A Healing Touch
by Leslie GS
Nick/Lacroix
Explicit sex
Category:  Challenge (James' Injury)


This is for James, on her bed of travail.  I hope you're 
feeling better soon.  Sorry, I couldn't work the mukluks in.
I hope you'll accept fur lined boots.

A Healing Touch  by Leslie GS
(LoosCanN@aol.com)

Nicholas looked up from his book, which had been strongly 
recommended by Lacroix, as the front door opened, a bit 
relieved.  The hand printed Greek letters were starting to 
twist in his vision.  A chill wind gusted through the room, 
rousing the drowsing fire before Lacroix shut the door, 
rather firmly, behind him. 

Taking in the other man's disheveled appearance, Nicholas 
exclaimed, "Good lord, Lacroix, what happened to you?"

The elder vampire, lips tightly compressed, eyed his protege 
with some annoyance before he responded, "That damned brute 
of a horse slipped on the ice and came down on top of me."

"Oh," Nicholas replied, a bit astonished, as Lacroix was 
quite the adroit horseman, "you couldn't kick free in time?"

"I was a bit ... distracted," Lacroix growled.

"Ah?"

"The wench was reaching for my ... purse."  An almost 
unwilling smirk slid across his features.

"The ... wench?" Nicholas queried, a mischievous glint 
appearing in his eye.

"The wench I had sitting in front of me on the horse."

"And she was reaching for your ... purse."

"Well, *somewhere* in the area just below my belt."

"I understand your ... distraction, in that case."  
Nicholas's openly amused smile slipped somewhat, as Lacroix 
stepped further into the room, a slight wince twitching his 
features.

"Are you hurt?" he asked, concerned for the first time that 
something might actually be amiss.

"No.  My fall was, fortunately, cushioned.  No go fortune 
comes without a measure of cost, however.  I came down in a 
... briar hedge," Lacroix replied, shrugging cautiously out 
of his woolen cloak and letting it fall to the floor.  "I 
seem to have picked up a few thorns."

"Where?" Nicholas asked, striding over to Lacroix, brows 
furrowed in sympathy.  Slivers of any woy plant in 
vampiric flesh felt like a caustic burn.

"In my ... back."

"Your ... back?"  Nicholas's lips quirked, as he struggled 
to restrain his amusement.

"My *back*," Lacroix growled insistently, a dangerous glint 
in his eye.

"Well, let me see to them, Lacroix.  I'll help you get your 
doublet and shirt off."

Before the elder vampire could protest, Nicholas quickly 
began undoing the points tying Lacroix's hose to his tunic,
then skinned the tunic over his head.  His under shirt soon 
followed.  The removal of both garments plucked free a 
number of the thorns caught in the fabric, but there were 
still a go two dozen barbs remaining in the man's pale, 
muscular back.  Lacroix caught his hose in one hand to 
prevent them from sliding down around his ankles.

"Come over by the fire.  I can see a bit better there."  
Nicholas pulled Lacroix over to the hearth, turning him so 
that the ruddy firelight brought a misleading warm tint to 
the vampire's marble smooth skin.

The dark heads of the brambles were easy to spot, and 
Nicholas grasped one between his fingernails and deftly 
pulled it out.  He blinked, startled.  The thorn was easily 
an inch long.  He tossed it into the fire and moved quickly 
on to the next.  Lacroix sto unflinching as he probed at 
his back.  The tantalizing scent of the man's blo tickled 
Nicholas's nostrils and he found himself leaning forward 
to place his lips on the small, closing wound, the tip of his 
tongue darting out to taste.

"What are you doing, Nicholas?" Lacroix queried, tone 
somewhat startled.

"Kissing it better," he responded lightly, though the heady 
power of his master's blo sent a pulse of energy through 
his by, coming to center itself in his groin.  He deftly 
plucked another thorn from Lacroix's flesh, flicking it into 
the fire, before his lips pressed against the tiny red 
droplet that formed on the white skin.  He felt his master's 
sudden little intake of breath under his mouth and smiled.

"Is that any better?" he murmured, breath ghosting across 
Lacroix's skin.  "Should I continue?"

The man glanced at him from the corner of one eye.  "Much 
better.  Please do.  You have quite the ... healing touch."

Smiling, Nicholas continued to pluck the cruel thorns from 
his master's flesh, sucking gently at each wound before it 
closed.  The man's growing arousal became a pulsing pressure 
in his mind.  He eased the last briar from Lacroix's lower 
back, kneeling to reach it better.  He slid his hands around 
the man's waist, deftly jerking the top of his hose from his 
fingers, then, as they slid down Lacroix's legs, finding the 
tie to his under garments.

"Any under here?"

"Perhaps a few," admitted Lacroix.  He hunched forward a bit 
as Nicholas eased the silk drawers over his erection, then 
sto, eyes closed, as the boy extracted the last few briars 
from his upper buttocks.  Nicholas's hands wandered up and 
down his flanks as he kissed and tongued the quickly healing 
wounds.  He sighed with relief as the last one left his 
flesh, then gasped as Nicholas slid a hand around to cup his 
genitals.  He grasped the boy's wrist and pulled him around 
to stand in front of him.

"Thank you," he said, gazing into eyes that flickered with a 
golden tint that matched his own.  "You have a ... soothing 
touch."

"Strange," drawled Nicholas.  "You don't appear ... 
soothed."  He drew his free hand lightly up Lacroix's cock.  
He pushed the man back to sit in one of the chairs facing 
the fire.  Smiling, Lacroix complied, sitting quietly as 
Nicholas, kneeling, stripped off his fur lined boots, 
tossing them in a corner, to be followed quickly by his hose 
and drawers.  Pushing himself between Lacroix's knees, 
Nicholas took the man's face between his hands and kissed 
him.  Lightly at first, then with more heat, he pressed his 
tongue against Lacroix's lips, forcing them open.  Nicholas 
flicked his tongue tip over Lacroix's teeth, pleased to feel 
the man jerk in reaction.

Lacroix pushed him back, then sto, pulling Nicholas to his 
own feet, and with quick fingers, undressed him between 
butterfly light kisses on his face, neck, shoulders, chest,
nipples.  Nicholas toed himself out of his hose and house 
slippers, then Lacroix pulled him down to the thick Persian 
carpet set before the hearth.  Caught in the man's embrace, 
he savored the long, hard muscled length of his master's 
by against his.  Then Lacroix began his light kisses 
again, working his way down Nicholas's by, lingering a 
time on the tight little buds of his nipples, fingers 
trailing over his abdomen and thighs.

Finally he set a kiss on the tip of Nicholas's impatient 
cock, eliciting a gasp and then a sigh of delight as his 
cool, full lips opened, engulfing the swollen glans.  
Lacroix, mouth still on Nicholas, swung himself around, to 
bring his hips near the younger vampire's head.  Eagerly, 
Nicholas propped himself up on one elbow, and took Lacroix 
up in his mouth.  They eased closer to one another, lying on 
their sides, one's actions mirrored and elaborated on by the 
other.

Soon though, Lacroix, unable to resist asserting himself, 
rolled Nicholas onto his back, thrusting into his mouth, as 
his own lips and tongue worked up and down the boy's cock.  
He smiled at Nicholas's growls of combined annoyance and 
arousal as, with his hips straining upward to plunge himself 
deeper into his master's teasing mouth, he attempted to tip 
Lacroix back onto his side.  After a few moments, Lacroix 
allowed it, surprising Nicholas as he rolled all the way 
over onto his own back, carrying the boy so he was now on 
top.  Nicholas recovered from his startlement quickly, 
however, pushing himself deeply between Lacroix's willing 
lips.

Lacroix took him in avidly, sucking hard, this symbolic 
consumption of his creation, his son, intensely arousing.  
He brought his hands around Nicholas's thighs on either side 
of his ears to stroke the velvety scrotum, to run fingers 
lightly around the sensitive ring of muscles between his 
buttocks.  Nicholas's lust battered against his mind and he 
found himself shuddering uncontrollably.  The boy's wild 
thrusts brought him again and again against Lacroix's 
descended fangs, and the burning intensity of Nicholas's 
blo set fire to his cold heart.  Gasping, he rolled them 
back onto their sides again, pulling away from the boy's 
cock.  Nicholas, snarling and golden eyed, glared angrily at 
him, furious at his interrupted drive to a climax.  Reveling 
in his rage, in his son's hot passions, Lacroix laughed 
outright.

"Bite me, Nicholas," he demanded, opening up his thighs.  
"Bite me here."  Smiling wickedly, the boy opened his mouth 
wide and slid the points of his fangs across the tender skin 
of Lacroix's inner thigh.

"Here?" he growled.

"Yes, yes," Lacroix moaned.  He pushed Nicholas's legs 
roughly apart and set his lips against the hard muscled 
flesh.  He took up the boy's penis in a deft, light fingered 
hand, skimming rapidly up and down the velvety skin.  His 
tongue drew cool, tight circles over Nicholas's 
spasmically jerking thigh.

Lacroix grunted as Nicholas's hard hand closed roughly over 
his cock.  After three centuries, he'd have thought the boy 
would have learned a little finesse.  But the younger 
vampire's insistent tugging and the teasing tips of his 
lust-sharpened teeth soon brought him to the brink.  He 
opened his own mouth and sank his aching fangs into 
Nicholas's flesh.  The blo blazed in him, as close to 
sunlight as he dared come, searing him with an agonizing 
rapture.  The boy cried out, then bit fiercely into 
Lacroix's thigh.  The piercing pleasure/pain slashed up his 
spine and his orgasm burst over him.  Nicholas, screaming, 
came into his hand.  He had one quick impression of his 
fingers, slick with semen, sliding down then up the boy's 
iron hard shaft, before he was overwhelmed by his lover's 
explosion of bliss.  Mingled with his own, it was too much, 
he was defeated, overcome, and groaning, he yielded to 
mindless ecstasy.

He arrived to himself again, Nicholas's head snuggled 
against his shoulder, with Janette standing over them where 
they lay on the hearth rug.

"Mon dieu, Lacroix, in the front room now.  I hope you 
haven't ruined my carpet."  She swung her cape off her 
shoulders, flicking the droplets of melting snow onto the 
two wastrels sprawled on her best Persian rug.

"He started it," the man drawled, stretching out one languid 
arm to her.  "Come, don't stop with your cloak.  Continue."
Nicholas chuckled, when after a small moue of annoyance, 
Janette smiled impishly and began adding her garments to 
theirs already scattered across the floor.

The End (Sort of)