I don't own FAKE!!
As Dee sat across from Ryo on his bed, he was shocked. He couldn't believe the words that were coming out of Ryo's mouth.
" Everything," Ryo said to Dee and he didn't know where to start. How could he? There was just so much to say.
" Well," Dee paused, " ask me what you want to know."
" But that's the thing I don't know," Ryo laughed as he told Dee this.
" Well just ask me a question about anything and I will answer you," Dee said with sincerity in his voice.
"Anything?" Ryo questioned.
" Yes, of course," Dee smiled at Ryo and urged Ryo to ask him a question.
" Oh well, how does one become a vampire?"
" Well they have to be bitten and then once they are bitten, they must suck the blood from the one that bit them."
" Oh, well can they walk in the sun?" Ryo asked.
" Yes, but only once the vampire had become strong enough, which usually takes a century or two. But once the vampire is able to walk into the light, the people around them feel the vampire's aura. So usually it is just easier for the vampire to stay hidden.
Ryo continued to ask questions about vampires and Dee easily replied. By the end of the night the questions got more personal.
" So you said I could ask anything, right?" Ryo asked.
" Yes I did," Dee said as he wondered were Ryo was getting at.
" Well how about we take turns asking questions about each other," Ryo blushed as he spoke.
" All right, you start," Dee smiled at Ryo's blush.
" Umm…Well…. What is your favorite color?" Ryo blushed again.
" Black and green," Dee said nonchalantly.
" Oh well… it is your turn now," Ryo said.
" Have you ever been in love," Dee asked.
" No… well maybe," Ryo looked up at Dee, " I'm not really sure. I don't think I have ever been in love, but how would I know? I don't know what love feels like, so maybe I have been in love or maybe I haven't."
" Ryo, when you find yourself in love, you will know."
" Well have you ever been in love?"
" Yes, and I still am," Dee looked at Ryo's dark eyes as he spoke to Ryo.
Ryo blushed, but looked Dee in they eyes, " How do you know?"
" It is hard to explain. It is like you feel devotion, adoration, confusion, it's uncontrollable and absolutely amazing. I really do not know how to explain it," Dee stated.
" Ohh well that is okay. I think you explained it well enough," Ryo blushed, " Thanks."
" Your welcome, although I really did not explain it."
" No, I completely understood what you were trying to say."
" Ohh well in that case you are most definitely welcome," Dee smiled up at Ryo and Ryo couldn't stop his heart from melting.
" You know sometimes…," Ryo cut himself off, not knowing what he was going to say.
" Sometimes?"
" Sometimes…," Dee looked at Ryo wanting, no needing him to finish his sentence, " Sometimes I am really glad I met you."
After Ryo had said that, there was silence, but it was not a bad silence, it was the kind of silence that was like an unspoken understanding.
" I am really glad I met you too Ryo," Dee broke the silence and looked up at Ryo, but it seemed that Ryo had not quite heard him.
" I know… wait I mean, I don't know. It is like, for the first time in my life I am not sure what to do in my life. I mean I always know, there is always a little voice in my head telling me to do what is best, but I don't know what is best. I am completely confused. I just don't know what to do, and if I do make a choice, if it will be the right one.
" Well you will never know until you try. You know Ryo it is okay to mistakes as long as you can get past them. You also may never know that those mistakes can in the end, lead to something great," Dee tried to help ease Ryo's confusion.
" I know what you said is true, it is just that I don't know if I can allow myself to make those mistakes. To let everything my mind is saying and just follow my heart," after saying all this, Ryo looked up at Dee and smiled, " even though that is all that I really want to do."
" Then do it, don't think just act. Don't worry about the aftermath, just worry about what you feel. Don't worry if you fall I will catch you,"
" That is exactly what I am afraid of," Ryo looked at Dee with his eyes full of confusion.
" Why? You can trust me."
" I know, but…," Ryo didn't know what to say once again.
" But what, Ryo. This is your problem. You get so close to making a choice, but as soon as you do, you change your mind. Just do what you want to do. Don't send mix signals," Dee was starting to lose his temper, how could he not? He just wanted everything to be what it was like in the past.
" I am not trying to, I am just confused," Ryo argued back.
" Well Ryo you can't live your life being confused, you have to make a choice eventually."
" Well Dee I am trying, but it is not necessarily easy if I don't know where to go from here!"
" You don't need to know, that is exactly what I have been trying to tell you!!," Their conversation that had started up so innocent was going to end so violently.
" Well maybe, I want to know where I am going to go!!"
" Why?"
" Because I like to know what is going to happen."
"Don't you ever want to be surprised?"
" No.. well it depends. If it dealing with my life, then no."
" Why? Are you afraid of change? Are you afraid that you might fall? Why, Ryo? Why can't you just let yourself feel instead of think?" Dee questioned.
" I do feel." Ryo insisted but he knew his words weren't completely true.
" No you don't. You may try to feel, but as soon as you find yourself on a different path than you intended, you stop. You pull yourself away before you may have to rely on someone else," Dee paused waiting for Ryo to say something but he didn't, " Ryo I just want you to rely on me. I want to be there for you, when you find yourself falling, but you won't let me. You try to let me catch you, but then as soon as you are ready to let go you change your mind and I am left there waiting for you."
" Dee…,"
" No Ryo, I know I said I would always be waiting and that I will always be there, but it is getting so much harder to wait… to be there," Dee looked over at Ryo and saw his eyes water.
" Dee please don't give up on me. Just give me a little bit more time. I know that I will come around," Ryo was basically in tears he didn't want Dee to leave.
" I will try for you, because I love you Ryo. I love you so much that it hurts. Even though I know I said I would wait forever, I don't know if I can anymore," Dee was on the verge of breaking down.
Not knowing what to say, as he saw Dee so close to tears, Ryo decided to hug him. They had both needed the consolation from each other. After hugging Dee for a brief period he found the words to say. Even if they weren't quite the right ones, he still felt he needed to say them.
" You know Dee I know we are both hurting, but I am glad we talked… that we told each other what was really on our minds," Ryo smiled as he turned to Dee and looked him in the eyes.
" Me too, Ryo," Dee smiled, even though that was the last thing he felt like doing.
There was silence for a couple minutes as the two continued to hold each other in an embrace. Neither of them knew what to say or do, as they had both felt utterly confused. They just continued to hold on to each other, because neither of them knew if it would ever happen again.
" Dee," Ryo spoke Dee's name but he didn't know what to say after he had said it.
" Ryo."
" Dee…" I think I love you, would have been what Ryo was going to say., but he had not quite known what those words meant, so he didn't say them.
" I know Ryo," Dee answered Ryo even though he hadn't said anything except his name.
That night they laid together in Ryo's giant bed and held each other, neither of them saying anything more than what had already been said. It was like an unspoken contract that neither of them wanted to break, well at least until the morning.
The next morning
Ryo woke in his bed to find Dee missing. Of course, he had gone. Dee always left, especially after the discussion they had yesterday. It was sort of ironic to Ryo, because after discussing everything he felt and having Dee tell him what to do with himself, he still didn't know where to go. It was just that it had to be Ryo's decision, even if the matter did concern Dee.
Getting up to go to work, Ryo realized that Dee hadn't really helped him in solving the case and he still hadn't found out anything new about Dee. The man was still a complete mystery to him, which probably didn't help him trust Dee anymore than he should. It was not that Ryo did not want to trust Dee, it was just he didn't know where he could start trusting the man. Ryo continued thinking about this as he got up and got dressed. He was not necessarily looking forward to work, because he didn't know where to start. Especially with Ryan there, who was definitely someone that Ryo could not trust. How could he, when the man oozed deceit? Ryo realized that the only person he truly trusted was his adopted son Bikky, but even then there were some limits. To Ryo it seemed like he was the type of person that didn't trust as readily as he should, which most likely hurt the people around him. It was not like he didn't want to trust people, he just found that he couldn't do it. As Ryo thought about this, he realized that he had been looking in the mirror at himself. He also realized that he was running extremely late, so he got ready quickly and left for work.
When he reached work, he was mentally exhausted from thinking so much. All he wanted to do was catch the son of bitch that was killing innocent people. Who also thought that he was a vampire. That made Ryo laugh inside, like there was such thing as vampires. Ryo had been thinking about that when he walked into his office that he shared with Ryan.
There might not be vampires but there is definitely a devil and he is sitting in the desk across from mine, Ryo thought as he saw Ryan and he wanted to laugh out loud.
" So anything new?" Ryo asked the man.
" Nope, anything new with you?" Ryan said that and Ryo, who had only been in the room with him for only five seconds, found himself glaring at the man.
" I think that is a personal question and I would not like to discuss it with the likes of you," Ryo said with a hint of malice.
" Ouch that hurt Randy," Ryan said.
" Good," Ryo really did not want to deal with Ryan.
" Jeez, Randy. I don't know what I ever did to offend you."
" You didn't do anything, I just don't like you," Ryo told Ryan, and he couldn't believe that he was telling the man exactly what he thought.
" Well we are going to have to get along because Randy I don't want you to do something that might get you killed," Ryan said with a hint of warning, but Ryo wasn't paying attention because those words had seemed awfully familiar. Ryo thought that he had heard them and then he remembered it had been in one of those supposed 'memories'.
"Now Ryo you don't want to do something that might end up getting you killed," Ryan whispered in his ear as he moved behind Ryo and turned the gun facing towards him.
"Maybe I do. I already lost Dee," Ryo kicked Ryan and struggled to get loose, causing the gun to go off.
As soon as he remembered the vision he felt disgust toward Ryan.
" Are you trying to threaten me?" Ryo just wanted to punch the man in his face.
" No of course not Ryo, after all you are my partner," Ryan said once again with a hint of sarcasm, like he knew something that Ryo didn't.
" Temporary partner, don't forget that,"
" How could I Ryo when you always remind me," Ryan stated but his words seemed to have a deeper meaning.
" Well good, can we just get to work," Ryo just wanted to end the conversation with Ryan and just try to solve the murders that had been taking place in the last couple of days.
" Sure."
It was a couple hours later and Ryo found himself in the same place in solving the murder. He just didn't know where to start. He tried to start with the autopsies, but he found nothing there, except that bodies had been drained of their blood, nothing else. Even though it did seem strange that the victims didn't die from anything but losing blood that was drained out of them, this really didn't help Ryo get any where. Where was there to go? They had only one witness and the person they had described looked like Dee, but he had already ruled that possibility or did he? It could have been Dee, but he highly doubted that. Deciding to take his lunch break just a little bit earlier than usually he went to the park and sat on a bench.
Ryo sat on the bench thinking about everything that was going on in his life. He was thinking about that and the murders, it just seemed that somehow that they were interconnected. He didn't know how, but he had a feeling. A feeling that his life was going to change and that, scared the shit out of him. He liked his life and he didn't want it to change. He didn't want anything big to happen to him, although he didn't really mind if the change had something to do with Dee.
" So what are you doing here?" Ryo looked up to look at the man who he was just thinking about.
" How do you do that?" Ryo asked.
" Do you really want to know?" Dee asked.
" Yes."
" Well I will tell you later tonight, maybe," Dee stated.
" Are you serious?"
" Of course, I think it is time that I tell you my secrets, and you can tell me yours so then we can trust each other."
" Sounds like a plan. Would you like to sit down?" Ryo asked the standing Dee.
"Sure. So what are you doing?" Dee asked as he sat down next to Ryo.
" Nothing just thinking about the case that I am working on."
" The one about vampires?"
" It is not really a vampire, but yeah that one."
" How do you know that it isn't a vampire?" The way Dee questioned Ryo made him feel like he should consider a vampire.
" Because they don't exist."
" Some people say that love at first doesn't exist, but we both know that is not true," Dee smiled a cocky smile as he made Ryo blush.
" I don't…," love you, Ryo had planned on saying, but that was not necessarily true.
" You don't what, Ryo," Dee urged Ryo to continue with what he was going to say.
" I don't know where you get these crazy ideas from," Ryo smiled at Dee, trying to fix the hurt look that he saw in Dee's eyes.
" They aren't crazy Ryo, they are the truth," Dee stated.
" Sure they are," Ryo denied Dee's words again.
" Well I better get going. I will see you tonight," Dee said quickly and got up to leave.
" Wait…," Ryo didn't want him to leave.
" What?"
" I… I can't wait until tonight."
" Okay Ryo, bye," Dee turned away from Ryo and continued to walk away from Ryo.
" Dee," Ryo said once more, grabbing Dee's attention.
" Yes, Ryo?" The look on Dee's face was hope.
" I… I love you," Ryo said the words but they didn't necessarily ease what he felt.
" I know, Ryo."
" How can you know, when I am not entirely sure if I know myself?" Ryo asked.
" Ryo you shouldn't say that you love me, if aren't sure what you mean by them."
" I.. I know what I am saying and it is the truth. I just don't know what kind of love I am talking about."
" Well you can figure that out," Dee said a little coldly, " I will see you tonight."
" OK."
Later that night
Ryo was anxious for Dee to show up. He had the whole house to himself because Bikky had gone to Carol's and he really wanted to see Dee. He had already ate dinner, and now he was waiting in the family room on the couch with a glass of wine. He really just wanted Dee to show up.
" So are you ready for what I have to tell you?" Dee asked.
" Will it explain how you always pop up?"
" Of course, it will explain everything."
" Okay well then I am ready."
" Well do you want the long winded version or the short, to the point version?" Dee asked.
" The short, to the point version," Ryo was wondering what it could possibly be.
"Well I am a vampire."
" Hahaha very funny Dee," Ryo stated but then he looked Dee in the eyes and he knew that he spoke the truth.
"I am not lying Ryo," With that said, everything started to make sense.
I am sorry it took so long. It will be quicker next time i promise. Hope you liked it!!