Across the Universe Found

I gotta let you do what now?

A noise wakes me that's rather like the sound one hears when their debit charge is accepted... you know, the polite one... not the one that has you freaking out for like two seconds wondering if something posted unexpectedly and now your checking account is sitting at an amount that is less than the amount you are trying to pay for?

These are the kooky things that flit through my sleep fogged mind as I fight my way to consciousness at the oddly familiar noise. I lift my head and glare towards the door before mumbling, "Unless someone is trying to buy me some tiramisu or dark chocolate with hazelnuts and that's a daggum debit charge being approved? They need to stop making such a freak-fraking racket! I am trying to sleep up in here!" And with that oh so lady-like and eloquent statement, I dropped my head back into the nest of pillows I was snuggled into and proceeded to ignore the noise. The amused chuffs of noise that resulted from my declaration had me grumbling incoherently in outrage into my comfy pillows while I slid my foot in the direction of the nearest offender in order to shove them in retaliation.

A rather satisfying 'oomph', and a thump met my ears, as one of the Cat Men fell off the sleeping platform. I lifted my head to grin at him as I saw Shade give me a disgruntled look. "Serves you right... now why am I in y'alls bed? Don't think I didn't notice you both herding me in here last night." I give them both the stink eye as I sit up and turn to keep them both in vision range.

They glance at each other curiously then back to me before Shadow asks, "What do you recall from before the beginning of the sleep cycle?" I think for a moment before replying, "Well, you both figure sleeping in your bed to be simplest way to help ease me into the process of becoming your mate... And something about a pheromonal 'marking'? Which I can tell you... if it involves your teeth anywhere near my body? You need to tell me right now... because my species doesn't do barbaric shit like that."

My very serious and so-not-cool-with-that expression, must have gotten across to them that they needed to tell me what I needed to know, because Shade climbed back up onto the bed and sat in such a way that I was between the two males. They looked at each other like they were silently discussing how to begin.

I scooted back till I bumped the wall and just clutched a pillow and some of the blanket to me as I waited. After a brief wait, Shade shifted onto his side so that the cushions propped him up and allowed him to see me comfortably. Shadow mimicked him on my other side. They both wore soft looking black sleep clothes. Which had me wondering if they ever wore other colors, and how they would look in them. I blinked and berated myself mentally. This was not the time to be ogling the guys trying to get me to be 'their' mate. I mean did they seriously expect me to get jiggy with both of them? Or was this one of those 'in name only' situations?

I mean we weren't even in the same genetic group in a manner I'd speaking... I'm a simian and they look to be felidae, so it's not like they could possibly be expecting offspring... right? So what would be the point in pursuing a physical mating? They must need something else from me, or at least something that someone in my position can provide. As long as I'm not about to have to trade my body in order to provide for myself? I'm willing to hear them out. Especially if whatever little plan they have cooked up helps keep the Candy Girls out of a similar situation. And gives them more options and actual time to decide what they want to do with those options.

While I've been inner monologuing, they finally decided what to divulge, as was evident by Shade finally spilling at least some of the beans, though I could tell by the shifty way he looked away from me frequently, not all of them. "Our people do require our pheromones to enter our mates bloodstream, in order for them to be recognized by other males as a mate that is spoken for... the delivery system unfortunately, is from a gland within our mouths. We do not know any other way besides the traditional way, which is to inject the pheromones directly into your bloodstream via a puncture created by our own teeth."