The Desires of his Mentor

Aetri had been carrying Crow through the snow, She was so light in his arms, it made him smile at the thoughts of the past when He had to drag her in with his little arms into Lee's cabin, He'd always been close to her, She'd never been far away, even if she was a cold and unfeeling body at his side, she was still there, still here... but Lee, even as she marched past him with a Huge bottle in her hand, her Black hair, Black-striped scarf and Blonde coat whipping in the cold air as she continued on ahead.

He was Close to her too, He cared for Lee even as He had hated her before, still, even with Crow's cold nature, he was still closer to her than Lee, his Mentor kept a safe distance, if she felt pain then she hid it under an ocean of Ale, one He'd tried to fish her out of barely successfully.

"You're worried about Her?" Aetri looked down to Crow, she had opened her Black eyes and was staring at him inquisitively

"No." He lied, she knew.

"She still does not like to speak to me," Crow said in her slurred but frozen tone.

"She doesn't like to speak to anyone, she just polishes her Club and Her swords, looks after her Oxen and drowns herself in drink."

He noticed a twitch in Crow, a very subtle kind of what he thought might be regret "She used to speak to her sister, she used to say much."

There was a pause, He looked down at Crow, a clear conflict in her mind "You remember? I thought that was impossible?" He was excited, and a little afraid, Vatan were not supposed to ever remember things from who they were.

Crow shook her head, clutching her eyes shut "No... this one remembers nothing." She eventually stammered.

He frowned, but nodded, she was far from normal, but she deserved to rest. As He came upon the Lodge, His curiosity came to a head, about Black-Crow's past, about the woman that was once Lee's Sister, the woman who He now lay in his bed, leaving her to sleep peacefully.

Lee was not in her room, He'd checked as much, nor was she with the Oxen who lay lazily in their closure. But Aetri didn't need to speculate where His mentor had gone when He heard the flashing clang of metal on wood coming from the tall Barn.

He lingered at the Barn's doors, He could hear her, grunting and growling as she honed her blade. "This is foolish... She'll just get angry, it's a waste of time." That's what He told himself, but He lingered still, hesitant to leave and eventually, he found his hand on that cold wood of the door as He pushed it ajar.

Lee's breath streaked through the air, as she gracefully sliced and tore at His training dummy, running the body of her curved Eastern sword with precision and skill that mirrored Black-Crow's but with an added ferocity that made the dummy quiver under her powerful blows.

He stepped inside, quietly closing the door behind him, Lee did not halt she merely continued to growl as she battled her unmoving enemy "Mentor." Aetri said... but she didn't listen, she continued "Mentor..." He pushed, still she continued "Aunt Ector?"

"I am not your Aunt." She growled, swinging in a round arc so that the bright steel embedded itself into the wooden flesh

"What are you doing, out here, You'll catch your death-"

"I am not your mother, I'm not your father, I'm not your blood, My only blood is either so far east that I don't even recall what it looks like anymore, or trapped in a frozen cunt shell, following you around like the ghost of a lost puppy!" Lee snarled, two more consecutive blows to the neck and chest: killing blows.

Aetri frowned "Since when did our lack of relation ever bother you?"

"Pft You never know what bother's me, Boy." Left cross, pirouette and a lunge to the right: complete disembowelment, a slow painful way to go.

He felt the rage coming again "How am I supposed to? when you never talk, not to me, not to Crow-for goddess sake she's your sister!"

"That thing is not my sister!" Her voice rumbled even louder than the dummy, as it whinnied with seven consecutive strikes delivered in less than a second. Aetri folded his arms, watching her as she smashed her sword into the Dummy's side. "Why should I give a shit, about a walking insult to my sister's memory, or some idiot who just does everything that I tell him to!?" She cried, starting to hammer again and again into the dummy's side which began to chip and splinter.

"Lee..."

"I don't care, I don't give a damn!" She yelled, smashing it again and again.

"Lee, just stop it." He pleaded softly, but she kept going, digging more and more into it's hip

"I was a General of the Iron Legion, the Black Iron Bitch, the death-bringer, the Unstoppable!!" slicing and slicing, again and again.

"Lee!" He cried, seeing the Dummy crack and creak.

"It's over, just go!" Her command was strained, weak compared to any other that she had ever given "I." Another devastating cut "Don't." Yet another, the Dummy's side bled puffs of woodchip "CARE!"

The Blade split wood like paper, sending the top half of the torso tumbling over as it's jagged hips splintered into nothing. Lee paused, staring at the ruined upper body of the dummy and fell to her knees, dropping her blade and taking it into her hands "No... no... No." She said, her voice full of sorrow.

Aetri rushed over to her, kneeling beside her and looking in shock as Her eyes welled with tears "I broke it... we carved it together... and I broke it..." Lee's puffy green eyes looked at him, tears falling down her cheeks as her lip quivered "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."

He reached up hesitantly, touching his Mentor's cheek to brush the tears away, she made no move to stop him, neither did she retract as He pulled her into a warm hug, but instead, she wrapped her arms around him, silently crying into his nape as they sat there for a moment, letting her release her pent up frustrations at what He knew was just fear of him and Crow leaving.

A couple of minutes passed, and Lee released him, leaning down to try and collect the parts of the splintered dummy as she sniffed "I can fix it."

"Don't worry about it." He said, taking her hands and guiding her over to the where the Bales of hay sat, watching as she plopped herself down, wiping her pretty face as she grimaced "I don't remember the last time I cried."

"There's a first time for everything, You old battleaxe." He smiled, Lee took a breath

"Shut up." They smiled, as Aetri snatched up her bottle of drink, taking a large swig before sitting beside his Mentor.

"So... Crow, said something... about Her life before..."

Lee looked at him with a sad smile "Something has been happening with her, something that isn't supposed to happen."

"A Vatan who's on her Third tether isn't supposed to happen, yet, she's still with us, that's something to be thankful for." Aetri took another swig of Lee's drink, Lee taking it gratefully and sipping hungrily.

"What was she like? Before... You know?" He had to ask, it was still strange to imagine her as anything other than what she was now, but the curiosity still burned inside.

Lee lent back, huffing out her reluctance to speak on it, but she talked, in a careful and slow voice that betrayed her poor memory of her sister "We were just kids then... I was 19, she was 22, she used to love music, walks by the Peachtrees as they bloomed their Magenta leaves. She used to smile, and laugh... a lot..."

"Really?" He grinned cheekily, Lee nodded

"Oh yeah, couldn't get her to stop smiling. I remember Her Eyes, even greener than Mine or mother's, they matched the Brightly coloured Kimono that she used to prance around in... They are a kinda dress that Imperial women wear, I thought they were ridiculous, I was Young and fierce and hated everything that Noblewomen were expected to be, she embraced it, used it as a tool to protect our family from scrutiny... seeing her now, I'd die to see her in one of those dresses again, She doesn't look good in black, and those Emerald eyes were taken from her too." There was grief in her words, like none he'd ever heard.

Of course, Aetri had seen Lee's sorrowful stares at Black-Crow, but He never understood the scope of why, now He wasn't sure that He could see Crow with anything but that Smiling brightly dressed girl in his mind.

"She was always willful and stubborn, that much hasn't changed. I still remember when The Magister proposed a marriage to Our father, an old baggy kind of noble, I'm sure you can picture it?"

Aetri nodded grimly "I can't imagine Crow being happy about that?"

"She was furious, refused outright, dishonoured my father in front of his entire court... The Imperial Magister took her in the night, it woke me... I saw them leaving, I knew that he'd threatened the family because she smiled at me, told me everything would be fine, to just go back to bed... that was the last time, I thought I'd ever see that smile."

Aetri rubbed Lee's hand supportively, she looked at it, hesitated, but placed her other hand on his, tracing along the skin of his palm "I confronted my father about it. He didn't bat an eye, didn't even have the decency to lie to me, He told me how He sold her to the Magister, how He was gonna experiment on her and make her one of those Vatan freaks... giving up was the easy thing to do, I couldn't face her like that-"

"Didn't you try and save her?" surely she would have tried? He would have gone to hell and back to save His family from a fate like that, but Lee darkened

"The Magisterium is not like any army from Britannia, Aetri... Once they get you, You're done. I should have tried still, I think about it every day, but I ran, I ran to Britannia, and I enlisted in the Legion because fighting is all I've ever been good at..."

"Well One: that's not true, and Two: the Jade Emporer has been friendly with the Britannian monarchy for aeons, He has been sending Vatans to serve as part of the peace pact for just as long, You must have known that? that You'd see her again eventually?"

Lee drank some more, an especially long gulp and shrugged "Maybe... I don't know why I haven't talked about this sooner, I didn't mean what I said I just... I got so used to being alone and now, I don't know what I'm supposed to do when you leave."

"Well that's easy, come with us!" He insisted, but Lee merely laughed

"You think I want to go back to that damnable place! I did terrible things there... no, better frozen here and alone than to remind myself of all the blood on my hands. But, as much as I hate that place, and You love it here... You need to go back." She stared him in his eyes "It's your fate, one that cannot be ignored, Yours is the right to be home."

A sickly kind of feeling came into Aetri's stomach "But... You, and Frigg, my friends, and Kara I-I..."

"Kara..." Lee spoke like the taste of her numb was bitter in her mouth "That one is trouble, I can feel it in my bones."

"I'll have you know that she's wonderful, a little nosey but Beautiful and smart, plus... Your bones are all old, maybe they're wrong."

Lee chuckled, knuckling him hard in the bicep "Don't get cheeky kid, My bones may be old but they have yet to fail me."

"Oh really, and what is it that Your old bones tell you?" He asked curiously.

Lee brushed back her long black hair, her shiny red slip pursing as she squinted her green eyes "Well, they say that although the Uld are overly joyous and an exceedingly pompous bunch of idiots, that they would have Outcasted Kara and Her father for a reason, and that any girl who is with you for Nearly two years and doesn't fuck you has something of an agenda to fill."

Aetri reddened, tucking himself into his knees as He grumbled: "W-We've done... stuff."

Lee gave a very unamused smirk "The Words of a true Virgin."

"I'll have you know that we have done a lot!" He said, the booze allowing truth to jump from his jaws.

Lee raised her eyebrow at him coyly, and He shrank down more, realising how childish He sounded. Lee merely smiled, a strange kind of look in her eyes as she crossed her legs "There is nothing worse than a girl who doesn't put out, trust me, I had my fair share back in the day."

Aetri cringed drunkenly, shaking the thought from his head "I didn't need to know that."

He saw his mentor looking at him... with that strange look again, a knowing kind of gaze that made him blink nervously "Don't act like you haven't thought about it." She said, her voice a soft venom

"I-I haven't, of course, I haven't I never would-" Aetri silenced himself, his lies didn't work on that piercing emerald Gaze

"I've seen you looking at me and Crow, I mean It's not like I try to hide anything. Not like I could if I wanted to, these damn things are bigger than Melons!" Lee swished from side to side, making her full breasts swish with her, just, as usual, he saw her nipples poking through the thin material of her vest, Aetri pulled his eyes away.

"What's a melons?" He asked

Lee grinned "Oh right, none of those in Britannia, it's a fruit, large, round... heavy." Was she... tempting him? no that was impossible... but was she? "Do you... ever think about, using Crow?"

"What? no of course not?"

"Okay okay, just asking, You could you know, You're her tether, she obeys all of your commands... hasn't it ever crossed you mind, she's petite sure... but she's beautiful." She was tempting him! holy shit! b-but why?

"Well... I'd be lying if I said, I didn't think about it but... I care about Kara." He admitted the booze saw to that.

Lee raised an eyebrow "You care about her? Hell, I care about you, I care about Crow, I don't hear love in there? You don't love the girl at least?"

Aetri thought about it... it was a strange thought, He wasn't sure about... love, it sounded very intimidating to him, even after all of this time, He still wasn't sure if He loved any girl, save for his family.

"Do you love me?" Lee asked

"Of course I do-" Aetri paused at his readiness at answering that, flushing red "That doesn't count!"

"Oh?" Lee's voice was soft as butter, sensual and calm "What kind of love? do you... like me physically?" Lee caressed her breast, let her hands flow down her flat stomach down to her legs.

"That's a very complex question." He jumbled out, He saw her hazy eyes, decisive, lustful well in them... it sparked a little something in him, Lee bit her full red lips, crawling towards him as He froze in place, feeling her strong, smooth body slip towards him, her breasts pressing on him, her hands touching him as those Emerald eyes drew closer.

He felt her quickened breath brush against his face, she was so close, He could smell her: smokey cinnamon, suddenly He couldn't feel the cold for he was blazing with heat, in his face, in his chest and in his cock, his phallus hardening as Lee mounted him, her powerful thighs pressing on his, her arms wrapping around him, Saints... her face was so close, the possibility of her stealing a kiss from him engorging with his cock as she let out a reddened huff

"complex? how about I ask now, do you want to fuck me? Boy?" It was so swaying, She'd never been this close to him, not like this, it was ensuring, it entangled his senses, bewitched his thoughts.

"Yes..." He whispered, a wanton hiss as Lee smiled deviously.

It was a quick as a flash of lightning, Her lips were on his before He could even comprehend, overwhelming him with her hungry tongue which wrestled with his.

Aetri saw stars, lost in Lee's mouth as she pushed him further and further.

He could smell her heat, feel her need for him as she dove deeper and deeper into his desire. He could taste her then, her rage, her need, her every desire, the sweet nectar of her love for him a motherly thing, the bitter anger of the cold and frost that they lingered in, every flavour of Lee-fu as her chest drummed rhythmically against his, dulled through the bulbous flesh of her round breasts, who's hardened nipples drove into him like Jousting lances.

They detached only when She snarled, pushing him back against the cushioned bale of hair behind him, where she slithered like snake down his body with a wild look in her eye "Time to see just how much you really love me, Boy." Her whisper pierced into his senses, made his body rupture in a storm, her head stopping only at his waist, where her experienced hands began to pull away at the belts and buckles of his trousers.