Possessing Snake

by Kerianya

After getting tired of Ace's Not-Quite-Friends-With-Benefits and other abuses, Snake agrees to go on a date with his older sister's friend. The trouble is, her friend is none other than His Infernal Majesty – otherwise known as HIM. Is Snake jumping from bad to worse, and just how is Ace going to react when he finds out?

11. Chapter 11 -Snake- Unexpected Acceptance

Fandom: The PowerPuff Girls (original version – 2002 designs)

Rating: Adult

Genre: Romance

Pairing(s): HIMxSnake, AcexSnake

Warnings: Slash, MxM, explicit sex, violence, rape, domestic abuse, language, Original Characters, mention of PPGZ characters (Znake, Ivy)

Summary: After getting tired of Ace's Not-Quite-Friends-With-Benefits and other abuses, Snake agrees to go on a date with his older sister's friend. The trouble is, her friend is none other than His Infernal Majesty – otherwise known as HIM. Is Snake jumping from bad to worse, and just how is Ace going to react when he finds out?

Disclaimer: The characters within this story are the creative property of Craig McCracken, with the exceptions of Belinda Ingleberry and Dr Hitomi Ingleberry, who remain my own characters, and Znake and Ivy, who are male/female versions of the same character, and are the property of the PPGZ creators. The idea to separate them as twin siblings is my personal headcanon.

Chapter 11 – Snake – Unexpected Acceptance

Chapter-Specific Warnings: Strong Language, Explicit Sex, Suggestive Language, shared bathing, M/M, Blended Family.

Snake settled into the bath, his back resting against HIM's chest while the water rose around them.

It had been an eventful month since he and HIM's relationship had become public knowledge – mostly in a good way! The general reaction seemed to be utter amazement, but people's behaviour to him had become much more positive. The more powerful villains had once treated him with indifference or annoyance if they were to cross paths, especially after the prank calling incident in the Town Hall. The gang had learned to gauge their moods and avoid them where necessary. In particular, they avoided Mojo, and Fuzzy on those rare occasions he ventured into the city, and they'd never been stupid enough to cross paths with HIM anyhow. They also had avoided Sedusa, though that was the result of dislike rather than fear.

Yet Snake had noticed a definite change in the way others treated him, even when he was alone, now that they knew he was HIM's lover.

They spoke to him, like he was an equal and not looking at him like they had just scraped him off the soles of their shoes. He'd run into Sedusa while shopping with Belinda a few days after HIM had saved him from the PowerPuff Girls. On the occasional encounters she'd had with them since they'd worked for her, she had made a show of pretending to not see them, comically focussing on something – anything – else. Once sure that they had stopped looking at her, she would flash them a hateful look before hurrying away.

Yet this time, Sedusa had come up to him and his sister, greeting Snake with nervous cheer. Taken aback, he had chatted with her for a short while before she took her leave. When he'd seen her after that, she had always been ready with a smile and cheerful word. HIM had found it amusing, saying that she was clearly trying to get into Snake's good graces to get into his.

There were four people that he wasn't seeing more nowadays, of course: Ace, Arturo, Billy, and Grubber.

Since his very public falling-out with Ace, Snake had felt uncomfortable in seeking out his friends, especially Ace. Try as he might, he couldn't remember the entire second part of his argument with his former crush (who apparently he'd called a cunt...twice), only the anger he had felt during it. He felt so embarrassed when he had eventually talked to the other three and they'd told him what had been said. Snake hadn't been too surprised when they told him Ace had called him a whore during the exchange, but had been shocked by the things he had said in response! He'd been sceptical about Ace's true motives, but never expected to get so angry with him...

Though they had insisted that they didn't entirely blame him, and assured him that the incident hadn't affected their friendship, Snake was sure that he was unlikely to spend any real time with Arturo, Billy, or Grubber in the future. They would never abandon Ace – he didn't want them to! Ace needed them more than Snake did and, to be honest, Snake felt happier that his former crush – a confirmed only child to seemingly disinterested parents – had them to rely on.

All the same, he was going to miss being around them all the time...

His thoughts were interrupted when HIM nibbled his shoulder playfully. Snake squeaked and turned his head to look at his lover. The demon chuckled, wrapping his arms around the teen and pulling him closer.

"You were miles away, my pet..." HIM cooed, nuzzling at him, "and without me!"

Snake giggled, and tilted his head so that the demon had better access to his neck.

HIM was clingy at times, but he always expressed it in a playful way, so Snake wasn't overly concerned.

"I wasss jussst thinkingsss..." he soothed, letting out a little sigh as one of HIM's claws began to tease down his belly and across his upper thigh.

"What about?"

"The lassst few monthsss...ah...and how much hasss changed for messss."

He felt HIM smile against his scales.

"Good changes?" He cooed. Snake pulled away to look at him.

"Of coursssse." He replied. "It'sss jusst...everything'sss ssso different nowsss. People treatssss messs differentlyssss..."

"In what way?"

Snake considered.

"Bettersss, but ssstill..."

Snake sighed, leaning his head back to look upwards at the ceiling. The bathroom was the one place in HIM's home with proper walls and a ceiling permanently, to give the demon privacy when he bathed.

"It sssoundsss sssillysss...but sssometimesss I feel like theysss only treatsss me bettersss now becaussse I'm with yousss and they don't want to make yousss angry."

"Does it matter?" HIM purred, resuming his assault on Snake's neck and coaxing him into his original position. "They know what would happen to them if they were to cross you."

"I knowsss, but...Isss don't wantsss them to treatsss me like that becaussse they're afraidss of messs..."

"Oh, come now, my pet! Certainly, the fools will fear the closeness we share now, but given time they will all see you the way that I do."

"Yousss think ssso?"

HIM sighed. "Of course! But then I'll have to make them fear you all over again when they inevitably fall in love with you and start trying to take you from me!"

Snake laughed softly, leaning forward to pull out of HIM's embrace. Before his lover could protest, he turned around in the water so that they were face to face.

"Sssillysss..." He came closer as he spoke, sliding into the demon's lap. "Do yousss honessstly believess that Isss would eversss look at any of themsss?"

HIM's black lips twisted into a hungry grin – the one that caused Snake to feel a fluttering deep in his belly – and pulled him closer.

"Ohhh, my sweet, trusting little one..." he purred. "You have no idea how...intoxicating you can be. It's only a matter of time before one of them is overcome and I'll have to destroy them."

He leaned forwards to kiss his lover, but Snake lifted his fingers to block his attempt.

"Koissshii..." he sighed "yousss knowss I don't like itsss when you sssay thingsss like thatssss."

HIM pouted, then pushed Snake's hand gently out of the way.

"Oh, my little pet...this again?"

"I meansss itsss! I don'tsss like the thoughtsss of anyoness getting killed for me."

"It didn't bother you when I beat Ace up for you." HIM's voice was playful despite the subject. "As a matter of fact, considering what happened afterwards, many people would say you liked it."

"Sssure, I liked yousss hurting himssss after whatsss he didsss to messs..." Snake's hands rested over HIM's shoulders, as though reassuring his lover that there was no ill will behind his words. "Butsss if yousss remembersss, Isss had to ssstep insss before youss killed himsss."

"It'd have been no big loss if I did kill the brat." HIM growled, playfully rolling his eyes. "It's hardly as though he had anyone waiting for him...unless there's something you're not telling me, of course..?"

Snake chuckled, nuzzling his lover gently.

"You knowsss there issssn't, Koisssshi." He soothed. "I jusssst...I don't wantsss anyone dying becaussse they had sssomething to do with messss..."

HIM studied him for a second, with a look that Snake couldn't understand. He was considering the idea of making his lover promise not to kill anyone because of their interaction with him, when the demon's smile deepened.

"Ah, such an intriguing little pet I have..." he cooed, pushing Snake into a kiss before he had a chance to speak. Snake opened his mouth to protest, but when HIM used it as an opportunity to deepen the kiss, he gave up on the idea and returned it.

It was, after all, what he had been hoping for when he had gotten into this position in the first place.

He settled more comfortably in HIM's lap, offering little more than a token challenge as HIM's tongue plundered his mouth. It was evident from his positioning that his lover was enjoying their closeness, and Snake was hardly in any position to protest. In the weeks since their first time together, he had learned that HIM's libido was seemingly never ending, and could be switched on and off at will. His passion as a lover was also similarly fiery. Snake had managed to pull away from HIM's embraces on a few occasions, when he had been too tired, but he knew it wasn't something he should try too often. Then again, he found it hard to imagine a time where he wanted to refuse his lover, not now that he...

His thoughts were waylaid as HIM's claws gently adjusted his hips, causing his erection – hot even in the bath water, to press between Snake's buttocks.

"Ohhhssss..." He moaned, rocking against his lover in encouragement. The movement pushed HIM's arousal inside him, eliciting a growl from the demon. HIM shifted his hips, much less gently this time, until he had pushed himself completely inside the teenager.

There was no discomfort from the lack of preparation, for they had already made love that day – not to mention the night before – and Snake felt his body greedily accept the invasion. He pulled away from the kiss to exhale, then moved his hands back to grip the sides of the bathtub. Using the tub to support him, he began grinding his hips into HIM's lap, starting with slow and shallow thrusts. He had soon learned that his lover enjoyed it when he took the initiative, but even more so when he did so in a careful, almost timid, manner. HIM had remarked on more than one occasion that he didn't find purity or virginity particularly attractive, but Snake had learned that he responded well to playing shy during sex. It was something he tried not to dwell on too much...

Which was just as well, as HIM's claws gripped Snake by the hips, holding him in place to thrust his own hips.

"Ah-!"

Snake was tempted to relinquish his grip on the bathtub, wrap his arms around his lover, and enjoy the ride. The position meant he was naturally pushing against HIM anyway. But instead, he strengthened his grip,and continued to grind as best he could against his lover, meeting his thrusts with enough force to cause the bath water to splash in violent waves. HIM growled in response, but simply thrust harder, with such precision that soon all Snake could do was hold on.

"Ah! Aaaahhhsssss! H-HIMsssss...ooohhhs!"

They had made little recovery from their last bout of lovemaking, and neither lasted very long. The orgasm took Snake by surprise and his back arched, pressing his body into HIM's lap with enough force to tip the demon into his own release. This time, Snake relaxed his hold on the tub, enjoying the familiar feeling of HIM's seed as it spilled inside him before leaning forward into an embrace.

For a while, they rested in that position – still joined – as they regained control of their breathing. Snake felt HIM kiss his forehead and smiled, lifting his head so their lips could join.

No matter what had happened with the people around him, Snake could take it or leave it. What really mattered was that he was happy with his lover.

There was just one little thing...

"She wants to what?"

Snake pulled his shirt over his chest and stomach and looked at HIM.

"Ssshe wantsss to meet yousss." He repeated, reaching for the towel to dry his hair.

"But why?"

Snake rolled his eyes.

"Koissshii, I've been ssspending more timess here with yousss than I do at homesss. Ssshe wass going to noticccce ssssooner or latersss, and sssshe knowsss we're sssleeping togetherssss alreadyss. Sssshe told messss if thingssss were getting sssso sssseriousss between ussss, ssshe wanted to know who I wasss with."

HIM, fully dressed and applying his makeup, turned from his mirror to face him.

"Annnnd...your mother knows you're dating me?"

Snake flushed, and looked away.

"Ummmmssss, i-in a matter of sssspeaking..." he rubbed his hair with the towel. "I told her that yousss were Blindie'sss friend..."

HIM groaned.

"You are aware, my pet, that she's thinking I'm some teenage boy, don't you?"

"Wellssss...probablyssss...b-but sssshe'ssss going to have to meet youssss eventuallysss, rightsss?"

HIM's expression made it clear that meeting his boyfriend's family had not been something he had considered.

"IIIIIIII...suspect that she won't react particularly well when she finds out who I really am, Sanford."

"I knowssss. Sssso, let'ssss get it overssss and done withssss."

HIM had to laugh at the innocence of Snake's words.

"And what exactly do you think is going to happen?" He asked. "She'll open the door, scream at me, but then act as though everything is fine?"
"Sssshe'll get over itssss."

"As opposed to, I don't know, putting you straight onto the next plane to Japan to get you away from me?"

Snake looked stricken.

"Ssssshe wouldn'tsssss!"

"Why not? You're still only sixteen, so legally she can do whatever she wants. Nobody would stop her – in fact, they'd probably help her do it!"

"Nossss!"

With tears blurring his vision, Snake all but flung himself to the floor before HIM. His head rested against the demon's torso as his arms wrapped around him.

"Sssshe won't ssssend me awaysssss – I won'tssss let herssss!" He sobbed.

"Sanford..?" HIM sounded taken aback, and looked it when Snake lifted his head to stare at him.

"I won't losssse you! Ssssshe can sssssend me anywhere in the worldsssss that sssshe can think ofsss, and I'll ssssstill come backssss! I love yousssss, HIMssss, sssso sssshe'll jussst have to get usssed to it!"

HIM's eyes were wide with shock as he stared back, unblinking, for what felt like hours. Just as Snake was trying to work out what to say, the demon lifted him up into his arms and embraced him tightly. Snake returned the embrace, and responded happily when HIM kissed him fiercely.

"Just when I thought you couldn't surprise me any more..." HIM murmured softly as they broke apart. His claw reached to wipe a stray tear from Snake's cheek, and the teen rested his hand against it with a smile.

"I suppose we'll figure something out, my pet." He conceded, before adding "Nothing dreadful, I promise!" when Snake frowned.

"I was hardly going to cause any harm to your mother, was I? If anything my mother would be furious..." he paused to think. Snake was surprised to see he looked embarrassed.

"...and I suppose she's been asking to meet you too."

Snake felt his cheeks burn, completely forgetting the previous upset with surprise.

"Youssss...told your parentssss about messss?" There was no way of stopping the smile spreading across his face.

"Of course! I'd be very surprised if anyone in my family didn't know about you by now."

Snake giggled.

"Maybesss we ssshould meet them all togetherssss?" He laughed at the horrified look HIM gave him.

"Trust me, that wouldn't end well for anyone." HIM managed. "When it comes to meeting my family, we're starting slowly."

"Wellssss, technically I already have ssstarted meeting your familyssss."

HIM blinked in confusion.

"Who have you-"

A loud crashing sound drowned out the remainder of HIM's question. Without losing eye contact, Snake pointed in the direction of the racket.

"Uhhh, themssss?"

HIM rolled his eyes.

"Oh, yes, of course."

Before they could react, three coloured streaks appeared in the sky, making a beeline for their room. Snake had barely climbed off HIM's lap, when Brick appeared in front of him, visibly agitated, with Butch and Boomer close behind. HIM scowled at the trio.

"How many times have I told you not to just waltz into my room unannounced?" He snapped.

But the RowdyRuff boys were either unaware of HIM's anger, or simply didn't care, for they barely spared him a glance between them. Brick, his long red hair a tangled mess, rushed straight up to Snake.

"Tell them to leave my hair alone!" He shrieked.

"But we were trying to hellllp!" Boomer protested.

"Yeah! S'not our fault he's got stupid hair!" Butch smirked.

Snake groaned inwardly, but looked down at the RowdyRuff leader. His hair resembled a bird's nest around his head, almost covering his eyes. In the middle, the handle of what Snake hoped was a hairbrush could just about be seen. Though any of the trio could wipe the smile from his face with a completeness that Ace could only dream of, he couldn't help but laugh.

"What have yousssss been doing, Brickssss?" He gave the handle an experimental wriggle, and was relieved to see it had a lot of movement despite Brick wriggling in mid-air out of protest.

"It's their fault, Snake!" He cried. "I was brushing my hair just fine, like I always do -"

"-Stupidly!" Butch sniped.

"Shut it! And! And! I got my brush stuck just a little bit...but I was getting it free...and then they -" he flailed angrily in Boomer and Butch's direction "they jumped me and messed it all up!"

"That's not true!" Boomer and Butch howled in unison.

"It wasn't stuck a little bit!" Boomer edged a little closer "It was completely stuck! You couldn't see the handle even at all!"

"Yeah, and then he started all tugging at it and screaming...like a dumb girl!" Butch had manoeuvred himself so he could shout the last part into Brick's face. "So we tried to help pull it out. Brick should be thanking us, ya know If we hadn't you wouldn't have been able to find the stupid brush."

"You're a stinkin' liar, Butch!" Brick snapped, tensing as though he was about to throw himself at his brother. As if sensing this, Butch tensed into a fighting stance with a grin. Sensing that he could be caught in the middle, Snake put his hands on Brick's shoulders, returning the attention back to him.

"It doesssssn't matter how the brusssssh got sssstuck, yousss guyssss." He soothed. "Jusssst let me seee if I can get itsss outsss..."

"Can you?" Brick turned round, his worried expression making him look like the child he really was.

"Wellssss, if yousss would ssssit ssstillsss for a minutessss, I can tryssss." Snake smiled at him. "I've had to pullssss plentysss of brusssshesss out of my sssisssster'sss hair before."

He sat down on the bed, and after a moment of hesitation, Brick settled down in his lap. After a few seconds of examining the mess, Snake was able to start untangling the brush from Brick's hair without a lot of fuss. By the time he had gotten the hairbrush free – to the sound of cheers from Boomer and Butch – Brick's hair was separated into a few knots, which Snake automatically started to undo as gently as he could. To his surprise, Brick endured the grooming patiently, with little more than an occasional "ow!" when the brush caught, and his brothers watched with quiet fascination.

Snake remembered his first encounter with the boys, just after he and HIM had gone public with their relationship, when they had appeared in HIM's bedroom one morning. Snake had been horrified, and certain that they were going to attack him once they recovered from their surprise at seeing him in bed with their 'Pops.' But HIM had been prepared, and seemed to have mentioned that something like this would happen, as he seemed to be reminding them of what would happen if they harassed Snake rather than threaten them.

Since then, they had treated Snake with wariness that had been slowly wearing off, and their interactions had been cheeky but non-threatening. Snake had been able to respond in a way that they had seemed to like, and a friendship of sorts had been budding between the four. This encounter was still far friendlier than he had expected

After the final knot was undone, Snake carefully ran the brush through Brick's smoothened red hair.

"Annnndssss...it'ssss done." He announced, setting the brush down on the bed beside him and pulled Brick's hair from his shoulders so it ran down his back. He saw HIM stifle a chuckle as Brick slowly ran his stumpy hands over the smoothed hair, his body language suggesting amazement, before turning his head to look at Snake.

"You did it!" He cried out, leaping up and twirling round in the air. Behind him, Boomer and Butch bounced up and down.

"He did it!"

"He did it!"

Snake chuckled, but abruptly stopped when Brick turned around and hugged him around the torso. A quick glance at HIM proved that his lover was equally surprised.

"Thank you Snake!"

"Ohsss, uh, you're welcome, Brickssss." He replied, carefully returning the hug. As they broke apart, Butch approached Brick and jabbed a hand in his face accusingly.

"This wouldn't have happened at all if you didn't have stupid girly-girl long hair!" He announced. Brick scowled at him, but Butch continued before he could speak.

"Do you know who else has stupid girly-girl hair? The stupid girly-girl PowerPuff Girls! I bet they get their hair stuck every single day, because it's too long, just like yours!"

"Shut it!" Brick snapped. "I don't get my hair stuck every day, and it ain't stupid and girly!"

"You wouldn't get it stuck at all if you had proper boy hair!" Butch lifted a hand in the air in the manner of one announcing a universal truth. "Boys don't have long hair."

"I dossss." Snake replied.

This seemed to stump the RowdyRuff boys for a moment, and Snake watched as Butch considered the hole that had appeared in his logic. Suddenly, Boomer appeared to have an idea.

"Yeah, but you're...you're not a normal boy, Snake." He said excitedly. Snake cocked his head in confusion.

"Oh, reallysss? Why notsss?"

Brick seemed to have caught onto Boomer's idea, as he grinned with equal excitement.

"Yeah, he's right! Cos you're not just a boy! You're a...you're a...you're a Step-Mommy too!"

Snake's eyes bulged.

"I'm a WHATSSSSSS?!"

"A Step-Mommy!" Boomer repeated, clearly enjoying himself.

"Yeah," Butch grinned, "and you're our Step-Mommy – the best Step-Mommy of all!"

Snake's jaw dropped. Too shocked to speak, he sat dumbly as the boys bounced on the bed and in the air around him, chanting "Step-Mommy!" as they did. When he looked up at HIM, he watched his lover lift his claws to his face in an attempt to conceal his laughter. He scowled.

"You're enjoying this?!"

"Immensely!" HIM nodded.

Suddenly, Butch stopped his dancing as his stomach rumbled loudly. He turned to HIM.

"Hey Pops! We need breakfast now!"

HIM looked at him with a mischievous smile.

"Why don't you ask your Step-Mommy?" He teased. But the Rowdyruff boys abandoned a thoroughly embarrassed Snake to surround HIM.

"Because we want you to make it, not Step-Mommy!" Butch replied. Brick nodded.

"Yeah, Step-Mommy can't make breakfast. That's your job!"

"Pleassssse ssstop calling me Sssstep-Mommy..." Snake groaned, putting his hat on his head. The boys either didn't hear his plea, or simply ignored it. Instead they returned to the bed, where Brick took hold of Snake's hand.

"C'mon, Step-Mommy." He announced. "You can sit next to me!"

Before Snake could respond, Butch and Boomer lifted him from the bed and carried him to the kitchen,where a small round table with five chairs was waiting. As they arrived, Snake saw that HIM was already in the kitchen and had started to make breakfast, giving Snake a playful wink and a kiss as he was set down.

"Gross!" Butch announced as Brick pulled Snake to take the seat next to him. HIM only laughed in response.

Snake looked around at the three boys as they talked the exciteable nonsense of little boys. He had never imagined that they would have accepted his relationship with HIM, let alone decided he was their Stepmother!

My Mom'sssss really gonna freaksss when ssshe findssss out!