"Aah! Oh, Doug… oh, please…!"
"You're so beautiful."
Doug never dreamed that he'd have Chell, a woman he wasn't even certain was alive and real, right in his arms. His savior. His beloved. The only person who ever really mattered to him. And she was begging for his touch.
No, it was more than just his touch. She wasn't just begging him to touch her, that much he'd already done and more.
"I… I want this. Touch me, let me feel you inside me…!"
She wanted to make love to him.
But it wasn't so simple as that. Sure, Doug had his share of sexual experience. Not as much as he'd like, of course, but enough to know what to do. But Chell was significantly younger than he was, and had been in forced isolation for a long time. She hadn't known human contact in all her shady memory. She was a virgin, and he would needto take the initiative in this. He would have to be the one to explain things, either through words or actions. And because reality to him was a skeptical guess at best, that wasn't going to be easy.
"Chell, I… I don't know if this is the best idea right now."
"Come on…! We've got a condom. And you've been eating well and feeling better, right? It's not too much for you right now, is it?"
"No, it's not too much… physically, anyway. It's just that once we do this, there will be no turning back. And I'm still not certain it's best for you to be with me."
"Doug. You're the one I want to spend the rest of my life with. No one else understands what I went through for all those years. No one else can compare."
"… if you're sure about this."
He could think of no better reason to make love to her than simply because he loved her and could finally hold her in his arms.
She wanted his hands on her, his eager erection inside her? That was almost too much for him to even grasp. He was already overwhelmed at just being near her, holding her hand, and kissing her. To see her naked… to touch her light bronze skin… he shivered at the thought.
He ran his hands along her sides, rubbing gently. She squirmed a little.
So she's ticklish.
He tugged at her tank top, pulling it up over her head. He was a tad confused when he looked down and saw that the article hadn't gone anywhere, but shook his head and realized it was just her blue camisole. He peeled that off of her as well, but with a tad more difficulty. Sure, they'd both showered (Chell herself had taken at least thirty minutes in there, simply entranced by the warm water), but these clothes were still filthy. Shirts and pants alike still clung to their bodies, stuck fast by years of sweat. He found his skin was crawling at the thought, itching to remove his own grimy clothing.
Chell was more than happy to oblige. Now almost completely bared to him, she slipped her hands under the hem of his Aperture t-shirt, tugging gently at the hem as if to say "come on, let me see".
He was quite willing to assist her in tearing off his shirt. His lab coat had long since been hung up and forgotten, and now he sat on the bed with his chest completely bare. He blushed slightly as her hungry eyes looked him over, pupils dilated and sparkling.
"You look lovely," she said. Her soft voice sent ripples up his spine.
"Nowhere near as lovely as you," he replied, swallowing.
Doug had always been in love with her. Well, perhaps not always. For a time there had been nothing on his mind but survival. Love simply didn't enter into the equation. He'd even checked the math. But Doug knew he was too much of a coward, and much too weak, to go before the omnipotent goddess of the facility. He hadn't a chance. But he knew somebody might. His mind went back to when he'd first seen her face, a determined (and more than a little angry) look in her eyes, in the photograph in her file. Those deep, grey eyes….
He found himself staring into them. Never had he dreamed he'd see them up close like this. Eye contact wasn't something one achieved very often in his line of work. At least, not unless one had a very open minded definition of an "eye".
Oh, but Doug loved her so much now! It was all he could do to keep her from driving him mad. Well, madder. She drove something in him that he thought had been starved to death years ago back to the surface of his consciousness. She was always on his mind.
Love was all he cared about.
At first it didn't matter how close or how far they were. Her face had burned itself on his memory, straight from the photograph and through his eyes where his neurons had kept it protected and in its purest electric form. If he felt he was forgetting how she looked, all he would have to do was paint her. There were ample art supplies back then. He suspected there still were. Paint and charcoal and chalk… it was a cornucopia, an artists' dream, all sitting around waiting to be made into something magnificent. If only one could subsist on creation alone… then the physical starvation he'd experienced might not have been so painful.
After a while, he became aware of her presence. The knowledge that she was awake and wandering the laboratory caused something truly animal and alien to surface in him. He would find himself following her about, stealing fleeting glances at her as she worked. As she survived. He began to wonder if she ever slept, but of course she didn't. Too much adrenaline in the air, no time for sleep when there was science to be done.
Eventually, those fleeting glances evolved into long stares. He would look at her for hours on end, drinking in the view. The simultaneously familiar and foreign sight of another human being, moving, breathing, every so often curling up in a quiet corner to lick her wounds, was simply fascinating to him. It was then that he first yearned to be closer to her. To touch her, hold her. To clasp her hand in his would be the pinnacle of happiness for him. To feel the last of the good, pure, wonderful things left in his world, and to know that she and he….
His mind trailed off, and he was jolted from reverie by the feel of her hand on his face. He felt himself grow warmer at the touch, and smiled sheepishly. He had been staring into her eyes all this time.
"Sorry… sometimes I just get like that," he apologized.
"I know," she said plainly, swooping in fluidly to kiss him briefly on the lips.
That was all he needed. A kiss and a cuddle. Perhaps, if he was lucky, he would get to hold her hand. She would rub the pad of her thumb over the back of his hand ever so gently and in perfect time with some unheard song. Yes, holding hands was the best.
But she was young and hungry, deprived of human love (or any love, he corrected himself, as machines were cruel but had the capacity for gentler things) for longer than she could remember. It was understandable that she would want to take everything in about this foreign concept of contact as quickly as possible, to make up for lost time.
Doug, on the other hand, knew his age would soon catch up with him. He suspected he was in his early forties, and that Chell was in her mid-twenties, her thirties if he was lucky. He kicked himself sometimes for not choosing someone closer to his own age.
Of course, age was hard to tell with a woman like her. Her bronzed skin suggested origins of a Spanish nature, while her eyes and face struck him as almost Asian in descent. Race mattered nothing to him, of course, the only thing that mattered was that she was tenacious and beautiful. But when dealing with unknown races, it was only natural to be unsure of age-
She snapped her fingers in front of his eyes and he blinked.
"… sorry," he whispered.
Losing focus once was cute, endearing even. Doing so twice was slightly irritating.
"It's fine. Are you sure you're alright?" she asked. He looked at her eyes, hoping not to zone out again. No, he merely wanted to check.
Her pupils were still dilated.
Good, so I wasn't out too long, he sighed inwardly.
"I'm alright. Just…," he lingered on whether or not to say it, but the words were already on his lips and with any luck she didn't know how cliché the line was. "… lost in your eyes."
She giggled. What a pleasant sound it made! Like clay bells jingling in the wind.
"Do you like my eyes?" she questioned, eyelids falling a bit and lips curling into a playful smile.
"More than you can imagine…," he breathed. And it was true. He had never thought that shade of grey could be so vivid.
"Do you like your own eyes?" she wondered, the playfulness of her tone dissipating, though not entirely.
"… not so much as yours," he said frankly. He was well aware of the characteristics of his slate blue eyes. The pupils were of different sizes, the right one too large and the left one too small. There was a medical name for it that began with an "a", but Doug had long since forgotten how to pronounce or even spell it.
"Well," she began, quirking her eyebrows up. "I think they're the most amazing eyes I've ever looked at. They're one of my favorite things about you. They are wholly yours, no one else can lay claim to eyes such as them."
She had flourished that sentence in a hyperbolic manner. She had never been a woman of words, but had been even less of numbers. So she had taken to reading, rather passionately, now that she finally had the leisure time to do so. She needed no aid in this endeavor, and had devoured book after book. She liked the verbal flourishes the old poets and novelists used, and knew that saying things that way made both she and Doug more lighthearted.
"… I suppose I could grow to love them. If you love something as wretched as me, surely that must mean there's something in me I haven't noticed yet," he laughed.
At this, her expression hardened. "I told you not to say things like that."
Oh. Right. He'd almost forgotten.
"You have to love yourself before you can love me."
"… sorry. It's gonna take a while for me to get used to that. I'm wary of getting too egocentric," he admitted. "Narcissism tends to get out of hand in paranoid schizophrenics."
"But you're not like that, Doug! You said it yourself: almost nobody exhibits all the symptoms. And you didn't get that one!" she pleaded.
"I know that now, Chell, but I didn't always!" he was upset now. "It takes a long time to grow out of old mindsets. It's not like breaking a bad habit. It's like altering your feelings."
"… I know. I'm sorry. I shouldn't push this," Chell apologized.
He smiled knowingly. He knew she would continue to push it, even though she knew she shouldn't. She was stubborn, insanely so, more than she had any right to be. Usually a person would reach their limit and give in, be it out of fear or pain or grief or something of that nature. But not Chell. Never Chell. He loved that about her, because it meant that she would never give up on him.
"… let's do this," he said, determination rising in him.
She smiled excitedly, and began undoing the tightly knotted sleeves of her orange jumpsuit. He reached a hand out to help her, grasping at the mass of fabric, but she pushed it away. After a moment of wrestling with it, the tie was undone and the jumpsuit came off cleanly. It had always been just a bit big on her.
He leaned forward awkwardly and kissed at her shoulder, daring to flick his tongue momentarily at the soft flesh. His hands snaked around her back, pulling her firmly against him briefly, before making their way to her bra strap. His clumsy fingers wrestled with the clasp, before she pushed him aside and undid it easily. Her bra came off in a smooth motion, and Doug felt a smile tug at his lips as he watched her breasts fall with a miniscule bounce.
Doug laid a hand on one, cupping it gently and squeezing it ever so slightly. They were small, no larger than a B cup at best, but he didn't care. He'd never cared about vain things like that. All that mattered was their softness, and Chell's breasts more than fit that qualification. He ran his fingers down the top of it, coming to rest over the nipple. He began tenderly stroking it-
-when she slapped his hand away. He looked at her, bewildered, frantically searching her face for an answer.
She didn't look hurt, and he had been as gentle as he knew how to be. He knew a woman's breast was sensitive, especially a virgin's, and had taken great care not to harm her. She didn't look angry, either, so he hadn't overstepped his bounds. She almost looked… sad. Disappointed, even.
"What… did I do wrong?" he asked quietly.
She shook her head, eyes gritting closed and biting her lip. "You didn't do anything wrong," she said, not looking him in the eye. "It's me."
This admission really left him confused. "What's the matter?" he asked sheepishly.
"I… they… oh, Doug, please don't make me explain! I just can't have you touching me there, okay?" she pleaded.
"Does it hurt? I was trying to be gentle…," he began.
She nodded quickly, still not looking him in the eye. "It… it's never felt good…."
"Really? Have you tried it before, then?"
"… once or twice."
"… if you'll let me, I think I can fix that. They're not supposed to hurt, but it might be a bit overwhelming the first time."
"… but they really do hurt! I'm not making this up, Doug!"
"I know, Chell! Just let me try one thing, and if you don't like it I promise I won't press the subject."
She bit her lip again, brows furrowed in thought, and finally sighed with a slightly frightened tone. "… okay."
He smiled softly and sat up straighter. Placing his hands on her shoulders, he bid her to turn around. She complied, and he pulled her hips to him so that she sat in his lap. He caressed her gently, placing one arm around her stomach and the other over her chest. He was careful not to touch the darker structure at its tip, but he squeezed her breast gently as he hugged her. He breathed the scent of her hair: a sharp citrus shampoo smell, mixed with a more natural aroma. Doug pressed his lips to her neck, just below the jaw, and kissed his way down. He hoped that he wasn't leaving a noticeable trail of saliva, but she didn't seem put off by his actions, so he continued. When he reached her shoulder, his kiss lingered there, in an attempt to silently reassure her that he meant no harm. He removed his lips after a fashion and replaced them with his chin. His hands found their way to her breasts and she grabbed his legs for support. He pressed the pads of his thumbs over her nipples, pressing down firmly but slowly until they sank into her a little. He maintained that pressure, rubbing in a circular motion, but being careful to not actually brush the skin.
Her hips rocked placidly, and she whimpered. Pleased with that response, he dared ask a question he hopefully knew the answer to.
"How is that?" he wondered, not stopping his attentions.
"It's… hard to describe. Faint, but good… pleasant…," she breathed.
"Then do you trust me if I try something else?" he asked, bolder this time.
She sighed, exasperated. It wasn't easy to get her to do anything, even if Doug reassured her. She still refused to go into large department stores or malls, because the security cameras set her on edge.
"… fine, do it," she mumbled.
"I need you to relax, okay?" he nipped bravely at her earlobe. She liked that, and he coaxed out a quiet 'okay'.
He slowly released her, moving the thumb and forefinger of each hand and pinched tenderly as far down on her nipples as he could. She tensed, and he allowed her to get used to the new sensation. After a minute or so, she finally began to relax. It was then that he started to move, worrying the flesh lovingly, working the nubs back and forth like radio dials but never twisting very far.
She thrashed and squirmed, breathing sharply, her legs kicking at the mattress and propelling her hard into Doug's chest. He immediately let go of her, heart pounding.
"Are you okay? Did that hurt?" he said anxiously, his voice going up in pitch.
"N-no…," she panted. "It didn't hurt."
He breathed a sigh of relief. For a split second he was just glad she hadn't been in pain, but then it hit him.
"Was it really that good?" he asked, expression brightening.
"Yes," she whispered, out of breath. "… don't stop."
He quickly resumed his treatment, and she went right back to squirming in his grasp. She pedaled the air, head rolling back, mouth open and panting hard. Gradually, almost imperceptibly, her breathing and movements slowed as she got used to the sensation.
He moved a little faster, and she returned to her original speed.
Yeah, that's all you needed, isn't it? You haven't been touched before and you're just not used to it, that's all. That's why it hurt when you tried it. You didn't know how to do it properly. Or maybe it was just a bad time of the month, or something like that. But you don't have to be scared of it any more. I'll take care of you. I'll make you feel good.
Her squirming made him happy, more than happy, and he decided to quit these particular actions while he was ahead. He didn't want to get too excited and end up twisting too hard or otherwise causing her pain, which would only bring them back to square one. He let her go to hug her stomach again, and she slumped in his arms.
Doug gave Chell a moment to catch her breath. After a time, she turned to him, a weary smile on her lips and a dreamy look in her eyes.
"That? Was intense," she said, kissing him on the cheek.
He pressed his lips to hers and she turned back around, arms coiling around his neck as they embraced. Doug placed one hand on the small of her back, and entwined the other in her hair. He wondered briefly if he should try French kissing, but it seemed that great minds really did think alike, because at that moment Chell's tongue ran over his lips. He was startled, but not so much that he could refuse her, and allowed her to go inside. A chill went up his spine at the unfamiliar, slippery sensation. It was more unpleasant than anything else, and he pulled away.
He wondered if she would be upset with him. But he saw that her tongue had retreated back into her mouth, and she was smacking her lips as though he'd tasted unpleasant.
"No good, huh?" he chuckled.
"No… no good… it's kinda nasty, don't you think?" she said, licking her lips disgustedly. "Why did I think that was a good idea?"
"Well, clearly the French must see something in it," he laughed again, but she only quirked an eyebrow at him in confusion. He quickly explained. "… it's called French kissing."
"Oh," she mumbled.
"Sorry, I know it must be frustrating to know some things and not others. But that's the nature of knowledge itself! No matter how much we've learned, we're always going to be caught unawares by the unknown," he said. Only too late he realized that he was delving into the realms of philosophical lectures and away from his real objective of less cerebral things.
Chell got him back on track with a swift kiss, and moved down to his neck before he could even think, licking at the skin. Her hands wandered to rub at his nipples, mimicking the technique he'd used on her not a minute earlier. He gasped, angling his neck to give her more room to work.
He slowly became aware of his heart beating in his groin, creating a firm pressure. He fidgeted uncomfortably.
Chell, noticing this, glanced down at him. He tried to scoot away out of embarrassment, but she was insistent, and pulled him back towards her. Her eager eyes swiftly snapped to his erection and she perked up, a smile tugging at her lips. She looked up at him pleadingly.
"Can I…?" she wondered teasingly.
He nodded, cheeks flushed, and she reached down to poke at it through the cloth. He winced at the sudden sensation. She ran her finger over the tip and down its length, and he sighed.
Chell tugged at the hem of his pants, fumbling with his fly, but it wasn't easy to take them off with his hard-on in the way. Doug grabbed her hand, and held it happily for a moment before helping her undo the zipper. Now that they had more room to work, he got off the bed and stood up, working off his looser-but-still-pretty-tight pants. Now they were even, he still in his boxers and she only wearing her panties. A quiet thrill shot through his crotch at the sight of her, sitting almost completely naked on the bed, leaning forward seductively, dilated eyes half-lidded and looking him over eagerly.
Doug knew he wasn't much to look at. His skin was pale as paper and his face looked funny. Coarse, dark hair grew in an unruly patch across his chest and down linearly to his groin. It peppered his legs, arms, and back. It tended to grow exceptionally thickly across his face and neck as well, but he'd shaved recently and hoped that his beard wouldn't return for a while. The day he'd first shaved, Chell had, upon coming home for the day, thought for a moment that he was a stranger in their house. But one look at his gaunt frame and his funny-looking eyes reassured her. She was upset with him a little at first, too, because she had liked the way his beard felt when he kissed her. But he felt that the dark hair on his body only served to add contrast, making his already pasty skin look even more washed-out. He was glad to be rid of the beard.
She motioned for him to come back to bed, and as though that wasn't already compelling enough, she leaned back and pulled off her panties, tossing them aside onto the floor with the rest of their clothes. He smirked, face going red again, and tugged off his boxers. He crawled back on the bed, pawing nervously at her body and cuddling up to her. She leaned back against the pillows at the headboards, and he lay flush across her, between her legs. He licked her neck and rocked against her, causing her to moan a little.
He was genuinely worried about the implications of making love to her. What if the condom broke? What if he was too rough with her? What if, when he tried to put it in, she screamed in pain and pulled away? What if he did something stupid? If she felt she couldn't trust him, it could ruin their relationship and even her confidence. The first time she went clothes shopping with him, the sight of the security cameras had made her clam up, and when they got home she didn't leave their room for a week. And he didn't want anything to upset her like that again, especially not his own stupidity.
But all his worries were draining from him. He was crazy with need, shoving himself harder against her thigh in an attempt to soothe his aching erection. His mind went cloudy, mental images of himself fucking her lovingly but mercilessly pushed out all the bad thoughts. He longed to prove to her that she was loved, even if he had to pound the idea into her. He wanted it, and seeing as her inner thighs were becoming increasingly slicker, she wanted it, too.
He delayed no longer, kissing her passionately while fumbling at the nightstand for the condom. After brushing against a glass, the lamp, and some scraps of paper, he finally found it. He pulled away, sitting up straight and attempting to pry open the packaging. The plastic was thick, several layers all mashed together around the soft circular structure of the thing. He couldn't get it to rip, even though the wrapper stretched and deformed slightly as he pulled. Chell saw him struggling, but had never opened anything more complicated than a bag of pretzels, and seemed to trust him to accomplish this. He wasn't about to continue on without the condom either, that was unthinkable, but he did consider going into the kitchen to find a pair of scissors.
Finally, he felt the plastic rip just a little bit, and used that tiny fault to rend the packaging open. The condom, rolled up in a squashy ring, popped out and bounced on the sheets. He picked it up. It was slippery; he'd apparently gotten the lubricated kind. But that wasn't a problem. After all, one didn't look a gift horse in the mouth, and Gordon had been kind enough to give him this in the first place so he wasn't about to let it go to waste.
It had been a long time since last he'd done this, but he still remembered the basics of how these things should work.
To apply a condom, first you must be certain it's turned the right way. Squeeze the tip so no air remains in it, and press the condom to the tip of the penis. Remember to never put a condom on a penis that is not erect. Then, while depressing the tip, use your free hand to unroll the condom down-
He shook his head to clear it. For some reason, that particular mental recitation was in the voice of Wilson, Chell's Companion Cube. It felt odd to think in its voice. According to Chell, she had always thought of Wilson as being a lazy goofball. The voice Wilson had when speaking to Doug (before he got back on antipsychotics) reflected this. To think about anything even remotely scientific in such a voice was just too silly.
While he was deliberating, he finished putting on the condom. It was a tad uncomfortable, but then again they almost always were. At any rate, there was no going back now, no way to save this for another day. He couldn't exactly put the condom back in its wrapper and expect it to still be good. And who knew when he'd buck up and buy more of his own? No, he was still too paranoid to do that, to have even a random cashier know that he was planning to have sex. And it wasn't like he could get Chell to go out and buy condoms, either. She disliked shopping in all of its forms. It was now or never.
Glancing at her, he realized that she'd been staring at his crotch this whole time. He felt a bit funny about that. It was a weird mixture of embarrassment and pride, not really objectionable but not wholly good, either.
He crouched down between her legs, ignoring his own need so that he could get more familiar with her privates. Seeing as he soon planned on having rather exclusive access to them, he thought that would be best.
"Can I take a look?" he asked her.
"Oh, um… okay," she answered, taken aback by his request. She reached down and pulled herself open, face completely red.
It was true what they said: everyone was different. Her clit was small, and he rubbed absentmindedly at the shaft as he surveyed her. This seemed to put her at ease, and she leaned back against the pillows and very nearly purred. Doug decided everything seemed to be in order down there, and he ventured to poke his index finger inside her. It slid in easily, and he prodded her a little. She twitched and moaned as his finger curled, finding her g-spot. He pressed it a few more times and then pulled out, and she whined in protest.
But he was only replacing his finger with something better.
He kissed her, asked permission one last time, and she nodded. He pressed against her, sinking slowly inside, aided by the slicked condom and her inner wetness. She breathed heavily, entwining her fingers in his hair. She was unused to the feeling, but he took it slow.
He'd almost forgotten just how good it felt. And, he thought, since it was with Chell, it was probably even better than he remembered. The feeling of fitting a part of himself into another person, like fitting two puzzle pieces together, was overwhelming. Her body gripped him powerfully. It was tight, yes, intensely so, but it was also hot and (though he couldn't really feel it through the condom) very wet. He could feel her heart beating inside her, offbeat with his own pulse and comforting.
When he found himself about halfway in, he pressed against some kind of resistance. The cervix, he recalled. It'll move back on its own if I press it. He pushed gently against it, and Chell wriggled against the pressure. He gasped, surprised by the jolt of pleasure her sudden movements shot through him, and he held her shoulders in an attempt to keep her still.
"What… what's the holdup?" she mumbled, face flushed and sweaty. Doug suspected he looked no different.
"Have to… cervix… can't…," he choked out between breaths. His head was still very cloudy. He gulped and forced out a more coherent sentence. "You have to relax for me."
"Mmkay," she mumbled. She adjusted herself a bit, getting comfortable. He absentmindedly massaged her shoulders and the tension melted away. With this, he was able to push his way fully into her.
"Mmh~!" she moaned.
"Ohh…," he couldn't contain himself. With a fluid motion, he pulled out and shoved himself back in, relishing in the sensation. She gasped; apparently he was hitting the right spot.
He quickly fell into a slow, steady rhythm. The friction drove him mad, sending electric jolts of pleasure straight through him. His mind was working feverishly over the delight.
This is amazing, wow this feels so good, I love her. I think I love her. No, I know I love her. I love her. Oh Chell, I love you. Can you tell? I hope you can tell. I think you can tell. Wow, I love you, and I'm reallyloving this.
Thoughts became incoherent beginnings of coherent sentences, cut off by the bouts of liquid ecstasy shooting through his groin. When the pleasure lessened slightly as his introductory speed slowly became inefficient, his mind cleared enough for him to venture a glance down at Chell.
Her arms were wrapped tightly around his neck, and her entire body was rocking back and forth with his thrusts. He was particularly spellbound by how this affected her breasts. When he tore himself from the view, he ran his eyes over her. She was shimmering with sweat, her mouth was open slightly and she breathed deeply, and her eyes were glazed over and staring blankly at some unseen point over his head. He couldn't help but smile at the sight of her cheeks, which sported an enticing pink blush, darkened from exertion.
Seeing that he was looking at her, she made eye contact and shot him a silly grin.
"How are you doing?" she said, breathy and quick.
"Great… better than great," he smiled. "I love this… I love you."
"I love you, too," she looked at him with an expression he hadn't seen her make in a long time. When she'd first made it, he thought it meant 'I'm happy to see you', but he'd later learned it was closer to 'I'm so glad I'm here with you'.
At this show of affection, he became painfully aware of how slow he was going. So he plunged into her, harder and faster than before, thrusting in a more rapid succession. Her head rolled back and she rocked her hips against him in time with his quickened pace. A rumble rose in her throat, exploding from her in a powerful, growly moan.
He groaned with her, deep and throaty, and quickened his pace further. What she lacked in experience she more than made up for in fondness. Her hands were running up and down his back and shoulders, caressing him warmly, occasionally daring to squeeze his ass briefly before returning to embrace him. And it was more than that, it was like her body instinctively knew what to do, how to thrust her hips against his in time with his forceful shoves. And, really, what more to the art of sex was there? Timing, stamina, and love were really all there was to it.
But that didn't mean Doug hadn't learned a few tricks.
He reached down, which isn't easy when your hands are preoccupied with keeping yourself braced and steady on the mattress. He brushed her clit, close to its apex, and she jumped at his touch. He rubbed, gently at first, but it wasn't easy to keep oneself contained. He squeezed the shaft and she whimpered, high-pitched moans at the edges of her breaths. After several minutes of grasping at her, her head had lolled to the left and her eyes clenched shut. Doug's left hand was starting to ache with fatigue. He had no idea he was too much to hold up with just one arm. She grabbed his right hand desperately, and he thought she was trying to force him to go faster, but when he tried to she held him firmly in place. She gently replaced his fingers with hers and rubbed in his stead. He wanted to protest, but he couldn't keep himself steady any longer, and his right arm flew back to its original place on the mattress.
"Wh- why…?" he wondered between thrusts.
"You were shaking!" she yelped, surprised by a sudden return of his vigor. He was plunging into her harder than before.
He smirked. So it was done out of compassion, not rejection.
He fell into a fast, steady pace. Clearly this was what scientists called the plateau stage, and it was wonderful. No more weakening of pleasure, no more need to move quicker or harder to get more. He was content. Every push, every movement filled him with animal bliss. It was perfe-
"F-faster!" she screamed, surprising him. He stared at her, wide eyed and startled. Clearly her plateau speed was a tad higher than his.
He obliged, against his body's wishes, and went a little quicker. She moaned loudly, her hips shoving against him powerfully.
Okay, scratch the "plateau is the best" theory. Speed was addicting.
Suddenly, simultaneously, their eyes met without meaning to. Doug almost stopped entirely, completely stunned and more than a little embarrassed. Chell's expression mirrored his, eyes wide and focused for a split second, before they both swiftly looked away. Why was it embarrassing to make eye contact like that? Was it so surprising that there was another human being at the end of his dick?
He looked back shyly and found her staring at the junction between their legs. She watched fixedly as he pulled in and out, seemingly fascinated. The hand that had been massaging her clit tore itself away to cup his balls.
He gasped, not having expected this. She smirked up at him.
"You like that?" she said seductively.
He couldn't even properly respond. The pull of her body was intoxicating, and he was addicted. It wasn't long after she released his scrotum that he was unable to control his actions, unable to even regulate the strength of his thrusts. He'd reached an unsteady, almost vibratory pace, which he recognized immediately as his final speed. He'd already reached plateau, and now…
… now he was reaching the end.
"I-I'm…!" he screamed, back arching violently. He wasn't there yet, but he could feel it closing in. The knowledge of his impending orgasm excited and frightened him. He'd never been very good at holding it in.
Fighting the involuntariness of his jerking movements, he went again to take hold of her clit, rubbing hard down the shaft, earning a series of shrill moans. He needed to speed this up.
"Come on…," he whispered.
He felt her seize up, her entire body wracked with powerful contractions, squeezing him inside her as tight as she could, and he fought hard to keep moving until she rode it out.
"Aaaaaahh!" she screamed, quite loudly in fact.
He couldn't contain himself any more. It was too good, too arousing in too many ways, and he drove himself inside one final time, shaking hard to keep the stimulation going as his body overflowed with pleasure.
"Ohh, Chell!" he cried.
She relaxed a little, orgasm finished, but he was still in the throes of his passion. He was absolutely crazed, shuddering involuntarily, but only briefly before the feeling ceased and he collapsed on top of her.
He felt woozy, feeble even. Sleep tugged at him, making his thoughts and vision bleary. Clearly, he was no spring chicken. He couldn't do things like this any more….
Or, at least, so he thought. Chell herself had already begun to slip into a doze as well, but he didn't notice.
I have to get the condom off. I have to pull out. I have to fix the covers or we'll freeze tonight. I have to make sure the condom didn't break, he thought to himself. There were still things to do, but he couldn't coax himself into doing any of them.
Chell lethargically roused herself, patting his shoulder weakly.
"You gotta get up," she mumbled. Where had her intellectual vernacular gone?
He was reluctant, relishing in the comfortable afterglow a moment before stirring. He pulled out, cock still half-hard. That was good. You were supposed to get condoms off before the erection went away. He sat up, putting his legs over the side of the bed, and slid the rubber off. He tried not to think about it too hard, but the inside was absolutely splattered with sticky white cum. Ribbons of it stuck to his penis, and he wiped that off, grimacing. The stuff was disgusting, and it got everywhere.
Though, he was pleased to note that there was more of it than usual. At least he wasn't dehydrated any more.
He tossed the condom in the wastebasket by the bed and lay back down with Chell. He adjusted the covers over them, and held her. She smiled, blush still present, eyes half lidded. He returned that smile, and kissed her.
They were comfortable. Their first time had gone off without much of a hitch, and the afterglow buzzed in their brains. They were finally content, desperate lust was forgotten, at least for now. And, for once, neither one was want for human love or contact.
They were Doug and Chell, the mismatched soul mates.
Fun fact: this story will probably never be finished. I've been having a great deal of trouble with the setting and the second chapter, which became frustrating for me. If you like, the WIP of the second chapter can be found here: .com/post/14156797876/mismatched-soul-mates-chapter-2#notes
I might eventually return to this, but I have a lot of other irons in the fire right now. Maybe someday...