I forgot to put this in the final chapter. Oops. I'll just put this up instead of editing my other things...
Lucian and Nero were enjoying some time to themselves. Even the Dark Swordsman had to stop and rest sometime. Aaron was on a standard patrol for the Guild today. Lucian pretended not to care. He insisted on Aaron stopping to check his inventory and equipment when they ran into each other on the street. Aaron wasn't allowed to go on a routine patrol where nothing was supposed to happen without being prepared for everything short of the earth exploding. It was totally a coincidence that Lucian and Nero ended up outside the Blue Dog shop at the exact time when Aaron's patrol took him by. (It wasn't like Lucian had joined the Guild and could be officially assigned to partner with Aaron.)
Lucian also made sure to give the patrol route partner assigned to Aaron a very meaningful look. Bea had assigned Django to be on the patrol with Aaron today. The look was one that promised terrible things if anything should happen to Aaron even if it wasn't even remotely a thing Django could have prevented. Lucian wanted to make it clear this was his revenge buddy. He would be angry if he lost a revenge buddy. The one and a half solar boys were also made to promise that they would call if they spotted anything Lucian wanted to decapitate.
It was while he was looking at the pictures Alice sent of the new Sunflower purifex system that Aaron came back. Aaron was pretty happy he'd got to hang out with friends today. Django was happy too, he told Aaron he remembered a few more things like his Father's favorite sandwich. Things like that.
"Hi, Lucian! So I was talking to Django about Solar Guns today and stuff..." Aaron said as he bounded into the room with the sunflower.
Lucian raised an eyebrow. Aaron was up to something. Django kept giving Aaron ideas. Last week he'd been trying to teach the younger boy the sol magic spell for freezing stuff. It ended with them experimenting on various things to see if they were freezable since Django forgot what the limitations of the spell were.
Aaron pulled out the Bomber gun and continued, "...Anyways, it is interesting that Django can use Solar Guns even when he's a vampire, don't you think?" He was hoping to see if this worked.
"Did that d_ half-vampire put you up to this? No."
"I bet you cou-"
"No."
"Come on, I know you actually care about helping people."
"My heart is too set on revenge and filled with hatred. Solar guns won't work for me anymore."
Aaron was giving him a pleading look. "But have you actually tried? Even once?"
Lucian leaned away from the Bomber being shoved in his face. "Go away, Aaron."
"But it would be a tactical advantage. You could surprise your enemies if they are out of reach!"
"I said, go away."
"Aren't you curious?" Aaron was very disappointed. Django had advised against trying to force the issue with Lucian, but Aaron knew in his heart that Lucian wasn't as dark as he made himself out to be. Lucian knew he was more vampirey than Django was. (If you measured vampireness by how edgy a person was, Django was very outranked.)
"I'm going to hurt you if you don't leave me alone."
Aaron sighed and gave up. Mostly. He set the Bomber down on a table and left the room. Glorious, solar-powered destructive explosive goodness wrapped in a metal casing sat there. It promised things would go boom when it was fired.
Nero looked down at Lucian. "Aren't you curious? I'll keep watch if you want to try it."
"Even if it works, it'll burn me."
Lucian went back to reading. He lasted five minutes before examining the Bomber. It wasn't like he was going to pick it up. Django could still use solar guns because he was descended from that one civilization and kept the sun in his heart. Five minutes passed again. Lucian started reaching for the gun when he heard someone coming. When Kay entered the room, Lucian was back at his side of the table and not reaching for the gun. Kay offered to take the gun back to Aaron and tell him off for leaving his stuff around so carelessly. Lucian found himself saying he'd make sure it got back to Aaron. Lucian took the gun to go find Aaron. He knew that the spark of light in the sighting lens was just reflected from the window.
After bringing the gun back to Aaron, Lucian kept his hands in his pockets to hide the sunburn.