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       Re: Gamble of life
       By: Inkglitched Date: February 11, 2026, 8:27 pm
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       Rebel flinched seeing the first  dart hit Bobby and let out a
       cry of indignation, turning to glare at Brutus. "Y-you
       F-fucker!"
       Brutus moved faster than Rebel thought humanly possible and hit
       Bobby with more darts. The man's nostrils flared at Rachel's
       reaction question. "My job," was all he said, and headed to the
       back of the van.
       Rebel glowered at Famine, even after the guy had wrapped his
       coat around him.
       "It would have better to calm him down, instead of making him
       run!" He argued, his teeth still chattering from the cold.
       Rebel's eyes felt heavy and it felt like his heart was thumping
       slowly and loudly in his ears. He couldn't quite make out
       everything that was being said, but could tell Rachel was pissed
       off and Famine was trying to reason with her.
       Brutus heard Famine's exclamation about Rachel shifting and
       switched to a different tranq gun, thinking to keep her from
       hurting Famine. He stilled when her flowering vine slapped it
       out of his grasp.
       He might have tried again but saw Rebel swaying on his feet, his
       lips now almost blue. "Fuck," he moved to catch the  kid as
       Rachel flung Famine towards the car.
       Rebel groaned, very much hating being held by the psycho giant
       and getting moved into the back of the car. "Okay," he mumbled
       just barely registering Rachel speaking to him.
       Brutus grunted, shooting an annoyed look as Rachel took off,
       leaving him to deal  with the half frozen kid and Famine. "It
       was what you said about hunting Bobby down," he informed him in
       a dry tone.
       "You're gonna have to strip and help get this kids body heat
       back up. The last thing we need is him dying in our care. Those
       tranqs will work, just takes longer with Iceman's cold blood.
       Get going, we don't have all day," Brutus spoke coldly as he
       stripped Rebel's frozen clothes off and put a blanket down on
       the back seat before laying Rebel down. "Lay on top of him, then
       I can make a Famine and Rebel burrito,"
       Only after he'd got the two bundled up did he start the car and
       headOff after Rachel, following Famine's directions. Brutus
       glanced warily around as he pulled up to the old warehouse. It
       seemed an odd place for a safe house.
       "Keep an ear open," he told Famine as he grabbed more blankets
       and then headed inside, to look for Rachel and Bobby. When he
       found them, Brutus eyed her. "Do you want a hand? Or you want to
       carry him yourself?"Famine looked at Brutus.”say what?” He
       asked.”oh great.. gotta cuddle the popsicle.” He mumbled as he
       stripped the best way he could . Once he laid on top and was
       wrapped looked at rebel who was complaining.”I don’t like it
       either but if you die she might snap again.” He said now
       wondering how long that side took to manifest after everything
       he had done. Once they arrived, he nodded to see him go in.
       Rachel heard the car drive up as she moved a little, her hands
       hand a hold of Bobby’s shoulders as if she was hugging, she
       didn’t want to let go.”uhm… a little help.. my arms locked…-
       honestly I’d say I wouldn’t let go- but in this case even if you
       told me I had to physically I can’t..”She said sheepishly,
       though it seemed as if she had calmed down.  She noticed the
       blankets.”and thank you.” She said looking back to Bobby’s face.
       A soft sad smile formed. The mixture of happiness and guilt
       filled inside. The fact he was alive but having to take him to
       the hell that was the mansion… made her feel guilty.Rebel's eyes
       fluttered and moaned at being moved around roughly. Feeling the
       warm body settling on top of him had him groaning when he
       realized who it was.
       "Did it have to be him? Heat...need heat," he mumbled and
       fidgeted as the blankets were wrapped tightly around them,
       pressing their bodies even closer.
       Rebel quieted after hearing Famine's words, though they sounded
       much further away. He justed wanted to sink into Rachel's warm
       bed and burrow under a mountain of blankets.
       Brutus eyed Rachel for a moment, then got closer to examine her
       arms. "I'm not sure I can get those off very easily. Probably
       best to just carry you both out."
       Brutus moved to make another burrito around the two with the
       blankets and lifted the pair up in his arms and carried them out
       to the car. It took him a moment to recline the front seat and
       set them down on it. "Should have brought the van," he muttered
       and closed the door, then went to climb in. He adjusted the heat
       just a little more and did a u turn and headed back to the dark
       mansion.
       "If you gotta go, best speak up now. We aren't going to stop
       once I hit the highway out,"“Be best..” said Rachel to see the
       blankets and had a small look of amusement at how he carried
       them out. She was on top of bobby to adjust to sitting on his
       lap some.”honestly glad about the car- van would have probably
       triggered me.” She said honestly. Famine who was still warming
       up rebel shifted for his phone from his coat to call for
       medical.”yeah the human ended up way too cold- get the doctor
       and dior ready to help the guy..yes yes he’s being kept warm by
       my body heat- tell dior I’m just helping!” He said to sigh.”I’m
       good- cold and frosty below me is too out of it.” He said.
       Rachel just chuckled.”can’t I’m stuck.” She said. After a bit of
       time Steele along with others went to the car to see Rachel
       clinging to bobby and her sheepish look.”locked up?” He asked.
       She simply nodded to just lean back on Bobby. “Let’s get them
       inside.. “ he said.”I can’t work with the car this small.” He
       said as he worked to get the two out, and into a wheelchair with
       Rachel still in his lap.”you really gave me a hell of a job
       young lady.” She heard to blush.”well there’s more- I need you
       to winterize my automail.. so I can hold bobby properly..” she
       said with a doe eyed expression. The man sighed deeply.”alright
       alright.. first let’s get you free.” He said as he watched
       famine.”how much longer am I keeping popsicle warm?!?” He called
       out.Brutus made a mental note when Rachel mentioned being
       triggered by vans. It would more than likely come in handy later
       on.
       Brutus was relieved to hear Famine making a call and letting the
       medics know what was going to be needed when they got back. From
       what his ears picked up, he could tell it was War that Famine
       was talking to.
       "I highly doubt Dior is going to think less of you for helping a
       patient," Brutus pointed out.
       A part of him found it amusing that Famine was worried about
       offending the nurse. A big bad Homunuclus afraid of a
       crossdresser was kind of funny to him.
       Brutus was grateful he didn't have to stop and finangle people
       around on his own.
       Brutus parked as close to the welcome party as he could and took
       a moment to stretch once he'd pulled his large frame out of the
       car.
       ------
       Dior had been rather alarmed to get a visit from War and
       scrambled to get his clothes on. Hearing that Rebel had nearly
       frozen and that Famine had to warm him up made him move quickly
       to get prepare what would be needed. "What did Famine say? Is he
       feeling all right?" They asked the imposing War as he got a
       saline drip set up and a bed prepped with heating blankets.
       "He said he was good, but that was awhile ago. He'll be needing
       a warm up himself. Don't worry, Famine will be okay," War
       reassured Dior, awkwardly putting a hand on his shoulder.
       The sound of voices outside had Dior grabbing a gurney and
       heading outside.
       "Just a little while longer," Dior answered Famine, knowing it
       would be best to unwrap the bundled two inside.
       Brutus moved to pull the two out carefully and laid them into
       the gurney with Rebel on the bottom. He made his way over to
       War, giving a brief report before heading inside to deal with
       other things.
       Once Dior and another medic got the gurney inside, they
       carefully unwrapped the two men, moving Famine to sit with a
       heated blanket and Rebel to the waiting heated bed and started a
       saline drip.The bustle of people went around as they got people
       settled. Rachel was finally fixed up to move again- but the talk
       of a room was brought up. Rachel seemed to stress out at rebel
       having to be taken and not detaching from bobby, it finally came
       to making her settle to be with bobby so someone could keep the
       man calm enough, and promised to update her on rebel when he
       warmed up.
       She went with them to a room meant to keep Bobby’s ice in check
       and watched them bed the man. She saw her things from the small
       room she was in brought in and watched them leave. The lock of
       the door leaving her to breathe out. She would crawl into bed by
       Bobby and laid her head on his chest to slowly drift off to
       sleep from the mess they had for the day.
       ——-
       Famine wrapped himself in the blanket.”dior your gonna have to
       warm me up when your done working..” he said to look all
       pitiful. His arm finally healed to move it.”least it didn’t
       break straight through.” He mumbled to himself. Once he was told
       things were done would drag dior with him to go cuddle.Dior
       snuck a look over at Famine while he worked, shaking his head a
       bit.
       "Heat...please more heat," Rebel mumbled as he was wrapped up in
       layers of blankets.
       "You'll be feeling warm soon, just rest," Dior replied, brushing
       the hair off of Rebels forehead and then took his temperature.
       "Keep checking his temp and keep the Dr. apprised on his
       condition," Dior told the nurse that came in to start their
       shift. "If he wakes get him water and electrolytes. If he can't
       manage eating, just push broth. Just not too hot."
       There wasn't much more he could do for Rebel but wait and see
       what happened next. Dior squeezed Famine's hand when he was
       dragged back to Famine's room.
       "Gosh you are pretty cold," Dior said feeling just how cool
       Famine felt and pulled the man close. "Might need to warm you up
       with a shower or warm bath,"Famine felt the soft squeeze of his
       hand.”maybe we can ask doctor and Steele for some help?” He
       asked ever so innocently,”need more heat..” he said to drag dior
       in close.”if your okay with that..” he said against his
       neck.Dior raised an eyebrow at Famine's seemingly innocuous
       suggestion. "And just how would I go about asking? Hey Doc can
       you and your sexy boyfriend come heat up Famine's bed with your
       sexy selves?"
       "I know you do babe," Dior sighed draping his body over Famine's
       and let out a long sigh.
       A part of Dior worried that maybe they just weren't enough for
       Famine and that was why he was asking for the other two to be
       there. Sure Dior was a little interested in the possibility of
       adding others, but it wasn't that easy opening up to other
       people. And Steele was still a stranger to them.
       "I'll give him a call," Dior finally said and grabbed their
       phone and dialed Sebastien's number.
       "Hey Sebastien, how would you feel about helping me warm up
       Famine? You can bring Steele too,"After having enjoyed each
       other for the afternoon and evening, Sébastien, and his lover,
       had fallen asleep tangled together in a mess of limbs. The
       doctor awoke to a phone call, the ring tone nothing the urgency
       of the need to answer. He groaned as he pulled away and turned
       over to answer the call. It was the medical wing, informing him
       of incoming patients that could have hypothermia. Steele's phone
       went off shortly after to inform the man of the need of him as
       well. The pair redressed and went about their duties, first, the
       doctor checked on Rebel to make sure he was stable once he
       arrived before giving the nurses their orders.
       He then went to help Nickolas with Rachel to get her al least
       detached from Bobby. He couldn't lie, it was good to see the man
       breathing again. He had been dreading the idea of what this
       place would have done with the body.
       Sébastien was just wrapping up in the hospital wing, heading
       back to his bedroom with his lover when he received another
       call, this time from Dior, causing a bit of panic to go through
       him at the idea of an even more serious emergency.
       It was easy to imagine his surprise when he heard his name,
       meaning Dior had to have been alone, asking how he felt about
       helping to warm Famine up and offering to let Steele come along.
       A confused expression crossed Sébastien's face as he stopped
       walking. "Help you warm him up? I suppose I could bring you some
       heating blankets and the like," he said, stuck in professional
       mode in that moment."umm...uh.. actually that's not what he had
       in mind..." Dior stammered, feeling very uncomfortable about
       being put in this situation. He felt his entire face heat up and
       was glad that Sebastien couldn't see his face.
       "he was hoping you might bring your two hot bodies over and
       help him that way," Dior finally blurted out, feeling his
       heartbeat super loud in his ears.
       Why oh why had he let Famine convince him to ask this of his
       friend and long time crush? There really was no going back from
       this point on.Famine watched dior make the phonecall to smirk a
       little bit. It felt nice that he was not the flustered one. He
       was more amazed dior agreed to it. He watched with interest
       waiting to see if it would end up a yes.More confusion colored
       Sébastien's face and eyes as Dior explained that heated blankets
       and the like weren't what Famine was wanting. The doctor's
       cheeks turned bright red as his eyes turned a purple color.
       "Wh....what?" He stammered out trying to wrap his mind about
       what his long time friend was asking of him.
       "I have.... questions.... but... I will ask Steele.... but, what
       exactly did Famine have in mind to warm him up?" He questioned
       as his cheeks got even darker the more flustered he got.Dior
       noticed the smirk on Famine's face and shot him an  annoyed
       look. Hearing Sebastien's stammered questions had him blushing
       even brighter red.
       Of course Sebastien had questions. Hell Dior had questions,
       probably the same ones going through the doctors mind.
       Dior let out a long sigh and flopped over on the bed,
       dramatically covering his face with his arm. "Honestly I'm
       pretty sure he wants you both to sex him up. I don't blame him,
       you two are sexy as hell together. Seb, I've had a crush on you
       for years, and honestly I have thought... considered asking this
       before. I just didn't want to lose you as my only friend." Dior
       confessed, trying to not freak out or panic if Sebastien reacted
       badly. It kind of was a big ask to bring others into the same
       bed.Famine saw the annoyed look, the smirk couldn’t help but
       widen to a smile.Famine blushed brightly as Dior let out the
       truth of what he wanted. His eyes widened at the talk he was
       hearing of his friend.
       —-
       Steele who was with Sebastian looked over at the man blushing
       and saying he had questions and seemed rather flustered. He
       wondered what was up yo but kept an eye on his lover and
       reactions.Hearing what Famine wanted of the two had Sébastien
       turning a whole new level of red as he listened to Dior explain.
       His eyes going wider when he heard that his long time friend had
       been crushing on him for years. That part shocked him the most.
       "Dior! *Years?* You should know you can never loose me as your
       friend....I care far too deeply about you... I'll.... talk to
       Steele.... if he says no.... I'll  send you a text.... otherwise
       we see you soon... where are you two?" Sébastien questioned
       feeling quite flustered by the time he got what information he
       needed to hang up and looked at his boyfriend.
       "Nickolas.... how.... how would you feel about... helping Famine
       warm up... I.... believe he is wanting it to be in... a sexual
       way... I don't exactly know how to feel about it... but... if
       you are okay with sharing... I.... wouldn't be against trying it
       out...." He explained and admitted to his lover.Hearing
       Sebastien's shock at their long term crush had Dior  almost
       tearing up, relief flooding them. A mixture of disbelief and
       surprise soon followed Sebastien' reassuring words about caring
       deeply for him.
       "I guess I was just so scared, you're the only person I've ever
       had stand up for me. Not to mention the first to accept my
       crossdressing," Dior murmured softly into the phone.
       A slight fissure of hope built in up in Dior's chest, recalling
       how Steele had reacted seeing him and Famine pleasuring one
       another just days before. That smoldering intense look still
       brought shivers up Diors spine every time it flashed into his
       thoughts.
       "Okay. We..we're laying in Famine's bed," Dior replied, biting
       lightly into the bottom lip. "and having very naughty thoughts
       of you both,"Steele looked up from where he was reading, to hear
       what Sebastian had to say. “Oh?.. never thought famine would be
       interested..” he said to chuckle. “I don’t mind sharing-.. if
       you don’t mind.”said Steele. He knew he and famine were about to
       have a bit of a talk if he planned on having a relationship with
       the two of them. “Ready to go?” He asked to hold his hand out to
       the man.
       ——-
       Famine smiled widely at dior as he saw the shock. He had a
       feeling there was feeling to the two. The man was starting to
       enjoy this feeling of having so much ‘love’ come his way. His
       ears pricked at what he heard. He gave a snicker at the last
       line dior gave.”mmhmm dirty sexy naughty thoughts.” He said to
       side eye the nurse. Internally while he did feel jealous- after
       seeing how rachel handled herself with the two made him want
       more-the amount of care that showed- was opening his eyes to the
       possibility of bonding with others- intimately and with lots of
       trust. It made him crave it that much more. He pushed dior back
       to ‘cuddle’ while waiting for the two men to come to his room,
       his hands wandering diors form and taking time to undress him.
       It wasn’t till he heard a knock would he slip away and see the
       two men. He blushed a bit as Steele came in.”hm.. couldn’t
       predict you were that kind of guy.” Famine heard to blush.”pink
       use to be seen as a form of masculinity back then you know.” He
       said to go slip back with dior, in almost nothing to  look back
       as Steele just made a lustful look.”I don’t mind.. but know we
       need to talk later.” He told famine.The blush on Sébastien's
       cheeks didn't get any better, but the anxiety he felt over the
       subject practically vanished hearing his boyfriend was fine with
       the idea. Even asking if he was ready to go. "Yeah, I am," he
       said as he took Steele's hand before the pair headed down the
       halls. "Dior said they were in Famine's room..." He commented as
       they hunted for the room. It was a part of the masion he had
       never be too.
       It almost didn't feel real when they finally found Famine's room
       and knocked for the door to be pulled open moments lately to a
       barely dressed Famine getting another blush out of Sébastien. He
       was thrown off by all the pink at first, but made no comment as
       his attention turned to Dior as Famine went back to the bed to
       snuggle up with the nearly naked nurse.
       Seeing Dior and Famine like that stired things in the doctor he
       hadn't realized were there. He had avoided thinking of Dior in
       this way for so long, that now that he finally considered it, he
       realized just how deeply he felt for his friend. "So... what...
       exactly do you want us to do?" He asked awkwardly. Sure he had
       been intimate with Steele, but he was one of the rare accepting
       in his life. Sleeping with another two men, that he felt this
       affection for was confusing."shut up," Dior said smacking Famine
       lightly, their face blazing a dark red at the teasing. Dior
       waited a few moments biting their lip for a text that didn't
       come.
       Then Dior's felt a sweep of trepidation fill them. Just what was
       going to happen when the two did show up?
       These thoughts were quieted when Famine cuddled closer and
       pulled Dior's clothes off. The knock at the door had Dior
       gulping as Famine got up to answer it. Dior was suddenly feeling
       super shy and vulnerable and wrapped themselves around Famine
       before sneaking a look at Sebastien.
       "A good start would be to strip and...joining us," Dior said
       softly. "We can...figure the rest out as we go...I
       suppose,"Steele chuckled at the man.”oh? I don’t mind.. my legs
       coming off though don’t want to dirty the bed.” Said the man as
       he didn’t think twice about coming over he slid his pants off
       and unhooked his leg to get close.”come on sebby..” he
       purred.”don’t these two just look so cold? They’re practically
       in nothing.. mean hear skin to skins a thing.. but so is
       friction.” He said with a smirk.
       Famine was just enjoying the shade that dior was in, to look
       over and blush at how brash Steele was. Him coming over and
       leaning in that close managed to recover himself.”yesss sebby..
       join us..” he flirted.”just need all the heat right now.” He
       said with a smirk.The blush on Sébastien's cheeks only grew
       darker as first, Dior instructed them both to strip and join
       them, claiming they would see where things went, then Steele
       went about stripping off clothes and even taking off his metal
       leg before getting in the bed with the other two before
       beckoning him to the bed, even Famine's voice held a flirty tone
       as he requested the doctor join them.
       A shiver ran through him as the dirty thoughts ran through his
       head. He took a steadying breath before slowly removing his
       labcoat and then unbuttoned his shirt, laying them neatly on the
       back of a chair before he finally pulled his pants off and
       draped them over the rest of his clothes, being rather
       meticulous in setting his clothes aside.
       He was left in just his underwear when he finally climbed into
       the bed and laid behind Dior but didn't dare touch any of them,
       too anxious to make a first move towards them. His cheeks were
       about as red as they could possibly get at this point. He felt a
       strange kind of guilt, or was it jealousy? He couldn't place his
       feelings, but he felt like he was doing something he could get
       in trouble for. He knew his parents wouldn't approve in the
       slightest.Dior could barely take his eyes off of Steele as the
       big man got undressed and took off his metal leg. The sound of
       the man's purring had Dior shiver and then look away, their face
       and body flushing a bright pink.
       At least they weren't alone in their reaction, Sebastien's
       blushing catching Dior's attention.
       It was more than a little erotic to watch Sebastien's undress so
       slowly. Then the man was inches behind him and Dior could feel
       the heat coming off  of Sebastien's body.
       Dior reached to take Sebastien's hand and pulled him up against
       their back.
       "Can start with a little cuddling first, go slow," Dior said
       softly lacing his fingers between Sebastien's.Steele reached
       over to caress his loves cheek.”we can take things easy.” He
       said noting his fluctuations of his face, and how his eyes would
       dance to some colors aside from the purple it would go back to.
       Famine pressed against dior to feel Steeler’s large frame
       against him.”since we are cuddling- now’s the time to tell me
       what you may or may not be comfortable with- I want this to be
       enjoyable experience..” he said.
       ——Legion, who was keeping an eye out, saw the doctor and Steele
       leaving for a room to quietly follow and see them go into
       famines. She opted to use a maid that had left’s form to do her
       dirty work. She tried to risk the established faces as little as
       possible this way. She gave a curtsy to a man that walked by and
       made it to a place where she could fiddle with the cameras of
       the wing- and make it look like it was rebooting. She pulled out
       the phone and switched it on to do so then used a nurses form
       that was taking what looked like a janitor to a closet. She
       walked by hearing sex noises.”well as irresponsible as that one
       is.. makes things easy..” she mumbled to make her way to rebels
       room. She adjusted his blankets a little as she eyed him to
       gauge how out of it he was to get a new saline bag to hang it.
       She pulled a syringe out with a compound, mixing it with a
       solution to get it in. She gave it a few good thumps to avoid
       bubbles and shot it in the hose to let it  get in his system.
       Once finished and the syringe in where it’s suppose to be
       disposed. she made her way out during when the reboot finished,
       to walk out of the medical wing to where they were to shift back
       to Edward. He let a breath out to walk off for the door to go
       smoking.The breath in Sébastien's throat caught when Dior took
       his hand and pulled him up against his back. The feeling of the
       man's bare skin sending shivers all through him. Steele's hand
       caressing his cheek managed to calm him a little, as he slowly
       relaxed against Dior's back. He hid his face in the crook of the
       nurse's neck as his hands began to slowly move up the man's
       chest, holding him closer as he tried to let himself grow
       comfortable with the idea. Having Dior near naked against him
       was having his mind wander to other things. Even the way Steele
       made Famine react was doing things to him. His eyes fluctuating
       from purple to green and back again as his emotions felt quite
       jumbled.Dior's breath caught feeling Famine pressing closer and
       Sebastien's face against his neck. His head moved to give
       Sebastien more access and reached up to run a hand through the
       doctor's hair.
       "You asking Famine...or both of us?" Dior asked Steele, trying
       to clarify things.
       Sebastien's hands moving up their chest brought a pleased moan
       as their body heated up almost instantly. "Sebby...more, please
       more," he begged, his voice filled with need and his hand
       tightening in the man's hair.
       Dior's free hand moved to caress Famine's chest, up his neck and
       tugged the man in for a passionate kiss.“All three of you.. you
       act as if you’re not included dior.” Said Steele with a smirk.
       “But I don’t want you to feel pressed to use me- most usually
       feel intimidated by my size.” He said honestly. He listened to
       the begging as his hands toyed with famine.”I know for me I’m
       not a bottom.I just lost my virginity.” Steele blinked.”i only
       take consent and want to make it comfortable .” He said.”but I
       got my hands if need be.. or sebby’s mouth.” He purred huskily
       toward the man. “Not a bottom but I could try”.Feeling Dior's
       hand in his hair had Sébastien near painfully hard as he let
       himself, rather reluctantly, pressed against Dior when the man
       gripped a good handful of the doctor's long hair, the tie
       holding it back snapping with the grip the nurse hand on it. It
       earned a moan out of Sébastien as another shiver ran through him
       hearing Dior beg for more.
       His heart was pounding in his chest as he slowly pulled his face
       back. "Dior..... are... are you absolutely sure about this?" He
       questioned, still unsure, he knew if he went through with this,
       he couldn't take it back, he couldn't bury these feelings
       again.Dior pulled back from their kiss with Famine, flushing a
       bit at Steele's words and saying how most were intimidated by
       him.
       "Probably should see what I've got to work with then. I can
       probably handle bottoming for all of you, but one at a time,"
       Dior said getting a bit red faced. Feeling Steele's fingers
       playing with his nipple brought another hot moan.
       "You can all touch me, as much as you want to,"
       Hearing Sebastien's moan and the man's heart pounding against
       his back had Dior's body get even more aroused.
       "Yes Sebby, very sure," Dior moaned.
       #Post#: 1282--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Gamble of life
       By: Inkglitched Date: February 11, 2026, 8:33 pm
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       Steele smiled. "You three enjoy yourselves," he said, his voice
       warm. "I don't mind watching for a while." He gently undid the
       tie holding Sebastian's hair back, letting it fall loosely
       around his shoulders. He drew the man close for a deep kiss,
       then turned to Dior, placing a hand on the back of his neck to
       give him one next. As the moment between them grew more
       intimate, his hands rested on their shoulders, a silent gesture
       of connection and shared
       Hearing Dior moan in his arms while telling he was sure pushed
       Sébastien past his mental hold backs, even more so when Steele
       told the three of them to enjoy eachother before pulling the
       doctor into a hot kiss making him moan as his hips thrusted
       forward against Dior's rear. His body nearly demanding entrance.
       The jealousy returned seeing his boyfriend kiss Dior next.
       Sébastien moved his lips to Dior's delicate neck, kissing it
       gently before he ran his tounge over it. His hands moving down
       to slip inside of the raven haired beauty's thong to grope the
       man's growing erection.Dior wanted to argue, but went silent
       watching Steele kissing Sebastien up close. It was quite a hot
       sight indeed. Sebastien's grinding into him brought a groan from
       Dior. "Fuck that's hot,"
       Then the giant man's hand was on his neck and kissing him. Dior
       about melted under the hot mouth.
       The attention from Sebastien's lips  and tongue sent thrills
       through Dior's body. Muffled moans and even more thrills shot
       through Dior at the hand groping him. It all felt amazing and on
       the verge of overwhelming Dior's senses.
       Famine watched as Dior was kissed, a pang of jealousy hitting
       him as he saw Sebastian already moving against the man. But with
       the jealousy came a new, intriguing feeling as he watched the
       men interact. The hand on Dior’s body caused a slight shift in
       his expression, and he felt a pull as Steele’s hands drifted
       down to his hips.
       “I saw that look,” Steele mumbled lowly in his ear. “Sebby gets
       the same look in those green eyes.” He gave a soft, encouraging
       purr. “Go play.”
       Famine crawled forward, joining the others. He kissed Dior
       heatedly, his hands exploring both him and Sebastian. A blush
       crept up his neck as he felt Steele’s gaze on them, heavy and
       appreciative.
       “Don’t you three look appetizing,” Steele said, his voice husky.
       Famine then turned to Sebastian, their kiss a little more
       tentative as he grew bolder with each touch. The soft sounds
       from Dior and Sebastian filled the air.
       “Dior… Sebby… the sounds you’re making are driving me wild,”
       Steele said, his eyes holding that same intense look from
       before. A palpable energy radiated from him as he watched them,
       growing more confident with every shared glance and touch.The
       more Sébastien's attention focused on Dior, the more the world
       melted away. He had nearly forgotten they were laying with their
       lovers when he felt Famine's hands as the man kissed the nurse.
       The doctor felt a fresh wave of jealousy before his lips were
       too occupied by Famine to think about much else than getting
       Dior fully naked.
       His eyes began to fluctuate back to purple as a new blush
       crossed his cheeks as he saw the look of Steele's face before
       looking into Famine's lust filled eye. He couldn't stop himself
       from kissing the humuculus again, deeper this time as he began
       to truly lose control as his eyes settled into a vibrant purple
       as they closed, exploring Famine's mouth with his tounge as he
       reached over to Dior's mouth to wet his fingers before pressing
       one inside of the man to get him ready for himself as he made
       out with Famine.
       Steele chuckled. "We'll need to be slick enough, hm? Dior, get
       Famine ready," he directed, leaning over to take Sebastian into
       his mouth. "Keep working on him," he murmured, his movements
       focused on getting Sebastian thoroughly wet.
       Meanwhile, Famine watched, a curious look on his face. "Can he
       take us both?" he asked.
       Steele paused for a moment, a playful smirk on his lips. "Oh,
       it's possible," he said, his voice low. "As long as you and
       Sebby are both ready." He watched as Famine's face turned a
       bright shade of red at the suggestion.Hearing Dior's needy words
       had Sébastien bucking into the man's hand, moving to discard the
       underwear as Steele moved to suck on him, earning a hot moan out
       of Sébastien as he let himself fall into the needy lust that was
       wafting off the others. He moved Dior so the doctor could shove
       his tounge inside of Dior as he added more and more fingers. His
       hips bucking into Nickolas' mouth as he felt the man pleasure
       him.
       Soon enough Dior was quite well stretched, managing to take a
       full four fingers before Sébastien pulled himself away from
       Steele and Famine to pin Dior's legs back before sinking himself
       deep inside with a hot moan as he finally claimed the nurse
       after all these years.It took a bit of maneuvering around, but
       Dior was more than happy to get Famine's cock nice and wet,
       licking and running his mouth over his lover. All the while the
       fingers and tongue inside him driving Dior wild and even more
       needier by the moment.
       "Course I can take it," Dior insisted pulling off of Famine and
       then getting flipped by Sebastien onto his back.
       Dior let out a groan at his legs being pinned against his chest
       and an even deeper one at being finally filled by Sebastien.
       "Oh fuck yes!" Dior cried out, stroking a hand over Famine, his
       other gripping Sebastien's long hair and tugging the man in for
       a deep kiss.Famine took another hue of blush at Diors insistence
       to watch as Sebastian started at the man to cause a ripple of
       jealousy.Feeling Dior's lips finally on his own as the man
       gripped the doctor's hair as Sébastien truly lost control of
       himself as he began to truly take Dior, his tounge exploring the
       mouth he had wanted to kiss for *far* too long. It was easy to
       forget the others were their as he plowed into the nurse,
       vaguely reminded of the presence of their boyfriend's every time
       he heard a moan or sound behind him.
       He was starkly reminded of the others when he was maneuvered
       onto his back by Steele so Famine could press inside Dior as
       well. Their dicks pressed together like he never experienced
       before getting a gasp out of him. It was Sébastien's turn to
       grab a handful of hair as he gripped Famine's to pull the man
       down into a deep kiss as they began to match each other's
       thrusts as they took Dior together. Hearing Nickolas' praise had
       Sébastien shiver as he thrusted even harder, more turned on than
       he ever expected.Dior got lost in the amazing feelings and
       thrills that shot through them as Sebastien really began moving
       and claiming their body. All their fantasies paled in comparison
       to the very real Sebastien's rocking their world.
       "Oh God yes! Fuck!" Dior cried out as they were suddenly turned
       and felt Famine's cock joining in.
       The friction increased as Dior's body slowly adjusted to  the
       two throbbing cocks inside him. The pain lasted only a few
       moments as their lovers began moving and bringing Dior to new
       heights of pleasure.
       Dior was now almost sobbing out moans and cries as the two
       claimed his body, clinging to the two, and continuously cumming
       covering his and Sebastien's bodies.Steele watched as the three
       delicate built men went at it, their noises mixing with the
       others. Famines suprised face at the hair grab before the
       doctors put his  mouth on his. The feel of the other rubbing
       against his, watching the faces of the men in their height of
       passion.
       Famine began to cum at the sight of the mess Dior was making of
       the doctor to gasp a little as he clung to the man.The sounds
       Dior and Famine were making, combined with feeling the seed
       coating his body each time they made Dior cum had Sébastien
       right of the edge of his own release. When he felt Famine fill
       Dior, he couldn't stop his own climax as he added his own seed
       to his newest lover's.
       He couldn't stop his hips from bucking as he came for several
       more moments before he finally stopped moving. He kissed Dior
       passionately, all his pent up feelings for the man pouring into
       that kiss."Oh fuck...oh God...fami, Sebby!" Dior cried out as he
       felt their hot seed spilling and filling him up so much. Their
       body went limp and Dior slumped on top of Sebastien's. Dior's
       eyes widened at the passionate kiss from Sebastien and they
       melted into it, swirling their tongue gently against Sebastien's
       tongue.
       Dior was quite certain they'd be wanting a repeat of this
       experience. "That was amazing," Dior panted as they caught their
       breath. "I Definitely want to try that again."
       Dior's gaze turned to see Steele watching and they bit their
       lip, thinking of taking the man's huge cock. "Is...is it gang up
       on Steele time now?" They asked licking their lips.
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       Re: Gamble of life
       By: Inkglitched Date: February 11, 2026, 9:05 pm
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       Famine slumped on Dior as he took a breath.his body clearly
       enjoying the contact he had. He kissed Diors neck before he slid
       out and off to lay on his back for air:
       Steele watched as the men collapsed looking breathless. The man
       felt a pang of jealousy of that passion of a kiss toward Dior.
       But at the same time- it felt as if there was a lot behind it.
       He hoped to have that solid connection that clearly shown in
       Sebastian’s face and how he kissed the man.
       Of course he caught Diors eyes and words as he was still
       stroking.”telling me you hadn’t had enough?” He said as he
       chuckled.”I don’t mind if you want a taste.” He purred rather
       huskily towards the trio’s way as famine gave the- I need a
       minute look. “I.. would.. but .. wow..” he said rather blissed
       out from the experience.
       “Well if you’re still feeling it.. I don’t mind giving a peice
       of me..” he purred back.That look of jealousy in Steele's eyes
       when the kiss finally broke and he looked over at still had a
       pain of guilt rush through him. A deep worry that, while this
       experience was amazing, it might damage his and Nickolas'
       relationship. His eyes shifting to a black color briefly before
       flickering back to purple as Dior suggest it was time to gang up
       on Steele.
       A smirk graced his lips at Steele's comment of them not having
       enough. "Can never have enough of you babe," Sébastien purred.
       He waited for Dior to pull off of him before he crawled over to
       his boyfriend and kissed the man deeply, wanting that look of
       the man's face. He wanted the man to feel just as good as he
       did. His body was already reacting and showing signs of being
       ready for a round two.Dior made a soft sound, enjoying the
       weight of Famine on them and smiled at the kiss to their neck.
       Dior raised an eyebrow at Steele's question, and slowly pulled
       off of Sebastien and rolled to run a hand up Steele's stump and
       upper thigh. "Enough? I can never get enough," Dior purred.
       "Might need to taste you for awhile first," they admitted.
       Dior wrapped a hand around Steele's impressive member and
       started licking and nibbling on it gently. "Might take two
       mouths to get you all wet," Dior murmured teasing the top with
       their tongue.Steele watched as colors would flicker back and
       forth as black would come albeit briefly. He wondered if he was
       feeling jealousy, he could see the worry crease in Sebastian’s
       face at first- but seeing that smirk and how he responded to his
       question and the hot mouth, banished the thoughts away at the
       moment. His hand drifted over his loves body as he kissed him
       just as passionately back, his tongue running across places.
       He was suprised at Dior’s forwardness and smirked at how
       attractive that was. He felt the nurse gently lick and nibble at
       it. Steele gave a chuckle to end up groaning when he felt the
       tongue teasing at him.”why not give him a hand sebby.. “ he
       purred to kiss the man again deeply.All the worry and anxiety of
       the guilt he felt vanished with how passionately Nickolas kissed
       him back. Sébastien was near panting when the kiss broke and a
       *deep* blush crossed his cheeks hearing Steele's suggestion of
       helping Dior. The following deep kiss getting a hot moan out of
       him. "Would be my pleasure," he purred as he moved down to join
       Dior in licking and nibbling on his boyfriend's massive member,
       taking the man as far as he could before pulling back.
       A spark of a rather dirty idea crossed his mind as Sébastien
       took hold of Dior's hair, to kiss the man, and make out with
       him, while the head Nickolas' member enjoyed the feeling of both
       their mouths and tounges pleasuring him while they kissed.It was
       more than a little hot getting to pleasure Steele with Sebby,
       and watching the doctor taking the man's cock in his mouth.
       "Damn that's sexy," Dior purred moving down to lick and nuzzle
       where he could. Feeling the hand and fingers sliding and
       gripping his hair brought a hot moan from Dior.
       The erotic kiss around Steele's cock was quite genius of
       Sebastien. They continued for quite awhile, getting Steele very
       wet from their combined tongues and mouths. "think you're wet
       enough now," Dior purred, moving to kiss and nibble his way up
       Steele's abdomen and chest.Steele watched as the men go over his
       member his own noises slipping. A hot one slid out watching the
       two managing to kiss while continued attention to him could be
       felt. Once Dior deemed him ready saw the delicate man move over
       to start working him up.
       Meanwhile famine who was taking his small break couldn’t stop
       watching  what they’re doing. Of course when he saw how Dior was
       about ready to get on top of the man.. decided to go for the
       doctor. His hands went to the man.”wouldn’t be fun to see just
       one ride him hm?… “ he said to get in front of the doctor as
       they watched steel guide the nurse.”go slow now..” purred the
       automail mechanic as he helped Dior take him and let them take
       their time to adjust. He groaned hotly. “You’re tight too..”
       Steele moaned.
       Famine blushed a bit as he kissed Sebastian hotly after soaking
       his fingers to get him slick for him. Their mouths mingling as
       the sounds filled the room of sex. He never thought he’d be this
       lucky. His hand entertwined in Sebastian’s hair to pull it back
       to kiss and nibble about his neck and once Sebastian was ready
       filled him. He made his own groan before he began to move.Te
       sudden feeling of jealousy Sébastien felt as seeing Dior climb
       onto Steele for his boyfriend to guide the man onto him, his
       eyes turning a dark green as he watched, his attention only
       pulling away when he felt Famine's hand on him. He blushed at
       the man's words as he focused his attention and desire on
       Famine.
       The color of his eyes gradually lightened as Famine gave him
       more of his attention. Groaning into the kiss as his eyes
       fluttered closed as they returned to purple. A deeper, needier
       moan escaped him when he felt Famine's wet fingers began to work
       at stretching the doctor out. The pull to his hair had him
       moaning even louder as Famine pleased with his neck while
       getting Sébastien ready for what cake next, his eyes landing
       back on Steele and Dior, taking in the lovely sight of just how
       hot the two men were together.
       The feelings of guilt and jealousy were quickly forgotten when
       Famine finally pulled his fingers away to fill that needy hole
       with his dick instead, earning a gasping moan out of Sébastien
       as his hips bucked back. "Famine! Fuck! Harder!" He near
       demanded as he moved with the man.Hot gasps and moans escaped
       Dior's mouth they slowly slide into Steele's huge cock. The
       man's purred words had Dior bracing his hands on Steele's chest
       as they slide further down. "Oh gods," Dior gasped out at the
       stretch and slight burn from having so much inside him.
       "Tight? More like stuffed," Dior mumbled, moving his hands to
       cling to the man's neck.
       Dior's entire body was flushed and tingling from being filled so
       much. "Please move," Dior moaned, seeking Steele's lips out and
       licked the seam before kissing the man deeply.
       They could hear Famine and Sebastien's interaction, and turned
       after a moment to get a better look. "You two look so fucking
       hot," Dior moaned out, feeling a slight flutter of jealousy. It
       was likely they'd all have these feelings until they grew more
       comfortable with one another.
       #Post#: 1284--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Gamble of life
       By: Inkglitched Date: February 11, 2026, 9:22 pm
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       Famine heard the man’s demands and a lustful look came on his
       face, and a smile. He gripped the blankets below as he began to
       pound the man relentlessly his own sounds mixing with the
       doctors as his mouth crashed against his. Their tongues danced
       with each other as he side eyed Steele who was moving and
       getting Dior to move some as well, clearly taking some
       care.”don’t they..? Can’t be having them do all the showing-“
       said Steele as he turned Diors face to take another heated kiss
       as his hands ran down Dior’s delicate back to rest on his hips
       to keep him stable on top. After some working did Steele go a
       little faster watching the nurse’s body dance right above
       him.”stunning..” he managed between his moans, there was one
       thing he felt was in common with the doctor and nurse.. both
       looked damn amazing riding him.
       It seemed the doctor's demand was more than enough to spur
       Famine into action as the man gripped the sheets under them
       before he really began to give it to Sébastien. Hot moans
       spilled from his lips along with the man's name as he was
       claimed by Famine. The tight grip on his long pale hair combined
       with the passion behind the man's kiss as he filled Sébastien
       was nearly enough to make him spill, what truly shoved him over
       the edge was hearing Dior and Steele commenting on how hot he
       and Famine looked tangled together like this.
       He spilled all over himself and Famine as he let himself fully
       relax onto the mattress as his hands fell back, continuing to
       make out with Famine.Dior's hips followed Steele's slow
       movements, moans escaping them. Steele's large hands engulfed
       his face, making Dior feel far more delicate and even fragile.
       Which was pretty much how the man treated them, just barely
       thrusting and touching Dior as if he'd break.
       Dior moaned softly, running his hands up through Steele's hair,
       playing with it as he matched the man's movement.
       With the size of the man inside him, Dior was already leaking
       and close to coming.
       "Just a little bit faster," Dior begged their hands stroking
       down Steele's neck and down teasing the hairy man's chest.Steele
       gave a soft smirk.”faster.. hm?” He said to grab his waist a
       little.”really are cute when you beg.” He said in a deeper tone,
       his hands helped Dior go faster his mouth melding with the
       nurses mouth, he would buck a little roughly as a test to see if
       Dior could take it at random, then would begin to go at the man
       faster, he began to feel the build up as he gasped a little to
       fill the man’s ass.
       Meanwhile famine was enjoying the kissing. Their hands jn each
       others hair and touching bodies- not minding the mess. Famine
       went to take a breath as he said:”don’t they look hot like that
       too hm?” He said in a tone that sounded mischevious..The doctor
       was panting by the time Famine finally pulled back from the
       kiss, looking back at his boyfriend and new lover going at it.
       The way they kissed and enjoyed each other's bodies brought that
       jealousy back to the surface, though, the the sex high he was
       on, and how amazing the view was, it was mixed more and more
       with liking the view of the two together.
       Still, his eyes fell into that deep green, closing them to
       regain his composure as Steele began to take Dior like that. The
       way they were embraced both turned him on and hurt. Being a
       little overwhelmed with emotions, Sébastien nearly jumped out of
       his skin when he heard his phone go off, earning a displeased
       sigh out of him.
       "Yeah, they look sexy as hell," he agreed, though his tone was
       far more detached as he pulled away from Famine as best he could
       to grab his phone to answer it. "Hello?" He questioned before a
       look of confusion and then anger crossed his features, his eyes
       burning a vibrant red. "I'll be up momentarily." Was all he
       said, with a hard edge to his voice.
       "I have to go...." was all he said before he got out of the bed
       and went into the bathroom to clean himself up before he got
       redressed. "By all means keep enjoying each other...." He
       suggested as he finished getting his clothes back on to slip his
       coat on. "See you three later...." He said, his tone rather
       short as he rushed out to deal with an issue in the medical
       wing.
       A nurse had informed him that someone had tampered with patient
       charts, resulting in an emergency. Sébastien was unaware it was
       a cleaver distraction to keep him from finding out about Rebel's
       tambered iv too soon. With the jumble of emotions he was
       feeling, the doctor's eyes were beginning to malfunction on him
       as he tried to deal with the medical crisis.Famine heard his
       detachment to notice the doctor was jealous. He heard the phone
       as Steele got Dior off gently and got up a bit to get a worried
       look. His eyes followed the doctor as he went out the door.
       He made a worried look as he took in the afterglow of sex.”think
       later we all need to have a talk.. little worried about sebby..
       his emotions looked all over the place. “ he said softly.Dior's
       body was quite enjoying the rougher side of Steele, moans and
       cries of pleasure falling from his lips as he came hard from
       being filled. The blissful high of the amazing experience
       quickly faded at the sound of Sebastien's phone going off and
       the man's detached voice. It was like a punch to Dior's gut.
       After Steele moved him off, Dior turned on his side, grabbing a
       pillow to hid his face in.
       As if they could enjoy anything now. Dior felt like shit for
       even thinking something like this would be a good idea.
       "What good would talking even do?" Dior muttered into the
       pillow. "Go make sure Sebastien's okay, he needs you right now,"
       Dior closed his eyes, feeling a wave of emotions hitting them
       all at once. Why did they always manage to fuck things up so
       badly?Steele went for his clothes to get ready as he heard
       famine.”I don’t think it was this Dior.. mean it sounded like
       someone did something to a patient they were not suppose to.
       That’s why he looked mad.” Steele noted this to walk out to
       close the door.
       Famine moved his way to Dior and drew him in.”I’m sorry if this
       was too much of me.. but I’m serious- after spending time with
       Sebastian- I know how he gets about his patients now. He was
       more than smitten with how you looked with Steele. It was that
       phonecall.” He said to kiss their shoulder.”Steele can talk to
       him promise everything will be okay.” He said to draw them from
       the pillow to him.
       —-
       Steele rounded the corner to see Sebastian frantically and
       rightfully pissed at the charts he was fixing. “Is everything
       okay?” He asked.Hearing Steele's voice only got the briefest of
       looks from Sébastien, his eyes a harsh red before turning back
       to the charts. "No, everything is not okay...." He said flatly,
       the anger tinting his voice as his emotions bled into each
       other. "It's nothing I can't fix... thankfully the medications
       that was given by mistake was nothing fatal..." He commented as
       he flipped through the stack of charts he had that needed
       correcting.
       "The moment I find out who's handwriting this is..." He fumed,
       though his refusal to look back up at Steele was partly due to
       his eyes acting off, but also, unable to process his emotions at
       the moment, it hurt to look at his boyfriend because all he saw
       was the man tangled with Dior. "I just need some space right
       now..." He told his lover in a dismissive kind of way, as if he
       were dismissing a staff member and not talking to his
       *boyfriend*.Dior wanted to believe that Steele was right, but
       Sebastien's comment had come before he'd answered his phone. The
       worry that Sebastien regretted being with them and them being
       with Steele tore at Dior's mind and made their heart ache.
       Dior sniffed, trying to hold back the tears that wanted to
       explode. Feeling Famine's familiar touch had Dior tremble a bit.
       They felt way too raw and emotional, not really sure that Famine
       would think. Up until now, Famine had only seen them happy and
       in a good mood.
       "Maybe," Dior finally spoke and turned to bury their face into
       Famine's chest. "Can we just cuddle for a bit? Then I'll go to
       my room,"Steele saw the red in his eyes. He gave a quiet look,
       it seemed it was about work- or felt like it till he was
       dismissed like a coworker or staff that made him down.”no I
       understand.. just .. come find me.. when your done sorting
       things out.”he said to not just his work- but clearly his
       feelings. He went to walk over and give the man a kiss on top of
       his head to walk out. Once the door closed the man sighed at
       himself. He should have told them to talk first.. in his mind it
       seemed sebby was on board and jumped the moment Dior showed how
       forward he was.. the only real jealousy the man felt was they
       had more connection that he hoped to have. His steps echoed the
       hall as his leg sounded doin the hall. He made it to his room to
       shut the door and sat on his chair looking at everything. He
       bent a bit over the table as he felt a lingering regret.”it was
       probably too fast.” He said in the room, by himself. The man
       having been quite some time been out of dating- felt like he was
       just trying to grapple to coming back into it. He decided to
       sink into his work, which would be something he’d do over time.
       ——Weeks passed as time flew by, Daevon managing to see his
       cousin and found out about rebel. The sound of the man getting
       sick worrying Rachel as she stressed wondering what was going on
       with his system. During those weeks she told Bobby of rebels
       diagnosis- and some things that had happened. The two starting
       training with war and the other homunculi to get use to their
       powers and helping them control them better.
       Morning crawled in the form of Rachel practically on top of
       Bobby showing she was a cuddler by nature. Her muttering in her
       sleep as she shifted slowly. Her eyes opened as she could hear
       Bobby’s heart beat to lay there quietly taking it in. Somehow
       the dreams she had with how she nearly lost Bobby to fears of
       losing rebel was beginning to show. The idea of changing the man
       if he was dying weighing heavily on her mind. She and Daevon had
       argued a few times over it- the man just not wanting her to give
       anything else up. He then made the bold decision to be the one
       to activate the circle that caused more arguing as she didn’t
       want him to lose anything- being the only human out of all of
       them. She knew they’d need to wake up soon, but couldn’t help
       but look up at Bobby’s sleeping face- her dark green eyes taking
       him in.
       ——-Daevon was up for the first time in a while. The talks and
       arguing having gotten to him to disrupt his natural sleeping
       patterns. His body was in the shower as he was waking up, and
       trying to make plans in his head on how to make it happen- and
       more so learning that rebel was looking worse. He had made up
       his mind seeing how his cousin was.  She had been working hard
       from what he saw besides the training- been flipping people it
       seemed almost every few days against Albert, and throwing
       wrenches where she could. In fact he started joining in on it
       since he had been working in the garage, complaining how
       everything was outdated, finding it deplorable that Albert was
       willing to let people work in such poor conditions. He didn’t
       think his cousins tactics would be this affective.  He slicked
       his hair back in thought as he grabbed the soap to start
       cleaning up.
       ——Steele was hard at work as he made Rachel’s second set of arms
       and winterized it- making it a deep set of blue. He quietly was
       engraving a rose as nod to her name. Work had become something
       he delved in- giving time to the other men and somehow get
       himself to properly think himself.  It been weeks as he noticed
       no one really came. He was beginning to wonder if the other two
       were just wanting to get some rocks off that furthered his
       behavior with his work as he tried to combat his own negative
       emotions that had been rising over time.
       —-James was busy working at things- he avoided not just the men-
       but Jun to prevent any further torture not knowing what the men
       were capable of. He was tasked with getting samples from Rachel
       a few times, and one ended with her coming back a little scuffed
       up from being taken to their lab.He attempted to trigger her
       hummuculous side to get her singled out and sequestered as he
       and William attempted for it to blow back as she had held back
       till some of wars men who were ‘guards’ saw the result. He even
       attempted to get Desiree by herself to get samples to try to
       move on with an experiment that wasn’t suppose to happen.
       His last chance was blown when Alice had ran from the lab room
       in an effort to protect herself and unborn child when he flipped
       out at her no to a syringe she knew well enough what it was. She
       had made it back to war to bury her face in his chest as she
       told him what had happened to her.Death, and tobias started
       having things seem to swing their way. Their bond with each
       other as well as Jun gotten closer and over the weeks managed to
       talk Daevon into accepting it. Of course he just said.”long as I
       get a brother or sister I’ll be happy enough.” Not knowing just
       what would be coming. The three snuggled together in bed- with
       Jun squished between the two as they slept.Feeling Steele kiss
       the top of the doctor's head quieted some of the turbulent
       emotions inside of Sébastien but that feeling only lasted until
       Nickolas was gone. The doctor dove hard into his work, desperate
       to figure out what was going on with his charts. It seemed the
       moment he had one things fixed, something else went wrong over
       the next few weeks. His eyes glitching more and more as his
       anger grew out of control. Most avoided him seeing as his eyes
       had stayed red lately.
       He was so absorbed in his work, that he didn't have any time to
       think about or even realize he hadn't seen his boyfriend or even
       Dior and Famine at all. The workaholic felt he was getting close
       to figuring out what the hell was going on.
       He had followed the trail of mistakes all the way to Rebel, the
       man slowly declining as he grew warmer and warmer as his fever
       continued to spike. As examined the iv bag that had just been
       put up, Sébastien's stomach hit the floor seeing it had been
       tampered with. To say the doctor was furious would be an
       understatement.
       His eyes went haywire in that moment, he was barely able yo give
       the nurse's instructions before he rushed to his office to pull
       his robotic eyes out as the began to spark wildly before making
       poping sounds as he dropped them onto the desk, or at least he
       hoped it was the desk as he could no longer see. A string of
       curse words falling from his lips as, in that moment he didn't
       know what to do. He was helpless without his sight. He wished
       for the comfort of his boyfriend in that moment but knew there
       was no way to find the guy. Like Steele would want to be around
       him anyways, he had been a pretty shitty boyfriend the past few
       weeks having left on an emotional cliffhanger and never going to
       find his lover to talk. He had been in no place to talk if he
       were honest.
       ---
       Hearing Daevon and Rachel constantly arguing had really began to
       grate at River's nerves, opting to go off when the pair got into
       it.While he was against his boyfriend sacrificing part himself
       to save Rebel, he didn't try to sway his lover against it. It
       wasn't exactly his choice, plus with how stubborn the man was
       there was no point in trying to talk him out of it. So, River
       focused on training and even going to the lab to try a few
       different things to help his memories.
       The most recent attempted had shown some success, River was
       starting to remember bits and pieces of his past life, but it
       had caused him to be more withdrawn like he had been before he
       had played at being human. It seemed more and more like the only
       empathy he showed was towards Daevon and those the man cared
       about. Otherwise he was quite cold.
       ---The weeks slowly passed as Bobby began to grow more used to
       his new abilities and the realization that he was just going to
       be cold for the rest of his days. It took quite a bit of getting
       used to, sleeping in the same bed as Rachel, waking up every
       morning to the girl wrapped around him. It had only been in the
       last few days he had been able to shift back to a more human
       form, close to his original body, only freezing to the touch and
       more pale.
       His arms wrapped around Rachel when he felt the girl move on top
       of him. His eyes opened and he gave her a warm smile. "Good
       morning, sleep okay?" He questioned softly as he brushed her
       dark hair from her eyes.
       ---It seemed like the world was finally on her side as Death and
       Tobias grew closer to each other as the trio spent more and more
       time together. Jun even getting to the point that she admitted
       to the pair that she loved them both. Even Daevon seemed to
       finally come around to accepting the arrangement.
       She slept soundly between her lovers, feeling nice and safe
       pressed into Death's chest with Tobias snuggled up behind her. A
       groan left her as she began to wake up. A yawn escaping her as
       she stretched and began to plant gentle kisses on Death's neck
       to try and coax the man awake. She couldn't exactly get out from
       between the two with the grip they had on her.The fallout of
       that over emotional day had Dior spiral into a depressed state.
       After a day locked in their room, Dior emerged in a much more
       somber state, wearing all black clothes and wearing pants. A few
       of Dior's fellow nurses attempted to get them to talk, knowing
       something was up. Dior brushed them off, staying in professional
       mode, not even seeming to care about gossip.
       With Steele and Sebastien focusing on work, Dior figured it was
       best to not bother them. They might have tried to catch them
       after a week had passed, but Dior was pulled away to exclusively
       care for Ellie, Albert's mother.
       This work kept Dior from seeing much of anyone save for their
       charge and Albert when he came to see his mother.
       It didn't take the sweet Ellie long to get Dior talking about
       what was bugging them. Though reluctant at first, the story came
       out, along with a great many tears.
       "Part of me thinks it'd be best to just start over. Get us all
       out and doing something together. But with how busy and
       overwhelmed the Dr. S is, he doesn't get any free time. I doubt
       he's even getting enough sleep," Dior confessed, with a great
       deal of worry in their eyes.
       "That's a good idea, deary. Hmm...it does seem like a new doctor
       would be helpful. I'm sure Albert is on top of it Dior. If not
       someone will mention it soon enough," Ellie murmured softly
       patting Dior's hand.
       ----Ever since he'd nearly become a human popsicle, Rebel only
       felt worse. His body heat increased, sending him into a horrible
       fever that left him delirious and confused. He could barely make
       out the concerned faces of those that hovered over him and tried
       to keep his body and brain from overheating.
       Nightmares of bursting into flames kept plaguing him, making him
       wake screaming and begging to be saved. Sometimes even begging
       for them to put him out of his misery. The fever and whatever
       had been injected into his saline bag was slowly killing him.
       Nothing the doctor had done seemed to be reversing the fever or
       the damage it was doing to him.
       ----
       Knowing he'd be sent off again into the field, War asked Tank to
       procure two hounds for Alice's protection. He knew that with
       Tank's resources the dogs would be there before he had to leave.
       He was more than a little bothered by what he'd heard about
       Knuckles new partner being cornered by James. His ire against
       the man grew, hearing about Jun, and Rachel being targeted by
       him.
       The last nail in James' coffin came when Alice came back in
       tears and throwing herself into him, telling him of how she'd
       narrowly escaped being injected with a drug that could have
       harmed their child.
       War let out a low growl, gathering her into his arms and soothed
       her. "I was going to surprise you, but maybe you'd like to hear
       some good news to cheer you up. I'm getting you some dogs,
       they'll be able to protect you when I'm not here. Tank's working
       on getting them, so they should be here in a few days,"
       War picked Alice up off her feet and laid on their bed, holding
       her close. "Sounds like James is wanting more attention. I
       should text Tank about that," he mused with a rather creepy
       smirk.
       ------Tank had just finished his call to a former fellow marine,
       he got a text from War that brought a pleased grin to his face.
       "Hey Brutus, want to help me out with a side job?" He asked
       glancing over at the huge man  casually bench pressing 400 pds.
       "What kind of job is it?"
       "Kind of a hunt, catch and torture gig," Tank murmured. "Maybe
       some double teaming,"
       "Lemme guess, James acting up again?" Brutus guessed with a dark
       laugh. "Sure I'm up for it. May I do the hunting and catching?"
       Tank nodded. "I gotta prep the room,"
       Brutus finished his last set, put the weights up, and sat up.
       After cracking his neck he got up and went off to hunt James
       down.-----
       After having passed on to War  what James had tried to do to
       Desiree, Knuckles decided it was time to put space between them
       and the mansion. War and Queen had given him information on jobs
       they needed done, both being far from the influence of others.
       "Pack a bag, gorgeous. We leave in two hours. We got a flight
       out to Madrid and after that, France. Been wanting to get you to
       Paris for awhile now. Think of all the fun we're gonna have,"
       He pulled Desiree in and gave her a deep kiss. "Excited to head
       out babe? I sure am,"
       -----
       After enduring traveling by train, plane and automobile for over
       24 hours, Recon was restless and in need of releasing his pent
       up energy.
       He bailed out of the car before it came to a stop and raced into
       the mansion, past the stunned butler, dodging other household
       staff and up into Albert's office space.
       He spied the top of read haired person hidden behind a pile of
       boxes and papers and tried to skid to a stop. His momentum
       however made him hit into the person causing the boxes and
       papers to go flying all around them.
       Recon automatically signed "Sorry" on his chest and started
       helping gather up the papers as quickly as he could.
       "Recon, did you bump into Michael? You need to slow down,"
       Recon glanced up giving Queen an apologetic look and set the
       papers on the growing stack and began signing again.
       **I know, I'm sorry. It won't happen again. I promise,**
       When his eyes caught sight of the red head and his fox ears,
       Recon's dark brown eyes widened in surprise. **Who's this? Tell
       him I'm sorry for bumping into him**
       Queen laughed, looking quite amused. "You already told him kid.
       Michael is deaf, he signs too," Queen replied signing as she
       spoke to him. Then turned to introduce Michael to Recon. **This
       is Recon, Michael. When he's done with his report, you two
       should go have lunch. Maybe you can give Recon a tour of the
       place too?**Famine kept up with Sebastian being fairly worried
       about how he was seemingly falling down the rabbit hole of
       emotions as more and more mistakes came to light.
       He saw how Sebastian’s eyes started to flicker and show signs of
       like lightbulb dying to follow quickly behind him to shut the
       door to watch the doctor pull the eyes out and onto the
       desk.”Sebastian- are you okay?” He asked as he stopped one from
       rolling off the desk. “I knew it was all this patient stuff! I’m
       gonna go get Steele- and find Dior you stay put!” He said to
       grab the eyes.”I’ll have queen look at these and see what parts
       fried so we can at least order some new parts okay?” He said as
       the last few dying sparks went.
       ——Alice sniffled a little before hearing about some good news.
       Her face lit up about some dogs coming. The woman was smitten
       with dogs and always wanted a Doberman. “Really? I can’t wait.”
       She said before feeling herself laying on top of the man to
       snuggle.”see if tank will get Brutus to help.. he’s even looking
       at Desiree, tried to sedate her.” She said with a bit of a pout.
       The woman gotten attached to this new friend. Her hands trailed
       down the man’s chest.”how about a little fun.. it’ll make me
       feel better..” said Alice in a sing song voice.  Her mouth met
       wars with a passionate kiss to take advantage of the man being
       near before he left.
       ——-Michael was making his way to walk down before he felt a
       smack that made the boxes and paper scatter. He saw the man sign
       to silently chuckle to gather the paper. His eyes flickered up
       to see him sign again. His ears gave a flicker.*I can and don’t
       worry too much I should have carried less. Couldn’t see where I
       was going. Once you’re done you can find me in the book keeping
       room here.* signed Michael with a rather wide smile.
       Once he was sure recon wasn’t looking signed to Queen *he’s so
       hot* to fan himself before he would turn back to him.
       ——-Rachel felt the hair from her eyes being brushed away to
       smile.”good as I can be.. you?” She asked with a sweet smile.
       The quiet morning would turn when a knock came to the door.
       Rachel gave a soft sigh before going in to kiss Bobby, and slid
       off to open the door her gentle smile turning to a frown. She
       was met with a maid and a nurse to be told rebel wasn’t doing
       well.  There was no words as the door shut and she began to get
       dressed.”Bobby come on- I think he’s getting worse.” She said in
       a worried tone. She told the man she was gaining feelings for
       rebel as well and was willing to do a relationship. So when he
       became worse it felt like the nightmare with again.
       She opened the door again to rush out her hand in Bobby’s to
       make their way to the medical wing. Her chest tight as she was
       making a decision- not paying attention to Daevon who was
       heading to eat who saw the panicked walk of his cousin.
       “Oh hell no she’s not..” he said his hands clenching a bit as
       breakfast left his thoughts.
       ———Death slowly began to wake up at the feeling of jun’s kisses
       to look at her sleepily.”morning love ..” he purred. He dipped
       for a loving kiss before feeling a hand drag in to feel Tobias’
       next.”morning.” Said the man before he moved to kiss jun’s head
       to take in her scent. His hands wandered her form a little as
       his mind wandered to what he’d like to do.James was busy in a
       wing as he was working with another form of legion. The young
       man would look like a punk and bit of a trouble maker.”alright-
       seems things are in motion.” Said James seeing the cameras of
       Rachel already rushing down and daevon right behind her.”make
       sure you catch what we missed and why she was able to go without
       sacrificing anything?” He told the man. The dark haired man made
       a wide grin.”yeah boss..” said legion. This form was known Raven
       retorted. The side Edward managed to keep a good low profile but
       they knew with some of their work this form would be the one to
       risk for what he was to do. He had left James in a venerable
       position as he wrote some things down to continue his work not
       knowing what was headed his way.
       #Post#: 1285--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Gamble of life
       By: Inkglitched Date: February 11, 2026, 9:44 pm
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       Hearing Famine's voice had Sébastien's head turn to the
       direction of the door. "Do I look okay?" He found himself
       snapping before his expression softened as the pink haired man
       said he was going to go find Steele and Dior. "Thank you
       Famine...." He said softly as he felt around for his desk chair
       to sit down and sigh as he heard the door close. Worry filling
       him at the idea of being so helpless and having to deal with his
       feelings was making him wish he had his bottle of scotch right
       then.
       He let his eyes close as he waited in the quiet, fuming over
       Rebel's condition. He knew there was nothing he could do, the
       man would be dead by the end of the day at this rate.
       ---
       When Daevon headed off to breakfast, River headed off to the
       training area to get his morning workout in. He rather enjoyed
       the quiet.
       ---
       "I have you in my arms, I'm just peachy," Bobby answered with a
       chuckle before a look of worry came to his eyes hearing the
       door.  While he enjoyed the kiss, it did nothing to quell his
       worry as he watched Rachel answer the door. The news bringing
       even more worry to his features. He got out of bed and began to
       get dressed when he saw the woman begin to dress before she took
       his hand and led him out of the room.
       When they arrived at Rebel's room, a sad look came to Bobby's
       eyes as he moved to lay next to the man and hold him in an
       attempt to cool him off. "Shhhh, it's okay, I've got you," he
       reassured as he heard Rebel's mumbling about needing help.
       ---
       A sweet groan left Jun as Death kissed her before feeling
       Tobias' hand roaming her body. "Morning," she purred, enjoying
       watching the two men share a kiss like that making her smile.
       "What is the plan for today? I've been cooped up in this room
       far too much," she complained.
       ---
       The pair had returned to the manner only a few days previously,
       Désirée having just got out of the shower and had managed to
       pull on some undergarments before she heard her lover tell her
       to pack her bag. "Two hours?" She questioned."That is quite
       short notice," she added, gladly draping her arms around her
       boyfriend's neck as she returned his kiss. "Hmmm it sounds like
       a fun trip," she purred with a smirk. "Need to start packing now
       if you want to make that flight on time," she added as she
       pulled away to get dressed before working on packing her bag.War
       felt an odd flutter in his chest seeing how happy Alice was
       about the dogs coming. He was sure she'd be overjoyed when she
       saw one was a doberman. She'd talked enough about wanting one,
       that he couldn't help but want to spoil her with her dream dog.
       "I'm betting he'll think of that on his own," he chuckled at her
       suggestion. He gently rubbed her back, rather pleased that she'd
       found a new friend in Desiree.
       A soft groan came from him at her hands moving over his bare
       chest. "If that's what my woman wants, that's what she's going
       to get," he murmured in a lower huskier tone.
       Their mouths melded together in a deep kiss, their passion
       pouring out. War's skilled hands removed her clothes, tossing
       them aside and then slide down her soft skin. The slight changes
       and swell of her belly only turned him on more.
       "You're even more beautiful now," he murmured, moving Alice onto
       her back and removed his pants and boxers. He admired the
       beautiful woman for a moment before moving down to give more
       pleasure, taking his time before gently and carefully sliding
       into her.
       -----
       Recon regarded Michael closely, having an odd feeling that Queen
       had meant to introduce them. Normally an email or video chat on
       a safe network was how they communicated. *At least I didn't
       hurt you. Sure, catch you later,* Recon replied and waved before
       following Queen into her small office.
       Once she'd swept the place for bugs and locked the door, Recon
       shared what he'd found on his last mission.
       "I'll have to relay this to War and the others. Thanks for
       coming here. You're going to be here for awhile. War needs you
       to keep an eye on a few people and find out what you can about
       the secret lab Albert's doctors use. I don't have to tell you to
       be careful, but if you get caught they may use you for
       experiments."
       Recon nodded, a solemn look on his face. *I know what sorts of
       things they do. There have been others that have done even
       worse. Is there anything else I need to know?*Queen's eyebrows
       furrowed wondering what could be worse but decided to not prod
       further. "If you see a white haired doctor being stalked by Tank
       or Brutus don't interfer. He has it coming. I'll text you about
       where your room is later. And try to let too many people see
       you."
       *Gotcha Queenie. I'll lay low. See you around. Now for that date
       you set me up on with Mr foxy,* Recon replied, with a grin,
       humor filling his eyes.
       Queen laughed. "Okay you got me. I thought you two might hit it
       off. Be gentle okay? Michael's a good friend of mine."
       Recon nodded and slipped out of her office and went to find
       Michael. It wasn't hard to find the bright red head, as he stuck
       out more than most.
       Seeing the other was in the middle of work, Recon reached over
       to tap the man on his shoulder. When he had Michael's attention
       he signed.
       *Finish what you're working on, I don't mind waiting for you,*
       -----
       Even in his delirium, Rebel could sense when Rachel and Bobby
       were there. His shaking body calming and his muttered words not
       sounding quite as frantic.
       There was also the soothing coolness from Bobby that brought the
       slightest bit of relief to his feverish body.
       Rebel shifted feeling the cold next to him and pressed his body
       closer to Bobby's, letting out soft whimpers.
       "Tell them..I...love 'em" Rebel muttered rubbing his face
       against the Bobby's chest.
       After a few moments of rubbing himself against Bobby's cold
       body, Rebel lay there not moving. His breathing coming in quick
       gasps.
       The heart monitor showed that his heart beat was getting faster
       instead of slowing. If this kept up, his heart would give out
       from working too hard.
       ----It wasn't much of a challenge for Brutus to find James. The
       fact he was working alone in an office unaware of what waited
       for him made Brutus grin.
       "Hello there Baby face, I heard from a white rabbit you've been
       a rather bad boy," Brutus spoke, his deep voice filling the tiny
       space.
       He moved to lean on the desk,  getting up in the doctor's face.
       "While I prefer to do it the hard way, I'll give you a choice.
       You can come with me without a fight or, I can knock you out and
       drag you out by that pretty hair of yours,"----
       "Best to get in the road away from this hell hole, and far far
       away from that shithead doctor," Knuckles replied, sounding a
       bit pissed still from what could have happened to Desiree.
       He wrapped his hands around her waist, enjoying her returned
       kiss.
       He let out a reluctant groan and went to pull out their bags
       from the closet. "We can  have our fun once we arrive in
       Madrid," he suggested as he carefully packed his clothes and
       other needed items. "Don't bother with toiletries, we'll get
       what we need there. Less stress in the long run."
       It didn't take that long to have his stuff packed. He sat down
       to check the travel itinerary and details while Desiree
       finished. "Looks like they're having a heat wave in Madrid, you
       could pack a few of those sun dresses we got,"James who was
       working quietly, heard Brutus come in. The man visibly shook a
       little bit before looking up and hearing his words.”I.. I’ll
       come just let me finish with what I’m writing.. it’s for Albert
       and I know if it’s not done he will look at your group.” Said
       the doctor going a shade of white. “Don’t think you want him
       eyeing you for things that is meant for his mother remaining
       unfinished.” Said James as he wrote a few more things down. He
       went to his filing cabinet to place them where they belonged,
       and made a deep sigh as he wrote a note to William and stuck it
       to the cabinet.”let’s get this over with.” He mumbled  taking
       his glasses off to set them down- he didn’t want to spend the
       money to replace another pair,to feel a scoop that earned a not
       so manly noise.”I said I’d come along!” He said now looking at
       this guys back. And the rest of the world upside down.
       ———Tobias chuckled.”we should get moving- we have a breakfast to
       make for our son.” He said his hands sliding down to jun’s belly
       that was showing signs of change.”maybe we can get into town
       today and see what cribs there are.” He bemused a little. Death
       seemed to agree.”yes we better get going- bet Daevon is
       wondering where we are.” He said to chuckle and slide out of
       bed.
       ——
       Michael watched the man go to get back to work, sorting things
       and putting it where it belonged. His head was bent over his
       work before feeling a tap to look up to smile and nod. His hands
       flew over the books as he made his calculations. He made a small
       frown and did it again. He bit his lip a little as he looked
       through the books and wrote something down. He handed the note
       to Queen about money discrepancies and that money was being
       taken- to inform Albert. Once finished he met up with recon.
       **what you in the mood for? I’m thinking of getting something
       light today.** signed Michael rather rapidly. **thinking sushi
       sounds really good right now.** he signed before making a
       thoughtful look and look back his way to see a response.
       ——Famine was walking briskley toward where he remembered Dior
       was. He knew the man was giving Ellie a work up to pass by
       Raven. He didn’t even bother pausing as he made his way to pass
       by recon and found Queen.”hey I need a favor- the doctors eyes
       totally burned out- think you can check them and order the
       parts? “ he asked her. Once he got it settled he went toward the
       main house and made his way up to Ellie’s door to knock. “Come
       in.” He heard the woman say to come in and see Dior.”sorry to
       interrupt ma’am” he told her to bow respectfully.”oh dearie it’s
       just fine.. say what you need to.” Ellie told the
       hummuculous.”Dior the doctor needs your assistance- his eyes
       just burned out. And I’m no medical professional that can take
       stuff over right now- we may be losing a patient soon and he’s
       not taking it well.” He told the man as Ellie covered her
       mouth.”that poor man.. go on- if Albert gives lip I’ll give him
       a good talking to.” Said the woman who sat in bed.
       ——Once the two had entered the room, Rachel held rebels hand.
       While she couldn’t feel at least he would know she was there.
       She placed his hand on her cheek her mouth making a worried line
       at how hot it felt.
       She scrambled for a marker they been using for his charts and
       yanked it off the string,before heading over to pull down the
       gown they had tied loosely around his chest. Daevon who was
       headed that way, ran into what seemed to look like River- legion
       seeing the man not around him took advantage by using his
       face.”can you believe it she was gonna do it without telling
       me.” He complained to legion for him to sigh and say.”you two
       really need to stop fighting- “ to trail behind Daevon to shut
       the door behind them as Rachel noticed him.”your not doing it.”
       She said to him.”your the one that is still in one piece and I’d
       rather you stay that way.” Said Rachel as she started working on
       the circle as the argument again began. “You can’t be giving up
       any more things! You’ve been through enough!” He said as he got
       on the other side almost bumping Bobby that laid by the man on
       the other side.”sorry.” He told him.”please for once- just
       listen to me!”
       Rachel paused at a point.”look Dae.. you have your family back,
       I was afraid that you’d be alone and your not. I’m not gonna let
       you suffer for what my dad has done and most likely did again! “
       she said as she went to finish.”this is my problem to fix..” she
       said watching rebels vitals waiting for them to drop.
       Then it hit Daevon. Rachel was taking what her father had done
       and blamed herself for it due to the fact she was his daughter.
       His face went a bit serious as he got Bobby to move.”it’s for
       the best once they drop you can’t be near the circle- you could
       get caught up.” He warned. Rachel’s fingers were hovering over
       the circle but the moment she saw his vitals drop and his last
       words - did daevon acted first smacking her hand away before a
       bright light occurred.It wouldn’t be long till he found himself
       facing a door. His face  looking around the stark white looking
       room that was infinite. He came face to face with a grinning
       white figure, his hands balled as a question slid out.”what is
       it you seek.”
       Daevon felt his head swim at the experience.”rebel, it wasn’t
       his time, and it shouldn’t have been.” He said with a firm look.
       “Are you sure?” He heard as he nodded.”for my cousins sake.” He
       said as it caught the attention of the figure.”it shall be
       done.” Daevon could hear the door open to turn and see what
       looked like various black trendils head his way and grip his
       right hand. Pain started to be felt as he started to yell.
       Rachel watched as her cousin who seemed to be taking time about
       came close to stop him to see ‘river’ block her.”River you
       didn’t want it either- “ she started before hearing the man’s
       screaming as she watched her cousins right hand vanish, and
       began to bleed from the stump.”tourniquet..” she said.”we need
       to stop the bleeding!” She said now panicked even more as the
       door to the patients room started to being banged more when it
       came to head of what was going on. By the time ‘River’ found the
       thing and tied it off on daevon did he pass out and the room
       rushed with nurses and Albert’s men as the three were taken out,
       Rachel took notice that ‘River’ wasn’t flipping out or going for
       daevon, who was being rushed to another room to get the stump
       worked on. The place now completely chaotic. Rachel’s hand shot
       out.”River what’s your problem! Get the fuck in there!” She
       managed out before the face changed to that of Raven before her
       body went up and over his shoulder. He dragged her out with the
       chaos that was going on as she flipped to her other side to
       combat the one that was dragging her out of the medical wing.
       But before she could do anything further did that face change to
       that of her mothers.Rachel’s eyes went wide at the sight.”mom?”
       Slid out slow- giving legion long enough to gain some control.
       “You always were a lot like your father.. “ she said as Rachel
       shrunk a little hesitating to fight back. All sorts of emotions
       ran through.”if there’s answers you want.. come to the lab no
       one is allowed to enter..” said legion getting close to her
       face.”all can be answered just with you arriving there.. be
       there tonight..” said legion before morphing  back to  Raven
       before jumping out the window. The man racing to keep the rest
       of his sides from being found out.Rachel’s eyes went wide at the
       sight.”mom?” Slid out slow- giving legion long enough to gain
       some control. “You always were a lot like your father.. “ she
       said as Rachel shrunk a little hesitating to fight back. All
       sorts of emotions ran through.”if there’s answers you want..
       come to the lab no one is allowed to enter..” said legion
       getting close to her face.”all can be answered just with you
       arriving there.. be there tonight..” said legion before morphing
       back to  Raven before jumping out the window. The man racing to
       keep the rest of his sides from being found out.Tears streamed
       down Bobby's cheeks heading Rebel's last words to them. "Reb,
       you can't go, please..." He pleaded softly as Daevon and Rachel
       argued. When Daevon warned him to move, Bobby was reluctant to
       pull away but did as he was asked.
       He watched in horror as Daevon lost his hand as the guys
       boyfriend seemingly looked pleased at what was happening. The
       moment Daevon was done, Bobby rushed back to Rebel, going back
       to holding him even tighter than before. The heat coming off the
       man not bothering him in the slightest.
       ---
       A giggle left Jun at Tobias's words, her eyes closing as he put
       his hand over her growing tummy. "Haven't been shoping for a
       crib since I had Daevon! Oh this will be so fun! Plus I have
       twice the help," she mused with another laugh. She had never
       been more happy than she was laying there with her two loves.
       "One of you is going to have to move so I can get up," she
       added.
       ---
       A slight frown played on Désirée's lips seeing Knuckles so
       upset. "Got it," she said as she packed her bag with only
       necessity, which was mostly clothes and weapons. "Sounds like
       you don't plan on coming back," she mused as she pulled the
       mentioned sundresses out of the closest to fold neatly into the
       suitcase. "Will you be able to fix the extra box of ammo in your
       bag." She questioned as the pair worked to get ready.
       #Post#: 1286--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Gamble of life
       By: Inkglitched Date: February 11, 2026, 9:50 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       Brutus rather enjoyed seeing James' reaction, reaching out to
       brush some hair out the other man's face as he continued
       writing.
       "Bye all means, I like Ellie. Have you made any progress on
       curing her yet?" He asked in a rather casual tone.
       He watched the doctor as filed his papers and stuck a note on
       the cabinet. "Could drop those off on the way if you want," he
       offered with a smirk. He was pretty sure the doctor didn't want
       anyone knowing he was involved with one of War's men.
       Once James had set his glasses down, Brutus swept him up and
       over his shoulder.
       "Sure did, but you could also try to run off. I'm in no mood to
       hunt you down," Brutus drawled and smack the man's ass.
       "Mm..nice and tight."
       It was a short trip to the room that Tank had set up and
       equipped with more tools since the last encounter.
       Brutus set the doctor on his feet and turned him around to face
       Tank.
       "Ah hello there My lovely Pretty Boy, are you ready for double
       the fun?" Tank ask with a wide grin, pulling and snapping a
       glove onto his right hand.
       ----------
       Recon pulled his phone out to check on a few things while he
       waited for Michael to finish out in the hallway. When he heard
       the others footsteps return he put his phone away watching the
       other's delicate fingers dance as they signed.
       His face screwed up in a rather skeptical expression. **Do they
       even have any good sushi places in the town? So far from the
       ocean, it probably tastes like crap.**
       He empathized his thoughts by making a grossed out face.
       **Is there a good fish market here? I could make you better
       sushi than any shop that's in this place. Course maybe that
       would take too much time. Maybe do that for dinner instead?**
       Sometimes Recon wished his sushi standards weren't so high. But
       maybe Michael wouldn't mind doing something else for lunch.
       **Sorry, I'm kind of picky when it comes to sushi. Comes from
       growing up in a fishing village,** he explained.
       ----
       Queen was a bit surprised by Famine's popping into her office
       unannounced.  Hearing his request had her looking quite
       concerned.
       "Of course, I can do that. Poor guy. That's going to be tough.
       I'll ring Steele when I have the parts in," she promised.
       Once Famine had left, she sent a message to both Albert and War
       about Sebastien's inability to work and the need for another
       doctor.
       -------
       Dior turned at the knock, chewing in their lip nervously. Their
       eyes widened seeing it was Famine had Dior's heart skip a beat.
       Hearing why he'd come had Dior on his feet instantly, concern
       and worry for Sebastien and then a punch to the gut, knowing it
       was Rebel that was near death.
       "Oh god," Dior said softly shooting an unsure look at Ellie even
       as she told him to go and promised to keep Albert in line.
       "Thank you Ellie. I'll be back as soon as I can," Dior promised
       and moved to take Famine's hand before hurrying out the door.
       "I'm so sorry I haven't talked to you until now. I miss you,
       and...the others too,"
       ----
       One moment he was burning up, feeling a hand holding him and
       then he was standing in a long dark tunnel, voices and the sound
       of fighting echoing around him. He turned and blinked seeing a
       bright light off in the distant, the faint outline of a door in
       it.
       Where the hell was he? Who was he? How the hell had he gotten
       here? Was he even alive? His mind was flooded with more
       questions and he let out a scream.
       "Don't go ..don't go," "Rebel, please hold on," "it's not his
       time.. he deserves another chance,*
       Rebel turned around in confusion as voices echoed around him.
       What the hell was going on.
       The light was beckoning to him and he took a step towards it,
       which made the voices get even louder.
       "Reb you can't go please..."
       "Are you sure?"
       "For my cousins sake,"
       "It shall be done,"
       Rebel blinked seeing the door in the light start to crack open.
       "I'm fucking getting the hell out of here!" Rebel yelled,
       running as fast as he could.
       At this point he didn't care where the door took him. Just that
       he got out of the tunnel.
       After what felt liked years of running, he stepped through the
       now open door and his body feeling like it was burning up again.
       Rebel suddenly groaned as his eyelids flickered as sensations
       started to fill his body. He felt like something...no someone
       cold was tightly wound around him.
       "B-bobby?" He rasped out, finding it hard to open his eyes.
       Flames started forming and flickering up his arms.
       "What's happening?" He asked, opening his eyelids to reveal
       flickering flames in his irises.
       -----
       "I'd prefer to stay away as long as we can. There's bound to be
       some major shit going down. We really don't want to be here for
       that. I've been talking  with War about us getting out,"
       Knuckles confessed. "If things work out, we could be able to in
       a couple of years."
       Knuckles got up to get the box of ammo and got it into his bag
       with a bit of rearranging. "It fits, shall we grab something to
       eat at the airport then?"
       ---
       War was feeling quite happy, relaxing with Alice in his arms
       after they'd made love for the third time that day when his
       phone started vibrating on the dresser.
       With a long annoyed sigh, he rolled Alice onto her side slow so
       he could grab the annoying contraption and checked his messages.
       His features and expressions slowly became concerned as he read
       through Queen's encrypted message and text about Sebastien's
       eyes.
       "Sorry love, looks like there's a few things I need to go
       handle. Looks like we're needing that second doctor much sooner
       than I thought,"
       War gently slide his arm from under her and covered Alice with
       the blankets. "I'll get some men to guard the door. I'll be back
       as soon as I can," he promised, kissing her gently on the lips
       and then quickly got dressed. "Rest a little please,"
       War stepped out and got four of his guards to stand outside the
       door. Then he went to find Albert.
       “Almost- results should be in by tonight.” Said James as he was
       being carried back. He made another noise as he sighed.”don’t
       know about that anymore.” He mumbled.
       ———Famine took Diors hand to hurry out.”got one more person to
       grab. He’s just in a mess, was working all late nights- kinda
       forced him to have a nap at least but someone fucked with
       patient records and it came out that rebel’s iv transfusions
       were messed with.” He told Dior.”never seen him wig out so bad
       that his eyes would fry-… or witness him ripping them out like
       that..” said the man to rush past a window to notice Raven
       acting squirrelly outside to ignore it till they got to steeles
       door. Famine knocked once… twice and by the third time had the
       fuck it look got the keys he’d taken from one of the mafia guys
       to open it up to see Steele snoozing on his work.”yo! Steele!”
       He said to shove him awake.”huh what? I just bout had the leg
       done..” he mumbled before waking up. “Seb needs us.. he can’t
       see right now and torn up- his eyes fried out.. maybe you can
       fix them once Queen finds the parts?” He asked as Steele about
       got out of his seat, it was clear the man had bags under his
       eyes.
       Famine took his hand to drag the two into Sebastian’s office.”im
       back with the two.” He said to usher them in. Once inside he
       locked the door with himself.
       “Want a drink sebby?” Asked famine as he went to the liquors.
       ——Rachel took a moment as she let what happened sink in. Her
       hands went to her face as she was in shock. But somehow her body
       started to move back to rebels room to come in. She walked over
       to see the flames.”your awake.. so the result of what powers we
       get - differs from person to person..“ Rachel said observing a
       little. She would have gone closer but her instincts for her was
       to stay away. Tears collected clearly as she felt relief to see
       rebel.”we better find fire retardant clothes for sure but.. we
       need to find a room..” she said as she tried to get her mind
       back to normalcy,”I.. need to check on my cousin.” She said to
       smile softly.”I’ll be back,”
       ——lAlice snuggled with her lover, her smile showing wide  before
       she heard the phone vibrate, groaning with disappointment. She
       felt the kiss and smiled to nod.” You just don’t let Al push you
       around.” She said to sink back in the bed her hand on her tummy.
       ——
       Death gave a chuckle to start moving.”okay -okay.. not my fault
       you’re so comfortable”. Said the man, the trio took their time
       to get ready and headed out to see if Daevon would be at
       breakfast- instead they were met with the man being in the
       hospital. Tobias paled.”what happened?” He asked a man as he was
       given some vague answer about finding Daevon with no right hand.
       He quickly took off with death and Jun in tow. They would happen
       upon Rachel who was checking up on her cousin. The man finally
       out of it by the time they doctored him up. Rachel turned and
       let the trio take over before heading back to Bobby and rebel
       unsure of how to explain things with how bad it seemed.
       Death noticing no river, opted to go find the man to find him
       still working out.”there you are! Your boyfriends in the
       hospital, his entire right hands gone.” He told him.Tears of joy
       streamed down Bobby's cheeks hearing his name from Rebel's lips.
       He placed a hand on the man's cheek, "shhhh it's okay, it's just
       the change, it is scare at first and you are going through it
       way faster than I did.... just need to calm down, I've got you,
       I can cool you down," he reassured, trying to keep a steady
       voice before running his frosty hands over the flames to put
       them out.
       Looking into the man's flaming eyes after thinking he had just
       watched him die, he couldn't hold himself back form kissing
       Rebel, an attempt to calm them both down with all the chaos
       going on behind them.
       He didn't pull back until Rachel told the pair she would be
       back. "Alright, be careful please," he suggested, not liking her
       going off without him but he couldn't bare to leave Rebel's side
       in that moment.
       ---
       Once death was out of the way, a giggling Jun moved to stretch
       out in the middle of the bed. A yawn escaping her as she
       prepared herself mentally for getting out of bed. Soon the trio
       was out of bed and dressed, heading to breakfast with her son.
       She had been disappointed that the man's boyfriend had stopped
       coming to the breakfasts. His excuse was that he didn't eat, not
       liking to sit there awkwardly while the family chatted and ate
       and talked. He didn't understand how Death tolerated it.
       Being the man might be her future son in law she wondered how
       she could make him feel welcome in the family. Her thoughts of
       how to make River feel welcomed were halted when Jun was
       informed Daevon was in the hospital wing because he lost a hand.
       She ran after her husband and Lover, finding Rachel on the way
       to her son's room.
       The moment Jun walked into the room, seeing the state her son
       was in had the woman bursting into tears. "My baby! What
       happened??" She cried before rushing over and coddling her son
       as she sat next to him and embraced him, stroking his hair as if
       he were seven and not a grown man.
       ---The tranquility of the training ground was dashed away when
       Death approached as River finished his workout. He stopped to
       look at the man with a shocked expression on his face at what
       his brother had to say. "The fucking hell happened?" He
       questioned in shock and anger before going with his brother to
       the hospital wing to find Daevon practically being rocked in his
       mother's lap as the woman fussed over him.
       "What the fuck happened?" He asked Daevon this time, worry
       written all over his face. "How did you manage to lose a whole
       hand?" He could help but ask.
       ---Hearing the door open got Sébastien to flinch and turn away
       from the door uncertain of who it could be until he heard
       Famine's sweet voice, prompting him to turn back around. A
       breath of relief leaving him hearing the three men were there.
       The paink haired man even offering a drink to Sébastien. "Just
       bring me the scotch bottle.... thank you...." He said softly.
       He didn't open his eyes, without the robotic implants, he knew
       he had to look unsettling. "It's.... been a while..." He
       mentioned as he felt glass pressed into his hand before bringing
       it to his lips to take a much needed drink.
       ---
       A perfectly manicured eyebrow rose on the blondes face as
       Désirée give Knuckles a look of concern as she zipped up her
       bag. "I've a better idea, let's just run away together, never
       look back at this place... I know it's easy for me to say given
       you are my only attachment to this place, but just think, we
       could go run away to some island together... maybe even
       elope...." She suggested as she finished getting ready to go.
       "I'm good with eating at the airport," she added as she grabbed
       her purse and put the suitcase on the floor to roll behind her
       as they walked out.Brutus looked rather surprised by James'
       resignation and his stripping without being told or forced too.
       "How'd you tame him so quickly? Thought you only had the one
       session with baby face here,"
       Tank rather liked James' wince at the sight of the glove. "Oh he
       might not admit it, but he loves the attention. Craves it even.
       Why else would he act out?"
       Once James' clothes were off, Tank grabbed James by his neck and
       lifted him up, shoving him up against the wall. "I haven't quite
       decided what we're doing. Just know that by the end, you'll be
       filled to the brim with cum,"
       He carried James over to the metal table, and cuffed the man's
       wrists down in each side, while Brutus spread his legs and
       locked them down.
       "Anything off limits?" Brutus asked looking over the tools that
       had been spread out.
       "No marking or hurting Pretty boy's face. And nothing too
       damaging. Could use the electric shock wand, and the nipple
       clamps. He loves those," Tank added with a grin.
       Brutus lifted the electric wand and  examined it, then moved to
       slide it up the inside of James' right leg, and turned it on
       near his upper thigh for a few seconds before pulling it away.
       Tank leaned over the top of James attaching the nipple clamps
       and a bejeweled collar around the man's neck. "Now you look
       pretty," he said with a grin and caressed James face before
       forcing his mouth open and sliding two fingers in. "Bite me and
       I'll bite back," he warned. "Gotta get you used to things in
       your mouth,"
       ----
       The more Famine spoke, the more worried Dior became. "Oh my god,
       poor Rebel..and poor Sebastien."
       Having seen Sebastien only lose his mind in a rage, he knew the
       man was in a very vulnerable state of mind. "Ripping them out?
       Oh Seb," Dior said softly.
       Their long legs managed to help Dior keep up with Famine's
       hurried pace to Steele's room. "Are you sure he's in?" Dior
       asked as Famine got out a ring of keys and unlocked it.
       Seeing how out of it Steele was concerned Dior even
       more.Apparently they'd all been suffering in silence. That had
       to be changed. Dior was once again dragged along by famine,
       sneaking looks at Steele until they arrived at Sebastien's
       office and then locked inside.
       It was more than a little shocking to see Sebastien looking so
       ragged. Dior held back until after the man had gotten his
       scotch. Then moved to wrapped his arms around him, hugging him
       gently. "I should have been here, helping you. Is there anything
       I can do to help now?"
       Dior wanted to kiss the doctor, but held himself back, not sure
       if Sebastien would want that.
       ---
       Rebel's head shifted seeing Rachel coming into the room,
       frowning a bit seeing that she appeared intact. "Okay good,
       awake means it worked,"
       He turned to look Bobby over carefully, still wondering what had
       been sacrificed to bring him back. He calmed down at Bobby's
       touch and reassuring words. The frosty hands felt good on his
       hot skin.
       Rebel let out a soft moan as Bobby's cold mouth covered his own,
       and kissed him back, his body slowly relaxing even more.
       Hearing Rachel saying she needed to check on her cousin made the
       flames rise again as guilt slammed into him. "He...oh God, he
       gave up a body part for me? Shit, what did he lose?"
       -----Knuckles could very well understand why Desiree wanted to
       put distance between them and the place.
       "That's a very tempting offer, I just would prefer being on
       War's good side when I leave. I've seen what happens to those
       that run. Hell...I've been sent with Tank when he's tracked down
       runners. He's found people at the ends of the earth. The guy is
       relentless,"
       A part of Knuckles was wondering if Desiree had been serious
       about eloping. Did she really want to marry him?
       "We should talk more about this eloping idea. Do you really want
       to tie yourself to me?"
       Knuckles pulled on his leather jacket and grabbed his bag and
       followed her out, snagging keys for one of the cars in the
       garage. "Let me get that," he said taking her bag and stashing
       it with his own in the back, then opened her door for her.
       He got in the driver's side and headed out, noticing some sort
       of commotion around the hospital entrance. He wasn't about to
       stop and ask what was going on though.
       With his inside contact with security, they were escorted
       through a back door, avoiding the security checks. "Thanks,"
       Knuckles murmured, slipping the man a few bills as they headed
       into the food court.
       "What looks good to you Red?" He asked playing with a strand of
       her hair.James just gave another flat look at the
       banter.”there’s this thing called learning- rather my things not
       get torn up in the process- a lot of my stuff is on bargain.
       Can’t afford to replace it every time something’s cut off or a
       punch to the face with my glasses on.” Said the man.
       ——Famine handed Sebastian what he wanted. Steele smoothed his
       hair back seeing Diors concerned look.”I’m okay.. just got stuck
       on a leg that wouldn’t go right.” He said. He looked at
       Sebastian.”
       Steele  walked over and took the man’s free hand to kiss the top
       of his head. “It has.. I wasn’t sure if you wanted me around
       with things getting busy.” Said Steele honestly.”sorry for
       everything- maybe this was also too rushed.. Sebastian I meant
       it when I said I wanted you happy.. “ said the man. His hand
       touched the doctors face in a loving way. “Been worried that I
       had ran you off or pushed something I shouldn’t have… “ he said
       as famine watched the two talk. Famine looked at Dior.”and I’m
       sorry too- mean I started this whole thing so I’ll be honest.”
       He said as Steele went quiet.”I have feelings for all of you..
       Steele is a bit new for me but- you showed me what I should be
       happy with..” the man dipped his face as he decided the truth
       was best said out loud.”.i wasn’t kidding when I said I wasn’t a
       good person Dior- I’m why river lost his memory at first- I
       just..” his mouth tightened.”I tortured cause I felt he took
       everything from me.. same with Rachel- granted it was a job- I
       made her hurt- I’m why she lost her arms, and I feel I’ve done
       it again- and I never wanted that to happen. I’m why all of you
       just seperated.. and I know for a fact Williams why rebels in a
       state- “ said famine his voice cracking.”if I known he figured
       out how to get close- I could of stopped it- but the symptoms-
       just like Bobby’s.. it was clear it was from when river use to
       make poison compounds that allowed for death over time. Unless
       you pump them full of it- or just enough for someone that’s
       already sick.” He said. He sat on the chair.”mean if you drop me
       it’s fine but don’t hurt each other cause of my selfish greedy
       self.” He said with a quieter tone.
       —-
       Daevon who was almost lulled to a doze heard his mother’s
       cries.”mom- it’s okay. It’s just a boo-boo.” He said with a
       smile as his father facepalmed.”they drugged him.. it must of
       been bad.” He said to keep Rachel rooted where she was before
       she could race off. Her guilt on her face.”Rachel what
       happened?” He asked. It wouldn’t be but a little later death and
       river would come in. Rachel staring at river as if he was
       something she didn’t recognize.
       “River!! “ Daevon said already acting somewhat loopy.”you were
       there silly.” He told him.”was my hero.”he said before making a
       kissy face.
       —-Albert was in his study as a text came through from Queen
       about Sebastian. His brows furrowed worriedly.”that’s not good..
       guess it’s best we do..” he made a silent thought about
       contacting the doctors parents to be in their care till his eyes
       came in.
       As he was playing with those thoughts he heard a knock at the
       door.”come in” he called out. There he would see war and
       blinked.”ah- war, good to see you.” Said the man that looked a
       bit unkempt and almost as if he had been up for a few nights.
       His books scattered and reports on the other. He straightened up
       to lean on his head on his hands.”how can I help you?” He
       asked.The rise of more flames at Rebel's heightened emotions had
       Bobby gently putting them out before taking the man's face into
       his hands. "He is okay, he lost a hand. It can't be taken back,
       so there is no use stressing over it. What matters is you are
       alive... plus... you won't feel so sick anymore," he tried to
       reasure.
       "When Rachel gets back I know she is going to want to kiss you
       too, have to calm down so you don't burn her," he added, hoping
       the thought of Rachel wanting to kiss him would flustered the
       guy enough to edge him towards calming down.
       ---
       Feeling arms wrap around him followed by Dior's stressed voice
       brought a small smile to Sébastien's lips before he heared
       heavier footsteps aproch hefore his emypty hand was taken by
       Nickolas' calloused hands. He listened at Steele spoke before
       the kiss to the top of his head. Then Famine said his piece.
       It seemed the three had taken his absence quite personally
       getting a sigh out of the doctor. "Look, I'll be honest,I got
       quite jealous when we were all together, but nothing more than
       that. None of you should be apologizing, I should, I've let my
       emotions go out of control, I mean, that is why my eyes shorted
       out I'm decently sure...." He explained as he put the bottle of
       scotch onto the desk once he found it before pulling Dior fully
       into his lap before leaning his head against Steele's chest.
       "Famine, I feel the same way you do... I dare say... I've loved
       Dior for... a very long time... and Nickolas as well.... and I
       have quite the feelings growing for you as well Famine.... I am
       no saint myself. If you haven't noticed, i don't talk about
       myself... there is a reason Albert won't touch those I'm
       involved with... my family would tear this organization apart...
       So, enough talk like that, you are a part of this weither you
       like it or not," Sébastien said in a soothing tone. "I have room
       in my lap for you too," he added as he held Dior closer.
       ---
       #Post#: 1287--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Gamble of life
       By: Inkglitched Date: February 11, 2026, 10:12 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       A even more confused look came to River at Daevon's words.
       "Daevon..... Babe, I've been on the training grounds all
       morning. I haven't seen you since you left for breakfast this
       morning...." River said as a laver of anger began to show in his
       eyes. Someone had clearly pretended to be *him* and now his
       boyfriend was hurt. Someone's head was going to roll for this.
       His eyes turned to Rachel and her uncle. "Rachel... where you
       there? Do you know what happened?" He questioned.
       ---
       "Of course I want to tie myself to you, I don't tell just anyone
       I love them," Désirée said, dropping the subject as they left
       the room and headed to their waiting car. The trio to the
       airport was rather dull, though having to slip through security
       was always a fun challenge. Though it often seemed a little too
       effortless.
       Désirée happily hung on Knuckles arm as they made their way
       through the food court with their bags trailing behind them.
       "Hmmmm I'm feeling subway today," she mused before tugging him
       along to the mentioned storefront to get on line.
       Brutus exchanged a slightly amused look with Tank when James
       started explaining why he was being complacent.
       Tank was quite enjoying the sounds and reactions he got from
       James.
       "Our pretty boy sings so lovely," Tank couldn't help but say at
       the cry Brutus got out of James.
       "He looks a bit freaked out," Brutus commented watching as Tank
       slide his fingers in and out of the doctor's mouth.
       "Well..he's never had two at once, and we are both big guys."
       Tank replied.
       "Suck them and get my fingers nice and wet," he ordered,
       slapping James face lightly with his other hand.
       Brutus stroked the wand up James legs, waiting until Tank pulled
       away to shock the doctor again.
       They'd only been playing with the doctor for thirty minutes when
       Tanks phone went off.
       "Who could that be?" Tank asked and checked out his phone, his
       face getting much harder. "Well... Apparently That sick kid died
       and got turned. A lot of people think you had something to do
       with it."
       Brutus stroked the electric wand up, to shock James on the
       stomach, and then near his groin. "Could get those tuning tools
       out, try that out,"  he suggested with an eager glint in his
       eyes.
       -------Dior gave Steele a small nod, wondering if there might be
       one of War's people that might be able to help Steele figure out
       the problem.
       Dior stayed glued to Sebastien, listening to Steele and Famine
       as they said their pieces. His expression only slightly changing
       at what Famine revealed about his past and the things he'd done
       to others. Sure it sounded like he'd done terrible things, but
       it didn't mean he was evil. At least not in Dior's mind.
       Relief flooded Dior when Sebastien confirmed what Famine and
       Steele had told him earlier.
       Dior let out a surprised sound at being pulled into Sebastien's
       lap. "A little warning next time please," Dior murmured and
       settled against Sebastien's chest.
       Hearing Sebastien saying he'd had feelings for them for a long
       time, made Dior's face go  a very bright red.
       "Since everyone has been honest, I guess it's my turn to go.
       Famine, my feelings for you aren't going to change. So you did
       terrible things before I knew you, that's in your past. As far
       as I've noticed, you're trying to be a better person since I met
       you. You aren't in any way to blame for us not communicating
       with one another. We all care for one another, so we all need to
       do better. And might I point out, you did just get us all in the
       same room. Now get your cute ass over here and join us already!"
       Dior demanded beckoning Famine with his hand. "And give me a
       kiss please,"
       ----War was a bit surprised to find Albert looking unkempt and
       in wrinkled clothes.
       It took one glance for War to realize the guy had probably been
       working long hours without any breaks.
       "Sorry to disturb your work, Albert.  Queen told me about what
       happened to Dr. P's eyes. I hadn't realized he'd get so
       overworked with all my men adding to his workload. I've actually
       been thinking about that for awhile now." He admitted and moved
       to sit across from Albert's desk.
       "I think I can help you out as well. I know a doctor that could
       be here by tomorrow to help temporarily or permanently if you
       approve it."
       War pulled out his phone to bring up the man's profile and
       credentials to show Albert.
       "Dr. Kenzo Takada. I met him while in Japan a few years ago .
       He's recently moved to the States and is looking for somewhere
       new to work. I think he'd be a good fit. And maybe be able to
       take over with the pregnant women more. James seems to get too
       forceful and honestly, I don't want him bothering Alice
       anymore."
       War paused to slowly exhale. "I'm not sure if you had heard yet,
       but the kid with the fever died, and was changed into a
       Homunuclus."-----
       Knuckles was quite happy after Desiree had confirmed she wanted
       to tie the knot. He was already thinking of proposing to her the
       first chance he could.  Maybe somewhere romantic.
       He could tell that Desiree was eager for a challenge. Or a more
       daring job to pull.
       "That does sound good," he agreed following her into the line.
       "Soo what covers do you want to use in Madrid? Maybe Mr. And
       Mrs. Dumont?" He whispered into her ear.
       After finally getting their sandwiches made, Knuckles paid and
       they went to find a table to eat.
       "So have a dream wedding ring in mind?" He asked curiously
       before taking a bite of his oversized sandwich.Rebel watched as
       Bobby put out the flames on his body, the cool hands feeling
       nice against his hot body and then face as it was gently
       engulfed.
       Bobby's calm voice soothed him in ways he hadn't thought
       possible, especially with the news that Daevon had lost a hand.
       "Still burning up though," he joked with a slight grin.
       His face flushed, heating just a bit at the thought Rachel might
       want to kiss him. "R-right, gotta calm down. But you'll be there
       too right? You can put out my flames if it gets too much."Steele
       watched as the deflated famine listened to Dior and his face
       lighting up. Famine  going over to sit in the doctors lap and
       kissing Dior first as demanded to Sebastian. Once things seemed
       fixed he was next.”I want you three to know I do care, but we
       may of jumped on the train a little too fast.” He said.”honestly
       I knew the jealousy would show a little- think I was more hurt
       being dismissed like a coworker.” He said fessing up what
       bothered him.”and famine- while the two are forgiving-if you
       want this relationship with me- means your attitude toward
       Rachel needs to change. “ he said before walking over. It was
       something he meant to talk about - but given how everyone was
       into everything didn’t want to ruin the mood.  Famine heard the
       man to snuggle a little on sebbys lap with Dior. He knew that it
       be too easy to be readily accepted as he had hoped- especially
       Steele of all people. He had a weird sense of how he was with
       the girl and how he never really collected money from her or
       Daevon.
       He went over and wrapped his arms around Sebastian to kiss his
       head. “And sebby stop taking everything on your sexy shoulders,
       my hot beautiful elegant man- you got a top notch hella hot sexy
       boyfriend nurse at your side. If something’s up you know you can
       talk to him in these matters - you two worked together for a
       long time- and also in general- the three of us.” He said with a
       nuzzle to Dior as he paid the man a compliment.
       ——Albert looked at the man to listen to war talk. As he spoke he
       saw the phone to look it through- clearly the man being quite
       scrutinizing to those credentials and the plea for someone other
       than James to be treating the women. “I can allow that- but in
       terms of my mother I’ll want to be sure this man is top notch..
       what happened to the doctor is unfortunate- but he is the best.”
       He said referring to Sebastian.”James is on very thin ice- he’s
       been going after people that were meant to have protection. If I
       catch him messing with Jun or Rachel again- he might be digging
       his own grave as deep as the shit he’s putting himself under”
       said Albert honestly.
       But what caught the man’s attention was war telling him about
       another turn.”what?” He said and seemed to grab his phone to
       frantically look through it- the cameras he had set up showing
       the hospital room after being told by someone that the doctor
       was pissed and patients were being messed with. He could see
       Rachel’s and daevons form arguing and river just standing there
       with Bobby. His eyes darkened a little.”seems I got another
       investigation to do.” He said to see the chaos of the door
       busting in and sighed. “And gonna have to put more cameras..” he
       said having a feeling there were blind spots.
       ——Daevon just chuckled.”.you were right behind me silly.” He
       said to feel his mom stroking his hair and looking all upset.
       Rachel who listened to what was being said was still processing
       what had happened to lift her head and looked at River to
       reflexively step back. Her eyes flickered a bit to his face to
       see the thin layer of anger and seemed to relax at the River she
       knew well enough.”w..well.” Rachel finally said.”we were in the
       hospital room- gotten word that someone messed with rebels IV
       bag and he didn’t have long- course- just made my ass over
       there- if I just paid attention or shut the door he’d not be in
       that bed and in that state.” Said Rachel. “Was so focused on
       saving rebel-and arguing with Daevon- that I didn’t notice you
       were in the room till you said we needed to stop arguing.”
       Rachel’s face fluctuated as her uncle let go of her arm. “He
       used the forbidden alchemy instead of me- and you… you stopped
       the bleeding but your behavior- you weren’t pissed - you weren’t
       even getting onto me.. I just…”
       She paused as her arms made a sound her hands around her upper
       arms.”I was wondering what the hell was wrong with you- then the
       face changed-got dragged out with the chaos in rebels room.”said
       Rachel. Her voice broke a little as the memory of her mother’s
       face and haunting words that was told to her.”then the face
       changed again.” Rachel started clearly to cry.”and he jumped out
       the window.”  The girl clearly now distressed.A soft chuckle
       left Bobby as he pressed his cold forhead against Rebel's
       burning hot one, giving both a sensation of relief as their
       bodies equalized against each other. "Can't help how hot you
       are..." he flirted before grinning at the blush on Rebel's
       cheeks.
       "I'm not going anywere... you are unfortunately stuck with me
       forever, and I'm pretty sure whatever was done to us, we won't
       be able to die, so buckle up. It's going to be a long time....
       I'm just.... I'm so happy to see you awake and not fading
       away..." He began but stopped himself short of confessing to
       being in love with the guy. He wanted to tell them both.. at the
       same time how he really felt.
       ---
       A chuckle left Sébastien at the noise he had gotten out of Dior
       when the man protested in way of wanting a warning next time.
       "Next time just sit in my lap and I won't have to pull you,
       though, your request has been noted," he teased. He teased
       before listening to Dior spill their heart out for Famine before
       the man joined the nurse in the doctor's lap. He wished he could
       see their faces, be able to read the emotions in the room, he
       was sure Dior and Famine kissing in his lap looked hot as hell.
       What worried him the most was he couldn't see Steele's face or
       reaction to anything that had been said. His boyfriend had
       always been the stoick type but he had learned to read the
       little things in his changes in expression. Not being able to
       see threw that right out of the window so his breath nearly
       caught when Nickolas began to speak. His heart sank at first
       hearing the man refer to the last time he and his boyfriend had
       previously spoke. It coaxed a tear out of him that he quickly
       wiped away. He felt Famine snuggle closer into him with the
       nurse. He flinched slightly when he suddenly felt those strong
       arms around him causing him to relax against the man a little as
       Nickolas scolded him for taking everything on himself. A blush
       forming as the string of complements before calling Dior his
       boyfriend.It made Sébastien's heart leap into his throat. When
       Steele finished, the doctor moved his head to find Sébastien's
       lips to give him a deep loving kiss. "I'm so sorry I treated you
       so poorly... I can't promise something like that won't happen
       again... but I will work on it... lean more on the three of
       you..." He apologized softly. "I never meant to hurt any of
       you..." He continued in a regretful tone, his empty eyes slowly
       opening as his mind was on the three and not keeping his eyelids
       closed.
       ---Seeing Rachel step back from him like had a hurt expression
       color River features, concern filling him at what the girl had
       to say. She had become like his little sister so hearing what
       had happened, how this person thought River acted snapped
       something in the humuculus. Dark memories began to filter into
       his mind of James, Albert, many other staff members and people,
       but in particular, William. It was right then he realized how
       closely he and William had been working together before. No
       wonder the man wanted his memories so desperately.
       Seeing Rachel in tears had River pulling the girl into a tight
       hug. "Don't worry, I'm going to get to the bottom of this. No
       one is ever going to touch you... your boyfriends... or Daevon
       *ever* again..." a near growl came out of River. When he let go
       and stood back up, the look in his eyes was that of Pestilence.
       A cold anger burned in his eyes but he reclaimed eerily calm.
       "Go be with Bobby and Rebel... think Daevon's parents got him
       right now... I'll be back..." He told her.
       He then walked over to Daevon as took to drugged man's face into
       his hands. "You are such an idiot, I love you, stay out of
       trouble, I'll be back to hang out with you later okay?" He
       mused, behaving like his normal loving self towards the man.
       Trying to talk to Daevon about what was going on in that moment
       would be pointless. "We will chat when you aren't high as a kite
       okay?" He mused before kissing the man sweetly, letting go as
       Jun resumed fussing over her son.
       River then left the hospital wing and went looking for a man
       that he knew War had on tormenting James. He wasn't exactly
       thrilled with that he found when he located one of Tank's 'play
       rooms'. "What the fuck James! Didn't know you were such a
       freak.... you know what... I don't even want to know what other
       weird shit you are into." He then turned his attention to Tank.
       "I have a few questions for your... little fuck buddy, shouldn't
       take me long," he mused darkly before he looked back at James.
       -A blush crossed Désirée's cheeks as Knuckles whispered into her
       ear, suggesting they pretend to be married for their cover. "I
       wouldn't mind that, how good are you with a French accent?" She
       questioned exaggerating her own. Usually it was far to subtle
       for most to pick up on unless she made a point to show it.
       It had seemed her comment about marriage had really sunken in to
       her boyfriend and she couldn't help but blush and smile as he
       asked her about a dream wedding ring. "Well, I always wanted
       something custom a dimand, stolen just for me," she teased
       playfully. "Gold and silver arnt hard to come across, then find
       a artisin who can craft the ring to perfection." She mused.
       "I.... feel I need to... disclose something to you...." She said
       as her mood dropped, hoping this wouldn't change the man's mind.
       "I... can't have children..." She admitted looking down at her
       still wrapped sandwich to begin slowly unwrapping it.Tank looked
       a bit surprised by James' denial of doing anything to Rebel.
       Brutus didn't seem to give a crap, shocking the man again with
       the wand. "So you only like attacking women then?"
       Brutus got a rather creepy grin at the doctor's question.
       "Oh..just wait, you'll find out,"
       Tank suddenly twisted turning towards the door as River stepped
       inside. He noticed the change in the man's eyes and grinned, his
       body relaxing as River called James a freak.
       "Bye all means, ask him whatever you want to know. He's not
       going anywhere,"
       "You want the shock wand? He tends to sing when we use it, could
       help loosen his tongue more," Brutus spoke up, offering the
       device to River. "Or I could shock him for you,"
       ---
       Dior embraced Famine happily pressing into their boyfriend's
       kiss. Then snuggled back against Sebastien, and taking Famine's
       hand to hold it against Sebastien's chest. The teasing from
       Sebastien, had him flushing. "I can do that. Be prepared to
       become my new favorite chair,"
       Dior turned his head slightly as Steele spoke, their eyes
       softening even more. "He's right Fami," Dior said softly. "I
       know it won't be easy, but it's what needs to happen."
       It had been quite noticable how angry Rachel was and how she
       lashed out at Famine during training. She likely wasn't going to
       ease up on that either.
       Dior couldn't help but smile when Steele came over to hug
       Sebastien, squeezing all of them in a giant hug. Their face got
       a rather bright red at the praise and compliment from Steele as
       their face and neck were nuzzled in affection. Dior's breath
       caught watching the two kissing, getting extremely turned on at
       the sight.
       Dior felt relieved and much happier hearing Sebastien agreeing
       to lean more on them. They glanced up to see the man's eyelids
       open and the empty sockets exposed. Dior lifted their hand and
       gently ran a finger around the eyelids. "I've been thinking a
       lot about us four over the past few weeks. I want us to go on
       dates together. We need to spend time gettingTo know one another
       outside of the bedroom. Establish our communication skills, I
       don't want to wear my depression pants again anytime soon." Dior
       sighed out.----
       War nodded, knowing that Albert was particular about the doctors
       that worked on his mother. "I completely understand, if he's not
       a good fit for your mother, I can help you find another doctor.
       Dr. Takada may know one himself,"
       War felt rather satisfied hearing that James was on thin ice. "i
       should be honest, I've put a couple of my guys on watching him
       and punishing him for his infractions. I apologize for
       overstepping. Though if you want to get rid of him and not deal
       with him, I'm sure Tank and Brutus wouldn't mind doing that for
       you,"
       War hoped Albert wouldn't be too offended by his men doling out
       punishment to one of his doctors.
       Albert's shock over hearing Rebel had been turned made him
       wonder why the man had started the whole project in the first
       place.
       "Queen can help you with all that if you ask," he suggested and
       stood up. "I'm not sure if you've noticed or not, but I'm pretty
       sure she likes you,"
       War took his phone back from  Albert's desk. "I can give Dr.
       Takada a call, have him come out for an interview. In person
       interviews usually are the best way to go,"
       -----Rebel's eyes closed savoring the sweet coolness of Bobby's
       against his. His face flushed even more at Bobby's flirting.
       "Guess you can't," he said with a grin.
       The idea of being together forever had Rebel's feelings for
       Bobby grow even deeper. "So we're what, immortal now? Like
       vampires...no wait they can be killed." He mused for a moment.
       "I'm really fucking happy I came back too, and for this nice
       cold body of yours," Rebel added, moving to slip his arms around
       Bobby's neck and kissed him again.
       ----
       "It's rather decent my love, if I do say so," Knuckles replied
       in a cultured  and smooth french accent. He leaned in to kiss
       the side of her neck.
       Knuckles ate his sandwich will he listened to Desiree's reply.
       He grinned at her teasing and winked. "But of course. There's a
       particular shop in Madrid we could hit up. It'll be a good
       challenge to test your skills in," he added.
       Seeing her sudden change in mood, had him growing concerned and
       he set his food down.
       Her revelation wasn't quite what he'd been expecting. He slowly
       got up and moved to sit next to her, pulling her up against him.
       "You've been worrying about telling me this for awhile, haven't
       you?" He asked gently.
       "Knowing this, doesn't change how much I love you Desiree. I'm
       quite happy and blessed to have you, and that's not going to
       change. So we can't have biological kids, that's okay. There are
       lots of kids out there that need parents, we can always adopt if
       we want to bring a kid into our lives. Honestly though, it's
       probably best to wait on kids,"“I don’t expect you to promise,
       but we all got something to work on.” Said Steele softly. He
       took in the missing eyes feeling for the man.”I’ll fix those
       beautiful eyes of yours. Hopefully for the better so they don’t
       burn out again.” He said. It was then he heard a knock at the
       door to see a nurse.”I’m sorry but the doctor can’t do much at
       the moment..” he said.”well it’s just.. Daevon lost his hand and
       ..” he heard as his body went rigid.”how!?!” Famine flinched at
       the large man never seeing this side of him.”I don’t know he was
       just found in rebels room and no hand.. but miraculously rebel
       is awake and stable.” He heard. His heart dropped.”is Daevon..”
       to be told.”stable and okay- just drugged up.” He was told to
       relax. Once they walked off he looked at Dior.”given seb needs a
       minute can you make sure those two are treated alright?” He
       asked Dior.”and looks like I got work to do again.” He said
       before famine got out of the man’s lap.”after you sleep Steele!
       You look like shit!” He said right back.
       ——Rachel felt herself drawn into a hug to let her face be hidden
       as she sobbed. Hearing rivers words of never being touched again
       and those she cared about was enough to calm her down.Tobias and
       death notices the change as death realized.. he was back. Rachel
       who was still taking small gasps just nodded and slipped away.
       Death took notice of pestilence’s affection that never left.. he
       now had a true bond- least in his eyes.
       Daevon responded.”okay… kick the ass of whoever made cuz cry.”
       Said deavon with a chuckle.”and for my lost favorite hand… gonna
       have to stabby more…” he said to smile with a toothy grin.
       Tobias silently facepalmed at the words before watching River
       go.
       ——“I would like that and thank you.” Said Albert as he shifted
       to hear about the two men that were taking care of James.”I
       don’t mind but if he continues he might die.” Said Albert with a
       smile.
       Albert heard the man.”probably be best.. “ he said to pause to
       blush.”honestly I do find her smart and my ideal woman- just
       been hard to try to make a move with all these problems. The
       fights and scuffles been getting worse and trying to find out
       why.” Said Albert with a sigh. “Please do, and I’d like it if
       you can be present- rather us both beable to be happy with the
       outcome.” Said the man as he fiddled for papers."Yes, something
       to work on, individual and group dates would be good for all of
       us." He agreed with what both Steele and Dior had to say.
       Blushing at both the feeling of fingers tracing over the
       doctor's eyelids while Steele talked about fixing his eyes.
       Before he could say anything, there was a knock on the door.
       From the voice it was one of the nurses, what the had to say
       making Nickolas go ridged against him to slowly calm again at
       the remaining information. "I will need more than a minute," he
       added with a sigh as Famine hopped out of his lap to tell Steele
       he needed rest.
       "He is right, we all need rest. Dior, go make sure Daevon is
       treated properly... Steele... could you and Fami bring me to my
       room? Or maybe Famine's? He does gave a bigger bed... we can all
       rest and Dior can join us when he finishes with work?" Sébastien
       suggested as he hugged Dior tightly to kiss the side of the
       man's head.
       ---
       A look of confusion crossed Jun's eyes at her son's comment
       about more stabby. "What.... what on earth do you mean by that?"
       She found herself questioning in confusion, not entirely sure
       she wanted to know the answer.
       ---
       "Could you shove the shock wand up his ass for me? That would be
       lovely." River suggested with a dark glare at James who lay
       there struggling on the table. "So James, unlike your little
       playmates here, I don't care if you die while I question you.
       Famine isn't the only one of the horsemen who have dabbled in
       torture.... Now, answer my questions honestly and I won't have
       Brutus shock your prostate to your point of incontinence. First,
       who has been experimenting on Rebel? Second, where are they?
       There was someone who wore my face. You will tell me where they
       are." He demanded darkly.
       ---
       Hearing Knuckles get up from his seat had Désirée's heart sink
       before she looked up to see he had moved closer to pull her into
       his arms. "I have," she admitted when he question if she had
       been thinking about this a while.His response to her confession
       bringing a massive smile to her lips as she kissed him deeply.
       "You still manage to surprise me at every turn..." Désirée
       mused. "Kind of pointless to waste money on protection now that
       you know," she added with a giggle before a lustful look entered
       her eyes. "Remember when you mentioned wanting to have sex in
       public?" She questioned with a smirk.
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       Re: Gamble of life
       By: Inkglitched Date: February 11, 2026, 10:16 pm
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       "Something like immortal. Don't exactly want to test out how
       unkillable we are though..." Bobby joked before his cheeks
       reddened at Rebel's words, smiling wide as the man wrapped his
       arms around Bobby's neck to draw him into another, even deeper
       kiss. He couldn't help but moan into it as he held Rebel closer
       and his hand moved down to give the man's ass a nice squeeze. He
       felt himself giving into his desires for the man as he pressed
       closer, the passion between them building as they explored each
       other mouths ans his hands started to roam.It didn't really
       surprise Dior that their stolen moments was interrupted by
       another trauma. It seemed to be a reoccurring theme these days.
       Dior nodded at Steele's question and hopped off of Sebastien's
       lap. "I got it, no need to worry Seb," he agreed, and grinned at
       Famine's insisting that Steele sleep. "You and Sebastien should
       rest up. Maybe even together," he suggested with
       He felt excited about about coming up with a date for each of
       them to go on, plus a fun group one.
       Dior hugged Sebastien blushing a bit at the kiss. "I'll
       definitely come join you when I'm done." They promised and
       headed off to check over Daevon and Rebel.
       ----
       Tank seemed rather amused by James' reaction and then snorted at
       Rivers suggestion of where to put the shock wand.
       "Lube would probably make it short out, so dry?"
       Tank nodded, not about to piss River off when he noticed how his
       eyes looked. Pestilence was back full force, and one didn't get
       on his bad side.
       Brutus shoved the wand inside of James, savoring the sound that
       came from the man.
       Tank stood up a bit straighter his eyes flashing at the
       questions that River asked. He'd like the weird tattooed kid and
       had been rather alarmed when he'd fallen so sick.
       Brutus slid the wand deeper inside twisting it a bit and turned
       the wand on to the first setting for a few seconds before
       turning it off. "Ready to sing yet James?"
       -----War nodded, glad to get the doctor part out of the way for
       the moment. "I'll let you know when he arrives and fit his
       interview into your schedule. I can move my training schedule
       around,"
       "I'll pass the message along to James," War replied rather
       grateful that the guy was on Albert's short list.
       Hearing about Albert's issues with the fights had him sighing a
       bit. "To be honest, it's because your men don't respect the man
       you put in charge, so they don't take their punishments or
       discipline well. It leads to fighting and acting out. I've seen
       it before. If you'd like, I could help you find a better
       leader."
       While he knew helping the man would make things harder, a part
       of War didn't want Albert to think or suspect what he was
       planning. Gaining the guys trust would go a long way.
       "And even a dinner alone in the office would be enough for
       Queen. She values one on one time the most. You don't have to be
       fancy straight off,"
       -----
       Knuckles stroked Desiree's arm gently and let out a groan at her
       kiss, getting a little into it himself.
       "Hey I like keeping you on and off your toes," he teased. His
       eyes darkened a bit at her comment of not needing protection.
       "Well...that just made me hard," he murmured, and knew what she
       was about to say by the look in her eyes.
       "Oh I do. If people weren't such prudes, I'd do you right here
       where everyone can see," he purred into her ear.
       "Could check out the VIP lounge bathroom," he suggested.
       ----
       "Like...a Phoenix!" Rebel suggested rather liking the thought of
       using it as his other name. It was rather fitting.
       Rebel very much enjoyed getting lost in kissing and touching
       Bobby, letting out a happy moan at his ass being squeezed. He'd
       been waiting a long time for something like this to happen.
       "Bobby, I want you, so much," Rebel moaned, his hands sliding
       over Bobby's cold skin and tangling into the man's hair.“Mine
       would be better.” Famine admitted.”it is bigger and we can
       cuddle..” he said looking over at how Sebastian was with Dior to
       blush.”we will see you in a little Dior..” said famine as he and
       Steele went to guide the doctor to his room.
       —-James heard river coming in to hear his words to groan.”it’s
       not like I wanted this.” He said before hearing the man’s next
       set of words.”are you insane!?” He panicked. “William - he did
       it! “ he spoke before hearing the second one. “No idea William
       comes to me a lot of the time.. “ he said panicking before he
       heard the last bit.”that was legion.. they work with William- I
       don’t know but one face.. some preppy looking boy with blonde
       hair.. “ he continued .”I don’t even know the original body- all
       he was suppose to do was find out what that bitch with the
       glasses did to make things go right during the turn.”
       ——
       “Thank you” said Albert to the message being passed along.  He
       went to move before hearing ears words. “A better leader? What
       did you have in mind?” He asked his brow raising.
       The man took ears words about Queen.”doesn’t sound like the best
       for a woman like her..” he said and leaned on his hands.”maybe
       just.. take a break.. maybe somewhere nice..” he said
       thoughtfully. The idea of getting away even for a bit sounded
       good. Mind if taking her to a nice movie or a picnic sounded
       good.. anything to get away from the chaos that was starting to
       get out of hand.
       ——Tobias heard his wife as his son answered.”you don’t get the
       joke? Mean it’s about sex.” Earning another groan from the
       man.”he’s on drugs love- don’t take what he’s saying seriously.”
       He said to walk over as Daevon said.”whatever old man!” Only to
       be how he was back with his mom.”mom.. can you stay- dads being
       a jerk.” As Tobias just gave a look of a ‘why me?’
       ——Rachel was making her way back trying to finish collecting
       herself. She realized she never told River about a chance to
       meet the faker. Her hand hung to clenched softly. But she had to
       be sure of which face was real- if her mother was alive and
       working for the gang.. she closed her mind at the thought of the
       idea of the one person she had any sort of good memories about
       would be such a bad person. Clearly it was another hummunculous
       that held faces one had to be their true form.Hearing Rebel's
       moaned words of desire had Bobby shivering as he pulled the man
       back into a hot kiss, groaning needily at the feel of Rebel's
       hands in his hair. The pair stayed lost like this for a while
       before he heard the door open.
       A smirk crossed his lips when he heard Rachel's voice, kissing
       the man for a few more moments before pulling back to look at
       their girlfriend. "By all means, he is a *great* kisser," Bobby
       purred with a blush, not exactly used to being this forward but
       the comfort he felt around the two brought out a more bold side
       of himself.
       He turned back to Rebel and gave him one more kiss. "Turn
       around, I'll make sure you don't burn up while you give Rachel
       some of your attention," he suggested softly.
       ---
       Hearing James spill his guts so readily brought a smirk to
       River's lips. The panicked way James spoke told him that the man
       was likely telling the truth. After a few moments of listening
       to James beg, River was satisfied. "If you are lying, I will be
       back... though I'm decently sure he is telling the truth, should
       reward your little pet Tank, he sang real well," he said darkly
       before turning to leave.
       The rest of the day, River went around following every little
       lead to find William. He knew the man would know where this
       leagon was. When he *finally* found the man's secret office he
       couldn't help his wicked smirk as he closed the door behind
       himself.
       "William... been looking for you, though. I think you know that
       considering you have been hiding from me. Had to kill a few of
       your favorite staff members to find this place. I don't know how
       a monster like you could inspire such loyalty." He practically
       hissed as he closed the distance between himself and the
       scientist.
       He shoved William against the nearest desk with a murderous
       expression. "You ordered the experiments on Rebel, didn't you?
       Told Leigon to impersonate *me* and let my boyfriend get hurt. I
       suggest you give me a *very* good reason why I shouldn't just
       let you die of rabies?""See you soon," Sébastien agreed as he
       felt Dior leave him. Soon, Famine and Nickolas were guiding
       Sébastien back to the room where all of their personal drama had
       began.
       "Do you think you could help me out of my clothes and... into
       something a little more comfortable?" He questioned once he
       heard the door close and feeling himself being sat down by the
       men. His hands already taking off the labcoat and unbuttoning
       his shirt to peal that off as well.
       ---The color of Jun's face turned a new shade of red as her tail
       fluffed at her son's vulgar mouth. "Tobi! This is your fault! He
       gets this from you!" She complained before her soothing
       instincts kicked back in when Daevin talked to her like he was
       little again and resumed stroking his hair. "Of course I will
       stay with you baby," as she fussed over her adult child.
       ---A smirk crossed Désirée's lips at her lover's admittion of
       already being hard. A shiver running through her as he lamated
       about not being able to fuck her right there for everyone to
       see. "If only, I am certainly for checking out the vip bathroom,
       maybe they have a nice couch for us to decorate," she whispered
       into his ear before she wrapped up what was left of her mean to
       stash it away in her purse before standing up.
       "I'll meet you there," she said with a wink before she headed
       off to go and find the vip bathroom in the mentioned lounge that
       was almost entirely empty. She went into the bathroom and opened
       the top of her shirt more before making her skirt shorter and
       posed herself for Knuckles when he found her.Tank listened
       grimly as James told them everything he knew,  naming William as
       the one giving the orders. "That's enough, Brutus," Tank
       insisted when James sobbed out he didn't know anymore.
       "He sure did sing," Brutus chuckled then noticed the dark look
       James was shooting at him.
       "Get out," Tank ordered in a barely controlled voice.
       Brutus moved back, knowing better than to touch James further
       and headed out after River. Tank moved to lock the door and then
       came over to get a look at just how hurt James was.
       "Fuck," slide out as he tried to gently remove the shock wand
       from James' ass. Tank slowly exhaled and moved to unshackle the
       man's wrists and wrapped them in gauze. He did the same for
       James ankles and then wrapped the doctor in a blanket and took
       him to his room.
       "Going to get a bath started so you can soak first," he
       murmured. "don't move," he ordered and laid James on his bed. He
       locked his door and went to find some pain meds and started the
       water to fill his tub.
       "Take this," he insisted pushing the pain pill against James
       lips.
       -----
       Dior blew a kiss to Famine before they headed off in the
       opposite direction. After pulling on their nurse jacket, Dior
       went to check in on Daevon first.
       Seeing the patient surrounded by Death, Tobias and Jun had Dior
       pause for a moment.
       "Sorry to interrupt, but I need to check the patient over again,
       and chart his vitals,"
       It didn't take long to get the work done. "I'd there anything I
       can get you folks? I'll be back in a few hours to check him
       again and start another morphine drip. You're welcome to stay,
       though if you do step out, you need to be let in by one of the
       staff members." Dior addressed the family. "I'll make sure the
       staff knows to let River in when he gets back,"Dior headed next
       to look in on Rebel and was pleasantly surprised by seeing him
       doing so well, amidst a make out session with both Bobby and
       Rachel.
       "I should probably just wait and come back," Dior said with a
       grin as they backed out and closed the door.
       Just to be on the safe side, Dior checked over the next days
       schedule and sent it to their phone. It looked like they'd be
       busy overseeing a lot before a new doctor could come in.
       Unless Albert thought of using James or William to fill in. The
       thought had Diors skin crawl. James was a creep for sure, but
       William was much worse.
       "God I hope we get someone new," Dior sighed and then went back
       to knock on Rebel's door.
       After quickly doing a check over and getting his vitals Dior got
       them all water.
       "You're going to have to drink more now. The constant heat may
       dehydrate you faster, so keep on top of it. I'm sure it will
       affect Bobby and Rachel too. I'll be back to check in again in a
       few hours "Their work momentarily done, Dior headed up to
       Famine's room wanting to spend a little bit of time with their
       guys.
       -----"there's this Mafia boss that goes in to restructure and
       discipline Mafia groups under poor leadership. You may have
       heard if him. Mr. Takeshi,  a Yakuza boss. I can contact him if
       you'd like. We've fought against each other a few times, and
       banded together once or twice when necessity called for it." War
       explained.
       War couldn't help but feel amused by Albert's out loud thoughts
       on Queen. "Well by all means spoil her. She more than deserves a
       night off. Give her an excuse to dress up some. I'll be in
       touch," War promised before he headed out and made his way back
       to Alice.
       On his way he sent a quick message to Takeshi and a call to
       Kenzo. The doctor was pleased by the call and promised to be
       there the next morning for an interview.
       "Works done for now, what do you feel like doing Alice?" War
       asked sliding into the bed and curling around her.
       #Post#: 1289--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Gamble of life
       By: Inkglitched Date: February 11, 2026, 10:47 pm
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       Rachel saw the difference in Bobby.. his boldness just sent a
       thrill up her spine. She came over to let her mouth mold with
       rebels. She didn’t think twice to straddle the man in bed
       instead her hands wandering his form trying to imagine how it
       feel under her fingers as she was being delicate as she could.
       It was a restriction for her being unable to do what they did
       with their hands.. but their mouths felt hot and needy. Feeling
       his hands slide places and someone else’s sneaking his own.”…
       should really just..” she murmured against his mouth as her hips
       made a teasing rock.”maybe when we get you to the bedroom..“ she
       said now wishing to just let the men deflower her for the first
       time.. but she knew here wouldn’t be the best place. She settled
       against the man.”I’m glad you made it.. couldn’t handle knowing
       you could have gone too.” Said the woman. A soft knock brought
       Rachel out from her own desire to see some water bottles. She
       blinked a little to blush at Dior.”thanks..” she said really
       thinking on what she wanted to do. Least until legion came back
       to mind as she settled into what clearly was her thinking face.
       —-
       James was quietly shaking. Not understanding why tank was acting
       so differently. He flinched at the shock wand slowly coming out
       as if waiting for it again to feel his wrists being wrapped. He
       held the blanket quietly to hear the man mention a bath and
       looked down again.
       James sighed and pushed it away.”I honestly don’t deserve it..
       obviously.” Said the man to hold the blanket. Now that
       pestilence was gone and then two were there. He slowly
       shifted.”I need to get back to work.. William might pop up if I
       do and pestilence have what he once.” He said to move and
       flinch. His mind went to the plan that William had.. and in
       light of things- just didn’t feel like something he could just
       do anymore- not if this was going to be the outcome. “You know..
       I use to be so much better than this.. then one woman that was
       nice to me and…” his shoulders fell.”I did everything to try and
       woo her but.. Tobias won out persuing her as well.. course I
       felt bitter and just couldn’t let go.” Admitted the doctor. “And
       I know.. what happens next just be here *again.* and probably
       another shock rod up my ass and I rather not do that again.”
       Said James.”Williams got something going on tonight. Course *he*
       won’t be there.. legion might find me.. tell pest that much.” He
       told tank. He looked at his wrists. “I won’t touch them
       anymore.. this be the last time to be convincing enough.“ he
       said as he wobbled a little in pain. Famine chuckled.”of course
       I don’t mind.” He said as he went to go rummage through his
       things. Steele went to undress the man to strip him free of his
       things to dress him in some sleep pants.”shirt off be best.”
       Said Steele sounding tired as he stripped himself of his shirt,
       and pants to keep his boxers. Famine fussed over the two to
       settle and sleep. He waited up for his loved hoping he was doing
       well with the work.
       ——
       Tobias saw how his wife reacted to blush himself.”how is this my
       fault? That’s not even my humor..” he said. He watched as she
       cooed and fussed over their son to see Dior.”mostly doing okay
       and thank you… and when can he not be drugged up.. been saying
       the strangest things..” he asked Dior to eye his son.
       —-William was busy getting things ready to look at the vial that
       held Rachel’s latest sample. It looked like a stone till it
       moved like a fluid.  He heard the door open to wheel and see
       pestilence of all people. His eyes went a bit wide. “Inspire
       loyalty? More like coercion pestilence- for one who has memories
       you surely don’t know me that well” he said at how pestilence
       was in William’s face. He didn’t seem to flinch at the question
       and a brow raised.”I made no such order.. he was suppose to be
       spared.. why kill a dying man faster?” He asked before thinking
       or looking like it. “Legion wasn’t even suppose to be out of the
       lab- they must be acting on their own.. if you want to find them
       I know that they tend to have a few faces to go by.” He told
       pestilence.”their original body is male.. looks like he be
       famines friend.. faces they tend to impersonate is the nurse in
       medical that leaves all the time- handsy redhead.. “ he started.
       He listed a face that was from the mafia of a man, and a face of
       a woman from the labs that had been impersonated. “As for wars
       men- he killed the one he mimicked.. the woman that use to guard
       the door.” He told him.”so who knows what they picked to replace
       that face.” He explained. Albert looked at war to smile.”oh she
       dresses up?” He asked as a smile came up. He nodded as he
       shifted for his phone to text Queen he wanted to see her as he
       went to straighten up.
       ——
       Alice was cuddling the bed a little before she heard war. She
       felt the man curl next to her to smile.”wanna go out again- imma
       wear the red dress.. wanna go to that nice food place again.”
       Said Alice with a smile. “Did work go okay?” She asked her head
       tilted. Her red hair was wild and hiding parts of her with how
       wild it was.”maybe even find some baby stuff..?” She said to get
       close and nuzzle in his large arms. Seeing the way Rachel and
       Rebel made out and how needy Rachel seemed was quite the turn
       on, though he felt a tug of jealousy, wanting to enjoy the both
       of them as well. He kept the thoughts to himself as he played
       with Rebel's hair as the pair continued. The only thing stopping
       the two from fucking right in front of him was a knock on the
       door and Dior coming to check on Rebel.
       When the nurse departed, Bobby noticed the change in Rachel to
       raise an eyebrow. "Everything okay?" He questioned, looking up
       at her. "I bet we could convince the staff to let Rebel stay in
       our room... mean, I can keep him from burning the place down."
       He suggested knowing Rachel was the one who liked to pull
       strings.
       ---
       "I know you well enough..." River growled before his eyes
       narrowed as William tried to explain legion had been operating
       on their own before giving him more information on the person.
       When William finished talking River shifted into his true form.
       "If I find out you have even *breathed, in the direction of
       Rebel, Daevon, Rachel or *anyone else* associated with me, I
       will find you again and give you the slowest most painful death
       I can think of," he hissed before letting go of the man and took
       a few steps back. "I will be keeping a *close* eye on you, so I
       do hope you are telling me the truth..." He said darkly before
       shifting back to his human shape and leaving to begin his hunt
       for this legion person.
       ---
       By the feel of the large callous hands in him, Sébastien could
       tell it was Steel who was undressing him, feeling himself relax
       as the man worked a fresh pair of comfortable pants onto him,
       which Sébastien was able to help get on a little better before
       he laid down and cuddled up with Nickolas as Famine fussed over
       them both. He was fast asleep with Dior finally made their way
       to Famine's room to join them. Rebel barely even heard the door
       open he was so lost in the sensation of Bobby engulfing him and
       feeling almost drunk on the experience. He blinked up at Rachel
       when Bobby pulled away saying that he was a great kisser.
       Rebel did as Bobby suggested, turning around sliding his hands
       around Rachel as she straddled him.
       His body slowly heated at her touch, and mouth covering his.
       though this time he concentrated enough to keep from flaming up.
       His body trembled a bit from the effort, as he trailed his hands
       over her.
       A sharp gasp escaped him at her suggestive movement, rolling her
       pelvis over his. "oh hell yes," he agreed.
       A groaned of protest came out when they were suddenly
       interrupted by the appearance of Dior.
       He reluctantly let Dior check him over and nodded at their
       advice. "Thanks, but can we maybe move to a room instead. We
       need a bigger bed for all of us," he said pointedly, not in the
       least but shy about what they'd nearly gotten into a few moments
       before.
       Dior didn't seem all that surprised by his comment and tapped
       their chin. "It probably would be fine to go back to your room
       for now. As long as Bobby can keep you from burning anything
       down. I'll come there to check on you,"
       Rebel grinned. "Oh we'll stay close. May just stay in bed for
       the next couple of days," he couldn't help but say with a smirk.
       When Dior had gone, Rebel made a face at Bobby's saying they
       should ask the staff about moving. "I think the less that know
       about us, the better. Dior knowing is enough for now. They're
       like the one person other than you two that I trust right now,"
       he confided.
       Rebel pulled Rachel in for a deep passionate kiss, his hands
       sliding into her silky hair. He slowly pulled back and turned to
       kiss Bobby in the same way. "Before we go up, I think I should
       ask. Are you both virgins? Because we'll want to grab a few
       things from the supply closet,"
       -----Dior was still amused by Tobias' question about how strange
       his son had been talking. It has been quite satisfying to tell
       the man that it was actually a normal thing for Daevon to say.
       Dior chuckled, recalling the shocked look on the man's face and
       walked the last few steps to Famine's door knocking gently
       before being let in.
       "Good he's asleep," Dior whispered as they slowly pulled off
       their shoes and clothes and moved to slide in behind Famine and
       curled around him. "I've gotta be up in a few hours, still got
       work. But at least I get some time to cuddle," Dior whispered
       against Famine's neck before kissing the spot.
       ------
       War felt an odd feeling at the look Albert got when he asked
       about Queen dressing up. "That she does, just...be careful with
       her. Go slowly. In a way, I think of her as a sister.  If you
       hurt her...I'll feel obligated to return the hurt," he warned.
       +
       War made a rather turned on sound, imaging Alice in her red
       dress. "I do love how you look in that dress," he murmured, and
       brushed her hair aside to nibble up her neck. "there are several
       nice places we've gone. There is a new one I've been wanting to
       take you to, would that be okay?"
       The more time he spent with Alice the more he wanted to spoil
       her.
       "It actually went rather well. I've got a doctor coming in to
       interview with Albert tomorrow, and a guy to whip those Mafia
       guys into shape. So things should get better. Oh, and James is
       on the short list. He won't be bothering you or the others
       anymore,"
       War bent to kiss Alice's shoulder, his eyes lighting up at her
       suggestion of getting baby stuff as well.
       "Oh we can do that. I am looking forwards to when we find out if
       we end up with a boy or girl," he said and loosening his hold so
       she could readjust. "I would be happy with either one, though I
       do hope it's got your eyes or flaming red hair,"
       -----
       Tank could tell that James was going through shock after what
       he'd just gone through and felt a flash of regret. He'd become
       so obsessed he'd Lost sight of what his original intentions had
       been. He hadn't meant to break the man.
       "Maybe you don't, but you are still human. And you are in no
       condition to work right now, I'm not letting you out of my
       sight,"
       From what James revealed, Tank knew the man was finally ready to
       change and be a better person. If anything it made Tank want to
       help him more. "It doesn't have to be like that James. If you
       can control yourself, you won't need punishment. You'll get
       rewards, and those are much better," Tank purred. "You are
       staying with me tonight. I'm not going to let anyone hurt you.
       You're mine now, and I'm going to take care of you,"Famine
       stirred a little at the kiss.”okay..” he said softly as he
       snuggled more. He was snuggling Sebastian as Steele seemed
       knocked out. His arms circling Sebastian as well,
       —-
       Albert heard wars words to blink. The warning he understood as
       he went to the man.”I’ll be sure to never do.” He said before he
       decided to text Queen about wanting to talk to sit at his desk.
       He felt  a bit nervous as he played the words in his head. He
       never felt much interest in dating before he met her. Sure he
       had a fling or two but nothing serious. Originally he was
       suppose to have married another but she was snatched long ago.
       —-
       Alice felt the soft nibble to her neck to make a soft sweet
       noise.”of course!” She said to turn to get war to turn to the
       bed.. Her face changed about another doctor but seemed giddy to
       hear James was on the short list.
       She got the man to get on the bed to straddle him. “Hope boy or
       girl can be as strong as you..” she said before she successfully
       managed to get him back on the bed.”wanna help me change then?”
       She purred her hand grabbing his to settle on her thigh.
       ——-
       James paced has he listened to tank.”rewards huh?” He said as he
       circled around. “I can’t just believe that tank not after what I
       just been through!” He said as he settled.”okay let’s just say I
       don’t go.. William will push right away for his aim. “ he said
       as more of his lips were loosened thanks to the fear as he went
       to his pants that laid haphazardly on the floor to show the
       man.”this red water.. is a false philosophers stone.. it works
       but limited uses.” He said and shifted for rebels vial.”he’s
       been changed blood is purple but it’s just the beginning.” He
       said to show Bobby’s sample.”he’s been one for a few days-
       strange change.. purple blood, but notice the consistency is
       different.” He said and shuffled for Rachel’s.”this is Rachel’s
       today.” He said showing the thing looking liquid. “And that fool
       wanted to see if it could be done faster.” He added to nervously
       tug the sheet closer.
       —— William blinked as he shifted back even more at the shift of
       Daevon to turn his head a little. He heard the man’s threat
       before he watched him go. He sighed as  he made sure he was for
       sure gone and texted legion to the burner. The thing was back in
       Edward’s form to see it and made a face.”cat and mouse shit-
       wonderful” he said to toss the phone and went to find switch. He
       saw the man.”hey need any help with anything.?” He asked as he
       tried to figure in his head how to snatch the girl and get the
       ever loving away from pestilence. Course they couldn’t die like
       the rest- but suffering would be something to not look forward
       to.
       —— Rachel was brought out of her thoughts by Bobby.”just a lot
       on my mind..” was her way of saying she felt she couldn’t say
       openly given the public setting and not knowing if the room was
       bugged. Her head wheeled to Dior as she blushed.”it’s really
       okay?” She asked. She suddenly felt shy being straddled on rebel
       still. “I’m sorry.. I almost..” she covered her face as she felt
       embarrassed a little.
       Her face finally calmed down when she heard rebel.”he’s not
       wrong.. less they know the better.” She said before feeling the
       pull for a deep kiss to groan. “I know for a fact we both are..
       wanted to keep it that way till you were better…” she said
       softly. And be best.. hope you don’t mind me wanting you two at
       the same time..” she said rather with a hot blush. "Alright,
       then, we just go if no one else needs to know," Bobby said at
       first before seeing Rebel kiss Rachel like that after Dior left.
       Seeing him kiss her like that was amazing, and before the desire
       for a kiss like *that* for himself, Rebel's lips were back on
       his own earning a moan out of the white haired man. It seemed
       the pair were deciding to be *quite* blunt as Bobby's cheeks
       turned bright red after the kiss broke as the topic of virginity
       was questioned. Rachel going even further claiming she wanted
       both of then at the same time.
       To say Bobby was turned on was an understatement. As he got out
       of the bed, pulling Rachel out first to share his own passionate
       kiss with her before pulling Rebel out of the bed as well. He
       was so flustered he couldn't even find the words at the moment.
       It didn't take the trio long to find the supply closet before
       anxiously waiting for the pair to grab what they would need
       before they headed back to the room they would be sharing. Bobby
       making sure to lock the door behind them once inside.
       ---
       Once he was done with William, River headed back to the hospital
       wing, texting his three brothers the information he had received
       so they would be on the look out.
       Once back to the door of Daevon's room in the medical wing,
       River took a deep breath before walking in to check on his
       boyfriend. "How has he been?" He questioned as Jun was still
       snuggling Daevon like he would poof on her. After a particularly
       grueling morning and afternoon of surgeries, El finally got a
       moment to rest her feet. The young doctor moped her forehead as
       she moved her boots on top of the folding chair next to her.
       She was covered in sweat and the heat wave was only going to get
       worse in the tropical climate. Glancing at the nearby calendar
       she frowned realizing that she hadn't spoken with her brother in
       over two months. "Well shit, might as well call now. At least
       leave a message,"
       El dug out the satellite phone from her bag and dialed up
       Sebastien, waiting as it rang in her ear.
       /////
       Dior was snoring lightly in Famine's neck when the sound of loud
       ringing brought him out of a rather lovely dream.
       "Noo...make it stop," Dior complained and blearily looked at the
       alarm click. "Who the hell is calling at 2 am?" They complained.
       +++++ Queen heard her phone ping and reached for it while
       finishing typing one handed. When her email was finished, she
       sent it off and came looked at her text.
       It surprised her a bit that Albert was asking to talk, they'd
       already gone over the schedule for the next week and nothing
       else came to mind that needed to be addressed.
       Since he was only a few feet away, she got up and went to slide
       into his office.
       "You wanted to talk?" She asked moving to stand a foot away from
       him.
       Queen couldn't help but admire the handsome man's face, noting
       he looked a bit worn out. He probably needed more sleep and a
       way to destress. "You're looking pretty haggard Albert, you
       should get a massage or find another way to destress," she
       advised, her tone a bit warmer towards him.
       ----War was quickly figuring out Alice's game, her moving him to
       the position she wanted, straddling him as she tried to distract
       him with random talk.
       "Are we changing you, or preparing for something else?" He
       couldn't help but tease ad she moved his hand to her thigh.
       "I'm pretty sure you've got something else in mind,"
       He didn't wait for her answer moving his hands to lift her shirt
       up and pull it off. Then he let his hands wander over her body,
       squeezing and teasing her breasts and changing curves.
       -----
       Tank knew that James wasn't going to trust him, especially after
       what he'd gone through. Perhaps his obsession was wrong and
       sick, but he wasn't about to give up just yet. He'd just have to
       show James he wasn't a lost cause. Though the whole thing could
       just blow up in his face.
       James explanation of the vials of blood and how they'd been
       changed had Tank realizing just how messed up William really
       was.
       "But he hasn't figured out how to replicate what the way they
       were changed. So there's one thing on our side, at least for
       now.  Shit. We don't need a freaking army of those protecting
       that psychopath," Tank swore softly.
       He reached out and pulled James closer, lifting his face.
       "You're going to tell War and his brothers everything you just
       told me. If you're lucky, they may let me keep you. I'll do
       whatever I can to keep you alive, but they need to know what
       they're up against,"
       ----
       Rebel looked more than a little shocked and pleased that Bobby
       and Rachel had waited for him. "You really waited all this time
       for me? Damn, that's impressive. I was  having a tough time when
       it was just us," Rebel admitted.
       His eyes got rather big when Rachel claimed to want them both at
       the same time. "Damn...you really are ambitious babe," he
       couldn't help but say.
       Rebel's gaze could barely leave his soon to be lovers' bodies as
       they got moving and out of the hospital bed.
       He knew though he'd have to be the one to keep a level head, or
       Bobby and Rachel might be hurting the next morning.
       Once they were back in their room, Rebel moved to kiss Rachel
       and slowly started to undress her. "Come give us a hand Bobby.
       Let's get our girl ready,"Famine made a groan.”turn it off- just
       five more minutes!” He griped to snuggle more into Sebastian.
       ——
       “Actually it was about that… would you like to go out with me
       somewhere? Maybe a flick.. and picnic in the park.. or you a
       restaurant kind of gal?” He asked. “Think I just wanted to know
       what you’d like and go together?” He said as he leaned on his
       hands.”just no fun if I go by myself and well.. been considering
       taking you out..” he said.
       ——-Alice gave a smirk but before she could answer felt her top
       come off. Feeling his roaming hands she gave a chuckle.”you
       found out what I was doing… here I thought I was being sneaky..”
       she said with a smirk to let her hands roam him.”suppose to be a
       sneak attack but you found me out.” She flirted a little before
       giving him a hot kiss.
       ——-James listened to tank figuring out what was going
       on.”exactly- he wants to do just that- the ban on alchemy here
       always did set him off..” he said before feeling the pull in and
       the tug of his face. “If I die I die.” Said James with a
       huff.”trust me after the shock stick to the ass- a bullet to the
       head sounds like a dream.” He said with a sigh. “Why are you
       acting like this- wasn’t this whole thing to make me learn a
       lesson?!? I sure hell learned my lesson..” he said as he was
       still in denial of tank acting kindly to him.”I’ll tell war
       everything- just not naked.” He said quietly.
       —— Daevon had finally fell asleep against his mother. The man
       seemed more than relaxed.”well asleep finally- kept talking
       about stuff for a good half hour before he finally crashed.”
       Said Tobias. “What did you find out?” Asked the man before
       looking at his wife.”I’ll be back love.. just keep Daevon
       asleep.” He said to tug River out. His head turned.”I assume you
       remember everything?” He asked as he looked at the man’s eyes.
       ——-
       Rachel felt the pull and felt the hot kiss that just got her
       back in the mood,  and more at his words.”is it wrong to be a
       little ambitious?” She flirted a bit before helping rebel out
       and helping him dress. She walked with the two arm in arm, the
       two would look tall compared to her stature. Once they got to
       the supply closet,she grabbed a few things to head back to their
       room. She heard the door lock from Bobby before hearing rebel
       mention getting her ready, his hot mouth on hers causing a needy
       noise. Rebels  hands unzipped the dress before it slid down to
       the floor, his fingers being deliberately slow as if just
       unwrapping her like a gift rather carefully.  She slid her
       glasses off to the table to look back at Bobby with a hot
       look.”can’t wait to have both of you…” she said softly as the
       shirt slid down her shoulders while rebel had a nice eyeful of
       the black lacy underwear underneath. Hearing Dior and Famine's
       complaints as the phone rang had Sébastien groaning himself as
       he felt the pink haired man snuggle closer. He recognized the
       ring tone as that of his sister's. He always had her's louder
       than the rest because she lived in a different time zone and
       called him at odd hours.
       The doctor reached for the phone having to lean over Famine and
       Dior to do so, only managing to knock it off the night stand.
       "Damn it... D.... Fami.... could... you assist me?....
       please?...." He questioned as he pulled back to lay his back
       against Steele again. "It is probably my sister," he added,
       clearly frustrated at his own helplessness.
       ---
       When Tobias said he would be back Jun just nodded her head,
       River giving no resistance to being pulled away by his
       boyfriend's dad.
       "Nearly now.... its slowly coming back... events today have...
       jogged quite a bit of my memories... You know anything about
       something called Leigon? Apparently that is who took on my
       face... apparently he is a shape shifter.... William claims he
       went rouge in turning Rebel.... I'm not entirely convinced he is
       telling me everything though..." He explained before giving the
       man a description of the faces he now knew about.
       ---
       Seeing Rebel latch onto Rachel like that had Bobby blushing
       dark, even more so when the man beckoned him and his girlfriend
       made those sexy noises claiming she wanted them both. It took a
       moment for him to get past the intensity of watching them to
       final move over to the pair and got behind Rachel just after her
       clothes hit the floor and all she was left in were her lacy
       black underwear.
       He let his hands settled on Rachel's waist before he began to
       kiss at her neck as his hands moved to take off her bra,
       discarding it before cupping her lovely breasts in his hands as
       he toyed with them, gently pulling on her nipples as he explored
       her for the first time. He had been waiting for this for what
       felt like *far* too long.
       ---
       There was a fresh splatter of blood all around the room. The
       previous shift had actually not accounted for the plastic spoon
       the experiment had been given to eat his dinner. A13X had
       sharpened it to a point and used the shank as a weapon to
       repeatedly stab the next person to walk into his cell. A wicked
       grin wide across his lips as he used the blood to paint his dull
       grey walls of his cell, giggling as this was the only
       entertainment he had in a good year.
       ---fin---
       #Post#: 1290--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Gamble of life
       By: Inkglitched Date: February 11, 2026, 10:52 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       Dior let out a groan at being smushed by Sebastien trying to
       reach the phone. The thump as it hit the floor made Dior wince.
       "Yeah I got it Sebby," Dior replied moving to lean over half way
       off the bed to reach for the phone.
       "Some one grab my ass so I don't fall," Dior begged and let out
       a soft whimper at not one, but two hands grabbing him. "Not that
       hard,"
       Dior finally got the phone after it stopped ringing and redialed
       for Sebastien. He slide back up and pressed the phone against
       Sebastien's ear.
       "There, I redialed for you."
       Dior moved back to cuddle up with Famine and listen in on the
       conversation.
       ----
       Eleanore sighed when she couldn't get through and hung up. She
       knew he'd call back if he wasn't busy and a few moments later
       her sat phone lit up.
       "Hey Sebastien, I meant to call sooner. How are things going?
       Have you snagged yourself a boyfriend yet?" El couldn't help but
       tease.
       -----Queen's eyes widened as Albert asked her what she'd like to
       do in a date. Even suggested a few things they could do.
       Her mouth curved into a soft smile, and she moved closer to him,
       moving her hands to smooth out his rumpled shirt.
       "I'd very much like to go on a date with you Albert, I've been
       hoping you'd ask. How about dinner at one of your favorite
       places, I've been wanting to dress up for you," She admitted
       softly.
       "Honestly all your suggestions sound great to me. I'd want to do
       them all, and we have time for that. If you pick the place for
       dinner, I'd probably pick going to a play. There's a show
       tomorrow night at 9, maybe have dinner at 7? Would that work?"
       Queen already had Albert's entire schedule memorized, but didn't
       want him knowing that.
       ------
       War grinned back at Alice's reply. "You're still learning
       sweetheart, I'm sure you'll figure out how trick me soon
       enough," he said with a wink.
       Their kiss soon changing into making out hotly, the rest of his
       clothes disappearing
       and their bodies joining and becoming one.
       Once they'd had their fill of one another, and showered, War
       helped Alice get dressed up and pulled on a black suit and dark
       red shirt. And off to a night out and shopping for baby things.
       ----"Not at all," Rebel said with a wink. "But we should take
       time getting you to that point,"
       Rebel pulled her shirt off next, leaving the bra for Bobby to
       get off. It was quite an erotic sight to watch Bobby playing
       with her breasts from behind. "Don't get her too cold," he said
       noticing how quickly her nipples got hard.
       Rebel moved to kiss down her abdomen, running his hands down her
       sides and gently tugging her lacy underwear down slowly.
       "Mmm...you look even more sexy than I ever imagined in my
       dream," he murmured moving lower and nuzzled his face in between
       her legs.
       He moved back to skim the lacy bottoms down her legs and lifted
       each ankle to slide them off.
       "Can I have a taste?" He asked hovering his mouth close to her
       pussy.
       -----
       On his arrival to the manor, David got the oddest feeling he was
       entering into the Twilight Zone. The place had an eerie almost
       haunted feeling to it and the new Medic was sure the place
       probably had a few ghosts.
       As it was late in the evening, he was shown to his room and told
       where the cafeteria was. He wasn't quite sure what to make of
       the mix of grungy Mafia guys and the ex military  forces seated
       eating and talking in the dining room.
       He decided it would be smarter to take his food to his room. He
       really didn't want to attract the wrong kind of attention his
       first night there.
       After he ate and showered, he was far too wired to actually
       sleep. His night owl ways, often had him taking night shifts
       instead of days.
       "Well..I might as well explore," David said to himself. He
       grabbed his big metal flashlight and phone and began his
       exploring in the medical wing. ---
       Tank shook his head, an unsettled feeling going through him.
       He'd known War had been changed, but not how until James
       explained it.
       "Things are banned for a reason, I know some is because of
       prejudice, but not in this case,"
       Tank grimaced at James saying death was preferable.
       "I might have started following you because War asked me to, but
       after awhile it became more than that. I'm overly obsessed and
       fascinated with you. I know that's not normal or particularly
       healthy. I don't really give a damn. I want you, for however
       long I can."
       Tank sighed and pulled James closer, kissing him deeply, sliding
       his other hand into the doctor's hair.
       "I'm pretty sure War and Alice are on a date tonight, do it'll
       have to wait until tomorrow. Now stop fighting me and let me
       make you feel better," Tank purred and pulled James over to the
       bed. Famine groaned again with semi sleepy behavior that taken
       over for once, course when Dior said he’d get it and asked for
       ‘support’ got Dior to grab his ass with him to chuckle at Dior’s
       complaint a little as he snuggle back where he was once the
       phone was pressed to sebatians ear.
       ——
       Tobias gave an aggravated sigh at what he was told. “I can tell
       you- he’s not.” He said to make faces a little bit.”need more
       privacy..” he told him. Once they found a pretty secluded office
       closed the door.”talking in the open would just warn legion, she
       can wear anyone’s face.” He said with a grumble.”but she is a
       glorified walking corpse of what was once Lenora Rosecroft..
       Rachel’s mother.” He said and made a dark look.”found out my
       brother did attempt to bring her back but she clearly wasn’t the
       same. Met her when I was first brought in this place. She
       mistook me for William. Honestly thought for a brief moment she
       was Lenora but- was wrong.” He said to rub his head.”last I
       remember legion went on some mission- but if their back.. means
       William is up to something.” He said with a serious look.
       ——
       Albert listened to brighten up at her words of accepting his
       asking her out. He smiled warmly at her words.”that actually
       will work out, can’t wait to see you all dressed up queen..” he
       said with a soft grin.
       —— Axel sighed as he walked in to see A13X painting the walls
       with his own blood again.”seriously can’t stab for once and let
       things go smoothly?” He said aggravated. The last time he went
       in with his twin was the one that was pinned and stabbed a few
       times till A13X got bored since he couldn’t die.”come on.. it’s
       time to let the stab thing go.” Said the teen as the other twin
       snuck or tried to behind A13X when  Axel duplicated
       himself.”come on bet I beat you this time..” he said readying.
       This was the only way to make most of it, forced to do Williams
       work, the collars on their neck meant to shock if they didn’t
       comply. Dying and coming back wore their own sanity thin over
       time as they stayed- with no real way out.
       ——-James listened to the man as he heard war started the whole
       thing.”course he did..” he mumbled to listen to the rest.”tank
       you sound like you care about a person like me- I’m among the
       unforgivable in their eyes.. mean- “ he still remembered the
       things he had pulled.”May end up shot..” he said before feeling
       the pull in then the kiss. He just took it despite how he felt,
       his body finally falling to a restful state out of reflex as he
       dozed off.
       —— Rachel felt Bobby’s hands settle at her waist to feel his
       lips at her neck, she moved her head to the side a little more
       allowing access before feeling the bra slip off, dropping to the
       floor. His hands cupping her breasts and how he toyed with them
       was returned with soft noises, and groans.
       The light touches, caresses and groping causing a knot of needy
       want to develop inside. Her breathing deepened a little to hear
       rebel warn Bobby, before sliding her underwear off slowly. Just
       enough before feeling the nuzzle of his face. The anticipation
       clearly on her face growing.
       Her legs spread a bit before feeling a leg draped over a
       shoulder and his question- his hot breath against her heat just
       making things harder to go slow. She found her voice.”yes..
       please..” she slid out before feeling what she wanted, between
       her breasts being played with and her pussy being licked at
       earned another noise as she turned her head to kiss Bobby almost
       ravenously, her body crying out for what it wanted. Hearing
       Dior's request, then feeling his hand guided to grab onto the
       man's ass had a chuckle leave Sébastien before the two settled
       back into the bed as the phone was pressed against his ear.
       "Thank you," he told the pair before he heard Eleanore pick up
       the phone.
       "Yes, Hello.... it is quite alright I have been rather busy....
       things are... going.... I may have fried my eyes again.... why
       are you always so concerned about my dating life? If you *must*
       know, yes... I may have found... someone to date... a... few
       someones...." He admitted, unsure how his sister might react to
       him having not just one, but three boyfriends.
       "How goes curing the poor and impoverished masses? I'm guessing
       it has been what? At least a week since you have had a shower?"
       He questioned in a testing tone. Trying to redirect the
       conversation from the two things he had just informed her of,
       both being a rather big deal.
       ---
       An eyebrow raised on River's face when Tobias said they needed
       even more privacy. The man leading him to a secluded office
       before finally opening up about what he knew. What the man told
       him got a... strange reaction out of River as he held his head,
       more and more memories rushing forth as if he had *been there*
       when legion was being created. Had, had he been aligned with
       William???
       "This can't be anything good...." He finally said when his mind
       settled again. "I will work on finding leigon... and finding out
       what they know... I can't promise I won't kill your brother...."
       He found himself warning.
       ---
       "You are just going to have to warm her back up," Bobby teased
       at Rebel's comment of not getting her too cold before he watched
       the man go down and finish undressing her before the man was
       asking permission to pleasure their girlfriend.
       The lustful look in Bobby's eyes intensified as he heard
       Rachel's moans as Rebel devoured her heat. The warm blood on
       A13x's fingers spread across the wall before he heard the door
       to his cell open making him turn to glare at the unkillable
       being before him. From experience, he knew there was always at
       least two of this fucker. "But it is *myyyyy* stabby thing!" He
       protested before the man duplicated himself. Then he felt a
       third behind him, grabbing at him.
       A13x let out a cry of protest as the three tried to wrestle to
       sharpened spoon from him. As if to spite them and keep his sharp
       thing, A13x stabbed it through his forearm with a wicked laugh,
       "you may not be able to die, but Iiiiii can!" He chimed in an
       eerie almost sing-song voice. "you're welcome Sebby," Dior
       replied softly.
       Dior decided to get a little revenged for the ass grabbing and
       slide his hands up inside Famine's shirt and played and teased
       the man's body. "Payback's a bitch isn't it?" Dior purred into
       his ear before biting it gently. "I wonder just how much you can
       take, before you start begging me,"
       /////
       Eleanore could tell that her brother was trying to downplay what
       had happened to his eyes. "Excuse me? Did you say fried? What
       the hell bro! I'm coming home. The last time this happened it
       took months to fix them!"
       Eleanore chuckled at his annoyance and sat up as surprise shit
       through her. "Several someone's you say? Ohh really? Is one of
       them that gorgeous creature Dior by chance? I only ask cause I
       have no sex life, and I live vicariously through yours," she
       teased.
       "Its been all right, about ready to head back from my last
       posting. Should be back in a month or so. So I can visit you and
       give you a hand for awhile. Actually I took a sponge bath just
       yesterday," she replied with a dry tone. "Have you told Mom and
       dad about your eyes yet? If they find out from someone else, it
       won't be pretty,"
       Eleanore wasn't about to say anything about what their parents
       reaction would be to Sebastien being with more than one person.
       They were old school straight laced uptight political minded
       people who wouldn't budge an inch. It had been hard growing up
       under their controlling thumbs.
       "Have you talked to Theodore at all? I've only managed to get a
       few email responses and I don't think he's doing very well. I'm
       concerned about him," El brought up.
       ---"In a psycho obsessed way I do," Tank agreed. "I've been shot
       many times and survived," he murmured after breaking the kiss.
       Seeing James finally rest and pass out was a relief. He lay
       there stroking James' hair for a few moments. Then slowly slide
       off the bed and cleaned the man up, applied ointment and salve
       to his wounds and covered him back up with the sheet.
       "Why do you have to be so fucking adorable when you're asleep?"
       He murmured moving to lay down and watch the doctor sleep.
       ------
       "I can do that," Rebel said with a grin at Bobby's teasing.
       Rebel drank in the gorgeous sight Bobby and Rachel made above
       him. He moved her leg up over his shoulder while he waited,
       massaging up her leg gently. Then he was moving in and licking
       into her and pleasuring her bud. His pleased moans soon joined
       the others, as he got his first taste. He kept at it, sliding
       his tongue inside, his hands supporting her so her knee wouldn't
       buckle under her.
       ----David's flashlight swept slowly side inside as he continued
       down what appeared to be a long abandoned hallway. His ears
       pricked at the sound of voices echoing from somewhere ahead.
       "Talk about a creepy place," he muttered as he continued
       forwards.
       His eyebrows narrowed when he came upon the first empty cell.
       What the hell was going on in here? He wondered.
       He came to an abrupt halt when he spied the craziest sight he'd
       ever seen in his life. Several pale teens trying to wrangle
       another crazed one brandishing a plastic spoon shiv that he
       stabbed into his own arm.
       He turned his flashlight to the ground and spied a pool of blood
       and cursed in a low voice. What the hell had he just walked
       into?!
       "Why do you want to die?" David asked in a low soothing tone as
       he drew within sight.
       That was when he spied the murdered man in the cell and the
       blood spattered everywhere. This was really not good, at all.
       To calm his rising anxiety and nerves, David starting humming
       one of his favorite soft rock songs. Famine chuckled a bit
       before he felt hands and smirked at Dior.”in what way this be
       bad?” He purred his backside pressing against Dior. His soft
       noises coming with the gentle noises.
       ——-
       Tobias just chuckled at the man’s warning.”he had it coming for
       a long time river.. mean he slowly poisoned his wife and
       daughter, sold his daughter for his own asses safety, thrown his
       own twin at the mafia to impersonate me-and no doubt why Daevon
       has no hand.. if it comes to it make it slow and painful..”he
       asked.”just find legion before anything else happens.. this is a
       sign that William is close to finishing his work.” He told him.
       ——-“13 come on man!!!” Said Axel.”I don’t like this anymore than
       you do but rosecroft will punish all of us if you keep doing
       that!”  They were struggling to get the thing away when they
       heard the question to freeze in mid restrain at the random man
       that had appeared.
       “Is this guy crazy?” Asked Caden as the twin retorted.”must be
       to get close to 13..” said the other till he heard him hum.”is
       that highway to hell?… ah shit is this a sign this guy got a
       death wish?” Asked Caden.”I dunno maybe?” Said Axel.
       —— The sensation of the two having their way a little with her
       body, and thanks to rebels support managed to keep herself up,
       after a few moments she couldn’t take it anymore as she made a
       soft groan.”think I’m ready now..” she moaned to rock her hips a
       little her head resting on Bobby’s shoulder.
       —fin—
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