When I had realized exactly what I'd been about to do to her I had to restrain myself. The anger that bubbled up inside me threatened to make me roar, but that would probably just make the kid think I was angry at her instead of myself. She was so warm and small under me, and I'd almost done that without even meaning to. Sure I'd raped women before, I'd raped some girls only a little older than her too I was sure, but she was my cub, my Pup. She deserved a better first time. Some of her arousal touched the air, but I knew that was just a physical thing; I could smell her fear and panic more than anything. It'd taken everything I had, but I got off her. Just when she tried to move from the bed too I almost lunged at her… I was too hard to play games with her right now.
Once everything was said and done though, and I explained what had really been happening to her, she still wanted to stay. Fuck that threatened to make me hard again when she nuzzled my jaw telling me we belonged to each other. I let her for a moment, taking the affection before I had to explain some rules. If we were going to be sharing a bed there was going to have to be some rules. Then I had to get her to talk about killing that guy…
I leaned in kissing her forehead to get her to stop nuzzling me, before I grumbled, "If you're going to sleep here there's going to be some rules."
"Okay," She breathed looking up at me. I pressed my fingers through her hair as I looked back at her. I never had anyone who looked at me like I was their whole world. It didn't bother me like I thought it would. It was actually something to have a person that was all mine and actually agreed with the fact.
"First if I ever start doing that again, wake me up faster, I don't care if you try to hurt me, I promise I won't do anything to you for it," I told her as I settled my hands on her hips. She nodded even though she looked unsure of it. I squeezed her hips a bit saying, "I don't want to do that to you while I'm asleep. Tell me you'll do as I said Pup."
"I will," Nina said, nodding again, she seemed a little more sure this time, but I still doubted she'd do more than yell at me.
Sighing I ran my hands up and down her sides a bit. "You don't get out of bed without permission," I told her, looking down at her to make sure she knew I was serious. This wasn't a game, and I wouldn't have her thinking otherwise. I would not wake up to find her just suddenly gone, she would not enjoy me tearing apart the school in whatever state of dress I was in to find her, and so we'd both benefit from this rule. I didn't want the X-Men knowing just how attached I was to her either.
"What about class?" She asked as she fidgeted a little.
I sighed, right schooling. "We'll set an alarm, I'll let you leave." She nodded after that, and I was satisfied that she'd do as she was told, or she'd learn real quick if she forgot or didn't listen. The school thing wouldn't be too much of I problem I guessed. I was probably going to be saddled with some kind of job, which would probably start around the same time as everyone else's which started when the school did. If I kept her from going to class on time, I'd be late too and I'd just take her down to the class. Who was really going to scold me?
"You always going to lay on me?" Nina asked looking up at me, blushing now.
"If I feel like it," I chuckled as I leaned in and nudged her face with mine affectionately. It was after that I could almost feel her pause.
Then she asked something I had to think about, "Mr. Summers, and Ms. Grey, aren't gonna like it if I sleep up here huh?" They weren't. In fact Jimmy probably wouldn't even be pleased about it. No one would. I mulled it over. If I wasn't making the kid come up here, it should work out. I just couldn't sleep in her room; she'd have to come up here all by herself…
It wouldn't be that difficult.
"You don't have to sleep up here with me," I said, even if at times this might be a lie. Still there would actually be times when it was best she didn't, she was after all old enough to go into heat, "I won't make you sleep up here, but as long as you want to… well they didn't give a shit when you went to Jimmy in the middle of the night did they?"
"Nope," she said, popping the p a little. "Though I only really slept in his room once, usually we watched TV on the couch till I fell asleep. Sometimes I'd wake up in my room, but usually we were just still on the couch."
Heat…
If she went into actual animal, scent giving off, teasing the fuck out of me heat…
I was damn well smart enough to put on a condom these days; I could not always say I was smart enough to just keep it in my pants. For now she was a fucking tiny kid, there was a possibility I could keep my dick in check, it wasn't likely after this morning but we'd see. After all, it might not happen except every couple of years, or at worse once every year. I heard feral females could be like that. If that was the case the second it happened I'd just leave for a bit, couldn't last more than a couple days… right? Still just in case I added on, "If I tell you that you gotta sleep in your own room though, you gotta sleep in your room, Pup."
"Kay," She seemed a little put out, but I was sure there'd be times she didn't want to sleep up here anyway.
Now for the part that wouldn't be so easy.
Until some fucker was knocking on my door!
"Creed! The fuck did you buy a bed for?!" Jimmy yelled from the other side of the door. "And Nina damn well better be okay in there!"
Sighing I lifted the kid from my lap, setting her down on the ground next to the bed before getting up myself. I moved towards the door even as she questioned, "Why did you buy a bed?" I had half a mind to tell her that it was for the extracurricular activities we'd be doing down the line, but Jimmy was just outside.
Opening the door, I answered both of them, "I bought a bed because other people have been on this mattress and it'd take years to get their scent out of it." Then I added, "And of course the pup is fine, didn't come all the way across the country to tear her apart. Nope runt, only do that for you."
"Why didn't you just buy a new fucking mattress?" Jimmy asked as I walked back further into the room to actually put on clothes.
"Wanted something sturdier." I shrugged. Jeans, shirt, done. "Might not stop your claws, but I'd rather no one else destroyed it in some fit of rage either." Of course I'd have started it, but wood always seemed to turn into a stake, like I was some kind of vampire, and splinters were a bitch when my healing factor was pushing them out. That was another reason I bought a metal frame, but I didn't need to give the kid nightmares or the runt ideas though.
"You know we gotta carry that fucker up three flights right?" Jimmy continued to question me as I stopped to eye Nina who seemed rather amused by all of this.
"I'm aware," I said distractedly, before I asked as I gripped her chin to get her to look up at me, " What are you smirking about Pup?"
Her grin widened, her ears were even up, her tail wagging, "You two are like brothers," She giggled a little as both mine and Jimmy's face went shocked, "Bickering, and fighting, but you two obviously like each other. Logan wouldn't help anyone else carry a bed up stairs just 'cause they didn't like the one they were given for free."
"What did you do to her?" Jimmy asked looking at me like I'd brainwashed her or something.
"I didn't do shit," I said as I let go of her chin and rubbed her ear affectionately. She was right, of course she didn't know it, but she was at least half right. After that I told her, "Go get dressed, this is gonna take a minute." I was gonna have to talk to her later about her killing that guy. It obviously tied into the mate thing, so it was going to be a long ass chat about things that were gonna make her cry, or blush, or both.
…Might as well do it on the new bed.
"We'll get the bed and everything up here, then we'll move the old one into a different room for now," Jimmy said as he watched Nina scamper off to do as she was told. Once she was out of sight Jimmy mentioned, "She looks better."
"She does, I'm just glad she didn't run off before I got here," I said as we both started to head downstairs.
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"Fucking hell Runt! You ram me into the wall one more time and I'm going to put you through it!" I shouted at him as we carried the box containing the pieces for the bedframe. There were little X-kiddies watching from what they thought were safe distances while me and Jimmy tried to get the overly large bed up the stairs without killing each other. One-eye, and Storm were also watching, though I'm sure they were there in case me and Jimmy started really trying to kill each other.
"Then actually help carry this fucker!" Jimmy yelled back at me. It was true I wasn't holding on as much as I should but he started it by ramming me into the banister.
"What it too heavy for ya?" I taunted only to find myself being jerked off to the side and into a door way. "What did I tell you?!"
I was about to drop it and tear his head off, agreement or not to put up with the good guys, but Nina popped up next to us. She was wearing those pants I bought her yesterday; they were tight and hugged her in a way that gave her hips, and a tank top… Kid had some curves, they were little curves but they were there. It took me a second to realize she was talkin' to me, "What was that Pup?"
She huffed a little, but she repeated herself, her hands landing on those little hips, "Ms. Ororo says that if you two start trading blows she's going to make it rain in the attic for a week." I went to sneer at her but Nina insisted, "I think she might actually be able to do it Mr. Creed, she's been hailed as a goddess before, and if it rains in your room I'm not visiting you."
I sighed before shoving my head towards Jimmy saying, "Talk to the runt then."
"Logan please!" She whined as she turned to him.
Jimmy tried to stare dully at her, but when she started to wiggle around a little, playfully pleading with him her hands clapped together, he gave in growling, "Fine I'll stop busting him into the walls if he actually does his share!"
She looked back at me her tail wagging a bit before I sured up my grip on the box. After that I was rewarded with a happy little noise as she scampered up the stairs passed me. "She's going to kill us one day," I growled as we started moving again, a little more cohesively.
"Fuck that, she's going to rule the world," Jimmy sneered as we got up the stairs, "Probably amass an entire army of men who'll be wrapped around her little fingers."
Once we were walking down the hall towards the next staircase I caught sight of Nina as Jimmy started walking backwards after I angled us out of the stair case. She was watching us from the end of the hall as she talked with Hank who was standing in his doorway. "She's fucking demon," I said affectionately.
"She's a teenaged girl, and if I've learned anything that's an accurate description," Jimmy laughed even as Nina glared at us, obviously able to hear exactly what we were saying.
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"Mr. Creed I can't breathe," Nina gasped as I held her to me in an attempt to calm down; we were on the ground next to the newly built bedframe with her in my lap. I growled a little but adjusted my hold on her to make sure air was getting to her lungs and I didn't break any of her ribs. "Ms. Grey why can't you just go away?!" She growled as she leaned up and nuzzled under my chin.
"Because he needs to let go of you Nina," Red insisted from just outside of the room. "I just want to make sure you're okay."
"I'm fine!" Nina growled against my neck. I took her scent in a little more, ignoring Red, and Jimmy who was lingering inside my room. "Logan, tell her I'm fine."
"Nina, you don't understand the things he's done!" Red was getting loud and screechy as she cut off Jimmy.
He still commented calmly, "I told her you were fine already. I told her that you were the safest person in the school. I've explained all of this." I glanced up to find Jimmy inspecting his metal claws, them having popped when I had originally intended to go for the red haired frail. "I also told them that you two were going to be affectionate, that you were gonna crawl all over Creed, and he was gonna let ya and they didn't need to worry. Fuck I told 'em that even if they did need to worry, you'd sooner bite their helping hand than turn on him. I don't even fucking like it, but ain't shit I can do unless me and Creed have it out."
Nina made this sad, little heartbroken noise at that. She'd never seen me and Jimmy really fight, where it came to blood drawing blows. She'd heard of our fights, she'd heard I was a bad horrible man, and to a point she knew and understood, but she'd never seen any of it. No one could blame her for not wanting to see it. She didn't want to see her pack fight. Still this all gave me a second to calm down enough to let her go. She frowned a little but she crawled off my lap to sit sulkily next to me as I settled my gaze back on Red my claws itching, extending and going back as I tried to keep calm. I was really trying not to lunch at her and take her pretty little throat out.
"There I let 'er go," I grunted as I rearranged my legs bending them at the knee and resting my arms over them. I was not in the mood to be bossed around by this frail.
"I see that," Red said looking at Nina. Nina's ears were down, and she pressed into my side, but then she looked at me, and I could tell. The frail was prancing around in my skull, she had that look of concentration to get around my walls, though it was almost covered by her irritation for me. "You seeing something you like frail?" I snapped at her.
She jolted before shaking her head and walking away.
"See you both," Jimmy said before walking out, shutting the door behind him.
Once Jimmy was gone Nina moved around pushing her way under my arm so I'd hold her. I'd been trying to think of the best way to do this, and blunt seemed best. "Now that they're done…"
Only she didn't let me, she pulled away suddenly and walked over to the boxspring and the mattress saying, "Let's finish with the bed. I mean you even bought sheets and everything."
"Nina, come over here," I growled holding my arms out for her. She hesitated, but she walked back over, reaching out one of her hands. Using it I coaxed her down into my arms, against my chest. "Now, how you feeling about killin' that man?"
"Professor X says it wasn't my fault, that I was doing it to protect myself… Like it makes the guy any less dead," Nina huffed as she sat between my legs looking a little upset. She looked slightly disgusted, though I wasn't sure with what or who. "I didn't kill him to protect myself."
"Mmh then why?" I asked, though I was sure I already knew.
"He kicked you." She breathed as she leaned into me more. "I… I don't know what happened. I just… snapped. I don't really remember what I was doin'."
"You regret it?" I asked moving some of her hair out of her face.
"He kicked you," Nina stressed as she looked up at me like I didn't understand. "I thought you were dead, and he kicked you, he kicked the person who was gonna save me!" Nina calmed down, she looked a little ashamed. "If… If I'd known you'd heal… I just would'a protected you until you could move… which sounds silly…"
Oh I understood everything.
"Considering you're such a runt, yes, but having a mate can sometimes cause ferals to do stupid things," I sighed as I combed my claws through her hair a bit. It made ferals do idiotic things like joining the X-Men or give up my regular job.
AUTHORS NOTES:
So here we go! This is the last prewritten chapter!
Which isn't exactly a good thing, but I'm gonna keep working on it of course. The next chapter is going to be after a bit of time has happened so everything is more settled, it's also going to be another Victor chapter. So updates are going to be a little more erratic.
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Kalulu77: I know, she did manage to stay really calm but I she was very aware that if she was too loud that someone would come to "save" her and that it wouldn't be a pretty sight. But thank you! I'm definitely going to write more for this!
