Life as a Meta
#1 of Meta
There was a criminal, well there are always criminals, some guy wanted money and didn't want to work for it. As a result he turned to crime, robbed a liquor store of all things. One that is on my home from school, and this is where my story starts, a criminal, an average girl who was on her way home from classes and the police who were responding to the robbery. The next thing I knew I was being roughly drug into a subway, knife to my throat and the cops staying back so I didn't get hurt.
I knew struggling against him was no good, I'm not what you could call a strong girl by any means. Hell I have trouble with my back pack at times, couple that with my asthma which I could feel acting up already, and even if I got loose, running would have been out of the question. That and this guy had a good foot on me, at 5'6" I am what you could call average in height, but I'm a bit pudgy, my face round with a small mouth, upturned nose and a pair of brown eyes hidden behind glasses. Not the prettiest person around but not hideous by any means, the only outstanding part of me was that my brown hair was grown down to my mid back.
He kept dragging me back, I looked around, this was one of the shut down stations, hard times and lack of passengers caused the subways to shut down stations that weren't used as much. Soon I found myself in a dark hall, the guy relaxed the knife and pressed his nose to my neck. "You smell good there girly." He said before licking my neck. I groaned, hoping against hope the cops would bust in and shoot the guy or something. But they didn't, next thing I knew I was thrown to the ground, the guy was messing with his belt buckle, then nothing. I woke up in someones arms, my head was pounding, I looked down and saw someone had wrapped me up in a blanket, then once again I was in darkness.
I woke up, opening my eyes the world was out of focus, there was a bright light and a shadow moving about. I brought my arm up and rubbed my eyes, opening them again I saw I was in a small room, a monitor with two arms under it was moving around the room on a boom. "Oh good, your awake." A male voice said as the monitor swung down a couple feet from my face, a boys face was on the screen.
"Wh-where am I?" I asked as I sat up, the monitor keeping its distance from me. I realized that my breathing was a lot easier then I could ever remember it being.
"Quarantine room at our base." The boy said as the arms underneath the monitor picked up a mirror. "Sorry about the cold reception but your powers are kind of hard on most of us." He said as the arms positioned the mirror so I could see into it. The face that looked back at me wasn't mine. The skin was pure white, the face slender with full lips, and a cute button nose between two red eyes, the hair was like the skin, pure snow white.
"Is this a trick?" I asked, looking down, I was dressed in a hospital gown, but two things were rather apparent, my body was no longer pudgy and my skin was that ghostly white, though I was rather twiggy now, no real hips or breasts to speak of. "Or a dream?"
"Neither I'm afraid, appears you are a meta-human." The boy said through the screen. "The media has already named you Succubus after what you did to the guy who took you hostage."
"Succubus?" I asked, closing my eyes, trying to remember what happened.
"A female demon that specializes in using her body to drain the life essence from a man. Your pheromones are rather potent, Chunk, the guy who brought you in was affected rather badly by it. Luckily he isn't the brightest and didn't realize what the log he was carrying in his pants was about." The boy said smiling.
"I'm a..." I said looking in the mirror again, unable to accept it.
"Yep, parasite class Meta-human from the looks of it. I'll have something to inhibit your pheromone production made soon enough though." He said before the monitor shook a girls voice came on
"YOU STILL HAVE HER LOCKED UP! GOD DAMN IT LET HER OUT!" A face appeared, on the screen, I blinked at first unable to believe who it was. Wild Cat, one of my favorite Meta-humans. "Sorry about this." The cat girl said, "Poindexter has no sense of how to treat another human." She said as she disappeared from the screen, soon the door opened and Wild Cat herself, the half human half cheetah girl sat down next to me.
"I'm... my... whatever they are... are you?" I couldn't string together words for anything, I was worried she'd be affected by whatever I was putting off that the boy was worried about.
"I know you're putting of something pretty strong that is affecting the guys but it isn't affecting me." She said as she wrapped an arm around me.
"My parents are going to kill me..." I said quietly.
"I know, Councilman Vox and Senator Vox, your parents are pretty anti meta-human aren't they. Pushing for bills that'll take the current registration files and make them open to the public, force all us meta-humans into camps to keep us separate from the regular people. So Lira, that said, you want to risk your freedom and go home to your parents?"
Yeah my parents are arrogant, ignorant, racist and all the other ant's and ist's you could find probably. And worse yet they have seats of power in the state and city I live in. How they'd react to me being a meta-human would probably be to lock me up somewhere where no one could find out. "How'd you know?"
"I gathered your stuff before the cops or some journalist could. Luckily there were no cameras, no one has your face being dragged into that tunnel, just it coming out like you are now. I don't hold it against you what your parents want. Hell I saw a picture of me in my old days in your wallet, didn't realize I had so many fans." Wild Cat said as she stood up.
"I've... I've always thought you were a person to look up to. I mean you could easily be a villain, but you chose to be good." I said quietly.
"Thanks." She said, her ears were perked up, her voice was cheerful, her face was rather human looking, even if covered in fur. The streaks from her eyes framed her nose, her lips black like her animal counterpart, the fur running down the front of her neck was white, the white running down under the front of the leotard she wore. Her legs were long, and beautifully toned, but then again she was quick on her feet, her feet were clawed, as where her hands. The tawny fur with black rosettes filled with red fur covered her. Her body was lean, small b-cup breasts covered by her black leotard.
"So... what happened to that guy exactly? What did I do to him?" I asked quietly.
"Apparently you sucked him dry, he had a severe case of dehydration, passed right out. Chunk knocked you out, sweet guy, about as bright as a soap dish, he thought you were the bad guy." She said apologetically. "Luckily I got him to bring you here."
"How long have I been out?" I asked looking around, hoping to get a glimpse of a clock or something to give me a clue.
"About a week. Your parents have already claimed you were kidnapped by some meta-humans using you for leverage to get them to back down." She said looking at me. "As it stands no one would know it was you and DNA testing would show inconclusive so it'd be hard for you to go out and say you were their daughter."
"I figured they'd use this one way or another." I said going to stand up, but I quickly lost my balance, Wild Cat caught me and helped he stand. She led me out of the white room and into what looked like a living room, there was a couch, TV, coffee table, everything you'd expect to find. She sat me down on the sofa. "Thank you Wild Cat."
"Call me Kitten, most everyone here does." She said staying standing. "Want anything to eat?" Before I could answer my stomach growled. Kitten laughed. "I'll take that as a yes." She said as she walked away, coming back with a plastic pouch, she tossed it at me and smiled. "Eat up, its not the best tasting but they are cheap and we have plenty of them."
I looked at it, it had MRE Macaroni and Cheese written on it, I opened it up and looked at it rather dumbly. Kitten laughed again, and showed me how to make it. Soon I was eating the stuff, while it wasn't the best mac and cheese I've ever had, to my stomach it was divine.
Kitten showed me around the 'apartment' I was put up in. She had to go on patrol so I went and took a shower, it gave me a chance to look over my new self. I didn't realize it before, but I had a thin tail, the same white as my skin, the tip shaped like a spade, just like a demons. I finished cleaning up, getting out I went to the sink, looking in the mirror I looked at my face, the blood red eyes, the white skin and hair. I opened my mouth, two fangs from my top jaw hung down a quarter inch below the rest of my teeth. I sighed and got dressed in a simple white nightie. Seeing the time I laid down on the bed and tried to sleep.
I don't know what time it happened but I woke up to the bed moving. I opened my eyes, despite the complete darkness I saw Kitten climbing into the bed, she wrapped an arm around me and closed her eyes. It was hard to believe that my idol decided to had done this. What was harder to believe was the fact that I was watching her change in front of my eyes. Her muzzle was retreating into her face, her fur was disappearing. Soon she there was a girl with cat ears and a tail sleeping next to me. Her face was cute, her body hadn't changed much, she still had strong lean legs, maybe a little shorter, her claws were gone.
I closed my eyes, hoping this was a dream, hoping it wasn't. Opening them again the lights were on, I groaned as I rolled over, my body felt heavy, as did the covers. I saw the clock, it read 10:30 am, then a hand covered it. "Over slept again..." A voice said, it was Kitten. I groaned. "Oh sorry. Didn't mean to wake you up."
I shook my head. "Probably should of." I said managing to sit up, rubbing my eyes I looked at her, what I saw last night wasn't a dream, she was more or less normal looking. "What happened to you?" I asked as I looked at her, she had changed into a pair of jeans and a t-shirt.
"Its my day off." She said pulling on a hat, stuffing her ears inside of it. "Was going to go shopping, get you some new clothes, want to come?" She asked looking at me.
I nodded. "Does that mean he finished that thing?"
"Yeah, its on the table in the other room. He also made some contacts for you, those eyes kind of stand out." She said as I got out of the bed. She tossed me a pair of pants and a baggy shirt.
I quickly got out of the bed and took the clothes to the bathroom. Soon I was dressed and looking presentable. I found Kitten in the main room eating some cereal, she tossed a box at me as I approached. Inside it was a bracelet and a pair of brown contact lenses. I looked at her and sighed. "I have skin that looks like I've never seen the sun, white hair, and you think brown eyes will help me stand out less? And what happens if this bracelet doesn't work?" I asked looking at Kitten.
"The Poindexter may not have the age or bedside manner, but he is a genius, that bracelet will do what he says it will and those contacts will do more then just change your eyes." She said as she finished her bowl. "Put some faith in the kid."
I nodded and did as I was told, I put on the small silver bracelet before putting in the contact lenses. I looked in the mirror and saw my hair had changed color to brown and my skin darkened slightly. Taking them back out I looked again, I was once again the pale red eyed albino. I put them in and looked at Kitten. "How is it possible?"
"Don't bother asking me, I just know it does. You look good, lets get going." She said standing up and walking to the front hall of the 'apartment', there was a door with a pair of large latches on it, she undid them and spun a wheel in the center of the door. Pulling it open revealed a dark tunnel that lit up one fixture at a time. I followed her into the hallway, it was dry but the paint on the walls was flaking.
"Where are we?" I asked as I followed her, she barely looked out of the ordinary with the hat on covering her ears, her tail, like mine, was hidden in her pants and couldn't be seen either.
"Under the city, a portion of the old subway system that hasn't been used in years, the others and I made it into our homes." She said as she reached another heavy door, opening it up revealed a large room, in the middle a cluster of monitors with the boy in the middle of them. "Welcome to the refuge. Most of us Meta's who don't want the negative attention ended up down here, we carved out a place where we can be safe. There in the middle is Poindexter, he's our resident genius slash mad scientist. Chunk can usually be found in his room down that way." She said pointing at a doorway, "unless he is on patrol or going for a stroll through the park." She pointed at a stair way. "Hawkeye is up there in his nest." I followed the stairs, they spiraled up into the ceiling a good thirty feet above us. "Ever need someone to watch your back and pick the fleas off that are following you, he's the man." She said before pointing at another door, "That is Clara's room over there. She's a good girl, though a little shy, doesn't go on patrols unless she thinks we are going to get hurt. She's our medic, if your ever hurt or sick, she'll be able to fix you up."
"Hey there Succubus." A voice called out. I looked at the source, a person hanging upside down from a walkway, he looked to be rather short and lanky, and had sideburns that merged with his beard. Something flew at him, he dropped down and whatever the projectile was banged off the walkway. "Don't be like that Kitten, you know your the only girl for me." He said walking up to us.
I hid behind Kitten, unsure of the guy. I realized the size difference between me and Kitten when I could just barely see over her shoulder, Kitten picked up on my nervousness and said, "Leave her alone Howler, she's still getting used to what's happened."
"Oh, and you didn't happen to take her to your room because you didn't want a chance at her you little cat you." He said smiling.
I could see Kitten flexing her fists and backed away slightly, Kitten though walked towards Howler. "First off, not everyone here thinks with their prick. Secondly I know better then you do what she is going through."
Howler laughed. "That's right, your a parasite type to, got to have your milk, like she has to have a good dicking..." Those were the last words I heard before it all went black.
I was back in that abandoned subway station, the man was fumbling with his belt before cursing it and yanking his pants down. I tried to run but my legs refused to work, he approached me with his pants around his ankles, seeing his prick, at full attention set something off, I didn't know why but instead of trying to get away I lunged forward, my mouth enveloped his small prick sucking on it like a babe on a teat, my hands went to my clothes, ripping them from my body while he fell over from my oral assault on his phallus, my tongue wrapping around the head of his prick. Soon my clothes were in tatters around me, I got up and straddled his prick, mmm'ing as I took it, I was a virgin, and I just took a prick without any pain, and in fact it made me feel like something that was missing in me was now in its rightful place. Each breath was easier, each thrust onto his prick easier and more blissful. I barely registered his screams as my body fed on his seed, my skin lost its pigmentation, as did my hair as I fed. I felt my spine elongate granting me a tail. The transformation using the excess fat on me, granting me a body I dreamed of, then the world went black and I woke up in that room.
"Excuse me?" A voice said, quietly behind me. "Umm... you okay? You aren't hurt are you?"
I looked over my shoulder and shook my head, "I... I almost killed a guy..."
She sighed, "He's fine, so can you go away now..." She said as she wrapped a blanket around herself.
Kitten walked in. "Sorry Clara, I'll get her out of here." She said picking me up. "It might be too soon for you to go out in public." She said as I curled up in her arms.
I didn't respond, just stayed put. I saw Howler, he was nursing a shiner, Poindexter was still where I first saw him. I saw a glimpse of a something in the corner of my eyes, when I turned I saw a muscle bound man with a finger in his mouth. He looked at me and started to walk towards me. "Chunk sorry for hurting little lady, not know was in trouble, thought man was good."
I managed a smile, "Its... its alright..." I managed.
"Thank you, Chunk feel better now, go get little lady flowers." He said before lumbering off.
Kitten smiled. "He's a good guy, a little slow, but good. The change hit him pretty hard. All that muscle, that nearly impenetrable skin of his, cost him a bit in the brains department." She said as she carried me back down that hallway and into the bed room where she laid me down. "Your change took something from you as well, as it did me." She said sitting next to me, freeing her tail and ears. "My change wasn't all that fun, hell it was damn painful. Not just physically either. I lost my best friend because of it. Only those here know about my subtype being parasite. I am dependent on others to maintain my strength, and a side effect of my parasite type is I can cause changes to allow for myself to feed..." She said quietly.
I curled up against her, she smiled before continuing. "My friend well, she was there when my latent powers manifested, specifically the parasite portion. She was altered for my needs... She didn't mind her breasts swelling up, but she didn't like me suddenly forcing myself on her, suckling from her. I couldn't control myself, I ended up hurting her pretty badly, I didn't know my own strength, my claws, they cut her up pretty badly..."
I looked up at her. "What happened?"
"She's okay, though we haven't spoken, she told me that if I ever get close to her again, she'd, well she'd kill me." Kitten said quietly.
I shook my head. "I'm sorry..."
"Don't be, your not the one who did it." She said smiling.
I looked at her. "Could... could I help you with your needs and you help me? That way we won't have to depend on others?"
Kitten smiled. "I am not sure, mine are simple, hell you probably won't even need to feed like I do. I mean we don't even know what your abilities truly are yet, and whether or not if you are needed to feed to sustain your body. Me, I just need milk, the fresher the better, in order to keep myself all feline and strong and what not. You might be like me, you get some benefits from feeding, but don't need to feed in order to survive."
"You mean..." I asked looking at her. "I could lead a normal life?"
"Don't get your hopes up to high yet, Poindexter is still trying to figure it all out." Kitten said smiling.
"Kitten, Lira, the Man in Black is here to register our new friend." I heard Poindexter say from somewhere in the room, looking around I didn't see him.
Kitten pressed a finger to her ear. "Alright, I'll get her out for him to have a look at."
I looked at Kitten, "Man in Black?" I asked worried about what he'd do.
"Don't worry, he's not going to hurt you, he has stuff that'll figure you out faster then Poindexter can. He'll get you all figured out and then we can figure out what'll be needed to fix you or get you living a closer to normal life then down here in the refuge."
"What if... What if I don't want to leave?" I asked quietly.
"Then we'll get on making you a place of your own down here." She said as her door opened. "As polite as ever I see." She said looking at a man dressed in a black suit entered the room. Pulling off his glasses he smiled before setting down a suitcase.
"Yes, well I heard about whose daughter this is and figured I'd better silence them quickly before they whip the media into a real frenzy over their daughter being 'kidnapped'." He said as he opened his suitcase and started pulling out instruments. Kitten sat me up and I waited, watching him assemble his things. Soon he had a syringe out and took a blood sample from me. All I could do was watch as he put it into suitcase, I heard beeps and other noises.
"Interesting..." He said to himself as he worked. It was an hour before he came back over to me, this time with a metal rod with a wire coming out of it, he started waving it around me like a metal detector.
"Bone structure, blood work, all shows normal. DNA shows normal. Phermone production levels normal." He said as he backed away.
"So... I'm normal? I don't look normal." I said looking at him.
"Not really, normal as in what they should be at. Your phermones are quite potent, but it appears the more agitated and or scared you become, the more you produce as a way to sedate, even make others around you do your bidding. At least of the opposite gender seeing as to how Wild Cat isn't affected by you. As far as other abilites go, I can say you probably don't have much other then what we saw at that old station, you can literally suck someone's life fluids from their body, not a bad way to go, but please refrain from using that as I can't see a need for you to use it with the information I have. More testing is required, but for now I can leave that to Brain, he should have it all figured out quickly enough." He said closing his briefcase. "Do me a favor and try not to over do it, I'll let your parents know about your condition, as well as tell them to stop spouting lies about you Succubus." He said before he left.
I looked down slightly before Kitten smiled and shook my shoulders. "Well that is good to know. So, you feel like trying again?"
"I don't like that name..." I said quietly.
"I know, but that is going to be your official name. I didn't like mine at first either, it'll grow on you with time Lira." She said as she stood up. "So how about getting you some fitting clothes." She walked back towards the door, I stood up and followed her. We made it to the main room, this time a man with feathers around his neck looked at me.
His nose was elongated with an orangish yellow tinge to it. "Pleased to meet you ma'am." He said with a short bow. "I'll be providing overwatch for you and Kitten today during my patrol."
"Umm... thank you... I guess." I said not sure what to make of him.
"I am Hawkeye. I heard of your ordeal, I am sorry that this happened to you." He said just as courtly as before.
"Its... its alright." I said quietly.
Kitten spoke up. "Hawkeye, she's still getting used to this, so if you'd please."
"Yes ma'am." He said before he flew off. No wings or anything, just flew off.
Kitten lead me to another door, she opened it and lead me down a tunnel, it opened up into one of the abandoned subway stations that dotted the city. "We can get into almost any station from the refuge, makes getting around much quicker for those of us stuck on the ground." She said as she lead me to a store, one of the ones I rarely visited due to the price. I followed her in and she went right to the sales lady, the two talked for a bit before the sales lady made sure no one else was there before drawing the curtains and locking the door. "I heard about you there Lira." She said smiling. "I'll have you set up with some clothes before you know it, if you'll remove those contacts so I can get a good look at the real you."
I backed away but bumped into Kitten who just smiled. "She works with the Man in Black, part of the registration is new clothes." She said as she pushed me towards the sales lady. "So let her get you some."
I nodded and stepped forward, removing the contact lenses and putting them in their holder. I knew I looked like a freak again. "Can I see your tail as well? To properly fit your clothes I need to get full measurements." I nodded, and managed to slip my tail out, it hung rather limply half way down my calves.
The sales lady worked for a bit, measuring me and getting shirts and pants that were my size put together. "Come back in a bit, I'll have the things altered." She said after I had tried them all on and she figured how she needed to fix them.
Kitten dragged me out after I got my contact lenses back in, bringing me to a fast food joint, she bought us both food. I nearly fell over when my father walked in. He sat down in the stall behind me. "Look, you know our stance, I still can't believe this happened." He said quietly.
"So, what do you want me to do about it? I didn't want this to happen." I said quietly.
"Lay low, I've redirected a large sum of money to you, use it as you need, just don't claim relations for now, I'll figure out something."
"And mom?" I said before taking a drink.
"She doesn't know, the official story is you are missing. The kidnappers have been caught, but you were already missing by the time the authorities got there." He said before getting up. "I'm sorry, but you have to stay hidden for now. At least until I can get things turned around for the meta's." He said before leaving, walking by a table he left a piece of paper. I pocketed it as he walked away.
Kitten looked at me. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine." I said quietly. "I think... If it's okay... I'll stay with you and the others..."
Kitten laughed. "I already told you, if you wanted to stay, we'd get you set up in a place."
"Good... maybe, maybe this money will help you guys get some real food..." I said before finishing my meal.
"We could use some one to cook for us, if you know how." Kitten said smiling.
"I've cooked before." I said smiling. "Do you think she's finished yet?"
"She was probably done a few minutes after we left." Kitten said laughing. "She's like us, just doesn't like other people seeing her use it for some reason."
We headed back for the shop, entering the sales lady pulled out several bags. "Finished your stuff, even gave you some extras I though you'd like." She said as she handed me and Kitten several bags a piece. "And Kitten, your new outfit." She said handing another bag to Kitten. "Take care of it.
Kitten smiled. "I'll try, but you know my job is hard."
"Yeah, I'll start on the next one." She said as she pushed us through the door. "Now I need to get back to work, have fun."
Kitten looked at me and smiled. "So where do we go now?"
"Back to your place with any luck." I said smiling.
And so we headed back, and as soon as we were underground I freed my tail and got rid of the contact lenses revealing my true self. I walked with my bags of new clothes, and instructions to get the money my dad had left for me.
Arriving back Howler was once again hanging from the walkway. "Listen... about earlier... I'm sorry..." He said jumping down and putting his hand behind his head while looking at the ground.
"Its alright." I said as I walked by. "I was just... well I remembered what happened when you mentioned it and it shook me up."
"Oh good, so it wasn't that I called you Succubus then." Howler said smiling. I stared at him when he said that name, Kitten picked up on it and moved towards him. Howler quickly backtracked and jumped up to the walkway out of Kitten's reach.
"He is quick but not bright." The boy said from behind his screens, "Don't try to bother with him."
"Hey! Shut up down there Poindexter!" Howler said from his perch only to be knocked over by a robotic arm.
"Names Marcus." The boy said from his spot, still typing away.
I walked up to him. "Thanks Marcus, for everything."
He finally looked up and looked at me. "It is my job here, make sure everyone can go out in public. That and monitor the systems, radios, net and everything else for any chatter about meta activity."
"Marcus, or Poindexter as we call him, is the brains behind our operation, we are just the muscle." Kitten said as she headed back for her room.
Carla walked out of her room, hiding behind a column. I looked at her and saw, wings? "Hey there, sorry about earlier." I said as I walked towards her. She backed away so I stopped.
"Its... alright... I heard... should of gone and... and introduced myself earlier." She said moving away from the beam. She was beautiful, she had two wings like cellophane coming out of her back, her legs were long and lean, her hips wide and had a nice set of c-cups on her. He face was like that of a pixy, a pointy chin, small nose, thin lips and a pair of sparkling blue eyes, she had short cropped blonde hair.
"I heard your a strong healer type, that's amazing, wish I could be like you." I said quietly.
"Its not all its cracked up to be." She said as she headed back for her room. "Sometimes I wish I was normal still..." She said before closing her door.
I sighed, pushed to hard probably. Kitten walked up behind me and whispered. "Healing takes its toll on her, she feels it so others don't... We try not to ask her to do to much. She was always being asked to heal someone, no one thought about the toll it took on her." Kitten said as she pushed me on our way, we headed towards another door, this one built heavily like Kitten's. "Your room. I figured we could use a room prepped in case someone decided to stay here or we picked up a straggler and needed to house them for a bit." She said smiling. She opened the door for me and lead me inside and through a hall way to another large door. The room was spartan, large but spartan. "I know it isn't much, but we'll get some more things brought down here for you when we get a chance." She said as she showed me to my new bed, nothing more then a mattress on the floor. "We decided on this room because of three reasons." She said before going back to the door and sealing it. "One, its one of the larger spaces here." She said motioning around. "Two, its sealable, so anyone who we bring in who has an affect like yours won't affect others." She said pointing at the door and air vents. "Three, its connected to my room." She said smiling.
I looked at her. "You coming on to me?"
Kitten laughed. "Maybe, is that a bad thing?"
I moved behind her and pushed her onto the bed. "Not at all." I said before laying down next to her and kissing the girl.
She broke the kiss and smiled. "Lets not get to far ahead of ourselves shall we?" She said before pecking me on the cheek.
I just smiled and curled up against her. "I've... I've never really though about other girls before... What is it about you?"
Kitten smiled. "I don't know, I do know that I like you." She said smiling. "Is that not enough?"
I nodded and closed my eyes, right here, curled up against this girl, this felt like heaven, even if I did look like a demon. "Yeah... yeah it is."
Kitten nuzzled into me, "I'm going to need a pick me up in the morning, think you can handle that?"
I nodded as she grabbed a blanket and pulled it over the both of us. I was out like a light, probably never slept better either.