Bound with Blood

bonding

………………. “Okay Lover boy get your ass up and let’s take a look at you” Joe pulled set to his feet and roughly tipped his head back “Wow your necks one hell of a mess boy”

“I’ll heal” Seth winced at the pain as Brae dropped Pete’s head

‘Anyone have a match to get rid of this piece of crap” He rubbed his knife on the jeans he was wearing before pushing it in to the back of his pants and folding his arms over his chest.

“Thank you” Seth tried to bow his head to Brae “You didn’t have to save my life”

“No I know but you think I want to hear shit from my sister for the rest of forever” Brae took a deep breath and stretched out his arm where the only thing left from the bullet wound was a slight pink mark on his skin “It took a while to convince Joe here you weren’t like the other ass holes in your family but he listened after he heard a call between your Daddy and Pete” He walked over to Seth and moved aside his shirt “Damn that’s bad”

“I will heal” Seth looked down the edges of the wounds already knitting together “We have to find Star” Seth started to move forward and stumbled

‘And you have to give your body some time I’m sure Star won’t give in until she sees you” Joe threw Seth’s arm over his shoulder “Brae get the other side” Brae moved into position taking Seth’s weight.

“But my Brother will not wait” Seth protested

‘Will you hush for a minute” Joe groaned ‘We will be 20 minutes behind them… you think I’m going to let anyone touch the girl I’m supposed to protect Hell you don’t know how hard it was the morning after you…” Joe shot him a look that spoke volumes

“Hey can we do more walking and less gabbing” Brae groaned “My sister is scared to death right now”

Silence fell between the three of them as they walked to the opposite entrance to the grave yard where they both had their motorcycles They eased Seth onto Braes.

“Okay here” Joe dug into the saddle bags on the side of his bike and pulled out a green bottle and handed it to Seth “Drink it… tastes like shit but it’s aid in your healing” Brae took out his knife and tore u the back of Seth’s shirt and peeled it away from him

‘How fast do you heal?” Brae dis-guarded the bloody shirt on the ground

“From Mortal wounds with in hours but from my father’s…” he looked down at the gashes in his stomach “It will take a day at least”

“Well we’d better dress them” Brae pulled out bandages and began to wrap Seth’s torso

“Why are you helping me like this?”

“We already said you have won the trust of Star even though you have bedded her” Joe sighed as Seth drank the dirty brown liquid from the bottle “And that I’m not happy with”

“No neither am I, that bad weather was down to my sister and you last night and that’s really icky” Brae looked at Seth and pulled a face “Do you love my sister or are you wanting more power?” he was blunt and to the point. Seth’s reaction took Brae by surprise as Seth rounded on his putting his hands flat on the seat of the motorcycle.

‘Do not question my love of Star… I fell in love with her one of the first times I saw her and I’m not talking three weeks ago at the party… I’m talking on the pier when she was watching people walking… I fell in love with her when she blushed at my comments and when I bought her flowers… I fell in love with her when she toyed with me at the opera and told me she’d have room on her dance card for me… I fell in love with her and part of me died the night I killed her” Seth’s voice dropped he knew Joe was ready to take him out if he so much as touched Brae but he didn’t care “Do you want me to go into detail of the times I died because the pain of living without her was too much in 128 years before I found her again I killed myself 128 times I couldn’t look at myself some days I came here every week and replaced the flowers on her grave… We were bound by blood but we also were bound with love which was stronger than anything” he took as deep of a breath as he could

“Damn I only asked” Brae smirked “And hey I know my sister is in love with you but all I say is you ever hurt her I’ll do to you what I did to Pete”

“Well you’re knife will never cut my flesh” Brae sat back down and ran his hand over his face he flexed his muscles stretching them out , he was sore but whatever it was that Joe had given him was helping he felt a searing pain in his ribs over his tattoo

“Okay how do you get that ink to glow like that” Joe whistled

“It’s Star” Seth swallowed hard “We need to go”

“You ride with me” Brae looked at Seth “and hear” he pulled a t-shirt from the bag “put that on, last thing I need is a girl seeing you half naked behind me on here” Brae cocked his leg over as Joe roared with laughter.

“Yes well at least I love the hot looking member of your family” Seth countered Brae lifted on eye brow at him as Seth put on the shirt and got on the bike………………………….