(Tohma – 12)
Erica would move over to her bed, by the time she got home she was exhausted, she had stayed up to watch her Gravitation tapes and finally fallen asleep. She hadn't slept like that in a while, after spending two hours straight dancing around the hotel room with Shuiichi and Ryuichi she just felt as though she were dead. So when she woke, feeling as if someone was looking at her, she thought for sure that Ryuichi was there again and Eiri and Shuiichi must be… busy again.
"I have a question." A cool voice came. Not icy like Eiri's, more smooth and no less intimidating. "Who are you and why am I here."
She sat up quickly, her eyes attempting to focus in the dark on the small figure that was sitting in a chair near her door. The chair had been a new addition, and she was barely used to having it there, let alone having someone sitting in it.
The bed next to her was warm as if someone had been sleeping in it before now, and she was secretly glad it wasn't K, the idea of waking up with a gun barrel to her head was unsavory at best.
"Um… I am Erica, and I don't know how you got here." She said looking, her eyes focusing on the small slender figure. The blonde hair was more noticeable. TOHMA! Oh gods, and she didn't have anyone here to hand him over too. She suddenly started to sweat coldly. She didn't want to be alone with him.
"I assume than that you know where Eiri, Shuiichi and Ryuichi have gone than." That voice still cold as ice and smooth as silk.
"Um, actually yeah. They came here, and right now they are at a hotel room." Erica answered, hoping that was the right answer. She didn't necessarily feel the need that she had to like him, or that he had to like her, but she knew that he could stress her already tender relationship with Eiri if he disliked her. He was the quote unquote bad guy. Her lip was drawn between her teeth.
"And they are safe?" He asked, his blue eyes were now seen, emotionless at the moment, like it was when he was angry. Definitely Tohma.
"Yes." She answered swallowing hard. She would reach over next to her bed and grab the phone, calling the hotel.
"Mmmmmmm." The sleepy voice of Shuiichi answered the phone.
"I told you not to answer it." Eiri growled, also sounding sleepy.
"Shuiichi." She stammered. It was only four a.m. and she was confused. "Can I talk to Eiri?"
There was the sound of the pair of them fighting and finally Eiri would be put on the phone. "What do you want at four in the morning Erica?"
"I have a problem."
"Than fix it." Eiri growled.
"I am trying!"
"What kind of problem?"
"Well it is about five foot six inches tall and it has blonde hair and blue eyes, and it is staring at me!" She said. Tohma never flinched, legs still crossed, arms in his lap, just watching her coldly.
"Tohma?" Eiri said. Shuiichi grumbled a complaint that told Erica that Eiri had just gotten up. "I'll be right there."
The line went dead. Great! He would be right here? But what was she supposed to do with Tohma until he got here. The man continued to just look at her, and she just sat there looking at him back. Finally she broke the silence.
"Eiri is coming." She said. Tohma blinked slowly at her. "So could you maybe stop staring at me now."
Tohma honored that request by getting up and walking out of the room. It didn't take him but a minute to find the door and a minute more to be outside of it. She would get up, going into Kate's room and waking her up.
"I have to get Tohma over to the boys." She said.
"Again? I thought you ran out of them." Kate answered'
"Yeah, me too."
She would get dressed and go outside to a sight that would have turned Shuiichi's blood cold.
"I was so scared…" Tohma's voice sounded. He was at the moment curled into Eiri's arms, lying against his chest.
"I know Tohma. I am so sorry for what I said to you…" Eiri responded softly. So much more emotion than she was used to seeing, he didn't seem that affectionate with Shuiichi.
"It is alright, you had too much to drink. I forgave you before I even made it to my car. I wish I had never left." Tohma said.
"It would've happened anyway, Shuiichi was taken right out of my bed." Eiri said running his fingers through the white blonde hair of the other. Erica resisted the urge to say something.
"And Mr. Shindo is well?" Tohma asked, his tone of voice changing.
"Yes, and Ryuichi is well too." Eiri responded.
"That is good." Tohma would murr gently, resting his head once more against Eiri's chest.
"Come on lets go." Eiri said.
"You want me to come?" Erica asked.
"If you want to." Eiri said, and with that she would climb into the car. If she wanted to? When didn't she, even at four thirty in the morning?
