Disclaimer: In First Chapter

Warnings: In First Chapter

Chapter 3 –I wanna be a part of something

It was a cold early evening and the streets of Los Angeles were partially busy, traffic wasn’t really a problem in the upper suburbs where Tala lived, but driving closer to downtown meant dealing with a heavier car flow. Eventually pulling into a parking space a little ways from the apartment block Tala switched off the car, he drove a Tiburon which was a car worth the money it was bought for, he sat there a moment and ran his hands over the steering wheel while his blue eyes focused out of the windshield, seeing the back of the car in front of him and beyond that some lights.

The coat he wore was buttoned up almost all the way to the top and the navy blue turtle neck peeked out of the top and covered half of his thin neck, his bit his lower lip, making the already pink flesh turn white for a moment before the blood recovered and it turned a dark shade of red where his teeth had been and he gripped the steering wheel briefly.

Once he gathered himself he got out of the car and shut the door, setting his alarm on and then shoving his hand and the car keys deep into his pocket as he walked to the apartment complex entrance, pushing on the handle with as little of his grip as possible the door opened and he was back inside a warmer place, the material of his jeans now colder against his legs and in his sneakers he could feel his feet were cold.

The weather had been peculiar, hot in the day time and cold at night, sometimes the opposite, but Tala was usually colder in body temperature due to his low blood pressure. He touched the end of his red nose with a small squeeze when it burned and he glanced at the front desk, vacant of anyone so he made his way up into the building since he’d memorized the address.

Getting out on the right floor, he unconsciously wiped his hands over his coat right before knocking on the door, the hallway was empty and quiet and he felt awkward. He heard a muffled call of ‘I’ll get it Mom’ right before the door opened and the first thing that he noticed was how Hillary’s face lit up when she saw him and she seemed to bounce on the spot as she pulled the door open further, this made her breasts bounce quite noticeably since she wore no bra under her T shirt and Tala averted his eyes to the floor and then back to her face.

“Bonaparte, I didn’t think you’d show…” she spoke with a subtle hint of seriousness and then stepped out of the door way, turning her back to Tala, “…come in…”

Tala saw the low cut tight track pants she wore as he stepped him, blinking slowly when he looked away from her to close the door slowly and he heard the click as the small first latch clicked closed.

Once inside she picked up a cup of what he assumed was coffee and waved for him to follow so he did, glancing around the place and stepping by the clustered furniture, he heard her mumble something about taking his coat off but he ignored it and instead just made his way behind her until they entered a room with a single bed and the décor of a girl her age, more or less.

Standing around on shelves were sculptures, they appeared to be quite rough and done in some cheap hardened stone,

“Who did these…?” he asked hearing her bedroom door close as he lightly touched the female sculpture along the thigh, feeling its relatively smooth surface, “…they’re quite good.” He added and looked at her as she walked by him,

“Thank you.” She commented and flopped onto her bed to sit, pulling her legs up to cross as she smiled at him, her brown her pulled back untidily and sitting messily above her head.

He stared at her and then moved over to look closely at another, touching the hand molded against the front side of the sculptures stomach,

“You did them?” he didn’t hesitate to add the tone of extra questionability to his voice when he asked.

“Don’t look so surprised!” she joked and giggled and Tala noticed her sit back and he looked at her, “…I modeled for them too.” She tipped her head and leaned back on her hands.

Tala’s eyes darted over her and he thought both of the fact that her nipples were erect slightly through the T shirt and that it would be quite a task to model for your own sculptures, his hand that had been touching the sculpture retreated and was stuffed into his pocket and he stepped away, taking a few steps awkwardly to the side of her bed.

“Are you blushing Bonaparte?” she giggled again and rolled over slightly to look at him and Tala’s eyes locked on her face, “Why do you call me that?” he asked and she smiled and sighed,

“Ever take a career aptitude test?”

With a small frown and a shuffle of his hands in his pockets Tala shook his head, “No.” he answered shortly.

“If you ever did…” she pushed herself up and got off the bed, “…they’d recommend you a career as a dictator…” she informed him.

He didn’t even really bother to acknowledge this because she was a stupid girl making preposterously stupid observations,

“Why…” he mumbled not really asking and he saw her smile waver at his indifference, “…who would listen to me…” he said and looked at her seriously, their eyes locking for a moment in which she didn’t smile and just stared at Tala’s crystal half transparent eyes.

“Where’s your physics book?” he broke the silence and the eye contact and glanced around, getting straight to business as they say, Hillary only moved after a second longer staring at the side of Tala’s face, his red hair hanging in loose bits in certain places and completely contrasting his pale skin, unusual.

Kai had his regularly casual smile on his face, even though it was forced and he had a slightly amused glaze in his eyes, he stood up in the small trailer room and kept a safe distance from surfaces and objects, the place was like a pig sty and it smelled like a crack house.

The pig that lived there had a baboon as a pet and it looked far cleaner than the owner who was sitting his fat ass on his old dirty sofa, his T shirt was too tight for him with his belly protruded out disgracefully, there were food stains in the middle of the shirt and even on the light pair of jeans the man wore.

Kai made a little verbal note of this as he watched the baboon eating something that Tyson, the pig, had left lying around, his auburn eyes trailing around the room with meticulous notation while Tyson made his way through a Twinkie.

“You’re over feeding that thing…” Kai commented when the silence was filled with the squishy noises of chewing and a wrapper, “…it’ll get as fat as you are.” He laughed a little when the chimp threw something at the grimy small rectangular window and Tyson yelled at it, it screeched back quite cheekily.

He turned when he felt…or rather smelled Tyson was closer to him and he glanced at the open hand waiting for money, he pulled out a pre-counted wad of cash notes and dropped them into Tyson’s hand, taking a step back so the stench of old food and alcohol didn’t get on his clean clothes,

“I hope this is better than that other stuff…” Kai stated and glanced at the chimp getting restless again and jumping on the spot.

“It’s KGB…” Tyson commented and moved over to plop himself back on the old sofa, Kai looked at him with a annoyance and it was just in time to see him switch the TV on, his greasy hand gripping the remote tightly. Erotic moaning noises and a few vile sexually heated curses filled the room and right after seeing the vile grin spread over Tyson’s mid thirties pudgy face he looked at the porn movie on the television and felt his stomach do a flip flop at the level of disgust he felt.

He changed the subject and looked around the small stinky trailer ,

“For $800...it better put me on the fucking moon.” he added smiling but it was the forced kind, showing his rows of straight shining teeth.

“You’ll be totally satisfied…” Tyson piped up, making a heavy breathing noise as he shifted his lard ass to lift one leg onto the couch, reclining back on the discolored sofa and shrugging as he looked at Kai, “…I guarantee it.”

When Tyson smiled Kai felt dirty, like he knew he was getting ripped off but in the true sense of money…he could part with it, he had an abundance and he could get out of this shit hole quicker if he paid.

“Money back?” he turned half way to see the door not even a foot behind him, trying to hint that Tyson had to get up off his fat ass and open the door, since he was not keen to touch it, when he looked back Tyson was giving him a ‘what?’ look and he laughed, softly and in a charming way and raised his hand, “Come on, cant we cut a deal?” Kai grinned.

Tyson raised his eyebrows, still unchanging in his decision and opened the hand with the now greased money,

“Don’t want it?” he offered his own little smirk, pulling his oily lips over his greasy teeth.

Kai made a small off handed noise and turned half way again,

“I want it.” he nodded smiling and was happy when Tyson made his loud shifting breathing as he stood up, stepping to the door and Kai stepped back so Tyson didn’t rub off on his expensive shirt.

“Richie Rich.” Tyson mocked, shoving the unstable door open and letting in fresh air but he was still inside because Tyson was blocking the small doorway.

He shook his head, laughing but not in a humored way as he tipped his head to look at Tyson, his light eyes narrowed only slightly but he always kept that soft charmed smile on his slightly moist lips,

“I hate it…” he paused to shake his head again, “…when you call me that.”

Tyson seemed to smile a little less confidently and he shrugged, leaning against the doorframe of his trailer and nodding,

“It’s a deal.” he said and nodded, making Kai raise a confused eyebrow and Tyson licked the corners of his dirty mouth, “…bring me a couple of pigtailed cheerleaders…then I give it to you…” Tyson bobbed his eyebrows, “…for free.” he grinned now and the erotic sex noises in the background enhanced Kai’s nausea.

“How can I trust that.” he wasn’t really asking and he was smiling to feign amusement.

“I love this part…“ Tyson’s head was turned now and Kai saw him focused on the television where a woman was being ungraciously fucked by two guys, Kai’s eyes slid from Tyson to the TV and back again as Tyson looked at him,

“Can I just get the product already.” Kai forced himself not to grab Tyson and kick him in his fat stomach so he could watch him puke, although that idea made Kai nauseas too.

“Check this out!” Tyson gestured to the television and Kai rolled his eyes, showing his irritation.

“Come on.” Kai mumbled in annoyance.

But Tyson had the cash so Kai had to wait and Tyson blocked the door way, he started laughing as he focused on the TV, smiling like the pig he was,

“You’ll get it…hang on…” Tyson patted Kai’s shoulder and he twitched ever so unnoticeably as Tyson smiled at the TV, “…listen to her, she loves it.”

Kai waited, he had to wait, he had no choice.

Rei shut his car door and looked around the middle class suburban neighborhood, a teenager here and there, a dog barking behind a fence and carpools dropping off groups of kids from school. He slipped his hands into his jacket pockets and made his way up the path of the residence he was headed to, the yard was mostly empty but just like the yard gate, the front door was open.

Rei stepped in and he looked around at everyone necessary busying themselves with collecting evidence and dusting for fingerprints, he glanced around and walked further in, his trained honey colored eyes taking in the state of the living room as he walked into and through it.

“Hey…” he heard a rushed voice and he turned around slowly to see Bryan with his bright eyes and half smile, he was stepping over some tossed furniture to get to Rei who offered a very faint smile which lasted less than a second.

“We got our Jane Doe.” Rei said to confirm what Bryan had said when he’d called to tell him to come to the second crime scene for the week.

“Her name was Judy Tate…she missed three days of work.” Bryan said informatively making Rei almost roll his eyes as he walked further into the room, passing an officer and lamp, “Her supervisor found the place like this.” he added and Rei glanced at him.

Rei’s eyes never stopped looking around because he was constantly looking for something, there was always something, there had to be. He sighed,

“What do we know about the supervisor?” he asked the first and most obvious question.

“Married, two kids…solid alibi.” Bryan said very quickly, almost in a challenging manner as he mimicked Rei and slipped his own hands into his pants pockets.

Rei didn’t respond and moved on passed Bryan to walk further into the house and he knew Bryan followed him,

“Maybe she caught somebody in the middle of a 459 and he panicked?” he threw the idea out there.

Rei wasn’t going to laugh, so he just shook his head and peered round a corner into a bedroom,

“And what, took the body with him?” he said rudely, but Bryan had half expected it, Rei having been obvious about his manner short comings.

He narrowed his eyes and stepped through the room, Bryan right behind him when he saw Rei looking at something,

“Where did those mud prints come from?” Rei asked quietly, pointing to the large brown boot prints walked through the bedrooms soft white carpeting.

Bryan found himself wanting to be able to answer so he placed his hands on Rei’s shoulder and brushed by him, making Rei raise an eyebrow at the behaviour and Bryan looked out of the large French style windows, he held the powder blue curtains back,

“There’s a planting bed out here.” he gestured to the flowery soil below the window.

Rei had moved to stand beside him and glanced at Bryan,

“Looks dry as a bone.” was all he said, turning away to head back out.

“Maybe she watered the lawn.” Bryan threw in for taste and felt discouraged when again Rei showed no interest in his theory.

Back in the living room a few people were busy working around the furniture and Rei had taken to looking at the untouched bits of the lounge, moving over to the fire place, he looked at the photos and non de script ornaments laid on the mantle above it.

“We got a time of death?” Rei asked absently just knowing Bryan was practically wagging his tail in anticipation of answering another question.

“Based on the stomach contents, somewhere between 9 and 10 Thursday night.” he answered quickly, Rei smled ever so slightly and didn’t look his way and then Bryan quirked up again,

“Or what about around 7:45 pm?”

Rei turned now to see Bryan’s lilac eyes downcast, he looked at their feet to see an old wooden clock lying smashed to pieces and the face of the clock indicating a time. Rei was about to analyze it when Steve’s voice drifted into his inner piece and he looked at the door.

Steve stood at the entrance to the living room,

“Can we come in?“ he smiled cheerfully, a familiar man beside him with a smug smile etched into his face, his red hair underneath a novelty base ball cap and his stature and clothes positively beaming ‘I think I’m important’. Rei sighed and Bryan just beside him caught Rei’s words.

“Let the games begin.” as he mumbled them and brought his arms up to cross over his chest, Bryan consciously unfolded his and smiled at the two men approaching them.

“Bryan Kuznetsov.” he extended his and the red head took it firmly and shook with a smile,

“Michael Parker.” he introduced and Bryan glanced between the captain and Rei, who looked as if he had much better things to do, his black eyebrows slightly raised in disinterest.

“New assistant DA…and former member of our department.” the captain broke the silence whilst gesturing at the smirking man beside him, Bryan stayed neutral and nodded his acknowledgement.

“Nice to meet you.” Michael said to Bryan then his blue eyes fell on Rei,

“Mr. Kon.” he greeted, “…always a pleasure to see you.” he added and while Bryan didn’t notice any sarcasm, he did pick up a hint of mock amusement.

“Heard you finally passed the bar.” Rei grinned, his sharp teeth visible as he did, “…did they make it true or false?”

Bryan didn’t smile but he wanted to when he saw Michael’s smug smile falter, Rei kept grinning to add on tension to the awkward moment.

“He hasn’t lost his sting.” Michael said to Bryan trying not to seem to thrown off in front of a rookie.

“What are you doing here?” Rei stated and their attention all fell back on him, the shortest of the lot but with the most conviction whenever he spoke,

“Staying informed.”

Rei gave a half snort and his smile was more genuine this time, he had expected such a lame assed answer from this idiot,

“Really.” he said to humor the other and he raised a hand and tapped the back of it to Bryan’s chest so he looked at Rei, a little confused, “…Bryan, please keep him informed.” his tone was amused and Bryan almost nodded but stopped himself, glancing at Michael who had his eyes on Rei who added a ‘thank you’ toward Bryan before walking by Michael, not even so much as brushing arms with him as he left the circle.

The captain shrugged and looked around,“What do we got here?” he asked loudly.

Rei was close to the kitchen when he heard a small crashing sound in the lounge and he glanced back, he heard a forensics officer mumble an apology obviously having dropped something and Rei felt irritated, hating the extra people creating clutter, but he moved on quietly and headed into the kitchen to look around, stopping at a window and seeing nothing interesting outside in the back.

Rei didn’t know, but at the front, across the street and a few blocks down, behind a tree and very inconspicuously someone was watching the entire seen, no charming smile but pure raw curiosity etched into his face as he gripped his binoculars.

About an hour later Rei was driving, he was supposed to be heading back to the station but he honestly didn’t feel like it. He came to stop at a small stop street and he leaned his head back on the rest as cars crossed in front of him and he watched them, he had avoided it but he let his eyes trail to the road sign, the right turn would lead him onto a country road…a familiar country road.

He reached into the pocket of his jacket and slipped out his cell phone, one hand gripped the steering wheel as he dialed and heard the tone when he put it to his ear.

He rolled his eyes in his side view mirror when the car hooted, Rei was stationary at a clear crossing and he wasn’t indicating or flashing hazards.

“Bryan, its me…” Rei said once he heard the others voice, “I’ll be a little late, why don’t you get started.’” he gave him the go ahead to work on the case evidence. He hung up just as the car behind him swerved to overtake him, he purposely turned to the right and the car screeched to break and hooted again, Rei sported a grin at whoever the driver was as he drove off down the road.

For a long time as he drove he only paid attention to the sound of the car and the sandy ground noisy under his tyres until he stopped across the sandy road from a drop off, not too steep, it was just a sand hill and beyond that an open ground with a random scattering of trees.

He switched off and got out of the car, looking both ways down the road just to see how alone he was, the setting sun wasn’t doing much for the cold creeping in as the night fell and the clouds were passing over thicket and thicker as it got later.

He crossed and looked down, the sand bank was softened and it had leaves fallen around , it looked too lonely and Rei grimaced inwardly as he thought to the case…Judy Tate’s unexplained murder, her body dumped…

He sighed and raised a hand to his face, miscalculating as he shifted his feet and the soft sand shifted too, making him slip and Rei face looked shocked and then miffed as he slip down the sandy bank until he was half way to the bottom, he’d managed to stop himself with the heels of his boots digging into the sand. He lay on his back, his hand coming up to brush some of his hair form his face, he pulled his pony tail forward and dusting the wrapping as he swore under his breath, his eyes trailed down a little further when the wind blew an old plastic shopping back across the sand and Rei shivered involuntarily as he sat up carefully.

-Looks like a body dump-

In the back of his mind the memory was vivid and clear, a police officer stumbling down this very bank to get to the body wrapped up at the bottom of the bank, the heavy footsteps taken as you near the body that has a high possibility of being dead. Reaching for a hand beneath the covering of the left for dead corpse, gripping at the bloody and thin wrist and feeling a faint pulse.

-Jesus! He’s alive!-

The memory echoed as the wind picked up around him, the sun at least casting its rays over him reminding him where he was, he turned his eyes up and stared at the sunlight for a moment before getting up to head back into town.

Rei didn’t return to work, he found himself sitting at the small table and chairs in his house boat with Judy Tate’s case photos laid out in front of him, a glass of water to his side. The photos were not for the faint hearted, taken on the day she was found laying near the stream.

Her skin was tinged blue in every photo, cold and left for rigor mortis to take its course. Rei had changed into a loose T shirt and a track pants, he had a blanket pulled over his shoulders since it got colder around the water.

He lifted one of the pictures where the marks poked onto the skin were most visible and the sounds of earlier returned in his memory, louder than before and a little different. Still a memory but not the one at the side of the road.

He reached over and pulled out a thick case file from his work folder bag, with the title of a man’s name written in large letters of black felt pen.

Lee Wong

Rei cleared his throat as he opened it out on the table over Judy’s photos and he noticed belatedly he was holding his breath, he saw the ID photo of the man he remembered very clearly and he lifted it up to stare at it.

The photo was black and white, the kind of photo that you never saw a happy person in, the police profiling kind. Hands at his side and straight forward, his dark brown eyes partially narrowed and his mouth set in a line of misery, he had his long thick black hair pulled into a ponytail, Rei could tell and he had a scar on his face…one single scar over his cheek.

He dropped that photo to the side, pretending not to care and then moved some of the files papers aside, stopping himself when he saw a photograph with a bloodied knife lying on a tiled floor, stained and thick with the infliction of wounds.

The sounds in Rei’s head became louder and he heard screams, familiar screams and shouts and heaving of breath, an angered voice. He dropped the picture and sighed loudly, forgetting the glass to his side and knocking it clean off the table so it crashed on the floor.

“…damn it.” he mumbled and didn’t even bother to lean over to see it, ignoring the water droplets that had soaked into his socks on his bare feet, he brought his hands to cup his face and he just stayed that way for a moment.

Bryan pushed the door to the small bar room and he peeked inside, it was brightly lit and mostly empty inside, since it was well after eight and it was mid week. He caught sight of Rei sitting near the window at the end by himself, a drink in front of him as he leaned on his palm and stared at it, in deep thought.

He made his way around the small table and bar stools and he pulled up a chair at Rei’s table, smiling when Rei looked up at him and surprisingly smiled at him,

“Nice detective work…” he complimented in a playful way and watched Bryan as he sat down, “…how’d you find me?” he licked his lips and looked down at the drink.

“Rule one, talk to the neighbors.” Bryan smiled and leaned forward, watching Rei carefully since he noticed the slightly different mood Rei seemed to be in. Rei just looked at him smiling and nodded, raising his eyebrows to compliment his small little discovery.

Bryan stopped smiling,

“You said a little late and its been more than three hours.”

Rei said nothing and shrugged, hoping that indicated he just hadn’t wanted to be there, watching Bryan who seemed to be shifting in his seat quite a bit as Rei just sat with his hand under his chin.

“This about D.A. Parker?”

That question earned him a frown and a dismissive wave of Rei’s free hand,

“That asshole? No.” he shook his head lightly and placed both his forearms on the table, fiddling with the glass with a shot of whiskey in it.

“He seemed okay.” Bryan reasoned.

Rei scoffed,

“Yeah…well, try dating him.” Rei mumbled and Bryan’s eyes were on him quickly, a little more curious now and Rei noticed this so he shrugged again and lifted the large tumbler glass into his hands and swirled its contents.

“He got rough with me…so I broke his nose with a cat.” he said off handedly and smiled at Bryan who frowned ever so slightly,

“A cat?”

Rei was fond of cat’s so he hadn’t bothered to elaborate, beside it was bad memories,

“Well, a ceramic cat.” he offered and stared at the drink, giving Bryan an eerie smile as the other nodded with a look of understanding on his face. Rei pushed the glass around to him, having not touched the drink and Bryan shook his head,

“No thanks.”

Rei kept smiling and he shifted in his seat and looked around the bar,

“Good then…you can walk me home.” he tipped his head to the side, knowing how to play cute when he wanted and Bryan read him like a book but he thought he wasn’t playing up to it when Rei seemed so strange, he didn’t know him well enough yet to assume the situation.

“Sure…” Bryan smiled and stood up with Rei who stood up,

“Thank you…” he walked out first and Bryan narrowed one eye a little suspiciously.

It was a quick walk along the side of the taverns and stores to the side where Rei’s boat was and once they got inside Rei went straight for the fridge,

“Beer?”

Bryan nodded and Rei took two out, pushing the fridge door closed with his foot and smiling as he walked over to Bryan, the hissing sound of him twisting the beer caps off the bottle sounding right before Bryan reached out and took one from Rei.

He sipped it and noticed Rei’s head tip again,

“Sit down.” Rei said casually but his hand was not casual as it was raised and pushed against Bryan’s chest so he moved back and sat on the couch behind his legs.

Rei was mostly certain that Bryan was gay and he had been obvious enough about where he stood so he proceeded with his advances, moving around the small coffee table and flopping down beside Bryan, who smelled quiet good at this proximity, Rei’s arm stretched out behind Bryan’s head as he sat slightly facing Bryan on the couch, sipping his beer and keeping his eyes relaxed gaze on Bryan who shifted when Rei sat down so close and leaned forward to place the beer, now half way done, down on the table.

“I think I should get going.” Bryan said and shifted to get up but Rei leaned forward and put his beer down, lightly pushing Bryan back to sit by his arm, his voice and his half smile very directly softened as he kept his eyes on Bryan, who was getting a little hot under the collar,

“What’s the rush?” Rei said half heartedly and Bryan sighed and relaxed back, Rei’s hand came up on the side of his face and fiddled with his hair but Bryan didn’t stop him and instead turned to face him slightly,

“Can I ask you a personal question?”

Rei broke into a grin and shifted even closer, sitting forward so he could see Bryan better and he tipped his head, some of his hair not tied down falling out to frame his face,

“I can hardly wait.” he bobbed his eyebrows.

Bryan tilted his head as well, his eyes absently trailing along Rei’s neckline before settling on his face again,“Why did you get into this work?” he said seriously, “Why homicide?”

Rei’s face became moderately serious and he blinked,

“Someone I knew was murdered…and I got interested in the process.” he blinked again and waited as Bryan mulled over what he’d said,

“Really?”

“No…” Rei answered and he started laughing a little, tipping his head forward and then back to look at Bryan again, “…I’m just bullshitting you….its just the kind of crap people like to hear.” he shrugged as he remained smiling and Bryan didn’t look amused.

Rei stopped smiling to and shifted so he was close enough to Bryan, he leaned forward and he pressed his mouth to Bryan’s and shifting so one of his legs slipped up over Bryan’s thigh, Rei’s mouth moving open again and urging Bryan into it, Bryan took in a deep breath, blinking in confusion but feeling Rei’s lips against his own was hard not to react to.

“Wait…” Bryan brought a gentle hand up to push at Rei’s shoulder and he shifted down on the couch to move away from Rei who moved after him and kissed him again, this tim e a little more heatedly, grabbing a handful of Bryan’s shirt and moving his bottom lip between Bryan’s to urge the other’s lips apart.

“What are you doing?” Bryan opened his mouth and Rei kissed him again, slipping a little of his tongue along Bryan’s inner lower lip and smiling as he pulled back,

“Its called sex…” he kissed Bryan’s lips again and left breathing sensually against Bryan’s mouth, “…its fun…you should try it.” he closed his eyes and moved so he was full on top of Bryan’s lap, one leg between Bryan’s and the other beside his waist and Rei let his hands slide down Bryan’s chest.

Bryan was in between certainty, frowning but kissing back and becoming heavily drawn in by Rei’s deep breaths against his skin and the hands pulling up his shirt that was tucked in.

Bryan tilted his head back to avoid kissing,

“We work together, this is a bad idea…” he breathed as he closed his eyes.

Rei glanced at Bryan briefly before taking to sliding his mouth downward from Bryan’s mouth and to kissing his neck and smiling,

“Don’t worry, I wont get possessive.” he was grinning as he slid his hands under Bryan’s shirt and against his firm abdomen, feeling Bryan’s body as he found Bryan’s jaw and kissed it, making sure he moved enough to create friction against Bryan’s crotch with his leg.

“Wait…” he breathed again and Rei moved up to his mouth, kissing him to shut him up and Bryan closed his eyes and spoke into Rei’s mouth between kisses, “…why are…you doing this?”

Rei was getting irritated with all of Bryan’s fussing,

“Because I want to…” he pulled back briefly to get a hold of Bryan’s belt buckle and started to undo it,

“What about what I want?” Bryan’s hands stopped Rei’s and Rei’s smile was gone as he leaned forward again to talk against Bryan’s mouth,

“What do you want?” he asked shortly and when Bryan breathed out unsurely Rei kissed his mouth again and Bryan groaned uncertainly,

“Right now?”

“Yeah…” Rei mumbled and moved the belt buckle to start with Bryan’s button and zipper,

“This…” he answered equally short and kissed Rei back, opening his mouth to Rei’s and kissing him fully hearing a moan from Rei as he did so and he felt Rei smiling as he pulled the zipper down and his hand found its way into Bryan’s pants.

They moved over to the bed after a short while of heavy petting and Bryan cast his final item of clothing aside as he crawled over Rei who was lying on his back on the bed, nothing but his loose T shirt left on. Bryan moved on top of him and pressed himself against Rei’s flat firm body, Rei’s hands moving quickly to run over his shoulders and over his broad back, Rei arched up when Bryan’s naked body pressed between his legs and they were kissing, slowly but not too slowly. Bryan’s hands moved up along Rei’s thigh and then under his shirt just barely before Rei flipped their positions, rolling over to he was more on top of Bryan, more in control and his hands moved down between them where he started touching Bryan and kissing his mouth more deeply.

Bryan was enjoying it but he preferred control himself, so he rolled Rei back underneath him and stopped Rei’s hands, taking it from between them and bringing Rei’s arm up slowly to pin it above his head, Rei stopped kissing and stared at Bryan,

“Wait…slow down…” Bryan told him and held his arm above his head by his thin wrist.

Rei took a deep breath and shifted lightly, biting his lip and nodding vaguely, he felt Bryan’s grip loosen on his wrist and he slid his hand down along Rei’s bare arm until it ran over the cotton shirt, over Rei’s chest lightly and he leaned his head down to kiss Rei’s neck.

He was eager to move along but he relaxed himself and let Bryan be in control, tilting his head over and catching Bryan’s lips again, kissing him slowly as his hand came down again to Bryan’s shoulder. Rei was fine until he felt Bryan’s hand travel just underneath the hem of his shirt and he quickly moved his hand down and stopped it, taking a breath and looking Bryan in the eye, his eyes hazed and half lidded,

“No…no leave that one please…just that…” he pushed Bryan’s hand out from under the shirt and used his hand to caress the slightly hairy surface of Bryan’s forearm.

Bryan had felt something but he hadn’t an idea what it was so he just nodded and leaned down to kiss Rei again and he moved properly on top of Rei, earning a breathy moan as his arms came up either side of Rei’s head and Rei’s hands found Bryan’s muscular back. Bryan taking his time and finally hearing Rei’s hitched breath when he moved upward, sheathing himself with a little difficulty, Rei’s nails in his back as he moved and watched Rei’s eyes closed as he lay beneath him.

Rei heard a noise outside…or from somewhere, that mixed with the content of his mild dreaming state made him jerk awake slightly, blinking his golden eyes a few times and turning his head up to see he was lying on Bryan’s chest. He took a quiet breath and moved off of Bryan in his half sleeping state, he patted Bryan’s shoulder roughly just before rolling over.

Rei noticed Bryan stirring, groggily Bryan tried to open his eyes, he’d felt the soft texture of Rei’s hair when he’d shifted but was a bit confused by the rough hand and then another offensive shove from Rei who wasn’t even facing him.

“What’s the matter?” Bryan asked groggily and looked over at Rei with a frown as he watched the other curl into his pillow.

“You gotta get up…” Rei said sleepily, “…you gotta go.” came the sleepy statement.

Bryan sat up slowly and rubbed his eyes as he tried to comprehend,

“…w…why?”

Rei relented and continued with one hand occasionally ‘ushering’ Bryan from the bed with shoves, all without really rolling over, holding onto the pillow and keeping his eyes shut,

“Because. I gotta get some sleep.” Rei said dully.

“Can we sleep together?” he said and lied back down, sighing as he was still mostly asleep.

“Bed’s too small.” came the reply.

“No it’s not…“

“Come on…“ Rei whined and Bryan felt himself shoved harder this time and before he could sit up he had slipped off the edge and landed with a thud on the floor next to the bed and when he sat back up he heard Rei mumble that he had to go.

“Jesus…” He was a little wider awake now and he got to his feet, naked without covering since Rei wrapped himself back up in the blanket, Bryan wobbled groggily to his pants.

AS he dressed he barely glanced at Rei, feeling a deep sense of regret for what had just happened, however amazing and enjoyable the sex had been, kicked out early hours of the morning was even more rude than Bryan would have expected. He pulled up his pants and his eyes scanned the floor for his other clothes, the light in the second half of the boat providing enough Light.

“I’ll see you tomorrow…good night.” Rei added for effect in his sleepy tone and received no response.

Rei’s eyes opened and he stared at the far wall, knowing Bryan was dressing behind him and leaving in a bad way, he found himself uninterested and relieved…and satisfied…so for now, everything was fine.

A/n: Not Beta’d, please forgive if the errors are bad and if they are too bad let me know, I’ll have to re-read! My Ms/Word is down too! T_T