Drusilla
Drusilla surveyed the toys she had lined up. A blindfold, a tassle whip, fur-lined handcuffs, nipple clamps, a cock ring, and several others. She wanted to play. She crept up behind Sabre and slipped the blindfold over his eyes from behind.
"I've found a dolly! I'm going to play!" SHe declared, as she pulled off his shirt before handcuffing him to the bed.
Sabre
SAbre pulled at the handcuffs, only to find they were magiced so he couldn't port out of them, and he couldn't break them. Great. Just...lovely.
He smiled at her anyway.
"Really now, Dru pet?"
Drusilla
Dru grinned. She picked up the tassle whip and flipped it over Sabre's chest, not too hard, but enough to get a reaction. Then she picked up a long feather. She started under Sabre's ear, and began tickling under his chin, and down to his chest, and then between his nipple.
"Gotta pet the kitty!"
Sabre
Sabre hissed softly.
"Yeah, you do."
He squirmed slightly away from the feather.
Ok, ticklish.
Drusilla
Dru slipped off the blindfold, and picked up the chocolate body paint. Across his chest, she wrote a little love message in hieroglyphics, which she had been learning, along with her children.
"I love my pussycat," Dru said. "So pretty, you are."
Sabre
"Handsome, lovely, handsome as sin," Sabre corrected her. Not pretty, dammit.
Drusilla
"Handsome, pretty, beautiful, dashing, lovely, comely, adorable, mine," Dru said, before reaching down to lick the body paint off Sabre's chest.
Sabre
"I'm me own and no one else's," Sabre suddenly growled.
He didn't belong to anybody! He was his own cat, always had been, always would be.
Drusilla
"Oh," Dru purred. "But that's where you're wrong. You belong to me, I claimed you," she nipped lightly at the faded bite mark on Sabre's neck.
"Say that I'm yours," Dru demanded, her lower lip jutting out in an incredibly sexy pout.
Sabre
Sabre narrowed his golden eyes slightly.
"I belong to *no one*. Repeat after me, Dru. Sabre is his own cat and no one else's."
The bite mark's last scar faded out of existence as he concentrated.
His interest in this game was waning.
Drusilla
Dru pouted. "Nasty kitty. Now you won't get your treat." She slipped on the cock ring, blindfolded him again, and left the room.
Sabre
Sabre snarled and pulled at the cuffs.
They cut into his skin and he concentrated on getting his hands bloody enough so he could slide his hands free.
Just...a...bit...more...
Sabre growled in triumph as his lacerated wrists slipped through the cuffs.
He sat up on the bed and took the blindfold off, and then the cock ring.
Dammit, he didn't *belong* to Dru.
And now he was just pissed off.
He got up, and then started to methodically destroy the toys he had a problem with. Namely anything that functioned at all like a cockring, and a few other things beside.
Drusilla and Fred
Dru saw what Sabre had done, and picked up Draco, and the other three held hands, and Dru grabbed Cassie's.
"Bad kitty, no biscuit," Dru admonished. Then she whispered something to Draco, and the all teleported away. Dru wanted to introduce her babies to their 'grandfather,' so they teleported to the Hyperion.
"Hello, my pretties," Dru said, a twinkle in her voice.
"Meep!" Fred said. "Angel! Charles! Crazy vampire lady's here!"
Angel
Angel stepped out of his office with Serafina in his arms. He scowled at Drusilla as he handed Serafina to Wesley.
"What do you want?"
Fred
"Daddy! Don't you want to meet your grandchildren?" Cassie shifted kitten and padded over to Serafina.
Cousin? She asked. You smell good, like family.
"Grandaddy!" Percy cried, throwing his arms around Angel's leg, and clamping on tight.
"Awwwe," Fred said. "Pretty kitties."
Angel
Angel tried to disentangle the small child from his leg.
Serafina stayed in human form, defiantly looking at Cassie, then glancing at Wesley, snuggling into his arms. "Who?" she asked, sucking her thumb.
Wesley
"Well, that's Drusilla, one of your father's...Childer," Wesley explained.
"I know that!" Serafina sniffed, then hissed at Drusilla again.
"Make her GO! I don't LIKE her!"
Drusilla's children
"My Daddy is Sabre," Cassie said, shifting back into a little girl, who was the spitting image of Drusilla. Orion cuddled up in his mother's arms, and Draco went over to Wesley, and sniffed.
"You went to darkness once, but now you embrace the light."
Percy let go of Angel's leg and wandered over to Wesley as well.
"I can fix," he said, and little sparkles came out of his fingers, and swirled arounf Wesley's throat, healing the car from where Justine slit his throat. "Just a bad memory now."
In the meanwhile, Orion lifted his head, looked around, and the laid his head on his mama's shoulder again, closing his eyes.
"Don't wanna be here, Mama, see blood everywhere. Lots of death, lots of pain."
"My feel it too, Mummy," Cassie said. "He hurted people," she said, pointing her finger at Angel.
Angel
"So did your mother," Angel growled.
Connor appeared at the top of the stairs, looking angry and androgynous as usual.
"Dad?" he said carefully.
"It's alright son. They were just leaving," Angel said pointedly.
Wesley
"You had no right," Wesley said in a choked voice.
"GodDAMN you, you had no right!" He traced the skin where the scar had been, tears gleaming in his eyes.
Sabre
"Yeah!" Serafina said, sticking her tongue out.
Sabre appeared, looking very angry indeed.
"Uncle Sabby!"
"'Lo, Sera. Dru. I am most upset with you," Sabre growled, claws jutting in and out of his hands.
Fred
Percy started crying. "Me sowwie. Me a good witch! Elders tolded me so! Me just wanted to make it all better!" He shifted into kitten form and ran to the corner, wher he promptly vomited, and the curled up. Fred glared at Wesley.
"Wesley. He was just trying to fix something. They're little, they don't understand the importance of things. Be nice, they don't know any better." She ran to the corner next to Percy and sat down, petting him, and talking to him in soothing tones. Lorne came into the room, and saw quite a commotion.
"What's up, Angelcakes?" he asked.
Angel
Cordelia stepped into the lobby from outside, looking relatively pleased with herself as she spoke on her cell. "Yeah, so I told him to... oh, I have guests, I'll call you back later. Ok, bye." Cordelia hung up and looked around the lobby, walking over to Wesley who looked quite upset and took Serafina from him.
Serafina hissed at Drusilla. "Aunty Cordy."
Angel looked at Sabre. "Sabre... maybe you can explain what's going on?"
Drusilla
"Mommy don't hurt people no more," Orion said. "Do you, Mommy?"
"No, my darling, not since you've asked me not to. I don't hurt people ANY MORE," she emphasized the words correctly."
"Dat's what I said!" Dru smiled. Then she looked at Angel.
"I may not have a soul, but I know love. I love my children, who do have souls, and I would do anything for them. They wanted to meet more of their family, so they brought me here. They sensed family blood, and teleported here." Dru sat on the circle sofa, stroking Orion's hair.
"Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch," she sang. Lorne looked at her.
"She's telling the truth, Sugarmuffin," he told Angel. "These children are pure and good. These two," he pointed at Draco and Percy, "Are witches. And those two, they're seers." Cassie, Pecy, and Draco hopped up next to Dru and Orion, and cuddled in close, all shifting kitten.
Sabre and Wesley
"Well, it's quite easy. Angel."
Sabre glared at Drusilla.
"Drusilla took my objections to some of her games not so well. So she came here. I'm very sorry."
"Uncle Wes, please don't cry," Serafina crooned to Wesley.
"I'm not. Some scars are meant to be worn. So you can *remember*..." Wesley trailed off, face tight with emotional pain.
Drusilla
Dru glared. "He thought he was helping. He wanted your pain to go away." Percy whimpered.
Papa, I swear I didn't know. I wanted to make it all better. Dru cocked her head.
"The stars sing. My kittens and I, we must stay here. Something big is coming, and it calls to them."
Angel
Cordelia touched his shoulder lightly. "If you want, I can slit your throat," she joked lightly, knowing she couldn't make it better for Wesley.
Angel nodded. "It's ok - "
"Dad?" Connor said again.
"It's ok, son, it's ok. They are leaving." Angel raised an eyebrow and folded his arms. He turned to Lorne. "I don't care, I don't want her here."
Wesley and Sabre
"Thank you for the offer, Cordelia," Wesley said, smiling slightly.
"I'll fix it for you," Sabre said. He moved his hands and the scar on Wesley's throat was back.
"Thank you, Sabre." Wesley nodded slightly as he traced his fingertips over the renewed ridging.
"GO AWAY!" Serafina screamed at Drusilla, near to tears.
"I DON'T CARE! JUST GO!"
"Drusilla, we have to go." Sabre stepped back over to Drusilla and his kittens.
Drusilla
"Big beast coming, Daddy," Cassie said, shifting human again. "Bahamut. Not a nice one. Gonna go after Grandaddy, we need to protect him, he's family."
"I will go," Dru said, "But my kittens will stay. They need to stay." she whispered something to Draco, who summoned Hapi, their nanny, to come. She came, and Drusilla left, all in the same portal. Percy waved his hand, and the healing magick he had performed dissipated, the scar returning.
"I sowwie. I didn't know. He's nice," he said looking at Lorne. Lorne reached down and scooped Percy up.
"Humans are different, things are different to them. I know you want to make everybody's hurts go away, but sometimes. they need the pain, to remember the good times, sweetiepie," he said.
Angel
Cordy placed a light kiss on Wesley's forehead and disappeared up the stairs with Serafina.
Angel nodded at Wesley, then rolled his shoulders slightly as Gunn came in.
"Whoa, when did this place turn into a day care?" Gunn asked, looking more than slightly unimpressed.
"Drusilla and Sabre's kittens," Angel muttered.
"Ah. Well, I'm off to stay at Gwen's then." Gunn waved.
"Wait, you have keys?" Cordelia said, coming back down the stairs.
"Yeah, she gave them to me last time I crashed, said no one was using her house, I might as well," Gunn explained.
"I'm there." Cordelia looked at Angel. "Serafina go too?"
"Da?" Serafina said fearfully.
Angel walked over and kissed her head. "It's ok. Yes, take her. I know that place is safe."
Cordy nodded and she and Gunn left the hotel.
Angel sighed. "Right. You going to stay here, Sabre?"
Sabre and Wesley
Sabre nodded, a muscle in his jaw clenching and unclenching. The waves of anger rolled off him almost visibly.
"Aye. I'm so sorry, Angel. I really am."
He sighed and massaged his forehead.
"At least this way mebbe I can teach them to respect other people. Dru...doesn't. I am *so* sorry." He turned to his aunt and conversed briefly with her in Egyptian.
She nodded and disappeared back to the Western Bank.
"I have so many apologies to make t' her as well now..." Sabre sighed.
"Damn Dru."
"Quite," Wesley said dryly. "And Lorne? I do not keep this scar to remind me of better times." He laughed hollowly, thinking of how exactly he had got the scar.
Angel
Angel nodded. "It's ok." He pointed upstairs. "There are some spares up there. Kitchen is downstairs."
He sighed and went into his office, shaking his head.
Sabre
Sabre calmed himself down, breathing in and out slowly.
Then he looked at his kittens.
"C'mon then. Bed. Now. Skoot."
They skooted up the stairs, Sabre following them.