Fake Fan Fiction / Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction ❯ Cherry Bomb ❯ Would You Love Me, Even If... ( Chapter 3 )

Hee-hee! Ummm…well, I suppose an explanation should be made for this chapter, sort of. I have always been known (it is my specialty) for taking religion, mythology, fantasy and anything else and tossing them all in a big cauldron and stirring madly. My stories, whether novels, or short fics, or fanfics have always been a result of that. I took things from the pet shop of horrors, the white Lion, Chinese mythology, Christian religion and had fun. I could keep going on, but I will just say…This is an alti-verse. Please read and review.

Cherry Bomb 3

Leon cuddled D in closer and he felt D melt against him and wondered why he had no desire to anything more than hold him. The door of the pet shop creaked open and Andy re-entered. She took in Leon and D and gave a watery smile. "Please accept my apologies for causing this."

"You did not cause anything." D said he raised his face and accepted Leon's handkerchief. D wiped his face, "T-Chan!" he said and stood. He looked frantically around the room. Leon followed his line of vision and saw the little goat boy lying curled up on his side. "Oh no," D moaned. "Father locked the other animals away, but T-Chan was in Chris' room, he came to my aid and father kicked him hard." D placed his hand on T-Chan and sighed when he opened his eyes.

"For someone who loves animals as much as he claims to, he sure abused this one." Leon said and picked the little creature into his arms. Leon gently deposited T-Chan on the couch.

"Don't let him harm Count D." T-Chan mumbled as he looked at Leon.

"D is not hurt." Leon assured the young man. "I made sure." Leon smiled through the growing bruise on his face.

"Clarisande, we need medical attention in here." Andy said into her little pager-like object.

"I can treat him." D said. He went to the back of the shop and returned carrying a basket of bandages and salves.

"You treat Leon," D looked up as a pretty Asian girl entered his shop. She smiled at Leon and moved over to the couch. "We will have to take him to Arcadia. I'm afraid his ribs are broken, that is beyond even you." Clarisande said as she ran her hand gently over T-Chan. "You two go ahead, we'll lock up after ourselves."

"You broke the door." Leon said as he remembered the door exploding.

"Anything broken by Arcadian hands can be fixed by them. Thank God for that," Clarisande said, her deep brown eyes twinkling merrily. "Andromache here is as clumsy as she can get."

"I did not trip and break the door." Andy said defensively. "I blew it up." She winked at D who laughed. Clarisande waved her delicately boned hands over T-Chan. He glowed with a bluish-purple light before he vanished. "Never worry about him D, we'll take good care of him and return him good as new." Andy assured him. "Christopher has been taken to Ryo and Dee's house for the night. Now go, tend your man." Andy said as she meandered over to the door. "I'll fix this and we'll be on our way." D nodded gratefully and ushered Leon to their bedroom.

Break

D helped Leon to undress while the deep pool filled with hot water and soft bubbles. D winced when he saw the bruises that now covered Leon's arms and chest, there were a couple on his back and the one on his face was getting darker. "I am sorry; you did not have to…"

Leon placed a hand under D's chin and brought his face up. Leon kissed him, "I would rather feel this than lose you, hell, I'd walk over coals if it would make papa D happy." D broke into sobs as Leon pulled him into his arms despite his protest. "Will you believe me; it does not hurt as bad as it looks. I know it felt horrible to you, but my body has more muscle than yours and I have been in many fights before. Hell, honey I've been shot a couple times. Please stop crying I told you it drives me crazy."

D sniffled and took several deep breathes trying to calm himself. He stood and led Leon into the bathroom. The tub had just filled, D shut off the water. As Leon got into the tub he gave a great sigh. "This feels great." He said to D. "Come in here, we both know there's more than enough room." D nodded silently and stripped down, for once not bothering to neatly fold his cheongsam. D slid into the tub, careful of how he touched Leon. He picked up the soft sponge and began to gently wash Leon before he sank back into the tub. Leon smiled as D disappeared under the water. He came back up and shook the water from his hair. Leon laughed and splashed him back.

"How can you be so…My father was serious, you know?" D said, he left the tub and dried himself while Leon rinsed the soap away. D wrapped himself up in his thick bathrobe and came back with large bath towels for Leon.

"Okay, so your father hates me, you still love me and that's all that matters to me, your dad can kiss my ass." Leon waited expectantly; D simply wrapped the towel around him and headed back into their bedroom. Leon grew puzzled; wasn't he going to get bitten? Leon frowned and followed after D. He found D pulling down the bed sheets. D then went and set out salves and creams. Leon strode forward and pulled D into his arms. "Talk to me." He said when D refused to look up at him. "What can your father do about us?"

"Leon," D said and stepped away. He sat on the bed and folded his hands in his lap. He studied his hands as if they held all the answers. "I know you love me as I am, or as you think I am. But my father, my family, has a secret, and until you know that secret, you can never truly love me." D fought the tears that gathered into his eyes. He knew of Leon's skepticism. It would be horrible if Leon refused to believe the truth, for that would be a rejection as his father would see it.

Leon grew worried, D's dejected look of earlier was back. His father had spoken of consequences. Were they so dire that Leon could not handle it? What was the family secret and why had D kept it from him? Leon took a deep breath and sat on the bed. He felt crushed as D scooted away from him and crouched by the head board as if he were afraid of being hit again. By Leon…? "Baby, you're scaring me. What secret are talking about?" Leon reached out a hand but pulled it back as D shrank from his touch. "You really are a criminal?" Leon asked, "I don't care, we'll leave here and go as far away from the law as possible. I'm a cop; I know how to avoid the law."

D laughed soft and bitter, "I wish that were so." He said and dared to look at Leon, he saw Leon's deep worried look and the bruise on his face and sighed. There was no help for it. He could not defy his father and not tell Leon and now that Leon knew there was a secret, he would not rest until he knew it. "Leon," D said with out looking up. How could he explain without totally shocking Leon? What words could he use? D sighed and decided to approach the situation as Leon would, perhaps then he would understand it better. "I'm not human." He told his hands. Leon gasped and D shrank further into the head board.

Not human?! Leon thought frantically. All this time, what had he been sleeping with, surely not one of the… Leon could not finish the thought. Homosexuality was thing, but bestiality… How could D do this to him, keep such a secret? D chanced a glance at Leon and saw the horror on his face. D felt crushed, he folded further into his little ball. "What are you?" Leon asked trying to maintain a sense of calm. Not everything was as it seemed here, maybe there was an explanation, hadn't he seen lightning shoot from Andy's hand? Had he not been noting the animal's true forms and maybe he had heard D wrong.

"Kami," D said quietly and sniffled.

"What is that? Some sort of animal?" Leon asked growing ever more worried. Staying with D and not knowing he was an animal was one thing, but staying here and knowing…

"No, not an animal," D looked up. "I guess, well, the loosest translation to an English word would be a god. But that word does not nearly define it, I am so much more and yet so much less." D tried to explain. Now that he had said it, he realized just how unbelievable it all must sound to Leon. Perhaps he had gone into it a bit fast, but he had ever believed that such things should be said straightforward. Usually he talked in his clever little circles, but now he felt Leon deserved the truth in strait facts. Count D would rather have his fate decided once and for all.

"I don't understand," Leon said as he took in D's tremulous posture. "So you are not human, but you are not an animal, you are kind of a god, but not." Leon's brow furrowed as he tried to take in all that D had revealed.

"For centuries my family has been charged with taking care of all animals' great and small. We used to consider humans as part of our charge. Humans grew disdainful of us and started to hunt us for favors and began to even capture us and keep us as slaves. Because of our beauty our kind were greatly abused." D said still talking to his folded hands. Leon had to listen intently in order to catch all of the words. "My father was enraged that the High King had done nothing and so he hated him. The king never knew what was going on, there was a war on Arcadia and he had his hands full with rogue angels. This went on for centuries, before the Kami began to ignore our job of taking care of humans and began to fight back. Several went into hiding. My Grandfather went to the Arcadian court and complained to the High King of our treatment at the hands of the humans. His Majesty changed our jobs to what it is now. But father was not satisfied. He felt humans were baser than animals. I had an older brother…he was one of the unfortunate that was kept as a slave. Upon his release he went quite mad. In grief of what had been forced upon him, he took his own life."

"Forced upon him?" Leon asked afraid of the answer. D nodded, and Leon felt he could understand some of Papa D's anger. But this tale seemed so old. He knew Chinese people kept their history very well, but D was speaking as if… "How old are you?" Leon asked for the first time in their long relationship.

D still refused to look up at Leon, "one thousand twenty four years. That is quite young by Kami standards. It is why father still calls me child. Comparatively to a human I would be around nineteen years old."

"Holy shit!" Leon expelled before he could catch himself and back away from D. Tears began to fall in silent succession down onto D's folded hands.

"I understand," D said and if possible seemed to fold further into himself.

Leon's mind was racing in so many directions he felt dizzy. Not human, but not an animal, a god but not. He was not sure what D was, but he was certainly old, or young, he was confused on that too. He existed before America did, D had barely missed the coming of the Christ, and if he was a god… "But, there is only one God," Leon said sure he knew the truth of things. "Only one, there is to be worship of only one."

"We did not ask for worship and we never received it. Our King is High King Zarro of the Arcadian court. His King is the one true God." D said in defense of himself and his race.

Leon sighed; he raked his hands through his hair and felt even more confused. But under the confusion… Leon looked at D. Really looked at him. His slight form folded over, the delicate hands and for the first time…a faint glow. But it was still D. Under the bathrobe, were limbs of pure porcelain, long and slim, perfectly shaped. The beautiful eyes that had always perplexed him by their colors and yet intrigued him by their beauty. "Man…Criminal…Kami…I don't care…I still love you." Leon said. "Please tell me what I have to do to keep your father from taking you away from me."

D gasped, had he heard right? Leon still loved him? D finally raised his head and looked incredulously at Leon. "You still love me?"

Leon nodded, "now please, tell me what I have to do to keep you father from taking you away."

"You just did it." D said and his tears fell anew. "You just did it." He said again and in a move that would have made Andy proud, he hurtled himself into Leon's arms.