[LOG] Well. They. En~courage your complete co-operation~

[bigkittysmile]

Who: Kurogane, Fai D. Flowright.
When: Monday of Vampire Week, evening.
Where: Kurogane's room.
Summary: With roles reversed, Kurogane is now the one not eating. Fai, unhappy with his hypocracy, storms over for a little talk.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Swearing, much angst, and for goodness sake, it's vampire week, so blood. I don't even know why I

Comments

[set_in_steel]

Kurogane almost sighed as he stepped away from the desk. The mage (ex-mage, ex-mage dammit!) was going to cause a stir, and that was the last thing he needed - he could clearly feel that something was different, wrong, and calm and meditation was in order to sort himself out at the soonest. The week would have been difficult enough without Fai getting on his nerves, but the idiot clearly didn't get that, as if he'd never had to go through it himself - the man was obviously blind, pun not intended

[bigkittysmile]

He was just sat there, all infuriatingly calm and staring at him. Had Fai still been a vampire, he might have hissed at the sight. As it was, his face pulled itself into an even deeper frown. He closed the door behind him with a slam and crossed the room in three paces to stand before Kurogane's bed. A few moments passed in silence, with just Fai's newly returned icy blue eye shooting daggers at the ninja's red.

"Why." he said after a moment, then drew in a breath to compose himself. "Why... are you being such an idiot?" His fists trembled where he held them forcefully at his sides.

[set_in_steel]

“Don’t call me idiot, you idiot,” Kurogane growled. “What do you think would happen if everyone started drinking blood? There’s barely one human per vampire, and there are children here - lower body mass, less blood. How soon do you think the prey will be bled to death?”

[bigkittysmile]

Fai's single eye darkened with anger. "That's not the issue here, is it." the sentence was shaped like a question, but was actually a statement. The ex-mage's teeth ground against each other. The absence of fangs now felt as alien to him and the sudden gaining of them probably did to the others. "The issue here, is that even though you don't have to worry about me getting hurt by this, you're still refusing to eat."

[set_in_steel]

"I'm refusing to go along with their plan," Kurogane huffed, "because this time there's actually a choice one way or another."

Which was absolutely useless, he admitted to himself, but at least it wouldn't make him feel like a puppet. He'd been grappling with that somewhere in the background from the very beginning, because yes, the "Doctor" did remind him of the bastard who had killed his mother, if only for the same sick fascination they had with controlling others for their own twisted pleasure; the thought of simply playing along made him sick.

"And anyway," he added, "this only lasts a week; you've easily gone without blood for that long, right?" Kurogane smirked and looked up at the mage, just daring him to argue.

[bigkittysmile]

The sudden urge to snap Kurogane's neck made itself known to Fai at that moment, though he restrained himself. "It was not... easy." He said, inwardly cursing as his voice trembled. He could understand the ninja's unwillingness to go along with a plan when he had recently found out that he had been manipulated all his life, really, he could. But this whole situation struck a chord in him, the reversal of roles. He half suspected Kurogane was doing this just to get his little revenge against him.

"It's not about choice." he said, glancing to the floor. "This time, it's about surviving with your sanity intact."

[set_in_steel]

“Good,” Kurogane grinned, not caring that the goddamn fangs were showing, “then you admit it can be done, however difficult it gets.

“And it is not about survival, because this thing will be reversed in less than seven days.

“There is no choice in your case,” he bit back, eyes glaring, “because unless you get your magic back you’re stuck being a vampire for good. You have no choice, and you have to survive by drinking blood, and I’ll make sure you do that if I have to almost bleed myself to death each time, because that is important, that’s not a game, not something to be fooled around with and observed.

“But this week, this is nothing. And I will not go down that road just for a whim.”

[bigkittysmile]

Fai's mouth hung open in plain shock. His mind was numb. He couldn't find the words to speak. His mouth worked to try and find them, and he stared at the Japanese man as though he would give him the words to say. Or perhaps that look was one you should associate with a person who had just had their mother insulted in various ways. Finally, one came to mind.

"Hypocrite." he uttered, and his face exploded into livid fury. He grabbed the front of the ninja's clothing bringing his face closer, his other arm raised and hand curled into a fist, trembling in place. "You disgusting hypocrite! How can you just sit there and say that?!" He yelled in Kurogane's face.

[set_in_steel]

The mage was angrier than Kurogane'd ever seen him - clearly he’d struck a chord, and Fai was not as settled with the idea of being a vampire as he had recently let on. They might end up discussing that, if Kurogane wasn’t careful, and why the hell was he steering the conversation that way, if he was even steering it at all? He wasn’t thinking much, no matter how he’d strived for calm, because he could smell the mage now, could hear his heartbeat, time his pulse, and the hunger had hit stronger and faster than he’d ever thought it could, and every bit of reason he could gather was aimed at smothering it down.

He wanted the mage out, and he’d banked on the man’s common sense to avoid confrontation, to realise that Kurogane might not quite be in his right mind (though thankfully it wasn’t yet as bad as that), but the mage had to be a bigger fool than he had previously thought, or instead he wanted to vent his anger. Which was quite new, and something Kurogane would think about later, not now, with the man in his face and that damn neck

[bigkittysmile]

Fai watched a familiar look come over the ninja's face. He'd seen it in himself far too many times to miss it. One part of him was quite viciously pleased he was making Kurogane hungry, good, he understood just how he felt every day he spent around the man. Another part helpfully pointed out that Kurogane may just snap if he got any closer, and being mauled by a vampire was not the most pleasant experience. The first part answered great, then we can get this whole thing over withThe returned hypocrite comment did not go unmissed, and Fai contemplated actually striking the man. He probably would have hissed, were he still a vampire. But if he was still a vampire, they wouldn't be having this conversation. If he has never been a vampire in the first place... he wouldn't be here

[set_in_steel]

The mage dropped him and breathing got just a little bit easier. But crap, they’d started going down that road, and Kurogane wondered how the other man would take it if he told him he hadn’t had a reason; nothing concrete, anyway.

“You wanted to give up,” he answered as the thought came from nowhere, fully formed, “I didn’t want to let you; none of us did.” He would have liked to close his eyes and focus, drown out the pounding in his ears, but looking away would suggest he wanted to avoid the conversation, and that’s the last thing he wanted to do. So he kept staring at the mage, legs folded under him and his arms crossed, and willed this conversation over so he could get himself under control again.

[bigkittysmile]

He couldn't help it, he yelled. "And what gave you the right to decide if I lived or died, huh?!" His voice echoed off the walls with it's volume. His mind wasn't really controlling what he said any more. "What made you think I'd want to keep living a life that was only going to be full of pain? What made you think that I would enjoy hurting one of the only people I've ever cared for?!" As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he clamped it shut, eyes widening. Did he just say that? Did he really, actually feel that? A short pause allowed him to decide that, yes, he did.

"I-..." he stuttered, but couldn't finish the sentence. He thought he'd buried this, the concern, thought it was over now, after they'd got back to Nihon. Clearly, it wasn't. He didn't know what to think about that.

[set_in_steel]

That… was unexpected; not all that surprising in itself, maybe, if he was honest, but definitely unexpected. From the mage’s expression the man thought the same

[bigkittysmile]

Fai's hair hid his face has he stared at the floor. "I thought I understood too..." he drew a deep, shuddering breath. "I think... I do, actually... it's just, this situation, with everything the wrong way round..." He gave a short laugh, one with no humor in it. "It's strange, disorientating." He turned a serious gaze on the ninja.

"You needed me to live. And I... I need you to live, Kurogane." he said, stepping closer to the bed. "If I promise to stop being so... restant, in future, will you stop being like this now?" He supposed this was somewhat of an unfair trade, since he would be doing it for the rest of his life and Kurogane would be only like this for a week, but he knew the kind of suffering this would lead to, and it was one thing to torment himself, and quite another to watch Kurogane do it.

[set_in_steel]

"You're trying to blackmail me, you bastard," Kurogane grinned as Fai drew near. Not that he minded, it was probably a good sign, all things considered; it was also damn irritating that he had to be the target of the man's determination right now.

“What makes you think it’ll work?,” he smirked, enjoying himself. “There’re only six more days of this, and then we get back where we started - you having to drink just to live, me waiting for you to get to your senses. Six days go by awfully fast.”

[bigkittysmile]

Fai rolled his eye. "Not when you're starving they don't."He muttered, sitting on the bed next to the ninja, and gave him a sharp look. "And don't try to tell me you're not hungry. Vampires are always hungry." He wasn't going to let him get away, goddamn it. It was only fair.

A rather mean idea occoured to the ex-wizard then. Unbidden, a smirk made it's way to his face. Abrubtly, he twisted on the bed and plopped himself into the ninja's lap, grinning devilishly. It had become somewhat of a battle of wills now, and Fai was determined to win.