Theme song: "Heaven Sent" by K. Forest
While Laurent is having a beautiful reunion with Winter and his sons, Troy takes his leave and decides it's time for him to have a beautiful reunion of his own. Walking into the lab, Troy is met by the same security as the ladies were, Ezekiel. Acknowledging him, Troy expects him to be on his way.
"We good, bruh."
"I have strict orders, Mr.Blackwell. From the boss." Ezekiel responds somewhat smugly.
"Ezekiel, I am your boss." Squinting, Troy cocks his head at him.
"Nah, the big boss."
"You mean Nola...my brotha?" As he nods, Troy sucka his teeth at the guard's disregard for Troy being his direct commander and true superior. "Ezekiel, bruh, stop tryin me, lil daddy. I'm comin to speak to Marissa, privately. She's in good hands...trust me." Responding with a cocky snide attitude of his own, Troy squares his broad shoulders as Ezekiel releases a humorless scoff realizing Troy's double entendre.
Utterly annoyed at this point and seemingly pointless exchange with Ezekiel, Troy is stunned when Ezekiel turns on his heels and heads in the wrong direction.
Mumbling a sarcastic pardon, Ezekiel walks through the double doors leading into the lab and towards Marissa.
"This bitch!" Huffing out quite loudly, Troy walks through the quickly closing doors.
Seeing Marissa at her lab work bench, his jaw almost falls off. The tight camel brown turtleneck sweater dress she has on hugs her body perfectly. He can't choose which view is more perfect: the way her breasts are sitting wonderfully in the fitted material or the thigh high split that curves around her toned muscular supple thigh. Or maybe even the way the soft woven cashmere clings to her voluptuous ass. Her gold and auburn curls are straightened down her back. She looks gorgeous and Troy's eyes don't know where to attempt to focus.
Walking towards her and right past Ezekiel, Troy doesn't even speak. Wrapping one hand around her waist, he wraps his other hand in her glorious hair and pulls her flush to his body. Leaning down, he fuses his lips to her's. Completely caught and pleasantly off guard, Marissa gasps a small shocked sound. Taking the opportunity to slip his tongue into her mouth, Troy smiles triumphantly against her mouth as she no longer resists his lure and melts in his strong unexpected arms. Running her hands through his soft sandy curls, she accidentally knocks off his beanie, but neither of them seems to mind. Allowing his hands to squeeze and massage her soft cheeks until she pulls away breathlessly Marissa realizes just how much she's missed Troy.
"Hey baybay."
"Hiiii." She swoons sweetly like a lovestruck princess in a child's movie or storybook.
"We good now, Ezekiel?" Not even bothering to turn over his shoulder, Troy dismisses the stubborn guard.
"Wooow!" Ezekiel scoffs as his hopes of a romance with Marissa blow away with the April breeze blowing outside the lab window.
"You came back early." Smiling up at him, she is truly elated to see him.
"Yeah. You busy or you got a minute?" Playing in her hair, Troy returns a fond grin of his own.
"You wanna stay with me while I work on the bullet?"
"Yeah, that's straight. C'mon." Slapping her behind, he grabs her hand as they head to the very back where her work station is located.
"So what you figure out, brainiac?" Teasing her, Troy watches her playfully roll her eyes as she puts on her gloves and goggles.
"Weeelll, whoever made this is a genius! The actual bullet casing is steel, so super strong, but it's infused with silver nitrate. That allows it to do something I've never seen before, as it pierces the flesh it poisons the areas that it rips open, so it poisons in layers not just one spot. Then at impact the glass casing of the UV serum shatters, also piercing the flesh, and disperses the UV toxin throughout the body. But good news is its pseudo UV. Just harnessed fluorescent light drawn up and injected into the bullet, so Winter's blood put into a special herbal tincture should counteract this; if caught quick enough."
"Can you translate that shit to English, mama?!" Chuckling, he watches her shake her head and giggle.
"Gosh Troy Emile Blackwell! It's not even complicated!"
"Well, Marissa Jilan Thomas, I don't do science! Just like you wouldn't be able to understand my tactical shit!"
"Ohhh, if you can understand it, I DEFINITELY can!" Giggling wildly, she snorts as her face turns red.
"You think so, smart ass?!" He chuckles and asks as he walks closer to her end of the lab table.
"Stop, Troy! Nooooo! Not at work!" Laughing hardily, she removes her gloves and goggles as he stares at her alluringly.
"Please?" Batting his long blonde-brown eyelashes it's like the little fans waft a pheromone through Marissa's nostrils.
Watching her pupils dilate and her breathing increase. Troy knows he got her where he wants her. Rushing towards each other he grabs her up as he slides his hands under her dress. Tearing her lace panties at the thin seam, Troy works her dress up with one hand and unzips his jeans with the other as Marissa uses her muscular thighs to grip his waist and her arms are draped around his strong neck. As everything happens in a heated blur, Marissa is seated on the lab table with Troy deep inside of her, standing between her trembling thighs.
"Mmm, fuck!"
"You missed it, mama?" Troy moans and kisses up her ear slowly.
"God, yes! Ahh, I missed you sooo much Troy!" Pulling his body closer to hers, she puts her hands under his shirt.
As if their minds are in sync, they both begin tugging off her sweater dress to allow her sweltering skin to rest against his cool smooth skin. Once the sweater is displaced to the floor, Troy destroys her lacy white bra; just the same way he did the matching panties.
"Troy!"
"Hush spoiled ass, I'll replace it!" Laughing at her scowling face, he purposely digs deeper causing her to cry out a loud satisfied moan.
"Mmmm, fuuuuuck me!" Tossing her head back, she closes her eyes and focuses on the feeling of his hard body quaking thrusts. His width squeezing past her impossibly tight walls. Her clit rubs against his pelvis. His cool breath breezes against her nipples as he kisses up her chest. Troy's large soft hands caress her supple prickled skin. As he leaves goosebumps and tingly sensations of the aftermath from their skin to skin contact. Her loud moans and deafening chant of Troy's name sings his praises. Her wetness makes an absolute theme song to their intense love making. His grunts and soft moans of her name count as his addition to the raunchy soundtrack. Their bodies move like a well calibrated machine. Swiveling his hips, Troy's dick hits Marissa's favorite spot over and over. Cursing loudly, Troy groans as the thick tip of his dick suctions deeper into Marissa's strangling walls.
"Ahh, baby I'm gonna cum!"
"Mmm, cum then lil mama! Show out fa me, baybay!" Encouraging her, Troy grasps and slaps Marissa's ass harshly as she grinds against him.
"Fuuuck, Troy!" Pulling his mouth to hers she kisses him sinfully as they continue making raunchy love without a care in the world.
"Ahh, Troy! Not so deep, baby!" Whimpering Marissa gasps as Troy's strokes become harder and less coordinated.
"C'mon mama, what you can't take my dick no'mo?!" Teasing her, he chuckles and kisses her deeply.
"Shit! Babyyy!" Pulling him closer to her, Marissa smiles as Troy nestles his face in the crook of her neck.
As Troy breathes her alluring scent in, he can't control himself. With his eyes flashing neon green he literally can't stop himself before he submerges his fangs into her soft honey skin. Tasting her blood rush into his hungry mouth, he is absolutely hooked. It's single handedly the most intoxicating taste he's ever had in his mouth. If he thought her body and skin tasted amazing, they had nothing on her blood.
"Fuck, Troy!" She screeches.
Between the shock of his fangs entering her sensitive neck, his dick basically impaling her, and a forced orgasm Marissa's body feels as if she is levitating in that very moment as he feeds. And the out of body experience is no less intense for Troy as he cums so aggressively hard that he loses his breath. Gasping for air he rushes to close her feeding site as he releases his entire supply of thick velvety seed into a trembling moaning Marissa. Painstakingly slowly pulling back he looks into her eyes. As their eyes finally meet he can tell she is utterly furious. Trying to fix it he immediately attempts to apologize.
"Rissa, lil mama, I am bea-."
"No, Troy! Move!" Pushing him, she winces as he slips from her.
Trying to grab her hands as she keeps pulling away from him, he attempts to explain.
"Baybay, I didn't-."
"No, Troy! Why did you do that?!"
With confusion now maring his handsome face, he is confused as to what specifically she is asking him about.
"Do what, Rissa?!"
"You tried to mark me!"
"No I didn't!" Shaking his head, he tries to reason with her.
"Then why'd you bite me?! I've been tellin you I don't wanna be marked, but you still did what the fuck you wanted to do and bit me!"
"That-. I just fed! I'm sorry! You just, fuck, Marissa-. It's impossible to be this close to you, constantly, and not be consumed with needing to feed from you! I try! Every time I'm with you, or making love to you, or just smelling ya blood if I'm too close to ya neck! I'm sorry! But I swear I wasn't finna mark you! I just needed to feed!"
Watching him as she struggles to put her sweater dress back on, she realizes what he just said to her.
"Make love to me?" Staring at him questioningly, she wants to know the reason behind his choice of words. Especially since they have never, not even once, discussed the 'L' word.
"Be intimate with you Marissa, shit!" Sighing at her as he fixes his pants, he now realizes he should have chosen his words more carefully since she has been leary of this whole situation since the very beginning.
"You just said 'make love', but then changed what you said."
"I meant to say we were fuckin bein intimate, Mar-."
"You're fuckin lyin, Troy!"
"What?! Shawty, you trippin!"
"Yeah, I guess I was trippin when I came over to talk to you and you whispered that you loved me, right?! Then acted like you didn't say anything! But guess what, I heard you!"
"Marissa, I'ont know what you tal'm'bou-."
"You fuckin liar!" Pushing him, she bursts into tears. "Since you wanna lie, leave me alone!"
"Baybay, wait!" Reaching for her hand as she tries to storm out of the lab, she snatches it back.
"No! Leave me alone!" As the embarrassment of realization floods her body, she sprints to the elevator and away from him.
How could she be falling in love with someone that can't or even just won't admit he has deeper feelings for her. She knows it's new and scary for the both of them, but for him to blatantly lie to her face after she asked him and gave specific examples of him diminishing his feelings for her is what truly hurts the most.
"Fuck!" Chasing after her, he follows her to make sure she's safe.
Finally running down all the stairs he catches her in the parking lot; grabbing her from behind he scoops her up into his strong arms.
"Baybay, I'm sorry! Ok? I said it, Marissa! Ok?! I fuckin said I love you! I only love you! I make love to you! Since the first time, it's only been you, lil mama. I'm so sorry. But I swear I haven't touched nobody else since you on New Years. And I know that scares the shit outta you that I feel this way so quickly, but I do. And I'll be as patient as you need me to be, baybay."
Cradling her to his chest, he rocks her until she stops weeping. Kissing her head, he just waits for her to calm down.
"Look at me mama." Feeling her shake her head against his chest, he chuckles deeply. "Please, beautiful?"
"What, Troy?" Turning her tearful eyes upon him, she gasps as he grabs her face and kisses her absolutely breathless.
"I love you Rissa. Only you, baybay." Gazing intensely into her tearful chestnut eyes with his piercing bright blue eyes, he smiles as an involuntary smile stretches across her perfectly beautiful face.
Shaking his head, he allows a rumbling deep laugh to escape him as she blushes and shyly buries her face back into his muscular chest.
"Iloveyoutoo." She mumbles coyly.
"What?! I ain't hear you, lil mama!" Smiling, he lifts her face to stare into his.
"I love you too Troy, jeez!" Grinning as he spins her around and kisses her, Marissa couldn't be happier.
Slowing them down, he embraces her as she clings to his body. Slowly rocking them back and forth he relishes the feel of her petite hands stroking up and down his back as he clutches her head to his chest. With his chin rested on her head, he reveals his truth to her softly.
"I'm sorry I fed without ya permission, Marissa. Deadass I'm beaucoup sorry. That wasn't right fa me to do witout askin first."
"It's-. It's ok. I should have been feeding you. I felt really bad after the way things switched up with us before you left for New Orleans."
"It's aight, mama. I was straight. I had substitutes."
"From who?!" Pulling back, she glares at him with her eyebrows basically furrowed into a knot of anger.
"Shit! Chill out, baybay!" Laughing he bends down to kiss her as she scowls at him. "I get it from the donation center! I mean Nola said I shouldn't but I wasn't finna feed from nobody that wasn't you so I had to do what I had to do. Ya'know?" He laughs as hre face immediately softens as she pouts and caresses his face.
"Aww, baby! I'm so sorry!"
"You fuckin crazy, baybay! But it's aight!" Smiling at her as she giggles, he can't keep the grin off of his face.
"So what does this mean for us?"
"It means I love you. You love the shit up outta my ass too. You my chosen, just like I'm yours. But I will wait 'til ya ready to be marked. But I'll kill anybody that even looks at you, Marissa."
"You're funny!" Laughing she stops immediately when she realizes he is impossibly serious.
"I'm deadass. I'ont play bout you."
"Oh! Oh no, please don't do that!" Covering her mouth she shakes her head no.
"Nah I'm beaucoup serious, but lets get you home."
"Can I spend the night?" Marissa suggests.
"Ahh shit! You finna let me wear that ass out, baybay?!"
"Yup!" Kissing him, she takes his hand as he walks them to his luxury sports car.
Speeding off into the spring night air everything seems to be perfect for them. Or at least for the next three weeks it seems to be perfect for them. That is until Marissa and Troy both receive a joint text from Winter asking them to meet her in her office when they get to work. Seeing how nervous Marissa is as they sit across from both Winter and Laurent, Troy holds his hand out for Marissa to take. Smiling at him thankfully, she clings to his hand in anxious anticipation.
"Ok guys, um, shit-. I, uh-."
"What's up, Blue? I know it ain't good cause you and Nola bouff here. So what's up patna?" Sucking his fangs in annoyance, Troy's jaw begins ticking.
"I got it mama." Laurent interjects as to make it less uncomfortable for Winter. "Bones, Rissa?"
"Yes." She answers meekly as Troy nods.
"Winter and I were emailed a video of uh..."
"Oh my God!" Covering her mouth, tears begin pouring down Marissa's face.
"Nola, get the fuck outta here!"
"Nah, bruh. I wish I was bullshittin."
"Nola, ain't no mafuckin way! Only me and lil mama was in there after-." As it clicks, Troy is livid. "OH FUCK NAH!" Jumping up from his chair, Troy starts walking out of Winter's office.
Running after him, Marissa grabs his hand to halt his movements.
"Troy, wait, please!"
“Nah, Troy can’t handle this, lil mama.”
Gasping, Marissa stares into the emerald green reptilian slit-like eyes of Damian.
“Damian?”
“I love you, stay here.” Kissing her he dashes out of the office.
“Baby, got after him!” Winter yells to Laurent.
“Rissa, where is he goin?!” Laurent questions quickly as he dashes towards the door of Winter’s office.
“I-. I think after Ezekiel!”
“Fuck!” Rushing after him, Laurent sprints out of the door in the direction in which Troy took off.
“C’mon mama!” Grabbing a frozen Marissa, Winter pulls her towards the training facility on the rooftop.
Being that Troy single handedly trained the entire vampire special operative force that patrolled all of the territory of the Baptiste clan, he needed a top notch state of the art facility to do so. And the rooftop of ABO /- Corp housed that facility. It was optimal in location to allow Troy to train the vampires’ special abilities without ruining the inside of a building. Weaving their way through all the actively training vampires, they finally see what has captured the attention of the majority of the trainees. As they gather around, they all watch Troy beating the living hell out of Ezekiel. No matter the way he attempts to block the hail storm of clapping blows, Troy is just too quick.
“You thought that shit was funny?! To embarrass my fuckin chosen?! You wanna record shit?! You fuckin weird bitch?!” Punch after punch landed, Troy finally stands straight up while opening his arms.
Allowing his body to be engulfed in onyx black smoke, Damian’s eyes glow fiercely. As everyone in attendance is shocked beyond belief, Winter is amongst the astounded group. For the only time she has ever witnessed that eerie jet black plume of smoke is from Laurent.
“Oh my gods!” She shrieks loudly as she makes the connection.
“Fuck!” Laurent yells as he runs towards Troy. And as he runs full speed to close the large gap between them, Damian turns to face Laurent with a creepy mischievous smile plastered across his horrifyingly handsome face. “Damian, no!” Trying to grab ahold of him, Laurent barely misses as they begin disappearing.
“Pssh, bye Nola!” And with that, Damian snatches a limp Ezekiel up as they completely disappear into the mushroom of thick midnight hued smoke.
“What the hell?!” Winter yells to Laurent as she finally is able to squeeze through the nosey onlookers and makes it over to him with Marissa in tow.
“Where-?! Where the hell did they go?!” Asking frantically, Marissa turns back and forth just hoping to catch a glimpse of either Troy or his battered victim, Ezekiel.
“Look up there!” Harshly whispering to Marissa and Laurent as not to draw anymore attention to the location, Winter points towards the highest point of the training structure.
And as their eyes face the sky, they watch an absolutely savage Damian standing at the very precipice of the edge as he dangles Ezekiel’s pulverized figure over the ledge of the 31 story building.
“Oh my God, Laurent stop him!” Pushing him towards the front of the gathered crowd, Winter knows he is the only person who can diffuse the horribly graphic spectacle.
“Shit! C’mere, Rissa!” Grabbing Marissa, Laurent rockets their hugged bodies to the highest ledge of the structure where Troy is standing. “Lil mama, you gotta talk to him, please." Laurent pleads with a truly shaken Marissa.
"O-ok." Nodding, she approaches Damian cautiously. "D-Damian?"
"Lil mama, y'ont need to see this!"
"No! Please, baby?! You don't need to do this! It's over, please?! I'm sure he got the point, you made your point!"
"This muthafucka tried to embarrass you! He wanted to fuckin test me! Sa se aakseptab!"
"Laurent what does that mean?!" Not understanding his shadow tongue, Marissa looks to Laurent for translation and understanding.
"It means, 'it's unacceptable." Not taking his eyes off of Damian and Ezekiel, Laurent calls back his answer before addressing Troy and Damian. "Damian, ou bezwen sispann!{You need to stop!}"
"No! It's my duty to protect her! Li te eseye fe mal chwazi mwen an! Se konsa kounyee a mwen fe I 'mal!"
"I understand you think he hurt your chosen, but Damian this isn't what she wants! Look at her, bruh! She's fuckin terrified!"
"Please, Damian?! You don't have to do this." Gently touching his cheek as she cautiously approaches him, Marissa doesn't make any hasty movements while gazing into his blazing neon reptilian demonic eyes.
"It's for your onè."
"My what, baby?"
"Honor. It's to restore your honor. He watched and filmed you in our most intimate expression of lanmoú. Our love." He grits through his teeth at the thought of her being violated.
"And I love you so much for trying to restore that, but you'll lose your freedom if you kill him in front of all these people. I don't want that. I can't lose you. I need you. Ou-our baby needs you."
"Kisa fout?!" Damian and Laurent spit out simultaneously.
"What?! You're pregnant?!" Watching her nod, his eyes blink involuntarily trying to comprehend what she is telling him.
"Yeah." Responding nervously, she explains. "From-. From when you first got back." As the happy tears slide down her cheeks, Marissa smiles.
"Oh Lilith, my love!" Caught up in his own swell of pride and happiness, Damian accidentally releases his grip on Ezekiel as he fuses his body to Marissa's in a deep embrace; luckily Laurent is able to rush over to his descending body and catch him.
Shooting daggers in Damian's direction, Laurent grits his teeth.
"Take ya ass to Winter's office now, Damian!" Barking at him while hoisting Ezekiel back onto the roof, Laurent is fuming.
Picking Marissa up, Damian disappears off of the rooftop in the same eerie plume of obsidian colored smoke that he appeared in. Bringing Ezekiel down off of the rooftop with him, Laurent whispers to Winter to go get King and Lavender before heading to her office. Basically dragging Ezekiel on his unsteady feet, Laurent growls only low enough for him to hear.
"You're fired, Ezekiel! And you're lucky Troy or better yet Damian's sick ass didn't dispose of ya trash ass like the shit you are! I can't believe ya foul ass thought it was acceptable to tape her just cause she ain't want you! You that pressed fa some pussy, cuh?!"
"Go ahead and fire me! But I'm gonna expose Troy for who and what he really fuckin is!" Seething through his bloodied lips, Ezekiel could care less about being fired. "He's got that demonic ass shadow magic!" He spits as blood continues to pour from his mouth.
"Ye'aint finna expose shit, bruh." Shaking his head, Laurent continues dragging him through the hallway.
Finally in Winter's office with everyone, Laurent throws Ezekiel's now tied up body onto the couch.
"Lav?" Nodding his head in Ezekiel's direction, Laurent makes a one word request.
"Yeah, I gotchu." Nodding she points to her ears for everyone else present.
Singing a sweet low siren song, she lulls Ezekiel to sleep.
"Thank you." Nodding in gratitude, he turns his attention to Winter. "Aight mama, ya up."
Nodding as she presses the automatic shade button on her desk, Winter waves her hands and chants as she places a soundproof field and dome around her office. With the dome successfully enclosing them, Winter expectantly looks up at Laurent.
"Ok baby, what the hell happened out there?!"
As his cheeks puff from his deep exhale, Laurent looks over at Troy now that Damian has given him complete control.
"Well y'all, the truth is, Troy Emile Blackwell is...my brother."
"WHAT?!" All of the unsuspecting attendees all ask at once.
"Yeah." Nodding he confirms their question.
"How?! Your dad got killed when you were like 6 months old!" Gasping Winter watches them both nod at her.
"So what's that tell you, lil mama?" Raising his eyebrows, Laurent stares at her as her wheels begin to turn.
"Oh my God! Maw?!" Covering her mouth, Winter sympathizes with Marguerite's pain as she realizes that Laurent's father Nolan, must have been unfaithful.
"But-. But, Troy was using your shadow magic! Maw is the queen of that realm, so how?" Confused Winter knows Nolan also didn't possess shadow magic so that can only mean one thing.
"That's why you're my little beautiful genius, Win!" Kissing her temple he smiles. "Troy's maw was a high ranking voodoo priestess of the shadow court; she was one of my momma's advisors. She was this mulatto named Emilia Blackwell. Beaucoup fair skin, like high yella enough to pass fa white, blue eyes, dirty blonde curly hair. She was a beautiful lil thang. And she and my daddy has a secret relationship fa years apparently. They ain't get caught up 'til Troy was born a lil befo' I turned a year old. So by math purposes I was like 5 months or some shit when he was conceived. Then a month later later our dog ass daddy got killed. So only him and Emilia knew bout Troy's conception. But yeah, his shtupid ass is my younger half brother on our daddy's side. And because his maw was of the shadow realm, we got the same shadow magic." Laurent explains thoroughly.
"So Troy what happened to your mom? Cause y'all are always with Maw Marguerite and I love you Trouble, but ain't no way in hell I'm gonna be around my dead husband's mistress's baby! Hell fuckin no!" Laughing with the group as Troy frowns at her in offense Winter blows him a kiss as he shakes his head no.
"That's why I'ont luh you like that no'mo anyways, Blue! Witcha fake ass!" Laughing as she playfully gasps, Troy nods happily at her playfully hurt feelings. "But nah seriously, since she was fuckin the queen's mate, she and I were supposed to die. But in her last plea at her execution, she plead with Marguerite to raise me since they were best friends and technically I was the last of the 'Baptiste' bloodline. So maw, knowing that I was ugly's only blood brother, she raised my lil yella ass like her son! She treated me and Nola the exact same, neva treated me bad or nan. So when I got old enough, she told us about what happened to my birth momma. And she was beaucoup shook that I was finna hate her, but it made me love her mo' cause, like you said Blue, most women woulda said 'fuck my lil baybay ass too'! But not maw, she a real one, fa'real." Nodding in appreciation he truly loves Marguerite like his own birth mother.
"This is too muuuuch!" Fake pouting, Winter looks at Lavender. "Oh my gods, Lav, I told you we shoulda called out that night!" Whining she pokes out her bottom lip and sits her chin in her cupped hands as she realizes even seven almost eight years later these men are still full of twist, turns, and surprises.
"Wait, what night?!"
"That's what I'm tryna figure out!" Laughing King and Laurent speak over one another.
"The damn night we met y'all demonic asses almost 8 years ago! Just turned our damn lives upside down! And now we damn roped poor innocent Rissa into this shit too!" Laughing Winter points to the three of the men. "We told y'all asses that night that you were bad news! And now we got damn TWO shadow princes?! That's wild!"
"Nah, I can't inherit the kingdom. Even though maw raised me as the second prince, the court already voted that if something was to happen to Nola, the kingdom goes back to Marguerite. I mean that was ruled befo' y'all had the boys, now they get it."
"Damn, that sucks." Winter sympathizes with Troy.
"Nah. I'm good off that shit. As you can see, I'ont fuck with that shadow shit, like eva really."
"So why don't you have a shadow entity?" Winter inquires since she knows about Âme.
"I do, Damian!" Smiling as Winter's eyes bulge and gawks at him, Troy nods.
"Wait, but he's your vampire! I'm so confused!" Winter whines as Laurent, Troy, and King laugh at her.
"You and me both! This supernatural shit is bananas!" Marissa huffs as she sits on Troy's lap.
"Ok, so Nola has himself. But he has two entities that inhabit his body, they're fused to to him. Knox and Âme. Just like you have Winter, but when you had ya comin out you realized Hathor was ya incarnation. And when you sacrificed ya soul to get uglass back, that spot was filled by Jez. So you still got ya body and brain Blue, but Hathor or Jez can take control. But my real momma was beaucoup evil, apparently. But like Nola said she was bout it and her face card was valid, so our dog ass daddy was drawn to her. So when they got busy and made my sexy ass-!" He laughs loudly as they tease him. "When they had me they both had beaucoup strong energy and rather than cancel out, they fused. So her shadow gene permanently fused to my daddy's vampire gene. But accordin to maw, when I was grown up I was fuckin bad as hell as a youngin-!"
"Oh only 'accordin' to her?! Look at ya ass now! Hence ya nickname, Trouble! I couldn't stand ya ass when we first met!" Laughing hysterically as Troy, Laurent, King, and Lavender laugh in confirmation, Winter points at Troy.
"Oh my gosh, for real, Winnie?!"
"Yesss! Rissa, I swear I couldn't stand his obnoxious ass!"
"Yeah, she really couldn't!" Lavender laughs thinking about that night.
"And now they annoyin asses is best friends! So what's that say bout you, lil mama?!" Teasing her, Laurent winks at her as she scowls at him.
"Anywayyysss, bestie, keep going!" Smiling, Winter looks at Troy.
"I know they hatin on us, Blue! But anyways I was stressin her out wit how bad I was cause Damian was outta fuckin control. So maw did a channeling with my maw and a voodoo ritual on me and found out that my vamp and shadow entity are one in the same. I'm one of the first fusions in history. Plus Damian means demon. So I don't really eva let him have full control often cause he don't have an off switch. Only Nola and apparently Rissa are able to get through to his crazy ass."
"But do you transform like Âme?!" Highly intrigued Winter asks as Troy's eyes flash neon green.
"Yeah, but only if I give him full control. I've only done it like, what Nola-?"
"I think maybe 3 times and that's pushin it! He's worse to get under control than Âme!" Laurent emphasises.
"Wow! So only you three know you two are blood brothers?" Lavender points between the men.
"Yeah. Us and our cousin Elliot that Winny met befo'. But other than that, nah, we don't tell people. They don't need to know there are more people with access to the shadow realm." Troy explains.
"Why not?" Marissa questions.
"Cause not all shadow entities are loyal. They switch up to whoeva they think will give them the freedom to be destructive and wreak havoc. That's why we make sure the boys don't talk about Des and Sou. Although, I think cause LJ got alotta Âme in him that he might be just the one to get they flip-floppin asses in check." Winking at Winter as his eyes turn snow white, Laurent laughs as she swats him.
"Hell no! Don't you put that shit on my baby! I do NOT want LJ to command the shadow henchmen! Hell no, his ass is bad enough!" Protesting, Winter shakes her head no.
"Wait, who?" Furrowing her eyebrows, Marissa is completely confused.
"Oh, our boys. LJ and Nox have shadow entities. LJ has Destriksyon or Des, which means Destruction in shadow tongue, and he is always living up to that name! Nox has Sounwa or Sou which means Sly or sneak in shadow tongue. Their names are very befitting!" Winter shrugs and explains.
"THE BABIES GET THEM TOO?!" Blurting out, Marissa's eyes bulge as she panics.
"Yeah, why?" Laughing at her reaction, Winter thinks she's being a bit dramatic.
"Cause, uh-. Cause we expectin!" Grinning shyly, Troy blushes alongside Marissa at his announcement.
"WHAT?! AHHH! TROUBLE AND RISSA, FOR REAL?!" Jumping up, Winter and Lavender grab Marissa into a screeching crying group hug. "I'm so happy for y'all babes!" Winter gushes tearfully. "Bestie?! Ahh, Trouble ya gonna be a daddy?!" Kissing all over his smiling face, she tries to keep from crying more. "Ya gonna be such a great father, Troy!" As Winter cups his rouged cheeks, he tries to tame his own emotions having her give him such a compliment; especially since he helped raise her twins.
"Thank you, Blue! That legit means the world coming from you. Fa real!" Hugging her tightly, he kisses the top of her head.
"Thank you guys!" Holding her blushing cheeks, Marissa tries to blink back her joyful tears at the thought of starting a family with Troy.
Especially since she has no living family and Troy has neither of his parents.
"Oh my goodness! I can't wait! So Tati, Winnie, and now little innocent Rissa! Damn hoes! Y'all bitches fertile!" Cackling, Lavender wrinkles her nose at them playfully.
"Trust ya next, Lav! Always is that way!" Winter confirms.
"I'm tryna get me at least fo' mo' youngins too!" King boasts.
"Uhh hell no! I'm not havin no damn four more bad ass children for you! You make huge kids, King! Hell no!" Frumping her face at him as he smiles at her and licks his fangs, Lavender tries to remain unaroused.
"Ok so now that King has declared that he will be renting more space in Lav's womb-!" Winter cackles as Lavender flips her off as King nods proudly. "Lets get to the elephant, or prisoner, in the room...Ezekiel."
"Ah hell nah, aint no mafuckin prisoner! That mafucka dwe alé!" Troy snaps.
"Ok, you have the right to be the one that makes that call, Trouble." Winter and Laurent nod.
"Wait, Winnie you understand them?!" Eagerly sitting up, Marissa watches her nod. "How?! What he say?"
"He said he has to go, like-" Running her thumb across her neck, Winter nods as Marissa nods in understanding. "But once you're marked and bound fully you absorb all of your chosen's languages. You also get some pretty kick ass powers or power fusions!"
"Like what?!" Like an excited child, Marissa wiggles her eyebrows for Winter to either continue or demonstrates some of them.
"Um, Lav-. You tell her Lav! It's you guys gifts!" Smiling proudly, Winter remembers the first time she watched Lavender and King's gifts.
"Ok, ok, don't sweat meee!" Playfully tossing her hair over her shoulder as she rolls her eyes, Lavender sticks her tongue at Winter. "But I can manipulate water since I'm the reincarnation of the queen of sirens Yemaya, plus I have my hypnotic siren songs. And I can probably do other things, I mean once I learn! But being with King, I can manipulate fire a bit. Cause King can breathe fire and manipulate it fully. Like he can create it. He's what's called and elemental vampire; he controls an element. And electricity since it has a current and can cause fire, he controls that too. He also has claws and can climb walls and has skin like scales when he is angry. He also has, as we allll have experienced, glowing dragon vocal cords. So he's abnormally loud; probably to help him roar without damaging his vocal cords. But together with his fire and my water, when it touches the smoke creates chemicals that help me control bodily chemicals and hormones. Also he can possibly shift into a full fledge freakin dragon of some sort! We just have gotten the chance to get him to tropical waters near his Asian roots. But yup it's pretty damn cool!" Smiling as her eyes flash amethyst, she flutters her long eyelashes.
"Wow! And what about you two?!" Motioning between Winter and Laurent, Marissa waves her hands for Winter to tell her more.
"I remember when you were like that, lil mama!"
"I know, daddy! It still is awesome!" She smiles reminiscing about her initial excitement. "But Laurent's royal vamp Knox can shapeshift into both real and supernatural creatures and animals. Just not people. Which would be awesome if that was a power, but nobody that we know of has the ability to be what's called a face changer. His shadow entity, the king of the shadow realm Âme, can command shadows at will."
"Like dead people?!" Gasping, Marissa watches them nod. "Damn!"
"Yeah, they're these scary ass ghoul things! That's why I don't want LJ to be able to do that. Those things are fuckin horrific!" Winter shudders thinking about when she had to call the Grim reaper forward.
"Yeah, but that's why I want lil daddy to be able to do it cause ain't nobody eva been able to control all they asses. And if they had someone to, then the shadow realm would be safer for the baybaies to visit." Laurent chimes in.
"Ok, that makes sense, but still, no!" Laughing as he sucks his teeth, Winter shrugs and continues. "But now that we're together again, Knox has telepathy too. We realized that the boys and I shared it when he and I were tryna work things out down in New Orleans. So now that we're together we all share it. But Hathor has given me the control of celestial energy, so electricity of the universe!" Waving her hands, Winter sends a sparkling ripple through the dome and adorns it with stars and planets.
"Oh my GOD!" Cooing as she holds her cheeks, Marissa swoons.
"It's so pretty, Winnie! I love her abilities!" Clapping, Lavender cheers.
"They got pretty girlie ass gifts with they soft asses!" King teases.
"Oh hush, Papa! I will let Yemaya wash y'all asses away with another tsunami! Try me again!" Pointing at him as he throws his hands up in surrender, Lavender purses her lips and raises her eyebrows.
"No the hell you didn't, Lavi!" Winter laughs.
"Bitch and did! Stupid one and two tried to use shadow magic to bring Kingston back after I told them not to; before Hathor did it...properly!" Lavender rolls her neck as she points between Laurent and mushes King.
"Why the fuck am I just hearing about this almost seven years later, Laurent Nolan Baptiste and King Milo Phan?!" Winter yells at both of them.
"Ah shit, bouff they whole gov'a'ments?!" Troy laughs in an instigating manner.
"See what had happened wasss-!" Shrugging stupidly, King flashes a dazzling smile.
"No Handsome! I don't care how damn gorgeous you are! How dare y'all try to do that shit to your son, a baby! But had the nerve to get mad when I did it for his grown ass!" Using her thumb, Winter motions in Laurent's direction.
"Wait, wait, wait a gotdamn minute, fuck all'at, don't eva call his ugly ass gorgeous!" Laurent scoffs in offense.
"Now Ren, what we not finna do is lie on my fine ass husband, as annoying as he may be! Have y'all issues bout her callin him gorgeous, which he is, but don't do him like that!" Cuddling King's smiling face to her cheek as he smirks at Laurent, Lavender points at Laurent in a playfully reprimanding nature.
"Whateva, fix ya wordin Winter!" Staring at her, Laurent tries not to smile as she scoots closer to him and pulls him down closer to her mouth.
"You mad, daddy? I'll make it up to you, I promise." She whispers while trailing her fingers up his neck as he tries to conceal the shiver she sends down his spine by adjusting his posture.
"Ya so nassstyyyy, Winter!" Cackling, Lavender knows Winter said something inappropriate to him.
"I don't know what ya talkin about, but anyways! I also can make whips and wisps of physical electricity cause of Khepri. I have no idea what out of control ass Jez can do yet! I'm scared of her freaky ass!" Winter laughs.
"Wait! What the fuck you mean you got abilities cause of that mafucka?!" Laurent stutters completely caught off guard and pissed off.
"What I do now?" Winter looks at him innocently.
"He's dead-!" Laurent emphasises purposefully. "How can you still have abilities from his ass, but when you rejected me I lost the ability to shapeshift into supernatural creatures and was only able to control no more than a few shadow henchmen at a time! When befo', while we were togetha, I was able to control at least 20 at a time!"
"Because Mr.Ang-ry, when he passed away-! He and I, were still mated and marked by one another. When I rejected you, you and I weren't bound anymore; which meant no more ties to each other." Winter scowls at him for his choice of words. "And Hathor never marked you." She sort of mumbles the last part.
"That's fuckin bullshit, Winter, and we both know that! Especially the shit with Hathor, but I'm finna handle her ass. Bet that." Pointing at her as she smiles at him, he's fuming and aroused at the same time.
"Whatever, baby, you know we all love you!" Kissing him sweetly, she giggles as he tries to push her away from him. "Stoooop, Ren!"
"Any-gotdamn-way, back to the question at hand: what we finna do wit Ezekiel?"
"Lanmo could use company!" Smiling deviously, Winter shrugs.
"Bitch, ya ass is sick with ya little collection!" Laughing hysterically, Lavender shakes her head at Winter.
"Who or what is Lanmo?!" Marissa questions nervously.
"Watch!" Whistling in an intensely high pitched volumen, Winter's eyes flash a stunning emerald green with a snakeskin patterned pupil.
"Ahh, shit!" Lavender and King laugh out in unison.
"That's my baybay!" Laurent smiles proudly as his eyes swirl snow white.
And with the quaking of the ground, a hell hole is opened in the middle of Winter's office as Lanmo's sleek hulking black form bounds out of it.
"Hiii honey!" Cooing Winter smiles as his dangerously wagging spiked tail demolishes her polished cherry wood coffee table, sending pieces of splintered wood shooting throughout the office.
"Goddamnit, Lanmo! Calm the fuck down!" Laurent yells in annoyance at her hellhound.
Dashing towards Winter, he makes a beeline to her all the while Marissa shrieks and jumps on the closest couch. With her squeal the entire office erupts in hysterical laughter.
"What the hell?! Why is that funny?!" Pointing at him with a shaking hand Marissa screams at them as Troy picks her up and brings her to come sit down. "Troooooy, what the hell?!"
"What, baybay?! You their friend!" He points at Winter and Lavender. "Why y'all aint tell my baybay shit?! Got her set up for the mafuckin okie-doke!"
"Nooo, we protected her! We shared lots of stuff with Rissa, but we didn't know if she wanted to know all of it cause if she had decided to live as a human and with a human man-. Don't hiss at me Troy Emile!" Winter chastises him. "But seriously, I wasn't gonna expose her to all of this if she wasn't ready, but messin with ya nasty demonic ass she betta get ready!" Giggling wildly as Troy scowls at her, Winter waves him off. "But no, Rissa, this is my baby! Ame gave him to me as a-." Smiling deviously at Laurent as he smirks, chuckles and shakes his head, Winter tries to choose the most appropriate wording. "A gift for allowing him to brand me and the boys."
"Bitch, please! He gave him to you so you could take ya nasty ass safely to the shadow realm, before you had Jez, cause ya ass busted the freak wide open for him!" Cackling as Winter covers her face, Lavender teases her.
"Be that as it may! Rissa, he's my hellhound Lanmo and he's a sweetheart!" Kissing his enormous head, Winter pets him as he lays it on her belly.
"Winter get his heavy fuckin mutt ass head off my baybies!" Mushing Lanmo's face as he growls at him, Laurent hisses back and flashes his fangs.
"WHAT?!" The entire room erupts again.
"Did y'all mafuckin say 'baybies?!" King yells.
"You didn't say anything?!" Winter smiles at Laurent.
"Nah, I figured you would!" Smiling back, Laurent chuckles as they both look to their family.
"TWINS...AGAIN!" They shout in unison.
"AHHHHHH!" They all congratulate in unison.
"What we finna have this time?!" King hollers.
"A boy...and a GIRL!" Winter squeals in excitement as all the females cheer happily.
"A girl, lil daddy?! You fucked!" King jokes as Troy nods.
"Tell me about it, bruh! With all this y'all we finna need a break!" Rubbing his forehead, Laurent jumps up with his hands in the air as he looks around excitedly.
"PACK Y'ALL SHIT, IT'S FINNA BE VACATION TIME!
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Aww, happy reunifications, babies, and secrets revealed!
Can't wait to see what the family vacation holds!
Hope you guys like the extra long chapter! I missed you all! 🥰😘
💕A.J