Author: essenceofthedark
Pairing: Still Kai/Rei…
Author's note: … the beginning sorta reminds me of snow-white but… shrugs he's a vampire for chrissakes… Oh yeah… and here we get a more detailed look into Rei's misery…
Music I listened to while writing this fic: Metallica, Alice Cooper, Disturbed, Tori Amos and HIM.
Chapter three: Waking up
Rei's view
Rei sat watching the boy as he lay in his bed. His skin was still white as snow, in contrast to the two blue triangles on each of his cheeks just like when he had found him laying lifeless in the alleyway, however certain… things about the boy was weird. His wounds that had been bleeding profusely when Rei found him had almost closed already, the smallest ones just leaving scars as if the wounds had been inflicted quite some time ago. This puzzled him as he knew for a fact that they had been bleeding when he found him. But this fact wasn't alone in giving him a mysterious atmosphere, his clothes, which consisted of a pair of blue baggy pants and a black, slightly tight t-shirt with some heavy-metal band's logo, Metallica, he thought he had deciphered the letters to say, and a long white scarf that had been hiding his neck, had naturally been bloodstained from his wounds. The blood had been the reason to why he had had to undress the boy as the were a bit filthy and he needed to tend to the boy's wounds, but as he had undressed the boy and put them into the laundry machine he had noticed that quite a few of the stains were a bit old, had this boy endured something like this before? Rei winced at this thought, poor boy.
He heard suddenly that the laundry machine was finished washing this strangers clothes and sighing he rose to take the clothes out, there was nothing more he could do in aid of this boy anyway right now. As he took out the clothes he noticed with a frown not all blood-stains had been washed out of the clothes and his first impulse was to throw them away, but out of courtesy he didn't. What if they meant something to the stranger? He couldn't just throw them away without his consent. Sighing he put them into the dryer and went back to the boy.
The boy was still in the same position when he came back as he had been when he had left him. Looking at the boy and remembering the condition he had found him in he also found it weird that the boy hadn't any broken bones. He sighed, perhaps he'd get the answers if, no when the boy woke up. He was quite confident that the boy would wake up, he was breathing and didn't seem to be in any pain, and after all, he had learned first aid on a course all who worked in his company was required to take, and they had learned a bit more than the just necessary because as the teachers had said; "if it isn't a life or death situation, treat the wounded yourself as the hospitals are overworked and constantly full these days".
Rei sighed again; he hoped the blue haired boy woke up soon. Casting a glance at him he noticed that the blue haired boy had some kind of otherworldly beauty about him. Perhaps it was the white skin or his dyed, at least he assumed that it was dyed, hair. Or maybe it was both. Anyway, it hadn't helped him much when he had had to strip the boy for everything except his briefs. He was still blushing just by the thought of it, making him want to bitch-slap himself from here to the end of the world. Quickly he shook all thoughts about the boy's built out of his head, even if the boy was… that way, something he doubted very much, Rei was sure that he wasn't his type. And even if the chances and odds would go to hell and make it freeze over it wouldn't come anything of it. Homosexuality was very rarely accepted in the society except in certain communities, but those were usually shunned by everyone else, there was even made attempts to extinct those groups, so if you were gay the safest was to hide the fact and get used to it.
This was getting depressing and Rei opted to think of something else, but every time he tried to steer his thoughts over on something else his eyes came to rest on the boy's seemingly fragile form. While he was staring at him the boy's eyes began to flutter softly and he opened his eyes, abruptly sitting up and looking straight at Rei with a pair of piercing crimson eyes.
"Where…" his voice failed him a little "where am I?"
To Be Continued
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PandaPjays: I hope you got some coffee and/or sleep Glad you liked it ;)
All of you others: I'm so glad you all liked it bows Hope you'll enjoy this chapter too!
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Gah… this must be my shortest chapter ever, but it seemed like a good place to stop ;) Hope you enjoyed seeing through Rei's eyes for a while…
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