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  "And even if he had left me anything, I would have sold it years ago! Do you think I liked living in poverty? Buying my clothes from Good Will? Living in a tiny trailer in a cheap park while all the kids made fun of me because I was poor?

  "Just leave me the fuck alone! I don't have anything!"

  Sean hauled off and slapped the guy across the face then, dropping him.

  "Oh shit," Sean said and looked up at Roxy, "I didn't kill him, did I?"

  "No, but you sure as hell knocked him out. Let's get our things and go! Last thing I want to do is end up on the news or down at the police station!"

  Sean nodded and getting his bags they took off away from the mall, dodging through the neighborhood next to it. They weren't the only ones looking to get away from all the shooting, not that he could hear anymore at this point. But what he could hear now were police sirens as every cop within twenty miles converged on the mall. Two police helicopters quickly shot overhead and started to circle the area.

  "So much for a quiet night of making out and studying," Sean sighed as they slowed down to a walk.

  "Yeah, here hold this," Roxy said and shoved the other bag at him, and got out her phone.

  "Who are you calling?"

  "That witch I know," she paused a moment and then, "Jolene?"

  "Oh, hi Roxy," Jolene said over the phone, "what are you doing?"

  "Walking home, just what, or should I ask who, are you doing?"

  "Oh, nothing that enjoyable I'm afraid, but the news on TV looks rather exciting. Some sort of terror attack on the mall?"

  "Yeah, I saw it. I need you to come by my place."

  Roxy heard Jolene laugh, "You need me? Isn't it supposed to work the other way around?"

  "Just get your ass over to my place, and get it there now, Jolene, understand?"

  Jolene paused a second and her voice suddenly sounded a lot less relaxed. "I thought we were friends, Roxy?"

  "Why the hell do you think I'm calling you? I need help, please, Jolene?"

  "I'll be there," Jolene said and hung up.

  "Jolene?" Sean asked. "Isn't that your hot girlfriend?"

  Roxy sighed and rolled her eyes, "Why does everyone call her that?"

  "Because she is?" Sean replied honestly. He'd seen Jolene over at Roxy's quite a few times over the last two years that he'd been living there. She looked like Kate Upton with brown hair, only, sexier, if such a thing were possible.

  "And why does everyone always think we're a thing?" Roxy grumbled.

  "Um, because of the noises that come from your room when she's over?" Sean smirked, "I mean, I don't have a problem with two sexy women having some fun mind you..." Looking up he noticed that Roxy was the brightest shade of red he'd ever seen.

  "It's not like that," she mumbled looking rather embarrassed.

  "It's not?"

  "Well, not exactly. It's complicated," Roxy shook her head, "we're getting off track here, I'll explain later."

  "I'm going to hold you to that," Sean teased, lowering his voice. "Actually, I think I'm going to hold you against a lot of things!"

  "Lions," Roxy grumbled.

  "Go put your things away, then come to my room," Roxy told Sean when they got back to the house.

  Sean nodded, "Okay. What about dinner?"

  "I'll order a couple of pizzas, alright?"

  "Sounds good!"

  Going into his room, Sean considered just dumping everything on the bed and going over to Roxy's and abusing that hot little body of hers for a while, but then he'd still have this stuff to put away and she'd be upset with him for slacking off. Looking bad in her eyes was definitely something he wanted to avoid, besides, after they finished studying, he'd have all night with her in bed.

  She was his now, there was no reason to rush things.

  That thought stopped him and he smiled and shook his head, that one didn't sound like it came from his lion. Maybe he was integrating as she had called it? He sure hoped so, having arguments with himself in his head was just a little disquieting.

  Roxy opened the door and looked at Jolene who was sitting on her bed, wearing a smile and not much else.

  "Thanks for coming over," Roxy said, giving Jolene a hug as she stood up to greet her. "Now put some clothes back on. I need you to look at somebody."

  Jolene smirked, "Why can't I look at them naked? They a prude or something?"

  "Because I don't feel like sharing him just yet and you've got your work cut out for you."

  "Oh! New boyfriend?" Jolene asked and bounced on her toes, the whole effect was rather interesting on Jolene's shapely body, as always, Jolene pretty much emanated sexuality. Roxy wasn't sure how Jolene was going to react to Sean, though she was pretty sure how Sean and his lion would both react.

  "Clothing, on now," Roxy pointed, and with a pout Jolene slipped into her jeans and then pulled her top on.

  "Yes," Roxy continued, "I have a new boyfriend, he's a lion-were, and if you don't know much about them, I suggest you look it up."

  "Aren't lions into prides and harems and stuff like that?" Jolene asked.

  Roxy nodded, "Exactly, and if you don't want to end up in his, you might want to exercise just a little big of caution."

  Jolene laughed, "But I'm not a lycan. Everyone knows lycans and humans don't mate."

  "There are always exceptions," Roxy sighed, "and don't be surprised if you become one of them. You've been warned."

  Jolene blinked a moment and looked at Roxy, "You serious?"

  "All of this is very serious. Someone is after my Sean, and neither one of us has any idea why. So before I start asking people who might know, I thought perhaps you could use your magic on him and find out if there's anything special about him."

  "Wait, you just warned me a moment ago that I probably shouldn't sleep with him, and now you're saying you want me to use my magic on him? Roxy, I'm a tantric witch!"

  "Yeah, I know," Roxy sighed, "but you're the only person I know who I trust and I have to start somewhere."

  Jolene nodded, "Okay, well tell me what you know and I'll see what I can do."

  Sean knocked and then opening the door walked into Roxy's room. Roxy was pacing back and forth talking to her friend Jolene, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed.

  Jolene was barefoot, a pair of very racy spike heels on the floor, wearing a pair of jeans and a peasant blouse with a low cut in the front that did nothing to hide her rather abundant cleavage. She was definitely more curvy than Roxy was, and Sean figured she was maybe five and a half feet tall, with long brown hair that came down to her very shapely ass.

  "... the only thing I can't figure out, is why they haven't attacked here," Roxy was just finishing up. She then turned, smiling at him as he entered and came over, and then gave him a hug and a very passionate kiss. Sean wondered if she was perhaps marking out her territory in front of her friend.

  "Hi, Hon," Roxy sighed.

  "Hi, Love," Sean replied, smiling. He could feel his lion preening at the attention, but then, so was he.

  "This is my friend Jolene, who you've mentioned noticing before. Jolene, this is Sean."

  "Hi, Sean," Jolene said and rather sensually uncrossed her legs, got up, and came over and gave him a hug. Sean still had one arm around Roxy, but he put the other one around Jolene and hugged her back. She beamed up at him and damned if he didn't start to get hard.

  Letting go of him, Jolene sauntered back over to the bed and sat down, and Sean thought he detected a faint growl from Roxy, so he hugged her a little tighter and rubbed up against her.

  "Okay," Jolene started, "I think that may be my fault," and she looked a little embarrassed.

  "Your fault?" Roxy look surprised, "How?"

  "I've warded this entire building against scrying and tracking. Magically this place doesn't exist. So any one using magical means to locate anyone inside this building," Jolene shrugged and Sean appreciated the way it made her chest bounce, "won't find them when they're here."

  "
Why did you ward the house?" Sean asked.

  "Because of her," Jolene grinned and pointed at Roxy. "I'm over here recharging my batteries often enough that I don't want anyone to know about it."

  Sean looked at Roxy, who was now blushing rather fiercely and squirming against him, and then he looked back at Jolene. "Wait, what? Recharging your batteries?"

  "I'm a tantric witch, Sean. Do you know what that means?"

  "You use sex to cast magic?" Sean blinked and looked at Roxy again, "You've been casting magic in here?"

  Jolene laughed, "No, not really. Well, except for when I recharge the wards. You see, I use the power that sex gives me to do spells and other magic. As I can store that power inside me, I just come here to do a little 'recharging'," and she smiled at Roxy so warmly that Sean almost felt jealous.

  "Jolene and I became friends back when I first started college here," Roxy spoke up. "She eventually figured out what I was, and told me what she was, and well, we were already friends, and sex with a friend is more powerful than with a stranger, and ah, I sorta agreed to help her out if she'd help me out."

  "Ooookay," Sean said and looked at Roxy, then back at Jolene, then back at Roxy, his imagination running quite wild at this point.

  "There's one other thing to it," Jolene added, "that Roxy didn't mention."

  "You mean this gets better?" Sean said grinning and Roxy smacked him on the butt with her hand.

  "While I get okay power from having sex with humans, I get a lot more from creatures with a magical potential."

  "Like lycans?"

  "Especially lycans," Jolene said with a wink as she smiled at him.

  "Just remember one thing," Roxy growled in his ear softly.

  "What?"

  "Lycans and humans don't mate. It rarely ever works out."

  'What about lycans and witches?' his lion growled rather lustily.

  "What about lycans and witches?" Sean repeated with a smirk.

  "Just tell your lion to not to be in a rush to add her to his pride."

  "What about me?" He teased.

  Roxy just scowled at him, and Jolene laughed from the bed.

  "I'm not looking to join any prides, don't worry. I'm far too happy playing the field."

  "Sure you are," Sean smiled and nodded. "So, now what?"

  "Well, Roxy wants me to use my magic on you to see what I can learn."

  "Does that mean we're going to have sex?" Sean asked, a little surprised.

  "No!" Roxy growled.

  "Probably not," Jolene said with a smile.

  Sean shrugged, "Okay, so what do I do?"

  "You can start by stripping."

  "Umm," Sean glanced down at the obvious tent in his trousers.

  "Don't worry, I've seen lots of erections and I just love looking at them!" Jolene said and licked her lips winking at him again. "And I'm sure Roxy will be more than happy to help you with it, once this is done."

  He looked at Roxy, who had already started to undo his belt, so grabbing his t-shirt he just pulled it up over his head, and tossed it on Roxy's desk as his pants fell down around his ankles. He wasn't wearing any underwear, and he'd left his shoes and socks back in his room. So stepping out of his jeans he was completely naked.

  Jolene looked him up and down, "Wow, I had no idea you were so well developed under those clothes!"

  "Don't swell his ego up too much," Roxy chuckled.

  "I don't think it could swell anymore!" Jolene teased and Sean blushed just a little. To say he was excited was definitely an understatement.

  "Take the watch off too," Jolene said noticing it. "Any other jewelry?" she continued looking him over.

  "Nope," he said and handed the watch to Roxy who put it on the table.

  "Okay, I need you to lie down on the bed, on your back," she said, and taking his hand she brought him over to the bed, and had him lay down on his back, then positioned his hands, folded, over his navel, and then grabbing his feet she spread his legs apart so his feet were at the same width as his shoulders.

  "Okay, close your eyes."

  Sean did as she asked and after a moment he felt one of her hands on his forehead and the other on his folded hands.

  He started to see images then. It took him a moment to realize that he was reliving Friday, all over again. It all seemed to be going well until the moment he was grabbed from behind.

  Then it all stopped.

  "Shit," Jolene swore.

  "What?" Roxy asked, sounding worried.

  "There's something going on here. This is going to be a bit harder than I thought."

  He felt her hands leave him then, and he heard the rustle of fabric.

  "What are you..." he heard Roxy say.

  "You better take your clothes off too, Hon," he heard Jolene say.

  Sean opened his eyes and was just about to ask what was going on, when Jolene straddled his chest, naked.

  "I need more contact," she said smiling down at him, "lift your arms a second."

  Sean did as he was bid and she moved up until her knees were almost in his armpits, her legs lying along his side.

  "Good, put your hands where they were before."

  Sean nodded and did so, and she sat down on them. Putting her hands on either side of his face, she ran them up into his hair and leaned forward, her full chest only inches away from his face.

  "Close your eyes," Jolene instructed him.

  Sean did so and almost gasped as she lay down on top of him, his face now well buried between her rather attractive breasts.

  "Okay, let's try this again," she purred.

  Jolene closed her eyes and started to work her magic. Prying through people's memories was usually child's play, at least when they were willing, and this Sean beneath her was very willing. Very willing for other things too, she could tell, but she didn't blame him for that, most men were and to be honest, he was a pretty impressive specimen. Roxy had finally picked a winner it seemed.

  Settling down into Sean's head she started his Friday all over again, only this time she started at the moment he had woken up. Sometimes when you ran into a block, having a little momentum helped.

  She didn't linger over anything; she just let it all run at the speed of thought, until she came up to his confrontation with Dean again. Once that had played out, she slowed things down and started to push all of her power into his remembering, she wasn't going to be denied. She didn't like it when she was blocked from something she wanted, and she liked it even less when someone was blocked from something that was theirs.

  Jolene hit the first wall when Sean was tasered, his body going for rigid for a moment under her as he relived the moment.

  "It's okay," she whispered, "it's just a memory; it has no power over you."

  She felt his surprise and relived his shock as he tried to figure out just what was happening. She felt it when he kicked, but heard the sound he had missed, the sound of something growling outside the van, the sound of tearing metal.

  Then the crash and the pain as he broke his arm, and had his leg ripped open.

  Jolene hit the second wall then, as he pulled off the hood and looked around, seeing what was happening around him. The lion-were laying waste to the remaining man, who was shooting him with a damn big gun.

  The lion-were said something, but she couldn't hear it. Backing the memory up she threw even more power at it and ran through it again.

  The lion-were called him by name, it was peculiar that such a memory would be blocked.

  Then he was unconscious again.

  Jolene hit another wall, and had to force her way through it with even more power. It was a man, one whom Sean's subconscious immediately identified. A friend, an old family friend. He was talking, but she couldn't hear what he was saying.

  Jolene rewound and started it again, pushing more energy into it, still there was no sound, she could see his lips moving, even make out some of the words.

  With a growl of her own, she rewound the memory once again, a
nd this time she pushed all of her power into it, not holding anything back as she ground her body against Sean, who was panting beneath her.

  Jolene heard Sampson warn Sean that 'they' were after him, and that he, Sampson, was dying. That they wanted something his father may have left him. She heard all of it, and then Sampson bit Sean, infecting him, changing him. She felt the lion inside him take root as his body healed, and left with no coherent mind to steer it as Sean had passed out from blood loss and shock, the lion ran off and hid, until it had made enough sense of Sean's thoughts to go gather up his dropped books, and return to his room.

  "What's going on?" Roxy asked, the concern in her voice was clear to hear.

  "There's a block in his mind, blocking the memories," Jolene was panting, she was nearly spent, but she'd broken through all of the blocks, now to see if she could find the source.

  "Could it be from shock? From what happened? From getting bit?"

  "No," Jolene said, "This is magical. Someone has put something in his mind. A-ha!" she crowed as she found it!

  "A geas, an old and well buried one, from over a decade ago I'd guess! Someone doesn't want your Sean to remember certain things, or," Jolene looked at it further; there was something strange about it. But she wasn't sure. She didn't have enough power left to figure it out.

  But she had a nice strong lycan male on his back beneath her with an erection that wouldn't quit.

  "Oh, this is going to be fun!" She said and sitting back up she looked at Roxy.

  "You're not going to?" Roxy said, looking a cross between jealous and concerned.

  "He's got something nasty in there, and it's going to take a lot of power to remove it," Jolene smiled. "And guess what I have? Two horny lycans who are just full of it."

  Reaching back behind her, Jolene raised her self up, and taking Sean's length into her hand she slid back and guided him into her center, settling down and sighing rather happily as she felt him enter her core. There was a lot of power in this one, a lot! Roxy had most certainly picked a winner.

  "You can use your hands now, Sean, and anything else you'd like!" Jolene giggled and then motioned to Roxy.

  "You can sit down right here in front of me and give Sean something to do with his tongue while we make love!" Jolene panted as she felt her own lust beginning to rise. Sean's hands had a hold of her hips and were starting to stroke her thighs as Roxy straddled him; settling down Roxie started to kiss Jolene, Roxy's hands coming up to massage Jolene's chest, adding her own inherent power to the mix.