DISCLAIMER:
I BY NO MEANS OWN HARRY POTTER OR ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH THE BOOKS/MOVIES. HOWEVER I DO OWN THE CHARACTERS CAIN AND ODIN.
At short notice, the whole school had been called in for an announcement assembly. Cain, who had been soaking in the bath for well over two hours couldn't be bothered to get up. Odin continued to beg him but he refused. He was known for that... As soon as he settled himself into steaming water, Cain would not come out until nearly five hours passed by.
"Master, you'll faint from the heat!"
Ignoring him, Cain cast a lazy gaze in his guardian's direction. After a series of yawns, he spoke. "Go in my place..."
"But master, I beg of you!"
"Odin... I cannot be bothered to lift a finger, let alone my whole body... For once, listen to me and obey my command, please...?"
Odin straightened up from his perch at the edge of the swimming pool sized. His lips quivered as he met Cain's eyes. "As if you ever listen to me!" He argued.
Sighs and grumbles came from Cain's direction. "Just go..."
And with that, he held his breath and dove beneath the scalding water's surface. "Master!"
A stream of water shot out from the depths of the bath, spelling out the words "PLEASE GO IN MY PLACE."
Seeing that there was no chance for him to protest or win, Odin marched out of the room reluctantly.
As soon as he was out of earshot, Cain resurfaced, letting out a sigh of relief. He stared down at his body, studying it with a scrutinizing look. Moving from his neck, down to his collarbone, and finally to his chest, he stopped. He tried to be gentle, but he couldn't help prodding it with disgust. "When will you go away...?"
Truth be told, they would never go away... At least not without severe pain, which he wasn't willing to endure just yet. Next he moved down passed his stomach to his private area. This was one thing he would never change, simply because it was his only way to become one with Odin. Recalling what he had told his lover yesterday made him laugh. It really was ironic to think that Cain would be the dominant one in this relationship. Maybe his composition didn't justify that, but... Anyone who knew Cain personally, or at least to some degree would know that he would always, in any situation, be the dominant half. Part of it he owed to his natural charisma and manners. The other part he owed to being forced to grow up too fast. To being forced to live without a mother and be the man of the family when your own father has given up...
From the moment his mother had breathed her last, Cain's father had given up on life. To him, the woman called Yun Ha was life itself. She had been the center of their universe, just like a sun, whom the planets rotated around. When she disappeared it was as if life itself had become a disintegrating void that would swallow them whole. So with his father in such a sorry state, fit to be called death, Cain had to step in. He had to be the man of the household, taking care of his ten year old self, and his pitiful father.
"Could that be the reason... I ended up like this...?"
"No," he thought. "I am like this because it's the only way I can feel truly comfortable in my body. This is not a perverted outcome caused by a million different twisted and distorted reactions... I am who I am..."
That was it! "I am..."
To put it bluntly, and Cain would say this out loud to anyone, he didn't give a shit what anyone thought... He gave himself another look over, then sunk back into the water.