Life was starting to look up for Asuka. She had never fully had her taste of freedom since she was born. Now that she had it, there was no way she wanted to let it go anytime soon. Her and Lucifer had lived in the small cave behind the waterfall for roughly around three days now and she was quickly adapting to this "No Cyrus, no rules and no parents" lifestyle, loving every moment of it.

Lucifer wasn't minding this new lifestyle change either. He was finding it strange to say the least without having to obey the Queen and having choices of his own all the time, but he was starting to get easily used to it. Sure, this was all a case of him making his own choices, but they all generally had a final goal to them which usually meant pleasing the Queen, unlike now where it was generally "do what you want when you want". By now he would usually have had a command or two. The Xeno had though, found an odd pleasure and satisfaction for fulfilling Asuka's daily needs such as hunting food for her and doing whatever she asked him on a whim, such as sleeping next to her at night so she wouldn't feel lonely, snuggling near her when she's cold or scared and leaving her in peace while she showers under the waterfall. Accept for maybe that last one.

This recent behaviour was striked up a short while ago one day when Asuka asked Lucifer to occupy himself elsewhere while she took a shower under the waterfall. He went to search for a small snack for himself and one for her later and ended up coming back early. He was a little cautious of the fact that she wouldn't want to see him around while she was showering, though he didn't understand why that was but he figured it was a human behaviour. He hid in the bushes to watch and wait and appear a short while after she was finished. No harm done, right? But as he did, he began to feel that strange excitement, almost like an adrenaline rush which he instantly came to like the sensation of, as he likened it to those earlier days in the hive when he was still eligible to become his Queen's mate.

Since then, Lucifer had gotten into the recurring habit of "going off" whenever Asuka took a shower like she asks of him, but then instead goes to hide in the bushes to watch her from a short distance away. It sparked feelings from the past inside of him, feelings from when he was in the hive. The excitement he felt back then was almost a slightly weaker version of what welled up inside of him as he watched Asuka naked underneath the small waterfall. It all seemed perfectly harmless to him with nothing major occurring to him other than an adrenaline rush, until one time.

"she's magnificent..."

His thoughts running wild in his head, not bothering to keep them under control in any way, shape or form. As far as she was concerned, he wasn't there, he was out hunting for food. No harm done. The warrior was soon beginning to realise what these blooming sensations accelerating meant, with the obvious hint his body gave him before his mind caught up and figured out what it was.

"What?! Fuckfuckfuck, No! Are you kidding me?!"

When Lucifer put two and two together that he had a desire to see Asuka in the flesh under the waterfall, which then gave him a peculiar and strengthening feeling through his body which then became so strong that seeing her like that made him hard, he didn't want to accept it at first. The xenomorph mulled it over in his head, or what little head-space was left after most of it was clouded by perverted sexual thoughts and desires, soon accepting what emotion had come to him as he never looked away from his human for a second.

"I... No! This is so wrong! A creature like me can't look at anyone but the Queen in that way. But I... I don't want the queen... I want to mate with and serve HER."

Both frustration and tension built up inside of Lucifer, but at the same time, relief that he could finally realise and accept what he wanted and what this strange connection could be. He wanted to be with her all this time because he felt... something sexual about her, something he had never felt before, something similar to desire but stronger. He tried to familiarise himself with the idea and calm down by speaking his thoughts in his head and letting his mind flow, though it didn't help when he quickly began to scare himself with the much more subconscious desires.

"She... She's mine. I want to serve her like the Queen she deserves to be treated as. I want to keep her in that cave, and make sure another male never looks at her again. I want to hear her mating sounds for real, louder than she's ever screamed before. I'd want to start a brand new hive together with her if it were possible. I want hammer her so hard she can't walk for hours afterwards. I want her. I want her so fucking badly it's killing me. I want to DRAG her into that cave so deep her human eyes can't see a THING and FUCK HER UNTIL SHE BLEEDS."

The xenomorph warrior was salivating almost three times more than he usually would, had his claws dug deep into the ground and when that last thought came to mind, he couldn't help but shriek the loudest hiss Asuka had ever heard before. If the mere thought of his fantasies were enough to make him screech if he lost touch with reality deep enough, then what would happen if he got to close to Asuka while he felt this way? Though Lucifer soon came to his senses after that noise he made, hearing the familiar voice of the female he desired so much.

"Lucifer? Is that you? Is something wrong?"

Asuka had heard the obviously loud hiss Lucifer had made. She jumped out of her skin for a brief moment, trying to shield her naked body with the water, shy about him seeing her naked despite her not knowing he's been watching her a few times after she started just a few days ago.

The xenomorph warrior removed his claws from the dirt and wiped away his excess drool from his mouth. But there was one last thing he couldn't hide from her.

"Dammit! Why do you have to make me so full of lust and desire, Asuka?!"

Meanwhile at the crime scene where the remains of Cyrus' corpse, or what was left of it, was being taken away for autopsy and forensic tests. Inevitably useless mind you, the federal agents would simply try to hush it all up with large wads of money. Asuka's parents were being ushered away from the scene to prevent them from interfering with any possible clues or DNA prints they could collect. That's what they were told anyway.

The couple eventually got in their expensive looking car and drove off down the road. Once they figured they were far away from the house, their mood changed from weeping parents of a lost son in law, to almost furious and frustrated grumps that just lost a bullshit court hearing.

"Can you believe it, Bill?! After all that hard work to get them engaged, to have THIS happen?!"

"you're telling ME, Martha. Fuck. Where the shit is Asuka at a time like this? Little wretch wasn't born for nothing afterall. She's gotta be out there somewhere. We just gotta play the worried parents act until she shows up and wed her off to a new rich husband!"

Martha pulled out a packed of cigarettes and lit one. Asuka always hated the foul things.

"Plus, what about his will? Where will all this fortu-"

She abruptly paused mid sentence. Bill swerved the car into a horribly maneuvered parking position and the two slowly turned to look at each other.

"There's still hope, Martha! We have to find a will! We have to find Asuka!"

"What if there's no will? What will happen to all that money? Those jewels?!"

"Simple. We make one."

The two of them snickered through the thin haze of tobacco smoke as Bill clumsily drove the car out of park, hitting both cars at nose and tail of them on street parking in the process.

Well? Well? What do you guys think of this intense escalation in plot? all of a sudden people talking and BOOM. Was that a bad move? ._.

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See you next time in Chapter 10: My possession