Chapter 2

AN: Upped the rating as I felt it might be better suited. Let me know what you guys think in the comments. Been at this chapter for over a month.

A few hours later found the vixen and wolf laid up in bed, the former half draped over the latter, her head resting on his bare chest.

Their flight suits laid discarded in the floor, as were the t-shirts they wore underneath and the vixen's bra.

Soft snores emitted from the vixen while the wolf lay awake, one paw under his head while the second rubbed up and down the former's back.

Wolf glanced down at the vixen, a grin stretching on his face. She'd gotten her massage and him am excuse to see her in the lingerie he had unsuccessful sneaked into her underwear drawer - and damn did this black lace piece she had on suit her. She was a tomboy through and through but that didn't mean he was not going to get her into girly clothes, sexy lingerie and all.

It had been a few hours now since they had first entered her quarters and from the lack of any update on his wrist pad, they were unlikely to be bothered anything soon.

His hand on her back drifted downwards inching closer to the real estate he had been looking to touch ever since he had gotten her out of her flight suit. As his hand approached the waistband of her panties, his wrist pad, lying on the bedside table, let out a shrill beep accompanied by a shudder passing through the ship.

'What the hell!' Wolf thought to himself as he moved his previously preoccupied hand in an awkward stretch to reach his discarded wrist pad without awakening the sleeping vixen. However as his fingers grasped the device the shuffling of his body awoke the sleeping vixen.

Felicia groaned into his chest as her eyes opened, "what's going on?"

"The turkey is back!," Wolf replied as he held his wrist pad in front of his face, " looks like he didn't file a flight plan."

Felicia let out a second groan as she stretched, a ring strung in a necklace around her neck shimmering in the dim light of the room. She proceeded to shift her position, settling her entire body atop Wolf's.

"Don't bother with him, he's probably too drunk to do or even remember anything. We'll sneak you off later," she lazily grumbled out holding back a yawn as she burried her muzzle into the Wolf's neck.

However the vixen soon regretted the first part of the statement.

Bang, bang, bang. "Hey Foooxy...," a familiar voice slurred out clearly inebriated, " wake up... Stop being a stick in the mud and let's go party, just you and me."

The vixen felt Wolf stiffen under her causing her to groan, 'please don't say anything stupid.' Wolf was of the jealous kind and didn't hold off on physical violence. She would know, he broke a doberman's arm and jaw back in her flight academy days for pestering her about going on a date.

"Come on... I even got one of Katt's dresses for you to wear, we'll paint the town blue in this short number."

Felicia grimaced, Katt's choice in dresses was risque to say the least and plus she was a size up on the feline so it would be figure hugging to say the least. However while she grimaced, someone else had more painful thoughts in mind.

'Growl'

Before Felicia could react she had been tossed off her man pillow as an angry Wolf O'Donnell marched his way towards the door.

"Wolf wait... don't open that door. Hey, get back here.. just ignore him," she whisper yelled as her eyes gravitated to the Wolf's wrist pad that chimed with a message of Peppy's arrival.

'Oh no!' she jumped from the bed, scampering across the room towards the wolf forgetting she was in just her panties.

"Or I have a better idea..," Falco slurred out, " I've got drinks... let's celebrate... in... your bedroom."

As those words left his mouth Wolf slammed his fist into the door access pannel throwing the door open.

Falco's mind registered the door opening, a smile forming on his face as he thought he was swaying the vixen to his side. However the drunk bird came face to face with a towering muscular bare chested wolf instead of the curvaceous vixen.

"What the...," he uttered as his brain scrambled to catch up with his eyes but by then it was too late. Wolf let fly with a right hook.

A loud thud echoed through the hallway as Falco impacted with the wall across from the door and crumpled to the floor unconscious, most likely with a concussion.

Wolf moved forward, anger still simmering within him, his possessive alpha mentality having taken hold. He approached the downed bird readying to let fly with a kick to the ribs only to be dragged backwards.

He whirled around only to come face to face with a nearly naked Felicia who did the only thing she could think of to calm the wolf. She reached forward, pulling his face down to her level and pressed her lips to his.

She felt Wolf's body instantly loose tension as his arms slowly encircled her, one hand conveniently settling on her shapely posterior.

"Dagnabbit, what is going on here and why are you two in your undergarments?" an aged voice interrupted the duo's moment. Turning to face the voice, the two came face to face with a miffed Peppy and a shyly waving Krystal.

"Felicia put some clothes on!," the hare scolded his eyes moving to look at anything but the vixen.

Felicia yelped realising her situation and quickly ducked into the open door of her quarters, face bleeding red in embarrassment. The lupine, on the other hand, simply crossed his arms over his bare chest uncaring that he only wore boxers.

"Just defending my territory. She might be your squad leader but she's my future wife," Wolf growled, " and that overgrown turkey tried to make a move on her in front of me."

Peppy sighed and rubbed his eyes as Felicia reappeared now dressed in a loose fitting t-shirt and shorts.

"Wolf, what are you doing here? You can't just waltz onto the Great Fox," Peppy scolded.

"Save your lecture for someone who cares old timer, I came to make sure she was holding up ok and to get my reward for saving her cute little ass," his words accompanied by him laying a spank on the vixen's ass.

Felicia retaliated in kind, letting a punch fly right at the wolf's nose earning a pained yelp from the latter as he staggered backwards.

"That's for groping," before she stamped on his foot, hard, " and that's a reminder to keep your hands to yourself in public. It'll be the groin next time, now pick up the bird and drop him off in the infirmary, Rob will take care of the rest."

Wolf turned to the vixen, "why me?"

"Well first, you're the only able bodied male here, second you made this mess and third because this is my ship and I said so. Come Krystal, let's head to the rec room and you can tell me what you think of Corneria," Felicia spoke before sauntering off down the hall, the blue vixen quick to follow.

Wolf turned to pick up the bird only for Peppy to place a hand on his shoulder.

"How is she doing? While I have known her since she was a pup, she's only ever truly open with you or James."

Wolf sighed," she's overworking herself as usual and I think it's to keep her mind off of our relationship. While she won't say it, I know she wants more out of 'us'. That ring on her necklace, she wants to be able to wear it on her finger, walk down the aisle and have pups of our own, but she knows with what I am that's not possible especially with her wanting to stay on Corneria."

Peppy tightened his grip on the Wolf's shoulder and went to speak only for Wolf to continue.

"I never said this to anyone, not even to her, but I have considered asking her not to wait for me. To not put her private life on hold to wait for 'us'. It will be hard but if she is happier afterwords, it'll be my good deed for this lifetime."

"Son, all I can tell you is that do what your heart tells you will make her happy. It was your stubbornness for making a name for yourself that put you in this position and you should do what you can to make it right," the hare spoke, "and I know James has already told you this, you are one of the rare few people who make her feel truly happy."

With that the hare patted Wolf on the chest, "make what this says is the right decision but know this, if she is hurt I will not spare you."

With that the hare walked away leaving the wolf to his thoughts and having to deal with a knocked out bird.

Time Skip 30 mins later

Wolf walked into the rec room of the Great Fox, now dressed in his flight suit. His eyes scanned the room before alighting on the pair of vixen's seated on a couch near the view port. From what he could tell, the blue vixen, Krystal was animatedly describing something she had seen, waving her hands to add emphasis while Felicia sat calmly and listened.

As he approached he heard the tail end of the conversation.

"... and this guy said something wierd like 'you're so hot that I'm melting just looking at you', I mean that was totally wierd. How can someone melt when it's such pleasent weather on the surface?"

Felicia let out a small chuckle, " he was trying to flirt with you."

"You mean the wierd mating ritual you and the wolf, um... Wolf was it?... that you two do."

Wolf watched as Felicia blushed at the question and decided to interject.

"It's not a mating ritual," he spoke causing both girls to yelp in surprise at not noticing his sudden presense.

"What we do is different from what that guy was trying to get at. Between me and Felicia..," he rounded the couch before proceeding to lift said vixen from the couch, seating himself in her place and settling her in his lap, " we are engaged to be married so we just play around with each other to put it mildly. It's not really a mating ritual as you call it. There is no mating involved, she wants to remain pure till the wedding night."

"What was that guy trying to get at then?"

"He was trying to have sex with you. It's not every day that people see an attractive uniquely coloured vixen on Corneria. And scantily clad at that." Felicia replied eyeing the blue vixen's tribal attire. " That also brings me to one point why did you wear that to the surface when I'm sharing some of my clothes with you?"

Before Krystal could come up with a reply Wolf interjected.

"So now you're flirting with her?" Wolf teasingly questioned causing the vixen to elbow him in the ribs.

"Maybe I am, what's it to you?" Felicia replied.

"Well it gives me some ideas to calm my restless hormones. It's not everyday that you have two stunning vixen's go down on each..." whack Felicia brought down her fist on the Wolf's head shutting him up before he could finish.

"Shut it pervert," she grumbled hiding her face in a curtain of her tresses.

Krystal meanwhile watched the two bicker, her telepathy acting up and picking up on the thoughts that were running through the lupine's head. She felt herself blush at some of the thoughts though she felt herself also get aroused at the thought of being with the other vixen. Her people were open in that sense.

However those thoughts were short lived as she picked up on the more sombre thought patter that slowly enveloped the Wolf's mind. Realising that a private matter needed to be discussed, she took her leave.

"We'll talk some more tomorrow Fox. I'm kind of tired and it looks like you two have something to discuss."

With that she exchanged a pleasent farewell with the couple before heading out the door.

Felicia turned to straddle Wolf's lap, " so what this thing that you wanted to bring up that required privacy."

" I a... Wait how did she know I wanted to talk to you in private."

"She's a telepath, so you'd best keep that brain out of the gutter. I don't want her to be watching a R rated mental sex movie produced by your mind. You'd scar her for life."

Wolf cringed making a note to try had control his thoughts and looking to techniques and technologies to shield his mind.

"So, what's up? What couldn't wait?," Felicia questioned.

"I um... I've been thinking...," Wolf started.

" That's a first," Felicia quipped back only for Wolf to bring his open palm down on her butt cheek earning a yip from the vixen.

" I've been thinking... I don't want you to wait for me anymore."

"What?," the vixen's ears folded as confusion laced her voice.

"You're personal life, you put it on hold for me ever since I proposed to you five years ago. It's just unfair that I'm making you wait so long. You always talked about walking down the aisle and having pups and now I feel like that I'm robbing you of all that," Wolf replied looking away from the vixen.

Felicia blinked in surprise before she moved her hands to encircle Wolf's snout and turned his head to face hers.

"Wolf, my personal life went on hold the day dad passed on and I took up the mantle of Star Fox. Honestly I would have lost myself to my grief, anger and job had you not been here," she gently caressed his muzzle with one of her hands while the other held his face in place, " I don't mind waiting, even if it's another five years or a decade. I'm a patient women, god help me I have to be with you. I know what I was signing up for the day you dropped to one knee and if this is about the whole living on Corneria thing, Wolf, I don't mind if we stay on a remote asteroid."

"Corneria was a home while growing up but there is little there for me save some friends and a house with painful memories. I'll make a home wherever we go. I just want you to stand beside me."

Felicia burrowed her head into Wolf's neck after the monologue as the latter pondered her words.

She was willing to keep waiting for him. Putting her life on hold to live a dream they had talked of years back, before these complications. No, he couldn't do this to her, he would make things right, where they could have that family and live in peace.

He tightened his grip around her waist, pulling her deeper I to his chest. "I promise to set things straight, for us and for our future. I will find a way and untill then I will always protect you from the shadows untill I can drag myself back into the light."

Peppy watched silently from behind the rec room door. He had listened in on the whole conversation having. Quietly nodding to himself, he turned and walked away to his quarters. They did not need him to intervene to set things right. Right now all they needed was each other.

A few hours later, a shuttle departed the hanger of the Great Fox and disappeared into the darkness of space.

"Leon, I'm on my way back to Saragosa. Send me a report on what's been going on while I was away. Also look into anti-mind reading tech."

"Sure Wolf, but mind reading?"

"Don't ask and keep it off the records."

"Trouble in paradise? Need me to intervene?"

"Ha ha, not needed. Though make sure to rattle the bird a bit more thoroughly when we cross paths with Star Fox."

He felt the chameleon grin over the comms, " now you're talking. And need I ask of the other mission as you would put it?"

"Continue to keep a close eye on those two. I don't trust either to not stab us in the back. And as always, keep one eye on Fox at all times."