Shadow: Yay, another day another chapter! Okay now to thank the one and ONLY reviewer from the last Chapter
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Chapter 5: Horrors at Midnight
Mia was constantly following Jack around as he and D checked the main streets and larger buildings in the town. For some reason, D felt annoyed at the young blond's presence. She was constantly trying to get Jack to talk while the hunter made a hand motion and looked in an ally or a building. D honestly felt his eye twitch slightly in disgust at the girl's actions. Eventually they stopped as the sun fell behind the distant hills and night set in. David came out and told them to rest for the evening and finish later.
Mia invited the hunters to spend the night at a small apartment and (unsurprisingly) they agreed.
It was almost midnight when D decided to take a walk; he and Jack had been sitting together with the werewolves and simply thinking about the day's events and occasionally speaking, usually just little thoughts or observations, nothing important. When D stood to leave Jack stood as well. "Where do you think you're going?" "Out." "We still haven't checked the smaller places in this town. I should come with you." "I'll be fine." At this Jack gave a glare. Omne gripped the hem of D's cloak in his jaws and pulled lightly with a whimper. Aura gave a small bark and Lupine growled a bit. D lightly pet Omne's head and released himself from his jaws. "I'll be back later." D intoned before leaving. The wolves looked at Jack and whimpered. "What? You expect me to just go after him?" Jack asked in an irritated way. The wolves seemed to nod. "He obviously doesn't want me to follow." Lupine gave a growl. "Look if he doesn't show up in an hour I'll go after him, happy?" Aura barked happily and licked the side of Jack's face. Jack sighed and sat back down to think, why did D seem so irritated.
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D sighed as he walked away from the building. "Someone's jealous." The symbiot snickered. D blinked in confusion. "Jealous? How so?" "That girl starts flirting with Jack and you get all pissy!" "I am not." "Denial never gets you anywhere." "I'm not in denial." "Is that so? You know, usually when someone is in denial, they argue about it." D scowled, damn parasite was right, and God was it annoying. He refused to say he was jealous though, because he wasn't! Even if the urge to rip the girl's hair out had come more then once throughout the day, he had easily covered it up. What reason would he have to be jealous anyway? I mean, if that girl was going to throw herself at Jack why should he care?
The problem was, if he bothered to think about it, he did care, he cared a lot. He sighed when this thought came to mind and continued to walk along the street. Little did he know he was being followed.
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A gunshot rang out through the quiet of the night and Jack jumped to his feet. Omne whimpered and Jack pulled on his cloak. Jack ran out the door Lupine, Aura, and Omne followed him. "Please let me be wrong." Jack said as he ran, suddenly he knew he was right as he caught the dark scent of blood on the air…it wasn't human blood. 'D' Jack thought, he knew it was D's blood and ran faster.
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D lay on the ground, pain surging through his system from the bullet wound in his stomach. "That wound won't heal anytime soon Dunpeal, it's a special bullet, so I suggest you stay still." Came a familiar voice. "J-Joseph?" "Good guess D. Yes it's me." Joseph stepped from his hiding spot to loom over the hunter. He took D's hat and smirked, eyes glowing red instead of dark blue. "You are quite pretty, such a shame I have to kill you." Joseph said pointing his shotgun at D's head.Just before he pulled the trigger, the sound of a gun going off was heard. "What?" Joseph growled and twisted around. Jack was standing right in front of Joseph, gun pointed upward. His other arm rose to aim at his head. "How dare you! Move and you die." Jack growled, eyes flickering gold.
"D, big guy, are you alright?" The symbiot asked. D clenched his fist and muttered a 'shut up.' "Alright Joe, drop your gun." "He won't be dropping anything." "David!" "You're late old man." "It's the wait that makes things better."David had a blade to Jack's throat and Jack had a gun to Joseph's head who had a gun pointed at D. Jack knew he had to think fast, then he spotted Lupine, Omne, and Aura standing and watching. "Any last words rare-blood?" The old servant asked. "Yeah, just two. Take down." Jack said smirking. "Wha…" was all David got out before the werewolves tackled him. Jack elbowed Joseph in the stomach, making him stumble, giving Jack the opportunity to hit him in the back of the head, knocking him out cold. Jack moved over to David and did the same to him, calling the wolves off.
The hunter walked over to D and inspected the wound in his stomach. It wasn't healing fast enough, at least not as fast as it should have. He moved toward the wound and sniffed lightly, poisoned bullet.
He noticed D was still conscious and looked at the fellow hunter. "D, this is going to hurt but it's the only way to make it heal right." "Just do it." Jack suddenly ungloved his hand and reached into the wound with two fingers and D gasped. "Hold still D, it's the only way to get the bullet out." Jack said before getting the bullet and pulling it out with blood stained fingers. He threw away the bullet, but soon became fixated with the blood on his fingers, not noticing D's eyes on him.
The sight of blood on his fingers…just a taste wouldn't hurt, it was such an opportunity. Jack gulped and licked the blood off his index finger slowly and sucked it off of his thumb. He ran his tongue over his fingers one last time before licking his lips to regain control of himself. It was a slip in his control, it happens to everyone.
D couldn't help but stare when Jack cleaned off his fingers; he hadn't been expecting that. Jack suddenly looked at him, dark gold eyes concerned. That look was practically boring into his soul. D actually felt a shudder go through him and Jack mistook it as pain.
"Come on D, we're going back to the apartment, I'll patch you up there." Jack said quietly before lifting him up. "I can walk." D said, feeling a bit better with the bullet removed. Jack ignored him and started walking, the werewolves following him, but not before scarring the two servants badly. Omne carried D's hat in his mouth as he followed the hunters.
Before D knew it, he was asleep, not because he wanted to be but because the loss of blood had exhausted him.
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Back at the apartment, Jack removed D's cloak and removed the upper part of his armor so he could get a better look at the wound. It was bad, the flesh was rent from the sides and many blood vessels had been damaged. Luckily, the vital organs had been missed and D's vampire blood was taking effect and healing the blood vessels quickly, but the bleeding had to be stopped. He took a healing salve from his sleeve and put a few drops into the wound before going to find a bandage.
Jack ripped apart and old piece of cloth he found and cleaned it before wrapping the strips over a larger towel he had cleaned and tied it with the strips.
D whimpered a bit in his sleep and arched at the slight pain. Long fingers gripped into the sheets below him and his whole body was at a feline angle. The salve caused slight amounts of pain as it healed so the arch was expected. Jack could practically feel his eyes widen at the scene.
"Nnnnn…Jack." D whimpered as his back arched more and his knuckles turned white gripping the sheets. Jack gulped and looked away, feeling a flush work it's way to his face. He saw Aura looking at him knowingly. "What?" Aura gave her version of a smirk. "And what exactly do you mean by that?" Aura just walked off tail wagging.
Jack sighed, he hated when people, or wolves, did that to him. So what, D just happened to whimper his name in his sleep and arch, probably just a reaction to the pain, it didn't mean anything. Did it?
Jack sighed and walked over to where D lay in bed and sat in a chair beside him. He had stopped arching and whimpering and simply lay there, breathing calm and slow. Jack didn't notice his eyes wander over the sleeping body a bit. He knew how strong the other hunter was but to Jack, he looked like he would break. Jack removed his cloak and placed it gently over D as he slept. Jack sat back in a chair and sighed, he had been sighing a lot today but hell, it could be worse.
Hopefully D would be okay by the morning.
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Shadow: Heheh we put some yaoi hintings in that! (covers nosebleed at the idea of D looking like that) you are such a hentai Ryo
Ryo: (sweat drop) it's true
Amelia: (sigh) How did a hentai like you fall for an angel?
Ryo: Just lucky I guess!
Evangiline: (blush) Read and Review please, ja for now