Chapter 3 Decisions
When Echo woke up again she was alone.
Sitting up she tried not to feel hurt by Rue-n’s disappearance. Instead she decided to go looking for something to eat. It wasn’t a small ship and was bound to have a kitchen somewhere. Humming she continued her earlier search of the ship.
Before finding the kitchen Echo stumbled across a room filled with bones.
Less alarmed then intrigued she moved around the room. Most skulls were unfamiliar in origin to her, but there were quite a few human skulls sprinkling the room. Before long she came to stop before a large alien skull.
She shuddered at the thought of the creature whose head was nearly as tall as her whole body.
“Kainde Amedha” a deep voice spoke behind her.
Echo didn’t turn around.
“Caught this guy on my last hunt” he says placing his hands on her shoulders.
“He’s impressive” she says.
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Rue-n’ found Echo in his trophy room looking at his Kainde Amedha skull. He swelled with pride when she was impressed by his prize.
He purred at her again.
This got her to look up at him with a smile. “It’s a good thing you and I aren’t enemies huh?” she chuckles.
“I’m not sure I could kill you” Rue-n’ spoke before he caught himself.
She gave him a thoughtful smile. “I like you,” she says softly, leaning against him.
He doesn’t respond.
“I feel drawn to you,” she says.
Rue-n’ was shocked, could she feel the same way? He let his arms fall down from her shoulders and over her shoulders and over her front, holding her closer to him.
She reached up and held his hands. They stood in silence until her stomach broke it. Echo blushed, her hands leaving the Yautja’s to hold her stomach.
“You’re hungry” Rue-n’ said. “I’ll take you to the kitchen if you’d like” he smiles down at her.
“Oh yes please” she says cheeks red.
Rue-n’ couldn’t help but smile in his own way down at the embarrassed female as he led her to the kitchen. She followed quietly, stomach growling periodically.
Rue-n’ found himself thinking that she was cute when her cheeks flushed.
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It had been several hours since Echo had silenced her stomach and now she was sitting in Rue-n’s lap fussing about his various scars.
“We don’t think of scars the same way you Oomans do” Rue-n’ explained.
“But it means you were hurt” she whines long since given up on the ‘I’m not human argument’
“But I fought through it and came out victorious” he countered.
“I don’t like the thought of you being hurt”
Rue-n’ shrugs
“Don’t shrug at me! I’m worrying about you!” she scolds him.
However, even she knew it was silly; she was significantly smaller than him and therefore no real threat. Rue-n’ pretended to be apologetic, though, and with one hand on her bottom the other on the back of her head, he pulled her to him nuzzling his face into her hair.
She couldn’t help but giggle, holding him to her.
“You’re so strange” she chuckles.
He pulls back, “that’s my line”
She giggles again moving to his neck coating it in kisses, much to his clear and apparent pleasure.
It was more than strange, they had known each other for about three days and they had become pretty close; as if they had known each other for much, much longer.
Truth be told, neither cared. It was as if they acknowledged the thought and shrugged it off.
The found themselves drawn to each other, and didn’t want to ruin it.
On the seventh day of on their journey Echo and Rue-n’ rested in the room they silently decided to share.
“You inquired,” he began; “If I had a mate…” the male paused.
“Yes,” Echo treaded.
Silence
“Do you, have a mate?” He asks.
The girl looks away, an undistinguishable look upon her face. “No” she looks at him, blush apparent on her cheeks. “I have never…” she trails off, “Found someone I wanted to… with”
Rue-n’ smiles at her and with mirth says; “Perhaps you might permit me, to be the one to tame you?”
This caused Echo to blush; did he really just ask what she thought he did? What do you say to that?
Rue-n’ places a clawed digit under the girl’s chin making her look at him. He smiled at her gently encouraging a response.
“I think I would like that” she says growing darker.
He leans down and snuggles her, a gesture Echo had become accustomed to in the short time they had been together.
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Rue-n’ asked the girl for a mating and really hadn’t expected her to agree so easily. It was partly a question breed from his cheeky humor, but he couldn’t say he wasn’t pleasantly surprised by the answer.
In order to show his satisfactory with the response he lent down and began to nuzzle the girl, as he had found himself doing often in the time they had spent together.
She seemed to like it so he didn’t hold back when he felt the urge to cuddle her. It would be frowned upon by his kind to be snuggling with anything much less prey but her warmth and scent drove those thoughts far away.
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Echo enjoyed the attention but couldn’t help but question his motives, did he mean now?
Fear overwhelmed her and she tried to pull away from his body.
It’s not that she didn’t want it, naturally, the man was strong, sexy, dominating, and knew his way around a female, it was everything she had ever wanted.
That didn’t change her trepidation, it was something new and she wasn’t sure if she was ready. Besides by his size he must have been a daunting size; she blushed at that thought.
Heart pounding all she could think was to get away.
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Rue-n’ let her pull back but kept his hold on her, hands gripping around her waist to keep her in place.
It had been his experience with the odd girl that even when she seemed frightened she would always feel better being held.
He looked down at her, curiosity and love shown through his azure eyes. He clicked a inquisitive question at her.
“Um…” she begins and Rue-n’ patiently awaits her answer. “I don’t know how to put this… but I don’t think I’m ready right now… to mate…” she looks up at him apprehension clouding her cherry eyes.
Rue-n’ let out a noise that sounded like a dark chuckle. The girls face fell expression changing from one of embarrassment to abashed.
“What’s so funny!” She hisses further trying to pull away.
Rue-n’ pulls the annoyed girl back to his chest holding her in a hug, the laughter dies down to a soft purr. She likes the purring, Rue-n’ knew that and while purring moves one hand to stroke her short hair, the other on her behind holding her to him.
Giving up the girl falls limp against him.
“I didn’t mean to offend” he nuzzles her cheek pulling her up to face him, “I would never look to force a mating on you, I can wait”
The girl’s face returns to red and Rue-n begins to stroke her cheek with a clawed hand.
“When you’re ready” he smiles with his mandibles.
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Relief washed over the girl when Rue-n’ let her out of her commitment and she held against him, a deep warmth being shared between them. It wasn’t long before Echo found herself unable to resist turning her head against his neck, caressing it with kisses.
He began to purr again.
Her body hungered and to satisfy it she pressed her body closer to him.
His purr grew more shaky, his hold on her tightened, and she could feel his claws pressing through the fabric of her skirt.
Before she knew what she was doing, a sort of whiney moan escapes from her throat.
The male seemed to enjoy that, he made sure to squeeze her ass again.
Consciousness returning, Echo pushed away from the alien, face flushed.
He clicks at her.
“I’m sorry, I don’t know what came over me” she apologized.
The male begins to stroke her arm, returning to his previous purr generated melody.
“No, no, I said not now” she jumps back, fearing she would be unable to control herself being so close to the male.
“You’re intoxicating” the girl pants leaning against the wall.
The Yautja stands and walks over to the girl. Once close enough her lets out a deep rumbling purr.
Echo shook, her body pleading for his domination. She whimpers caught in-between the allure of lust and fear of the unknown. It would be her first time and she wasn’t sure she was ready, regardless of what her body said.
But the male wasn’t helping!
“You need to stop” she whispers, voice shaky.
“Do you really want me to?”
No
“Yes!” she tries to demand but her voice breaks.
Nevertheless Rue-n’ backed away from the vacillating girl, and with a chuckle leaves the room.
End Chapter 3
**Notes**
and as a warning the next one will have 'yummy bits' in it... that means the smex, yes... all in all i think you can kinda skip the chapter without missing much so if you're not comfortable with it don't stress. You’ll miss a bit of plot but that particular thing is ‘spoken’ about and explained later…
Um so... please let me know if there are any major plot holes i missed or anything like that... I think by chapter 7 I cover everything that was left confusing but I'm not sure...
happy to take feedback as long as it's not nasty…
Also, I feel the characters should evolve as the story does so I hope you can bear with me eventually it’ll make sense…
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