1. Carter

Year 2235

The day Aaron disappeared was the unhappiest day of my life.

My name is Carter, I was soon to graduate from police school. I was assigned to class 3, for superhuman talents and after a little processing I was transferred to the torture department.

It's not like I wanted to be in the torture department, I didn't even want to be a cop, but no one could decide what I wanted to do. Our jobs were assigned after a long study by the seniors, who observed our behaviors and assigned us to the job in which we could perform the least.

It was in class 3 that I met my life partner, Aaron Mark, a boy with talents beyond human talent, a perfect killing machine and someone I would hug when I woke up.

Since a year ago we had decided that we would live together, more because of my sick need for him to stay with me.

My naked body hugged him from behind and when I woke up I had the urge to start moving my hands over his chest, caressing him and feeling every touch of his skin as if for the first time.

"I love you" I said as soon as Aaron opened his eyes and turned around to kiss me.

Aaron stood up as my hands tried to reach for him to ask him to continue kissing me.

"I'm going to go take a bath " Aaron said.

"Why," I asked," we can do this all day."

"No, we can't, I'm meeting Wallace, apparently he's had a problem with his refrigerator and I've offered to help him" Aaron said in his calmest voice.

I felt envious of Wallace. He had been our partner at the academy and every chance he got he would make up some stupid excuse to get close to Aaron, sometimes he wanted to hit him, other times he wanted to take the knife and skin him, I knew Aaron would forgive me for killing his friend, after all I was the most important thing to him.

"You know Wallace only makes excuses to see you, I wouldn't doubt he's ruining his braces himself" I said, standing up and hugging him from behind while we were still naked.

"But at least Wallace pays me, not like the asshole who ripped me off and said he'd pay me soon."

"I'll pay you soon " I said, bringing my lips to his neck and in an instant being able to mark him. But Aaron pulled away to avoid me.

I went to sit on my bed imagining Aaron's naked body on my body.

I stood up and walked to my closet. At least I would ruin Wallace's intentions and accompany Aaron at all times.

I dressed in leather pants and a beige shirt that let my muscles show through the fabric.

Aaron emerged soon after from the bathroom, a towel wrapped around his waist and revealing his slender upper body.

He walked towards his closet with the intention of getting dressed. I could watch as he dropped the towel to leave his body naked and pick out clothes similar to mine.

I walked over to him once he finished changing, he decided to accept my embrace and let me kiss him.

"Don't go with Wallace" I said, " I will give you enough money to buy your toys, we will graduate soon and make good money".

"I'll go" Aaron chided in his calmer voice, " you can wait for me in the workshop, Bill will keep you company".

"You know I hate that stupid robot" I said, then my voice changed to a pleading tone "let me accompany you, Wallace will understand that I am your boyfriend, so he will stop ruining his gadgets".

"And lose the perfect business, I won't, I'm not stupid " said Aaron, " wait for me Carter, I will reward you tonight".

Aaron turned around and kissed me again. I felt my soul being stripped naked in his presence and my body lost in the waters of Olympus. Aaron pulled away as I moved my hands closer to begin caressing him, leaving me to return to the harsh reality of being able to live without him.

"wait for me with Bill" Aaron said reluctantly, it was as if he knew me and knew I was about to do something stupid " watch he's doing his job right, we have to raise the money for this month".

Stupid Bill, I thought, but Aaron was right, Bill was too stupid to do his job right and we were taking up the money.

As Aaron was leaving, I went down to the second floor of the apartment to Aaron's workshop.

I remembered when I moved in with Aaron. It was a small two-story apartment that he used as a workshop. The only thing that wasn't overrun with parts was his bed and the bathroom. With time and help from that stupid robot we convinced Aaron to put everything on the second floor.

I opened the door to the workshop and watched Bill repairing a small air conditioner circuit.

Aaron was brilliant, Bill could be an extraordinary robot, the problem was his lousy personality.

"Master Carter" said Bill as I closed the door to the workshop, " Where is Master Aaron?".

"Shut up Bill, I know very well that you heard everything, did you even like what you heard, do you feel guilty that you can't feel pleasure?".

"No way Master Carter, I am here to serve you and Master Aaron."

"then shut up and do your job, you know what Aaron will do to us if he finds out you have been slacking off."

The robot seemed to flinch when it heard my threat. Aaron was not the most noble and understandable person and that was what fascinated me about him, his evil side made me even more excited.

I walked over to the table and looked at Aaron's orders. They were simple jobs that Bill could do.

I sat in the shop chair and folded my arms, my job was to watch Bill not slack off, it wasn't the best job in the world, but it was what Aaron had ordered me to do I would do what he asked me to do

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Hours passed as I watched the minutes tick by on my cell phone. Sure, a cell phone was something old that wasn't used back then, we all had a chip installed in our heads where we could install apps and install upgrades, but Aaron loved antiques and gave me one as a gift when we started dating.

My mind blurred as I remembered Aaron and I slipped my hand down my pants until the door to the entrance of the apartment started banging.

I stood up, I would punish anyone who had dared to interrupt my thoughts with Aaron if it wasn't important. On the surveillance camera I watched Wallace's face and knew I would enjoy that moment.

I pulled out a switchblade I was hiding in my leather boot and opened the door. Wallace watched me in surprise as our eyes met.

"Wait Carter, you don't understand" Wallace said as I dragged him inside, smashed him to the wall and placed the switchblade over his neck.

"Talk fast " I said to Wallace, feeling the razor begin to work its way through his skin, revealing the first drops of blood.

"It's Aaron, he was supposed to help me fix my refrigerator....".

"The same refrigerator you broke down."

"Does that matter?" said Wallace through tears in his eyes" he's not there, he never came, I tried to reach him, but his tracker stopped working."

My razor seemed to want to advance further into Wallace's neck, but I stopped pushing it. Suddenly I was terrified and realized what was happening.

Without Aaron I was nothing, he couldn't disappear, he was the only thing that mattered to me, the only thing that kept me alive and he couldn't have disappeared.

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