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Vitaly didn't have much that was soft about him. But as he wandered the village and found the small pup alone in the cold, he couldn't help himself. Half-drunk but definitely feeling some things, he lifted the little pup into his arms. "Is time of year for a family, puppy." He murmured as he cradled it in his hold, likely much warmer than anything the puppy had been near in a while. "I know demon who is mouthy like you." He grumbled as the pup tried nibbling on his knuckle. "Christmas puppy. What should we name you?" He wondered. Hearing steps behind him, the hellhound turned. ".... da? He yours?"

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Vitaly laughed as Lucien passed by him, almost making the noise such as "ho, ho, ho". "And yet, here you are. I am looking like chance at nice list, yes?" He joked as he looked at Lucien. "Come on, Lucien. Even you must have some christmas spirit. What would you like. Blood wine? A good time? Maybe time on Santas lap?"

Lucien was heading back to his suite after a long enough evening of being out. He still wasn't the most extroverted despite who he spent time with which seemed to be someone far more outgoing than he was. He had his limits, while Raphael had much more stamina than he did some nights. The quiet of the castle was welcomed, or more so than that of Raph's club.

He took the long way to his suite, needlessly, or perhaps needfully depending on how one looked at it. The scoff came out of him almost unconsciously when he came across Vitaly. "I see you put an extreme amount of effort into your appearance. How thoughtful."

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Vitaly watched as the other strolled up and let out a low whistle. "Sexy. Very sexy." He was dressed in his own Santa esque outfit. "I bet you jingle with every bounce." He teased, toying with a bell. "I'll buy you anything tonight. As long as you... bounce accordingly." He joked. Though if anyone were to irritate that other, Vitaly would deck them as a gift. "Why long face? This outfit is not as bad as others."

"Don't," Finn warned as he rolled up to the bar for a very much needed drink. His outfit tonight attracted attention immediately and not just because of how much skin it showed. The fucking bells Gareth so graciously added onto the thing jingled with every fucking movement. It'd barely been an hour and he already hated the sound and they opened up the door to more than a few shitty lines. He needed and wanted a drink. "Not a fuckin' word please about the bells or... the whole thing." Never in a million years would Finn have chosen to dress like this in public willingly. "At least let me get a fuckin' beer first."

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Vitaly was always one to enjoy the climate of the parties. Always someone willing to have a little fun, if not be a nice little punching bag. Depended on how they looked, who they were. But when the little one owned by Raph sidled up to him, he raised his brows. "And you... are very intoxicated." The doctor wrapped an arm around the boy to steady him. "But how do I say no to such cute face, hm? Are you sure you want to play this game little one? I will not say no."

Charlie had been looking forward to the New Years party and surprising Raphael with the outfit he'd picked out (along with the 'surprise' underneath), but the dragon was still feeling grumpy from his realization during Christmas. He'd never appreciated being lied to -- which Raphael and Cairo had both done by never telling him about their relationship as father and son. The dragon never really expected his master to be honest with him ever, but he'd hoped that Cairo at least would be. That's what he got, he guessed, for thinking there could be one decent person among the staff in Krovs. Cairo himself had warned him. It didn't help with how he was feeling that now he just felt like an actual idiot for not realizing sooner.

His current way of dealing with the frustration probably wasn't the best or the healthiest. By now, Charlie had downed more than a few drinks, which had boosted up his confidence by a bit. The dragon downed another shot and then waded through the crowded club, getting right into another's space and pressed up against them. "Oh, hello, you're very handsome. Please tell me you don't have anyone else to spend the night with."

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"So demanding, aren't you." Vitaly whispered as the other pulled himself into Vitaly's hold. Vitaly could do one better as he lifted the others legs, draped over his forearms as he pinned Lucien to the wall, angling his hips so his cock pushed against the other's hole, humming. "And I need to fill you. As my welcome home gift." He added before he pushed in, inch by merciful inch until their skin touched. "You want to be filled fast? Or did you miss me enough to take my time, Luci?"

The skirt Lucien was wearing as part of his costume easily fell around his ankles once it was loosened and he didn't care in the least, blocked by Vitaly's large form he pulled the other closer releasing his cock eager for the hellhound. "Here." Lucien agreed as he pulled himself up and wrapped his legs around the younger doctor's waist. "Now." He demanded claws moving up the short strand of hair on the back of his head to tangle into the longer ones on the top. "I need your touch."

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Watching Finn was like watching theatre. You never wanted to take your eyes off of something so fucking beautiful and Finn took his actions so seriously. As the other looked up at him, Vitaly found it hard to focus on anything else. His hand raked through the other's hair slowly before his fingers locked in, tugging on the other's locks gently and motioning him on and off slowly. "You take your time. We don't have anywhere to go." He murmured quietly. He shrugged off his jacket and peeled off his shirt, fully intent on stripping Finn as soon as he had the patience to pull the other off of his dripping cock.

Finn grinned wider, pushing Vitaly back by the chest as he hopped off the bed. He backed the hellhound roughly up against the nearest wall, pinning him there and sealing their lips together in a heated kiss that didn't last particularly long until the familiar broke away. He moved onto peppering Vitaly's jaw, neck, down his exposed chest and abdomen with open-mouthed kisses and pinching teeth everywhere he could as he slowly sank down to his knees. He gazed up at the younger demon's face while punctuating his journey with a few more kisses to Vitaly's hip, Finn pulling those pants further down so he could go for the inner thigh. He spat into his palm and wrapped his hand around the hellhound's cock for a few quick strokes to really wake him up. He replaced his hand with his mouth soon enough, starting by licking a slow, thick stripe from base to tip underneath. His hand came back squeezing gently around the base while Finn gently lapped at the frenulum then parted his lips around the head. Now mouth and hand worked together. He nursed and sucked on the head gently, swirled his tongue around the tip, and rubbed it against the ridged roof of his mouth. He wasn't shy one bit about getting messy, any excess saliva collected by his hand moving steadily down and up and over again along the shaft to get it nice and wet everywhere he could. Those bright blue eyes never once stopped staring up at Vitaly, watching every flicker of his features intently while he worked.

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Vitaly walked over to Merek and observed him closely, taking the other's chin gently into his fingertips. "You look exhausted. No sleep? Anxiety is a killer Merek. It's worse than depression in it's own way. Is no good for castle head to have this problem. Vitaly turned to the medicine cabinet and looked through everything, weighing out the options. "We can try two things." He murmured as he took two pill bottles. "But first thing is you need rest. And if you need excuse to get this, you come here and I put you in bed. I also break anyone who comes to move you. Second, I have two medications. One is to keep calm, one is to shut brain off for a night." He turned and marked one bottle with an x. "X is for brain shut down. Do not take unless you want total peaceful sleep. Elsewise, you will not be reachable for at least five hours."

Some part of Merek could probably admit that Lucien had a point, but he was maybe a little biased when it came to his own opinion of Vitaly. "If only it were that easy." The pyromancer replied with a small smile, leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed. "The new job and various little situations I've admittedly gotten myself into in this castle."

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Vitaly had stepped away to learn. And what he'd learned had given him the grace to know he was better served actually caring for patients. But still, that didn't mean that looking at the young face of an essential five year old didn't press his buttons just a little. "I don't work under anyone, unless power bottom. I work alone." "I work with you. And you need to talk to whoever rearranged. Patients that come in clinic almost always need critical care. Why have those supplies furthest from entry? We never have simple cases. Is bad reorder. And this useless stuff, this should go to town clinic. They need more."

The curly haired kresnik had finished with his patients for the day and decided to head down to the stock room to check if he needed to order anything from the village. Before he even reached the door, he heard someone in there banging around and he let out an annoyed sigh, thinking that a slave must have gotten free from a guard and decided to raid the stock room again. "I swear I need to talk to the enforcer." he mumbled and turned the corner. Pausing in the door when he saw someone rearranging his items.

"What I need is for you to stop rearranging my supplies." The head doctor said bluntly and crossed his arms over his chest, noticing the white coat and he snorted. "So you're the doctor who's working under me?"

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Lucien took the bait exactly as Vitaly expected he would. The pale hand touching his skin left him watching the trail it made. Running over scars and tattoos. He glanced back up to Lucien with a small grin. "Lucien... I speak like this because I make you purr. But if this does not suit, I speak like this in here only. Or in your suite, if you ever invite me." He took Lucien's wrist, lightly and dragged it down the front of his body until that hand was pressed against his own cock, hardening by the minute. "But I'm familiar with you."

The ghoul's eyes watched the hellhound break away from him with scrutiny as he responded to him confirming what some part of him already knew. Vitaly wasn't so malicious or ignorant to try and use his actions against him. His eyes stayed on the bare torso until the emphasized word caught his attention and that crack in his mask showed in the slightest shift of his bottom lip when he frowned. His eyes unconsciously drew up the length of the bare chest to meet the castle doctor's gaze once more when he came that breath away.

It was their difference in character in how easily Vitaly could say something like that directly to him, without hesitation. The boldness in him never ceased to surprise Lucien. His eyes dipped to the bare chest that was begging to be explored by him. He had to close his eyes for a moment and remember what he came there for. "You do know I'm a councilman, Vitaly." His met the blue green hue with his darker eyes. "You always speak to me with such familiarity." He couldn't keep his pale hand from snaking up his stomach to run over his broad chest.

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Vitaly was nursing a stifled rage at a guard for bringing him a patient that was badly beaten, but the guard swore it was for good reason. However, nothing constituted beating humans as badly as the one left in his care. As the other spoke to him, Vitaly glanced up, huffing. "I don't fight for title. I settle for working and not having so much attention. Besides, Dr. Gaudet gives me less headache as secondary doctor." He murmured, sipping his beer. "But yes, am back. Permanently, and hopefully with less headaches. And you? What is it you do here?" Vitaly was hardly observant to much outside of the clinic.

Kaden wasn't quite ready to head back to Lucien's suite after his shift so he found shelter at the bar on the top floor of the castle. The place was quiet at this hour, a few patrons at tables for an early dinner, Christmas music droning on in the background while he nursed a whiskey and occasionally chatted with the bartender about the upcoming Christmas party.

Another fellow walked in and Kaden stared for a moment, sure he recognized him from before. Living at the castle as long as he had he'd seen many masters and staff members come and go and come back again. "Aren't you the head doctor around here? Or, I reckon former one," he corrected himself since Florian held that position now. "Have you come back again to reclaim your title?"

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Vitaly was aware of Taras. He was one of those people that had been in the castle for so long, Vitaly didn't even ask why he was skulking about. Picking up a bin of meds, he handed it to the other. "If you don't be at least soft spoken, I knock out. You can spend night in infirmary with big boo boo. Sort, please. By name." He muttered as he went back to the shelves. "Is chaos in here. Absolutely annoying." The thick accent laced with irritation as he went back to the sorting he was now hell bent on finishing.

Taras wasn't really sure what he was doing or why, but he wanted to sneak around and see if he could avoid the guards for a little while longer. "Can I stay in here?" he asked, poking his head in. "I'll be helpful and quiet, I promise. Okay, not I won't be quiet, but I can definitely be helpful!"

Hovering near the door, he waited a moment, then slipped inside, looking around the room.

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He wanted to believe that Lucien would sooner or later admit that he had something of a crush on Vitaly. But he also knew, it was likely Lucien would rather choke on his own words than ever breath any semblance of affection towards Vitaly. As the other began to explain how the other night meant nothing Vitaly's grin only spread as he unbuttoned his shirt and moved to his closet to grab one of his plain tees to relax in for the evening. "Well, Dr. Gaudet, you don't have to worry." He stripped the shirt completely off, tossing it in the laundry basket. "I have no delusion of grandeur. I know the other night was a... how you say? Moment of weakness." He turned back to Lucien after grabbing a black tee and walked closer to him. "Any other time, you would rather punch me in my face. Da?" But he observed the other for a moment, a breath away from the other. "However, I enjoyed that night greatly. More than once. And would do again, over and over."

"Dr. Gaudet." Lucien corrected out of habit hating how familiar Vitaly always tried to be with him when they weren't... He trailed on that thought considering their relationship. It was still worth the correction. Given the invitation he entered the hellhound's space disappointed it didn't meet his expectations. It was clean, organized, and sparsely decorated with needful things. Lucien was good at keeping his face impassive as his eyes moved to the dropped bag and followed the self proclaimed doctor. The only inclination of emotion came when his eyes narrowed at the suggestion he was there to berate Vitaly as if he was so petty. He was.

He glided to the other when he finished pouring his whiskey taking the glass from his hand and drinking it down. It took all of him not to make a face. It wasn't the same caliber as the scotch Raphael drank. He noted to make sure to bring the hellhound a bottle or two should he ever make a house call again.

After being sure he'd keep the liquid down he met Vitaly's gaze again. "I wanted to speak somewhere privately." And where they hadn't had sex multiple times since it always seemed to end that way in Vitaly's office. "About Halloween...I didn't want you to get the wrong idea." Lucien said and went on so there was no confusion. "I wasn't myself and whatever was said was meaningless. My feelings for you haven't changed."

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Vitaly chuckled as the other moved forward, meeting his lips with hot need. Vitaly moaned quietly as the other put his hands on him, circling his cock. His own hands opened the button on Lucien's pants, loosening them enough that when he shoved his hands in to the councilman's pants, he could properly grasp and squeeze the beautiful globes of his ass. "This ass, I've missed." He murmured between heated pressing of his lips to Lucien's. "You going to let me fuck you here? Or are you going to make me wait."

Lucien had gotten who he presumed was Hunter's button open when the hood came up and it was, in fact, not Hunter. The bitter mix of emotions that came over him he usually hid well and didn't this time. Vitally was such an odd area of pure and utter disdain for him and raw desire he couldn't control on the best of days. And this was, by far, not his best of days. Those lips came in close and he missed the question, well the first one. The second one he didn't. "Shut up you savage." He grumbled tilting his head and shifting that breath forward to pressing their lips together. His hand moving back to what they had been doing opening and one delving into the other's pants to take hold of his cock stroking it to life as the other moved to his shoulder to steady himself.

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Vitaly hummed as Finn took to the buttons on his shirt, feeling the cool air and taking in the way the other worked over his torso. "Ass is hot and needy all the time. Just temporary cure, me cumming for you. But I'm back. Temporary cure can be given more frequently." He teased before Finn made a comment about what he could do for Vitaly on his knees. The hellhound unbuckled his pants, shoving them just to the middle of his thighs as he cupped Finn's chin. "Show me."

"I'd fuckin' hope so," Finn murmured, pursing his lips together ever so slightly as their kiss broke. He knew he'd wormed his way into Vitaly's heart with all his irritating antics over time before the hellhound departed. Even if Vitaly denied it, Finn knew he'd be the favorite.

He grinned soon after, smoothing his hands down along the younger demon's shoulders and broad chest to where the first of many shirt buttons laid in wait for the familiar's busy fingers to start popping open until perfect panes of muscular torso were at his fingertips to touch. He'd definitely prove his point to Vitaly. "Not that I can think of," he hummed. "Perhaps just my ass bein' all hot and needy for you, doc." Finn's gaze dropped down to one of his favorite parts of the alpha wolf, licking hungrily at his bottom lip. "Or how well I can take care of you down there on my knees."

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In truth, whomever's fault it was was insignificant to the hellhound as he read the file, walking back towards the clinic to deal with the mess being brought to him from the undercroft. But as the foot tripped him, Vitaly, caught himself, staring down at the other as he straightened up. "So don't be sorry. But how you don't see me, that is problem. Perhaps vision needs to be corrected. I'm quite large. Little hard to miss." He muttered as he straightened out the papers in the file, ensuring they weren't messed up. "No apologies from me either. Free vision check. Make time for it so no more 'accidents' happen."

Soo hummed a tune of Defying Gravity as he made his way towards the hallway. He told himself not to get involved with mundane human entertainment but there he was, after his employees kept talking how good it was, the master got curious what it was all about. It was.. of course a big insult to witches he thought, and he found it quite comical. Was there ever really a green witch? Asking that question was like asking if Dracula existed. He wasn't exactly a witch but he had magic of his own. He stopped in annoyance when someone bumped onto him, whether it was on purpose or not it made him groan in annoyance. That sort of stupid encounter kept happening to him. In a quick retaliation, he tangled his leg on the other's, purposely tripping him and he kicked his back, placing his foot flat. He might as well fall on his face. "Not so sorry. It's your fault."

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The relationship could be considered something as more contemptuous than anything else. But Vitaly, personally, loved the challenge Lucien seemed to always present. Seemed to always offer him. Strolling up from a long shift down in the clinic, he was surprised to see the other standing there. Brow raised, curiosity piqued, he paused for a moment trying to think of all the reasons Lucien would've willingly strolled up to his door. "Lucien." He greeted as he stepped beside the other, grinning a little too smugly. He opened the door allowing the other full view of his neat, tidy, minimally decorated suite. "By all means, enter." He offered as he stepped in, setting his bag down on the tiny table beside the door. "Would you like drink? Something strong? Or perhaps here to berate. It's been some time." He offered as he moved to the kitchen area, pouring himself a glass of whiskey. "Then you didn't even just burst in, you waited. Is very polite. Very unlike you. Something is up, yes?"

Lucien had been thinking of a certain medical professional since Halloween. Obsessing might be a better word than thinking. He always tended to over correct any perceived mistake and Vitaly was always a mistake no matter how much he enjoyed the younger doctor. A title he used loosely with the other still unsure if he lived up to it since it was one Lucien had earned and in more than one field. The entire month of November he'd gone back and forth on whether there was a need to explain the situation or what led to that situation nearly going to the doctor's office only to talk himself out of it worried it was a ploy to see the other, which he had no interest in. He was crude and Lucien's bedside manner was questionable, but in pure talent alone he could run circles around Vitlay. Of course Lucien had a thousand years more time to practice and study so it wasn't really a comparison.

He didn't put on the full three piece suit this time, instead wore a burgundy slim-fit suit, dark brown leather shoes, and a dark red turtleneck underneath. The outfit was rather casual for Lucien compared to his normal and it was done with purpose as he made sure, this time, to visit to Vitaly's suite instead of his place of work for a much more private meeting between them. He knocked on the door and the wave of doubt and fear ran through him followed by the hope the other wasn't there. That he worked late and wouldn't answer or was otherwise occupied. He truly didn't keep the Hellhound's full schedule. It was a couple hours after his shift, but Lucien usually stayed late when he did work as a doctor. Maybe Vitaly was tied to his job as well. Overwhelmed by all the negative thoughts he could only stand there and wait even though he wanted to leave. He let the moment of panic run through him glowering at the hellhound's door.

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