He wasn’t one of them, he reminded himself daily. Wasn’t some young in-over-his-head student. Wasn’t young in any respect, and hadn’t been in over a century. That difference in years was only part of the gulf between he and the others though.
The rest was harder to explain for anyone who’d never been immortal, who’d never seen men who were nearly brothers transformed into monsters. He’d killed his brother.
John didn’t need another family and didn’t want another brother, no matter how Jim might push to become just that.
And lost gods help him, he didn’t want another woman in his life, sibling or otherwise.
But there she was, all dark eyed and grace personified, and somehow she’d started drawing him in, like gravity despite even his formidable strength.
For such an observant woman, she seemed utterly unaware of her affect on him, so focused as she was on her hybrid lover. She didn’t intend to make John fall, and somehow that made it all the more inevitable that he would.
When he finally succumbed, it was from a distance and no one but Uhura’s green-skinned companion ever seemed to guess. He told himself it was better that way.
Ooo great prompt! Totally pulled a double drabble out!
He wasn’t one of them, he reminded himself daily. Wasn’t some young in-over-his-head student. Wasn’t young in any respect, and hadn’t been in over a century. That difference in years was only part of the gulf between he and the others though.
The rest was harder to explain for anyone who’d never been immortal, who’d never seen men who were nearly brothers transformed into monsters. He’d killed his brother.
John didn’t need another family and didn’t want another brother, no matter how Jim might push to become just that.
And lost gods help him, he didn’t want another woman in his life, sibling or otherwise.
But there she was, all dark eyed and grace personified, and somehow she’d started drawing him in, like gravity despite even his formidable strength.
For such an observant woman, she seemed utterly unaware of her affect on him, so focused as she was on her hybrid lover. She didn’t intend to make John fall, and somehow that made it all the more inevitable that he would.
When he finally succumbed, it was from a distance and no one but Uhura’s green-skinned companion ever seemed to guess. He told himself it was better that way.