Arrow Inferno
Chapter 40: Stanley ‘STAN’ Norris vs. Ian ‘WILL’ Williams ~ Screwed!

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"I didn't catch that, honey." Gaia sat up. "Who did you bite?"

"Well, if you could just get off that dick for a second, maybe you can concentrate on what I'm saying," Stan growled. "I bit Will."

"Oh, fuck! You mean you've turned him?" The sexy vampire jumped out of bed and began to pull on her clothes.

"I didn't get that far. But he's hurt. Need help."

"I'll be right there." Gaia hung up and gasped as hands pulled her back onto the bed from behind. "Kwame, stop." She laughed softly, turning to plant a kiss on the very naked vampire in the bed. "Gotta go."

"The deal was to stay in this bed till noon," he murmured against her lips. "Where do you think you're going."

"Gotta go help Stan." Gaia got out of bed. "I think there's an issue with Will."

"Will?" Kwame sat up. "I hope he's alright." He rubbed his eyes.

"Just a bite that needs to heal that's all."

"Stan bit him?" Kwame's eyes widened in surprise.

"I'm surprised too. I don't know how it happened. Unless... Oh shit!" Gaia went still. It was almost as if a light bulb had gone off in her head. "They must have been fucking. That's the only way Stan would have lost control. That insistent fool!" She grabbed her shoes.

"Who? Stan?"

"No, Will." Gaia sighed. "I know Stan would never have initiated a fuck. It was all Will."

"You think so?"

"I know so. I've told you Stan has been keeping everything PG13 so far to Will's frustration, remember? Will must have gone full throttle to get Stan to cave. Shit!"

"Well fuck!" Kwame chuckle. "I hope this has got nothing to do with me pushing him a thought to have fun."

"What?" Gaia's head snapped back to look at Kwame.

"At the party...I gave him a slight compul..."

"You what!" Gaia screeched, jumping back onto the bed with wild eyes. "Who the fuck asked you to compel him? What did you say? Oh my god, Stan is going to kill you. He hates..."

"Hey, relax." Kwame reached out to cup Gaia's face. "It wasn't even a full-blown compulsion, Gaia. All I did was tell him to forget about his worries for the night and have fun. That's all."

"So that's why he began to...is that all you said? Think!"

"That was pretty much all I said."

"Dammit, Kwame! I told you to leave him alone." Gaia groaned.

"I know." Kwame sighed. "But having fun never hurt anyone."

"You're right. It's just that for some reason, Stan hates the idea of compelling Will in any way."

"I'm sorry but that small push was for him to have fun at the party and nothing else."

"Ever heard of proximate cause?" Gaia was done dressing up. She grabbed her phone and purse. "I've wasted enough time as it is. I won't waste any more by getting on a ride. See you later." She leaned in to give Kwame a quick kiss. Then she disappeared.

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Stan paced. He'd tidied up the room as best as he could and gotten rid of the bloody sheets. The bleeding had thankfully stopped so there were no traces of blood. Better not tempt Gaia, he thought. When his phone rang, he started for the door before it even got to his ear.

"Gaia."

"I'm at the door."

"Coming."

Stan opened the door to let Gaia in and then shut it after her.

"What happened."

"Sex happened." Stan combed his fingers through his hair, a clear sign of agitation.

"Must have been some good sex if you actually ended up biting him," she drawled.

"Get serious," Stan growled. "I didn't bite him enough to turn him but I broke the skin and he's bound to see the wound when he wakes up."

"You mean he slept through a bite?"

"He was very much awake. Very shocked and confused. I couldn't explain why I bit him. I didn't know what to say. I panicked..." "What the fuck did you do, Stan?" Gaia breathed.

"Pressure point. I knocked him out."

"Great. Just great. Now I have to compel..."

"No," Stan growled. "I've told you, no compulsion." Stan's eyes turned amber briefly. His wolf was very close.

"Woofy actually has the nerve to show attitude after biting the poor guy?" Gaia sneered. "Why did he bite him in the first place?"

"It's not his fault," Stan said quietly. "He's a beast, Gaia. He acts like how he's supposed to. His instinct is to turn and mark his mate. Wanting to do that only makes him normal. All those times he didn't bite him, I talked him out of it...which went against what he is."

"And this time?"

"I wasn't there. I was stupidly off on some pleasure cloud. The time was perfect for a bite. He was only doing the right thing. If I'd been there, I'd have talked him out of it as usual. But I wasn't. He did what he had to do. This is not on him. I take the blame."

Gaia let out a sigh. "You're not the only one to blame. Kwame compelled Will at the...No Stan, please hear me out." She said desperately when Stan's eyes turned amber and his claws began to elongate. "Calm down." "Speak. Fast!" That voice wasn't human.

"Calm down first." The vampire stared Stan down. "If I'm here to help your mate, you need to show me some respect by allowing me to speak without a murderous beast breathing down my fucking neck. Calm the fuck down!" With a growl, Stan pushed his wolf down and attained his human features again. "Speak."

"Better. He didn't like how Will looked down and all that so he compelled him...not a full compulsion, by the way, to have fun and forget about his worries till morning. That's all. We all saw how Will had fun. There was nothing wrong with that. I'm only saying he might have taken that fun a bit far with you."

"He kept saying he wanted to do stuff." Stan's voice was low but throbbed with anger. Things that he'd been dying to do for some time."

"Things like..."

"Kiss me where he wouldn't under normal circumstances, take a shower with me, have sex with me... He's been wanting...no, the word he used was dying. He's been dying to do a lot of shit but got the confidence to do all that tonight. I'm pretty sure your boyfriend went beyond mere fun."

Even before Stan finished speaking, Gaia was dialing Kwame. "Hey, did you tell Will to try stuff that he's been dying to try?"

"What?" Kwame sounded a bit confused. Then, "Oh, yes. I did say tonight was the night to do whatever he's been dying to do. But Gaia, I meant the party. It was not even a full-blown compul..."

"For fuck's sake, Kwame." Gaia cut Kwame off and then hung up. "He did tell him to do whatever he's been dying to do." She told Stan. "But not with any bad intentions. It was all directed at having fun at the party. It's like telling someone to go crazy and have mad fun. I'm so sorry, Stan."

"So the compulsion made him do what he did."