Title: Finding What Was Lost
Author: Something Like Human
Rating: 13+ (for now )
Genre: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter – Gundam Wing x-over. Basically folks, right after the Eve's War (A.C. 196 in the gundam-verse), the vampires came out of the coffin. So in the Anita-verse, it's post-Incubus Dreams.
Warnings: Yaoi/Slash, 3somes, vampires, were-everythings, zombies, blood, sex, language. (the usual for the two genres)
Pairings: 2x5, and Anita/anything male….
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the plot. Everyone take their cold shower after that last chapter?
(Wu Fei pov)
Backstage was a frenzie. Jason was handing us towels and the twins had robes for us to put on. There were so many people trying to talk to us all at once. I could still hear the crowd carrying on. My heart was pounding and sweat was pouring off of my body.
"Are you sure that you two don't want a permanent job here?" Jason asked us. "I thought Nate here was going to lose it on stage when you yanked his hair like that. You didn't do it like that in rehearsal. I didn't know you had that much of a Dom in you."
"I didn't know either," Nathaniel said draping himself over me. "You can do that to me any time. You'll share this beautiful creature, won't you, Nicky?"
"Hey, now," Duo said draping his equally sweaty form over me much as his brother had. "Bro, you know I love you and would do anything for you and as hot as it was to see Fei go all dominant on you on stage, I don't think our Dragonling here could handle two of us. He'd probably get a nose bleed just thinking about it. Stripping was so outside of his realm of comfort that sharing him may be too much. You don't want to break him."
Jason, Nate, and Duo continued to laugh and joke. I was lost in thought regarding the situation. I was so not comfortable on stage but the actual dancing with Duo and his brother, that was actually pretty interesting. I know in practice I had pulled Nate's hair slightly to theatrically pull his head back. On stage, my anxiety took over and I was a little rougher than I had planned initially. When I started to realize that the lycanthrope whose hair I was pulling on was really getting into it, I had yanked harder. I enjoyed the sound he made. I knew that he was strong enough to tear me limb from limb but that moment, I felt like I was the powerful one. I wondered if Duo would have the same reaction to a little more force.
I was pulled out of my musings by seeing someone in the crowd back stage talking to Jean Claude. I had stopped walking towards the dressing room which in turn made the two leeches attached to me - namely Duo and Nate, stop. Jason about bumped into us before he realized that we had stopped walking. He looked over to where I was staring.
"Jean Claude said that he was going to be negotiating with some big-wig tonight from space. He said something about contracting building materials from the mining business," Jason explained. "Sometimes he invites the people he's negotiating with to the club for a little free entertainment. I can't blame him, sex sells, right?"
"Who is that?" Nathaniel said looking at the young man in an expensive suit talking with the Master of the City. "He looks familiar."
I looked to Duo and he was looking at me. I was starting to get really embarrassed by realing that there really had been people in the audience watching us strip. I was pretty sure that a threesome with Duo's baby brother would be less awkward feeling that the embarrassment I was feeling right then.
"Want to see if I can embarrass him?" Duo asked me with a wicked gleam in his eyes. I just raised my eyebrow at him before he went bounding off towards the two business owners. His silk robe fell off of his shoulders as he moved through the crowd. He ran right up to the blond and practically jumped on him.
"Quatre! What are you doing here? It's been entirely too long!"
"Du-Duo!" Our blond friend stammered trying to maintain some semblence of dignity while being hugged by a man wearing only a thong.
"You two know him?" Jason asked incredulously. "That's like the richest man in the world and he's like our age."
"Who is he?" Nate asked again.
"That's Quatre Winner! He's the sole heir to a huge fortune from his family on L4. He runs a huge mining company in space and had a plethora of other businesses all over the Earthsphere," our wolf-ish friend replied. He was starting to sound like a bit of a fan-boy towards our friend.
"He's actually one of my best friends," I explained not holding back the smug look on my face.
I picked up Duo's discarded robe and walked over to them. Jason and Nate trailed behind me with their mouths agape. If Jean Claude was shocked by this turn of events, he was hiding it very well.
"I did not know that you were aquainted with Monsieur Winner," the elegant vampire said to Duo and I.
"Yeah, we go way back," Duo said ambiguously. He was still physically attached to Quatre while the blond was trying to ignore the state of undress that he was in.
"Indeed," Jean Claude said raising an eyebrow at my partner. He was a very astute man and could probably guess that our association was due to the wars. "Maybe I should have ask him here on a different night seeing as it was your debut tonight."
"Yeah, Kitty-Quat," Duo said settling his chin on his friends shoulder while he still hung on to him like an octopus. Duo proceeded to grind his body into the unsuspecting man. "What did you think of our little show?"
Quatre, bless his heart, started coughing and his face turned bright red.
I pulled Duo away from him and wrapped his robe around his nearly-naked form. "You really have no shame, do you?"
"Not really, but you knew that and love me anyways."
I just shook my head at my partner. He really was correct. "You keep up harrassing Quatre, then we will see how you like your hair pulled."
Duo 'eeped' and jumped back away from me. He pulled his pony tail of loose hair over his shoulder and clutched it for dear life. I could hear Jason chuckling behind me.
"I had no idea that you two were going to be on stage," Quatre said. "I was pretty much in disbelief for most of it. And Duo, I knew you said your brother and you looked alike but I thought you were exaggerating."
"Yeah, we kind of were guilted into going on stage, although it was really fun," Duo explained.
"His brother, Nate, over here," I explained as a way to introduce the quiet wereleopard still standing next to me. "Was a little hurt when our... job history, came to light that Duo had not been the one to tell him."
"Ah, I see," Winner replied. "Hello, Nathaniel, I am your brother and Wu Fei's friend, Quatre. It is a pleasure to finally meet you."
The now-shy lycanthrope mutely shook our friend's extended hand. We introduced Jason as well who was now outright leering at Quatre. I was amused by the werewolf's flirtation with him.
"You two gentlemen seem to know the most interesting people," Jean Claude said.
"Our jobs tend to cross paths from time to time," Quatre explained. He was the one that was trying very hard to not out himself as a Gundam pilot. He was not ashamed of his involvment in the war but his family was known for being pacifists. His family's company was based on very anti-war principles and he did not want to ruin his company's standing. His entire family and all of his staff worked very hard and all it would take was one tabloid to get wind of Quatre's less than completely pacifist ways and it could mean some very bad things for his coporation.
"Hey," Duo said trying to change the topic. "Are you going to stop and see clown-boy while you're in town?"
"That's part of why I am here in person," our blond friend explained. "He called me a few days ago saying he wanted to talk about something important. To me he felt nervous but strangely more at peace than he's ever been. You two wouldn't happen to know what he wants, would you?"
"We do but it's his story to tell," I replied.
"He felt?" Jason said leaning in closer to Quatre. "What did you mean by that?"
"I... uh... am kind of an empath," Quatre explained. "I'm not very good at it but I can always feel my friends."
"You feel their emotions, Monsieur Winner?" the master vampire asked looking intrigued.
"Yes, but I'm not trained," he replied. "I can feel my friends the easiest but I can also feel anyone nearby who is experiencing really strong emotions. Sometimes, with people I just met, I can feel a little bit of what they are when I touch them. That's kind of new to me so I'm not really sure how to control it."
"You are very talented indeed, young man," Jean Claude encouraged. "Why don't you try your skill on Duo's brother here. See if you can tell what he is feeling."
"Um, alright, but I've never really tried it on someone who is a shifter before," he explained. "I don't know if it would be any different."
I shared a look at Duo who smirked at me.
"What do you need me to do?" Nathaniel said stepping closer to Quatre.
"Let me touch you, ah, here, over your heart," he explained extending his pale hand. "For some reason, it tends to be stronger here."
Quatre's hand made contact with the bare skin of Duo's brother's chest. For a moment, his eyes closed before snapping open. He quickly withdrew his hand.
"That was odd," Quatre said holding his hand to his chest.
"What was odd?" Nathaniel asked looking worried.
"I didn't feel emotions, I don't think," Quatre explained shaking his head as if to clear it. "I felt something untamed and wild just under the surface trying to meet my touch. It was odd because, I've never met a lycanthrope before but it felt oddly familiar."
"Interesting," was all that Jean Claude said.