I don't own FAKE or any of it's characters.
It was time for Ryo to return to work, he couldn't stay home forever. He was dreading returning, but he had no choice. If he wanted to keep supporting Bikky and himself he needed to work. Even though he had a pretty hefty bank account from his family, he only used it for emergencies. For insistence losing his job, but that was never going to happen. He liked his job surprisingly enough. He liked the people, the work, hell even the atmosphere. The only thing he didn't like was currently sitting in his office as he walked in.
" Good morning Ryan," Ryo greeted coolly as he walked into his office and sat in his chair.
Ryan, who was currently sipping his coffee greeted Ryo with an intimidating tone, " Morning Randy."
Even with this greeting he felt like he hated this man, he hated him so much to incorporate him in his dreams. But wait, hadn't his dreams lately been memories? If so, then why was Ryan in them? Unless for some reason he was around back then, but that didn't seem possible. Ryo would just have to ask Dee later when he saw him. If he did seem him later tonight.
Interrupting his thought, Ryan nudged him and spoke, " Oh I forgot to tell you, the chief wanted to see us in his office."
" Okay," Ryo got up quickly, to get away from the uncomfortable hand that was resting on his shoulder. Even though it was a simple gesture, Ryo felt chills run down his spine. There was just something about Ryan that disturbed him.
Walking down the hall, to the chief's office, Ryo found himself behind Ryan. This irritated him. Ryan was new to the building and Ryo had worked there for years. Ryo thought that he should be leading the way. When they reached the chief's office, Ryo found himself standing instead of sitting in one of the worn out leather chairs that sat in front of the chief's desk.
" Randy, I'm glad to have you back," the chief said with a serious tone. Ryo was one of his best detectives and also one of his best sharp shooters besides J.J.
" I'm glad to be back, sir," Ryo smiled at the chief.
" Yes, I'm glad to have my partner back too," Ryan joined into the conversation.
" Well thanks," Ryo said with a fake smile.
The chief, who had been watching the two new partners converse, decided to step in, " Randy, since you were gone your partner had taken up a new case with J.J and Drake. Now, since you are back, I would like you two to work on the new case."
" Okay, sir," Ryo said curiously, wondering what it could be.
The chief continued, " This new case has to do with the blood - drained bodies that we have found in the city."
" How many?" Ryo asked.
" Three including the woman we found the other day,"
" I heard that it was just a virus, what gives you the idea it is a killer?"
" We have a witness and I would like you and Ryan to go speak to him," The chief gave us his orders.
" Okay," Ryan spoke up from the chair that he was currently sitting in, " where is the file?"
" Right here, Now figure this case out, the last thing we need is a freak pretending to be a vampire go on a killing spree." the chief handed Ryan the folder and they left. This time with Ryo in the lead,
Sitting in Ryan's car, Ryo felt very uncomfortable. He didn't like being trapped in a car with a man he did not like. He also did not like how the man sitting next him, had been silent the whole drive to the witness's house. It was eerie, because the only sound Ryo heard was his own breath.
As they reached the witness house, Ryo was filled with relief. He could finally get out of this car, and he would finally be able to be free if only for a few moments. When they reached the witness's apartment building, it was strange because the apartment was in the same area as his own apartment.
" Don't you live around here?" Ryan asked.
Ryo hesitated with the answer, " Yes how did you know?"
" I've seen you around this area before." he stated and this made Ryo more uncomfortable. If Ryan had seen Ryo in this area he might know where Ryo lived. And that disturbed Ryo greatly.
" Oh," Ryo said, after realizing that he hadn't said anything.
" So are you ready to go check out the witness?" Ryan asked as he got out of the car.
" Yeah," Ryo answered back as he got out of Ryan's car .
As they walked inside Ryo noticed that the elevator had an out of order sign on it and started to head to the stairs. Ryo didn't mine though, because stairs sounded a lot better than riding in a small elevator with Ryan. Anything sounded better than that. With Ryo being athletic, he reached the third floor in a matter of minutes. He was glad because he did not want to deal with Ryan being so close behind him anymore.
When they reached the door to the witness, Ryo knocked. The door opened a few moments later and a lean man in his mid- thirties stepped out. He had brown hair that was cut short, blue eyes that seemed to be filled with questions.
" Hello," the man said in a questioning tone.
" Hello my name is detective Mclean and I am here to ask you a couple questions," Ryo told the man.
"Oh, come on in," The man said as he opened the door, to let Ryo and Ryan inside his apartment.
The apartment seemed to be a decent size and was filled with older, but comfortable furniture.
" So…," the man, named James, said as Ryo and Ryan sat on the couch.
" Well we would like to know what happened," Ryan stated point blankly and the two looked at each other. They stared in each others eyes for a while.
Ryo, trying to break the stare went to ask a question, but James answered first.
" Well, every night I look out the window just to look outside, you see I have a view of a small park, and it is nice to look outside. So I look outside and I see this women running down the sidewalk," He paused for a few seconds looked at Ryan and then continued, "Well all the sudden I see this guy running up to her and then he… I don't know how to say it.. But it looked like he bit into her neck and she fell to the ground . And then as soon as she hit the ground the man looked up at me."
" What did he look like?" Ryan stared into James' blue eyes.
" He had black hair, green eyes, and he was medium height. He looked like he was in his early thirties."
Ryo pondering this over, " I have a question , if you saw this then why didn't you come to police station to give your statement?"
" Well, you see the strange part was that as soon as that guy looked up at me, I woke up. Like I had been dreaming. So I thought it was just some weird dream, until I turned on the news the next day and they mentioned finding a woman by the park where I live. So I called the police and here you are."
" Oh.," was all Ryo said, and he stopped to think about what the criminal had looked like.
" So you are saying that the suspect had black hair, green eyes, and in his early thirties," Ryan asked.
" Yeah."
" You can't remember anything else," Ryan asked and then there was that long stare between the two of them.
" Well he did seem sort of tall, and he wasn't skinny, but he wasn't fat either. He was well muscled. He also was wearing a pendant around his neck. I couldn't really tell what it was, though," James said and Ryo thought about it. Everything that the man had said had described Dee. Dee had black hair. Dee had green eyes. Dee wore a necklace with a pendant around his neck. But it just wasn't possible. Even though Ryo knew in the back of his head that it was possible. He knew that Dee wasn't normal. That there was something mysterious about Dee, something that wasn't human. Ryo had been thinking about this and hadn't realized that Ryan was talking to him.
" Are you ready Randy?" he asked in his irritating voice.
Ryo looked up and nodded and then said, " Thank you for you information, Mr. Sterling. I.. we appreciate it,"
When they reached the car, Ryo got in very quickly. He had many things on his mind. He had to know the truth about Dee. He had to know what was happening to him. Why everything in his perfect life was becoming complicated. He needed to go home and find out why this was happening. The only problem was that he couldn't. He couldn't leave now, he had already missed work from an " illness". There was no way he could go to the chief and say that he needed to go home now. He was a responsible adult and he was just going to have to go through the rest of the day. Which turned out to be uneventful.
When Ryo finally reached his house he was exhausted. He hated Ryan, with all his might and he never hated anyone. The guy gave him the creeps . Especially how he had stared down the witness , and then immediately got what he had wanted. It was sort of like he was hypnotizing the witness. But that wasn't possible. Just like it wasn't possible for Dee to be the killer. Ryo thought all this over as he made dinner for him and Bikky.
But it would be easier for Ryo if he was the killer. It would have been easier for Ryo to deny his feelings for Dee. It would be easier to forget him, but even though Ryo thought this, he knew it wasn't what he wanted. Even if Dee killed those women, he would never hurt Ryo. He had seen the memories of their past life, they were meant to be together. Even though it was hard to admit to himself, Ryo knew they were meant for each other and they Ryo was going to get to the bottom of the mystery that followed Dee.
" Ryo, what are we having for dinner?" Bikky asked, and knocked Ryo out of his thoughts.
" Spaghetti and meatballs," Ryo turned around from the counter he was facing and looked at his adopted son. The boy was changing before his eyes. And with that Ryo thought about what would happen with Bikky, if he went with Dee. Would it change their lives, he could never leave his son alone.
" Ryo….. Are you listening?," Bikky waved his hand in front of Ryo's face.
" Huh..," Ryo looked down at his son and gave him a goofy smile, " Sorry I am very distracted today."
" Oh well I was asking if I could go hang out with Carol tomorrow?" Bikky begged with his eyes.
" Yeah I guess, you can go over there tomorrow but as long as you eat your vegetables."
" Awww man," Bikky pouted but did not disagree. Bikky knew what he had to do, to hang out with Carol.
That night as Bikky was sleeping, Ryo was getting ready for bed. He didn't have to get up early tomorrow because his shift was later by a couple hours. As he laid in his gigantic bed, he felt completely restless. It just hit him ,like many times before, that his life was not complete. He felt lonely, and he had no idea why. It wasn't like he didn't have everything he wanted, the only thing missing was someone to be with. It was strange though, for the past couple weeks he had not felt this way. What had caused the change? Was it because it seemed like the first night that Dee was not here . Had he got so accustomed to lying in bed with Dee, that with out him he felt absolutely lonely.
The more Ryo thought about Dee, the more lonely he seemed to get. Why did he feel this way, he asked himself. Could it be that he was in love with Dee? Really in love with Dee. So in love that he would do anything for him , even become something not human for the man. As soon as Ryo thought that, he realized he was spouting nonsense. Of course Dee was human, how could he not be, even if strange things always happened around him. But the more Ryo thought about it, the more Dee seemed to be less human, especially from the memories that he had of them together.
Now that Ryo thought about it, he realized that in his last dream Ryan had done something to Dee. Now he wondered what it was. Something about his soul dying, but his body remaining. What could that have possibly mean. Not at least a bit tired now, Ryo decided to do some research on the internet. What else could he do. He needed to know, what was going on in his life. As Ryo pulled his laptop from the place where it rested on his desk, he wondered what he would search for. Maybe he would search his partners name, but first the words that Ryan had said in his dream. He typed in the words " bodies with out souls". Once his search was done, the only response he got was stuff about vampires. That made him laugh, he doubted very much that Dee was a vampire.
" Vampire," he said out loud to himself. The criminal, who had killed three women already had been trying to imitate a vampire. The crime it's self was basically out of a vampire book. Thinking about vampires he clicked on the first website that had to do with vampires. He couldn't believe he was doing this, but sometimes he needed to do research for his job. No matter how crazy this was, he needed to do it. So then he could get into the killer's mind, try to figure out his next move.
As he was reading the website about vampires, he felt the air get colder. He looked around, but no one was there. He continued what he was doing, but he felt an awful presence in the room. Feeling uncomfortable in the dark room that was only lit by his computer, he went to turn on the lights. But as soon as he turned them on the presence was gone, and he was left alone looking at his neat room.
" Ryo," Dee said in a whisper, and caused Ryo to jump when he heard his voice.
" How long have you been here," Ryo asked wondering if the presence had been Dee.
" I just got here a couple of seconds ago. It felt like you needed me so I decided to come over," Dee stated.
" Oh," Ryo managed as he walked over to his bed from the light switch.
" So what are you doing?" Dee asked.
" Researching about vampires," Ryo laughed as he said it. The whole thing sounded ridiculous.
" Oh, really what have you found out," Dee still had a look of shock when Ryo had said the word vampire.
" Nothing really, but it does seem kind of interesting."
" Well I know a lot abut vampires. What would you like to know?" Dee asked, as he wondered if Ryo had found out about him.
" Everything," Ryo smiled at Dee.
I hope you liked it. I am sorry it took me so long, but i had laptop issues. So i will get right on my stories from now on.
