Disclaimer: See previous chapter
By the phone, he waited. His patience could only run so thin and the call; even at such a horribly early morning was more important than any he would ever experience. Nothing could calm him, no words, no embrace for only that call would. Then it rang.
''Rei.'' A feminine voice, haunting, familiar and at one time angelic, hesitantly spoke into the receiver.
It was she; she had finally called. Her tone was light and words carefully chosen but read out as if by heart. He braced himself for the news. One simple statement could alter so much in his life, his one still hazed from the truth. His face was indifferent and nothing surfaced on his features.
''Rei.''
This time, his name, came from a different throat, one not choked by tears but strong and confident as he gently put down the phone. He looked up at the speaker morosely and wet droplets, salty and warm spilled from his tawny depths and down his cheeks until they reached the smile forming across his lips.
''Kaiā¦''
Kai returned his smile and was met with a hug. Rin really was his. He was the father. The head of ebony hair nestled into his neck, and reassuringly, fingers stroked through the long, loose locks. He caressed the confirmed parents back and whispered congratulations into the silence.
Rei held him tighter as he cried his tears of happiness and joy, spilling in nostalgia from his eyes that were once so pained and now relieved. He would soon see his daughter of flesh and blood again. She would return his arms where he would cradle her like the precious gem she was.
Their marriage failed and, a year later, after the determining paternity test, amid them there were no hard feelings. They may have crumbled but the love they shared for their first child never would. He vowed to be there, no matter what for his kin and forgave her mother for the betrayal, if only for her best, in the end.
His anger and emptiness dissipated now that, the most important thing in the world would reunite with him. The time apart, separated was agonizingly long, torturous but he managed and fought back until the he could lay his eyes upon her small figure and fuchsia hair again. Along the way, that dark path, he found himself and that was in her.
He was not alone and, his friends made him realize so. They supported him in his lowliest of occasions and held him up when he yearned to fall underneath the weight of his burden. He would thank Kai for those nights of comfort when he cried his soul into a river in which he wished to drown. That man, a father as well and his best friend was now his lover.
''We can be a family, Kai.'' He murmured into the fine strands of slate.
There was no one else he would rather have behind him when he often fell into despair to catch him. They helped each other endure the tests of life and how tragically, nothing lasted forever. They lost the women they once put faith in and supported one another through the devastation and grieving.
''Yes we can, Rei.''
Life taught them a new lesson. Kai may have lost his first love to an accident, but that flame was renewed in the amber depths he saw cry and consoled. Rei may have watched his happiness shatter, but that joy blossomed in the arms of the man that saved him. Now, a new life, theirs, as a family, the one each was denied, embraced them like they did one another.
-EndE-
I finally completed this. It is very vague and originally, I had planned on having another chapter but I figured I could not do any better than this. Kai's side of the story is left up to the over active imaginations. I do sincerely hope you enjoyed my attempt at the destruction of what should havenever been; canon.
