Chapter 11

The following characters return from previous stories:

Keith

Doreen’s husband, 5’-11’’ tall, 170 pounds, 36 years old, light brown hair, blue eyes, rather handsome

Steve

Dallas’s husband, 5’-11’’ tall, 165 pounds, 35 years old, black hair, dark eyes, broad shoulders, very good looking

Sixteen days after Sara’s period, the same problem occurred again. This time it was even stronger than the first time had been. This time, we had been having sex for a long time and enjoying each other tremendously before both of us went over the cliff together, and then came crashing down on to the mattress. Sara had passed out again, and I was groggy, more groggy than usual. So, it was some time before I looked around at the room.

The Magic was back ... with a vengeance. It was solid, very solid, as it rotated around the bed like a tornado or a hurricane. The gold flecks in it were very bright, and it filled the entire room passing through the walls to the other rooms. I wondered just how far it extended in and around the house. Could those watching for the CIA see it or did one need to be a Magic user to see it?

It was obvious, however, that it would take a long time for it to dissipate this time to the point where we could get through it. I let Sara sleep and recover normally, as it was apparent that we had a long wait in front of us.

In her hotel room in North Charleston, Dallas sat up suddenly when the wards around the room that she shared with Steve suddenly vanished.

“What in the...?” she asked just before Doreen beat on their door. She quickly answered it.

“What just happened to the wards?” Doreen demanded in an upset voice.

“They ceased to exist,” Dallas answered in an unhappy voice.

“Yes, along with all of the Magic in the area,” Doreen said before both suddenly realized what was happening.

“A female Dragon is getting pregnant!” they both exclaimed on realizing the cause of the missing Magic.

“We need to find her quickly,” Dallas added.

“We only need to locate the missing Magic. That’s where they will be,” Doreen told her.

“Should we take our Husbands with us?” Dallas asked.

“We don’t have time to wait for those slow pokes,” Doreen told her. Both sisters were ready to leave shortly.

“I’ll drive,” Dallas said as she had the keys to the SUV.

“Okay, I’ll navigate,” Doreen agreed before sending out her Magic senses to locate the missing Magic, as Dallas opened the car.

“Turn right after leaving the parking lot,” Doreen directed as Dallas pulled out of their parking spot.

“Keep straight for a bit, but we are going to have to switch to another street or streets to reach them,” she added once they were out of the hotel’s parking lot. They changed the road that they were using several times following that to stay aligned with the missing Magic.

“It would have been easier to fly here,” Doreen complained as they finally pulled to a stop on a street in a subdivision. The missing Magic was concentrated in a house a short distance down the street.

“The radar from the airport would have picked us up if we had tried that with all of the attendant problems,” Dallas reminded her Sister.

“Let’s walk from here. We don’t want to be conspicuous,” she said next changing the subject. They both exited the vehicle to walk toward the house with all of the Magic circling around it.

“Damn, they have to have sucked the Ley Lines dry to get this much Magic here,” Doreen said as they approached the house. They could see the Magic still circling the house, and it was very thick, but not quite as thick as that in the bedroom. It was also starting to slow just a bit.

“Damn, those two were really getting it on,” Dallas said as they continued to watch the Magic for a time.

“We probably don’t want to bother them tonight. They may still be busy,” Doreen said with a grin. “We can return in the morning and talk to them,” she finished, but was distracted by something that caught her attention when it moved. She stared at it for a few seconds.

“Someone is watching the house,” she told Dallas and pointed to the two cameras she had already spotted.

“Wonder who the watchers are?” Dallas commented.

“Could be the local cops or the FBI,” Doreen said as she checked something on the ground near them.

“Microphones,” she said pointing to the small object that she had picked up.

“That’s probably why there is a Silence spell around the property as well as a ward,” Dallas told her. They had easily passed through both spells. Dallas also had a question.

“Are you wearing your disk with the camera obstruction spell?” she asked.

“Yes, it’s become second nature, like it’s a part of me,” Doreen replied.

“I know, I’m wearing mine too. Whoever these cameras and mikes belong to, they aren’t getting any signal now,” Dallas said with a grin, as they returned to their vehicle.

At the rental house down the street just prior to that, Mike had called to his partner.

“The cameras are totally fucked now!” he told him. The other man came over to look at the monitors.

“Damn, all of them are out,” he said in an unhappy voice. “Did they all go out at the same time?” he asked.

“Yeah, they did. They had been acting funny before that for a time. The pictures were rather indistinct, like something had covered the lenses, but it wasn’t anything solid. It was more like gauze or something similar was covering them. They have been acting quirky for a while now,” Mike told him just before the pictures returned, but they were still a bit fuzzy.

“Well, at least, we have something now. What the hell could have gone wrong with all of the cameras at the same time?” the other man asked, but they had no answers. Dallas and Doreen had already left the area, and the spell was no longer affecting the cameras. By about forty-five minutes later, most of the Magic had disappeared and the pictures on the monitors had sharpened up.

Back in Nick’s bedroom earlier, Sara had returned to consciousness and seen all of the Magic circling the bed and the room.

“Oh dear!” she said in a startled voice. “Did we do all of that?” she added.

“Yes, we did. You may really be pregnant now,” Nick told her. Sara considered that for a time.

“Well, if I am, it won’t hurt to do it again,” she said in a determined voice. “Fuck me again, Nick,” she demanded.

The two of them hugged and kissed for a time before returning to sex. Again, it was long, slow strokes to start but became more frantic later until they both went over the cliff again. Sara didn’t pass out that time but enjoyed it just as much. There was only a bit of Magic circling the bed when they were able to notice it again. A good hot shower followed that a bit later before they returned to the bed for the remainder of the night. It was a bit late when they arose in the morning.

Dallas has the Narrative

We were up reasonably early the next morning, considering our trip last night. Steve had questions when we awoke.

“Where did you two go last night, and what happened to the wards? I see that they are back this morning,” he wanted to know.

“The Lines were drained last night. In fact, nearly all of the Magic in the area disappeared,” I told him but was interrupted before I could finish.

“That doesn’t bode well for an office here,” he said.

“Can I finish?” I asked testily.

“Yes.”

“It all disappeared because a Female Dragon was getting pregnant,” I told my shocked Husband.

“WHAT? A Dragon here and a Female at that?” he exclaimed in surprise.

“Not just A Dragon. A pair of Dragons,” I corrected my Husband.

“And one is a Female?” he asked to be sure.

“Have you seen any pregnant male Dragons?” I asked in a condescending voice.

“Be serious,” Steve said. “Is that the real reason that we came up here?” followed that.

“Partly. Mother had a visit from Bob the Demon in her kitchen. She hadn’t summoned him,” I told my surprised Husband.

“Really?” he asked in surprise.

“He told her there was a developing problem in Charleston, and it involved a Dragon. From what she said it sounded like only one Dragon. Last night proved that to be wrong,” I told him.

“So, who are they, and where are they?” Steve asked.

“Doreen and I drove out to their house but didn’t interrupt them. Even outside after we arrived there, the Magic was still very thick and rotating at a good speed. It would take a while for it to wind down,” I told him.

“Damn, that ... that sounds like an Old Dragon was involved,” he said in an unsure voice.

“Don’t know. We were unable to penetrate the Magic to learn anything,” I told him.

“So, is this thing about opening an office here serious?” he asked getting back to the other part of why we were here.

“If there are two Dragons here already, it would make sense to put them in charge of an office here. That would mean that you and Keith wouldn’t be spending most of your time up here,” I reminded him to a startled look from him.

“Yes, that would simplify things a great deal,” he said after a little consideration. Doreen knocked on the door right after that.

“Are you guys ready for breakfast?” she asked when I opened the door.

“Not yet. We need to dress. Why don’t you and Keith go down and order for all of us. We’ll be down shortly,” I told her. Breakfast a little later was alright, but I wasn’t impressed by the way the kitchen had prepared the eggs. They certainly weren’t up to my standards.

“What time are we going back to talk to those two?” Doreen asked during breakfast. I presumed that she had informed Keith of where we had gone last night, since he didn’t react to the question.

“We should give them sufficient time to get up and have breakfast,” I told her.

“So 9:30 to 10:00 o’clock?” she asked.

“That sounds reasonable,” I agreed, before adding to our Husbands, “be sure to wear your camera obstruction disks. Someone has them, or at least the house and property, under surveillance.” Neither Keith nor Steve seemed surprised by this.

We arrived up the street from their house at about 9:45. I parked far enough from the house that our vehicle wouldn’t be seen by those watching the house. Steve had brought an extra disk, and it was left in the vehicle just to be sure.

As we approached the house, Keith had an observation.

“There is a ward around the house as well as a Silence spell,” he stated.

“Yes, whoever is watching them also planted mikes in the area,” Doreen told her Husband. In fact, she walked right up to the house and knocked on the front door. It was answered a few seconds later by a good-looking man of about average height. He seemed just a bit upset or agitated.

“How did you get through...?” he started before a look of surprise crossed his face.

“OH! You’re Dragons. That explains how you got through the ward,” he said.

“Hi, I’m Doreen Kavanagh and this is my Sister, Dallas and our Husbands Keith and Steve. May we come in?” she asked.

“Yes, come in. It’s a bit of a surprise to see you here,” he told us and opened the door all of the way.

The house that we entered was a number of years old, but in good condition and had a modern floor plan with a single living room or parlor. There was a young woman standing in the living room. I could immediately tell that she was a near-Dragon and obviously the one who had gotten pregnant last night.

“I’m Nicolae Maier and this is my friend Sara Hankel,” he told us in introduction as we all entered the living room. He then turned to the young woman.

“Sara, these are the Kavanagh Sisters, Doreen and Dallas plus their Husbands Keith and Steve. The ladies are the Daughters of the Dragon Queen,” he told her, before turning back to us.

“Why are you here?” followed that.

“My Sister and I became aware of you last night after we lost all of our wards because the two of you had drained the Lines and pulled most of the Magic in the area to your house. We followed the Magic here,” Doreen told him, taking the lead in the conversation which was unusual.

“Hmm ... we became aware of all of the Magic ... some time after it had arrived,” he told us somewhat sheepishly.