Crap. Stupid. Day. Yesterday. Sorry for the late update. Thanks to Justice237, CharlieSMarts12 and CatsAndWhiskers for your lovely review! Thanks to everyone for the follows and favorite so far! I hope you all have a lovely day/night wherever you all are! Warning: Story contains, boyxboy, scenes of violence, character death, mentions of past abuse, swearing and... well, you kinda get the point.
"Sirena!"
Ryan's head flinched up, from where it had been resting against the pillow.
The time on his clock as just about one minute or so before his alarm clock would go off. Honestly. What was the point of having an alarm clock, if you was going to wake up before the stupid thing went off anyway.
But in this case Ryan had been thankful he had been woken.
It seemed bringing up those memories of his past and specifically dwelling on the thought of what happened to Sirena in the alley... probably wasn't the best for the brunette. He had spent his night, tortured and trapped inside the memory, living it over and over like some kind of sick replay, unable to get out of it.
But as he looked down to see the pale face resting against his chest, he couldn't help but let out a small sigh at feeling a bit more secure. Sirena was here. They were both safe. No one could come and get them. They were two kings finally reunited at last. The masters of the game! They were the only two humans left around this place still truly alive! One of them kept alive by the need to fight and the other by pain.
Sirena's hair was flat against his brow, but still shined like that of absolute, pure moonlight. Ryan often wondered if it was natural? But it just suited Sirena so well anyway that it didn't really matter he guessed. Sirena was so amazing anyway, the boy was lithe and well toned. He could move far more than most others could. He had more advantages and more to fight for than others would.
Ryan reached out a hand slowly, and gently pulled back the lock of hair out of Sirena's closed eyes. The soft skin around his eyelids was tinged slightly pink, just like the boy's cheeks were dusted faintly with a low and pale crimson glow. He looked so small right there and then, held in Ryan's embrace. Clinging on so tightly while his guards couldn't have been any further down, yet while awake he couldn't have pushed himself any further away from the brunette.
Ryan's hand quickly slammed over onto the snooze button of the alarm the moment the clock's minute change and it had been about to wake the blond up. No. Sirena deserved an extra ten minutes in bed. After all, it was more likely than not going to be a long day ahead of them, but at least it was Friday. It just meant that they had to get through this day then both boys had two full days to themselves.
But the opportunity which presented itself within those hours was simply more than Ryan could wish for.
A whole building full of puppets, just waiting to be toyed with.
But even so, even with the normal cold excitement that usually rushed through his bones at the thought of another day's work, he couldn't help but find himself distracted. His eyes simply refused to move from Sirena as the brunette subconsciously tightened his embrace when the boy started whimpering softly. Seems it's not just me stuck with the nightmares. Ryan thought, tilting his head slightly then looking over as the clock finally went off.
Sirena growled quietly in his sleep and Ryan had to stop himself from laughing at the blond.
"Come on Princess. Time to rise and shine."
"I don't wanna." The boy pouted and murmured as he just purred when he felt the warmth of Ryan's chest against his cold cheek. He trembled ever so slightly and let a small gasp, Ryan just remained still. He had felt Sirena's temperature dropping rapidly in the night till the boy had felt like ice in his arms, he hadn't let go of course, but only tried to share what warmth he could.
"You know we have to get out of bed eventually."
"Meh." The boy muttered.
"Get up or I'll kiss you."
"What-OW!"
Sirena had startled himself awake and had crashed backwards with surprise. Luckily he had his reflexes on his side so as he had hit the floor he had been able to roll out of it, but he still looked like he had caught his head.
He glowered back up at the other boy who was sat smugly on the bed. "You slimy git!" Sirena smirked, his eyes alive and dancing with sparkles of light.
"Well I try my best."
"But if you ever try and put your lips on me." Sirena smiled sweetly. "I'll kick you so hard in the balls that you will be singing Ave Maria in a pitch that most women can't reach, for a month. Do you understand?" He said ever so softly.
Ryan gulped then.
"Hah! You'd love for me to kiss you."
"I'd say that King does the job just fine."
Instantly the growing mood between them was extinguished.
"Yeah." Ryan muttered, turning his head away with a sigh as he slowly stood.
Slowly the boy stretched, smirking when he felt Sirena's eyes lock onto his exposed torso.
"I bet he does." The boy had to hold back his grin as he half glanced over his shoulder to look Sirena point in the eyes.
Then came a show that Ryan had barely gotten to see before. Sirena dove at the wall so quickly and so lightly that Ryan understood a bit more why the boy had chosen to train in gymnastics and theater. Because as the boy had made a leap which otherwise would have had the others downstairs shouting. But Sirena only landed so lightly that there was no sound!
Well, just until the door slammed open and nearly hit the boy in the face that was.
A seething Carmen was stood in the doorway glowering at him with such an anger that he had to stop himself from laughing outright at her face. Her hair was in a mess over her face and covering up the right side of it. Thank god, now I only need to half look away from it. Ryan thought, trying harder and harder not to smirk. After all, it's pretty hard to take someone in a big fluffy pink dressing gown seriously. "It is Saturday!" The girl snarled, shouting with a her pathetic glare as though she could actually even scare him. "IT HAS BEEN A LONG WEEK! TURN YOUR ALARM CLOCK OFF!"
With that she stormed away.
The door slowly beginning to creak close.
Oh that's right. Ryan nodded slowly. Yesterday had been Friday. He had managed to sneak out of his class and then go to the theater to see Sirena. But when he got back here, he hadn't had chance to reset his alarm clock like he usually did at the weekends-
His breathing nearly stopped felt Sirena's face came back into view.
And unlike Carmen, Sirena could definitely give a murderous look which could make Ryan as scared as hell.
He slowly raised his hands up. "Eh now, take it easy Princess."
"Run." Sirena growled.
"Hey now, easy there! It was just a simple mistake!" Ryan took a couple of steps back slowly.
"Five." Sirena muttered.
"Oh crap." Ryan whispered, sprinting out the door as fast as he could.
"Four, three, two, one. Zero." Sirena sped through the last of the countdown, storming after Ryan like a tornado in the height of it's storm. His eyes sparkling but livid with annoyance at having being awoken for nothing.
"Oh, crap, crap,crap!" ryan muttered, as Sirena seemed to catch up with him far more easily than most others would have... but of course, the boy was everything but an official athlete! The boy had been trained to run his entire life! If this was the Maze Runner, then Sirena was Thomas and Ryan was Newt.
"Sirena! Give it up why don't ya! I said I was sorry!" Ryan called over his shoulder.
Tee glanced over from the doorway and rolled her eyes as she had dodged out of the way of the two and just simply smirked to herself. "Oh those two are so gonna end up together." She shook her head, laughing quietly before going back into her room, adding quietly. "Gotta say, I ship it."
"I'm gonna kill you Ryan!" Sirena barked.
"Man! When we're married, remind me not to get you up on the wrong side of the bed!"
"WHAT?!"
Sirena stumbled completely caught out of surprise and crashed into the open tool closet door Ryan had left waiting in trap for him. The blond crashed loudly into a wall of a metal bucket and into the various items and or other possessions and games in there.
That slimy little weasel. Sirena's thoughts snarled as his poker face was activated. USING THAT TO CATCH ME OFF GUARD?! Oh... he's so dead.
Ryan stood over him and lent against the doorway with a Cheshire cat grin across his face. "Well there little Jerry, looks like this Tom cat finally caught the mouse." Ryan inspected his nails casually while Sirena narrowed his eyes.
"Now when you're talking to little Jerry, are you referring to what's between your legs?" Sirena grinned.
Ryan's jaw dropped open and his face exploded out bright red as he stared at the boy disbelievingly.
"First of all, yes Rye-Rye, I just went there." Sirena laughed coldly, slowly moving the fallen mop off his head, before then slowly tilting his head and letting a slow bone crunching sound crack out and make Ryan pale slightly. "Ooh." Sirena smirked from ear to ear. "I think I'm going to enjoy this game a hell of a lot more than our others."
"Um... any chance that you just want to call it checkmate from this point?"
"Not a single one in hell." Sirena whispered.
"I thought so." Ryan sighed, before taking off as fast as his legs would carry him.
Sirena was up in a flash and after the boy, bounding off walls, and pushing his weight against them, giving him some elevation just as Ryan reached the stairs.
"I can't see you doing that in front of our kids!" Ryan barked.
"Nice try Rye-Rye but that isn't going to work a third time! You know what they say, fool me once, shame on you, fall me twice, shame on me, fall me three times? You're gonna get the smashed apart!"
"Who say's you'd get to do that?!"
"I'm still not playing those games Ryan- Oh you meant-Never mind." Sirena shook his head, having the decency to at least blush but otherwise glowering with narrowed eyes as she pushed all his weight off the wall and landed with a crouch on the hand rail, closing his arms around the air above the space where Ryan had been just a second before.
"I thought you was trying to catch me!" Ryan grinned.
"This game has only just begun." Sirena smirked, throwing himself forward through the air like the boy was sailing on it, then pushing himself into a rebound as he landed just behind the brunette in a crouch back on the rail.
Ryan had to admit... that, was impressive.
Sirena slowly rose and folded both arms over his chest as he glowered down at the other boy, still in nothing other than the pajama shorts that he had slept in. His legs were crossed over one another and yet the boy still stood there like he had absolutely no problem in the world just balancing, as though it meant absolutely nothing at all. "Not fair." Ryan glared.
"And yet the irony of you shoving me in the closet?" Sirena smirked. "That move was fair? Or especially the one you used last night?"
"Oh don't hold a grudge!"
I've seemed to do pretty well holding one big one on you for the last four years. Sirena thought, his gaze becoming distant for one long minute as the memory snapped at him.
That's when it happened.
It was like a cold tide suddenly ripped through the boy's chest, making the air press out of his lungs. The cold moving through every inch of his body while the inside of his head felt like it was suddenly doused in gasoline and had the match tossed to ignite and burn him down. His thoughts screamed out in agony though it wasn't him... well not exactly.
It sounded like a very, specific him.
The play seemed to leave his eyes just at the second that Ryan recognized what may have just happened, reading the boy's growing expression on his face.
He didn't even stop own reactions from throwing himself out the way as Sirena launched out with a kick, which would have otherwise crushed Ryan's face into the wall. The boy's mouth pulled back into a savage growl as the boy barred his teeth.
"SIRENA!" A voice screamed out from the top of the staircase.
Elektra had barely caught sight of it but it had been all she had needed to see as she stormed forward.
Sirena just simply bounded off the wall with a snarl, word having abandoned his mouth.
Unlike the two, Ryan had decided to take a sprint, preferably in the opposite direction of Sirena!
Something had just happened in those blue eyes. It had been like watching a mirror shatter to pieces. Like all off a sudden, all the sparkle which was Sirena whenever he was playing a game of masks, or even all the empty barren nothing which were his cold blue orbs when they weren't, suddenly were replaced by an anger. Not like the kind when Sirena was allowing himself to feel it, but something much more feral. It had absolutely no restraint, no distinction that Sirena was actually even fully maybe comprehensive that it was there.
It was like all of a sudden, what had made Sirena that boy had suddenly just been lashed away and completely replaced. The way that the boy had held himself, so precisely with a slow pace and patience had been replaced by a impatient blood lust desire, and Ryan had seen enough blood lust to know when someone was going for some real damage and just majorly angry.
Sirena's eyes had snapped onto his throat with a very real gaze that had wanted to do some damage.
Ryan afforded a glance over his shoulder and regretted it almost immediately as they sprinted into the kitchen. Sirena's arm reached out slowly for the knife in it's holder as both ran level to each other with only the kitchen island and the table as a gap between them. But what ever this was... what ever was going. Sirena's grip was reckless now. His fingers missed the grip of the hilt and boy snarled, throwing himself into a roll over the kitchen counter and then diving for the table, skidding across it and sending chairs flying across the distance of the room.
Ryan managed to duck but felt the boy nearly grab the collar of his throat, his finger nails digging in deep and leaving a mark Ryan knew he would feel.
But as Sirena went tumbling over the table, time seemed to slow down for both as they connected their gazes.
Just one second frozen in an instance of reality, for Ryan more so than maybe even Sirena felt as he got a real look into the blond's eyes.
Primal, savage, blood thirsty hunger. No regard for appearance. No thought about what Ryan was thinking. No idea about what to use around him, except by what ever was shiny and made of metal and nearest to his hands. By the look of it, Sirena had decided that his own hands and teeth now seemed as good enough weapon as any.
But gazing back into those eyes. Ryan found himself in that second drawing more and more detail. Eyes indicate intense fear. Pupil dilate. Sirena's shoulders are still tensed. Even when the boy's running. Backs up the first thought. Ryan's single image was being picked apart as fast as his thoughts could go. Fists curled tightly, intense anger. Faint line of trembles. Arms covered in goosebumps. Shoulders brought forward slightly, eyebrows furrows slightly. His mind shouted the facts at him as fast as that single frozen second would allow him.
All of this.
None of it was Sirena.
It couldn't be! Sirena wasn't the one in control here!
Second over.
Sirena screamed out as he skidded across the floor and came to a stop, the boy snapping his gaze up to lock back on the boy.
Ryan threw the back door close behind him but that only stopped the blond for all but a few seconds as Sirena snarled out, smashing into it so hard that it nearly left cracks on the glass pane. The boy let out a savage snarl and brought his leg out into a swift but strong kick. The brunette was surprised that it hadn't come off it's hinges. He knew first hand just how strong Sirena was with his kicks and he knew-
"RAGH!"
Ryan want tumbling to the floor, crashing down the gravel of the garden and over the brick work with Sirena, rolling over and over each other. Ryan tried to protect the boy as much as possible, but as he brought Sirena close, the boy just sunk his teeth into Ryan's shoulder.
It was more than a ordinary game now.
This had so far only been seen by Elektra and him. It was obvious from Sirena's reactions, the boy wasn't in control. Heck, Ryan barely knew if the boy would figure out he had done any of this. But if he screamed out right then, the others would know. They would come and see. Sirena would be taken away from him. No. He had just got the blond back.
This game had just become a battle for both boy's to fight a primary urge.
For the moment that Ryan bit into his lip so viciously that it bled, Sirena who was now crouched above the brunette with his fist pulled back and his mouth wide open to sink onto Ryan's neck, there was a pause.
It was like seeing a lightning bolt course straight down through Sirena's spike and through his eyes.
"Daniel!" Elektra called.
Ryan barely had time to frown, staring up at the large dripping red smear around Sirena's lips. That was his blood... That was his blood! Sirena's mouth and cheek was smeared with it. Ryan could feel the puncture marks in his shoulder from where Sirena's teeth had pierced. But now the boy was paused. Ryan threw his hand up gently took Sirena's palm in his own, lacing their fingers.
He felt fear rush through him when a spark of that rage returned. For a minute he thought Sirena was going to finish the job. At least until Ryan just hushed him gently, like he had done on the previous times when Sirena had been caught up in a nightmare. He trembled slightly at first, but just like he had done, he eased himself, trying to control as much of himself as possible while trying to ignore the searing inferno of pain which was his shoulder at that moment. "That's one hell of a love bite." He muttered, before raising his hand to Sirena's cheek.
This was down to Sirena now.
And the blond made sure that he came through.
That cold glisten filled his eyes just as Elektra slammed her arms around him and pulled him away from Ryan. "I told you to stay away from him!" She snarled. "You're nothing but a venom to everyone! I told you to stay away from him! It should have been you in that alley! They should have raped you and left you for dead! But unlike him, no one would come looking for you! You'd be better dead!"
"SHUT UP!"
The words screamed out of sirena as he shoved the girl off, running over back to Ryan as quickly as it seemed that Elektra had been trying to pull him away. His eyes locked onto Ryan's shoulder as tears streamed down his cheeks. His fingers reaching out slowly while his hands pushed down tightly onto the bites. "Oh god... oh god, what have I done. What have I done?" He whispered over and over.
"Daniel!"
"Elektra!" The boy snapped back, his eyes so dark that they looked on the verge of snapping back to the feral rage, making the girl back up slightly. Sirena waited till she seemed to have backed up enough before he turned his attention back to the boy. He looked pale. Weak. Exhausted.
"It's fine. Nothing I can't handle. I'm not made of bloody porcelain you know." Ryan joked.
"Daniel, he will only make you worse!"
Daniel? Ryan frowned.
Another name to the list it seemed.
There's a time and a place! His thoughts screamed at him.
"Rose. It's time to calm down baby."
There was barely enough time to see Sirena's jaw drop open as the sound of a pair of echoing heels entered the garden, while at the same time Elektra eyes became the picture of the same anger Sirena's had been a minute ago when the boy whispered.
"Mamma."