Warning, this is a pretty messed up fic. Just don't say that I didn't warn you. Please tell me what you think. It is at the moment a three parter, but if you have any ideas please review of e-mail me. The address is on my profile. Thank you.
Chapter 2 The Evidence Of Your Sin
He had been in my neighbourhood at least a year when it happened. It was odd how one day he had just shown up and moved in with the family living in number one hundred and forty-two but nobody had really questioned it then.
He was trouble straight away when I think about it. He was one of those boys that matured really young creating a huge rift in maturity between all the kids his age. The older he seemed the older they wanted to get.
I noticed him then; noticed the way he tried to ignore everyone, the way his red haired step brother Tala used to yap at his heels like a small dog. Everybody loved him then except me. Even the boys, even their fathers…
It was probably something about the way he carried himself, like he knew everything and one day he would tell us if we just took the time to listen.
He was tall for his age and slim but with a wirey muscle already beginning to show, in some ways he seemed fragile but there was always something harder in him like rocks beneath his skin.
His hair was two colours, a speculated dye job though there were never roots, it was always spiked about in a seemingly random design that probably took a long time.
I knew these things, but I never really watched him, not until that day. I was always far more interested in my toys, in my be blade, in my friends.
It was a Tuesday the day that Tala came to me, the day that changed my life.
We talked like we never really did. He was older than me and spent al his time chasing after Kai. It was no surprise then that when he talked it was about Kai. He began to walk and gestured for me to follow.
When we turned the corner I stopped following Tala and began to lead.
When my grandfather had died I had been placed in the care of my uncle, my father was a busy man with a career and my brother stayed with him.
My uncle was not a nice man but I was still shocked to see him dragging Kai into a dirt alley.
I, curious, followed.
They walked until they were out of sight of the main road and then my uncle let go. He must have been gripping Kai's arm tightly because there was a large red mark where his hand had been.
They began to argue, my uncle looked angry. Kai looked bored.
After a while Kai turned from him completely and started to pick blackberries off one of the bramble bushes poking through the fence. He squished the berries between his thumb and forefinger before throwing them away. He finally seemed to have found on he wanted to eat when my uncle grabbed his hand crushing the berry inside it and licking off the juice.
Kai did not look amused and turned to the bush for another berry.
I had no idea what was going on, or why Tala would want me to see this.
I was taken off guard when my uncle violently pushed Kai's shoulder to turn him around, grabbing a fist full of Kai's hair and kissing him hard.
What scared me more than the actions was Kai's expression. When my uncle pulled away Kai's expression remained as blank as ever.
My uncle started swearing, using word I'd never even heard then pushed Kai to his knee's one hand still gripping his hair. My uncle said something and when Kai didn't answer he slapped him hard.
Kai's arms were shaking but his face was calm when he slowly lifted his arms to my uncles belt.
I turned away and went to leave. I didn't know what was going to happen but I knew I couldn't watch. The violence of the exchange was too much. Tala forced me to stay and turned my head to watch.
Kai paused and my uncle slapped him again, so hard my teeth hurt in sympathy. Kai finally undid the jeans, his head was immediately forced forward and it looked like he was almost choking.
I wanted to run but Tala held me there.
My uncle began to rock forward in a rhythm and as he did Kai pulled something from one of his pockets.
My uncle screamed as Kai bit him, momentarily releasing his grip on his hair. Now free Kai lunged forward and pulling something from behind his back and stabbing my uncle in the neck. He lunged forward his hands finding there way to Kai's throat.
Kai's face turned various strange colours as he was strangled, until one of his kicking legs managed to hit my uncle in the balls.
Kai fell to the floor his hands on his neck coughing. When he regained his breath enough he crawled across the muddy floor and pulled out the knife sending blood spurting everywhere, he lifted it and stabbed my uncle again, this time in the side as my uncle was too bent over for him to reach anything else.
Blood was collecting in the car tracks of the alley where the puddles sat in the winter.
Neither Tala or I screamed.
My uncle fell to the floor and Kai stabbed him again this time in the chest.
He was covered in blood as he climbed over my uncle and began to search the mans pockets his hair heavy with blood, his spikes hanging and sticking to his face.
He found a wallet after a while and tried to open it, then stopping and placing it next to him on the ground.
I watched fascinated as Kai tried to flip my uncle over in a puddle of his own blood.
Tala turned and left. I knew he was hiding some where out of sight.
Kai smiled childishly and wiped his face smudging the blood across his cheek and pulling out a packet of cigarettes and a lighter.
It was the first time I had ever seen him smile.
He knelt up and opened the pack putting one into his mouth and taking three goes on the lighter before it would light. There was blood on his lips and on the end of the cigarette, there wasn't an inch of him that wasn't covered in it.
I closed my eyes feeling faint and when I opened them again he was looking at me.
He stood up slowly and smiled a different smile.
It took him a while to reach me and when he did he offered me a cigarette.
I took it even though I didn't smoke and leant towards him as he lit it for me.
He stood back watching me and wiped a hand on his trousers frowning when it still came away dirty.
I tired not to choke on my cigarette. He lifted his hands and pulled it from my mouth.
"You could have just told me that you didn't smoke," he frowned and I felt stupid.
He lifted his hand again this time to finger the bruise on my cheek.
"Your uncle's an arsehole."
I was surprised that he knew who I was.
Then he kissed me.
His bloody lips on mine. The taste of copper in my throat. His stained hands in my hair…
And I knew that I loved him.
I fell in love with him that moment and no matter what else I loved him every moment afterwards.
I could feel Tala's angry eyes on my back and I didn't care. Because Kai had kissed me. Because Kai had killed the uncle I hated.