Anja Zareen Fell

@alsoazfell

wife of merric, marine biologist, lover of cocoa, books and overall food.

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By: Courtney

Plant keeper 🌱

Decided to draw for #smaugust some more dragons. First week for plant and flower dragons 🌸✨ Some of smaugust dragons will become stickers in September

You can find not just only mushrooms in this forest ✨

Plant and flower dragons week in my own #smaugust challenge week

Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)

The loggerhead sea turtle is a species of oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world. It is a marine reptile, belonging to the family Cheloniidae. The average loggerhead measures around 90 cm in carapace length when fully grown. The adult loggerhead sea turtle weighs approximately 135 kg, with the largest specimens weighing in at more than 450 kg. The skin ranges from yellow to brown in color, and the shell is typically reddish brown. The loggerhead sea turtle is found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. It spends most of its life in saltwater and estuarine habitats, with females briefly coming ashore to lay eggs. The loggerhead sea turtle is omnivorous, feeding mainly on bottom-dwelling invertebrates. Its large and powerful jaws serve as an effective tool for dismantling its prey. Young loggerheads are exploited by numerous predators; the eggs are especially vulnerable to terrestrial organisms. Once the turtles reach adulthood, their formidable size limits predation to large marine animals, such as sharks. The loggerhead sea turtle is considered a vulnerable species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. In total, 9 distinct population segments are under the protection of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, with 4 population segments classified as “threatened” and 5 classified as “endangered”.

photo credits: Brian Gratwicke, Brian Gratwicke, Strobilomyces, Jean-Lou Justine

Cabins in Norway

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a lifetime ago (Merric x anja)

England, 1802

Anja rolled her eyes as she sat in the meeting of the professors all arguing about who would go on the latest expedition, she hated to tell them it was a waste of time as well. The marine biologists had been hearing rumors of a type of serpent off the coast which was actually her (woops) and she didn’t want them to catch on however the area that they were planning to visit she also knew she had theorized to have something to do with a new species of fish that had been appearing in the docks and she knew it had to have something to do with the ocean currents.

Of course they were all fighting so much it would be a miracle if she could even pitch her works at all, let alone get on the boat to begin with. These men were all far to stubborn and pigheaded to listen to anything the young adventurer wished to offer them as far as information, it was a miracle she was allowed in the room at all with the way Darwin protested and the more she tried to interject the harder it became so she made herself useful in another way, when theories and arguments were shouted out that she could hear she wrote them down on a pad of paper that she had brought with her, taking note of the good ideas and disregarding the bad ones. the ones that were important or made sense to the mission she circled on the pad of paper and when she got a moment she tried once more to interject only to be shut out again. Honestly she’d never met a more obnoxious group of virgins in her entire life.

The Belmont glared at him

“Afraid not if you’re looking for the creature, she’s already gone.” He drew a silver pistol and aimed at Merric “She’ll join you after Darwin is done with her. his discovery of dragons will far surpass hers of a single fish.”

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Merric glared at him before Emily smashed the bottle over the man’s head.

“I rather think not.” Emily told him, “go get her.” She told Merric.

Merric kissed her forehead. “Emily you are a Godsend.” He hurried after finding Darwin and Anja. The sight sickened him. “Get away from her Darwin. Dragons are not to be meddled with, for you are crunchy and good with a fine wine.”

Darwin had anja at a half transformation it was painful trying to resist the transformation as he held her arms behind her, her fingers more like claws and her scalescovered one of her arms and half of her face, her eyes were bright blue and looking more reptillian by the moment

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“Darwin let go of her or I swear I will not be held accountable for my actions.” Merric glared at him his hands moving into a defensive measure.

Darwin had a silver dagger and held it close to Anja glaring

“not a step closer or I’ll dissect her right here. There is enough on her to prove that she is a monster to be studied as well, I had planned on giving you the potion but in afraid you took the wrong glass” Darwin threatened as he struggled to keep his hold on her as a monsterous growl came from her as she struggled to fight the effects

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“A monster? Please you’re the monster, you dissect living thinking people and call them monsters oh Darwin you are quite wrong about that.” Merric watched the man and felt his stomach turn. “Anja look at me focus on me you are stronger than anything this mortal could ever drug you with.”

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“it’s an elixcer the Belmonts gave me to reveal creatures like you” darwin scoffed at them it was then he felt a gun pressed to the back of his head

“I’ll take that as a confession to disrupting the magical order” the gentleman behind him said before he glanced over at merric

“get your dragon, the van Hellsings will handle this get her somewhere safe”

Darwin had no choice but to release Anja and drop his own dagger as Anja vent over in pain from trying to resist her transformation

“merric” she gasped

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Merric hurried to her and helped her up, “this way,” do you think you can control it enough to become your smaller self?” He asked her as he lead her to a place where no one would see them. “How do I help you?” There was concern and he spoke weirdly calm if only to keep her so.

“I think I can try” Anja said to him she felt another jolt of pain and held onto him she took a few deep breaths and forced herself into her snake form once they were out if sight and she was curled up tight in her coils and whimpered it was better but it still felt like horrible pain going through her

“sssneaky basstard” she hissed in a small voice

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“He had help, the Belmont’s.” He concealed her across his shoulders to shield her and keep her warm. “He will pay for it dearly the VanHelsings don’t suffer fools.”

Anja snuggled close to him

“I don’t like that, we were far to clossee to being caught” she said if snakes could cry she would be as she snuggled closer to him glad for his comfort

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“Why don’t you stay at my place I know it isn’t proper but it is safer than where you live Emily will be fine.”

Anja nodded sadly who knew how long it would take her to turn human again with whatever darwin gave her but no matter what Anja wasn’t sure she felt safe anywhere really. Far to many knew she was a dragon now and if it weren’t for merric she’d be packing up everything and running far far away

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“You know,” Merric said. “We could move to somewhere no one really has been to study the marine life there, America. I have never been nor have you I think. But Darwin won’t be able to touch us there, nor will the Belmont’s. We could study our passions there undisturbed and no one would know you are a dragon there. We could take Emily with us if we want.”

Anja hesitated for a moment

“your pack isss here” she told him she couldn’t ask him to leave his entire family behind. If hers was still here she wouldn’t leave them either.

“I wouldn’t asssk you to run away with me and leave them behind”

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“Dear my pack lives on that ship, where I go they go.” Merric smiled. “Besides where is your sense of adventure?”

“you should assk them before you make ssuch promissses to me. Perhapsss they want to ssstay” Anja told him she wanted the idea of the adventure but how could she when it wasn’t just her life being thrown away

“bessides what if your life here?”

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Merric went silent for a moment, “I don’t really have one, didn’t, you see you are my life here. Before you it was just a port for us to stay and I got carried away in hearing they there was this creature that Darwin wanted to find. I work with the VanHelsing’s occasionally especially against the Belmont’s. So I started attending where I met this incredible woman who is an absolute ray of sunshine. She makes the day begin and is intelligent, gracious, and an absolute angel. She cares so much about those around her and has such a deep passion for her studies. Did I mention she can hold her own? She saved my life and it was in more ways than one. Even with a pack I have always been a bit more lonely than most. Now I have saved hers because the day she saved me was the day I knew I would spend the rest of my life with her.”

Anja’s white scales tinged pink, if there had been any doubt that snakes could blush it was put to rest now

She pressed her head up against his cheek and if snakes could smile she was definitely doing so

“jusst being sure I’m not to fassst for you my dear”

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“You never,” he gently smiled, “we are almost there.” A few more houses and there was his a simple Victorian as he entered the steps he saw the familiar face of the VanHelsings. “You know you really are a Godsend. Thank you for saving us.”

Anja shrank back into his coat a bit, still uncertain if them and their intentions

“darwin will pay for his crimes and we have apprehended the Belmont who attacked you as well. You and your lady will be safe” one of the gentlemen told him before glancing at where Anja peeked from his coat

“didn’t know dragons became snakes”

“then you still have much to learn” one if the elder ones said with a smile before he looked at merric

“otherwise is everything alright? Anything you need?”

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“Both of those things are a relief to hear, as for anything else, I wouldn’t mind one of you sticking around while we figure out how to get Anja to a non reptilian form. The potion they gave her was a nasty trick. He gently smoothed the scales on her head.

The elder nodded a bit

“without knowing what it was we will have to wait for the effects to wear off. There isn’t a permanent spell to make her stay transformed she just won’t be able to shift for a while. Longest I know of is twenty four hours” the elder said

Anja rubbed her head against merric’s hand happily

“thank you,” she hissed softly to them the younger jumped a bit surprised and Anja snickered

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Merric chuckled and smiled, “I’m just glad we saved you Dragons are so rare, I doubt we will see more than a few others they have to be protected, especially now that there are those who know they exist. While the majority of humans don’t the few have to be kept in check.

Anja nodded a bit agreeing what little was left of her kind had to be protected at all costs. With that she cuddled merric again affectionately and the elder van Hellsing smiled

“we should be on our way then. Much to do now and I suspect a report to be made” with that he took his family and left

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“Of course, tell Abe I say Hi.” Merric waved. Abraham was the founder and had been helping to keep things afloat for the VanHelsings a younger man than most realized at this moment in time. “They are good people the VanHelsings. They work to keep the supernatural safe from the humans and the humans safe from the Supernatural.”

Anja nodded a bit she had heard if them in recent years but hadn’t had the curtesy to meet then until now

“books and cuddles?” Anja suggested for what to do next it had been a long day and it seemed just like both if them needed for an evening in land

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“Yes my dear, books and cuddles,” Merric went to his room, “mind giving me a little privacy while I change into something comfortable?” He held up his hand for her to slither on to so he could set her down where she would be warm and comfortable.

Anja pouted a little and slithered down his arm and his under his bed to give him his privacy as she curled up in her coils and awaited his cue to return

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Merric leaned down and peeked at her, “Aww, you can come back now,” he held out his hand to her.

Anja smiled and slithered up around his wrist

“what shall we read?” Anja asked she wondered what kind of books he has, books were a window to someone’s soul their favorites always spoke volumes of who they were and what they wanted to be or thought they were it was like music

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“I was thinking Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen is always a good choice.” He selected the book many of this authors and selections were books written by women or under a male pseudoname.

Anja slithered up his arm and perched on his shoulder to look over

“read it to me? Sssnakes have bad eye sssight” Anja did her best to make an adorable pouty face as a snake

“pleasssse?”

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“Of course I was already intending too,” he said cuddling her and reading the book aloud it was a most romantic book but it was also quite humorous just what they needed after such a day.

Anja listened to him read and smiled happily to herself as she stayed cuddled close listening until her eyes dropped closed and she dozed to sleep with her little snakey tongue flicking out as she breathed

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Setting the book down at some point Merric fell asleep comfortable with her by him. When he awoke she was human and he was the little spoon.

Anja woke to his stirring and was more than happy to realize she was herself again and she smiled hugging him right and burying her face in his shoulder

“I can finally hug you again” she said giggling

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“And kiss you,” he added as he kissed her, “not too fast?” He asked her as he pressed his forehead to hers. “Would you like to wear something more comfortable than the dress? I can’t imagine sleeping in a corset is comfortable.”

Anja smiled and pressed a kiss to his nose in response

“never to fast,” Anja told him when he offered her something else she nodded she hated her corset and couldn’t wait for the darn things to go out if fashion though they were lovely

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Merric found a set of bed clothes for her to wear that weren’t too big, “I think one of the women in our pack left this. It should fit you just nicely.” He turned to give her privacy.

Anja wasn’t sure how she felt about that, the pack was his family but she still wasn’t sure how much she liked the idea if someone else spending the night here and leaving their pajamas

She hesitated for a moment

“it’s alright if I can get ahold of Emily maybe she can bring me over some of my things”

She felt awkward at the implications and then wearing another woman’s clothes without her permission

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Merric looked at her, “there is no way of cleaning the clothes properly on the ship and many of the crew use the rooms as a way of storing their things. They won’t mind we share and you are a part of the pack even if you aren’t one of us.” He insisted. “They sometimes spend a night here if there is a bad storm rather than going on the ship. Anja I wouldn’t offer it if I didn’t think they would be ok with it.”

Anja smiled a bit and looked at the nightshirt again

“I’m sorry, I guess I sort of had a bite from a green eyes monster for a moment” she apologized to him

“just seemed a little odd and I wasn’t sure how to ask in my moment of shock so I’m sorry” Anja apologized to him she took the night shirt and looked around

“do you have a washroom where I can change?”

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“I do not have a mate if that is what you are asking, no what I said earlier was true my eyes are only for you.” Merric nodded and lead her to where she could change. “Do you require some assistance in getting out of your dress or corset?”

“If you could just undo the buttons and the ties u can do the rest” Anja said turning her back to him and moving her hair aside to allow him access to them

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Merric was quick and careful he pressed a kiss to the back of her neck where it met her shoulder, “all done my dear, I’ll see you back in my room.” He curled up on the bed ready to cuddle her again.

Anja smiled and shut the door before she changed into the night shirt and folded her things up she went back to his room and left them on his dresser

“are you comfortable staying in the bed with me?” She asked him sitting on the edge of the bed she knew he had worried about being appropriate before and didn’t want to push him

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“Yes.” He patted the bed next to him. “It is comfortable especially with you as the big spoon.” Merric chuckled.

Anja chuckled a little and climbed fully onto the bed with him putting her arm around him and pressing a kiss to his cheek

"I think it can be arranged" Anja told him snuggling close to him

a lifetime ago (Merric x anja)

England, 1802

Anja rolled her eyes as she sat in the meeting of the professors all arguing about who would go on the latest expedition, she hated to tell them it was a waste of time as well. The marine biologists had been hearing rumors of a type of serpent off the coast which was actually her (woops) and she didn’t want them to catch on however the area that they were planning to visit she also knew she had theorized to have something to do with a new species of fish that had been appearing in the docks and she knew it had to have something to do with the ocean currents.

Of course they were all fighting so much it would be a miracle if she could even pitch her works at all, let alone get on the boat to begin with. These men were all far to stubborn and pigheaded to listen to anything the young adventurer wished to offer them as far as information, it was a miracle she was allowed in the room at all with the way Darwin protested and the more she tried to interject the harder it became so she made herself useful in another way, when theories and arguments were shouted out that she could hear she wrote them down on a pad of paper that she had brought with her, taking note of the good ideas and disregarding the bad ones. the ones that were important or made sense to the mission she circled on the pad of paper and when she got a moment she tried once more to interject only to be shut out again. Honestly she’d never met a more obnoxious group of virgins in her entire life.

The Belmont glared at him

“Afraid not if you’re looking for the creature, she’s already gone.” He drew a silver pistol and aimed at Merric “She’ll join you after Darwin is done with her. his discovery of dragons will far surpass hers of a single fish.”

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Merric glared at him before Emily smashed the bottle over the man’s head.

“I rather think not.” Emily told him, “go get her.” She told Merric.

Merric kissed her forehead. “Emily you are a Godsend.” He hurried after finding Darwin and Anja. The sight sickened him. “Get away from her Darwin. Dragons are not to be meddled with, for you are crunchy and good with a fine wine.”

Darwin had anja at a half transformation it was painful trying to resist the transformation as he held her arms behind her, her fingers more like claws and her scalescovered one of her arms and half of her face, her eyes were bright blue and looking more reptillian by the moment

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“Darwin let go of her or I swear I will not be held accountable for my actions.” Merric glared at him his hands moving into a defensive measure.

Darwin had a silver dagger and held it close to Anja glaring

“not a step closer or I’ll dissect her right here. There is enough on her to prove that she is a monster to be studied as well, I had planned on giving you the potion but in afraid you took the wrong glass” Darwin threatened as he struggled to keep his hold on her as a monsterous growl came from her as she struggled to fight the effects

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“A monster? Please you’re the monster, you dissect living thinking people and call them monsters oh Darwin you are quite wrong about that.” Merric watched the man and felt his stomach turn. “Anja look at me focus on me you are stronger than anything this mortal could ever drug you with.”

honeystone-fashion

“it’s an elixcer the Belmonts gave me to reveal creatures like you” darwin scoffed at them it was then he felt a gun pressed to the back of his head

“I’ll take that as a confession to disrupting the magical order” the gentleman behind him said before he glanced over at merric

“get your dragon, the van Hellsings will handle this get her somewhere safe”

Darwin had no choice but to release Anja and drop his own dagger as Anja vent over in pain from trying to resist her transformation

“merric” she gasped

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Merric hurried to her and helped her up, “this way,” do you think you can control it enough to become your smaller self?” He asked her as he lead her to a place where no one would see them. “How do I help you?” There was concern and he spoke weirdly calm if only to keep her so.

“I think I can try” Anja said to him she felt another jolt of pain and held onto him she took a few deep breaths and forced herself into her snake form once they were out if sight and she was curled up tight in her coils and whimpered it was better but it still felt like horrible pain going through her

“sssneaky basstard” she hissed in a small voice

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“He had help, the Belmont’s.” He concealed her across his shoulders to shield her and keep her warm. “He will pay for it dearly the VanHelsings don’t suffer fools.”

Anja snuggled close to him

“I don’t like that, we were far to clossee to being caught” she said if snakes could cry she would be as she snuggled closer to him glad for his comfort

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“Why don’t you stay at my place I know it isn’t proper but it is safer than where you live Emily will be fine.”

Anja nodded sadly who knew how long it would take her to turn human again with whatever darwin gave her but no matter what Anja wasn’t sure she felt safe anywhere really. Far to many knew she was a dragon now and if it weren’t for merric she’d be packing up everything and running far far away

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“You know,” Merric said. “We could move to somewhere no one really has been to study the marine life there, America. I have never been nor have you I think. But Darwin won’t be able to touch us there, nor will the Belmont’s. We could study our passions there undisturbed and no one would know you are a dragon there. We could take Emily with us if we want.”

Anja hesitated for a moment

“your pack isss here” she told him she couldn’t ask him to leave his entire family behind. If hers was still here she wouldn’t leave them either.

“I wouldn’t asssk you to run away with me and leave them behind”

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“Dear my pack lives on that ship, where I go they go.” Merric smiled. “Besides where is your sense of adventure?”

“you should assk them before you make ssuch promissses to me. Perhapsss they want to ssstay” Anja told him she wanted the idea of the adventure but how could she when it wasn’t just her life being thrown away

“bessides what if your life here?”

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Merric went silent for a moment, “I don’t really have one, didn’t, you see you are my life here. Before you it was just a port for us to stay and I got carried away in hearing they there was this creature that Darwin wanted to find. I work with the VanHelsing’s occasionally especially against the Belmont’s. So I started attending where I met this incredible woman who is an absolute ray of sunshine. She makes the day begin and is intelligent, gracious, and an absolute angel. She cares so much about those around her and has such a deep passion for her studies. Did I mention she can hold her own? She saved my life and it was in more ways than one. Even with a pack I have always been a bit more lonely than most. Now I have saved hers because the day she saved me was the day I knew I would spend the rest of my life with her.”

Anja’s white scales tinged pink, if there had been any doubt that snakes could blush it was put to rest now

She pressed her head up against his cheek and if snakes could smile she was definitely doing so

“jusst being sure I’m not to fassst for you my dear”

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“You never,” he gently smiled, “we are almost there.” A few more houses and there was his a simple Victorian as he entered the steps he saw the familiar face of the VanHelsings. “You know you really are a Godsend. Thank you for saving us.”

Anja shrank back into his coat a bit, still uncertain if them and their intentions

“darwin will pay for his crimes and we have apprehended the Belmont who attacked you as well. You and your lady will be safe” one of the gentlemen told him before glancing at where Anja peeked from his coat

“didn’t know dragons became snakes”

“then you still have much to learn” one if the elder ones said with a smile before he looked at merric

“otherwise is everything alright? Anything you need?”

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“Both of those things are a relief to hear, as for anything else, I wouldn’t mind one of you sticking around while we figure out how to get Anja to a non reptilian form. The potion they gave her was a nasty trick. He gently smoothed the scales on her head.

The elder nodded a bit

“without knowing what it was we will have to wait for the effects to wear off. There isn’t a permanent spell to make her stay transformed she just won’t be able to shift for a while. Longest I know of is twenty four hours” the elder said

Anja rubbed her head against merric’s hand happily

“thank you,” she hissed softly to them the younger jumped a bit surprised and Anja snickered

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Merric chuckled and smiled, “I’m just glad we saved you Dragons are so rare, I doubt we will see more than a few others they have to be protected, especially now that there are those who know they exist. While the majority of humans don’t the few have to be kept in check.

Anja nodded a bit agreeing what little was left of her kind had to be protected at all costs. With that she cuddled merric again affectionately and the elder van Hellsing smiled

“we should be on our way then. Much to do now and I suspect a report to be made” with that he took his family and left

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“Of course, tell Abe I say Hi.” Merric waved. Abraham was the founder and had been helping to keep things afloat for the VanHelsings a younger man than most realized at this moment in time. “They are good people the VanHelsings. They work to keep the supernatural safe from the humans and the humans safe from the Supernatural.”

Anja nodded a bit she had heard if them in recent years but hadn’t had the curtesy to meet then until now

“books and cuddles?” Anja suggested for what to do next it had been a long day and it seemed just like both if them needed for an evening in land

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“Yes my dear, books and cuddles,” Merric went to his room, “mind giving me a little privacy while I change into something comfortable?” He held up his hand for her to slither on to so he could set her down where she would be warm and comfortable.

Anja pouted a little and slithered down his arm and his under his bed to give him his privacy as she curled up in her coils and awaited his cue to return

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Merric leaned down and peeked at her, “Aww, you can come back now,” he held out his hand to her.

Anja smiled and slithered up around his wrist

“what shall we read?” Anja asked she wondered what kind of books he has, books were a window to someone’s soul their favorites always spoke volumes of who they were and what they wanted to be or thought they were it was like music

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“I was thinking Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen is always a good choice.” He selected the book many of this authors and selections were books written by women or under a male pseudoname.

Anja slithered up his arm and perched on his shoulder to look over

“read it to me? Sssnakes have bad eye sssight” Anja did her best to make an adorable pouty face as a snake

“pleasssse?”

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“Of course I was already intending too,” he said cuddling her and reading the book aloud it was a most romantic book but it was also quite humorous just what they needed after such a day.

Anja listened to him read and smiled happily to herself as she stayed cuddled close listening until her eyes dropped closed and she dozed to sleep with her little snakey tongue flicking out as she breathed

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Setting the book down at some point Merric fell asleep comfortable with her by him. When he awoke she was human and he was the little spoon.

Anja woke to his stirring and was more than happy to realize she was herself again and she smiled hugging him right and burying her face in his shoulder

“I can finally hug you again” she said giggling

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“And kiss you,” he added as he kissed her, “not too fast?” He asked her as he pressed his forehead to hers. “Would you like to wear something more comfortable than the dress? I can’t imagine sleeping in a corset is comfortable.”

Anja smiled and pressed a kiss to his nose in response

“never to fast,” Anja told him when he offered her something else she nodded she hated her corset and couldn’t wait for the darn things to go out if fashion though they were lovely

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Merric found a set of bed clothes for her to wear that weren’t too big, “I think one of the women in our pack left this. It should fit you just nicely.” He turned to give her privacy.

Anja wasn’t sure how she felt about that, the pack was his family but she still wasn’t sure how much she liked the idea if someone else spending the night here and leaving their pajamas

She hesitated for a moment

“it’s alright if I can get ahold of Emily maybe she can bring me over some of my things”

She felt awkward at the implications and then wearing another woman’s clothes without her permission

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Merric looked at her, “there is no way of cleaning the clothes properly on the ship and many of the crew use the rooms as a way of storing their things. They won’t mind we share and you are a part of the pack even if you aren’t one of us.” He insisted. “They sometimes spend a night here if there is a bad storm rather than going on the ship. Anja I wouldn’t offer it if I didn’t think they would be ok with it.”

Anja smiled a bit and looked at the nightshirt again

“I’m sorry, I guess I sort of had a bite from a green eyes monster for a moment” she apologized to him

“just seemed a little odd and I wasn’t sure how to ask in my moment of shock so I’m sorry” Anja apologized to him she took the night shirt and looked around

“do you have a washroom where I can change?”

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“I do not have a mate if that is what you are asking, no what I said earlier was true my eyes are only for you.” Merric nodded and lead her to where she could change. “Do you require some assistance in getting out of your dress or corset?”

“If you could just undo the buttons and the ties u can do the rest” Anja said turning her back to him and moving her hair aside to allow him access to them

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Merric was quick and careful he pressed a kiss to the back of her neck where it met her shoulder, “all done my dear, I’ll see you back in my room.” He curled up on the bed ready to cuddle her again.

Anja smiled and shut the door before she changed into the night shirt and folded her things up she went back to his room and left them on his dresser

"are you comfortable staying in the bed with me?" She asked him sitting on the edge of the bed she knew he had worried about being appropriate before and didn't want to push him

a lifetime ago (Merric x anja)

England, 1802

Anja rolled her eyes as she sat in the meeting of the professors all arguing about who would go on the latest expedition, she hated to tell them it was a waste of time as well. The marine biologists had been hearing rumors of a type of serpent off the coast which was actually her (woops) and she didn’t want them to catch on however the area that they were planning to visit she also knew she had theorized to have something to do with a new species of fish that had been appearing in the docks and she knew it had to have something to do with the ocean currents.

Of course they were all fighting so much it would be a miracle if she could even pitch her works at all, let alone get on the boat to begin with. These men were all far to stubborn and pigheaded to listen to anything the young adventurer wished to offer them as far as information, it was a miracle she was allowed in the room at all with the way Darwin protested and the more she tried to interject the harder it became so she made herself useful in another way, when theories and arguments were shouted out that she could hear she wrote them down on a pad of paper that she had brought with her, taking note of the good ideas and disregarding the bad ones. the ones that were important or made sense to the mission she circled on the pad of paper and when she got a moment she tried once more to interject only to be shut out again. Honestly she’d never met a more obnoxious group of virgins in her entire life.

The Belmont glared at him

“Afraid not if you’re looking for the creature, she’s already gone.” He drew a silver pistol and aimed at Merric “She’ll join you after Darwin is done with her. his discovery of dragons will far surpass hers of a single fish.”

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Merric glared at him before Emily smashed the bottle over the man’s head.

“I rather think not.” Emily told him, “go get her.” She told Merric.

Merric kissed her forehead. “Emily you are a Godsend.” He hurried after finding Darwin and Anja. The sight sickened him. “Get away from her Darwin. Dragons are not to be meddled with, for you are crunchy and good with a fine wine.”

Darwin had anja at a half transformation it was painful trying to resist the transformation as he held her arms behind her, her fingers more like claws and her scalescovered one of her arms and half of her face, her eyes were bright blue and looking more reptillian by the moment

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“Darwin let go of her or I swear I will not be held accountable for my actions.” Merric glared at him his hands moving into a defensive measure.

Darwin had a silver dagger and held it close to Anja glaring

“not a step closer or I’ll dissect her right here. There is enough on her to prove that she is a monster to be studied as well, I had planned on giving you the potion but in afraid you took the wrong glass” Darwin threatened as he struggled to keep his hold on her as a monsterous growl came from her as she struggled to fight the effects

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“A monster? Please you’re the monster, you dissect living thinking people and call them monsters oh Darwin you are quite wrong about that.” Merric watched the man and felt his stomach turn. “Anja look at me focus on me you are stronger than anything this mortal could ever drug you with.”

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“it’s an elixcer the Belmonts gave me to reveal creatures like you” darwin scoffed at them it was then he felt a gun pressed to the back of his head

“I’ll take that as a confession to disrupting the magical order” the gentleman behind him said before he glanced over at merric

“get your dragon, the van Hellsings will handle this get her somewhere safe”

Darwin had no choice but to release Anja and drop his own dagger as Anja vent over in pain from trying to resist her transformation

“merric” she gasped

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Merric hurried to her and helped her up, “this way,” do you think you can control it enough to become your smaller self?” He asked her as he lead her to a place where no one would see them. “How do I help you?” There was concern and he spoke weirdly calm if only to keep her so.

“I think I can try” Anja said to him she felt another jolt of pain and held onto him she took a few deep breaths and forced herself into her snake form once they were out if sight and she was curled up tight in her coils and whimpered it was better but it still felt like horrible pain going through her

“sssneaky basstard” she hissed in a small voice

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“He had help, the Belmont’s.” He concealed her across his shoulders to shield her and keep her warm. “He will pay for it dearly the VanHelsings don’t suffer fools.”

Anja snuggled close to him

“I don’t like that, we were far to clossee to being caught” she said if snakes could cry she would be as she snuggled closer to him glad for his comfort

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“Why don’t you stay at my place I know it isn’t proper but it is safer than where you live Emily will be fine.”

Anja nodded sadly who knew how long it would take her to turn human again with whatever darwin gave her but no matter what Anja wasn’t sure she felt safe anywhere really. Far to many knew she was a dragon now and if it weren’t for merric she’d be packing up everything and running far far away

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“You know,” Merric said. “We could move to somewhere no one really has been to study the marine life there, America. I have never been nor have you I think. But Darwin won’t be able to touch us there, nor will the Belmont’s. We could study our passions there undisturbed and no one would know you are a dragon there. We could take Emily with us if we want.”

Anja hesitated for a moment

“your pack isss here” she told him she couldn’t ask him to leave his entire family behind. If hers was still here she wouldn’t leave them either.

“I wouldn’t asssk you to run away with me and leave them behind”

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“Dear my pack lives on that ship, where I go they go.” Merric smiled. “Besides where is your sense of adventure?”

“you should assk them before you make ssuch promissses to me. Perhapsss they want to ssstay” Anja told him she wanted the idea of the adventure but how could she when it wasn’t just her life being thrown away

“bessides what if your life here?”

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Merric went silent for a moment, “I don’t really have one, didn’t, you see you are my life here. Before you it was just a port for us to stay and I got carried away in hearing they there was this creature that Darwin wanted to find. I work with the VanHelsing’s occasionally especially against the Belmont’s. So I started attending where I met this incredible woman who is an absolute ray of sunshine. She makes the day begin and is intelligent, gracious, and an absolute angel. She cares so much about those around her and has such a deep passion for her studies. Did I mention she can hold her own? She saved my life and it was in more ways than one. Even with a pack I have always been a bit more lonely than most. Now I have saved hers because the day she saved me was the day I knew I would spend the rest of my life with her.”

Anja’s white scales tinged pink, if there had been any doubt that snakes could blush it was put to rest now

She pressed her head up against his cheek and if snakes could smile she was definitely doing so

“jusst being sure I’m not to fassst for you my dear”

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“You never,” he gently smiled, “we are almost there.” A few more houses and there was his a simple Victorian as he entered the steps he saw the familiar face of the VanHelsings. “You know you really are a Godsend. Thank you for saving us.”

Anja shrank back into his coat a bit, still uncertain if them and their intentions

“darwin will pay for his crimes and we have apprehended the Belmont who attacked you as well. You and your lady will be safe” one of the gentlemen told him before glancing at where Anja peeked from his coat

“didn’t know dragons became snakes”

“then you still have much to learn” one if the elder ones said with a smile before he looked at merric

“otherwise is everything alright? Anything you need?”

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“Both of those things are a relief to hear, as for anything else, I wouldn’t mind one of you sticking around while we figure out how to get Anja to a non reptilian form. The potion they gave her was a nasty trick. He gently smoothed the scales on her head.

The elder nodded a bit

“without knowing what it was we will have to wait for the effects to wear off. There isn’t a permanent spell to make her stay transformed she just won’t be able to shift for a while. Longest I know of is twenty four hours” the elder said

Anja rubbed her head against merric’s hand happily

“thank you,” she hissed softly to them the younger jumped a bit surprised and Anja snickered

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Merric chuckled and smiled, “I’m just glad we saved you Dragons are so rare, I doubt we will see more than a few others they have to be protected, especially now that there are those who know they exist. While the majority of humans don’t the few have to be kept in check.

Anja nodded a bit agreeing what little was left of her kind had to be protected at all costs. With that she cuddled merric again affectionately and the elder van Hellsing smiled

“we should be on our way then. Much to do now and I suspect a report to be made” with that he took his family and left

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“Of course, tell Abe I say Hi.” Merric waved. Abraham was the founder and had been helping to keep things afloat for the VanHelsings a younger man than most realized at this moment in time. “They are good people the VanHelsings. They work to keep the supernatural safe from the humans and the humans safe from the Supernatural.”

Anja nodded a bit she had heard if them in recent years but hadn’t had the curtesy to meet then until now

“books and cuddles?” Anja suggested for what to do next it had been a long day and it seemed just like both if them needed for an evening in land

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“Yes my dear, books and cuddles,” Merric went to his room, “mind giving me a little privacy while I change into something comfortable?” He held up his hand for her to slither on to so he could set her down where she would be warm and comfortable.

Anja pouted a little and slithered down his arm and his under his bed to give him his privacy as she curled up in her coils and awaited his cue to return

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Merric leaned down and peeked at her, “Aww, you can come back now,” he held out his hand to her.

Anja smiled and slithered up around his wrist

“what shall we read?” Anja asked she wondered what kind of books he has, books were a window to someone’s soul their favorites always spoke volumes of who they were and what they wanted to be or thought they were it was like music

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“I was thinking Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen is always a good choice.” He selected the book many of this authors and selections were books written by women or under a male pseudoname.

Anja slithered up his arm and perched on his shoulder to look over

“read it to me? Sssnakes have bad eye sssight” Anja did her best to make an adorable pouty face as a snake

“pleasssse?”

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“Of course I was already intending too,” he said cuddling her and reading the book aloud it was a most romantic book but it was also quite humorous just what they needed after such a day.

Anja listened to him read and smiled happily to herself as she stayed cuddled close listening until her eyes dropped closed and she dozed to sleep with her little snakey tongue flicking out as she breathed

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Setting the book down at some point Merric fell asleep comfortable with her by him. When he awoke she was human and he was the little spoon.

Anja woke to his stirring and was more than happy to realize she was herself again and she smiled hugging him right and burying her face in his shoulder

“I can finally hug you again” she said giggling

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“And kiss you,” he added as he kissed her, “not too fast?” He asked her as he pressed his forehead to hers. “Would you like to wear something more comfortable than the dress? I can’t imagine sleeping in a corset is comfortable.”

Anja smiled and pressed a kiss to his nose in response

“never to fast,” Anja told him when he offered her something else she nodded she hated her corset and couldn’t wait for the darn things to go out if fashion though they were lovely

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Merric found a set of bed clothes for her to wear that weren’t too big, “I think one of the women in our pack left this. It should fit you just nicely.” He turned to give her privacy.

Anja wasn’t sure how she felt about that, the pack was his family but she still wasn’t sure how much she liked the idea if someone else spending the night here and leaving their pajamas

She hesitated for a moment

“it’s alright if I can get ahold of Emily maybe she can bring me over some of my things”

She felt awkward at the implications and then wearing another woman’s clothes without her permission

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Merric looked at her, “there is no way of cleaning the clothes properly on the ship and many of the crew use the rooms as a way of storing their things. They won’t mind we share and you are a part of the pack even if you aren’t one of us.” He insisted. “They sometimes spend a night here if there is a bad storm rather than going on the ship. Anja I wouldn’t offer it if I didn’t think they would be ok with it.”

Anja smiled a bit and looked at the nightshirt again

“I’m sorry, I guess I sort of had a bite from a green eyes monster for a moment” she apologized to him

“just seemed a little odd and I wasn’t sure how to ask in my moment of shock so I’m sorry” Anja apologized to him she took the night shirt and looked around

“do you have a washroom where I can change?”

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“I do not have a mate if that is what you are asking, no what I said earlier was true my eyes are only for you.” Merric nodded and lead her to where she could change. “Do you require some assistance in getting out of your dress or corset?”

"If you could just undo the buttons and the ties u can do the rest" Anja said turning her back to him and moving her hair aside to allow him access to them

a lifetime ago (Merric x anja)

England, 1802

Anja rolled her eyes as she sat in the meeting of the professors all arguing about who would go on the latest expedition, she hated to tell them it was a waste of time as well. The marine biologists had been hearing rumors of a type of serpent off the coast which was actually her (woops) and she didn’t want them to catch on however the area that they were planning to visit she also knew she had theorized to have something to do with a new species of fish that had been appearing in the docks and she knew it had to have something to do with the ocean currents.

Of course they were all fighting so much it would be a miracle if she could even pitch her works at all, let alone get on the boat to begin with. These men were all far to stubborn and pigheaded to listen to anything the young adventurer wished to offer them as far as information, it was a miracle she was allowed in the room at all with the way Darwin protested and the more she tried to interject the harder it became so she made herself useful in another way, when theories and arguments were shouted out that she could hear she wrote them down on a pad of paper that she had brought with her, taking note of the good ideas and disregarding the bad ones. the ones that were important or made sense to the mission she circled on the pad of paper and when she got a moment she tried once more to interject only to be shut out again. Honestly she’d never met a more obnoxious group of virgins in her entire life.

The Belmont glared at him

“Afraid not if you’re looking for the creature, she’s already gone.” He drew a silver pistol and aimed at Merric “She’ll join you after Darwin is done with her. his discovery of dragons will far surpass hers of a single fish.”

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Merric glared at him before Emily smashed the bottle over the man’s head.

“I rather think not.” Emily told him, “go get her.” She told Merric.

Merric kissed her forehead. “Emily you are a Godsend.” He hurried after finding Darwin and Anja. The sight sickened him. “Get away from her Darwin. Dragons are not to be meddled with, for you are crunchy and good with a fine wine.”

Darwin had anja at a half transformation it was painful trying to resist the transformation as he held her arms behind her, her fingers more like claws and her scalescovered one of her arms and half of her face, her eyes were bright blue and looking more reptillian by the moment

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“Darwin let go of her or I swear I will not be held accountable for my actions.” Merric glared at him his hands moving into a defensive measure.

Darwin had a silver dagger and held it close to Anja glaring

“not a step closer or I’ll dissect her right here. There is enough on her to prove that she is a monster to be studied as well, I had planned on giving you the potion but in afraid you took the wrong glass” Darwin threatened as he struggled to keep his hold on her as a monsterous growl came from her as she struggled to fight the effects

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“A monster? Please you’re the monster, you dissect living thinking people and call them monsters oh Darwin you are quite wrong about that.” Merric watched the man and felt his stomach turn. “Anja look at me focus on me you are stronger than anything this mortal could ever drug you with.”

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“it’s an elixcer the Belmonts gave me to reveal creatures like you” darwin scoffed at them it was then he felt a gun pressed to the back of his head

“I’ll take that as a confession to disrupting the magical order” the gentleman behind him said before he glanced over at merric

“get your dragon, the van Hellsings will handle this get her somewhere safe”

Darwin had no choice but to release Anja and drop his own dagger as Anja vent over in pain from trying to resist her transformation

“merric” she gasped

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Merric hurried to her and helped her up, “this way,” do you think you can control it enough to become your smaller self?” He asked her as he lead her to a place where no one would see them. “How do I help you?” There was concern and he spoke weirdly calm if only to keep her so.

“I think I can try” Anja said to him she felt another jolt of pain and held onto him she took a few deep breaths and forced herself into her snake form once they were out if sight and she was curled up tight in her coils and whimpered it was better but it still felt like horrible pain going through her

“sssneaky basstard” she hissed in a small voice

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“He had help, the Belmont’s.” He concealed her across his shoulders to shield her and keep her warm. “He will pay for it dearly the VanHelsings don’t suffer fools.”

Anja snuggled close to him

“I don’t like that, we were far to clossee to being caught” she said if snakes could cry she would be as she snuggled closer to him glad for his comfort

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“Why don’t you stay at my place I know it isn’t proper but it is safer than where you live Emily will be fine.”

Anja nodded sadly who knew how long it would take her to turn human again with whatever darwin gave her but no matter what Anja wasn’t sure she felt safe anywhere really. Far to many knew she was a dragon now and if it weren’t for merric she’d be packing up everything and running far far away

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“You know,” Merric said. “We could move to somewhere no one really has been to study the marine life there, America. I have never been nor have you I think. But Darwin won’t be able to touch us there, nor will the Belmont’s. We could study our passions there undisturbed and no one would know you are a dragon there. We could take Emily with us if we want.”

Anja hesitated for a moment

“your pack isss here” she told him she couldn’t ask him to leave his entire family behind. If hers was still here she wouldn’t leave them either.

“I wouldn’t asssk you to run away with me and leave them behind”

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“Dear my pack lives on that ship, where I go they go.” Merric smiled. “Besides where is your sense of adventure?”

“you should assk them before you make ssuch promissses to me. Perhapsss they want to ssstay” Anja told him she wanted the idea of the adventure but how could she when it wasn’t just her life being thrown away

“bessides what if your life here?”

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Merric went silent for a moment, “I don’t really have one, didn’t, you see you are my life here. Before you it was just a port for us to stay and I got carried away in hearing they there was this creature that Darwin wanted to find. I work with the VanHelsing’s occasionally especially against the Belmont’s. So I started attending where I met this incredible woman who is an absolute ray of sunshine. She makes the day begin and is intelligent, gracious, and an absolute angel. She cares so much about those around her and has such a deep passion for her studies. Did I mention she can hold her own? She saved my life and it was in more ways than one. Even with a pack I have always been a bit more lonely than most. Now I have saved hers because the day she saved me was the day I knew I would spend the rest of my life with her.”

Anja’s white scales tinged pink, if there had been any doubt that snakes could blush it was put to rest now

She pressed her head up against his cheek and if snakes could smile she was definitely doing so

“jusst being sure I’m not to fassst for you my dear”

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“You never,” he gently smiled, “we are almost there.” A few more houses and there was his a simple Victorian as he entered the steps he saw the familiar face of the VanHelsings. “You know you really are a Godsend. Thank you for saving us.”

Anja shrank back into his coat a bit, still uncertain if them and their intentions

“darwin will pay for his crimes and we have apprehended the Belmont who attacked you as well. You and your lady will be safe” one of the gentlemen told him before glancing at where Anja peeked from his coat

“didn’t know dragons became snakes”

“then you still have much to learn” one if the elder ones said with a smile before he looked at merric

“otherwise is everything alright? Anything you need?”

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“Both of those things are a relief to hear, as for anything else, I wouldn’t mind one of you sticking around while we figure out how to get Anja to a non reptilian form. The potion they gave her was a nasty trick. He gently smoothed the scales on her head.

The elder nodded a bit

“without knowing what it was we will have to wait for the effects to wear off. There isn’t a permanent spell to make her stay transformed she just won’t be able to shift for a while. Longest I know of is twenty four hours” the elder said

Anja rubbed her head against merric’s hand happily

“thank you,” she hissed softly to them the younger jumped a bit surprised and Anja snickered

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Merric chuckled and smiled, “I’m just glad we saved you Dragons are so rare, I doubt we will see more than a few others they have to be protected, especially now that there are those who know they exist. While the majority of humans don’t the few have to be kept in check.

Anja nodded a bit agreeing what little was left of her kind had to be protected at all costs. With that she cuddled merric again affectionately and the elder van Hellsing smiled

“we should be on our way then. Much to do now and I suspect a report to be made” with that he took his family and left

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“Of course, tell Abe I say Hi.” Merric waved. Abraham was the founder and had been helping to keep things afloat for the VanHelsings a younger man than most realized at this moment in time. “They are good people the VanHelsings. They work to keep the supernatural safe from the humans and the humans safe from the Supernatural.”

Anja nodded a bit she had heard if them in recent years but hadn’t had the curtesy to meet then until now

“books and cuddles?” Anja suggested for what to do next it had been a long day and it seemed just like both if them needed for an evening in land

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“Yes my dear, books and cuddles,” Merric went to his room, “mind giving me a little privacy while I change into something comfortable?” He held up his hand for her to slither on to so he could set her down where she would be warm and comfortable.

Anja pouted a little and slithered down his arm and his under his bed to give him his privacy as she curled up in her coils and awaited his cue to return

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Merric leaned down and peeked at her, “Aww, you can come back now,” he held out his hand to her.

Anja smiled and slithered up around his wrist

“what shall we read?” Anja asked she wondered what kind of books he has, books were a window to someone’s soul their favorites always spoke volumes of who they were and what they wanted to be or thought they were it was like music

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“I was thinking Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen is always a good choice.” He selected the book many of this authors and selections were books written by women or under a male pseudoname.

Anja slithered up his arm and perched on his shoulder to look over

“read it to me? Sssnakes have bad eye sssight” Anja did her best to make an adorable pouty face as a snake

“pleasssse?”

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“Of course I was already intending too,” he said cuddling her and reading the book aloud it was a most romantic book but it was also quite humorous just what they needed after such a day.

Anja listened to him read and smiled happily to herself as she stayed cuddled close listening until her eyes dropped closed and she dozed to sleep with her little snakey tongue flicking out as she breathed

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Setting the book down at some point Merric fell asleep comfortable with her by him. When he awoke she was human and he was the little spoon.

Anja woke to his stirring and was more than happy to realize she was herself again and she smiled hugging him right and burying her face in his shoulder

“I can finally hug you again” she said giggling

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“And kiss you,” he added as he kissed her, “not too fast?” He asked her as he pressed his forehead to hers. “Would you like to wear something more comfortable than the dress? I can’t imagine sleeping in a corset is comfortable.”

Anja smiled and pressed a kiss to his nose in response

“never to fast,” Anja told him when he offered her something else she nodded she hated her corset and couldn’t wait for the darn things to go out if fashion though they were lovely

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Merric found a set of bed clothes for her to wear that weren’t too big, “I think one of the women in our pack left this. It should fit you just nicely.” He turned to give her privacy.

Anja wasn’t sure how she felt about that, the pack was his family but she still wasn’t sure how much she liked the idea if someone else spending the night here and leaving their pajamas

She hesitated for a moment

“it’s alright if I can get ahold of Emily maybe she can bring me over some of my things”

She felt awkward at the implications and then wearing another woman’s clothes without her permission

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Merric looked at her, “there is no way of cleaning the clothes properly on the ship and many of the crew use the rooms as a way of storing their things. They won’t mind we share and you are a part of the pack even if you aren’t one of us.” He insisted. “They sometimes spend a night here if there is a bad storm rather than going on the ship. Anja I wouldn’t offer it if I didn’t think they would be ok with it.”

Anja smiled a bit and looked at the nightshirt again

"I'm sorry, I guess I sort of had a bite from a green eyes monster for a moment" she apologized to him

"just seemed a little odd and I wasn't sure how to ask in my moment of shock so I'm sorry" Anja apologized to him she took the night shirt and looked around

"do you have a washroom where I can change?"

a lifetime ago (Merric x anja)

England, 1802

Anja rolled her eyes as she sat in the meeting of the professors all arguing about who would go on the latest expedition, she hated to tell them it was a waste of time as well. The marine biologists had been hearing rumors of a type of serpent off the coast which was actually her (woops) and she didn’t want them to catch on however the area that they were planning to visit she also knew she had theorized to have something to do with a new species of fish that had been appearing in the docks and she knew it had to have something to do with the ocean currents.

Of course they were all fighting so much it would be a miracle if she could even pitch her works at all, let alone get on the boat to begin with. These men were all far to stubborn and pigheaded to listen to anything the young adventurer wished to offer them as far as information, it was a miracle she was allowed in the room at all with the way Darwin protested and the more she tried to interject the harder it became so she made herself useful in another way, when theories and arguments were shouted out that she could hear she wrote them down on a pad of paper that she had brought with her, taking note of the good ideas and disregarding the bad ones. the ones that were important or made sense to the mission she circled on the pad of paper and when she got a moment she tried once more to interject only to be shut out again. Honestly she’d never met a more obnoxious group of virgins in her entire life.

The Belmont glared at him

“Afraid not if you’re looking for the creature, she’s already gone.” He drew a silver pistol and aimed at Merric “She’ll join you after Darwin is done with her. his discovery of dragons will far surpass hers of a single fish.”

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Merric glared at him before Emily smashed the bottle over the man’s head.

“I rather think not.” Emily told him, “go get her.” She told Merric.

Merric kissed her forehead. “Emily you are a Godsend.” He hurried after finding Darwin and Anja. The sight sickened him. “Get away from her Darwin. Dragons are not to be meddled with, for you are crunchy and good with a fine wine.”

Darwin had anja at a half transformation it was painful trying to resist the transformation as he held her arms behind her, her fingers more like claws and her scalescovered one of her arms and half of her face, her eyes were bright blue and looking more reptillian by the moment

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“Darwin let go of her or I swear I will not be held accountable for my actions.” Merric glared at him his hands moving into a defensive measure.

Darwin had a silver dagger and held it close to Anja glaring

“not a step closer or I’ll dissect her right here. There is enough on her to prove that she is a monster to be studied as well, I had planned on giving you the potion but in afraid you took the wrong glass” Darwin threatened as he struggled to keep his hold on her as a monsterous growl came from her as she struggled to fight the effects

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“A monster? Please you’re the monster, you dissect living thinking people and call them monsters oh Darwin you are quite wrong about that.” Merric watched the man and felt his stomach turn. “Anja look at me focus on me you are stronger than anything this mortal could ever drug you with.”

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“it’s an elixcer the Belmonts gave me to reveal creatures like you” darwin scoffed at them it was then he felt a gun pressed to the back of his head

“I’ll take that as a confession to disrupting the magical order” the gentleman behind him said before he glanced over at merric

“get your dragon, the van Hellsings will handle this get her somewhere safe”

Darwin had no choice but to release Anja and drop his own dagger as Anja vent over in pain from trying to resist her transformation

“merric” she gasped

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Merric hurried to her and helped her up, “this way,” do you think you can control it enough to become your smaller self?” He asked her as he lead her to a place where no one would see them. “How do I help you?” There was concern and he spoke weirdly calm if only to keep her so.

“I think I can try” Anja said to him she felt another jolt of pain and held onto him she took a few deep breaths and forced herself into her snake form once they were out if sight and she was curled up tight in her coils and whimpered it was better but it still felt like horrible pain going through her

“sssneaky basstard” she hissed in a small voice

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“He had help, the Belmont’s.” He concealed her across his shoulders to shield her and keep her warm. “He will pay for it dearly the VanHelsings don’t suffer fools.”

Anja snuggled close to him

“I don’t like that, we were far to clossee to being caught” she said if snakes could cry she would be as she snuggled closer to him glad for his comfort

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“Why don’t you stay at my place I know it isn’t proper but it is safer than where you live Emily will be fine.”

Anja nodded sadly who knew how long it would take her to turn human again with whatever darwin gave her but no matter what Anja wasn’t sure she felt safe anywhere really. Far to many knew she was a dragon now and if it weren’t for merric she’d be packing up everything and running far far away

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“You know,” Merric said. “We could move to somewhere no one really has been to study the marine life there, America. I have never been nor have you I think. But Darwin won’t be able to touch us there, nor will the Belmont’s. We could study our passions there undisturbed and no one would know you are a dragon there. We could take Emily with us if we want.”

Anja hesitated for a moment

“your pack isss here” she told him she couldn’t ask him to leave his entire family behind. If hers was still here she wouldn’t leave them either.

“I wouldn’t asssk you to run away with me and leave them behind”

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“Dear my pack lives on that ship, where I go they go.” Merric smiled. “Besides where is your sense of adventure?”

“you should assk them before you make ssuch promissses to me. Perhapsss they want to ssstay” Anja told him she wanted the idea of the adventure but how could she when it wasn’t just her life being thrown away

“bessides what if your life here?”

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Merric went silent for a moment, “I don’t really have one, didn’t, you see you are my life here. Before you it was just a port for us to stay and I got carried away in hearing they there was this creature that Darwin wanted to find. I work with the VanHelsing’s occasionally especially against the Belmont’s. So I started attending where I met this incredible woman who is an absolute ray of sunshine. She makes the day begin and is intelligent, gracious, and an absolute angel. She cares so much about those around her and has such a deep passion for her studies. Did I mention she can hold her own? She saved my life and it was in more ways than one. Even with a pack I have always been a bit more lonely than most. Now I have saved hers because the day she saved me was the day I knew I would spend the rest of my life with her.”

Anja’s white scales tinged pink, if there had been any doubt that snakes could blush it was put to rest now

She pressed her head up against his cheek and if snakes could smile she was definitely doing so

“jusst being sure I’m not to fassst for you my dear”

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“You never,” he gently smiled, “we are almost there.” A few more houses and there was his a simple Victorian as he entered the steps he saw the familiar face of the VanHelsings. “You know you really are a Godsend. Thank you for saving us.”

Anja shrank back into his coat a bit, still uncertain if them and their intentions

“darwin will pay for his crimes and we have apprehended the Belmont who attacked you as well. You and your lady will be safe” one of the gentlemen told him before glancing at where Anja peeked from his coat

“didn’t know dragons became snakes”

“then you still have much to learn” one if the elder ones said with a smile before he looked at merric

“otherwise is everything alright? Anything you need?”

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“Both of those things are a relief to hear, as for anything else, I wouldn’t mind one of you sticking around while we figure out how to get Anja to a non reptilian form. The potion they gave her was a nasty trick. He gently smoothed the scales on her head.

The elder nodded a bit

“without knowing what it was we will have to wait for the effects to wear off. There isn’t a permanent spell to make her stay transformed she just won’t be able to shift for a while. Longest I know of is twenty four hours” the elder said

Anja rubbed her head against merric’s hand happily

“thank you,” she hissed softly to them the younger jumped a bit surprised and Anja snickered

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Merric chuckled and smiled, “I’m just glad we saved you Dragons are so rare, I doubt we will see more than a few others they have to be protected, especially now that there are those who know they exist. While the majority of humans don’t the few have to be kept in check.

Anja nodded a bit agreeing what little was left of her kind had to be protected at all costs. With that she cuddled merric again affectionately and the elder van Hellsing smiled

“we should be on our way then. Much to do now and I suspect a report to be made” with that he took his family and left

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“Of course, tell Abe I say Hi.” Merric waved. Abraham was the founder and had been helping to keep things afloat for the VanHelsings a younger man than most realized at this moment in time. “They are good people the VanHelsings. They work to keep the supernatural safe from the humans and the humans safe from the Supernatural.”

Anja nodded a bit she had heard if them in recent years but hadn’t had the curtesy to meet then until now

“books and cuddles?” Anja suggested for what to do next it had been a long day and it seemed just like both if them needed for an evening in land

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“Yes my dear, books and cuddles,” Merric went to his room, “mind giving me a little privacy while I change into something comfortable?” He held up his hand for her to slither on to so he could set her down where she would be warm and comfortable.

Anja pouted a little and slithered down his arm and his under his bed to give him his privacy as she curled up in her coils and awaited his cue to return

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Merric leaned down and peeked at her, “Aww, you can come back now,” he held out his hand to her.

Anja smiled and slithered up around his wrist

“what shall we read?” Anja asked she wondered what kind of books he has, books were a window to someone’s soul their favorites always spoke volumes of who they were and what they wanted to be or thought they were it was like music

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“I was thinking Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen is always a good choice.” He selected the book many of this authors and selections were books written by women or under a male pseudoname.

Anja slithered up his arm and perched on his shoulder to look over

“read it to me? Sssnakes have bad eye sssight” Anja did her best to make an adorable pouty face as a snake

“pleasssse?”

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“Of course I was already intending too,” he said cuddling her and reading the book aloud it was a most romantic book but it was also quite humorous just what they needed after such a day.

Anja listened to him read and smiled happily to herself as she stayed cuddled close listening until her eyes dropped closed and she dozed to sleep with her little snakey tongue flicking out as she breathed

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Setting the book down at some point Merric fell asleep comfortable with her by him. When he awoke she was human and he was the little spoon.

Anja woke to his stirring and was more than happy to realize she was herself again and she smiled hugging him right and burying her face in his shoulder

“I can finally hug you again” she said giggling

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“And kiss you,” he added as he kissed her, “not too fast?” He asked her as he pressed his forehead to hers. “Would you like to wear something more comfortable than the dress? I can’t imagine sleeping in a corset is comfortable.”

Anja smiled and pressed a kiss to his nose in response

“never to fast,” Anja told him when he offered her something else she nodded she hated her corset and couldn’t wait for the darn things to go out if fashion though they were lovely

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Merric found a set of bed clothes for her to wear that weren’t too big, “I think one of the women in our pack left this. It should fit you just nicely.” He turned to give her privacy.

Anja wasn't sure how she felt about that, the pack was his family but she still wasn't sure how much she liked the idea if someone else spending the night here and leaving their pajamas

She hesitated for a moment

"it's alright if I can get ahold of Emily maybe she can bring me over some of my things"

She felt awkward at the implications and then wearing another woman's clothes without her permission

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England, 1802

Anja rolled her eyes as she sat in the meeting of the professors all arguing about who would go on the latest expedition, she hated to tell them it was a waste of time as well. The marine biologists had been hearing rumors of a type of serpent off the coast which was actually her (woops) and she didn’t want them to catch on however the area that they were planning to visit she also knew she had theorized to have something to do with a new species of fish that had been appearing in the docks and she knew it had to have something to do with the ocean currents.

Of course they were all fighting so much it would be a miracle if she could even pitch her works at all, let alone get on the boat to begin with. These men were all far to stubborn and pigheaded to listen to anything the young adventurer wished to offer them as far as information, it was a miracle she was allowed in the room at all with the way Darwin protested and the more she tried to interject the harder it became so she made herself useful in another way, when theories and arguments were shouted out that she could hear she wrote them down on a pad of paper that she had brought with her, taking note of the good ideas and disregarding the bad ones. the ones that were important or made sense to the mission she circled on the pad of paper and when she got a moment she tried once more to interject only to be shut out again. Honestly she’d never met a more obnoxious group of virgins in her entire life.

The Belmont glared at him

“Afraid not if you’re looking for the creature, she’s already gone.” He drew a silver pistol and aimed at Merric “She’ll join you after Darwin is done with her. his discovery of dragons will far surpass hers of a single fish.”

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Merric glared at him before Emily smashed the bottle over the man’s head.

“I rather think not.” Emily told him, “go get her.” She told Merric.

Merric kissed her forehead. “Emily you are a Godsend.” He hurried after finding Darwin and Anja. The sight sickened him. “Get away from her Darwin. Dragons are not to be meddled with, for you are crunchy and good with a fine wine.”

Darwin had anja at a half transformation it was painful trying to resist the transformation as he held her arms behind her, her fingers more like claws and her scalescovered one of her arms and half of her face, her eyes were bright blue and looking more reptillian by the moment

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“Darwin let go of her or I swear I will not be held accountable for my actions.” Merric glared at him his hands moving into a defensive measure.

Darwin had a silver dagger and held it close to Anja glaring

“not a step closer or I’ll dissect her right here. There is enough on her to prove that she is a monster to be studied as well, I had planned on giving you the potion but in afraid you took the wrong glass” Darwin threatened as he struggled to keep his hold on her as a monsterous growl came from her as she struggled to fight the effects

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“A monster? Please you’re the monster, you dissect living thinking people and call them monsters oh Darwin you are quite wrong about that.” Merric watched the man and felt his stomach turn. “Anja look at me focus on me you are stronger than anything this mortal could ever drug you with.”

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“it’s an elixcer the Belmonts gave me to reveal creatures like you” darwin scoffed at them it was then he felt a gun pressed to the back of his head

“I’ll take that as a confession to disrupting the magical order” the gentleman behind him said before he glanced over at merric

“get your dragon, the van Hellsings will handle this get her somewhere safe”

Darwin had no choice but to release Anja and drop his own dagger as Anja vent over in pain from trying to resist her transformation

“merric” she gasped

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Merric hurried to her and helped her up, “this way,” do you think you can control it enough to become your smaller self?” He asked her as he lead her to a place where no one would see them. “How do I help you?” There was concern and he spoke weirdly calm if only to keep her so.

“I think I can try” Anja said to him she felt another jolt of pain and held onto him she took a few deep breaths and forced herself into her snake form once they were out if sight and she was curled up tight in her coils and whimpered it was better but it still felt like horrible pain going through her

“sssneaky basstard” she hissed in a small voice

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“He had help, the Belmont’s.” He concealed her across his shoulders to shield her and keep her warm. “He will pay for it dearly the VanHelsings don’t suffer fools.”

Anja snuggled close to him

“I don’t like that, we were far to clossee to being caught” she said if snakes could cry she would be as she snuggled closer to him glad for his comfort

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“Why don’t you stay at my place I know it isn’t proper but it is safer than where you live Emily will be fine.”

Anja nodded sadly who knew how long it would take her to turn human again with whatever darwin gave her but no matter what Anja wasn’t sure she felt safe anywhere really. Far to many knew she was a dragon now and if it weren’t for merric she’d be packing up everything and running far far away

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“You know,” Merric said. “We could move to somewhere no one really has been to study the marine life there, America. I have never been nor have you I think. But Darwin won’t be able to touch us there, nor will the Belmont’s. We could study our passions there undisturbed and no one would know you are a dragon there. We could take Emily with us if we want.”

Anja hesitated for a moment

“your pack isss here” she told him she couldn’t ask him to leave his entire family behind. If hers was still here she wouldn’t leave them either.

“I wouldn’t asssk you to run away with me and leave them behind”

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“Dear my pack lives on that ship, where I go they go.” Merric smiled. “Besides where is your sense of adventure?”

“you should assk them before you make ssuch promissses to me. Perhapsss they want to ssstay” Anja told him she wanted the idea of the adventure but how could she when it wasn’t just her life being thrown away

“bessides what if your life here?”

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Merric went silent for a moment, “I don’t really have one, didn’t, you see you are my life here. Before you it was just a port for us to stay and I got carried away in hearing they there was this creature that Darwin wanted to find. I work with the VanHelsing’s occasionally especially against the Belmont’s. So I started attending where I met this incredible woman who is an absolute ray of sunshine. She makes the day begin and is intelligent, gracious, and an absolute angel. She cares so much about those around her and has such a deep passion for her studies. Did I mention she can hold her own? She saved my life and it was in more ways than one. Even with a pack I have always been a bit more lonely than most. Now I have saved hers because the day she saved me was the day I knew I would spend the rest of my life with her.”

Anja’s white scales tinged pink, if there had been any doubt that snakes could blush it was put to rest now

She pressed her head up against his cheek and if snakes could smile she was definitely doing so

“jusst being sure I’m not to fassst for you my dear”

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“You never,” he gently smiled, “we are almost there.” A few more houses and there was his a simple Victorian as he entered the steps he saw the familiar face of the VanHelsings. “You know you really are a Godsend. Thank you for saving us.”

Anja shrank back into his coat a bit, still uncertain if them and their intentions

“darwin will pay for his crimes and we have apprehended the Belmont who attacked you as well. You and your lady will be safe” one of the gentlemen told him before glancing at where Anja peeked from his coat

“didn’t know dragons became snakes”

“then you still have much to learn” one if the elder ones said with a smile before he looked at merric

“otherwise is everything alright? Anything you need?”

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“Both of those things are a relief to hear, as for anything else, I wouldn’t mind one of you sticking around while we figure out how to get Anja to a non reptilian form. The potion they gave her was a nasty trick. He gently smoothed the scales on her head.

The elder nodded a bit

“without knowing what it was we will have to wait for the effects to wear off. There isn’t a permanent spell to make her stay transformed she just won’t be able to shift for a while. Longest I know of is twenty four hours” the elder said

Anja rubbed her head against merric’s hand happily

“thank you,” she hissed softly to them the younger jumped a bit surprised and Anja snickered

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Merric chuckled and smiled, “I’m just glad we saved you Dragons are so rare, I doubt we will see more than a few others they have to be protected, especially now that there are those who know they exist. While the majority of humans don’t the few have to be kept in check.

Anja nodded a bit agreeing what little was left of her kind had to be protected at all costs. With that she cuddled merric again affectionately and the elder van Hellsing smiled

“we should be on our way then. Much to do now and I suspect a report to be made” with that he took his family and left

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“Of course, tell Abe I say Hi.” Merric waved. Abraham was the founder and had been helping to keep things afloat for the VanHelsings a younger man than most realized at this moment in time. “They are good people the VanHelsings. They work to keep the supernatural safe from the humans and the humans safe from the Supernatural.”

Anja nodded a bit she had heard if them in recent years but hadn’t had the curtesy to meet then until now

“books and cuddles?” Anja suggested for what to do next it had been a long day and it seemed just like both if them needed for an evening in land

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“Yes my dear, books and cuddles,” Merric went to his room, “mind giving me a little privacy while I change into something comfortable?” He held up his hand for her to slither on to so he could set her down where she would be warm and comfortable.

Anja pouted a little and slithered down his arm and his under his bed to give him his privacy as she curled up in her coils and awaited his cue to return

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Merric leaned down and peeked at her, “Aww, you can come back now,” he held out his hand to her.

Anja smiled and slithered up around his wrist

“what shall we read?” Anja asked she wondered what kind of books he has, books were a window to someone’s soul their favorites always spoke volumes of who they were and what they wanted to be or thought they were it was like music

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“I was thinking Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen is always a good choice.” He selected the book many of this authors and selections were books written by women or under a male pseudoname.

Anja slithered up his arm and perched on his shoulder to look over

“read it to me? Sssnakes have bad eye sssight” Anja did her best to make an adorable pouty face as a snake

“pleasssse?”

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“Of course I was already intending too,” he said cuddling her and reading the book aloud it was a most romantic book but it was also quite humorous just what they needed after such a day.

Anja listened to him read and smiled happily to herself as she stayed cuddled close listening until her eyes dropped closed and she dozed to sleep with her little snakey tongue flicking out as she breathed

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Setting the book down at some point Merric fell asleep comfortable with her by him. When he awoke she was human and he was the little spoon.

Anja woke to his stirring and was more than happy to realize she was herself again and she smiled hugging him right and burying her face in his shoulder

“I can finally hug you again” she said giggling

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“And kiss you,” he added as he kissed her, “not too fast?” He asked her as he pressed his forehead to hers. “Would you like to wear something more comfortable than the dress? I can’t imagine sleeping in a corset is comfortable.”

Anja smiled and pressed a kiss to his nose in response

"never to fast," Anja told him when he offered her something else she nodded she hated her corset and couldn't wait for the darn things to go out if fashion though they were lovely

a lifetime ago (Merric x anja)

England, 1802

Anja rolled her eyes as she sat in the meeting of the professors all arguing about who would go on the latest expedition, she hated to tell them it was a waste of time as well. The marine biologists had been hearing rumors of a type of serpent off the coast which was actually her (woops) and she didn’t want them to catch on however the area that they were planning to visit she also knew she had theorized to have something to do with a new species of fish that had been appearing in the docks and she knew it had to have something to do with the ocean currents.

Of course they were all fighting so much it would be a miracle if she could even pitch her works at all, let alone get on the boat to begin with. These men were all far to stubborn and pigheaded to listen to anything the young adventurer wished to offer them as far as information, it was a miracle she was allowed in the room at all with the way Darwin protested and the more she tried to interject the harder it became so she made herself useful in another way, when theories and arguments were shouted out that she could hear she wrote them down on a pad of paper that she had brought with her, taking note of the good ideas and disregarding the bad ones. the ones that were important or made sense to the mission she circled on the pad of paper and when she got a moment she tried once more to interject only to be shut out again. Honestly she’d never met a more obnoxious group of virgins in her entire life.

The Belmont glared at him

“Afraid not if you’re looking for the creature, she’s already gone.” He drew a silver pistol and aimed at Merric “She’ll join you after Darwin is done with her. his discovery of dragons will far surpass hers of a single fish.”

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Merric glared at him before Emily smashed the bottle over the man’s head.

“I rather think not.” Emily told him, “go get her.” She told Merric.

Merric kissed her forehead. “Emily you are a Godsend.” He hurried after finding Darwin and Anja. The sight sickened him. “Get away from her Darwin. Dragons are not to be meddled with, for you are crunchy and good with a fine wine.”

Darwin had anja at a half transformation it was painful trying to resist the transformation as he held her arms behind her, her fingers more like claws and her scalescovered one of her arms and half of her face, her eyes were bright blue and looking more reptillian by the moment

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“Darwin let go of her or I swear I will not be held accountable for my actions.” Merric glared at him his hands moving into a defensive measure.

Darwin had a silver dagger and held it close to Anja glaring

“not a step closer or I’ll dissect her right here. There is enough on her to prove that she is a monster to be studied as well, I had planned on giving you the potion but in afraid you took the wrong glass” Darwin threatened as he struggled to keep his hold on her as a monsterous growl came from her as she struggled to fight the effects

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“A monster? Please you’re the monster, you dissect living thinking people and call them monsters oh Darwin you are quite wrong about that.” Merric watched the man and felt his stomach turn. “Anja look at me focus on me you are stronger than anything this mortal could ever drug you with.”

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“it’s an elixcer the Belmonts gave me to reveal creatures like you” darwin scoffed at them it was then he felt a gun pressed to the back of his head

“I’ll take that as a confession to disrupting the magical order” the gentleman behind him said before he glanced over at merric

“get your dragon, the van Hellsings will handle this get her somewhere safe”

Darwin had no choice but to release Anja and drop his own dagger as Anja vent over in pain from trying to resist her transformation

“merric” she gasped

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Merric hurried to her and helped her up, “this way,” do you think you can control it enough to become your smaller self?” He asked her as he lead her to a place where no one would see them. “How do I help you?” There was concern and he spoke weirdly calm if only to keep her so.

“I think I can try” Anja said to him she felt another jolt of pain and held onto him she took a few deep breaths and forced herself into her snake form once they were out if sight and she was curled up tight in her coils and whimpered it was better but it still felt like horrible pain going through her

“sssneaky basstard” she hissed in a small voice

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“He had help, the Belmont’s.” He concealed her across his shoulders to shield her and keep her warm. “He will pay for it dearly the VanHelsings don’t suffer fools.”

Anja snuggled close to him

“I don’t like that, we were far to clossee to being caught” she said if snakes could cry she would be as she snuggled closer to him glad for his comfort

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“Why don’t you stay at my place I know it isn’t proper but it is safer than where you live Emily will be fine.”

Anja nodded sadly who knew how long it would take her to turn human again with whatever darwin gave her but no matter what Anja wasn’t sure she felt safe anywhere really. Far to many knew she was a dragon now and if it weren’t for merric she’d be packing up everything and running far far away

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“You know,” Merric said. “We could move to somewhere no one really has been to study the marine life there, America. I have never been nor have you I think. But Darwin won’t be able to touch us there, nor will the Belmont’s. We could study our passions there undisturbed and no one would know you are a dragon there. We could take Emily with us if we want.”

Anja hesitated for a moment

“your pack isss here” she told him she couldn’t ask him to leave his entire family behind. If hers was still here she wouldn’t leave them either.

“I wouldn’t asssk you to run away with me and leave them behind”

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“Dear my pack lives on that ship, where I go they go.” Merric smiled. “Besides where is your sense of adventure?”

“you should assk them before you make ssuch promissses to me. Perhapsss they want to ssstay” Anja told him she wanted the idea of the adventure but how could she when it wasn’t just her life being thrown away

“bessides what if your life here?”

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Merric went silent for a moment, “I don’t really have one, didn’t, you see you are my life here. Before you it was just a port for us to stay and I got carried away in hearing they there was this creature that Darwin wanted to find. I work with the VanHelsing’s occasionally especially against the Belmont’s. So I started attending where I met this incredible woman who is an absolute ray of sunshine. She makes the day begin and is intelligent, gracious, and an absolute angel. She cares so much about those around her and has such a deep passion for her studies. Did I mention she can hold her own? She saved my life and it was in more ways than one. Even with a pack I have always been a bit more lonely than most. Now I have saved hers because the day she saved me was the day I knew I would spend the rest of my life with her.”

Anja’s white scales tinged pink, if there had been any doubt that snakes could blush it was put to rest now

She pressed her head up against his cheek and if snakes could smile she was definitely doing so

“jusst being sure I’m not to fassst for you my dear”

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“You never,” he gently smiled, “we are almost there.” A few more houses and there was his a simple Victorian as he entered the steps he saw the familiar face of the VanHelsings. “You know you really are a Godsend. Thank you for saving us.”

Anja shrank back into his coat a bit, still uncertain if them and their intentions

“darwin will pay for his crimes and we have apprehended the Belmont who attacked you as well. You and your lady will be safe” one of the gentlemen told him before glancing at where Anja peeked from his coat

“didn’t know dragons became snakes”

“then you still have much to learn” one if the elder ones said with a smile before he looked at merric

“otherwise is everything alright? Anything you need?”

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“Both of those things are a relief to hear, as for anything else, I wouldn’t mind one of you sticking around while we figure out how to get Anja to a non reptilian form. The potion they gave her was a nasty trick. He gently smoothed the scales on her head.

The elder nodded a bit

“without knowing what it was we will have to wait for the effects to wear off. There isn’t a permanent spell to make her stay transformed she just won’t be able to shift for a while. Longest I know of is twenty four hours” the elder said

Anja rubbed her head against merric’s hand happily

“thank you,” she hissed softly to them the younger jumped a bit surprised and Anja snickered

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Merric chuckled and smiled, “I’m just glad we saved you Dragons are so rare, I doubt we will see more than a few others they have to be protected, especially now that there are those who know they exist. While the majority of humans don’t the few have to be kept in check.

Anja nodded a bit agreeing what little was left of her kind had to be protected at all costs. With that she cuddled merric again affectionately and the elder van Hellsing smiled

“we should be on our way then. Much to do now and I suspect a report to be made” with that he took his family and left

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“Of course, tell Abe I say Hi.” Merric waved. Abraham was the founder and had been helping to keep things afloat for the VanHelsings a younger man than most realized at this moment in time. “They are good people the VanHelsings. They work to keep the supernatural safe from the humans and the humans safe from the Supernatural.”

Anja nodded a bit she had heard if them in recent years but hadn’t had the curtesy to meet then until now

“books and cuddles?” Anja suggested for what to do next it had been a long day and it seemed just like both if them needed for an evening in land

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“Yes my dear, books and cuddles,” Merric went to his room, “mind giving me a little privacy while I change into something comfortable?” He held up his hand for her to slither on to so he could set her down where she would be warm and comfortable.

Anja pouted a little and slithered down his arm and his under his bed to give him his privacy as she curled up in her coils and awaited his cue to return

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Merric leaned down and peeked at her, “Aww, you can come back now,” he held out his hand to her.

Anja smiled and slithered up around his wrist

“what shall we read?” Anja asked she wondered what kind of books he has, books were a window to someone’s soul their favorites always spoke volumes of who they were and what they wanted to be or thought they were it was like music

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“I was thinking Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen is always a good choice.” He selected the book many of this authors and selections were books written by women or under a male pseudoname.

Anja slithered up his arm and perched on his shoulder to look over

“read it to me? Sssnakes have bad eye sssight” Anja did her best to make an adorable pouty face as a snake

“pleasssse?”

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“Of course I was already intending too,” he said cuddling her and reading the book aloud it was a most romantic book but it was also quite humorous just what they needed after such a day.

Anja listened to him read and smiled happily to herself as she stayed cuddled close listening until her eyes dropped closed and she dozed to sleep with her little snakey tongue flicking out as she breathed

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Setting the book down at some point Merric fell asleep comfortable with her by him. When he awoke she was human and he was the little spoon.

Anja woke to his stirring and was more than happy to realize she was herself again and she smiled hugging him right and burying her face in his shoulder

"I can finally hug you again" she said giggling

a lifetime ago (Merric x anja)

England, 1802

Anja rolled her eyes as she sat in the meeting of the professors all arguing about who would go on the latest expedition, she hated to tell them it was a waste of time as well. The marine biologists had been hearing rumors of a type of serpent off the coast which was actually her (woops) and she didn’t want them to catch on however the area that they were planning to visit she also knew she had theorized to have something to do with a new species of fish that had been appearing in the docks and she knew it had to have something to do with the ocean currents.

Of course they were all fighting so much it would be a miracle if she could even pitch her works at all, let alone get on the boat to begin with. These men were all far to stubborn and pigheaded to listen to anything the young adventurer wished to offer them as far as information, it was a miracle she was allowed in the room at all with the way Darwin protested and the more she tried to interject the harder it became so she made herself useful in another way, when theories and arguments were shouted out that she could hear she wrote them down on a pad of paper that she had brought with her, taking note of the good ideas and disregarding the bad ones. the ones that were important or made sense to the mission she circled on the pad of paper and when she got a moment she tried once more to interject only to be shut out again. Honestly she’d never met a more obnoxious group of virgins in her entire life.

The Belmont glared at him

“Afraid not if you’re looking for the creature, she’s already gone.” He drew a silver pistol and aimed at Merric “She’ll join you after Darwin is done with her. his discovery of dragons will far surpass hers of a single fish.”

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Merric glared at him before Emily smashed the bottle over the man’s head.

“I rather think not.” Emily told him, “go get her.” She told Merric.

Merric kissed her forehead. “Emily you are a Godsend.” He hurried after finding Darwin and Anja. The sight sickened him. “Get away from her Darwin. Dragons are not to be meddled with, for you are crunchy and good with a fine wine.”

Darwin had anja at a half transformation it was painful trying to resist the transformation as he held her arms behind her, her fingers more like claws and her scalescovered one of her arms and half of her face, her eyes were bright blue and looking more reptillian by the moment

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“Darwin let go of her or I swear I will not be held accountable for my actions.” Merric glared at him his hands moving into a defensive measure.

Darwin had a silver dagger and held it close to Anja glaring

“not a step closer or I’ll dissect her right here. There is enough on her to prove that she is a monster to be studied as well, I had planned on giving you the potion but in afraid you took the wrong glass” Darwin threatened as he struggled to keep his hold on her as a monsterous growl came from her as she struggled to fight the effects

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“A monster? Please you’re the monster, you dissect living thinking people and call them monsters oh Darwin you are quite wrong about that.” Merric watched the man and felt his stomach turn. “Anja look at me focus on me you are stronger than anything this mortal could ever drug you with.”

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“it’s an elixcer the Belmonts gave me to reveal creatures like you” darwin scoffed at them it was then he felt a gun pressed to the back of his head

“I’ll take that as a confession to disrupting the magical order” the gentleman behind him said before he glanced over at merric

“get your dragon, the van Hellsings will handle this get her somewhere safe”

Darwin had no choice but to release Anja and drop his own dagger as Anja vent over in pain from trying to resist her transformation

“merric” she gasped

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Merric hurried to her and helped her up, “this way,” do you think you can control it enough to become your smaller self?” He asked her as he lead her to a place where no one would see them. “How do I help you?” There was concern and he spoke weirdly calm if only to keep her so.

“I think I can try” Anja said to him she felt another jolt of pain and held onto him she took a few deep breaths and forced herself into her snake form once they were out if sight and she was curled up tight in her coils and whimpered it was better but it still felt like horrible pain going through her

“sssneaky basstard” she hissed in a small voice

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“He had help, the Belmont’s.” He concealed her across his shoulders to shield her and keep her warm. “He will pay for it dearly the VanHelsings don’t suffer fools.”

Anja snuggled close to him

“I don’t like that, we were far to clossee to being caught” she said if snakes could cry she would be as she snuggled closer to him glad for his comfort

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“Why don’t you stay at my place I know it isn’t proper but it is safer than where you live Emily will be fine.”

Anja nodded sadly who knew how long it would take her to turn human again with whatever darwin gave her but no matter what Anja wasn’t sure she felt safe anywhere really. Far to many knew she was a dragon now and if it weren’t for merric she’d be packing up everything and running far far away

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“You know,” Merric said. “We could move to somewhere no one really has been to study the marine life there, America. I have never been nor have you I think. But Darwin won’t be able to touch us there, nor will the Belmont’s. We could study our passions there undisturbed and no one would know you are a dragon there. We could take Emily with us if we want.”

Anja hesitated for a moment

“your pack isss here” she told him she couldn’t ask him to leave his entire family behind. If hers was still here she wouldn’t leave them either.

“I wouldn’t asssk you to run away with me and leave them behind”

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“Dear my pack lives on that ship, where I go they go.” Merric smiled. “Besides where is your sense of adventure?”

“you should assk them before you make ssuch promissses to me. Perhapsss they want to ssstay” Anja told him she wanted the idea of the adventure but how could she when it wasn’t just her life being thrown away

“bessides what if your life here?”

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Merric went silent for a moment, “I don’t really have one, didn’t, you see you are my life here. Before you it was just a port for us to stay and I got carried away in hearing they there was this creature that Darwin wanted to find. I work with the VanHelsing’s occasionally especially against the Belmont’s. So I started attending where I met this incredible woman who is an absolute ray of sunshine. She makes the day begin and is intelligent, gracious, and an absolute angel. She cares so much about those around her and has such a deep passion for her studies. Did I mention she can hold her own? She saved my life and it was in more ways than one. Even with a pack I have always been a bit more lonely than most. Now I have saved hers because the day she saved me was the day I knew I would spend the rest of my life with her.”

Anja’s white scales tinged pink, if there had been any doubt that snakes could blush it was put to rest now

She pressed her head up against his cheek and if snakes could smile she was definitely doing so

“jusst being sure I’m not to fassst for you my dear”

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“You never,” he gently smiled, “we are almost there.” A few more houses and there was his a simple Victorian as he entered the steps he saw the familiar face of the VanHelsings. “You know you really are a Godsend. Thank you for saving us.”

Anja shrank back into his coat a bit, still uncertain if them and their intentions

“darwin will pay for his crimes and we have apprehended the Belmont who attacked you as well. You and your lady will be safe” one of the gentlemen told him before glancing at where Anja peeked from his coat

“didn’t know dragons became snakes”

“then you still have much to learn” one if the elder ones said with a smile before he looked at merric

“otherwise is everything alright? Anything you need?”

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“Both of those things are a relief to hear, as for anything else, I wouldn’t mind one of you sticking around while we figure out how to get Anja to a non reptilian form. The potion they gave her was a nasty trick. He gently smoothed the scales on her head.

The elder nodded a bit

“without knowing what it was we will have to wait for the effects to wear off. There isn’t a permanent spell to make her stay transformed she just won’t be able to shift for a while. Longest I know of is twenty four hours” the elder said

Anja rubbed her head against merric’s hand happily

“thank you,” she hissed softly to them the younger jumped a bit surprised and Anja snickered

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Merric chuckled and smiled, “I’m just glad we saved you Dragons are so rare, I doubt we will see more than a few others they have to be protected, especially now that there are those who know they exist. While the majority of humans don’t the few have to be kept in check.

Anja nodded a bit agreeing what little was left of her kind had to be protected at all costs. With that she cuddled merric again affectionately and the elder van Hellsing smiled

“we should be on our way then. Much to do now and I suspect a report to be made” with that he took his family and left

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“Of course, tell Abe I say Hi.” Merric waved. Abraham was the founder and had been helping to keep things afloat for the VanHelsings a younger man than most realized at this moment in time. “They are good people the VanHelsings. They work to keep the supernatural safe from the humans and the humans safe from the Supernatural.”

Anja nodded a bit she had heard if them in recent years but hadn’t had the curtesy to meet then until now

“books and cuddles?” Anja suggested for what to do next it had been a long day and it seemed just like both if them needed for an evening in land

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“Yes my dear, books and cuddles,” Merric went to his room, “mind giving me a little privacy while I change into something comfortable?” He held up his hand for her to slither on to so he could set her down where she would be warm and comfortable.

Anja pouted a little and slithered down his arm and his under his bed to give him his privacy as she curled up in her coils and awaited his cue to return

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Merric leaned down and peeked at her, “Aww, you can come back now,” he held out his hand to her.

Anja smiled and slithered up around his wrist

“what shall we read?” Anja asked she wondered what kind of books he has, books were a window to someone’s soul their favorites always spoke volumes of who they were and what they wanted to be or thought they were it was like music

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“I was thinking Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen is always a good choice.” He selected the book many of this authors and selections were books written by women or under a male pseudoname.

Anja slithered up his arm and perched on his shoulder to look over

“read it to me? Sssnakes have bad eye sssight” Anja did her best to make an adorable pouty face as a snake

“pleasssse?”

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“Of course I was already intending too,” he said cuddling her and reading the book aloud it was a most romantic book but it was also quite humorous just what they needed after such a day.

Anja listened to him read and smiled happily to herself as she stayed cuddled close listening until her eyes dropped closed and she dozed to sleep with her little snakey tongue flicking out as she breathed

a lifetime ago (Merric x anja)

England, 1802

Anja rolled her eyes as she sat in the meeting of the professors all arguing about who would go on the latest expedition, she hated to tell them it was a waste of time as well. The marine biologists had been hearing rumors of a type of serpent off the coast which was actually her (woops) and she didn’t want them to catch on however the area that they were planning to visit she also knew she had theorized to have something to do with a new species of fish that had been appearing in the docks and she knew it had to have something to do with the ocean currents.

Of course they were all fighting so much it would be a miracle if she could even pitch her works at all, let alone get on the boat to begin with. These men were all far to stubborn and pigheaded to listen to anything the young adventurer wished to offer them as far as information, it was a miracle she was allowed in the room at all with the way Darwin protested and the more she tried to interject the harder it became so she made herself useful in another way, when theories and arguments were shouted out that she could hear she wrote them down on a pad of paper that she had brought with her, taking note of the good ideas and disregarding the bad ones. the ones that were important or made sense to the mission she circled on the pad of paper and when she got a moment she tried once more to interject only to be shut out again. Honestly she’d never met a more obnoxious group of virgins in her entire life.

The Belmont glared at him

“Afraid not if you’re looking for the creature, she’s already gone.” He drew a silver pistol and aimed at Merric “She’ll join you after Darwin is done with her. his discovery of dragons will far surpass hers of a single fish.”

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Merric glared at him before Emily smashed the bottle over the man’s head.

“I rather think not.” Emily told him, “go get her.” She told Merric.

Merric kissed her forehead. “Emily you are a Godsend.” He hurried after finding Darwin and Anja. The sight sickened him. “Get away from her Darwin. Dragons are not to be meddled with, for you are crunchy and good with a fine wine.”

Darwin had anja at a half transformation it was painful trying to resist the transformation as he held her arms behind her, her fingers more like claws and her scalescovered one of her arms and half of her face, her eyes were bright blue and looking more reptillian by the moment

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“Darwin let go of her or I swear I will not be held accountable for my actions.” Merric glared at him his hands moving into a defensive measure.

Darwin had a silver dagger and held it close to Anja glaring

“not a step closer or I’ll dissect her right here. There is enough on her to prove that she is a monster to be studied as well, I had planned on giving you the potion but in afraid you took the wrong glass” Darwin threatened as he struggled to keep his hold on her as a monsterous growl came from her as she struggled to fight the effects

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“A monster? Please you’re the monster, you dissect living thinking people and call them monsters oh Darwin you are quite wrong about that.” Merric watched the man and felt his stomach turn. “Anja look at me focus on me you are stronger than anything this mortal could ever drug you with.”

honeystone-fashion

“it’s an elixcer the Belmonts gave me to reveal creatures like you” darwin scoffed at them it was then he felt a gun pressed to the back of his head

“I’ll take that as a confession to disrupting the magical order” the gentleman behind him said before he glanced over at merric

“get your dragon, the van Hellsings will handle this get her somewhere safe”

Darwin had no choice but to release Anja and drop his own dagger as Anja vent over in pain from trying to resist her transformation

“merric” she gasped

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Merric hurried to her and helped her up, “this way,” do you think you can control it enough to become your smaller self?” He asked her as he lead her to a place where no one would see them. “How do I help you?” There was concern and he spoke weirdly calm if only to keep her so.

“I think I can try” Anja said to him she felt another jolt of pain and held onto him she took a few deep breaths and forced herself into her snake form once they were out if sight and she was curled up tight in her coils and whimpered it was better but it still felt like horrible pain going through her

“sssneaky basstard” she hissed in a small voice

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“He had help, the Belmont’s.” He concealed her across his shoulders to shield her and keep her warm. “He will pay for it dearly the VanHelsings don’t suffer fools.”

Anja snuggled close to him

“I don’t like that, we were far to clossee to being caught” she said if snakes could cry she would be as she snuggled closer to him glad for his comfort

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“Why don’t you stay at my place I know it isn’t proper but it is safer than where you live Emily will be fine.”

Anja nodded sadly who knew how long it would take her to turn human again with whatever darwin gave her but no matter what Anja wasn’t sure she felt safe anywhere really. Far to many knew she was a dragon now and if it weren’t for merric she’d be packing up everything and running far far away

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“You know,” Merric said. “We could move to somewhere no one really has been to study the marine life there, America. I have never been nor have you I think. But Darwin won’t be able to touch us there, nor will the Belmont’s. We could study our passions there undisturbed and no one would know you are a dragon there. We could take Emily with us if we want.”

Anja hesitated for a moment

“your pack isss here” she told him she couldn’t ask him to leave his entire family behind. If hers was still here she wouldn’t leave them either.

“I wouldn’t asssk you to run away with me and leave them behind”

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“Dear my pack lives on that ship, where I go they go.” Merric smiled. “Besides where is your sense of adventure?”

“you should assk them before you make ssuch promissses to me. Perhapsss they want to ssstay” Anja told him she wanted the idea of the adventure but how could she when it wasn’t just her life being thrown away

“bessides what if your life here?”

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Merric went silent for a moment, “I don’t really have one, didn’t, you see you are my life here. Before you it was just a port for us to stay and I got carried away in hearing they there was this creature that Darwin wanted to find. I work with the VanHelsing’s occasionally especially against the Belmont’s. So I started attending where I met this incredible woman who is an absolute ray of sunshine. She makes the day begin and is intelligent, gracious, and an absolute angel. She cares so much about those around her and has such a deep passion for her studies. Did I mention she can hold her own? She saved my life and it was in more ways than one. Even with a pack I have always been a bit more lonely than most. Now I have saved hers because the day she saved me was the day I knew I would spend the rest of my life with her.”

Anja’s white scales tinged pink, if there had been any doubt that snakes could blush it was put to rest now

She pressed her head up against his cheek and if snakes could smile she was definitely doing so

“jusst being sure I’m not to fassst for you my dear”

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“You never,” he gently smiled, “we are almost there.” A few more houses and there was his a simple Victorian as he entered the steps he saw the familiar face of the VanHelsings. “You know you really are a Godsend. Thank you for saving us.”

Anja shrank back into his coat a bit, still uncertain if them and their intentions

“darwin will pay for his crimes and we have apprehended the Belmont who attacked you as well. You and your lady will be safe” one of the gentlemen told him before glancing at where Anja peeked from his coat

“didn’t know dragons became snakes”

“then you still have much to learn” one if the elder ones said with a smile before he looked at merric

“otherwise is everything alright? Anything you need?”

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“Both of those things are a relief to hear, as for anything else, I wouldn’t mind one of you sticking around while we figure out how to get Anja to a non reptilian form. The potion they gave her was a nasty trick. He gently smoothed the scales on her head.

The elder nodded a bit

“without knowing what it was we will have to wait for the effects to wear off. There isn’t a permanent spell to make her stay transformed she just won’t be able to shift for a while. Longest I know of is twenty four hours” the elder said

Anja rubbed her head against merric’s hand happily

“thank you,” she hissed softly to them the younger jumped a bit surprised and Anja snickered

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Merric chuckled and smiled, “I’m just glad we saved you Dragons are so rare, I doubt we will see more than a few others they have to be protected, especially now that there are those who know they exist. While the majority of humans don’t the few have to be kept in check.

Anja nodded a bit agreeing what little was left of her kind had to be protected at all costs. With that she cuddled merric again affectionately and the elder van Hellsing smiled

“we should be on our way then. Much to do now and I suspect a report to be made” with that he took his family and left

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“Of course, tell Abe I say Hi.” Merric waved. Abraham was the founder and had been helping to keep things afloat for the VanHelsings a younger man than most realized at this moment in time. “They are good people the VanHelsings. They work to keep the supernatural safe from the humans and the humans safe from the Supernatural.”

Anja nodded a bit she had heard if them in recent years but hadn’t had the curtesy to meet then until now

“books and cuddles?” Anja suggested for what to do next it had been a long day and it seemed just like both if them needed for an evening in land

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“Yes my dear, books and cuddles,” Merric went to his room, “mind giving me a little privacy while I change into something comfortable?” He held up his hand for her to slither on to so he could set her down where she would be warm and comfortable.

Anja pouted a little and slithered down his arm and his under his bed to give him his privacy as she curled up in her coils and awaited his cue to return

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Merric leaned down and peeked at her, “Aww, you can come back now,” he held out his hand to her.

Anja smiled and slithered up around his wrist

“what shall we read?” Anja asked she wondered what kind of books he has, books were a window to someone’s soul their favorites always spoke volumes of who they were and what they wanted to be or thought they were it was like music

werewolves-and-whales

“I was thinking Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen is always a good choice.” He selected the book many of this authors and selections were books written by women or under a male pseudoname.

Anja slithered up his arm and perched on his shoulder to look over

"read it to me? Sssnakes have bad eye sssight" Anja did her best to make an adorable pouty face as a snake

"pleasssse?"

a lifetime ago (Merric x anja)

England, 1802

Anja rolled her eyes as she sat in the meeting of the professors all arguing about who would go on the latest expedition, she hated to tell them it was a waste of time as well. The marine biologists had been hearing rumors of a type of serpent off the coast which was actually her (woops) and she didn’t want them to catch on however the area that they were planning to visit she also knew she had theorized to have something to do with a new species of fish that had been appearing in the docks and she knew it had to have something to do with the ocean currents.

Of course they were all fighting so much it would be a miracle if she could even pitch her works at all, let alone get on the boat to begin with. These men were all far to stubborn and pigheaded to listen to anything the young adventurer wished to offer them as far as information, it was a miracle she was allowed in the room at all with the way Darwin protested and the more she tried to interject the harder it became so she made herself useful in another way, when theories and arguments were shouted out that she could hear she wrote them down on a pad of paper that she had brought with her, taking note of the good ideas and disregarding the bad ones. the ones that were important or made sense to the mission she circled on the pad of paper and when she got a moment she tried once more to interject only to be shut out again. Honestly she’d never met a more obnoxious group of virgins in her entire life.

The Belmont glared at him

“Afraid not if you’re looking for the creature, she’s already gone.” He drew a silver pistol and aimed at Merric “She’ll join you after Darwin is done with her. his discovery of dragons will far surpass hers of a single fish.”

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Merric glared at him before Emily smashed the bottle over the man’s head.

“I rather think not.” Emily told him, “go get her.” She told Merric.

Merric kissed her forehead. “Emily you are a Godsend.” He hurried after finding Darwin and Anja. The sight sickened him. “Get away from her Darwin. Dragons are not to be meddled with, for you are crunchy and good with a fine wine.”

Darwin had anja at a half transformation it was painful trying to resist the transformation as he held her arms behind her, her fingers more like claws and her scalescovered one of her arms and half of her face, her eyes were bright blue and looking more reptillian by the moment

werewolves-and-whales

“Darwin let go of her or I swear I will not be held accountable for my actions.” Merric glared at him his hands moving into a defensive measure.

Darwin had a silver dagger and held it close to Anja glaring

“not a step closer or I’ll dissect her right here. There is enough on her to prove that she is a monster to be studied as well, I had planned on giving you the potion but in afraid you took the wrong glass” Darwin threatened as he struggled to keep his hold on her as a monsterous growl came from her as she struggled to fight the effects

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“A monster? Please you’re the monster, you dissect living thinking people and call them monsters oh Darwin you are quite wrong about that.” Merric watched the man and felt his stomach turn. “Anja look at me focus on me you are stronger than anything this mortal could ever drug you with.”

honeystone-fashion

“it’s an elixcer the Belmonts gave me to reveal creatures like you” darwin scoffed at them it was then he felt a gun pressed to the back of his head

“I’ll take that as a confession to disrupting the magical order” the gentleman behind him said before he glanced over at merric

“get your dragon, the van Hellsings will handle this get her somewhere safe”

Darwin had no choice but to release Anja and drop his own dagger as Anja vent over in pain from trying to resist her transformation

“merric” she gasped

werewolves-and-whales

Merric hurried to her and helped her up, “this way,” do you think you can control it enough to become your smaller self?” He asked her as he lead her to a place where no one would see them. “How do I help you?” There was concern and he spoke weirdly calm if only to keep her so.

“I think I can try” Anja said to him she felt another jolt of pain and held onto him she took a few deep breaths and forced herself into her snake form once they were out if sight and she was curled up tight in her coils and whimpered it was better but it still felt like horrible pain going through her

“sssneaky basstard” she hissed in a small voice

werewolves-and-whales

“He had help, the Belmont’s.” He concealed her across his shoulders to shield her and keep her warm. “He will pay for it dearly the VanHelsings don’t suffer fools.”

Anja snuggled close to him

“I don’t like that, we were far to clossee to being caught” she said if snakes could cry she would be as she snuggled closer to him glad for his comfort

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“Why don’t you stay at my place I know it isn’t proper but it is safer than where you live Emily will be fine.”

Anja nodded sadly who knew how long it would take her to turn human again with whatever darwin gave her but no matter what Anja wasn’t sure she felt safe anywhere really. Far to many knew she was a dragon now and if it weren’t for merric she’d be packing up everything and running far far away

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“You know,” Merric said. “We could move to somewhere no one really has been to study the marine life there, America. I have never been nor have you I think. But Darwin won’t be able to touch us there, nor will the Belmont’s. We could study our passions there undisturbed and no one would know you are a dragon there. We could take Emily with us if we want.”

Anja hesitated for a moment

“your pack isss here” she told him she couldn’t ask him to leave his entire family behind. If hers was still here she wouldn’t leave them either.

“I wouldn’t asssk you to run away with me and leave them behind”

werewolves-and-whales

“Dear my pack lives on that ship, where I go they go.” Merric smiled. “Besides where is your sense of adventure?”

“you should assk them before you make ssuch promissses to me. Perhapsss they want to ssstay” Anja told him she wanted the idea of the adventure but how could she when it wasn’t just her life being thrown away

“bessides what if your life here?”

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Merric went silent for a moment, “I don’t really have one, didn’t, you see you are my life here. Before you it was just a port for us to stay and I got carried away in hearing they there was this creature that Darwin wanted to find. I work with the VanHelsing’s occasionally especially against the Belmont’s. So I started attending where I met this incredible woman who is an absolute ray of sunshine. She makes the day begin and is intelligent, gracious, and an absolute angel. She cares so much about those around her and has such a deep passion for her studies. Did I mention she can hold her own? She saved my life and it was in more ways than one. Even with a pack I have always been a bit more lonely than most. Now I have saved hers because the day she saved me was the day I knew I would spend the rest of my life with her.”

Anja’s white scales tinged pink, if there had been any doubt that snakes could blush it was put to rest now

She pressed her head up against his cheek and if snakes could smile she was definitely doing so

“jusst being sure I’m not to fassst for you my dear”

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“You never,” he gently smiled, “we are almost there.” A few more houses and there was his a simple Victorian as he entered the steps he saw the familiar face of the VanHelsings. “You know you really are a Godsend. Thank you for saving us.”

Anja shrank back into his coat a bit, still uncertain if them and their intentions

“darwin will pay for his crimes and we have apprehended the Belmont who attacked you as well. You and your lady will be safe” one of the gentlemen told him before glancing at where Anja peeked from his coat

“didn’t know dragons became snakes”

“then you still have much to learn” one if the elder ones said with a smile before he looked at merric

“otherwise is everything alright? Anything you need?”

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“Both of those things are a relief to hear, as for anything else, I wouldn’t mind one of you sticking around while we figure out how to get Anja to a non reptilian form. The potion they gave her was a nasty trick. He gently smoothed the scales on her head.

The elder nodded a bit

“without knowing what it was we will have to wait for the effects to wear off. There isn’t a permanent spell to make her stay transformed she just won’t be able to shift for a while. Longest I know of is twenty four hours” the elder said

Anja rubbed her head against merric’s hand happily

“thank you,” she hissed softly to them the younger jumped a bit surprised and Anja snickered

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Merric chuckled and smiled, “I’m just glad we saved you Dragons are so rare, I doubt we will see more than a few others they have to be protected, especially now that there are those who know they exist. While the majority of humans don’t the few have to be kept in check.

Anja nodded a bit agreeing what little was left of her kind had to be protected at all costs. With that she cuddled merric again affectionately and the elder van Hellsing smiled

“we should be on our way then. Much to do now and I suspect a report to be made” with that he took his family and left

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“Of course, tell Abe I say Hi.” Merric waved. Abraham was the founder and had been helping to keep things afloat for the VanHelsings a younger man than most realized at this moment in time. “They are good people the VanHelsings. They work to keep the supernatural safe from the humans and the humans safe from the Supernatural.”

Anja nodded a bit she had heard if them in recent years but hadn’t had the curtesy to meet then until now

“books and cuddles?” Anja suggested for what to do next it had been a long day and it seemed just like both if them needed for an evening in land

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“Yes my dear, books and cuddles,” Merric went to his room, “mind giving me a little privacy while I change into something comfortable?” He held up his hand for her to slither on to so he could set her down where she would be warm and comfortable.

Anja pouted a little and slithered down his arm and his under his bed to give him his privacy as she curled up in her coils and awaited his cue to return

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Merric leaned down and peeked at her, “Aww, you can come back now,” he held out his hand to her.

Anja smiled and slithered up around his wrist

"what shall we read?" Anja asked she wondered what kind of books he has, books were a window to someone's soul their favorites always spoke volumes of who they were and what they wanted to be or thought they were it was like music

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