Unnatural But Not Unwanted

Chapter 3

Bold is thoughts.

*Asterisk is sound effects. *

"This is speaking regardless of Pokespeak."

The sun has already broken over the horizon, and the day is in full swing. The Pidgey are singing their morning songs, the Rattata leave the burrows to begin the search for food, and a rogue Treecko is currently beating the shit out of a poor Magikarp for accidentally splashing him. Yes, a normal morning to be sure.

UGH is he ever going to wake up?

Here we find another morning routine in progress. A large Fennekin is currently standing on top of a snoozing human and is staring down at his sleeping face.

We've gone through this for the last couple of weeks. You'd think he would stop sleeping in this late when we have things to get done.

Sweetheart glances over to the digital clock on the bedside table seeing 10:43 in dull blue light. She knows that if she would allow it Andrew would not wake up until well past noon. A bad habit from staying up far too late to finish work that should have been done by then. Turning her attention back to him, she feels a smirk coming across her face. If he wouldn't get up at a decent time, then he should be ready to deal with the consequences.

"Fenenenenen." she chuckled darkly.

Oh well, it can't be helped. No siree, gotta do what's necessary.

She ever so slowly creeps up his chest, her extra weight making him grimace slightly yet not enough to wake him. She gently lowers her head down next to his face. Her hot breath softly brushing his cheek. Nice and steady, she moves her mouth closer and closer.

Don't blame me for what happens next Andrew~.

She laughs quietly to herself before sticking her tongue out and shoving it into Andrew's ear. His reaction is slightly delayed for a moment. He squirms as his face scrunches up before his eyes slam open, and he launches upward into a sitting position. This ends up with Sweetheart being launched across the room, but due to previous experience, she lands on her feet.

"AAAUGH! YOU LITTLE BASTARD, I SWEAR TO ARCEUS I'LL FUCKING SHAVE YOU BALD IF YOU DO THAT AGAIN!"

Andrew's threats fall onto deaf ears as Sweetheart is too preoccupied laughing her furry little tail off to listen to him.

"FENENENENNENENENEN!"

Looking at the Pokémon laughing at his torment, Andrew growls to himself as he furiously digs into his ear trying to clean all the drool out of it. Looking over at his curtained window he can see a faint glow through the cloth telling him its daylight now. Glancing at his clock he can only feel more annoyance, mostly at himself, for no doubt turning off his alarm while half asleep… again.

"Oh. I guess I slept in again huh, Sweetheart."

Hearing her name, she stopped laughing and looked up at him. She smiled with her tail wagging behind her and gave him a nod. She hopped back onto his bed and moved to his side closest to the wall and put her paws against his shoulder and nudged him to get moving.

"Fennekin Fen Fen." Come on we got work to do.

"Jeez, at least give me a second before you start bossing me around."

Andrew slides his feet over to the floor and stretches upward releasing a few pops from his back. Taking a moment to breathe he stands up and steps over to his bedroom door. He opens the door and pauses as Sweetheart jumps off the bed and trots out the door. Walking to the edge of the hall the pair step into the bathroom. Heading to the toilet, being in a separate smaller room inside, Andrew steps into it and closes the door behind him. While he takes care of business Sweetheart heads over to the shower and opens the glass door. Standing on her hindlegs she turns the knobs as she sticks her paw into the water to adjust it to the preferred temp. Once this is done, she climbs in and lets the water cascade down on her. Finishing up Andrew steps back into the room seeing Sweetheart in the shower with the door wide open. He watches for a moment before sighing and stripping off his pajamas. It still feels strange to shower with her, but she says she doesn't mind. Never mind the fact that she needs help to wash herself.

"Scoot over furball, I'm stepping in."

Squinting her eyes looks over at him before moving closer to the wall. Andrew steps in and closes the door behind him as he lowers his head to get his hair wet. Due to his large size, he can see clearly over the door as nothing is made for people of his stature. While silently complaining to himself about the size of things Sweetheart moves from the wall to underneath Andrew.

"Fen." She calls up to him.

"Hm? Oh sorry, I was lamenting how small everything is again."

Reaching over to the shower shelf Andrew grabs a bottle of Pokémon Shampoo. He squeezes a decent sized blob onto his hand before squatting down and gently rubbing it into her fur. As he scrubs her down, he watches as her face turns into a smile while she keeps her eyes closed.

It feels so strange to have arguments and conversations with her like she's a person then doing something like this. It's nice that her translator isn't waterproof because I don't think I could do this while she speaks to me. It would feel like I'm washing another human, and it would feel kind of embarrassing.

Andrew slowly digs his fingers through her thick fur as he washes her back before making his way to her head. Taking care while he gently rubs the inside of her large ears making sure to clean all the fur inside them. After that he moves his hands down to her chest then down to her belly. He takes a moment to scrub deep into the thick fur before he moves down to her legs. One by one Sweetheart lifts them up to allow Andrew to scrub the legs and the inside of her paws. She holds back a small giggle when he washes in-between her toes, not wanting him to use this knowledge to get back at her later. Finishing with her legs he puts more of the shampoo into his hands. Personally, this was his favorite part of this routine. Her tail. Once more pushing his fingers deep into the fur he gently worked the soap into the giant ball of fur that made her tail. Andrew had to be extra careful at this point because her tail was more fragile than people thought. You'd be surprised how easy it was to injure it. Taking his sweet time, he softly rubbed the fur between his hands.

Even soaking wet it's still so soft. I wish I could pet it more than this, but it would feel weird to ask her if I could fluff her tail.

Meanwhile, Sweetheart was in absolute bliss. It always feels great to have Andrew rub her down. Hands were great and she wished so bad that she had a pair of her own, it would make things so much easier. Although even if she did have hands, she would still want Andrew to wash her. It was basically like a massage for her every morning. Though it did take a few days to convince him to let her take a shower with him and another argument entirely to get him to wash her. It was all worth it for these moments of gentle rubbing, though throughout the whole process she was hyper aware of his nude body. She couldn't understand why but she always had to fight away a blush when seeing his privates. She's a Pokémon so seeing his junk shouldn't make her feel strange, yet it always did. It didn't help that she knew how these rubdowns always ended.

"Alright Sweetheart, here comes the awkward part so just brace yourself."

"Fennek."

Andrew took a second to brace himself as well before reaching under her tail. He quickly but no less gently washed her privates for a moment making sure to clean them thoroughly so he wouldn't need to do it again. They both could feel their faces heating up as he finished. Standing up he quickly washed his hands in the shower stream before grabbing his own soap and cleaning himself. After making sure to wash all of the soap off themselves Andrew stepped out while Sweetheart stayed in the shower dripping water. Taking a moment to towel himself down Andrew could feel her eyes on him.

I really wish she wouldn't stare at me when I'm naked. He thought to himself.

I don't want to stare but I can't help it. I like looking at his body even though it makes me feel strange. Are her own thoughts on the matter.

As he finished, he wrapped the towel around his waste before grabbing another off the rack. Holding it out he squatted down to her level waiting for her. Feeling herself getting colder by the second Sweetheart quickly steps out into the towels soft fluffy embrace. Taking what feels like forever Andrew vigorously dries her off feeling like his arms would fall off any minute from hold long it took. Once sufficiently dried off Sweetheart steps away and jumps onto the bathroom counter while watching Andrew through the reflection. Coming up behind her he grabs a large yellow brush and begins to run it through her slightly damp fur. After getting to play with her tail again he set the brush off to the side and grabbed a comb for himself, not even taking half as long for his own hair. Finally, to wrap things up he grabs two toothbrushes while taking care to put the correct toothpaste on each one. while brushing his teeth with the blue brush he held the pink one in front of Sweetheart as she moves her head around to brush her teeth as well as she could herself. Every so often she would give a small, muffled yip to let him know to rotate it so she could clean a different part of her mouth. After finishing they both spit each took a mouthful of mouthwash to wrap up the morning routine.

After leaving the bathroom Andrew went back to his room to get dressed while Sweetheart made a Beedrill line for the kitchen. Pushing a stool over to the stove she grabbed a pan out of a lower cabinet and set it on the front right burner before turning it on medium, and on the left burner she set the kettle on high. Going to the fridge she grabbed a carton of eggs and carried them to the counter before doing the same with the butter and coffee creamer. A few moments later Sweetheart had some eggs over easy ready as the kettle began to whistle. By this time Andrew had made his way into the kitchen. Reaching into the cabinet to the left of the sink he grabbed two coffee mugs and made his way over to the stove. Taking the kettle, he poured hot water into each before grabbing the instant coffee on the counter and adding it along with creamer for both. While Sweetheart was busy plating the eggs Andrew grabbed some white bread and put them into the toaster. A few more minutes pass and they were seated at the table which had been cleared away of the loose bits of electronics. Andrew softly complained:

"Don't know why we can't just eat in the living room and watch some T.V."

Now that she had her translator in front of her Sweetheart could finally give a more direct verbal response. She easily typed back:

"Because you and I both know that if we eat in there that we will get distracted watching something and take even longer to get to work."

Andrew could only silently agree as he ate his breakfast watching as Sweetheart just ate straight from her plate. She had tried to convince him to feed her by hand before, but he argued that his own food would get cold, which wasn't fair to him. This left him slightly amused as he watched her struggle not to get any food in her fur as she ate. After idly talking about what projects they wanted to get done for the day they finished up which led to Andrew doing the dishes as Sweetheart went to the bedroom carrying her translator to get the computers that needed repairs ready. Andrew wondered why he had to do the dishes but remembered the agreement they had come to:

"If you cook then you don't have to do dishes. That makes it fair" Sweetheart had argued.

"I swear I lose too many fights with her. Damn her sound logic." Andrew spoke to himself.

Drying off his hands he made his way to their bedroom as he heard Sweethearts synthesized voice call out to him:

"Andrew, you have a missed phone call from your mother."

Already he could feel a small headache forming. A call from his mother wasn't out of the ordinary, but she could talk for hours on end and not say a damn thing. Still, he loved her so he knew to call her back or she might get her feelings hurt.

Hmm, now that I think about it, I don't think I've spoken to mom since Sweetheart showed up. I still need to tell mom about how this brat just let herself into my life. Well, now's as good as ever.

Walking into the room Andrew could see Sweetheart fast to work on clearing the viruses from a laptop he had gotten from a teenage client. Three guesses as to what websites he had visited to get them, and the first two don't count. Sweetheart shifted from one keyboard to the other to give commentary.

"You should tell him safer websites to watch his porn on. You would know which ones don't have viruses like this right?"

She ended that comment with a turned head toward him and a smug expression. Andrew quickly spit back a response.

"Judging by the types of girls I see on those popups maybe he would be more willing to listen to you. Ya know, after he tries to get you to lick peanut butter off him."

Sweetheart's face lit up bright red before she went back to removing the malware. Andrew enjoyed the feeling of getting one on her before he grabbed his phone from the charger. Wasting no time, he called his mother back since she had called while they were eating breakfast/lunch.

*Riiiiiiiing* *Riiiiiiiiing* *Riiii-click* "Hello?"

"Hey mom, I saw that you called me. Sorry I was away from my phone."

"Oh, Hi Andy~. I'm glad you took time out of your day to talk to your momma. You need to call me more; I miss my baby boy."

"I know mom, I just get caught up doing my own thing that I forget to call you and dad."

"I know how it is sweetie, I remember when I first moved out, I forgot to call your grandmother for SIX months ha-ha. She was so relieved when I finally called her, ya know she was almost to the point of coming to across the country to make sure I hadn't died, and somebody had forgotten to tell her?"

"That's… concerning, but what did you call me for earlier. Did something happen with dad or Amy?"

"What? Can't I call just to talk to you honey?"

"Well yeah, of course you can, I just wanted to make sure nothing had happened."

"Hmm, something happening? Hmm, Hmm, Hmm? No nothing is coming to mi-*muffled talking in background* "OH, THAT'S RIGHT! Thank you Amy. Andrew, what's this I hear about you getting a Pokémon? And a cute one at that."

Andrew took a second to glance over at Sweetheart who he could tell had started listening very intently while she didn't stop working.

"How did you hear about that? Nobody knew except… Cooper, of course."

"Well Cooper didn't tell me, Amy told me, but she did see it from a PokeBook post Cooper had made. You didn't know?"

"Mom, you know that I don't use social media outside of advertising my repair business."

"That's right, I forgot, ha-ha. Silly mommy~."

*sigh* "Mom, what did the post say about me getting a Pokémon?"

"Well, it had an ADORABLE picture of you with a big Fennekin in your lap while you were playing a video game. Oh, and the way the Pokémon had her paws on the controller made it look like she was playing. So CUTE~."

Andrew could only guess when Cooper had managed to get that photo of them without him noticing. He could hear a conversation happening on the other side of the line when he heard a new voice come onto the line.

"HIIIII ANDY~!"

Andrew let out a small laugh as he shook his head. Like mother like daughter.

"Hey Amy."

"Why didn't you tell me you got a Pokémon? She's so friggin cute. Can we meet her? When can we come over? Should I bring some Pokémon treats for her? Can I rub my face on her tummy? It looks so soft~."

"Amy, I can only answer one question at a time. So, chill out for a second."

Andrew turned toward Sweetheart who had stopped working at this point after hearing the deluge of questions about herself. He covered the phone as he asked her:

"Would you be ok with my family coming over? My mom and sister want to meet you while my dad will probably just want to talk to me."

Sweetheart could feel her face still burning over the question of his sister rubbing her face into her stomach, but she still answered:

"You've made it very clear to me that this is your house, and I can't make you do anything. So why are you asking for my OK?"

"I'm asking because I'm not so mean as to force you to interact with new people if you don't want too."

Sweetheart could feel a swell of happiness over Andrew articulating that he cared about her feelings. She could feel her tail wagging as she smiled at him.

"Well thank you for showing me you care. I suppose I don't mind meeting them, but you need to make sure your sister doesn't try to manhandle me."

"Gotcha."

He moved the phone back to his ear and could hear that his sister had apparently not stopped talking the entire time.

"Alright Amy, you guys can come over whenever you're ready."

"YAAAAY! Mom did you hear? We can come over!"

Andrew could hear another exited conversation on the other end before his mother spoke.

"Thank you for letting us come over Honey~. We can't come today, but we'll be over first thing tomorrow. So don't stay up too late or I'll have daddy break the door down. Kay?"

Andrew knew that his dad wouldn't knock the door down but wouldn't put it past his mother and sister to try to do it themselves.

"Don't worry we'll be up and ready when you get here. Love you."

"AWW, I wuv you too my wittle baby boy~"

After hanging up Andrew fell back onto his bed with a large sigh. It was always exhausting talking to his mom, but his sister was at a whole different level. He wished he had gotten some of his mother's boundless energy, but it seemed it all went into Amy. Sweetheart took notice and asked a question.

"Is your family always like that?"

"Yup, me and dad are the only sane two."

"What's he like?"

"He's like me, I guess. Tall, quiet, and a computer geek. I learned all I know from him after all."

"I think that I'll like him the most than if he's like you. Do you think the other two will try and smother me with love."

"Probably."

"Well as long as they are gentle then they can love on me all they want."

Andrew propped himself up with his elbows as he looked at Sweetheart. He could feel a burning question bouncing around his head but was hesitant to ask. Would It be weird? Well, he wouldn't know until he asked so…

"Does that go for me too?"

Sweetheart stopped typing and turned to look at him before asking him a question.

"Does what go for you too?"

Andrew could feel his face burn slightly as he looked at her.

"As long as I'm gentle… could I rub you too?"

Sweetheart's face lit up with a blush, but she couldn't stop the smile or the tail wagging as she answered.

"YEAH! I mean… all you had to do was ask."

"Oh… well good to know."

She just sat there and stared at him while her flushed smile never left her face.

"Well?"

"Well, what?"

"Aren't you going to love on me?"

"… not right this second. I'll, uh, do it after we get some work done. Ya know as a reward?"

Sweetheart sat quietly for a moment as she felt her blush darken. He was embarrassed to ask to even pet her. She thought about teasing him, but the idea that he might not want to rub her anymore kept her from doing so.

"OK, well let's work fast so you can have your reward."

Andrew just nodded quietly as he moved over to his computer and started to take apart a laptop that had juice spilled into it. As he worked quietly, he looked over at Sweetheart before smiling to himself.

Ever since she came around my life hasn't been as lonely as it used to be. Sure, I have Cooper and my family, but this feels… different. Better somehow. Best not to tell Sweetheart otherwise her head would be too inflated to fit through the door.

Yup just another regular morning routine now that this large Pokémon had forced her way into this larger man's life.