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I untucked my shirt and sat on the toilet.
"Did that kill you?"
"You keep that forked tongue in your mouth," I hissed as she rubbed my raw, minor wound with a damp washcloth.
"You liked it not thirty seconds ago."
"Point taken, however there were different circumstances." I said as her hand pressed on the wound as the bleeding eased.
"What did you say about Luke earlier, about him bleeding?" Jeremy asked.
"I got stupid and started a fistfight with Cobra, he tried to get in the middle to stop us from killing the other and Cobra threw him into the bedside table. Oh and Eagle and Gray are here."
"Gray?"
"Dragon,"
"Okay, you get lost and I get dressed and we go meet Lost."
"Umm...dragging Eagle along,"
"Why?"
"She's new to the group and doesn't know Cobra well and I don't want to explain her death to her older brother,"
"Who is?"
"Best friends with our mutual boyfriend,"

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“Oh god,” Jeremy commented.
“I see you’ve met him,”
“Met him? I introduced Gabe and him.”
“How’d you meet him?”
“Bar brawl,”
“He start it?”
“His friend did, smacked my friend’s ass then tried for mine. Good times,”
“You need help,”
“Yeah well…” Jeremy said. I brushed my mouth to hers and slipped out of the room. I tucked in my shirt and braided my long dark hair. Eagle appeared behind me.
“Damn that was quick.” She commented handing me my gun. I accepted it from her and turned to face her as I tucked in the waistband of my jeans, SOB carry. “That was all over a girl?” Eagle questioned, rubbing her thumb over my injured cheek.
“In a way,” I said taking her hand into mine, I lifted her hand to my mouth and brushed my lips against the back of her hand.
“That eye is gonna look like hell in the morning,” her tone continuing to soften.
“Yeah well, shit happens.” I said softly slipping my arms around her waist. Her arms slipped around my waist and I felt her body totally against mine. “Eagle, are you okay?” I whispered as she rested her head on my shoulder.
“Not really, you know he’s going to freak when I tell him,” she whispered softly, tears welling in her dark eyes. I kissed her forehead softly.
“He’ll want blood tests run after it’s born to confirm he’s the father.”
“What about you?”
“Baby, you know I’m here for you. I’m not gonna run from anything stupid I’ve done, even it created a small issue,”
“Small? You think life is small?”
“That’s not what I meant and you know it. A child is a lot less problematic than you think.”
“How so?”
“After it turns five, you tell me whether or not it was worth nine months and a night of passion,”
“Does Tyson know yet?”
“No and I am not telling him until it is absolutely necessary.” Eagle said emphatically.
“Like in three months when you start to show?”
“Don’t even remind me,”
“Are you up for a field trip tonight?”
“I guess, if I must,” the bathroom door opened and Jeremy exited the bathroom and saw Eagle and me in each other’s arms. Eagle, sensing the tension, let go of me as I let go of her.
“Luc?” Jeremy questioned clearly wishing for an answer.
“I’ll explain later darling,” I said to Jeremy. She scowled. “Eagle meet Jeremy, Jeremy meet Eagle.”
Both women mutely nodded at each other before Eagle started away.
“You have some explaining to do, little boy.” Jeremy hissed.
“Yeah, yeah don’t I always.” I moved from the sink and Jeremy followed. I looked at my watch: 7:45.
Cobra stirred next to Luke. Luke got up and moved to his sister.
“Jeremy,”
“Yeah?” Luke teetered as his sister answered him. I caught him before he fell. I eased him into a chair.
“Thanks Luc,” he murmured. I nodded and out of the corner of my eye saw Eagle cross the room to the mirror over the sink. Gray stood and walked towards me as Jeremy squatted beside her brother.
“Who’s she?”
“Grey meet Jeremy, Jeremy meet Dragontongue Graysky,” I said. Jeremy looked up and nodded as Grey did.
“You patch him up?” She asked the Apache. He nodded once.
“He’s pretty quiet unless you totally piss him off then you can consider yourself gone,”
“Let me guess, he taught you the knife throwing business.”
“Clever girl,” the Apache complimented. “He does quite well as long as he can control his temper.”
“Eagle?” I called.
“Coming,” she replied walking to us.
“He’ll be well in time,” Gray said to Jeremy as she glanced at Luke in concern. Jeremy stood and moved to the door. The three of us exited the room; I shut the door behind us.
“A little faster girls, we need to meet him on time not next week.”
“Touchy isn’t he?” Jeremy remarked.
“You have no idea how cranky he is at all times,”
“I’m quickly finding out,”
“Okay new topic.” I announced, as we got off the stairs and headed for Eagle’s truck.
“But you as a topic of discussion always gets two points accomplished: breaking the ice and ticking you off,” Jeremy teased. Eagle unlocked the truck and got in as I got stuck in the middle of the two females.
“How old are you Eagle?”
“Nineteen,” Eagle murmured as she shifted against me, she was uneasy. I placed my hand lightly on her thigh.
“Hill and Crest, the seafood place,” she nodded.

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I don’t know, maybe it was me and then again, maybe it wasn’t –but I think that Larry’s Lobster Place shrunk, in the most unfair way at that. The four of us were in a tiny corner’s tiny booth and the three of us –Jeremy, Eagle, and I were sitting across from Lost. Lost Gin could have passed for three different types of people: a biker, a rock band member, or a guy with a serious disliking of me.
Lost was the big, burly, bald type, which that usually wouldn’t be a problem except the fact that Gabe dated his sister and Gin found out and broke my older brother’s jaw, then got his ass kicked by me. What can I say? I’m very protective of family and the way he was eyeing Eagle we were about to have a major disagreement. Eagle shifted uneasily beside me. I slid my hand a little further up on her leg. One of the only good things about this cozy little can of sardines we called a corner booth, was that Jeremy and Eagle were both practically on my lap.
Oh and speaking of hands on thighs, Jeremy’s hand was practically on my hip. Eagle settled back against me.
“And there he is,” Gin announced. A dark haired male had come from somewhere and was beside the table. The newcomer watched Eagle and I, his eyes rested on me for a moment then he looked at Jeremy.
“You had to bring him into this mess, didn’t you?” Jeremy hissed at Gin.
“Well yeah, I had to get under your skin somehow.”
“Congrats you’re under my skin, now kindly leave my skin to me and get out from under it!”
“Enough, both of you,” the newcomer said sharply. His quiet voice was commanding and proved effective as the pair settled down. “Now, mother you know you can’t shelter me forever, I might as well be brought into the family business,” I looked at Jeremy.
“Jayson,” Jeremy said softly, “I really don’t want you in this,”
“Yeah well, as your son I’m officially in this, now what all changed since you called,”
“Called?” I asked turning to her.
“Nice one Jayson, you had to leak that secret,”
“When was this?” Then it dawned on me, at the gas station I was gonna call Cobra again, but when I had dug in my pockets for my cell phone it wasn’t there. “At the gas station,” I muttered.
“Damn Jeremy, you’ve lost your touch.” Gin tossed in.
“Who are these two?” Jayson questioned.
“Jayson meet Luc, and Eagle,” Jeremy mumbled.
“I would say nice to meet you but you do note the context,” I said dryly. Jayson’s mouth twitched at the edges.
“Actually I do. Mother?”
“Hmm?”
“Tyler’s sick…”
“On a scale of one to ten?”
“An eleven,” Jayson mentioned looking at his mother. Jeremy, however, was glaring at Gin.
“I was uh gonna mention that,” Lost said sheepishly.
“Right,” Jeremy said darkly as Eagle stood. I scooted out and stood as well. Eagle shot me a dark look. It took me a moment for it’s meaning to resister to my mind, but when it did it plummeted to my stomach like lead.
“Here?”
“You bet your sweet bippy,”
“I take that as a yes,” Jeremy muttered watching Eagle and I. “All though I am not entirely sure I want to know what a bippy is.” Eagle exited the restaurant.
“You know, I hope to god you didn’t just piss her off.”
“Why ever not?”
“Let’s see, last person who pissed her off didn’t make it out of the coma,” Jeremy shrugged and followed me out. I turned to her as soon as she was out of the doorway. “Look, this is personal for her…and me, I would really appreciate it if you would make sure Gin the forgetful stays out of this,”
“What’s going on?”
“Hint: it might get messy,”
“Too much tragedy in one night, I wonder, is this much drama actually legal?” Jeremy said quietly.
“Tip to Jeremy: hush.” I murmured as my mouth dropped to hers. Slowly I broke the kiss and moved toward the alley beside Larry’s. I stretched and located Eagle’s shadow. I silently moved to her, I reached out to her. She readily clung to me. I slowly wrapped my arms around her.
“Well, well, well.” A familiar taunting voice said as a male figure moved to us.
“You know there’s two of them and but one of you,” a more than familiar male voice said quietly coming up behind us. I felt Eagle’s body tense, her fingers tightened into a fist.
“That’s what you’re here for,”
“No you said, you were going to fight for your ex-girlfriend that some –and I quote- asshole stole from you. That doesn’t fit Luc, sorry to break it to you, Brian.”
“So this is you chickening out?”
“No this is me laying down the law, I don’t fight with my best friend,”
“P…” Brian didn’t even finish the insult, Eagle had spun out of my arms and just broke her ex’s nose. He swore and cried out in pain as Eagle had twisted his arm behind his back and his wrist was uncomfortably level with his ear.
“Easy Eagle, damn,” I murmured as I separated the injured from the injurer.
“She broke my damn arm,”
“You sissy. She did not, if anything she pulled your arm out of socket, cry about it elsewhere before I finish what she started.” I threatened. He started away then turned to Rage.
“You comin’?”
“Nah, besides you don’t understand me, besides this is the outfit I started with,” Rage said simply. Brian walked further and flipped Rage off and continued on his way. I closed the distance between Eagle and I. She was holding one hand in the other and something on her arm glistened in the dim light.
“Did he hurt you?”
“Not really,”
“Then let me see,” when she didn’t respond I gingerly took her hand, palm up into my own hands. She looked up at me silently. I looked at her hand and forearm. Both were clawed pretty badly. “When we get back to the hotel,” I murmured and she understood, nodding.
“Well I hope I didn’t fall into a romance novel. Or I didn’t intrude on a intimate moment,”
“Rage, get over yourself.”
“I didn’t get that type of intimacy for years, I had to save your ass…twice.”
“I didn’t trust you,”
“Well and you trust her because she has an honest face?”
“Not really, let’s say I owe her big,”
“Really? Who is she?”
“Rage meet Eagle, Eagle meet Rage,” I said softly noting the fact that Jeremy was walking into this reunion.
“Who is the kid behind me?” Rage asked quietly.
“Rage meet Jeremy,”
“In the outfit?” Rage asked.
“Not as of yet,” I murmured.
“Tisk, you know Cobra hates competition.”
“Yeah well I only hope you’re slightly straighter than Cobra,” Jeremy shot in.
“Hey, I’m taking offense for her, damn,”
“She started a fight between the three of you I take it,” Rage said.
“In a way,” Jeremy said icily.
“So you have room in the hotel room for one more?” Rage questioned.
“Just as long as I get the bed.”
“Yeah and who gets the coveted spot next over?” Rage teased.
“Maybe you two should discuss and me and Eagle go for a walk.” Jeremy suggested.
“She’s cranky at the moment and thinking of hitting someone else,”
“What was going on anyway?”
“Ex-boyfriend.” Eagle said simply.
“And he was what a vampire that got staked?”
“Nah, he was an asshole that got his nose broke,” Eagle replied.
“Where’s the kid?” I asked.
“Jayson?” Jeremy questioned.
“That’s the one,”
“Somewhere, you do know you might get stuck with the floor.” Jeremy said.
“Um, no. Even if have to sleep next to a guy, I get the bed.”
“Wait…kid, you’re practically a kid, how do you have a kid?”

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“I could ask the same thing. I mean in all likelihood, that boy had to of been from…”
“Roughly if you slept with your boyfriend from the time you were thirteen you could of got pregnant with a kid about fifteen.”
“They weren’t my boyfriend,”
“They?”
“Maybe we could continue this discussion when we don’t have an audience,”
“Maybe that could be after we get back to the hotel and I don’t have to listen to this scary talk,” Eagle said.
Later as planned, I was on the far side of the bed, Jeremy was in the middle, and Rage was on her other side. We were the only ones in the room.
“Back to the original discussion.” Rage prompted.
“Details,”
“Remind me, what gender are the pair of you again?” Jeremy taunted.
“As far as I know, were both male, however it’s been a while since I gave Rage a physical.” I said thoughtfully.
“Ewww…” Jeremy said disgusted. Rage and I looked at each other and grinned.
“This from you. Who was they?” Rage muttered.
“Two guys I met at a party when I was fifteen.”
“And?” I prompted.
“And I finish telling you guys this story and you both have to tell me two of yours, including the one in titled ‘thank god that’s over’,”
“That is low, however only one of us will have to tell it.” Rage said simply.
“Get on with your story Jeremy, before he furthers making me look gay,” I suggested.
“I think we were the only sober ones in the place,”
“Wait sober as in not drinking or sober as in clear-headed?”
“Both, we slipped out of the party and to their apartment,”
“And how old were they?”
“One was going to UCLA and the other was attending the police academy,”
“That right there sounds like something you would do Rage,”
“Statutory rape anyone?” Rage taunted.
“Anyway, it turned out to be a two-month relationship,”
“With both?”
“You lost you virginity to a pair of college guys that you probably don’t even remember their names. Not to mention that you got pregnant from the same pair,”
“No, and thank you for the summary,” Jeremy remarked setting her head against my chest.
“I never knew their were two guys just like us Luc,”
“That is a very scary thought,” I murmured.
“I think that’s where that story ends and you two’s begins,”
“Hmm, Luc, you can tell her,”
“Sissy.” I muttered, “Alright, but mind both of you that this was way too long ago for any clear memory,”
“Except the toilet factor,”
“Personally I didn’t want to forget that, that was the best part,”
“Do tell, I mean the freakiness is inspiring,”
“Well, Rage’s older brother threw a Halloween party as their parents were out of town. About midway through the party, all party-goers were either drunk, or higher than hell.”
“We are talking serious orbiting here,”
“Anyway, we were the youngest there but a few girls. So being the smart-ass he is Lee said something about an orgy, and before we knew it we were in the far corner of a room that held half the high school and too many college kids, all of which starting something with more than two people.”
“Except Luc’s sister’s best friend and us. We hid in the closet downstairs realizing quickly that the food had been drugged.”
“So we’re in this closet while we realize this, via our bodies responding to the drug. Then some costumed female throws herself into the dark closet.”
“You two lost your virginity to some girl in a closet?”
“Yeah,”
“Pretty much,”
“And the toilet part?”
“Well we didn’t know who she was, we did now that the six beers that we had drank wanted out. So we thought we had snuck out of the closet. Yet one of the side effects -we quickly found- out of the drugs was a enormous rush for the bathroom.”
“In conclusion we saw way too much flesh for twelve-year-olds,” Rage finished with a chuckle.
“And the girl?”
“My older sister’s best friend, and by the way because of my older sister, her friend’s boyfriend hunted us down and beat the crap out of us.” I said.
“Good for him,” Jeremy taunted. The motel room door opened and Eagle came in.
“Luc, your sister is down the hall wanting to speak with you.”
“Oh my god, who got her up here?”
“I don’t know but she is not happy, especially about…”
“You told my sister about that?” I demanded standing.
“It kind of slipped and besides she knew I was hiding something; you know how hard it is for someone to keep something from her,”
“Damn,”
“That was another thing I wanted to ask you about,” Rage said just at the same time that Jeremy did.
“If your gonna tell them I’m not gonna be in the room,”
“Luc, this isn’t another one and half stories is it,”
“But it ‘tis and I have a sister to murder.”
“I’m coming with,”
“Why?”
“Because vengeance is still mine,” Rage said following me out. He closed the door and followed me down the pathway to the room farthest from the stairwell. I knocked and we slipped into the room.
“Lucifer was their something you were going to tell me?” My sister demanded.
“Um…maybe,”
“And this is?” She asked indicating Rage.
“You remember Rage, right?”
“That boyfriend of yours that stole cigarettes from me?”
“That’s the one,”
“As I recall you stole them from me as a prank and then I stole them back.” Rage shot in.
“Whatever. Luc what do you have to say for yourself?”
“Um…you’re going to be an actual legitimate aunt? And uh Maggie and I are over?” I mumbled trying to avoid eye contact with Thorn. She had those eyes that made you want to confide in her but as a female she was too conniving to be trusted.
“What?” Thorn demanded.
“I think he meant what he said,” Rage advocated.
“You butt out of this, would you?” Thorn said in one of her tones that plainly said she wouldn’t take no as an answer.
“Alright you two, I already got in one fight tonight and I’m not interested in another, yet if my sister and my friend would like to fight I would be more than happy to join,”
“You’re a sissy anyhow.” Celeste shot in as he came out of the bathroom.
“Oh and this from you,” I muttered.
“You had to bring him along,” Rage muttered.
“You two are aloud your gay friends why can’t I have mine?” Thorn asked bristling.
“Um, because he hits on your brother?” Rage said thoughtfully.
“You know you can drop the whole anti-gay guy. I mean, like, we are the same as normal guys, you know what I mean?” Celeste said eyeing Rage.
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