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were-creatures living on a cottage on my hill as soon as he greeted me, they
turned, and started to howl, mrowl, and scream with pain. And where before he
had just been needy, now he was mad. He was ranting about how I had turned
everyone against him even the vampires detested him, and how he was a monster
because he had turned, but here he was, awake in the day. I was afraid I was
terrified, but& but I had brought him into our world, the world of the
Goddess, and I tried to calm him down.
"Oh no," Cory murmured.
"Oh yes, little Goddess." Twilight nodded his head very seriously. "I went to
embrace him, and he seized me instead. Like the vampires he has the Goddess'
strength. He bore me to the ground and sank his teeth into my neck and fed and
fed and fed& and if he had just taken blood I could have lain there, broken,
and recovered eventually. But he was fey: he took blood, and took power, and
my hill dried up around my body as he took and took and took. It was as though
all of that need had been unleashed upon the world, only worse& much much a
thousand times worse.
There was silence, and Green watched Cory's mind working on what she'd just
been told. "What about the weres? she asked after a moment. "On your hill& did
he&
"He infected them," Twilight said flatly. "When I came to consciousness
eventually, their cottage was the first place I went for help, but he'd bitten
them fed from them and& you know the nature of the were-creature& they often
become two-natured because there is something the human world will not give
them. They become the thing they love because of need. This monster& he is
literally a Hollow Man need is the thing that drives him, a craving for things
he can never have because you have to be able to give something of yourself in
order to get them& His need is addictive. The were-creatures on my hill were
decimated they lived, but they had been fed from&
Twilight clenched his eyes in pain. "I spent many years on the streets, when I
finally wandered broken from my home, all true memory of what I had been
broken and drained& I often slept in drug houses, where people clenched their
veins with pain and shook and groaned and pissed themselves with the effects
of drugs and with withdrawals and all of the human pain houses like that hold.
My were-cottage& " And for the first time in his recitation, tears actually
started rolling across the lovely purple cheeks. "It had been a happy place& my
were-creatures were gentle people, often abused in their human lives& their
cottage was beautiful, and full of sunshine and gentle love making and kind
and easy humanity& I have no idea how long I lay there, senseless and bleeding,
when Hollow Man was done with me, but when I had crawled to the were-cottage,
it had become& like the drug houses, only worse. He had spread his need to
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them, through his bite& spread it and intensified it and made it awful and
addictive and toxic& when I got there, one of them had already exploded with
need, his blood putrefied beyond recognition. The others were screaming in
pain& Goddess help me, there was nothing I could do but lay on the floor,
keening, as their bodies lost composition around me& " And now Twilight well
and truly lost his composure, burying his face in his hands, his shoulders
shaking with sobs.
Cory made a low grunt in her throat, and her hand clenched around Green's, and
he looked at her in concern as her face tightened, her cheekbones seeming
ready to slice out of her skin. Moving so quickly he swore she was moving with
Goddess speed, she wrapped her arms around their lost brother's shoulders and
rocked him against her. "I'm sorry, Twilight, she murmured, her throat rough.
"We've lived through that here& please& don't live it again, not for us& " But
the wound was too deep, and Green moved from the bed and began rubbing
Twilight's shoulders, his touch strong, and increasingly sensual until his
eyes met Cory's over the shaking body, and she swallowed and nodded.
Leaning over and giving Green a kiss on the cheek she said, "Let me know when
you're free, beloved& Grace is having a formal dinner downstairs at seven.
Green nodded, and a weary smile quirked at his mouth. "You may want to go make
up with Bracken, luv& I can't promise I'll be free tonight.
She swallowed again, and gave the brightest smile she could manage.
"Groovy& make-up sex and coming home sex in the same day& this job has its
perks." She made him laugh before she bobbed shakily out the door, leaving him
to the work he did best.
CORY
Conversations and Bouncing Balls
There was a strange were-creature waiting outside Green's room as I emerged. I
was starting to be able to spot them there is a supernatural grace about a
were-animal, and, true to my vampire sympathies, I could almost smell the
animal they spent their alternate lives as.
"Hello& " I murmured, startled. Then, as I remembered conversations with Green:
"You must be Eric.
"And you must be Cory, he said, looking just as startled.
"Uhm& Green's going to be busy for a bit& Twilight's in there& he& it was hard, I
said awkwardly, and could have kicked myself for the double entendre.
A wicked smile crossed his pleasantly freckled features, and suddenly I didn't
feel so awkward. "If it wasn't, I'm sure it is now, he said with raised
eyebrows, and I laughed.
"Have you eaten yet? I know you all got in late, but Grace left food.
Eric grinned again, only this time it was all excited little boy. "I was
actually hoping for sweets cookies, pie&
"Probably both," I agreed, and suddenly that sounded much more attractive than
going out to find Bracken who was probably brooding through the gardens on the
hill. "Let's go see!
We found, in fact, several cream pies chocolate, coconut, and, Green's
favorite, banana. Eric and I both eyeballed the chocolate. I cut a large slice
for each of us and we sat down across the table from each other and started
chatting like old friends. Eric was full of stories of Adrian and Bracken and
even Green from twenty years ago.
"So, does Bracken still wear his mullet when he glamours up for the humans?"
He wanted to know through a mouthful of chocolate pie.
I felt the smile that I had worn through his description of Adrian and Bracken
competing over a prom queen using concert tickets and tricked out Mustangs,
fade. "He& well, first I& " I sighed. "He wears his hair short now, I said
after a moment. "He cut it because& because he's freakin' Bracken and he's
mortal and it's some sort of symbol and now I can't get him to grow it out
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were-creatures living on a cottage on my hill as soon as he greeted me, they
turned, and started to howl, mrowl, and scream with pain. And where before he
had just been needy, now he was mad. He was ranting about how I had turned
everyone against him even the vampires detested him, and how he was a monster
because he had turned, but here he was, awake in the day. I was afraid I was
terrified, but& but I had brought him into our world, the world of the
Goddess, and I tried to calm him down.
"Oh no," Cory murmured.
"Oh yes, little Goddess." Twilight nodded his head very seriously. "I went to
embrace him, and he seized me instead. Like the vampires he has the Goddess'
strength. He bore me to the ground and sank his teeth into my neck and fed and
fed and fed& and if he had just taken blood I could have lain there, broken,
and recovered eventually. But he was fey: he took blood, and took power, and
my hill dried up around my body as he took and took and took. It was as though
all of that need had been unleashed upon the world, only worse& much much a
thousand times worse.
There was silence, and Green watched Cory's mind working on what she'd just
been told. "What about the weres? she asked after a moment. "On your hill& did
he&
"He infected them," Twilight said flatly. "When I came to consciousness
eventually, their cottage was the first place I went for help, but he'd bitten
them fed from them and& you know the nature of the were-creature& they often
become two-natured because there is something the human world will not give
them. They become the thing they love because of need. This monster& he is
literally a Hollow Man need is the thing that drives him, a craving for things
he can never have because you have to be able to give something of yourself in
order to get them& His need is addictive. The were-creatures on my hill were
decimated they lived, but they had been fed from&
Twilight clenched his eyes in pain. "I spent many years on the streets, when I
finally wandered broken from my home, all true memory of what I had been
broken and drained& I often slept in drug houses, where people clenched their
veins with pain and shook and groaned and pissed themselves with the effects
of drugs and with withdrawals and all of the human pain houses like that hold.
My were-cottage& " And for the first time in his recitation, tears actually
started rolling across the lovely purple cheeks. "It had been a happy place& my
were-creatures were gentle people, often abused in their human lives& their
cottage was beautiful, and full of sunshine and gentle love making and kind
and easy humanity& I have no idea how long I lay there, senseless and bleeding,
when Hollow Man was done with me, but when I had crawled to the were-cottage,
it had become& like the drug houses, only worse. He had spread his need to
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them, through his bite& spread it and intensified it and made it awful and
addictive and toxic& when I got there, one of them had already exploded with
need, his blood putrefied beyond recognition. The others were screaming in
pain& Goddess help me, there was nothing I could do but lay on the floor,
keening, as their bodies lost composition around me& " And now Twilight well
and truly lost his composure, burying his face in his hands, his shoulders
shaking with sobs.
Cory made a low grunt in her throat, and her hand clenched around Green's, and
he looked at her in concern as her face tightened, her cheekbones seeming
ready to slice out of her skin. Moving so quickly he swore she was moving with
Goddess speed, she wrapped her arms around their lost brother's shoulders and
rocked him against her. "I'm sorry, Twilight, she murmured, her throat rough.
"We've lived through that here& please& don't live it again, not for us& " But
the wound was too deep, and Green moved from the bed and began rubbing
Twilight's shoulders, his touch strong, and increasingly sensual until his
eyes met Cory's over the shaking body, and she swallowed and nodded.
Leaning over and giving Green a kiss on the cheek she said, "Let me know when
you're free, beloved& Grace is having a formal dinner downstairs at seven.
Green nodded, and a weary smile quirked at his mouth. "You may want to go make
up with Bracken, luv& I can't promise I'll be free tonight.
She swallowed again, and gave the brightest smile she could manage.
"Groovy& make-up sex and coming home sex in the same day& this job has its
perks." She made him laugh before she bobbed shakily out the door, leaving him
to the work he did best.
CORY
Conversations and Bouncing Balls
There was a strange were-creature waiting outside Green's room as I emerged. I
was starting to be able to spot them there is a supernatural grace about a
were-animal, and, true to my vampire sympathies, I could almost smell the
animal they spent their alternate lives as.
"Hello& " I murmured, startled. Then, as I remembered conversations with Green:
"You must be Eric.
"And you must be Cory, he said, looking just as startled.
"Uhm& Green's going to be busy for a bit& Twilight's in there& he& it was hard, I
said awkwardly, and could have kicked myself for the double entendre.
A wicked smile crossed his pleasantly freckled features, and suddenly I didn't
feel so awkward. "If it wasn't, I'm sure it is now, he said with raised
eyebrows, and I laughed.
"Have you eaten yet? I know you all got in late, but Grace left food.
Eric grinned again, only this time it was all excited little boy. "I was
actually hoping for sweets cookies, pie&
"Probably both," I agreed, and suddenly that sounded much more attractive than
going out to find Bracken who was probably brooding through the gardens on the
hill. "Let's go see!
We found, in fact, several cream pies chocolate, coconut, and, Green's
favorite, banana. Eric and I both eyeballed the chocolate. I cut a large slice
for each of us and we sat down across the table from each other and started
chatting like old friends. Eric was full of stories of Adrian and Bracken and
even Green from twenty years ago.
"So, does Bracken still wear his mullet when he glamours up for the humans?"
He wanted to know through a mouthful of chocolate pie.
I felt the smile that I had worn through his description of Adrian and Bracken
competing over a prom queen using concert tickets and tricked out Mustangs,
fade. "He& well, first I& " I sighed. "He wears his hair short now, I said
after a moment. "He cut it because& because he's freakin' Bracken and he's
mortal and it's some sort of symbol and now I can't get him to grow it out
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