Dark Moon (ManxMan)

November blends into December.

For a town filled with supernatural creatures, they are really into the Christmas theme, even though it was it anywhere near the twenty fifth.

Colson has a plan. He always has a plan. He walks over to the closet, looks in the corner where he had hidden the large ribbon wraps. He had asked Aetos to go make him a cup of tea and he had a couple of seconds or minutes at best before Aetos comes back up.

He gets to it. He pulls off his pajama bottom and grabs the large roll of ribbon. He wraps it around himself, covering his bum, his nipples and then crosses back down before he ties it into a bow. Yeah, he's Aetos' gift.

He walks back into the room and lasts on the bed, giggling as he tries to imagine Aetos' reaction. It's cold as balls outside but the house was warm, the heater on. Colson slips a leg up a bit, head pressed the the pillow as he watched the door. Over the last couple of weeks he had noticed the black marks on his body had disappeared and the fear that someone might notice them had gone too. He felt better, there was still the looming thought of something dark approaching by whenever he's with Aetos, those thoughts turned to dust.

Colson licks his lip before biting his bottom lip. The door pushed open and Aetos walks in, he doesn't notice Colson at first, his attention still on the tea in his hands. Once he he looks up, once he sees Colson wrapped up in a red ribbon, skin glowing gold by the sunlight flitting through the windows, his hair, his face, the slow blush rising on his cheeks, teeth digging into his bottom lip. Colson looked glorious. He looked so fucking beautiful, Aetos drops the cup of tea he was holding.

Colson smiles shyly at Aetos.

"Colson..." Aetos says, his eyes turning red, hands curled into fists. Colson doesn't know it but Aetos fights so hard to keep his fangs from dropping.

It made Colson feel so damn hot to know he could affect Aetos this way. In the blink of an eye, Aetos appears at the bottom of the bed, his fingers wrapped around Colson's ankles.

"Will you unwrap me, Aetos?" Colson asked, his voice coming off soft, staring at Aetos with this glint in his eyes.

"That's not the only thing I'd do."

"Make me yours then, Aetos."

"You are already mine. Always have, always will be." Aetos says, softly dragging his claws up the smooth expanse of Colson's legs, he slips a finger underneath the red ribbon keeping the bottom half of Colson hidden and tears it off with his claw. He does the same to the ribbon hiding part of Colson's chest.

Colson felt like he couldn't breathe, tingles shootingnup his body, his eyes trained on his boyfriend, body shaking in anticipation. Sex with Aetos. There was no other way to describe it besides it being out of this fucking world.

Aetos moves back down. He pressed a kiss to Colson's ankles, trailing kisses up Colson's leg, claws pressed lightly to Colson's legs.

Colsonnflips himself around, spreading out against the bed with his hands gripping the sheets tightly. Aetos takes his time trailing kisses up Colson's legs, biting and nibbling when he gets to his boyfriend's thighs. He sneaks a hand between Colson's hips and the bed and raised it up so Colson's ass was in his face.

"I get to have my way with you." Aetos says.

"My body is yours." Colson says, biting back the urge to say the words, I love you. It's true. His body, his heart, his love, his everything belonged to Aetos.

Aetos parts Colson's cheeks, careful not to squeeze so he doesn't injure him. He dives in like a hungry man, tongue lappingnat Colson's hole, licking, tasting, teasing.

Colson doesn't bother holding back his moans, he screams, gripping the sheets even tighter, forehead pressed against the bed as he pushes his ass backwards. "Aetos." He begs, legs already shaking.

Aetos doesn't bother replying. He already told Colson he was going to do whatever he wanted and this was just the beginning. Colson was sweating already, breathing heavily.

Aetos takes his time opening Colson up with his tongue until Colson comes with a shudder, painting the bed with his come. He knew that wasn't all. Aetos likes it when he comes twice in the very least and who was Colson to complain? He loved it.

Aetos lets up, flipping Colson around like he weighed nothing. He pressed up against Colson, closing the distance between them, lips locking.

Colson moans into the kiss, hands finding Aetos' shirt and gripping tightly. He found it incredibly hot to know he was pressed up naked against Aetos who still had his clothes on.

The urge to say I love you comes back and Colson pushes it back down. Aetos takes his time opening up, playing and nipping Colson's nipples.

Aetos takes his time opening up Colson but fucks him like an animal, claws digging in and hips moving at a quick pace. Colson's legs were wrapped around Aetos' waist. He tugs him down for a kiss, teeth pulling on Aetos' bottom lip when the vampire thrusts even deeper, his eyes rolling to the back of bjs head.

"Please Aetos..."

"Baby...."

"I want you to bite me."

Aetos stills but Colson tugs him closer and tilted his neck. Aetos looks at him for one, two, three seconds and then thrusts into Colson, deeper and deeper, he kept hitting the same spit that made Colson scream and scratch at Aetos Aetos leans down, nose pressed against Colson's neck, fangs slowly pushing out and finally sunk his fangs in. Colson's head falls back onto the bed, lips parted in a silent gasp as he comes so hard his vision goes blurry. Aetos doesn't let up, hips still moving as he sucks. Colson moves his hands into Aetos' hair, body still shaking and it takes Aetos a couple more seconds before he comes, spilling into Colson as he pulls off his neck, lips stained red, claws digging into Colson and eyes still red.

"I..." Colson says. "I..."

"Did I make you speechless?" Aetos asks with a smirk and really Colson wants to smack him in the face but he can't move his hands and legs just yet, everything feels like jelly.

He was about to say I love you and this butt of a vampire ruined it.

Aetos presses a kiss to Colson's cheek and then at the spot where he had bit and licked at it so it heals. Colson just lays there, smiling up at the ceiling.

Aetos, in the blink of an eye, appears with a wet towel and wipe himself and Colson down. He tosses the towel behind him. Too lazy to change the sheets and not wanting to disturb Colson who looks like An angel spread out on the white sheets, Aetos decides to make do.

He just lays down on the side of the bed that was still clean and pulls Colson towards him, sighing happily when his boyfriend places his head on his chest.

"Thank you."

"For what, baby?" Aetos asks.

"Just... thank you, you know. For taking care of me, for everything." Colson says quietly, his fingers softly stroking Aetos' chest.

"It's my pleasure. I love doing those things. I love taking care of you, listening to you, holding you and so much more." Aetos says honestly and Colson wonders if the vampire felt the same as him. He wondered if Aetos loved him just as much. Colson lifts his head off Aetos' chest and looks right at him.

"What if..."

"What if what?" Aetos asks and Colson bites his bottom lip. Nerves. He hated feeling nervous. He knows what he wanted to say but he wasn't sure what the answer was going to be. There was a fifty percent chance Aetos didn't feel the same way.

Everything was just going crazy. He comes to Astir, he falls for a son of bitch, Michel, he fights against his dad and watched the man die. He befriends a stuck up sassy vampire who liked wearing pink, he befriends another a vampire who he ended up having feelings for despite their rocky beginning and now, he's in love with that vampire.

There are pros and there are cons. The biggest con being Aetos was going to live a fucking long life and Colson is probably gonna die at seventy from heart failure or some shit.

And besides that, Colson doesn't know when he himself might die. This Baba character was still around. Se Ju hadn't been able to identify who had hit him, all he said was that it was all black, like a moving shadow. No face, no clothes, nothing. Other people have been attacked too but thankfully, there were no more killings. What if he's next? What if when Baba gets to him, he gets killed? Mm There are so many things to consider. Life's short, you don't know when you'll get shot. So maybe he should say it. Maybe he should tell Aetos how he feels. Get it out there. Rip it off like a bandage.

"Where do you see us going?" Colson finds himself asking.

"Going?"

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"Like out relationship. Where do you see it going?" Colson repeats, staring at his boyfriend with earnest eyes.

"I see us being together for a long time. You aren't a fling for me, you are my boyfriend, I'm going to be with you for as long as you want me." Aetos replies instantly, his gaze locked with Colson's. "What if I want forever?" Colson asks.

Aetos' eyes widened. "Colson..."

Colson gets off Aetos, looking for something to pull on. He had asked and Aetos had hesitated. That was all he needed to know. He doesn't even give Aetos enough time to understand what was going and goes out of the room, running down the stairs.

He feels a sharp breeze beside him and finds Aetos already at the bottom of the stairs, in boxers and he stops. "Where are you going?"

"I asked you if you wanted forever with me and you hesitated." Colson says, his throat closing up and eyes stinging.

"I didn't hesitate." Aetos says, taking a step.

"You didn't say anything." Colson countered, tears rolling down his face.

"I was about to and you just got up and started pulling on clothes." Aetos says and takes another step. The vampire was slightly worried but he knew his claw marks and bruises healed when he wiped them with the wet towel. "Well..." Colson asks, crossing his arms.

"Of course I want forever with you." Aetos says, taking another step closer. He's got four more steps to go and he'd be right in front of Colson, he'd be close enough to hold him and kiss him. "Aetos..."

"Why won't I want to spend forever with the man I love?" Aetos asks and Colson's lips part, it feels like all the air had rushed out of him. "Why won't I want to spend forever with my mate?" "What?"

"It's not only werewolves that have mates." Aetos says as he finally closes the distance between them. He reached out and took Colson's hand in his. "It's not just wolves or foxes or fairies." "Aetos." Colson's voice comes out shaky and is he crying again?

Aetos reaches up, wiping away Colson's tears with his thumb. "I'm in love with you. Always have and always will."

"I'm in love with you too, you asshole." Colson sniffs. "Why didn't you say something sooner? I was thinking and overthinking." It felt like a dream come through to be honest. Aetos loved him. Aetos was also his mate. Fuck. 

Aetos laughs, immediately sipping the new batch of tears rolling down Colson's cheeks.

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"I didn't want to scare you away. I didn't want you thinking I only love you because you're my mate. I wanted us to get to each other without that hanging over our heads." Aetos says and Colson smiles, albeit wobbly. "You asshole."

"Colly..."

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"You can't call me that just because I'm in love with you." Colson sniffs, still smiling at Aetos who just pulls him in for a kiss. Soft, chaste and lovely.

Colson giggles when he feels Aetos' hands on his waist, tickling. He slaps the hand away and pouts at Aetos. The vampire just looks at his mate, smiling even bigger. He has seen all the parts of Colson. The snarky side, the sassy side, the gun enthusiast side and the sweet side. And he loves them all.

Colson was just plain adorable.

"We are so mushy."

"We can't always be straight forward and sexy."

"I can not believe you said that." Colson huffs, moving closer to Aetos.

"I have spent the past 540 years out of my 560 being alone. My mum died when I was twenty and it had been me for a long time. I didn't know if I was ever going to find someone I'd love, someone I'd fall in love with, someone who would love me back just as fiercely. Pytor is the only person I have ever turned and it isn't my story to tell." Aetos says, thumbs softly stroking Colson's cheeks, staring into his blue eyes as he spoke. "I didn't find anyone who captured my attention as you did and all it took was for you to walk into the room. I never dated anyone for as long as we have. I don't know if you've noticed but there are a few things about a vampire that changes when they meet their mates."

"What?" Colson asks.

"You make my heart beat." Aetos says, taking Colson's hand in his and pressing it against his chest and it's true, it is beating. "It only happens when I'm around you."

"I was literally resting on your chest! Why didn't I hear it?" Colson asks, staring at Aetos with wide eyes.

"You didn't know. If we don't look for something, we don't find it sometimes." Aetos says with a shrug.

"I've spent the greater part of my life on the run. And I had no hope of finding love. I thought I was always going to be running from the son of a bitch that was my father. But when I came to Astir. When I saw how happy Alphie made Cobie, when I saw Pa find his mate, I wanted that too. I wanted that so badly. Meeting you was one of the strangest moments of my life. I wanted to know how you didn't turn to ashes under the sun but underneath that, I wanted to know everything about you and that scared me. So instead I tried pushing myself away from you but you didn't make it easy. You were always there, telling me yes and taking care of me. You soon became my home and I love you."

"You're my home, my everything. The only person I'd ever want, the only person I'll ever love, the only person for me. You were perfectly made for me. It had hurt when you snapped at me, it had hurt when you had your thing with Michel but I waited. I put myself in your sight, ready to give you anything because that's how I am and that's what I know you deserve. You deserve to be treated like the prince that you are."

"You always treat treat me like a prince."

"That's because you make me feel like a king." Aetos says and Colson giggles. He tucks his face in Aetos' chest, hands wrapped tightly around Aetos' waist. They stood there, silent and full of happiness.

Today had got to be Colson's favorite day. It had started out awesome, being fucked hard by his boyfriend, they cuddled afterwards, hit a little bump after that but here they are now, they've confessed their feelings and are now just holding on to each other.

"I love you. I'll never get tired of saying that."

"I love you too. I'll never get tired of saying or hearing that."

Aetos moves Colson's hands off him and leads him to the room, the two of them walking hand in hand. Aetos uses his speed to pull off the sheets and replace them. Colson has half the mind to tell Aetos they should go cuddle on Pytor's bed and he knew Aetos was going to say yes but really... staying close to Aetos, talking about everything and nothing would be the best goddamn thing right now.

They still had a couple of things to sort out. Like him again and Aetos never again but he was too happy. His heart felt light and his gorgeous boyfriend had just told him he was in love with him. So yes. Things like age and shit felt like little obstacle at the moment.

Colson crawls up the bed, Aetos behind him. The vampire wraps his arms around Colson's waist as he pulls him closer, pressing a kiss to the top of Colson's head. Now that Colson knew what to look for, he could hear the very light thump of Aetos' heart and he feels so proud of himself. He needed to read up and ask about vampires and mates but that would be later. He doesn't see himself getting off the bed and leaving Aetos' arms in a while. "You're quiet."

"I was thinking." Colson replies, a shiver running down his back when Aetos softly drags his nails up Colson's arm.

"About what?"

"About you." Colson says, his cheeks turning a lovely shade of red. Oh lord, Colson mentally squeals, they were totally going to be that couple. He can't wait to tell Cobie and Others that Aetos was his mate. The gorgeous man who made him happy was his mate. His soul mate.

Colson turns his head and pressed a kiss to Aetos' chest, mouthing the words I love you so much on his skin, as if whispering a promise.