Hi ppl! Sorry for the long wait. I have suckered myself in falling in love with attempting to 'read' and 'watch' one of my old favorite series. Inuyasha XD BUT I promise you, I have two chapters finished and I am close to getting to the climax :) I am sure you all will love this chapter and the next one.
Also yes this is a Kevin/Ben story. We're getting there. So please be patient! And those waiting for an Albedo/Ben It is coming quickly :)
Please enjoy the chapter :)
Chapter Nine
-if you can be another person would you take it if the other option was that much more gruesome-
Luke knew something was wrong with himself as he laid curled on his side in a ball his stomach twisting, his head throbbing, and vomit had unfortunately gotten into his hair and on the side of his face. He was feeling as if drugged and beaten.
But I am drugged... I was beaten, and he knew that the alarms screaming in his head to get up should have hinted that something was wrong. Something he had to do, fight for, was wrong. But when he did find the strength to look up and see the swimming world so distorted.
He found Ben sitting in the seat in front of him but the shoulders bare should have given him a hint that Ben was naked. Or the tangy smell of copper that he occasionally tasted on his tongue. Or the words from whoever was driving that sent shivers down his back and his throat to twist and dry up.
Luke was scared. He had reason to be scared. He was knocked up so bad on narcotics that his vomit looks like rabbits swimming in green slime!
Ben was uneasy at the fact the smell in the car was offsetting. He was tense to the hand on his knee rubbing the thought of Kevin crossed his mind. Kevin visited him every day. Kevin spent time arguing on Ben's behalf. Kevin was taken by Albedo like Albedo was now taking him again, but this time with a twist of Luke thrown in this hellish nightmare in the others poor condition.
The cop had started crying when they were leaving. Ben had never thought he'd see someone break down like that but Ben remembered they had said Albedo was bad. Albedo 'raped' people, whatever that meant, and that Albedo killed people. So, yes, Ben was confused but it was a strange confusion that made him actually start thinking. He liked Luke. Luke was like someone strong Ben wanted as a father figure, strangely Ben had a father Albedo granted him but that father wasn't like Luke. That father was busy and visited rarely as the mother Albedo gave him.
Then there was Gwen, she visited as much as she could. At times looking so broken down. So bruised, so... beaten up. She made trips. She made plans. She brought gifts or tried like Kevin to do things for him that Ben wanted. As if Ben was a normal person. That made Ben happy.
He had not once yearned for Albedo has he had when he woke up. He had not desired to be with the other white haired red eyed man since he had beaten Luke up over seeing Albedo's face.
'And I didn't want to see Albedo's face... I was happy without Albedo. I was 'loved' without Albedo. And Luke was sad and crying and... and...'
"Ben?" Albedo called out, "What's wrong? I thought you would be happy I came to get you?"
"I am," Ben whispered, "But I want to go back. Can I?"
The low mirthless chuckle said 'no' and Ben felt for the first time, so familiar that it had not happen in years, fear.
"Oh it looks like you've gotten some fire back into you. Don't worry, Ben, you'll see them all again. I promise." Albedo's words made Ben feel hollow. He lowered his head and he felt he was crying harder.
Words of his first time seeing Luke crept to his mind 'He killed them all, why did he spare this one?' and Ben felt he knew why. Albedo was looking for a new high. New fun. New...
Didn't Luke look like Albedo without the white hair and red eyes or was Ben seeing something he shouldn't have in this moment of fear trying to place some comfort in something that was obviously preposterous... and yet Ben thought upon it because it was a distraction his brain desired from the wandering hand and the obvious lust the bastard who harmed Kevin was enjoying from Ben's willing, albeit shaking, body.
