Earthian Fan Fiction / Fake Fan Fiction / Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction ❯ Spun Sugar ❯ In Chapter ( Chapter 7 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Hi all, I am thankful for your patience and apologetic that this took so long...

Ja Ne

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Binding Ties:

Keys

Dee sat in the airport and tried not to think of where they were going and why. Ryo had been a crutch that he clutched like a dying man. “Ryo... Are you okay?” Ryo looked down at Bikky and tried to smile. “Our plane should be leaving soon right?” Bikky asked hoping to change the subject. Ryo looked tired.

“Yes, Bikky I want you to relax ok.” Ryo smiled and began loading their suitcases on the turnstile. “Between the four of us, right now, I am the only functioning adult.”

“I don't think he ever grew up.” Bikky said with a laugh hoping to lighten the mood. Ryo laughed and reached down to smooth Bikky's riot of blond locks. “If you... Tell him that he hurt you...”

“Bikky, please,” Ryo said and felt his face heating. “This is a private matter between adults. You are too young to be speaking of such things.”

“Ryo when I first moved in with you I knew more about sex than you did.” Bikky said with a rueful grin. “I was seven.”

Ryo wanted to be mad, but he laughed instead. “Not true, but seriously, I would appreciate a little respect.”

Bikky saw the sad look on Ryo's face and his know-it-all smirk died. “Hey Ryo, you know I didn't mean anything right? I do respect you. I'm sorry; I'm just worried about you that's all.” Ryo sighed and squeezed Bikky's shoulder with a smile. Bikky took Landy's hand and went to sit next to Chris. Ryo turned a smile as Leon Patted his shoulder. Count D stood beside him with Q-Chan on his shoulder.

“Apparently Sofu insisted on showing up like this.” Leon said at Ryo's questioning look. Ryo simply nodded and placed a kiss on D's cheek. “How are you guys holding up?” Leon asked worried at Dee's continued look of dejection.

Ryo sighed, “He barely speaks. When he does it is some fond memory he has of mother.”

Leon nodded and whispered, “I got a call from Nestoir, he said not to be surprised by anything that happens in New York involving the Arcadians.”

Ryo laughed and shook his head before he said. “I ceased to be surprised by them a long time ago. Thanks for the heads up though, I'll keep an eye out.”

Lord D and JJ arrived each carrying a baby. Nana had decided to stay home. “I'm too old to travel so much,” She had said. JJ was saddened that Lord D could not advise otherwise. JJ took one look at Dee before he went and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. Dee looked at the golden-eyed baby JJ held and smiled.

“He is beautiful JJ,” Dee said and touched a tuft of dark hair. JJ smiled glad to see Dee do anything other than brood. Dee blinked as he got a look at a second Q-Chan on Lord D's shoulder.

“She insisted,” Lord D said of his mother just as the boarding call for their flight was announced.

“Well now, this will be interesting.” Leon muttered as he took Count D's hand and heading for the plane.

Break

Chris stared around with wide eyes as the crowd of people that streamed around. He clutched Count D's robe and nearly jumped a foot when a hand reached out to detain them. “Wow, I did recognize you on sight!” A female voice said excitedly. “You are Count D, yes?”

“I dare not answer negative with the question already answered.” Count D said with a small smile. The young woman frowned in confusion before she looked around. “How can I help you?” Count D asked handing Aoi to Leon.

“You are to cancel your hotel reservations at once. The Vasillisis home will be as your own during your stay.” The dark haired beauty looked around at the group of weary travelers. “All of you.” Count D nodded and they followed her to the waiting limousine.

Bikky sat silent through out the entire drive watching as Ryo sat Landy in his lap and patted his back as he slept. Bikky remembered when he had first come to stay with Ryo and having him do the same. He could not remember ever before having slept so well. Ryo looked and saw Bikky giving him a gentle smile. “Do you need something?” Ryo asked concerned when Bikky did nothing but stare at him.

“Nah… Just wanted to thank you.” Bikky said and looked away hiding the deeper color that stained his already dark colored skin. “Thank you for taking me in.”

“Don't you get it yet kid?” Dee asked with deep red eyes and a soft smile at his patient lover. “Ryo will find the worse stray out there and turn him into a house cat. No matter how many times he is scratched in the process.” Ryo blushed and brought Dee's hand to his lips before he placed a small kiss along the knuckles.

Ryo opened his mouth to speak when Bikky exclaimed loudly. “Man, is that a hotel?” Ryo looked at the large columned monstrosity that loomed in the distance. Dee whistled appreciative of the startling white mansion that, while impressive, managed to look welcoming.

“That is the abode of the Vasillisis family.” Count D said as he looked at the grand home. “In truth it was once the `Palace Hotel'. Mr. Vasillisis bought it and converted it into a house. Then Mrs. Vasillisis arrived and turned it into a home.” As the car pulled to a stop Count D was gentle as he picked his daughter up. She awakened and looked at him before blowing a kiss. As Aoi began to sing her “Pa Pa” song Leon pulled their suitcases from the trunk. He had barely lifted them to the ground when they were wrested from his hand by a smiling man in a red blazer.

“Good afternoon Sirs Orcot, MacLean, Laytner and Count D. Please allow me to see to those for you. Mr. and Mrs. Vasillisis are inside waiting for you all.” The man bowed and waved an arm and several uniformed men stepped up to take the luggage. Ryo clutched Lyo to him and walked beside Dee and Bikky into the large home. Ryo braced himself but was shocked that a cloud of exuberant female did not bombard him.

He saw the demure version of the princess sitting beside her husband with a small child in her lap and was taken by surprise at her change in appearance. Where Andy's hair cascaded down her back in wild curls, this lady showcased a shoulder length wrap. Ryo was further daunted when he looked into her eyes. Where Andy was constantly reminding him of a happy child, this woman was boasting a maturity that he feared the High Princess would forever lack.

“Welcome to our home gentlemen. We have several guest that are most anxious to see you.” Mr. Vasillisis said and shook each hand in greeting. “It is so very nice to see you again.” Dee frowned when the words seemed to come out rehearsed and mechanical. He also looked at little Nicklaus. The last time he had seen the little boy he had babbled non-stop now he was all but sitting like a small doll. The group exchanged tired looks before they followed the strange family into a smaller room.

Ryo heard the squeal and was glad that he had sat Landy on his feet as Lady Andromache was suddenly in his arms. Q-Chan gave a squeak and Lord D sighed as his mother sat gracefully in dainty chair with a glare at the other small creature that had ridden in on Count D's shoulder. This Q-Chan chirped before Sofu stood before them smiling at his wife's indignation.

“Carious!” Andy said with a frown. You could at least wait until we shut the door.” At the strange admonition Leon turned to see the former Mrs. Vasillisis melt into a tall platinum haired young lady with crystal clear silver eyes. Mr. Vasillisis turned into a dark haired young man with green eyes and Nicklaus turned into a mid-sized white lion, a kitten by the look of his small milk teeth. He managed to look ferocious despite the attempted smile.

As the greetings were ended and the guests shown to their rooms the doppelgangers resumed their disguises and wandered off. Dee pulled Andy aside and soaked in the warmth of her embrace before he began to speak. He was unashamed of the tears that fell down his face. “I just wanted to ask you a favor.” Dee said when Andy patiently waited for him to make his point. “You see, my… Mother's funeral is in two days and I was hoping that you could sing there. Ah, a song that captures who she was. Tony asked me to speak and give the eulogy, but… I just thought, you know, words say so little… But your songs have always had a deeper meaning and maybe you could find a song that is appropriate.”

Andy treated Dee to a heart-stopping smile before she took his hand. “Why don't you tell me all about mother and I will see if I can find a song that suits her.” Ryo looked over at the two of them as they spoke and decided to take a much need long soak in the tub and get some sleep. Dee had been rather amorous lately and he was embarrassed to go near Lord D. The doctor would know he was in pain and try to alleviate it. Once was ok, but Lord D would start to worry if he knew just how often Dee was a little less than careful of his gentle lover.

Lord D and JJ were both tucking in their baby boys for the night and Bikky was reading to Landy. Ryo stared incredulously as the real little Nicklaus ran to his father bouncing from one foot to the other. “Daddy… Go potty!” He said and bounced some more. Ryo watched fascinated as Nestoir took the child's hand and rushed him form the room. One day, Ryo hoped, Landy would be able to do the same, for now, he had better change his diaper before he went to bed. Bikky had awakened once before after sleeping with Landy and complained of being wet upon. Since then it became very rare for Bikky to allow the tot into bed with him. In a strange bed, Ryo knew that Landy would want the comfort of his `Biggy'.

Break

Dee walked along holding tight to Ryo's hand as they walked around the large church where Mother's body was housed in an elegant coffin. Dee choked on a sob. “She looks so old.” He whispered as he touched a wrinkled hand that clutched a large bouquet of roses that the Vasillisis family had sent. The doppelgangers sat in the church while the Arcadian stood in the back chining brightly despite their black garb. Dee had been nonplussed for a moment when Count D, Lord D and Sofu D had arrived in white from head to toe.

Ryo had explained that it was a Chinese custom to wear white to funerals in respect to the dead. Count D held Aoi in his lap. She fingered the soft fabric of her Papa's long sleeve and sat quietly sipping her juice. Count D noted the young man sitting across from him and smiled. The red-rimmed eyes blinked and Count D frowned when he heard his father gasp. “ChiChiUe…?”

“I feel death in the room near that one.” Sofu whispered and Count D gazed at the young man in the black dress. He vaguely resembled Jackie Onasis. “Soon, when the leaves fall dead so will he.” Count D looked at the beautiful Hispanic and suppressed a pout. His companion sat beside him and held his hand as tears fell down his face. Lord D indicated that Count D should look forward as Dee walked to the podium.

“Uh… Hello, I…” Dee began and shuffled several pieces of papers. “As some of you may know I grew up here. A detective by the name of Jess Latener found me when I was a baby and brought me to this cathedral. Mother took me in and raised me. She was there for me as any parent would be for their children. I am not the only one to benefit from the miraculously large heart. Through out the years hundreds of homeless, abandoned, and unwanted children have come through here and made a life for themselves all with the help of `The Penguin'. Ha…” Dee paused and fought another bout of tears. “She pulled my ear off every time I called her that. No matter how old I got I could always depend on mother to set me strait.” Ryo tensed when he heard a harrumph from somewhere in the crowded Cathedral/Orphanage. Mother was a gentle soul and I just cannot express just how much she means to all the little lost lambs out there. I have requested that High Princess Andromache of Arcadia perform a song that will highlight the life she lead and the message she leaves behind to us all.”

Dee gathered up his scraps of paper and went to sit beside Ryo. Ryo discretely handed him a handkerchief and squeezed his hand as Andy walked up to the podium and smiled a soft smile at the grieving audience. “The woman that Detective Laytner described to me was indeed remarkable, I only hope I can do her memory justice as I sing a song that she sang every day of her life through her selfless acts of mother hood.”

Dee sniffled as Andy began to sing while Nestoir and Daphnus played the organ and the guitar:

“I don't know if you can hear me, or if you're even there.

I don't know if you will listen to a humble prayer.

They tell me I am just an outcast, I shouldn't speak to you...

Still I see your face, and wonder, were you once an outcast too?”

“God help the outcasts, hungry from birth.

Show them the mercy they don't find on Earth.

The lost and forgotten, they look to you still.

God help the outcasts, or nobody will.”

“I ask for nothing, I can get by.

But I know so many less lucky than I.

God help the outcasts, the poor and down trod.

I thought we all were the children of God.”

Dee broke into a sob as Andy inhaled and stepped towards the crowd holding a white rose that she placed amidst the bright red ones clutched in mother's hands.

“I don't know if there's a reason;

Why some are blessed, some not.

Why the few you seem to favor…

They fear us…, flee us…, try not to see us.”

Dee remembered several nights on the cold streets of New York watching as all the other children ran to warm homes, to families. The parents had shooed him away and frowned. Mother did the best she could with what she had, but he always managed to look baggy. Dee clutched Ryo's hand and remembered the pain as others around him were adopted. Always he was left behind… always.

“God help the outcasts, the tattered, the torn.

Seeking an answer to why they were born.

Winds of misfortune have blown them about.

You made the outcasts… don't cast them out.”

Bikky saw the look on Dee's face and for a moment he remembered feeling the same. Lost, homeless and hopeless. Then Ryo had taken him into his arms and then further still into his home. “Hey Dee,” Bikky said and gasped when Dee's red eyes bore into him. “You have a family now.” Bikky smiled as Andy finished her song.

“The poor and unlucky, the weak and the odd…

I thought we all were the children of God.”

Lord D could not help but look at the distraught Hispanic as he wiped a tear and whispered. “Vaya con el Dios, Madre apacible. Gracias...”

To Be Continue

Author's note: Yep… I did it! I have added another Crossover. Any guesses as to which tale will be added to this melting pot?