Elementalist

25

"I don't wish to hurt your siblings any more than necessary, but their mothers are going down as well as your father." Stephanie tells him absently as she thinks about the situation.

She looks up startled at Steven's exclamation, "Good. They are all nothing more than power hungry bastards and bitches. They need to be taken down. My relationship with my family can't be any worse than it already is."

"But still, I would rather try to salvage some form of relationship with them, if possible." Stephanie says thoughtfully.

"I'll go talk to them ahead of time." Jet volunteers. "I'm a council member too, so they should be receptive to talking to me."

This brings Stephanie's eyes to him and he's more than a little shocked to find them filled with anger. "Just how receptive are you going to let things go?"

Jet shakes his head. "I won't have sex with them, love. I won't betray you. It will just be a little chat, that's all."

"You are strong enough that you would attract their attention, Lord Jet. Don't trust anything my sisters give you to eat or drink. I'm not sure that your way of cleansing the compounds from your body would work the same on the potions a witch gives."

"I won't and I'll have the low fire burning any time I'm around them. Any of them including your brother." Jet turns from Steven and faces Stephanie's hurt look that she hides as soon as she can.

Jet pulls her to him. "There isn't any one I want more than you. You will be able to feel through our bond what I'm feeling. If any one is messing with me, you'll be able to tell and you'll be able to feel if I willingly am with another. But since the ceremony is complete, it's almost impossible for me to do so."

"You will take Steven with you." Jet nods and holds Stephanie tighter.

She looks at her three men and talks to them through the mind link. "I want to make him one of my chosen. Will you be able to accept that as well?"

They look at her in resignation. They all had expected it of her after hearing his story. They are all able to tell if someone is lying or under a spell. His story is true and he truly hates his father and is willing to help them.

"I would prefer more time, but that is against us. I will accept him." Talon finally says heavily. They young warlock is surprisingly free of corruption that most warlocks surround themselves in.

Jet and Ethan look at each other and nod. "We will accept him as well," Jet tells Stephanie.

Stephanie looks at the heart broken warlock, "I am going to ask you to do two things. One of them is likely to be very difficult for you to do, and the other will depend on if you are able to do the first."

Steven looks at Stephanie puzzled but nods for her to continue. "I need you to forgive your parents. I know it won't be easy and I know it won't happen immediately, but it isn't for them that I'm asking that, it's for you. The anger and bitterness is already corrupting you and I can't have that in those that are around me the most.

"If you are willing to do so, then I would ask you to be one of my chosen. Of course that would mean that you would also be chosen to these three. We will all understand if you choose to not accept this offer."

There is silence in the tent as Steven is trying to understand just what the hell happened. "You want me to join you as one of your chosen?"

Stephanie gives him a small smile, "Only if you are willing. Like I said, you will also need to accept my chosen and be with them as well."

"If you accept you will need to be with all of us, almost immediately. The time is nearly spent. There won't be time for a loving coming together, it will be hard and fast." Talon warns Steven to prepare him for what will be happening should he accept.

Steven winces, having experienced hard and fast before, unwillingly.

Although, his experiences from the past make him hesitant, the allure of being part of their love outweighs everything else. The hardest part will be forgiving his parents.

"I want to agree, but I'm just not sure how to forgive those bastards for what they did to me."

"For now, just being willing to do so, is enough. Letting go of the hate and anger is the start, but it is a journey. Some are able to make the journey rather quickly others take time. As long as you are working on it, it will suffice," Stephanie assures him.

"Then I would be honored to be one of your chosen, to all of you."

Stephanie smiles softly at him and the others hide their sighs and welcome him as well.

"I'm sorry, we really are cutting things close here." Talon says as he goes over to the young warlock. He kisses him rather hard. Ethan, still at his side joins in.

"What about you, Jet?" Stephanie asks, rather breathlessly. She hadn't expected to be this turned on watching her chosen like that.

"I'll have my turn with him after them. I have the one I want right here." Then the only one watching was Tracey. 

Tracey wishes that he wasn't there since he's having a hard time not joining in himself. When Stephanie gives him a delighted smile he realizes that this is his punishment for what he did the night before.

He tries to look elsewhere but is constantly being drawn back to see, to watch the others.

When Stephanie presents her wrist as Steven is with her, he can't resist and bites her. Already close to losing control her screams of pleasure as she comes, along with Steven's sends him over as well.

"Shit." Tracey says once the haze of pleasure clears.

"Well that was unexpected." The four males look at the vampire king along with Stephanie.

"I will not be your queen, Tracey. Your people wouldn't accept me and you know it."

"I know. I will have to find another to be my beloved."

"She will have to be accepting of us as well. Willing to share you with us," Talon tells him.

"I know," Tracey waves that away as if of no import. "That won't be the problem. What will be the problem, vampires aren't monogamous. We feed as much from sex as we do from blood. We are as likely to feed from sex as we are blood. Any that I take as my queen will expect me to have several that I sleep with as will she. That it will be powerful witches, not a problem. The problem will be that Stephanie will be the one that will accept my choice or not. She is technically my first wife and as such has control over who I can or cannot take to wife, to be my queen."

"That's not a problem, your daughter would very much like the chance, Tracey. She has wanted it for some time. You love her, at least as much as you can, she won't try to kill you and take your spot. She is willing to be bound by your oaths. As long as she can accept me and them, there won't be a problem. Although, I would like to talk to her first."

Silence falls in the tent. While the silence seems to become thicker Stephanie lets down the air barrier and sends clean fresh air through the tent. The scent of sex is strong and since she has no desire for the entire camp to know what they were doing sends it up and high before scattering it.

When she finishes with that she turns to Tracey. "Have you thought about it enough?"

Tracey bows to her. "Yes, my lady. I will have my daughter brought here after you have lunch."