London Loves Ch. 09

"It's okay babe, I was just asking his opinion on things."

"Yeah? Well if you want an opinion I'd ask anyone else before you ask the family dog." Rayne looked ice-daggers at Gabriel.

Gabe Arden met his glare and held it, unruffled by the little vampire's hostility. He turned at last and winked at Xavier. "See? He knows I've got 'im over a log."

"In your fuckin' dreams, wolf boy!" Rayne snorted derisively.

"You asked him how he got those pretty scars on his chest yet?" Gabe asked Xavier amiably, ignoring the death-glare he was getting from the doorway.

"I know where he got them," Xavier said, sobering at once and not liking the direction of the conversation at all.

"Where he got them, but do you know how? Or should I say, from what?" Gabriel prodded him with a knowing expression on his handsome face.

Xav's lips parted as he took a small breath to answer, and then he closed his mouth and frowned. Gabriel looked far too smug, and as Xav thought about it he realised he didn't actually know how Rayne had gotten the scars on his chest.

He knew he had come back with them from Paris, knew he'd gone to a BDSM club, and knew he'd been staked, but they had not discussed the particulars of what had happened to him in that club before things had gone so horribly wrong. He knew where and when, but not how Rayne had come by those scars.

A memory surfaced now of being down on the beach with Rayne, when those scars were newer and considerably more visible and they'd just made love and Rayne had bitten him and got a rush of his memory back...and after Xav had asked him if he remembered how he'd got the scars, who had done it. Rayne had told him, in an odd tone, that the person that had put them there had been a real animal.

Xavier hadn't thought anything more of it at the time, mostly because he'd been so pissed off that someone had hurt Rayne like that, even if he had asked for it. He'd thought it was just a euphemism. Now he suddenly saw those scars in a new light, something he'd seen all along but hadn't really figured out. They ran parallel down his ribcage, like claws had raked him from behind.

Xav put it together now, but it was a little late because it was easy enough for Gabe to see that Xav hadn't known until just that moment that some type of large Were had put those scars on his lover's chest. Xav's lips pressed together and he looked down, angry now but not really clear about what or who was making him so enraged.

"Ohhh, you had to push that didn't you?" Rayne's eyes narrowed viciously and he turned on his heel and stalked out, back into the garden room, shoving past Dominic who had been following him into the house.

"What in the world was all that about?" Lord Warren asked, looking at Rayne's retreating back with a frown.

Xavier ran an irritated hand through his tousled curls and stood, although for a moment he wasn't sure which direction he wanted to go, and then he headed toward where Rayne had just stalked out.

Dominic touched his shoulder supportively but did not try to pull him back.

"What did you do?" he demanded of Gabriel though.

Xavier left them to argue about it. Rayne could move fast when he was in a foul temper and his lover was quickly learning not to let him stew over things for too long. The vampire had not gone far in any case. Lord Warren had a little patio out on the terrace beyond the sunroom. It was private and quiet there, ringed with stepped flower beds and paved in small white pebbles with a large five-pointed star picked out in darker stones against the white. Rayne was sitting on the stone rim of one of the beds, glaring out into space morosely.

Xav slowed as he approached, uncertainty gripping him. The flash of anger he'd felt had already faded, it wasn't like Xav had ever brought up or asked about what had happened to Rayne in Paris since the one brief conversation they'd had at Aldo's. In truth he supposed he hadn't wanted to know all the details. So he could hardly blame Rayne now for having yet another thing he hadn't been told about sprung on him. He slipped down lightly next to Rayne on the stone seat like a leaf that had floated down from overhead, and put his arm around him.

"You know, I never heard you tell anyone I was your boyfriend before," he teased lightly.

Rayne's head turned and pale eyes surveyed him mutely for a little while. Some of the anger in him subsided at Xavier's touch however. It was as if they balanced one another out. He could rouse Xavier to fiery turbulence and Xav was able to soothe even his most violent moods. Not even Simon, who had known Rayne better than anyone, could do that for him.

"It's not like we're written in stone or anything, is it?" Rayne shrugged a little but he smiled awkwardly. "I guess I'm still getting used to the feeling of it. But you've been hanging around like a rash for a few months now so..."

The vampire ducked as Xav swatted at him.

"Geez, first big and furry in there says I'm not much more than a blood McNugget and now I'm a skin infection. I feel so loved."

Rayne bristled again and Xav kissed him quick before he could get off on a tangent. "You shouldn't let him get under your skin, babe. I know a bigot when I hear one."

Rayne looked a little surprised at that harsh appraisal and Xav shrugged. "He might be a nice guy, I suppose he'd have to be if Dom keeps him around, but he really don't like vampires." He turned his head slightly as he looked at Rayne. "He thinks you're dangerous, and maybe you are sometimes, but I've known a lot of evil people and you're not evil. You've treated me better than a lot of human beings have, so I don't think you should be judged just cos you're a vampire."

Rayne managed a small, rather sad smile. "You're in a fairly tiny minority there, sweetheart."

He reached out to stroke his cool fingertips gently down the blond boy's cheek then tilted his head to kiss Xav almost gratefully. As their lips parted he whispered; "Even Dom wants you to be able to protect yourself from me, and he's the biggest vampire junkie I know."

Xavier had to wonder how much friction that caused between Dom and his lover, seeing as how Gabriel was pretty open about how he felt towards vampires. That was not his business though.

"An' how does he think I'm gonna do that?" Xav asked, although he seemed much more interested at the moment in Rayne's tempting mouth, dragging the very tip of his tongue slowly across the soft fullness of his lover's bottom lip.

"You're better off asking him that question," Rayne murmured, enjoying the way that Xavier's nose touched against his as their tongues sparred loosely in one another's mouths. "He's the sexpert."

"What does that have to do with it?" Xav asked, still brushing his lips lightly back and forth over Rayne's.

Rayne took a deep breath. There were several ways of answering that question but the easiest most understandable way was also the most direct. "He wants to use sex magic to fix what's wrong with your shielding."

Xav pulled back a bit and looked at Rayne as if he wasn't sure if he believed him or not.

"What?"

"It's a tantric thing... He's been fiddling about for years with using sex to raise spell energy." The vampire grinned at his lover's baffled expression.

Xav frowned while he rolled that around for a moment. He started to get pissed that Dom went and talked to Rayne about it before he'd talked to him, but he let it go because Dom was just being practical.

"So...uh, who's gonna be...involved?"

"Don't worry, he's not roping in the whole of his Coven to do this. It's something that he and Gabe play around with. I don't think his High Priestess is terribly keen on the idea from what he tells me," he laughed softly. "I've only met Geraldine once but she seems quite straight laced. Not how you'd picture a witch priestess at all! No, I reckon it'll just be me and you ultimately, though he and Gabriel are going to have to show us the ropes, I'd imagine."

For the first time, Rayne actually looked less than happy and Xavier thought he could imagine the reason why. It was tall and furry and it didn't like vampires much. Xav was quiet for a moment.

"Isn't there some other way to do this?" he asked. Not that he minded so much, as long as Rayne was with him, but he could tell his lover wasn't happy and that made him nervous too.

"Yeah, there's other ways to raise energy, but..."

"But?"

"They take time and training to be effective. You've gotta practice, and it could take a while before you're good enough to raise enough energy to make the spell work."

Xav chewed on that for a second. "So why is this any different?"

Rayne quirked a grin at him. "Dom's already seen and felt the energy we've raised with sex. He thinks you're a natural for it."

Xav snorted and laughed. "All right, whatever. If this will work I'd rather try now than wait. When are we gonna do this?"

"I'm not gonna rush you, sweetheart," Rayne murmured, kissing his nose. "As soon as you feel well enough we can start to talk about it. Dominic's got a few days up here before he has to go back to London and I don't want you taking on anything you're not ready for."

For the moment, all he really wanted was to take Xavier back to bed and make love to him for the rest of the day. It was procrastination, he knew, but surely another day wouldn't make much difference. His fingers wandered lazily through Xavier's pale golden curls as their lips met once more in a slow dance.

Xav was more than happy to let go of serious thoughts for a while and sink into the embers Rayne was stirring up. He slipped his arms around his lover's waist and returned Rayne's slow warm kiss with a fierce passion hot enough to burn the place down around them. He had no idea where the sudden intensity came from but all at once he wanted his horny mate naked and writhing with him, like now!

Rayne was certainly not unwilling to accommodate him. Within moments he was on his back in the flower bed, sprawled under Xavier on a scented lawn of thyme and camomile as fondling hands slid into clothing and quickly began to peel it off.

Shirts and pants were scattered wherever they happened to fall. Xavier's hungry mouth barely left Rayne's until he reached a point of aroused confusion because he didn't know what he wanted more, to be inside Rayne or to have his lover filling him up. His rampant cock finally made the decision for him and he hooked his arms under Rayne's knees, lifting them up as his wet cock head nudged between his cheeks. His tongue licked a wet path down Rayne's neck and chest all the way to one taut nipple and he sucked it into his mouth sharply as he pushed up with his hips, breaching Rayne's tight entrance. He moaned appreciatively as his teeth scraped over the sensitive bud in his mouth.

Rayne was certainly not making any effort to resist him. Intriguingly, since returning to London, the vampire had been rather more prone to delicious submission when they were locked around one another. Xavier knew he loved to top and he was good at it, but without warning he could switch and he never failed to give of himself completely once he chose to yield.

Strong fingers clawed down Xav's naked back as he pulled on Rayne's ultra sensitive nipples and thrust deep and hard inside him. A long, low, shuddering growl escaped the vampire's throat as he braced his heels in the hollow of his lover's spine, writhing under him like a hooked eel, pulling Xavier into him fiercely.

The scent of their naked, horny bodies and the lush fragrance of the herbs that ground against their skin as they fucked, rose like some elemental incense around them. Rayne yelped with pleasure as he felt Xav stroke urgently into his core, nudging his buttons with every thrust.

Xavier was losing himself quickly, dropping into the pleasure of his lover's restless body. The feel of Rayne's snug channel around his throbbing prick, strong, slim fingers clutching his shoulders, and heels digging into his back to urge him on, all sent a firestorm whirling through him. He braced his hands just under Rayne's knees, pushing his legs up higher and bending him almost double as he spread his own thighs a little wider and drove down into him with each pump of his lean hips.

He absolutely adored having a lover that was just as flexible as he was. They moved so well together, each complementing the other's rhythm stroke for stroke and thrust for thrust. Even with nothing more than just their naked bodies wrapped around each other Xavier often reached levels of pleasure he could only get to via the stimulus of bondage, or other means, with previous lovers.

He hissed in a breath through his teeth now as the scent of the herbs and their own heat perfumed the air around them, nipping and sucking and teasing at Rayne's nipples as his hips pounded out a fast paced tempo. Rayne's slender arms snaked up around his neck and towed him closer until their lips clashed and merged in a hungry, groaning kiss that would have melted raw iron. Xav pulsed faster and Rayne whined desperately for him, so aroused that his shaft was constantly wet with a slick of cum that pooled slowly in the hollows of his groin and on his heaving belly.

"Ohhh jesus! Harder!" Rayne keened in an urgent tone. "Fuck me hard. Please Xav, don't stop!"

Xav gave him exactly what he asked for, bucking into him fierce and fast while one hand reached down to wrap around his cock and stroke him in time with their rhythm. His breath was moist and hot where he kissed the curve of Rayne's neck.

"Fuck! You feel so fuckin good!" he panted. His thumb rubbed in the slippery spill leaking from Rayne's velvety glans and he pressed small circles on the sensitive underside as he alternated his strokes.

Rayne threw his head back, his breath coming fast and hard as Xavier rubbed him inside and out. The tendrils of ecstatic electricity were snaking wildly through his body in time with the vigorous stimulus that his stunning mate was inflicting. Little panting, whining sounds trickled from his throat as he arced violently under his lover. Steadily the noises rose to a sequence of full-throated cries as he felt the hot surge of supreme pleasure rising in his throbbing balls.

"OhhhOhhhOhhhhhjesus! Fucking... y-y-y-yyeeeessssss!" he keened on a sharp, whistling note as a fierce jet of cum erupted from his straining cockhead, bathing Xavier's belly in a slick of wet silk.

Xav held on, riding out the pulsing waves of his ecstatic lover's orgasm until he'd milked every last drop from Rayne's twitching balls. Only then did he let go the thin thread holding him back and felt the starburst come over him like a supernova.

"Oh, babe...oh, fff-f-fuck yeah!" His arms wrapped around Rayne tightly and he bucked a few more fierce thrusts as deep as he could go, splashing his insides with his hot climax. He collapsed on top of him, chest heaving and heart pounding even as his limbs went weak with spent pleasure.

As Rayne's arms curled up around him, pulling him close for an intensely grateful kiss, a husky, richly accented voice chuckled; "Bugger me! Dom didn' warn me there'd be live porn!"

They both sat up a little too quickly. Gabriel was sitting on one of the window ledges in the orangery looking down on their nest in the shrubbery. The handsome Roma had a perfect view from up there. When he knelt up to get a better look at the outrage on Rayne's face, the tent in his jeans suggested that he had certainly been enjoying the free show. Xavier figured that Matty had not been wrong about Gabriel's manhood. Judging by that bulge Dominic's boyfriend was incredibly well-hung. In fact, his tight jeans barely constrained him, the head of that big cock was threatening to force its way out over his waistband.

"Fuck you!" the vampire hissed, visibly uncomfortable under Gabriel's hungry stare.

"In your dreams, dead boy!" the Were laughed mockingly.

In the normal scheme of things, Xavier wasn't particularly fussed about being caught with his pants down, literally or metaphorically. That was one more thing he and Rayne had in common, they both liked the little thrill of risk from fucking in public places. However, it was so quiet and private out here that he hadn't thought anyone would poke their nose in on them and Rayne's automatically defensive response to Gabriel telegraphed through him like he was a lightening rod for his lover's mood.

Even so, Xav gave off a perfectly cool vibe while Gabriel taunted and Rayne bristled. He was used to people watching him, he took his clothes off for a living after all, so he was not actually embarrassed to be caught naked and fucking. Although if he'd had the choice he wouldn't have wanted to be spied on in quite so intimate a moment with Rayne. One dark blond brow arched as he looked up at Gabriel casually.

"Well Dom didn't warn us about peeping toms, or in this case voyeuristic werewolves! Hope you enjoyed yourself," he said dryly as he handed Rayne his jeans.

"Ve-ery nice," Gabriel said, lazily stroking his hard-on through his pants as he watched the two young men down below. "You're gonna have to learn a bit of self-control for the rite, though. Raisin' energy's about more than just a quick hard bang. Pleasin' as that is."

"What the fuck are you on about?" Rayne asked irritably, wriggling himself rapidly into his tight black trousers and buttoning the fly. "I thought having sex was the whole point of the thing."

"Oh yeah, that's right," Gabe acknowledged, grinning at them. "But you work up a lot more energy if you can keep it rollin', if you know what I mean." He winked at Xavier, who was still wearing little more than a sheen of sweat and his lover's spunk.

Xav's ire was starting to be piqued but he held Gabriel's gaze steadily. He was getting tired of the way the Were took every opportunity to try and yank Rayne's chain, and he hadn't asked for a critique!

"My control is just fine when I want it to be," Xav said, picking up his own jeans and sliding smoothly into them.

Gabriel's gaze slid towards Rayne who bristled again.

"What?" the little vampire demanded, his tone growing sharper. "WHAT?"

"Nothin'," Gabe said innocently, and ducked back inside before Rayne could get even more annoyed.

"Is he implying that I can't turn the taps off, or something?" Rayne fumed irritably.

"Maybe," Xavier said, no longer sounding so unruffled himself. "Or maybe that we have no control when it comes to each other." His lips twitched after a moment though when he looked at Rayne. "Guess that's just the truth though," he admitted as his eyes caressed over Rayne's half clad body and he kissed him again.

A shadow drifted over them and Rayne looked up with an awkward half smile as Dominic appeared at the top of the steps leading down into their sheltered arbour. The older man had his hands on his slim hips. His expression tried for stern but failed absolutely and an answering smile pulled at his lips as he surveyed them.

"Mizz Wylde, I'll thank you not to fuck your cherubic consort in my herb beds, if you please. There are plenty of places for you to find a little privacy without destroying my plants!" he intoned.

"Sorry," Rayne said, managing to sound not a bit contrite. "We smell fabulous though."

"Good enough to eat, I'm sure," Lord Warren concurred with a nod of his head. His eyes roamed over Xavier speculatively. "You're quite an accomplished Top my dear. I'm pleasantly surprised."

There were very few things that could actually make Xav blush anymore but for some reason Dominic's comment put spots of colour in his cheeks. He cleared his throat softly.

"Um, sorry about the plants," he offered, sounding considerably more sincere than Rayne had managed to be.