Post by Demeter on Aug 30, 2006 23:31:48 GMT -5
Basics
Name: Lysander Gallagher
Age: 64
Birthday: 8/14/1942
Sex: Male
Sexuality: Bisexual
Species: Turned Vampire
First Appearance: 2006
Vampire
Bloodline: Animulus
Innate Power: Telepathy/Telekinesis
Infected at age: 28
Contagion: Bitten and turned by his then lover in 1970.
Appearance
Hair Color: Black
Hair Style: Long, it’s never shorter than his lower shoulder blades and he normally ties it back with whatever is handy.
Eyes: Dark Blue
Teeth: Straight, white, with elongated canines
Complexion: Lightly tanned, smooth skin – the only signs of aging he has is the crinkles around his eyes.
Height: 6’4”
Weight: 225 pds
Fitness Level: Gifted with a fast metabolism, Lysander forms of exercise are moving stock, hiking and dancing.
Clothing Style: When at the museum or schmoozing clients, Lysander normally wears somber, tailored suits with wildly patterned ties. When not working, he mostly wears jeans and any variety of casual tops.
Tattoos: One, a pair of wings that also doubles as his husband’s initials just below his neck.
Piercing: none
Scars: One large scar on his upper neck.
Personality
Lysander has been described as being a bit to cavalier in his personal life. Between the relationship with Braeden and his marriage to Dominic, Lysander simply didn’t care about anything but art. Carefully to avoid being hurt, he kept everything at a distance. In the years since Dominic, he’s become the “old” Lysander and is an open, warm and loving person.
History
Parents: Andrew and Jaden Gallagher (birth). Dr. Augustus and Anna Klein.
Siblings: Two full sisters, one full brother. Joley is his half-sister (same father). Eli is his Grand-Nephew.
Close Friends: Krystal, Dominic, Saiyuri, Cian, Theiry, Dion, Eli, Joley, Gemini, Brielle, Lia, Darius, Rune, Sorin, Cissa and Wrath
Significant Other: Dominic
Children: Kincade (Cade) and Ruri are his natural children. Lani and Larkin are his step-children.
Interests/hobbies: Japanese artwork, browsing craft fairs, gardening, cooking, reading spending time with family, art in general.
Education: Graduated from Cedar Valley High
-College: Attended Oxford
-Major: Art History
-Minor: Business
Intelligence: Fairly smart thought it is mostly because he’s lived for a while
Occupation: Art Historian, gallery owner in C.V. and Hotel/Nightclub owner in London
Place of Residence: House he owns with Dominic.
Basic History
Born to an ultra-conservative Christian family, Lysander was raised to fulfill certain expectations. He would go to Duke University, earn his degrees in Law, join the family firm, marry a good Christian woman and produce children.
It certainly wasn’t a bad plan. It worked for his brother, father and past generations of Gallagher males. It just wasn’t what Lysander wanted. Nothing that his family planned was what he wanted. His father signed him up for football and Lysander joined the choir. Baseball season meant art club. Life was very much a game of tug and pull between an Alpha dog and a very determined puppy.
One night, when he and his father were arguing about the future and college choices, Lysander spilled his deepest darkest secret.
He liked other men. Sexually. That he had, just to spite his father, had sex with another boy on his father’s desk the week before. And he’d liked it.
In 1960, this just wasn’t done. Lysander was kicked out of his home and disowned. He spent the remaining months of high school living with the Kleins, a friend’s family. After graduation, he got a job as a tour guide at the local art museum and worked his way through Cedar Valley University.
In 1963, at the start of his senior year, he was offered the chance to spend a year at Oxford in England and he jumped at it. He quickly decided that England was where he was supposed to be. After his year of study was up, he moved to London and stayed there.
While the ink was still wet on his degree in art history, Lysander got a job as a assistant to a museum curator. He loved living in London and away from natural family. He dated, men and women, casually until he met Braeden Martin, an art collector. The man, an older man, would come into the building to tour the museum and would often bring his own pieces in to be tested and authenticated; something that was part of Lysander’s job.
Lysander was attracted to the man but he didn’t act on those impulses. Braeden wasn’t sending off any signals that he was interested in men and he was married. By now, Lysander was 25 and very comfortable with his personal and professional life. And when Braeden invited him to dinner, with the intention of possibly talking about displaying his collection, Lysander, with the urging of his boss, accepted.
After the fifth such meeting, when the contracts had been signed, that Braeden invited Lysander back to his flat to celebrate with a drink. Lysander accepted and followed Braeden to his place in a quiet area of town. It was then that Braeden made his move and seduced the younger man.
Lysander knew that he was playing a dangerous game but he was drawn to the older ma and couldn’t stop seeing him. The relationship continued for several years. If his friends and coworkers noticed anything, it was that Lysander was becoming increasingly dependent on Braeden.
Lysander had always known about Mutari and other supernatural beings. The Kleins were Mutari themselves and had educated him to the existence of The Others. He’d known early on that Braeden was one of the Mutari but he never thought that the man would use his abilities on him.
For three years, Lysander was exposed to Braeden’s mind-control abilities. Braeden slowly chipped away at Lysander’s self-identity until the only thing the young man lived for was Braeden. He became Braeden’s pet and kept for sex and blood. Braeden loved having the American slavishly devoted to him.
In the winter of 1970, Braeden turned Lysander in order to keep him forever. By now, Lysander had been fired from his job, alienated most of his friends and was dependent on Braeden for everything. He was kept in that flat and despite Braeden’s promises to divorce his wife, it never happened.
In the spring of 1971, after Braeden hadn’t visited for a while, the older vampire’s influence over Lysander faded away the young man realized what had happened to his life and sought a way out. With nothing to his name and no friends left in London, Lysander called home to the Kleins. He explained what had happened and they said to sit tight and they’d be right out.
That same night, Braeden came to visit. Lysander stood up to Braeden, telling him that they were done and the older vampire didn’t like that. He overpowered Lysander and raped him multiple times that night. In the morning, just before he left, Braeden tried to kill Lysander. He took a carving knife from the kitchen and slit the younger man’s throat. He left Lysander to bleed out on the living room floor.
It was mere minutes after he left that Lysander’s family arrived at the apartment. When he didn’t answer the door, they broke in and found him on the floor. They were able to stop the bleeding and get him to safety. Once he was healed enough for travel, they took him home to Cedar Valley. It took him a few months, though he will forever carry a scar on his neck, but the therapy he went through never really took hold.
Oh, he got some useful things out of counseling, such as none of it was his fault, but the damage was done and for the next thirty five years he would have a lasting meaningful relationship. He was the art historian at the local art museum, took cooking classes, and had tons of friends but no one special because Braeden was still in his life.
Whenever he would start to get serious with someone, his Mutari sire would either call, send a note or make a direct mind-to-mind contact to remind Lysander of just who he belonged to. Lysander never told anyone that Braeden was still stalking him and, so long as Lysander remained unattached, Braeden left him alone.
And then, in 2006, he met Dominic Sullivan. The two men started off as uneasy friends but as the months past, their feelings started to change. They danced around each other for several months, Lysander teasing the younger man while Dominic tried to come to terms with his attraction to another man. But when push came to shove and they shared an explosive first kiss in Dominic’s kitchen, it was obvious that there was something special between them.
Intitally, their time together was short, as Lysander was called away for work in Japan. Those two months of e-mail, long phone conversations and video chats drove him that they were on the brink of something. All he thought about was Dominic and, judging by Dominic’s response to Lysander’s return, things were mutual.
Things bumped along smoothly after that, the two men meshing together nicely. The only bumps being when Dominic’s ex-wife Saiyuri found out exactly what Lysander was to Dominic. Things just cruised along until 2011.
Braeden was back.
Lysander had thought that the years of silence meant that Braeden had finally forgot about him and he’d allowed himself to be happy. He saw his ex at the Museum one day and Braeden, through direct mental contact, told Lysander that he did not approve of Dominic and had Lysander forgotten who he belonged to?
For several months, Braeden stalked Lysander but Lysander withstood the man’s attempts to separate him from his family. It worked until Braeden turned his threats to Dominic and Lani, Dominic’s young daughter. Lysander, willing to do anything to protect Dominic and Lani from his sadistic ex, left his loved ones.
No one could understand why he left and why he embarked on a fairly dangerous lifestyle afterwards. Driven by Braeden’s taunts and continued stalking, Lysander turned to drugs, drink and sex as a way to hide from the pain. He stopped talking to friends and family for weeks at a time so when he went missing, no one noticed right away.
He’d taken a month’s worth of vacation from the museum to get away but on the day he was supposed to return, seven months after his separation from Dominic, he failed to come in or call work. When he didn’t come in the next day, Cissa, friend, coworker, and sort of relative, went by his apartment. What she found was an overflowing mailbox and a trashed apartment. She saw signs of a struggle and, judging by the withered state of his plants, it had happened a while ago.
Cissa called everyone in but it would still take another week before he would be found. Between a spy named Redemption and Dominic’s ex-wife, Saiyuri, they found him being held captive at a property owned by Braeden.
Saiyuri would describe it as a scene straight from hell. In addition to Lysander, Braeden had six other males, human and Mutari alike, in the house. Further investigations would uncover more bodies buried in the house and grounds. Lysander was kept in the master bedroom but the conditions were just as hellish.
Naked, with his hair crudely hacked off, and severely emaciated, Lysander had been bound to the bed spread eagle. Saiyuri didn’t need to be a genius to figure out what had been done to him. She’d been in the processing of calling it in when the man she assumed was Braeden burst into the room, Redemption in hot pursuit. Redemption had found him in the yard, calmly digging a grave.
Seeing that he was cornered, Braeden lashed out at the man still tied to his bed, hoping to create a distraction. The shovel he still carried sliced open Lysander’s chest and the already weakened Mutari bled profusely. They let Braeden go in order to save their friend.
While redemption called for an ambulance, Saiyuri used her medical training to try and stop the bleeding. While she freed Lysander from the bed and helped the EMS team transport Lysander, Redemption continued to make phone calls. He called a worried sick Dominic and told him to get his ass to the hospital if he wanted to see Lysander. He called the Mutari council to summon their authorities to the scene and then he headed towards the hospital himself.
Due to his weakened and starved condition, the wound across Lysander’s chest wasn’t healing. Right before they arrived at the hospital, his heart stopped beating. Cursing because the placement if the wound wouldn’t allow them to use the paddles, Saiyuri climbed up onto the gurney to start chest compressions while one of the EMS team provided air. She kept at it even while they unloaded him and the ER team took over. Dr. Augustus Klein, the man Lysander considered his father, took charge of the dying man. He stood on the wheel braces and took over the air bag while shouting orders.
Dominic got there in time to see the gurney go past him. He got only the quickest impression of the pale, gaunt man the gurney held but he recognized Saiyuri. He knew what it meant for her to be straddling the person on the gurney and pressing her hands to his chest. Lysander was dying.
Dominic went weak at the knees and would have dropped to the floor if Redemption hadn’t been there to catch and haul him into a chair. The surgery to patch Lysander up took several hours and by the time he was out of recovery and into the Mutari ICU, Dominic had been sedated, Theiry, Saiyuri’s husband, had arrived and Redemption had gone off to hunt down Braeden.
Lysander spent 10 days in a coma, Dominic spent most of his time in the ICU ward, waiting for the man to wake. Lysander had been beaten, starved raped and that was only the physical abuse he’d suffered. No one knew his mental state. When he did come out of the coma, Lysander knew where he was and who was with him. He broke down and told everyone what had happened. He’d left in order to protect Lani and Dominic from Braeden’s threats and spent the next seven months dodging the man. On the first day of his vacation, when he was supposed to be hiding out in Japan, Braeden had come to the apartment.
He was sure that the others could figure out what had happened from there.
While still staying at the hospital, where he would remain until Augustus thought him well enough to leave, Saiyuri went off hunting Braeden down. She found him and would have killed him if the Mutari council hunters hadn’t intervened. She would get her chance, they said, after he’d been made to face justice for everyone else he’d hurt as well. She returned to Cedar Valley to wait her chance and take care of Lysander.
He’d been discharged to home care and spent the next several weeks puttering around Dominic’s mother’s place; as Dominic’s home had suffered major damage from falling trees during a windstorm. Though it took only weeks for the physical injuries to heal, the physiological ones took longer. Lysander suffered from horrible nightmares that, according to Dominic and Carol, Dominic’s mother, sounded more like a trapped animal then a human being. It didn’t help that barely a month and half after his rescue, Lysander had to say good bye to Dominic.
Dominic had been summoned to Europe because his uncle had suffered a massive heart attack while on an antique buying trip. Lysander shooed him on his way and Dominic told Lysander to remodel his house to keep from getting bored.
And remodel he did. Lysander had the house torn down and started from scratch. When he returned just before Christmas, uncle in tow, Dominic was greeted by a happy Lysander and a brand new house. He was also greeted by the sight of Lysander’s infant son. Cade Gallagher was barely two weeks old and had been dumped on their doorstep. As there was nothing they could do, they took him in and raised him as their own.
Ever since then, the two have bumped along, walking side-by-side in life and being honest with each other. Dominic holds Lysander when the nightmares come back and he shoves Dominic out his comfort zone. The secret to their success is that they are soul mates.
Rare between two Mutari, their souls are bound together for eternity. This explains why Dominic, a straight guy, fell for Lysander and feels no attraction to other men. Kept at bay by Braeden’s hold on Lysander, the bond never had a chance to flourish. The night of Braeden’s execution by Saiyuri, just days after his capture, the bond formed between the two men and they never looked back.
They formalized their partnership by marrying in 2013 but they treat the day the bond formed in 2012 as their true anniversary. Many years passed and they discussed children. They were good parents; all of Saiyuri’s children loved Uncles Lysander and Dominic. With Saiyuri’s help, they became parents of Ruri, the biological child of Saiyuri and Lysander. She’s led the pair on some crazy adventures, the most recent being her involvement with an Incubus and Succubus.
Name: Lysander Gallagher
Age: 64
Birthday: 8/14/1942
Sex: Male
Sexuality: Bisexual
Species: Turned Vampire
First Appearance: 2006
Vampire
Bloodline: Animulus
Innate Power: Telepathy/Telekinesis
Infected at age: 28
Contagion: Bitten and turned by his then lover in 1970.
Appearance
Hair Color: Black
Hair Style: Long, it’s never shorter than his lower shoulder blades and he normally ties it back with whatever is handy.
Eyes: Dark Blue
Teeth: Straight, white, with elongated canines
Complexion: Lightly tanned, smooth skin – the only signs of aging he has is the crinkles around his eyes.
Height: 6’4”
Weight: 225 pds
Fitness Level: Gifted with a fast metabolism, Lysander forms of exercise are moving stock, hiking and dancing.
Clothing Style: When at the museum or schmoozing clients, Lysander normally wears somber, tailored suits with wildly patterned ties. When not working, he mostly wears jeans and any variety of casual tops.
Tattoos: One, a pair of wings that also doubles as his husband’s initials just below his neck.
Piercing: none
Scars: One large scar on his upper neck.
Personality
Lysander has been described as being a bit to cavalier in his personal life. Between the relationship with Braeden and his marriage to Dominic, Lysander simply didn’t care about anything but art. Carefully to avoid being hurt, he kept everything at a distance. In the years since Dominic, he’s become the “old” Lysander and is an open, warm and loving person.
History
Parents: Andrew and Jaden Gallagher (birth). Dr. Augustus and Anna Klein.
Siblings: Two full sisters, one full brother. Joley is his half-sister (same father). Eli is his Grand-Nephew.
Close Friends: Krystal, Dominic, Saiyuri, Cian, Theiry, Dion, Eli, Joley, Gemini, Brielle, Lia, Darius, Rune, Sorin, Cissa and Wrath
Significant Other: Dominic
Children: Kincade (Cade) and Ruri are his natural children. Lani and Larkin are his step-children.
Interests/hobbies: Japanese artwork, browsing craft fairs, gardening, cooking, reading spending time with family, art in general.
Education: Graduated from Cedar Valley High
-College: Attended Oxford
-Major: Art History
-Minor: Business
Intelligence: Fairly smart thought it is mostly because he’s lived for a while
Occupation: Art Historian, gallery owner in C.V. and Hotel/Nightclub owner in London
Place of Residence: House he owns with Dominic.
Basic History
Born to an ultra-conservative Christian family, Lysander was raised to fulfill certain expectations. He would go to Duke University, earn his degrees in Law, join the family firm, marry a good Christian woman and produce children.
It certainly wasn’t a bad plan. It worked for his brother, father and past generations of Gallagher males. It just wasn’t what Lysander wanted. Nothing that his family planned was what he wanted. His father signed him up for football and Lysander joined the choir. Baseball season meant art club. Life was very much a game of tug and pull between an Alpha dog and a very determined puppy.
One night, when he and his father were arguing about the future and college choices, Lysander spilled his deepest darkest secret.
He liked other men. Sexually. That he had, just to spite his father, had sex with another boy on his father’s desk the week before. And he’d liked it.
In 1960, this just wasn’t done. Lysander was kicked out of his home and disowned. He spent the remaining months of high school living with the Kleins, a friend’s family. After graduation, he got a job as a tour guide at the local art museum and worked his way through Cedar Valley University.
In 1963, at the start of his senior year, he was offered the chance to spend a year at Oxford in England and he jumped at it. He quickly decided that England was where he was supposed to be. After his year of study was up, he moved to London and stayed there.
While the ink was still wet on his degree in art history, Lysander got a job as a assistant to a museum curator. He loved living in London and away from natural family. He dated, men and women, casually until he met Braeden Martin, an art collector. The man, an older man, would come into the building to tour the museum and would often bring his own pieces in to be tested and authenticated; something that was part of Lysander’s job.
Lysander was attracted to the man but he didn’t act on those impulses. Braeden wasn’t sending off any signals that he was interested in men and he was married. By now, Lysander was 25 and very comfortable with his personal and professional life. And when Braeden invited him to dinner, with the intention of possibly talking about displaying his collection, Lysander, with the urging of his boss, accepted.
After the fifth such meeting, when the contracts had been signed, that Braeden invited Lysander back to his flat to celebrate with a drink. Lysander accepted and followed Braeden to his place in a quiet area of town. It was then that Braeden made his move and seduced the younger man.
Lysander knew that he was playing a dangerous game but he was drawn to the older ma and couldn’t stop seeing him. The relationship continued for several years. If his friends and coworkers noticed anything, it was that Lysander was becoming increasingly dependent on Braeden.
Lysander had always known about Mutari and other supernatural beings. The Kleins were Mutari themselves and had educated him to the existence of The Others. He’d known early on that Braeden was one of the Mutari but he never thought that the man would use his abilities on him.
For three years, Lysander was exposed to Braeden’s mind-control abilities. Braeden slowly chipped away at Lysander’s self-identity until the only thing the young man lived for was Braeden. He became Braeden’s pet and kept for sex and blood. Braeden loved having the American slavishly devoted to him.
In the winter of 1970, Braeden turned Lysander in order to keep him forever. By now, Lysander had been fired from his job, alienated most of his friends and was dependent on Braeden for everything. He was kept in that flat and despite Braeden’s promises to divorce his wife, it never happened.
In the spring of 1971, after Braeden hadn’t visited for a while, the older vampire’s influence over Lysander faded away the young man realized what had happened to his life and sought a way out. With nothing to his name and no friends left in London, Lysander called home to the Kleins. He explained what had happened and they said to sit tight and they’d be right out.
That same night, Braeden came to visit. Lysander stood up to Braeden, telling him that they were done and the older vampire didn’t like that. He overpowered Lysander and raped him multiple times that night. In the morning, just before he left, Braeden tried to kill Lysander. He took a carving knife from the kitchen and slit the younger man’s throat. He left Lysander to bleed out on the living room floor.
It was mere minutes after he left that Lysander’s family arrived at the apartment. When he didn’t answer the door, they broke in and found him on the floor. They were able to stop the bleeding and get him to safety. Once he was healed enough for travel, they took him home to Cedar Valley. It took him a few months, though he will forever carry a scar on his neck, but the therapy he went through never really took hold.
Oh, he got some useful things out of counseling, such as none of it was his fault, but the damage was done and for the next thirty five years he would have a lasting meaningful relationship. He was the art historian at the local art museum, took cooking classes, and had tons of friends but no one special because Braeden was still in his life.
Whenever he would start to get serious with someone, his Mutari sire would either call, send a note or make a direct mind-to-mind contact to remind Lysander of just who he belonged to. Lysander never told anyone that Braeden was still stalking him and, so long as Lysander remained unattached, Braeden left him alone.
And then, in 2006, he met Dominic Sullivan. The two men started off as uneasy friends but as the months past, their feelings started to change. They danced around each other for several months, Lysander teasing the younger man while Dominic tried to come to terms with his attraction to another man. But when push came to shove and they shared an explosive first kiss in Dominic’s kitchen, it was obvious that there was something special between them.
Intitally, their time together was short, as Lysander was called away for work in Japan. Those two months of e-mail, long phone conversations and video chats drove him that they were on the brink of something. All he thought about was Dominic and, judging by Dominic’s response to Lysander’s return, things were mutual.
Things bumped along smoothly after that, the two men meshing together nicely. The only bumps being when Dominic’s ex-wife Saiyuri found out exactly what Lysander was to Dominic. Things just cruised along until 2011.
Braeden was back.
Lysander had thought that the years of silence meant that Braeden had finally forgot about him and he’d allowed himself to be happy. He saw his ex at the Museum one day and Braeden, through direct mental contact, told Lysander that he did not approve of Dominic and had Lysander forgotten who he belonged to?
For several months, Braeden stalked Lysander but Lysander withstood the man’s attempts to separate him from his family. It worked until Braeden turned his threats to Dominic and Lani, Dominic’s young daughter. Lysander, willing to do anything to protect Dominic and Lani from his sadistic ex, left his loved ones.
No one could understand why he left and why he embarked on a fairly dangerous lifestyle afterwards. Driven by Braeden’s taunts and continued stalking, Lysander turned to drugs, drink and sex as a way to hide from the pain. He stopped talking to friends and family for weeks at a time so when he went missing, no one noticed right away.
He’d taken a month’s worth of vacation from the museum to get away but on the day he was supposed to return, seven months after his separation from Dominic, he failed to come in or call work. When he didn’t come in the next day, Cissa, friend, coworker, and sort of relative, went by his apartment. What she found was an overflowing mailbox and a trashed apartment. She saw signs of a struggle and, judging by the withered state of his plants, it had happened a while ago.
Cissa called everyone in but it would still take another week before he would be found. Between a spy named Redemption and Dominic’s ex-wife, Saiyuri, they found him being held captive at a property owned by Braeden.
Saiyuri would describe it as a scene straight from hell. In addition to Lysander, Braeden had six other males, human and Mutari alike, in the house. Further investigations would uncover more bodies buried in the house and grounds. Lysander was kept in the master bedroom but the conditions were just as hellish.
Naked, with his hair crudely hacked off, and severely emaciated, Lysander had been bound to the bed spread eagle. Saiyuri didn’t need to be a genius to figure out what had been done to him. She’d been in the processing of calling it in when the man she assumed was Braeden burst into the room, Redemption in hot pursuit. Redemption had found him in the yard, calmly digging a grave.
Seeing that he was cornered, Braeden lashed out at the man still tied to his bed, hoping to create a distraction. The shovel he still carried sliced open Lysander’s chest and the already weakened Mutari bled profusely. They let Braeden go in order to save their friend.
While redemption called for an ambulance, Saiyuri used her medical training to try and stop the bleeding. While she freed Lysander from the bed and helped the EMS team transport Lysander, Redemption continued to make phone calls. He called a worried sick Dominic and told him to get his ass to the hospital if he wanted to see Lysander. He called the Mutari council to summon their authorities to the scene and then he headed towards the hospital himself.
Due to his weakened and starved condition, the wound across Lysander’s chest wasn’t healing. Right before they arrived at the hospital, his heart stopped beating. Cursing because the placement if the wound wouldn’t allow them to use the paddles, Saiyuri climbed up onto the gurney to start chest compressions while one of the EMS team provided air. She kept at it even while they unloaded him and the ER team took over. Dr. Augustus Klein, the man Lysander considered his father, took charge of the dying man. He stood on the wheel braces and took over the air bag while shouting orders.
Dominic got there in time to see the gurney go past him. He got only the quickest impression of the pale, gaunt man the gurney held but he recognized Saiyuri. He knew what it meant for her to be straddling the person on the gurney and pressing her hands to his chest. Lysander was dying.
Dominic went weak at the knees and would have dropped to the floor if Redemption hadn’t been there to catch and haul him into a chair. The surgery to patch Lysander up took several hours and by the time he was out of recovery and into the Mutari ICU, Dominic had been sedated, Theiry, Saiyuri’s husband, had arrived and Redemption had gone off to hunt down Braeden.
Lysander spent 10 days in a coma, Dominic spent most of his time in the ICU ward, waiting for the man to wake. Lysander had been beaten, starved raped and that was only the physical abuse he’d suffered. No one knew his mental state. When he did come out of the coma, Lysander knew where he was and who was with him. He broke down and told everyone what had happened. He’d left in order to protect Lani and Dominic from Braeden’s threats and spent the next seven months dodging the man. On the first day of his vacation, when he was supposed to be hiding out in Japan, Braeden had come to the apartment.
He was sure that the others could figure out what had happened from there.
While still staying at the hospital, where he would remain until Augustus thought him well enough to leave, Saiyuri went off hunting Braeden down. She found him and would have killed him if the Mutari council hunters hadn’t intervened. She would get her chance, they said, after he’d been made to face justice for everyone else he’d hurt as well. She returned to Cedar Valley to wait her chance and take care of Lysander.
He’d been discharged to home care and spent the next several weeks puttering around Dominic’s mother’s place; as Dominic’s home had suffered major damage from falling trees during a windstorm. Though it took only weeks for the physical injuries to heal, the physiological ones took longer. Lysander suffered from horrible nightmares that, according to Dominic and Carol, Dominic’s mother, sounded more like a trapped animal then a human being. It didn’t help that barely a month and half after his rescue, Lysander had to say good bye to Dominic.
Dominic had been summoned to Europe because his uncle had suffered a massive heart attack while on an antique buying trip. Lysander shooed him on his way and Dominic told Lysander to remodel his house to keep from getting bored.
And remodel he did. Lysander had the house torn down and started from scratch. When he returned just before Christmas, uncle in tow, Dominic was greeted by a happy Lysander and a brand new house. He was also greeted by the sight of Lysander’s infant son. Cade Gallagher was barely two weeks old and had been dumped on their doorstep. As there was nothing they could do, they took him in and raised him as their own.
Ever since then, the two have bumped along, walking side-by-side in life and being honest with each other. Dominic holds Lysander when the nightmares come back and he shoves Dominic out his comfort zone. The secret to their success is that they are soul mates.
Rare between two Mutari, their souls are bound together for eternity. This explains why Dominic, a straight guy, fell for Lysander and feels no attraction to other men. Kept at bay by Braeden’s hold on Lysander, the bond never had a chance to flourish. The night of Braeden’s execution by Saiyuri, just days after his capture, the bond formed between the two men and they never looked back.
They formalized their partnership by marrying in 2013 but they treat the day the bond formed in 2012 as their true anniversary. Many years passed and they discussed children. They were good parents; all of Saiyuri’s children loved Uncles Lysander and Dominic. With Saiyuri’s help, they became parents of Ruri, the biological child of Saiyuri and Lysander. She’s led the pair on some crazy adventures, the most recent being her involvement with an Incubus and Succubus.