Aster and Eathan had fallen asleep on Jack's floor, waiting for him to return. They had sat up together in silence, but Jack hadn't come home that night.

Aster's eyes opened slowly as the sun shone bright on his face. He turned over and saw Eathan laying on his back, staring up at the ceiling.

"Anythin' interesting' up there?" Aster said as he stood.

Eathan glanced at Aster before returning to stare at the ceiling, "Stillness." Eathan's voice was dull.

Aster gave him a quizzical look, "Whattya mean?"

Eathan shrugged and made his way to stand, "I don't know. I feel like something…" He paused at his loss for words, "…something should be happening."

Aster raised a brow, "Well, why don't we go somewhere and get somethin' ta eat, while ya think 'bout it?"

Eathan nodded, "Yeah, let's do that."

Aster went to make his way for the door when Eathan paused when his first step hit the ground. Eathan reached for his head, his mouth open in silent agony. Aster rushed over to him to catch him as he fell.

"Eathan?!" Aster shouted as Eathan went into unconsciousness.

- Distant Past-

The smoke rolled copiously around their extensive leg as they stood in a half-circle patiently awaiting their Elder. The distinctive thirteen stood silent and unmoving.

They remained static as their Elder materialized from the smoke around them. Each one took a slight bow at the presence of the Elder.

The Elder slammed its gluttonous hand onto the ground, the smoke cleared in a rush as if afraid of the force.

Its eyes looked around at the select few before him, "Someone must go to stay in the realm of humans until our prey is well aged." The Elder's voice rang clear inside the psyche of each subject

Each subject looked around at the others, unsure of why their Elder wants one of them to go.

"Elder," a beast took a step forward, "Why must we go?"

The Elder roughly shoved the being back into the line, "Uphir! You will stay back with the others! You are not my equal!" The Elder's voice roared inside Uphir's head. The Elder raised its malformed head high, "One of you must go to shape our prey's future."

Agares shouted at the Elder, "We've not helped a prey before! Why now?!"

The Elder growled as it retorted, "Not this prey, one of many decades to come."

Uphir spoke up, "Why must one of us leave now?"

"If we do not leave now, our prey will not make it."

Agares took several steps toward the Elder, "It doesn't matter! If he doesn't he will be ours even sooner!"

The Elder grabbed Agares with its thin hand and lifted Agares far above the ground, "He will not be ready if they kill him before his time!"

Agares grabbed at the Elder's powerful hand around its throat, "Let them come!" its voice ragged as its vocal cords were clutched.

The Elder smashed Agares to the ground, "I will send you to our neighbor tribe if you speak like that again!"

Agares' hollow eyes went wide, "Do it! I dare you!"

The Elder let go of Agares, "Do not tempt me."

Agares stepped back into line with the others, a wicked grin plastered on its face, its voice a whisper, "I will have your place in due time." Its whisper only heard by Uphir who stared with abyssal eyes.

Uphir spoke, "Enzi should go." his voice flat.

The Elder pondered Uphir's words, "Why?"

Uphir resisted the temptation to step forward, "He is the only one of us who can do what you ask."

Enzi, who was standing on the end, looked at Uphir with disgust, before he spoke, "Elder, you have neglected to tell us why this prey is so special."

The Elder stared hard at Enzi as it spoke, "Only I and the other Elders know of his rarity and it will remain so until I decide."

Uphir looked to everyone, "How do the other's know?"

"I was confronted." the Elder spoke flatly.

Agares yelled, "That does not answer our question!"

The Elder rammed his thick, slimy hand into Agares, "You will not speak to me in such a tone, Agares, or I will remove you!"

Agares was several feet out of the line of its brethren when it spoke to the Elder, "I will have your place, in time, Elder." Agares dissipated into the smokeless ground.

Enzi looked to the ground as it spoke, "Now, we are only twelve."

The Elder raised its horned head, "No matter." The Elder paused, "Enzi, You will go. Enter and shape our prey's life."

Enzi nodded in return. The, now twelve, bowed lightly towards the Elder, and evaporated into the returning smoke.

-Present-

Eathan woke alarmed, his eyes ample with confusion, staring up at Aster, who was holding him tightly.

"What happened?" Eathan's voice bewildered.

"Well, ya were out for only a couple minutes. But ya blacked out." Aster stated pointedly.

"Well," Eathan grabbed rubbed his temple, "That explains this headache."

Aster chuckled, "I bet," He helped Eathan to stand and walk towards the front door, "We prolly gotta go ta the drug store for aspirin."

As they made their way outside, Aster noticed Jack's bed still in the bed of the truck, "Hey," Aster looked down to Eathan who was dependently walking against Aster, "Wanna try and get Jack's bed inside?"

Eathan scoffed, "Fuck that. He attacked me for something I hadn't known I did."

Aster laughed a little, "Fair 'nough. Ta the drug store then."

Jack and Liam were sitting down in the small kitchen, Exchanging stories and laughs over coffee.

Liam looked to his phone for the time, "Well, it's almost ten, I should get headed to work, unfortunately." He looked to Jack, "You have your phone on you?"

Jack felt his pockets, "I do indeed," he pulled it out of his pocket, "Why?"

Liam beamed, "So we have each other's number."

Jack laughed at himself, "Well of course!"

After they exchanged numbers they both stood and Jack shook Liam's before he let himself out as Liam went to change into a suit for work.

Jack walked briskly down the hall to the elevator, not alone though.

As the elevator doors closed, he turned and looked to the smiling creature standing next to him.

The beast stared at Jack as it spoke, "We haven't seen that one for many years."

Jack gave a light laugh, "It was nice though."

The creatures smile faded and it hummed before speaking, "It is sad though."

Jack gave it a confused look, "How so?"

It rested a long-fingered hand on Jack's shoulder, "Others will find him."

Jack suppressed his wince of pain while the hand still rested on his shoulder, "Oh. I wish they wouldn't."

The monster shook its malformed skull, "If he is lucky, it will be quick."

Jack moved to the other side of the elevator as it stopped and the doors opened, "Can I save him?"

The woman waiting to get on the elevator gave Jack a strange look as she stepped in. Jack gave her a weary smile in return.

The beast looked over the woman, now standing between the two, at Jack, "It may be possible, but I must go. Till we see you again, Prey." At its final words the creature gripped Jack's arm hard before dissolving into the floor.

The woman took a gasp of breath as the creature had reached through her. He grabbed her chest and looked to Jack for help.

"It will pass, I promise." Jack stated flatly as he looked ahead away from her.

As the pain slowly subsided she lowered her hand looked to Jack as the elevator doors opened to the main floor, "Do not worry, Jack, I'm keeping an eye on them." She smiled softly and walked out of the elevator.

Jack was stunned into silence at her words. He didn't move to make a leave from the elevator and doors had started to close. As the doors almost closed he put his arm in front of them and they opened back up. As he looked into the main floor lobby, the woman was gone. He ran to the front door of the building and out onto the sidewalk, he looked around frantically for the woman on the empty sidewalk, but she had gone.

As he stood on the sidewalk his mind raced with thoughts of what the woman had meant. He didn't know exactly what to think of her words. So he stood there on the deserted sidewalk, getting a headache from the confusion at her words.

Aster and Eathan stepped out the drug of the drug store, Eathan desperately opening the bottle of pain killers. Aster looked at Eathan peculiarly as he watched him open the bottle as if his life depended on it.

Eathan finally got the lid off and poured four of the pills into his hand.

"Whoa there, mate. 2000mg is a lot ta take in one go." Aster stated as he watched Eathan pop them into his mouth.

Eathan swallowed them without a problem, "Hey, I need it. My headache is like bullets being fired into my skull, leave me alone."

Aster shrugged his shoulders, "Well, I'll just make sure ya don't fall asleep."

Eathan gave Aster a puzzled look, "And how're you gonna do that?"

Aster gave Eathan a smirk, "We're going ta the festival in the square."

Eathan gave Aster a disgusted look, "How are noisy people and rides gonna help my headache?"

Aster laughed, "You just took a lot o'drugs, I doubt ya headache is goin ta last much longah."

Eathan gave a groan, "I guess you're right. But still, people suck."

Jack walked slowly, his mind lost in his thoughts as he made his way home. His feet expertly guiding him as he paid little mind to this surroundings. He could not get the woman's words out of his head. Trying to figure out what she meant.

A pull on his shoulder stopped him and jolted Jack from his thoughts. He turned to look to see what had stopped him. A tall, rather muscular man was holding his shoulder, a bit too tight for comfort.

Jack pulled the man's hand off roughly, "What do you want?" Jack asked the man with a slight snarl in his voice.

"Are you Jack frost?" The man asked unphased by Jack's attempt at being threatening.

Jack crossed his arms, "No." He remembered the last time he said yes to that question to a complete stranger.

"No, no, I think you are." The man persisted.

Jack started to walk away, "I think you have the wrong man."

The man grabbed Jack's arm and turned him around, "No, I don't think I do. You're the boy who tried to kill a man by the name of Aster."

Jack grabbed the man's wrist and began to squeeze, "Sir, let go of me."

"Trying to hurt me? Weak attempt, Jack." The man said with a smirk.

Jack whispered something under his breath and closed his eyes, "Sir, I don't want you to get hurt, but it will happen if you don't let go of my arm."

The man tightened his grip, "How are you going to do that?" The spoke, his smirk never leaving his face.

Jack simply nodded his head curtly. Unbeknownst to the man grabbing Jack's arm was a beast standing and watching the scene play out. That is until Jack gave a slight nod. The creature stepped up to the man, and grabbed his arm right next to where Jack was.

The man gave an amused look to Jack, "Pressure points, huh? Not the best tactic. I just have a few questions for you." The man stated as he tightened his grip even harder on Jack's arm.

Jack said nothing as he saw the monster's fingernails phase into the man's arm. The man winced slightly at the feeling in his forearm, but brushed it off.

"Jack, I'll be honest, I'm here to teach you a lesson more than anything. You see the car that Aster landed on was mine. And I haven't been compensated for the damage." The creature was now clutched the man's entire forearm, its long slick fingers reaching and moving around inside the man's arm. "Ow, that's quite some grip you have." The creature smiled menacingly at the man's reaction, and only squeezed tighter. "So, I'm going to beat the fuck out of you until I feel better about losing my only car." At those words the monster got an enraging expression across its face.

The being's muscles began to strain against its torn skin, liquid began to ooze from the openings as its hold on the man's arm became like a vice only getting more constricting.

The man quickly pulled away from Jack, his bones feeling like they were collapsing in on themselves. He fell to his knees as the creature smiled ever wider, its mouth looking to split its face in two. Jack had let go when the man pulled away and stood there in silence as the man who threatened him was grabbing his arm in pain. The man looked to Jack asking for him to stop whatever was happening to his arm. Jack met his eyes, and stared blankly back.

The creature wanted to continue causing the man pain, but it noticed its prey begin walk away. It reluctantly let go of the man's arm and started to follow its precious prey where ever it was going.

-Several Hours Later-

Aster and Eathan laughed together as they exited the city festival. It wasn't very large, except the crowd that had gathered to be there. The lines for every small ride they had were too long for either Aster or Eathan to want to stand in. They played a few of the carnival games before Aster ran out of spend-able money.

As they got farther away from the festival they had completely forgotten why they had started to laugh in first place.

As they walked along the sidewalk back towards Jack's new house the sun had set a couple hours before they left the festival. They walked through the downtown district, watching the drunk civilians wander out of the bars brought them each a laugh.

As they moved down the sidewalk a thought popped into Aster's head, "Hey, Eathan?"

Eathan stopped his laughter, but spoke with a smile, "What's up?"

Aster gave a mischievous grin toward Eathan, "Wanna go have a couple drinks?"

Eathan gave weary smile, "Sure, I guess we could that. I mean why not, we're basically in bar town."

Aster's smile widened, "Great, This one right up here is mah favorite."

After a few hours of hard labor and maneuvering he had finally managed to get his new bed inside his room. The entire time he had been dragging the bed across the ground he was thinking about Aster's muscles. The words of the woman from the elevator forgotten, all his mind was at how nice it was to lay next to Aster in his bed. He smiled at the thought as he fell back into his, lastly set-up, bed. He sighed happily as he sprawled his limbs out.

The lack of pillows and sheets hadn't taken away from the comfort of the mattress and he soon fell into a deep sleep.

Eathan and Aster stepped out of the cab after it pulled up to Jack's house. Aster keeping Eathan upright as they walked toward the front door. Aster was slightly more than buzzed while Eathan was practically falling over from drunkenness. Aster was laughing from the slur of words Eathan was trying to turn into a sentence.

Eathan ineffectively tried to shoved Aster away for laughing at him.

"Y-ya ya know, Th-thisis is alllll you are f-faul-fault!" Eathan half yelled as his arms feebly moved across Aster's chest as he attempted to hit Aster.

"Nah, mate, ya got the tolerance of a field mouse." Aster chuckled as he opened the front door, "I mean ya only had a few handles and a shot."

Eathan had almost stumbled away from Aster had Aster not had his arm wrapped around under his arms, "Y-you had to to kee-p" Eathan popped his 'p' as he spoke, "u-up wi-thh me."

Aster shook his head, "Whatever ya say ya, brumby." Aster walked to the middle of the living room and started to kneel to lay Eathan down on the floor.

Eathan had a confused look on his face, "Why the gravity m-move fr-from ya?"

Aster smirked at Eathan, "It didn't, ya layin' down to sleep."

Eathan lay on his side, eyes closed, "Why are you laying sleep?"

Aster gave a light laugh, "Go to sleep."

Eathan smiled, "Goodnight, Jack, I love you."

Aster gave a small smile, "G'night, Eathan."

Aster went to walk down the hall, peeking into each doorway, searching for Jack. The last door down the hall held Jack's room, with Jack laying in a bed, sound asleep.

Aster grinned blissfully at how peaceful his boyfriend looked. He took off his shirt and crawled into the bed next to Jack. He wrapped his arms around Jack's lithe frame. Jack's cool body instinctively pressed up against Aster's warmth.

Aster shortly fell asleep with a smile on his face.

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