By Tahlia

After Death

________________ Chapter IV ________________

Real Virtual Dreams

Felicia stared down at the glowing cityscape bellow with a hard pressed against one of the penthouse's cold glass wall. She felt so vivacious, like she was excited and so full of energy. But somehow, something was wrong. She felt like she'd zoned out and completely forgot what she was doing.

In the glass she could see her reflection. The feline wore a tight fitting black Chinese top made of fine silk with an intricate pink and red floral design etched onto it. It covered her neck entirely and was held down partially by a glossy black collar. On it was a golden ring on which hung a large round golden bell with the name "Felicia" etched into it.

On her chest was a diamond shipped opening which was perfectly centred to expose a generous amount of cleavage. The tightness also squeezed her breasts together, pushing them out towards that opening as though they were fighting one another to be the first to escape.

It seemed to be more of a shirt than a dress as the hem hung barely low enough to hide her mound. The top left her arms exposed up to her shoulder and her legs completely bare. There were also slits that revealed the sides of her hips and allowed those black rubbery handles to jut out unhindered.

She looked down at herself and gripped at those protruding handles and tried to push them back in, but they wouldn't budge. She gave them each a generous tug back and forth to loosen them, but they wouldn't go back in. All she could manage was making her hips wiggle from side to side. As she did, she felt a soreness between her legs, yet it wasn't painful. If fact, it was somewhat pleasurable. At that moment she realized she wasn't wearing any underwear as her wet slit was bare.

Suddenly, something snapped in her mind. Where the hell was she? When did she get these clothes and why wasn't she still in her room? For a moment she thought it could be a dream but the cool hardwood floor under her bare padded feet felt all too real. She turned her attention back to the window and looked around frantically to see if she could notice any recognizable landmarks, but if anything it just looked like it could be any generic big city.

She froze as she heard bare footsteps behind her. Her ears perked up and before she could turn around she heard a voice say. "I know you're just a base program, but I'd be lying if I said I still didn't enjoy my time here with you, Felicia."

The feline's ears twitched nervously at the sound of the familiar voice. She was almost too afraid to turn around, but she had to see for herself.

"Lucious!?" she cried out in shock. She was faced with the wolf standing a few feet away, completely naked, with champaign glasses in one hand and bottle in the other. "What the fuck!?"

Lucious flinched, it was a though the blood drained from his body. He dropped the glasses onto the floor which simply chimed without breaking. His eyes went wide as he awkwardly fell back onto a nearby white leather couch and dropped the bottle onto the coffeetable in front of it. "E...Eric? Is that... you?" he said, mortified.

"Who else am I supposed to be!?" Felicia shouted. "What the hell is going on? Where the hell are we? And why are you naked!?!"

The wolf felt like he was about to faint. "I... We... I..."

Felicia stomped closer to him, crawling up onto the couch and kneeling beside him before grabbing the wolf by the dark grey tufts of fur on his shoulders. She would have liked to imagine she was gripping him much harder than she actually was. Her soft delicate hands didn't allow herself to hurt him. "What did you do?"

Lucious stammered. "I... I didn't do anything. I... I was just here with Felicia..."

The feline furrowed her brow. "Lucious... I'm Felicia... remember? What's going on? Where are we?"

The wolf swallowed a bit, his throat feeling bone dry. "It's... it's just a virtual reality space. It's a place where I... where we can just... hang out."

Felicia's gaze travelled down to Lucious' chest before looking back to his eyes. "Yeah, I see you're just 'hanging out'. I want to know why? Why am I dressed like this and why are you naked!?"

Lucious sighed as his view slid towards the coffee table. "Look... I... I don't want you to be mad-"

"Why? Should I be?" Felicia interrupted. She then turned towards the coffee table to see where Lucious was staring. She spotted a small pink wad of fabric that looked like it had just been tossed there. She grabbed it and did her best to unfurl it. Lucious looked uneasy as the cloth danced around in the feline's hands just inches from his nose. It didn't take too long before it became clear what it was.

"Are these my panties!?" she said, which wasn't something she ever thought she'd have to say.

With the way they were bunched up it looked like they'd been rolled down her legs. If that didn't make it clear enough that she had been wearing them the wet line down the crotch would be evidence enough.

Lucious whimpered "Please, just... let me explain."

Felicia pulled herself away from Lucious, panties still in hand as she turned her back to him. "It's what I've been waiting for, but you've just been stalling!" She lashed out. She could feel her chest tighten as things were becoming clear. "Tell me the truth... I'm not a protocol droid at all, am I?"

There was a lull of silence before the wolf answered with a simple. "No."

The feline turned around, a worried expression on her face. "What am I then?", she asked, though deep down she felt she already knew the answer.

Lucious stood up and walked towards Felicia, but she backed away. The wolf frowned and answered. "It's not what you think..."

"That's not an answer." she replied.

"Felicia... she... your body... it's the body of a companion droid. I had her customized to have her around and keep me... well... company. It's not as bad as you think I swear." he tried to convince her, but she was having none of it.

"No, I guess it's not. I'm just stuck in the body of your own personal sexbot!!!" she said frantically.

"No, I told you it's not like that-" Lucious tried to explain himself once more, but Felicia interrupted.

"You had sex with me didn't you. That's why my... these panties were tossed off to the side?" she said accusingly, waving the underwear clutched in her hand at him.

"No... well... I mean..." Lucious wasn't sure what to say that wouldn't make her more upset.

Felicia didn't give him a chance to make up excuses. "I felt it." she said bluntly, staring him down. Then, the realization hit her, her eyes going wide. She had sex with Lucious. She felt his hands running along her body. She felt his cock thrusting inside of her. It was him.

"You... you felt it?" Lucious asked concerned. He started to feel terrible. As far as he was concerned he was just having sex with a virtual avatar that looked like Felicia, but he never thought it would have transferred those feelings to the real Felicia. But what if it was true? He could imagine how mortified Felicia must be and if he felt awful for having put her through that if that was the case.

The feline felt that tightness in her chest again. She had sex with another man, her long time friend at that. However, what worried her the most was the realization that she didn't feel quite as disturbed or horrified by this situation as she should be. She felt surprised, but that was about it. Something had to be wrong. Maybe this really was all a dream, a nightmare, and it was projecting some weird and creepy fantasies about her former roommate onto her.

Felicia took a step forward. She hung her head to look at her feet, but as her glance caught sight of the wolf's white furred sheath and the two firm fluffy orbs that hung beneath she quickly turned her head to the side.

"I was in my room, laying in bed..." Felicia started explaining. "and then I... I felt hands on my body, petting me and massaging me. It felt nice." she started to drift off a bit, she couldn't help but think how nice it felt to be touched and caressed. She turned her head up to look at Lucious who still looked quite concerned. "And then I felt it... inside of me..."

The wolf put his hands on her shoulders, rubbing them gently. "I'm so... so sorry that happened to you. If I would have known-"

"It's okay Lucious." She said. "It doesn't matter okay? What's done is done... I just... I just want to know where we are now. Where did you take us?"

Lucious was surprised that she did want to tear his head off, let alone forgive him. He still felt ashamed about what he did to her. He looked down and accidentally caught a glimpse of the feline's ample cleavage. He quickly turned to the ceiling and closed his eyes. "I uhhh... It's like I said, it's just a virtual space. It was meant for me to use with Felicia, kind of a way to escape it all and just hang out with her once her personality was installed."

Felicia rung her hands together nervously, the feeling of his broad hands still massaging her shoulders was getting to her. She didn't even notice the slight purring that escaped her throat, but it made Lucious' ears flinch. Felicia spoke hesitantly "This... this isn't real? But I can feel it... it feels real to me."

Lucious looked back into her eyes, her purring was making him anxious, but it didn't stop him from petting her and making her purring continue. "I guess to you it might. I mean your nervous system is synthetic, so I guess it could be easy to trick your senses into feeling things here as though they were real. I mean your body is like a fully integrated interface. Just swap real world feelings to virtual ones."

Felicia thought for a moment. "I think I have an idea what happened. How I got here I mean." She inched a little closer to him without really thinking about it. She rubbed her cheek against his shoulder which just made the purring even louder. Lucious wasn't sure what to do.

"Uhhh, what do you mean?" He asked timidly as he gently pushed the purring feline away.

Felicia blinked, she felt like she'd zoned out again. "What? Oh... Well you said you could hang out with Felicia here when she had a proper personality installed, right? Maybe since I'm inside her now, and you came here, it forced it to sync us up? I wasn't here and I could feel it, but I wasn't really here... but now I am?"

Lucious shrugged, he was busy thinking of non-sexual things to keep things from springing out. "Uhh I guess."

"But how do I get out of here then?" She asked. "I don't even know how I got in in the first place...not really."

Suddenly, the wolf's eyes seemed to light up. "Oh! Yeah okay I think I get it. This is where you go when you go into a low power mode, when you 'sleep'. I mean the official name of this is the Dreamscape so I guess that makes sense. This is like your dreams. Maybe to leave you just need to wake yourself up?"

"Wake myself up?" she wasn't too sure how she could accomplish that beyond having an alarm go off. She closed her eyes and tried to think of waking up and of being in her room in her bed. But her mind kept drifting to the strong massaging hands against her shoulders. She could feel something soft and warm against her cheek as she rubbed against it. Her body pressed closer into something soft held up my a strong and firm core. She even felt something warm and fleshy press up against her pelvis and swell up to her navel. Her body was feeling tingly and wonderful.

Suddenly, her eyes snapped open and she whipped herself around. She was in her bed with blankets all tangled up and messy around her hips. It worked, she was back. Her feeling of success was somewhat short-lived as she started to feel a little flustered thanks to a warm electric tingling radiating from her loins.

She also felt excited, hot and full of energy like she needed to take a walk, or maybe even sprint across the halls. She never felt so hyperactive before. She tried to get out from her bedsheets and jump out of bed, but she seemed to be caught on something. She fought her way out of bed only to have her bedsheets follow her along.

She reached a hand between her body and the sheets to realize they had been snagged by those rubberized handles. She let out a frustrated groan as she tried to work them free, wiggling her hands and her hips among the mess until she could peel it all off.

She looked up to see herself in the mirror. She sighed at the sight of the feminine feline in a man's odd fitting shirt and her pants which had slid down to her thighs along with her underwear. She could see those handles jutting from her hips, taunting her. She gripped the right one with both hands and aggressively pushed and tugged at it hoping it would budge. Once more, all she managed to do was make her hips wiggle as well as make her breasts bounce around, her pert nipples rubbing up against the inside her shirt.

The electric tingles dancing along her nipples made her press her palms against them to make them stop. She grumbled and mumbled. "Fucking things..."

She was at a loss for how to get those handles back inside of her. She sure didn't want anyone to see her with them poking out and figured she may as well ask the only person that might know what to do.

Felicia pulled her pants up, stretching the waistline over the protrusions on her hips which bulged up like two odd squares at her sides. She went to the monitor to check the hall cameras, making sure the coast was clear.

Once she felt safe, she sneaked out into the hall. She kept looking back as she hurried to Lucious' room. She put her hand on the scanner by his door and waited anxiously for an answer. It felt like he was talking forever as she bounced nervously, looking side to side hoping no one would see her.

Lucious' face came on screen. "Eric? What's going?" he asked confused.

"Please let me in!" she said in an urgent and hushed tone.

"Uhh... Oh okay... Just... uhhh... just a sec..." he sounded like she caught him in the middle of something embarrassing.

As soon as the door started to slide open Felicia squeezed through and quickly pressed her back against the wall as to not be seen from the hall. She turned to see Lucious sitting on the edge of his bed, still wearing the virtual reality gloves as he firmly held a big wad of his bedsheets in his lap. "What's uh... what's wrong?" he asked nervously.

With the door closed she pulled herself away from the wall and stepped closer to the wolf. "It's these things, I can't get them back in." she said as she pulled her pants down just enough to uncover her hip grips.

For a moment Lucious eye's went wide, slack-jawed. He could see just the very top of her mound peeking from under her shirt, the edge of two white lips clearly visible. He only had a very quick glance before his head completely turned to the other side, his hands gripping the sheets more tightly. "Uhhh oh.. shi..." he stammered before realizing he needed to answer her. Her barely turned his head back an inch. "You need to push them in." he said

"Geee thanks, you're a genius. You don't think I tried that? It doesn't work!" Felicia said, sounding a little frustrated.

"Well... there's a way you have to push it... there's a release for it on the hips." he said, still looking away from her.

Felicia stepped in a little closer, leaning in to get into his line of sight. "Can you just fix it for me? I don't wanna be seen with literal lovehandles poking out like this."

Lucious bit his lower lip, hoping to distract himself with the pain before answering. "You really can't do it yourself?"

Felicia put her hands on his, leaning in sightly with a soft "Please Lucious, I need you."

Her voice sounded a little more seductive than she intended, but that along with the placement of her hands was enough to make the wolf's head quickly snap back towards her. He felt his heart stop for a moment. Her hands were way too close for comfort and that was despite shielding himself with his own hands and a mountain of blankets. He slid his arm across his lap while plucking both her hands away with a single grip around her wrists. "Fine... but you have to leave right after... okay?"

Felicia was a surprised by his tone, but she had no intention of staying anyway. She could imagine all the teasing that would happen if she was caught alone in the room of any male crew member for more than a few seconds looking like she did now. She a nodded silently.

The wolf took a few deep breaths. "Just turn around, stand straight and close your eyes."

"Close my eyes?" she asked not seeing why that would be an important step.

"Just do it! ... please." he sounded quite agitated.

"Okay, okay..." Felicia said, thinking he was oddly irritable. She turned around, stood as straight as she could and closed her eyes.

The wolf somewhat regretted having her turn herself around as now he was faced with her bare ass just inches away. He could just grab her hips and pull her down to make her sit right on his... blankets... He closed his eyes and shook his head. He kept telling himself it was Eric, imagining him as he used to be.

He bit his lower lip harder. It felt like it took all the effort in the world to remove his arm from covering his groin. Even with everything covering him up he felt horribly exposed. He brought his trembling hands to her hips. He opened an eye just to guide himself, but his eye drifted to her soft, plump and round cheeks. He hated himself as he fought the urge to just touch them, to squeeze them in his palms.

He slid his hands along her hips until his fingertips were beneath the handles. He couldn't help but think of how wonderfully soft her body was. He could feel his fingers sinking into her wide hips as he massaged the area there. He tried to think rationally. That body was just a machine, just wires and junk, it was just made to trick him into thinking it was the most attractive woman he'd ever known.

He almost forgot what he was supposed to be doing when he head two clicks in rapid succession coming from her sides. It made the feline jump up, and the wolf's eyes opened at the same time only to follow her rump all the way up and down.

"Th... there. It's done." the wolf said as he put a palm on each handle and just pushed them in with ease. "Now please... I... I need to sleep." he said as his hands quickly shot back to the wadded up bedsheets on his lap.

Felicia turned around with a smile only to see the terrified look on his face. She was a little confused but she didn't want to bother him further. "Okay then, I guess I'll just... go now." she said as she pulled her pants back up.

Lucious anxiously stared as Felicia made her way out of his room. She turned back one last time to say "Good night, Lucious", but he just stared blankly. He waited for the door to close behind her before falling back onto his bed, both hands shooting up to cover his face. "What the fuck am I going to do..."