Chapter 4
Kyd sat on the floor in his room, staring at the celling. He had been doing this since his talk with Raven and that was over five hours ago. He felt a little bad for choosing to act the way he did. She didn't know about Angel and was clearly just trying to understand what was going on between them. But Kyd hated it. No one needed to know what was happening with him and Angel, only him and Angel. Kyd had messaged her a little after she had left say he didn't mean to hold her so hard and that he was sorry. He had asked her to come over and she said that she was busy. He hated the thought for crossing his mind, but the only real friends she had were all friends of his. He didn't like the idea of her seeing him no matter the reasoning.
By the time dinner had rolled around, Kyd was going crazy imaging all the scenarios where Angel and Adonis would end up sleeping together again. She didn't seem to care that spending time with Adonis was hurting Kyd a lot. He just wanted her to understand that it made him upset when they did that. The messaging in the middle of the night already annoyed him to no end. The idea that even when they were acting in a way that could be considered intimate, she was still allowing his interruptions. Kyd groaned and fell backwards so he laid on the carpet. He tried so hard to forgive and forget the past but she refused to let it die. All he wanted was for her to never contact Adonis again.
There was a light knock on Kyd's bedroom door and after a moment he heard Raven's soft voice asking if she could enter. Kyd stood and dusted himself off as he opened the door for her and stepped out of the way. He watched her as she took the same spot on his bed as always. He hadn't been sure why, but seeing her made him feel better.
"You haven't come out all day so I was a little worried about you." Raven said as she started up at him. When his eyes would fall on hers she would always look somewhere else in the room.
"I was just a little… bothered it's nothing." Kyd said as he walked past and sat down beside her. Her eyebrow rose as though questioning his reason.
"If your upset you can talk to us. We can try and help." Raven said and she smiled. It was the way she smiled, it had been so innocent and pure, and she titled her head to the side as her eyes closed. Kyd felt a small bush rise over his cheeks and nose before he shook his head to ignore it.
"I don't really think you can help me with this." Kyd said. This time he wasn't looking at her, or trying to study her. He was too upset to play games with the young demon and then there was always the chance she might misconstrued his actions again. He really didn't want to lead her on.
"If you really don't want to talk about it, I won't press the issue. But I am here for you, when you do wish to talk." Raven lent back on his bed and looked over the room. Kyd watched as her eyes would fall on some of the things and she'd appear to be interested in them, only to look away and try to seem like she didn't care from the beginning. As she took in the sights of his bedroom, it seemed as though she was trying to come up with something clever to say. Kyd on the other hand just watched her. He was beginning to feel normal again as he watched her, taking his time to figure out what caused certain reactions. He did this a lot with his friends, watching them closely to understand the most he could about them. He liked understanding how a person's face would move when put into certain situations, and what those small movements might mean. For Raven, she always seemed to be considering why things where the way that they are. She looked at the objects within his room and studied them for whatever information she could gather.
Kyd moved his hand and placed it on her leg, testing the reactions. He liked the way a simple touch could spark so many emotions within her face. She seemed shocked and calmed by the touch, her eyes widened and a slight reddening appeared over her cheeks only to fade away as she breathed. Kyd smiled to himself. She did seem to calm him, even if all she was doing was sitting beside him, she had a calming aura to her. The moment didn't last though and the two were startled by his phone going off. He quickly fumbled trying to pull the thing from his back pocket and answered it only to realise it was a message. In the message Angel had said she wanted him to go out with her tonight, so that they could spend time like they use too. Kyd sighed, he hated the idea of leaving right now but he had been trying to do things with her.
"I'm going out for the rest of the night. Would you make sure that everyone else knows." He said as he stood and headed over to a draw set in his room. He took out two items and deemed that good enough before turning back to Raven.
"I'm not trying to intrude, but where are you going?" Raven asked. There was something about her face that Kyd couldn't understand. She looked as though she had figured something out, but was confused by the idea of it. He tilted his head to the side and tried to study her from a new angle, but it didn't chance how she appeared.
"Angel said something about the docks. I know there's some sort of festivities there currently and figure she wants to go there." He said. The entire time he was speaking Raven seemed to become a little more excited. "It's not really my idea of a date, but Angel wants to go so I shall be the perfect gentleman for her." Kyd said with a smile though it slowly faded as Raven's face appeared to be saddened. He didn't know what he had said that would upset her. Since she found out about Angel she had seemed perfectly fine with it.
"I'll tell the others that you have gone out. Sorry for all the questions." Raven said. Kyd watched as she stood and exited the room. She was upset but he didn't know what he had done to make her upset. He wasn't trying to do anything that would upset her. He sighed. He wasn't even wanting to go and now he had upset Raven which was really destroying the mood, but he kept reminding himself that he was trying to try just as she was. He changed quickly and teleported to the docks. Angel was leaning against the fencing; her hair was down and she wore jeans and a plain shirt with one of his jackets over. Kyd realised after the incident with Raven, that he had a thing for woman wearing his clothing. Kyd stepped over to her and took her hand, kissing it lightly. He was trying.
Seemore and Mammoth left to get Gizmo, leaving Raven and Billy alone for the rest of the night. Raven had spent some time in her reading after the others left, but soon decided to join Billy in the kitchen where he was playing a video game. He was surrounded by a bunch of his clones like he normal was. She hadn't realised till now, but he always seemed to surround himself when he was alone. After they'd been playing for some time, Billy's clones began to lessen. She wasn't sure if he even knew that they were retreated back to where they first came from. As the last one disappeared, Raven was caught staring in his direction.
"Now I know I'm nowhere near as attractive as the others here, so I'm curious why you'd be staring." Billy said. He placed the controller down and used the remote to turn the TV off. Raven sighed and placed the controller she was using beside his.
"I was wondering about the clones you can create. There were so many when I came out here and now they've just disappeared." She said. Billy turned his head a few times in the directions the clones should have been. Raven realised that he wasn't even aware of their departure.
"Honestly… I didn't make them. It happens a lot when I'm feelin' lonely. I soon find myself surrounded by… well… me. But it doesn't take the feelin' away. I think you did that. Just spending time with someone I care for made them leave and I didn't even notice." He turned to her and his smile seemed happy. Raven felt a little touched by the idea that she was able to bring someone so much emotions just be sitting with them and listening to them. But it still made her wonder, how often did he have these feelings.
"Does that happen every time the others go away?" She said.
"No, I'm not sure when it really happens. I think… when I think about home and how much I miss it. That's when I feel it the most. During those times when a family should be together…" Billy looked to the Tv as he thought. His eyes seemed deeper then they normal did and almost glassy. "But I guess since I joined the Hive Five, I've always been concerned about my family. I don't want us falling apart and the idea of being rejected by them kills me." Billy turned and looked Raven in the eye. She could see that he was being serious about this. He clearly cared about the people that lived here, and feared what may happen if they were to leave. Though based on how they all acted she doubted anyone would leave. They shared so much in common.
"You don't have to worry so much, no one is going to leave you." Raven said, and she leant forward to wrap her hands around him, pulling him closer to her. After a moment, they both pulled away and he seemed to feel much better. Raven took the chance to get a drink from the small kitchen while Billy had to get up to answer the door. There she heard him say hello before there was a long pause. She wondered why he would be upset from simply answering the door. After a moment, she peered around the corner and could make out a man in a large red and armoured suit. Standing next to him was another person who wore black and yellow and seemed to be calmer then the first person. She felt like she knew them but couldn't remember where she'd meet either of them.
"Look I don't know why you guys are here but you better leave." Billy said. Raven noticed the confusion on their faces. She hadn't meet either of these two guys before, but she could tell that it wasn't normal for Billy to ask them to leave.
"Now wait just a damn second, since when am I not allowed to be here. I mean I can guess why you don't want Adonis here, but why me?" the one in yellow and black said. The other man just looked… glared at the first one. Billy looked like he had been backed into a corner and his hand was reaching for his communicator. She noticed him press a small button on the side before he threw his hands up and acted as though everything was fine.
"Look, I didn't mean it like that, it's just with Angel and Kyd having problems… It's hard and besides there isn't anyone here today so there'd be no point in hanging around." He kept a smile forced on his face as he tried to push the guys out the door, but they refused to leave.
"We came all the way down here to see you guys, now you're going to let me in." the man in red said. Raven backed away, heading to the lounge again. She felt uncomfortable with these new people. She was still adjusting to the strange ways her friends acted and now she had to add more on to that. She sat on the couch and took a sip of the glass of water she'd poured but after a moment she heard loud steps coming into the room. Raven turned to see the two men now staring at her in shock and Billy trying to make them leave still.
"Please, just get out of here." Billy said as he tried so hard to pull the yellow and black clothed person out of the room.
"Why on earth would we do that when you have such a feisty thing sitting right here on your couch, just waiting to be toyed with." The man in red said. Raven felt herself cringe at the thoughts he was likely having and she found herself standing in moments. The other one walked around the couch, blocking the hallway door so she couldn't get into her room while the man in red started to approach her. She watched as he walked around the couch and headed to her, his eyes trailing her body as he walked. His tongue swept over his lips and Raven could tell he was thinking of disgusting things. Billy jumped over the couch as the guy reached his hand out to touch her and he stood in front of Raven.
"Get out' here, I won't be telling you again." Billy said. Adonis smirked and gripped his shoulder before easily tossing him aside and into a the Tv. Raven's eyes looked away from the person in front of her to Billy for just a moment, but that moment gave Adonis an opening. He grabbed her arms and yanked her forward to his body. She cringed as he brought her down, his lips waiting for hers to touch, but he didn't get the chance. In matter of seconds he was blasted back and Raven was leaning against the couch in an uncomfortable way. She looked over to see Seemore who had used an eye beam she guessed to attack him.
"Didn't see that one coming did ya, now I do believe we've asked you to leave and we really shouldn't need to repeat ourselves." Seemore said. As he stood in the kitchen. He seemed confident when he spoke, but the way he stood told Raven that he was actually worried.
"Oh, is that right." Adonis stood and turned completely to Seemore. There was a smirk pulling at the corner on his lips and his arm seemed to move on its own, showing off the artificial strength. Adonis walked around to Seemore and grabbed him by the front of his shirt, pulling him off the grown so they were nose to nose. "And if I don't leave, what's a scrawny kid like you going to do about it?" he said, smiling now.
"I don't really want to start anything, it's just no one really wants you here." Seemore stated. He seemed a bit more scared then Raven had initially thought, but it wasn't himself he was scared for. It was Raven. his eyes flickered over to her as though making sure she was still okay. Adonis laughed at Seemore as he shoved him back into the dining table. The legs scraped against the floor and the chairs on the other side where knocked onto their backs.
"I guess I'm just going to have to deal with the two of you before I can have feisty over there." Adonis said with a dark voice. Raven didn't know what she could do to help, the entire situation was a blur to her and she felt stuck in place for most of it. She knew she had been able to fight before, but for some reason she couldn't do that. She couldn't will her body to move forward, to fight. She watched as Seemore and Billy tried to fight off against Adonis and Private Hive. Soon though the fight was starting to end, Billy was thrown harshly into the kitchen soon after a crash followed and Seemore was being forced to the ground by Adonis who laughed the entire time. "Look at how weak you guys are, honestly I can see why Jinx left now. Her team was full of weak losers." He said, slamming his foot down on Seemore's back. Raven stepped away, edging towards the door that led to the boy's bedrooms. If she had a communicator she'd be able to call for help, but she didn't. "Now where are you going." Adonis said as he marched over to Raven. His eyes were wondering her body and he was licking his lips.
"Please don't." Raven said with a choked voice. She could remember him hurting her once before… how did she survive that?
"Ah, you are going to be fun to play with." Adonis said as he grabbed her and forced her against the wall. He bent his head towards hers and chuckled at the slight fear in Raven's eye.
Kyd had pushed Angel back onto her bed. He had decided that he needed to stop letting the past get to him… though it was more likely that he felt guilty for hurting her. Still, he wanted to show her that he did love her. His lips trailed her jawline and neck as his hands travelled down her body. Angel gasped as he bit her neck lightly and tilted her head. She had wanted this from the moment they were in that ferries wheel. But he preferred the privacy of home, hers or his. After a moment though Angels phone started to vibrate and she sat up pushing Kyd's chest to make him back up. As she brought it to her Kyd placed his hand over the screen and his head was resting on her shoulder.
"Don't answer it. Just put it away and let's get back to what we were doing." He groaned and tried to take the phone but Angel pushed his hand away and looked at it.
"Kyd, it's not from him. It's Seemore, he said they're in trouble and he couldn't reach you." Angel said, turning the message so Kyd could see it. He barely looked at it as he teleported from her room to the Hive base. The lounge was a mess, but what Kyd saw angered him far more than all the mess. Adonis was pulling Raven to the couch, and it looked like he intended to force himself on her. Her eyes were wet with tears and she looked scared. Kyd growled and bolted towards Adonis, knocking him off his feet as he was tackled to the ground. Kyd didn't need to think right now, all he wanted to do was beat the crap out of Adonis.
Punch, punch, punch, there was blood, there were fluids, Kyd could hear Raven telling him to stop but he wasn't listening. This jerk had slept with his girlfriend and attempted to rape a girl he cared about. Not to mention he had hurt Kyd's friends. Kyd only stopped when he was pulled away from Adonis. "Kyd that's enough, you're going to beat him to death if you don't stop." Kyd looked at Mammoth, still puffed out and tired from his attack on Adonis. Then he started to notice the room. Raven was gone and Seemore was sitting on the couch holding his head. Private Hive wasn't even here anymore, he'd run off. Kyd watched Adonis scramble and run out the door, terrified.
"I… where's Raven?" Kyd asked.
"I made her leave, she looked scared." Mammoth said. "She should still be in her room, I'll check on her soon." He turned and looked at Seemore, checking his injuries.
"Where's Billy?" Kyd asked and the other two looked at him, then turned to search the room.
"Adonis knocked him into the kitchen. He might be there." Seemore said. Kyd walked over to the kitchen, there were pans everywhere and he could see as he walked that the fridge had fallen over. As he got further into the kitchen, he saw Billy who was being crushed by the fridge. Kyd raced over, knocking more thing out of the way to try and lift the heavy object.
"Mammoth, could use a hand." Kyd said trying his best to lift it. Mammoth rushed over and lifted the fridge and then, as carefully as he could, he picked Billy up to take to the infirmary. Kyd and Seemore dawdled behind, their expressions almost fearful. In the infirmary Mammoth had laid Billy on a bed and was waiting. He had never taken care of someone before and knew next to nothing about the body. Kyd and Seemore had a similar problem as they hadn't really bothered to learn about the human anatomy. Usually Jinx would call a friend and that person would help them when they were hurt. But she wasn't here.
"I think he's hurt, but I'm not sure what to do. Do… do we take him to the hospitable?" Mammoth asked as he turned to face the others. They could both see how scared he was. He was like the big brother of the house, someone they depended on and now he felt like he couldn't do anything to help.
"If we do then they'll ask questions. Those questions will lead to them finding out about Raven and I don't think he want's that." Seemore said. He had made himself as comfortable as he could on a chair and was holding his hand up. Kyd had tried to look at it before but Seemore wouldn't let him. Kyd stepped over to Billy and could see the glass that was lodged into Billy's skin. He figured the others would have notice and where just too afraid to do anything.
"None of us would know what to do in this situation though." Kyd said after a long time had passed. He sat beside Billy and looked at his hands. His knuckles where grazed and cut and there were small bits of blood on his hands, though it wasn't his blood. How could he have become so mad. Then again it shouldn't shock him. This was the type of thing he couldn't stand.
"I know some stuff about medicine." Raven said, she spoke so quietly and no one had even heard her coming into the room. Seemore turned to her, he had been sitting the furthest away from everyone, clearly too ashamed to go near Billy. The others only continued to stare at Billy. "I know how to stitch wounds and I can tell if anything is broken…" Raven continued as she stepped into the room. She made her way over to Billy and went to reach out, clearly, she felt unsure if she could help or not. Kyd snatched her wrist and yanked her back causing her to cry in surprise.
"Why didn't you do anything. There hurt because you just stood there and let them get hurt. This is your fault." Kyd had stood and pulled Raven close to him as he screamed at her. His eyes looked dangerous and he was gripping her shoulders so tightly that Raven was in pain. "Did you want Adonis to do those things to you. Is that why you just let them get hurt." He yelled.
"Kyd! Let her go!" Mammoth had stood and moved around to the pair, while Seemore was still completely surprised by Kyd's actions. Mammoth tried to make Kyd let go but he refused, and simply shrugged Mammoth's hand away.
"They protected you and you just stood there." Kyd yelled again, his arms and shoulders were shaking now and he seemed to be tightening his grip. Raven put her hands against his chest trying to shove him back but she wasn't anywhere near strong enough. Kyd let go with one of his hands and looked like he was going to hit her. Raven closed her eyes and just waited for the impact. She already felt guilty about not helping and he was right, she just stood there. After a moment, there was a slap sound in the room and her other shoulder was released. But Raven didn't feel any pain. She opened her eyes that where watering and saw Kyd facing the ground, his cheek had reddened and Seemore stood a meter away. After a moment Seemore grabbed his hand and whispered a curse as he lent against the wall.
Raven stepped back as Kyd walked past her, heading to his room away from the lot of them. Mammoth took a few minutes before he followed leaving Raven and Seemore with Billy. She turned her attention to Billy as she thought about what had happened. Kyd was right with everything he had said, it was her fault that Billy and Seemore had been hurt. She could have done something to help them out, but she just stood there. Even now, she should be able to heal Billy's wounds but she couldn't, her powers simply wouldn't work. She had to settled for simply helping him the best she could.
She removed all the glass from his torso, only once piece was big so she didn't need to work too hard in that section, just cleaning and bandaging the wounds. However, she could see the dark bruises that were along his body and she knew that there were defiantly a few broken ribs. The Hive Five base was lacking greatly in medical equipment so she had to use the bandages to wrap his body so that he could heal. It wasn't the best job in the world but it would help him. She turned around to Seemore who till now she hadn't paid any attention to. She had been too scared of him hating her that she simply ignored him. Only now did she see that he had been silently crying.
Raven moved over to him, pulled a chair closer and got him to sit down. As she looked at his hand she tried to think of anything she could say, but her mind was blank. She settled for just doing what she could to help him instead. After she was finished wrapping his wrist, she sat beside him. She was still stuck trying to find the words to say, to thank him for stopping Adonis and Kyd, but all she could do was stare across the room. Seemore's head eventually came to rest on her shoulder and his hand sat on hers as he cried. She decided that it be best to just leave it be for right now and thank him when he was in a better state.
Hours passed and Seemore eventually left to head back to his room. Mammoth and Gizmo had come in to check on Billy and Raven explained that he would be sore for some time and needed rest. It was almost 2 in the morning when she decided to head back to her room for the night. As she passed Kyd's door though, she wondered if maybe she should talk to him about the things that happened. She hadn't really thought about the way he acted or why. She thought that it might be possible he was scared for Billy's health, but even if that was the case his actions where a little more than someone might expect. She took one last look at the door before heading into her own bedroom. She didn't feel comfortable trying to speak with Kyd right now.
By morning she had settled her emotions, but she couldn't settle her mind. She kept thinking about her powers and why she couldn't use them. She had wanted to help them, save them from what Adonis had been doing but she didn't get a chance. She couldn't do anything but sit back and watch it as it happened. Kyd was right, she just let him hurt them.
She made her way to the kitchen to find Mammoth cooking a meal for everyone. Rather than his quick movements around the kitchen though, he was moving slowly as though there was no purpose anymore. He seemed visibly drained and Raven could tell from the bags under his eyes that he had not slept very well. She sat at the bench and waited for him to notice her. It took longer than Raven though it would. He seemed to look at things but not register their appearance. Several times he would be looking for a single thing only to realise it had been right in front of him the whole time.
"Are you doing okay?" Raven asked as she was final tired of being over looked. Mammoth turned, visibly startled and stared at her. He seemed more awake now then he had been the entire time she'd been out in the kitchen.
"I didn't hear you… or see you." He said as he took a moment to breath. "I'm fine, just worried." He said waving her off as he returned to cooking.
"And Kyd?" Raven asked. She knew that Mammoth was the only one to see Kyd after the events of yesterday and he didn't speak about it when checking on Billy. Mammoth sighed and turned to Raven.
"He felt horrible when I went to talk to him, but he didn't say much. In the end, I barely got to say anything before he had shut the door. I think you should talk to him. I don't think he would hurt you, even yesterday… I think if Seemore hadn't slapped him, he would have chickened out and walked away." Mammoth lent on the counter for a moment.
"It must be hard seeing a friend like that though." She said.
"None of us have really ever been in that bad of a state. I think that's what got to everyone." Mammoth said.
"But I could have prevented it if I had been able to use my powers." Raven said, this time she looked up to Mammoth. She had thought that she'd see disappointment in his face, but he didn't seem that bothered by it.
"You can't know that. Besides, maybe your fear was what stopped your power from working which still means that you were trying." He leant on the counter. "I think as long as you wanted to help, it's enough. Besides, you took care of Billy and that's all that counts." Raven gave a small smile and then looked to her left. It was the spot that Kyd would often sit in when he had come out to join them. Mammoth took notice of this. "He probably felt just as useless yesterday." He said as he turned back to the food. Raven stood and headed for Kyd's room. She wasn't sure what she was expecting, but she hoped at the very least they could put these events behind them.
She knocked a few times on his door and when he wouldn't answer, she stepped inside. Kyd was laying on his bed staring at the ceiling, he didn't even turn to her as she walked in. His room was back to being messy and even Kyd seemed dishevelled. He hadn't changed and his hair was messy and sticking to his pillow. She sighed and took a seat on the bed so that she could still see his face. Only when the bed move did Kyd flicker his eyes to her.
"I guess not answering means come on in. Next time I'll be sure to make sure you know I don't want to talk." Kyd said, though his voice was cracking, as if he was holding back the pain. His hands flew to his face and he covered his face.
"I wanted to talk about the things that happened the other day." Raven said. "I'm sorry that I couldn't protect Billy or Seemore." She said. She had more she wanted to say but he was looking at her and that intense colour in his eyes took her voice away. Kyd sat up and moved closer so he was next to her, his knees pulled to his chest and his head resting in the gap.
"I wasn't trying to hurt you… I just got so angry and all I could think of was how badly I wanted to help." Kyd said. He spoke softly and there was still the pain in his voice. "I came back to late and all I could do was stop Adonis. But that didn't help Seemore of Billy." As Kyd spoke Raven started to realise that he was blaming himself for not being here.
"Kyd, they don't blame you. You went out, no one can blame you for spending time away and it's not like there was any guarantee of you making a difference whether you were here or not. You helped the moment you knew they were endanger and that's all that matters." Raven said. She placed her hand on his, but flinched when he moved. He was still scary to her. Kyd noticed her reaction and shoved his hands into his pockets and threw his eyes to the nearest wall.
"About the almost hitting you thing, I didn't want to hit you, and I'm sorry about it. I wanted to hit something and since I was already taking my anger out on you it became an option. But I shouldn't have ever been an option." His eyes moved back to hers, almost begging for her to be okay with what he said. She smiled and nodded but was still wary of his actions. "Billy's okay, isn't he?" Kyd asked, his eyes seeming saddened by the question.
"He will be, he just needs to rest." She said. Kyd smiled and lent over, pulling Raven into a hug. She flinched at his sudden contact with her, but tried to act as though it was okay. She understood that he was trying to show her that he was sorry, and this was the best he could come up with. So, the lest she could do is be okay with it.