The Lion and The Lamb

Aaron was released from the hospital a few days later. Puma had subscribed him some meds that would help ease him symptoms, but not all of them. Aaron was happy though that they had found nothing wrong with the pregnancy, but he was still worried something was wrong, no matter what the doctors said. He hadn’t seen Leo for a few days and started to worry about him too. When he came to see him, he saw his arm in a cast but he never asked what happen, but now he wished he did. Leon never came to seen him after Aaron told him off, but he was some what happy to see him on the day he was getting out of the hospital.

Leon walked by Aaron’s side as a nurse rolled him out of the hospital in a wheel chair. As they exited the maternity wing, they passed by a large window that looked into to nursery where they kept their newborns. Aaron turned his head and gazed in the window as they passed it, seeing a few new Skinwalker newborns and asked the nurse if he could be wheeled back around to see them. She nodded and took him to the window where he stood and gazed at the four different kinds of infants that lay in the hospital cribs. Aaron smiled as his gaze started from the right and saw two with zebra ears and tails, one with mouse ears and tail and the last infant on the left with no ears at all or a tail, but it had scaly skin like a snake or a lizard.

“You look happy.” Leon said, coming up from behind Aaron and wrapping his arms around his waist, he could barely touch his fingertips together because Aaron was getting so big.

“I am.” Aaron sighed; he was still worried that Leo could turn on him. Leon had given so many promises that he wouldn’t turn on Aaron, he didn’t know if he could believe them all. “I’m just worried.” he stared straight ahead and behind the small baskets of joy and saw incubators that lay empty. He was happy that he didn’t see any newborns in there, but he imagined his own struggling for life in one with a heart monitor at its side and hearing the baby’s heat beats beating slowly. He snapped out of his trance when he felt a peck on his cheek and turned to see Leo smiling at him.

“Don’t worry.” Leo said. “Everything will be fine.”

“How do you know?” Aaron replied.

“I can sense nothing wrong with it. Trust me, my nose knows.” and Leon smiled again as he kissed the tip of Aaron’s nose and helped him back into the wheel chair. He asked the nurse if he could wheel Aaron out, and she allowed him and the nurse and Leon switched places.

“Where’s Daniel?” Aaron asked, seeing Daniel or his car was not outside when then reached he parking lot.

“He didn’t come,” Leon replied, wheeling him over to a small green compact car near the entranced. “He wanted to pick you up, but I told him I would.”
“But, you don’t drive?” Aaron said. Leon stopped the chair and opened the front door for him.

“Yes, I do. You just never asked if I did.” he then helped Aaron in to the front passenger seat and closed the door behind him.

Aaron was left speechless as Leon got in the drivers seat and started the car. He was actually a good driver, and was very careful. “So then, why haven’t I’ve seen you driving?”

“I had my license revoked for a year, I just got it back.”

“Why?”

“When I was getting my driers license, I was sixteen and they needed a parent’s signature at the bottom. And since mine had passed, I forged my mom’s name. I passed everything, but recently the DMV found out that I forged my patent’s name, they took away my license till I was eighteen and had fined with $1000.”

“That sucks.” Aaron replied.

“I know, that’s why I relied on Daniel for my transportation. But I don’t need him any more because I have my own.”

“That’s good.” Aaron mumbled. And the two sat quietly for the rest of the ride home.

Leon pulled into Aaron’s drive way and helped him out of the car and up to his room, carrying him bridle style. Aaron was quit impressed that he could carry him with being pregnant and all, but Leo managed and placed Aaron in his bed, pulling up his sheets and tucking him to make him feel better. “Now, Puma says you need plenty of bed rest. So I want you to stay in here and don’t get out unless you have to go to the bathroom.”

Aaron rolled his eyes and lay down, asking for a glass of water. Leon nodded and obeyed Aaron’s every whim. Aaron smiled weakly as Leon walked out, his gaze on Leo’s ass as it swayed back and forth with every step. When Leon returned with his glass of water, he wasn’t alone.

“Hay, Aaron.” Daniel said, stepping into the room with Leon. “How are you?”

“Fine,” Aaron replied, taking the glass from Leo and taking few sips at a time before setting it down on his nightstand. Leon took up Aaron’s desk chair and pulled it beside Aaron’s bedside. Aaron didn’t want him to sit or sleep with him for a few days just to be protective of his self and his child.

“That’s good to hear. Yeah, I brought these for you.” he tossed a white grocery bag onto Aaron’s bed and he reached for it. Opening it up, he snickered and pulled out a familiar red and yellow and green fruit.

“Phuu fruit?” Leon asked, cocking his head to one side as he stared at Daniel.

“Yeah, my mom said that it would best for Aaron to eat some. She says it will help develop the fetus more and if there are any problems, it will mostly likely get ride of them.”

“Thanks, Daniel. And tell both your parents, thank you too.”

“Will do. Say, is Karlie here?

“Yeah, she’s probably in her room.” Aaron replied.

“Thanks.” and with that, Daniel left Aaron’s room and made his way over to his girlfriend’s room.

When Daniel left his room, he took a big juicy bite out of the fruit and savoring the taste. It had been so long since he accidentally ate it and then fucking Leo the next day. Leon licked his lips as he watched Aaron devour the fruit, watching as the juice flowed from the corner of his mouth and down towards his chin. He licked his lips again as he leaned in, licking away the stream of Phuu juice and moaning at the taste. Aaron turned and looked at him, wide eyed.

“You never told me how you broke your arm.” Aaron softly said, bowing his head.

“Oh, I deiced to throw myself into heavy traffic.” Leon replied, staring at his broken arm.

“What! You got hit by a car?”

“More like a big 4x4. I got this, four broken ribs and many cuts and bruises, plus my memory back of you.” he smiled and caressed Aaron’s cheek with his thumb.

“You don’t have to stay with me.” Aaron said, turning his head.

“I know, but I want to. I want to make up what I did to you.

“Leo, you can’t just repeat saying your sorry and do little things for me. You need to show me something big, saying ‘I love you with all by heart and will die for you.’ So could you please can you leave me be. I will call you if anything if anything happens.”

Leon was heart broken to hear this, but Aaron was right. Just doing small things for him wouldn’t change anything or saying, ‘I’m sorry.” he respected Aaron and got up, putting his desk chair back before leaving and waving good-bye to Aaron then giving him a kiss. When Leo got into his car, he hit the steering wheel in frustrated and hocked the horn long and hard so that Aaron could hear it. He cried all the way home that day and when he got home; he started to throw his belongings all over the yurt and digging up his flower beds. He even started cutting himself again, taking the small knife from his drawer and cutting his arm horizontal, cutting his flesh deep and long. Once he had nothing to throw or hit he let out a long painful yell and collapsed on the floor, curling up into a small ball and crying his eyes out. He was so ashamed of what he did to Aaron and he wanted to die for it.

Aaron fallowed Puma’s orders and stayed in bed and staying home from school. Aaron had been out of school lately, Sheryl deiced all together to pull her son out of school and home school him till next school year. He hated that he had to stay home and in bed for that matter. Most of the time he would watch the T.V. or play with his DS but he soon grew tired of that and he was also tired of talking to his family for company, he need someone else.

“Hello? Leon asked, picking up his cell. He had got one of the pay as you go phones and had put about two dollars worth of minutes.

“Hi, Leo? This is Aaron, how have you been?” it had been two weeks since Aaron had returned from the hospital and he really wanted to talk to someone other then his family.

“Aaron, Hi! I’m fine you?”

“Okay, the baby has been kicking a lot lately and is keeping me up at all hours of the night.”

“Ah, well, are you still in bed?”

“Getting out tomorrow, I have my hours to finish. And after tomorrow I am a free man.”

“That’s good to hear. Hay, why don’t we go out and celebrate after work, my treat.”

Aaron didn’t reply at once, he wanted to stay far away from Leo for the time being. But hearing Leo’s voice was soothing to him and he needed to see someone. “Yeah … that would be nice. Besides, I need to get out of this place for a few hours.”

“Great.”

The next few minutes, the two boys debated what they should do and where they should go for dinner. They finally decided on a walk though the park between Aaron’s and Leo’s hoses, fallowed by an afternoon movie and then closed with a home cook meal made by Leo at his house. “Ok then, see you tomorrow.” Aaron said, worried.

“Okay. And Aaron…I love you.”

“Ditto.” Aaron replied and hung up his cell.

Leon was speechless when he hear the words ’Ditto’ coming out of Aaron’s mouth, he longed for him to hear the words ’I love you’ rather then something Patrick Swazi would say in Ghost. Sadly though, he wished he didn’t ask Aaron for a date. He knew that Aaron wanted some space from him, but he missed him so much and he couldn’t take it much longer. He got up from his bed and stared scrabbling around his truck to find a long sleeve shirt or a jacket to ware tomorrow to hide his scar and freshly cut arms from the many cuts that he inflicted on himself over the past weeks.

Aaron got up early like he did everyday when he had work and fallowed his morning procedure: get up, eat three bowls of cereal with two eggs and three pieces of butter bread. Fallowed by a short hot shower before putting on his new Zoo uniform he had to get because he was growing out of the first one they gave him. When he was all set and ready to go, he went down stairs where Sheryl was waiting for him and they both climbed into her car like always. On the way, Aaron was both excited and depressed at the same time, which causes him to become confused of his feelings. He was excited cause today was his last day of serving his hours, but he was depressed because of all of the events that had been happening lately between Leo and him, even his mother saw a difference in her son. She knew that Aaron and Leo where going though some rough patches in their relationships, but she didn’t know how bad it was till she saw the cuts Leon and Aaron inflected on themselves over the past week. Luckily, she had stopped her son’s cutting quickly before he could do any more damaged to him, but she couldn’t stop Leo.

“Have a good last day!” Sheryl called as Aaron climbed out of the car and walked up the Zoo entrance path. Aaron didn’t reply to his mother’s words but waved good-bye to her as he went though the employee entrance around the side.

Going to his locker, Aaron sighed and placed his backpack at the bottom and took his name tag out of the top shelve. Inside of his locker door, he had numerous pictures of his friends and family and one of them was him and Leo. He stared at it for the longest of time, recalling the day Karlie took it un announced as the two boys kissed, Aaron was just three weeks pregnant and he didn’t even know he was. Just then, he jump and turned around to see six of the staff members all gathered around him for a last day surprise party, a small chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting and a single candle was placed on top of the sweet treat.

“Surprise!” all the staff members around Aaron yelled.

Aaron was in shock for a few moments and though he was going to give birth right there and then, but he relaxed and joined in the laughter. “You guys, what’s all this for?”

“A little token of our appreciation.” Mr. Sutra said, Tiffany was at his side holding the cupcake. Aaron eyed her and frowned down upon her. His veins where so hot and red right now, he wanted to walk over to her and punch her right in the stomach so she could feel what he felt. She smiled at him and handed him the small cake and he took it, but wanted to smash it into her smug face and walk out of the room.

“Make a wish,” she said as her smile got bigger.

‘I wish you would this bitch in front of me would die.’ Aaron thought and he blew out the single candle and everyone but Aaron clapped.

“What did you wish for?” someone asked.

“Don’t tell Aaron,” someone replied, “It won’t come if you say it out loud.”

“All right, everybody.” Mr. Sutra said, “Let’s give Aaron some room and all get back to work. Tiffany, you’re with me today. And Aaron, you’re with Chip. Have fun.” And with Mr. Sutra’s words, the small group broke and Aaron went with Chip, who he found out was the guy that asked what he wished for.

“Ready?” Chip asked, putting on his hat on and Aaron nodded. “Great let’s go.” And the two boys both exited the room.

On the way out, Aaron threw away his cupcake, if someone else gave him the cupcake he would eat it but since it was handed o him by Tiffany he had to throw it away. For the whole day, Aaron stayed with Chip as they went from exhibit to exhibit cleaning out the animal’s pins. Aaron didn’t really mind, but he had to call for Chip to help him up.

“Jeeze, Aaron.” Chip cried, helping his co-worker for the tenth time. “You need to lay off the Ding-Dongs and the Ho-Hos.”

“I know, but they are so good.” Aaron joked, walking over to the wheel barrow and dumped the bag of animal shit into it. He was happy that no one asked if he was pregnant, people had just assumed that he was eating too much and was just getting fat. Though he suspected that Tiffany knew about him since he knew about him and Leo.

Aaron sighed as he moved on to the next exhibit which he found was the Lion’s den. He groaned as he walked into back cage here the Lion’s are kept during the night and began cleaning it out for the animal to have a clean cage that night. Chip was with him for a few minutes in before he went to get a snack form one of the stands close by. While chip was away Aaron took a small brake of his own and sat down, leaning his back against the bars as he placed his hands over his face. He only was in this position for a short while before he felt something wet lick his hands and he removed his hands to find Safara standing right before him.

“Hi, Safara.” Aaron said, scratching behind Leo’s sister’s ear. “How are you?”
Safara didn’t answer but lay down next to him and placed his head in his lap, nuzzling her head up against his stomach lightly, as if she was asking how he was doing with his own cubs.

“Not to well.” Aaron said, stoking Safara’s main and staring out into space. “Your brother punched me in the stomach a few weeks ago.” Safara raised her head and stared at him. “But I am fine now. But I am afraid that Leo doesn’t respect me that much. He say’s he loves me, but he needs to prove it to me and not tell me.”

“Do you love him?” Safara asked.

“Yeah, I…” he stared down at Safara and gazed wide eyed. “Did you just say something?” He asked, he was curious now. Safara was talking to him, but her mouth didn’t move.

“I’m not talking to you out loud,” Safara said, her mouth didn’t move again. “I am using telekinesis; it’s the only way I can talk now since I can no longer change forms again.”

“How are you doing this?” Aaron asked

“I am sending brain waves from my brain to yours, so basically I am talking to you threw brain waves.” Aaron was left aw struck and banged his head against the bars behind him. Safara allowed this entire sink in before she asked her question again. “Do you love my brother?”

“I don’t know anymore.” Aaron replied. “I want to say yes, but the things that he done to me…I just don’t know anymore.”

“Are you still going to have his cubs?”

“Of course I’m going to have Leo’s cubs, I love them so already.” he wrapped his arms around his stomach and felt his child kick in side which always made Aaron smile.

Just then Chip came back in with a large drink and a candy apple. He wasn’t aware of Safara in the cage with Aaron but when he did, he jumped back and called for the security to help get Aaron out of the cage. Aaron laughed and got up; exiting the cage and told Chip it was not necessary. Chip was left out of what was going on and told Aaron that he could take his lunch brake. Aaron nodded and exited the room.

“Bye Aaron.” he heard Safara say and Aaron waved good-bye to her.

Inside the brake room, Aaron was totally alone and he loves it. He spent his lunch brake eating his home cook meal slowly, fallowed by a Phuu fruit that he packed and ate that even more slowly. He was half way though his dessert, his privacy had ended as the one person he did not want to see came thought the door. Aaron frowned and stared down at the table as Tiffany walked over to the fridge to get her lunch.

“Hello there, Aaron,” Tiffany said, taking a seat across from Aaron. “How’s your day going?”

“Just fine.” Aaron replied, biting down into his fruit.

“Can I have I bite?”

“Hell, no.” Aaron snapped, looking up at her with dagger like eyes.

“Jeeze Aaron, what’s eating you?”

“You are.”

“Me?”

“Yes you. How could you do such a thing, I thought you where my friend?”

“I am, Aaron. But what are you talking about?”

“I’m talking about how you went to the insane asylum and posed as Leo’s sister,” Aaron yelled. “Then you tell the doctor that he acts like some kind of animal that puts Leo into shock therapy and hypnoses?”

“Wow,” Tiffany gasped, “I didn’t know they would hypnotize him.”

“They did it so that he won’t think he’s a lion plus, they made him forget me. That crushed me most of all.” tears started to form in Aaron’s eyes and he had no intention of wiping away. “And you know what happen when I tried to make Leo remember?” Tiffany shook her head and waited for his answer. “He punched me, right in the stomach.”

“No!” Tiffany gasped. “Is the baby okay?”

Aaron’s back was turned from his so called friend, but quickly turned around in shock. “You know I’m pregnant? How?”

“I listen in to yours and Leo’s conversation, that day when he came for a visit. I though you where talking in code of some sort, but then I did my research and found out a lot of things.”

“Like what?” Aaron bowed his head and gazed at Tiffany as she told him that she knew all about what Skinwalkers were and that Leon and his sister, Safara was one. She also told him about how she knew about their clan they had outside the city and that the fruit that Aaron was eating was a Phuu fruit and that it was intended for male pregnancy. “You bitch.”
“Me? Not at all, I just needed to get my share on what my friend was getting in to.” Tiffany then crossed the room and pulled out from her bag a small object and then crossed over to the door. “So tell me, did your hubby of a Lion kill your precious cub?”

“No, he didn’t.” Aaron replied, pissed off at her for learning everything there was about Leo and Skinwalkers.

“That’s good to hear.” Tiffany said, opening the door and stepping out of the brake room.

“Where are you going now?” Aaron asked, stepping into the door frame and placing his hands on his hips,

“Oh, not far. And Aaron, say cheese!” and she took a picture with the camera she got from her bag.

Aaron raised his hands to shade his eyes from the camera’s flash, which made him even angrier. He was going to lash out at Tiffany, but he didn’t have a chance to as thousands of other flashes started to go off in his face. “What the?” Aaron gasped, seeing waves over waves of photographers and video camera men and T.V. reporters swarmed him with questions and calling his name.

“Aaron, Aaron? Is it true that you are pregnant?” “Aaron, where you once a woman?” “How did this happen?” where just a few questions that he could hear over the millions of questions that the reports asked.

Aaron was so over whelm by all this he didn’t know what to do. After moments of staring into the wave of people, his mind finally caught up to his feet and he raced back into the room, closing and locking the door behind him. Sliding down to the floor Aaron broke down in tears and tried to hold his knees to his chest, but being four and half months made it difficult for him. “You Bitch!” Aaron cried out, mentioning to Tiffany who for the second time tired to destroy Aaron’s life and she was making good process with it. He would hear the reporters continuing asking questions though the door and he could feel them trying to brake down the door. Aaron didn’t know what to do but to sob his eyes out, as he sobbed Aaron finally came up with something to do and pulled his cell phone out of his pants pocket and dialed Karlie’s phone.

“Yello?” Aaron heard his sister’s voice answer over the phone line and he sobbed even more. “Who is this?”

“Karlie, it’s me.” Aaron cried. “Is Daniel there?” Aaron knew that his mom was at work and that was all the way across the city and that would take over an hour so he had to ask Daniel for a ride home.

“Aaron…what’s wrong?”

“Is Daniel there!?” Aaron cried again, coughing as he chocked on his salty tears.
“Yes. Do you need him to come and get you?”

“Yes!”

“Why not let Leo come and get you? You guys have a date don’t you?”

“I don’t want him to get me, I want Daniel to!”

“All right, I’ll tell Daniel right away to get you.” And they both hang up the phone at the same time.

Aaron was left alone after his phone call for what seemed like a life time for him and wondered if Daniel would ever come. He was about to call Karlie to find out where Daniel was till he heard a loud familiar mighty roar coming from behind the door. He quickly stood up and saw out of the small window Leon in his animal form. He busted out crying harder as he saw him, fangs bearing and growling low in his throat, ready to attack the reporters if they even came near him or the door that hid Aaron. Aaron watched in horror as the reporters fled the scene and where replace by the Zoo’s security with tranquilizer guns at the ready. Quickly reacting, Aaron rushed over to his friend and stood in the path of the guns and Leo.

“Don’t shoot!” Aaron cried. Throwing his hands out wide as he sobbed.

“Aaron, get on my back.” Leon said. Aaron craned his neck around and found he was using the same thing that Safara was doing early on and quickly nodded, climbing onto Leo’s back. With another roar from Leo he took off running down the Zoo’s path, towards the exit and tried to out run the police. There was no way that they could escape from the small exit path so Leo jumped over the turnstiles and cause an up roar at the entrance, making new coming guests run like hell out of the lion’s path and worried what would happen to the boy on his back. When Leo reached the parking lot, Aaron climbed down off Leo and ran over with Leo to Daniel’s car which was sitting a few feet away.

“Damn, Leo,” Daniel cried as both of the boys climbed into the back seat of his car. “You made it like it was the end of the world for those guests.”

“Sorry, but Aaron was in trouble. Now let’s go!” Daniel nodded and stepped on it, exiting the parking lot.

“Leo,” Aaron said after a few minutes after leaving the madness behind him. He had calm down a bit, but his tears still flowed from his eyes and ran down onto Daniel’s car floor. “Why did you come?”

“I came because when Karlie told Daniel you were in trouble, I had to come over and see what’s wrong.”

“My question is,” Daniel said, interrupting the two boys’ conversation. “Why where there so many reporters and news vans there?”

“Tiffany called them.” Aaron replied. “She knows everything about you guys and my pregnancy.”

“She does?” both Daniel and Leo replied at the same time.

“Mm-hmm, now my secret’s out.” Aaron cried, his sobs returned and Leon tried to calm him down by shushing and caressing Aaron’s cheek with his own and purring. Aaron’s cries and tears soon stopped all together and smiled up at Leon who smiled back. “Thank you for coming to my rescue.” Aaron finally said.

Leon’s smile got bigger and gently kissed Aaron’s lips for the first time in weeks, which cause both boys to loose control over their hormones and locked their lips with one another, sharing a wet, sloppy, lustful kiss. Aaron moaned into the kiss and hugged Leo’s head close to his chest as Leo picked him up a bit more so that Aaron was now sitting up. Daniel gazed though his rear view mirror and yelled out at them to stop, but Aaron just flipped him off and dug his tongue deeper into Leo’s mouth. Aaron was living in bliss as he kissed his love once again, but it didn’t last long as Leon soon started to slack off and fell over onto his side and letting his head fall into his love’s lap.

“Leo?” Aaron asked, a sound of worry was in his tone. Leo didn’t reply but sighed as he was fast asleep.

“Looks like that rescue of his left him drained.” Daniel noted, turning to see Leo’s head in Aaron’s lap.

“No it didn’t.” Aaron replied and took a tranquilizer dart from his lower back. He smiled at how Leo was so brave to save him from the wave of people who wanted to get the story of the life time and even risk having darts shot at him. When Daniel pulled back into the Tix’s driveway, both Karlie and Daniel had to carry Leon into the living room where he let him sleep off the sleeping dart. As he slept Aaron sat by his side, waiting for him to wake so they could carry on with their episode in Daniel’s car.