Screaming Trees - Les Noir

My brother's keeper

I do not hold the copyrights to the song, or the music video.

Morning came bringing with it all the feelings of the previous night. Since they'd visited New Orleans, Gabe cleaned the house. Honey sat on the sofa waiting with her bags for somebody to take her back to her apartment. Everyone emotions were entangled together making it feel like a dark cloud invading their space. Larry summoned Honey to take her home. He and Laurent left into the California heat of the day to see if the singer's boyfriend was still at her apartment.

Honey opened the door cautiously letting Laurent charge ahead to check everything out. He kept his hand steadied on the pistol in case there was a problem. The small apartment looked like the aftermath of a fight. The coffee table was broken, the drapes sagged off the rod, but there wasn't anyone there. Honey rushed to her bedroom seeing that the man's clothes were gone.

"You should hire a security guard. I'm sure you can handle that on your own," Larry told her as they exited the apartment. She looked afraid to be there on her own, but didn't dare risk asking for anything else after what happened. Laurent asked his brother about the finished music avoiding the sensitive topic really on his mind on their way back to the house. 

"I want to go home, I need to see my girls." Laurent rested his head back on the headrest in the taxi. His eyes wandered down to his neglected groin. The entire time ride back to the house Larry kept talking about how excited he was to get out of Cali until he noticed his twin's silence. He grabbed a handful of Lau's afro snatching him closer to him. The scent of Laurent's body oil stirred him. The closeness of their proximity exchanged messages between them as Larry watched the driver cruising up the street to their house.

"You ready to give in to me yet?" Larry asked in a voice much deeper than his original voice. Laurent gently pried his twin's hand off him.

"I don't even know you anymore. Leading this counsel has turned you into an evil person. Where is my best friend, my brother, the man I love? I knew you wanted to fuck Honey. If I didn't stop you, you would have last night. You can have my attention when you're focused on me."

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"Fucking London," Laurent sighed getting off the plane. The dreary weather didn't do anything to help the mood of the three men making their way back home. Gabe carried the black case of Ri's files, although it was much lighter than when they'd left for LA. Everyone was horny and everyone mad. Upon returning home, they all realized that Honey stole some of the files while visiting their temporary home.

Larry made the decision not to go after Honey for the files. Ri had all the information on drives anyway just in case someone tried to steal them.  In the cluster of notes there were warnings about people trying to come after him for the wealth of information he possesed. He pushed thoughts of the counsel out of his mind quickly showering to get dressed and go see his daughters. They were 4 months old and hadn't seen their daddy and Uncle for 3 months. Gabe started to unpack their luggage settling into his own room. Larry insisted that Laurent stay in his room so that Gabe could have a room of his own.

Laurent sat on the edge of the bed after undressing waiting for Larry to get out of the shower. He wished there was something he could do to stop the growing madness in his twin. There wasn't anyone he could turn to except Gabe who understood all they'd been thru to get to a point in their career where they could do anything they wanted. Gabe seemed useless since Ri died, always sulking around. The handsome man barely groomed himself anymore. Laurent also worried about what happened to Lena. If someone could easily kill her and move her body, what could their enemies do to them? Nobody seemed to understand Ri's cryptic notes, something about Screaming Trees sounded like a mystery to him.