Chapter 1

This is my first fan fic so please be brutally honest and review and I promise to take all feedback positively.

Set about 18 months after the movie. Some OC maybe. Please excuse typos, I'm writing this in wordpad til i get my ms office back up and running.

Update 2019: So I've kinda gone through this story again and tried to fix some of the typos and grammar a lil so it's not entirely a re-draft but I'm hoping it reads a little better this time round.

I don't own any rights to these characters, just wanted to play with them a little. :)

Jupiter had finished cleaning her last house. She was tired and aching. Turning an extra deep King sized mattress on your own will do that to you, but besides all the aches and the fatigue that tried to descend upon her, she was happy. A smile worked itself across her face every day at the same damn time and that time, when she got to clock off work and go meet the new love of her life. Well new is a stretch but for Jupiter Jones a relationship that lasted longer than 6 months really was a new occurrence. Her family had yet to formerly meet Caine but they didn't pry and Jupiter silently thanked them for that. Her Mother and Aunt had spoken to him a couple of times on the phone over the last 18 months and Jupiter had let them see a few strategically composed photos of him that were taken so that his ears were covered by a baseball cap, his mouth closed to hide his canines and his wings were out of shot. She hated having to lie to the people she loved but she knew they needed time. Not just time to adjust to the idea of Caine being a Splice but time to realise how much she truly loved him so that when she did tell them the truth they trusted that she knew what she was doing and that was all aside from the fact that she was Queen of the Earth. Yeah, it really all could wait couldn't it?

Things had been moving pretty quickly over the last few months. Caine had come out of his shell dramatically. Not only pledging Jupiter his allegiance as her loyal subject and security detail but also his heart, his soul, his very being and she should have found it overwhelming but she didn't. It was like the adoration, the intensity and devotion was what she'd been waiting for all these years.

"I know you're there." Jupiter called out quietly with a coy smile on her face as she walked home via a shortcut through the back of the park near her home. The sun was setting, casting shadows and dappled colour through the trees and onto the freshly cut grass.

She felt the air around her shift ever so slightly. Felt a shadow cast down on her right just behind her. "Your Majesty shouldn't be walking around alone in this neighbourhood. There are dangerous people about." She felt him hovering, his presence taller than normal. She knew he didn't have his wings out, she would have felt the breeze.

"Well then it's a good job that the most dangerous of all the dangers just happens to be a close and personal friend of mine isn't it?" Jupiter carried on walking, not looking back and not needing to. She knew that Caine's lips would have quirked up in a playful smile, his wolf ears pricked up sensing every ounce of her while scanning their surroundings.

"Close?" He repeated hovering by her left side now a little closer.

"Very close." Jupiter kept her stride up but could feel the pulsing from Caine's hover boots near her calves and the heat from his body burning into her back he was so near. Lowering gently to the ground he reached out a strong hand to snake about her waist, halting her stride and pulling her back to his chest. He leaned into her right ear, "And Personal?" His voice was a low rumble, more growl than speech. His hand found its way up from her waist stopping momentarily to cup her breast then splay against her delicate throat as if he were holding a beautiful priceless vase.

Jupiter noticed the change in Caine's cadence and leaned her head back against his shoulder allowing him to nuzzle her neck. "Intimately..." She replied, pulling his other hand about her waist and splaying it against her stomach slowly inching it down inside of the waist band of her jeans. She could feel Caine's arousal growing against her back, his lips, his tongue nursing her neck as he scented her own arousal growing. He could smell her a mile away. Her need thick, as it hung in the air like a web, almost tangible. His fingers reached out towards her heat, two fingers dipped lower and then...

"HEY TOBY!?"

A small German Shepherd comes bounding out of nowhere snapping Cain and Jupiter out of their daze. Cain is instantly at attention, able to switch mode at a moments notice. Before the dog gets too close he steps in front of Jupiter protectively.

"TOBY GET OVER HERE BOY!"

The owner was close but not yet in sight and Toby had stopped just before Caine and Jupiter. The dog stared at Caine with a twitching nose trying to scent exactly what Caine was. The answer was negative. Caine's eyes darkened, his brow narrowing and his ears pinned back as did Toby's. Toby's tail tucked low but he emitted a growl that was anything but passive. Caine gave the dog full and solid eye contact while he slowly lowered to a squat, letting go of Jupiter. Toby edged closer, nose wrinkled in a snarl but Caine didn't flinch, he just kept that eye contact watching Toby creep closer. Jupiter kept silent, unconsciously holding her breath. And then, just like that, the tension was gone. Toby's tail rose and began to wag as he lowered his head to close the space between him and Caine. Cain allowed Toby to sniff the back of his hand before giving him a friendly pet and scratch under the chin. Jupiter exhaled.

"Tobes! There you are!" A middle aged man approached, seemingly a little out of shape and a lot out of breath holding a leash and shaking his head. "That's it Toby, we're going home. It's late, I'm tired and you've had enough excitement for one day!" He barely noticed Jupiter and Caine, "Oh hey guys, sorry, Toby's a little bit of a roamer."

"No problem," Caine responded, calm and reserved. "Goodnight sir." While he reached out for Jupiter's hand to take her with him off into the rose garden.

When they're out of sight and ear shot Jupiter yawned turning to Caine, "What the hell was that?"

"What?"

"With the Dog?"

"He was suspicious of me. It's happened before with other canines."

"Why?"

"They're not sure what to make of me, the scents are a bit warped but the energies are similar to what they're used to reading."

"And what energy did Toby read from you in the end?"

"Alpha energy." He said it so matter of factly, no arrogance, no pretence, no pride, just fact.

"Are you automatically alpha to any animal you meet?"

Caine shook his head, "No, but few have tested me to find out otherwise."

Jupiter smiled and leaned into his side. "Can we go back to your place?"

Caine smiled back, "Your Majesty," He knew she liked it when he called her that. He held out his hand for her to take. She stepped into his warmth and wrapped her arms around his waist. He looked around before removing his heavy leather duster and wrapping that around Jupiter. His wings stretch to their full awesome span. Jupiter never got tired of seeing them. They… he, was magnificent. Caine beats his wings a couple of times shaking out the cobwebs of having them tucked up under a coat, and then they were off up into the night sky.

So what do you think? There's more to come if you want to read it.