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Threads - Kiki's Story

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"Well it's not every day you randomly get a Lion in your back garden."

"Is she even a Lion?"

"Tail looks like it..."

Alex and Kristin were sitting in the kitchen, both sipping a cup of coffee, or mug of tea to themselves whilst they waited on Laura upstairs, attending to the new feline occupant who lay in his bed.

"I guess she'll have to stay with us really. I don't know what's happened to her but she's very traumatised. She could use a loving home."

"Sounds good. Where will she sleep though?"

"Well... I guess with me? You're more than welcome to let her sleep with you if you want."

With Kristin she was a little shocked. Already Laura slept in Alex's bed because of nightmares she would have from an early age. Also, with Kristin being a Vixen, she was naturally quite protective, especially of Alex. She really did love him.

"What? No thanks, I'd rather Nicky to be honest."

He was a little taken back by this, and shrugged to her. His hand extended from the warmth of the mug to take hold of her soft paw, threading his fingers with hers. The vixen merely looked up, staring at the human inquisitively.

"What's wrong? Do you not like her or something?"

"No it's just..."

"I think someone needs a hug."

Despite his efforts, Kristin still seemed to look a little fussed about this, letting her ears drop against her head whilst she let go of his hand. But these thoughts were short lived, as she quite gracefully pounced Alex onto his back.

"Or may- WOAH! HUGS!"

"Oh shut up you love it when I jump you."

He blinked a few times whilst trying to adjust to the kitchen sit-in lights upon the ceiling that glared into his eyes. But surely, the glare was blocked out by Kristin looming over him, letting the Human snatch a look at her figure.

"Does no one but me wear clothing in this house or something? Sheesh."

Unlike Laura, Kristin wore a pair of blue jeans to cover the more private of her parts, whereas Laura was a free spirit, and didn't really know any better. Kristin just wore them for the fashion sense from reading all those magazines.

"Is sir not amused?"

"We are most amused."

"Good good. Now feel them."

"Ah... Excuse me-"

The vixen smirked and grabbed a hold of Alex's hand in her own, and then pressed it to one of her breasts. Her quirky grin was still sitting in, bearing down closer to Alex.

"Squeeze."

Without any hesitation, he gave her ample breast a gentle squeeze and nodded up at the Vixen. "Know what I always wondered?"

"What?"

"Why haven't you got any nipples?"

"You could have asked earlier."

"And caution losing you to being a pervert? Of course I wouldn't, you know how I am Kris."

"Well they're a little lower."

"Oh right... yeah."

After their brief lesson on the whereabouts of the Carbine species nipples are located, she let his hand go, and then lay down on his chest, letting her own press against his to show them off a little whilst letting her large, and puffy tail flick idly. Alex would allow his arms to rest upon her back, giving gently strokes on either side of her back.

"So, what's been going on at work lately?"

"Nothing much. Just general boring crap really."

"Sounds fun and mind numbing then?"

"To the T."

"Maybe I can help you with that?"

Alex would blink a few times as Kristin would lean down, nose to nose and quite literally at that. Her intentions were clear; her arms slinked down to wrap around his neck, just to give that little more leverage to his head as she would ever so gently press her lips to his own, of course making the two blush slightly to one another.

Alex's arms constricted slightly, letting his hands dig into that soft and perfectly kept fur whilst she would introduce her tongue to his lips, and give them a gentle lick to gain an opening to his mouth. Slowly his jaws would open, allowing this new tongue to explore, to which he would do the same to his friend.

But before it could go any further, a slight cough would come from the archway into the foyer, having Laura standing there with a large smile and blush on her face.

"Oh my..."

Alex and Kristin's eyes would re-open to the size of dinner plates, slowly turning to look at the feline who stood only a stone's throw away. Quickly enough Alex would disconnect the kiss, and then jump to his feet, holding Kristin in his arms.

"Er... So how is she Laura?"

"I'm not interrupting am I?"

"No no of course you aren't."

"She's doing... Okay. I managed to get her to calm down."

He nods and then turns his head back to Kristin, who was looking away, seemingly ashamed.

"Laura, can you go talk with her? I'll be there in a second. And thank you hun."

Laura nodded and walked off to the stairs, whilst Alex gently brought the Vixens gaze back to his eyes. Nothing but "I love you" Was said, and he gave her a loving, long hug to notify all was well, and she hadn't just embarrassed herself. He gives her a kiss, not on the cheek, but on the lips with a gentle smile.

"C'mon... Give us a smile."

"Oooh..."

She was trying her best not to laugh, but failed anyway. In turn she would nod and give him a kiss back, smiling at the Human.

"Love you."

"Awwr, love you too."

They both parted, and Alex sprinted up the stairs to try and see how the feline had cleared up. This will be interesting. He opened the door to his bedroom, and could see the Lion like feline laying in his bed under the covers, and Laura sitting on the side whilst she quietly chatted with her.

She seemed a little frail, only just about able to open her eyes to see the Human walking in, in which case, she whimpered a little and sank down into the covers.

"Alex! Her name is Kiki. Kiki this is Alex."

Generally, as ever, Laura was happy to see Alex, whilst it seemed Kiki wasn't. Not that immediately she hated him, but it did seem that she was quite wary of his presence in the room.

"Hey Laura. And hi Kiki. I see you'll be staying with us for a little?"

Just as soon as Alex had said those words, Kiki seemed to start shaking with sheer fear, and had clung to the bed sheets whilst her eyes would shut tight. The human blinked a few times, and glanced at Laura. Laura simply shrugged her shoulders and simply stood up, walking to the door and passed Alex.

"I'll leave you to try and comfort her."

"All right love."

Laura retired and Alex moved further into the room, just to the chair that sat perpendicular to the bed that Kiki lay in. She seemed to edge away a little, closing her eyes tightly to try and keep away from the Human.

"Not fond of Humans then?"

She said nothing. All to be heard was the slight shiver of fabric against fur whilst the Feline had sunk right under the bed sheets. To Alex this was in a way, sort of cute. But he had to help her, not goof off. He got to his feet, and gently peeled away some of the bedding.

"Kiki?"

Kiki growled, a little shakily though as she was still completely scared of the Human. He peeled it back a little further to reveal Kiki curled up, ears flat against her head with large, blazing fire red eyes that gazed at him, and she was starting to get more and more threatened and agitated, leaning up slightly. This mean nothing but bad. He stood back a little, dropping the covers and holding his hand out.

"Whoa whoa whoa now... I'm your friend. I don't want to hurt you."

But his words were short lived. The feline had already let out possibly the loudest roar he could have ever wanted to have heard, and pounded him to the floor. Obviously the 'fight or flight' mode was switched to fight. She near most broke his arm as it crashed against the bed side table, causing him to call out in pain.

Those large, almost feral and burning red eyes bared down on Alex, making him lean back in fear from the lion while she growled all the time, keeping him down on the floor and restricting him with great force. As soon as Alex thought the claws were going to come out, and they actually did seeing as though they were at his throat, he noticed the collar. But this was no normal collar; it was one of the old Pulse models.

"Oh no... Kiki, stop, please."

Alex spoke calmly, trying to get as much as emphasis on the feline without being aggressive. He knew that if she didn't, he would have to do something at some point, otherwise she could potentially kill him.

"Kiki... Please!"

He didn't want to... he REALLY didn't want to, but he might have to use it. He couldn't move his arms, they were pinned down by Kiki, and of course her weight was starting to take a toll on his breathing. He could see she was taking her time, reading his expressions whilst he would try to wriggle free, all the while thinking 'Please don't make me do it.'

"...Ariel."

All of a sudden, Kiki's eyes dilated and quickly exploded back to the large pupils as she barrelled backwards, paws frantically trying to release herself from the collar. She was being shocked, roughly 500 volts being sent into the Basing chip within her neck, causing all muscles to pulsate and lock up, which was often very painful.

As soon as Alex was free, he leapt up and grabbed a hold of Kiki, hugging around her body whilst she tensed, and began to shake. Fingers fumbled at the collar, but soon enough he managed to grab it off, and then throw the device out the window.

Kiki was silent. Awake, alive, but very silent and very still in Alex's arms. He checked her pupils. They were fine. Checked the blood pulse and heart rate, high, but fine. She was simply tired out. All thoughts to fight the human were cleared off, and she simply lay in his arms, gazing straight at him.

"Kiki... You all right?"

"You... took it off, even when... I hurt you."

"Hurt me? I'm fi- -"

His words were cut off as he felt a slight sting in his neck, and the feeling of something wet trickling down his neck.

"Oh... Well I don't care about that. You're okay, that's all that matters."

"I'm... so-sorry."

She choked in mid sentence, trying to spill the words out as she then grabbed into Alex's side, as if trying to hide her face. In all attempts to comfort her, he stroked her gently as she teared up, and then silently let the tears fall down her cheeks.

Alex was used to this. Laura has had the occasional scare sometimes, usually when he would need to take her to a conventional part of the town to make sure she was okay. She didn't much like to be out of the house, or the Garden.

But with Kiki he needed to adjust to her likes, dislikes, different reactions to his action, and so forth. But firstly, he just wanted her to be okay, never mind his bleeding neck.

He stood, picking up the feline to place her on the bed, and then pull the covers over her.

"Kiki... You're going to be safe here. I can see you aren't quite fond of me still, but hopefully we can work on that, and how you got here. You will never have that collar anymore, I promise that to you."

She nods, sniffling a little as her paw would wipe away a tear, watching him carefully. The paw would point to his neck, signalling the gash, but he held up a hand to her, as if dismissing it.

"I'll be fine. Nothing a wash and a plaster won't fix. You can stay in my bed for as long as you like. Laura took that opportunity so, you can too."

He chuckled a little, trying to raise her spirit. She did smile, nodding softly as she was now of a calmer state of mind.

"I'll be up tomorrow, get some sleep."

The door was closed, and the light switch flicked off. Alex sighed and then began to make his way down to the kitchen, seeing Laura leaning on the surface top. Almost instantly she turned, and smiled, running over to him to give her friend a hug.

"How'd it go?"

"Well, actually."

She noticed the cut and gasped, placing her paws to her mouth in astonishment at the sight of quite the gash, and trickles of blood down his neck. But he merely shook his head and smiled, making his way over to the sink to try and wash it off.

"Don't worry about it."

"But... O-okay..."

She stepped in to help, taking the cloth from his hand, and then places his head back a little, gently dabbing the gash as she concentrated.

"She had a collar. I'm going to have to get her de-chipped tomorrow."

"Does that hurt?"

"Well I don't know, I haven't-"

"No silly, the cloth."

"I think a hug will do."

Laura blinks as Alex would turn, and then pick her up into a hug, feet wiggling off the ground as he kisses her nose.

"Eeee!"

"You loooove it."

He smiled, and then let her down, placing a gentle kiss on her lips. Alex loved doing that because no matter what, you could always see Laura's blushes. And they were such a treat too, because they were adorable. Especially when she looked away and tried to hide it. All the more fun.

"Aww..."

"You're so evil."

"I know, but you love me still."