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Chapter Six

Waking up in Tommy’s bedding was something that Buck was taking time to get used to. There was something good about it and strange. He stretched a little and ran into Tommy’s legs that were curled to make sure that he didn’t hit Buck, but were also all around him. Tommy’s bedroom was bigger than the one that Buck hadn’t really been using much. The nightmares had been bad for a while after the whole revelation of what happened to him, and he realized that it was the memories of the spell that had been done on him and Daniel to try to save Daniel. There was something so scary about something he barely had any memories of that his brain was making up more of them.

Still, since sleeping in Tommy’s bed, there had been fewer and fewer of them. Which also had little to do with actually sleeping in Tommy’s bed and how things were progressing in the trial for Margaret and Phillip, the information that was coming out, and Buck being able to frame his younger years better, made it easier to accept. There had been too much horrible shit that his brain had overloaded a few times, and he just stayed in the garden, Tommy or one of the twins joining him so he knew he wasn’t alone.

The name thing still hadn’t been fully decided. Buck liked Buck, but he felt like he wasn’t Buck anymore. He wasn’t a young Buck who ran free on his own. He had kind of liked that Buck was named for a deer, which was close enough to a horse, which was close to Tommy’s breed of dragon, but that was all he really felt was a good attachment to him. There was more than one thing that he wanted to keep from his childhood, but the name of Buck being used to get away from Evan wasn’t one of them.

Everyone called him Evan, but he hadn’t started that in his head yet. That would come in time, maybe when he felt like his life was calmed down. He needed to figure out what he wanted to do about living arrangements. His apartment had been closed out, and his stuff was in storage, which there wasn’t much of. He had taken a place that had its own furniture and more than a few other things; the bedding had been something that was his. There was honestly a lot of stuff that he hadn’t cared ever to see again. He had lived his life as a nomad until he got to LA. That meant that he had little to carry around with him; what he could safely carry and fly was about all he had ever allowed himself to get attached to.

“You okay?” Tommy asked.

“Yeah, just lying here thinking, that’s all.”

“About what?”

“My past and my future, and now to go about merging the two.”

Tommy hummed, and the rumble in his chest that was pressed to Buck’s back made Buck shiver. They hadn’t done much at all when it came to sex. Kissing, touching, and grinding on each other, yes, but mutual orgasm hadn’t been achieved yet, mostly due to the hatchlings being cock blocks. Which was normal, Buck had learned when it came to kids.

“The door is locked,” Tommy said, like he knew where Buck’s brain was going.

“Yeah?” Buck asked. He shifted his body to where he could wiggle down a little and uncurl himself. He could feel now that Tommy was hard. His cock was really large. Buck had felt it a few times when they were grinding on each other, which wasn’t an issue because it wasn’t like he wasn’t made to take it. Despite not being able to make an egg, all male dragons were made to have pleasure with male or female dragons. There were small issues between breeds when it came to things like between land and sea dragons, but there were ways to get around that if cross-breeds fell in love.

“Do you want this?” Tommy asked.

“Fuck yes,” Buck said. He ground himself into Tommy’s cock, and he made sure that Tommy could feel every single inch of him. There were going to be logistics about what they were doing, but going for what felt good right now was the highest priority on his mind.

“How?” Tommy asked as his snout rubbed against the side of Buck’s face. “How do you want to do this, Evan? Do you want to fuck me? Do you want to be fucked by me?”

Buck gasped as a leg wrapped around him to hold him in place as Tommy rutted into him. He could feel that he was getting ready, and he wanted Tommy. Fuck how he wanted him.

“You fucking me,” Buck said, and he escaped from Tommy’s hold to roll to his front and present his ass. He didn’t want this to be anything loving. Making love was all fine and good, but Buck felt like he needed to be claimed. He wants to feel it, every single inch of Tommy inside him, wrapped around him. Just around him, all over, so that he could feel claimed.

Tommy was a little discombobulated as he got up to his hooves, and he carefully got behind Buck, and his cock nudged Buck’s hole. It pressed there and then pulled out before pushing again. “Like this?”

“Yes,” Buck said. He was so fucking wet.

Before Buck could make a noise, Tommy was moving, but he wasn’t moving toward Buck; no, he dropped to where he was behind him, and there was a lick over his hole. Buck gasped, and he groaned as he felt the tongue there. Tommy’s tongue was just like his cock, big and fucking wide enough that Buck had a feeling that if Tommy got it inside of him, he was going to feel it up to his throat.

There were a few seconds where his hole didn’t give in, and then it did, and the tongue was inside of him, tasting him. Buck shifted to get a good grip on the bedding to stay where he was as Tommy started to tongue fuck him. He could feel the exhalations over his hole when Tommy needed to breathe, and it just made him more ready.

“Fuck me, please Tommy. Claim me, already.”

Tommy didn’t. He just kept on doing what he was doing. It was maddening, but Buck was unable to do anything but take it. he curled his claws into the bedding more until it hit the floor and held on there. Then the tongue was jerked from him, and Tommy was mounting him again. The pressure of the cock at his hole had Buck shuddering in want. Tommy gave him no quarter, pushing inside of him in a single steady thrust. It was everything.

Sex had never felt like this before. The idea of mates was normal, but there was a part of the dragons that felt like their magic attached them to a single other dragon who made them reel whole. Buck had never pushed that, but this with Tommy felt like it was right. He felt like Tommy belonged where he was when he was all the way inside of him.

Tommy lowered himself to where he was wrapped around Buck as much as he could be, given their forms. Then he started to move. Buck loved this, and he made sure that Tommy knew it. The sounds he was able to make showed that he loved it way too much.

Neither of them lasted long, but Buck came first. He turned his head to bury the sound into the bedding, and then Tommy was coming too.

Tommy was careful as he pulled out of Buck and then got them back on their sides. Tommy cuddled around Buck as much as he could. Buck was breathing slowly and deeply, trying to calm his racing thoughts. He felt Tommy, something deep inside of him, he could feel how happy Tommy wasn’t. It wasn’t like a big awareness of him; it was just there, like a base reading of him.

“Maybe the hatchlings need to find some place else to be tonight, too,” Tommy said.

Buck laughed. He rolled over to curl into Tommy that way. They would clean up later, get themselves ready to face the day, and be together over the whole day. Tomorrow was the big day, the day that it was all announced. Who Buck was, what happened to him, how he had been stolen, it was all going to be given out.

“Has Cumulus talked to you?” Buck asked. He knew the reasons behind Cumulus not telling Tommy as soon as he realized who Buck was, but he also didn’t want to be the one to tell him. He felt like it needed to come from the familiar himself.

“Yes, he talked to your parents and me about it. We agreed that anything that might have spread that knowledge faster could have gotten to the wrong person. We know that the dragons who stole you had connections here to keep an eye on you. It wasn’t safe. We will never want to have him do something that he felt could expose you.”

Buck knew that, and he was glad that the others were understanding of what was going on there.

“How are you really feeling?” Tommy asked.

“Better now. I mean, I’ve wanted to do that for a while, but things have been so weird, and I wasn’t sure that you were wanting to do that yet. I was going to talk to you about it today. You just beat me to it. I love sex. Some think I love it too much, but I think I just have a high sex drive.”

“I can have a high sex drive, but I do have to have some feelings involved there to want to have sex with someone else.”

“We need to do it again soon. I wanna see if I can fit your cock in my mouth.”

Tommy snorted, and he nuzzled Buck before gathering as close as he could get him. They stayed like that for a while, pushing off what was to come for both of them that day.

—

Tommy looked at where Evan was sitting in the area that was barely visible in the courtroom. The space was massive due to the nature of just how many dragons needed to fit in there. There were spells everywhere that allowed the voices to carry for each of the people who needed to speak. Evan had given written testimony about things, he didn’t need to actually speak and be there to be talked to. There was nothing that pertained to him, and what he could tell was that it was going to make the sentence happen; it was just character stuff, and it wasn’t like they could really refute that they had tried to kill him.

The courts for the supernatural beings were different from those of humans. There were spells that made one tell the truth. There were a whole lot of things that really didn’t matter when it came down to it. Tommy knew that many didn’t like how strict the courts were for dragons, especially, but Tommy knew that it was what kept their society from dropping down into the ages that they had been before. It kept them all settled and from doing things like going on rampages.

Tommy wanted to be sitting over with Evan, but he was needed where he was. He was part of this because Pearl and Magnus had stepped back from taking part in this. Sal was with Tommy, and while Tommy and Evan were together, it didn’t matter to the courts that much because the judge thought that he would be impartial enough. That there was no one else who was going to be less impartial to him, who had a strong sense of justice.

“You do not refute these crimes?” the judge asked. He looked around, his head looking toward both of the accused on trial.

Margaret had said nothing in her own defense, just looked at them all like they had no right to pass judgment on her and what she had done to try to save her son. Phillip had given up a lot of things and had to be protected because Margaret had tried to kill him.

“No,” Philip said. He looked around the crowd and landed on Evan.

Evan wasn’t even looking at them, but at the judge. He was there only because he wanted to see this for himself. The wide breadth of their crimes had come out with ease after they had finally gotten another team in both locations that was able to break down things a lot faster to figure out what was going on.

“Then you are sentenced to death, to be carried out immediately,” the judge said. The Ridgeback dragon looked like he was shocked at them not even trying to save their own lives, but trying to plead their case. There was nothing that would stop it, but at least they would have tried.

Phillip looked like he was resigned to it, but Margaret still looked like she was sick compared to him. She was a cold case, and Tommy knew that growing up under her had been hard for Evan. They had talked it all out, now that Evan’s whole life was laid bare for the world to see. There had been dragons who had come forward with small things they had seen, but never thought much of them, because there were different parenting types out there. It wasn’t until it was put out there that Evan’s parents were shitty as fucking hell.

Tommy was trying to get him to talk about things a little more with someone else, but Evan didn’t want to. There was a little bit of fear for Evan about being a parent to Tommy’s twins, but in the end, Tommy knew that he would never be like the two who had raised him.

The sentence was officially passed, and no one was shocked. All the dragons there knew that it was going to happen like that. They knew it, and they didn’t even try to fight it. The fear that what had happened to Evan would happen to others was massive. There was a magical seal on those who knew what spells had done what, so that they could never talk about it. It was going to be something that Tommy would have nightmares about. Phillip and Margaret had been tight-lipped at first in the first interrogation about what they had done, then Phillip had broken, and Margaret had made it seem like Evan was the issue.

“How are you feeling?” Tommy asked when he made his way over to Evan. The room was emptied of everyone but them now, with the sentence said and the execution room being readied to be used for the first time in a while.

“Numb,” Evan said.

“Numb is normal. You hate them, you have little love for them, but they are the only ones you know as parents. The last couple of weeks with your hatch parents don’t erase the last thirty years that you endured with them. “Do you want to see them executed?”

Evan shook his head.

“Then go home. I’ll watch in your stead.”

Evan looked at him finally, and there were tears in his eyes.

“Pearl and Magunus wanted to show me something, but I don’t know if I want you to be there or not.”

Tommy wondered if it was the house that Tommy had known for years that they had held in place for Evan. Evan wouldn’t want to live there alone, but Tommy was more than willing to move in. The house that Tommy was in was good, but it just wasn’t big enough for their growing family.

“How about you meet with them? They do not want to see the execution either. They have when they are the ones to give out justice, but never when it’s the courts. They will probably not want to see this one either because Margaret and Phillips do not deserve to have their eyes or yours there. Phillip feels a little guilty, but Margaret does not.”

Evan nodded. “I’ll meet them, and then I’ll wait for you if I want. Are you sure that you should watch?”

“I want to know that they are never coming from you again, Evan. Ever. I want to see it with my own eyes. There should be someone from the governor’s house. I’m the highest outside of you three, so it falls to me, but I want to be there.” Tommy leaned in, and it was allowed. Evan allowed Tommy to press into him. Evan’s arms took a few seconds to come up and around him, but they finally did. Tommy loved it when Evan sought him out for comfort. It worked well for both of them.

The sex was great, but Tommy was working on making sure that it wasn’t the only basis for their relationship, even if Evan was very weird about talking about a few things that he had no issue talking about before. Tommy figured he was on rocky ground with the people in his life from before. He was still on a leave of absence from work and would be returning to it as soon as things calmed down, personally and with the world looking at him.

“Ready?” Tommy asked after a few moments.

“Sure,” Evan said.

Tommy kissed the side of his head and laughed at the tone. Evan was a cuddler, which wasn’t a shock given how touch-starved he had been his whole life. Tommy vowed that Evan was never going to want for affection like that again.

—

The house was big, but it wasn’t overtly grand like the house that Pearl and Magnus lived in. Buck still had no idea why they wanted to meet him here.

“You can look around,” a dragon said as she opened the door to the house and waved him inside.

Most dragon houses were massive just because of the size of dragons. Then there was the fact that some breeds had massive collections of nests, and there were a lot of them running around. This house was set up for at least five hatchlings, from what Buck could tell from looking around. He still wasn’t sure why he was there. He looked around and figured that he would be found when his parents got there. It was still hard to think of them that way, but they were good. They wanted to get to know him as he was. He had kept the name of Evan because Daniel loved him. He and Maddie had spent two days talking about things, Maddie visiting the house and staying the night. It had worked out well to get things all clear, and Buck still loved her. She was his sister. Pearl and Magnus had adopted her outright, or would be soon. There was paperwork that they were working through on that. It made Maddie happy to have two parents who liked her, even if they didn’t love her yet. It was what he was dealing with in his head that they loved him. They had loved him and never forgot. The dragons who took him and robbed him of a life of love.

Buck got to an upstairs room, and he paused as he took in the garden that was outside. He looked to see that it was made for even living in. There was a small terrace in the garden, and there was an extension of this room out into the garden terrace. The garden was nearly the same size as the house, and there were a lot of flowers, but the ones that were up on the terrace were the ones he liked best from Tommy’s house. He figured that this place was taken care of just like Tommy’s was, and it was why there were the same kinds of plants in it.

“Do you like it?”

Buck looked at Peark, who had snuck up on him in the room. She was smiling, and she looked like she was pleased about something.

“I do. Why?”

“This is your house. We had it started when the egg was laid, and we worked on it even over the years when you were gone. Tommy made the comment that their house is a little cramped with you there, but that you do not want to leave. So, this is the compromise. It’s the same distance from the main buildings where Tommy works with us as his current house is, just on the other side of the city.”

“It’s mine?” Buck asked.

Pearl nodded. Magnus flew into the room. He was carrying a few things in his arms, and he laid them on the bed. It looked like it was part of the egg he had come from. Buck flew over to touch them. He knew that some dragons kept their hatchlings’ egg shells, and they were crushed and used in gardens when they bought their first house. It was a superstition about protection.

“You kept the egg,” Buck said.

“We hadn’t planned on it, and then we thought that it couldn’t hurt. Tommy has his hatchlings’ shells, and he plans to allow the old tradition with them. The house there he is in will stay his and one of them can live there for a while if they wish, or forever if they don’t mind being cramped.”

Buck laughed because it was cramped there, but some dragons didn’t mind that. Tommy and Buck did. It was too fucking soon to be living together like that, but if he was being honest, he wanted it. He wanted it so badly. He didn’t want to leave him.

“You can take your time, you don’t have to say yes.”

“I’m not the only one who needs to say yes.”

“Well, Tommy’s coming here when the…deed is done. I’m sure the twins will love this place because it’s nice. We are even going to move…Sal and Gina need a bigger place, but have never agreed to move because of wanting to stay next door to Tommy. We had planned on giving Tommy this house next year because the twins are getting bigger. And we were going to offer the place next door to Sal and Gina. It will be closer for Gina to the location she works out of most of the time, and it’s easier to get to for dragons who seek her out for care at her house.” Pearl sounded happy that she got to do what she was doing with the houses.

Buck had learned from Tommy that he thought he was being groomed to take over for them, which wasn’t out of the norm when there were no heirs from the lines. The dragons of the area did not vote on the succession of governors, but if the dragons of the area really hated them, they could vote to get them out, and then someone else would be voted in based on what the beings wanted. It had never happened, and things had been good under Pearl’s line. One of the twins might just want to take over.

“And if I never want to take your place?”

“Then Tommy will,” Magnus said.

Buck looked at the garden again, and he flew closer to it. He slipped outside and looked down at the garden below, and what continued up past the little bedroom area that was outside. This place was kind of perfect for him and Tommy. He would sleep outside more than inside, and Tommy could be with him and not have to sleep on the ground. It was going to be a good place for him, and he was happy about that.

“You don’t mind not having me take it over?”

“The longer you were gone, the more we worried about what state we would find you in. The more chance there was that you would fall in love with a different job, and this one that you love is perfect. You will take care of the people, and they will love you for it; it will let them see you as something other than the dragon who was stolen from us.” Pearl followed Buck out into the garden. “They will probably have to get used to calling you Evan over William.”

“I am working on changing the name I use at work as well. Buck is nice, but I…I want to be Evan again, the dragon who Daniel loved so much. The one who loves Tommy.”

“It’s love?” Magnus asked.

“Yeah, it’s too soon, but we spent a lot of time together.”

There was a sound, and Cumulus came into the garden and seemed to want to touch every single flower in there before he settled on the bed up on the terrace section.

“He came here a lot, did he?”

“He did. We took it as a sign that he was happy with what we were doing. Tommy told us that he should have realized it when Cumulus bonded to you, or at least made it seem like he bonded to you, but he also let it slip that he really thought that you were dead.”

“He told me that. He said that he’s not too upset about it, which is good because there is no reason to be upset about it, because I am not sure that anyone would blame anyone for giving up or holding on when there was nothing either way. The magic that bound me was strong. I was weak for days after it broke because my magic needed to break it to save me on the water.”

“One day, we will ask about that. More than what you have told us. When you are ready.”

Buck leaned into Pearl when she got closer to him. She was smaller than him by a little bit, but then Buck was pretty big for the breed of dragon they were, and Pearl was on the normal side for her size. Magnus was between the two of them, and Tommy was still a little bigger than Buck.

“Will you be happy here?”

“Yeah, I think I will be. Tommy and I can talk about it and make sure that the twins agree to live here.”

More familiars floated into the area. Buck knew that not just Tommy was there, but the twins as well, because while Buck and Tommy’s familiars didn’t mind doing what they wanted, the twins’ familiars didn’t like to be too far away from them. There were a few seconds from deeper in the house, and the wounds of happiness.

This was Buck’s new life, and he was happy about it.

—

Tommy entered the bedroom, and he wasn’t shocked to find Evan sprawled out on the bed in the garden. Tommy was half tempted to get rid of the bed in the main bedroom and just have them sleep in the other bed all the time. Evan had only slept inside just a single time. It was visible from the main bedroom, so the twins could find them easily if they needed them. It is a beautiful house. He had known that they had worked on a house for William, now Evan, from when the egg was laid, but he never once felt like he needed to see it. After the years had gone on and they hadn’t found him, Tommy felt like the house was a catharsis for them. A way to pay tribute to their hatchling, who had gone missing.

The twins loved the house; they had a small wing to themselves. There were only the two wings, and with the rooms across the house, Tommy felt like his babies were growing up. He loved him dearly, and while he had never seen himself settling down with a female dragon, there was something about having a hatchling that had been something he had wanted. He had never let himself want it, though. He had never let himself be the one to do it.

Looking at Evan, he was on the bed asleep already after a day of giving an interview to talk about how his life was going and to introduce the area to Maddie as well. They had done it together. Neither of them had watched the two dragons who had raised them being executed. Tommy had witnessed that for them, and he had been happy to do it. He knew that things were going to be a little weird for a while, but Maddiw was happy to have a pair of dragons as her parents who loved her. Tommy knew that Pearl and Magnus had loved her from the first moment of meeting her. Howie was learning how to deal with how his life looked now. There were a lot of things that were going to be changing for Evan, Maddie, and their little family that they had going.

Tommy headed to the bathroom to clean up from a day of dealing with idiots. He was being groomed more to take over for Pearl and Magnus because they were tired. They wanted to retire and spend their older years being doting grandparents to the dragons that they had in their lives now. Tommy was debating seeing if Evan wanted at least one nest of his own hatchlings. He was sure that he could find the same dragon who had helped him with the twins. She might be willing to make sure the hatchlings were siblings in that way, with different fathers. It was a little down the road, though.

Evan was still asleep when Tommy got out, and while the day was still early, going to bed sounded like the best thing. He slipped into the bed behind Evan and wrapped himself around him, sheltering Evan with his body. Evan knew it was him, and he got himself settled like he loved to sleep in the cradle of Tommy’s body.

There were a lot of things that they were going to have to do over the next while, but they had each other, and they had their family; it was all they could ask for. With that family support, everything is possible as well.

This wasn’t anything close to what Tommy had expected of his life when he found Evan on the beach, but he wasn’t mad. No, he was quite happy with what he had now, and he would pray to all the deities of the dragons that he got to keep it.

The End