Warnings: Tame.

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Blood, Lust and Magic

Blood Chapter Fifty Three

With Kurt preoccupied by the toy the rest of them start to get to know each other. Predictably Torn quickly integrates himself with the Hudmels, that easy going nature of his a clear advantage, while Rip's quieter more withdrawn behaviour leaves her out of the conversation a little, but then her eyes are flicking to all the exits in the room so he knows she's still being a guard.

Sipping his soda Dave leans back into the couch and listens to Carole, she'd insisted on the name, telling them about Finn's extended vacation because he'd exhausted his stores.

God he's glad he's not Healer that would seriously suck, you can heal people, save them, but you simply don't have enough energy to save everyone.

Finn's still on the floor and he complains, "Mom, I had to help the little girl, the cancer was everywhere, now the doctors have a shot with chemo to get the rest." Twisting to look at Santana the Healer says, "Don't worry San I'm still going to see Britt everyday of my enforced month holiday, I have a little bit of energy left over and anyway with her it's more fiddly than power draining."

And 'Tana's face is a picture, she wants him to heal Britt, but if he's been forced to have a vacation for a month the man's running on empty now, he could kill himself by using up the last of his energy.

Master's Empath ally is thinking about the sick blonde woman again. Master's Empath ally is in pain.

Turning in Master's arms and the Empath's arms he looks up at her and he can feel shock from her as she looks down at him.

Huh? Kurt's just moved around and is staring up at Santana, she's blinking in shock at Familiar and then to Dave's surprise she strokes Kurt's face and turns to Finn, "It's okay Finn, you take a couple of weeks first, then I've got you to myself to heal Britt for another couple of weeks."

"Oh okay," Finn frowns and he doesn't get it but shrugs and just accepts it.

Something big just happened, but Dave is fucked if he knows what it was, how the hell did Kurt know to move? How did he know that Britt was 'Tana's big thing?

Confused and deciding to add that to his list of Kurt inspired mysteries he watches as Kurt settles back and starts to play with the toy again. So the Familiar misses the look Santana shoots him, she doesn't know either.

Master's Empath ally is feeling better now; the pain is less. She is nice like Master; she should not feel pain.

He moves the coloured thing in his hands again and tries to remember the names of all the colours.

"So since I've got nothing to do but stick around the house and play video games you wanna hang out," Finn asks Dave and it floors him. Apparently Finn's decided that he likes Dave now and all the bad shit from high school's forgotten, but then even in high school Finn never really hassled him, he just avoided Dave.

"I can't Finn, I'm working during the week, and at weekends I've got Kurt, I don't wanna ignore him or foist him off on people," Dave says and catches Finn rolling his eyes at him.

"Dude I know you've gotta work, I was talking about the weekends. Sunday's you can came for lunch so Burt and mom can fuss you and Kurt. Plus we can do videos games while Kurt plays with his toys. Maybe some Saturday's we can go the park, or the new big swimming complex that's just opened up, and hey there's always the petting zoo," and it's obvious that Finn's never really grown up.

"Um, maybe? Kurt might be tired after the week but we could do some of it?" Dave hedges.

"Cool. I'm gonna enjoy the first week of my holiday and goof off but I know I'm gonna go crazy if I don't get to do something after that," And now Finn sounds frustrated.

"That's because you're a Healer," Rip says and smiles softly at the big lummox, "After a while your hands will itch and you'll start dreaming about Healing."

"Yeah, that's exactly what happens," Finn's startled and stares at her.

"I've worked with Healers that had to be locked away from people so they could recuperate, trying to keep them distracted long enough that they can recover and go back helping people was a full time job," thinking it over she says, "Try going to the gym in the mornings, when you have the most energy, then have lunch, take a nap and work on things you've been meaning to do for a while, you'll still sleep like a baby at night."

"Cool, I will, hey Burt? Can I go help out in the garage for a few days too?"

"Sure Finn," Burt agrees, "Whatever you need."

It's broken the ice and easy chit chat starts up, nothing too heavy, nothing too serious. And then Carole vanishes into the kitchen to make lunch, which turns out to be a mix of grilled cheese sandwiches and spaghetti rings from a can, all of them Finn's favourites.

"Hey Kurt," Dave taps him on the shoulder to get his attention, "Are you hungry, do you want some food?" They can get it out of the way now and then he can give Kurt a few bits off of his plate if he can get him to sit at the table.

Master is asking about food so he puts the coloured thing down and looks to Master.

Master is opening the jello stuff and makes him put a hand on Master's hand, "Okay now this is how we move the spoon and then we take the spoon up to your mouth," he opens his mouth for Master and Master puts the food in his mouth, "And then we can eat," he chews the jello and swallows.

"Excellent, that's it Kurt," Dave grins at the man and feeds him the rest of the jello. "Now for some yummy paste," and he gets Kurt into his lap so the man can put his hands on the bottle as he feeds, "Yep that's it, that's amazing Kurt."

Wiping Kurt's face and hands Dave can feel a sudden pressing need to pee, "It that you or me?" He asks Kurt and the need goes away and then comes back, "Oh so it's you, okay then." Taking Kurt's hand he gets him to stand up and then asks where the bathroom is.

Following the directions from Burt he gets Kurt to pee and actually has to clean him up, Kurt's also noticed that the toilet didn't do it for him, "Yep that's 'coz our room has a special toilet, most places have normal toilets so when we go out we'll have to do it this way." Getting Kurt to the sink he washes Kurt's hands for him too, if there's a possibility Kurt's going to be handling food he'll need clean hands.

Taking Kurt's hand he walks him to the dining room and everyone else is already seated. Pulling a chair out for Kurt he helps the man sit and then settles next to him.

Sandwiches are handed out and spaghetti rings are put on plates then everyone just dives in. Lifting a single ring up Dave blows on it and turns to Kurt, "Here, you wanna try spaghetti?"

Master is offering up Master's food to him again.

Master is so good to him.

He opens his mouth and Master puts the food in, it is warm and squishy and sweet. He chews it slowly and swallows it.

He thinks he can remember when he used to sit at things like this and eat. In the Before time when he didn't know what he was or what he was supposed to do.

Master is talking with Master's many allies.

And then Master offers him some more food, this one is hot on this tongue and he has to chew, it is tangy and creamy and crunchy and words he does not know yet.

Master had been right this is like the bright room and the gloomy smelly room, nothing to be scared of because Master will take good care of him and Master's allies are very nice.


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

Sorry for the late update, FF is playing up again. :(