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Aftermath

Fenris sighed, leaning his head back against the side of the wagon as they rode back toward the capital. Sofia was laning on one shoulder, Naomi on the other, and Riley had her hhead in his lap. Eileen was leaning on Naomi's other side, one hand wrapped around Naomi's abdomen posessively.

"I'm so pissed I didn't get any decent loot during the Wave," Fenris grumbled.

"You can loot my treasure trove when we get back if you want," Naomi offered, actually managing to sound innocent.

"Ew!" Raphtalia said. "Could you please not talk about your fucked up sex life around me?"

"Yeah, Naomi," Sofia said. "You're smarter than that. You know I get first dibs."

"No fair!" Naomi whined. "I want to fuck him! It's my turn!"

"Actually, it's my turn," Riley said, turning her head slightly, then grinning up at Fenris. "We can do it right here if you want."

"Alright that's enough!" Naofumi snapped. "Jesus, I can't wait until you're all gone!"

"Why, you and Raphtalia got something planned?" Fenris asked.

Raphtalia turned scarlet instantly, as expected, but Naofumi blushing actually caught Fenris by surprise.

"One more and I kick you all out here!" Naofumi snapped. "Mention sex one time and I swear to God I'll use my Rage Shield on all of you!"

Fenris smirked as they neared the gate. Ake got them through the gate without the usual hassel and Naofumi dismissed everyone but Raphtalia and Filo from his party. Fenris turned to Naofumi.

"That'll be ten gold for Sofia almost dying," Fenris said.

Naofumi handed him fifteen. "Consider it a thank you for helping with Glass."

Fenris nodded and Naofumi left with the other two, having been summoned to thw King. Fenris could imagine how that would go, since he heard Ren and the others talking about how Naofumi had cheated somehow, and he imagined the King probably wouldn't be that much more willing to believe Naofumi had gotten his power legitimately than they were. Fenris headed to Erhard's shop with his harem and Erhard met them at the counter.

"Welcome," Erhard grinned. "You find an ore?"

"No," Fenris grumbled.

"I did," Eileen said, setting a large chunk of black stone on the counter. "One of the houses we...secured...had this."

"You looted?" Erhard asked. "Christ, and to think yyou used to be one of the most normal ones."

"I'm still not a whore like them," Eileen argued. "I just happened to see something that repayed us for Sofia almost dying saving everyone."

Erhard's eyes widened. "Sofia was hurt?"

"I'm fine now," Sofia smiled sweetly.

Erhard nodded, adopting a smile again. "Alright. I'll make you a new chest plate out of this."

"Thanks," Fenris said. "I'll also have another request once I get back, but I'll save it for later. There's something else I need to take care of first."

"Sure thing," Erhard nodded. "Good luck with whatever it is."

Fenris nodded, raising a hand in farewell before leaving, heading for the inn with the others. Once there, he headed directly to his room, locking himself in and sitting on his bed, burying his face in his hands. Dammit, why couldn't Eileen just let it stay forgotten? Why couldn't anyone ever just let him forget that he had nearly lost Sofia? And dammit, why couldn't he just let go? Why did he always have to hold on so tightly? Why couldn't he just say goodbye? She was just a tool, right? It was just sex, wasn't it?

He walked to the door before even realizing he was doing it. Maybe she was right. Maybe he should just be honest with her. He missed them. All of them. He missed Naomi trying desperately to win his affection. He missed Eileen refusing his advances. He missed Sofia.

He opened the door to Sofia's room and found it was empty. He frowned and headed downstairs. After a couple of minutes, he found her standing at the bar, chatting with Andrea pleasantly. He felt himself being drawn to her, as always. He couldn't help it. There was just something about her.

Ten feet away, the noble's wife flashed into his brain, but was quickly brushed aside. Five feet away, she entered his mind. His first love. His greatest mistake. Worse than the torture. She wasn't so easily brushed aside, so even as he wrapped his arms around Sofia from behind, he was still seeinf the bitch.

Sofia sighed contentedly, leaning back into him as he gently pressed a kiss to the right side of her neck. Her right hand reached back, gently coming through the hair on the back of his head. "Welcome back. I missed you."

He sucked in a breath as the weight of her words hit him. It wasn't that she had said something profound. To anyone else, it would sound like a normal conversation. But to him, it was anything but. She wasn't saying hello to him. She was saying hello to the part of him that held his emotions. Finally, he understood. All those timesthey had been together, those times he had lost control, when she had unravelled him, pulled him apart so completely that nothing remained, only to sew him back together, exactly the same yet somehow, unidentifiably yet undeniably, different, he finally understood that what she had actually been doing was inserting herself a little at a time, adding her name to the story of his life letter by letter, stitching herself into the tapestry that was all he is and ever has been, placing herself at his side, forming it into the place she belonged until there was no hope of separating them again. Because as she leaned into him, holding him in place and welcoming his touch, he understood just how much he truly needed her, and that he couldn't live without her anymore. Even if she were to break him, as the others had before him, he couldn't live without her again. Not anymore.

Naomi had been right. When he finally fell in love, he would do anything for her. And for Sofia, he really would.

"I love you," he whispered, tears flooding down his cheeks.

"I love you too," Sofia smile, turning around around in his arms and smiling up at him. "You have no idea how long I've been trying to get you to admit it."

Fenris smiled, shaking his head slightly before she reached up and kissed him. He kissed her back, but immediately caught himself and pulled back. She was doing it again.

Sofia frowned. "Please. Talk to me."

Fenris took a shaky breath before nodding and turning, leading her up to his room, Sofia locking the door behind them before sittting on the bed beside him, taking his hands. He hesitated again, but he knew he wasn't getting out of it this time. He couldn't. She had the right to be warned.

"I...I fell in love once," Fenris said. "It...she..." he felt his tears beginning to fall and Sofia gave his hands a squeeze. "She got pregnant by some lord. Then...she blamed me. She said...she said that it was my fault. That...That I was too...much. Too clingy, too physical, too emotional. Too forward. Too much. But...I didn't know. She...she was the first person I ever...I didn't know what I was doing was wrong. I just...I loved her."

"I see," Sofia nodded. "That explains it. Why you're so afraid to let yourself go. And why you're so afraid to love."

Fenris shook his head. "Love was the next more. I was persecuted and driven from town to town for being a demi-human. I...I hated myself. I still do. I just wanted to be human. To be normal. But...And then this noble promised to make me human. But instead, he tortured me. He beat me, and cut me, and starved me. The scars faded but...I can still feel it, sometimes. There was a girl. She was nice to me. And she healed me. I fell in love. One day, she saved me. She let me go and showed me an escape tunnel. Except, it led back into the torture roo., and she was the noble's wife. For trying to escape, the noble tortured me worse. And then, he cut off my tail. To make me human. But When he took me to cauterize it...I got a knife. I killed him. I killed his wife. And then...I ran. I met an old man who taught me the job, and to fight. He helped me level into an adult, and then he tried to kill me. So I killed him." He broke down into sobs, so Sofia pulled him into a hug.

"Sshh. Sshh. It's alright now. They can't hurt you. I won't let anyone hurt you again."

Fenris smiled, shaking his head. "I know. But it's not others that scares me. It's you. I tried not to let you in, but you can in anyway. Now I have nothing to protect me from you."

Sofia smiled, leaning in and kissing him. "You have my love for you. I will never hurt you."

Fenris smiled and nodded. He leaned in hesitantly, kissing her. She smiled, allowing him to take the lead. He began to panic. What if she decided the bitch was right? What if he messed up?

"Do whatever you want to do," Sofia smiled. "I'm yours. You can do anything."

He nodded, feeling a little more confident. For a moment. However, as he began to loosen the vice he had held his entire life to keep himself in check, he felt terror flood him. He couldn't do this. He couldn't risk it. He couldn't let anyone see that part of him again.

But just as he was about to clamp down again, Sofia was there, straddling his waist and holding him tight, her tongue sliding against his just long enough to distract him, her scent giving him just enough craving, and just enough need to feel more of her for him to allow the vice to open. And then, it was too late. His hands clamped down on her hips as he let out a whimpering breath of regret and fear before the kiss turned fierce. He wasn't dominating her, however. The only fierce part of it was his need. His addiction to her. His lips begged her to give them more attention. His tongue pleaded with hers to allow him to taste her.

As the kiss changed, Sofia let out a startled gasp before moaning and melting into the kiss, happily obliging his every request. Her tongue danced with his as they both mapped out the contours ofneach other's mouths. Her lips fused to his, pulled at them just slightly each time they shifted. Neither pulled away, even to breathe, instead simply gasping in breaths of air stained with each other's frenzied breaths. Fenris was drowning in her, and yet his heart was soaring. She wasn't pushing him away. She wasn't disgusted. He could feel her own need and passion in her returned kiss. He could feel her love, and he willed every ounce of love he had into his own in return.

He felt her hands clench in his collar, pulling him deeper into the desperate kiss, and his own hands tightened their grip on her hips as well, pulling them tighter against him. Then, his hands began to drift. He needed to feel her, it didn't matter where. He needed her. He needed to reassure himself that she was there. That this was real. That she wasn't leaving. Sofia's hands drifted over his chest and shoulders a bit as well, but for the most part stayed near his neck, where she could hold his lips against hers.

Finally, fenris's hands reached Sofia's chest, slipslipping under her top and beginning to knead and massage her globes. Sofia moaned needily, pressing her chest into his hands and her hips into him. He could feel her need through the kiss, and through her taut nipples brushing against his palms. He shifted his hands slightly so that he could pinch her nipples between his index and middle fingers as he massaged her breasts, earning a gasp. After another moment, she pulled back, smiling sweetly as she saw the panic in his eyes and peppered his face with kisses as she lifted his shirt to his arms. He calmed himself and slipped his hands out of her top, allowing her to pull his shirt over his head before he quickly removed her own as well. The moment her top wawas out of the way, his lips met hers again, and they resumed as though they had never stopped, his hands once again kneading her breasts, and hers once again clinging to him. He wasn't sure if it was for his benefit, or for hers that she clung to him, but he wouldn't complain. He enjoyed feeling her need to be closer to him.

After a couple more minutes, he slid his hand down, into her skirt to her dripping nethers. She moaned hoarsely into his mouth as he began to work her slick folds, her hips rocking against his hand. However, his arm was bent uncomfortably and it restricted his movement. So, he rolled, laying her on her back and quickly pushing her skirt and panties off of her. The moment he had, his hand returned to her womanhood, working freely this time and earning several more moans, each more raspy and desperate than the last. Her hips rocked up into his hand as his fingers plunged in and out of her soaked tunnel, and he coukd feel her getting close. However, before she could finish, he slipped his fingers out.

Sofia groaned loudly, hips rocking in the air for a moment as He smiled down at her knowingly. "Please don't tease me, Fenris. I'm so close!"

Fenris smiled and kissed her, fingers returning to where she needed them, but only worked slowly, keeping her hovering at the edge of her breaking point. Finally, he felt her need about to boil over in her kiss and slipped his fingers into her, once again plunging them in and out rapidly. Within a few seconds, Sofia full-voice screamed as she came, his name flying freely from her lips as she bucked and shook, her juices spraying out of her with each convulsion around his fingers, drenching the bed. After a few moments, she collapsed, panting and gasping for breath as she stared up at the ceiling, seeming dazed. Fenris smiled, placing several light kisses over her right shoulder, laying beside her. Her head rolled to the side and he kissed her tenderly, Sofia shighing shakily as she returned it, left hnhand cupping his right cheek.

"That was...amazing," Sofia breathed. "I've never..."

"Now you know how you make me feel every time," Fenris smiled. "I love you Sofia. Thank you for not being scared away."

"What are you talking about?" Sofia asked. "Why would I be scared away? I finally got to feel how deeply you care. I'll never be afraid of that."

Fenris smiled, kissing her again. "Tomorrow I'll give the others some money and say goodbye."

"What!?" Sofia gasped, sitting up and staring down at him. "Why?"

"I don't need a harem anymore," Fenris said. "I have you."

"You...You would give up your harem for me?" Sofia asked.

"I'd give anything for you," Fenris said. "I'm yours. Completely. I don't need to be with anyone else."

Sofia smiled, taking his hand and lacing their fingers together. "Thank you. But, I seem to remember owing Naomi a competition when I decided to try and steal you."

"You already stole me," Fenris said, brow furrowing slightly.

"And Riley's been dying to have another go at you," Sofia smiled. "And I still haven't gotten to try Eileen yet."

Fenris stared up at her in a mixture of disbelief and hope.

"Are you sure you want to disband the harem?" Sofia asked. "I always wanted to be the co-owner of a harem."

"Co-owner my ass," Fenris snorted, smiling. "We both know you've always been the one in charge."

"Good, then the girls stay," Sofia smiled, leaning down and kissing him again.

For a few minutes, the kiss stays fairly innocent, though still much more passionate than it was before Sofia broke Fenris's last mental barrier, however, after several minutes, Sofia's tongue slipped into his mouth. And just like that, she flipped the same switch as always. He was suddenly drowning in her, desperate for more, and unable to get enough. Except this time, he could feel her own desperation and need. She needed this as badly as he did. And she wasn't interested in waiting.

Within seconds she had removed his pants and taken him into her tunnel. He groaned into the kiss as she moaned, both beginning to move in sink. As she rode his cock, their lips and tongue never separated. He thrust up into her as she dropped and their hips smacked loudly. After a few minutes, he rolled them, getting her on her back again and putting more force into his thrusts, also making them longer and smoother. Sofia cried out in pleasure, arms wrapped around his torso under his arms, and fingernails biting into his back harder and harder as time wore on. The more they went, the worse it hurt. Finally, the pain actually began to be worthy of complaint as he felt her starting to draw closer to her orgasm. Except, so was he. He poured everything he had into the kiss and his thrusts, pounding her tunnel relentlessly, Sofia having to break the kiss to breathe between her cries of pleasure. Then, she snapped, cumming even harder then before, the spasming of her inner walls dragging Fenris over the edge with her. He slammed himself into her one last time and his semen began to flood into her, Sofia crying out in pleasure as it did.

"I love you Sofia!" Fenris grunted as he thrust into her again, a fresh wave of semen flooding into her.

"I love you too!" Sofia cried out, insides still pulsating and spasming around his erupting phallus, milking more and more of his seed from him.

Finally, he felt himself beginning to grow soft and rolled, pulling her on top of him, kissing her gently. She smiled, kissing him back, then rested her head on his chest.

"For the record, your cock definitely counts as magic," Sofia smiled.

Fenris laughed. "Good to know. If we fight a Succubus, you and me can probably handle her together."

Sofia smiled, wrapping her arms tighter around him. "No undead whore is stealing my man."

"Of course not," Fenris smiled. "I belong to you."

Sofia smiled and nodded, then yawned. "Sleep time. Tomorrow I'm going to gloat to Naomi."

Fenris chuckled. "You do that." He brushed some loose hair behind her ear. "Good night Sofia."

"Good night Fenris."

Feneis smiled and closed his eyes, and within a few seconds, he had drifted off to sleep.

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