Coffee Time

Disclaimer: I don\'t own Nightwalker, or any other products mentioned here. But I am a close, personal friend of Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guards the gates of hell, so if you sue me I\'ll have him eat you, and forever condemn your souls to the unending darkness of the abyss. But then, if you\'re a lawyer, you\'re probably going there anyway...

Warnings: Yaoi, making fun of Cain, and Shido, now that I think about it. OOC, TWT, twisted humour... Read and find out!

A/N: Am bored... This one is pretty insane, even by my standards... And yeah, there will be a lemon at the end. ^_^

\'Coffee\' time.
By Koneko Shido

Shido leant back in his comfy, leather chair, listening to the sounds of the soft jazz music swirling out from the radio and the faint traffic noises rising from the dark streets below his window. He sighed. There was nobody here for him to talk to. It was annoying. He\'d been alone plenty of times, and for longer than this, but still... He was used to having at least Guni there to keep him company nowadays. But they were gone. Not permanently, though to Sha moa month was starting to seem like an eternity. Yayoi had been given a promotion, and decided to celebrate by taking the overworked Riho on holiday somewhere hot and sunny. Even Guni had decided to go along, leaving the vampire detective alone and miserable. He couldn\'t have gone anyway; after all, vampires didn\'t really do well in hot, sunny places. There was nothing to do! No work, e bre breed incidents that could not be taken care of by the NOS had been rare lately, and nowhere to go that he would want to go alone. Pretty much all he had to do was si the the dimly lit office and drink coffee, laced with whatever alcohol he\'d been able to find around the place. By now, in fact, he was getting rather drunk...

\"Damn it.\" Shido muttered to himself, sipping his coffee, which he\'d had to make himself. He grimaced and stuck out his tongue, putting the mug back down on the desk. \"Ick. Now I remember why I hired Riho. Although even Guni makes better coffee than me.\" He sighed, realizing that he was talking to himself. Wasn\'t that the first sign of madness? Could being this bored drive one insane? It felt like it.
A door opened and closed downstairs and Shido sighed again. It was becoming a very depressing habit. The noise was probably someone from one of the other offices in the building, or one of the flats. Someone going out or coming in. Someone who had something to do, unlike him. It was rather pathetic, he mused, that an immortal who had lived hundreds of years chose now to get terminally bored.
\"And now, we take you into the midnihourhour with a few songs just for all you couples out there.\" The radio spoke in a deep voice, and Shido scowled. Suddenly there was a knock at the door and he looked up sharply.
\"Come in,\" He called, hoping it was a job, or something important, not just somelooklooking for directions. The door opened silently, having been thoroughly oiled by Shido to avoid that stupid horror movie cliché of creaking doors, which drove him mad, and occasionally scared away his customers, if they knew what he was.
\"Well, aren\'t we a sorry sight?\" Came a deep, mocking voice from the doorway, and Shido blinked, snapped out of his reverie. Of course, none other than Cain stood in the doorway, smirking down at him with amusement glittering in his cat-like eyes.
\"Cain! What are you doing here? And why... Why did you use the door?\" Shido asked, almost grinning at Cain\'s look of confusion.
\"The door?ain ain asked, clearly puzzled.
\"Yes, usually you don\'t come in through the door. You just...\" Shido twirled a finger eloquently and shrugged. \"Appear.\" He finished, watching warily but not as angrily as usual while Cain stalked over and took a seat on the leather couch.
\"Ah. I felt like a change.\" Cain supplied, making himself comfortable. Shido blinked but shrugged it off. Perhaps boredom was driving them both crazy. Well, at least he had someone to talk to now, and he didn\'t need to be as guarded around Cain now since Riho, Guni and Yayoi weren\'t around to get hurt. And, since Cain was here talking to him, he couldn\'t be out killing innocent people, so that was another good thing. It only then occurred to Shido to wonder why Cain was there. The alcohol really was getting to him, after all.
\"So what do you want?\" Shido asked politely. Cain looked mildly surprised at the question, as if he hadn\'t really thought about it himself, then scowled at the wall across from him as he figured it out.
\"I needed something to occupy my time. There was nothing else to do.\"
Shido wondered if he should be offended at being the last choice on Cain\'s list of things he\'d like to be doing, but let it slide as he absorbed Cain\'s words.
\"You mean you\'re bored?\" The younger vampire asked incredulously, staring at his former master in surprise. Cain seethed angrily at having to admit such a thing, folding his arms and leaning back.
\"I lack alternative entertainment, yes.\" He hissed. Shido, slightly giddy at the revelation, the \'coffee\', and at having someone to talk to after all this time, burst into a fit of almost giggled laughter, dropping his head to his folded arms, which rested on the desk as his slender body shook.
\"You-you-you\'re bored! The great and powerful Cain is bored!\" He laughed, sitting up to point at Cain and laugh.
\"How dare you laugh at me!?\" Cain snarled indignantly, though he couldn\'t help but be mildly amused when Shido laughed so hard his chair tipped backwards and spilled him onto the floor with a yelp. He was still snickering, even in his very undignified position upon the carpet on his back, his long legs draped over his fallen chair and his lavender hair ruffled.
Cain stood up and moved to lean on the desk, looking down at Shido and beginning to doubt the sanity of the younger vampire.
\"And where are your human pets?\" Cain asked, loo in in annoyance down at the lavender-haired vampire, who made no attempt to right himself, still panting from his laughing fit.
\"Gone on holiday, so you can\'t get them!\" Shido said angrily, and then began to crack up again. \"Riho says you\'re a \'big, bad monster!\' Hahaha!\" Shido cackled, turning onto his side as he tried to control his laughter. Cain growled.
\"Aou bou by any chance intoxicated?\" The older, blonde vampire asked, raising an eyebrow. Shido sat up, untangling himself from the chair, and blinked.
\"Ehh, maybe? That could be why the coffee tasted worse than usual,\" Shido tapped his finger to his chin in thought, swaying slightly where he sat. Cain narrowed his eyes and picked up the coffee cup from the desk, sniffing at it delicately, wincing as the overwhelming smell of alcohol made his eyes water.
\"Did you even put any coffee in this?\" He asked, putting the mug back down and giving it a distasteful look before he shifted his gaze back to where Shido was struggling to stand up, leaning heavily on the desk.
\"I *knew* there was something I forgot! That\'s why Riho usually makes it, she never forgets to put the coffee in.\" Shido grinned charmingly, staggering over to the couch and collapsing on it, amazingly managing to assume some semblance of an upright position.
\"Exactly how many cups of \'coffee\' have you drunk?\" Cain asked, moving to sit elegantly next to Shido, who hiccupped cutely, looking down at his fingers and trying to count.
\"Erm... I ran out of fingers...\" He pouted, holding up one hand. Cain growled.
\"Fool. I don\'t know why I keep you alive.\" The older vampire scowled.
\"Aww, you wouldn\'t kill me!\" Shido smiangeangelically, latching onto Cain, who frowned. \"You love me!\" To Cain\'s surprise, Shido gave an intoxicated giggle and snuggled against his chest, reminding the older vampire strangely of a cat.
\"What are you doing?\" Cain asked, not moving when Shido slid onto his lap and nuzzled his pale throat. Then the drunken vampire\'s attention was caught by silksilky golden waves of Cain\'s hair and he ran a hand through the shining locks reverently.
\"Your hair is like... like...\" Shido thought for a moment then grinned as he found the right words. \"Cotton candy!\" That, of course, made Cain growl and Shido begin to giggle drunkenly again, giving a hiccup of surprise as he lost his balance for the second time in ten minutes and collapsed into a heap on the floor, looking dazedly up at Caino coo couldn\'t help but think that Shido looked adorable like that.
\"You\'re bored, I\'m bored... Let\'s go out! I can take you clothes shopping; you always wear the same clothes. It must be boring.\" Shido decided, once more climbing to his feet and wandering off to get his coat. Cain just sat on the couch, scowling in annoyance. He *liked* his clothes. But, following a giddy Shido around for a while would be a lot more entertaining than sitting alone doing nothing, or killing weak humans, so he decided to go along with his drunken little mate.

TBC

Koneko: And here endeth the fic for today, but it shall be continued, so sayeth the mighty Koneko! Or just... not. And if you really liked it, you could review!