North American Vampire Council & Past Calling (Hypernaturals 12 & 13)

He is That Angry

While I was in the front room, Morgan asked Helen "When is the last time he initiated sex with you?"

Morgan knows I can hear that, but maybe she thought Helen would forget.

"Never. Not anymore." Helen answered honestly. "You would have noticed. We use the same shower and bed."

"You happy with it being that way?" Morgan asked, so very gently.

"No. Of course not. I said I would take the angry sex if I had to. I did not anticipate the much more angry zero sex. It has been a fucking literal desert lately. Rachel is not all that interested either. She was super pissed off. Some private fights we were able to have elsewhere so you all did not know about them. She still is. If it wasn't for Holly, I'd be in the most literal sense fucking alone." Helen snapped. I thought that tone to be harsh, given how gentle Morgan's had been.

"Adrian does not DO angry sex. Not his thing. No sex for you at all? I saw that coming a mile off." Morgan said. "Not Rachel as much. I should have though. It fits. Explains all the time you have been spending at the bar. Not a developing drinking problem. A fully developed, full-blown love problem."

Sex with Helen is not interesting to me. Not now. After the talk with Rachel, I might have guessed she is still angry too.

This is technically Denise's bedroom, but it's also where our desk for this kind of thing still resides. I sat in the desk chair, opened the drawer, found the folder at the back. It is fairly thick. I looked at the dates on the checks out of curiosity. They went back to the Conclave at the Executive Retreat she worked. The one where she and I sat in the Jacuzzi. Morgan a human. Me, a brand new Vampire. Each of us wanting to do more with each other than we were willing to.

I gave that some rumination. Checks dating to since Morgan first could openly discuss that I am a Vampire, and we admitted to each other wishing we could have changed some of the events about our past and gotten together sooner. Morgan has been sitting on checks from the Vampire Council. Until now, when this whole thing came up. She wanted to make this money into something she and I do together.

Morgan is a hopeless romantic. I love that about her.

"You want to fix it with Adrain?" Morgan asked Helen, "Or are you just planning on this stalemate going on for years? I know you have other sexual options. You only have one husband. Are you willing to leave this trash fire burning in your backyard? Continue burning down what you built with him and that you are destroying with apparently professional enthusiasm?"

There was a pause. I assume they made faces at each other or something. No telling from in here. Morgan went on. "Adrian did not even offer to make you a sandwich, Helen. Did you even notice? Adrain: The most considerate man I have ever met, he made me one, and not you. That has meaning. It does not matter if it was intentional or accidental: it has meaning. You should fix this because the longer it goes on, that longer the road back is." Morgan was firm. If Helen is going to snap at her, then fuck the gentle stuff.

Helen was more subdued when she asked "How do I fix this?"

"You will not like the answer." Morgan said.

"Tell me."

"Start with this fact: Adrian is madder at you than he was when Jessica cheated on us. Can you understand that? An utter shithole of a man fucked our wife in front of us, and he is angrier at YOU. More hurt by you." Morgan very correctly pointed out.

I decided to stay put in the office.

"I get that he is angry. I understand why even. I did not ask. I made sure he had to accept. But... Morgan! I am not being all egomaniacal here. I am right! Our species NEEDS him, and he is the only one that can do this stuff! He hates it, but he is terrific at it! You know that. Denise and Anne are damn near chirping they are so happy with all the Crew changes. They are not the only Crew like that. I talk to Wyatt and Ginger all the time, and they are happy with the Siren relationship. I mean fuck! Adrian reads and comments on every single report that Nova issues. He studies archeology books, for god's sake. Victoria has told me two different times that the Council has needed a man's touch for centuries. She would never say that about any OTHER man. He is a goddamn genius, and he is good at this job. Better than I am, the motherfucker."