Athena slowly opened her eyes. She was lying down on her side on what looked liked a forest floor. She could hear a crackling sound and felt a source of heat hitting her back. She could also smell something cooking. She felt her stomach growl.
It was daylight – she had no idea how much time had passed.
Her eyes moved over to her arm…she was no longer wearing her suit. She moved other hand down to her leg – her jeans were ripped but her leg was bandaged.
Her eyes looked around her….everywhere was dense, thick forest. She was lying in a small clearing and she could hear the sound of running water – a stream nearby.
She listened and felt with her instincts. She must be miles deep into the forest. She slowly raised her head and pushed herself up on her elbow. She sat up and leaned forwards, rubbing the back of her head.
As she rubbed her head….the her last memory began to return.
Creed.
She opened her eyes wide.
She slowly turned her head to face the fire. Creed's large frame was pushed up against a log and he was watching her.
"Headache princess?" he whispered with an air of derision.
Athena stopped dead in her tracks for a moment.
Assess.
Athena looked Creed directly in his dark eyes. She took stood up slowly and calmly. God…her leg hurt.
Her mind turned to her gun? Where was it? Where was her phone?
Creed smiled at her darkly. He reached into his trench coat and pulled out her gun with one hand and her cell phone with the other. He showed them to her and slowly put them back in his pockets.
Athena kept his eye contact and showed no emotion when he did this.
Assess.
Athena walked slowly over towards him, ignoring the food and ignoring the taunt.
"What happened to the mutants?" she asked in a soft and calm voice.
Creed looked over at her and his lips curled. "I don't remember giving you permission to talk."
Athena looked at him. He stood up slowly, keeping eye contact with her.
"You speak when I let you, "he whispered deeply.
Creed leaned over to the fire and looked at the meat. He sliced a huge chunk out of it with his claws and sat back down. He took a massive bite and swallowed. He took another. He turned his eyes to Athena.
"Come here, " he said in a deep, husky voice.
Athena slowly walked over to him and stopped about a foot before him. She realised looking at him sitting down in the daylight just how broad-chested he was. He dwarfed the log he was leaning against. His coat hung across his broad shoulders and his legs were powerfully built.
"Kneel" he whispered very, very slowly. There was an edge to his voice she had not heard before.
Athena kneeled down without showing any emotion in her face.
Creed looked at her and cocked his head to one side. He looked her up and down.
"Closer, " he whispered.
Athena looked him in the eyes and slowly moved forward on her knees until her back was pressed against the thigh of his right leg. She felt the heat of his leg against her back and she could feel the incredible strength of it.
"You speak when I tell you to speak, you eat when I tell you to eat, you drink when I tell you to drink," he growled.
Athena didn't break eye-contact with him and stayed still.
Creed pulled a bit of the meat off with his fingers and offered to downwards to Athena.
"Eat, "he said with a low rumble in his chest. Athena could tell by her reaction to his presence that the inhibitors were already wearing right down. How long did she have left? She didn't know. She had no idea how long she had been unconscious. The rumble in his chest was…
Athena reached out with her hand. His hand was huge compared to her own small one.
"No, " Creed said. Athena stopped dead and put her hand down slowly.
"Eat," he said and raised his eyebrow. Athena looked at him for a moment and paused. She looked at the giant hand in front of her offering the food. Athena took an internal breath and she very slowly moved her head forwards his fingers. She opened her mouth, took the food from his fingers gently with her teeth. She slowly chewed it and swallowed. Creed smirked down at her.
His eyes glinted and never broke eye-contact with Athena.
He put his fingers towards her mouth. "Lick," he whispered. Athena kept her eye-contact and her face betrayed no emotion at all. But those fingers had claws and she needed to look at them.
She slowly pushed out tongue and brought it to one of his fingers. Her tongue flicked over it, slowly licking off the juice from the meat. She turned her attention to the other one….and slowly licked that. She sat back and looked at him.
"Good girl," he whispered in a husky voice.
Creed put a piece of flesh in his mouth, holding it between his teeth. Athena looked up at him, reading his eyes. They were boring into her – challenging her.
She slowly raised herself up on her knees. She couldn't reach without standing up. She looked up and opened her mouth. Creed growled and the noise hit her in the groin. She was starting to feel every noise he made in her body.
Creed lowered his head towards her and she could see his face coming closer to hers. Her eyes moved down to his mouth, centimetres from hers and she moved her mouth towards his. He let out a low growl when she placed her teeth around the flesh trying to take it from him. There was a moment she thought he wasn't going to release it. She waited. A moment passed and he let her.. She chewed slowly and then swallowed.
.
"Lick " he whispered huskily to her.
Athena sat up straight as she could and Creed lowered his face to her. She felt the heat of his breath on her face and the intensity of his eyes. She looked at his mouth. She looked at the hair on his face and she inhaled his scent. She felt herself becoming slightly lightheaded. She looked at his lips, which had some meat juice on it. She leaned herself forward and gently licked his bottom lip. She swallowed the juice and she could taste him. He tasted similar but different to Logan. He tasted so…completely male. She could feel herself begin to moisten. She leaned forward again and licked his top lip. She tasted him again and her eyes lingered there for a moment.
He cupped her face with a huge hand and turned it upwards. He looked at her pupils. Dilation increased. He took in a long, deep inhalation and smirked,
"Good girl," he growled. Athena felt her body changing. He lowered his mouth to her ear and whispered into it
"It's wearing off, isn't it, princess," he said.
"No technology to help you. No drugs to take,"
Athena looked forward, trying to ignore his breath on her ear. Creed put his hand on the small of her back and she arched into it, instinctively.
"Just you,,,,and me," he whispered.
Focus, agent.
"You're losing control" he smirked, turning his mouth to her other ear. The deepness of his voice went down to her groin again. She was focusing on keeping her heart-rate low.
He licked her neck where Logan's bite mark was. He put his own mouth over it and slowly began to bite her.
Athena felt the heat of his mouth on her neck and she felt her legs begin to feel weak. Athena let out a small gasp in her throat. Creed bit harder, holding her neck still in his mouth. He held her there for a moment and Athena closed her eyes. His eyes went dark and he could feel her pulse in his mouth. Controlled. Not the usual frail who ran and screamed and begged.
He took his mouth away and looked her neck. His bite mark was larger and over the top of Logan's. He licked her neck with one long stroke..
"You wouldn't survive my usual marking, princess," he whispered.
He moved his head to the other side of her neck and licked there.
"You'd be dead….in seconds," he whispered.
Creed turned her around and lowered his face down to hers. He slowly bared his fangs at her and Athena looked into his eyes – focusing on keeping her heart rate down. Accelerated heart rate would trigger his animal hunting instincts.
Creed looked at Athena's face. Her cheeks were beginning to flush and her lips were beginning to swell. He smirked, reaching his hand down to a bag and bringing up a handful of bandage material.
"You're good," he whispered. " I'm going to enjoy breaking you".
He began to slowly wrap the bandages around her neck, building up inches of padding.. He then took off his belt and began to wrap the leather around her neck again and again, creating a thick collar.
"I wouldn't advise taking this off," he growled in her ear.
He turned her around so that he back was to his body.
"I'm going to give you a head start, princess," he whispered.
"Get moving, " he pushed her way from him.
"Then I'm coming after you," He growled.
Athena didn't look back at him and began moving into the forest, feeling his eyes burning into the back of her neck. She tried to control her breathing.
Creed wanted to hunt.
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