A/N: Okay, FINE! I give in! I'll continue it! Screams, faints, and then gets back up. Anyway, now that I've said all that, here's the deal. I've continued this, and what the hell drove me to do it is you guys! So consider yourself powerful! Anyway, there's also gonna be an add-on to the NC-17 version, if you have the link . (If you haven't got it because you're a new review and want to see it, leave your address in your review!)

Anyway, I couldn't help it! Just to add more plot and cuteness and thickening and stuff, I had to put in a one-sided Shonen Ai pairing here... . How long does it take you guys to figure it out?

--Chapter 2: Second Thoughts--

"Lloyd Irving, why did it take you so long to get back last night?" Sheena growled.

"Are you really that low, Lloyd?" Raine asked, shaking her head.

"...I'm disappointed..." Presea murmured.

"I thought better of you, Lloyd" Regal shook his head.

"Ehehehehe... well, you see, and then, umm... Zelos kinda didn't give me a chance to talk to him, so I had to wait around..."

"...Bet you liked it..." Genis muttered behind him, as he munched on their breakfast. "When you got back last night, you were blushing the whole time."

"...Umm..." Lloyd blinked. "Wait, you were awake?"

"Yes" Genis growled, annoyed for a reason Lloyd couldn't place. "And here I was thinking you had decency and morals..."

"...I don't get it" Colette blinked. "Why is everyone being so mean to Lloyd?"

"..." Everyone just looked at her, blankly, and she returned the clueless, naïve stare.

"...Oh, never you mind" Raine sighed. "Lloyd, you should finish eating. We're going to go wait outside for Zelos to show up again."

"Oh, alright" Lloyd nodded, as everyone packed up and left, except Colette, who was apparently not as full as the others - then again, Lloyd knew from watching her that she ate so slowly that she always took much longer than everyone else.

"...Lloyd, why was everyone mad at you?" Colette asked, looking up at him.

Lloyd shrugged. "'Cause they think I stayed at Zelos' place for far too long last night."

"When he was partying last night? ...Oh, now I'm starting to get it" Colette was finally clueing in. Lloyd sighed, rolling his eyes.

"But why was Genis so mad at you?" she finally spoke up again. "I can understand the girls, but Genis?"

Lloyd shrugged, as oblivious as the blonde. "I have no clue at all" he sighed. The two were silent for the rest of the time, as they finished their meal. They walked out beside each other, and apparently Raine and Sheena at least hadn't yet forgiven him, because they were both staring at him angrily. Presea, at least, seemed to have let him off the hook for the moment, her gaze elsewhere, looking around town, studying the people who walked by.

"...Zelos should be by sometime soon" Raine said pointedly, looking around. "...Unless he completely overdid himself last night... Gods, if he did, I'm gonna drag him out of that bed and..."

"I'll go" Lloyd volunteered. "I need to speak to him anyway" he told them, though he didn't give any more details then that. After all, he wasn't sure just how the others would feel about him possibly having an affection for Tethe'Alla's Chosen.

As he walked away, the others looked at each other.

"...Should one of us go too? Just to make sure he doesn't do anything?" Sheena suggested, giving Lloyd a harsh look over her shoulder.

"I think he has learned his lesson, but still..." Presea sighed.

"I'll go" Genis put his hands on his hips, and without even waiting a fraction of a second for any reply from the others, he stalked off to go follow Lloyd.

Lloyd swung open the doors of the mansion, looking around. There was no sign of Sebastian, no hint that anyone had even been there last night... Of course, he personally had been a part of the varied happenings in the main lobby only a few hours ago...

"No. Bad memories" Lloyd shook his head, looking around. "Zelos! Zelos? You in here?" he cupped his hands around his mouth and called out. "Sebastian?"

Almost immediately, the tall, stiff-backed butler came over to answer Lloyd's call. "Yes, sir bud?"

"Two things. First, my name is not 'Bud', it's Lloyd. And second, is Zelos still here?"

"That he is, sir bud, I believe he is just waking up" Sebastian pointed upstairs. "You can go up to meet him, if you should want."

Lloyd's face twitched, but he annoyed the butler's slip and turned towards the stairs, stomping up them, heading straight towards Zelos' room. He swung the door open and stepped inside.

"Hey, Zelos, it's time to wake up!" Lloyd shouted gleefully, and then he blinked when he didn't hear even the slightest sound in response. He finally took the time to look around, and found that the room was completely empty.

"...Huh? Zelos?" Lloyd blinked. He had expected Zelos to be, lazy as usual, still asleep in his bed or something. Instead, Zelos was nowhere to be found.

Lloyd took a couple steps into the room, looking past the door's edge and looking for Zelos. The Chosen was nowhere to be seen.

"...Zelos?" Lloyd blinked, sighed, and turned.

At that exact moment, Zelos, who was soaking wet and dressed only in a towel, jumped onto Lloyd from behind the opened door and tackled him to the bed.

"Hey, hunny" Zelos grinned. "I knew you'd be back."

Lloyd tried to stammer out something, but he was much too surprised, and found himself being kissed pretty quickly by Zelos.

"Z-Z-Z-Z-Zelos!!" Lloyd stuttered, lost in the moment, as the two broke away.

"Come to apologise for running out on me last night?" Zelos asked, tilting his head just a bit, and Lloyd blinked. He felt just a bit of water dripping off of Zelos' body - he must have just got out of the bath - and of course his wet hair was plastered to his shoulders, back, and decently-muscled chest, making him all the more attractive. Lloyd bit his lower lip to keep from blushing, but it didn't work.

"...Zelos... Why did you do that?" Lloyd asked dimly.

"Because, darling, I love you" Zelos grinned, in such a manner that Lloyd felt quite helpless, though it also made him wonder about the sincerity of Zelos' words. "I figured that would be a good way to get you to have some fun, after you didn't have any at the party last night..."

Lloyd fought with his own feelings. He was tempted to just reach up and kiss Zelos (he was that damn sexy when he was soaking wet), but he knew that would only lead to more dangerous things, if he did. After all, Zelos was already naked except for a towel.

With the resolution that he needed to control himself and get a straight answer (about non-straight matters) out of Zelos, Lloyd put his hands on Zelos' chest to try and push him off, but of course that wasn't the sign Zelos got. The chosen flashed that sexy grin of his, and Lloyd's hands began to lazily run over Zelos' chest, instead of trying to push him off.

"...Besides, you like me too, don't you? You probably have all this time, haven't you?" Zelos leaned down towards Lloyd and whispered those words in Lloyd's ear, his breath making Lloyd hot under the collar.

"LLOYD!"

Lloyd's head snapped to the side, to look towards the door, and ended up bashing into Zelos' in the process. With that snap back to reality, Lloyd pushed Zelos off of him and rubbed his nose, before looking towards the owner of the voice.

Genis was standing there, right hand on his hip, left hand clenched at his side angrily, fire dancing in his eyes.

"...G-Genis, did you follow me?" Lloyd stuttered, trying to act innocent.

"I can't believe you... Either of you... you... I..." Genis growled, apparently trying to say something, but the first thing that came to mind probably wasn't what Genis meant to do. He grabbed the Kendama from his belt, swung it up into the air, caught the orb, and then with a shout of "Wind Blade!" fired off a spell towards the two.

Zelos eeped, grabbed onto Lloyd's shoulders, and hid behind the brunette, as the three blades smacked into Lloyd, knocking the wind out of him. Lloyd crunched up painfully, gasping to catch his breath, feeling a bit of blood coming from the front of his chest where one of the blades had hit. By the time he opened his eyes again and looked up, Genis was gone.

"...What was... that about...?" Lloyd blinked.

"Isn't it obvious?" Zelos said, as if Lloyd was a complete idiot. Of course, Zelos thought he was, but that isn't a point in question here. "The little kid's jealous of me, Lloyd."

There was such a joking tone in Zelos' voice that Lloyd didn't believe him for the second - even though unknowingly Zelos had spoken the truth.

"Oh, stop it, Zelos" Lloyd stood up, adjusting his clothes. "Get your stuff together and head towards the Coliseum. We'll all be waiting for you out there" and with that announcement, he stomped off, leaving the soaked Zelos, somewhat stunned, on his bed.

Zelos growled to himself, as he shut the door, then proceeded to change into his proper travelling gear. Finally, he reopened the door, grabbed his sword and attached it to his belt, and then headed off to join the others.

Genis was the first back, and by the time he had returned, there were tears at the edge of his eyes.

"...How are Lloyd and Zelos?" Colette asked, cluelessly, and Genis rounded on her and bared his teeth dangerously.

"Don't. You. Mention. Them. To. Me." Genis spoke slowly and low, between deep breaths, and even Raine and Regal were thoroughly stumped.

"...Genis? What's wrong?" Raine asked, kneeling down beside her little brother, and wrapping an arm around him.

Genis sighed, his anger and hatred quickly flowing away, and he collapsed into his sister's arms, sobbing lightly.

"Perhaps it is best if we do not ask" Regal spoke calmly. "Obviously Genis just went through something troubling involving..." he didn't finish, he didn't want to speak their names and upset Genis more. "I will go intercept them..."

"...Alright" Raine nodded. "There's something going on here..."

Lloyd had his head down, grumbling something awful, as he stepped lazily through the dirty streets of Meltokio. His feet scraped across the pavement as he walked, but he didn't care. His mind was too caught up in Zelos again.

Zelos, Zelos, Zelos. Suddenly all of his thoughts and conversations ended up with Zelos as the root of them. Was it just coincidence? No, it wasn't. At least, Lloyd hoped it wasn't. That would mean that his world now revolved around Zelos Wilder, the idiot Chosen of Tethe'Alla, who certainly didn't need another big ego boost.

Lloyd let out a sigh, shutting his eyes, not paying attention to where he was going, just following his general sense of direction towards the coliseum - a place where he and Zelos had fought together a couple times...

"Hey, Lloyd, behind you" Genis shouted.

Lloyd spun, seeing a large axe warrior behind him, his axe already falling towards him. His senses froze, seeing the immense blade coming down towards him...

And then something tackled him from the side, and two bodies rolled and came to a grinding halt, and when Lloyd finally realised he had his eyes closed and took a moment to reopen them, he was surprised to find out it was Zelos who he had his legs mixed up with, that it was Zelos' muscular arms wrapped around him.

"...You alright?" Zelos asked, looking down at Lloyd.

"...Yeah" Lloyd nodded, honestly surprised that Zelos had saved him from almost-certain death.

"Well, good. Don't want you dying on me" Zelos grinned, and the leaning his head closer to Lloyd, he did something that surprised the younger man.

He gently nuzzled his face against Lloyd's. "Keep yourself safe, handsome" Zelos whispered in Lloyd's ear, before standing up again and running off to go save Sheena this time.

Lloyd blinked, blushing, and then finally reality returned to him and he snapped to his feet, to return to the fight.

Lloyd was so caught up the memory that he barely noticed that he had run into Regal until he bumped into the bigger man, being thrown off his guard and landing promptly on his ass.

"...Oh, sorry" Lloyd blinked, noticing Regal. "...What's up, Regal?"

"What exactly did you and Zelos do to Genis?" Regal asked.

"...What do you mean, what did we do to Genis?" Lloyd asked him right back, confused, as he stood up.

"The poor kid's crying back there, and it must have had something to do with you two, because he got mad when we mentioned your names. What happened?" Regal asked.

Lloyd flushed several colours.

"...Umm, Regal..." Lloyd shook his head. "I don't wanna have to talk about it..."

"There you are, hunny!"

Lloyd's heart froze as Zelos jumped on him from behind, wrapping his arms around Lloyd's shoulders, startling both other men. Zelos nuzzled the side of Lloyd's head with his own, smiling happily. "Sorry that took so long. Oh, hey, Regal."

Regal just stared and blinked, halfway amazed. "...Is this... that still does not explain why Genis is so heartbroken..." Regal blinked.

"I told you. Genis is jealous of me!" Zelos said, sarcastically, trying to lighten the mood as he caught on quickly to what Regal was talking about.

"Zelos, be serious!" Lloyd kicked backwards, knocking the heel of his shoe against Zelos' calf, and making the redhead jump backwards a bit in surprise.

"Hey, Lloyd, be nice! I am being serious" Zelos said, though Lloyd was still finding his voice oddly false. "Trust me. I'm used to people getting used to me. I steal girlfriends from people all the time. I've stolen a couple boyfriends too. And then I see the person they used to be with and they act just like that."

"...You mean, this isn't the first time that you and a guy...?"

"There's a lot you don't know about me, Lloyd" Zelos grinned, wrapping his arms around Lloyd's shoulders again, from behind, and Lloyd sighed and relaxed into it, even though he knew he shouldn't.

Lloyd and Regal both glanced around, because after all the three of them were now in the open and there were people walking by. However, nobody seemed to pay any special heed.

"...Everybody in this town is acting..."

"Oh, it's nothing unusual. They know I like any good handsome company" Zelos giggled, as Lloyd rounded on him, annoyed.

"Oh, so am I just 'company'?"

"Of course not, Lloydie" Zelos smiled, and Lloyd's cheeks rouged even deeper. If it kept like this, people would think he had got a sunburn on his cheeks.

"L-L-Lloydie!?" Lloyd stuttered, amazed.

"Yes. You're now my Lloydie" Zelos smiled, and Lloyd swore there was an emphasis put on the word 'my'. Maybe it was just his imagination. Lloyd hoped it was just his imagination.

"...Well, I've seen enough" Regal sighed. "But you two are gonna have to tell the girls..."

"Hey, now why us?" Zelos asked, blinking cutely.

"Because there's no way in hell I'm going to be the bearer of bad news on this matter" Regal stated bluntly, surprising Lloyd and Zelos with how... sarcastic he seemed - and that must have been a first. And then before he heard any protests, he walked back in the direction of the coliseum.

Lloyd looked up at Zelos, slightly worried. "...The girls are gonna kill us..."

"Well, what makes you say that?" Zelos asked, smiling as if he thought nothing was wrong.

"Colette... Me and her were kind of almost somewhat in love! And Sheena... I think that she liked me too!"

"Oh?" Zelos blinked, shrugging, and then a very broad grin came to his lips as he spoke. "You don't think the girls could share you with me?"

Lloyd was so embarrassed at the answer that he smacked Zelos over the head.