Kiss Me (yaoi / boyxboy)

Chapter 25

A/N
Hey! Again, I'll be using _____________ to signify a POV change. The letter after the ______ G/E will show whether the viewpoint is Grey's or Eli's. Someone's POV is happening slightly before the other's but I won't tell you which just yet.

Grey and Eli

__________G

I stare at the bag, I think I'm going to be sick. Why the hell is he doing this? For fuck's sake- I don't even know who he is!

In that moment I realise what he said. Suddenly, it's not just me and him. It's everyone, it's the families aroud me... It's my brother and my best friend getting closer by the second. I can't have them die. I just can't.

"Why?" I breathe, my eyes stinging with the promise of tears.

"Why not? They're so perfect, they give you so much control over someone... Just their presence can invoke so much fear, their power can create so much destruction... So much blood."

I force myself to breathe- my head is swimming and I can feel bile rising in my throat.

"Do you understand what I'm saying? No? I'm saying you have to stay here with me." He smiles excitedly, "D'you want to see her?"

I scan his face for a sign of anything that might help me at this moment. His eyes are green, more striking than my own but similar. His skin is pale, like he's been inside for years. I can only see a few locks of hair that have escaped the confines of his hooded jumper, they're incredibly dark- maybe black.

I nod, scared of what would happen if I were to say no. As he slowly unzips his bag, I pray that he was bluffing- that he's just crazy and thought this was a funny joke or something. As soon as the bag opens though, I know that it's real. It's steel casing glints in the sun, wires just visible, running off into the dark recesses of the bag. There are a few small buttons on the top and an LED screen. I was expecting a countdown but nothing's happening.

"She doesn't have a countdown, I press a button then- boom!" He says, as if reading my mind. He runs his fingers across it's surface, "She's beautiful, isn't she?"

Again, I nod.

__________E

The car screeches to a halt outside the main gate to the park, it being the place that Dad had so far managed to track him to. Dad's voice talks to me through the ear piece, "I've cross referenced his co-ordinates with the map of the park. He's in Red Brick Square, do you know where that is?"

I nod.

"Eli?"

Crap, "Sorry Dad, I nodded... I forgot that you can't see me. I know where that is."

"How far away are you?"

"10 minutes, maybe less." I say, deciding I'll have to run the whole way. I start to run, forcing myself to keep a fast but steady pace because I know I won't make the entire way if I run at the speed I'm desperately wanting to move at. I glance around me, knowing that some of the people I run might be dad's people.
I just hope that they're on dad's side.

__________G

"Who are you?" My voice is barely above a whisper.

"My name is..." He smiles, wiping his hands across his jeans, "Shit, I'm so nervous. You know, I've had this conversation with you about a million times in my head. I had it all scripted out but seeing as you've gone a little off-script, I'll just have to improvise."

I wait for him to continue. I could run, I could grab his bag and run- he's not holding onto it. If I did that then I could get the bomb away from here, lead him somewhere less populated. And then what?