Fake Fan Fiction / Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction ❯ Sugar RUSH ❯ Stumbling Towards Ecstasy ( Chapter 20 )

HI!!! I am back from my vacation and ready to supply more chapters. As always I look foreword to comments and constructive criticism thank you to all who have come this far…on to the madness.

 

Sugar Rush 20

 

D held his father and tried to absorb the trembling sobs that wracked his body. “It is not him I fear child, but myself,” Lord D sobbed. D decided it was best to not correct his father's calling him a child, perhaps it would be his father's name for him, like an endearment. “It's my fault…” Sniffle. “There must be something lacking in me that caused him to…” Lord D paused and squeezed D who tried not to wince.

“Him…You mean Hama- , caused him to what?” D asked when his father shut his mouth and chewed on his quivering lower lip. D sighed and resigned himself to holding his father and wiping his tears.

 

Break

 

JJ stared out at the ocean and ignored the rain that soaked him to the marrow of his bones. He was cold, and yet the cold seemed to fit the emptiness in his heart. D-Chan had become aloof with him after the wedding, after he had spoken with D. What had D said to him? Or what had he said to D? JJ remembered that D had slipped back into deferring to Leon after he spoke with his father. In the room before he left, Lord D had been braced as if he expected…JJ gasped as a horrible thought struck him. It all made sense now.

“Hey there,” JJ turned to see a man standing beside him in the rain holding an umbrella. “My name is John, you look a little down…Maybe I can help with that.” John could be considered attractive; he was taller than JJ and had the gall to grin. “Let me guess, you are having trouble at home, why don't you come by my place and I'll see about making you feel better.”

JJ reached into his holster and pointed his gun at the man. “Go away.”

“Hey! Whoa pal,” John held up his hand and backed away. “Just trying to get laid, can't fault a man for trying right? No need to get violent.” JJ sighed and put his gun away, John grew belligerent once his life was no longer in danger. “I should call the police and let them know we have a volatile man with a gun on the docks.” John blustered. JJ pulled his badge, and shoved it in John's face before he stormed down the dock continuing in his thought process ignoring the shocked look that had been in his eyes. If what he suspected was right… Oh D-Chan, JJ thought and took off at a run to the pet shop.

 

Break

 

“We should go to bed, it's getting late,” Dee whispered into Ryo's ear. Ryo smiled and was glad to be wearing a long sweater that hid the location of Dee's hand.

“It's only 8:30,” Ryo tried not to moan when Dee's fingers moved over him.

“So I'm a little sleepy and you're a lot aroused.” Dee wrapped his fingers around Ryo who found it difficult to breath. “Good night everybody,” Ryo said and stood and rushed from the room. Dee shrugged his shoulders in mock innocence and followed.

The door of the shop crashed open and JJ stomped in dripping on D's carpet. Leon sighed; D would be pissed about that. “Where is he?” JJ demanded after he surveyed the room and saw that Lord D was not present. Leon thought not to interfere in the older Kami's affairs but changed his mind and led JJ to the Garden. When the door was shoved open, Lord D looked up startled at JJ who towered above him and D. Lord D moved as if to block D from harm. JJ said nothing but clasped Lord D's wrist and pulled him from the room. He stalked angrily down the hallway and into Lord D's bedroom.

Lord D fell on his bed and stared up frightened at JJ. JJ walked forward and Lord D raised his hand as if blocking his face. JJ took his hand and lowered it. “D-Chan…” JJ tried not to frown at the fear that still crossed Lord D's face as he looked at JJ. “How often did he beat you?” JJ sighed when Lord D looked away from him and stared at his hands and said nothing. “It was more than that one time when his wife died wasn't it?” Lord D still said nothing but sat trembling staring down at his hands. “And each time he would show up with some gift or trinket to apologize and he would swear that he'd never do it again. God D-Chan, I'm a cop, I have seen hundreds of DV cases, and they never fail to make me sick. I should have known, you showed all the signs but I was blind to them, only wanting you… I'm sorry.”

“You did not do it,” Lord D said softly, he turned his hand around under JJ's and touched the cold clammy skin. “The first time” Lord D sighed and drew in a trembling breath. He decided that JJ deserved to know the truth of why he… Why he had resisted him. “The first time he hit me, was about a year after I had moved into his house. He was rough with me and I cried. I didn't mean to, but it hurt. He said I cried for no reason. He grew angry and slapped me hard across the face and said that now I had a reason to cry. He left me there and returned the next morning and showed me a room that I could have to make a garden, it was a nice gift. Hama- knew that I missed my garden dreadfully and would leave for days at a time to return home and tend my garden. He apologized and said he was under a lot of stress. I forgave him.”

As JJ listened, he held Lord D tighter and tighter. He felt ill as he listened to tales of years of abuse, not just one outburst of rage, but deliberate cruelty. “No wonder you went to his wife, you were both searching for tenderness and found it with each other, no one is to blame.” JJ said and pulled Lord D into his arms. “Why didn't you leave him?”

Lord D broke into sobs and clung tightly to JJ. “I had promised him that I would love him for the rest of his life…I…I could not break that promise, I knew he was mortal I thought I could live with it, at least until…” Lord D could not continue he submitted to JJ's caressing his back; hoping to believe, wanting to believe, and praying that this time… JJ kissed Lord D and felt him melt against him.

Lord D dragged in a trembling sigh and backed away from JJ. “You are drenched clear through.” JJ laughed and pulled Lord D in for another hug. “That won't do, you are sure to become ill sitting around like that.” Lord said in his usual brisk manner and stood to his feet. JJ frowned till he saw Lord D head to the bathroom connected to his room. “I'll set a bath for you, get out of those wet things, my robe will be a bit short on you, but it will do.” JJ stood and took Lord D's hand, following him into the bathroom.

 

Break

 

JJ sighed; the bath was wonderful, hot and fragrant. He felt so relaxed; D-Chan had not joined him but JJ felt that they had made headway in the battle to find love. As JJ soaked away the chill in his bones he thought of how soft D-Chan had felt in his arms. He seemed so strong when he was protecting D and when he sold his pets he was so in charge of the situation, so confident. And yet… JJ slipped under the water and enjoyed being completely immersed in warmth. He had not realized just how cold he had been until he had been made warm. JJ sat up and shook droplets of water from his hair. He gasped when a chuckle was heard. “You are determined to keep me wet tonight.” Lord D stood wearing a black silk bathrobe with a bed oriental tie about his waist keeping it securely closed.

JJ leaned over the side of the tub and folded his arms looking at Lord D. JJ sighed, “D-Chan…”

“Detective…” Lord D began and knelt beside the tub. JJ closed his eyes and decided he could correct him on his choice of names for him later. Lord D sighed before he continued. “Why do you love me?”

“There are a lot of little reasons actually and lead up to this big well of feelings that I never thought to experience. I thought I loved Dee, but I felt nothing close to what you make me feel.” JJ said and stared at the drops of water that had landed on Lord D's robe. “You never treated me like pest, even when I am sure I became a little more than annoying. I admire your strength and courage. The building was falling down around you, you had been shot and still you saved your son and tried to save me, you would have died there with no regrets.”

“You're wrong,” Lord D said softly. JJ looked up to see a pained expression on Lord D's face. “I would not have regretted giving up my life, but I would have regretted the short amount of time I had to spend with my son.”

“Short amount, but I thought you were both…” JJ frowned in puzzlement.

“For a long time, I could not come near him; I despised him as I loved him. My father raised him; I could not bear to… I blamed him for Hama's treatment of D-San, and later for D-San's death, I was wrong and so I missed his growing up, I missed raising him, teaching him…” JJ reached up a wet hand and wiped the tears from Lord D's face. He smiled at the irony of his hand leaving wet trails where the tears had been.

“I love how you read my mind, I love how you move, how you look, how you can see through to the meaning of… everything.”

Lord D closed his eyes and leaned his face into JJ's hand. “Jemi-Chan, I love you too.” Lord D dropped a large towel on a bench and quickly exited the bathroom. JJ smiled brightly before he left the tub and briskly rubbed himself dry and donned his borrowed bathrobe. He found Lord D changing the sheets on his bed. JJ crept behind Lord D and wrapped his arms around him from behind. Lord D stood still. JJ nuzzled his neck and Lord D sighed and tilted his head to the side offering more of his neck. “Jemi-Chan…If you want to… that is…You can…” Lord D blushed when JJ turned him in his arms. Lord D looked up at JJ and turned brighter. JJ felt a small bottle of oil being pressed into his hand. Lord D backed away from JJ and sat on his bed looking up at him expectantly.

JJ stared down at the bottle of oil and then back to Lord D. Lord D's eyes rounded in fear when JJ sat the bottle on the dresser and went to search his jacket pockets. Wasn't he going to use it, it would ease his way? Lord D was unsure if he could stand to be hurt that way again. JJ returned to the bed to find Lord D pale and breathing deeply in fear and confusion, he held up a tube. “Step into modern time's darling, astro-glide is better, water based and totally edible.”

“E…E…Edible? Why would you need it to be…?” Lord D never finished his question. JJ kissed him deeply and began to work the knot in the robe loose. Lord D gasped and melted back onto the bed clutching JJ to him. Lord D gasped and his face turned bright red when JJ found and sucked his nipple. “Ummm…Jemi-Chan…” Lord D sighed and knew he was in for a night he had never imagined.

 

To-Be-Continued