Chapter 18: All Together Now.
Aiden yawned softly and tried to stretch his aching muscles, and, at first, his sleep soaked brain wondered if last night had just all been some kind of wet dream, a fear that abated one second later when he realized that he couldn't move at all, and that there was a fair amount of weight on his chest.
Looking down his body, he realized that both his arms were not only pinned down under each of his amazon like alien girls but his hands were claimed as well, his left arm was around T'Shara, and Macha, who was on his right, had reached across his body and gripped his left hand in hers, interlocking his fingers with hers, and T'Shara had done exactly the same thing with his other hand, so not only were both his arms pinned down but his hands were gripped in a kind of living lattice work on his chest.
His legs had fared no better, both of them had entwined both of his legs, and Macha had gone one step further by wrapping her claimed leg in her tail as well, so if last night hadn't hammered the point home that he was an utterly claimed male, this position left him in no uncertain frame of mind now.
He couldn't help but think how cute they both looked with their mandibles hanging open as they both snored away happily on his chest, he nearly laughed when he saw that Macha's inner mouth appeared to be snoring as well as her outer one and both mouths were moving in tandem which, for some reason, he found incredibly cute, well, as cute as one could find an immensely powerful hybrid alien queen who had stolen his heart with her power and her truly exotic beauty.
Speaking of exotic beauty, he turned his attentions to T'Shara, whose mandibles seemed to have now latched onto his shoulder and appeared to be sucking his shoulder now, and he could feel her tongue licking his skin, maybe this was the Yautja equivalent of sucking your thumb, but, either way, something told him that her Yautja pride was going to take a knock if she woke and realized what she was doing, not that he would ever rib her about it. A: He liked his teeth inside his head and his arms on his shoulders.
B: He loved her, and while you could laugh and joke and tease someone you love and have fun with them as that was one of the core essences of love, but humiliating someone you love in his book was a big no no, for instance, he could never understand those who practiced BDSM doing it, yeah, fair enough, he got the dominant submissive part and the placing complete trust in the one you love, hell, he even got the restraining part, but he seriously couldn't get the whole humiliation thing at all, he'd seen this before in the form of femdom, which seemed to really revel in it, making someone feel utterly worthless to break them down to make them desperate for for some form of psychological acknowledgement.
It wasn't that he didn't understand or even applicate dominant and powerful females, he was laid in a bed with a Yautja huntress who, if she flexed her thighs just a little too hard, could either dislocate the hip or the leg she had gripped between them, and a queen who could punch her tongue out the back of his head, killing him instantly if she lost control of a kiss, so he understood and appreciated powerful females perfectly and utterly reveled in their strength and power.
But for him, humiliating and degrading someone you love was a vile thing, and something he had experienced, thanks to a particular previous girlfriend.
Now he got understood that's what some people were into, and, if it was fully consensual between the two of them, fair enough, good luck to you, enjoy your play time or whatever the fuck it was you needed to get your rocks off, dominate and submit away, let him submit to her, or her submit to him.
But when someone tries to force it on you against your will that is an utterly different story, never once had he ever treated her badly, raised even his voice to her in anger or for any other reason, he just wasn't built or wired that way, he'd been raised to show respect to women and to believe that they were nothing other than his absolute equal, that no man was superior to any woman and visa versa, that we are all equal together.
Aiden always prided himself on his even temperament and his self control, he kept his aggression for the many battlefields that his job made him walk, he vowed that he would never bring it home or into the civvy element of his life, but some people saw that as a kind of weakness, they saw this big male who was non aggressive and they saw both weakness and opportunity.
Now, lets be fair here, he was far from weak, he was a strong guy even without his cybernetic enhancements, with them he could have punched her ass through a reinforced concrete wall without even scuffing the metal of the arm, but he was not wired that way even remotely, but, somehow, in her mind that had meant he wasn't alpha enough and meant that he would be willing to be dominated and degraded.
So began her attempt to 'train' him to be her slave, she never actually told him about any of this, or her fetish or desire, she decided to sneak it in and just expected him to accept it, it had started with name calling, which hurt him and confused him, he didn't know why the one he loved was being this way with him when, as far as he could see, he had done nothing wrong, then it had become physical, slapping during sex and a host of other things, she had thought Aiden would just put up with it and would bend to her will, she was very very wrong.
Eventually he clicked onto what was taking place and rebelled against it, he quite clearly stated to her, in no uncertain terms, that he was not willing to submit like this, to be degraded or humiliated for her amusement, that he wasn't built like that, now, while he was willing to let her have control during sex and he was willing to do all sorts of things to please her, he drew the line at any form of humiliation, name calling or any of the other shit she was trying to pull, her response was to slap him across the face and call him a worm, then to tell him that all worms should be at her feet where they belonged.
Aiden simply looked at her, bit back his anger, then turned and proceeded to head towards the door to leave, her response to this was to run and fetch her freshly bought spanking paddle and strike it across the rear of his legs, screaming at him that he couldn't leave, that he was her slave, and that he had to do what she said, or she would punish him.
First, he turned and calmly took the paddle from her and crushed it to splinters with his cybernetic hand, the whole time glaring at her, then he turned and again tried to leave, all the time under a torrent of abuse.
After tearing her apartment door from its hinges and pitching it into the pool some hundred meters away he had simply picked up his gear and left her without a word, she had tried to come after him but the appearence of a certain feline member of the Spirit team, who had come to pick him up after receiving an SOS stopped her, because, after silently evaluating the situation she found her friend in, she walked calmly over to the screaming and yelling woman, grabbed her in an arm lock, leaned in real close, spoke very very softly into her ear, and Aiden would never forget that look of fear in her eyes, whatever Whisper had said to her had broken that woman in a multitude of ways, he never did ask, he simply said thank you, to which Whisper relied, "You'd do the same for me boss."
This had taken place long before the woman who had finally shattered Aiden's confidence in himself into itty bitty little pieces with her laughter at his scarred and broken body, when it came to women, he seemed to have little to no luck at all, it had seemed to him that they all wanted to dominate him or humiliate him, he just couldn't figure out why, all he'd ever wanted in his love life was to have a peaceful and gentle love, someone who both respected him and cared for him in the way he did them, to be equal in his feelings and love, he didn't want to be in charge of anyone, and he didn't get why anyone would want to be in charge of him either, yes, he got that it was fun during love making to be in control of what was happening or to let the one you love to have their way with you, but there was not any reason for that to involve violence or pain or humiliation, you could surrender your control without being hurt or control without hurting, he just didn't see the appeal.
So yeah, he didn't get it, role play yes, he sort of understood that, in fact, he had some delightful ideas of some fun situations he could do with his girls to make them feel strong and powerful, or vulnerable and trusting, but nothing that would leave either of them feeling humiliated and worthless, he simply couldn't even bare the thought of it, if he ever made his girls feel like that he'd eat a bullet because, at that point, he'd be more of a monster than they could ever be considered to be by any one.
Looking at the pair of them he could literally feel the power of both of these incredible woman in every fibre of their beings, the supreme power and confidence made flesh and given face.
Just the incredible density of their muscles showed the sheer level of strength that the girls he currently shared this bed with were capable of, being between them was kind like being inside a living hydraulic press all that solid feminine muscle all around him, then a warm thought swam back into his mind, the fact that these two felt that they had to prove their worth to him, he had never in his life ever had a woman try to prove her worthiness to him, for the most part they just all assumed that they were, which was fine, because, for the most part, he'd always assumed that as well, only afterwards realizing the harsh truth.
Maybe it was because they were aliens to his race that they felt that they needed to prove it to him, to lure him away from his species by proving that, not only were they a better fit for him, but that they were worthy of his attentions, he only hoped that he had showed them that he was worthy of them, or, at the very least, they felt he was, because, right now, as he lay there, silently admiring them both, he realized that love had utterly blindsided him again, it had crept up and jammed not only a wrist blade but a very pointy tail through his heart, boy did cupid have a very different face these days and fuck did he love it.
As if feeling herself being admired, T'Shara snorted herself awake and lifted her head, making a smacking noise as she realigned her mandibles, and her face was utterly cute as hell as she turned to see him looking at her and her sleepy confused face was utterly adorable.
"Good morning, my sleeping beauty, sleep well?" he asked softly as he nuzzled her face, he would have stroked her but his arm was kind of locked up, "Hmmmm, like a cub, did I wake you, my ooman?" she asked softly, as her mind slowly came back on line.
He shook his head gently, "Nah, I've been awake and admiring your cute ass for a little while," he said playfully, she looked confused in that half in half out kind of way.
"My ass?" she asked, actually turning to try and look where he was looking to where the blankets had slid off and revealed her rear end, thanks to the angle she was laid at on him and where the blankets had slid her very pert and solid rear was poking up for his admiring eyes to gaze at.
"You know, I never quite imagined that one of the women I would fall so utterly in love with would have a camo ass, that skin tone of yours makes it easy to blend in with things, hardly seems fair to the guy who loves you when he's trying his hardest to sneak a peak at all that feminine Yautja goodness that you can hide it without clothes," he said playfully, leaning forwards and nibbling her mandible as she still tried to look at her own rear end in her sleep addled haze.
The kiss seemed to bring her around and she turned her head back towards him and her eyes cleared and her mandibles opened slowly, encasing his entire lower face in them, slowly and tenderly stroking his jaw and cheeks before taking hold and pulling her mouth to his, he felt her teeth against his lips and he felt her rather long agile tongue seeking entry to his mouth by licking his lips gently and slowly leaving her warm saliva in a coating on the outside.
He parted his lips and let her in, "Mmmmmm," he purred softly as her tongue ran all around the inside of his mouth, tasting every single tooth curiously, she was reveling in his mouth and his difference to her, he was doing the same to her, reveling in her small but sharp teeth, her saliva tasted so incredibly sweet to him, kinda like berries.
Once they broke apart she drew her mandibles in to become a broad but dreamy smile, "Did you enjoy what happened last night, T'Shara? You don't regret any of it, do you?" Aiden asked softly and slightly nervously, she cocked her head and actually looked surprised.
"Last night was the best night of my life! I got what I have craved so incredibly long, the male I love, I never, in my life, expected to fall in love with a member of another race, let alone two, and one being a female, but, when I first laid eyes on you, you were like a drug to me, the more time I spent around you the more I craved your company, I found myself missing you every time we were not on mission, and when you went back to civilian life for leave I found myself utterly yearning to be with you again, hell, just to see you, I began to pray to Paya to give you to me, to make you the prey of my heart and to bless my hunt of you and to give me my trophy, your heart, last night was the greatest night of my life by far, I experienced pure joy, pure heavenly joy at the hands of the ones I love, not only at the hands of the ooman I adore, but at the hands of a woman I thought I would hate for loving you as I do, but I cannot, and will not, hate her, because I love her, just as Paya said I would, she was the gateway to our love, she helped me hunt, and together, we caught our prey and claimed our trophy, you, then you proved to us both what a truly worthy and incredible man you are, you made me feel things I never even dared to dream possible, I knew that oomans could do some unusual things during mating, but, wow, I have not the words to describe what it is you did to me, the way you made me feel, the joy you gave me, you took me to heaven with you and held me there and let me revel in you, I gave my entire self to you and you rewarded me with all I have ever dreamed of, your entire self raw and unfiltered, so did Macha, and I knew my love was complete, I dedicate myself to you both, and I will never stray from you both because you were always my destiny, Aiden, you are an ooman not destined to be loved by an ooman, because oomans are not worthy of your love, as they have proved to you over and over, so now, it is up to us to show you who is worthy of you, as you have already proved that you are worthy of us," she said softly, stroking his face with her mandibles.
"I agree fully," Macha said softly from the other side of of Aiden's chest, and both of them turned to see the Xeno queen watching them both.
"I'm sorry, my beauty queen, did our conversation wake you?" T'Shara asked softly, Macha smiled at them both.
"I've been awake ever since Aiden said he was admiring your camo ass as he eloquently put it, I felt a little left out so I have been admiring it as well, and our male is right, it really does blend in with your surroundings, your flesh is a wonder, T'Shara, and I can see why our male thoroughly enjoys the view," Macha said, using her tail to move the blankets off her partially covered rear to stroke it lovingly with the incredibly sharp tip, T'Shara gave her a kind of lob sided smile.
"It's not fair that you both see me while I do not see you," she said softly, and, with her hand, she gathered the blankets on top of Aiden so that Macha's rear was exposed, along with her waving tail.
"Now that is a sight to wake up to in the morning, pinned down and forced to look at the rear ends of the two most beautiful girls in the universe," Aiden said in a voice so soft and quiet neither was sure he was actually speaking to them and more just to himself.
"I do believe our ooman likes the view we give him," T'Shara said, stroking Macha's face softly, Macha nodded, lifting her large head to look at Aiden with a coy smile on her mandibles.
"At the moment I do believe our human is getting all the view my huntress," she said softly, and, with that, she used her tail to flick the quilt off him and revealed his body to them, "Mmmmm, that's better, wouldn't you agree, my huntress?" Macha said, reaching down to trail her fingers over Aiden's naked body, he was pinned between them as they both had one arm and one leg bound up each, leaving his torso and lower body free for them to explore and play with.
"Mmmmm, I most definitely agree," T'Shara said, a look of desire creeping into her bright eyes as she too trailed a finger over his skin, she ran a finger down one of the long scars that crossed his body and Aiden winced and let out a hiss, causing Macha to react and catch her hold of her wrist.
"Stop! It hurts him, he is too proud to say it, but I feel his pain when you touch that," she said, a note of both urgency and concern in her voice, T'Shara's hand instantly froze and she looked at Aiden who looked both ashamed and guilty.
"Is that true my ooman? My touch is hurting you?" she asked, a hard note in her voice and Aiden nodded silently.
"I didn't want to say anything and have you think I was a pussy or something, I love the fact that you want to touch me, both of you, but yeah, they're painful, most of them anyway," he said softly, not meeting her eyes until her large hand came up took hold of his chin and lifted his head forcing him to meet her eyes.
"Now you listen to me, ooman, and you listen well, there is nothing in this life that could make me think less of you, do you forget that I saw you endure that which gave you these scars!? Do you forget that I sat at your bedside when they put you back together? Do you forget that I trained with you when you built your body back to the beautiful specimen that it is today? Because, if you believe for one second that I could think less of you for not wishing to endure pain any more when I know that you endure it every day of your life then you are mistaken! I wish to be your pleasure! Your joy! Your happiness! Not another source of pain that you must endure! If something I do causes you pain or makes you uncomfortable or unhappy you tell me that instant! You hear me, my ooman!?" she growled in a deep resonating and powerful voice that he knew wasn't aggression really, it was her hiding her shame and concern.
He smiled softly and nodded, "That goes for me to my human, but, where I am lucky in the fact that I can feel your pain when I am connected to you as I can feel your pleasure, but I will not allow you to hide it beyond that mask of silly masculine bravado that you wear, neither of us will ever think of you as less of a male than you are, after what I have seen in your mind and what I have experienced at your hands I know what kind of male you are, and I couldn't be prouder to have you standing at my side, you are my joy, my happiness given life, my salvation and one of the two who can truly understand me, plus, I will say this loud and proud, I pity any female or male stupid enough to ever harm you mentally or physically in front of us, because we will make them pay in ways they will not even believe possible, we will give them a pain reserved only for those stupid enough to harm you," she said.
Now, to a lot of men, having their woman offer to stand up for them and to even fight their battles for them would give them a sense of profound demasculinity, but, given who he was in love with, that was not what Aiden felt at all, having a hybrid Xenomorph queen and a full blooded Yautja huntress and Spirit promising to protect him was a truly wonderous experience.
"The same goes for you my loves, I will never let anyone ever harm you, ever, if someone is stupid enough to insult you before me I will make them bleed," he said, trying to choke back the tears of pride and joy he felt at their pride in him, no one had ever made him feel like this before, not ever.
Then he turned to T'Shara, "I'm sorry, my love, my stupid masculine pride made me think you would think less of me if I showed you that I was hurting, but, yes, they hurt when you touch them like that, to be fair though, no one has ever cared enough to ask me before, please forgive me," he said, she gripped his face again.
"You are forgiven my ooman, but do not ever confuse me or Macha with those shallow pauks again, we are not them, we are your life mates, and your pain is our pain, what hurts you hurts us, doubly so if we are the cause and, unlike her, I cannot feel what you feel unless she places our minds into that link like she did last night when we mated, so if you are in pain you must tell me about it," she said, and he nodded.
"I will, I promise," he said, kissing her hands craning his neck as his arms were still pinned below them, they both nodded approvingly.
"Show us how to touch you, my love, so that you do not feel pain, I wish to explore you without hurting you, the very idea of causing you pain hurts me, so please, show me," T'Shara said softly, he nodded.
"Gonna need my arms back," he said softly, they both suddenly seemed to realise that he was pinned down and both lifted and allowed him to pull his arms into the middle and letting the blood rush back into his biological arm, his cybernetic one he could have moved at any time.
"Ok, you can touch my scars just down touch in the centre and please, not with those nails of yours, the skin in the centre is incredibly sensitive, but in in a good way, it burns if you touch it too hard, kissing it is fine, so kinda like this," he said, taking her fingers in his hand and Macha's in his other hand and very gently guiding them so that they stroked the edges of his scars without touching inside them, "You see? Just like that," he said softly.
"And this is good? You like this?" T'Shara asked, and he nodded, she smiled and continued to very gently brush her fingers over his skin alongside Macha who was doing the exact same thing, suddenly their playtime was cut short when there was a knock at the bedroom door.
"You three love birds up? Tank's calling in, he's wondering when we're going to be there?" Spike's voice called through the door, slightly muffled by the wood, both Macha and T'Shara growled in frustration in perfect unison and Aiden groaned, but not one of joy.
"We'll be right there Spike, tell Tank we're packing up and will be moving out shortly," he called, causing both of his girls to give him pained looks, all he could do was shrug.
"Sorry girls, I don't think he's going to like, hang on a bit, Tank, Reaper is tangled up, being the filling in a Yautja Xeno queen sandwich as a reason for us being late," he said, and T'Shara gave a dark grin.
"He would if I explained it to him with my fist," she said, and Aiden laughed.
"Now now, T'Shara, you can't go around beating up our friends just to get more human loving," he said, and Macha chuckled.
"I think you just spoiled her day," she said, and T'Shara shot her a look.
"Like you weren't planning on it as well," she said, and Macha shrugged.
"Not going to deny it, but there is plenty of time, I will savor the day and I will spend it sending images of what I hope will happen to both of you when we are not at risk," she said, playfully stroking them both, T'Shara and Aiden both looked at one another.
"Oh boy, is this day going to be an interesting one," he said.
Ten minutes later, both T'Shara and Aiden had their gear back on and the three of them stepped out of the bedroom and into the main room, where they found both Spike and Missy both sharing the same juvenile smug shit eating grin as they looked at the three of them, "What?" Aiden asked.
"Oh, nothing Reaper, nothing at all, so Macha, everything you hoped for?" Missy said, looking at her friend coyly, Macha grinned broadly and stroked his chest, making her claws click on the armor plates.
"And so much more, dreams do not do human love justice, especially when it is combined with Yautja love," she said, and Spike looked utterly amazed.
"Both of them!? Fucking both of them!?" he exclaimed, and Aiden looked at him.
"What did you think we were doing in there, starting a band?" he asked, and Spike looked at T'Shara.
"Well, I knew Inferno was, but I thought that, err, I dunno, maybe Macha was just watching or something," he said, Macha looked both intrigued and insulted at that.
"You believe I would wish to watch them mate without being involved?" she asked, Spike shrugged, looking lost.
"I don't know, I guess I just thought that there was no way Reaper could be lucky enough to wind up with two incredible alien girls falling for him at the same time, but, I suppose if I could believe it of anyone in this life time, he's the one I could believe it of, only Reaper could walk through the frigging zombie apocalypse and come out the other side not only smelling of roses but of hot alien girl sex," he said, and both Macha and T'Shara laughed.
"We found one another and now we will never let go," T'Shara said.
"I didn't think you were into girls?" Spike said, and T'Shara shook her head.
"I'm not, but this girl is different, this here is the only girl I would ever love as he is the only male I will ever love, together, as three, our love is strong as we are strong," she said proudly, putting her arms around them both.
Suddenly, Missy wandered over to them and hugged Macha, who leaned down and hoisted her up and held her like a mother holding a toddler, from this position she could lean over and hug T'Shara, who looked surprised at this, "Ha! I've got an aunty now, aunty Inferno and uncle Reaper! sounds awesome, doesn't it?" she said as T'Shara looked at her questioningly.
"Aunty?" she asked, and Missy nodded.
"Well, Macha is like my apocalypse mom and she looks after me, if the pair of you love her then that makes you aunty Inferno and uncle Reaper, or maybe daddy Reaper and aunty Inferno?" she said, rubbing her chin thoughtfully, both T'Shara and Aiden looked at one another then both at Spike who just threw his hands up in mock surrender.
"Don't look at me, this is all her and you, you guys go right ahead and play happy families, but if anyone starts either calling me either big brother or fucking Oni Chan I am off this fucking planet," he said.
Aiden sighed and ruffled Missy's hair and scratched behind her ears, "Alright people, we got to move, so lets get our game faces on, we got a lot of ground to cover and it's in the most crowded part of town, or one of them at least, but we need to reach the other Spirits to regroup, so professional heads on, Spike, let the team know we're coming, tell them I want Whisper on the roof and Moodstone spotting for her, I want Tank and Picasso on the ground near the doors with their big guns because if we come in hot I want their firepower to create a bullet wall, tell them to get everyone else on overwatch on as many angles as they can," he said, and Spike nodded and began relaying the comms to the team, Aiden turned to both Macha and T'Shara, "Fast, low, quiet, and, above all else, safe" he said to them, and they both nodded.
The team packed up and T'Shara put her mask back on, going back into Inferno mode, the team went back down the way Inferno and Spike had come up, the elevator shafts, Macha was carrying Missy on her back like a jockey, unlike the other, she didn't need the cables to climb down the walls as her claws let her stick to any surface, the others used their climbing gear to slide down the cables till they exited through the elevator cab that Inferno and Spike had entered through.
Moving like a well oiled machine, Reaper took point with his PIMP in assault mode, to his left covering the left angle front and back was Inferno, her plasma cannons constantly swiveling as she checked her arcs of fire, on the other side was Macha, with no firearm but her incredible Xeno senses giving her a far further arc than the others, at the rear was Spike watching their tails as they moved in a diamond formation slowly out onto the street beyond the doors.
They had only gone a hundred yards when Spike and Inferno both picked up Whisper's message, "I have you, street directly in front of you is packed, take a left and go parallel to it," she said, and Reaper confirmed with a hand gesture when Inferno relayed it to him, as they entered the street indicated he saw a couple milling about and fired a couple of shots to put down the stragglers, his weapon was far quieter than Inferno's plasma casters, though not as quiet as what she held in her hand in the form of her upgraded smart disc, when she threw it out and it curled in a long arc around some grounded hover cars he saw three large puffs of red mist fly up out of his sight line and the disc returned to her.
Macha suddenly hissed at an alleyway coming up on their right, in a flash, she was gone, returning moments later, shaking her tail clean and using what appeared to be a man's shirt to clean the spike on the end, when they glanced into the alleyway there were six dead zombies with rather large holes punched though their heads, suddenly, Macha let out a yelp of surprise and Aiden spun like a top, he didn't even think, he reacted and fired a single shot onto the skull of the Yautja who had reached out from under a car and grabbed her leg a millisecond before he was able to manage a bite on her leg.
"Watch the cars, my love, fuckers love to hide," he said, and she nodded.
"Thank you, my love," she said, and he nodded before they continued on their way, the street curved to the right and, no sooner had they rounded the corner than the first undead they saw literally exploded for no reason, his head and shoulders becoming mist, from nowhere a high pitched whizzing noise slammed into the ground before Reaper, without missing a beat he simply gave a thumbs up to Whisper, their guardian angel.
Under her guidance, they were able to evade the majority of the hordes in the surrounding streets, but it was obvious that their movements had not gone unnoticed by those that couldn't see them, one or two of the undead let out howls and screech noises before they were able to dispatch them, this acted like a kind of alarm call and brought others to the approximate location, but the team were constantly moving, leaving the horde to hunt them, one last left turn and they came out into a street to find a set of barricaded doors and both Tank and Picasso standing in the street frantically waving at them.
One after the other the group passed between them and the pair jumped in and closed the doors behind them and secured them with the chains and bungees.
Suddenly, both of them seemed to notice the huge Xeno queen standing next to Reaper, "Holy shit! It's a fucking Xeno!" Picasso exclaimed, fingering his gun, immediately, Reaper and Inferno stepped in front of her.
"Stand down! She's friendly! You lift that weapon, I get real unfriendly real fucking fast, understand!?" Reaper snarled, Picasso glanced from her to him and took his hands off the gun.
"Err, yes boss, sorry, I guess this is the Xeno you were riding yesterday, huh?" he said, Spike stepped up and patted his shoulder.
"Oh, you have no idea, suffice to say, Reaper ride Xeno, Xeno ride Reaper, everyone wins," he said with a grin that earned him a cuff across the back of the head from T'Shara and then from Missy who leaned out from Macha's back.
"Hey!" Spike exclaimed, and T'Shara smiled under her mask.
"I like this cub, she is smart," she said, and Reaper laughed.
"Oh, you have no idea, aunty Inferno" he said playfully, T'Shara growled.
"If I didn't love you so much I would smack your head too," she said, both Tank and Picasso looked at each other in utter shock.
"Did she just say what I think she said?" Picasso exclaimed, Tank nodded.
"If ye think that the big lassie just said that she loves our man there, then ye spot on laddie, fucking hell, I never thought I'd live to see the day, proud of ye lassie, what you do, tie his human arse down and make him listen or what?" he asked.
Inferno let out a purry growl and walked in front of Aiden, pulling him into a hug, from behind Macha did the same coiling her tail and herself around the pair of them possessively, "Something like that," she purred, and now, both Tank and Picasso looked utterly gob smacked.
"Told ya," Spike said, then he gestured to the stairs, "Come on, it's a long story so lets go upstairs and meet up with the others, you can all kiss the Xeno and when you wake up we can tell you all about it," he said, Tank and Picasso nodded, then froze as the group went to pass them
"Kiss the Xeno...Wait! What?" They said in unison as Missy's laughter echoed around the lobby.