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"I hadn't even thought about the Prime Minister." he said and making a face very similar to Leo's. "Heaven forbid he comment while listening. Hasn't he already done that once?" and nodded at the suggestion. "I'm sure he'd be pleased. Though he'll have to start fighting Hasta and Pasa for them."

The man smiled. "You're quite welcome! I make food for everyone here so if you're hungry I'll cook whatever you want!"

"Sometimes we're allowed to eat at the table with the royal family." Justin explained, "because the food is so good that they want us to taste it while it's still warm and re-heating will ruin the flavor."

"Mostly seafood. And vegetables. You can eat some more."

Justin happily took the plate and ate, offering it to Oliver in case he wanted to eat another one.

"So, Oliver! Will you be helping me cook in the kitchen from now on or doing other things? Justin washes dishes for me.

The hair hugged back, "Could you sniff him out, please? Lord only knows what he's been doing with the President here."

"That is a hard battle to imagine Uncle or Hasta and Pasa." he murmured, watching the crib continue to rock. Did it stop? He was surprised it was still rocking. "You can if you'd like. I'll stay here and keep an eye on the children.You remember the way to the kitchens?" he teased, knowing full well Leo had gone there enough times to have worn a path on the floor.

Saegthin visibly took a step back seeing Oliver's eyes stare before flickering at the surrounding area, wide with panic.

"No! No it's okay!" Justin said quickly, "When we're old enough to become lesser servants we're asked what job we would like to take on and are given options! We're still children so we do menial things like washing dishes or setting the table or even mopping the floors. He's asking if you'd like your job to be assistant cook!" he explained.

"And a lot of our maids and servants have their own duties and my helpers were taken away with the President of Kasp arrived, so I'm in dire need of an assistant. And it can't be Justin he's running off with his girlfriend Princess Emily." and grinned as the boy's face burned a brilliant shade of red.

"Eating?" Kashi asked, looking up at Tsume with concern. The tone of the wolf's voice only worried him more. "Take me to him, Tsume. I need to check on him."

"Of course." Elliot finally decided to flop down on his new bed, sighing, giving a small shift until he was comfortable. "Part of me wishes I didn't need to eat. I wouldn't have to leave my bed and walk. Although I must admit it feels nice to have two legs instead of four. But don't you mean his fruit wraps?"

Saegthin smiled. "Good! We are going to make." he moved around the large kitchen quickly, finding what he needed and brought it back. "Fruit wraps. And I know he doesn't like meat but a few of them are wrapped in meat instead of seaweed, since they both give off the sweet bitter flavor."

"What has the President of Kasp been eating?"

"She has not. Which makes me wonder what she's done to herself this time." he murmured, sliding over a stool for Oliver to stand on. "Watch me do this."

Kashi's stomach plummeted from his body to six feet beneath the floor. Mind altering drugs. The ones that made you dream. The ones that forced you to see. And by the time he reached the door he smelled it, memories of being in Kasp flooding his mind while covering his nose best he could. Glancing at the doorhandle he hesitently grabbed it and pulled it down.

THe inside of the room was smokey, the smell twice as strong from the inside. Papers littered the floor, some having writing covering every spare inch of them until it was nothing but black with freckles of white while others carried badly scribbled drawings or nothing more than a few short sentences. Foods uneaten or discarded lay in their plates, bowls and even in cups, their seeds or inedible parts thrown to the corners of the room. Powders and leaves accompanied their own plates and bowls, some leaves rolled up and partially burnt or remaining as nothing more than piles of ask.

And there was the hare on his bed, wrapped in nothing but a bed sheet with a long pipe protruding lazily from his lips, teeth shown while keeping their light grip on the metal piece. He was writing on the wall now, fingers smudged as black as the graphite he was holding, the lead underneath his finger nails. Hair fell limply down his back, bangs falling just as limp over the spell where a missing eye should be. The bed sheet had been wrapped around his waist revealing a colorful back of reds, blues, purples, sickly greens and yellows.

"Ipo?"

The ears didn't even raise, graphite moving across the wall before he took a deep inhale, lips covering the bit before slowly exhaling the smoke from his mouth.

"Ipo come here." the introvert teen walked forward, grabbing the pipe and gently removing it from his brother's lips.

Ipo snapped his teeth, taking it back into his mouth and looking up at Kashi, fear in his eyes. "If I stop she'll come in here. She knows."

The pupil was dilated to widely and the white now red with veins. "brother, brother you're safe now we're back home."

"She wanted to know. And it's all on fire. And it's all hungry. And it's nothing but metal and silence and this incessant noise! And it's everywhere and it's loud and the elders and the gods have forsaken their lands and he dies. And he dies."

"Who dies, Ipo? Who dies?" There were powders in the lap of the bed sheets mixed with small bits of colorful paper. He knew that drug. That made everything more powerful.

Ipo was sobbing, moving the bedsheet back up to his shoulders and shaking his head. "I need the wolf to show him the gift when it's time. But time is too confusing! I know not whether he will be alive or dead when he needs it!" the pipe fell as he yelled, clinging to the suit and curling, drugs spilling from his lap.

"Ipo! Ipo it's okay? Who dies?"

"I didn't want to put it on his wall..."

Kashi looked at the other curiously before looking across the bedroom, his own bed messy but free of any powders, leaves and colorful paper. It was the wall though that caught his attention. Drawn haphazardly and with great rush was his own death, lines thick and sharp, smudges where Ipo's other hand pressed and moved. But it was his own death, a gaping wound in his chest, eye wide and mouth red with choked blood.

"Oh gods..."

"I tried and I tried and I tried but I got the same end." Ipo cried into the other's lap. "I tried but I GOT THE SAME END!"

Kashi found it hard to speak, forcing himself to swallow before finally looking at Tsume. "F-Find a clean room.... we... he needs this out of his system..."

Elliot shrugged. "The fruit in little seaweed wraps with sweet filling." He described. "You ordered them by the plateful." But Leo sat up instantly, the prince sitting up as well with some curiosity. "Leo?" and with a yank he was on his feet and following behind. "What about Ipo and Kashi? What's wrong?!"

Ipo arched his back as the flaming hot hands touched him, trying to climb out but the wolf wouldn't allow it. "Let go! Let go! It burns!" and gave a violet twist, Kashi there and holding his brother's hand and catching him, moving him back into the man's arms.

"No, no this is for your own good."

"It burns it burns! Make it stop!"

His brother's hand was too thin. How long had they kept him under drugs? The teen glanced over the frail body, sickly, smelling of sick and drugs. Had he himself been like that all those years ago?

Elliot got the water ready as Leo demanded, stepping back as he saw the wolf and hares rush in. "Ipo?!" He looked near-death! "What on earth happened?!" he demanded, knowing the two in front of him could provide answers.

"Nonono please, please don't let them drown me I'm sorry I'll try harder I just need more I'm so sorry please!>" He begged, sobbing towards his brother yet unaware of who it was, grasping and gripping.

Kashi forced Ipo into the bath and held hsi hands tightly. "It's the president! Remember he has my eye so he can see into the future like myself! He's just not as talented as I am, he sees them less frequently. THe President uses these drugs to stimulate our abilities and turn them on and work them. You cannot sleep for days on half the drugs she has put him on. He needs ale, whiskey, something strong to put him to sleep."

Elliot grit his teeth, looking at Ipo before noticing the lack of color in Leo's own skin, his hair dark around the pale face and dark in the water which was clearing. "Leonard." He said, watching a moment longer before realizing what was happening. "Tsume get Ipo out of the tub!" And moved, prying Leo from the still sobbing Ipo and pulling him out, grabbing a towel. "Leonard you should know not to pull that into your body!"

Kashi grabbed a towel for Ipo, quickly drying him off. "I know somewhere we can put him. He'll have to sweat it out. It's going to be nasty. I'll carry him, Tsume. I need you to find lots of clean water, lots of towels and bed sheets. It's going to be a very long night."

"'Kasp' is a country created by the White-Wings which floats in the sky. 'Kaspians' are a winged race regardless of wing color. However those who live on Kasp speak differently since many of us colored wings live south in Pathera, so we're Patherans according to them. But Kasp the country is run entirely by white wings who are cruel to their elder, though rumor has it they don't have one. They use dark magic and science to create impossible things. The winged race is one of the few races born without any abilities whatsoever, because it is said our elder gifted us with the ability of flight and that we deserved nothing else." He finished making the food and smiled, offering it to Oliver. "See? Simple."

"You're still having your bouts of exhaustion!" Elliot exclaimed. "You'll need more than a couple of hours you'll need a whole day!" he hugged the other tight. "You are worrying me with these episodes of life and death." and lifted him, walking him back to the room.

Kashi nodded, moving upstairs and down one of the older halls, opening a door. "Here." It was a guest room and he pulled back the thick sheets before going to the fireplace, flicking the metal against each other before starting a fire on the grass. He placed it quickly underneath some dry branches, larger logs being put on top of it.

"I want my brother. I want my brother. When is he coming back from Reta?" He asked, curling in the bed and holding his nude frame.

Saegthin chuckled and took it, placing it on the platter. "There is no need. He'll eat them regardless. Just make more. Redoing it doesn't make you better because you're trying to fix a flaw which is already permanent. I find it charming, actually. I remember when I first tried to cook I knicked off a piece of my thumb with a knife. Another time I was tenderizing meat and crushed my thumb. No more thumbnail." and showed Oliver. "But I got better. Some things you can fix but these are fruit rolls. Small, simple, no need to fix them."

"I'm your husband of course I noticed." he said, kissing the top of Leo's head before entering the room and placing his lover on the bed. He went to check on the babes and stared at the man in the crib. "I would speak things but there are children present." he muttered, pulling the crib and letting go, letting it rock with new vigor before going back. "The Prime Minister is sleeping." he whispered before giving a small laugh. "Let's get you out of your wet clothes. Let me find you some dry ones."

The panicked eye looked at Tsume as he spoke before shoving his face away and looking around and looking at Kashi, nearly clawing at him before Kashi was dragged into the bed, shoes and all, his brother clinging tightly to him.

"I'm sorry. I got the same end for you. I tried not to. I tried to get a different one."

When you tried to avoid a future, that avoidance ended up causing it. "It's okay. I'm not dead yet." but the fact that now Kashi and Tsume had seen this future along with Guinevere, the chances had raised significantly that it would happen, and that frightened him. "Tsume, can you fetch the things I asked for? I don't think he'll be letting go of me anytime soon." and smiled at his friend.

The man smiled as Oliver tried again with a new piece. "Perhaps. But it's been like this since I was a child so the chances of this one are very slim. Plus it's fun to poke people with." A loud clatter caught his attention and he looked up at Justin who had, thank the gods, dropped a metal plate. "Are you all right?"

"Hands slipped while washing."

"Wash it again.

Elliot threw the clothes by the door, fetching new ones and sliding them over the body. "There we go. That should feel more comfortable." but Leo's face contorted to horror and Elliot looked from his love to the crib which was still swaying. "No, Leo he's dead!" And grabbed him by the waist. "You've taken drugs which meddle with the mind. Lewis!" He shouted, now focused on keeping Leo in his grip and needing to wake up his uncle.

Kashi took the rag and barely touched Ipo's head with it before the twin hissed and tried to curl away from it. "Ipo you need this don't struggle!"

"It stings!"

"It's water!" And sighed. Hypersensitive skin. Damn that woman. "Hold your breath." But held his hand over Ipo's nose and mouth regardless, the male quickly trying to move as Kashi placed it over his head. "You're not going to move this okay?" and watched his brother pitifully nod before letting go. Ipo took this chance now to whimper apologies, clinging to Kashi.

"Tsume this really hurts." Kashi whispered. "It hurts because he's not used to it." But then again, would his own body be used to it after so many years? "I don't like this why would she do it to him? He's her favorite so why would she do it to him?"

"Both of you boys." Saegthin said as Justin picked up the metal plate, Oliver quickly standing back up on the stool. "You fell at a bad angle." it actually looked like he'd been about to avoid something but twisted and fell off. The man stared as Oliver seemed to nearly stand the same as before.

Nearly.

"Poke." and pushed his finger where he assumed a bruise would be. And god this kid was bony, aside from needing to fatten up Leonard now he had Oliver on his hands.

The immediate screaming from the twins made the father quickly regret his decision. "You're not okay they're still in your system." Elliot said, following Leo to the crib. "Because they're that strong I--No, Uncle, I did not drug Leo and Ipo. We found Ipo with every mind messing drug known to man and Tsume and Kashi went to help him. Leo," he looked back at the Falian. "This is going to sound awful but I'm preparing for the worst. I want Lewis to take Rin and Yuki to his and Father's room, yes you can take the crib with you, because I do not want you doing something you'd regret while those drugs are still in your system."

Kashi leaned against the wolf, stroking his brother's hair. "She used to put me on so many drugs. Some drugs you've never even seen in this time. Those little bits of paper are actually one of them. Smaller than your fingernails and I would lose track of time nearly the instant it touched my tongue. She'd leave mushrooms on plates for when I got hungry from another drug a leaf. I've been near death a few times before she finally started testong how far she could push me without killing me." the clone moved in his arms, mumbling about the heat and starting to kick off the blanket before stopping. "I would give him whiskey, but he might die. His heart rate is moving so fast."

"Yes you can." And lifted the boy by grabbing under his arms, stretching a wing to push back some things on the counter before sitting him down carefully on the free space. "There we go. That should be less painful."

"I'm done washing."

"All right. Don't go down the main corridor the President is staying there."

"Yes sir. Have a good night! Good night Oliver!"