secret_treehouse | Winter Fun?

Title: Winter fun?
Summary: Linksano and Ama come over it visit N and his family. Ama gets some training done with B.
Characters: B, Dominic, N, Boffo, Linksano, Ama
Rating: E, cuteness and mild swearing.

Clunk! Went the two wooden swords as they clashed together. The smaller of the two sword-wielders having more of an upper hand on the slightly icy plane. "Come On. Is that the best you can do?!" taunted Sharp to his brother. N rolled his eyes and tighten the scarf around his neck; which was knitted by Boffo who was watching the two mock fight, and tried advancing on his brother again.
N was almost effortlessly was pushed back again. ** Really? Couldn't you give me a break? I am still getting over this cold. **
"And?" remarked B, clearly not amused at the display of his brother's not so impressive fighting skills that day. Before N could say anything about Sharp being an ass there was a knock on the side gate. N turned to see who it was, and Sharp saw an opportunity and swung his sword down which was stopped when N threw some snow that he quickly scooped up and threw into Sharp's face. This took Sharp aback making him fall down and begin swearing.
"Oh, is this a bad time?" asked Linksano as he and Ama stepped into the back yard.
N shook his head no and placed his practice sword back into the stand. Sharp grumbled and got up brushing his pants and tossing his sword into the holder. Linksano and Ama walked over to where the group was when he noticed that there was a blue-gray dog sitting near Boffo's side not moving.
"Who's this?” Linksano asked reaching down to pet the animal.
Boffo nodded. * Her name is Eliza she is my therapy and emotional support dog for the children at work. * Boffo clicked his fingers and Eliza relaxed then rolled onto her belly for Linksano to rub it, which he gladly did.
Ama went over to the stand that held the practice swords and pulled one out. "Do you want me to train you?” asked Sharp taking a sip from his cup of tea. Ama thought about it for a moment then said “it’ll give me something to do while Doug is out and about doing work.

B raised an eyebrow but didn’t say anything about it. “What do you know so far?” B asked grabbing a staff.

“I know hand to hand and some sword training,” Ama said gripping the sword a bit tighter.

“Good. I don’t have to go over the basics. Trying to teach a person at this age when it’s all muscle memory is a pain in the ass,” replied Sharp unbuttoning the cuffs of his shirt.

“Dominic! I need you for a second,” Sharp called into the house.

There were a few minutes of shuffling Dominic came out of the house his sleeves a bit red looking.

“I was making dinner,” Dominic answered before either Sharp or Ama could ask. “What do you need me to do?” Dominic asked trying to not get any more stains on his clothes.

“Limiters so I don’t go overboard with my strength. But first finish making dinner” said Sharp.

Dominic nodded and went back inside the house.

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“What have you two been doing recently,” asked Linksano rubbing Eliza’s belly.

*Been busy cheering up the children at the hospital* signed Boffo smiling.

**Been fighting a cold** said the sign that N flipped over.

“Oh. Are you feeling better?” asked Linksano with a bit of a panic.

**A bit better. Just a bit of a sore throat and sniffles left** N’s sign said reassuring Linksano that he was fine.

“Good. I’m glad that you are not any worse for wear. If you were still sick, we wouldn’t be able to go the thing I wanted to invite both of you to” smiled Linksano.

*What would that be? * Boffo signed with an enthusiastic look on his face.

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Dominic stepped back into the yard then asked “Why didn’t you ask N* to do the limiters?”

“He’s “busy” at the moment,” grumbled Sharp throwing a look over to his brother who was in puppy dog mode at the moment.

“Oh,” replied Dominic then walked over to B and gently placed his hands over B’s wrists.

“May I ask why you are using a limiter? I can pretty much anything you throw at me” asked Ama before Dominic could begin the spell.

“I tend to be a bit overzealous…” Sharp glared at Dominic so he wouldn’t put his two cents in. “When I battle I don’t want to break anything around the house,” Sharp continued nodding to Dominic to begin.

Dominic then began mumbling under his breath in a language that Ama didn’t understand then strange symbols appeared on B’s wrists.

When Dominic stopped B pulled away then winced at the slight pain that the spelled caused.

“Does that spell hurt?” asked Ama a bit worried.

“Yes and no. The spell itself doesn’t hurt but limiting my power does,” said Sharp redoing the buttons on his cuffs.

Ama did not say anything but was still confused.

“Limiting my power is like caring a hundred-pound weight on my back. I can do it but hurts after a while,” said Sharp straightening his sleeves.

“I grab whatever weapon I want?” asked Ama looking the stand with the weapons.

“Yeah. I’m trained in everything. Just grab whatever you feel is comfortable,” said Sharp grabbing a Bo staff.

Ama grabbed a Bo staff as well.

Sharp nodded.

“We’ll make it 15 minutes that’s when dinner is ready,” said Dominic who taken a seat in a chair that he had taken out of the house.

“Ready?” asked Sharp standing at one part of the cleared part of the yard and Ama at another.

Ama nodded.

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After Eliza dropped the ball that was thrown into N’s hand he noticed that Linksano and Boffo looking at the various wooden weapons that his brother and he collected over the years.

N walked in-between the two and gave them a kiss on the cheek.

**What’s up ** he asked they return the affection.

*Just thinking. It’s been a bit scary since Father Suede died and I feel something bad is going to happen… * signed Boffo with a worried look on his face.

“I was thinking the same thing. I can handle myself with my teeth and claws. If anything happens I don’t want either of you hurt.” said Linksano with an equally worried look on his face.

**Even though I can take my brother in a fight we all should do some training just to be on the safe side, ** said the sign that N held.

Boffo frowned, *I hate fighting, * he signed.

**We’ll do more defensive and healing spell training for you, ** said the sign that N now held then smiled trying to pick up Boffo’s mood.

“But some human defense skills such as the Bo staff and Archery should be good too. So you are well rounded for anything that happens,” said Linksano taking Boffo’s hand and kissing it. “That and they are more defensive in skill so you can be out of the way of the more gruesome fighting,” continued Linksano.

*That makes sense, * signed Boffo smiling a bit.

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“Eyes up here!” yelled Sharp knocking back Ama’s staff.

Before Ama could respond, there was a loud dinging and buzzing noise going off near Dominic.

Dominic took out his phone from his pocket and turned off the alarm.

“Dinner is done. Can you two get everyone else ready for dinner?” Dominic asked grabbing the chair and taking it inside.

“That looks like that’s it for the day. I got work later so picking this up after dinner is a no,” said Sharp, putting away his staff.

“So we’ll pick this up on a later date?” asked Ama handing her staff over to Sharp to be put away.

“Yes. Now let’s get those three lovebirds ready for dinner,” said Sharp glancing at the fresh mound of snow that was kicked up during their spar.

His face turned from mild annoyance to wicked glee as he scooped up some snow and tossed it over to where the three were standing.

The throw went wide and hit Linksano in the back instead of N who was Sharp’s target.

“GAH! Cold, Cold, Cold!” yelped Linksano, startled by the snow.

N quickly turned his head toward where the snow had come from seeing that his brother had thrown, N’s face turned to anger. He reached down and grabbed a bunch of snow and chucked it back at his brother.

Sharp saw this grabbed Ama’s arm and pulled her to hide a big mound of snow that the children had made earlier in the week.

“Why am I getting attacked? I didn’t throw it,” asked Ama ducking from another snowball from overhead.

“You didn’t stop me,” smirked Sharp, tossing a snowball back and almost hitting Linksano again.

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“Tell me again why we grown adults are in a snowball fight with your brother and my ward?” asked Linksano handing over some snow to N.

N didn’t say anything but pulled down his mask that covered the lower part of his face and kissed Linksano.

The kiss went for a long moment when they released to breathe Linksano let out a deep lovesick sigh his shoulders relaxing against the snow bank.

N then turned and kissed Boffo who turned a bright shade of pink when their lips released.

When Boffo returned to his senses he asked *Ummm Why? *

**Because I wanted to, ** smirked N giving them both another gentle kiss.

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“Come on, come on work,” mumbled Sharp trying to perform a spell.
Ama was watching the other side noticing that no one had thrown a snowball in a while and Dominic was stepping out of the house.

“Hey Dinner is…” started Dominic when he was hit in the face with a snowball thrown by Sharp whose spell misfired due to the limiter.

Sharp looked over the snow mound when he heard it connect saw Dominic’s face covered in snow and looking very annoyed.

“Shit!” said Sharp a little too loudly.

Dominic turned and started walking toward Sharp.

Sharp took for a run into the deeper part of their extensive property.

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“Shit! Shit! Shit!” mumbled Sharp under his breath as he leaned against a tree. He didn’t mean to hit Dominic in the face with the snowball. When he had the limiter on his aim for throwing and spells was way off.

Sharp was so wrapped up in his own thoughts and didn’t hear Dominic coming up behind him.

Dominic reached around Sharp and pulled him into a backwards hug. “Got you!” he chuckled.

Sharp startled began to swear but then stopped when he heard Dominic’s voice.

“Don’t do that you startled me!” grumbled Sharp miffed.

“I didn’t mean to. Just like you didn’t mean to hit me with that snowball,” chuckled Dominic.

Sharp shrunk in Dominic’s arms at the mention of the Snowball.

“It’s alright,” said Dominic kissing the top of Sharp’s head. “Now let’s get that limiter off,” he continued gently taking Sharp’s wrist in his own and mumbling the reversing spell.
Sharp leaned against Dominic feeling his powers and strength rush back in.
They stayed like this for a few minutes listening to each other’s breathing.

Dominic then turned Sharp around and pressed him to the trunk of the tree then gently cupped Sharp’s face with his hands.

Sharp leaned into his hands “What’s the problem my gem?”

Dominic smiled at the nickname, “I haven’t seen you this relaxed in a long time,” he remarked.

Sharp pulled Dominic down in for a kiss.

When they released, Sharp said “Didn’t you say dinner was done? Let’s go before the cavalry gets here at it gets cold.”

THE END

*N= N’s real name spoken in Dominic’s mother tongue.