Ninovan (Hypernaturals 10)

I Love You More

The main meeting for the day is over, the night's entertainment complete. That conflict was not very long as entertainment goes. If that had been a boxing match, the crowd would want their money back. We sat at a table and chatted about things. Tobey and Simi held hands like they are on a date.

Angel and Vera served Scotch retrieved from the RV to Jessica, Morgan, and me. They shared the bottle around the table after that. I think Vera is an Astral in training.

Morgan and Jessica took a hand of mine each and they worked on gently taping over the broken skin and bruised knuckles.

Jessica met my eyes. "You could have told me how angry you are, you know."

"No. We couldn't." Morgan said for me.

"What she said." I agreed. "I was not angry with you. I was and am angry. It went to the right person."

"It did." Morgan said. "We love you, Jessica. We hate him."

"I was the dummy that let it happen." Jessica said as she worked.

"And he is the fool that paid no attention to anything but what he wanted." I said. "So I paid attention to what I wanted. Only fair."

"Lucky." Morgan repeated.

When they were done taping me up, we pressed our bodies together even though there is plenty of room at the table. We needed to be touching still. Ever since that horrible night, touching has become key.

Morgan checked the rest of me over with her hands, lightly caressing as she checked. "I did not see Alexander hit you anyplace, and I was watching closely, but in case I missed anything, I need to check you out." She explained. "Resistance is futile."

"A 'Doctor Who' quote. Geek points. Check away." I said.

"You know, I am the actual doctor here. I will double-check him after you are done." Jessica said.

"I think we should just keep checking. You know. In case something comes up." Morgan told Jessica past me.

"Morgan, I like the way you think." Jessica agreed.

"Not a single hit landed?" Jessica asked. "I was not there right at the start. I figured Alexander would at least sucker punch him. That Adrian would wait for that kind of provocation before he pulled a Laura and took him apart. I wish I video'ed that."

"Hah! I said that too! Alexander tried to land a hit, but you know Adrian. He saw it coming about three taunts back." Morgan told her.

"He was trying to provoke that entire fight, wasn't he?" Jessica noted.

"Hardly a fight. I was going to try and provoke one because I figured the dickshit would love to beat up a girl, but I guess he doesn't know I am not a full power girl Vampire. He probably would not have gone for it. Damn it, though! I wanted to pulp him!"

"Morgan, I do believe you love me." Jessica said

"Was there any doubt?" Morgan asked

"No. Not at all. I love you more."

"We'll see about that in bed later." Morgan said enticingly.

"Now I have to wait for that. Damn it! Simi is not the only horny Vampire girl in this room." Jessica complained. "You know what? I never had a fight make me horny before. Weird."

Vera said, arm around Angel "Not the only horny woman, Jessica. You know what Adrain? I have seen you fight. I have never seen you fight angry. Willing to pound the snot out of someone like that. I know you will find this all Siren-y, but damn! That was hot. Why did you get so hot AFTER we broke up? I mean DAMN it, boy! Angel is going to really have to work on me tonight."

"It got me hot too, my Siren love. Me too." Angel said.

Hard to know if that is the fight or Angel reacting to Vera's horniness. that a fight would turn on Vera is not a surprise. I did not expect that result in Jessica.

"When the RV is a rocking, don't bother knocking..." Morgan sang, then said because it does not fit the song she added, "Leave us alone, we'll be busy. Sorry. Lame ending."

"You KNOW how I said I was going to watch you? I knew as I was watching Adrain leave what was going to happen next. I could see it sticking out all over him." Angel said.

"Just so you know. I originally left because of sensory overload." I explained.

"Oh, honey, I know. At the same time, you knew or at least hoped Alexander would do what he did. You watched the conversation in the corner, just like me. No need to be an Astral to know that if Jessica said Alexander had to talk to you to get permission to fuck her again, he was going to make a beeline for you. I use the word 'fuck' in its purest, negative form here. Not the good 'she fucked my brains out all night long' way." Angel said.

"My way." Vera said.

"I could not hear what either of them said, actually. Too much intervening noise. I just saw gestures." I said. "My hope that Alexander would come outside was just that: based on the purest possible hope."

"Pure as driven slush," Vera said. "I am changing, but you know what? So are you."

"I watched Alexander go out there, and I was thinking I needed to go out there and pull him off Adrian." Simi said. "Alexander wants what he wants, and all, but with all the rejection, I knew Alexander was not going to give up on Jessica anytime soon. He is bad at 'no'. I have never seen him this bad before. Angel stopped me from interfering."

Angel gave that a knowing look. "Simi, I knew my lover would make mincemeat out of Alexander, and I wanted him to have the chance. With Alexander's utter insensitivity, he hurt my Jessica, but I could never fight him. I could never hurt him. Adrain could, and so I had to stop you to give him the chance. My contribution to retribution. I am not a good person when my family is hurt, and she is my Gaia."

Jessica smiled at being called Gaia. "You know, I could have stopped all of this way back at the beginning. Just said to Alexander, 'You know what? Fanging lessons are a terrible idea. Never mind'. Walked away." Jessica pointed out. "It would have saved a lot of people a lot of pain."

Morgan guffawed, "No you could not. You were committed, and worse, you said it in front of Adrian. You painted yourself into that corner, but good my love. Once you said Alexander could have you like that in front of Adrian, you had to let him. You could not know Alexander was going to be like that. You figured 'what the hell. I have had sex with a thousand men. What's one more?' All we knew about Alexander before that incident is how many lovers he has had here. You might have thought boded well, and how many kids he has fathered. Perhaps another sign of being a talented lover. Once I saw him on you, I could not stand it and took Adrian out of there because just the little he DID see was... Well. We already talked about that. Once all that happened, everything else fell from there. You had to be healed. This fight had to happen too. Now you and I know an additional thing about Adrian. We knew he is a protector already. He was going to take bullets for me, for all the various god's sake. But this? This is new. I am like you. I need no man to defend me or my honor, but I loved the hell out of watching that. I will not lie. Call me a hurtful person, call me what you will. Say I'm old fashioned, say I'm over the hill. etc." Morgan sang the last part. Old Bob Seger song.

"Everything you say is true." Jessica admitted. "Once it was out of my mouth, I was fucked. Hah! See what I did there?"

Angel laughed. "I love that you can joke about it now."

Alexander came staggering naked into the community center, and several went to help him, but Jessica waved all down. "Morgan? Adrian? Help me, if you would?"