Partner

Last one for the night. A few questions were asked, they may or may not have been answered here.

This left hilarious ideas. And a disturbing happenstance.

Bonus cookie for whoever can find me Lillow's partner's name. I'm fairly certain it's Taln... but... seems like Taln only comes up the once, now twice, in my document so I'm guessing that I have it wrong and can't find the actual happenstance of whereever it may be.

Likely this will be Suryallee's third cookie.

I'm just happy I remembered that she has several others. I'm fairly certain I gave a few to hawthorne but I can't remember what for and I haven't heard from the guy in a while.

Ah well... can't force anyone to read my story.

So until tomorrow...

Read, review and enjoy





Once Paw had left, Mik showered and moved to the bedroom with the bed, his bedroom, and curled up in the bed. Lillow tiptoed after him and slid into the bed beside Mik. The young girl sighed out and turned on the light after a long moment. She stared at Mik and Mik growled at her. He wanted to sleep. He didn’t have to get up early the next morning, luckily, but he still had to get up and work with Koln on paperwork and such. Learn the ins and outs of running the program so that if Koln wanted to take vacation, he could.

“What, what is it Lillow, what do you want to talk about?”

“Apartment down hall has four bedrooms,” Lillow murmured, “All of group could move in together. Paw would approve.”

“That would be uncomfortable for me.”

“And for Taln,” Lillow murmured, then shrugged, “all adapt.”

“Why… why didn’t anyone adopt you before?”

Lillow picked at a loose string on the bedspread, “Souse and Essuan say not to. And they not want Lillow. But. If Lillow was their child, then she, I, could not be with Hohi. So maybe Souse knew about Hohi and decided not to adopt Lillow because Lillow better off with Hohi.”

“… the… hundred year old virgin?”

“Hohi has fourteen children,” Lillow muttered, “he has had three mates. And he’s not a hundred. He’s ninety-eight.”

“Close enough. You realise that he’s old enough to be your great-great-great grandfather, right?”

Lillow shrugged, “Sidhe live long time. Age little. Whisper is old. Like. Three hundred.”

When Mik had said that Whisper had waited two generations to pick an heir, he hadn’t thought it had been two centuries. Or more even. Who knew how long Sidhe generations were?

“How old is Violet?”

“Violet?” Lillow looked confused and then it dawned on her, “ohhhhhh. She’s twenty. She’s been through puberty, if you believe it. But the people who owned her gave her stuff. So she didn’t develop. Good thing Sidhe have staged puberty. So she might grow up in about ten years.”

“Ten more years as a moody pre-teen? Gods help us all,” Mik muttered.

“Through Illuva we are all blessed,” Lillow murmured, then changed the topic, “Mik likes Paw?”

“Yes, of course I do.”

“Mik likes being punished in bed?”

“What?”

“Paw had Mik tied down to the bed. Paw’s hand was about Mik’s throat as he came and the face that Mik allows Paw to do all these crazy things. Mik likes domination, especially when he is dominated. Lillow likes that Mik likes that.”

“… Why?”

“Mik allows himself be subjugated to a dominant male.”

“Paw is the least dominant in the tribe.”

“Most dominant amongst all Sidhe,” Lillow murmured, “yet still the idea that Mik finds pleasure is pleasing to Lillow. Like clean breeze on dirty day.”

“Uhhuh. More Sidhe stuff I don’t understand.”

There was a moment of silence as Mik shifted so that he lay on his back, looking up at the ceiling.

“Are you ever going to mate Paw?”

“Well… I mean. We just met. Basically.”

“But there is no other for you. And you don’t mate him in the next ten months… so are you ever going to mate him?”

“Just because you can see it, doesn’t mean it will happen. And if you can see, why do you ask things like ‘what is that’?” Mik growled at the girl.

“For the sake of words and conversation. Your entire people rely on words. A protestor chants for change rather than just acts. A politician says fancy words and even if he lies or sleeps with his wife’s brother, you vote for him because of his words. If I never spoke or never asked questions on what I already know because of my power… I would never speak.” The girl adjusted so that she lay on her side with a hand under her cheek to support her head, “Perhaps I enjoy the delight of seeing you turn red.”

“Right.”

“Mik is unhappy with my sharing his bed.”

“You are thirteen, I think you can sleep alone.”

“Fourteen. Most Sidhe children sleep with their parents until the parents are ready to declare the child an adult. Even after being declared adult, most children stay with their parents, caring for them as they become elderly and then infirm. It is rare that a Sidhe sleeps alone.”

“Why are you giving me so much information, whereas Paw gives me so little?”

“Probably because the type of information Paw can give you, he is not ready to divulge,” Lillow murmured, “have you two had sex in the living room?”

“No.” Mik growled through clenched teeth, so much for sleep.

“I didn’t think so. The apartment down the hall, the empty one, has a hot tub and it has jets in it that the other women say is pleasurable… if one is desperate enough to use it. But we are a curious race. Sex toys. If the others were offered sex toys more females would be pregnant.”

“There is only one pairing.”

“Mm. And one male who took advantage of a distressed female. Souse is still wondering what to do with him. Should he banish the male, and lose another, thus making himself look like he is slowly getting rid of the males to breed the females truer to himself? Or does he punish the male by handing the creature over to the women for justice?”

“The later would likely end in his death.”

“No. The women are thinking that castration might be justice. Though the female who was taken advantage of pointed out that the male has good blood, considering all and all, and that he is capable of breeding. Thus it is worth it to keep him alive.”

“And what do they say about me? The one who can’t breed?”

“They say that you could make Paw breed and therefore you are useful,” Lillow shrugged, “they like the idea of Paw pleasured. When he orgasms, they can feel it.”

“Feel…it…”

“Mm. Hohi had to explain that to me. Apparently when a woman reaches a certain age, whether she has the capability for power or not, she can feel the strong sexual emotions of others and they can… insert themselves.”

“So. Every female in the building knows when and how often Paw and I have sex… but he’s not female.”

“I never said they play off of female sexual emotion,” Lillow murmured.

Paw appeared in the doorway, leaning against the frame as one eyebrow arched upward. Lillow seemed not to notice the male in the doorway.

“Why only feel female sexual emotion? Apparently males experience it completely differently. And Hohi said that females experience the pleasure while males derive satisfaction from the pleasuring of others. Which makes females sound completely selfish.”

“After seeing the way male people treated their women,” Paw pushed off of the doorframe and approached the bed, “our males realised that their own women were the most precious beings. More precious than the gods. Sidhe sought to be the opposite of people in every manner, in every form. And so, for a time, we were matriarchal, completely and utterly. From that time we come upon the notion of women not working when pregnant. That ideal has worked in our favour, since women stopped working while pregnant, healthier babes have been born.

“The idea that only a mother may pair off her daughters without the daughter’s consent also stems from this time. A leader never has the right to pair off a female with a male against the female’s desires. He may strongly suggest, he may scare off other males, but he may not force the female to mate. Whereas he can, and often does in modern times, force a male to mate or gift away a male. Males can be replaced. My blood is good, but I’ve already conceived a child, my deed is done and I can leave, it never need to matter again. However, if Essuan disappeared, that blood would go with her.

“Once Sidhe fell into a month of sexual gratification, called by people mating times. Males would fight off the urge to fall into the heat that lasted a moon cycle so as to pleasure their females, to remove themselves from the pleasure as male people could not do. By saying that one or the other lasted a minute, a day, a week, outside of the heat was to brag that one was even less people than any other. But the female could not orgasm without the male. Little known fact. In both people and Sidhe, the males come to completion in nearly half the time of the females. The result being, a male who holds himself back is more likely to make his woman satisfied than a man who gives it his all.”

“But Essuan said males have the mating season as well,” Lillow murmured sleepily in response to Paw, her eyes drifting close.

Was that what it was? That Lillow couldn’t sleep?

“Male pairs can and have fallen into the heat just as well. Males are dragged down by females into the heat, which people often see as the females lowering the males to an even lower levels. However, when females fall into heat, they swirl their emotions into the air and males catch it, just the edges, that is all we can ever comprehend of it, it seems. Possible that we simply say that is all because we cannot understand that this is truly it, just the pleasure. It is the only time that males can feel that. The sexual pleasure. Women can feel when another woman has a great night but the males only feel it if their woman is inclined to climb into bed with them.

“These males feel the desires of females and the one is tugged down faster. This one takes on the so called role of the woman and spreads his legs to the other. The other is pulled into it by his partner. Thus male partners can and do get pulled into heat.”

“Has Paw entered heat?” it was barely more than the mumbling of someone who was almost asleep.

“No. To fall into the heat, requires another of the capabilities to show one through it. As of yet, I have found only one who is capable, and only one who I desire, so I have not fallen into heat. It is not pleasant to fight it off, day after day, like a people who likes to drink and is surrounded by alcohol. The desire to fall never leaves, but the desire to come out alive out weights my craving for it and so I still life, still breath here, like this.

“Mik is incapable of devoting the time to see to my needs,” Paw tucked the blankets around Lillow gently, “he would need several days or even weeks to feed my hunger, my burning, whereas if one of the females fell, it would take a male a few hours to sate her until the next time. So long has my desire been building. I fear so of depleting Mik’s energy, of taking more than his body can give back to him that I hardly push him in sex.”

That was hardly pushing? By the gods, Mik didn’t want to know what pushing was.

Paw glanced down at Lillow and gave the girl’s shoulder a pat. The Sidhe looked up at Mik and gave the man a small smile, “Like Sidhe fairy tale.”

“Mik incapable?” Mik muttered.

“Of seeing Paw through heat,” Paw murmured, moving around the bed and sitting on the edge of the bed beside Mik, “Paw has held heat for many a long years and that is not something that goes away or is simply existing. It builds and lasts longer as one puts it off. Anyways. Even if Mik could keep up, or find a way around the stamina issue, there is still problem of not having time off.”

Mik thought as the Sidhe gave his forehead a kiss.

“She wants to move in with us,” Mik muttered.

“Mm. It would be appropriate.”

“The sex would be difficult.”

“Not really. Lillow’s partner is very quiet.”

“Who has been having sex with Lillow’s partner?”

“See’s partner. Likes it rough too. We are not always certain the little one enjoys it, but …” Paw shrugged, “people ways are not our ways.”

Mik sighed. It was just one more thing he had to discuss with Koln in the morning… which was now too close to get a good, proper sleep.




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