Lexi: Cats and Rabbits

Story by Lucien Lerderna on SoFurry

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#1 of Love Can't Be Different


It was going on dusk, and Lexi was taking a relaxing walk around the neighborhood. Lexi, Alisa's younger sister by two years, had a very unique coat for a leopard. Her base color was a woody brown, her spots a slick blue-black, and her stomach, chest and thighs were a brilliant porcelain white. Her hair, the same brilliant white, was kept down to the bottom of her shoulder blades. She dressed much the same as her sister and Thanatos, and tended to keep a bit of punkiness in her goth look.

Her heavy soled shoes clacked against the sidewalk with every step, and she was far too busy looking around and just enjoying her walk to notice anything other than the quiet sound of footsteps that should be passing her in a few moments. She switched her steps sideways in attempt to avoid bumping into the footsteps. The person the steps belonged to closed in and when it should have passed, stopped abruptly, and with a quiet squeak and a quiet thud, hit the pavement and scrambled to collect itself.

Lexi was well aware of herself now, and also scrambled to collect the person who ran into her. It appeared to be a rabbit. It was a girl, as judging by the pitch of the squeak when she hit the ground. The rabbit had brown fur and gray eyes and a striking beauty. Lexi bent down and offered her hand to the rabbit girl. "Are you alright?" Lexi asked cutely.

"Hmm," the rabbit replied, not taking the offered hand and dusting herself off seriously.

"Did I hurt you?" Lexi said quietly, not used to the cold reaction to her cutesy voice.

"Fine." The rabbit replied before gathering an inconspicuous black book off the ground and trying to storm off coldly.

Lexi did not allow this, and followed along with this very serious girl, trying to get a real response from her. "I've never seen you around here, and I'm out at this time almost every night. Are you new around here or something?"

The rabbit girl was done being accommodating, and snapped back at Lexi, "I don't want to talk. I came out here to be alone."

Lexi was impossible to deter, becoming more bubbly by the second. "Well, I did too. There's nothing that says we can't be alone together."

"Stop talking." The rabbit murmured.

"Now now, that's no way to be. Especially someone so cute." The rabbit's eyes went wide and her ears went red and she started to walk furiously and with a purpose. "It wouldn't hurt to smile, or at least take the compliment." Lexi cooed to the bunny coaxingly.

The rabbit started to walk faster, and Lexi stood bewildered for a moment, before running ahead and stopping in front of her. "I'll stop bothering you, if you smile." Lexi said frankly. The rabbit kept walking at speed, and they were coming to the corner of the block, and turning toward the park. "I'll follow you home if you keep frowning." Lexi cooed, "and, I'll follow you to bed if you keep sneering at me like you are."

The rabbit girl walked purposefully as quickly as she could, but Lexi followed right beside her. Lexi spoke up one more time, "Oh, I forgot to ask you, pretty bunny, what is it you are reading?"

The rabbit sprinted off for a few hundred meters. Lexi stood bewildered again, before chasing after her, quickly catching up because of her predatory heritage and her serious physical fitness. She cornered the rabbit girl just off of the trail. She felt the sudden urge to tackle the girl and break her neck, but that was just an evolutionary throwback, so she ignored it. She caught up to the rabbit and sprinted around in front of her. They both stopped. Lexi stared at the rabbit, and the rabbit stared back. She could swear she heard the poor girl's heart beating in her chest, and she moved slowly closer. She saw the gray of the rabbit's eyes twinkling a bit, and she saw the girl's muzzle quiver.

"I... Don't cry." Lexi said nervously, feeling very bad suddenly. "I'll go. I - you looked - m sorry." Lexi continued. "You'll never see me again, if you don't want. I'll be going now." She mewed quietly, turning and contritely walking away.

"Don't." The bunny said, still cold, but with a noticeable quiver in her voice.

Lexi turned around slowly, and walked back to the bunny girl. "What's wrong?" Lexi said, barely a whisper.

"I - stop talking." The rabbit said, voice breaking. She turned and walked a few paces, before sitting under a tree. Lexi followed warily, and sat next to the girl. They sat in silence, and Lexi realized that the sun was nearly gone for the day. "We're alone together, which is what you wanted." The girl said, keeping the ice in her voice. "For... whatever... that's -" There her will failed her, and her voice broke into quiet sobs.

Lexi quickly did what she felt was right, and rested a hand on the girl's back, stroking her gently and murmuring, "What's wrong, um, you?"

The girl's sobs kept their intensity, and she did not try to answer. Lexi suspected that the book she was holding had something to do with it, and realized from its blank cover that it was a journal, not a novel. Lexi felt rather out of her league, and continued to stroke the bunny's shoulder. The girl sobbed harder, and eventually resigned to sobbing into Lexi's shoulder. She felt weird. She was alone in a park, a notorious spot for attacks, with a girl she may or may not have driven to tears clutching her neck and getting various fluids on her shirt. The girl's hand was also in an extremely awkward position over a very awkward part of her.

It was full dark now, so Lexi suspected that this girl had been crying for a good twenty minutes. She relaxed and cradled the girl, shushing her soothingly and hoping for some break in the tears. It took her a moment to realize that the seeping warmth on her shirt was going cold, which meant that there were no more tears soaking her shoulder. She looked at the bunny, and quietly, quietly asked her "Are - are you alright?"

"I - I'm so sorry!" The girl sniffled, and almost began to cry again, but Lexi quieted her and tilted her head.

"Hey, um, where did you walk from?" Lexi questioned. "I, uh, don't mean to pry, but I - it's full dark and, it might be dangerous to go traipsing around alone at night. I hear cute bunnies get caught up all the time." Lexi gasped quietly when she saw the teary-eyed smile on the rabbit girl's face. "I guess I can't follow you home now. Damn." Lexi pouted. The little bunny made a quiet sound akin to a laugh, though it was very short.

"I, I, I live in Cloverdale."

Lexi stopped being so triumphant in her victory and stared incredulous at the girl. "Dear, that's twenty miles away, you must have been walking for five hours!"

"I, uh, I - yeah. That sounds about right." The girl looked around, nervous, and chewed her lower lip. "I guess I'd better start walking now if I want to be home by morning, huh?"

"Absolutely not!" Lexi growled, not noticing the girl flinch a bit at her vehemence. "You are going to call your parents, and tell them you're not going to make it home tonight. You'll walk home with me, and you'll sleep over, and calm down and tell me what happened - or not, if you don't want to - and we'll get you home and see what we see."

The bunny missed most of Lexi's tirade, caught off guard by the sudden loud outburst. She snapped out of it a bit when she realized Lexi was offering her cellphone with outstretched hand. She took it gingerly, squeaking when it slid sideways like a switchblade, and dialed her home's number dejectedly. The phone picked up on the third ring, just like it always did. "Hi," the bunny murmured with a sense of danger. "Ah, I'm - I'm not going to make it home tonight - No - nononononono! It's nothing like that." She said with a quiver in her cute little soprano voice. "I just - I just got caught up in thought and lost track of time when I left. With whom? Just a -" The bunny looked questioningly at Lexi. She mouthed the word friend'. " - Friend's house. No, s a girl. No, I'll be home early tomorrow. As early as I need to be." She turned the phone upside down so she could hear, but not be heard and inhaled a shuddering sniff. "Alright, goodbye."

"What'd they say...?" Lexi asked, trying to sound nonchalant.

"Don't expect sympathy if you end up dead in the gutter." The bunny whimpered.

Lexi paled, as much as something with fur can pale, and pressed on boldly. "Well, I can assure you that you won't end up - eh - dead in the gutter, or anywhere else. Now, let's be getting off, I'm sure Thanatos and Alisa are worried to fatality about me." Lexi said, getting up, brushing off and offering the rabbit a hand. She gasped loudly and tittered quietly, "I'm Lexi, by the way. I must seem rude as hell, making you cry, chasing you, taking you to my place, making passing comments about your body," she made an hourglass shape with her arms, and cooed quietly in jest, "why, I must seem like an abusive boyfriend." She noticed the rabbit girl's mood immediately lighten, then darken, then level out again, throughout her little speech.

"I'm Bellany," she said quietly, "I'm glad to have, um, run into you earlier. I'm sorry to be such a nuisa-"

"You, madam, are not a nuisance!" Lexi insisted, "you are a cute little bunny who I happened to plow into a few hundred meters back, who I happened to make cry for some reason, and is now in a bit of a pinch. A nuisance, you are not. A coincidence, you most certainly are."

"R - Right, right. Sorry." Bellany said flatly.

"Don't be sorry," Lexi said, wrapping her arm right around Bellany's waist and leading her down the block they turned from to enter this park. It took forty-five minutes, and Lexi kept her hand around Bellany's hip. She tried to move it, but Lexi just tried to grab her hand when she pushed at her arm. When they reached the front lawn of Lexi and Alisa's home, they were greeted by a nervously tittering mouse, a nervously tittering leopardess, and very fast talking and very fast gesturing. They did not seem to notice the quickly shrinking bunny stuck in Lexi's grasp until she squeaked when her torso bent at a strange angle as Lexi got lifted off the ground by a mouse.

"Oh, my gosh!" Thanatos exclaimed, "I'm so sorry, uh..."

"Bellany," Bellany stated meekly.

"Pretty name, well, whatever, come on in, we were worried sick about you, Lexi." Thanatos amended himself quickly, but, now it seems that you had reason to be delayed. Right?" He smiled when Lexi nodded guiltily. "Excellent!" He cried.

"Well, Bellany, it's nice to meet you." Alisa said sweetly, "but what's the occasion for our meeting you?"

"We bumped into each other on the sidewalk, and one thing led to another, which led to her being much too far from home to walk at night. We decided that it would be best for her to just crash here and pop back home in the morning." Bellany nodded throughout the severely abridged and edited version of the story and agreed with an affirmative at the end of the explanation.

"Oh, well then. Welcome, Thanatos was cooking some dinner, which, it seems would be right up your alley, because of the notable absence of meat in the dish. I'm sure you would like to come in now, right?" Alisa prompted, moving inside the front door. Lexi and Bellany stepped in, followed by Thanatos playing the maternal figure for all it was worth, who closed and locked the door behind them.

"I, uh, I don't feel like eating anything right now." Bellany said with a dead voice. "Where's your bathroom, I need to shower."

"I'll show you." Lexi offered cheerfully, trying to get the cute smile back onto the rabbit's face. She wrapped her arm around the girl's waist again, and pulled her close and they wandered off down the hall. They went to the end of the hall, and Lexi showed her into the bathroom. She said in passing that her room was on the same side of the hall, being the next door, and left Bellany to it.

Lexi went back into the kitchen, where Alisa and Thanatos were mulling about, though they stopped mulling when they saw her, and focused their collective gazes on her. "So, what really happened with that bunny girl?" They asked in near perfect unison.

"Exactly what I said happened, why?" Lexi asked, puzzled.

"Because you always have been and always will be a terrible, terrible liar." Alisa said primly.

"I'm, ah, not sure what's up yet. I'm still blindsided by it too." Lexi said.

"Well, don't get hurt, dear." Thanatos said. "She gives off a serious crazy vibe." Alisa smashed him in the ribs, and then apologized, saying that she thought so too.

"I know she seems weird, but I couldn't just leave her how she was." Lexi defended.

"How she was?" They said, "That's what we wanted to know. How was she when you found her, that you couldn't leave her?" Lexi made a mental note that she really hated that unified speaking thing they did, especially in the case of long statements or questions.

"Exactly like I told you when we got home. We ran into each other, and she was too cute looking to just leave laying on the ground. Then we... got to talking... and I found out she was twenty-ish miles from home. What would either of you have done?"

"Exactly what you did, except we would have written or called our absence." Thanatos said for both of them. Lexi did feel a bit dumb, though, that she forgot even to send them a text message saying that she was alright. She sat down, and asked what Thanatos was cooking, which brought him into an entirely happier place. He made Lexi a plate, despite her lack of hunger, stating that somebody in the collective family had to eat like a normal person, and not survive on Snakebites and Black. She ate, and enjoyed the citrus flavored stir fry that Thanatos had made, and quickly finished so that she could disappear.

She walked to her bedroom, and heard the water still running in the bathroom. Without really thinking, Lexi grabbed the handle and peeked in, saying, "Bellany, you alright, dear? Need anything to aid your bathing experience?" She asked concerned.

"I'm fine. Ah, I conditioned, is that alright?"

"Of course, of course." Lexi said, and added bashfully. "I'll leave you to it, again." She drew her head back from the steamy bathroom, and headed into her room. She lay down on her bed, and relaxed, until she started to analyze what had happened on her walk. The more she thought about it, the more she worried about Bellany. It concerned her that she had essentially run away. It concerned her that she started crying when she mentioned her journal, it concerned her that she broke down in the middle of the park. That she broke down on her shoulder. The conversation she had on the phone concerned her, and the way she sounded so unsurprised by what was said concerned her the most.

Lexi snapped out of her reverie when Bellany walked in, holding her towel around herself and looking about nervously. "I - I uh, need a brush." Bellany squeaked. "There's not one in the bathroom, so I assumed you kept one in your room."

"Yeah. Here." Lexi said with a bit of trepidation at looking at the object of her worry. Sitting up and digging in her bedside table for a thick, stiff boar bristle brush which she quickly found and handed to Bellany. She did not seem to like the idea of natural bristles very much, judging by the way she looked at and held the item. Lexi did not notice this for several moments, but when she did, she made sure there was no problem. "Something wrong, dear?" She murmured worriedly.

"Oh um, well. Brushing is kind of a private matter. I uh," She began.

"Dear, I have the exact same equipment as you, in the exact same place as you. And actually, if I don't have the same equipment as you, I think I'm going to have to ask you to remove that towel." Lexi said, starting seriously, and growing playful as she continued. Ending with her arm wrapped around the towel cloaked bunny's waist just below the ribs.

"I, uh... alright." Bellany murmured resignedly. She slipped her towel down around her shoulders, and held it there until Lexi moved her arms. The towel slipped further and the bunny seemed to get more nervous as she went. She really had no reason to be embarrassed, since she was wearing her underwear, and with her build, a bra would be more erotic than going bare chested with her little A-cups, despite the perk of her nipples from the coolness of the room. She glanced nervously at Lexi, who was staring intently at a spot on her wall almost directly next to her. She denied being many things, a pervert was not one of the things Lexi denied being.

The bunny shifted the brush in her hands and held out her right arm, and dragged it down toward her hand several times, before moving on to the other arm and doing the same, less dextrously. Lexi noted that this girl was left handed, and continued her free peep show at the slender earthy colored bunny. She shifted uncomfortably, and brushed her face gently, sweeping the short fur on her cheeks out as much as she could, which gave her face a more angular and dangerous appearance. She dragged it down her neck and ran it down her collarbone and breasts, reached around to get each of her sides, and moved on to her stomach. She brushed her stomach as gently as she did her face, and Lexi realized at that point there was something strange about the way she held herself. She could not place it, but it was obvious in its subtleties.

"I can feel you staring through my back." Bellany said quietly, sadly.

"I just think you're really cute, and can't help but admire such a pretty body." Lexi said in defense.

"I don't know how I'm supposed to take that." She began, "but I'm not attracted to girls. We're barely even old enough to be attracted to boys." She added conscientiously.

"It was a compliment, not a come on, dear." Lexi informed her. Bellany made a quiet sound of resignation, and set the brush down on the bed. Her arms disappeared in front of her for a moment, and reappeared at the sides of her underwear.

"Could you please not look at me?" Bellany pleaded with a dead voice.

Lexi, embarrassed, realized that she missed the most obvious cue ever, and apologized, before turning her body and looking away. She kept her gaze away as long as she could, which, she was proud to know, was long enough for the rabbit to get her panties down. She watched her arms disappear in front of herself again, as the bristles trailed along the line drawn by her hips. She watched the rabbit's back tense a bit when she brushed along the right spots. Lexi looked away blushing, and managed to do so quickly enough for Bellany not to catch her when she turned and looked at Lexi fearfully.

She stood up awkwardly, and looked back at Lexi once more, satisfied that she was still not looking, began to brush her most intimate places. Once Lexi heard the scraping sound of the brush, she turned her head back to look at Bellany. Lexi blushed again, seeing this enticing sight. She was hunched forward slightly, not far enough to be able to see Lexi staring, but quite enough to be displaying her slit to Lexi. The brush ran in between her legs, and almost touched her entrance before dragging with friction enough to lewdly open herself up. Lexi comically wiped a bit of drool from her muzzle. This show was worth paying for, and here she was enjoying it for free, and the no touching rule was based solely upon her honor.

Bellany finished brushing her private parts, and ran down one thigh, all the way down to her foot, where Lexi imagined she did some very lewd motions with her hands, before coming up a few inches and going around her left leg, and then her right leg. This gave Lexi an even better view between the girl's legs, and she was loving it. Every time she moved her upper body, her perspective changed a bit. When she switched from her first leg to the second, and she went down all the way to her foot again, her little bunny slit was staring, figuratively, straight at her. It seemed to Lexi, that Bellany hurried more on her second leg, than her first, because her treasure peeked in and out of sight much more than it did on the first leg.

Bellany quickly got back upright, and turned. Lexi wondered if she had looked away fast enough to avoid suspicion. She did not notice Bellany staring at her with dead eyes, until she spoke quietly. "I, uh, could you - could you - get my back, please?" Bellany asked, holding out the brush.

Lexi did not speak, just to keep her voice from betraying her, and took the brush in hand. Bellany bent down to retrieve her underwear, and slid them on dejectedly, before she reclined on her stomach on the bed, with her arms folded under her chin. Lexi took the brush in quivering hands, and pressed the brush softly against Bellany's back. She dragged it down her back to her panty line, and sincerely wanted to remind her that she had not brushed there. She went for it anyway. "You didn't brush your cute little butt." She muttered almost to herself.

"I - you're - you're a pervert." Bellany said, voice going higher pitched and signaling a sore spot for her.

"I wasn't insinuating." Lexi defended, "I just made an observation, I won't brush there without your permission. Don't get upset, I didn't mean to touch on a sore subject." She missed Bellany's wince again, and resumed brushing her back and sides. After she had (thoroughly) brushed the bunny's back, she took a hold of her tail, and slid the brush along, sliding the brush those few inches, and puffing out the cute little cotton ball. After she finished there, she tested the waters just a bit, by going a bit under Bellany's tail, right above where her panties came on her hips. Bellany tensed up hard, and did not relax until Lexi moved away.

"Do you want me to do your hair, while I've got you so compromised?" Lexi murmured. Bellany nodded slowly and without much feeling, and let Lexi groom her mid-back length brown hair to its straight perfection. "You're all groomed now. Do you want Thanatos to fix you a plate of stir fry? It's wonderful." Lexi had taken on that same dead tone, it really was just all she could do to keep her eyes open. Bellany nodded and stood up, sliding on her bra and the rest of her clothes before walking into the kitchen. When Bellany left, Lexi stripped down to her underwear, and went to bed. She was exhausted from spending time with this girl, and to make things worse, she did not know anything about her.

She awoke to the strange feeling of the bed depressing next to her. She opened her eyes, and in the dim light from the moon in her window, she made out the form of Bellany crawling slowly into bed, fully clothed and fully uncomfortable. She rolled over, and with her head propped up on her hand, said firmly, "I just washed my sheets, dear, so you're not going to wear your road-soiled clothes to bed."

Bellany looked around nervous, again, and got off of the bed. "Well, they said I would have to be in here tonight. I don't think I'd do too well on the couch." She said sadly.

"Nobody said anything about the couch, Bellany, I just told you to take off your shirt and pants."

Bellany heaved a silent sigh, and spoke up quietly. "I - you - you're a pervert." She squeaked, and slipped off her shirt and pants quickly, in effort to not give Lexi another free show. She crawled into bed, as far away from Lexi as one could be on a normal full sized mattress, and curled up into a fetal ball.

Bellany tensed up when she felt Lexi's hand on her back, and she froze cold when she felt herself being pulled close. "Come on, I don't bite, Bellany. In fact, I won't even fondle, if you don't want." Lexi cooed quietly to the bunny's ear. She uncurled Bellany from her tight ball, and wrapped her arm over her back, and slid one under her head. They both knew how inappropriate this whole thing was. Lexi's hands wrapped fondly around Bellany, whose face rested on Lexi's breast. Though there was nothing that she could do to break the embrace, so she went limp in Lexi's arms.

Lexi soon drifted off to sleep, aided quite a bit by the softness and warmth of the girl laying next to her. She really thought, right before her eyes drifted shut, that she would get a good night's sleep. She genuinely thought that until she was awoken by Bellany's shivering. Lexi jumped a little and shook the sleep from her mind, looking around to notice the tawny bunny quivering and gasping quietly. For a moment, Lexi kind of hoped she was staring at an intimate moment for the bunny, but soon realized that she was sobbing, and not touching herself.

"Wha's wrong, Belley?" Lexi murmured lazily.

"I - I - sorry I woke - you - up." She whispered brokenly.

"Don't be sorry." Lexi said, suddenly lucid. "What's wrong?" She asked, concerned.

"I - stop talking." Bellany demanded, very reminiscently. Lexi nodded and held the her close, while she cried her gray eyes out. Lexi wondered for how long they would be up tonight, until she realized that Bellany's cries had petered out, and she was sleeping fitfully and whimpering. Lexi rolled her in her arms, making herself more comfortable, and slipped off to sleep.

Roughly five hours later, as the sun was peeking above the horizon, and trying to peek through Lexi's blinds, Bellany woke up with a hard start. She managed to jump internally though, and Lexi did not notice the tensing of all of Bellany's muscles as she woke up. She took surveillance of herself. She had a monstrous headache. There was a bad taste in her mouth, she ached all over and her joints all felt stiff. She noticed that this was not her bedroom, strange trinkets on the dresser, and an unfamiliar wall color reminded her of yesterday's activities. She gasped silently, and the first thing that popped into her mind was a reason for why she felt the way she did right now: they must have drugged her at some point last night.

Her rational mind did not kick in, to realize it was really impossible for anybody in the house to have slipped her something. She could only assume that they had had their way with her. She felt her body for any unsavory stains, any strange fur textures, or snarls. None there. They must have been really subtle with it. She ran her hand down her front, and nervously slipped it down the front of her underwear. She felt around her slit for anything that may resemble sex fluids. None. She touched herself experimentally to see if she was bruised or hurt, and felt discomfort only from her fingers, and no injury. There was only one more explanation, that simply made her blanch. They had to have done what they wanted with her backside.

Lexi slid her eyes open slowly, checking out the day to see if she would rather spend it with lucid dreams than with lucid life. What she saw, she assumed to be dream, considering there was a sexy little bunny with her hand in her underwear, kneeling right beside her and panting quietly. She never had been one to recall her previous days quickly, so she did what any teenaged pervert would do. "Hey, cutey." She murmured stretching, "do you need any help down there?" Lexi added with a lascivious coo, and rolled over to grip at one of her firm thighs.

"Ah!" Bellany squeaked, "ah, ah, ah, no. Wait yes." Her heart was pounding, and her hand was quickly withdrawn from her panties. "I have reason to suspect that you drugged me last night." She stated accusingly.

"Dear, what brings you that idea?"

"I've got a terrible headache, I'm sore, there's a bad taste in my mouth, and I'm all stiff. Not to mention your all too liberal greeting a few seconds ago."

Lexi nodded sympathetically, even though she stopped listening after Bellany said she had a headache, and wondered what it was about small prey mammals that just got her so hot. Thanatos, Bellany, a few of the more effeminate boys from her class. It just got her warm to think about them. "Bellany. Do you honestly believe that we slipped you a drug last night, just so we could have our way with you, when you know full well between Thanatos, Alisa, and myself, we could have you pinned on the floor and screaming for more at the top of your lungs in no time."

"I - you wouldn't!" She started.

"We wouldn't, exactly. So what makes you think that how you feel this morning is because of drugs?"

"It's the first thing that comes to mind."

"Bellany," Lexi began gently, "have you never fallen asleep crying?" She nodded her head, and blushed with embarrassment at her irrationality. "Now that you think of it, does that seem more like how you feel?" She nodded again. "Besides," Lexi added, "you would feel way too good to worry about the side effects, if we had drugged you dear. You would have cum so many times that you'd be drenched from tail to toe."

"Cum?" Bellany asked, curious. Lexi crawled up Bellany's thigh, and Bellany leaned down, while Lexi whispered something into her ear that made her blush hard, and draw back squeak quietly. "That's - that's - ah, vulgar." She managed.

"No, vulgar would be volunteering to demonstrate." Lexi said quickly, with an evil glint in her eyes, "would you like me to?" She asked, sliding back down Bellany's thigh and biting playfully just a few inches above her knee. Bellany squeaked and giggled, not fearing Lexi's playful molestation. Lexi froze cold when she heard the sound come from Bellany's lips. "So, you like it when I molest you," she began jokingly, "I'll have to do it every time I see you, if I get to hear that laugh."

Talking appeared to break the spell, so Bellany was back to seriousness. "You, ah, caught me by surprise. That tickled." She said in defense.

"You're ticklish, then?" Lexi growled seductively.

"I - uh - oh, either way you're going to tickle me. Yes I am very ticklish, I have a lot of tactile sensation, everything feels so intense to me."

Lexi's eyes went wide, and she tried to refrain from playfully' molesting that cute little bunny again, and seeing just how intense things felt to her. "Right." She said, suddenly quite freaked out. She had to tackle-tickle Bellany, to keep herself looking normal. As Lexi quickly grabbed Bellany around the waist and vaulted herself upright, making Bellany fall, they both realized that perhaps this kind of play was not quite so appropriate for new acquaintances. Lexi ran her fingers across Bellany's stomach, making her tense up and giggle nervously. She did it again, and a third time, and listened with piqued interest at the finer points of Bellany's good humor. Her tightened abdominal muscles, her squinting eyes, and quivering ears. She was especially interested in the sound of that quiet soprano trill of laughter. She wondered what it was about prey mammals that got her so warm.

Lexi got off of Bellany quickly after she stopped rubbing her stomach teasingly, and moved back to her little personal space zone. Bellany laughed for a few more moments until she could get her stomach to stop tensing up. She sat up, smiling, with her sad gray eyes glittering wildly. "I would appreciate it if you warned me the next time you tackled me, or tickled me, or laid on me." She said with warmth in her voice, for maybe the second time since Lexi had known her.

"Yeah, I'll, uh, I'll keep that in mind." Lexi responded with mirth that she suddenly did not feel. She would have to remember not to get so intimate with Bellany, unless she really wanted to have to disappear for five minutes or so while she masturbated herself silly. "Hey, I can't see the clock from here, what time is it?"

"Oh, it's six." Bellany said matter-of-factly, before she squeaked and gasped. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I woke you up really early."

"Bellany, dear, you've got to stop being sorry about everything. Don't worry about it, I usually get up this early." Lexi said comfortingly. She got up and grabbed Bellany by the stomach again, and pulled her down back onto the bed. "But if you'd like to sleep some more, then be my guest. I'll just be here, innocently molesting you in your sleep."

"I am still tired." Bellany said self-consciously, before slipping herself under Lexi's blankets and curling into a relaxed position.

"Alright, you'll probably get woken up in an hour or two when Thanatos and Alisa finish doing illicit things in her room, and head to the bathroom for a shower." Lexi said wrapping her arms around Bellany's back again.

"Okay, well I guess I'll enjoy this while I still can, then." Lexi froze again. Enjoy what while she still could, the sleep, or the closeness, or what? Maybe she would just be up innocently having a panic attack, instead of innocently molesting her. Bellany got herself more comfortable on Lexi's chest, which really seemed more to Lexi like a reminder of the terrible wrongness of this whole ordeal. Why exactly was she sleeping with a girl she still barely knew? More importantly, she could not let Thanatos or Alisa hear these apprehensions, because that would be the reputation of Lexi the Remorseless out the window. She took a few deep breaths, and calmed down, using Bellany's relaxed breathing as a metronome for her own. It took until Bellany fell back to sleep, before she had really calmed down.

Lexi figured she had no reason to break a promise, and slid her hand down Bellany's back, and rubbed her spine right above the base of her tail. She curled her toes when she felt Bellany's little puff of a tail rise up and touch the palm of her hand. Lexi said a million thank-you's to that little evolutionary throwback and continued to play with her tail. There were many things Lexi denied being, a pervert was not one of the things she denied being.

Lexi wondered how somebody so spastic could be such a sound sleeper. She pondered that, until she felt a warm body press against her palm. Lexi maneuvered her head to look at her hand, and saw Bellany's back arched hard, with her hand laying just below her tail. Lexi cooed nervously, and decided she had taken things much too far. She brought her hand slowly back up Bellany's back, where it made contact with her other hand. The clasped together, and Lexi leaned back, accidentally pulling Bellany with her.

They stayed like that until she heard a quiet mewling sound from across the hall. She was aware that the quiet mewling sound was actually a quite loud mewling sound at its origin. Lexi liked to imagine Thanatos and Alisa's sex life, if only because she had a serious crush on Thanatos. Fortunately, Alisa's outburst did not wake Bellany, which she found much more rewarding than imagining a Murine crossdresser having sex with her. Bellany did shift a bit, again moving her head a bit and nuzzling into Lexi's chest, fanning her hair a bit as an accidental side effect.

It had been a long while since Lexi had just lay in bed staring at her ceiling, but here she was, with a little bunny girl sleeping on her. She sighed and closed her eyes, trying to eliminate her growing confusion. She mewed quietly and relaxed, waiting for when, an hour or two later, she knew that Alisa and Thanatos would be giggling and taking turns showering, followed by Thanatos making breakfast and coffee. Lexi stopped her conscious thinking as best as she could, and fell into a reverie-like state. She did not fall back to sleep, but she was quite surprised to hear the sound of running water from the bathroom and noise from the kitchen.

Bellany stirred, and murmured a bit, Shuffling about and looking just a bit worse for the sleeping wear. She grumbled quietly, and stretched out and curled back up. She opened her eyes with a flutter, and stretched again. "Uhhn," Bellany groaned quietly. "I'm not sure why, but I think it's not out of order to say you're a pervert."

"Well, if you're not certain, I'm not going to incriminate myself, dear." Lexi said.

"Uh?" Bellany intoned, making obvious that the joke went way over her head, this soon after waking up. Lexi giggled a bit and hugged Bellany more than she already was, and explained. "So by not incriminating' yourself, you're incriminating yourself. Pervert."

"I'm removing all doubt of my perversion, true." She countered, "But I'm also removing the knowledge of the extent of my perversion. Therefore, for someone undeniably a pervert, the only mystique I have left is keeping you unaware of just how much of a bad girl I can be."

"I guess I can't argue with that." Bellany said, "but I can ask what you did to me while I was asleep."

"I'd prefer not to incriminate myself." Lexi said again.

"Well, you had better incriminate yourself." Bellany said, suddenly very seriously.

"Okay, okay," Lexi relented. She briefly told Bellany the edited version of her two hours of sleep. She accidentally neglected the part with the fondling.

"I don't think you're telling the truth." Bellany said quietly, going back into her shell again. "But I have no reason not to believe you."

"You can trust me, Bellany." Lexi began contritely, "I don't mean to take things too far with you."

"It's alright. It's kind of nice to have somebody who'll do stuff like that. Makes a girl feel pretty when you do perverted stuff." Bellany murmured with red in her ears and trepidation in her voice.

"I kinda thought you were conceited enough to know it as a compliment." Lexi joked. "Anyway, we should get up, I'll bet that Thanatos is making quite a bit of breakfast, and we should get out there and have some." Bellany agreed, and they quickly dressed and headed out to the kitchen. Thanatos was making eggs and fruit parfait, as much as one can make a parfait, while dancing around and humming flamboyantly.

"Hey girls." Thanatos said gleefully. "D I miss anything?" They both shook their heads bashfully, and sat at the kitchen table. He grabbed several eggs and served them up for Lexi and Bellany, and brought the bowl of fruit and cream over to the table. "Have at it." He said simply, before leaning in to Lexi. "Still remorseless?" He asked quietly.

Lexi nodded simply, and wanted to explain that nothing happened between them worth mentioning, but she did not get the chance before Thanatos walked away humming quietly. Lexi and Bellany ate in silence, and when they finished their breakfast they sat in silence for a good long while. Lexi began to dig for things they could do, but kept drawing blanks, aside from go back in my room and let me fondle you some more'. If asked, Lexi made a promise she would say that she thought Bellany was attractive. In fact, she would keep bringing that up as many times as she could. She was getting ahead of herself. She had to make sure that she would see more of Bellany, if she was going to keep in the front of her mind that Lexi thought she was pretty.

"Hey, Bellany." Lexi started, suddenly nervous. "When - ah - when did your parents say you needed to be home?"

"They said sunrise, but they don't really expect me home for a long time." Lexi got a feeling in her stomach like a stiff kick.

"Oh - oh, well. When do you want Thanatos to drop you off?"

"I - would it be possible for us to walk?" Bellany asked bashfully.

"Bellany, it's a five-and-a-half hour walk, dear." Lexi began reasoningly.

"I - my parents won't be cool with a strange car, and a strange girl and a strange boy dropping me off." She defended.

"We can stop about a block away, and I'll walk you to your door. How's that sound."

"Can - can it be three blocks?" She begged.

"On the condition that you appear on my doorstep or bump into me at least once every other week."

"I - I - I - alright. I - alright." Bellany stuttered, taken aback. "I can do that." She said quietly.

"Well, then. When do you want us to drop you off?" Lexi asked, smiling.

"How about I just bum around here for a few months?" Bellany asked meekly.

"Oh, well." Lexi began, hiding her quiet ecstasy. "I - I don't think I could go a few months without molesting you dear." She said, with a joke. She wondered, dreading, if Bellany noticed her elation at her comment.

"I think that I could live with that." Bellany said, making Lexi get another feeling of being kicked in the stomach. "I would have to think about it though. It would be a close decision." It would not be a tough decision for Bellany. She would take molestation over her home any day of the week. In fact, she would take molestation by this friendly leopardess without really complaining, just for all that she had helped her, whether she knew it or not.

"Do you want to do anything, today, or do you wanna just go be lazy in my room for the rest of the day?" Lexi asked, trying to diffuse her imagination from getting any more inappropriate than it already had. She was fantasizing about biting a part of Bellany that was most certainly not her thigh.

"I don't care. Whatever you would like to do," Bellany said, again bashful from the full weight of what she had just said to Lexi falling hard on her conscience. Lexi sat with her head turned toward the window, in effort to not look at Bellany. She watched a cloud drift by slowly, and wondered if they went outside, how loud Bellany would scream if she tried to kiss her. Lexi the Remorseless had officially died. She felt terrible about all of this. About the rape comments, about the actual molestation, about watching her groom herself (a memory that she may be ashamed of, but not ashamed enough to get rid of), about her situation, which she knew so little about.

"Hey, Bellany?" Lexi asked sadly. "Why were you running away, yesterday?"

"You sca -"

"We both know that's not what I meant." She interrupted.

"I - you - you read my journal, didn't you?" She accused with a depressed fury.

"No, dear." Lexi almost whimpered, "I just figured it out. You were twenty miles from home, you were completely dead-hearted, you knew for how long you had been walking. Dear, it's not hard to figure out."

"I - I -" Bellany began, "stop talking." was all she could squeak out before she broke down crying.

"Belley, Belley, ah, don't cry. You don't have to tell me." Lexi the Remorseless, meet Lexi the Contrite. "Come on," she added, "let's go to my room, and we'll talk about this." Bellany got up sniffling, and gasping quietly. They got into Lexi's room and closed the door, before she fell into Lexi's chest. Her arms grasped weakly around her neck, and she buried her head into Lexi's breast. Bellany cried on Lexi's chest until she got too tired to stand up. She let go of Lexi, and sat down on the bed. Lexi, standing dumbfounded at the amount this poor girl disliked speaking about her home, shook her head to clear the fog, and sat down next to Bellany. She pulled the girl close, cradling Bellany's head against her chest, and cooing soothingly for her. She fought back sympathetic tears, and whispered with a shaky voice that, even if only for a few hours, she was completely safe.

This, Lexi could not bear. Seeing Bellany in any mood short of ecstasy brought a painful sympathy to her chest and made her throat tight with anguish and questions. "Do - do you want to talk about it, Belley?" Lexi asked just on the dry side of crying out as well.

"I - I was almost gone, Lexi." Belley squeaked. "I could have been farther than they would have been able to look for me by sunrise, Lexi!"

"I - I didn't know, Bellany. I - I'm sorry for -"

"You stopped me from ruining my life, though!" Halfway through her interruption she coughed, and then sniffed quietly. She managed even the most disgusting of depressive wails with poise, Lexi noted with more than passing proudness.

"Bellany. -" Lexi started, faltered, and began again, "why did you - why did you think you needed to run away?" She wondered how she got mixed up in this, with no small amount of disdain, before mentally breaking her nose for being so selfish, Bellany herself realized better than she did, that she had stopped her from doing something completely irrational. She was happy to have helped, she just wished this girl did not tear her up inside the way she did.

"I just can't handle any more of how I feel when I'm at home!" Bellany answered cryptically, but still managing her hysteria. This girl, Lexi thought, would actually have a shot on her own.

"What do you mean, dear?" Lexi asked, no longer sad for Bellany, but angry in her stead. Whatever they were doing that could make a wonderful girl like this so miserable, deserved to be done to them a hundredfold.

"I - I - I - stop talking." Bellany whispered ineffectually.

"Bellany, it's obvious that somebody's doing something to you that they shouldn't be. And - if you need to talk to somebody about it, I'd really like it if it were me." Anger gone, meet Lexi the Sorrowful. She tried to pretend that she meant that as a request for her well being, and not a request for maybe being someone special in Bellany's life. "I'd - I'd just really like to know that nobody's hurting you in some way." Lexi the Concerned, enter brain left.

"Thanks. Thank you, Lexi." Bellany whimpered, raising herself from Lexi's breast, to her shoulder. She gave her a bone crushing hug that made Lexi squeak and her throat almost close. So, she thought, this is what it feels like to have someone's life in your hands. As an afterthought, she added, I guess I shouldn't have played with her while she was asleep.

"What kind of girl would I be if I didn't want to help you?" She said seriously, and added, to try to lighten the mood, "of course, you could ask what kind of girl I am, since I've made so many passes at you already." She said, though her humor was heavily jaded.

It got the reaction that Lexi had hoped for, however. Bellany coughed daintily, and giggled quietly. "I could ask what kind of girl you are, for leaving that bite mark on my thigh." She rebutted acidly.

"My dear, that makes me a very forward girl." Lexi said, mood instantly effected by Bellany's. "In fact," she added without letting her word filter get to work, "I think you need a few more." Lexi laughed, showing her teeth and digging in to Bellany's neck gently.

She squeaked quietly, not saying anything about liking the power play, and giggled while Lexi gnawed playfully on her neck. Lexi was completely petrified of Thanatos or Alisa walking in unannounced, displaying Lexi the Remorseless being a girl very much in need of remorse. Lexi pulled away from her neck smiling bashfully, and with a few errant strands of fur that had detached themselves during the night sticking to her lips. "I'm - ah - I'm going to make sure not to do that again." Lexi said with a distinct feeling of nauseous glee.

"Yeah," Bellany said, forgetting why she was crying, "that would be - um - good - smart - yeah." They stayed like they were for a while, mostly because Lexi did not know what to do from here. She wanted to see how loud Bellany would scream if she tried to kiss her, but she wanted to keep her as a friend, before she even thought about having a girlfriend, or anything resembling a relationship based on romantic affection and concern.

"Hey," Bellany said, "you said to call you, any time that I needed to talk. That means I've got to have your phone number."

"Well, you're a forward little girl too." Lexi teased. "You don't have a cellphone with you, do you? I mean, I would imagine not, if you're a fugitive and all." Bellany said that she did not, for the reason that the internal GPS would have made the search for her easy as recovering a kitten from the top of a refrigerator. Lexi wrote her phone number on a scrap of paper, and stuffed it into Bellany's back pocket, making her squeak in protest as she felt a gentle squeeze.

"Pervert." Bellany said smiling. They lapsed into silence again. Lexi shifted her gaze as many times as physically possible in the course of a few seconds, and focused on being on her best behavior for the remainder of Bellany's stay. She disengaged herself from Bellany, and mewed quietly. "Hey," Bellany said, "where are you going?"

"I'm just - I'm just going to lie down for a moment. Feel free to make yourself as comfortable as you like, without me holding you." Lexi said, feigning infirmity. She slid calmly away from Bellany, and covered herself with her freshly mussed sheets. Lexi wanted to shuck off her clothing, and lay almost naked with Bellany, but there was a distinct burning warmth in her throat that made her wonder what she wanted from this cute little rabbit. Not to mention how exhausted she felt around her, like Bellany sucked all the energy from the her. Lexi decided she was glad to let Bellany steal her soul, if she would keep smiling like only Lexi could make her.

"I - you're a pervert." Bellany sighed, sliding close to Lexi and sliding her over enough to get under the covers, also. Lexi did not realize until she woke up, that she had fallen asleep at some point. Bellany noticed, and was all to unnerved by the way their positions had been reversed. She squeaked quietly when she felt Lexi nuzzle her breast, and stayed stark still, until she too fell asleep, for mere lack of stimulus.

They woke up again, when Alisa walked in and told them that it was well past noon, and that Bellany probably should be getting on perhaps, if you two were done cuddling and moping and doing whatever it is that makes Bellany squeak maybe? Lexi was vehemently opposed to having her pillow wiggle around so incessantly, and was close to pinning her down and explaining, with her tongue in the pillow's throat and her hands on the pillow's breasts, just why it is imperative for furniture to stay still. It took quite a few more of those wiggles to make Lexi realize that maybe she should be getting up now.

"I - ah - I think it's about time that I start getting on with my business. And more importantly, stop making you tired, so you can get on with yours." Bellany said with a woeful resignation. "Should I ask Thanatos to take me now?"

Lexi had never gotten up, cleared her vision, perked her ears and did a double take faster than she did at that instant. Bellany was leaving? That would not do. That would not do at all, she thought, dejected. "I - no." Lexi started. "I'm up, come on, I'll come with you. I'm sure that your parents, no matter what kind of people they may be, would like to know what kind of pervert spent the night with their daughter."

Bellany brightened a bit, hearing that Lexi wanted to come along. "I - alright." Bellany said, flabbergasted. They collected themselves, Lexi wiping the sleep from her eyes, and brushing the fur visible under her clothes: face, arms, her stomach, which only showed if she would happen to have to try to defend against attack from someone, or perhaps jump up and down, or, perhaps more likely, if she were to raise her hands above her chest. She slid on her hard soled shoes, which resembled ankle boots, more than a regular pair of shoes for everyday use.

Bellany and Lexi left her room, and accosted Thanatos in the middle of the kitchen, swaying and preparing to prepare lunch that he was well aware nobody in the house would eat. He seemed a bit overwhelmed, but then again, he always seemed a bit overwhelmed, if he was not completely smug at the time. They took Thanatos's carm which had two seats. Lexi was, of course ecstatic. She had a warm, light little bunny sitting on her lap for the forty minute drive. Occasionally, she would get bold, and do something completely inappropriate, which Bellany could do nothing about, being so compromised as to have sat on Lexi's hands to avoid such actions. Lexi fortunately stopped at stoplights and intersections, so she could tell Thanatos where he was going.

Bellany was sitting on Lexi's hands, and had her own primly folded on her slightly open lap, to keep her from going from the confines of fondling and/or molestation to some kind of half-consensual rape-ish bad touch'. It had not really worked too well so far. She had managed not to squeak, but the half-smile on Thanatos's face made her realize that she was not exactly subtle about the whole thing.

Lexi was smirking more smugly than Thanatos by this point, and wondered if she could coax him to pull over into some empty strip mall, and really get Bellany relaxed in preparation for whatever abuses she may suffer. She was going to vocalize her plan, but managed to get Bellany to squeak quietly when she wrapped one hand around her tail and pulled gently. Bellany smirked gleefully, and leaned back against Lexi, finally trapping her hands for real, obviously finished playing the good touch-bad touch game. Lexi wanted to glance at the clock on Thanatos's console, but really could not see past Bellany's hair. She had no reason to complain. Bellany smelled like her shampoo and conditioner, plus she smelled the quite wonderful scent of bunny, which brought up that little prey fetish to head.

They arrived not long before Lexi was going to start nibbling on Bellany's ear, which had found its way in front of her face, in some cruel jape. Bellany sat still for a few moments, despite the silence of Thanatos's spectating and the light hearted wiggling of Lexi's body against her own. Lexi got the feeling that Bellany was going to cry again, even though she could not see her face, or hear her respiration at this point. She leaned to her right, and moved her hair with her muzzle as best as she could, and whispered something that made Bellany giggle and quietly. She clicked her - their - seatbelt open, and opened the car's door.

Lexi patted Bellany's rear as soon as she shifted her weight forward enough for her hands to get free, and whispered something to her again that got her moving with a steady, though still slow pace. Once Lexi had coaxed her from the car, they walked slowly away, and Lexi slipped her hand tight around Bellany's hips. The closer they got to Bellany's home, the closer Lexi felt her torso get. At the one block mark, Bellany squeaked long and quietly, and slid her arm around Lexi. She wondered, half dead, if Bellany would say or do something rash that required her to kiss her until both of their lips went chapped (this would take a long time, Lexi had a new stick of lip balm in her pocket).

"I appreciate all of this." Bellany said unexpectedly. Lexi got the feeling, still, that Bellany was just on the dry side of tears.

"Bellany, don't worry about it." Lexi said, suddenly feeling numb. Like taking a prized calf to slaughter, was her only thought. How, in good conscience, could she leave this girl in a home that obviously hurt her? "I'm still going to hold you to that promise. Every other week minimum. Show up every day and I might kiss you." She whispered in her ear, once again, before letting her word filter do its job. She hid her eyes going wide, and managed to play it off as standards Lexi-ness.

They arrived at Bellany's door, and with a resigned sigh, she opened her door, to be greeted by the greedy arms of a worried parent. She squeaked without much emotion as he picked her up and squeezed her. "I'm - ah - I'm back, dad." She said quietly.

"Bellany," he burbled, "I was so worried about you. You didn't call, or anything!"

"I called, didn't - oh -" she interrupted herself unsurprised. "I'll tell you about it later. This is the girl with whom I stayed last night. We ran into each other, and somehow persuaded me into sleeping at her house."

"Well, thank you so much -"

"Lexi," Lexi giggled bashfully.

"Right, Lexi. It's nice to see Bellany doing something with somebody. Even if it does give me a heartache in the process." He joked.

"Yeah, well, my ride is waiting for me, so I've not really got much time to stay and talk. It was nice to meet you, and maybe I'll be around more."

"Of course, of course. You go on, I'm sure Bellany's exhausted from whatever it is that made her disappear." Bellany nodded, and raised her hand dejectedly in her acknowledgement of Lexi's departure. She did not speak, for fear of her voice failing her so she just squeaked quietly.

"Alright, then. Bye Bellany, call me later, alright?" Bellany nodded, and Lexi left, a clichscene playing out with both of them peeking through the last crack of visibility before she began to walk back to Thanatos a few blocks away. She really did not notice the walk to his car, nor the concern he showed.

"Hey, Lexi. When's the wedding?"

"I - ah. Yeah." She answered inappropriately for the question asked. "I feel like a butcher." She murmured.

"Oh?" At his question, she told the whole story about what seemed like Bellany's abuse and subsequent attempt at escape. "Oh." He said, taken aback. "I - that sounds difficult for you."

"Yeah." Lexi said sadly. "I don't feel good about it." She murmured. Thanatos pulled into traffic, and they drove home.