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Show Me How It Ends
-Stage Seventeen: Acceptance-
Seto was fully taken aback. Sure he was all confident and stuff before…but now that he was actually faced with the one person he had done all of this for…
Jou moved past the CEO and reached for the curtains. "I'm going to open the curtains, I don't feel much like turning on a light and it's still bright enough outside."
Seto reached out and grabbed Katsuya's arm. Effectively stopping him in his tracks.
"…no…don't…"
Jou turned to Seto, whose face was still veiled in darkness. He gently released the blonde's wrist.
"Damn…" Katsuya examined his wrist. Five pinpricks were starting to bleed where Seto's nails had been. He turned to the taller boy, holding up his wrist so the brunet could see.
The vampire cringed. This was just going so well. "Jou, I-"
Katsuya silenced Seto with a gesture of his hand.
"No worries, a little blood never killed anyone." He walked over to his desk and grabbed a few tissues to clean up the blood. He came back over to the brunet. Seto was thankful that it was still dark enough within the room for Jou to be unable to see the recent additions to his body.
"Okay, I'm going to leave for a few minutes to get some bandages. Then I'm going to come back and you will be gone," he turned on his heel, walking towards the door. "Because you are just a figment of my imagination."
The door clicked shut and Seto was left alone. Jou's words had sunken in; he didn't believe Seto was real. He sighed and quickly pulled off his coat. As cool as having wings was, they had torn his coat and would no doubt unnerve Jou to no end. And he liked that coat too. He pulled the cloth back over his wings, effectively hiding them, as well as his ever present spikes, from view. Seto moved to the curtains deciding to shed a bit of light on the room now that everything was covered up. He would make Katsuya believe him.
He pulled back the shades, smiling slightly when he saw the bluish-black glow that had settled over the city. The sun had already set and the moon was beginning to shine an eerie iridescent light into the room.
Seto once more heard the click of the lock and turned his gaze away from the city. He laughed when Jou muttered, 'God Damnit, you're still here.'
"I'm not a hallucination."
Jou was silent for a moment before speaking with a quavering voice.
"…why can't you just leave me alone?"
Seto froze.
"…why can't I just forget you?"
The brunet walked over to Jou, silhouetted against the moonlight.
"I'm not an illusion."
"Then what are you!"
A loud smack echoed throughout the room. Jou's head was forcefully turned to the side, a red mark appearing on his cheek.
"If I'm not real, then I couldn't have slapped you. By the way, I'm sorry about that but you were losing it pup."
"Seto…?"
"Yes. Please don't faint on me like your sister."
Jou was in shock. "But…how…?"
Seto smirked, happy to have gotten through to the blonde.
"It's a long story."
Katsuya snorted. "Does it look like I have to be somewhere?" He grabbed the chair from his desk and flipped it around so the back was to Seto. He sat down, legs splayed to the side and his arms resting on the back.
"I want to know…what…happened to you. How are you alive? I mean sure that jack-ass of a police chief said you disappeared from the morgue, but…gods this is confusing…"
Seto growled darkly. "Matthew…"
"Who's Matthew?"
"Matthew's the bastard that…he's part of the long story…"
Jou mouthed an 'oh' and continued to watch the brunet.
"You can start now if you like, I'm willing to listen."
"Holy Shit."
"Yeah."
"You're a vampire?"
"Yeah."
"So you were the one that attacked those guys down there."
Seto stared blankly at Jou.
"You saw that?"
The blonde nodded silently.
"You quite literally tore them a new one."
"They weren't just guys Katsuya. It was Honda. And whoever the hell he was with was not happy about my being there."
Jou was shocked.
"Kudos then for a job well done."
"You're not hideously disgusted by what I did?"
"I'm not going to say it wasn't nauseatingly gory, but if anyone disserved that fate, it was him."
The boys sat in silence for a few minutes. Jou finally spoke up, asking the question that had been bothering him all night.
"Why did you come back?"
Seto looked out the window, trying to think of a way to tell Jou exactly what he wanted to.
"I wanted to let you know that I was okay."
"That's bullshit and you know it. You wouldn't have just hocked your humanity to tell me that you were okay."
Seto scowled.
"You're right. You want to know the real reason I agreed to be a blood sucking devil?"
Jou stepped up to the brunet.
"Of course I want to know the real reason."
He grabbed Katsuya's arm and ripped him forward, their faces inches apart.
"The reason is you."
Seto lowered his lips gently to the blonde's.
They both stayed like that for a few seconds. Seto was panicking, Jou hadn't reacted. Just as he was about to pull away, the blonde wrapped his arms around the brunet holding him, and pressed himself firmly against the other's body.
Seto pulled back and pressed his forehead gently to Katsuya's
"I love you."
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