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Blood in the Water	By : AeoAthura Category: +1 through F > Ed, Edd, and Eddy Views: 10400 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter Twelve:
It had been over a month since Edd last spoke to Kevin. Their talk had been less than pleasant, and the swimmer had to walk away from a very hurt red-head. But it was for the best, Eddward had convinced himself of this. There was a long running list of reasons that they should and could not seek anything more than a purely carnal relationship.
He admitted, however, that Kevin's selfless act had surprised him. Removing himself as an obstacle towards Edd's future had removed a great weight from his shoulders and in that moment he had wanted to give in to desire - he might have if he had not still been sore from their last encounter.
But now Kevin was insulted, his ego heavily bruised by Edd's rejection. He avoided the swimmer actively, came home late and always made sure that he was gone from the locker rooms before Edd got out of practice. It was alright though, he had insulted Kevin. He understood his anger and confusion, Edd refused to rattle off the reasons why he had rejected the other.
Life was slowly returning to 'normal.' Once the bruises and cuts left behind by Kevin faded away it was as if their tryst had never happened, he returned to studying every day after practice, and returned to his quiet life of solitude.
Save, of course, for one Marie Kanker.
Without her he might have risked a brain aneurysm from sheer boredom. Their weekly ritual of Game of Thrones marathons (he could recite most episodes by heart now) with the new addition of Supernatural kept him sane and relatively grounded within his life. He even mused quietly to himself as he watched reruns of Will & Grace on his laptop his his relationship with the woman was synonymous to that of Will and Grace in the show.
This, however, made him feel very alone.
That was however, until one Sunday evening. The sun had set, the house was quiet, he was quite comfortable in his sweats and oversized Harvard t-shirt from his father's closet. His teeth were brushed and he was brewing a pot of fine pomegranate tea to help him find a peaceful night's sleep when there was a knock at the door.
He frowned and looked at the clock. Who would bother him so late? The only one he knew who was so utterly brash was Kevin. Admittedly this made his feel curiously…elated.
He went to the door and jumped at another loud bang. He grumbled and pulled his beanie on before opening the door only to stand there dumbfounded.
"DOUBLE-D!" Suddenly the man was tackled and grabbed up in a massive hug that threatened to separate his vertebrate. He immediately recognized the sickeningly familiar smell of gravy and body-odor that was Ed.
"What's up Sockhead." The second greeting came from behind the larger teen, Edd looked down to spot Eddy standing on his porch. He had a little more hair and had put on several pounds, but it was still very much Eddy.
Edd squirmed, fighting every urge to kick them both. "I beseech you Ed, release me!" He huffed, taking a breath when he was dropped onto his feet and stepped back. He looked between the two boys standing in his doorway, wanting to say a thousand things at once, "What are you two doing here?"
"What, we can't visit our favorite Sockhead?" Eddy piped, folding his arms and trying to look nonchalant. There was uncertainty in his eyes however as he was unsure how the other was going to react.
"Kevin came to see us Double-D!" Ed's honesty burst out of him in a glorious display of simplicity, "I have been staying at Rolf's, he has chickens Double-D!"
The swimmer winced, "Please stop calling me that."
"But that's your name." Ed cocked his head to the side and stared at his old friend with wide, unblinking eyes.
Edd paused however and frowned, "Kevin sent you here?"
Eddy hmphed, "It was a few weeks ago."
Edd sighed and cinched his jaw, then stepped back, "Alright, I was about to head to bed but…I cannot leave you standing on the porch all night."
Eddy scoffed this time as he walked in and kicked off his shoes, an old and automatic habit that the swimmer was surprised he remembered. "Tomorrow's a holiday, why are you going to bed so early?"
"I sleep for eight hours every evening. It is important that I keep up that ritual."
"Then sleep in. I brought movies."
Ed bounced up and down, "The Monster From the Drain Galaxy!" he announced loudly as he galloped into the living room with bursts of laughter. Edd heard the oafish teen calling from the other room, "Where's the TV?"
The swimmer heaved a sigh as he walked into the living room with Eddy trailing behind him, "I don't watch TV Ed, I took it out."
Eddy elbowed Edd lightly, "Go get your laptop then, I'll go pop the popcorn!"
Something snapped in Eddward and he went rigid as he growled, "What is the meaning of this? You think you can just pretend everything is alright? You two come in now that you have decided you want to return?"
The room was silent for a long moment before Eddy walked over and sat on the coffee table with a sigh, "That's not it. We've been wanting to come back for a long time, we never wanted to leave. We were scared Double-D. Seeing you hurt like that, knowing it was my fault… I was a shitty friend to say the least, I've been trying to think of any way to make it up to you but I couldn't think of anything." He hung his head. The swimmer looked up at Ed who hung his head low in dejection.
"You could have simply apologized…" Edd said, feeling the want to be angry but it lacked sincerity in his voice.
Eddy shook his head, "Seeing you all banged up like that? An apology didn't seem good enough. I didn't think you wanted me anywhere near you."
"I'd have much preferred it to the loneliness, Eddy."
The short little schemer looked lost for words, wringing his hands nervously, "I'm sorry, Edd."
It was the first time Eddy had ever given so sincere of an apology to Edd, one that lacked annoyance or anger, one where Eddy felt so guilty that his voice was barely audible and he couldn't look the other in the face. It was almost frightening.
Edd smiled, even knowing it only looked like a smirk which gave him a brief flashback to when Kevin pressed his fingers to his lips in curiosity. This was short lived however, the air was heavy with sadness and uncertainty and Edd only knew one surefire way to break it, "I shall retrieve my laptop then. Eddy, I believe you mentioned popcorn?"
Eddy perked up and Ed's joy once more burst out in a loud guffaw that was simply so…Ed. The swimmer turned and went up to his room to gather his laptop, pausing a moment to look across the street from his window.
When he came back downstairs he could hear Ed and Eddy talking, complete nonsense but it reminds Edd of what it was like to have the two around. How his house felt less empty, how he could complain that there was dirt on the carpet or chips in his sofa because it was someone other than himself. It was an overwhelmingly joyous feeling.
"Come on Edd! Don't just stand there." Eddy's voice snapped the man back to the present as he realized he was standing in the threshold.
He smirked, chuckled, and made his way over to set up the laptop. Three boys piled onto the sofa with a bowl of popcorn and Ed had produced a chicken leg from somewhere… He hoped it was not one of Rolf's chickens.
Edd hardly paid attention to the movie, too enamored by his own thoughts. He became aware of Eddy's arm snaking around the back of his neck and looked down to assess his grinning friend, "Yes, Eddy?" he asked, his voice quiet to keep from upsetting Ed who was paying rapt attention to the B-rated horror film.
"You got tall." Was all the other said.
"Growth spurt." Was the simple response.
Silence befell them like humidity, thick and awkward, "So you and Shovelchin?" Came the statement after a few minutes.
Edd blinked in shock, frowning as he looked to the other, "Excuse me?"
"Well hey, I can't say I'm surprised or nothing. He's been displaying…what's it called? Homoerotic tenderloins since we were kids." Eddy snorted.
Unsure of how to respond to that, Edd simply said, "Tendencies, Eddy…" He sighed, "And no. I rejected him."
"YOU WHAT!?"
"SHHHHHHHH!" Ed turned with furrowed brow and a finger over his lips, "The cows are sleeping!"
Once more, no response could be ascertained. Edd shook his head as he tried to form words and felt a knot forming in his stomach, "Kevin and I have too much in our past." He stated, though that past, as he recalled, brought about some mind-blowing results.
"You bet you do!" the smaller barked, "I mean, he was a shitty bully when we were kids. Always picking on us, calling us loser, trying to make himself seem so much cooler. Then there was that whole hero-conscience he got."
Edd raised a brow, "Hero conscience?"
"Yeah, you know. After he saved you." Eddy folded his arms and leaned back in the couch.
Edd was very silent as this digested, his frown setting deeper, "What…do you mean? Saved me when?"
Eddy grinned, "You'll just have to ask him that." He said, "After the movie of course."
"Eddy, what are you talking about?!"
"SHHHHHH!"
"Yeah Double-D, be quiet the movie's on." He grinned one of those sly, sleazy grins he was so infamous for as he turned his attention to the computer.
Edd repressed the sudden urge to punch both boys in the face. Instead he sat back and resigned himself to try to focus on the movie.
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Eddy had refused to say more which only served to irritate the hell out of Eddward who was quite tempted to pull out every strand of the schemer's hair one by one until he confessed. But it was a night of healing, one in which Edd was no longer alone, where he stopped being angry about the incidents of his past. One where Eddy stole the last of the popcorn and bitched loudly when he accidentally bit down on a kernel, one where Ed was fascinated by B-rated movie gore.
It was a good night, Edd thought.
When the movie ended the boys sat back. Eddy talked about schemes he had been pulling off online, he had apparently discovered a game called EVE which encouraged his sleazy behavior and turned out to be an excellent outlet for him.
Ed spoke through movie-related metaphors about his life with Rolf. The farmer put the lug to good use apparently and the teen was quite happy, he had been accepted into the man's family with ease and participated in all of their strange customs. Edd quietly wondered what had prompted him to leave home in the first place, but that was a mystery for another day.
Edd didn't talk much. He spoke a little of his swimming, but otherwise there was little to say.
By the time Ed and Eddy said goodnight and left it was just past midnight. Edd watched the two get into Eddy's beat up little BMW and drive off and stood on his porch for a moment.
His gaze drifted to the house across the street where Kevin's bike sat beside his father's car. The whole night Edd's mind had been wrapped around what Eddy had said about Kevin. He had intended to put it off until the morning and approach the red-head in the daylight about this, but the thought was far too distracting.
There was a light on in Kevin's bedroom window along with the silhouette of his figure. The swimmer closed the door to his house as he made his way over, barefooted to the athlete's house.
For a long moment he was unsure of what to do. It was far to late to knock on the door. He walked over to the little garden off to the side, bent down and found a pebble. Oh this was too much like one of those silly romance movies, he thought to himself as he turned the little rock over in his hand. After a few more moments of contemplation he looked up at the window and threw the pebble.
Of course, Edd had never been a good shot. The pebble missed by a lot. He grumbled and found another pebble and tried again. This one was closer, but still bounced off the wall by the window.
He huffed, but saw that he had still gotten the other's attention. Kevin shifted and moved to his window, looking down before the space was crowded by a canine figure. The window was opened, "Edd?" He could barely hear the voice.
"Salutations, Kevin." He tried to sound…casual? "I was hoping we could talk."
He heard a scoff, "It's fucking twelve thirty dude."
"I seem to recall you wishing to talk at four am and I obliged."
There was a moment of silence, he could barely hear the sigh, "Whatever, wait there."
Edd rocked back on his heels as Kevin disappeared. Two minutes later he heard a rattle from the back gate, the gate swinging open. He could barely see the figure of the man in the darkness, "Come on then," Kevin grumbled.
Molly came running out of the darkness and started sniffing at Edd's feet. He moved towards the opened gate with the canine following him, careful to watch his footing.
He was led into Kevin's backyard which was surprisingly…magical. He did not often use that word, however he looked around to the posts holding up the awning and the icicle lights and paper lanterns hung up that reflected off of Kevin's pool like starlight. It was a low glow, allowing for comfortable vision without being irritating. Molly padded around the grass surrounding the pool and vanished into the shadows.
Kevin walked over to a small glass table and sat down in one of the two chairs beside it. He was dressed in nothing more than a pair of loose basketball shorts that left much of his body visible, which was incredibly distracting. "So," Kevin's voice forced Edd's eyes to look up from his abs, the man was smirking at him, "What did you want to talk about?"
Edd approached and moved to sit in the open chair, his eyes going out to watch the pool because the other was quite distracting, "I wish to inquire about something that was brought to my attention." He began, "That you had saved me, at some point."
When his eyes shifted back to Kevin, the man's eyes were covered in shadows from the obtuse lighting, but Edd saw his Adam's Apple bob up and down in a nervous gesture. "Edd I…" his voice cracked which worried the swimmer, whatever it was had been causing the man a great deal of distress, "Who told you?"
"You're avoiding the question."
"Fine, what did they tell you?"
"Only that you saved me. That was all they said." Edd watched the other playing with his hands, "Kevin?"
Kevin took a deep breath and adjusted in his seat. "When you got hurt, you know…" he cleared his throat, "That morning I went out jogging. I went through the park like I normally do and that's when… I found you, laying in a little heap, bleeding…" His voice was wavering and cracking, he stared at his trembling hands, "I was the one who found you and called 911. I held you together until they got there."
Edd's world stopped for a moment. His chest tightened and air stopped flowing. There was silence for a long moment, only broken by the chirping crickets in the night.
Kevin continued, his voice smaller, "I was scared." He admitted with some amount of shame, "There was so much blood, I thought you were gonna die. I heard how much damage there was, I just…couldn't face you. I know you're mad at me 'cause I wasn't there for you but I just…"
He looked up at Edd and he could see the broken look in his eyes, the pleading. Edd's mind struggled to comprehend everything he had just been told, part of him wanting to be angry for some unknown reason, and the other part…
He stood swiftly and made his way to stand before the other, kneeling down slowly. He placed a hand on Kevin's knee to steady himself, because he needed to hold on to Kevin as an anchor in that moment. His mouth opened to say something, anything, but words simply weren't good enough, there was nothing he could fathom saying.
Lips met his own, tongues tangled in a desperate kiss as both of them sought the comfort no words would give. Kevin shifted and moved forward, his thighs on either side of Edd's chest as he deepened their kiss.
Edd yielded to Kevin's desire and for the first time there was no fighting. His arms wrapped around the red-head's waist and pulled him in closer, arched up to show his compliance. One of the man's hands came up and brushed the back of the swimmer's neck which caused a shudder. Fingers slid up and tangled lightly with the hair on the back of his neck then and he was rewarded with a soft moan.
Their kiss broke momentarily, "Be with me, dork." Words were whispered against pliant lips before molding back, teeth coming to nibble playfully at the other's lip.
Edd shuddered, fingers stroked through his hair and he couldn't help the deep, groaning purr that was produced from the core of his chest. Oh he wanted so badly to say yes, to give in to whatever Kevin asked for. So much had just changed in so short a time.
"It's too late," he murmured, moaning again. The words were painful to speak.
Kevin pulled away just enough that Edd could not chase down those lips once more, he was frowning and his brows were furrowed, "What do you mean it's too late?!" There was fire in his eyes, confusion and betrayal.
The swimmer shook his head, holding Kevin closer. "Kevin… School ends in just a few months. After that, I will be leaving to God knows where, and so will you. I want… I want to…be with you. But whatever this is," he tightened his hold again, "Whatever we create will have to be abandoned in a short time."
For a moment Kevin appeared angry, but slowly his muscles relaxed and Edd saw understanding.
"I do not believe you to be gay," Edd went on, "But I know that what you have for me is real. But I wish to spare us both a great deal of pain."
Kevin remained silent, but his fingers continued to stroke at Edd's hair which earned him another helpless purr. The athlete grinned, "You know that's the cutest fucking thing, hearing you purr like that."
Edd smiled softly, leaning into the touch. It lit up his spine with pleasant shivers and raised goosebumps on his skin, "It feels quite nice…" he murmured, then his mouth was consumed once more. His hat was pushed away, it fell to the floor as fingers stroked through it, traced over the long scar. Nobody was allowed to touch it, absolutely nobody…except Kevin, especially now that he knew it had been him who held it together to begin with.
"I won't accept that," Kevin growled.
Edd looked up, curious, once more just barely unable to chase another kiss.
"It's bullshit Edd, your reasoning." He continued, "I won't accept that. It's gonna hurt either way, watching you go. I hate seeing you such an unhappy little bitch. So until you go leave, you're fucking mine, got it?"
Edd was quiet, his mouth agape slightly.
"Say it!"
The swimmer blinked, the command rang through him with force and pooled quite pleasantly in the man's stomach. He smiled, "I am yours, Kevin." He murmured.
The kiss that followed was searing and dominant, as if Kevin physically could not keep himself from it any longer.
It was a mistake, part of him warned. Yet that voice was drowned out by the hungry press of lips and greedy hands. He loved that Kevin took charge, that he didn't have to fight anymore and could be held up and still feel strong.
At some point they ended up on the grass, sprawled out and kissing each other to the point of breathlessness. Moans were exchanged, hands explored in a nonsexual manner, tracing muscles and lines.
Their kissing grew more heated, Edd's legs wrapped around Kevin's waist as his shirt was pushed up.
There was a strange gurgling sound. Both boys paused for a moment as it registered before suddenly a spray of water made them both jolt and flail away from one another. The sprinklers had turned on and left them both soaked through and freezing in the darkness.
They burst out into simultaneous fits of laughter while sitting in the cold spray, coming down from their previous high.
Kevin stood first and walked over to help Edd onto his feet. They made their way back to the patio, dripping and grinning, hands clasped together. "Maybe you should head home." Kevin said, though the look in his eyes said that he was not eager for the other to go.
Edd bent down to pick his hat up, "Perhaps." He murmured.
Kevin shifted and pressed himself up against the swimmer, wrapped his arms around Edd's shoulders and bit his lip hard, earning a gasp, "Don't you dare forget that you're mine." 'Until you leave…' However the words were unspoken and Edd simply smiled.
By the time he started back back across the street a few minutes later he could only think to himself, 'So this is what happiness feels like.'
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