Prologue: The End of his Human Life
Tony gasped for air as another wave of nausea swept through his weakened body. Gigantic coughs reverberated throughout his entire system and he felt as though he was going to black out any minute. He desperately tried to hold onto consciousness, because somewhere in the back of his mind he knew there was something he was still supposed to do. He wasn’t even sure how he’d gotten this way either. The last thing he remembered was knocking down the door and Tim entering the dark hotel room first, following after his partner, and then nothing. He didn’t know how he’d gone from watching Tim’s six, and maybe a little bit of his ass, too completely out of the game, laid out, somewhere completely unknown. He tried to focus around him and couldn’t concentrate enough to zero in on anything. Everything seemed incredibly hazy and nothing stood out.
“It is going to be okay, Tony, I’ve got you. You’re going to be okay,” Tim’s voice came out of nowhere and it soothed some emotion deep inside Tony that he could not quite place. Suddenly Tony could feel Tim’s hands on his body, even though he still couldn’t see anything. He tried to ask what happened, but he could only force out a couple moans before the nausea swept through him again and severe pain joined in as well.
“Don’t try to fight it, Tony, it will only make the change harder,” Tim’s voice was right in his ear and it continued to help keep him calm, regardless of how sick Tony felt.
Tony tried to concentrate only on Tim and suddenly the pain subsided slightly as his awareness of Tim shot through the roof. He felt the hard contours of Tim’s body stretched out underneath him and the pain would lessen every time Tim hands stroked down his body. Tim smelled sweaty, spicy, and just damn good. Tony felt like he should be freaking out at the realization that his probie suddenly smelled better than a beautiful woman did after being away at sea for months on end.
He moaned when Tim shifted slightly and Tony felt the loss of his hands.
“Shh, it’s okay Tony, I’m here. That’s it; concentrate on me and only on me. Just let go and allow the shift to happen,” Tim murmured. This time Tony felt the cool wisps of Tim’s breath against his ears and neck. The contact sent shivers down his spine and suddenly the pain was subsiding into something else. He squirmed and tried to slip away as arousal began to overwhelm him. He didn’t want Tim to even have a hint of what was happening to his treacherous body.
Tony despaired when he felt Tim’s chest rumble and heard the soft chuckle from beneath him. The blurriness was clearing up and he could start to make out the forms of things around him. They were in a bedroom that Tony did not recognize and lying on large bed. Tony still felt a little topsy-turvy, but that was disappearing as well. The pain had completely morphed into arousal and Tony was finding it hard not to grind back against the hard contours of the body below his, wanting to see if Tim was as turned on as he was. Before he could move though Tim expertly switched their positions and gently laid Tony back on the bed. Tony moaned a low, keening whine at the loss of contact.
“Sorry, Tony, but you’re about to have your first shift and you’re sending out enough mating hormones to attract every shifter this side of the state. I need to be in a better position to make sure you stay safe and unclaimed until you’re fully changed,” Tim spoke softly, but the words were confusing to Tony. He didn’t understand anything that Tim was telling him. Where was Gibbs? What the hell had happened?
Then as quickly as the pain had disappeared, it came back tenfold, and he was screaming at the top of his lungs. His whole body was on fire and he felt like someone was twisting his internal organs and breaking all his bones. Then the blurriness reappeared and suddenly everything was dark.
Chapter One: Having his Six
Tim stared down at the beautiful, red wolf that was splayed out on his bed. He sighed and brushed his hair back off his eyes. The change was done and the scent that Tony had unconsciously been emitting had dissipated into simply an intoxicating memory. Tim finally slumped back down onto the bed hard, knowing that an earthquake would not wake Tony now that he had undergone his first change. Tim tried to think clearly as the adrenaline of the last twenty four hours bled from his body. Tim had been too slow to react when the scent of another shifter had crashed through him at the suspect’s house and Tony had been bitten. He had not been expecting it and Tony would now pay the price for the rest of his life for Tim’s lack of guard.
The door creaked open and Tim was on his feet in a flash and growling out a warning.
“Brother?” Sarah’s voice was quiet, but full of questions. Tim knew that he would not be able to push the pack off much longer. He had thrown Tony into the car and driven straight to the closest safe house. He had barricaded Tony and himself into a safe room and had ordered no one to enter until after Tony had completed the shift. He was Pack-leader, known as the Ulfric King, and knew that he would be obeyed without question because of his status. When it came to shifter politics the Ulfric was top of the food chain. He assumed that whoever was on duty had contacted Sarah and Tim trusted his sister to know to contact Gibbs and explain what happened.
Gibbs was one of the very few humans that Tim had told of his heritage and he was damn glad that he had made that choice at this moment. Sarah stepped a little closer and Tim was suddenly more aware of her presence. Her dominance washed over him and he felt the steady thrum of his own dynamic surge forward and the wolf started to precede its human counterpart.
He growled low in his throat, warning the other wolf off of his territory. Sarah’s eyes widened and she quickly stepped back and put her hands up in a placating manner. Tim took a deep breath and established control over his beast almost immediately. He groaned to himself. This was exactly what he did not need and it was one of the largest downfalls of being a wolf and especially the ‘king’ wolf at that.
His beast was the most dominant of the pack, proven by right of the fight, and it was constantly seeking out a partner who was strong enough to stand by his side, but submissive enough to not be a threat. It seemed that his wolf now had a penchant for Tony and Tim couldn’t help but wonder if Tony’s wolf was going to be interested in Tim’s. It was likely since wolves were a hierarchical society and Tim was the top of the ladder.
Tony’s wolf, unless another strong dominant personality, would instinctively desire Tim’s wolf if interest was shown. The fact that gender did not factor into a Wolf’s line of interest was the hardest thing for non-born shifters to get used too. Most eventually did and found themselves not caring one way or the other. Thus was the way that wolf and man became intertwined into one being or rather two working in complete harmony with one another.
Tim truly prayed that his previous suspicions about Tony’s bisexuality were correct, because his wolf was demanding the claiming of the other man. Tony was never obvious in his perusal of other males, but Tim being a werewolf had its upsides. Tony turned on was an aphrodisiac scent akin to the strongest drugs to McGee. Often when they were interviewing or around another alpha male Tony’s scent would spike with arousal. It didn’t help matters that Tim had wanted Tony on his own for almost as long as he’d known the man.
When Tim had first come to NCIS in D.C. the local wolf pack had been led by a sadistic, cruel leader named Dominic. Tim had almost immediately challenged and killed the previous Ulfric.
Then he’d set about reforming his new pack. He had asked his sister to transfer to a school nearby and stand in as his second until he either chose a mate or found a beta in his pack that he could trust. His sister had been young, but they were both born into a strongly established pack. The chances of moving up into positions of power were highly unlikely and only gained by killing the previous wolves in charge. This was something both McGee’s had been brought up never to do unless the leaders were corrupt and therefore considered unworthy of such an honor.
The fact that they were both high up on the dominant scales had marked them both since birth. They had been watched almost twenty four seven less they decide to try and mutiny against the current leadership. Tim had left the pack almost as soon as he reached his majority just for a bit of privacy.
There had been no time to pursue the very human DiNozzo in the beginning while Tim went about fixing the broken and abused pack-mates. Tim’s wolf had been uninterested as well because Tony had none of the qualifications to be an Ulfric’s mate, namely not being another wolf. Around the time that Tim’s position had become stable it seemed that Tony had suddenly seemed to hate Tim. Tim had quickly realized Tony had been trying to protect his own position as Gibbs’ second. A position Tim had immediately went about proving he had no interest in, being in charge of a pack left no time to have any position of authority in his human life. As time went on and Tony became more secure about Tim’s place on the team the elder agent had warmed up considerably. He’d never shown any interest in anything besides a working relationship and friendship to Tim’s dismay.
Tim hung his head guiltily. Everything was about to change in Tony’s life and it seemed like Tim was getting everything he’d ever wanted spread out on a platter. Tim felt his wolf stir as the image of Tony spread out before him flashed through his head. He shifted uncomfortably and couldn’t help but blush when Sarah cleared her throat and gave a delicate sniff into the air that was filled with the scent of heavy arousal.
“I’m sorry, Sarah,” he apologized, but did nothing to indicate she could move closer, “I think it might be best if you sent Abby in to get the full story.”
Sarah narrowed her eyes suspiciously. She thought over the request and finally surmised that Tim was not slighting her by asking for his best friend. He was just choosing the one submissive in their pack that his own wolf would not feel threatened by while being around Tony.
“Alright bro, but I just need to know one question before I go down to deal with your surly bear with a toothache boss that is currently making pace marks in the living room,” Sarah finally answered. Tim grinned at her precise description of Gibbs and felt an immense amount of relief that Sarah did not get upset with his request for Abby.
“The question?” he prodded when Sarah did not immediately ask.
“Is Agent DiNozzo going to be alright?” Sarah’s voice was hesitant and Tim realized that Tony must have looked worse than he was when they arrived. Tim glanced back down at Tony and couldn’t help but smile softly at the sight of Tony’s wolf. He hadn’t been expecting for Tony’s coat to be red, but it seemed to fit exceedingly well. Thick, lustrous, and russet colored made Tony’s wolf beautiful and rare in their almost all gray wolf pack.
“He’ll be fine, Sarah, tell Gibbs that Tony’s first shift went exceptionally well,” Tim informed her and raised an eyebrow when Sarah seemed to hang around a bit longer.
Sarah finally sighed and seemed to come to some sort of inner conclusion before speaking, “Tim, I know that you have a lot on your mind, but there is one other thing that I feel I have to say with the way things seem to be going. It’s been kind of obvious that the reason you have never taken a mate, as is proper, is because of your hang up on Agent DiNozzo. The rest of the pack will already have figured that he will become your beta and I want you to know that there will not be any challenge from myself, but Patrick will not be happy about being bumped down the ladder and out of all decision making. If you make this official and you need to soon then I will expect a challenge from him almost immediately since I will move from being you’re Beta to being your Gamma and he will be left out of the leadership trio.”
Tim narrowed his eyes as the information processed, “Sarah, you damn well know if he challenges you and wins then I will have his head on a pike.”
Sarah shook her head in aggravation, “Timothy, you can’t kill a pack-member simply because he challenged your sister and won by a perfectly fair fight. I just wanted you to be prepared that it will happen.”
Tim finally nodded, “Thank you, Sarah.”
“You’re welcome, Ulfric. It is my job as your beta, even short lived as it has been, to make you aware of any issues that will arise in the future,” Sarah answered and bowed her head respectfully.
Tim acknowledged her statement with an incline of his own head and then sent her hurrying out the door with a hand motion.
He briefly thought about the intricacies that made up pack order. The Beta was always the mate of the Ulfric and should there be no mate then the Beta was someone of the Ulfric’s choosing to be his right hand. The Beta was followed by the Gamma. Patrick, the current Gamma, was a good man, but ambition and desire for power often clouded his decisions. Sarah already had been keeping a close eye on him to make sure he would not make a play to challenge Tim as Ulfric. If it wasn’t for the fact that Tim was a loved and respected leader then Patrick probably already would have.
Giving up the matter as something to worry about later Tim returned to his vigil of watching Tony until Abby came in. He took a good look at the female wolf. He smelled the dried tears that had soaked into her skin and he noticed the fingernail markings that Abby had dug into her hands. He gave her an encouraging smile and Abby returned it. Tim stepped aside and motioned her forward. That was all it took and Abby was crawling on the bed and checking over Tony. She leaned down and inhaled the wolf’s scent blending with Tony’s and nuzzled her human head into the thick fur before finally crawling back off the bed and turning to face Tim.
“What happened, Ulfric?” Abby’s voice was the quietest Tim had ever heard from the normally exuberant woman. He quickly explained how Tony had been infected and what he had done. Tim left out the part about his wolf demanding satisfaction as the whole thing was a bit overwhelming.
Tim wanted to speak with Tony before Tim’s wolf made any rash decisions, like kissing the living daylights out of Tony as soon as he regained consciousness. It would be a bad choice to mark and claim Tony without any regard to what Tony thought about the matter. After the explanation Abby seemed satisfied. She gave a quick kiss to Tim’s cheek and left in a considerably better mood than when she arrived.
She tossed a saucy grin back at Tim before exclaiming, “You both will make a really cute couple,” and then she scurried out the door faster than Sarah had.
Tim groaned in slight aggravation. Apparently his whole pack knew he had a crush on a coworker the majority of them had never met according to the way Sarah and Abby were reacting to Tony’s new identity as man and wolf.
Tim’s attention was snapped back to the bed as Tony let out a low whine. He slid back into the bed and lay down next to Tony. Tony immediately scooted his canine body closer to Tim. Tony nuzzled his hand with a cold nose and lapped at the palm. Then he gave a yawn and pretty much snuggled down into Tim.
Tim couldn’t help but smile indulgently at the big ball of fur that was resting comfortably against him. He let the soothing rhythm of Tony’s breathing calm him and he passed out only a short while later.
It must have been slightly before six a.m. when Tim awoke with a start. He quickly backtracked in his mind to remind him of what had happened. It didn’t take him long to figure out what had awoken him either. Where a wolf had lain not seconds before, Tony in human form was now sprawled out. Tony’s legs were entangled with Tim’s, his face pressed into the corner of Tim’s neck, and his hand curled tightly around Tim’s collar.
Tim couldn’t help but bring a hand up to stroke Tony’s hair gently. Tony snuffled and rubbed his head against Tim while shivering slightly. Tim frowned when he felt the chill rush through Tony and wrapped his arms around the other man’s naked body. Tim tried to ignore the lust overtaking him by Tony being pressed against him and accessible, but when Tony snuggled in and pressed his cock into Tim’s clothed groin, Tim couldn’t help but let out a moan at the added stimulation. Tony, still deeply asleep, had succumbed to his new body’s needs and was rubbing up against Tim frantically and making throaty noises that were filled with pure need.
Tim gritted his teeth in frustration and started to disentangle himself from Tony. He wrapped his hand around Tony’s wrist to try and detach the other man from his collar, but Tony held on so tightly that his knuckles turned white from lack of oxygen.
“Calm, Tony, shhh,” Tim tried to reason with the stubborn, sleeping agent. He was about to use a great deal of strength to just to get off the bed instead of gently extracting himself, when Tony suddenly made a different whimpering sound and followed it up with words.
“Please…Tim, please,” the begging words tumbled from Tony’s mouth and Tim looked down in shock. His ears told him Tony was still asleep from the steady beating of his heart and Tony’s eyes were also shut tight. The words, however, undid something in Tim. He pushed Tony down to the bed and jumped back and put as much distance between them as the room allowed. Tony’s arousal was filling the air in a heavy, intoxicating aroma and he was squirming on the mattress in desperation to get some sort of relief for his desire. Tim pressed himself against the wall and watched Tony through heavily lidded eyes and prayed that Tony would awaken from his first shift soon so that he would stop acting as if he was in his first heat.
Suddenly everything clicked and Tim got what was going on. The first heat was exactly what was going on. Tim could have head slapped himself for his own stupidity. Shifters were a cross between human and wolf, but that did not mean they were exactly alike in every way that each species was. Lycanthropes did not have to be female to go into heat; rather the only condition for the heat was being a natural submissive. Shifters were either dominant or submissive; there was no in-between in their body chemistry. There were varying levels of dominance and submissiveness, but each wolf was one or the other.
Tim had honestly thought that Tony was going to be a dominant wolf and he cursed himself for assuming. Tim’s own wolf had practically been screaming the answer at him by snarling at his own sister as though she were after something that was his. Now that Tim was aware of the situation, his wolf would no longer be ignored, and Tim growled low in his throat as he watched Tony thrash around on the bed.
He would not take advantage of Tony while the other man was unconscious, but reigning in his instincts was perhaps the hardest thing Tim had ever done to date. He forced himself to stay against the wall and wait for Tony to wake up. He knew that it should not be too much longer and sure enough his ears picked up the sound of Tony’s breathing picking up speed and finally Tony stilled completely and his eyes fluttered open in confusion. The hazel orbs swept across the room until they landed on Tim.
“What happened?” Tony asked hesitantly. Tim continued to stare him down with an intense gaze and narrowed his eyes when Tony seemed to subconsciously pull the blankets over his naked body. Tim didn’t answer Tony right away, but stalked over to the bed and ripped the blanket from Tony’s hand and threw it across the room. His eyes were darkened with some intense emotion and barely registered the confusion in Tony’s eyes. The confusion and uncertainty in Tony eyes caused Tim’s wolf to demand a primal satisfaction from the submissive wolf with even more urgency.
“Tim, what’s going on?” Tony’s unsure voice reached somewhere in the back of Tim’s mind, but the wolf was in charge now and he was not letting go so easily. He leapt onto the bed and crushed Tony underneath him, held Tony’s hips down in-between his thighs, and pinned his wrists to the bed with his hands. Tony gazed up in shock, his usual wit completely deserting him, as Tim leaned down and smelled him. Tony shivered and whimpered when Tim chuckled darkly and licked the delicate skin of Tony’s neck.
Tim was quickly losing control. He wanted to spread Tony open and thrust into the warm, willing body beneath him, but something was holding him back. Something was wrong.
“Tim, please stop,” the plaintive plea from Tony seared through Tim. He pulled back in horror at what he’d been about to do. That was the problem; Tony wasn’t a willing participant, not yet at least. Tim growled in anger at himself. He had not lost that much control over his wolf since he was a kid and had his first rut. He looked back up to meet Tony’s eyes and was flabbergasted at what he found. Curiosity, uncertainty, and a slight bit of fear, but absolutely not one drop of the blame or anger that Tim was bashing himself with.
“God, I’m sorry Tony, I…”Tim started to scramble off of Tony and stood by the bedside. He looked back down at Tony and found himself once again at as loss of what words to say.
Tony was looking back at him with a hurt expression that he quickly hid behind one of his normal masks. Tim narrowed his eyes and reached out with his senses. Tony was one of his wolves. He was Ulfric and whether Tony knew it or not he belonged to Tim now and hiding from Tim was not allowed. Tony’s eyes widened as he felt the strange sensation of a warm embrace and then a weird feeling that something was breaking through his normal defensive walls that he used to protect himself since he was a child. He started to shake as emotions flashed to the forefront of his psyche that he had not dealt with in years. Abandonment, abuse, and other travesties that he had fought to make sure another child did not go through, but in front of them all was the constant fear of rejection. The rejection that
Tim now knew Tony had felt like Tim was giving him when he pulled away so suddenly from the physical closeness he had just had with Tony.
Tim felt a surge of anger that Tony had been made to feel that the fact that Tim had decided to not practically rape him made Tony feel pushed away.
He concentrated on pushing all those negative feelings away. He heard Tony gasp as Tim projected a sense of belonging that was suddenly wrapping around Tony and cocooning him in its embrace. Tim opened his psychic connection to all his other wolves and pulled them into the familial embrace so that Tony would feel that he had a place in this world even though he understood nothing about what was going on. Tony reached out in the physical world, unaware of how to do it mentally, and Tim was right there pulling him into a strong embrace. Tim shut down the mental connection as Tony welcomed him in the physical world.
“You’re mine now, Tony, you’re not going to be alone ever again,” Tim whispered in his ear as he ran his hands up and down Tony’s torso. Tony shivered with emotion and felt completely helpless as he leaned into Tim. Tim continued to shush him and comfort him through touch. Finally, Tony settled down enough for Tim to draw back and stare at him again to determine if Tony was ready to talk about what had happened. He left their hands locked together for a constant reminder of what was between them.
“What happened, Tim?” Tony asked quietly when Tim didn’t immediately start talking.
Tim sighed, “Tony, you were bitten by a werewolf.”
Tony’s jaw dropped and he stared at Tim with incredulous eyes. Tim blanched at the blatant disbelief and stepped back from the bed and shrugged. He stripped quickly out of his clothes and ignored the squeak that Tony made when he shoved them out of the way. Then he closed his eyes and pictured his wolf’s image and when he opened them he was staring up at Tony through golden eyes. Tony’s mouth was still open, but his eyes had gone from disbelieving to almost popping out of his head. Tim snorted and concentrated on changing back. His shift came quick and fluidly. He quickly redressed when Tony continued to stare at him in half astonishment and half open interest.
Tim gave a wry grin at Tony’s complete silence.
“If I bring Gibbs in and he tells you, will you believe you’re not hallucinating?” he asked.
“Gibbs is here?” the genuine relief in Tony’s voice at the question caused Tim to growl lowly again. Tony looked up startled.
“I’ll let him come in, but don’t even think of going near him or letting him touch you. You belong to me,” Tim snapped. Tony looked immediately taken aback. Tim sighed and ran a hand through his messy bed hair. This was not going to be an easy thing to explain. It was not that he thought Gibbs was going to throw Tony over his shoulders and run off with the other wolf, but the elder man was a recognized Alpha to Tony in the normal human world. Tim and his wolf were both riding high in their dominant headspace and having someone who was clearly another dominant near Tony was not going to make it easy for Tim not to just up and bite Gibbs if he got to close to Tony.
“I’m not a damn possession, Tim, and I sure as hell don’t belong to you,” Tony snipped back. Tim narrowed his eyes and stalked back up to the bed. Tony went to stand, but Tim held his hand up for Tony to stop.
Tony whimpered as he felt a compulsion to stay where Tim pointed. Tim snapped his fingers and pointed to the floor. Tony slid down the side of the bed till he plopped down in front of Tim’s legs. He looked up in open astonishment at the smirk on Tim’s face and started to shake when he realized that he couldn’t refuse Tim’s orders. He felt as if Tim could tell him to roll over, ass up, and allow himself to be taken and he would without argument. Something akin to panic must have shown on Tony’s face, because Tim suddenly knelt in front of Tony and reached out to grasp his chin and prop his head back up.
“I am the Ulfric of this wolf clan, Tony…what?” Tim broke off when Tony shot him one of his I really don’t understand, but don’t want to look stupid looks.
“What the hell is an Ulfric?” Tony blatantly asked when given the opportunity.
Tim chuckled, “The King or leader of the wolf pack. It is my job to protect and lead all my wolves. I will never force you into anything that you truly do not want. When I say you’re mine it’s because my wolf knows your wolf wants him. We might be able to ignore any attraction between the two of us as humans, but our wolves are not going to be so accommodating,” Tim explained gently and watched relieved as he felt Tony slowly started to calm down.
“I can’t ignore an order from you. How am I supposed to function in the field without being able to call you out when you’re wrong,” Tony practically whispered.
Tim smiled softly and reached out slowly to pull Tony against him. He inhaled the strong, masculine scent of the new wolf and ran his hands up and down Tony’s muscular flanks. Tony leaned into the caress instinctively and nuzzled his mouth against Tim’s neck. He looked up after a moment in shock as if he couldn’t believe he had just done that.
“I feel like I’m spiraling out of control,” he whispered.
“Oh, Tony, you’re not going to spiral out of control while I’m your Pack-leader,” Tim tried to placate the older man and immediately realized it was the wrong direction to go with the situation. Tony’s human side didn’t understand how this worked and he wouldn’t easily accept that Tim was now his leader, but his wolf side was practically begging for the comfort and control Tim was offering.
Tony looked even more confused and Tim took a deep breath to try and explain again and more thoroughly.
“Okay, Tony, let’s take this slow and easy. How do you feel right now?” Tim asked quietly and pushed Tony back slightly so that he could see his facial expressions and judge by watching and not only by feeling.
Tony wrinkled his nose slightly and grew pensive.
“Like I’m about to jump out of my skin,” Tony finally answered.
“That’s because you’re adjusting to two forms, human and wolf. Both are equally part of who you are now and the challenge is to allow both of them to work together symbiotically. It will take a while for you to completely feel at home in your own skin. Anything else?” Tim prodded Tony to continue to lead the discussion.
“How the hell did we not know this about you? Do full moons mean anything? Does silver really kill us?” Tony suddenly had a million questions to Tim’s amusement.
“Maybe the bed would be more comfortable if we’re going to start a game of a hundred and one questions,” Tim hinted and stood up and put out a hand to help Tony up. Tony looked down at himself and seemed to suddenly realize his nudity. He blushed at the fact that he was completely stark naked in front of a fully clothed Tim. Then Tony stared up at the hand Tim offered. Suddenly Tim realized there was a lot more on the table than a simply hand up to Tony. He felt that Tony knew he could easily push himself up and fall back on the bed. There was no reason for him, a fully able healthy man, to accept Tim’s help for any other reason than he simply wanted to feel and be close to the other man. Tony didn’t even know he’d reached a decision until he felt Tim pulling him up, flush against his body for a second, and then settling easy onto the soft mattress. Tony held tightly onto Tim’s hand and when the other man didn’t make any move to pull away Tony slackened his grip. He watched mesmerized as Tim climbed on the bed, over him, and settled down with Tony snug against him.
“Alright, Tony, you never noticed for the reason most humans don’t ever notice. None of you really want to know what else is out there. Oh, it’s okay to watch shows or movies about it, but no one really wants to run into a real werewolf or vampire,” Tim began.
“Vampires are real?” Tony yelped. Tim looked down startled at the interruption.
“No, Vampires are not real as far as I know. Shape-shifters are in various forms. Obviously, we’re wolves, but there are also several large cat breeds out there, some birds, and a few others. The only thing I’ve never really run into or heard about is any type of bug. Different breed’s of shifters mainly keep to ourselves and have our own structure of living. Wolf packs have Ulfrics as their leaders. The Ulfric usually has a mate who is the Beta. Then there is the gamma. Structure and placement is very important to the pack. Everyone knows their place so they know where they belong,” Tim explained.
Tony followed along easily and grew still at Tim’s statement that everyone had a place to belong. Tim seemed to know this would have effect on him and stared straight into Tony’s eyes as he made the statement. Tony shivered as Tim’s all-knowing eyes seemed to peer down into his soul and leave him completely defenseless. Tony floundered for something to say and finally just looked hopelessly at Tim, wanting it to be made better. He hated this hollow, empty feeling at the bottom of his stomach. Tim leaned down the small distance between the two men and brushed his lips across Tony’s.
Tony moaned at the slight caress and suddenly felt himself spiraling out of control with desire. He plastered himself against Tim’s hard body and returned the kiss enthusiastically. Tim grunted at the sudden force of a naked DiNozzo in his lap, but quickly adjusted for the other man’s weight. Tony was squirming against his erection, opening his mouth happily, and when Tim reached up and squeezed the back of Tony’s neck, Tony went completely loose and pliant. The mating hormones were thick in the air again and Tim tried to regain control of his wolf as Tony made such an
effort to cause the exact opposite effect.
“Tony, god Tony, calm down. I want this and I am not going to be able to control what happens if you don’t stop,” Tim choked out as Tony abandoned his mouth to kiss down his neck. Tony lapped at the sweaty skin and nuzzled his nose into the crease.
“Don’t wanna stop, want to make you feel good, want the emptiness to go away,” Tony whimpered when Tim scooted back and held a hand up to stall Tony from following.
“You don’t know what’s happening, Tony. This isn’t just horniness or anything else like that. If I take you then I am claiming you. You don’t get to back out after that. Once my wolf and I are sated from your body and you are marked from head to toe, you are completely ours, we will kill anyone who ever has the audacity to try and touch or take you away from us,” Tim growled out between clenched teeth as Tony whined even more at the loss of touch. Something he said seemed to reach Tony, because the other agent’s eyes cleared a bit and he stared blindly at Tim.
“It’s just sex,” he whispered helplessly after a moment.
Tim shook his head negatively, “It wouldn’t be. Not between you and me. I’ve wanted you too long and your wolf was practically made for my wolf. If we have sex then I’m going to claim you as my mate and beta. You’ll belong to me even more as my mate than as just a member of my pack. You’ll have to put up with the fact that I’ll be territorial, jealous, and possessive with you like I’ve never been with anyone you’ve ever seen me date. I’ll expect not only obedience, but blind trust when it comes to the pack. You will be expected to not only do exactly as I say in bed, but in our pack life as well,” Tim quietly explained.
Tony watched him closely for a few minutes, “You really want this? You really want me? Why?”
Tim smiled wryly, “Only you would be able to ask that question and really not know the answer.”
Tony snorted darkly, “Oh, because I’m hot and easy. I thought…”
Tim broke into Tony’s tirade almost immediately when he saw where Tony was going, “Damn it to hell, Tony! Why are you always so quick to assume the worst? I want you because you’re funny and charming when you want to be. Even when you challenge me on just about anything and annoy the shit out of me I still want you. You drive me crazy with lust when you so much as look at another man or woman with desire.”
Tony stared at him blindly for a few minutes and then launched himself at Tim again. This time Tim didn’t even hesitate. He’d warned Tony what would happen and damn the consequences when Tony knew what to expect. Tim maneuvered them around and slammed Tony onto his back. Tim wrapped his hands around Tony’s wrists and slammed them above their bodies with a sense of déjà vu that they had been in this position earlier. Then he went to work licking, sucking, and biting his way from Tony’s lips to his hips. By the time Tim reached Tony’s groin Tony was squirming and gasping uncontrollably. Tim chuckled at the keening noise Tony made when Tim backed up off of him. He stood beside the bed and stared at the puddle of pure sex and want that was Tony DiNozzo.
“Tim, please,” Tony hoarsely begged as he stared submissively up at Tim. Tim saw the exact moment that everything shifted in Tony’s eyes from pure want to pure need. Tim peeled his shirt off and quickly unbuttoned his pants and shoved them out of the way along with his boxers thinking to himself that he might as well had stayed unclothed after his shift. Tony licked his lips as Tim revealed himself again and this time Tim let him look to his fill. Tim reached over into the bedside table and grabbed the lube that was a common stock item in werewolf safehouses.
“You sure about this, Tony, last chance to change your mind,” Tim hoarsely asked as he lubed up his cock slowly while watching Tony. Tony instinctively spread his legs wide as Tim climbed back on the bed. He watched wide-eyed as Tim knelt over him, still stroking himself continuously, Tony’s eyes locked onto Tim’s hand and cock. Tim covered a couple of his fingers with extra lube and reached down to probe gently into Tony’s depth. He felt the area clench around his fingers with an almost painful tightness. Tim glanced up to check on Tony. He found Tony’s eyes closed, head tilted back, mouth open and moaning quietly. Tim curved his fingers and pushed back in and grinned gleefully as Tony’s eyes shot open and his moan went up several octaves. Tim prepped him thoroughly, but quickly.
Then when he felt that Tony was aptly ready Tim lined himself up to Tony’s lubricated entrance. He watched Tony’s facial expressions carefully as he slowly pushed inside. He closed his eyes only briefly as the welcoming heat enfolded around his head. When Tony gave a loud moan Tim’s eyes popped back open to watch as he slid the rest of the way in up ball’s deep. Tony looked up at him in a mixture of intense desire and partial pain at the burn. When Tim pulled back only slightly to maneuver back in and thrust against Tony’s prostate Tony immediately pushed back against him in reaction.
“More?” Tim teased as he ground his hips against Tony’s ass.
“Tim…,” Tony breathlessly whined at the little stimulation.
Tim’s eyes darkened as Tony pleaded with his eyes. Tim felt the wolf surge to the forefront and this time he willingly gave over as he felt Tony’s own wolf take over. Tony’s body went completely loose and pliant as Tim started to slam into Tony at a hard pace. Every time he pulled out Tim slammed all the way back, fully owning Tony in the most primal of ways. Tim rutted continuously hard and furious into his willing partner and when he felt close Tim leaned down to at the same time Tony bared his neck. Tim’s teeth found the delicate skin right under Tony’s ear and bit down hard enough to draw blood and leave a scar. As soon as the tangy blood touched Tim’s saliva Tim reached out mentally and pulled Tony’s mind fully into his own while thrusting his entire being into Tony’s own mind.
Their consciences swirled together, completely in sync, and finally entwined into an intricate rope binding them together forever.
Tim howled ferociously as his orgasm overtook him the moment the mating ritual was complete and he felt Tony come to completion at the same time. Finally, Tim collapsed down onto Tony and felt the other man wrap his arms around him protectively. This was perhaps the weakest moment of a dominant wolf’s life. The moment he bonded to his mate everything narrowed down to him and the one he took as his own. Tony instinctively was cradling him in a mental and physical cocoon of protection and Tim felt proud of the instantaneous way his mate seemed to understand what he was supposed to do.
They lay in a heap of tangled limbs and both drifted off into a restful slumber, completely aware of another being in a way that neither of them ever had felt before.
Story Notes:
This is the first story in my series Lukos Anthropos. There are three stories planned. Many thanks to my beta's Sarkywoman, Shingo_the_pest, and Raven_Mosely.
Author's Chapter Notes:
Tim is the alpha to the local werewolf pack. When Tony is bitten while apprehending a suspect, Tim and Tony's relationship is forever changed.
Chapter End Notes:
This is the first chapter of the first story in my series Lukos Anthropos. There are three stories planned. Many thanks to my beta's Sarkywoman, Shingo_the_pest, and Raven_Mosely.