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A/N: why am I too lazy to think up chapter titles?

Er, should I have mentioned that this will be shounen-ai?


DREAM OF FOREVER

soumanyon

Chapter 2


When we finally get back to our apartment, Sho parks under the shade of a large oak and I breathe a sigh of relief. He gets out of the car so fast that I'm surprised the kid doesn't trip. I guess spending the last fifteen minutes in a car filled with the smell of burning skin isn't the most pleasant thing in the world. He leaves me alone for a minute and I wrap my arms around myself and curl around them. It hurts.

Sho returns with a big black umbrella from God knows where and a thick blanket. He opens the passenger door and drapes the blanket around me before backing up a little to open the umbrella. It hurts so much to walk. The wound should have been getting better but I guess my body was spending its energy trying to keep me from bursting into flames.

A few minutes later after a snail-paced walk, we get into the apartment. I stand in the corner next to the door as Sho goes around shutting the heavy black drapes and cursing profusely about a fucking pizza boy who's getting his fucking key to the fucking apartment fucking taken away.

I end up accepting Sho's help as he leads me to my black leather bed. I lay down but I'm already feeling better. The stinging in my chest and stomach are numbing and now it's mostly my skin that itches. I scratch irritably at the scorched skin on the back of my hands.

"Do you want something to drink?" Sho asks, still concerned about my health. I turn my head away from him to face the wall,

"Blood." I murmur in a raspy voice before I can stop myself. Sho's eyebrows scrunch together as he considers it. But it's useless. Returning to the warehouse right now is out of the question and it would be difficult to kill somehow and drag the body back here in broad daylight.

"Do you want..." he begins, but I cut him off with a snarl,

"Don't tempt me!"

Even when he was a kid, he'd always offer when I needed it but I never accepted. It's too much of a temptation. Once I begin feeding, things fade and it's impossible for me to stop. I would never risk it with Sho.

He nods, although reluctantly, and goes to get a glass of water for me. As if water would help with my blood-craving.

My hand strays to my mouth and I instinctively bite down, but I stop myself before my fangs pierce the flesh. My eyes drift closed as I let my teeth graze over the skin, completely mesmerized with the sensation.

"Kei?" Sho's back with the water and I let my hand drop from my mouth, casually letting him see that there was no blood. I accept the water and sip at it, but it's more to occupy myself than to drink. When I set the glass of water down on the bedside table, I notice the other things that Sho brought with him; gauze and some disinfectant. I arch my eyebrow at the medical supplies.

"What are those for?"

"To bandage your wounds."

I laugh hollowly, before inquiring, "What for?"

Sho unravels the gauze calmly,

"It'll heal faster if I wrap them."

I snort, "Don't bother, they'll heal fast enough on their own."

"Not in time for tonight." Sho says as he uncaps the bottle of disinfectant.

"Tonight?"

"Yeah, Toshi called." he patiently folds a piece of gauze into a small square pad, "Some old friends of ours are here tonight."

He reaches for the hem of my shirt but I swat his hand away and, with a disgruntled sigh, lift it up myself to expose the stomach wound.

"What old fr--" he presses the gauze dabbed with disinfectant on my wound and I hiss at the sting. Ouch, have to pause for a moment, "What old friends?"

Sho wipes at the edges of the wound, cleaning it out thoroughly, "Do you remember the toy cars?"

"The cars?" I ask, lifting my shirt up even more to expose the second wound,

"Yeah, the guys who put a fucking hole in my jacket." A note of annoyance creeps into his voice as he scowls. Ah. I remember now.

"What about them?"

"Well," Sho finishes cleaning the wounds, "Turn around."

"Hm?" I'm confused at the sudden change of subject,

"Turn around so I can get the exit wounds." Sho says and as soon as he mentions it, of course, I realize that half of my pain is coming from my back. I shake my head silently and let my shirt drop over my stomach again. This seemed to aggravate Sho.

"What the hell do you mean no? You can't just leave them!" But I recline back on my bed as if to say, the hell I can't.

"Kei," Sho growls before he grabs at my shirt. I knock his arm away but I guess the wounds are really much worse than I thought. I'm weakened so much that Sho grabs both my wrists in one hand and effortlessly holds them while his other hand is free to roughly turn me around and jerk up the back of my shirt.

I was paralyzed. Since when had the kid gotten that strong! Since when was I that weak? And, shit, he's looking at my back.

There's nothing I can do. His grip on my wrists is so strong that I don't even have to struggle to know there's no way I can break out of it. Better to just save myself the humiliation. Sho's completely silent and I squeeze my eyes shut as a small shiver runs through me at the sense of having eyes focused so intently where I don't want them.

"Done yet?" I ask, my voice bitter and cold. Sho seemed startled as he suddenly lets go of me. He avoids my eyes. Good. But he doesn't truly understand how much he's violated me.

On my back are tattooed a pair of angel wings. They cover the entire upper portion of my back and are placed on my shoulder blades, exactly where a real pair of wings would come from.

"They're beautiful." Sho offers awkwardly, but I snort softly,

"Devil wings would be more fitting, wouldn't they?" Sho says something but it's muffled.

Now that he's seen them, there's no harm in him seeing them again. With a sigh, I turn to face the wall and take off my shirt. There's nothing to hide anymore.

Sho is understandably hesitant but eventually moves forward to dress the two holes in my back. I can feel that one of them is situated right in middle of a wing in a very familiar spot.

In the end, as good as it felt to have the wounds all dressed and bandaged up, the sensation of someone staring at me the entire time was not particularly enjoyable, no matter how comfortable I am with Sho...


tbc...
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