Title: The Fallen
Author name: hunters_retreat
Artist name: deadflowers5
Word Count: 55,000+
Fandom: Original
Rating: NC-17
Main Characters and/or pairings: OMC/OMC
Genre: Slash
Author's Notes: Thank you to the amazing smidgeson for the beta on this.  I gave this to her last minute and she did a fantastic job and really made me pull it together, and all on short notice!  And thank ( Read more... )

“I’ve waited long enough for what I always knew was waiting for me here.”

“And what is that?”

Dalen turned his face to the side, looking up at Coltran.  Even with the height he’d gained over the years, his bond mate was still the taller by a few inches.  As he looked up, Coltran leaned down, brushing their lips together as he had all those years ( Read more... )

Unlike Patir’s family who were too distant to make it to the Binding House in time, Dalen’s family had already come.  His father had sent for them as soon as the debates started, certain that Dalen would find a way to cross the Veil.   They had two weeks to prepare for the coming battle and Dalen and Patir had already memorized the incantations.  ( Read more... )

They all sat in shock as Raken read the message aloud.  The elders had sent messages to all the fighting groups that were in the field, asking them to return back to the training camps.

“Have you ever seen this before?” Dalen asked.  In the nine years they’d been together the elders had never given that sort of directive.  Raken had been ( Read more... )

The field was already slick when they got there, blood and gore painting the path as they made their way to the village they’d hoped to protect.  He’d seen it before but in the seven years their team had been hunting the horde it never got better.  The moment was made even more real somehow when Petri stopped to empty his stomach of its contents in ( Read more... )

It took less than a week for Dalen’s family to realize he was changed from the child he had once been.  His mother took him out immediately and bought him proper clothes but they felt stuffy and immovable after years of wearing the Karrem’s garb.  He took all the toys he’d had as a child and placed them all on a shelf in his room, took the ( Read more... )

The elders watched them quietly and Dalen wanted to pull a face at them but he knew better.  They were trying to make him act out of line, baiting him by waiting in front of the Binding House where he wasn’t allowed to step foot, just to see if they could delay this moment any longer.  Instead of listening to their questions with a sense of ( Read more... )

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( The Fallen (Part Four) )

 
( The Fallen (Part Three) )

Dalen stared across the trees to see the other kids, all forming a circle in the woods around him.  They were trying to close in on him, trying to find him in their game of conqueror.  The rest of his team had been found already but Dalen was watching as the boy beneath him moved past.  He didn’t bother to look up to see Dalen’s hiding space.  They ( Read more... )