Would Rather Chew Shoe Leather!

[BadInfluence]

It had been a full twenty-four hours and his distaste for humans had only grown in that time. He'd run into several in the city where he had gone to help Jacob with the items, knowing as soon as he left Arvandor he wasn't going to be allowed back, not without a LOT of string pulling. It had been worth it for his son though, and given the letter he had recieved from Sydel, well that was just cream filling in the cake. He'd wandered around the large village a bit, all the push and shove, the reek of fish ripening in the sun... Oh he couldn't see the appeal at all, and why in the world his son had ever wanted to come here, let alone live in this place... Totally lost on him!



Within a couple of hours he had been drug into a fight, literally, some drunken brawler had grabbed his cloak and punched him. Seriously, and people wondered why he hated humans?! He had punched back and before he knew it? Firsts were flying, beer was spilling, and loose women were laughing and cheering it on. What he wouldn't do to get out of there! He knew as soon as he detangled himself from the fight that there was no way he was going to make it in that place, but the sea was no lover of his either, that was all Garafins area of expertiece... He got gellishly seasick anyways so a boat was just not on his list of do-ables... The city was massive and he kept getting turned around in the weird alleys and streets, the way they curved and twisted, doubled back in a way that made no sense... Hours passed before he managed to find a public park and the first thing he did? Was find the biggest tree he could possibly climb and immidiately made a roost in the leaves like he would have back home, and these poor trees, oh how they talked to him... About all the things they had seen, the lovers coming and going, children playing... But how they missed the songs of the elves around them, the magical life blood that stretched out thier longevity, and it was then he realized these trees?



This park?



Was the place where the first elves travling to this area had planted seeds of mighty oak and yew, of pine and spruce and willow, deep into the earth they went and there they had remined. As he rested in the branches, he gently sung to them, feeding them that old elvish magic... He couldn't use it but that didn't mean he didn't have any of it in him... Slowly singing the trees to sleep, giving them that which they hadn't had in centuries, a touch of the home world and there? There he would wait for his Mistress, his beloved, his wife for all intents and purposes... He wondered when she would find him? Would it be soon? He hoped so, he hadn't broughten much with him and work was slim for an elf here, at least so far as he had seen... He was sure Nautilous would have set up something clever, something quite comfortable, his brother was always king of the comfort.



It was strange for him to be able to do something, but perhaps that was just a latent talent that went unnoticed in a world full of magic, where even a newborn tended to have more abilities than he did. He felt better for it though to be honest, as strange as it was, it did feel good... Like he was useful at least in some small way... Helped the hours to pass, listening to the whispers of the trees, of the stories... So very many stories... They had tales, both good and bad, of young couples finding love under thier branches and those same limbs holding the rope of hanged men... The highs and lows of mankind, it's love and it's violence, the sins and redeeming qualities...



It was in that tree the little girl would find him, she was lost in the park, her mother and she had somehow gotten separated... She was crying and afraid, and for all his intense dislike of humans, she was only a child... So he left the haven of his chosen tree and slid to the ground, keeping his hood up but his face visible, approaching the young girl... Soft words exchanged, he was after all, terribly good with children... A few minutes later he would be leaving the area to help take the little girl home, escorting her while she gave him directions, even carrying her when she started to flag and grow tired...



How little did he know that the child was only bait for a trap, guiding him down this alleyway and that, farther away from the people... from the well populated streets... The lights....



He was at the sudden darkness of a dead end when he looked to the child in his arms... A sly smile on childish lips, cruel and cold for such a small creature, and that was when he felt it... The icy hot pain of a dagger slicing into his back...

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..Nautilous and her had parted ways, she knew he was going back to Arvandor to deal with Hanali, and she knew full well what was going to have to happen.. but realistically if it was the only way to get Diovan back home then so be it.. now she had to track that boy down, she knew he was on the surface..she had a small idea.. a radius at least.. though the action on the surface was a lot rougher than she recalled..could possibly have something to do with a certain kingdom falling.. there seemed to be a lot more mercenaries about.. lot more thieves and murderers.. intriguing..

though she wasn't about to let that stop her.. she'd seen the aftermath of the earlier rough and tumble he had been caught in..hearing about this hooded tall lanky figure that managed to get in the way a few times.. took a few hits.. gave a few in return.. mm.. she figured it was him though she couldn't be certain.. she didn't hide herself so much here, though she wore a very long coat with a hood drawn forward.. her tight white ringlets bounced about her shoulders and those scarlet coloured lips remained permanently fixed in some twisted little smile.. off putting for some.. attractive for others.. but then again she also oozed pheromones when she chose it.. just enough to knock a few over and to get a couple more to do her bidding..

now the trail lead her to a park.. a wide open area.. filled with trees and flowers and swings.. she remained quiet.. hidden in the shadows of one of the larger trees as she watched the trickery unfold.. oldest con in the book.. send the bait out.. reel the big fish in.. and he looked like a big fish.. though he didn't appear wealthy.. perhaps it was just a hit?.. she tilted her head as she caught sight of Diovan this time.. first time she had laid eyes upon him.. following at a distance.. the duo weaved in and out of a few streets .. deeper into the village proper before heading down an alley way.. she peered her head around the corner. ..

it was cute the way he wanted to make sure the little girl got home ok.. but it was also terribly.. Terribly stupid to do that on the surface.. she ran this trick.. she knew it well.. she used her daughter a few times when she was younger to lure the gentlemen in before she murdered them all.. she waited.. watching as they got further and further back into that darkened embrace.. a little whisper of magic.. a little word play.. her features would change.. older.. considerably older.. a cane in her hand.. a red velvet dress..white boots and a wide brimmed hat that was encrusted with jewels.. she looked like old money.. a fur resting around her shoulders.. gloves upon her hands.. and a rather heavy looking purse hanging off her right arm..-.

.excuse me.. -she'd call out in her elder voice.. her facial features held so many wrinkles.. her eyes were coloured grey and hid behind thick glasses-.. excuse me I seem to be lost..can someone.. can someone help me please?.. -she'd mumble a little.. reaching down into her purse then as a few coins tumbled out making quite a racket and when she leant down to pick those up she managed to drop even more..the group that were going after him would naturally glance up.. she was an easy target and she was old..

[BadInfluence]

Come on, he wasn't gullible!....- Ok, no, he was gullible... Almost to the point of sheer stupidity kind of gullible. What could he say? He was Arvandorian through and through, there was no sort of evil like this there, and there hadn't been for decades. To him? It was a lost human girl child who was in trouble, and as a Moonlight Ranger, and as a father? He couldn't help but go down to help her. After all, why would anyone want to rob him? He had nothing of value... Well, nothing of value but the large opal in the center of his cloak clasp... It was his mark as the leader, a flawless fire opal the size of a mans eye, along with smaller white diamonds and moonstones that littered the crescent moon pin. Easily worth a fortune here on the surface, but such a thing would never be stolen in Arvandor, it was a mark of status almost as old as the realm itself.



The walk to a dead end had been unexpected, and his confusion when they arrived was apparent for a few moments, though the second the dagger sliced into his back? He understood... How evil was it to use a child as bait?! He was pissed off then, rounding quickly to grab at the wrist that held the blade, fingers squeezing... The sounds of bones grinding together, about to break as the weapon was suddenly dropped, and for a moment... A terrifying moment... There wasn't a shred of him there...



Gone was the Diovan everyone knew and lightly teased now and then, the man with a huge heart but not the sharpest head, the leader of the moonlight tryst and companion to lovers facing impossible odds... He was, at times, too much like his father... Soft and unassuming, willing and happy to let life do what it wanted, more of a bystander than an active participant... But when he was mad... When he was threatened, his life was in danger or he was high as a kite on some terribly vicious drugs... Well he wasn't that person anymore... That person just melted away in a flash, like a candle being blown out in a dark room, and all that was left? Was a void... A deep, terrifying, all consuming void...



His mother had mellowed out with his father, but before him and after him, there was a good deal of war... Of hatred and bloodshed... Nautilous didn't only get it from his father... Their mother had a good deal of darkness in her too, and that was coming out in him right now, along with a terribly ominous aura... Oh, they were in trouble now and they knew it, ready to fight or run, but that was when the woman arrived... And as quick as that the light was back, that aura of doom had vanished, and he was standing there... A bit bewildered, like he'd not been there for a few moments, shoved in a box towards the back...



It all came crashing in in that moment, and he shook his head rapidly at the old woman, trying to warn her before... It hit him... Ton of bricks... Her smell, the scent of her, the pheromones in the air... He groaned and it could have been taken as in pain, but rather it was acute embarrassment at being caught in the situation he was now in, especially since they both knew he could handle his own easily... "I wouldn't do that if I were you..." He'd say, not to the woman, but to the guys who had assaulted him... But that? They barely registered him, they were totally spellbound by the gold, quickly rushing in to get a hold of her and kill her... Take all she had on her...



"Well, you're truly fucked now..." He said with a sigh as he drew his own dagger, like hell he'd let her fight on her own, but he wouldn't stop them either. He'd just make sure no one stabbed her in the back, literally... Even as he did so she was hit by the first, a huge bruiser of a man, swinging down at her head to crush her skull... If she dodged another would come in from her right to tackle her, another from behind to take her down, after all with a booty that big? They weren't about to take chances...



He? Well he wasn't idle, he had slipped into the shadows and moved through them as easily as his brother did, coming up behind the group... Making sure none escaped. He knew Sydel, knew her feeding habits, how she fought... They'd sparred together multiple times which only made this situation all the more embarrassing for him because she KNEW he could do so much more, but they could get to that later... Right now? He was just going to watch her slaughter a group of thugs for the first time live, so to speak...

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..she had to track him.. and it took a bit of time to figure it all out.. he appeared to be pretty much all over the place.. a village here.. a park there.. though it would be at the latter that she would finally set those colourless orbs upon him.. watching the con job in action.. the child .. sweet and innocent.. easily a plant.. easily a decoy.. the bait.. to a human.. or someone with a soft heart it was easy.. a cake walk.. and Diovan fell for it hook like and sinker.. she groaned quietly.. then going to remind herself over and over that he was not normally on the surface.. that Arvandor didn't have this kind of fuckery..

so it made sense that he'd fall for it.. she followed. weaving in and out of the buildings.. staying back.. keeping that distance so she wouldn't be spotted.. though as he turned down one of the darker alleys she knew it was time.. a little magic.. a little ,mind bending would have her looking completely different.. like an elderly woman.. one with far too much coin.. dressed in furs and velvet.. an easy pick.. so when she smelt the blood on the air she stepped in.. but then something else happened.. something shook her.. something made her breath catch at the back of her throat.. and it nearly ruined everything.. there was a darkness.. there was a power there and just like with Nautilous if affected her.. it made her bristle and stiffen..

no?.. what?.. surely it had to be someone else?.. not Diovan?.. not the kind hearted magically retarded elf.. he'd always been SO good.. well.. apart from a few smaller blips on the radar.. but still.. it was nothing like this.. not even remotely close.. she paused then.. her lips parted.. she needed to get it together.. or this wasn't going to work.. snapping into character.. a few coins dropped.. and then a few more.. a sweet old granny voice rang out as she asked for assistance.. that she'd lost her son.. or a relative.. or someone.. she was needing directions.. but the shiny coins were all that those thugs desired..

the trio came running at her.. rushing.. she caught sight of him darting to the entrance of the alley then.. but she knew he was injured.. she could smell it on the breeze.. a mere moment before the huge hulk of a man was about to pummel her down through the cobble stones everything seemed to pause.. to slow to a veritable crawl.. the magic required for such a feat was extensive.. but Daddys attention had been pricked.. Khorn was watching.. closely.. -.. Diovan?..

-she called out to him.. it was her own voice.. soft and only for his ears.. whilst everything around him stopped still.. the silence of the world stopping like that was almost deafening-.. I hope you're ready.. because im not going to fight.. this is yours my pet.. are you going to let me die?.. 5..-she began to count down.. -.. 4 -.. would it work?.. would it force that chaos within him to show.. to come to the forefront.. or would he let her get thumped-.. 3....2....-the noise of the incoming world was slowly starting.. growing louder and louder before.. -.. 1.. -and everything returned.. the fist of the big oak continued to come crashing own atop her-

[BadInfluence]

He'd begged his mother at the tender age of six to take away his powers... He could remember then as clearly as he could the events of yesterday, the way his mother and father had argued well into the night over it, the pro's and cons of his request. Every now and then an elf was born without magical talents or capabilities, and while they are made of magic like any other being, theirs lies dormant inside... A sort of magical retardation that often means the life of siad elf, fairy or any other magical being, is made quite a bit more difficult. Still, when he had met Sybelle, that was it for him... He didn't want to risk the darkness that was inherent in his mother, he would never want to chance hurting the girl he loved, and from then on? He had lived without it, all of it bottled up, under lock and key never to arise...



But there were moments...



Short, fleeting things when his life was in danger, when his magic broke past the locks for the sake of self preservation... And due to it being dormant for so long, forced into hiding and neglect, it was angry... Dark and foreboding, and so very, very much like his brothers... Nautilous was full on dark chocolate, incredibly rich and decadent, addictive... His was more like milk chocolate, a weaker version but easily recognised as something in the same family, tempered down by the fact his father was just an ordinary elf... Where as Nautilous was the purebred in that area...



Seeing the old woman there had snapped him back, shoved the dark smoke back into it's box, but it was seconds after that he realized just who it was... What it was... He just snorted and backed off, he knew it was her the second her scent hit his nose, and he felt bad for the poor idiots who had tried to make short work of him. He slipped into the darkness easily, true enough he was bleeding, that wound was deep but far from fatal... He'd had worse on his rounds and he knew when to seek medical attention... He had some time yet before it got to that point...



It would seem however that, despite him taking up the place at the back, to ensure she didn't get jumped in that fashion... That no one got away... But then time slowed down, and he wasn't sure if his wound was laced with something or he had lost more blood than he thought, causing him to shake his head in wonderment... But then there was her voice, a soft cooing sort of melody in his ears, a swallowed whimper in his throat... She knew his weakness, his weakness to her most of all, how she was his Mistress... And oh, how he lived for her to order him around, to whip and cut him... Make him bleed...



All she had to do was whisper an order and he was hers to command, and right now, right now it seemed she was leaving all of this in his hands... But how? Why? What did she expect him to do? He had a dagger on him but that was hardly enough for the group, wasn't it? They'd been training as spar partners but he didn't think he'd come QUITE that far... He was a ranged fighter at heart so this? Was entirely alien to him... Yet there it was... Time moving faster... Faster... Would he let her die? "Never..." He whispered as he rushed in, his power kicking on but only in a half measure, but even that? Was enough to keep her safe... HIs speed multiplied by the dozens, leaving a sort of shadow in his wake, like a dark ink blur of movement that trailed behind him almost as if it were through water... He had her out of the way, the mans fist caught in his own, and with a jerk severed the wrist from forearm... Turning it all the way around with enough force to cause the kinetic energy to ripple up the brutes arm and shatter both elbow and shoulder...



The two who had been coming at her were made short work of, one ended up with his knee in her mouth, shattering teeth and jaw alike and spewing blood around like a childs sprinkler... The one from behind got his elbow to the throat, concaving his windpipe and imploding his adams apple, dropping him down to suffocate to death in an agonizing fashion... The one who was left? Was the little girl, who decided in that moment she was desperately outmaneuvered and ran off up the street, but he? Let her go. She was a child, children were malleable, flexible... She had a chance to grow up and change... The adults who were now dying and wishing they were dead? Not so much. He'd whistle high and hard, calling a group of officers to the area who would then take the criminals to jail, but who had attacked them in self defense?



Those guards would never find out... He had grabbed Sydel by the waist and hauled her into an abandoned building where he fell on her like a wolf on a wounded lamb, ripping and shredding into her clothes in a hungry frenzy, his lips all over her skin in brutal love bites... Jerking her panties down he ended up tearing them off in his rush, a quick fumble with his own pants before he was out, rock hard and throbbing... Forcing himself into her without so much as a 'do you mind?'... It was rape, violent and hard, and if anyone was watching? It would look exactly like that, but the two of them, oh they knew differently...



That darkness was still throbbing in his veins, pushing him to take her, ramming his thick hard cock up into her cunt... Feeling the resistance, the lack of wetness that usually accompanied their sex, the tightness of her... He groaned against her neck in raw, hungry pleasure as he began to thud into her, gripping her hips so hard he bruised her... Ramming up and over into her, over and over again until she was soaking wet, hot and hungry for him... Only then would he switch it up and yank her small frame off, slamming her into the ground face first among the rubble and refuse of the abandoned building... Taking her sweet tight ass and putting it in the air, spitting onto her pink little star before sliding his thumb down into her, hooking it so that he hit that sweet spot... Plunging into her over and over again with the force of a jack hammer, sinking deep into her and bottoming out, pulling out until his cock literally sprang free... Only to dive back into her with an impact strong enough to bruise her ass and force her face that much harder into the rubble...



This wasn't for her pleasure, this was all for him, his own wants... Needs... That darkness driving him as he brutally fucked her, his teeth finding her shoulder where he bit down hard, Keeping her under him until he was done... Colliding into her over and over again with a furry that she had never seen from him, that no one ever had, and besides her? No one might ever see again... He furiously thudded against her for several minutes until he found his peak, a deep guttural growl against her neck as he bit her over and over again, flooding her tight little cunt with cum over and over again... He pulled out half way through, his cock still jerking and spasming, shooting cum across her bare skin before he'd drag her around... Fist in her hair as he pulled her to his cock, forcing her mouth open with his grip on her jaw, deep throating her and holding it there... Choking her as he finished cumming inside her mouth, flooding her throat with cum, keeping her his victim...



Yes... When that dark side came out? He wasn't soft in the slightest, he didn't care who or what was near him, if it had a cunt? He was going to fuck it... It was the only way to release the pent up energy, to coax the monster back down into it's cave, to make it sleep for a while longer... He released her then, and a few moments later seemed to come to his senses, looking down at the mess he had made of her... The horror on his face...

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..the power within that small darkened alley was considerable... i was more than enough to peak her interest.. to grasp a strangle hold upon her attention.. though locating its source wasn't quite so simple.. she had an inkling it was Diovan, but realistically how did it make sense?..tossing on the old granny disguise she did her best to get the thugs attention..

the glittering gold hitting the grotty pavement did the trick easily and she was soon and swiftly set upon by three.. time slowed in that second.. she used up a great deal of her energy to perform that.. giving her just enough time to tell him he had to fight for her.. that she was going to let it all just happen.. it would prove to her that the power was with him.. and if she was wrong.. well this next action was going to hurt.. a lot.. time sped up.. and before she knew it she was tossed to the side.. landing in a pile of old boxes as she whined a touch.. lifting her head a little to look through the gap..she could see the fighting..

just how Diovan was taking the upper hand.. and how brutal he was being.. purely savage.. not something she had seen in him before.. blood was splattering against the dirty brick walls.. she could hear bones cracking.. breaking.. smashing.. skin tearing.. teeth shattering.. before there was that shrill whistle and the footfalls of what she figured were guards? some kind of local law enforcement?.. she didn't even have time to question before she felt his hold upon her waist..picking her up as if she weighed nothing and she was hauled in through the wooden door directly across.. the buildings were long abandoned ..just filled with litter and trash.. they probably housed the homeless during the night..

she groaned when she hit the dusty floor then.. the back of her head colliding with the concrete.. looking up to him there as he all but pounced.. her vacant gaze widened considerably and her mouth fell open.. he was literally shredding her clothing.. the leather.. the cotton.. all of it just fell away..leaving her bare..completely naked.. just that perfectly pale white frame he knew quite well..-.. Diovan?..-she questioned.. her body jerked and twitched when he began to ply his lips all over her.. his teeth sinking in made her cry out..blood starting to pool to the surface....her voice echoed within that wide empty room..-.. What the Fuck are you doing?!..

-she blinked.. several times, her mind was just running loops.. trying to come to an answer.. something was wrong.. sure.. they could get savage.. the pair of them could get quite brutal when it came to the bedroom.. but this was different.. she could feel the brutal force in his actions.. before he forced her thighs apart.. her strength whilst not slight.. was no match for him.. she may as well have been as weak as a human.. though the magical expense earlier wasn't helping matters..-.. Dont..-she managed to get out before he thrust into her.. the action hard and violent. her body stiffened like a statue.. her head banged down harder against the concrete.. those eyes of hers rolled backward and she cried out.. there was no lubrication.. Nothing.. her body was not a usual run of the mill human or even elf.. for all intents and purposes she was dead..

she grit her teeth down..feeling that white hot sting at every single thrust.. deeper and harder than the one prior.. the way he held her.. gripped her.. purple bruising surfacing in almost perfect reprints of his hands.. her hips.. her waist.. whilst he attacked her shoulders with his teeth.. her pure white skin was soon quite a painting.. trickles of scarlet red dribbled down around those bouncing breasts.. She'd been in this position a few times in her life.. most were locked away in a memory vault from her childhood that she'd not likely want to dive into anytime soon.. and then of course Nautilous.. when he planted that seed of Aysil in only the most brutal fashion she knew.. her response to his actions then?.. she ran.. this was very similar.. but of all the people ..she never would have figured it would be him.. -.. You Know I would give you anything.. -she cried out to him as he continued to thud into her.. the insides of her thighs were burning.. bruising.. -.. anything.. at all.. anytime.. -she groaned.. slicing her teeth down into her lower lip..

her body was forcing her to settle.. to take it.. he would soon find that tight silky tunnel he was invading quite a bit smoother with a mixture of blood and her own sweet lubrication.. a defence mechanism.. hell she'd probably orgasm from it all.. he was fucking her.. he was pressing all the right spots.. at the right time.. her mind was just having none of it.. -.. You just had to ask.. -she groaned.. her body bucked and trembled beneath him.. before he switched suddenly.. forcing her down onto the ground..slamming her hard.. her head once more coming into contact with the concrete.. this time grazing her cheek.. her chin.. she clenched her eyes closed..

he manipulated her body and she wouldn't fight it.. he could position her however he pleased.. her poor heart was throbbing.. her head was aching.. along with just about everything else.. she could taste the blood on her tongue.. her head rocked back.. those pure white ringlets bounced when he dipped that thumb down into her ass.. hooking it as he once more forced that thick hard cock back into that raw wet cunt.. she couldn't hold back the scream then.. her head rocked back forward.. colliding with the floor once more.. she whined tears began tumbling down her cheeks..

that pressure deep down within her was rising.. the ferocity of the action was fucking with her head..he had taken the power from her.. he'd shifted it.. using and abusing every inch of that little frame of hers to sate his own desire..he bit into her shoulders again.. drawing more and more blood to the surface.. her body kept being pushed forward a little more.. and then a little more with every hard push he made.. her knees were grazed ..she was filthy.. coated in blood, dust and spit..

her own peak was just there.. right there.. a mere moment away ..and it struck her.. causing those already tight walls of hers to draw in.. to squeeze his cock almost to the point of being painful.. she cried out.. she trembled and shook.. before he sliced his teeth into her skin as he hit his climax.. painting her up thoroughly ..coating those walls with every spasm and jerk.. she cried.. she groaned and shuddered.. was he done?.. her mind was wrecked.. she was stuck in a state of shock..much the same as when Nautilous had performed similar.. and it would have pretty much the same effect if she wasn't careful..

he withdrew from her without warning.. leaving that raw cunt of hers just gaping..she could feel the cum splashing along her skin.. that hot wet sensation.. before she gasped.. he gripped her by the hair.. pulling her around.. and before she knew it that throat of hers was filled.. he had a grip on her jaw she couldn't possibly fight as he pumped her full..jerking.. pulsing.. she choked and spluttered..the corners her eyes.. those vacant white orbs just looked up to him there.. she was becoming light headed the longer he choked her.. before he finally tossed her to the side.. she remained in a semi seated position.. cum dribbling down her chin.. before she just crumpled.. falling to her back there.. looking like a murder victim ..bruised, bloodied, cut and torn.. and silent..

[BadInfluence]

".. What the Fuck are you doing?!.." Echoed around in his head but it didn't stick to anything, just seemed to be absorbed into the inky black tunnel he was existing in. Nothing came, nothing went, there was only power... Hungry, angry, violent power... Like a wolf with rabies, it was entirely feral, and it only knew one thing... Attack... ".. You Know I would give you anything.." Another soft whisper in his head... Just rattling around, being consumed by the silence just as the other words did... ".. anything.. at all.. anytime.." But who was she talking to? Who, exactly, was she trying to reach?



If she was looking for her lover, for the man she had just asked to be her second husband, she was out of luck. That soft, warm, loving and gentle side was gone; buried under so much sheer blackness it might as well be a tar pit, and the beast who summoned it would not let go easily, nor quickly. It was a thing of violence, and the group outside had not been enough to sate it, and it had fallen on the next closest thing... Her... And what violence can a man act upon a woman? Rape... And it was violent and ugly, she wasn't taken into account what so ever, no words or actions registered one bit... It was going to take out all it's fury at being denied access to the world for so many decades, and luckily for her, she was already dead... Otherwise she would sincerely be wishing she was when he was done...



He did finish though, after he had his way with her, fucked her as brutally as any man can the beast was... Somewhat sated... Or perhaps the act had mounted enough horror for his other side to finally push through, but one way or the other, the creature was one more shoved into it's black little pit. He saw her there, sitting upright fora moment before she crumpled, looking like the victim of a gang rape gone wrong... He felt horrible, worse than horrible, he felt absolutely terrified... Had he killed her? Could she even die?



It didn't matter, he was reaching out for her with a cry of pain, dragging her to his chest where he cradled her... Rocking her... Tears falling from his eyes as he pulled his cloak off and wrapped it around her, almost swaddling her, he was so tender and careful... "Sydel... Sydel please... Please be alive... I'm so sorry... I'm so so sorry..." He said, over and over again, moving to his feet... He didn't care he was wounded, that stab to his back didn't even register, his only thought? Was getting her to somewhere warm and safe... But where? Where the fuck was he? He HATED the god damned surface! Humans were evil, beyond evil and now?... Now he was too, wasn't he? Didn't he have the worst of it inside him? Look at what he had done... He was desperately calling for his brother mentally, unaware he was with Hanali at the time, the two brokering a deal like lawyers over a settlement...



Who did hear him though? Was Khorne... After all who else had been paying such a close eye on a surprisingly lovely development? Plus Khorn was indeed her father as well as her husband, (let's don't get into it, Gods are kinky sons of bitches, leave it at that.) so naturally he was aware of the situation, and had opened a blood red portal before them... He reeled back, none of this was familiar, none of this was even remotely ok... But he had seen it before, for both Nautilous and Sydel had disappeared into one or two before, he'd seen it personally and it always scared him... It went against everything he was, everything he believed in, everything that was sacred to him... But what choice did he have? He loved her, he had hurt her, and he would take any help that offered it's hand...



Walking through that portal they'd find themselves in a luxurious space, all black and red, so dark it made his head spin... A small pocket universe, a space for them to reside in, one that would dissolve the moment they wished to leave... There was a large bed, whips and chains, torture devices... And her own favorite cauldron, though it was dry and empty, but there were souls there... The men and women who had attacked them, plus a few other criminals by the look of them, and he had to wonder why they were there... But at that moment of thought a blade appeared in his hand, a dark voice whispered in his ear, and his eyes slid closed even as he held her...



Such horrible games the Gods play...



He swayed, like a man asleep, walking her almost drunkenly to the cauldron before setting her into it... Moving to stand inside it with her, reaching down to drag one of the attackers up into it with him, his strength easily magnified by the power that kept dancing along the edges of his veins... Someone was trying to weaken the chains to the beast, a slow acid drip over them, allowing it more and more slack... He unrolled her out of his cloak and tossed it over the side, pulling the brutes head back he slit the mans throat, aiming the spray over her... Bathing her in scalding hot blood before dripping him into the bottom of the cauldron, grabbing another... Another still... Each one was given a crimson smile, a high pitched flute sound as their throats were neatly severed, each one bathing her in hot sticky blood...



The bodies on the bottom began to pile up, making a soft mattress of human flesh under them, the cauldron beginning to heat, to boil... The blood began to pop and hiss, each new body addying to the fluid level until it was nearly sloshing over, painting her crimson and gore as the white was easily turned pink under it all. When the last throat was slit, that final body a cushion under her, a small vial appeared in his hand... Directions of where to put it... And why... A conception drug to kill his seed, for while he did have a delicious darkness in him, Khorn had his preferred father of her children... But he heard another voice too... Something soft and sweet, such a familiar whisper, a beloved and dear friend... The two were at war in his own head, making him dizzy, but in the end? He pocketed the vial instead and went to her, leaning her back over the cauldron's side, and slowly began to give her a massage...



Could she hear him?...



"Hanali... Has a request... Khorn has an order..." He said by her ear, his hands working slowly over her skin, rubbing the blood in like a rare and expensive massage oil... "Khorn wants me to give you this vial... To kill my seed because he doesn't want anyone but Nautilous to get you pregnant... But Hanali says if you wait... When you meet Nautilous again, that you'll have twins... One of his, one of mine, a set of light and dark..." He gave a gentle shrug of his shoulders for a moment. He knew how she felt about kids, and to be honest? He wanted her pregnant... But at the same time? He respected the fact that her and Nautilous were as in love and linked as he and Bells were... It was one thing to fuck each others wives, but the subject of children with Sydel was always a very plain and straight no... And he had heard Nautilous ask her more than once for another baby...



What Sydel didn't know? Was the last two pregnancies from Sybelle were his, not Nautilous's, as his brother had chosen to respect their marriage vows... Strange, but marriage can change a lot of things, a lot of people... So in truth Nautilous had been without a child since their son Aylan who was now crowding five... He could understand how Nautilous would want another child, especially with Sydel, given she was his wife and they hadn't had a single child since Aysil... But the choice wasn't his to make, it was hers, as it was her body... "She's saying that the twins will bring harmony but I'm not going to make a choice for you... That is between you and Nautilous..."



There, he'd been the messenger, even if both Gods were now a bit disappointed in him for not trying to convince her one way or the other. He'd instead focus on her, giving her a full body massage as he waited for her to heal from what he had done to her, pulling her into his lap once he was done, holding her close and waiting... So much waiting...

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he clutched her and held her.. but she was like a rag doll.. there was no movement, no signs of life.. she was for all intents and purposes dead.. but..to anyone that knew her that was her normal status.. thats how she was.. she was cold to the touch.. there were no pupils...but that was normal right?.. her dear Daddy had opened up that portal then.. to coax him through.. the good brother.. the normal one.. or.. so it all seemed.. the cauldron waited.. the souls..bodies and blood.. she rested slumped down into the corner.. her arms over one edge to keep her from sinking down into it.. the blood spray hit her bruised and battered body.. painting her up with its scarlet paint.. the sticky hot liquid grew.. filling the cauldron.. till it was almost at the rim..

she knew not of the inner conflict he was experiencing.. or the deals that were being made between gods and goddesses.. some time would pass.. quite a bit of time where he would be rubbing her shoulders.. trying to coax her forward.. out of whatever it was she was stuck in.. the bruising wasn't going away.. the abrasions upon her cheeks.. the delicate curves of her neck and shoulders..remained.. and his hands prints.. perfect replicas..were as strong as ever.. she suddenly gasped as if she were choking.. it was a horrible curdling noise before she vomited out that sticky white liquid.. it was a considerable amount thanks to his earlier efforts.. it easily stained the top of the bubbling hot bloody bath.. her lids fluttered.. her body trembled and she groaned.. whimpering softly..

his essence continued to trickle down her chin.. she spluttered and coughed every so often.. her lids opened.. revealing those vacant orbs.. she looked lost.. jerking her head from left to right.. he was behind her after all.. she was wondering how the hell she got there.. her head was aching.. her body was in an incredible amount of pain.. -.. no..nonono.. no.. no.. this isn't..

-her breathing picked up considerably.. she gripped the side of the cauldron then and she pulled herself out.. though her legs were useless ..her torn up knees hit the floor hard..something was stopping her body from regenerating itself.. she cried out softly.. her head hung forward.. a puddle of blood just dripped from her body onto the white flooring.. she spluttered and coughed again.. looking up through those ivory ringlets..to him.. directly to him-.. you need to go.. -she whispered.. it was barely audible.. and her voice crackled.. if he approached her she would do her best to move backward.. -.. its not safe for you here.. not safe.. -her eyes darted around.. oh she was broken.. -.. Dont touch me.. -she slid back further on the floor there till she was pressed to the wall..her knees drawn upward.. if he continued to come toward her she would yell.. it would be a highly pitched scream that would easily shatter the windows in that little palace room..that and the tube in his pocket..her body jerked and shook..

she muttered something about Nautilous.. and Chris.. and now Diovan.. before she just slumped forward.. and was out.. she'd gone to that little box.. that place she hid in when she was a child.. the place Sybelle was hiding in for so long.. until Naut coaxed her out.. and thats where she would remain for now.. -

[BadInfluence]

He couldn't handle it, mentally or physically, what he had just done... He blinked once... Twice... Thrice... Where was he? Where was this place? He looked around to the bright contrasts of red and white, the sounds of screaming, and he? Was coated in blood, Sydel was against a side wall looking for all the world like a broken doll, stutters and talking to herself... It wasn't safe for him here... Yeah, coming back to his senses he could tell that, there was a pile of bodies in the bottom of a fucking cauldron for the Love of Hanali!

"Sydel... My Mistress... What-..." He was so lost, so confused, it showed on his face... And the confusing argument in his head was even less helpful, if not a touch on the painful side, making him grab at his ears to try and silence the din. He shook his head once... Twice... He could hear a male voice, sounding like a sword across a whetstone, and his beloved Hanali... Out of breath, oddly enough, but quite strong... One arguing one way, another for the other, for or against the possibility of a child... All the while she just slipped farther away from him until Sydel was gone...

What could he do? What did he know how to do? He was about as magically gifted as a fucking Potato...

He called out to the one person he knew who could hear his desperate plea, who would be able to come and help, find a way to... To undo what ever had happened...

For due to the nature of it all, the sudden violent release of the monster inside him, and the complete and utter alieness of such heinous crimes? His memory chose to enact a temporary amnesia, to bury it deep down in his subconscious, so very much like the times with Vanima... If one knew how to press the buttons and where, especially here on the surface, oh... What horrible things he was perfectly capable of doing...

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Hanali had a thing about playing with the time in her Domain, she could make a day last a month in there, and the day he had been gone? Literally a month had passed in there full of hard and absolutely unfiltered sex. Hanali was the Goddess of Love, but even SHE had to confess there were a man or two to give her a run for her money, and he? Was at the very top of the list... Poor Ace... Getting pushed into notch two...

It was a serious fuck-fest in that little pocket dimension, he had Hanali in every way she wanted, letting her have the sway for now... But when she left to 'hydrate' while he lounged in the bed at her leisure, that was when he got the message, and it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out somehow in the amount of time he had been gone? Shit had gone south and in a royal fashion. He pushed himself up from the bed, admittedly even he was sweaty, his cock felt raw and his muscles ached a bit... She had stamina, that Goddess, but not much willpower... He had her broken in less than an hour, wrapped around his little finger, all while he let her think she had him in her palm...

Going to the scrying bowl he looked in on his brother and was instantly seeing red, literally, in that room... Sydel broken and bloodied in a corner, Diovan looking confused as fuck and covered in blood, and come on... It was obvious where they were... He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose... Honestly, he really couldn't leave his family alone for a minute, could he? He was like their duct tape, he had a light side and a dark side, and held the universe together... He was about to leave when he found his exit blocked, indeed the whole place had been sealed down tight than a drum, which naturally had him looking to the blond elf... Standing oh so casually against the wall though he could see her knees shaking, her cunt swollen and well uses, plenty of her cum slicking up her thighs... Littered with hickies and bite barks and bruises... A well used slut...

N: Why are you stopping me from leaving? I've done my part and if you doubt it check your knees... I can see them shaking from here.

H: Oh no no love... I would never say you renegaded on your deal, hardly that sweetheart, I wouldn't DREAM of it... No... I want... Something else.

N: That's not how this works and you know it... Rules stated I fucked you until you couldn't take it anymore and my brother was allowed back in without that rule hanging over him anymore. I've done that. So let. Me. Out.

H: Now now, hold on just a second... I agree to let him back in, I couldn't deny my favorite Ranger the right to come home now that his tabs been settled, but as we can both see... He's in a bit of a bind and you can't help him...

N: Riiight... And why the hell do you say that?

H: Well, Sydel you see, is right back in with her chosen poison... And she brought Dio with him... They're both now far too tainted to allow back home for some time... I can't have you rushing off to save them and bring them back... Not without...

N: Without what? Come on Hanali, don't beat around the bush, yours couldn't take another pouding.

H: Oh you're so lusciously naughty, I do love that, you know. No no... I might let you bring them home right now... If you bathe them in my springs so the taint is removed and...

N: And?...

H: Give me a baby, if course. You make such beautiful children and I could use a helper around here, now that your little family unit has taken up residence, I'm having more babies born every year... And I want my own... Someone to take over perhaps? Or even branch out on her own...

N: Were you smoking pot when I took my marriage vows and we got your blessings? I promised I wouldn't sleep around on my wife. I meant it.

H: Of course you did! And you've been such a GOOD husband too! But as I recall your last conversation... She told you to make her proud... And if you don't do what I tell you, well, I'll be QUITE Disappointed.

N: If you want a kid so bad go get Ace's baby gravy, he's your permanent lover after all, isn't that like his Job?

H: Oh no no no... He's my lover true, but have you SEEN your children? They're beautiful little things! And besides, you know as well as I do you're the only one who can. Ace is potent but he's not part god...

N: Are you telling me the reason you haven't had any kids is because all your lovers have been elves?

H: Exactly! A bit hard to have a child with someone the wrong species...

N: Bloody fucking hell...




Rock and a hard place without a doubt... He didn't WANT any kids spread around anymore, the only other to his children were Sydel and Sybelle, end of story... But now if he was to bring back both Diovan AND Sydel he'd have to knock up the one and only Elvish Goddess of love... It seemed way too unfair in his mind, there had to be something more, something to gain out of it... Because it seemed everyone else got what they wanted but him, and really, let's be honest here... He was a greedy ass mother fucker... How to work it around in the time they had though?...



N: If I do this I want a hell of a lot more than getting my Wife and Brother back in. Everyone wins in this situation but me. So here's how we're going to cut it sugar cunt. My family is put directly under your protection, for as many generations as my blood flows through a living being, until the end of time if my bloodline lasts so long. I also want our own mansion on the temple grounds, large and opulent, with room for all my family to grow. You will bestow favors on my Wife, and you know what, while I'm at it? You will bless not my marriage, but also allow Diovan and Sybelle to marry myself and Sydel... All of us linked, husbands to wives, wife to wife and husband to husband. This includes the link I have with Sydel.

H: My my, aren't you setting a tall order? Your asking quite a lot for a simple thing that results in your pleasure...

N: No. I'm not asking enough for what you're expecting me to do. To break my vows to my wife? You think it comes cheaply? Without consequence? And do keep in mind my pretty pet, that you need us here more than we need you, or do you want us to throw Arvandor out of balance again?

Oh he was playing hard ball and he knew it, could see it in her lovely face, the beautiful features taking on emotions oh so very human like... But in the end if she wanted what she said? Then she had to give him what he was asking for. It was a high deal, a bargain struck between gods, but it was what he expected. She had nothing he wanted outside of the marriage really, and they could live on as they were without it... Just as much as they could live on the surface if they needed to...

H: Alright, alright, fine... You win... I agree to your contract... Now Co-

That was all she got out before he was on her faster than even she could have expected, pinning her to the wall she had been leaning against, facing away from him... He wouldn't see her face, he didn't want to, it was bad enough as it was... He reached one hand up to press her face into the wall, the other came down around her and began to viciously assault her clit, forcing her to a peak she had no control over... Taking every inch of power from her in the matter of a millisecond, throwing her off balance because naturally, she had thought she was in charge the entire time...

Hardly...

"Spread your legs for me little slut..." He growled into her ear, hearing her moan and whimper before doing so, her body already starting to jerk and spasm there, starting to close on the peak... Hanali had never been dominated before, but right now, right now she was getting a first hand taste of how brutal a fucking could be... He slammed his cock up into her then, thick and long and hard, hearing her scream out in pleasured pain... He kept up with her clit, feeling her cunt starting to spasm around her as she came hard, screaming his name agains the plaster which her face rested... He came inside her then, deep and hard, a months worth of pent up need coming out in a violent cresting of cum...

It would splatter and paint up her core, deeper into every nook and cranny, up into her womb through the cervix his cock was pressed against... Flooding that before now, never touched, entirely pure space... Tainting this Goddess... Burring his seed deep inside her... But once he started? He yanked her off the wall, hand in her hair, lifting her legs to lock around behind him... Stepping back towards the bed he pushed her face into it, lifting his leg up to press his foot against her neck, he fucked her all over again... Hard and raw, panting and groaning as he reached down to slap her ass, making her cum all over again... Feeling her pussy sucking and swallowing up along his dick... Taking more of that cum deep inside her... He came seconds after, forcing her to come in tandem with him, right on the heels of her last...

Oh she was a screaming, crying, tongue out and drooling mess... She would never... Ever recover from this... Not for a second.

He turned her over then so she could see him, lifting her legs up over his shoulders he sunk in down and deep, pressing that much harder util his cock was pressing into the opening of her cervix, keeping it short and shallow as he built them both up again, cumming for the third time with a yell that they both felt deep in their bones... He dropped her legs, turned her on her side, one leg between his own and the other against his chest... Oh the ways he fucked her, each one more demanding than the next, forcing her to cum over and over again in such a rapid succession she barely had three minutes between... At which time she was begging, pleading with him to stop, that she couldn't take a moment more... The walls of this place starting to shatter and fall apart, the pocket realm beginning to crack as she lost her control, being broken by him and his cock inside her...

He didn't relent, he pushed her hard and hard, deeper and faster... Her womb fully flooded with so much cum it began to swell, to stretch and adapt, and still he forced more into her... Until her belly started to change, to swell and grow, heavy with cum as he waited for it... For that spark he always felt when his seed caught... It took another week of fucking, her belly growing rounder and rounder as he punished her without mercy, her cunt raw and so perfectly gaped out to his cock that no one would ever feel it tight again... He ruined her... Broke her... Made her his... But at the end of that week in the pocket dimension he felt it... She'd ovulated and the moment her egg released he had it fertilized, and only then did he pull out, and oh... What a gush...

She would be there, face down in the bedding, sobbing brokenly from so much pleasure even her senses were in overload... Cum gushing and dribbling out of her well fucked cunt like a water hose on low, slipping down her thighs to the bed, to flood the silken sheets... Her belly slowly getting smaller as all of his cum could finally exit...

N: It's done... I'm leaving to get my brother and my wife.

H: No! No... Please Don't... I need you... This was... The best fuck... In all existence...

N: Of course it was, it's me. You got what you wanted Hanali so stop trying to keep me here...

H: Marry me! I'll treat you so good Nautilous... I can be anyone... Anything you want... Don't take this away...

N: No, you can't... Before I met Sydel maybe I would have taken you up on it, you're a fucking lucious pussy and a very flexible lover, but your not her... Sydel has me, heart and soul, and no matter what you do you can't take that.

H: I WILL have you Nautilous...

He just shrugged, he'd seen this before a hundred times with the women at the pleasure houses, how they'd sell their souls to have him... But the only girl for him? Was his wife. Everyone else was just plain old vanilla, he absolutely worshiped Sydel, not that she knew it but... She had him in her palm and had for years... And right now? He was going to see to her and get her and his brother out of what ever mess they were in...

Rifting out of the space Hanali had erected, he made a straight trip down into that little niche where the two were at, the smell of blood and sex... Looking to Sydel he could tell as clear as day what he couldn't see through the pool... She had been raped... And the way she was hiding from Diovan? It didn't take him seeing the event to know...

He closed the space between him and his brother in a fraction of a second and laid into him with one solid punch on his jaw, watching Dio's head snap back before he dropped like a brick, completely blacked out... Sydel was harder though... She was out for a different reason, he couldn't feel her along their connection, it was like a black out... That worried him as he went to her to pick her up, hearing Khorn whispering to him in his ear now, about the vial... The rape... All of it... He sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose, taking the vial out of Dio's hand then and popping the cork, putting it in his mouth before kissing Sydel... Forcing the potion between her lips and down her throat... Killing any child that might have tried to start...

Fuck this and damned interfering gods... They were worse than busy bodied old women in a village community full of drama... Always in someone else's business... He tossed the vial aside and held Sydel in his arms, holding her gently, like a broken doll... Dio was dragged behind him by his cloak and they left there, appearing in the outskirts of Arvandor where the purifying pools were, tossing Dio in to wake his ass up... Sydel he was much gentler with, she didn't need to be purified, Khorn was always a part of her... Instead he summoned up hot water, laced with restorative herbs and oils, salts and cure alls... He'd gently clean her from head to toe, summoning up the softest white dress for her, lined with red silk under all the snowy innocence...

She still hadn't woken up...

He ignored Dio who was now awake but totally dazed and out of it, focusing on her instead, and when she didn't come around? He did what he always did for her... Slit into his own wrist to bring blood to the surface before pressing it to her lips, guiding her to drink from him, to let it run down her throat... It might be a rough jump awake for her but she'd still be there, still be her, begin healing... "Better stay in that fucking pool Dio, cause the moment your out, I think I'm going to kill you for raping my wife."

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..she was oblivious to the goings on around her.. well almost.. there was an echo.. as if far off in the distance.. and then the voices came to her through a tunnel.. she'd separated from her body.. her mind had pretty much had a gut full of it all and decided on its own that.. it was time for a rest.. a forced one.. in much the same way an elf would have reverie.. her body slumped against the corner of the pure white tiled wall.. blood pooling beneath her from the cauldron soak mere moments prior..

she tried to warn Diovan.. that he should not be there.. it was not safe for him.. not at all.. but it kind of came out like stuttered chanting..her body was easily picked up by Nautilous.. though he'd have to hold her upright.. she was for all intents and purposes little more than a rag doll.. he pressed his lips to hers.. his heat to her cool.. there was no response though ..she didn't return it.. her lids didn't twitch.. nothing.. just a faint gurgling noise before the three of them shifted from that little pocket domain.. she was back in the awaiting arms of Arvandor.. or.. well the outskirts in any rate.. the purity pools.. to remove all traces of the chaos from her Fathers domain..

Nautilous was smart.. there's no way that pool would have done anything for her.. it could have even aggravated her current condition.. he treated her incredibly well.. cleaning her bruised and battered skin.. Diovan had done quite a number on her..maybe it was just because she was so pale .. that it made it so much more prominent.. the corners of her lips were split.. her usually pure white ringlets were matted and dirty from hitting her head on the concrete floor as often as she had.. Normally she would have never lost a fight.. at least not to this extent.. or even anything close to it.. but her guard was down.. why would she need to be cautious around Diovan.. he wouldn't ever hurt her.. right?..

she was dressed in the little white gown.. her skin no longer dirty.. or dusty.. just clean cuts and bruising remained.. hand prints that told the tale of just where this beautiful brother of his had laid his claim.. he cut into his own wrist then.. the blood slowly oozing to the surface.. before he would place it about her lips.. lifting her head enough this time.. a moment.. then a little longer.. perhaps too long.. she remained silent.. still.. would he give up?.. would he run himself dry for her?.. before he would feel a sudden spark in that connection.. the one that they shared.. as if someone had reconnected the cables.. a flicker.. a bit of white noise..

he'd see her.. though the vision would drop in and out of clarity.. as if he needed to rub his eyes.. she was sitting in a box.. the same box Sybelle was in originally.. her knees draw to her chest.. her head tilting to the side as she just stared off.. into nothing.. a flicker of a replay then.. looking through her own eyes.. feeling her body hit the cold dusty concrete.. how Diovan was clawing at her clothing as if he were possessed.. her questioning him.. Loudly.. which then turned to pleading.. before he just took all the control from her.. and whilst she didn't show him everything.. she showed enough for him to get a good idea of what Could have occurred.. maybe even its triggers..

before her lids snapped open.. those usually pure white vacant orbs were tinged with yellow as she coughed and spluttered.. the contents of her throat.. her airways.. all of it came back up.. staining the front of that beautiful white gown blood red.. she coughed.. she cried out.. she whined.. it hurt..ohh she was going to hate this.. she hated.. Hated being weak.. and right now.. a kitten could have bowled her over.. blood continued to trickle down her bruised chin.. she looked to him through half lidded eyes.. she was breathing at least- ..mm..-she murmered-.. did you.. -her voice crackled.. the pitch was broken.. -.. did.. -she swallowed and grimaced-.. did you make me proud?

[BadInfluence]

Diovan might be the kinder, softer lover of the two of them true enough, but he didn't know Sydel. Not like he did. He'd had the strongest love hate relationship on and off with her for over a decade, and it took their daughter and another three years of staying together before they realized they just had to throw in the towel, they were too perfect together to be apart with anyone else. Sure, they had ups and downs, but they were one of the strongest couples anyone could ever see. He knew her ins and outs, her flaws and her assets, and he knew without even needing to think about it that the pools were pointless. He went old school, giving her some tender loving care, cleaning her wounds and removing all the dirt and rubble form her hair and skin... It took a while, there was a lot of blood and trash on her, but he got her through it... She was still silent though, that got him worried, wondering if there was another force at rest behind it.



Doing all he could for her physically, the causes for her not waking up were beyond his knowledge, so he continued to go the rout that usually worked... The tried and true... Slitting his wrist to feed her, his blood was definitely on a high right now, almost a month and a half of being fed pure sexual energy? He was as close to back to his old self as he could be without having his powers fully restored and going half insane due to it. It took a while admittedly, and he wanted to stop once or twice, wondering if it was even able to help her in her situation... He held on though, holding out, and finally he felt that line snap... The communication back open between them once more, and to say he was relieved was an understatement, his shoulders dropping a bit as the tension left him.



Taking every image he could see what had happened, why Diovan had pounced her and raped her, how it had been a desperate attempt to put the beast back in it's cage... His mother had always said she removed the powers, but given what he had just seen, that was CLEARLY a lie... Or... His mind jumped a bit, sending an image of his mother back to her, and just how secretive she was... Always had been... And maybe... Diovan's father wasn't actually his father after all... A question he wanted to look into... And a mother he had to hunt down of course... But under all that? Warm waves of love and compassion washing over her, his utter adoration, his fealty and devotion...



When she sat up, coughing and gagging, puking up all over that dress he had to pause... That... Was new... Looking at the tint to her eyes, the yellow there in them, he knew what it was... Poison wasn't a joke, and while she could rubberband from most of them, this one had been from Khorn... Specifically to remove the chance of a child being born. He'd have to admit... He'd be pretty fucking jealous if it happened, not because he was petty (though he'd also admit that did come into play somewhat), but more so because he had been asking her since their wedding night and he'd had a continuous stream of no... Bells was the breeder, not her, and he respected it. Sure, he asked now and then, it never hurt to test the waters... But he would by no way force her...



That question though, that made him laugh as he moved in and kissed her forehead softly, another to her nose and one to her lips. Rather than answer right away, he replayed the entire thing for her, front to back... The threats and attempted coersion, Hanali getting more than a little jealous and hungry for him, and then that final fucked up turn... Hanali was pregnant with his kid and he hadn't even wanted to, but he had to give her what she wanted or let her and Dio become completely absorbed by Khorn... How long had he been fighting that bastard just to let Sydel live her own life? Then to add the battle over his brother? He couldn't do it, not at half power, and he wasn't dumb enough to think he could... He was, after all, a master strategist... He knew when a fight was pointless... "I'm sorry Princess, she really left me with no choice or option, but as you can see... I more than made you proud sweetheart... She's virtually spitting green venom and nails at the fact that you, and only you, have my whole heart and soul... Imagine just how Jealous that makes her." Surely she'd get one hell of a kick out of that? After all she used to be a Paramour, so having the very goddess you once worshiped being incredibly jealous of you, well talk about one hell of a pair of bragging rights...



Lifting her in his arms then, he looked at Diovan who was in the pool, looking like he was in genuine shock... Not too different from how Sydel had been. "I'm not going to forgive you for what you did, I can't... It's bad enough I did it to her when I was young and stupid but you? Have no excuse... You know damn good and well you should have called mother..." Yeah, it was bad when he called her mother for one, and two, when he even suggested she be brought into the fold. He hated his mother with a passion, and deep down he had a personal vow that one day he'd kill her, well and truly destroyed and he'd be free of her forever... But for right now? She could answer some much needed questions and provide the help needed to get Diovans nature back under control or... At the worse case... A safe place to rape and pillage and burn until the beast was exhausted... Vanima had given him that once, hence all the blood in his ledger, but it also made him wonder... Was that cage even intact now? Or had someone managed to dig a hole in the corner of it and he was slipping out?



He'd take them both home then, leading Dio like a lost puppy by the hand of all things, his other arm taken up by Sydel as he carried her a bit like a child... Her head on his shoulder and her legs around his hips. It was a bit of a walk but not too much, maybe a ten minute bit through flowering fields and warm sunlight, and thankfully absolutely silent... Not a soul to see... Once home he put Dio in his room with a word to Ace... If he wanted a good hard fuck Dio could give it to him, and receive one too, because he had a feeling that what he did to Sydel? Hadn't been enough... And on a side note? Not to let him out... Keep him drugged up for a while and possibly toss him into a Revere...



Sydel was taken up to their room, stripped out of the now ruined dress which was thrown in the fire, and a copper tub brought up before the hearth... Filled with instantly hot water, almost too much but not quite there, that idea heat that makes you relax... Setting her down into it he sat on the rim. "You little miss, are going to stay right here, warm and snug in the tub alright? I'm going to go get some of the medical balm Bells keeps around the house for the kids, then I'm going to treat these cuts and bruises, and after that? We're going to go into a Revere..." He knew it might be a risk but she needed to process it, if anyone knew how fragile the balance was between the girls, it was him... If Sydel went too far, the results could be disastrous for Sybelle, and vice verse... Sydel hadn't been in a revere for almost too long, getting a chance to relive and process things in a third person manner would do a lot of good for her, help her recenter... He would of course be going with her, to help her process, keep her grounded and able to bring her out at the end of it... He knew she might object and he had a list of reasons why she SHOULD, but if she resisted today, he would respect that... And they'd schedule one together in the near future...



Leaving her in the tub he went down into the kitchen, getting several bottles of deaths head wine and fruit, some cheese and crackers, knowing her desire for regular food was literally non existent... And also knowing she was poisoned and she was going to need the real food until she was a touch more grounded and could handle his blood without vomiting it up on herself...

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..it took some time but the connection between them both had been re-established.. it was a bit on the blurry side and there was plenty of white noise and static but it was more than the silence that had been in its place.. all the blood and a great deal of the poison that had been stored in her throat came up.. flooding her pretty white dress.. her skin.. his top.. and anything that was remotely close to them both.. she groaned a little.. curling in against him.. feeling his bodies warmth ..she asked if he had made her proud..she was genuinely curious.. even with her mind being like swiss cheese..

his laughter made the corners of her lips curl a little.. it was a weak smile but it was there.. he replayed the scene for her.. or well the highlights in any rate.. the threats and coercion.. the jealousy and then the pregnancy.. her brows furrowed a little..her fingers curled over his..just a light touch.. she shook her head.. or.. went to shake her head before she thought better of it.. it just seemed to make the world around her spin..-.. mm.. no.. there's no need for an apology.. I know what you are like when it comes to your children.. she put you in a position you couldn't so easily find another way out of.. -she pursed her lips together..she wasn't terribly happy about it.. but she understood why it had to happen-.. You are right though.. you more than made me proud.. her jealousy is the perfect fuel

-he was correct.. she saw the whole thing incredibly entertaining.. her ex goddess was jealous of her having a strangle hold upon his heart.. and she'd never.. Ever let that grip go.. he pulled her into his arms.. her head fell to his shoulder there and she closed her eyes over once more.. she could hear the conversation between him and Diovan.. though it sounded a lot like they were in a tunnel.. the poison shifting off and on.. the trio returned to the house.. Diovan was placed off into a room with Ace..

whilst he organised that secondary bath for her.. the big copper tub..filled with lush hot water.. she sunk down into it.. hissing a little as the warmth caressed the wounds and cuts.. she skirted that fine line.. the pleasure of the water.. and the pain that same water created...her back came down to rest against the edge.. her head tilting to the side.. she murmured when he spoke about her staying right there.. warm and snug in the tub.. that he was going to get medical balm.. or something.. she was finally relaxing.. the sounds of his voice was all she needed.. everything else was an added bonus.. he mentioned going into revere and she whined a little..-.. but.. -she exhaled.. her lids were heavy as those yellow tinted orbs lifted to look to him there.. -.. mmm.. I guess.. -she spoke softly-.. but.. only for you..

-her lids closed over ..she drew her knees up.. just letting the water envelope her.. as he walked out to find that medical balm.. the sounds within the house shifted a little.. or well a lot.. within the room on the far side of the Mansion where Ace had Diovan hauled up..well there was plenty of noise.. of crashing.. glass breaking.. the sounds of bodies hitting the floor.. the wall.. wood breaking.. strength being exerted.. unlike with Sydel, Diovan would find Ace wasn't going to just bend to his will.. and Ace enjoyed the play time.. he enjoyed the fight.. and it had been a very long time since he had the chance to really throw someone around.. and well be thrown around in return.. the mess however would be localised to one room..

when he would return she would have already fallen into reverie not something she would have done normally..and not something she had done for Years..her head resting almost peacefully upon the lip of the tub..her hand was outstretched.. her fingers awaiting his hold.. her mind knew.. her body knew that she needed him there.. and all he had to do was join her.. in that water.. hold her hand and dip down into the reverie himself.. hopefully he would jump down into hers.. if he found it.. he'd return to that similar place he saw when he found Sybelle.. a dark never ending expanse..

as the light began to hit it, it almost looked like a long corridor.. and since she hadn't been there in a very long time.. it was getting quite long.. just how much had she not processed?.. picture frames appeared.. lining the walls.. both sides.. and as he approached one.. it would more or less come to life.. an image.. playing out a scene from a lifetime..though because he was in attendance the images were of time points where he was in her life.. When they met, Adventures they had taken.. How his attitude had changed over the years.. from being arrogant ..to a handsome kind of confidence.. From the man whore.. to the committed Honorable Man.. The night she rocked up on his doorstep with Aysil..

The many times he gave up his life for her.. the Many times he had killed her and she'd returned.. The time he died and Chris took his place.. The moment in Arvandor.. when she decided to allow him in.. and she got pregnant with Aylan.. how they shared that spark.. how she felt it.. if he looked ahead.. down the length of the corridor.. he'd see a white figure.. it was her.. dressed in a small white dress.. there wasn't a bruise upon her.. no cuts.. no abrasions.. her hair was in the tightest ringlets ..bouncy curls.. lips blood red.. eyes as white as porcelain.. she was gripping a railing as the image played out before her of what she'd just gone through. she could control it.. slow it down.. speed it up.. reverse it..

her poor heart was throbbing in her chest.. he would have felt the anxiety that was flowing from her.. the rape itself.. well ..she didn't really need to see a lot of that.. she was there.. she remembered it.. the way her head hit the concrete over and over.. the bites.. all of it.. she was stuck on the what had occurred earlier.. drawing it back.. and forth.. back and forth..-.. it was my fault.. -the silence shattered as her voice rang out.. echoing within the memory chamber-..I sensed a darkness.. -her brows furrowed.. her eyes began to well up.. those orbs becoming quite glassy-.. I could smell it.. and when I couldn't see it on anyone else.. i knew it had to be him.. and I tested it.. I put myself in that position.. -she gripped that railing harder.. if it were possible for her knuckles to go any whiter they would have.. the video just played out then..

her pleading with him and his growling and grunting echoed .. bouncing as the voices hit the walls.. her hands rose as she held them over her ears..-..the poison isn't working right.. -those tears began to tumble down her cheeks..her knees were feeling weaker-.. Im pregnant Nautilous and I dont know what to do.. You have no idea how much I tried to get rid of Aysil.. I used every poison.. I tried every possible manipulation.. I got so incredibly sick.. but nothing would get rid of it.. I cant stop pregnancy from a power shift.. Diovan took that power from me.. I -she trembled-.. I need help.. -she pleaded with him.. -..

I am unable to regenerate.. that side of me was switched off when Diovans seed succeeded.. My body thinks Im Belle.. The last time I was pregnant with his child was Jacob.. and I died.. -.. she was telling him anything and everything.. in this area.. on this stage.. she was an open book.. there was no room for deception.. no room for coy replies or lies.. it was pure honesty in Reverie.. -..I cant be certain that there can be two Belles in one universe.. -and thats where she felt she were heading...hence the throwing up of the blood.. her body was not after blood.. it was after the sustenance..or a normal regular elf.. -

[BadInfluence]

"She's a funny thing in bed, and I'll tell you right now, she doesn't hold a candle to you sweetheart." The sex was amazing, out of this world good, and he enjoyed himself every minute of it... But it wasn't Sydel... There was more in their sex besides pleasure or violence, there was a true bond, a connection of love that Hanali? Couldn't get him to feel for her. It was why she went a little nuts... Ace loved Hanali when he was there, so had all her other lovers, but him? He wasn't even remotely emotionally invested. Mentally either if he was honest... He did it to pay a tab, to get his brother back because his wife missed him, needed him...

"Jacob might want to watch out if she ever calls her name. She's a jealous creature for sure... Reminds me of someone in a vague, watered down, way less sexy way..." He said with a smile just for her, knowing she was feeling like hammered dog shit, and doing his level best to keep her above the pain... Her pride was good though, it might help dull the ache he had caught her feeling when he showed her what he'd been coerced into doing for the sake of his family, though if Hanali thought she had rights to that Kid she was smoking some serious shit... They'd get to that later though...

Right now? Right now he was focused on her, getting them home, his conversation with Dio... They had gotten closer over their time together, forging a real relationship, but this latest act? Had pretty much shattered all that work, because he was never, ever going to forget this shit. Once back at the manse he tossed Dio to Ace and basically told him to have at it, Ace was always going to be a scrapper, he hated an idle life of comfort after all. He couldn't think of a better man for the job. Upstairs he then headed to put her in that bath, orders to stay where she was and to relax, he was going to get some healing balm... And that he had every intent of her going into a revere... She might not want it, and he could tell by the way she looked, the small whine... "I promise, no one will see or know anything but you and I, I just need you to process this... You and Bells have been way too long separated without a revere each to help ground you in your bodies..."

Leaving to get the balm, he could hear the banging and crashing in the room, nodding his head in approval. Of course that meant leaving Aysil and Aylan along with Joshua alone... He managed them, having Aysil babysit her younger brothers while Bells was at temple, bribing her with ice cream and a new dress... She was his daughter after all, she loved fashion as much as he did, and it also gave her a chance to see that elf she was... He mentally retched... Dating... Yeah... He STILL couldn't wrap his head around it, every time he remember it, it made him want to punch through a tree... But he was a good boy in his own way, Aysil was on a regiment to stop any uh, accidents... GOD He STILL couldn't handle that... Shaking his head he focused on the task at hand, leaving a nice billfold and a note on the door for the guys, saying when they were done to go to Garafin's and get shitfaced. He'd meet them later.

Upon opening the room again he saw she had slipped down into a revere while in the bath, and he made sure to enchant the copper just a bit, to keep the water from going cold while she was in it... Rubbing the balm into her cuts and bruises, the stuff blessedly waterproof or it would never stay on Joshuah, and settled in comfortably at her side... Stripping down and sliding into the water, pulling her into his lap so she was warm and secure, safe... Taking her hand then and slipping down into the revere with her... Seeing the long dark hall, so familiar given he had gotten Bells out of the very same space, the pictures on the walls flickering to light... Making him smile... Their first fight when she had run after realizing he wasn't an easy target... Thier many run ins after, the multiple fights before all that anger just found a different outlet, and they fucked like the world had never seen the act before... Past to their... Complicated, weird, and definitely unhealthy relationship at the first... Years sliding by... The both of them realizing they were far more stable together than apart... The creation of Aysil in a fit of jealousy, rage and hurt on his part, the rape he committed on her because of his pain...

Aysil suddenly showing up years later, enough to bowl him over, and that same day had changed his life forever... He WANTED to be a father to that little girl, he'd taken care of her, learned a healthy love from it... The day she died so Aysil could live without being bound to Khorn... His own death following after so she might live again... Back and forth these cycles of life and death until they were once more stable, and then came Belle, that secret part of Sydel he'd felt but never found... A few years later there was Aylan then, a warm plea for a child, this one born the RIGHT way... Not because of a rape or a power struggle, but because she wanted to have a baby, and oh... How beautiful he was... Another bright light in his life... Even Sydel hadn't minded being pregnant, she hadn't showed much with Aylan, and her only complaint was the birth itself... Which... Hey? Totally fair.

Her creation of Sybelle had seemed to be the last piece of the puzzle, because with her Sydel seemed more... Settled into her own skin? And Diovan had the love of his life back... The four of them needed each other like counterweights, it worked and it was a healthy, happy four way marriage... Or had been until that shit with Dio just pissed right in the cheerio's... He came beside her, holding her hand in his, pulling her close to his side as she went through the scene... Over and over again... "You're the daughter of Khorne no matter what we do about it... This is your nature, to find darkness, to want to cultivate it to your side... It's in your blood, and no, it's not your fault..." That would be like her blaming him for his high sex drive, or Diovan for being magically retarded, Bells for being so incredibly sweet... They each had their natures, the things that drove them, molded them... He watched the scene play on but he caught something weird... Something that didn't... Fit... "Princess... Remind this for a minute..." He asked, a look of deep thought, deep concentration on his face... Watching the fight, the snap occur, the sudden violent shift in nature... And after watching it in still frame for several minutes he caught it. "That's not Diovan... And it's not our bloodline either..." Diovans eyes had gone black, but that wasn't the calling card for their mothers genetic line, they didn't get that coloration... Or any coloration really, it was a sneaky trick, but they could be switched without any outward sign... Which meant what ever this was? It had nothing to do with their mother, or their power line either, which made him wonder... "That's good news in a way... It means that while it was Dio's body... It wasn't his mind or his soul, his heart had nothing to do with it, so youre Diovan didn't break any promises between you two..." Whatever those may be... They had an agreement though, their sex lives and romances with the other siblings was a private affair, promises and vows and such were kept on the down low... At least for now... Hanali's blessing coming through was going to change all that and for the better he hoped... "Whatever it is... It's a parasite that's piggy backing on him, like a leech or something, and it looks... Like it kicks in if the host body is in danger... Bloody hell where did he pick up a parasite?" Diovan went on ranges without them, it was possible he could have done it there, but... Where? Where had he gone? What could possibly be making him do that? What sort of parasite?

Catching her crying he turned her to his chest then, his read resting over hers as he picked her up, cradled her... Kept the sounds out for her with the soft sound of his voice... Singing to her gently, something in french and obviously a lullaby, but it kept the sounds drowned out... "We'll get you an abortion... Jacob's girl, his Rose, she's a whip smart girl... Training to be a doctor just like him... She's a practiced hand at it because of where she used to work..." But now... Ah... Now he did understand a lot of things... Why it was so hard for her to conceive, her power over her own reproduction, all of it... When she spoke of her concern with Sybelle, her fears of dying again with another child, like she had with Jacob... "You're not alone this time sweetheart... I'm right here with you, I have you in my arms, and I'm never letting you go... We can take care of this." If poison didn't work, they would have to go herbal, though the specific cocktail? Was beyond his knowledge, it wasn't like the wines to make him sterile after all, this was a different beast...

He kept her in his arms as he turned her away from the big screen type playback, instead going to a different picture, one where she was smiling... Playing with Aylan while Aysil was showing off her cooking skills to her young elf... It had been a happy day, for all of them, a family picnic on the grounds... He'd have her focus on that. "This Rose is supposed to be here pretty soon... Coming to stay with you girls while we have our stag night... Bells is still tied up at temple so when she comes by, you two can settle in someplace and take care of it, like it never happened.." And he was going to have to warn his brother about what would happen if Sydel got pregnant with his kid... As well as trying to find out what the FUCK was up with his brother... What had such control over him in moments of duress... "I want to ask though... Do you hate being a mother Princess?... Aysil and Aylan... They love you, and you know how I am about children, being the orphan I was I'm happy to have a big family but... I want to know, truly, do you honestly hate it?... Or is it fear of something else that pushes you?"

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..she had fallen into her reverie a little earlier than was expected, the warmth of the copper tub.. the fact her body was utterly exhausted ..the bruising and aching.. she'd just had too much.. her mind decidedly pulled the plug.. she'd been dropped down into the darker corridor.. the one he knew quite well.. and the one she really didn't like to spend a lot of time in.. when he arrived the images changed and shifted.. allowing him little glimpses of her life with him in it.. the little dot points if you will.. the more important moments.. and depending on just how long he stayed, well thats how much he would see.. afterall they had been together now for a very long time..

she was standing before the bigger image.. the one that was causing her the most damage and grief.. the one that yanked her down into the reverie.. she blamed herself.. audibly.. upon reflection she smelt the darkness.. she sensed it.. tasted it and when she figured it must have been coming from him she made him push it out.. of course she had no idea she was poking a bear quite that large.. but she did poke it.. with a stick that was pretty damn sharp.. he came up behind her.. telling her otherwise.. how she was the daughter of Khorne.. darkness was just something she needed to cultivate.. that it was in her blood she couldn't avoid it..

she exhaled.. her head dipped forward.. he was right.. she knew that.. it didn't however make her feel any better.. the scene was playing before her.. she saw her head hit the concrete over and over ..she heard her voice ringing out.. asking Diovan what the fuck was going on.. and then the pleading.. before the tearing of fabric was heard.. she looked away..he asked her to rewind it though.. she whined.. turning it back a little.. allowing it to play.. a few times over and over.. before it was slowed down.. frame by frame.. she blinked when he said it wasn't Diovan though.-.. I dont understand?.. -she questioned.. looking up to the screen..

it was Diovan..looking right savage..she listened as he explained that whilst it was Diovans body.. it wasn't his mind, his soul or his heart.. that the Diovan she knew.. the one that she held in such a high regard.. hadn't broken any promises with them.. her shoulders sunk a little.. she felt sick.. she just felt ill.. -. Can you fix it?. Can you help him?.. -her brows furrowed.. the video continued onward then.. just playing in the background as she more or less broke down.. explaining that she was pregnant.. and that it wasn't so easy to get rid of.. she went to the bare bones of it.. explaining the power shift..and how when its taken from her that she has no control over that part of her.. which is why she got pregnant with Aysil.. and why she was now pregnant with Diovans child..

he told her they'd organise an abortion.. that this girl.. this Rose could do it.. -.. I cant let Jacob find out.. he cant know about any of this.. -she was worried Jacob would fly off the handle if he knew.. -.. their relationship is blossoming.. I dont want to be the reason it fails..-he lifted her up ..cradling her in his arms.. she just fell into him.. curled in close.. he was going to handle it.. he was going to make sure everything was sorted she was worried about Belle.. she knew how much in love with with her he was.. she knew he needed them both.. but it was different with Belle.. the sweeter softer side of Sy calmed him.. grounded him and loved him differently.. he moved her across to a different image.. something lighter..

she nodded when he spoke about Rose coming to Arvandor.. that it could be handled then..-.. it will have to be soon.. -she glanced down to her hands.. the bruising was slowly starting to show through in the reverie. the longer it took.. the more her body would think she was Belle.. and the Other Belle would slowly pay the price.. there couldn't be two of them.. in one singular universe ..it wasn't a huge rush.. it didn't need to occur today.. or tomorrow.. she glanced up at the shifting images.. of the children.. -..He wont be able to be alone with any of them..or Belle..-she spoke softly..-.. youl have to keep him occupied until you figure out whats happened..-falling silent.. her hands clasping before her.. it was a foreign feeling.. Actual pain.. the kind of pain that wasn't laced or following any kind of pleasure..-.. Dont kill him.. -she spoke at an almost inaudible whisper.. in as much as she was afraid of him right now.. she didn't want to see him hurt.. he still held a great deal of her heart.. and she still had the memories that even Belle wasn't privy too..

he asked her then about children.. about pregnancy.. did she hate being a mother.. her brows furrowed a little..her fingers twitched.. as if she was feeling uncomfortable.. -.. I dont hate it.. -she turned then to look to him.. those vacant eyes lifting to meet his-.. I know that you love children.. I know you want to build a big family.. -she rubbed her lips together.. her arms crossing her body there.. as if hugging herself-.. I.. just.. -hesitation..an exhale-. there's a few reasons.. I keep holding back.. I love you.. you know I do.. I mean more than anything or anyone.. Ever.. You're my world Nautilous..

-the corners of her scarlet dipped lips curled just a little.. he would have caught it.. those mere fleeting little nuances of hers- .. In the back of my mind.. my pregnancy with jacob will always haunt me.. I dont get frightened easily.. I dont let things scare me.. but.. that.. well.. -she sighed-.. it does.. My body is complicated.. and just when I think I have it handled and I know whats going on.. something like this happens.. -she motioned to her stomach then-.. and Im thrown right back to square one.. You love Sybelle.. with all of your being.. You need her..

-her brows furrowed as her fingers began to fidget-.. if I die.. there's an incredibly good chance that so will she.. She's had numerous children now.. she's fine.. clearly.. a veritable baby making factory right there.. one that absolutely adores you.. and then there's me.. -she reached for his hands then-... I want to give you the children you long for.. I want to give you everything...Everything you desire... and then in the back of my mind.. I know I could also be the cause of taking everything away.. -her lower lip trembled-..

[BadInfluence]

"... I don't know Princess..." Something he had never admitted to before in his LIFE. He always knew the answers to just about everything, didn't he? Never before had he had a question asked of him that he didn't automatically know the answer to... But now? In this? He had no idea... "He's only a half-cast, part elf part primordial, so there's no case like this that I can recall ever hearing about or reading..." For being a whore? He spent a lot of time educating himself believe it or not, and Sybelle knew that, having seen just a fraction of his book collection in her very early days... And no where in ANY of those was a single hint of anything like this... All he knew was that it appeared for every intent and purpose like a parasite, a sort of fungus he had read cases of in mice and ants, something that takes over their brains... Makes them act out of their nature so they can die... And in the act of death become a host body to the parasitical fungus... Which meant that the more he got into fights, the stronger the parasite was going to get, would throw itself into such events so it could grow... Grow and spread...

"I don't..." He started to say before he stopped himself, turning his brain to this, a new puzzle to sort out... "I will do my best to try... I think right now he needs to be kept at temple, away from any violence or triggers, maybe... Maybe put into a forced revere..." It would keep him down for a long time, though he wasn't a fool, he knew he would have to keep Diovan high as a kite to do this... He'd have to be on the opium again, milk of the poppy on tap through an IV, otherwise even the Reverie could get violent and possibly make things worse... But he wouldn't tell anyone about that. If anyone knew about his plans to basically keep his brother in a medically induced coma? Hell there would be so much riot going on because of it... Just not good... And FAR too much drama with Bells being pregnancy and Sydel in a more fragile state...

"Those two... They just met too late in life. Jacob has had me, Ace and Garafin, and Diovan? There's not... Not a spot for him. Jacob has more father figures than most, and it's heartbreaking that there isn't a spot for his own birth father..." Yeah... What a mess that was, huh? Jacob didn't see it, but it was something he and Diovan knew, could recognize... It wasn't Jacobs fault, or Diovans, there just... The basket was full basically... "They make good friends, and Diovan can help him in ways we cant, especially with Jacob being a Paramour... We just have to make peace with it on that front but... No... I won't let Jacob find out." Hell no he wouldn't and not just for Diovans sake either... Imagine how much guilt Jacob would feel if he realized it wasn't the poison that had made Sydel die after giving birth to him but rather it was Jacob himself that killed his mother?

He lifted her in his arms and carried her over to a different section of her memories, something softer and sweeter, something far more pleasant to recall... Mentioning this thing with Rose, her arrival to Arvandor not far off, about a month away... Her words on how it had to be soon... "I'll bring her tonight... There's a party they're going to, I can snag her then..." Surely no one would miss her at a big party, right? He knew that she was in pain, and it was only going to get worse as the time went on, as the child began to kill her from the inside out... Not a fake death but a real one, and that, that he wasn't even remotely ok with entertaining... "I'll ask her to look in on Diovan too... Jacob swears to Hanali she's absolutely brilliant, and I won't lie to you Princess, even Hanali is smitten with her." And that? Was even partially in a romantic way, which in his mind, made him wonder how the fuck that came about. On top of that? There were NO RECORDS of her, like... Ever... Not a one in existence... Period. That was unheard of and it made many there think she wasn't an elf at all, despite the clearly pointed ears and wood-elf features... But then it circled back to her being found on the surface too...

Shaking his head a moment he let out a sigh and nodded his head... "I wont kill him... But I can't guarantee this parasite wont kill him... We don't know anything about it, for all I know it's rooted in his brain, and the removal of it will kill him. I don't want to make you think of anything worse than you've already been through today but... You might have to make peace with that possible outcome..." After all, it was a complicated case at best, and at worst? A total fucking shot in the dark... This Rose had better be as good as everyone was saying she was, because there was a LOT hanging on her right now, a lot would be on her plate... Could she handle it? She had fucking better if she wanted to be in this family... Every single one of them was extraordinarily gifted in some way, so surely then Jacobs future wife, well she had to be top of the litter. Besides, if she wanted an in with Sydel? Shit, she couldn't GET a better approval from Sydel than if she saved the man she loved...

Asking that heavy question while they were there though, he knew it was the one time she could probably get it all out, the truth of the things she wasn't willing to talk about outside this safe space... "Your complicated because your beautiful Sydel... You're unique..." He said after he let her get it all out, every bit of what she said, how she felt... Her concerns... Her thoughts... The reasons behind her dislike of pregnancy and having children, despite the fact that while she wasn't a cuddlebug with the children like Bells was, she still did things with each of their children... One on one days, activities, things of that nature... He just wanted to know why she was so... Against it and now? Now he knew...

He caught her lip trembling and he moved in to kiss her lips, soft and sweet, full of love and their own special chemistry... "Sybelle wasn't the one I asked to marry me... YOU are... I love Bells in my own way, she keeps me balanced, she sees the best in me when I can't see anything worth while... She's an excellent mother figure to our brood, and she brings a lot of happiness to a lot of people, and she's wonderful at everything she does." All true. Sybelle had a lot of wonderful perks about her, being beautiful and sweet was one of them true, and her ability to have children was easily another... Their family was sitting at four, about to be six if he was reading her right, if not maybe seven... She was showing big right now and she was hardly pregnant, she was more fatigued than normal, and God knew he and Diovan had both fucked her in tandem multiple times the night she conceived... He wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't more than one little loaf in that oven... But that was neither here nor there... "I wont ever let you die... I won't... I love you my Sydel, you're my wife, my everything and always... You had Aylan without issue... You were healthy, almost happy while pregnant, and he was born without any issues..." But Aylan was also the child born out of their love... Her wanting to get pregnant for the first time because he had begged her for another child... Though something she said was tickling his mind a bit... "Wait... a power shift... What if it isn't YOU that had to be raped... What if you raped someone?" He knew men could get raped, he'd seen it first hand, and women could be just as bad as men... If not a little worse... If that was the case?... "Come sweetheart... Let's get some deathshead wine into you and a good dinner... I'll give you an IV feed of my blood to help give you a boost for a bit..." Something to get her to square one again... Though he knew it wouldn't last long, it only needed to last for a little while... "When we get you better for a bit, take me to the red room, and give me the black vial..."

The black one was something he made himself... A failsafe so that if he ever went insane again and started to go on a slaughter binge they could give it to him and it would incapacitate him... "It shuts my body down but I can still feel everything... I want you to tie me up in the bed and beat me then rape me... If Diovan's seed is killing you... Maybe mine might destroy it... Level it out... It's not a guarantee... But it's a stop gap until I can get Rose here to help..." Sydel had always wanted a chance to really go at him, and now? Now she had it... Her little wet dream, to beat him and whip him, torture him... THe only add on was that she was to rape him... Take complete control of him, make him her slave, use him for her own pleasure until he came in her...

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..she was struggling with a lot of things.. and on top of it all her body hurt..she was no stranger to pain, she'd felt every kind of it imaginable when she died having Jacob but it had been a while since she felt this kind of pain.. the tiredness.. the lethargy.. the sickness.. the aching.. how did humans do it?.. how did they possibly get by when they fell ill.. she'd never truly understand it.. he offered up the idea of getting Rose to help with an abortion.. this Rose person.. someone she had yet to meet and yet everyone else seemed to rave about her.. she however remained completely and utterly reserved on judgement, she'd seen the women Jacob had chosen in the past.. whats to say this one was no different?..

so whilst she wouldn't audibly tell him as much..she didn't put much hope in Rose being able to figure out anything.. let alone help.. and how did he know Rose wouldn't tell Jacob?..the whole thing just seemed crazy.. then again her mind wasn't working with its usual clarity.. -.. I'm sure she's just perfect.. -if she could roll her eyes she would have.. she asked him.. almost pleaded with him then not to kill Diovan.. she figured they would end up scrapping at some point.. brothers tended to do that.. but she didn't want him dead.. his response didn't help though.. -.. no.. I refuse to make peace with that outcome.. Plain and simple.. I wont do it..

-she was stubborn, she didn't ask for a lot from the world really.. whilst the riches and housing was nice.. she could have easily resided in a cave somewhere.. like she used to.. Whilst the atmosphere in Arvandor was also nice.. she could have stayed anywhere.. she needed for very little.. Other than her cauldron.. and the blood of innocents when her body required it.. That and her family.. everything else could go to hell..she would not entertain the thought of Diovan dying.. her mind wouldn't allow it.. he took his chance then and asked her.. about future pregnancies..

why she appeared afraid.. why she wouldn't go down that path with him.. and with a little prodding she finally told him.. all of it.. what her heart felt.. and what her mind told her.. the possible outcomes and how.. she could just take all his happiness away..there might have been a little bit of jealousy there when it came to Sybelle.. -.. Ill show you something.. -she spoke quietly.. nodding her head a little when he told her that he asked her to marry him not Sybelle.. that Bells was a wonderful mother and so on and so forth.. she waved her hand across the screen then.. and the happy image of the family gathering flickered and faded..

this vision was a little off.. it was as if someone were looking through peep holes.. it might take a moment or two before it made sense.. it was through the eyes of Sybelle..that first night she was given control..and Sy had to sit in the back-.. I had a front row seat to everything you said and did.. to every emotion you displayed.. -she waved her hand infront of the frame.. left.. right.. left.. right.. the moving image it contained changed with each one.. only staying up long enough to show them.. the look on his face when he first saw Belle.. how he just about tripped over his own feet and his tongue.. how he watched her eating.. the smiles.. those true genuine smiles.. how much fun he had.. how there was little stress.. it was all very care free and enjoyable.. it was a veritable lovers dream montage-.. You need her..

-she spoke softly.. she wasn't upset.. she just knew it.. she experienced it first hand.. it stung at the time.. watching ..figuring out fairly quickly that she wasn't enough on her own.. but once she saw.. once she realised how much he needed Belle.. well.. she knew to step to the side.. so this third could slide into place.. and the trio would soon exist.. -.. I did have Aylan without issue.. You are right.. -the images flickered a little more.. before she allowed it to return to the one it was prior.. though she wasn't ever really looking at it.. more so through it..-..I am the Queen of the poker face.. It scared the living daylights out of me.. Belle on the other hand.. has not been able to get through a single birth without my assistance.. and since you and your brother keep her perpetually pregnant.. well.. Its probably not a great idea to have us both down for the count.. if you understand..

-she would not be able to take over Belles body if she was carrying a child as well.. there would be a lot of body swapping there.. something was bound to go wrong..she exhaled.. turning then to look to him when he spoke about the power shift but in her favour.. that what if she was to rape someone.. like him for example.. were it possible that his seed would work against Diovans.. where only one would come out the victor.. her brows furrowed a little-.. You want me to Rape you?.. -she blinked.. it sounded like a crazy idea.. she slid her hands back behind her neck.. rubbing lightly.. listening as he explained about the vial.. the wine and blood IV.. how they would be short on time but it would possibly work..

she paused.. letting her mind run the numbers so to speak-.. Whilst the idea has merit.. and Im quite sure there's quite a line up of people who'd just love to beat the living crap out of you.. I am not sure?.. like.. -she rubbed her lips together-.. i mean if you were incapacitated then its not really a shift in power.. Im simply taking advantage arent i?.. I mean.. its not guaranteed... we could give it a shot though.. -she was unsure on her strength.. or just how much his blood would top her up.. or even how long it would last.. would she be able to physically restrain him.. and get him to cum for her through force.. its not something they had really played with before.. not really.. the power switch had always been in his favour.. -.. you spoke on this thing in Diovan being some kind of parasite.. -her brows furrowed once more-.. surely it wouldn't have been passed on? no?.. -her body wasn't warm which was generally the pre-requisite for a host body.. but she had no idea what kind of parasite this thing was.. what did he even have?.. she reached for his hand.. sliding her small one into his-.. take me home please.. I dont want to be in here anymore..

[BadInfluence]

Genetic tampering... That's how humans did it. It sucked, most pregnant women were absolute fucking miserable, at least until the hormones and chemicals kick in... Otherwise the race would die out as a whole because no woman in her right mind would do that shit willingly without SOME kind of perk. Especially when it came down to the fact they were stretching something out well beyond it's limits for the sake of giving birth...



In regards to Rose though, at first he had his own thoughts, but honestly should anyone be surprised at that? Unlike Sydel, Sybelle, Dio, Ace or Garafin? He held absolutely no limits on being invasive into his chosen sons life, albeit he did it completely and entirely on the down low, and he had gotten really bad after Cora... Refusing to let that sort of a pattern start over again, he watched Jacob like a hawk, and had seen him run into Rose... Their friendship, the way she had brightened up his life way before they so much as held hands, let alone even thought about kissing each other... The natural unfolding of it like a passion flower to the sun, it was just a sudden riot of color and utterly beautiful, entirely bewitching... Yet they still both had tried to deny it... Fought hard against it... In the end though no one can really beat fate, and those two were like stars and the sky... Even if you couldn't see them together they were always entwined... Try as hard to keep the day at some point the night will always come in and the starts shine brighter than ever...



He'd also seen the fact she was disgustingly brilliant before she even met Jacob, a sort of side effect of being abandoned sometimes, you cultivate every garden you can in hopes someone finds one they like and chooses to tarry a while. He'd watched her cross splicing with plants, figuring out new ways to make it work, the different benefits to each different hybrid... Did he think she could do what was needed? Yes... Was it blind faith? No... He'd seen her do it quite a few times since meeting Jacob, her dedication to ensuring no woman would have to carry an unwanted baby to term, ensuring there were less orphans entering the world... Less unwanted and unloved children to suffer the mistakes of their parents...



"She plays with drow poisons like it's a chemistry set and she's the village abortionist for the whore house and poor village girls who end up on the wrong side of the hay. Is she perfect? Hardly. But she's skilled in exactly what we need." After all if she was perfect? She'd be Sydel. But for his son? She got a pass... Though if she fucked up she'd be out like yesterdays fish in no time flat... Her request about Diovan though... He was honest about it, he couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't end up dying, there was a parasite living inside of him... Strong enough to take over his body in order to preserve it's own faculties... That? Was not going to be an easy removal, no 'here, take two asprin and call me in the morning' sort of fix... "Even if it means he might end up succumbing to the parasite and becoming a vegetable? Brain Dead and useless? Would you have me keep him alive when his quality of life would be nonexistent?" It was a hard and ugly question, but it was a fact, and if she wanted him to do that? He wasn't sure... He could keep him in suspended animation but even so... What about his brothers wishes? Didn't Diovan have a right to have a say in his own possible future?



She might not ask a lot of the world, but sometimes she had a habit of asking a lot of him, but maybe that was because she knew he'd do it... He'd always bend the world to her desired shape... She might not need a lot but he gave her everything and he always would... She mentioned Bells and he told her flat out she was the one he chose, not Sybelle, and that video bit? He knew she could see it all, hear it all, and maybe even feel it all in some third party way... He'd had no secrets from her, nor did he expect her to have any from him, and while it made things ugly sometimes? At least they always knew where they stood. "You think so?" He'd ask before he'd almost drag her along to another picture... This one of them tormenting a wizard they both hated... Another one of them crashing a party and having a royally good time fucking things up... Memories of the houses they had shared, all the adventures they'd had, how often they enjoyed each other... The crazy and violent life they had together... Sliding past all that to the very first memory... The beginning... Him by the pond, half naked and tanned from the sun of egypt... Casually lounging in nothing more than a loincloth when she came up on him, taunting him about Athena, attacking him... Their fight... She'd see it then... "Look at my face." At the time? She'd been to busy trying to avoid being killed, but his face in those frames, when she looked? Was pure focus and attention, it was obvious he was watching her in more than what one would need for a fight, and as it played on? An obvious half chub beneath that loin-cloth and a look of raw, hungry desire on his face as he had looked at her, he just a young man fresh from the whore house... Her a newly turned Bride of Khorne... Both hungry for life and to squeeze every drop they could from it... Later meetings, each time his eyes watched her, a wolf with a lamb... Hungry for her... Starving... Offering himself over and over again for her services but each time she denied him... Made his hunger grow... Made him hurt... Until finally that one day... The one day she said yes...



"I was yours from that first fight... You drove me insane, I loved and hated you all at the same time, wanted to kill you and fuck you and couldn't decide which I wanted more... It only got stronger as you played with me, and when I saw your darkness, that it was how you lived? I adopted it myself... I allowed myself to become as rotten as I could, evil and dark as sin, all because it's what you craved..." He said, reaching out to take her hand up in his, to run his finger over her wedding ring. "Yes, when I first met her I did love her, she changed my view on so many things... She made me feel like I could be a good person, that I had it in me to be something more than I had ever been, that I was worthy... She helped me find myself again, brought me back to my center, and I'll always love her for that... But Sydel? You?" He asked before he'd hold her just a little tighter... "You will always be my first love, my greatest love, the love of my life and the beginning and end of my world and the very existence I live in. Sybelle might remind me that I'm a good person, but she's not the one I need, you area... Always have been and you always will be."



Hard questions were asked and answered then and he had to admit... He understood a lot of it... Could easily empathize with her fears and the pain, the concerns and forethought, her reasoning for it all... "It would take a lot of power from me to even keep you two in tandem during the birth, but given it's you who takes the pain and the actual process since she can't handle the flash backs of Jacob's birth, you'd end up having to take double it..." It would easily kill her and in the process kill both her and Sybelle... Yes, he could see that the two of them couldn't be pregnant at the same time, and Sydel's fear of dying again was entirely justified, and now that he knew?... "I didn't know it scared you so much... I won't push you anymore... I won't ask..." How could he? Knowing each time he did she'd feel all those thoughts all over again, every emotional sledgehammer behind it, all the pressure thereof... The war between her fear and wanting to do what he asked... It was hell... He'd been putting her through hell each and every request... And it made him feel like a monster...



The idea of the rape came out of the blue though, something she had said earlier finally caught up with him, fully formed and curious... Was it possible? It had merit enough to ask, and her cheeky comeback made him chuckle, shaking his head a bit. "We've killed most of them by now honey... The list is pretty short. You're still sitting high on it as I recall..." She used to beg for the chance to take a few pieces of skin off of him but now?... Was she not wanting to anymore? Or was there something else? "Outside of that though... It's rape regardless, I won't be able to consent since I won't be able to talk, and that's what makes it viable... And... If you really worried..." He said, looking to the left a bit, suddenly uncomfortable... In fact, incredibly so... "Put on Chakas face... Gia Navare's sister..." He visibly shuddered then... What was the history there? What had happened? Didn't he normally talk about every woman so casually? But here, in her mind, there was the reveal of something raw and painful for him... "Chaka was one of my first clients when I started to work... I didn't want her, she wanted to do things I wasn't comfortable with, and in the end she raped me... I can't even say her name without remembering..." There... There you had it... The ONE thing he was afraid of... And that one thing? Was a drow woman.



In regards to parasite though he could only shake his head. "I don't know Princess... I mean these are stabs in the dark, I've never run into anything like it, I can only put pieces of the puzzle together but I don't have enough for the full picture... Rose and Jacob are brilliant in this area, they're virtual gods with plants, and since Jacob and Diovan are on rocky footing as it stands? Rose is the best bet." He said with a shrug before shoving his hands in his pockets. He HATED feeling weak, feeling like he didn't have all the answers all tidy up under a red bow to give her... He hated having to ask a slip of a girl to help him with something that he should know the answer to... She asked to leave and he nodded his head, pulling them out of the reverie and into the room, her tub still nice and warm... THe bruises looking improved due to the healing balm but it woul be hours before they faded... He kept her in that tub, bringing over a plate of food for her to nibble on, making sure she was eating... Though in the back of his mind? That was some weird ass fucking shit to watch... "When you're done I'm putting you in bed and you're going to rest... Don't wear anything as I don't think you'll want to have to undress for Rose's arrival..." It was just more practical for her to remain naked... He stepped back and sighed, looking at the watch in his pocket, thumbing the smooth outer rim... "I'll let them have some fun first... I'm going to see to Diovan, keep the link between us open, if you need anything I'll come..."



He left the room then and went downstairs to go check up on the boys, opening the door to a furious fuck fest as Ace mounted Dio against the wall and was going to town like he paid good money for it, closing the door behind him with a shrug of his shoulders. Diovan was a switch, a subby one at that, he preferred the pain so what Ace was doing? Was probably the best thing... Though how the hell the two of them had energy to fuck after ripping the room to virtual shreds and splinters was beyond him... He detoured to the library where he began to go over over books, pouring over them as he went between several at once, starting to reference this and that... Writing them down on a paper as he tried to formulate a plan....



M: You know you could just ask.



N: Like you'd answer... Not surprised you came though, you're precious son's in the ditch, only time you ever care to show up.



M: Not true, I came for your wedding.



N: No, you came for his, your cunty little senile ass is starting to slip there mommy dearest...



M: Don't call me mother.



N: Yeah, no shit, since all you did was pop me out like a PEZ dispenser.



M: I DIED giving birth to you, you little abomination!



N: Oh bullshit. Your shell died, whooptie fucking do, you just grew another back you freakish primordial bitch.



M: You are JUST like your father!



N: Well I have to take after SOMEONE with brain cells...



He got those last words out before he was slammed against the wall and suddenly skinless, his body wracked with violent and instantaneous pain, all locked up tight inside his own mind... Unable to scream or react as his mother began to unravel him... Separating skin from muscle, nerve endings from flesh, sinew from bone... She tortured him for a good hour but in his own head it felt like an eternity before she let him go, dropping him like a rock from the ceiling, bouncing as he hit the floor... Taking a good half an hour before he was able to wrap his brain around the shitfest that was the pain he'd felt... Getting shakily to his feet, breathing hard, blood spilling from his ear... Ah... He'd forgotten what good old mom was like... Nothing like a slap to the face to remind him...



M: Where is your brother?



N: With his lover getting fucked in the ass naturally. Keeping his needs for sex and violence sated until I can sort out the problem.



M: What is the problem exactly?



N: You mean to tell me the All Mighty Malaika Tsomi, Nameless Primordial, Sister to the Gods of Chaos doesn't know what's wrong with her legitimate born son?



M: This is Hanali's realm, she rules here and I don't spy out of respect for my dead husband, so no. I don't know what's wrong.



N: He caught a parasite somehow... Something nasty, takes control of his body when his life is in danger, doesnt get submerged until he's beaten and raped someone.



M: Has he been to Har Ganeth?



N: Har the who to the what now?



M: Ask your wife... Or ask him... It's a place of my Brothers worship and I don't travel there.



N: Which brother? Slaanesh? Nurgle?



M: The one you serve.



N: Oh fucking hell. What was he- You know what, never mind, I'm not asking you. You cant help here, so just pack your shit and go, alright?



M: What do you mean I can't help?



N: This is Hanali's realm, you can only visit which means your useless here, and if he picked this thing up in this... Har Ganeth place or what ever the fuck it is, and you said you don't go there? Then what good are you? Outside of a source of vague information?



His mother was silent... He actually had her in the corner for once, and believe him, that was a first in his life... Felt good after the cunt hags torture... She handed him over a bag of something, looking like some sort of Santa with tits before she turned and left, fading out into a mirage... He took the large bag and set it on the table, surprised to find it contained several years worth of birthday and christmas gifts to all of her grandchildren, not tomention daughter in laws... Then of course the big surprise at the bottom, a bag of books for him, rare and one of a kind tomes from places he had no idea of... Had never even imagined they existed... On the side there was a box of gifts just for Jacob, the son of her beloved son, the trueborn heir in her eyes... Full of rare and exotic plant specimens, seeds and leaves, flowers and roots... Vials of elements he didn't even want to touch since they were just for Jacob...



Well... At least now he had a reason to go visit...



As well as an excuse...



He'd check the link betwene he and Sydel, catching on that his mother had at least been smart enough to block the torture from the link, keeping it all calm and casual... Checking for any needs there, if she was even awake before he'd take the bag of goodies to the kids to sort between them all, the gifts for Ace and Diovan left in the proper rooms and Jacobs? Under his arm as he would then portal over from their private one on the property to the surface to go and perform a little...



Party Crashing...

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..he continued to convince her about this Rose character that Jacob had gotten entwined with.. how she was a wizz at medicine and chemical compounds.. she knew her poisons and potions.. And to top it all off she also had favour with Hanali.. she nodded her head a little-.. mm.. so you have said.. whilst it all sounds promising, and she appears o be a jack of all trades.. or.. jill if you will..Has she ever performed this on someone like me?.. I'm not Human.. I'm not Drow.. I'm as far from Slyvan, High and Moon as one could possibly get.. I guess time will tell.. -she wasn't trying to poke holes in everything he was offering.. she was just trying to make sure he understood just how fucking complicated she was..

he asked her something hard then.. the ugly question on wether or not she wanted Diovan alive even if he was little more than a vegetable.. she just stared at him for a moment.. there was a struggle there.. and it played out on her features.. -.. fine.. -she spoke softly.. it was almost inaudible.. her brows furrowed-.. do what you think is best..

-she had shown him then.. the little glimpse of the fight going on in her head.. how she felt Bells was beginning to overshadow her.. and how it all started.. he however pulled those reigns right back in again when he showed her something else.. she'd seen all the images of the houses they owned.. the parties they threw.. the fights they had.. but when he showed her that first meeting.. it made her pause.. she looked to him with an arched brow before he called upon her to watch his face.. to view it all happening.. because yes at the time she was far to caught up in keeping herself alive..

her skill set whilst deadly was not quite a match for him back then.. her pale gaze wandered over the scene playing out.. seeing his attention upon her.. watching her every move.. though it was more than calculating her next.. it was something else.. it was a certain amount of awe.. of admiration.. of obsession.. as the videos continued.. watching him go from this tanned whore.. to a much darker killer.. her killer.. she'd painted him with the black brush so early on ..dragging him down into her little pit of despair..

she listened as he spoke about how he was hers from that first fight.. how she'd driven him insane.. -... i craved you.. I was just too stubborn to admit it.. -she whispered in response to him saying he allowed himself to become so rotten to the core.. because it was what she desired.. he spoke on Belle a little more.. about what she did for him.. how much it changed his life for knowing her.. for loving her.. she nodded.. -.. I get it.. I do.. -she rubbed her lips together.. it stung a little when he spoke on Belle making him feel worthy.. searching out her own memories then.. to find a place when she felt that way.. though such would not be so easily reportable.. she kept that one to herself.. they spoke on her fears when it came to having a child..

to pregnancy and he got his answers.. it was complicated.. it was messy.. there was a lot going on there..he told her he wasn't going to push her anymore.. she exhaled softly.. giving a little shake of her head-.. You dont push me.. I should have told you.. long ago.. you're not fucking psychic afterall.. -her hands rose as she rubbed against her shoulders.. her neck..-.. I'm sorry.. -she turned to look to him there.. an honest actual apology.. something rare and to be cherished-.. I'm sorry for not telling you.. for letting it go this long.. I know how much children mean to you..

-and she did..he was the perfect Father to all those kids.. he made up for her short falls.. -.. Ill never truly be able to repay you for what you have done and still do for Jacob.. I mean.. you re-introduced us.. after all that time.. Youve been there for him more than most.. You only come second to Garafin and thats only because he was there when Jacob was an infant.. -she took a breath.. long..exhaling it slowly as she took his hands.. both.. her fingers curling around his.. or.. well as best they could given his were much larger than hers.. -

.. If I get out of this.. unscathed.. -her fingers lightly brushed against the sides of his palms-..and all is well enough to be close to normal.. after Belle has had her child .. If you and your brother can keep it in your pants for a little while and Not get her pregnant.. We can try again.. -she tiled her head.. looking up to him there with those vacant eyes..-.. If you want.. -he had brought up her raping him..

a power shift.. that it might help matters.. she had a few questions on how it would work.. if it would work.. nodding her head when he explained the inability to consent..but her brow rose when he mentioned Chaka-.. I know Chaka yes.. -her head inclined when he visibly shuddered.. she was about to question before he would give her the answers.. -.. Seriously?.. -she blinked.. figuring then it made a bit more sense then why he never slept with Gia.. whilst the idea of her putting on that face had merit.. she didn't want to traumatise him.. and she had a feeling if she did that.. he would probably fall and hard..-.. Im willing to try anything right now.. but I wont do that.. I dont want to hurt you..

-.. it would be akin to him putting on Chris's face.. though for different reasons.. the trauma would still be real.. she asked him to take her home.. she'd had enough and it was exhausting.. he pulled them both out.. she remained there within that water as he got her food and drink.. if he thought it looked weird watching her.. try actually eating it.. her diet was generally liquid up until that point.. so crackers and the like.. were just odd.. but it stopped her stomach from grumbling.. she as placed into the big comfortable bed..

naked.. just coloured with bruising, handprints and wounds that were very slowly healing.. no dust.. no grit ..just nice and clean.. before he even had the chance to tell her to keep the link open she'd fallen asleep.. a sure fire tell that she wasn't quite right..she didn't sleep.. not like that.. looking incredibly peaceful for a horrific little killer.. his discussion with his Mother was lost on her.. she didn't pick up on any of it.. and certainly not the torture.. when he checked in on her she was silent.. still and resting.. her hair though.. was subtly taking on a violet shadow and thinning out.. a very gradual slow process-

[BadInfluence]

"Time will always have it's out, and your right, I won't lie... You're a one of a kind Princess but we'll work on all that when it comes about." He knew she wasn't trying to be difficult, to poke holes in anything, she was just being... Realistic? That sounded like the closest he could get to what she was doing. She didn't hope, he didn't think he had it in her to do so, life had beaten all the hope out of her a real long time ago... It was the point when they got around to talking about Diovan that had been the hardest for her, she didn't want to lose the happiest part of her past, the man she loved and cared for... But they might not have a choice and that hurt her, but as much as she was being real so was he, and they were both ugly outcomes...

"I will do all I can to ensure we don't get to that stage, I might have to put him in a sort of suspended animation, he'll be your own personal sleeping beauty but... I'll do all I can for as long as I have to to save him..." But how long would it take? How hard was he willing to fight for his brother? Knowing he had a part of his beloved Princess's heart? She tried to swing it around that he needed Sybelle more than her if things went horribly wrong, and he put a stop to that real fast, turning it around and showing her the truth... All the facts of their life together through her own memories, all the years spent together as they traveled backwards, all the way to the first meeting... Showing her something she probably didn't catch before... The fact he was there, watching her from the first day, theirfirst fight... How much he desired her, wanted to be with her, and how willing he was to trip on down that path of darkness just to stay by her side...

She might have provided the brush, but he did all the painting himself, because it had been his choice to do it. To become as dark and twisted as she was, anything he had to do, to be... Just so he'd stay in her world with her. "You were stubborn but so was I... Do you think you made me what I was? I chose my own path because it was the only way I could keep you in my life... I love you Sydel, you'll always be my snow and blood Princess, no matter what life tosses at us." He stated simply but honestly, holding her close, explaining that while yes... Bell's did have a special spot in his life, in his emotions, how she made him feel... Sydel was still first... Always would be... He could understand how it stung her too, but Sydel was different, she showed her care in... Other ways... Besides, they also had plenty of time to build bridges over those rivers, they'd get to it soon enough, that much he was sure of. The issue of her fear of pregnancy came up, he had to ask that question, he wanted to get to the bottom of it... And in the end? They had, though the answer he was given, it caused a lot more pain than he thought could have been possible.

"No I'm not, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't have put two and two together at some point Sydel, we both know that... Yes, Children mean a lot to me, and I do want a big family. But I want YOU more." Which was true. He loved her, inside and out, no matter what happened. "You gave me Aysil and Aylan, my beautiful daughter and son, and I have Jacob too... I have a beautiful family right now Princess, you're the most important part of it." He said, taking her hands in his, gently stroking along her fingers as she sought to do the same... His head tilting to the side as he listened to her, her words, the offer and the request... If she made it out... If all went ok and after Sybelle had her baby... They'd try again... "Are you sure?" He asked. "I mean yes... Gods yes I would, more than anything but... Given what you told me, what you've felt, are YOU sure you want to go down that road?" He asked her in return, holding her close for a few moments, then something stuck...

Brought an idea to his mind that he explained, elaborated on, the two of them bouncing ideas back and forth... When she asked if it was really rape if he was drugged, he explained his own trauma, the one about Chaka... The violence of the rape and his first hand knowledge and experience with drow drugs and just how vicious a matron can be... How subtle... How sly... And how absolutely heartless... "We will try Rose first... We'll use the other option as a last ditch..." He said before he took her out of the water and into the bed, feeding her bits of this and that to help her stomach adjust, knowing she needed food as his blood was having a very bad counter effect on her in this state. Once she was done and asleep he had left to try and find some information, the run in with his mother was entirely expected actually, the second Diovan so much as whined she arrived, there to make it all better... Oh he hated it too, the favoritism, the way she looked at him versus his brother... How different their lives were... All of it. Of course she had gotten pissed off at what he said and had reminded him, quite violently in fact, in just who and what she was... Like he needed the refresher but whatever... In the end? She had still come bearing gifts for the grandchildren, for his brother and Sybelle, for Jacob and all the way down the line... Even books for him on things he had never seen before... Plus she had given him a hint at a city... A name... He'd have to visit it at some time, but for right now he had to get dressed, go to the surface and abduct a certain blond...

-----reference Rose's post----

Once he had her back in Arvandor, he followed her orders, getting this and that together while things were set up... Waiting for Sydel's responses, her approval, and wondering just what would happen next?

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..she snapped her teeth down when you called her snowcone.. -.. Thats rich coming from a basic virgin princess.. -she murmured weakly.. her words sort of fading toward the end there as her body slumped her back down into the bedding.. she could hear the conversations between you and Nautilous.. though she rarely interjected.. she was just too tired.. too sore.. she managed a little laugh at the responses on the apron remark.. his about his cocks size didn't surprise her.. that was one thing he was clearly very, very proud of..

the IV needle had slid into her arm.. that little bee sting didn't register what with everything else going on in her body at that time.. however the moment her mixture did.. that raw heat.. that burning sensation from the inside out would overcome her.. her body stiffened and she forced her head back into the pillows.. it would be but a moment later when she would loose all functioning ability and that body of hers would fall lax.. she hissed and whined.. moving to clench those eyes of hers tightly closed.. her head was lifted a little as he fed her this horrible tasting goop.. she grimaced visibly as it began to trickle down her throat.. if a shock of pain hit her she'd splutter as she cried out.. riding that wave that seemed to crash into her every so often.. she couldn't move no.. but she could feel everything..hear everything.. smell everything..

her lids snapped open when that tool was inserted.. that scraping.. those horrific sensations.. she'd only felt something similar once.. and that was during her conversion.. white hot searing pain.. the stuff nightmares were made of...and he would have caught glimpses of it then as it floated through her mind.. her body was trying to find something to anchor onto.. the pain though.. it went beyond tears.. it went beyond screaming and crying out.. her teeth were snapped down.. her breathing was short and sharp..her lids fluttered backwards when that blood continued to gush out of her.. a little here.. a little there.. that copper smell was incredibly strong within that room..you were being incredibly thorough .. something she would probably thank you for if she wasn't well.. in an uncomfortable position

..the scraping.. the poking and prodding seemed to cease after a while.. though the pain.. that scorching heat in her veins remained.. her mouth fell open when she was picked up.. her breath choked against the back of her throat.. fuck she was weak.. a kitten could have probably bowled her over with barely a tap..he placed her down into the water and she cried out.. her head falling to rest against the edge of the tub.. lids closing over as she grimaced .. her brows furrowed.. she looked miserable.. utterly and completely so..hearing you call her unique.. a medical oxymoron-.. complicated.. -she whispered with an incredibly broken little voice..she heard you and Naut talking about taking some kind of medication.. that there was hope she would be back to herself in a couple of days.. honestly she just wanted the water to take her.. to drown her.. she felt so fucking horrible..

she wanted to tear her own skin from her bones just to not have to feel the burning.. the heat.. the searing pain.. tears began to trickle down the sides of her cheeks.. they were talking about Jacob then.. Nautilous explained to the virgin what a switch was.. and then Elizabeth was brought up.. she groaned audibly then and allowed herself to slide down beneath the surface of the tub.. Naut would have to drag her back up.. -.. dead.. -she whispered-.. when i get my hands on her.. -she spluttered a bit of water then.. allowing her eyes to close over..she was drifting in and out of consciousness.. her body and mind were struggling with the idea of keeping her awake with the level of pain she was entertaining.. the remainder of the words shared between Nautilous and Rose were lost on her.. she didn't hear a bit of it..he left her in the hands of her daughter then..





The hosital was quiet really, it was later on in the evening.. most of the patients were resting and only a skeleton staff of doctors and nurses were available.. Belles was placed in a private ward, as all the family were offered when they found themselves in a similar predicament.. when they required help or aid.. Garafin had stayed with her as he had said as much.. the entire time.. she was resting peacefully there.. propped up on the soft bedding.. lilac coloured locks just resting there upon her shoulders.. soft colouring in her cheeks.. he moved to stand when you entered offering his award winning broad smile-.. Ah! and he arrives, she's doing fine.. the Doctors figure she might have been working herself a little too hard at Temple.. preparations and the like.. -he gave a bit of a shrug of his shoulders-.. they hooked her up to a few things to check on everything..

-she would begin to stir a little.. taking a quiet breath.. his smile grew a little more before he slipped out the door.. figuring that was his queue.. those duo coloured eyes stirred beneath closed lids there.. she murmured and shifted a touch.. before she'd blink a few times.. and then a few times more.. the room slowly coming into focus and thanks to the low lighting it was easy.. her brows furrowed.. quiet confusion settling upon her youthful features.. -.. mmm.. -she questioned before she caught sight of him there and she smiled..moving to reach out only to feel that bit of resistance thanks to the IV lines .she laughed a little-.. Guess I was pushing it a little harder than I thought..  -she nodded a little..

though it confused her.. she wasn't doing anything extra this time around than she hadn't in the past.. she was eating.. and drinking.. she was taking regular breaks.. but.. something set her on her ass.. her free hand slid down to brush across the delicate rise of her stomach.. -.. seems they are causing me a bit more trouble this time around.. -she tilted her head.. looking across to him there.. he seemed.. perhaps a little worn-.. are you ok love?.. -she'd question.. shifting then so she was sitting a little more upright.. -.

. you look frightfully tired.. I know you've been busy down on the surface and all.. you are taking care of yourself yes?.. -the corners of her lips curled .. her fingers wrapping around his-.. Maybe I need to be taking care of you for a while.. Dont make me put my foot down.. -she wriggled her toes then.. still encased in a poka-dotted flat-.. because you know I will.. I know you have had trouble trying to get Diovan back home.. and then the wrestle to get the antidotes for this sweet Rose girl.. but.. -her free hand would rise.. soft warm fingers would cradle his cheek-.. Youre important too.. You're the glue that keeps us all together.. -she smiled.. looking to him there utterly enamoured ..something that she would always be of him.. -

[BadInfluence]

“Considering your sons previous choices I’d say Basic Virgin Princess is an upgrade, thanks for the compliment.” She was baiting her and she knew it, but she was baiting her for a reason, to try and keep her functioning on some level mentally. Sure, it hurt, she KNEW it hurt from personal experience in regards to the potion to keep her from thrashing as she worked... The best thing she could offer her right now was something else to focus on. She didn’t hesitate to roll with the punches either, the comments about Nautilous, his cock versus ego thing and all that jazz... Still, they couldn’t seem to hook her just right, she was too drained to keep up... She didn’t force her to stay there, so long as she was awake, so long as she could show some sort of response to the world around her it was ok... “Yeah, I know it sucks, and your sort of my guinea pig for it right now... It’s been developed to work on Dwarves who are a hell of a lot stockier than you are.” Not that she’d admit this but Sydel was definitely offering her a sort of prime and unique once in a lifetime opportunity to test out the very same medication she had helped create on a body far more complicated than any dwarf... “With luck we won’t ever have to give it to you again but if we do? Well hey, we’ll have the dosage and all the kinks worked out.”

Maybe not what a patient would want to hear, but she didn’t really see Sydel as a patient, it was... More complicated yet simplistic than that. She was a person who needed aid, a person who was desperate for help, but definitely not a patient... Not in the typical sense. She was however an unexpected opportunity to try out their concoction on a physical body more complex than any other. She could tell that much just by looking at her, but as she worked on removing the fetus there was no denying she was ice cold, yet she still bled... A corpse with a pulse, and hardly a Vampire as she knew they had no pulse so Sydel? She was definitely a very strange case... “I’m going as quickly as I dare right now... Your body heals rapidly, faster than anything I’ve encountered so I have to be extra cautious.. I won’t put you through this only to have to repeat it down the line because I was lax in my work today...” She hoped at least the milk of the poppy would kick in soon, it was a damned strong pain killer, some of the strongest that was plant based and well hey... It was her. She would stick with plants till the day she died.

Once she was done though she told Nautilous to put her down into the tub to keep her body warm after the blood loss and to vet the poison out through her skin, seeing the way she cried out, she pulled a face. “Lud you big brute, she’s not a fucking snapper, she’s like a delicate beta... You need to go slower.” Not that Nautilous had done anything wrong, not physically anyways, Sydel was just in a lot more pain than she’d felt in a long time and it showed. Hearing the broken word, just one, but it was enough to make her laugh a bit and shake her head. “A rubix cube is complicated, elvish is complicated, you? You’re like Schrodinger's cat...” Would she get the reference? Maybe not... Not many did but it was so true it almost hurt, she was literally schrodinger's cat without the box... She asked about a switch then, mentioning Elizabeth a few moments later, venting her own concerns... After all that sort of behavior wasn’t healthy, and Jacob was just now starting to venture out into the world again, the last thing he needed while he stabilized his feet under him was something as negative as Grace definitely looked to be... “I suppose as his mother you get first dibs... So forgive me if I hate you for taking the opportunity from me given your placement in line. I thought she was bad news the moment she looked at Jacob like she could eat him with a fucking spoon.” She growled and huffed as she packed up and began to get changed. Noting Sydel had slipped into the water made her think some sort of harness would be needed for the specialty wing, something that would keep them from drowning but also be comfortable... Maybe instead of hot water something akin to a rich putty might be better? Perhaps clay? Clay did have wonderful attributes to draw out toxins... She’d have to make notes on that and go over it with Jacob, it was a fantastic idea and unlike water, once the patient was submerged in the clay they wouldn’t slide down under it... IT would hold them in place like a sort of cast...

She would depart for the Surface then and the party that she had been forced to miss out on so far.

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“It’s been elbows to assholes and can’t breath for breaking wind today.” He said as he arrived, pulling his hand down over his face, because while Sydel might have been too sick to notice things about Rose? He had... Things that were very... Very.... VERY bad... What was Hanali thinking? Calling her Jacob’s balance? She was so far from it it was painful... She was basically like giving Jacob a weapon of incredible power and strength, he could either destroy with it, or protect and he knew... Khorn? Was gunning to tip Jacob into the dark and Rose? Rose might be just what he needed to do that... Shoving those thoughts out of his head he walked over to Garafin and gave him a warm kiss and a touch to his cheek. “Been too long handsome. Was your last sea voyage good? You had a chance to hear that Menzoberranzan went down? Huge volcanic eruption... I figured I’d take over planning and got us a weekend long retreat with the Sirens and Psychii on the isle of Crete. Plenty of good food, excellent drugs, and lovely little natives all naked and sun tanned running about like nymphs.” Oh yeah... It was a lot of fun to go visit the Psychii if you could afford it, they had their own little island off of Crete where it was always warm and the waters a deep blue, and plenty of gorgeous humans to fuck if that took your fancy. If not? The drugs were just as good as what could be found in Menzoberranzan, if not a little better in some areas, though unlike Mezzo? It cost a veritable large towns years worth of taxes to go, and that? Was just for a night. He was ordering a three day weekend visit... God help the eyes of anyone who might see just what that was costing him...

“Sydel took a tumble. We got ambushed on the surface just before we were coming back, Dio was there and got sucked into the middle of it and it’s a proper fucking mess I tell you. Sydel’s recovering right now so Bells here should be right as rain within an hour or two...” And almost like on cue she began to wake up, coming to in a few moments and he slid onto the bed with her, his hip to hers as he took that hand that was reaching for him. “Not too much sweetheart... Sydel took a tumble but she’s ok... She just needed a bit more energy to get back on her feet and sadly that means she sort of knocked you off of yours. You’re both ok now.” Hardest part of their linking, their existence was due to a very fine power balance, and if one took more than the other? Things could get funky. When she mentioned they though... His face lit up a moment and like any other incredibly besotted dad to be, shimmied down the bed and put his head over her belly for a moment, listening to her heart beat through her skin, pressing a kiss to her belly. “Well it’s not your fault or theirs... Dio and I both went at you good and hard when this little bean came around... I told Sydel I thought you were having twins if not triplets, that last festival, wow... Hanali really packed on that lust dust... I don’t think we let your feet touch the ground that entire weekend.” It had been a vertiable fuckfest without a doubt, between him dio and Sydel? They’d expended enough fluid to fill an olypic swimming pool. They’d had more than a few guests join in, even Garafin had been in town for that one and had gotten a chance to fuck Bells, though Garafin? Probably didn’t remember most of it... The lust dust had been packed on hard, and the liquid lust had been laced in EVERYTHING, and Garafin being well... Garafin... He had been drinking quite a bit as that was his only vice, and while normally he could easily hold his liquor, the stuff they’d been touting for that one was.... Well hell even HE got ripped on it. Garafin had left the room then and he smiled at Bells and kissed her belly. “Wonder if Garafin might be the daddy of this one... Or one of them if there’s multiples this time... Shame he can’t remember it, that last one was a doozie, Hanali was definately trying to get a bumper crop this year.”

She asked if he was ok though, that he looked tired, been busy and what not... She was probably the only person who could ever catch that in him, looked at him close enough to see the little lines that showed on his face, the worry in his eyes. “You’re my angel Bells, you know that? Precious little sunflower...” He said as he got up, reaching out to her to pull her into his lap, into a warm loving hug. “Diovan is home but he’s in deep shit still so I have him with Ace to make sure he stays out of trouble for a while... Rose... Well they got her pretty good, she was hit with some heavy drow poisons, apparently she died for a full ten minutes before somehow she came back.” He was filling her in but also keeping it very light... It was a promise he had made her before he and Sydel got married, that he would keep her in the loop, even if he thought it was news she didn’t need to hear. “Plus one of Jacob’s really bad ex-girlfriends is sniffing around him again so we’re all pretty much wondering if we should step in or let Jacob and his Rose settle it... From what I’ve seen Rose is an apt name, that girl has some very vicious thorns, makes me feel pretty confident that Jacob has a very good protector in her...” Protector yes but... She might be worse... Was she going to be his salvation and show him that balance was possible? Or was she going to be that final stone on the scales to pushing Jacob over to Khorn? “So, all that ugly news out of the way my pet, are you excited for this girls weekend? I hear Anouk is coming, so is a human girl named Kit, a friend of Rose’s... Apparently that pediatrician Maxon is her beaux, you remember, the one who had eyes for Garafin last celebration? Well apparently he’s a fan of the blond curvaceous persuasion.” He’d seen Kit first hand and he had to admit, if he were a younger, single man? He’d be hitting that like a rubber paddle ball. “And you were right by the way... She’s definitely part wood elf, and believe it or not, she’s about two inches shorter than you. She’s a tiny little thing, not much in the chest department but honey, she’s got an ass on her... If you get a chance to sneak a grab you’ll have to tell me what it’s like.” He teased, making light of it all towards the end, giving her a soft squeeze before letting her go.

“Do you need anything while I’m here sweetheart? Aysil is with Sydel back at the manse so I will have to go back soon, check up on Diovan too, but I can spare you an hour or so.” He said with a kiss to her nose and another on her lips as he picked up the comb beside her... Guiding her head to his lap so he could brush her hair out, knowing how much she loved it, how peaceful it made her feel....

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..the two gents shared that warm kiss.. a soft touch.. a knowing glance.. Garafin smiled and nodded his head-..It was a long one thats for sure, I was so fucking thankful when we came ashore.. Weather was a bit off.. Im not sure whats going on but.. somethings up.. the forcasts from the seers were nothing like what we experienced.. -he shrugged his shoulders a little-.. Still.. we got back all in one piece.. with some fine flashy items to trade.. so I cant complain.. I had heard about Menz yes, it was the thorn in my side for the ride home as I knew we had that place all picked out for the stag.. was right bummed about it.. so hearing you have something else up your sleeve.. -he slapped his hands together-.. Well.. that sounds fucking fantastic.. you've come right in and saved the day.. and let me tell you.. I think we are all going to need to let off a bit of steam by the time this little jaunt comes around.. -he shot you a wink there.. laughing quietly.. he noticed Belles was starting to rouse so he made himself scarce.. leaving the two to catch up..

..she stirred and shifted.. slowly coming to there.. spotting him and she brightened almost immediately.. he seemed to have that overall effect on her.. she figured she had mucked up with her food intake.. or overdone it.. but he soon corrected her.. that Sydel had taken a tumble.. and thats why she herself fell when she did..-.. Oh.. -she tilted her head.. her fingers curling around his offered hand-.. she's going to be alright though yes?.. -her brows furrowed a look of concern floated across those youthful features.. looking up to you with those big duo coloured eyes.. Realistically the pair of them should have been able to see one another.. to be able to help each other out..to feel what the other was feeling.. and whilst Sydel could see Belle.. to keep an eye on her.. Sydel locked Bell out.. with the thoughts that if kind hearted Belle saw even a drop of what Sydel got up to.. or what Naut got up to when they were together the girl would be tarnished for good..

she let it slip..rather casually that there was more than one baby in that sweetly rounding belly of hers.. watching him just light up made her smile grow even more.. she sighed when he pressed his lips to her belly there and she laughed.. her fingers lifting to brush lightly through his hair as he rested there listening to her heart beat.. -..Oh yes.. -her cheeks coloured considerably when he began to talk about what had happened that one weekend.. -.. I dont think you even let me leave the bedroom for the entire weekend.. either of you.. -she wagged her finger a little before she laughed.. -.. mm dont think Garafin remembers much about it.. if I remember rightly myself he was pretty high.. floating.. i think he got you and Diovan mixed up at one stage.. before we all laughed..

I dont know.. The goddess seems to be upping the anty now.. every year.. Im almost fearful of how this years will be.. -she smiled-.. Everyone will probably die from sheer exhaustion.... -it would be then that she would ask if he was ok.. she watched him like a hawk.. whenever he was close enough.. so she noticed when something wasn't quite right.. he pulled her into his lap and she curled in close.. wrapping her arms around him.. he spoke about the family.. about how Diovan was still in trouble.. and how Rose had died .. and then this ex girlfriend causing trouble.. -.. Sounds like a lot of drama.. I hope Diovan can find a way to weasle his way back into the goddesses good books and soon.. we have the celebrations coming up and Id hate for him to miss it..

-her fingers lightly drew patterns upon his upper arms as she listened to him speak-.. Rose must be strong to have survived after being gone for that long.. I dont know a lot about ex girlfriends of Jacob.. I really not sure.. but I guess.. its probably best for us to sit back.. and watch.. observe and only step in when its necessary.. that way he can grow from it.. for in as much as I know we would all love to feather his nest to make sure he never hurts.. we know better.. pain is just a part of life.. its how we adapt.. and how we grow stronger.. -he mentioned the girls night that was coming up-.. Oh yes.. Oh I am excited for it.. it's going to be a lot of fun and I look frward to getting to know this Rose better.. if she is going to be in our Jacobs life.. then I think this kind of thing will only do good.. As for the rest.. well the more the merrier.. lots of ladies and a lot of fun.. and as expected.. what happens on our fun weekends.. Stays on our fun weekends.. -she shot him a playful wink there with a laugh..

her smile only widening as she leant up to press her lips to the tip of his nose.. -How can she be shorter than me?., is that even possible?.. -her mouth fell open a little.. she was honestly surprised.. Im not grabbing her ass Nautilous.. -she tickled his sides then making him wriggle-.. or.. well.. even if I did I wouldn't tell you.. -she nodded when he said he could only spare an hour or so.. that he had to go check on the others.. the pair of them shared that sweet kiss then.-.. I just missed you.. I missed your face.. -her forehead pressed to his there as her eyes closed-.. Hopefully we will have time soon to catch up yes?.. -she looked to him.. she knew he was busy.. and she herself had been pretty much unavailable due to preparations.. -..

[BadInfluence]

“Out at sea too now? Might be time we talk to Ace and ask him what’s going on...” Ace controlled the weather of Arvandor so if anyone would know something was off, it was him, and perhaps any reasons in regards to that... “You’ll have to give me a look at those items yeah? You know how much Bells loves something pretty, and Jacob might be looking for something here soon...” Oh how little he knew that his visit had been met with some seriously mixed outcomes, and sadly, only one part was any good... They talked about the loss of Mez but he wasn’t going to explain that one, instead he mentioned he had an out for it, a different venue. “A weekend in the sunny isles off of Crete with the Psychii and Nymphs, with all the food, wine and drugs we can possible imbibe... Oh yeah... Plenty of vents will be ah... Manipulated.” He said with a grin and slapped Garafins ass as he left. Those two? Were lovers when the need arose, Garafin didn’t need sex as often as the rest of him, years of cold turkey with Caela had pretty much killed that beast’s voracity... But oh... When it did... Mmm... Those two had a good old time...

Bells had indeed woken up as he left and she asked her questions, her concerns, and he of course answer them all. Gone were the days he would have sheltered her for the sake of her own feelings, she’d explained it did more harm than good so naturally? He had stopped omitting things. Sure things were sometimes rougher because of it but hey, things were better now than before, even with those little occasional hiccups. “Oh yeah, you know our Sydel, nothing short of the end of the world can keep her down for long." When she mentioned the plus one baby on arrival oh yeah, his face lit up like christmas and he shimmied down a bit, head over her belly as he listened... Just light touching along her belly, caressing the mound there, kissing the curve that was starting to show. “Maybe Garafin might be the dad of one of these little beans... Goddess knows he deserves to be a father to at least one of the children he’s helped raise.” It was common knowledge that Caela had cuckolded him for years, not a single child of theirs was Garafins, but who knew? Maybe one of these might be? They had all agreed some time ago that any child born from a celebration? Was just that. A celebration. They didn’t count who the parent was, just who it might be, and of course all those who might have been the father usually took on various father type rolls. “That was a damned fun celebration though. We definitely put your lovely lavender paramour self through your paces...” He said as he sighed, hearing the sounds of her heart beating and her fingers through his hair, oh... So very relaxing. “He did, he thought Dio’s ass was mine, gave him quite a shock to find a different brother bending over for some fun.” He laughed and shrugged his shoulders...

She was right, Hanali had definitely been upping it since they arrived, like thier arrival suddenly threw her into overdrive... All things considering he knew this next one would be one for the history books, she was pregnant and chances were she’d make sure everyone else was too if she had her way, the place would likely be oozing so much lust dust they’d think it was an overload of pollen... “What a way to go though, right? I’m sure Hanali will make sure proper food and drink are available to support all the furious fucking that I’m sure is going to be going around like a rash... I imagine our little Paramour son will likely be off duty that night though, he himself is just newly coupled, she’ll want to try and get Rose pregnant as fast as possible. We might start watching waistlines here in the near future.” Oh how little they knew... And yet he knew more than the rest of them. She caught on then that he wasn’t quite his usual self, things were starting to weigh on him and she noticed it, pulling her into his lap as he held her close... Just cuddled her for a minute and explained what was up. “It is and it’s a pain... I’m working on Diovan right now, buttering the gears so to speak, he’s at least allowed home but on house arrest. Better than the surface banishment... As for Rose...” He said after a pause, there was something funky about her, not bad just... Different... “It’s weird but... She smelled...” How to explain it... “Not like a stink but... She smelled like a meadow of wild flowers and something else... Something really similar to you and Sydel... Those pheromones you both are so very ripe with... It was like that but... Well... Call me weird but they were stronger... Like... A lot stronger.” The more he had been around her the more he noticed, and it seemed like the more men that were around her the stronger it got, and when they had hoovered near the same area as Jacob? They were off the charts, worse even than when Sydel was in full form and getting fucked raw and hard during the festivals, to the point to where... Yeah... Even he had gotten hard just being near her... Was it always that way? Or was this a side effect of her death? Of the items used to try and keep her alive?... “When she was dying they gave her Hanali’s tears and water from her scrying pools, the ones that are used to make the most powerful love potions... I wonder if she’s been changed because of it? Those are some incredibly potent things... What do you think love? If anyone would know, it’s you.”

The reply in regards to Jacobs ex girlfriends... Ugh... That one just... “It’s not our place to even if we wanted to... Hanali has matched Rose with Jacob and vice verse... If anything comes up? It’s up to them to work out together.” Or they’d work themselves apart and be matched up with someone else... It was a hard call, harder still considering who was the one moving behind the scenes, because Elizabeth? Was probably the most dangerous of them all... Hell she was even worse with Cora... At least they got to see him when he was married to her... They hadn’t gotten to see Jacob at all when Elizabeth had her claws in him. The mention of the girls weekend came up and he had to admit, he was curious, and he had to ask... “I know it’s all mum but... Have you or Sydel ever taken a lover during those trips? Just how much crazy fun do you guys have? Last time Vivian came back with a hickie and a waddle...” Vivian was still in love with her dead husband but that didn’t mean her body was without it’s own needs... “Because I tell you if you do... Watch out for this Rose girl... She’s pretty much still a virgin for the most part, she had to ask me what a switch was, Jacob didn’t explain it... You can tell she’s mad curious about it all... Maybe you girls might show her a couple of things?” Jacob would definitely benefit from the teaching and hell, anything to help usher a marriage and grand baby along was alright with him!

In regards to Rose’s height though. “I know, I didn’t believe it at first, but she honestly is two inches shorter than you. She looks like a little blond fairy or something, she’s incredibly little, but nice and curvy... She’s got spine though, went toe to toe with Sydel, didn’t even flinch... I can only imagine how good she is for Jacob.” [/b][/i] He asked her to grab her ass for him then, honestly he was curious, her dress hid a lot of things below the waist... And when she had gotten changed? The clothes had been a touch too big but it gave him a hint of a heart shaped ass that just begged to be spanked. If Jacob hadn’t done that at least once yet he seriously had to wake him up with a refresher. “Ah, cruel minx! I do love you so my little sunflower.” He said, holding her close and grinning as she tickled him, sharing a soft, warm kiss a moment later... Their foreheads touching... It had been a while... “After the girls weekend and Sydel is back to her normal self we’ll steal a weekend away just you and I... Catch up and get back to square one for a minute...” He said and they’d pass that hour in quiet talk and warm touches, soft cuddles and more often than not he was kissing or loving up on her growing belly in some shape or form. Twins this time... They were incredibly lucky... They were rare among humans, even rarer among elves, and he knew there’d be one HELL of a birthing party. “Maybe a trip out on my boat... you know what that lovely belly does to me...” He said with a wicked grin and a wink, teasing her only partially because yeah, he definitely had a thing for it. When the hour had passed he had to get back home, leaving her with a kiss and a hug, plans for their weekend away together for a while... Returning to the manse to check up on Ace and Diovan, get any feedback there before going up to take Sydel out of the bath and into their bed, pulling her against his chest... Keeping her warm and safe against him and letting her purge her system in that way, kissing the top of her head, hands stroking down her back...

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..she felt his fingers brushing lightly across the delicate rise of her belly.. there was two little growing souls in there.. at least thats what she had been told.. -.. mm.. one of the ladies in the village told me she could sense the two.. it would account for the larger than normal growth.. -she nodded a little.. reaching to run her fingers through his hair-.. Sydel would know for sure though.. she's been able to check in the past.. -he mentioned that Garafin might be the Father of one of them.. she nodded a little with a smile.. her cheeks colouring just a touch-.. he certainly could be.. and I honestly couldn't think of a more deserving man for a child.. he's done almost too much for this community.. to not receive what we have is just not fair..

-she huffed a little.. Garafins luck with love was pretty abysmal.. the little pops of colour that stepped into his life left just as quickly or the match was just never made.. -.. He must have a match.. I wonder if we could get Vivian to have a look.. just a little peek .. I cant really be looking into people that i care so much about.. its just not proper -she said as she peered through her fingers at him there with a smile.. they spoke on the celebrations coming up.. and how she figured Hanali was going to make things even more potent than usual.. just something she had noticed over the years.. it just grew and grew and grew.. Hanali wanted to greatly expand the population.. and this was her way of doing it.. throwing wild parties where there were no holds barred.. no one really cared who sired who.. just that pregnancy was the end result -.. Will you be taking Diovan with you to the stag night then?.. surely he will be out of house arrest by then?..

-her brows furrowed.. curious as to why it was all taking so long.. -.. I agree at least he is home.. being stuck down on the surface would have been horrible..I know that you and Sydel go down there often.. its something you're used to.. and you know how to navigate it.. but.. for those like Dio and myself.. kind of like fish out of water.. -she listened when he spoke about Rose.. and the peculiar scent.. -.. well thats odd.. if she emits pheromones then .. maybe we have a similar blood line.. I guess we still really dont know a lot about this girl do we.. -she pursed her lips together.. gently running her fingers back through his hair-.. no family to speak of.. no records.. but there has to be something.. somewhere.. no one can just appear like that.. not if she's elven.. we will figure it out.. I am sure of it..

-he explained what they had given Rose when she had died.. the tears and water from the pools..-.. incredibly potent yes.. -she nodded.. taking a small drink from her cup-.. like.. end of the world ..last resort kind of potent ..there would have to be some side effects.. did she look ok to you?.. -she tilted her head-.. I guess it could change her.. though.. how I cant be sure.. its not widely documented as being used often if at all.. I guess without knowing her body makeup we are in the dark a little here.. but we do need to be watching her.. Hanalis tears have the ability to wipe slates clean.. to restart bodies.. adding the pools water to that.. and then im guessing an antidote to the poison she had ingested.. so incredibly light and holy ingredients on one hand.. and incredibly dark on the other.. I dont know.. -she murmured.. -.. Im hoping really that everything is fine.. and Jacob is just as smitten as he was when I saw him last... yes you are right.. its not our place to intervene in matters where our goddess has made the match.. but.. could you honestly live with yourself if something was to go awry?..

-she tilted her head-.. I dont know..I think Rose looks like a beautiful creature.. she really does.. and the two of them together.. -her smile brightened-.. is heart warming to see.. but we really dont know her yet.. we dont have to intervene..yet.. but lets just watch mm?.. -they spoke a little about the girls night that was coming up.. and he asked about her or Sydel taking a lover during those trips.. how Vivian had returned with a hickie and a waddle.. her hands rose as she cupped them over her mouth.. laughing quietly-.. Its so much fun .. like.. So So much fun..

-her smile grew a little more then .. even a hint of a grin there as she laughed-.. Im sure you boys get up to all kinds of mischief ..-she wagged her finger a little.. - I dont think Sydel has taken on a lover since you two decided to go down that road together.. Vivian is a little pocket rocket though.. -she grinned-.. I have been known to have some fun too.. I look forward to seeing where we go with this one.. I have a few ideas on where we will be going this time.. somewhere a little different.. -she looked to you when you spoke on Rose being pretty much a virgin.. she blinked at the switch remark-.. really?.. Wow.. ok.. -she nodded.. rubbing her chin a little-.. Ill organise something to.. maybe give her a little fun hands on education.. -she shot you a playful wink then.. they spoke on Rose being a little shorty ..she told him she missed him.. and he suggested they have a weekend.. soon.. just the two of them.. out on his boat.. -.. that sounds perfect.. I look forward to it.. -their time had run short.. the two embracing then before he headed back out.. and back to the Mansion.. things there were not quite as he left them however.. Aysil was down stairs in the kitchen with the children.. organising them a small snack before they would have to head to bed.. she turned when you wandered in


A: You're back -she offered a smile.. passing a small bowl to Aylan-.. Is Belle ok? Had me more than a little worred when you slipped out suddenly.. -she turned to lean back against the sink there.. the house was incredibly quiet.. -.. Ace took Diovan out when Mother got her visitor.. I dont know..I figure perhaps to one of the bars.. or maybe to see Garafin?.. -she took a drink then as she tilted her head-.. A lady came to the door.. said she was one of Mothers sisters.. I figured since I hadn't seen her before it was maybe more of a friend.. she wanted to look after her..I stayed a little while there.. she changed the bedding.. helped get Mother out of the tub.. before she sat there for a moment.. I decided to come down and check on the little ones.. I hope thats ok.. -she tilted her head.. hoping she didn't fuck something up.. she just didn't want to leave the kids on their own for much longer if she could avoid it..


In the bedroom the candles would be almost completley drowned out.. the only one beside the bed.. a gentle flicker of light.. Sy would be resting then.. the bruising and everything remained for now.. the cuts and grazes still there.. but at least she wasn't crying out in pain.. well.. not right now in any rate.. she just looked still.. eyes closed.. maybe she was dead.. but thats how she always looked when she was resting right?.. Beside the bed dressed in the deepest red and black was a fellow bride.. her hair long and white pulled up high on her head.. cascading down her back in the loosest ringlets.. each one unravelling slowly the longer she stayed.. she would look up when he entered.. nodding her head-..

Ive been sent to check on her.. her cries were heard all the way back home.. we half expected to see her turn up on the body pile with that noise.. -the womans brows furrowed.. giving a shake of her head-..Colour me surprised when I turned up here and she was still alive.. The creature that did this though.. -she smacked her lips together as she moved to stand-.. needs to be destroyed.. I have no hold here.. in this.. -she frowned.. looking incredibly displeased-.. place.. -the sheer goodness of the realm was straightening her hair.. it was making her feel ill to her very core.. -..

but know.. that if you dont handle it.. it will be handled by the destruction of so very much more..-she paused- this one.. -she motioned toward Sy-.. has been down here too long.. -she reached to pluck up a few strands of Sydels hair.. it was dead straight until it began to curl around the brides fingers-.. You used to have a lot more darkness in you.. almost to its tipping point.. I guess youve mellowed out over the years.. shame.. I have no doubts you're skilled.. -she waved her hand dismissive- ..

I have no doubts you can fight and defend yourself and your home.. but.. are you good for her anymore?.. -she released the curled strands of hair.. watching as Sy grimaced then and tensed.. her small body stiffened beneath the sheets.. her body was expelling more of that blood..it coloured the thin sheeting that had been placed atop her.. she cried out in her sleep.. the brides cool hand came down to press to Sydels forehead.. and she seemed to calm a little.. the cries turning into little more than whimpers-.. Sort it out Nautilous.. her Father is watching.. I fully expect to see her at Death Night this year -a taloned finger would glide down along the sharp curve of Sydels cheek.. not enough to break the skin.. just a touch.. her hair closest to that touch curled.. before she released it and the bride vanished.. -

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“I can definitely ask her when I get back home.” It would certainly explain the larger than normal growth yes, but also the energy consumption, it took a fair bit to grow more than one life. Even more so as an elf. He was pretty sure that this batch wasn’t any of his though, he usually could tell if a woman was carrying his child or if it was bullshit, and he wasn’t feeling anything with these two as he had for Joshua for instance... Which meant one was definitely Diovans and the other was Garafins... And honestly? He was happy about it if that was the case. Garafin was a huge part of their family, even though he was non-related outside of marriage, he had been the one to step up and be a father to Jacob during his most formative years... And stayed in the family even after Jacob had grown up and moved out... Garafin was the only male lover he entertained outside of Diovan, and Garafin was by far his favorite, and the only man he had ever let top him. Honestly, it was as she had said, who could be more deserving? “You know he’s still in love with you Bells... I don’t know if it’s that he doesn’t have a match but maybe he’s blind to them because he can only see you?”

That was a possible hitch with Garafin... They all knew he had someone out there, just waiting to be found, or maybe to be born... Gods knew there were plenty of age gap romances around and obviously Garafin could still perform and father children given he had snagged Sybelle. But he had a feeling that who ever his match was? Wouldn’t be visible to him, not with the hard core blinders he had on for Bells, hell he had even married her sister just to be closer to her... That was some hard core devotion right there... Sometimes you get too used to being in a pattern though and you don’t realize you could do anything else. Maybe Garafin just needed a really good shake? He’d check in with the Psychii and see if they could rattle some branches and see what fell. “Vivian can ask but why not ask me to go look?” As the father of Hanali’s child he wa pretty sure that he was going to get some serious carte blanc to run around and check out a few things... It would help make some things easier at least... Though they both noticed the shift in it, Hanali was really gunning to have the population hit a good boom, to stabilize...

Thinking about it he had realized that there was a huge chunk of elves this year about to make the crossing to the other side, many and more of them were quite old, ready to take the final trip... Maybe Hanali forced a bumper year every century to replace the ones passing on? It would make sure she kept her power, but he was doing the math, and they were ahead more than a bit... Was Hanali trying to expand her realm, and therefor her power? She wouldn’t be the first or the last, though she at least did it the most enjoyable way, nothing like a free for all fuck fest to really get the hearts pumping... They cycled around to Diovan and that was the hang up... What could he do? He obvious had a parasite, had a name where it had been picked up at, but there wasn’t anything he could do immediately... Or... Was there? It would take a lot of chain pulling... Hell, he’d likely make enemies here and there, of at least two people if not more... But it was a good place to start, a stop gap, a band-aid until he could get deeper... Get to Har Ganeth... Find out just what this thing was and how to get rid of it... "Oh of course... Really he's just fine, you know how Hanali can get, when she gets in a huff it takes a day or two... If you want I will send him here before we leave for the stag party, sound good sweetheart?" Yeah... He knew what he was signing those people up for, but in the end he had no choice, and this wouldn't be the first time in his life he'd made people into pawns to further his own agendas...

They spoke on Rose then and he had to think about it, her questions, her feed back on what had been used... "We know nothing about her, no one's been able to find anything about her, and I've had a few paramours as well as Vivian looking. The more I think about it..." The incredibly good looks, the pretty face with just the right hints of this or that to make her stand out, the figure... And of course, now that he had met her face to face, the very obvious scent... "She's got features of a wood elf for sure, there's no denying that but she definitely has a scent like you and Sydels only hers is unique, different compared to you two... Sort of like flowers you each have your own aroma..." He wasn't about to say that hers were pretty damn alluring. He'd end up with his ass kicked all over the places a few times over. "She's also incredibly tiny like you two... It's like there's something else there, or maybe two things, I don't even think she's half cast... More like tri..." But who could really say? He might get a chance if he tasted her blood for instance but that required a good deal of personal space and he didn't think Jacob would appreciate any of that all too much. Going over the items used to heal her though, and then of course there was the fact she had died, for a full ten minutes in fact before she was suddenly popping up like a daisy in the snow... Did she look ok to him? "She's scared... She's worried about Jacob and it's clear as the sun in the sky at noon that she's madly in love with him.... As for Jacob? I know I saw him after she had died and he was devastated, utterly so, like I haven't ever seen him look so bad, not even after Cora." Which was saying something... Something good... Cora had taken the life out of him, but when Rose had died it took the soul, which as horrible as it was? Meant that he genuinely loved her versus was just infatuated... Though God knows Infatuation can be a heavy ass feeling that lasts for a while... "But outside of that... She's gorgeous Bells... Like look, don't beat me up, you know that you and Sydel are absolute perfection to me... But she? Comes a damn close second." He was thinking about it when it clicked and he nibbled the side of her belly as he said it outloud. "It's her eyes... They changed. They used to be a pretty hazel but when I saw her at the party they're more like a really pale gold now, little flecks of green and brown in them but definitely not the same color as before, no way in hell." Was that good? Bad? What did it mean? "I'm not going to say I don't question it, you know Jacob is my son in my heart, I'll always look out for him as if I sired him myself... I think in this one though? It's better if we step back unless absolutely necessary..." If they watched too close they might just irritate Jacob and what good would that do? His mind circled back to what she had said just a bit ago about the tears, and he thought that Rose, the old one... She had to have died on that table... But Hanali's tears had started it over again, gave her that second chance, a new spark of life to animate the soul... Why else would her eyes change? Why the pheromones? Because he knew from personal experience that if she had them at the first? They wouldn't have had to spike everything in that cottage to make sure those two actually got over their reserves and just let go...

Unable to resist the question about the girls night she served him right, causing him to laugh with her, catching her hand and nibbling along the inside of her wrist. "Tease but it serves me right... Vivian needs those outings, shes too beautiful to keep isolating herself up like some raven haired rapunzel... As for you, shaaame!" He teased her and gave her a wink. "Good girl, show my brother he's not the only elf who knows how to make you scream someones name huh? Keep him on his toes!" He was glad that Sydel hadn't taken on another lover, they did have that rule together that outside of their orgies it was purely monogamous but... He might have to shift that around now because of Hanali, he felt like a fucking letcher and a liar, but he was also put in a situation that if he wanted to keep his family together? He had no other choice... "Though speaking of fun and lovers and all that... Hanali picked me as her consort this year. Bloody thing is insatiable I don't know how Ace can stand it for so long." Ace had the patience of a saint for that woman, but maybe he saw a side of Hanali that Ace didn't? Or maybe he just didn't like her because he was so madly in love with his wife? "But one of the perks is some time this year, we all get to be remarried but this time as a quartet, with the links shared between all of us." He knew it was something Bells hurt over often, that she and Diovan didn't get to share that link, something that was so intimate and one of the biggest blessings of getting married under Hanali...

Speaking then about Rose pretty much being fresh as fallen snow so to speak, though how he was pretty sure she was a switch, her response had read as much... But was SHE aware of it? He had given her information, guides and ideas, and hopefully? That was going to be enough to push her along... "Ask Jacob first... Funny thing is he's actually really jealous with her and possessive a bit... Might be a kindness to find out first." A way to hedge any trouble if they could... He mentioned then the two of them going out on his boat, just the two of them to spend a week at sea, go on a little adventure along the coast... Holding each other and soft touches, a gentle kiss before he had to head back, not wanting to leave everything so up in the air...

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Returning he saw Aysil there in the kitchen and he went to her side, pulled her in for a hug and kissed the top of her head, she would forever and always be his little girl after all... Even if she was closing the gap to womanhood faster than he was willing to tolerate most days.... "She's alright sweetpea, just had a sugar drop because of the babies, turns out she's having twins this time. Takes a bit more energy off of her..." She filled him in about the guys heading to the bar, he knew Garafin was back in town of course, and those three... Ah shit the trouble they could get into... "Most likely to go see Garafin, he just got back and he's got a lot of new pretty things, we'll take you shopping tomorrow? Go and see what Uncle Garafin has? A thank you for helping your little brothers and sister." He said before letting her head off and do her own thing, he knew she was eager to get to her own little home on the pond with her beaux as the two practiced playing house for a bit before they took the next step into sex... Ugh... No... He still couldn't wrap his head around that.

He took up the little ones in his arms once they were done eating and took them up into the large shared room, tucking them each in one by one, giving hugs and kisses before setting the light off and letting the fireflies loose in the room to offer soft glowing nightlights as they fell asleep. He'd then close the door and head over to where Sydel was in the room and that was when he saw this... Guest... And the woman hadn't lied, they were sisters of a sort, shared Brides of Khorn... They were about as related as you can get in Naggoth... "Your husband knows there's a cost for what was done. Nothing in this world is painless, even for you brides, or have you forgotten your making?" Each bride suffers under weeks of torture before they become what they are, they are well acquainted with pain, with suffering... It was impossible to make a life change without some measure of pain... Still, when all was said and done for the most part, he wasn't blind or deaf to the threat... It made his jaw clench and he crossed his arms over his chest, tilting his head to the side a bit, wondering how much shit he'd get into if he snapped her neck and sent her back home looking backwards permanently...

Hopefully she didn't think she would get away that easily?

Before she could vanish, he reached out and grabbed those snow white locks, wrapping them around his fist as he yanked her back... Planting his foot solidly against the outside of her knee he snapped it clean in two at the joint, slamming down a ward around the room that kept any screams from leaking out... He'd not poison his children with his deeds... The other hand reached for the knifes out on the table from the surgical set, taking up the bone saw he shoved it into her chest, right in the middle and severed the superior vena cava... Keeping the blade in her so she didn't get to bleed out right away... And oh... Her hair? Was curled up so tight it was almost like a puff ball at that point, even as far from the bed as they were, Sydels hair would roll up into the tightest little curls... That bloody black aura dripping off of him, his eyes shifting from that warm summer blue to a red so dark it was almost black, his nails elongating into talons that he dug into her skull... "The only reason you aren't dead is because of your position... Let me remind you that even if the dragon is sleeping, that doesn't make it a sheep, and if you proad it? It will roar and devour you..." A low, threatening growl by her ear before he released her and let her topple to the ground. "We will be there and you best watch your back... A bride is valuable but she is replaceable... Now leave before I forget I have some claim to sanity and devour you soul and all." He'd watch her leave and if she didn't? He'd open a portal and throw her in himself before slamming it closed...

He then went to the bed, keeping the ward up around the room and pulled Sydel into his arms, letting that hellishly dark aura float around her, opening a vein in his wrist and holding it to her lips... It seemed that while he had left the dark behind him, the shadows of it were still reaching for him... Holding him tight... And oh... How they called him so sweetly... He knew he'd have to give in soon, take Sydel to Death Night and the like, to delve into a much darker level than he'd entertained in some time... But Maybe Sydel needed it too... Maybe the feeding jaunts needed to be boosted by something else... He'd have to see... Have to plan it out because right now? He certainly had a lot on his plate....

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...they spoke a little about Garafin then.. and he brought up that the reason for him not finding his match could well be because the man was still in love with her.. she sighed a little.. drawing the corner of her lip inward to worry it.. -.. I don't know..I love him to bits.. I always have, I always will.. I mean.. he's the reason I am still here..if it werent for him.. well.. only the goddess knows where I could have ended up.. -she glanced down at pastel coloured nails.. -..

I cant very well stay away from him now that there's a chance I could be pregnant with his child.. -she glanced up to him there.. confusion and a little pressure present upon her features-..I kinda need him too..he's like my very best friend.. we know practically everything about one another.. have you found yourself in this kind of position before?.. I mean sure.. if it werent for Diovan and you in my life.. things might be different.. I dont know.. It will kill me to see him hurt.. what should I do love?./-she questioned.. genuinely curious .. unsure about what steps to take next.. she nodded when he brought up the fact that he could check those books.

. not just Vivian..-.. you're right of course.. maybe next time you are down that way.. could you have a look?.. see if there is something in there.. someone for him.. -she took a breath.. they spoke about Diovan and how he was on home arrest.. but that everything would be just fine.. she nodded when he asked if shed like to see him before the stag -.. yes.. please if you will.. Id appreciate that.. -she offered a smile then.. the conversation shifted to Rose and the odd little things that were coming up.. how there was no information on the girl..no parental lineage could be found.. but that the scents were incredibly similar to hers and Sydels.. perhaps they did share something then.. she tilted her head as she listened.. -.. She's a beautiful woman yes.. and incredibly caring.. and smart to boot.. a neat little package that Jacob seems smitten for..

-she laughed though when he told her that Rose would come a close second to Sy and Belle.. she pressed a finger to the side of her nose-.. Dont let Sy hear you say that.. -she shot him a wink before he brought up the changes in eye colour.. -.. mm.. well I dont know.. It could just be something in her genetic makeup that we dont know about.. she could be some kind of shifter.. maybe she's not an elf.. We need to be looking deeper.. there has to be information on her somewhere.. No one is completely free from record.. -they spoke about the parties coming up.. the stag and girls nights.. she let it slip that she may have taken on a lover.. or two at these women only events.. laughing when he called her out on it.. before he spoke on Hanali choosing him as consort this year.. her mouth dropped open a little-.. Wow.. really?.. Well.. no not that Im surprised or anything.. you're pretty fucking fantastic in the bedroom..

-her cheeks coloured a little then and she laughed-.. but Wow.. thats a bit responsibility.. -she paused-.. werent you and Sy.. not taking on others though?. or is this something else.. I mean.. Hanali is a goddess afterall.. Our goddess.. no one could really say no to that could they.. -she smiled when he spoke about how they would all be remarried soon.. with a shared link-.. really?.. that would be fantastic.. I see it.. sometimes between you and Sy. just how much is shared.. id like to be a part of that with the four of us.. I think it would make us a lot stronger..

-he had slipped away then.. it was time to head back to the mansion..he would come across the visitor then.. this bride.. coming to check on Sydel who was placed into the bed there.. the Bride snarled at the remarks you made.. questioning wether or not she had forgotten her making..-Hardly.. I happen to know for a fact that if there were enough darkness at home she wouldn't have gone searching for it elsewhere.. -thats when everything went haywire.. the threats were made.. the sharp comments and guilt driven phrasing.. before her knee was all but broken and she went down like a tonne of bricks.. she screamed.. that would have fucking hurt.. the ward however kept all her cries contained to within it.. the knife slid into her skin like a hot blade and butter..

she spluttered and cried out.. her body jerked and shuddered..the darkness within that room was as thick as fog in that moment.. the brides hair curled up into the tightest curls ever.. she just looked to him wide eyed.. unable to summon a single word.. blood dripping from the corner of her mouth. ..she wasn't able to head down intot he portal so he tossed her.. she more or less just fell into it.. before the room fell silent once more..


There upon the bed she continued to whimper and shift.. her body having expelled another amount of blood.. when he settled in beside her she seemed to be all but magnitized to him.. he was her addiction.. he was her constant.. her anchor.. the one with whom she belonged.. when her lips felt his blood the tip of her tongue slid out to glide along it.. before she would latch on.. it would be the first glimpse of her returning to her usual self.. her lids would open slowly.. the yellow tinge that was there in the background was fading.. the dark circles were gone.. her hair had curled up.. tight in ringlets as she looked up to him.. his blood coating her tongue.. the back of her throat.. -

[BadInfluence]

"Do you love him like me? Or Dio? Or is it more plantonic? Those are important..." He wasn't sure how Dio could handle it, or hell, how he could... Sexual romance was one thing, they all enjoyed dalliances with one another true enough, but romantic? That was a different monster and one that worried him... It was how he handled Sydel sleeping with other partners before their marriage, that while she gave them her body, her heart was his... But what if Bells loved Garafin? Would that mean perhaps Sydel might one day follow the same path? He'd already felt the danger of loosing her heart once, and he wasn't sure his sanity could survive another dip that way, not twice... Still, he could see in her heart she was confused, confused and worried. He had put that emotion there, those thoughts in her heart, her head...

Pulling her close he held her, kissing the top of her head softly, fingers stroking up and down her back... "I don't want you to stay away from him, he's been a part of your life for a very long time, and he's virtually family to the rest of us... We all love him Bells, all in our own way, and you most of all." His hand dropped down and he ran his fingers over her belly, sending love to those little growing lives, one Garafin and one Diovan he was fairly positive... What an excellent surprise to give to Garafin on stag night... He'd lose his mind... But, you know, in a good way. "I did once... It was funny but I thought I loved her like crazy, her name was Athena Sorcha, and I was tangled up with her around the same time as Sydel... We lived together for a while, we were sexually intimate but... After a while I realized that I didn't love her romantically... She didn't have my heart... We were friends, very close friends, but really... Nothing else." Athena had been a wonderful surrogate mother to Aysil though, had taught him a lot about how to be a parent, how to be a father... It was a good part of his life, albeit chaotic, but good... A start on a different path. "Just be honest with him... I don't think he's aware that you love him, and if you tell him you love him back but not in a romantic way? It might just be what he needs to break the pattern. You can't give up on a dream if no one tells you your dreaming..." It couldn't hurt, could it?

Bringing up that he could look in those books too, and she asked him to do her a favor and look on her behalf, nodding his head. "I wanted to look over some records for Rose, see if maybe we missed something, or if I just need to be the one looking versus others... If someone is there for Garafin, I'll set the ball rolling myself, I promise." Might just be part of why he was being chosen as Hanali's companion for the year? Maybe it was his ability to find things where no one else could that landed him in her sights in the first place? She'd certainly seen him in action long enough to form a want for his skills, but that was usually for a one night romp of some sort, even the child could have been requested not ordered... But no, she had gotten bossy, even to the point of coercing him... Not an easy thing to understand from the Goddess who took everything so... Lightly... He mentioned bringing Diovan to see her before they all left, he figured they had a couple of days left, he could manage it in that time... Not a cure but a stop-gap at the very least...

Speaking on Rose for a bit he might have been singing her praises, but she had come when he called, and not only that? She had helped save his beloved wife. If anyone deserved a bit of praise from him? It was her. "Smitten? Not the way he tore that ass up..." He said with a laugh and a grin he couldn't keep off of his face. He knew from spying just how those two could get along in bed, it was like a firestorm and a lake of napalm, those two? Exploded. Sure, the had their soft things too he'd seen, but they were definately hungry for each other... They knew just what they needed from each other, what they wanted, and how to get it. He mentioned too that Rose though, she had something going for him, something that really got his attention. She definitely earned his respect and admiration for doing everything she had. "Do I look like I want to be made into a woman? She won't hear it from me!" He said with a laugh and a wink for her. The question if he had noticed a change though, he had to think about it, really rack his brain before he did. It had been her eye color, turning from hazel to mostly pale gold, and when she mentioned she might not be elvish? He had to pause and think it over... Was that possible? He'd run into a lot of shifters though, even employed them a few times in his life, but he didn't get that feeling off of Rose... He got something, yes, but not shifter... She did feel elvish bit not fully, something just wasn't catching traction here, like a missing link in the chain... He'd continue to look into it though without a doubt... "There might have been a tampering... A book missing or deleted... Perhaps the event was too dark to be held in public record? There are births from horrific rapes that we both know are often hidden away for the general peace and well being of the population..." How did he know? Because in the month and some he had spent with Hanali? She had told him a lot of things, things maybe no one else knew, or rather... No one else outside of Ace... She spoke on Ace often but there was something bothering her, she had found his match but was loath to let him go, her personal desires warring with her own nature. Hence why she had picked him. To clear it from her mind and give her something different to focus on. He? Was sort of like her mini-vacation to destress, though the baby thing, well that? Was all her own desires there and it wasn't like he was getting NOTHING out of it... No matter how she dressed it up, he'd ended up paying the tab for Diovans crime and ended up being picked as the new mate because Hanali seemed to really love his currency, or at least how he spent it...

"I was. I originally was just supposed to go and pay Diovan's tab with her for the sin he committed, though it's be just some fast and hard fucking and then I'd be home, but she had a different idea... Seems she wanted a whole lot more after the sample she had." When it came down to her question about Sydel he nodded his head. "She knew before I even went what was going to happen, and when I came back I shared it all with her, and she's quite chuffed. Imagine the goddess of the realm wanting your husband and known he only loves you? Put quite the strut in her stride..." He said though he still felt ill about it, hated that he had been forced to break his vows because of something Diovan did, and now he was being slapped with a whole lot more on his plate. A baby with Hanali, a different area of the records under the temple he was now incharge of, and now her consort for the year...

There had to be something he could do for Sydel? A new lover? Someone or something to make this... Ok? "I was going to tell her if she wanted to take on a lover or lovers on the trip she was welcome to... I was forced to break my vows, even with her consent to do so, it feels wrong... She shouldn't hold herself to the same promise I can't keep anymore..." Yeah, he hated it, but it was fair... Though at least she was getting something special out of it in a way, a chance to share that link with Diovan, and maybe...That link? Was just what they needed to heal the rift that had come up when he had raped her while under the control of the parasite? He hoped so... There was... A lot to think of, and honestly he couldn't imagine his plate having been this full before, not like this. "I think so too, it's why I made it part of my agreement with Hanali... You know me sweetheart, I'm not the time to let someone control the bargain completely." He said but their time was drawing to a close... He had to leave and as he was going, he made sure to send a note to Garafin that he aught to go see Sybelle before they had stag night, that she had something big to tell him... And that, of course, they had to have a cigarette and whiskey later to celebrate...

Once home though things went absolutely stupid. Aysil had done a wonderful job though, she was such an amazing little girl, who was sadly... Not so little anymore... He was having to realize sooner than later that she was going to be moving out on her own, she'd be entering a different phase of her life, and within a few years? She'd have her own partner assigned in the books... It was a lot to swallow as a father, and given everything he'd already been through in the last 48 hrs, coming home to seeing a Bride in the room with Sydel was pretty much the icing... Honestly, the Bride must have not known about him, or perhaps Khorn just wasn't sending along a warning to these girls... Did they think it was just his cock size that roped in Khorns favorite bride? He leveled a warning at her, to give her a chance to backpedal, or at least shut up but nope... She pushed on and it didn't take much to make him snap now that he already had a ton and a half on his back to carry...

It was almost too easy to snatch her up, to dig his claws into her skull, breaking her knee at the joint and slamming that blade into her chest... Watching her go down with a scream as he told he flat out... Not to take his calm nature for passivity, he was still every inch the dragon terror he had always been, and he always would be. The only difference now? Was he had learned to temper it, to control his sanity, to understand his own powers and how to live with them... "You're too stupid to understand the fact of the situation so I won't waste my breath on you. If my father in law decides he's going to send a lacky? Make sure he warns the next idiot. This was hardly amusing, let alone worth my time." He said before ripping that portal open and hurtling her down to land with a bounce at the other end. Khorn was either going soft or this bride had been squeaky new... Or... Well or he didn't need his full powers back to be as strong as he once was...

Getting into bed with Sydel he kept the wards up so his darkness was held in their room, letting it swirl and coalesse around her, a thick fog that was visible in the shakes of blood and night... Slicing into his own wrist so he could feed her, letting it splash along her lips, feeling her tongue... "There's my Princess.. Come on, Daddy's here, eat your fill..." He whispered against her ear for her to feed as much as she needed, chances were her limit was a lot higher than it had been, especially given the fact that she had lost a good deal of blood with the abortion... He'd remain there by her side as she fed, seeing the yellow start to fade, the colored rings vanishing... Her hair curling up as tight as he could ever remember them being... "I have an idea for Diovan that might work... It's not a cure, not yet, but it will keep him under control..." He said before shaking his head if she tried to speak. He made it clear along their link that her only job? Was to keep eating until she had her fill and was restored. "I realized that he was under that parasites control when he ran into Vanima, but he didn't rape or attack her, rather he listened to what she told him to do... He didn't attack any of the women in the area around you, there had been that little girl he could have easily raped and killed, but it had been you..." Could she guess what he was getting at? Would she be able to read between the lines perhaps? If not? He'd explain further... "He attacked you because your a witch elf, or at least half of one, so that Parasite? Is selective with it's victims... Who it attacks... Rose?... I'm sure you noticed even while you were being worked on... She's part witch elf too, you can smell it on her skin like a perfume, and she's just as strong as you are in that area..." She might not like it but it was true... In regards to the scent that came off of them? They were close to perfectly matched, Rose might be a little ahead even, given that Rose was alive and Sydel was the undead in her own way... A little darker on Sydels part, she tended to tempt a certain type of man more than others, whereas Rose had the full field in her fingers... "I'm going to have him bound to Rose... She's on the surface so he can't reach her, and if that thing comes out again, it will seek her out and not you or Bells..." [/b] He was basically making Rose the red cape to the bull, so to speak, but it was a damned fine stop gap until they made it to Deaths Night.

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I do love him, a lot.. -her delicate fingers would curl around his-.. but its different, its not like what I feel when I am around you and your brother.. I wouldn't call it platonic though and i think thats where I get confused.. I hold such an admiration for him.. its strong.. and I am and always have been drawn to him.. he's been my protector for as long as I can remember.. I can tell him anything.. I can share everything with him.. he knows a lot of my secrets.. though admittedly.. that was the first time wed ever done anything like that..

-she laughed a little and nodded.. he was like that super best friend.. the one that you loved to death and would do anything for.. the one that you protected and that equally protected you.. she loved Garafin.. dearly and completely.. and it was true.. that if Nautilous had not come along and if Diovan hadn't of swept her away.. she could well have ended up married to him and they would have had a truly wonderful life.. but it wouldn't be like what she had now.. what she felt now.. the desire, the longing.. the need to be in the lives of these brothers was grand and all encompassing.. her cheeks coloured a little there as she looked across to him-.. honestly though I still to this day havent figured out how to sit across from you and not be madly in love with every little thing that you do..

-she chewed upon the corner of her lip there as she smiled.. bringing his hands up to press a warmed kiss to the back of each palm-..maybe you could talk to him?.. see whats going on in his head.. you both share a lot.. between you both.. -she asked if he had found himself in a similar position and it would appear that he had.. she nodded as she listened about this Athena.. -.. Did it hurt her?.. when you walked away?.. or did she understand the reasoning?.. I will talk with him yes.. though.. -her hand brushed across the rise of her stomach there-.. will this not complicate things?.. I dont know.. -she exhaled.. why did everything have to be so complicated.. she nodded when he spoke about looking into the records then.. about Rose and Garafin.. that he had been granted a lot more access now that he was the goddesses consort.. that in of itself was pretty incredible.. what an honour!..she laughed at his response though when she asked him if Sy knew about his quiet infatuation with Rose..

she slid a finger across her lips.. she wasn't about to say anything..-.. Probably for the best that the link isn't up yet.. -she laughed shaking her head.. wagging a single finger at him there.. ..they spoke on Diovan and how he was on house arrest.. how things were slowly moving ahead though and how it should all be hopefully fixed before the stag night.. which was very reassuring.. she tilted her head when he talked about Sydel being allowed to take on a lover or lovers on the trip if she o desired it.. that he felt wrong even though he was given permission.. -.. mm.. well i guess.. I dont know.. did she seem upset at all?.. I mean you two have been together an awfully long time.. I figure if anyone could read her it's you.. You two have the most complicated relationship.. its.. quite hard to watch from the outside..to understand it.. fiercely loyal to one another.. more so than I think I have ever truly witnessed .. You would do anything for her.. and she would do the same for you.. the whole.. moving mountains and everything.. all those sweet sticky poems about honour that so many preach to their partners.. and yet I see it.. with you two.. it's wonderful really.. it just goes to show that everyone has a match..Everyone.. I dont know what you could do to make it even.. so to speak with Sy.. does she want to take on a lover or lovers?.. it's been a while since she has I believe.. least that I have noticed..

-she tilted her head-.. maybe she just wants you..-she nodded when you spoke about the agreement with Hanali.. before the pair would split ways.. she would settle back down into the bed to rest for the night.. and he would head back off home.. where change was in the air and they had a visitor.. one that would cause a bit of a stink




The bride was almost laughably easy to remove from the house.. and that could be in part due to the fact that she shouldn't have gotten through in the first place.. if he remembered just how hard it was to get Sy through way back then.. maybe it was just a lackey.. checking in to see if Sy was still alive.. maybe her Father didn't know anything about it..

He settled into the bed there with her.. and she curled up closer to him.. his darkness swirled around her like a supremely comfortable blanket and a lovers caress.. when he broke his skin she shifted.. her lips soon finding their place around that opened wound.. hearing his voice echoing through her mind.. her lids would gradually open and he would witness the change in her..

the yellow disappearing and the curls popping back in nice and tight.. he spoke about his band aid cure for Diovan.. and how he had a theory that the parasite that was controlling the good brother had a thing for Witch Elves.. which is why she was targeted.. that he could bind it to Rose.. that he figured she was also in part Witch..she had to admit even in her pain induced state at the time that she smelt it too.. that scent that only came from their particular race and bloodline.. though it was different.. it was still most definitely there..she would go to speak.. though he would hush her with those few words into her mind.. that she was there only to feed.. to take her fill.. her fingers suddenly gripped his arm.. her fingers curled inward..nails scratching skin as her lids clenched closed.. a wave of pain has struck her..deep down within her as she bit his wrist.. her teeth sinking into his skin.. she whined through it..

his blood whilst it was helping.. whilst it was aiding in a lot.. would cut back her recovery by a day easily.. she still had one more of this nonsense.. of her body needing to purge whatever was left.. of the healing.. though she was a lot more readily prepared to handle it with him there.. the pain whilst it fucking hurt was not unbearable to the point where she would lose consciousness like she had in the past.. she stayed with him as it tapered off.. it had struck like a contraction would.. a short sharp build up.. a strong strike of pain.. and then a slow ebbing where it faded.. she whimpered.. slowly releasing his arm.. leaving behind those moon shaped marks from her nails.. along with any blood she had drawn..

her sharpened teeth retracted from his skin as her head dipped back to the pillow.. his blood that deep oozing dark red pooled at the corners of her lips.. she exhaled ..-.. i hate this.. -she spoke out in that whispered broken tone.. her voice was still shot due to Dio tearing up her throat-.. just.. -she swallowed.. her head tilting to the side as she looked up to him there-.. be careful.. -.. she reached cautiously.. her fingers cool and soft found his cheek.. curling to cradle it-.. please.. -she looked to him there for the longest time.. no blinking.. just regarding..gazing.. -..i thought that was it.. -she swallowed-.. I honestly -she sounded like she was a 50 pack a day smoker at this stage.. so much gravel.. incredibly husky-.. thought I was going to die.. -she rubbed her dried lips together lightly.. visibly the bruising from her face.. the grazes.. the cut skin was fading quite quickly.. her soft porcelain skin was beginning to show through.. giving it another day she should look like she always did.. at least from the outside it would appear like nothing had happened-.. if you bind her to Diovan.. you'l have to leave before the Stag.. they cant meet.. he will kill her..

[BadInfluence]

"Well maybe it's not romantic love, and it's not platonic love, then it's just something unique between you two. There isn't anything wrong with that." He knew that emotions were tricky, weird little things, especially when it came to matters of the heart. It was why he thought it was damned weird that Hanali had taken him as a consort, all the sex and baby making shit aside, he wasn't exactly the most well versed in emotion. That was like Garafin or Jacob, and you couldn't find a more faithful heart than Diovan... Still, it was what it was, and he did plan on using every damned perk that came with the position. He caught the way she suddenly blushed and he thought it was because she and Garafin had finally done the deed, albeit high as kites and drunk as the Sailor Garafin was, and he was about to explain to her there was nothing to be embarrassed about... But that wasn't what she said, no what she said made him laugh a bit, smiling as he reached out and ran the back of his fingers gently across her cheek. "You make it sound like a bad thing... I love you too as you well know little sunflower. There's nothing wrong with being in love with a person who loves you back." Or even the ones who didn't but he wasn't about to send her the wrong message.

They got into the tricky situation about Garafin, though honestly it didn't have to be too complicated, they could get through it pretty easily. Well, easily enough... He had an idea of how to go about it, and if he knew Garafin as well as he thought he did, he'd be happy about the baby but he might take a closer look at his own feelings too. Sometimes you love someone out of the habit of loving them or the fact love can change over time too, but he was pretty sure that what ever it had once been, surely it had shifted? Sure, he might have thoroughly enjoyed fucking Sybelle, but the fact he hadn't mooned over her like a puppy? Showed him that there might be a light at the end of the tunnel after all. When she asked if he had been in a similar situation that was an easy enough question to answer, because he actually had been there before, knew how it felt first hand. "Not at all. We're actually still very good friends. You can sometimes be in the habit of loving someone and not love them anymore, but you're so used to it, you don't realize that it's not the same anymore." Would the baby complicated it? He didn't think so. Sure, there would be feelings there, but he was pretty sure when Garafin got a chance to really do some introspective thoughts? He'd realize what was up and they could all go from there. If Garafin did still love her? He felt bad for him, he did, to love someone who would never love you back... But that would be his heart, his choice, and of course the door was open... So long as Sybelle enjoyed him.

"I don't think it will complicate it... Heck, it might be just what he needs to sort himself out, to figure out what's in his heart versus his head. No matter what though? So long as you are happy, I don't mind if you take him as a lover, you two are understanding adults after all. You know this family, we're the village so to speak, it doesn't matter who the father is. All the children get the same love and affection." Which was true, it didn't matter who the father was, everyone took part accordingly. Of course, unless someone was being an ass and needed a good swat, in which case said rebellious child was handed off to the official sire or mum. That? That was just to keep lines clear. There were, after all, boundaries in every proper situation.

The bit about Rose made him laugh and he nodded his head. "No kidding. Still, I think she'd understand, I'm pretty sure she likes Rose a bit too." Oh...To be a fly on the wall if THAT ever happened! He just grinned for a moment and shoved the thought aside, filling her in on Diovan, the fact he was home and just on house arrest... That he would be able to visit her soon enough, definitely before the stag night, knowing he missed her and vice verse... He mentioned to her then about Sydel, he was a touch confused on it, and Hanali had put him in a spot where he didn't have much choice... Sydel had been the one who encouraged him to do it, to do anything to get Diovan home, and when it had been laid out? The cost? She had told him to go and to make her proud... She had said she was, despite the rape and how much pain she was in, she had said it... There was no reason for her to lie, for either of them to do so, so he had to trust that she told the truth... But was it the WHOLE truth? Sydel was like him, she knew how to twist it around, to omit things here and there, to tell part of the truth and make it seem like the whole... "I can read her but that doesn't mean she doesn't hide things from me... She managed to lie about Aysil the entire time before. I do trust her though, and she said she had been proud of the fact I ended up wrapping Hanali around my little finger. It definitely gives her more than a little bit of a bragging right..." But was that all it was? Or was there something under the surface?

"What we have was hard won... We both put each other through hell and back more times than either of us could honestly count, we yo-yoed for so many years, on and off again... We tried to fight it but in the end? We both just gave in... I like to think I make her happy, but... What if she needs more than that?" Yes, they loved each other, fierce and hot as the sun... But there was something more... Love was wonderful, but love could also lead to complacency, to simply expecting you were enough... What if she wanted extra? "I dont think she does... Not in the sense you or Vivian does... But I do know it's a part of who she is, she needs to hunt, to lure men in and... Let nature take its course... Something she hasn't done in a while... I wonder if she is adjusting or if somewhere, a part of her is hungry for her natural instincts, that might be struggling without it... Sydel is, and always will be, a one of a kind... Can't really try to base my actions off of anything." It was with Sybelle he could be honest like this, without the fear of being less than superb in her eyes, knowing his weakness wasn't a flaw to her... But with Sydel? He still didn't feel he could show any faults... Like... She would leave him if he wasn't perfect... Either way though at some point he would have this talk with Sydel and they'd get to the bottom of it, but until then? He spent the last minutes he had with Sybelle before giving her a sweet kiss and loving hug, leaving to go see to Sydel, he didn't want to be too far apart from her given what had happened...

He wasted no time at all dispatching that other bride, honestly she had some stones on her to offering him insult in his own home, even if he was in rainbows and glitter Arvandor. He didn't kill her though, he knew his standing with Khorn was good but it wasn't what it had once been... Mostly due to the fact that, you know, he had stolen his bride and made Sydel his wife... And that Sydel was his daughter... But hey, there were way worse son-in-laws to be had than him. After all, name one who sent an entire drow society to him in less than an hours time? Though perhaps this hand't been done by Khorn and perhaps someone else had come through? But who? And why? Either way it didn't matter, chances were it was probably one of Sydels old lovers, it wouldn't have been the first time he had a bride try to fuck him over out of jealousy.

Still, she had stirred the dragon inside him and that bubbling, boiling pot of evil began to overflow and it benefited Sydel in the mean time, giving her the full benefit of that hellaciously dark aura dripping off of him. He held her close to his side, pulling her into his lap as he held her close, letting her rest against him... Opening the vein in his wrist for her so she could feed from him, stopping her from speaking if she would have tried, not wanting her to do anything more than eat... To restore herself... He explained his stop gap for Diovan, binding the parasite to Rose, a chance to get it so that he wouldn't openly be attacking Sybelle or Sydel... It wasn't perfect but it would give them time to sort out a better solution.

Feeling her go through a wave of pain he just cradled her, stroked his fingers through her hair, working as best he could to help her come out the other end... He could only imagine the pain she was going through, honestly he had never performed the operation, no more than he had seen it done... It was fucking hellish... But at least Rose had been as fast as she could be, but he knew she had taken every precaution to ensure that the fetus was removed, that there wouldn't be a child to kill Sydel a second time... When she was done riding it out he gently let her slip back down into the bed... Sealing the wound on his wrist with a lick of his tongue, he listened to her as she spoke, brushing the hair off of her forehead... Fluffing the pillows a bit so that she was more comfortable, and adding some towels under her so she wouldn't be miserable with the contractions, knowing that it wouldn't be going on TOO much longer... "I know Princess... I promise I will be, my mother swung by with gifts and a few books, plus a hint as to what's going on... She might be a passive aggressive bitch but she does come in when she's most needed." It was a step in the right direction which was a lot better than nothing at all, especially considering that without the hint, they'd be going in circles... Her hand on his face was caught in his own, stroking his own fingers along her cheek, cupping it softly. " I will NEVER let you die Sydel... I'll destroy Death itself if that's what it takes..." God, how scary was the fact that if he needed to? He would find a way to do it too...

Lifting some of the balm from the bedside table, he'd flip the lid open and apply a bit to her cracked lips, offering some relief from the discomfort there... It wasn't a lot but it was something, right? Sometimes it was the little things that always bothered a person the most. "You like her, huh?" He asked, half teasing as she mentioned they'd have to leave before the stag night so Rose wouldn't be put at risk, and if... Say... This had been Cora or one of Jacobs old romantic interests? He seriously doubted she would have pissed on any of them to put them out, let alone asked for adjustments to be made just so she'd be safe. "I promise we'll be out before then, I won't let him meet Rose, not before I can get a handle on this issue." He said as he reached out to just touch her... Soothe her... Run his fingers along her healing skin... "I can take some of the pain from you... Make it so it's far more manageable..." He should have done it already but he knew if he did? She'd have been pissed off at him for thinking she couldn't handle it. He'd wait for her answer, and if she said yes, he'd open their link up a bit more... Shifting things around so her body's pain would be sent along to him, cutting it easily by 3/4, this way she could rest and recuperate... When it was done he sat back on the bed with her, pulling her in against his chest, just holding her... Comforting her... Supporting her... "Princess... Did it hurt you to know I fucked Hanali?" She knew he hadn't had a choice, he had done it not for himself but for his brother, to bring him back home for her... "We've been exclusive since our marriage, and I had to break that promise to get him back, and I hate it... I feel filthy because of it..." Which was true... He'd done a LOT of shit in his past, a LOT, but only this had ever made him feel dirty... It covered him like a film of sin he couldn't wash off... "I hate it Princess... I love you, I'll always love you, and just... I don't know how to live with this... I've never felt it before..." He didn't know how to handle it... He wasn't sure how to manage these feeling, what to do, how to make it... ok... "I thought... If you wanted... I mean I'll understand if you want to take a lover or lovers... It's a part of your hunting style, and you know, what that Bride said... Is it right? Am I... Bad for you now? Do you need more than what I give you?"

A lot of seeds were sewn, of doubt and insecurity, of concern... He had seen inside her head, how much sorrow and pain there was there, and while many memories were of him? Not all of them were good... "When your better... Do you want to go to the surface and hunt like you used to? I'll be there to help you if you need it, clean up your crime scenes, so to speak..." She would be able to feel along the link his love and support, his genuine and heart felt desires to support her in anything she needed... To always give her the best he had in him... Which also brought something to light... Something on his mind... "Did you know Hanali has a library of deaths?" He'd ask, currious if perhaps she might be interested, something to take her mind off of it all. "It's under the temple, it houses the records for the death of every elf, as well as the causes... We might be able to find out a few things if we go poking around... Maybe something in the reason why my mother wants me to go to Har Ganeth..." He also wanted to find out a few things himself... Something kept nagging at the back of his head and it was truly pissing him off, he hated when he had a half formed clue, a hint that didn't openly display itself or be readily available...

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..he had settled down there into the bed with her.. the darkness that swirled around him coaxed her in closer.. made her almost snuggle in against him like a kitten would.. she whined softly about hating it.. she felt so utterly useless.. weak and pathetic.. and that didn't even touch on how her brain was handling the fact that it was Diovan that did all of this to her.. she rested her head closer to him..feeling that warmth.. a beautiful contrast against her icy chill.. he promised he would be careful.. and that there were gifts there from his mother.. -.. Your Mother dropped in?.. -she questioned.. her voice crackling as if there was something caught in her throat.. it was just her body healing all the cuts and bruising.. a slow process with as many as there were.. his blood though was incredibly helpful with that.. -.. I hope you can get to the bottom of it then..

-she reached up to cradle his cheek.. watching him through heavy lids as he looked back down to her.. she admitted she thought she was going to die this time.. that this was it.. and she honestly did.. the way she was ravaged and then how the cauldron wasn't helping and she couldn't communicate.. he told her he'd never let her die.. that he'd go so far as to destroy death itself if thats what it took.. she cracked a smile there.. a quiet weak little chuckle sounded-.. so what you're saying is you're stuck with me then..-he glided that balm across her lips.. she lightly rubbed them together a moment after.. it felt good.. nice.. smooth ..it was helpful.. he was treating her like she were made of spun glass in those moments.. any other time she would have chided him for it.. poked at him.. but she honestly didn't have the strength..

she reminded him that his troop of merry men would have to be gone.. out of Arvandor before Rose and her BFFs arrived for the weekend.. otherwise Diovan and her would meet and then.. well all hell would break loose.. sure she didn't know alot about this Rose woman.. but she figured if Dio did get his hands on her he'd slaughter her.. his comment on her liking him had her brow rising.. -.. No smart ass..-she answered quickly-.. Whilst I am impressed with her skill.. and with you for knowing to get her.. I worry that if she were to die..and in this way.. Jacob would step in.. and then I would be forced make a choice.. -she looked to him there and she was deadly serious..-.. My Son.. or His Father.. whos side would I fight on?.. Who's side would You fight on?.. And then the gods would step in.. -she cleared her throat.. grimacing a little at the taste of it ..the crackle there sounded horrific-.. Hanali having a claim upon Jacob being a Paramour.. and Diovan being a long standing member of her flock.. My Father ..being the grandfather of Jacob.. and then Ace, Garafin, Sybelle.. the children.. the city.. Its a huge domino effect.. a massive chain reaction that would and could destroy this plane of existence.. be careful..

-her lids fell closed then.. they were a little on the heavy side.. like someone who hadn;t rested properly for a good few days.. -.. I admire this Rose.. thats as much as you'l get out of me.. -she was tight lipped on that one.. god help them if either of them started mucking around with those pheromones.. it would either lead to something incredible in the bedroom.. or some sheer and pure white hot aggression ..she nodded when he said he would handle it.. before he offered to take some of the pain away from her.. she whined a little.. she shouldn't need him too.. she should be able to do this.. but he was right.. it was getting to be too much.. and maybe if he did take some it would mean the healing time would speed up a little..-.. please.. -she whispered.. feeling that link opening up a little wider.. the sharpness and painful ache that she had been feeling all day soon started to settle.. to fade.. a little.. then a little more.. before it was gone..

she'd still be ravaged by those horrible contractions for a day but it was a lot better.. she felt his chest to the back of her head...leaning in closer as she reached around him to just casually hold his side.. he asked her an odd question about Hanali then.. did it hurt her?.. -.. mm.. no.. i told you to do what needed to be done.. I knew the reasons behind it.. i knew..why you had to do it.. -she swallowed.. trying to get her voice to come out smoother though it was no use-.. in hindsight.. if id known what was coming i probably would have told you to sit on it longer.. .-and that was her being honest.. completely ..if shed of known Diovan was going to savage her like that she probably would have told Naut to wait.. even though she knew now that it was a parasite.. it was going to take some time before she would see Diovan as anything other than the brute that smashed her head down into the concrete over and over and over.. she murmured-.. but thats besides the point..

-she waved her hand a little.. -.. I find it funny.. really.. this happens whenever you go and see Belle.. you come back with.. like an overgrown conscious.. -she chuckled lightly-.. we have been exclusive yes.. -she spoke softly.. just barely above a whisper-.. for a while now.. You cant really be held to a promise.. when I told you to go and seek her out.. -she opened her eyes as she looked up to him there-.. Guilt can be a horrible Mistress love.. -she reached for his hand.. her soft cool fingers glided across his palm.. before curling inward-.. and here I thought I was your Mistress.. -the corners of her lips curled a little.. -..

it's ok.. you need to relax.. I figure.. knowing what Hanali is like that you have been chosen for this year mm?.. -she drew small circular patterns with a nail against his palm.. just softly-.. so you'l be expected to do that and more.. so I guess you need to decide.. wether or not you can handle it.. -she coughed lightly-.. but you have to promise me one thing..if it grows.. into something more.. you have to tell me.. You're both practically gods afterall.. it would make sense.. -and it was something her thoughts had entertained before.. would he and Hanali match.. it wasn't impossible.. even with him protesting it.. -.. I dont need a lover.. or lovers.. -she rubbed her lips together.. -.. it's been a while since Ive done it.. my hunting style is.. adjusting to living here i think.. -she exhaled softly.. turning then to rest so her head was upon his lap.. so she could look up to him properly.. the bruising from her cheeks was gone completely..

her face was perfect.. no cuts.. no abrasions.. her neck though where Diovan practically ate her skin well.. that would take a bit longer.. he asked about what the bride had said to him.. if he was bad for her-.. You are bad for me.. -she smiled.. chuckling a little before she grimaced because it hurt to do so..-..thats part of your charm.. -she paused a moment-.. its hard.. sometimes for me to be here.. Arvandor.. it's filled with such incredible goodness.. it's why Belle flourishes here.. and I think that yes.. I have adjusted to it.. in some respects.. I'm no where near as sharp as i once was.. I dont train like I used to.. I dont hunt like I used to.. -she tilted her head-..

I dont fuck with people.. like I used to.. everyone here has a position to be in.. a job.. something they do.. I dont.. I am like the weed amongst the incredibly brightly coloured floral bed.. but I want to be around you.. and this is where you are.. -he spoke on there being a library of deaths.. asking if she knew about it.. -.. no.. I didn't know there was a record of that..I'm sure youd probably have access to that now.. -she nodded a little though her brow rose high there on her face when he mentoned Har Ganeth.. -.. hold up.. -she blinked.. shifting then slowly.. very slowly to move herself into a seated position.. it would be the first time in days that she was upright..ooo dizzy-.. I dont know about that.. -she shook her head..looking deadly serious at him then-.. We cant be just fucking around in the city of executioners.. even I know to be careful there..