There Are Days Like These Too
Disclaimer: I don't own nor lay any kind of claim to FAKE
A/N: Thank you for your response to the last question that I asked. At the time of me writing this story the polls were tied with two for angst and two for fluff. One wanted comedy and one would like me to do another Yami no Matsuei piece. So this is what I planed on doing… let me know if you agree.
For the time being I am going to continue Truth Lies and Deceit. An angst filled story that is revolving around a killer who is obsessed with stopping Ryo and Dee from keeping him from what he believed is his calling… killing those that are corrupt within the legal system.
I will at times work on one shots that are fluff filled or PWP like the one that put up yesterday called Bottoms Up. A PWP story in which Ryo is overtaken by a lusty 'monster' that he has kept caged while he has been with Dee… thus it is an uke turned seme story.
I will also start to hatch out a Yami no Matsuei fiction that I have had running loose in my head for almost three years. I wanted to finish the manga first… and lo and behold the way the manga ends throws a wrench in my plans! I will do my best to keep working it out and start writing it so that I can post it when I get it done.
As for the comedy… I am very bad at comedy stories because my sense of humor is lacking from time to time. I will see if I can't manage at least one humorous one-shot. I will allow the plot bunnies in my head to start multiplying again and we will see what they come up with.
I am still open to ideas so keep them coming!
Also on a side note the remainder of this story will be told from a general point of view as I am having some troubles with the POV switching and I know it is driving a few of you nuts. If I was to do POV switches for this chapter it would easily end up at twenty pages. I just wanted to let you all know!
Chapter 22
One Step Closer
Ryo walked into the hospital and immediately heaved a sigh. He had always hated hospitals, ever since his parents dies, and even more so since spending some time here himself. To him it seemed almost a little odd to be walking along the narrow halls dressed as he was and not required to wear some lightweight gown. The smell of astringents and over cleanliness assaulted him making him sigh again. The smell was another reason that he didn't like this place. It was clean, and Ryo had no problem with clean, but things were not meant to be this clean.
After receiving directions from the nurse Ryo headed up to the lobby room on the third floor to wait. It wasn't long after that the doctor came to talk to him.
"Hello Ryo!" Danny smiled and waved, Ryo let a matching smile grace his lips.
"Danny." He nodded in reply. He wasn't sure why but he felt better knowing that Danny was helping Bikky. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that Danny had helped him in his time of need.
"Bikky is going to be fine. You have no need to worry. After he wakes up he just needs to stay back for about an hour or so to make sure that there is nothing else that is wrong with him." Danny patted Ryo gently on the shoulder and led him to the cafeteria. "Although it should be another hour or so before he wakes up, so why don't you come and have a cup of coffee with me while you wait, my treat." He winked at Ryo as the two of them walked up to the counter.
"Thank you." Was
all Ryo could manage as a response. They sat on one of the hard
plastic benches outside enjoying the weather. Things were silent and
neither man really wanted to break the silence by speaking… it was…
relaxing to say the least.
"So how are you and Dee doing?"
Danny finally spoke up. Ryo startled out of his thoughts almost
dropped his coffee.
"Oh, urm… we are doing as well as can be I guess. We had an argument last night over him not wanting me to help cook dinner, but it's blown over. Tomorrow is our anniversary and I plan to make it up to him." Ryo said with a slight smile. The kind of smile that a man in love would give.
"What are you planning to do then?"
"Well… my grandmother suggested that we have a nice dinner on the rooftop of our apartment. So that's what we are doing. Complete with a catered meal, waiter, candles, and music." Ryo looked away and starting thinking about the following night.
"Dee is a lucky man." Danny said kindly although he was clenching and unclenching his fist at his side. Why could Ryo fall in love with someone like Dee now, why couldn't it have been me back then?
"No," Ryo whispered, "I'm the lucky one." Danny stood up abruptly after hearing this and headed back inside.
"Come with me, I'll take you to your son."
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Dee guided Karina through the office to one of the questioning rooms while motioning for Marty and Ted to follow him. He nodded to a seat and Karina sat and waited while Dee stepped back out into the hall.
"Hey I need you guys to question her." He said nodding in Karina's direction.
"No way man!" Drake shook his head and threw his hands in the air, "She is your case, not ours. We don't even know what happened." Dee took a deep breath trying to remain in control of his emotions. Drake was right, they didn't know what happened so it wouldn't be right to take his anxiousness about Bikky out on them.
"Do you know how much paperwork that will be for us?" Marty added. Dee sighed and rested his head in his hand.
"Listen I have to get to Ryo. This girl tried to kill Bikky and he is in the hospital now, I can't leave Ryo to deal with that on top of his aunt and uncles death." Dee sighed. "listen just take care of the interview and do that part of the paperwork, I'll do the other half of the report at home tonight." Dee felt a hand rest on his shoulder and he looked up to see Marty looking at him with sympathetic eyes.
"Go, we'll take care of everything here." He said softly Dee nodded and started to head off only to turn around by the time he reached the end of the hall.
"Go easy on her, she is just a kid… and by the sounds of it there are three people that are involved in this case, one of them is Justin McCullen. She knows that Justin has been brought in. But she is still really shaken up. She says that she didn't want to do anything like that but if she didn't she would be killed. I need you guys to find out who the other person is." Ted waved him away.
"We got this taken care of. Don't you have somewhere to be?" Ted turned around and entered the room. Dee could faintly hear his voice as he spoke to Karina. "Hey there little miss, my name's Ted and you are?" Marty smiled at Dee and followed Ted into the room and shut the door behind him. Dee stood there for another moment knowing that he wouldn't be able to hear anymore of the conversation.
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"Why did you do it?" Dianna asked Justin for what had to be the tenth time. But Justin just sat there looking at the other wall with a blank expression. "You had to have had a reason right?" They had been going at it for the last half hour and there had been no progress.
It wasn't that Justin wasn't being helpful, he would answer a few questions but they were always vague answers that only brought with them more questions. He had turned down the right to an attorney but at the same time wasn't being as much help as he could be. Dianna was beyond frustrated with him at this point.
"Just help me out here!" she yelled and slammed her hands on the table.
"And just why should I help you, I do that and you throw me to the side like I didn't matter, like it wouldn't be a big deal to you that he would come after me and kill me if I told you anything." Justin snapped back.
"God here we go again. Who the hell is he? Does he have a friggin name or do you just call him he?" Diana drawled.
"Listen," Brittany spoke up, "we don't want you to get harmed. We wouldn't do that, you would remain under protection until we put the other guy in jail… longer if need be. But you are not helping us any and we can't do anything to help you until you help yourself by telling us what we need to know."
"No comment." Justin said. It had been his best defense and Dianna's biggest annoyance.
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Dee walked into Bikky's room about an hour after he called Ryo. He gave a weak smile at his boyfriend before embracing him in a hug that should have crushed the more fragile looking detective.
"You look like shit." Ryo murmured into his ear as he looped his arms around Dee's neck hugging him back.
"Yeah, but I am feeling a little better now. I needed that." He laughed as they pulled apart from one another.
"God that is not what I wanted to see." A weak voice came from the bed. A voice that wasn't only raspy due to induced sleep but weeks of no use. Dee and Ryo both glued their eyes to Bikky. "What?" The boy asked as he tried to sit up. Ryo rushed to his side and helped him.
"How are you feeling kiddo?" Dee asked as he took a set on the edge of the bed letting Ryo have the chair by Bikky's side.
"Sleepy." Came the reply. "She killed Carol you know." Bikky whispered. Dee flushed a little. He hadn't told Ryo anything that had happened. He wanted to keep it from him if it was possible, well keep it from him for as long as he could at least.
"Yeah, I know sport." Ryo gave Dee a questioning look but nothing else. He stood up and walked to the door. "Do you need anything?" he asked looking at Ryo and then Bikky. Both shook their heads. As he walked into the hallway he almost knocked Danny flat on his ass. He mumbled an apology but that was it. He didn't want to talk to Danny, not after the shit that his daughter had done to Bikky. Not to mention that the little, almost non existent, trust that Dee had in Danny was gone. "Bikky's awake." Was all he said as he walked down the hall.
The next hour passed by uneventfully. Ryo and Dee didn't really speak to one another more than they needed to and Dee could tell that Ryo was trying to hold back his anger. He didn't want to burst in front of Bikky at the hospital. But now that they were back in the apartment things were a little different.
"What the hell did he mean that she killed Carol? Who is she?" Ryo whispered hotly not wanting Bikky to over hear.
"Baby, come here and sit down so that I can talk to you for a minute." Ryo stood in place for a while but finally walked over and sat against the headboard of the bed next to Dee. "Listen hun, Karina was found with Bikky when he had passed out, she had a knife and it looked like she was ready to do the same thing to him that happened to Carol." He took a deep breath before continuing. "The thing that I had to take care of was taking her in to the office for questioning."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Ryo questioned, his anger seeming to be replaced by hurt.
"I didn't have time. I told you to go to the hospital and then I wanted to get Karina to the precinct as quick as I could so that I could be there with you. Then he woke up and things just went down hill from there." Dee leaned back and pulled Ryo with him wrapping an arm around his shoulders. "Truthfully I didn't want you to know. I didn't want you involved in any of this."
"I think I know where you are coming from. If I was you I wouldn't want to tell me either." Ryo laughed a little and placed a small chaste kiss on Dee's cheek. "I love you."
"I love you to baby."
"Oh that reminds me, I already called Berkeley and asked for tomorrow off for you. I didn't want to be here by myself on that… particular day." Dee thought for a moment unsure of what Ryo was talking about.
"Shit!" he yelled out. "I almost forgot, things have just been so fucking nonstop here." Ryo tried to feign hurt but ended up laughing instead.
"I think we both would have forgotten if grandmother hadn't said anything to me about it today." He shrugged a little, "you got lucky this year. Berkeley did say that he wanted you to have that report in to him by five tomorrow though, although you can work from here if you would like."
Dee smiled into Ryo's hair as he kissed him. Sometimes he wondered how the hell he got that lucky. He got himself a dead sexy man who was understanding… when he wanted to be… and probably the sweetest guy that he knew.
"Mmm… does that mean that we can stay up late tonight?" Dee said mischievously. Ryo playfully slapped his chest.
"But I need my beauty sleep for tomorrow."
"No you don't" Dee laughed as he pulled Ryo closer to him and captured his lips with his own. "to me it wouldn't matter what you looked like, you would still be the sexiest man this side of Manhattan." Ryo laughed was cut off by Dee's lips again. Ryo leaned against Dee's chest and returned it loving the feeling.
Sleep came easy for once… although neither man fell asleep until the wee hours of the morning.
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A/N OK… back to back updates. This should have caught me up… at least a little. The conclusion will be coming in the next and final chapter. Remember to let me know if you like my plan for the moment with my writing.
As far as those of you that are worried about my wrist don't be. I was supposed to have surgery a few months ago for it… but didn't. Now they can't do the surgery because I am to close to leaving Korea and will not be here for after care therapy. I can still type… and I will still type as long as it doesn't pain me to do so.
Love you all my loyal readers!
-Irish