hellboys cat

I woke up some time in the early morning hours with the dull pulsing in my back. Red snored on contentedly. At some point in the night I had thrown my leg over his and tucked my self tightly in to his side. His stone hand was on my thigh and his left arm was still around me. I smiled, Red looked young in his sleep, almost harmless. I ran my hand over his chest, so many muscles for one person. All muscles and leather that was Red. I don’t think I have ever seen him look different. But hey if you have a style that works stick with it.

I knew Reds body by sight so now I let my fingers commit it to memory. I had to admit he was beautiful, the circular runes from his hand and arm were etched in his skin over his shoulders and down his back. I had always been curious about them, were the runes for protection, power or maybe a key to something; I didn’t have a clue, but I did like looking at them.

Damn, no going back to sleep for me now. Oh well, a shower would be nice anyway. I didn’t really want to move though. Red is so warm. His core temperature is naturally higher than mine which is great for winter, but really runs up the air conditioner bill the rest of the year. I grumbled and pulled my self up. Red conveniently decided to wake up about the time I was straddling him.

“Thought you could take advantage of me just because I was sleeping, huh.” Red opened an eye to look at me.

“ Hmmmm,” I cocked my head to the side, “ I thought I was on my way to the shower, but if you insist…”
I plopped myself down on his stomach crossing my arms on his chest and rested my chin on my forearms.”

I squeezed my legs just a bit, “Did you have something in mind?”

“Yeah,” he rumbled with a cocky grin, “ Breakfast.”

I snorted, burying my head in my arms laughing. “ Typical, I thought I could at least get your shirt off.”

I sat up shaking my head mournfully. “Guess I’ll just go take my shower then.”

“Fine if your gonna be that way about it, take my damn shirt.” He pulled his shirt off and tugged it over my head. “Happy now?”

I tossed the shirt on the floor, Red had crossed his arms and was trying to look pissed, it didn’t work.

“Maybe,” I ran my head over those wash board abs. Then I started tickling him. Yep, I was happy.

Red growled and wrapped his arms around me to stop my assault. He then sat up taking me with him. Standing up he looked at me sternly, “ Now are you gonna behave ?”

Since he was trapping my arms and I was out of options, I did what I could. Surprise tactics work well. I licked him leaving a wet line up his ribs and over one nipple.

“ Now you are just playin’ dirty Kitty, you need a bath.”

I smiled and licked him again, “Mmmm, tasty ,” I grinned.

Red glared at me, “ If you don’t stop that, you’ll be sorry.”

“ What-a-ya- gonna-do Red, c’mon, what r’ ya gonna do,” I taunted.

Red just gave me a very demonic grin and licked me from collar bone to eyebrow. He had saved all his saliva for that one.
He smacked his lips, “Not to shabby yourself Cat, but you could use some A-1 sauce.”

I just settled for a very disgusted noise and rubbed my face against his chest to get rid of all the slime. Red just kept grinning as he hauled me into the bathroom and turned on the hot water.

Now I really do need a bath,” I grumbled.

Red just rummaged around on my shelves till he found bubble bath,( old school, Mr. Bubble) I cant remember where I got the stuff. I never use it, being a shower person.

“ You could put me down you know.” I said crossing my arms.

Red just shook his head, “Nahhh, then you would run away.”

I rolled my eyes, “ Bet ya I don’t.”

So Red put me down and started putting massive amounts of bubble bath in to the water. I turned around and wiggled out of my shirt. I touched my back, gently feeling the gouges in my flesh, Damn they hurt.

“Hey Red, how bad do I look?” I looked over my shoulder at him.

He just stared at me intently for a moment before shrugging, “ you’ve looked worse Kid, course you’ve looked better too.”

I love sarcasm. “Thanks,” I also love that Red is modest. He looked away when I sank into the steaming bath. I took a breath, shut my eyes and let the water engulf me. Of course the next thing I know, the big stone hand is under my neck lifting my head above water.

I squinted up at Red. “ What?”

“Uh, well you were down for a long time, I just wanted to make sure that you were still alive.”

I smiled “ you cant get rid of me that easy Red. Now are you gonna help me wash my hair or are ya just gonna watch.”

Red smiled, “ I would like to watch, but you’d just kick me out, so I’ll help.”

Thus said, Red soaped up my hair and massaged my scalp with his fingers. I just let him work, it felt damn good to let someone take care of me for a while.

“ Hold your breath” he ordered and I did. He rinsed my hair and brought me back up for air.

I saw the tip of his tail curled over the edge of the bath. I took it in my hands as Red worked conditioner in to my hair. Having never given much thought to his extremities, I watched in fascination as his tail curled around my arm like a snake. What an interesting thought. I drew my arm closer to my face to inspect the tail closer.

“ Did I ever tell you how much I like your tail Red?” I asked.

“ Nahh, just that you wanted to rip it off and beat me with it,”

“Hmmm, well maybe I can think of better things to do with it than rip it off.” I slid my hand up the soft skin. Red tensed up, but tried not to show it.

“Hold your breath” he instructed. I grinned and was complacent.

I guided his tail along my ribs and across my belly to wrap around my leg. When I came up for air Red was trying really hard to breath. I got up on my knees and turned to face him, wet hair streaming down my body. I brought my hands to his face making him look at me. I trembled as I raised my face to his. This time he met me half way and the resulting kiss was soft but insistent. He put his arms around me lifting me out of the water.

Straddling his huge lap I pressed my wet skin against his letting flesh slide against flesh, so that our skin could do all the talking. His stone hand was under my legs, lifting me up so that my face was level with his. I thought about saying something, but knew that it would be wrong, so I let my tongue say it all for me. I needed him to know that I wouldn’t break if he touched me. I put my hands behind his head bringing him even closer and ate at his mouth as if I was trying to crawl inside of him, and still I felt him holding back.

This just wasn’t going to work… I came up for air and managed to stand up in my laughable attempt to tower over him.

I put my hands on my hips. “Look at me.” I ordered. And he did, oh yes he did.

Red looked at the body he had slept next to and held so many nights. Full breasts with small pale nipples, smooth stomach , nice hips and great legs. She stood defiantly, feet planted on either side of him. Daring him to look away… He saw the scars too, pale puckers of flesh criss crossing along her skin. Some of the scars were still pink and raw, most though were faded with age. Red knew that there were plenty more on her back, but he wasn’t about to turn from her to look at them. Red hooked his hands behind her back and buried his face in her skin. He herd her inhale quickly and felt her tremble just a bit as he slid his hands down her back to play over the muscles in her legs, thighs and lower back. Red bit and licked his way across her ribs and belly. Cat made small sounds as she dug her fingers in to his shoulders. His tail curled lightly around her ankle, probably so that she couldn’t get away. But Red didn’t think that she would run, not from him. Cat made and odd noise and forced his head up covering his mouth with hers as she slid down his body to attack his throat.

Red picked me up and moved us out of the bathroom, I didn’t even realize when we hit the bed. My brain was functioning on auto pilot and I was enjoying it just fine. I rubbed my wet skin along his. Reds body had risen in core temp a lot in the past few minutes. So that is how I know that he is turned on, (Talk about your burning desire.)

I could feel the ever growing appendage against my leg threw his leather pants. He seemed definitely proportionate to his size. Primal thoughts crawled threw my mind as my hand crept down to rub along the massive bulge. Red groaned in to my mouth and ground himself in to my hand. I rubbed my hand firmly up and down that length of taunt black leather. I undid the snap to his pants and Red went very still.
He pulled away from me just a bit not looking cocky any more, just hungry and a searching.

“You don’t want this?” I asked softly.

“I wont ask you too,” he said seriously

I smiled a little, “ I know.”

I undid his zipper one snick at a time. He just watched me, I think he expected me to stop to turn away from him, but I didn‘t. I wanted him to scream for me… I slid my hands down his abs until I felt the ungodly length of him. Both he and I had very limited experience with sexual encounters, but I knew that Red was anything but normal. I wrapped my hand around him tentatively stroking the soft skin. I watched his face as my movements became confident and stronger, it was beautiful.

Red panted and looked in to her green eyes as his left hand slid between her legs. Her skin was hot an swollen and wanting, just like his. He used his thumb to rub against her and rub and rub, until she was panting and whimpering, just like she was making him do. He put his mouth over hers to drink her moans, the small sounds she made drove him crazy and he liked it. Her hand slid firmly over him until he couldn’t stand it any more.

I knew Red was getting close, his sweat dripped onto me and I thought I might just loose it myself. He whole body tightened and an inhuman sound ripped from his throat as he released on top of me and that is all it took to finish me off. For a second I couldn’t breath, couldn’t move, couldn’t think. We just stared at each other breathing hard smiling.

I looked down at his member still twitching a bit in my hand. The tip was pronged and not much different aside from being on the large side. As in scary large. I ran my thumb over the pronged tip and Red shuddered. Slowly I released him, enough excitement for one mornings work.

“ I think I need another bath,” I whispered. And tried to sit up. My back hurt, big surprise, but there was blood on my sheets. Damn, funny what you can’t feel when your having fun. Is seems that I split my gashes back open. Red saw the blood too and looked concerned. He picked up a towel off the floor and was wiping us both off.

“ Did I hurt ya?” he asked lifting me up to look more closely at my back, I just leaned against him wrapping his arms around me.

“ No Red, you didn’t hurt me. You never have and you never will.” I laid my head back against his chest. I didn’t really want to go to the med lab and come up with an explanation on how I tore my back open again. I just leaned back against Reds beautiful naked body and enjoyed the sensation of our flesh touching. I looked at the small clock beside my bed and realized that very little time had actually passed and that it was still very early in the morning.

I smiled lazily, “Hey Red lets go back to sleep for a while.”

He hugged me, “ Ya’ don’t wanna get your back fixed?”

I just shook my head, “ Come back to bed, its too early to piss anyone off yet.”

I crawled back to my side of the bed and he just looked at me for a minute.

“ Don’t you want to keep me warm?”

Red didn’t need any more encouragement. He crawled under the covers and curled his body around mine. Sometimes I forget he has a good two feet on me and I feel so small when I remember. Naked against his warm red flesh I should feel vulnerable, but instead I feel safe and somewhat turned on. I think how funny it is that two days ago we were little more than friends and comrades in arms. Now I don’t know what we are. Could we still be friends or would we be lovers? Who knows, I have realized my feelings, I wonder if he knows his….

Red felt her body relax in to sleep as he curled more protectively around her. He was confused, happy, sated and still horney. He had respected her from day one and learned to like her every day after. But it was times when she opened to him that made him love her. Cat was a pain in the ass, stubborn, hard headed and deadly ball of energy who refused help from everyone. She reminded him of himself. While every one trusted her to keep up with him in the field, she trusted him to let her.

No, Red couldn’t leave her behind not anywhere. He had felt this way since the first time she followed him on a hunt. As some point down the road, he had grudgingly admitted to having needed her and yes could trust her to cover his back. And sometime later he realized that she trusted him to lead her back to safety. Her trust in him was so utter and complete that Red didn’t know how to deal with it, thus mostly ignored it.

When ever Cat got hurt, which happened often enough, he freaked. Cat would just smile at him and tell him that she would ‘Heal’. Red always found the need to touch her, to reassure himself that she was alright. He always wanted to protect her even thought she didn’t want it or need it, but in the few moments of her pain she would let him help her. Cat was his to take care of, his to protect. His… Just his.

Red closed his eyes enjoying the sensation of her small body pressed so completely against his. He inhaled the sent off her wet skin and whispered against her wet hair. “Mine!”