Title: Other Worlds
Author: Sairalinde
Type: RPS
Pairing: Viggo/Sean B.
Rating: Explicit Sex Eventually
Warning: A.U. It's got it all. Allusion to rape nothing descriptive, magic, sort of character death, slight touch of schmoop.
Beta: Glorfindel
Disclaimer: This never happened...if it did well let's just say I'd be really surprised! Viggo, and Sean are real people but they do not know me nor I them. Nora Roberts is one of my favorite authors and this story A World Apart, came to mind as one to slash up, no offense meant. Basically retelling the same tale, but my way. This was written in fun that's all. Not for profit.
Feedback: Yes please send to Sairalinde @ hornofgondor.com
Archiving: Yes but ask first please.
Notes: A.U. very loosely based on Bulgarian folk tales about dragons that can shape shift and more closely based on A World Apart. Basically I am slashing the story up with Viggo and Sean and dragons…what fun ;-)
Summary: A.U. Viggo is a NY city cop and Sean is a Lamiaslayer (Dragonslayer) from another place and time. * Told you it was A.U. * ;-)

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[Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [Chapter 4]
[Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7] [Chapter 8]

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Chapter 8

Sean stood poised hoping to be able to do something to save Viggo but they were so close together there was nothing he could do without risking Viggo's life.

When Altinor grabbed Viggo's arm and pulled him forward into a lewd kiss Viggo reached down and managed to draw his .38 hidden at his ankle. He unloaded the weapon into Altinor but not before the King of the Lamia bit into his shoulder savagely and his claws dug deeply into his back and chest. Altinor crumpled to the floor pulling Viggo down with him. Sean rushed forward to drag Viggo away from him.

"Viggo?" Sean asked trying to assess his wounds.

"Sean? Is he dead?" Viggo asked.

"Yes, I think so."

"Mission accomplished…the little girl?" Viggo asked.

"She got away." Sean answered.

"Good. I'm pretty fucked up here." Viggo said coughing up blood.

"I will heal you." Sean whispered his voice thick with tears.

"I already feel it Sean. I'm going under." He was cold, cold right down to his bones.

"No…no I will heal you." Sean cried tears running down his cheeks unchecked.

With that Sean scooped Viggo into his arms and transformed into an eagle once again. He flew as quickly as he could back down to the bottom floor and transformed again.

Did he have enough time? Time to heal Viggo and save the women from their doom? He had to choose between the man he loved, and his duty.

"No one should ever have to make this choice." Sean whispered before going to the women. He had seen a fountain with running water when he had flown to the top level of the building. It was on the northern most side in a small park.

Sean herded all the women and the little girl there while carrying Viggo. His charges didn't ask questions, just followed him willingly. The women were already swelling with the dragon seed and if he didn't heal them soon, they would all perish.

"I can help you…all of you, get into the fountain." Sean told them. He lay Viggo along the edge of the fountain and the little girl sat next to him stroking his hand. This man had saved her from the monster, she didn't want him to die.

The five women got into the water and Sean went to each one, drawing away the pain, the poison, and the seed of the Lamia before it became too late. When he was done he turned his attention to the little girl next to Viggo.

"I'm not hurt sir." The little girl whispered and moved away so Sean could take care of Viggo. Sean smiled grimly at her and pulled Viggo into the water cradling him in his arms, chanting through his tears and trying to heal him. Viggo was nearly gone.

"I cannot loose him now." Sean said softly. "By the goddess, whatever magic is in my blood, save him."

Sean drew the poison from the wounds and healed Viggo, but Sean could feel himself slipping away. The previous healings had drained him and he knew the risk, but he couldn't let Viggo die.

Later Viggo awoke wet and cold. The little girl was next to him crying and another woman probably her mother had her arms around the girl. The other women were sitting around him in a circle sobbing. He sat up and saw Sean laying lifeless beside him.

"Sean!" Viggo called shaking him.

"He's dead." One of the women whispered through a near choking sob. "He saved all of us, healed us all, then you…and now…now he's dead." The woman said in a strangled sounding voice. "We watched him heal you, saw your wounds heal and then he collapsed. We pulled you both out of the water and lay the two of you together. We don't know what else to do." She continued to explain and then began to shake and cry once again.

Viggo gathered Sean's lifeless body into his arms. "This can't be it….I won't let it be!" Viggo cried out and pulled out Sean's sword and the stone he had shown him. The key to go back to Sean's world.

"What are you doing?" One of the women asked.

"Saving him. I hope." Viggo answered and tugged Sean close, laying across his legs and touched the sword to the stone. A blinding light flashed and they were next in a room filled with bright white light. Viggo looked around for a moment and saw a beautiful woman in white robes standing before a large black stone. Sean was laying on a slab of white marble and clad entirely in white. Viggo looked down and he too was clad in white.

"Welcome, Viggo." The goddess said softly. Her voice sounded like birds singing.

"Where am I?" Viggo asked.

"My palace of course." She answered moving toward him though she seemed to float rather than walk.

"He…he died for your world and my own. He died to save five human women and a child, he died to save me…is there nothing you can do?" Viggo asked.

"No, there is nothing I can do, but you can." She answered.

"Me?" Viggo asked wondering what he could do besides get Sean killed. That he obviously did quite well.

"You have power, Viggo, a power far stronger than my own." She answered.

"I have no power, lady. I am just a New York City cop. Nothing more nothing less." Viggo answered.

"Ah, but there you are wrong." She said smiling softly.

"You sent him to me! You can save him!" Viggo argued.

"Not I. Destiny, Viggo." The goddess answered moving a bit closer to him.

"Destiny?" Viggo spat out. "Who weaves a destiny that asks a man to fight, to risk his life in battle, destroy the enemy, and lay down his life for others? And for this courage, for this valor, he is repaid with this? Who are you to demand such sacrifice?"

"There are no answers to the questions you ask. What did he bring to you, other than the gift of healing, and life? What was your gift to him, Viggo?"

"Love." Viggo answered softly.

The goddess smiled. "Then there is a way. Courage and strength, vision and love. With these there is a way for you, only you, to save him."

"How?" Viggo asked. "I will do anything."

"A kiss."

"A kiss?" Viggo asked confused this wasn't a fairy tale.

"The gift of breath of live, and love. If your love is true, and if it is pure, one to the other, the power of that kiss, of the love in it, will overcome and life once more shall be. Sean will forever be human, will no longer know the gifts of magic or healing. He will be as you are, a man, not Zmey. Will you take this away from him to save him?" She asked.

"If this is the only way he can live, then yes." Viggo answered.

"Then come, there is little time. The magic in his soul has not left his body yet." She said taking his arm.

"If I fail, may he stay here? Sleep, as he is sleeping now?" Viggo asked.

"Would you wish that for him? An eternity of nothing?" She asked.

Viggo closed his eyes and sighed. "Then I will not fail him." Viggo answered thinking about how he always asked that if he is ever on deaths door to not leave him in a hospital on a vent as a vegetable the rest of his days.

"Trust in your magic, Viggo for it is there and strong. Your gift from Sean."

When Viggo approached Sean he looked only as if he were sleeping. "He is…beautiful." Viggo whispered and the goddess smiled.

"If he is brought back, we will have to part won't we? Your world and mine are in balance and if one of us stays in the other too long it will upset the balance won't it?" Viggo asked.

"No. The balance will survive, you must both return to your world. Without his magic, no longer a Zmey, no longer a slayer, Sean will need to return to your world if he is to survive." The goddess answered.

"Yes. I understand." Viggo answered. With that the goddess raised her arms and vanished.

"All that I am is yours, Sean." Viggo whispered laying his lips on Sean's.

Love and life, he thought as he breathed both into his mouth. Life and love. Strong, and pure. Heart and soul, magic and light. Pain vibrated through Viggo, but he kept his lips warm and gentle upon Sean's. Dizzy, he braced a hand on the marble slab next to Sean's head, and gave all of himself over to the man he loved.

"I would die for you, as you did me." He thought. "I would live for you."

Sean's lips moved under his only slightly. When he stirred, Viggo slid bonelessly to his knees beside the bed. It had worked! Sean was alive but still asleep. Viggo put his head down and let the tears come.

Sean dreamed of swimming, fighting through a black and churning sea that was swallowing him whole. He broke through the icy void, searching for Viggo, battling the greedy waves that sucked him back from his goal.

He awoke with Viggo's name upon his lips. Viggo lifted his head with tears running down his face as he gripped Sean's hand.

"Sean! You're alive!" Viggo cried out.

"Yes…yes I am alive. How? I felt life leave me?" Sean asked.

"Love." Viggo answered.

"What? Why are we inside the white palace?" Sean asked suddenly recognizing where they were.

"I used the key, brought you here to the goddess." Viggo explained.

"So she was able to heal me?" Sean asked confused.

"No. I did." Viggo answered.

"You did?" Sean asked even more confused.

Viggo explained his conversation with the goddess. Sean nodded.

"So I am no longer a Zmey, no longer a slayer?" Sean asked.

Viggo nodded unsure for the first time. What if Sean preferred not to live at all if he can no longer be who he was born to be.

"I am sorry." Viggo said then.

"Sorry?" Sean asked.

"You aren't angry with me?" Viggo asked suddenly feeling very uncomfortable.

"Why would I be? You saved my life…brought me back to life…how can I possibly be angry with you? I am no longer a Zmey? I had considered doing the same as my father had. I have to admit no longer being a slayer does bother me slightly. Not quite sure what to do with myself now." Sean answered.

"You can come home with me." Viggo offered hopefully.

Sean smiled at him. "I somehow think that isn't exactly a request nor offer, it's the only way is it not? I know how the goddess works." Sean said knowingly.

"Yes. She said you must live in my world. Does that bother you?" Viggo asked.

"No as long as I am with you I don't care where I live." Sean admitted with a grin.

The goddess entered the chamber. "It is good to see you are among the living, slayer." The goddess said smiling.

"Yes, indeed it is, my lady." Sean answered.

She turned to Viggo then with a brilliant smile on her beautiful face. "The women of your world and the child, who suffered at the hands of Altinor will have no memory of what happened. Sean healed their bodies and their souls, and I will grant them the ability to forget. It is the only gift I can offer.".

"Thank you. It means a lot to know they won't be haunted by all this." Viggo answered, he'd worked enough rape cases to know that the victims are never the same even after they are healed from the physical scars. He was glad to know the goddess was offering these women this gift.

"Your time here is finished I am afraid. To keep the balance in order I must send you back now." The goddess informed them.

Viggo and Sean both answered. "Yes, we are ready."

Suddenly light flashed and they were back in Viggo's apartment.

"Whoa, not sure I could ever get used to that." Viggo murmured shaking his head to clear the dizziness. "So you aren't sure what to do with yourself?"

"Well for the time being at least I can think of a few things." Sean whispered huskily closing the distance between them.

The End.