III

“Your partner has gone in heat, luckily for the both of you, it was his first day and you haven’t gotten him egg heavy just yet but he will be soon if you try hard enough.” The doctor glanced over at the fairly abnormal couple that had come to visit him for a health check-up: he had treated folk like Magnus a few times in his career, many with that particular quirk, some even with the exact opposite condition, meaning females with an entirely male apparatus, but the giant dragon took the cake. Most had a feminine look to them, with the hormones affecting their appearance but he was a bodybuilder through and through, no one would even imagine that he’d be what he was. The dreamy eyes of the man however, they were like those of a female ready to become a mother, deeply in heat and hopeful to become pregnant ten times over. “Now, I realize it must be a very special thing for you, but I still advice caution when engaging in coitus.”

“Doctor, Magnus he… we have been together for years now, he has never gone into heat. Sure… he seemed to be on the verge a few times but never like this.” The lizard cocked an eyebrow.

“Are you sure?” Cory nodded. “Hmm… well… wait a moment.” He sat back on his chair and began typing words on the keyboard, leaving the two partners to themselves. Magnus took his lover’s had in his, far smaller, weaker, his scales nowhere near as sturdy and yet he found more strength than he had in those callous palms. Cory had something in him that always made him feel happy, comfortable, safe, no matter what he did. Years together and he was still hopelessly in love with him. “Alright, I looked briefly in an article I remembered a moment ago, a study that has come out recently: apparently, given the social pressure and the unique biological make-up of those with Magnus’ condition, they may experience something called ‘Heat retention’ meaning that their bodies lock their functions down to allow a more… natural life.” There was a long pause. “There are psychological reasons for it but I won’t waste your time with a field of the body I am unfamiliar with. I take no one other than you and some doctor in different hospitals knows about you two or his condition.”

“Correct.” Magnus’ voice trembled, desperately holding on to Cory’s hand and making him frown at the tight grip, but the small lizard endured.

“Your partner is a man in a high position, burdened with workloads well over the norm, in a place where anyone might judge him and ostracize him in case his secret came to life. I am no shrink if you pardon the layman term, but I think that your very body wanted to be what they think you are and locked away your intimate functions for years. What caused this, ehm, awakening, I do not know, but I fear that if you keep repressing yourself like that, one day you might get hurt.” The dragon swallowed all of his saliva, trembling lightly. “I suggest a long vacation, somewhere warm and a visit to a psychologist that will help you.”

“But… I don’t… I cannot let anyone know.” Magnus paled, seemingly shrinking down to a smaller size in the chair, almost looking like an average lizard.

“Mister Karas, you are thirty two years old, one of the top managers for one of the top companies in the entire city, an adult through and through, honestly, I do not understand why you hide yourself like that.” Magnus lowered his head, memories flashing through his mind, none of them particularly good, some horrible, some not as bad but still enough to have made him conceal that particular aspect of his life for that long years ago. “I will not pressure you to do anything, I am merely informing you as doctor, that you cannot live like this forever. Your heat is real, someday it will come back, someday you may get egg heavy because I know that no matter how much a couple can try not to have kids, with a heat that bad, it’s going to happen, unless you take some heavy contraceptives.” He looked up to the doctor with a complex expression plastered on his face: he imagined himself in a house he bought for the two of them in the countryside, flowers blooming, a small horde of hatchlings that had Cory’s colour and his eyes scuttling around and his heart tightened at the prospect of never being able to see that but the idea of having others come to know what he hid beneath his muscles, it terrified him even more if anything. “If there is nothing else you want to ask me, I must urge you to leave, your allotted time has long since expired. I will give you these two forms: one is for a generic leave for health conditions, the other… is a certified maternity leave.” The two lovers froze in place, Cory’s hand clutching the two pieces of paper like they weighted a ton each. “In case you come back and need it signed by me and for the preliminary exam.” The doctor sighed. “Have a good day.”

Cory led his mate outside, under the indifferent eyes of the other patients, save for the one whose time they had stolen and began their way back home, the lizard at the wheel of the large car, tinted windows raised in case someone saw it and realized their boss was on the street, Magnus silent on the passenger seat. His large hand kept going to his belly, shrinking away a moment and then returning the next: he was worried and his partner knew it very well. Such a rare occurrence didn’t help either of the two in getting any less nervous or worried, a glance here and there the only contact they had for the whole ride, dinner quiet, frugal, none of the usual fancy dishes that Magnus made had been prepared, some of the leftovers reheated, in bed there was no cuddling, nothing, a void. It had never occurred to them that the big dragon would eventually go in heat, that he’d be ready to lay eggs nor that him hiding for close to two decades had slowly eaten his soul. There was another meeting with another doctor, a shrink, a proper one this time, and the verdict was much the same: it was highly unhealthy for Magnus to not tell anyone and coming out would prevent more long term damage to his psyche. It still didn’t help any of them.

Things seemed to slow down for a few days, their work seemingly so heavy and burdening no real talk was made again after the second visit, Magnus’ silence in his office seen as anger, his outburst as a calamity upon the entire building and the long moments of silence locked up behind the thick door to his office as mysterious. The smell of heat was hidden with perfumes as best as he could but it was a short term solution and the deeper inside his first real heat in so many years was quickly getting unbearable. Magnus arranged for a two weeks of vacation, to take time off, giving others some bullshit reason such as a meeting with a friend to talk business or a retreat in some seminar, all stuff he never liked but that were always handy when he had to excuse himself for a few days. The hope was to wait it out, Cory had apparently agreed to this, but something felt off: normally the lizard would tease him, tell him how he’d spend the rest of the time off with him, how they’d go on long walks, how he’d have him squeal in bed, all things that he loved hearing. He didn’t, not this time. Deep down Magnus knew his partner didn’t want kids, it was too much and he himself wasn’t sure of what would happen if he did get egg heavy, then again, no matter how much he convinced himself, the mere thought of having little copies of his lover around the house always made him giggle like the dumbest of high school girls on the heaviest of crushes on the local hot jock.

“So, will you able to handle the office without me?” Magnus eyed the many assistants he had standing in front of him, Shar at the very front, proud that she had been given free rein on almost any deal that was to come their way, the timid woman now leader of the office, albeit for only two weeks and only because her boss hadn’t found anyone better to do it. She took the veiled compliment very well.

“Yes, sir, nothing bad will happen, not on my watch.” She nodded, her chest puffed out. The dragon smiled wryly. “I hope you’ll enjoy your retreat.”

“Yeah, I hope so too.” Magnus sighed, fingers tapping on the keyboard and archived the last of the documents that couldn’t be delegated to anyone and at last turned off the computer. “I…” the dragon had just opened his mouth when the door to the office was slammed open and a panting lizard came through, followed by a host of confused and curious people that looked from the opening as Cory walked right in front of their boss. “Yes? Is there something you need?” Pretending to not be happy to see him and just as confused for the sudden entrance, Magnus continued packing his stuff for his ‘retreat’, taking papers and his personal laptop until Cory grabbed his hand and stopped him in his tracks.

“Magnus, we’re going.” For a moment everyone was shocked at the act of a janitor grabbing the hands of one of the top bosses in the entire company, then at the overly familiar tone he had. Sure, the lizard was something of a friend to everyone in the entire building and had been so for years but it wasn’t normal for him to just barge into an office like that. “I’ve booked us a vacation, a cruise, the car is ready outside, the boat is leaving in half an hour so get your ass moving or I’ll get angry.” Then, it came this: everyone expected Magnus to get angry, kick Cory out of the office or just plainly scream at him like he did to everyone else that worked there. He didn’t instead someone heard small happy squeal escape from his lips.

“Really?” There was a look of… happiness in the dragon’s eyes and no anger, nor anything else. He held the smaller hands in his own, like an adult with a child. “Does this mean…? You’re not angry at me?” Now it was Cory’s turn to get confused, only to smile warmly at the silly dragon a moment later.

“Of course not, but I will be if you make us late. Booked first class.” Cory turned around, still holding on to Magnus’ hand and slowly dragged the dragon and all of his stuff out of the office, drawing even more attention as they moved through the building, a small lizard janitor bossing around the boss and said dragon only complying with the dumbest grin one could see on someone’s face, meek and pliable. It was as if the sky itself was coming down to crush them all.

Under the even more confused eyes of the entire staff now, Cory jumped inside the car after shoving Magnus in and drove off towards the bay where the cruise ship was anchored. Behind the driver seat he had stashed two big and bulky suitcases filled with all manners of clothes and other things that were to be kept secret for a little while more. Speeding through the city almost got them a ticket by an officer that only let the matter slide because a bigger thing came up just as the wolf was about to make the ticket and that still didn’t make the lizard slow down by any degree to get to the ship and thanks to that they were able to get there just in time. The whole thing was so sudden that even though the time spent in the car wasn’t short, no one had talked and Cory was too busy not crashing into cars and street poles to tell his partner anything at all and by the looks of it, the dragon was far too engrossed in his gloating and fantasies to be focused enough to listen decently to him for any length of time longer than a second. At the ship he had the big guy take all the heavy stuff while he talked with the staff and gave them his tickers to check, and only then took Magnus to their room, a luxurious suite that he had paid with his own salary instead of tapping into their shared funds, mostly due out of pride and the need to keep this all a secret from his partner, sneaking the ‘do not disturb’ sign out of the door just as he closed it.

“Cory wh…” The two metres tall dragon was easily pushed onto the large queen sized bed, sinking into the soft mattress with but a gentle push of those small hands. “Cory…” The lizard put a finger on his mouth, sealing it shut on the spot.

“Shh, don’t say anything.” For a few moments there was only silence. “I booked this cruise because… well, I don’t really know how to put it…” Cory scratched his neck, visibly flustered and confused, on the verge of saying something really, really important. “Ok… Magnus, I love you, beyond anything else in my life and I hate seeing you so tired and fearful of your body, I saw you hide for as long as I have known you and I went along with it because we were both convinced that it was the right thing to do. We were shown it wasn’t the other day and I mean to fix this.” The lizard climbed on top of the giant mountain of scale and muscle that was on the bed, sitting on his chest and barely fazing him at all. “You said to me the other day that you were fine not having any kids but I saw you look at pictures of cribs and baby stuff, put it in the list of things on your account, I saw you fawn over every little thing that had ‘baby’ stamped on it no matter how dumb.” Magnus blushed heavily, looking the other way during all the one-sided conversation but the close proximity with his lover, the heavy scent so blatantly shoved right under his nose, it did wonders to draw his gaze up and make him ever so flushed between his legs. “So I don’t care how much you deny this, I don’t care what others think, we’re having not one baby but a whole clutch so you’d better be ready because I locked the door to this room and asked not to deliver dinner so that we’d be alone long enough for me to pump you full.” Magnus squealed, a long and outstretched whine full of need, pent up to the point that he couldn’t stop himself from rubbing his thighs together. “See? I knew you’d like it.” Cory himself was getting excited, the bulges in his pants quickly growing out, leaving a dark stain on the work clothes much in the same way that Magnus was ruining his far more expensive suit. The lizard grinned and unzipped the blue work suit from the top, revealing first his slender physique and then the two fat members that hid beneath. The scent of male arousal and the incredibly heavy musk sealed inside the clothes spread and hit the dragon like a truck, making him moan harder and louder for the amusement of the one on top. “Open your mouth.” Magnus didn’t even think of refusing, his maw snapping open just in time to welcome the two cocks inside it: immediately the salty taste of his lover’s shafts spread on his tongue, dense, intoxicating, bearing the weight of close to two weeks of no sex nor release, meaning that the lizard hadn’t spilled any and knowing him, the treat he was about to receive was going to be that much more special.

Without anything else to be said, Magnus wrapped his tongue around those cocks, feeling them throb with the need to unload ungodly amounts of spunk right inside him, pre flowing in large and dense globs, quickly filling his mouth with salty liquid pleasure. The wet patch on his pants grew ever so large, the fruity scent of a female in a deep unrestrained heat spreading around in the suite, felt only by the lizard as the one under him could only smell his scent. As Cory rocked his hips, pumping in and out slowly, Magnus clumsily unfastened his belt and pulled his pants down, shredding what little was left of his panties, spreading his legs wide so that he could slide his thick fingers inside his vent, feeling it much wet than ever before. The lizard grinned, grabbing the sides of the dragon’s head as he thrusted faster and faster, in and out, pumping his shafts in that mouth so fast his hips became a blur, the sloppy sounds of wet scales on a welcoming muzzle and the squelching of fingers filling a sopping vent filled the room just as the smell thickened tenfold. Magnus’ heat was no joke, a deep and profound need but Cory’s own rut wasn’t any less intense, violent almost and his actions showed it clearly. Even as he came, seed flowing down the throat of his lover, he never stopped fucking his muzzle, spit and seed filling the space inside the mouth and the outside of it, bridges of saliva connecting the wet slit from which the engorged cocks jutted out to the snout of the man below. The lizard grunted, each pump of his shafts bulging out Magnus’ throat pleasantly, shot after shot after shot of dense and backed up lust quickly unloaded regardless of the opinion of the man that was swallowing it down. Cory pulled out, still spurting, white ropes flung on the red muzzle till it was almost covered. Magnus opened his mouth and his tongue shot out, lapping at the growing mess on his face, swallowing what little he could reach as the lizard never seemed to stop coming. When the shower ended, Cory was panting heavily, his chest heaving up and down and still his cocks were hard, standing proud in between his legs and Magnus didn’t hesitate in shoving his snout right in the middle, pressing it against their base, snorting the even heavier musk, caked in seed and sweat. His pleasure was cut short as his mate stood up and scooted back slowly, leaving a trail of dribbling seed on his steel like abs, his hands reaching for the muscle beneath the scales, kneading it but the constant spasms of the dragon’s orgasms never quite allowed him to do that. As Cory stood between those tree trunk of legs and spread them even more, Magnus squealed, not even bothering to lower his volume, letting everyone that passed outside the cabin what was going on and he loved it far more than he should have.

“So…” Cory rubbed his shafts on the soaked vent, feeling the heat and the sheer slickness of it very clearly, the need of the man in front of him clear as day. “Let’s make this clutch.”

“Yes, please…. you… you don’t even know how much I want this…”

“Oh, I think I do.”

He smiled and hissed together with his mate as he slid inside him, the quivering folds welcoming his cocks, immediately clamping down with all the strength that his much bigger body could afford and still, once he gave the first thrust, all that power, that raw energy, it vanished, melted into a puddle of whines and ‘please’ and ‘faster’ and ‘harder’. Cory tapped into every ounce of strength he himself had, lifting Magnus’ legs, holding them up for support as he slammed his hips till his slit touched the other one, wet slaps echoing so loud that they almost dwarfed the sound of their moans. Magnus gripped the sheets, claws tearing into the very mattress like it was nothing, holding on to the bed for dear life as his mate outright fucked his brain silly, nothing else but the feeling of those cocks pumped inside him, scratching an itch he had for so long and had never been able to reach, making him come over and over.

The tips of Cory’s shafts spread his very chamber, the tight opening yawning wide to the will of its owner, shots of cloudy pre flooding the ripe womb as soon as they breached the barrier. It wasn’t the first time the two had mated with such intensity but it was the first time they had a clear purpose other than mere momentary pleasure, this time they’d go the full length, no holds barred, no restraint, just pure lust and unending rut. The sheer heat and the constant orgasms made it far harder for Cory to hold his load in, his desire to go just a minute more almost overwhelmed by the need to breed the dragon whose legs attempted to lock him in place over and over, holding on by pure willpower and some luck. The bed creaked, wobbled, hit the wall behind it so many times it began leaving a mark on the relatively thin paint and alerting the couple on the other side of what was happening had the noises that had been going on for the past half an hour not done the job just yet. Magnus begged to be filled long enough that Cory just couldn’t hold on anymore and slammed his hips, hilting himself one last time. The floodgates opened once again, an even thicker, denser and more packed fluid filled the very core of the dragon, each pump felt, each shot adding to the ones that came before as the heat was fulfilled at last, fulfilled but not nearly sated. Magnus kissed his lover with a strength he didn’t know he had, spurring the lizard to fuck him throughout their second round of orgasms, tongues coiling around each other like snakes, their bodies pressed so close together one would think it was just one person squirming on the bed.

“Don’t you dare stop fucking me or I swear I will milk you by force.” Magnus was hungry, his body was hungry and demanded more, whatever he had been given was clearly not enough to sate that need. “I won’t let you go until you’ve got me full and I can’t walk anymore is that clear?” For a moment the strong and ruthless leader he was in the office came back, ordering the man he loved around, that persona was gone with but one thrust again.

“Oh, I see my little slut is hungry…” Cory shivered, coming down from the high of his second climax still lodged inside a passage so blisteringly hot it almost hurt, grinning wide at the dragon who thought he was in control. “Beg for it, beg for me to breed you and then I will start thinking of filling you up so much you will lay the biggest clutch ever.” The two stared at each other, the steel gaze of the dragon softening up with every moment the lizard didn’t obey, his vent massaging his cocks so that he’d move and resume his duty. The minutes passed and Cory still hadn’t moved an inch, relishing in the feeling of warmth and wetness all around him, drinking the scent of the ripe female that clearly wasn’t under him. “Beg.”

“Oh…. For fuck’s sake ok!!” Magnus screamed, tears almost falling out of his eyes. “Please… just… just fuck me senseless, I want you to breed me like the bitch I am, pleasepleaseplease…. I neeeed it sooo bad…”

“There we go. Wasn’t so hard was it?” Cory immediately pulled back a few inches only to push them all back in, his cocks seemingly even harder and thicker than before plunging into the depths of the dragon’s vent. “I’m not going to stop until your belly is swollen and you’re so pregnant you won’t walk anymore and don’t even think of sleeping tonight or tomorrow. I’m so fucking pent up I will keep you full till the end of the vacation and then I’m going to fuck you as soon as we are home.” Each sentence and word sent Magnus into a deeper frenzy, his orgasms longer and overlapping with each other, one melting into the next without end. Images of babies, of countless eggs, of nights spend feeding a small army of little Corys and looking at their cute little muzzles as his mate pumped another heavy clutch inside him. “I love you, you silly dragon.”

“I… I love you too.”

“Will you marry me?” For a moment there was silence once again.

“Yes.”