Ordering Take-out(Private)

Jers was looking gayer by the second with all those flowers growing in his hair, he thought briefly.

Yuuki Ozaki how could you! He scolded himself immediately. And would scold himself further as he mentally imagined the guys he was usually into. White hair, crisp light colored eyes. Tall. Jers was basically the opposite of that. Shut. It. Shut up Ozaki damn it. He face palmed hard. Most people thought he was too young and short too. Judging based on height would be like… Kinda lame and hypocritical of him.

Gosh this was all sorts of embarrassing. But Jers had mentioned the gay thing first. Gaaaahhhh. Gaaaaaah!

He’d just come right out and said that. That was the kind of thing that could get your tail whooped in some places. Granted… Technically people should be more wary around him than the other way around. But… He would rather not hurt people if he didn’t have to. Particularly if it was in the line of conflicts he could have avoided in the first place.

Ozaki was blushing beat red at this point, from the topic of conversation, an impressive accomplishment for a vampire. But he had gotten his blood pumping quite a bit during that fight, so it was moving a bit faster than normal.

All this stuff was just so embarrassing to talk about. I mean. What did Jers even mean by help him with it anyways? “Gonna tell me how gaydar works? Haha… Oh geez I hope that wasn’t bad.” Ozaki’s wince was so bad even his still currently out wings expressed it as they drew in close to him. He usually avoided making jokes for the worry they might come across as offensive in some way. But as much as his thoughts were being broadcast anyways….

Ozaki drew his fingers through his hair, making already chaotic mess even messier in the process. Well at least he hadn’t taken offense to it at all. Everything was fine and good.

“I’d have never guessed you were gay… But I’m not the best at guessing these things in people obviously.” Ozaki said laughing nervously.

He definitely knew the concept of being bi… It was just… Weird was all. He knew it really shouldn’t be, given it was a thing out there that people were. But there those who looked down on it or thought that kind of relationship unnatural. His father would be blitzing out about that kind of thing any time he’d heard about it. That man was almost as homophobic as he was racist.

Ozaki had manage to unravel most of the racism he had grown up with… At least he hoped so. But for some reason the whole liking guys thing just was like… Weirder to deal with. There were times where Ozaki would personally revel in the fact that the life he was living in a way that would literally make Yuuto’s blood boil. Not only was he a blood drinking vampire, but he was a blood drinking vampire who harvested blood from multiple people a week to be sure that the school’s blood supply for hemophages of the academy never came up short. No student would have to go hungry on his watch.

He worked at a school that had a mix of all species. Humans, demons, vampires, and phoenixes all sitting table to table next to each other. Eldritch Academy was the beautiful antithesis to everything he had ever been taught in his childhood.

Maybe this should also be one of those things? Haha….

Easy as that huh? Huh. He never found anything about romance easy. He’d dated few women before, and it always tended terribly. He had also had a slew of failed one night stands… Don’t even get him started on how those. Basically what happened was… No he really didn’t even want to think in that direction. Honestly that was even more embarrassing than talking about this gay errr… Bi… Bi gay stuff.

The whole concept of that… Genre of stuff was hard for him. Even outside of the question of gender or species… Species being a thing he had to consider since he was a vampire and all and some species were definitely a no go without serious levels of protection going on. Like, you could protect an entire house with that many wards and protections but instead you decided you just had to bone an angel.

Gah! Well now his mind was going to be in the gutter for awhile. Lovely. “Probably having a riot out of all this aren’t you?” He said with a borderline snarky half smile as he sat down next to Jers, wings stretched out behind him and relaxed. He wasn’t really doing anything with them right now. It just felt nice to let them breathe a bit sometimes.

Ozaki stuck his tongue out at Jers to show that he wasn’t too terribly antagonized by the topics. I mean he was but… Not in the worst way. Times like this were times he could just be chill and say whatever he wanted because there would be no future repercussions for them. Still was weird to talk this open though about all this. But hey. It was nice to have someone to chat with. Good company. 

“Not saying I’ve ever done that.” Ozaki said, waving a hand at that very notion of landing an angel. Bad luck with sexual conquests. Yah you could say that. Bad enough luck that he could still get a unicorn to like him easily enough to heal a torn off arm. Sure it would have healed back in a week. But he’d wanted it back sooner than that. Calling his se… Calling his attempts conquests would be like calling a tricycle a motorcycle. Yah no where close.

Naga though huh? That must have been… Something. Ozaki had met quite a few odd hybrids in his time in Eldritch Academy. But he wasn’t sure he had met a dark fae naga hybird.

“Should probably ask now before I forget. Mind if I take that blood now?” He had a phlebotomy kit on him. And while this wasn’t the most conventional place it should be fine enough so long as Ozaki sterilized the injection site before the needle went in and Jers avoided it getting dirty while it was in. Then he could use one of his minor healing salves to patch up the injection site. Maybe for a few of those bruises too if Jers wanted that. Of course he’d give Jers the salve to put on himself of course.

“Just your arm will do.” Ozaki patted the area inside the elbow to show where he meant.

Ozaki admittedly was a bit lost in his own thoughts to really notice what Jers was doing. Not to mention even under the best of conditions he had a tendency to miss someone was actually checking him out for once rather than the other way around.

“Just met the result, never the parents.” Ozaki would say in regards to the hybrid. Perhaps it had been one of those vampiric variants that wasn’t sensitive to holy relics. There were a few variants out there. His own type of vampire was liable to branch off and be considered its own type of variant given its tendency to pass down certain traits from sire to siree. Could be anything from physical appearance modifications, talent, or certain weaknesses or strengths that the sire had.

The hybrid hadn’t been the most healthy or strong though. But they had been nice.

He thought briefly to if he knew any particularly large trees. That was a pretty good indicator of age. “I suppose I know of a couple deeper in, want to do this there?” With as much as Jers had listened today to his complaints, he felt he could oblige the request. It would mean the blood drawing process would take longer to finish up. But obviously efficiency wasn’t his primary goal with this outing.

He had highly efficient methods for harvesting a large amount of blood in a short amount of time. That’s just not what he was after right now. Well that was odd though... Wouldn't it be kind of difficult to conceive a child if you were both male? Well... Actually that would depend on if gender bending spells were involved. And some species could be intersex just by default. He was trying not to imagine the logistics of how a humanoid would knock up a snake creature. Or vise versa. yah, he really didn't need to know the details there. Really. 

Oooooh. Coughing blood. That was no fun. Speaking of how long away was that for him now? About a month and a half. Yah. He was fine for now. But never mind that. He was worried about Jers again. And for a moment questioned if he should take the fae’s blood… Really he didn’t feel like he’d need to talk to anyone after this for awhile.

But the fae did have an excess of blood from polycythemia vera. So it should be okay. At least if it wasn’t he was almost certain Jers would tell him it wasn’t. “That’ll be fine.” At least for awhile. If he was going to take blood and couldn’t find a vein with that it’d be troublesome. But he could just ditch that entirely. It wasn’t like this was the most efficient method anyways. That one was as simple as hypnotizing thirty or so randos off the street to a certain place and just taking their blood in a group there. Quick and easy. Almost disappointingly so at times.

He couldn’t help but be curious though what form Jers would take. He started leading the way deeper into the forest.

Oooh. A skull. Spooky. Ozaki wasn’t being earnest with calling it spooky though, more of a playful thing. His mind briefly went to the last memory of skulls in this park. Nyx washing a skull clean of viscera and fur she had just ripped off of the deer’s neck. The very memory made him feel the need to gag for a second. He really did need to frigging get over this hemophobia of his. His threshold was higher than it used to be.

But if Nyx was ever wiling to even so much as be in the same room as him… No just in general it was bad that he was freaked out by blood. He was a vampire for crying out loud.

He felt a little bad about thinking about that memory when Jers was having such a good time. He was just like a puppy running at the park. No offense intended.