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Ben and Nik

Ben was once a vice cop who did what he had to so he could protect those on the street and in homes where children weren't looked after. Niklaus started on a drug task force where he had a bad habit of being around dealers who found themselves broken and busted when they went too near schools.

The two ran into one another on a case when both were undercover on two cases that became one. It had been the start of a beautiful partnership.

Eventually they were transferred to a private taskforce where the Chief of Police though their new captain could keep them under control. At least a little.

It didn't work though.

Perps that wiggled their way out of a conviction weren't seen again. People they couldn't make a case against were suddenly turning themselves in. When they were targeted for the Ravens, their captain had given them an ultimatum. Retired of prosecution. They chose the third option.

It's been a year. They've been through conditioning and medical procedures and chemical transformations to turn them into the ultimate soldiers. Though it hadn't been hard. Neither had come with a conscience. Neither knew what fear was and the thrived on pain. They were made for this program, even before the program remade them.

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He stood over the open trunk, considering. Within was a lot of things they might use, including a shovel and other items.

"I do, but do you want to wrap them or just dig us a shallow grave here and dump in the lye and order a planting of endangered plants?"

He considered the options. “The second,” he says, nodding once. “It’s perfect.”

Though he expected nothing less from Nik. He reached in for the shovel and an empty bag to place his clothes onto once they were done.

"I watched for roadkill on the way but didn't pan out. A body on top of a body is always the best."

So if a dog was brought in and alerted, it would end the search. He liked animals more than people though, so if he couldn't find one already gone, he wasn't making it happen.

He shrugs out of his coat, moving to get out a folding shovel to help out. No reason to make it take more time than it should. He slide into a yellow reflective vest he keeps in the trunk as well, making it look like they were on a road crew.

"That's disappointing," Ben says but he wasn't about to make the body of an animal appear. Like Nik, he found animals to be better than 98% of people on any given day so he was not likely to go make a body happen.

"How soon can we get endangered plants delivered and planted," he asks, shrugging on one of the vests and leading Nik to the body.

"Guess we can't have everything we want," he says with a long, drawn out sigh and a smirk even as they got closer to the body.

"I know someone about an hour out or so. By the end of the weekend it will look like they've always been there. Something native and protected. I've found it's a useful friend to have around here."

"We could but requires something like precognition which has, despite my best efforts and that of the government, eluded me," Ben says dryly but with a little smirk.

He nods when Nik says he has someone. "Great. That is a very useful someone to know about," he agrees and stops when they get to the body of the mutilated man. Adonis had not gone easy on him but any person who went after children or animals got the brunt of his anger.

"You would think with all they put is through it might have given us that. Wasn't that what the government was trying to do in the Seventies?"

Which he knew was the truth, and he hadn't thought it was entirely impossible.

Nik stares at the body for a long moment, head canting to one side. "Wow, you had fun without me, didn't you?"

"They were," he agrees. "Some were more successful than others." Or so he's heard through the 'unofficial' grapevine.

Adonis leans against the shovel as he stares at the body with a flat expression. "I would have called you but you were in that meeting... I didn't need to be yelled at yet again for taking matters in my own hands if they got wind of it."

"And yet you have no precognition. I feel you were cheated," he teases, but he glances at him with a small smile even as they work.

He nods though at that, pausing to look at Ben where he stands.

"They won't know a thing," he says, giving him a hard look, promising with that look. "We'll take care of it. Besides, if we're not getting yelled at, are we doing anything right?"

"I really was," he agrees, shooting a little smile at Nik as they work on burying the body. "Suppose it's only right though, imagine what we'd accomplish or what hell we'd raise if one of us had precognition."

He looks at Nik and nods, recognizing the hard look for what it was. He snorts at the question. "No, I suppose not. This is probably why we're the only pairing to remain stateside. Indefinitely."

"I wanted like super speed. Or strength," he admits, shrugging. "Guess I'll just keep working out."

And it wasn't as if he didn't. He definitely showed it through his shoulders and his abs.

He can't help but laugh at that. "Awww, you bothered we're grounded stateside?" He sure as hell didn't sound like he was.

"And here I thought you already had super strength," he says with a teasing look. It wasn't like they didn't spend a couple of hours a day in the gym as it was.

It wasn't exactly like it was purely a choice. They had a regiment they had to follow for the program but Adonis couldn't deny that he liked it.

He considers Nik's teasing for a moment before shaking his head. "No, not bothered. I live for their snide remarks about how we get in more trouble than others who are in other countries."

"I have amazing strength, not super."

He's grinning though and he can't help himself. He looked good and he is glad for that. He's glad that Ben noticed as well. He's sexy as hell, especially that smile.

"Blah blah, you're not like Meridian. Blah blah, could you be more like the Point and Forger?" He rolls his eyes as he keeps digging. "Wait until those children in the International crossover team get in trouble. It'll be all over the newspaper."

"You have more strength than most men," Ben shrugs. They both did, due to hard work. And he could admit to himself that he found the other man, his partner, sexy as hell.

He snorts. "Exactly," he says, shooting him an amused look. "It's only a matter of time before they end up all over the news, then they won't be the golden children." They would never be the golden children and Adonis was perfectly fine with that.

"They only have themselves to blame. They came to us - we didn't go to them."

"That you admitting you've been checking me out, Adonis?" He drawls out the name, teasing him, but damn he really does live up to his name.

"You want to bet? I mean, come on. They're blessed from birth and you think they won't cause an international scandal and won't still be loved? Please."

He snorts, rolling his eyes.

He laughs at that though. "We're good at what we do. We just do things like this too," he says, indicating the body before them.

"I have eyes and can see perfectly well what's in front of me, Theseus" he says, giving Nik a look but he knows he's only teasing him. Still, he was telling the truth. Nik was attractive and he had been checking him out.

He cocks his head as he considers that, digging down further. "Fair," he admits. "They have connections on their end." Can he even fault the finicky public? Probably.

"We're doing the community a favor," he says dryly. "It's practically community service to take out the trash, isn't it?"

"Keep it up and I'll think you're flirting with me," he points out, pausing to look at him for a moment.

He snorts at that. "Connections and they look like child aged super models." He pauses before adding. "You think they're hooking up?"

That makes him laugh. "Literally community service."

Adonis meets his gaze before looking the other man over for a moment before raising his gaze back to his. "Wouldn't be the first time, would it?"

"Probably," he says to Nik's question about whether the two supermodels were hooking up. "They'd be missing a prime opportunity if they weren't."

"They really should be thanking us for doing a job no one else is doing." Because Adonis knows it's not just him who has done this thing before. Nik has as well.

Nik thinks about that for a moment. No, actually it wasn't the first time. Wasn't even like it hadn't become second nature. But when those words come with that gaze, Nik feels it through his entire body like electricity along the nerve endings of his body.

There they are, standing over a dead body that could get them thrown out of the program and into federal prison and Nik isn't thinking about anything but the beauty of Adonis' mouth and the knowledge that he's the reason for the corpse between them and he thinks that is sex as hell.

"When you think about flirting for real, let me know."

They hadn't talked about the growing attraction between them, or he hadn't been sure it was growing between them. Now it's hitting him that it definitely is.

"They should. Not like the royal children are going to do it. Hell not even their golden children of Ex and Meridian who just went off the grid to do who knows what aren't doing it."

Not that he knew they had, but that had been personal and not like theirs.

"Hm, does burying a body count as flirting," Adonis asks Nik out of curiosity before shooting him a teasing look. "But you can be assured that you'll be the first to know."

The only one to know, if he was honest.

He'd grown attracted to the other man. Okay, that's not correct. He was always physically attracted to him. Like he said, he had two eyes and could see what was in front of him. Still, crossing that line was a step in their business.

And he liked him more than simply someone attractive to look at or someone who knew how to kill and dismember the garbage person who didn't deserve to breathe.

"I'm sure if we even mention it, we'd be told they are taking out even worse people out there," he says with a roll of his eyes.

"From you?"

He leaned on his shovel, considering Ben for a moment. He was cute, sure, but there was a sensualness to him that Nik knew he was attracted to. More than that, he was handsome because the cute smile hid so much that Nik thought was sex and attractive.

"Worse than those that attack children? Really?"

He rolls his eyes. "They just don't like their little drugs and games didn't do anything to us. Not what they thought it was."

They were both already psychopaths. They couldn't twist them more.

"So... back to this flirting thing. You're serious or just fucking with my head?"

It was them. He had to check.

Adonis watches Nik lean against his shovel while he continues digging the hole and snorts at what he assumes is a rhetorical question.

"So they say," he says flippantly. "No probably not. They really should have done some better homework."

He considers Nik's question about whether he was serious about flirting or just fucking with him. If it was anyone else, he would be fucking with them unrepentantly. Nik was different.

"Serious."

Nik doesn't answer that right away. Instead moving to keep digging the rest of the grave that they were nearly done with.

"It worked on others they consider psychopaths but the truth? I don't think it does. Sociopaths, sure, but not psychopaths," he says, not denying it's what he is and what his life is. Nor that he doesn't think that he and Ben are on the same level.

"You're the only person I know who would seriously flirt with me over a corpse." He pauses a moment before adding. "I like it."

Adonis nods in agreement. "With all of the world class psychologists, therapists and doctors on the payroll, you'd think they'd know better," he says dryly.

He doesn't deny nor attempt to argue that he was as much of a psychopath as Nik was. Honestly, why try to deny it or pretend? After this long? There was no need.

"I find it hard to believe that of all the people you know, I'm the only one. It seems like a normal thing to do," he says, sending Nik a teasing smirk. "So murder is your... what do they call them, love language?" Not that he knows really what love would be like or feel like.

"They're still judging on the standard shit. They don't think outside the box. They don't know why Meridian was made like he is, but they kept trying. They got a lot of teams to do the work but Nik knew he wasn't who they thought he would be.

But he'd prove he was the soldier he was meant to be.

"Most don't like to be this close to a grave with me. You know where you stand with me though, don't you?" He grins though at that question. "What? Are you saying it's not yours? That I came immediately when you called, ready to desecrate a corpse and bury a body?"

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