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“Tegan, this is Felix, Nitro’s wife. And this is my brother Nitro.”
“Very nice to make your acquaintance,” Tegan said, shaking the tiny girl’s hand while trying to ignore the bandages on her neck and shoulder. She offered her hand to the brother, not wanting him to think she feared him even if she did.
He regarded it and looked at her, giving it a one second shake.
Lord his skin washot.And those eyes. The blue one was freakily bright.
“From Texas, huh?” Nitro muttered.
“Yes sir. Born and bred.”
His eyes swung to Patches, and she had to wonder over the barest smile and look in his gaze. “Bornandbred. Well, Doc? What’s next?”
“Tegan, you want to let him know his options?”
“I sure can,” she said. “So, there’s invasive and non-invasive options and since the non-invasive one performs just as good, I’d suggest you go with that which would be your upper arm in what they refer to as the subcutaneous tissue. Same place they put nicotine patches or birth control.”
“Do it,” he said, his head lowered. “And then?” He eyed Patches.
“Then we upload the information we want monitored into the program that tracks whatever levels need tracking.”
“And when they go off the rails?” he wondered.
“You’ll get the recommended prescription to bring it back. Lesion has all the protocols ready that you might need until we can develop something automatic.”
“I don’t think it’ll get to that, “Felix said.
“I want it,” Nitro said, his voice hard.
“It’s better if you learn to control it,” Felix tried again. “Your body needs to determine the production of these anti-dotes.”
“And Itoldyou I can’t let you be the test tube where I lose my shit and f…” He shook his lowered head, eyeing Patches. “I want whatever he has. When I havenodoubt in my mind that I can control it, you’ll be the first to know butIhave to be the one to know that. Not a test.”
“You got it.”
Tegan couldn’t keep her eyes off the tiny woman, wondering what on earth she’d endured and why was she not more terrified.
“We’ve already controlled it,” Felix injected with a surprising strength for her size. “What I do with my bats, he responds to that.Ican fix this. Ishouldfix this, it’smineto fix.”
“Baby,” Nitro begged, like they’d had this discussion a million times.
“What!” she demanded, wiping tears. “I did this and it’s only right I fix it,” she gasped, looking at Patches then Tegan. “He doesn’t hurt me,” she said. “Heprotectsme. He’s just doing whatIneed and want, he’s responding tomyneeds, that’s all. I can control that, I can help him. And I have, tell them Lukas.”
He barely shook his lowered head. “She’s right,” he conceded with abut I still can’tin his tone. “Every hunger I had before all this is now multiplied by a thousand. And every time I feed her, I feed me. And guess what? This hunger is only growing. Even still, I don’t think I would ever hurt her but that doesn’t mean what I’m doing isn’t hurting her.”
She undid one of her bandages on her shoulder. “Look at it,” she said to Patches, then showed Tegan. “He did that maybe four hours ago. By tomorrow, you won’t find it.”
Tegan eyed her, then Patches, not wanting to say it out loud and piss off the bat dude, but that was freakin’ remarkable. “Don’t let the kooks in white jacketseverhear about this,” she muttered, getting those creepy eyes aimed right at her. “Well, I sure ain’t sayin’ anything,” she said, making a cross over her heart with a finger. “But I should point something out that we really need to remember.”
They all looked at her and she eyed Patches and reached over, pulling his t-shirt up to show his colorful skin. “It’s clearly not Felix we need to be worried about, but anybody else unfortunate enough to happen near when these uh…mating urges happen. There ain’t no fault in love, and this little lady has a very brave amount of it as…he has for her. But uh…that exchange and the protection that comes with it stops with them. Sure, I think it can be controlled, but…we definitely might want to consider manual protocols tillhe’sconfident. He’s the only one that actually fully knows.” She regarded Felix who turned and wiped her eyes.
“She’s pissed at you,” Nitro said lowly. “And guess what that suddenly makes you?”
“A threat,” Tegan already knew.
“I’m not pissed at her,” she said, spinning around. “I’m justpissed!”
