Life with Koga

Chapter 11

By Alicia Maxwell

"Alicia, I was just thinking," Koga said.

"Yeah?" I turned over in bed to face him.

"Maybe you oughta go away for a while," he continued.  "Not that I'm trying to get rid of you but don't you think you'd be a lot better off right now if you didn't have to deal with all this stress?"

"Where would I go?" I asked him.

"Why not back to your own time?  Or maybe you could go see Rem again?" Koga suggested.

"You read one of my magazines didn't you?" I asked.  "You read the one that had the article on the relation between stress and miscarriages."

"Yeah and I agree with it.  Stress probably does contribute to birth defects miscarriages and all that stuff.  Why else would the alpha families typically be so small when others are typically huge?"

"And I thought you were too dim to pick up on that," I giggled.

"Hey!" Koga snapped.

"Sorry Koga-kun," I laughed.

"So… will you go?" he asked.

"Sorry dear," I planted a kiss on his cheek.  "I'm staying right here for the time being.  End of discussion."

"That's the one thing I can't stand about you women- you never give in when you know we men are right."

"Not necessarily.  It depends on the woman and what the situation is," I replied.  "Goodnight Koga-kun."

"Goodnight," he answered.

"Are you sure you don't want to go away again, Alicia?" Koga asked me the next morning.

"Your persistence is more irritating than the song 'I Know a Song that Gets on Everybody's Nerves'," I muttered.

"Does that mean you're ready to give in now?" Koga looked at me with a slight smirk, which caused the tip of his one fang to stick out.

"No, I am not.  And I will not.  I'm not going away;" I glared, "Got it?"

"You don't scare me," Koga stated flatly.

"You want me to scare you?  Fine! Let's see if you find having your tail pulled out scary!" I reached down and grabbed his tail.

"Ow!  Alright, alright!  I give, I give!  Just LET GO!!!"

"That's one thing about you men that I can't stand- your weak spots are always so obvious."

"Well let' if you have the same 'obvious weakness'!" Koga grabbed my tail and pulled it.  Little did he know I had built up an unbelievable tolerance for pain.

"Ya-awn," I said.  Bitter that I would disgrace him so, Koga squeezed my tail and pulled harder.  "I have no obvious weaknesses, Koga, so just give it up."

"That's the good thing about you," he said, "I always see something you don't."

"What do you mean?"

"You have one obvious weakness- More accurately forty-nine," Koga smiled.

"Forty-nine!?  I don't even have that many hidden weaknesses!" I replied.

"Of course you do.  Forty-nine obvious weaknesses- your family."

"That's different," I insisted.  "No one's ever gonna lay a finger on my kids… or my husband."

"You sure about that?" Koga pointed down the hill.  "Looks like someone's got two of your kids down there."

"What!?" I shrieked, following his finger down the path.  Sure enough, two certain someones had two of my sons.  Down the hill, in the wooded area, Tsurai was making out with Kuro and Akai Yuki was making out with Heroki.  "Koga?"

"Yes?"

"Is your invitation to go on a vacation still open?  Cause I'd like to retract my previous answer and take that vacation now."

"Not a chance."

"Kuso…."