Hungry Like a Wolf

[emikaelson]

"Would you like another pancake, love? I know we used up a lot of energy this morning." Elijah glanced across the breakfast table at his lover, and reached a hand out to clasp with his. It'd been a beautiful morning of making love and snuggling together beneath the covers-- assuring one another of their truest love. Having Cain home the last few days had been a slice of heaven for the couple.

Turning to grab a few more pancakes from the counter, Elijah held the plate out to Cain, and then suddenly his world went black and white, everything imploded and he was floating in a million little pieces again, ash against the sky tossed by the wind into the night, and then he wasn't.

Elijah awoke in a field lined by a large forest. High grass tickled his skin, and he realized that he once more was stuck with only the clothes on his back and what he carried with him. Was he dead? Where was the welcoming committee, Niklaus, Hayley? If not where was he and where was Cain, because he didn't want to do this life without his love.

Suddenly the original's heart began to pound in his chest as he sat up and looked around. There were hills set off in the distance along with the full forest blanketing the area south of him. He certainly wasn't in Duplicity anymore. Had they gotten tired of him? Was this what they did to people? Straightening up, the hybrid undressed and took to his wolf form, not wanting to deal with the wash of emotions that had set up a slow terrifying place in his gut.

Instead he became the wolf and turned to his natural habitat. Howling once he took off at a run into the forest to see where he was and if anyone (Cain) was there for him to find, or if he'd have to try and kill himself to make it out of here.

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[sonofadam]

Cain laughed back, knowing how it sounded but shook his head. "They're right, you know, humans in the past few centuries were killing the earth with their advancements. I wouldn't care except if they one day wiped themselves out..." He would be alone. Cain grew silent and reached to hold Elijah a little closer.

"I'm not that old," he continued again with a soft laugh as he admired the stars up above them. Without any light for miles around except their little campfire, it was possible to see all the stars out now. He didn't recognize any of the constellations either, further proving they were in another world.

"Both those things happened millions of years ago, at least, according to scientists. I've never seen any dinosaurs, never even heard of them on all my centuries until they first discovered their fossils in the recent years... For all I know, those could be planted by God when he made the Earth. I really don't know. But if they're real, then at least... They tell me I haven't lived for millions of years." That would have been more painful than he could express. Cain doubted he could remain sane after that. He didn't know how he was still sane up until now, or maybe insanity had a physical component that his healing prevented.

"Time really blurred all together," he murmured, his soft free carrying loudly in the quiet darkness. "I don't know how old I am... Scholars debated that the Bible went back to 6000 years... But I know I am older than that."

[emikaelson]

"Hey, hey now. They can't wipe themselves out, because I can't be killed either. We can't be killed together. Especially now since the white oak tree that was a part of my making doesn't exist here or anywhere else in the muti-verses we may end up. It's you and me forever and ever, Cain. I'm mean, look, we even made it out of that God forsaken city together." He reassured his lover once more of the fact that they would always be together. It really did seem like their souls were destined to follow each other no matter where they might end up and Elijah took great comfort in that knowledge.

He needed Cain more than anything else, and the need grew stronger with every passing second. Even now he could feel the strong tug at his heart, twisting and pulling with the ache of pure love and desire. Being pulled in, Elijah brushed his face against Cain's and kissed it where he went, nibbling softly along his neck, and jaw, silencing him for a moment with a lingering kiss-- needing to share the overwhelming love that was clawing at his heart for its attention. Cain was far more important than any heavenly bodies in the sky. Far more beautiful as well-- at least in the eyes of the original.

Feeling foolish now for daring to ask such strange and silly questions, Elijah buried his head into his lover's neck and stayed there. There was so much conflicting evidence and writings out there concerning the Bible and science, and how the two worked together. It shook a lot of what the hybrid had taken as fact for quite some time and what he took for fact currently. He also knew that the worlds that he and Cain came from could be different as well. Where one had a God, the other might not.

Still, how to blend together the bible and science along with reality, which seemed to be far different from all of it at times was difficult, so maybe Elijah wasn't that stupid, just curious. "I know there have been debates about dinosaurs lasting throughout time, that maybe they were the dragons of the Middle Ages, or the great monsters of several great bodies of water. I merely wondered..." Elijah muttered against his lover's neck and shrugged.

"There have also been debates about everything. I mean, the flood, the ark of the covenant, things that seem so unreal, and yet, there's proof here and there that is questionable, but also promising if it is verified. I guess, it just now ran through my mind about how much you've really seen. I've seen a lot, but you've seen so. much. more.." He lifted his head, and looked at Cain, running a hand through his hair. "You are the most amazing man I have ever known. How in the world did I get so lucky as to be the one you fell in love with? You could have anyone? Yet you chose me..."

[sonofadam]

Cain didn't think it was a silly question, just perhaps a misinformed one that had the timelines a little mixed up. He didn't blame Elijah for not knowing though, there were many things that approached mythological proportions regarding his life. There were many things that were unbelievable if he hadn't lived through it himself.

It just occurred to him, perhaps on the same way it did Elijah, that Cain now has eternity to tell the hybrid all about it. To live out a new chapter with him, with a companion who would be there to whether the ages with him. It was an astounding realization.

Brought back to a distasteful grimace when Elijah had to mention that damn flood. "Can we not talk about the flood?" It happened alright. Didn't quite wipe everything out as the book said, but did enough damage and Cain had spent a month struggling to keep from constantly drowning. It was what gave him the first real fears of large bodies of water, and the discovery that his body would constantly die over and over even if he wasn't quite alive yet to die again. Up until then, he never experienced something that drastic.

He sighed away that memory and leaned into Elijah's loving caresses and touches. "I think I am the fortunate one. You had people, choices, and even family..." While Cain had nothing and had only been given memories that were false, but such a glimpse of happiness that even that small slice of it was enough to devastate him when he woke in the morning. People who didn't experience loneliness as he did wouldn't understand.

"I'm not sorry for that city. It didn't do anything to me that was new... Well. Not in the long run... Can't say I've been violated by monsters before, but it gave me you." Which was true in every sense of the word. Without that strange world, he would never have met Elijah, wouldn't have the possibility to, and never gave been brought together with him.

[emikaelson]

"So the city did do something completely new then. It gave you love that will last a lifetime in me. I'm new. You're new to me. A healthy, loving, forever relationship. I could never have imagined that even fifty years ago." Elijah felt the same. He could have gone around disliking Duplicity for everything that it had done to him, all the ups and downs, but mainly it had done one amazing thing and that was Cain. It gave him the man he was going to spend the rest of eternity with.

"I still say that I'm the lucky one because you could have picked from a large handful of people in that city. There were plenty of immortals living there and you still found me, and chose me out of everyone else." The original would always be in awe of Cain's love for him, and how he waited even when Elijah was such a uptight, downright arse and made a fool of himself for someone that would never end up loving him as much as Cain did.

Lips found lips and lingered there, hovering as they spoke tender words of affection and then brushed whisper soft kisses back and forth while fingers carefully treated Cain's body to a casual perusal of some of his more sensitive spots. It wasn't meant to excite, so much as to share a completely personal and intimate moment together, celebrating all that they had here in this private world of theirs. Maybe they wouldn't be here long-- but they didn't know it.

Even if the world changed tomorrow, they'd still have their eternity together and no matter where it was, they would find a place together where their lips and bodies would always be able to share soft , gentle touches like this.

[sonofadam]

"Yes, you were new," Cain agreed, smiling softly in the darkness and although he couldn't see Elijah's expression fully in pitch black, he could imagine the soft returning smile on the hybrid's handsome face as he said those words, telling him of his awe and love for him. "You're making it sound like I made the wrong decision," the immortal joked, but he was leaning into those touches, feeling the soft caresses and not growing aroused from them, but beloved. Those hands were quite familiar with his body by now, yet they kept searching, exploring in this unencumbered environment to renew their familiarity with the territory.

Cain placed a tender butterfly kiss on his lover's skin in return, unable to truly see where he was kissing but enough to know it was in Elijah's shoulder area. He kissed along it when he found out it was list just above the collar. "There were other immortals... But I loved you first. Regardless of how it started, there was no changing that." Cain wasn't a man who loved easily, or let people get inside his walls, but Elijah had bypassed them all and there was no way Cain could have stopped his own feelings after that.

He sighed softly, his arms going around to embrace his lover to him under the stars. There was very little moonlight out tonight, but enough for him to see the other's slender outline.

"We should name this place heaven. Valhalla. Or whichever version of afterlife that has an absolute happiness like this. Peace and love... Never thought I'd get it. But you are it, and this must be what heaven is like." Maybe that was what happened, that he finally found an end and this was the version of the silver city that awaited him. Who knew. Cain just knew he was happy.