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39 Excelsior Place was the oldest house on the road.

In fact, 39 Excelsior Place was the oldest house in the neighborhood. Through the years Henrietta, Virginia had mostly kept up with the times. Old, decrepit homes were replaced with bright white houses and wooden fences. The convenience store went from locally owned to a chain. The schools got better. Wifi was available in almost every pubic place.

39 Excelsior Place did not keep up with the times. Crouching darkly at the end of the road, squatting fiercely in its dead end, the house was every bit the past it came from. Tall with gothic architecture, unwelcoming pointed gates, and black bricks the hollow eyes on its gray and white face. Huge windows were long covered with sheets, as had been most of the furniture. Once upon a time the house had been beautiful. Once upon a time, however, was a long time ago. In 2016, most people stayed away from 39 Excelsior Place. Smartly so. Its resident monster hated everyone.

Everyone except for its sole resident, elderly Mr. Greerish. Greerish said he had a family. Nobody ever game to visit so the monster called him a liar. Greerish placidly made excuses, such as They’re very busy and It’s been a while since we’ve caught up. Apparently Greerish had a favorite nephew: a baby when they last met. It had smiled at him once. No one else in the family smiled at him.

The monster called him an idiot. Greerish laughed and returned to his books. That was how they found the old man dead. With a pleasant smile and a book in his lap.

Fine. The monster didn’t care about Greerish anyway. It had only just begun to tolerate him. With his death, 39 Excelsior Place would be free of pests and the monster could hide away from the rest of the world until it eventually died. That was what happened to monsters. He’d read the old books Greerish kept so neat in the bookcase. They all ended the same. The monster was killed, burned, staked. The handsome prince got the princess. Or, in the monster’s personal interests, prince. Not that it mattered.

What the monster did not know was that there was a Will. A thing that had been executed by the local priest out of pity for old man Greerish. There was only one stipulation.

Everything I own, including 39 Excelsior Place, will be so inherited by my nephew, Adam Parrish.

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"You'd be the first," Adam murmured, pressing his head against Ronan's and closing his eyes. He knew Gansey loved him as a friend, even though they fought half the time. It wasn't the same. Adam wanted someone to love him first, most, forever. He wanted Ronan.

Stepping back once he was sure Ronan understood his affection, Adam let his eyes roam more freely. "Must be hell putting on clothes in that form," he teased, expecting that Ronan simply didn't bother. "Will you turn? I want to see."

Ronan couldn't understand how, considering Adam was so fucking lovable. Precious. Not perfect, and every little flaw, Ronan liked. His stubborn asshole.

Somehow he managed to relax. It wasn't as bad as he thought it would be. He hadn't ended up dumped. It made him more willing to show Adam other things, so he nodded, "Sure." The way he changed, it was like the wings folded back and melted into his skin, becoming the tattoo so smooth across his shoulder blades. His nails shortened and some of the feathers flaked off while others slunk back until he was back to being human, naked as he had been before.

"Before Greerish showed up, I didn't bother with clothes at all." He shrugged. "He said it was a good idea for me to wear pants in polite company."

"Oh," Adam said, as he transformed. The moment's disappointment was clear on his face until he realized his own mistake and blushed, feeling stupid. "Oh." Adam mussed his own hair, smirking a little at his own error. "I meant turn around. I was not at all clear."

Reaching for Ronan, Adam pulled him into another kiss, deep and heated, moaning softly into Ronan's mouth. "Fuck, you're hot," he mumbled, biting at Ronan's lips.

Ronan blinked in surprise, and then laughed. It was a loud sound, echoing off the walls of the attic. "Shit! I always call it turning, so I didn't think...." And then he blushed, at the thought of Adam studying his body that closely.

It was all forgotten when Adam reached for him. He responded eagerly, no longer afraid of letting his guard slip and dropping his form. Grabbing Adam tight around the waist, Ronan leaned back, tugging the other boy on top of him as his back hit the pillows. It was fluid, how he slid into feathers and claws again, raking the points of his nails gently along the dip of Adam's back.

"Funny," he breathed, "I was just gonna say the same thing." Cock half-hard between his legs, he swallowed, looking up at Adam. A few feathers had broken out along his hairline again.

"You're so... sexy, holy shit."

Adam grinned happily, straddling Ronan's thighs as they landed. He moaned at the feeling of Ronan's claws against his back, making him shiver and whine in Ronan's arms.

Nuzzling affectionately at Ronan's cheekbone, Adam let his hands roam, greedy for everything he could get. "Do your wings get squished if they come out while you're on your back? Can you really fly?"

Leaving no opportunity for Ronan to answer, he latched onto Ronan's earlobe, sucking on it with a needy little whine. He was overwhelmed with want, impatient to do everything at once.

"Th... hah... how am I supposed to answer when you're... doing that?" he breathed, pushing his hips up against Adam as he arched his back. Fuck, it was good. Since Adam seemed to like it, he continued to gingerly rake his nails along his back, grazing and tracing.

Swallowing, Ronan tried to focus on his questions. "N... no. And yes." As if to prove the former, his wings unfurled from his back, spread wide beneath them to accommodate their position.

Breath hitching, he turned his head and greedily bit Adam's shoulder. Sucking, marking him with a possessive, red mark.

"Fuck," Adam breathed, turning his head to admire the wings and then immediately getting distracted by Ronan sucking on his shoulder. He keened with desire, grinding his hips down against Ronan and shuddering repeatedly as Ronan sucked on him, claiming him. "Ronan," he panted, cock aching inside his jeans.

Squirming and batting at Ronan to get him to let up for a moment, Adam fumbled with the clasp on his jeans, getting up so that he could shimmy out of them and then sliding naked back into Ronan's lap for more kisses.

He made a frustrated noise when Adam bat him away, but before he could complain he saw what he was doing. And stared, face on fire once more. Fuck. Holy shit. Fuck. Sweating, he watched Adam slide out of his jeans. Ronan's gaze instantly dropped to the trail of dark hair that lead to... shit. Fuck. Shifting, Ronan swallowed thickly, cock throbbing intensely in response to seeing Adam in full.

And then he gasped when he felt Adam against him. "Fuck," he gasped, "fuck, you're so hot. Fuck." Fully turned once more, he raked his nails across Adam's ribs a little less gently. Not enough to hurt but enough to leave light, red streaks behind on his lovely skin. Opening his mouth, Ronan welcomed more kisses. Heated, needy, as he reclined back onto the pillows.

"Adam," he breathed, moaned between kisses, "Adam." His wings curled around them, stretching out, which made the tips of glossy raven feathers brush against Adam's arms and shoulders.

Bracing his elbows on either side of Ronan's head, Adam keened at each touch, each kiss, nails and wings teasing at him, making him feel overwhelmed with pleasure. "Ronan," he replied, grinding their hips together and then reaching down so that he could grab them both, squeezing their lengths together with a needy whine.

Everything felt unbelievably intense, and Adam's head was spinning. Nothing mattered but Ronan.

"I want everything," Adam panted, nuzzling distractedly at him. "I have no idea what I like. I want to try everything."

Having their bodies rut against one another was overwhelming—Ronan felt that his heart might burst, for real. It was racing so quickly that it almost hurt. And when Adam grabbed his erection he grunted, gasped, eyelids fluttering and back arching sharply again.

"I don't know either," he managed to say, voice thick, words difficult to form. "I've never—not with anyone." Of course not. It was obvious, wasn't it? The most he'd ever come close to as far as sex was masturbating, and even that tended to be far in between. Kissing felt so fantastic that he could have lived off of that alone. Sex? It was almost impossible to comprehend that he might actually have it. Or anything close.

"I don't know where to start." An honest admittance, even if it was a little embarrassing. He had no idea where to even begin.

Tugging, he pulled Adam's mouth to his again, wanting a kiss.

"We can," Adam started to say, and then was distracted by the kiss. Moaning into Ronan's mouth, he writhed against him, trying to get as close as possible, wanting more and more.

He wasn't embarrassed or dissuaded in the least by Ronan's confession. It had been mostly obvious, and Adam had tried to express that he was in the same boat. He hadn't even kissed Blue, and there hadn't been anyone else.

Only Ronan. They could learn together. Adam was pretty sure they should just stay right here in bed until they'd tried everything. Or until they got too hungry to continue.

Ronan wrapped his arms around Adam tight as they kissed, wanting nothing more than to have the other boy hard against his body. The fact that Adam wasn't repulsed by him was a miracle. To Ronan, Adam was magic. Maybe not the same kind of magic Ronan was, maybe not a dream, but... he was a magician, weaving magic between his fingers and breathing it into Ronan's heart.

Breaking the kiss and needing a minute to process everything, he tucked his face into Adam's shoulder and panted against his throat, eyes closed and clinging.

He'd cling tighter if he wasn't afraid of scraping Adam with his claws. Did Adam really not hate that he was covered in feathers? That his talons were dangerous? That they weren't even the same species?

"I love you," Ronan murmured.

"I love you back," Adam murmured, nipping softly at the curve of Ronan's ear.

Ronan loved him. Ronan loved him. Ronan loved him.

It was the best thing that had ever happened to him, without question.

Ronan loved him.

Adam hugged tight to him in return, pressing his face against Ronan's shoulder. As much as he wanted sex with Ronan, he also desperately just wanted to be held. "Don't let go," he begged, shuddering with the strength of his emotions.

For that moment, Ronan rued what he had been born as. Not because he was hating himself, the nightmare that he was. No—he wished he had been born as Adam's heart, so that he could always be with him.

"I won't," he promised, holding Adam tight, struggling with the typhoon of his own emotions. He had always felt vividly, felt with his whole body. His feelings for Adam were an oil spill. He'd dropped the match, and now everything was going up in flames.

He was torn between wanting to hold Adam, be held, and to continue learning the contours of his body. For hours, he wanted to gaze at Adam's naked form. For hours, he wanted to kiss Adam's knuckles and fingers. Dote upon every beautiful inch of the boy. And in return he longed for Adam to touch him, to touch where no one had ever touched before, kiss the harsh parts of himself that everyone else ran from.

Yet that all required moving and part of him wanted to just hold Adam forever, until they twisted together like the roots of two trees growing near one another.

Slowly, his wings folded inward more, brushing against Adam's back and cocooning them in glossy black feathers.

Adam loved him back. He no longer cared if it was a dream. If it was, he didn't want to wake up. But, as he was slowly realizing, it wasn't. In which case, he was never going to sleep again. No dream would ever be as sweet.

"I won't ever," he promised again, gently raking his nails down the shape of Adam's spine with one hand. The other remained fast around Adam, hugging him close.

Adam nestled against him, cuddling close and matching his breathing to Ronan's. Their nudity no longer felt embarrassing or sexual, simply intimate. Skin to skin with his boyfriend, who now meant more to him than all the world.

His thoughts were utterly innocent until Ronan's nails skimmed down his back, making Adam's breath catch and his cock twitch. "Fuck," he groaned, catching Ronan's earlobe between his teeth again and giving it a tug along with an erotic whine.

Adam's tug rewarded him with a shiver. Ronan arched up against him, clutching tightly with one arm as he continued to make his way down his boyfriend's back with the other. With care, so as not to leave a painful scratch. When he reached Adam's ass he couldn't resist giving it a playful squeeze, delighting in the fact that he could almost as much as the fact that Adam had a very nice ass.

"I want to see you," he murmured, turning his head so that he could look at Adam's face. "All of you. Can I?" He'd gotten a nice look before but hadn't been afford enough time to really memorize every inch. When he dreamed of Adam he wanted to be as accurate as possible. To know him, every part.

Adam groaned low at the squeeze to his ass, claws scraping exquisitely against his skin. "Yes," he agreed, grinding down once and then pushing himself up.

Stealing one last kiss, Adam pushed up to sit, letting Ronan see his thin, hungry chest, with only scant traces of hair. His skin tone was even, since most of his work and study had always been indoors, and the warm golden undertones of his skin went all the way down.

Pulling the hair tie from his thick hair, he tugged it loose from the cursory braid he often wore, letting the black waves spill free over his shoulders.

Below his navel, a dusting of dark hair led down, thickening into a tangle of dark curls around his pink and gold cock.

Grinning shyly, Adam licked his lower lip. "This good enough, or you want me to get up and twirl?"

Ronan took his time, eyes lingering on every inch. The slim yet strong chest, the gentle dip of waist, a handsome navel, a trail of hair leading down...

He swallowed thickly. Adam was real. Cock twitching between his legs, Ronan ignored the intense arousal thrumming through his system in favor of pressing his palms against Adam's chest. The pads of his thumbs brush Adam's nipples and his nails gently graze against flesh. Slowly, his hands slide, exploring down with curious fingers.

Ronan's hands were rough. Calluses from working outside, textured, even without the sharp points of his talons. The short feathers around his wrists brushed against Adam as well as he moved, blue eyes flicking, memorizing every lovely inch.

And when Adam let his hair loose—fuck. Ronan nodded his chin up and watched as strands of black pooled over those shoulders. Amazing. Almost as amazing and appealing as the dusting of dark hair below his navel; Ronan's hands made their way there soon after, curving along the dark patch.

"Fucking great as that would be," Ronan said, "I don't want you to go anywhere." Eyes lingering on Adam's cock, Ronan was hit with another stark pang of arousal. Fuck.

As much as he wanted to slip his lips around the head of Adam's cock, Ronan wasn't quite ready to launch right into that yet. Licking his lips, he did lean forward to lick along the trail below Adam's navel, kissing the patch of skin and hair with reverence. Then, just hard enough for Adam to feel it, not to hurt, Ronan bit him.

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Adam's hips twitched at the touch of Ronan's callused fingertips against his nipples. "Fuck," he breathed, clasping his hands around Ronan's head, fingers smoothing carefully over the dark feathers.

All of this was utterly new to him, and Adam was enrapt by the attention, the reverence paid to him.

Utterly awed by his lover, Adam's fingertips roamed over Ronan in return, skimming over his shoulders and lingering curiously at the base of his wings, intrigued by how the wings emerged from the muscle and bone of his back.

Gasping and laughing at the bite, Adam's grip tightened on Ronan's shoulders, nails digging in slightly.

He was achingly hard and wanted more, more, but he didn't want to rush through this. He wanted this moment to last forever, and to take his time exploring and being explored by Ronan. "I love you," he murmured, trying out the words on his tongue and the subsequent soaring in his heart.

Ronan's breath became shallow when he felt Adam touch around his wings. "Fuck," he agreed, softly, the knots in his belly twisting and pulling tight. Goosebumps and shivers ravaged him. It was an incredibly sensitive spot, made even moreso by knowing Adam was touching him there. No one had ever touched him there before. Not even Niall Lynch.

Adam's laughter was like sunlight. It warmed Ronan to the core, touched things that he had long considered gone and dead. The nails digging into his shoulders just slightly made him moan, made him want more. Adam could mark him up from head to toe and he'd love every second.

I love you. The words made him emotional every time he heard them. Choked up, he buried his face against Adam's belly, eyes wet. Dangerously close to crying, he was saved only by the scratch on the attic door and the call of Kerahhhhhh?

Ronan sniffed, trying to keep himself together. "Fuck off, Chainsaw. You're not allowed to watch."

Adam had never seen Ronan so emotional. So vulnerable. There was a soft core under all that bristle.

Stroking gently at Ronan's head and back, Adam kept him close, arousal flagging a little in favor of emotional intensity. "I love you," he murmured again, loving the way that Ronan hugged him close, like he was something precious. "You were never a monster, Ronan. You've always been my prince."

His grip only tightened with Adam's words.

For someone to say he was never a monster... he didn't believe it, but it eased something that had ached painfully for decades. He did have to snort when Adam called him a prince, peeling back so that he could look up at his boyfriend.

"Really? Your prince?" He offered a grin, laughing a little, "Shit, you deserve better than me. I'm a shitty prince. But I guess you've got shitty taste, huh?"

His expression was soft, tender in a way he'd never shown before.

"If we're gonna be corny as fuck—you're my sunlight."

Tenderness and shock flickered over Adam's face at the words, clearly deeply touched by the affection.

"I think we should be corny as fuck," Adam agreed, blushing and leaning down to take a kiss.

Starving for Ronan after even their short pause in kissing, Adam pushed him back onto the bed, pressing close to him and kissing feverishly.

Ronan loved him.

Pouring everything he had into the kiss, Adam gave himself entirely, wanting to lose himself in Ronan, wanting to give every inch of himself that he could offer.

Ronan fell back when Adam pushed him, opening his arms and welcoming his boyfriend into them. Kissing Adam was like breathing fresh air for the first time. He opened his mouth and kissed back with just as much urgency, need, fever heating his skin. Rather than think about anything, Ronan only allowed himself to feel. Feel Adam. His lips, his tongue, his body. Everything.

Hands wandering again, Ronan took as much as Adam would give. Arching his body up against the other boy, he gave in to the natural desires that plagued him. Cock throbbing, he rubbed his erection up against Adam's leg, he rut with the desperation that had been building up.

Nothing else mattered. Only Adam.

Keening with desire at the way that Ronan moved against him, Adam ground down against Ronan in return, trying to give and receive as much stimulation as possible.

He refused to break the kiss, moaning as their tongues tangled. Kissing Ronan was dizzying. He felt free, wild, happy. Kissing Ronan was like standing in a rainstorm, electric and overpowering, and Adam was in love.

The doorbell rang and Adam ignored it, reaching down to grab Ronan's cock. "Fuck 'em," Adam mumbled, nuzzling at Ronan and nipping at his collarbones, whatever skin he could find between the feathers.

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