The hunt

Warning: this part contains sexual content

The next class Jimmy had with Aliza, was a bit tense. He tried not to give her too much attention. These students were too focused on finding gossip, he figured afterworking here a week. He continued his lecture on Lovecraft. This time they explored the aspects of the monsters he described. Or actually, didn't describe.

Aliza was too familiar with Lovecraft, in contrast with the rest of the class. Most of the time he ended up needing to ask her for the answer. She didn't seem to mind, but she was less focused this time. She wasn't staring and flirting. Maybe he had been too bold with his statement that one night. They hadn't spoken since that moment. Only talking about Lovecraft in class, with twenty other people in the room.

When they worked in silence he allowed himself to steal glances at her. Somehow, he needed her. Alone in a room. No one else. No rules. No world around them…aaaand he did it again. Now he couldn't stand up anymore. He focused hard on the horror he was supposed to read. It helped after some time.

Then he handed all the short stories back. Some had written very good stories, some had a great way of writing. But nothing gave him the shivers quite like Aliza's story. Most had taken the style from Lovecraft: not describing the monster because it was too horrible to write about. But Aliza had given him all the nasty, creepy details on what a demon looked like, felt like and smelled like. Jimmy nearly got the feeling she had met one.

He ended up next to her, giving her the paper back. She took a look at the 'A' above the paper, before she looked up at him. This angle made her look so pretty, her eyes grotesque in her little face. Damn, he loved those eyes.

'Thank you sir,' she said.

Jimmy smiled. 'Thank you, Aliza. It was incredibly good. You gave me the chills. You have quite the new vision on demons.'

Aliza shrugged. 'I got inspiration.'

She wasn't going to elaborate, so Jimmy went back to his desk.

It was past one O'clock. Jimmy crashed down on his sofa. He rubbed his forehead, trying to erase the worry lines. He had been working all day. His brains were deep-fried. He took a chocolate bar from the table; only half was eaten last night. He ate the chocolate while thinking back at the mystery that was called Aliza.

Talking in a language no one knows, fighting like a pro and writing like she had been in the deepest circle of hell. Oh how badly he wanted to explore her. All of her. His focus fell back on a photo he had brought. A photo of his wife, Amelia, and little Claire. An enormous feeling of guilt settled over him. How could he think of another woman? Was this a test of God? If it was, he failed miserably. His feelings for Aliza crossed all the lines God had made. He was even afraid to pray tonight.

He fumbled the wrapper up and stood up to throw it away. The bag of trash by the door told him he needed to take it out. He groaned in displeasure. But if he didn't do it, he needed to hold the bag inside for a week.

While cursing the trash, he shoved back in his shoes and took the bag outside. In the alley behind his apartment he searched for the container. Suddenly he spotted it. Behind his apartment was the edge of the forest. He needed to take a path into the woods to throw the bag away.

He took a deep breath before going in the dark forest. Who thought this was a good place? Maybe the truck couldn't fit in the alley. He hated it anyway.

Then he heard a low growl. Jimmy spun around to the source of the sound. He couldn't see anything in the dark, but he was sure he had heard it. His heart beaded thrice the normal pace. He breathed heavily, so he could see the clouds in the chilly air.

Then it growled again. He let the bag fall to the ground and he started to run back. Soon the thing was on his heels. With one big leap the thing caught up. It attacked him in the back. Jimmy twisted under the snarling creature.

He expected a dog. Maybe even a wolf.

But he didn't expect what he saw. It was so horrible, his mind couldn't even comprehend what he saw. The thing attacking him, was sort of human. It had a human body, apart from the claws it had for hands, and the ugly mouth full of sharp teeth. To make things worse, it's yellow evil eyes looked straight into his fearful ones.

The thing lunged its face forward. Jimmy didn't even have time to pray. He closed his eyes, waiting for the teeth to tear away his face. Instead, he heard the swooshing of an arrow and a squeaking sound from a dying animal. Jimmy opened his eyes, to see the man-wolf laying on its side, a shiny arrow poking out of its ribs. The monster then became still.

Jimmy crawled back on his hands, needing more space between him and the monster. Then he heard footsteps behind him. He turned quickly, afraid of another attack. Instead he found a hand reaching down to him.

'Need a hand?' a familiar voice asked.

Jimmy squeezed his eyes, trying to see her face in the dark. 'Aliza?'

Aliza smiled down at him. 'Come on, before you freeze.'

He took her hand and hoisted himself up. She gave him a look-over, looking for injury. Apart from some torn clothes and some scratches he was fine. Then she turned to the monster.

'That was a close-call,' she called back at him. She set her hand around the arrow and the other against the skin. Then she yanked it out. Blood pouring down the arrow, she started to clean it with an old rag. Jimmy noticed her more than casual clothing: torn oversized jeans, a simple shirt and a thick flannel waistcoat. Her hair fell around her face from under the beanie she wore. Strapped over her back, was a tube filled with arrows. When she bend over the dead thing on the ground, he could see a silver gun on her hip.

'W-what was that?' he finally managed to say.

Aliza turned around to him. She had finished cleaning the arrow. She put the thing back in the tube with the others. Then she picked up a shovel (Jimmy had no idea where it came from, but he wasn't too sharp at the moment) and started digging in a patch of loose earth.

'A wolf,' she simply said. She dug quickly. Jimmy watched the hole becoming big enough for a person to fit in. Then she dragged the man-wolf to the hole and threw him in. Jimmy flinched when he heard the thud of the body connecting with the earth.

'That was not a wolf. It was a…person,' he said. When he talked, he felt like a mad-man.

Aliza sighed while she threw the dirt back on top of the monster.

'I have no time to explain.'

'Well, I'm not going anywhere. You have the time.'

'Fine. I do have the time, but I do not want to tell you,' she threw back without looking at him.

She finished the grave. She straightened her back, exposing her curves in the oversized clothing. Then she took a flask from her pocket and screwed it open.

'Drink,' she ordered while holding out the flask.

'What is it?'

'Water,' she said while rolling her eyes.

Jimmy trusted her and took the flask. He took a big swig, feeling like he needed it. It was water, but after he swallowed, he tasted a weird extra flavor.

Aliza came in front of him. She took his shoulders in her hands.

'Jimmy, listen to me. You were attacked by a wolf. A big, scary but normal wolf. I saved you, because I happened to have a crossbow with me. I hunt animals and stuff. It was a wolf,' she said over and over while staring in his eyes.

Jimmy listened to her. He felt very lightheaded.

'It was a wolf,' he repeated sheepishly.

Aliza cracked a smile. 'Good.'

Then she let him go. He swung a little before coming back to.

'Thank you for saving me from the wolf,' Jimmy said. The wolf was so scary. He had never seen one so up close.

Aliza patted him on the back. 'No problem. Love to be the knight on the white horse to your damsel in distress,' she joked.

It made his tension go away. Then he noticed how cold he was.

'Shall we go inside? It's freezing out here.'

Aliza pointed in another direction. 'I should go back home…,'

Jimmy grabbed her arm before she could turn away. 'Please. I'm…scared. Could you…sooth me?'

His stare was so intense, she couldn't say no.

Once back in his apartment, they sat down on the couch. Jimmy took a blanket and threw it over their legs.

'So why were you hunting at night, anyway?' Jimmy asked her.

At first Aliza thought about avoiding the question, but she could see in his gaze he only asked to distract himself.

'At day I'm afraid I run into people. When I hunt, I like to be alone. Completely alone,' she said honestly. Even though she didn't hunt deer, it was still the truth.

Jimmy nodded, but he didn't listen. Aliza rubbed his thigh on top of the blanket.

'You're tense,' she stated.

Jimmy's eyes grew. He stared from her hand to her face. Aliza continued rubbing without noticing she was going higher. Jimmy swallowed.

'You are a mystery,' he whispered.

Aliza stopped thinking from that moment on. She threw the blanket on the ground so she could straddle him on his lab. 'I might be,' she whispered husky in his ear.

'And I want to explore you,' Jimmy grunted in her shoulder.

The sound of his voice on that low tone was too much. Aliza lowered her lips to his. He engaged first in the kiss, claiming her mouth. Aliza wasn't one for going slow. So she opened her mouth and let her tongue slide over his lips. He opened his too, so their tongues could intertwine.

Jimmy rubbed her thighs. It made her crave for his hands in other places. She pulled away from his face to lift her waistcoat and shirt over her head. She was really glad she wore her red lace underwear today. Normally not her attire for hunting.

Jimmy did explore her body with his hands. He moved his mouth to her neck, sucking and kissing. She moaned loudly. A wetness started to spread in her pants. Jimmy's hands cupped her quite large breasts. His mouth licked from the front of her neck over her chest to the space between her breasts. His hands found the clasp on the back, tugging the bra away.

For a moment he looked at her exposed body. Then he rubbed at the hardening nipples.

'Don't ever stop,' she moaned on a dirty tone.

Jimmy took this as encouragement to go harder. He grabbed her breasts and circled the nipples quickly with his thumbs. His tongue ran down her belly, to the rim of her jeans. In a moment of frustration she grabbed the buttons on his shirt and undid them quickly. She pushed the shirt over his shoulders, forcing him to let go of her for a second.

It was too long for him. He attacked back at her body, pressing his closer to her. She wrapped her arms around his neck for another heated kiss. Her hands moved to his hair, stroking and pulling. He ran his fingers down her spine, making her shiver in pleasure. She broke the kiss to speak.

'Bedroom,' she ordered.

'Bedroom,' he repeated.

He picked her up on her thighs. She clung herself to his body, staring into his eyes when he walked to the bedroom. He didn't bother to close the door or windows: they were facing the forest anyway.

He threw her down on the bed and swiftly crawled over her on his hands and feet. Aliza placed her toes at the edge of his jeans, so that when he moved up to her his pants and underwear would stay behind. He disposed of them before delving in the sensitive skin of her neck. She moaned in pleasure, while her eyes rolled back in their sockets.

'Hmm, Mister Novak. Who knew you could be so naughty,' she teased.

She knew she succeeded when she felt him growing harder against her leg.

'Shut up, and do what I say,' he teased back.

Then he pushed her jeans down. He smiled at the matching lacy knickers before disposing of them too. Before he could do anything, Aliza pushed him back in the bed, now hanging over him. Both were completely naked at this point. They both panted heavily, and Jimmy adored the way her chest was moving.

'Don't you think you dominate me, Mr. Novak,' she told him, partly horny, partly serious. Like she said before: no one told her what to do.

She moved her mouth down to his nipple, sucking hard. He let out a surprised moan. She let her mouth travel over his stomach, going down. She licked shortly at his erection, teasing him with small strokes of her tongue. He moaned in protest. Then she succumbed and took all of him in her mouth. He was quite big, so she couldn't reach all around. She used her hand to do the rest. Jimmy started to moan and say random words like 'yes', 'good' and other phrases.

She let go of his cock to move back up. He looked her right in the eyes, taking her face in his hands.

'You are so beautiful,' he told her honestly. She smiled a little shyly.

Then he made her sit up on her knees. He moved himself as close as he could, breathing in her neck.

'Now, let's make sure you are wet enough,' he whispered.

Without another warning he pushed three fingers into her pussy. She gave a loud shriek, not expecting the motion. He pumped in and out, hitting that sensitive spot. After some time she started to feel her climax coming.

'Damn, Jimmy. Get inside me before I come.'

He laughed at his victory. He moved to his night drawer, taking out a condom. He put it on swiftly and laid back down in the cushions.

Aliza moved herself above him, ready for him to enter. He took hold on her hips and thrust himself in at once. Aliza groaned loudly. Damn the neighbors. After the pain settled down, the pleasure started to rise. He moved, first little, but making his motion bigger each time. Before she knew it she was riding him hard. They were both panting hard and loud, exclaiming words of ecstasy.

'Come closer,' Aliza told him.

Jimmy sat up, letting her wrap her legs around his back. There, in his lab, he started pumping again. With a view of her breasts jumping up and down and the sound of her heavy breathing, Jimmy came. Knowing Aliza would need a little more encouragement, he placed his finger on her clit, continuing to please her. With one more thrust she came too.

They fell down on the bed. Aliza laid on her stomach, Jimmy on his back. They continued panting for some time. Then the cold settled back over them, and he reached for the blankets. He covered her and himself, turned to her. Aliza had her eyes closed. He played with her hair between his fingers.

'You should get an additional 'A' for that,' he joked.

Aliza laughed in the cushions. 'Shut up.'

They fell asleep together.