This story contains m/m and m/f relationships and sex scenes. Unusually, this particular chapter only has m/f!
Thanks for the votes, comments, and mails. To the several people who mentioned it, I really am sorry you have to wait a week between chapters! I wanted to get some more writing up and put pressure on myself to concentrate on this story because I have a habit of having several stories on the go at once, all wanting to be written, so I jump around between them depending on my mood and what I fancy writing, or what is nagging to be written the most. Hopefully everything will get finished and up on Lit at some point. I'm managing to stay a good bit ahead of you with this one, so I can post regularly, but it's an awful lot of typing!
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5
While the team leaders were meeting their long lost brother, Finn was driving Sky to HQ so she could be interviewed. He didn't like it, and although she had agreed to go, he could feel she was nervous. Since he'd met her the only thing he cared about was keeping her safe, and making her go through this felt like he was putting her in danger. He knew she'd not told him much and the rest she was keeping bottled up. She had opened up about her life before she had been captured and even that was hard for him to hear because she had been so alone. Growing up without a family to call her own must have been difficult, but somehow she had come through that and the research centre and he had found his mate.
He gave a pleased little growl out loud at the thought she was his mate now and he heard her laughing softly.
"You getting all possessive again?"
He grinned at her. "Can you really blame me? Even if I was a complete idiot and wanted to fight my attraction to a beautiful woman, nature doesn't allow it. You're mine now and I couldn't be happier about it."
Sky blushed and looked across at her mate. She couldn't be much happier either, although what they were heading to do was terrifying. There were some things that she wasn't sure she wanted to tell Finn, but she knew he wouldn't leave her side during this. Thank god she was never raped, although the things they had done to her... she shivered at the thought. Before she could get her mind back to Finn he had pulled the car over and wrapped his arms around her.
"I know you're scared love, but I will be there to help you through this. Just don't shut me out. It doesn't matter what happened, it will never happen again because I won't let anyone hurt you."
She wondered how he knew almost exactly what she was thinking.
"I'm going to need you there. I don't really want to talk about it yet, but I know if I keep things bottled up it will end up eating away at me and getting between us. Plus any way that I can help I want to. If there are others being kept like I was then I need to do what I can."
"I know you can do this. You're stronger than most otherwise you'd not be doing as well as you are. It will be good to talk though, work it through."
She smiled at him. "I'm doing so well because I have my strong mate to help me. You saved me and you still are, every day when I see how much you care about me, and there's that sexy little twinkle in your eyes that says you want me."
"Always," he growled.
"You'd better start driving so we can get to HQ then, because there is no way I'm doing it with you on the back seat of a car in broad daylight."
"How about at night?" he grinned.
He heard an exasperated little sigh from her, but knew it wasn't serious. She was just as happy for them to be naked in each others arms as he was, and sometimes she took him by surprise with her desire for him. Part of him wondered if that was down to wiping out memories, and he had the feeling sometimes that when she was feeling too much from that time she used being with him to wipe that from her mind. He understood and didn't mind since it worked to his advantage as well, but if she didn't get to talk it through he was concerned about how it would affect them longer term and was glad to hear that she recognised that too.
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By the time Finn finally pulled up to HQ a couple of hours later, Sky had fallen asleep. He couldn't help taking a moment to look at her, so peaceful and gorgeous, and all his. She still tired easily, and it didn't help how active the two of them had been, but she didn't regret a moment of it, and he loved being able to watch her sleep. Sadly he couldn't do that now, and he gently shook her to bring her around.
"Hey baby, we're here."
She sat up, her eyes widening when she saw the building.
"And I thought Sam's house was big. This place is massive!"
"Did you really think the Were Council had a less impressive house than Sam? This is only the tip of the iceberg, as it were. There's loads more of it underground, plus the land around for miles, and the training camp where we all learned our trade is on site as well."
"I guess it's a pretty big organisation. You have to forgive me being stupid, but I don't really have an idea of how many of us there are, or what species, or much to be honest."
"I don't know how may of us there are either. Lots, I know that. Most are pretty integrated though and live amongst humans without anyone knowing. And species wise there's plenty as well. I'm not sure I could tell you that either, but it's mostly cats and dogs here. Apparently we are the best at paperwork!"
He was pleased to get her laughing, because it distracted from the huge doors they were heading towards. He knew there were plenty of guards too, but he suspected Sky would only know about the ones she could see. Not that either of them were in any danger here, but the Council had to take security seriously. He was surprised that when they got past the door guards the person waiting to meet them was Mark. He bowed to their leader, not sure whether to be amused or embarrassed that Sky was paying far more attention to their grand surroundings than the head of the Council. He nudged her to get her to notice Mark, and decided on embarrassment when she offered her hand to shake his.
Mark gave an amused smile as he shook hands with Sky, and a wink to Finn who was squirming over the human greeting.
"Hello Sky. It's nice to meet you. And good to see you again young man. I'm afraid I've missed the pair of you the couple of times I've been to see Sam lately."
Sky looked confused. "You've been to the house?"
Mark laughed. "I'm Peter's father. Plus on the side I head the Council and order Sam and Tom about."
Sky suddenly realised his importance and her face flushed. "Sorry, I didn't know who you were." She looked crossly at Finn. "You might have told me."
"I didn't get a chance. If it helps, he was just about the last person I was expecting to be here to meet us."
"I wanted to see you both, and I'm heading up all the information gathering so it makes sense. Plus, it's always good to meet a member of my favourite team. I'm rather proud of my pet project in inter-species co-operation! I'll show you where you'll be staying and you can do what you want for the rest of the day, although there's dinner later."
"We only need one room," said Finn quickly.
Mark just smiled. "I know, I have been informed. Although it's usually pretty obvious to us old-timers even before these things happen."
He led the two upstairs, and Sky was relieved that they would not be staying underground. She needed a window now so that she would see the outside world. Too long deprived of that made her fearful of being anywhere she couldn't see out from. Finn must have sensed something going round her head and he put his arm around her and pulled her close as they walked. She loved having someone who could tell when she needed their support without her having to ask. She'd never had that until she'd been rescued and now she had friends and what she could consider family, as well as the man of her dreams.
All she needed to do now was get this trip over with, and get what she could out in the open. Perhaps they might even be able to explain some of the strange things that had been said and she would get some answers about her family. She must have one somewhere, and they might just have a record. Then she remembered that Tilly didn't have her birth family, and she must have tried to find out why she had been abandoned. Perhaps her adoptive family had been enough, but Sky didn't even have that connection and she needed to know anything she could.
Mark showed them to a light and airy room, leaving them to get settled in. It was painted a peaceful blue colour that instantly made Finn think of Sky's eyes, it matched her so perfectly. He was glad the set-up here was much the same as at home and they had a large bed to share. Not that they needed that much space, he made sure to curl himself around Sky as close as possible every night now that they finally could share a bed, and he didn't plan on that stopping anytime soon, if ever.
Thoughts of Sky and him in bed immediately had his libido and his dick rising, and Sky noticed and was amused.
"Again Finn? I'm tired," she said, teasing more than denying him what he was imagining.
"You slept in the car," he replied with a growl, sweeping her off her feet and onto the bed.
Sky just laughed at him, definitely not having any objection to him having what he wanted because she knew by now it would be really good for her too. As soon as he gave her space, stripping off his clothes, she wriggled out of her own and saw the usual intense look in Finn's face as he gazed at her with need. Being wanted like he did was a new experience, but one that she was glad to get used to.
"Come here baby and show me what you've got," she teased, able to see perfectly all of his beautiful body and his hard dick that was pointing almost to the ceiling. She knew she was getting wet just at the sight of him and the thought of what he would do next. She heard him growl before he pressed his body on top of hers and kissed the breath from her body. The teasing ended there, because all she could think about was the feel of his body on hers and how much she needed to feel him inside her.
