Chapter 7

Chapter 7


**Geri’s View**

“Wow, that was a shock.” I said to Armond. “Did I hear what I thought I heard when my mother hugged you?”

“Welcome to the Family?” he giggled slightly.

“That’s what I thought I heard. Well damn. This has been one hell of a night of revelations. Finding out that my parents are Mages, and that they are not only ok with the fact that I’m a vampire, but that I’m gay and have a boyfriend!” I shook my head a bit, “This is just all so overwhelming. I’m almost afraid to go to sleep for fear that I’ll wake up and find this has all been a dream.”

“It’s no dream babe, here, I’ll prove it.”

And with that Armond spun me around, penned me to the nearest wall and planted a lip-lock on me that would have made the writers of those cheesy romance novels proud.

When we finally separated, he looked into my eyes, “Still think it’s a dream?”

“If it is, I don’t ever want to wake up.” With that said, I pulled him back to me for another long deep passionate kiss.

While we were deep in our kiss, Pasteur snuck up on us and threw a big pot of cold water on us.

“HEY!” we both said at the same time.

Pasteur started laughing. “What the hell did you do that for?” I yelled at him.

“I had to do something to put that fire out before you two burned down the house.” He said between his laughs.

“Great, now we have to go change clothes again before we head out. Oh wait, damn it, I don’t have any other clothes here.”

“Neither do I.” Armond said. “Guess we’ll just have to strip down and put these in the dryer.” There was no mistaking the mischief in his eye when he said that.

“Ok,” Pasteur said, “You two do that while I take the nightly food supply down to our friends. Unlike you, my dear Geri, I do not have a live-in supply of blood and need to go feed. Your parents showing up kinda put me late on my feeding and I’m starved. After you two get your dry clothes out of the dryer, you might want to run over to your parents house Geri and get your stuff if you are going to be staying here. Armond, do you have enough clothes hidden somewhere that you need to bring over here?”

“I have a few things in my bag back under the bridge, but it’s not much.”

“Ok, I’ll grab your things while I’m down there and bring them back with me. You go and help Geri pack up his stuff and bring it back.”

“Ok.” We both chimed in, and headed for the laundry room to get out of our now soaked clothes.

After stripping down to nothing and throwing our wet clothes in the dryer we headed upstairs to take a nice hot shower.

The pure joy that I felt at having Armonds naked body close to mine was indescribable, to say nothing of the feelings that were generated by him washing my naked body under the flow of the warm water in the shower.

After what was probably close to an hour of washing each other and playing in the shower, we finally got out and dried each other off.

“Let’s go see if our clothes are dry yet.” Armond Suggested.

We streaked back downstairs to the laundry to find the dryer buzzer just starting to sound the end of the cycle.

“I wish we didn’t have to get dressed,” I said, “I would like nothing more than to look at your gorgeous body for the rest of eternity.”

“You’re going to get to do that babe, but we have to put clothes on in order to leave the house.”

“I know.” I said with just a hint of disappointment in my voice.

Armond smiled at me. I swear, that smile could melt a hole right through the permanent ice pack at the poles.

“Hey, I just thought of something babe, how are we going to get all your stuff back over here?”

I smiled at my precious mortal lover, “That won’t be a problem. We’ll just put it all in the back of my truck and bring it over. Oh HELL, my truck! I bet it’s still sitting down at The Underground. I hope it hasn’t been towed away yet.”

“Well, I guess we need to go by there first and check. Actually, I have a better idea.” Armond walked into the kitchen and grabbed the phone off the charging base hanging on the wall. After punching in a number he waited for an answer.

“Who are you calling?” I asked him, but he just held his finger up signaling me to wait a moment.

“What’s your truck look like anyways?”

“It’s on old green 73 ford. Why?” Again the signal to wait.

After a couple of moments, someone finally answerd the phone on the other end.

“Hey Steve? It’s Armond. Not much, just calling to check on something. Is there still an old green ford pickup sitting in the lot? Yeah, it’s been there a couple of days. Can you check for me? Thanks. It is? Great, just wanted to make sure it was still there. Yeah, see you in a little bit. Night.” Armond hung up the phone. “Ok, it’s still sitting there, so we can go by and pick it up and then go over to your parents’ house to get your things.”

“Who’s Steve?” I asked with probably a bit more jealousy in my voice then there should have been.

“Steve is the doorman down at The Underground. I’ve known him for some time now.”

“Ok, next question, how are we going to get down there? Walk?”

“Oh, just a sec.” and he once again picked up the phone and punched in some numbers. “Olympus? It’s Armond, is Michael there? Can I talk to him for a moment? Thanks.” Armond noticed the puzzled look on my face. “I’m going to see if Michael will let me borrow Olympus for a little bit.” He returned his attention back to the phone, “Hey Michael, I need to ask a favor of you. Can I borrow Olympus for a little bit? I just need him to come over here to Pasteur’s house and take me and Geri down to the club. Geri’s truck is still sitting there from the other night. Great, thanks Michael, you’re a prince, not THE prince, but still a prince.” Armond said with a giggle. “Ok, we’ll be watching for him, thanks again.” And he hung the phone up again. “Michael said he’d send him right over. He should be here in about 10 minutes.”

True enough, 10 minutes later there was a knock at the door. I opened the door to see Olympus towering over me. “You boys called for a ride?” He asked me.

“Yeah, we need to get down to the club so I can pick up my truck.”

“Ok, not a problem, you two ready to go?”

“Sure, we’ll be right out.”

“Armond!” I yelled back into the house, “Come on, Olympus is here, let’s go.”

Armond came running down the hall and about knocked me over when he got to the front door. “Damn Babe, slow down.” I smiled at him.

We closed the front door and headed out to Michaels car. I guess I wasn’t totally surprised to see that the Toreador elder owned a brand new Mercedes. I was kind of surprised that it wasn’t stretched though.

Olympus held the back door for us to get in, then went around and got into the drivers seat and headed off for the club.

I leaned into Armond and put my arm around his neck. “You know, I think I could get use to this. Being driven around so that I can concentrate more on you then the driving.”

Armond kissed the top of my head, “Yeah, I know what you mean. We may have to get us our own ghoul to drive us around.” He let out a little giggle at that. “Though I don’t know how well it would work with your truck.”

“Yeah, I would definitely have to get a new ride.”

It did not take us long to get to the club, and sure enough, there was my ratty old green ford sitting in the lot. Olympus pulled up next to the truck and even got out and opened the back door for us to get out.

“Damn Olympus, you are going to spoil us if you keep doing that.”

“Doing what Geri?”

“Opening doors for us.” I said with a grin.

“It’s just habit. When you’ve been doing these things for as long as I have, you don’t even think about it, you just do it.”

“Thanks for the ride Olympus,” Armond told him, “I guess you can get back to the house now in case Michael needs to go anywhere.”

“Thank you master Armond, you two have a good night.” Olympus turned and got back into the car and was gone.

Armond took me into his arms, “You want to go inside for a bit, or just head on to your parents and get your stuff?”

“Let’s go in for a bit, I want to meet this guy that I actually got jealous about earlier.”

Armond laughed at my comment, “Ok, come on, I’ll introduce you.”

We headed on over to the front doors of the club. Being as it was still rather early on a Saturday night; there were not very many people here yet. We walked in the front door and saw a VERY cute blond guy standing behind the front desk. I swear, this guy looked like something right out of a surfer magazine. He was about 6 foot tall, long flowing blond hair, blue eyes, and built like the proverbial brick shit house. I could see that I had reason to be jealous.

“Yo, Armond, dude, long time no see bro.”

My God, he even talked like a surfer.

“What up Steve, I want you to meet my boyfriend; Geri.”
It felt so good to have him acknowledge me in public like that, though I was also a bit nervous about it as well, knowing how the people in this berg tend to react to gays. But since Armond knew the guy he must have known it would be cool to introduce me like that.

“Yo, Geri, good to meet you dude.” He held out his hand to me, which I took and shook. “You be good to my little buddy here or I’ll have to come looking for you.” He said that list with a grin, so I knew he wasn’t being totally serious or threatening in anyway.

“Thanks Steve, and trust me, I intend to take VERY good care of this one.”

“Come on babe, let’s go on in and see who all might already be here, even though it is rather early.”

“Ok.” I said and he grabbed my hand and started pulling me further into the club. When I glanced back at Steve I saw him watching us with a big ole grin on his face.

As we turned the corner into the bar area I froze in my tracks. When I did that it almost pulled Armonds arm out of its socket from the sudden stop. “What’s wrong babe? Why’d you stop like that?”

I looked at my beau dumbfounded, “Can’t you see it?”

“See what babe?”

I nodded up towards the ceiling. “That.”

Armond looked up where I was indicating, “I don’t see anything, what are you talking about?”

“That, that, person? Floating up there near the ceiling. I can almost see right through him, you mean you really can’t see him? Oh My God, he’s coming this way.”

Armond seemed to get a bit of an amused look on his face, “Sweety, it’s probably just one of the local wraiths, ghosts to most people. Mortals can’t see them unless they want them to, but you can see them at any time unless they don’t want you to. If that made any sense to you.”

About that time the ‘wraith’ settled down to the floor next to us and looked at me staring at him, and then looked at Armond and smiled. His body started to glow and then become more solid.

“Hey Armond, who’s your friend here that can’t stop staring?”

“Hey Eric, should have known it would have been you hanging around here. This is Geri, please excuse his staring, you’re the first wraith that he’s ever met.”

“Oh well, then the honor is all mine.” Eric had a very seductive smirk on his face when he said that and extended his hand for me.

I was surprised when I took his hand that it did not pass right through mine, it actually felt solid.

Eric must have noticed the look of surprise on my face, cause he chuckled a bit “Yes, it is solid at the moment. I can make myself as solid as I wish so that I can interact with the physical world.” He seemed to hold my hand just a bit longer then was needed and kept smiling with his eyes. I was starting to get a bit uncomfortable and broke the handshake.

“Back off Eric. He’s mine.” Armond said and brought me back to the present, I had not realized that I had blocked everything out except for me and Eric. Armond pulled me to him and put his arm around me.

“Oh, sorry bud, you should have said something.”

“It’s ok dude, just chill out, and quit hittin’ on my beau.” Armond said kind of jokingly.

“It’s cool man, now that I know I won’t be trying anything again.”

I looked at Armond, “Why don’t we just go and get my stuff now, I don’t think I could handle too many more surprises tonight, if you know what I mean.”

“Ok babe, we can go if that’s what you want. Hey Eric, we’re throwing Geri here a graduation party tomorrow night up at Pasteur’s, why don’t you come and ask some of the other teen wraiths that hang here if they want to come too, OH, and if you happen to run into any of Geri’s old school mates that have passed on invite them as well.”

“Sounds cool dude, I’ll do that, what time?”

“Make it about 2 hours after dark, to give us all time to get up and get things ready.”

“Ok, see you dudes tomorrow night then.” And with that Eric once again glowed and faded out and back up to the ceiling over the dance floor.

As we walked out and past the front desk, Armond invited Steve to the party as well. We walked on out to my truck and got in.

“You ok babe? You’ve hardly said anything for the last little bit.”

I looked at my sweet Armond, “Yeah, still in a bit of shock I guess. I think this is all a bit to much to fast. I’m really starting to dread tomorrow night, I don’t know if I’m ready to meat so many supernatural people at one time.”

Armond took my hand in his, “It will be ok babe, you’ll see, we’ll just go to your folks house, get your things, and go home for the rest of the night. You can relax and come to grips with everything that has been going on in the last 48 hours. I know it’s a lot to take in at once. Especially for someone who is not familiar with this world already.”

“That sounds like a good idea. But sweetie, I’m going to need my hand back in order to drive.” I had a big smile on my face at the last comment.

“Oh, alright, if you insist.” Armond leaned over, gave me kiss and then released my hand.

I reached down, started the old truck and headed off to my parents house.

My folks live just outside of town. So it took us a few minutes to get there. We rode the whole way in a very comfortable silence. We didn’t even turn the radio on.

Once we got to the house I could see that my folks had gotten home already. I backed the truck into the driveway to make it easier to load my things into the bed.

As we were getting out of the truck, my dad came out of the front door to meet us. “What are you boys doing here? I expected you two to be getting the house ready for the party tomorrow night.”

I gave my dad a hug, “Yeah, well, I had to come get my things; I’ve already been wearing the same clothes for more than 2 days.”

“Why didn’t you just call, we could have just sent your stuff to you and saved you a trip out here.”

I looked at him kind of puzzled. “What do you mean ‘sent’ them to me?”

“I mean teleported them.”

Now I KNOW I looked confused.

“Sorry son, I forgot. You don’t know what I’m talking about. We have the ability to make things instantly move from one place to another. Armond should have told you that.”

I looked at my boyfriend and gave him a questioning look.

“Umm, yeah, well… I kinda wanted to see where you grew up, so I didn’t say anything.” Armond looked a bit sheepish.

I smiled at him, “It’s ok. I don’t know if I could have handled another surprise like that at the time.”

My dad just smiled at me. “Well, ok, since you’re here, I guess we can go ahead and start loading your things into the truck.”

He stepped between me and Armond and put his arms over each of our shoulders and led us toward the front door.

“I just can’t get over how cool you’re being about everything.”

“What do you mean?” my dad asked me.

“I mean about the whole vampire thing for one and about being gay for another.”

He stopped and looked at me, “As for you being Kindred, I suppose that is partly our fault for not telling you everything earlier. Maybe if we had then you wouldn’t have been snooping around the back room at The Underground. We’re just happy that Pasteur was given permission to embrace you rather than you being destroyed for snooping. As for you being gay, I would have thought that even by know you would realize that a persons sexuality has no baring on things where the majority of our world is considered.”

“I had been told that, but I thought that because you were my parents it might be a bit different.”

“I won’t lie and tell you that we were not shocked, but we are fine with it, as long as you are happy, that is all that matters to us.”

I gave my dad a big hug, having to be careful that I didn’t crush him with my new strength.

We quickly packed up my clothes and a few other things like my computer equipment and my TV & VCR and my tapes. After getting everything loaded into the truck, we said our goodbyes and headed back to the Pasteurs place. It was getting late, and I knew my parents would need to be getting to bed shortly.

When we got home, we quickly moved everything up to our new room. Gawd that sounded good, OUR room. We hung up the clothes, but decided to wait till later to unpack everything else.

While we were moving things inside Pasteur returned with Armonds things, most of his clothes needed to be washed so we took them directly to the laundry room. Pasteur told us to just leave them there and they would be taken care of.

Pasteur had to go back out to take care of some Kindred business, so that left Armond and I alone in the house.

Since it was still relatively early in the night, at least for those of us that are only awake during the night, we decided to just sit in the living room and watch a movie or two.

We snuggled together on the big over-stuffed couch to watch the movie, I don’t remember what we watched as we seemed to spend more time paying attention to each other than the movie.

After spending a couple of hours on the couch kissing and snuggling into each other, we decided to head up our room and call it a night.

After making love to each other for a couple more hours, we collapsed into each others arms and fell asleep.

Neither of us ever heard Pasteur come home and did not wake up again until the following night.

-End Chapter-

(Word count to date: 16,405)