Ch. 18

A helping hand

"Ugh damn it, come on." Josh said as he fiddled with the tie to his ceremonial Military suit that Ryan had got him for the World leader meeting that was about to happen in an hour. If there was one thing he didn't know how to do, it was how to use a tie. He went over and under, side to side, went Chris cross. Yet he wasn't able to get it right.

"This is so…Infuriating!" He grunted to himself as he tried once again to get it right, however like all the other times it failed and he loudly sighed. Then he heard a female giggle. He quickly looked over and found Krystal by the doorway to the changing room. He noticed she was wearing her blue hair in a ponytail and was wearing her blue and black Flight suit.

"How long have you been standing there?" He asked with a raised eyebrow, he was so concentrated with trying to get his stupid tie right that he didn't notice her.

"A minute or two." She said playfully and then approached the upset human, "Let me."
She said looking at his tie, he removed his hands from the coursed tie and hung them at his sides. Krystal brought her arms up to his neck and grabbed the tie, and within five seconds had it made nice and neat.

Josh looked at himself in the mirror and noticed it was made, his shoulders sagged and he turned back to Krystal with a slightly upset look.

"Show off." He said. Krystal let out a soft chuckle and placed her hands back on the tie to make sure it was straight; she then moved her hands from the tie to the unbuttoned green over coat, which had a few medals pinned on it. She looked up at Josh wondering what they meant, Josh just shook his head.

"They're just for showing off…Ryan's orders." He said. Krystal gave a slight 'Ah' and then started to button up the over coat. Once the coat was buttoned up Krystal started to rub her hands all over it, trying to smooth out some wrinkles she noticed. As she did this she started to think about how handsome he looked in the uniform, the fact that he looked a bit uncomfortable wearing it made him look adorable, it was like looking at a picture of a pet wearing some ridiculous outfit for a picture and the pet just looks so sad.

After she finished she reached back up to his neck to fix the over coat collar. After she straightened it out, she noticed she was standing very close to him. Another step and her breast would be pushed up against his lower chest. She moved her hands from his collar to his chest and laid them there; suddenly Josh brought his hands to her forearms and gently slid them up her arm until his hands rested on top of hers.

"You nervous?" He asked, Krystal gently nodded, it wasn't like an Alien got nationally televised at a primitive planet every day. "Just remember, I'll be standing next to you the whole time, I won't leave your side." Krystal smiled at the human and leaned up and gently kissed his cheek. When she pulled back he started to blush.

"Thank you." She said.

"For what?" He asked.

"For being there for me…If it hadn't been for you, I would have probably drowned in that lake and wouldn't be here, furthermore thank you for taking care of me and keeping me safe."

"Well." He started, "You made what was the worst time in my life bearable, and from then on made my life the greatest it had ever been." Krystal smiled and rested her head on his chest, she felt him remove his hands from her hands and moved them to her back and held her tight.

"Almost seems like fate doesn't it?" She asked, Josh smiled and couldn't agree more, there were so many random acts of chance that played into their meeting. Him being late for work, Major Thornton keeping him at work an extra four hours, sharing a few drinks with Col. Ryan, the call from Amanda, and that red light that lasted so long. All of those couldn't have been random chances. It was clear that God had led her to Earth to help him through a tough time, just as God had to have placed him in the right spot to help her in a tough time…They were meant to be together, at least that was what he thought. Sure they were technically dating, but he wondered if she felt the same way about him as he did for her. Regardless, he wouldn't press her for an answer…However there was one thing he had to get off his chest first.

"Hey Krystal?"

"Yeah?" She asked, her voice slightly muffled up by his suit.

"Do you remember that night when I cut my hand and you took me to the hospital?"

"Yes." She said and thought back to that night, In a fit of rage he had said something hurtful to her, of course he didn't mean it and she knew that, he left to go to his bedroom for some time. Later he punched a glass picture of Amanda, Krystal felt heart broke staring at him crying his eyes out, she just had to hold him close to let him know it would be alright. Later she took him to the hospital and the doctor there stitched him up and put him on morphine, which cause him to become a tad bit loopy and ended up kissing her when they got home, after she told the story of her and Fox, as strange and as sudden as it was, she enjoyed the kiss and welcomed it with her own kisses, It was technically their first kiss. However Josh didn't remember it. She then started to wonder why he was asking about that night, he wouldn't have remembered much about it.

"I have a confession to make." He said and gently pulled her away from him so she could look into his eyes.

"What is it?" She asked getting curious. Josh bit his lower lip and tried to think of a way to tell her this, he wasn't sure how she would react to it…Hopeful she wouldn't get upset, he decided to just tell it to her straight.

"I know we kissed that night…I always knew." He said, Krystal tilted her head a bit to the side with a slight confused look on her face.

"Well…Why didn't you tell me?" She asked curious as to why he would hide that from her.

"Well…To you, I'm an Alien, and I thought that I must have made you really uncomfortable by doing that. I knew that you wanted to talk about the kiss the next day, but I figured if I did make you uncomfortable, then the last thing I wanted to do was have to make you relive it by talking about it.." He said and looked into her Cyan eyes, and then he noticed she smiled.

"Josh." She started, "While I'll admit it was very sudden and caught me off guard…It wasn't uncomfortable, In fact when we kissed that night I felt more comfortable that moment then the days leading up to it…I liked it, and wanted you to keep kissing me. I loved how soft your lips felt against mine, how strongly you wrapped your arms around me, how you made me feel wanted and safe, I loved that kiss as much as all the other kisses we shard and will continue to share…Just like now." She said and leaned up pressing her lips against his. Soon they began to open mouth kiss, and each time her mouth opened, she spoke before closing her lips onto his again.

"And this…And that…And that…" She said which made Josh chuckle as they kissed, after a few more kisses they pulled away and looked at each other with radiant smiles. Josh used his hand to cup her left blue fur covered cheek.

"I am the luckiest guy in the world to have a girl like you." He said, Krystal smiled and playfully punched his chest.

"Damn right you do." She said and smiled at him; Josh chuckled and looked at the blue Vixen.

"Smart ass." He said with a smile.

"IQ of 150." She quickly replied, Josh rolled his eyes.

"Good lord." He said, which caused her to laugh out loud, after she stopped they continued to stare into each other's eyes. Josh felt like this was the moment to tell her how much he loved her.

"Krystal, I…" He was cut off when there was a knock at the door, the two looked over to find Col. Ryan standing there, he was wearing the same type outfit as Josh.

"Sorry to disturb but, the time for the meeting has been changed. It starts in five minutes." He said and walked out of the room. Josh and Krystal turned back to each other.

"Well, we should get going." He said and was about to walk off until Krystal stopped him.

"You can't leave yet." She said, Josh turned around and raised a brow.

"Why?" He asked, Krystal then lowered her gaze to his lower body, Josh looked down and made the slightly embarrassing discover that below the belt he was only wearing his grey boxer briefs.

"See if you went out like that, everyone will pay more attention to you then me…That's actually a good thing, yeah you're fine let's go." She said with a smile, Josh shook his head and walked over to grab his pants; he then turned to Krystal.

"Don't be late." She called out as she walked out of the room. Josh then started to pull his pants up, he then placed his belt on, then put his socks and shoes on. Afterwards he made his way out of the room and headed for where they would be having the meeting.

Well I hope you guys liked these chapters as much as I liked posting them. Next week comes the interesting chapters...And a certain light brownish/tan Vulpine.