by Maggie Walsh
“I messed up. I was too proud and thought I was a god. When I did the surgery on you, I broke the first rule of doctoring. Do no harm. After your surgery, when I brought Gabriel back to you, to give you your transfusion, I had just met Raith in the kitchen. I hooked you both up and then when you were done I unhooked you. I never put gloves on. I thought because of being a shifter, that it was safe,” the Doc explained, looking at the floor.
“Okay, not for nothing, but I’m getting pissed here. Someone tell me everything right the fuck now.” Taylor started to yell.
“It’s okay, sweet baby, please take it easy. You just woke up and I don’t want you relapsing on me,” Gabriel said gently.
“Then someone better start talking and I mean now.” Taylor growled. Then his eyes went wide. “Did I just growl? Why did I just growl? How did I just growl?” Now he was freaking.
Micah moved closer and sat on the bed looking at Taylor. “You’re right, Taylor, so I’m going to tell you everything, then ask whatever questions you have, okay?” Taylor nodded at him. “Okay, so Aaron didn’t use gloves when he did the transfusions, but he didn’t know that meeting his mate would send his pheromones into hyperdrive. Well, he did know, but only because it would send him into heat. He didn’t know that by touching you and Gabriel at your blood sites that his pheromones would transfer to the both of you from the sweat on his hands.” Taylor looked at Micah like he had purple kittens coming out of his head. When no one said anything, Micah continued. “So you were fine, except that you wouldn’t wake up, and Aaron started going into heat because he just met his mate. The mating heat was getting bad, so Raith and Aaron went to take care of that. If you remember from the conversation with Bass, it lasts for three days. During that time, you got that fever. We didn’t know what to do. We got Aaron in to you and he started running tests. While he was working on that, something else happened.” Micah stopped to look at Gabriel. Gabriel nodded his head for Micah to go on. “So…this is tough. Okay, Taylor, I’m not gonna beat around the bush. You shifted.” Now Taylor was really looking scared.
“I…I…I…shif…ted?” Taylor said in confusion.
“Yes, you shifted into a wolf. We were as shocked as you. We did everything to figure out what happened. How it was even possible that you were turned. I called our council and started digging around because it was something I never heard of before. There was a case of a human getting turned a long time ago when her mate claimed her and then three days later she had gotten injured and had surgery and was given her mate’s blood to help heal her. So we figure that’s what happened to you, Gabriel claimed you and then the next day you had surgery, and took Gabriel’s blood. But not only was it put into your veins, but directly into your brain. Then with the added pheromones from Aaron, your body wasn’t familiar with these things and it was trying to fight it off. Your temp went up as your body tried to fight it, but your body was also going into heat, like the cat shifters do. But you still wouldn’t wake up and we couldn’t get you to shift back because you wouldn’t wake up. You stayed in your wolf form for two weeks. Then suddenly you shifted back and opened your eyes. Gabriel was there with you when you did and when you fell back to sleep right away he came and got the rest of us. You were out for another hour or so and you woke up again. That’s when you saw Jesse and Aaron arguing. You didn’t remember any of us but Jesse. Then you fell back to sleep. That was four hours ago. And now here we are.” Micah finished as he gave Taylor a small uncomfortable smile.
Taylor sat there quiet, just staring at Micah. “Tay, are you okay?” Jesse asked, but Taylor didn’t answer, he just kept staring at Micah. Micah started getting uncomfortable. “Taylor?” But still Taylor didn’t say anything. Finally Gabriel tried. “Sweet baby, talk to me.”
Taylor blinked as if coming out of a trance. “So…I’m a wolf now? A shifter? But I go into heat like the cat shifters do, and so does Gabriel I’m guessing?” He looked at the doc. He nodded his head. Taylor looked back to Micah, “How did we handle the mating heat if I was in a coma? How long was I in a coma?”
“I’m guessing because of the coma it kept the heat from getting too bad,” the doc said.
“But what about Gabriel?” Taylor asked.
“He only got a small fever himself. This is something none of us ever heard of, so we don’t understand the whys or hows,” Doc explained.
“So how long was I out?” Taylor asked.
“It’s been three weeks since the surgery,” Micah explained.
“So, the tumor is gone, I’m not gonna die, but now I can shift into a sex crazed horny wolf?” Taylor asked calmly.
“That about sums it up,” Micah said.
“Are you all fucking kidding me?” Taylor yelled out making everyone jump. “This is so fucking cool!” Everyone’s jaws dropped. “Do I get two mates, too? Because I don’t know if I can keep up with one, forget two. So when can I shift? I want to see my wolf. How do I shift? Will you teach me?” He turned to Gabriel.
“You’re okay with all of this, sweet baby?” Gabriel asked cautiously.
“Hell yes. One, I’m not gonna die, two, the headaches are gone, three I’m gonna live, and for a long time like the rest of you. Four, I get to shift like the rest of you, and most importantly, five, I have a fucking hot mate that I get to spend eternity with and we both will go into heat which you know what that means?…We get to fuck like rabbits…a lot. Not like we weren’t gonna do that anyway, if you know what I mean, but know we get to have marathon sex for days. What’s not to love about all of this?” Taylor said as he moved around excited, looking around at everyone.
Micah started to laugh. “Well, I guess if you’re okay with this Taylor, then it’s okay. But you do realize that you’re a hybrid shifter, you and Gabriel. You’re unique, two of a kind, so we have no idea if that means you have another mate or…or…I don’t even know.”
“I understand. I guess we’ll all just have to see what happens and deal with it as it comes. As long as I have all of you, my family with me to help me with whatever happens then I’m good,” Taylor said.
Jesse moved forward and hugged Taylor. “If you’re okay with this, Taylor, then so am I. I love you and I will always be here for you. I hope you know that?”
“I do, Jess, and I’m sorry I doubted that before. Can you forgive me?” Taylor asked shyly.
“Of course I do, Tay. You have always been my family and you always will be. I will always forgive you.” Jesse squeezed him again, and Taylor’s stomach growled. Jesse pulled back and they both looked at Taylor’s stomach and then started laughing.
“Hey, mate?” Taylor turned to Gabriel.
“Yes, sweet baby?” Gabriel asked.
“I’m starving, feed me,” Taylor pleaded.
“Of course, sweet baby, if it’s okay with the doc.” Gabriel looked up at the doc in question. He was still just staring at Taylor.
“You don’t hate me?” he asked softly.
Taylor smiled at him and shook his head. “No, Doc. I don’t hate you. I understand that all of this was new for you, and you were having to deal with finding your mate and going into heat all at the same time. Damn, Doc, you must be exhausted. You saved my life. I will never forget that. Thank you. You will always have a friend with me, Doc, always.” Taylor reached out and grabbed the doc, pulling him over the bed to him and hugged him. Dr. Collins was a little shocked when he was pulled onto the bed and hugged, but then he hugged Taylor back. Taylor released him and the doc moved off the bed to stand again. Raith put a hand on his hip and the doc turned to look up at his mate. He gave Raith a smile and Raith hugged him.
“Now I only have three questions. One, when can I eat? I don’t remember ever being this hungry in my life. Two, when can I shift? And three, when are you all gonna leave so I can molest my mate? I’m dying to ride him all night long,” Taylor said as he turned and started to rub his body all over Gabriel’s.
Everyone laughed, including Gabriel as he wrapped his arms aro
und Taylor. “Are you marking me, mate?” Gabriel asked.
“Hell if I know. All I know is that you don’t smell like me and I don’t like it. I can’t stop rubbing all over you,” Taylor said in wonder.
“Looks like you got more than the mating heat from me. What you’re doing is what cat shifters do to mark their mates. It’s your animal marking your territory. My cat can’t stand when Raith doesn’t smell like me,” the doc explained.
“Okay, but now I don’t know what I want first, food or fucking,” Taylor said in a pleading voice.
“Everyone out!” Gabriel growled.
Everyone started to laugh as they all got up and headed out of the room, locking and closing the door behind them.
* * * *
Everyone sat around the table eating dinner. Micah had Jesse on his lap as he fed him from his fork. They were smiling, giggling, and kissing the whole time. Taylor shifted his eyes from them to Raith and his mate Aaron. While Aaron wasn’t on Raith’s lap, they still sat next to each other and you could tell they were feeling each other up under the table. Raith’s hand would disappear and Aaron would jump a little in his seat then turn red and look up to see if anyone noticed. Then he would look at Raith with a shy smile and lean into his mate. The little doc was cute as hell. He was confident as hell and a bit of a know it all, but when it came to his mate, he melted. Taylor shifted his gaze to his own mate. Gabriel sat across the table from him, not even paying him attention. He hadn’t touched Taylor in the ten days since Taylor woke up. Taylor was getting frustrated. He let out a sigh. “Okay, that’s it. I can’t take it anymore.” Taylor spoke, bringing everyone’s attention to him.
“What’s wrong, Tay?” Jesse asked from his perch.
“I have been awake for ten days now and I have been allowed to walk around the house for eight days. I have been getting stronger and stronger. Doc, you said I could go back to all my normal activities, right?” Taylor looked at Aaron.
“Yes, Taylor. You’re completely healed. It’s as if nothing was ever wrong with you. Actually you’re probably stronger now than you ever were because now being a wolf and having cat shifter blood in you, too. It’s just getting back to being able to walk around without getting tired. Which is normal after spending three weeks in a coma and not moving. But you have even improved greatly with that as well. I would say another few days maybe a week with the physical therapy and you’ll be better than ever.”
“So there is no reason whatsoever that I can’t get all sweaty with my mate, right?” Taylor asked, narrowing his eyes at Gabriel. Gabriel looked down at his plate while the others snickered.
Aaron smiled in Gabriel’s direction. “No, Taylor, there’s no reason why you can’t get all sweaty with your mate.” Aaron snickered.
“Let’s make this perfectly clear. So what you’re saying is that if I stripped my clothes off right here, right now and laid myself out on the table like a buffet, there would be no reason for my mate to not fuck me through the table right down to the floor.” Taylor never took his eyes off Gabriel. Gabriel’s head snapped up at Taylor’s fuck me through the table comment. Their eyes met and Taylor could see Gabriel’s burning with desire, but then Gabriel looked back down. Taylor growled out his frustration. “I did not just almost die so that I could live like a nun, Gabriel.”
“I don’t want to hurt you, sweet baby,” Gabriel whispered, then looked up and met Taylor’s eyes. “I almost lost you. I’m afraid I’ll cause you to go back into that awful coma again or worse.” Gabriel pleaded with his eyes for Taylor to understand. The pain in Gabriel’s eyes took the fight right out of Taylor. He sighed and looked down.
“Being fucked into a coma sounds good to me.” Lexi laughed. He looked at Gabriel, but Gabe just kept looking down. Lexi shifted his gaze to Taylor and Taylor was looking at him with a small sad smile. Lexi lifted his brow at Taylor as if to say it’s not like you to just give up. Taylor nodded at him then looked down again. Lexi sighed and went back to eating.
“Gabriel?” Aaron called him. He waited for Gabriel to look at him. “There is no way for you to put Taylor back in a coma. He’s perfect…” Aaron froze and his eyes went wide open as a big glob of mashed potatoes with gravy landed on Gabriel’s face.
Gabriel froze when the side of his face got hit with the soft mass. He slowly turned his head to look in the direction it came from. He looked at his mate, who just sat there staring down at his food and then scooped up a fork of mashed potatoes and put it in his mouth. Pulling the fork slowly from his lips and slowly chewed. “Taylor?”
Without looking up Taylor answered him in a calm, bored voice, “Yes, Gabriel?”
“Did you just do that?” Gabriel asked.
“Do what?” Taylor then looked up at him and with a straight face. “You got a little something on your face there, babe.”
“Yeah, I know. I was wondering if you put it there,” Gabriel said and started wiping his face off. Just as he finished, another glob of mashed potatoes, even bigger than the first, hit him straight in the face. He opened his eyes, which were now framed in a white mess, and looked at Taylor.
“Yes,” Taylor answered with a smirk on his face. Everyone started chuckling at the two.
Gabriel looked down at his plate and scooped up a big helping of mashed potatoes covered in gravy and then dipped it into his creamed corn. He held it up and looked at his mate. Taylor just sat there looking at him with a raised brow. Gabriel aimed and flicked his wrist, sending the goop across the table right into Taylor’s face. Lexi started rolling with laughter. All the guys soon followed. Taylor used his hands to scrape the glob from his eyes and he looked at his mate with a shit-eating grin on his face. He looked at Jesse, who was still sitting on Micah’s lap. He was trying very hard not to laugh but he was losing the battle. Micah was laughing so hard he had tears coming out of his eyes. Aaron sat there in shock at what was happening in front of him. Taylor shifted his gaze back to Gabriel. His big mate sat there biting his lip hard to try to stop from laughing, but when Taylor met his eyes, Gabriel lost it and started laughing.
Gabriel stopped laughing abruptly when a whole plate of mashed potatoes hit him in the face. The plate slid off his face slowly and dropped into his lap. He scooped the mess from his eyes with his hands and looked at his mate. Taylor just sat there smiling sweetly as he licked potatoes off his fingers. He got to his pointer finger and slowly pushed the digit into his mouth fully. He wrapped his lips around the finger and started to suck and make moaning noises. Gabriel started to growl at the sight as his eyes filled with lust. Taylor slowly dragged his finger out of his mouth and closed his eyes on a moan. He opened his eyes and stood up. Taylor put both hands on the table and then a knee. He climbed up on the table and slowly started crawling across it to Gabriel. He knocked things over and crawled in the dishes as he went. When Taylor reached Gabriel he leaned forward and licked a line of potatoes off his face from chin to temple, then pulled back to look at Gabriel. “Yum, my new favorite meal, Gabriel a la mode.”
Gabriel grabbed Taylor’s face in both hands and smashed their lips together in a very heated kiss. He drove his tongue into Taylor’s mouth and devoured him, claiming him with his tongue. Taylor wrapped his arms around Gabriel’s neck and started to move closer. Gabriel released Taylor’s face and moved his hands to the hem of Taylor’s shirt. He grabbed the hem and pulled the shirt up Taylor’s body, releasing his lips for a second to pull the shirt off of Taylor. Gabriel tossed the shirt and reclaimed Taylor’s mouth with his.
Gabriel grabbed Taylor’s ass in both hands and pulled him forward off the table and into his lap. Taylor shifted so that he was straddling Gabriel’s lap. Taylor grabbed onto Gabriel’s hair, tightly holding Gabriel’s lips to him as he started grinding his rock hard dick against Gabriel’s washboard abs. Gabriel ran his hands up and down Taylor’s back possessively and then squeezed a hand down the back of Taylor’s jeans. He grabbed onto one of Taylor’s cheeks and squeezed. Gabriel moved a finger to Tayl
or’s crease and started running the finger up and down. Taylor released Gabriel’s hair and grabbed onto his own pants, quickly undoing the button and the zipper, giving Gabriel more room to play. Gabriel took advantage of the extra room and moved his hand further down into Taylor’s pants and moved his finger between Taylor’s cheeks and started rimming his tight hole. Taylor moaned his approval as he arched his back, releasing Gabriel’s lips. “Fuck me, Gabriel. Right here, right now. Fuck me over and over, harder and harder. Make up for all the time we already lost. Don’t stop till neither of us can walk for days.” Taylor grabbed the neckline of Gabriel’s shirt and ripped the shirt open. Buttons went flying across the room. Taylor ripped at the material until it was in shreds and just fell from Gabriel’s body. Then he moved his hands to the button on Gabriel’s pants and ripped that and the zipper open. They both started wiggling, grabbing, and ripping until they were both completely naked.
“I need slick, sweet baby. I won’t hurt you.” Gabriel breathed out heavily as he kissed, nibbled, and sucked on Taylor’s neck. He held Taylor tightly to him as his hands explored Taylor’s body. Taylor looked around for something, then he spotted a bottle of olive oil on the table. He reached back, arching his back till he grabbed the bottle. Gabriel took advantage of the position and latched onto one of Taylor’s nipples. He started sucking on the tight nub, then licked it and gently bit it. Taylor let out a loud moan and rubbed his cock against Gabriel’s abs. Gabriel’s mouth was driving him crazy. “So good. So fucking good, babe. Don’t stop. Love your fucking mouth. I loved that mouth on my cock when I came out of that coma, never been sucked so good. Your mouth should be posted on a map as a pleasure spot…No, forget that, this mouth is all mine, I don’t share. Oh god, Gabriel…fuck me my mate, show me who I belong to.” Taylor put the bottle of oil in Gabriel’s hand. Gabriel pulled back off Taylor’s nipple and opened the bottle of oil. He poured some onto his hand. “Lift up, sweet baby.” Gabriel growled. Taylor placed his feet on the floor and stood up a little, giving Gabriel room. Gabriel wrapped his fingers around his cock and slicked it up with the oil in his hand. He poured more onto his fingers and placed the bottle on the table. “Sit down, sweet baby.” Taylor sat back down and Gabriel reached around and put a slick finger to Taylor’s hole. He pressed the tip of his finger against Taylor’s tight hole and pushed just the tip in. Taylor’s head fell forward onto Gabriel’s shoulder and he started sucking on Gabriel’s neck and moaned his pleasure. Gabriel slid the finger into Taylor and groaned at the tight grip on his finger. Taylor licked up the side of Gabriel’s neck to his ear and drew the lobe into his mouth biting on the piece of flesh.
