Come out, come out wherever you are Ever felt away with me Ever felt away without me
So lost in your sea
Give in, give in for my touch
For my taste for my lust
Just once that all I need
Entwined in finding you one day
My love, it lies so deep
Ever dream of me
"Let me GO!" Riku exclaims causing teens' eyes to draw to him like a fly to a web. He struggles against the tight gripping leather gloves on his biceps. Axel fights through the crowd to see what all the yelling is about.
The red head sees Riku being dragged into the back seat of a cop car. "RIKU!" Axel shouts and he gets held back behind the braced line of policemen. "AXEL!" His fiancé calls back with frightened eyes.
"I'll see you again! I'll save you! I promise!" The fire teaser yells out with scared eyes and Riku stares at him as the police close the car door. 'Riku…I can't let you go…' The valentine thinks as the police hold him back.
Hours went by and Sora is still locked in the bathroom of his step father's grand apartment. Mizu leans his face against the bathroom door as he remains curled up on the other side of the door. He knocks again and Sora wipes his tears.
"You okay?" The serpent charmer asks and the frail angel looks at himself in the mirror. "I'm fine…" Sora finally says after four hours of hiding. Mizu sighs in immense relief and Sora stares at the closed door like a child in a horror film. Did he want to open the door?
"Are you going to spend your birthday like this, love?" The pale poet asks and Sora dries his eyes. "Five more minutes. I'm just going to change…" He tells him and he hears Mizu stand up. "Okay but I'm only giving you five minutes. I spent a lot of time on your birthday present this morning." The mysterious singer tells him.
The afternoon light of Traverse Town grows closer to sunset from the small square window in the powder green bathroom. Sora digs through his clothes pile under the cabinet of the sink and he dresses himself in a dark red shirt with light blue pants. He puts on a pair of flip flops after he fails at his desperate search for clean socks.
Mizu strolls back into Sora's bedroom and he plays with a heartless keychain hanging from the nightstand's lamp. He paws at it and the silver teen widens his eyes when it flies off to the floor. It drops in a muted thump.
He gets down on his hands and knees to look for it. "God dammit." Mizu mutters under his breath and he reaches under the bed to find it. His hand feels a small shoebox and he slides it out easily onto the exposed carpet in front of him.
'I know I shouldn't snoop through Sora's stuff…but…' The sly teen thinks as he fingers the cover of the box. He opens it and the smell of a foreign place called Traverse Town fills his senses. There were popsicle sticks, broken jade necklace beads, folded binder paper notes with heart and a picture…..Mizu stares at the picture of the smiling brunette he knows and the silver haired teen he doesn't know.
His eyes grow fierce and he rips the photograph. Mizu lets the pieces fly out the open window like a flock of doves. Sora twists the doorknob from the bathroom and everything is back to normal when the brunette reaches the bedroom. His new friend is sitting by the window in a soccer ball patterned beanbag chair.
Mizu smiles at his star-kissed boyfriend and Sora blushes. "Why are you smiling?" The bashful brunette asks and his boyfriend stands up. "What? Is it bad to smile?" Mizu asks and he hugs the man who is quickly falling in love with.
"C'mon, love." He tells him while he rushes him out of the apartment. They scale the stairs of the vast apartment building. "My dad is going to be home later with his friends. He is going to be worried if I'm gone long." The blue eyed beauty frets as he follows his boyfriend.
"Calm down, love." Mizu says to him with assuring eyes. Sora smiles as Mizu faces him. "You know…you're really beautiful, Sora." His boyfriend tells him causing a bright blush from Sora.
Vix scowls at Axel while he scrambles through his closet. "You're an idiot. You know that right?" She asks and her comment is ignored by the raging red head. "It won't be hard. I'll just sneak in to the jail and get Riku, then I'll get back out…It's not that hard…" Axel says with rare fret in his voice.
"Zexion hates you. Ruk hates you. Marluxia hates you. I'm pretty sure everyone in this town hates you, except Kairi…wait she stabbed you with a knife….Yeah they all hate you. It's not a jolly surprise there." The green eyed girl states with a little smirk. The fiery magician is still ignoring her and she frowns like a complaining child.
"You should have seen what I saw today in Cloud's classroom during lunch. Ruk was moaning like a total Demyx." Vix says causing Axel to finally pay attention. "What?!" He almost shouts as the red witch giggles.
"Cloud is so going to get arrested for having an affair with a student! I wonder if his husband Leon will find out…I can't believe that even though Ruk is expelled that he went back to school and Cloud made out with him…and more!" She exclaims causing Axel to almost lose his gaping jaw.
"So speaking of arresting teachers and such, did Zexion dump you?" She asks and Axel faces to her. A big red hand print is on his face. "…Yes he dumped me…" He says and the bitch slap still stings his face. Vix suddenly get sympathetic.
"…He really liked you Axel…a lot…I mean I know you've liked Riku then Roxas then Demyx then Zexion and now Riku again….but I think Zexion is the best guy for you." She says and Axel is silent as he stares in his closet.
Axel let his tears fall. He doesn't even care that Vix is in the same room; he just couldn't stand his relationship issues. "Riku is still the only one for me…" He tells her and she ends the sympathetic moment as she gets a text message. Axel takes the phone away from her and she yells at him for it. "I have an idea." He says and he calls 911.
"What?!" Vix asks with evil excitement tingling in her chipper voice. "Cloud is going to do me a little favour when he goes to jail…" Axel chuckles and his cousin grins at him with approval.
"Just a few more stairs." The snake eyed teen says and Sora eagerly takes Mizu's hand. He opens the door gingerly and Sora gasps at the roof of Mizu's apartment. It is covered with brilliant white string lights and stringed crystals.
There is a pile of pillows on the ground in the middle and a cascading sunset of flamingo pink and ripe grapefruit yellow. "Mizu this is so beauti-" Sora's lips get seized by a pair of pale lips. The silver teen slides his tongue through the tan lips and Sora moans as he lies him down on the cushions.
"Mmm…" The angelic teen moans as a quick pale hand braces his member. "Sora…" He whispers to him with lust in his aching voice. Sora smiles as he parts their lips but then he sees his eyes. The brunette gasps as Mizu covers his mouth with a strip of duct tape. This wasn't love…This was rape…
Riku's eyes open as a loud criminal yells at the police. "Shut it!" One of the heavy, mustached men shouts to the criminal. "Axel….where are you?" He mumbles as he curls up in his bed.
The iron bars slide open then close after they dump the new addition into Riku's jail cell. 'Great…I was hoping I wouldn't get a psycho in my own cell…' He thinks and he sits up from his dingy, cold bed.
Cloud looks at him with frightened eyes and Riku raises an eyebrow at him. "Riku!" He says with a relieved smile. Riku's memory lose doesn't recognize his English professor. "Riku…it's me. I saved you after Axel beat you in the bathroom. Remember? I found you and Demyx came to help." The intelligent man tells the disbelieving teen.
"SHUT UP!" Riku blurts out with streaming insanity in his eyes as he cries. "Axel would never do that do me! He loves me! Stop lying, you sick fuck!" He yells at him and Cloud backs up against the cement wall.
"Riku…don't you remember?" The college graduate asks and the silver screamer glares at him with his beautiful tearful eyes. "I remember that Axel and I were boyfriends and now we are engaged…He'll save me…He promised…" Riku said and he curls up again in his upper bunk. The smell of dripping rusted pipes hushes Riku back to sleep.
Roxas puts his chin on his hand as he logs himself into Yahoo! Messenger. A few people are online: Pence, Hayner, Zexion. Roxas stops reading when he sees Zexion is online. He quickly opens a conversation up.
Skynobody13: Hiya Zexer!
No reply. The blond notices his friend's webcam button is on so he opens it. Roxas sees Zexion staring at the computer screen with a blank expression on his face. His hands fumble and he puts his headphones on to log into chat. "Hello?" The blue eyed teen asks to the silent librarian over his headset.
Zexion blinks and scowls up when he sees Roxas's face on his screen. He closes out of webcam and headset chat. Roxas sees his computer screen send an error message of: Ashburton006 has closed live chat.
Ashburton006: Leave me alone
Skynobody13: …I refuse to
Again no reply from the serious reader. Zexion logs out of Yahoo! Messenger and he puts his laptop under his bed. His tears build in his eyes and he lets them fall. '…I shouldn't be crying…But I…I love him…' His thoughts burn in his mind.
His ticking clock on his wall read: 10:02pm. Zexion scowls then gets off in a rush from his flannel sheeted bed. He tugs on a sweatshirt onto his purple and black stripped long sleeve. Zexion goes straight out the front door with determination on his face.
The naked angel teen fights on top of the icy roof. "Smiling for the camera." Mizu growls seductively as he video tapes his boyfriend on the velvet black night. Sora glares at the video camera and Mizu laughs at the poor nude teen.
He puts the camera down and kisses down the coco teen's neck. His nipple gets brutally teased inside a burning wet mouth of Mizu. The brunette makes muffed moans and screams from his duct taped mouth. "Don't fight, babe…" The silver slayer purrs to him.
'Riku! Riku!' Sora wants to scream but his lungs can't break through the shiny tape. Mizu kisses Sora's throbbing hard member with deep licks. The brunette digs his nails into his palm. He would choke the rapist but Mizu had him in handcuffs behind his back. "Stop whining…You know you need this…" He whispers to his prey with a familiar smirk.
Sora feels the tongue licking back and forth on his tip. His heartbeat pounds and he kicks his predator. Mizu yelps and the brunette struggles with the handcuffs behind his back as the teen cries out in pain on the ground. Sora steps behind his locked hands like a jump rope. His hands are in front of him now and he rips off his duct taped mouth with his handcuffed hands.
The brunette screams his heart out for help and Mizu's eyes widen in fear. Sora unlocks the handcuffs as Mizu gets up to escape. Luckily, Sora's father comes up in his police uniform with four other policemen. Mizu panics as the father seizes his arm and other policemen hold him down to handcuff him.
It was all slow motion for Sora…His new boyfriend that he though he could trust was actually just horny bastard. His father was worried for Sora yet he had frustration in him. Sora stays in his bedroom with sleepless eyes for the rest of the night. His father is out at the jail with his fellow cops and Mizu is behind bars.
"Riku…" Sora whispers as tears cascade down his regretful face. He rummages under his dust bunny bed and he yanks out his memorabilia shoebox. The sorrow-crazed teen flips off the light cardboard lid and he searches for the last picture of Riku. It was gone…
He sobs as he dumps out the whole box. Tissue paper snowflakes, Riku's fantastic charcoal sketches of Lulu and Sora, sea salt ice cream wrappers, tickets for the countless movies, chopsticks from the sushi restaurant, the remains of the necklace he gave to Riku…the necklace Axel tore off when he brutally fought Riku in the boy's bathroom…All of the memories were there but Sora needed to see Riku's flawless face…Those beautiful Caribbean sea foam eyes.
Sora takes his cell phone off his nightstand. His mother deleted his entire friend's phone numbers in his phone before he moved to Twilight Town. Now the address book only had his mother, his father, and Mizu. "Please Sora…remember the number…" He tells himself as he looks through recent calls. All of the calls were from Mizu.
The brunette grits his teeth and he takes his cell phone in his fist. His urges to throw it out the window were so strong. The rest of his life has practically disappeared out the window of his life. If only he knew what happened to the photograph of Riku and him.
Vix answers the door and Zexion is standing there with a motorcycle helmet on. "WHERE'S AXEL?!" He demands and the red head girl takes the sea salt ice cream out of her mouth. "He isn't here…" She bluntly says.
"Where did he go?" Zexion asks with cringing order in his voice. She fixes her gummy bear scented hair and she shrugs. "On a train." Vix begins to enjoy teasing the librarian. The love-abused teen holds his impulses to shake her shoulders silly. "Don't play games with me. Just tell me where the train is heading to." He says with grey flaming eyes.
"What do you want?!" The firework teen growls at him. "I WANT AXEL BACK! I MISS HIM! I LOVE THAT IDIOT AND I WANT TO BE BACK IN HIS ARMS!" He yells in her sweetheart face. "Well tough luck, mate. He loves Riku." Vix smirks at him.
Zexion pushes the stubborn girl so hard that she slams back onto the hard mahogany floor. "Twilight Town's jail where Riku and Cloud are…" Vix blurts out. Zexion is already on his motorcycle before she finishes her sentence. The midnight ruler takes off on his bright red Suzuki to Twilight Town.
Axel wakes as the train hauls to a screeching halt. "Stop 404, Twilight Town Station." The conductor announces through out the train carts. He shoves through the crowd of business men and runs to the street. The trolley would be to slow…
He waves his hand and whistles like a wild wolf. A taxi pulls over and Axel gets into the cigarette scented environment. "Twilight Town jail please." He says and he slips the driver a hundred dollar bill. The taxi eagerly screeches down the road.
Cloud pokes Riku and the silver teen opens his angry eyes. "What?!" He snaps and the older man feels terrified. "Someone is here to see you…" Cloud says and Riku slides down the bunk bed's ladder. Axel is inside the cell and the door is wide open.
Riku clings onto his lover and Axel rushes them out of the cell. They escape the jail without being noticed. Cloud is disgusted over Axel…he knows something is a secret about their sudden relationship. "Well I should get home…thanks, Axel." The professor tells him and he leaves off into the early dawn light.
The silver knight smiles at his passionate prince. "How did you do it?" Riku asks with amazed eyes. "What? Sneak you out? I bribed Roxas to hack into the police system and they allowed me to get you out. Roxas put it was a false crime from the prisoners." His lover tells Riku.
"The prisoners? Did he release others?" Riku asks with confused eyes. "Does it matter? Listen to me, Riku…I want to get married." Axel tells him with serious eyes and a bright grin. "NOW?!" Riku asks with unsure eyes. "…Well how about tomorrow? I'll schedule it today…I'll get the tuxedos and everything…Our own secret wedding…Just for you, my love." The Cheshire cat teen says to him.
Riku grins beautifully and Axel pulls him into a deep kiss. The silver teen holds Axel face as he nibbles on his bottom lip. Their tongues reach each other and their lips mesh like a melody. His lover purrs at him as Riku takes a breath. "Let's go to a hotel. You need rest." The caring lion teen tells his pale warrior.
Sora walks out of the apartment building. It was noon and he has had enough sleep yet it seems like he was crying inside of resting. The sidewalk feels like thick ice under his feet and the air let off a chilly ocean wind. Footsteps were behind the frail brunette.
A warm hug circles behind Sora and the brunette's eyes perk up as he sees strands of silver hair on his shoulder. "Riku!" He yells in utter happiness and he turns around then captures lips with the male. Sora opens his eyes and steps away in fear. Mizu grins at him and the nightmares return to the lonely angel.
The fire starter kisses Riku's sleeping face and he pets Riku's silky hair. Axel leaves down to the restaurant in the hotel to grab Riku something from the buffet. The silver teen's eyes open and close as the door closes. "Axel?" Riku asks in the empty room but he goes back to sleep.
Zexion cuts through the lobby and almost knocks over a tourist. His tight motorcycle outfit is something he was hardly seen in. It was black skin tight jeans and a red racer jacket with a sharp collar. People were checking out the blunette as he stormed through like a mad man.
Axel plops several pancakes down on a plate while he waits for the chef to finish making the buttery scrambled eyes. Zexion's eyes lighten up and he swerves through the waiters. "Axel!" The book lover exclaims and he hugs his ex boyfriend from behind. "Z-zexion?!" Axel says in complete shock.
The couple faces each other and Axel stares at the pale motorcycle rider with a gaping mouth. Zexion takes the fire controller's hand and he leads him to the men's bathroom to speak with him privately. The door closes behind them and they stand in the one person restroom.
Zexion circles his arms around Axel's upper body and he hugs him strongly. "I love you so much, Axel…I don't care how much of an asshole you are or how mean and pervy you can be…You are the only one I think about and I don't want to think about anyone else…" The Goth cries out and Axel faces him.
Their lips pull into a kiss and Axel lets Zexion lick his tongue deep inside his mouth. The fire teen stops the kiss and Zexion looks confused. "I love….you…Zexion, I'm such an idiot…I should have seen it before…You are the only one that truly cares about me like I care about you…You're so….nice to me…" Axel says and he feels the rare tears coming again.
Axel blushes as Zexion kisses his tears away. "So…will you take me back?" He asks the flame lover. "Yes...I only want you…" Axel admits as his empty heart feels loved. Zexion smiles at the blushing male. "I love you, Axel." Zexion says as the teen dips him down into another kiss. "I love you too, Zexion." He tells him with pure honesty.
"Help! Somebody!" A person screams from outside Riku's window. "Shut up…" The silver teen grumbles and he clamps his pillow like an earplug to his head. "HELP!" The voice screams again and the naked teen gets out of bed. Riku puts on the first clothes he sees in the pile Axel bought for him.
Riku hauls open the window and he narrows his eyes on the screaming victim. His voice disappears as he sees the face of the victim. "Oh…my…god…" The silver teen says as he sees Sora in hysteria. Riku's memory bursts back to life.
He remembers Sora, he remembers Kairi, he remembers Lu, he remembers the troubles he had with Xemnas, Roxas and Axel. He remembers everything. Riku runs out the hotel room and out onto the sidewalk. The silver teen sees Mizu and he punches the predator down. A load crunch sounds from Mizu's nose and Sora screams.
Sora looks up at the hero and he bursts into heavy tears then hugs Riku. "I love you so much, Sora." The silver knight whispers to him. Sora dries his tears and kisses Riku's pale lips. A reminder alert from Riku's cell phone blares and he takes it out. Church at 1pm.
Oh no…The wedding plans… Axel…
"Sora…marry me now…" Riku says and Sora looks at him with shocked eyes. "Marry?!" The clueless teen exclaims with sheer happiness as Riku hooks his arm around the tan teen's waist. "Will you?" Riku asks as he sees the ring on Sora's finger is still there.
'Riku and me…husbands…this is so fast..and..' Sora gazes at his smiling angelic lover. "Please, Sora…I promise that I will find us somewhere safe and we will finally be happy…We can live together in a small little house on the shore with seashells and ocean spray and –" "Riku, I would love that…" He tells his silver prince.
"Are you…really?" Riku asks as he shyly looks up from his twitter-patted rambling. Sora takes his partner's pale trembling hand in his and smiles. "I do." Sora whispers with a light blush.
Mizu's eyes look at the ground as he waits for his apartment doorbell to ring. His eyes cast upward and he sees a dark black circle under his left eye accompanied with a bloody nose where Riku punched him.
"Fucker." The menacing silverette growls under his breath. An abrupt knock causes the serpent charmer to claw his nails into the stiff arms of his onyx leather chair. "The door's open…" He snaps and the door opens to reveal a familiar face. Roxas.
"Kadaj. Where is Sora? You told me you would have him here by-" Roxas's sentence gets cut off as the silverette launches at him like a cobra. The blond falls backwards in fear at Kadaj. "DO YOU THINK I HAD AN EASY DAY!?" The violent silver male asks and he gestures to the deep purple welt on his face. Roxas glowers as his words whip out at Kadaj.
"I don't want Sora to be anywhere around Riku. You have fucking pansyed-out today over a little punch. I want Riku now and I'm not going to give you an easier time." Roxas demands and he pulls out a knife from his inner jacket pocket. Kadaj's Tahitian blue eyes grow in fright as Roxas stalks him backward.
"Where are they now?!" The angered blond demands and as he grazes his finger gently over the harmful blade. "At the church by Sunset Beach." Kadaj stammers out. "Good boy." Roxas wickedly grins and he flicks his eyes up to meet Kadaj's semi-nervous eyes. "I have no use of you anymore." The cunning blond says with a smile and he slices the metal blade of the knife into Kadaj's tightened throat.
Roxas wipes his bloody knife off on Kadaj's pale face and he smirks at Kadaj's dead wide eyes. "One troublemaker down. One more to go." The sapphire devil cruelly whispers as he plans his route to his next victim. Sora.
Cloud returns from jail to his home sweet home and he searches for his husband. "Leon? Honey? I'm home." The English teacher echoes out in the mahogany front entry. He frowns as he sees a spilled cup of tea on the ground. Cloud picks it up and he walks down the dark hall to the kitchen.
"Leon? Hello?" Cloud asks and he hears the crackling radio on somewhere. 'And tomorrow's weather is highs in the 80s and lows in the 70s' He fumbles with the light switch and it refuses to click on.
"Hmm…power must be out." Cloud says and he sees a murky puddle seeping from underneath the kitchen door. "Leon? Is everything all right? Is the sink clogged again?" He calls out and his shoes step into the scarlet liquid.
He opens the swinging door to his yellow kitchen and he drops the tea cup. The porcelain shatters as he sees the horrid sight. Leon is leaning into the sink with blood oozing out of his gashed neck. The brunette nobody stands there with a sharp knife in his hands and a sharper grin on his face. "L-leon!" Cloud cries out in hysteria.
Zexion puts his clothes back on and adjusts his motorcycle gloves as Axel crosses his pale arms behind his red hair in the hotel bed. "I love afternoon pick-me-ups." Axel says with a half dazed voice as he watches Zexion. "Don't think this is going to be a daily thing now, Axel." Zexion says as he buttons his pants.
"It could be. And next time, could you spread your legs a bit wider?" Axel requests and Zexion hurls his red motorcycle helmet at Axel's snickering face. "Whoa there! Don't hurt the face!" The red head says and he smiles at Zexion's bare chest.
"You're lucky I love you…or else I would have…" Zexion's voice trails off as Axel mocks his facial expressions. "What? Hit me with a book? Give me a lecture on Shakespeare? Gasp! Or even… give me a paper cut?! Hahaha!" Axel says and Zexion manages to smirk at his charming boyfriend.
"Axel…you are really great…" The gloomy librarian mutters mostly to himself. "Well, I am pretty well-endowed." Axel admits proudly with a Cheshire cat grin plastered on his face. "…I'm not talking about your penis. I'm talking about your personality, you idiot." Zexion says as his Axel-induced headache returns. "Suuuuuuuuuure that's what they all say, bucko!" Axel says and he crawls forward to give Zexion's ass a light smack.
The ceiling fan whirls above the heated pyromaniac and he eases out of the cotton sheets. Axel catches Zexion by surprise with a back hug and the blunette's eyes widen. "A-axel…put your clothes on!" He stutters and the red head purrs as his cunning fingers unbutton Zexion again. "Zexion…take your clothes off." Axel slyly whispers into his partner's ear. "You're still the same pervert…and I love it." Zexion says and he captures his lips to Axel's.
The chorus of chiming church bells sends cooing doves flying out into the sky as the wedding begins in Twilight Town. Riku paces back and forth in the dressing room to the beat of the ticking clock. "I do…Of course, I do…I do? …Yes, I do…Certainly, I do…" Riku practices his tone of voice as his face is blushing like crazy.
His hand scrabbles to grip the doorknob of his dressing room and he closes his eyes as he inhales. 'Nothing will go wrong…he loves you and Axel isn't here…You will live happily ever after.' Riku forces Zen thoughts into his frantic head. His black dress shoes tap against the thin carpet as he makes his way towards the aisle. He turns the corner and the organ starts. Riku's hands tremble over himself as he fixes his tie. He felt like a sober person ready to marry in Vegas…very misplaced.
"This is it…" He whispers and he walks down the aisle. He passes the rows empty benches…they could be filled if their families approved of them. Riku strides in the light rays of the ornate stained glass windows to the wedding alter.
An arrangement of white lilies line the aisle way and reflect the grand colourations of the cathedral's ceiling mural. Riku takes his place at the alter and his eyes look as the organ begins for his partner coming down the aisle. "Sora…" Riku whispers as his veiled husband walks with a swan's grace down the blue carpeting.
'Everything I ever dreamed of…is now here…' Riku thinks as he feels his smile brighten more than the Gothic chandelier above him. His partner takes his place before the silver prince and Riku's shaky hands take his partner's tan ones. The priest's words spun over Riku as he fantasized at his white veiled husband. 'Sora…'
'I do…'
"You may now kiss your beloved." 'Married…we..are..married!' Riku's giddy thoughts repeat to make sure this is reality. "My husband…Sora, we are finally together.." Riku says with a smile and his fingers slowly lift his husband's intricately thick laced veil. The silver haired male freezes as the blonde smiles back at him. "Hello, my darling." Roxas says and he pecks Riku's shocked lips.
"LEON!" Cloud yells as he abruptly wakes up from his nightmare. His gasp falls into a relieved sigh once he sees the sleeping face of his husband in bed next to him. Soft asleep. 'Ruk….I can't have an affair with a student….I need to do something…' The blond's mind flares with storming thoughts as his nightmare floods higher in his semi-conscious mind.
"Cloud…go to sleep…it's late…." Leon mumbles and he turns his smooth nude back to Cloud's face. "Sorry…just a bad dream…" The English professor says and he stares at Leon with unsure eyes. Leon's pale back moves as he deeply breathes back into his silent sleep.
"I'm in love with a student…" Cloud mutters to himself and he drifts out of the warm hugging covers to retrieve his clothing. He takes a crumpled piece of paper out of his pants pocket and he reads the scribbled address.
"I have to see him…" He mindlessly mutters as he walks out of the bedroom. "See who, love?" Leon asks calmly and rumors of Ruk and Cloud flit like a swift butterfly through his sleepy mind. Cloud's black shoes crush the dewdrop grass of his front lawn as he quickly walks away with the white front door ajar behind him.
Leon's eyes slowly open as a chilling breeze wafts into the room. "Cloud…you left the window open…" Leon says and he hears no movement. The grandfather clock ticks away in the distance and Leon's hand feels over to his partner's side of the bed…..it's cold and bare. The brunette's quick eyes burst wide open and he sits up in bed and shouts, "Cloud!"