♤SPRING SHIELD (MxM) ~fantasy~♤

Code Red

He slips past me as I'm in state of shock.

I'm not a jerk. Never ever been a jerk. Never will be a jerk.
He pulls his belongings from the car and starts to walk out into the spread of drive through with immense speed.
"Kristian-"I call out to him,he turns on his heel and faces me,

"I know who I am!"he yells loudly coming to face me,"I know where I am all the time!"A pause,as he sucks in a breath,"I'm not a coconut!"Coconut?

"I never-"

"Brent said he agrees,so you're welcome,Mr Lewis. Get your car out of the way so I can leave,please."
"I can-"
"You know what forget it,goodnight,sir."and he leaves me alone with a feeling that I shouldn't have done that.

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"Who was that man outside just now?"my mother asks me,after she appeared from nowhere like always. Claiming she wanted to see her grandchildren but she really just wanted to spy on me and send word back to my dad in his casket.
"My assistant?"
"You were having a couples quarrel with your subordinate?"she questions me,shocked as she sits down where both my children poke at their plates silently. Clearly upset with me. I glare at her ever so slightly that it can't be considered a glare.
She notices anyway and sips her tea like the British woman she is. Born of class and high status,she met my father approximately one hundred years ago at Oxford. He was visiting and decided to take a travel happy girlfriend back,she soon became a wife.
She's always been royalty in her own silently elegant way. Beautiful,graceful and an Iron fist. That's how she raised me,her only child and son. Not as hardcore as my dad but still tough. A part of me always thinks that he choose her because of her ways of being kind in all the right ways,because he knew deep down his methods would eventually break a child.
"No,mother. If I had a partner I would never speak so harshly to them."
"So you knew that it was bit on the nose,didn't you?"I groan and nearly wail like a child,the only thing that's stopping me is being a bad example. "A good king knows when to be kind. Your father,as harsh as he was did that."Ever since my father died in my mid twenties,everyone,even my mother compared me to him. In mourning or simple disbelief that I could ever amount to him.
I'm completely used to it now. But it still stings that pieces of news are still about that.
"He did something I didn't want him to. I had the right."
"You should've known when to stop."she counters as I place my fork down,I know to reason with my mother but to argue is something I have always known better than to do.
Not today.
"He picked my kids up from school when I told him not to."I say with stern face,like I'm pleading. I guess I feel the need to defend myself so fiercely because deep down I also think I went a little too far.
"But he didn't do anything though! He only picked us up..."Oliver speaks up out of nowhere,"Can you please not fire him?"he tells me.
I had a feeling it would come to this. Sides getting picked. Favourism that should belong to me getting handed over to some stranger.
My hand locks over my fork,the stainless steel digging into my palm. "I didn't release him from his title,I just told him what he did wrong-"
"But he didn't do anything wrong-"
"ENOUGH!"my hand slams against the kitchen island making utensils terrible from where they lie,"You will not make a habit of defying my reasoning,Oliver Lewis. Go to your room and reflect upon your actions."
After a moment of silence he picks up his plate and places it in the sink before scurrying away. Liam witnesses his brother running up the stairs and promptly rolls his eyes before sluggishly following him.
I break out of my rage and look around watching the plants that abruptly grew in the wake of my frustration. Moss climbing up wall,weeds winding through the lines in the tiles and vines clouding the windows. "See? When a god gets angry this is what becomes of the world around him,learn to be calm,Elijah."my mother implores me and I sigh before making the plants turn to seeds again with a flick of my wrist,
"I am calm."I mutter self-consciously,
"Who is this boy anyway? I've seen you yell about Natalie or David but it's never this loud and frustrated. If he can make you yell at even your precious little boys."she says squinting at me like I'm hiding something from her.
I won't be bold and say that I tell my mother everything because I don't. She finds out herself by digging things up. Without an answer she groans,
"Goodness sake,Elijah,what's his name at the very least?!"
"Kristian... Kristian White."
"What is he to you?"
"He's my assistant from R&D to help me with the home security project."
"Is he so important that you can't find anyone else?"this one takes me a second to think about,considering all his achievements replacement isn't viable since I've yet to reap the benefits of our agreement.
"Yes,I can't."I say before taking the plates off the table and dumping them into the sink and running off up the stairs,through the corridor until I reach the colourful door that is their room.
Obviously,as a father I always thought they should have their own spaces but after a year full of nightmare complaints and sightings of demons that came in shadows,I placed them together. It was merely a temporary solution that lasted longer than it should have,besides they're okay with it despite how much they fight.
I knock on the door and hear no response except shuffling,frantic whispers that tell me they were planning something. I wait for the sound of drawers being shut and things being hidden before knocking again,"Come in."a muffler voice allows and I open the door,to find Oliver curled up on his bed and Liam adjacent playing with his trinkets.
"Am I welcome?"
"Not really,Dad."Liam says,his lips in a serious line his shoulders slumped and eyes averted,
"But you can still come in,though."Oliver tells me fidgeting with his silk pajama set,his head down,
"Oli! You said you wouldn't!"Liam protests putting his trinkets down to frown at his brother,
"But he's probably here to say sorry..."
"Even if he is,he's a liar,he said he wouldn't be like grandpa and yell at us!"this is like a needle to my heart when Liam says it. He might be a little- well a lot sassy and full of attitude but he's just a kid. I watch as his eyes pool,he struggles to keep his tears in.
I get down to his level and sigh,"I did yell,and I shouldn't have. None of your fault it's mine,but I didn't lie I will never be like how my dad was. Promise."I emphasise the never because its true. The two of them are like the light of my life and I'd walk through shattered glass before I let them get close to danger.
"So you're sorry?"Oliver asks me grabbing pillows from his bed and joining us on the rug were sitting on,
"I am,very,very sorry."I say to the both of them,"For today,for the day at the event. There's no excuse for me."
"It's okay we forgive you."Oliver says to me,resting his head on my shoulder while Liam continues to frown with his arms crossed.
"What can I do to make it up to you?"I say wrapping my arm around the both of them and pulling them close,their presence is familiar,comforting and for me it's never stressful. I've learnt that I don't want any breaks from them,forty-eight hours away and I start to experience adverse effects.
I watch as they exchange looks with each other,before nodding. "Bedtime stories."
"Plural?"I ask putting two fingers up,and Liam shakes his head,
"Nope,three."He says with four fingers up and quickly changing to three. I chuckle because the most they've ever gotten to is one and half stories before falling asleep. I nod like I don't know this fact.
Slowly,I get up to take a book from a near by shelf before I'm pulled right down. "We want one from here."Oliver says pointing at my head with his tiny pinkie.
"Fine."I say getting up from the floor and sitting on Oliver's bed facing the edge. My legs hang almost three quarters off it due it's size,just like every night I'm here. Liam sits to my right,and Oliver to my left. With both their heads rested on my each of my shoulders. I start and half way through the story they fall asleep.
Safe to say no records have been set today.