Nightwalker Fan Fiction ❯ Autumn of Terror ❯ Chapter 14 ( Chapter 14 )

Autumn of Terror

Part 14 of ?

Pairing: CainXShido, OCCXShido

Disclaimer: I don't own NightWalker or its characters. I also don't own the situation presented in this work of fiction. No disrespect to those who were involved in the incidents detailed within.

Warning: Yaoi (male/male love), vampiric acts, and brutal violent deaths, lime

 

 

Shido felt himself coloring when he walked into the precinct. He'd been right. Those guys were in good form. He knew their teasing was friendly. It had to be. He could just see Abberline leaning against a door, talking to a man who looked to be from Scotland Yard. Still, they did get pretty brutal.

 

“Very sexy, Detective. Have you found the dress to match those bows yet?”

 

“Here to seduce our fearless leader? And just what do you call that horrendous look?” The uniformed men were laughing. Shido just glared balefully. Not that it worked. The men still laughed until the man at the wall cleared his voice. Cutting the laughter into silence.

 

“Don't listen to then, Detective. You know you always look top notch. Though maybe you should stop asking your sister to dress you.” Abberline strode up to him and placed an arm over his shoulders. Hands going to undo one of the many bows. “It makes it harder for me to take you seriously.” And harder for him to undress, not that he was going to say that here. He didn't want his men knowing how close they were to the truth about his feelings for Shido. That was between him and the detective.

 

“She told me you wanted to see me.” Shido said, glad the other man was there. “I told her I'd ask you for some candy for her.” He was going to keep up the nice chatter until they could get somewhere else. Then he knew the serious talk would happen. He knew Abberline. If he was asked here, it meant that Fredrick had something important to show him. Just like he had with the letter.

 

“Candy? I know you have a sweet tooth, detective. You don't have to hide it by asking for your sister.” He led the youth away and into his private office. “You boys out there, don't you have other duties to perform? You can't lolly-gag here all day. There's a city out there to protect. And don't wine. I won't listen. I'm off duty right now.” He closed the door behind them, and waited in the silence for his men to go away and leave them in peace. Just him and the man from the Yard, and Shido.

 

Shido sat in a chair, hands folded over his lap and waited as well. Composing himself for what he was sure to come. He grinned at Abberline when the man sighed and shook his head. “They can be real pains but they are good, good men.”

 

Shido sighed and nodded they were good men. “It doesn't bother me. I suppose I was really asking for it this time. And the candy isn't for me. It's for her. She made me promise. And she said it has to be in one of those little heart shaped boxes. She even pouted until I promised.” Shido himself pouted.

 

Fredrick laughed lightly. Leave it to the lovely boy to make a terrible day so much better. And just by pouting. He looked around for a second, and walked to the chair. He put a hand on Shido's arm and whispered into his ear. “Don't pout. I really will forget about why you're supposed to be here if you keep that up.” He let his tongue peek out to lick at the edge of Shido's ear before pulling away. “But you aren't here for that. You're here to see what the man from the Yard already has.”

 

The silver haired boy froze at the feeling of wetness against his ear. It felt wrong. Not at all like what Cain had done to him the night before. And even more wrong was the way Fredrick seemed to suddenly switch personalities. One minute, the sweet guy he knew, and then the next, a strange, predatory Abberline. Shido found himself wishing that the man would just pick one personality and stick to it. This whole cat and mouse game was annoying, if only because he didn't know how to react.

 

The constable tossed a postcard into Shido's lap, and left the room for a second, to collect whatever else it was that he wanted Shido to see. Shido was too busy reading to really notice. It was the same messy scrawl. The same mis-spellings. And it was post marked, “From Hell.” Shido didn't find that to be funny at all.

 

He found himself standing and walking to where Abberline was waving to the departing guest. “Tell me this doesn't mean what I think it mean?” He demanded, brandishing the note.

 

“It does. We received the package this morning. That's what he was here for. To see if it was indeed real. Would you like to see it, Shido? Are you sure you're up to it. You already look so pale. Why don't you sit back down?”

 

“No, Constable, I'll be okay. Just show me.”

 

“Fredrick.” Abberline corrected. “And maybe I didn't make myself clear.” He almost slid over the floor to Shido, pushing him by the shoulders into a seat. “I think you need to sit down for this, Shido.” The boy let himself be forced into sitting, immediately crossing his arms. For a second, he considered pouting, but he remembered what Fredrick had just said and done and decided not. Biting his lower lip to keep it from poking out.

 

Fredrick watched the boy fight a pout. He really was too cute. And now he had him alone again. But before he did anything else, he supposed he should show Shido what he was here for. “He sent us her kidney. It's in the box over there. We'll have to take it to the medics soon. It'll start making his place smell soon. I don't know about the frying and eating of the other part, and I truly don't wish too. I find such a prospect truly disturbing.”

 

Shido had to agree. Killing a person and using them for food was just wrong. Horrible. Inhuman. Only the truly depraved would ever seek enjoyment in killing another human being. Only a true monster would seek to gain sustenance from another person. Without thinking, he found himself wishing Cain where there. Cain would understand how much this kind of thing disgusted him. The blond would hold him and tell him that there weren't just psychos in the world. That there were people who could make a difference for the better. And all he had was Abberline.

 

Shido stood and turned from the box on the desk. Away and straight into Fredrick's open arms. He knew he shouldn't lead the man on. It wasn't fair to the constable. But he needed it. He needed someone, anyone to hold him until he had calmed down enough to deal with it himself.

 

The man just held him, nuzzling Shido softly, ridding the rest of his hair of the many bows. So that he could feel it loose. He sighed sadly. It seemed terrible things would keep happening. But it also seemed that as long as terrible things happened, he'd get to hold Shido. Be with him and love him the way the boy deserved to be loved.

 

“Remember what I told you, Shido. That we'd finish later. It's later now. And I'd like to finish very much. You're so sweet. And you came to me this time, so I know you want this just as badly.” His arms drifted south. One hand drifting into tight pants to grab a good handhold of fleshy rear end.

 

Shido jumped at the sudden groping. There was that strange Fredrick. The one that scared him. The animalistic one. The one decided to untie that tie with his teeth. His other hand trying to slide into the front of his pants. “Fredrick... Fredrick, please stop. Not here.” He gasped, trying to pull the hands away. He felt surprised. Why had he said that? He didn't really want the man to be touching him like that at all. “Please…”

 

“Shido. Why not here? This is where I first met you. A young man, eyes wide with beauty. Begging to be taken seriously. The men are gone. We're not going to be interrupted. And you are finally going to be taken.” The man's hands left his pants for a few seconds. And that's all Shido needed.

 

He bolted. Just ran away. Slammed out of the office, and out of the police station. A shocked Abberline watching for about three seconds before giving chase. Shido was just playing with him. He had had a feeling that that was how it would be with them. Shido would trill him with a chase, and fight beautifully once caught. And then give in with gracious loveliness once stripped and on a nice spacious bed.

 

Shido just ran. He had to get out of there. He needed to go someplace safe. Some place away from this version of Fredrick. This strangely hungry, almost possessive man that Shido was growing quite frightened of. He wanted the old Fredrick back. The one that just flirted every once in a while. Not the one that pawed at him like he was some cheap floozy. He wanted… he wanted... he didn't want Fredrick at all. He knew exactly what he wanted. He wanted Cain.

 

The youth kept running. He could hear footsteps closing in behind him. It was eerie. The faster he ran, the faster the steps were. Getting closer. He assumed that he was faster than Fredrick. He was younger and far fitter. But it seemed the man fast and getting faster. He was actually gaining on Shido, which the detective knew wasn't at all humanly possible.

 

He felt a strange pull as he neared the chapel. A strange feeling of de-ja-vu came over him. And he felt drawn to it. There he'd be safe. There, someone waited to protect him. To hold him forever and ever just like he'd promised. But that had just been a dream, not reality. And when he threw open the doors and hid in one of the pews, Cain was not there waiting for him. It was just a few startled priests, and someone in the loft playing the organ beautifully.

 

He cringed when the doors came open again, and he heard Fredrick's deep voice. “Shido! I know you came in here. I saw you. You aren't even trying are you?” Then a laugh and footsteps to where he was crouched. Then silence, and a face peeking over the pew at him. “I found you, Shido.”

 

The man sat down and sighed. “Don't run again, I haven't the energy to chase you all over creation. I'm done playing. Let's just sit for a bit. I promise I won't do anything.” Abberline was relieved when the boy got off of his knees and sat next to him. He immediately put an arm around the boy's frail shoulders. “I wish to apologize for my actions in my office. I realize now that I may have been going too fast for you. I fear I must have truly scared you. I don't wish to have such a mistake happen again.”

 

Shido found himself lolled into complacency by the man. This was the Fredrick he knew. The nice, gentle one. “I want your forgiveness, Shido. Here, in the house of God, I want you to forgive my eager advances.”

 

“I told you not too.” Shido hissed quietly. “But you kept on. And I don't even know why I'm saying this, but I forgive you.”

 

“You're saying that because you have a beautiful heart. Now, that I've chased you through half the city, do you mind if we get your sister that candy? I'll even buy you your favorites. You still like that spun sugar if I remember right.”

 

Shido nodded. He was surprised Fredrick had even remembered the one time they'd been in such a store. It had been on another case. And he'd stood there and pouted for all he was worth until the man had bought him the sweets. He looked down as Fredrick took his hand, and pulled him away. He hadn't even noticed that halfway through their conversation, the organ had hit a discordant note, and stopped playing.

 

 

TO BE CONTINUED