In the end – predictably – neither the principal nor any of the teachers dared to risk insulting the shapeshifters by trying to remove Senri, especially when the 'cat' didn't really do anything other than stay at the edge of his desk throughout the lessons. It didn't, however, change the fact that the whole class was more than distracted with his… her presence. Especially Raha's twin, who normally was more than bored in their lessons, now seemed quite enthusiastic with whenever able asking the shapeshifter questions in Egyptian and translating the answers for Raha… and anyone else who overheard.

When miss Griffin returned to the classroom after quite a long moment and attempted to go back to running the lesson, the older woman swiftly resigned, seeing that all of her students were more than distracted with intently looking toward Senri or listening to Damon's conversation with her. The teacher somewhat hesitantly instead offered the ink-black cat and his twin the floor, so to say, deciding that if teaching them math in this circumstances was no good, they can instead at least learn something about their mysterious neighbors.

Senri looked quite baffled with the idea while Damon set to explain it in that musical speech, but soon that black tail again waved enthusiastically a moment before she jumped off the desk and turned back into a girl, grinning her cute grin as she settled in Raha's lap and looked about the mesmerized with her teens.

"I teach Miqo'te," she said, wrapping her arms around his shoulders loosely, while looking toward his brother. "You teach English, yes? Trade?"

"Very well," Damon agreed with a grin, sitting sideways in his chair and leaning against its backrest. Senri with a cute focus on her face reflected his pose – if using Raha as the chair! – and gracefully folded her hands in her lap… after pointedly pulling his arms around her waist. And despite how embarrassing it was with everyone staring… he kind of loved how open and affectionate she was. "I'll ask question in English, translate it to Egyptian and the other way around with the answers, " his twin announced seriously, then apparently said the same in her language which had Senri nod eagerly, funnily twitching her ink-furred ears.

"Are all of them so pretty?" one of the girls, Dani, sitting before them darted out with the question and then flushed when other students snickered. "What? Not like you too aren't dying to know, right?" she rolled her green eyes, pushing her long, blonde braid back over her shoulder.

Their class wasn't that numerable, today while missing Brett and his cronies who apparently got suspended after the sheriff informed the principal of the yesterday's events, it counted ten students other than him and his brother. Six girls and four boys, since the year started two months ago, Raha had an amicable relationship with at best. He wasn't very good at making friends, considering that he was quite used to others pointing and making him feel awful over his stupid eyes and the fact that his twin was so smart.

All knew that Damon should be in a higher class or out of the high school by now, but his twin insisted on staying behind with him. Raha sometimes teased him about having a brother complex, but in reality he was quite… thankful for that, too. They fought and teased each other as any other siblings, but he knew that Damon was always there for him – and that was… nice.

Now he translated Dani's question and Senri blinked, looking uncertain for a moment before smiling toward the girl sheepishly while answering in her musical language. It sounded long, having his twin grin and nod along, before he cleared his throat and turned his amused cyan eyes to Dani who looked between them curiously.

"No, apparently," he said, waving his free hand toward the shapeshifter. "She says that she and her brother are considered quite… above average among their kind in that respect. If I got all of that right… their father was very… ah, famously considered beautiful and they are his spitting image, different from each other only by their eyes," at that he looked toward him and Raha almost rolled his eyes at the gleeful look in his eyes. Figures that probably that's the brother that so interested in him…

"I don't get it…" said hesitantly another girl, sitting with Dani, Monica, leaning against the backrest of her chair. "…so is she… male or female, then?"

Damon translated that with obvious amusement and curiosity on his face, and Senri sighed loudly, then launched into something that sounded like a long rant, while gesticulating her hand animatedly and more than one looking and pointing toward him throughout that. His twin listened intently, from time to time nodding along or shaking his head and asking something in that musical language before she finally fell silent, peering toward him somewhat… hesitantly while Damon launched into the translation.

"So she says… she's been told by her brother that we – humans – think about it completely wrong," he said loudly and clearly, looking about the present with a smirk. "He also told her about our… myths of shapeshifters so she understands the confusion, but she says that you should in not any way consider her in human terms, because they never were human in the first place. Their real form is that of the massive feline beast – as they were created by their goddess – and in that form she… he is male, yes, but they don't really put any… importance behind gender since they can change it at will."

Raha blinked stupidly, trying to wrap his head around it – as their classmates appeared as confused – while his hands involuntarily tightened around his shapeshifter's waist.

"So…" he hesitated and cleared his throat, blushing when Senri looked toward him with a worried frown. "…why did she… he turned to a girl?"

"I was getting to that," Damon sighed, then smiled sheepishly. "Her brother also taught her that about this parts… Well, that humans frown upon the same sex relationships due to their religion and she… he wanted to show that he respects your… beliefs, in a way, so you're not uncomfortable with accepting his… with dating him. Apparently their religion… is very important for them, and he don't want to offend…"

"That's stupid!" Dani snapped, crossing her forearms over the backrest of her chair and blushing while all the eyes turned toward her – including the shapeshifter – but raising her chin pointedly. "I mean… we don't live in the fucking middle ages, right…?"

"Dani, language!" the teacher hissed from her desk and the girl flinched, but tossed her apologetic smile before turning back and waving her hand while continuing.

"Sorry, but… yeah, what I mean is… well, it's cool, I suppose that he wants too show that and all, but it's not like it really… matters, yes?" she said, narrowing her eyes toward him expectantly and Raha flushed up to his hairline but shook his head, then took a deeper breath and looked into his shapeshifter's gorgeous eyes.

And remembering the yesterday's encounter… not to mention his dream…

"I… ah, l-like you as the boy, too," he stammered slightly but held her gaze when his twin translated it, nearly blinded by her answering grin.

Senri untangled from his arms, stood up and a moment later stood before them in her… his as gorgeous male version, and the girls who missed seeing him before, looked ready to pass out for a moment… especially considering that he lacked in attire! Damon nearly rolled over with laughter before saying something to him and the shapeshifter gasped, looked himself over, then him and a set of matching uniform to theirs covered the glory of his body – and Raha was quite glad that the girls disappointed snickers covered his involuntary gush.

He liked his female form, obviously… but considering that this one was the one he spend more than a year with… Fantasizing about him when awake and yearning for his touch when in those dreams… And last night…

Oh, fuck… was that real, too?

He froze, swallowing thickly and staring while Senri grinned toothily toward his classmates, grabbed a free chair – Brett's – and set it next to his, in the space between the desks, sprawling in it while he took hold of his hand then pulled it to rest over his thigh, lacing his fingers around his. And staring numbly at their hands… Raha felt his face grown hotter and hotter by seconds, wondering how much of that dream was… fantasy.

And as the images – and sensations – from it flashed through his head…

Senri growled softly and his gaze darted up, his eyes widening impossibly at the sight of the very, very obvious… lust in the other teen's expression when his nostrils flared and the shapeshifter shifted in his seat, leaning toward him and shamelessly burying his nose against Raha's throat, cooing something in that musical language… and he wasn't that surprised by the almost painful pang of arousal with how reminiscent it was of his dream… if it was one…

"He says he really, really likes your scent, Raha, but if you…" Damon cut off, and when he dared a quick look toward him, his usually shameless twin's face was darkly red, as he dropped his gaze to the desk before him. "…nevermind."

And feeling like his face was going to burn away… because he could only imagine what Senri said to make him flustered like that – he used his free hand to shakily push it against the shapeshifter's shoulder, forcing him back into his seat – or at least Senri let him, grinning far, far too toothily while his pale eyes tailed over Raha's face.

"Cute Raha," he purred near-deafeningly, and he only flushed harder, dropping his gaze to their still intertwined fingers… and wishing they were somewhere – anywhere – else…

God, but he was so fucking horny – and tired of it – that… He swallowed thickly, looking anywhere but toward Senri as he fought to relax, yet involuntarily tightened his fingers around his.

"So…" Monica cleared her throat and his eyes darted toward her flushed face, if her brown eyes seemed utterly focused on his shapeshifter… like everyone's else, other than Damon's who still seemed fascinated with the surface of his desk. "…they worship a goddess?"

"Yes, Bast," Senri answered, then smiled somewhat strangely when Raha turned his eyes toward him. His eyes widened impossibly when the shapeshifter lifted their hands and set nearly reverent kiss on top of his palm. "I thank Bast… for Raha, much."

"…Bast?" he repeated, completely mesmerized by the open and adoring look in the pale eyes.

"Bastet," his twin brother said, then chuckled somewhat funnily, but Raha couldn't look away from the ice-blue eyes as his heart decided to triple its rhythm when the shapeshifter wrapped both of his big, hot hands around his, then leaned in and like yesterday brushed the tip of his nose against his with a loud, happy purr. "Among few other things, she was an Egyptian goddess of love, pleasure and fertility. Presented as the female with a head of lioness or a cat, the celebrations in her name were… grand," he cleared his throat and when he looked toward him, he seemed much more collected, if looking toward the board at the front of the class. "What I found was that apparently she created them – the shapeshifters – to guard her temples from the robbers… according to the myths, at least."

"No myth," Senri said and all eyes went to him with a various level of disbelief. "Miqo'te real, Bast real. But... angry. No talk."

Damon frowned and asked something in Egyptian that had the shapeshifter look about and shake his head.

"Can not… tell," he replied with a somewhat rueful smile. "We… Miqo'te did… bad, and Bast angry. No talk, but real. Her… kin real," then he sighed and added something in his language that had his twin's cyan eyes widen and his face grow a tad pale.

"Well… he says that the gods who still have… worshipers are real, but he can't really talk about that with humans," Damon translated, asked something, listened to the musical answer, then added. "Ah… apparently we're considered… unreasonable among them. Because of how the humanity reacted when the Miqo'te made themselves known and all."

"That was long ago!" Dani scoffed with a frown. "That's why they… never come to visit the town? Before, I mean?"

Damon translated and Senri snorted, smiling toward the girl as he answered. And whatever he said, had his twin blink and look surprised before a longer exchange followed. Looking between them with a frown, soon Raha gave up trying to understand the musical language and simply waited until his twin chuckled and switched to English.

"Well… for them it's not that long, it seems. Senri here, remembers the mess it was…" and he snickered and Raha froze, then turned his eyes toward the beautiful, but far, far too young face to remember that. "They don't age like we do, and he and his brothers… are apparently unique in that regard even among their kind… He says that actually he's about ninety years old… and his oldest brother, Ares, was the one who led their people to confront the humans back then," Damon looked impossibly pleased about that tidbit – and their gasps – before turning his amused, cyan eyes toward the girl who asked the question. "And he says that they don't 'visit'… because they don't want to spook us."

"That's why no one is allowed into the forest?" one of the boys, Michael, asked from the Seat behind them.

"Good one," Damon hummed, then translated, waited for an answer and then sighed. "Ah… no. Senri says… well, that they are not allowed to leave the lair before a certain age and their… Elders?... don't want humans and their ideas anywhere near their young. The access to technology was banned when they… those Elders, I mean, realized that humans have the tendency to use the internet to fight over… genders and sexuality, and considering they can switch those at will… well, I can see their point," he chuckled, then continued. "Like he said… he doesn't want to offend our… beliefs, but he says that he finds that… ridiculous."

"I don't think that anyone here cares about those things," Dani said quietly, then smiled somewhat wryly when all looked toward her. "Come on… How many of you really want to leave… considering the stories about how it is in the big cities? And, yeah… I can see it about the internet and don't blame them… But in Gatesville, other than the crazies who come here to look for them," she waved toward the shapeshifter at that. "Well… my mom always says that we're lucky to live here, and she was studying out there for a while. She came back, married my dad and said she's never leaving again – because here it's safe and she doesn't have to worry about me or my younger brother walking home at night… or something. And how many others of you heard the same from your parents?" she looked about the class and pretty much everyone nodded in agreement, including him and Damon. Dani smiled and said toward Senri: "We like Miqo'te, Senri. We're… not happy you don't like us."

The male stared at her for a moment, seemingly mulling something over before her turned toward Damon and said something, gesticulating between him and the girl. His twin answered in a long string of the unfamiliar language and Senri listening intently before nodding and turning his pale eyes to Dani with a smile on his gorgeous face.

"I… talk with my brother. Ares say is okay, may Miqo'te want… visit?" he frowned, then looked toward Damon who nodded. "Ah… no young. Too… not safe. But like me… like play. Like… cute," he waved his hand toward the girl and she blinked with surprise, leaning away. The shapeshifter chuckled, then raised their still connected hands and Raha startled a bit, looking between them. "You… cute like Raha. Miqo'te want… protect, yes? We… big and you small."

"Apparently," his twin cut in and all the eyes turned toward him and his smirk. "…they have a weakness for… cute, as he says, humans. And if I'm getting that right, they believe that their goddess wants them to get along with humans. Ah, and it seems that this effect you mentioned – why there it's so peaceful here – is our town's proximity to their lair, obviously. I don't exactly understand what he said about it, but somehow his brother's… presence alone is soothing everything and everyone in certain radius. He said… he is somehow doing the same, but they can't… block it? And that's probably why we're all so… friendly to him."

"Bullshit!" Dani laughed, ignored the teacher's hiss and grinned toothily toward the shapeshifter. "I think you're nice! And cute," she pointed toward him and Raha, then winked at him when he blushed at that. "And I think if more of Miqo'te want to visit, would be nice, too. So we can get along, like your goddess wants."

"I talk with Ares," Senri nodded, then started a bit and laid his ears flat against his head at the loud sound of the bell. "…what that?"

"Break," Raha chuckled and pushed back his chair, stand up and somewhat hesitantly pulling his… boyfriend's?... hand. "Senri hungry?" and pretended not to see the way at that his eyes zeroed in on his mouth.

"Verrry," the male purred and stood up to his impressive height, towering over him… which wasn't unpleasant with the way he seemed to radiate heat. Raha swallowed thickly and not looking toward anyone, tugged the tall shapeshifter toward the door of the classroom.

Well… this form of his had certain advantage over his female form that he hoped his gorgeous beast wouldn't mind taking a brief advantage of…


Senri obediently let himself be led wherever his cute redhead wanted to go, somewhat absentmindedly considering what Ares is going to think about that… development and not really paying attention where they were going… until his intended mate with an adorable, fiery blush pulled him into a very, very small room he recognized as the toilet (his kind did appreciate the more convenient inventions of the humans, after all!) and he couldn't help but grin wolfishly as he realized his redhead's intentions.

"Senri…" his redhead whispered letting go of his hand to fist both of his in the front of his shirt, pulling him closer as he climbed up to his toes. And taking a deep whiff of his spicy scent, thick with need, he purred insistently as he wrapped his hands around his waist and turned them around, easily lifting his cute kitten until he wrapped his arms around his neck and his legs around his waist. Pinning him against the wall with his weight, he growled softly at the way his mate moaned weakly and buried his face against his throat. "…so hot.."

"Hot, yes," he replied on a rumbling purrs against his cute ear, wrapping his hands around his ass as he rutted into his stomach insistently. "Yesterday dream… hot, too, Raha?"

"…very," his redhead moaned, tightening his arms and legs around him. "Senri… want you."

Bast, but he was perfection made flesh!

Using his grip on him, purring his delight, Senri shifted slightly, lowering him until with the next slight roll of his body, his redheaded wonder whimpered breathlessly … and bit him – perhaps the stifle his noise what he would mind… if not for the way that felt, tearing a desperate snarl from his throat.

He really, really wanted to court him properly and… all, but it was very, very hard to remember when they pulled apart just enough for him to claim that gorgeous, plush lips… and finding that he tasted even better than last night, surrounded by his thick, spicy scent…

It would be sooo easy to disintegrate their clothes and resume right where waking up… cut short their playtime. And eating up his mate's gasps and shaky moans, feeling his desperate grip on him and the hard press of his cock against his own… How could he not give in…? Leave his mate wanting…?

Raha's scent grew thicker and tastier by seconds, his hand fisted in the hair at the back of Senri's head and his mouth grew increasingly aggressive, as if sensing his internal battle he was determined to break his puny self-control…

…when Senri flinched harshly and pulled back at the return of that awful, far too loud sound.

"…not yet," Raha groaned weakly, panting raggedly as he tried to pull him back. "Senri…"

"Not… here," he gasped, then reluctantly helped him down to the floor, melting internally at the sheer cuteness of his mate's gorgeous pout. He wrapped his hands around his heated cheeks and rested his forehead against Raha's, trying to find right words. "I… want you, Raha. Very, verrry much… but not here, yes? Not… yet. I want… good for you. Safe and happy. With me. Yes?"

"God… okay," his redhead breathed, setting his hands around his face in turn. "I really… ah, like you, Senri. For… long time."

"Me too, kitten," he purred insistently, then set a kiss on his beautiful lips before straightening and pulling back, motioning toward the door. "Go?"

And though he did not mention it – lacked words for it even if he wanted – he didn't miss the way Raha's pupils briefly but very distinctively slanted vertically when he looked between him and the door.

Yes, definitely not completely human, his cute kitten. If he didn't think that Raha was aware of that. Or the way his scent very noticeably waned as he took a deeper breath and nodded, smiling sheepishly and blushing beautifully. He made a mental note to ask his brother to teach him how to warn his redhead about it… the possibility that if they do fuck, they can end up mated… or perhaps even Soul-Bonded, if Bast is gracious.

And letting his redhead lead him back to that class, he wondered involuntarily what would shock his cutie more: the fact that he wasn't as human as he seemed to think or the idea that if he remembered the stories good… and saw the first marks of it correctly, his Raha was bound to gradually turn fully Allag if they mate.

That was part of the Allagan Clan's magic that allowed them the interspecies breeding, their biology adjusting to their partners – or so the story went. He couldn't wait to see if it was true… and could only hope that his intended mate will be as enthusiastic about it.