this will be the last update for a while ):
Title: Crimson Needs [6/?]
Genre: au!vampire, drama, romance
Pairings: Kyumin, Henbum, more pairings to be revealed
Rating: PG-15
Summary: Kyuhyun and Kibum decide to do something that has never been done in the family. What are their respective motives for doing this? And how do Sungmin and Henry get involved in their First Killing?
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Sungmin needed to stay on task, Kyuhyun decided, as the boy went out of his room for cookies the third time that afternoon. That guy couldn't stay still long enough for Kyuhyun to talk to him properly. Within two hours, Kyuhyun had gotten to know Sungmin's entire army of soft toys (half of which were pink and the other half were bunnies), tasted all the cookies in Eunhyuk's secret stash and sampled all of Siwon's health drinks. Still, no talk about the project.
"Uhm, Sungmin? What movie should we watch for this Literature project? I think it's a good idea to give a review on the filming techniques used and apply them in our answering skills, don't you?" Kyuhyun tried to steer him back to the main topic.
"Yeah sure Kyu! Now, let's watch Titanic! It's my family's favourite! Eunhyuk and Wookie always burst into tears while watching it too, and Hankyung-hyung does, although he always denies it!" Sungmin bounced over to the DVD rack, procured the desired disc and pushed it into Kyuhyun's hands.
"I'll go microwave some popcorn, Kyu! Just start watching without me, it'll be my twentieth time anyway!"
Two hours later, Kyuhyun was stuck with his arm wrapped awkwardly around Sungmin, patting him as the latter blew his nose on his sleeve again. "Oh, Jack.. Oh, Rose! Oh, no!" Sungmin sniffled pathetically, tears forming a rapidly growing patch on Kyuhyun's shirt.
As Sungmin turned back towards the screen, trembling slightly with his sobs, Kyuhyun's attention got drawn to the boy's neck. It seemed so soft and pure, so tender, so delicious...
Kyuhyun licked his lips. There was a voice whispering at the back of his head now. 'Blood... Yessss... Kill... Blood...' It formed a deadly mantra in his head, urging him to step over that threshold, to cross over, to make his First Killing now. Why wait three more months when he had his prey in front of him right now? Yes, he could almost taste the metallic taste of blood once he sunk his teeth into the soft supple skin of the boy sitting next to him.. What was him name again? Well who cares, he could satisfy his sudden and inexplicable thirst of blood.. Blood.. Crimson red blood. He needed it. Now.
The sound of blood rushing through his ears blocked out all other interference. All he could think of now was blood flowing through his lips, skin giving way to his razor sharp fangs as he sunk them into
it.. Without realizing it, Kyuhyun had begun to lean closer to the boy. Blood. He needed to taste it. Now. He gripped the boy's shoulders, and...
"Kyu! Kyuhyun! Cho Kyuhyun!" A voice filtered in through the cacophony of sounds running through his brain now. Before he could process what was happening, Kyuhyun felt a sharp twist pushing his wrist behind him and he was flying across the room, landing on Sungmin's bed and rolling on to the ground with a loud 'ooof!'. Sungmin was glaring at him, arms up in a fighting stance.
"What the fuck was that for, Cho Kyuhyun?" If Sungmin glared any harder, lazed beams would be shooting out of his eyes.
Kyuhyun picked himself off the floor. "I'm.. I'm sorry." He stammered and ran out of the room, bumping into a well-built man with huge dimples and thick eyebrows at the front door. Kyuhyun mumbled an apology and ran out of the house before his brain could process how much fragrant blood was flowing through the veins of the man, and how delicious they would taste, swirling in his mouth.
Sungmin gathered himself in his room. He had been breathing heavily without him noticing it. Siwon knocked on his door. "Sungmin? Can I come in?" His voice was as gentle as the look on his face.
Sungmin whispered a soft 'yes' and Siwon strode across the room, hugging him. Sungmin sighed into his brother's muscular chest as he began to break down, incoherent sentences coming out of him.
"I thought he was nice, hyung, and I just wanted to be friends with him. I wanted to invite him to church this weekend! Hyung I can't help it if I look as pretty as a girl!"
Siwon nodded. "Yes, you can't help it." He didn't know exactly what Sungmin was talking about, but for now, he could only listen to him. Fifteen minutes later the boy had fallen asleep in his arms and Siwon smiled fondly at the boy who still bugged him for sweets and hugs every now and then, tucking him into his bed and pressing a soft kiss to his forehead.
"Sleep well, Sungmin-ah." He whispered before switching off the lights, plunging his room into darkness.
___
Kyuhyun ran. And ran. He ran until he was sure his lungs would burst if he moved another inch and collapsed onto the grass, throughly exhausted. He had reached an open field. How convenient.
Calming down, he let himself reflect on the incident. Why was he having thirst for blood right now? His Transition wasn't due until three months later, right? He thought about the only Vampire he knew who loved blood before he turned fifteen. Heechul. But Heechul was an abnormal case. He may as well have been born drinking blood. Heechul was extraordinary. He was like, a blood maniac. His hours awake were spent drinking blood, relishing the taste, killing someone again, drinking blood, relishing the taste and the cycle simply repeated himself. Their old mother would have been proud of him, had she not met a priest, fell in love with him and died thereafter as she had heard the priest praying for three hours while admiring his looks.
If there was one reason humans were stupid, it was because of their crazy superstitions. Kyuhyun scoffed everytime he heard his brothers talk about their experiences. It wasn't as though they would get deterred from killing them by a bunch of garlic or a wooden cross. Shindong had once met a fat old woman who shrieked like a banshee before throwing a bunch of garlic onto him. Undeterred, Shindong had simply killed her, drank his fill of blood and had the garlic as dessert. The only thing capable of weakening a Vampire, was praying. No matter how powerful he was, he would most definitely succumb to the power of prayer. The more he heard, the greater the damage done to him.
Praying. An image surfaced in Kyuhyun's mind.
"Er.. I was wondering if.. You'd like to come to my church this weekend, because we're supposed to bring a friend each and I don't have much friends at school apart from Ryeowook and Sungmin and Eunhyuk but they've all got their own friends and I wanted to bring someone for once instead of going with Siwon-hyung, because he talks to the pastor only and it gets really boring, yknow?" Henry said everything in one breath, and concentrated in the ground again, afraid of Kibum's rejection.
"I'll go." Kibum murmured softly.
Holy crap, did Kibum just forget who he was? Kyuhyun realized he would have a lot of people to talk to when he went home.
"Look, hyung, you're smart, I'm sure you know that if we hear a single prayer it would be detrimental to our health!" Kyuhyun insisted fiercely, unafraid of the others overhearing them because they were all out for their nightly hunts.
"And so?" Kibum's voice was so calm and composed he felt like punching him.
"And so if you go to church with that Mochi boy this Sunday you will suffer. Or die!" Kyuhyun was really annoyed now. Why didn't Kibum understand the gravity of the issue? He couldn't go to church with that Mochi boy, it would cost him too much. Kyuhyun was the only one aware of this other than Kibum himself. Sharing the attic with Kibum, there were moments when he would catch Kibum tripping over nothing in particular, staggering. He had frequent headaches and recently they had been increasing in intensity. He could hear him gasping softly in pain when he thought Kyuhyun was asleep. No, he would not allow Kibum to expose himself to weapons of self destruction.
"Just mind your own Sungmin and leave me alone." Kibum's deep voice floated through his thoughts. He sounded too amused. However, Kyuhyun's stomach only twisted into a huge knot and sank when he heard those words. Sungmin. He had forgotten to apologise!
Sungmin set his pink lunchbox down carefully. Shifting his chair, he lowered himself into his seat and sighed miserably.
"You can be normal around me, y'know. I won't eat you." Sungmin jumped.
"I thought you were asleep!"
"Well, think again then."
An awkward silence ensued. Sungmin took off his jacket, placing it on his seat after folding it up neatly. He was wearing a relatively low cut t-shirt today, which basically exposed his neck and shoulders for the whole world to see. Kyuhyun felt his attention get drawn to it again, and when Sungmin traced his line of vision, he literally sprung up and pulled on his jacket again.
"Hey, Sungmin. Uhm, about that day, I just want to say that I'm terribly sorry. What you thought I was doing isn't what I was doing, I guess I was just uhm, overworked? Anyway I'm really sorry if I scared you." Kyuhyun finished lamely.
Sungmin nodded. "Apology accepted, Kyu." He gave that smile again, dazzling and gleaming and blinding and oh god Kyuhyun could feel himself tumbling into the depths of those huge, dark chocolate eyes
and he needed to pull himself out soon -
"Okay, good morning class! Turn to page 56 of your Math books, and we shall conquer Logarithms today!" There were murmurs of annoyance at the overly-cheerful vibes that were radiating out of their Math teacher today.
Kyuhyun looked away, glad to have a distraction. No, he did not just get dazzled by Sungmin's smile. He did not.
Or so he hoped.
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This is 1664 words!! (((: Finally. I've surpassed my own standards. Uhm lol yeah.
The next chapter up not so soon, I'll be busy these few days ): Thank you to the regular readers of this fic, you know who you are ily sfm (((:
Studying may be a bitch, but I'll win the war anywayzxzx (: Good luck to everyone mugging their brains out too!
oh, have I mentioned? This is the chapter that I'm happiest with :D The past few chapters made me so URGH ()#$*#&*@Y$ because they looked weird. and draggy :/
Genre: au!vampire, drama, romance
Pairings: Kyumin, Henbum, more pairings to be revealed
Rating: PG-15
Summary: Kyuhyun and Kibum decide to do something that has never been done in the family. What are their respective motives for doing this? And how do Sungmin and Henry get involved in their First Killing?
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Sungmin needed to stay on task, Kyuhyun decided, as the boy went out of his room for cookies the third time that afternoon. That guy couldn't stay still long enough for Kyuhyun to talk to him properly. Within two hours, Kyuhyun had gotten to know Sungmin's entire army of soft toys (half of which were pink and the other half were bunnies), tasted all the cookies in Eunhyuk's secret stash and sampled all of Siwon's health drinks. Still, no talk about the project.
"Uhm, Sungmin? What movie should we watch for this Literature project? I think it's a good idea to give a review on the filming techniques used and apply them in our answering skills, don't you?" Kyuhyun tried to steer him back to the main topic.
"Yeah sure Kyu! Now, let's watch Titanic! It's my family's favourite! Eunhyuk and Wookie always burst into tears while watching it too, and Hankyung-hyung does, although he always denies it!" Sungmin bounced over to the DVD rack, procured the desired disc and pushed it into Kyuhyun's hands.
"I'll go microwave some popcorn, Kyu! Just start watching without me, it'll be my twentieth time anyway!"
Two hours later, Kyuhyun was stuck with his arm wrapped awkwardly around Sungmin, patting him as the latter blew his nose on his sleeve again. "Oh, Jack.. Oh, Rose! Oh, no!" Sungmin sniffled pathetically, tears forming a rapidly growing patch on Kyuhyun's shirt.
As Sungmin turned back towards the screen, trembling slightly with his sobs, Kyuhyun's attention got drawn to the boy's neck. It seemed so soft and pure, so tender, so delicious...
Kyuhyun licked his lips. There was a voice whispering at the back of his head now. 'Blood... Yessss... Kill... Blood...' It formed a deadly mantra in his head, urging him to step over that threshold, to cross over, to make his First Killing now. Why wait three more months when he had his prey in front of him right now? Yes, he could almost taste the metallic taste of blood once he sunk his teeth into the soft supple skin of the boy sitting next to him.. What was him name again? Well who cares, he could satisfy his sudden and inexplicable thirst of blood.. Blood.. Crimson red blood. He needed it. Now.
The sound of blood rushing through his ears blocked out all other interference. All he could think of now was blood flowing through his lips, skin giving way to his razor sharp fangs as he sunk them into
it.. Without realizing it, Kyuhyun had begun to lean closer to the boy. Blood. He needed to taste it. Now. He gripped the boy's shoulders, and...
"Kyu! Kyuhyun! Cho Kyuhyun!" A voice filtered in through the cacophony of sounds running through his brain now. Before he could process what was happening, Kyuhyun felt a sharp twist pushing his wrist behind him and he was flying across the room, landing on Sungmin's bed and rolling on to the ground with a loud 'ooof!'. Sungmin was glaring at him, arms up in a fighting stance.
"What the fuck was that for, Cho Kyuhyun?" If Sungmin glared any harder, lazed beams would be shooting out of his eyes.
Kyuhyun picked himself off the floor. "I'm.. I'm sorry." He stammered and ran out of the room, bumping into a well-built man with huge dimples and thick eyebrows at the front door. Kyuhyun mumbled an apology and ran out of the house before his brain could process how much fragrant blood was flowing through the veins of the man, and how delicious they would taste, swirling in his mouth.
Sungmin gathered himself in his room. He had been breathing heavily without him noticing it. Siwon knocked on his door. "Sungmin? Can I come in?" His voice was as gentle as the look on his face.
Sungmin whispered a soft 'yes' and Siwon strode across the room, hugging him. Sungmin sighed into his brother's muscular chest as he began to break down, incoherent sentences coming out of him.
"I thought he was nice, hyung, and I just wanted to be friends with him. I wanted to invite him to church this weekend! Hyung I can't help it if I look as pretty as a girl!"
Siwon nodded. "Yes, you can't help it." He didn't know exactly what Sungmin was talking about, but for now, he could only listen to him. Fifteen minutes later the boy had fallen asleep in his arms and Siwon smiled fondly at the boy who still bugged him for sweets and hugs every now and then, tucking him into his bed and pressing a soft kiss to his forehead.
"Sleep well, Sungmin-ah." He whispered before switching off the lights, plunging his room into darkness.
___
Kyuhyun ran. And ran. He ran until he was sure his lungs would burst if he moved another inch and collapsed onto the grass, throughly exhausted. He had reached an open field. How convenient.
Calming down, he let himself reflect on the incident. Why was he having thirst for blood right now? His Transition wasn't due until three months later, right? He thought about the only Vampire he knew who loved blood before he turned fifteen. Heechul. But Heechul was an abnormal case. He may as well have been born drinking blood. Heechul was extraordinary. He was like, a blood maniac. His hours awake were spent drinking blood, relishing the taste, killing someone again, drinking blood, relishing the taste and the cycle simply repeated himself. Their old mother would have been proud of him, had she not met a priest, fell in love with him and died thereafter as she had heard the priest praying for three hours while admiring his looks.
If there was one reason humans were stupid, it was because of their crazy superstitions. Kyuhyun scoffed everytime he heard his brothers talk about their experiences. It wasn't as though they would get deterred from killing them by a bunch of garlic or a wooden cross. Shindong had once met a fat old woman who shrieked like a banshee before throwing a bunch of garlic onto him. Undeterred, Shindong had simply killed her, drank his fill of blood and had the garlic as dessert. The only thing capable of weakening a Vampire, was praying. No matter how powerful he was, he would most definitely succumb to the power of prayer. The more he heard, the greater the damage done to him.
Praying. An image surfaced in Kyuhyun's mind.
"Er.. I was wondering if.. You'd like to come to my church this weekend, because we're supposed to bring a friend each and I don't have much friends at school apart from Ryeowook and Sungmin and Eunhyuk but they've all got their own friends and I wanted to bring someone for once instead of going with Siwon-hyung, because he talks to the pastor only and it gets really boring, yknow?" Henry said everything in one breath, and concentrated in the ground again, afraid of Kibum's rejection.
"I'll go." Kibum murmured softly.
Holy crap, did Kibum just forget who he was? Kyuhyun realized he would have a lot of people to talk to when he went home.
"Look, hyung, you're smart, I'm sure you know that if we hear a single prayer it would be detrimental to our health!" Kyuhyun insisted fiercely, unafraid of the others overhearing them because they were all out for their nightly hunts.
"And so?" Kibum's voice was so calm and composed he felt like punching him.
"And so if you go to church with that Mochi boy this Sunday you will suffer. Or die!" Kyuhyun was really annoyed now. Why didn't Kibum understand the gravity of the issue? He couldn't go to church with that Mochi boy, it would cost him too much. Kyuhyun was the only one aware of this other than Kibum himself. Sharing the attic with Kibum, there were moments when he would catch Kibum tripping over nothing in particular, staggering. He had frequent headaches and recently they had been increasing in intensity. He could hear him gasping softly in pain when he thought Kyuhyun was asleep. No, he would not allow Kibum to expose himself to weapons of self destruction.
"Just mind your own Sungmin and leave me alone." Kibum's deep voice floated through his thoughts. He sounded too amused. However, Kyuhyun's stomach only twisted into a huge knot and sank when he heard those words. Sungmin. He had forgotten to apologise!
Sungmin set his pink lunchbox down carefully. Shifting his chair, he lowered himself into his seat and sighed miserably.
"You can be normal around me, y'know. I won't eat you." Sungmin jumped.
"I thought you were asleep!"
"Well, think again then."
An awkward silence ensued. Sungmin took off his jacket, placing it on his seat after folding it up neatly. He was wearing a relatively low cut t-shirt today, which basically exposed his neck and shoulders for the whole world to see. Kyuhyun felt his attention get drawn to it again, and when Sungmin traced his line of vision, he literally sprung up and pulled on his jacket again.
"Hey, Sungmin. Uhm, about that day, I just want to say that I'm terribly sorry. What you thought I was doing isn't what I was doing, I guess I was just uhm, overworked? Anyway I'm really sorry if I scared you." Kyuhyun finished lamely.
Sungmin nodded. "Apology accepted, Kyu." He gave that smile again, dazzling and gleaming and blinding and oh god Kyuhyun could feel himself tumbling into the depths of those huge, dark chocolate eyes
and he needed to pull himself out soon -
"Okay, good morning class! Turn to page 56 of your Math books, and we shall conquer Logarithms today!" There were murmurs of annoyance at the overly-cheerful vibes that were radiating out of their Math teacher today.
Kyuhyun looked away, glad to have a distraction. No, he did not just get dazzled by Sungmin's smile. He did not.
Or so he hoped.
\\\
This is 1664 words!! (((: Finally. I've surpassed my own standards. Uhm lol yeah.
The next chapter up not so soon, I'll be busy these few days ): Thank you to the regular readers of this fic, you know who you are ily sfm (((:
Studying may be a bitch, but I'll win the war anywayzxzx (: Good luck to everyone mugging their brains out too!
oh, have I mentioned? This is the chapter that I'm happiest with :D The past few chapters made me so URGH ()#$*#&*@Y$ because they looked weird. and draggy :/