Surprise Surprise (Abel, Kazuma)

[Teneile]

It was Sunday afternoon and the couple weren't doing anything terribly interesting just cuddling on the couch while watching a movie in the living room. Kazuma lay against the back of the couch, and in his arms was Teneile who lay in front of him their eyes on the tv. In Teneile's arms lay Bella their puppy and on the floor in front of the couch lay their large german shephard Rocky. It was a family day they had decided. Later they were planning to grill burgers in the back yard and have a nice time playing with their dogs and spending time together. Teneile had never been happier since moving she loved living with Kazuma she felt like she finally had a place to belong. As the credits on 'Princess Bride' began to roll she smiled.

"I really love that movie." she said with a smile as she tuned over quickly so that she faced the man she loved. She smiled softly reaching up to brush her hand through his hair. "You ready to start the grill?" she asked curiously as she leaned in and kissed him softly. They had a love about them that was unshakeable and she had a passion and sweetness about the kiss that they loved to share with each other. Her hand ran down his large arm for a moment as she continued to kiss him softly.

That was of course til her cell phone rang. She broke the kiss and furrowed her brow curiously wondering just who it was. She pulled the cell out of her blue jeans pocket and looked at the caller ID. She froze and looked up at Kazuma.

"Might.. umm need you close." she whispered softly. She opened her cell and placed it to her ear. "Hello?" she asked.

[jackal]

Abel had been sitting in his room after his little meeting with his lost friend Kuro. He had went to the hospital to pick up some gooz and bandaging for the bash that had been opened by Kuro and they gave it to him seeing the ergency of the cut. When he finally arrived back at his room he pulled out the medical supplies and something else fell out of his pocket. He really didn't pay any attention to it until after he had fixed up his hand. He picked up the crumpled paper and quickly straighened it up. He looked at the name and began to laugh uncontrolably. It was the paper that Abel's brother's girlfriend Teneile had given him when they first met. He calmed himself down and grabbed his cell to give her a little ring, and maybe have some fun at the same time.

As the phone began to ring he had completely calmed down and was waiting for Teneile to answer the phone. Finally after about four rings it stopped and Abel heard Teneile's soft voice say hello. He stayed silent for a few seconds before finally answering back. Sorry for the wait babe, but I just figured I'd let you wait as long as I had to for you to answer. Anyway, how are things going with my little brother. You treating him nice after what I did to you guys. That must have been so tramatic to have him cough blood all over you right after a passionate kiss like that. But yeah to sounds like you guys are listening to some music or something. Just thought I'd check up on you guys sense I just saw my brother getting released from the hospital today."

[Teneile]

Teneile's eyes opened wide when she heard the voice of Drake's brother. She sat up suddenly clutching Bella to her chest gently the little puppy had woken up and was squirming so she sat her down. Teneile's hand reached out and grabbed kazuma's hand tightly as she listened. But after he finished speaking her eyes narrowed and that same fury that Abel had give her some time ago found purchase in her again and a fire lit in her eyes. She took a deep breath and a mean grin broke out on her face a side of her kazuma had never seen before.

"You're brother, discharged a long time ago and never came home. So you can shove it." she said and hung up the phone. Tears flooded her eyes as she turned and looked at Kazuma. Wasting no time she threw herself into his arms and closed her eyes nuzzling into him tightly. She hated that man, Abel had since she met him and hated him more now. How care he call her up right now and bring up those awful memories obviously he knew that Drake had never come home so he decided to mess with her.

"I hate that man." she whispered as her hands clenched Kazuma's shirt tightly as she curled up into his arms. "He said Drake was released from the hospital today. But he was released months ago before I met you and he never came home. How could he do that, he said that he was here with me but he isn't, I'm with you, he left me, I don't know him anymore." she whispered.

[Kazuma]

Everything seemed to happen so quickly, just as the movie had ended and Kazuma was about to get up to start grilling for what was now and hopefully always would be his family his love’s cell phone went off. He felt her hand grasp his immediately she did not want him to leave for some reason and he would not question it. The last time he had ever seen a look on her face like this was when she last had to deal with her father who seemed now like just a bad memory.

He did not ease drop on her call and had no idea who she was talking to but it could not have been good. Just as he heard the voice of this stranger stop for a moment to allow Teneile a chance to speak he watched as his sweet loving tender girlfriend turned into something he had never seen before. The look on her face and in her eyes were something he had seen only on fierce fighters looking to seriously hurt some one.

She spoke all of two phrases before she hung up and immediately she turned back into the woman he had known through out their relationship. He held her tightly just like he had so many times before, Kazuma felt he could protect her from anything in this world with the arms he wrapped around her everyday but it was clear there were inner pains his massive muscles could not subdue.

She rambled for a second and he pieced together what he could, it had something to do about her ex which Kazuma had never actually dragged up in conversation, it had been the last thing he ever wanted to talk about but it seemed that time had found itself infront of him. He held her one of his large hand craddeling the back of her head. “Honey I know your with me… but what are you talking about” he said softly to her wondering what exactly had gone on in her past. “Who the hell just called…and who is Drake” he said a bit of puzzlement in his voice

[jackal]

As Abel sat waiting for Teneile to talk back at him, he was suddenly being yelled at by Teneile. She had told him that Drake was discharged from the hospital a long time ago and never went back to her house. Then she told him to shove it and hung up the phone. Abel wasn't really surprised by the hostility of her voice, bu what she said had made him want to pry for some more information. "What a little bitch! I call her to see how my brother's doing and she calls me a liar and hangs up right away. How could he have been discharged if I saw him in the hospital getting packed up today? None of this is making any sense. Wait... If she's not with Drake then who the hell is she with. I doubt a cry baby like her couldn't go too long without someone to hold her and tell her she'll be alright."

Abel got up out of bed, put on his trench coat and boots, placed his sword on his back beneath his trench coat, and made his way out of the dorm complex. He still had Teneile's address so he could try that out. As he was walking down the street to where he thought he might be able to find Teneile, he began to think about what he might have done. 'Okay, so if Drake never came back to Teneile's house after he was supposedly discharged but I saw him at the hospital only a few hours ago, then that must mean that he was just transfered to a different part of the hospital somehow and Teneile went there sometime inbetween the transfer and his let go. Maybe the cut wasn't fully healed and he had to go back or something. Wait, why do I even care about this? Oh yeah, cause now I don't have anyone to use to get to Drake.'

Finally arriving at Teneile's fathers house, Abel noticed that the door was locked but there was some light coming from inside. "What a pain." And with those words he kicked down the door and made his way into the house. Most of the house was dark and gloomy as he made his way into the few rooms he had been in before. The kitchen didn't smell good like when he came to see Teneile last, so she must not have cooked for awhile. Then before making his way into the living room he looked back to see that there was still a hole in the wall from where he placed Drake's daggers. He laughed a little bit before making his way into... an empty living room. The only light in the house was a Tv that had been left on and the static was making the light. Abel was somewhat confused but then saw a phone and decided to use it instead of his cell. He dialed Teneile's number again and waited for an answer.

[Teneile]

She nuzzled into Kazuma even more as his hand came up and gently touched her head gently. She closed her eyes gently as he asked her who Drake was and who had just called. Gently she pulled back and tried to smile at him but she failed as she sat up and took his hand gently looking down at it as she placed it in her lap and tucked her vibrant red hair down behind her ears before she began.

"Drake was my ex. The one that left me alone never came home all those months ago. Well before he left he was stabbed by his brother the day he came home. See back in Varron was when we got together and we were close until one day he didn't come home back then. My father said that he died in a fire, he was fighting in a run down building and he never came out. So though I wanted to stay and honor his memory my father forced me to move here without him. So I kept all of Drake's things which weren't much just some clothes. When I moved here I didn't start school for a very long time because I was mourning a bit and so I got my studies at home." she said softly looking at the couch and fiddling with his fingers as she spoke to him.

"Well... one day I was shopping here, getting some clothing for school about to start when this guy runs into me. He was Drake's brother and had gotten information that Drake had survived and was making his way here. So I was happy and I waited, even though Abel gave me all kinds of rules telling me if I broke them I would be sorry. Like I wasn't allowed to know him at school. Or I wasn't allowed to touch him or cry around him." she said softly and sighed. "Then one night Abel showed up at my door for no reason and then not too long later Drake was at my door returning home. Still, he didn't stay but more than twenty minutes because Abel stabbed him right in the back. While we were kissing. So.. he umm.. coughed.. blood all over me.. and umm.. I called the ambulance and we went to the hospital. I went to see him every day til one day I showed up and they said he had been discharged. So I went home to wait, and he never came. After months of waiting I gave up." she shrugged softly. "That was Abel on the phone."

The house, was not empty like some might think. The hole in the wall had been patched up a long time ago. One couch was missing from the nicely decorated living room. The rest of the house was still furnished aside from Teneile's room that had been cleaned out besides the larger furniture like the bed, dresser, and the things of that nature. Everything that spoke of the girl was gone aside fromm the lavender paint on the walls. Even her dancing room was barren. But her fathers room still had his things and that was not saying much.

The phone rung again and she gasped for a moment as she turned and looked at the sparkling phone. "I'm getting a new one tomorrow." she whispered softly as she shakily picked up the phone and looked at the number and her eyes opened wide. 'It's.. my father's house." she whispered softly she flicked open the phone and put it on speaker. Great thing about cell phones with speaker. Unless she put the phone far away the caller wouldn't know.

"Hello?" she asked softly as she kept it close to her and this time left it on speaker so Kazuma would know what was happening.

[Kazuma]

He listened to Teneile closely as she spoke, for some reason he knew what she was about to tell him would have a major effect on there immediate future. He stayed focused memorizing the names of Drake and Abel burning them into his mind. So far they were names of people that hurt his beloved Teneile and though Kazuma was never one for vengeance or honor when it came to the battlefield he wanted nothing less then to see their bodies lay at his feet.

He tried his best to keep his face normal and his expression claim though he knew he probably had a mean and ugly look in his eyes. He just stayed there next to her hopping she would not look in his eyes. He could not even say a word knowing that it would only lead to him saying something that may drive Teneile away from him

The phone rang and she had that same look on her face the first time this punk had called. He wanted to take the phone and smash it but he noticed she put it on speaker and so he bit his lip to keep his mouth from shooting off in a tiraid of curses.

[jackal]

The phone only rang a couple times before Teneile answered the phone call with another simple hello. Abel decided to get straight to the point with the conversation before she had a chance to hang up on him again. "Just to get things straight for now I'm not your father so don't make that mistake. I know you know who this is so there is no reason for me to reintroduce myself to you, but perhaps you could introduce me to your new boy toy? If not that's fine just thought it'd be nice to know eachothers names, unless a crybaby like you couldn't get another boyfriend." Abel let out a couple laughs before continuing on with his little speil.

"But enough about your new guy, I want to tell you the truth about my brother. Whether you believe me or not is up to you but I'm actually not lieing, though from all the time I've known you I think I've been pretty straight with you anyway. Ok here it goes. Like I told you before you so rudely hung up on me, my brother WAS in the hospital today and they were just releasing him. Now if I had to guess the reason he never got to you, it would probably be because he was reinstated into the hospital after some sort of problem with his terrible wound that happened during your romantic little reunion. I could be wrong, but as I said its my thought as to what happened. Just a sec..." Abel placed the phone on the table as he thought he heard a noise coming from behind him but it was just a bird ramming into the clean window.

Picking the phone up he continued. "Ok back, now where was I? Oh yeah I guess I don't have much else to add. I don't know who actually gave up on who, or maybe it was a mutual thing, but I really could care less. You know very well that losing Drake made you feel more secure didn't it? You feel far more safe now that I don't have you to flush Drake out with? You must really not know me that well, but I guess that's true since you originally wanted to follow me around like a damn puppy until your sweetums came home." Abel laughed a little more before stopping and lightly hitting himself on the head. "But I've been rambling to long. Lets here what you have to say, and this time don' hang up. It doesn't make things any easier for you if you don't here the truth, right?"

[Teneile]

Teneile listened and so did Kazuma as she held the phone close to her so there was no sign he was on speaker it was only fair Kazuma was allowed to hear the phone conversation too and Abel was being an ass as he always was. She sighed and closed her eyes trying to contain her anger for him as he degraded her like a child. She listened and every word he said only made her want to hurt him. She looked into Kazuma's eyes and she softened a bit but he was definatly seeing someting of his girlfriend he had never seen before. She was both afraid and pissed as she listened to the man that had broken into her home to use her phone and call him. She sighed softly when he finally finished his rant.

"Firstly, shut up. I'm SO tired of you pretending to be someone you arent. I don't like you, you don't like me just drop the act and stop being such a prick." she said harshly wondering silently if that would surprise Kazuma seeing as she never reallys aid anything rude or mean.

"I went to visit Drake in the hospital every day for two weeks. The doctors said he would be getting out the next day so I went home and got everything ready. That day when I went to pick him up he was gone, everything I had brought him and himself were gone. Upon asking the staff they said he had been discharged and left the hospital that morning. So, I went home, and waited. He never showed up. Never. And if he did go back to the hosptial he never called to let me know, nor did he call to say goodnight or anything. As far as I knew he was gone, and I had no number to call him with since the records showed he was discharged."

"I don't care if you blame me. I don't care if you think you can use me for your sick and sadistic little games. I'm not afraid of you. You stabbed your brother in the back because you're a prick and you have a warrant out for your arrest. So I suggest you leave my house because I've already called the cops on my new home phone and they're on their way to pick up a fugitive seeing as I'm the eye witness to YOUR lovely little display of brotherly love. Thing is, I did love your brother, but he left me one too many times without word, phone works two ways and only one when I have no way of contacting him but he had every number of mine there was. So if you think I abandoned him, that's fine think what you want, it doesn't matter to me. I've moved on because apparently he has or there would have been calls, notes, letters.. something at my house. so if you don't mind, get out of my house, and leave me alone. You're quarrel is with Drake and not with me."

She didn't hang up just yet but she was about to, she was giving him a chance to say something, which would probably be something arrogant since he was a jerk and thought himself smart when he was really just a pain in the ass.

[Kazuma]

(wow) Kazuma though as he listened to his girlfriend retaliate to what sounded like some over arrogant prick that needed a good ass kicking. He stood their quiet listening to everything not bothering to say a work as it sounded like Teneile could handle this on her own. He had never actually seen her pissed but apparently when she was she was a force to be reckoned with.

( I wonder if I can go over there and give him the ‘once over’ before the cops get there…maybe I can give it to him twice) Kazuma thought in his head. This Abel guy though as bold as he was had to be a coward at heart to stab some one in the back, and the fact that it was his brother wasn’t helping Kazuma picturing him as the sanest of people. He would not do anything for the time being though, not until his Teneile told him he should. He knew she was not a fan of him fighting and he had a feeling her memories of what happened to Drake would probably deter her from wanting him to fight with Abel, afraid that her new boyfriend might befall the same fate as her old one.

[jackal]

Abel listened to Teneile's little responce to his long rant with a large shit grin. He loved how she acted like a tough chick now, unlike when he had first met her and she cried continually. She had told him to stop pretending to be someone he wasn't and to stop acting like a prick and all he did was let out a soft laugh. She even said that she didn't like him and he gripped his heart with fake agony as he laughed a little again. Then she went on a rant about how he left her without a word or a contact number, which was common sense because they hadn't been together for however long. She went through a longer version of the story she had told him before she hung up ealier and he learned a little more than he knew before.

Then she began to go a little too far with the tough chick act. Saying how she didn't care if he blamed her for leaving Drake and that she didn't even cared if he used her in his sadistic games. His grin turned quickly to a face a complete seriousness as she told him that she had called the police and told them that he had broke into her dad's house, bragging that she was the key witness in the case of 'Brotherly Love'. Then she went back to the topic of Drake for awhile, basically repeating herself and saying that she did love Drake. The last thing that came out of her mouth was that his quarrel was with Drake and not her, but now he was starting to wander if it really was Drake that he wanted to cause pain to.

Abel began to walked around the house, not saying a word for quite some time. He made his way up to what looked to be Teneile's old room. He entered the room with a look of insanity in his eyes. With his free hand he began destroying all that was left of Teneile's old things and then he unsheathed his sword. He dropped the phone and began slashing away at the wallpaper and shattering her windows. When he was finally done he went over to the door of the room and began to carve something into it. It took only a few moments and when it was finished he backed away and picked up the phone again, looking at the words 'New Addition' that had been carved into Teneile's old door.

Letting a large sigh to calm down, he began to walk down the stairs and toward the exit of the house. He sheathed his blade and stopped in the exit. "You're causing yourself more trouble than you would have if you would have just heard me out. I had absolutely no quarrel with you as long as you weren't with Drake, but you had to push and push until I snapped. Here are a few bits of info about me that you should probably know. When someone threatens me in any way I consider them an enemy until proven otherwise, but you're worse then just an enemy. You've made the list that I never thought I'd have anyone else on other than Drake. Your life is now in more danger than when you were with Drake, and as for you new boyfriend that is no doubt there listening to this conversation of ours, he's no safer than you were when you were with Drake."

"You see speaker is hard to conceal and even harder when you recieve a second call from someone you hate. You could have actually told me so we could have a group talk." Abel soon began to hear a very distant sound of sirens as he went to fisish his talk with Teneile and her boyfriend. "Looks like your friends are about to come to your house so I'll leave you with a few more words. You can act as tough as you want, but I know deep inside your worried about what I'll do to you and even what I might do to you ex Drake. If you're not scared of me now then I guess I'll have to do something to change that. Sweet nightmares of a bloodied Drake and whoever your new boyfriend is while you're tied up about to experience the same pain."

With those final words he dropped the phone on the sideway and stomped down on it, smashing it to a pile of broken chips and plastic. The police were now within eye view so Abel quickly made his way away from the area of now two crimes. He ran until he was about three blocks away from the house and then he just casually made his way back to his dorm room. He finally made his way back and layed in his bed after placing his sword back on the wall. He didn't know if Teneile would try to call him back on his cell or not. 'If she decides to call me back she had better not provoke me anymore than she already has. Maybe we'll never see or here from each other again, and then I won't have to harm her. She really doesn't need to become another bloody corpse in this cruel world. Why is she so bitter toward me?'

[Teneile]

Teneile listened as he began to speak to her again and as he did tears formed in her eyes. There was still NO way he could know he was on speaker as Kazuma hadn't said anything and the phone in the room had not gone off. So he couldn't know that there was anything different than before. With technology today it was much harder when you were on cellphone speaker to know that and she didn't see how Abel could. It wasn't even Teneile that had called the cops that had come to the house, no Teneile had lied, if he thought about it, she had never called the police but apparently the neighbor had when the boy had kicked in the door. So the police were not teneile's call.

When the man on the phone told her that Kazuma would suffer the same fate as Drake and that she had put herself on the list she bit back tears. He hung up and she curled up into Kazuma crying hard as she threw her phone away and clung to him tightly. she had ruined everything. Kazuma held her tightly as her mind raced. She was going to have to leave now. Leave the only real home she had ever had. She pulled back and looked at the man she loved so very much.

"I guess.." she sniffed as she rose slowly. 'I... I'll go start packing.. so.. so you won't .. get hurt." she cried as she began to make her way towards the stair case rubbing her tears off her cheeks her eyes blurry from the tears. She was going to have to pack and leave not only the house she had come to love but her boyfriend the one she wanted to be with forever, the love of her life. She had to keep him safe.

[Kazuma]

Kazuma had been quite the entire time. Even when this joker said that he would make him suffer. He huffed almost laughing but caught himself before it escaped his lips. Kazuma was not one to get scared at threats especially when it came to back stabbing psyhco’s. Kazuma while loving swords and knives would never allow himself to get into a duel, instead he would simply just carry a gun around and take out this freak if he ever showed himself.

As the call ended though Teneile was quiet shaken by it all, throwing her phone away and clinging to him tightly. He held her tightly wanting to let her know she was safe but apparently his arms could not comfort her at the moment.

'I... I'll go start packing.. so.. so you won't .. get hurt." He heard her say before she got up and headed to the stairs. Kazuma was so shocked that he could not react right away. It was not until her foot graced the second step that Kazuma shot up, his voice bellowed out through the room in a serious angry tone which actually caused both Bella and rocky to cower back alittle. “DON’T” he basically screamed at her, stopping her dead in her tracks.

Some tears had actually began to escape his own eyes, not worried about himself at all, he was just hurt that she would actually be willing to leave him. His voice became softer and filled with a sadness “If you go up those stairs…you’d be hurting me more then that nut case ever could” he slowly began to approach her stopping at the foot of the steps looking up at her for a change.

“If you want to leave this place then you have to know I would be going with you… You should have known that ever since our first kiss you’d never be able to get rid of me”

[Teneile]

Teneile jumped and cringed when he screamed out. She froze her tears coming faster now and her shoulders shaking. He came to the edge of the stairs telling her that if she left she would hurt him more than being hurt by some man. She turned slowly tears running down her cheeks. He told her that she should know that if she left he would go with her and that she should have known that. She flung herself jumping into his arms and crying hard as she clung to him for dear life. Her whole body was shaking.

"I love you so much, I can't lose you to anyone. I can't.. I won't survive I just don't want you hurt because I was mean." she said as she pulled back just enough to look into his eyes. She wiped his cheeks gently with her thumb and pressed her lips hard and passionatly against his own. She held it hungrily for several minutes kissing and breaking over and over again hungrily kissing him she loved him so very much. When finally she broke it for the last time she looked into his eyes.

"Im sorry. I just.. love you so much I would die if anything happened to you and it was my fault." she whispered. "I don't want to leave you, I love you, I love you so very much. I never want to be without you. I won't leave if you don't want me too, I would stay by you forever if you'll have me." she whispered.

[Kazuma]

Kazuma was not expecting her to jump but luckily for him she was so light that it didn’t make a different, and he was able to wrap his arms around her before her feet touched the ground. She was shaking and clung to him tighter then she ever had in the past. Ether this Abel guy was really that bad, or everything that had happened before had left her slightly tramatized, and the idea of having to relive it with her new boyfriends tore at her heart.

She spoke and he just continued to hold her. “Teneile…don’t worry it will all be fine” he told her “You can lose me… no matter what happens as long as your mine nothing will ever keep me down”. He smiled at her as she looked up to him wiping his cheeks with her thumb. He was not prepared as she then hungrily kissed him, it was so hard and passionate that Kazuma was kind of shocked. From tears to kissing in under 60 seconds, he could never understand girls but he would not question it all right now.

Her voice was in a soft whisper as she spoke to him once more. “Believe me I’ll have you…there is no one in the world I could want more then you” Kazuma then let her down and looked her in her eyes, which always had a sweet sparkle in their deep sapphire color even after moments such as these. “Now look…no matter what happens or who threatens us, your never allowed to leave me cause no matter what the circumstance I’d never want you to go” he chuckled lightly as he looked down at her “Not to mention… I promised we would get married one day.…I can’t marry you if you disappear on me…most run away brides do it on the wedding day so you’ll have to wait till then if you ever want to leave”

[Teneile]

He told her that she wasn't allowed to leave him and that he wasn't going to let her go. That she wasn't allowed to leave his side and the truth is she didn't want to. She never wanted to leave the most wonderful thing in her life but she had felt there was no other way. She felt his arms hold her tightly and he told her that she wasn't allowed to leave because then how would he married. She chuckled softly as she wiped the last tears off her cheeks and smiled softly as she looked up at him. He told her she couldn't leave unless it was their wedding day because that was when brides ran away. she smiled.

"Don't you worry, if you get the nerve to ask me. I"m not running at the alter. You're stuck with me. I love you so much I can't imagine being with anyone else and I don't want to be. I want to be your wife, and I cannot wait for that day." she said softly as she smiled.

She reached up and hugged him tightly letting him pull her up into his wonderfully strong arms.

"And if you'll stand by me through all this Abel thing.. then I know I can't be anywhere else. I hate him, I hate him because of who he is and what he does. I'm not someone that easily hates but you see.. " she pulled back and sat on the stairs looking at him.

"When Drake finally came home Abel was already at my house eating dinner. He had showed up so suddenly and said he wanted food so I cooked him dinner. In the middle of it, Drake knocked at the door returning home. I was so happy because I thought he was dead having been told so by my father. That day we were reunited after being apart for two months. And I had never been happier at the time. We shared our first kiss in a long time and that was when.. when.. Abel stabbed him. Drake.. he .. coughed blood all over me. And then Abel left. So I had to take care of everything by myself. Drake lived but disappeared and that's why.. I'm afraid. Why I can't lose you. I never want to leave you. Never, but to see that happen to someone I've given my heart to for life makes me hurt." she whispered. She rose again and hugged him again.

"But if you're willing to, I'll never leave. I love you so much that you'll be hard pressed to get rid of me." she chuckled.