Chapter 2: Gift Baskets
Eclipse was so happy today, even considering the fact that some dark magicians had shown up on the grounds. Yes, the headmistress was having a babe and getting married to a babe... damn, why hadn't he gotten to Vaccari first. The man just had an ass that wouldn't quit....
But Eclipse had always had an eye for such things, but never really saw how good looking he was, most of his older students had noticed however. He was tall, had thick brown hair, and aside from antlers, which he kept fairly short because it was a hassle, no one could tell that he was an anthromorph.
So he continued with the gift basket full of nice and naughty gifts he gave to every new and leaving staff member, all done up pretty with bows and ribbons laced through.... in Christmas colors of course. What? He couldn't help it! So what if it was the beginning of the school year... he liked Christmas the best.
The reindeer hummed and skipped down the hallway right to the new professor's office and knocked on the door, leaning in with a smile.
"Welcome! I'm the herbology professor, Eclipse, and I've got you a wonderful little basket here!"
Then he noticed, and he set the basket on the desk as he approached. "Jackie, is that you?! My gods, it's been years!" It had been at least five or so years... since he had taught the other.
Jack smiled his famous shit-eating smile and took off his glasses as the other seemed to recognize him. Sure he was taller now and had grown even better looking since his school days.
"Jackie, is that you?! My gods, it's been years!"
"Hey Professor Raincrest," he said with a brilliant smile. "It's been about five or four years since graduation. I can see that you've been keeping in shape. And you still got an ass that kills," he said with a wink.
"Well, thank you Mr. Jack," he nodded a head slightly with the same perky smile. He'd just gotten these pants yesterday, so he was pleased to know they showed off the 'merchandise' well. "You're much better now that you do not have to wear those plaid outfits! Love the shades!"
"Hey, I think that I pulled off the plaid wonderfully not that I liked wearing them," he said with a devilish smirk. Now the other could seem him in his usual sexy attire. He was in a pair of jeans that hugged his butt and a green t-shirt that was a size too small.
"And if I remember correctly," he pulled some mistletoe from behind the other's ear. "You could never say no to a Christmas tradition." He smiled cheekily as he held the mistletoe over them.
Eclipse paused for a moment. He wasn't supposed to kiss students. Though Jack was no longer his student (and a very attractive man), it still felt slightly weird. "...I never could say no."
Jack noted that the other seemed hesitant and that rather upset him. So, as they kissed he decided to warm the other up. He was no longer his student and he could do whatever the hell he wanted to.
The reindeer smiled indeed and moved closer, letting his lips softly brush Jack's in the picture-perfect 'mistletoe kiss'. Then the reindeer moved back a few paces, rolling his eyes but chortling nonetheless. "Really, you had to use the opportunity to grope my ass. Then again, you boys did seem rather fond of it in class."
"Honestly, you can't blame us for liking it," he teased as walked over and sat on his desk. "And you know you teased us every chance you got when you bent over like this." Of course he leapt up and demonstrated. "Jerk... We immediately had to run to the bathroom after class."
Eclipse chuckled into his hand at the other's demonstration. Sure, it was alluring but he thought he didn't get the whole effect because he didn't picture himself getting a piece of it like they did with his. Despite his height and non-stringy appearance, it seemed everyone at MirrorLake knew he was not a topper.
He had felt those eyes every time he had to lean over to do a demonstration. Eclipse sat down on the other's desk. "So, how are you doing? Are you still going out with that Isaac boy?"
Jack who was a strong built young man, about twenty six now, ran a hand through his light brown hair. The only part of him that could tack him to his animal was the donkey tail, he was glad he didn't have those big ass ears.
"No I'm single and looking. Otherwise I'm fine. What about you?"
"Nope, the work keeps me pretty busy." He really should apply to workaholics anonymous. Eclipse looked at the basket he had given the other which contained some rather interesting things.
"Still a workaholic huh?" He asked with a smirk. The other was always working, day and night. It didn't matter to him as long as he was needed by the students.
"I resent that term, thank you," Eclipse countered, crossing his arms and giving a little mock-huff to the other man. "If I choose to try to improve my performance and help students, it is not a problem..."
"No, it's not a problem. I just think that you work too hard and don't take enough time for yourself is all..." he said with a smile. Jack was always smiling and he was sexy when he smiled.
"Now how would you know that?" he asked. He never thought students had really paid attention to how late the light stayed on under his office door at MirrorLake; they were supposed to be asleep after all.
"Honestly," he laughed at the other. "I sat up quite a few times just wanting to approach you in the middle of the night and tell you that I thought you were the most gorgeous thing on two legs..." he said with a 'I want to sex you up' smile.
"And here I made you a basket thinking you had someone to use them with... ah well."
It was then that his attention was directed to the basket the other had made for him. He chuckled at it as he got a glimpse of a few things on the top.
"Well... You know me too well. And I thought that you had been ignoring me all those years at Mirrorlake," he teased with a wink. "But you know... They won't have to go to waste if a certain someone decided to stop by later..." He wiggled his eyebrows sexily.
He was muscular and tall and had the look of a man that was a topper. And he could top... he could top all night long.
Eclipse raised his own eyebrows to that, and smiled, shaking his head. "That would be too weird... I've known you since you were a shaking little first year before you even went through puberty..." Imagining, himself, writhing and moaning under Jack, it was hot but also felt rather wrong.
It was Jack's turn to make his eyebrows disappear into his brown locks. It was easy to see that that was not the answer he was used to or wanted to hear. He nodded anyway and just smiled.
"Oh well, I guess I can have fun with them by myself," he moved to his chair and sat back in it before digging through the basket and pulling out a tiny shocker. He laughed before sliding his hand up his shirt and shocking his nipple earning a moan that was sexy as hell.
"Have you tried this out?" He asked.
Eclipse leaned over the desk, so he was closer to Jack and gave his own alluring, 'come hither' look, lips slightly parted. "How do you think I knew what to get you? I wouldn't want to get someone bad quality toys..."
Toys really were his outlet for sexual frustrations. Eclipse had the weird thing about his rutting season. He was always in it, except for the normal reindeer mating period in which case he just couldn't get it up. As he had no time for maintaining a boyfriend, they were his friends. He had quite a large collection, enough to make his own little room.
"Aw!" He laughed as he set it down on the desk and leaned up to catch the other up in a proper kiss. "I'm touched that you really thought enough of me to go through all of the trouble," he said once he broke away.
Eclipse accepted the kiss, though it was fairly deeper than the kiss he had given Jack. He leaned back and sat daintily on the edge of the desk, pushing back his messy hair. "I do it for every staff member who arrives here. Though, I will admit, you're one of the first who doesn't seem embarrassed by it."
Jack? Be embarrassed by sex toys? That would be the day! He rubbed his left arm until the other said the next sentence.
"Embarrassed?" He asked with a hearty laugh. "Me? Why should I be embarrassed? Honestly, if I can't get someone to please me I might as well do it myself..."
"I have to admit that I wish you would stop thinking of me like a student..."
He shifted and moved to in front of Jack and knelt there while ruffling that hair with a chuckle. "When I was the one you came to about your first wet dream, and advice about sex and boyfriends, it's a little hard Jackie..."
Jack scowled at the other and that was certainly a rare thing. He was never the sort to scowl or get upset but there he was. He pushed the hand away from his head.
He was shocked by the scowl and serious tones he got from the jackass. Jack was never the type to do that, and never had they been directed towards Eclipse. It made him freeze.
"I never told you who the dream was with now did I?" He asked with a serious face. That was another thing that was never present on his features. "That dream had been about you and I wanted to know how to deal with it... And I told you about the boyfriends so that you would tell me to forget about them and be with you... God you're thick..." he said gruffly.
Eclipse's response?