City of the Zodiacs MxM (Staten Krown)

8

I slap the fuck out of Ryder. I would punch him but he deserved worse. He deserved a slap. The slap clearly stings his face because he sits there and lets out a deep exhale. I reach back to do another but he stops me.

"You are scaring the Cancers," he says, "They don't like violence. Come with me."

"Fuck you."

"NOW!"
Ryder walks me back into the house. I see the Zodiac Killer following us the entire time. Ryder seems so comfortable around this killer. He's so comfortable around everything. The Cancers' house is empty when we walk in. Ryder pushes me down on the couch. He's aggressive probably still annoyed from the slap.

Simeon seems amused honestly he crosses his arms, "I didn't think Libras fought. Learn something new every day I guess. How does it feel Ryder? Manhandled by a Libra."

"You aren't helping," Ryder states.

"This was your idea," the Zodiac Killer responds, "Look. He's trying to run. Better get him!"

I was halfway out of the room when Ryder grabs me and pulls me back. The Zodiac Killer watches Ryder struggling with me but he doesn't help. He seems amused by it all. It's annoying is what it is. This isn't exactly how things were supposed to work.

"Let me just explain my side of the story," Ryder pleads, "If you still hate me and you want to run go ahead. Even if you want to go to your cop boyfriend go ahead."
"Wait? Cop boyfriend? His boyfriend is an Aquarius?" Simeon asks.

"Chief of Police," I let Simeon know.

Simeon isn't smiling anymore. All of a sudden he seems very serious. He gives Ryder the same look that I'm giving him. We are both trying to figure out what the fuck Ryder is thinking. Ryder is trying to main peace. He moves past Simeon and walks over to me. He pulls up the end table and sits on it. He leans over to me so that he's close to the dusty couch and looking directly in my eyes.

"You've been lied to," is how Ryder tells me, "The system is broken. It is designed on the hierarchy. Libras on the top then Aquarius, Gemini, Taurus, Capricorn, Leos, Sags, Pisces, Cancers and then at the bottom are the Aries."

"You didn't include Virgos and Scorpios," I respond.

"It's because they aren't in the system. They are tools of the system."

"What are you talking about? Virgos are tools maybe but what do you mean by Scorpios. Scorpios are Zodiac Killers."

"That's what they tell you," Ryder explains.

"That's what I know."

Simeon shakes his head, "There is no such thing as a goddam a real Zodiac Killer kid. It's something they made up for their program."
"What program."

"Think about the Virgos. Put things into perspective. Do you think Virgos would really fuck with their bodies in order to be bodyguards? Who would willingly do that?" Ryder asks.

I think about Whistler. I guess that is the problem. I've never really thought about Whistler before. She did her job. I never cared about her background. She was half machine for all I knew. She didn't even have a consciousness or if she did it was buried a long time ago. I just assumed it was the Virgo culture to put that machinery in their bodies.

I stumble in thinking about it.

"Are you saying this was done to them?" I ask.

The two boys nod at that moment.

"By the system," Ryder explains, "Virgos were tools to protect and Scorpios are tools used to harm."

"By who?"