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Bring Me To Life	By : lilvior Category: +S through Z > Xiaolin Showdown Views: 4129 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Title: Bring Me To Life
Author: Lilvior
Summary: Chase kills Jack, but don’t worry; look at the title. ‘A mysterious new shen-gong-wu’ (the plot bunny that has been done to death) could bring him back and in the process help Raimundo realise his true feelings. Corny summary. As in all my Xiaolin Showdown stuff; Jack is fifteen and Rai is sixteen.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Death, swearing, angst, slash/yaoi (Rai/Jack, Chase/Jack one-sided), H/C, slight Homophobia (do I need to give a warning for that?)
Feedback: Please! And if you feel you need to flame, please make sure you say one good thing for every bad thing you have to say, it’s only fair :-)
Disclaimer: Eeep, almost forgot to add that! I don’t own the characters, I make no money from this. In fact I don’t own anything but my computer and I don’t make any money at all from anything. Also, the song lyrics are from Evanescence – Bring me to Life, and Within Temptation – Angels. Please don’t flame me for my awful taste in music.
A/N: Another short chapter, I’m afraid. It’s getting closer and closer to exam time, and I have stacks of coursework due in this week, but over xmas I’ll have loads of spare time and might even finish this one!

Chapter 5 – Taste in Men

Rai grimaced as he watched Kimiko running in the direction of the temple, screaming about Rai’s idiocy to anyone in hearing distance.
“I’m sorry.” He said, hating the fact that Jack had had to listen to that. “She really was upset when you were dead.”
Jack couldn’t help snorting, it didn’t surprise him one tiny bit that Kimiko had only felt compassion for him while he’d been dead. He wondered if that had been why she was wearing black.
“How did the others take it?” He asked, genuinely curious as to whether or not Clay and Omi had been bothered at all by his death.
“Who, Clay and Omi?” Rai asked, stupidly, “They were really upset, it was Omi’s idea to bring your body back here; he said you deserved an honourable burial.”
Jack was speechless for a moment. But he supposed he would have been a bit shaken if one of the monks had been killed; obviously he wouldn’t have shown it, but death was… upsetting.
“What about you?” He asked, hoping Rai would trust him with the truth.
Raimundo was silent for quite some time. He gazed into Jack’s eyes and suddenly re-felt all the emotions that had barraged him at Jack’s death. Jack’s beautiful red eyes shone with feeling and understanding – he knew.
“I felt like my world had collapsed.” Rai whispered, he stood directly in front of Jack. Their bare toes touched. “I felt as though I’d lost my reason for living.” He leaned closer, never looking away from those eyes. He raised his hands to rest them on Jack’s hips, gently pulling the younger boy towards him.
Jack’s breathing had increased in depth and tempo, Rai’s hands were soft on his waist, but powerful and commanding. He licked his lips and wished with all his soul that Rai would kiss him.
One of Rai’s hands left Jack’s hips and reached up to gently caress the red-head’s cheek, before cupping it and pulling it towards Rai’s own face.
Both boys closed their eyes as their lips met. It was a sensitive, love-filled kiss. Jack couldn’t move for fear of ruining the moment, he simply stood there with his lips parted, feeling the softness of Raimundo’s lips, unmoving on his own. His arms hung at his sides and he felt dizzy with bliss, he moaned softly into Raimundo’s mouth.
Rai pulled away slowly, smiling and looking a little intoxicated.
He opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off by shouts from across the compound.

Clay had listened in disbelief to Kimiko as she explained that Raimundo had used the resurrection stone to bring Jack Spicer back from the dead. His first question was if Jack seemed okay; surely the last thing they needed was a zombified version of their old nemesis, Kimiko had said he seemed fine, but that that wasn’t the point.
Clay understood Kimiko’s anger; the resurrection stone should have been saved and used to bring back someone they needed in order to defeat evil. He couldn’t fathom out why Rai would have wanted Jack alive, it didn’t make sense; they were enemies!
So, naturally, he’d left the temple, leaving Kimiko to explain to Omi why it was a bad thing that a fellow teen was alive again after they’d all been so distraught at his death. He’d spotted Rai talking to Jack and instantly shouted to get their attention.
Both boys turned around looking rather guilty.
“Does someone wanna explain to me what the heck is going on?” Clay demanded. He wasn’t so pissed off at Rai having resurrected the evil boy genius, but more so for Rai doing it without having informed them. Also, this meant that Rai had snuck off to Chase Young’s lair to retrieve the stone, on his own! Did Rai have rocks for brains or something?
“Clay, I…” Rai hadn’t quite thought his way through an excuse yet.
“You risked your life to bring this low down dirty snake back to life! No offence, Spicer.”
“None taken.” Jack replied.
Raimundo couldn’t think of anything to say.
“Hey, wait a minute.” Jack cut in. “But aren’t you the good guys?”
Clay nodded, frowning in confusion.
“And wasn’t I cruelly murdered by your- a mutual enemy?”
“Well yeah, I guess so.” Clay still didn’t quite see where Jack was going with this.
“So, Raimundo, being a good guy, just saw bringing me back to life as saving me, you know, from Chase.” Jack folded his arms across his chest, face glowing with pride. He elbowed a rather confused looking Rai until he got the idea.
“Oh! Uh, yeah, I figured we should save anyone whose life is in danger, no matter what their good/evil orientation is.” Rai scratched his head, trying to work out if what he’d just said made any sense at all.
“Well, I s’pose that’s fair enough.” Clay still looked a little suspicious. “But I’ll be watching you, Spicer.”
“Watch me all you want, I’m one of the good guys now.” Jack grinned, he felt like he was in on some big joke.
“But Master Fung’s gonna wanna talk to the both of you.” Clay warned as he turned and headed back to the temple.
Jack turned back to Rai with a cheeky smirk on his face.
“I figured that excuse would go down a little better than the real reason.” He said, smugly.
Raimundo blushed and ushered Jack away from the temple.
“I don’t really feel like trying to discuss this with Master Fung yet.” He said, looking a little concerned. “He won’t be as easy to fool as Clay.”
“You mean he knows you’re in love with me?” Jack continued to gloat.
Rai rolled his eyes and headed for the field to sit under his favourite tree. Jack followed.
“So…” Jack started, lying down on the grass and folding his hands under his head, “You come here often?”
“Ha ha. Very drole.” Rai sat up against the trunk of the tree. “How about you quit with the jokes and just tell me how you feel about me?”
Jack’s grin fell.
“I’m not that good at talking about my emotions – it’s not very… evil, y’know?” He felt a bit stupid at that point.
“Hey, you already know how I feel, so you don’t have to worry about rejection.” Rai felt a little impatient; from the kiss they’d shared earlier, he had just assumed that Jack liked him, but he needed to hear it confirmed.
“I’m not used to ‘nice’ guys.” Jack sighed. “Don’t get me wrong, I always thought you were hot. It’s just that all my crushes have been bad guys.” He frowned in concentration. “When you kissed me it was…” He couldn’t describe it. “Heaven…?” Was that a good enough metaphor? He looked up at his new beau.
Raimundo smiled.
“Can I play psycho-analyst here?” He asked.
Jack nodded cautiously.
“You’ve always had a thing for the bad guys ‘cause you’ve got this self-esteem problem. You seem to think you have this great big ego, but seeking out a bully is like saying to the world that you think you’re a bad boy and you need to be punished-”
“Do you think I need to be punished?” Jack cut in, a mischievous grin on his face.
“All in due time. Where was I? I think you need someone to tell you what to do, so that you can’t make your own mistakes. And also, you generally go for guys waaay out of your league, so that it isn’t really that big a surprise when they turn you down.” Raimundo turned to see what effect his analysis had had.
Jack looked lost in thought.
“And you’re not just reaching out to me because you have a ‘big-brother’ complex and you think I need looking after? Do you pity me?” He was upset.
“Hey, no!” Rai moved over and pulled Jack up into a hug, “I think you’re interesting; you’re smart, you’re gorgeous, it’s also kind of endearing that you’re a little bit mislead.”
This seemed to appease Jack.
“So, why do I like you?” He scrutinised.
“Do you like me?” Rai feigned shock.
“Yeah.” Jack mumbled, looking suddenly shy.
“Well, I suppose it would have to be because I’m so hot.”
Both boys collapsed into laughter, Jack playfully kicked Rai, and Rai put a choke-hold on Jack in return.
The play-fight ended with Raimundo lying on top of Jack.
“I won’t use you, like he did.” Rai whispered, brushing stray hairs out of Jack’s eyes.
“I know.” Jack whispered back, closing his eyes as Rai leaned down and kissed him.
This time they opened themselves up to each other, allowing a soft, sensual kiss to become heated and passionate until neither boy could tell where one mouth ended and the other began.

End
A/N: Hot? There WILL be a lemon soon, and a fight with Chase. And some pointless Clay/Kimiko. Sorry if I’ve ruined anybody’s fun by over-analysing them, but I couldn’t think of a better way to explain it.
Jake loves this, but he’s throwing certain yellow citrus fruits at me in an attempt to get me to write some graphic smut.
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