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Aftermath	By : Calisto Category: +1 through F > Ed, Edd, and Eddy Views: 6073 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Ed Edd and Eddy, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Kevin crept up the stairs not wanting to surprise him. He leaned against the bath room door wandering why he didn’t hear any movement. Curious he checked around in the other rooms before thinking the worse. Maybe he left or was hiding some where in the house he couldn’t find him. As usual the procession of thoughts went from good to horrible to something that was a bit disturbing forcing him to stop thinking at all. Kevin went back to the bath room, his mind wasn’t on Edd but only on relieving himself.

When he opened the door he was shocked to see Edd hanging out of his tub like the picture of Marat. He rushed over to the boy forgetting about his bodily functions for the moment. His body was almost as white as the clouds, say for hints of blue that were at the bottom of his caves and tints of peach that were on the unexposed parts of this body. Kevin touched the water for any signs of warmth but instead he felt Ice. A chill ran through his spine making him shiver. He spun to the towel rack that was beside him yanking the blue towel off. With one arm around the boys ribs and the other readying the towel to rap it around him.

Once he had him rapped he held him close trying in vain to transfer some of his body heat to him. Hoping that he hadn’t already died his body was limp as if a piece of rubber gum. He leaned in to listen to him, he was breathing however it was slow and each breath was drawn in deep holding it for a few seconds to long before letting it out.

“C’mon Double D” Kevin breathed down onto his skin rubbing his shoulders as fast as he could. The first sign he got that Edd was alive was the fact that he began to shiver violently his jaw suddenly snapped to life his teeth chattering loudly as if they were china falling out of a cabinet. “Kevin?” His voice came out meek and unsure. “Edd what where you thinking?” He didn’t really want an answer just a way for him to unleash his unrelenting anger on the boy. It was more anger towards himself for not watching him. Then his thoughts turned positive, at least he’s not dead.

“I-I fell asleep-p… I’m-m sorry-y” Double D curled up closer to his only source of warm other then the dampen towel. It was only half true. He didn’t feel the need to tell Kevin about what Rolf did… well maybe later. The fact that the man could get into his house when ever he wanted was going to become some what of a problem.

“Don’t be sorry you should be resting, just not in the tub” Kevin bundled the boy in his arms, carrying him like before as he walked down the hall way. “You “ Kevin sighed feeling as though he was fighting a loosing battle “Just …” He walked past his room debating whether he should give up his bed to him however he didn’t want to sully his porcelain angel. Entering his Parents room he laid him on the bed and appeared to be nonchalant “I’ll bring some clean clothes in here in a bit”. He walked out of the door only clinging to the frame to get one last glimpse of him nestling against the navy waves of cotton. Why was he sleeping so much? At the moment it was only a guess however Kevin realized that by the time he would come back the boy would be among his lucid lullabies.

Sure enough he was right, he placed an oversized orange t-shirt and the closet he could find in his what he thought was Edd’s size in jeans. Out of boredom he found himself downstairs in the kitchen the latest assignment from his teachers out on the table in the center of the small area. Gaining headway in the latest chapter he heard something creeping around in the living room. His thoughts gave him an excuse to ignore it saying it was just Edd. His pen moved across his paper again, only to stop when the soft padded footsteps paused right behind him. A gentle touch trailed up his side grasping the sides of his waist and tugging him to the back of the chair. One hand released him only to travel to his chin and tilt his head back.

Kevin found himself staring into foreign unsure eyes, before they let him go. He spun around so fast he nearly gave himself whiplash. Rolf dropped the keys to his house on his lap and with a quirky leer he shoved his hands in what little space was left his un-breathable pants.

“Why did you still have these?” The only reply was his front door slamming, actually making him flinch. However it was welcomed with a sigh of relief. The brute was finally moving on, Kevin thought relaxing in his seat, he could move on with his life now, guilt free and relationship free now that the bonds of love.

The lingering smell of sausage, clogged Edd’s nostrils. His head felt groggy. His brain pounded against his head as if it were a out of control teen age party, the stereos constantly on high. His eyes scanned his surroundings for anything that seemed familiar. He sat up slowly so that his head wouldn’t end up worse then it was. His hand found the fresh set of clothing and his hat. A small smile crossed his face and grew even wider after a refreshing sniff of the air of the house.

Kevin jump when he noticed that double D was leaning over his shoulder. He seemed quieter then the dead but the dead weren’t ever this hungry. His stomach growled each time his breathed in. Perhaps he slept mostly due to malnourishment. Returning some what back to his old self, he couldn’t help but taunt the boy the way he used to, a some what delayed payback for all of the scams. “Hay Double Dork glad to see your actually awake” Edd was a little taken back by the use of the name

“Yes, Edd I was talking to you” Kevin flipped his ad-libbed hamburger helper concoction before one side became to dark. “Never mind” He was into good of a mood to let the boy break it “I don’t have to ask, if you would grab a plate from the cabinet to my left I’ll serve you a plate of hamburger surprise.” He moved in his ghost like presence doing as he was offered to do.

“Alright I lied its just stuff out of a box with meat” He shoved a hearty portion down on his plate directing him towards the counter where there were stools, instead of messing up his perfect arrangement of class papers. “Oh wait your going to need this” He faked tossing a fork at him and as expected he flinched. It was then he sighed “Look Double D I … I have to be honest with you, I don’t know what happened to you but you sure are fucked up “

Edd stirred the mashed up noodles arranging them neatly on opposite sides of his plate.
“Things have changed here as well, I mean you never realize what kind of people you consider fondly until their gone” He scratched head as if plucking his thoughts were as easy as that. They weren’t. Some where among the moment of silence he found them again but they held their position at the tip of his tongue along with his laughter.

Double D had forsaken his fork for a more primal method of eating.
“Dude! Use the fork” Kevin laughed it seemed strange that the Ed with the most manners, and quality up bringing looked like a dog caught chewing his masters shoes. He slowly put the food back, that wasn’t in his mouth and wiped the remembrance of a noodle his mouth with his wrist.

“Did you forget how to eat with a fork or something?”

“Almost, I almost forgot their was a such thing as life” For the first time he actually answered something that was directed at him. He pushed the plate away no longer interested in the food Kevin simply gapped at him, it was obvious that the comment was meant to be mumbled under his breath. In a rush he dumped the plate into the garbage. The jitters had came over him again , and he was nervously straightening his shirt.

“Well thanks for the hospitality Kevin but I think I should be leaving.

Double D found his escape route had been blocked by Kevin “Your not leaving this room until you tell me what happen Edd” There it was again the strange use of his name coming out of Kevin’s mouth. He clenched his fist tighter shaking his head in an uneasy but defiant no.

“I have to leave” He took a step forward and was actually shoved back by Kevin, the future doctor was standing in the door frame with his arms at his bosom.

“ I said No”

Double D was getting some his anger back his fist was doing more then mere shaking they threatened.
“You … You… “ Never the one for good insults he randomly yelled the best one he knew “ you.. brooding Neanderthal ! Get The fuck out of my way right now”

“Or what?”

“OR ILL MAKE MY WAY OUT” This was a new side of Edd, was something quite sure he rather liked. Edd made his next attempt for escape a bit more rougher then the last but in the end it was he who found himself on the kitchen floor with Kevin Pinning him down

“Tell me what happened to you? The Edd that Knew wasn’t like this” The weight of concern in his voice was heavier then a ton of steel.

“The Edd that you knew? What did you know side from how to give wedgies and insults?”

“Times..”

“Change?” Edd finished the idiom for him “ And so do people Kevin, I can respect that some where in my absence you were graced with maturity why revert back now?” His head banged against the titled floor continuing his rant “ I cant stay here, They know this place they’ll find me!”

“Who are they?” Kevin demanded to know the cause of his over grown paranoia

“The cause of our grief” Our could only mean the other Ed’s Kevin figured

“And what grief was that?

“I don’t want any one to get involved okay…” His anger had resided “Just let me do what I came to do and go, fade” Double D rested his head against the pavement no longer able to keep his anger. He let his body melt against the ground, looking away from Kevin.

“Please Kevin, never to a bird even a nest can eventually be a prison” Kevin released his arms and oddly enough he chuckled “Nothing is ever as easy as it seems with you Eds is it?”

“Ed… its singular now” Kevin laughed again the poor boy must have been talking in riddles again. He thought better of asking him the question again but rather dance around it like Native Americans would a bonfire. “Where did you come from exactly?”

“Do you want honesty Kevin?” The red head nodded “Hell if I know one day I’m in a bed the next a pickup truck…”

“okay there’s something that has been bothering me,” Kevin scooted off of Double D and leaned against the cabinet, way more comfortable then the jutting boney limbs he had to admit as he gathered his thoughts to phrase his question “ When you guys first disappeared there were so many rumors I didn’t know which one to believe …

“Where are you going with this Kevin?” he snapped.

“I want to know if you where kidnapped or ran away” Edd gave him his biggest Duh stare that he could muster which only came off as pout more then anything.

“What do you think I’m a masochist? That I strike myself with hot pokers?” he continued to rant with flabbergasted hand gestures. A gentle tip of a finger trailed along one of his scars from his collar bone to the crevices that divided his breast muscles concealed by the orange fabric. “I’m sorry perhaps I should think more before I ask”

“Indeed” Edd turned to look at him “Why help me all of a sudden?”
Kevin was thrown off by the question “I don’t know… I could say retribution for so long ago” For once Kevin couldn’t look Edd in the eye he did his usual scratching of the head. Of course this made Double sit up to get a better look at him “Did you guys try to look for us?”

“Well…”

“Well what?”

“Well at first we thought it was another scam you know like the boy who cried wolf. We … they were all kinda pissed about that stupid heart thing. And for the first few days we didn’t want to look for you we thought it would be better with out the scams and the constant threat of them was kinda …well you get the idea, but anyways after about at week Sarah was the first one to gather us all together to search for you guys. Soon the parents joined and nothing after about a month we gave up” He seemed dismayed “then we thought you guys were dead, but Sarah kept finding traces that would point us in on direction then another, maybe a random letter from Ed or some trinket of his…”

Double D let out a humph “ Nice to know she got them… I wish I could say the same for my parents…”

“What does that mean?”

“We went through hell to send those things off If the Masters found out…”

“Masters?” Edd realized that he spoke to much “Kevin… speak to know no more” With that he pushed himself upright so that he could leave “Wait Edd” Kevin reached out to him “You don’t have to tell me about that part… yet , but” yet and but they were words that Edd didn’t want to hear at the moment he wanted to run as fast as his legs would carry making him into the wind. “but I want you to trust me, let me heal you, and assist in easing the weight of atlas off your shoulders.

“Why?” Double D wanted a sold reason to trust him something in writing that he could lock away in a safe guard it against fire damage below the deepest region in the house of where his emotions lived.

Kevin thought long and hard about it “There’s no way I could say I understand what you went through, I have no Idea what you went through, however If I give you my sympathy, would you be to prideful to except it? If I offered you a room, food and clothing how long would the bird except it before it wants to fly free? If I gave you my compassion would you still flee? ”

The words had strung Double D’s guilt and made it into a puppet dancing with it across a stage. Other then knocking him out Kevin really hadn’t shown Edd nothing but kindness and all he was asking for what happened.

“I wont flee Kevin but I cant … I don’t want to remember just yet” Edd had rapped himself into his own world. His knees the added warmth to keep him from shivered at the mere mention of his own memories. Watching intently Kevin realized something, pain didn’t have a time limit

“I understand…

“And you said you couldn’t give me empathy” Double D jest easing the un apparent tension in the room simply by smiling. Kevin raised an eyebrow perhaps there was yet room for happiness in his life after all . He gave him a heart pat on the back.

“is it… would it be possible to start where I left off?”

“Possible but not simple.” Kevin had won a major victory he realized and his lips did the jumping for joy by grinning.
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