Danse Macabre

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I ENDED UP sitting, facing Nathaniel, him inside me. I wrapped my legs around his waist with him buried as deep inside me as he could go. It reminded me of earlier with London, so intimate a lovemaking. But staring into Nathaniel's eyes from inches away, with his body inside mine, my hips riding him, it was more. London had had to hold my hair, force me to stare into his face. I wanted to stare into Nathaniel's face, wanted to watch his moods swim across his face. Wanted to watch him watch me.

Jason's hands slid down my back, cupped my buttocks. They'd decided to change places when Jason had mentioned that he'd never gone with me orally. Intercourse, yes, but not oral sex. Nathaniel had told him, «You have to feel her do this. She's amazing.»

«I've had foreplay from her.»

«That was when she was trying to be good, it's better when she's trying to be bad.»

«Better than Raina?»

Nathaniel had nodded.

A look of almost pain had crossed Jason's face, and he'd said, «Can I change my order, please?»

So we'd changed the order.

Without a lot of foreplay I didn't normally go in this position, but there'd been foreplay. Small G-spot orgasm always makes intercourse more fun. Big G-spot orgasm means you're done for the night, as in Stick a fork in me, honey, I'm done. Requiem had done just enough, and not too much, so that my body was tighter than normal, but still wet, still spasming with aftershocks. Every thrust of Nathaniel's body brought tiny spurts of pleasure, made me move my hips against his body, and drive him deeper inside me.

Jason licked a cool, wet line up my spine. It made me shiver, and lean a little back into his hands. Nathaniel kissed me, hard and completely, drowning his tongue inside my mouth, until I had to relax my mouth wide. He drove his body inside me, as if he were imitating himself at both openings.

It brought me screaming, the orgasm trying to bow my spine, tear my mouth off his, but his hand at the back of my head kept our mouths pressed together.

Jason bit my back, and it made me scream more. Nathaniel let go of my hair, and let my upper body fall back into Jason's arms. «I didn't feel her feed.»

«She didn't feed.»

Nathaniel's body started finding a new rhythm from the slightly different angle. My breathing started to change almost instantly. I kept my legs around Nathaniel's waist, his hands supporting most of my weight. «Move back,» he told Jason. Jason did, and my body bowed backward, my hands seeking his body.

I was suddenly staring, upside down, at a very intimate part of Jason's anatomy. Nathaniel's hands were strong and firm at the small of my back. He gave me the foundation I needed to stretch off into space, and reach for the other man. I wrapped my hand around him, tight and firm. He made a small noise for me. I wanted him to make more.

Nathaniel's body just kept going inside me, over and over, deep, and smooth. I felt the beginnings of another orgasm building. I wanted Jason inside my mouth before that happened. I wanted to feed on them both. Nathaniel had put a condom on before being inside me, but Jason would slip naked between my lips. I could suck him clean, and naked, and I wanted it. In that moment the ardeur, my own special hunger, might not have cared whose body I was playing with. I needed to feed.

Jason wasn't quite at the angle I needed, and I said, «Please, please.» He used his own hand to help guide himself between my lips. My hands wrapped around his thighs and ass. I started to make love to him with my mouth. To suck, lick, and writhe my mouth, my tongue, and ever so lightly my teeth, around the smooth muscled length of him. I moved my mouth, strained my throat to meet each thrust.

I lost myself in the sensations at my mouth, and Nathaniel reminded me, hard and fast, that I had two men to satisfy. I fought to keep both rhythms going: my hips writhing to meet Nathaniel's thrusts, and my mouth and throat to meet Jason's.

Jason's hands found my upper back, and he helped support me with one hand, while his other hand found something to hold on to. Their hands were like a safety net, holding me, supporting me, helping me fuck them.

«Are you close?» Jason asked, and his voice sounded strained.

For a moment I thought he was talking to me, but his body kept me from answering. Nathaniel said, «I can be.»

«Either she has to slow down, or I'm going to go.»

Nathaniel's hands tightened at the small of my back, and he sat up higher, and changed the angle of my hips at the same time. It was like he'd been waiting to do it. It forced my legs higher up his back, put my pelvis at a more than forty-degree angle. His next thrust made me scream around Jason's body.

«God, Nathaniel, stop that, or I'm…»

He thrust two, three times, with every word. «Just… a… little… more!» And he brought me, screaming, screaming with Jason's body thrusting inside me, so that I screamed around him. My nails dug into his body. Jason thrust one last time as deep and hard as he could down my throat, and I felt him go, felt it hot but too far down to be thick. I got only the heat, and the spasming of him inside my throat. Nathaniel thrust deep and hard between my legs, a heartbeat later. It made me scream as I was trying to swallow Jason down. It made me have to suck harder or choke.

Jason cried out, his body spasming, his nails digging into my back where he held me. He screamed my name, and the ardeur finally fed. I fed. I drank them both down, and the rush of energy tightened our bodies, made us all cry out. Nathaniel thrust inside me again, brought me again. Jason spasmed deep inside my throat again; I felt him spill inside me. A moment before I'd been fighting not to choke or throw up, and now the ardeur rode me, and I drank him down as if he were exactly what I wanted. I drank them both down; everywhere our skin touched I got small sips, but down my throat, and between my legs, that was food. It was exactly what I needed, exactly the way I needed it. Maybe the feeding would last longer if I fed on men who weren't tied to us metaphysically, but I didn't love anyone who wasn't tied to us. So I had to feed more often, so what?

We ended on the floor of the limo, with Jason on the bottom, me in the middle, and Nathaniel on top of me, as if the last orgasm had pulled us all to the floor.

«Wow,» Jason said.

«Yeah,» I said.

Nathaniel laughed, low and a little unsteady. «I love you, Anita,» he said.

«I love you, too,» I said. I could feel Jason's heart thudding against my back.

«I feel left out,» he said, from underneath me.

Nathaniel didn't so much raise his head, as move his eyes, to look at the other man. «I love you, too, or I wouldn't enjoy sharing her with you this much.»

I managed to roll my head back enough to glimpse Jason's face. «I love you, Jason, you are our very dear friend.»

«I thought I was just everyone's fuck buddy.»

I cuddled against the front of his body. Nathaniel crawled up until he managed to wedge himself around us both. «You're the best friend I've ever had.»

Jason smiled at us both, his eyes full of more emotion than I think he knew what to do with. He managed a version of his usual grin. «And I thought the most interesting thing I'd ever do with a best friend was watch football.»

Nathaniel smiled at him. «We can if you want, but you'll have to explain the rules to me.»

«I am not watching football,» I said.

«I hate football, let's just keep fucking,» Jason said.

«Not tonight,» I said.

«We need to get inside,» he said.

«Whoever can move, stand up first and get dressed,» I said.

He laughed, hugged me, and laid his head against Nathaniel's. «God I love my friends, but if you guys can fall to one side, I think I can stand.»

«I'll have to work on that,» I said.

«What?» he asked.

«You've recovered too quickly. I must have done something wrong.»

The laughter faded around the edges, and there was suddenly a very serious look on his face. «You did everything right. You were wonderful.»

«As good as the person who gave you the teeth mark hickey on your neck?»

He grinned, as he started trying to wriggle out of the pile. «Better actually, but if you tell her I said so, I'll deny it.»

«Tell me who I'm supposed to be nice to, and I will.»

He was opening a box of moist towelettes. Wiping a little of the sweat, and other things, off his body, he said, «Have you met all of the Cape Codders?»

«Samuel and his family, yeah.»

Jason shook his head. «Not the family, the entourage.»

«There was a man and woman with them.»

«Her name is Perdita. Perdy.» He stuffed the towelettes into an empty garbage bag, apparently there for the purpose. «Jean-Claude wanted to know some of what you could expect when you fuck Sampson.»

«He sent you to fuck one of the mermaids so I'd be forewarned?»

Nathaniel got up slowly. Jason tossed him the box of towelettes, and dragged the plastic off our clothes. Hadn't really needed the plastic. We hadn't been that messy.

«He didn't send me to fuck her, just to find out what the transformation of a mermaid, and maybe male siren, could entail.» He grinned at me. «Jean-Claude left it to me to decide how to get that information.»

I'd forgotten that I'd agreed to try to bring Sampson's powers. So much had been happening; it was hard to keep track. It was always especially hard to keep track of things that made me uncomfortable. Having agreed to have sex with Sampson qualified.

«If the bite is a sample, ouch.»

«It wasn't all ouch. I'll give you a full report after we've survived the ballet.»

We got cleaned up as best we could. An emergency makeup kit for touch-ups had been in the limo. I'd thought maybe I'd smear my lipstick. It was a little more extensive than that, but we managed.

We were dressed, and almost as fresh as when we started the evening. Requiem had gone to report to Jean-Claude, or maybe he just hadn't wanted to watch. Nathaniel and Jason escorted me back inside. Lisandro was rear guard. Claudia and Truth met us at the Fox club entrance.

Underneath those stoic bodyguard faces I saw worry. But I didn't need their faces to tell me; I could feel it. It wasn't Marmee Noir, or Belle Morte. It was the vampires we'd invited to town. I wasn't sure what they were doing, but whatever it was, it was powerful.

Jason and Nathaniel shivered on either side of me. «What the hell are they doing up there?» Jason whispered.

«I don't know,» I said, «but we're going to find out.» I started up the stairs on Nathaniel's arm, with Jason's hand in mine. Normally, I'd have tried not to hold on to too many men at once in public, but the hell with it. One, we all needed the comfort. Two, my reputation couldn't get any more trashed than it already was.