Chapter 11
ahehehe... won't say anything this time. :)
except this:
disclaimer: don't own blood plus. (dang it! yeah yeah... whatever.)
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Clearly, Kai couldn't keep how he felt to himself. "Hey, look. I'm in a good mood!" was written all over his stupid smile. The reporter sitting beside him couldn't help but lift an eyebrow.
"Looks like someone's happy." He muttered to himself as he sipped from his cup of coffee. "Maybe the smiling can stop and we can talk. The telepathic conversations you're trying to have with me is driving me crazy."
That's when Kai snapped out of his daydreaming. He shook his head, and wiped his face twice as if trying to rub the smile off. "Sorry about that."
"You're kind of creepy, you know." Okamura shook. "A while ago you were at the verge of crying like a baby, now you begin smiling like that. It makes me think that woman had a certain effect of making you smile creepy like her. She probably kissed you or something."
"So, what'd you get?" Kai asked, ignoring Okamura's earlier statement.
Okamura blinked.
Kai lifted an eyebrow. "What?"
The reporter sighed and shook his head. He withdrew an envelope from his vest pocket and threw it on the table. "I got this. I'm supposing you're thinking it won't be much help."
Kai opened the envelope and scanned all eight pictures he pulled out from it – pictures of a foreigner. Judging by his salt and pepper for hair, he was probably in his fifties.
"Who's the guy?"
"That's Peter Falecki."
"And?"
"He's after your kids," Okamura stopped there. He was waiting for Kai's reaction, making sure he would be able to continue without getting shouted at. Seeing the younger male stayed silent, he continued. "I took this picture a while ago. As you can see, this was taken outside the Omoro."
Kai looked at the picture closely. Indeed, it was taken outside his house. He could see the blurred image of his parked bike and the main door. "What if the guy was just passing by?"
"I don't think so," Okamura settled his cup on the table. For him, the real talking begins. "When I literally dragged Mao out of your house, I saw him by the alley. I smelled he was snooping around not a minute later. So I decided to come back after caging the beast and saw him just leaving. It's pretty unusual for a foreigner to stay that long outside the Omoro, unless he went inside and had his dinner there."
Kai shook his head. "He didn't. Why think he's after my kids?"
"I asked around the locals and I discovered he regularly came here, even before your blue-eyed wonder came in the picture."
"She's not mine." Kai spat.
"Yet?" Okamura chuckled.
Kai groaned and decided to return to the original subject.
"How come I never noticed that guy?" He leaned on his chair's back rest in frustration.
"You were probably too eaten up by your girlfriend problems." Okamura murmured. Kai flinched. "Don't fool me kid, I saw all those empty bottles in your living room. Anyway, I made a little researching. This guy works for Doctor Ivan Hegel, a genetics expert."
Kai's eyes widened. "What does a genetics expert want with my kids?"
"Any doctor will be intrigued with Cheropterans."
"What the hell does he want?"
Okamura smiled. "You're not seeing what is off in the picture."
Kai furrowed his brow. "What?"
"The real question is, 'who the hell told him your kids were Cheropterans?' isn't that the right question?"
Kai's face lit up with clarity. "Red Shield won't tell anyone who isn't under them."
"Exactly. Who else would know they weren't humans anyway? Isn't it Amshell and company?"
"But they're dead!" Kai slammed his hand on the table, and buried his face on his hand. "I hope this isn't going to the part where you're going to say he's still alive and he's some immortal shit."
"Don't worry, he really is dead." Okamura assured. "I'm guessing these people were either under Amshell back when he was alive, or they just fished out the info from him. We all know what kind of dirty scientist Amshell is."
Kai pondered at the reporter's last statement. He isn't dirty, he's filthy. "He's filthy. Treating people like nothing but subjects for his experiments."
Okamura wanted to remind Kai that Diva wasn't human. He chose not to. He was positive he'll get hit – and hard. He broke the building silence with the light scratches of his lighter as he lit a cigarette. "Maybe Red Shield knew."
"So they hide the children?" Kai grunted. "But the fact that they did that without me knowing the reason is getting me jittery but more pissed off. Why would they do that?"
"Don't be. I'm not sure why they took the children either." Okamura reminded Kai. "I'm having troubles where to start on the tracking-down business."
"Julia's coming." Kai said.
"I don't think she knows anything. She's has a family to take care of. She's probably coming here to settle important things, maybe work. David is working sidelines now, not for Red Shield though."
"Maybe David can help."
"I don't know. But asking Julia won't be such a bad start, kid."
Diva was humming to herself as she trailed her fingers on her children's picture. They were adorable. She stood up from bed, portrait still in hand, and paced around the room in boredom. It was good thing she was able to hold herself from breaking anything just to entertain herself. She was smiling as she looked at them. Her smile only faded, when her eyes fell on the person in the picture with them – Kai. Her expression didn't exactly fall, it just went blank. Her fingers had moved to his face involuntarily. So slowly, she was beginning to smile again.
"Hey, Kai," Okamura said with a distant gaze.
"What?"
"I think we should get to your place now." Okamura hurriedly finished his cup of coffee (A/N: amazing!! He didn't get his tongue burned!!), and literally smashed his cigar on the ash tray.
"Why?" Kai asked.
"I just realized something," Okamura pulled Kai out of his chair and dragged him to where he parked his car.
"Realized what?" Kai spat.
Suddenly, Diva's vision went hazy and her head felt like it was being pounded with a mallet. Her breathing slowly became unstable. Her shaking fingers had lost grip on the picture frame and left it crashing to the floor at the same time the door was heard broken down. At that point she wasn't sure which was louder. Her senses were totally in a blur. Something told her whoever broke the door down was after her. Aside from her current state, she didn't have intentions of running away.
"If my theories are true then we just gave them a break through by leaving that Cherop—by leaving Diva there!" Okamura said as he turned the engine on and drove out of the café premises.
"Damn it," Kai said on gritted teeth. "Can't you drive any faster?"
"If I drive faster we might end up in jail not at your house you dolt!"
She pulled at her hair and screamed in her attempt to overcome the pain. And then, there were random images – images flashing over and over in her head. At first they made no sense at all but as soon as they ended. Everything went back to normal.
Her grip on her hair loosened and her hands fell slowly down to her sides. Tears fell freely. And with the click of what sounded like a gun, a smile played on her lips.
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Yipeee!!!! I'm so happy my head is back to normal!!!
