Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Behind Closed Doors ❯ Chapter 5 ( Chapter 5 )

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

Chapter 5.

Ten minutes earlier. "Are you sure he's not busy or something?" Setzer asked me and I nodded patting him on his back pushing him towards the doors and said, "Go for it little man." He took a breath as though he were going into war and I laughed shaking my head and saw Locke coming out of the innersection. Just who I wanted to see.

"Hey Locke." I said to him and he froze mid-run slowing himself into normal standing position.
"Hey Sabin, what's up?" He asked and I shrugged.
"Nothing much, hey you wanna go hang out in Tzen with me?" I asked him and he shook his head. "No can do, I'm going hunting- but you can come if you want to." 'Perfect, perfect.' I thought. "I'd love to go, maybe you could teach me how to pick locks like you do."

"Maybe, I just have to go say goodbye to Eee-..." I cut him off grabbing his collar and dragged him backwards in walking.
"No can do, I heard he has a meeting this morning and was not to be disturbed." I said to him and he pulled free straightening his clothes. "But Setzer just went in there." He retorted to my comment.

"Yeah, but he's not gonna bother Ed', I told him to go to my room and wait for me to get back." I replied hearing it over telling myself that was lame.
"Oh. Okay. Lets go then." I can't believe he bought that one, but it didn't matter what he believed right now as long as he didn't go back to that room and find out what ever it was Setzer decided to do with Edgar right now.
We'd both agreed no sex or anything of that nature I mean he's my brother and as far as I could tell he was in love with Locke we don't wanna bust that up we just wanna let them know it's okay to tell us about it.

I placed my arm around his shoulder and we walked to the stables together. He seemed a little detatched so I thought I'd loosen him up a little. "Sure is gonna be a nice day, you know for treasure hunting that is. Which cave we goin' in- which mountain are we trecking up? Huh?" Locke looked up at me and put on a smile.
"I don't know." He said, "I thought maybe we'd go to the Cave of Figaro."

"Hey that's not too far away we can walk the distance if you want and you know, talk a bit- make up for not seeing each other much in our teen years." His eyes jumped at the sound of that as though they were replaying most of his teen years and he wouldn't dare say them out loud.
"Oh uuhh, teen years huh? Boring stuff really you wouldn't wanna hear about that." He replied hastily after his moment of remembered silence.

"Sure I do!" I said cheerfully encouraging and he made a small laugh.We walked past the stables and towards the Figaro caves which were a few yards away maybe a mile at the most and we walked quickly but quietly. 'I gotta think of way to get him to notice me.' I thought and looked down at him, he still seemed to be thinking about something so I let go of his shoulders getting him to look up at me and then I said. "I'll race ya there?"

He got that take a challenge any challenge grin and stopped walking, we both got into running position and looked at each other. "On whose mark?" He asked and I thought for a moment then replied.
"Yours, and we'll use the tree up there as the finish line." Giving him the your in command kind of feel, but letting him know I could make decisions too- it happens in relationships I hear. "All right, ready?" I nodded. "Go!" I bolted like I've never felt me run before and he followed right after me a step or two slower.

I could hear him panting and an odd thought ran through my head of the two of them in Ed's bedroom and I tripped. "Whoa! Oof." Locke ran by me laughing and I spit dirt watching him, that little sneak. I thought standing up and following after him deciding to save my energy until the near end when I'll win this little race of ours.

We neared the caves and he shouted over his shoulder. "I'm gonna win Sabin! You might as well be my slave for life call me master and- hey!" He cried when I shot past him slapping the tree; after he arrived I laughed my head off at him while catching my breath.
"No..." a pant. "fair cheater." Although he laughed too.
"All right, now you have to be my slave, call me master, and give me a kiss." I said and He stopped laughing straightening up having his face go into complete seriousness, but he was still out of breath.
"What did you say?" He asked still breathing hard and looking at me.

"I said be my slave, call me master, and give me a kiss." I said the last part slowly so he wouldn't ask again. He looked at me as though he were thinking that I knew what I know but couldn't possibly so instead he laughed hysterically hitting my arm. "Good one, Sabin." Locke said and laughed a little more only nervously. "You almost had me going there."

I moved a little closer to him. "I was serious." I said trying to keep my voice that way because all of me wanted to laugh as well. "Come on, you're not gay- I'm not gay either if that's what you were thinking." I shook my head holding up my hands.
"No, not at all- straight guy like you with all the girls falling all over him, come on....But I on the other hand, I mean- nah, I can't say it lets just go into the caves and explore."

He looked me over kind of strangly but looked as though he felt better and then grinned saying. "Lets go." He reached into his pocket and took out his picks.
"I can show you the easiest ways to pick them, save the advanced stuff for later, fine with you?" I nodded and followed him in. We both grabbed torches off the wall and stalked down into the deepest parts of the cave.

It stinks in here a little and I scrunched my nose up. Locke didn't seem to notice as he walked on seeming as though someone were guiding him. "Right here, come on lets dig."
He put the torch into the wall and pulled out a pick axe, then handed me a small gardening shovel and brush. "Don't dig too fast okay, you wouldn't wanna start any cave ins." He said in all seriousness and then reached into his pocket holding out a pair of gloves. "You want a pair?" He handed them to me as though I answered and I slipped them on. 'Can't this kid ever find anything that fits?' I thought with a smile as I watched him.

We dug into the soft earth quietly and then I remembered the mission and looked over at him asking. "So, what do you think about them?" He glanced at me blankly then replied. "Who?"

"Gay people?" He seemed to swallow hard and went back to work to avoid looking at me. "I think it's fine. I mean, you love who you love right?" He answered trying to disguise his feelings by saying the last part.
"Really?" I asked curiously. "So if I were to tell you that, I don't know I were gay you wouldn't freak out on me?" There he went swallowing hard again only this time he looked at me and raised an eye brow.
"You're gay?" He asked and I danced around the answer acting as though I were really trying to find something amongst the cave walls.

"Sure." I said and then laughed. "How many girls have you seen me with? Huh?" I asked him and he looked as though he were thinking it over then his face seemed to tell me he was in fantasy camp- I wonder if he's thinking about me? Locke then looked up and asked. "Does Edgar know?"
I shook my head. "I was too afraid to tell him." I said trying to sound sincere and sad. "I thought he'd be mad at me...."

Locke shifted around uncomfortably saying, "No, I don't think he'd be mad." He then went back to digging as well and I looked him over and went on.
"I thought he'd be mad at me because of the person I have a crush on." He looked at me again and asked.
"Who is it?"
I wet my lips and replied quickly. "You." I leaned in and kissed him quiantly on the side of his mouth and he pulled back.
"I uh...I think we should dig in a different spot." He got up rushing down a dark tunnel.
"Hey you forgot your torch!" I called and got up to follow after him. 'This was gonna be easier than I thought.'

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When I reached Locke, he was sitting against a wall looking a bit confused. I walked over to him and sat myself down scooting closer to him. "Locke, I'm sorry..." I was saying looking at him. "I didn't mean to be so forward." He shook his head and started to say something but changed it to something else- I could tell, Edgar used to do that to me a lot as kids.

"I'm just not sure what it is you're telling me exactly, how long have you had these feelings for me?" He asked. I waited a while to make it as though I were calculating the time between liking him and loving him, then replied. "Since we were 18, I guess." Locke huffed out a laugh and shook his head. "That's a lie we weren't even around each other at eighteen."

"Oh I know," I said making up the lie as I went along. "it was around the time that I left that I had a moment when I was thinking about home and Edgar, mom, dad, and....you." He shifted uncomfortably and looked at me. "That's when I realised that I like you a lot more than a friend, Locke....you were always around with that spunk of yours." I laughed a moment at the idea of it trying to make it seem like it were from found thoughts and he made- I'll admit- the cutest low laugh beside me. "I don't know, it was nice to find someone around like me."

"Why didn't you ever tell me?" He then asked and I stopped my laugh punching him in the shoulder.
"I don't know, maybe because you mostly seemed into Ed'." Locke jumped a second as though he were startled by my saying that, then tried playing it cool, so I went on by saying. "Ha! In fact if I didn't know any better I would have thought you two were together." I broke out into my usual laugh and he started to laugh but it sounded more like gagging.

I watched him a moment waiting for him to stop choking then I said plainly. "But that couldn't be true because, you said yourself you're not gay, right?" He nodded and said lowly. "Yeah."

In the brief pause he turned around and began to dig in the low bend of the cave wall then looked at me. "Uh Sabin, I have to tell you something..." He said and I grinned waiting for it so that I could congratulate him then rub it in with jokes and bagering.
"Yes Locke?" I said blank enough as though I had no clue what he was going to tell me.
"I'm uhh....gonna need that shovel."

"...-What a chicken!" I blurted out on accident and he raised his eye brows to me and I laughed putting an arm behind my head. "I mean, you don't feel comfortable with the pick axe any more?" 'Good save.' I congratulated myself metally and he nodded holding his hand out while handing the pick over to me. 'I'll break him yet.' I thought then started picking at the dirt floor. 'I wonder how Setzer is holding up?'