Findings

Nick woke up on sofa. Why had he been sleeping on sofa? And what was that sound of things falling and flying coming from his bedroom. Oh. So it had woken up. And by the sound it was making, quite in a shock. Well, he didn't wonder that. It had woken up after a serious injury had rendered her unconscious in a totally strange environment. Who wouldn't be a panicking. He stood up, not realizing he was wearing only his underwear and climbed up the stairs. As he walked, he heard the rumbling even harder. He walked at the console and made it show what was happening in the room. The xeno was trying to move on the bed, but was only able to use its hands. Were its feet broken? But they should have healed already. Well, he had to go there and calm it down a bit. He opened the door and walked in.

It was a mess. The xeno's tail whipped all around knocking down things. Then it noticed Nick. immediately it settled down. Not from being curious or anything. It was outright scared. And it looked very sad when it was scared. "Calm down. Good. I'm not going to hurt you. I promise." He said quietly. He knew than it couldn't understand him, but the way he spoke did make it rest a bit. Nick slowly approached it, keeping his hands visible and himself a bit prone, so he didn't look threatening. When he was about ten feet away from it, he noticed how he had no any protection. The xeno seemed to understand that too, as it slowly went from defensive position to more like just curious what this thing before him was. Nick swallowed his fear and took a step forward. The xeno hissed warningly. So not that fast. He again took a step, this time more prone and much slower. The xeno followed him with its eyeless stare until he was right next to it. Slowly, Nick rose his hand and reached the alien creature, keeping "Eye contact" all the time. When he was almost touching its forehead, it ducked and backed off. It still didn't trust him. Then, He got an idea. He left the room, feeling the creature follow him with its stare and then he close the door.

When he came back, he had a plate and on it a good sized steak. The creature immediately had his attention. He slowly walked close to the bed and then put the plate as close to the creature as possible. Then he backed off and started waiting. He knew that offering food to an injured animal was a good way to win its trust. He hoped the same rule works on aliens.

After the xeno had eyed the plate curiously some minutes, it slowly managed to move itself to the plate. It smelled the steak and then looked at Nick. He could almost see that it asked: "Is this for me?". Then, it turned its head to the steak again. After some touching and smelling, it came to a conclusion it was no poison. When it opened its mouth and took a bite with its inner jaw, he smiled. It had accepted the offer and was now enjoying the meal. The steak vanished in no time. Then it turned itself so it could lean against the wall. It seemed happy to have something to eat. Now, that it had fed, Nick slowly began his way towards the xenomorph. It started to follow his motion with its head. When he was again just some few feet away from it, it hadn't hissed to him at all. Slowly he lifted his hand again, and brought it closer to the alien's forehead. He could feel the tension betwwen them. After a time which felt like an hour, his hand touched its head. It was now much warmer, and maybe a bit more stiff. First, Nick didn't do anything. Then he slowly began moving his hand back and forth on the xenomorph's smooth head. He was petting a xenomorph! First it seemed to be surprised of his actions, but then relaxed and even started to purr. It seemed to like the feeling.

It continued some time. He stroked its head carefully, not wanting to startle it. Then he felt something touch his back. He looked back and saw the xenomorph's tail rise behind his back. First he was scared that it was going to kill him, but when it started to gently caress his back, he understood that it was only returning the favor. It did indeed feel nice. He didn't know why, but somehow the tail's blade didn't seem to even make a scratch to his back. But he didn't want to think it now. It felt really good. Like massaging and tickling at the same time. After the creature touched the part his neck joined his back, he felt a cold feeling at his heart. It could now kill him with no problem. But it didn't. It just continued to move its tail around his back as he stroked it. It really did seem to trust him now.

Then, it suddenly stopped. Nick had had his eyes closed, as he trusted it to not kill him. Now he opened them. Something was troubling the creature. He looked where it was looking. Its legs still didn't move. Of course! It was still unable to move!. He grabbed the Pocket-Doctor and scanned its legs. Their bones were broken. He looked again. The Sancon should have fixed its legs by now. Then why were they still broken? The device said again how The "Patient" needed 20 milliliters of Sancon. Nick sighed. It was an alien. How could he assume that all the medicines would work. Well, the Rezt-pills had worked. It didn't seem to feel any pain. He thought it for a moment, until he felt something touch his back again. He turned his gaze from its feet to itself. He expected to see the tail once again, but was surprised to see the creature push him away. He stood up from the bad and turned to see what it was going to do. For his great surprise, it just started to produce saliva and let it drop on the places where the broken bones were. Did it think it could heal itself by licking itself? Then, for a new surprise to Nick, the saliva seemed to be absorbed by the skin of the xenomorph. Then after enough saliva had been absorbed, it moved to the next broken bone. When it had done all that, it looked at Nick again. It tilted its head questionably and patted the bed next to him. Was it beckoning him to come and sit with it? It sure did seem like that. Before he could choose though, there was a loud murmur from his belly. Only now he understood how hungry he was. "I'm sorry, but I need to go and eat. I need food too." He said. The xeno did seem a bit disappointed, but also seemed to understand. With that, Nick left the bedroom looking at his new friend all the time. He didn't understand in any moment that he had forgot to close the door.

In the kitchen, Nick took a ready meal from the freezer and put it in micro and put it on. Then he sat on a chair and began thinking things through:

He had found an injured xenomorph and took it home.

He had healed it and let ti sleep in his bed.

It had developed quickly a trust towards him, and they were now "friends".

He was so in his thoughts hat he almost didn't hear the micro beep when it was ready. He shook his head to clear his thoughts and went to take his food out from the micro. He sat on the chair and began eating his food. It was a creamy, spicy mushroom soup. It was a bit hot, but he could eat it. Then, in the middle of eating, he felt something touch his left shoulder. He stood up quickly and turned left. There was nothing there. The looped around and saw nothing. Then, a familiar touch caressed his back. It was his new friend. But where was it? And how had it been able to come here? He looked behind him, and sure enough, there it was. A familiar tail hanging from the roof. Wait a minute. The roof? He looked up, and saw it there, hanging there and looking at him. Had its feet already healed? That thing it had used was something strong. Nothing could heal broken bones in matter of minutes. then again, it seemed to enjoy his company, and Nick gave a smile to it. It looked at him puzzled. It didn't seem to understand facial impressions. "This is smiling. I'm smiling because I'm happy." He said to it like he would say to 3-years old kid. Now the xeno looked at him and nodded in understanding. It knew how to nod? And even more knew what it meant to humans? Before he said anything though, he saw it curl its lips so it seemed to smile too. Now, he couldn't think this creature as an animal anymore. It surely was far more intelligent than that.

He finished his meal with his companion. The xeno was keen to learn things around itself like a young kid. It was the most cutest thing to see it try to understand how to use a television. When it had grabbed the remote, Nick was first curious to see what it did with it. When it had looked at it some time, it tried to bite it to see if it was something to eat and he had to show it to it himself. It was bewildered when it saw the blank screen burst into life when he pressed the big red button on the remote. Until some trial and error, it seemed to finally understand the basics of how to use a remote. It was funny also when it tried to claw the screen to get the cow what was shown in one of the programs. When he had got the message through that there was no cow, it started to browse the channels. It liked the Nature Channel very much. And music. Always when it heard music, Nick saw its tail start to wiggle at the same pace than the music went. Then Nick taught it how to use doors. It didn't first seem to understand that it was not actually wall it was looking, but a door. It also got scared a little when there just appeared a hole in the wall, when Nick touched the console. Usually his home's doors were automated, but he hadn't changed their mode because he had been busy with the xenomorph. When it tried what it had learned, Nick went and read more about its species. She was particularly interested in their breeding. He had quite a shock when he learned about the "facehuggers". It was hard to think that this friendly being next to him had been born so cruel way. And the worst part of it was that it couldn't do anything about it. It had been forced to kill someone. He tried to forget what he had read, but it was impossible. Information like that will linger in his mind a long time. Then he read about the first recorded encounter with its kind. There had been this ship, Nostomo that had picked up a strange signal and went to find out what it was. After that there was no really much information, but it seemed that one of the crew was implemented with a facehugger and so given birth to a xenomorph, which killed almost the whole crew, excluding a woman called Ellen Ripley, who managed to kill it. There was more encounters after that, but there was even more information about what happened in those encounters. When he heard a purr next to him, he was happy to see his friend next to him, wondering what he was doing. "I'm reading about you. You understand?" He said. It nodded. Then, a crazy idea came into his mind. "Do you want to learn how to read?" He asked it. After some time, it nodded.

It did learn quickly. Extremely quickly. When the last light of the sun went out, he had managed to teach it the basic words, their different forms and meanings and also some more advanced bits and pieces. It had the most amazing memory he had ever seen. Then he felt how he was getting hungry again. He stood up and almost yelled in surprise: his feet had gone numb as he hadn't risen from sofa at all as he had taught his friend. Now his feet didn't feel a thing, and he couldn't stay up before he fell again. "Could you help me? I need to get to that white box." He said and pointed at the refrigerator. It looked at him first, and then grabbed him from the waist. Its grip was firm but gentle. And it was a very powerful way to show trust. After just few steps, he was seated on a chair as it walked at the refrigerator and opened it.

"Screeh!" It screamed as it was surprised of the coldness it radiated, but it calmed soon. Then it turned its head towards him in puzzlement. "I need you to take that green box." He said and pointed at a convenience food package. It took it and closed the refrigerator. "Now open the microwave and put it in there." He said. It was fun to have a test of what it had learned so far and was it able to use the information it had learned. It opened the the microwave and put it in. Then it closed the machine and looked at him again. "Now you just need to press that button there. The most-left." He said. It pressed the button and the microwave started humming. "Good work! You are very good learner!" He said. It came to him and pressed its head to his lap loudly purring.

After they had both eaten, Nick thought that he should go to take a shower. As he went into the bathroom, he noticed that it was following him. It wanted to know where he was going and what he was going to do. "I'm sorry, but... You can't come with me. I haven't told you it, but unlike you, we humans think that nudity is not acceptable in front of anyone. And I need my privacy." He said. He actually didn't mean it. It would just be... weird to have it see him nude. And it would of course want to shower with him. He was sure of it. The xenomorph didn't seem to want to give up easily. It was eager to know what had made such a change in its friend's behavior. So it just pushed itself past him to the bathroom. "I think I'm not going to be able to get you stay outside, am I?" He sighed. But it was not hearing him. It was looking around and smelling. This room was so different from the others. It smelled... flowers and it had much more moisture in its air. Then it turned its gaze back at its human friend.

He was undressing himself. For Nick, it was what he had thought: weird to undress in front of it. He felt so many things when he finally was fully nude in the same room with it; shame, shyness,awkwardness, nervousness and, for much of his disgust; arousal. For the xenomorph, it was only curious. It thought why had its friend took his all clothes in front of it. Although, it did like the view. He could see his friend blushing a bit. Why?

Nick finally got control over himself and strode past it. He opened the curtains to the shower and pressed the buttons on a waterproof console in the shower. As the water started to come out, the xeno got interested. It came with him under the shower. Even though it was a bit weird to have a huge xenomorph next to him, it actually was fun; seeing it try to lick the water made him laugh a bit, and when he had tried to show it how to shower, it had only made them tumble on each other. When they finally fell on each other, Nick on the top, there was a awkward silence for some time. Nick just thought how intimate this actually was, to be in touch of each other why they shower, although he liked it. The xeno, however, was loving it; it hadn't had almost any caring contact in its life, and now this? It didn't care that its "partner" was a human. just the opposite. It liked him. He had shown so much about how humans live, he had healed it when it had been injured, it had caressed it! It had never felt anything like it, and it loved it! Then, this had happened. Even it knew how important this their little moment had been. So it did the thing it felt right: It gave him a loving hug. And after some time, he returned the embrace.

When they left the bathroom, Nick had a strangest feeling he had ever felt. It was hard to describe. But it was a good feeling. "Do you want to do that again sometimes?" He asked. Part of his mind rioted against the idea, the other welcomed it. He chose the one who welcomed it. It was a late night, somewhere around 10 pm, when he climbed up the stairs to the bedroom. "Hard to believe that this morning you hissed at me when I got too close to you, and now we have just showered together!" He said and smiled to the memories. He walked next to the bed and took off his clothes again except his underwear. Now, it almost felt usual to be with it almost fully naked. He tucked under his covers. "Well? You coming?" He asked and made some space for the xenomorph. It curled next to him and began purring. Before Nick fell asleep, he felt how his newly found friend wrapped itself around him, sealing them into their own worlds for the night.

Author's note:Ok, so that's two chapters in same day! I don't even know what has hit me! Please, muse, spare me so I can sleep!

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