So, this is my first Calvin and Hobbes fanfic, and to be honest, I literally just found a whole book of them yesterday, and after obsessively reading it all day yesterday and today, I looked them up on FanFiction, and noticed that there's only two romance stories for Hobbes; one when he's paired with Calvin, one in a triangle, and in both of them, he's turned into a human.

So this story is a no-bullshit story following a pairing, which I think is a first; Hobbes/Susie. That's right. So, there shall be NO tigers-morphing-into-humans-crap, or anything such. The only difference is that it's set in modern day, and Calvin and Susie are now in their junior year of high school (technically, they would be anyway if time were continuous from the end of the strips, 1995. Just a fun fact for you.)

Enjoy, and please review!
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'Will you be my Valentine?'

Calvin read the note over, his face turning into a red faced expression of pure discuss as his tiger best friend seized the note from the blonde child. He read the note over, a large grin crossing his face as he busted up laughing. He pointed at Calvin, dancing around him teasingly as he chanted in a sing-song voice,

"Calvin and Susie sitting in a tree!"
"I'm not her Valentine just because I got this in the mail, am I? Does the Post Master General know about this?"
"K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"I don't have to KISS her, do I? Is that what Valentine's do? Oh, GROSS!"
"First comes lo-ove, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage!"
"This can't be happening! I need a lawyer! SHE CAN'T MAKE ME HER VALNTINE!"

Calvin was staggering around, gripping his head in worry and disgust as Hobbes nearly mauled the poor boy from behind in excitement as he pointed in the direction of which came a short-haired brunette. He practically bellowed into his buddy's ear, "HERE SHE COMES! HERE COMES SUSIE!"

Calvin took a short moment to glare at the smirking tiger before looking at Susie as she innocently strolled up.

"Hi, Calvin."

"GET AWAY FROM ME!," he yelled at her, throwing the card to the floor, earning a wide-eyed expression from Hobbes, "I'm NOT your Valentine! Take your card back! Eww! Girls! Yecchh!" He then stuck his tongue out at her, smirking proudly as she shook in anger. Susue then took a deep breath, placing hands on her hips as she glared back at the boy,

"That card wasn't for you, you moron," Calvin and Hobbes looked up in curiosity at this, "Didn't you read the back of the envelope?"

She then smirked smugly, walking back in the direction she came from as Calvin muttered to himself, bending over to pick up the card, and turning it over. The name on the back made him nearly faint in response. He read it three times to make sure he just wasn't going bonkers,

"'Calvin, please give this to Hobbes'…HOBBES?"

The tiger looked up in interest at this, snatching the note from his friend's hand to look it over himself. He read it over, grinning as the fir on his muzzle blushed a slight reddish color. He giggled a bit, pointing dazily at himself,

"Really? Me? Hot Dog! Smooch City, here I come!"

Hobbes awoke with a starts, gasping as he sat up in the bed he shared with Calvin. Upon sitting up, he rubbed his eyes tiredly, looking around the dark room, and down at Calvin, who shifted in his sleep before waking up, looking at his best friend, sleep still making him very drowsy,

"Hobbes? Again?"
"Yeah…sorry."

This was the third time he had woken up from a dream like that this week. What's gotten into him? Two nights previous, Hobbes woke up from a dream about the time Susie had taunted Calvin by calling Hobbes lovable, much to Calvin's disgust, and his prattling about how hobbes was a ferocious killer. Susie had then hugged him tightly, smiling. Hobbes couldn't do anything but smile to himself as Calvin was mortified.

"He's a monster!"
"No, he's a big cutie!"

…

"Why didn't you maul her?"
"I was beguiled by her feminine charm…"

The night previous to that, he had woken up after a dream about the time when Hobbes and Calvin, while on a G.R.O.S.S. mission, stole her doll. After trying to get her to pay ransom, she instead took Hobbes. The tiger had later mentioned to Calvin that he almost told her their secret code when she rubbed his belly, and had willingly played a tea party with the girl. All these endeavors with Susie always ended up with Calvin yelling at him about how the President and First Tiger of a prestigious girl hunting club could not be frolicking with the enemy. Not that Hobbes could, anway…

Over the years, Hobbes grew older as Calvin did the same. Tigers like him matured years ahead of their growth. Now Hobbes was officially an adult tiger, 18 in the years of his species. Calvin was seventeen, Susie trailing close behind. Hobbes had taken into account how Susie had grown taller over the years, obviously, and how she was getting…prettier…for a human anyway, as Hobbes would always say as a cover, whenever he was keeping a lookout on Susie for the still-lasting G.R.O.S.S. club, and just ended up staring at her in a daze, Calvin having to yell some sense into him.

She was smarter too, more mature. He short brown hair and grown into long dark locks, wavy and smooth. Her pale white skin had not a blemish, and she always had a light blush on her, her hazel eyes were like looking into the Amazon. She was gorgeous, and as much as Hobbes hated it, the more he spent time watching her, and getting to know who she was, and what she stood for, he was falling in love with her.

The problem?

She could only see him as a stuffed animal. Nothing more…

I'm going to continue this into a full length story, if you don't mind. I hope this turns out how I'm imagining it. And no matter how many suggestions I get, I'm not turning Hobbes human, he stays an anthro tiger. N offense to CleoLeo and Aquaria Identity 07, you two are both very talented writers. I'm just tired of having characters morphed and twisted until they're unrecognizable…

Well, please review, there will be more to come. Thanks for reading this! :D

-RJ