See chapter 1 for details and if there are any warnings I'll ask you to check the A/N at the bottom…
Oh perhaps I should post a Mock Warning for this one at the bottom, read only if you want to spoil the chapter and there will be a mini flashback from Kurt re his past with an evil Wizard…
Blood, Lust and Magic
Lust 010
Going downstairs Dave tells Kurt about Rip and Torn getting take out for them and how Kurt's food is being delivered too but he can have some of Dave's Chinese to see if he likes it. "Not everyone likes it, and the tastes are really different to what you normally have but give it a go, and I'm sure you'll find something good," at the bottom Dave leads Kurt around the stairs to the built in storage area under the stairs.
Shrugging off his light jacket he opens the door and toes off his shoes, "And as we don't really have any furniture yet we can eat in..." and then Kurt's fear hits him, hard.
Underplace.
It is an underplace.
Not like the ones he was locked away in when he was a thing there, but it is an underplace. He doesn't want to go in the underplace.
"Kurt?" Dave struggles through the rising terror, "What's wrong?" He's being swamped with images of the cages and rooms Kurt was held prisoner in and he frowns wondering what's triggered that off and then he glances into the storage area, "Shit, you think the cupboard is a basement..."
For a few seconds he's blind and caught up in one of Kurt's darker memories, the room is small and cramped. It's gloomy with only one guttering candle to illuminate the inky blackess and he's roped to something, his whole back is on fire and he watches dully as the Dark Wizard walks up a few steps and then the man is gone closing the door behind him and plunging the room into utter darkness as the candle dies...
Kurt's so caught up in his panic attack come flashback that as Dave shakes off the memory he sees Thumper fall from Kurt's nerveless hands and partly roll into the cupboard, the same cupboard that has a spring on the door that's dragging it slowly closed and pushing the toy inside it. With a sense of dread of what's about to come Dave manages to croak out, "Rabbit, save rabbit," as the door snicks shut.
NOT RABBIT!
NO!
NOT RABBIT IS LOCKED IN THE DARK!
The mental scream of fear, pain, loss, helplessness, is overlaid with the image of Thumper and has Dave almost blacking out. Staggering back he readies his magic as the blurry view of Valour's roaring and then somehow ripping the cupboard door off it's hinges even as Sparkle darts in to grab the toy.
With Thumper back in Kurt's arms the overwhelming emotions slow and catching his breath Dave lashes out with a spell designed to turn wood into sawdust. He aims at the door in Valour's hand and the remaining wood boxing off the area under the stairs, it can stay open, people only normally cover it up for neatness and frankly Dave couldn't give a shit about neatness right now.
Kurt's quietening down and Dave shoves him gently to Valour, "Get him and the rabbit out of here, take Snowy, I have some redecorating to do," and then he bolts up the stairs to their bedroom.
Running into the room Dave turns his attention to the long built in wardrobe closet thing and combines a few spells to get the freaking doors off it. Swinging around he scans the room for anything that could upset Kurt by being closed off, he wonders about the main room doors and reasons Kurt understands about those because their old room has a door.
Storming into the first guest room he starts on anything in there he can find, he will make this house as Kurt and Thumper safe as he possibly can.
Big man is carrying him out of the home and into the green green garden. Master is not with them, Master ran off and he reaches out to find that Master is destroying their room.
He clings to big man in the garden and knows he has upset Master.
What if Master wanted the small mini underplace to keep things that are not him or not rabbit? What if he has upset Master and Master... He cannot finish the thought, Master must still want him.
Sobbing he holds onto big man and hopes Master will be here soon.
He clings to not rabbit and then as Master finishes destroying things in the top of the home, he watches in his mind, shivering in fear and worry, as Master bursts into the kitchen and more of the mini doors are destroyed.
He must have really upset Master. He remembers from Before that Master had a very bad temper. He has never misbehaved that badly for Master. There is rage and anger pouring from Master and he sobs louder knowing he has done this to Master, this is all his fault, he is a bad Familiar, so bad, he deserves to be locked in an underplace and left there until he can learn to be good again.
Finished with his impromptu decorating Dave's so angry at himself, why they fuck didn't he realise that goddamn storage cupboard would trigger Kurt, Jesus he's an idiot, he's Kurt's one and only true life line, he's supposed to look after him and protect him and he's doing a piss poor job of it.
Dashing into the garden Dave goes straight to Kurt and wraps his arms around him and lets all his love and protective feelings flow into Kurt. Kissing the side of the man's face Dave pulls him closer and out of Valour's arms, "Sorry, so sorry," he rocks them back and forth, "Should have taken better care of you, no more doors on cupboards, you don't have to be afraid, I WILL protect you, promise, I promise."
Master's love surrounds him and Master's voice is saying sorry! Master is sorry about the underplace, Master did not know it was an underplace. Master was not angry at him for being bad. Master was angry because the home had what could be underplaces and Master has destroyed them.
Master still wants him.
Master still loves him.
Master is not angry with him and will not punish him for being bad. He hangs onto Master fiercely, gratefully, and shows Master how much he loves Master too.
God the sheer level of Kurt's feelings are like a soothing balm and Dave continues to rock them both and murmur softly as he rubs Kurt's back calming them both down. The man in his arms has stopped crying and is now hiccupping slightly from the sobbing he's been doing.
A glass of water appears and Dave smiles gratefully at Sparkle, taking it he offers it to Kurt, "Come on Kurt, sip the water, that's it, nice and slow."
When the glass is half empty Kurt doesn't want anymore and he hands the glass back to the guard, "Thank you Sparkle."
"No problem Fury, you need anything let us know," she nods and steps back.
Master is holding him and comforting him, Master is caring and loving, their home is now underplace free. They are all safe here, even not rabbit.
Glancing at the house Dave hesitates, should he try to get Kurt to live in the house or should he give it up as a bad idea before he traumatises Kurt further? He flushes at the thought of having to explain why he's taken all the doors off everything he can. He'll put back what he can if he has too and he'll take the sawdust and make new doors too. Just as long as Kurt's safe and sound and happy he'll do whatever it takes.
Kurt wiggles slightly in his arms and Dave suddenly needs to pee, ah this would be a perfect test, if Kurt's happy to go in the house they'll try living here, if Kurt baulks they'll go back to their old room. Brittany's vision be damned, Kurt comes first.
"You need to pee?" Not the most original opening gambit but he gets a positive from Kurt. "Which toilet do you want to use?" He thinks about the two upstairs toilets and waits, and then Kurt comes back with their bathroom one as the Familiar starts to stand up. "'Kay."
Hand in hand they go in the house and Dave gets ready to flee with Kurt if he gets upset but the man studies the newly opened up area and then passes it without a care in the world to go up the stairs to the bathroom up there.
Master is clever. Master has made all the underplaces go away and turned them into normal places.
Handing not rabbit to Master in the bathroom he undoes the ties on his clothes and sits on the toilet to pee. Pressing the button to clean he waits, stands up and does his clothes up, they have guests, Master will insist he wears clothes.
Looking at Master he thinks about food and Master chuckles, "Yeah the food's coming Kurt."
Going to the bed he sits and asks Master to sit too and then he cuddles into Master and between them they cuddle not rabbit. Master's arms are warm. Master's arms are safe.
He is a little ashamed that he thought Master might leave him so easily, but Master feels his shame and comforts him. He is tired and his eyes close, he moves so he can listen to Master's heart beating.
In his arms Kurt's fast asleep, he must have tired himself out with that outburst. Rubbing his back Dave lays there and worries that he's going to screw this up. It was easy in the main medical centre, it's harder out here, and he didn't even get the cupboard thing right, that was just a simple thing, how the fuck was he going to handle the big things?
A/N: Sorry for any and all mistakes, I've tried to catch those I could, but I'm only human.
Mock Warning: Evilness to not rabbits…
I blame imgoingtohell for the idea to be mean to thumper, you really shouldn't give me ideas, it's not good… (evil laugh)…