krystalkatzficz | The War part 52

“I could kill you right here, right now, don’t you understand the position you’re in little wolf?” Shun growled and Nino very nearly winced as he felt spittle landing on his face. He could see Satoshi itching with need to get to him and throw the king away from him. Nino knew that he could kill him in a heartbeat but Nino was relaying on the familiar-bond, almost like the one that he shared with Satoshi’s daughter, it had to be there. He had realised that last night when he had had the ache to see the little girl. He hadn’t told Satoshi his idea, he had known that the vampire would try and talk him out of it, but he could see the whirl of emotions that were swirling around in the blood red eyes that were boring down into his.

“You could try” Nino quipped straining against the ropes that were holding him down. “But can you do it? Your majesty? Can you really kill the son of your bo-...”

“Get out! Everyone leave us!” The king snarled turning to look at the guards, Satoshi, and his wife. They all flinched but Nino could see that Satoshi was going to argue. Nino discreetly shook his head urging the vampire to leave. Satoshi glared at him but eventually he turned and walked away taking his wife with him. The guards followed swiftly afterwards. The door slammed closed knocking a large chunk of plaster from the wall above it. The king reacted quickly wrapping his hand around his throat his nails digging into his soft flesh. “You know nothing, little wolf...”

“I know...I know you fucked my father...You made him yours and then you left him to go mad...Did you enjoy it, your majesty, did you enjoy making him your pet before casting him out like a stray?” Nino spat around the blood that was filling his mouth from the force of the grip. The king’s eyes flashed and his grip tightened trying to shut him up. “Did you enjoy fucking him? Did you...Did you...Did you feel powerful?”

“I could show you how I felt, I had your father...You look just like him...Should I take you as well?” The king asked and Nino gulped his eyes widening wondering if the king was as mad as his father. If he was than the familiar-bond would have been broken. Deciding on a different tack he let his eyes fill with tears all signs of his attitude leaving him. “Now you realise what trouble you’re in, little wolf, you should be honoured that I would even consider fucking you...” The king’s grip slipped from around his throat and Nino gave a gasp coughing up the blood. It sprayed over the blanket in front of him and he was sure that the king looked almost concerned. He didn’t relax though he kept looking at the king through his watery eyes. “Relax, little wolf, if you behave I will not carry out such a threat...”

“I have never behaved, your majesty...” Nino told him with a twist of a smirk on his face. His lips were covered in blood and he was surprised by the sound of the barking laugh that came out of the king.

“No, I imagine that you haven’t. Alike your father in more than looks I imagine” The king almost sounded fond and there was a dreamy look in his eyes. The king sat on the edge of the bed looking down at him with his features relaxed. He looked even more like his son as his features softened and Nino hoped that that meant there was something still inside that would make the man accept his life now. “You are a brat...”

“Many have said as much” Nino shrugged blinking away the tears that were clinging to his eyelashes. His lips were trembling still to give him a look of vulnerability. It seemed to work as the king reached out with a handkerchief wiping away the blood and the tears. It was an almost fatherly gesture and Nino struggled to control himself. “You did bond with my father, didn’t you?”

“You already know that I did” The king answered tersely his hand with the handkerchief falling away from his face. “Little wolf, even with your tears you are not afraid of me are you? You are your father’s son...I mean that in the best possible way, your father was once a great man...”

“...” Nino made a noise that wasn’t a real word but he didn’t seem to need to know one. The king let out a sigh and then got up from the bed pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back. His face was panicked and as erratic as his father when the madness took him. Nino relaxed just a little chewing hard on his lower lip hoping that this wasn’t going to end with his face being crushed into the floor.

“Who knows about this? Who have you told?”

“I didn’t tell anybody, but your son guessed and I didn’t deny it” Nino answered carefully. He was used to the mood swings of his father but the king of the vampires was an unknown entity. He didn’t know how he was going to react and he couldn’t bring himself to breathe too loudly.

“You confirmed his suspicions?”

“I neither confirmed nor denied. Your son wasn’t in much of a talking mood when he and your pet attacked and bound me” Nino spat with force “Your son seemed to have been able to put two and two together by himself”

“My son is a meddlesome person...” Shun growled scraping his hand through his hair. “As are you...”

“Thank-you, I try” Nino grinned as much as he dared, earning another laugh from the king. It was a bitter sound this time and Nino quickly stopped smiling. “What are you going to do your majesty? You can kill me but that won’t stop the war...”

“What makes you think that I want the war to end?”

“You would continue this murder and slaughter...Why? Your own people are dying...” Nino hissed with venom and the king stared at him as though he hadn’t seen him before confirming Nino’s suspicion that the king was as insane as his own father, he just managed to hide it better.

“Your father betrayed me...He married your mother”

“You would allow the slaughter of your own people to continue just because my father married my mother? From what I understand, your majesty, you must have already been with your own wife when you bonded with my father” Nino growled wanting to defend the man that had been lost to him for years. “You are not a king, you are a pathetic child...All this death...All of this...You are disgusting!”

TBC

a/n: I hope that this is okay ^_^