Crash Landing

human

*Zax*

Warm.

That's how I felt when I awoke when the sun began it's slowly rise into the sky, the morning dawn a fresh new start to my day but I usually awoke cold and lonely.

Emptiness, both internal and external, consuming my thick bones, doubtful mind and willful soul.

I always woke up alone but this time was different.

This time, I was drawn out of the darkness of slumber to a warm body that was snuggled up against my bare chest, a delicate body that I've never known the curves and smoothed edges of smothered against the hard and rigid lines of my own rough build and frame.

I froze as I felt Mabel, the woman who seemingly captured the attention of every man she ever laid eyes upon, nevermind the fact that most of them were unaware for now that she was a female in nature, who was now seeking warmth in the form of her pushing up against my skin, as if she wanted to crawl inside my flesh and be laid to rest within my body itself.

It was a strange and peculiar thought to have but it was the most accurate description I could give, as Mabel sighed peacefully in her slumbering unconscious state, her little pale hands resting lightly against the hard muscles of my pectorals, the stark contrast between our differing complexions fascinating me more than it should have.

She was tiny, fragile and delicate.

Her bone structure was not made like our kind, the tresses of soft hair the color of burning fire was not made to smooth out over my chest, the fluttering of her eyelids as she remained locked away in her version of a dreamland making my heart ache with a feeling that I wasn't quite familiar with.

Longing.

I haven't felt such intense emotions towards another sentinel being such the day my mother left this planet for good and that was too long ago for me to even remember the pain that came with such intense feelings, to remember that this feeling wasn't of my own volition but that it was caused by the tiny human cuddling against the side of my body.

"Hmm…Mhmm…"

Mabel made another sighing noise in her sleep, her pink lips parted as an exhale of cool air brushed past her lips after flowing through her chest with a soft inclining and declining motion.

The gentle breeze of the air leaving her mouth brushed over my throat and I gulped as I felt something stir inside my chest, my heart pounding inside my chest wall as I fought against the emotions that were running rampant through my veins.

I was feeling something rather strange bubbling up inside my chest and it wasn't the longing emptiness from earlier, it was a harsher sensation that burned across my skin like the finest burns from our glorious warming sun.

I was feeling something close to…Desire for Mabel.

Desire to claim her as my own.

To announce to the rest of the kingdom that she belonged to me and me alone.

Fates, I wanted to scream it from the mountaintops that she accepted me as her male for the rest of eternity or for as long as the Gods allowed us to be together for so.

And then, I wanted to bury myself deep inside her and give her all that my sperm could offer, so she could bear our children, such strange little creatures of mixed species, and we could roam the planet as fated mates of life with our giddy offspring trailing not too far behind.

But that was not my decision to make.

I could not, and would not, demand that Mabel experience such strong emotions towards me that mirrored mine in reference to her.