Coincidence | By : Kiba Category: +. to F > Ai no Kusabi Views: 9481 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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“Dress yourself! Ryo has set out the clothing I specially picked out for you.”
Moments later, Raven presented himself in the thin garment to the Blondie.
“You honestly have to revise your dressing style for me.”
Raoul looked the boy over. The blue turtle necked bodysuit revealed the muscles of Raven's belly and back.
Pliable silver rings connected the upper with the lower part of the garment.
“Delightful.”
He fastened a silver collar without further prelude around Raven's neck.
The boy's expressions betrayed exactly his feelings about it. Raoul gently stroked his cheek,
“a pet-ring is required by law to be worn in public. It means too that I want you. Come on now, it's getting late. “
Raven stumbled behind the Blondie.
How can he say such a thing and get back to business as usual?
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Raoul looked more tensed than ever. He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.
Raven casually brushed his hand to get his attention and smiled at him.
Raoul traced the line of his lips with a thumb, surprising him further and he didn't reprimanded him to be on his best behaviour.
“I'll be…e...”
The opening door interrupted Raven. A Blondie with an exceptional dressing style cut him short:
“No need to, little black.”
Little black?!
The Blondie chuckled: “Raven than?” He walked to Raoul and pulled him into a warm embrace, “Welcome.”
“Good evening, Adam.”
Raven's mouth nearly fell open - the Blondie kissed Raoul on the forehead, hooked him under and ushered him in.
He followed in silent wonderment. Adam looked stunning. He wore his hair short asymmetrical and dyed it in different colours –
Raven even spotted black strands.
Rebellious.
The Blondie chuckled again. He fell into a casual tone with Raoul, “you neglected me, Raoul.”
“I apologize.”
“While I enjoy your company, I don't believe you only stopped by to say hello.”
They got to a laboratory with lots of computers. Old-fashioned paper-records buried several desks and some of them were buried under coffee-mugs in between all sorts of electrical appliances.
Cool.
“I like it that way.”
Raven's gaze fell on a short laboratory-coat. He had liked to dress himself a little more decently.
The coat would be welcome. Adam took it and handed it over,
“I rather like your outfit.”
“Thank you.” Raven didn't look all too happy. He asked with a suspicious expression, “Are you...?”
“Telepathic.”
“How...”
“I devote myself to solitude.”
Raoul took seat and pulled Raven gently into his lap. Adam's interruptions caused the boy disturbance.
When he was about to cut him short again, Raven begged,
“please, let me end my sentences.”
“I'm sorry, little black. That would mean hearing everything twice. I can't shield against you.”
“Oh.” Raven's mouth fell shut, 'I will try not to talk.'
“Thank you Raven, that's much, appreciated.”
Adam turned to Raoul, popping a cocktail of a tranquilizers, painkillers and liquor. The cheap one. The original toxic stout.
“I heard that, Raven. ... Would you mind taking a walk?”
He pointed to an elevator in the back of the room and handed Raven a portable com-unit, “I have a feeling Raoul has plans for you.”
A feeling? Don't you know?
“Please, go. “
Adam heaved a sigh and downed another pill-cocktail.
“You will overdose yourself once.”
“Not today ... you brought him here for a purpose?” He relaxed and closed his eyes, “What do you want to know, Raoul?”
“How is he?”
“Delightful.” Adam chuckled, "Let's try. I got mixed signals ... oh ... What a beautiful mind. If he had the training...”
Adam's eyes darkened. He inhaled a few times. An enormous bulge formed in his trousers and he licked his lips seductively,
“Oh Raoul that's a memory to behold, although ... strong feelings...”
The Blondie played with his nipples and chuckled again, “He can be so tempered.”
His style went to using key points, “Confused, mortified, many secrets...”
His fingers clenched and he gasped, “What a cruel thing to do.”
Raoul knelt down in front of him and positioned his hands over Adam's,
“Patch him up but don't break him. I want him the way he is.”
Adam nodded and inhaled deeply, “The crack is deep. I can patch him but you have to convince him.”
Seconds later he retracted from his mind-walk and looked up into Raoul's anxious eyes. He was exhausted.
“He wants to desire you. He wants you to want him but he hasn't made up his mind. If you want him the way he is, let him go.
He is at the point of breaking and you already left a crack in his shell.”
Raoul dropped his gaze to the ground, “I can't.”
Adam patted Raoul's hair, “pets are supposed to be forgettable. Don't get too attached to him. It will tear your heart open, my Raoul.
They die soon. Your little exotic is no exception to the law of nature.”
He smiled at the younger Blondie,
“I recognize your handiwork when I see it. No one, except you, creates such a blue. I would like to hear the story behind his origins, but I suppose we have matters to attend to.
What's so important that Lambda decided to tug me out of my cave?”
“I'm sorry, Adam.”
Adam caressed Raoul's face, “It gives me peace to know that you are the one to temper with my mind but don't leave me alone in the dark for forty years again.”
“I apologize.”
Raoul pulled a pill-cocktail of his own out of his pocket.
Such an insignificant look and such powers.
He swallowed, propping crossed arms against Adam’s lap to cushion his head.
“I apologize, my Raoul. I wronged you.”
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An impulse to back away, sprouting from the depths of his heart, took possession of Raven. He shivered.
It was not the creatures behind the glass chambers that frightened him; it was the sterile dead clinical silence.
“Adam's creations. “
Raoul rested his hands on Raven's shoulders. The warmth was comforting.
“Why are their eyes open?”
“The colouring is Adam's specialty. They look as if they were alive, incredible.”
“They aren't?”
“No. They are only shapes. Adam wasn't able to bear their presence if they had consciousness, even when they are deep frozen like this.”
“I feel sympathy for him.”
Raoul pulled him back to his chest, “you truly are special. Usually Adam draws nothing but terror.”
“Don't get me wrong. I am but I wouldn't want to be in his place.”
He was about to continue but Raoul looked really exhausted. He reached up and touched the Blondie's cheek, “are you alright?”
“Yes, I have a task for you.”
He walked them back to the laboratory, “I want you to transfer Adam's files to a remote-system in Eos.”
He walked Raven to a workstation, “Adam is asleep but your presence is still disturbing for him. Try to only concentrate on your task.”
“Yes, Master.” Raven sat down and eyed the screen, “I'd be a whole lot faster with a VR, you know.”
Raoul pulled a unit out of a drawer. Raven fastened it to his neck and connected the unit via cable to the workstation,
“you don't need to watch over me. It's an easy going.”
He closed his eyes and counted backwards. A pleasant tingling crept down his spine and his breathing evened out. He started his ride into the stream.
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Three ... two ... one
Raven came back to his senses with a satisfied smile on his lips. Adam sat next to him.
“Done.”
The Blondie pointed to his lips.
Sorry. I forgot about it.
Adam pulled the unit from Raven's neck, “it's a shame you haven't been trained.”
Not bad for a mongrel, hm?
“Your style is unique. To herd encrypted data through the streams is risky. I had never allowed it. I have no backup-files.”
THAT is risky.
“Please get your master and leave? I'm tired.”
Of course.
Raven spotted Raoul sleeping on a bench. Apparently the transfer took long.
That was one of the perils of the stream. You loose all sense of time.
He gently woke the Blondie. Raoul didn't look good, in fact he looked horrible. Raven helped him up, seriously worried.
The Blondie faked a smile and braced himself on the boy's shoulders.
“Promise me to take care of my Raoul.”
I will.
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The world intruded around three o'clock in the form of Katze. Raoul picked up the call.
“The space-port closed for traffic”
It begun.
“and the highways are under police-control. Everywhere is chaos.”
Raoul placed Katze on hold to check his electronic mailbox. The syndicate received countless requests.
The mailbox contained also Raoul's formal exemption from his duties per Jupiter's direct order
and the summons to its chamber immediately after sunrise.
Raoul looked at Raven. The boy was fest asleep.
“What am I going to do with you?”
He transferred a file to Katze and picked him up again.
“Read this! It’s the back door I offer.”
The dealer’s self-control was remarkable. Except of a slight clenching of muscles in his jaw nothing betrayed his emotion.
'Uncontrollable changes in behaviour, overleaping to surrounding subjects … three cases of death … chemical unbalanced …
to be seen as ‘failed’. We strongly recommend the immediate cessation to prevent further damage to the customer.
The subjects are to be taken to death….’
Raoul interrupted, “You agree that lately none of us has been his usual self?”
Katze swallowed hard and nodded.
“Very well, I have been lenient to that point. I consider you a … friend. Don’t probe me, Katze! I don’t know myself what I’m able to.
Back down!”
Friendship with a Blondie? Such things never existed.
“You would do that to Raven?”
“Yes and he would never know.”
No hesitation, no doubts and icier than Iason ever. Katze squirmed under the intense gaze,
realizing the extent of his foolishly being in denial. Raoul truly put him in his place.
He moved his palm over the scar on his cheek.
He would never forget again. What have I been thinking?
“We have an understanding?”
“Yes, Master.”
“You have had your chance, Katze. I leave you the memories. That has to be enough.”
He woke Raven, “Come here!”
One of the things, the boy disliked about the Blondie was his unpredicted switching into Master-mode.
Raoul positioned him on his leg,
“You are allowed to return to the market. You will spend the nights in Apathia. I expect you to be back at 10 p. m. every evening -
no exemptions unless you got my personal permission.”
Raoul took hold of his chin. A hint of the tone, he threatened Katze with still clung to his voice, “No intercourse.”
Both mongrels flinched. Katze dropped his gaze to the ground and Raven would have done the same.
His cheeks reddened and his voice was nearly inaudible,"Yes, Master."
“This is a temporary arrangement.”
“Yes, Master.”
That’s the end of it? Something cracked again. Becoming like Katze – maybe that’s the way out.
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