Y ou picked him up, didn't you?" Liam asked. He
was laid out on the hardwood floor in the center
of the loft. Ty was on his belly and Killer was for
some reason perched on the back of the white sofa,
almost reaching from end to end, he was stretched out
so long. He was referring to Bob who had been
through three months of rehab trying to get his life
together.
"Yep." Aiden kicked off his shoes, doing his best
not to ask what in hell Liam was doing. "Evan was
there to welcome him home."
"Do you think he'll persuade him to go to the
Fairie retreat with Daniel and him?" Liam asked, his
eyes closed, enjoying the feel of the cold wood on his
back and the warm cat on his belly
"Not likely. I can't think of a more unlikely place
for Bob to go. It's cold, smelly, bug infested and
attended by fruitcakes dressed in funny clothes with
even more ridiculous names."
"Wanna go?" Liam asked.
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"Not a chance in hell." Aiden snorted. He began
to look through the mail he'd picked up.
"It would be fun, the ad on the Internet says it's a
magical place."
"Anything is magical if you eat enough of the
right mushrooms."
Ty reached out with one paw and touched Liam's
nose with his paw.
Aiden had to ask. "Why are you naked on the
floor?"
"I'm a rug for the cat." Liam explained.
"Well you certainly qualify for the role of
fruitcake who would head to the fairie wilderness to
get your ass bitten off by mosquitoes."
"So, are you going to come with me?"
"I always come with you." He snickered.
"It's just that I have this awesome idea to fuck
with Daniel's head and it would be cool if you'd go
along with it."
"Danny's my friend."
"And your point is?"
Liam put Ty carefully to one side before standing
up. "If I can make you cum just by kissing you, will
you go with me?"
"I'm thirty…..ish, it's not too damn likely, but
sure, why not, do your best witch boy and speaking of
that, no witch moves."
"I don't need magic to make you cum." Liam
grinned as he stepped closer.
"Are we going to the bedroom?"
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"I don't need the comforts of the bedroom, but if
you'd like to, we can go to the bedroom."
"The dog is watching, I'm never going to cum."
Aiden snickered, figuring he'd won the bet already.
Liam only smiled as he reached up with one hand
and cupped the back of Aiden's head. He let his eyes
twinkle, knowing that Aiden was watching, and then
slowly lowered his lids halfway as he fell into the
spell that was Aiden Mac Ruaidhri. It was something
that happened every time they kissed. The man who
touched him, whom he touched, enthralled Liam.
A slight hitch in his breathing was all it took to
match the breaths he took to the beat of Aiden's heart.
His lips touched Aiden's softly, tenderly, as his eyes
asked permission for more. The older man's heartbeat
sped up, his skin flushed, as he read the love in Liam's
eyes. His lips craved more, but this was Liam's show
and he resisted pulling the red head closer.
Liam's lips became more insistent, his tongue
began to move of its own violation, searching,
touching, feeling. Aiden could feel the younger man's
fingers on the back of his head, moving ever so softly,
warm, firm, strong. The very touch somehow
comforting, filled with the secure feeling of love.
Liam broke the kiss, barely, and he nibbled on
Aiden's bottom lip, his body, his cock, thick with
desire, pressing against Aiden's body leaked precum,
warm and sticky, a low moan of desire, uttered
unconsciously from Liam's mouth and Aiden, hard as
he tried not to, gave himself up to the lips of the man
he loved, no matter how hard he tried not to admit it.
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"Fuck Liam." Aiden breathed, his knees weak.
"How do you do this to me?" the question didn't need
an answer, he knew that he was lost, or was he found?
It was a something he couldn't answer, as his body
responded to Liam lips, to the other man's breathing,
to his smell, to his touch. And as the kiss intensified,
he let himself release the orgasm that had been
building. Not because he couldn't hold back, but more
because he loved the man in his arms and would do
anything to make him happy, even attending a stupid
weekend fairie farm.
"I want to get there before anyone else." Liam
breathed, once he could speak.
"Why?"
"I have plans."
"What does one wear to this kind of place?"
"Oh don't worry, I have that under control.
Remember, we're going to fuck with Danny's head."
"I can't wait." The words were dry with sarcasm.
"No problem." Liam grinned and popped the two
of them.
Aiden looked around. "Where the fuck did you
take me? It looks like I'm in a tree."
"You are. We're at the fairy retreat."
"Liam, you have fucking wings on your back and
you're naked."
"So do you and so are you." He giggled.
"HOLY FUCKING CRAP, WE'RE FUCKING
FAIRIES."
"Of course we are." Liam giggled as he tested his
wings and hovered somewhat like a pale well-
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endowed hummingbird. "Don't you just love how
your cock feels in the breeze?"
"No." Aiden was trying to pull leaves over
himself, but they were in a willow tree and the leaves
were narrow and rather sharp. No one was going to
see Aiden Mac Ruaidhri with fucking wings. "Would
you kindly reverse this spell please, before I kill you?"
"Fairies don't kill, remember Tinkerbelle? I mean
Tinkerbelle is a gentle fairy, like you and I. Not
something out of a Tim Burton movie." Liam flitted
from branch to branch enjoying the freedom of flight,
flying past Aiden every now and then to kiss him
quickly, even though the older man did his best to
elude him on each pass.
"If this fairy gets his hands on you witch boy, you
are fucking dead." Aiden's teeth were gritted as he did
his best to control his temper. He had a lot more
sympathy for Frances now that he was even smaller
than the six-inch man. Ashley he didn't give a shit
about; let him stay small.
"Don't be a bitchy fairy." Liam made himself
twinkle. "Come on, fly with me. We've got a few
hours before Daniel and Evan get here. It'll be fun."
Liam flew close and Aiden lunged for him, falling
off the branch. He started to scream when his wings
fluttered and he was flying. And just in time, because
he'd almost landed on some guy's head. The man
swatted at him. Aiden glared and flew in front of the
bearded man's face. "Look asshole, this is a fairy
retreat. I'm a fairy and retreating, so lay off." The look
of horror from the bearded man before he fell
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backwards in what only could be described as a
swoon, had Aiden laughing out loud.
"See, I told you it'd be fun." Liam laughed.
"Come on, let's go find the rest of them."
Aiden, getting the hang of flying, chased after
Liam, catching him up in his arms, they kissed, arms
tangled but still flying. Not noticing that they were
attracting attention from some of the campers before
they disappeared in a flutter of wings deep into the
leaves of the willow tree.
"Did you see that?" someone asked, rubbing his
eyes.
"I think I did." Another person answered with a
laugh. "This shit you gave me has a righteous high."
Willing to accept the high from the drugs as an
explanation for what had happened, the retreat
organizer went back to checking the campers in for
the weekend.
In a down filled birds nest, Aiden kissed Liam.
"You are a rotten little shit and I'm going to punish
you like you won't believe." He began.
"Promise?" Liam laughed, "But after the
weekend." Not waiting for Aiden to answer, Liam
pulled him closer. There was something almost
wickedly sinful and definitely fun about being naked
outside in the evening twilight. Sex should be
amazing.
Evan and Daniel had been driving for two hours,
been lost three times, found their way again and now
that it was dark, had a suspicion they were lost once
again. Neither one was speaking to the other.
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Finally Evan said. "I really don't understand why
you think we should both spend the weekend here. I
don't want to be here and neither do you. Let's just
turn around and go home."
"We can't even if we wanted to. I'm almost out of
gas." Daniel's voice was bitter. "We're almost there, I
saw a sign about five minutes ago."
"You never said one word." Evan glared, not that
Daniel could see him.
"This is the turn."
It took them almost an hour to check in, be
assigned a place to stay and to reluctantly put together
their costumes that were to reflect their inner fairy. By
then they were both exhausted and agreed to sleep and
deal with the retreat in the morning.
Aiden left Liam sleeping in the nest at the top of
the tree. He hoped it was a deserted nest not wanting
to deal with the aftermath of what might happen
should the owner appear. Liam had a rather bad
temper when disturbed from what he figured was
much needed sleep.
He would never admit to the red head that he
rather enjoyed being able to flit around like a bird. He
watched Evan and Daniel arrive and the looks on their
faces entertained him as they became initiated in the
rights of the fairy retreat. He followed them both
inside their cabin, sitting in the rafters watching and
listening to the two of them.
Daniel held up the clothing he'd chosen. "I'm
glad no one I know is going to see me in this. I hate
drag."
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"But you look lovely in drag." Evan simpered as
he modeled what he'd chosen. "It's all in the genes.
You carry yourself very much like a lady. Your
mommy would be proud."
"Whatever." Daniel looked over at Evan. "Are
you going out? It's late. I thought we'd just go to bed
and check things out in the morning."
"Jimmy would have wanted me to have some fun.
I know he's attended one or two of these soirées in his
time. I've read about it in his journals. He loved these
weekends. He could spend a whole 48 hours being the
man he longed to be. If he can't attend, then I'll do it
for him." Evan put the final touches to his fairy
costume before heading for the door. "You really
should come out too. I mean your beau would want
you to have some fun."
"I'm not so sure about that. Stan wasn't all that
interested in the weekend."
"So that's why all the doom and gloom, you
wanted the delightfully buff Stanly to come. Well
honey, there's no time like the present. Why don't you
call him and tell him what he's missing. Maybe he'll
come up tomorrow."
"I doubt it, he has a seminar tomorrow." Daniel
threw himself down on the rather hard camp bed.
"Ouch, this bed is like sleeping on the floor."
"Exactly why you need to find yourself a nice soft
manly mattress." Evan giggled, disappearing quickly
out of Daniel's sight. As soon as the door shut behind
him, all semblance of mirth disappeared. He missed
his Jimmy with a desperation he wondered if he'd
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ever get over. Everywhere he turned he was reminded
of the man. He knew he needed to let go. Even
Jimmy's journals had told him that. But try as he
might, he just couldn't. Now that he knew about
Wahjee, he kept watching everyone for signs that they
might be from that race. He was pretty sure Liam and
Aiden were Wahjee, but he wasn't sure how Shay
came into the picture and now Rosalie was pregnant.
James said that humans and Wahjee didn't interbreed.
Maybe he'd be able to ask Aiden some day.
