Yeah... no more slashes to show that they're thinking. I'll hafta use good old quotations now! ::cries:: i don't like this new formatty thing...

Sure... i didn't reach 95 reviews. But screw it. erg. ::sub concious:: 'It's because they hate youuuuu!!!!' OO

i own nothing. i hope this disclaimer stretches across the whole story.

' ' indicates thinking/voices in Tala's head

" " indicates talking

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Tala's cold hand grasped Kai's. Their breath left small clouds in the air, vapor hanging silently time until vanishing completely.

Kai spoke quietly into Tala's ear. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Tala squeezed his eyes shut. "I will not be cowardly... I cannot grasp my freedom without doing it boldly. I can't hide from Boris forever." His eyes shot open with new power and his lips lightly touched Kai's.

"He's a dangerous man."

"I know... We can die."

"That's okay."

Boris stared into the moniter that was feeding him the image from the cameras outside the gate. It was Kai... his enemy... the reason he was lower than dirt. The enemy was holding HIS Tala's hand. Brushing HIS Tala's hair out of his eyes. Kissing HIS Tala's perfect, perfect, cherry lips.

"All the more reason to want you." Boris licked his lips, thinking of his prize being under him tonight.

'Kai won't have Tala without a fight.' It was time. Time for Boris to fight for what was rightfully his. Fight to have what he had... helped create.

"I WILL have you, Tala."

Tala's fingers touched the doorknob of his tormentor's office only to draw back like fingers from a flame.

"Maybe this WAS a bad idea..."

Kai pulled at Tala's arm as he tried to walk away.

"Oh no you don't! You came this far with me at your side, now go IN!"

Tala could hear giggles in his head.

'You're scared!!'

'No I'm NOT. Shut up, I'm going in!' His slender hand pushed open the door, unsure of what to expect. But Kai's warm hand in his gave Tala the strength he needed to look Boris straight into his eyes, twisted with sick desires. Boris's eyes flickered just for a second on their clasped hands.

"So, dear boy, I understand you wish to leave... What a shame, what a shame..."

"I have just come to bid you goodbye and thank you for being such a father figure to me when I had none." Tala's gut lurched at those words.

'Yeah... Boris IS as bad as my father...'

"I'm sorry, Tala, but thank you isn't enough..."

Kai's eyes flashed red. What??

"I would prefer you... not to leave me."

Kai's eyes darted around. The shadows of many guards flickers like ghosts. 'Oh shit, this was a trap... I've got to get Tala out of here!'

Boris's cold and pasty hand reached towards Tala's face. "My Tala..."

The door to the office began to close, the sound of a key in the lock audible. Kai was screaming in his head. 'Save Tala! Nothing else matters!' He back-side-kicked the door and grasped Tala's hand tighter, waves of cold rolling over his body and through his blood stream.

"Tala, RUN!!!" Kai could hear the bullets flying past his ear on wings of dark despair from the opposing guards, but he did not cease to run. He did not falter in his step.

'NOTHING else matters!'

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I was actually going to make this chapter longer but my motivation was lost... ::sulks:: ehhhh..... i guess my story sucks anyway. ::puffs out cheeks::