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CHAPTER 9
Loki was beginning to believe that he would never get through to the two that were with him, at least not without showing much more patience. Oh well, that was the one thing that he had gleamed over the more that two thousand years he had lived as an outcast. "You stare at me so Amy, what is it that you wish to ask?"
The girl just looked at him, fear and burning pain in her eyes. "I, I hurt Master."
Then it dawned on Loki. The child was near starving. They both were. "If I offered you blood, Amy, would that go to help ease your fears? Come here, lean against me while I feed you." He did as he had done so often with his own pets. He gathered her into his lap, ripping at his wrist with his fangs. "Drink, precious," he closed his eyes at the feel of her mouth on his wrist. "Forgive me. I had forgotten that the two of you were so badly treated that the beast would have denied you even this."
The girl showed no shyness as she drank from his wrist, finally able to cool the burning that had been eating at her guts for almost a week.
"Again?" he pulled his hand away, only long enough to reopen the vein at his wrist, before looking up at the boy, a soft almost distant look. "And you, Kyle, pet, if she is in this state, how fare you?"
The boy looked at him, then to Amy that leaned against him, his wrist against her mouth. "You mean this? What do we have to do for it?" He wasn't as willing to trust as Amy was; he had been Garren's 'pet' for several months longer than she had. He shyly reached down and grabbed himself, and then reached for Loki's hand, bringing it to his trembling loins. "Is this what you want me to do for it, Master?" He whispered.
Loki would have answered him, wanted to protest, but the child in his arms leaned back against him, head lifting to meet his lips. She was willing, for now, to be with him. "Soon, I promise." He kissed her once more before looking to Kyle. "Stop it, Kyle." He squeezed both Kyle's fingers and the trembling maleness that was being offered, gently before pulling away. "I don't want you to do that, child. You don't understand. I only want to help take care of you, to make up for what that monster did to you both. Do I enjoy touching you, oh yes, and will do so often. But not like this, it is not something that you have to do, and never just to be fed."
"He only blood bonded us so that we could not live without him, or any vampire." Kyle shook under Loki's intent gaze. "Please Master, what is it you want me to do for you, how do you want me to earn your blood?"
Again emotions that raged up in him, sending him seeking help that only Azrael had been able to give so far, but with him, or so he thought, gone, would undo him.
* No little Brother, not now, I am here, I will safeguard your soul. * Azrael's mind touched his, and with it, he felt control returning.
"Kyle," Loki opened his eyes, locking stares with the boy. "I am going to say this, just one more time. I will not starve you, and I most assuredly will not, demand you do anything, other than try to believe me, when I tell you I am not like that breast that abused you both so. All I ask is that you try to trust me enough to let me prove how wrong he was, and how safe the both of you are now." He gently pushed Amy from him lap. "Like now, If I offered you my blood, would you come here, trust me to give it to you, free from pain?"
The boy moved slowly. Ever aware of how quickly this one could change on him. "This what you want?" He let himself be pulled up into the safety of outstretched arms. "Am I doing what you want, Master?"
"Yes, child, that is what I want you to do." Again the flash of fangs as he ripped his wrist open to offer it, yet again, to a starving child. Pulling back, only long enough to open the wound again, before offering Kyle his bloodied wrist, one more time. "There, do your need more?" He smiled down at the confused youth as the boy pulled away, trying to understand why he was willing to kiss and be held like this by this one. "I mean it, I'm old enough that the little bit that you are taking from me, I can survive without, or will see if I can feed on those other than the two of your, to replace."
Again that, now rapidly becoming familiar touch, of a mind on his drew his attention. * There is no way that you can give them what they need, feeding them that way. Draw your own blood and pass it to them. If they are willing to kiss you, they will see how rapidly you reward them. * Azrael's mind touched his with an offer of help.
* Thank you. *
* They are not the first badly abused pets I have dealt with in my time. Any help I can offer is their just due. And yes, I will see that you not suffer while you wait for them to heal. *
Loki looked back at his two. "Answer me this, if I was willing to bleed for you, will you accept my blood, how ever, I offer it?" He touched Kyle's cheek. "Trust me, remember, I have not harmed your or your little friend here."
Kyle looked at him closely. "If I," he stopped. He closed his eyes, willing down his fear. "Yes, Master."
Loki bit his wrist, drawing blood into his mouth, before bending to kiss the boy. Feeding him as much with the blood as with the affection he offered.
The boy pressed against him, mouth hot and open as the blood was passed to him, tongue seeking to gather all traces of it from Loki's mouth.
Three more times did Loki offer the boy his blood in this fashion, and three more times did he find the boy willing and ready to accept it. "Enough, Kyle," he kissed him, feeling the boys body tremble in his arms. "Hush, I'm not mad at you. Would that I could, I would like nothing more than to take this to where it leads, but, Amy needs me too."
"Thank you, Master." Kyle lifted his head, daring to kiss Loki before letting his master push him from his lap. "Anything you demand, anything at all. I'll gladly give you." This time Kyle reached for Loki's erection, caressing it shyly. "You won't have to make me do anything." His lips were light as he freely kissed Loki. "I swear it Master, anything, I will do it."
Loki shook his head. Hands reaching down to cup Kyle's face. "I am not going to make you do anything Kyle." He bent to kiss the boy. Yes he still had to care for Amy, but he would not push the boy away. "Other than perhaps tell you to finish your bath while I attend to Amy." Kyle pulled away, nodding as he moved to obey. Loki was glad that he still had so much of Katherine's blood in his veins. If he had not, then dealing with these two would have presented a hardship. But the blood of his lost love gave him the strength to help his two new ones. Even in death, she had served him.
Robyn fussed as she checked over Torin. "Damn you. I told you that you could take all you needed. Why didn't you?"
"I didn't want to pull too much, it's your power too." He tried to reason with her.
"So now, I get to use it all on you to fix you. You can be so stupid sometimes."
Azrael just laughed. "Be gentle with him, Robyn. He meant well." But he knew that the girl had a point. He had not known that she had been willing to offer anything she had for his bright boy. The fact that Torin had not taken what was offered was on one hand, charming, and on the other, frighteningly stupid.
"I'm sorry." He sighed as she kept nagging him. "Hey give me a break, it's not like I've ever done this before. I fucked up. It won't happen again."
"Better not. I might not be as good as you are yet, but I can do a few things, as a 'woman', than no man, Mage or not, can."
Torin took note that at no time had Azrael spoke up to defend him. So obviously his master was agreeing with Robyn. "Okay, I'm sorry Blue. I really am, won't ever happen again." He closed his eyes as he felt the warming rush of strength returning to him. "I love you."
"If I didn't love you as much as I do, I'd let you stay this way." She fussed.
Azrael looked up as Loki returned. The two he had taken charge of following close behind him. "Loki, how goes it?"
The Childe/Elder smiled at him. "They are beginning to believe, or at least they are while I'm feeding them."
Azrael nodded. "Patience, little Brother. It will take time, but they have that now." He smiled at the two youngsters. "Come on in children, as you can see, your Lord is at peace here. That means that if he feels secure, then most assuredly you both are safe."
"Oh, guys," Torin tried to pull up to rest on an elbow, but one dark look from Robyn changed his mind. "Here is a news flash for you two. I beat that asshole that used to abuse you two. Beat him, and made sure that his dick was on the floor in a bloody mess before I left. So, you don't have to have any nightmares thinking that that shit is ever going to come back and hurt you, ever again. He's getting to see the sun rise in a few hours. That should be that. I've never heard of a vampire that can deal with the sun and make it for more than a few hours."
The two looked at Torin in a mixture of shock, fear and gratitude. Kyle, inparticular, he had been praying for Garren's death, for so long, that now, with it at hand, he wasn't sure how to react. "Thank you."
"Any time. I don't deal well with idiots that go around hurting innocent kids for no reason. And just so you know. If ever the day comes when your Master isn't able to protect you, mine will. You might not understand this right now, but family is real important to this bunch. Az is Loki's brother, and as such, it's his place to take care of anything that he can't."
Loki smiled at the two as he motioned for them to take a seat. "See, I have been telling you all evening that you were safe here. Now maybe, after hearing it from another mortal, you will believe me." Then to Torin, "thank you. It eases my heart to know that that madman will not rise to greet the night, ever again. As I said, as sad a Sire as mine was, not even he would have ever allowed the abuses that were performed on these two to stand unchallenged." He didn't have to acknowledge his new relationship with Azrael, he knew that his, new, brother understood.
Torin just bowed his head, saying nothing. He understood why Azrael had placed this one where he had. As souls go, Loki was by far the most harmless of all the Kin the he knew, even Cain was harder. But by being so, he was also the poorest able to survive in public. How he had managed to live as long as he had, and do so without exposure or shame, was beyond him. It couldn't be thought of as any less than a miracle.
"Yes, and just so the two of you know." Azrael's voice was soft. "Had, my, Chosen not been able to deal with that fool. I would have. Believe, if you can, you are safe here. No one will ever do to you, what that beast did."
"Oh, and Master." Torin looked at Loki, smiling. "Just so, you, know. You could have taken this shit down, with just a little help, yourself."
Loki smiled down at the two children, before looking up, gracing Torin with his joy. "Well, thankfully, I did not have to. You did it for me." Loki just wanted the discussion to end. Yes, he had wanted his two to see that he had told the truth, but enough was enough. "Oh, ' Brother' ." He smiled at Azrael, using the word that he had heard spoken by Azrael, so often since their meeting. "Thank you for your advice. I would have never thought of bringing them to me, by feeding them, that way."
Azrael just laughed. "Would you believe I was almost your age before I learned of it. Megel is very fortunate. I introduced it to him when he was still mortal, and I am sure that he will do the same for his Chosen before long, if he has not already."
"It is his most loved way to take my blood, save from my orgasm, and there is never enough then. I have made it something of an reward for him." Megel hugged Jason to him. "But, I think that I will feed him like that, as a mortal, just one more time. I have no doubt of his loyalty to me, or his love. He has been with me, almost three years now, has given me his heart, his mind and his soul. I am going to give him what he has more than sufficiently paid for. Tonight I will make Jason, my Fledgling."
"So, I am to be a Grand0Sire, again?"
"When we rise, he will be my Childe."
"So that is why you were so set on taking Ben." Joseph laughed. "Well, well, looks like I'm getting a younger brother." Okay, so Michael had been serious when he made his pledge. Joseph knew his Master and Sire, wanted Jason, but the Vampyr tended to be so weird about time. Soon for, them could be an hour ago or sometime within the next year.
Azrael just shook his head. "First Cain, then Gabriel, and now Jason. I am beginning to feel old."
Jason pulled up, looking at Michael. "Can we go to bed?"
The room burst into laughter. "No, but don't be in such a hurry to throw your mortality away. Enjoy it while it lasts." Michael kissed him, bending to bite him, briefly.
He moaned, hands tangling in Michael's hair, trying to hold his head in place. He didn't care who saw them, or the fact that they were not alone. Like this, all he cared about was what he was feeling.
Loki watched, touched beyond words. He so looked forward to, being able to pass the Gift to his, own, Chosen. And for the first time in his life, he knew that his wish would, one day, come true.
Azrael looked, to, his two, precious, Chosen, who, were also his two, apprentice, Mages. "If I was not so concerned that I could not hold you both alive while the first of you went through your transformation, I would take you as well."
Torin pulled himself up. "It's okay Master. Robyn and I have been talking. We are willing to take the risk. I have confidence in the link we have, and it's ability to see us through anything." He felt Robyn's arms around him as he pressed back into her. "If you mean this, We are more than just ready."
He looked at his two. Could they mean what they were saying? Was there a chance that they really were that connected, that powerful? And if they were, did he have it in his heart to deny them their wish. Finally, giving into what he knew was going to be a loosing fight, Azrael's just chuckled to himself. "So, am I to take it that you have no desire to be younger than your nephew?"
"Who the fuck cares about that?" Robyn dismissed it completely. A year, and still Azrael had not broke her of her habit of profanity. It was rapidly becoming obvious that it was always going to be there. "I've been wanting this since about my third day here. Torin has told me how much he has always wanted it. Hellfire, I've heard you fuss at him more than once for asking for it."
Azrael just nodded. So be it, if this is what they were to do, he would help them. But if it were a mistake, then he would see to it that their last night, living, would be one of just that, living. "Then, if you wish this so strongly, perhaps you will be willing to show me."
Robyn smiled. "Gladly, Master." She gave Torin one last quick squeeze as she brushed a kiss across his lips.
She had her shirt, off, and beginning to work on her jean button's when she knelt before Azrael. "Yes, Master."
Loki looked down at his two. If this was going to be what he feared it would be, he wasn't sure that the children could handle it yet. "Azrael, perhaps it would be wise of me to take Amy and Kyle and see to where I am going to put them."
He frowned. "If you feel you must, but surely they can be made to understand that what is happening to Robyn is not the same as what happened to them."
Azrael looked down, at the light, warm touch on his arm. "Let me, Master. I'm still like them and, mortal. So they will still believe me."
She stopped, just beyond her reach of the two, looking up at Loki. "With your permission, Master."
Loki pulled back, "yes, of course, anything if it begins to ease their fears."
Robyn knelt, smiling, to place a hand on each of their legs. "Hi, I'm Robyn. Now I know that some of what is going on here tonight, might look a lot scary as you only have your experiences to draw back on for understanding. But that is not what is happening at all. I happen to like what they are going to be doing to me, I like pain." She saw the shocked horrified looks that they gave her. "No, never like that. That asshole had no right to do what he did to you. I wouldn't have liked it anymore than you did. But they aren't going to be doing those kinds of things to me. Just pushing me to my limit. That's all."
"But," Amy looked both lost and scared. "Pain, it hurts so much. How can you like it?"
"It's not the same thing honey, I know they are as much concerned with what I want as they are about what they do. Pay attention, yes I might cry and beg, but never will you ever see more than marks and welts on me. The only time my Master makes me bleed, is when I'm feeding his hunger. I'll carry his brand, soon enough, but unlike what was done to you and too many others here, If I don't beg to pay the full price for my marking. Either one of the other Kin will offer to block the pain, or Torin will." She reached taking, first Amy's, and then Kyle's, hands, pressing them against her breast. "It's okay, I'm not bothered at all. Take the ring in my nipple and tug on it." She made Amy keep her hand against her breast as the girl tried to pull away. "Go on, just a tug. I promise to tell you when it starts to really hurt."
Kyle looked at the ring as it lay against his fingers. Could she be telling the truth, or was this just another, lie, a trap set to get them hurt again. But as he lifted his eyes, to catch Loki smiling down at them, he chose to take a chance and, try, believing for a change. So he gripped the ring and pulled shyly.
"Come on Kyle," Robyn chided. "I'm not going to break. I'm a hell of a lot more tolerant than that." Then she looked back to Amy. "It's okay, Any, try to trust just a little. Who knows, if you prove that you are willing to try this, your Master might just let you stay and we can play. I bet you never got the chance to just play. Did you?" Robyn pulled Amy's head to hers, gently, before she kissed the girl. "Playing would be, so nice, don't you think?"
Kyle couldn't believe how hard he been pulling, when Robyn finally lay a hand on his, signaling him to stop. "That's enough. Now do you believe me?"
Kyle nodded, looking at Amy. "She's telling the truth. I don't understand it, but she is telling the truth."
"Of course, she is." Azrael was extremely pleased with his Chosen. "Now, Loki, do you still feel the need to take them aside, or has my girl proved to you that they can face it willingly?"
Loki looked at the two again . * I cannot tell, haw, are they doing, emotionally, at this moment? *
* Far, better than you are giving them credit for doing. They are going to be fine, Loki. If there, comes, a point that they simply cannot face, then they can be taken aside and spared. But for, now, let it be. *
Loki nodded. "If they don't mind staying, and you are willing to share this with us, then I will stay, and keep them with me." He felt Amy, pull close, daring, perhaps, his notice to hide from the rest.
Robyn moved quickly, finishing the buttons on her jeans and pushing them down over her hips, even as she knelt before Azrael again. "Now Master, what is it you wish of me?"
Torin pulled himself into a standing position. "I'll go get the toys."
"You know how to do this, pet, you have prepared yourself many times for us." Her master fussed at her. "Go to the corner, and make yourself ready for me." She moved to stand up, "on your knees, pet." He moved to follow her. "I am beginning to believe that you would be lost without me. You have been set free." He stood back, watching, as Robyn settled herself in the hammock like swing, legs parted, hands going to tease herself. The absolute abandons in her every movement and gesture was well trained from many of these lessons. "Do not take your eyes from mine, Robyn. You wish this, show me how much you do." He reached down and pulled on the ring in her clit, sharply, bringing a whimpered moan from her. "Soon, sweet, soon Tori will be back, and then I can see to your decorations."
"Father?" Michael drew his attention. "Should I send those not Kin from the room like was done the first time?"
"No, she will entertain us all." He bent to kiss her, "will you not, sweet?"
"Yes, Master," her chest rose, pressing a breast into his hand. "Anyone, you know that."
Azrael looked up to Loki. "Do you think that your boy there is ready to try and be brave enough to touch my girl?"
"I don't know, maybe in a while, but for now, I am afraid that he and Amy are still too shy." He touched first Kyle's cheek, then Amy's, before lifting his eyes to fully meet Azrael's for the first time. "But, if I may, I would like her just as she is. I'm a bit boring in my tastes."
Azrael just laughed, pulling away. "Well give it time, Brother, give it time. You and I have eon's to spend together. And if I what I hope truly is true, and you will learn to be open. Soon enough you will learn to play the games I play with my girl." He motioned for Loki to feel free.
The Childe/Elder kissed first Amy and then Kyle before moving to go to where Robyn was readying herself. "I never had more than two lovers at a time. I am new to this." He reached out and touched the ring that she was toying with, ever so lightly. "You are going to have to help me, Robyn. I am frighteningly ignorant as to what you need."
She captured his hand in hers, bringing it up to her lips. "Anything you want, Master, anything you want."
"There in lies my problem." Even wounded as he was, he responded to the complete submission that was being played out before him. "I want so much, yet I have no idea what you want."
Azrael came up behind him, reaching to unfasten his trousers. "Share this with me Loki. Make love to my girl, even as I love you." He pressed his ear against the younger Kin. "She is still mortal, Loki. I give you leave to feed from her."
Loki moaned as Azrael pushed him forward, responding to the need for blood. Yes, he could feed from her, bring her to him that way, if nothing else.
Robyn closed her eyes as the dual feeling of penetration and the sharpness of his teeth, took her. Her hand went to support his head where it was, even as her hips lifted to ease his entry.
Michael smiled, looking down at Jason. "Go, take the lubricant and help Azrael."
"Here, Master." Jason had long since lost any shyness with the Elder Covenstead Master.
Azrael closed his eyes, as a firm, hand covered his hardness. "You will make a fine Childe. Even if your birth is a trifle early."
Jason just laughed. "I beg real good Master."
"Yes, I am sure you do. Thank you for your aid." He pulled away, just long enough to kiss his soon to be Grand-Child. Before returning to his play.
Loki moaned low, face pressed into Robyn's neck, as Azrael entered him. It was glorious, being trapped, as he was, between two lovers. But as Azrael's teeth found purchase in his throat, even as he pulled Loki's head to his, offering another bond, he was lost.
Again, Azrael was stunned by the clean taste of Loki's blood. Even knowing that, his brother, had not been of failed blood. The cleanness of it surprised him. He pulled away. Kissing the wound as it closed. Making a final choice. * Answer me this, Loki, if I took you as my, Husband, would you have me? * He did feel an overwhelming love for this man, one that would live through the ages, vampires were never failing in the intensity and longevity of their emotions. This one he could take as a husband, and with him, he could offer a choice to his two Chosen.
Loki pulled away from Robyn, turning his head to look at the man that was holding him, loving him. "You, you wish, me, for a, Husband?" He just couldn't believe what he had heard. This man had done so much already.
Azrael only chuckled, hips thrusting forward as he kissed the younger Kin. * You know I do, it is why I asked you this way. There can be no falsehoods like this. Only truth can pass between minds. *
Loki just sobbed against his lips as he felt another part of his soul, a part that he had, not, known was there, or was wounded, heal. * Yes, oh please, yes. *
*Well then, lover, share this with me. * He pulled Loki's face to his throat as he reached for his wrist. Welcoming the fangs even as he sank his into the vein that was against his mouth.
Michael welcomed Torin into his arms, as the young Mage returned. "So it would seem that you are not the only Healer here." He smiled.
"Never thought I was Michael. What's more, I can only heal the body and mind, my Master, he can heal souls." Torin closed his eyes as the passion and pleasure that was radiating from his master washed over him.
"So it would seem to be the case. Even souls as wounded as his new husbands'." He kissed the boy. "I will have you for a younger brother soon enough, I am going to have an over abundance of sibs before the setting of the sun at dusk tomorrow."
A brief touch, from a seeking mind, before an even quicker withdrawal. *Oh, sorry Azrael. * It was Cerberus.
Azrael just laughed. * What is it Cerberus? *
*Nothing was just going to take a few moments to talk with you, but I seemed to have picked a bad time. Please extend my apologies to the pet I have disturbed you with. *
Azrael pulled away from Loki. "Later, you and I will finish this. Bur for now, I believe we are going to have company. * I was not toying with one of my pets, but no worry. No, this is not a time for talk, but you are more than welcome, you and that husband of yours, to come and share my good fortune with me. *
Again, the brief mental pause, * Eris wishes to, know what we are celebrating? *
*Loki has accepted me as his husband. Bring that boy of yours, the one that is so taken with my Chosen, she will be happy to see him. * His mood was too good, he had Loki, and soon he would have both Torin and Robyn, so he would see that his youngest Chosen was not left feeling without.
You, you took him for a, Husband? * There was honest surprise in the touch of his mind. * Protect him, yes, of course, but a, Husband? *
*You do not know what you think you do, boy. Long enough, has he been told that he was of, failed blood. But it was the very fact that his blood was not of failed passing that has enabled him to live as long and as well as he had so far. Yes I took him as a husband. Who better that one that understands, and accepts him, as he is? *
*Forgive me, Azrael, I only knew what I had been told, and saw. Yes, if you would have us come and share this with you let me gather, myself, and my, two, and we will come. *
"Come Loki," Azrael took the younger Kin's, his new husbands, hand. "We will have company to join us in our celebration." He led him to his chair, pulling the now naked man close. "Cerberus is coming, and he is bringing his husband, Eris, and that boy of his that Morgan is so fond of, and they will come and share this with us," and, before Loki could voice a concern that was forming in his mind. "Your two will be in no danger, this is the one that brought them here, the one that took Torin to see that they were given justice." He smiled as Loki just nodded.
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