When two hearts are ready, they will speak

Title: When two hearts are ready, they will speak.

Subtitle: Running to home

Author: Lady Snowblossom

Ratings: PG – just to be safe.

Pairing: Kai + Rei

Notes: Kai makes a decision that could make or break him. Tyson has issues. And someone else is keeping secrets. And Oliver and Enrique learn the truth. The Angstmester strikes again!

Disclaimer: Do I really have to say it?

Tyson slid from the bed, reaching for the pants he’d left on the floor, his mind whirling. Kai and Rei are lovers? As he pulled his jeans on, he tried to imagine the fun-loving fragile looking Chinese lying in the arms of their darkly brooding captain, and just couldn’t make the image fit into his perception of the world. Savagely yanking the zipper up, he growled, Rei just couldn’t love Kai! It just didn’t make sense! Infuriated, he raised both fists and slammed them down on the mattr


“Aargh! WHY DIDN’T THEY TELL US!” He roared, as he glared at his hands. “DIDN’T THEY TRUST US! IT’S NOT LIKE . . .”

“Tyson!” Max twisted around and glared at the brunette from the foot of the bed, “Keep your voice down! Do you want to get us in trouble! It’s after two in the morning!” His eyes widened, as he watched Tyson stomp over to where his sneakers laid in a heap.

“Actually, its closer to three,” Kenny started to correct Max, but cringed when the blonde transferred his lethal glare in his direction. Gulping, Kenny finished weakly, “Hee, but who cares? It’s only a minute or two, right?”

“Will you two stop it!” Tyson snapped half-turning, shoes in hand to look at them. “Look, all I’m saying is we’re supposed to be a team here, and they didn’t see fit to tell us something that important! YOU’D tell us something like that, wouldn’t you?” He blinked in surprise, when Max looked away a faint pink staining his cheeks. “Wouldn’t you?”

“Tyson,” Kenny interjected, deflecting attention away from the blushing boy. “Stop ahinkhink about it for a moment. Kai has got to be one of the most intensely private people we know. Can you honestly see him doing anything that would express his feelings in public? “ Kenny sighed, a note of sadness creeping into his voice, “I know how helpless I felt as Rei was pummeled into insensibility. Can you imagine how Kai must have felt?”

Tyson growled something under his breath, as he headed for the nearest chair, flopped into it and began to put his shoes on.

“Tyson,” Max asked anxiously, “What are you doing?”

“Putting my shoes on. What does it look like?”

Max and Kenny looked at each other, then at the boy, who was scowling fiercely down at the knot he was tying.

“Ah, Tyson, this might be a stupid question, but are you going somewhere?” Kenny queried.

“I’m going to go find Kai.” Tyson stood up and headed for the coat rack. Reaching it, he yanked his coat off its hanger and pulled it on, as he made a beeline for the door.

“Tyson, you can’t do that! You don’t know where he is!” Max jumped to his feet and ran to block his friend.

“Max, get out of the way.” Tyson ordered, as he attempted to pass the determined blonde.

“No, Tyson.” Max shook his head,dingding his locks flying, and steel entered his voice. “I’m not letting you out of this room. Kai could be anywhere, and the last g weg we need is for you to go wandering off at this time of night. The best thing we can do is to hope that Robert and Johnny caught up with him and made him come back to the hotel.”

Kenny watched breathless, afraid to speak in case he distracted Max from his effort to force Tyson to see sense. He relaxed, when a slight smile crossed Max’s face. Tyson had blinked first.

Shoulders slumping in defeat, Tyson took his coat back off, and went to hang it up. Max stood by the door and watched him, a faint look of worry clouding his blue orbs. Silence filled the room, broken only by the thump of a pair of shoes being kicked against the wall.

Quietly, Kenny rose and went to his own bed, as Tyson undressed and returned to his. The room plunged into shadows, as Max turned off the overhead light, and made his way back to bed. Sliding into bed, as the little blonde laid on his side, he could feel his bedmate’s eyes on him.

“Max.”

“What, Tyson?” Max pretended to be interested in watching Kenny turn off his bedside lamp. He felt like Draciel was sitting on his chest, and tears threatened to spill down his cheeks. All this talk about Kai and Rei, and he still didn’t know how Tyson felt about loving another boy! How was he ever going to find out if he had a chance?

“Do you have a problem with them being gay?” Tyson frowned, when his friend didn’t answer him. Reaching out, he tapped Max on the shoulder, and blinked when the little blonde squeaked and jumped.

“Tyson, don’t do that! You scared me out of next year’s growth!” Max hissed; putting a hand to his chest, under his palm he could feel the frantic pounding of his heart.

“Sorry, Maxie! But, you didn’t answer me. So?”

“So, what?”

“Kai and Rei. Do you have a problem with them . . .you know.”

“If you’re asking do I care that they love each other. No, I don’t. I think they’re lucky to have each other. Do you have a problem with it?”

Tyson laid back, put his hands behind his head, and stared up at the ceiling, and thought about it. “No. I guess it just took me by surprise, you know. They’re so different from each other. Rei is strong, good-natured, fun loving and an incredible Blader. But, what gets me is what does he see in Kai? Kai is temperamental, is insulting, and pulls a disappearing act at the drop of a hat. So what’s there to love?”

“You left out that he’s also an incredible Blader.” Kenny said from his bed. “And before you ask, I don’t have a problem with it, either.”

“So, if you don’t and Max doesn’t . . .”

“Tyson.”

“Yes, Max?”

“Go . . .to . . .sleep.”

“Heh, ok.”

Max smiled into the darkness; maybe he had a chance after all.


~*~

Oliver looked up as the door opened and Robert and Johnny entered the suite; their faces pinched with cold. The Frenchman closed the magazine, he’d been idly leafing through, laid it aside, and rose to go pour two cups of tea from a silver service setting, that had been placed on a small oval table, by his servant, before he had dismissed the man for the night.

He waited for them to hang up the coats before asking the question burning in his mind.

“Well, did you find him?”

The German and Scot turned from the coat rack and walked over to him and accepted the cups he held out, before setting down on the suite’s forest green leather couch and answering.

“We found him.” Johnny grunted, then he became seemingly absorbed in the tendrils of steam rising from his cup.

“Well?” Enrique asked, from the bathroom door. The blonde Italian walked over and parked himself in Oliver’s vacated chair, while its former occupant settled into another chair directly across from the surly Scotsman. Oliver and Enrique exchanged worried glances, when their two companions didn’t answer at once.

“What happened? Where was Kai going? What did he have to say?”

Robert put down his cup and raised his hand for silence. “He said, he couldn’t s. T. Then I demanded to know if he’d be able to lead his team, and when I pressed him on the matter, he got angry and started to leave.”

“Then I asked him, why was he feeling so guilty about Rei’s getting hurt and it all came pouring out. That it was his fault for demanding to be first.” Johnny interjected, raising his eyes to look at the pair across from him. “I never thought I’d see that look on his face.” The redhead whispered, dropping his eyes.

“What look?” Enrique asked in bewilderment. He was becoming more alarmed as each moment passed. Whatever had happened when Robert and Johnny caught up with Kai had obviously affected them both deeply. He had never seen either one so subdued before.

“A look of despair.” Robert answered. “He looked like a lost soul.”

“Then I told him that his lover was a fine warrior and he should be proud of him.” Johnny took over again. He winced, as he remembered the haunted look that crossed the Russian’s face at his words.

“Johnny! Do you have a death wish?” Oliver wanted to strangle the red head. He couldn’t believe his ears! “How could you let Kai know, that we know!” He snapped, appalled.

Amaranth eyes blazed, as Johnny’s head came up. “WE don’t know anything! WE made an assumption and proved that old saying about ASSUMING things!” He snarled, flinging the empty cup across the room, shattering it against a wall.

Enrique looked at Robert, his own blues wide. “What is he saying?” He demanded.

“He’s saying, we have made monumental fools of ourselves.” Robert responded, as he waved his teacup in the air. Oliver rose and took it. Robert ignored him. “They aren’t lovers.”

Oliver dropped the teacup.

**~**

‘When one fork isn’t working, take the other one.’ Robert’s words haunted him, hounded him with its truth. The fork he had been walking wasn’t working anymore, it had taken him this far, but now he realized it was tto mto make a change.

Grimly, he looked toward the neon sign that topped the BBA Infirmary. There was the fork he needed to take; the fork that led straight to Rei. Shivering slightly in the freezing wind, he sighed, Robert was right. He was going to have to confront the Chinese with his feelings. Staring straight into the face of his future, Kai headed towards his destiny, either he was going home, or he was going to Hell. It was that simple.

He was going to put his fate in Rei’s hands.


Whoopie!! Chapter four is done!!

Kai: Another cliffhanger.

LS, grinning foolishly: Yeppers, I’m not one of the Queen’s of Angst fur nuthing!

Rei: Am I EVER gonna wake up?

LS, checks papers: “Let’s see is that in the next chapter, or . . .”

Kenny (groaning): She’s never gonna end this.

Kurama saunters in: You just have to offer the right bait.

Kai: And that is?

Kurama, snickering: A chance to soak in a hot tub with Hiei. She’ll do anything for a chance at that.

LS: ‘Hot tub? Hiei? Did I hear something about Hiei and a hot tub?” (Drool)

Kurama, twirling key around finger: Yes, but you have to finish this first.

LS: Stupid fox.

Actually, I’m going on vacation, so there will be no updates on this until after the first of December, sorry