Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:47:31 +1200
From: Arthur <artcart65@vodafone.co.nz>
Subject: prince vladd part 8

			   PRINCE OF HOUSE VLADD

				  PART 8

				 BY ARTHUR



I shouldn't need to go through all the legal things by this time so just go
ahead and read.


artcart65@vodafone.co.nz



The two lovers waited until it had turned to night before they took any
further actions on their discovery, once Sin Yu was up and about, Peter
called all his guardians to his office, when they were all assembled, Peter
began to disclose what he and Swiftwing had found.

"It appears we are being targeted by some very greedy people from the bank,
Sin Yu, what do you know about the CEO, Micheal Chase?"

"He's been your Fathers banker for over thirty years, there's never been a
problem before, what do you have?"

"It looks like someone has been buying properties for us for cash and then
charging us repayments and all the fee's that go with it, there has to be
some sort of collusion with the accountants as well, the lawyers I don't
know, maybe they're in it, maybe not, it seems that it has only just
started and so far they have managed to take about $3.7 million if our
figures are right."

"Well the first thing I would advise is to go and speak with Micheal Chase,
then take it from there."

"Good ok, Caleb, can you set up an appointment for us first thing in the
morning, tell them it's urgent and I want to meet as soon as possible. What
I can't make out is, if they have been so honest with my Father, why start
something now, they must know I would have advisors to help me and they
would be found out sooner or later?"

"Maybe that's just it," interspersed Swiftwing. "They think because you're
still young that you'd never pick up on it."

"Could be, let's see what Chase has to say tomorrow." said Sin Yu.

"I want both of you with me tomorrow Levi as well as you my love, Caleb
don't let them know who I am when we go there, I want to just sit back and
watch what's going on first."

"That could be difficult Peter, Micheal Chase was at your birthday party,
he knows you by sight."

"True, but his staff don't, if it's not Micheal then it might be some of
his staff, I don't want to alert them."

"Ok, we'll keep it low key when we go in."

"Now Sin Yu, I believe I have some training to do, I want Swiftwing to join
us."

"Of course Peter, your mate should be able to defend himself as well as be
a back up for you."

"Ok then ,we can't do much more tonight so let's go down and get rid of
some tension." Peter smiled as he rose and, followed by Sin Yu and
Swiftwing, he went to the lift.

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It had been just another awakening, but now something felt different, the
vampire leaned back into his chair and watched his four young sirings as
they walked around the room half naked, their pale skin and well defined
bodies, bringing a stiring of desire into their sires loins. His thoughts
were, however on more important things than taking one of his boys to bed.

Of all the conspirators that had been at the table, only Gilliard Thomes
and Gregor Antovich were of any real interest in his plans to take over the
House of Vladd. Oh yes, he knew what the dangers were and what he would
have to do to make his new house safe from the Father of the young Prince,
still, what were the lives of a few human cattle compared to the eventual
prize at the end.

The images of Chapman, Riley and Chase, flashed through his mind, they were
only pawns and fools, if they really thought they would get away with
leeching money from the young Prince, then they were in for a big surprise,
he would give them a month at the most, as soon as the Prince had his first
feeding, he would have all the power of his Fathers memories and
experience, and they were long and many.

He had given them a false identity and all his details were well hidden
from the conspirators, when, and not if, they were caught, he didn't want
to be found out by their loose lips, every detail they had of him was false
and every lead went nowhere, he could continue to work in the background as
they fell, knowing what the rules were for traitors in the vampire world,
the other three would not be around for long, just fools, his plan had been
brewing for over fifteen years, every detail was checked and double
checked, by making use of Thomes and Antovich he would see his plans bare
very rich fruit.

The vampire settled back again into his chair and motioned for his youngest
turning, a teen of about fourteen, slender, blonde haired, with a
spattering of freckles over his small button nose, to come and sit in his
lap, the young boy, with a wide smile ran to his sire and piled happily
into the older mans lap, wriggling slightly as he felt the growing hardness
beneath him.

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Once Peter and Swiftwing were in the training room, Sin Yu handed both of
them a long heavy wooden sword each, it was a lot heavier than Peter's
Katana but about the same length, Swiftwing looked down at the unfamiliar
weapon and, with an enquiring look on his face, turned to Sin Yu.

"This is not really my thing, Sin Yu, it's not a natural weapon for an
Indian, what else do you have?"

"What are you used to in your culture?"

"We used bows and tomahawks."

"Bows I know of, but for the sort of fighting we do, they're no much good,
what's a tomahawk?"

"A small axe or hatchet if you like."

"Ah yes, that I can do for you."

Sin Yu took the practice sword from swiftwing and turned to a cupboard on
the wall, opening it he took out two implements that, too swiftwing, looked
like small wooden sythe shaped weapons with short handles, handing the two
weapons to Swiftwing, Sin Yu watched how he held them. Although they were
unfamiliar to Swiftwing, it didn't take long for him to get used to the
balance and feel of the weapons.

Swiftwing took a few practice swings with the weapons but found them hard
to control the same way he had been taught with the tomahawk, Swifwing
turned to Sin Yu with a question on his face. Sin Yu just smiled and then
began to instruct him.

"Those are Kama, one is for the right hand, the other for the left, if you
have them in the wrong hand you will feel the difference and they will seem
awkward in their balance, they are a very old weapon but more versatile
than your tomahawk, you can use them for blocking, stabbing, slicing and if
needed, you can cut your steak with them." Sin Yu laughed at the look on
Swiftwings face.

"OK, so how do you get the best from them?"

"First your actions must be made in circles, both small and large, do not
try to use them in hard chopping motions like your small axes, these need
finess and balance. If you learn to use them properly you will be able to
defend and attack in the same motion, let me show you."

Swiftwing handed over the strange weapons, immediately Sin Yu went into a
whirling, diving and ducking dance, the kama whirled over and around his
head, then his body, even as low as his ankles, the Kama seemed to be like
the blades of a helicopter, there was no way anybody could have got close
to the whirling boy without being seriously cut to ribbons. Sin Yu stopped
his demonstration and handed back the Kama.

"Let me get Peter started and then I will come back and begin to teach
you."

Sin Yu went to Peter after picking out another wooden sword.

"These are Shinai, they are for practice, when you have mastered these then
you can begin to learn about your true swords with the Bokken."

Peter looked at the bamboo weapon, the handle was bound in leather with
three leather bands interspresed along the blade to hold it together, on
the end was a small leather cap, it felt strange in his hands and the
length was a little more than his own Katana, about 44" long.

"Now, there are only four basic strokes and about five hundred variations
as well as what you yourself will come up with in time. First I want you to
only practice the four first strokes, as with any weapon, your balance is
vital for control, you're right handed so place your left foot firmly on
the floor and bring your right foot sliding up to it and then take it out
to the side level with your shoulder and slide it out front so your knees
are bent and you are braced solidly."

Peter tried the unfamiliar stance, Sin Yu shook his head.

"No, no, like this."

Sin Yu moved like liquid bronze, suddenly he was beautifully balanced,
Peter instantly saw the difference, Sin Yu's feet had hardly left the
floor, he was always just a fraction of an inch from the wooden floor, he
moved again, this time bringing his left foot forward in the same smooth
step.

"You see now, I'm always on balance?"

Peter nodded his head in understanding.

"Now hold your Shinai like this, bring your right hand up to the guard,
left hand down to the base, let the handle lay so that your thumb and
forefinger are on the top and wrap your fingers around until the top of
your wrists are in line with the V of your finger and thumb, lock your
wrists and elbows, for these lessons I want you to work on control later
you will be able to use your wrists to get more flexability in your swing."

Peter watched closely as Sin Yu showed him how to hold the Shinai correctly
and maintain his balance.

"Now the four strokes are like this, remember that these swords are better
for slicing than for stabbing, so, first, present like this, elbows tight
into your sides, blade level with the floor and pointing at your apponent,
head cut is straight up and down as you move forward, if you miss on the
downward stroke, turn your blade upwards and bring your stroke back upwards
in a continuous motion, see, down, up."

Peter nodded as Sin Yu showed him the smooth slash and foot movement.

"Next is the cross stroke, start with the same stance, bring your blade
straight up above your head and on the down stroke angle the blade about 45
degrees and bring it down at an angle from high right to lower left, that's
like from the left shoulder of your opponent to the right hip in a diagonal
line, again a miss allows you to instantly reverse the stroke and cut
upwards, third stroke is from the opposite side, top right to lower left
and return, the last stroke is the lateral, you use this stroke to
disembowel across the stomach or to decapitate. Right those are the bare
basics, practice all those until you feel confortable, and don't forget
your foot work, I'm going to help your mate."

Peter nodded and began to practice his foot movements, it was not as easy
as Sin Yu made it out to be but he perservered until he was moving
smoothly, next he began to practice the strokes slowly as he had seen his
teacher do, Sin yu kept one eye on him to watch for his mistakes.

"Right swiftwing, you're lucky, I've watched you and you have a natural
balance and agility, also, you have the heart of the warrior, the Kama must
be used freely and not as a power weapon, again balance and smooth
operation with the weapons is essential, don't try to force them, use your
natural agility to determine their movements, use your wrists and
flexablity, they are essentially cutting weapons but also have the added
advantage of being built for stabbing when in close, let your natural
balance dictate your actions."

Sin Yu took the weapons and again showed swiftwing what he meant with
smooth flowing movements, firstly the blocks and counter attacks, then the
first attack movements turning them into defensive blocks, swiftwing took
back the weapons and began to follow the basic moves that he had seen done
by Sin Yu. Sin Yu nodded his head in satisfaction that his first lessons
were being taken in by the lithe Indian boy, he turned to Peter and watched
closely, the Prince was learning fast, his balance was improving rapidly as
the heavy Shinai would soon overbalance the boy if he was not in the
correct stance for any certain stroke.

"Ok Peter, now lets try that with someone trying to cut you in half, watch
closely on my blocks, each block can be quickly turned into attack if your
balance is right."

Sin Yu took up another Shinai and took his stance in front of Peter,
perfectly balanced and waiting as Peter set him self for his first
attack. Even with Peter's enhanced abilities he could not break through Sin
Yu's defence, faster and faster he attacked but Sin Yu's defence was too
solid, after five minutes of sustained attacks, Sin Yu turned the tables
and set to attack Peter, it took only seconds before Peter felt the first
of what was to become, many sharp strikes on his body, but, ever so slowly
he began to get better until, after the two had been sparring ofr over an
hour, Peter finally got a strike on Sin Yu.

Sin Yu lowered his Shinai and smiled at Peter.

"Now you're getting it, let's change to the Bokken." said Sin Yu, and
lowered his Shinai, and,turning from Peter he went to another cupboard and
withdrew a pair of Bokken. Peter saw that they were identical to his Katana
but again made from a heavy dark wood. While the weight was more than his
katana, the shape and length were the same, Peter took the offered training
weapon.

"Now Peter, all you've learned so far are the basics, the Bokken is more
like your real Katana and will be easier to learn, use the same form of
defence and stance, always watch your balance and don't over reach, I'm
going to go and help Swiftwing while you get used to this weapon."

Peter took up his stance and began to practice his moves, he found that the
lighter weapon was easier to use and his moves flowed more naturally with
the lighter sword. Sin yu left him and went to where Swiftwing was going
through the program Sin Yu had given him.

"Swiftwing, we can now remove the sheaths from the blades, you've picked up
the moves very quickly, now let's see how you do with bare blades,
remember, it's more important to learn the blocks before you go to offense,
also watch where your blades are going, they'll take a leg off if you're
careless." Sin yu smiled as he reached out and removed the wooden covers
protecting the raw steel blades.

Swiftwing began his patterns again, this time he noticed that the Kama were
lighter and swung with more ease as they twirled about his body, his wrists
felt supple and his focus was more intense as the realisation of the danger
was made clear by the spinning blades. For the next two hours sin yu went
from one to the other, changing stances, adding moves and sometimes taking
up a weapon for the boys to practice against a live opponent.

At the end of the four hour session, both boys were sweating heavily,
Swiftwing felt the toughness of the training more than Peter becuase of his
lack of enhanced abilities, while Peter was slightly breathless and his
muscles were a little tight, swiftwing felt as though he had been squeezed
through a wringer and collapsed on Peters shoulder as they left the
training room.

"You both did a lot better than I thought you would, tomorrow Peter, you'll
start with your own Katana,Wakazashi and Tanto, swiftwing you still need
another day or two on the Kama, but when you have it down well enough I'll
give you another weapon to train on that you might like."

"What's that?" asked swiftwing.

"I think that your people also used a lance, well we have something similar
but much more effective, it's called a Yari, it's very good if you want to
keep your enemies at a distance but you also need a little room to be able
to use it properly, so with your ability with the kama and when trained
with the Yuri you will have both along range and a close in weapon, I think
you'll like it when you have mastered them." Sin Yu replied with a smile as
the two boys helped each other walk to the lift, both of them needed a
shower and a long rest.

Peter and swiftwing went up to the office, Dmitri, Jason and Mbeda were
sitting on a lounge watching Tv, Jason was comfortably laying against Mbeda
with his head on the chest of the African, his eyes partially closed as
Mbeda carressed his hair. Dmitri was obviously waiting for his lover Sin yu
to arrive, one look at the two lovers as they entered, told the three
guardians that the boys had been given a real workout by Sin yu and smiled
at them.

Peter could hear Simon and Max working in his bedroom as they cleaned and
remade the bed for their Prince, there was a small amount of giggles and
laughter from the two boys as they went about their duties. Peter grasped
swiftwings hand and began to lead him into their bedroom and then the
shower, dropping their sweaty clothes on the floor for Simon and Max to
attend too.

Once in the shower the two lovers had very little strength left to do more
than help each other to wash away the sweat of their training session,
finishing, they both then helped each other dry off and return to the
bedroom to get dressed in clean clothes. Simon and Max gave a small giggle
as they watched the two lovers change but continued to go about their
duties with small nudges and occassionally a little peck on each others
lips.

Peter and Swiftwing returned to the office and took a seat on another of
the lounges to watch the Tv screen with the others, Peter felt relaxed,
everything he had wanted to do so far had been put in motion, now only the
discrepancies in his bank needed sorting out, he still couldn't understand
why a man would need to steal from him after giving his Father so many
years of good service, Peter snuggled closer to his lover and let his
senses reach out to the rest of his house to check on his staff, he
immediately picked up on four new signatures, 'they must be the new staff
hired by Trantor' he thought to himself.

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In another part of the city, a cellphone rang, Gregor Antovich looked at
the caller ID but there was no number or name showing up, with a gruff
mumble about the stupidity of some phone companies, he opened his phone.

"Yes." he said gruffly, instantly he recognised the voice that
answered. "What do you want vampire?"

"We need to meet, I have an offer for you that you will find interesting
and very profitable."

"I already have a profitable offer from the others, what could you offer me
that I don't already have?"

"Let's just say that they won't see out the month, they've underestimated
the Prince and his abilities, you want to avoid being a part of his revenge
then we need to talk."

Gregor didn't answer immediately but let his thoughts go over what the
vampire had just said, one thing was for sure, a normal human could not
think like a vampire, maybe he was right, maybe the others were heading for
a fall, if so it would be a big one, in his own interests, he felt he
should listen to the offer.

"Fine, when and where?"

"This Friday night at 8.30 at the Metropole, room 412."

"Fine, but no tricks, I'll be bringing some friends."

"Don't worry my friend, this is strictly business, I'm sure you will be
interested in a little profit."

"We'll see, ok, until then." Gregor closed his phone and began to think
more seriously about his position with the others.

Meanwhile, another phone rang, Gilliard Thomes looked at his phone screen
for ID but there was nothing there, opening the phone he asked.

"Yes, who's this?" like Gregor he instantly recognised the voice.

"A friend, I'd like to set up a meeting with you, it's in your own interest
to agree."

"Is it, well what's it about, my time is limited."

"If you continue to be associated with the others, I'd say your time is
very limited, what I have to discuss may well be the only thing to keep you
out of trouble, and, believe me, the trouble coming to the others is way
more than even your office can handle."

"I see, ok, when and where?"

"Friday night, 8.30 at the Metropole, room 412, be there, it may save your
life."

"Ok, the Metropole, room 412, Friday 8.30. I'll be there."

"Good, don't be late if you value your life and position."

The phone went dead in Gilliards hand as the vampire hung up, this was
strange, why would the vampire want to set up a meeting with him and not
the others, Gilliard sat back in his chair and let his mind wander to
possibilities that had caused the strange phone call.

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As the dark of the night began to give way to the coming dawn, Levi and
Caleb showed themselves and the other four began to make ready to go to
their respective rooms for the daylight hours, Swiftwing yawned and nudged
Peter.

"Come on lover, I'm not like you, I need my rest and we've got to be ready
to go and meet this banker some time today."

Peter smiled at his lover and made to rise from his lap but, only after
giving a small kiss to the tight brown nipple beside his resting head,
Swiftwing shuddered at the sudden nip and a shiver went through his body
but he was just to worn out after the training and lack of sleep to make
anything out of it other than to rise and pull his boyfriend to his feet
and lead him to their bedroom.

Peter followed his lover without complaint, he was feeling a little tired
after their session with Sin Yu, Levi and Caleb gave them a smile and short
wave as they disappeared into their room. The two boys stripped quickly and
slid their tired bodies between the blue silk sheets, Peter immediately
spooned in behind swiftwings warm slender body, he could already feel his
lovers body relax into the begining of sleep as his muscles relaxed and
Peter grasped him closer, both were to worn out by their traininig to take
anything further.

Peter's senses picked up Calebs approach to his bedroom door, he awoke
instantly, the warm body of his lover was still pressed tightly to his own
stomach and Swiftwings long raven hair, which he had unplaited before bed,
was laying over the pillow and half way down the boys back, Peter parted
the hair and began to lay soft kisses onto the soft bronze shoulders, his
free hand slowly made its way down the front of the boys body, over the
tight chest and slowly down the ripples of his abs until Peter could grasp
lightly onto the rigid morning hardon.

With slow deliberate movements, Peter began to stroke the hardness under
his hand, his own shaft began to thicken and lengthen as it lay between the
silky soft skin of Swiftwings thighs, the feel of his round mounds pushing
lightly back against Peter's abs as he began to thrust lightly into the
hand that held his hardness in its grip.  With soft moans, Swiftwing began
to come to full consciousness as his thrusts grew more urgent and the hard
shaft between his thighs worked itself in and out with his own
thrusts. Peter gripped him tighter as they both felt the others need rise
closer to the surface, suddenly, with a blinding flash of two minds
combining, both boys spilled their juices as Caleb knocked on the door.

Peter shuddered with the climax as he felt his lovers passion in his mind,
it was like being another person both recieving and giving at the same
time, Peter raised his head and called for Caleb to come in as he released
Swiftwings now softening shaft, the dampness of his emission still on his
fingers, his own wetness was held between his lovers thighs to slowly leak
across Swiftwings ball sack.

Caleb entered and with a smile at the tableau before him, the heavy smell
in the air told its own story of what the two lovers had been up too, with
a slight bow he relayed his message to Peter.

"I've arranged a meeting for 1.00pm with Micheal Chase so you have two
hours to,...ahh, shower and dress." Caleb said with a smile.

Peter blushed as much as a vampire could and pulled swiftwing closer.

"Ok, we'll be up in a minute, ask Levi to get the limo ready after my
boyfriend has had his breakfast, I want to drop by the Ellis Street
building before we go to the meeting."

"Ok, we'll be ready when you are."

Caleb turned and left the room as Peter lay his face against his lovers
back again to take in a deep breath of his unique smell, with a quick
squeeze, Peter jumped from the bed while Swiftwing took it a little slower,
he really needed another couple of hours sleep but, if his boyfriend was
ready to go then he would be, tired or not. Both boys got into the shower
and cleaned away their mornings fun, Peter tenderly rubbing Swiftwings
smooth bronze body as though he was worshipping a greek god, the soap
running down the slender defined body in small rivers of suds, once
finished, Swiftwing took over and did the same for Peter, the long, strong
fingers massaging all his boyfriends tenderest places, especially the main
interest that hung manlike between the vampires legs.

The boys finally got dried off and made their way into the bedroom to get
dressed and then into the office where Caleb and Levi waited for them, with
no further hesitation, Peter lead his friends to the lift and down to the
reception hall, there he saw some new faces around the room, all male and
all working either bringing some lunch to the the security guards at the
table, or going around cleaning, Trantor stood in the centre of the room
overseeing everything, when he saw Peter appear he bowed and at the same
time snapped his fingers, immediately the new staff stopped what they were
doing and turned to Peter and bowed.

"Good morning My Lord." said Trantor as the small group appeared from the
lift.

"Morning Trantor, everything ok here?"

"Yes My Lord, these are some of the new staff, I'm sure you will find them
suitable, I've vetted them all and they are all prepared to become symbiots
to your service, My Lord."

"Thank you Trantor, perhaps we can sort that out when I get back this
afternoon, in the mean time my mate needs some food."

"Certainly, My Lord, I'll have Alfred see to it immediately." Trantor bowed
again and turned towards the kitchen hallway.

Peter sat at the table with Swiftwing as they waited for his lovers food,
Caleb and Levi left to ready the limo, Alfred appeared with a smile on his
face and a large plate of hot steaming food which he laid before Swiftwing
with a bow to Peter, once done, he turned and went back to the kitchen,
Peter sat patiently watching his boyfriend as he ate his brunch, it was
just shortly before 11.00am, they had three hours to fill, less 45 minutes
to get into the city, that left him with about two hours to have another
look at Ellis Street before the meeting.

Twenty minutes later and the four boys were in the limo and turning towards
the highway into the city, Caleb and levi sat in the front and left Peter
and Swiftwing alone in the back, Peter felt the unusual feeling of
nervousness take a hold of his body but it was quickly dissapated by a warm
hand grasping his own, Peter leant his head on the shoulder of his
boyfriend and sighed with happiness, Swiftwing had left his hair unplaited
and it fell in a torrent of raven black tresses over his shoulders and half
way down his back, Peter thought it made him look even more sexy and
mysterious as it flowed about his slender bronze body, Peter felt himself
getting hard again and snuggled closer to Swiftwing.

As the limo pulled up outside the Ellis Street building, Peter nudged
Swiftwing, the boy had drifted into a light doze as they drove down the
highway. Swiftwing woke with a start and looked around as he tried to
assimilate himself to his surroundings, Peter smiled at him as Caleb opened
the rear door for them to get out. Once on the sidewalk, Peter took
Swiftwing by the hand and lead him into the dark building. Peter could
smell the scent of the vaga boys in the stale air, knowing that they would
be sleeping in the sub-basement, Peter took his boyfriend by the hand and
lead him towards the crumbling stairs.

Climbing to the first floor, both boys looked around, as the contractor had
said, there was going to be a lot of work needed to make the rooms habital
for vaga, from their elevated position, Peter could see the empty lot where
he wanted the supermarket store to go, moving to the other end of the long
room, Peter looked down, this side was a little larger and would be
suitable for the nightclub, his plan of having the escape routes come out
into both buildings looked a lot more viable now he could see the areas
from this height. He had planned for each floor of the sub-basement to have
two exits so if one was compromised, the vaga could escape through the
other or, in an emergency, both exits could be used simultainiously.

The boys trudged up to the top floor and looked out over the city, Peter
saw a small hatch leading up to what he presumed would be the roof, by
enlarging that he could offer the Avian Vaga an extra exit as well as the
large slider windows and balconies, he was well aware that both the Feline
and Canine Vaga would be able to fight off most attacks and the fact they
were close to the ground floor would make it easy to set up some emergency
exits as they could easily leap the distance needed.

Peter hugged Swiftwing and, with a smile, turned his boyfriend towards the
ground floor.

"It's all going to work, my love, everything is going to be ok, I can feel
it."

Swiftwing increased his hug as they made their way down the old
stairs. Once out into the street again, the two boys returned to the limo,
they had half an hour to get to the bank for their appointment. Levi drove
the limo with confidence through the heavy midday traffic until they were
outside the Chase Manhattan Bank. The boys got out of the Limo and Levi
drove off to find a parking place for the car below the building, he would
rejoin them in the foyer.

The three boys waited until Levi reappeared from one of the lifts, holding
open the doors he waited for the others to join him before pressing the
button for the 40th floor that held the executive offices of Micheal
Chase. The lift came to a smooth stop on the 40th floor, the four boys left
the lift and made their way to the reception desk in the centre of the
lobby.

Behind the desk sat a women of about fourty five years old, dressed simply
in a slack suit of good quality, her hair was tied back in a tight bun and
her thin glasses sparkled in the bright light coming through the wide
picture windows, Caleb approached the desk as the women looked up at them,
her face showed a little annoyance at the sight of the young teens
approaching her desk, she looked up at Caleb as he stood in front of her
desk.

"Yes?"

"Mr. Vallison to see mr. Chase."

"I beg your pardon?"

"Mr. Vallison to see Mr. Chase, he has an appointment."

"I don't think so young man, I know Mr. Vallison and he's definately not
any of you, for a start he is about twenty five years older and I know him
very well, now if you would kindly leave before I call security we can
avoid a lot of trouble." The self satisfied look on the womens face said it
all, she knew best and that was that.

"Maam, I suggest you call Mr. Chase and tell him Mr. Vallison is here for
his meeting."

"Young man, you don't tell me anything, you are not Mr. Vallison and never
will be, now please leave, you have one minute and then I will call
security."

"You are quite correct Madam, I'm not Mr. Vallison." a smug look of victory
came over the womans face at Calebs admission until caleb turned and
pointed at Peter. "He is."

The woman almost broke out laughing as she looked at the young fifteen year
old holding hands with a native american boy, that alone was enough but to
have them holding hands was just beyond the limit of her christian
upbringing.

"Leave now, all of you." her voice was stern and her glare at the two boys
holding hands only made it worse, she reached for the telephone on her
desk, enough was enough, she was calling security, the boy in front of her
desk leaned closer, resting his hands on the top of the desk, his eyes
boring relentlessly into hers, his voice was soft.

"You will call Micheal Chase and tell him, Peter Vallison is here, tell him
now."

The womans fingers flickered over the phone numbers before she could
control them, her bosses voice answered immediately.

"Yes Margret?"

"Peter Vallison, Mr. Chase."

"Send him immediately, please."

"Yes Sir."

Replacing the phone she turned her glazed eyes to the boys, "You may go in,
he's waiting for you."

Caleb smiled and lead the way to the door as the glazed look in the womans
eyes dimmed, she looked down at her hands as the office door closed behind
the boys, a noise in front of her desk brought here eyes up once again to
see Mr. Chase junior standing before her.

"Who were those boys, Margret?"

"Mr. Peter Vallison and friends, Mr. Steven."

The sudden paling of Stevens face was quickly hidden as he coughed lightly.

"Please tell my father I'm going out to lunch, I'll be back before 3.00pm."
turning from the receptionist, he quickly made his way to the lift, taking
his phone from his jacket as he stepped into the waiting lift, using the
speed dial, he put the phone to his ear as it was answered by a familiar
voice.

"Hello Steven, what can I do for you?" asked Micheal Riley.

"We may have a problem, I'm not sure yet but I think we should contact the
others just in case."

"What! already, you said we had at least a month or more, what happened?"

"The bloody prince is here to see my Father, I'm not sure what it's about
yet but it seems strange to me to have a kid come calling this early, and
believe me, he's just a kid, couldn't be more than fifteen, I'll call
Gregor and Simon, you call Gilliard, we can meet at the restaurant we used
last week, say in about half an hour?"

"Ok, I'll get right on to it, see you there."

Steven closed his phone and reopened it to call the others, Simon answered
immediately and agreed to come but he could not raise Gregor, as he closed
his phone it began to ring again, caller ID showed it was Micheal.

"Yes Micheal?"

"I can't raise Gilliard, his phone must be off, bit unusual for a man in
his position, what'll we do?"

"We'll just have to go ahead with the three of us, if they don't want in at
this stage then lets's just drop them altogether, more for the three of us,
I'm pretty sure Simon will see it our way, ok?"

"Fine with me, see you there in twenty minutes."

Steven closed his phone as the lift doors opened into the basement car
park, he stepped from the lift and headed towards his car near the
entrance, once inside he started the car and left the building for the
small hidden restaurant that his little group used often. His mind was in a
turmoil as he drove towards his destination, it just didn't seem possible
that a kid as young as the one he had seen, would be able to put it all
together this quick, if at all, besides the kid should have still been in
school at his age.

The four boys entered Micheal Chases office, it took up the better part of
the whole floor, large lounge chairs were arranged around the room, all
facing inward towards the large glass topped desk in the centre, behind
which stood, with his hand outstrecthed, Micheal Chase. Peter now
recognised the man as one of his birthday guests, Peter did not take the
offered hand, instead he sat in one of the chairs close to the desk, the
look of confusion on the older mans face was genuine and troubled, it was
not good that the Prince had snubbed his offfered hand.

Micheal sat down and looked at the young Prince, the boy stayed quiet for a
few more seconds as he became more concerned at the steady stare of the
boy.

"My Lord, how have I offended you, just tell me and I'll do what I can to
correct it?" asked Micheal Chase.

Peter lets his eyes leave the Bank manager and looked up at Levi who stood
on his right side.

"He's innocent, he knows nothing about it, Mr. Chase, my sincere apologies,
my account has been invaded and money removed from it without my
authority."

"My Lord, please excuse me but, that's impossible, I'm the only one that
has access to your accounts, eveythign is here on your own computer system,
none of it even goes through the banks computers at all."

Peter reached into his pocket and withdrew a sheet of paper, leaning
forward he layed it on the desk in front of Micheal.

"Here's a list of the properties and monies that we've found so far, please
check them out?"

Micheal picked up the list, within seconds he activated a seperate console
on his desk, it was the same as Peters and seperate from the ordinary one
that was sitting on the oposite side of Micheals desk. Micheal Chase read
off the list and entered numbers and letters into the console, rapidly he
read the words and figures on the screen, slowly his face turned pale as he
read further.

"I'm sorry My Lord, but, but, this is impossible, the only access to your
data is through this console and no one but myself has access to it, I
don't understand at all."

Micheal paused as he entered more numbers and letters into the console,
slowly his face cleared as he continued to make entries, wait for answers
and then re-enter more information, after a further two minutes a picture
developed in his mind, he looked again, but it was just not possible any
other way, slowly his hands began to shake, his face showed more and more
starin as the truth became evident. Peter watched as the older mans eyes
began to leak a tear which slid unoticed down his cheek, looking dazed by
the information, Micheal Chase raised his eyes to the young Prince.

"My Lord, I don't know what to say or do, I'm sorry, the fault is mine, my
life is forfeit should you want it."

"Please explain Mr. Chase?"

"Certainly, first your assumptions are totally correct, your account has
been accessed by unauthorised people, second, it has been done from this
console, third, it has been sent around a number of other banks in an
attempt to hide it, the manner that it was done could only have been done
by someone in banking, fourth, and this My Lord brings shame on my own
shoulders, the only person that could have accomplished all this in such a
short time would be my own son, there's no one else that could have gotten
in here to access this console, as to how he got access is beyond me. I'm
sorry My Lord, I don't know what to do or say."

"Can the sums be returned to my account?"

"I can try My Lord, but the last deposit is in the Cayman Islands, I'll
need to get the codes to the account to return the money here."

"And to do that, what do you need?"

"If it is my own son then all I need is to get him to reveal it."

"Please ask him to come in then, I can get that information from him and he
won't be able to lie about it."

Micheal clicked on his intercom.

"Margret, please ask my son to come to my office immediately."

"Mr. Steven just left about five minutes ago for lunch, Mr. Chase."

"Where did he go to, Margret?"

"He didn't say, Mr. Chase."

"Get him on his phone please Margret, tell him come back now and see me."

"Yes, Mr. Chase."

"Well I'm sorry for that My Lord, is there anything I can do for you while
we wait?"

"Yes, there is something else, this is my partner, Armand Swiftwing, I want
you to set him up with full access to all my accounts, credit cards and
anything else he will need."

"Certainly My Lord, I can have his cards ready before you leave, is there
any limit to be placed on his cards, My Lord?"

"None, he is to have full access."

Swiftwing looked over at Peter with an awed look in his eyes, Peter reached
over and squeezed his hand.

"If you are going to be my life partner you deserve to have all of the
benefits." smiled Peter, Swiftwing lifted the hand that clasped his own and
gave it a light kiss, Peter smiled again at his gesture, just then the
intercom buzzed.

"Yes Margret?" said Micheal Chase.

"He's not answering his phone Mr Chase, I've left a message for him."

"Thank you Margret, please call security and have someone lock his office,
no one is to have entry without my instructions, and cancel all my
appointments for the rest of the day."

"Yes Mr. Chase."

"And, Margret."

"Yes Mr. Chase?"

"No gossip, is that clear?"

"Of course Mr. Chase."

Micheal switched off the intercom amd looked up at Peter with resignation
on his face.

"My Lord, is there anything I can get you while we wait for my son?"

"Perhaps some lunch for my partner?"

"Yes, of course, would youllike to follow me to the dining room, I was just
about to go for munch myself?"

"Yes, thank you."

The two boys got to their feet and, along with the guardians, followed
Micheal out of the office and through another door into a small dining room
where a waiter was standing patiently by a small round table. The five took
a seat around the table and the waiter passed out small menu cards, Peter
and the guardians refused but Swiftwing and Micheal Chase took theirs and
read quickly through the lunch menu, after ordering, the five sat and
waited until the two meals had been served.


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Steven Chase looked at the message left on his phone as Simon Chapman and
Micheal Riley continued to eat their lunch, Stevens face paled as he read
his message, look up at the other two he told them the bad news.

"Well my friends, it looks as though we underestimated our little Prince,
my Father wants me back immediately in his office."

"What are we going to do?" asked Simon Chapman nervously.

"Look we've got about $3.7 mil in our Caymans account so we can all access
it any time, if we drop the other two that's over a mil. each, if we move
quick right now we can be out of the country in a couple of hours and home
free."

Micheal Riley looked over at Steven with a calculating stare, with a small
nod of his head he looked at Simon.

"Ok, I agree, you two finish lunch, I've got to make a quick call to set up
some time off, won't be a minute."

Micheal left the table and went to the bathroom, his cell phone in his hand
dialing as he walked, once in the bathroom he heard the other end bbeing
picked up, a deep spanish voice answered.

"Hola?"

"Manuel?"

"Si."

"Micheal Riley."

"What the fuck you want?"

"You want to get off those drug charges?"

"How the fuck you do that, ass hole?"

"Got an urgent job for you, you do it and you go home free, you in?"

"What I gotta do, kill some fucker or you just pullin my chain?"

"That's right, but it's two fuckers and you only got about half an hour to
do it."

"What the fuck, you trying to get me sent down for life, ass hole."

"Not this time Manuel, you do this for me and all your records will
disappear into the shredder, I promise."

"Well hommes, you get my little brother Jesus clear as well and it's a
deal."

"Done, but I need it done right now."

"Where they at?"

"Spartas Restaurant on Bennet Street."

"Hey you lucky man, me and my little bro is only five minutes away, how you
want it done?"

"Don't care, just get it done quick and clean, I'll be out front so you can
get to them quick."

"Ok hommes, this won't take long, see you soon."

Micheal closed his phone and returned to the table and began to eat his
cooling lunch as the othert two continued to make plans to escape, Micheal
interupted them.

"I got a guy bringing some gear for us to get away with, he should be here
in about five minutes, I got to meet him outside, you two wait here for me
and then we can split, ok?"

Both the others mumbled around the mouth full of food as Micheal rose to
his feet and left for the front door.

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Peter watched as his boyfriend dug into the nice lunch set before him, he
smiled at the thought of Swiftwings beautiful mouth chewing on something
more intimate and shivered with delight at the picture in his mind. Micheal
Chase seemed a little distracted but that was only to be expected under the
circumstances, his own son had betrayed him as well as the bank. Although
Peter knew he would be quite within his rights to dispose of the son
himself, he was prepared for Micheal to take the lead and see what the
punishment would be.

Peter sat back and waited patiently as the two continued to eat their
lunch, he had all the time in the world, the son had to return soon and
then all would be revealed.


TBC.

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