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Ash eyes his date a long-haired Asian. Their hair is done up in some elaborate half-bun. As they fruitlessly pull at the cuffs Ash has used to tether them to the chair.
“ Who are you….why are you”
Ash snorts “ Who those bastards at the FBI, you think they care?”
“ You think I work for the FBI?” they asked in confusion.
Ash wipes away their makeup with a finger, there that was better he hated that fake beauty stuff. They weren’t as confident as they appeared, Ash observed otherwise they wouldn’t have piled the makeup on so thick.
“ I’m nothing more than a medical student” they insisted widening their dark eyes.
“ Yut Lung lee, you sold six of your brothers to the FBI and acted as their mole. In exchange, you got a pardon. You kept acting as their mole when they needed you, don’t fuck with me”
“ I don’t know how you got such strange ideas about me but none of that is true…..” Their good the confused expression the slight fear. Though that probably isn’t quite so false.
Ash flicks open his knife and slices through Yut Lung’s pretty sweater causing them to gasp. He does a bit of ogling of that slender chest before he notices there’s no wire.
Yut Lung nods savagely through their pain “ See I told you no FBI”
Ash laughed “ no you are, but you are not with them tonight” He suddenly realized the nervous energy Yut Lung had displayed tonight had been sincere. There hadn’t been any malice only first date jitters.
“ So you just didn’t want to have sex with me” Ash had thought it had been to hide the wire.
“ How full of yourself are you?” Yut Lung exclaimed cheeks flushed with anger.
“ Not the type to put out on the first date huh?” Ash teased. He gets into Yut Lung’s personal space and tilts their chin “ No one is going to come looking for you… the last guy….I kept him for at least nine months.”
“ If you let me, go I promise I won’t say a word” Yut Lung gives Ash their best wide-eyed stare.
Ash smiled condescendingly they still weren’t getting it “ Why should a little slut like you get to walk free? Whores stay and get used up until there’s nothing left” he hadn’t gotten the message back then either under Papa Dino. But he’d learned and so did all the others.
“ How do you…..you planted the idea of us in Sing’s head” there’s a horrifying realization in Yut Lung’s eyes.
“ Bingo, I’ve had my eye on you since you came to New York. I did some research, I gotta admit you were a hard person to find” Ash pulls out a wipe and proceeds to remove the rest of the mascara with rough strokes that make their skin red.
“ Hold fucking still!” Ash orders as Yut Lung tries to jerk away. He eventually pulls their hair until they keep their goddam head straight as he finishes enjoying the sight of fresh tear-streaked cheeks. Ash undoes the rest of the bun letting their long hair spill over their shoulders, he whistles obnoxiously.
“ Take a picture I’ll last longer,” Yut Lung said sardonically.
Ash, cann’t wait to see the life drain from those pretty dark eyes. And that pale skin will be a nice canvas the question is what part of them does he want to mutilate first? He wrenches up the split sweater of the other to reveal a flat stomach.
Then a Japanese boy runs in and puts himself between Ash and Yut Lung.
“ Stop I cann’t watch this horrifying sight anymore!”
“ Hey, your that creep from earlier who keeps harassing me!” Yut Lung exclaimed.
Ash thinks back he’d been so focused on how to subdue his target, that he hadn’t been paying much attention but he does recall some weird boy who had annoyed Yut Lung back at the cafe.
“ How could you be so cruel and heartless….”
“ Quick Japanese boy if you untie me….I can take care of the rest” Yut Lung urged.
“ My name is Eiji don’t you remember?”
“ I’ll call you, your royal highness if you get me out of here”
“ No, just Eiji is fine”
“ UNDO THE ROPES YOU EMPTY-HEADED IDIOT”
Eiji pulls out a butterfly knife and where the hell did he get that Ash wondered, as Eiji slices Yut Lung’s bonds.
Ash rushes forward “ What are you doing you….” Eiji leps up in the air and hits him in the face with a spinning kick. By the time he recovers from the blow enough to see straight, Ash sees the tail end of them as they runoff. The blond watchs them race away with a knowing smile. His chest filled with a sense of dizzying excitement …
Yut Lung swears they passed this hall five seconds ago. They are never talking to Sing again! I think you two would really get along! He’s really nice, give him a chance. Yut Lung was going to throw a plate at Sing’s head!
No, your friend is not nice, he’s an actual serial killer, if I survive this no more blind dates!
Eiji picks him up “ What are you……?” Then he feels cloth cover his face and suddenly his head feels dizzy and Yut Lung can feel his limbs turn to water. . Eiji smiles at them innocently his eyes are empty black holes Yut Lung can feel himself sinking into those cold bottomless depths then everything fades to black…
Eiji lays his prize on the passenger's side of the car pulling the belt over their torso. A soft moan lets him know he didn’t use too much chloroform. Eiji lets out a nervous giggle of relief that he hasn’t repeated that mistake.
He starts the engine of the car, Ash runs up beside the car with a knife clamped between his teeth. He’s stunned like some kind of vicious mountain lion about to pounce on wildebeest! He hurls himself into the back seat of the car when Eiji puts his foot on the gas peddle.
“ Wow, your really good!” Eiji said clapping for him.
“ How the hell did you find the way out of the basement of a mansion?”
“ I opened the first door, I fell on” Eiji explained cheerfully.
Ash freezes “ Your fucking kidding me?” Then his eyes flicker toward Yut Lung whose eyes are starting to flutter.
“ Bastard give them back!”
“ I’m sorry Ash, I cann’t give you what belongs to me”
Ash puts his knife to Eiji’s throat “ I wasn’t asking”
The blond eyes the vehicle “ Nice car, maybe I’ll take it after I slit your throat”
“ You Americans are so impressed by fancy cars” Eiji teased.
Ash slices into him, Eiji doesn’t even flinch at the agony that slides through his body. It's like a mother's loving touch. “ You like that?” Ash asked suggestively
Is Eiji supposed to? It's just pain nothing special.
“ So do you need a ride home?” Eiji said “ After I get them home”
“ Fuck no Yut Lung is mine! You know how hard it was to get my hands on them?”
“ Then you should be more gentle….. Yue Chan should be preserved perfectly”
Ash sneers “ Yut Lung is just a used kleenex like all the others….”
Eiji frowns were all white boys this careless with love? Couldn’t Ash see this one was special.
“You're an asshole….you don’t deserve to love Yue chan”
“ Love?……as if?”
Ash caresses an unconscious Yut Lung’s arm “ I like the pretty ones….not the innocents….the ones who know what street corners to hang out on. They have power…..a look can convince a grown man to forget his wife….I used to have it. That old pervert….he gave me everything and grew to despise me”
The blond laughed hysterically as he moved Yut Lung’s hair away from their neck “ He destroyed my life to have me all to himself, then he just got bored, isn’t that funny?” Ash laughs harder and harder.
Eiji thinks he looks gorgeous like this and he’s flattered Ash is telling him the intimidate details of his life. “ Do you want me to comfort you?”
“ Hell no! You're a moron! Not worth my time.”
“You're an asshole! And Yue chan deserves better”
“ He gets mutilation!”
“ Preserved!”
“ Mutilated!”
“ Preserved!”
Then out of nowhere, Yut Lung grabs the steering wheel and rams the car off the road into central park, and drives them straight into a tree…
It was not his smartest plan Yut Lung admits to dragging their bruised and cut body out of the wrecked car, nearly stumbling. The chloroform effects still haven’t entirely worn off. Though the unlucky star he was born under seems to have taken a holiday for once. As Ash Lynx lays unconscious with Eiji whimpering over him like an agitated puppy.
Yut Lung crawls off silently and eventually manages to find a phone to borrow, (Ash stole his) Yut calls a cab and headed back to his apartment. They lie to their professors about a nasty stomach bug keeping them from calling. Also, lie to their boss using the same excuse. Then curls up under the blankets on their coach after nursing their own cuts and bruises. They are still in shock.
How did this creepy serial killer learn so much about them? That FBI had been using them since the age of fifteen in exchange for leniency that stuff was classified information.
Who the hell was Ash Lynx? How much influence did he have and was it too much to hope he’d get bored and find a new victim? Yut Lung feels a bit guilty about his last thought no they should use their FBI connection to at least see if they could get this guy locked up.
That had been too close if Ash had noticed they were faking unconscious for those last minutes. Yut Lung didn’t want to think about it.
Then they remembered that Ash still had his phone locked up somewhere and the icy feeling of dread came back! They hadn’t felt this helpless since living with their brothers.
Yut Lung actually jumps when the door to their apartment swings open Sing walks through the door.
“ You didn’t show up to class today” his tone is concerned
“ I was sick….I puked all night then collapsed early in the morning and overslept”
“ I guess that makes sense, food poisoning?” Sing asked
“ I did order a clam soup”
“ So how was the date?”
Yut Lung freezes Sing is never going to believe them, people only see what they want to and Ash was his cousin's best friend, and if he’s really as powerful as he implied. Sing stays safe if he stays ignorant.
“ I won’t be seeing Ash Lynx again ….he’s insufferable”
Sing sighs “ are you kidding me! I found someone who lived up to your standards!”
“ I didn’t ask you to!” Yut Lung snapped
“ You want to marry your textbooks?”
“ Better than the losers you find!”
The two of them start to bicker as usual until Yut Lung says.
“ I don’t have time for a relationship anyway…”
Sing scowled “ Well sorry for wanting you to enjoy life! I have to force you to eat,you barely sleep. You just work and study ”
Yut Lung looks Sing in the eyes. He’s never able to quite tell Sing what his friendship means to him.
“ I’ll grab some toast and soup”
“ You should be in school not taking care of me”
“ Then stop being such a wreck jeeze!”
Yut Lung scowled “ You promised me and Nadia you’d graduate”
“ How, am I going to pay for tuition…. Does, Assets have any positions open?”
“ I’ve seen you dance Sing” Yut Lung snorted. “ You have the grace of a drunken elephant”
“ Yeah, I’m sure your customers care about how well you move!”
“ I don’t move that well…I hate the VIP customers”
Sing starts for the door “ Want Ginger tea?” he asked
“ Fine, yes, please but tomorrow you are back in school!” Yut Lung lectured.
Sing grins and nods before ducking out the door
Then Yut Lung’s burner phone rings from his room.
“ Hello?”
“ dock 123 12:00”
“ I thought we broke up” Yut Lung said mindful of who could be listening.
“ Well, babby I just missed you way too much.” was the response then he gets the dial tone.…
Ash is not happy, Eiji took him home bandaged his bloody head, and has been talking his ear off the whole time.
“ Do you ever shut the fuck up?”
“You're supposed to comfort me? Are you even listening? You never listen no one does!” Eiji takes out a knife and tries to ram it into Ash’s flesh he catches his squeezing it until its almost ready to snap, but the idolt is still looking at him with those fucking empty eyes!
Ash drops the other boy's wrist in frustration.
Eiji looks at him in lost confusion. “ I did everything…I was supposed to. Why are you unhappy with me?”
“ Because ….what kind of idiot doesn’t use enough chloroform to keep their target out for at least four hours”
“ Is Yue chan gone?” Eiji looks upset “ He abandoned me?” the other boy looks like he wants to cry.
Ash looks at him incredulously “ I’m getting them back, and you are going to make yourself useful and help me or I'll cut your organs out and wear them.”
“ How Yue chan didn’t even accept my phone number”
Ash laughs, Yeah but I got his phone, and I’m friends with that gullible ex-gang kid he adores he thought smugly. “ You don’t need to worry, Eiji you just do what I tell you, ok?” said Ash in his cutesy voice.
Eiji nods but there’s something in his eyes that tells Ash, he’s still going to make a play for Yut Lung. “ Alright Ash I won’t be a burden to you” he promises.
Ash doubts that honestly, he doesn’t think Eiji will be that useful but he has a much more sinister plan. Everyone has a breaking point, Ash is going to shatter the stupid kid for the satisfaction of seeing that idiotic smile fade from his face.
Ash sends Eiji on some errands and turns on Yut Lung's phone. Ash goes through their dinner conversations to try and find his password.
Smart or not Yut Lung is still one of the ordinary people. They’ll use something their very passionate about.
Ash smirks and types in the name of Yut Lung’s mom’s favorite flower. Then he’s in and browsing.
Its actually pretty tame some games, a college schedule, and an alarm. Nothing incriminating Ash didn’t aspect there to be, Yut Lung wasn’t dumb.
Of course, Ash can still get a lot out of his text messages to Sing since Yut Lung trusts him. And it's the details he wants what makes Yut Lung tick, what scares them, makes them venerable. He reads in between the lines and a smirk crosses his face as he takes out his own cell phone and dials Sing’s number.
“ Hi, Ash?”
“ Hi Sing, I just wanted to let you know, that Yut Lung left their cell phone at my place”
“ What! Yut said it didn’t go well and you're saying they went back to your apartment!”
“ What I thought it was a good date, Yut Lung kissed me when I took them back”
“ What!”
It hadn’t been a lie, it had been a good date. One of the better ones Ash had. Also, Yut Lung had given him a sweet little kiss, before Ash had knocked him out with a taser. So he must have had a good time.
“ Then they ran off looking pretty embarrassed” Ash adds.
“ I knew it! shithead just needs to face their feelings!” Sing exclaimed “ Hey why don’t you come over here to return it…that way you two can talk”
“ Are you sure I wouldn’t want to overwhelm them….maybe I should give him some space” Ash offers.
“ Nah Yue’s had more than enough space”
“ So how did you become friends with Yut Lung anyway?” Ash asked
“ They weren’t too happy with me leaving the gang…..got some guys to track me down and give it to me good. Yut Lung found me bleeding on the way home from work….called 911 and patched me up the best he could while waiting, he saved my life” Sing said. “ Of course he wanted shit to do with me after….but you know me”
Ash laughed, he very well did know Sing.
Then guilt hit him like a ton of bricks overriding Ash’s desires for the moment.
Yut Lung meant a lot to Sing but its all too easy to push aside those thoughts to tell himself. Sing had Nadia and Lao after a while he won’t miss Yut Lung.
Sweet lies easy to swallow in the wake of the memory of Yut Lung spinning gracefully as the karaoke machine plays in the background. The flash of those legs had him gripping the microphone a little too hard.
Though truthfully Ash had decided Yut Lung was the one due to the turning heads and several young guys crowding them the moment they entered the bar.
“ So come by at eight just leave everything to me!”
“ If your sure”
“ Yeah, got to go, bye!”
Ash hangs up and closes his eyes
His hand entwined in that silky hair, his cigar lighter caressing that flat stomach. Big fat tears dripping from those eyes, so big and dark. The scent of crisping flesh.
Ash unbuttons his shirt it's suddenly far too hot in here.
They wouldn’t scream not at first just grind one of those petal-like lips under their teeth desperately. The collum of their throat staining as they hold in their cries.
Ash slides a hand down his pants
He grips one of those thrashing legs hammer in one hand, a kick straight to the gut and he loses his grip. Yut Lung slides backward their eyes full of terror. Then turns and bolts for the door, only to reel back, the flesh against their left cheek split with a knife.
Eiji smiles vacantly as he licks the blood from their cheek, Yut Lung makes a noise caught between fear and disgust Eiji turns to Ash and kisses him smearing Yut Lung’s blood on his lips. He breaks from the kiss.
And what the fuck! Ash snaps out of his fantasy realizing just what it is he’s picturing. No Yut Lung is his alone and he sure as hell doesn’t want to kiss Eiji!
The door opens and Eiji walks in with two bags “ I got what you wanted and extra ingredients to make…..”
Ash lept up and shoved Eiji against the wall and sliced him across the face “ You stay the fuck out of my Yut Lung fantasies got it!”
“ I’m sorry about the mess….I don’t have many visitors” Eiji rubs the back of his head nervously.
“ Did you hear me assho….!”
Ash gasped in pain as Eiji stabs him in the shoulder “ Your being very rude Ash….look what you did…..I have to stitch you up again” the Japanese boy sighed yanking it out none to gently.
Ash is half hard in his boxers, Eiji giggles “ Look your weiner is….”
“ I know!” Ash snapped
“ Could I watch?” Eiji asked innocently
“ You want to see me jerk off?”
Eiji nods
Ash snorts “ Your one fucked up guy”
“ Says the man who’s trying to have a sex fantasy about mutilating someone”
Ash grins slyly “ You asked for it” he holds out his arm and presses the knife to his flesh letting out a moan as he leaves one slice in his flesh.
Eiji watches as if fascinated as Ash raises his knife for the next cut leaning forward.
“ Doesn’t anything fucking bother you?”
“ Everything you do is really fascinating….”
“ Aren’t you scared of me?”
Eiji shakes his head, Ash looks at him incredulously. “ Idiot” he looks down at his pants seems dealing with morons is one of his turn-offs...
Yut Lung approaches the dock and FBI Agent Cain approaches him.
“ I thought you said we were done with each other”
“ Sorry baby, but it's a pretty desperate situation” The man pulls out a photo, and staring back at them is Ash Lynx.
“ No no! Oh my god no!” Yut Lung feels sick just looking at those green eyes.
Cain stiffed “ Shit! You know that guy?”
“ Last night, he tried to kill me”
Cain swears “ Yut Lung lisen very carefully, Ash Lynx owns half this city. If he wants you dead”
“ Ash knows you are onto him, he thought you sent me. He knows all about our arrangement”
“ Shit!” Cain cursed. “ We should have seen this coming”
“ Who is he?”
“ Ash Golzine, head of the Corsican family”
“ He’s mafia”
“ And he likes to torture and murder pretty young things on the side”
“ There haven’t been murder reports on the news though”
“ Because he likes sex workers, runaways, addicts those types”
“Tell me honestly can you put together an iron-clad case?”
Cain pauses “ There’s no guarantee he won’t walk”
Yut Lung tugs at his hair in frustration. “ I don’t want to be someone's dead plaything….I worked so hard to put myself back together…..I got into medical school me….” his tugs got more wild “ Why is it always my fate….to fail and be crushed?”
Cain looks him in the eye “ Look, Yut Lung I’m not going to let anything happen to you, ok”
“ You cann’t promise that….no one can” Yut Lung feels defeated, drained, and far too old for his nineteen years of age. “ There’s another one too, Japanese….talked about preserving me”
“ Ok I need physical descriptions and any details you can remember”
“There not going to take me seriously with my background”
“ I’ll vouch for you, my word still means something….but I need you to tell me everything”...
Yut Lung reaches their apartment thanks Cain and opens the door only for his throat to close up at the sight of Ash sitting there on his couch.
Yut Lung grabs the lamp vase and raises it, Ash looks amused “ A lamp Yut Lung really?”
“ Get out of my apartment!” they snapped
Ash pulls out Yut Lung’s phone and flashes it at them.
“ I see you went to your FBI buddies,” he said casually. Then he pats the spot next to him “ Sit down”
Yut Lung scoffs “ Yes because I’m dumb enough to sit next to a serial killer”
Ash gets up and in one swift move wrenches the lamp out of Yut Lung's hands and lets it smash on the floor then he shoves them onto the couch. Yut Lung tries to get up but Ash casually pins them in a mockery of what looks like to anyone not in the know a lover's embrace.
Yut Lung feels their whole body freeze upon first contact no not now! Please not now! Not here.
Then Ash kisses their cheek.
He gets up “ I’m glad you escaped….its the first time I’ve had to Hunt someone down” He fixes himself “ You want to know why I’m doing this. I can see it in your eyes but you think it would be pointless to ask”
Yut Lung is still trying to force themselves to breathe he just wants Ash to go away. He can move now that Ash’s skin is away from his. He calculates whether he can make five steps to the kitchen he’s always been fairly fast. Can he get to the knife in the right drawer?
“It's not a matter of you ratting me out, the pigs know their place” Ash pauses “ I just think you 're really cute, I gotta destroy….you” the blond lights a cigar.
“You're not getting a second date…Ash so you can let me go and not worry about it getting serious” Yut Lung said coldly.
Those green eyes flash with surprise and then amusement.
Ash winks at them “It's already gotten serious…. I don’t want anyone else’s hands on you….only I get to kill you”
The two are interrupted by the sound of cursing As Eiji who just slide through Yut Lung’s window brushes himself off.
“ Great you 're here, The door was unlocked ” Yut Lung added sourly.
“ That would have ruined the surprise hello Yue chan!”
“ Why are you here?” Ash asked through his teeth
“ I knew you were going to visit Yue chan, sorry next time I’ll use the door”
“ You, I can call the cops on!” Yut Lung picks up the phone.
“ Please do” Ash interjects.
That makes Yut Lung hesitate, maybe getting rid of Eiji isn’t a good idea after all.
Eiji smiles“ Now, Yue chan be good”
“ Stop calling me that!” Yut Lung then notices Ash’s bandaged shoulder as well as his head. “ Wait you let the Japanese boy stab you?”
“ I didn’t expect that little shit to pull that!” he’s pouting.
Eiji sticks his tongue out “ You have a very nice place….” he spots the broken lamp on the floor and casually takes Yut Lung’s broom from the closet and sweeps up the broken lamp cheerfully.
“ Freak” Muttered Ash.
“ At least I clean up my messes….sloppy American” Eiji muttered.
“ Well that explains why you’ve never been caught”
“ ….its their fault they never listen and I just get frustrated!”
“ You were planning to preserve me”
“ ….I’d prefer a warm Yue chan…. but I can make do with a cold one”
Yut Lung shivers.
“ So….”
“ cute”
The two killers look at them with desire in their eyes and then glare at each other and start arguing over him heatedly.
“ I saw them first asshole!”
“ You only think you did I’ve been scoping out this fucking scene for weeks! You just want to cut them up anyway how disrespectful to something so beautiful”
“ Oh like freezing their corpse is any less fucked up? You are probably one of those weirdos who fucks stiffs!”
Yut Lung resists the urge to curl up on the couch instead they run into the bathroom.
“ Yut Lung open the door, if I have to break it down it's going to be worse for you”
" You scared them off!"
" Yeah, I'm sure it was only me, Mr. I want to fuck your sexy corpse!"
" I am not a necrophiliac asshole!"
" Yeah, my grandma's corpse called she wants you to stop doing her in the....."
" Sure your not projecting Ash?"
" I'm coming after you! you little"
" What is your stamina that good?"
" Nasty!"
“ Yue Chan please let us in, we’ll stop fighting….” Eiji cuts him off.
Yut Lung tries to control the panic building inside of them as he hears Ash try to break down the door. They open up the medicine cabinet and pull out a bottle of pills hands shaking they rattle them.
“ Here this! I’ll swallow all of them and then you’ll have to find a new victim!” Yut Lung calls out.
“ Yue chan no don’t hurt yourself!”
“ You wanna die that badly?” Ash mocked
“ I’m not scared of death…but I’ll never let anyone like you turn me into an object for your personal satisfaction, again,” Yut Lung said calmly “ If I die tonight so be it but I’ll be on my terms”
Ash laughs “ You are the most fun date I’ve had in a while, ok I’ll leave”
Yut Lung breathed a sigh of relief.
“ Listen carefully though slut….you will be mine….people like us don’t get happy endings. We suffer….we die early. We don’t get second chances” he paused “You're better off letting me make love to you with a knife and a handful of cigars. It's the closest to affection someone like you will ever get.”
Then Yut Lung hears his footsteps fade away and lets out a shaky laugh.
“ Bye Yue Chan thanks so much for having me”
“ I didn’t invite you!”
“ We could have dinner tomorrow night….”
“ Go away!” Yut Lung barked
They hear Eiji’s shuffling footsteps fade away.
It's the closest to affection someone like you will ever get.
Yut Lung, eyes the bottle of pills in their hand then Sing’s worried face flashes into view and they quickly toss it back into the cabinet. Then they sit there hugging their knees for a long time rocking lightly back and forth before hesitantly opening the backroom door only to see their own cell phone winking at them playfully from the hall. A pit of dread forms in their stomach and suddenly they cann’t breathe...
Ash smirked thinking about his visit with Yut Lung he's about to turn on the water to start his bath when he sees a face in the mirror he turns and sees a boy with a purple mohawk glaring at him.
" I wondered when you'd show up again....look asshole it was an accident" He pauses " I'm taking care of your cousin like you would have wanted"
The ghost clenches its fists at him.
Ash laughed "It's strange to see you so quiet....you never shut up....we'll until I ....well you know" he still can't say the actual words aloud.
" The therapist says it's not good seeing dead people, they gave me meds" Ash takes a bottle out from the cabinet and dumps all the pills down the sink drain. " Hello, Shorter," he says with a grin.