Chapter 26: Awakening
When Harry woke up, he felt heavy, aching and out of sorts. He felt a glass against his lips and a man's voice telling him to drink. Alarmed that he did not recognize the voice, the young man opened his eyes. The light assaulted him and he quickly closed his eyelids, but he had time to recognize the figure of Carlisle. He let the vampire sit him down and drank the glass when he presented it to him again. His mind suddenly became clearer and he could try to open his eyes again. His gaze fell first on Andromeda who was arriving with Teddy in her arms.
"Daddy! Daddy!" his little boy called out to him, holding his arms out to him.
Andromeda put the child in his lap, making sure he had enough strength to hold him, and sat down beside him on the sofa.
"How are you feeling?" she asked seriously.
Harry realized that Carlisle was also watching him, making an initial diagnosis with his overdeveloped senses. The wizard lost himself for a moment in the contemplation of Teddy playing with his fingers before answering.
"I am well."
"What do you remember?" asked the doctor.
"Everything, I think. Bill's visit, Andromeda telling me she was going to call you, your arrival and the sleeping potion. How long did I sleep?"
"A good day," said Andromeda.
"A day?" exclaimed Harry. "Well, I'll be damned. And you've been by my side all this time?"
Harry looked a little closer at Carlisle and saw how concerned he was about his condition.
"Is it because of Jasper that you stayed?"
"Not just that, I care about you, but it sure was reassuring for Jasper to have me around."
Harry realized at that moment that it couldn't have been easy for the empath to be kept at a distance.
"Did he take it badly?"
"What?"
"That I asked him not to come."
"It wasn't easy for him, but it's important for him to keep his word to you not to come back until you ask him to."
Harry remembered at that moment that the reason he had refused the vampire's presence by his side was because he hoped Charlie would come back. He turned his gaze to Andromeda.
"Charlie?"
"He came, he slept here with you. He had asked Bill to leave you alone, but... you already know. Charlie should be back in a few hours."
Harry was relieved to hear that the dragon rider had returned, even though he was anxious to know his decision. They really needed to have a quiet talk, both of them. The dark-haired man became aware of the eyes on him and turned his head to Carlisle. Bill's words came back to him.
"Do you also feel that I am torturing them both by not choosing and that I should make up my mind?"
The vampire and Andromeda exchanged a look, surprised by the question and uncomfortable. It was the witch who answered first.
"You know I care about you, Harry. You have sacrificed so much for others. What I care about today is your happiness, no matter how long it takes you to choose the person who will make you happy."
Harry gave him a weak smile and turned his head to the man Jasper considered his adoptive father.
"I sure don't like to see Jasper look bad the way he has since Charlie has been here, but I see how happy he is every time he has the opportunity to spend time with you. It's sure I'm afraid you won't choose him, but each of us will respect your decision and especially whether you make your decision today or later won't change the pain you'll cause him if you don't choose him," the man replied in a soft voice.
Harry felt particularly bad. He knew he was going to destroy the heart of one of the two men he loved, he had known it since he realized he had two soul mates, but to be told this was even worse. Of course he realized he was hurting them both.
"I'd like to choose one of them and end this, but I can't," Harry whispered more to himself than to the two people beside him.
"Take your time Harry, Jasper understands," Carlisle assured him, placing his hand on his shoulder. "Andromeda I'll leave you to it, I think my presence is desirable at home and I'm expected at the hospital in a few hours."
"Thank you for being here Carlisle."
The vampire left the house and Harry decided to spend some time playing with Teddy. He didn't feel up to studying at all. He replayed in his mind what had happened with Bill, the argument with Charlie, and Carlisle's words. After a while, he pulled out his phone to send a message to Jasper.
"I guess your dad already told you, but I'm perfectly fine now. I suspect you've been worried. I'm sorry I kept you away and have to ask you to stay away for a while longer . It's nothing against you, it's just better this way."
He didn't have to wait long for an answer that made him smile.
"Thank you for giving me news. I understand. I can't wait to see you."
The response was just like his vampire: concise, understanding and reassuring. Comforted by this message, Harry thought to himself that he too was looking forward to seeing him, but at this thought the image of Charlie came to mind and the dark-haired man huffed. How was he ever going to make a choice? He loved them both equally.
The sound of the fireplace turning on sounded and Teddy let out a frightened little cry. Harry picked him up and cradled him in his arms for reassurance, his eyes on Andromeda as she unlocked the entrance to their home. Harry's breath caught when he saw the square figure of his dragon rider. He began to anguish, wondering what his lover would say. Would he leave him? Would he tell him that he couldn't stand the situation and that he was making the choice for him? Anxiety was rising in Harry, making him panic. The memory of their last meeting came forcefully to the forefront of his thoughts and the redhead's anger at that moment made him shiver again. He refused to let them have another altercation like that. It was unthinkable for him.
Their eyes finally met and all stress left Harry, there was only gentleness, love and concern in his lover's oceanic eyes. Gently, Harry went to put Teddy in Andromeda's arms, without taking his eyes off Charlie, as if he was afraid he would disappear if he did or if he moved too fast. Then he gently took Charlie's hand and guided him to his room. They had to talk, he knew, but he couldn't help but kiss him on the lips as soon as they closed the door. With a sigh of relief the redhead closed his arms around the torso of the youngest and attracted it against him to kiss him passionately. They spent long minutes to find themselves, forgetting their dispute, forgetting their delicate situation, forgetting the discussion to come, all that counted was the other. They did not seek to retain themselves when Charlie made move back Harry to his bed, on the contrary, they stripped themselves with impatience.
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Charlie laid Harry down under him and explored his skin with his mouth, starting from under his ear and working down his neck and torso. The brown-haired moaned under the attention, walking his hands on the spotted skin with a not dissimulated pleasure. He found in this embrace, his soft and attentive lover who had been swallowed by anger the last time they had made love. His breath caught in anticipation as Charlie blew on his erect sex, remaining still for a few seconds. A long moan escaped him when finally his lover's soft lips landed on his glans and moved down his length. From that moment on, everything that was not Charlie disappeared. Only remained the wonderful sensations he provoked with his mouth and the anticipation he provoked in his loins as his fingers worked to prepare him.
Charlie had only one desire at that moment, to sink into his lover and honor him with all his love. In a corner of his head the satisfaction of knowing that only he could touch Harry in this way remained, but he didn't want to think about that as they made love, he wanted it to be just the two of them, they would talk later. He needed to reconnect with him and wash away the affront he had made to him by taking him in anger. Then he took his time to prepare him and to make him go up to the seventh sky, even if it meant forgetting himself at first. He was enjoying sucking him off and feeling him tremble in his arms as he prepared to receive him.
"Now Charlie! I... Mmmm... can't... Aaaaa! Wait! Mmm mmm mmm, again!"
The redhead smiled despite the sex in his mouth, his fingers had found Harry's prostate and were working on it, making the younger lose his mind. Harry was nothing but screams of ecstasy every time he touched that little ball of pleasure deep in his gut. Charlie accelerated his mouth movements, cuddling the rhythm of his back and forth on those of his hand.
Harry felt the orgasm coming, but he was too far into the pleasure to warn Charlie. His lover's fingers were making him see stars and his mouth was bringing him closer and closer to the precipice, but suddenly everything stopped. The fingers and mouth left him, making him grunt in frustration.
"I come inima mea, vin iubirea mea."
The voice of his lover speaking to him in Romanian almost made him come, but Charlie entered him at that moment and the slightly painful tugging made him come down a little from his cloud. However, his attention was quickly diverted by the hand of his dragon rider wrapping around his sex and his mouth claiming his. Harry moaned and before he knew it his lover was thrusting into him to the hilt.
Charlie immediately began a deep, steady rhythm that he maintained for a long time. Both men moaned in pleasure, muffling their cries in each other's mouths, but Charlie knew he had not yet found his lover's prostate. He changed angles several times until Harry arched his back in pleasure, his head snapping back and his eyes opening wide in the discharge of ecstasy. Charlie smiled before devouring the brown man's luscious mouth. He struggled to touch this magic point with each of his strokes of hips. The two men approached more and more the precipice until the pleasure did not mow down Harry whose muscles tightened and caused the orgasm of Charlie. They shouted the name of the other by releasing themselves and the redhead fell on his lover, unable to carry his own weight anymore. They remained intertwined thus several minutes until Charlie took again enough forces to withdraw from the cozy den and lied down beside Harry.
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