Book 1, Genesis: Chapter 10: Familiarity
#11 of The Chronicles of James Travant
James' eyes glittered as he looked into hers for a moment, then there was a scratching at the door and it was nudged open again slightly, his partner peeking through.
"He's not gone." He said quietly, climbing to his feet and turning from her. At a flick of his ears, Ronso nudged open the door fully and walked in, carrying a single long stemmed rose in his teeth. He padded over to Tanya and lowered his muzzle, depositing it delicately in her hands before stepping away...
She looked down at the rose, then picked it up in her hands, it twirled as she moved her fingers and she looked back up to him quizzically, before locking eyes with him again, a small smile curled up on her lips, but not a sweet one.. more like an angry one.
"You son of a bitch..." She moved on a dime, she hopped to the side and tackled him punching and slapping his chest.
"You son of a bitch! You put me though HELL! And you... you listen to me through all that... you BASTARD!" Tears now fell from her eyes, it wasn't anger it was pent up emotion, frustration, sorrow, love... she unleashed it all out onto him before collapsing into him and crying into his shoulder.
James wrapped his arms around her and held her tightly, resting his muzzle on top of her head.
"I wanted to call." He said quietly. "They pretty much threw me into the program the moment I came back, and the first thing they did was put me on a communications blackout."
He lifted her so she could look into his eyes. "I didn't mean to hurt you so."
Tears still flowed down her cheeks, "Really?" No more fresh tears, a good sign to take hold of. She moved her hand up and her eyes trailed down to it, her fingers gliding through the fur.
"Mmm... wow..." She leaned down, her cheek brushing against his neck and her head underneath his chin.
"You are so soft... and warm. Did it hurt you?" She looked back into his eyes, fingers still finding paths in his fur, loving the feel of it.
"And... Can you spend the night? I've really missed you being close..."
"Did it hurt? Intensely. But they knocked me out before it got unbearable." He blushed somewhat, but she could barely catch it beneath his two-toned fur.
"I don't know about spending the night, Tanya. I'm...err...awfully different, now."
Her smirk was playful, "Oh? I hadn't really noticed..." Then something entered her mind and she began to pull away. "..This is a goodbye... isn't it...?" Her voice was cracking, fear full of it.
She tensed up all over, "Don't leave me again; this doesn't bother me in the least. I love your fur... you are still the same soul, the same person, although your name has changed... I'll have to get used to that, but I just want you, no matter what form... please, oh heavens about, please don't leave me..."
"Shhh...Easy there, pup." He said with a faint smile.
"No this is not a goodbye. I had actually come in hopes to say hello again. But, as I said, there's a lot that's different about me, and I don't mean just the fur." He leaned up and nuzzled her neck, his cold nose brushing against her flesh.
She shivered, and an elicit moan passed her lips, "Mmm... I think I can get used to everything, eventually. If you let me... I don't want a goodbye; I want to be yours..."
Her lips pressed against his neck, she nuzzled his neck in return and bit into his neck, as if the fur wasn't there, it didn't bother her.
He visibly shivered under her touches, resolve finally breaking down.
"Alright." He said quietly. "You know I would never deny you, I never could."
Her teeth let his neck go and as she pulled her head back to look at him, she smiled, "Hmm... do you trust me?"
She shifted slight in his grip, making it looser around her so she could kneel. "I want to see something that I've always wondered about..." her eyes wandered to his ears and back to his eyes."Please, my love?"
James lifted his head and jerked it towards the door. "Outside you, go find your ladyfriend." He said, accenting it with a high yip.
Ronso jumped to his feet and smiled, bounding happily out the door as James turned his gaze back down to Tanya and gave her a slow nod. "Of course I trust you. Explore me as you please."
Tanya smiled, and her groan came out as more of a purr as she lifted up on her knees, her breasts paused in front of him, barely touching his muzzle, her hands lifted up and her silky smooth fingertips rubbed his ears, then her fingertips were replaced with her tongue and her mouth, humming as she let his ears free and kissed all over his muzzle, his lips, and touched her nose to his and her eyes closed in that moment as her hands slid down to his waist.
"There is so much to explore, and I want to savor everything that you'll let me do, in all due time... you fascinate me, and I'm jealous."
She was all smiles, love emanating from her. She had no hesitations, only curiousness and a sense of adventure. "Who knows, maybe they'll open that procedure to the public someday, when that happens... I think I'll be the first to sign up. If for nothing more to experience it all... and to be with you on that level. I'm not even sure if we can... but I do know I can still turn you on."
She smirked and kissed his muzzle hard. "No lover. Nothing has changed much at all between us. Love can't be controlled by mere things like this; there is no goodbye with us."
She leaned her head on his shoulder and hugged him close to her. "I love you Tra-.. James"
James smiled, flicking his ears to clear away the tingling sensation her attention had left him with.
"I love you too Tanya." He replied, wrapping his arms around her, noting that his arms together nearly enveloped over half of her torso.
"We've the time. If you truly have no qualms, I'm off for the next couple days; I'd like to spend them here, if you're alright with that."
He leaned forward and nudged his muzzle under her chin, licking softly at her throat.
Her head rolled back to allow his licks more free access as a soft moan slipped its way from her tongue. Her reply was soft and distracted, "Stay here for as long as you like. On one condition..."
She smiled, humming as her throat felt warm and tingled.
"That one condition is that you have to sleep in my bed... and not the couch. Can you handle that, love?"
James sighed, but his eyes were full of laughter. "You always did know how to drive a hard bargain." He said, ears flicking.
"But I suppose it's one I can accept. I'll sleep in your bed..." He grinned in a way that screamed sarcasm. "...if you're a good girl."
She chuckled, "Aww... but being good is so boring!"
She pouted adorably, "but if that's what my lover truly wants..." She let the rest of the sentence hang there as her nails pinpricked against his pelt.
She let her fingernails glide into a flat palm as it rubbed down his thigh. "But, after all this time... leaving me so unsatisfied, it'll be awfully hard to keep these hands off you..."
She lightly sighed in a teasing way, "I guess I'll have to put them to other uses..."
"Cheek of you." He said with a laugh, drawing her down into his arms.
"Alright, but you know how I am, if you're not a good girl, then you'll have to be especially bad."
"Heh, has that ever been a problem with me darlin'? Oh I can't wait to be your dirty little girl... I have a whole new playground to explore for myself..." She laughed, shifting against him in his hold on her and then groaned.
"I'm just glad you are willing, even after your change. To tell you the truth, I'm a little green when it comes to loving those of your form. Care to instruct your very bad girl?" She grinned, oh was she playful, her body language, although she tried to hide it, screamed that she was his slave.
James grinned, his grip loosening on her and his hands beginning to slide over her form. "I suppose I could give you a few pointers, but I'm sure you'll find it all relative...plus a tail."
His large bushy tail coiled around her waist to accent his words. "Perhaps you'd like something to eat first? I gather it's been awhile since you've ate a proper meal."
She looked away... "Haven't eaten in a few days... couldn't keep anything down." How could you tell?"
She nuzzled against him, grabbing his tail and cuddling it. "Oh I certainly can get used to this."
James chuckled again and collected his lover in his arms, climbing to his feet, he spirited her away to her bedroom where he laid her down on the bed.
"Wait here." He said quietly, giving her a very human kiss, before disappearing out the bedroom door.
The sound of the front door opening, then a few moments later closing, followed by some general clatter in her kitchen met her ears.
A few moments later he appeared again at her door, this time his uniform jacket and undershirt missing to let the soft sunset flash off of his glistening fur.
Clad only in his knee-high armored boots and trousers, he crossed the room to her bearing a tray piled high with food.
"Dinner is served." He said in a low whisper, setting the tray in front of her.
Tanya purred as much as a human could and grabbed his paw. "Lay with me, eat too... you spoil me so."
She picked up a fork, as he joined her, starting to eat very politely, enjoying the food he set before her.
"Mmm... I see you haven't lost your cooking skills. And you've been watching me."
She laughed as she put a piece of meat in her mouth, chewed and swallowed. "Mmm... good seasoning."
"I prepared most of it at home. Didn't want to waste much time away from you." He smiled as he relaxed against the headboard, snatching up a bit of meat and slipping it into his mouth, he still ate with his mouth closed, which appeared strange, for how canine he appeared in every other respect.
She stared at him, "You coy bastard." She laughed taking another bite and humming with the good taste that hit her.
Her food was finished in roughly fifteen minutes with his help. She savored it. She looked to him, after putting the tray on the bedside table. "I've really missed you."
She rolled over against him, getting as close as she could snuggling into his fur. She couldn't ask for anything better than for him to just be here with her.
James smiled, wrapping one arm protectively around her. "I missed you too. Dreamt about you the entire time, in fact." He said with a smile, before leaning down to touch the tip of his tongue to her nose with a playful smile.
Tanya giggled, scrunching her nose as his tongue touched it and she tilted her chin up and licked his tongue. "What kind of dreams?"
The Husky laughed, pulling her on top of him and nestling her against his chest.
"Oh...you know." He replied evasively, attacking her neck and ears with his teeth and tongue for a moment before setting her back against his fur.
She let out a very inhuman like growl and shifted herself against him, a little shiver running down her spine. "I bet you dreamed of me, wet, naked and on top of you, screaming your name as I rode you hard... like the dirty dog you are."
She shifted so that she could look into his eyes and kiss his canine lips. Any other would think this awkward, even to look upon it. But seemingly not for these two, the love that coursed between him and her was solid, unbreakable by form.
She looked to him, "Do you know if we can even be connected, as we once were?" She smiled, the question coming from her as innocent and not meant to hurt either one of them. She just didn't want to be caught off guard, and both be hurt by it.
James' ears perked and his eye ridges rose in surprise at the question.
"As I said, it's all pretty much relative south of the beltline, I'd just have to be careful not to tie you, that might hurt quite a bit."
She leaned up and nipped licked the rim of his ear, "Whatever happens, love, happens." She settled back to lay on him, resting her head on his shoulder, straddling her hips around his, and just settled there for a moment, taking in the whole of him, the smell, the touch, the sounds, the sight of him was a bit intimidating, but her heart still knew him as merely the soul that loved her and she loved him in return.
"Thank you. For coming back to me James... I'd be lost forever without you." She sighed contently as she listened to his breathing and heartbeat.
He murred and planted a kiss on her forehead.
"I could never even think to just leave you like that." He said, pawpads trailing through her hair.
"Even if they did change who I am, what I feel remains the same."
She hummed with the feeling of his paws through her hair. "Yeah, your body may be different, same with your job. But to me... you are the same inside."
She undid her blouse silently and softly, throwing it aside, same with her bra, and just let her upper half shift and settle against him, an innocent move, she was still just as comfortable showing herself to him just as when he was human.
"What happens now? Do we continue on from where we left off?" Her voice was shy, but still was gentle and loving.
James laughed, hugging her tightly. "Yeah, I think I'd like that."
He released her from his arms but kept his hands pressed warmly around her waist, murring quietly, he decided to have a bit of fun with his lover, he dipped his muzzle down and began sniffing through her hair, catching full effects of her scent on his mind, his sniffing trailed down her hair to her ear, where he nudged his cold nose against her flesh, continuing his sniffing spell with a grin.
Tanya giggled as he sniffed by her ear and it tickled, but she couldn't help but moan quietly as he sniffed and touched his cold nose to behind her ear, her hips twisting a little and a hum following the moan.
She let him take her in, "Then... we left off on waiting for that date at the restaurant. Hmm..."
She pondered again.
"But... that may not be the best of ideas, now." It seemed her hopes deflated with that thought, and she sighed.
"Not yet anyway. Kaynines are still too new, I won't let you go through species prejudice like that." He replied, then nuzzled under her chin and nipped her throat.
"You know I don't love you any less, or am any less proud of you."
She groaned, her reply coming out in a heated whisper. "Nor I any less proud of you, or love you any less... but aye, wouldn't want others to start talking..."
She tugged on his pant line, her beg suddenly urgent and desperate. "Please lover?"