Flash Fiction Fridays Part 4

This was originally a one shot, then two, three, and now it's going to be at least 5. I'm going to revise this and make it into a longer piece because I like the characters but need to expand it. Next week (which will be posted on time) will probably be the last part for now anyway.

For this week me, Night Tempest, Elaina M Roberts, Tempest Wolf used three of the following items in our story:

christmas ornament
mushroom
light bulb
scissors
lighthouse
bowie knife
ivy
broom
rocket
spool of thread
sticker book
cowboy hat
pine cone
tea pot
snow globe
necktie
chalk
a locket


Scooping him into his arms, Richard placed Quinn on the bed sandwiched between him and Liam. 

"Remember what I told you. Feel your power.” Quinn's arms were forced firmly behind his back as he lay chest to chest Liam. His head was in a fog as tried to make sense of Richard’s comment.

Richard held his arms locked tightly while snaking Quinn’s underwear down with his free hand.

"Wait" was all he could manage. Every touch resonating with his body like words to a spell. Trying to shake the power from his mind before he was lulled into submission. He tested the flesh restraints around his arms but Richard’s leverage gave him the advantage. 

"You can do this Liam." The voice coming from Richard was no longer human.  

With Quinn’s fabric barrier gone, Richard pushed even harder behind him crushing his pelvis into Liam’s while an erection threatened his entrance. 

"It's no different than you've practiced." 

Either direction he moved, Quinn could feel hardness pressing into his sensitive flesh. Legs intertwined with his spreading them further apart. Liam guided his shaking hands over his slender hips. Richard nipped the at Quinn's collar inviting Liam to taste. Liam mimicked his actions leaving a pink bite mark. Quinn was out of his mind. He felt Liam's power engulfing them. Liam's touches became more intense as his power latched onto Quinn's passion. 

Startled awake, he hadn’t realized he’d drifted off. His body shaking, the dream left him unnerved. He’d had fantasies before but this was different. He wasn’t sure if it was repressed desires or an omen but this made up his mind for him. He mapped out the mystery address on his phone. Still in his work clothes, he loosened his necktie. Throwing it across the room landing on the snow globe Liam’s grandmother had bought him last Christmas. The settled flakes glittered at the bottom of his winter wonderland. He’d meant to call her earlier but gotten distracted. All these small instances he took for granted suddenly didn’t seem like coincidence anymore. He need her to calm his nerves and set him straight before he took off into god knows what.

“ Hi Nana” 
Her voice always had a way of making him feel like a little child again. 

“Quinn? What’s wrong kitten?” Quinn could have been a 6’5 burly lumberjack and he’d still be kitten.

“Have you talked to Liam lately?” he took the steps to his front door grabbing his keys off the nearby coffee table.

“Just this morning actually. Said he was going out of town but planned to come see me when he got back. Why? What’s wrong?”

“You know Liam and I have been trying to be friends.” he heard the sound of acknowledgment. He could see her nodding her head on the other side. “Well he’s avoiding me and I’m pretty sure he hates me.” 

“Oh now that’s not possible. Only thing Lili loves more than you is my mac and cheese.”

Quinn sighed giving his surrogate grandmother a tearful smile she couldn’t see. “He told me some things. Personal things but I think I blew it.”

Quinn could feel her warmth through the phone. He wanted to run and snuggle into her arms. She was the only thing that felt safe right now. He started the ignition focusing on Nana to keep him anchored to the world. “Has Liam ever talked to you about stuff like what kind of person he thinks he is?”

“Not sure what you mean. What did Lili tell you?” her tone changing from comforting to concerned. 

“He doesn’t think he’s normal. Whatever that is. I know his mom had some problems.” Quinn instantly regretted mentioning his mother. That had to be a sore spot for her. “I’m sorry I don’t mean to...”

“First they said my Lizzy was suffering from an imbalance due to her pregnancy. Then they said it was postpartum. Then it might be schizophrenia. Something was wrong but it wasn’t any one of them.” she clipped. 

“You don’t think she was cra...imbalanced?” he corrected.

“My daughter was fine until her pregnancy. I know Lizzy must have seemed crazy but I also know there’s things in this life we can’t explain kitten.” her voice was almost a whisper “ Things in our own kin and we don’t even know it.”

“You believed her then?” He wrecked his mind for reason not to. He had a million good ones but they didn’t feel right. Quinn knew they were on the same page and this was the reassurance he needed to believe in the unbelievable. 

“It’s hard seeing the ones you love suffer and you can’t do a damn thing to help. I may not know what my grandson is but I know who he is. He’s got a big heart and he’s a good man. He just needs to feel it.”

Quinn rubbed his face trying to massage a good idea into his mind before they came face to face. “I want to talk to him.”

“So talk to him. And after you do send him my way.”

“Yes Nana. Love you.” he flexed his fingers around the wheel. At least he had sometime to think about what he was going to say.

Liam spent the day with Richard explaining how this festival would go watching Faye run around directing everyone as only she could. Evening approached and Richard hadn't mentioned sleeping arrangements. He wasn't big on camping and hoped one of those cabins had his name on it.

“What I miss?” Faye ran back to them in a huff. If it was possible she was more interested in Liam’s development than he was. 

“Nothing major. Richard was telling me about your traditions...”

“Our traditions.” she corrected.

“Right. Still getting use to that.”  hoping she didn't take it as a slight. 

“That’s ok dear. One life altering revelation at a time.” 

Richard flashed the buzzing phone pulled from his pocket. “Faye my darling why don’t you show Liam around some more and make nice while I take this.”

“I can make nice.” Faye jumped like her daddy just handed her a brand new toy. Taking Liam by the hand she trotted off into the festivities being set up.

“Not that nice!” Richard shouted losing them in the crowd. 

Being alone with her was awkward though she never seemed out of place. Her expression was cheerful and relaxed as if she was strolling the grassy path with an old friend. The smell of burning wood permeated the air. Most looked like hippy farmers carrying over bushels of fruits, flowers, wood. Clusters of mushrooms grew at along the base of the wooden skyscrapers. The lanterns that were strung through the branches flickered replacing the sunlight in the dust sky. It reminded him of when his grandmother use to take him to the street carnivals.  

"You said you didn't know anything about your family?" Faye questioned.

"Nope. Never met my father and my mother wasn’t much help with this."

"Did you ever get a name by chance?" 
Liam shook his head. Biting her lip in thought, she hated when her kind abandoned their own. If she ever got wind of who he was there would be hell to pay. Liam caught a flash of something within her so quick he wasn't sure it happened at all. 

"You ok?" he asked genuinely concern. 

"Yes dear" she flashed her smile instantly reverting back to the sweet little 
girl. 

"So what about you? You seem nice but." Liam wasn’t sure how to finish that sentence without insulting her.

“But what doll?" 
He stuttered looking for an answer only causing Faye to giggle more. 

"Oh sweetie you’re so cute I can’t stand it” pinching his cheeks. “As Richard mentioned I'm a succubus. Been around for oh... I lose track of time." throwing her hands up.

"So you and Richard are friends? Or?" 

Laughing she pondered for a moment. "Hmm friends yes that’s a good description. I've always been fond of Richard. His mother on the other hand."

"What wrong with her?"

"We took a little impromptu trip" closing her thumb and pointer together "and she got all upset.” 

"You mean you kidnapped him." 

"Kidnapped implies he was a child or unwilling. Neither if which were true.” Faye placed her hands on her hips. “ He was technically legal and he loved it. We spent months traveling the world. Greece, Venice, Sahara, Morocco.”  Faye’s eyes were focused but not on anything in this time. Liam could tell she was in her own world. In that moment he wished he could see what she saw. 

“Of course when we got back. Valla had a fit. Forbid me from seeing him. Forbid ME! As if she has the authority to make demands of me!" Liam thought he detected a slight accent but couldn't place it.  Faye lowered her voice settling back down. "Nonetheless out of respect for him and his mother I behave.” Liam wondered if demons could fall in love. The longing he saw in her answered his unspoken question.

"He means a lot doesn't he?"

"You know you couldn't have found anyone better than Richard. He's a friend you want to keep around sweetie." ignoring the question.

"Yeah he's amazing.”

“Hello beautiful it’s been too long.” A large man stopped in front of them with only a pair a muddy brown fatigues. He carried blocks of wood on his shoulders leaving his broad chest open for display. Faye stood on her tip toes as the man bent to receive the quick peck.

“I was headed over but I caught wind of you. Who’s your friend?”

“Liam this is Franny.” Faye maneuvered to his side holding her hands up to him like some game show host raffling off a prize.

“Francis” the large gentleman corrected with amusement. 

“Nice to meet you.”

“You know Franny, Liam is new to all this.”

“Is he now.” Francis eyed him.
Liam didn’t like the hunger in his eyes. The guy was enough to take his breath but his ultimate goal hadn’t changed. If he could control this it meant a real chance at a life with Quinn. 

“Yeah I’m just trying to get a handle on all this for my boy...well friend or whatever.”
Liam unconsciously took a step back from the duo. 

“Boyfriend? You never mentioned a boyfriend! Who? Tell me everything! Oh it was good to see you Franny.” With that the large man was forgotten and Faye attached herself to Liam bouncing on the balls of her feet.

“What are you up to? You look like the cat who swallowed the canary.” Richard teased catching up to them. 

“Liam was just about to tell all about his boyfriend.”

“Yeah speaking of that...” Richard interrupted.

“Fuck" Faye looked around. "Something's up. Hold that thought doll I'll be right back.” She turned away only a wisp of smoke remained where she once stood. 

“How did she do that? Can we do that?” Amused by the childlike excitement Richard laughed at Liam stunned face. 

“Afraid not. Only full succubus have that ability.”

“Damn that would have been nice.” 

Quinn pulled up the site. Checking his phone at the address Richard sent he hoped he was in the right place. A long drive to meet a stranger and crazy person in the middle of nowhere, he must be crazy too he thought. He couldn’t make out anything in the distance other than lush forest for miles. Making his way up the trail to an iron gate his breathing hitched. Suddenly his skin was on fire and his clothes felt like the foreign objects they were. Drawn by the lusty pheromones rushing from him, one by one creatures gathered circling Quinn.

“Back vultures” Faye ushered the gathering back to see who had erupted this frenzy. Resting her eyes on Quinn she licked her lips.
“My my sweetie aren’t you a long way from home.”