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Copper-9. A planet designated for mining operations. That’s all it was supposed to be. Humanity had managed to wipe themselves off of the face of the planet in an industrial accident of sorts and all that had been left were worker drones. Uzi had lived most of her life behind the walls of a locked down facility that had been meant to keep them safe when the rest of humanity had decided they shouldn’t let rogue drones live. And well, that had changed too. By stupid luck she had come to meet one of the murder drones sent to exterminate their kind. With his help, she had managed to overcome one of the others and then sort of recruit another to their cause. Well, it wasn’t really an actual cause. It wasn’t really much of anything. She felt angry at humanity for putting them through this, upset at a world that wasn’t even content to leave them to rot, and more than that; she was confused. Nothing made sense anymore and her body had started doing weird things. There was so much that had happened, so much that felt wrong about what she was doing, but she was still there befriending a weird drone meant to kill her and trying to figure what her life even was.
The landscape of Copper-9 was varied. Mountainous locals where the snow never seemed to stop falling. Grey and somber cities that had been broken down by time, and even forests with tall trees that threatened to reach up into the stars. At the moment, Uzi had wandered into a set of woods hoping to get a bit of privacy from the friendlies of the murder bot duo. She walked around a tree with a hand on the bark, fingers flexing against the material while she looked around and relaxed her shoulders. She wore a sweater today and leggings, and not much else. Her hair was in a typical bob that was flattened by a beanie. Her eyes were a bright neon purple that blinked on the display of her visor, and at the moment, the lights that made up her eyes had dimmed and turned half-shut.
Confusion. That’s what she felt. Her goals had shifted toward discovery. There was something wrong with her body, something that further othered her from her peers. Not that she wanted to be friends with them anyway, but it sure didn’t help that her eye freaked out now and then. Sure, the powers were cool, and the tail was kind of neat too, but the murderous tendencies and panic attacks weren’t all that fun. It was getting harder to hide, too. As if on cue, her thin tail curled up and out from behind her, the tip of it a set of snapping jaws with multiple eyes that reflected her color. It seemed to have a mind of its own, and right now, it seemed pretty concerned about her.
Smiling a bit, she put a hand on her tail’s strange head and sighed, “Well, no getting rid of you. Unlike N, you’re literally glued to my ass.”
Her tail seemed to perk up a bit, eyes brightening before it whipped back behind her. That took care of that, however, she had reminded herself about something. N was the murder drone she had befriended, and she used that term lightly. Really, he was annoying in every way possible. Hopelessly optimistic. Constantly worrying about her and looking out for her. Extremely reliable and so stupid she could probably lie directly to his face and he’d believe it because he was too damn good for this world. Lines began to light up on the display of her face under her eyes, and it seemed like the weather was warming as she crossed her arms and kicked a few rocks. Him and the rest of the murder drones had been killing her kind and using them for fuel for so long, and now she was working with him. More than that, he was so damn friendly with her, and she couldn’t help but feel weird whenever that happened. He treated her better than anyone she had ever known, but did that give her an excuse to let herself feel weird and fuzzy around him?
“Ugh. I can’t believe this. Even out here in the middle of nowhere, I can’t stop thinking about stupid things.” She spat before muttering to herself, “I came out here to get away from him not constantly think about him. He’s probably happy talking to V or whatever, anyway. Doesn’t even need me being around him when everyone else thinks he’s so cool. Even V has to acknowledge that.”
There it was. A hollow feeling took hold of her chest, and she touched the spot as if she could will it away. N had told her that he had a crush on V, that he had cared for her even if V didn’t really seem to feel the same way. Had that changed? And what did it matter? Her tail suddenly struck the ground and whipped up, her head following the direction as she heard a voice in the distance. She could wait and face the music, but instead, she started to run. Her emotions were toying with her right now, her uncertainties and confusion clutching hard onto her thoughts and dragging them downward. She didn’t need to be seen in this sort of mood, and the heat of her face had grown more intense, her display sparking and glitching as one of her eyes began to shift and change. Uzi clapped a hand over that dreaded spot and kept on running toward the edge of the forest where she saw a set of buildings awaiting her.
The buildings had marked the edge of a small city. Most of it had been left to rubble but Uzi had managed to hide inside one of the buildings before she heard the voice more clearly now, “Hey! Uzi! Where are ya? C’mon, Lizzie told me you went out in this direction looking super upset and you know that it’s not good to bottle these sorts of things in.”
She clamped her mouth shut tight and puffed out her cheeks while ignoring the heat in her head. Of course it wasn’t healthy to bottle these things up. N was always so stupidly helpful all the darn time.
“Uzi? You know I can literally probably find you if I actually wanted to. Oh wait, maybe you want to play a game?” N said, and she actually heard him clap while he added, “I could try to hinder my functions so it’ll take a little bit longer for me to find you?”
Uzi turned around on her hands and knees to smack her head against the remains of a wooden table she had hid behind before she got up with a loud sigh, “Over here.”
“Hi there.”
Her shell nearly peeled apart as he appeared just a foot or so behind her hanging upside down in the air looking at her with a big smile. Unlike her, N was a murder drone. He had bright yellow eyes on his display as well as a set of orbs that she suspected had extra functions above his head, and sitting pretty atop his tousled hair was a captain’s fiddler cap being held there by his tail. He just kept on smiling without saying anything else as if he hadn’t just scared her, as if he wasn’t a big source of her turmoil. Uzi couldn’t even look at him, and so she turned away from him and composed herself as best as she could manage while taking in a deep breath.
When she exhaled, she did her best to calm herself while she addressed N, “Hi. As you can see, I’m perfectly fine, so you can go home now.”
N tilted his head while remaining upside down, “Oh, I’m glad you’re fine. Why did you seem upset? Lizzie said you were, and I quote, totally tweaking out. Not the words I would have used, but y’know, still kind of worrying. So, what happened?”
“Nothing.” She said while turning away. Her tail, however, remained facing toward N.
Uzi heard N landing nearby but tried to ignore him. That became harder when he placed a hand on the tip of her tail as he stepped around her side while leaning over to try to catch her gaze. “Uzi. You know you can talk to me, right?” He then added with a finger in the air, “And we don’t even have to talk about what’s bothering you or what was bothering you. We could talk about anything! Like, uh, hm, what can we talk about? There’s clothes around here. A lot of them!”
She looked around before rolling her eyes, “Yeah, must have been a clothing store before everything went to shit. Nothing’s really intact, but I know some drones that could probably repurpose this stuff in no time.”
“That’s neat! Maybe they could make you a new outfit. You’re in a cute sweater right now but I bet you’d love a new hoodie.” He said while practically glowing.
Uzi resisted the urge to smile and failed as her mouth began to tilt up at one edge, “Eh, I think I could go without it.”
He tilted his head and stared at her for a solid second or two before he said quietly, “Naked?”
She coughed and turned to face him while the lights on her cheek burned brighter, “No! What? I just meant that I have enough hoodies.”
N chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck, “My bad.” He then paused before bringing both his hands forward, “Oh! I almost forgot to tell you! V found something while flying over a couple of ruins. Some of those places that you wanted to look into. The ones with the weird symbols? Right? V’s much better at that kind of thing than I am. I mean, she’s much better than me at most things so that’s a given, but yeah! She found a facility. That could mean a lead on your mother and about whatever else you were thinking about.”
Hearing V get mentioned by N made her feel strange. She grabbed onto her arm and squeezed while working out a crooked smile, “That’s really great.” It didn’t help that he kept on complimenting her, kept on telling Uzi about how great V was, and she couldn’t help but turn away again while breathing out, “I think I’ll stick around here for a bit, though.”
“Oh? Did you find something while you were out here?” He asked while trying to catch her gaze again.
“No, N. I was just enjoying some alone time. Y’know? Private?” She scoffed.
He responded with a quiet stutter, “B-but you have your room for that, right?”
That tone of voice. The concern in it. He wasn’t even upset that she was just trying to ditch him. She hated it. That concern. That worry. It made her chest warm. The hollowness that she had felt before was nothing compared to what she felt when she heard him worrying about her, when she saw his stupid smile, and she hated it. She hated not knowing what was going on in her head and hated the fact that she could be very well crushing on someone that she could never have. He was a weird drone that was programmed to literally live off of consuming her kind. He had a crush on another girl, he had a crush on another girl! That last reason continued to repeat in her mind until she felt a spark fly off from one side of her head. She winced and dropped to one knee while grasping the side of her head.
N was there at her side with his hands hovering over her as he spoke hurriedly, “Uzi? Hey, hey talk to me here. You okay? Are you having a malfunction?”
“Why are you so fucking nice to me if I’m such a bitch!” She said while punching the ground.
Uzi had only meant to strike the ground with a moderate amount of force, but her blow had created a crack in the faded wood and stone. She realized that her chest was heaving and that she had thrown a glare at N who was just looking at her with the most pathetic expression. Eyes dotted with worry. Mouth held in a little one and his hand raised as if he wanted to touch her, to comfort her even though she had just had an outburst. She could almost hear him excusing her behavior and she didn’t want him to, so she started shaking her head.
“No.” She began.
N opened his mouth a few times before saying softly, “What?”
“No.” She said again before sighing, “I don’t need you to comfort me, N. I’m being mean, I’m being weird, and you shouldn’t just rush to my side to pick me up.”
“I just wanna know what’s wrong so I can help, Uzi. Even if you’re being kinda weird, that doesn’t mean that I hate you.” He then smiled a little bit while adding, “Please tell me? I promise not to get mad?”
She felt like her face was about to leak as she grimaced and growled out her words, “Ughhh, no. Stop it! Stop looking at me like that.”
He touched her hand gingerly, and it was like a circuit had been closed, as if she had been shocked. All the hatred inside of her began to burn away, the confusion remaining while she looked away. Try as she might, she couldn’t pull her hand away and so she began to mutter, “Look. I’m just really confused. You know that. I needed some time to myself, and I figured that you and V were perfectly fine together.”
“Perfectly fine…Together?” N began slowly. He then muttered, “Uzi, are you jealous?”
From her back sprouted a single wing of sinew and metal and she squawked, “HAH! What? Jealous? Me? Not a chance! Why would I ever be jealous?”
N gave her hand a gentle pat, “C’mon, you don’t have to worry about V! I’ll always be your friend.”
She felt her face burning, her display brightening at the cheeks while her eyes turned small and dotted. Always be her friend. Just her friend. That was totally fine, and so she answered quietly at first so much so that N leaned in to hear her before she snapped, “Bite me!”
And out came the other wing as she yanked her hand away and began stalking away while her tail draped around her neck like a scarf. N scrambled after her and began, “W-wait, whoa whoa! Uzi, did I say something wrong there? I mean, I could bite you. Did you actually want me to bite you?”
Uzi was very glad that her wings were doing a good job of blocking N from passing her so he couldn’t see her expression. He could be such an idiot, but it wasn’t fair to punish him for something that she was misunderstanding, or rather, something that she wished desperately was just a stupid misunderstanding. The truth was that he liked V and he might never get over that, he might never even think of her in an intimate manner, and she liked N. N was one of the few bots that actually treated her with any sort of respect. He comforted her when she felt bad, he made her feel good when she was acting out and just in general. He didn’t deserve to get swatted and slapped away. V kept him at arm’s length and he still loved her, but she didn’t want to keep him away like that. Was that such a problem? Did she have to beat herself up over something with such a simple solution? Be honest with him. Ugh, but that was so hard.
With her mental state continuing to deteriorate, with her frustrations mounting, she finally gave in and turned around while her vision glitched. Her digits twitched and her wings spread far apart while she grit her fangs together and stared down N. He brought his hands up in defense and cleared his throat, “Hey now, we use our words, not violence. Unless someone is really being mean and deserves a good punch because we respect ourselves enough to defend ourselves.”
Her wings folded back, and she drew herself in before shooting herself forward with her wings spread outward. N let out an extremely not-so masculine yell, but it petered out as all she did was wrap her arms and wings around him nice and tight. She pressed her face to his chest and her tail around one of his legs. She couldn’t see what he was doing, couldn’t see his expression, but his hand was on her head pushing her beanie back so he could run his digits through her hair.
Quietly, Uzi muttered, “I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay.” He said quietly before adding, “Still don’t wanna talk?”
She shook her head and pushed her face further against the softness of his coat, and the firmness of his chest while he just let her remain there. His touch had sent electricity through her but had also had the added effect of calming her. Embracing him felt like squeezing a giant stress ball. Breathing in, and then letting the stress flow out. Uzi kept her wings out just to add to the embrace, just to keep him there a bit closer as she allowed herself to indulge in some form of possessiveness. She’d die if she told him how she felt, but part of her hoped that he might get some sort of message if she held onto him long enough. That was one of the problems. He just didn’t seem to get it. Maybe he was too nice to understand, or maybe he really didn’t want that sort of attention, but he could be so dim.
After a bit, and after she felt her core calm and the heat in her head subside, she pulled back and sighed, “Okay, I think I’m ready to go back now and well, no I don’t wanna talk about it. I kinda wanna talk instead about how I sorta treat you like trash. I don’t wanna do that. Not really. I mean, if you’re acting dumb then I’m gonna tell you but you don’t deserve me lashing out at you and you don’t deserve anyone doing that, really. You’ve been so helpful and so nice to me, so uh, thank you, and thanks for coming to check up on me. I mean it.”
His eyes blinked in and out of existence before they began to grow along with his smile. She frowned and her cheeks began to brighten again as she leaned back like a trapped animal as she put her hands up in defense, only to have that defense bypassed as he squeezed her in a vice-like embrace while humming, “Thanks Uzi. Hearing that makes me feel pretty good about myself. I never know if I’m doing the right thing, but I’m glad to know that I am doing just right by you. I don’t ever want to hurt you, and well, you’ve been super sweet.”
She touched his chest with both of her hands and began to push to try and pry them apart while grunting, “Super sweet? The heck are you talking about? I tried to use you to get me off this planet to kill all of humanity, and now I’m using you to find out why I’m a freak!”
Again, he crushed her against his body and she was once again reminded that N was significantly stronger than she expected when considering his personality. After a solid second or two of wondering if her shell would crack as he shook her about, N sighed, “Aw Uzi, you’re worried about me.”
“What?!” She snapped.
“You are! Why else would you care about that kind of thing? You actually care if you’ve hurt me or not and, well, I kind of appreciate that too. I know that I’m in your thoughts and I’m not used to that. At least, I don’t think so. V kind of worries about me, or maybe she doesn’t.” His good mood then seemed to wilt at the mention of that, his feelings on the matter clear as day as his smile got a bit smaller, “Yeah, I think I’ve just been annoying her lately. She doesn’t really share what’s on her mind, doesn’t really seem to even want me around except to tell me that I’m doing something wrong. I think she’s actually pretty jealous of you but won’t tell me why, or won’t even confirm or deny.”
The mention of V should have annoyed her, should have bothered her, but she found herself more worried about his stupid expression dipping further and further until she brought a hand up to touch his cheek while muttering, “Hey, look. V? She’s stupid.” She then gnashed her fangs for a bit before blowing out, “What I mean by that is, she just doesn’t know how lucky she is to have someone like you after her tail. You actually care about her and she probably loves that to bits but can’t express why or how because, I don’t know, it’d be too embarrassing or something. I don’t know why she’s hiding things from you, why she’s pretending she doesn’t remember things when she did all along. Maybe she thinks it’s better that those memories would be gone, and y’know, maybe I kinda get that. Lately I’ve been thinking that it would be better if I didn’t figure anything out, better if I just weren’t around to mess up so much especially with whatever this stupid eye thing is.”
N’s embrace loosened and she looked up to see that his smile was gone entirely, his eyes bright and wide. Had she said something stupid? She opened her mouth to apologize while her eyes blinked and looked away before she shut up as he pulled her into a tender embrace. Again he said quietly, “Thank you, and for what it’s worth. I think you’re both kind of dumb.”
She was about to melt into his touch, about to forget what she was doing before he called her dumb. Coughing, she pushed him by the chest and said aloud, “The fuck do you mean, dumb?”
He put his hands up between them, their fingers nearly touching until she drew her hands away behind her back while huffing as he explained quickly, “I just mean that both of you are kind of totally wrong and well, hard-headed?” As she began to growl, he quickened the pace of his words, “I mean, well, take V for example. I want to know what’s going on, and I don’t think any of us should be doing this on our own.” He then touched her cheek gingerly and said softly, “And I don’t think I would ever want you to disappear. Without you, I probably wouldn’t even be myself, or I’d just be endlessly bullied by V and J while killing everything on this planet without a second thought.”
Uzi leaned against his touch and looked at him with her eyes half-lidded, her cheeks warm, her mind fuzzy while she listened to him speak. Her words wouldn’t come no matter how much they wanted to. She liked him a lot. She liked him more than she should, but she just couldn’t say it because she hoped the best for him, and she wasn’t sure if she was the best thing for him.
“Hey.” N began before he continued a bit more rapidly, “Hey, hey hey. You feel kinda hot there, buddy. You okay?”
Her eyes blinked out, leaving her visor blank as she mumbled, “Yeah. Totally.”
In truth, she was feeling great with his hand on her cheek, but she had also lost a lot of the fire in her core. She felt sleepy, just a bit tired, but didn’t want to say that to sound lame. Her eyes came back when she suddenly felt the ground being swept out from beneath her feet. Up she went into N’s arms as he grunted, “Up you go, buddy! If you’re feeling a bit tuckered out, I can fly us back home. Maybe a bit of rest will do some good before
She wrapped her arms around his neck while grimacing, her tail curling around his thigh as she huffed, “I don’t need you to pick me up and I can even fly so just—”
N carried her out while clucking his tongue, “Tut, tut, tut. Someone’s trying to sound super tough and cool! And you are super tough and cool, but let me take some of the burden off your shoulders. You seemed so stressed out but you don’t seem like that when I’m holding you like this.”
Uzi turned her head away while sounding out slowly, “Yeah well, I mean. I kind of tired myself out flying here.” She then grunted, “Wait, no. I didn’t I just—”
In searching for an excuse she had embarrassed herself thoroughly, and to make matters worse, N pressed his cheek to hers and hummed, “Aww! You don’t gotta pretend to be tough, buddy. Just close your eyes, relax and let me take care of everything else. I’ll get us home before the sun even thinks about peeking.”
“Home.” She said quietly before sighing while accepting defeat, “Fine. I guess a nap or something might be nice.”
“Thata girl!”
To that, she grumbled quietly, “Bite me.”
Her eyes went wide as she felt a set of something sharp clamping down on her shoulder. She looked to her side and her face again regained the heat and fire she had lost before as she looked at N’s stupid face biting down on her shoulder around a bit grin as if this was the funniest thing in the world. She opened her mouth a few times in disbelief before she found herself shivering, her words unable to be formed as his fangs scraped across the sensitive hull of her shell. Fuck, what? What?! Why was this happening now?! And more importantly, why did she like him biting her? He had a dangerous mouth that could tear into metal and make her into a snack and she was just sort of accepting it?
She intended to chew him out, to tell him his joke was stupid but instead she blurted out, “You been eating all right?”
His eyes turned into wide and hollow circles, a few lines appearing denoting a fluster as he took his fangs off of her shoulder and began to stammer, “W-what?! Yes, but no! I didn’t mean to imply that I was going to bite you like that. No! I just thought it’d be funny.”
Uzi was screaming on the inside and part of her wanted to hide against the material of his coat hoping that he would just shut up and carry her off, or maybe drop her in an endless pit. She could feel where his fangs had been, could feel the trail of his spit on her shoulder where his mouth had lingered for just a little bit too long. Should she try to brush it off, or try to just tell him that she had liked it? Hah! Of course, she wouldn’t tell him that she liked it. That’d be stupid. What was giving her away, however, was that her tail had moved to curl around his waist, the tip brushing along his side without her permission. She was thankful that he was wearing such a thick coat and couldn’t feel it, and thankful that he was too dumb to notice the lines on her cheek.
Finally, she spoke up, “Well! I figured that I would just check. You never know. You and V need to keep fueled up. Wouldn’t want you passing out or going nuts on me, or something.”
He blinked and gave a little crooked smile while cooing, “Aww, you’re seriously being such a sweetie!”
“Shut up!” She scoffed
“Is that why you’re blushing? You can be as nice as you want without needing to be embarrassed. Oh, maybe I can give you some pointers?” N said while beaming.
“I don’t need your advice on being nice and that’s not why I’m embarrassed, ugh!” She said while pressing her palms against her face, eyes shutting off while she grumbled, “You had your teeth on my shoulder. That’s not really something you do as a joke and I mean, I’m not super upset about it but you should really think about how a girl would react to someone putting their mouth on that spot.”
She took a chance and moved her hand enough to take a look at N and practically saw the circuits behind his eyes sparking as he used all of his processing power to think, and think, until he opened his mouth wide, “Ohhhh, n-no no no no! I didn’t. That’s not what I meant either, but was it bad? I mean, no. Wait, what am I saying?” He then stumbled out of the building with her still in his arms to let his bladed wings free from his back before he coughed, “I should just shut up and take you home.”
Was it bad? Her shoulders sunk, and she ignored him for a moment as he took off into the air. She remained in his arms without a word while his question kept on playing in her mind. Was he worried about her hating what he did, or did he wonder whether she had liked it or not? She tilted her head and looked down at the passing landscape, wondering whether or not the drop would knock the thought from her memories, but she instead looked back at N to see that his cheeks were still bright, little droplets forming on the screen to represent him sweating. Uzi was actually too tired for this, though, too tired to keep on mulling over this over and over again, so instead, she leaned up and planted her cheek on the crook between his shoulder and his head. She felt him tense for a bit, but he soon relaxed and that was how it was for the entire trip.
By the time they got near home, Uzi’s head had cleared significantly. Probably thanks to the idiot holding her, and probably thanks to the fact that she had taken a short nap on the way. When they hit the ground, Uzi hopped out of N’s arms and stretched wide. Her sweater came up just a bit and she turned her head to see that N was looking down and then away as he noticed her gaze. Had he been looking at her? Nah, probably just noticed how awesome her sweater was.
Home was a bunker behind a door in a craggy wasteland. The door was open and of course, of fucking course, V was standing there with her arms crossed. No pants as usual with long socks held tightly on her sharp legs. Her eyes were the same color as N’s but with a bit more intensity, and the orbs in her hair had been designed in the shape of a hairband holding back her short silver mane. She walked up to V with her arms crossed, her eyes looking up as V started to do the same. N was right by her side and she could see him out of the corner of her vision waving. No doubt he had a goofy smile on his face, and that only added to her attitude as she stopped mere inches before the taller drone.
V was the first to break the silence, “Where were you?”
“I was out. You’re not my mom.” She said while rolling her eyes.
One of V’s digits turned into a sickle like claw and pressed against her chest while she hissed, “Listen here you little—”
N stepped between them and cleared his throat, “H-hey, no need for all that, right? We’re all friends here.”
“Ew.” V said immediately, but she took her digit away and sighed, “I just wanted to know if you were out there freaking out or whatever. Figured that N could handle you by himself but y’know, who knows? You could’ve gone feral and killed N or something.”
Uzi smiled a bit and brought a hand out to brush her attitude aside, “Huh, cute how you worry so much even though you’re so mean.”
V stamped the ground, her expression cracking while she gasped, “It is not cute! And I am not worried! We just have a lot to do and cover and I’d rather not have you killing N before we get to work. I found some of those stupid places you wanted to visit, so we should get to that instead of whatever you were doing.”
“Nah, I think—” She looked at N and saw him fidgeting from one side to the other, looking at each of them while frowning. Uzi then relaxed her shoulders and blew out, “I wanna take a break. I’m kinda blown out from flying and I might’ve freaked out a little bit. Just had to get some alone time and now I need a bit of rest, so if you don’t mind, I’m going to my room.”
It seemed like V was about to say something heated, but her expression eased as she looked toward N. She then cleared her throat and muttered, “Okay. I’d like to at least give you an update on where those locations are, if you don’t mind.”
They both took a look at N who was smiling a bit more, and Uzi sighed, “Yeah, sure. Come on. N can hold down the front while we’re bonding or whatever.”
N actually clapped his hands and gave them both a thumbs up as they walked away together side to side. When they were out of earshot, V said quietly, “So, did you two fight?”
Uzi answered with a shrug, “Nah, he did bite me though.”
“What? Why?!” V asked while scoffing.
She thought about teasing V but she saw N’s distraught expression in the back of her mind and she instead decided to say with a sigh, “He thought it’d be a funny joke since I was being a brat and kept saying bite me.”
V groaned while slapping her own cheek, “Of course.” And after a bit of silence, she said while humming, “I could bite you too if you’re that desperate to go out in a spray of oil.”
Uzi squeaked, “WHAT?! No! You weirdo, fuck off.”
“Are you seriously blushing?” V said with a sneer.
“No! No! I am not.” She said almost as if she were convincing herself.
Her cheeks had grown warm, but the thought must have come from thinking about N doing it. Being attracted to N was one thing; she didn’t need a lesbian awakening on top of whatever the hell was going on, and so she walked faster to get to her room and get whatever V wanted out of the way. She crashed through her living quarters without so much as looking for her father and she headed deeper in to get to her room. Inside was a mess of strewn clothes here and there, along with paperwork and posters plastered to the walls, and of course, a conspiratorial pin board with all known associations to the weird symbol that occasionally appeared in her vision.
When the door shut behind Uzi and V, she breathed out and turned around with her hands on her hips, “Okay, what’s this about? What do you want?”
V had her hands held behind her back, head tilted as she said, “Aw, Uzi. You seriously think that I’d try something when it’s just the two of us? Nah, I couldn’t do that to N. Well, maybe I could rough you up a little bit to remind you to behave, but no.”
“Then what?” She said while ignoring the line about roughing her up.
After a moment, V sighed and let her hands drift forward, “Well, I don’t trust you quite yet. I don’t think that you’re even safe to be around, but N trusts you a lot and it’s clear that he cares about you. Yeah, sure, he makes friends with rocks or whatever, but you’re his latest rock so…Just don’t break that trust, got it?”
She relaxed and looked away while rubbing the back of her neck, “I’m kind of afraid of hurting him. I keep thinking it’d be better if I was gone, better if I followed your advice of holding him at arm’s length but I’m too selfish for that, and well…Not selfish enough for that.”
“Selfish enough? Sounds like you’re plenty selfish to me.” V scoffed.
Uzi hummed, “Yeah, that’s the thing. If I pushed him away. If I pretended to be mean or just sulk off on my own then I’d be ignoring what he wants. I’d kind of just be treating him like crap. How am I gonna tell him what’s best for him when I don’t know shit about myself or whatever?” And when she looked at V she could see the murder drone’s expression was flickering between irritation and something more vulnerable and so she added quietly, “And well, I don’t have the right to make decisions for him. So I’m selfish for wanting to be around him as much as possible and not selfish enough to think that I’m the only one who should be piloting that idiot head of his.”
V said quietly, “So you really love him that much, huh?”
She coughed, “What?! I mean, I like him, yeah. He’s nice and kinda makes me smile and stuff but love is a really strong word for that.”
“Gross. Stupid. Dumb.” V said idly while looking away before she sniffed, “But maybe you should be gross and stupid around him instead of telling the girl that was just threatening you.”
“And maybe you should be nicer to N.” Uzi said with a frown.
V looked at her and scowled, “And why should I? You think I even deserve to be next to him after I lied to him? I don’t even agree with what he’s doing, don’t even trust you.”
“But you said you trusted his decision at least, right? How is that trusting his decision if you’re not at least open with him? He likes you! A lot. He thinks you’re so friggen cool and won’t shut-up about you.” She said while taking a step forward.
A sickle-like claw pressed against her chest as V shouted, “Yeah?! And he won’t shut up about you when it’s just us. He’s just so, so…”
“Dim?” She supplied while ignoring the claw pressing through the material of her sweater.
“Yeah.” V muttered before her volume increased again, “So how about you just say it directly instead of running away like a wimp?”
“And how about you open up to N instead of hiding behind Lizzie’s skirt while she fawns over your hot fat ass!” She scoffed.
“My ass is not fat!” V squeaked.
They stared at one another, and V’s eyes drifted down to the claw she was pressing against Uzi’s chest. Uzi took another step forward despite the feeling of that sickle digging into her frame, and V faltered for a second as Uzi said, “Look. I get that you hate me, I get that you think that I’m going to be the end of everything or whatever, and you can kill me anytime you want if you think I’m slipping or whatever, but both of us have been stupid about N. I don’t want to pretend and if he let’s me, I’ll stick around him as much as I want. And y-yeah, maybe I do kind of like him a lot.”
V stood up straight before everything shifted all at once. She found herself pressed against the wall, all of V’s digits in the form of claws pinning her to it by the chest. V’s mouth was just a few inches from hers and she seriously thought she was about to be kissed, but instead V muttered, “Just take care of him, okay? Do that for me, or for him, or whatever.”
She nodded and huffed, “Of course.”
The murder drone stepped back and let go of her before turning around while sighing, “Sorry about your sweater. I’ll ask Lizzie how to get you a new one and, uh, I’ll zap you those locations I was talking about.”
Uzi looked down at her torn up sweater and she spoke before thinking, “Eh, not the first time I’ve been pinned to the wall by a hot murder bot.”
V turned her head, one eye quirked with a brow for the added expression as she coughed, “Excuse me?”
She felt her cheek twitch as she recognized what she had said without thinking. Uzi brought her fingers out and squeezed the air, the solver’s symbol appearing to send V flying out of her room as the door opened. She then clamped her hand shut, and the door closed while she groaned and sunk to the floor with her hands on her head. She could deal with thinking that N was hot, and even perhaps maybe she could deal with liking N more than just a little bit, but she really did not need to think about the murder drone that actively still wanted to kill her in an amorous light. Her tail’s head poked under her chin, and she sighed while accepting the comfort. At least it felt like she had made some progress with V, but even then, she hated this animosity. She didn’t want to be a freak everywhere she went. Uzi accepted that she wouldn’t be friends with V, but maybe someday she’d be able to prove V wrong. Maybe then they could at least stay in the same room without saying something stupid to each other. With all that in her mind, she got up to find a hoodie to replace her tattered sweater.
Her head felt fuzzy and weird again. Her thoughts were fresh with irritation as well as confusion. She longed for the comfort of that golden idiot, and so she stepped out of her room with the purpose of finding N without a shred of shame. Uzi would try to be a bit more open with N to take her own advice, but maybe she’d omit the fact that V and her had gotten into another fight. And she’d also never tell him how she had called the aggressive murder drone hot. She’d never live that one down, and probably wouldn’t, considering V was going to blab to Lizzie. Perfect.
N was standing where she had left him. Just outside of the main door, rocking back and forth while looking around. He could have gone inside and plenty of the other bots would have welcomed him with open arms, but he just stood there because she had told him to. Smiling a bit, she trailed in from behind with her hands in the pockets of her hoodie while she spoke, “Hey, at ease captain, or whatever.”
He lifted his head and turned around, a big smile on his face warming her to the core as he approached her with his arms spread before stopping, “Uzi! Hi there, uh, sorry.”
As his arms began to go to his sides, she rolled her eyes and went in for the hug, “Shut up.”
“Excuse me?” He said while blinking.
“Just hug me already.” She said while pressing her face to his chest.
And so he embraced her quietly, for once without words, while she let her worries drift off beneath the glow of his lights. There was no heat coming off of him, no heat coming from the glow of his eyes, but she still felt warm and happy being able to touch him. And she didn’t want to ignore that any longer.
Finally, N managed to say, “Did you and V fight again?”
Broken out of her joyful stupor, she grumbled, “No.”
“Uzi.” N chided.
Uzi snapped, “That’s not why I’m hugging you! And, no, we didn’t fight. We argued a little and we came to an understanding, I think. I might have also called her something that was a little weird, but whatever!”
“Oh no, did you, y’know call her one of those really bad words?” He said quietly.
“No! I just, it doesn’t matter. It wasn’t mean, it was just weird.” She said while pressing her face harder to his chest.
N touched the back of her head, “Uzi, you should really talk about this sort of thing.” She said something muffled to his chest and he chuckled, “What’d ya say?”
Uzi groaned while pulling her face back enough that he could hear her, “I will friggen bite you so hard right now if you don’t stop and just hold me.”
They stared at one another for a solid second two before the lines started to appear on his face, the telltale signs of a blush. Her own expression began to mimic his as she realized the meaning behind his fluster. His collar and part of his chest was exposed from the open neck of his coat, and an idea occurred to her, a piece of mischief that she simply excused as revenge. She opened her mouth, and he started yammering about something rapidly, something that she ignored as she bit down on his chest as gently as she could manage.
Her eyes grew wide, and she froze when he made a weird noise before speaking quickly, “That’s not what you thought it was. Must have been the wind!”
She bit down a bit harder out of curiosity and he winced this time while his mouth twisted into a strange shape. His fingers at the back of her head had tensed and twitched. Uzi could have been so much more direct about all of this. Playing a game meant that she didn’t have to tell him and embarrass herself. Instead, she could embarrass him. It was kind of fun actually, and so she tightened the seal of her fangs on his chest.
Again he made a strange noise, and his words came out hushed, “Okayyy, you can stop now.”
Uzi pulled her mouth off of the spot she had bitten and she said quietly, “I mean, yeah. You gotta get a turn too, right? You didn’t even bite deep enough last time to get a drink.”
“What’s gotten into you?” N said while his eyes grew wide and ring-like, his hands grabbing onto her shoulders.
Feeling just a bit embarrassed, Uzi shrugged, “I dunno, just thought it’d be fun. You asked me if it felt bad when you bit me, when you put your mouth there but I never gave you an answer. It was kind of nice and maybe that’s stupid. Maybe it’s kind of stupid that I feel like everything you do is kind of nice. Getting hugged by you makes me forget that I was just arguing with V, makes me forget that I went out on my own throwing a tantrum like an idiot. Guess I kind of like you.”
She could practically hear the hushed excitement in his tone as he asked, “You like me? Do you mean that you—”
Uzi grimaced and planted a hand on his mouth, “Shut up. Please don’t finish that sentence. I’m already embarrassed enough.”
He took both of her hands into his own and squeezed, and she couldn’t help but be aware of his tail curling around hers as he began to gush, “I can’t wait to tell your dad.”
“No? No! Don’t even think about it.” She said absolutely aghast.
“Pleaaaase, you know I’m terrible at keeping secrets!” N whine while leaning down to meet her at eye level.
“Ugh, don’t beg! I just want some time to sort whatever this is out, so no. Don’t tell my dad, don’t even think about mentioning it, and don’t try to be weird and bond with him or something.” She said while her eyes narrowed.
His hold on her hands tightened a bit as he leaned in to plant his forehead against hers while he hummed, “All right. I think I can do that, biscuit.”
“Noooo.” She groaned, “You’re going to give me dumb pet names?”
“Uh-huh!” He chuckled before adding, “Why wouldn’t I?”
She almost wanted to smile, but she had to make sure first, she needed to get it off of her chest and so she breathed out, “What about V?”
N’s expression and body drooped, but he still smiled a bit as he spoke quietly, “I think, that it probably doesn’t matter. Even if V were into me right now, I don’t think I could accept that. She hasn’t been honest with me, and I don’t know whether she thinks I’m a nuisance or not. I still feel something, I can’t really lie about that but I also can’t lie that I feel something about you. Like I said, you really do care about me and I think I—”
Her cheeks and head began to burn as she brought up a hand to cover his mouth while she said in a hushed tone, “Yeah, got it. You super like me too. Understandable really.”
He grabbed her hand by the wrist with his own and with his tail looped around it to pull her hand away from his mouth as he finished, “I think I love you.” And he continued while chuckling, “I mean, I don’t entirely understand all of it myself but I do. Is that a problem?”
“Is it a problem?” She huffed while yanking away, his hand still on her wrist, “Is it a problem?!” Uzi said a bit louder before she faced him while feeling tears begin to gather, “I don’t know what it is!” She then sucked in a deep breath before letting out, “But I just know that I like being around you, and that I want to spend more time with you, so, let’s hang out more. Okay?”
She relaxed and N pulled her close again, his other hand drifting to her cheek as he leaned down to let their lips start to drift closer together. Was this it? A kiss? She wasn’t sure what to think about that, wasn’t sure if she was ready, but she wanted it and so she let him cup her cheek and carry her through before both of them paused.
A worker drone walked past them and through the door while snorting, “Get a room, weirdos.”
Uzi’s entire body burned as she lunged after the individual and snapped, “You get a room!”
Her wings had come out and sparks had flown from her visor, but N still had a strong hold on her arm and he started to yank her closer while laughing, “W-whoa there. He’s probably right. We should uh, get a bit of privacy before doing anything else. I mean, imagine if your dad found us or something.”
She stared at him with a cold and wide gaze as she muttered quickly, “Let’s take a walk outside of the bunker. So that never, ever, ever happens.”
Uzi’s wings retreated, and she gripped onto his hand. She figured that N would take her up on the offer immediately, but before that, he leaned down and tilted his head to let their lips meet for a mere peck. A moment of static between them that sent her core racing and her mind glitching. She actually had leaned up on one foot to follow him, to grab hold of his cheeks and drag him down for something more. Pure electric dreams. Mouth to mouth, eyes blanked shut, heat fusing together while the world around them melted away.
When they separated, N breathed out quietly, “Wow.”
She looked from left to right before she asked bashfully, “So, hanging out in some ruins?”
N seemed to only be able to nod, and she had to tug him along by the arm to really get him to follow her. After a bit of pulling, he started to walk behind her with his eyes glued to her. It felt a bit weird to be looked at so intensely, so strange to be perceived in such a way, but it wasn’t necessarily bad. Finding a bit of privacy in her own room could be a bit risky, considering her father and other drones enjoyed just barging in without knocking. N was being weirdly quiet, though. He was just kind of following her with a goofy look on his face.
“Something the matter?” She asked while rolling her eyes.
He blinked and rubbed the back of his head while clearing his throat, “Oh uh, sorry ‘bout that. I was just kinda thinking about how pretty you are. How cool you are, that’s what I meant.” He then added, “Maybe I should just shut up.”
Uzi looked ahead and smiled just a bit but feigned irritation, “You are kind of making this weird, so yeah, keep quiet for a bit, okay?”
Really, she just needed the silence to ease her overheating core. Their walk was entirely quiet, with the only conversation between them communicated through little glances, tiny uncertain smiles, and their tails curled together. She actually enjoyed the walk, enjoyed the quiet affection between them, even if she tried her best to hide her expression whenever he would look at her. Judging by the fact that he would chuckle now and then, she figured that she was doing a terrible job of hiding her face. Part of that had to do with the fact that he was taller that, and the other part was that she kept on sneaking little looks at N to see how he was doing. Smiling like an idiot. Blush bright on his cheeks. If he looked silly, then she looked just as dumb.
The ruins that she had in mind and their destination in general was an old building that might’ve been a workshop or something else. They entered through a broken doorway and found a relatively clear space. It had been picked clean of most of the metal and important tools that were necessary to maintenance back home. There were a few mattresses strewn about for worker drones that had camped out and hidden out waiting for the day. The location was close enough to home that most had made it home safely. As soon as she got inside, she kicked her boots off and started to unzip her hoodie. She wanted to take this all the way, wanted to do something that would really punch a note into their relationship so she couldn’t deny what she wanted. It sounded so dumb, but she wasn’t even able to say the words, let alone acknowledge that maybe she really did care for him.
“W-whoa, what are you doing?” N said as she turned toward him.
She blinked and kept on unzipping her jacket until her chest was exposed, core and breasts on display as she tilted her head and said, “Well, how else are we gonna do this?”
“I thought we were just going to kiss some more.” He said while rubbing the back of his head.
Uzi shrugged and kept on moving her hand until she reached the bottom of her jacket, letting the material part to reveal that she was wearing nothing underneath except for her leggings that barely covered anything at all themselves. As she bared herself to him, she said with a small smile, “So you’re not into the idea of doing more than just kissing?”
His eyes were wide and pointed in other directions, and she found herself actually chuckling. It wasn’t so much that she was making fun of him, rather; it was kind of nice to have that effect on someone. Usually, people saw her as a freak. Even V saw her as a freak, even though their relationship was getting better bit by bit she supposed. She did feel embarrassed by baring herself in such a way to him, but she also felt oddly confident. She could bring out such expressions in him, such obvious hints of desire and passion. It made her feel like she was floating and separated from all the troubles back home, and everything else. Uzi found that there was maybe nothing that could bring her down.
N clenched his digits and gave her an answer, “I can’t really hide that I’m excited. Of course, I’m excited but uh, I guess I don’t know. What if I do something stupid? I’m always doing stupid things.”
Her shoulders sunk a bit, and her expression softened. Uzi’s confidence hadn’t faded, but she recognized that he wasn’t confident. She recognized that he was reliving every little failure right now. All of his wrong decisions coming back to haunt him, and he was probably afraid that he’d do something to ruin her. Any little move might cause a landslide. It wasn’t as if she didn’t feel the same about her own life in some ways, but she had pressed on by herself advocating for herself while N just accepted punishment time and time again. She wandered toward him and took his hand gently, giving him a soft smile as he looked down into her eyes.
Uzi leaned up and planted a kiss on the side of his mouth before sighing, “I guess you’ve already done something stupid. Thinking that you’ll hurt me, that you’ll make some sort of big mistake. You could probably just hold me until the morning, and then until the next night, and I’d be perfectly happy. You’re more reliable than you’ll ever know, so just do what you wanna do and if you make a mistake, I’ll pinch your cheek and correct you. Okay?”
He took both of her hands to bring them to his cheeks while he leaned down to press his forehead to hers. As his mouth neared her own, he muttered quietly, “Thank, Uzi.”
Their lips locked together, their warmth melding as sparks ran between them. The kiss started as a gentle peck, a loving and little thing that made her think that she’d need to pull him in for a proper one before he suddenly dipped closer. Another peck, and then another, and then another until they were locked together in an embrace of mouth to mouth while his hands moved to her shoulders, while his digits then trailed around to her back. She wanted to tell him to stop being so nervous, but it looked like he was doing just fine now. Her own confidence remained at her side even more so considering she had N’s touch to keep her calm. It just felt right.
The longer the kiss lasted, the more he pushed, the more his strength began to show. Even with all of the strangeness that had happened with her body, she was still surprised with how strong N could be, and she wasn’t really sure why he was choosing this moment to show off. Regardless, she kept on backing up as he pressed forward, his tongue dipping into her mouth as one of his hands moved to her chest and the other to her waist. She shivered and her confidence began to falter, a glitch passing through her mind until she suddenly found herself falling. N made sure to ease her down rather than letting her hurt herself, and she found that she was sitting on one of the mattresses that had been strewn about. She looked from left to right and then up at him to see a new expression she hadn’t seen from him.
His eyes were half-lidded but glowing more intensely than she had expected, droplets of sweat sliding over the display while a clear blush glowed at his cheeks. It was his mouth that caught her attention the most, however. He was panting, and she could clearly see the fangs that he had only bared as a murder drone. Fangs that were glinting beneath the glow of their eyes and cores. Before she could ask how he was feeling, he began shrugging out of his coat and she was now subjected to the same embarrassment that he had suffered. Uzi almost told him to give her a warning but his expression seemed so intense that she just couldn’t say a word. Off came his coat, and there it was. His arousal twitching and firm in the air. Perhaps they copied humans too closely, and she wasn’t really sure if she could handle his size but in a way, that uncertainty was exciting. It was a simple sort of uncertainty that didn’t have much weight to it, unlike so many other things.
Curiosity brought her hand forward to see if she could touch his member, to feel over it to get to know what she had caused, but N moved too quickly for her. His hands were suddenly at her thighs, his knees on the floor as he spread her legs wide apart, causing her to fall back and squeak. She thought of telling him to take it easy, but found herself in absolute awe as she stared at his starved expression. His claws had come out to cling onto her outer thighs, and his fangs were still glinting in the glow. Did he want to bite her? Did he want to claim her? Whatever he wanted, she would allow it because it was him, because she loved him.
It was as if he could hear her thoughts, as if the thing she admitted that she could barely believe herself had registered in his mind to activate him. He bit down on her inner thigh, causing her to shake. The material was softer there and easily pressed down against his touch, her body trembling while she tried to wrest some sort of control of her sparking emotions. She felt like she had needed to direct what was going to happen despite her inexperience, but it seemed like N was running off pure instinct and doing perfectly well. That loss of control made her feel frightened, and yet, not in a bad way. It made her feel as if she were entirely in the palm of his hand, a collar on her neck marking her as his property, and that feeling grew as he bit down just a bit harder before running his tongue up her thigh. She shivered while her tail wrapped idly around his neck, while her legs began to spread a bit more on their own to give him room to move. His tongue moved up her thigh and around to the crotch, the heat surrounding them turning the air to a fine steam as her breaths came out in puffs of mist and her body began to sweat in genuine. Uzi didn’t have time to question why she had been created like this, and why they had adapted their shells to be closer to humans than before. She just knew that everything felt so good, felt so right; even the motes of pain from his fangs pressing harder and harder whenever he bit down onto her thighs before getting his tongue back to her crotch.
Down his tongue went, and then a bit lower until he hit her sensitive slit. She winced and trembled, her legs coming up and her knees locking together, and at that point she heard his voice asking softly, “You okay?”
She kept one eye open and looked down to see him looking up at her with a small smile. Back to the goofy expression she was used to. Slowly, she nodded and answered quietly, Yeah. Peachy. Keep going.”
His tongue started to move again, but not before he planted a kiss on the spot he had been tending to. She thought of asking him if he had experience, but she kind of didn’t want to know right now. Uzi just wanted to enjoy him no matter what. Wanted to enjoy what he was giving her and her alone. There was no need for jealousy, no need for worries. All she had to do was relax her body and accept all of him. His tongue dipped in deep and that relaxation cracked while she was introduced to a whole slew of new sensations. That long thing dipped deep inside, twisting about against her inner walls before coming out to rub along a sensitive spot and up her crotch, causing her to kick and gasp.
Again she heard him begin to ask if she was okay and she squeaked, “Peachy! Don’t fucking stop.”
His tongue moved back into position, her hands drifting down to slap aside his hat so she could grab onto his hair and cling while he dug his tongue inside. Her legs moved over his shoulders, and his claws at her outer thighs began to move up and down causing her to shiver and wonder if they would leave marks. She could repair whatever damage he did to her but… But maybe it would be nice to have a reminder of this joyous occasion. Something suddenly happened to her that caught her off guard. Her insides began to tighten, a strange kind of pressure began to build in her abdomen while she clenched her legs around N’s head while holding him down against her crotch. One of her eyes shut tight while the other opened wide, sparks flying off of her as she whined aloud and suddenly felt everything grow so much more fucking intense in one single moment before it all died down.
She laid back with a gasp while letting go of his head, her legs loosening their grip. N brought his hand onto the edge of the mattress to push himself up to ask, “A-are you okay? You kinda glitched out there? And uh, your eyes are swirling.”
“Are they?” She slurred while rubbing her forehead. Uzi’s felt dizzy in the best way possible, so maybe her eyes were swirling because of that. In the end, she decided to tell N, “I’m more than okay. That was pretty great.” And as her vision cleared up, she asked quietly, “Should I help you out next?”
N brought himself up on the mattress as well between her legs, his claws on her hips and thighs while his shaft was slapped onto her crotch causing her to shiver as he chuckled, “Well, I mean that’d be nice but I kind wanna do this now instead. I wanna let you know how beautiful you are. I couldn’t stop myself from biting you. Couldn’t stop myself from grabbing you. I know you’re dealing with a lot of image issues, but to me, you’re perfect.”
Uzi’s cheeks began to burn again and her wings came out to try and cover herself, but N brought out his wings to counteract her plan. His sharpened feathers pressed down against the bat-like wings at her back, keeping them open and pinned, and bringing them into a cocoon of sorts made of their combined wings. Their tails curled together as she accepted her entrapment, and one of his claws moved to her cheek to brush along it gently, and she pressed her cheek against it to feel him digging in just a bit.
When he tried to pull away, she said quietly, “You’re amazing N. Murder drone, goofball, captain; whatever and whoever you are. Go wild for me. Make sure I remember this for as long as I continue to function.”
“Yes ma’am!” He said with a big grin as he pulled back to bring the tip of his shaft against the right spot. At the same time, he added nervously, “But I mean, shouldn’t we take it easy? I don’t wanna hurt you.”
Uzi took hold of his shaft with twitching and unsteady digits. It was the first time she had felt this pulsing, felt this sort of thing against her touch. She further guided him against the right spot and began to move her hips in order to get him inside, the tip pushing through the shallows while he opened his mouth, only to utter a long groan as his eyes flickered in and out of existence. She only stopped when she felt that the tip of his member was secured inside of the shallows of her pussy. There was still so much embarrassment fresh inside of her head but that was nothing compared to the buzzing of sensations she felt crackling out from her lower body. Splintering tingles that crawled over her legs and up to her chest where she felt her core burning more than even before. N himself seemed to have overheated as he just leaned over her with his claws at her hips. A steady bit of sweat was dripping from his brow, hair damp from their combined action already. Maybe the heat was a bit too much for him with their wings held together like this.
“H-hey, N. You okay there? We could take it easy if you’re—”
Her words were cut off by her own grunt as she gnashed her fangs together in reaction to the sudden intrusion of his shaft pressing deep inside of her. N began to apologize rapidly while his hips began to move just as fast, burying his member further and further into her with each push. Overly excitable, overly eager for some sort of affection and love. He could have taken his time but instead, instead he had decided to go wild just as she had suggested. Did she regret it? Of course, and yet, she was coming to love it bit by bit. His thrusts were thunder crackling out inside of her, sending soreness through every part of her body, but that soreness calmed after a while and was overtaken by a rumbling of pleasure that was sending sparks along those odd fractals cracking against her very being. She was going to try her very best to not let N know just how good this felt after this. She couldn’t let him know that she would want him like this every single second of their waking hours. It was frightening. Frightening to think how easily she could change with all of this passion pushing through her.
Fear and delight. Utter joy and terror in equal measure. She was afraid that she might lose him at any moment and never be able to experience this again, frightened of the constant pushing inside of her, driving her more insane by the moment, and in utter joy of all of it. She was being given all of this desire, all of this passion, and it belonged to her and no one else in this moment. Had V experienced this at one point? Did she know that she could have it so freely? Hah! What did that matter? It didn’t; it didn’t because she was experiencing it right now, she was living in this moment cloistered around his wings while their tails tangled together and his claws dug into her hips, leaving dull marks that she wouldn’t repair for a long time. Perhaps she’d even get a tattoo. Some sort of permanent representation of this evening to say what she struggled to even utter with her words at this very moment. I love you N.
“W-what was that?” N said through the heat of their moment.
Her hands clapped hard onto her mouth as she realized that she had said something besides stupid moans and squeaks. Had she uttered those words aloud? When he clasped her wrists and pulled her hands to the side, she whined and shook her head, “No! I didn’t say anything, so shut up and keep moving your hips.”
His pace slowed, his body jerking forward before he pulled out steadily. He repeated the motion again and again causing her to wince with every push as he said quietly, “I love you too, whether you can say it or not.”
“Nooo.” She whined and tried to face away from him.
N countered this by biting down on her shoulder, causing her to tremble as the pace picked up again. The bite was harder than she was expecting, her sensitive shell easily bending against the sharpness of his fangs. That mouth of his was meant to rip and render her kind into nothing but scrap, but she found herself hopelessly attracted to those bites, hopelessly in love with the claws around her wrists keeping from hiding her mouth. Now that she had said something so disgustingly saccharine aloud, she couldn’t help but notice that her noises were pouring out and perhaps had been the entire time. Her moans were a constant, her held in whimpers and whines happening at the same time. She tried to get a better look at N to hear if he was making any embarrassing noises, but his mouth firmly pressed onto her shoulder made that rather difficult. No, he was just enjoying her embarrassing noises.
Finally she had to huff, “No fair! You-” And she squeaked as he thrust in with a sudden firmness, “You get to listen to my stupid noises, so let me hear your stupid noises!”
He chuckled. He actually chuckled! N pulled his mouth off of her shoulder and breathed out, “Sorry, I just got kinda lost in all that. Should I just keep on saying I love you while doing this?”
“Wait, no, that’s not what I meant.”
Before she could stage any further complaints, he planted a peck on her neck and whispered, “I love you.”
Noooo. The worst thing imaginable happened as he continued his constant grinding. Her mind was driven into fog and delight as she felt that pressure building in her abdomen again, but what was truly making her feel so foggy were his kisses. Soft and gentle on her neck and shoulder, and each one punctuated with those sappy annoying words that were playing on repeat in her memory creating an echo. Even in silence she couldn’t get rid of the sound of his voice, and it was only when she felt his first climax did everything shatter all at once in the grandest way.
Something warm. Something thick and heated planted itself far inside of her shooting out from his shaft. Her eyes grew wide, but the colors were frizzing and vibrating in odd ways as she was filled to the brim. At the same time, N remained hunched over her while cursing in his very special way. Rather than a fuck, or a hushed damn; he had chosen instead to utter the word biscuits. She would have laughed if she wasn’t in absolute bliss right now as he filled her bit by bit.
Drool dripped onto her cheek from his mouth, and temptation urged her to rise to plant her lips on his, to quietly beg for a kiss. It didn’t take long for N to join in on that affection, for him to dip his tongue inside of her mouth to let them connect in another manner while he remained locked inside of her. When their kiss separated, he had finally finished blitzing her insides. She laid back under the cover of his wings while one of her eyes blinked out of existence, and the other one remained half-open.
When he pulled out and let his shaft rest on her crotch, she couldn’t help but notice that he seemed entirely hard still. Quietly she murmured, “You’re seriously still raring to go?”
N hummed, “I think so. I’m a little tuckered out, but more like as if I did some light exercise.”
Uzi chuckled, “Ugh, you’re too amazing. I’m actually about to pass out.”
“Oh no. Do you need me to take you back home?” He asked with a genuine note of worry as he placed a hand on her cheek.
She leaned against his touch and breathed out, “Nah but, how about one more time? And maybe take it a little easier this time?” At the risk of sounding needy, she also added, “And maybe pick me up?”
Their wings retracted and retreated, and N gave her an answer by standing up while taking her hand to help her up. She wobbled and stumbled as every sore spot in her body began to tell her just what an idiot she was, but she couldn’t help but love that soreness because it had been given to her by this fool holding onto her hand while smiling like an absolute idiot. The glow of his core and eyes. The delightful touch of his hand on hers. Everything about this was too perfect. Well, maybe her room would have been a better place for it, but whatever.
N took her to the wall and picked her up with her back against it and he asked quietly, “Like this, or wanna face away?”
She looked at him and couldn’t help but mutter, “I don’t think I ever wanna look away.” Uzi then winced and averted her eyes, “I mean, I think it’d be more comfortable like this, anyway.”
Uzi tried not to groan as she saw him grinning from ear to ear. He shoved his face against her neck to nuzzle against her while his hands on her hips began to bring her into position. He was muttering something gushy and stupid against her neck, but every word she caught made her shiver more and more until she was brought back into the fog of delight with just his love pouring over her. She barely noticed his cock when it touched her, barely noticed him dipping into her shallows, but she did notice it very much when he thrust inside. She shivered and managed to hold her voice inside as he kept on kissing her neck, and wasn’t able to hold back as he started to rock back and forth. The pressure from before had subsided but was still fresh in her memory meaning she was closer to that lovely climax than she would have liked to be.
At first, she could ignore it while N thrust into her, while he held her in his arms, but the pressure began to build anew. Her insides tightened, her body growing hot to the touch as his digits pressed against her back. Uzi draped her arms around his shoulders to cling closer, to try and calm herself while he kept up the pace. Excitable idiot. He didn’t even remember that she had asked for it a bit softer this time. His eyes were shut and strained, his body shaking and a big smile on his face as he just kept on dipping in. How many people returned his hugs? How many actually gave him the love that he put out? He was so full of warmth and ready to give it to anyone that came around.
Quietly, she planted a kiss above his mouth and whispered, “I like you, N. Never stop being you.”
He blinked and looked at her. His pace slowed while he leaned in to plant a kiss on her cheek before his mouth moved over hers. Their lips locked together, their body’s pressed as close as possible while her legs clung onto him and her arms tightened around his shoulders and neck. His movements had slowed just enough to make sure that she wouldn’t be hitting her climax too soon, but she was still uttering little sighs while their kiss kept her voice muffled.
Just as she was getting lost in it again, he pulled his lips and asked quietly, “Can you say it, Uzi? Please?”
She found herself flustered beyond belief, her eyes trying to to peer away but no matter where she looked she could see his little smile and his begging expression somewhere in the range of her vision. He started to pick up the pace a little bit, his hips sending her bouncing while she tried her best to keep her mouth shut. Ugh, it was so hard to deny him, so hard when he looked at her like that. She felt bad for him, felt awful for the fact that no one would ever say it to him because no one he loved was well adjusted enough, no one he loved even could think about saying it to him.
Uzi wanted to be better than that for him, wanted to be better for herself as well, and so she breathed out quietly, “I love you.”
He pulled out of her and grabbed her by the waist to suddenly spin her around causing her to yelp before she was brought back into position. She was about to ask him what the fuck he thought he was doing before he slipped back inside of her shutting her up, and before he practically purred, “Awww, Uzi!”
N just kept gushing like that over and over again while humping her, while pushing deep inside of her. She thought about slapping his chest or something to get him to stop acting like an idiot and embarrassing her, but instead she planted her cheek on his shoulder and closed her eyes while she listened to his happy sighs. The most beautiful sound she had ever heard in her stupid life. What made it harder for her to talk as well, was the mounting pressure inside of her reminding her that there was something exciting waiting for her. That pressure built as he kept on thrusting, as he kept on pushing while holding her as close to his body as possible. His embrace was tight, almost a bit too tight but it still allowed enough room for him to start going wild. A soft and loving lay had been quite the demanding thing and she supposed she should have been glad that he had started gently. In a way, his excitable thrusting made her feel a bit proud. She was the one eliciting this sort of response, this sort of excitement out of him. It didn’t hurt either, that she was loving every second of his shaft grinding against her inner walls.
A few more thrusts and she found her insides tightening further, she found her entire body clenching. She drew her legs in and whined, her eyes shut and her digits twitching as her climax struck her, and just as she hit that moment, N let out a loud groan and began to fill her. Climax and liquid heat building inside of her. A lovely gush of warmth that made her feel as if her shell were getting a bit fatter, and he didn’t stop thrusting either. When finally he did, when it was all over, her arms and legs went a bit limp and she was only held up thanks to his strength and the wall behind her.
She was left panting, her body dripping with sweat, a bit of drool, and even N’s sweat dripping onto her. Everything felt wet and strange; warm and delightful in all the worst and best ways all at once. She was too tired to say anything, too tired to push N away and tell him to stop gushing so much as he rubbed his face against her neck and began yapping about something. She didn’t have the heart to tell him that she couldn’t understand what he was saying right now.
At some point, N seemed to notice that she was exhausted. He pulled out and adjusted to hold her gingerly in his arms while he muttered in a manner she could understand, “Uzi, wanna stay with me for the morning? You know, just us two up here?”
She nodded and shut her eyes. When she opened them, N had taken her to the ceiling to hang upside down from one of the rafters by the tail. His wings were curled around hers and her own tail had twisted around his as if she were helping him anchor them. Hanging upside down like this felt weird, but she found herself drifting to sleep bit by bit as she was shrouded by the darkness of his wings, as the only light she could see was the glow of his eyes watching her, and his core at his chest blinking.
Quietly and tiredly, she managed to mutter before falling asleep, “Love you. Big dumb idiot.”
“Love you too, biscuit.”
She was out like a light before she had a chance to argue the nickname. It wasn’t until much later that she awoke. N still held her, but she was suddenly very aware of everything. Scratches at her thighs and various other parts of her body. Marks on her neck that might have been dripping. When she realized what she had done and what she had said, she almost panicked, but she remembered that she was in N’s arms and under the protection of his wings and found herself simply sighing instead.
N’s eyes blinked into existence and he yawned, “Oh, hey Uzi. I think the sun went down about an hour ago.”
She gawked, “An hour ago?!”
His wings parted, and he fell from the ceiling with her in his arms before righting himself to land on the floor with a grunt, “Yup! Didn’t want to wake you.”
Uzi groaned and got out of his arms, “Ugh we’ve been gone for way too long. We’ve got to get back before—”
She wobbled a bit and fell to her knees, N rushing to her side with his hands held around her in a protective manner while he asked quickly, “Oh geez, did I hurt you too much? You’ve got so many scratches and who knows what type of internal damage I managed to inflict on you.”
Her hand moved to plant itself on his mouth, to keep him quiet for a bit while she sighed, “No, N. I’m fine. Just kind of sore.”
When she pulled her hand away, he breathed out, “Well, that’s good I guess. Anyway, I can carry you back if that’s okay with you?”
Of course she had to accept, but she didn’t mind it necessarily. They both got dressed before she climbed onto his back and they started off back home. Neither of them talked about what happened, and maybe nothing needed to be said. Except, she wanted to say that she’d love to do that again sometime. She wasn’t sure how to express that right now, so instead she remained quiet and showed how she felt through her actions. She planted her cheek atop of his head after taking his hat to put it atop of her head even though she was wearing a beanie already. She was sure N would probably be smiling, but didn’t look as she instead let herself take it easy for the rest of the trip.
At the massive door to the bunker, V was standing there with her arms crossed clearing her throat. As she did this, Uzi brought her head up and slapped N’s hat back on his head, “Oh! Hey uh, V. Funny seeing you out here.”
“You two were gone for an entire day and night, where were you two?” V asked with eyes narrowed.
N supplied, “Oh! We were out looking at these ruins. Pretty old and empty, and uh, we got sidetracked so we slept together.” She slapped her own face as he added loudly, “Slept together in the same building because the sun was coming up!”
For a second, V’s eyes seemed to make a strange look. A twisted expression before she returned to her usual smirk and scowl while looking away, “Right, anyway. You two better get back in there and tell your little friends, and Uzi’s dad that everything’s fine or whatever. I’ll uh, be at Lizzie’s.”
For a moment, N seemed at a loss for words as he just looked away, but Uzi hopped off of N’s back and wobbled a bit before she managed to say, “Hey! If you’ve got something to say then, well, maybe you shouldn’t hide it. Y’know, uh, I know that you’ll talk to Lizzie and stuff but I think you’re pretty cool too.”
V looked at her and actually smiled just a bit before she sighed, “You’re so gross.” She then started to saunter off while raising a hand in the air, “But I’ll take you up on that offer as long as you don’t mind me chewing your metaphorical ear.”
“Yeah, whatever! You’re gross too, but yeah. I don’t mind.” She said while watching V disappear behind the door of the bunker.
After a bit of silence, N wrapped his arms around her from behind and muttered, “Thanks Uzi.”
She reached up and touched his arms while closing her eyes. She wasn’t sure what she could do for V and part of her didn’t even give a damn, but N cared, and V was something strange just the same as her. Maybe it wouldn’t hurt to be a bit nicer, maybe it wouldn’t hurt to take a few lessons from the golden boy clinging onto her. She just wasn’t sure if she could be that nice, or if she could really keep her temper in check. For now, she pulled away from his touch and grabbed his hand to drag him into the bunker. There was work to do, and also she had to give her dad an excuse that wouldn’t make him extremely suspicious.