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[allgotrabies]

Hey, it's Annie, you know what to do.

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[loveisall]

"Well, we have people from all over time and space here. Some people swim in full bathing suits. Some people swim in nothing," he points out. "Have you ever seen what they wore in the American 1920s to the beach? You would feel quite out of place."

He leans back. "Humans are so strange with their ideas of modesty."

[allgotrabies]

She grimaces. "They're so afraid of their bodies. I turned lots of surfers, you know, but also a lot of people who'd lost everything. And the thing I always saw was when they woke up wolves it was like they finally realized how amazing it is to have muscle and bone and soul. Is it like that for vampires?"

[loveisall]

"There is a reason we can newly turned vampires newborns. They wake up crazed. Hungry. Aggressive. They'll attack the first thing they find, if you don't stop them. They suddenly have new powers, new senses, new everything. You have to teach them how to live and exist in a new way," he explains. "Without a soul."

[allgotrabies]

She nods. "New wolves are 'pups', same reason. Except it's not really...what's the word? Like, it's more play than serious attacking, but they just don't know how strong they are. So the older wolves have to teach them how to be careful and be in control."

And, with a more serious kiss, "You have a good soul." Don't even try to argue, Godric.

[loveisall]

He doesn't argue. Not after that kiss and after her tone. He knows better than that.

"Control is the first thing they need to learn, yes. Vampires, I mean. Some of them never learn it. There's no play with them. Only hunting."

[allgotrabies]

"I've never seen a wolf who didn't learn to curb it. But I know there are some--but they die fast. Get shot, or the pack kills them to protect everyone else." Annie, it goes without saying, would never kill a packmate no matter how much trouble they were.

"Eric learned it, though, right? I mean, he didn't kill me when he found out I was a wolf, and that seems like pretty good control."

[loveisall]

"Eric was difficult," he admits. "He was headstrong, but our bond was strong, right from the start. He listened to me, learned from me. It helped that there was no pack. There were no people, no distractions. It was simply us."

[allgotrabies]

"What's it like when you do learn control? Do you just mellow out or do you still want to run around?" A soft laugh. "I always surfed a lot but after I had to learn not to chase cars and stuff," does she mean that literally? impossible to tell. "I surfed a lot so I wouldn't get stir crazy."

[loveisall]

There's a short laugh at the image of her chasing cars because, of course.

"No," he says softly. "There is always the urge. Even now, I want to chase. Tear. Hunt." He lowers his voice, as if there was someone else in the room. "It is something that I do behind closed doors with people I trust and who trust me in return. But control is simply understanding that everything I do is a choice. And that I am in control enough to make a choice."

[allgotrabies]

"I never thought of it that way." She tends to think in vivid, riotous emotions rather than words. Everything in her world is a sensation rather than a sentence.

"But that's how it really is, huh? Having all those thoughts and wants, and knowing when to get them. And when to not. I think I've learned more about that since knowing you than I did my whole life before."

[loveisall]

"I have, my entire life, focused on control. Whether it was a lack of it or, now, a choice to keep it." He looks up. "But losing control is - well, we cannot deny ourselves that. Vampires. Werewolves. That is a part of who we are. We must find appropriate outlets for it."

He laughs. "Have I ever told you about the first time Archer and I slept together?" he wonders. Godric doesn't tend to kiss and tell about Archer, but he has no secrets with Annie.

[allgotrabies]

"No you didn't!" And she's delighted that he trusts her enough to tell now. "What happened?"

[loveisall]

He looks up. "We had kissed, nothing more. I was trusting him to take the lead, as he had more reservations than me." For reasons he won't get into.

"But I came upon him in the Enclosure once, fighting a dragon." He knows how it sounds. "But Annie, he was glorious. Beautiful. It was - " He lets out a breath. "I had never seen anything like it. We kissed, but there was a difference to it. His walls were down. He had been in control but also - not. I went to his room and - " He shrugs, deciding that he doesn't actually need to go into details.

Except -

"He heals very quickly, which works to our advantage."

[allgotrabies]

It's so rare Godric talks this way about the inherent violence in him, as something he can enjoy living with in the right moments, and she's beaming.

"Okay but what kind of healing did he have to do?"

[loveisall]

He gives her a quick look. A coy little smile.

"More than Quentin does. With Archer, there's blood. There's always blood." He reaches over, trailing a hand along her neck. "There, to take." Along her shoulders. "There, to make it hurt."

He playfully runs his hand down her sides, tickling her lightly again. "And that's all you get to know about that, nosy pup."

[allgotrabies]

She laughs. "Look at you, getting crazy! I didn't know old men played dirty like that."

[loveisall]

He pretends to look offended. "What did you think I did, Annie? Through a sheet with a hole?"

[allgotrabies]

Laughing so hard she's almost crying, just picturing that.

"N-no, of course-" she can't breathe, Godric.

[loveisall]

He just watches her. Waits.

"Then what would you expect? Go on. I want to know. Considering you have first hand experience."

[allgotrabies]

"Well! I don't know Archers life! Maybe he's had a hip replaced!"

She climbs into his lap, her eyes still dancing, but for real: "He's lucky to have you. I think he was probably alone for a long time. Really alone not just physically alone. I'm glad you guys get to do all the kinky things."

[loveisall]

Godric lets her into his lap, hands on her hips. "Annie," he sighs. "I have been alive for far too long to not enjoy myself when it happens."

He pulls her close, wrapping his arms around her.

"And you should have an outlet, too. Not, necessarily in the same way, but I am glad that you are changing again."

[allgotrabies]

"Bobo is gone,"she sighs, head on his shoulder. "I swear to God my next barge stay needs to be somewhere with more straight guys. This place is nice, I don't hate being here, but a normal cruise would have me having more anonymous sex in closets."

[loveisall]

He snorts, pulling her closer, drawing her into a kiss. "Closets. You have a space here and a space in your old cabin. Why a closet?"

[allgotrabies]

"He liked public sex,"she laughs, and because her head is hurting still she sinks down so her head is on his lap. "So I figure that would've been a good compromise."

She nudges his hand with her head; more pets, please. "What's Quentin like?"

[loveisall]

He gently brushes his hand through her hair, not wanting to make her pain worse.

"Q?" He smiles fondly. "He likes being hunted."

He leans back, watching the ceiling. "Letting me be a predator. But we talk. There's friendship above all. Attraction, yes. But friendship."