by Cheri Marie
“Are you done?” I finally asked, wiping the tears of laughter from my eyes.
“Why did you drop me like that?” She stood up and slapped away the helping hand I was offering her.
“I was trying to be romantic by carrying you to bed, but you told me to put you down. So, I did.” I began to laugh again.
She frowned at me and a look of pure hatred came across her face. I didn’t like that look; I never knew if she could turn on me for real or if I was safe.
“Rave. I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that, I know.” I move closer to her and put my hands on each of her arms. I thought she would pull away, but she didn’t. Her gaze softened and so did her stance.
“James, I’m still used to doing things on my own. You know I don’t ever rely on anyone, especially a man.” She stepped in closer to me, her body pressing against mine. Her arms moved up and encircled my neck and pulled my head down so our lips could meet.
“Where were you taking me?” She whispered against my mouth, nibbling at my lower lip, turning me on more than I ever thought possible.
“To bed, my love, to bed.”
“Why on earth were you taking me to bed?” She seductively wiggled her naked body against mine. God, I can’t think straight with her doing that.
“Come here and I’ll show you.” I pulled her up, once again, into my arms, devouring her mouth like it was fresh water in a desert. This time she didn’t resist.
Raven
I wasn’t going to waste another minute fighting with him when all I wanted to do was fuck him. No, that’s not what I meant. Not what I meant at all. This time was going to be different. I needed him, I wanted him… badly… but I also wanted him to know that it wasn’t just our mutant instincts taking over. I wanted him to know that I loved him. I wanted to make love to him and I didn’t want him to have any questions whatsoever that it wasn’t just sex anymore. It was much deeper than that, and I didn’t want to wait any longer to let him know my true feelings.
As James carried me along the path, I rested my head on his broad, masculine shoulders, closing my eyes so that I could just use my senses to take him in. His essence was strong and intoxicating to my mutant gene. It was all I could do to not forget myself and left my true physical being loose.
In all the times that James and I have been together, I never showed him my true form. My skin color was bright blue; not the fair-skinned woman that I appear to be when I’m with him. My hair was bright red; unlike the dark brunette that I usually take on. It never crossed my mind to show him my true self. I thought he would be repulsed, like most men, if he saw the real me.
Tonight is going to be different. Tonight is going to be the make or break for James and me. If he couldn’t make love to me in my true physical state, then we would part for good. I needed to know if he truly loved me; the real me.
James walked through the back door that I had left open when I walked down to the beach. We were the only ones on the small island and I never locked the doors. He crossed the small kitchen and into the only bedroom of the small house. I had made the bed earlier, setting the scene with cream colored silk sheets and candles that glowed in the darkness.
As James laid me tenderly on the bed, I let my arms stay wrapped around his neck, not yet wanting to let go. James leaned over me for a moment and gazed deeply into my eyes; I knew he could see into my soul, into my heart. He gave a guttural moan as he leaned further over me until he was on top of me and kissing me deeply.
“What are you doing to me, woman?” He moaned into my mouth. “I don’t know if I should stay and fuck you until tomorrow or just leave now and never come back.”
“I don’t want you to fuck me, James.”
He pulled slightly away from me and looked deep into my eyes, once more.
“I want you to make love to me.” I whisper as I let my true self loose. I watch his expression as my façade falls and my blue skin and red hair appear.
“I want you to make love to the real me.” A tear slid down the side of my face from my yellow eyes as he answered me with a moan and covered my mouth with his.
James
I don’t know if it was the pheromones or mutant essence or the fucking full moon… all I know is that I have never wanted anyone as much as I wanted this woman that I was carrying in my arms. I could barely contain myself long enough to get up the path and into the house. I crossed the kitchen in a few long strides and all I wanted at this moment was to lay Raven on the bed and make love to her.
I didn’t want to just have sex this time. I needed to know if this mutant woman could love a man that was also a mutant with a terrible temper and retractable claws in his hands. I was being petty, I know, but other women have been put off before because of these things, and I want to make sure that I could place my heart in such a precarious place as in the hands of another mutant.
As I was laying her down upon the silk sheets, Raven wrapped her arms around my neck and was looking up at me. I about forgot to breathe in that moment. She was breathtaking; I could honestly feel as if I could see her love for me burning in her eyes. Maybe I was just hoping for it, I don’t know, but I sure as hell believed at that moment she loved me.
“What are you doing to me, woman?” I moaned as my mouth parted hers. “I don’t know if I should stay and fuck you until tomorrow or just leave now and never come back.”
“I don’t want you to fuck me, James.” Her voice was but a whisper.
I pulled slightly away so I could see her face. Was she regretting this time with me already?
“I want you to make love to me.” She whispered.
I knew that she kept her true self hidden from me when we were together. I have heard stories from others about a blue mutant woman with red hair, but, I wasn’t ready for the amazing beauty that appeared before me when Raven let her mutant self show.
“I want you to make love to the real me.” A tear slid from her yellow eyes and down the side of her face; all I could manage was a moan that came from deep inside my animalistic self as my mouth covered hers with a hunger I had never felt before.
We took our selves to places that I don’t think either one of us had allowed ourselves to go before now. My mouth had covered Raven’s hungrily, searching for her eager tongue to dance with mine. Her hands wrapped themselves in my hair, pulling me as close as she possibly could. Neither one of us closed our eyes; instead, we watched each other with an uncontrolled passion that all but overwhelmed us. I wanted to see her eyes glow as my hands touched her blue skin. I wanted to touch her with my blades to show her I could be gentle as well; so, I did.
I pulled myself up and onto my knees, my eyes still holding her gaze, watching her face for any fear or repulsion. I release my blades and, even though she jumped from the quick sound of the release, I could tell that she was even more turned on from the sight of them.
Raven slowly placed her right hand on my left hand, tracing the sharp blades that emerged from between my knuckles. Her eyes glowed brighter as I watched her move the blades closer to her body. I realized that she was wanting me to caress her with my extensions; I willingly obliged.
She arched her back as my extensions grazed lightly across her breasts. I could hear her soft moan as her delicious blue skin shivered with goose bumps. I couldn’t take much more of this. I needed to be inside of her, now!
I retracted my blades and took Raven’s hands and pulled them above her head. Holding them there with my left hand, I let my right hand trace its way slowly down her beautiful body, stopping a moment to caress her breast before traveling down her waist and under her hips. I knew she could break loose at any moment; she had more strength than an average woman, but, I also knew that she had somehow turned her keen forethought senses off. She was just letting everything just happen and not trying to think it through.
My mouth found her neck and nipped at the curve right above her shoulder. I loved the way her skin tasted but I wanted to taste here elsewhere. I let go
of her hands and moved both of mine to either side of her hips as I moved my body down further on hers. Looking up at her I noticed that she still had tears in her eyes. Was this hurting her? Did she want me to stop? Did she not want me after all?
I stop for a moment and started to raise up from my delicious path down her body, but, at that moment she put her hands in my hair and guided me back to her body. I didn’t need any more coaxing than that.
I lowered my mouth right above her belly and breathed warmth across her skin; she wriggled her body beneath me, letting me know she wanted me to go further. I took a moment to lick her belly, my hands still holding her hips, lifting her slightly up; I moved my mouth down to her jewel and lovingly caressed it with my hot tongue.
I didn’t have to guess whether or not she enjoyed it. She bucked her hips up as she pulled my head down. I was more than willing to give her the tongue lashing she wanted.
My cock was so hard at this point, I needed a release. I needed to be inside of her, to feel her warmth envelope my member entirely. I raised my mouth from between her thighs and moved further up her body until I was on my knees once more.
Raven pulled herself up and put her arms around my neck, then, straddling me, she lowered herself onto my swollen cock. We rocked back and forth, kissing fervently as our bodies took over. I knew she was close as I could feel her tightening around me. I took her face between my large hands; I wanted to see her true mutant self as she orgasmed. I wanted her to see my love for her and know that it wasn’t just the sex I was here for. It was her.
Her eyes glowed brighter than ever as I watched the tears flowing down her blue cheeks; wave after wave of pleasure flowing through her body sparked my own undoing. I came with her.
Raven
I couldn’t believe that James still wanted me after he saw the real me. But, he did. He seemed to want me even more after I showed him my true self. He kissed me harder and even showed me his true self by releasing the blades that is a part of his being. It wasn’t the blades themselves that turned me on even more, but the fact that James took a chance on me rejecting him, that’s what made me want him even more.
I couldn’t stop the tears; they just flowed on their own accord. I was feeling things that I had never before felt for another being, not even my last husband. James must have thought they meant something bad because he started to stop what he was doing and that’s the last thing I wanted him to do. I put my hands in his hair to guide him back to my body, back to where he was headed before he stopped.
When his warm mouth touched my clit, I couldn’t control myself any longer. I bucked up with my hips and pulled his head down with my hands, trying to get him to lick and suck even harder. I was just about to finish when he stopped, again. He moved up further between my thighs positioning himself to enter me, but I didn’t want to be a passive participant in this. I wanted to be equally involved.
I raised myself up and climbed onto his lap, facing him, wrapping my arms around his neck I lowered myself onto his swollen cock and rocked with him until the pleasure was almost too much. I could feel my climax building, almost to the point of eruption, when James took my face between his large hands and looked deep into my soul. I knew he loved me and he knew I loved him.
With my eyes overflowing with the tears of emotions, and his love burning brightly from his own, we both came together; releasing a passion that had built up over decades of wanting each other to the point of finally being able to love each other.
Falling back against the silky sheets, we collapsed into each other’s arms. Both of us panting heavily from the lovemaking session, we just laid there, trying to breathe.
Chapter Four
A Union of Sorts
Mystique
After what seemed like hours, I turn to James and place a tender kiss upon his lips. I had totally given myself to him; my heart, my soul, my being, it was all his. Now, I had to tell him how much he means to me.
“James?”
“Listen, Raven, before you say anything, I need to tell you something.” He moved away from me slightly, turning on his side to face me, raised up and resting on his elbow.
I’m not sure what I expected but it wasn’t this. It feels as if he’s about to tell me it was all a mistake. I can’t be rejected; not after all that we just experienced together. Not after I let my façade down and let him see the vulnerability of the real me.
“What is it, James? Are you sorry you fucked me? Were you disgusted with how I really look?” I turned away from him and got out of bed, walking to the window to stare out at the ocean. I couldn’t bear the thought of him leaving me now but I also couldn’t bear it if he stayed and ridiculed me for being the mutant that I am.
“Whoa! Slow down there, lady!” James was up and standing behind me, his hands on my shoulders.
“James, just get your shit and leave. I don’t need you to tell me how revolting I am. I’ve heard it all my life and I don’t need to have you throwing it in my face as well.”
“For fuck’s sake, Rave, I didn’t find you revolting! Would you just shut up and let me say something! Goddamn, you’re a handful!”
James turns me around and looks me directly in the eyes and shakes his head.
“Raven, you are the most incorrigible woman I have ever known. You are also the most beautiful woman I have ever known. I want you all the time. You are always in my thoughts, in my dreams… in my heart. I want you to be with me always… in my bed, in my life.”
A long silence takes over the little house; the only sound was the waves hitting against the pier outside my open window. What did he just say? He wanted me in his life? Always?
“James?” I look deeply into his eyes, searching for something to tell me he was trying to joke with me, or, if he was being honest.
“I love you, Raven Darkholme. I have loved you for years but just realized how much when I saw you walking on the beach. I want you to be mine, not just tonight, not just this week. I want you to be mine, forever.” He was looking at me, waiting for me to say something, but I couldn’t find the words.
The tears started down my face again. I couldn’t control them anymore so there was no point in trying.
“Woman, please say something. Tell me to go to hell, or to leave, something.” The tears were now forming in his eyes, threatening to overflow.
“Something, James.” I stood on my tiptoes and placed a soft kiss on his firm lips.
“Something?”
“You told me to say something… so I did.” I smiled up at him.
“Yes, I guess I did.” He pulled me close to him, wrapping his arms tightly around me.
“I love you, James. Deep in my cold, broken heart, I’ve known this for years. I just couldn’t bear to have you reject me because of who I am.” I wrapped my own arms around his waist and held on as if my life depended on it.
“Oh, Rave, how foolish we both are.” He pulled away and held me out at arm’s length, looking me up and down and then finally resting his eyes back on my tear stained face.
“Raven, we both have made so many mistakes in our lives. Let’s not make this a mistake, too. Please?”
“What are you asking of me, James? I can’t not be who I am, just as you can’t not be who you are. How are we going to handle that?”
“We handle it as best we can. If it comes to something that we know the other would have a problem with…” He looks away for a moment, shakes his head and then continues, “…well, I guess, we just take it as it comes.”
“I don’t want to be away from you, even for a day, James, but, I also don’t know if I can be the kind of girl you take home to meet the family, either.” I laughed a little at the thought of me being a nice girl.
“I’m okay with that. I don’t have any family to meet.” He smiled down at me and pulled me back into his arms.
“I’m okay with that, too.” I leaned against him, my head on his chest, and just enjoyed the firmness of his arms around me, protecting me, and
I didn’t have a problem with it. I actually found that I like that feeling.
Wolverine
We had laid there for a long time, just listening to each other breathe, not saying anything. Then, Raven turned to me and kissed me softly.
“James?” She only said my name but I had a feeling she was about to follow it with something I’m not sure I was ready to hear. I needed to tell her how I felt about her before she told me to leave.
“Listen, Raven, before you say anything, I need to tell you something.” I turned on my side so I could face her, and so that I could see her expression when I told her my feelings.
“What is it, James? Are you sorry you fucked me? Were you disgusted with how I really look?” She turned away from me and got out of bed, walking to the window to stare out at the ocean. I have no idea where she got the idea that I could be disgusted with her. She was the most beautiful creature I had ever come across, and I didn’t want to lose her.
“Whoa! Slow down there, lady!” I quickly got up and, standing behind her, I placed my hands on her shoulders.
“James, just get your shit and leave. I don’t need you to tell me how revolting I am. I’ve heard it all my life and I don’t need to have you throwing it in my face as well.”
“For fuck’s sake, Rave, I didn’t find you revolting! Would you just shut up and let me say something! Goddamn, you’re a handful!”
I turn her around so that I can look her directly in the eyes. The look on her face had me exasperated to the point all I could do was shake my head.
“Raven, you are the most incorrigible woman I have ever known. You are also the most beautiful woman I have ever known. I want you all the time. You are always in my thoughts, in my dreams… in my heart. I want you to be with me always… in my bed, in my life.” Did all of that just come out of my mouth?
