The Lion and The Lamb

It was nearly sunrise when Leon got back to his house. The sun’s rays were just now touching the horizon and the sky was a pale blue and red. He had an awful night, going to a party that he didn’t want to go and then meeting his friend’s brother who turned out to be a human who he despises and then chasing after that human when Karlie found out that he was the one who threw her brother out of the party. Luckily, he found him but nit in the condition that he wanted Karlie’s brother to be in. Leon entered his home with a big bowl of fruit and veggies in his hands and placed it on the small table on the left hand side of the entrance and looked out the small window that was over that. He sighed and took a bite of a peach. As he stared out into space, there was a low groan and Leon turned to see Aaron lying in his low bed mattress, unconscious with a big gash over his eye, a brace over his left arm and over his chest with his cloths where lying in a wet pile next to him in the corner.





Leon rolled his eyes and crouched down next to him to check to see how he was doing. He pulled back the gaze that covered his gash and saw that it was still bleeding and he quickly changed it. As he got up there came a loud knock at the door and he turned to see though the beads that hung in the door frame, he saw that it was Karlie to come get her brother.



“Come in,” Leon said as he lifted the beads so that she and Daniel could come in. Karlie ran towards her brother and caressed his face, right next to the gash.



“What happen to him?” Karlie asked, seeing her brother unconscious and with his face bleeding.



“I chased him down onto the lake and he fell in. I pulled him out though before he could drown.”



“WHAT!” Karlie turned her head towards her friend with a worry look on her face. Even though that she taunted Aaron so much, she really loved him to death.



“Yeah, he’s okay now. So now that you’re here, you can take him back home and out of my sight.”



“We can’t,” Daniel said. And both Leon and Karlie turned to look at him who was leaning up against the wall. “He is in no condition to move. I won’t allow it.”



“What?” Leon said, lowering his head and glaring at his friend. “I will not stand for a human to stay in my home.”



“Leon…” Daniel sighed and motion for him to fallow him outside. He groaned and fallowed Daniel out into the morning air, leaving Karlie with her sleeping brother.



“I want that thing out.” Leon said, pointing back to his house.



“Leo, please.” Daniel said, trying to calm him down, “just let him stay here for a few days, just till he gets better.”



“Fuck no.” Leo said sternly.



“Leon, stop being so stubborn, I know that you hate all humans and the world cause they killed off your family and everyone else of you kind, but you need to let that go-move on.” Leon laughed and turned from his friend. “Leon…God. You know some day you are going to wake up and find that it will be too late and the we will have no more Skinwalkers like you anymore, do you want that to happen?” Leon didn’t answer at first, he though that over for a bit as he stared down into the small pond that was across from his home. Before he could answer Daniel continued, “Besides, maybe he came be the one that can be help repopulate Lion Skinwalkers.”



“FUCK, DANIEL!” Leon turned back towards Daniel with a shock look on his face. “HE’S A HUMAN AND A GUY AT THAT POINT!”



“Leo, come on. You didn’t like any other people that I paired you up with. Besides, in a way he is cute.”



“Maybe to you, but not me. And the women that you paired off with me where not Lion Skinwalkers or skinwalkers at all, I want my kin to be pure blood, not half blood like you-sorry to say.”



Daniel sighed and placed an arm over the back of Leo’s neck. “Just let him stay for a few days till he gets better, if things don’t work out by the time he gets better then I can bring him back home and he will be out of you hair forever. But think about it, you living the rest of your life without a kin and then dying off and leaving our kind with no more Lions.” as he said this, he placed a large reddish greenish fruit in Leon’s hands and walked back into the house to get Karlie.



“Later Leon.” Daniel said, waving goodbye with Karlie at his side and leaving him alone with a lot of thoughts in his head. Leon walked back into the house with the red-green fruit in his hands. He looked down at Aaron who was sleeping soundly; he studied his face and features. In a way he was cute, the sun was now in the sky and the light that was coming from the window above the mattress showered down onto his pale face and there shown a radiant glow about him he Leon didn‘t see at first . Leon licked his lips and held Aaron’s cheek in his hand and leaned down to his chest to get a good whiff of his scent, taking it all in and admiring. He smiled down at him and his tail started to sway back and forth, but reality soon sank in and he pushed the human away and placed the fruit in his hands into the large bowl and finished his breakfast before leaving to go for a walk and to clear his head.



That night, Leon slept on the cold floor next to Aaron who looked to be doing better but he still hasn’t wakened up. Before falling asleep Leon redressed Aaron’s bandages on his forehead and chest. Aaron groaned as he was leaned forward and lead up against Leon’s body so that he could change his chest wrap. As he did, Aaron nuzzled his head into the crack be between Leon’s beck and shoulder and sighed-thinking it was a pillow. Leon rolled his eyes and gently placed the boy back onto the mattress and pulled the covers back over his up to his hips before lying down himself. Leon was almost sound asleep but he woke in the middle of the night to see Aaron shivering to the bone, he pulled the covered up all the way up to his neck and tucked the sheets under him so he was now wrapped up but Aaron was still shivering. Thinking for a moment, Leon finally got an idea- he didn’t like it but he had on. Getting up, he placed Aaron in his arms and lay down up against the wall so that Aaron was now lying in his lap. He saw that Aaron was still shivering but not that much so Leon decided to change into his animal form and allow the boy to sleep comfortable on his stomach. Again Aaron nuzzled up against Leon as he sighed, Leon smiled and laid his head down on his paw and allowed sleep to wash over him.





Aaron woke the next morning in a daze and with his head pounding from the five beers he had the night before. He groan and pressed his hand up against his temple to try to stop the pounding but it was no use. Looking around his unfamiliar sightings, he relised that he was laying in a large room that had a small table to the right of the entrance, a wood burning stove at the back and two windows on either side of the home. The mattress that he was on he found was one of those blow up mattress’s that sat to the left of the entrance with a footlocker setting at the end. He stared down at himself and found a king size comforter draped over hi body. He was confused at where he was, but that soon turned to shock when he found that his hand was stroking the mattress and something furry. He stared down at what he was stroking and hi mouth dropped when he saw a 550lb full grown lion sleeping by his side. He wanted to scream but his voice was caught in his throat, Aaron shifted hi weight slowly to get away from one of the huge cats in the world when it woke and gave a great yawn. Aaron froze when he saw the lion’s massive jaws and fangs and he thought that he would have shit himself if the lion would see him. With a shake of its mane the lion looked at him straight in the eye that was when Aaron found him voice again and yelled out as he ran out of the one room home and up into the nearest tree that he could find.



Aaron stared down at the home to see if the cat would come out but instead a large man with blond hair down to his shoulders came out.



“Hay, I know you,” Aaron said, recognizing the guy. “You’re the one who threw me out of the party last night.”



“Yeah, I am.” Leon said, looking up at Aaron who was sitting on the first branch of the tree. “Can you come down, that branch won’t support your weight.”



“Like hell it will. Besides, I’m not coming down there’s lion out there.” as soon as he finished hi sentence, there was a groan from the tree and a loud “CRACK” and Aaron came crashing down to the ground below with a loud thud. “Ow, fuck that hurt.” Aaron grunted as got up.



“A lion you said was after you?” Leon asked, folding his arms in front of him. Aaron nodded and with that Leon changed back into his animal form and Aaron started climbing back up the tree that he fell from. “Hang on a bit there mortal.” Leon said, grabbing Aaron’s shirttail and pulling him back to earth. “I won’t hurt ya. Your sister and Daniel told me I had to look after you so till you get better, now come on back inside your bleeding out.” Leon turned back to his house and Aaron didn’t know weather to fallow him or run for it. But when he notice that his chest wraps were badly bleeding so he had no choice to fallow the lion back into the one room building.



“Ow, not so tight.” Aaron gasped as Leon was wrapping hi chest back up in an ace bandage.



“Sorry,” Leon replied. “I am trying not to hurt you, but your mortals get hurt real easily then us Skinwalkers.”



“I have a name you know,” Aaron spat, getting tired of him calling a mortal then his name. “It’s Aaron-not mortal.”



“Fine then, Aaron. There all done, now I suggest that you lie down and rest till you are all healed.” he then got up and went over to the table and placed the bowl of fruit on the floor for Aaron to eat as he pleases.



“Are you a vegetarian lion?” Aaron asked seeing the bowl and picking up a plum a mango.



“Better not eat that.” Leon said and took the mango back. “And no, I’m not. I eat meat but mostly fruit. And it’s Leon not lion.”



Aaron scuffed and picked up a plum and took a bite. I gag as the juice of the fruit spilt down from his mouth and down his chin which Leon watched in aw and licked his lips from the sight. He only stared for a moment before throwing a pair of his own pants at him.



“What’s this for?” Aaron asked, unfolding the pants and holding them up to see that they were too big for him.



“Put them on, I don’t want to stare at your cock for the next week or so. And it will keep you warm too.” ‘Though it is tempting to see It.’ he thought the last part and smiled to himself as Aaron quickly stood up and put on the oversize pants.



“Yeah, where you going?” Aaron asked seeing Leon walking out the door with a book bag over his right shoulder.



“To school, I can’t be late. You jut stay where and rest and when I came back I will re dress your wraps. See ya.” Leon waved as he left Aaron alone to rest. He sighed as he left and thought of how Aaron looked up in that tree like a little monkey with nothing on, and with the angle he had it was simply beautiful. ‘god what’s wrong with me,” he thought, he was halfway to school when reality hit him and remembered that Aaron was a human and not a Skinwalker, also that Aaron was a guy. But he kept hearing Daniel’ words stuck in his head on how, jut maybe that Aaron could help repopulate hi kind of Skinwalker and the fruit that could help with it. He tried to block out Aaron and everything that Daniel had to say for the rest of the day but Daniel kept going back to the subject when they hung out at lunch and in between classes, and so did Karlie who he found out from her boyfriend who told her everything that he told Leon.





When night fell so did the temperature, leaving Aaron shivering in the cold and the down comforter that he had wrapped around his shoulders didn’t do much help either. He stared at Leon who seemed perfectly fine in just a pair of jean shorts which made him only colder as Leon didn’t seemed to mind the coldness. Leon stared at Aaron who was shivering to death and took pity on him, he had placed the comforter around Aaron when the sunset but it seemed that it was not helping at all, so when he started to hear Aaron’s teeth start to chatter he walked over to the floor mattress and crawled over behind the boy and wrapped his arms around Aaron’s torso like he did last night. Aaron found that Leon was all nice and warm and he leaned back so he could sink into Leon’s chest a bit more and let his warmth consume his bandage body. Aaron was so wrapped up in Leon’s warmth that he didn’t even notice that Leon was breathing heavy into Aaron’s neck, taking in his scent, he then notice this when he felt something cold and wet touch his neck and he saw that Leon had his tongue out and was licking at Aaron flesh. He felt a little uneasy when he saw this, but he was too comfortable to even care. But when Aaron turned back from Leon, his face was pulled back and was taken by surprise as his mouth was covered by Leon’s in a soothing kiss and that was when Aaron came back to reality and pushed off the Skinwalker.



“What that fuck, Dude,” Aaron yelled, getting up and holding up the pants he had on, “what was that for?”



“I’m sorry,” Leon said, his head bowed in shame. “It’s just your scent is so sweet, I wanted to see if you tasted sweet too.” Aaron’s jaw drop at such an answer and his head started to fill with so many things that he didn’t even know what to think. After a few minutes of silence Leon broke then ice. “Come now,” he said, motioning for Aaron to come towards him. “You need your rest.”



“No way, I’m not sleeping in the same bed with you after your little stunt you just pulled.” Aaron spat.



Leon sighed, “Aaron, it gets really cold out here in the woods, well below freezing. And if you don’t keep warm I will have to explain to your family why their only son is a Popsicle when they come and get you. Now if you sleep in my arms, I can keep you warm and away from getting hypothermia.”



It was tempting for Aaron to go lie down in Leon’s arms and feel all warm again but he knew that sleeping with a guy was wrong and he knew better but he was shivering and on the brink of getting a cold or the flu and he didn’t want that to happen, but he refused Leon’s offering. “Okay, then.” Leon said, once Aaron gave his answer of not spooning with him for the night, “how about if I change into my animal form, will that be better?”



Aaron thought about that for a moment, he thought it was a good idea seeing that Leon would be in animal form and not in his human form. And that if he was in his a lion he wouldn’t have the power to talk or anything like he pulled a few seconds ago. Aaron swallowed hard and slowly nodded and watched as Leon changed form and he saw now staring at the same lion that he woke to see this morning. Leon stared at him for a bit before lying his down on his paw and slowly drifting off to sleep, though not before he felt presser on his stomach and woke to see it was only Aaron lying his head down and joining the lion in slumber. Leon smiled to himself and watch the boy fall asleep on his stomach, when he knew that Aaron was fully asleep, Leon leaned down and gave him a long lick that covered his cheek and made Aaron moan out as he shifted his weight from his back onto his side. Again, Leon laid his head back down on his paw and soon let sleep wash over him and he was in his own little dream world where he and Aaron where just like they were now but only talking and laughing as they kisses once in a while as Aaron laid in his arms, like some kind of Lion with a lost little lamb sleeping soundly.