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The train swayed at the fast speed it was being forced to go, John could hear every turn of the wheel as it clacked over the metal rail road that held it in place, tilting his head to the side and slowly opening his eyes he could see through the meal bars and out the window watching the water crash against it as the weather copied his mood, the weather was so bad it was hard to see through never mind to be out in, he saw people getting pushed and pulled by the force of the weather, he would rather be out there than in here. He tested the metal that surrounded his hands feeling them bite into his skin at the small movement, his wounds re opening and John's eyes shut, how did he end up back here …

The mission to track down X5's was next to impossible the fact that eleven individuals could be spread across the world doubled up with the fact they were trained to be inconspicuous made their task next to impossible.

So here he was camped up on a roof top in the middle of the night with Hellboy using heat sensitive goggles on passers-by. The area was pitch black accept for the few dim streetlights, but even without the light John could see every detail of his surroundings. They were sat on the edge of a building, feet dangling over the edge heat sensitive goggles straped to his head and a slightly cold coffee in his his hand, sipping on the coffee, Johns eye sight focused in on one of the agents heat signatures sitting on a distant building, what was distracting him was the huge lug next to him who was munching on cookies and slurping coffee, but the sound coming from Hellboy wasn't the problem, it was Red's tail that would flick over his leg and half tickle half rub itself on his thigh. Hellboy had been doing it more since there date roughly two months ago, the small touches and caresses that sometimes Red didn't realise he was doing, usually Red's tail would curl around his leg as if to prove he was still there. Now the wayward tail had become far more ambitious and John would swat it away only to see Red looking guilty, funny how he could be so forward in one respect yet when it came to kissing him Red was too nervous.

John sighed.

"Hey Scout after staring into the dark for a little while longer … do you want to watch some movies at mine?" He nudged him with his shoulder. John thought for a second before setting his coffee down and pulling the goggles off setting them beside himself.

"Red have you ever kissed anyone?" John had asked the question because he was genuinely curious, it had been two months since their first date and Hellboy hadn't tried to kiss him once. Red would make some awkward excuse or simply disappear and pretend the next day that nothing was out of the ordinary, it was pissing John off.

Red spluttered around the cookie in his mouth, coughing a little, gesturing towards his mouth full of cookie, he took his time slowly chewing it and thinking over an answer, awkwardly swallowing the last piece and sipping the last of his cold coffee in dead silence as John waited for his reply.

"Why are you asking?" he seemed more sombre and serious as he chucked the small polythene coup off the building at a passer-by.

"Just answer the question" John offered a reassuring smile.

"No John, I've never kissed someone, who would want to kiss this?" Hellboy waved a hand in front of his red face and John frowned as he looked away.

John shuffled sideways until he was fully facing Hellboy reaching out he ran his hands through Red's side burns giving a gentle tug to get him to turn and face him, amber eyes met brown.

"I have wanted to for a while, because of all of this" John pulled one hand away and gestured to all of hellboy before placing both hands in his lap "I thought you were having doubts"

Red lifted his stone hand and rested it gently against Johns back while his flesh hand tilted John's head up, Red's hot lips connected with John's own, John eyelids fluttered closed as tingles ran up and down his spine. Red pulled away, the gentle kiss only lasted a few seconds but it was enough for them both to want more, Red smiled resting his forehead against John's. John's face pushed up forcing their mouths back together, Red groaned at the feel of John's mouth moving against his, he copied the action, his fingers tangling in John's hair to deepen the kiss further, Red ran his tongue over John's lip before nipping it pulling the tasty morsel into his mouth before laving it with attentive flicks of his tongue. John moaned, for someone who had never kissed before Red sure knew how to kiss, those teeth released his lip, his goatee tickled John's chin distracting him long enough for Red to pull him into his lap John's legs resting either side of Red's thighs, their chests pressed together and Red's stone hand still rested comfortably against John's back, Red's tongue caressing John's lip, John's lips parted allowing their tongues to clash, Red smiled at the taste of vanilla pulling away to allow John to breath.

Red heard a soft purr and frowned, that had not come from him pulling further away and opening his eyes, he heard the purring stop and John's eyes fluttered open to reveal amber eyes…

"John?" Reds bewildered eyes were enough to give the game away .

"What wrong?" John closed his eyes and reopened them a second later to reveal chocolate brown eyes.

"You were purring…your eyes matched mine"

"Maybe it was a trick of the light and I wasn't purring it was moaning" John blushed trying to cover himself with pathetic excuses, John went to move but Hellboy held him still in a firm but soft grip.

"Don't lie to me scout!" Amber eyes bored into chocolate ones "despite how I look I'm not stupid"

"I don't know what to tell you"

"The truth!"

"I can't Red you will hate me!"

"Why don't you let me be the judge of that, I won't hate you but I need the truth John"

"The truth…" John nodded scooting away from Red to sit back on the wall staring down into the darkness "I'm an X5" Johns eyes flickered to Red's face but his expression was blank "I didn't exactly get a choice in all of this, I thought it was all behind me …. But now this, I'm hunting my own kind so I won't get found out, I pretend every day to be human, to be normal" this time he did turn to look Red in the eyes to see shock stairing right back at him.

"Please say something…anything"

"I don't know what to say John, you have been lying to us this entire time, and I don't know what to believe anymore"

"I've wanted to tell you the entire time, thinking you'd understand but I just couldn't"

"Why?"

"Because I was scared…scared that you'd look at me like I was some kind of experiment, like a freak, like you don't know me … like you're looking at me right now.."

They stayed silent as John looked away tears silently slipping down his cheeks.

"John…"

"…I'm going stay at a friend's I'll see you tomorrow or something" before Hellboy could even react John had pushed himself over the side of the wall and disappeared into the darkness. Hellboy cursed himself rubbing his stone hand over his face before resting it on his knee 'one second were making out and the next I find out he's the target' Hellboy cringed at the word 'it's not his fault they made him…or did all those things to him' his mind went through all those images he had been shown in the meeting. Hellboy knew there had been testing that much was obvious but he didn't know the extent of it, what had they done to John? And did this also mean he was part demon? Amber eyes and purring where a common factor in both demons and cats, maybe that's why he liked them so much, Red frowned. Red stood up and paced, his tail whipping about him in a frenzy. "I need to find him!" setting off in the same direction john had taken he allowed his senses to extend picking up on John scent he set off in a direction

- - - On the run - - -

John's feet crashed into the ground hard, his legs bending to take the impact of the ground, his feet carried him; sprinting through the winding streets deeper into the seedier part of time, he kept to the shadows scaling buildings jumping the gaps between them hoping to wear himself out. All this did little to slow the tears falling from his eyes as he recalled Hellboy's reaction, the doubt that shone in his eyes stuck in his mind.

Shaking his head and closing his eyes John took a big breath remembering his training from Manticorp he pushed it to the back of his mind, 'Hellboy will be able to track my scent it he wants too!' John thought and smiled to himself doubling back on himself John continued his aerobatic manoeuvres tracing old routes behind buildings until his scent covered a vast variety of paths before coming to a halt outside of his friend's house, smiling up at the opera house "He won't be able to track me now" John sighed kicking off from the building he was stood on and clung to a ledge of the opera house, he began to climb up the rocky brickwork until he reached his friends windowsill.

"Zack are you in?"

"Yeah I'm in the back" his voiced echoed through.

John climbed through the open window and shut it behind him, wiping the tears from his eyes he made his way through the rooms till he reached the back, he smiled at his friend who was moving a huge sofa around the newly decorated room.

"Well you have been busy!"

"You just going to stand there or are you going to help?" Zack huffed.

John chuckled walking over and grabbing the other end of the couch, they moved it in line with the old TV's in the middle of the room.

"What's with all the TV's?" John ran his fingers over the TV's brushing off the dust.

"Some are hooked up to cctv outside that I managed to hack into and the others are so I can 'borrow' the next door neighbours satellite" Zack chuckled assessing the couch to see if it was lined up properly, looking up he also assessed John, his arriving at such an unusual time and his dis-shelved appearance "but that's not why your here now is it John? What's up?" Zack sat down on the couch with such grace that he didn't look to poses, keeping an eye on John the entire time.

John huffed walking over to the couch and throwing himself down onto it to receive a grumble from the demon.

"I told Red"

"That you love him? How did he take it?" Zack leaned in closer his eagerness coming off in waves.

"No….I told him what I am" John slouched putting his head in his hands "The way he looked at me Zack"

"John I'm sure he was just shocked, he's hard headed give it a chance to sink in" Zack rubbed John's back in soothing gentle circles.

John raised his head slightly but didn't move away from the relaxing hands "What do I do?"

"You go back there and talk to him"

"I can't … not right now"

"Fine … then I guess you will have to play a game with me to distract from it for now" Zack smiled and got about to hooking the PlayStation up to the old TV's, their blank screen flaring to life as the game roared onto the screens.

John was not for the first time thankful to have Zack as a friend and relaxed back into the couch.

- - - RED - - -

Hellboy followed his nose, the loud thudding noise of his boots and many guns jingling sliced through the air as he followed Johns scent. Abe was right when he had previously told him he needed to work on his stealth, there was no way he was going to catch John out by making so much noise, never the less he continued knowing his foots fell in the same places the Boyscouts had. He rounded another building and came to a stop, he had been here an hour ago, he growled in aggravation, the kid had doubled back to cover his scent, he could be anywhere he realised John was going to be found when he wanted to, he heaved a sigh and made his way back to the BPRD.

- - - Opera house - - -

Zack chuckled as he won another round against the X5 the kid might be able to beat him in any fight or outwit him but when it came to gaming John was useless and Zack enjoyed the small victory.

"And I think with that I'm going to head back"

"Sore looser" Zack chuckled

"Pfft you're taking pleasure out of ramming my character into the ground" he glared then smiled at Zack as he chuckled again "besides its starting to become light and I need to get back before they realise I'm missing"

Zack became serious "I'm here if you need me you know"

"I know Zack, thank you for putting up with me" he smiled at the demon leaving him to get back to the game he walked calmly through the rooms towards the window, admiring the small rays of light that peaked through the buildings. Willing himself to be confident he slid the window open and gingerly climbed out, letting go he used his foot against the wall like a brake so slow his decent down the building, landing comfortably at the bottom onto the cobbled street, shoving his hands in his pockets he made his way back.

- - - BPRD - - -

Red had made his back, tail between his legs he made it through security no doubt Manning's would be on his case in just a few minutes for potentially being seen and having not met up with the other agents to come back in the garbage truck he walked down the halls towards his room frowning as he went, where were all the agents, why wasn't manning raging in his face? He altered course speeding up to John's room.

Hellboy stood at the threshold to John's room, the door broken handing in pieces from its hinges. Hellboy entered his eyes roamed the room, everything was upturned, shelved in disarray and clothes were strewn over the floor; he continued into the en-suite the bathroom was in the same state all the tiles were ripped up from the floor and a singular hole was revealed.

Turning 360 degrees Hellboy surveyed the area and just as quickly stormed out heading to find Abe and manning.

He found them in the library, manning held at gun point by a fully armoured army of soldiers, the majority of the agents sat uncomfortably on the floor. Hellboy stood further into the room the door behind him closing and a guard stepped into place. He glanced at Abe moving from Abe to the director, Manning was seated at a desk, two more guards flanking him, he turned back to Abe.

Abe swam to the front of his tank, holding a hand to the glass Abe communicated telepathically "Red they found out John is an X5 they have gone to intercept him, they heard you talking over a communicator, they bugged all the agents Red" Red's eyes widened.

- - - John - - -

John moved down another bath enjoying the small rays of sunshine as he contemplated how he was going to talk to red again. Too distracted by his thoughts he didn't hear guns being locked into place on the surrounding roofs.

John took another step forward catching his foot on a rock he groaned as he tripped, drawing himself from his thoughts, it was only then he noticed it, he heard shuffling, an ice cold sense of dread raced through him and lodged itself in his stomach, John gulped and focused his eye sight around him, he froze for a split second seeing the gun pointed at him, a bang was heard as the bullet flew at him John dodged twisting to the side, another shot sounded from a different direction lodging itself in his shoulder, he pulled the tranquilliser out quickly his eyes widening John took off in a fully-fledged run.

John's ears picked up the sounds around him.

"Subject is on the move!"

"Team two take your positions"

John rounded a building in an opposite direction coming face to face with more armoured soldiers, the rounds continued to fire at him another two lodging themselves in his arm and stomach; John retraced his steps, he could feel the tranquilliser burning through his veins. John panicked he needed to find cover before it fully hit his system. John knew if he could get back to the opera house he could hide out, there were too many people for them do take him safely.

John gasped as 50,000 volts shot up his spine, John ripped them from his back and crawled forward, the tranquilliser was making him drowsy, clouding his vision and his mobility was compromised, John Panicked gasping on the floor, his last sight was of large combat boots and the sound of loud shouts before his vision turned black.

- - - BPRD - - -

The lead soldier stood over Manning, his full armour suit covered his face and masked any expression he may of had, and the only defining thing that signalled he was a higher authority than the other soldiers was the red lion insignia on his uniform. Red was fuming his red eyes bored into the agents black head armour, he made to storm towards him and demand question before a buzzing went off, the soldier calmly unclipped a phone from his belt raising it to his ear, he made no movement just stood still taking in the demands he replied with two simple words "mission received" ending the call he placed it back in his belt.

"Our mission has been achieved, we apologise for the inconvenience however it was necessary, you may now return to work." He turned to the director "thank you for your co-operation" the other agents drew back there weapons conforming by the door waiting for their commanding leader before calmly leaving. The BPRDs agents were shaken and immediately looked to the director who coughed standing shakily.

"From what I have over heard one of our agents was found to be an X5 Manticorp believed we would intervene in his capture and sought to subdue us before we could send out a warning to the agent. Unfortunately I believe they have been captured" Manning's looked Hellboy in the eye "I want each agent to focus on Manticorp, I want to know the top director, I want Intel on their ware bouts and any information on them and I want it done now, you are dismissed"

It took all of two seconds for the agents to scatter and even less for Hellboy to stride over to the director.

"They took John?"

The director sat back down in his seat rubbing a hand through his thinning hair and looked back up at Red.

"There is very little we can do for him now"

Red gaped at the director a sickening feeling churned in his stomach as his mouth went dry; god was he dying to take out his frustration on a cigar.

"There must be something! I'm not going to sit here while they do god knows what to him!"

"We need to find out where there taking him before we can do anything about it!" Manning's glared "sit tight and help Abe with research, were going to need it"

- - - John - - -

John groaned pulling his metal cuffs again an IV strapped to his arm keeping him subdued it was a struggle just to stay awake he tried to move to pull the iv out but he simply didn't have the energy, he sagged against the metal bars of his cage and drifted out of consciousness.

- - - John - - -

Coming too he could feel the space around him shifting, a repetitive clicking could be heard and John recognised it as the trains wheels as the rolled along the track. Pulling his knees up to his chest he leaned against the bars, gazing out through the window at the punishing weather. The rain crash against the train window as the weather copied his mood; the weather was so bad it was hard to see through never mind to be out in. He saw people getting pushed and pulled by the force of the weather; he would rather be out there than in here. He tested the metal that surrounded his hands feeling them bite into his skin at the small movement, his wounds re opening and johns eyes shut, how did he end up back here …

And yet all he could think about was not where he was going but who he had left behind.

Red…

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