L iam preferred to ignore the talk around him as
Rosalie and Vanessa hashed out the ins and outs
of his sperm donation with Aiden. Instead he and Shay
sat in the kitchen while Liam drew his latest Fury
storyboards. He was using Daniel's story about the
birdcage in this issue. He'd even assigned Daniel the
position of super hero sidekick; Zand was the name he
came up with. Maybe when Daniel realized he was a
sidekick, he wouldn't mind the birdcage story.
"Unca Danny." Shay grinned and pointed to the
page Liam was drawing. "Unca Danny in cage like
bad man. Bad man hurt my Liam. Shay fix."
"Yeah, about that Shay. Don't put any more guys
in with Frances. The cage wasn't meant to hold a
bunch of guys."
"K." Shay smiled. "Me play wif them."
"No, Grandma Morgan took them to Victoria.
You can play with Ty and Killer though. And my
friend Dakota is coming over this weekend. You can
play with her too."
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"K." Shay was satisfied for a moment. "Liam
make baby wif Mamma now?"
"Eweee, that would be a no." Liam shuddered.
"But I suppose I will one of these days."
"I heard that." Vanessa laughed. "Seamus baby,
it's a bit much for you to understand. You'll know
more when you're older."
"I doubt he'll want details." Aiden drawled. "That
is unless he takes after Liam and in that case, he'd be
nosey as hell."
"Or she." Rosalie laughed. "The baby could be a
she."
"The baby is still a figment of your imagination."
Liam began. "Don't count your chickens or your
babies before they're conceived." Liam was beginning
to feel like he was only there because of his sperm
"You never did explain why Aiden's little swimmers
wouldn't work."
"I know it sounds strange, but I had a dream
about the children. They grow up together, very close,
so close they remain together as adults. I'm not sure if
this dream means anything, but my grandmother
always said, better safe than sorry. I'd rather that the
children be raised as siblings, but not genetically
actually be siblings." Rosalie flushed and looked
embarrassed about what she'd said.
"I'd always heard that those of the Jewish faith
were a tad superstitious." Aiden said. "But then so are
the Irish. So I can't argue with you on that one." He
stood up. "Come on witch boy, time for bed. You
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need to save your strength for the big jerk off
session."
"Aiden, don't be disgusting." Vanessa said with a
shake of her head.
"Well I suppose he could do it the old fashioned
way." Aiden grinned an evil grin.
"Fuck off Mac Ruaidhri." Rosalie muttered under
her breath.
"Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off." Shay chortled,
pleased with himself. "Why dat da?" he asked.
"That's one for your mommies." Aiden laughed
as he picked up his son to kiss him goodnight. "One
for Liam too." He leaned the boy over to kiss Liam.
"And Doug, da kiss Doug."
"I'm not kissing a damn cat." Muttered Aiden
though he picked up the cat gingerly and handed her
to Liam.
"Why are you giving her to me?" Liam asked as
he cuddled Doug close, smooshing his nose into her
fur. He loved cats, especially Wah cats.
"Because you like pussy better than I do." He
smirked. "Your friend Dakota is a point in fact." He
looked over at Vanessa. "I have to watch him like a
hawk. Every time I go away on business, I come home
and find the two of them in bed, curled up like
kittens."
"Ah, how sweet." Vanessa beamed at Liam. "It's
lovely that you and Dakota are still so close, even
though Aiden is so much a part of your life."
"How else would I be able to keep sane, having
Aiden as a boyfriend? I can whine and bitch to
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Dakota, not to mention, discuss him in detail." Liam
ducked as Aiden took a playful swat at him.
Doug climbed to Liam's shoulder and glared at
Aiden daring him to try it again.
When Liam and Aiden were driving home later,
the red head was uncharacteristically silent. Finally
Aiden pulled over in front of Hamburger Mary's.
"Why are we at the diner?" Liam asked looking
around. It looked different at this time of the evening.
Moonlight filtered down from the sky and the
streetlights had halos around them. "There's hardly
anyone on the street."
"All good little fags are tucked safely in their
beds." Aiden joked.
"Hardly, it's barely nine." Liam snorted. "Are you
hungry?" his hand was on the door handle.
"No. I wanted to talk and I wanted your
undivided attention." Aiden stared in to Liam's eyes,
knowing that words he'd spoken would definitely get
Liam's attention. He rarely volunteered to talk.
"What's up?" Liam asked, his hand creeping up
Aiden's shirt, buttons being released so he could touch
the fine hairs on Aiden's chest. He loved those auburn
bits of silken thread.
"I want you to be one hundred percent sure about
doing this thing for Rosalie. I know we've kind of
snowballed you into it. But I have a feeling it's an
important decision on your part."
"An Irish thing?" Liam asked.
"No, a Wahjee thing." Aiden's hand captured
Liam's wandering one. "I want you to be sure. To do
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this for you and only you. I want it to be your decision
and no one else's. It's a big undertaking, with more
consequences than either of the women know."
"Is that what you did, take your time and think
about making Shay?" Liam asked.
"I thought about it a lot. For many reasons and
not just because I'm Wahjee and Vanessa is human.
The fact that it's forbidden didn't really bother me.
Usually things are forbidden by the elders to benefit
the elders and no one else. I knew that if I had a child,
I would have to be part of its life and I didn't know if I
was capable of loving someone other than myself.
Fuck, I don't even love myself that much."
"That's okay, I love you." Liam snuggled as close
as he could considering they were in the Lexus. "I just
keep thinking about what Rosalie said about her
dream and what Shay said. I keep thinking about why
it's forbidden to mate with humans. Let's face it, no
one ever actually says why. They just say we can't. I
think about the future, the future of the world and
whether we should even bring another child into it
with the state things are among the Wahjee, not to
mention the human race. I mean look at you. Do I
want my kid to think his or her father is no good
because he's gay?
The Odyssey is all but a tea house right now,
thanks to Johnson." Liam paused for breath. Johnson
was the Dutch Canadian Social Credit Premier.
Aiden laughed. "Tell me how you really feel." He
teased.
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"I'm going to do it." Liam said in a small voice.
"I can't help but think that maybe if enough good
Wahjee, the ones who have generations of white light
behind them, mate with humans, that maybe, just
maybe they can change the world for the better."
"Watch it witch boy. There have been a lot of
dictators in the world under the same delusions.
Maybe not Wahjee, but still you know what I mean.
Breeding a better human race." Aiden tilted Liam's
chin up with one finger. "Is that what you're
thinking?"
"No, not that." Liam paused, was he thinking
such megalomaniacal thoughts? "I'm not sure what
I'm thinking. I just know I want to do this. I want to
do it for me and for Shay."
"And the girls?" Aiden asked, looked deep into
the blue depths of Liam's eyes.
"The girls are human. I'm not doing it for them in
particular." Liam admitted. "I can't help but feel this
birth will benefit Wahjee. And if Wahjee are
benefited, then humans will be too, it only makes
sense."
Aiden pulled him into an embrace. He wasn't sure
he agreed with Liam's logic, though there was a
certain amount in sense in what he had to say. "Let's
go home." He whispered.
Liam let himself be held. He always felt a rush of
pleasure deep inside of him when Aiden called the
apartment home. "I'd like that."
"And better yet, we don't have the fucking
budgie." Aiden said turning back to drive.
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Liam snickered. "Mom sure is pissed about
Ashley."
"I doubt Leah is too pleased either." Aiden
hesitated. "We need to talk about that too. Shay did it.
Shay sent the banjo player into the birdcage."
"I talked to him about it already. He thought he
was sending him to the apartment. He didn't know
Frances was being moved. Shay was under the
impression that when someone is doing something bad
that we deal with it by sending them to the birdcage in
our home. You have to admit, for his age, its pretty
good reasoning."
"Whatever." Aiden was lost in thought. "We're
going to have give him some instruction. Are you sure
you have him in a tight enough spell to control him?"
"The thing is Aiden, if I control him any more, I
risk ruining his development. As it is, I have already
hindered him with what I've done. If he was being
raised Wahjee, this wouldn't happen."
"Well, it's not possible. He's in a human
household. We'll think of something."
