Well folks, here's the next chapter. Oh and by the way, I don't own 'em. Let's get this road on the show, shall we?
"Dee I don't care that you're a hybrid, you're still a wonderful person." Dee laughed bitterly, "Veronica said that too, that was before she saw me though." Ryo took Dee's face gently between his hands, "Then show me."
Dee stared at the Angel long and hard before slowly nodding his head, a single tear slipping down his cheek. Well, it's now or never. I was bound to lose him somehow… "Come with me, I will need your help doing this." Ryo nodded and followed Dee to a closet in the room, wondering what exactly was so terrible about him if anything at all. The Angel looked on nervously as the Demon Lord removed a pair of shackles and chains, locking them onto his feet first, and then his wrists. Astonished, as well as horrified, the blonde asked Dee just why the hotel had such restraints in the closet.
"This is my private suite. I always have them, just in case." Maybe this wasn't such a great idea, what is going on? "Stand back, I-I don't want to h-hurt you." Ryo obeyed, seriously considering telling Dee not to do it but his curiosity got the best of him.
Dee's green eyes closed slowly, his face lifted towards the ceiling. Once verdant eyes reopened to show dark red orbs, resembling pools of blood, a profound sorrow expressed within their depths. Bronze skin tanned from hours in the sun turned a deathly pale white, skin nearly transparent. Short black hair billowed out around him, as though there was an open window in the room, and grew to waist length. With an agonized wail, a pair of the purest white wings spread out of his back, sullied only by the vivid blood stains covering the feathers. The Hybrid let out a tortured howl and started thrashing against his manacles, clawing at them but only managing to gouge deep cuts into his arms. That's when Ryo remembered the rest of the legend.
In innate form, the Hybrid reverts to the most primitive of beasts, a monster. A raging mass of suffering and remorse for all that was lost, and shall always be lost unto it. They can be successfully tamed and from that point on be set free, so to speak, or used as a weapon of devastation.
Ryo cringed at the fury present in Dee's blood red eyes and cringed, unconsciously backing away from him. With his retreat the crossbreed let out a grief-stricken cry, extending his scar laced arms towards the withdrawing Angel. Ryo paused as tears glistened in the crimson eyes, making him come to a realization. He definitely is fierce but he's still Dee… the Dee I think I love… I have to try, I won't know until I try.
The Angel slowly made his way over to the hybrid Demon, hands held up to show that he meant no harm. Despite his efforts the Demon still strained against his shackles, nostrils flaring and head tossing violently about. Ryo didn't know if the Hybrid was capable of understanding him in this form but he talked to him anyway, soothing him in comforting tones and reassurances that nothing would happen to him. This stayed his passionate thrashing for the brief moment needed to place hands on the sides of his face. Before the Demon had a chance to react, Ryo looked sternly into his eyes, capturing bloodied orbs with his dark ones.
"Dee I command you to return to your other form, no harm shall come to you my friend." The Hybrid whimpered and bowed his head compliantly obeying Ryo's authority. Dee's hair shortened to normal length and red eyes returned to their normal green luster, briefly fluttering before closing. Finally the bloodied wings retracted into his back, leaving only blood on his back as well as the wounds on his arms. The Demon fell into Ryo's arms, mumbling incoherently in a feverish sleep. The blonde took off the horrid constraints that bound him, as well as the tattered remains of his shirt, and laid him on the bed, wiping off the blood and healing his arms before snuggling in beside him.
Dee instinctively curled up into Ryo's embrace, sighing as a slender hand ran through the ebony locks on his forehead. Emerald eyes looked up at him and Ryo was surprised to see the frightened look present in them, as well as the confusion. "You're still here..." His feeble voice was just a ghost of its usual sound, and the insecurity that enshrouded Dee made the Angel's heart ache.
"Yes I am still here. You were terrifying, but even then I only saw you Dee." The Demon continued to look up at the Angel and Ryo thought that for a moment he was going to cry, but then Dee sniffed and nodded against his stomach, accepting the fact. "Dee…What is it like?" The Demon took the Angel's other hand and played with it, trying to figure out just how to say it.
"I-Its, hard to explain really. I just see red and I want to destroy everything, while I'm like that violence and devastation is what I live for. I feel as though everyone should experience my suffering, and that they should pay for being accepted as who they are. W-when I saw you backing away from me all that was forgotten, I-I thought you were running away from me." Dee blinked hard, remembering the terror and grief that had seized him when he saw the fear printed on the Angel's face.
"I remember you reached out to me Dee, and I couldn't run away I just couldn't. I kept thinking that if I did I would be failing your trust in me. Your face was so heartbreaking that I thought I can't add to his pain, that would break him." The Lord kept quiet, not overly willing to admit just how right Ryo was. "Well in any case, I won't be a threat to you anymore, since you are technically my master." Dee wiggled his eyebrows and the Angel laughed. "I don't own you Dee, but better me than someone who would use you as a weapon of mass destruction right?" Dee chuckled and nodded, wondering if he should ask this question.
"Hey Ryo, uh… what happened to you while we were on the train? You started glowing and your wings just went out." The Angel blushed, knowing that Dee would ask that question sooner or later. "Well, I-I was…bonding with you." Dee raised an eyebrow in confusion and prompted the blonde to explain further. "It's a thing that Angels do when they supposedly meet their other half, but nobody is sure if it is true. If the ties were fully established between two people they share each other's feelings, literally becoming one in soul and mind." Dee smiled and brushed Ryo's bangs off his forehead affectionately.
"So you were bonding with me huh? Why did you stop it?" Ryo blushed, not ready to admit that halting the process had been one of the hardest things to do in his life. "Well I-I…. because ah…" Dee silenced the Angel with a soft kiss on the mouth. "Don't worry about it, I can wait." Ryo blushed again, and wondered if he was that transparent. Trying desperately to change the subject, he brought up a subject that was puzzling him.
"What was it you were doing with Veronica, not the kissing but the blood thing?" Dee chuckled, surprised that Ryo had caught that. "Well from what I gather, making love between Angels is more of a spiritual thing right?" At Ryo's nod Dee continued in his explanation. "It's the exact opposite with Demon's. Intercourse for us is purely about physical pleasure and drowning in the essence of it. Believe it or not, blood to Demons is the sweetest candy during sex, and in turn heightens sexual pleasure." Ryo frowned at this statement, a thousand doubts popping into his head. Maybe Dee doesn't love me at all and my instincts are wrong. Maybe he's just in it for the sex and that's it. "But it's more than that for me, I'm half Angel too remember." Dee grinned at Ryo's flabbergasted expression, knowing that he had hit the nail on the head.
"So, what do you want to do tonight? We can stay here and cuddle, while I whisper sweet nothings in your ear or we can go out somewhere." Ryo raised a slender eyebrow, corners of his mouth twitching in a small smile. "If you don't mind I'm still rather tired and I'm sure that you could do with some rest yourself." Dee shrugged and went to grab a quick shower before going to sleep. Ryo was already in his pajamas so he slipped beneath the covers, sighing as weighted eyes began to close.
Just as he was nodding off to sleep there was a rather loud knock at the door, startling the blonde out of his sleep. Dee poked his head out of the bathroom door steam billowing out of the room from the shower. "Would you mind getting that? I'm all hot and sudsy." Ryo sighed as he got up from bed, staring longingly at it for a moment more before moving to answer the door. "Yes can I help you?" the Angel opened the door to see a little girl there, holding a package in her hands.
"This is for you, correspond immediately and have a nice night." With a swirl of white cloud matter she was gone and Ryo recognized her as a runner from the Heavens. Frowning he moved back into the room and sat on the bed, apprehensive about what the box would reveal. Coming to the conclusion that not answering his superiors would invoke dire consequences, he opened the box, removing a miniature holographic projector.
Ryo pressed the red button on it and an image of Elder Angel Rose appeared on the small platform, ice blue eyes staring intently at Ryo. "Arch Angel McLean, is everything okay? I thought I told you to keep in touch."
"Yes sir I am sorry." Berkley waved his hand at the matter and picked up a sheaf of papers on his desk. "Anyways, have you acquired any information on Dee Laytener?" Ryo hesitated, not knowing if he should reveal information about his true nature or not. "As of yet nothing we did not already know sir, I am going to a council with him tomorrow so that should open up many opportunities." Rose nodded a smile on his face for he was getting closer to his goal. "When you didn't answer I was worried about you, you shouldn't scare me like that." The blonde blushed visibly, even though Rose was just a hologram he still intimidated Ryo. "Well, goodnight Arch Angel, keep in touch." Ryo nodded before clicking off the transmitter, placing it in the drawer by his bed.
The Angel sat down on the bed and placed his head in his hands, trying to sort out what his jumbled heart and brain was telling him. Dee opened the door, a towel wrapped around his waist, and babbled happily about any random subject that crossed his mind. Ryo glanced to the side, admiring his lean frame and the powerful muscles rippling beneath the surface of his bronze skin until he realized that as an Angel he wasn't supposed to love a Demon.
The blonde lay down heavily on the bed, drawing the covers over his head and hoped that Dee wouldn't see his shoulders shaking in sorrow. Dee's sharp ears of course could hear the sobs racking the Angel's body, and his nose could smell the sharp tang of salt from his tears.
I'm under attack again my dear; I'm in the way…
Somebody or something has reminded him just how wrong it would be to fall in love with a Demon, with him being an Angel and all… I'm ruining his life…
Got no resolutions, no clever anecdotes to say…
Just how much influence do I have, against the whole world who dictates this as forbidden…?
And still, if I yell at the top of my lungs, will it be the same…?
Even if I force him to realize that this isn't wrong, would it be the same if he had come to the conclusion himself?
I'd fly you a flag, I'd bury this pen into my veins.
I would do anything for him, he has accepted me. If he asked me to, I would even leave him alone to find another…
I want to feel through you tonight…
I so badly want to be with you, forever. Express to you the depths of what I feel for you…
But I won't make you, I won't make you.
Alas, love is not a forced emotion; I can only be there for him. I won't make him face something he doesn't want to.
Dee brushed away the single tear that had slid down his cheek and turned towards the huddled form of the Angel, trying to think of words to soothe his doubts and fears but failing to do so. "Ryo I… I'm so sorry." The Demon got up from the bed and went outside on the deck, closing the door softly behind him. Ryo heard the door close and sat up, wet trails still warm on his cheeks. What should I do, I love him I know I do but…Oh God how can I do this..?
With a sigh, Ryo went outside heart clenching in panic when he did not see the Demon. "Dee…Dee where are you?" A black butterfly with an emerald pattern on its delicate wings fluttered into the Angel's view, giving him a butterfly kiss on his nose. It flapped away moving surprisingly fast for it's size and left Ryo with no choice but to follow it, the full moon casting beautiful patterns across both black and white wings. The guide led Ryo to the beach where it disintegrated when Dee was in sight. A lone figure on the beach, the moon cast silver highlights to jet black hair blowing in a slight wind.
Ryo landed behind him, his gaze never once leaving Dee's still form. "You found me," Dee said without turning around, eyes trained on the full moon over the rippling ocean. "You left quite a beautiful guide for me, for some reason it reminded me of you." Ryo dug his toes into sand so fine; it reminded him of silk moving across his feet, pondering what to say next.
"Dee, why did you say you were sorry?" Dee remained silent for a while, before he looked over his shoulder at the Angel bathed in the moonlight. "I'm sorry for falling in love with you, I'm sorry for causing you pain, I'm sorry for making tears run down your beautiful face, I'm sorry that I have made your life so difficult, and I'm very sorry for spouting bad poetry." Ryo laughed a nice light sound that made Dee's heart flutter.
"Don't be. If anything…you have opened my eyes Dee. I was one of them but now I know better. So don't be sorry, but accept my gratitude." Dee smiled, bright green eyes glittering with joy that Ryo didn't want to abandon him. "Come on Dee; let's go back to the hotel." Ryo took Dee's hands in his and flapped his wings, the downdraft making Dee's hair float around his head. "Fly with me?" Dee nodded and closed his eyes, reverting to his hybrid form as Ryo wished him to. When the transformation was complete, Dee instantly recognized his master and kissed Ryo's forehead.
"Do you understand what I'm saying? Can you talk to me?" Dee nodded but he spoke in a different dialect that Ryo didn't know. "Simply beautiful, your not a monster… you're an Angel." The blonde leaned down and kissed the Hybrid chastely on the lips before taking off hand-in-hand with him. When they reached the hotel Dee retracted his wings on the balcony as did Ryo, and smiled at the other man. "Dee there wasn't any blood, and you haven't fainted." Dee took the Angel into his arms and rested his forehead against Ryo's. "I know, you have healed me." Ryo smiled warmly and turned to walk into the room, patting the space next to him on the bed.
Dee obliged willingly, taking the Angel into his arms and humming a lullaby into his ear. Ryo fell asleep to the sound of Dee's melodious voice, his chest brushing against his back with each breath he took, and strong arms wrapped around his body. Before long Dee followed suit with one last ironic thought towards the song he had sung not so long ago... "Cuz' I'm the only one who understands me..." and recognized that phrase as untrue.
Well that's that. I think the two of them will get together in the next chapter; I'm tired of beating around the bush. Well hope you liked this chappie, I know I enjoyed writing it. The song was "I Won't Make You" by Something Corporate. Very pretty so go check it out! Well see ya when I see ya ne? P.S. for those who like Trigun shounen-ai, check out my new fic Priceless. Wolfwood and Vash Yay!!!
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