Protect Me by Nehan Shinzui

A/N: Yippe! Hopefully, this one will be done about the same time I get to update the previous chapter and that'll hopefully tide you over during my increasingly long gaps between updates. All of my chapter ideas are pretty as-I-go-along so it can take up to a week for me to write a chapter and a lot of times I will be dissatisfied with it. Lately, however, I've been experiencing a boost of confidence in my writing skills so I've been in writing mode lately. Music is also a big help and OMG! HOLD THAT! I JUST HAD A PLOT BUNNY ATTACK MY FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOLY FUCK, THIS IS GONNA BE A GOOD CHAPTER! I think. It may just end up being random as hell and disappointing and overly-convoluted and leading in no particular direction but please give this idea a chance! My brain is popping with the plot bunny ambush! Aaagh! Help me! There beating me up in the BRAYNEZZZ! AUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!

PLEASE...READ...AND...REVIEW!!!!!!!!!! ACK!

Nehan Shinzui

Chapter Ten: Crashes

Being grounded wasn't so bad, Ben figured. He discovered reading was a pretty entertaining past time and he'd found his GPGC(1.) tucked under his bed in one of his shoes. It must've fallen there a while ago. He turned around the battery was low. That was weird--he'd just put batteries in it recently--right? He shrugged it off and flopped on the bed again. It was going to be a long boring weekend trapped in his room. He almost hoped an alien would come and attack the planet so that he'd have an excuse to get out. But things had died down lately and the heroes were taking a vacation of sorts. Ben looked at the windowsill where the vase with his flowers in it. He let out a sigh....He missed Kevin.

"Benjamin!" his mother called.

He rushed downstairs to see his mother holding the house phone in her hand. "It's your cousin." she informed him. "She sounds a bit...odd, for some reason. She said it was important that she talk to you for some reason." His mother passed him the phone. She then gathered her things for work and called her husband as she stood on the porch waiting for him.

"Hey, Gwen!" Ben answered the phone cheerily. "You don't know how good it is to talk to someone other than Mom and Dad! I've been so bored, y'know? I can't wait to see you and Kevin again." The boy paused. "How're you and the baby?"

Gwen was silent. Then, she asked in a cold voice, "Do you love him?"

"Uh--what?"

"He's fucked you hasn't he?" Gwen answered. Her voice got wobbly. "He couldn't even wait to get in your pants!"

"Gwen!" Ben stumbled for words. "I--we haven't--"

It was just as Gwen thought it would be. Kevin Ethan Levin couldn't keep it in his pants for a full day. She srtuggled to maintain her composure. Sniffling, she said, "Well, you two won't have to worry about me getting in your way any longer! You can have your perfect little life together!" She slammed her cell phone shut, leaving Ben speechless on the other end.

Gwen brushed her hair out of her eyes slowly. She breathed slowly in and out. Yes. Calmness. Clarity. Peace. I am at peace now. She stepped out of her car and walked towards the abandoned looking building. As the Anodite stepped inside, she heard loud, crude laughter and walked in on Cash and J.T. breaking something apart. Cash noticed her face and sneered.

"Fuck do you want, bitch?"

"We need to talk."

A few minutes later, the girl and the dark-eyed male were walking to the trunk of her car.

"There it is." Gwen said pointing at the alien tech inside of her trunk. "I was able to swipe it off of him when we were looking for more of the complete organism's."

Cash grinned, hungrily at it. "So this is all I need to get rid of him?"

"Yep. You remember how much it changed you when you used it last right? And you do love Ben?''

Cash sighed. "Yes. I'd give anything to be with him. Forever." His face twisted into a demented smile and Gwen felt sick to her stomach for a moment. She almost didn't go through with it but, she remembered how Kevin had yelled at her and how she'd had to watch as he seduced her cousin. Ben didn't know better and Kevin Levin needed to be dealt with before things got out of hand. Besides, Cash really did love Ben more and he had since grade school, not just when the boy got soaking wet. Maybe, this was just her jealous rage talking, but Gwen didn't want to think about that at the moment. She had made a decision and she was sticking by it, dammit! Besides, she needed someone that she knew would carry on her rage after she...

"Well, are you sure you're gonna be able to do it?" Cash nodded eagerly.

She smiled and passed the tech to him and stepped into the car. "Then I guess this conversation is over, Cash." Without waitong for him to reply, she sped off.

Gwen had begun to spend more and more time in the car. She drove intently up and down the lonely streets searching for the one destination that would mean everything. She knew the plan wouldn't go completely according to plan and she hoped Kevin and Cash would end up killing each other in some sort of savage battle. A low chuckle escaped her throat as she pulled up against the grass of the lake. Her headlights illuminated the dark, murky water. Ben would probably get hurt a little bit but that was to be expected from someone who willingly allowed his cousin's ex to fuck him. Grinding her toes on the grass and laughin, Gwen drove her car into the lake, her last thoughts, swirling.

Karma.

A/N: Maybe, maybe, maybe you saw this coming. Things are building up again and this has to be the shortest time I've ever taken on a chapter so I hope it didn't suck too bad! I'm so sorry it was so short but I was watching this documentary on Tupac as I was writing. Lol, I hate most of the music out nowadays that they play on the radio. Hip-hop has gone downhill, what with Lil Wayne all over the fucking place. I love the music from the 90s until around the end of 2007. Around 2008 everytime I turned on the radio I was kinda like WTF?! Fuck off autotune! Omg! I love Eminem! Do you? and I like Sade! Sex music for middle aged couples is what she is! lol Tupac was such an interesting person! I've been checking the political scene and everyone is pissing me off! America is the biggest gang on the motherfucking planet! And don't go--"You're stupid". I live in tis country. Anyway you can probably already tell what the alien tech is and I sorta rushed Gwen's suicide so sorry about that. Yaoi, yaoi, is good. It's still a Kevin/Ben pairing in case you were wondering. So don't be mislead! Please read and review!

Nehan Shinzui