Hi guys! Sorry for the uber late update... I have restrictions on my computer now because apparently I'm rather antisocial... Its not that, its just that I don't talk a lot! *evil eye*
OK! Looks like there seemed to be some fun in the last chapter? A bit sick though, right? I may have even turned a few readers off from reading this fic! XDD *cough Keilea cough cough*
I should do the disclaimer, shouldn't I? ...
Disclaimer: I own the rights to Beyond and his jam! The rights are in my back pocket of my other pair of jeans!
Chapter 16: Out Of Place
The two had left the clearing in as much haste as possible, as they still had the treacherous job of covering their tracks. The only tracks that they needed to cover were the ones following them out of the area as the snow had not completely started yet. The two were constantly turning around and brushing over the foot prints they left until there wasn't even an uneven lump of snow to even give a clue that someone was even there to begin with.
Hood's hands were rawed red and so numb that they hurt. She wasn't allowed to bury them deeply in the mysterious jumper that she wore, either. When she had, she was scolded by her 'master' that they had an urgent job to attend to. Covering tracks.
"I hate snow..." Beyond commented, brushing and rubbing his shoe prints away from the snow.
When Hood hadn't replied, Beyond looked up at her.
"Hood, it's polite to share your opinion on someone's comment when they speak, y'know."
'What? So he's giving me etiquette lessons now?' The blonde dared not growl this in his face.
"Fine." She muttered. "If my opinion is really that important to you."
"Oh, its not." Beyond laughed.
The girl held back the urge to punch him in the throat. "..." She continued to hide her tracks under the thick layers of the beautiful snow.
His laughter was cut a little too unnaturally as they finally, after what seemed like forever, left the clearing and entered the forest of trees. Curiously, the blonde turned her head to him in wonder.
His lips were twisted downwards in a scowl and his fists were clenched.
"I think someone followed us." He said a little bit too calmly. He turned to the blonde. "Or you."
The blondes eyes widened. "Not again." She whispered. Beyond couldn't help but smirk.
"'Not again'?" He repeated.
The blonde stared down at the tracks that went towards the clearing and seemed to have stopped right where they were standing. Right in the fringe of the trees, so whoever had followed them would have been able to spy on them in secret to find out what they were doing.
The shoe prints were unidentifiable, as they left no pattern and no unique markings in the snow.
To Hood's shock, Beyond fell to his hands and knees to observed them closely; crawling on all fours to observe the next and the next. She had thought that he had far too much pride, too much dignity to even do something as weird as that, but then again... It was Beyond, he was quite a strange person when it came down to it.
"Look." He stated, twisting his head in an almost unnatural, sickening way. Hood wandered towards him and stood over his body to see what he was pointing to. Perhaps a clue to who was stalking her this time...
The only possible suspect would have to be K, but Hood was pretty sure she would not be able to leave her room; Beyond had locked it and taken the key. Xanthus; who had most likely attacked her in the bathroom was in class, and so were the others.
That left L. L didn't attend class, did he? Thinking about it, Hood had never once seen him in any class. Another two thoughts; L never wore shoes and was barely ever seen outside...
That didn't mean that he didn't own a pair of shoes though, or stayed inside all of the time...?
"What am I looking at?" The blonde asked.
"Come join me, you'll be able to see clearer for yourself."
Stupidly, the blonde looked around to obviously see no one. "You mean get down on my arms and legs?"
"Yes."
Obligingly, she did as her 'master' told her to.
She felt a cool shiver chilling her bones in this new position.
"I still don't see what I'm looking at..." The blonde muttered. "There's nothing here."
"Exactly." Beyond replied. The blonde cringed at the feeling of his breath blow down her neck. "Doesn't it strike you as odd that there are absolutely no patterns here?"
So now he's playing detective?
"A little." Hood slowly began to remember A's words.
"I think that... you have a... a friend..." A friend... "A ghost."
A ghost... Could the foot prints belong to... a ghost? It sounded too... too stupid. Too unbelievable! The blonde shook her head... She wondered why she would even consider remembering something like that.
.-.-.
Lying on his bed in the dark, A was trying to block out any thought that he had of Backup, but it was so... hard. His mind kept reverting back to his white, porcelain, perfect face and his eyes... His eyes filled with blood. Blood so cold it would make a penguin shiver.
And then his body... His body... His skin was as white as ivory... Absolutely no tan lines... That he knew of... His muscles... He had them, and sometimes he liked to make sure people knew he had them... Thin body hugging black shirts...
The brunette felt a slight smile crawl against the corners of his lips.
He looked better without the shirt.
A remembered suddenly when they could have nearly done it... But Backup would not let him get that far. A had take all his clothing off and he let Backup do things to him... A would have let Backup do anything he wanted to him... When A wanted to return the favour afterwards, B wouldn't let him take his jeans off for him. When A assumed that B wanted to take them off himself, he let him, but... Backup didn't want to go that far. He never removed his jeans and walked out of the room, leaving A completely naked by himself with a hard-on.
"B... You're so mean..." A muttered uncomfortably. "You're not even here and I'm already hard."
He was wearing jeans, and everyone knows that when a guy is wearing jeans when he's turned on... It hurts... A lot.
He sighed and began to undo them and pull them down before throwing them off the side of his bed. After that he pulled his tee shirt off and lay back down on the bed in his boxers.
"I hate you..." He said, aiming it at B (who was not there, or knew what was going on) but he was staring at his erection poking upwards.
'Dammit.' He wished that B would just magically come in and help him get rid of it. But he knew that that was never going to happen. A bit of him refused to deal with it himself, so the only other option was to have a cold shower so the blood flow to his 'appendage' would head to other places... Like back to his head. But he could not leave his room like this. Not with a blood pumped dick.
.-.-.
As the blonde began to head down the corridor by herself (as Beyond had long left her) she felt a cold shiver caress down her spine. She tried her best to ignore it and hope it'd fade, but as she edged closer to her room... If just felt that that it was getting stronger...
Hood exhaled shakily and wrapped her arms across her chest. She stopped in her tracks in surprise as her breath came out as a plume of mist. She held her hand out in front of her mouth and blew into it. A cool gust of air was felt against it.
'The window must be opened.' She dismissed.
/"A... ghost..."/
Hood shook her head. 'It's not a ghost.'
The blonde opened up her bedroom door and immediately, she knew something was different. She could feel as though somebody had been in here and left a foreign scent, only there was no scent.
Hood entered the room and closed the door carefully behind her. She kept her steps cautious and slow.
Her eyes travelled to the centre of her bed and her heart stopped on beat with a sharp jolt and ache and her stomach began to turn and turn and turn, feeling tighter each time, along with her chest as she suddenly could not breathe.
Sitting in the middle of her lace clothed pillow was a skull.
The skull of an animal. A dog. Beyond's dog.
She had not even contemplated screaming or panicking anymore as she bolted out of the room, slamming the door behind her, not caring if it actually closed or not and ran to Beyond's door next to hers, only less than a metre away. She began to pound her fists and kick her feet against the panelling.
"BACKUP!" She screamed. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?"
The door did not open, and she did not hear his voice.
Xanthus and Zero were staring at her from a distance, whispering and muttering but that was all.
Hood turned around, her eyes widened and filled with disturbance.
"Where is he?" She growled.
Xanthus's face went white and she entered her bedroom behind her and slammed the door. All that was left was Zero, who was actually shocked at Xanthus's action.
"Where is he?" She repeated.
"I-I don't know!" Zero answered.
He'd seen the dragon on that black jacket once before in his life, and no doubt Xanthus hadn't. He'd seen Backup wear it before. Its not likely that Hood has the same jacket, especially one that was two times bigger than her... And now she's looking for him? That could mean only one thing...
The black haired teen looked around. "Look. I'd love to help but I really have to go." He said and power walked away from her.
Hood growled and punched B's door. She drew back her fist as it began to bleed and decided that maybe he'd left the door unlocked, so she looked around, (finding no one, obviously) and grabbed the cold door knob. She took a deep breath, knowing that in this place she could get in trouble for 'breaking and entering' despite that she hadn't broken anything... That's if the door is unlocked, of course.
Taking another breath, she pushed the door opened, and to her surprise, it was unlocked.
She fell forwards inside the room as she hadn't even realised that she had been pressing her body weight against the door.
The room was cold and caused a shiver to run down her spine. As the blonde looked around shakily, knowing what could possibly happen if Beyond had caught her in here. If anything, it wouldn't be good. She just thanked whatever the hell was up there in the sky that he actually wasn't in the room when she 'broke' in.
As she looked at his desk and on his bookshelf, she noted how everything was so... Neat... So tidy! It even looked as though that there wasn't even a speck of dust anywhere, and nothing seemed out of place. Its said that the state of the room can tell a lot about the person who lives in there's character. Hood turned and noticed that even his bedspread didn't even have a crease on it, nor did his pillows. In fact, his pillow cases looked like they had been dipped in starch a couple of times... And maybe he used an ironer on his bed sheets...
Hood shook her head to remove the pointless thoughts going through her mind. Obviously there was no reason for her to be in Beyond's room because he wasn't actually in here, so the blonde decided that she should probably leave.
As she began to head towards the opened, gaping mouth of the door, something from the corner of her eye had caught her attention. A large black book which looked like it had just been thrown to the floor... It looked as though it didn't belong there, because everything else was just so neatly packed away.
She decided that it wouldn't do any harm just to put it on a table or anything, because at least then it wouldn't look so out of place.
The blonde cautiously walked over to the book, still on alert if Beyond just so happened to come by, see his door opened and a stranger inside... Despite the fact that she was still his 'pet'.
If the girl clenched both of her fists and put them together, then this would be approximately the thickness of the book on the floor. She bent down to pick it up, sooner than later realising how heavy it actually was... And he probably considered this light reading!
She dumped the heavy book onto his creaseless bed sheets with a bit of a thump which caused her glance to shoot back to the empty doorway before coming back and laying her eyes curiously on the book.
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