(MxM) Tales Of A Shifter (P1) - The Meeting

Chapter 18 - No Hurt

Chapter 18 - No Hurt

Sometime later...

Ezekiel mounted the front porch steps panting harshly. His lungs begging for more air then he could actually draw. He cradled a giant bag in his arm that was packed full of surgical supplies ranging from surgical needles, thread, gauze, antiseptics, scalpel's, peroxide, alcohol and a box full of surgical gloves and masks.

Ezekiel held all of this stuff close to his body. He'd run all the way to Kim's healing home. It had taken time for him to get her to swear an oath of silence and even longer for him to detail the mortals injuries and, then to recount the story to her, before she had conceded and offered her help.

Then once she had loaded him up moment later he had paid her, then made a beeline back to the mansion. For all of his haste the whole outing had taken him nearly two hours to complete, not for the first time Ezekiel thanked God for grating him his own innate abilities. Ezekiel knew that no other Shifter in his entire Clan could have done what he had done in so little amount of time and in mortal form no less.

With a happy little snort to release most of the air he had just in-hailed Ezekiel straiten upward and climbed the steps to his front door, but before he could juggle the bag in his hands out of the way and reach for the door knob, the door flew open. Missing Ezekiel by a shoulder, Landers snarling voice could be heard as he brushed past his sibling.

"God what took you so long?" Lander growled, part Leopard...part man, as he jumped off of the porch and began pacing back and forth across the dirt path before the tall grass.

Ezekiel spun on his heel. "Don't start with me! You try doing all of this in mortal flesh and then you can complain...." Ezekiel trailed off as he took a moment to really look at his brother. Landers hands were clenched at his sides as though he was in pain. His eyes were wide, darting from side to side and shifted. Glowing a fierce green, as he walked first one way and then another. Looking for all the world like a frustrated beast in a cage.

"What's wrong with you? I went as fast as I could, but..." Ezekiel began in concern only to be cut off.

"Nothing wrong with me!?" Lander hissed. "It's that damn mortal. Two hours....for two god forsaken hours it's been screaming like a stuck pig!"

"Screaming?" Ezekiel asked him frowning. "Why is the mortal screaming? Is he awake already?"

"God I hope not!" Lander barked on a dark laugh. "There's something wrong with that damn thing if you ask me." Lander grimaced as he pulled a hand through his golden hair. Then he eyed the package in Ezekiels arm and rolled his eyes. "Go and give that stuff to mom Ezekiel. Help her get him patched up. I can't be near that until it shut up. And the sooner she gets that needle and thread the better..." Lander commanded; under his breath he said. "Maybe then she can sew the guys mouth shut..."

Ezekiel wanted to listen, but he did still remember that he wasn't supposed to go near the mortal. Something his older brother seemed to have forgotten in his frustration. Instead of reminding him Ezekiel lifted his chin and hedged. "Aren't you gonna stand guard like Dad asked you too?"

"No." Lander said bluntly. "I can't even go up those stairs without my head nearly exploding. I need a break. Ill trust you to watch moms back....for now"

"But...." Ezekiel began. He knew that his brother was serious, but he wasn't exactly on good footing with his father just then for him to be jumping back into the line of fire.

"I can't..." Lander snarled cutting him off. Bright green eyes glared at their house as though it was some giant monster that was about to pounce on his brother and pummel him. Lander grabbed his temples suddenly and hissed in pain, closing his Shifted eyes. He enunciated all of his words next few words. "My heads gonna explode, Ezekiel! I'm not going to go back in there until you make it stop!"