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furriness, again
When Heero woke up the morning after, it came very gradually, and he didn't want to chase away the wonderful well-being he felt, so he didn't especially try to wake up fast. He was laying on a mightily comfortable bedding, and the cloth covering it made his skin tingle pleasantly with its peculiar softness. His Duo was halfway on top of him, nuzzling and licking his throat, his hands roaming lazily over the wolf's back and hips, and it felt so good that if he had been a Feline, he would have purred loud enough to make the bed tremble. As it was, he let out a small whine of pleasure and his tail wagged slightly.
Duo licked at his neck, and Heero turned his face to kiss him, his eyes still closed, blindly searching for his mouth. Their lips met and caressed.
Then Heero tried to lower his arms to hug his lover tight.
"What the fuck!!" Heero –screeched, there wasn't another word. "Shit!!--"
"Calm down, Heero!" Duo pleaded, tightening his arms around him. He purred again, rubbing his face against Heero's, trying to get him to calm down.
"Shit, shit, shit..." Heero hissed, straining against the chains. Of course they held, and the frame of the bed didn't even move. He abandoned after a while, swearing under his breath, his hackles raised high enough that his tail looked three times as big as it truly was.
Grumbling, the wolf fell back on the mattress, breathing through his nose to try to control his anger.
"I thought only cats did that," Duo commented in a small voice, poking at Heero's tail, still puffed up.
"Lupines only do it when they're truly pissed off," Heero answered in what he hoped was a reasonably calm voice. He didn't want to chase Duo off or make him think that the anger was going to be redirected on him.
The line of hairs growing on his backbone was also standing on end, and it was uncomfortable, pressing in the mattress, but it wasn't like it was a conscious, controllable reaction. He grumbled. He was lucky Wufei didn't see that...
.... or did he? The canine's head shot up and he glared at the other side of the bed, but it was empty. His gaze searched the cave for traces of their captor, but Wufei was nowhere in sight.
Strange... and now that he thought of it, it looked like there wasn't any way out, except from the hole in the roof. Heero would have to find a way to get loose and explore; the dragon had to be somewhere. Plus it had never hurt anyone to have more than one escape route planned.
"Where is he?"
"No idea, Duo answered. "I woke up and he was gone. Umm..."
"Hn?"
"Nothing," Duo answered, lowering his head to butt it against Heero's chin.
He wanted to ask what had happened after he had passed out, but... When he had passed out, Heero had been struggling in Wufei's tentacles, and now his master was chained down in the bed with him, his body totally exposed. And he seemed to recall having heard through his daze some... screams. In Heero's voice. Ok, Wufei had promised not to hurt Heero, but his definition of the word hurt seemed to be quite different at the edges. And Heero had looked furious as he woke up, furious, and... wary. Nearly.... Duo shivered. Nearly afraid. He hadn't even been afraid against Trant, not really. He didn't know what the dragon had done to him to make his Alpha male of a master react like that.
And a big part of him really didn't want to find out.
Another part of him wanted to know, because he was afraid that Heero had been hurt and he wanted to help, but he knew that if anything Wufei had done had caused damage, physical or mental, Heero would refuse to tell. At least Duo couldn't smell blood on him, that was something. Semen neither, now that he thought of it. But then, what had happened to make Heero react with such violence to the thought that Wufei could be close by?
Closing his eyes with force, Duo caught Heero's face between his hands and gave him the deepest kiss he could, trying to give him reassurance that he was here for him and a way to forget. Surprised, Heero didn't respond right away, but slowly, he began to warm up to the idea, and kissed back enthusiastically.
He caught himself using some tricks Wufei had used on him, though, and jerked his head back.
"...am I doing something wrong?" Duo asked, unsure.
Heero gulped back his snarl that he was doing things too well. That thing that Wufei had taught them was pleasurable, there was no other word. They had been doing it, kind of, when they had been licking at each other's mouth before, but the dragon had a more refined technique. Ok, it was pissing Heero off to use something that male had taught them, but they had been doing it before they met him, just less well... and it would hurt Duo if he refused to do that anymore just because the dragon had wandered in that territory.
.... if he refused to do anything that Wufei had done or touch anywhere he had touched, there wouldn't be much that he would be enjoying with his kitten, anyway. From the smell and the marks on Duo's skin, the water dragon had been pretty thorough. Sighing, Heero brushed his nose against Duo's cheek and nibbled at his lower lip. "No, just a thought. Nothing important."
"Ok," Duo purred back, lapping at Heero's palate. Their tongues tangled once again, slower, saliva mixing, mouths meshing, breaths mingling as they shared their air. It felt like they were trying to fuse, like when Heero sank in Duo's body, or when Duo's shaft was greedily swallowed by Heero, but this time, there wasn't one who was absorbing the other. They were melting.
Duo's purr was quiet, felt in his bones more than heard, but still very present. His eyes were half-opened, and he was gazing into Heero's when Heero opened his. It felt like falling, a free fall in a lilac-colored well.
Finally, they separated, not breaking eye contact.
"Heero...?" Duo breathed.
"Hnnn?"
"... Why did you come for me?"
The wolf grumbled and turned his eyes away, breaking the strange connection.
"You're mine. I won't let you go."
Duo tensed. "I see," he muttered, rolling away. The sudden lack of body heat mingling with his own was like a splash of ice-cold water for Heero, and he jumped, tugging at his bonds.
"Hey, come back here!"
Duo glared at him, his slitted eyes narrowing menacingly, but before he could lash out, Heero muttered "That wasn't what I meant."
Slightly mollified, the Feline, leaned on his elbow, facing the wolf, slightly closer but still not into touching distance. Heero cursed the chains that prevented him from reaching out and enfolding his kitten in his arms.
"I mean, that's what I mean, but it came out wrong. Oh, hell. I don't know how to explain..."
"You'd better find out fast, oh mighty Alpha. I'm getting tired of this ownership shit. Finders keepers, my ass!"
Heero whined, he really didn't know how to explain the feeling of intense possessiveness and the link between them. "I mean, you belong with me. With you, I.... I felt like I was part of a pack again... And I... You're under my responsibility, I have to protect you. I just can't let you go... that's all. I don't know what else to say," he added, thinking that he probably was just digging his grave deeper with each word that came out of his mouth.
Duo could understand, somewhat, what Heero meant, because he felt the same way, but still. "Did you stop one minute to think about what I wanted?"
Heero stared at him, clearly wounded. "You didn't escape when your bounds broke that night, and you seemed to get used to living with me... I thought you liked being with me, too!"
"I would have liked it better if you had trusted me a little!!! But no, you always had to throw back in my face that whatever I did to show you that I was feeling good being with you, I was still your slave and not to be trusted one second out of bondage!!!"
"That's not true!!" Heero snarled back, baring his fangs.
Duo went up on all four and eyed Heero malevolently, looking ready to pounce. "Oh yeah? It sure as hell looked that way for me!! You always had to tie me up, tie me down, manhandle me, then tie me up some more..."
"That's because you look hot tied up!!!" Heero shouted back to shut him up.
There was a long moment of silence.
".....I beg you pardon?"
"I tie you up because you look hot in bondage, and I love having you at my mercy, you happy?" Heero growled against his will, struggling against his bonds to turn his back to the cat. He didn't want to continue that conversation anymore; it hurt.
"Let me clarify. You like to tie me up because you find it... exciting?"
"Yes," Heero snarled over his shoulder. "Happy now?"
"That's the only reason?" Duo asked, disbelief evident in his voice.
"Yes it is," Heero growled, not turning to look at him, this time.
There was more silence, then just as Heero thought Duo would let it go... "I don't believe you."
"Then don't," the Lupine hissed, clenching his teeth hard. He was angry; no, he was pissed off.
There was definitely something in his eyes, because they itched like hell.
"I mean, really, it's farfetched, you want me to believe that you didn't let me go anywhere without being in your sight and always tied me up somewhere when you left me because..."
"Because I didn't want you to meet someone who would capture and hurt you, and looks like I was right!"
"Wufei isn't that much worse than you!" Duo screeched back, his tail lashing angrily. "What has he done that you haven't, except being more creative?!"
Heero froze, as if struck.
"If that's really how you see things, then I don't think I have anything more to say to you," he whispered; it was hard to get his voice to be louder, with his throat clenched like that.
He pressed his face into the mattress, trying to lift his knees some. He wanted to roll himself into a tight ball, knees tucked under his chin, tail around his body, and to sleep. But the chains didn't let him.
He wondered if Duo had felt like he felt now, like he had felt the day before, totally unable to do anything. Powerless.
But Duo didn't risk anything with him, he was nicer than Wufei was!!
... or was he?
Duo's eyes went wide. Heero's scent was changing from anger to distress, and he looked... Hurt. The Feline tried to tell himself that if someone deserved to feel hurt here, it was him, but he really hadn't thought that Heero would be wounded so deep by what he had said. He began to feel bad for having been so cruel, visibly Heero really hadn't seen things like he had.
"...well.... you did feed me... that's something you have over him," he admitted grudgingly, trying to reopen the dialogue.
Heero didn't react, didn't bark back a sarcastic remark, didn't even snort in disdain.
"You have to try to see things my way!! Seems like I can't go anywhere in that area without getting jumped by big alpha males dying to make me their pet! I'm sorry, but I've lived as independent most of my life, I can't get used to being a... a... slave... just like that.... I just can't." His voice turned sad and melancholy. He liked belonging with; it was the belonging to he had a problem with.
But Heero had told him that he considered it that way... So maybe, with a little discussion... They could make things better? He didn't want to definitely sever the link that Heero and him shared, even if he didn't really know what it was made of.
"If you had not been bound by the slave law, would you have stayed?" Heero whispered. Duo had to lean over him to hear him; he was talking so low. Like he was sure that the answer was no, and was just asking to make Duo see things his way.
"Moron. As if that stupid piece of jewelry on my tail was that hard to remove," Duo snorted, leaning closer.
Startled by a sudden tingling feeling, Heero opened his eyes to see the tip of Duo's tail balancing under his nose. The golden bracelet made tail-cuff was still clasped around it, its finely crafted chains offsetting the red-brown hints in Duo's fur.
Duo curled up close to his back, close enough for their warmths to mingle, and slowly, delicately, as if he feared getting brushed off, leaned his chin on Heero's shoulder. His tail curled on its own will around Heero's waist and he began to purr low in his throat.
Heero closed his eyes, then, not saying a word, he leaned back into Duo's body. He clenched his teeth briefly when Duo's arms encircled him, he didn't know why, then relaxed into his embrace.
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I consider this the best part so far.
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