Heart of Stone
Chapter 5: Sutton Place and Fifty-eighth.
Xeno sat, relaxed as the six Guardians and Reese sat heads turned towards outside of the car. They watched as the black limousine passed by the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and the Museum of Modern Art. They made their right turn and drove, ended up facing a gate to a cobblestone road on Sutton Place (Middle East Side Manhattan). The gate slowly and the vehicle moved forward, stopping in front of an art deco masterpiece townhouse. Robert opened the door and the eight passengers got out and stretched on the side of the road. Robert opened up the trunk and unloaded all of the luggage that they had brought. They grabbed their suitcases and headed up the stairs to the door. Xeno took out his house keys from his pocket and pushed them into the golden doorknob of the black door. He opened the door and led the seven into the foyer of the building. Van immediately began to pick at the painting on the side of the wall. Xeno looked at him and sighed "I'll be right back". He headed to the open front door. He stuck his head out and signaled his chauffeur. "Robert you can go home. Put the limousine in the garage. Here's thirty dollars for a taxi". He reached into his pocket and took out an American 10 and 20 dollar bill. He handed the bills to the older man, closed the door and rotated around. "I'll show you to your rooms, yes?" He lifted his arm towards the white marble stairs. They headed up the stairs. The eight stopped on the second floor. He opened the white doors to a single bedroom. "This is my room" He pointed to another set of white doors. "That is my study". He closed the door and headed up the next flight of stairs. There were three rooms on the third floor. Xeno pointed to the one on the left. "Raven and Van can sleep there". He pointed the middle one. "Thomas and Fiona can sleep there and Moonbay and the blue haired chick can sleep there" He said, pointing to the last door. "Why! I don't want to sleep with Reese. She probably snores!" Moonbay looked up at the smiling Xeno. Reese rolled her eyes. "You'll live. Besides, you probably snore worse than me!". Irvine mussed his light brown hair. "Where do I sleep?" Xeno headed down the stairs and looked up and grinned at him. "You can either sleep with me, or on the roof". Irvine sneered; following him down the stairs as the six others explored their well-furnished rooms. Xeno opened his bedroom door and walked in. Irvine slowly followed. Irvine sat down easily on the dark red sheets of the large bed. Xeno walked into the back of the room, into the bathroom. Irvine stretched his arms behind him and rested on the bed. Xeno came back from his bathroom 'adventure' and tossed his black suit jacket on the other side of the bed. "This is New York, Irvine. Hell, this is Earth. You can remove the eye-patch". Irvine looked at him and leaned forward. He put his left hand under the strap and with sloth like speed, pulled it off. Xeno wistfully smiled. "Take our time do we?" He stuck out his hand and took the eye-patch from his hand. He put the device on the side table and sat down next to Irvine. "Two eyes I see. Was beginning to think you only had one. I don't think you should be wearing those overalls either. Oshkosh isn't exactly a trend setter." Xeno began to undo his gray tie. "I like my clothes, thank you very much" Irvine flicked his blue overalls. Xeno scoffed. "How tall are you," He said, laying his tie down on the bed and standing up. "Around six feet". Xeno walked into his walk-in-closet thingy. "Ok. Blue jeans" He swung his arm around, hand holding jeans and tossed them on the floor. "You have an undershirt under those things?" "Yes." Irvine sat on the bed staring at the jeans. "Blue, Red, White or Yellow?" Xeno shouted from the closet. "Blue". Irvine crossed his legs and began flicking his boot. "Royal, Navy or just plain blue?" Xeno ran his fingers through his shirts. "Royal blue". Irvine looked up as Xeno walked out holding a royal blue, button up oxford shirt. "These should fit decently" Xeno handed him the shirt. "I guess I'll go sit in the study and wait". Xeno opened the study's doors and walked in, shutting them from behind. Irvine picked up the jeans from the floor and placed them on the bed. "Ugh". Irvine sucked on his cheek and put his right, dirty boot on the bed. He began to untie the laces.
-Two minutes later-
Xeno leaned back in his chair, feet on his desk, flicking around a pen. He turned as the doors opened to the study. Irvine opened the door and stood arms out (Like 5-year-olds do when they go clothes shopping) and spun around. The blue shirt, buttoned all the way to the top (Punk kids do it here) and the jeans barely hanging on. Xeno stood out of his chair and stood in front of Irvine. He undid the first three buttons and undid the collar buttons. "Either you can button those pants, or I'll get you a belt" Xeno dragged him back into the bedroom. "I don't need a belt, I don't really need any of this". Irvine began to take the shirt off. "No! You look good; you don't look like a farmer. You could loose the kamikaze bandana as well" Xeno took a black belt from his closet. "I put on your clown outfit, you could at least let me keep something that I like" Irvine crossed his arms. Xeno tossed him his belt. "Clown outfit?" Irvine sat on the bed, arms still crossed. "Huffing and puffing I see" Xeno plopped down next to him. Irvine turned and glowered at him. Xeno lifted his arms and wrapped them around the back of Irvine's head, undoing the knot. He took the bandana from his head and laid it in his lap. "There, better". Irvine bit down really hard on his own teeth. "You're lucky that I'm in a good mood, I would have punched you by now. Very, very hard." "I was going to play with your hair too but, I changed my mind" Xeno curled his bottom lip and put the faded red bandana next to the eye-patch. "Well" Xeno tapped his foot against the wood floor. Irvine drummed his fingers on the red linen. "I got dirt on your bed sheets". "Oh". Xeno was still tapping his foot. "What time is it?" "Do I look like a clock to you?" "There is one next to you" Xeno pointed to the digital clock. "4:30 in the afternoon". Xeno said. Irvine stood up. "This is boring". Irvine made his way out of the room. Xeno shot up and lunged his right arm in front him, blocking the way out. "Wha-What the Hell are you doing?" Irvine began to turn the left. But, Xeno shot his left arm out, resting on the wall. Irvine between both. "What the Fuck?" Irvine was about to punch him in the smacker but Xeno moved forward, their lips linking together. Irvine began to shove him off. But he loosened his arm muscles and opened his mouth slightly, deepening the kiss. Xeno's hot breath shot out of his nose, shooting down Irvine's cheek. He pulled his head back, tongue sliding out of Irvine's mouth. Irvine rested his head on the wall startled look upon his face as Xeno panted in front of him. Xeno looked up at him. "Well, that was colorful. I've wanted to do that for a very long time. I guess I'm sorry, it's probably not your cup of tea". Irvine didn't say anything, he just pursed his lips. Irvine finally said something. "It wasn't that bad actually, speaking that you ARE a guy and all". "So, I'll take it that you don't care for me as I do you?" Xeno slid his foot back and forth across the wood floor. "I haven't really thought about it. It's not something that I generally think about." Irvine went and sat down on the bed. Xeno lifted his eyebrow. "I guess I'll just find out when you sleep in my bed tonight". Xeno squinted at him. "Royal blue is definitely not your color. I'll get you a white one and a belt". He went to the closet, grabbed the shirt and belt. He came back and handed them to the awaiting Irvine. He took the shirt and switched quickly, buttoning it right this time. He took the belt and swung it around, strung it through the loops. Xeno tilted his head, "Much better, more French country side". "I wouldn't know. I don't even know what France is" Irvine headed out of the bedroom, followed by Xeno. The reached the balcony type area and leaned over, looking down at the first floor. "Ahem" Raven was leaning against the wall, next to the bedroom door. "That was just SO cute. Especially the fact that he's giving you a lovely ensemble." Xeno turned around and looked at him in the eyes. "You aren't exactly Mr.Stylish, Raven". Raven looked down at his leather-clad outfit thing and looked back up. "I don't think it's that bad". "I'm going to take you all to Bloomingdales. You're a disaster" Xeno flicked a zipper on Raven's outfit. "Whatever. When are we going to eat? I have had anything to eat in 10 hours." Raven walked between the two and headed down the stairs. "When ever I can get around to ordering something," Xeno said as walked down the stairs. "I hope they aren't doing something downstairs." Xeno sprinted down the stairs. He walked to the back of the house. We opened the glass door and stepped into his moderately sized backyard (For New York City). He sighed as he watch the five Guardians and Reese decided to play catch with his dog, tossing the red Frisbee over the small pool. The little Welsh Corgi puppy jumping into the water and doggy paddling over to the other side to snatch the Frisbee. He walked out onto the grass and whistled, the light brown dog running to his master. "Ugh, you're soaked." Van soon ran up to him as well. "I didn't call you, Van". Xeno gave him a smug look. "I wasn't coming to you. We was playing with the dog!" Van pouted. The other five walked up behind him. "Raven, you're playing with the dog?" Xeno patted the dog to go back and play. Raven grumbled at him. "I wasn't playing! I was just enjoying the uhm, the uhm, dog?" Xeno snorted as Raven went back to 'enjoy' the dog. He turned and headed up the stairs to the back door. He opened it and walked into the foyer, looking at Irvine study pictures on the fireplace (Yes, one in the foyer). Xeno's shoes clicked as we walked into the room and stood next to the soldier. "And you're looking at?" Irvine lifted a picture. "I'm looking at you. These people would be?" Xeno looked at the black and white photo. "That is my mom, dad and other siblings." Irvine set the picture back down. "What about you Irvine? Any family I might need to know about?" Irvine stared blankly at him. "I had a sister". "Had one". "Yes, I had a sister. I don't have one anymore, ok?" Irvine headed to the back. Xeno stood at the fireplace mantle. "Ok. Not exactly a good subject". Xeno walked to the kitchen and picked up the banana yellow phone. He ordered a large pizza and said his address. He went to the back of the house, yet again, and sat down on the white lawn chair and watched the seven, play 'tag' with his puppy.
-Xeno's bedroom, Post Dinner and Television watching-
Xeno lay in his bed, facing the large painting on the wall. Irvine was busy picking his teeth clean of pepperoni pieces in the bathroom. Soon the bathroom light shut off, leaving the bedroom lit by the small nightlight on the wall. Irvine walked in and slid into the warm bed and stared at the white ceiling. Xeno turned over and looked at the younger brown hair man. "Are you mad at me because of the 'sister thing'?" Xeno questioned, while Irvine turned over, facing him. "No. I'm just thinking. I did kiss a guy today". "Oh, it wasn't THAT bad, was it?" Xeno made circle with his finger in the bed sheets. Irvine looked up at the black hair man. "No, not really. It's not something that I wouldn't do again". "Good" Xeno pushed him back and began kissing him, Irvine wrapping his arms around his neck.
End of Chapter 5
Yes I know, "OOCness" I need to work on that. It'd also be a pleasure to know all of the FF.net little sayings. AU and all. Marc (my brother) got a Tomy made (Japanese) Lightning Saix. I still think my GenoBreaker is cooler though, Heh. I also ordered a Death Stinger and Remote control thing too. 58 bucks, Arg, my mom is going to kill me. BTW, I've got a few more chapters I can probably squeeze out of my brain.
Chapter 5: Sutton Place and Fifty-eighth.
Xeno sat, relaxed as the six Guardians and Reese sat heads turned towards outside of the car. They watched as the black limousine passed by the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and the Museum of Modern Art. They made their right turn and drove, ended up facing a gate to a cobblestone road on Sutton Place (Middle East Side Manhattan). The gate slowly and the vehicle moved forward, stopping in front of an art deco masterpiece townhouse. Robert opened the door and the eight passengers got out and stretched on the side of the road. Robert opened up the trunk and unloaded all of the luggage that they had brought. They grabbed their suitcases and headed up the stairs to the door. Xeno took out his house keys from his pocket and pushed them into the golden doorknob of the black door. He opened the door and led the seven into the foyer of the building. Van immediately began to pick at the painting on the side of the wall. Xeno looked at him and sighed "I'll be right back". He headed to the open front door. He stuck his head out and signaled his chauffeur. "Robert you can go home. Put the limousine in the garage. Here's thirty dollars for a taxi". He reached into his pocket and took out an American 10 and 20 dollar bill. He handed the bills to the older man, closed the door and rotated around. "I'll show you to your rooms, yes?" He lifted his arm towards the white marble stairs. They headed up the stairs. The eight stopped on the second floor. He opened the white doors to a single bedroom. "This is my room" He pointed to another set of white doors. "That is my study". He closed the door and headed up the next flight of stairs. There were three rooms on the third floor. Xeno pointed to the one on the left. "Raven and Van can sleep there". He pointed the middle one. "Thomas and Fiona can sleep there and Moonbay and the blue haired chick can sleep there" He said, pointing to the last door. "Why! I don't want to sleep with Reese. She probably snores!" Moonbay looked up at the smiling Xeno. Reese rolled her eyes. "You'll live. Besides, you probably snore worse than me!". Irvine mussed his light brown hair. "Where do I sleep?" Xeno headed down the stairs and looked up and grinned at him. "You can either sleep with me, or on the roof". Irvine sneered; following him down the stairs as the six others explored their well-furnished rooms. Xeno opened his bedroom door and walked in. Irvine slowly followed. Irvine sat down easily on the dark red sheets of the large bed. Xeno walked into the back of the room, into the bathroom. Irvine stretched his arms behind him and rested on the bed. Xeno came back from his bathroom 'adventure' and tossed his black suit jacket on the other side of the bed. "This is New York, Irvine. Hell, this is Earth. You can remove the eye-patch". Irvine looked at him and leaned forward. He put his left hand under the strap and with sloth like speed, pulled it off. Xeno wistfully smiled. "Take our time do we?" He stuck out his hand and took the eye-patch from his hand. He put the device on the side table and sat down next to Irvine. "Two eyes I see. Was beginning to think you only had one. I don't think you should be wearing those overalls either. Oshkosh isn't exactly a trend setter." Xeno began to undo his gray tie. "I like my clothes, thank you very much" Irvine flicked his blue overalls. Xeno scoffed. "How tall are you," He said, laying his tie down on the bed and standing up. "Around six feet". Xeno walked into his walk-in-closet thingy. "Ok. Blue jeans" He swung his arm around, hand holding jeans and tossed them on the floor. "You have an undershirt under those things?" "Yes." Irvine sat on the bed staring at the jeans. "Blue, Red, White or Yellow?" Xeno shouted from the closet. "Blue". Irvine crossed his legs and began flicking his boot. "Royal, Navy or just plain blue?" Xeno ran his fingers through his shirts. "Royal blue". Irvine looked up as Xeno walked out holding a royal blue, button up oxford shirt. "These should fit decently" Xeno handed him the shirt. "I guess I'll go sit in the study and wait". Xeno opened the study's doors and walked in, shutting them from behind. Irvine picked up the jeans from the floor and placed them on the bed. "Ugh". Irvine sucked on his cheek and put his right, dirty boot on the bed. He began to untie the laces.
-Two minutes later-
Xeno leaned back in his chair, feet on his desk, flicking around a pen. He turned as the doors opened to the study. Irvine opened the door and stood arms out (Like 5-year-olds do when they go clothes shopping) and spun around. The blue shirt, buttoned all the way to the top (Punk kids do it here) and the jeans barely hanging on. Xeno stood out of his chair and stood in front of Irvine. He undid the first three buttons and undid the collar buttons. "Either you can button those pants, or I'll get you a belt" Xeno dragged him back into the bedroom. "I don't need a belt, I don't really need any of this". Irvine began to take the shirt off. "No! You look good; you don't look like a farmer. You could loose the kamikaze bandana as well" Xeno took a black belt from his closet. "I put on your clown outfit, you could at least let me keep something that I like" Irvine crossed his arms. Xeno tossed him his belt. "Clown outfit?" Irvine sat on the bed, arms still crossed. "Huffing and puffing I see" Xeno plopped down next to him. Irvine turned and glowered at him. Xeno lifted his arms and wrapped them around the back of Irvine's head, undoing the knot. He took the bandana from his head and laid it in his lap. "There, better". Irvine bit down really hard on his own teeth. "You're lucky that I'm in a good mood, I would have punched you by now. Very, very hard." "I was going to play with your hair too but, I changed my mind" Xeno curled his bottom lip and put the faded red bandana next to the eye-patch. "Well" Xeno tapped his foot against the wood floor. Irvine drummed his fingers on the red linen. "I got dirt on your bed sheets". "Oh". Xeno was still tapping his foot. "What time is it?" "Do I look like a clock to you?" "There is one next to you" Xeno pointed to the digital clock. "4:30 in the afternoon". Xeno said. Irvine stood up. "This is boring". Irvine made his way out of the room. Xeno shot up and lunged his right arm in front him, blocking the way out. "Wha-What the Hell are you doing?" Irvine began to turn the left. But, Xeno shot his left arm out, resting on the wall. Irvine between both. "What the Fuck?" Irvine was about to punch him in the smacker but Xeno moved forward, their lips linking together. Irvine began to shove him off. But he loosened his arm muscles and opened his mouth slightly, deepening the kiss. Xeno's hot breath shot out of his nose, shooting down Irvine's cheek. He pulled his head back, tongue sliding out of Irvine's mouth. Irvine rested his head on the wall startled look upon his face as Xeno panted in front of him. Xeno looked up at him. "Well, that was colorful. I've wanted to do that for a very long time. I guess I'm sorry, it's probably not your cup of tea". Irvine didn't say anything, he just pursed his lips. Irvine finally said something. "It wasn't that bad actually, speaking that you ARE a guy and all". "So, I'll take it that you don't care for me as I do you?" Xeno slid his foot back and forth across the wood floor. "I haven't really thought about it. It's not something that I generally think about." Irvine went and sat down on the bed. Xeno lifted his eyebrow. "I guess I'll just find out when you sleep in my bed tonight". Xeno squinted at him. "Royal blue is definitely not your color. I'll get you a white one and a belt". He went to the closet, grabbed the shirt and belt. He came back and handed them to the awaiting Irvine. He took the shirt and switched quickly, buttoning it right this time. He took the belt and swung it around, strung it through the loops. Xeno tilted his head, "Much better, more French country side". "I wouldn't know. I don't even know what France is" Irvine headed out of the bedroom, followed by Xeno. The reached the balcony type area and leaned over, looking down at the first floor. "Ahem" Raven was leaning against the wall, next to the bedroom door. "That was just SO cute. Especially the fact that he's giving you a lovely ensemble." Xeno turned around and looked at him in the eyes. "You aren't exactly Mr.Stylish, Raven". Raven looked down at his leather-clad outfit thing and looked back up. "I don't think it's that bad". "I'm going to take you all to Bloomingdales. You're a disaster" Xeno flicked a zipper on Raven's outfit. "Whatever. When are we going to eat? I have had anything to eat in 10 hours." Raven walked between the two and headed down the stairs. "When ever I can get around to ordering something," Xeno said as walked down the stairs. "I hope they aren't doing something downstairs." Xeno sprinted down the stairs. He walked to the back of the house. We opened the glass door and stepped into his moderately sized backyard (For New York City). He sighed as he watch the five Guardians and Reese decided to play catch with his dog, tossing the red Frisbee over the small pool. The little Welsh Corgi puppy jumping into the water and doggy paddling over to the other side to snatch the Frisbee. He walked out onto the grass and whistled, the light brown dog running to his master. "Ugh, you're soaked." Van soon ran up to him as well. "I didn't call you, Van". Xeno gave him a smug look. "I wasn't coming to you. We was playing with the dog!" Van pouted. The other five walked up behind him. "Raven, you're playing with the dog?" Xeno patted the dog to go back and play. Raven grumbled at him. "I wasn't playing! I was just enjoying the uhm, the uhm, dog?" Xeno snorted as Raven went back to 'enjoy' the dog. He turned and headed up the stairs to the back door. He opened it and walked into the foyer, looking at Irvine study pictures on the fireplace (Yes, one in the foyer). Xeno's shoes clicked as we walked into the room and stood next to the soldier. "And you're looking at?" Irvine lifted a picture. "I'm looking at you. These people would be?" Xeno looked at the black and white photo. "That is my mom, dad and other siblings." Irvine set the picture back down. "What about you Irvine? Any family I might need to know about?" Irvine stared blankly at him. "I had a sister". "Had one". "Yes, I had a sister. I don't have one anymore, ok?" Irvine headed to the back. Xeno stood at the fireplace mantle. "Ok. Not exactly a good subject". Xeno walked to the kitchen and picked up the banana yellow phone. He ordered a large pizza and said his address. He went to the back of the house, yet again, and sat down on the white lawn chair and watched the seven, play 'tag' with his puppy.
-Xeno's bedroom, Post Dinner and Television watching-
Xeno lay in his bed, facing the large painting on the wall. Irvine was busy picking his teeth clean of pepperoni pieces in the bathroom. Soon the bathroom light shut off, leaving the bedroom lit by the small nightlight on the wall. Irvine walked in and slid into the warm bed and stared at the white ceiling. Xeno turned over and looked at the younger brown hair man. "Are you mad at me because of the 'sister thing'?" Xeno questioned, while Irvine turned over, facing him. "No. I'm just thinking. I did kiss a guy today". "Oh, it wasn't THAT bad, was it?" Xeno made circle with his finger in the bed sheets. Irvine looked up at the black hair man. "No, not really. It's not something that I wouldn't do again". "Good" Xeno pushed him back and began kissing him, Irvine wrapping his arms around his neck.
End of Chapter 5
Yes I know, "OOCness" I need to work on that. It'd also be a pleasure to know all of the FF.net little sayings. AU and all. Marc (my brother) got a Tomy made (Japanese) Lightning Saix. I still think my GenoBreaker is cooler though, Heh. I also ordered a Death Stinger and Remote control thing too. 58 bucks, Arg, my mom is going to kill me. BTW, I've got a few more chapters I can probably squeeze out of my brain.