Beloved 02

Declaimers, AN, Warnings: See part one

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Beloved

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When Leon Orcot first came to the waking again, he was assaulted with the ever unpleasant sensation of a full blown headache.

‘Jesus, I really should have cut down on those pills.’ Swatting an annoyed hand at the bottle of prescript medication on his nightstand to the floor, the blond American slowly rose from bed since he didn’t think he could handle any sudden movement while in his current condition.

The ring of his cell phone sound unbearably loud in his ears as he stumble out of bed, nearly tripping his own two feet and grab the piece of technology that was making his morning headache even worst from the pant pocket of his discarded jeans in the corner.

“Orcot speaking.” Leon spoke softly and quickly put an arm’s distance between the phone and his ear as a very irritated female’s voice screamed through the speaker.

“LEON WHERE ARE YOU! YOU’RE LATE TO WORK! IT’S ELEVEN ALREADY! THE CHIEF IS GOING TO NAIL YOU TO THE WALL!”

“Jill, tune it down will ya? I don’t feel so well.” Leon nearly whimpered as he was feeling woozy from the noise.

“Leon? What’s wrong? Where are you?” Jill’s voice abruptly softened at his words. For someone as stubborn as Leon to admit he wasn’t feeling well, he must be in very bad condition.

“I’m at home. I-” Leon opened his mouth and blackness erupted from his vision as he sunk into oblivion.

The grip on the phone slack as it tumbled to the floor along with the man-

“Leon!? Leon are you alright? LEON! LEON!! WILLIAMS GET YOUR ASS UP WE’RE GOING TO LEON’S PLACE NOW!” Jill’s voice shriek through the blond man’s now silent apartment.

“Leon answer me! Are you alright?” Jill continued to speak on her end as more silence greeted her she cursed.

“DAMN IT! LEON!!”

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China Town

Count D hummed happily as he settled in his favorite chair in the front setting room for a relaxing afternoon tea.

His animals were playing running around the shop today’s a very quiet day, more so than usual. Even his dear Detective hadn’t managed to show up for tea…

D picked up his cup, a set of rare Victorian tea set his human had given him. The Kami smiled at remembering how red the detective had become when he just marched into the pet shop and shove the box containing the delicate china into his hands with gentleness that seem very out of place with his rough gestures.

And how even more embarrassed the blond had become as he stutter about how D could use something that he was going to let it sitting dust in his place and high tailed out of the shop in a speed that had not only D but all the pets loitering in the room staring at him with their jaws hanging.

D giggled as his finger trace the elegant patterns on the cup. It was a rather heart warming gesture coming from the human.

This was Leon’s grandmother’s tea set. Something he had inherited from his own mother and yet he had given it to him…

CRACK

D’s smiled fade away as a small but noticeable crack suddenly appeared in the rim of the china.

The Kami gentle pour the tea into an empty cup as he held the damaged china for closer inspection.

It was not suppose to crack, the tea he was having was not even close to boiling point but mild warm…

An omen…

D efficiently clean up the deserts and tea he had spread over the table as he stood up and place the damaged tea cup onto his desk in the back room.

Something had happen to Leon…

The Kami quickly threw on an outing coat and breeze pass every animal that were watching him with questioning eyes.

Locking the shop behind him, the Kami make a haste pace toward the detective’s apartment.

D wasn’t even going to think it over as the face of the bash American policeman appeared the moment the china had crack. It had not surprised him for a long time as Leon had gotten himself into more trouble than any human he had met in his life, only this time he had hope that the blond had not throw himself over the cliff with him unable to pull that idiot back up…

“Leon…”

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A pair of arms warped securely around the fainted man, someone that hadn’t been in the apartment the second before the blond had black out materialized into the room as the man gently ease the detective into his embrace.

“…My dearest Beloved…” The man now holding Leon whispered lovingly against him. It was rather curious noted that he too had blond hair and blue eyes both eerily the exact same shade as the other man…

The youngest Kami D’s lips pinch together into a thin line. The ‘man’ now had his detective in his arms look like the replica copy of his human. But the aura was completely different as he could felt the dark intent radiate from the man instead of the warm protectiveness always surrounding Leon.

Despite the confusion as to where this Leon look alike had come from, Count D had decided the question could wait after he get Leon away from the familiar looking stranger, the Kami really didn’t like it when someone else touches his ‘pet’, the D’s were exceptionally possessive by nature.

“It will be wise to let the detective go, stranger.”

The man looked up from where he was caressing the unconscious blond and gave the Kami a weird smirk. He didn’t even bother to look up from where he was fondling the man when the Kami had burst through the door with magic, only after the pale raven hair deity spoken up that the look-alike slowly risen from his slouched hold of Leon.

“What will you do if I don’t, Count D.?” The man was clearly baiting the Kami as he held Leon’s face even closer to him.

“…Really, letting go of Leon is a very good idea for you.” D’s mismatched eyes glowed in his raising ire of dealing with the look-alike. Unlike Leon, whose antics the Kami had found endearing and usually saw it with fond eyes, this ‘man’ fell into the same category of those he long to sell one of his special ‘pets’ to.

“…Hehe…” The man giggled as he slowly let go Leon placing him onto the floor, the vines of the weird/rare cactus was wrapping around his neck in a very threatening manner as unusual iron strong thorns appeared instead of the leaves the moment the Count had express his displeasure.

Gattolotto(1) was very upset that this strange man suddenly appeared out of no where and sickened her human, not to mention being very disrespectful toward the Count.

“Well, well what do you know, it look like we got company.” The look-alike grinned as he gave a mock bow toward the Kami and fade out of view as sudden as he had appeared.

“Don’t think I’m giving up this easily, Count D. Leon Orcot is mine.”

The Kami bristled at the parting words of the stranger. It was a direct challenge of his claim on his human pet and D was anything but please.

How dare he… Leon had been his the moment the human step into his shop! The Kami quickly cross the distance in rapid steps and kneel down to check the unconscious blond.

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“…My dear Detective…what have you gotten yourself into now?” Letting out a relieved sigh, the blond was merely sleeping and nothing seemed to be wrong with him physically.

A loud thundering sound reached the Kami’s sensitive hearing as he noted someone was stomping their way up the stairs down the hall and headed toward Leon’s place.

“Company?” The Count whispered as he recalled what Leon’s look-alike had said before he disappeared.

Frowning in concentration the Kami debate the options of either leaving Leon to the other human or taking him back to the shop…

/Count D…They’re here…/ Gattolotto’s soft whisper snap the Kami out of his musing as he flew toward the window, opening it with practiced ease and quickly worm his way out hiding him from view as he stood onto the ledge.

As the Count listen to the two mortals that had burst into the apartment and loud worried conversation of rather or not sending his human to the hospital, the Chinese deity silently jump down from where he was standing and make his way back to the shop.

If he was not mistaken, one of the two human that were tending Leon was Jill. That woman cared for the blond, it was unlikely that she will let harm befall to Leon…

Now, he will have to do some planning… no one ever walk away unscathed after they challenged a Kami.

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Two figure lean against opposite walls of the shadowed alley across from the building was watching the Kami left the blond’s apartment through the window.

“You’re just going to let that petty Chinese god sunk his claws in him?” A child no more than seven, with blond hair and blue eyes and look like a miniature version of Leon Orcot pout at the older man. But those blue eyes held none of the innocence in the young but an old brewing malicious flare.

The little boy that wasn’t a boy at all but something else hiding in the young boy’s body, so very much liked what the older looking blond was.

“Don’t worry, that Kami really have no idea what he was getting himself and his family into.” The Leon look alike let out a weird giggle as he straighten and place his hand on the little boy’s shoulder.

“Leon belong with us, no one and definitely no god can take him away from us.” The man reassured the child with a confident smirk. He had chose Leon… when that foolish mortal had offer the policeman to him, Leon Orcot had been his the very second his heart had stop and start beating again when he share his breath with him.

“Let’s go.” And the two faded into the shadow and the alley once again devoid of any sign of life…

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Unknown to either party, not fifteen feet away at the outside patio of a small café, a red hair man had saw everything behind his crimson colored shades.

“My, my… isn’t that interesting…” The red hair blue eyed young man smirked as he pondered what he had just witnessed.

‘An Asian man just jump down from the fourth floor and walk away like he merely having a stroll in the park? And what is that weird vibes I felt coming from the alley?’ The red hair man stood up, leaving his untouched coffee at the table as he walk out of the establishment to check out the dark alley and glanced at the building across where the Asian man had jump out of.

The German smirked to himself. L.A. really was fun, not only they have nightwalkers prowling the streets past sunset they have weird people popping up every where during the day as well.

‘Ah… Vacation turn out to be more entertaining than I had expected…I wonder if Oracle had foreseen this before he sent me off to the states?’

With the thought of contacting his leader in mind, the red head blend into the growing lunch hour rushers and disappeared into the crowd…

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WIP

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AN-

This will somehow turn into a semi-crossover as various other characters from other series will have camo appearances but I have not yet decided if any of them will have a permanent role in this fic.

Gattolotto – The weird looking cactus-like plant that Count D gave to Leon in Volume 4. It’s a plant of life since it only bloom for one night and it seem that Gattolotto had gave hers away to Leon thus Leon survived being shoot multiple times.