Fake Fan Fiction / Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction ❯ Cherry Bomb ❯ Closets, Nuts and Bolts ( Chapter 8 )

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Cherry Bomb 8

Leon was quick to answer his cell phone. Before he whispered "hello" he looked over to make sure that D was still asleep. D was so deeply under that Leon checked his pulse before he left the bed. "Look Dee…I had a rough night…Thanks for covering for me." Leon said and sat on the couch. He was just lighting a cigarette when T-Chan came and growled at him. "I know, you guys haven't been fed, Hell, I'm starving…No not you Dee."

"What the hell happened, you were fine when we left?" Dee questioned, he had told the chief that Leon had cleared a day off with him when Leon failed to call in this morning.

"Little D happened, man, I feel like I got hit by a truck." Leon mumbled into the receiver.

"Did you two have a fight?" Dee asked. Ryo looked at him oddly from across their desk.

"No, I might have come out better if we had." Leon said as he seriously considered placing an ice pack in his lap for the day. "I told you that we learned some upsetting news about D's family right?" At Dee's affirmative answer Leon continued, "Well, I can't go into much detail, but it really upset D, I mean, more than he let on. Last night he wanted me to make the memories go away. He was insatiable; as long as he was awake…he wanted more. He fell asleep with me inside him."

"Awww…Poor Leon," Dee mocked. Leon frowned and wished he could punch him.

"Ow…" Dee said, he had put the phone on speaker and Ryo had been listening in on the conversation. Leon smirked as he heard Ryo punch Dee. "What'd ya do that for?"

"Get some rest Leon; we aren't covering your ass tomorrow," Ryo said not unkindly as he disconnected the lines. Leon smiled and dropped his cell phone on the couch. He adjusted his jogging pants and went off to feed the animals and make sure that Chris was fed before he was sent off to school.

Break

Dee looked over the files on Count D and whistled. "Man, Leon was practically obsessed with D, no wonder they are together now." Dee said as he reached for his coffee. Ryo looked over his shoulder and pointed to something that was written on the page. "Whoa, look at that, Robin Hendrix…" Dee said.

"I never would have thought Little D was involved, his death was a tragedy, I remember seeing his movie with a couple of friends when it first came out." Ryo said, "So how did he die?"

"According to this, he looked into the eyes of Medusa… A suicide, double too, the lizard offed herself after he died, looked into a mirror." Dee mumbled as he read further on. "This report sounds more like a tragic love story than a criminal report. A modern day Romeo and Juliet, except instead of a boy and his girl, we have a man and his lizard, sick…" Dee would have said more but a familiar head peeked into their office. "Diana!" Dee stood and embraced the flamboyantly dressed FBI agent.

"Ryo…Dee…It's so good to see you, when I found out that you were in town permanently, I just had to come by and see you." Diana gushed. She sat in Ryo's vacated chair and arranged her bright red skirt. She looked like a naughty school girl in red pleats and a black button down top with a skinny red necktie. Her hair fell in long blond waves around her shoulders. "Looking good as usual boys, Ryo, sure I can't convince you to be strait just for me?" She giggled as Ryo blushed and became determined to find something in the files that he and Dee had been looking over.

Diana looked over to see what Ryo was looking at, "China town eh?" She frowned. "I thought the pet shop was Orcot's case, why are you two going over it?"

"Oh, you haven't heard?" Dee snickered and took the case file away from Ryo. He closed it and placed it in his desk. "Orcot has some definite issues with this particular case, seeing as how he is living with the pet shop owner and they are currently enjoying a very amorous relationship." Dee grinned as he thought of this morning's conversation with Leon. Ryo tried not to grin as he too thought of the incident.

"You're kidding me right?" Diana gasped as she looked from Ryo to Dee. Her eyes had turned into wide saucers. "Leon would not…He's not…You know…"

"Why is it so hard to believe?" Ryo asked, almost offended. She had readily accepted that he was gay and yet she seemed unwilling to even consider the possibilities of Leon.

"When we were in college, Leon and I had a thing, that's all, I never would have figured him for a homosexual, no offense intended to you guys of course, it's just a bit of a shock that's all." Diana said. Ryo and Dee stared goggle eyed at her. "I was young; he was cute, end of story." Diana said and breezed out of the office she passed Jill on the way into Ryo and Dee's office. "Did you know that Leon…"

"Yep, caught `em kissing in the office," Jill said, "And then there was the deranged gunman that tried to hold Count D hostage, That was funny by the way, then Leon smacked him on the butt in plain sight of everyone. Where is Leon by the way?" Jill asked Ryo. Diana simply sighed and left to find out her next assignment.

"Leon's at home he's a bit under the weather." Ryo answered.

"More like a bit under Little D." Dee smirked; he dodged the expected punch from Ryo and laughed as Jill quirked a questioning brow at them before she too left them alone in their office. Dee retrieved the case file from his desk and looked into it again. "Hey check this out, Man Eating Rabbits…eew, look at these pictures." Dee said and handed the file to Ryo who blanched and shoved his half-eaten plate of fries away from him.

Break

Count D moaned and rolled over to his side. His eyes opened and he knew it was nearing late afternoon. Had he slept all day? D sat up and winced. He placed a hand to his head and looked down at the fingerprints that marred his milk white skin. Leon…D smiled and surveyed the room. He noted Leon's pajamas tossed into the hamper and the evidence of a shower. D stood and slipped on his bathrobe and padded barefoot from the room. He found Leon asleep on the couch with T-Chan staring up at him. T-Chan sniffed D before he stared at him with wide eyes and ran from the room. D sighed, would he forever act so strange about he and Leon's relationship, he thought T-Chan had gotten past that.

D kneeled beside Leon and gently brushed his deeply waving hair away from his face. Bleary blue eyes opened and D almost smiled at Leon's apprehensive look as he gazed at him. "I am so sorry," D said and sat on the small available space beside Leon's prone form.

"For what?" Leon reached up and pulled D over him. D easily lay on top of Leon and stared down into his handsome face.

"I was a bit over zealous last night, then I slept the day away leaving all the responsibilities of this shop to you, can you forgive me." D asked, Leon pulled D's face towards his and kissed him deeply. D opened his mouth to allow Leon's questing tongue access, and dueled with his own. Leon caressed D's backside, D smiled and shifted his hips rubbing his crotch against Leon. Vaguely the bell over the front door could be heard.

"They were right," D sat partially up and looked to see a blond woman enter his shop. She stared aghast at the scene on the couch.

Leon looked over and quirked a brow at her. "Spacey, when did you get back in town?"

"Just last night, I came in to see Ryo and Dee and they told me that you were, well…" Diana averted her eyes until Leon realized that he was still cupping D's backside. D blushed and excused himself to go bath while Leon chatted with his friend.

"Hey Diana, it's been a while since we last saw each other." Leon said reached down and scratched Pon-Chan on her ears as she came crawling from under the couch.

"T-Chan said Count D smells funny," The little creature said to Leon. "Go smell him yourself, I did and he does, you should smell him too." Pon-Chan said excitedly.

"My sense of smell is not as keen as yours; I'll take T-Chan's word for it." Leon said and smiled at the little creature. Diana gave him an odd look.

"Leon, you were just talking to a raccoon." She said, worried her friend may have lost his mind.

"No actually she is a European Badger." Leon said with a smile. "D corrected me."

"So what happened, I mean the last I knew of you, you were into girls, I know Count D is pretty, but…he's still a man." Diana was trying her best to remain calm. She would never admit, at least not now anyway, that her choices of men had always been Berkeley and Leon, One or the other would have suited her just fine. The last time she had come home all banged up, Leon had come by to visit her bringing chocolates and flowers, and he had even listened to her rant about her injuries. "Well, so uh, you came out of the closet," Diana said uncomfortably.

"Truth is, I was never in one. One day I would have jumped the first available babe that came near me, and the next I realized that I was head over feet in live with Count D. The rest is all mushy, like a cheap romance novel, but you get the drift." Leon smiled as he pictured him and D's first night together. Leon would have said more but his Cell Phone rang. He searched among the couch pillows until he found it. "Orcot here…Chris…what…I'll be right there." Leon closed his phone and stood. "Sorry Di, but there has been an altercation at the school involving Chris and one of his little friends; I have to go, but come by and see us sometimes." Diana tried not to notice how easily the word `us' had slipped from Leon's mouth and she desperately ignored the fact that he easily called her by a name he had used when they were dating in college.

She listened intently as she heard Leon head into one of the doors in the back of the shop, he had not closed it behind himself and she could hear clearly what was going on. She heard a splash and a deep voiced giggle, "Come to join me?"

"I'm exhausted; you will wait till tonight to try to kill me again, after you feed me a Herculean meal of course, humans need food remember. But for right now, I have to get to the school; Chris and Bikky are in some kind of trouble." Diana heard the definite sounds of lips meeting before she beat a hasty retreat. Leon added a top shirt to his jeans and t-shirt before he got into his car and headed for the school.

Break

A lone figure in a dark cloak stood a few feet away from the store. He watched as a blond woman rushed form the pet shop, and few minutes later the Detective left at a more leisurely pace. Count D would be alone. The figure took a step towards the shop and then paused as his nerve faltered. He did not have the right. Not anymore and he wasn't sure he ever had the right to know his son. With a sigh, the figure turned and walked away from the possibilities.

Break.

A young man with bright blue eyes tapped his fingers on the counter of the Police Department waiting for someone to notice him. "Can I help you?" He looked up and smiled at the beautiful blond woman before him.

"Ah yes, I'm Ethan Montgomery, My brother died here a while ago and I was overseas for a trimester at the time, but I inherited his plant. I don't know how to take care of it and I would hate to let it die. Is it possible that I can get the address of…" Ethan reached into his pocket and pulled out a slip of paper. "Count D's pet shop." I searched the internet and no one has ever heard of the place; no website, nothing."

Jill laughed, "I doubt little D would ever have anything to do with anything electronic, especially the internet." Jill would have to stop picking up Dee's habit of referring to Count D as Little D, she thought as wrote down the address to the pet shop for Ethan. "Wait, your Brother was Sylvester Reams?!" Jill exclaimed. Ryo rounded a corner with new paper work on D about the Frog guy. He tossed a questioning look at Jill.

"What's up?" He asked, he looked at Ethan and recognized him from the camp Bikky, Carol and Chris had attended the previous summer. "Hello, Squirrel isn't it?"

"Real names Ethan, nice to see you again, wait, D!, camper Chris called his brother's friend D, I new it, it must be fate that we see each other again." Ethan grew pleased at the prospect of seeing Count D again. He turned and left the PD in a hurry, not pausing to hear Jill try to warn him about Leon and D's relationship status.

"Think Leon will shoot him?" Jill asked.

"Possibly," Ryo said and put his paperwork into a file. "Dee and I have to head to the school, Bikky beat up another kid." Ryo shrugged and headed for the Escalade that Dee had running he regaled Dee with the news of Squirrels appearance as they made their way to the school.