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Days has passed, Alex's work started from scrap to success and Ruvik's suspicions kept growing as well. But during those days, there were embarrassment and teases. Ruvik has caught Alex eyeing him from top to bottom, suspecting that Mercer was thinking of him mischievously; if necessary, Alex caught him bathing in the shower as well --Ruvik sitting at the corner off the shower: hiding... Ruvik understood his complex-side but he didn't mean to come to that situation. Alex, in the other side, has caught Ruvik thinking too deep, which wasn't a big deal for awhile, but he slowly noticed that he has been taking down notes about him and his suspicions. Amused, Alex would snoop in his stuff and read his notes, which Ruvik would come looking for it.

Alex was in the second laboratory in the basement (Hiding Place). Dark yet colorful books scattered around and stacked in places of the room. His notes stick to the wall and scattered among the floor like a tornado has struck. The room --color white-- seemed a bit grey...and black. Black? The walls were streamed in black. Eerie, thin, and long (There will be no tentacle rape! For now...). The corners of the laboratory leaked blacklight, from the ceiling to the ground, it looked bizarre yet scary, as if the black cords were purposely made for a big experiment.

Alex sat on his chair, adjusting and doing his chemistry quite faster than usual, with the help of his tendrils protruding from his back. The dark chemicals boiled from the heat and stirred by the stirring rod. The glasses cling and crash. Alex felt so tired yet he needed to share his project. A success project of his: The Blacklight Project. He needed to create it again mixed with the virus.

Suddenly, Ruvik came in after knocking shortly

Suddenly, Ruvik came in after knocking shortly. Ruvik's face dropped to terror. He mumbled, "Y-You're..." Alex turned around and saw Ruvik's face, as if shattered into different shards of terror. "Ruvik-- listen...!" Ruvik backed off, his expectations were correct and they all matched up. The news, the murders, the Blackwatch, the Blacklight, and him. "No! Don't continue, I'd rather die than stay with you!" Alex was hurt and angered, he slammed the door by his tendril and walked towards the hooded and frightened man. Alex said, his eyes turning to a bright, solid, red. "Do you really wanna die, Ruvik? After all of this? Our friendship? Our connection?" Ruvik sweated in beads, dropping down his face; replying, "I...Alex--"

"I'm protecting you, Ruvik!!!"

"I'm protecting you from that society! They are going to torture you because you're different from the rest! 4,000 people are above us, Ruvik. If they ever saw a glimpse of you, they will kill you with no hesitation at all! The world outside, they're compelling. And if they saw you, they won't stop looking for you. That's why I'm here to protect you. Understand that I am not the man from outside..." Ruvik was shock, his yellow eyes were about to tear, The room about to darken by Mercer's blacklight, and Ruvik worried about his fate. Ruvik pushed Mercer off his way and ran out the door. That way, he gave the chance to let Ruvik Victoriano go. Leaving him running away out of his sight. Alex just stood there, regretting what he had done; shouting at his friend and not going after him to say sorry.

Standing was Alex's option.

Running Away was Ruvik's option.

Perhaps Ruvik knew too much that he didn't knew they were too real for him, too real that the nation's enemy was his friend. Best friend to be exact. But the word does not longer exist in Ruvik's mind and in Ruvik's broken heart...

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It has been three days that Ruvik hasn't returned, three straight days. Alex started to worry, but he needed Ruvik to have some time alone to think and to cope around their friendship, or so there was. Alex just kept working to forget his mistakes but it was no use. He would have a hard time breathing, like his lungs were clogged with failure and pain. All he could do was sit down and drink or smoke.

Ruvik --who is now living in his manor for a while-- felt broken, betrayed, or even too angry about himself. He should know that he shouldn't mess with Mercer's stuff; but after reading that he is "...one of the deadliest creatures on earth...", he felt that he couldn't stop the man he cares about. Ruvik would feel the same pain as Alex does, the same clogging pain in their chest, pounding as an alarm to forgive, but the cure for them was refusal.

Ruvik couldn't take three days anymore with guilt, Alex couldn't take anymore regret to himself, so they both thought of leaving their lives alone for now. Meaning that they wouldn't talk.

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A weeks has ended, both men are doing fine physically, but emotionally: it felt like their world was crumbling with cries of help and agony. Ruvik felt lonely...Very lonely that he wished Alex was there with him. Same goes for Alex.

Ruvik had no other choice but to go after his best-friend. --Too change the nature of both of them, they didn't feel friendship anymore but relationship. They felt love for each other.-- He walked down the path outside the mansion, down to the basement, and went down the stairs with his cold feet. His yellow-golden eyes lit the room like a wolf's, his feet feeling the cold and dusty floor, and the candle lit shined dimly on his features. Walking down the hallway felt cold, hoping that Alex was there to warm him up.

A few minutes later, Ruvik has reached his destination; the Second Laboratory. He set his slender hands on the knob, hesitating to open it, mind racing, sighed in nervousness, and knocked on the door before opening the door. Once the grey, hooded, man opened the cold, metal door, it revealed Alex holding up a gun to his head; his index finger ready to pull the trigger. Ruvik ran towards Alex and pulled off the gun from his hand. "What the hell, Alex?!" Shouted the angry Victoriano, looking at him with a weary glare in his eyes, the bright red eyes were wet with tears, blankly staring in Ruvik's. "Ruvik...I thought you're--" "I'm dead?!" "Bullshit, Mercer. I don't want to die nor you will." He hugged the scientist, making him hug back, "I love you, Alex. So much that I felt so dead inside..." Alex then muttered, "Me also..." They both hugged each other, Ruvik and Alex leaning in close, feeling their hot breaths brushing on their mouths, and then kissed.

" They both hugged each other, Ruvik and Alex leaning in close, feeling their hot breaths brushing on their mouths, and then kissed

Their kiss didn't last long for a catch of breath was interrupted. Alex's hands removed Ruvik's cloak, tossing it on the ground and setting his body on a spacious counter. Ruvik's hands laid on his shoulders, slowly removing his jackets too. Alex's hands traced his curvy and rough endings, reaching the brim of his dirty, unbuttoned, pants. Easily, he pulled out Ruvik's pants and did the same toss as his previous clothing.

Ruvik unbuttoned his pants and slid in his fingers down to his member, prodding his cold touches up and down. Alex grunted and huffed between their kisses; tongues swiveling and caressing the red rooms of their mouths. Then Alex's blacklight started tying around Ruvik's limbs. Ruvik shivered, afraid that he might tear him apart, but that thought was hushed by Alex, "I won't hurt you...I'll be gentle..." Ruvik felt the soft moving tendrils tying up his legs and arms. He felt the warm blacklight cover around his member. It felt a bit wet but it didn't mind much. The blacklight shafted up and down rapidly, making Ruvik cum a little. "You want to stop? You came already." Alex said, Ruvik denied and he wanted to continue. Alex the positioned himself --after removing his pants-- and Ruvik. He placed Ruvik's legs on his shoulders and his pelvis ready to hit his. Ruvik was afraid, he ran out of confidence, making him look away. Alex then furrowed his brows for clarification, "Are you sure you want to do this? I will be gentle..." Ruvik nodded.

Alex the pushed right in, Ruvik gasping in pain. He held Alex's shoulders, or hugged him, grasping to hold on with the pain. Alex pushed right in and out, feeling the warm walls tightening in each moan. Alex locked his lips with Ruvik's, slowly going down to his neck and biting it like a hound. "Faster...!" Ruvik moaned out, going sane with the motion; Alex followed his order and replaced his member with his tendril. He then went down on Ruvik, doing his job. He licked his member and deep-throat the shaft. As he boobed his head up and down, he licked it circular motion, cumming a bit, at the same time, he was jerking off himself as well.

"A-Alex..Ngh...I'm coming...!" Ruvik alarmed softly, Alex replied as well, "I'm--Ah...!" They both came, like fireworks. (PAPUTOK VICTIMS lolol #pilipino anime reference) They huffed and blushed. They both kissed again and they both hugged each other with another additional kiss, "I love you."

*I couldn't think of an ending so I just made it that way. I'm sorry you have to go through allot of patience, I totally regret myself for you guys waiting. Anyways, A marathon of oneshots will arrive in a few hours so wait, because I'm going to transfer my notes to this sight. Copying will make me bored, but I hope you'll read it. If it doesn't pop up, then my work isn't done yet.

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