Remnant II

by Randi Darren

  “Okay,” Nikki said slowly. “Could you explain more of that to me?”

  “I… it just felt like you were mad that I didn’t agree with you,” Steve offered, trying to put into words how he felt. “That rather than talk more about it, or figure it out, you just got mad, told me to leave, and left me there.”

  Taking in a short breath and then letting it out quickly, Nikki nodded her head.

  “You’re right. I did do that,” she agreed. “And we talked about it briefly not long ago.”

  “Yeah, I know. You apologized and I accepted and all that, and… yeah, we talked about it,” Steve admitted. “But that doesn’t mean I don’t still feel it.”

  “That’s… okay. That’s fair, actually,” Nikki said. “I’m sure that’ll fade with time. We’re in this for a long time, my love. This won’t be the last time we bicker.”

  Steve nodded his head with a grin at that. “Yeah. Next fight will probably be that you’re not allowed to eat barley before bed. You smell like a rotten den of Creeps and it sounds like someone playing a broken trumpet.”

  “I do not!” Nikki denied, turning a deep, dark red.

  “Yeah, you do. It’s so damned awful,” Steve said. “I mean, wow, Nikki, I had no idea something that thick and nasty could come from a tiny pretty thing like you.”

  Nikki opened and closed her mouth several times, turning ever redder.

  “Hmph,” she concluded, smiling at him. “I suppose it’s a good thing you love me, then.”

  Grinning at that, Steve let out a breath. “Yep. It’s a good thing I love you. Though there’s another part to this. And I’m not sure if it’s me missing something, or maybe I’m just dumb.”

  “Okay. I’m listening,” Nikki said, sliding one leg over the other and folding her hands in her lap.

  Reaching out, Steve took hold of one of her hooves and began to toy with it.

  “I feel like Lucia is trying to become… I don’t know… first wife? Leading wife? Head wife?” Steve probed.

  “Any of those would work, but… yes. You’ve seen how everyone else defers to me and asks me for… time… with you,” Nikki said. “And you feel like Lucia is trying to move into that role?”

  “I mean… maybe? I don’t know,” Steve said, suddenly feeling strange. “Is she?”

  “I haven’t noticed anything, no. At first I was afraid she might be, but… she didn’t. In fact, after the day she got back, she began deferring to me rather heavily,” Nikki murmured, her hands coming out to lightly slide through Steve’s hair. “She’s been very deferential to me. Truth of the matter is, I knew someone had come up from the south before you even came in. Lucia sent someone to tell me about it.”

  “Really?” Steve asked, lifting his eyes up to Nikki’s face.

  “Mm-hmm. She did. Though, I’m rather grateful at your concern,” Nikki purred as she curled her fingers into his hair. Pulling him closer to her. “Very grateful. You were worried someone was trying to supplant me? Even though you were hurt and angry at me?”

  “I mean… yeah?” Steve responded. He wasn’t quite sure what to say. He felt somewhat guilty at the idea that he’d rather spend time with Lucia, but if she wasn’t pushing in on Nikki, that definitely alleviated some of the guilt.

  “Well, Lucia isn’t doing anything wrong. I’m well aware she spoils you rotten and treats you far different than any of the rest of us do,” Nikki said, drawing Steve’s head onto her bosom. “And while that does annoy me a little, it doesn’t threaten my position at all.”

  “Got it,” Steve said, laying his hands on Nikki’s hips.

  “I do have to admit I’m rather annoyed that there are three pregnancies and I’m not one of them,” Nikki admitted. “But that’s just how it goes. I can’t deny I’m still a little… a little afraid you might suddenly decide to start living out of Lucia’s bed. That’d make her first wife.

  “But she hasn’t asked you to do that, has she?”

  “No,” Steve said. She hadn’t, either. Lucia hadn’t mentioned the fact that he hadn’t gone to her bed. Nor had she even seemed frustrated by it.

  She’d definitely pulled him into her own bed twice during the day, but she’d said nothing of the fact that he hadn’t gone with her to bed at night.

  “Then there you are,” Nikki said. “Now. As for me and my… my silliness… I’m sorry. I’ll not send you away like that again. I’ll explain how I’m feeling to you and if I need some time, I’ll tell you that rather than run away.”

  “That’d be… good,” Steve said cautiously. That actually sounded like a really good way to prevent it from happening again.

  “Good. I expect the same courtesy from you, of course,” Nikki said with a chuckle, tapping a thumb against his temple. “Does any of that feel better now that we’ve talked about it?”

  Nikki’s fingers were trailing through his hair with one hand, and up and down his back with the other.

  “Yeah,” Steve said. He meant it, too. He did feel better for talking about it. Having an actionable plan for the next time they had a fight.

  Doubly so now that Nikki had reassured him Lucia wasn’t doing anything wrong.

  So long as I don’t stay in her bed at night, everything is fine, I guess.

  “Great,” Nikki whispered against his ear. Then she nuzzled him. He could feel the tips of her horns lightly grazing his hair. “I heard you met Airlea. She said you were rather nice. What’d you think of her?”

  “Honestly? I didn’t realize you meant you were hiring her,” Steve confessed. “And that I’d have to go hump a horse.”

  “Steven,” Nikki said with a laugh, but she didn’t push him away. If anything, she held tighter to him. “That’s just not very nice. She’s such a sweet girl.”

  “Sweet girl with a horse vagina,” Steve said bitterly. “You’re asking me to go rock a horse.”

  “Well, it isn’t as if I’m Human. Or Jaina, or Kassandra,” Nikki said.

  “Yeah, well, her lady bits are going to be horse bits, aren’t they?” Steve asked.

  “Not that I know of,” Nikki said, kissing along his temple and into his hair. “It’ll be in the wrong place, but a Unicorn is a very special kind of creature. Did the matchmaker explain her at all?”

  “A little. Centaur with another who has too much Human genetic material,” Steve said.

  “Gen-gen-uh-tick?” Nikki repeated.

  Steve shook his head. The memory had already failed him. “One of those lost-memory things.”

  “Ah, well, Unicorns are a strange race. They didn’t originally exist. They came about from overbreeding with Humans from Centaurs,” Nikki explained. “They’re Human all the way through, and they can actually produce Human offspring. They just have the hind-quarters of a horse.”

  “Yeah, so her privates are a horse’s,” Steve said, stuck on that point.

  “If a Centaur tried to have Airlea, she’d almost certainly die,” Nikki replied, her square teeth nibbling at the top of his ear. “She’s far too small to take anything but a Human.”

  Sighing, Steve realized it wasn’t that Nikki wasn’t hearing him. It was just that unless he said he wasn’t going to do it, the expectation was he’d bed the Unicorn.

  “Fine,” Steve said. “Got it. Should I go bed her now or what?”

  “No, you’re going to bed me,” Nikki whispered in his ear. “Here and now. I’m going to ravage you with my mouth, mount you, and then ride you into the ground.”

  Before Steve could reply, Nikki had eased him down to the ground and was quickly working at his belt and pants.

  Okay. Alright.

  Sounds fun.

  Pulling his pants down to his ankles, Nikki leaned over the top of him and took in a deep breath through her nose.

  She moved her head down and began to sniff at him directly, her nose practically pressed against his shaft.

  I… that’s kinda different.

  Nikki kept sniffing at him, working her way down. Pressing her no
se practically into his jewels, she took another hard whiff of him.

  Her long tongue slid out of her mouth and then rolled over his balls from one side to the other.

  “Steve,” Nikki murmured as she continued to lick at him, his extremely rock-hard shaft resting on her cheek now. “I want a child. And I’m telling you this because I want it soon. I’m feeling very insecure about it. If you could give me a child, you’d give me one, right?”

  The fuck. Does she know?

  Or suspect?

  Uh, shit.

  Shifting around at the warm, wet feeling of her tongue moving over him, Steve nodded his head. “Yeah, giving you a child is on my to-do list.”

  “Good,” Nikki whispered, then rolled her tongue up along his length from the underside. Her eyes flicked up to his, and then she opened her mouth and laid her lips on his head.

  Her pink lips tightened around him and began to work down his shaft. He could feel her long, firm tongue practically wrapping around him as she took him.

  Down to the hilt she went, until she had her lips pressed to his abdomen. His tip was throat deep, and he could feel her swallowing at him. Her throat contracting at him and pulling on him.

  “Damn, Nikki,” Steve said, unable to help himself. His hands came down and wrapped around her horns.

  Nikki moaned softly as soon as his hands got a hold of her. He knew for a fact she loved her horns being gripped.

  Unless she told him to “guide her,” though, he’d only hold her horns.

  Nikki moved her head back and left a very wet and messy trail behind. When she reached the tip, she clearly swallowed, still watching Steve, then went back down on him.

  Smoothly, she bobbed her head back and forth, sucking and pulling at him with her lips as she did so.

  She came off him far sooner than he wanted, after only a minute or so. Kissing his tip and then licking once at the precum oozing free, she smiled up at him.

  “I’ve changed my mind,” Nikki purred at him. “I’d like you to put me face down into my loom, hang onto my horns, and put a child in me. Use me up and treat me like the farm. Force that seed in me. That’s what you do, isn’t it? Conquer, take, and disrupt? So do that.”

  Taking his tip between her lips, she sucked on him and rolled her tongue over it for a few more seconds. Then she turned, hiked her dress up to her hips, and bent down over her loom. Looking back at him, she grabbed hold of her seat and gave him a lovely view.

  “Come take it, brute,” Nikki crooned at him as she wiggled her small fluffy tail back and forth.

  Getting up in a hurry, Steve grabbed at Nikki and stuffed himself into her as fast as he could.

  Groaning, Nikki straightened herself out and then tilted her head back so her horns pointed toward him.

  It reminded him of what she’d asked for.

  Steve let go of her hips once he’d pushed all the way into her, then reached up and grabbed her by the horns.

  “Yes,” Nikki said in a whisper as he began to bend her backward. “Take it, brute. Take it all and leave a child behind. Conquer me completely.”

  Swallowing, Steve felt like she’d hit the right points in his head. She’d not just ticked his boxes, she’d filled them in and smashed them.

  Pulling at her horns, Steve kept bending her, forcing her head back and her stomach down.

  “No more, my brute. Conquer me now,” Nikki pleaded. “Take the last vestiges of me you don’t own.”

  Pulling his hips back, his member sliding out of the Faun with a wet swish, Steve could barely think.

  He drove forward and crashed himself into her, the force of it driving her forward. His hold on her horns kept her from going far, though.

  Nikki cried out softly but pushed herself back into him.

  “Conquer me,” she moaned. “Don’t worry about me, just conquer me.”

  Thoroughly lost in that idea now, Steve began to thrust in and out of Nikki. Normally he’d spend the time to make sure she got off as well, but she’d told him what she wanted. He was going to do just that.

  Nikki squirmed, moaned, pushed back at him, and generally seemed to be enjoying herself.

  Breathing hard as he pummeled Nikki’s depths with his member, he didn’t want to climax. He wanted to just ride the Faun till she gave out and collapsed.

  Right now, he really did want to conquer her until she was spent. Just like she’d said.

  Grunting now at the force of his thrusts, Nikki had to almost fling herself back at him to get back in position as he withdrew from her.

  Then he felt her hands down between his legs. Every time he thrust deep into her, her fingers played with his jewels. Squeezing at him each and every time.

  “Conquer—your—Faun,” Nikki got out between thrusts. Apparently she’d stopped holding herself up and was letting Steve keep her upright. Because he could feel all ten fingers squeeze at him.

  Impregnate Nikkolet Bril?

  Yeah.

  Impregnate Nikki.

  She’ll be a really good mom, and she clearly wants it. More than even Jaina does.

  Jaina’s more of a sex addict now.

  Letting out a sudden exhalation, Steve held tight to Nikki’s horns as he started to empty out his seed into her.

  “Yes,” Nikki groaned even as he continued to fill her up. Thrusting into her over and over as he came, Steve could feel it as her fingers squeezed and gripped his jewels.

  Conception failed.

  Available ovum not viable.

  New ovum available in nine days.

  The fuck? Apparently it isn’t a guarantee after all?

  Shit.

  Maybe… maybe I need to start trying more often with Nikki and Jaina both.

  Sighing, Steve held to Nikki’s horns even as his climax came to a close.

  Nikki, however, was a quivering mess as she hung there. Her arms were dangling now toward the ground.

  “That was amazing,” Nikki whispered. “And I saw it. I saw it that time. It worked.”

  “Huh?” Steve asked, pushing himself into Nikki again. Even though he was spent, and he was rapidly going soft, he could enjoy a few more thrusts into her.

  “Took a bunch of herbs while you were gone. Spoke to a lot of midwives,” Nikki panted out trembling in his grasp. “So many herbs I took, I thought I’d die. I was sick for a week.

  “It worked, though. I saw the message. We can try again really soon. I can get pregnant.”

  Hmm. At least the timing kinda works out.

  She did go into this thinking it might not be possible. So… whatever.

  I’ll take my luck where I can get it.

  Odd that she saw the message, though.

  “Everything hurts,” Nikki groaned. “But it feels good, too. We’ve never done it like that, have we?”

  “No,” Steve said, finally pulling himself free of Nikki. “Usually we do it with me on top and I make sure I get you off, but you kinda dictate the pace.”

  “Oh,” Nikki said. “I got off, don’t you worry about that. Don’t think I can handle that every time, though.”

  Steve grinned at that and gave Nikki’s left butt-cheek a light slap with his left hand, eliciting a squeal from her. He held her up with his right hand.

  “I dunno, I liked conquering you,” Steve said. “Maybe I want it like that every time.”

  The light smack left a very faint red hand print on the Faun’s rear end.

  Nikki took in a deep breath and then pushed her rear end into his lap.

  “Aaaah… well… maybe I can handle it. We could try again tonight. I’m sure I can handle it, actually. Didn’t think I’d like it as much as I did,” Nikki said, still dangling in his grasp. It sounded like she was a little fuzzy headed right now. “But I think I really liked it. I can see what Kass was talking about now.”

  Twenty-Eight

  Walking up to the gate guard, Steve waved a hand at her.

  “Hey,” he said, not bothering to stop.

  Both of th
e women at the gate nodded their heads at him. Steve was probably the single most well-known man in all of Filch. No one tended to bother him, stop him, or even question him.

  It didn’t hurt that given all his accolades, anyone who didn’t know who he was would still likely leave him alone.

  “The meeting should have already started. They’re all out at the front gate,” said one of the guards.

  “Meeting?” Steve asked, looking at the speaker.

  “Yeah. Commander Linne wanted to speak to the mayor. She and a few others went to go speak with her out in front of the gate,” explained the guard.

  Linne.

  I’ll need to remain out of sight. I can’t imagine she’d be very happy to see me if I showed up.

  Let’s just hope she’s forgotten my name. That’d be ideal.

  “Thanks.” And with that said, Steve was off at a jog. He wanted to be there to watch even if he didn’t participate. He imagined he could probably peek on them from one of the towers.

  The towers have arrow slits, don’t they?

  Moving through Filch quickly, Steve found he was able to get to his destination with almost no difficulties at all.

  Everyone just seemed to melt away from him.

  Steve stormed past a guard on the exterior door of the tower, then went inside and started up the staircase.

  He could faintly hear people talking, but he couldn’t make anything out.

  When he reached a mid-level platform, Steve paused and went straight to the arrow slit. Looking out, he found Xivin, Shelly, Misty, and Kassandra all standing on the drawbridge. They looked ready but also on guard. Steve didn’t need to be on top of the wall to know they were under heavy security.

  Standing across from his wives was Linne Lynn.

  Her dark brown hair was slicked back and parted around the cat ears perched atop her head. She looked to be in her thirties, and she was extremely pretty with a well-maintained look.

  She was wearing full armor, had a sword belted on each hip, and looked ready for war.

  Gennie’s arrival must have spooked her. Far more than any of us expected.

  “…food. Whether you can spare it or not, and that’s the end of the discussion,” Linne said.

  “I’m afraid Military Governor Geneva Gosti has requisitioned all we have,” Shelly said, holding her hands out to her sides. “There is literally nothing to give you.”