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Post by clementine on Aug 14, 2009 22:39:44 GMT -5
Epsilon did the only proper thing in the situation. He screamed. Loudly as he was grabbed and flung to the bed. He looked up at Darren with round eyes maybe a little afraid before the male was talking to him.
"O-oh?" His lips twitched in a nervous smile, heart pounding. Darren moved so fast! Frighteningly so. "I scared you?" Epsilon reached up, touching the cheetah's face with both hands a little shaky.
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Post by praiseofblood on Aug 15, 2009 10:31:00 GMT -5
Darren smiled. "Sorry about that," he said leaning into the boy's hands. He was entirely cute right now. His eyes were wide and frightened, and glowy and Darren just had the urge to kiss him.
Darren's grin grew a bit, before his face lowered to a few inches close to the other boy's. "And for this too," he said, lowering his lips gently onto Epsilon's.
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Post by clementine on Aug 15, 2009 23:01:11 GMT -5
Epsilon gasped, making a soft noise in the back of his throat. He froze up when Darren's lips met his, unsure of what to do. He'd never actually kissed anyone before.
The teen slowly responded though, moving his mouth just a little, hands tangling in Darren's hair sweetly. He found that he was enjoying the moment, a little thril zipping through him...that is, until his brother burst in through the door with a bang.
The two men had heard their baby brother's scream, and had come running. Standing in the doorway, thinking the situation to be something else entirely, descened upon Darren like a plague.
"What the hell are you doing!" Mintaka yelled, shoving the Zercan off Epsilon as Zeta grabbed the boy. "You think that just cause you're some foreign cat that you can take advantage of our baby brother?!" For a Sensaphorian, Mintaka sure had a murderous look about him as he loomed over Darren. "GET OUT!" He snarled.
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Post by praiseofblood on Aug 15, 2009 23:18:11 GMT -5
Darren blinked in confusion, easily breaking free of Mintaka's hold. He looked at the angry Sensaforian, cocking his head. Did the man just attack him? That would not do. Darren growled slightly, his beast bristling at the challenge.
He would not use violent force against the man, but he whirled around quickly, grabbing the man in a subduing hold.
Mintaka never had a chance to track his movements as his arm was twisted behind him, he was unhurt, just uncomfortable.
"Now you listen to me," Darren said slowly, evenly. "I could snap your neck with a flick of my wrist, and none of you would be able to move fast enough to stop me. However, I will obey your wish, and remove myself from your property. But know this: never insinuate that I would EVER do anything to trick or hurt your brother. I am a man of honor, not common scum." he said into the man's ear, but loud enough for Zeta and Eppi to hear.
He released Mintaka, turning on his heel and going to his closet to grab his things. He hadn't unpacked yet anyway. Darren picked up his communicato as it beeped with a message. He looked at the screen before turning back to the brothers, a stony look on his face.
"How about I do you one better? It seems I am needed on Jeskara," he said before dressing at his own pace, ignoring the others. His beast was howling to fight, and his muscles were spasming with the need to transform, but he held his peace. The inner him wanted to rip Mintaka's throat out and take Epsilon by force, but he knew he couldn't do that. He controlled his raging beast as he pulled on his fighter jacket.
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Post by clementine on Aug 15, 2009 23:46:44 GMT -5
Epsilon watched the whole ordeal the way one watched at train wreck: horrified with no power to stop it. Everything was all over so quickly, leaving the teen blinking at what he had seen. It was only after Darren was digging around in the closet to leave that Eppi found his voice, breaking away from Zeta.
"No!" He keened, rushing into the cheetah and grabbing onto his arm. "Darren's right Mintaka, Zeta! He didn't do anything I...I kissed him." Eppi all but shrieked, grasping for the lie, distress evident in his lilace eyes and pulsing thickly into the air. He clung to Darren as he willed his brothers to understand.
Mintaka didn't want to understand. He didn't like Darren and would use any excuse to get the Zercan out of the resort. "Don't lie Eppi." The middle brother snapped, grabbing the teen's arm and all but ripping him heartlessly away from the cheetah. "I want that bastard out of here and I don't want you speaking with him again. Damn cat needs to mind his own business." The Zercan's strength or speed didn't seem to put the Sensaphorian off at all. It only seemed to make him more angry.
"No!" Epsilon cried again, bursting into tears and letting his body go limp. He hit the floor with his arm still twisted in Mintaka's hand. "Darren stay. Please don't go. Mintaka is just jealous." The young boy wept loudly, working himself into a real tantrum. He didn't know why he didn't want Darren to leave. All he knew was that he wanted the Zercan to just stay a little longer.
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Post by praiseofblood on Aug 16, 2009 8:23:25 GMT -5
Darren's heart was pulled in two at the boy's words. He wanted to run Mintaka through with the nose of his cruiser for making the boy cry.
Stepping closer, the pain of leaving the boy evident on his expressive face, he removed a chain from around his neck. It was beatiful, Perinenain silver and Earth gold twinned together like vines, with intricate designs on it. A large bluish ring hung from it. The band was a rare Zercan diamond and its stone was a lilac and grey swirl that matched the color of Eppi's eyes. There was an incription on the inside of the ring. "You are worth more than all the riches in the galaxies."
"Here, hold on to this for me. It's a promise that I'll return. This has been passed down in my family for generations, so it's important and irreplacable." He said as he kneeled down, placing the necklace around the boy's neck. "Don't cry, Eppi." he said softly. "Remember how you're only supposed to smile for me? I don't ever want to see you cry, alright?" He said, wiping the boy's tears gently.
"I love you kid, so don't cry." he whispered softly, so only Eppi could hear. He stood, looking down at the boy, his heart ripped straight down the middle. This was his mate! He couldn't leave him. He noticed Mintaka was glaring at him, and he leveled a cool, vicious stare at the man. He would survive so much longer if he said nothing to Darren right now.
His mind won over the fight with his heart, however, and he went back to his bags and grabbed his hat, placing it on his head. Tossing the room key to Mintaka, he easily hefted his bags, walking passed Zeta and out of the room.
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Post by clementine on Aug 16, 2009 19:52:43 GMT -5
Epsilon's stilled in his brother's grip, tracking Darren's movements with tear glossed eyes. He all but held his breath when the Zercan laid the chaing around his neck, instantly gripping the blue ring as he burned the feeling of the warmth of those strong hands against his face inot his mind.
Managaing a small smile all for the sake of Darren, he gasped at the whispered announcement, wondering if it was really true. He couldn't ask though with his brother still looming over him like a silent, glaring sentinal. Epsilon wanted to say so many things, but then Darren was walking out the door, gone, leaving him feeling as if his heart was shattering to pieces and not knowing why.
Silence reigned after the door shut softly with a finalizing click. Mintaka was shaking with anger at the parting words while Zeta still stood uncertainly by the door. Epsilon was the only one who moved, making a sorrowful sound before twisting out of his brother's grip.
"Get out." He cried, not unlike Mintaka only moments ago. The teen flung himself to Darren's bed, burying his face in the man's pillow. He refused to look or speak to his brothers, simple trying to catch the remains of Darren's fading scent while crying silently.
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Post by praiseofblood on Aug 17, 2009 0:56:20 GMT -5
Darren walked rigidly towards the door. His heart ached for the crying boy, and he forced himself to move forwards, not turning back.
He would return for the boy. He would make absolutely sure of it, his douchebag brothers be damned. He would see Eppi again, and he would make him his. With that thought set firmly in his mind and the memory of a brilliant smile in his heart, the proud Zercan walked towards the docks to check out his cruiser.
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Post by clementine on Aug 17, 2009 19:19:56 GMT -5
Epsilon considered stealth one of his many qualities. After his brothers had finally left him be to go about their own business, the teen took his chance to escape from the resort. He used all the back entrances and side streets as he ran to where he knew Dareen would be. The docks.
The Sensaphorian didn't know what he wanted to do, only knowing that he wanted to see Darren again, talk with him at least without his brothers around. So, remembering the name of the pilot's cruiser from last night's dinner conversation, Epsilon headed for it, trying to spot the cheetah.
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Post by praiseofblood on Aug 17, 2009 23:45:06 GMT -5
Darren returned to his cruiser, somberly telling Oren to unlock the ship. Stepping on, he 'oofed' as his body was met with a familiar force.
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Post by clementine on Aug 18, 2009 0:05:34 GMT -5
"Darren!" Epsilon cried, hugging the cheetah from behind. "You were really going to leave me behind?" For some reason, he sounded more hurt than he had meant to sound. "I just wanted to say goodbye." His voice was soft, slightly muffled by the back of Darren's shirt.
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Post by praiseofblood on Aug 18, 2009 0:12:35 GMT -5
Darren turned swifly, holding onto the much shorter boy as if he were going to disappear.
He didn't want to tell the boy goodbye. He didn't want to leave him behind. Darren meant it when he said that he loved the boy.
"I love you kid. I really do. It was fast, and I don't know how it happened, but I would rather leave you now, and come back for you, than have you and have to be separated from you forever." Darren said truthfully, still holding the boy in his arms.
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Post by clementine on Aug 18, 2009 0:27:56 GMT -5
"If you love me, then let me stay with you." Epsilon was pressed firmly against Darren, hands curled against the Zercan's broad chest. "Don't leave me, please."
Eppi could feel the burn of tears in the back of his throat as he pleaded with the male. Tears got caught in his dark lashes, sparkling for a moment before trailingdown his face. "I think I love you too." He whispered, laying his head against Darren.
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Post by praiseofblood on Aug 18, 2009 0:34:20 GMT -5
Darren's heart was full. He looked at the boy, something in him telling him that this was right. This was real.
"Alright," he said finally, looking into those deep lilac pits.
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Post by clementine on Aug 18, 2009 0:41:21 GMT -5
Epsilon smiled, the expression lighting up his entire face. He reached up to cup Darren's face between both his hands. The teen had to get all the way up on his tip toes to kiss the Zercan and it only worked because the male bent his head.
The kiss was sweetly chaste, the only kind Eppi knew how to give. "Thank you." He breathed softly.
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