A Blood Bag

Aeker chuckled softly,
"We're being careful? Aodh we mark each other and we're living in the same room.
I'm shocked that he hasn't caught my scent on you."

He shook his head, they had been anything but careful, they were practically asking to get caught.

"That's why I am in such a rush to get my silver, if something happens I want to know that I can get to you regardless of the time of day."

He'd had dreams of him going out in the daylight to save Aodh, waking up in a panic as he felt the burning.

Aeker followed him and sat on the edge of the bed, watching him.
"Hopefully it will help some what."

He shrugged. "Hickey's aren't an uncommon things with me, Aeker. He's used to seeing me with at least one on my neck."

It wasn't having sex with another person that would rub the younger Lycan the wrong way. It was knowing that Aodh was in a serious relationship. He couldn't deal with Aodh wanting to be with someone else over himself.

"And I could have moved to your room when Zeke left. Your room does have a nicer view than mine. We're roommates, of course we'll have each other's scent around us."

He had put a lot of thought into this while Aeker was asleep and he had nothing else to do.

He smiled softly. "Everything'll be fine, Aeker. Coilean won't attack us, you'll get your silver and then we can go travelling. I still can't wait for you to see my homelands."

Aodh reached for the bag and held it up, silver eyes fixed on it. "So, what happy thoughts are we thinking about?"

Aeker calmed and nodded softly.
"You're right, I hadn't thought of it like that, I guess I have been stressing over it too much to look past the obvious."

He smiled softly and looked over to the lycan.

"I can't wait either, needless to say I am very excited to be experiencing more of the world with you. I've not done a lot of traveling despite my age, hard to travel for long when you can only move at night."

He moved to sit behind the wolf, draping his arms over the man.
"Happy thoughts, we could talk about our trip? I've been looking into places to go."

In this last week when ever he got down at all he'd think about the trip with Aodh, it always picked up his mood.

"Sometimes you can't see the forest for all the trees."

He smiled a little and nestled back into his lover's touch, eyes sliding shut.

"Oh? Where're you planning on taking us, Aeker dear? Anywhere interesting?" He hadn't really put much thought into where they'd go. He'd like to go to some of the most popular places, just to say he had been. He wanted to go back to his homelands. And he wanted to go to Aeker's homelands.

But apart from that he was open to any and all suggestions and demands.

He fingered the seal of the blood bag silently.

He leaned his head on the man's shoulder, a small smile gracing his lips.

"I've always been a lover of the arts so Paris, I want to show you around Germany as well, my home is not longer in its former glory but it would be nice to see what is left of it.

England maybe, some of my favourite authors are from England, it would be nice to see where they lived.

Is there anywhere you wanted to go?"

He asked, hoping to distract Aodh as he took the blood bag from his hands and cracked the seal open a little bit, baby steps, no need to assault his nose will full exposure just yet.

He nodded. "Paris sounds good."

His lips quirked into a little grin. "We're going to Germany? That'll be nice, I haven't been there in years. Must be going on six hundred, I think... Back when The Pack got that stupid request to hunt a few supernaturals there." Among them, Alexis Rozen.

The Lycan hummed. "We can go to England after my homelands, they're just a ferry ride away, after all."

He began chewing on his lip idly, nose twitching a little when the faint smell of blood filled the room. Unpleasant but not unbearable.

"South America. I'd like to see some sights there. The Copacabana surf has interested me since I first picked up a board." He didn't surf often, but he enjoyed it when he did.

"America sounds interesting, you can teach me how to surf."

He chuckled, now that would make for an interesting experience.

"How are we going to get around, I have not used human transportation before, not for a long time at least."

If they were traveling globally they would need passports, considering they Aeker did not exist on human record that may be a bit difficult.

He kissed the lycan's neck as his nose twitched, he wanted to make the smell of blood linked to good things, so hopefully his touch and this conversation would help.

Aodh snorted. "That'll be interesting..." Aodh generally wasn't very good at teaching people things. He did, they copied, if they got it wrong then they could puzzle it out themselves.

He didn't have patience.

"Ferries, trains, buses, cars, aeroplanes..." He wasn't too happy about that last choice. Aodh didn't like being in the air. He much preferred the ground. "Ships. Whatever we can get our hands on."

His eyes flickered back to Aeker. "You got a passport or am I gonna have to get in touch with someone so we can get you one?" One person mainstream supernatural creatures always had on call was someone that could forge important documents.

Aodh had everything in order at the moment, he wouldn't have to change anything for another couple years.

But, if Aeker had been keeping away from humans, chances were that he wouldn't have anything.

The Lycan purred, head tilting slightly to offer up more of his neck to the vampire.

Aeker chuckled softly.
"All of those will be new to me, except ships of course."

He had his own methods of transport so he had never needed to use anything man made.

"No I don't have any documentation, I've never needed any before."
When you spent your life avoiding humans you don't exactly go out of your way to get a passport.

He smiled softly as the lycan purred, wrapping his arms around him tighter as he trailed his lips across his neck, opening the blood bag a tiny bit more.

"They're not all that exciting. I prefer the ships." Ships were familiar. He had spent most of his life on ships.

"I can't believe how much ships have changed since I first started using them." He shook his head a little with a soft sigh. "No piss soaked hammocks in these new ships." Luxury. Anything that wasn't a piece of fabric tied to two posts that smelled like piss was the height of luxury for Aodh in a ship.

"Right, we'll have to get on that, then. Shouldn't take too long or be that expensive. I should be able to cut a deal with him, I've used his company for years." He was close to the owner of the company he used to forge documents. He regularly got cuts on prices and little extras thrown in for nothing.

He offered more of his neck, leaning further into his vampire's touch.

"I wouldn't know much about the state of ships now or then, when he used ships we had to be uh... packed away."

He had cut deals with undertakers to pack them away in coffins for transport across the seas, they'd sleep for months at a time, not a pleasant trip but they had only done it to out-run bounty hunters.

He smiled softly and nodded.
"Sounds good, the sooner we get everything organized, the sooner we can leave."

He paused for a moment.
"What about Macoon?"

"They were terrible back then. Back when I was still on double digits instead of quadruple," he chuckled softly. That made him feel so old. "The conditions of ships were worse than my room."

And if his room could spawn Fluffy, it was bloody bad. He pursed his lips then sighed. "It'll be difficult to take her along with us. I'm going to have to put a lot of thought into whether I want to bring her with us or leave her behind."

He chewed on his lip.

"I'll be leaving Fluffy with Alek or Sprout. I'm sure they'd take Mac if I asked them..." He didn't want to leave his dog behind but it wouldn't be easy or fair on her to ship her all around the world.

Since he had Aodh talking he slipped the blood bag open a little bit more, he seemed to be getting more comfortable, if they did this everyday he'd be over it in no time.

"I'd like to take her too, it seems mean to leave her behind but I don't see her liking being trapped on a ship for weeks.

If we could get flights that animals are allowed on board I'm sure she would not mind too much but it will make things more difficult.

He thought over it for a moment, he knew they would both miss her if she had to be left behind and he didn't see Aodh being able to go years without seeing his dog.

"We could take her some of the way and leave her with friends when it'd be more difficult to take her," he murmured, mind flicking over different possibilities.

"Whoever we leave her with could be home base. We go back there after a couple of months, stay a day or two, pick up the dog and carry on."

That wasn't a bad idea and he knew quite a few people that would quite happily keep Maccon for a few months at a time.

He just hoped Maccon wouldn't be upset with him for leaving her for a few months at a time. He didn't want his dog to be upset with him, she meant the world to him.

"That sounds like a good idea, I dislike the thought of leaving her for long periods of time as much as you do."

The way he saw it, Maccon was just as much a part of this relationship as Aeker and Aodh, she was like the lycan's baby

"I'm sure there are many parts of the world that she would enjoy seeing too."

He smiled warmly, hugging the lycan close as he kissed his neck again.

He slipped the bag open a little more, it was almost completely open and he seemed to be handling it well.

"I'll have to make some calls and flatter a few people..."

He knew a good few people in the town near the hamlet he grew up in. Perhaps one of those would take her in when she couldn't go along with them?

"Yes, definitely. I'd like her to play in snow eventually." The pack had managed to avoid any and all snow for the past decade. Which means Maccon had never seen snow.

"I think she'd have a ball playing in a field of snow."

His nose twitched occasionally, but it hadn't wrinkled at the smell. It was only a slight discomfort for the moment.

"Oh I will definitely be able to show her snow, my home is built into the side of a mountain, it's always snowing there.

It's safe enough for her to be able to run through the forest freely, and if the grounds are still being maintained I'm sure she will love exploring the ruins."

He didn't think he would be excited to see his old home again, but he was, he spent most his days wondering the ground, playing in the snow, it would be nice to see what the castle looked like in the daylight even if it had heavily damaged.

He smiled softly. "She'd love that."

And he wouldn't deny that he'd love to play in the snow like an over grown pup. Aodh chuckled softly as he nuzzled against Aeker's chest. The poor vampire would have to deal with two over grown pups playing in the snow.

...They'd probably drag him in to play, too.

"You lived on a mountain? That must have been pretty isolated."

"We were a very large coven of vampires, isolated was what we did best."

He chuckled softly, running his hand through Aodh's hair.

"Since it's your first time in the snow I suspect she wont be the only one loving a good run around in the snow."

He would not be above transforming into his aardwolf form and running around with them.

"To get the humans to stay away they built the castle high enough up the mountain that they would not venture anywhere near it. No one wanted to risk them finding us asleep and helpless during the day."

He explained.

"You vampire's are so antisocial. Impossible to reach castles, run down old mansions. When I see a vampire that lives in an actual house somewhere normal, I may kiss them."

Okay, no he wouldn't, but he'd be bloody shocked that a vampire was staying in a normal place. Vampire's seemed to repel normal.

"I've been in the snow before. Used to be a bugger trying to steal vegetables from the farmers when you were waist deep in snow. Good place to hide when they caught you, though." He grinned to himself.

"That or you were all just antisocial and didn't want to talk to anyone," he teased.

"What do you expect, pureblood covens have delusions of grandeur, they need housing that gives off an air of intimidation and nobility."

Aeker shook his head softly, He knew that he was no better than a freshly turned fledgling.
Yes purebloods had stronger powers at times but at the end of the day, they were generally worse to be around.

He shrugged softly.
"A mixture of both I suspect."

"They need good beatings," he responded.

Most Purebloods had sticks shoved so far up their asses they could taste them. Sometimes it was funny to watch and other times he found himself trying not to tear out their throats.

"Rest assured if you start being anti social, I'll drag you out into a big group and force you to socialise. Dont put it past me."

Aodh was generally a pretty social person. He liked being around people to much to sit around when Aeker was being antisocial.

Aeker chuckled and shook his head.

"Aodh do I seem like a normal Pureblood? I abandoned that life style a long time ago.

I don't hate being around other people, hell I don't even mind being around humans."

In his world Aeker was an odd one, he'd even tried eating solids before, granted it did not go well, but he managed to be able to take in other liquids.

"And I wouldn't put anything past you to be honest."

"I dont know, when I first say you you looked like any other pureblood, alone in a corner." He snorted a laugh. "I thought you were going to pull the stick out of your arse and beat me with it, quite honestly."

His laughter died down to soft chuckles.

"But now you're okay...as far as vampire's go."

He turned his head to kiss the man softly.

"Hey, I do have some limits." Granted not many, but he did have a few that he stuck to at all times.

"Now I'm okay as far as vampire's go? Such a charmer Aodh.
You're so stereotypically lycan it's not even funny."

He replied shaking his head before kissing the man back.

"You do? And what would they be?"
He asked, tilting his head slightly.