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Chapter 10: So We Meet Again You S.O.B.
Jack sighed, the Barbaroi, not again, not after last time. Boy his brain whined and he hated it. He followed D quietly and he heard the werewolves behind them chatting. They were walking right to the gates and now… "I am D the hunter, and with me are a few guests, we wish to have a word with the Barbaroi." D said calmly and the gates slowly pulled open to allow access, creaking on their tracks and rumbling as if an earthquake started in their centers to spilt them open.
As they walked in many manner of creatures stared at them all of which seemed to be grinning or smirking and whispering to each other. 'Shit, they recognize me.' Jack thought in an annoyed way.
"Ah we meet again Mr. Stranger!" Came the Old man's voice. D dismounted calmly and Jack walked up behind him, and he couldn't help but hear the wolves growling at those around them. "And Jack! I never thought you would grace us with your presence again!" He continued, on his unicycle. /He knows you Jack/ Aura asked quietly. "Heh." Was all Jack could get out before a rock came flying at his head.
"Jack! You dare show your face here again!" Came a booming female voice. "Ah yes Jack, Maria hasn't forgotten you." The old man snickered. "Wonderful……" Jack muttered as footsteps approached. Maria approached and turned Jack around forcefully.
She was a small woman, only to Jack's chest, with short brown hair, dark blue-brown eyes, and tanned skin with pointed ears with a scar along her collar bone. She wore a torn red tank-top and black, ripped pants. "Hello Maria, how have you been? Still playing lap-dog for anyone willing to pay?" Jack said calmly. "I never played mutt to anyone hunter. And since my brother died for that blood-sucker Meier Link things haven't been the best." She growled. "I'm sorry Mashira is dead but I have a job to do right now. We are looking for Count Nakai Nightshade, and we know he's been through here, do you know where he is?" Jack asked, very calmly. Maria ignored him and looked directly at D then smirked and sauntered over to him. "Give me your friend and I'll tell you everything I know." She purred leaning in close to D.
Okay, Jack's inner possessive, angry human started shouting. 'YOU FREAKIN' SLUT! GET YOUR FUCKIN HANDS OFF HIM!' "Listen Maria, I refuse to "give" you my partner." Jack accidentally growled. Maria smirked. "Why not Jack? Share for a little bit, your lover is very beautiful." She purred. "Just an hour or two." "Lover?" D and Jack asked at the same time. "Why else would you be so protective? I know how a mix-breed mutt brain works Jack. Your werewolf part thinks of him as a companion, a possible mate. Your human part sees him as a friend I suppose. And your vampire side…wants claim over him. Not that I blame you of course, he is very beautiful." She continued. D stared at Jack curiously, a slight flush on his face. "You have no clue what you are talking about Maria. Now if you please tell us what you know." Jack ground out angrily, fangs extending.
Maria smirked before moving closer to D and making a pair of roots bind his legs before kissing him lightly, then deepening it. Jack looked ready to shoot her and you could feel the urge to kill rising in him. Finally, after a few seconds of Maria's tongue in D's mouth, Jack walked over angrily. "Hands. Off. Now." Jack growled threateningly.
/If Maria knew D belonged to Jack, then she would never try it./ Lupine thought aloud. Jack heard him and smirked as Maria moved away. He moved in close to D and sighed. "I'm sorry about this but if we want information without you getting molested then this is all we can do." Jack whispered before pulling D into a kiss, also pulling him free of the roots.
D gasped into the hungry kiss and let his eyes slip closed as he retaliated against Jack's tongue and teeth. Maria growled, this meant the other hunter was off limits to her now. Jack had his arms around D's slim waist while D responded to the desperately hungry kiss. Jack slowly took D's lower lip into his mouth and began to suck hotly, causing D's arms to go around his broader shoulders.
"Okay I get the message!" Maria shouted after about three minuets into the snogging session. Jack and D's eyes popped open suddenly and they finally realized what a show they were putting on. They sprung apart gasping. "Fine, you have a claim on him, big deal! I'll tell you what I know." Maria growled, fairly disappointed. "And I wanted to get back at you for shooting me." She muttered.
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Jack and D stood side by side as Maria began to think. Both looked embarrassed, confused, and…wanting more. So you can guess neither of them really had an attention-span at the moment.
"Hmm, He came through here a few days ago, asking for protection, he was unable to pay the customary hundred-million. Or he simply refused too. Anyway, he came through here to go to his castle, he had a young girl with him, red hair, pretty eyes, and had a pretty red dress on." Maria said thoughtfully. "That's Julia." The symbiot quipped. "Maria, was she changed? Was she a vampire?" D asked calmly. "No, she did not smell of it. She looked in a trance though, like someone hypnotized her. Another woman was with them though. She had long black hair and eyes like yours Jack. She was tall and very pretty I think her name was…..Mana." Maria said and Jack's eyes widened. "M-Maria, was the woman kind of tan and had long legs like the ones a runner would have but she looked like she never ran in her life?" "Yes and she had a dark scar on her neck." "I-I see………thanks for your help Maria." Jack said standing and starting to walk out.
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"What's with him?" The symbiot asked as D stood. Maria pulled out an old picture from her pocket and handed it to D. "Jack left this here the last time by mistake. Maybe this will help." Maria said calmly as D took the picture and nodded. He began to walk out with the werewolves as his symbiot studied the picture.
"Holy crap did you look at this D?" It asked and D looked at it. It was a picture of a very pretty woman with long black hair tied into a ponytail with beautiful golden eyes standing on a hill dressed in a blue house-dress with tanned skin and she was smiling at the camera with small fangs showing. The wind ruffling her dress and hair as she stood facing the wind, slim arms holding a small child with semi-long black hair and matching eyes. He was curled into her chest and sleeping. On the back of the picture, in neat cursive writing was written, a picture of my beautiful Mana and our wonderful son Jack. I've taken two so Jack may have this copy and I may have one as well. In a way, we will always be together despite our distance. I love you my son, and I love you too, my beautiful wife. I will miss you.
D gasped a bit, as he stared at the picture. Omne was with him. /Aw, Jack and his mother when he was a pup. Reminds me of when me and Lupine were raising Aura as a pup./ Omne barked sweetly. D reached down and patted Omne's head. "Let's catch up to Jack, Omne." D said calmly before grabbing his horse and going after Jack.
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"I don't believe it. How could this happen Lupine?" Jack asked, leaning against his horse a mile away from the Barbaroi hide-away. /Who is the woman Jack/ Lupine asked, Aura at his side. "My mother…It's my mother Lupine. But she's dead. I buried her myself." Jack said trying to gain his composure. Soon D came out and he helped Jack to a cleared area to clear his head.
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Jack laid there next to the fire, staring emotionlessly at the velvet black sky covered in shimmering diamonds of the stars and the silver crescent pendant of the moon. Aura lay beside him, whimpering soothingly. Lupine and Omne looked at the other werewolf in concern. D kneeled beside Jack and looked at him. "D, I'm sorry about what happened in there. Well double sorry, one for freaking out and the other for…kissing you." Jack said coolly. "Jack, don't apologize…you didn't do anything." D responded and Jack looked at him uncertainty, confusion, and sadness shining in his eyes. "It was just a job, so routine I never gave it a second thought but I knew it was him, the bastard that killed her and destroyed me. All of a sudden everything has gone to hell." Jack said sadly before D looked him directly in the eye. "It'll be okay Jack." He whispered. "Really? So what do you think I should do?" Jack whispered back. D couldn't respond, neither could Jack, they were both just staring before Lupine pushed D lightly so D fell right into Jack's lips.
The world suddenly stopped and melted away. Neither one moved until Jack sat up, neither one leaving each other's lips. Finally they began to kiss. It was a lot different from the kiss back with the Barbaroi, it was slower and hot and infinitely more torturing for both parties. Soon they both pulled away, uncertainty leaking from both. They couldn't do this not now. "Goodnight D." "Goodnight Jack."
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Evangiline: The yaoi
Amelia: we've outdone ourselves this time...angst...yaoi...romance...violance...the whole package
Ryo: Til next time!
Shadow: Goodnight (It is currently 3:48 in the effing morning)