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Well, this was it. This was her chance to meet someone who not only had her same condition but managed to get a human to fall in love with her. Nijia might've shivered had she been a human, but as she slithered into the safehouse's lobby, she did her best not to show any fear. She remembered being unafraid the last few times she'd been in high-security areas, slipping through with nary a thought of worry… why was she so twitchy today?

Never mind, she had to get onto the elevator. After coiling into the box and pressing the right button, she let out a tense sigh, trying to center herself but failing miserably. It felt like her innards were tied into a knot, and the ascension didn't help. When she checked her phone, there wasn't a scrap of new intel that would help her; when she habitually drew her plasma pistol and fiddled with the charging handle, it just made her worry she'd be too intimidating. Just relax and breathe, she told herself, everything's going to be just fine… you'll see.

Meanwhile, the twin objects of Nijia's anxiety were busy lounging on the couch, entwined beneath a fleece blanket watching TV shows. Crimson Cove was on once again, and Hssara was trying to explain the plot she only half-understood to Clark. "So Veronica has been fooling around with this guy from her chemicals class, Dave," she began, "But last time we found out that she was hooking up with Chet, which is extra bad because he's a 'senior' and she's a 'sophomore.' What's that mean again?"

"Senior means it's your fourth year in high school," Clark explained, "And sophomore means it's your second year."

"Right."

The human furrowed his brow to ask a question of his own. "Veronica is a vampire, and Chet's a…"

"He's a wolf-dude."

"You mean a werewolf?"

"Yeah, that."

"Uh huh…" Clark briefly disengaged himself from the whimsy of supernatural high school to take a look at the clock, and that in turn led to more thoughts about the supposed meeting at the burger joint. He had no intention of going, of course, and he'd pondered reporting the location to ADVENT, but right now, that was two days away. According to the 4:01 on the clock, their new roommate was bound to show up any second… unless she was somehow late. "You know, that other viper will be here in a bit, maybe we should-"

The doorbell cut him off, and a quick glance over revealed a shadow waiting on the other side of the door. He noticed Hssara grow a tad tense, but his serpentine lover pushed the worry from her mind before Clark could ask. "Guess that's her," she said, already beginning to unwrap herself from around her human heater.

Once they were both up, Clark couldn't help but glance down at himself, at the simple t-shirt and sweats he wore that signaled nothing but apathy. "Maybe we should clean up a bit," he sighed, combing his hair back with one hand.

"Clean up?" As Clark slicked his hair back, Hssara couldn't help but feel a slight spark of something others would recognize as jealousy. Somehow, the concept of Clark prettying himself up for another viper vexed her, and that in turn kindled suspicion. "Why?"

"I dunno, might be worth it to put on a good first impression."

As if to counter his point, the doorbell rang again, and on the other side of the door, Nijia's worries ran rampant. What if they didn't want her around? What if they hated her? What if ADVENT decided she wasn't the right fit for the program and threw her back into guard duty?

She remembered doing it before, but the hours of patrolling about held absolutely no fondness for her, and now that her condition had developed, other vipers hardly held her in high regard. Maybe this other viper would hate her too. Maybe-

At that moment, Hssara opened the door, and she wasn't nearly as surprised as Nijia to see a viper sitting on the other side. As the two looked each other over, Hssara began to notice the stark differences between the two of them: Nijia's scales were a slate grey on her back and a dull white on her belly, with black and white stripes running up her back and around her hood. Where Hssara had yellow eyes, Nijia had blue, and where Hssara had on a simple wooly sweater, Nijia wore the traditional armor of a viper. In that split second, Hssara did her best to size up what her instincts said was a rival. She reminded Hssara of the days when Clark first met, how she'd been tantalizingly clad in a serious getup… and to make matters worse, Nijia seemed like she was acting like a damsel in distress. "Hey there," she eventually offered, "Why don't you come in?" She stood to the side and swung her arm toward the rest of the room in traditional fashion, doing her best not to let her instincts surface.

"Uh, thanks." Nijia hesitantly slithered into the room, and while she'd seen apartments before on missions, she'd never been in one that felt so… lived in. The furniture looked comfy, the kitchen seemed stocked with food, the TV was set to a paused show, and to top it off, a human stood right in the middle of it. Clark didn't look glamorous by any means, standing there with matted hair and casual clothes, but the warm smile he graced Nijia with was enough to make the viper's heart skip a beat.

Clark, meanwhile, was just pleasantly surprised to see another variety of viper, and he did his best to alleviate her nerves with a friendly smile. "Hi there," he said as he offered one hand. "I'm Clark."

The grey viper slowly slithered forward, looked at his hand for a moment, then finally realized she was supposed to shake it. "Yeah…" she murmured, "Uh, I mean, I'm Nijia."

"And I'm Hssara," Clark's lover interjected, almost interposing herself between Nijia and her human.

"Hi…" Nijia shook Hssara's hand as well, but after that, she was a tad lost.

Neither of her hosts seemed to know what to do with her either, but after a few moments, Clark spoke up. "Well, I suppose we should give you the grand tour," he said, "Show you around the place a bit."

"Sure," Nijia replied, still a little awestruck by Clark's friendliness. She dutifully followed him around as he led her around the penthouse, through the kitchen, living room, dining rooms, and bedrooms taking in all the penthouse's niceties with the wide eyes of a country girl. Hssara kept an eye on her the whole time, unwilling to let her share a room with Clark alone for even a second. Clark thought nothing of it, as perhaps she was just trying to be polite, but he couldn't deny there was some sort of tension in his beloved.

When they were done with the grand tour, the trio headed back to the living room, where the TV was frozen on an image of Veronica cussing out Chet. "We were watching Crimson Cove if you wanna join us."

Nijia hadn't the slightest clue what Crimson Cove was, but she realized it wouldn't be polite to refuse. "Yeah… sure." She briefly had a thought of being next to Clark on the couch, leaned up against him like she'd sometimes seen humans do with each other, but that brought on twin feelings of arousal and discomfort. On the one hand, her condition meant she wanted to be near humans, but on the other, all her memories told her were that humans were some inferior race. It felt weird, but as Clark made a move to sit on the couch, she decided it couldn't hurt to try.

However, before she or Clark could sit down, Hssara bolted around to the front of the couch and plopped herself down on the middle cushion, sitting like a human with her whole tail hanging off the couch as if she was waiting for something. When Clark sat down beside her, she instantly made a move to wrap him up and tackle him to the side, and while it was oh-so-nice to be wrapped in her cozy coils once more, Clark couldn't help but sense an ulterior motive. It almost felt like Hssara was trying to keep him away from Nijia, and when the other viper sat down by his feet, Hssara's tense glance seemed a sign of suspicion. The human had half a mind to clear it up right then, but he was ultimately too cozy to do much beyond hitting play.

As the TV show started up again, the characters on-screen continued their on-screen drama, but no one on the couch seemed fully invested. Nijia didn't really understand what was going on, and when she frequently glanced over to the pair beside her, she couldn't help but feel something tugging at both her heartstrings and her guts. Oh, what she'd give to be wrapped up around a human like that… but it was evident that he belonged to Hssara.

Hssara was glancing suspiciously back and forth between Nijia and Clark, giving the former odd looks and the latter affectionate nuzzles. She wanted the other viper to know that Clark was hers, pure and simple, and her draconian glances helped cement that fact in Nijia's mind. "Mine!" her yellow eyes seemed to say, and her coils tightening around Clark's warm body underlined that sentiment.

Clark, meanwhile, was trying to figure out just what was going down between the two vipers, and after a moment of examination, he thought he knew what was going on. He had half a mind to take Hssara aside and ask her what was wrong like a sensible adult, but instead, he tried subtly offering an olive branch to Nijia. "Suppose we should catch you up on what's been happening," he offered, "Basically, this show takes place in a human school full of mythological creatures. There's Veronica, who's a vampire…"

He trailed off as he realized Nijia had no clue what a vampire was, but Hssara quickly chimed in. "It's a pale human-ish monster that drinks blood," she explained, "They've done a ton of movies about them if you wanna see." On the one hand, she felt like shifting away from the incomprehensible high school drama would be fun for Nijia, but on the other, Crimson Cove was her show. She started it, she'd brought Clark into the fold, and she wasn't about to have three make a crowd.

"Oh, it's fine," Nijia replied, "I wouldn't want to, uh… step on your toes." She addressed the remark to Clark as she figured the human was the one who liked watching human shows. She remembered occasionally mocking the "menial drivel" with her fellow vipers way back when, but now she felt almost compelled to watch it.

"No, no, I'm the one who likes this crap anyway," Hssara interjected, "We could use a break from the teen romance." With that, she darted over and grabbed the remote, then popped back into the streaming service to look for vampire flicks. After a few moments, she pulled up something called Brahm Stoker's Dracula, an older movie that nevertheless seemed high-quality. "How about this?" she asked, and before Clark could answer, she hit play.

As the opening credits rolled, Hssara threw their fleece blanket over the three of them, and by the time the movie began recounting Dracula's bloody medieval history, she was cozily snuggled up against her human. While Nijia watched with morbid fascination at the events unfolding, Clark and Hssara were a tad distracted by one another, especially since the viper was almost smothering her lover with affection. By then, it was apparent Hssara was trying to win over the affection she'd never lost, but Clark enjoyed her intimate snuggles enough to stay his tongue.

The trio watched in silence as the movie's events unfolded, and although one of the actors had the range of a plank of wood, it was still well-done enough to hold their attention. Nijia sat somewhat transfixed by the film, marveling at the lavish practical effects and surreal juxtapositions at work. She found herself unsettled by Dracula in particular, the bizarre mish-mash of man, beast, and monster that both her old self and her new condition found repulsive. Even around some of the normal humans, it seemed something wasn't right with them, and she silently thanked fate for not making Clark as deranged as Renfield.

Things remained tame until about the twenty-minute mark, where Mina and Lucy shared some laughs over some explicit illustrations. Clark had noticed Hssara's attention waning for a while, and once the two women began giggling about indecent topics, he felt similar ideas slip into Hssara's mind. Moments later, he felt one scaly hand slowly slipping under his waistband, and before he could do much to stop her, Hssara had his gonads clutched in her palm. Her eyes were on the screen, but her attention focused squarely on his groin, rubbing and kneading her human to a semblance of hardness.

Clark, however, was fixated on Nijia and the possibility she might notice. "Hssara, wait," he whispered, "I-"

"Shhhhh… we wouldn't want to disturb our guest, would we?"

When she turned to meet Clark's gaze, the human could see her longing for connection as clear as day, and after a moment's consideration, he decided to roll with it. "Just… keep it quiet," he sighed, right before gently pulling down his pants and undies a few inches. With his burgeoning erection free under the covers, Hssara's hand swiftly got to work stroking his length, gently kneading it with her palm as her eyes remained fixed on the screen. Clark, meanwhile, just relaxed back as his arousal took hold, hoping that she had a plan to finish him off discreetly.

On the other side of the couch, Nijia was still watching the macabre tale intently, but her sensitive ears began to hear something over the voices and sound effects. It was a heartbeat hammering faster and faster, and as she focused in, she realized it was Clark's. At first, she chalked it up to fear or excitement, but the more her attention drifted, the more she heard: the shifting of the blanket, the friction of scales against human skin, the soft gasps leaving Clark's lips.

For several minutes, she could not figure out for the life of her what was going on, but once she stole a glance over at the two of them, she instantly saw through their ruse. Hssara was teasing Clark under the covers, using her hand to rub his… thing, all while they were still supposed to be watching the movie. Her very first gut reaction was arousal, but that was swiftly followed by shame and disgust, which were in turn surpassed by longing. What she wouldn't give to be in Hssara's place to have a human trust her that much, to be so intimate she could explore all over his nethers… what did they look like? She'd seen the diagrams, but what did Clark's look like? The arousing thoughts dripped with black, oozing taboo in her mind, but that somehow made her want them even more. Goddess, what she wouldn't give to have someone to love…

At the same time, Hssara pondered how much she should share, every so often glancing over at Nijia. On the one hand, she wanted Clark to herself, but on the other, she could see how hot and bothered her cohort was getting, and Hssara remembered how freeing it had been to finally act on those forbidden urges. Maybe if she took the lead, showed Nijia the ropes, let her explore Clark with her guidance… but then again, what if he fell in love with Nijia instead? What if he liked her beautiful silvery scales and piercing blue eyes more? What if he only shacked up with her because there was no better choice?

As fleeting as these paranoid thoughts were, they still made Hssara's grip tighten, forcing a stifled gasp from Clark's lips. She'd been teasing him for almost twenty minutes now, and she could tell he was getting close to the finale. Should she just let him cum in the blanket, or should she risk ducking down for a quick suck? This decisive question flitted around for a bit as she continued jerking Clark off, but when she glanced over at Nijia, something wondrous happened. Hssara's eyes met hers, and in that moment of thunderbolt clarity, the vipers realized precisely what the other was thinking. Hssara knew without a doubt that Nijia knew what she was doing to Clark, but she wasn't worried, oh no. The other viper looked positively shocked, and Hssara knew just how to press her advantage: after fixing Nijia with a sly smile, she slowly slipped all the way under the fleece blanket, eager to relieve her human's pent up pressure.

Clark immediately worried that Hssara would alert their guest by sucking him off, but ultimately he decided not to draw any more attention to himself by pushing her back. With his gaze fixed on the screen, he felt the familiar sensation of the scaly viper taking a hold on his member, first with her hand, then with her warm, slimy tongue. She used the prehensile thing to guide it between her soft lips, and as they sealed around the tip, Hssara sensually slid down until her nose was pressed up against his pubes. That alone was almost enough to make Clark cum, but he managed to hold on, at least until his lover's maw began sucking on his meat's entire length. "Hahh…"

His fingers got a death grip on the couch's armrest as his climax throbbed nearer, and he was all too enraptured to notice Nijia staring wide-eyed at them both. She could hear every little suckle from under the blanket, and she could see Clark's face twisting in pleasure, making her wish wonder with every ounce of her mind what it would be like to service a human like that. To put her mouth on his smelly, hairy genitals repulsed some part of her, but at the same time, it was so damn hot. She could almost feel a strange warmth blossoming in her chest, a warmth that slowly migrated down to her groin, and before long, she felt a strange sense of longing to touch herself down there. But no, she couldn't just start masturbating on the couch; that would be obscene…

Right at that moment, Hssara's gentle bobbing finally pushed Clark past his limit, and the human stifled a moan as his nethers throbbed. Hssara happily sucked and gulped the semen that pumped into her mouth, the act of which drove Clark up the wall until he had to bite down on one finger. Through it all, the human silently prayed that Nijia wouldn't notice, not realizing the viper's intent staring at his groin. When Hssara finally drained him dry, he took a few panting breaths before relaxing onto the couch, comforted by Hssara joining him at his side. In his mind, there was a good chance that Nijia didn't see, and they'd manage to preserve some semblance of decency.

Hssara, on the other hand, couldn't help but offer Nijia a teasing wink as she licked a bit of jizz off her lips. The other viper looked almost shell-shocked, and Hssara figured she'd done an excellent job of instituting her dominance. Proud of her work, she cozied back up to Clark, wrapping her arms around his warm, familiar form.

By the goddess… did that really just happen? Nijia could feel her heart racing in her chest, and her loins… her slit looked as engorged as when she'd watched an hour of human pornography. Her shame compelled her to cover it up with her hands, but the contact made her nerves beg to be touched, and she practically drooled at the thought of how good having something inside her might be… but she couldn't just start masturbating in front of her hosts, could she? No, no, perish the thought, she felt filthy just thinking about it… she needed to go masturbate somewhere else. "Pardon me," she suddenly murmured, slithering off the couch while still covering her shame with her hands. As she beelined for the bathroom, she could feel Clark and Hssara's eyes on her, watching as if they could see her sins branded on her scales.

Clark, however, had no such knowledge. He simply paused the movie, assuming Nijia was using the restroom or some such, but after watching Hssara's smug grin for a moment, he realized something was up. "What's going on?" he asked, sitting up just a bit to look Hssara in the eye.

While she had half a mind to tell a little white lie, Hssara decided Clark ought to know the truth. "Well, she might've heard me doing… you know."

"What? You mean…" Clark briefly glanced toward the bathroom Nijia was cooped up in, then back to Hssara. "She saw?"

"Yeah, she might've been watching."

While it was tempting to check in on Nijia and make sure she wasn't offended or something, Clark began to put two and two together regarding his lover's competition. "What's going on between you two?" he asked, brow furrowing conspicuously.

Hssara faltered just a bit. "I was… just teasing. Showing a little dominance, you know?" Her smile was nonchalant, but Clark could tell something was lurking below that.

"Dominance? What… are you jealous of her?"

The viper's tension arose as offense. "Jealous? Me? No, of course not, I just…" She was about to say, "Because I thought she might try to seduce you or something," but trailed off as she realized how ridiculous the notion sounded. "I just… okay, maybe I was a bit jealous. I just… worried… you might get… I dunno, more attracted to her?" The more words came out, the more she realized she'd stuck her tail in her mouth.

With Hssara faltering, Clark couldn't help but let offense seep into his own voice. "You really think I'm that shallow? That I'm just gonna trade you out for a newer model like a damn phone?"

"No, I… I'm sorry." Hssara's gaze turned downward as she realized how little faith she had, but before she could mope more than a second, Clark pulled her down to cuddle beside him.

"It's okay," he sighed, "I… I can understand where you're coming from. Don't beat yourself up about it, we all make mistakes. Lots of mistakes."

"Yeah…" The viper took a moment to snuggle a bit closer to her human, breathing in his comforting scent for a moment.

"And besides," Clark remarked, "I don't even think she's my type. She's just… a bit too passive."

Hssara stopped for a moment, tuning her ears to a far-off noise that sounded like someone using a vibrating toothbrush for a dildo… and that was precisely what it was. "Well, I think you're her type," she quipped, "Either that, or she's just really excitable."

"Huh?"

"Shh, just listen…"

Sure enough, Clark began to make out the wet buzzing and stifled moans, but it still took him a moment to realize just what the noise was. He heard a few alien words that he recognized, but that was because Hssara sometimes screamed them as she came. "Oh… oh. You think she's doing that because she saw what you were doing?"

His viper companion shrugged. "Probably. She was looking at us real funny, like… what's that human expression with the deer?"

"Deer in the headlights?"

"Yeah."

"Hmm…" Clark pondered the situation for a moment, and in the peace and quiet, he could hear Nijia madly making love to the "guest" toothbrush they'd bought just in case. "Maybe we ought to talk to her about it. I mean, part of the reason she came was to learn about viper-human interactions."

Hssara raised an eyebrow. "And that includes felatio?"

"Well… yeah. I mean, intimacy is still interaction, right? Wouldn't you have wanted someone to… you know, show you the ropes?"

"Hey, I did just fine with just the two of us," the viper replied, pretending to be offended.

"Yeah, and Nijia's not like you. She just seems… I dunno, confused, like she isn't sure how to go about it."

"So you're saying we 'show her how it's done?'" Again, she showed mock offense at what sounded like a weird idea at first, but as her mind mulled it over, its outrageousness was actually rather attractive. Nijia would be like her perverted apprentice, following along as they used Clark as their testing ground, sucking and breeding and squeezing the human all over until her protege knew her way around. Maybe they could even try some viper-on-viper action… "I suppose we could do that."

As much as Clark's thoughts were on the same dirty wavelength, he felt a bit more reluctant to dive straight into debauchery. "Well, we probably shouldn't open with that," he replied, "But if she's willing, and she doesn't feel pressured into it…" The second he trailed off, he and Hssara both heard a muffled groan from the guest bathroom, signifying an end to Nijia's heated troubles. Afterward, Clark couldn't help but envision her dazedly toweling both herself and the toothbrush down, and when he heard the door open, he decided it might be best to come clean. "Let's try not to be too confrontational," he murmured to Hssara, and his viper lover nodded.

When Nijia came slithering down the hall, she looked like she'd just run a mile, gently panting while her eyes glanced nervously around. Once she saw Clark and Hssara looking at her, a shiver of fear ran down her spine, and she hoped to the goddess they didn't hear her. Was she too loud? Did she make too much of a mess? That wasn't one of their toothbrushes, was it? Was it?

"Nijia, I think we ought to talk," Clark began, "About, ah… about some stuff you might be going through." Christ, this was awkward… now he knew what his middle school health teacher must've felt like.

Oh, goddess, they knew. They knew about it all. Had she skin instead of scales, Nijia would have turned as white as a sheet, and her posture shrunk defensively. "I… I-I'm sorry," she stammered, "I'm sorry about the toothbrush, I-I'm sorry for staring, I didn't mean to-"

"Hey, relax," Hssara interjected, "We're not mad about any of that. I've done way worse stuff this week alone."

When Nijia stiffened with confusion, Clark calmly took over. "Between the two of us, we think we know what you're going through. I know it's confusing and weird, maybe even a little shocking, but we're here to guide you through it. Why don't you come sit down?"

"A-alright…" The grey viper slithered over to an armchair over to the side, then sat herself down, clawed hands nervously fidgeting in front of her belly.

"We're not going to judge you," Clark continued, "And we don't want you to feel pressured, either. Like I said, Hssara and I have been over the same hurdles when we first got together."

"We know you're into humans," Hssara said, cutting straight to the point. "It's not exactly normal for us vipers, but it's nothing to be ashamed of."

"I… I know," Nijia murmured, "But… I'm still sorry about the toothbrush. I shouldn't have… you know."

The other viper merely grinned. "Hey, I don't blame you, when the urge hits, it hits you hard. I can't tell you how many times I've had to drag Clark into the bedroom for a little satisfaction…" To emphasize, she threw an arm around Clark's shoulders and pulled him in for a kiss. "I also understand why you'd use a toothbrush, but as it turns out, humans make a whole slew of sex toys made just for getting us girls off. As a matter of fact, I've got a few over in my-"

"We can get to the collection later," Clark said, pulling back Hssara as she tried to slither out from around him. "For now, I think we can just… answer any questions you might have, even if they're embarrassing."

"Um… alright." She paused for a moment, wondering whether or not he meant to answer her questions right then and there, but eventually decided to give it a shot. "So… is it normal for couples to do things like that?" When Clark seemed confused, she did her best to elaborate without sounding too obscene. "That thing you did, under the blanket?"

"Oh, ah… well, it's somewhat normal to do in private," the human explained, "It just depends on the couple in question. Doing it while we have guests over is considered bad form." He fixed Hssara with a scolding scowl with his last sentence, causing the viper to roll her eyes.

"Yeah, you don't do that kind of thing in public," she added, "Even when no one's going to see, and you're really, really horny." Hssara fixed Clark with her own mock scowl for a moment, then broke into a naughty grin.

"I see…" Despite her session with the toothbrush, thinking about a human and a viper going at it still managed to get Nijia hot and bothered. She pondered asking something more probing, like "How often do you do it?" or "Do you stick it in her you-know-where?" or "Can I join in?" but she managed to hold her tongue. When she felt a slight pang of hunger, she decided to latch onto it as a distraction and asked, "Is there anything to eat?"

"Eat? Yeah, there's plenty of stuff in the fridge." Clark hiked a thumb back toward the open-air kitchen to the stainless steel refrigerator, which he knew was full of ready-to-eat snacks and leftovers. "What's ours is yours… although we're probably going to order dinner in about an hour."

Nijia knew about human's odd feeding schedules, but she wasn't used to abiding by the strict three-meal-day. "Well, I… still think I'd like to eat something," she replied, 'standing' up from the chair and slithering her way over to the kitchen. Seeing how a viper was living here, Nijia expected to find ration packs full of protein-paste, but all she found was human food. Wrapped in tinfoil, stored in angled paper boxes, crammed into tupperware… no matter how it was packaged, she seemed to remember disliking the bizarre flavors of human food. "Do you have any protein-paste?" she called back to her hosts, already knowing the question was bad form before it left her lips.

Clark and Hssara briefly exchanged a confused look, after which Hssara spoke up. "No, but there's some stuff called cottage cheese that's pretty similar. Should be in a white and blue container."

Clark couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. "I thought you hated that stuff?" he murmured.

"Yeah, because it's a lot like protein paste."

Both human and viper turned back to where Nijia was browsing through the fridge, watching intently as she picked up the container. After popping off the lid, Nijia scooped up a bit with one claw and sampled it, first with her tongue and then with the rest of her mouth. The taste was a little off, she thought, but it was close enough to what she was used to, and the slimy texture was oddly comforting in the foreign environment.

Without thinking twice, she tilted her head back and downed the whole thing, swallowing the mass of curds in one massive gulp. Clark couldn't help but feel slightly disgusted, and Hssara saw it as bad manners, but both of them hid their reactions as Nijia turned around. "Thank you," the grey viper called back, then dropped the empty container into the trash.

"Speaking of food," Clark began, "I think it's about time we ordered something ourselves… how's Chinese food sound?"

"Sounds great," Hssara replied.

With a small grin, Clark pulled out his phone and began punching their order into the app. "Orange chicken and chow mein?"

"Damn straight."

Clark then turned to their guest, who was in the middle of slithering back to her chair. "Nijia, do you want anything?"

At first, she was tempted to refuse, but after a moment, she decided it'd be rude to refuse their hospitality. "Uh, I'll just have what she's having," she said, slipping down into her chosen seat. Surely if Hssara could choke down human food, she could too… right?

"And… all done!" Clark finished up the purchase with a few taps of his phone, then started up the movie once again. "Should be here in about thirty minutes." With the food on its way, he sat back beside his serpentine lover and continued watching the film, using it as a bit of white noise while he pondered. How far should he take things with Nijia? Was it weird to bring her into a threesome with him and Hssara? Well, it was definitely weird; everything was weird when you lived with a giant snake creature, but was it too weird? Besides, he couldn't see any tactful way to probe her opinions on the matter. "Hey, do you want to fuck me and my snake girlfriend?" was the best he could think of.

Hssara, meanwhile, was already past the point of asking and had moved straight on to fantasizing. She and Nijia would both coil around Clark, each enjoying an end of their human plaything, and she'd show her pupil all the ways to make a human squirm. She could just imagine the way Clark would dazedly wriggle in her grip, moaning into her nethers while Nijia hesitantly rode his cock… goddess, just the thought was starting to get her wet. For a while, she pondered conscripting Clark's fingers or maybe even recruiting Nijia for a bit of lesbian action, but Hssara ultimately managed to keep it in her pants.

Nijia couldn't help but battle her feelings toward Clark, her lust and longing sabotaged by deep-seated memories of scorn. She knew that it was supposed to be wrong for vipers to mate without permission, and yet all she could think about was gently making love to Clark in Hssara's place. Maybe Hssara was right, maybe these urges were nothing to be ashamed of… but at the same time, it still felt forbidden. She wound up bottling a fair bit of arousal in her own breast over the next half hour, twisting it and cramming it into someplace it couldn't reach her loins… but that didn't stop her from thinking about her time with the toothbrush.

All three of them were snapped out of their ponderings by a knock at the door, and since Clark was pinned to the couch by her coils, Hssara got up to get it. When the door opened, it was one of the ADVENT troopers from outside, emotionlessly offering her a plastic bag of goodies. "Package cleared and secure," he said, prompting Hssara to take it and close the door. She could feel the delectable warmth from within as she brought it over to the dinner table, and once she began untying the knot at the top, all the sweet aromas of hastily-made food rolled out.

"Let's see… there's the obligatory rice… chow mein… some more chow mein… Clark's mongolian beef… and the rest is orange chicken." After unpacking the little white boxes, Hssara slithered over to the cabinet to get forks for her and Nijia, rightly assuming that their new roommate had no clue how to use chopsticks.

Meanwhile, Nijia watched Clark pulling apart two of the wooden utensils, then arranging them between his fingers like a pair of pincers. "How… is that normal for humans?" she asked, curious why she'd never heard of such items before if they were.

"Well, sort of," Clark explained, opening up his box of beef and picking up a piece. "They use them over in Asia, and the custom came over with the food. Not everyone uses them, but…" He paused to pop a bite into his mouth. "... I'm something of a stickler."

"Hmm…" Nijia pulled a second pair out of their paper wrapper, split them up, then began trying to figure out how to use them herself. One went between one set of fingers, then the other one got held like a pencil… wait, no, the first one went like this… no, like this.

Even with the wordless instructions on the back, she couldn't manage the refined pincer motion Clark did so flawlessly, and she was just about to ask the human for help when Hssara stuck a fork in front of her. "Trust me," she chuckled, "It's impossible. Just use a fork, it's way less of a headache."

Nijia tried getting the chopsticks to work one last time but finally relented and took the fork. However, one challenge was replaced by another when she popped open one of the boxes that Hssara put in front of her. "Wha… what's this?" she asked, staring perplexedly at the tangle of wormy strings mixed with chunks of something.

"It's chow mein," Hssara said with an almost mocking tone, "You wanted what I was having, remember?"

"I didn't think it would be… like this." While the smell was interesting, Nijia couldn't get over the odd shape of the noodles. How were you supposed to eat it, scoop it up between the fork's prongs and slurp it down?

Hssara was quick to demonstrate a more polite way, wrapping the noodles around her fork in a bundle and impaling a chunk of vegetable on the end before popping the whole thing into her mouth. "C'mon, try it," the other viper said with a bit more empathy, "I guarantee it's better than that protein paste crap."

Nijia's brow furrowed as she pondered whether or not Hssara could be right, but ultimately, she decided it'd be better to at least try it. The grey viper followed her cohort's lead, spooling up some noodles before swallowing the fried bundle. To her surprise, it wasn't nearly as unpleasant to eat as it looked, and the flavors she briefly tasted were like none she'd ever had before; she took another bite, then followed Hssara back to the couch with her meal in hand.

It didn't take all that long to finish the movie, and during the final confrontation between Dracula and the heroes, Nijia came to appreciate both human dishes she'd been served. After a life of eating bland but nutritious paste, the unhealthy flavors of fried noodles and sweet, tangy sauce lit up her taste buds like fireworks, nourishing her burgeoning imagination and leaving her thoroughly satisfied. Sitting there next to Clark and Hssara, she felt she actually had a place with the two of them; it wasn't a place she fit into very well, and Nijia knew it would probably be temporary, but it was more of a place than she'd had before. The question of how she'd gone from stiffly guarding ADVENT's supply depots to lounging around eating human food briefly crossed her mind, but she brushed it aside, assuming all that was in the past.

By the time the credits rolled, the odd trio had all finished their respective meals, and the three of them were left wondering what to do next. While Clark gathered up the dishes to either throw out or stick in the sink, Hssara began punching up the next episode of Crimson cove, but before she could hit play, she was addressed by an eager yet nervous-looking Nijia. "Do… do you mind if I ask you some more questions?"

The other viper was naturally a tad surprised but quickly evened herself out. "No, ask away."

Nijia briefly glanced over to Clark to make sure he wouldn't overhear, then fought down a sudden bubble of worry that rose in her breast. "What's it like being with a human?"

It took Hssara a second to deduce her meaning, but when she did, a wry smile spread across her lips. "You know, you could always find out for yourself," she replied, her voice dripping with coercive cunning. "I wouldn't mind loaning you Clark for a while, and I bet he'd be more than willing to show you the ropes…" The half of her that was joking merely planned on taking part in Nijia's education, pointing out the do's and don'ts she and Clark had learned so far. The half of her that was serious, on the other hand, had a full-blown threesome in mind, a tangle of limbs and coils with her beloved human lover caught in the center…

Where her host had slutty bravado, Nijia only harbored terror. "You… you think he'd…" Suddenly, she heard the sink shut off, meaning that Clark was coming back. Oh, goddess, he was going to hear them, and then… and then…

"Whatcha talking about?" the human asked, "Decided on a show?"

"Ah…"

Fear rendered Nijia speechless at the last possible second, but Hssara quickly picked up the conversational slack. "Oh, I was just about to answer some more burning questions," she began, "But to be honest, I think a demonstration would work better."

"A demonstration?" It took a second of examining Nijia's wide-eyed stare to realize what kind of demonstration she was talking about. "Well, uh… I guess we could. If you're up for it, of course."

"I… I…" Two raging urges surged in Nijia's chest, making her feel lightheaded and weighed down at the same time. On the one hand, this was the opportunity of a lifetime, a chance to experience something she'd been craving for a month. On the other, it was a degenerate act that no viper should ever participate in, on top of the weirdness of thrusting herself into their relationship. "I…"

"It's okay if you don't want to, I mean-"

"No!" The word just slipped past Nijia's lips, and the surprised reactions from both Clark and Hssara proved she was out of line. "I just… I don't know, it's just weird. I've never really… done anything like this before."

Hssara couldn't help but break into a comforting smile. "Hey, I felt the same way the first time," she said, bending the truth ever so slightly. "What's that human expression… you've gotta take it by the horns and make it your bitch."

"We can go as fast or as slow as you like," Clark added, "And if you ever want to stop, just say the word. This is all about you."

Oh, goddess, this was really happening… and both of them were being so kind about it! A small part of her expected some decisive smack in the face, a punishment for her deviant actions, but the rest of her managed to push through her apprehensions. "Okay, so… where do you start?"

"That's up to you," replied the human, "I can start something, Hssara could show you how it's done on me… but whatever we do, we might want to take things to the bedroom. It's a lot easier to clean things up in there."

"Alright…" As the three of them made their way over to the master bedroom, Nijia couldn't stop thinking about somehow screwing up, especially if it came down to her and Clark. "Maybe I can just watch," she offered, hoping neither of her hosts would be disappointed.

"That's fine by me," Hssara replied, giving Clark a suggestive wink. "I'll show you how the pros do it. But in the meantime…" She slithered over to the nightstand and pulled open the bottom drawer, then tossed something from it over to Nijia. Only after the grey viper caught it did she realize what the rubbery pink dildo was, and as she looked it over, she could smell the evocative scent of another viper's maddened arousal. "Just twist the bottom there to start it up," Hssara instructed, "I guarantee it's better than any toothbrush."

While Nijia fiddled with the dial and deduced the various settings, Clark and Hssara met at the foot of their bed, both pondering what they were about to do. "You sure about this?" the human asked under his breath, wondering just how sensible an idea this raunchy could be.

"Oh, it'll be fun," Hssara whispered back before pulling her sweater over her head. "She gets a show, and we get to try something new." With that, she suddenly stiffened up, doing her best impersonation of a drill instructor with a slight grin. "Alright, listen up," she began, causing Nijia to reflexively stiffen in turn. "The first step with any encounter with a human is to get him naked." Hssara hiked one commanding thumb toward Clark, causing her volunteer to tense slightly. "Now you may think this is easy, that he'll just roll over and undress himself; this notion is incorrect. What you have to remember is that he doesn't want it to be easy, he wants it to be exciting, memorable. So instead of leaving him alone… you bring him to you!"

With those last few words, Hssara suddenly reared back and grabbed Clark with her tongue, then yanked him forward and rapidly coiled around him in a move she'd done countless times before. Nijia had seen the move done before in training, but she'd never seen the human grinning afterward, and she never before realized how close the viper's groin wound up to his face. She could already imagine this turning more erotic a dozen different ways, and as the vibrator buzzed in her hand, she pondered putting it to use.

"Some guys want their women soft and submissive," Hssara continued, "And if you're okay with it, there's nothing wrong with settling into a house-wife-y role. But when you start, always get the upper hand; with deviants like this one, fear only gets him excited." She gently reached down to run a hand through Clark's hair, then firmly squeezed him in her coils as if to emphasize her point.

Despite the slight bending of his ribs, Clark couldn't help but break a smile in amusement. He knew this domineering act was just that, an act, and the fact that Hssara knew it too made it all the more entertaining. However, a brief look at Nijia showed the grey viper didn't doubt it for a second, and the dildo inching toward her groin proved she was starting to get worked up.

"Now, this subject happens to be wearing something easily removable, I can pull this t-shirt straight off him." With that, Hssara grabbed hold of Clark's hem and yanked it upward, forcing the human's arms up and over his head as she took the garment off. "With button-ups, ties, and other human accessories, it can be a bit more difficult, giving you two distinct options. With option one, you take it off piece by piece, button by button, savoring every little nervous motion as you keep them helpless." She coiled around behind Clark and put her hands on his shoulders, gently squeezing them in a way the human found delightful. "Or, with option two… you just rip it all off as fast as you can!" Suddenly, her claws dug into Clark's bare skin as her face split in an evil grin, and while Clark felt a bit of pain, the shocked look on Nijia's face more than made up for it. Sure, they probably shouldn't be toying with the girl like this, but it seemed like something they could all laugh about later down the line.

"Once you've got the top off, feel free to explore around a bit. Just take your time with it, little by little. Humans have all these little quirks about them: their warm skin, their little bits of hair, their cute little nipples…" As she spoke, Hssara ran her hands over Clark's pecs, running her fingers through his chest hair before tenderly rubbing little circles around his areolas. "Get to know every little bit of them so you can use it for your own purposes." She then noticed Nijia's hesitation with the vibrator and quickly fixed her with a grin. "Feel free to toy with yourself while you watch," she purred, "Or you could always get some hands-on experience…"

"Uh… I think I'll just watch," Nijia replied, "Just… don't mind me." The grey viper began hesitantly probing around with her toy, running it around the edges of her slit to psyche herself up. She was already quite slick from watching Hssara and Clark, and with a little push, she effortlessly managed to fit the tip inside. Nijia had to stifle a gasp as the vibrating shaft worked her from within, causing her whole snatch to buzz with pleasure. After a bit of experimentation, she realized her inevitable moaning would ruin the presentation, so she quietly switched the toy off.

Meanwhile, Hssara had run her hands over Clark's chest for a moment before proceeding to the next step in her demonstration. "After you've gotten him excited, your next task is to get his pants off, and while it's possible to get 'em off from a standing pose, it's much easier if he's prone."

With a sudden shift of body weight and creative use of her coils, Hssara knocked Clark off his feet, using her body to cushion his fall to the ground. Once there, she tightened her coils a bit, then reared up over him. "Plus, it's always fun to bring guys down to your level. Anyway, by now you've probably noticed this little reaction, a key sign of excitement for any human guy." Hssara gestured to the rapidly rising tent in Clark's pants, then gently took hold of it, kneading the human's member through his sweatpants. "Don't feel you have to rush to get him off," She continued, "Take your time… he still feels plenty through his pants, and you get bonus points if he starts begging."

To demonstrate her point, Clark let out a tiny murmur of appreciation, his arms resting on his lover's thick tail while his eyes closed. Nijia couldn't help but fixate on his look of contentment, how he seemed fine with being bound and teased. Hssara couldn't help but take note of that, and she decided she ought to move the show along. "Now, just like with shirts, this subject's got on easy-to-remove stuff: you just grab the waistband, pull it down, and ta-dah, there's his dick." She swiftly pulled back Clark's sweats and boxers to reveal his raging erection, and Nijia couldn't help but gawk at the slender, rock-hard organ. She'd seen ones like it in a few degenerate films she'd been allowed to watch, but having a living, throbbing specimen in front of her was something else entirely. Maybe she could ask Hssara if she could try it… just a taste.

"Once you've got his fun bits exposed, there's really no need to fully disrobe him. In fact, having his pants around his thighs helps keep him in one place, and they'll be a serious impediment if he manages to get away." Her tone showed it was more a joke than anything else, and Nijia got the feeling she wouldn't have to chase down her lovers.

"Now watch carefully here," Hssara continued, "I'm gonna be demonstrating some important techniques, and I'm gonna have my mouth full for most of them." As the viper reached out and wrapped her hand around Clark's cock, Nijia eagerly looked on, and once Hssara began really jerking Clark off, she almost shivered with excitement. "This here's a nice little warm-up, just to make sure he's as hard as can be. When you're ready to get serious, just lean down and do it like this."

Nijia watched in awe as Hssara leaned down, her agile tongue tracing her lips as she stared down Clark's manhood. The tension just grew and grew, lighting a growing blaze in the grey viper's loins that she couldn't deny, and when Hssara's tongue shot out to grab Clark's meat, Nijia reconsidered using the dildo. The human's lover moved with blinding speed, suddenly pulling the entire length into her warm, wet maw in a split second; Clark couldn't help but moan, and Nijia let out a shocked gasp. Hssara immediately began working her way up and down the shaft, using her coiled tongue to compound the pleasure of her lips, all while she began fondling Clark's balls with one hand. She could feel her human squirming in her grasp, but more importantly, she saw Nijia finally start pleasuring herself with the vibrating toy, fully sheathing it in herself with a shocked cry. Before long, both she and Clark were enraptured with pleasure, leaving Hssara feeling both satisfied and in control.

She kept sucking for a little while, but Hssara quickly decided Clark was getting too far too fast. As swiftly as she'd started, she popped the shaft free of her lips and grabbed it with her ball-fondling hand, then leaned over to begin licking and sucking at Clark's rock-hard nipple. Both he and Nijia found it a little weird, but the arousal of such a strangely intimate act kindled arousal in both of them. Clark swiftly found himself slipping back into a pleasured haze, helpless to stop Hssara from sucking his teat like a perverted vampire, and Nijia could do nothing but watch. The toy's vibrations hit every sweet spot in her snatch simultaneously, hurtling her toward a potent climax, and after only a minute more of watching the coupling before her, she tumbled into the most powerful orgasm of her life.

When Nijia let out a piercing cry of pure ecstasy, Hssara switched up her tactics again, this time slithering on top of Clark and slipped him inside. Her nethers enveloped his cock with a subtle squelch, squeezing the sensitive organ in a vice of hot, silky wetness. At the same time, Hssara stifled Clark's moans with her own lips and tongue, pressing inward with an alien French kiss that he was helpless to resist. She had him right where she wanted him, pinned down and begging for more, and she couldn't help but feel a sense of pride as she rode Clark's dick to oblivion. Here she was, claiming her mate in front of her rival, and Nijia was showing her submission by getting off to it.

In fact, the grey viper was a bit too dazed to concede anything, and with the vibrator still wreaking havoc on her nethers, she wasn't able to collect much of her wits. All she knew was that Hssara had stuck it in, and now she was screwing her human lover in a way Nijia had only fantasized about.

Clark, too, was distracted from his surroundings, partly because he was balls-deep in snake snatch and partly because Hssara was tongue-fucking his mouth. Part of him felt trapped, helpless, but that same feeling only fanned the flames of his arousal. With their bodies tangled together, he couldn't tell where his pleasure ended and Hssara's began. Every little thrust and push of hers echoed through his nerves, and the only way his body could respond was to fondle her all over, hugging her close one moment and cupping her breasts the next. The only thing he noticed beyond their union was another spirited moan from Nijia, and after a few moments more, both he and his serpentine lover succumbed to their throbbing pleasures.

As both their bodies pressed together, his member thrust as deep as it could go within her greedy nethers, both of their cries were muffled by their kissing, turning the moment into a wordless cacophony of squelching bliss. Clark's hips shuddered as he emptied spurt after spurt into his lover, and Hssara's binding coils didn't let him spill a single drop. She could feel the warm sticky stuff inside, filling her up and threatening to leak out, but neither of them much cared what the cleaning bill came to.

The surging pleasure swiftly evaporated as Clark's spurts came to a stop, leaving both human and viper clutching each other like two castaways at sea. Once their senses cleared, they noticed NIjia panting a few feet over, her own slimy fluids spilling out as she removed her toy… but Clark was more concerned with giving Hssara a quick kiss on the lips. The viper returned the gesture by smooching his forehead, then rolled over so her human lay belly-down on top of her.

"Now," she panted, "Once you've had your fun, you've usually got to clean up. In most cases, you're not gonna have a shower, so here's a quick little alternative." With that, she loosened her coils and slithered forward until Clark's head was lined up with her seed-dripping snatch. "Just get him to clean up his own mess, and-ahh…" Hssara trailed off as Clark began licking at her slit, spreading her apart with his hands to slurp out some of his slimy white cum. The viper just enjoyed it for a while, relishing both Nijia's eager-yet-exhausted attention and Clark's dutiful tongue work.

Once he'd finished, Hssara picked him up with her inhuman strength and spun him around, bringing him down so that his limpening member landed right in her mouth. It was Clark's turn to lay back and relax as Hssara sucked him clean, thoroughly polishing the whole organ with her dexterous tongue. Only after she'd entirely cleaned it did he spin back around, and with their lovemaking complete, he just buried his face in her cleavage while hugging her tight.

"And that's how you get a human off," Hssara sighed, "Feel free to cuddle him all you want afterwards. Any questions?"

Nijia was beginning to recover from her own string of orgasms, and after gradually working up the nerve to lick her dildo clean, she decided she wanted a piece of the action. Hssara had screwed Clark so passionately that Nijia yearned for a taste, just a sliver of what their wild rutting had been like. "Could I… could I try?" she hesitantly asked, her doubts and worries drowned in a pool of heated arousal.

Clark pushed himself up off Hssara's chest, then fixed the other viper with an eager grin. "Sure. Mind if we take this up to the bed?"

"Ah… yes… I mean no, I don't mind."

"Take that armor off first," Hssara said, "You aren't gonna need protection with what we're doing."

"Alright." Nijia couldn't deny her nervousness at finally taking off her armor, but after a moment of fumbling with the buckles, Clark and Hssara got up and began helping her take it off. With practiced hands, they swiftly undid all the bits and pieces holding the breastplate and bracers together, leaving Nijia naked before them after only a few moments.

As Clark looked her over, he couldn't help but note the differences from Hssara: her belly and chest were a dull white instead of creamy yellow, and her frame seemed just a hair lighter than his serpentine lover's. His eyes naturally drifted down to her chest, where he noticed her breasts were a bit more petite than Hssaras… maybe a bit less worthy of burying his face in, but still cute nonetheless. "You're even more gorgeous en naturale," he remarked, causing Nijia's gaze to drift shamefully toward his feet.

Hssara, meanwhile, fixed him with a raised eyebrow. It took a second for Clark to notice it, and when he did, he immediately recognized it as mock jealousy. "Hey, I'm not saying you're not beautiful, it's just that she's good-looking too."

"Uh-huh… and that's why you're staring at her venom sacks?"

This time it was Clark's turn to act offended. "You know we mammals can't not oggle tits when we see 'em, come on. Besides, she's not the one hogging the only human in here."

Hssara squinted, forfeiting the argument. "Touche." Before Nijia could ask if something was amiss, the other viper suddenly bolted onto the bed, relaxing with her back up against the headboard and her tail curled off to one side. A few moments later, Clark hopped up and lay back into her lap, relaxing his head onto her toned abdomen.

All that was left was for Nijia to join them, and after setting the dildo on a dresser, the grey viper slithered up as well. It was exhilarating, staring down a living, breathing human that saw her as attractive, especially when Clark spread his thighs to give her access to his limp member. "Go ahead," he said to her with a grin, "I'm all yours…"

"A-alright…" Nijia could hear her own heart hammering in her chest, sending blood flowing back into her nethers for an encore performance. She wondered how it would feel to do what Hssara did, how a living, breathing, throbbing thing would fill her up with each thrust in… but for now, at least, that curiosity would have to wait. Nervously she reached out to take ahold of Clark's member, and as she closed her hand around the flaccid shaft, Nijia couldn't help but wonder how it worked. It was hard before, wasn't it? Surely she could get it hard again… but how?

As she briefly glanced up at Clark, the human met her with a reassuring smile. "Just play around with it a bit," he offered, "It'll stiffen up on its own."

The grey viper began experimenting with that in mind, glancing up to gauge Clark's expression as she began stroking, pulling, squeezing, and rubbing. It didn't seem to do much, but then Nijia remembered what she'd seen Hssara doing, using one hand to fondle the weird hanging thing right under his cock. She began experimenting with that, too, but as soon as she began to gently squeeze, Clark let out a hiss of discomfort. "Gentle, gentle," he gasped, prompting Nijia to immediately let go.

"Yu'n cellie, I'm sorry!" Nijia hastily apologized, immediately pulling both hands back. Oh, goddess, she'd hurt him, and now-

"Hey, it's okay," Clark cooed, "Just don't squeeze them… or flick them, or anything else like that."

"There's a reason humans say they've got you by the balls," Hssara added.

"I…" The other viper was jostled from her train of thought by the sight of Clark's member twitching, throbbing ever so slightly as life pulsed back into it. "Is… does that mean it's getting hard again?"

The human simply nodded, and Hssara was quick to offer her advice. "Stroking it some more will get it there faster, and if you really want a treat, get down there and suck on it a bit."

Nijia glanced from Hssara to Clark to the stiffening organ between his legs. It only took her a moment to start stroking it once more, but after a few seconds, she decided to see what it tasted like. For all her fantasizing, she'd never figured out how a human was supposed to taste… and now was the perfect opportunity to find out. She got down on her belly and used her hand to hold it steady, then gently brought it to her lips, mulling over the musky smell of saliva, seed, and sweat. When it finally got close enough, she peeked out her tongue, then ever so slowly curled it around the rounded tip.

To Nijia's surprise, the little bit of semen leaking out of the tip tasted almost like phlegm, and what subtle flavors lay on his skin were overwhelmed by Hssara's vaginal fluid. Still, the texture alone was enough to spur her onward, and after fully wrapping her tongue around it, Nijia finally brought it past her lips. Clark let out an encouraging gasp of pleasure, and as the grey viper began rolling his manhood around in her mouth, the gasp melted into a quiet hum. "That's it," Hssara purred, "Put every part of your mouth to work… get your tongue around the shaft, then start bobbing with your lips.

The other viper began to do just that, compounding the effect of her suckling maw by squeezing Clark's cock. Nijia watched with an odd sort of pride as the human closed his eyes, and to her amazement, she could feel his manhood rapidly stiffening. Before long, the thing was back to being as rigid as a board, and the monolithic organ seemed more sensitive than ever. At first, Nijia thought about sucking him off to completion, letting her taste the warm, gooey jizz pumping into her mouth… but more than that, she wanted to feel him inside her. The grey viper pulled away, then asked, "Do you mind if I… stick it in?"

"Go ahead," Clark replied, "I won't stop you."

His reassuring grin sent an excited shiver down Nijia's spine, but as she began to slither forward and mount the human, Hssara suddenly shifted out from under him and left the bed. "Before you two get into it," she offered, "May I make a suggestion?"

"Uh, sure," Nijia replied.

"Try putting your coils around his chest and arms, pin him down. Trust me, there's nothing like feeling a human squirming against your grip."

"Alright…" It took a bit of maneuvering and some cooperation from Clark, but Nijia eventually managed to comfortably bind him. Her tail wrapped twice around his midsection, thoroughly securing his forearms and elbows; the rest of her poked up from between his legs, and as she lay down on top of him, the viper realized how close she was to finally copulating. This was it, the moment she'd been yearning for a month for… all she had to do was gently press him in, just line up the tip with her slickened vent and… "Ahhh!"

Clark couldn't help but let out a gasp as well as he sank into another viper's warm snatch, helpless to resist as her wet walls glided down his shaft. He could see Nijia was enjoying it every bit as much as he was, every inch sending sparks of pleasure coursing through her nerves, and it almost reminded him of his first time with Hssara… but there was something undeniably different about Nijia. She didn't have the same will, the same determination, the same passion… but that didn't mean her nethers didn't feel every bit as heavenly when he went balls deep. The bound human let out a long groan, partly out of pleasure, and partly to encourage Nijia, ignoring the odd situation in favor of enjoying the moment.

The viper, too, was caught in the moment, in the shocking sensation of having an actual human inside her. Her experimentation with the dildo was nothing compared to having a warm body clutched both in her coils and in her muff, pushing back against her motions and moaning for more. As she began humping back and forth, she could feel Clark squirming in her grip, and the tighter she squeezed, the more leverage she had to fuck him silly. It didn't take long for her to pick up the pace, bouncing up and down on Clark's raging erection, letting it massage every inch of her virgin innards. She wanted to say something witty, something sexy, but her mind was too clouded with the sheer exhilaration of mating for her to do more than moan.

As Nijia's humping grew faster and faster, she leaned down to hug him tight with her arms, cozily constricting him with her coils at the same time. With her eyes closed and her pleasure building toward a massive climax, she hardly heard the words she crushed from Clark: "Wait…"

Hssara, however, did, and when she looked at her lover's face, she could see the blood draining in an all too familiar way. "Hey, you're crushing him!" she exclaimed, letting her worry and jealousy seep into her words ever so slightly.

That was enough to bring Nijia out of her rutting daze, and as she realized Clark was on the verge of passing out, she rapidly released him from her coils, "Ef tejoais, I'm so sorry," she yelped, slithering herself off the bed to cower at its foot. "Na daga… I just… it felt so good…"

Hssara's first instinct was to lash out, but the pure terror in Nijia's eyes helped temper her tone. "It's alright," she sighed, "Just… you need to be careful. Clark, are you okay?"

The human took a few deep breaths, letting his blood get circulating once again, then gave a quick thumbs-up. "Yeah, fine… stopped before I blacked out." Once he'd caught his breath a bit more, Clark fully turned his attention to Nijia. "In all honesty, we probably should've warned you."

"I, ah... I accidentally choked him out the first time we did it," Hssara admitted, "Plus a few accidents here and there. Humans are pretty fragile, and it's important not to get too carried away."

Nijia couldn't help but think back to her training, specifically when it came to combat binds. "Thirty seconds to knock 'em out, a hundred seconds to kill" had been the mantra she'd drilled on… it's a good thing Hssara stopped her in time. "Still, I'm sorry," she sighed, "Do you think we should stop?"

"Oh, I'm fine," Clark replied with a grin, "Besides, I think you ought to finish what you started." He glanced down to his still slick member, and Nijia realized her little stranglehold hadn't been quite enough to dissuade his erection.

"I… I wouldn't want to hurt you again," Nijia countered, her excitement now tainted by her worry.

"That's fine, there's more than one way to do this. Here, come up on the bed." He patted the mattress beside him, which happened to be a dry spot amidst the various fresh stains. Nijia hesitantly followed his lead, slithering up beside him and turning belly-up. From there, Clark moved to straddle her tail just below her hips, then beckoned her into a close embrace. "See? No risk of crushing," he said as she reared up into his arms, "Just gotta get this lined up, aaaand… mmmm, there we go."

The second penetration wasn't as shocking as the first, but the new position still drew a gasp from her lips. She and Clark were belly to belly, held in each other's arms so that their skin and scales rubbed together. It felt comforting, to her surprise, and now that the human was in charge of the back-and-forth thrusting, she found a good deal of responsibility lifted off her shoulders. In addition, Clark seemed intent on savoring every second of sweet, silky friction, stretching out Nijia's pleasure instead of building it as fast as possible.

While her lover got intimate with their new roommate, Hssara decided to leave the two lovebirds be, but she still wanted some action for herself. When she slithered over to the dresser to retrieve her dildo, however, she found herself looking Nijia right in the eye, and the yellow viper took it as an invitation to a bit more exhibitionism. After hopping up on top of the dresser, Hssara grabbed the toy, started it up, and then leered at her counterpart while tracing the vibrating tip around her nethers.

Nijia, however, wasn't all that comfortable with being eye-fucked mid-coitus, and after a moment's discomfort, she settled on a plan. With Clark still in her arms, she gently lay back onto the bed, resting her head on the edge of a pillow with the human on top of her. Unfazed by the new missionary position, Clark continued thrusting into her, gently rocking his hips while keeping his cock nice and deep. Nijia closed her eyes to better savor the sensations of his member, how it probed deeper than her finger or toy had reached, massaging the sensitive inner third of her canal with practiced rhythm. As icing on the cake, she could hear every little sigh and grunt that left his lips, and his comforting smell filled her nostrils.

Their gentle lovemaking gradually ramped up as time wore on, with quiet squelches turning into pronounced slaps when Clark picked up the pace. Before long, Nijia could feel herself nearing her third climax of the evening, and on top of that, she could feel Clark tensing up on top of her. "Do you want me to-mmm… inside?" he whispered, and it took Nijia a second to realize what he meant.

"Krouco," she murmured back, hugging him even tighter. She could feel her nethers wound up like a spring, just a few strokes shy of blissful release, and just as she felt Clark beginning to tense up on top of her, Nijia finally hit her limit. "Haspan-ahhhhhhh!" As her tail began to constrict her partner's unattended leg, she let out an unfettered cry of bliss, and both her arms and nethers pulled the human in. Her whole body shivered as all her pent-up arousal came rushing out, fulfilling her fevered wish of having a human inside her.

At that same moment, Clark began to feel her nethers constricting around his cock, and even though Nijia held his hips in place, her pulsing innards were enough to get her off. With his own groan of release, he let himself succumb to the pleasure, pouring his seed deep inside the grey viper as she squeezed him tight. The raw high of his orgasm was enough to ignore his leg being crushed, and though Nijia dug her claws into his back, he came down from his climax feeling more satisfied than battered.

“Ah… tejoais, chug quc unuxot," the viper panted, “Na daga…" As she examined Clark's slightly confused smile, she realized she was speaking in her native tongue instead of English. "Sorry, I just-"

She was cut off by Clark suddenly pulling her to a kiss, pressing his warm human lips to her scaly mouth with every bit of passion he could muster. To his slight disappointment, Nijia just sat there and took it with her eyes wide in surprise, but she still looked adorable in her own starry-eyed way.

While the two of them had been going at it, Hssara had quietly finished herself off with the dildo, and now that the two were relaxing post-coitus, she felt just a little left out. She silently slithered her way off the dresser and onto the bed, sliding up to the oddly matched pair with a wry smile on her lips. "Was it everything you hoped for?" Hssara asked, propping herself up on one elbow to look Nijia in the eye.

"I… yes," Nijia replied, "It was… I don't even know how to describe it." Her expression furrowed with gratitude, and though part of her wondered if she'd gone too far, the viper managed to convince herself she'd done the right thing. "Thank you both for… well, this."

"Oh, don't thank us yet," Hssara mischievously replied, "We're hardly done for the night. If you'd rather turn in, be our guest, but I for one have got all sorts of things I want to try."

The other viper felt yet another swell of suspicious excitement. "LIke what?"

"Like… maybe a little viper-on-viper." When Nijia didn't seem to get it, Hssara decided to elaborate. "I've done quite a bit of research on human smut, and it turns out it isn't all men with women. Guys do guys all the time, but more importantly, girls do girls."

"I… what exactly are you suggesting? Do… do mean me and… and you?" Hssara's grin confirmed the grey viper's suspicions, and while it sounded every bit as exotically tantalizing as doing it with a human, she couldn't quite wrap her mind around the actual mechanics. "But… how would that even work?"

Hssara's smile turned positively peevish. "Wanna find out?"

If Nijia had been a human, she'd have blushed, turned pale, or some combination of the two. "Well… uh…"

She briefly looked to Clark for guidance, and the human offered his two cents. "Hey, not everyone's into that sort of thing. It's perfectly fine if you'd rather have me clean you up."

"Clean me up?" Suddenly, Nijia remembered how Hssara had finished things, which gave her a clue as to how one viper would pleasure another. "Well…" On the one hand, she didn't feel the same attraction to Hssara that she did to Clark, and having the human down there would be a perfect post-coital treat. On the other, she could only imagine what a viper's talented tongue could do to her down there, and she kind of owed Hssara for laying with her mate… "I... I guess we could try."

"Perfect…" With a deviant grin still on her face, Hssara gently nudged Clark aside, leaving Nijia belly-up and all too vulnerable to her advances. "Now," the yellow viper began, "Neither of us have done this before, so feel free to tell me to stop." Her hand landed on Nijia's dull white belly, then sensually slid down past her hips, finally circling around to run two fingers along the other viper's slit.

Nijia tried to stifle a shiver at the intimate contact, the familiar-yet foreign sensation of scaly hands on her nethers, but as Hssara continued teasingly rubbing back and forth, she couldn't help but let out a gasp. This somehow felt even weirder than having a human do it, but at the same time, the strangeness lit up a spark of forbidden pleasure in her chest.

Hssara, meanwhile, took her time, gently probing the spots where she herself was weakest to get Nijia riled up. Along the way, she scooped up a bit of slime with her two fingers, then licked it off with her dexterous tongue in full view of her counterpart. She could practically feel the conflict within the other viper, the twin feelings of disgust and arousal, and Hssara decided to stoke both in equal measure. As her rubbing continued, she leaned down to Nijia's chest and planted a tiny lick on the very tip of her breast, coaxing another tiny gasp from Nijia's lips.

"What… what are you doing?" the grey viper panted, shocked by the tingle of pleasure she felt from her chest.

In response, Hssara simply raised up a bit, her eyes gleaming with devious desire. "Do you want me to stop?"

"I…" Nijia could feel the taboo over the act, but at the same time, the electrifying excitement it induced was nothing to be scoffed at. It didn't help that Hssara was still rubbing back and forth along her snatch, the friction slickened by all the leftover juices, teasing her with the possibility of slipping her fingers inside. "I… no…"

"Mmmm…" With that, the other viper leaned down and began rhythmically licking at Nijia's breast, then switched to gently suckling on her non-existent teat. Even though she didn't have nipples, that spot at the top of Nijia's melon felt absolutely divine, and her breath got heavier with each little suck. Her pleasure only compounded when Hssara finally dipped her digits into her slick, warm nethers, homing in on her pleasure center like a heat-seeking missile.

"Oh, tejoais!" Nijia groaned, her nethers reflexively clenching on the intruders as they rubbed her g-spot. "Ahhhh… that's…"

Hssara just leered at her over one petite breast, her yellow eyes alight with domineering satisfaction. She knew just where to rub and suckle to get the most noise out of Nijia, and with a little fine-tuning, she was screwing her every bit as well as Clark. It could have easily ended in a matter of minutes, but Hssara made sure to stretch out the other viper's pleasure, slowing down just when she was beginning to make good progress. "Quoug jeh iea chymp eh no mequi?" the yellow viper murmured, and all Nijia could respond with was a moan.

In her ecstatic haze, Nijia's hands clawed the bedsheets for something to hold onto, but they only found purchase when Clark took her hand in his. One look at the human was enough to understand his aroused empathy, and though he wasn't doing much to add to Hssara's symphony of movements, Nijia still appreciated the firm tether. Every time she squeezed, Clark squeezed back, helping anchor her worries about viper-on-viper intimacy.

Eventually, Hssara decided to step up her game, slithering back down to where her fingers pushed into Nijia and planting herself on top of the grey viper. As soon as she shifted into position, Nijia's writhing tail began to curl around hers, one thick coil of muscle wrapping around another. Unlike Clark, Hssara wasn't injured by her casual grip, and also unlike Clark, she was able to squeeze back every bit as hard. This squeezing almost turned into a sort of arm-wrestling match as Hssara enacted the next part of her plan, switching her fingers to her own muff while sticking her tongue into Nijia's. Her alien licker had every bit as much dexterity as her fingers, and as it began burrowing deeper and deeper into the grey viper's slit, Nijia let out another moan of surprised pleasure.

The grey viper had never wondered what it would feel like to have another viper screw her with her tongue, and now that she was experiencing it firsthand, she didn't know how to describe it. The whole thing wriggled deep inside her, rubbing spots even Clark's member hadn't been able to reach while still massaging her g-spot. She couldn't help but clench around it, pushing against its motions with her own muscles, but that wasn't nearly enough to stop it from driving her up the wall. As the cherry on top, she had her tail intertwined with Hssara's, letting her exert all her tense pleasure on something that could take it. "Ahhhhh, haspana! Yuc ceh... teeeeja!"

On the other end of her pleasure, Hssara could practically taste the maddened arousal oozing out of her, soaking her snatch before dribbling out. Nijia's ecstatic moans and squeezing tail quickly helped her catch up, and by the time she had the grey viper teetering on the edge of an orgasm, Hssara was quite near one herself. Her tongue slowed down just a bit to prolong Nijia's writhing bliss, but eventually, the viper's nerves could take no more.

"Hasapanaaaa!" As ecstasy surged out from Nijia's nethers, her hand squeezed Clark's, and her tail squeezed Hssara's, using them as anchors for the rest of her writhing body. She'd never imagined feeling this much pleasure could be possible, not even from a human… her higher senses wanted Clark, but her baser instincts wanted the boundless pleasure Hssara was capable of dishing out. With the other viper still eating her out, her climax stretched into almost thirty seconds, but eventually, the electrifying sensation faded into a glowing post-coital bliss.

As soon as Nijia's climax ended, Hssara tumbled into one of her own, pulling her muzzle free of the other viper to let out a primal moan of pleasure. It wasn't nearly as explosive as Nijia's, but it still left Hssara feeling satisfied. "How's that for a good time?" the yellow viper teased after the surging died down, "I think I've even got…" She trailed off once she realized Nijia wasn't paying attention, and to her slight dismay, she found the grey viper turned towards Clark. The human had already gotten hard again, and Nijia wasted no time grabbing ahold of it and pulling herself down onto the shaft. The human let out a moan at the sudden wet embrace of her mouth, and before long, the two of them were going at it as hard as they were before. Hssara let out a sigh, then slithered into the mix once again, beginning yet another round of threesome shenanigans.

A few hours and a whole load of orgasms later, the two vipers and their human were passed out in bed. Clark lay in the middle of the two aliens, sandwiched between their scaly bodies under the covers as they soaked up his warmth. Hssara and Nijia each had a leg wrapped in their coils, and they each hugged one of his arms, ensuring their warm-blooded prey couldn't possibly escape. Clark didn't much mind, however, as the closeness was more cozy than restraining. It appeared that the three of them were all set to wake up sticky and satisfied in the morning… but then, Hssara was awoken by a small buzz.

It took her a second to realize it was coming from Clark's phone, and as she leaned over to pick it up, the viper realized the screen was alight with a new message. Her eyes squinted against the phone's bright light, then opened wide as they read what the message said:

Clark, we know we got off on the wrong foot last time. It was wrong for our representative to take that tone with you, and we deeply apologize for the discomfort it has caused you. Unfortunately, what he said was true; ADVENT has a habit of mind-wiping individuals who don't suit their needs. The meeting at 245 Bayshore Boulevard might be your only chance to escape that fate. If you're worried we'll hurt Hssara, don't be; having a live viper on our side would be a tremendous boon, and once we extract her implants, we'll have a way into the psionic network ADVENT uses. If you could convince the other viper to come along too, that would be ideal, but we understand you've only known her for an afternoon, and you shouldn't put your faith in her just yet. When our operatives extract you from the meeting point, they'll be as discreet as possible, and we won't harm the other viper if she doesn't wish to come with you. Feel free to discuss it with Hssara tonight, we've set her implants on a loop. This message is one-way and cannot be answered.

As she scanned over the message, Hssara couldn't help but clench her jaw. A multitude of emotions ran through her mind as she re-read the text in front of her, the most prominent among them curiosity and worry. On the one hand, the thought of breaking free of ADVENT once and for all sounded positively marvelous, but on the other, she couldn't help but ponder what living a life on the run would be like. She'd never been outside an ADVENT-controlled city, and the only things she heard about the outcasts in the rest of the world came from the chatter in raiding parties. It was hardly an easy choice, to either stay safe or reach for freedom… but it was hardly a choice she had to make alone.

Hssara gently shook Clark's leg with her tail, doing her best not to alert Nijia. The grey viper had the same super-powerful hearing that she did, but thankfully, her counterpart seemed to have fallen into a much deeper sleep… probably because this was her first all-night sex-fest. Hssara kept shaking Clark's leg until she saw the human's eyes open, and once they did, she leaned over with an upright finger pressed to her lips. Once his confusion turned to curiosity, she silently brought over his phone and showed him the message, taking care not to shine its light onto Nijia's snoozing features. The viper watched Clark's face run through the same gamut of emotions she'd gone through, and once he was finished reading, it was obvious he wanted to discuss it.

Doing her best not to jostle the bed, Hssara set down the phone and slid back into bed beside Clark, but this time with her lips right up against his ear. "So what do you think?" she whispered, hardly louder than a rustle of leaves. "Are they worth trusting?"

Clark briefly pondered trying to whisper back into her ear, but then he remembered the fact that Hssara had enhanced hearing. "I don't know," he whispered into the air, "How do we know we can trust them?"

"How can we know we can trust ADVENT? They tried to mind-wipe me, remember?"

"Of course I remember," Clark replied, reflexively thinking back to that fateful night. "I just don't know if this resistance will be any better. You've seen the news, the bombings, the shootings…"

"And I've also seen how ADVENT cracks down. For every justified raid, there's three more that come out of the blue."

She was right, of course; ADVENT's new policies more or less voided the bill of rights, and their authoritarian crackdowns both fueled and retaliated against the resistance's response. "Alright, say we get out, leave ADVENT in the dust. I don't think our meeting at the burger joint is going to be a nice sit-down chat, do you?"

This time it was Hssara's turn to concede the point, as from a tactical standpoint, the only way to get the two of them away from their blocky-armored shadows was to shoot said shadows in the head. "Things might get messy," she replied, "But you've got a bodyguard, remember?"

"I'm not worried about me, they need me alive. I'm worried about you… what if they wind up shooting you on accident? Or on purpose?"

"It's better that than getting silently wiped off the face of the earth." Hssara replied, "I don't know about you, but I still have nightmares about getting turned into some sort of mindless drone."

As much as he wished it wasn't true, Clark had had similar dreams, dreams of watching Hssara get dragged away by faceless goons. "I… alright, I'll go along. But what about her?" He briefly nodded to Nijia, who let out a tiny murmur as she stirred.

"Well… maybe she could come with us?"

Clark frowned. "We've barely known her for an afternoon, and the message specifically said not to put our faith in her. What if she's a sleeper agent?"

"Did she really seem like a sleeper agent when she was gargling your balls?"

"No, but that's what a sleeper agent is, they act normal until they're activated."

Hssara let out a small hum of concession. "Fair point… what if we ask some questions? We've still got a day until the meeting, why not probe around a bit, see if she seems suspicious."

"I guess that could work… it's better than doing nothing." Clark let out a short sigh, then double-checked to make sure Nijia was still asleep. "Either way, I say we get some rest… I get the feeling they won't have king-sized beds where the resistance hide."

"Mmmm." With that, Hssara cuddled back up against her human's side and did her best to get to sleep, holding onto Clark's warm body like a giant dreamcatcher. What they had in front of them seemed downright impossible, but it was either that or live under ADVENT's thumb forever. Both human and viper took a while to fully drift off, but once they did, their cozy comfort helped alleviate some of their worries.

When morning's light peeked through the windows, Clark was the first to wake, and as he stretched his arms above his head, Hssara and Nijia stirred on either side of him. Before long, the three of them were drowsy but conscious, and that was enough for them to notice the sticky feeling around each of their nethers. "Uhhh," Nijia began, "Maybe we should've washed up before… you know…"

"Nah, it's fine," Hssara replied, "We take showers now, then change the sheets later." With that, she gradually uncoiled herself from around her human bed-warmer, then slipped out from the bed to slither over to the master bathroom. "There's two other showers in the house, you lovebirds can get cleaned up whenever you want." With that, Hssara entered the bathroom and closed the door behind her, making sure not to catch her tail between it and the doorway.

With one viper gone, Clark turned to the other and found her looking just a tad concerned. "Should we, uh…"

"Yeah, probably, just gotta get my leg free." With a little bit of maneuvering, Clark slipped out of Nijia's tail and scooted over to the edge of the bed, once again stretching his arms and cracking his neck. "Don't worry about the mess," he added, "Hssara and I go through a set or two of sheets a day."

Now that she was alone in a sizable wet patch, Nijia decided to get up as well, slithering out to the carpeted floor before turning to glance at Clark.

The human figured he'd just go to the other bathroom and wash up, but as soon as he glanced at Nijia, he realized she might have the same difficulties Hssara did operating the human appliance. "Y'know, the knobs are kind of tricky," he offered, "And the shower down the hall is big enough for two…"

It took the grey viper a moment to understand what he meant, especially with how odd she felt completely naked. "Uh, sure," she replied, then followed Clark towards this second shower. It surprised her only a little that it was the same bathroom she'd hastily gotten herself off in, and as she looked at the electric toothbrush sitting candidly on its charger, Nijia couldn't help but feel a slight pang of shame.

Clark, meanwhile, began fiddling with the knobs and buttons in the shower, turning on the water to a pleasant temperature. Thanks to advanced technology incorporated in the plumbing, it only took a few seconds for the water to reach the proper warmth, and once it did so, Clark invited Nijia to slither in. "Ladies first," he quipped, broadly gesturing towards the shower's sliding door.

Nijia graced him with a quick smile before sliding inside, and as she came under the stream of water, she realized it was far warmer than the lukewarm hose-downs she was used to. It was almost hot enough to be uncomfortable, but not quite, and after letting the droplets spatter her face like rain for a moment, she quickly came to enjoy it. When Clark stepped in and she pulled in her tail, it was a little bit cramped, but they had just enough room to go about their separate cleaning rituals.

"So," Clark began, squirting a bit of soap into his palm and rubbing it on his groin, "How was last night?"

"It was… great," Nijia replied, going with the first word that came to mind. 'Great' was swiftly followed by 'magical,' 'amazing,' and 'everything I'd ever dreamed of,' but she only picked one from the bunch. "It was everything I'd ever dreamed of."

"That's great to hear. We didn't get too weird on you, did we?"

After a bit of fiddling, the viper realized that the showerhead came off on its own, allowing her to easily hose down her nethers. "No, it's…" She trailed off with a gasp as the blast of water landed square on her slit, and she had to take a moment to collect herself before replying. "It was just the right amount of weird." When Clark didn't push further, she decided to continue cleaning herself with the showerhead, but cleaning quickly devolved into erotic exploration. The pounding pressure just felt so good, and-

"Mind letting me have a turn with that?" Clark's voice shocked her out of her pleasured daze, and before she could turn around, he had slid right up behind her. With one hand, he gently took the showerhead from her, and with his other, he reached around to her front, running two fingers along her partially engorged slit.

"I'm sorry, I just-"

"No need to apologize," Clark replied, "I just need it for a bit." The human took a brief moment to wash the soapy lather from his groin, then took it back around to tease Nijia's nethers. "You know, you're not the only one who uses the shower faucet. Hssara's something of a master in the matter, especially after a night like last night."

"Well I-ooh!" When Clark spread her vulva wide with one hand and aimed the shower at her sweet spot with the other, the sensation jumped from interesting to downright blissful. "Oooooh," she murmured, "Right there…"

The human didn't say a word, instead focusing on getting Nijia off as swiftly as possible. She couldn't help but lean back against him as the pressure in her loins built, spurred by the warm pressure of the water right up against her most sensitive spot, gently gasping and moaning as Clark toyed with her. Before long, she could feel herself beginning to wind up like a spring, and a minute later, that pressure burst in a small but enjoyable orgasm. "Ahhhh!"

Clark kept the pressure going while pushing back against her, letting Nijia ride out the throes of her climax, and he only pulled back when her acute pleasure faded into a dull glow. "Mmmm, thank you," she murmured, "Do… do you…"

"Want to do it here?" Clark briefly looked down at his own erection, then decided against putting it to use. "Nah, let's not keep Hssara waiting."

Nijia couldn't help but feel a slight pang of disappointment, even though she'd worked out what arousal she'd accumulated. "Is it because Hssara's jealous?"

"What? I…" The human was caught at a loss for words, stuck between a comforting lie and a concrete truth. "It's complicated. I mean, yeah, she was a bit jealous at first, but… well, it's not like we were expecting a polyamorous relationship." When the viper didn't seem to understand, he decided to put it in simpler terms. "Usually, with humans, it's just a guy and a gal. Now that you're here, and now that we're kind of… tangled…" Nijia's face made it all too clear that she was even more confused. "Look, just don't worry about it. Hssara's not jealous anymore, and I… well, I just want some breakfast."

Despite her slightly muddled feelings on the matter, Nijia decided to leave it be. "Me too," she concurred, "Now how do we get dried off?"

Without a specifically-made scale-drier, it took quite a few towels to dry Nijia's entire length, but eventually, she got the water off her scales. Then, both human and viper headed back to the master bedroom for some clothes; Clark put on his t-shirt and sweatpants, while Nijia borrowed one of Hssara's sweaters. It felt odd, being clad in nothing more than a fuzzy tunic, but it was certainly easier to put on than her armor.

Once the two of them were reasonably dressed, they headed back out into the kitchen/dining area and found Hssara brewing up some coffee, clad in her plush blue bathrobe. She knew just what to put in her own mug and Clark's, but as Nijia examined the brown drink, Hssara wondered whether their guest even liked coffee. "It's a human drink," she explained before Nijia could ask, "It's pretty bitter on its own, but tastes great with cream and sugar. Wanna try some?"

As Hssara offered her own mug, Nijia decided to accept and took a small sip. That sip turned into a gulp as the warmth and sweet flavor washed over her mouth, and the grey viper had to stop herself from guzzling the whole thing. "Any chance you could make me some?" she murmured, handing the mug back to Hssara.

"Sure thing." It took all of sixty seconds to pour another mug for Nijia and add the necessary accessories, and once she handed it over, the other viper happily began sipping on it.

Hssara prepared to join Clark on the couch, but before she could make it halfway there, she heard another knock at the door. She already had a guess as to what it could be as she slithered over, but once she saw the package the ADVENT grunt was holding on the other side, her eyes lit up with excitement. The guard barely had time to say, "Package cleared and secure," before Hssara snatched it out of his hands, then closed the door in his emotionless face.

She immediately brought the box over to the kitchen bar, then tore it open, stoking the curiosity of both Clark and Nijia. "Whatcha got there?" the former asked, peeking over from the couch.

"You know those heated blankets you were talking about?" Hssara replied, "We just got one."

Clark's brow furrowed. "It came already?"

"Yep, got express shipping at ADVENT's expense." The yellow viper finished tearing open the box, then pulled out a plush blue blanket that matched her own robe to a tee. She couldn't help but rub it up against her cheek, but once she noticed Nijia's slightly confused expression, she decided to explain a bit. "It's a blanket that's got an electric heater built in, it'll be like the heat lamps back in boot camp."

"Boot camp?"

"You know, where they trained us. C'mon, I wanna try this thing out." With that, she hastily slithered over and plugged the blanket's wire into the power outlet, then cranked up the heat to the first setting.

Still confused but certainly intrigued, Nijia headed over and joined Clark on the couch, coiling herself up on her own cushion so as not to impose. Once she was in position, Hssara sat down on the human's other side, draping her coils over his lap before throwing the heated blanket over all three of them. It had already begun to warm up by the time it landed, and as it reached its full cozy potential, it turned the morning's slightly nippy cold into blissful warmth.

"Mmmm," Hssara murmured, leaning affectionately on Clark's shoulder. "It's perfect."

Nijia too was beginning to take in the plushy heat, and after a moment of thought, she decided to join Hssara in nestling up against the human. "Yeah, it's pretty good," she concurred, pulling the edge up her shoulder just a bit. "Do you want to watch something?"

"Crimson Cove?" Hssara offered.

"Sounds good," Clark replied. After a bit of fishing around between the cushions, Hssara found the remote and turned on the TV, then found her way to the recently watched section. It was all too easy to pick up where they'd left off, and after a moment, the trio settled in with their coffee for some mindless teenage drama.

Nijia, however, couldn't help but ponder as they sat there, especially since the coffee seemed to be stirring her ideas more and more. When two characters would discuss first-time jitters or who was more of a slut, the grey viper turned inward to peek at her own emotions, and she couldn't help but notice the conflict she'd been feeling. The more she thought about it, the more she realized she had two good sources of information sitting across from her, and without really thinking, she asked, "Do you have second thoughts sometimes?"

Her question immediately drew Clark and Hssara's attention, and the latter quickly paused the show. "What do you mean? Having second thoughts about what?"

"I don't know, this. This whole human and alien thing."

"I never looked back," Hssara replied, "I figured 'if no one's going to stop us, what the hell?' Are you having second thoughts?" The idea seemed weird to her, but she could see someone meeker struggling to embrace her human-loving nature.

"No… well, I… it's complicated." As the attention zeroed in on her and the atmosphere turned serious, Nijia couldn't help but curl up a bit into the couch's corner, but she still pressed on. "I remember I was once disgusted by humans, but in the last month or so… I dunno. It's like someone flipped a switch in my brain."

At the mention of a switch, Clark and Hssara couldn't help but exchange a glance, both of them thinking back to the threats ADVENT had made. The human's clenched jaw spoke volumes on not wanting to disturb the poor girl, but Hssara knew from experience it was better to know about the axe hanging over your head. "Maybe someone did throw a switch," she candidly replied.

It took a few seconds for the other viper to understand. "What do you mean?"

"Well, ADVENT's got tech that'll turn your brain to putty," Hssara explained, "They've already got implants in our heads to see and hear everything we do, and I almost got turned into a blank slate after rebels tried to capture Clark. It makes sense that they'd make another one like me, all they'd have to do is… boop." She flicked her finger against the side of her head to demonstrate.

"Hssara," Clark began, "Maybe we should take it easy…"

"They didn't take it easy when they threatened to wipe my brain," she replied with an aggressive shrug, "I don't see why our new roommate shouldn't know the dangers."

Nijia shook her head. "No… no, ADVENT couldn't do something like that," she muttered, already beginning to believe the contrary. "Mind wiping, that's… fantasy."

"And we're aliens from outer space," Hssara replied, "Right now, I think we're living in a world of fantasy, and not in a good way."

Clark thought about trying to comfort Nijia or dull the hard truth, but he realized deep down that Hssara was right. "Right now, we're ADVENT's puppet show for alien-human relations," he instead said, "Help give the public idea that they're not an occupying force."

Nijia hesitated before saying what was on her mind. "But they are, aren't they?"

Hssara nodded but didn't say anything more.

"So… do you think they'll come after us?"

"Right now?" Clark replied, "No, no, right now we're useful. As far as we know, we do what they say, and we keep getting to live life in the lap of luxury." With every word that left his lips, he talked himself more and more into accepting the resistance's offer, and he could tell Hssara was thinking the same. "We're sorry you've gotten dragged into this, but it's what we've got.

Nijia sat silent, pondering what all this meant. As much as she tried to deny it, all the pieces fit together perfectly… and as much as she hated to admit it, she was right in the middle of the spider's web. The three of them sat in silence as she processed what was happening, but she spoke up after only a few seconds. "Do you mind if we keep watching?" she asked, eager for the distraction.

"Not at all." Hssara hit play, and as the show rolled on, Nijia cuddled up against Clark with twice the intensity. In return, the human draped his arms around her shoulders, then did the same to Hssara when she leaned in for affection as well. Neither he nor his viper lover had any doubt in their mind that their new companion would come with them, and one wordless glance confirmed it for both of them: it was better to escape with the resistance than live as ADVENT's pawns.

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