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clickerflight · 3 months

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Muir: Part 2 - Bonded

And part two for ya. Hope you enjoyed. Perhaps a bit rushed but I still had fun with it.

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Part 1

Content: human police whumpee, bad injury, shrapnel, near death experience, vampire damaging his own wrist, a human becoming a vampire

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Joseph laid on the couch, slowly reading through some course work. Since he’d only been in stasis for a few years there wasn’t too much to catch up on compared to a lot of his peers. Still, he needed to catch up on some of the things that had happened. He would be out of the rehab program pretty soon, actually, once he finished the last of these papers and got all of his documents up to date.

He was pretty sure he’d stick around the rehab center, though. He didn’t have very many vampire friends back in the day. Or many friends in general besides David. Now he had a bunch of interesting friends, including the humans that worked at the center, and he felt a part of something as he took on responsibility here and there to help other vampires that had been in stasis for much longer than he had been. He hadn’t felt like he was a part of something helpful since even before he met David. He wished his late bond mate could see where he was now.

Joseph sighed very softly to himself, scrolling on his Devpad as he kept reading through his assignments.

He was just thinking about getting up and starting dinner when he felt something pulse like a wave through his chest. He laid breathlessly on the couch, trying to figure out what was wrong when he felt it crash into him again before sucking at him like a wave headed back out to sea.

He followed it, getting to his feet, putting his Devpad down in confusion. It wasn’t until the third wave hit him that he realized what was happening. Flashes of silver, screaming, and ritual knives shot through his mind and he was out of the apartment, keys in hand and no shoes on his feet.

He sped off in his car, the familiar steering wheel spinning under his hands and he rushed to follow those waves. The feeling of his bondmate in danger.

He and Muir didn’t mean to become bondmates, but it wasn’t exactly a surprise when it happened. One morning, after a late night drinking beers together and watching soccer on TV, Joseph had woken up to find that the huge gap David left behind had been partially filled. It wasn’t enough to fill the gap he knew was supposed to be filled, but it was comforting all the same. Muir hadn’t noticed anything besides having more energy at the end of the day, which he was always glad to have.

And of course, Joseph could tell when Muir was in danger, when his heart was beating quickly in his chest, when he fell or got bruised tackling someone. And now Joseph could feel the wounds buried deep in Muir’s guts, could feel the scratches on his arm. He could feel death breathing down both of their necks.

Joseph screeched to a halt at the warehouse. He couldn’t remember most of the drive. All he knew was that Muir was inside and Joseph needed to get to him now.

Muir was only inside the warehouse for another couple of moments as officers pulled him out of there, talking loudly.

Joseph threw himself at the barrier that had been set up around the warehouse and a tall vampire caught him, holding him back.

“Sir, you can’t be here. There-”

“THAT’S MY BONDMATE!” Joseph shrieked. He didn’t care if he sounded hysterical. He was.

He was released quickly and Joseph was grateful. The instincts coursing through him would have had this vampire’s windpipe in his teeth if that vampire hadn’t let him go.

He slid across the sidewalk, hissing at Granger, who looked like she was about to tell him to go away.

“Josh?” Joseph asked urgently, pushing Muir’s hair back and digging through his layers of clothing to see where the radiating pain was coming from.

“Seph?” Muir asked weakly, opening his eyes. “What are you doin’ here, man?”

“You’re dying,” Joseph replied in a tone so cold and accusatory that even all of the officers and agents fell silent.

“Nah, man,” Muir said with a nervous laugh. “I’ll be fine. The ambulance will be here in a moment and- AH.”

Joseph had finally peeled away the last layer. Whatever had blown through Muir was powerful enough to make it through his vest and had blown a huge hole into him. There was another one, just a bit higher. Joseph just knew it only barely missed Muir’s spine. He knew that there was shrapnel everywhere inside.

Someone swore behind Joseph at the blood flowing freely from the wounds and soaking his clothing. It was harder to tell on his black clothing, but on his previously white undershirt the entire thing up to his collar bones was soaked red.

Someone got down, putting pressure on the wound, making Muir shout, but with how the blood flowed, they both knew he only had minutes to live. Joseph grabbed Muir with blood soaked hands, forcing him to make eye contact.

Muir’s breath hitched in his chest under Joseph’s elbow. He knew what Joseph wanted.

“Seph,” he said warningly. It was the only reason Joseph hesitated. “Wait… I’m, ah….”

“You’re going to die,” Joseph replied seriously. “You are going to die and there is nothing human medicine can do for you, no matter how good it is. Look me in the eyes and tell me I’m wrong.”

Muir looked him in the eyes, but he felt his own mortality as surely as Joseph could feel it.

“I can’t lose you too,” Joseph said softly.

Muir swallowed hard. His mouth felt so dry his teeth ached, his head pounding with blood loss. He looked up at the members of his team, who stared at him wide eyed, Granger watching with a hard look.

He swallowed twice more before he said, “Okay. Okay. So, uh-” he blinked hard as his vision started to fade in and out with a weakening pulse. He could barely feel the pain of someone’s hands against his wounds anymore.

“Drink,” Joseph said quickly, taking that as his permission. He quickly bit his own wrist open, putting it in Muir’s mouth. Muir did his best, sluggishly and numbly.

He shuddered as the first swallow of blood hit his stomach. It was just slightly too cold to be normal human blood, but it seemed to heat him from the inside out. He felt strength begin to return to his limbs and something new, something loud in his mind screamed at him to latch on and drink quicker.

When Joseph felt Muir grab on tighter, saw his arm come up to grab onto Joseph’s and hold it there, Joseph dipped down and bit into Muir’s jugular. Muir flinched at this, but the drive to feed was too powerful to fight now. Though the sight caused most of the group to look away, the humans and vampires alike huddled around them to hide them from view.

Joseph kept going, keeping thoughts of David doing this for him out of his head as he cycled the blood between them three times, Muir twitching occasionally as something shifted or changed inside of himself. The ambulance got there as Muir opened his mouth to sink newly formed fangs into Joseph’s wrist a bit better, his wounds slowly beginning to seal.

A paramedic pushed through the crowd and swore when he saw how bad the injuries were. Joseph licked the wound he made, helping heal it a bit and letting his fangs hide back up at the roof of his mouth like a snake, looking up at the paramedic as he gently tried to get Muir to unlatch from his wrist.

“There wasn’t time,” Joseph explained and the Paramedic nodded.

“Yeah, looks like it. We should take him along with us, anyways. And you. You probably gave him a fair amount of blood that you’ll be needing back.”

“Yeah,” Joseph said distractedly, trying to pry Muir off without breaking his new fangs. “Muir, come on. Let go.”

Muir whined, his eyes distant now. He would be out of it for a few days while his body recovered from the experience and his mind sorted itself out again. Joseph was grateful he and Muir could hide out in the ambulance away from the eyes of all the officers. From what he remembered, being a just barely formed fledgling was quite frankly embarrassing.

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Muir had to take time off from work. He could still do some of it at home and help with coordinating teams, but he couldn’t actually go into work. Not unless he wanted to bring Joseph along. If he could go right back to work. Joseph said he would get over it in a couple of weeks, but just the idea of leaving Joseph’s side for even 15 minutes seemed like the end of the world. He tried to get over it, tried every night to sleep in his own room, but he would have to give up after an hour of laying awake, shivering and unable to sleep as his incredibly slow heartbeat thumped louder and louder in his ears until he was driven to find safety in Joseph’s room.

Joseph didn’t mind the fact he tried to sleep in his own room every night, nor that Muir came in eventually to sleep with him instead. He let Muir work his way through the process, explaining what Muir could expect but not forcing him to do anything. Muir might be a fledgling, but he wasn’t a child. And the gaping hole that couldn’t quite be filled by Muir’s presence before, now was comfortably fitted besides a little sliver that remembered Joseph’s own Sire.

Muir and Joseph sat together, Joseph working on updating his documents while Muir worked on applying for the documents necessary for being a vampire in this society, comparing notes as they worked.

“This is infuriating,” Muir said moodily.

Joseph reached out blindly as he filled in another detail, patting Muir on the face and making his bondmate snort. “There there. It’ll be alright. OW!”

He pulled his hand back, looking at the already healing fang marks in his hand.

Muir just went back to his paperwork, looking smug enough that Joseph knew that wasn’t just an instinctive fledgling bite.

Joseph drew himself up to his height on the stool, though he wasn’t taller than Muir and snarled.

Muir yelped, leaping off his stool and tripping, collapsing to the floor. He got to his elbows, looking up over his chest at Joseph in shock. “What did you just do to me!?”

Joseph didn’t reply, simply waggling his head and giving Muir the same smug smile before he went back to working on his documents.

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clickerflight · 3 months

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Fleeting: Part 1 - Benny's

HELLO!!! Welcome to the third Arc of From Dust to Ashes! There will be plenty of whump, though this arc will be a lot more story driven than the others. Let me know if you want to be removed or added to the taglist.

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No warnings. Enjoy the crocodiles

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Esial came out of the employee only door into the crocodile pit. He looked up at the glass dome over the pit to see it was nearly night time. He could also see Joseph and Muir moseying down the walkway, coming to get him now that it was nearly time for him to go back to the rehab center. Esial gave a little wave to them, which they returned before turning his attention to the crocodiles. He was wearing blue armbands and they had eaten recently, though not recently enough that they would still be in a feeding frenzy. The blue arm bands were tools Esial used in their training to let them know what he was here for. The crocodiles associated the blue armbands with head scratches and side rubs while Esial checked them all over to gauge their health.

Sasha spotted him and eagerly came out of the water, walking over to him.

He crouched, cooing at her and giving her scratches in all her favorite places. There were four crocodiles here and all but Todd liked getting checked over at this point.

“You are looking very good,” Esial said, pleased. He was proud of it too. He had been working with the crocodiles almost every day for the past six months, partly to earn some pocket money and partly to just be around crocodiles again. When he got here they hadn’t looked particularly happy. They were rather dull in color and very bored, but he sorted that out soon enough, training them and finding more and more interesting ways to deliver their food to them. He’d also worked hard to be able to get close to them despite the managers of the zoo telling him not to for safety concerns. He rolled his eyes mentally at the thought. He was a vampire, It wasn’t like the crocodiles could kill him and he wasn’t afraid of a little regeneration, nevermind the skills he had developed in his time of being a hippo hunter.

And anyways, he was glad he did. A couple of the crocodiles were dealing with some tooth issues that Esial was able to correct after talking with a veterinarian.

Behind Sasha came Morpheus and Janet, who were both looking for attention as well. He cooed and chirped over them, checking their mouths and bodies, giving their claws and tails a good look.

After he had paid special attention to all three of them, he stood up straight, reaching into his pocket to pull out a clicker. He clicked a couple of times, getting Todd’s attention. Todd swam over lazily as he was trained to do, but he didn’t get out of the water.

Esial put his hands on his hips. “Do not make me come in there, Todd,” he said. Esial was willing to get in the water, he just didn’t want to change out of sopping wet clothing when he’d done well to keep dry all day. Speaking of, he had come to enjoy shirts, though it had taken Esial, Joseph, and Muir months to find bottoms he didn’t mind wearing. They had finally landed on ‘harem pants’ as Joseph had called them. Esial didn’t mind them too much, but the fact that he had to peel wet clothes off instead of just untie a length of fabric was still annoying when Todd decided to be difficult.

Todd just stared at him, clearly amused.

Esial sighed heavily and stepped forward, only for Todd to haul himself out of the water.

“Thank you,” Esial said, a little sourly.

He crouched down and looked Todd over without really touching him. Todd didn’t like to be touched much and Esial hadn’t found his sweet spot. He’d figure it out eventually, but for now he gave Todd his space.

“You all look lovely,” Esial announced, standing up. “I do have to go. Behave yourselves.”

The crocodiles watched him for a moment before crawling back into the water as he turned to change from his work clothes to his clean set to go home.

He came up from the employee rooms once he was changed, digging in his satchel as he came up to where Joseph and Muir were leaning on the fence around the pit.

“Hey, Esial. Good day?” Joseph asked.

“Yes,” Esial said with a nod, looking down at the crocodiles. His skin tingling in the last bits of light escaping over the horizon where the sun had disappeared. In the past even that little bit of sun would have left him with a sunburn but a scientist made a breakthrough with a shot that could be taken every three months to give older vampires more resistance to the sun. In most vampires it limited the burning to a sunburn if they were out for more than a half hour, though Esial still burned and melted in the sun after about 10 minutes, but it did mean he could run between buildings or find a place out of the sun really quickly without being completely put out of commission or put in a serious amount of pain. And it meant he could be out in the weak morning and evening light without worrying too much.

“Good,” Joseph said as Muir stretched lazily.

“You look tired, Muir,” Esial pointed out. “Is your new case running you hard?”

“Yeah,” Muir sighed. “Hit another dead end, but I’m sure we’ll figure it out. You wanna stop somewhere on the way home to get some food?”

Esial nodded. “Can we go to Benny’s?”

“Sure,” Muir said, looking at Joseph who nodded in agreement.

The three of them started walking down the pathway to leave the zoo as Muir asked, “Have you heard from Anastasia recently?”

“Yeah,” Esial said brightly. “She is getting into new semester at school and has been getting involved with organizations that will hopefully take her step closer to being ambassador.”

“She finally decide on being an ambassador, then? That’s good.”

“Well,” Esial said, “She plans on it but she said last time I talked to her that she might crack under the pressure and go off to be spy any day. She has been reading up on Limping Lady and I can tell she would kill to get to do stuff like that.”

“So we probably won’t be seeing much of her for a long while, huh. You feeling alright about that?” Joseph asked sympathetically.

Esial nodded. “Yeah. I mean, I can still talk to her on phone and she sends pictures. Besides, if I’m just dying to spend time with people I can always give you guys call. Or come see my idiot children.”

“They’re not idiots,” Joseph said as Muir snorted. “They’re so well trained!”

Esial rolled his eyes. “Being trainable doesn’t exactly point to having abundance of brains.”

The car beeped as Muir unlocked it with a button. The three piled in and Joseph twisted in the passenger seat to look at Esial. “Oh! Did you hear that Kyle finished his PHD in Ancient Languages?”

“I saw on Facebook,” Esial said. “You know you do not have to keep me informed on his life.”

“Well, I just thought it was interesting,” Joseph defended as Muir backed out of the parking space and headed down the road.

Esial rolled his eyes when Joseph wasn’t looking anymore. Joseph tentatively mentioned Kyle fairly often. He and Muir had worked hard to stay as Kyle’s friends after…. Everything. It made it awkward that they were also friends with Esial and Kyle had made it clear he wanted nothing to do with Esial as much as it could be helped.

Esial had seen Kyle a couple of times, glimpsing him as he went into Joseph and Muir’s apartment or even a couple of times at the local grocery store when Esial had a craving for a snack that couldn’t get at the rehab center. They both pretended like the other didn’t exist when this happened, not looking directly at the other.

Esial was pretty sure it annoyed Joseph. He wanted all of his friends to also be friends, so he sometimes brought up what the others were doing, checking for reactions to see if anything had changed. Esial wouldn’t mind chatting with Kyle, starting over, but he recognized that Kyle had set a boundary and he wasn’t going to be the one to cross it.

“Leave it alone, Seph,” Muir said, not taking his eyes off the road.

Joseph grumbled a little as he finished getting seatbelted.

They soon arrived at Benny’s and piled out of the car and into the nice little restaurant owned by a friendly couple who opened at night for the vampires who had to stay out of the sun. The two were human but seemed to prefer the nighttime hours anyways.

“Hey, boys,” the old man, Harry, called. Since the store had just opened there weren’t many other people inside. Just a small family of four eating and chatting happily with one another and an older smelling vampire sitting in a booth by himself sipping coffee and reading something on his phone.

The three greeted Harry and ordered food, sitting in a booth away from the rather messy children and more towards the lone vampire patron.

Esial glanced out the window at the darkness. He was just about ready for bed, despite knowing all the other vampires of his caliber were likely to be awake now, moving out and about in the night. He couldn’t really spend time with daylight vampires safely, even with the new medication he was on, and he tended to sleep when the night time vampires were out. That was probably why he was having a hard time developing any new friendships. It was just hard to break the habits from all those years ago when he had his father’s amulet keeping him safe during the day while he was hunting hippos. He still missed the weight of the stone on his collarbone.

Muir put his hand up to stop Joseph as he was speaking, noticing the change in Esial’s mood.

“What’s wrong, man? Something bothering you?”

“Oh, it is fine,” Esial said, shaking his head. “I was just thinking…. You are sure no one makes amulets for sun? I mean, I know it is not impossible.”

“I’m sure,” Muir said. “I mean, if it was a thing you know for a fact the rich old vampires up on the hill would have commissioned to have some made so they could peacock around in the daylight too. Trust me, it’s not a thing.”

Esial frowned. “I wonder how my dad made it, then. I mean, I knew he could do magic. Was that rare trait that died out or was art of it lost somehow? You would think it would have been rediscovered in some way, though.”

“It was probably a trait. One day we should take a trip out to Africa and see if we can’t find where you dropped that amulet,” Joseph said, getting a snort from Muir.

“That’ll be a while,” he commented. “You’ll probably need to take a different job if we’re going to do that.”

Joseph huffed. “Look, with the three of our incomes combined when Esial gets out of rehab, we can save up enough to go out for a couple of weeks, can’t we?”

“Maybe,” Muir said, though he sounded doubtful as their food came out.

Unbeknownst to the three of them as they ate, the lone vampire stood up and left quietly, dialing a number he didn’t have saved in his phone.

He stood outside the restaurant as he got an answer.

“Hey boss. Yeah, I have confirmation it’s him. Yeah, I took pictures….. I’ll send them. Yes sir.”

With the call over, the vampire sent the covert pictures he’s taken of Esial to that same phone number through text. He waited and smiled when he saw the notification for money received. Ten grand was pretty good for a few day’s surveillance.

Part 2

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