Disclaimer: I do not own FAKE, or any of the characters.
Note: One review made a mention of the last chapter being rushed, and it may have been. This one may be too…:shrug: It's a bad habit I get into every so often so…you'll have to bare with me. I have to say, though, that getting so many hits and three reviews within 24hrs made me quite happy. X3 I have had this chapter typed up for a while, and chapter three is already typed up as well. If people continue to let me know they want updates, I shall comply when my schedule allows me to do so. :3
Warnings: AU/OOC…(as to be expected of a vamp fic) blood, gore…and shounen-ai (as to be expected of FAKE).
Chapter 2: One Secret Revealed
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Ryo awoke to the smell of bacon and eggs. He sat up, rubbing his face before heading to the kitchen. Despite the strong smell of food, there were no dirty dishes within the kitchen and no sign that anyone had cooked something other than the light on the stove saying 'warm surface.' Shrugging, Ryo turned back around to see that on the dining table, there lay an appetizing plate of bacon and eggs with a glass of orange juice beside it. Ryo walked up to it, picking up a note, 'Morning. The food is for you. Good luck with work, I'll be here by the time you get back. Thanks again for letting me stay. –Dee.' Ryo blinked, staring from the card to the food and back before finally sitting down to eat the meal that had been prepared for him. Though, throughout the meal he was on edge. He kept having this feeling like he was being watched, and he didn't like it. Doing his best to ignore it, he put the dishes in the sink, got dressed, and headed off for work.
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Hours later, Ryo trudged through his apartment door to find Dee asleep on his couch. 'Has the bum been here sleeping all day?' he found himself wondering as he undid his tie and removed his jacket. 'Hope he hasn't killed my food supply…' Ryo opened the refrigerator door to find, to his surprise, that nothing had been touched since this morning. Same with the cabinets, 'What had he eaten? He obviously didn't have much money—if any…' Ryo's pondering was interrupted as Dee awoke with a loud yawn as he stretched, "Yo! You're home earlier than I thought you'd be…Any luck with your case?" Ryo sighed, coming into the living room and taking a seat on the couch, "No. There was another body found, though we can't figure out a logical explanation for how this one died either. Almost all the deaths we've found recently have been people who seem to either have been suffering from anemia or that they somehow had a lot of blood drained from their body. No puncture wounds—or any sort of wound for that matter, were found on any of them."
"Hmm…sounds like you've got a vampire on your hands." Ryo scoffed,
"Vampires? Yeah, right. Like I said, no logical explanation." Dee turned to stare at him,
"Vampires are perfectly logical explanation."
"No, they're not. Vampires are mythical creatures. Fantasy, a nightmare made up to scare people. Nothing more."
"Oh I thi—"
"Ryo! I'm home!" Ryo turned his head to see Bikky walk in and shut the door, "…Were you talking to someone?"
"Oh, yeah, De…e…?" Ryo had turned his head to where Dee had been sitting just moments ago, but no one was there. He'd vanished into thin air.
"…Ryo…You ok?" Bikky looked at Ryo with a very worried expression on his face, while Ryo blinked dazedly before slowly saying,
"Y-yeah…I think I'll lay down for a bit before I fix us supper."
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After they had eaten, and Bikky was asleep in his bed, Ryo decided to turn in early. He'd not seen hide-nor-hair of Dee since Bikky had come home. Had it been a strange figment of his imagination? But…if that were the case, then how could he explain the food…and how would he have been able to feel Dee shake his hand? Ryo's mind went in circles until sleep finally cradled it in darkness. Then something made his mind surface slightly…something traced his cheek tenderly…lips pressed to his…He began to return the passionate kiss that his body wouldn't let him ignore, but his mind suddenly screamed a reality check and he shot up to find—nothing. He was the only one in his room…nothing stirred outside of his breaths, which were still short due to his…dream? He fingered his lips slightly, his face felt flushed…it had all felt so…so real. "What's going on…?" he whispered to himself before laying his head back down onto his pillow. It took several minutes for sleep to finally come back to him, this time he was able to sleep until morning.
Ryo didn't awake to the smell of food, as he did the morning before. Instead, he awoke to his alarm clock that screamed at him every four minutes if he were to hit the snooze button. He turned off the alarm as he got up to go make Bikky get ready for school. After breakfast, poor excuses, and a bit of whining, Bikky headed off to school. Meanwhile, after the boy was gone, Ryo took a shower. The warm water that streamed down his body helped to relax sore and tense muscles, it also helped to clear his mind—temporarily washing away his troubles. He soon turned the water off and wrapped a towel around his waist before brushing his teeth and shaving. When he opened the bathroom door, he nearly jumped out of his towel because Dee was sitting on his bed, staring at him with a lop-sided smirk.
"Y-you…Where were have you been?" Ryo muttered as he tightened his towel, Dee's smirk unnerving him for some reason.
"I've been…around." Dee said calmly as his eyes traveled up and down Ryo's body, making the other man fidget uncomfortably, "You found another person dead today, did you not?"
"Y-yes…A—"
"An old woman with gray hair down to her shoulder blades, a scar on her right cheek…She had blue eyes, and was wearing an old, ragged gray dress…that was probably a light purple when initially bought. No shoes…"
"H-how…do you know all that?" Ryo was very tense now, it couldn't be possible—could it? Dee smiled, revealing extra sharp eyeteeth,
"Come now, you're a smart detective…Put two and two together…what do you get?"
"Y-you…you're a vampire…You're the one that's been…You are the answer to all of my cases…" Dee smiled again, fangs flashing from the light coming from the bathroom,
"Bingo!"
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