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“I thought so. I mean, it keeps changing. But not on the side that Myk can see. Maybe it would hurt him for it to be all different.”

“The brush, love.”

“Oh, whoops.” Cosmo retrieved it. “Anyway, I think we each got a little of the house that we wanted, if you get me.”

“So you wanted my house?” He was trying to wrap his mind around it. Perhaps something in him had called to Cosmo, and Cosmo had finally heard it.

Cosmo got quiet, and Hawk turned to look at him. “What’s wrong?”

“It’s nothing, I mean. It is something but…” Cosmo sighed. “I mean, you’re going to figure it out eventually, I’m sure. But I wanted… I wanted a part of the house that…that wasn’t sad all the time. It didn’t have all the blood and the bad memories from before. The vampires did terrible things. I can’t even go in the basement.”

“But it’s over now,” he pointed out, and Cosmo shrugged, obviously embarrassed.

“That doesn’t matter. I have problems with that sort of thing. I see things, you know, and sometimes, if there’s too much, I just… It gets ugly.”

“A seer, of course. That makes a lot of sense,” he told Cosmo. “I totally understand what you’re saying. The echoes of all of that must be incredibly loud.”

“So you’re not freaked out?” Cosmo asked.

“Why should I be? Having a seer around is not the strangest thing I have seen in the last millennia.”

He received an icy look. “Right. You must have seen lots of things that make me seem just…average. Normal.”

And now he’d hurt Cosmo’s feelings. He gathered his lover in close to try to rectify that. “Of course you’re not normal or average. You’re mine, and you’re amazing. I’m not worried about you being a seer. We all have our talents.”

“I just wish mine was cooler. The boys both have neat ones. Mine is relatively pointless. It shows me things that happened. It shows me things that might happen, but it’s not particularly useful. Like, I don’t know when something bad is going to happen, or even if it is bad because I’ve had a vision of you, and it was scary because I didn’t know who you were. I just knew that it wasn’t as if my brain said ‘oh look, your mate is coming, and it’s going to be amazing’. No, it was all like ‘boo, big scary dragon. Everybody run! Fire, fire!’ See it’s useless.”

“It’s not useless. Such magic never is.” He shook his head firmly. “You are amazing. And the gift of sight is often clouded with difficulty. I suppose it’s a give and take…” He pondered that, then shrugged. “But here I am, and not a ‘boo’ in sight.”

Cosmo nodded. “No. No, you’re not a boo. You’re a…”

He got a long, lazy glance, and Cosmo licked his lips.

“Mmmhmm. We’re supposed to dine with your brothers, which we will not manage if you continue to look at me that way.” He did enjoy how Cosmo liked sex.

How could he not? Hawk loved sex with Cosmo too.

“Yeah. No fair. Still, I think you need to meet the brothers on a more equal level. They’re going to like you.” Cosmo didn’t sound particularly worried, which was handy.

Not that it mattered. Cosmo was his, and he wasn’t going anywhere, and so the other two had no choice but to learn to deal with him.

Just as he had no choice but to learn to deal with them. It was a give and take situation.

“Are the clothes that I have on suitable for dinner with your family?”

“Whatever clothes make you feel happy and comfortable are appropriate clothes. We’re not fancy. Trust me.” Cosmo ran the brush through his hair, and Hawk’s eyes crossed. “Now my mother, she’s fancy.”

“Oh?” Hawk was fascinated to hear. He had met a few fae in his life, but he’d never gotten to know any personally.

“Yes, flowers are her talent, and so her home is a bower, and every meal is blossoms and tea cakes. Every so often you just want to dig into a huge steak and tear it apart with your teeth.”

Why did that sound so sexual?

“Does she not partake of meat?”

“Only when she’s grumpy.” Cosmo began to braid his hair into a single, long tail. “Dad, however, he’s kind of a carnivore. He tends to wander out when he needs something amazing. He gorges on brisket and steak and burgers and chicken until he’s full. Then he’ll wander back home, take a two-month-long nap, and then wake up renewed for quite a while.”

Parents. How interesting to have a mate with parents. Especially ones that he could possibly see, interact with. He assumed that some of his former lovers had had parents. It just had never come up. He wasn’t sure that he had parents, and if he did, they were probably sound asleep at this point.