Author Note:
We're back at Iris's house and ready to play some games!
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Chapter Eight: Who's The King?
Iris POV
"Kyaaa, this photo is sooo cute! Oh my God you two are so made for each other." I say to Yuzuki and Castiel, gaining blushes from both of them. As Castiel drives us back to my house for the party, my leg bounces up and down in excitement.
"Calm down will you? It's good to be excited but you take it to a whole new level." Lysander smiles at me. "One might also think that you have plotted something." Grinning at him, I give him a flirty wink and he chuckles a little.
"Well you never know. I may have something planned." I let out an evil cackle, Yuzuki and Lysander glance at me with a slightly worried look.
"Mwahahaha! I have planned a night of wonderful entertainment and it doesn't even include alcohol. Can't have Castiel doing anything to a drunken Yuzuki." I slyly smile in his direction.
"Why the fuck do you guys always think I'm going to do something damn it? I'm not going to touch her in way unless she's comfortable." He growls, irritation thick in his low voice.
Yuzuki turns around and faces me. "If anything I think we should be more worried about you doing something to Lysander. You're completely sober yet you literally throw yourself at him." All three of them snicker at me, a pout makes it way onto my lips.
"Well how could you not? Look at him, he's gorgeous. I'd definitely have his babies and I'm not even a fan of kids. That my friend is dedication." I counter.
Castiel snickers some more. "More like creepy as all hell more like it." I smack him on the arm and he growls at me, saying I shouldn't distract him while driving. After a few minutes we arrive back at my house, I clamber over Yuzuki ignoring her complaints and run to the door to unlock it. Throwing the door open, I switch the lights on and quickly start setting up, playing music and bringing out food and drinks.
Everyone eventually files in, flopping down into the huge leather couches. I giggle and walk out with a bottle and a few sticks, each numbered and one having a crown on it.
"Who's up for some games?" I say, earning a murmur of excitement.
Peggy speaks up over everyone. "What are we going to play?" She asks. I laugh and stand next to her.
"Whatever you guys want." I say. "How about we start with 'Have You Ever'. That way Yuzuki can get to know everyone since she's still pretty new." Everyone nods in agreement, Yuzuki hides behind Castiel a little.
"So Yuzuki, have you played this game before?" She shakes her head. "It's pretty simple. Basically one person starts of asking 'Have You Ever' and says something they may have done, like 'Have you ever been overseas?'. Now in this game the person who asks the question spins the bottle and whoever it lands on has to answer yes or no. Do you understand?" She nods a little.
"Okay then. I'll go first! Everyone get into a circle please." The group shuffles around to form a circle and I spin the bottle. As it slows down, it come to a stop on Dakota. "Ah ha! Dakota. Have you ever been pulled over by the police?"
He starts laughing. "Ha all the time Iris." He says grinning. He takes the bottle and gives it a spin, landing on Violette. "Right, Violette. Have you ever... Toilet papered someone's house?" She blushes a little and moves a little. "Yes. When I was really little." The whole room starts to laugh, imagining a little Violette toilet papering some poor old lady's house.
Nathaniel POV
We continue to laugh as we play 'Have You Ever.' Questions either getting very common or extremely obscure and interesting, these one's generally coming from Dakota. While we play I watch Yuzuki, her smile wide and bright, even though most of the questions she's asked are answered with a no. There are so many things she's never done before, simple things that many teenagers do on a regular basis. She's never been to karaoke, ice skating, gone to a circus or even prank called anyone which surprised everyone including Castiel.
Once again, Dakota spins the bottle, watching it land on Yuzuki we all turn our attention to her. "Ah Yuzuki okay, um... Have you ever... been skydiving?" We all begin to glare at him. If she hasn't done something simple like ice skating what are the chances the she's been skydiving? Idiot.
She suddenly begins to smile. "Yes! I have, we used to do it all the time back home!" We all stare at her, dumbfounded at her comment.
"Wait what?" I quickly interject. "You've never been ice skating but you've skydived before? And what do you mean that you used to do it all the time back home?" The room is silent, waiting for her reply.
"Oh well, I uh... I used to be in a... a military academy. It was uhm... part of the training to know how to skydive." She says quietly.
'A military academy? Is that why she's covered in scars? Because of rigorous training in the military arts?' I let her comment sink in and then hearing Dakota speak up again.
"Whoa really? That's AWESOME! Hey Castiel, you got yourself a pretty cool girlfriend." He says, earning a rather pissed off look from Castiel, it practically screaming 'stay away'. The room becomes a little tense at the sudden male rivalry.
'I really didn't see this coming. Why would she be enrolled in a military academy? She doesn't look the type of person to join the army.'
"Okay that's enough of that game!" Iris says cheerfully. "I was getting a little bored of it anyway. So how about we play 'Who's The King?' You all know how to play right?" A few people shook their heads, not surprisingly Yuzuki was one of them.
"Okay, well you have a set of sticks numbered with one King. There should be one for each person to draw. Whoever draws the King can order around anyone they want by calling out their number, but make sure you don't show the King your card unless it's your number that's called." She says. "Oh and those who fail to follow orders get punished, just a word of warning." Iris smiles and starts counting out the sticks. Since their was fifteen of us, it meant there were fourteen numbers and one King.
"Everyone draw!" She calls out and we all move to draw.
Yuzuki POV
'Number 12 huh? I hope the King isn't too mean.' I sit and wait for everyone to draw, waiting for the king to reveal themselves. I suddenly hear laughter coming from Kim.
"Haha! I'm the King! Okay, numbers 3, 5 and 11. Give me 30 push-ups!" She cackles. The unlucky numbers start to move to do their push ups. These were Dajan, Melody and Peggy. We return the sticks and draw a second time.
This time the King was Capucine. "Um, numbers 1, 8, 14 and 15. Get a partner and start waltzing.' Iris, Rosalya, Jade and Nathaniel get up and start to do the waltz. The rest of us laugh at their awkward steps in the small circle. Having to move out of their way so we wouldn't be stepped on, Kim ended up throwing pillows and wolf whistling at them.
Drawing over and over again, challenges getting funnier by the minute. Dajan had his nails painted, Kim had a moustache drawn on her face, Dakota bouncing around from the ice in his pants, Castiel wearing my tiara with a fluro pink feather boa, poor Leigh ended up being cling wrapped to a chair and Violette had to chug a carton of milk, almost throwing up from it.
I draw a stick and look at the number. As everyone had drawn, the King quickly sprang up off the floor. "Yay, I'm the King!" Shouted Peggy. "Number 7. Start stripping!" Hearing a groan, I look over at Lysander, holding up number 7.
"May I pass? I'd rather not expose myself in front of all these nice ladies and embarrass the other guys with my dazzling looks." He flicks his hair a little, making the scene more dramatic then it really was.
Peggy frowns. "That means you have to be punished." Lysander nods.
"I know, so punish me then." He says smugly.
Peggy reaches into the box with all the punishments and pulls out a piece of paper, quickly reading it.
"Well, looks like you're doing the cinnamon challenge." She says evilly. The room starts cheering and Iris moves to get the cinnamon. Leaning closer to Castiel, I ask him what the challenge is.
"Ah, basically he has to eat a teaspoon of straight cinnamon without spitting it out." He says, laughing at Lysander's face.
"Is that hard?" I ask quietly. Not seeing how it could be a punishment.
"Yes it's really hard. The cinnamon dries out the mouth making it really hard to swallow and since you're not allowed to drink anything with it, most people spit it back out." I look at him funny, wondering why teenagers do such strange things for fun.
As Iris gets the cinnamon ready, Lysander takes the spoon from her and quickly shoves the cinnamon in his mouth. At first everything seemed fine, until he spun around and ran into the kitchen, coughing it back up. The whole room follows him and burst out into laughter, tears streaking their faces from laughing so hard. Castiel goes over to him and smacks him on the back, trying to help him out but still laughing at him. As we return back into the lounge room, Lysander slowly comes back out.
"Never again, will I do the cinnamon challenge." He says weakly, still coughing a little. Iris calls out and we all draw. The King being Melody. "Numbers 6 and 13 have to... to kiss!" Looking down at the number in my hand my face starts to heat up. Number 6 was right there in my hand, hearing shuffling I could see Nathaniel standing up, number 13 in his hand. I stand but I don't move, hearing people whistle at us and Nathaniel turning red. Facing Melody, an expressionless mask on my face.
"I pass." I state plainly. A few people gasp in surprise and Nathaniel looks away.
"Oh, um, okay. Let me get you a challenge then." Melody says quietly. She puts her hand in and picks one out, her eyes widen at it.
"Oh please just kiss him Yuzuki, I don't want to give you this challenge." Pleading with everything she had I still say no.
"I don't want to. Because to me I'd feel like I was betraying Castiel if I did. I don't care what the challenge is, I'll do it anyway." Iris takes the piece of paper from Melody and reads it, sighing a little.
"Of all the challenges you had to get the Salt & Ice one." She says regretfully. The room goes quiet, confused looks on their faces, Castiel quickly jumps up.
"Why the fuck did you put that one in there? Do you know how painful doing that is?! People have gotten scars from doing that shit!" He screams at Iris who begins to shrink away. Pulling him away from her, I tell him to shut up.
"I said that I'll do it, if I get a scar then fine. It's not like I don't already have any." He goes quiet and I shake my head a little. "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. I'm stronger than you think." I let go of him and follow Iris, the rest of the group doing the same.
Iris grabs the salt and some ice cubes and then explains the challenge.
"So um. What you need to do is out salt on your arm and then place the ice cubes on top... from what I hear it supposedly starts to burn, like frostbite or something. So for you, we'll just do it for 60 seconds okay?" I nod my head and tell her to start, putting my left arm on the bench. Watching Castiel out of the corner of my eye, an angry frown forms. As Iris quickly puts the ice on top of the salt on my arm, she starts counting down with the others slowly joining in.
In the beginning it was okay, just a little cold. Then it got worse and started to sting a little. Keeping a blank expression I listen to the others countdown, hitting the 30 second mark.
'It's not too bad. My enhancements help out with the pain so this is nothing really.'
They near the end of the countdown, Castiel looking away from me. As soon as they finish counting they watch for my reaction. Calmly, I lift my arm off the bench and to the sink, dumping the salt and ice into it and turn around to show them my arm.
Dark purple squares where the ice was had formed on my arm, a few people groan as if they could feel the pain and shift uncomfortably. Shaking my head, I smirk a little.
"Don't like that guys, remember I did say I went to a military academy. This is nothing." They start to relax and we go back to playing, making sure none of the challenges involved anything painful.
The whole time Castiel remained quiet, a pained look in his eyes. Gently touching his arm, he slowly turns to look at me and I give him a smile. He strains to return it, I could tell he was bothered by my actions but I didn't want to kiss Nathaniel. Even though it was a game, all of it harmless fun, I still wouldn't do it. I never want to kiss anyone but Castiel, even though he looks and sounds just like SABER, he's different.
'SABER was important to me... but he was more like a brother. We looked out for each other, shared our hopes and dreams. He was the only person who could ever truly understand me, as we had experienced it together.'
Drawing another number I watch the others laugh.
'Even if I were to tell Castiel the truth about me he'll never truly be able to understand... but that's okay. I'm happy with him, I've made new friends with him. Ever since I met him things began to change.'
Standing up I follow the King's order. Smiling as I do.
'I don't regret my actions. If these marks scar I'll wear them with pride, just like the one on my cheek... the only thing I have left of SABER.'
Dakota whoops in triumph at drawing the King.
'These scars will be my silent promise... my promise to you Castiel. Because no matter what happens I'll always fight to stay by your side, even if that means having to kill again I'll do it. You're the most precious thing to me in this world.
Without you... I have nothing.'
Castiel POV
The night drags on, into the early morning. As everyone shuffles away to their rooms, I slowly walk to mine and Yuzuki's.
'Damn that Iris. She must really be planning on me doing something to put us in the same room.' I rub my temple a little, sleep threatening to take me right there and then. 'Maybe she has some kind of bet going on with Lys.'
Pushing the door open I walk inside with Yuzuki following behind and closing the door. Sitting on the bed I stare at her, my gaze drops to left arm, dark purple marks running along it. Sadness wells up in my chest, I barely hold myself together.
"Why did you do it?" My voice shaking slightly. "Why did you do such a stupid challenge? All you had to do was kiss Pretty Boy. Wouldn't that be better then having to put up with the pain... and the scars." She sits next to me, wrapping her fine, scarred arms around me.
"Because to me I would have been betraying you." She whispers. "I don't want anyone else but you to kiss me. I don't care about the scars Castiel." Turning my face towards hers I gaze into her eyes.
"But still... you shouldn't have to hurt yourself like that." I say weakly.
"Hey, we were crowned King & Queen right? As your Queen I'll stand by you. Just as you'll stand by me." She chuckles quietly, moving closer to me. "Castiel. These scars are nothing for you to worry about. For me, they are my memories... and my promises. These scars on my arm... are my promise to you. No matter what happens, I'll always love you." Her voice is gentle and warm but somehow sad too.
"You say it like you don't know what will happen." I murmur.
"I don't know what will happen. I can't see the future but... I want my future to have you in it. Without you, I have nothing left. No home or family to return to. The truth is I came here to start over... I wanted a new life and I've found it... right here, beside you."
Her words ring in my ears, my mind barely able to comprehend it. She truly wants to be with me, wants a future with me. For a long time I didn't think I'd be able to find love. So many people pretend, only loving you because you have something they want. But Yuzuki, she just wants me, to stand by me, to be held in my arms. All she wants is my love, nothing more.
Looking at her again, she smiles, a smile that's full of genuine happiness. I lean closer, kissing her. Feeling her kiss back I cup her face in my hand, tilting her head back slightly and deepen our kiss, tongues caressing each other. A small moan fills the room, making me want more, I push her gently back onto the bed, pinning her underneath me. Our kiss deepens more, filled with passion and love. Hands wrap around my neck, pulling me closer, refusing to let go. Mind becoming blank to all but the person in front of me, breaking the kiss I softly kiss her neck, nipping it lightly. Soft moans of pleasure fill my ears, inciting me to go further.
I lean up from her, not wanting to take things too far before she's ready. Looking down at soft pale face, confusion in her violet eyes. Shaking my head, hoping she understands and kiss her forehead, laying down next to her, pulling her closer and she rests her head in the crook of my neck. As we lay there, hear her soft breathing and knowing she'd fallen asleep. I grab a blanket and cover her with it, resting my head on hers. Eventually falling into blissful sleep.
Author Note:
Kyaaaa cutesy sleepy moment for the win! :D
Castiel holding back from going to far? Ah it's crazy!
Heads up for next chapter, another flashback referring to events after Yuzuki/ARCADIA and SABER leave.
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