The COF song mentioned: watch?v=6dW6aNAZGTM

I stared at the ceiling with my forearm covering my forehead, the contact making me feel a touch more at ease as I listened to the lyrics of 'Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine' play in the background to break the silence of the morgue. When I got back to HySy I noticed that Uta was nowhere to be found, so I dropped the dogs and fed them before allowing them to get comfy and leaving for my workplace for a bit of silence and a comforting surrounding. Odd that I find a place filled with death peaceful but I guess I just got used to it over the years. I know I wasn't supposed to be here but I just needed to be alone in a comfort zone, especially after everything I had just heard. I found out so much new information and realised just how out of the loop I was in the ghoul world. Yet none of my friends were human so I was feeling even more lonely than ever.

"Why are you here? Didn't Yoshimura tell you it wasn't safe?"

I ignored the familiar soft voice and continued my stare down with the white ceiling, silently hoping that he'd get I needed to be left alone. No dice.

"Are you ignoring me now? That's rude."

"What do you want Songbird?"

"I want you to come home."

"I am home… I think anyway."

The male remained silent as I sighed, knowing he wouldn't understand since he wasn't there for the conversation, but not feeling in the mood to explain anything.

"Well that's morbid, your home is with me. Unless you're wanting to be a corpse on that table. I can arrange it for you."

I smirked, allowing my head to roll to the side and press my cheek on the cold metal of the table as I stared into the ruby eyes of the raven haired ghoul I had grown close to these past few months.

"Go home Songbird."

"Not without you."

"I'm not aloud privacy?"

The male remained silent as I sat up from the table to swing my legs over the side of the table, allowing my New Rock clad feet to swing back and forth and my palms pressed against the table to keep myself upright.

"I just wanted to see my workplace was still in one piece. Leave me alone will ya? Or do you enjoy staring at me you pervert?"

"I guess I'm a pervert then."

I looked up at him through my black and blonde fringe, hiding my blush with an annoyed stare and a heavy sigh.

"Fine, do what you want. I'm going to check some files and make sure this place has been running smoothly in my absence."

"It has."

"I'd like to see for myself if you don't mind. Excuse me."

I pushed myself from the table and walked past the male, brushing his shoulder as I did so and made my way into the back office where all the paperwork was kept. I opened the new arrival cabinet and checked over the information and freezer numbers of several people. I would check the freezers next so I knew they were placed correctly.

"You're under a lot of stress."

I rolled my eyes, knowing he couldn't see me as I continued flitting through the files deciding to ignore his stupid remark.

"It's because of that red head earlier right?"

He caught my attention as I turned my head over my shoulder to look at the ghoul with a deadpan stare.

"You were watching us?"

"Yes."

I turned back to the file in my hand and stared at the photo of the African male for a second before flipping it close to stare at the brown cover instead.

"Why did you feel the need to watch me? Don't you trust me?"

"Of course I don't, this isn't the first time you've slunk around behind my back after all."

I turned around to face the smirking ghoul with a smirk of my own.

"Heh, I suppose I'm not the stealth type like you are. But I guess ghouls are just born being able to deceive and stalk humans."

Uta's smirk fell, his normal stoic expression covering his face once he realised the seriousness behind my lightly stated words. He walked forward to stand before me, close enough for me to feel the heat of his body against my front. I stared up into his Kakugan, trying to read what he was thinking before he reached forward and took a lock of my long hair in his fingers.

"We do those things to eat. I do those things to you to keep you safe, just like your friends from the park. I understand that you're upset because of their plan to take down the whole Gaiji Keisatsu, but you need to understand that it's not the same organisation you left."

He tugged gently on my hair, but hard enough to pull at the roots and make me flinch slightly. I scowled up at the male and took a hold of the lock he tugged at, refraining him from doing it again as I scowled at him.

"You're such a creep, eavesdropping isn't very attractive you know? Besides I'm not going to go poking around the Gaiji any more. You're getting what you want so shouldn't you be happy? You're the one that's been trying to keep me out of it all this time after all."

"I know."

"So what's your problem?"

"I think it's fascinating how many ghoul friends you have, yet you don't have a single human friend. You don't socialise with your own kind but feel more comfortable around the humans natural predator; it's unheard of."

"Humans and ghouls are together more often than you think."

"As couples."

I blinked lightly, it was true. Humans and ghouls seemed to care less when it was a relationship rather than friendship, it's a totally different matter. I knew this already, but it was strange hearing it from someone's mouth.

"They are your friends and you know that, so stop trying to convince yourself they aren't."

I looked up into his eyes, a grin covering my face for a second before a laugh followed. I de-tangled my fingers from my hair and covered my mouth to stifle my giggles, finally understanding the male now as I smiled up at him gently once my laughter had died down.

"I know they're my friends and that's never going to change. We've known each other for too long to let go of our friendship now. I'm just a bit upset for allowing myself to fall out of the loop for so long is all. I just wish I knew about these things happening and am feeling guilty for distancing myself for so long, but now it's a battle I can't get involved in."

"You're upset because you can't stand by a ghoul in a bloodbath?"

"I'm upset because I can't stand by my friends when they need help."

Uta removed his fingers from my hair and let it fall limp to his side as he stared hard at me for a moment before turning on his heel so his back was facing me.

"I see, I guess I assumed wrong. I'm glad because I was beginning to think you'd leave the ghoul's world."

"Leave it? And mingle with other humans? Ew..."

Uta threw his head over his shoulder with a smirk that I mimicked walking forward a second later to wrap my arms around his waist and press my face into the curve of his back so my cheek was resting in between his shoulder blades.

"Things have been difficult and I've been thinking of leaving, but I don't think I ever could. It's all just angry impulses and I know I belong where I am."

"And once everything is over?"

I removed my face from his back and gave his spine a gentle kiss before releasing him completely and swinging myself to his front, taking his left hand with me.

"Let's go home."