Title: "His Wolf's Purrs"
Author: Pirate Turner
Rating: PG
Summary: His mind is full of worries until his love comes to him.
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Author's Note: 244. That's the number of stories that were sitting on my hard drive collecting dust because I lack the energy and time to take care of them as I once did. My betaing pattern has always been to write, then type up if written on paper, the story, read it aloud to my beloved Jack and our children, editing as I go, and then finally format and post. Sadly, this part is simply taking too much of my time and energy, and my beloved Jack and I have too little time together in person these days to be able to keep up with my stories. So what to do? Give up writing? I actually considered it for a while, tried to make excuses to myself other than the large number of stories collecting cyber dust on my computer, as to why I lacked the energy and Muse to write new tales. And then, with the turn of the new year, I decided to stop running and face the problem. The problem is, quite frankly, that once one gets so bogged down in formatting and editing that writing is no longer a pleasure but the actual posting of those writings becomes a hassle and - egad! - work, it's time to cut something out, and that will never be the writing process. So, in short, yes, there will be mistakes in this tale. Yes, it's missing about half of the header information I usually include. But I wrote it for pleasure and am posting it in hopes of sharing that pleasure with others. Do with it as you will.
He's laying in bed, unable to sleep, as his mind keeps playing over the day's events. Their biggest secrets have been busted wide open. Everybody knows who the wolf is. Tommy's family's turned against him. Merton, for a change, doesn't have any answers.
That's what bothers him the most: He's supposed to have the answers. He's supposed to be able to save his man and wolf. Yet, this time, he can't, so he stays awake, wondering, worrying, and cussing his sudden lack of intelligence until Tommy comes to bed.
Tommy stretches and wraps his arms around him. He kisses the back of Merton's neck as though thinking he's already asleep. A soft noise starts in the back of his throat sounding like low growling though Merton likes to think of it as his wolf's purr. The sound continues as Merton's eyes drift slowly closed. There, in the cocoon of his love's arms, Merton finally sleeps.
He doesn't know what tomorrow will bring. He doesn't know how he'll ever make things right for Tommy and his family after they saw them kissing and Tommy wolf, but he'll find a way tomorrow to again be Tommy's genius. For now, though, they sleep.
The End
