About an hour later Eddward walks back in with only his boxers on and lays down next to Kevin.
"W-What are you doing?" Kevin stiffened up and stared at Edd.
"Going to bed, what does it look like?" Eddward says with a smirk "Worried I'll take advantage of my fair damsel in distress?"
"N-no...Uhm.. y-yes...Maybe?"
Eddward snickers "No, even I won't take advantage of you in this state."
"I guess chivalry isn't dead, huh?"
"Indeed, my fair maiden" Eddward snickers.
"Oh ha ha. Go to sleep." Kevin laughs and closes his eyes.
"I'd say 'make me' but you'd probably injure yourself further" Eddward snickers closing his eyes.
Light snoring came across to Eddward. Kevin was just too tired. Eddward snickers and falls asleep as well
Kevin slowly wakes up and the first thing he is aware of is that there is a warm body next to him, curled around his. Subconsciously, Kevin moves deeper into the embrace, not wanting to give it up and still not feeling the best. That's another thing he didn't understand... What the hell happened?!
Eddward groans and he can tell he is wrapped tightly around another person. Not being fully awake yet and thinking perhaps it's a dream, he squeezes the warm body.
"Pumpkin, I miss you..." He mutters a tear slipping down his cheek.
Kevin looks towards Eddward. He thought he heard the vampire say something... but he didn't quite hear it. Something about a 'Pumpkin'. Normally, Kevin would have ignored it but the tear sliding down a pale cheek. Kevin slowly turned and without thinking, raised a hand and wiped the tear away. "Eddward... Wake up…"
Instead of a sweet tenor, Eddward hears a husky baritone and his eyes snap open. Laying before him is not a slim, sweet, brilliant red head but a built, brash, and still very injured werewolf. He retracts himself from the wolf as memories come flooding back.
"My apologies, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable. I'll sleep on the couch from now on" he says in hopes Kevin didn't hear him.
"It's not you that's making me uncomfortable... These injuries and the poison that is. You make it bearable. What's wrong? What's this 'Pumpkin'?" Kevin reached out and put a hand on Eddward's shoulder.
Eddward sighs heavily and looks at the hand on his shoulder "Just someone I knew long ago…" he says sadly as another tear slipped down his cheek.
Kevin gave the back of Eddward's head a sad look and he wished he knew something he could do. He struggled to sit up and pulled the Vampire into his arms. "Don't hide from me. We're supposed to be a team here, right?" he nuzzled his neck. "You want me to divulge my past, you're gonna have to give some too." Kevin released him and reached for his bag, grabbing clothes and an antler to chew on... He was not going to try to transform but certain features will almost always appear, like his teeth. He needed to chew.
Eddward takes the clothes away. "Those wounds need to breathe! There is a reason I said you couldn't get dressed last night" he says "and quit getting up! You've opened two of them!" he lectures and then sighs.
"Yes, I had figured that I would need to divulge my past sometime" he says, standing to put the clothes away. He walks out of the room, bringing back the pitcher of warm water and a clean cloth.
"Speak" it was a simple command but it was spoken softly as if Kevin were a small frightened child.
"Can't even cover my junk?!" Kevin lies back down and starts to chew a bit before starting. "My pack was the biggest in the area and the strongest. My Father was the leader and he trained all the pups by hand, especially me and my brothers. One day, when he was out hunting and teaching me some skills a human appeared. He was strange, he immediately shot at us and got me in the arm. My Father tried to fight him but he came prepared... More prepared than I've ever seen. They had these weapons that were so powerful that it almost was overpowering to themselves, but they took us out quickly. Nat carried Father's body and I had to limp back and tell my Mother and the rest of the clan that my Father was dead. Luckily, she still had my brothers and myself… Like it mattered in the long run…" Kevin chews for a minute before continuing. "Since my oldest brother did not want to lead the pack, I was chosen. My father's most trusted friend, Caleb, suggested that we move to a safe place to avoid any other unwanted confrontations from the humans since we were becoming more and more of a target. I agreed but my Mother warned me to not trust him. Make a different plan, blah blah. Like a brat, I didn't listen. I didn't listen to her and I wish I could take it all back because I would. Maybe then she..." Kevin stopped to breathe. He attacked his chew, hoping to release some anger.
Eddward stayed silent for a moment looking at Kevin "It is not your fault you know... There was no way for you to have known it was a trap" he says placing a hand on his should to comfort him.
"Don't they always say 'Mother knows best'? I should have listened to her, at the very least kept my guard up! I should have paid more attention to the signs that something wasn't right with him. I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact a rat was in our pack and he was my Father's best friend. Right under our fucking noses!" Kevin breathed a sigh. "But none of that mattered... my mother and brothers pleaded me to turn back, but I brushed them off. Yelled at them to shut up and keep moving." Kevin's voice broke. "All I took was one step and he turned on me, tried to kill me. Suddenly, there were werewolves and humans on us, killing us. I can still smell the blood and hear their screams, their cries for help..." Kevin sighed, trying to calm himself.
"They ripped my youngest brother from me and took him away, they tore my Mother apart in front of me... then I collapsed. When I woke up, everything was in ruins, and I was in a puddle of my own blood. Bodies lying everywhere, it looked like a river of that red shit. I didn't think anyone could be so ruthless... Especially to young children. No one was spared... Except for me." Kevin sighed and breathed heavy again. "So here we are... 8 years later, I'm still running from my past. I live off my kills and money from bounties." Kevin looked up and saw just how bad his wounds really were. He had wounds everywhere! Not only did he really fuck his lung up, his eye is swollen, a very long and deep gash along his stomach, his hand is tore up, his left leg looked like a chew toy, and not to mention all of the other bites and scrapes that aren't healing because of his fucking brother. "Damnit..."
Eddward waits a moment before speaking "And that obnoxious teal streaked wolf... He was your older brother?" Eddward asks just to be clear.
"Yeah... Nathan but he prefers 'Nat'. I swear, I saw him in the bodies. I buried him, right next to my younger brother and Mother. I swear by it! His head was nearly torn off his body and he was missing his bottom half!"
"It sounds absolutely horrific, I am sorry you had to go through that, Kevin. No one should have to go through such horrors" Eddward says quietly "but you mustn't believe it was your fault. I'm sure that is the last thing they would want you to think" he says, gently running his hand through the ginger's hair.
"There is something that's bothering me though..." Eddward says pensively "when I think back on our encounter with Nathan… He didn't smell like a normal werewolf. That's why I didn't pick up on him right away. His blood smelled absolutely bitter, not to mention your wounds being slow to heal and smelling of that poison"
"Yeah, that's bothering me too. He always been stronger than me, he's four years older, but these injuries are ridiculous and everything was off about him. I don't know... It worries me." Kevin closes his eyes and shudders, willing some lingering images to go away.
Eddward stands up, leaving the room. He comes back in a few moments later with a bottle of water "You need to eat. I'm going hunting and I want to check out that body" Eddward says quietly. "Any special requests?" he asks.
Kevin smirks lightly "No, anything will do. Thanks, Eddward."
"Hmm? For what?" Eddward asks stopping at the door.
"For helping me, for not just leaving me to die out in the woods, for giving a shit when no one else normally would have..." Kevin's eyes were glazing over with exhaustion.
Eddward chuckles "Who says I'm doing this out of the kindness of my heart? I could be doing this for a completely selfish reason" he says before exiting the room and the house.
Kevin laughs and then grabs his stomach and side in pain before laying back down to chew and relax until the vampire came back. Soon enough, however, he had fallen fitful sleep.
Eddward sighs as he takes off, heading in the direction of where the fight took place. When he gets there, he sees copious amounts of blood but no body is to be seen. Upon further inspection, it appears that it literally got up and walked away. Eddward is so disturbed by this fact he doesn't even look for a human to feed on and instead settles on a doe. Drinking the blood and saving the body for Kevin, he returns home. He hacks up the doe and brings in some meat for Kevin. He sits down still looking rather pensive and disturbed.
Kevin opened his eyes when he felt the bed move and dip. "Hey, I didn't even hear you home back."
"No, you were really out of it, Mon Cher" he says setting the meat in his lap.
Kevin tried to sit up but grunted in pain and held his stomach. He waited for the reprimand.
"What did I say?!" Eddward hisses smacking him upside the head.
"It's hard to eat laying down!" Kevin laid back down and pouted, rubbing his stomach. Green eyes locked with ice blue, "...food?"
Eddward sighs "I have to help you eat, don't I?" He says rhetorically, helping the injured ginger sit up, he brings the meat up to his mouth. "If you bite me, I'm smacking you again" Eddward chuckles.
"I thought you liked it when I bit you" Kevin smirked, opening his mouth and chewed. Kevin continued to eat in silence but he was curious what Eddward found with the body. "Was Nat really dead?"
Eddward looks down clearly uncomfortable "The body was missing..."
"Gone...? Where there any tracks?" Kevin was nervous and anxious, getting more and more so. What is he followed them? What if he came back? Kevin was unable to fight and would be for some time. Eddward can handle himself but what if there was more?
"There were tracks going the opposite direction of this safe house. I'll keep a close eye on the surroundings" Eddward says, feeding him some more meat. "But there is something else... There was another set of tracks: Human..." Eddward says.
"A human...?" His nose scrunched up "... Why would a human want a werewolf body? They've already learned everything, haven't they? Not to mention, many humans don't come into these woods this far... Too many of 'us' running around." Kevin absentmindedly scratched his stomach.
Eddward smacks his hand away "No, Kevin... There were two sets of tracks... The human's walking up to the body and then walking away with a set of bloodied werewolf tracks..."
"You could have let me believe my version... That wouldn't creep me out nearly as much." Kevin sassed, while chewing another piece of meat.
"Well I apologize for being honest with you." Eddward sasses back.
"No, no... I'm just... Argh! I'm so confused! What the fuck is happening?!" Kevin wrung his hair and rubbed his temples with the balls of his hands.
"Calm down" Eddward says, gently pulling his hands back to his sides "I don't know either but stressing out about it, when you can do absolutely nothing about it, will do you no good. So just calm down and relax. Once your better, we will go investigate together."
Kevin started hard at the vampire with a saddened look. "Why?"
"Why what?" Eddward asks cleaning up the mess the wolf made
Kevin crossed his arms and rubbed them. "You don't have to deal with this. This is all me. It's not that I don't appreciate all you've done or anything but you don't have to."
"I know that, Kevin, I want to" Eddward says quietly "I wish to stay near you..."
Kevin smiled sweetly "I'm glad you feel that way. It's makes this a lot easier to handle." He released a jaw breaking yawn. "I know, I know... Just ask. Can you help me lie down?"
"Of course..." Eddward says helping him adjust into a laying position and then sits next to him gently drawing his head into his lap.
"Kevin... I believe it's time for me to tell you a story..." He says quietly running his hand the his ginger locks as he gets a faraway, sad look in his eye.