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Chapter 1, Roommates…
Teito looked up from the chicken scratch that was his uncle's handwriting and double-checked the address. Number 26, Verius. He got the right house all right. When he had gotten a call from Krowell the day before yesterday his first thought had been- shit, he knows. Several minutes of internal panicking and unsuccessful attempts to blubber out a plausible excuse later, Krowell had calmly told him to shut up and to come to the hospital after packing up his belongings (honestly there wasn't much left of the once well furnished apartment after his uncle's condition became terminal). Half running and half dragging himself when he was finally within the hospital walls, Krowell had all but shoved a piece of paper in his hands and given him a meaningful stare.
"This house belongs to the nephew of a friend so, you'll have to deal with a roommate but the rent's pretty low."
He had blinked as the realization started to sink in. "T-thank you."
At least Krowell certainly didn't see it coming either when he got an armful of overjoyed brunette. "Thank you!"
Sigh. "You'll have to find a part-time job soon though."
A two storey building looming over the iron fence, there was something off putting about the over-grown yard, the dead stillness enveloping the whole property, like a picture long forgotten in time, dusty, lonely and forever stuck in a never-ending memory. At this rate the teenager was starting to have second thoughts if anybody lived there at all.
Upon reaching the porch Teito was half-expecting an ancient lion faced knocker on the door what with the forlorn look of the whole place. The doorbell rang thrice before something shuffled inside the house. It was nearing late afternoon, the air getting colder by the second.
The door opened a chink. "What do you want?" The person sounded tired, his profile barely visible in the dim light of the living room. What Teito did notice were sharp electric blue eyes narrowed at him, the sight of which sent a shiver down his spine. He had never felt so intimidated in his life.
"I'm the new tenant. M-my uncle, Krowell Raggs sent me here. He said-"
"You're the new guy Bastien was talking about." He closed the front door in order to remove the chain before throwing it wide open. "Get in."
The inside was even colder than outside. Teito involuntarily shivered. The living room lights were off, the curtains drawn, the dim light filtering through the kitchen.
When Teito turned to get his bags, his new room-mate waved a hand in his direction. "I'll get them. Your room's the last one to the left." He pointed at the staircase, his back still turned to the brunette.
"I can take it. It's not like there's much." Teito's eyes flickered to everywhere but the silhouette in front of him. He didn't accidently enter a vampire's lair, did he?
"I can take it," he replied with a voice laced with mild irritation.
"O-okay, thank you." And the brunette scrambled upstairs with a single bag pack. Talk about bad-tempered roommates. "What's his deal anyway?"
A simple room with barren pale blue walls, the room consisted of a closet to the left with the small bed pushed under the large window that almost occupied the entire back wall. A desk and chair near the door, the empty bookshelf occupied the space beside it. Everything appeared stark clean and short of any personal touch. Teito wondered if that room was ever lived in at all as he collapsed on the bed. Oddly the sheets were warm and smelled faintly of detergent. So like home as his mom did the laundry.
"You'll help me, right Tei-chan?"
His eyelids grew heavier and heavier before all that was left of the room was a bright crescent.
~beauty and the beast~
Footsteps stalled just in front of the guestroom. Frau carefully placed the last of the three boxes beside the door before walking down in the opposite direction. The blonde fished out his phone from his sweats' pocket, the yellow light blinking incessantly.
2 Missed calls, Four-eyes
The bespectacled teen picked up after the first ring. "Hello?"
"Don't hello me, the kid's here," Frau grumbled.
"Oh."
"…" Castor seemed to weigh up his next question.
"Did he-"
"Freak out? He hasn't seen me yet. Properly."
"You are over-reacting. Ar-are you nervous?"
He didn't need to be reminded that nothing about him was normal anymore. Frau rested his chin on his knees, arms tightening around himself; he wanted to be small enough to disappear within himself. The blonde chucked bitterly. "You have very low opinion 'bout me."
You aren't the same anymore. "I've always had. Please behave properly."
"First tell me, how much of this is your doing?" He sighed, running a hand through his dishevelled hair.
"40%, the rest 50% is your therapist's fault."
"I guess I owe the last 10 to Bastien then."
Castor chuckled, the static cracking with the sudden onslaught of warm breath. "I'll see you tomorrow Verius." And then he hung up.
Tch, conspiring glasses."You're merciless Hausen."
~beauty and the beast~
If before Teito thought that the dark house was a vampire's lair, now he was freaking sure it was a haunted house. The eerie silence that followed him since being unceremoniously awaken by falling on the wrong side of bed was starting to get to his nerve. Don't get him wrong, Krowell wasn't much of a chatterbox as he was all laptop and paperwork but even he talked, made soft noises as he worked, anything implying he was there. His new roommate made Krowell look like a teapot. A whistling teapot. Wait what?
"God, I'm hungry," Teito sighed. "Where is- shit, I forgot to ask his name."
As he walked down the hall all the while cursing his stupidity, the lights in the living room caught his attention. Curious as to what his oddball of a roommate was doing, he gingerly stepped down the stairs so as not to startle him.
"Hey…" But the living room was exempted from the presence of any roommates whatsoever. "Maybe he went out or something," he said aloud, annoyed that the guy didn't even bother to wake him up before ditching him in an empty house. The brunette turned to leave when surprised emeralds lighted on a covered plate on the glass table.
A cheese sandwich. Teito blinked before his stomach grumbled in protest. "Serves him right for leaving it here," he mumbled before digging in, oblivious to the silhouette in the hallway. Frau sighed before slipping into the shower.
"Brat."
The water was scalding in its warmth but Frau decided to wait it out. It was foolish he knew, to be running away like this. B-but if he sees me…he didn't even know what he was afraid of.
"You'll suffer! You did this to me!" She screeched, her empty sockets of eyes burning as flames fed on skeletal hands.
His breathing started to pick up, body beginning to convulse. Even in the suffocating warmth of the steam, the goosebumps on his arms were prominent as he battled chills running rampant through his body.
"Die! Die! Die!"
"Stop!" He screamed, barely able to stand as he scrambled out of the foggy bathroom before finally collapsing on the hardwood floor of the hallway, his heart racing, azure eyes wide with fear. He didn't even hear the footsteps racing upstairs, his mind too scattered, too scared to even comprehend his lack of modesty as he lay dripping.
Teito gasped audibly taking in the scene in front of him, wet and naked; his blonde(?) roommate was hyperventilating in the middle of the hall. When Frau finally turned to face him, emerald orbs widened as they settled on the scorched patch of skin snaking from his right shoulder, part of his neck and finally occupying a good chunk of the right side of the male's face. Frau took a sharp breath as frantic azures locked with startled emeralds.
A/N- Firstly it's a present from me before I'm hurried to the hellhole that is school *sigh* I just hope that this chapter isn't rushed and the characters aren't too ooc since I'm rusty.
Secondly, I hope we don't let this wonderful fandom die. It's getting lonely in here. Anyways, have a nice day and thanks for the read ^_^
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