Deep Water

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bitter look.
“Let’s just say that he owes me a few favors, and I’m in the mood to collect.”
    Cautiously, Poseidon considered the
suggestion. There was no love lost between him and his youngest brother, the
King of the Gods. He could bring himself to beg for Griffin’s life, galling as
it would be, but there was no guarantee that Zeus would grant the boon.
    But if Chiron could convince Zeus to grant
Griffin godhood… “Your offer is an extremely generous one, and I thank you for
it,” he said. “But you’re forgetting one thing.”
    “We have to find our feckless sibling
first,” Chiron finished for him. “And from what I’ve heard, he’s on the run
from Hera. Again.”
    One of the unfortunate truths about the
King of the Gods was his inveterate wanderlust. Combined with the crumbling
mortal faith in the gods and a desire to get out from under his wife Hera’s
scrutiny, Zeus had developed a habit of disappearing from Olympus for years at
a time. He would eventually show up again as if nothing out of the ordinary had
happened, but during his absences he was incommunicado.
    Apart from setting fire to Mount Olympus,
Poseidon could think of no way to summon his youngest brother. “According to
Nick, Griffin only has a month to live,” he said, “and that may be a generous
estimate. Splitting your time between hunting for Apollo and Zeus will waste a
good deal of it.”
    “So stall for time,” Chiron said.
    “How?”
    The centaur smirked again. “The same way your
sons made it possible for Ian to survive an ilkothella bite. Have sex with
Griffin. Full-on, penis inside at least one orifice sex, with ejaculation. Your
seed should be more than strong enough to stop a brain tumor in its tracks.”
    Poseidon went still. Chiron’s description
was crude, but the thought of making love to Griffin sent an unexpected zing of
lust through him.
    “I have no issue with bedding him, but
he’s been very ill,” Poseidon said. “He may not want to come to my bed. Plus I
don’t know if he lies with men.”
    Chiron made a face. “I suppose getting him
drunk and jumping him is out of the question?”
    Poseidon growled in sudden fury. “That’s
what caused this situation in the first place, you fool,” he snarled. “I’m not
going to make that same mistake again.”
    Chiron held up his hands. “Sorry, sorry.
So you woo him. As your agapetos ,
he’ll respond whether he’s straight or not. All he really has to do is lie
there. If worse comes to worst, tell him who you are and that this is the only
way he can avoid dying. If he has an ounce of survival instinct left, he’ll
spread.”
    There was logic in the centaur’s words,
but Poseidon recoiled from the thought of Griffin lying underneath him,
stoically accepting his love. It smacked far too much of his first—and
only—night with Medusa. “Perhaps I should introduce him to Amphitrite first,”
he said. “If he prefers women—”
    “Yeah, no. We don’t know if sex with a
goddess will have the same effect, and if he’s sick he may not be able to get
it up in the first place. First you make sure that he’s going to live, and then
you call Amphitrite.” Chiron gentled his voice. “Look, you can be charming when
you want to be, and if he’s your agapetos his orientation isn’t going to matter anyway. Just be gentle, use lots of lube,
and try to make it fun for him. If you try, I know you can pull this off.”
    Poseidon had to laugh at that. “That makes
one of us.”
    ****
    Griffin woke with the warm prickling of
sunshine on his face. Even with his eyes still closed, the constant background
hiss of the waves told him where he was. He smiled.
    Time to run the now-routine morning
evaluation of his body. Slight ache in his joints—normal for a 50-year-old, and
a damn sight better than it could have been. Nothing from Johnson, but after
the last round of radiation he’d pretty much given up on getting another
erection anyway. Bowels felt okay, no real

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