Sweet Psychosis

Disclaimer: C\'mon, you know the drill by now, right? I obviously don\'t own NightWalker or I wouldn\'t be writing fanfiction about it.

Warnings: Erm, see part one.

Author: Koneko Shido

A/N: Chapter 2! Enjoy!

Sweet Psychosis
Perfect Perspective part 2 (We\'re into the sechalfhalf of episode 1 now, folks.)

Shido sat in the passenger seat of Yayoi\'s soon-to-be destroyed flashy sports car and tried to count the lights on the tunnel roof. He gave up after a few moments because he began to get a headache, and Cain was laughing at him.
//Are you still in the grocery store?// Shido thought to his mate, fiddling with the radio and absently flirting with Yayoi, which, since he did it constantly, he could do without thinking.
//Are you still playing around with your pet humans?// Cain replied, and Shido took that to mean yes, Cain was still in the grocery store.
//Yes, but hopefully there should be some action soon. I\'m bored.// Shido inwardly pouted.
//You\'re always bored, my Shido.// Cain said smugly.
//I am not. There are plenty of things I ldoindoing.// Shido argued, folding his arms, even though Cain wasn\'t there to see. Yayoi just gave him a strange look out of the corner of her eye and chalked it up to his eccentricity.
//Ah? Like what?// Cain asked as he made his way out of the grocery store and looked around for something else to amuse himself with until his wayward little mate decided he\'d had enough of the mortals for the day, which meant that they could go home and have sex, as usual. Not that there was anything wrong with that routine, of course. Well, the going home and having sex part of it, anyway.
//I like... uh... sex. And... and killing things. And thinking of new and improved ways to have sex and kill things. Oh, and I like watching television.// Shido declared.
//I stand corrected.// Cain smirked as he looked in through the window of a pet shop and glared at a little grey kitten, which blinked big, innocent blue eyes back up at him and mewled pitifully.
//I\'m hungry, Yayoi promised me she\'d feed me, I\'m going to collect.// Shido decided, his mental link fading away to the back of Cain\'s mind, the last thing Cain heard from him being a distinct feeling that, somewhere on the other side of town, Shido was grinning evilly.
Cain looked back down at the kitten and sighed. The kitten did its best to look understanding and sympathetic, pawing at the glass that separated them.
\"I spoil him.\" Cain muttered. The kitten nodded sadly, and Cain decided he rather liked it, especially the way it was gazing adoringly up at him like a good little feline minion. With a smirk, Cain entered the pet shop.

\"-AND the police told me off, and Yayoi\'s car was completely wrecked, and the damned thing escaped.\" Shido ranted to his mate as the two vampires walked up the long driveway to Cain\'s mansion early the next morning, after Shido had had his first unsuccessful encounter with the nightbreed.
\"The horror.\" Cain muttered, voice dripping sarcasm which went straight over Shido\'s pretty little head.
\"So what have you been doing, other than haunting shopping centres?\" Shido asked, watching disinterestedly as Cain opened the front door of his enormous house and let his mate inside.
\"I bought a cat.\" Cain smirked, leading Shido towards the library, where said feline was napping comfortably.
\"Oh, that\'s nice.\" Shido said absently, then actually processed what Cain had said to him. \"Er, what?\" He asked with a puzzled look on his face.
\"A kitten, to be more precise. His name is Loki.\" The older vampire informed his confused partner.
\"You bought yourself a cat... and named it Loki... and you\'re keeping it? What, really?\" Shido said slowly, as if trying to understand something that was miles beyond his grasp. Not that he was an idiot, but Cain, with a cat? That seemed about as likely as Riho giving up her life of stalking, getting her tongue pierced and joining a rock band. The thought made Shido snicker, but then he forced himself to get back on track, and pay attention to the actual issue here. Cain had gone into a pet store and bought himself a cute little kitten. Well, it could be worse, he could have taken up flower arranging or something. Perhaps, Shido thought, Cain was being left on his own too much.
When they finally made it to the library, Shido blinked at the sight before him. There, curled up asleep on the couch, was a tiny grey kitten.
\"You really *did* buy yourself a kitten...\" Shido said in a slightly worried voice.
\"It is my new minion. I am teaching it to be evil.\" Cain supplied, sitting gracefully down on the couch next to the cute little furball.
\"Err... ok.\" Shido snapped himself back to reality and sat down on the other side of the kitten, watching as it blinked pure blue eyes open and stretched, giving a fangy yawn.
\"Good evening, Loki.\" Cain smirked, running an elegant finger along the kitten\'s back. It purred happily and padded up onto Cain\'s lap, sitting there and gazing adoringly up at the blonde vampire, who stroked it again.
\"This is Shido.\" Cain introduced the kitten to his lover.
Loki turned his head and slowly fixed Shido with icy blue eyes, glaring at him and curling up on Cain\'s lap, tail twitching in aggravation.
\"I don\'t think he likes me.\" Shido smirked.
Loki hissed in affirmation.
\"It seems not,\" Cain laughed, gently lifting the tiny silver ball of fur from his lap and setting it back on the couch, getting up to look through the shelves full of books for something to read.
\'Vermin.\' Shido thought, glaring back at the kitten as it flattened its ears and growled at him. \'It\'s probably carrying the plague anyway. And fleas.\'

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Shido sat in his office chair, his feet up on the desk, sulking over the fact that Cain had a kitten and it was getting more attention that he was.
//Shido...// Cain\'s voice echoed in his head. Shido pretended not to hear it.
//Shido...// The voice repeated, a little more forcefully.
//What?// Shido said in his most petulant voice.
//Are you jealous of my cat?// Cain asked, suddenly realizing what was making his little Shido so irritable.
//No.// Shido lied, folding his arms. Cain, wherever he was, raised an eyebrow.
//Then what are you sulking about?// The older vampire asked, very tempted to just burst out laughing and appear in front of Shido, then haul him off somewhere to make mad, passionate love. That would probably make things better, right? It usually did. Sex was a remedy for all problems, in Cain\'s opinion. Unfortunately, that brat who stalked Shido was also in the office. Damn it. Ah, but there were ways around every problem.
//Nothing. I\'m not sulking.//Yes/Yes you are.//
//No I\'m not.//
//Do not worry,// Cain said in a voice that told Shido he was plotting something, //you will always be my favourite pet.//
//Hey, I\'m not a-// Shido stopped as he suddenly came to the not entirely startling realization that he was no lr sir sitting in his office, sulking and pretending not to. He was now in a large old room, sat at a wooden desk remarkably like the one in his office. Except for the fact that this desk had a golden haired vampire perched on the edge of it, looking down at him with hungry yellow eyes. Shido liked this desk better than his. This one had Cain.
\"Well, this is nice.\" Shido said, still trying very hard to keep up his bad mood. He was not going to ask where he was, or how he\'d gotten there, or why Cain was here, or what he was going to do. Nope. That was what Cain would WANT him to ask.
\"How stubborn you are, Shido.\" Cain laughed, holding something that looked suspiciously like a leather dog collar in his hand.
\"Don\'t pretend you don\'t like me this way,\" Shido licked his lips, getting the distinct impression that Cain had something unwholesome planned, and he was going to enjoy every second of it. The bad mood was quickly dissolving.
\"Hmm. d yod you like to know where you are, now?\" Cain asked, sliding off the desk and stalking like a predator around Shido until he stood behind his mate.
\"I suppose so, tell me.\" Shido tried to turn to face his mate, but was stopped by Cain gently lifting his hair out of the way and buckling the dog collar around his pale throat.
\"You are dreaming.\" Cain laughed softly, taking Shido\'s delicate little hand and helping him up out of the seat so that he could see the rest of the room.
\"Ah. And you are in my dream?\" Shido touched the collar around his throat as he looked around. The first thing the violet-haired vampire noticed was the bed. In the centre of the room stood an enormous, antique four-poster bed, complete with black, silken drapes and black sheets. The second thing Shido noticed was that the room had no doors, and just one, large window leading out onto a balcony, beyond which the full moon could be seen hanging in the midnight sky above a range of snow-capped mountains. \"Very nice.\"
\"Isn\'t it? And yes, I am in your dream, but you are not dreaming of me. In fact, I am in charge here, and I can do anything I like to you, my precious pet.\" Cain hissed, grabbing Shido by the arm and throwing him down on the bed. Shido gasped and looked up at Cain, who crawled over him and smirked his most wicked smirk.
\"I think it fair to warn you... I am feeling particularly evil today. I think, my beautiful little Shido, that I will make you beg.\"
Shido narrowed his eyes and gave a sexy little laugh, arching his body up so that he could lick Cain\'s throat and hiss like a snake.
\"Bring it on.\" He growled.

* * *

Shido woke up from his dream, gasping and panting, covered with sweat and exhausted. That had been... enlightening.
\"Are you alright, Mr. Shido?\" Asked Riho, from right in front of him. Shido almost jumped out of his skin, but quickly struggled to get his blush under control and pull himself together.
\"Oh, it\'s you Riho.\" He gasped, blinking as he realised that he was back in his office, sat at his desk, and Cain was snickering away in the back of his mind.
Riho, thankfully, wandered off to make him some coffee, babbling something about still having some time left, and Shido ran a hand through hai hair, freezing when he noticed that he was still wearing the dog collar.
//A present.// Cain laughed, and Shido blushed madly again, fiddling with it to try and get it off before Riho noticed and started asking awkward questions. Typical, he couldn\'t get it undone.
//Damn, damn damn damn!! It won\'t come off!!// He panicked, glancing towards the kitchen where Riho was humming happily to herself.
//Would you like me to help you with that?// Cain asked, and Shido almost had a heart attack, if that were possible, when a pair of cool hands gently undid the buckle on the collar and it fell away.
//What are you doing here! Riho\'s right there-// Shido bit his lip, tur in in his chair to see Cain stood behind him, smirking as per usual.
//Relax, my Shido.// Cain murmured into his mind, leaning down for a quick kiss before vanishing into the shadows. Shido blinked, giving a very undignified squeak of shock when Riho called to him from the kitchen.
\"Are you sure you\'re feeling ok? You look a little pale.\" \'m \'m fine,\" he managed, quickly stuffing the dog collar into his pocket as Riho bought him his cup of coffee.
\"Here, it\'s Riho\'s special blend, it\'ll make you feel good as new!\" She chirped cheerfully, waving at him as she left for school.
\"Feel good as new, huh?\" He looked down at the coffee and hid it under his hat, sighing.
In the back of his mind, he could hear Cain laughing at him. Again.

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TBC

Urgh... I didn\'t get very far, did I? Aww, well, all the more episodes, I guess. So we\'re not even through episode one, yet. As for the kitten... No, it isn\'t the same cat from the episode with the evil animal eating kid, or at least I think it isn\'t. I just liked the idea of Cain having a kitty, and Shido being jealous. Loki will probably be popping up from time to time to torment Shido, he needed a rival. As I may have whined about before, I don\'t have the scripts to the episodes, so if I get some minor detail wrong don\'t bother telling me, there\'s nothing I can do bar watching all the episodes again and typing down the scripts myself, and I don\'t have that kind of time on my hands. So I\'m guessing, and going from what I can remember, which is, for the most part, pretty vague. There\'ll be some bits you\'ll recognize and some bits I\'ll just plain make up, like the whole dog collar bit. Comedic effect, y\'know? Anyway, please review? Pleeeease? *whine, beg, plead* I need the encouragement.