by Alara Rogers
Aite
is a Japanese word meaning literally "the other hand", and can be translated as either "opponent" or "partner."While there have since been several stories pairing Joe and Katse, Aite was one of the first, originally published in Bird Scramble! APA in 1991-1993. The story does not contain graphic sex, but does contain an incredible amount of angst and pain, both physical and emotional. If you don't like to read such stuff, don't read this.