Forever Caged

Disclaimer: I don't own Ai No Kusabi nor do I make any money from this fanfic. But I do own all the original peeps that I've chosen to invade the AnK world.
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Iason/Riki, Raoul/Katze, original characters and novel character pairings.
Parts: 42 of ?

**RAW**

AN: sorry for all the errors you will find . i kept falling asleep trying to proof read it ;p

alexxgalaxy - I think Raoul has other things on his mind right now hehehe so i can safely say that Katze is slightly off the hook for the moment. As for the other Blondies...well, they will have their only little way of handling their mongrels, but it will be funny if they turn to Iason for advice seeing that he is the only one they know of that has held onto a mongrel for so long.

Hope you enjoy this chapter :)

~~**Forever Caged**~~

"Fuck! Ah! Mmm!" Riki dig his nails into Iason's back as he shouted and sobbed his frustrations at the tormenting Blondie. It could have been only ten minutes for all Riki knew but if felt like forever the way Iason teased, twisted and bit his already sensitive, used body… just as he had feared the Elite would do.

He knew what the blasted Blondie was waiting for, he was waiting until he was completely boneless, totally drained, and wouldn't stop until he couldn't lift his head any more. Knowing this Riki had tried to pretended that he was, and he didn't need to try very hard either, but with even thrust of Iason's hips that sent ripples of agonizing pleasure through his body, and as he held tightly onto Iason as the pressure in his lower belly tightened with another climax, threatening to shatter the very essence of who he was with enough strength proved him to be a liar.

Not only that, but when he tried to make like he had nothing left to give, Iason would swivel his damnable hips in such a way that sent a hurricane of pleasure up and fucking down his body unwillingly forced him to tighten his arms around his Blondie's neck and his legs around his waist. And if that wasn't bad enough, the huge fucker finally started with his questioning….

From the bed they had moved to the floor, the dresser…. It wasn't because they were getting all playful in finding locations to do it, but more because Iason was trying to find the perfect spot where he could control every movement of his body… or in this case right now, Iason was putting a stop to his sad attempts to escape the blinding pleasure Iason was happily inflicting on him, which had lead him into the corner of the room, his back pressed against the wall with Iason holding him up with his legs spread over the Blondie's powerful forearms. Every other hard reconnection of Iason's pelvis between the junction of his thighs the bastard would whisper his questions seductively and Riki could do nothing but answer, even as his throat burning from his cries and begs for Iason to cease and let him rest.

Riki wasn't even sure what he had told Iason anymore.

"Enough Iason!" Riki cried as his body spasms from the new orgasm Iason ripped out of him, making him tighten unwittingly around Iason's punishing, impressive length, enough that the Blondie was unable to continue his continuous hard thrusts without doing him harm. "No more," Riki all but sobbed for what had to have been the thousandth time.

Iason grit his teeth at the painful pleasure from Riki gripping him so tightly, his Elite control shattering as he was sucked in deeper with each convulsion from Riki's body, milking everything he had left within him. Stumbling a few steps back Iason released Riki's legs and laid him gently on the bed, they stood next to, and following him down. Now…Now he was completely sated. Iason pulled Riki tightly to his side, kissing the damp forehead of his groaning lover. His own chest pumping up and down with exertion from the passionate run they had, yet again. Iason never felt so physically drained before, and it felt good. Damn good.

"Thank god…"

Iason chuckled at Riki's exhausted sigh of relief. "Do not get too comfortable yet." Iason smiled when he felt Riki stiffen in his arms. "You have spoken of your travels but you have yet said one word to me about Jupiter and her involvement in your escape or the matter of why she assisted you when she made it clear to me, and the other Blondies, that you were to be a permanent resident in Eos."

Riki tried to lift his head from Iason's shoulder but failed pathetically. "Jupiter cemented my residency in Eos?"

"Indeed she did," replied Iason, surprising himself by yawning.

"That wasn't the fucking impression she gave me. She made it seem like I was an ant that she couldn't kill, not if she wanted to continue having you as her golden boy…" Riki frowned and dug deep to find the strength to turn his head to look up at Iason. "Fucked up part was that she wanted your continued loyalty…but she also threatened to kill you if I didn't leave. She threatened to kill everyone in Ceres if I didn't leave. Shit. Thinking about this crap is giving me a headache…. Massage my temples for me since I can't move my arm to do it myself."

Iason rolled to his side and cuddled Riki in the nook of his arm, doing as his demanding mongrel ordered while also thinking of the information Riki just relayed to him. "Jupiter told you she would terminate me?" Iason darkly asked.

Riki was silent, just staring at Iason and waiting, watching to see what Iason's reaction would be before he answered. "It was obviously a lie-"

"There is no obvious about it Riki," Iason coldly replied, "If it had been than you would not have fled, would you? Jupiter blackmailed you by using my life, and the lives of your slum friends. Jupiter gave you an ultimatum that you couldn't turn your back on, and she must have been convincing that you couldn't even come to me to confide in."

"Yea, she was pretty damn convincing," Riki muttered lowering his eyes away from Iason's burning glaze. The expression he had imagined seeing on Iason's face when he told the Blondie was a hundred times more disturbing than he thought it would be. It was as if the light from the room had been suck out with the amount of shadows that covered Iason's face. Riki shivered.

"You're not telling me everything, are you?" said Iason pausing in his massage.

"Huh?" Riki laughed nervously, not liking the intensity of which he was being surveyed. "That depends on what you've tortured out of me already." Of all the times Riki had been fucked to the point of death, before he became like he was now, the one thing he missed that he had hated before was passing out after it was all done. Oh, he was tired and wanted to go to sleep, but the more Iason talked the more awake it seemed he was becoming.

"Mmm… Let's see. So far you have told me of your little dress up where upon your mongrel friends and Mikhale's pet began to fornicate with a vast amount of prostitutes. Then there was the little adventure you had at an auction that had you kidnapping a very voluptuous young female and a newly purchased pet, which," Iason gave Riki a stern look, "You have not told me the details of, then you proceeded in getting your face plastered on wanted posters all over that galaxy."

Riki laughed again. "That's the most of it. Not much to tell-" Riki sucked in a breath when he felt Iason's hand, that had been massaging his brow, lower to touch his stomach. "Don't!" Riki hoarsely cried. "You can't want more!" Riki wasn't ashamed of how his voice trembled when he all but pleaded with Iason not to start again. He would have never showed such weakness to anyone else, but with Iason he knew he couldn't win, the only thing he had left was to…beg.

"Can't I?" Iason said in a threatening way. It didn't matter to him that he, himself, was tired. He was more then capable of continuing with the most pleasurable way of interrogating Riki, if need be. But with the way he had Riki crying out for almost twenty-four hours it wasn't possible. His mongrel, even with his new strength, was still only human with human limitations.

"Fine. You may keep the details a secret to yourself for now, but you will tell me exactly what Jupiter said to you, and how you came to find out that, that little pet was your prodigy."

While trying to still his racing heart from just the thought of Iason bending him over one more time, Riki haltingly recanted what Jupiter said to him. Riki stumbled a little when he told Iason of the first visitation Jupiter had graced him with, thinking about how stupid he felt now that the words were out in the open… Then bashing himself for feeling that way. There was no way he could have told Iason of Jupiter's threat, right?

Riki gave himself a shake and continued on with his tale. Telling Iason about the sickness that overcame him and waking up with the face he hadn't seen since he first became Iason's pet, to the long hair and freakish new strength of his. It was until he came to the part where he told Iason of the nanites that the Blondie stopped him.

"Jupiter injected you with nanites?"

Riki nodded slowly. Iason was getting pretty worked up and Riki new to thread carefully when his Blondie showed too much human emotion. Pissed Iason wasn't a problem. Passionate Iason wasn't a problem. But a passionately pissed Iason was a big fucking problem.

Riki waited until Iason looked to have control over his temper before continuing. "We found that some of, what had to be, Jupiter's goons following us but didn't know how they were able to locate us where ever we went or seemingly to be able to know what we were planning. I thought we had a traitor amongst us… and I was right, but I accused the wrong person."

"She never meant for you to be gone for very long," Iason said thoughtfully, speaking out loud to himself. "If what we have discovered so far, Jupiter has been conducting experiments, using you as her prized stud."

Riki raised a brow at that. "Yea, I figured as much when I was strapped with the title of "Daddy" after the gang's curiosity got the best of them, and they did a blood test confirming Jade was my kid. But if she never planned on letting me go than why the fuck did she set me free to begin with?"

Iason didn't know, but thought back to the day that Riki escaped and Katze's strange coma. How his ex-Furniture had also undergone a strange reversal of time and became younger. How Katze's hair, while not as long as Riki's, had grown longer….But what was the connection? Why did they change?

With all the information collected there had been data of some kind of infection, but nothing specific, nothing that stated what the infection was or how it was administered. Only that Riki was patient zero, the one that could spread it. But even that was strange. Normally anything harmful, in the form of a virus, was quarantined, studied and eliminated, but Jupiter had allowed Riki to roam free in Eos in hopes that he would infect everyone.

If this thing was what had caused Riki to look like he does now, and Katze as well, than why has this change not occurred with everyone else that Riki had been in contact with? Iason had heard nothing of a person suddenly becoming younger without the aid of Elite science.

"What has Jade told you about this?" Iason suddenly asked.

Riki narrowed his eyes at Iason's tone, not liking the way the Blondie said his kid's name. "Nothing."

Iason stiffened. "This isn't a game Riki. You will tell me."

"Yea, and as I fucking said, my son hasn't told me anything." Riki didn't fucking care what Iason did, he wasn't going to say jack shit, not until he knew for sure his Blondie wasn't going to hurt Jade.

"Your son…" Hearing the possessiveness in Riki's tone, the way he claimed the pet Gideon took didn't sit well with Iason. "You say you've only just learned of this pet's existence a few days ago, and yet you have already taken him into your heart?"

In the far corners of Iason's mind he knew that the fact that Riki was being defensive was understandable, even justified. But it did not stop the jealously that arose when faced with the knowledge that Riki would stand up for the pet, give apart of himself to the boy, just as it had not sat well with him when Daryl had sacrificed himself to try and free Riki. His behavior could be termed as childish, but the only person Iason wanted in Riki's heart was himself. It was irrational but that's how it was.

The hand that rested on Riki's stomach moved slowly upwards until he curled his hand and fingers around his mongrel's throat, tenderly caressing the rapid pulse beneath his thumb. "You care so much for him do you?"

Riki boldly lifted his chin, mindful of the powerful hand that was wrapped around his throat, but in no way was he fearful of it. "He's my blood. He's family. You might not understand it since you have a shit load of brothers, but having someone of my own blood is a big fucking deal. When I was growing up I remember how, besides myself, the twins were considered, and treated, like freaks because they were twins! Because they had each other." Riki wasn't all into the "sharing, caring" shit but he needed Iason to understand what having someone that was a part of himself meant to him.

Iason continued to caress Riki's with slow circular motions with his thumb. Despite what Riki said, and could understand, the thought of Riki, maybe, loving someone else still didn't sit well with him….but if he wanted Riki to stand beside him with out a pet ring to keep him there, than the little pet was something he would have to come to terms with.

"If you want this boy in your life then I would only be right that I officially met with him," Iason finally said after a long pause.

Gritting his teeth Riki forced his lead like arm up off the mattress to lie on the hand that was still wrapped around his throat. "You said that my boys were given to your Blondies, but what of Jade? Where is he? Please, fucking tell me you didn't give him back to that shit of an Onyx Elite?"

Iason was tempted to tell Riki that he had, but once again controlled himself. It seemed that his little habit of playing games would be a little harder then he thought it would be. "No, the little pet was not given back to Sir Jerico. Gideon claimed the boy as his own. A prize, so he says, for retrieving the lot of you from the backwater planet you were at."

Riki breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't know very much about the Blondie, Gideon, but the little bit that he did know was all good. He wasn't a flake like other Elite's, nor did he go through pets like they were tissue paper. Riki would like it if Iason took Jade in, so he could look out for him, protect him in any way that he could…but he also didn't want the boy to see him after Iason worked him over, didn't want Jade to hear his lewd shouts while…

"Is there anything else you'd like to tell me? Such as where those females went after you took them, are?" Iason hadn't planned on asking just yet, being just as fatigued as his mongrel, but the thought that they could be out there waiting for Riki to come back to them… Involuntarily Iason's hand tightened around Riki's throat.

Riki tugged on the grip, hissing in anger at Iason until he loosened his hold. "The girl I tried to rescue…. She was….killed in the attempt…." Riki blocked out the unpleasant memory, but felt his chest tighten in pain and loss. Riki had to clear his lump that had formed in this throat just thinking about Amelia before he could speak again. "As for the other girl we dropped her off on this planet where she would be cared for." Riki really hoped that Luke and Aoi were able to get off the planet or at lease were capable of contacting Rio to take them to safety.

"Is that the truth?" Iason whispered.

"Yea." Riki shifted uncomfortably, knowing that Iason could see that he was lying and hoping that the Blondie would let it go.

"Mmm…" Iason held Riki's glaze, not allowing his mongrel to turn his eyes away from him, until finally Iason nodded, accepting Riki's answers. He could see that Riki was holding something back, but he also had heard the truth in the boy's voice when he spoke of the reported lovely pet being killed, the pain in Riki's voice when he talked about it. As for the other female and where she was at, Iason decided to let it go. She wasn't here and Iason had already confirmed it while he was questioning Riki, while loving the mongrel's body, that he had not sought the comfort of another's body for relief. That was all he cared about.

With this last bust of energy he had displayed, Riki, and whatever strength he had, drained away. Fighting the darkness that was blanketing over his eyes Riki tried to ask Iason about the experiments that Jupiter had been doing on him. About the "prized stud" comment Iason had said, wanting to know if there more kids of his running around being tormented just as Jade had been, but the words that came out of his mouth sounded like gibberish to him.

Iason looked down at Riki's sleeping face, pulling the mongrel closer to him before laying his own tired body down, pulling a sheet over their forms as he did. He had more questions that needed to be answered, but for now it could wait. He had more than enough to think about and his mongrel needed his rest for the upcoming events that would be demanding their attention.

Everyone in Eos my still consider Riki to be a disgusting mongrel but those that sneered at his beautiful, wild, mongrel were also questioning why he has not made an appearance to any of the functions in the past month that Riki has been off world. And that heat has also been turned towards Marcus, Orphe and Aisha who had submitted paperwork of a purchase of new pets a couple weeks ago, namely Riki's mongrel friends. The Elites of Eos has no clue that the Blondies new pets were mongrels, not just yet anyway, and Iason was very curious as to how their community was going to fair with, not just Riki, but three more mongrels in their mists.

Iason gave a tired chuckle at the utter chaos his Elite brethren would be stepping into while pulling Riki even closer to him, as close as he possibly could before closing his own eyes to join Riki in slumber.

oOoOoOo

Katze watched Raoul as the Blondie paced back and forth in front of Niko, the little Furniture who had scrambled to dress himself when his master caught him, while not in the act itself, fornicating with the Blondie, Sir Gabriel Lazen, whom had his powerful arms folded across his chest, legs crossed, and glaring in irritation at his lover's madding pacing.

Katze should have felt pity for Niko, who had been forced by the other Blondie to sit next to him on the sofa, and to a certain extent Katze did feel sorry for the boy and the predicament he found himself in. He more than anyone else, besides Riki, knew how hopeless it was to try and deny an Elite something that he wanted, but he had warned Niko the first time when he had discovered that the boy had had intercourse with Sir Gabriel. Katze also had to wonder about what was happening with the Elites, and their unsaid rule of "look but don't touch" that they had always held themselves too.

First there was Iason with Riki. Then there was him and Raoul. Now there was Niko and Gabriel. Not to mention that three Blondies had just taken mongrels to be their pets. Katze couldn't help but marvel a little at the drastic change that was occurring in Eos and wondered who would be next to succumb to the dark pleasures of the flesh… And also why was it happening.

But he could contemplate about all of that later. Right now Katze had to make sure Raoul's temper did not reach critical mass as it almost did in the bedroom. Watching from his seat not too far away from the 'couple', making sure he was far enough to give them privacy but close enough to stop Raoul should he allow his anger get the best of him, Katze waited and listened intently when Raoul finally stopped in front for the two.

"I put Niko into your care and in less than two weeks, not only has he come back to me with bruises on his face but to walk in to see that he was being violated, seeing that you had forced yourself on him!"

Katze rolled his eyes at that. The boy had been on the Blondie's lap for crying out loud! And from the look on Niko's face and the boy's heightened color, it had also looked like the young Furniture was enjoying himself immensely too. But Katze wasn't really surprised at how Raoul was acting. His Blondie lover and 'Master' had a very strange relationship with the young Niko, as in; Raoul did not fully treat Niko as his servant. More like a…. surrogate father, than a master to the boy.

All the times Katze had warned Raoul, for Niko's safety, about the pranks the young Furniture played. Pranks that Elites would demand the boy's head over, Raoul would blow it off as if it were nothing. Niko was only lucky that the powerful Elite he had targeted turned out to want him, sexually.

"Master Raoul-"

"Do not try and defend Gabriel, Niko! I know that it is your duty to take the blame as a Furniture upon yourself, but in this case I know you are not at fault."

Katze couldn't cover up his laughter fast enough hearing that, which earned him a glare to be silent from Raoul, but he couldn't help it. Once again his Blondie was turning a blind eye on the fact that Niko was not the innocent, obedient little Furniture Raoul had purchased.

Raoul couldn't believe that his lovely red-headed mongrel dared to laugh at such a serious time, but considering how Katze had callously treated their intimate time with one another only a half hour ago, Raoul didn't put it pass Katze to be so thoughtless of others right about now. Turning back to the infuriating Blondie seated arrogantly before him, Raoul felt his temperature rise.

Sir Gabriel and his, almost, obsessive need to gain control over Niko should have been a warning to him, but it had never once crossed Raoul's mind that Gabriel would touch a Furniture in such an intimate fashion. Even now Raoul found it hard to believe the sight he had seen in the Blondie's bedroom. The fact that Gabriel took a Furniture to be his sex partner was… Raoul turned to look back at Katze. Well, he couldn't say much about without being labeled a hypercritic, but the fact was Niko was not a toy to be played with. Raoul couldn't help but feel disappointed in himself for not catching on to the fact that Gabriel wanted Niko in this way.

"From this point on I here by void the deal we have with one another Gabriel. Niko will no longer serve you nor do I never want to see you near my Furniture again."

Katze shook his head sadly when he heard Raoul's decision. Just by watching the other Blondie's body language Katze had already pieced together that there was no way the Elite would give up the boy, and Katze knew that if Raoul had not been thinking with anger, he too would have seen this. Once again Katze thought of the little 'tid bit' of how Elites did not engage in sexual intimacies.

"Void the deal?"

Here we go, thought Katze as he uncrossed his legs, and sat at the edge of his seat, just in case he would need to leap up.

oOoOoOo

"Sir Am, I'm sure you remember the reason why the deal was made, do you not?" Gabriel's mood was beyond what one would call 'happy' with the arrival Sir Raoul Am, and that of his stoic pet. For the first time he had Niko right where he wanted him. Submissive, obedient, and above all else, accepting! The rejection Niko always reflected back at him had disappeared and he had suddenly, willingly, held onto him. Much differently than the boy had showed him when he had cornered him in the elevator.

Now Sir Am thought to take him away from him? No. Not going to happen.

"Niko was turned over to me for a certain amount of time as payment, to buy my silence over some information that our high, and extreme leader, did not want to be made public. I'm sure his Excellency will not be pleased to hear of you terminating our…arrangement, due to the type of duties I have bestowed upon your Furniture." Gabriel sneered at Raoul. "Nor do I think that his Excellency would be happy if a certain rumor were to go about that the new purchased 'pets' of three of our higher ranking Blondies are also mongrels."

Niko's eyes widened, and he franticly shook his head in denial at the silent accusing glares that were cast his way. "I said nothing, I swear!" Due to his panic, Niko forgot himself and struck the smug Blondie sitting next to him with the back of his hand on Gabriel's shoulder. "Tell them that I didn't say anything to you about this!" Niko cried out.

Gabriel captured Niko's hand and, holding Sir Raoul's furious glaze with his, kissed the palm of the boy's hand. Holding on tightly when Niko tried to pull away from him. "It is as he says," Gabriel agreed. "Niko has not imparted any information of the scandal that has been silenced by Jupiter and those of her top leading Blondies. And currently only I know of this scandal of Riki escaping Eos, taking with him Sir Mikhale Tain and Sir Jerico Evric pets with the help of three other mongrels."

"How did you come to gain such knowledge?"

Sparing Sir Am's pet a glance, Gabriel was impressed at the lovely man's calm, professional tone, unlike his master's un-Elite like manner. "The video recording devices in Eos were disabled, but on the outside there were cameras on buildings, in construction, that are controlled only by me. I saw Riki leave, not just Eos, but Amoi altogether, with his group of outlaws. And in the same way I saw everyone, with the sole exception of Sir Mikhale, return last night with those same runaways."

Gabriel returned to smiling back, smugly, at Raoul. "So you see, if you void the deal we have, than you will also be releasing me from my silence. There will be nothing to hold me back from carelessly mentioning to a passing Elite of how his Excellency has made our home into a halfway house to the disgusting, flea bitten, mongrels of Ceres." Out of the corner of his eye Gabriel saw Niko flinch as his harsh words, and rubbed his chin on the boy's hand in silent comfort.

"Do you really want to make yourself an enemy of Iason?"

"Most certainly not, but I also will not be kept from what I want." Gabriel turned to full look at Niko's panicked face. "And now, with the information that I just relayed to you, I want you to sell Niko to me to buy my silence on the truth of what really happened that night, and the so called 'performance' that Jupiter all but ordered us to believe, while in fact it was a cover up so that we would not question what really happened."

Niko shook his head at Gabriel. This right here, it was his worst nightmare come true. To be discovered by Sir Raoul Am had been more than just humiliating. The look of disappointment he had seen in those emerald eyes… Niko bowed his head and squeezed his eyes tightly closed. He had been forced to become a Furniture, not given a choice like the others, but the kindness the Blondie had showed him had made him want to work hard in pleasing Sir Raoul.

Many Furniture were abused by their masters, but Raoul had always treated him with respect that Niko had noticed was beyond that another Furniture was regarded under. To see that look had felt like he had been dealt with a powerful blow to the chest.

Pulling his hand out of Gabriel's grasp Niko stood up and sank to his hands and knees, resting his head on his hands that were placed flatly on the floor. "Please forgive me master Raoul…"

Hissing in anger Gabriel reached down and yanked Niko up off the floor. "Do not!" Gabriel fumed. "You have not done anything to warrant lowering yourself to such a level!"

"No, he has not, but you have! To have slept with a-"

"With a what?" Gabriel glared at Sir Raoul, and the hand the other Blondie had on Niko's other arm, trying to pull the boy way from him. "You dare say such a thing when you, yourself, have taken as your lover Iason Mink's ex-Furniture?"

"I think it would be best if the both of you release Niko's arms before you tear them off, or have you forgotten, in your passionate state, your strength?"

It took a few seconds before the calm, cool, words of said ex-Furniture, now pet, of Raoul Am's penetrated the angry haze in Gabriel's mind. When it did he also registered the sounds of Niko's pain filled gasps. Reluctantly Gabriel forced his fingers open and released Niko from his grip, gritting his teeth when Raoul pulled the boy farther away from him.

"You can go ahead and spread your rumors Sir Gabriel. Do you not think that Iason has not already planned ahead? If you had acted sooner, before Riki had been captured and returned to Amoi then you might have been able to get what you want, but as it stands now your information is useless. The mongrels that are now here, they will be discovered as being such whether you leak it out or not so this has no great leverage for you to use."

Gabriel stared at Raoul's ruby haired, tall, pet. He refused to vocally acknowledge the fact that the man was right, something he had already knew but needed to try anyway. But without that worthless bluff he had nothing left to use to try and take Niko from Raoul. All his previous attempts, the bids to buy Niko from Raoul, had failed, and unless Raoul sought to replace Niko with a new Furniture, which he had already been informed numerous times Raoul was not, there was no other way of obtaining the boy. He had lost….

Niko didn't want to look at Gabriel, didn't want to see what expression the Blondie had on his face, but the longer the Elite was silent after what Katze had bluntly said, the harder it was to keep his eyes from lifting. The look on Sir Gabriel's face had Niko stepping forward, only to be stopped by the heavy hand of his master on his shoulder.

"We are done here. Come Niko."

"Y-yes, maser Raoul…" His chest feeling uncomfortably tight Niko looked one last time at Gabriel, and the look of defeat on his otherwise perfect, expressionless face, before lowering his eyes and dutifully followed behind his master.

"Please forgive me if my words brought you and discomfort, Sir Gabriel. But like I said the information you have now is useless, and will only bring his Excellency's fury down upon your head. I would also humbly request that you do not begin hunting for information on mongrels, for that too would just open up doors that are best left closed."

Gabriel frowned at Raoul's pet, who gave him a respectful bow before turning and elegantly making his retreat. Gabriel had never thought to investigate the mongrels that were now living…Gabriel's frown deepened. The man hadn't warned him away from seeking information on the new mongrel's in Eos, but all mongrels in general… Why would he do that unless… He was trying to tell him where to look to gain a new lead.

Gabriel began to chuckle. It looks like Sir Am's pet, even though he use to be Furniture and taught to be submissive, had a backbone and his actions were not controlled by his master. "Looks like I may have someone one my side," Gabriel said to his two little female pets that were peeking at him from the hallway. While Gabriel was not exactly sure what….Katze, was his name? While he was not clear on what the man was trying to relay, Gabriel was not about to dismiss any type of useful information given to him, not if it meant gaining ownership over Niko.

The only problem was that Gabriel did not know where to begin his search. Besides knowing Riki, he had the basic of knowledge in regards to mongrels, just like all Elites did. Gabriel straightened himself up to his full height, lifting his chin. The feelings of lost being replaced with the burning fires of a fresh challenge his kind loved.

For those few minutes that he had felt that he had lost Niko completely, Gabriel knew now that it wasn't just that he wanted the boy… Gabriel didn't know what to call the emotion that had painfully squeezed his heart, but he did know that, just as he had always known, that Niko belonged next to him. Gabriel didn't care what he had to do, what doors he had to kick down, he would find a way to make Niko his, no matter what the price was.

TBC…..