Warnings: THIS CHAPTER – Sacrifice.

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Blood, Lust and Magic

Blood Chapter Twenty-One

Wandering around the gym Dave grins to himself, he can't believe that the scared kid he used to be is being trusted with teaching other people. Of course he's technically an adult who's in charge of a Broken Familiar but still he would have thought his record would have caused some concern.

Master is walking around and poking at things. Master is calm and relaxed. Master does not seem to be interested in punishing him.

He watches the coloured things flit about the flowers some more when he notices a green thing near his finger.

It is very small but it is long and green and it moves on tiny little legs, then it will loop up it's middle and push forward or up.

The green thing touches his little finger and starts to climb up.

This is bad.

One Master would like things like the big animal with the strong nose or the little green things and would kill them slowly to drain off their blood to fuel the spells that Master was casting. He was glad when that Master was killed by a rival.

He should tell Master about the green thing in case Master needs to kill it for some magic but he does not want the green thing to die.

The exercise machines have all been taken out and the mats are left piled to one side. He can see where a lot of the ropes and bars can be pulled out, and there are vaults and horses left tidy in another corner.

On the walls are a couple of basket ball hoops and the floor is lined with various conflicting colours so that different games can be played in one room, bet that got confusing in the middle of a match.

"Hey, is that a camera?" Dave stares up at the top of the wall and then scans around to see various others scattered about.

"Yep," Torn's lounging against the wall, "This is gonna be used for some fancy TV thing on magic and Wizardry so they're using this as one of the rooms," shrugging the man rolls his eyes, "Kinda educate the public on what we actually do, other than spend their money."

"Oh, they don't mind me borrowing the room to teach then?" And he secretly hopes they do so he can bail on this, it's not like he can teach the new Wizards much anyway.

"They're fine with it Fury," Torn drawls out and Dave turns away wishing he could find a way to convince them to stop calling him that.

The green thing is in the middle of his hand and has stopped. He does not know how to make it leave him without Master noticing and if Master finds out that the green thing was here and he did not tell Master then Master will be very angry with him.

Upset he looks down at his hand and tugs on the bond to his Master, he is so sorry, he wishes the green thing had not touched him, he could have hidden the green thing. Now it will die, and it will be all his fault.

"Kurt?" Dave jogs over to his Familiar as the man is tugging on the bond and he can feel the upset and fear spilling down to him. Kneeling down Dave touches the Familiar's face, "Kurt? What is it? What's wrong?"

A flash of green in his head and he follows Kurt's stare down to the man's hand to discover a small little caterpillar investigating and exploring. "Ah poor little thing must have come in from outside."

Carefully Dave manoeuvres the bug onto his finger, it's quite long and fat with spots on it's back, those must be to deter birds, he's sure he's seen millions of these when he was growing up, though he's sure they used to be brown too.

Going over to the window he feels Kurt's anxiety go up, "What is it Kurt? I'm just going to put it on a plant outside."

"Maybe he wants to see," Torn comes over and peeks, "Oh a Swallowtail, you'll want to put that on the tree just to the side of the window."

Dave lifts an eyebrow at the man, Rip sighs, "He likes butterflies, don't ask, and for god's sake never lend him a white sheet he'll stick it up at night and go moth hunting," she smiles when she says it and it's clear she's indulging Torn.

"Fine," Dave tugs Kurt to his feet and encourages him to the big open window, "See Kurt, I'm just going to..."

"Yes!" Torn's pointing excitedly, "Look there are adults, do you know how to call them over?"

There's a cloud of brightly coloured fluttering butterflies so Dave shapes a simple Air spell, it's so small it won't dent his magic stores much and entices one of them over, it lands on his finger near the caterpillar and he holds it up for Torn and Kurt to see, "Better?"

"Yeah, thanks man," the guard is examining the butterfly which fans it's wings gently. Black edging runs around the outside and it's yellow in the middle with a batch of blue that stretches across the bottom, "It's a female Swallowtail," and Torn's taking a photo of it, "She's a beauty isn't she? You'll notice the caterpillar is green which means it's nearly ready to pupate and turn into a chrysalis," that gets snapped too. "Dave are you free to go butterfly hunting one day? Only I belong to a butterfly and moth club and we go counting and checking species, having someone who can call them to us so we can give them a little bit of nectar and then send them off after counting would be amazing."

"I'll think about it," and Dave hides his smile that one of the scary Special guards is into butterflies.

"Great," and over Torn's head he can see Rip struggling to keep a straight face as well.

Master has called one of the bright coloured things over and it is sitting on Master's finger. Then Master lets it go and it flies to a blossom and sits there. The small green thing Master called a caterpillar is put on a piece of green that is on a tall brown thing the man next to Master calls a tree.

Master did not kill the little green thing.

Master was merciful.

The big animal with the strong nose is still alive.

This is important and he is so confused about Master and what Master wants.

Well Kurt's no longer upset instead all he can feel from the man is confusion. There are so many conflicting theories on what the Broken end up being that Dave isn't going to guess what Kurt's going through, he can only support him and hope.

Closing the window, after checking for more caterpillars, Dave leads Kurt to the wheelchair and they head back to their room. He knows where they're coming in the morning and he knows he's going to have to factor a lot more time in to get clothes on Kurt, there's no way he's letting the man out naked, he'd freeze.

Torn pushes the chair this time and Kurt's fear pokes at Dave but he holds Kurt's hand and the moment Kurt seems to work out where they're going he calms down.

Back in their room Dave gears himself up to battle with Kurt to get his clothes off but Kurt's cooperating this time so they almost melt off of him and then Kurt's laying naked on the bed.

Master has brought him back, Master has stripped him down again, Master is soon naked and they curl up on the bed as Master watches the TV again and strokes his shoulder.

He hopes they do not need to leave again he likes it here.

A/N: Sorry for any and all mistakes, I've tried to catch those I could, but I'm only human.

Any wrong information on the butterfly is due to quick research on the internet.