Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction ❯ Enigma ❯ Modern Crusaders ( Chapter 5 )

Hello all, here is the next installment of Enigma, School is done for six glorious weeks, and you can imagine the amount of writing I can get done, I would love to hear what you all think. Thank you for having patience with me, Enjoy…

Enigma 5

Modern Crusaders

Leon stomped away from the shop determined to get as far away from himself as fast as he could. The only problem he seemed to have is that no matter how far he drove, or how fast he drove, he could not escape his thoughts. He could not escape the memory of those soft lips pressed against his, those long nails brushing against his shoulders. The soft as silk hair, and most of all he could not forget the compact body that had pressed so needful against his own. He could not forget the straining erection that, instead of turning him off, turned him on. "Damn it, I'm not…I'm not Gay!" Leon slammed on his brakes and turned off his car.

Leon sat behind the wheel and pressed his head into the steering wheel, avoiding the horn by miracles unknown. He felt tears prick his eyes and stubbornly blinked them away. Despite his efforts one fell, and another. "Shit, I'm sitting here crying like a baby because I may be in love with that damned Chinese MALE pet shop owner, how low I have sunk." Leon sniffled and blinked trying to clear his vision, but having as much luck with that as he had had with forgetting. "I need a drink."

The ringing of his cell phone jarred him from his intent. Leon picked it up, "Orcot here," he said into the receiver.

"I called your apartment, but you weren't there. We've got a couple of beaten guys in the hospital, I'm headed over to collect their statements, meet me there at Mercy General Hospital." Jill said and hung up, she wondered at Leon's distraction before she shrugged and headed to the hospital.

Pandemonium greeted Leon as he made it to the emergency room. As soon as he had flashed his badge he was bombarded by a young man. "They won't let me see Dave, they said I'm not immediate family, so they won't let me in, tell them to let me in." Leon handed the young man his handkerchief so that he could wipe the blood flowing from cuts on his face and his bloody nose. Leon saw Jill talking to several other witnesses, all young kids, seemingly from the local college.

"What's your name?" Leon asked trying to be calming in the face of the young man's obvious upset.

"My name's Jordan…Jordan Keller, I have to see Dave Bayley, I have to make sure he is okay, he was really bad off when the ambulance took him, they would not let me in the ambulance and then when we got here, they would not let me in with him. I called his family; they're on their way but…"

"Whoa, calm down and tell me what happened." Leon said as he pushed the distraught young man into a seat. Jordan pushed his longish unkempt dark brown hair away form his face and took a shaky breath.

"Dave, a couple of friends and myself were all out enjoying our break from school and then… well, I kissed Dave and a couple of jerks had a problem with that. They came over and started to shove us and say horrible things, called us names, we tried to leave and enjoy our evening, but one of them threw a bottle and Dave went down, then they attacked us. I was trying to protect the girls, and Matt, he's over there with the other detective, I told him to go get help, he's my younger brother, he's only fourteen, I didn't want him hurt because I'm, well because I'm gay, there was no other reason we were attacked."

"Give me a description as best as you can of the guys who did this and I will find them and send them away for a long time." Leon said vehemently. If he thought about it long enough, he could easily substitute this young man and his lover to …Leon paused his thinking, He and D weren't together, hell, he wasn't sure if that was what they both wanted, and if it was, how would it work out?

"I had hoped you would understand the first cop that brought us here, he almost laughed at us, it was real hard for him to hide the fact that he thought we got what we deserved. We just love each other, that's all. We did not hurt anyone, and now Dave is hurt." Jordan sniffled and looked dejectedly at Leon, "you really will help us?"

"Yeah kid, I'll help you." Leon sat down and pulled out a notepad and a pen and listened intently to the description. "Look, just go over and talk to Jill, wait for his family and get yourself treated, I'll go find the criminals and put them where they belong. And give me the name of the first detective you spoke to, I'll report him, he could lose his badge."

"Thank you," Jordan said, surprised at Leon's sincerity. Tears fell down Jordan's face. "Thank you so much, we never did anything to any one and yet…"

"I know, kid, I know." Leon sighed.

"You do know, don't you?" Jordan asked as he looked at Leon's serious face. "What's his name?" Jordan asked on a whim.

Leon smiled sadly, "Count D." Leon answered, finally admitting the truth, "I love him." It was not as hard as he thought it would be, admitting to another person that he was in love a man, the very man he had tried to arrest on many occasions. The same man he had left crying in the pet shop. Leon swore and went out to arrest the attackers, vowing to see D, before the night was through.

Leon searched the streets for over an hour before he happened to stumble across a report from another hospital. Three young guys, kind of banged up, one needed stitches for a bite mark on his thigh. It was the bite mark that drew his attention; Leon turned and sped to the hospital hoping to get there before the bastards were discharged. Jordan had said that his friend Kelley had bitten on of their attackers. It had to be them. Leon thought. He pulled up to the hospital and flashed his badge at the nurse; she pointed him to the holding room where a young blond man sat complaining as a doctor stitched his leg."

"Damn it, doc, go a little easy, I had a rough night, got bit by a bitch, cause I wouldn't go out with her, told her I had a lady, she went mad, but hey, I can't complain, the ladies all want me…ouch, shit that hurts."

"I hope it does." Leon said gaining their attention. "I don't think it happened quite that way. I think Kelley Bates bit you because you were beating her friend, her friend Jordan Keller, you and two other guys, where are your friends?" Leon asked, he tried not to acknowledge the knowing look he got from the doctor, it was the doctor who had reported the incident to the authorities, he had suspected something was wrong with the young man's story, especially since the young he said bit him, happened to be a colleagues daughter.

"So good of you to come Detective…Orcot," The doctor read the badge. "I'm Dr. Meyers, how is dear Kelley, not hurt badly is she?"

"No she appeared fine, just a bit shaken, she may need dental work, and next time tell her to throw a rock at his head. As soon as you're done being stitched Mr." Leon paused and read the name on the paper the doctor was holding, "Mr. Welsh, you are under arrest for assault and battery, and you had better hope Dave Bayley wakes up, or you will be held on charges of murder."

Joe Welsh frowned as he looked at Leon, so he was under arrest. "The fucking faggots got what they deserved." He exploded.

"That right?" Leon asked as the doctor cleaned his hands and backed away from his patient. "And now you will get what you deserve." Leon pulled out his handcuffs and walked forward. "Your friends out in the waiting room are already in custody waiting with a fellow detective of mine. " Leon smiled as he placed the cuffs on Joe. "You have the right to remain silent…"

Pounding on the metal door of his pet shop pulled D from his weeping on the sofa. He had sat right where Leon had left him, too broken hearted to move. He was just standing when Leon tried the handle, surprised that it was open, Leon stumbled in and stopped as he got a good look at D's face. Count D was paler, his nose glowed red in the pale light, and the garbage was full of hastily tossed tissues. His eyes were red and swollen and his cheeks bore signs of many tears coursing down.

"I'm so sorry," Leon said as he pulled D to his feet. D was surprised to be pulled into Leon's hug in a rough embrace. "I'm an idiot… You already had enough to deal with, what with your grandfather sending you back and all…" Leon held D tightly, D gasped as he felt Leon's lips pressed to his forehead, his cheeks and finally his lips. "I can't fight it anymore, I can't fight you D, I did forget you, D I forgot everything about this place, but my heart remembered, my heart remembered because I love you… I do, I don't know why, but I do, and I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Leon said placing kisses between words. "I'll understand if you want me to go." Leon said as still D said nothing, just stared up at him in stunned silence. Leon sighed and turned towards the door. For the first time, knowing the true pain of a broken heart.

"Don't go," D said quietly, Leon kept walking and D panicked. "Leon," D said louder, Leon paused, D called his name, his real name, not his mocking "Detective" Leon turned around his hand on the handle. He saw Count D reaching for him with one of those dainty perfectly manicured hands and melted. He walked forward and pulled D into his arms.

"Kiss me back." Leon demanded before he crushed his mouth to Count D's. D sighed and kissed Leon with all he had stored up inside of him. Leon sighed into D's mouth, sliding his tongue, tasting D, wanting more. Leon bore D to the couch and lay atop him, feeling D's body getting used to the slim, flat terrain. The feel of the silk gliding over his skin…Leon smiled, and place kisses along D's tiny right ear. "I love you D. "He whispered. He felt himself stiffen as D moaned, and angled his head, giving Leon more access to his ear and neck. "I love you." Leon said again and placed a kiss on the milk white neck that begged for a mark, his mark.

D gasped and clutched Leon's shoulders. "I love you too, Leon, It's why I came back, I came back for you." D said as he tried to catch his breath, but breathing seemed inconsequential to the myriad of feelings Leon evoked with his tongue. Leon enjoyed the sexy little noises and moves D made. With a smile he knew, he could make this last all night.