Edwin groaned, pulling back from the kiss as he drew his tongue out of the other males mouth with a bit of hesitation. He panted, eyes half lidded as he ran his fingers down the scars and covered stitches on his friends chest.

If they could still be called friends though. For the past half hour since Ben had dragged him into his apartment he'd shed his soaked clothes and changed into dry ones.

Only to have Ben pull his top off and pin him to the bed, forcing his tongue into his mouth. And they had been making out the entire time since then. Edwin's dream come true in a violently insane situation, that if failed would ruin everything for more than just him.

"... Ben... hold on..." Edwin gasped as Ben leaned down for another kiss. "I... god I can barely catch my breath..." he whined gently, trying to squirm out from under the brunettes hold with a blush.

The one thing he'd dreamt of secretly he was scared of right now.

Ben tightened his grip on his wrists, licking his lips before sighing. "You realize you're a great kisser right?" he asked, smiling as he watched the black haired male flush even brighter and let out a squeak.

"Ben! Let me go! We aren't even dating!" he squeaked out, watching as a smirk spread across the brunettes face as he forced his lips back onto his.

When he broke, Ben started to chuckle. "Then go out with me." he stated, kissing him again.

Gwen sat quietly on Kevin's bed, sobbing her eyes out for the millionth time for who knows what reason now. Everything was too fast, too slow, too loud. So she ran out of the room as fast as she could as Kitten and Druce tried explaining just what was really going on here.

Everything was so jumbled up in her head then that she ignored every sound around her.

'How... how did all of this start? What... I can almost see it...' she fought with herself for several more tear filled moments.

'Oh yea... it's my fault...' she thought in a miserable tone, sobbing harder. 'I betrayed Kevin, and I had no proof to back my stupid actions up. I got jealous and fucking betrayed him... god I'm such an idiot.' she wailed into the empty room, pulling at her hair, causing as much pain to her body as she could without pulling anything out or off.

'I should have just asked him if he'd done it! Why the FUCK didn't I ask him. Why'd I just set him up like that? God... he was bringing me ROSES!' her mind screamed, envisioning a younger teen Kevin holding a bouquet of flowers and standing under a tree, his car parked far off in the distance.

Every date was mixed up in her head, one minute she'd see one thing, the next everyone was gone. She'd asked her grandmother, and the woman told her to get back to her in a year, but only laughed as she started explaining.

'Well, it sure has been a year hasn't it? Why the hell is everything getting worse?' her mind nearly screamed as she drug her nails down her arms as hard as she could.

She heard the door open but refused to look up, continuing to sob. 'I want to disappear. Just get out of here... I hurt Kevin... I did it, no one else!' she heard heavy boots clunk toward her and let out a wail as she dug her nails deeper into her arms.

She wanted blood to ooze out of the scratches so she could pass out until she was home and never leave her room again.

"Why did you run like that?" a deep voice asked as someone knelt in front of her.

"G-Go away!" she sobbed out, hugging her legs to her chest now.

"No damn it, I'm not leaving you anymore. This pisses me off when you get like this!" a warm hand lifted her tear stricken face as she was now eye level with the one man she was avoiding.

"W-Why aren't you mad?" she sobbed out.

"I just said I was pissed." he said in an all to obvious tone.

"T-Then why won't you kill me!" she nearly screamed, closing her eyes and slumping forward as he caught her.

Kevin had gotten out of the null void for a month at a time to leave the red head gifts before being forced back in to help the Plumber children rescue others. They'd flirted, tossed words, and become closer than they had ever thought.

Yet he'd promised to meet her one day in a place she'd been scared of since she was 10. Swearing to keep her safe so they could go star gazing.

Ben had taken her to the smoothie shop so he could torment her about her 'date' that he knew nothing of. There she heard rumors, things that made her heart shake and her insides shiver about the male she'd become so fond of. Things she didn't even remember now.

She'd told a plumber that Kevin would be at the meeting place, and told him of all the rumors. As Kevin struggled to get away he ended up wounding the plumber to an acute limb loss. As he ran to Gwen, Ben tossed him away with some Alien or another that was nothing more than a blur in her fading memory, and in rage Kevin had fought him.

As Gwen rolled the null void egg toward the black haired male though, she realized she'd coughed up blood; that was when she'd forced more answers from her grandmother.

'A lot of us go through things like that around your age deary, and it isn't blood. It's your unneeded... parts you could call them, regrowing as your powers advance. It can be brought on forced by an action or just hit naturally.' her grandmother had told her in an almost sickeningly sweet tone.

She was slowly dieing and regrowing everything. It made her so tired, it made her forget and remember, it made her over emotional.

And it hurt.

She sobbed loudly into Kevin's shoulder as he held her quietly. "Because no matter how much I hate you, I still love you. Happy? I'll never say it again! Once was enough, and you didn't listen then anyway!" he barked, squeezing her tighter.

"Now just forget I ever said it and pass out like you always do." he said sadly, his own body shaking as she realized he was crying onto her shoulder as well.

"There are things I never wanted to relive Gwen... you were the biggest one. Yet I wake up to you in my bedroom for the past few days? God, I've wanted to just kill you so many times, then others just hold you and never let go! And you'll never remember any of it!" he barked, never letting his hold on her go.

Gwen felt her head spin. 'What I wouldn't give to not be part alien right now.' she groaned gently, closing her eyes to cling to him.

"I remember..." she muttered, sighing as she felt her body slowly limp itself. "And I want you to hate me." she mumbled, feeling herself slip into that ever dreaded darkness she called sleep.

Edwin sat up sharply, pulling the covers over his naked torso as he squeaked in slow realization. He stared straight ahead, his face flushed. "... did I just... last night... with Ben?" he looked around, realizing his clothes were tossed across the floor as his face flushed as he fell backwards.

"Morning to you too." Ben's voice mumbled from beside him as he pulling the pillow off of his head and smiled, stretching and sitting himself up to rub his cheek.

"Where are my pants. I feel like waffles. You feel like waffles?" Ben stood, no regard for his undressed state as he shifted through the clothes on the floor.

"Ben!" Edwin let out a squeak as he covered his eyes, face flushed even harder.

"What?" the brunette asked, still looking through the clothes.

"You're naked!" he hissed the last word, his face inflaming. The brunette stood straight then, looking down. Slowly a look of realization hit him as he squeaked with his own terrified noise and grabbed the cover, letting Edwin have the sheet.

"What the hell happened last night?" he asked, wrapping the cover around his waist.

"I don't know! The last thing I remember is telling you I'd go out with you. Now this? For the love of god Ben if you took advantage of me I'll kill you!" Edwin rambled out, hugging the sheet to his chest.

"Eddie! Don't- What? No, I mean that's what I wanted- No! Oh god." Ben quickly fell backwards in a sitting position, hands at either sides of his hips and his legs bent. "What happened last night?" he let out in a near shrill, his face starting to redden.

"I don't know! I was asking you! Where are your clothes? I only see mine!" Edwin was now as red as he got, hiding behind his arms.

"Well... we went out for Mojitos... oh my god Edwin we were hammered last night because of Mojitos!" Ben shrieked.

"We aren't old enough to go drinking! And I don't even LIKE Mojitos!" Edwin nearly screamed, and Ben stood, walking to him and pulling him in for a hug.

"Breath, I know when you're freaked you forget humans need oxygen. Big breaths, big deep breaths." Edwin clung to Ben's frame, shivering as he looked up at him.

"Ben... I don't think we had... you know..." he made a few gestures with his hands, "but if we went out and got drunk what is everyone going to think? What did we even do? And why don't I have a hangover. And how do I know I don't like Mojitos if I've never had one, and-" Ben quickly cut him off by placing his hand over his mouth.

"Ok, I love you Eddie, really I do, but shut up and let me think." Edwin quickly flushed again as he pulled Ben's hand away from his mouth.

"You love me?" he asked, a serious but extremely red face on as he tried to keep himself from squealing in delight.

Ben felt his face flush as he realized what came out of his mouth. After all the years he'd known Edwin, was it really love? He shivered, realizing how close Edwin was. He looked him over, his hair messy and shaggy with a few fading bite marks on his neck, his skin flushed.

"I love you." he said happily, lifting his face and bringing their lips together gently. Edwin squeaked, pinning Ben for once.

"Ok so, you put this in both their drinks and I save your baby." Kitten said, having been moved into Gorg and Hinu's room to keep an eye on the pregnant naga. She held out a small green vial, swirling the contents about as her younger brother nearly shrieked.

"K-Kitten! I-I thought we t-took that a-away from you!" Druce stuttered quickly, gasping as he nearly dropped the tray with two plastic cups filled with orange juice in his hands.

"I stole it back. Do we have a deal?" the redhead asked, brushed the black bang from her face. Hinu glanced back at Gorg and the woman turned her head in shame before nodding.

"Anything... just... save my baby." Gorg nearly whimpered, the shame written across her face brighter than her pain.

"Kitten w-we c-can't do that! I-It's not r-ri-"

"Stuff it Dru! If you ever want to see him you have to do as I say, you understand me?" Kitten sat up quickly, clutching her ribs as Hinu took the vile, spilling the contents into the cups.

Druce looked over at her, pale and wide eyed as he bit his lip. He hands shook as he clenched them into fists, purple sparks jetting about him. "D-Don't ever yell a-at me..." he shook harder, the lights flickering.

Gorg quickly reached out and pulled the child to her side as he started panting, realizing he had been trying to go into a rage as he whimpered and bit his index finger.

"Hush now, shhh." the woman gently rocked the young male as he continued to shake.

"Druce, I don't like this either. But it's either this, or we both die." Kitten whimpered, rubbing her forehead of sweat. "And I won't last much longer." she muttered that last bit, her face hung in tears as Hinu watched them, a low whimper of his own as he left. He had been refusing to speak.

Kitten smiled, standing from her bed several moments later as she wiped her eyes. "Let's go see Unta."