Chapter 4! Yay! I'm proud of myself! I really like this story.I hope you all feel the same. A big thanks to Elemental Gypsy and Troublesome Aries for reviewing chapter 3. Please read and review!


Tala stared out the window of his hotel room watching the people of the city pass by on the sidewalks as he waited for his lover to walk through the door. Claude had gone to see the BBA's psychologist for his monthly exam that had started eight months earlier. Normally his exams lasted for an hour at the most, but so far he had been in with the doctor for over two hours. Tala was beginning to worry that something had gone wrong, but someone would have told him if it had. He glanced at the door briefly and sighed. There was no way for him to make his dual minded eagle walk through that door any sooner. All he could do was wait and waiting was hardly his strong suit. The ice wolf dragged his eyes away from the door and back to the window. He stared at the people passing by hoping to catch a glimpse of his lover's silver hair. Tala's eyes darted to the door when he heard it open and smiled softly when Claude walked through the door and smiled back at him. "Hey love."

Claude offered a weak smile as he wandered over to the bed and collapsed on it. He sighed and flung his arm over his eyes. Tala's smile faded as concern for his dual minded eagle took over. He stood and walked over to climb onto the bed. He laid down next to Claude and pulled him into a gentle embrace making sure to move Claude's arm away from his eyes. "I hate that woman" the dual minded eagle mumbled.

Tala slipped his fingers beneath Claude's chin and tilted his head back. There was no denying that Claude was bothered by his appointment. "What happened?"

Claude sighed and wrapped his fingers around the fabric of Tala's shirt. "She forced me to switch personalities. She said everything she could think of to piss me off. She claimed that it was to discover how much control I have over my aggressive side, but all she did was make my personality shift so fast that I have a massive headache now. I hate it. I don't want to go back to her, but I know there's no way Mr. Dickenson will agree to that. Ever since I tried to break Johnny's nose he's been insistent on these meetings. He hasn't even stopped to consider the fact that if Johnny had just backed off it would have been alright and nothing would have happened, but Johnny didn't back off and I just lost it. I know that I don't have complete control over my personalities, but I'll never have complete control no matter how much that woman psychoanalyzes me. I especially won't learn control if she just keeps pushing my buttons like she did today. I can't stand that she did that and I can't go back to her. Do you think that if I explained the situation to Mr. Dickenson he will be willing to get me a new psychologist?"

Tala gently pressed his lips to Claude's and pushed him onto his back so that Tala was leaning over him gently moving his lips in time with Claude's. He pulled back after a minute and smiled as he waited for Claude to open his eyes. Those usually vibrant silver eyes opened to reveal a dull gray that Tala wasn't used to seeing and only increased the ice wolf's concern for his beautiful dual minded eagle. "You talk too much. If you explain to Mr. Dickenson that this psychologist is giving you headaches by forcing a personality shift then I'm sure he'll see to getting you a new one. He's not completely unreasonable and he's only trying to look out for you. If you're done rambling I have been waiting rather impatiently for more than two hours and would like to have some quiet time with you in my arms." Claude nodded and wrapped his arms around Tala's neck.

"Some quiet time with me in your arms or some not so quiet time with you in my pants?" Claude inquired. He knew Tala well enough to know that the ice wolf saw love making as a way to make him feel better. Tala laughed.

"Will you let me get in your pants?" Tala's low husky voice was hard to resist and when he gently pressed their lips together and ran his tongue along Claude's lower lip in a request for entrance into his hot cavern Claude tightened his grip around Tala's neck as his lips parted to oblige the ice wolf's request. Their tongues moved together in a well-known, often practiced, perfected dance. They parted and Tala smiled down at Claude as his eyes resumed their usual vibrant silver. "Is that a yes?"

Claude shook his head no. "Can you wait until tonight? I still have a headache and I'd rather just cuddle with you until it fades. We have to meet the others in an hour anyway. I don't want to deal with Miguel when he's worried about me." Claude sighed and shifted as Tala moved to lie down next to him instead of on top of him. "I should probably call him so that he knows that I'm alright and nothing too terrible happened at my appointment."

Tala pulled Claude into a tighter embrace and buried his face in his lover's hair. "You can tell him when we meet up with the others. Just relax and let your headache get better." Claude nodded and snuggled closer to Tala. The dual minded eagle's fingers started to trace gentle patters underneath the ice wolf's shirt. Tala responded by gently massaging the back of his lover's head.

There was a loud banging on the door that startled them both into consciousness. "We must have fallen asleep" Tala mused sleepily. The banging continued and was shortly followed by a voice.

"Tala! Claude! Are you two in there? Are you alright?"

Claude shook his head as he squirmed out of Tala's tight embrace. "I told you I should have called him. He's paranoid now and probably thinks one or both of us are dead."

"He's got as many issues as you do if he automatically jumped to that conclusion" Tala replied with a chuckle. Claude made his way over to the door where the pounding had refused to cease.

Claude pulled open the door to find a very worried BBA. Both of their teams as well as Mr. Dickenson were standing in front of him. "Are you okay?" Miguel demanded before Claude had a chance to say anything.

"I'm fine. Tala and I fell asleep after I got back from my hellish appointment. Come in if you want." Claude stepped aside and allowed the others inside the hotel room. He walked back to the bed and crawled across it in order to sit in Tala's embrace.

"Your psychologist has resigned stating that she was not doing you any good. Do you know what she was talking about?" Mr. Dickenson inquired.

"How long do you have? It'll take awhile to explain all the ways I despise that woman." Claude retorted. Tala squeezed him gently around the waist.

"Let's not do that. Did we miss dinner completely or were you coming to get us so that we could go?" Tala asked of his friends.

"Dinner started ten minutes ago. If we're lucky there might actually be some food left" Kai replied. The others snorted.

"Not likely with the way Tyson and Daichi eat" Bryan retorted.

"We won't know until we go look" Mathilda stated. "But to be on the safe side let's get going before they have a chance to eat everything the hotel has in stock."

The group of beybladers left in front of Mr. Dickenson. The old man couldn't help but notice that Claude and Tala smiled at each other as they intertwined their fingers and stuck as close as physically possible to one another on the walk down the hallway.


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