SETI, Chapter ONE
Author's Note:
IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT: this version has taken a life of its own and has grown from a mere replacement chapter into its own fiction. Although originally intended as an alternate story, I believe that the following is readable and it stands of its own accord.
As is my style, more is revealed as the reader continues on. I urge you to continue past Chapter One as it merely establishes the story, and the character "Seti". It gets really good in Chapter Two. As always, I am enthusiastic for your review.
- Mistress Gina.
Chap 1, Seti -
Setting, Prismah, Indigo's Apartment -
Late Afternoon -
Holding onto Indigo's arm, Seti rested his head against his shoulder. His eyes seemed to smile with contentedness.
After a few minutes, Indigo began to move away. Increasing the intensity of his hold, Seti's eyes widened, "Where are you going,"
"Nowhere," and he shook free from Seti's grip. And he got up to change the television channel, not having found the remote.
Seti got up with him, followed him to the TV set, and then sat down next to him again. Holding onto Indigo's arm again, Seti rested his head against his shoulder. His eyes seemed to smile with contentedness.
Indigo sighed. Again Seti embraced Indigo's arm, rested his head against his shoulder and smiled in blissful happiness. Unconsciously, Seti extended eight, long thin, little supernatural 'hoses' as it were, and wrapped them around Indigo's limbs.
The throbbing sensation spread from his ribs as intense pleasure spread through Seti's being. His eyes flickered in ecstasy before closing. Never had he felt such a sense of belonging. Never had he been so captivated by such pleasure. He couldn't help but moan softly and arch his back as the sensations pulsated through his body.
"What are you doing!" inquired Indigo, "What are those…. see-through … tentacles?"
"Tentacles? Oh… sorry…," and he retracted them before once again embracing Indigo.
"Look… I've gotta go," Indigo waved a dismissive hand– the one that wasn't held fast.
"Go where!" Seti's gasped in concern as his blissful world was interrupted. He immediately began to panic as though his world was shattered. His mind entertained the possibility that he would never see Indigo again.
"I have some…errands I have to do," standing up.
"Well I can help you," offered Seti with outward enthusiasm, but inward alarm evident through the white-knuckled hold of Indigo's arm.
"Thanks, but these are things I have to do alone,"
Misunderstanding, Seti pet his arm in reassurance, "You'll never have to do anything alone ever again," And he reached out to hold both of Indigo's hands. He faced him and pressed himself close to Indigo's chest in a one-sided embrace, "We've found each other now."
"Right," and he took a step backwards. Seti followed and in turn took a step forwards and caught both his hands again.
Indigo gently, yet firmly, pulled away from this nuisance, "No, I have to do these things alone,"
"Well you can tell me where you're going, right? You can tell me anything… I'll always understand," and for a third time Seti reached for his hands.
"Seti," and he shook free from his hold, "Just…,"
Seti looked at him with enchanted eyes, hanging on his words.
"...Never mind," Indigo sighed, "I'll be back later."
"You promise?" Seti asked with growing distress, "I mean, you will come back, right?But it would really make me feel better if I knew where you were going. I'll be so worried if you're gone."
"Don't worry, I'm a big boy. I can handle myself,"
"Ok, but can you at least tell me when you'll be back?"
"I said…I'll be back later," with increasing infuriation.
"Ok," and Seti's smile faded completely.
As Indigo said a quick good-bye and walked down the stairs. Seti trailed him to his car, "Please let me go with you. Please. Please," and he opened the passenger's side door and sat himself in the passenger's seat, "I really want to go. Please let me... Please..."
"Alright already," Indigo finally acquiesced under Seti's exasperating emotional duress.
Seti's heart jumped with happiness and he giggled. He threw his arms around Indigo in the driver's seat, "So…where are we going?" smiled Seti as he pecked his cheek with an unwelcome kiss.
Indigo sighed and drove toward the highway.
"This is awesome. I've never been in a car before, you know," he pressed his nose to the window.
"Apparently, there's a lot of things you've never done before," muttered Indigo.
"Everything's new to me, and you can show me it all," smiled Seti, reaching to embrace Indigo again.
"No! Get off me you idiot!" yelled Indigo,
Seti instantly retracted his arms in fear, pressing himself against the passenger's door and bringing his arms up to cover his head in defense. His black eyes peered at him from between his arms.
"I'm not gonna hit you! What's wrong with you?" Indigo shook his head at Seti's overreaction, "Listen, you just can't touch me when I'm driving! It's dangerous,"
After a moment, Seti relaxed into his seat again and reached for the radio knobs, "You can show me all these things," he mused, fiddling with the air conditioner.
Arriving at the supermarket, Indigo was boiling with frustration, "You can't come inside. Understand? Can… not. You stay here," and anticipating the next question, "And don't worry… I am coming back. Of course I'm coming back, it's my car!"
"You can read my mind, too?" gasped Seti in complete seriousness, "You're amazing!"
Narrowly avoiding another embrace, Indigo raced briskly to the supermarket, double-checking over his shoulder that he was not followed.
Returning to the car, Indigo chuckled to himself. In his excitement, Seti had hit his head on the ceiling as he saw his approach.
"Look. I got you something," Indigo teased as he opened a bag to reveal a box of Fruit Roll Up's.
"You got me a present?" reaching out his hands to accept the box. Tears soon welled up in both eyes, "I've never gotten a present before," and Indigo could not avoid Seti's next embrace, "What is it?"
"You eat it. See, you open the box like this. Then you open the wrapper, and you eat it. Like this,"
"Ooooohhh," said a wide-eyed Seti in understanding before snatching the thing from Indigo's hand and stuffing one entirely into his mouth.
Indigo laughed.
After he managed to swallow the thing, translucent tentacles were again wrapping around Indigo's waist.
Seti's eyes closed in ecstasy moaning almost inaudibly. He leaned back in the seat letting the pleasure throb through his body, and he unconsciously widened his legs.
Indigo swatted at the bluish tentacles, and they disappeared at his touch.
"Hey!" and Seti frowned before sitting up, "That felt good,"
"I don't care. It's weird. I said don't do it,"
"It feels good though. Here, let me show you," and the tentacles started to grow out from his ribs on either side of his chest. They were almost completely translucent, yet had the faintest bluish tint.
"See…," and one tentacle wrapped around Indigo's wrist.
Indigo stared at it in amazed curiosity. The strange appendage was clearly wrapped around his wrist, however he felt nothing.. no contact, no motion… just nothing.
The tentacle seemed to quiver for a moment. Seti closed his eyes and rested his head on Indigo's shoulder. A broad smile came across his face and his eyes fluttered slightly.
"Mmmm," and he inhaled deeply in pleasure, "See… I told you it feels good, doesn't it?
"No! I don't feel a thing," and he sliced at the diaphanous tentacle with the side of his free hand.
"You really don't feel anything?" truly confused for a moment before smiling, "Oh I see… you don't have to be shy with me. It's ok if you like it. I like it, and I'm not shy about it… at least not with you" and the tentacles rematerialized.
"I said I don't feel a thing!" and Indigo pressed at Seti's side where one of the appendages seemed to sprout from his body.
"But I do. I feel it. It feels so good," Seti pursued and smiled. Several tentacles encircled his waist.
Concentrating his ki, Indigo grasped the tentacle wrapped around his torso. By concentrating his energy, he was finally able to feel it, if only slightly. The bluish tentacle was about one-and-a-half inch wide. It felt soft, smooth and somehow…delicate. With one hand, he squeezed it near its tip, so as to loosen its hold on him, and then used his other hand to yank at it near the juncture to Seti's ribs.
Seti yowled in pain, "Aaahhh! Ow! Why did you do that? That hurts." and he massaged the spot on his ribs where that particular tentacle attached to his ribs. They all had now disappeared.
"You're not listening to me," fumed Indigo.
"How could you want to hurt me like that?" continued Seti, "What are you trying to do to me?" and then he sighed and seemed to calm and changed his demeanor, "I know you didn't mean to hurt me though. Just like I didn't mean to scare you. I guess my body is kind of different than yours," once again, he began to reach toward him, "But it feels… so... right," However, this time he rethought the action and slowly withdrew his tentacles of own accord. Frowning, he appeared to study his hands in his lap.
"So, what are those…things?" asked Indigo, curiosity overwhelming any anger.
"These?" and all eight tentacles jutted a few inches from his side, "I really don't know what they are. I just know how it makes me feel," he smiled. And once again, he had to stop himself from reaching for Indigo, "Wow, I guess I really want to hold you,"
"Hold me? Is that what you call it," he fumed as he drove, "You really don't know what those things are?"
"No. I just know that …"
"…Let me guess.. You just know that it makes you feel good, right? You just know that you like it?" said Indigo sarcastically.
"Yeah. I like it. I like it so much… and you can too. It feels really good if you rub them while I'm holding you. Let me show you,"
"Stop it!"
Seti halted his approach, "Sorry. I guess it's kind of… hard to stop. I just want to hold you so much," and tears streamed from his eyes.
"I think I know what you're doing?"
"You do?" and Seti's face lit up.
"I think you're draining my ki."
"No. I would never do that. I'm not a vampire or a poltergeist."
"Then what are you?"
"I'm Seti," and again he had to stop himself from reaching for Indigo.
"So, you've never done this to anyone while they're awake?" Indigo was truly curious about Seti's metaphysical needs. I need to know how to protect himself from the ridiculous creature, he thought.
"No, they're always asleep. But I really wish they'd let me do it when they're awake. I've tried many times before, but everyone always freaks out. That's why I like you so much, because you're not chasing me around with a pick axe or something like that,"
"What is it that you want?" Indigo requested, knowing full well what Seti wanted– he just wanted him to admit it.
Seti evading the question, "Well, I feel a little bit better now since you let me hold you for a couple of seconds," he smiled weakly, "That seemed to take the edge off"
"Take the edge off? You mean the desperation?"
"I don't know. I just know how I feel,"
"Yes, yes, I know. So, can you answer my question? What…do…you…want?"
Seti seemed to reflect thoughtfully for a moment, "I think I want a friend. I've never really had a friend before. I always want to hold everyone and then they hate me," looking sad for a moment, "But I really want a girlfriend or a boyfriend," he wrung his hands, mentally preparing himself for rejection.
What a silly creature, thought Indigo before offering aloud, "Well, I guess I can be your friend,"
Seti's black eyes lit up, and several tentacles were instantly flung around Indigo's torso and chest, constricting like snake coils.
Indigo resisted the initial urge to struggle. He genuinely felt sorry for the silly creature and he decided to let the thing have its ki, Maybe that'll appease him so he'll leave me alone!
Seti also wrapped his arms around him and rested his head against his shoulder. His hands were gripping just a little too tightly.
"Can I at least have my arms free?"
Seti disregarded his request. With all eight tentacles holding Indigo along with two determined arms, Indigo could not move.
Seti's coils seemed to twitch and his breathing quickened. He moaned quietly and the tentacles constricted even tighter if possible, inhibiting Indigo's lungs. After a few minutes, Seti moaned and twitched in a steadily increasing rhythm that quickly progressed into a climax of ecstasy of some sort. He sighed in pleasure and tightened the coils to such a degree that Indigo thought he would pass out. And then he retracted all eight tentacles, and his arms pulled back to embrace only one of Indigo's biceps.
"Did you get what you want?"
"Yeah," Seti smiled, "Thank you so much. No one's ever let me do that when they were awake. Did you like it? I did? You can tell me,"
"Uh… sure. I guess I liked it?"
Seti sighed, "You really don't feel anything, do you?"
"No, I don't. You were holding me so tight I thought I'd pass out," Indigo shook Seti off his arm and stood up, brushing off his pants, "Where do you live, huh? Where's your place?"
"My place?" Seti looked confused, "I don't have a house or anything,"
"Do you have an apartment then? C'mon, you have to live somewhere. You have to eat,"
Seti giggled, "You just fed me, silly. I don't usually eat the same kind of food that you eat. And I usually live where I can get some … you know," he squirmed nervously, "I mean, I have lots of places to stay," unsure where to look, his eyes eventually sought the floor.
"Can't you stay with some friends," teased Indigo, knowing full well that Seti didn't have any friends.
"Yeah, I have lots of friends I can stay with," and then recalling what he told Indigo before, "I mean, my friends aren't like you, they're like me. And I have plenty of places to stay, warm houses with fireplaces, too. It's not like I have to sleep outside in the freezing cold.
"So you do have someplace to go, right?"
Seti timidly shook his head yes.
"Good! Because you can't stay here," Indigo continued, hoping he would make the childish creature feel so uncomfortable that it would leave him alone.
"Oh yeah, I know that. Of course I can't stay here…,"
"So, I'll see you later then," Indigo walked toward the door to the outside, and opened it for Seti's departure.
"Sure, I'll… see you later," he struggled for words.
"Well, Good bye, then"
"Ok, good bye," and the moment Seti stepped outside, the door was slammed behind him.
Author's Note: It's freezing outside, poor silly creature. What is he anyway? He's not a Poltergeist. Pls read on... as I promised, gets much more interesting in Chapter Two. As always, Please Review. I live for reviews. -Mistress Gina
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