Hushed (Yaoi/BoyxBoy)

III. Can Fear be Overwriten?

My body... It feels so heavy... So hot and achy... Am I dead yet..?

I struggle to just open my eyes, it takes about all the energy I have out of me. I'm in a bed and covered with thick blankets... Thats why its so hot. I push them off of me. My head is screaming and everything hurts. I lay there trying to focus my eyes enough to look around.

The walls are painted a light gray, and bare with nothing on them but a window above the bed. The bed is against the wall, across from the door that leads into the hallway, facing out into the room. A small nightstand on the right next to the bed with a lamp upon it. To my left is a door that is opened, which looks like a closet. The floors are a nice hardwood floor, that has minimal furniture on it. Along the wall across from the bed, on the opposite side of the wall from the bedroom door, is another door that looks as if it leads into a bathroom of some sort. Along the right side of the wall there is a sliding glass door that leads to the outside with dark curtains covering it.

I sit up, and as soon as I do I feel a sharp severe pain in my back and let out a small cry. Generally due to past experiences, I don't feel much pain if any, except in my hands, bottoms of my feet, right side of my face, my neck where the barbed wire is and my back where my wings are...well use to be. Even then most of the time its just a numbing sensation. I either feel severe pain, where it feels like someone is stabbing me repeatedly in those areas, or nothing with a constant numbing feeling in certain areas. It comes and goes as it pleases and depending on what my condition, mentally and physically is like. At the moment its a mix of slight pain but numb and achy.

Looking down at my hands I realize they are bandaged up. I'm rather confused at this point. I lift up the sweater, that I don't even know where it came from, only to see more bandages. Same with my feet and a portion of my right leg. I reach up to touch my neck, all I feel is a thin fabric that has been wrapped around and layered to keep my wound clean.

Tears roll down my face, stinging the cuts along the way. I don't understand how or why. I remember running through the woods to get away and that is it. How did I get here? Who took the painful wire out of my neck? Why did they do it? Why couldn't they have just left me to die..

It was extremely quiet, as if I was the only one around but I could feel the presence of others a little ways away. I became curious, all my fear washing away. I wanted to know who was out there and why they helped me.

I attempted to get out of the bed. Swinging my legs over the side and placing them softly against the cold floor. I put my weight on them and stand up slowly. I try to take a step but, in return pain shot through my feet and up to my spine. I cry out in pain and fall to my knees with a thud and sit there with my legs on either side of me. My tail laid behind me a matted mess against the floor and my hands on the ground in front of me. I just stare at the floor dumbfounded.

Footsteps begin approaching the door. I guess they must have heard me... Fear begins to wash over me again, as I tremble at the sight of the doorknob turning...

Ryuichi's POV

When we got to the living room and settled in, Kuno cleaned the wound on my arm, from where I had been bitten, and bandaged it up for me...

Kuno and Yuko were sitting on my couch across from the fireplace, eating the chicken and rice Yuko had made, while I sat in my arm chair off to the side of the couch barely eating. We sat around talking and brainstorming about what exactly we had found and where he could have come from. We came to the conclusion he is some sort of hybrid, which is rare, being part of some kind of wolf, not a werewolf though judging by characteristics, and part something with wings. It was obvious wherever he came from was not a very good place, we even figured they might come looking for him...