Perverts 'R' Us

Fate Part 3

By Danyealle ( NoSex, Romance, Plot )

Leaning against the side of the Hummer, Marcus nervously smoked a cigarette watching up and down the street for Darious and keeping a close eye on the house. He had triple-checked the address to make sure he was in the right place, but he still had his doubts. A strong smell of cats was coming from it, both the regular kind and the shape shifter variety. He couldn't quite place the shape shifter smell but he knew it was a cat of some kind. The most common ones like were-cat he had already ruled out. All he knew was that it was making his hackles rise and it made him nervous.

However it also brought up the question what in the blue hell was Darious doing associating with some kind of shape shifter? They all avoided him like the plague. More to the point, from putting two and two together he assumed, bad word that, that this had something to do with whatever it was he had done to cause the jolt earlier. But what it could be was beyond him.

As soon as one cigarette went out he lit another, nervously chain smoking. From the house he could hear a bunch of loud yowling from a cat. It sounded a lot bigger than a house cat that is for sure, telling him to keep his distance and if he didn't he would get 'shredded'.

The day hadn't been the greatest in the whole world so he wasn't going to approach and see firstly, how big a cat it was and secondly, if it was a bluff. He decided to keep his ass planted right where he was until Darious got there. Glancing at his watch for the umpteenth time in the last few minutes he wondered just where in the fuck Darious was. It wasn't like him to give an order then not be there to see if it was carried out.

As if on cue a black Lamborghini Diablo roared up the street, did a 180 in front of the driveway and backed in to it, tires squealing. Watching it with mild interest, Marcus tossed his cigarette butt away and leaned back against the door of the SUV. First person out of the car was a short, slight woman with long blonde hair half way down her back. Giving her an appraising look, like he did all women, Marcus thought she was a good-looking babe with a nice body. He would fuck her given half the chance. Until she turned around and looked at him that is.

That is when he about swallowed his teeth and felt his balls tighten up and try to crawl back up in his body. Instantly his mouth went dry and he started to shake. He wasn't 100% positive who that was, but if it was her, he was sure he was one dead werewolf. After she dashed into the house Darious unfolded his long body from the tiny car meant to hold someone much smaller than he was.

Stretching out, he tried to get the kinks out of his back, muttering to himself, "Note to self, NEVER let her drive me anywhere again!" Spying the slightly shaking Marcus he walked over and took the pack of cigarettes he was holding and shook one out. Still staring at the shut door to the house, Marcus didn't even seem to notice that Darious was there.

Giving him a nudge with his shoulder as he lit the cigarette Darious asked, "Did you get the stuff?"

Jolted back to reality Marcus nodded, tapping another butt out of the pack and lighting it with a shaking hand. "I got it, no problem." After inhaling deeply he looked at Darious, one eyebrow arched slightly. "Care to tell me now what the fuck is going on?"

Shaking his head as he exhaled a perfect smoke ring Darious said, "Not yet. Don't worry I will explain it all soon enough. It's just that there is someone else who needs the same explanation so we are going to kill two birds with one stone."

"Gee, you are so full of answers today Godzilla, you know that?" Marcus said, sarcasm dripping.

Grinning, Darious chuckled, "Never fear, all will become known soon enough, pooch."

Suddenly the front door banged open loudly and she came out, being half dragged along by a huge cat at the end of a leash. Sniffing the air, the cat made a beeline straight for them, tugging her along behind. She held tightly to the leash but the cat, probably about as long as she was tall and looking like it weighed more than she did, was doing a pretty good job of dragging her along behind.

Once he reached where they were standing he sniffed them and all around before turning back to her and said, "It ish a beashtie and a poochie dat smellz like a beashtie. Want I should shred 'em, Lady Bosh?"

Picking the cat up and holding him to her chest, she kissed him on top of the head. "No Mayhem, no shredding. Darious is a very good friend of mine and I have known him longer than I've had you. So he's safe to be here." Stepping in front of Darious she looked up at him and winked then said to the cat, "Mayhem, this is Darious."

Swiveling his big head around and cocking it to the side Mayhem looked up at him, "'ello dere, beashtie."

Reaching out, Darious rubbed between the cat's ears, "Well hello there, Mayhem."

Purring softly, Mayhem leaned into his hand and then said, "No, it's MayHEM, I ish da MayHEM."

Chuckling a bit, Darious said, "Sorry, MayHEM." Looking over at Dani while he continued to rub between the big cat's ears he asked, "Why can I understand him? I've been in the area of cats before and not been able to understand."

Stroking Mayhem's back, she grinned at him, "That is because Mayhem is a bobcat, a wild animal. House cats have had some of their instincts bred out of them and that's why you haven't been able to understand what they say."

Stepping over to Marcus she said, "Mayhem, this is Marcus." Giving the big werewolf a look to confirm it was him, she winked and grinned.

Nodding, he absently reached out and stroked the cat's head, saying, "Hello Mayhem." But he continued to stare at her, confirming his worst suspicions. Indeed it was who he had thought it was and now he was convinced that he was dead.

Stepping back over to Darious, she looked down at Mayhem. "Know what? I think Darious brought you a surprise."

The cat's ears shot up straight and his tail started going at supersonic speed. "Weally? Woot kindas 'prise did da beashtie get for da Mayhem?"

Reaching out, Darious started to scratch between the cats' ears. But instead of looking down at the animal he was gazing into her eyes, a wistful look on his face. "I heard you liked McDonald's so I had Marcus stop there and get us all lunch."

Immediately Mayhem started wriggling all over in her arm, tail almost a blur. Gazing at Darious, he licked his fangs. "Mickey-D's! You brought da Mayhem Mickey-D's!"

Smiling, she looked back at Darious and absently petted the cat. "He sure did. Why don't you and I go in the house and get everything ready? That way Darious and Marcus can bring it in."

"'Kay, Lady Bosh!" he shouted excitedly, wiggling around in her arms.

Stepping closer to Darious, she got up on her tiptoes and kissed him softly. Putting an arm around her back he leaned into the kiss. When it broke off they smiled at each other. Then she winked and turned towards the house, Mayhem jabbering happily and looking back over her shoulder at Marcus and Darious.

Marcus had watched the whole scene intently, eyes bright. Things had gotten very strange indeed! Not only did he now know for sure exactly who she was, the look on Darious' face and the way he was acting was most strange indeed! Leaning back against the SUV he watched her progress into the house and continued to stare at the open door even after her and the cat had gone inside. It took a nudge from Darious on his shoulder to bring him back.

Stuffing a few bags into his arm Darious said, "Get the lead out, pooch. Let's get these inside." Shifting the bags around, Marcus grabbed a few more than looked at Darious. "Do you know who she is?" he said, voice just above a whisper.

Arching an eyebrow, Darious looked at him. "Of course I do, and I've known her for a long time. What is wrong with you, anyway?"

Shuddering, Marcus shook his head and loaded more bags into his arms. Trudging to the door he was now convinced that he was walking to his own execution.

Waiting in the doorway for them, bouncing around excitedly, was Mayhem. "Will yous hurrah up! Da Mayhem is hung'y!"

Chuckling, Darious said, "We got it, Mayhem, lead the way."

"Follow mees!" The cat shouted over his shoulder as he bound off towards the living room, going up and over things rather than around them.

Shaking his head, grinning, Darious followed with Marcus trailing behind him. Actually, Marcus was trying to stay hidden behind Darious' bulk. He knew it made no sense to do this, she had seen him, but somehow he felt that if he stayed out of her line of sight she might forget he was around.

After leaping over the sofa Mayhem hopped onto the coffee table where she was seated cross-legged, then started to hop up and down excitedly, the table groaning under his weight. Darious and Marcus put the bags down on the table and immediately Mayhem stuck his head in the nearest one calling, "Here fishy, fishy, fishy. Come to da Mayhem, he wants to have yer for lunch!"

Grabbing the bag and pulling the cat out Marcus said, "Hey! Don't do that, you're getting hair all over everything. I like fur burgers but not that kind!"

Looking up at him calmly, Mayhem said, "Da fishies want to be da Mayhem's lunch. I was just tryin' to finds dem!"

Grabbing a handful of fries out of the bag, Marcus tossed them on the table. "There, those should hold you until I can find your sandwiches."

Pouncing on them excitedly, Mayhem slapped his big paw on them and shouted, "Yous dead!" then started munching away on them until Marcus was able to find him his sandwiches.

The cat pounced on them immediately and started to devour them, mumbling happily to himself between mouthfuls. While they ate Dani and Darious made small talk and the still nervous and twitching Marcus sat in the farthest corner of the couch, trying to make himself as small and unobtrusive as he could.

When everyone was sufficiently full and Mayhem had lain on Dani's lap to give himself his after lunch bath, Dani looked at Darious. "How do you want to do this? Tell Marcus first then let me to explain it to Mayhem, or the other way around?"

Scratching his chin thoughtfully Darious pondered it before saying, "Why don't you just explain it to Mayhem then we will answer any questions either of them may have. That should work." Looking over at Marcus he said, "Pay attention, pooch."

Shifting around Marcus looked, first at Darious then at Dani, waiting, curiosity peeked.

Stroking softly down Mayhem's back Dani said, softly, "Mayhem, I want to talk to you about when you felt that jolt today."

Sitting up, ears on full alert, he looked up at her. "OTay, Lady Bosh!"

Holding him close to her chest, she kissed him on top of the head then nuzzled it with her cheek. "First of all, you aren't going anywhere no matter what! You are my Mayhem and I love you very much. We will be together forever, just like I promised."

Snuggling up closer to her Mayhem purred happily, that stub of a tail swishing to and fro briskly.

Straightening back up, she looked down at him. "Do you remember Jolene and Travis?"

Nodding, Mayhem replied, "Da Mayhem 'members Leene and Ravish, yesh."

"Good. Do you remember when they got together and we explained to you about mating and what it was?"

At the word mating Marcus shot Darious a wide-eyed, disbelieving look but said nothing, assuming that she didn't mean what he thought she was saying.

Nodding confidently Mayhem said, "I sure doos! Dat means togethers forevers for dem. I remember caweying da flowers for da fingy too!"

Stroking his back softly, she smiled. With him remembering it was going to make this a lot easier for her to explain. "Very good! You are sure the smartest kitty in the world. Mayhem, Darious and I have known each other for a very long time."

The smart kitty comment made him puff up with pride and sit a bit straighter in her lap. Looking up into her eyes he asked, "Longer den you has knowned da Mayhem?"

Continuing to look back and forth between her and Darious, Marcus sat there bewildered, not knowing where this was going.

"A lot longer. We knew each other long before you came to live with me. But we lost touch a long time ago and haven't seen each other until today." Stopping, she thought for a minute, trying to decide how to proceed and best explain things. "Do you remember the day I made it so you couldn't die and would be with me forever?"

Nodding a bit he said, "I 'members dat day. It wuzn't one of da Mayhem's good days."

"I know, but it means you will never leave me. Do you remember how we explained to you that sometimes if something happens to me you will feel it because of that?"

Nodding again he said, "Yuppers, Lady Bosh! I doos 'member dat!"

"Good. What happened today when you felt that jolt was that you were feeling something very good that happened to me and made me very happy. A lot of the other she-devils felt it too, that is why there were so many phone calls."

Cocking his head to the side, he gazed up at her. "What good fing happened to da Lady Bosh dat da Mayhem feeled?"

Sighing deeply, she decided to say it straight out and then deal with the consequences afterwards. "What you felt was when Darious became my mate."

It wasn't Mayhem that threw the biggest fit, it was Marcus. Standing up, he stared slack- jawed at Darious. "No fucking way! You can't do that! It's impossible! Demons CAN NOT mate!"

Looking up at the agitated werewolf, Darious said calmly, "Apparently I can at least, because I did it."

Running his fingers through his thick mane of long black hair then clutching it tightly in both fists, Marcus moaned, "Do you know what you have done? You've sentenced me to death!" Cocking an eyebrow Darious looked up at him. "What are you talking about, pooch? You aren't making any sense what so ever."

Pointing to Dani Marcus snarled, "What I mean is that psycho bitch is an assassin for the werewolf council and kills rogue werewolves for them! That is what I mean! And in case you forgot Godzilla, I'm a rogue werewolf with a death sentence hanging over my head!" Eyes hardening, Darious snarled a bit, "Watch what you call her mutt! You WILL talk to and treat her with the respect she deserves, or else!" He had expected a reaction but not one this violent. It was totally out of character for Marcus, who most days was so calm and unruffable that it was hard to tell if he was in a coma or not.

Standing up on Dani's lap, Mayhem puffed up and hissed a warning. Petting down his bristled back Dani leaned over and kissed him on the head then whispered, "It's OK Mayhem, he is very upset by this. Don't worry about it." Immediately the cat sat back down but stared over at Marcus, tail swishing purposefully.

Dejected, Marcus flopped down on the sofa, hands covering his face, breathing heavily.

Looking over at Darious, who shrugged, Dani then looked back at Marcus. "Marcus?"

Splitting his fingers he peered through them at her. "Are you going to kill me outright or take me to the werewolf council so they can torture out of me what I've told Darious and my master before him about the werewolves?"

Shaking her head, she smiled a bit. "Neither. Darious didn't sentence you to death; instead what he did was he got your death sentence lifted."

Lowering his hands Marcus gazed at her, not understanding. "What do you mean by that?"

Grinning a bit, still stroking down Mayhem's back softly she said, "First, the werewolf council WISHES I was an assassin for them but I'm not, despite what they threaten werewolves with. The only time I kill a werewolf is if the council goes through the she-devil council. Usually it isn't a single werewolf but one of the rogue clans. The only werewolves I've killed were either in self-defense or lycanthropes that have gone insane. That is all. And I've always done the killing quickly, they have suffered enough."

"You were the Shadow-chaser clan leader, you know she-devil law very well, am I right?"

Nodding, he looked at her quizzically. "As well as any werewolf I guess. What does that have to do with anything?"

Smiling a bit she said softly, "Think about it… In she-devil society when we take a mate everything he has automatically reverts to us. When Darious and I became mates everything he owns automatically became mine, including you. What werewolf out there is going to go after you since I now own you?"

Staring dumbfounded at her for a minute, he turned over in his mind what she said. Then a big grin crossed his face and lit up his eyes. "The death sentence is gone!"

Winking at him, she nodded. "That's right, it's gone. Just give it about six months though for the word to get around."

Stretching out, he cupped his hands behind his head and stared up at the ceiling, a silly grin splitting his face. "I am free from it at last!"

Rolling his eyes, Darious shook his head and then looked back at Dani, grinning a bit. "Is what you said true? That everything of mine is yours now?"

Shrugging she said, "Is that any different than your society? Men can't have any power in ours, so it's said to be that way even though most know it isn't."

Nodding he said, "OK I got it, matriarchal society."

Mayhem had sat patiently through Marcus' outburst and waited. When Dani was done talking he put a paw on her shoulder and looked into her eyes. "Lady Bosh?"

With those two words she could hear an undercurrent of stress and see in his eyes how upset he was. Holding him close and kissing him on the head again, she stroked his back softly. "What's wrong, Mayhem?"

Settling back down he allowed himself to be stroked, purring a bit. "When Leene and Ravish got mateded dey had lotsa peoples dere. Why couldn't da Mayhem come to yous and da beashties?"

Stroking down his back she kissed him between the ears. "Remember when we explained the ceremony with all the people wasn't the real mating?"

Nodding, he nuzzled her softly and purred a bit louder. "Yesh, I wemembers dat."

"There was no one there when Darious and I mated, Mayhem, no one but me and him. If there was going to be a big thing for SURE my Mayhem would be there with me."

Giving her a quizzical look he asked, "No ones but yous an' da beashtie wuz dere?"

Smiling, she shook her head. "No one but me and Darious. Honest." Looking over, she smiled at Darious then reached out and took his hand. She continued on but this time she was looking into Darious' eyes instead of down at Mayhem. "Sometimes it just happens like that, Mayhem. You just know it's right and when you are alone, it happens. I love Darious and when he asked me I accepted. Nothing more than that." Her voice had trailed off until it was quite soft and hard to hear, until at the end it was almost a whisper.

Gently, Darious squeezed her hand and stroked the back it with his thumb, smiling. He had expected pain when he heard the word love like always but this time there was no pain. As a matter of fact that odd warmth and peaceful feeling once again enveloped him.

Then very softly he asked, "Is that what you danced around earlier? Is that what you didn't want to say to me?"

Smiling a bit, she nodded. "Do you blame me? Saying something like that could have easily been twisted and used against me."

Leaning forward, absently stroking Mayhem's head, he kissed her softly then leaned back and smiled at her again. "Never my Kat, I couldn't do that to you."

Smiling back, she nodded. "I know that now, Darious."

Head swiveling back and forth, Mayhem watched the two, avid interest on his face. Then he looked over at Darious. "Why for hows comes you call da Lady Bosh Kat? Dat's not hers name!"

Smiling at her still, Darious petted the cat then said, "Because, that is the name I knew her under, Katrina, Kat. I guess to me she will always be Kat. My Kat." He finished softly, still looking into her eyes.

"Aww, ain't that sweet?" Marcus said, and then made loud retching noises.

Grinning, Darious swatted him playfully in the back of the head. "Behave, pooch."