Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 02:39:21 -0600
From: M. R. Masterson <authormrmasterson@gmail.com>
Subject: STARBOUND - Chapter 3

STARBOUND Chapter 3


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CHAPTER 3

Old friends, new friends, memories, and sparks.


This part of the story is a distraction from the drama going on in
Montana with Jay and Alex.


Teresa's brother Tash definitely knows more than he is letting on.
Their family has some strange secrets that need to be hashed out
between Tash, Teresa, and Jaysen later that week, but a hospital is no
place for conversations about what they are and what it means,
especially since Tashrael needs to lay low so his mother and her
people don't find out he is alive. That is a long story.

Estranged is an understatement for the relationship between the
Allston twins and their vile draconian mother.

They don't even know who their real father is, that's not how people
like their mother do things. The old Dragon Women of the previous era
in the superhuman world had been forced by circumstances they couldn't
control to become cold and calculating. Everything served a purpose,
their purpose, as they had served the purposes of their elders. When
they need heirs to their power, they found someone whose DNA they
wanted for their offspring, and used them, and left them wondering
what the hell happened the next morning, or worse, they wake up buried
alive or locked in a cage until the desired result is achieved.

Tash had saved him and his sister from the fate of becoming a slave to
that kind of authoritarian parenting, and he'd do the same for anyone
being used in that way. That was what he and his network of friends
and allies did. He wasn't the top dog in that organization, but he was
as close as one came to second in command when his only superior had
been doing the work single handedly so for millennia, saving and
hiding whatever innocence and good-heartedness there was left in the
world.

Presently, that old friend, who also might as well be family, had
asked Tash for a personal favor, and while Jaysen recovers in the
hospital, his uncle is going to try and convince a wayward orphaned
teenage superhuman to discontinue a dangerous lifestyle.

Tash wondered how HE suddenly became such a role model and guidance
counselor figure, but his skills of empathy, understanding, and
communication were in demand right now, and he needed fine with this
practice as he would be dealing with 60 to 88 gifted teenagers showing
up to the grand opening of the Bitterroot Crest Academy campus next
fall.

Tashrael walked into the venue, which was appropriately named "Club
Strange" where he was supposed to meet his old friend Chester, the
Club owner to discuss the target asset of his mission.

Chester was a small older looking man, sort of stocky. The club was a
source of income, and Chester usually didn't turn his nose up at
income, but a certain young man whom he had hired was attracting too
much attention and making too many businessmen's wallets and bank
accounts disappear. He wasn't taking the money for himself, he was
using it to wage a vendetta against the people who killed his beloved
and his family.

IF the Words "takin candy from a baby" applied, this was more the
reverse, the baby taking money from the rich dirty pervs who ogled him
on stage after they joined him in his hotel room or in the secluded
back rooms of the club.

This kid wasn't entirely human, or rather, not what humans think of as
human, he had some genetic attributes that could be traced to strange
origins, Much like Tash and his family.

Seducing a whole crowd, whether with the voice, the body, or the
mutated pheromones that made both genders want a piece of whatever
part of you that was offered was a talent that a lot of these special
people shared. Those an unnatural Allure and influence over bland
humans were called Bacchans (Bacchant male, bacchante female) for
reasons that were obvious to anyone who of is familiar with classical
mythology.

Tash and this kid had a lot in common, they were both Bacchans, as
were Teresa and Jay, though they were prevented from developing their
full potential by Jaysen's grandmother. This similarity was why
Chester had called Tash for help.

The 17-year-old boy's Bacchan blood made him look closer to age 22,
definitely not like a teenager, and his fake ID said he was 24. He was
of course gorgeous and had the voice of a siren, which he could use to
intoxicate and mesmerize almost whomever he pleased, which combined
with his supernatural sexual allure, made him dangerously appealing.

He hadn't been to high school, he had been married, and His husband
had been murdered by the same cult that killed his in-laws in a fiery
explosion that had killed everyone in their club across town.

Married before age 17 was normal for the superhuman community,
especially bacchants who wanted to acquire the favor of another Clan,
and especially if they were orphaned, as it was in this case.

Bacchan men, went through a transformation from child to adult within
6 weeks, sometime after their 13th birthday.

Leading up to, and during that time, they are irresistible to human
males, and WILL likely be raped if they do not escape from society,
which is why they were generally shipped off to a special retreat
around that time, and as they returned 6 weeks later in control of
their supernatural allure, and appearing to have aged 6 years in those
6 weeks, they were given new names and identities.

Jay's Bacchant nature had been bound by a pretty vile form of alchemy
used by his grandmother, and Tash suspected that that was part of what
was making Jay sick, and as soon as Tash gets back to Montana he would
put things right and Jay would go through the transformation at Tash's
home. For now, he has another young Bacchant to save.

Tash's generation was the last to go through proper rituals of the
transformation, and not all of them were collected, as there were a
lot of families in hiding, and a lot of them were orphaned and raised
by "bland human" families (as the snottier of the superhumans call the
majority of us.)

Those who were left behind turned into incubi or were simply raped to
death my humans driven mad by the effect of their uncontrolled
supernatural allure. It is a sad and sick process when one of their
kind didn't receive help or guidance between age 13 and 14, as they
would become either predator of prey to unsuspecting humans who
couldn't control themselves.

 This made it a sort of double edged sword that Jaysen had been
relieved of this experience until he was older.

Bacchants were also hunted by witches for their Allure Essence, their
pheromones and bodily secretions of all kinds to be used in witch's
love potions and fertility drugs. They are tortured, and when they can
no longer secrete their essence, they are killed and dissected for
their glands which are also powerful additives to the potions of
witches and alchemists. This is one reason why witches and alchemists,
as well as bacchants and bacchantes, female bacchants, are rare today,
they and other superhuman species had hunted each other to
near-extinction trying to gain an advantage over each other.

However, some witches chose to mate with their bacchant slaves and
produce hybrids, these are what Jay and his family are, hybrids of two
or more different kinds of superhuman, this boy whom Tash was going to
try and persuade to enter his protection, as it turned out, was Siren
and Bacchan hybrid.

He had almost been twisted into an incubus, but was saves by a clan of
siren witches.

After sizing up his target, Tash spoke to Chester.

"Chester, you old cradle robber, where the hell did you find this
one." Tash said. Teasing his old friend and one-time business partner.

"This one is robbing the rest-home actually, he was prostituting
himself on the corner outside of the Club. After hearing his story,
and hearing him sing, I gave him a job tending bar and singing once in
a while so I could keep an eye on him.

Turns out he was a little more of a talent than I bargained for, he
has become a main attraction, pun intended. He's gonna get himself
killed if he keeps drawing the kind of attention he does, he may in
into an incubus, in which case we will have to rehabilitate him, or he
could get me shut down once people find out his real age and identity.

What IS his story. I'm sure I can guess most of it, but fill me in.
Tash asked, listening carefully to Chester.

"Typically, he went through what happens in most cases to abandoned or
orphaned Bacchants. He up more or less normal in a human family,
started his transformation not knowing what the fuck was going on, he
started raped incessantly by his older brothers who couldn't resist
the pheromones.

He went on the run, and stated away from humans until he learned how
to control his Allure. He fell in love with a Siren, joined their
clan, got married a oit a year before the cult eradicated their clan
with most of them in it

He witnessed two members of the cult RITUALLY killing his husband, he
caught the sickos in the act and dispatched both of them, luckily
there were no witnesses to track him down, they will be out for his
blood though, and he's out for theirs. We have to see if we can get
him to channel that energy into your project before he brings all the
wrath down on mine."

So you want me to convince him to stop shaking that... oh so fine ass of
his and lay low with me in the mountains and pretend to be a regular
human?

"Ah ah... now... don't get sappy or sloppy, you have to get this naughty
little bastard on board... I have every confidence you two will hit it
of splendidly though, you did both date men from the same Siren clan...
his husband was Damian's little brother Aaron.

"no shit, the one that Ashley was pregnant with when Damian died
trying to protect him from that rogue Chimera?"

"The same, you two may not be Starbound, but you share something
fated. Now, without further ado, let us go meet the little scamp."
Chester said winking in a way that said, "you are going to get
yourself in too deep with this one." Chester and Tashrael didn't need
words, they knew each other better than anyone else. No one knew
Chester like Tash, except maybe Tash's mother, but that was a sore
spot for both Chester and Tash.

"Just show the kid some compassion. He hasn't had much of it from
anyone but me, everyone else is too busy fawning drooling and touching
themselves inappropriately when he's around, and you KNOW that the
siren bitches didn't give him or his pretty little husband any breaks,
that brought in the dough, or they got the drain treatment to
compensate."

Tash shivered. Draining a Bacchant's Allure Essence was a vile things
to do, it left them weak and nauseous for weeks at a time, whichever
reminded Tash of Jay's situation. He had to get back and teach his
sister the err of her ways raising a Bacchant male.... surely Mother was
behind the misinformation. But now that there was a Bacchant Alpha
male in their life again who was a proper superhuman doctor and role
model, things were going to change for them.

He finally had the resources to build a real, safe, natural community,
for people like him, starting with the Bitterroot Crest Academy for
Extraordinary Men.

"Jaden, you naughty thing," Chester teased his talented employee. "I
want you to meet my friend Tashrael. Tash is a building a new academy
for, extraordinary young men like yourself, the precursor to the
superhuman community of tomorrow, he's the man who is going to save us
all." Chester said flattering his friend and former business partner.

"It is so nice to meet you" Tash said shaking Jaden's hand. "It isn't
every day I come across an absolutely stunning young hybrid like
yourself Tash said, taking a line out of Chester's playbook and
beginning with flattery.

There was nothing facetious about the complement whatsoever though,
stunning was an understatement for the blond haired light blue eyed
beautiful you man who stood before them, he was tall, full lipped, and
in perfect shape.

"So, YOU are the Visionary "Doctor of Everything" Chester keeps going
on about? Jaden asked Tash, though he knew the answer, he was keeping
the flattery train on track.

"Yeah, we go back a long way, Ole Chester was one of the guides I had
when I went through MY transformation." Tash said, acknowledging what
he was sure Jaden already knew, that they were both Bacchants. "He
gave me my first job, although it was more of a cover for the real
work I had volunteered to help him with."

"You volunteered to drink my booze and screw my customers! Chester accused.

Hey, I replaced the booze with better stuff, my own recipes, and then,
I kept your customers coming back! Tash returned.

"So IS this my replacement Chester, huh, did you trade me in for a
newer model?" Tash asked.

"Fuck no, this little shit is TOO new, he needs to learn a thing or
two about moderation." Chester said motioning toward Jaden, who looked
thoroughly amused by everything up until that point.

"Since when is moderation even a word around here Chester?"

Well, this town isn't what it used to be, the world has some very
polarizing ideals springing up. We are going to need that nice rural
community of yours up and running ASAP." Chester said, avoiding
talking directly about the Club Vocal massacre across town in front of
Jaden, but driving his point home for his benefit anyway.

Chester and Tash knew how to put on a conversational show that had
whatever effect on the bystanders that they desired.

Jaden cut in with his opinion of Project Community.

"I am skeptical of your pie in the sky philosophy Doc, as long as the
anti-superhuman cult is still out there, there is always a threat to
your community, that is why I want to use my talents to raise the
funds to hunt them down."

"This cult group is just the most recent of a long line of threats,
young man, we were always safest in groups until they got ahold of
bombs... Which is why I chose the location I did, the mountains make
natural lookout points into the valleys, each valley can be a small
community, each one specialized in something the greater community
needs, the way the Essenes did it in the days of the Qumran Essene
community... according to an old anthropologist friend of mine."

"The nearby property owners are being provided with security systems
on the perimeters of their properties as well as armed guards and
hidden surveillance equipment.

I've even got the government installing surface to air defense systems
for airborne attacks, for their purposes mainly, but an unauthorized
aircraft is what it is. I have done favors for some high level people
to make this work, and Chester has aided every government in the world
in hiding assets for centuries, between the two of us, we have
unprecedented cooperation from the global community.

There have always BEEN threats to our community, our FAMILY, but there
has never been a widespread global protection network like we have
now.

 There will always be threats to manage, we can manage them together,
Tash said, his lecture over.

"Enough talk about business" he changed direction  "let's get a drink
down in the members only, (Chester's private bar in the basement for
high powered Supernatural clientele) You know... I helped formulate most
of those liquors that Chester hoards down there like a dragon hoards
shiny trinkets. 40 different varieties of absinthe, made from local
ingredients, some of which are quite rare and can only be found in the
mountain range where the community will be located, where I and my
sister hid from the old dragon woman until she was captured."

"OK, if Chester wants us to talk, I'll hear you out, but like I told
him, I'm not running scared from those crazy, snake wearing nutbags
who killed my husband, I want them to pay." Jaden said.

"Just don't BECOME them in the process, or become an incubus, it has
happened to better men than ME when vengeance became their only goal."
Tash warned.

"Now, Just humor an older gentleman will you?" Tash said kissing his
hand and turning up the charm factor."

"Your reputation precedes you , Doc, but somehow expecting  it does
not ruin the effect entirely." Jaden said suddenly seeming quite taken
with hid new acquaintance.

Tash chuckled, this little `fart in the wind' was flirting with a
Bacchant 3 times his age... that took a lot of nerve. He may not have
strong enough Psychoactive Allure Hormones, being young and having
used them too much recently to have the potency necessary to effect on
someone like Tashrael Allston, but damn it if he wasn't trying to
charm him the old-fashioned way. This was always the game that new
acquaintances of their kind played. Seeing who could be more charming
without the effect of their supernatural allure, which didn't work on
each other.

"You have stones for days kid, but you ARE a kid...compared to a relic
like me." Tash said hopefully not putting him out too bad.

Jaden pouted sarcastically. "Age is only a number."

"The number of partners you've had recently is a greater number
though, you really ought to save up and replenish your Aura and
Allure." Tash cautioned, putting himself into the protective older
brother role again.

 "If you get too low on energy and start unintentionally feeding off
of humans, that leads to becoming an incubus, which is the superhuman
version of a cannibalistic meth addict." He said.

"Yeah yeah, you sound like Chester, I'll take tonight off." Jaden said.

They sat and visited in the private Bar downstairs as Tash mixed up
one of signature drinks, the "FairyFucked Absinthe" for the young cock
charmer, which was complete with Wormwood sugar, and a puree of peyote
cactus floating on the top, as well as some other rare ingredients,
none of which had the same effect on them that it would on a human,
but had other benefits.

 The wormwood sugar was finely crushed so that it looked, of course,
like green fairy dust, and the Peyote was a good replenishment for the
psychoactive elements their bodies produced naturally.

This powerful elixir would help Jaden recover his drained Chi and
Allure Essence. He had really been overdoing it trying to scam people
all he could out of money to Fuel this vendetta of his.

Tash wondered if he wasn't trying to distract himself from grief more
so than anything.


Tash got right down to pulling on heartstrings as he handed Jaden the drink.


"So I hear you were part of the local Siren clan before the cultists
erupted and made their debut?" Tash asked as if he hadn't been briefed
on the situation.

"I was married to one of the only male sirens left in the clan,
possibly in the world besides myself and a few other hybrids.


Before you ask, no, it wasn't arranged, and it wasn't for protection,
We were the real deal. I only joined his Clan to keep the peace
between him and his vile clan Mother. He would have left them for me,
if I'd have let him, but he'd have ended up the same way he is now,
and I wouldn't have that be MY fault." Jaden said, suddenly sullen and
dark in tone.

 "My sweet young man, if that is the case, then we have something,
very deep in common." Tash said, in a soft gentle tone. drawing it out
so that Jaden would have to ask him what he was referring to.

 Tash had a way of forcing people to engage deeper into a
conversation. He was a master communicator and manipulator.


"Well, did you lose Your husband to a terrorist cult ritual killing
too?" Jaden said dryly, trying not to be baited into identifying with
the older man too soon.

"No, actually, as it happened, My truest love was a male siren from
the same clan, I was a part of the clan for a while after I returned
from the world thinking I was dead, as surviving the plane crash was
impossible.


My own beloved Damien... he was killed defending Ashley, the clan
child-bearer from MY mother's vile Chimera creations.


You must have heard the story, and so you know who the male child was
that she was Carrying in her womb." Tash skillfully dropped the latch
of the verbal and emotional trap.


They were both silent for a good while, communicating wordlessly with
their eyes and subtle body language.


Jaden had chills on his arms, and tears welling up in his eyes.


"They always told us that story, as if the dark witch faction of their
clan hadn't started the mess in the first place by creating werewolves
and Vampires from scratch.

Tash, you ought to know, Aaron, and Ashley neither one blamed your
mother for what happened to Damien. That Chimera was, after the witch
blood in her womb, albeit it was Aaron's innocent witch blood, in
Ashley's womb, but the Elder witches provoked the wrath of the house
of Dionysus, they brought his death on us. Jaden said, taking a sharp
breath.


The Chimera were supposed to attack everyone of Agatha's lineage who
had magic. That included baby Aaron.


"We should blame my mother somewhat, Tash said. I do anyway... I tried
to save Damien and Aaron both that night, I fought against My mother's
vile beast that night. It was reckless of her to use those
abominations for her dirty work. She treated me little better than an
enemy ever since.

I am glad that hers and Agatha's reigns are both over now. We will
make this world over in OUR image, in Aaron and Damien's Image.

Jaden was quiet for a bit, pondering the possibility.

Tash continued, "The difference between me and my mother and her damn
clan, is that I don't harm the innocent, or let them be harmed on my
watch. That is why after I made it back alive, I stopped her from
harming my twin sister more than she already had.

I have children of my own now, and I know, were things reversed, and
Damien were still here, he'd have protected them." Tash said, letting
slip the greatest secret he had, the life of his Twin sons in the
balance. That was how one gained trust, by laying something big down
on the table.

Jaden looked up into Tash's eyes, afraid to say what he needed to in
order to complete the honest and trusting interaction that was going
on between them.

"You are more than a doctor then, you are a warrior, and in that case,
perhaps your community plan will work, Tashrael, I do hope so, for the
sake of your child, and for the sake of mine...wherever he is." Jaden
said.

Tash had gotten more than he bargained for in that answer.

"What? He stammered, "You mean, You had a child? You kids these days
grow up too fast, even for Bacchan standards." Tash said looking
worried.

Jaden explained,

"The one kind thing Clan Mother Rolinda, ever did for Aaron and I, and
I am sure she had her private motivations... She used her scientists to
remove the DNA from a donor egg, and insert my DNA in it's place, and
fertilized it with Aaron's seed, then Ashley did as she always did for
the family, with her Bacchante Womb she carried the embryo that was
truly mine and Aaron's biological offspring.


The first child born from two biological fathers, the three of us were
so happy, we were a family. We were so happy that Aaron and I were
both in blissful ignorance about the threats that existed." Jaden
said.

"I can't ask you the question, I want to know, but I can't do it."
Tash said. Looking off into nowhere trying not to get too sappy.

"That part is good news...our child is alive!" Jaden said answering the
unaskable question. He's safe, for now. When the cult business taken
care of he can come home, that is why I am so desperate to eradicate
the threat to his life here." Jaden said.

Suddenly his vendetta against the cult has a whole new meaning. Tash
couldn't ask him to stop fighting for his own child's safety. He
would, and had bee doing the same thing. Jaden surprised Tash though.

"If WE I can make that community plan of yours a success, he can come
home to me." Jaden said, finally reaching the point they'd been headed
to.

"You are right, Tash" he admitted, "You are right about about where I
should be working to save my son.  Damien, and Aaron would want to
know that a male child born of their line, and of ours, would be taken
care of by his real family, not living the way I had to."

 "After all, MY son is the last of their Siren Bloodline, it is MY job
to keep him safe, not some strange human's."

 "When Aaron died, I panicked and did precisely what my parents did, I
got our child away from the monsters, and I stayed to fight them. My
parents must have died, and it did ME no good because monsters still
came when family that raised me turned into monsters because of me."
Jaden said.

"That is precisely why I am trying to give back something positive,"
Tash replied, "To honor those among us who gave a damn and wanted
better for us all, rather than letting the anger turn ME into
something like Rolinda, or worse, Agatha, or my own vile mother.

They didn't start out the way they were, neither did the Old Dragon."
Tash said referring to his own mother, they lived lives like you
Jaden, and like Damien and Aaron, they were used by their parents and
siblings until they were the only ones left to do the using and
abusing. They lost loved ones, and they sought vengeance and power."
Tash lectured.

"I see that now, I don't know why I was so blinded by hate... when there
is a child out there who needs my love." Jaden said looking ashamed.

" You know what changed me? What brought me back to life after losing
Damien and made me see what needs to be done?" Tash asked. "IT was
when I met my sons."

 There are MANY children like them, like us, who need the love of
someone who understands them.

"My nephew and his lover too, they need that, they will be the first
in a long time to be loved and understood and nurtured by parents who
know what they are facing. I would feel more confident if you would
come and join me in this endeavor. You know WHY I am doing this more
than anyone, you have your own child to prepare a world for. I want
all of the young ones to thrive and reach their full potential,
whether they have parents that know what they are headed for or not,
we will be there so they don't suffer the same kind of hell that you
and I did."


 "That is my new life's goal." Tash professed.

"I'd like that... Jaden admitted.  I haven't had a chance to clear my
head since Aaron died." He said looking up into Tash's eyes and seeing
a familiar kindness he hadn't seen for a long time. "You remind me of
Aaron you know." He said finishing his drink and smiling, looking up
at Tash in a way that made him shiver inside.

"Damien helped me become who I am."  Tash said pouring two shots and
preparing for a toast. "To our sweet departed men!" he said, and they
both drank down the shot, which made their bodies feel immediately
warm and relaxed.

Jaden looked at the bottle of liquor curiously, and no words were
needed to get across the message. "That is some good shit"

Jaden was the next to speak "Tash, have you dated anyone since you
lost Damien?" He asked.


Tash's face showed the fact that that question had thorns, and Jaden
was sorry he had asked, but he genuinely wanted to know how someone
could cope with losing their beloved.


It was so hard to find someone who was immune to their Allure. It was
hard to find someone who could be real and honest with them. Sirens
were immune to their power, that is why there were so many hybrids of
the two, they knew whatever they felt for each other was genuine and
not just pheromones and hormones. Finding a gay male siren was even
more rare.


Tash answered "No, I make myself feel again, especially in the final
war against my mother and her faction, even if I hadn't been at war,
no one could compare to him.


Damien melted everyone's hearts, and he stole mine. I didn't know if I
even could feel love again. I thought for the longest time that my
love died with him.


Then I met my sons.  I didn't choose their mother, but when I
investigated the report Chester had forwarded to me, I Found her,
dead, and those two little twin boys all alone clinging to each other
as if, as long as they had each other, the world could burn and they
would still have something beautiful." Tash said, feeling almost
poetic.


" I fell in love with the little guys at first sight. I was going to
try and track down their real father, I knew their mother had been at
some of the same Bacchanal Festival Orgies that I had helped lead, so
I did a DNA test on them, not thinking there was ANY possibility that
they were mine, because I'm gay, and I thought I was careful when it
came to being around females at the orgy, but those things get a
little unpredictable and I guess at some point I didn't know what was
going on... fluids fly and well... things get messy, especially with the
supreme fertility and cum production of us Bacchans... it's like a damn
fountain. (some men claim to be able to fuck all night, Bacchans
actually can, and keep the cum showers flowing until dawn.)

I redid the test several times and it ultimately showed every time
that the twins were mine. I guess more happened at that orgy than I
realized." He laughed nervously.


"Shit happens," Jaden said. "Sometimes good shit happens." He added.


"I was probably going to raise them either way," Tash added. "So THEY
didn't end up having to grow up not knowing who or what they were,
it's hard enough dealing with the transition when you HAVE parents who
know what is happening to you. You know what happens when they don't."

Jaden nodded, understanding him completely, he'd lived through that
hell, he wouldn't wish it on any kid.

"So," Jaden said, switching gears, "When can I come see the School?"

"Are you thinking of applying for a job?" Tash asked

"Well, here is the thing...I never went to high school, I know that I
don't look the right age exactly, but there will be other Bacchan guys
there so I won't be the only one right?"

"It's possible," Tash said, "Wait are you thinking of enrolling as a
student?" he asked surprised.

"My life has been a freaking crazy ride, but all that that you said
about helping people like me reach our potential whether they have
parents who understand them or not... well... there's plenty I could
learn, and doing something normal people do, that would be a nice
change of pace. I like learning, I read as much as I can about history
philosophy, science and classical mythology, world religions, I want
to learn everything about the past superhumans throughout history and
their origins," Jaden said.

"Fuck, someone who is as pretty as you are actually WANTING to learn
our history... I could literally propose someone like you right fucking
now if you weren't 1/3 my age." Tash said, amazed more by Jaden the
more he learned about him. Jaden was blushing a bit. It was a feat to
make a Bacchan blush, but he was young.

"I want my kid, when I go and find him, to have a father he can be
proud of, not... well... what I've been lately." Jaden said.

"Damn, that's amazing, man, you are alright." Tash praised him. "Come
by my hotel tomorrow and we'll talk about when you can come visit.
I've got some situations to deal with when I get back home, so now
probably wouldn't be best."

 Jaden suddenly kind of looked a bit nervous.

"Yeah, it's gotta be soon though, or I'll lose my nerve." He said.
looking even more nervous.

"Okay then, We will make the arrangements tomorrow morning, my travel
agent can set something up for you, It's all on me, I have connections
with the company." Tash said.

"Come here, Tash beckoned to him with his arms open. "We had a pretty
intense conversation tonight, there's a lot of healing for both of us
to do, but we'll get through it." He said hugging the much younger
man.

He wrote down his hotel room and phone numbers, and departed from the
Club, leaving Jaden there at the downstairs bar to think.

** ** **

Later that night there was a knock on the hotel room door as Tash got
out of the shower.

Tash thought it must be the food he'd ordered from the night menu, and
he liked the way the boy who did the deliveries had been checking him
out earlier, so he opened the door with Just a towel around his waist,
thinking that he'd give the little fucker something nice to fantasize
about.

Tash was never shy, and he was never lacking in confidence, that was
one thing Jay had missed out on about having his Bacchan nature
unnaturally suppressed, the way people react to you.

He opened the door to find Jaden standing there, looking nervous.

"Come on in, what's the matter?" Tash asked.

Jaden started talking abruptly and at a barely comprehendible pace.
"You know when I said I didn't want to lose my nerve, well.it wasn't
for the trip down to the school. He said, "That is definitely
happening." He added.


Before Tash could say or do anything the young, tall, blond, beautiful
creature in front of him leaned in and kissed him on the lips
desperately, as though if he didn't, he'd suffocate, which was pretty
much how Jaden had felt ever since they parted 2 hours ago.


He couldn't sleep, eat, breathe, or even think. Something about Tash
had drawn him in and awakened parts of him he thought were dead.

Maybe it was as simple as the fact that he liked him, that he was
kind, and genuine, and real, and that he knew it wasn't because either
of them had the Pheromone whammy because they were both immune to it,
Jaden was doubly immune because of his Siren genes.


Maybe it had to do more with the fact that they'd both loved and lost
very similar men, and the connection they had regarding the Siren men,
and their mutual friendship with Chester, or the fact that they were
both young fathers who wanted a better life for their kids.


It was a tough call as to what had made him feel so strongly for the
beautiful older man, but he didn't care about the age difference, he
had to find out if there was anything possible between them, even if
it was a long shot.


Tash didn't turn away or lean back out of the kiss, he just let it
happen. After all the emotion the two had shared earlier, it wasn't
surprising that the kid was confused, but he enjoyed the feeling of
his full lips, and the closeness. He closed his eyes and kissed him
back, just enjoying the feeling of a real kiss for the first time in
what seemed like a century.

Tall auburn haired, perfect bodied Tash was so distracted that he let
the towel around his waist drop to the floor in the open doorway.

Realizing that he was standing naked, in front of a 17 year old sex
fiend, who had just passionately kissed him, he argued with himself
about what to do, meanwhile his genitalia were not confused at all...
and it was becoming obvious.

"Fuck it, come on in", he said putting his arm around the sweet young
thing and guiding him into the room.

Tash left Jaden sitting on the king size bed of the large hotel suite,
and went into the bathroom and closed the door so he had some privacy
to think, but not even half a minute later the food arrived, and glad
that he'd ordered enough for two people even though he was alone.

He paid the delivery kid, giving him a generous tip, having not even
bothered to put on a towel, and the studly young delivery kid, who had
definitely been eyeing them both, thoroughly pleased with the view,
and having been effected by the Allure effect of the two Bacchants
inhabiting the room who were both emotionally confused and hormonal
enough that they were having trouble controlling their Allure.

Tash and Jaden could tell that the cute redheaded 19 year old was rock
hard in his Khaki uniform pants, and was sweating profusely from his
arousal and dripping precum just from the view and the subtle effect
of them without their even trying.

When he had been paid and told them to have a nice evening, he was
fighting to pull himself out of the room as if he were caught in a
net. Once past the door, the young man leaned against the wall, and
not even touching himself went into an orgasm, making a mess of his
uniform.

Of course being the kind of creatures they were, Tash and Jaden were
both amused by this, and their extremely heightened sense of smell had
detected the fluids leaking from the young stud even through the door
and this lit a fire in their groins that was only a spark to begin
with. This didn't help Tash's inhibition any, as it had already been
going down like a plane on fire.


Tash split the meal with Jaden, barely saying a word, both of them
trying to decide what was going to happen next, neither of them sure
entirely what they wanted from the other, but knowing that there was a
tension and an attraction, and even a bond and a chemistry they
couldn't deny between them.

When they were both done eating their portion of the large meal,
someone was going to have to say something.

"Look, I know, if you are freaked out because I'm so young, and I
might be your student next year... I get it." Jaden said. "I shouldn't
have come here, but, I don't know, my feet did the walking and my lips
did the kissing, my brain just kind of went along for the ride... and my
heart doesn't fucking know what wants," he said looking vulnerable and
upset, laying back on the bed and staring at the ceiling feeling
hopeless.

Tash couldn't get any words out, he started several times trying but
there was no answer that was both the right thing to say, and felt
right when he started to say it. Tash NEVER had that problem. Words
were his bitch, he always knew what to say and it always felt right as
he was saying it. He knew 14 different languages and how to read lips
and body language and even knew what people were thinking or feeling
because he could read every language of human interaction to some
degree. And yet, this little street rat had him absolutely
tongue-tied.

It wasn't how it would look or who would think what about them being
together that bothered Tash.

It wasn't really even the age thing, but he didn't want to feel like
he would be taking advantage of a confused kid, and yet, he knew that
logically this was not a 17 year old average run of the mill human
hottie.

It WAS someone he had an intense amount in common with. It WAS someone
who had already loved, married, had a child, lost his beloved and who
knows what while he was on his own before the sirens took him in, and
the things he was doing for money probably even yesterday.

This wasn't a naïve teenage kid, he was an adult descended from a line
of superhumans who delighted in sex and hedonism.

He still had a sweetness and gentleness about him though, and that
made him irresistibly cute and yet have Tash reason to pause.

As Jaden was getting up to walk out the door, feeling stupid and
doubting that he'd even show up to talk about seeing the school the
next day because he'd be too embarrassed, a voice inside him asked a
profoundly simple question.

A voice in the back of Tash's mind asked him the same question, which
he knew was the only logic that mattered now.

"Do you both deserve to be happy?" is was what they both asked
themselves at that moment.

As Jaden turned and looked Tash's direction, their eyes locked onto the other's.

They knew that, much like another pair of hearts that are linked in
this story, they were completely and utterly at a loss to explain the
bond that had formed between them in over last 10 hours. Just like Jay
and Alex, these two knew that if they had to be apart, they wouldn't
be able to think about anything productive until they were together
again. They would feel like part of them was missing.

One of these pairs had known each other their entire lives, the other
had just met, but both of them were Bound by some force they could
never deny, something beyond love and lust and concern, it was
something from beyond the stars, a cosmic synchronicity that just
simply was.

Tash walked over to Jaden, pulled him close, and they walked together
over to the king size bed, which, for as close to each other as they
slept that night, was kind of a waste.

I know it would be more exciting if I were to tell you that they
screwed until the break of dawn, and that's what might have happened
were it not for the pure and sincere intimacy that they felt just
being in each other's arms.

When, for whatever reason life throws into you path someone who
understands you, and connects with you on that kind of level, I think
we are all helpless to try and deny it.

 Tashrael had just the insight he needed to help his young nephew with
the same kind of problem. Jay had tried to explain the feeling, the
way Tash felt about Jaden now, and he'd done a good job.

Who could help being starstruck, or starbound by someone who you just
know deep down that you belong to, and want nothing more than to give
yourself to them completely. It was, as so many experiences that these
men had had lately, impossible,

End chapter 3.

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