Disclaimer: Everything belongs to Laurell K. Hamilton, Jim Butcher,
J.K. Rowling, and Berkley Publishing Company. Nothing belongs to me,
this is just a parody for everyone's enjoyment.
Rating: A little nudity and some bad words.
I woke up sometime the next day with a were-leopard laying on top of
me and two wrapped around on either side of me. Nathaniel was laying
face down on top of me, with his arms wrapped around my legs. Caleb
was on my left, sucking on my ear like a baby would a bottle. I was so
grossed out by it, that I wacked him in the head. The hit woke Caleb
up and he sat straight up in bed, thinking there was some kind of
danger. I had closed my eyes to keep him from knowing it was me, but
watched him out of slitted eyes. He glanced between Zane and
Nathaniel. I knew what he was thinking as he glared at both of them.
Nathaniel it to sweet, nice and couldn't hurt a fly, so he knew it had
to be Zane, who would do something like that just to get a rise out of
him. Caleb reach over me and slapped Zane back, who then woke up with
a start from a wet dream. He had drooled all over my right arm. Can
you say EEEWWW. Zane immediately glanced up at Caleb with an innocent
look and said, "What?"
"Why the hell did you hit me for?" Asked Caleb.
Zane looked confused and replied, "I didn't hit you. I was having a
good dream, not a bad one." With that last part he smiled from ear to
ear. I so didn't want to know what he was dreaming and hoped Caleb
didn't ask.
Nathaniel at that time woke from his slumber to watch the other two
cats argue over weither or not Zane hit Caleb in the head or not. I
was so trying not to laugh at the two. It wasn't until Zane pulled
himself up off the bed that I realized that bother Caleb and him were
naked. I saw the whole package and nearly freaked. Then Nathaniel
moved to get out of their way and my face turned three shades of red.
While their attention was on each other, I reached down under the
cover to find myself nude as well and moaned. Three sets of eyes
turned their attention back towards me and I pulled the cover over my
head.
I felt the bed move, then the covers were pulled back from my face. A
pair of violet eyes stared back at me. Nathaniel had a worried look on
his face and he expressed his concern, "Are you all right Alex? Do
you need me to go get Maggie?"
I shook my head and said, "No I'M fine, just wondering why I'm in bed
with three were-leopards and naked at that."
Caleb grinned from ear to ear and answered, "You weren't in the best
condition last night, when you fell through Maggie's lab roof. You
knocked out Noah, looked like you were blue on one side from being
cold, while the other side was red from being on fire. You also didn't
know what was happening, you were all spaced out. So Maggie gave you
something and asked us to put you to bed, while making sure you were
going to be ok."
I glared at him and asked, "If thats the case then why are you three
in bed with me without any clothes on."
Zane chimmed in then and stated, "Well Maggie was concerned with you
right side being frost bitten from the cold, so she asked up to keep
you warn on that side. She wanted to see if our body temperature could
get it back to normal."
I crossed my eyes, they were so beating around the bush. "Ok fine I'll
give you that one, but why did I wake up to find all three of you in
the bed instead of one of you, if it was only my right side that was
cold," I said really fast without stopping for a breath of air.
Nathaniel came over and rubbed against my hand, then rolled over to
his back. He wanted his stomach rubbed, so I rubbed it for him, while
glaring betweent the other two.
Zane plopped back down on the bed and replied with a smile, "There was
no other place for us to sleep, so we decided to stay in here with you."
I glared at him not believing they couldn't find some place else to
sleep and commented, "This is The Circus or The Lair or what ever you
want to call it now. But I know for certain there is more rooms
available then this. You just want to use it as an excuse to sleep
with me. Now go put your clothes on before you know who walks in and
finds us all nekkid. And while your at it, see if you know who has
showed up yet. I need my own clothes as well."
Caleb smiled, got off the bed slowly obviously trying to get me to
watch. I ignored him best I could by scratching Nathaniel's tummy. He
soon disappeared out the door with Zane on his heals. I glanced down
at Nat and said, "Sorry, but that means you to."
"Ah but Alex," he whined before I cute him off, "Out Nat, I don't want
to have the same problem with you know who, that Anita did concerning
you. Now go."
He whimpered and got up to leave, when I grabbed him by the arm. He
turned to look at me with questioning eyes. Looking into his violet
eyes I asked, "How long have I been out Nat and what day is it?"
"A little over twenty-four hours and it's Friday night. Maggie didn't
want you disturbed, thats why we were put on watch. To make sure you
would come out of your dilema with no reaccuring issues. Thats why
Richard hasn't shown up yet. She made it clear to him, you were under
surveliance for at least twenty-four hours," He stated.
I let his arm go, nodded and asked, "How many other people knows about
what happened?"
He shrugged and said, "I'm not sure."
I layed back down and said a few un lady like words under my breath. I
heard the door open and glanced over at it. Apparently Nat knew
someone was coming, because he had wrapped himself up with a blanket
just before Richard walked threw the door. Richard glanced between the
two of us and the look was not a friendly one. Nat tried to get by him
and out the door, before Richard went off. However Richard had other
plans and stayed in from of the door, blocking Nat's exit.
"Richard, let him out. He didn't do anything wrong," I stated calmly.
Richard stood his ground and stayed in front of the door. "Oh really.
Then why is it I find you in here with him and no clothes on," he
questioned.
I rolled my eyes then glared at him, before saying, "If you let him
out, so we can talk in private. I will explained why that is."
He snorted, but moved away from the door to let Nat out. Nat ran out
the door faster than any cat I've seen run before. Richard strided
over to the bed and sat down on the edge looking at me. "Well start
talking. We're the hell have you been for the last seven days," he stated.
I glared at him for a few minutes, trying to figure him out and what
he has heard and finally decided I didn't really care. "Ok here's what
happened. The night you and Arawn got into it. Luna came by to talk to
me about her problems with Shang-Da, then Conor showed up with the
Queen of the Summer Court. I didn't talk to them, because I was more
worried about blood shed that was happening down in our basement. When
I got down there you two were at it pretty good. I tried yelling to
get yours and his attention, but nothing worked. I tried a seperation
spell to get you two seperated, but it backfired and I was thrown up
against the wall and that was the last thing I remembered," I said
trying to stay calm.
He crossed his eyes, lifted one eyebrow and said, "Uh huh. I'm
listning, continue."
I took a deep breath in and resumed my explanation, "When I woked up
to find myself in a furr covered bed and a chain around my ankle. I
knew something was wrong, specially when Arawn came into the room
limping. He said I would have died if he hadn't brought me to Winter
Court for my godmother to heal. He froze time to stop everyone, so he
can sneak me out. She saved me, tried to enslave me. She also tore
Arawn's back up with iron, just for him letting me get hurt with my
own spell. We'll I had to make a deal with her, so I could be free of
her, do to my father's mother's screw up. So I proposes a bargain with
her and she excepted. I went after another elf named Bree who was in
cohorts with Belle and trying to over ride Mab as Queen. So I went
out, found her and took her down. Freeing myself from Mab for ever.
After I got the parchments of grandma's bargaining and my own. I threw
then in the fire and then fell threw the floor into Maggie's lab,
knocking out Noah in the process. Maggie nearly died of shock and I
got smothered by leopard hugs. According to the Zane and Caleb I was
in really bad shape. Maggie was worried, gave me a check up and some
medicine, then sending me straight to bed. Thats why she told Jason to
tell you not to come until later this evening."
Richard ran a han threw his hair, then glanced over at me with worry
eyes. "I'm aware of the last part, it's just I didn't have a clue as
to what happened to you that night. No one could tell me anything. I
woke up from what felt like a deep sleep. Arawn was gone, there was
blood on the side of the basement wall, that I had no clue as to were
it came from. I looked for you, couldn't find you and thought you left
with that stupid elf. Especially when your friends wouldn't tell me
anything. I thought they were keeping some deep secret from me. I
looked all over gods creation for you Alex. You don't know how worried
I was about you," He stated.
I just sat there looking at him not knowing what to say to that. I
spent all my time trying to get the affections of someone that didn't
even see me, to not notice what was right before my own eye's. I moved
over and wrapped my arms around him and lad my head on his shoulder
and asked, "You really were worried about me weren't you?"
He pulled away and just started at me, before he answered my question,
"Of course I was worried about you Alex. I love you dammit." He then
pulled my face toward his with his hands looking me straight in the
eye's. "I know I haven't been the best person to live with. I know
I've been hateful, cruel, and sometimes mean to you. I'm sorry for
what I've put you threw. I just couldn't handle your heritage, your
family, and what you were. I for one knew better to let all that
interfer with how I really feel about you and what I come to know and
love about you. I was scared and scared even more that I had lost you
to an elf. I so wanted to kill him, but I knew that you would have
been pushed farther away from me, so I kept it to myself and just
tolerated him being around you. But when that godmother's of yours
stuck her nose into your life and forced you to take that other idiot.
I was furious and couldn't stand someone else touching you. Then when
you disappeared six nights ago, I totally frecked out and thought I
had driven you away from me. I didn't sleep, haven't eaten in days.
I've tore into most of the wolves and cried for hours at a time. I was
so releaved when Jason called me, telling me that you were found, but
in a really bad shape. I so wanted to run to you right then and there,
but Jason said Maggie thought it best I'd wait until tonight. Just to
make sure you didn't have a relapse. This morning I found Jason and
asked him all that happened and he told me. You don't know how worried
I was or how scared."
I was on the verge of tears, trying to keep myself from breaking down
and losing it again. I tried to speak, but no words came out. As soon
as I started to speak, my voice quivered and the tears fell. "I'm so
sorry Richard, it's just you were always yelling at me for something.
It was like you were taking things out on me, that Anita did to you
and it wasn't fair. What was I suppose to do. I can't help who I am. I
try to leave a normal life, but thats not going to happen with my
family being who they are. I might not love my family, but I love and
am proud of what and who I am. If I didn't love you in some way, I
would have left a long time ago, but I stayed. Truth is I don't see
anyone else that could put up with us or our bad habits. I'm so
confused and frustrated, I haven't the foggiest idea as to what to do
anymore," I said, while rubbing my cheek along his thigh.
He reached down and removed a piece of hair from my face. He slightly
ran his fingers down the side of my cheek, brushing away the tears as
he went. I closed my eye's at the feel of his touch. It felt good and
wanted to stay that way forever. Eventually he sighed and I glanced up
at him from where I was lying. He smiled down at me and said, "I think
we both need a vacation. Time alone from everybody and everything.
Time for ourselves and each other, so we can work things out. Maybe
come to an agreement or understanding about each other. I think going
to Tennessee to see my family, would be a change in pace. What do you
think?"
I nearly went into shock at his last comments. He has never offered to
take me to meet his family since we've been together. This must be a
major change if he wants me to meet his family. I should have been
happy and estactic, but all I could say was, "Are you sure you want me
to meet your family. I mean you've always avoided introducing up, why
are you changing your mind now."
He glanced down at me, then leaned over to kiss my temple, before he
moved to my ear and whispered, "Because I love you Alex and I thinks
it's time for my family to meet the love of my life." Then he pulled
me up into his arms and kissed me. We had started getting a little
friendly with each other when someone cleared their throat from the
door way. We both glanced over and found Jamil standing in the door
way, with his back turned toward us. I realized I was still naked and
wrapped myself in the sheet, turning all shades of red again.
Richard crossed his arms and glared daggers into Jamils back, while he
said, "Jamil don't you know how to knock."
"I'm sorry Richard. I didn't know Alex didn' have any clothes on.
Thats why I was curious as to why you asked me to bring her a bag," he
answered.
I groaned. Not only did Jamil see me in the nude, but he had rummaged
around in my clothes, specially my unmentionables. Richard chuckled at
my groan and if Jamil was white he would have been redder than a
lobster by now.
"Drop the bag where you are and leave. Oh and one more thing, we are
going to Tennessee to see my mom, so tell Shang-Da to stop his crying
and whining over Luna leaving town before he got to say good-by and
pack some bags. You two are coming with us. It will do you two some
good," Richard said, while laying back against me.
"Yes my Ulfric," replied Jamil as he lowered the bag to the ground and
left to inform Shang-Da of their new job duty.
After Jamil left, Richard walked over and locked the door, then began
to stripped down. My eyes bugged out and I began to studder, "WWhat
aare yyou dooing?"
He smiled at me and said, "What does it look like I'm doing? I'm going
to show my lupa just how much I missed her."
I got a little flustered and announced, "We can't do that here. This
is part of Maggie's lab. What if she walks in or something."
He had stripped off his jeans and I groaned. He struted over to me,
pulled the covers off, and jumped me. We played around for sometime,
before he pulled me into a nearby shower. An hour later we made our
way out of the lair and into his car. We went home and packed for our
trip to Tennessee to meet with his family and the pack there. We would
be leaving late tonight and arriving there early on Saturday morning.