[NRPG: This post contains some intimate scenes that you may choose to skip over.  Try not to miss the dragons, though. :-)] 

[Day 12 - midday]

As training was about to get underway, Lainie glanced up at the noonday sun.  It really wasn't any hotter than usual today, yet she was feeling unexpectedly flushed.  Must be the excitement of this final stage of training, she decided.

She opened a button on her shirt, fanning herself with the loose fabric, when she caught sight of Selene butting Loki playfully as they approached the training grounds.  Those two were always at it, Lainie chuckled.  

Selene tossed her head and trotted over toward Seroth, keeping an eye askance on Loki.  When she reached the orange dragon, she suddenly stood stock still, quivering briefly.  Then she shook it off, leaning forward to nudge him gently with her snout before cavorting away again.

Lainie walked restlessly around, her eyes darting from one man to another.  Which one would it be?  The thought flitted through her mind, slipping away like an elusive fish when she tried to concentrate on it.

Gus tried to pay attention to Jerram's final injunctions but was distracted by her partner's erratic behavior.  What the hell was Lainie doin'?  Gus shook her head and turned back to Jerram - who seemed to have lost his own train of thought in watching Lainie through narrowed eyes. 

Lainie sauntered over toward G'ret, startling him as she ran a hand along his shoulders.  He stood staring open mouthed as she made a suggestive hum - which Selene echoed, her throaty growl almost a purr.  Then with a sudden leap that caught everyone's attention, Selene was airborne, calling to all of the warren males with the unmistakable trumpet of a female in heat.

Gus was silently chuckling at G'ret's obvious confusion with Lainie's advances when she realized all the males had gone after Selene - Loki included.  {Get back here!} 

{She's MY fathead, not theirs.}

Gus was startled by the intensity of Loki's feelings - and the sudden intensity of hers, linked with him.  {This ain't funny, dammit!  You'll blow the whole scam!}  

Loki ignored her, intent on his prize.  Gus was considering how to rein him in when G'ret, no longer the focal point of Lainie's reactions, sneered at Gus.  "You don't really think your little runt can win, do you?" 

Anger boiled over - Gus didn't even try to control it.  "Watch and learn, little boy," she snarled.  {You damn well better catch her now.}

Lainie, meanwhile, had turned her attentions on Jerram.  With a flirty little giggle, she stroked her hands up his chest and placed a quick kiss on his lips, dancing away from him when he tried to follow it up.

K'liam came up behind her as she backed away, drawing her against him as he encircled her in his arms.  She shimmied her hips against him before slipping out of his grasp as she turned toward Gus.

Gus flinched as Lainie brushed a kiss across her lips before darting off to caress another rider.  Gus swallowed and told herself the feelings rising within were only Loki's half of the mating - it wasn't her, really.  It wasn't.   Sauntering casually out of Lainie's range, she located a door leading into a small room with a single bed within.  Pulling together a nonchalant appearance, Gus leaned against the doorframe and waited. 

While Lainie teased playfully on the ground, in the air Selene swooped and darted ever just out of reach of the male dragons, while never entirely losing sight of the small gray.

Loki streaked toward Selene, watching for the pattern in her swerving.  He was enough faster that he could probably catch her just by following - but not if he wanted to get a good enough grip.  She was his - and he wasn't about to let her get away. 

Twisting just out of range of the deep blue, followed closely by the brown, Selene was beginning to tire.  In spite of the energizing effects of the challenge, she still hadn't entirely recovered from the previous day's "exercise."  It wouldn't be long now before one of them caught her.

With a gleeful mental cry, Loki realized that Selene was tiring.  The time had come.  He swooped in over her and dropped, his claws gripping her as tightly as he could.  {Mine, mine, mine!} he chortled. 

As the sharp talons seized her, Selene bucked and squirmed in an effort to loosen the dragon's hold - the fact that it was Loki lost in the age-old compulsion to resist as long as possible.

The other males, conceding defeat once it was evident that Loki was NOT letting go, veered off to return to whatever had occupied them earlier.

****

{Come on, fathead, submit already.  I was worthy enough to catch you!}

  {Ouch!  Lay off the biting - I think you've taken a big chunk out of my hide!}

{Well, watch it with the talons then, I might need that skin!}

  {Ok, just let go for a second then, or we'll both be flayed to ribbons.}

Without letting go, Loki eased up with his teeth.  The instant Selene was aware of the decreased pressure, she tore away from him, banking sharply in the opposite direction.

{Fine.  You're not worth my time anyway.}  Loki swerved off, flying slowly, watching for Selene's reaction.

She was stunned.  Not worth his time?? 

He angled his flight toward where several other females were sunning.  This should get her!

How could he just turn his back on her like that?  And what was he trying to do, go cuddle with those other females - who hadn't even risen to mate?  What kind of an insult was that?  After a moment she flew toward him, swishing her tail to attract his attention.				
He glanced covertly over his shoulder at her swishing her tail.  Hooked!  5, 4, 3, 2....

Flapping her wings harder than she ever had before, she overtook him, allowing him to reclaim her...if he chose to.

Loki twined his neck with hers, flicking his tongue along her cheek.  {Let's go have some fun.}

{I'll beat you there!}

****

Gus leaned against the doorframe.  Just as G'ret was about to make a snide comment on Loki losing Selene, Gus smirked and held up one hand, fingers out.  Slowly, she brought the fingers down, counting off.  

"Hey, get back here!"  

As Loki confirmed his victory of Selene, Lainie turned to face Gus.  Eyes gleaming, she sauntered toward Gus, her smile inviting.

Gus raised one eyebrow in G'ret's general direction and, with a slight flourish, swung open the door.  "After you, milady," she called out, indicating the room with a sweeping hand and a slight bow.

Lainie stood just inside the door, her eyes half closed as the surges of feeling coursed through her.

Gus moved to follow Lainie, turning to shut the door behind them.  Looking up to catch G'ret's stunned and angry eyes, she sketched a mock salute before closing herself in with Lainie.  She took a deep breath.  Damn, this wasn't gonna be pretty.

At the sound of the door closing behind her, Lainie turned toward Gus, his name slipping out in a barely whispered question.

Telling herself the feelings rising within were only Loki, Gus turned slowly to face her greatest fear.  "We...don't have to do this, if you don't wanna."

She was stunned.  "You...you don't want me?"  She looked at him with the hurt flickering in her eyes.

The truth slipped out before Gus could call it back.  "Yeah, I do."  She closed her eyes against the horrifying realization that not all the desire she felt was Loki's. 

Despite his extreme youth - and the fact that he drove her nuts - there was something appealing about Gus...more than just the echoes of Selene's lust could explain.  She sat down on the edge of the bed, patting the space beside her.  "Come here," she entreated softly.

****

Selene flew rapidly toward the beach, searching for a suitable spot to land, Loki at her side.

{How about down there?} he suggested.

  {Too rocky,} she protested.

{One of the caves in the cliff?}

  {Too damp from the flooding.}

{If you don't make up your mind quick, I'll take you right here in the air.}

  {As if you could,} she challenged.

At that, he dove for her neck, his teeth scraping her hide as she barely eluded his jaws and scrambling feet when he attempted to mount her.

  {All right, settle down!} she cried, straining to put a bit of distance between them.  {I'd just as soon this first flight didn't end in a crash landing - even if that is something you're particularly good at.} 

{Either way, you still won't know what hit you.  I fully intend to drive you right out of your fat head.}

  {I am out of my head - from having to put up with the likes of you.}

{I'll show you all of my likes as soon as you park your fat butt on the ground.}

  {You'll pay for that, Dimwit!}

{Promises, promises.}

****

Gus gazed bleakly at Lainie sitting on the bed in open invitation.  There was no way she was gonna get outta this, was there?  She ruthlessly ignored the little voice that suggested she didn't really want out....  She warily eyed the space beside Lainie then felt her feet carrying her closer.  She paused just at the edge of arm's reach.  

Finding Gus's apparent shyness almost endearing, Lainie decided to offer more encouragement.  She reached out to grasp Gus's hand, drawing him ever nearer.  

Gus sat on the very edge of the bed, trying to sort out the unfamiliar desires.  Closing her eyes, she carefully shunted part of her mind to another corner - it had always been best not to really think about what she had to do....  The memories faded along with the annoying little voice reminding her what a mistake she was making.  Swallowing hard, she turned to face Lainie. 

"Gus, can I ask you a question?"

"Uh...sure, why not?"

"Um, is this your first, um, experience?"

"Well, Loki's kinda young to have done this before, ain't he?"

"Yes, of course, but it isn't impossible that you'd have been curious and maybe done something back in Cabral."

Gus peered at Lainie in disbelief.  "You...you was thinkin' I was..." she couldn't quite bite back on the snort of disgusted laughter, "a virgin?  Ha! not bloody likely.  You won't be disappointed.  I know what I'm doin'."

"Oh, well, I just thought that at your age, it was rather more likely that you were than that you weren't."

"Not on the street, it ain't."

"No, I suppose not.  Well, so long as one of us knows."

If Lainie kept up this line of chit-chat, Gus was likely to spill more secrets than she wanted.  Hell, get this over with and fast.  She leaned forward to kiss her, only to hear her last statement.  Rocking back on her heels, Gus stared at Lainie. "One of us?"

"Yes, actually, this is my first time."  In spite of her efforts to control it, she felt a blush burning her cheeks.

Gus winced - she couldn't just rush through this as fast as possible if Lainie was a virgin.  All right, different plan.  She brushed Lainie's chin with her fingers, turning the girl to face her.  "Relax, I'll take care of everything," she whispered before brushing her lips gently across Lainie's.

The fleeting touch made Lainie's lips tingle and a warmth settle between her thighs.  She leaned in toward Gus, wanting to increase the pressure of their mouths touching.

Gus slid her hand around to the back of Lainie's neck, urging her gently forward, deepening the kiss as their bodies moved closer.

Lainie hesitantly met Gus's tongue with her own, the contact drawing a moan from somewhere deep inside her.

Slowly, Gus reminded herself, slowly.  Surprisingly, the desires didn't make it any harder to focus on her skills, just harder to wait and be gentle.  She decided now wasn't the time to stop and think about that.  She let her hand trail along Lainie's neck, brushing her fingers lightly over the pulse beating at the base before trailing her mouth down the same path.

Lainie let her head fall back, enjoying the sensations Gus was evoking, while she lightly ran her hands up his thighs.

Dimly, way in the back of that part of the mind Gus had shunted away earlier, a voice tried to remind Gus that there was something VERY important she needed to tell Lainie - and right NOW, but it was drowned out in the need to touch, to taste more of her.  Gus's fingers deftly slipped the buttons on Lainie's shirtfront free, peeling the sides back to allow her tongue to begin a sweet exploration.

Lainie arched her back, her eyes half closing, as the exquisite ache built inside her.

Sliding her hands around to support Lainie's back, Gus bent her head to take the tip of one breast into her mouth.  Lainie's responding moan evoked a rush of pleasure within Gus at her power.

As Gus suckled Lainie's breast, molten heat seemed to flow through every inch of her throbbing body.

The feel of Lainie's fingers tightening on Gus's inner thighs set off warning bells loud enough to bring Gus to her senses - mostly.  Brain whirling with gut-wrenching fear and gut-clenching desire, she pulled Lainie's shirt down to pin her arms and pushed her back on the bed to complete her imprisonment.  Drawing on lessons learned the hard way, Gus set about pleasuring Lainie - hopefully enough to make her not notice things were missing.

Helplessly caught up in the ecstasy pulsing within her, Lainie let Gus have free rein with her body, holding back none of her feverish response to his deft touch.

****

{There, dragon, right there.  Pretty grass, nice little lake-thing, not too damp.  It works - now LAND already!}

  {I saw it first - and I'll be there long before you are!}  Selene swooped down and settled herself on the grassy carpet.  As another surge of lust swept through her, she crowed at the painful pleasure it evoked.

Loki echoed her cry as he landed beside her.

****

Their passion becoming more urgent with each passing moment, Gus trailed her mouth down Lainie's smooth belly, pausing a moment to dip her tongue in Lainie's navel before reaching to untie the drawstring on Lainie's pants.  She cursed at the discovery that it had become knotted.  

While Gus tried to loosen the knot, Lainie propped herself up on her elbows to slip her shirt the rest of the way off then started to undo Gus's shirt buttons.  Instead of the skin she had expected, she discovered a snug wrapping swathing Gus's chest.

"Gus?"

"Mmm?"

"Did you hurt your ribs?"

Gus looked up at Lainie, whose eyes held a lambent glow while her cheeks bore a rosy flush Gus knew she had caused.  "My ribs?"

"Yes, is that why you have this bandage here?"

"Uh, yeah, sure, that's why."

"Ok, I'll try not to hurt you."  She slipped her hands from his shirtfront down his sleek belly.  At Gus's abrupt intake of breath, she slid one hand beneath his waistband to explore and encountered....  She froze in astonishment.  "Gus??" she squealed.  

Gus sucked in her breath, trying to cool the need rushing through her.  She assayed a shaky laugh. 

"Heh.  Uh...did I forget to mention...:"  She left it hanging, hoping Lainie could see the humor in the moment - even if Gus couldn't.

Lainie stared at Gus for a moment with her jaw sagging.  "That's not something you could just forget to mention!  Why in the world were you doing this?  And why...why wouldn't you at least tell me before we started?"

Gus flushed uncomfortably.  "Safer on the streets not to be a girl...."  She looked at the floor.  "And I did sorta forget...."  She gestured at their state of undress in embarrassment.

"Oh."  Lainie was thoughtful for a moment.  Before she could decide how she wanted to handle the situation, the decision was made for her - by the dragons getting down to business.  "Gus!" she cried out as the dragon-lust swept through her in mind-numbing waves.  "Just...just...oh gods!  Just keep going!"      

Gus swallowed hard, trying to beat the lust back into some semblance of control and signally failing.  Applying her teeth to the knotted drawstring, she freed Lainie from her pants and did as she was told.

Lainie gasped as Gus parted her thighs and leaned down to press lips and tongue where the heat and ache were centered.  As the pleasure built within her, Lainie became restless, needing to give as much as she took.  She slid along the sheets until she could reach Gus's pants, careful not to disrupt the exquisite sensations Gus was so expertly producing.  She felt Gus pause ever so briefly as she slid Gus's pants to her knees, both of them rolling to their sides.  Then they were mirroring each other's pleasure with their give and take.

Gus couldn't quite suppress a moan of satisfaction.  She needed to pull away, had to stop Lainie now...had to have more, dammit.  Arching against Lainie, Gus urged her on.

Gus's response sent Lainie to the edge - of what she didn't know, but she felt as though she were perched on the peak of a cresting wave, just waiting, waiting....

****

Loki twined his neck with Selene's, rubbing his head against hers.  Letting his dragon-lust take control, Loki moved to mount her - only to find her size a greater obstacle than anticipated.

{Would you lie down?}

  {Loki!} Selene cried.  {Will you hurry?  I knew you were a dimwit, but I at least thought you'd have some idea what to do now!}

With a snarl, Loki planted his talons and heaved himself up, over, and in.  {Was that more what you had in mind, Fathead?}

  {Yes!} she crooned.  {Yes, just like that....}  The cry that ripped from her throat was earsplitting.

Loki raked his teeth gently along Selene's side, conniving to draw from her another screech.  She complied as he roared out his need.

She quivered as the desire mounted, crying out again and again until it became one ceaseless shriek of pleasure.

{Told you I'd drive you out of your mind.}

Selene wanted to respond to that, but everything within her was focused on the intensifying sensations as they reached fever pitch and threw her with mindless abandon into a pulsing climax. 

****

The movement of Gus's tongue, echoing Loki's rhythmic thrusts, brought the intensifying sensations to a fever pitch.  As her passion peaked, Lainie felt waves and waves of ecstacy course through her, her body arching, her sharp cries becoming one ceaseless shriek of pleasure.

Using her fingers to heighten Lainie's satisfaction, Gus smiled, and, ignoring the horrified protests within, urged Lainie to do the same.  Gus shuddered as both Loki's and her climax slammed into her.  Biting her lip to keep from crying out, she collapsed against Lainie, still quivering with the force of the explosion.  She tried to catch her breath as sensation slowly began to creep back - along with that part of her mind she'd shunted away.

Lainie rolled over onto her back, still panting from the exertions and overpowering sensations.  Her blood still pulsed as she lingered in the afterglow, willing reality to hold off for as long as possible.

Awareness returned to Gus with the force of a twenty-pound sledge.  Mighty Ythfaru, what had she done?!  She tried to scramble off the bed, forgetting the pants still wrapped around her ankles.  She fell to the floor in a graceless heap, frantically trying to put her clothes back on.

As Gus hit the floor, Lainie's head popped up.  "Gus?" she queried.  "What are you doing?"

Gus struggled to her feet, one hand tugging at the waistband of her pants.  The sight of Lainie sitting on the bed was enough to send heat rushing through her veins - and bile rushing through her throat.  Oh gods!  What she'd made Lainie do!

"I gotta get outta here," she muttered hoarsely, leaving her shoes in her rush for freedom.  At the door, Gus turned a shamed face to Lainie.  "Sorry."  And then she was gone.

Lainie's stare nearly bore a hole in the closed door.  A very different kind of ache now filled her.  She finally hung her head, only to become fully aware of her nakedness, her body still flushed with passion.  After that shattering experience he - no, she! - could just run out like that?

Almost without thought, she hurriedly grasped the loosened sheet, flung it around her, and flew through the door in pursuit.

Gus bolted from the door and headed in who knows what direction, still trying to tie the drawstring at her waist.  After all she'd been through and then to do that to Lainie?  When the poor kid didn't even know what was going on?  Her shirttails flew behind her as she finished with her pants and began to run.

As soon as she was outside, Lainie scanned the area for Gus, only vaguely aware that others were staring as she tucked the sheet between her breasts.  "Gus!  Come back here!  Please, we need to talk!" she called to Gus's fleeing back.  The rough ground hurt her bare feet, but she ignored the pain in favor of trying to catch up to Gus.

Hearing Lainie behind her only served to increase Gus's speed.  How could she possibly face her again?  Running blindly, Gus stumbled when her foot hit the sand, but didn't slow down.  She was unaware of those around her, unaware of anything but her need to outrun the shame that filled her. 

****

  {What does your rider think he - no, she! - is doing to mine, Dimwit?}

{She's done doing anything, Fathead.  What's your problem?}

  {My rider is very upset now, that's my problem.}

{Upset?}  Loki frowned in confusion.  {So is mine.  They just mated, she should be happy!}

  {Well, something went wrong.  They're certainly not happy.  Not like us.}  She nuzzled Loki.

{Who can understand humans?}  Loki snuggled in closer.  

  {It certainly isn't easy.  I just want to help my rider if I can, and your rider is the cause of her unhappiness.}  She ran her snout along his neck.

{MY rider?  My rider flew her well...maybe it's YOUR rider upsetting mine!}  He rubbed his cheek against hers.

  {They were both pleasured.  Then it changed.}  She arched her neck to give him access.

{Well, your rider must have done something, then.}

  {She wouldn't do that!}

{Then why is she harassing my Gus?}

  {Lainie's not harassing anyone!  Your rider would, though}

{He...er she would not.}

  {I'll prove to you that it wasn't Lainie.}  {My rider, what is wrong?}

{{Oh, Selene, Gus just ran out on me.  Just like that!  How could she?}}

{Gus?  What the hell is going on?  You're spoiling my cuddle.}

Gus didn't even try to explain, she just let the memories flow together with the knowledge of what she'd just done, what she'd become.

Loki frowned and backwinged up from beside Selene.  {GUS?  I shouldn't have mated?  You told me to catch her!}

{{No...a dragon's gotta go what a dragon's gotta do.  My fault....Just enjoy yourself....I'll be all right.}}

{{Selene, can you find out from Loki what's wrong with Gus?}} Lainie wondered.

  {Get back down here, Dimwit, the cuddle isn't over, and you have to tell me what's going on with Gus!}

{She is upset.  Selene...she's shutting me out.}

  {Oh, Loki, I'm sorry.}  She rose up to nuzzle him again.

Loki buried his muzzle against Selene with a muffled howl.  Selene entwined her neck with his, sharing his grief.

Feeling Loki's anguish, Gus cursed and stopped running.  She had climbed the rocks without ever noticing.  Great, just great, hurt everyone why don't you? she snarled at herself.  {{Loki, it's all right.  Really.  I promise.  You cuddle...after that flight, you deserve it.  I'll tell you later.}}

Loki sat down and cuddled into Selene's side.  {She really wants me to stay...maybe our feeling good helps her.}

  {It helps me,} she crooned, leaning more firmly against Loki.

Loki flicked his tongue in a dragon's kiss.  {Anything for you, Fathead.}

Selene returned the caress.  {That's what I love about you, Dimwit.}

Robbed of momentum, Gus sank to her knees on the rocks.  Staring out at the crashing waves, she reflected bitterly that blood would tell after all.  She'd enjoyed that.  Hell, she thought, given the chance she'd likely do it again.  Just like her mother, nothing but a whore.  Duggan won after all.  Dropping her head into her hands, she wept.

{{Selene, did Loki tell you anything?}}

  {I'm sorry, my rider.  We can't help.}

{{What?  No one is willing to tell me what's going on here?}}

  {Just let it go for now, rider,} Selene encouraged.  {You and Gus can have a nice chat about it later.}

Mentally and physically, Lainie threw up her hands in disgust.  Fine, if that was the way they all wanted it....  She turned on her heel and stalked back toward the warren.  Her head down, she marched along muttering imprecations under her breath.  She suddenly felt a pair of hands grasp her arms.  "Gus?" she asked as her head flew up.

"No, Lainie, it's me," he said gently, although of course she knew it was her brother before he said it.

In an instant she was leaning against him, her wracking sobs causing him to wrap her in his embrace, stroking her back in a futile effort to comfort her.

"What's wrong, Lainie?  What did he do to you?"

"Gus just ran out on me, without a word!" she ground out between sobs.  "I'm gonna wring that wretch's neck!"

"Don't worry, honey.  I'll take care of it.  It's all right now."

****

[NRPG: The secret is still not out in general terms.  Watch for further "unveiling." :-)]


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