The Human's Gargoyle

Tell Me No Lies

His tail around my waist, while loose, was keeping me from going anywhere. Panic was starting to fill my chest.

"Woah! Hold on a minute! I can bathe myself!" I raised my hands up and tried to back up a step. His tail tightened slightly. "Hey!" He turned slowly to me.

"It is my responsibility to take care of you."

"I don't understand! Why? Why did you bring me here Matthias?" The panic was growing. I didn't know where I was! All I knew was a gargoyle flew off with me and is now trying to undress me! He took a step forward. I tried to step back but his tail was pulling me closer to him . I couldn't go anywhere! "Please let me go." I whispered. I could feel tears on my cheeks. The look he gave me then was as if I had slapped him! He took one more small step forward before knealing down. His eyes were now level with my mouth.

"Ari." His voice was soft. "You're trembling."

"I'm scared." I was pulling away as much as I could.

"Why?"

"Are you going to kill me?"

"What?" His eyebrows furrowed and his head c****d to the side a little.

"Did you bring me out here to kill me?"

"Ari! No! Why would you think that?" I started pushing at his tail. Claustrophobia started creeping up my spine. The end of his tail sort of swatted at my hands. "Talk to me."

"Let me go!" I sobbed loudly. I couldn't handle the feeling of being trapped. When his tail finally loosened enough to let me go I crashed to the floor. I scrambled away from him when he reached for me until my back hit a wall. Then I just curled into a ball. I couldn't stop the tears that fell. I heard movement after a minute and my head shot up to look at him. Matthias was laying on the floor on his side in front of me. I let out a shaky breath crying to control the rollercoaster of emotions I was feeling. His tail was laying near my foot. "Why am I here?"

"I brought you to my home to take care of you." He whispered softly as though this was the only answer but it didn't really tell me anything.

"But... why?" He pushed up onto his elbow slowly.

"You say you where raised with werewolves?"

"Yes."

"Do you know what mates are?"

"Of course I do!" He slowly held out a hand to me but I still flinched away from it.

"Will you hold my hand?" After a moment, I took it. He closed his fingers slowly around mine, rubbing the back of my hand with his thumb. "What do you feel?"

"I don't know!" He closed his eyes and sighed.

"Why did you seek me out tonight?" He met my eyes again.

"I... I needed to see you. I needed to get away from Alpha Rick. Somewhere I felt safe. I felt safe with you! Always have!" I used to visit the cemetary with my parents once a month for family members. And whenever we had a funeral for pack, they were always burried there. I would always sit on Matthias' dais until services were over. I had been sitting there for years!

"I moved too quickly tonight. I'm sorry for that. I thought you knew!"

"Knew what? I don't understand! Why am I here?" He sat up and held his arms open to me. Despite the confusion I was feeling, I crawled into his lap and pressed my face into his chest. His strong arms folded around me and I heard him breath in my scent.

"Are you still afraid? Of me?" I too breathed in his scent, strong and faintly reminding me of stone. Was I afraid?

"I don't think I was actually afraid of you. Just afraid of everything going on. Alpha Rick attacked me earlier and I guess I was still... I don't know."

"Your father attacked you?" I pulled away a little to look in his eyes.

"No! No my dad didn't attack me! He's an Alpha yeah but Alpha Rick is from a different pack. My dad said he'd take care of it."

"What did this Alpha do exactly? Did he hurt you?" I shrugged.

"A little."

"Where?" There was an angry edge to his voice now.

"I'm fine! It'll heal!"

"Where Ariana?" I held out my arm with the bandage. Same one as my cast. I could feel the rumble in his chest as he started unwrapping the bandage. It had stopped bleeding a long time ago but having the bandage pulled away from the scabs dried to it made it bleed a little bit more. It utterly shocked me when he pulled me up more and started licking at the claw marks and punctures on the inside of my arm.

"What..?" His tongue was rough against my skin and he was almost... purring? He stopped a minute later and looked at my arm again. When I looked, there wasn't a mark! "How?" Before I could really say anything else, he started licking at the stitches on my head. A hand on the back of my head kept me from going anywhere. He stopped every few seconds to pull a stitch out of his mouth! He was literally licking the stitches out of my skin! "Matthias, what are you doing?" My skin was tingling everywhere he was touching. My hands were rested on his shoulders, keeping me up. I realized that when he had pulled me up to get my arm, I had straddled his lap. His tail was now wrapped loosely around my thigh. Having him this close was soothing to my soul but it also had my body on fire. He pulled away from the cut on my head just long enought to look me in the eyes before pressing his lips to mine. My hand traveled to the back of his head and I fisted his hair making him groan. He pulled me closer to him. His hands were strong but gentle as he held me close to him. When he pulled his lips away, he rested his forehead against mine, both of us breathing hard.

"No one is allowed to hurt you. I won't allow someone to hurt what is mine." He growled low on 'mine'.

"Yours? Matthias I don't understand!"

"We're mates Ariana. How do you not know this?" I pulled back to look more into his eyes.

"Mates? But I'm human! I didn't think it was possible for me to have a mate!"

"Oh my little human." He smiled. "I have waited so long for you! I have felt you with me every time you sat on my dais but you were never there after the sun set! I couldn't wake up until the other night when that wolf attacked you. Then you were taken away and I couldn't do anything to stop it. I'm sorry you were hurt. But now that I have you, no one will every hurt you again."

"Wait." I sat back a little. Having him hold me so close to him was making everything foggy. Like nothing else mattered but him. I liked it. "Are you sure I'm your mate? Are you sure you want a weak human?"

"You're not weak Ari! You have never been weak. I would accept you as my mate regardless of what you are! Do you not want me?"

"That's not it! I just didn't think I'd ever have a mate. And I was told that all gargoyles are extinct! How are you alive?" He sighed.

"I fear I might be the last of my kind. Gargoyles were used and killed a long time ago. Some of us were lucky to serve families who treated us well. But even then, there were some who hunted us and smashed us to pieces when we were stone. I was lucky to serve a family of werewolves. They kept my existance a secret. But my last masters died before they could give me a new master. I sit above their graves now."

"You served my great grandparents? I wonder what happened! You've been in my family since them?"

"I served 3 generations. Now I am yours. Yours in any way you'll have me."

"I thought I was your mate."

"A gargoyles mate can decide how he is kept. Either as a friend, a bodyguard, or a lover. However he is needed. How do you want me Ariana?"

"I want you..."