Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction / Fake Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten and Alone ❯ Chapter Three ( Chapter 3 )

Forgotten and Alone

Chapter Three

Berkeley Rose had a lot of time and money invested on one redhead boy that was currently crouching on his kitchen counter eating raw salmon without use of fingers or fork. In fact if he had to guess the boy was a cat made human and not a child that had a major physiological blow only a few short months before.

He still didn't know why the boy was completely ignored by others to the point that he had watched the redhead steal in front of others and not be noticed. He knew others saw him, but for some reason or another they simply looked him over.

He remembered seeing the boy that first day in the flower shop. He had wanted a nice plant to go into his new apartment and the 'Kitten in the House' had come highly recommended. It had come to a surprise to find a beautiful redhead being accosted like no one could see him, then he started yelling, then cried before running out of the shop (he doesn't remember seeing him the day before, but has a feeling he should have). He had followed the boy outside and down the street to a deli and watched him be passed over again and again before he left and ran away.

Berkeley hadn't had to look far to find the boy, his instinct had been to take the boy home and care for him, but he had hesitated. Now seven months later watching the boy act completely like a feline instead of a human, he wished he had not hesitated.

When he had found the boy in that factory he knew he couldn't just kidnap the boy, he was going to have to coax him out of hiding and willingly into his house. And not that he had the boy he had no idea what to do with the boy. The redhead didn't understand a word he said and Berkeley had a feeling if the boy did say something it would be a meow not a word.

The boy is truly lost.

The redhead finished his meal and jumped off the counter. He doesn't walk on two feet he walks on hands and feet exactly like a cat with perfect grace and balance. Berkeley is sure that if he dropped the boy from the balcony that he would hand on all fours without being hurt, in fact he seemed the formidable fighter and would not want to be on the business end of those claws. In fact if he wasn't sure the boy knew how to use those claws he would be force to de-claw the little kitty.

He jumped when said claws sank into his leg and the giant 'cat' crawled into his lap. He watched as the boy turned away from him, licked where he had scratched- but had not drawn blood- and settled down for a nap with his ass almost in Berkeley's face.

It was then that Berkeley realized exactly why he had taken so much time to help the boy. It wasn't that no one else noticed him and he felt compelled to help, or that he was itching for a mystery to solve. It was because he was frankly attracted to the boy and wished to have him all to himself. After loosing Ryo, abet fairly, to Dee he was in need of someone to love him back and had found just what he wanted.

In an undersized boy that thought he was a feline.

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Berkeley woke sometime around midnight to scratching on the window. He opened his eyes to find the redhead scratching the window wanted out. He frowned; unsure if he wanted to let the boy out for fear that he wouldn't come back. But then again if he didn't let him out when he wanted then once the boy escaped he wouldn't come back, that was for sure. Getting up he padded slowly to the window, the redhead looked up at him, pawed lightly at his leg then started scratching the window ceil again.

"You want out?" he asked.

"Moerw."

Berkeley raised an eyebrow but opened the window. The redhead jumped out onto the fire escape and down the ally below, all quicker then he had ever seen anyone do before. Half an hour later the boy was back carrying a bundle against his chest. Berkeley lets him in when the boy scratches at the window, though he has left it open enough for the boy to open it by himself.

The bundle moved once it's set down on the floor and the redhead opens it to relieve the kittens he usually slept with to keep them warm. There are four of them all recently winged from their mother. They're cute but Berkeley has not room for kittens in his apartment, he's barely got the current one house broken. But he understands why the boy has brought them; it was his comment before about it being to cold and an instinct knowing that those kittens might not survive the winter. It's a clue that the boy really dose understand him.

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The next morning he finds the boy asleep on top of the book shelf, blankets and a few cushions are under him for padding, three of the kittens are asleep under a blanket in the living room. Berkeley finds the redhead has taken the time to show the kittens how to use the litter box he went out and bought sometime in the night for the fourth kitten is busy using it. Maybe they can stay after all.

However today he gets a huge surprise when he goes out for food. On a telephone post is a missing person poster; it has the boys face on it asking if anyone has seen him. His name is Aya Fujimiya and he was missing from his apartment at the shop some seven months ago. It seems that people have started to notice the boy again, however just sending him back to his friends is not a good idea, the boys mind is shattered enough as it is.

When he returns home Aya wants out but Berkeley can't let him for someone might spot him and he can't chance the boy being arrested for something he can no longer help. This is no longer a matter of allowing the boy to slowly remember who he was; he's going to have to force him to relearn how to be human as much as possible.

It's not going to be easy and he doesn't want to destroy too much of the cat that makes Aya unique, but he also doesn't want the boy in a psych ward or to have him unprepared if his friends should find him.

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Aya wakes him up at midnight again wanting out; Berkeley ignores him until the boy scratches him in annoyance then he pins the boy to the floor and drags him to the bathroom and locks him in. he's kept awake all night by the yowling but its worth it as Aya is more compliant the next day.

Eating is an ordeal. Berkeley wont let Aya eat on the counter, he has to eat at the table in a chair, not on the table; he also can't eat like he normally dose. Berkeley manages to get Aya to sit on the balls of his feet and eat with his fingers; it's not what he wants but it's a start.

Getting Aya to stand on two feet is also an ordeal. Its like dealing with a stubborn child, Berkeley picks him up and tries to set him on his feet only, but Aya refuses to support his weight. It was too much to ask for this early.

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Again Aya wants out around midnight this time he has a kitten by the scruff of its neck in his teeth. Berkeley doesn't know why he does this, but still can't let him out. The next day he discovers the kitten has died from natural causes. Aya is curled around the other three protectively and glares at Berkeley round his bangs.

Berkeley gets rid of the dead kitten and finds homes for the other three while Aya is asleep.

When Aya wakes to find the kittens gone he spends and hour glaring at the man and takes a swipe at him when he passes. Berkeley tackles him and cuts his finger nails short.

Discovers this is one cat that doesn't want to be domesticated or de-clawed, but can't really do anything about it because he has yet to figure out how to open the window or the door. He refuses to eat at the table or on the counter and spends most of the night on the book case just waiting for Berkeley to get close enough to pounce on.

That is until three days later when the redhead crawls onto Berkeley's bed and practically sleeps on his chest. It's the first sign of affection the boy has shown. He still refuses to stand, but eats at the table with only a few problems with a fork. Berkeley pointedly ignores him when Aya meows until the redhead gives up and takes to purring to get what he wants; Berkeley is a sucker for the purr, but still wont give in and let the boy outside.

Getting him used to day light is another problem. Until now the curtains have been closed during the day, Berkley opens the living room curtains and watches as Aya hisses and bounds into the bedroom in panic and pain. He later finds the boy under the bed whimpering, his eyes screwed shut. Berkeley keeps the curtains closed after that.

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Aya takes to sleeping on the bed with Berkeley. The blond man has offered the bed to him alone and has also offered to let Aya under the covers, but like a cat Aya refuses both.

After a week of trying Berkley has gotten Aya to stand on to legs, he's a little shaky and soon is bounding away on all fours. He's strongest and more agile moving like a cat, but to function is society he's going to have to learn that same grace in walking up right.

Berkeley talks to Aya constantly, he's explained to Aya that people might notice him now if he went out which would result in either him getting arrested or put in a mental facility which would be a bad thing; he also tells Aya he cant steal anything anymore and if he wants something then he's just going to have to tell Berkeley what he wants. He isn't sure if Aya understands or even pays attention, but Aya has stopped trying to go outside.