Nadia Baronova (golden_koshka) wrote in mysteria_rpg, @ 2008-08-19 16:03:00 |
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Current location: | Mysteria |
Current mood: | worried |
Entry tags: | marcus, matty, nadia |
Leopards & children & bears, oh my!
Who: Matty, Nadia, Marcus
When: Mid-morning, Christmas day
Where: The Woods, and then the Kelley House.
What: Matty tries to make friends with an unfriendly bear, and needs a little rescuing.
Warnings: A bit of naked making out once Nadia & Marcus are alone.
"Helllllloooooo?!" Matthias called out to the grumpy old bear, "I can hear you!" Of course he didn't need to speak aloud, he just did it because it was fun. He trampled through the snow and sighed. "Mr. Bear! Wake up, it's snowing! You're missing it!" He frowned at the bear, then brightened when he found him. The bear wanted Matty to go away, his dark eyes opening tiredly. Matty wasn't so easily swayed. He'd managed to escaped the family hadn't he? "Nope, not leavi- what's that mean?! I am too you mean old bear!" He spoke aloud, though projected his thoughts to the bear. Their argument escalated and then the bear started thinking darker... and Matty began to get scared. "Hey, that's not nice," he said as he backed away. But not enough. The bear lunged, scratching Matty's back as he ran, chasing him. He took off running, screaming for help. Because Nadia often spent the entire three days of the full moon in leopard form, preferring to avoid the excruciating agony of changing forms any more often than she had to, she was wandering through the frozen woods in cat form, lazily exploring, mapping the scents of the forest. Wolves, lots of them, most of them werewolves, obviously roamed here, but there were also other animal scents, were-leopards - Marcus and Morgan, as well as deer, antelope, foxes, and bear... and something different, out of place, a human scent, but one that she recognised... one of the Kelley kids. Inhaling again she identified the scent. Matty. Why was his scent out here in the woods...? It was fresh too. Nadia paused, puzzling over this. It was then that the sound of the boy's voice reached her ears, he was talking to someone... the answering growl sent a jolt of concerned adrenalin through the leopardess, and she began to run in the direction the sounds were coming from, Matty's scream giving her an extra burst of speed. Breaking into a clearing filled with the stench of angry bear, Nadia was horrified to see the gigantic grizzly bear lunge after Matty, grabbing the terrified child up in his massive paws with a fearsome roar. Nadia didn't stop to think, she just leapt, a golden blur as she sailed the 20 feet through the air and locked her sharp teeth around the grizzly's arm, causing him to drop the child with a roar of pain as he tried to shake Nadia off. 'Run home Matty! Get out of here! Go!' She willed the child to leave as she clung onto the bear with all her might. Pain shuddered through the leopard as the bear slammed her hard against a tree, ribs cracking with the force of the blow. She dropped to the ground, twisting in mid-air and landing on her feet to lunge at the bear once more, determined to keep him distracted from going after the helpless human boy. Agony ripped through her as claws raked her, tearing through the flesh of her chest, and she lashed out with everything she had, her own deadly razor sharp claws swiping at the bears face. The massive bear dropped her with a scream of pain and she tried to run, but her front left leg crumpled beneath her uselessly, too damaged to take her weight. She tried to pull herself up to run, but she was crippled, and could only lie helpless in the snow, staring in terror as the gigantic bear lunged toward her, roaring his fury... Matty heard her, just as if she were human and began running so fast he didn't even notice the dark leopard speed past him. Marcus. He hadn't been following Nadia, not really. He was about and when he caught her scent, he decided to go in her direction. A few minutes turned into an hour before went off to hunt a deer out of boredom. When the mingling sounds of Nadia, the child, and the bear reached his ears, his heart went still in his chest, then began beating a rapid tattoo of panic as he ran towards them. He roared angrily, lunging at the bear, heading straight for the bear's exposed neck, flying over Nadia in the process. The two fell, struggling for a while, Marcus getting a decent share of cuts, but primal fury strengthened him, ultimately leading to the moment where the bear was weak enough for Marcus to get a good hold on him and tear his throat out. Once it was done, he turned to Nadia, licking her wounds carefully, his eyes on her as he did. Nadia had known Marcus was close by, she'd caught his scent a couple of times earlier in the day, but as long as he hadn't tried to approach her, she'd managed to resist the instinct to go to him. By the time she'd leapt to save Matty though, she'd thought Marcus had lost interest and gone away, so Nadia was a little stunned when he showed up to save her. She tried to get up, to help Marcus, and managed to crawl a little closer, but she was so injured, so exhausted, and feeling as weak as a newborn kitten, she soon lost the strength to do even that. Then she could only watch, bleeding out in the snow, helpless, as her mate did battle with the bear. Her heart wrenching, she flinched at each wound Marcus took, fear coursing through her. When the black leopard finally ripped out the gigantic grizzly bear's throat, finishing it, she let out a breath and slumped to the ground. Marcus was safe. She could rest now... Moments later she sensed her mate draw near, then felt his tongue lapping gently at her wounds. She opened her tired eyes to gaze at Marcus, managing to lift her head a few inches to nuzzle him, using each painful breath to drink in as much of his scent as possible while she still could. Oh, how she'd missed him. To survive, she would have to change forms - if she could do that, her body would mend itself in the transformation, but it was freezing out here, and she was already so cold, and so, so, exhausted... Marcus' eyes narrowed in fear, seeing Nadia begin to wane. No. No. No-no-no. He nudged her neck, trying to get her to watch him. It was their only hope. Hers. His. It didn't matter. She was as much a part of him as his heart was. Quickly he changed, knowing it was her only chance at survival. Her wounds were too deep, too ill placed in form. Once he was human- the painful process it was- he bent down and whispered, "Come on Dia, change. If you don't, I'll just follow you into the next life. You're not done with me yet. Change now." She watched him change, wanting to look away, but unable to. Her heart almost stopped then and there when he promised to follow her into the next life. No. No, he can't die. Not Marcus. She knew that look in his eyes though, the grim resolve there. He was deadly serious. She let out a low growl at him, which came out sounding more pathetic than she would've liked, but tucked her paws close and rolled onto her belly to transform, the change rippling through her made even more intensely painful for her wounds. When she was done though, her wounds had closed, her broken bones healed. "Happy?" She asked quietly, wrapping her arms around her shivering naked body, "You realize we're just going to freeze to death now instead, right?" Scooping her up, her gave her an eyeroll but was grinning. She would be fine now and relief sung in his veins, pulsing through every fiber of his being. "Actually, I'm quite happy thank you. Now next time you go on a superhero mission?" He said, his voice losing a little humor and a touch of vulnerability only she would ever be allowed to see shining through, praying there would never be a next time, "Don't lure your villain into such a false sense of security. Another, more handsome superhero may come along and think you a damsel. We can't have that." He began walking, his speed gradually increasing toward the scent of the child. He'd smelled blood, but seen Nadia... "Who was the boy?" he asked her as he made his way toward him. "You're actually admitting the possibility that there could be a more handsome superhero out there?" Nadia inquired with an arched eyebrow, reaching up to run her fingers through his hair, ostensibly to check his scalp for bruises, "You sure you're not concussed?" Wondering why she was allowing him to carry her at all, she let her head rest against his shoulder, unconsciously shifting so she could nuzzle his neck and breathe in his scent, "Matty Kelley... I hope he's okay, that bear got him pretty good, and they can't heal like we can." "Of course not, I thought you a damsel," Marcus smirked, his eyes shutting and head falling closer to hers to brush against her as she so delicately touched him. He'd missed her so. Luckily the cold kept his wits awake rather than her intoxicating scent. "They?" He repeated, "Humans you mean? Of course not, we must find- do you smell that? Others...." He lifted his head in the air and inhaled deeply as the breeze blew past them, his breath coming in a sharp hiss. "Wolf, I smell it. They must have too. Come on," He had to drop Nadia by his side so they could run. Their combined weight would slow them and she was fast, even if still a bit hurt. "Where would he go?" he asked her urgently, trying to follow the trail. Tracking wasn't his strongest suit, Nadia's was better. Especially if she knew Matty, she could follow his scent more easily than he could. "Then you must be concussed, Kotik," Her lips brushed his throat as she responded. Okay, maybe she had needed rescuing this time around, but she could usually take care of herself just fine. Lifting her face away from his neck to scent the air, she smelled the scent of wolf and man which the breeze carried to her, "Harper, that's Harper, and Brian's with her..." She eased out a sigh of relief, fairly certain the she-wolf and her human companion wouldn't harm Matty, "I told Matty to go home, but I don't know where that is," She winced a little as he set her on her naked feet in the snow, the cold biting her more than it did when she was in leopard form, she hurried onward, "They went this way though..." Marcus closed his eyes in bliss, wishing he could just wrap her up and forget the world and- 'No, you've been down that road before. Then she turns and runs the other direction faster than I can.' "You know them?" Marcus asked, obviously confused. He'd been working on the merger, spending time with Morgan, basically anything to avoid the woman in front of him, the one whom he refused to let go of, even if it was just her hand urging them on. That had been too close. He lifted his head again, the wind in their favor. "You smell that? It's shifted...that way, getting stronger. I do believe your new friends have found one another. See the snow?" He nodded down, and yes, they'd been there. He was freezing and decided being still wasn't a good idea for either of them, moving under some trees to shelter them a touch. "When did you make all these new friends?" He couldn't help but smile. Her eyes following the track, she nodded, lifting her face to the breeze. The scent was stronger now, and it wasn't just Matty, Harper and Brian now, but also the rest of the Kelley clan, "We're near the Kelley's place now, I'm sure of it. I can smell all of them." She was surprised when he pulled her into the shelter of the tree, looking up at him questioningly. She shrugged a shoulder, "Since I got here." Unable to drag her gaze away from his, her breath caught in her throat, and she unconsciously took a step closer, reaching up to touch his face. Marcus stood in front of her, cupping her cheek and rested his forehead on hers, whispering quietly, "Don't frighten me like that again, please?" He tentatively touched his lips to hers, his other hand pulling her closer by the waist. To feel her. Make certain she was safe, alive, there with him. He had never felt such fear until he saw her so badly hurt. Not even when she left. Why? Because he knew she was out there, she was safe and strong. Probably better off without his meddling presence. He could miss her, but survive it. He couldn't survive it if anything happened to her, wouldn't. He was too damn stubborn to do otherwise. His kiss deepened at the thought, more passion flowing in, the desire to feel her heart beat against his. Unable, unwilling, to resist him, Nadia slid her arms around Marcus and kissed him back passionately, pressing her body against his and opening her mouth, allowing him deepen the kiss and returning it with desperate fervor, the fingers of one hand coiling into his thick black hair, whilst the other caressingly rediscovered the familiar contours of his body, her heart beating in synchronicity with his. Needing to breathe, but unwilling to stop kissing him, she caught his lower lip between her teeth as she drew back, catching her breath then running the tip of her tongue along his lip to sooth it from her love bite before locking her lips against his once more, her tongue mating with his. Savoring each moment, getting lost in it, Marcus held her close, lifting her up a little, the friction of their bodies causing him to make a low sound of desire. He'd missed this. Her. Every moment she had been gone, nothing could soothe him, ease the ache he was constantly locked in. He knew it wouldn't last but didn't want to think of anything beyond their next moment together. So he didn't. He allowed himself to be nothing but her touch, the gentle heat between them, her soft skin gliding over his. The world fell away. There was nothing but Marcus and herself, locked together in this moment. Filled with aching longing, she slid her hands over his chest and onto his shoulders, bracing them there as she jumped up so she could wrap her legs round his waist, fitting their bodies together even more closely. Barely even aware that they'd slammed into a tree trunk, the pile of snow the tree dumped on the naked couple came as a shock. Falling away from Marcus, Nadia realized what she'd almost done and her cheeks suffused with a flush. "Oh god, Marcus, I am so sorry..." She uttered, her upset made clearly evident by the Russian accent infusing her words. She turned and fled, taking off in the direction of the Kelley house at a run. "Sorry? Bloody- NADIA!" Marcus called after her, the cold making him- well think better at least. He realized it was stupid but she was still there, she had still kissed him back. Twice now. He knew that mind games were the only ones he was good at playing, but with Nadia it was the one time he wanted to sit it out, just be. Heaven forbid. So he ran after her until a large house came in sight, almost like a converted barn, and the scents of the humans suffused with it. Nadia, of course, two steps ahead. Nadia didn't stop, didn't pause to listen, or even look back, though she could hear him running behind her. Reaching the house, she ran around the side of the building, finding the door, knocking on it, then, shivering, tried to cover up her nudity as best she could with her equally naked arms. |