Welcome to my short drabble, that I wrote when playing with a few new characters. It will actually fit into the third book of a story line ('course I haven't actually written these books yet, I still have to play with some plot bunnies...)

Comments Adored, Constructive Criticism even more so.

' Lyser and Rad belong to me.

--Enjoy!

Emotion Control

‘Lyser scanned the grounds before him once more.

He is here. He must be here.

Rad had never lied to him. Rad never had a reason to.

Therefor he must be around. Somewhere, Rad is looking for me.

Why else had his boyfriend called him if not to be with him?

Minutes rolled by. Annoyed that Rad had not arrived at the spot they had chosen to meet at, ‘Lyser flexed his wings. Even with the human-sighting cloak on them, it was a dangerous move to do. There were times when magic shuddered, or cut off slightly. A human at any moment, could spot a flash of red, or a piece of his wing.

He didn’t want to be responsible for a trip to the mental ward.

‘Lyser was rarely annoyed, or irritated. He had a childlike feel to everything in this current world.

It amused him, no matter how lost he was in it.

However, not having Rad show up was causing a stir of emotions to rise. After waiting a minute more, ‘Lyser finally decided something was holding Rad up.

Perhaps he ran into friends, and lost track of time. Perhaps ran into a problem, and cannot met me.

‘Lyser shivered as a third thought invaded his mind.

Perhaps he is in trouble.

Rad was strong, he had to, being one of the Baseball teams star batters. But that strength didn’t even rank close to ‘Lyser’s own power. Though he hated fighting, ( It sent hin into a trance based out of evil intentions and an unsatiable rage.) He would gladly defend his boyfriend to the death.

Would gladly kill for him.

Which is not something ‘Lyser did lightly.

The young dragon had participated in one to many fights in his life. Being the favorite fighter of a man who loved nothing more than to pit his creatures, his slaves, against each other.

‘Lyser’s old master got high off of pit fighting.

And dragon fighting was one of the top ranked sports.

‘Lyser was a rescued pit dragon, stolen back by a father who didn’t know ‘Lyser existed.

Though he loved his new family, though he knew they had been trying to help him, Rad had been the one to touch hin deeply.

What is the phrase Silver uses? ‘Lyser mused silently as he continued his search. He has “stolen my heart.”

It took twenty minutes to find his missing lover.

Messed brown hair, tan skin, and sweaty gym cloths. By the looks of it, Rad had been working out. Approaching from behind, ‘Lyser watched as Rad’s chest rose and fell. A heated look was set on the teen’s face as he paced beside a baseball field’s first base. Anger rolled off him, his whole frame radiating fury.

Puzzled, ‘Lyser paused a few feet away.

The next moment Rad’s hand launched at the metal holding the chained dome behind him together. Curled into a fist, Rad punched the metal again, and again.

Shocked to see Rad act so violently, it took a moment for ‘Lyser to react.

On Rad’s fourth punch, where he hit the metal so hard his knuckles started to bleed, ‘Lyser snapped back to himself.

“ Rad!” He shouted, crossing the distance that separated them.

Rad wheeled around, startled.

“ ‘Lyser?” He panted. His bloodied knuckle was poised for another strike at the metal, his other hand hanging limping at his side. “ What are you doing here?”

“ You called me, why should I not be here?” ‘Lyser was standing in front of him now. “ Why you are punching a steel pole and inflecting injury upon yourself?”

Rad found his injured hand in his boyfriends. Watched as those golden eyes raked over the wound.

It took a moment for Rad to register what had been asked of him, seeing as ‘Lyser could move so fast that, at times, it was scary. “ It was nothing.”

Concerned eyes leapt up to catch Rad’s blue ones.

“ Nothing caused you to punch a steel pole and injure yourself.” ‘Lyser clarified. “Somehow I do not believe that.”

Rad winced at the deadpan tone.

“ What really caused you to do this, Rad?”

Try as he might, Rad could not force himself to lie. Or jerk his hand out of ‘Lyser’s grasp. Both ideas, however, appealed greatly to him.

“ Honestly, ‘Lyser it was nothing. A small argument, that’s all.” Right. A small argument. Followed by a larger argument. Which lead to a large argument that involved the throwing of hard metal objects.

Concern and disprovement warred inside ‘Lyser. The teen honestly didn’t know wether to chide Rad for hurting himself or hug him because he was in pain. He opted for a third option.

“ Lying is very out of character for you.” He finally stated. Rad blinked rapidly.

How had ‘Lyser seen through him so easily?

Without further statement, ‘Lyser gently released Rad’s hand, then pulled his hoodie off.

An amazing feet, considering the factor that ‘Lyser was still in public, and never took the thing off.

It was a security blanket of sorts.

Rad was gifted a look at ‘Lyser ripped stomach for a brief instant, before a t-shirt fell to cover it. ‘Lyser once again reached for Rad’s injured hand, wrapping his sweater around it.

Rad gapped.

“ Your using your sweater as a Band Aid?”

‘ Lyser shrugged. “ The bleeding has to stop somehow.”

The simplicity of that statement hit Rad hard. He starred at ‘Lyser for a long moment.

Suddenly he was tired, very tired. Needing to sit down, Rad walked over to one of the Coach’s boxes and sank down on the wood bench. He scooted over slightly, allowing ‘Lyser to come sit beside him.

An arm snuck it’s way around Rad’s shoulders. Responding to the touch, Rad sank against ‘Lyser. Just sagged, letting all his weight rest comfortably against the dragon.

“ They were talking.” Rad said, finally coming clean. “Whole group of ‘em. Bashing gay people and being racist in general. That didn’t sit well with the rest of us.” Rad paused, before clarifying. “ The rest of the teens in the gym. We met them in the locker room, told them to knock it off. I guess it wasn’t the brightest thing to do, even if we did have more people on our side.”

‘Lyser nodded.

“ We got into a short fight, nothing dangerous. It was broken up quickly, no one was really injured. What they said though, well I guess it just went to my head. Pissed me off so much I just couldn’t take it.” Rad sighed. Then let a small smile creep on his face. “ Punching a pole probubly wasn’t a good idea.”

“ No.” ‘Lyser agreed. Something was off about the dragon’s tone however, making Rad look up at him.

“ But it is right to stand up for what you believe in.”

Rad’s small smile grew. “ Yeah. It was.”

A comfortable silence followed, only broken when ‘Lyser fidgeted slightly.

“ Why do humans do that?” He asked finally, sitting up from the slouched position he had been in.

“ Do what?” Rad responded, sitting up himself. Turning, Rad moved so he could see his boyfriends face.

“ Keep so little control on there emotions.”

It was such an odd question, one Rad had never been asked before. It drove him to think on the answer, to try and find a way to explain it to his dragon.

“ It’s human nature.” he started slowly.

‘Lyser interrupted. “ But emotion’s get you all in so much trouble. It causes all types of pain and makes you hurt one another.”

The statement was said with such a childlike innocence, with such a boyish face that it was all Rad could do to keep from pouncing on him.

“Humans aren’t the only ones with out of control emotion’s you know. You’ve yet to introduce me to a species that isn’t effected by there emotions. Which includes you.” Rad moved close as he let ‘Lyser digest that.

“ And emotions introduce you to a lot of things. Not just pain , but love, joy, happiness, calmness. So many others life simply could not go without. Besides, true love can only be found with unbridled emotions after all.” Rad breathed the final sentence, before leaning in and kissing his boyfriend softly.

There make out session was interrupted when ‘Lyser murmured; “ Would emotions make you buy me ice cream?”

Rad was no longer able to do anything romantic, he began to laugh much to hard.

--End

Hope you all liked it! --MadScientistMinx