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Chapter 83:
We'll Meet Again

AshLey stood at the gate, watching fresh snow fall on «Teacher»’s home and garden. Beautiful red rose-like flowers frosted with fresh flakes. They stood there for a long moment, fingers curling around and rubbing against the cast iron bars of the gate. This was it. The last stop on their goodbye tour.

The wind blew cold against them. The gust pushed their hair out of their face, flakes of snow clinging to their mushroom. But Owner's lingering warmth and Tsundra's flannel kept them warm.

They recognized the wind for exactly what it was: the winds of change.

And they are a-blowing.

Ash nodded to Ley, externally steadying herself.

“Are you ready, my «omega»s?” Owner asked.

After another pause, Ash nodded. She was glad that Owner was with her now. Saying goodbye to Becky had been hard. It was even harder with Mila. But saying goodbye to Tsundra? The thought alone made Ash's heart race in her chest.

She feared that this was the farewell that she couldn't weather.

We will. Especially with Owner here.

“Yeah,” Ash nodded, answering both her Owner and her sister.

“Then after you, loves,” Owner gestured forward, her loving smile radiating through their entire spine.

The snow crunched on the cobbles under AshLey's feet as they crossed the garden. They'd be back one day. When it was warmer. And when they did come back, they'd sniff the flowers and roll in the grass with Tsundra. They were sure of it.

Owner waited for their ascent to reach high above them to ring the bell.

«Teacher» answered the door almost immediately.

I'm sure she was expecting us.

“Hey, «omega»,” she smiled down at Ash as softly as Ash had ever seen. “Kit.”

Ley dipped her side of their head in greeting, but slid back a bit. If Ley had got her moment with Becky, she wanted to make damn sure Ash got hers with Tsundra. She knew better than anyone how Ash felt about their favorite furry friend.

“Well?” «Teacher» huffed, putting on a practiced smirk that Ash felt in her bones was just a front. “You gonna come in?”

Ash's lip quivered as she looked up at her «Teacher». Tears welled in her eyes as she stared up at the Affini who might have been hers.

“C'mon, pup,” she looked down at Ash, blues and purples swirling in her golden eyes. “Heel.”

Ash leapt forward in what would have been the start of a sprint if it had taken more than two steps for her to collapse around «Teacher»'s thorny shin. She wrapped her arms around the digitigrade bramble, letting the rose thorns dig into the skin of her palms and her cheek, and her chest where it showed through their dress and the open flannel, and squeezed as hard as she could.

As if her thorns might dig in hard enough to keep them from having to go.

They felt the oft-beating drums of «Teacher»’s song soften into pawpads pounding on pavement. She knelt down, keeping the leg Ash had wrapped around firmly planted, then dragged the girl up her leg and into her chest. Her arms wrapped around AshLey as tightly as Owner’s ever had, the thorns on her forelimbs and breast digging in through their clothes deeper than Ash could have ever impaled them.

It wasn’t like «Teacher» to hug them, and that fact in itself gave Ash a fright. But any concern Ash had melted away under «Teacher»’s voice seeping into her ears like the sweetest poison. “«Good bitch».”

The tears began to well again at the praise. Ash didn’t want to lose this. She didn’t want to lose «Teacher». She wanted to stay and learn Xenrani and play with her and Tsundra and be a «good bitch» for them and «Alpha».

A wet, gasping breath shuddered through Ash’s chest. «Teacher»’s soothing came instantly. She craned her massive Xenrid head down. Her wide, flat tongue pushed out from between the thorns of her muzzle. And then, «Teacher» started licking her.

Long, slow strokes lapped across the top of Ash’s head, from her forehead to the round of her skull. Such tender caresses wet Ash’s scalp, streaking her hair and the fur of her ears with «Teacher»’s astringent, rose-tinged liquor. When she finished licking them several times, she merely rested the tip of her muzzle on AshLey’s head, between their ears, and held them.

Ash felt her song even more clearly. More clearly than she ever had, and much more slowly.

THUMP

THUMP

THUMP

THUMP

Ash’s eyes unfocused, staring into the middle distance as «Teacher» leaned her back under Her gaze. The voice rattled free from Ash’s throat before the realization formed in her head, words falling softly from her lips.

“I don’t want to go.”

«Teacher» pulled Ash back to her chest, the whirling of her core filling Ash more than ever before. Owner was upon them both in an instant, wrapping her arms around «Teacher»’s back. «Teacher» wrapped her paws around Owner and together, they cradled Ash and Ley between them.

They were sandwiched between two cores, held between two heavenly bodies, the essence of two affini separated from each other only by the buffer of their own body and the thin layers of thorny vines at their front and mycelial flesh at their back. The songs wove together in their ears; it wasn’t like two songs playing in different earbuds, no, it was a left channel and right channel and each made the song sweeter.

I know you don’t. But we have to.

But--

Ash. I'm… I'm so tired of being afraid all the time. And I know you are, too.

It's fine! Ash tried to argue. I can be fine. We can be okay.

Ley sighed in their mind, and Ash could feel her weary smile.

It’s like… You remember that cat Dad kept in the barn? No matter how many times we tried to bring it into the house, it never became a house cat. Because all that cat knew how to do was survive. It didn't know how to be loved.

We know we're safe here, but that hasn't fixed Mom and Dad fucking us up so bad we don't know how to BE safe. We're hardwired to want to run away and it’s got us all fucked up.

Ash didn’t realize she was crying until her breath hitched and something warm slid down the bridge of her nose.

Her hands were still buried in thorns and vine and mycelium, fingers numb from clinging too tight for too long. Owner’s warmth pressed steady against her back. «Teacher»’s core thrummed slow and deep against her chest.

She was safe. She would always be safe. Mommy would keep her safe. And deep down, through «Teacher»'s song, Ash knew She would keep her safe, too.

All we have to do is be brave enough to throw ourselves off the edge and know they'll catch us.

Ash's head slumped forward into «Teacher»'s thorns, her song even louder for being so close. Just like Owner's was for her core pressing against Her scar on their back.

Ash took a deep breath and sighed, replying to her internal sister aloud. “Okay.”

Ash was in Their songs now. All she had to do was play her part. Let them carry her on their tunes to the big finale. Get to the end of the show. Then, when the curtain fell after the final number, she could rest.

«Teacher» shifted her grip, leaning Ash further into Owner and looking into her eyes. She nodded, as if she had read Ash's mind as easily as Owner could and felt Ash's acceptance before she felt it herself.

Ash nodded, and «Teacher» knew it was okay to take a step back. Owner's hands cradled Ash and Ley as soon as there was space to get her hands around them. Owner hugged them to her chest, kissing their head, before setting them back on the floor.

Ash swallowed and took another steadying breath. She craned her head up to look at her towering teacher. “Does Tsundra know?”

“No.”

Ash drew a breath. She blinked. How could she tell them?

«Teacher» shook her head. “Figured you wanna break that news yourself.”

“Yeah,” Ash's head bobbed in a few short nods. “I do.” She looked down the hall toward the den. “She here?”

“She will be before long,” a grin spread across «Teacher»'s muzzle. “My pup always comes running when it comes to you, «omega».”

Ash couldn't help but smile.

“You can wait for her in the den, if you want,” she added.

The anticipatory fear tugged at Ash's chest as she looked down the hall. “Can you stay with me?” she looked between the Affini.

“Always,” Owner and Teacher told her at the same time.

Think they planned that?

I think they both just love us a lot.

AshLey smiled, leading the way into the den and making a bee line for the low, oblong pad across from the Affini-sized couch. She sank into the soft fabric, running her fingers across it and feeling the chocolatey-brown webbing under her fingertips.

They took a deep breath, soaking in «Teacher»'s musky tobacco and roses, Owner's cloves, sweat, and smokey musk, and the lingering stench of Tsundra on the furniture.

It wasn't long before the hab's front door opened and Tsundra called out for her «Alpha» in her usual petulant way.

Ash stood, edging her way toward the den's door.

Tsundra stopped in her tracks as soon as she walked in. All three of her eyes went wide, bouncing between the Affini behind Ash before settling on her. Narrowed and…  not untrusting, but fearful.

“What, are you breaking up with me or something?”

“No!” Ash yelped, running to close the gap between them. “No, I just…” Ash reached up with a shaky hand and took hold of Tsundra's paw. “I need to talk to you.”

“Okaaaay…” they eyed Ash warily. But still, they let the human guide them over to the seating pad.

Ash sat first, guiding Tsundra down beside her, angled to look at one another.

“Are you sure you're not breaking up with me?” they questioned, paw holding Ash's hand tight. “It’s uhh… Been about as long as it usually lasts.”

I mean… we’re not NOT breaking up with her?

SHUT! UP!

“No, but…” Ash shook her head.

She took a deep breath and got a big lungful of Tsundra's wet dog musk, her sweet, tantalizing honey, her rich, tempting cardamom, and hints of «Teacher»'s flowers. It wrenched her heart, unable to compel her to comfort her girlfriend more than she already wanted to.

“I… I need to go away for a while,” she told Tsundra.

“What?!” their brows furrowed. Their attention pivoted from Ash to one affini and then the other, and back to Ash. “Can I go with you?”

In her periphery, Ash saw «Teacher» lower her snout and raise her brow in Owner's direction, as if asking her. It almost made Ash want to laugh, the thought of Tsundra as a big puppy right alongside her. But no, she couldn't ask that.

“No, Tsundra, I…” Ash tried to take another breath to calm down. When that didn't work, she scooted closer, pulling herself by Tsundra's firm grip and leaned against her. The next breath, one from deep in Tsundra's fur, helped.

“Tsundra I've been through… a lot of bad stuff. I don't even know where to start. I…” Ash's breath hitched. “I love you and I don't want to go, but I… I can't be happy the way I am.”

Ash squeezed her girlfriend's paw tight, then, deciding that wasn't enough, hugged their side. “My «Alpha» is gonna set me back to square one. So I can grow up all over again without any of this… this bullshit that makes me scared to death of fucking everything up all the time.”

“Shit, pup.” Tsundra didn't hesitate to wrap their arms around Ash and pull her into their lap. They surrounded Ash in their soft, musky, warmth and enveloped her near-completely against their chest.

“I-- I'm sorry,” Ash shrank into the safety of her girlfriend.

“Hey, hey. You don't do a frosting thing wrong, pup. You hear me?”

Ash sniffled and nodded, the back of her head brushing through Tsundra's fur.

“Good.” She gave Ash another squeeze, so hard this time her claws poked through the flannel. “We're pack. You're my «bitch». And I'll be Gods-damned to the Forge itself before I stand in the way of you being happy.”

“Thank you…” Ash mumbled quietly, hugging one of Tsundra's arms tight.

Their other arm gripped her thigh. “Only two things in the universe could keep me away from you, and I'm pretty sure they both want us together,” they nodded up to both their owners on the couch.

Both Owner and «Teacher» watched intently, silently observing with golden and blue-streaked eyes.

“So how long until youre…”

“Um… Tomorrow. That’s when I'm… Yeah.”

“Shit,” Tsundra cursed under their breath. “Okay. Okay, so we got all day together before you… forget, yeah?”

Ash nodded again, another deep breath full of Tsundra's heat calming her. And something more.

They lofted Ash into the air and spun her around, letting her land back in their lap, straddling them and falling against the bulge in their neon-green-and-black shorts. “So how can I make my «good bitch» happy until… it’s time…?”

“I-aur-ummm,” Ash's breath quickened as she squirmed, fronts of her thighs rubbing Tsundra's hips while their claws dug into the backs.

“Yeah?” Tsundra grinned down at her, dragging a paw higher and higher. Under the flannel they’d given Ash, under her dress, until they were cupping Ash and Ley's butt.

The air shuddered from Ash’s lungs, her hands finding themselves pressing against Tsundra’s chest, fingers weaved through her fur. “Tsundra…”

Tsundra leaned down even further, her hot breath smelling like a mix between raw meat and cheap booze as it blew against Ash’s face. “Yeah?”

“I…” Ash gulped, staring up into two of her girlfriend’s eyes. “I want to…” Ash paused, heart racing. Stars, she loved this xenra. “I wanna go out with a bang.”

“Oh, yeah, pup,” Tsundra’s entire body rose with a full breath that rumbled out in a deep, hungry growl. “I can help with that.”

Ash shivered in Tsundra's lap as the xenra leaned down and pressed the tip of her muzzle to Ash's mouth. Ash kissed her and, to Tsundra's credit, she tried to kiss back. Their lips didn't quite work like a human's did, but they did their damndest, paws roaming up and down Ash's thigh and back.

Eventually, they relented and resorted to lapping at Ash's mouth, and Ash wasn't complaining. She was moaning and writhing as she blepped her tongue out to kiss back in a most canine fashion.

Tsundra's claws traced over their back, a distant pressure through the flannel they had given Ash, and up to Ash's ears. Stars, her claws scratched the tender appendages so well.

Ash whimpered as Tsundra leaned away. But when she saw that Tsundra was doing so to strip off her vest, Ash leaned back and pulled off her flannel.

Tsundra's teeth gleamed in the firelight as she took in the harness peaking through Ash's dress. “Thought you was hiding something under there.”

Ash stammered, only to be cut off by Tsundra’s muzzle upon her mouth again. Half-cocked, fangs grazing Ash's lips.

The half-dressed xenra chuckled at Ash's simpering reaction and grabbed her by the rope-vine spanning her back. “Ready to get outta that dress, pup?”

It was all Ash could do to nod. As soon as she did, Tsundra's claws tore down the back of Ash's dress. It didn't matter that they got stuck on the bunched-up elastic, or that Tsundra grumbled in frustration. It didn't need to be florn-flick perfect. It was real and it was raw, and, in that moment, that was exactly what Ash needed.

To feel real.

One last time.

With the dress torn from top to bottom in a jagged line down the back, Tsundra wrapped her paw around Ash's harness and more dragged her out of the tattered remains than she tore the dress from Ash's body. Ash stared up, hands screaming to grip the soft pad beneath her as Tsundra stood and stripped out of her shorts. They plopped back down onto the not-couch, one foot planted on the floor and the other on the pad, knee drawn up and to the side with legs spread wide.

“You know what to do, right?” Tsundra smirked.

Ash looked to Owner for encouragement. Permission maybe. She immediately felt a shot of Approval through her implant from Owner… and «Teacher»?!

Holy shit?! Are they?!?!?

Owner and «Teacher» had moved even closer on the couch at some point, and were practically on top of each other. The bottom of «Teacher»'s muzzle rested atop Owner's head between her leafy faux-xenra ears. Light shone in the gaps between them, a sanguine red mixing with a rosy blue, with both sources bouncing off one another in their tangled vines.

Oh, shit. Get it, Mommy.

“Don't worry about them, «omega»,” Tsundra drew Ash back to awareness. “You just focus right here,” they patted their thigh, directing Ash's attention to their waiting sheath and heavy balls draped on the cushion.

Ash nodded, breath heavy in her chest, and leaned forward to crawl closer. Her chest fluttered with anticipation with every hand and knee closer until she found herself kissing across Tsundra's inner thigh. It was a desperate display full of short, huffed breaths and needy, selfish hums as she snorted Tsundra's musk like some kind of drug.

She paused, mouth mere inches from Tsundra's sheath, and looked up at them. Their entire focus was on her, grinning, waiting, expecting. It sent Ash swooning, smiling dumbly. “Wanna be a «good bitch» for you, Beta.”

Tsundra dragged their claws through Ash's hair, tracing the base of her mushroom and sending a relentless shiver down AshLey's spine. “Always have been, always will be, «omega».”

Ash's shoulders bunched and sent her doubling with a dopey smile. Encouraged and bolstered by her packmate, Ash leaned down, pursed lips finding purchase on Tsundra's sheath.

×=×=×=×

Riker's core rumbled as she watched Tsundra grope and claw and kiss her floret.

Wolffia scooted closer, thorns on her thighs dragging through the ridges between Riker's vines. 《Feels good, doesn't it? Watching the kits get all frisky.》

Riker's core rumbled in her chest. YES!

Wolffia chuckled as if she had heard Riker's core as clearly as she had. She pressed herself into Riker's side, pinning Riker's arm between them. 《They're good for each other.》

《They are,》 Riker managed to agree, barely, as her own fluster and Wolffia’s melancholy flowed through her.

Wolffia took a drag from her cigarette, smoke blowing in front of Riker's face as she watched Ash kiss Tsundra.《Every sophont needs enrichment, Riker.》

Riker nodded absentmindedly, only half-hearing Wolffia. She was too focused on Tsundra removing their vest and Ash shedding their flannel.

《I like you, y'know,》Wolffia's arm snaked behind Riker's back, paw resting on her far hip.

Riker leaned into her, feeling the core of Wolffia's being singing for her through a few layers of vines and her own mycoflesh. 《I like you too, Wolffia.》

《Good.》 Wolffia spoke softly, the scent of smoke and durataxin heavy on her respiration as she leaned in and lapped at Riker's cheek, which was surely glowing red with anthocyanins.

Keeping one eye on Ash and Tsundra, Riker turned her head more toward Wolffia and kissed her muzzle, much like Ash was doing to Tsundra. She'd never kissed anyone beside Ash before and she wanted to make sure she was doing it correctly.

Riker's hackles raised, leafy xenra-shaped ears rising on her head as she watched Tsundra shred Ash's dress like tissue paper.

Amateur got snagged. Cute.

Riker growled, but Wolffia shushed her, helping guide Riker into her lap. The elder affini wasn't drastically larger, but Riker slotted into her lap with ease nonetheless. 《S'okay, youngbloom. The kits are just playing.》

Riker nodded, allowing the vines of her back to loosen for the thorns pressing into her mycoflesh and scraping them with every rumbling chuckle Wolffia made. She shivered, letting her core down below her ribs as she felt Wolffia's front unwind and rewind into her vines.

Everbloom, she'd never done anything so scandalous before! But she was too focused on Ash to focus on the wonderful ecstasy of Wolffia's core mingling with hers.

Ash looked over to her and, her beautiful puppydog pout pleading to know she was doing the right thing. Riker sent a burst of approval through her implant. Her vines tensed, resisting the urge to spasm as she felt Wolffia's approval echo through her at the same time.  

She felt Ash's confidence surge and stared as her floret crawled toward Tsundra's spread legs. She felt Ash's heart flutter, and her absolute joy as she made contact with Tsundra's sheath.

《You should be proud of your «omega», Riker. Everbloom knows I am.》

《I am,》 Riker swallowed the simulacrum saliva pooling in her oral cavity, her paws finding both of Wolffia's paws on her own thighs and belly.

She split her attention between the feeling of Wolffia's vines intertwining with hers and Wolffia's core thrumming and drumming against her own and Ash and Ley. Watching Tsundra laying Ash on her back. Bracing for their mating. At least until Ash sprang up and pitter pattered her way across the den toward her.

“Mommy?” she asked, looking up at Riker no less reverently for her Owner being woven into another Affini. “Can Tsundra use Mommy's knotpocket?”

Riker's core rumbled and she felt Wolffia's do the same against it. Riker was helpless to resist such a request, especially now that she had already broken Ash's knotpocket in. So she leaned down, still towering above her floret, and reached out with a hand, not a paw.

Riker pressed the pad of her finger to Ash's scrotum, letting the girl shiver and buck against her for a moment before commanding the flesh and allowing Ash's genitalia to invert themselves, leaving a vaginal canal in the retreating penile tissue's wake, the scrotum reshaping itself into adorable, partable labia.

She looked into her floret's eyes, smiling at the girl bathed in gold and pink light. “Have fun~”

×=×=×=×

Ash raised her head from Tsundra's lap, panting. She looked up at her girlfriend with hope and was not disappointed by the pleased grin she received.

“«Good bitch»,” Tsundra growled. “«Good omega».”

Ash couldn't help but smile, feeling the string of saliva bridging her lip to Tsundra's cock tug as she said, “Thank you!” She'd done a good job! She'd been a good «omega»!

She whined, pressing into Tsundra's paw as it stroked her ears and in between. Tsundra growled lovingly and petted even harder, melting Ash under their affection.

Tsundra loomed closer, paw trailing down Ash’s back, claws scraping at the back of her neck. Her breath hitched when Tsundra’s claws caught on the harness, then sank as Tsundra sheared through Monophylla’s vine. Then another. Another. Another still, knick after knick slicing Ash’s skin beneath their paws. Ash’s eyes went wide as Tsundra’s other paw pressed on her collarbone, pushing her into the paw at her back, but Tsundra laid her down easy, flat on her back under the half-kneeling giant’s form.

“Don’t want nothing between me and you, not now.” Their sharp, canid nails dragged down Ash’s front now, tearing the ropes asunder and leaving thin, sanguine lines of devotion down Ash’s median.

The remains of the harness were pulled away, dropping to the floor with a soft clatter. Ash’s heart fluttered, breath shuddered. “Ho-kay,” her voice cracked.

Tsundra climbed over them, their massive height only more impressive from looking up at them instead of feeling them hover over her back as they had last time their girlfriend had taken them. Had made her theirs.

Bred us.

“Hhhh.” Ash groaned from the memory alone.

Then, she got very quiet as Tsundra lowered themself, heat radiating down into Ash like a warm blanket. Her muscles twitched in anticipation, that delicious ancient animal instinct to run from a predator, but she arrested them into squirming, stimming wiggles of excitement.

Tsundra bore some teeth, then pressed them to Ash's collarbone. “Ready?”

Ash had to ask herself the same question as she lay there under her girlfriend's furry frame, their impressive size hanging above her, their heavy cock and balls resting on Ash's puny puppyparts.

Ash's heart skipped, parts twitching against Tsundra's. Her shoulders bunched, putting her hands on her predatory partner and pushing her partway back. “One sec!”

Tsundra tilted their head in confusion and Ash slid down the furniture, out from under them, and trotted across the den to Owner and «Teacher».

She paused for a moment, taking in the makeshift amalgam of two of the most important Affini in her life. The beautiful weaving of Owner's vines and «Teacher»'s, the thorns piercing Owner's false flesh from the inside out, «Teacher» resting her chin on Owner's head like an innocent hug.

“Mommy?” Ash asked, looking into her Owner and «Alpha» and Mommy's eyes. She paused for a breath, then another before collecting herself. “Can, um, can Tsundra use Mommy's knotpocket?”

Ash felt «Alpha» rumble. It came not through her implant, but through Ash's entire body. It was «Alpha»'s hunger, Her power, coursing through not just Her implant but through the air itself and into her. But it was Mommy's gentle hand that came down from on high. Mommy's finger that that pressed into AshLey's puppyparts and pressed inward and spurred the transformation.

Ash shivered, arm crooking and pulling into her side as her fleshy bits retracted and pulled inward. She still didn't know how to describe the sensation beyond peeing in reverse as everything backwards and settled with a satisfying fullness. She didn't know how Mommy worked such miracles, only that she did. And now, she had Mommy's Knotpocket Made Specially for Mommy That She Might Let Others Use Sometimes But Always Belongs To Mommy!

Owner's voice shook through Ash, Mommy's sweetness and «Alpha»'s fire. “Have fun~”

With how protective of her and her sister Owner was, Ash knew it was real special that she was letting Tsundra use Mommy's Knotpocket.

She wrapped around Owner's leg in a hug. “Thankyou, Mommy! Thankyou «Alpha»! Thankyou Owner!”

“You're welcome,” Owner's multitudes rang through Ash's ears. “Now, I believe you left your very hungry packmate waiting~”

“Oop!” Ash spun around and started jogging back to Tsundra, but spared the thought to spin after a few steps and shout, “I love you!” mid-stride.

Owner shouted her love in return, making Ash giggle as she dove back down to the Tsundra-scented cushion and squirmed onto her back beneath her bewildered bedfellow.

Tsundra shook it off - literally with a shake of their head - and rolled back above Ash. They grinned once again, already back in the swing as they looked down and appraised their meal. Only this time, Tsundra's meat found no bits to rest upon. They shifted her hips, looking down between Ash's legs. “Damn, when'd you get that?”

“I dunno!” Ash giggled, reaching up and feeling Tsundra's chest. Her legs kicked excitedly and she could feel how wet she already was. “But it's Mommy's knotpocket, so you gotta take care of it, okay?”

Tsundra smiled more gently than they had been, third eye narrowing and brows drawin together in a way Ash'd never seen before. “Course,” they said softly, “Gotta take care of the pups.”

Ash giggled some more, giddy and nervous in equal measure. Her fingers flexed, squeezing Tsundra's fur between her knuckles. “I know you will,” Ash smiled.

Tsundra smiled again, lowering her muzzle to Ash's mouth and kissing her as best she could. Ash's hands found the back of Tsundra's neck, her powerful muscles under her gorgeous purple mane, and held on tight as Tsundra positioned herself to enter Mommy's knotpocket.

It wasn't like it had been before.

It wasn't like that first time after Ash had chased Tsundra home like a lost puppy.

It wasn't like that first time after Ash finally realized she was a girl.

There was very little of Tsundra's brash bravado. Almost none of her feral ferocity. When they sank into Ash this time, it was slow and unbelievably tender. A gentleness that Ash had never experienced nor asked from her xenra girlfriend. Her pinnate.

Ash's breath hitched as Tsundra's pointed tip found its way between her folds. It found no resistance between Ash's excitement and Tsundra's.

Not to mention having been broken in by Owner.

Hhhyeahhh~

Ash had trouble thinking about anything but the xenra inside her as they slid in deeper. Tsundra wrapped an arm around Ash's back, cradling her to their chest and holding them still, grunting softly. Ash took a deep breath, letting it out dreamily against the fur covering her face.

Tsundra slowed, but Ash's ankles fought to grip her girlfriend's hips, encouraging her to keep going. Tsundra's chest pressed into Ash's nose and cheeks as they took a deep breath. Ash just turned her head from side to side, nuzzling the body beneath.

Ash tried to take a deep breath as Tsundra rolled their hips again, claws clicking on the hardwood as they shuffled around to find a better angle. But as Tsundra sank in again, Ash found she felt too full to breathe too deeply. It didn't scare her, though. It just made her feel happy. She was so full of love!

What did make Ash a little nervous was feeling the point that Tsundra's tip slid past the deepest part Owner had been to. She gasped at the sharp pinch deep in her belly, legs curling and heels squeezing Tsundra as they poked something deep inside. It hurt, but it was a new and strange feeling.

“You good, pup?” Tsundra asked.

“Mhmm,” Ash nodded. “Y--… You're big…”

“Yeah?” Tsundra rocked with a single chuckle. “Your big, xenra girlfriend. Balls deep in your pupcunt?”

An incomprehensible string of syllables exploded from Ash's mouth, and if she hadn't had Tsundra between her legs they would have been tying themselves in knots.

Tsundra growled a warm sound. Their paw trailed further up Ash's back to hold the back of her head and neck. “Yeah? You like that?”

Ash nodded as quickly as she could. “Yuhhuh.”

“Good.” Tsundra leaned down to kiss Ash again. Ash licked her nose.

Tsundra licked back, then pulled Ash tight to them with both arms as they went horizontal on the padded seat.

Stars, Tsundra was so big but she wasn't crushing Ash. They were wrapped around her like a cocoon, and buried inside her. Filling her to the brim. Ash wrapped her arms around Tsundra's neck again, kissing the side of their face and muzzle and horns and anything else in her reach as Tsundra rocked inside of her, grinding their cock back and forth, in and out of that almost-too-deep spot.

Ash pulled her xenra close, whispering in their fluffy ear. “You can be rougher~”

“I--” Tsundra’s body stuttered for a moment. They took a deep breath, swallowing as they paused to consider.

“Okay,” they nodded.

They thrust forward. Hard.

“Ouuhhhh!” Ash squealed as all the air was forced from her in one fell stroke. Fuck! It hurt so good!

“Fuck, beta!” Ash cooed, head spinning as she tried to somehow pull Tsundra closer. “You fuck like an Alpha~”

Tsundra panted a growl, teeth scraping on the side of Ash's neck as they bore a grin, riled. The paw at Ash's back was suddenly digging in with claws, more dragging up through her hair to get a better hold on her head.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

“Make sure my body never forgets whose it is,” Ash grabbed harder, trying to find purchase at the back of Tsundra's shoulders with arched fingers.

Another breath was forced as Tsundra slammed into Mommy's knotpocket again.

“My first,” Ash whispered.

Claws dragged down Ash's back, pulling her in as Tsundra pushed in again.

“My last,” Ash whined, tucking her chin on Tsundra's shoulder as hard as she could.

Her entire body was rocked again, wincing deeply around Tsundra's full length.

“My always,” Ash promised. “Yours.”

“Mine,” Tsundra growled against Ash's neck.

“Yours!” Ash did what little she could to help, but otherwise felt like a ragdoll in her girlfriend's arms.

“Mine!” Tsundra barked, claws digging into Ash's hips.

“Yours, packmate-ughh!” Ash grabbed both of Tsundra's lower horns, knowing no matter how hard she held she couldn't keep Tsundra from pulling away if they wanted to.

“MiiiiIIIIE!” Tsundra’s growl built to a feral roar as they claimed Ash as theirs. Their hips hammered into their «omega», their pinnate, their mate.

Claws and teeth and arms held Ash tight as Tsundra thrust again and again, Ash hanging along for the rough ride. And she wouldn't have had it any other way.

“Say it!” Tsundra barked.

“Yours!” Ash cried out into their neck.

Tsundra growled. “Say what a «bitch» in heat says, «omega»!”

Everything slowed down for a second as Ash thought back to that first time Tsundra had fucked her.

That first time she'd been called a quickening vixen.

A smile bridged her face as she remembered with perfect clarity what Tsundra had told her to say then.

Time sped back up as Ash screamed it out, harsh, hoarse, and desperate.

“Pleeeaaaase!” Ash begged, her knotpocket already tightening in preparation. “Put a litter of kits in me!”

“Rrrrrrrrrr!” Tsundra rumbled, entire body shaking as they thrust even faster, even harder, even deeper. Too deep, but somehow not deep enough. “Rrrr, rrrr, RRRR RRRRR!!”

Suddenly, Tsundra pulled Ash tighter than ever before, arms and claws a straightjacket of flesh and fur as they squeezed Ash to their chest, holding her still as they bottomed out, grinding against her pelvis to pelvis as they tried to push somehow deeper. Oh, how Ash wished they could.

But what they could do was exactly what they did. They reared back, sinking their teeth into Ash's shoulder, opposite «Alpha»'s bite, whining and growling as their knot ballooned as far past the entrance of Ash's pupcunt as they could push it.

Ash convulsed as much as she was able, legs shaking and heels trying to kick Tsundra deeper, overcome by the sensations. Deep, muscle-splitting pain in her shoulder. Filling, cunt-stretching knot in Mommy's knotpocket.

She cried out, sobbing into the air not because it hurt, but because she didn't want it to end.

But, end it did as Tsundra released their deathgrip on Ash's shoulder and threw their head in the air, snout pointed to the ceiling, howling at the top of their lungs.

“Awooooooo!”

Ash reached up with both hands, trying to keep them on Tsundra's chest but only able to reach their belly.

“Awroooooo!” she howled.

Ash's ears twitched as a third song joined their resonance, from the couch. A gruff and gravelly, “WROOOOO!” howling out from «Teacher».

As she watched, Ash met Owner’s eyes. She smiled, hesitating for the merest moment before her mouth jutted forward into «Alpha»'s muzzle and she craned her head back as well.

“Ar-Ar-Arooooooo!” «Alpha» called.

They all howled a single, continuous song that Ash felt deep in her heart and Ley felt in her bones. A song of love. A song of sadness. A song of belonging.

The song of a pack.

Inevitably, Ash's lungs were the first to give out. She fell back, panting as Tsundra howled on for almost another minute before catching themself as they flopped forward, rocking Ash by the knotty connection that held them together. «Teacher» and «Alpha» trailed off in unison, though Ash was sure that the Affini could go on howling forever if they wanted.

Definitely.

Ash panted again, smiling, and thought at her sister. You like that, Ley?

Ley pouted in their mind, huffing as she thought back. You know I did…

Good.

Hmph.

Ash had to smile as everything settled. Her breath and Tsundra's were the only sounds heard next to the crackling of the fire in the hearth and the songs of both Affini harmonizing in the background, holding everything together. She just relaxed, basking in the stretch of her loins and the weight of her mate on top of her.

And the gallon of cum warming our belly awaihehaj!

And that too.

For several serene minutes Ash lay there, running her fingers through Tsundra's fur like the big, adorable dog they were. Tsundra nuzzled back, licking their wounded shoulder, claws kneading at the pad below them as they rested their head next to Ash's.

The quiet was broken only a short while later.

It wasn't a bang or a crash or even an intrusive memory that broke the peace. It was the near-silent sobbing of Ash's mate, their body rocking atop Ash as they tried to hold it back.

“Tsundra?” Ash asked quietly, brow furrowing and heart dropping in concern.

Tsundra sniffled, a soft ripping ringing out from the cushion below before they spoke. “I love you, Ash.”

“I love you, too,” Ash said it back instantly with zero hesitation.

Tsundra pushed themself up, rising above Ash to look at her with teary red eyes. “No, you don't get it! I've never loved anybody like I love you!”

Their face quivered, all three eyes struggling to stay open as they fought back the tears. Their shoulders rose and fell with a series of increasingly unsteady breaths, and when they found the strength to continue, their voice came out cracked and broken and full of pain.

“Everyone always looks at me like I'm the butt of the joke!” They swung their arm out in a random direction, gesturing to the nameless assholes they were talking about. “But not you, Ash.” They shook their head, tears growing ever closer to rupturing the dam.

“Never you.”

Ash sniffled herself, mouth opening as she tried to find the words for how she felt. How could she tell Tsundra how much she loved them?

“You chased me! You stayed! You didn’t make up some bullshit excuse about leaving because you got domesticated or running out for cigarettes and milk!”

“Tsundra, I--” Ash started but was cut off as Tsundra cried out again.

“What am I gonna do without you?!”

“Hey, hey,” Ash put on a brave face, smiling as best she could. “This isn't goodbye,” she shook her head, “It’s smell you later, okay?

“I might not remember who you are up here,” Ash pointed to her own head, “But I am never going to forget who you are here,” she put her hand to her chest. “And our «Alpha»s are going to need your help to make sure I grow up to be the puppy I was always meant to be, okay?”

Tsundra sniffled again, lip curling up not in a snarl, but revealing her teeth in fear and, if they were anything like Ash, anger at themself for not being able to hold back the tears. After another moment of struggle they managed to grunt out a weary, “Hoh-kay.”

“I love you, Tsundra, and I’m not going anywhere. Our owners will make sure of that.”

Tsundra huffed a wet breath, nodding a few quick times.

“C’mere, okay?” Ash looked up at her, sullen but hopeful with arms wide open.

They let out a deflating breath, letting their shoulders droop and laid their head on Ash’s chest, across her collarbone with their muzzle just before the bite they’d left. Ash wrapped her near arm around their shoulder, using her other hand to pet them, to rub the back of their head and scratch their ears. And there they stayed, stuck together. But more than that, bound together by something stronger than any knot in the world.

Love.

Eventually, Tsundra calmed. Their breathing evened out, they stopped clawing at the furniture, their lips stopped quivering. They just rested, exhausted, on Ash’s chest while Ash kept petting, kept holding, while she still could.

The song came to Ash as the minutes passed. It was an old song full of melancholy and hope that matched the smile on her face as she held Tsundra close. So, she cleared her throat, gently stroking through Tsundra’s mane as she sang.

“Weeeee’ll meet again~ Don’t know wheeeere~ Don’t know wheeeen~ But I know we’ll meet again… some Tsunny day~”