Sweet Psychosis
Perfect Perspective: Part 3
The nightbreed who had taken possession of a bird after its brief fight with Shido left the creature, killing it in the process just out of pure wickedness. Bloody vampire, bloody woman with the bloody gun and the bloody car. It hated guns; getting shot was like being stung by metal bees. And getting shot by Yayoi's special silver-jacketed bullets *really* hurt, damn it.
The poor nightbreed slithered off to sit in a nice, dark corner and sulk about getting shot, and also bitch to itself about stupid humans and stupid vampires. It was having a *bad* day, so it decided, after a few minutes of sulking, to go off and cause another horrific accident for some stress relief. Because if you can't take out your anger on its cause, take it out on some random, innocent person.
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Shido watched the wreckage of a car from one of the accidents the nightbreed had caused being hoisted off the road by a crane, half listening to what Guni was babbling at him. He was wearing a long coat and sunglasses, since it was daytime and a vampire with a suntan just looks ridiculous. And dead.
Although he was *supposed* to be listening to what Guni was saying about the case, he was actually trying to remember the names of all four of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, out of pure boredom. Unsurprisingly, Cain was laughing at him.
Suddenly, out of nowhere and for no reason whatsoever, Riho called to him from the crowd and ran up, smiling a big, scary smile that didn't bode well for Shido, who reigned in his desire to run in the other direction and tried to stay calm.
"Riho, what are you doing here?" He asked, blinking as she produced some sort of heart-shaped box of food and grinned triumphantly at him.
"I thought you might be hungry so I-" She babbled, while Shido stared down at the food, picking up the word 'garlic' from her mindless chattering. In the back of his mind, Cain laughed again.
//Help...// Shido whimpered, trying frantically to cover up the sarcastic comments Guni was making.
//This child disturbs me.// Cain announced. //You're sure she isn't a nightbreed?//
//I could tear her into tiny pieces and double check,// Shido suggested, seriously thinking about it.
//Aren't you supposed to be playing the hero?// Cain smirked.
//How come I have to be the good guy, and you get to do all the really fun, evil stuff?// The violet-haired vampire mentally pouted.
//Because I find it hard to convince humans that I am not going to slaughter them all. And you can stand to put up with them for more than five minutes without killing anyone.// Cain answered.
//I can see how that might be a problem for one of the good guys.// Shido relented, sighing in relief as Yayoi drove up and saved him from Riho, who ran off to annoy someone else.
//That was scary.// Shido remarked, watching Riho leave with her specially-cooked lunch, glad that he hadn't had to eat it.
//Scary?// Cain laughed. He was sitting somewhere up in the scaffolding of the Bay Bridge, where nobody bothered to look. It was actually rather surprising the amount of times simply looking up could have saved a person's life. Or looking down.
//Yes, and?// Shido pouted, knowing full well that his 'smug bastard' of a mate was at that very moment chalking Riho's failed seduction through cookery up as another one of Shido's fears. Cain, who as far as Shido knew wasn't afraid of anything, found it unendingly amusing that Shido happened to have a few... phobias. To be more precise, he was afraid of sponges, cellotape and the cold, dead eyes of stuffed animals. He shuddered just thinking about it.
//Nothing...// Cain was smirking. He was using his 'I am superior' voice again.
//Oh, shut up. I have things to kill.// Shido sulked, leaving Cain to his own devices.
Getting into Yayoi's pathetic excuse for a replacement car, Shido decided to take out all his pent-up frustration out on the poor nightbreed. That thing was *so* going to die.
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Cain watched from the shadows as Riho knocked a few papers off of Shido's desk on purpose as an excuse to rifle through his files. He thought about telling Shido, but decided against it. It would be a nice surprise for him to find that one of his pet humans had taken it upon herself to solve his cases for him, since she was a teenage schoolgirl with a crush and could therefore do any task she set her mind to, no matter how ridiculous.
He thought about killing Riho himself, but leaving her alive to torment his little Shido was much more amusing. Besides, if he killed her Shido would be upset. And when Shido really worked at it, he could sulk for centuries. Which would mean no sex for a hundred years or so, and that was something even Cain didn't want to think about. So instead he followed Riho down the road and watched as she hitched a ride with a pair of unfortunate victim-types.
Shrugging, Cain slowly began to walk towards the Bay Bridge, smirking as a low booming sound in the distance ahead of him signalled that another few cars had gone up in a fireball. Hopefully the car Riho was in, she couldn't be nearly as evil when possessed by a nightbreed.
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Shido twitched as Yayoi's car phone rang, listening to her quick little conversation with whoever was on the other end.
"There's been another accident." She informed him in all seriousness, and he nodded as she slammed into the truck behind her to get out of the traffic jam they were currently sitting in. Now *that* was fun.
When they reached the scene, Shido and Yayoi ran past the clueless police, who were standing around doing nothing, seemingly. Reaching the gory, twisted remains of a few cars in the very middle of the bridge, Shido signalled to Yayoi and then jumped on top of one of the cars, for dramatic effect.
//She looks better that way,// Cain remarked from somewhere in the scaffolding above them, leaning back casually to watch the fight going on beneath as Shido took in Riho's new nightbreed makeover.
//The eyes are a good touch,// Shido agreed, looking at the huge, red eyes Riho now had.
The breed began to talk, beginning in Riho's voice then shifting somewhere in the middle to the breed's voice.
//It 'throbs and throbs and throbs'?// Shido smirked inwardly. //The innuendo is just *too* obvious.//
//Quite,// Cain agreed as Shido demanded that the breed leave Riho's body. It refused, unsurprisingly, and attacked Shido with its hair once he'd jumped down from the car.
//That really tickles.// He said, trying to put on an angry face for the breed and not start giggling as the hair wrapped around this throat. //Should I make some choking noises?//
//You look convincing enough, I'm sure it thinks it has a chance.// Cain smirked, watching from above as Shido vanished and appeared behind the breed.
"Sorry, but that's my shadow you have trapped over there." He said evilly, totally ignoring the breed's 'oh my god you must be a vampire to have survived that' speech.
//Have you any idea how disgusting breed blood tastes?// Shido told Cain as he bit down on Riho's neck and sucked out the breed, spitting it onto the ground.
//I have no desire to find out.// Cain informed him, watching the breed reform itself as Riho fainted. Shido dumped the unconscious harpy on the ground and sprang after the breed, making Cain raise an elegant eyebrow at his colourful language when the breed bit into his shoulder.
It desperately tried to take possession again, and Shido snarled.
//What the hell is with all the strangling today?// The purple-haired vampire growled as the breed once again tried to throttle him.
//Nightbreed have never been noted for their intelligence.// Cain said, looking on with interest as the breed tried to take possession of a woman but ended up blowing her to pieces instead. //That was unusual,// He remarked, smirking at the cute flush of exertion across Shido's cheeks.
//Very,// Shido agreed as he staked the nightbreed through the head with his blood sword and killed it.
//Do you realize how delicious you look when you're panting and on your knees?// Cain asked, ignoring the fact that Riho had just found out that Shido was not, in fact, human.
//Yes, that's why I'm doing it.// Shido told his mate, //Yayoi can't resist me, I'm too cute when I'm looking all wounded and pathetic. I guarantee she'll feed me if I sound like I'm hurt.//
Cain watched as Yayoi did exactly as Shido had predicted and fed him.
//So what are you going to do about your harpy? She knows what you are now. Can I kill her?// Cain asked, wanting to get home to feed Loki and molest Shido.
//Wait there, I'll try and get rid of her.// Shido said, then turned to said harpy and explained in the nicest possible way that he was a vampire and she would only get hurt if she stayed with him.
"It's better that we part here," He told her, smirking to Cain as he walked off and left her in the middle of the bridge, even though she had just been possessed by a nightbreed and probably needed medical attention.
//Do you think she'll leave me alone now?// Shido wondered.
//Never, she's stalking you.// Cain predicted. //She is an annoying human leech. She will be back.//
Shido sighed.
//Sad, isn't it?//
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Later on that night Cain sat on his huge, king-sized bed, reading a book quietly as Shido knelt behind him and brushed his hair. It was a nice, calm scene that Cain was just beginning to enjoy, but he knew that nice, calm scenes and Shido tended to be incompatible. Sure enough, Shido was grinning. That in itself was a very worrying sign, Cain thought.
"It just struck me..." Shido began, smirking in his evil little way, "Did you know that from behind you bear a striking resemblance to a Barbie doll? I think it's the hair." The purple-haired vampire said, running the brush through Cain's shining golden locks. Cain twitched, putting his book down.
"A Barbie doll." The older vampire repeated in a flat voice. He'd never been compared to a Barbie doll before so he really didn't know how to take it. On the one hand Barbie dolls were supposed to be beautiful, were they not? But on the other hand... it was a female doll made from plastic. "So," Cain said slowly, knowing exactly how to get back at Shido, "you think that I should cut my hair?" He asked this in all seriousness, feeling Shido freeze behind him. Of course, he would never dream of really cutting his beloved hair, it was just amusing to see Shido's reaction. Shido *really* liked his hair.
"No! Mine!" Shido growled, throwing the brush off to his side and diving on Cain, who allowed himself to be pinned down on the bed by his psychotic little lover.
"So, you don't want me to cut it?" Cain asked slowly, trying to look innocent as he stared up at Shido, barely holding back the smirk that was begging for him to let it out.
"No!!" Shido cried, clinging to his mate's waist, whimpering, cuddling Cain's hair like a lifeline. Cain smirked.
"Well, if you insist, my Shido." He murmured, watching with half-lidded eyes as Shido grinned happily and crawled up to straddle his mate's hips.
"Good." Shido grinned, but inside he still thought Cain looked a little like a Barbie doll. In a good way. But damned if he was going to let Cain cut his hair, it was Shido's little bit of sunshine, after all, and what else was he supposed to cuddle up to at night if it was all cut short?
"Now may we *please* have sex again before I have to go back to the office and wait for Riho to inevitably show up?" Shido asked, folding his arms.
"If you insist," Cain hissed wickedly, then rolled over so that Shido was pinned beneath him.
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TBC