Stinging (Cont. from Roses Roses)

[Kristopher Roberts]

He left the others in the garden and he had taken the long away around the palace in the cold without his jacket out of rage and stupidity probably. Either way, he was cold as hell and sniffling from the cold. But he had reached the place he wanted too with his still bloody face. But at least it stopped bleeding some finally.

Standing there at the door way for a moment before finally knocking on the door. He stood there, waiting and wondering what he was going to tell Piper and how she was going to react.

He hated bugging her but right now, he wanted to be near someone who wasn't going to take a rolling pin to his head. Maybe she just wouldn't ask any questions and let him just....sit down for a bit?

[Piper Wren]

Piper was keeping to herself at the moment, she had changed the bandages on her cuts and was just pulling her sweater back over her head when someone knocked on the door. Making sure she was fully decent, long sleeves as always before she opened the door. The sight of Kristopher with a bloody face instantly sent her into worry mode, it was freezing outside and he was out without even a jacket. Although Kristopher got sick every winter he seemed to be encouraging it! He looked genuinely upset so without quizzing him for a moment, Piper ushered him into her room, shutting the door behind her.

“Oh, Kris…”

She mumbled sadly as she ushered him gently over to her bed, sitting him down as she went to get the first aid kit from the dresser drawer. Piper couldn’t tell how bad the scratches on his face were without them being clean, she was no Doctor like Kristopher but she seemed to do her fair share of patching up around here. The young woman sat herself down opposite Kristopher and soaked a cotton ball with antiseptic and water, gently beginning to clean the blood away from his face, holding his blonde curls out of the way with her other hand.

“What happened?”

[Kristopher Roberts]

Okay, well he supposed he wasn't going to get away without giving some answers. But he stepped into the room and offered her a small smile as he sat on her bed and let her clean up his bloody face.

Oh the humor of it all, "I got hit with roses." He said with a slight shiver. It wasn't Kazn that hit him, if it was he would have a lot more damage done to him then this, so it was someone else. So, he best come clean. "Aione egged me on into a fight."

And so, he started to explain to her everything that heppened. He didn't leave a thing out seeing as he might as well get it in the open and see what would happen. He looked down at his cold hands all the while.

"So, I left my jacket behind. Stupid on my part but I've settle down a little since then. Shes with Kyle and Elric...I am sure one will track me down soon." And he rolled his eyes then. "Im not going to apologize either."

Oh Kristopher, so hard headed.

"But I apologize for bothering you about it all. I'll leave if you like, I just wanted to go somewhere that won't take a mallet to my head." he chuckled.

[Piper Wren]

Piper listened carefully to Kristopher’s explanation about his fight with Aione while she gently cleaned the blood away from his face. It took several cotton balls to clean it all away from his skin but wounds anywhere on the head or face always bled terribly…she knew that from personal experience. Luckily the cuts weren’t too deep, the physical ones anyway but the emotional ones from Kristopher’s bad experiences with roses and Aione’s comments went deeper. A couple of the cuts were deeper than others and Piper gently applied some stick on sutures to hold the cuts together while she spoke.

“I can understand why you would be mad…I’ve never loved anyone like that but having someone try to take them from you and then rub it in your face. I can understand it made you angry, walking away was probably the best thing you could have done. If she decides to cross you again with me there…well, I don’t lose my temper often but she will hear it from me.”

The young woman finished applying the sutures to Kristopher’s face and took one of his hands, rubbing it to get the circulation going again. Her room wasn’t exactly massively warm either but she yanked the spare blanket from her bed to put around Kristopher’s shoulders, giving him a sisterly hug as she did so.

“No one is telling you to apologise. Rubbing salt into your wounds was an attack, I think it’s completely inappropriate!”

Typical Piper to phrase it like that…

[Kristopher Roberts]

"You and me both, I am sure my brother will want me to apologize, even though she hit me frist as childish as it sounds." He sighed softly and ruffled his blond locks and accepeted the blanket to warm up his frail body.

"I would kill for a smoke, but I am still working on quieting." he stated and sighed again. "Well, I guess I will just have to be more watchful around that bitch or stay clear of her....somehow."

He chuckled lightly and touched the side of his face. "Though, I as so close to running away crying when he whacked me with those flowers. Never knew I was that badly tramatized by them." He mused on this and looked at Piper.

"If you ever want me to leave you alone, stick flowers on your front door." He said, trying to make light of the situation. He was somewhat afraid though, that Aione might try to make a pass at his boyfriend still.

Would he leave him, if that was the case?

[Piper Wren]

"You and me both, I am sure my brother will want me to apologize, even though she hit me first as childish as it sounds…I would kill for a smoke, but I am still working on quieting. Well, I guess I will just have to be more watchful around that bitch or stay clear of her....somehow.”

Piper sighed, she couldn’t blame Kristopher for feeling that way after being egged into a fight. She was proud of him for not physically retaliating, it gave him a moral high ground. From what she could gauge from Kristopher’s side of the story it sounded like Aione was a little desperate considering she had been with Tristan up until…well. She had no idea that Aione had supposedly tried to seduce Augusta, but then again when it came to seducing someone it did take the other person to be into it. Not that Piper had the experience there, rape and seduction were two very different things. She sighed and rubbed Kristopher’s shoulders through the blanket in an attempt to warm him up, trying to think of something to say.

“Kyle can’t make your decisions for you, quitting the smoking thing is a good idea and avoiding her for the moment is probably best for everyone…I hate to say it though Kris but did you speak to Augusta about the issue with Aione?”

She had to ask…difficult as it might be to discuss. Piper couldn’t step in and fix it, hell she couldn’t even fix her own problems! She still hadn’t worked up the guts to check on Elric because he was probably still pissed off after what happened at the Devil’s ball. Who was she to give advice? But right now she had Kristopher to focus on…

[Kristopher Roberts]

Kristopher sighed, "Try telling that to my brother. He sided with her after all." He shrugged it away and merely lowered his head in defeat. What on earth was he going to do about all of this? What if Aione met up with Vasant on day. Oh god, he didn't even want to think about that at all.

Whatever, he was already stressed out enough as is then want to sit here and think about it. Sighing again, Kristopher rubbed the side of his forehead gently, his long sleeve falling past his forearm barely, just enough to show the shadow of a deep bruise on his arm.

Seeming to notice such a thing a few seconds later, he lowered he lowered his arm and let the sleeve drop and rested it on his lap.

"Speak to him? I guess you could sorta say that. But I let it go, to bring it up brothers him a lot and he doesn't need that right now. He's been stressed out a lot, with everything thats been going on and all...so, I just kinda turn my cheek from the issue of him and Aione. But I'm dealing with it still. I know he won't do anything with her, but I don't trust her...not at all."