(MxM) Tales of a Shifter (P4)- The Blood

Chapter 35 - Touch Me

* What do you guys think so far? What do you think Brandon and Ezekiel will do with such a powerful force holding them apart?

Chapter 35

Silence rained after that for a while....and Brandon spent that time in intense agony and mentally battling the Flame for control. He pushed....it punched. He pulled and it slammed into his mind and body like cement.

Brandon withdrew deep into himself....simply to conserve energy to fight with, as the Flame drained every ounce of his strength. Soon enough Brandon was forced to come back to the present as he sensed more than knew that Ezekiel struggled just sitting there watching him in pain.

Hoping to distract himself and Ezekiel from the serious matter at hand Brandon opened his eyes and grunted softly. "Hey Ezekiel do you remember when I yelled at you the first time you kissed me?" He asked lightly. "Well, this is why. My Power can flare up at the worst times."

"God I never knew...I feel so bad." Ezekiel suddenly admitted "Is this what happens every time....someone touches you for an extended period of time? The Flame acts up and hurts you?"

Ezekiel asked with trepidation and worry on his face. The glowing blue gaze was gone and his blue eyes were clouded in guilt.

"Its not your fault. Touching me at all is never a good idea. "Brandon said back. "But certain things stroke the Flames hunger more than others. Sexual stuff gets it really riled up...and I find it hard to stop it...and myself when I'm stimulated or excited past a certain point." Brandon hesitantly admitted, feeling a small wash of embarrassment.

But as a new cramp of hunger touched his spin and raced across his nerve endings Brandon skipped past it, clutched his stomach and rocked back and forth. Resisting the urge to bit his cheek again, Brandon tried to keep talking past the pain. "Normally I hold out until the pain becomes....unbearable. Then I feed. The longest I've held off is seven months."

"So you're in pain right now, because you haven't had any energy to feed on?" Ezekiel slowly put together.

"Yes, but It wouldn't matter if I took Energy just this morning. The Flame is bottomless. I'm always hungry." Brandon softly admitted. "It.....it never stops. The only thing I can do is not feed it."

Ezekiel frowned deeply and shook his head. "Brandon If it hurts so bad not to feed then just take what you need from me." He suddenly proposed. His words shocked Brandon to the core. "Take whatever you need."

It was obvious from the way that Ezekiel said this that he wasn't offering one single thing, but the two things Brandon had been wanting from the Shifter since they had meet.

Sex and energy.

Thinking of the wealth of sweet energy that Ezekiel could give him made Brandon put his hands over his mouth and moan in fierce dark need.

With a shutter, Brandon bit his cheek savagely ignoring the blood that splashed across his tongue as he bit deeply into the flesh to cancel out the mindless lust warring with his common sense after Ezekiel's offer. "No. But we...I can't. I can't....its not safe. " Brandon finally managed to mutter.

Ezekiel's eyes clouded in anxious worry as he watched Brandon struggle for the first time through the intense hunger of the Flame. "Why?" he asked sounding somewhat disappointed.

With a small dry chuckle Brandon looked at him. "Uh, why no sex?" He asked Ezekiel in a light manner. "Or why can't I feed on your energy?"

Ezekiel shook his head and gestured at him. "How about both?" he replied.