Aug 16, 2007 19:08
Title: Lies, Sex, and Genes Part 13
Characters: Feilong, Mikhail
Mention of: Akihito & Yan
Disclaimer: The actual characters belong to yamane-sensei.
LIES, SEX AND GENES Part 13
Ice, born Mikhail Arbatov, was a teenager when he first discovered he was a mutant. What was suppose to be a steamy scene with his high-school girlfriend turned into a fiasco when he accidentally turned her into a human popsicle. It took two hours with the hair dryer to thaw her out and, obviously, they broke up immediately. Thankfully she never told anyone and he was still able to live the normal life of an average high school student... well, as normal a life as possible with being the son of a Russian mafia boss and his mistress.
When he was eighteen, he discovered he was bisexual and had his first homosexual experience. By then, he was able to control his powers so his lover wasn't an ice cube at the end. At that age, he was also training to take over the family business with his older half-brothers, Vlad and Peter, who both knew their younger brother was a mutant and could care less.
At age twenty-one, he was suppose to meet with the head of a Chinese mafia syndicate, Liu and his sons, but the meeting never took place when the youngest son, Liu Feilong, went missing. He had never met the boy before but had heard he had been very beautiful. Hoping to establish a permant bond with the powerful Baishe group, they sent Ice to 'A' 's headquarters to find him under the pretense of joining the organization a few years later. When no one was discovered with that name on any file coupled with the fact Baishe had fallen in power and wealth, Ice was told to give up and come back home. Instead, he chose to stay and try to win the affections of the man he fell in love with, Fire, who had been the only one to match the physical description of the missing boy. However, Fire was in no way a prisoner and was able to come and go as he pleased. Plus, he was a mutant so he was immediately ruled out as a possibility.
Although Ice tried everything to win Fire over, he was ignored just like his rival, Wolfhound. And just like everyone else, all he knew about Fire was he was Chinese, trained in martial arts, and highly intelligent. After Fire's collapse, Ice began to contemplate the first fact after asking the empath to discover the cause for it.
Perhaps the Snakes had done something to Fire when he lived in China? It was possible. Or maybe fear of the new Snake ties to the government had gotten the best of him? But that seemed unlikely seeing as Fire's reserve was unshaken in even more stressful circumstances. Hopefully the empath would be able to provide him some answers soon.
When Ice opened the door to his room, he was startled to see Fire reclining on his bed in a seductive pose. Not quite believing his eyes yet unwilling to let even a hallucination of his beloved to escape, he shut the door to his room quickly and locked it.
Fire lifted his dark red eyes to his face and Ice was frozen in place at the violence in his gaze. Those red eyes lowered and Ice followed their trail as Fire unsheathed a knife and began playing with it, twirling the blade between his fingers. All of Ice's hopes that Fire had come to accept him were dashed.
'He knows,' Ice realized.
"You shouldn't go digging around where you don't belong Ice," Fire purred, his gaze lifted once again at him.
Seeing Fire like this was giving him a massive hard-on. Seductive and dangerous. "You can't blame a guy for trying to help someone he loves."
Fire snorted. "Love? So it was love that made you ask the boy to invade my privacy?"
Ice sighed and approached the bed, making Fire flinch slightly. "After you collapsed like that, what was I suppose to do? You would never talk about your past with me, so I asked him to find out the reason. I want to help you..."
"If you want to help, then you will leave me be."
'No. No brother. I'll be good,' Ice recalled Fire whimpering when he had collapsed. Pushing for answers and ignoring Fire's last statement, he asked as he sat on the bed, "Did your brother do something to you, my love?"
Fire's eyes went wide and he dropped the knife in astonishment. "What... what do you know?"
'So that's a yes,' Ice confirmed. "Is your brother a Snake, Fire? What did he do to you?"
Fire's breathing had quickened. "I'm leaving..."
Ice grabbed his arm and forced him to stay. "What did he do to you, my love?"
Fire was silent, his bottom lip trembling like he wanted to weep but his eyes were dry. "Please... please let go Ice," Fire pleaded quietly, his voice cracking.
"What did he do?" Ice repeated, gripping Fire's chin and forcing him to look at him. He half expected a knife to be lodged in his stomach at that moment but Fire was shaking too badly.
"My... my body is dirty Ice. I'm stained. I cant be loved," Fire whispered, his gaze on the floor. "If you take me as your lover, I'll only wind up killing you in a fit of madness."
Ice froze, finally comprehending. "He touched you, didn't he?"
Fire's silence was enough confirmation.
Ice released Fire as his hands curled into fits at the mental picture of someone abusing the person he loved. "What is your brother's name?"
Fire was silent.
"At least tell me that he is dead."
Fire was silent.
Ice punched the headboard. Somewhere a man who had ruined Fire's life was walking free; a man who had also delayed any evolution of Ice and Fire's relationship for years because of his actions.
Fire attempted to rise from the bed, but Ice stopped him. "It is not your fault Fire, it's his. Your body may have his prints but it is still beautiful. He could not destroy it." Then he gently captured Fire's lips and took advantage of the shock to lower him to the bed....
TBC
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