Snake Eyes

Chapter 13

The moment the alarm went off they both groaned. He curled himself tighter around the warmth he was holding and told tried to ignore it. He didn't want to wake up, he wanted to stay right here, wrapped around the fuzzy heat source that was his lover. After a few minutes, he heard his spider sigh and felt him start to shift. "Okay, I gotta get up." He didn't let go willingly. He was willing to contest it if it meant he got to stay there with Arackniss longer. Eventually, his smaller lover managed to wiggle free and turn the alarm off. Pentious groaned as he rolled over to look at the man he'd spent all night holding. Morning meant he had to leave, and that was the last thing he wanted to do right now. His eyes roved over Arackniss; buck naked and gorgeous, his dark hair was mussed and he had a few bite marks now that were in places he could hide. There was a slight discoloration on his hips that Pentious realized were bruises showing through his fur and that only made him regret being quite so...needy? He may have gotten a bit too excited last night. "Dio, I am not looking forward to today." Unraveling himself, Pentious moved behind his lover and wrapped his arms around Arackniss' shoulders.

"I should have been more gentle. I even said I would be and I wasn't. I'm sorry, Niss." He leaned his head against his lovers and simply held the other man. After a moment he heard Arackniss laugh and felt him pat his arm gently.

"Firstly, you didn't hurt me. I've had way worse than this done to me and it was definitely a hell of a lot less fun. Secondly, I'm not looking forward to it because I have to leave you and deal with some stronzo who's just trying to tick me of. He came to my office yesterday to try to intimidate me, and it didn't work, so I know he'll try something else." Nuzzling his lover, he sighed.

"I wish there was some way I could help with it." Arackniss reached back and cupped his cheek and Pentious cursed the daylight.

"For now, the best I got is this." He smiled and loosened his grasp to let his lover do as he pleased. The spider stood, but immediately turned around and wrapped his arms around Pentious to pull him into a kiss. One of those soft, absolutely addictive kisses they both clearly preferred. Without another word, his lover took his hand and lightly tugged him towards the bathroom with a "come hither" look in his eyes, and who was he to decline. The rest of the morning had been spent wrapped around each other and soaking up as much of every moment as they could until they ran out of time. Leaving was hard, but this time, he had to leave first and pretend. He watched from around the corner as the giant spiders pulled the town car around and one got out to hold the door open. And there was his lover, looking as put together and perfect as ever while he simply slid in like it was natural. Of course it was natural for him, he had to do it every day whether he felt like it or not. When the car drove away, he felt the pang of loneliness squeeze his heart and he had to remind himself to breathe. 'Gregory's right. I'm getting too attached and if he wanted to destroy me, he could do so easily.'

The weeks passed by quickly, too quickly, but he lived for the days when he could spend time with his spider. Arackniss spent day after day fighting with everyone around him, and he'd talked about it while they were together. One party was still trying to push him to do something that didn't make sense from a business stand point. The neutral party that would be adversely effected still didn't know about the back and forth, and the last time Pentious had seen his lover, the man had ranted to the point of screaming about how low the pusher was going. He'd been gathering little bits of evidence against the man, but it was all dependent on shipping times and dates, and they were widely spread out, sometimes months apart. So while catching him in the act was the best option, it was time consuming and, as Arackniss had put it, "The Don isn't patient enough for that." They hadn't stopped the experiment, and he'd done several base tests to look for the correct combination. He'd also confirmed that, despite their inability to reproduce natural in Hell, the semen was a better option. After getting a few good samples, the product of some very fun nights, he had been able to make more progress than he thought possible.