Time to Burn

Keeper: I have discovered the glory that is Side B!

Kou: What the hell are you talking about?

Keeper: Well I was looking at some Ken-sama pictures and stumbled upon a Side B site. It made me want to write a Side B fic and I think I will. I love Ken-sama's bugnuk in Side B they're so cool and and the way Ken-sama looks…oh my (gets a dreamy look)

Mist: (waves a hand in front of Keeper) I don't think she is going to be saying anything else for a while. As you can see my Keeper changed it to Supernatural/Angest because she realized that there is well, a lot of Ken angest. She is a little upset that the story isn't going how she wanted it.

Kou: Well in this chapter Keeper totally BSed Schuldig's past since she doesn't know it, AU, yaoi (eventually), fluffy-angest? Bad language, and her horrible grammar, so if you don't like it why the hell are you still reading?

Mist: My Keeper does not own Weiss, only the non-recognizable ones, so please don't sue her.

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"Your parents?" He asked as he stopped purring.

"Ja. I was actually born to a wealthy family in Germany."

"So what happened? How did your parents betray you?"

"Well everything was nice until I turned four. That was when my telepathy started to develop. Since I couldn't talk that well people never realized that I was commenting on their thoughts, being only four I never really noticed that I was hearing people's thoughts." Schuldig said as he started to pet Ken again.

Ken began to purr lightly again from Schuldig petting him and also to comfort the older man.

"I never really noticed that when I was hearing people their mouths weren't moving. When I turned six and was able to speak better, the servants began to notice that I was making comments about things no one had said out loud. They began to gossip and started calling me a devil spawn. My mother over heard them one day and it broke her, she stayed in her room more and more just so she wouldn't have to hear the servants gossiping. My father didn't believe them, saying that they were idiotic servants that didn't know anything. My father never did like me much."

"Why?"

"I'm not really sure but I think it was because he got my mother pregnant and his father made him marry her. He never loved her because he was always cheating on her."

"That's horrible."

"Ja, well one day I ended up saying something at some business dinner my father was having. One of the guests had 'said' something rude about my father and I couldn't understand why he didn't kick the man out of the house, so being the naive little boy that I was, I asked my father why he didn't get mad at him for what he said. My father asked me what I was talking about so I told him what I had heard. Apparently he was talking about it earlier with someone else because he started yelling about the audacity that my father had to have his son spy on people. The man finally realized what he was saying and my father just smiled at him and then told him and his friend to get out. My father patted me on the head and then just dismissed me."

"My mother began staying in her room constantly so she wouldn't have to listen to what people said about me. My father was always thinking horrible things about my mother and I asked him why he called mother all those horrible names, and he had thought that I had over heard him talking so he beat me for it. I made a few more comments about some of my father's thoughts and he finally realized that I could hear people's thoughts and he began to beat me, he blamed my mother for me being a freak and he beat her for it. Because I was young I never understood why my father beat her all the time after that."

Schuldig stopped petting Ken and looked up to watch the leaves blowing softly in the wind. Ken waited patiently for him to come out of the memory he was reliving and finish telling him about his past. It must be hard for the older man to being telling him this because Ken knew that it would be hard for him when he finally decided to tell someone about his past. The telepath looked down at him and smiled. He started to pet Ken again like it helped to calm him.

"One day I made the mistake of commenting on one of my father's thoughts at dinner while my mother was there. My mother broke down and said she couldn't take any more of my father's cheating and beating her or of listening to the people talking about how she gave birth to a demon spawn and she ran away that night. My father blamed me for it and beat me. Women stopped coming to his bed, after about a month of not having anyone to share his bed with he blamed me for it again and beat me worse than what he used to. Then one night he got drunk and came to my room and said that since it was my fault that his wife left him and that no women would come to his bed any more that I should be a 'good little boy' and take their place." Schuldig had to stop because his voice was starting to break up.

Ken's eyes widened in horror. /He can't be saying that his own father…that his own father…/

"Yes, Tiger that's exactly what I'm saying. My own father rapped me when I was seven. He said that I was so good that he wouldn't worry about getting some tramp to keep him company when he had someone right here at his beck and call all the time. So he continued to come to my room until I tuned fourteen when I finally had enough and ran away."

Ken nuzzled Schuldig's chest much like a cat wanting attention would to try and offer him some comfort.

"That's so horrible how did you…how did you survive that?"

"I'm not sure. My father made me feel guilty, made me believe that it was my fault that mother left, he said it to me so much that I actually ended up believing him. And because of that it didn't bother me like it should have that my father was rapping me, it was almost like I felt like I had to do it, that I owed it to my father to make up it up to him for making his wife leave."

"So if you felt like you had to do it what made you finally leave?"

"Well I found out he began to bring in women and boys again and I also heard him thinking that he wanted to kill me."

"But why would he want to kill you?"

"Because of my telepathy he didn't think that I could control it and that one of his business rivals would lure me away and that I would tell him everything I knew about his company."

"You were able to control your telepathy?"

"Yes and no. When my mother left that was when I realized that I could hear people's thoughts, so I began to work on it so I could control it, I was able to after a while but when I ran away, I learned very quickly that I was only able to master for those few people in the mansion but when I got into the city, it was so over whelming it was driving me insane."

"What did you do?" Ken asked curiously.

"Isn't it obvious?" Schuldig smiled at the way Ken titled his head to the side in confusion. "I went insane."

"Schuldig." Ken gave him a half hearted growl.

The older man laughed. "Come now Tiger, I obviously managed to control it before it drove me insane."

"I wonder about that." Ken grumbled.

"Oh that hurt!" He said feigning mock hurt.

Ken snorted at that. "I somehow doubt that. So was it hard to learn how to control it with all those people around?"

"It was at first but I was finally able to get it under somewhat control after about two years. Then one day Brad found me and recruited me to Esset with the promise that he could help me. So I went with him and he taught me how to make barriers to protect myself so I didn't go stark raving mad."

"So it was Brad that taught you how to control it?"

"Not really control it, just protecting my self from all the voices. When Brad found me and promised to help me I thought he was some sort of angle and I fell in love with him.

"You're in love with Brad?"

"Well not any more, I realized later that I wasn't really in love with him I just thought I was because he was the first person who didn't hate me and was different like I was."

"Oh, so what's it like to be able to hear people's thoughts?"

"My aren't you full of questions. Well it's actually not all that great because you hear what people actually think about you or the people close to you. But the perks of it is you can find out anything you want about a person and scare the hell out of people when you talk to them and they think that they are hearing voices and are going crazy. That was always my favorite thing to do."

"Yeah you would do something like that."

/"Maybe now his stubborn ass will open up and talk."/ A female voice said with a hint of annoyance.

/"If he doesn't I'm going to be ignoring you from now on."/ Schuldig said as he stopped petting Ken.

/"You know you love talking to me Schuldig-san."/ The girl said laughing.

/"Sicheres, sicheres(1) but you know, all this time I've been talking to you, you know my name but are you ever going to tell me yours?"/

There was a pause and Schuldig was beginning to think that she wouldn't answer when she suddenly spoke.

/"I guess it is only fair that I tell you my name since I know yours. My name is Kumiko it is a pleasure to meet you Schuldig-san."/

"…Schuldig."

/"A little late for pleasantries don't you think?"/ Schuldig said laughing slightly. /"Kumiko, huh? That's a nice name."/

"Schuldig?"

The girl giggled. /"Why, thank you Schuldig-san. I like your name as well, it's nice."/

"Schuldig!"

"Was!" The flame haired man snapped out of his mental conversation to see Ken looking worriedly at him.

"You spaced out there for a minute are you alright?"

"Ja, sorry about that I was…listening to someone."

"Must have been pretty interesting." Ken said glaring slightly at him.

/"Gee nice one Schuldig-san, I don't think he bought that."/ Kumiko said sounding amused.

/"This is your fault Kumiko-chan."/

/"My fault?"/ She said in an indignant huff. /"Well ask him…uh…about soccer."/

/"Was? Why should I ask him that?"/

/"It might get him to start talking."/

"So mein Tiger(2) you like soccer?"

Ken scowled at him. "I wish you wouldn't use German, I think you use it just to make me mad. But to answer your question yes I do, I used to play on the J-league but I can't anymore. I can only kick the ball around by myself and if I'm lucky I'm able to play with the kids that usually play on Wednesday. It hurts that I can't do the only thing that I had ever wanted to do. It…it hurts so much that everything that I had loved was ripped away from me."

Ken was fighting to hold back his tears that were now threatening to spill. Schuldig pulled him down to him and laid his cheek against Ken's hair.

"It's alright mein trauriges(3) you'll feel better if you let it out." Schuldig whispered as he ran his hand up and down his back soothingly.

Ken started to cry into Schuldig's chest "I…it hurts, I feel like I'm dead…I should have been the one to die not her…"

"What happened to make you so sad Tiger?" Schuldig asked as he still ran his hand up and down the brunette's back.

Ken continued to cry into the other man's chest and Schuldig could just barely understand him mumbling into his chest. "He tried to kill me and then…and then he killed her…"

"Who Tiger?"

"It was…" Ken had begun and then stopped suddenly tensing.

"What's wrong?" The older man asked getting worried.

"Someone is coming."

Schuldig listened for a moment before finally saying. "I don't hear anyone."

"Trust me someone is coming. I can hear them." Ken said rubbing his face to get rid of the evidence that he had been crying only seconds ago.

"Are you…" Schuldig was cut off as a dog came bounding through the trees.

The dog stopped suddenly when it saw them. It lowered its head and started to growl at them, its hackles raised. The dog started to advance slowly baring its teeth. As soon as the dog started forward a girl looking about twelve came through the trees right behind the dog.

"Dou, get back here!" The girl yelled for her dog it stopped advancing but did not look at its master. She stopped running for her dog when she saw that he was growling, looking at where her dog was, she blushed. Dou was growling at two… lovers? That's what they had to be right? One was laying on top of the other so they had to be lovers. No one would be in that kind of position if they weren't. From where she was she could tell that it was two guys that were very good looking. The one on the bottom had his arms wrapped protectively around the other one.

Ken looked down at Schuldig and sighed. "I have to go now."

When Ken got up off of Schuldig, Dou tried to advance again but his master had quickly grabbed his collar to prevent him from going anywhere. Schuldig sat up and watched Ken disappear into the woods, when he couldn't see the youth anymore he shot the girl and her dog a look that would have killed them a hundred times over if looks could kill. The girl dragged her dog out of there as fast as she could.

/"Damn that stupid dog and its incompetent owner! Ken was finally going to open up and that idiotic dog had to run over this way! Why didn't its fucking owner keep a better hold on the stupid mutt!"/ Kumiko screamed in the telepath's head making him wince.

/"Not so loud please."/

/"But that stupid girl and her dog ruined everything!"/

/"Not necessarily. It has only been delayed for the time being."/

/"What do you mean?"/

/"Well if you'd be quite for a moment."/

/"Fine."/ She huffed.

/"Hey Tiger."/

/"What do you want Schuldig?"/

/"It would make you feel better if you talked about it, I'll be here if you ever want to."/

/"I'll think about it."/

/"Happy now?"/ Schuldig asked Kumiko.

/"Well he never said that he would talk to you."/

/"No, but he will."/

/"You don't know him well enough to say that."/

/"May be not, but I know he will come talk to me, because I told him my past and it will eat at him until he does something to return the trust I placed in him by telling him my past. Which brings me to my question, how do you know Ken?"/

/"He is someone very important to me. I want to take his pain away but I am unable to, I can only watch over him as he suffers powerless to do anything about it."/ Kumiko said sounding very depressed.

/"How is he important to you? And how come you can't help him?"/

/"He is my other half and I am his, maybe I'll tell you more about it if you are still willing to talk to me after Ken talks to you."/

/"Why would I stop talking to you after Ken tells me about his past?"/ Schuldig asked sounding confused.

/"You will find out in time."/

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1. Sure, sure

2. My Tiger

3. My sad one

Keeper: Hehe Schuldig-sama already has pet names for Kenken. Well now we know her name. You would not believe how hard this was for me to write, it may not look like much but for some reason it was hard to write……I have decided to make a sequel to this story! So for those of you waiting for Ran/Ken…..I'm sorry it won't really come until the sequel but there will be little fluff moments for them though. I hope you guys aren't to mad about this.

Mist: Thank the reviewers

HeeroDuo4eva: Thank you! Hehe me either. I can just see Schuldig using little words here and there especially if it irritates someone.

Constantine: Thank you! I'm glad you liked this. As for Germany everyone keeps telling me some places to check out while I'm there, have anything to add? That's so cool that you're mostly German!

M4r1-ch4n: Thank goodness (wipes nervous sweat from face) Yes I know how you love Schu, because you're a fellow Schu whore! Mwahaha so you figured out who was speaking to Schuldig-sama huh? GASP! Are you cheating on Schuldig-sama with Ken-sama? I wouldn't mind seeing that either!

HeatherR: Yes you're just panicing here (hands Mist over so Heather can pet him) Yes it should be Ran petting, but not yet. There will be only Ran petting Ken in the sequel though. Like I said which one is it? Last chance to guess cause you find out what her relationship with Ken-sama is in the next chapter.

Kou: WHAT THE HELL! How can you just pass Mist around like he's a pet? First that female kisses him and now you're letting her pet him!

Keeper: I asked him first!

Kou: Is that true Mist? (turns to look at Mist being petted by Heather)

Mist: Purrrrrrr

Kou: Oh. My. God. He's purring!

Keeper: See? He doesn't mind.

Kou: How could you Mist?

Mist: Purrrrrrr

Keeper: Someone sounds jealous.

Kou: I AM NOT!

Keeper: (snorts) Yeah right.

Kou: (walks away grumbling and slams the door closed)

Mist: Purrrrrrrr (looks up when he hears the door slam) Errr…Please review and tell my Keeper what she is doing wrong. (gets comfy again) Purrrrrrrr