Morning
When Miku awoke the morning after the full moon, she was surprised to be in her bed and the most surprising part was that she wasn’t alone. Her head rested against the chest of a pale exhausted vampire, with her left arm tucked under to support the weight of a smaller person’s head. Listening to the breathing of the ghoul, her breaths were deep and long and occasional huff escaped her pink lips. A hand rested over the eyes to shield out any light that creeped into the room from the sun, the other hand held onto Miku, the fingertips rubbed over the skin of her stomach.
Every inch of skin that met the other’s skin, felt exciting and unreal. Miku had never expected to wake up next to anyone in her own bed, let alone one after a full moon. She had grown to hate the wolf inside of herself, the beast that only thought about hunger and was almost uncontrollable during the moon’s phases. Waking up after was always like waking up after a long night of drinking, mouth dry, eyes sensitive, body weak and full of regret. Miku’s body changing through puberty was one thing that she could talk about with friends and share discomfort from abnormal periods or how their favorite shampoo gives them rashes now, but how could she complain about eating her own homework and anger outbursts on their brother for tugging at her beautiful ears on midnight runs.
Miku had come out of the figurative closet when she was 15, her parents were all welcoming to the change of sexuality. Buying a pride flag to fly out on their porch and her own brother taking them to a drag show. They became the dream that most lgbt teens wanted, even trying to set their daughter up with other queer werewolves. Miku’s success was a key factor in their household, she was adopted but that didn’t mean she was expected to live any different from their carefree son. She truly was grateful for the family she ended up with and given a chance to have someone come into her life and see the rawness of power that hid in her skin.
She felt her arm against Luka’s own stomach tighten, making the two bodies come closer. Legs tangled together, the softness of the vampire's smooth milky skin against her own. Miku couldn’t help but smile, she held back from snuggling deeper into the figure. Heart racing and eyes tracing every detail on her company’s body, lips becoming full of salvia wanting to just taste every surface of the being. Eyes kept hovering on her chest, breathing became harder to control as pure thoughts exited the brain.
“They are beautiful aren’t they?”
Miku shot up in bed, heart almost beating out of her own chest from the scare of hearing the Vampire awake. “What the hell Luka?!” She nearly shouts. “You scared the shit out of me.” Pulling the sheet to wrap around her own body, hand resting over her beating heart.
“I couldn’t help myself, you were practically drooling on me.” Luka laughed, still holding her hand over her eyes. “Since you're up, could you do me a favor and close your blinds? My eyes are burning.”
“Yeah,” Miku rolled her own eyes and inched off the bed to pull the cord of the blinds and released. The plastic made a loud thud as it slammed against the wooden window frame, the room engulfed in shadows making the sunlight less harsh.
Luka lifted her hand off her face and reached over the bed to grab Miku, pulling the woman back into bed. She made a squeak in surprise as her limbs shot out in defense. Her arms rested on the smaller woman’s body, as the bridge of her nose rested in the nook of Miku’s neck. Hot air breathing against her skin causes the girl to grab at the bedding, trying to not make any more sound.
“You’re not too bad, puppy.” She began, her fingers digging into the werewolf’s skin as if she was afraid her person would flee the trap. Her mouth got close to Miku’s ear as she whispered the next sentence, “I enjoyed our time together, I hope you did too.”
“Why are you making it so sexual?” Miku groaned trying to lean away from the cocky vampire. Luka laughed and pulled the smaller woman closer, having their skin touch making Miku grow warm under the hold.
“Fine fine, I’ll stop. I just love watching you squirm, I think you are my new favorite.” Luka licked her fangs, Miku almost shrinking under the vampire trying to not let her behavior affect herself. “Come on, don’t play hard to get. We had the most trusting experience I’ve ever been in.”
“I’m not your toy, and I’m not playing hard to get. I don’t think me and you are on the same playing field.” The wolf raised her nose high, trying to make it seem like she was rejecting the blood sucker.
“Let's even the field then,” Luka challenged, her left hand released from the waist and grabbed her chin to pull Miku’s face to face. “You should know vampires don’t like to be challenged.”
“Well… for starters I’m not gay… I mean gay for you, that's that.” Miku shrugged, trying not to smile. She was a terrible liar, and she knew that, but submitting to the vampire was not something she was ready to swallow. Miku couldn’t doubt her own feelings towards Luka, she was gorgeous and made heads turn and nothing could take her own attention away from her. The fact she was alive after a full moon said more, she was able to control herself in wolf to not eat the vampire. When Miku returned from the first night, she was doomed to never release Luka, she started to track her and use the other woman’s smell as a high. Miku and the wolf inside her were on the same page, and that Luka was the desire.
Her fingers drummed against Miku’s chin before placing her thumb over her lips. “Are you sure that’s true? Your heartbeat quickened, and your lower lip quivered and don’t get me started on the fact you were drooling on me earlier.”
‘God damn this vampire’
“You are so annoying, I should have just ate you last night.” Miku pouted.
“But you didn’t, so that’s more than enough to know you would drink up any attention I give you.” She gave a toothy smile, with one fang hanging out on her lip. Luka’s grip slowly creeped up on Miku’s sides, each finger slowly tracing every rib as they traveled. Miku held the wandering hands in their spot, looking over her shoulder to look at the vampire.
“In order to be with a werewolf, that means following my pack customs.”
“I hate that you wolves are always in tradition, vampires have always flown at the seat of our pants.” She narrowed her eyes and released her grip to lean back against the bed. “What are the rules?”
She started to open her mouth but then shut it again. “I um, well werewolves follow our brethren wolves and we bond together first, then it’s courtship, and mates and -“
“One thing at a time, please.”
“Oh,” Miku bit the inside of her cheek before grabbing some of the sheet again to hug against the front of her body. “Bonding is like getting to know each other, and spending time together. From sleeping in the same room or bed, bathing and eating together. It’s like what normal humans do, but for us wolves it’s just a trail to see if we really care for you or see if another wolf will try and take your place.”
“I’d like to see someone try and take my place,” the ghoul hissed.
“I’m sure no one is going to.” She laughs.
The two sat in silence for a moment, the tightness in the air making their chests heavy. Luka squinted at her, before looking her up and down and giving a smile. Miku felt her tail and ears morph out and wagged excitedly.
“Sorry this happens during times of extreme emotion.”
“Oh no, I like it.” Luka brought her hand in front of her and used one finger to beckon the werewolf closer. Miku leaned forward to meet her hand and felt the soft touch as her cheek rested fully into it. “Good girl.”
Miku’s wolf ears flattened out and tail wagged furiously, as her face flushed. “Shut up.”