My Dirty Little Secret

Secret Forty-Five: Decim

Alois and Ciel walked into Svante, the atmosphere was completely different from what they remembered. The bar was the main topic tonight, less people were hanging around the stages. It was weird. Too weird. Ciel and Alois wandered over, the person standing behind the counter was not Shizuo and/or Izaya but rather another person entirely. He looked like a bartender, and acted like one too, but his face held no expressions.

Just who was he?

"Who're you?" Grell sat at the bar and began the interrogation. Izaya and Shizuo were the best thing about this place, this new guy couldn't just storm in here and replace them. Not that he actually did storm in there at all, he was the one who opened up Svante that night.

"My name is Decim," he replied, not concerned at all. Grell was reminded of William, it really agitated him for some unknown reason.

"Where is Iza and Shizuo?" Alois sat down and joined Grell in this line of questioning.

"They are no longer with us," he replied. Silence filled the room, everyone was really sad now, sad enough to want to drink their sorrows away. What did he mean by that? They were just there last night! Nothing could have happened in twenty-four hours to take their beloved Svante owners away from them! Fate would be too cruel if that were the case.

"What do you mean 'they are no longer with us'?!" Alois slammed his hand against the table, voicing everyone's concern and anger. Decim just slid a piece of paper across the counter towards Alois.

We'll be gone for a few days! ^-^/ I had to drag Shizu out on a vacation. He wouldn't just take a break! We went back to Japan for a hot spring getaway. Don't expect to come back for a week or two...or year...anyways. I left you this lovely socially awkward strudel! Be nice to him now, he doesn't know how to deal with other humans. 

Love Iza and Shizu <3

Alois read the note aloud, everyone was semi-satisfied with that and went about their usual business. All of their issues with the new guy disappeared.

"I'm going to miss Iza!" Gray hugged Alois from behind and sighed deeply. The new guy wasn't as fun as an ex-information broker. The male barely said a word and he spoke so formally. What was Izaya thinking hiring him to sub?

Then again, what ever went through Izaya's brain?

No one really knows...

"So, Decim, tell us a little bit about yourself," Alois said. Decim didn't say anything and just continued to wash the glassware. There really wasn't a whole lot of things he could talk about even if he wanted to. Alois noticed the wedding band on his hand. Who would marry this guy? Why would a married man work at night Svante? Even if it was a short time...

"So you're married," Alois said. Decim shook his head. He wasn't married, well, not anymore.

"My wife is dead," he replied.

"Now look what you did Alois, your nosy attitude brought up a touchy subject!" Ciel slapped Alois on the side of his head. Alois pouted, he didn't do it on purpose. He just really wanted to know more about this guy!

"I'm sorry," Alois muttered. Grell leaned forward, looking into Decim's eyes, they had a weird design in them. Alois and Gray leaned forward too, each of them staring at it.

"I've never seen eyes like those before," Grell stated. Considering 'the reapers' at Svante all had unusual eyes, it was weird to see something even more unusual. 

"They are so weird!" Gray said. Decim stared at them, his expression remaining the same. Was there something wrong with his eyes? He hoped not...

"My apologies, should I wear contacts?" he asked, genuinely concerned. Gray and Grell looked at each other, this guy was going to be difficult to handle if he took everything so literally.

"No no no, that's not what I meant," Gray waved his hand in the air, flailing it about trying to shake that idea away.

"Your eyes are pretty," Grell tried to help set things right. Decim didn't really understand what was going on but he nodded anyway.

Ciel noticed another new guy at Svante that night, he was sitting alone, drinking his fill, on the corner of the bar's counter. He had probably had a little too much to drink but that didn't stop him from asking for more. Ciel wondered why he was drinking so much, what could his reasoning be behind that?

Grell noticed his staring and answered the question, "that guy has been coming here for a while now off and on. Apparently he fell in-love with his little sister's boyfriend and isn't sure what to do about it. You can hear him complaining sometimes when he gets really out of it."

"Wat'cha lookin' at eyepatch," he stuck a finger at Ciel, "is ther som sorta problem?" Ciel shook his head 'no' and tried to avoid any further troubles. The guy was attractive, or would be, if he wasn't so drunk and scary looking. The man banged his head on the counter and started angrily mumbling things. Ciel felt sorry for the guy, but there wasn't anything he could do to help him.

Another male ran in and tried to pick him up off the bar stool. The drunk fought with him, not wanting to leave his drinks, but the guy continued to try.

"Levi, really now? You'll make Mikasa worried again! We have to go, you've had more than enough to drink," the male tried his best to get the guy up and out the door. It wasn't working well.

"Lemme alon' Ern. I don' need no help! Jus' lemme drink," he growled angrily.

"You'll destroy your liver!" the male tried again to get him away from the bar stool, with little success. 

"I don' care," he replied.

"Levi stop acting like such a child!"

"I'm nutta child," Levi complained, "I'm jut in-luv wit da wrong guy."

"You say that every time but you never tell me who it is. Can we just go now?" the male wrapped his arms around Levi and attempted, yet again, to drag him away from the bar.

"Beecaus' is u," he said, looking up at the guy trying to take him home. The male blushed and dropped him. Levi groaned and rolled onto his stomach, depressed that he had been dropped.

"It's me?" he stared at the guy on the floor, questioning if this was just Levi's drunkenness or if it was the truth.

Alois had a perverted grin on his face. Ciel cringed at what could be going through the blonde's mind. It was obvious though, he just had a new ship is all...