"D-dan-!" Jo wrapped his arms around the older man's neck. He cried into his shoulder as Daniel held him.

Jo had to stand up on his tip-toes to reach the older man. Tears streamed down his face as their lips made contact. He whimpered slightly as Daniel's hands came under the back of his shirt, smoothing themselves along his skin.

"J-J…"

"Hm…yes, Daniel…?"

"Jo…"

"Hm…what?"

"JO!"

He sat up quickly, looking around. Dug was standing next to him.

"Stop moaning in your sleep, goodness." he said, exasperated. He turned around, sat in the chair behind a desk, and began sorting through some papers on a desk under the small boat. Only his back was shown to Jo.

"When did I fall asleep?" Jo wondered. He looked around; he saw Michael asleep, in what seemed a most uncomfortable position, in the corner.

"A while after you came back on deck. You seemed exhausted and fell asleep in about twenty minutes after leaning against the wall. I carried you back down when you seemed completely out of it," Dug said, leaning forward a bit in his chair and sorting through papers.

"Y…you're just like him…"

Dug turned around in the chair to see his partner sitting there, crying. He stood up and walked to him, and sitting on his knees beside Jo, he wrapped his arms around him.

Morning: Ke's House

"Sit," Carina pointed to a large, fluffy pillow on the floor.

"Why in the world would I want to sit on a pillow?" Cain wondered. Carina and Ke rolled their eyes. Ke turned to the screen in front of her as Carina shot a glare his way.

"Why are you glaring at me?"

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe the fact that it's two in the fucking morning and you're out here spying on people!!"

"I was not spying!" Cain said, tripping and falling over his feet. Luckily, he landed on the 'giant pillow.' "I just…couldn't sleep…and there was a blue light…I didn't know whether or not something was wrong…"

"I can see how that would send you out here," Ke said, not looking at him, but continuing to stare at the screen.

Carina smiled slightly, "Just don't do it again, you damn near gave us both a heart attack."

Cain grinned, "No problem."

"Well, we just watching Trinity Blood before Carina came out with…a sudden outburst…" Ke scowled and turned to him, "So, seeing as you're here, we have no reason to continue our conversation without you being confused."

"I- now isn't that a bit rude?" Cain said, his mouth open when he finished.

"No. Not in the least. Anyway, do you want to watch with us?" Carina asked.

"Watch? Watch wha-"

"We just said; Trinity Blood," both Ke and Carina said the last to words at the same time.

"What's that?" Cain wondered.

Ke sighed and Carina glanced at the computer. Ke nodded and clicked one of the words at the bottom of the screen. A large black window popped into the screen and a figure appeared.

"Come watch." Carina smiled and moved her chair over so Cain could move in and watch.

"O-okay…"

Brighton, U.K.

"We're going to have to drive the rest of the way. Neither of us is going to get any sleep," Dug informed, looking around. They had gotten the cruising trawler to the land. Because they hadn't met any "trouble" along the way, the trip didn't take as long as he'd expected.

He and Jo were both on the deck. They'd brought nothing except the hostage down under the deck, and they weren't going to bring him up until their escort arrived.

"Yes, I understand." Jo looked out over the road; completely empty. As they had expected, arriving a bit early was a good thing because no one would think of them to come at that time.

Brighton was a wonderful town in the late morning and earl afternoon, and often during the night. But, as it was almost three in the morning, and it was a seaside town, a fog loomed over, coating everything in site. Things that reached the ground were covered at least a foot and a half in the heavy mist.

"I see…" Dug buried his hands in his pants' pockets and looked up at the dark, cloudy sky. "Hey, uhm…earlier…you said…'you're just like him.' What did you mean by that?"

Jo's face burned red, "N-nothing."

"Yes you did! Tell me," Dug flashed a glare his way. "Now."

"I-it's nothing. Oh, look, here he comes!" Jo said. And sure enough, a large black car was coming their way, slowing down the closer it got to them.

"Dug and his apprentice, Jo, I presume?" the man on the right side of the car, the driver's side, called.

When both Jo and Dug nodded a silent 'yes,' a woman on the passenger's side stepped out of the car, and approached them.

"Be silent, be stealthy, be on your guard…" she whispered to them.


Hm...is it advice or is it a warning?

Hm...

WHO WANTS JO AND DUG TO HOOK UP!? I DOOOO!! ...but it won't happen NO time soon, I can ASSURE you. And I have a feelin' I spelled that WRONG.