Life with Koga

Chapter 15

By Alicia Maxwell

Rem and I made it to the swimming pond a bit before sundown. A musing smile crossed my lips as the first part of my three-part revenge came to mind. "If Rem is going swimming, she's going to have to take off her clothes," I thought to myself silently. It was an obvious truth but thinking about it had given me a scathingly brilliant idea (A/N: I do not own The Trouble with Angels or the movie's most common phrase - "scathingly brilliant idea").

"Go ahead in, Rem. I'll join you in a minute," I insisted.

"Okay!" Rem grinned and began stripping herself.

I had to put a great deal of effort into maintaining an impassive face as I devised my plan. I was prepared to strike at Rem's Achilles heel - her sex. Rem wasn't much of a woman and she even tried to make people believe she was a man at times. It worked fairly well when she was younger but she had… developed and so it had become harder for her to hide her femininity. The cruelest blow I could deal was clearly to make her verify for herself that she was a woman.

"How?" you may ask.

After Rem had gotten into the water I quickly rushed over and picked up every last scrap of clothing. "Hey Rem! Ready for part one of my revenge?" I called teasingly, waving the clothes high above my head.

"GIVE ME THOSE!!!" Rem demanded.

"All's fair in war!" I called back, leaving out the 'love and' part of the quote for obvious reasons, as I began running down the hillside with her clothes. I knew there were two possible outcomes. The first and more probable was that she would chase me until she realized that she had run completely naked past about a dozen people at which point she would turn bright red in humiliation and I would return the clothes. The other possibility was that she would simply wait me out at the pond. If that happened, I was prepared to turn it into two phases of my revenge plan. In such a case, phase one would have been to make her wait it out there all night and then phase two would have been to suggest that the men go bathe in the pond. Either possibility was fine with me.

I stopped after running about a mile and looked back. She didn't appear to be coming. It looked like I had to go with operation two; however, I needed an excuse for why Rem had not returned to the dens with me. I sat down on a nearby rock and began to think. I eventually decided that I would go back and say that Rem had decided to camp out for the night. Knowing her, it was a highly probable possibility.

I executed my plan exactly. I went back with her clothes tucked away in the stomach area of my clothes (no one would notice if a woman pregnant with sextuplets had a shirt and a pair of pants tucked away there!) and told anyone who asked that Rem was camping out. The next morning, I went to Ginta, Hakkaku, and a few other men and suggested that they go bathe. They took my suggestion to heart and headed off for the pond. I followed at a safe distance.

Once Rem had been fully humiliated by being found sleeping naked by the pond, Ginta made a move that I decided was worthy of being the third part of my revenge. Since she was asleep and half in the water, Ginta had assumed Rem needed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which he instantly engaged in performing. Rem awoke and jumped up. She had already beaten Ginta to a bloody pulp before she realized she was standing naked before a group of men. She blushed in humiliation and I swiftly tossed her clothes down to her.

"Consider what you have just suffered the full three-prong revenge assault," I smirked.

"You clever little bitch," Rem said half-angrily, half-amusedly as she pulled on her clothes.

I hopped down and a sharp twang of pain echoed through my body. I recognized the pain all too well.

"What's wrong, Alicia?" Ginta blinked at me as I whimpered softly, jaw and fists clenched tight in pain.

Rem stood there, looking at me seriously for the first time in a good long while. "It's a contraction. The cubs are coming early. Someone go get Koga."

A/N: I thought it was time I did a funny chapter with a serious and dramatic cliffhanger ending. What do you think?