Partner

Oh yeah, I did it. Well... not quite.

There were several topics that are a Sidhe idea that are difficult to explain in Sidhe, where they have several words that describe that exact situation. When Paw was stuttering, it wasn't him screwing around or trying to get a reaction out of Mik, he really did not know how to say what he had to say.

I'd love to explain better, in the next couple of chapters, but I'm not certain where it would be best to begin. Going through the actions might explain a great deal but... then it might not.

So hit me with your questions... or... say... suggestions... I've got devilish ideas stored up from the past week or so since SOMEONE had to go and suggest a certain something.

*coughs*

Read, review and enjoy.





Paw slid across the floor to Mik and kissed him, a quick, heated thing that seemed… hollow. A hand went down his pants.

Down his…

Just as he was beginning to grasp the fact that it was there, the hand was removed and Paw pulled away, wiping two fingers delicately over his lips.

Mik frowned, his mind stumbled for a moment before he realised that Paw had done that to get the cameras shut off. Another moment for him to comprehend it… and a longer one to wonder why.

“What…”

“Paw and Mik need talk, ‘bout tribe stuff.”

“Tribe stuff. That needs the cameras off?” Mik murmured, looking about the room.

“Yes. People not understand tribe.”

“What about this wouldn’t they understand, Paw?”

Paw huffed out and turned his attention to a plant, “Mik can say no.”

“No to what?”

“Ehm… explain in people hard. Sidhe,” Paw made a hand motion, “Needs of touch, needs of reminder.”

“A touch to remind of… tribe?”

Paw crossed the distance between them and grazed over Mik’s cheek with the back of his hand, nails barely grazing the surface. A shiver ran down Mik’s spine as Paw leaned in close, making him so very, very aware of … of something that escaped his grasp as soon as he thought of it.

“I …” Mik swallowed, hard, “might understand.”

The Sidhe smiled and stepped away from the man, “when a woman comes to have babe, she sometime not recall how much she love mate. Or he can remind her with little things that we no can do here. So… Essuan be mean to Souse.”

“Sidhe females are like that?”

“Essuan is like that. Some female nice. Some like pets more. Some still work and growl at males when male say sit, rest, eat. Essuan is like of the ways to be mean. She feel better after babe come.”

“So…”

“Souse feel…” Paw made a hand motion, trying to find a word that would fit, “feel like…”

“Like he’s traded one cage for another and called it his own choosing only to realise that he has no choice still. The bars have turned to walls. The ground to stone.”

“Better food,” Paw murmured, “he feels as when his parents died.”

“Why can’t you explain this in proper words?”

“Proper words hurt. People language so… ick,” Paw gave Mik an accusing look, “Souse. Ehm. No. … eh. Alone? Yes? Souse feel alone. Isolated. He need reminder that tribe do anything for him.”

“And this anything…” Mik didn’t like where it was going.

Paw gave Mik a look, “how would people show leader they do anything for him?”

“Don’t question him, pay taxes,” Mik shrugged, “don’t kill him.”

“… good leader, not in past, people give up daughters to leader?”

“… we don’t have a daughter…”

“That. Miiiiikkkkkk,” Paw sighed, ran his hands through his hair, getting frustrated. The Sidhe stopped and made several hand motions, a whining sound coming from the back his throat.

“What needs to be done?”

“Mik and Paw… only real pair,” Paw rubbed his hands together, “And…”

“Souse needs sex?”

“Only thing leader not allowed to demand. So…”

“When you want to show him you care, you give it to him.”

“Mm.” Paw looked concerned, “Paw knows people not see it as proper… not… it not well or good. Unless on porn channel and then it two females and male. Female and female touch and male be lazy and watch. Male and male and male not happen.”

… Mik wasn’t certain how to explain to Paw why mainstream porn was like that.

“And… what would this involve?”

“A night.”

“I mean… what would I have to do?”

Paw covered the distance between them and kissed Mik, slipping his hands down Mik’s pants once more. Had it been half an hour already? Mik couldn’t see his watch and had gotten distracted by the conversation. It was a long moment before the Sidhe pulled away again.

“Submit,” Paw murmured, looking away from Mik.

“As in more than I have?”

“No questions. Just do.”

“And with this… what do we get out of it?”

Paw looked puzzled for a moment, “pleasure.”

“No status.” Paw shook his head, “no perks,” another shake, “why nothing?”

“Wes not whores Mik. Only people would trade sex for something more than the pleasure of a body and a mind.”


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