*glares* I can see some of you staring at me. Wondering why I skipped an update day. Well, BECAUSE I'M EVIL! MUAHAHAHAHAHAAA! *ahem* ...And because I needed a sick day. So, on with the fic, shall we? I even threw in a lemon to make you happy.
"Daniel, your mother called last night," Vlad said absently from behind his newspaper. Danny looked up from his breakfast.
"What'd she say?" he asked. The 'Writer looked up from behind his book; he'd been at his library last night to finish up his new novel, so this was news to him. Vlad put his paper down.
"Your Uncle Jasper came out of his coma," Vlad replied, giving Danny a smile. "He's doing perfectly fine, and your parents are coming home tomorrow." He shot the 'Writer a 'look' when the ghost dropped his book on the table.
"That's...great..." Danny replied, feeling a bit torn about the news. On the one hand, his family was okay and his parents were coming back home; on the other, he would be leaving Vlad and Andrew...sort of. After nearly two weeks, he thought of this house as his home, in a way, with Vlad and Andrew as boyfriends, in a sense, but with a relationship that went deeper than that of the conventional boyfriend sense.
It wasnt just sleeping with them; they TOOK CARE OF him. Vlad provided financial and protective support and the 'Writer provided emotional and educational support. With the two of them, Danny hadnt felt the need to cringe up in his room 24/7, needlessly blow up when something didnt go quite his way, or display excessive violence. He felt so much more relaxed and at peace than he had for the past year.
And he didnt want to give that up.
When his parents came home, he would have to go back home to Fenton Works, go back to school, and possibly have to go through it all again. He didnt want that.
Vlad noticed Danny's dour demeanor first, but before he could speak up, Danny pushed back from his chair. "I'll be in my room," he said quickly, then left the dining room. The 'Writer and Vlad shared a glance between them, then Andrew nodded toward the stairs. Vlad sighed and walked up to Danny's room to find the door shut and locked.
"Daniel, open the door," Vlad said, knocking softly. He heard a muffled 'go away', and rolled his eyes. "...Daniel, I can just go intangible and walk right in." No response. "...Alright." He went intangible and slipped through the door, seeing Danny curled up on his bed, facing away from the door. "...Daniel, you should know by now that locking a door is superfluous when you live in a house of ghosts and halfas," he commented. No reply. Vlad frowned and walked over to the side of Danny's bed and sat down. "...Little Badger, what is it?" he asked, reaching out to brush Danny's hair with his fingers.
Danny scowled into the wall. "...I'm going to have to go back home with Mom and Dad," he replied sullenly. "...I'm just afraid that things are going to have to go back to the way they were."
Ah, so THAT was the problem, Vlad thought. Ignoring the fact that it would wrinkle his suit, Vlad laid down behind Danny and spooned the younger halfa against him. "Daniel, things dont have to 'go back to the way they were'," he replied softly. "My house will always be open to you, if you feel the need to get away from everything. Andrew and I will still be there for you. Nothing will change that. Nothing will change that Andrew and I care."
Danny was quiet for a moment, then he turned around in Vlad's arms and put his arms around the older halfa's neck. "You mean that?" he asked. Vlad smiled and kissed Danny's cheek.
"Of course I do, Little Badger," he said. "You know that despite all the fights we had, I never wanted to hurt you. That's why I held back, so I WOULDNT hurt you." He brushed his hand in Danny's hair.
"...What happens when I have to go do 'hero work' then?" Danny asked, his eyes downcast. "What if you're involved? I cant try to stop you and then turn around and be your lover again, Vlad! I'm just cant do that!" He buried his face in Vlad's shoulder.
Vlad brushed his hand through Danny's hair for a few long moments. "...Daniel, it wont have to come to that," he finally said. He felt Danny stiffen in his arms. "I wont fight you anymore, Little Badger. I dont want things to go back to the way they were, either." He hugged Danny tightly. "...When you came here, Andrew told me some things...things that made me think about who I was, what I did, and why I did things. I thought wanted you for a son for so long, but he made me see that it wasnt what I really wanted. I just wanted YOU, Daniel. All of you. Every inch of you..." He stroked his hand down Danny's back, feeling the younger halfa shudder.
"I've cared for you, I've shared you, and I've loved you with Andrew, and I dont want to lose that either. I dont want to be your enemy anymore, Daniel. I'll be here for you when you need me. Andrew and I both. I promise."
Danny lifted his head from Vlad's shoulder and looked the older halfa in the eye for a few moments before kissing him. Vlad didnt hesitate a second to kiss back, and didnt protest a bit when Danny's hands began pulling his clothes apart.
Back downstairs, a subtle but recognizable sound made the 'Writer look up from his book and let his eyes shift towards the ceiling. He snorted and went back to his book. Vlad wasnt going to work today, that much was for damn sure.
Danny lifted his hips as Vlad pulled his jeans down and tossed them elsewhere, then groaned when Vlad slipped between his legs and pulled him in for a hard kiss. He ran his hands through Vlad's long silver hair and tugged at it slightly to urge Vlad on, gasping into the elder halfa's mouth when Vlad grinded their hips together. He shifted his hips up to Vlad's and raised his hands to stroke his fingernails against the sides of Vlad's neck.
Vlad growled into Danny's mouth and in an instant transformed into Plasmius, making Danny shudder; it always gave him a bit of a thrill when Vlad transformed at such a close proximity, like something going from hot to cold in an instant. And Danny knew that it wasnt just arousal that made Vlad transform; it was a courtesy. Vlad knew that Danny still looked at Vlad as 'Dad's college friend' and 'godfather', but when he was Plasmius, it was an entirely different ballgame. Plasmius was Danny's ex-archnemesis, Danny's lover. But most of all, Plasmius was a ghost, and Danny's new tastes were primarily for ghosts.
Danny followed suit in the transformation, being already nude from having his clothes removed the LAST time he'd become Phantom, and flicked his tongue over one of Vlad's fangs, causing the elder halfa to bite down on Danny's lip. It hurt, but Danny didnt care. He pushed his hips up to Vlad's and squirmed around a little when one of Vlad's hands shifted under Danny's body to lift it up off the bed slighly, and the other slipped an ectoplasm-coated finger into him.
Vlad licked the ecto-blood off of Danny's lip and nibbed Danny's neck as Danny shifted and groaned under him, pushing back against the finger inside of him. It wasnt hurting him (Vlad found out some time ago that ghosts, even halfas, were very accomodating for this sort of thing), but Vlad always made sure Danny was well-prepared so it didnt hurt. He'd been the one to truely take the younger halfa's virginity just a week ago (Danny had been given the choice between Vlad and Andrew, and he had chosen Vlad), and had taken even more care than he was now. Even when Danny demanded more force or speed, Vlad had taken it slowly, just to make sure.
Call it lingering feelings of a father's care, but Vlad took care of Danny, first and foremost.
Vlad sat up on his knees and kept Danny on the bed with one hand to the chest as he slipped another finger into the boy. Danny was habitually panting with want now, and fighting to lift his body up against Vlad's strong hand keeping him down. "Vlaaaad...!" he whined, gripping at the elder halfa's wrist with both hands. Vlad gave Danny a smile and pulled his fingers out of Danny, then hooked both of Danny's legs around his waist and pushed into the younger halfa in one swift motion.
Danny arched off of the bed with a sharp cry of pleasure and reached his arms up to Vlad. Vlad leaned down over Danny's body and tucked his arms under Danny in a tight embrace as he rocked his hips slowly but hard. Danny let out a gutteral groan with each thrust, and tightened his arms around Vlad's neck.
Vlad kept his gentle pace for a few minutes until a warning growl from Danny accompanied by the younger halfa's fingernails in his back let him know to go harder or faster. And unfortunately for Vlad, who was more of a conventional, romantic kind of lover, it just had to be ironic that Danny liked it rough, much like Andrew. But unlike Andrew, Vlad could never bring himself to indulge in his godson's preference, and was grateful that Andrew had no problem with it. Besides, Danny got enough roughness and violence in his day-to-day life; he needed to be handled with gently from time to time.
Vlad pulled Danny into a hard kiss and rocked his hips faster, hissing with delight into the boy's mouth at the feeling of fingernails being dragged down his back. They werent as sharp as Andrew's, so it was pleasurable, not a painful nuisance. He pulled his lips away from Danny's and bit into the younger halfa's pleasure point, where a permanant scar had begun to form from its overuse, and groaned with pleasure at the keen that left the boy's mouth.
Danny numbly reached up and pressed his fingers into the sides of Vlad's neck, causing the older halfa to bite down harder on his shoulder and dig his fingers into his hips hard enough to bruise. Danny wrapped his legs around Vlad's waist and pushed back against Vlad's thrusts, squirming around as his body begged for release. Vlad kindly -albeit a bit roughly- obliged, nipping and sucking on Danny's pleasure point as he reached one hand between them to grab Danny's cock and stroke it in time with his thrusts.
It didnt take long for Danny's body to tense up as he buried his fingernails into Vlad's back and shouted out Vlad's name over and over. Vlad panted Danny's own name into the boy's skin between kisses and stroked Danny harder, urging Danny to cum, until Danny arched clean off of the bed with a deep-throated shout as he hit his orgasm. His body remained tensed up for a few moments as Vlad kept up his pace, then relaxed into Vlad's arms.
Vlad groaned and panted as he kept thrusting into Danny's prostrate body, aching for his own release. He leaned down so his body was flush against Danny's and cupped Danny's head to bring the boy's face close to his neck. "Bite me, Daniel," he murmured, his voice thick and husky with lust. Danny faught through his exhaustion and post-orgasm haze and licked Vlad's neck experimentally before biting down hard with his recently-acquired sharp teeth.
That was all it took for Vlad to cum inside Danny with an animal-like snarl, his eyes glowing a blazing red and his arms almost crushing the boy against his body. Danny whimpered softly into Vlad's neck at the almost painful grip the older halfa hand on his head, but had to wait until Vlad came to his senses and let Danny go.
Danny collapsed limp on the bed as Vlad took a moment to get his bearings and gently pull out of him. Vlad scooped Danny up into his arms and spooned the younger halfa against his body, kissing Danny's face and shoulder gently before lying back tiredly and contently holding Danny.
"This will never change, my Little Badger," he said after a few minutes of silence. "I may have done foolish things in the past, but I am not so foolish as to let this slip through my fingers." Danny smiled and nuzzled his face into Vlad's chest.
"...Yeah, that'd be pretty dumb," he replied, only half-joking. He felt and heard the soft laughter in Vlad's chest. "...Vlad?"
"Hm?" Vlad stroked Danny's hair absently as he looked down, blood red meeting bright red.
"...Love you."
Vlad almost froze; it wasnt that Danny had said it, it was that he'd said it to HIM. Two nights ago, he'd gotten home late and had found Danny and Andrew in his bed, apparantly having finished their round just minutes before he'd gotten home. Before he had even walked through the door, he heard Danny say "I love you" to Andrew. It both warmed and hurt his heart to hear that; warmed, because he was happy that Danny's own heart wasnt shattered from what his ex-girlfriend had done to it, and hurt because since Danny was fourteen, he'd wanted to hear those words given to him willingly come out of Danny's mouth, in any context of the meaning.
And Vlad didnt think he'd ever hear them, no matter how much he loved Danny in return.
"...Vlad?" The elder halfa broke out of his thoughts to see Danny's eyes grow worried. "...Vlad, it's okay if you dont -"
"I love you too, Daniel," Vlad replied, smiling down at the younger halfa. Danny blinked, then smiled back before sighing contently and resting his head on Vlad's chest again.
"Good," he said. "Because if you didnt, Andrew said he'd kill you."
And Vlad, after getting a verbal smacking from Andrew to just TELL THE BOY HOW HE FELT ABOUT HIM, had no doubt that the Ghostwriter would do just that.
Whew. *downs the rest of her now-cold coffee* BRING ON THE FINAL CHAPTERZ! (note: I add 'z' at the end of thingz when I'm high on caffienez)