The Lion and The Lamb

Aaron slowly made his way down the hospital halls, slowly looks over the same pale white walls as he tried to fight back his tears. As stared into open rooms, seeing the rooms empty or filled with patients as looked for Leon who was supposed to be in one of these rooms.

“Aaron, where have been?!” she cried, her voice echoing in his head as he narrowed the end of the hospital hall.

“I came as fast I could, what’s wrong?” Aaron gasped, panting to try to catch his breath from running all the way to the hospital.

“It’s Leo,” she told him and Aaron’s eyes widen in horror as Karlie told him about Leo and what happen. “He tired to comment suicide, Daniel’s mom found him outside his office trying to find you but she found him instead with both his forearms cut straight down from elbow to wrist, and a razor grasp in his hand.”

“God, no!” Aaron grasped, thinking that it was his fault that he tried to kill himself. “If he alright?” Karlie nodded.

“Yes, he is stabilize now but he has lost a lot of blood, before he blacked out he asked for you. He’s in room 325, go and see him.”

He soon came up Leo’s room and took a deep breath in as he grasped hold of the door handle and pushed it open. Taking one look into the room he had to step back out of the room as he saw his love lying motionless in the bed. He sniffled and wiped a tear from his eyes and stepped back into the room and slowly made his way over to the bed. From his state, Leo looked fine until Aaron looked down at his arms and saw they where rapped in white gauss with half of it covered and drenched with his own blood. Next to his bed side was an IV hanging on a hook and just below that was a larger packet of blood that was flowing into his right arm along with the IV fluid. Aaron couldn’t hold back the tears any longer and they started to pour down his cheeks, allowing them to fall off his face and onto the hospital sheets. Leaning down he kissed Leo’s forehead, cheek and finally his dry lips, sliding his tongue gently over this lips and wishing that he would wake up like sleeping beauty at true love’s kiss but he didn’t.

“I’m sorry,” Aaron whispered into his ear, kissing his temple and taking hold of his hand. He stood by Leo’s side till the Dr. Winters came in and asked for a word with him. “Is he going to be okay?” he asked her, feeling a bit of hatred towards the doctor for this morning.

“He’ll be fine,” she told him, “But he lost a lot of blood and is now unconscious and won‘t wake up for the next few days, he also might not gain mobility in his left arm and hand, he cut it pretty deep but with a physical therapy he could gain some of it back. Listen Aaron, I am sorry for this morning I had no right to talk to your family that way-or about our sexuality. And it would be really great if you carry on with this pregnancy and help us out, I was just looking out…”

“I know what you where trying to do,” Aaron said, holding a hand up and interrupting her. “You where just looking out for my well being, I understand. Being that I am too young to care for something so small.” Betty nodded and smiled. “No hard feelings, but I have changed doctors and will now be seeing Dr. Puma.”

Betty nodded and insured that he had made a good choice for switching doctors. Aaron smiled though teary eyes and stared down and sniffled. “I will order a recliner be put into Leon’s room so you can spend the night, he would of like it if he wakes up and sees you.” she then left and Aaron went back into the room, standing back at Leo’s side.

“Here, you look like you haven’t eaten since this morning,” Karlie said, coming up from behind her brother and handed him a Turkey sandwich. Aaron gladly took it and wolfed it down and took the second sandwich that Karlie got for him. “How is he?” Karlie asked walking over to Leo’s other side and gave him a weak smile.

“He’s okay,” Aaron told her and sank back down into the recliner that the hospital provided for him. It wasn’t that conferrable, but he was happy that he could spend a few nights with Leon, even though if he wasn’t awake. “I really want to tell him though I am sorry, and that I will be going though with the pregnancy.” Karlie stared at her brother and a big smile was plastered on her face and she rushed over to him, throwing her arms around his shoulders and kissing him on his cheek in a big thank you. Aaron smiled and willingly took Karlie’s hug; allow her to rub his stomach. “He asked me to marry him too,” Aaron sighed.

“Marriage!? What did you say?”

“I haven’t given him one yet, but if I did I would have to think about it. I mean…I love him, but I don’t really know if I can live with him ‘till death do us part.’”

“That’s true…” Karlie sighed and she saw Daniel arrive in the doorway and she said goodbye to her brother for the night.

It was kind of lonely the first night with Leo and kind of cold, not even the two blankets he had could keep him warm. He then got an idea and climbed onto the bed and settled down right next to him on his left side so that he wouldn’t disconnect anything that was hooked up in his right arm. Settling down, he gave Leo a kiss on his cheek as he wrapped his arm around him. He smiled up at him and nuzzled his face into his naked chest as he slipped a free hand down under the sheets, he smiled as he caressed his lover’s inner thigh but his smile soon faded away. He quickly sat up and pulled down the white sheets and saw that there where more scars and freshly made cuts on his thighs and legs, causing Aaron to shake his head and thinking that he made him do this. He kissed Leo one more time on his lips before slipping off into sleep and nuzzled up close to Leo as he allowed sleep to surround him and allowing him to dream of heavenly dreams of him and Leon together again in one another’s arms.
The next morning, Betty came into check on Leo, though she was quit surprise to see the recliner that she sent in for Aaron empty and to find Aaron lying soundly in bed and arms of his unconscious love. She smiled, letting Aaron sleep a while longer as she checked on the IV and blood bag and changed Leon’s bandages. As she was changing Leo’s gauss, she could help but to smile even more at how the two boys made such a cute couple but frowned at how almost she destroyed their relationship and their happiness. She was just about to change Leo’s empty IV bag when Aaron stirred and woke from his slumber, lying sight on the doctor who smile down at him and he quickly got out of bed, thinking that he was in trouble for sleeping with Leon last night.

“Oh, don’t mind me,” she said, quickly changing the bag and walking out of the room. “Oh… and I won’t tell anyone about you being with child.”

“Thanks,” he called as she left, he didn’t want anyone to know especially his parents and the media. He was also happy that Karlie had kept his secret safe for now. Aaron spent another day before Monday with Leon, waiting to see if he would wake but with every passing minute that went by he thought that he would never wake. Though he wasn’t bored in Leo’s room, there was a T.V. and he would watch “The Price is Right” at ten in the morning and he would then channel surf after that and would call the nurse whenever Leo’s IV bag was getting low and needed to change it, he only had the blood bag hooked up for that one day and that was it. When it was lunch time, the hospital arranged for him to have a meal brought to him, Spaghetti with meat sauce and a bread roll on the side with a small salad. Aaron was really grateful for everyone being so nice to him, and that he was allowed for him to sleep in the same hospital bed as Leo did. Though the days and nights with his love couldn’t last forever.

Wednesday came around soon enough and Betty told him that he had to leave, and that he had spent enough time with Leon. “When he wakes and is able to stand on his own two feet I will send him to the psychiatric hospital for two months so that he could recover a bit more and help with his cutting, he should be able to at home after that.”

“What? No, it was me who cause all of this there is no need to send him to the crazy house.”

“It’s not my choice either, but seeing all the scars and cuts on his body the hospital thinks he is a threat to himself. And being without any family, they are sending him to get help.”

“He needs me, that’s his help.”

“Sorry Aaron, there is nothing I can do except to arrange daily visits to the hospital. Would you like that?” Aaron nodded and turned to his love for the last time and gently kissed his lips, wishing again that Leo would wake-but he didn’t.

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Since Aaron had returned home from the hospital, Aaron had felt like time had slowed down. Everyday after school he would call Betty to see if Leo had awake yet, but it was always the same, he started to think that Leon would never wake. When Friday came around, he took the bus after school to the city’s zoo so he could finish up his hours with Tiffany. He spent his days at the zoo cleaning out the troughs and then refills them with raw meat and oats-depending on the animal. Aaron was just in the middle of getting ready to feed the reptiles for their once a month feeding when he froze as he felt something wrap around his waist. He turned to see Tiffany behind him and hugging him close. He turned and she moved her arms so that she was now hanging off his neck.

“You looked like you needed a hug.” she told him, stepping away from him and picking at her fingernails. “You’ve been down these past few days, and so I thought you might want one.” Aaron gave her a small sweet smile and gave her a hug in return; telling her thanks and then going back to filling up the box he had with mice and rats. Tiffany smiled and turned from her friend, but stopped mid-walk and turned back to him. “Aaron?” he turned back to her and cocked his head to the side, wondering what she wanted now. Tiffany’s head was bowed lowed and she spoke softly, “I also what to tell you something that I’ve been meaning to say for a long time…since seventh grade.”

“What is it?” Aaron asked, and he was taken by surprise as his friend stepped closer to him, grasping his face in both hands and planting a kiss on his lips. She moaned, wanting and hoping that Aaron would take the hint and deepen the kiss and then taking her into his arms, telling her he loved her too. Tiffany held her kiss for four or five minutes before braking apart from him, wiping her bottom lip.

“I love you.” she told him, her chest was breathing heavy and she patently waited for Aaron’s answer.

“Wow,” Aaron said, after a few minutes of composing himself and letting Tiffany’s true feeling for him sank in. “I am flattered really…” he didn’t know how to tell his best friend who loves him that he was already seeing someone and that he was gay. “But I am already seeing someone.” tiffany’s smile faded quickly and turned from her friend, hiding her tears from him. “Tiff, please don’t cry. I do love you, but not in the same way as you love me. You see…”

“You got back together with your Ex didn’t you?” her voice was cracked and he could tell that she was fighting back her tears.

“Not quit, my Ex actually tried to commit suicide and is now in a crazy house.”

“Then why do you still love her?”

“Cause SHE and I haven’t really broken up, and I sill love her.” it was kind of strange for Aaron to refer Leo as a she then a he, but Tiffany didn’t know that he was sleeping with men older then he was. The two friends said nothing to each other for a few minutes, and then Aaron finally decided to tell her his sexuality. “Tiff,” Aaron took a deep breath and step toward her. “The truth is…”

“Aaron!” someone call and Aaron turned to the door and saw his boss, Mr. Sutra poking his head into the room. Aaron stood at attention and faced him, waiting for orders as if he was in the military awaiting orders form his Caption. “Someone is here to see you,”

“Who is it?”

“He didn’t say, he’s waiting for you in section B15. He says he wants to talk to you.”

Aaron thanked him and he stopped what he was doing and went out of the room and into the park itself, he had actually memorized the outline of the Zoo but he could remember what habitat was in the section he was going to. When he arrived he found it was the African section of the Zoo and started to look around at the animals, seeing all kinds of exotic animals from Elephants to tigers, to Water buffalo’s to Hyenas. He actually never went into this part of the Zoo before until now and wondered why someone would want to meet him here. He was halfway though the exhibit when he stopped and held his breath. He had reached the Lions and saw, sitting on the back rest of the bench was Leon, staring motionless into the pin, though he wasn’t too happy. Looking closely at him, Aaron saw his face was sadden as if someone had past away recently. Apart from that, he looked fine, except for the bandages that he still had on that covered his forearms and hid the massive scars that ran he carved into his flesh. He also saw that Leo’s ears or tail weren’t visible, he had told him that he only hid his animal features when he went out to public places and events.

Aaron smiled when Leon turned and saw him, but his reaction didn’t change. Walking up to him, he kept his smile and was happy that he could get to talk to him one more time.

“Hello there,” Aaron said as Leon climb down off the bench and stood with his thumbs hooked his back pockets. “How have you been?” he then wrapped his arms around Leon’s strong neck and went to go kiss him on his lips, but he turned away just like he did last week when Aaron was mad at him. “What’s wrong?”

“I went to your home to say goodbye to you before I went to the psychiatric hospital,” Leo said, his tone was flat and he stared at the ground as he spoke to his former lover. “Your mom said that you where at work and she gave me directions. Why didn’t you tell me you worked here?” his voice was a lot stronger now and demanding.

“You never asked,” Aaron replied, “and I don’t work here, I am just serving my community services here then I am gone.”

“You should at least told me you where working here part time.” Leo demanded and walked over to the railing and leaned down, viewing the Lions as they slept and walked around. Aaron came up next to him and he stared down into the pit too.

“Leo, what’s wrong?” he asked, wondering why he was acting this way towards him.

Leo sighed, “I found my sister.” he mumbled his reply.

“That’s great,” Aaron smiled, “where is she?”

“There,” Leon replied, pointing to one of the two lionesses in the pit that was lying out in the sun, sleeping.

Aaron’s smiled faded and felt sad for him, his parents dead and now just discovering that his sister was alive but as some sort of side show or exhibit. “Oh…Leon, I’m…”

“No your not,” he snapped, tears started to flow from his eyes. “You don’t know what it like is to find your sister in this kind of state. Losing your sites of being human and having your animal side of you take over till you forget who you are and everyone who loved you. This is not the life I want my sister to have.” Leo’s voice cracked. “And it’s people like you I have to thank for my family- my future. You see us like some sort of game that you hunt and kill for fun so you can plaster on your wall. But we are people too, you know-we have lives, families, jobs…”

“Leo, no it’s not like that.” Aaron called as Leon walked away.

“It’s not like that? It is Aaron, and I must say your race has done a fine job of fucking up our lives in the process. So thank you, thank you for destroying my life and every other Skinwalker that is in this prison. I knew I shouldn‘t have trusted humans again.” he then stormed off towards the exit.

“Ears!” Aaron shouted, seeing that Leo’s ears had produced as he got angry and Leon quickly hid them so that he wouldn’t be notice. Aaron was left alone and stared at Leon’s sister who had woken up from her nap and was now wondering around her habitat. He was alone for a short while though, till someone came up to the side of him and nudged him out of thoughts. “Hi Tiff,” he said gloomily, and rested his head on the fence in front of him.

“Hi there,” Tiffany replied. It had been an hour since their boss told Aaron that he had a visitor and she got worried. “So, who was it that came to see you?” she asked. Aaron didn’t reply and took off in the direction that Leon went, Tiffany fallowing him at a far enough distance. She fallowed him all over the park; keeping her distance and hoping that he wouldn’t catch her as he tried to look for who ever he was suppose to meet. She finally followed him down over to a small play area that the Zoo had for the kids to play at, with medium size statues of a Camel, an Alligator an Elephant and a Hippo, where a man with long blond hair sat with his arms folded in front of him and his head resting neatly on them. She smiled and got closer to him and hid behind a trashcan so she could listen in on what the two boys where saying.

Aaron slowly approached Leo, walking cautiously as to not walk a sleeping mad dog. Leon saw him, but paid no attention to him, but his tail showed other wise as Aaron could tell that he was pissed. He didn’t care what state Leo was in and he climb up behind him and knelt down, wrapping his arms once again over Leon’s brad shoulders.

“I am truly sorry for your sister.” he told him, nuzzling his head against his upper back. “Truly I am, if would have known sooner I would ask to be transfused to something else like picking up trash on the side of the road.”

Leon didn’t reply, he just sat on the big plastic Hippo and stared out into space. After Aaron didn’t get a reply, he turned Leo’s head to him and planted a kiss on his lips, running his tongue over them. Leon open for him, but he didn’t use tongue in his kiss which made Aaron a bit bitter but still happy that he opened. “It’s okay,” Leon said, breaking the kiss and wrapping an arm around his love. “I shouldn’t have taken everything out on the human race on you. I was just so mad at what my sister had become.”

“Yeah, I would be piss to if I found out Karlie had turned into a domestic house cat.” Aaron smiled and climbed down and walked around so that he was standing in front of Leon now.

“I am still sad though that you went though with the abortion. Seeing you go though that door and never coming out was a big stab in the heart for…”

“That you tried to kill yourself.” Aaron said, finishing Leo’s sentence and holding up Leo’s left hand. “How is it?” he remembered Betty telling him that he might not have mobility in his left arm after his episode.

“Fine,” and he was able to move his hand and fingers just barely, “a few more months of physical therapy and it will be good as new.” he smiled and placed it around Aaron’s waist, pulling him closer to him.

“Listen, I got to tell you something,” Aaron said, Leon stared up at him with his Lion ears perked up and was ready to listen. “I didn’t go though with the abortion. I stopped and walked out of there just at the doctor was ejecting me with anesthetic.” he smiled down at Leo who seemed to be in shock.

“What? You walked out?”

“Yeah, but I passed out from the drugs inside the bathroom when I was changing cloths. I am okay now and the baby is health and I have eight more glories months to go.” Aaron leaned in and kissed his love for a second time, driving his tongue into his watering mouth and taking Leo by surprise.
“Wait…now Aaron just wait.” and Leo pulled apart from him. “Now let me get this straight, you didn’t go though with the abortion. You are having my child. And you are fine with all this?”

“Yes. Yes. And…yes.” Aaron said, gently giving Leon butterfly kisses on his forehead, nose and lips. “And if you don’t believe me, take a big whiff; I know you can smell the fetus inside me.”

“I can smell you a mile away.” Leo said, pulling him from his and closed his eyes, taking a deep breath in and picking up Aaron’s scent as well as another one that was small and faint but still visible to his nose. He smiled and pulled Aaron back into his arms, giving him a big lustful kiss that made Aaron moan out as he opened for his partner. They quickly battled for dominance, fighting over who will win. As Aaron danced his tongue in and out of Leo’s mouth and moaned as he ran a hand though Leo’s hair, grabbing fistfuls of it and messing it up in his grasp. Leon also moaned into the kiss as he ran a hand over Aaron’s stomach and caressed his cheek with the other. He smiled pierced though the kiss as he moved the hand that rested on Aaron’s belly around his back side and slid it down over his ass, groping it and making Aaron gasp out.

“God, I missed this so much. I am so sorry for the way I’ve been acting.” Aaron gasped; Leon was now trailing his sweet wet kisses down his neck and collar bone and shoulders.

“I’m sorry too,” Leo moaned out, breaking his trail and looking down at him, “Let’s never fight again.” Aaron nodded and their lips where joined together again in a more passionate kiss, Leon digging and forcing his tongue deeper into Aaron’s throat and almost gagging him.

As Leon deep throated him with his tongue, Aaron reached down and took a firm hold of his love’s dick, squeezing and needing it in his grasp and making Leon moan with pleaser and his cock harder with every minute that passed by them. Needless to say though as Aaron fooled around with Leo’s cock, Leo slipped a free hand down Aaron’s back side once again and into his work pants and boxers. Leon laughed as Aaron gave out a loud moan as he slipped a finger into his ass, making him arch his back and brake away from the kiss. Leon started to nibble on Aaron’s ear as he started to pump his finger in and out of him, causing Aaron to moan with every push. Leon smiled at this and added another finger and another till he was all nice and stretched.

“I want you in me,” Aaron breathed, resting his head against Leo’s and looking at him though half shut eyes as his groin grinned up against Leon’s, causing both their erections to throb and twitch.

Leon smiled and kissed Aaron’s cheek, “I‘ve been waiting forever for you to say that again.” he smirked and Aaron turned away, leading Leo by the hand to the near-by trees that surrounded the play area. Leon got up and his smirk widened, but it quickly faded once he felt a draft on his legs and looked down. “What the!?” he looked down and saw that his jeans where down around his ankles and his dick fully erected and exposed to the air. “How did you do this? When did you have the time?” Leon quickly grabbed his jeans and pulled them back up, embarrassed of his actions and thankful that no one was around to see his exposing cock.

“I did it when while I was groping you.” Aaron said, gently leaning in and kissing his love, “commando.” Aaron smiled and lead him the rest of the way deep into the trees so no one would see them as they fuck each others brains out. Leon smiled back as he was being lean by Aaron walking weirdly as he held up his jeans with his free hand.

Once that the two boys where gone, Tiffany came out from behind her hiding place with her jaw wide open. She couldn’t believe what she had heard, not only was Aaron taken from her, he was taken away by a guy. Her world had just came crashing down right in front of her eyes as she watched the two love birds kiss and grope each other as if was no big deal. As she walked back to her post, she couldn’t help to think over what the two boys where talking about: how the older blond guy had tried to kill himself and then there was the fact of Aaron being pregnant. ‘How came Aaron get pregnant?’ she though to herself. ‘Guys can’t get pregnant.’ she wondered the fact of Aaron being pregnant over and over again, and then she thought of the guy’s eats and tail. They peered to her as if they where growing out of his head and tail bone. The more she though about the two boys, then more she question their actions. By the time her work shift had ended, she headed straight to the Library to find the answers to her questions.