Visual Sensations
By: Kia Wolf
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Maieve( )- If you check last chapter, you'll see I thought your title was great! It's no longer titless!
Also a note to Sirithgliniel- I meant to put this last chapter, but forgot. You asked how I know how many pages my chapters are? I type them in a Microsoft Word Document and it tells me how many pages I have. I then convert everything to a floppy disc and bring it to a computer that actually has internet to upload. (My computer doesn't have internet, my mom's does.) There you go! Thanks to all my reviewers!
Leon: grumbling
Kia: What?
Leon: glares and grumbles
T-chan: bites Leon
Leon: HOLY F'ING CRUD! GET HIM OFF ME!
D: flicks T-chan while holding Matt in his arms and Yui is lying on his lap Down boy. Leon, take Matt please.
Leon: grumbles and takes Matt
Kia: sighs Anyway. Chapter 13!
Chapter 13
D sat at his vanity and brushed his hair, lost in his own world. At least, he was until his children began to cry. With a small sigh, he stood and went to the cribs. He smiled and cooed at each baby as he picked it up. "It's about time you two woke up. It's nearly twelve." D said, bringing the two mewling babies to the kitchen, where they could hear very loud clanging and talking.
Jar was limping around, getting random food items. T-chan and Pon-chan froze in mid-fight. They were glaring at each other and pulling on a metal mixing bowl. The talking and clanging had ceased and everyone was looking at D and the curious faced babies.
D scanned the kitchen. It looked as if a tornado had come through it. Not to mention Pon-chan's hair was white in places from flour, her exquisite, handmade dress was stained and covered in unidentifiable substances. T-chan's own hair had flour and what seemed to be chocolate in it. His face had a white smear on it, and his clothes were covered in the chocolate looking substance. Jar was the only clean one. And that in itself was a miracle.
T-chan was also tilting, about to fall from the way he was standing. T-chan shifted his weight to his other foot and moved so that he wouldn't fall. Unfortunately, his eyes were on D and not where to move his foot. He kicked Jar's injured leg, making Jar scream out in pain and sit on the ground, clutching his leg.
D's eyes widened as he saw it happening but couldn't stop it. T-chan was turning so that he could see if Jar was ok, but also turned the mixing bowl he and Pon-chan were holding. The mixture slid out of the bowl and onto Jar's head and clothing.
The twins clapped and laughed at their older brother, and squirmed, wanting down so that they could go and play with the mixture. D looked at the three messy kids before him and then to the squirming twins. He sighed and turned, leaving the mess out of sight and set the twins down in their playpen.
As he passed by the kitchen entrance again, he said, "Come on, all three of you. It's bath time." D smiled at the whines he heard. Even T-chan was whining. None of them wanted a bath, but they deserved it for ruining a perfectly clean kitchen.
Leon
"It was weird, Jill." Leon sipped his black coffee. "I mean, nothing's ever normal around D, but it's like he's distant. You know? Like he's ticked off at me and won't tell me why."
"Mm-hmm…" Jill bustled around their office, looking through file cabinets for reports and papers.
Leon propped his feet up on his desk and sipped his coffee some more, not seeming to notice Jill's business. "And last night…" He paused. "Maybe he's just hurting a bit. But still. He refused me last night, Jill."
Jill set a stack of papers down on Leon's desk. "Refused you? Doesn't sound like the Count. From what you say, you could snap your fingers and he'd jump you."
Leon nodded. "That's pretty much right…but still…he's been so cold to me since yesterday." He sipped his coffee again, ignoring the papers on his desk. "I don't like it." He moaned and stood to stretch. "Maybe I should buy him something…" Jill smiled.
"Why?" She asked.
Leon shrugged. "Dunno. Don't women usually go back to their loving selves if they're given a gift?"
Jill sighed. "You've been with the Count so long, yet you still have so very much to learn, Orcot." She shook her head. "Go ahead and buy him something anyway. I'm sure he'll be pleased to get a gift. Besides, he deserves it. Sometimes I wonder which is harder, our jobs or his parenting."
"Hmm…What could I get him…" Leon paced slowly while he thought.
Shop
D closed the door to his bedroom. Jar was bathing in the bathroom in there, and D had just brought him a towel. Now he was heading for the other two rooms, where T-chan and Pon-chan were bathing.
He knocked on the door and opened it, smiling at Pon-chan, who was almost completely submerged in the steamy water. "Here's a towel." D set down the towel on a small footstool and left the room, heading for T-chan's bathroom.
He knocked on the door and opened it. T-chan was standing next to the sunken-in pool that was used for a bathtub, fully dressed. He was glaring at the water that had little wisps of steam rising from it, a promise of warm, relaxing water. D smiled a bit.
"T-chan, get in and bathe. You're filthy." D set down the last towel on another small footstool, identical to the last, except for the color.
T-chan continued to glare at the water, and shook his head firmly. "I'm not getting in that."
D sighed. "T-chan, don't make me make you get in." D smiled softly.
T-chan let his gaze go from the water to D. He seemed a little skeptical of this, but still didn't want to get in the water. "I'm not getting in." T-chan said again.
D let out a deeper sigh. He shut the door, locked it, and rolled up his sleeves. T-chan backed away. "Count, don't make me get in there! Please." T-chan started to beg as D moved closer to him.
Leon
"What?" Leon snapped for the second time. He had been put in charge of showing an exchange officer by the name of Jacob around.
"Nothing." Jacob answered, looking away from Leon.
This guy's so gay. I wish he'd stop staring at me like that. Makes me a little nervous about D for some reason. Makes me think D's jealous and he hasn't even met Jacob yet! "Would you stop staring at me!" Leon snapped yet again.
"I wasn't." Jacob answered softly. Leon grunted and stormed off, leaving Jacob to run after him.
"Right, so that's everything I was supposed to show you." Leon sighed as he glanced at Jacob a moment before turning back to the window he had been looking through. There was a necklace with diamonds galore on it…no way could he afford that for D. Besides, D didn't wear necklaces. Oh, but what about those-
"Looking for a gift for your girl?" Jacob's annoying voice asked, interrupting Leon's train of thought. Jacob ran a hand absently through his waist length, almost white, blond ponytail. His dull blue eyes scanned over the jewelry in the window.
Leon felt his face flush a bit as he looked Jacob over. He quickly turned away. "No. For my boy, more like it…" Leon chuckled.
Jacob looked surprised. "You? You're gay? Never would've guessed." He was watching Leon with those dull blue orbs again. Leon could've sworn he saw a spark of interest in them.
Leon shrugged. "Me neither. But I fell awful hard for him. So hard I still feel it sometimes." Leon cut off their conversation suddenly, walking into the jewelry shop.
"How long have ya'll been together?" Darn. Jacob had followed him again. What did it take for this guy to leave?
Leon pointed at some small earrings. "Couple years." He took the earrings and looked them over. "We've got three kids." Hopefully Jacob would take a hint and leave him alone…
"Wow. Adopted three, huh?" Jacob leaned against the counter as Leon paid for the earrings.
"Only one. Two are ours." Leon smiled at Jacob's disbelieving look.
"Yours?" Jacob said.
"Yes. Ours. Twins. They're only about a month old." Leon pocketed the earrings and left the store quickly.
Shop
D closed the door to the bathroom T-chan was in and ignored the screams and splashes coming from behind the walls. He brushed back his hair and rushed to find his twins. He had heard them crying.
In the bathroom, Dreizehn and
chan were fighting with T-chan. They had successfully stripped him naked and were now trying to get him into the tub. Only stopping briefly because of the random bite from T-chan, the Doberman and Bird continued forcing T-chan into the water.
Finally, T-chan slipped and fell into the steaming water, and came to the surface, breathing heavily and scrambling to get out. Dreizehn rolled his eyes, jumped into the tub and held T-chan down.
"P-chan, get the soap! We'll just wash him ourselves!" Dreizehn glared at T-chan, who was kicking and screaming.
Meanwhile, D was bouncing Matt in his arms and cooing at him, hoping to make the little boy stop crying. Yui was just sitting in the playpen, laughing and clapping happily. It wasn't hard to keep her happy.
Suddenly the phone rang, and D went to answer it, holding Matt on his hip. "Hello?"
Jill
"Yeah, Count. I've been meaning to come by and see you, I just haven't had the time. And Julie's been complaining because she wasn't there to play with Jar." Jill laughed. She glanced out the window while still on the phone. "Hey, there's Leon now! I'm sure he'll be heading home soon."
Jill watched Leon and Jacob talk a moment before Jacob lunged at Leon and kissed his cheek. "Holy crud, Jacob just kissed Leon!" Jill didn't even realize she had said that aloud.
Leon seemed frozen for a moment as Jacob rushed back into the PD. Leon wiped at his cheek and headed for his car. Once again, Jill spoke aloud and didn't realize it. "He's not gonna do anything about it?"
On the other end of the phone, it was complete silence. "D? You still there?"
"Um…yes, Miss Jill. I'm…I'm afraid I have to go now. One of my pets are…sick…Goodbye…" Jill heard a click and the line went dead. Jill, confused, hung up the phone.
Shop
Leon smiled as he pulled to a stop in front of his home. He couldn't wait to get inside and kiss D, tell him how much he loved him, give him his gift…
Leon opened the door and exclaimed, "D, sweetie, I'm-"
That's as far as he got because he had to duck so as not to get hit by the cup that came hurtling at him. It flew over his head and hit the steps outside, shattering to tiny shards of porcelain.
"D! What!"
Another cup flew at him.
"First you are kissing Devin, and now I find that you let yet another man kiss you?" D was furious. "I do not wish to talk to you!" He shouted and stomped off down the hall, leaving the babies crying and a shocked Leon.
"Wait!" Leon raced after him. "How did you know Jacob…"
"I was on the telephone with Miss Jill, now release my arm!" D shouted.
"No! Not yet! D, did you say I was kissing Devin?" Leon tightened his grip on D's arm, not letting him leave.
"That is what I said, was it not?" D jerked away from Leon and hurried into their bedroom.
"D!" The door was slammed shut in his face. He heard a lock turn. "D!" He banged on the door. "D, open up! D! Please?"
After a few moments, Leon gave up and retreated back to the front room. T-chan stormed past him, a towel his only clothing for the moment, and he was soaked. Leon watched him in surprise.
"Don't say anything or I'll bite you!" T-chan snapped, disappearing down another hallway.
Leon collapsed on the couch and suddenly remembered the earrings when he felt the box in his pocket. He smiled. "Hush, both of you!" He scolded the crying twins as he rushed back to his bedroom door. He carefully slid the box under the door and said, "D, I got you something. It made me think of you. Please, let me in so I can explain."
D watched the box slide under the door. His curiosity got the best of him and he silently picked up the box, not letting Leon know he had gotten it. He opened it and his eyes filled with tears as he looked at the beautiful lavender gems.
Kia: cries along with D
Leon- WTF? ARE YOU TRYING TO RUIN ME AND D'S RELATIONSHIP?
Kia: I-I-I…cries louder
D: is still in shock from his gift and sits silently, holding the box, tears streaming down his face
Tiy: Oh that's SO sweet! cries too
Matt and Yui: cry because…well, they're babies
Leon: looks around Um…sweatdrop Well…Uh…why is everyone crying? Guys? Please stop!…Um…
