Two
I hear you
All around me
Calling out my name
I want to answer
But I'm being held back
He's going to take you away from me
You're going to go away
Just like she did
"Kai?! Kai are you alright?!!" Ray's distressed voice broke through Kai's unconsciousness. When had he fallen asleep? Were they at the hotel and he'd forgotten how they'd got there? Kai had no idea. As his eyes slowly came into focus, he felt a sore throbbing pain in his right shoulder, and he was lying on something cold and uncomfortable.
Oh no.
"Kai are you OK?" Max asked as Kai started looking around him. There was a sea of distressed faces surrounding him. He'd collapsed on the pavement, and attracted a lot of attention in doing so. He heard people around him, whispering amongst themselves.
"He doesn't look very well," said one.
"He's probably got pneumonia," said another.
"Doesn't look like he's been eating very well. Look at how thin he is!" said another.
"He's one of the Bladebreakers," said a young boy.
"I wonder why he passed out so suddenly?" said the boy's mother. Kai frowned disapprovingly and sat up. Ray put one hand on Kai's back and the other on his chest, to try and slow his ascent.
"Take it easy Kai, you took quite a fall," Ray said, helping Kai slowly to his feet. Kai looked around at the people who were just staring at him intently.
"You probably passed out because you haven't eaten in a while, Kai," Tyson said, his arms folded across his chest. "We'll stop and get you something. We can't walk around with you looking like a zombie! And you can't say 'no' to this, because you passed out Kai! You need something in your system!" Kai didn't have the energy to argue with Tyson, and for once he seemed to make sense. What did Kai have to fear now that his Grandfather was behind bars? And without Voltaire empowering him, Boris was helpless too. Kai sighed in defeat, and walked away with the others. The crowd dispersed, the odd person asking Kai how he was feeling, but he refused to respond to them. Tyson stopped outside a fast food restaurant and turned to the others. "I'll be right back," he grinned, walking inside. Ray sat Kai down on a bench and Kenny and Max joined him. Kai hated being fussed over more than anything. He didn't like the thought of people caring about him, and this note about leaving Russia; what was that about?
'Probably just some jerk playing around with my mind,' Kai thought. He couldn't trust his source, and he didn't want to tell the others about the letter. Although he would leave Russia behind at the drop of a hat, he was curious as to why someone would want him out so badly. What if, when he went home, he found himself trapped? 'Just like she was,' Kai remembered. The 'she' Kai was referring to was his mother. He remembered clearly the mess she had gotten herself entangled in. Getting involved with his father, Voltaire's son and heir, was quite possibly the biggest mistake of her life. Kai's father was as evil and conceited as Voltaire himself was, and Kai remembered bitterly watching on helplessly as his father beat his mother until she was dead. After that, he was shipped off to The Abbey, and there he stayed for some time.
"Here we are!" Tyson said as he emerged from the fast food restaurant. "Heck, it's not much Kai, but its something!" Tyson dropped a bag onto Kai's lap and smiled at him, waiting to hear any kind of thank you at all.
"Uh…thanks Tyson…" Kai said slowly, trying his best not to sound like he didn't mean it, but sincerity had never been Kai's strong point. Tyson didn't seem to mind though.
"No problem buddy!" he replied with glee. "We'll just leave you to eat that while we look around the square! Now you make sure you eat all of that now!" Kai couldn't help but laugh. Tyson was trying to be Kai's mother, and though it was a little irritating, Kai felt a sense of gratitude growing in the back of his mind
"See ya in a minute Kai!" Ray said before leaving with Mariah, Kenny, Tyson and Max. Kai sat and watched them walk away before he decided to start eating. Sometimes he got paranoid when he was being watched whilst he was eating. He never understood why.
He was finished long before the others returned, so while he was waiting for them, he decided to shake off the weary feeling he still felt by walking around. It didn't really bother him what he saw, he just wanted to wake himself up, so to say. Due to his lack of attention as to what direction he was going, he bumped into a fair amount of people. One irate Russian man yelled obscenities at him for about five minutes in Russian before letting Kai walk away. Unfortunately for Kai, his years in The Abbey had taught him to speak and understand Russian, so he knew everything that the man had called him. He considered using all this on Tyson, but the very idea of trying to explain Russian cursing to Tyson of all people put him right off.
"Sorry," Kai mumbled as he ran in to yet another person, but this person grabbed his arm viciously before he was able to pass. "Look, mister, I said I was so--" Kai cut his sentence short when he caught a glimpse of the man holding his arm in an iron grip. It was Boris. What was he doing here? Kai looked at him in horror, and didn't want to believe that it was him.
"Are you surprised to see me here, of all places Kai?" Boris sneered. Kai's arm muscles tensed, and he tried to break free of Boris, but he wasn't giving in. "I'm actually rather disappointed that you didn't come looking for me."
"Why would I want to?" Kai asked, a frown on his face to disguise his fear. Boris pressed a vial into Kai's hand.
"You're behind in your medication," Boris replied, a dark smile creeping onto the corners of his lips.
"I told you, I don't need it anymore," Kai said, thrusting the vial back at Boris and relinquishing Boris' grip over his arm.
"Don't lie to me, Kai. You can't lie to me. I've known you since you were a child, and I can tell when you're lying. I know better than maybe even your own father what you need."
"No! I don't need it!"
"Don't make me give it to you by force Kai. Just take it like a good boy now."
"Get bent!" Kai hissed before turning on his heel and running as fast as he could away from Boris. Boris made no effort in giving chase, for a part of him believed that Kai would come back to him. How long would Kai be able to fight his own urges and needs? Boris estimated that it wouldn't be long, and it was then that Kai would return. Kai had no idea of how tight the leash was around his neck, or that Boris had grip of the other end. His heart was pounding as he continued to run. He didn't need his 'medication' anymore. He was past that. Over it. Wasn't he? While he was contemplating this he didn't notice Tyson, Max, Ray, Mariah and Kenny emerge from a shop or that they were now stood directly in his path.
Smack.
Kai fell backwards with a thud, as did Tyson and Max. Ray was balanced up by Mariah, and Kenny just stood by and looked on in bewilderment.
"Kai! What In the world are you doing?!" Kenny asked as Kai, Tyson and Max sat up.
"You sure seemed like you were in an awful rush. Were you being chased?" Max asked, climbing to his feet and extending his hand to assist Tyson up. Kai got up quickly and looked at his friends.
"No," he replied, looking behind him and noticing that Boris was nowhere in sight. He was in the clear. For now.
"Then what in the world were you running so fast for?" Tyson asked, getting a little peeved off.
'Dammit,' Kai thought. 'What excuse can I seriously get away with here?' he opted for saying nothing, as that usually worked very well for him. Tyson just sighed.
"Well, he looks a lot better now, so I guess that's good," Ray broke the silence. Mariah agreed.
"Let's just get back to the hotel now, guys," Kenny suggested, beginning to lead the way back to their hotel.
"Sure, Chief, we've all had enough action for today," Tyson agreed with Kenny. He then proceeded in following the others back to the hotel, Kai taking up the back, as expected.
~~***~~
Kai usually ended up sharing a room with Ray, and there was no exception here. Though the rooms were all linked, he shared a two bed room with Ray, whilst Max, Tyson and Kenny shared a three bed room. Kai was sat on the windowsill, watching the world pass him by. His mind was still infected by Boris' words. He didn't care what Boris thought he knew, he didn't need to go back down that road. He refused to go back down that road. But throughout it all, there was a voice in the back of Kai's mind willing him to go back to The Abbey and talk to Boris. What was he thinking?! Was he really that desperate for Boris' 'medicine'? He knew exactly what it was, and it had no medicinal properties whatsoever.
Boris had convinced Kai at a young age that if he didn't take heroin he would die. He told him that he needed it in order to live. In the naïveté of his youth, Kai had willingly taken heroin as a child, and had become addicted to it very quickly. Some days, Kai would have taken more than Boris had told him to, but it wasn't until he got older that he realised why Boris never seemed to mind when he did that. Boris wanted to get Kai addicted. He thought that by pumping Kai's body with drugs he'd have a better control over him, but when Kai knew the truth, he just became all the more rebellious, and eventually left The Abbey. That was the purpose to the arm guards he wore. They were to hide the scars made by the needles. Kai hated that he was so easily manipulated by Boris when he was young, and Boris was continuing to do it even now. Kai wasn't that naïve anymore. He wasn't the little five-year-old boy he once was when the drug-taking started. He now knew the difference between right and wrong. Well, sort of.
"Hey Kai, are you OK? It looked like you were spacing out for a moment there," Ray smiled, rearranging the clothes in the drawers. He had planned to return home, but after hearing that Tyson was staying here, he had ultimately decided to stay too. So he was unpacking his packed up suitcase. Kai looked over at Ray, and Ray stopped what he was doing. A concerned expression swept over Ray's face, and Kai didn't understand why. "Kai…you've gone really pale…are you feeling sick?"
"No…I feel fine," Kai answered quickly, reaffixing his attention to the window. He heard Ray make his way over to him.
'God, what now?' Kai thought. 'I'm alright Ray, I don't need you breathing down my neck all the time!'
"You're a bad liar, I know you too well Kai," Ray said, placing one hand on Kai's shoulder, causing Kai to shudder slightly.
"Boris said that too," Kai muttered, unaware that he had said what was on his mind a little too loudly, and Ray heard.
"Boris?!" Ray cried in surprise. "Is that why you were in such a rush today? You were running from Boris?"
'Damn!' Kai cursed to himself. 'Can't keep my big mouth shut for five seconds! Now Ray is gonna start asking questions I don't want to give answers to!'
"Kai? Are you going to answer me or what?" Ray asked, putting the pressure on Kai.
"Shut up Ray!" Kai snapped, taking Ray aback. "I don't have to tell you anything! You have no right to be asking personal questions like that, and I don't care if you're worried or not! I don't have to tell you!! So just get lost!!"
"Kai…" Ray was stunned. He'd seen Kai angry, mostly with Tyson, but never at him. He'd obviously struck a nerve.
"Just concern yourself with your own damn problems. I don't need anyone giving me more problems than the ones I have!! Heck, Boris has already added to that by trying to get me to start taking heroin again!!"
"Heroin?!!!" Ray yelled. Oh lord. Kai had done it now.
~~***~~
In an All-You-Can-Eat restaurant in Moscow, a group of four young men were sat around a table solemnly. They weren't eating anything, but the looked to be in some kind of conference. A piece of paper with a small bag taped to it was in the centre of the table. The group's leader, a tall red-haired teen with icy blue eyes, got to his feet.
"This isn't good," he said, looking around at him team. "Kai didn't get the whole message. He's in deeper than we thought."
"How could he have just dropped the most important part of the letter?!" the shortest of the group exclaimed.
"I'm not sure Ian, but we need to find Kai and warn him, his life is in serious jeopardy," the leader reassured his apparently distressed team mate.
"Tala, we owe the Bladebreakers this much. We have to set out to find Kai quickly, or we may be too late," the slate haired teen sitting with them said. "The Bladebreakers helped us to break free from Biovolt. If we do not hurry, Kai will find himself trapped within Biovolt, with no escape."
"I know Bryan, I know…we should start right away. We have to find Kai and the other Bladebreakers, before Boris does."
I don't need it
I won't take it
You can't force me to want it
Though a part of me craves it
I refuse to fall back
Into who I was
I refuse to be who you want me to be
SN: Yep, that's that. I feel that there's a more sinister plot going on here than Kai is aware of…my question is what's on that other piece of paper? And what's in the little bag taped to it? Well, of course I know, but you'll have to wait and see. As for Kai and the heroin, I checked heroin out on a search engine, and a few of Kai's personality quirks fit into the behaviour pattern of a heroin user, including the loss of appetite one. Freaky…
To all: Heroin is NOT cool, and it is NOT fun. I am not speaking form personal experience, but this is fiction, so don't try using heroin. EVER. I suppose I can use this to raise people's awareness of drugs, so that's neat. Watch on…you just may see the results of drugs later in this fic…
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