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Shit in a tree!

Shit in a tree!

Shit in a tree!

My jaguar hissed as the contents of my stomach hit the grass. There wasn’t much dinner left from the night before, but acid came out hot and ucky.

“Othoni,” Teddy said his voice gentle while climbing out of the window.

“Hold on!”I snapped over our mating link.“I’m sick! It’s probably a fur ball! Who the hell am I licking in my sleep?”

Only we both knew it wasn’t a fur ball. Even if I had groomed someone in my sleep the only other person around was Teddy and we’d both know if he shifted in his sleep. He’d break the bed and maybe the room too.

My weird mate was undeterred by the acidy fur ball I was coughing up. He squatted down next to me and rubbed my back until the world held still and let my stomach stop doing the tango. When we were both sure it was done with its performance, he lifted me gently and carried me back into the house. Mori was up. His feet pattered around his room. If I had woken him up, he wasn’t complaining.

“Probably giving us some time on our own,” Teddy said, picking up my thoughts over our mating link.

I called out anyway and winced as my stomach flipflopped but settled down before it found anything else to toss out.

“I’m okay!” Mori called back and I let out a long sigh of relief. At least he wasn’t laying prone and empty while some mysterious group known only as the ‘postcard men’ interrogated him or whatever.

“Thanks, Mori!” Teddy said and I winced at how close his voice originated to my ears.

“Need any help?” Mori called back.

“We’re okay,” Teddy called out, softer this time. “Just going to hit the shower and then I’ll hit the pharmacy. I don’t want to call Leem until we know for sure.”

“Isn’t that his job to find out?” Mori asked.

“Things are still weird with us, and I don’t know why,” Teddy said.

“Because you screwed,” Mori stuck his head out of the door. “Seriously, it doesn’t bother you but you’re an outlier. It bothers him, though.”

“So, should we not call him? I’m sure there are other doctors,” Teddy frowned.

“You have to call him because if you don’t everyone will point out that you didn’t call him because you screwed back then,” Mori said.

“What the actual fuck?” Teddy sighed.

“I don’t get it either,” Mori shrugged.

A few minutes later Teddy had washed me up and we lay under the lukewarm water together. He was stretched out on his back, and I rested on top of him while he massaged my ears in that way I’d always loved. His fingers were perfect for it. We’d jokingly started calling the exchange an ‘ear job,’ because I was sure one day he’d do it long enough that I might actually orgasm from it.

“Does it bother you that I hooked up with the doctor?” Teddy asked.

“No more than it bothers me you once hooked up with Selt or Sunny,”I said over our mating link.“You’re not hooking up with him now. I think it’s weird for him because you don’t give him special privileges or do things because he asked you to. I think that comes along with exes that ended okay.”

“That’s fucking weird, though,” Teddy sighed, and he was right. It was strange but most of society was.

“We can use whatever doctor you like,”I told him.

“That’s what I’m supposed to say to you,” he pointed out. “You’re the one pregnant.”

“With Zinnia,”I nodded.

“I think you’re the only one who believes me about my dream,” he sighed.

“Why wouldn’t I? I love that name! And I think everyone believes you had that dream. They just don’t believe it means anything.”

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