"Marie! Marie! Wait!" Kevin tried to stop her. They had to go back and get Edd!
"What?" She snaps.
"What about Edd? We gotta go back!" Kevin skids to a stop and turns around.
"No! Are you fucking insane did you see how fucking feral he was?!" Marie hisses.
"I don't care. I left him once, I'm not leaving him again!" Kevin's resolve was absolute, he was NOT leaving Eddward again! Kevin dashes the opposite way, towards Eddward. He had to get to him... If he is feral, then they needed to stop him. He didn't want to lose anyone else he cared about.
Marie dashed after him "Fucking idiot!"
Kevin never ran so fast in his life. He neared close to the clearing and slowed. If Edd was feral, he had to be ready for anything.
Marie catches up to him "This isn't a good idea, kid. You don't understand…" she hisses.
"I. Don't. Fucking. Care! Don't you get that?!" Kevin growls through clenched teeth.
"Oh god, he's gonna kill me" she says miserably.
As Kevin neared the clearing, he slowly scanned everywhere looking for Eddward. He saw all the blood and gore and he prayed that wasn't him. He saw Nat's head and breathed a sigh of relief. Kevin sniffed the air and caught a whiff that was solely Eddward.
Marie looks around at the spare body parts but stays silent. She was only there in case she needed to get the red head out.
Kevin worked his way around the front of the building and saw a crumpled mass on the ground mostly in the shade. "Eddward!" He ran over to him and turned him over. "Come on, babe... Ya gotta wake up for me." Kevin pleaded before carefully picking him up and running to the tree line.
Marie followed closely behind "Move, let me see him" she commands, shoving him out of the way.
"Can you wake him up?" Kevin asked softly.
"No, his body and mind are exhausted. He needs blood human blood..." Marie says "We need to get him to a safe house."
"The closest one is about a mile south of here" Kevin states, thinking of the ones he has been to.
"Let's go." She says picking up Eddward.
"Let me carry him...please?" Kevin tried to keep the desperation in his voice.
Marie looks at him "Man, you are whipped…"
"Please? I just want to make sure... I-I... Just give him to me!" Kevin held his arms out expectantly.
Marie sighs and hands Eddward over roughly "Here, damn."
Kevin grabbed him up and held him close, settling Edd's face in crook of his neck, one arm around his back, and another supporting under him. Kevin chuckled "Ya know, when I said I wanted to get between those legs again this isn't what I meant" kissing his forehead.
"Ew." Marie groans
"Shut. The fuck. Up!" Kevin sassed.
"Make me" she hissed.
"If I cared more, I would, but right now, I don't."
Marie rolled her eyes "He has already gotten attached to react like that" she mutters.
"What?" Kevin asked absently. He was just happy to have him back in his arms. That's all that mattered.
"Nothing, let's go, he really needs blood" Marie says picking up the pace.
Soon enough they reached the safe house and Kevin places Edd on the bed while Marie gathered blood from the kitchen. Kevin looked at Edd's face and smoothed some arrant bangs out of his face and smiled "I'm never trusting your judgment again. You scared the shit out of me."
"Enough with the gooey shit, move" Marie says as she walks in with a blood pack. She rips it open with her teeth and opens Eddward mouth before pouring it in. His body automatically reacting and gulping it down quickly.
Kevin stayed by Edd's other side and watched. "How long before he's up and better?"
"Could be tonight, could be a couple days. He's lost a lot of blood and he was healing faster than normal and his blood smells kinda weird" Marie says with a shrug.
"I think they might have done something to him..." Kevin offers, thinking about his own poisoning. It would not be out of the realm of possibilities.
"The first time we had a run in with Nat, he tore me up something fierce. His bites reeked of a poison that Edd seemed to know of. It smelled like this a bit... But it made me heal very slowly."
Marie freezes "I'll have to talk with him if he wakes up..." she says standing up to walk out of the room.
" 'If he wakes up...' " Kevin scoffs before looking back down "You gotta wake up, Edd... I gotta go eat, I'll be back soon." Kevin pressed his lips to Edd's in a sweet, soft kiss before moving away to stand and leaving the bedroom. Walking to the front door, he called out "I'm going hunting, I need food" before the door slammed closed.
Marie shook her head and flopped down on the couch, falling asleep quickly. It was too early in the day for her liking.
Kevin returned a short time later covered in dirt and blood. He may have been too exuberant with his killing but he needed to get it out! Seeing Marie sleeping, he slammed the door shut.
She jumps up ready for a fight but it's only Kevin "What the shit, you flea bag!?"
Kevin ignored her "Anything different? Any change?"
"I don't know, I've been asleep. In case you haven't noticed, it's day time" she says laying back down.
"Good to know he didn't die on you or anything..." Kevin grabbed his pack from the bedroom, looking at Edd. Sighing, he left to get a shower. 'I should get really muddy and filthy, come in here and shake all over the annoying bitch!'
Marie scoffs and notices the muddy tracks on the floor 'Oooooohhhhhh if Eddward wakes up he is going to throw a bitch fit' she thinks before drifting off to sleep.
Exiting the shower Kevin noticed the tracks he left, if Eddward was feeling better, he would leave them there just to mess with him but now he feels he has to clean it. After cleaning his mess, he lies down with Edd on 'his' side and curls up, nuzzling into his neck and falling asleep quickly.
Come nightfall, Eddward wakes up disoriented not knowing where he is. He begins to panic and his panic rises when he feels someone next to him. He reacts on instinct, lashing out and throwing the person into a wall before taking a defensive stance. Marie, having heard the crash, barges into the room and Eddward is on her in an instant. Slamming her back against the wall by her throat making her unable to speak as she gasps for air.
It takes Kevin a second to register what is happening. Edd's liable to kill Marie if he doesn't think of something quick. He leaps over the bed, ignoring all pain, and landed right behind Eddward. One hand grabs the one hold Marie while the other touches Edd's arm, shoulder, and then finally his face. "Edd... Edd! Look at me... Focus on me..."
Eddward's head snaps over to his side "Kevin?" he asks in confusion.
"Yeah, it's me. You gotta let Marie go, babe." Kevin cups Edd's cheek.
Eddward looks over and indeed finds Marie. He immediately lets her go and she slumps to the floor, gasping for air. "What... What's going on... The last thing I remember is being set free..."
"I'm not too sure. We took off... Marie said you were 'feral' again. When I got back to you, you were on the ground in a ball. You've been sleeping since then." Kevin explained slowly.
Marie finally catches her breath and knocks Eddward's feet out from under him, bringing him down to her level. "10 years and this is how you greet me? You try to kill me?!" she hisses straddling him.
"Well hello Marie. To what do I owe the pleasure of your company?" Eddward wheezes, having had the breath knocked out of him from landing on the ground so hard.
"Your fucking puppy has zero manners! I don't care who it is but one of you bitches owes me a shirt! And what the hell are you doing sleeping with him?!"
"Jesus, what are you his mother? Pretty sure he can sleep with whoever he wants!" Kevin retaliated.
"Was I talking to you, motherfucker?!" Marie growls over her shoulder. Eddward, having had quite enough of this flips her over so she is under him.
"Do. Not. Talk. To. Him. Like. That." he growls.
"Why what do you care? He's just a fuck, right?" When Eddward doesn't answer she looks at him bewildered "Right?!"
Kevin reaches for Eddward and pulls him off Marie. "Just... Stop. Okay? You need to be resting."
Eddward lets himself be drawn up by the wolf scoffing "What are you doing here, Marie?" He asks as he lets Kevin's lead him back to the bed. He felt fine but he would appease the ginger
"Checking up on you for one, but imagine my surprise when I find him with your scent all over him!" Marie gestures to Kevin.
"Because we're sleeping together! I told you that!" Kevin was trying really hard to hold his tongue.
"Still wasn't fucking ta-" she gets cut off as a knife misses her face by inches, landing in the wall behind her.
"Speak to him like that again and the next one will land in your leg." Eddward hisses "And Kevin, please calm down. Marie cares she just has a rather rough way of showing it."
Kevin sighs and gathers the knife "Stop throwing things at people who care about you. She did help free you from Nat, ya know? You wouldn't be here without her" Kevin sat next to Eddward and laid back across the bed.
Eddward smirks "Yes, I know that but I will not have her speak to you like that, Mon Cher" he says before turning his attention to Marie. "Thank you for helping me escape, yet again. If you want a new shirt, there is one like it over in that drawer" he says, pointing to the dresser. Marie smirks "You kept some of my shit, didn't you?" she chuckles, walking up to the drawer and opening it. Finding the shirt she takes off the one she has on revealing that she didn't have a bra on.
Kevin chooses that moment to sit and open his eyes. Seeing Marie he lays back down with a "Well, alright then."
Eddward chuckles "You have no shame woman."
Marie faces him as she puts the shirt on "And you normally chose a mate with manners. He has no idea how to treat a woman." She sasses.
"What woman?" Eddward sasses back.
"I don't like women... For this exact reason..." Kevin mutters lowly.
"Both of you are more of a woman than I am, fucking queens" she snaps.
"I'm prettier than you, too" Eddward snickers.
Kevin look at Eddward then back to Marie "How are we woman-like? Just real fast..."
"You're both flaming homos." She snickers.
Eddward sighs "You always did have a way with words."
An easy silence came over the room. "So what now? We sure Nat's dead?
"Well thanks to The Hulk here, I don't think he will be coming back. He was a pile of mush" Marie snickers and Eddward just sighs.
"I've personally seen him die twice, one of those time I ripped his throat from between his shoulders and head." Kevin looked at Edd "What made you freak out?"
"... Multiple things" Eddward deflects blushing.
Kevin looked at him questioningly but smiled "Alright, are you hungry?"
Eddward smiles "Famished, I think I'll go hunting."
"Want some company or you want to go at it alone?" Kevin smiles back.
"I will not stop you if you wish to go" Eddward says with a small smile.
"I love how you skirt around a question and don't give a real answer" Kevin laughed.
Eddward chuckles "Mon Cher, do you wish to accompany me?"
"Of course, I do! Haven't I been?"
Marie looks at Eddward shocked "You never let anyone hunt with you! You won't even let me hunt with you!" she says jealously. Eddward just looks away and blushes.
"He hunts with me, I hunt with him." Kevin simply stated and walked out of the room to get ready.
Marie stares daggers into Eddward "What?!" he snaps.
"Seriously?!" Marie whipsers.
"What Maria?!" he says standing up and getting dressed.
"Well many things really. Who the fuck is this guy? Why are you attaching yourself to him? And don't you dare give me that 'Pumpkin' shit... What have you gotten yourself into? AND when did you allow him to hunt with you but I don't get to? What. The. Hell.?!"
"He is a bounty hunter and, yes, at first it was because he looked like pumpkin but then as I got to know him I fell in love with him. He is the exact opposite of Pumpkin and I don't exactly know what's going on recently" Eddward says as he dresses. "And as for hunting, I don't know myself why I let him the first time but now it's a habit. One that I enjoy immensely, now get off my back, woman."
"As a concerned friend, I would say to break it off before you end up dead but I can tell that you're too smitten with him to listen. Why not just mate with him then? Claim each other under the Full Moon Ritual and get it over with?"
"Because he does not know my feelings." Eddward says, avoiding eye contact.
"You think he doesn't return them?
"I am too afraid to ask him" Eddward admits.
"He practically begged me to let him hold you once we found you passed out. He was bound and determined to take you on as feral to make sure you're safe... AND he has hardly left your side since I've been here. He was gonna sacrifice himself for you."
Eddward looks away to the ground "What do you suggest then?"
"Just ask him or... Say it in the throes of passion or just open up your fucking eyes, Eddward. Look at how he looks at you! You are the reason he gets up and continues to fight."
Eddward blushes and furrows his brow "Do not be ridiculous... He was probably just repaying me for helping him when he was injured..." he snaps clearly in denial.
"Fine, don't listen to me. He doesn't strike me as the kind that is gonna tie himself down for no reason, Eddward... Come on! Just LOOK at the way he looks at you when you go hunting. Just go!" Marie pushes him out the room and slams the bedroom door.
Eddward sighs "Marie..." He says through the door.
"Yes Eddward?" Marie sighs.
"One of these nights I might end up killing you" he chuckles before walking away to find the wolf.
"You already have..." Marie walks off to do her own hunting and away from her breaking heart.