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Probs : Thank you! Uh, no, Gideon absolutely does not overthrow Tessa lol if anything this makes their bond stronger. I'm glad you're here! I hope you enjoy!

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Intentions by Justin Bieber ft. Quavo

WARNING : The beginning of this chapter is a sex scene.

ANOTHER WARNING : I... Deeply apologize if you are the reader that skips the sex scenes, because a lot of them are going to be plot-driven. I try to allow my craft to have ample filler, I used to try to avoid it and it only stifled my creativity, but in these fillers, I make sure they weave into the plot in some way or another. If you're adamant about skipping, do what you need to do. You can PM me for a G-rated TLDR if you want to, I don't mind giving those where needed. Just know... Each and every single chapter is important in some way.

Chasing Sundogs is probably going to have a lot of sex scenes, I'm due to continuing this streak of fantastical sex scenes as much as I can, I'm having an absolute blast with them. I was raised believing sex to be dirty and unfavorable, especially outside of marriage, and I just wildly disagree with said notions. I have a lot of religious trauma I only recently have worked through and I'm starting to feel way braver, way more like myself nowadays. Favor's Game didn't have nearly as many romantic/sex scenes as I wanted for that reason, the whole saga, really. Sorry if that's not your cup of tea, but whenever these types of chapters pop up, you will be warned :)

*Chapter 3*

"Can Gideon come out to play?" Came the sweetest, littlest, girliest voice, such sweetness that had Gideon popping his eyes open in shock.

Gideon sucked in a readied breath and felt himself coming out of deep sleep. A small kiss of shared lucid space right before officially waking up, Gideon's eyes fluttered open to the hover of sunny lucid space, only to come face to face with the cutest image he could possibly imagine. Nothing but ears and a fluff of pale pink, Kepa's insatiably adorable inner child stood in front of Gideon directly, her gorgeous orange eyes held the entire universe of perfect, childlike wonder, her little pink nose wiggled as she perked up and took note that Gideon was coming to, in their shared space. Gideon long-blinked, looked down to his hands and arms, void of his tail, tattoos, scars, hardships, Gideon's inner child finally looked up to Kepa in a beam of boyish excitement.

"Kiprinka," Gideon's adolescent voice chirped, though just as he was about to broaden his gaze, scoop Kepa into a big, messy, giggling hug of childlike antics, he sucked in a startled breath through his nose, popped his eyes open to reality and was met with the tinker of his set alarms on his nightstand.

Gideon jolted in the fit of suddenness, the revisited trauma of spending his first night in the Game Over arena continued to plague him, ruined him for simple morning alarms, his heart began to urgently race. Upon his boggled brain finally understanding that he was safe in the lighthouse, snuggled deep into Kepa's lovely, sleeping presence, their bare bodies kept them warm from the snowfall outside. Gideon sagged, squeezed his eyes shut in annoyance, rolled over and firmly pawed at his phone. As if a million different notifications were now eager to mob his coding and make clear that he had simply forgotten that he had been upgraded to a deity, more or less, he scoffed an annoyed breath and could feel all of the above urgently begin to grab his heart rate into a chokehold of forcing it all to speed up. That is until Kepa shifted her legs, slithered her tail messily about Gideon's body and into a loose braid about his own tail, a slide of warm skin and fur that firmly reminded him that the two had been locked in an exterior swap all night long. The immediate, snuggly embrace of Kepa's love, rooted deep into his heart's coding, shushed all buzzing, urgent morning notifications in his brain.

Gideon softened, rolled back over after thwarting his phone's attempt at getting him out of bed, and slowly peered down to Kepa. He choked a sleepy, silent chuckle, propped his head up with the aid of his elbow deep into his pillow and warmly smiled down to Kepa's snoozing figure. Gideon could tell she was awake, due to his phone's alarm, by the way of her breathing. Propped on her side, snuggled deep into their shared space, sheets and blankets, her dark brown nose wrinkled as the curtain higher above her bed let in the glint of morning sunshine. It kissed the gorgeous stripes on her face, a vision of beauty, an angelic, ethereal being Gideon swore he was undeserving of, he wrinkled his nose and could hardly stand the splendid, innocent image of her, just after seeing her adorable adolescent face and fur in high definition. He silently moved his hand up to the prop of her cute ear, wrinkled his finger into the loose, dark brown fur that feathered off of the clean tip of her ear and was delighted to see her wrinkle her nose, scrunch her shoulder and flutter her eyes open in dainty confusion. Her large ear swat the air with the snapping, firm and hefty flicks the muscles took, so to rid the agitation from herself. Gideon watched her properly come to before easing a seductive smile deep into her sleepy eyes, he leaned in close, his deep, crackly voice hushed over her soul in a proverbial hug of promised, eternal adoration.

"Can Kepa come out to play?" He softly delivered, his plump lips hovered over her adorable snout, she fluttered her eyes and donned a sleepy lifted of a closed-lip smile. With smothering, warm easiness, Kepa inhaled a huge, reviving breath through her nose, sagged her delicate hands to Gideon's powerful bare chest, in his hover nearly above her, and relished in the feel of his boastful, overwhelmingly romantic and lovely presence. He carried on, his deep voice hushed and simply a breathy veil of slumber the two could hardly pull from, "What was that all about?"

"You know like... When you wanted your friend to come outside of their house to play, their parent would answer the door, you'd ask if your friend could come out to play," Kepa murmured sleepily, her eager palms so slowly slithered up Gideon's pecks, her fingertips messily and slowly traced the gorgeous, sharp tattoo work all over Gideon's shoulders and jugular, how badly she wished she could somehow feel them.

"... Oh, is that a thing?" Gideon's deep voice wondered, he managed to sneak a warm kiss to Kepa's plump lips; they unstuck in a slow smack.

"Yeah, like..." Kepa closed her eyes, felt the notion hit her heart, and like being sliced clean through, she frowned and so lovingly cupped Gideon's bigger head and face in her dark brown hands. She tenderly reopened her gaze and peered up into Gideon's fiery eyes, a creature that had endured so much hurt, so much childhood pain, Kepa felt tears sting her eyes at the sheer idea that was now apologetically hugging her's and Gideon's shared exterior swap, "... You never had kids your age to play with anywhere, did you."

"No... Chase, for a tiny season, but..." Gideon hummed, he looked down to Kepa's snout, allowed his aimless gaze to tenderly assess the pretty, tan and brown stripes on her bare, cream-colored shoulder.

The more Kepa's exciting, fun-filled childhood soaked into his code stream, the more he could sense that Kepa was eagerly doing what she could to fill gaps. Gideon heaved a long sigh through his nose, lulled his eyes closed and was beside himself with just how fervently she loved him. How fiercely she was ready to go to war for him, to smooth out the cracks in their sidewalks, encourage wild flora to grow and grow and grow, he furrowed his brow and couldn't bear just how much he adored this incredible creature he safely harbored in the whole essence of his soul. He leaned down, laid a warm, romantic kiss to her lips and hugged the back of her upper arm, and upper back, in his grip. His phone softly began to vibrate, insinuating a phone call, though he happily ignored it and allowed his tail to eagerly worm about hers a bit tighter.

"We can fix that," Kepa whispered in between the gentle break of his adoring kisses, they stirred in a soft return of slumbering, warm kisses in the tilt of each other's heads. Kepa hummed a long, sighing notion onto Gideon's face, amidst their lingering kiss, and firmly cupped the back of his head, her fingers cleanly wove through his messy auburn hair, as well as the smaller nubs of spines that started at the back of his skull. He so tenderly peeled from her and peered down to her snout in almost scheming knowing, and though he now was doing what he could to ever so subtly make the obvious apparent, Kepa fluttered her eyes in the skip of heartbeats and ushered a giggle into Gideon's face as she pressed on a different notion, "Gideon, it's probably pushing noon..."

"We have a whole hour," Gideon seductively whispered into her face, he wormed tighter into her body, and though he was well aware this was potentially a shot in the dark, he tenderly hugged his arm about her lower back, snugged his hand into the arch of it and ever so slowly began to tug her a bit deeper into his body. With this, Kepa sighed, she melted hard into Gideon's coding, their bare bodies stirred amidst the fresh spill of sexual desire that made their rainbow coding practically glisten. Gideon managed to worm his face deep into the nook of Kepa's throat, and with hungry kisses to her suede-like pelt, Kepa staggered a hum of a knowing giggle as Gideon snugged the blatant obvious into her soft, cream-colored naval. She shivered, her tail firmly gripped his amidst their entanglement, and as her hands slowly slithered down his broad chest, his deep voice continued on in a grumble of seductive undoing, "It's my birthday... Can't deny me."

"Damn, how could I forget," Kepa hissed in mild annoyance to herself; the whole day prior had gotten so wildly away from them, Kepa frowned and now firmly understood that the poor thing didn't even get a proper celebration, even if the day did massively sneak up on them in the form of a two year unplug. Eagerly bookmarked for the potential of a future celebration to come, she bowed to his lovely, happy pleas and relished in the feeling of his whole body wildly entangled into hers, the gentle glide of his extension he just barely stirred into her naval, she gasped a soft noise of immediate succumb to his coding's excited, boyish begging, she viciously shivered and whispered him a broken notion, "You win..."

"All I want for my birthday is you," Gideon whispered shyly into her throat, Kepa's hands ran down his chest and to his abdomen as their stirring made the sheets hot and stiff, "Think we can make something work?"

"If your phone had any say in this matter, it'd say no," Kepa hiccuped a cute giggle as Gideon's phone chimed the buzz of a few text notifications after it had finally stopped receiving a phone call from User knows who. Kepa's small giggle was interrupted as she gasped an inhale, Gideon's bigger hand snugged tighter into her lower back, above the base of her tail, he now gently thrusted his hips into hers and scoffed a small, sleepy little noise of desire. She slowly draped one arm over Gideon's right shoulder and allowed her left hand to ever so carefully grapple the base of Gideon's extension, "Poor birthday boy didn't get any birthday sex."

"I know right, how sad," Gideon staggered a small chuckle into Kepa's little shoulder, he wildly fluttered his eyes and sagged his bigger body into hers as she began to give his cock a few healthy tugs, right at the base. He now began to hug his arm about her littler waist, he scoffed a gentle notion into her collarbones, "User, you're so good at this..."

"I'm just wingin' it, my guy," Kepa mumbled cutely, she fluttered her eyes in delirious, sleepy, heart-racing surprise as she could feel Gideon firmly dig his hips into her hand a few slow ruts, she squeezed him in all the right spots, trailed her claw about the back of Gideon's skull with her other hand, she fiercely shivered at the sound of his muffled, defeated huffs of breathy moans deep into the bend of her throat. His hot breath feverishly coat her bare breasts in staggers of faltering shock. Kepa flattened her ears and hovered her wet lips before his ear, she seductively carried on in full taunt, "That, or... I was built knowing just what to do to make you squirm..."

"The latter, surely," Gideon's deep voice trembled, he squeezed his eyes shut and now firmly allowed his hips to roll a few eager thrusts before he felt as if allowing the two to collide into each other once more wasn't coming nearly as fast as he needed. He readjusted a little, urgently dug his knee a bit further into the spread of her legs and began to move the two so that Kepa was on her back. He hotly carried on into her throat, "But two can play at that game."

"I DID make the mistake of asking if you could come out to play," Kepa erupted in a shaky giggle as she cupped the back of Gideon's skull and patiently allowed him to roll the two over so that she was on her back once and for all.

"Now that you've lured the beast out of his hiding spot," Gideon droned, his deep voice was crackly and saturated in seductive tease, "Now that you've got nowhere to run..."

"Oh no, this is torture, help," Kepa mused in a full display of sarcastic, deflated desperation, Gideon immediately beamed the happiest, boyish, fang-filled seal of a smile that made his lovely eyes half-moon, paired with a blurt of a knowing chuckle, Kepa felt her heart swell with their intense, passionate romance now easily reminding the two that it was equally playful, childlike and silly; a perfect balance of undying, romantic poise and youthful, chaotic fanfare.

"No one's gunna come to your rescue," Gideon taunted with a sleepy smile, though as he eagerly sunk himself between Kepa's now widely spread legs, he murmured into the bend of her little shoulder and neck, he grappled himself and slowly began to root for the point of correction in the heat between Kepa's thighs; his tired eyes wildly fluttered as he whispered on, "Not like you'd genuinely want that, anyways..."

"Nah, I'll go down with this ship," Kepa cutely whispered into Gideon's ear and the side of his face. As he adjusted, rested his elbows and lower arms about the scrunch of her shoulders and into the squish of the bed, he slowly welcomed himself into her body with the aid of her slow-writhing lower body into perfect correction. She breathed a trembling, audible, raspy breath over his shoulder and slumped in the onslaught of sleepiness, though as he gently added a final, firm thrust into her body, she popped her eyes open and yelped a concluding statement, "-Not so suddenly!"

"Sorry," Gideon feverishly whispered into the gape of her beautiful cat ear, he grinned in already-panting, delirious shock and relished in the hefty, solid squeeze her body delivered to his cock. He gently readjusted his knees, soaked the blankets over his larger back and shoulders and easily smothered Kepa's whole self underneath the sheer mass that he was, wings excluded, "I can't resist..."

"Th-this is a nice way to wake up," Kepa murmured shyly into the side of Gideon's head, she nuzzled her snout into his crazy auburn hair. She sucked in a shaky little gasp as he now cautiously arched and then tucked his hips in a thrusted return, one that glided past the suctioning squeeze her littler body supplied. Both lovers audibly groaned sleepy noises of full, quaking bliss as Kepa messily draped her arms about Gideon's broad shoulders. She scoffed a shaky, sleepy giggle out to the room and fluttered her eyes closed, "I-I'm not much of a morning person, but..."

"Me neither, but for this, I could be," Gideon's whispering trembled out of his chest, his rib cage expanded for a huge breath as he steadily tucked in gentle, thrusting digs into her lazily slumped body.

He hovered his face and head over her sternum as he began to pick up the intensity of his movements while keeping the same, slow and steady speed. He squeezed his eyes shut and felt his spine roll with shivers, and with such, he inadvertently allowed a speckled light show of audible rattling to escape his figure all down his spine and long tail, something of which he chalked up to being half awake and not having all his faculties in order, just yet. Due to this, he lifted his head in eye fluttering surprise, and with the exposure of his thick jugular, Kepa's ears firmly perked to said intoxicating noise and sudden lift. As gently as she could, she also lifted her head a little and firmly sunk hungry kisses into the side of Gideon's throat. To make matters worse for Gideon, her body began to spill hypnotizing purrs directly into his ear, and with the feeling of her terrifying fangs taking eager, brave little nibbles on his skin, he scrunched his big shoulders a little and fluttered an adorable, raspy little whisper of a giggle down into Kepa's furry shoulder.

"Don't, I'm ticklish," Gideon pawed sweetly, Kepa giggled through her purring and sucked in a shaky gasp as his thrusting digs got a bit more eager; she slowly began to wrap her legs about Gideon's hips and lower back, their tails tightly braided together in a messy grapple of twitching delirium.

Due to Gideon's insinuation that her nibbling tickled, Kepa flattened her ears and dared to taste his jugular with a touch more animalistic fervor, and just like she assumed, this only riled Gideon further. He scoffed a trembling noise that segued from a delighted chuckle to a gasping roll of feral understanding, sleepy movements turned brightened and awakened, though just as he began to slowly up the ante and dig heftier, more aggressive thrusts into Kepa's willing, squirming body, Gideon felt his pupils tighten with the sound of something heavily coming down to the sturdy roofing of Kepa's sunny bedroom. With said heavy, wall-shuddering thud, Gideon halted all movements, jolted in terrified shock, thrusted his huge, protective wings in a full unfurl and urgently kept himself mounted over Kepa's body, the two still firmly intertwined and connected. Gideon panted through his nose in a spike of terror, though the second he could just barely hear Novus's muffled voice was the second both beings froze in the roll of fear segued right into blistered, sleepy annoyance.

"Just because you can rearrange the entire internet now doesn't mean alarm clocks can be ignored!" Novus loudly yelled, and though Novus couldn't hear Kepa and Gideon, his loud yelling directly above them was only barely heard in the muffle through the thick ceiling.

"...Welp, that's the quickest way to kill a boner," Gideon grunted in trembling annoyance as his words rang true, he rolled his eyes and slipped his softening self out of Kepa's tight body.

"That scared the shit out of me," Kepa shakily whispered, Gideon grunted once more and now had to confusedly correct his wings in the mess of blankets and sheets he had suddenly erupted underneath.

"Same, you awake NOW?" Gideon pawed in sarcastic annoyance as he mumbled an obscenity in Novus's regard and sat up with a slump of his bare rear to the bedding on his side of the bed.

"Unfortunately," Kepa murmured as she, too, sat up with a groan and closed her legs, their tails unraveled in their intertwine, though hooked about each other at the tips of their tails in the lingering promise of intense romance put on pause for a later time. Kepa brushed her messy white bangs out of her eyes and sweetly side-eyed Gideon, "Y'know, you keep saying that I'm really good at this whole thing, but... I've waited my whole life to be treated to this mastery, on your part."

"Mastery," Gideon scoffed as he shook his head and reached for his phone, "Well, thanks, but I don't think my tired-ass noises and movements warrants that generous of a compliment."

"Neither did my inexperience here, yet you still like to remind me that I'm fantastic at all of this," Kepa rushed in an annoyed giggle as she clutched her bare sternum and inhaled a reviving breath, "You know what we have yet to do?"

"Hmm?" Gideon's deep voice warmly mused, he leaned over with a bit more grunting zest, grabbed his phone and aimlessly looked over the swathe of notifications he had.

"Swap codes in reality," Kepa hummed, this halted anything Gideon was doing on his phone; he cocked an eyebrow and peered hard into Kepa's eyes for a moment of hovering stun.

"... You're right," Gideon whispered in tender surprise as he wrinkled a boyish smile, "We've only been a swapped pair for twenty four hours now, the code swap took place in our lucid state."

"It feels like an eternity ago, huh," Kepa sighed as she looked about her bedroom and shrugged, "Whatdoyahsay we set it in stone tonight, then?"

Gideon narrowed his gaze in cheeky understanding and peered hard into her shy, adorable orange gaze.

"...Set it in stone," Gideon repeated, her insinuation of their gargoyle-nature, Gideon shook his head and grinned as the two roused into happy laughter with one another, "It's a date."

"Which... Was something else we didn't do," Kepa mumbled, Gideon rubbed his forehead and lulled his eyes closed as he held his phone opened in his other hand.

"I promise tonight will make up for it all," Gideon assured tenderly, he furrowed his eyebrows and fixated on the text messages he clearly had been getting all morning, "The continuation of Zed's meeting is in thirty minutes..."

"Y'got thirty minutes before I huff and puff and blow your house down!" Novus loudly hollered, and though it was clear Novus was playing, Gideon now clenched his jaw in a rile of full frustration, lifted his arm, cued his terrifyingly powerful rainbow coding and soaked Kepa's entire ceiling with the live-wire of electric energy he was due to eventually figuring out in its entirety, though in this instance, it acted as an electric fence. Novus loudly squealed a noise of startled confusion, and with such, his loud scuffling could be heard in a leaping lurch to get off of Kepa's roof.

"Okay, our coding is Novus-repellent, good to know," Gideon growled in full frustration as he glared back down to his phone, though as Kepa loudly erupted into laughter, he sneakily grinned and couldn't help but happily join her.

"C'mon... We gotta get up and go, we can let everyone know of our little mini-moon tonight so we can be undisturbed," Kepa lovingly cooed as she scoot closer to Gideon, rested her hand to his broad chest and cued him for a kiss. He leaned in, happily sank into her face for a smack of a kiss, and as the two pulled apart, Kepa firmly pat the center of his strong chest, "And if they cross that boundary then, well..."

"I will literally teleport the lighthouse to Sugar Sun Island," Gideon grumbled into her face with a teasing smirk, insinuating the group of islands visible from their current standpoint on Cherry Ribbon Beach, "...In fact, I might temporarily do that anyways."

"You're the boss," Kepa stated in sleepy, cheeky knowing, and as the two slowly animated to get out of bed, don clothes, brush their teeth and have a quick breakfast, Kepa was almost scared for Gideon to step out of the lighthouse's front door strictly for the notion of Novus keeping his wings and limbs in tact.

"You know, I was a User in a past life," Novus loudly garbled as both Kepa and Gideon finally stepped outside into the cold, snowy sunshine, once and for all; on their way to Tessa's and Zed's home on the palace lot, they were about five minutes early. Novus opened his wings, looked about at the leftover snow from the night prior though was immediately hit with a smell that made him sharply flatten his ears and wrinkle his bat snout. He eyed Gideon as him and Kepa hovered before the front door in the act of closing and locking their sacred home, "Ew, were you guys having sex?"

"Yes," Gideon muttered in frustration, Novus grinned and took a step away, so to be out of the stench of pheromones.

"...Ohh, I interrupted, didn't I," Novus murmured sheepishly, to which Gideon sucked in a huge, long breath through his nose, turned heel and began to nearly stomp away; his long, beautiful tail swat upwards in a full show of entire, dominant irritation, terrifying spines and all. Novus sagged as Kepa shot him an annoyed little look, though she had an equally as cute smirk plastered to her blushed cheeks. Novus gawked as he began to urgently saunter after the two, "What! C'mon, it's not like it's the last time you guys are ever gunna have sex."

"It's still not fun to be jarred from," Kepa giggled as she firmly rubbed the top of Novus's head as they followed after Gideon's bigger footprints in the melt of sand and snow, as well as the delicate slither the fur on the underside of his tail imprinted on said loose ground he trailed from.

"Okay, so, the meeting is about your scout to the internet, right?" Novus garbled as the two were about ten feet behind Gideon's annoyed stride.

"Mhmm," Kepa hummed, Novus eyed Gideon's spine, so beautifully lined with hefty grey spikes that had little hints of turquoise, spikes of which properly poked out from his thick, light grey hoodie; reprogramming his own clothes to fit his new body was amidst one of the first things he did.

"Any way you two can find this lonely old bat a mate while you're there?" Novus cheesed, Kepa clutched her sternum and reserved a grinning, girly swoon.

"Yeah, I'll set up a dating profile for you," Gideon called over his shoulder, he gestured his bigger tattooed hands outwards and sarcastically carried on as the three pressed past Sezeke's and Elkuorra's house, straight for the corridor that lead to the palace's main lot, "RIGHT at the very tippy top, I'll make sure to state that not only is your breed regal, you ALSO found out you're somehow code-related to a rare breed of alarm clocks! The noisiest alarm clocks on the face of creation."

"Oh, good," Novus mused as he bobbed a nod and shot Kepa a teasing side-eye, "Said mate must be willing to interrupt any and all coitus Kepa and Gideon partake in."

"Amazing," Gideon muttered in irritation he was happy to wear, anyone that knew him well enough knew that it was mostly a playful front.

"You'll have the ladies just flocking," Kepa waggled her hand, and though Novus's notions were likely just empty banter, she flattened her ears and eyed Novus in curious wondering, she could tell he was itching to continue being one of Gideon's right-hand men, a fierce friend right at his core, loyal and unwavering, Kepa fingered her lip and wondered if she could convince Gideon of Novus's inclusion to said internet scout that was upon them.