by Jan Stryvant
"I know right!" Marx laughed, "I fell off my stool!"
"Yeah, yeah, rub it in," Sawyer grumbled. "If you'd grown up on the right side of the tracks instead of among that bunch of degenerate low lives with no morals that you call a family which the Kid here saved you from before you became just another harlot and streetwalker, maybe I'd give you credit too!"
"Wow, you been practicing, Sawyer?" Jolene laughed.
"I think he's still afraid of what Sean will do to him," Roberta chuckled.
Sawyer snorted, "Hardly, a lion ain't all that big of a deal, but a Dark Elf household? Now that's the real shit. You're all 'House Valens' now, and while only the Kid here and Cali get the customary treatment, I have to at least try and show some respect, even to the likes of a reformed woman of ill-repute like yourself, Jolene."
Jolene couldn't help but laugh at that and noticed that both Sean and Roberta were chuckling as well.
"In that case, I'll try not to take advantage of my new vaulted status in life," Jolene grinned, "Well, at least not any more than I think I can get away with!"
"So, what'dya' need today?"
"What's going on with the Ascendance in Sacramento? Are they going to be coming up here to attack us?"
"I'd say that's a pretty safe bet. I've been following that one since it got out that one of the council member's wives had been doing a number on him with one of the council's wolves. They're all pretty pissed that a bunch of stupid animals pulled a fast one on them and now they have to wipe their own asses after they take a shit."
"Don't they know we outnumber them?" Sean asked, surprised.
"They may not. You gotta remember, Kid. Almost no one knows that you got hit by that big Vesti army. They all think you just took on the locals. And the rumor mill is full with how many of them you killed. The Vesti's aren't going to tell anyone just how badly they got their asses kicked, and if any of the other councils know they aren't going to be talking either. With most of the Ascendance people up here dead," Sawyer grinned thinking about that, "they don't really know what's going on up here."
"I hadn't thought about that," Jolene admitted. "But Sawyer's right...."
"Of course I'm right! I'm always right!" Sawyer laughed.
"... nobody likes the Ascendants, so no one's going to share any intelligence with them. In fact, the Vestibulum would love to see the Sacramento Ascendance Council wiped out, same for the Gradatim."
"I'm just surprised that they're not planning any retribution against the Vestibulum," Sean admitted.
Sawyer shrugged, "Blame your own success for that, Kid. I think they're still debating which is more important, killing you, or killing them, and to be honest, they all think there's a lot less of you."
"Guess I'll keep that in mind," Sean nodded. "Let's go home."
Back at Mountain Home
Pulling up to the house, Sean gave Roberta and Jolene a hug and went off to the office to go talk with Deidre. He needed to go over a few things with her, and it was still a few hours yet until dinner.
"Master Sean," Deidre said, rising to her feet and bouncing on her toes as she came over to kiss him. Considering that the t-shirt she was wearing was almost painted on, the effect on her chest instantly drew his eyes and held them until she had her arms around him, and they kissed.
"It's been so long since I've seen you, Master Sean," Deidre said in a husky and still melodic voice, as she ground her body up against his.
"It's been a week, Deidre," Sean chuckled.
"A week?" Deidre cocked her head to the side, and considered it, "But it seemed so much longer than that!"
Sean kissed her again, Deidre had taken to using a lipstick that matched the color of her red eyes, and it looked quite sexy on her. Then again with her long, lean body with her long white hair and large chest, she was already a very sexy woman.
"So, how's our business doing, and what do you have for me to sign?" Sean asked her.
"But business is so boring, Master Sean," Deidre purred and pulling his shirt out of his pants she started to run her hands over his bare skin up under his shirt.
"Un-huh," Sean agreed and slowly started to walk backward towards the couch that was against the wall behind him. "How much money do we have in the bank?"
"Just a little over a hundred thousand," Deidre said, her fingers lightly tickling over his skin. "But that bag of cash Cali gave me last night had almost two million in it."
"I need to give one and a half million to Terri tomorrow for the other helicopters," Sean sighed. His legs hit the edge of the couch then, so he sat down, as Deidre pulled her hands out from under his shirt, and straddling his lap, she started to unbutton his shirt.
"I'll count it all out in the morning, and make sure it's neatly bundled and put in a bag for you, Master Sean," Deidre smiled and leaning forward, she kissed him again, as she pushed his shirt up, making him raise his arms and take it off.
"Oh dear, you've lost your shirt, and I still have mine," Deidre tsked, and crossing her arms, she grabbed the bottom of her t-shirt, and then raising her arms over her head, she peeled it off, freeing her breasts, which Sean immediately took into his hands and started to slowly knead.
Deidre just sighed happily, her eyes half closed as she started to squirm in his lap. Sean was already quite excited at this point, and she was rubbing up and down against his length, which was still trapped inside his pants.
"How's the restoration project of our building proceeding?" Sean asked, and putting his hands behind her back, he leaned forward while tipping Deidre back and brought his mouth down to her left breast, attacking it with his lips and teeth.
"It's on, Oh! Schedule, Sammis sayssss, oh, do that again! He says two more months."
Sean grinned and nipped at one of her nipples, causing Deidre to arch her back and moan again.
"How long before we can start moving some of the people here back in?"
Deidre gasped, "I'll, I'll ask..." she shivered and lightly raked her fingers through Sean's hair as he moved his mouth to her other breast and repeated the treatment.
"How's the detailing business going?" Sean mumbled around a nipple."
"Good! Very, ah! Good."
"Has our lawyer called about anything?"
"Noth... nothing I can't take care of... ooo! Just filing papers for busi... business licenses."
Sean nodded and sliding his hands down to Deidre's butt, he grabbed it firmly and started to kiss his way down her belly, by lifting her up. When he got to the yoga pants she was wearing, he turned to the side, and laid her back on the couch before him, then grabbing the waistband, he started to slowly roll her pants down.
"Anything else I need to be aware of?"
"Other than I'm about to lose the ability to, oh!" Deidre gasped loudly as Sean's attentions arrived at her sex.
Peeling her pants all the way off, Sean took his time and savored Deidre with his lips and tongue, occasionally adding a playful nip, when he finally grabbed that nice ass of hers tight and sent the magic to breed into her body, it caused her to wrap her legs around his head as she grabbed tightly onto his hair and bucked beneath him.
Apparently, she really had missed him, he grinned, and licking his chops, he pushed his own pants down and started to slowly kiss his way back up her body.
When he got to her lips, he spent a couple of minutes kissing her, as she kissed him back, her hand reaching down between their bodies to guide him to her entrance.
"You know, I've been thinking," Sean whispered in Deidre's ear, then started to lick it, enjoying the way she shivered and squirmed beneath him. Elven ears were definitely a constant source of wonder and amusement to him.
"Wha... what?" she gasped and started to work her hips back against him, reaching down with her hand to spank him on the butt, to try and get him moving.
Putting his hands on the couch, Sean lifted himself up and smiled down at Deidre, looking into her half-lidded eyes.
"Do you have any children?"
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bsp; Deidre's eyes went wide! "Children?"
"Yes. Do you?"
"No, no my Lord!" Deidre said in shock.
"How would you like to have some?"
Sean was rather surprised and ten fingernails suddenly embedded themselves in his ass, as her legs suddenly wrapped around him.
"Yes! Yes, Master Sean, please!"
Sean smiled, "Well I'm glad you agree because I sent the magic into your body several minutes ago!"
And with that, Sean started to move against Deidre, who was panting and moaning beneath him as he lowered his body onto hers and rode her through several rather loud orgasms until he finally reached his own completion.
"Happy?" Sean whispered in Deidre's ear as she clung to him.
"Yes, yes I am. My husband died before we could have a child, and you're the first man,"
"Lion," Sean teased.
"The first man and only lion, I've ever found that made me want to have a child again. Thank you, Master Sean, my Lord and lover. I was so happy when Cali told me you had blessed her with a child, and now, to have one myself," Deidre took his head between her hands and kissed him again.
"Thank you."
Sean smiled and lowered his head until their foreheads were touching.
"I hope you won't mind doing this again someday?"
"Trust me, Master Sean, now that I know you want to make children with me, we're going to be doing this again, several times! Elves have low birthrates, we don't go 'into season' I guess you could call it, very often. Once a year at most, and when you're my age, it's even less than that."
"Well, I don't have to worry about that," Sean smiled.
"And that's why you're going to be getting a lot of requests!" Deidre grinned. "Children are a big status symbol in dark elf society. House Valens is going to become quite the legend by the time Cali and I are done with you!"
"Oh, I like the sound of that," Sean chuckled and kissing Deidre, he started in on making love to her again.
It was late, after midnight, when Sean finally stumbled into his own bedroom, yawning.
"I'm surprised you didn't bring her back with you," Peg said, looking a bit surprised.
"I've said it before, while I may love Deidre, she's not wife material."
"But that didn't stop you from putting one in her, did it?" Roxy laughed.
"Of course not, she's my mistress. It's only fair she gets to have my children too."
"You gave Deidre a child?" Cali said, looking at Sean in surprise.
"Yes, I gave her a child," Sean smiled, "you don't mind, do...."
Sean was cut off by Cali launching herself at him and wrapping her arms around him she kissed him. "Thank you! Thank you, my Husband!"
"Well, obviously Cali's okay with it," Jolene smiled.
"Children," Sean said between kisses, "are a sign of status to dark elves."
"And our husband can make them in us, whenever he wishes," Cali smiled, and started to undo Sean's pants.
"I'm not getting any sleep tonight, am I?" Sean sighed.
"Sleep is for the weak!" Daelyn laughed.
'I'd be more than happy to fill in for you!' the First sent.
'Maybe come the second round,' Sean sent back. 'Or the third.'
Sunday Morning Workshop
Sean was in his lab working on enchanting the amulet machine, now that Daelyn had finished building it for him. Right now she was on the other side of the room, working on her hammer. She'd mentioned something about an 'upgrade' seeing as how two times now the silver in it had been destroyed by one of Sean's silver tags.
"Which machine are you gonna do next?" Daelyn asked him from the other side of the room as he sat back to inspect his work.
"The one for the tags."
"Why not the collar's first? They're easier, aren't they?"
Sean nodded, "Which is exactly why I want to do the tags first. I can churn out the collars a lot faster, easier, and," Sean shook his head thinking of some of the issues he'd had with the tags, "safer. You've seen how tired I get after a day of making those tags. Channeling all of that energy is tiring."
"Well, I'm sure it'll make Roxy happy," Daelyn grinned.
"Oh? You telling me that you don't care?" Sean teased. "I'm crushed!"
Daelyn blew Sean a raspberry, "I trust you not to make the same stupid mistake twice in a row! Of course..." Daelyn looked thoughtful for a moment, "Rox has known you longer, so maybe I shouldn't?"
Sean just shook his head.
"Here, catch," Daelyn said and tossed her hammer over to him.
Sean snagged the hammer by the handle as it came sailing over.
"Aren't you worried I'll break it?"
"Nope. Check out the head now!"
Sean stopped to examine it; the color was darker than silver, but not the color of oxidation that sometimes covered silver. Touching it with a finger, it most definitely wasn't silver anymore.
"What is it?" Sean asked, looking up as Daelyn came over to him.
"Gold! That's why it's heavier now too, not that I think ya noticed."
Sean hefted it, it was heavier.
"But how come it doesn't look like gold?"
"Cause gold is too soft, it'd deform every time I hit someone with it. So I used an alloy on the outside shell, I mixed palladium and nickel into it. Turns it more of a grey, but there's still enough gold in it that it'll have an effect on anything magical I hit with it."
"Except lycans," Sean grinned.
"Oh, it'll still hurt ya', trust me," Daelyn grinned. "But it won't do any of the permanent kind of damage that silver will do."
Sean smiled and set the hammer down on his workbench and put his arms around Daelyn. She was wearing those coveralls he liked so much, with nothing underneath, as usual, and the zipper was well past her navel. He, of course, was naked.
"What do you say we take a little break from our tasks?" Sean asked as he leaned down and kissed her.
"I thought ya'd never ask!" Daelyn laughed.
Just then someone opened the door and came inside, and on seeing them, coughed rather loudly.
Sean sighed and looked over at the guy standing there; he was one of the wolves they'd recently acquired. Trevor, he thought his name was.
"What?"
"Roxy said that she needed you to come over to the main house. It seems you have some company."
"What timing," Daelyn grumbled.
Sean patted her on the butt.
"Let me get my pants on, and I'll be right there," Sean told the wolf, who nodded and left.
Putting on his pants and grabbing his shirt, Sean gave a quick check to make sure everything was secure, and then headed over to the house with Daelyn tucked up against his side under his arm.
"Are we expecting anybody?" Sean asked her.
"Far as I know, we got nothing planned until dinner at Steve's tonight."
"Yeah, that's what I thought."
Coming in through the back door, Sean and Daelyn walked into the living room, where Roxy, his Mother, Jolene, and Maitland were sitting down and talking with a small group of five people that Sean didn't recognize.
"And here's Sean," Roxy said jumping up to her feet. Sean noticed that everyone got to their feet as well, though the five newcomers looked a bit wary.
"Hi, Rox," Sean came over and gave her a kiss, then gave Jolene a kiss as well. Looking around the room he nodded to the newcomers and then back to Roxy, "what's up?"
"Sean, these people are from the Northwest Fellowship. They've heard about the collars and the tags, and what you're doing, so they've come to talk to us."
"Well, introduce me," Sean smiled.
Roxy smiled and started off with the one woman in the group.
"This is Maya," Sean shook hands; she was a Jackal, which he found interesting. "I thought all of the Jackals were to the south of here?" Sean asked her.
Maya looked surprised, but recovered quickly, "It's pretty easy for us to pass ourselves off as coyotes, and Idaho and eastern Oreg
on are remarkably low on magic users, it's too cold and too empty for most of them."
Sean nodded and smiled.
Roxy moved to the next one, and Sean followed, "This is Dax; he's in charge of the Idaho Pack."
Sean shook hands with him, he looked to be about forty, and skeptical.
"I find it hard to believe you've found a cure for silver, young man."
"It's not a cure, it's a protection, and actually my father found it. I'm just the one who figured out how to make it in quantities so that we can actually do something with it."
"Where is your father?"
"Dead, he was assassinated when I was eight," Sean looked him in the eye and told him. "The local councils got word of what he was doing, and as you can guess, some of them were less than pleased."
With that Sean moved on to the next one.
"This is Terry; he's the head of the Oregon pack."
Sean shook hands and smiled, Terry looked to be about thirty. "Nice to meet you, does your pack cover Washington as well?"
Terry shook his head, "Actually, we only cover eastern Oregon. There's another pack west of us, and a third up in Portland. The Washington pack is run by Jonas."
"This is Luke," Sean shook hands with another older looking man, who he could tell was a cougar.
"Nice to meet you, Luke."
"Roger speaks highly of you," Luke said looking Sean over, "he doesn't do that for most folks."
"Well, Roger strikes me as a good judge of character," Sean smiled, "as well as a source of good advice."
"And this is Rudolph," Roxy said, ending with the last man who was easily the biggest of all of them, he was a couple inches taller than Sean, and while he didn't look as muscular as Sean was, he still looked a bit buff, his clothing showing off his muscles, unlike the loose clothing that Sean preferred. If Sean had to guess, he'd put his age about fifty.
Rudolph looked down at Sean, as Sean shook hands with him and he didn't recognize what Rudolph was until the First spoke up.
'Elk. They can be annoying.'
"Nice to meet you, Rudy," Sean said smiling at him.
"It's Rudolph. And just who put someone as young as you in charge?"