Where Do We Go From Here?
Kitatanya
Chapter 37
A/N: Thank you so much for your support! Glad to have you along! You're awesome!
SMUT WARNING!
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Catra did not even have time to fully register the world around them as they arrived in a rush of magical energy in Dryl, before she felt an odd shifting of the ground beneath her feet. An instant later, Melog let out a startled roar and she felt them charge into her body. The force of that charge sent she, Adora, and the technician that had been standing beside her mate, all flying sideways to land in a heap on the ground. Adrenaline and terror had her scrambling to her feet almost at once, hissing a challenge at whatever Melog had been protecting them against, when she saw a pit of spikes yawning in the middle of the courtyard right where they all had stood. Jasa, Yon, and the other three mages- introduced as Terrill, Kimi, and Cho only a few moments before- where all gaping and physically recoiling from it as well from the fading borders of the enormous rune around those vehicles, brandishing crystals and staffs glowing with energy.
Then, her mate let out a low groan behind her that had her spinning in alarm, only to see Adora hunching over near the terrified technician, head in her hands and shaking her head. She looked up a moment later with a rather sheepish expression. "Did I forget to mention that Entrapa's castle is booby-trapped?" She directed the question at the mages with a charming smile at Melog that didn't quite hide her embarrassment.
Melog let out an annoyed chuff as Catra pretended to glower at her mate to hide her own embarrassment. "You are such an idiot, Adora." She'd completely forgotten about it too and an amused glance from Adora and the glower Melog sent her way had her fighting not to giggle through the rush of adrenaline still coursing through her veins.
Before anyone could do or say anything else, Catra heard a screech and barely managed to duck before something flew right into her head. She felt something snatch her hair alarmingly close to one of her ears as it passed and couldn't help a yelp of surprise and pain. "Catra!" Adora's frantic cry mixed with Melog's roar and she saw a flare of crimson leap into the air at her side.
Just as Adora reached her, Melog landed in a flurry of motion, and Catra saw what had attacked her screeching from Melog's jowls. It was Hordak's little spy creature. It made perfect sense for it to be here, now that she saw it, but she had not been expecting it. A moment later, her surprise was blasted away as she acutely remembered her distaste for the creature.
"You!" She spat, bristling. The little spy didn't stop struggling, but he glared and opened his mouth and parroted the word a few times between creeling screeches of protest. Melog's eyes glittered and she felt a rather intimidating pulse of their magic that flowed out with a deadly growl, only barely muffled by his body. The spy creature gave a terrified twitch and went utterly still and silent in an instant.
Suddenly, she heard movement behind her, sending her spinning once again with her heart in her throat, only to find herself facing a looming, lanky robot on wheels with a loose, hanging jaw and brightly yellow eyes that sent chills down her spine in the entrance to a dark hallway. She'd met some of Entrapta's robots before, but the ones here- ones that had been still when she had been stationed here and very active in Adora's wavering memories- creeped her out to no end. The gasps from the technician, mages, and Melog's resurgent growling muffled by the little spy creature let her know she wasn't alone in the sentiment.
"Hi, there!" Adora greeted, trying and failing to hide her own trepidation as she stepped up beside her. "We're here to see Princess Entrapta."
It stood there for a moment, as if studying them, before lowering in a jerky bow and turning back the way it had come. A glance with her mate confirmed that they should probably follow, before Adora turned back to the others. "You guys wouldn't mind waiting here with the transports for a moment, would you?"
Jasa and Yon exchanged a wary glance with the other mages. "By your leave, your majesties." The way Yon spoke the formal words spoke a world. None of them wanted to anything to do with that robot.
Her mate grimaced slightly and then looked to the technician, who seemed to be greatly regretting his choice to accompany them, but at the same time all but pleading for them not to leave him alone. Under other circumstances it might have amused Catra, but right now all she felt was sympathetic for him. The both of them had been so caught up in their excitement at seeing Hordak and Entrapta they'd forgotten just how… different a place Dryl was.
Adora sent him an apologetic smile. "Why don't you stick with us?"
His face transformed into a mask of relief and he was by their side within moments. With another quick and meaningful glance with her mate, they started quickly after the robot who was already well on its way down the dark and yawning hallway. Melog was beside them in a flash, still holding the shivering little spy creature who looked even more terrified now. She saw Adora regarding them with a grim expression like she wanted to protest his treatment, but the steel in Melog's eyes held her silent. Catra was glad and the ear that he had almost yanked in his divebombing attack was suddenly twitching involuntarily at the thought of how painful it would have been had he succeeded.
As they continued along the halls, following that robot through the maze of hallways, the castle seemed very much more similar to Adora's memories here than her own. There didn't seem to be another living soul anywhere near them and all she could hear beyond their little grouping was the whirring and clanking and squeaking of machinery, echoing from all directions in a very eerie sort of way. She was doing her best not to bristle openly in trepidation every time they passed a dark opening or crossed paths with other robots wandering the halls, completing whatever tasks or purposes they'd been programmed for with their staring, glowing eyes. She acutely remembered from both of their memories Entrapta referring to them as friends and as having distinct and true personalities of their own, but all she'd ever been was weirded out by them. She loved Entrapta now just as much as she loved any of her friends, but this side of her was something she didn't think she'd ever be able to understand completely, no matter how she tried.
It wasn't until Adora's arm brushed hers that she realized that for all they'd remained apart, they'd drawn instinctively closer to one another in fear. Feeling suddenly silly, she grinned at her mate and saw a mix of love, relief, and self-chastisement in Adora's eyes. They drew closer to one another, Catra's arm winding about her waist as Adora's traced along her shoulders, drawing comfort from one another. This was Entrapta's home, no matter how different it was and so long as she wasn't tinkering with something particularly dangerous, they were safe.
Melog let out a derisive snort and one glance at their still steely eyes, let her know they didn't share the sentiment. It amused her, but she tried to stifle it for their sake. Melog's eyes flashed with a hint their own exasperated humor on top of hers, but that steely tension did not leave.
Finally, after what felt like hours even if she knew it had only been a few short minutes, the bot drew up on the door to Entrapta's sanctum. It entered in a complicated code and then gave another jerking bow as the door slid open. The sight that greeted her beyond that door had her too stunned to do anything but stare. It took everything she had not to shudder as they stepped inside a moment later.
The room was packed with even more random tech than either of their memories of Hordak's sanctum or Entrapta's in the past. The husks of an assortment of horde bots and uniquely Entrapta robots hung from wires from the ceiling and stood drooping in droves just inside the entranceway. Beyond them, monitors covered nearly the entirety of the far wall supported by towers of blinking and blipping tech and a huge desk of sorts with more buttons of different shapes and sizes that she'd ever seen in her life. Huge vats of viscus looking substances bubbled to the left of them and to the right were heaping shelves of endless assortments of tools and half-finished projects whose use she couldn't even begin to guess at. Wires of every size and color, covered almost half of the floors and walls.
Sparks suddenly rained down from the ceiling, startling her so badly she let out a tiny squeak before she could stop it. Adora went rigid against her and the technician clone dove behind them, mumbling incoherently in terror. Melog's aura was flaring crimson and their tail lashed as they looked up.
She followed their gaze and saw Entrapta hanging from one of a network of beams far above them by her hair, welding a metal bar in place. Hordak was suspended beside her, splicing together the exposed ends of two thick wires. Neither of them seemed to have noticed their entrance and again, Catra found herself to stunned to do anything but stare.
As Entrapta finished her welding, she reached without looking to grasp a loop of that wire he was splicing hanging from Hordak's waist and began feeding it through a hole in the metal bar. He finished splicing it and reached for her tool belt with one hand, rummaging around for a moment before pulling out a roll of black and shiny tape. By the time she'd taken up all of the slack, he'd finished taping the exposed wires shut and then he reached to hit a button on the belt the wires he was suspended from were attached too. A gear above him turned and he rose only a fraction of a moment after Entrapta, holding the end of the wire she'd fed through, had shifted up by her hair to hang now from beneath a hub of connected wires in the center of the ceiling.
Entrapta lifted her mask as he returned the tape to her belt and they both seemed to study the hub for a moment, before Hordak reached over and shifted a few coils to expose an empty port. Entrapta shook her head, draping the wire over her legs as she twisted to dig through the belt at her waist and Hordak dropped the coils before reaching further. He exposed another one nearer the center that looked the same to Catra, but Entrapta looked pleased as she pulled a strange device and what looked like a sort of adapter from her belt. Hordak took the adapter, screwing it in place within the port as she made a few minor adjustments to the attachment at the end of the wire. He was descending to the floor as she finished and they all watched as he hit another button, releasing the belt and strode to the giant computer system without even glancing in their direction.
He tapped a few buttons, sending half of the screens dark, before looking up to her. Entrapta nodded and attached the wire, using the strange device to tighten a part of the attachment in place. There was a maniacally excited giddiness in her eyes as she looked back down to him. Hordak grinned, eyes shining in a rather fierce sort of way, and turned back to the monitors, hitting another sequence of buttons. The screens came back on and he began typing, pulling up a series of programs on the different screens. He paused for a moment, watching them before letting out a pleased grunt.
"Success!" He cried, sounding infinitely happy. Immediately, he began typing more, manipulating a few of the programs.
"Yes!" Entrapta let out a peal of cheering laughter and began swinging along the beams to descend. When she reached the floor, she threw herself at him in an exuberant embrace that sent him stumbling slightly sideways with a laugh. "With this new boost, we'll be able to make so much more progress!"
Hordak beamed down at her. "And we no longer have to worry about upsetting your Glimmer." He chuckled.
Entrapta flushed and pouted. "Well, I still think it would have been more efficient to do it directly, but this way is much more secure!" She was smiling and cheerful again by the time she finished the sentence. "And we can-" She cut her words off when Hordak's eyes suddenly shot wide with a sudden realization and he was turning in Entrapta arms to face them as she followed his gaze. As soon as she saw them, she was beaming again. "Oh! Hi, guys!" She greeted them as if it were the most normal thing in the world for them to be there.
Hordak made a low, amused sound under his breath and his eyes were sparkling as he smiled at them. "Hello." He greeted warmly.
It was only then Catra fully comprehended that she and Adora had simply been standing there, staring like fools this entire time while the technician had remained all but curled in a ball behind them. She beamed at the both of them, heart suddenly full to bursting at seeing them. "Hey, Hordak. Entrapta." She purred, her voice was as warm as his had been. "We brought presents." She joked.
Adora's fingers tightened about her shoulders and she knew her mate was gazing at her with that adorable giddy expression. Knowing without a doubt she'd get lost in it if she looked up, she simply tightened her hold on her mate and pressed a fraction closer, before she turned on the technician, needing to reassure him.
"You don't have to be scared." She told him softly.
His acutely incredulous and terrified expression made her want to laugh and to hug him all at the same time. She pushed both urges away because she didn't want him to think she didn't care and, even with how fondly she felt towards he and his brothers, she did not know this clone well enough to feel comfortable touching him at all. She knew her mate didn't share the sentiment, but she wasn't surprised.
It was only a fraction after she'd had the thought, that Adora let go of her and turned to fully face him, kneeling so that she could meet his eyes. She lay her hands on his shoulders and began murmuring reassurances. Catra, full of love for her and knowing the technician was in good hands, turned back to Entrapta and Hordak. As she did. She caught Melog's eye where they still held the little spy creature, who was still hanging from their jowls like a limp doll.
"First." She gestured at them as Melog stepped forward. "Sorry if we broke him, but he attacked us."
Hordak's expression was a little dismayed as he broke from their embrace. He rushed forward to meet Melog and take the creature from them. She was a little surprised at the tenderness that Hordak held him, but the little spy creature began creeling and chittering angrily only a moment later. It fought free from his arms and Catra watched, astonished, as he sailed over Hordak's head, giving him a similar blow to the one he'd given her, before retreating in a wide, zagging circle somewhere into the dark shadows of the robotic husks.
Hordak gazed after him for a moment, a mix of exasperation and regret in his expression, before looking back to her. "His time alone did not sit well with him." He stated it simply, but the words were full of meaning. She knew the smile she sent him then was more like a grimace, but he seemed to appreciate it all the same. "Our guest?" He injured softly.
Adora had calmed the technician enough to guide him to his feet, but he still looked very afraid. Adora exchanged a rather grim glance with her, before speaking. "This is one of our new recruits." She said simply. "He defected from Blood and he wanted to help." Her voice grew brighter as she spoke and now she smiled at Hordak's curious expression and Entrapta's matching one as she came to join them. "Catra's right. We did bring presents." She joked. "Do you remember the transports Bloods forces used?"
Hordak canted his head, still confused, but Entrapta's eyes shot wide. "Do you mean…" She trailed off, all but vibrating with a sudden fierce excitement and giddy pleasure.
Catra was grinning as hugely as Adora was at her reaction and couldn't resist reaching out to reclaim her fingers as her mate replied.. "Yes. Two of them. They're outside with some of our mages right now."
The exuberant and shrill cheer Entrapta let out them was deafening and she arced into the air on her pigtails, throwing her hands up to the sky. In a flash, she was moving, a thick tendril of her hair snaking around Hordak and nearly lifting him off his feet to drag him behind her in an instant. "C'mon! Let's go!" She cried happily, movements a near blur. She was already reaching the door, before they had time to do more than turn around.
She was gone in a flash and the last glimpse they had of Hordak's expression before he was all but yanked out of sight was a rather helpless smile. Catra was gaping at the doorway, but as soon as she registered what had happened, she was laughing and Adora was laughing with her only a moment later. Entrapta was always Entrapta and she realized how dumb they both were to have expected to be able to have a normal conversation with her before she had a chance to see and tinker with the transports now that she knew they were here. They'd have to talk to her while she worked or nothing would be able to get done.
Adora beamed at her, eyes echoing the fond thoughts and then looked back to the technician, who again looked more than a little uncomfortable. "Entrapta is a very unique person, but she's really nice. You'll get used to how she operates soon, I promise." She said in that firm and gentle way they'd both started talking to the clones.
He looked between their expressions and took a deep breath. "I will do my best." His voice wavered, but the conviction in the statement was genuine.
Melog let out a rather dark sound between a growl and an annoyed chuff. 'This place is beyond sense for me.' They stated, tone carefully neutral. 'But you are right in your understanding of it and our technically inclined princess' heart is indeed true, no matter how strange her patterns seem. I shall attempt to be more understanding myself.' The way they spoke the carefully neutral words, let her know they didn't actually think they'd be able to, but they really would try.
She was reaching for them in an instant, stroking a gentle touch over their head to express the gratitude they could already sense from her. "Thanks, Melog." Adora murmured.
Melog finally relaxed fully and looked up with a smile that was only Melog, before stalking towards the door. Adora hesitated before following and Catra was gently surprised when she reached back and took the technician's hand. "Just stick with us for now and everything will be fine." She reassured softly.
He blinked at her, before finally relaxing too with a soft smile. "I will do my best." The repeated words were stronger now and he stood a little taller.
Feeling more than a little dazed by the gorgeous sparkling in Adora's eyes as she smiled fondly at him, she dropped her mate's hand and moved into her once more. Adora smiled at her, full of love and happiness and no small amount of excitement as she draped her arm back around her shoulders, squeezing her tightly. Tingling with anticipation and love for her mate, she let Adora guide her and the technician as they started towards Melog who had paused at the door. Their expression was a mix of so many different emotions, she couldn't even begin to name them and their tail was lashing as they watched them approach.
She reached out to stroke them as they moved close to her, walking so closely their fur was brushing her legs. She hated to see Melog so torn, but she was still happy to be here with Adora. She could only guess at what Entrapta and Hordak had been doing upon their arrival, but they'd seemed to be making good progress on their work and she couldn't wait to find out whatever it was that had made them so happy. With that and the way Entrapta had been so wonderfully pleased by the transports they'd brought, she knew without a doubt they'd have a lot to report back to their friends later. They'd get to talk to her and to Hordak and really get a chance to spend time with them both in a way they hadn't had a chance to really do before and she couldn't wait.
And also, there was that unspoken promise between she and her mate and that eternally smoldering hunger at their core. Tonight, after the days' tasks were done, they'd leave Entrapta and Hordak and the technician to their work and leave the mages to what they now knew was their endless journey for knowledge. Melog would be getting to have fun in their own way, learning and growing with their friends, and they would be free, really free, to get lost in one another once more.
She heard Adora's heartbeat speed up and her breath caught ever so slightly at the evidence of that heated and mutual thought. She was purring as she looked up to her mate, even knowing she was tempting fate to look at her right now. Adora's lips were parted, cheeks flushed ever so slightly, and her eyes were bright and sparkling. Her mate didn't look at her, but her thumb began stroking along the fur of her shoulder in response to her gaze and Catra knew why. She tore her eyes away only a moment later, but the look on her mate's face lingered in her mind. Soon. Soon. The thought was repeating in her head in a rhythm to match both of their pounding hearts. It was almost unbearable in the most delicious of ways, feeling that fire inside her licking ever higher with every step they took.
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Catra's head was still reeling with information overload by the time the tiny, rounded robot Entrapta had tasked to guide them, stopped before the tall and pointed door that would be their room for the night. She reached for the knob a little numbly and let Melog proceed them before guiding her equally reeling mate inside. The robot bleeped a few times at them, before wheeling away quickly on their gyrating bottom as she closed the door.
She hardly saw anything around her until her eyes landed on a huge, deeply purple canopied bed against the wall. Without thought, she tugged Adora towards it. All she wanted right now was to hold her close until all of these spinning thoughts finally stilled. Nothing bad had happened, nothing bad at all. On the contrary, she felt like what they had learned these past few hours had almost surpassed the amount of progress they'd made since they'd woken. With what Hordak and Entrapta had accomplished and all of the new discoveries they'd now be able to make, everything was about to change. But it was still so very much to take in all at once on top of everything else they hadn't had time to truly stop and really think about. They needed to process, but not now. Not now.
They'd done what they had to do for now and she didn't want to think about anything anymore and she could see the same, nearly desperate thought in her mate's eyes as they settled side by side atop the silken covers in the middle of that huge bed and drew into each other's arms. The both of them were trembling as their foreheads pressed together and she stared into Adora's eyes as her mate stared into hers. This was all they wanted for just a little while. Just this.
She felt a gentle pulse of now long familiar magic and a shift and then, Melog was there, curling about them, holding them safe. 'Be still, my precious ones. Be still.' They were purring their healing, loving, gentle purring as they murmured. 'There is time. There is always time. Never lose sight of that truth. Moments pass and minutes are lost, but there are always more to be had. We are moving forward even now, with every beat and every breath, but you are both strong and you know it is true. Feel it in your hearts as I do and be still.'
Slowly, slowly, Melog's purring and those gentle, meaningful words settled the storm inside her. Adora's almost raging eyes were beginning to clear too and finally, their trembling stilled and they could relax into this so very needed embrace. She saw Adora's eyes drifting shut as her own lids drifted down. It was like a giant weight had been lifted and she almost felt like she would drift away at any moment, carried off by Melog's thunderous purring and the steady beating of Adora's heart, their scent, and the warmth of their intermingling embrace.
But, she did not want to sleep. No matter what else was happening, no matter what tomorrow brought, no matter what storms would rage inside them in the future, there was only one storm she wanted to get lost in right now. She was squeezing Adora tighter as she opened her eyes and Adora's opened with a gasp. And now, in those glistening depths was nothing but love and hunger and a need to match her own. They were frozen with it, Catra too caught up in the spiral of it to even move to kiss her mate, but she didn't care. Just knowing that now they could finally get lost was enough in this moment.
Melog let out a low chuckle as they retreated from the bed. 'You will be safe within these walls, my precious ones, but know that I will be near. I will return at dawn's light.' They murmured softly. Then, with another gentle pulse of magic, Catra knew that they were gone.
And then, Adora's lips were on hers and everything else ceased to exist. It lasted for only a moment, but it left her blood surging and panting for breath and Adora's breathing was just as ragged. Her mate then pulled away and Catra barely had time to be confused, before Adora was tugging at her shirt. Her breath left in a rush that was almost a moan and in a flurry of motions and tugs they were naked and pressing together. The feel of Adora's smooth, heated skin gliding over the flesh and fur of all of her had her swooning, breathless, lost all at once.
Then, Adora rekindled their kiss and her body rocked against hers in another wonderful, tingling, gliding motion. It was hungry, that kiss, all-consuming and all-devouring, but slow and steady and everything she wanted. She felt Adora moving above her, rolling her onto her back and her fingers were burying into her mate's soft hair, tugging the band that held those soft locks prisoner, until they were freed for her indulgent explorations. She felt the locks of them caressing her face, her shoulders, filling her nose with even more of her scent as Adora began to deepen that slow kiss. Catra was helpless beneath it, submitting wholly as Adora plundered her mouth with a sensual possessiveness that had her aching for more, even as she was giving back as much as she could.
She felt Adora rising above her, but that kiss never broke and then her mate's hips settled over hers. The feel of Adora's wet heat against her fur and flesh, so very close to her throbbing center, had her moaning into their kiss. Adora let out a low sound that seemed to vibrate all the way to her core and that already all-consuming kiss deepened even further. Both of Adora's hands were suddenly there on her stomach, fingers caressing into her fur and flesh, tracing the lines of her body like she was trying to feel all of her at once. Catra couldn't help the gasping moans those firm caresses drew from her and her mate was drinking every tiny sound she made into their kiss. Her fingers were fisting in Adora's hair, claws kneading into her scalp in helpless convulsions as those firm and caressing touches moved ever higher, until Adora's hands were cupping over her breasts.
She grasped them both in a firm grip, kneading them like Catra's claws were kneading into her scalp and Catra felt like she'd come undone from the pleasure her mate was giving her right then and there. She wanted to reciprocate. She wanted more than anything to touch her mate too, but then Adora's thumbs were flicking her nipples, sending even more pleasure surging in almost electrical bolts right to her throbbing center and she could only writhe beneath her mate's touch.
Then, Adora's lips were gone from hers, leaving her adrift, and she felt them nibbling along the line of her jaw. She was too caught up in the almost overwhelmingly pleasurable sensations Adora's hands and fingers were still pouring into her body to truly register where those nibbling lips were going, until suddenly, she felt a rush of warmth over the sensitive flesh of her ear. Her body was already tightening, clenching, even before Adora's nibbling lips and softly grazing teeth met that sensitive flesh and the pleasure that filled her then had her all but screaming.
Her body was bowing, rocking, arcing into Adora's above her and she felt her mate's body shudder above her and felt a new wetness against the fur of her hips. Feeling that, suddenly knowing that her helpless motions were giving her mate pleasure too, had the flames searing through her suddenly shifting into another kind of all-consuming inferno in a matter of seconds.
Her fingers left Adora's hair and she pressed her claws delicately into the flesh of her mate's spine as she dragged her fingers down, knowing the feel of them would drive her as wild as Adora's touches were driving her. She heard and felt her mate's helpless scream against her ear, before Adora's body was arcing up, spine bowing under the feel of her claws. She was growling as Adora's hips jerked helplessly down into her body and Catra suddenly wanted more of her mate's pleasure.
She rolled them, breaking Adora's touch on her breasts and tumbling her mate onto the bed beneath her. Even before they fully settled, she captured her mate's lips in a hungry kiss of her own. She drew Adora's tongue into her mouth, nibbling and sucking on the sensitive muscle as her claws were tracing up Adora's sides. Adora was moaning, writhing helplessly beneath her, hands fisting into the fur of her ribs as Catra cupped her mate's full breasts as firmly as she dared. She kneaded them like her mate had done to her, wanting her to feel how much pleasure it had given her to experience it, before flicking over her taut nipples with a quick and firm stroke of her thumbs. Adora let out a broken, breathless and keening moan into their kiss as her hips rolled up into the flesh of her own. Catra pressed her own hips down into her mate's center, matching that helpless rocking rhythm of her body.
Adora's head went back with a cry somewhere between a scream and a moan and Catra forced open her eyes, blinking though a haze of passion to drink in that reaction. Adora's golden hair was haloed about her head, contrasted by the deep, royal purple of those silken covers beneath her. There was an almost pained expression of pleasure on her flushed and sweating face, the way her swollen lips were parted, letting all of those wonderful gasps and moans her actions were drawing forth from her ring in her ears, and all she wanted was more.
A growl was rumbling in her chest again as she moved sideways, eyes zeroing in on that spot on Adora's neck she knew would drive her mate even more wild. She kissed it, slowly, tongue darting out to taste the sheen of sweat on that sensitive skin. Adora's already desperate and breathless moaning breaths hitched further and her helplessly rocking hips jerked in a sudden spasm. Catra felt a new surge of wetness through her fur, dripping down towards her own throbbing center and catching her own breath in a heady moan as she flicked and tugged Adora's nipples, giving her mate more and more. Adora's entire body was quaking, shivering, trembling and Catra already knew what was going to happen as she parted her lips further. She wanted her mate completely undone beneath her and that was the only thought in her head as she bit down, sealing her fangs and lips over the pounding, surging pulse of her neck.
Adora's entire form locked in place for a fraction of a moment, breath catching, and Catra heart her pounding heart skip a long beat. Then, Adora was screaming all over again and her entire body was rolling, bucking, writhing, hips surging up into hers. Catra's head was spinning with the strength of everything she was feeling as she felt her mate finally come undone beneath her. She didn't stop her motions, almost desperate herself with the need to keep going and Adora's fingernails were biting into the skin of her ribs and back.
She wanted more. Catra wanted more of her mate. Without stopping to think, she released the flesh in her mouth and grazed her lips down to those soft breasts she'd been teasing with her fingers. She took one of those taut nipples into her mouth, sucking it greedily, but still so carefully between her fangs, wanting to taste more of her mate and wanting more of all of these wonderful sounds and reactions that only her touch could bring forth from the woman she loved.
Adora's fingers were suddenly fisting in her hair and the shout she let out then was almost pained. "Catra!"
Catra growled in pleasure at the sound of her name pouring from her mate's lips like an oath of pleasure. She let go of the nipple she'd been teasing to graze hot open-mouthed kisses down into the valley between her breasts, indulging in the sweat and heat of her mate's flesh. She did not linger long in that valley, instead kissing up the swell of the other, so she could take her other nipple up and indulge in it too.
Adora let out a sound that was almost a sob and her back was arcing even further, body spasming beneath her once more. "Oh… Catra! What are you doing to me?" The words came out in a desperate cry and another lance of pleasure rolled down Catra's body straight to her core.
She let go the nipple she'd been teasing, kissing and nipping her way down her mate's trembling body, lingering over the swells and hollows of her flesh until she felt her lips reach so much wetness. Adora's nectar was all but overflowing from her center and Catra wanted to taste it all. She darted out her tongue, sweeping it through those wet folds, chasing the wild flavor of her mate with an almost primal singlemindedness. Nothing mattered right now, nothing but that taste and the feel of Adora rocking and pulsing beneath her lips and tongue and the delicate press of her fangs, and the broken, unintelligible, breathless murmurings of passion pouring from her mate in her ears.
Her claws were digging into the covers beside her mate's hips, clinging to them for leverage as her and shoulders rocked, following every rolling motion of Adora's hips. Her lips and tongue found that hardened bundle of nerves and she drew it in with a gentle suction, teasing that sensitive flesh with tiny flicks of her tongue. Adora's moans quickly took on a new note, sounding even more broken and desperate and she knew that Adora was lost beneath her, totally consumed all over again, and it had her head spinning even further into a fragmented daze of passion. Only then did she finally increase that gentle suction and the pressure of those tiny strokes, giving her mate what she needed.
And then again, from one moment to the next, Adora was completely undone beneath her. She was screaming, all but sobbing, hips rolling in helpless jerks beneath her mouth. That primal, fragmented headspace Catra was in wanted to keep going, wanted to keep giving her more and more, but when she felt Adora's body all but collapse beneath her, gasping, twitching, and shivering, she knew she had to stop, at least for a moment, and let her regain her breath. Almost too limp herself to move, she crawled clumsily up her mate's body until she could curl around her, holding her close. She feathered kisses along her jaw and cheek, stroking along her shoulders and neck with the hand not pinned beneath her, soothing her mate down from that soaring place she knew her mind was in right now.
Slowly, slowly, she felt her mate beginning to calm and she slowed her feathering kisses and those gentle strokes as she went limp. Her breathing went shallow and Catra let herself drift, wanting nothing more than to fall asleep with the feel of her mate's naked flesh pressed against all of her. But then, Adora let out a breathless and wondering laugh that roused her.
"You did it again." Adora's voice was rough, husky and Catra blinked open her eyes as she felt her mate turn her head to face her. She was too content to even be curious about the meaning of the words as she saw Adora's sleepy, wondering expression. "All I wanted to do was touch you, but when you started touching me, you had me lost. Every time you touch me, Catra, everything else is gone. I love you."
Catra was dazed, swooning all over again at those words and barely comprehended it when Adora's lips captured hers in another hungry kiss. She was limp, helpless as her mate rolled them once more and barely had the strength to kiss her back. Adora sighed another laugh into their kiss and lifted above her.
"I'm not letting you sleep until I've had a chance to get lost in you too." The seductive words were an almost purr. That tone, those words, and the dark, electrifying look in her mate's eyes sent a renewed lance of hunger and need through her all at once. Her body was suddenly tense, aching, throbbing underneath her mate and the slow, satisfied smile that tugged Adora's lips had her all but whimpering with need. "That's better." Adora breathed those words against her lips and the Catra found herself helpless all over again in another, all-consuming and devouring kiss.
She couldn't think, she could barely react as Adora devoured her wholly. Her body was nothing but a throbbing, sputtering flame of passion caught up in that kiss. She had no idea how long it went on, but then Adora's lips were suddenly gone in a flash. Catra could only moan as she felt them trailing further down, nibbling and kissing along her neck and collarbone. Her fingers were twisting in the covers beneath her, back arcing completely unbidden as those nibbling kisses began trailing up the swell of one of her breasts. Even as she was anticipating her mate's next touch, the pleasure that overwhelmed her when Adora sucked her nipple in between her lips, stroking circles around the sensitive flesh had her hips arcing off of the bed and sent her head rolling back with a breathless shout.
Her thighs were squeezing together between her mate's knees, trying to relieve the sudden, acute throbbing, but it only seemed to make it worse. "Adora!" Her mate's name was a desperate plea. She needed Adora lower, needed relief for that unbearable ache between her legs.
Adora let out a low moan that was almost a growl into the flesh of her breast and the feel of those vibrations had her crying out and writhing even more. She felt her mate moving again before those lips released her nipple with a sharp pull that had her spasming helplessly. She was dizzy, lost as Adora kissed lower, nibbling and tugging on the fur and trembling flesh of her stomach and hips. She scarcely comprehended anything and she felt her thighs being lifted and only distantly knew her mate was guiding them about her shoulders. She felt Adora's hands grasping her hips, holding them in an almost bruising grip before she felt the hot, almost burning sensation of her mate's tongue sweeping over her center.
She screamed, her hips trying to roll up into that sweet touch, but Adora's hands and pressing fingers held her prisoner as that tongue kept sweeping, tracing every fold of her aching center, but only barely brushing where she needed that touch the most. She knew she was mewling, all but begging, but her mate seemed determined to explore her like she hadn't had a chance before. Then, impossibly, there was a new, even greater sensation as she felt Adora's tongue dart into the entrance to her depths, lapping and curling as if searching for something hidden within her.
If she'd thought she was lost before, it was nothing to what she was experiencing now as she felt her mate enter her, curling her tongue deep inside. She knew she was screaming again, knew she was all but shredding those silken covers with her claws, felt her thighs convulsing against Adora cheeks and shoulders, but it was only with the furthest part of her mind. The only thing that truly mattered was that curling questing tongue of her mate deep inside, touching her in ways she'd never dreamed to be touched before. Another pulse brushed something inside her, a center of pleasure somehow deep within. A fluttering curl of that hot, questing tongue pressed so sweetly against it and suddenly, Catra was shattered.
She was blind, deaf, soaring in a place beyond comprehension. All she knew was pleasure, pure and ecstatic, sweeping through the everything she was like a wave of unfathomable proportions. The only thing beyond it, the only thought in her head, was her mate, her love, her everything, giving her this, grounding her even as she was lost and utterly and completely undone.
She had no idea those touches had stopped until the blank, white soaring place inside her slowly began to drift and she felt Adora's lips brushing over her face. It wasn't until she felt the gentle sweep of her tongue along the lashes of one of her eyes, that she realized she been crying and her mate was kissing those tears away. The utter devotion of that act gave her the strength to finally blink open her eyes so she could look up at her mate. The acutely tender expression that greeted her tore a part of her and completed another.
She wanted to speak, to say something, anything, but all she could do was tilt her head and capture Adora's swollen lips in a gentle, reassuring kiss. Then, she felt like a silly fool and reached through the glittering fragments of her mind for that shining cord that connected her to her mate. She felt a pulse a moment later and felt Adora follow the tug into that tumbling space of thought.
She was drowning in Adora's gentle concern and the caressing flames of her devotion, even as she felt Adora reeling helplessly with the strength of her own glittering daze. And then, that tiny fractal holding them apart was gone in ripples of love and all they knew was a sense of utter completion. They were drifting, safe, whole in one another, cradled by those gentle flames of promise burning eternally through the everything they were.
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