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Fanfic
The Unexpected Human Problem - Yautja x Human
Complete
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31
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Slow Burn - Endeavor x OC
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 (coming soon)
Ongoing Original Works
Scent Match
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 |
Part 9 | Part 10 (coming soon)
Desperation’s Summit - Troll x Human
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 (coming soon)
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Room & Board - Vampire x Reader
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 |
Part 15 - Vagina Version | Part 15 - Penis Version
Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 (coming soon)
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Additional:
Consolation Prize (smut)
A Surprising Offer (smut)
Soul to Keep - Demon x Human
(Demon Priest x Demon Hunter Nun)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 (coming soon)
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Gluttony's Hunger - Demons x Human
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 (coming soon)
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Learning Curves - Incubus x Human
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 (coming soon)
Pride & Prejudice & Orcs
Mr. Darcy is an orc (lol can you tell I like orcs?)
Chapter 1
Completed Original Works
Teeth - Shadow Demon x Human
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 |Part 8 |Part 9 |Part 10 | Part 11 |Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 |Part 17
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Additional one-shots:
Little Red Dress (smut)
Footsie (smut)
Lights, Camera, Orc-tion! - orc x human
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Epilogue
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The All-Hearts Festival - 2k23 Valetines
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8
Wretched Creature - Beauty and the Beast Retelling
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
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Something Primal - Lycan x Human
Part One | Part Two | Part Three
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AO3
Incubare - Incubus x Human Trans Woman
Part One | Part Two | Part Three
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Self-Defense Prompt from MonsterKinkMeme - Orc x Human (short story)
Part One | Part Two | Additional
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Who Drinks Coffee With A Straw? Prompt - Demon/Dryad x Human (complete short)
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Webcomics
Desiderium - Half-Orc x Human
Webtoon | Tapas
When Thea (she/her) - a human woman sent to a Home for Troubled Women and Girls by her father - meets half-orc Noth during a snowstorm, it becomes harder to ignore her cravings. For companionship, acceptance... and freedom.
But she has something she's been working toward. She can't just stop now.
For Noth (he/they,) he's faced a life of anti-orc sentiments from humans and disdain from some of his clan over his parentage. But there's something about Thea that Noth can't forget or let go of. A warmth that calls to them.
Fate gives the two a helping hand, finding ways to push them further together.
Resonance - Lycan x Human
(open to interpretation whether romantic or platonic)
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Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.
Content warning: Serial killers, spiked drink, sexual threat (she gets away I prommy), lots of death-by-werewolf hehe :3c
Anyways if I was in charge of Hollywood there would be a movie that starts off with a sexy chubby woman (the chubbiness is IMPORTANT) living her best life out to the bar with her gal pals, and while there she is hit on by an unreasonably hot man* (*conVENTIONALLY hot. it's IMPORTANT). They start chatting about a huge current news story: dismembered women keep getting found in the WOODS holy shit and always the night after the full moon so the press are calling it "the werewolf murders" BECAUSE it looks like there's claw marks on the bodies I scream I cry I move on with the story-
So Hot Guy is charming he's witty he's respectful. He asks to buy her a drink and she's kinda into it BUT she tells him she doesn't accept any drink that's handed to her by a stranger and he's like "Say less babe, what if we went up to the bartender together, you order your drink, I pay for it, my hands are never on the drink :)" and she's like hmm okay I can trust like that so they spend the night having flirty banter and eventually she looks around and realises her gal pals have left with their own little romances and she's like oh shit I better go, and he's like awh okay if you insist, at least let me buy you a shot for the road.
So he buys her a shot, and same deal again she gets it straight from the bartender bc our girl is SAVVY even though she is having fun with this guy. Anyway she goes to leave and within a few mins of stepping out into the cold wet air the world begins to spin, her legs give out, she's like wtf, no no no how the fuck is this happening, this can't be happening. And of course Hot Guy appears and he's like awh no babe you don't look so good here let me help you into a CAR GIRL HELP DO NOT GET IN THE CAR but she's confused and disoriented and there's a degree of trust built up between them and it's only when the car door closes that she realises it's already too late and passes out SCREAM
anyway she comes to in the middle of the woods and relax she hasn't been touched YET because there's suddenly 4 men around her (henceforth known as: The Pack) and they're all laughing about how big girls are SO desperate they're so easy to trick BLARGH they're spouting a bunch of general misogynist BULLSHIT about "high value males" and "the female brain" and they call themselves "the Pack" because YOU KNOW these fuckers live their whole life by that fallacious Alpha Male ideology ANYWAY obviously they are led by Hot Guy AND the Bartender is ONE OF THEM that's how her drink got spiked, she was watching the wrong man's hands!!
And they're like "haha don't worry we didn't do anything to you while you were out because it's only worth doing when you KNOW what we're doing to you >:)" PUKE they are basically a bunch of sick fuck serial killers who abduct women every full moon and then hunt them down in the woods THEY ARE THE WEREWOLF MURDERERS AAAAH anyway they're like "haha babe we'll give you a 10 minute headstart. You'll know we're coming after you when you hear us HOWL" 🤢 but these sad wimp shit heads are using high end hunting equipment including an infrared camera and night vision goggles they have NO respect for the art of the hunt I DIGRESS-
obviously our sexy chubby heroine runs for it but oh no she can't see in the dark, she's still wearing her cute but impractical heeled boots, she's still dizzy from the drugs and more importantly feeling like a worthless, pathetic FOOL for falling for Hot Guy and now she's going to get killed for it. Her heart is breaking with every step and then she hears them howling behind her and oh god, she's not gonna make it is she-
WHUMBLE TUMBLE she trips and tumbles down a ridge!! Our angel just can't catch a break and to make everything worse she lands in what is clearly some predator's den, full of old deer carcasses - and one FRESH carcass oh god something is growling at her from the darkness. With only the light of the full moon to see, she watches in horror as a dark shape advances on her. It must be a bear, she thinks, but then it rises on it's hind legs, and rises, and rises, and holy shit, what the fuck is that thing it's not a bear it's a FUCKING WEREWOLF
and then one member of The Pack catches up to her, and he's giddy with anticipation for what he wants to do to her, and he's the one with the night vision goggles and he stops laughing when he sees that... That THING next to her in the gorge, and he's like. What the fuck that can't be real. And in my movie we'd be cutting this between dark moonlit scenes and his night vision goggles of course, through which we'd get to see the werewolf's huge sexy teeth and eerie (sexy) glowing eyes and that the wolf is looking at HIM and this guy freaks the fuck out and tries to run but GUESS WHAT YOU SHOULDN'T DO BITCH. YOU SHOULDN'T RUN FROM A WEREWOLF because it launches at him and rips his fucking head off!!
And our heroine is like FUCK as if this night could get any worse now werewolves exist?!?! So she flees while the Wolf is busy with Pack Guy #1. Cut to: the other men in The Pack are regrouping, irate that Guy#1 got so far ahead of them because "He never shares 🙄" but ahead the guy with the infrared sensor is like "I see a big splatter of heat on the ground, he's finished her off without us that bastard!!" But lo and behold they get there and IT IS HE WHO IS SPLATTERED ACROSS THE GROUND!! The Pack are at first like wtf did this but they're all pieces of shit so they don't mourn their dead friend so much as lament the inconvenience of his death and assume a bear did it. Hot Guy is actually a little excited because he's never hunted a bear before and they have guns so, in his word, "we can mount a bitch and a bear in our trophy room tonight" and they leave Guy#1's body BUT they do take his night vision goggles.
Meanwhile the sexy beautiful apple of our eyes (Protagonist) has made it to a RIVER and she's like fuck it's cold but maybe I can follow the river downstream, there will be a town eventually right??? BUT who is right on her tail?? The werewolf of course! He's snarling and advancing in a mixture of animal curiosity and hostile territoriality and our darling beloved Protag is like FUCK I can't run I can only back away slowly oh god I'm going to die but JUST as the Wolf reaches her-
Howling! Those stupid shitfuck Alpha Bros are howling as a way to terrorize her so she knows they're closing in. But you know what that does to werewolf?? Immediately tells him who the REAL territorial threat is. The Pack burst through the trees to the river and Wolf wastes no time latching his teeth into one of them and ripping his throat open ( 🥵 ) and the Pack are like WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING and bang bang they SHOOT werewolf in the torso AAAH! He's not dead because the bullets aren't silver teehee but it HURTS and he's knocked into the river. Protag tries to run but they shoot at her too so with nowhere else to go she also jumps into the river SWIM BITCH SWIM
She and the Wolf are swept downriver in the rapid current, both gasping for breath between being dunked underwater. Protag manages to grab a hold of some logs to save herself. The Wolf tries to grab them too but oh NO he's too big and heavy and the water-rotted wood SNAPS and he continues swirling down the rapids. He manages to cling to a boulder in the center of the river and claw his way up for air, fast water frothing white around him, filling his mouth, trying to drag him under again.
Protag drags herself to the shore and breathlessly looks back, ready to run again as she hears the Pack howling in the distance. She sees the Wolf clawing desperately to life, and turns to leave him - but stops. She can't help herself. She looks back at him. The whites of his eyes are showing with their wide, confused panic. One hand is held tight to the boulder, the other flails desperately for some purchase. A high pitched, frightened whine pierces the air. He looks as afraid as she feels. He looks so HUMAN, so honest, so earnestly in need of someone's kindness. God, she HATES herself for being weak (*cough cough* NOT WEAK SHE'S FUCKING KIND!! but anyway *cough cough*)
She DRAGS a thick, sturdy branch to the riverside and feeds it into the water. She has to anchor herself in the deep, squelching mud to keep the branch (and herself!) from being yanked back into the current. The Wolf reaches with that helpless, human desperation. Monstrous hands close around the branch. She heaves, roaring with the effort to support his weight as he claws his way to shore. The howling is getting real close, now.
Once the werewolf can sink his paws into the mud, she abandons the branch and runs for the treeline. The two remaining Pack members are upon them now - but trapped on the wrong side of the river. They fire their gun at her. The Wolf launches a huge rock in their direction, which misses, but forces them to back off.
Protag runs for her life in the woods. She can hear the weight of the huge, loping animal behind her. She feels the shift in the air the moment before it makes impact. The Wolf tackles her from behind, bundling her into his arms while she kicks and shrieks in raw, animal defense. The Wolf, unable to contain the flurry of protesting limbs, throws her into the wet, sloppy mud and slams one of his heavy hand-paws down on her chest, pinning her down forcefully. He roars directly into her face, sharp teeth inches from soft skin, breath hot and rancid with the stench of dead deer. His message is very easy, even with the animal-language barrier: "SHUT THE FUCK UP."
Defeated, exhausted, and resigned to her fate, Protag goes limp. The Wolf half drags, half carries her across the forest floor. She accepts that she's just a slab of meat now - to both the Wolf, and the Pack. The drugs and the despair and the post-adrenaline crash all surge upon her in a wave of sudden sleepiness. She closes her bloodshot eyes.
She opens them to the muted daylight of an overcast morning, seeping through the mouth of a cave. Soft sounds alert her to the fact she is not alone: a nude man is hunched over in a corner beside her. Blood drips down his side. She shrieks and he jumps in surprise. She scrambles for the entrance to the cave - he grabs her and pulls her back. Shut up! He tells her, They're still out there! They're still looking for us!
She stops. Brain starts working. Realises where she is, what's happening, who THIS is. She shoves him away and accuses him of being the werewolf. He's like "uh. Ya. Who else were you expecting."
He's not thrilled about how he spent his full moon, either. He was shot several times in the arm and abdomen, and his accelerated healing means he's healed with one bullet still inside him. He's trying to dig it out. Horrified, but feeling obligated, Protag forces herself to help him. (It's an "EWW" moment, but also... A lil bit of an "awwh" moment ;3c )
In the quiet cave, reluctantly working together, they start to talk. She tells him who she is, who those guys are, what happened. He tells her he's a software engineer from the city. But yeah, also a werewolf. He's been using these woods for his full moons for his entire adult life. Recently, the so-called "werewolf murders" made him worry another wolf had moved into his territory - but now he realises it was these shithead men all along.
He tells her he'll help her get to the road, where she can flag down a car and get help, but she has to swear not to tell the world about his kind. She's like "Say less my guy, 1. I don't want a werewolf coming after me in vengeance, 2. who the fuck would believe me, they're probably not gonna believe me about these evil men either". He's like Well, don't freak out or anything, but I am 100% going to kill those guys. They've defiled my woods. They've perverted the air they breathe. And if I don't kill them, they're just gonna keep coming back here with more victims. She's like (*the following dialogue is expressed through facial expressions ONLY, no words) "Okay why is it so unbelievably sexy to hear this weird naked wolfman say he's going to kill those guys. I think he's actually quite fuckable suddenly."
Oh how they bond over extracting that bullet and the dire circumstances they find themselves in! His clothes are safely stashed on the other side of the woods, oh bother. The audience will just have to enjoy hairy burly naked man as Wolf and Protag trek to the road 😇
They walk, they talk, they have real romantic chemistry - but they are principally focused on the task at hand (not dying). They almost make it to the road, when they hear men's voices nearby. They duck into the hollow made by a fallen tree's roots.
It's Hot Guy and Pack Guy#3, the two surviving bad guys. They are using the infrared camera to track our heroes!! Those shitheads!! There's latent heat on the leaf litter and a few trees that were touched. Fuck!
By a small miracle, Wolf notices a doe grazing about two hundred meters away. He throws a pebble to startle her, and she takes off into the brush. The infrared camera only sees a flash of heat sprinting into the trees and the Pack take off after it. Wolf and Protag run the opposite direction, forced to abandon their way to the road as they would be too exposed in the thinning trees.
Instead, they make it to a disused ranger station that Wolf knows about. He manages to change into some shorts there (tragic) and they use the rain water tanks to wash the blood and mud off themselves. Forced to wait inside until nightfall, the pair finally begin to open up to one another (they both have trust issues for OBVIOUS reasons).
Protag asks if Wolf will recognise her when he transforms that night. He's like "Um, ya. The hollywood stereotypes that we're all these deranged, rapacious monsters is really hurtful actually. It's true I don't have my human decorum when I change, but I'm no more a monster than any real wolf. I hunt to eat, I kill if threatened. I'm not some unstoppable bloodlust predator, I'm just a fucking wolf."
She jokes that she could teach him some commands. Sit, stay, roll over, Good Boy. He BLUSHES (teehee). Their conversation turns a little flirtatious, in a "we both might die tonight" kind of way. He jests that he'd kill anyone who tried to put a collar on him, but... He MIGHT just make an exception, for a beautiful, resilient, ferocious woman. You know where this is going. THEY FUCK NASTY. Use your imagination and make it whatever you want :) In my mind she rides him hard until he's brainless and begging, and then animal instinct takes over and he rolls them over and fucks her into the bed until it breaks. But you can make it whatever you want :)
ANYWAY. In the quiet, cuddling aftermath, they both agree that it's Us or Them. There's one way out of these woods, and that's killing the Pack.
Night comes. The moon rises. Painful Wolf transformation. Awh he's a big scawy pubby :) Dressed in Wolf's improvised shorts and her dress from the night before, Protag leaves the cabin with Werewolf by her side.
They start a firepit to lure the Pack in, hoping to use the infrared camera against them. It works. While Wolf is monitoring their make-shift perimeter, Guy#3 sneaks up and manages to get to Protag. A bloody, violent fight ensues. She's armed only with a burning torch she made out of a branch, tree sap and leaf litter. He's got a gun - but he's too arrogant to use it. He wants to have FUN with her, first. He describes what he's done to all the other women they brought the woods. He laughs at how gullible she was, how desperate for a "high value man" to want her that she didn't see the OBVIOUS trap. Despite a commendable struggle, Protag is overpowered. Guy#3 gets her on the ground and takes out a large knife, taunting her over just HOW he plans to use it on her, when-
CRUNCH. Wolf arrives and rips his fucking head off, babay!! In a literal way. His clawed hands sink into Guy#3's throat, and with a violent jerk upwards, he tears the head from its shoulders. Poor Protag is showered with blood (but in a sexy movie way).
But alas!! T'was an OBVIOUS trap all along! The King Shithead, Hot Guy, knowingly sent his friend in first to lure Wolf out into the open. He shoots Wolf in the back, again and again and again and again, until poor Wolf collapses in a wheezing lump on the floor. Protag screams in horror, but there's nothing she can do.
She lunges at Hot Guy, and the final scrap for survival begins. He's out of bullets, but he has physical strength on his side; he's bigger and stronger than she is. He beats her to the ground, but - Protag grabs Guy#3's knife and stabs Hot Guy through the knee!! A total wuss for pain, he backs off immediately - but Protag isn't done, she isn't about to let this snake slink away into the shadows. She charges him, stabbing him in the groin, the stomach, the chest. She's more wolf than woman, now. She looks him in the eyes, and tells him "It's only worth doing when you KNOW what I'm doing to you," and stabs him straight in the heart. He is dead.
Exhausted and wounded, she crawls to where Wolf lies motionless by the fire. She strokes his fur and tells him everything is going to be okay. Over the trees, she watches the sky turning orange with dawn.
ONE MONTH LATER. Protag, still sporting some bandages from her ordeal, gets ready in her apartment for another night out, just as she did at the beginning. She texts her gal pals to say she'll meet them at the bar. All appears to be as it was before.
She leaves her bathroom, freshly made up, and stops in at her kitchen, asking "Are you all ready for the night, love?"
Wolf is in the kitchen, packing himself water, snacks, and a change of shorts. He wraps her in a huge hug, lifting her off the ground and peppering her face with kisses. He'll miss her for the full moon, he says, but he's glad she's going out with her girls. When he gets back in the morning, they'll have a lazy day together. She kisses him back fondly and calls him a good boy ;3 As they part ways, the news broadcast on the TV mentions the discovery of some remains - four men who were reported missing last month, now suspect to be the victims of a freak animal attack. The Reporter jokes about how maybe, they should take the "werewolf killer" a little more seriously. Protag turns the tv OFF.
If I tell you this is a horror dance number it still won't prepare you. That last move was so terrifying even the judge was like "Let go! Let go!" If you told me they're actually possessed I'd believe you.
The music is a remix of the song Mere Dholna from the Bollywood movie Bhool Bhulaiyya, a remake of the classic Malayalam horror-comedy Manichitrathazhu. It's about a young bride that seemingly becomes possessed of Manjulika, a dancer of the ancient royal court whose tragic death has turned her into a vengeful spirit, one who evokes the wrath of the goddess Durga Kali. In the iconic scene that is repeated across remakes, the groom and his family discover his bride dancing in the dead of night in a manic, disassociative fugue, wearing a moth-eaten dancer's costume and a face smeared in kohl, ash and vermilion. She's hallucinating that she's Manjulika dancing carefree for the court with her lover. The upbeat music is deliberately incongruous with the pathos and creepiness of the scene in reality, especially as it crescendos in the bride's head to the moment when the king decapitates Manjulika's beloved in a fit of jealous rage.
This specific number is by the all-male troupe B Unique, performed for the Indian reality talent contest Hunabaarz. It's a modern fusion based on Bharatnatyam that turns up the creep factor by 200% and is basically a showcase of contortionism and synchronicity. One of the most perfectly choreographed and executed dances I have ever seen. Truly incredible!
The group is still taking their work across the world's talent shows. And yes, that guy is hypermobile enough to do that with his neck. XD
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Inspired by the Man or Bear in the Woods question/meme.
Bambi Barker never anticipated having to run for her life from her ex, Duke Walker, through an Appalachian forest. She also never thought she’d run into a white (polar?) bear in the middle of the god-dang forest, either.
Being stuck between a bear and a man, Bambi is about to get answers to questions she didn’t even know she had.
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“Keep wriggling like that and I’m gonna fuck you right here in the dirt.”
Zeke’s words echoed through Bambi’s head as she stared wide-eyed at the sky over his shoulder. A whir of thoughts tangled up with a slew of sensation. Heat prickled at her center, a thrum rattled her heart, her breath semi-caught in her throat, all while memories – welcome and not-so-welcome – trampled through her thoughts. She was having a hard time even finding words in the chaos.
Her shock dissipated as Zeke pulled back to look at her. “That quieted you down right quick.”
Bambi thought she caught ruefulness on his chuckle, but she still admitted, “I wasn’t prepared to be propositioned so flagrantly.”
Though she should have known, Bambi thought, what with him pinning her to the ground. They weren’t young adults no more.
“But you were prepared to fuck someone last night at Suds?” His eyebrow cocked up, his tone becoming needling.
“That was different.” Though Bambi admittedly didn’t know why. She was aching for a good fuck, something to reorient herself and make her feel like an adult person again instead of like a responsible, stern mama.
But Zeke continued with that aggravatingly needling tone, not believing her. “Is that so?”
“Yes, that’s so, because I had to talk myself up all week and the folks ain’t…” Her words ran into a metaphysical wall of realization as her eyes swung up to his face. “They ain’t like you.”
Something in Zeke’s mien shifted. Went cold and darker than it had been a few seconds earlier. “Ah. Right.”
It wasn’t until he was starting to push off her and get to his feet did Bambi realize Zeke misunderstood.
“Oh, don’t you go shuttin’ down like that!” Bambi grabbed onto his shirt, but Zeke merely dragged her up with him as he continued to rise. Frantic and wanting him to stop and listen, Bambi suddenly found herself doing something she hadn’t done out of frustration since the third grade: Bambi Barker bit someone.
Her teeth dug into the juncture where Zeke’s neck met his throat and he froze. Seizing his momentary shock, Bambi spoke – albeit muffled – around her latched teeth. “I’m not lettin’ go til you rightly listen!”
She counted two of Zeke’s long too-steady breaths before he answered, “What’s there to listen to? You’re right, I ain’t like everyone else.”
There was a low guttural quality to his words, as if he spoke while fighting down another urge. But Bambi didn’t take notice, grudgingly easing off his shoulder as she spoke, “I was just gonna use the men at the bar like glorified dildos. But I care what you think. That’s why you ain’t like everyone else.”
Zeke was still taking those long too-steady breaths when Bambi dared to look up at him. Bambi’s heart tripped, finding Zeke’s eyes different in an uncanny valley sort of way. His irises seemed enlarged, too big for his human-sized sockets as the edges of his lids darkened.
A soft sound ‘oh’ escaped her as she realized they looked more like his eyes from last night. When he was a bear.
He continued to breathe those deep inhale-exhales and it reminded her of a wild animal, panting in an oddly even fashion. She realized he was waiting for something. Perhaps for her to scream or push away.
She had no clue why she did what she did next. Something unnamed guided her limbs. She reached up slowly, sliding her hand along the side of his face until she grasped the back of his head. Coaxing him closer, she raised higher up on her knees and gently, pressed her lips to his.
A gnarl of sound – not-quite-human – vibrated through Zeke’s chest before he sagged into the kiss.
Bambi found herself snug between the cold ground and warm Zeke once again as the kiss deepened. Her hands cupped his face as if afraid he’d pull away as her tongue explored his mouth. She thought she could feel his teeth changing as the kiss went on, getting sharper and bigger. One of Zeke’s hands burrowed into her hair at the back of her head and she thought she felt the distinct sharp tip of claws.
All little hints of danger. Folks with common sense would have pulled away, reassessed the situation, but something about it stirred up Bambi’s insides pleasantly. Not everyone got to see or feel those parts of Zeke.
BEEP BEEP. A horn blew somewhere and Zeke instantly broke the kiss, breathing heavy. His eyes snapped back to their human form the instant his eyes opened. If Bambi hadn’t known better, she would’ve thought she was imagining their oddness from earlier.
The car horn sounded again, this time a faint voice calling from somewhere on the other side of the farmhouse.
“Mail’s here.” And like that, Zeke got up and helped Bambi to her feet, unable to look at her.
Though she followed him around the house, she dallied a little behind him. Bambi was willing the flush in her cheeks to go down before she had to face whoever was delivering the mail. Barfield was relatively small, even if the postal worker was from one of the larger towns. Gossip traveled.
Zeke swung around the corner of the house and Bambi heard him shout, “Whaddya want, Marcy?”
She’d heard Zeke use that name before. Though, it was from ages ago, back in the hallways of Barfield High. As she rounded the corner too, she found it was, indeed, Marcel Hernandez standing in front of Zeke.
Marcel still had that charming bright smile and darker speckly freckles coating his warm ochre skin tone that Bambi remembered. Though she couldn’t tell if he still had his curly mop-top of dark hair, since it was all tucked beneath a baseball cap.
“Got a big ole package for you, Mister Clements.” Marcel was out of his mail truck, a large package in one arm and a handheld device for signing extended toward Zeke. He grinned like a fool and batted his eyelashes at the burly man, voice laden with flirtation.
Zeke’s lips quirked into a frown. “Got any mail for me?”
“I said I got a package for you. You need to sign for it.” Marcel’s playful expression drained away and he rolled his eyes. As he handed the handheld to Zeke, Marcel’s gaze flicked to Bambi, realizing her steady movement toward them. “Oh, if it isn’t Bambi Barker!”
“Good morning, Marcel,” she greeted, hoping the flush had faded enough. From the corner of her eye, she thought she saw Zeke tense, but he seemed laser-focused on signing for his package.
Marcel didn’t seem to notice the tension in Zeke as he crossed his arms and leaned toward her. “What’re you doing out on the Clements farm?”
A strange scent wafted from him. Something minty and citrusy, but musty. It made her think of a pet store.
“That ain’t none of your business, you busybody,” Zeke shot back to Marcel as he shoved the handheld back into his hands.
Despite Zeke’s assertion, Bambi supplied a simple answer, “Zeke helped me out of a bind last night so I’m helpin’ out on the farm this morning. That’s all.”
Marcel’s eyebrows jumped in unhindered curiosity and he turned to Zeke. But Zeke promptly hefted the package onto his hip and pointedly took a step back. It didn’t escape Bambi’s attention that he was now somewhat between her and Marcel.
Some unspoken emotion pricked between Marcel and Zeke. It reminded her of when rival sports teams would run into each other before a big game and harangue one another. Was there a sense of competition straining the air?
Her suspicions tilted further toward ‘yes’ as Marcel lifted his hands up and took a step back. He was acquiescing to whatever Zeke wordlessly told him, though a broad grin was still on his lips. “Oh, I see how it is.”
“You see ‘bout as well as Blind Margery.”
“I dunno,” Bambi hedged, thinking of all the rumors that circulated Margery. Typical stuff for a town, like she was a witch and what not. “Ole Margie probably sees pretty well if she can scry.”
Bambi’s suspicions swelled with vindication as Marcel snapped to telltale attention. “Bambi knows?”
“She don’t know a damn thing.” Zeke shot her a dirty look, one that nearly growled ‘keep your yap shut.’
Bambi smiled apologetically and shrugged as Marcel eyed her. “I really don’t know a thing.”
“Riiiight,” Marcel said, eyes narrowing as he gave another look between Bambi and Zeke. He turned to climb into his mail truck, but before he shut the door, he crooned, “Well, you two have fun. And don’t let Zeke get too overbearing, Miss Barker.”
Marcel slammed the door and reversed-course off the Clements property before Zeke could snarl out a response. But the two did exchange parting gestures. Marcel winked and blew a kiss as Zeke flipped him off.
As the mail truck made it to the street, dust kicking up after its wheels, Bambi couldn’t help but ask, “So, is Marcel also a bear?”
“No,” Zeke spat, turning toward her so fast, she almost stumbled back. “And there ain’t no ‘also’ either.”
He started to head for the house, as if the conversation was completely over.
But that bulldog tenacity rose up in Bambi and she followed, skirting around Zeke to hold the door open for him. “But back there it sounded li-“
“I ain’t obligated to tell you everything about myself,” Zeke snapped, stopping right before entering the house.
That caused Bambi to jerk back, the breath knocked from her. He was right. She couldn’t force him to tell her a dang thing about himself and she shouldn’t have kept needling him. She was doing it again, like Duke always accused her of, and she had pushed too far.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothin’s wrong,” Bambi lied, though even she could feel how her expression had given up, becoming loose and saggy, like her face was trying to melt off her skull. Trying to cut Zeke off from pushing, she added, “I need to go back to Suds. I dropped my purse there when Duke snatched me from the parking lot.”
“Bambi.”
Her name said with equal parts concern and warningly – like he could do something to make her talk to him – shot through Bambi. The tears were stabbing at the back of her eyes. This time, however, Bambi staved them off.
“I ain’t a fool, I don’t go fishin’ for answers when the lake’s frozen, Zeke.”
Zeke silently stared at her, his heavy eyebrows lowered, not in anger but in lack of comprehension. He still stood before the threshold, the box balanced on his hip. Well, if he wasn’t going to damn well go inside, she would go herself.
Bambi squeezed passed him and the door she kept open with her foot and she tromped into his home. Over her shoulder, she excused herself to use the facilities one last time and she forced her shoulders to remain rigid as she walked away from Zeke. He didn’t move, even as the door shut behind her, and something inside her twinged painfully.
She tried to ignore it as she went upstairs, changed out of the borrowed clothes – grudgingly keeping the shoes – and mentally steeled herself for her next steps.
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If I tell you this is a horror dance number it still won't prepare you. That last move was so terrifying even the judge was like "Let go! Let go!" If you told me they're actually possessed I'd believe you.
The music is a remix of the song Mere Dholna from the Bollywood movie Bhool Bhulaiyya, a remake of the classic Malayalam horror-comedy Manichitrathazhu. It's about a young bride that seemingly becomes possessed of Manjulika, a dancer of the ancient royal court whose tragic death has turned her into a vengeful spirit, one who evokes the wrath of the goddess Durga Kali. In the iconic scene that is repeated across remakes, the groom and his family discover his bride dancing in the dead of night in a manic, disassociative fugue, wearing a moth-eaten dancer's costume and a face smeared in kohl, ash and vermilion. She's hallucinating that she's Manjulika dancing carefree for the court with her lover. The upbeat music is deliberately incongruous with the pathos and creepiness of the scene in reality, especially as it crescendos in the bride's head to the moment when the king decapitates Manjulika's beloved in a fit of jealous rage.
This specific number is by the all-male troupe B Unique, performed for the Indian reality talent contest Hunabaarz. It's a modern fusion based on Bharatnatyam that turns up the creep factor by 200% and is basically a showcase of contortionism and synchronicity. One of the most perfectly choreographed and executed dances I have ever seen. Truly incredible!
The group is still taking their work across the world's talent shows. And yes, that guy is hypermobile enough to do that with his neck. XD
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