The Ruby Empire

Odd the Tiefling: Part Two

Female Reader x Male Monster

Some time ago, you had been forcibly removed from your world and placed into another. You were dropped so much like a sack of flour and your life was at risk. It was hard getting used to your new surroundings but you had made a very unlikely ally. You also loved him.

"Hey, Squirt," Odd steps out of the cottage and looks around. His golden eyes dart back and forth along the horizon looking for you. He has to walk with a cane now since his tail is gone. He steps outside and frowns. "Squirt!"

"Over here," you grunt, you come out from behind the cottage, hauling several logs.

"What are you doing?" Odd steps forward but you plow past him, taking the logs inside. "It's cold out."

"Exactly," you set a log on the fire, topping it with scarp and kindling. "That's why I did that." You smile up at him.

He frowns, not because he doesn't like what you're doing but because he feels that should be his job. You walk up to him and kiss his cheek.

"You're still healing," you say. "Once you're all better you can haul as much wood as you like. Until then, I'll haul the wood and you can make sure I don't have any splinters."

Odd sighs. "You seem so certain I'll heal."

"You will," you pat his chest. "You just have to be patient and allow yourself that time."

Odd isn't used to just sitting around and waiting. Before you came along he was a mercenary and adventurer, always off bounding about doing whatever he could to make coin and a life. Now, he was pretty much a house husband. You felt bad for him, you knew he loved excitement and showing off. You had been studying, reading books on magic and healing, hoping to find something to help him, even ways to restore his tail somehow.

When he was first so weak you can stayed with Jasper and his wife Aisling. They had helped you find some land and even got some other friends together to help you build the cottage you have now.

"I'm sorry, Squirt," Odd mumbles.

"For what?" You chuckle.

He looks at you and you feel the overwhelming sadness in his eyes. "I'm just sorry," he murmurs.

You take his hand and squeeze it. "You have nothing to be sorry about. I love you and I want to help you."

"I'm not the Tiefling you met before," he grumbles. "Are you so sure you-" you pop his cheek and his eyes got wide.

"Oddelthius," you growl his full name. "I love you and that means I 'll love you through anything. Your depression does not change my feelings nor how I see you."

He gives you a small smile. "I feel like a burden to you. If you needed saving again...could I even do it?"

"You're nothing but a joy to me," you kiss him again. "And if I needed saving, I think you could rise to the occasion."

He looks aside for a moment and you see a glint of the old Odd sparkle in his eyes. "Something can rise to the occasion."

You smirk at him. "And what might that be?" You roll your eyes.

"Something big for sure, perhaps a little dangerous." He places his hands on the wall beside your head. "But if you pet him just right he'll be very, very good to you."

You scoff. "You're disgusting!"

"You still love me though, right?" He dips down, kissing you. He hasn't kissed you like this in a while. It's heated a long and a moan bubbles up in his throat. You cup his cheek, parting your lips as you feel his teeth on your bottom lip.