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Chapter 16 Interlude 2: Aftermath
Mistress Tetra pulled the threads around her sub and twisted a knot over his wrists. "And how is that? Tight enough?" False sweetness flowed off her tongue like melted chocolate.
He turned his head back to her and nodded quietly.
She released a thread attached to the ceiling off one of her legs. Her body swung in a few degrees and pressed her chest against his bare back.
He yelped in surprise. His arm sockets strained against the extra pressure and he bent his knees in as far as his restrained legs allowed.
The mistress' hands snaked around his ribs and slid up toward a nipple. One of her pedipalps rotated in along his thigh.
"And now?" Her honeyed voice intoned by his sweating head. "Too tight?" She lightly licked the outside of his ear.
"Ah! Inconceivable, inconceivable!" He shouted.
Tetra immediately leaned back and grasped on two thick support threads. She hauled herself upright and off her boyfriend. Her legs entwined around the webs holding Jack in place and lowered him to the ground. He laid there in a fetal position and breathed heavily.
Tetra sliced a few threads and dropped beside him.
"Jack?"
He waved a free hand at her. "Just.." He panted. "Give me a minute."
She leaned over and snipped more threads off his body.
"Jack?" Worry spiked her voice.
He leaned a few degrees toward her. "I said I..oh no." He covered his mouth with his hands and forcibly swallowed.
Tetra blinked in alarm. "Oh.. oh my." She ran a claw along the threads on his wrists and another over his pants. She grasped one of his hands and helped him stand up.
"Think you can make it?" She asked ambivalently. He nodded and power walked toward the door. He kept one hand over his mouth as he exited down the hall.
Tetra exhaled and retrieved her shirt. She slid it on and regarded all the webbing she'd used for their session.
"That could have ended better."
Jack tried to find an acceptable speed his stomach would tolerate as he half jogged half power walked down the hall. Making it worse was the partial loss of balance due to being upside down for an extended period of time. He braced one arm against the wall and made his way to the bathroom.
Inside, the wretched sickness in his stomach welled up and he dashed to the toilet and vomited.
"Holy shit..." He panted. "Holy shit..."
He flushed and wiped down his mess as his body finally started to settle.
That. Was intense.
He leaned over the toilet and braced his arms on the wall.
"Holy shit."
Note to self: never do that on a full stomach. Ever.
He waited a few moments as his sense of balance started to return and he crossed over to the sink to freshen up. He gripped the counter as he brushed his teeth.
He could still feel his balance readjusting as the mirror seemed to tilt on its own, right in front of him. He would focus ahead a few seconds and tell himself that the mirror wasn't moving, he was moving. Then the mirror would tilt again and his sense of unreality would return.
He closed his eyes and gripped the counter tighter. But he could still feel the room rotate around him even though he was standing still.
The feeling of falling and not-falling had eased off a bit when he heard a knock on the door.
"Jack? Are you sick?" Sula's voice called.
He faced the door and called back. "No. I'm alright."
A pause. "You don't sound alright."
"I...mmph." His sense of balance went again. Jack spun and caught the counter. "Crap!"
"Jack!" The door opened and Sula darted across the room right behind him. She reached toward him but stopped when he waved her off.
"Jack?"
"I just..." He said. "I just...need to get my bearings."
She slithered around to see his face. "You uh..don't look very well." The concern in her voice eroded Jack's self-confidence.
He shook his head and closed his eyes. "Yeah I...had a discussion with Tetra."
Sula eyed his shirtless torso. "A discussion made you sick?"
"I was upside down for most of it."
"Oh." She nodded and narrowed her eyes. "Yeah, being upside down in her webbing for almost an hour would unsettle anybody's stomach."
Jack's eyes snapped up at her. "I was in there an hour?!"
She nodded again with concern. "You weren't just talking with her were you?" Implication laced her question. Jack opened his mouth...and then closed it.
"What were you doing?"
He swallowed. "Tetra she...she's into..."
Sula made a 'go on' gesture with her hand. "She's into...?"
Jack breathed out. "She's into BD."
She gave a him an odd look. "BD?"
"Bondage Domination." He defined.
"Oh." She perked up. "I've done a little of that."
Jack blinked and looked at her disbelievingly. "You have?"
Sula nodded and held up a claw. "Oh yes. A few of my husbands like to be wrapped up completely in our coils." Her eyes lowered a hair while her tail moved about her in a circular fashion. "I'll admit I liked the feeling of total control. Having them completely at my mercy." She clenched her hand into a fist as her voice started getting husky. "Flaunting my physical superiority."
Jack stared ahead and didn't dare move, or breath. Her eyes settled on him and for a second she had a look like she wanted 'practice' something on Jack as well.
Suddenly she blinked and her tail relaxed. "Oh. Sorry Jack." She waved her hand. "Didn't mean to worry you."
He still didn't move.
She placed a palm on her forehead. "It's the full moon. It's making me kinda frisky."
He tilted his head to the side. "Shouldn't that only effect you at night?"
"Oh it hits full force at night, certainly." She affirmed and flitted the tip of her tail. "But for some aggressive species like my own," She placed a hand on her chest. "it starts building up pretty much all day." She blinked and raised her head. "Ooh this might get awkward."
He just stared at her.
She swallowed. "More awkward." She amended. "I'm used to having a willing husband to ravish at a moment's notice on days like these."
He continued to rehearse his statue impression.
"Jack?"
A pause. "Yes?"
"Please just..say something." She asked.
"Like what?" He said.
Her tail flitted in annoyance. "Anything. You're acting like scared prey and it's not helping."
He blinked and stood upright. "Oh okay." He glanced at the ceiling as he devised a relevant topic. "H-how's our new guest doing?"
"Oh she's fine." Sula's face brightened and her shoulders visibly relaxed. "She's playing video games with Syleris in the front room."
Jack smiled. "That's good."
The lamia's face scrunched as she considered something else. "It's weird though."
He looked at her oddly. "What's weird?"
"Well." She raised a hand palm up. "Dawn said that Kuro needed to sleep. But she is wide awake right now." The lamia shook her head. "I don't understand it."
Jack nodded. "Yeah I'm still fuzzy on how that works that too."
She leaned forward and smirked at him. He blinked and backed a step. "What?"
"Sounds like you should have a date with her, like you had a date with us."
Jack narrowed his eyes and frowned. "I told you, those were not dates."
She slithered forward right at him. "But you're probably going to ask her questions someplace with just you and her right?" Jack gritted his teeth and narrowed his eyes more. The echidna kept her malicious smirk.
"Yes." He admitted with a growl.
She grinned viciously in triumph and slithered past him toward the door. He turned and glared at her the whole way. She placed a hand on the handle and looked back at him. "Have fun on your date Jack." She sing-songed, waved, and then left into the hallway.
He eyed the door for a moment. "goddammit."
He shook his head once and walked over to the shower. He rinsed briefly just to get the sweat off and then went to his room to change. He proceeded out to the hallway and toward the kitchen. Laughter echoed from the front room as he approached. Syleris and another voice he had not had time to get familiar with.
"Well at least she's enjoying it so far." He mused.
For a spiteful second Jack considered not interviewing Dawn and Kuro, just to prove Sula's prediction wrong. He rattled his head right after.
"Sheesh." When did I get so vindictive?
He paused and gave his own words more thought.
Why does it bother me when she calls it a date? I'm 'dating' an arachne right now.
He glanced down. But I wanted to avoid that. I told Tetra that.
He shut his eyes slowly. Then she kissed me. He recalled events from last night. And then we did more.
Jack sighed and started walking again. "Some of this is moving way too fast for me."
He cleared the hallway and observed his newest guests. They were both sitting at a couch and pressing buttons madly on their video game controllers. Jack recognized the distinct sounds of various fictional alien species dying horribly to the girls combined virtual use of conventional and plasma weaponry.
"Oh get 'im. Get 'em, get 'em, get 'em, get 'em." Syleris encouraged her couchmate.
Dawn clutched the controller and squeezed the trigger button rapidly. "I'm getting him, I'm getting him."
Jack snorted and remembered the many adventures he shared with his brothers in front of that very same console. On a similar couch. In the building that used to be his home.
"DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!" The harpy all but shrieked. "Shoot him, Kill him!"
"I'm shooting him, I'm shooting him!" Dawn yelled back.
No sir. Video games don't encourage violence at all. Not one bit.
Syleris sucked in a breath. "You're almost dead, use the rocket launcher and-" She stopped suddenly.
Dawn blinked and relaxed her grip. "Wait...wait." She blinked again. "I got him?"
Pure joy shown on both their faces. "You got 'im!" Syleris raised her wings in triumph.
Dawn shook the controller in her hand and turned to her friend "I got him! I did it. We did it!"
Syleris leaned one wing toward her victorious playmate. "High wing!"
Dawn reached up and slapped the 'palm' of the harpy's wing-hand with her own. "High five."
The score from the television took on a triumphant tone as the sounds of futuristic battle abated. Jack couldn't help smiling and suppressed his laughter as best he could.
Syleris noticed him standing outside the hall. "Oh, hey Jack."
Dawn waved. "Hello."
He waved back. "You girls having fun?"
The harpy nodded widely. "Oh yeah. We're protecting the galaxy from the alien scum that want to wipe out all life." Her tone took a predatory dip on the last few words.
Dawn nodded as well. "Yep. So we're going to blow up the big weapon they were going to use."
Jack chuckled and shook his head. "Alright. Just don't take all day at it." He waved again and proceeded to the kitchen. He inspected the pantry and refrigerator and updated the grocery list again.
He heard a light knocking as he closed the fridge door. Dawn was standing right outside the entrance.
"Hey. Did you need something?" Jack asked.
"Um, I think so." She dipped her head. "Syleris told that me you uh...go on a date, with the new guest."
Jack closed his eyes and breathed out. "I wish the girls would stop calling it that."
Dawn tilted her head. "But she said that you.."
He opened his eyes and focused on her. "It's an interview, not a date. I just want to get to know the people that I'm living with."
Dawn held a hand near her chest. "But it's only you and one other guest at a time right?" Jack grimaced and nodded. She smirked lightly. "Still sounds like a date to me."
He rolled his eyes and threw a hand up in the air. "Fine they're dates. Whatever." He picked up the grocery list. "I gotta go out and get food." He glanced over at her. "You're welcome to come along."
She stiffened and gripped the frame of the door she was leaning on. "Your um...Tetra won't get..."
Jack looked at her questioningly. "Won't get what?"
She looked to the side and around like she was making sure they were alone. "She won't get jealous?"
Jack blinked. "I don't think..." He blinked again. "I, don't actually know." He glanced at the floor. "She called it a date too so..." He exhaled and faced Dawn. "Before last night, I would a have definitely said no." He paused. "But now..."
He recalled that he'd promised Tetra something important after their 'session'. He replaced the list to the fridge. "I'll ask." He said. "I should talk to her anyways."
He proceeded back down the hallway and approached the unclaimed room. He knocked on the door and called her name.
"Come on in Jack. I'm almost done cleaning up." She answered.
He opened the door and walked in. Tetra was in a corner gathering the last of her webbing and compacting it into a large ball. She turned and faced him. "You feeling any better?"
He nodded and rubbed his stomach. "Yeah I'll be fine. I wasn't expecting to be upside down for most of it."
She placed her hands on her hips. "That's why you use the safeword Jack. So you don't get injured or nauseous. I need to know so that I can adjust my technique."
He looked down and rubbed the back of his head. "I wanted to. " He looked back up at her face. "But you looked like you were having a good time. And I didn't want to...If I could just endure..."
"For goddess' sake, Jack." She shook her head slowly and approached him. "The safeword is sacred. I told you I would honor my word, especially if you think you were going to get hurt." She folded her arms. "I can't enjoy it if I'm actually hurting you."
"I was umm..." He rubbed his arm. "A little..."
"Intimidated." She finished for him.
Jack nodded. "You were...you looked like you were very angry, before I agreed."
She breathed out slowly. "I was...irked." A pause. "And in retrospect that probably was not the best...attitude for trying something radical like that." She let her arms drop. "Or the right time." She waved a hand. "Especially with the full moon today. I probably got too aggressive for a first-timer." She shook her head. "I'm sorry Jack. You said you weren't afraid when you were close to me, and now I've..."
"I'm not afraid of you Tetra." He stated. "I came back here to see you didn't I?"
She smiled and closed her eyes.
"But when you were...trapping me, it was..." He tried to recall what he felt. "It was... exciting in a 'oh my god she could totally stab me' kind of way." He nodded. "Which is also kinda terrifying." He smirked. "But sometimes it's fun to be scared." He looked back at her. "I didn't really know what I was supposed to be doing though."
"That's my fault Jack." She placed a hand on her chest. "I should have prepared you better than I did." She opened her eyes and faced him. "I'm the domme. I have certain responsibilities that I disregarded." She raised a claw. "There is a line between domination and abuse." She lowered her hand and grimaced. "I ...may have crossed that line."
"You'll do better." Jack said. She lifted her face up at him. "Next time."
She blinked. "Next time? Really? You'll let me..?"
Jack closed his eyes briefly and nodded. "I trust you Tetra. And I like being close to you." He nodded his head side to side. "Not quite like that." He pointed at the large ball of her thread. "But I do want to try different activities with you." He glanced back at her. "I'd like to set some more rules down before next time though."
She nodded quickly. "Of course." Then her face turned more apprehensive. "Are you sure that you..?"
He sighed and looked upward. "I've learned that a big part of relationships is exploring your partner's interests." He lowered his head and gave a mild glare. "I'd have preferred to not be dropped into the deep end on my first outing, however."
Tetra snickered. "Oh we haven't even approached the deep end, Jack." She tapped her claws together and inclined her head. "We were just 'testing the waters' so to speak."
He stopped and just stared at her. "Dear gods."
She chuckled in her throat. "But I understand. Your concerns about safety are well founded and I'll run you through a thorough tutorial before next time." She perked her head up. "Until then, shall we watch something together?"
Jack sighed. "I really should do a grocery run and tackle some more chores and talk with Dawn and Kuro and-" Tetra interrupted his monologue by laying a hand on his shoulder.
"No Jack." She shook her head firmly. "I'm afraid I must insist we watch together, now."
He furrowed his eyebrows. "Uh..okay. Why?"
She leaned forward and hugged him. "Comforting your partner is an essential responsibility of a domme after a session. I will not neglect that."
He lifted his arms around her. "I...can't argue with that."
She closed her eyes. "I should have done this sooner. But you were getting sick, so I let you go." A pause. "I should have told you to return for this. But I felt bad for...messing up my part and not paying full attention to you. And I should have-"
Jack squeezed her tight to stop her. "Tetra just..don't talk." He leaned his head on her.
She smiled and blinked back a tear. "As you wish."
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