Haunt Me, Weiss (MxM)

What Are You? (1)

Chapter 7: What Are You? (1)

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Days later...

‘What is he?’ Weiss couldn’t help but wonder, the more he looked at Ezikiel the more he thought the man was out of this earth. There was definitely something particular about him but he couldn’t understand what exactly.

“Stare at me a bit more and I just might hit you again.” Ezikiel threatened, he was still aggravated because of what happened with Astar a few days ago. ‘The boss hadn’t even called me since to ask for the next quarter’s report...’ He thought to himself, worried.

“Stop being so aggressive, I basically helped you understand your boss better, or maybe it was the other way around?” Weiss wondered to himself, it was hard to tell if he really did mean it or he was simply being sarcastic.

“All you did was force my unwilling boss to kiss me and pin me against the wall...” Ezikiel spoke with an uncaring voice but you could tell he wasn’t indifferent to what happened. “Ugh... I think I’m going to have nightmares now...” He growled in pain while turning the next page of the report he was still working on.

“You mean wet dreams, right?” Weiss asked as he backed away, afraid he’d get hit again.

“I don’t like him like that...” Ezikiel said in an unbothered calm toned voice. “And if you mention it once more I might as well make a ritual to kick you out or something.” He warned the ghost.

“Why you’re so pressed? I’m just a ghost you know... I’m not bothering you too much~” Weiss said as he popped out his head from beneath the desk the man was working on. “You don’t need to be so angry with me over nothing...” He said in an almost pleading manner.

“Anyone would be in my place.” Ezikiel sighed heavily, he was feeling irritated all over again but continued working unbothered.

“That’s true, but you’re different than most humans out there.” Weiss shrugged his shoulders as he admitted. “I’ve never quite seen someone like you, and here I thought I’d seen everything.”

“Different how?” Ezikiel asked as he put his work documents away and turned to the ghost who was casually floating around again.

“You can see and hear me clearly... You can even touch me and force me out of the body of a host I’ve possessed. There aren’t many ordinary humans that can do that... if any...” Weiss explained as a pair of thick framed glasses appeared on his face, then there was a nearly transparent desk and chalk board behind him. “As you may see here, there are many types of humans that can connect with the spirit world...”

Weiss began drawing a graph where he put “Ordinary humans” at the very bottom and the rest were like tree branches connecting to each other through lines.

“If we say that roughly 90% of people on earth have absolutely no spiritual abilities, we’re left over with about 10% that have some kind of spiritual involvement... That can be anything from possessing charms that are spiritually charged or other such items left from spiritual people... but those only make up about half of the remaining of that 10% population...” He drew on the board as he explained.

“Then there is about 3% of what’s left after that, that are capable of some type of medium or connection to the spirit realm... Imagine them as fortune tellers, espers, people with psychic powers and so on so forth...” Weiss drew a thick line between them. “And then there are those people that can connect with the spirit world directly... like witches, spell casters...”

Weiss finished the graph and turned around. “And then there are those like me that are part of the spiritual world itself... Ghosts, ghouls, vampires, fairies, werewolves, demons, angels... Those are the ones that exist because of human involvement. On the very bridge of being alive and dead... We can’t go to the eternal world but we’re not part of the living either, although we do exist among humans...”

“Wait... you’re trying to tell me that it’s not only ghosts that exist?” Ezikiel asked as he moved closer to observe the chalk board and glance over at the tree branches. “There are more things like you?”

“Yeah, that’s exactly what I said~” Weiss dusted off all the things he’d written on the board then made it disappear. “The thing is... there are people in this world that can see spirits and such but you... what are you exactly?” He asked while floating above the man’s head and sitting down on top of the man’s desk.

“A human.” Ezikiel replied with absolutely no hesitation in his voice.

“I know that but what kind of human?” Weiss asked as he sighed, thinking the other hadn’t understood his question.

“A normal one...” Ezikiel said while walking past the ghost and heading to the kitchen.

“Far from it!” Weiss remarked while following after him. “I’ve never seen a human like you before! You didn’t even show any signs of fear or even surprise when you saw me for the first time. How could you possibly call yourself a normal human?!” He asked, obviously becoming a bit irritated by the man.

“Yes, I do, now f**k off, I don’t want to see you for a while...” Ezikiel said while walking back to his desk to start his next assignment. ‘Because of him I’m having trouble with Aster.... and it might cost me my job, if not worse...’ He thought to himself as he sat down working.

“Oh, so we're going to insult each other, huh? Then f**k you too Ezikiel! Damn you have a stupid name...” Weiss remarked as his insult didn’t seem to have the impact it wanted it to at that moment.

“Not as stupid as ‘Weiss’, where did you even come up with that? You sound like a low fat milk brand.” Ezikiel said as he gestured with his hand for the man to leave him alone but Weiss persisted non the less.

“That so?!” Weiss seemed irritated. “And your name sounds like an unaccomplished scientist from the 50-ties!” He yelled while standing right in front of the man, not allowing him to get to his desk.

“What are you even talking about?” Ezikiel asked, confused as he sighed rather loudly at the ghost’s unreasonable behavior.

“I don't know!” Weiss admitted as he crossed his hands, he was still getting in the other man’s way. “And I don’t understand why you’re so annoyed with me!”

“Why?” Ezikiel stood up and grabbed the ghost by his transparent shoulder. “Aster remembers everything that happened and what’s more he knows about your existence which will open an entire other can of worms! Are you such an air head that you can’t even understand this?”

“Well, of course I’m an air head! I’m all air! I don’t even have a head. How was I supposed to know he’d remember?! None of the rest of the human’s I’ve ever possessed remembered anything!” Weiss explained as he yelled at the man. “He might have some spiritual involvement that we don’t know off and that’s why he was able to remember!”

“f**k your spiritual bullshit, I want you out of my home!” Ezikiel said with a stern voice that suited him far too well as he adjusted his thick framed glasses.

“Reall!? Well...” Weiss crossed his transparent arms with a smug expression on his face. “Make me!”

Ezikiel on the other hand didn’t hesitate to grab the ghost and bring him outside his home, he then slammed the door shut.

“He actually made me... fuck...” Weiss muttered to himself as he circled around the house, he was going to come back through the wall but then. “Huh? I can’t... pass through...” It was odd, his arms should have been able to pass through any solid object easily, nothing should be stopping him from going back inside the house, yet he couldn’t...

“Am I... really locked outside?!” Weiss wondered to himself as he tried going though a window, then another door, then a wall, nothing, it was like there was a barrier not allowing him to enter the house he was supposed to be haunting!