A Ribbon Strand: Raised Hackura

The Shock of It All Pt. 1

        Haley threw the b***h who touched Eric into the wall. I punched her in her stupid surprised face. I felt Marcus, Bjourn, and Eric’s shock at my actions. I felt concern in all my connections. I sent them my fury. That only got me more surprise and concern. Couldn’t someone JOIN me in being f*****g pissed?! Marcus grabbed me around the waist. Seriously? Now we were stopping me from kicking the s**t out of someone who touched what’s mine? What’s wrong with everyone today? He told me she was Nikki. WHO WAS NIKKI?! AND WHY THE f**k DO I CARE WHAT HER MATE TOUCHING ASSES NAME IS?! I popped away from Marcus because he didn’t get it. They were clearly going to stop me from teaching her not to touch what doesn’t belong to her instead of helping me. Jerks. I popped Nikki and I away to the gym. I was tempted to go to the Hackura realm, but the rest of my brothers didn’t seem to understand my feelings; nor be in a help me kick ass mood. The ONLY person who felt somewhat amused was my dad. I was not going to for amusement. 

        I popped to the gym. I hissed, “You b***h!” I threw her against the wall. I saw Bexley’s mate. He frowned, “Luna?” Nikki was crying, “What the hell is your problem?!” I hissed, “WHAT IS MY PROBLEM?! YOU TOUCHED WHAT’S MINE! ERIC IS MINE!” Nikki said, “So? I can touch him if I want, you crazy bitch.” Liam said, “Nikki, for once in your life will you SHUT UP!” I punched her in the face. My anger was mounting. My light was angry. Very angry. It had never felt this angry in my entire life. She growled, “I’ll shift and kill you.” Growls erupted around the gym. I laughed, “Try it bitch.” She shifted. I held my hand out. I curled my fingers taking her air. My light wanted to kill her. More than I’d ever wanted to kill anyone. I contemplated taking her wolf I was so mad. That wasn’t right. I wasn’t going to take her wolf. I closed my eyes when she shifted back to her human form. She was unconscious. I stopped. Her eyes snapped open. She growled, “What is wrong with you?” Liam yelled, “NIKKI SHUT UP FOR THE LOVE OF THE MOON GODDESS!” She hissed at him, “She’s a psycho! I’ll touch Eric if I want. I was just going to give him a hug.” Judy laughed, “She’s just…. what can you do Liam? She doesn’t have the brains she was born with.” Liam came towards me. I turned, “I don’t want to hurt you Liam. As your future Luna…. just don’t.” He didn’t know what to do. That much was clear. I was waiting. I knew that dumb b***h was getting up behind me.

        She screamed and charged me. Really? Screaming? Just tell someone you're coming, why don’t you? I flipped her over the top of me and slammed her onto her back. I glared at her, “Seriously? You’re a pathetic wolf! You scream to attack me? I can clearly kick your ass. You should’ve gone for surprise.” She frowned, “Your eyes are gold…. but you popped…. OH my god! You’re the Hackura fairy princess.” I slammed my head into her nose, breaking it, “Good job. Congratulations…. you’ve pissed off two different races of people by making me mad. You’re lucky my fairy brothers already left. Aiden and Arion would set your ass on fire for me if I asked.” Normally my Hackura brother’s…. would join me in kicking someone ass…. Her name was nagging at something in my brain, but I couldn’t focus on anything. I just kept hitting her. Seeing her hand on Eric. It was infuriating. She kept saying she would touch Eric. I was not about to have that. Maybe when he marked me…. I became like a wolf with my possessiveness…. Fairies were possessive. I’d have to ask Aiden if he’d ever almost killed a b***h for touching Lucinda. I could feel another fairy here. I turned to see Emmaline smiling brightly. At least someone was on team kick the b***h’s ass.

        I heard Dylan squeal and jump on Lucas. Lucas asked, “What are you doing?” Dylan said, “You’re the type of guy who might go over there and try to break up the fight. I’m stopping you. Do you have ANY idea how long I’ve wanted to see Nikki get her ass kicked? Spoiler alert…. since the MOMENT she started calling you Lucas Bear in her high nasally pitched obnoxious voice. Don’t ruin this for me. I’ve dreamed of this moment. In case you hadn’t noticed in the last few Lucas…. My dreams come true. Just let it happen. Accept destiny.” I blocked him out. I felt Eric, Marcus, and Bjourn enter the gym. Great. Bjourn came up behind me. He spoke in Latin, “proelio vicit parum vobis essem (I think you won the fight little one).” I ignored him. He sighed and tried again, “Quæ est subtracta a praesentibus (She’s unconscious).” I still did not answer him. He wasn’t using a commanding tone, and he wasn’t telling me to stop. He grabbed me around my waist and told me not to pop away from him. Fine...I’d open a portal. Marcus pointed out Bjourn should add a portal. Traitor! Bjourn added portal to his statement. I let out a groan of anger. Bjourn whispered, “Bene eam parvulam nutriebat. Just respirare introducantur et extrahantur. Ea comminatio non est tibi (it's ok little one. Just breathe in and out. She's no threat to you). I hissed, “et tetigit quid meum. Et quia non solum adepto ad evacuandam (she touched what's mine. She doesn't just get to get away with that) Bjourn chuckled, “quod per extendere se questus est, ex animo secum. Eam ad te percussum pulpam. Bene est. Vos es ok. Eric is ok. (by what stretch of your imagination is she getting away with it. You've beaten her to a pulp. It's ok. You're ok. Eric is ok.)

        I relaxed into him. I answered, “Is est meus. Non composuisse suos (he’s mine. Not hers).” Bjourn snorted, “quod a nullo dubitante divinitus. respirare uix parum (a fact no one doubts. just keep breathing little one).” The need to have s*x with Eric was coming back in full force. I looked up and saw him. Eric put his arms around me and said he was mine. Damn straight he was mine. My f*****g mark was on his neck and bitches needed to back the f**k off of what was mine. He told me to pop us to his place in Hawaii…. I didn’t really care why. I did as he said and immediately jumped on him. I let myself get lost in my lust. It was bouncing around all my connections. I couldn't stop it. Didn’t want to stop it. I needed Eric more than I needed to breathe. Which didn’t make sense, but that’s how I felt. His lips were air to me. We lost ourselves for ours. Finally, the haze started to clear. Things were coming back to me slowly. Oh god...I was going into my concupiscence. I closed my eyes. I’d attacked someone…. I’d almost killed someone. I couldn't remember her name. 

        Eric teased me asking if my concupiscence was over. I snorted. Hell no. He was in for one hell of a ride with that. I asked Eric who I attacked. I could feel his amusement when he told me it was his cousin Nikki. Oh no. His cousin? Great. Cassandra didn’t need another reason to hate me, but I’d definitely given her one. At least this one was a valid reason. I did actually attacked her niece. Then I remembered Nikki was the girl Lucas lost his virginity to. I didn’t feel so bad then. No wonder Emmaline was happy I was kicking her ass. If that b***h said some s**t to my cousin, then I didn’t give her a good enough beatdown. I wanted to change the subject so I asked for tour before we lost ourselves into the s*x haze that would be my concupiscence. Eric showed me around quickly. I was happy he kept calling things ours. I couldn’t even keep that from him in our bond. It was so surprising to me. I needed to get a grip. He made me feel all giddy. This place was truly stunning. We’d have to bring the fearsome foursome here with their mates. This place was made to host a lot of people. It seemed strange to only be here with just us, but that really was for the best. I couldn’t handle anyone touching him right now. 

        Eric asked me to snap him energy drinks. I smiled. I didn’t know that wolves drank those. I snapped him Gunner’s favorite, Rockstar. He’d let me have one when he had to be up monitoring some of the chatter all night. He was showing me how things worked from the technical end. No one slept that night. I wasn’t allowed to have energy drinks ever again. I smiled. My dad did say...in the Hackura realm. Maybe I could drink an energy drink here. OH! Emmaline and I could BOTH have one and have our Alpha’s chase us. I smiled at the thought. Eric led me outside to the giant pool. I couldn’t help but think Emmaline would just love it here. I wondered if Lucas had a house here too. I still wanted to bring my friends here to hang out with our guys. We’d never all had boyfriends at the same time. Quad dates! I smiled to myself thinking all the options over. We both sat down and put our feet into the pool. The water felt perfect. I sighed, perfectly feeling content. Eric wanted to talk about what I wanted to do sexually. It was a little embarrassing. I hadn’t really gone that far with knowing my likes and dislikes. My s*x life was just him. I was willing to try stuff. I just didn’t want to disappoint him if I didn’t like any of it. He started off listing things to see if I was uncomfortable with them. I wasn’t. I just really didn’t know. My brother’s mates talked about all those things. Nothing was something that made me cringe away from it. I just didn’t know what I liked.

        Eric wanted me to verbalize. I could do that. He told me if I didn’t like something to tell him. Well, it’s not like I could lie. Nor could I even hide it from him. Our bond would tell him. He still wanted me to tell him. I could do that. Talking to Eric was one of my favorite things. I popped us back to our room. I couldn’t help but smile as I said it. It made me feel all giddy, and full of warm and fuzzies when he’d called it our room. I told him he should take a nap. I told him to let me know when he needed a break and I’d just use a toy. All the fairy females talk about their need for multiple concupiscence partners. The fairy males would line up to take part. Bexley held interviews for hers. She always had at least three. One year she went through five. Eric seemed to think that was an insult. I frowned. I explained how this usually works for fairies. I could feel his possessiveness and anger in our bond. I quickly explained I was just going to use a toy. I wouldn’t f**k anyone else. Even though it pained me to say that we hadn’t talked about off periods…. we hadn’t. I couldn’t be with anyone else, but if he wanted an off period. I’d eat a lot of ice cream and…. oh my god…. Did I not want off periods? I always thought I would, but the mere thought of it makes me want to go into a spiral. What was wrong with me?

        Eric snarling at me brought me out of my thoughts. He told me he didn't ever want an off period. I couldn't stop my smile or the intense joy I felt at his words. I was sure he didn’t notice the relief I felt at his words. He could change his mind though. We were going to be around for centuries. He told me very seriously it would hurt him badly if I was someone else because I was marked. I frowned. I hadn’t meant me. I thought he knew being twice light bound meant I couldn’t be with someone else. My light would resist. I might have to ask Aiden…. It might blast someone across the room. I explained I wasn’t talking about me. I was talking about him. He kissed me with so much passion my toes curled. He told me in a husky tone that dripped of s*x that I was it for him. That he only wanted me. He pulled back saying he could feel that made me happy. I sighed. Off periods were natural to me. Most everyone I knew had them. Logan seemed fine that Katie didn’t want them. He didn’t care. I was elated that Eric didn’t want them. All the relationships I saw were based on mutual want and respect. It looked different for every couple. I just always thought…. I’d be like that too with my mate. It just clearly wasn’t the case. I didn’t want to have off periods with Eric. I didn’t even want to think of Eric with someone else. The thought of me being with someone else was repulsive to me. It’s just not how I thought I’d be. It was weird. 

        Eric kissed me again. He was pleased that I didn’t want anyone else. He also said it was ok that I felt that way. I knew it was ok. It was just different. Everything with us was so different from how I thought it would be. It excited me, but it was also a little scary. He held me close. I could feel he was still a little unsettled from our conversation. I told him I was sorry. I hadn’t meant to upset him. I didn’t mean to have this deep conversation right before I lost myself to a s*x haze. He told me it was picturing me with others that was the problem. I sighed. I didn’t want anyone but him. I felt him settle. I told him we should sleep. What followed was several days of s*x. I was blinded by lust. I remembered everything we did. Some of it was impressive to even me. I was far more flexible than I thought. Thank you, yoga, and Pilates. We ate and f****d. We’d f****d in every single room of his house. I was moderately impressed by that as well. There were a lot of rooms here. We’d even had s*x in the pool at one point. All the showers. Even some of the bathtubs. My knees were not happy about that one. I’d had to heal the bruises. I woke up on the sixth day here and felt back to myself. I felt a few surges of disappointment in my connection with my brothers. I laughed silently to myself. I’m sure they enjoyed me being unable to control the feelings of lust. I wonder if I caused an orgy...well…. caused them to start one anyway. I’m sure Gunner would tell me. Hell, they’d all probably tell me.

        Eric woke up and asked if my first concupiscence was over. I started realizing…. he really had lasted the entire time. He was going to be a legend. Fairies were going to start trolling packs for concupiscence partners. Oh jeez. They’d better keep their hands off my man. I’d go postal on a fairy female. They’d better respect me and Eric’s relationship. I knew they probably wouldn't understand our relationship. Mates weren’t that big of a deal in Faerie. Fairies had them and they looked for such a long time, but with their long lives…. they tended to do what they wanted with others. Aiden and Lucinda were one of the only mated fairies I’d heard about that didn’t do that. Emmaline told me several of the water fairies females try to sleep with Aiden, but he doesn't give them the time of day. They are frustrated that he appears to remain loyal to Lucinda. They keep waiting for him to get older and bored with her. Knowing my brother as I did…. I didn’t think he would. He really loved her. She was his Queen and he always treated her like one. Emmaline told me the rumors were that he was just like his father. Lord knows that had to be true. Aiden was a spiteful person like our mother. Part of me felt sorry for her. I looked over at Eric. If I lost him…. I’d die shortly afterwards, but I might be bitter if we weren’t twice light bound, and I lost him. I would hope I wouldn’t take it out on my kids though. Just people who annoyed me.

        Eric and I teased each other. It felt nice to talk to him again. He slowly rolled over on top of me. He slid into me. For the first time in several days he just made love to me slowly. We both looked into each other’s eyes afterwards. He told me he loved me. That was never going to get old. Just being with him in person was amazing. I loved looking into his eyes. Everything about him was just as I’d imagined. I couldn't believe that after all these years and the letters we’d exchanged it was him all along. He tucked my hair behind my ear, “What are you thinking about?” I smiled, “All the signs I missed that it was you. That you were my mate in all our letters it’s so obvious now.” Eric kissed my forehead. He smiled and touched my necklace, “You still wear it.” I smiled, “I never take it off.” I touched his necklace. He smiled, “I never take mine off either.” I frowned, “What happened when someone tried to charm you? We never talked about it.” Eric sighed and slowly pulled out of me. He sat up, “She wanted me to have coffee with her and let her call me by my first name. I felt a current from my necklace. She kept touching me. Her family ended up leaving. We don’t see them anymore. Quite frankly, I have bigger things to worry about.” I frowned. I would worry about it.

        I asked, “Was it Claudzilla?” Eric laughed, “Yes, her name is Claudia Harden.” I could see why the other me called her Claudzilla then. I shivered. He kissed my shoulder, “We won’t fight over her. I swear that to you. I don’t even like her. Not even remotely.” I sighed, “Neither would any you who wasn’t charmed then. I hate that after everything that other me suffered Claudzilla came in and f****d with their relationship. She had no right.” Eric smiled, “They are fine now and she’s baking more babies.” I giggled, “You can’t bake babies, Eric.” He chuckled, “I suppose that’s true. Did she tell you their children’s names?” I smiled, “I saw her necklace, “They have EJ, Cassie, Alexander, Max and Wesley.” He smiled, “Do you like those names?” I smiled, “I do. Do you?” Eric smiled, “I do.” I smiled, “I think I’d like to throw in a TJ somewhere.” Eric smiled, “Standing for?” I smiled, “Titus Junior. Dad never gave any of the boys his first name.” Eric kissed me, “You want so many I’m sure we will be able to throw in a TJ.” I asked, “Are there any names you really want?” Eric smiled, “I’ve always loved the name Alexander and now that I’ve heard Eric Junior…. I really like that name as well.” 

        We both sat there watching the sun rise. I whispered, “I really like it here.” Eric smiled, “We can come here fairly often since we don’t have to travel. A pop and we are here.” I couldn't stop smiling, “I love you so much Eric. It would be so fun to bring the fearsome foursome here with all our mates.” Eric laughed, “Something tells me we are not ready for that.” I bit my lip, “Please?” He kissed me lightly, “I will deny you nothing, Angel. Whatever you want. It’s yours. If you want to take a trip here with your friends that’s fine. Any of our properties will be fine.” I smiled, “How many do you own by the ocean?” Eric laughed, “We own a few. I did know of your fondness for the ocean. You told me in almost all of your letters. I already had this one in the family, but I made a few more purchases due to that factor. Alpha Chase’s family has a place in the Virgin Islands. I bought a house close to his place after discovering Miley or Lexi was his mate.” I laughed, “How did you discover that?” he tickled me, “Someone was a naughty fairy and popped into the room below mine at a summit.” I was shrieking with laughter as he tickled my stomach. He said, “When your scent hit the room…. we knew Jim and Chase’s mate had been there. Plus, when you conceal yourself from my wolf…. along with their wolves. They felt something was off.”

        I popped off the bed, “So you knew every time we were around?” Eric smiled, “Every damn time, Angel. It drove us nearly into madness.” I laughed, “So that time you and Lucas just ripped off your shirts for no reason? You were in a meeting where Dylan asked if you thought it was a male catalog photo shoot. You did that because of us?” Eric smirked, “Yes, we did.” I lightly smacked his chest, “That’s not fair! We were drooling! We’d both promised not to pop in and meet you. It was really hard.” He pulled me back down to him. He cupped my face with his hands, “I know that it was hard for you. It was hard for me too. I’ve known you were mine since I was thirteen. I desperately wanted to meet you. When I turned eighteen, I was hoping your brothers would bring you to my Alpha Ceremony.” I smiled, “I would’ve come.” He smiled, “I know you would’ve. We need to get back. Your Luna Ceremony is tonight. I had the girls planning it while we were gone.” I laughed, “Good thing I can just snap a dress for it, or you’d be in big trouble mister.” Eric smiled, “I’d love to be in big trouble with you.” 

        I popped us home. Jackson smiled, “Hey there slugger.” I winced. He laughed, “Hey, I’ve been wanting to clock her for years. I just wasn’t allowed to. Plus, you couldn't help it. Which makes it even better. No one can be mad. It’s just what your fairy side does at that time.” I snorted, “I bet I know who’s mad.” Jackson sighed, “Well…. not exactly. That was interesting. Secretly…. mom tried her best not to laugh.” Eric snorted. I raised an eyebrow, “So all I had to do was give her niece a beatdown…. that she finds funny?” Jackson shrugged, “Women. What can you do?” I laughed, “You’d better watch that. We could say the same about you all. You males are WAY crazier about your rules than females are. You all drive us crazy then act surprised when…. we go crazy.” Eric howled with laughter. I shrugged, “Just something I’ve observed watching people date. This realm is fascinating at times. I feel bad for the human women here. No one is watching out for them.” 

        Marcus strode in, “Well, hello little sister.” I smiled, “Hi Marcus.” Gunner came around the corner smirking. I squealed and popped into his arms, “Hi Gunner! Or as the other me calls you…. Harper’s boytoy lover.” Gunner snorted, “You call me that sometimes yourself.” I laughed, “It’s ALL the other me calls you. She doesn’t like it when people call you Gunner.” Gunner started laughing. I asked, “What are you doing here?” Gunner smiled, “Harper can’t come tonight. He’s on a mission as are your other brothers besides Bjourn and Marcus. Your dad and Zader are out together too. I’m here to represent the family with Bjourn and Marcus for your special night.” I smiled, “Oh that’s so nice! I’m so glad you’re here.” I gave him a big hug. Tabitha said, “Welcome back! We need to start getting you ready.” I smiled, “Oh...I just need ten minutes tops…. I can have us all ready. You guys can just relax with your day. No need to be frustrated or stressed.” Tabitha paused then looked at Harold who had entered the room, “I love her Harold. I really do. Come on! Quality time for us for the next several hours I had set aside to do Luna things.”