breathed deeply, taking in the unique smell of tempting rain. His brow relaxed. Taking away the emotionless mask he had, walking out of the door.

A heavy sigh escaped his lungs as he watched a sheet of rain come pouring over his head. He could feel the water soak deep within him. Saturating him to the core. Corny felt his hair become knotted from the heavy drops of rain colliding with each strand. The thick water washed over his face, creating a clear layer of skin that ran off his nose and jaw line. He sighed heavily, forcing his body to repel the rapid cold that blanketed him. Everything around him seemed to slow to a halt, except for the rain and his own heart beat. Panic started to seep through his veins. His breathing became harsh and rapid. His shoulders rose and fell violently and his knees shook underneath him. Threatening to take him down.

His eyes shot down the walk way, past the houses and on to the park, 12 blocks from where he stood. There was nothing there. The rusting swing sets squeaked as the wind took then, with the jungle gyms looking as old and decrepit as they always have and the gloomy weather didn't make it any better. But still he searched frantically. Shifting his eyes from one end of the park to the other, like a nervous cat. One more sweep brought him back to the middle where there was a body slumped lifelessly on one of the supporting poles of the swings. It was a girl. She wore two wife-beaters(tank tops) - one black and one white. Her long brown hair was black with water and strung wildly about her face, obscuring his vision of her features. Her arms laid loosely by her sides with her legs out in front of her. Blood was spattered in random intervals on her pant legs, along with holes on her thighs and knees with heavy crimson surrounding the opening of each hole.

Corny wiped his eyes from the sheet of rain that covered his face and saw that the girls arms were shredded from her bare shoulder to her fingers. Bruises along her biceps and triceps were forming rings around her. Like a hand print.

Corny stood in shock at the edge of the park, staring at the girl with a dropped jaw. His hands shook with rage, with his heart painfully pumping blood to his head. Corny lifted one foot to run to the girl, but was barely about to take a step. He tried again, but with no success lifting his other foot at all. His body shook harshly, with his face turning a dark shade of cherry red. He was about to call for Luis for help when the whole scene zoomed past him in a frenzy of colors. He jolted backwards and only stopped because of what he thought was a wall.

Corny's eyes shot open in a panic as he looked around only to find that he was still in front of the safe house with Luis's strong, dark arms around his waist. Corny's hands instinctively went to his. He felt his body wanting to shake with either, fear- rage or nausea from the trip back. Luis's head was laying delicately on Corny's shoulder as he fought himself to not fidget. Luis looked up at the sky for a moment, while he kissed Corny's shoulder.

"Looks like it'll rain," he cooed lightly.

Corny's eyes snapped to the sky. The black clouds from before were different than this. These clouds were just beginning to roll in. With in minutes it would be raining. He looked down the walk way, again. But only seeing a 6 block row of houses that disappeared around the corner where the park was. Corny's breathing became shaky and labored as he kept staring in the direction of the park.

Luis brought his head off Corny's shoulder, feeling his breathing change against him.

"Hey, what's wrong?" he asked looking at Corny's face in profile.

"We need to go," was all Corny could say.

"What?"

Corny started to pry Luis's hands off him as he started to run. He finally got out of his steal grip and took one of his hands, dragging him along. Corny runs as fast as he can, with Luis stumbling along behind him. He lets go and both guys are running neck and neck. Only one knowing where they are going.

"Where the Hell are we going?" Luis yelled in panic for Corny.

He didn't say anything- just kept running. They rounded the corner. Four blocks in and the row of houses clears to an opening. Corny runs across the street, nearly getting hit by the only car on the street. The car slams on their brakes and Corny jumps the hood. Not stopping for a second to see if anything else was coming or to check himself if he was alright.

Luis nearly drops dead where he stood. Fearing he would get ran over. But sees he gets safely across.

"If nothing else kills you, I will," he grumbles becoming irritated.

He runs across, leaping onto the hood of the same car with an appealing sound of metal bending under his heavy landing and sprints after Corny.

He didn't get far. Frankly, because Corny stopped right before you would reach the park. Luis stops and about falls over himself. He doubles over his knees, holding onto his thighs to catch his breath.

'Its been way to fuckin' long since I ran like this. . .'

Corny searches the darkening woods before the park opened up. Eyes scanning frantically for something. The sound of a thunder clap and water started to pour through the leave, like nothing was in it's way. He starts to run again. Going towards the park. Luis groans in having to run again, but follows close behind. Luis breaches the trees and stands in shock of the scene in front fo him.

"Come Get Me You Bastards," yelled a girl of about their age.

She was standing in the middle of the park, yelling at the trees. As Luis eyed her up and down, even from a far distance and with the help of the girls wet clothes, there was a definite bulge on her left calf. With another under the back of her shirts.

'She's packing! '

With another look, he also saw how beat up she was. Blood and bruises were on every inch of exposed skin. Without a sound, other than the rain, a sword comes flying out of the trees at a deafening speed, aimed square at the girl. She bends back, almost to a backbend, and catches the sword by the hilt. She comes up and swings the sword with a trained hand in its use.

"Is That The Best You Got! Come Face Me If You Want To Kill Me!" she roared above the fall of the rain.

Then out of the woods came two fairies, as big as Roiben. They had an evil smirk on their faces. One of then still had his sword the other had a small dagger, ready to spar.

Luis stepped back into the shadow of the trees, un-clipping the iron chain that hung on his pants. The girl in the center, gave a triumphant grin and the two fairies paused for a second. That was the girls chance and that was all she needed. The girl swung her leg around to a full round kick and hit the fairies hand, holding the sword, with a satisfying snap. The weapon went flying out of sight into the trees.

With reflexes faster than Luis can follow, the girl grabbed a pair of shoulders and jammed her knee into a gut. The fairy went down with a groan of pain, with the other coming at her from behind. Luis about ran to them, when she snapped kicked him under his chin. He went down with a gag. She stood between the groveling fairies, breathing harshly.

"I was wondering when you guys would get here," she called without any anger in her voice.

Luis stepped out of the trees as well as Corny, who held an iron necklace that Luis got for him in his hands. They walked slowly towards the middle. Luis with a heavy scowl. Corny with concern filling every seam of his face. Corny was the one who got to the girl first. He asked her if she was alright, she nodded her head without looking up from the ground. He bent down to the groaning fairy and tied the iron necklace around his wrists, behind his back. The fairy groaned even more as the iron burned his skin. Luis did the same, without take his eyes off the girl. Luis's fairy started to squirm as he brought him up. He scowled at the girl with red hot hate in his eyes. With in a millisecond his foot collided with her head. Turning her body around and knocking her into the swings support pole with a solid metallic ring. Luis elbowed the fairy in the neck, just hard enough to knock him out. The fairy dropped like a ton of bricks and Luis ran to the girl. Panic on his face.

'She's dead for sure! That hit snapped her neck!'

Luis leaned over her legs to look at her neck. He pushed gently on the main artery of the neck to feel for a pulse. It was there, but faint. Luis then ran his fingers over the back of her neck and was shocked to find a brake in the straight line in the neck! She should be dead! His eyes widened in shock. He placed both of his hands gingerly on either side of her neck and alined there broken spine. There was a loud, blood curtailing snap. Luis jerked his hands away and the girls body spasmed once under him. He jumped up and the girls eyes opened and widened in pain. She groaned, but tried her best to hide it. The girl went limp and her eyes closed in relief.

"Ouch," was all she said before she passed out.