Chapter 329: I know we should be talking, but...
"Should we...tell the other Captains about this?" Kellen asked Rhys.
It was long after their meeting Lieutenant Fisher. Charlie had responded well to meeting the other man, especially with the candy in his mouth, and Hill, despite the candy in her mouth, was threatening enough that Kellen and Rhys didn’t have to do anything.
Kellen felt a little bad that Hill had been an unintentional test subject to Charlie’s powers. Without their knowing, they had given her over to an S Class Guide. They were known for being almost like a drug, and they had handed Hill over to him on a silver platter. Kellen wouldn’t lie and say he wasn’t happy that Rhys hadn’t offered his help in that way.
Kellen didn’t want to know how it felt to see Rhys get possessive over someone else while he was around. Imagining it almost made him sick to his stomach.
Rhys sighed, shifting, pulling Kellen closer against him. They were lying down on the couch in Kellen’s apartment, with Kellen on Rhys’ chest, his body along his. Rhys put his free hand behind his head, looking thoughtfully towards the large window looking over them.
"I think that would be a terrible idea." Rhys remarked, and Kellen tilted his head, watching him.
"Why?" He asked, wanting to know what he was thinking. Rhys sighed.
"We already saw how Hill reacted this evening, and she’s only an A Class. I do not want to know what Sakura or Sergei would be like after a taste of Charlie. I know it sounds a little...crude, but that’s the fact of it. A single drop of an S Class Guide could be like the sweetest poison to them. I would rather keep Charlie as a secret, even telling them a fake story, or even his original origins. Both would have great sympathy towards him if they found that out, and wouldn’t need to know his Class." Kellen nodded. He did agree with Rhys, he just wanted to know that they were on the same wavelength.
"Yeah. I would rather if Charlie wanted to make that decision, that he was able to. Not forced to do so. So...we tell them we found a Guide from Guiding Center C who was being overworked, I gave them my card, they came to the Guild and after being taken care of by my parents, we found out that they were from a child trafficking ring, or at least assumed so?" Kellen suggested and Rhys bent, pressing a kiss against his forehead absently.