5. Planning Plans (1/2)
title: of the darkness||chapter: planning planscharacters: ryou, shou, camulachapters: 5-25||words: 1,197||total: 5,821genre: family, supernatural||rated: pg-13challenge: diversity writing challenge, ygo gx, j6, multi-chapter with 15-25 chaptersnotes: it's an au. it involves vampires.summary: shou invites his
other in after ryou returns from a long trip away. that is his first mistake. it only gets worse from there.
"just what was it in that village anyway?" shou wanted to know, eyes flicking from various points around the room to his
other. "you never have said."
ryou moved a little more into the room. shou still could not believe how silent his footsteps were. it almost seemed as if his feet didn't touch the floor at all.
the closer ryou got to him, the more shou's spine tingled and his instincts prickled at him to move back. the only time in his life he could remember having felt like this before was when he'd been six years old and trapped by a mountain lion in the reaches outside the mansion.
that's ridiculous. ryou's not a mountain lion. and yet his
other did move with a predator's silence. it was a trick shou had never been able to acquire himself and he'd never been certain if he wanted to.
just like he had back then, shou wanted to make himself as small as possible, to find a tiny little hiding hole and wait for the horrible thing that wanted to eat him to go away and leave him be. he reminded himself over and over that ryou wasn't going to eat him. ryou just wouldn't.
"a vampire," ryou said,
inging shou's attention back to what was going on around him. "but a traveling one without a set home. it moved onward."
shou didn't find himself all that reassured. vampires weren't inherently evil, not like some things he could think of, but the idea of bloodsucking beasts that fed off the living didn't give him any restful nights. "so if there was another one and it followed you, or that one followed you..."
"it's possible," ryou acknowledged, his lips turning downward. "i'll explore the mansion and see what i can find." he turned his attention back on shou and for a moment, shou wondered if the firelight were causing problems with his vision. ryou's eyes looked as if they gleamed scarlet instead of blue…
he shook that off in a heartbeat. this talk about vampires, little as it had been, was already doing things to his imagination. if there was one roaming the castle, then they needed to get rid of it as fast as possible. that went for whatever it was making servants vanish, but a vampire more than most.
"let me know if anything turns up?" shou was more than willing to let ryou handle the vampires. he'd clearly already done so once, if only by talking to it. maybe. ryou hadn't exactly been forthcoming on exactly how he knew what he knew about the one in the village.
ryou nodded and gestured for shou to head out ahead of him. shou moved on without asking the question that hovered over his lips and before he'd crossed the threshold, the very thought of digging more into what happened in the village faded out of his mind in favor of finishing his letter to kenzan.
as shou left, ryou closed the door behind himself. no sooner was he alone in the room than he could feel her there again, her awareness focused on him as it always was when he was by himself.