Sun and Earth Ch. 03

"Thank you for your understanding. Again I am so sorry...you know how it is..." she shrugged and smiled sheepishly as her friend pushed himself off the ground and resumed his protective stance behind her.

"I think you need to practice a little more understanding alpha of acer dentis."

"I will I-" at this point her breath had been stolen away and her body was so ridged and tense if she had wolf ears they would have been pinned to her head. I knew once the tightening around my heart began to release that Micah was approaching the car.

"Shit." I muttered

"Earth Breather." The male wolf growled and I saw his teeth grow longer with each pant

"Everything alright, Parker?" Micah looked from the odd angle my wrist was pointed to the snarling faces of the wolves. He put the fast food down and tensed preparing himself for a fight. I felt the tiny pin pricks of magic being drawn from the earth and into Micah's body. I had yet to see him perform his magic and was almost intrigued enough to let him continue. Almost.

"You are with this enemy?" The Alpha turned to me a look of despair in her eyes

"He is my prisoner." I muttered quickly trying to cover up this uncomfortable situation.

"He doesn't look like a prisoner. He seems to be operating of his own free will...he even smells like you..." Her nose wrinkled as she glanced between the both of us. Her companion came and took her hand, touching for support. These two might be more than just pack mates.

"Disgusting...the council will be disgusted when they hear our savior has fucked this enemy. What else have you been up to these past years? You have destroyed us! Traitor!" she screamed and turned to run.

I reached my hand out again and began to call my powers but it was too late. I Heard the tearing gut wrenching sound of transformation as they retreated into the night. I sighed.

"Well fuck...great timing Micah." I went to pick up all the junk food and drinks I had bought and threw them in the back of the car.

"I felt you were stressed so I came out to see if I could help." He in turn put the fast food in the back seat then re-settled himself in the driver's side.

"I'm nearly 300 years old...I can take care of myself thanks...and now the fucking council is going to know I'm in America. FUCK! Get in the car lets go." I slammed my door shut and picked my legs up to circle my arms around them. My wrist was throbbing and I knew I should eat something to speed the heeling process along. Micah glanced at me and started to say something but thought better of it. He started the car and we were on our way.

I reached into the back to grab a few overdone fast food burgers and started to eat. We drove for about an hour before either of us said anything. In truth I was terrified. I couldn't go back to the council. I would be trapped and forced on this path that I knew must have been meant for someone else. After 3 burgers, 2 red bulls and 1 bag of beef jerky Micah finally spoke.

"Why don't you have a pack?" his voice was soft and cautious but I wasn't having it.

"Shouldn't you know that already...oh great researcher? Don't think I don't get what you were doing...watching me for the past two moonlit runs. You were studying me weren't you?" my tone was accusatory and ruthless

"I cannot deny that." He calmly stated, keeping his eyes on the road

"Why?" this time my self-righteousness had deflated and I just sounded tired. I shoved another chunk of jerky in my mouth.

"My adviser suspected a wolf of running the woods for the past year without any prior knowledge, but he would not inspect the matter further. I went to my coven leader and he told me to ignore this wolf. That one wolf was not of consequence to us."

"HA! So you knew I had permission!" I pounded my fist on the dash in triumph

"No...I knew that the coven did not care that there was a lone wolf running amok in the peace lands. I thought this a severe violation of the treaty so I followed you. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I didn't just kill you the first time I saw you...I guess I know why now."

I had known those shots he took upon our first meeting had missed on purpose. At the time I thought they were warning shots, but now I knew he just hadn't wanted to hurt me. The pull we felt for each other had already been strong for him.

"I'm sorry I spied on you, but this avoidance of each other...we are going to be spending A LOT of time together-"

"How do you know? How can you be sure that we are mated and this isn't some random curse that was put on us? Or maybe we are just really attracted to each other..." I trailed off still wanting to deny this connection we had. I knew it was absurd but I had to hold onto my independence for as long as I could and if arguing irrationally helped me do it then by god I would go down whining like an insolent child.

"What do you smell on my skin, Parker?"

I took that as an invitation. I leaned over to him and placed my lips by his neck and breathed him in. Warmth filled my body as the scent traveled further down.

"Earth...soil...wet earth....dry earth...its intoxicating." I nuzzled his neck

"Breathe deeper, past the smell of my magic." I looked at him and then lowered my head onto his lap. He tensed and the car swerved a bit. I smiled, loving his reaction to me. I pulled his shirt up slightly and placed my nose and lips against his stomach and repeated the process...just breathing him in. At first I smelled the usual scent of earth but then it came to me slowly. This sweet comforting smell like hot chocolate during a blizzard.

"Home...safe." I rested my head back on his lap. "Comfort."

"So smell is a type of recognition magic for wolves...mages don't have smell, we have energy. If I focus I can see your energy. You glow as bright as the sun...it almost hurts to look. Its such a different energy than any other wolf I have observed. But I can't turn my eyes away because when we are standing close the energy in my body and the energy in yours is interchangeable. It's as if we are sharing our auras...our souls. I have only read about this phenomenon...and only in the rare case of mating." He sighed and lowered a hand to stroke my hair, keeping his eyes on the road.

"Why hasn't there been a mated couple for over 500 years?" I asked

"What started 500 years ago?" he quizzed me like a fifth grade teacher

"The war." I scoffed

"Exactly, the last mated couple was the wolf woman and mage man that came together. But she was already mated according to pack laws."

"I know how the war started. Some jack ass alpha got pissed his wife left him for a mage."

"They had no choice but to be together. What is not commonly known about mating is that just because the powers that be have deigned two people were meant for each other...does not mean they were particularly happy about. This mated couple did not wish to be together, I'm sorry that's an understatement... they loathed each other. So in the end they killed one another...and that is what really started the war"

"The Alpha mourning the loss of his love..." I murmured more to myself then to Micah

"And the legend goes, that just before the woman took the silver bullet to her head...she called all four elements into her soul and cursed the preternatural world that no more creatures would ever mate..."

"And it worked..."

"As far as we know for the past 500 years yes..."

"I feel like there is more to that story..."

"Too right there is, the Alpha and the council joined together before the official start of the war and decreed that we would fight each other until one race was destroyed...or until another mated pair comes forth." Micah tensed with that last sentence waiting for me to understand what he was implying.

My body started to shudder but not with rage or sorrow, with laughter. I removed myself from his lap and gripped the dashboard with everything I had trying to steady myself.

"You are shitting me." I cried through the uncontrollable laughter

"I shit you not." He grinned at me not giving himself over to the complete insanity of my hysterics but letting himself enjoy the joke.

After a few moments of more laughter between the two of us the joke seemed to drift away.

"Well as if my life wasn't already complicated enough." I murmured staring out the window.

"Parker?" Micah asked

"Hmm?" I didn't take my eyes off the road, I just wanted to get lost in the dessert and throw myself back into solitude

"You never did tell me when you left your pack." He pressed gently

"150 years ago this winter." I saw Micah start out of the corner of my eyes. He kept switching his gaze back and forth between me and the road as if he couldn't tell which was more important to be watching.

Eternity. Micah's words from the rest stop came back to me. "we have an eternity to spend together." After 150 years of silence, 150 years of being alone...how could I possibly spend eternity with a man I barely knew? A man not of my own choosing no less. Also to top it all off, we are of different races...but I pushed that thought aside. I knew better than to use race as an excuse to walk away from something. It was one of the main reasons I left my pack...I couldn't stand for the prejudiced attitudes any longer.

Micah and I passed the next couple hours without much talking. This time he let me turn on the radio, I smiled at him as he watched me flip through the station channels pausing at a late night radio talk show. The DJ was discussing the probability that if we were ever invaded by aliens, the UFO's would swoop down to earth, take one look at how messed up we all were, say 'fuck it' and fly right back out of our atmosphere. Micah and I both chuckled and our eyes caught for half a second. The warmth and safety I felt just by holding this man's gaze was almost so intense that it was unnerving. Almost.

"There's a Holiday Inn up ahead. And you need to sleep." He had reached over and squeezed my hand.

"Sounds delightful." I murmured trying to keep my eyes open

We pulled into the Holiday Inn parking lot. It was a standard 3 star hotel...but if it was just me I would be able to pull off the road and find a grouping of trees somewhere or a cave to bunk down in. But tonight I was glad for the extra nuisance of checking into a hotel. Micah put down what looked like a very fancy credit card for the room and I double checked that the car was locked and all the perishable food was taken out.

We got into the elevator and stood on opposite sides for about two floors when Micah came over to me and pulled me in close to his body. The fast food bags I was carrying made it slightly awkward but I needed the touch of his skin for comfort right now.

The elevator door opened with a piercing ding that made me want to growl at the electric box. Micah laughed at my reaction and led me towards our room. The room was a standard hotel room, small fridge, work desk, large bed, TV and a bathroom. My eyes stopped at the large bed and then glanced back over at Micah. He had taken the food from me and stuffed it in the fridge when we first entered, he was now taking apart his assortment of weapons and placing them in what seemed like strategic places around the room.

I rolled my eyes at his back because I knew that if anyone truly had it out for us no gun or sword could stop them. I started walking towards the bathroom and caught myself in the mirror. I had deep circles under my eyes from exhaustion and a small bruise on my head from where that alpha wolf had slammed me against the car. My face was pale and the sweat pants and shirt Micah had given me were so dirty I looked like a homeless person. It was then that I realized how long it had been since I showered. I suddenly became very embarrassed and rushed into the bathroom turning the shower on.

I came out of the bathroom waiting for the water to heat up and leaned against the door frame. My wrist still slowly throbbed from where the alpha wolf had twisted it There were only two ways to heel for a wolf...sex or sleep. Eating helped speed the process along but didn't heel us completely. Looking at the strong lines of Micah's copper body definitely made me lean towards the former.

I took the sweatpants off quietly not wanting to disturb his observance of the small room; I then unbuttoned the shirt one button at a time. He had yet to turn around and face me, currently he was bent over looking under the work desk giving me a fine view of his tight ass. My face flushed with heat and the overwhelming need to run over and dig my nails into his ass was making me sweat.

"Parker...what are you doing..." His usual smooth voice was coming out breathy with a hint of a warning, he must have sensed the change in air. I would have noted how I smelled of want and lust but after learning of the recognition sense for mages, he was probably noting the intense change of energy being swapped between us. I could only imagine that what he was seeing pour from my body into his was heavy and dark just as my need weighed down on my shoulders seeping into my lower body. I stroked my nipples noting how hard they were, I could feel my magic hovering over my breasts wanting to be let go.

I had the shirt off by now; I threw it so it landed loudly on the desk to grab his attention and turned around to retreat into the now steaming shower. I made sure he had a glimpse of my backside before being consumed by the steam emanating from the bathroom.

I breathed in the steam, it felt so good against my pores, cleansing and washing the dirt and fluids my body had accumulated over the past 24 hours. The water was not scalding but still pretty damn hot, but I knew that my body could take extreme temperatures before freezing or burning...Micah's I wasn't so sure of. So I turned the cold water up a bit higher and watched as the steam dissipated slightly. It was then that I felt a heat pressing behind me, Micah's usual scent of earth was currently being overpowered by a lust so powerful it made my knees go week.

He secured an arm around my naked waist, ensuring that I kept upright. I felt his hot breath caress the back of my neck sending chills down my spine, never mind the water temperature. The hand on my waist tightened and his other hand stroked my swollen breasts. I let out a small wolfish wine and he hardened even further against my back.

After he finished teasing and squeezing my breasts until my nipples were so hard they hurt, his hand traced down my stomach searching for a lower purchase. He dipped two fingers into my pussy testing to see if I was dripping wet and ready for him. I was well beyond ready.

He used the arm surrounding my waist to lift me and throw me against the wall. I felt his knees bend slightly as he guided his tip towards my pussy. I felt his cock graze my ass and poke it ever so slightly. I gasped, my heart speeding up praying for him to enter me in any way. But he continued down further and stroked my cunt roughly before entering me.

The completeness I felt as he shoved himself so hard inside me that I was lifted off the ground was hard to describe. We had fucked many times in the past 24 hours but each time there was something new to be discovered. He teased inside me for a minute or so, retracting his dick slightly and only probing minutely further into me, there was hardly any thrusting at all. I needed him to be moving in and out of my body as hard and fast as he could.

"Faster Micah, make me cum." I whined tightening myself over him ever so slightly.

"Is that what you want?" he grunted in response to my tightening pussy

"Fuck yes, just take me." I pounded my fist against the wall

"Shut the fuck up and wait for it, wolf."

I thought it odd that he had called me wolf but I didn't exactly have time to dwell on it. He spun me away from the wall and had me facing the wall opposite the shower head. He pushed my torso over and my face was leaning against the black tiled wall relishing in its cool smooth feeling. I growled low as my arms supported my body along the wall.

Micah then started to push his hard length further inside me and just to make sure he couldn't go any deeper, he removed himself so only the tip remained and shoved his cock in so hard that it ripped a primal growl from my throat.

"That's it, scream for me, girl." He grunted as his dick began to find a rhythm within my pussy.

It was then I realized that he wasn't talking to me...but to my girl...my wolf. No man had ever acknowledged my other being, my other essence during sex before. They always knew she was there enjoying the ride but they never called her forth to take the reins. As he pumped himself in and out of my body I let the wolf bleed into my eyes, calling her to the front and letting her take control.

She was ecstatic. She pushed back against his dick matching his rhythm. The slap of flesh on flesh was so erotic that just the sound brought forth the twisting and familiar pressure of a building release. Micah had started to moan slightly, his hand on my hips had tightened and I felt his dick begin to shudder inside me. He upped his pace, driving his hips harder against my ass, his sack aiding the slap of flesh.

As my wolf felt his release she saw a pulsing glow paint the tiled walls. I made her turn our head around to look at him. Micah must have felt our movement because he pushed himself from our body and with a swift movement lifted us up and pressed our back against the wall. My wolf at this point had full control it was my turn to hang on for the ride. My body was now hers.

She wrapped our legs around Micah and let out a scream as he entered us again. Her arms circled over his shoulders adding extra support and making him face us. His eyes were pulsing a jade green, just as I knew mine were pitch black. His cock moved in and out of her pussy with calculated movement, she couldn't stop staring at him. The pride she felt of looking into the glowing eyes of her mate as he took possession of her body was the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Soon she felt the pressure building, the familiar twisting deep down that made her tighten the grip around his torso. Then we felt it, the sweet release. She howled into the steaming shower and I noticed from the corner of her mind I was wrapped in that our skin was glowing the color of the sun. The orgasm filtered through the cunt that we shared and seeped into our legs, our torso, and our breasts. It was then that I felt her calmly recede into her warm dark spot. I felt the wolf curl up and lay her spirit to sleep for the day giving me back control over my body.

My back was still against the wall of the shower, legs wrapped around Micah, head leaning on his shoulder. His head rose at the same time that mine did and I saw that same look in his eyes I had seen earlier today. I recognized it now as possession and pride. He knew I was his to keep forever and that came with the feeling of pride and protection he felt for me. I knew because I felt the same connection to him.

He licked his lips and kissed me gently, I breathed in his scent now mingling with mine. His lips were teeth worn. He must have bitten his lips while we were fucking , the thought of what we had just done made me shiver around his dick.

"No more, Parker. I can barely stand."

"I would say I'm sorry...but that would be a lie." He snorted with an exhausted laugh "Let's go to bed."

Micah didn't want to take himself out of my body just yet, so he turned us around and I turned the shower off for the both of us. He then carried us to the bed soaking wet and dropped us on the generic Holiday Inn comforter. Honestly I couldn't care less what we were sleeping on. As long as I could be curled up against the man I was sure was my mate now. I knew that I was home.

To be continued...