CHAPTER 55

He held a finger to his lips, then pretended to lock them and throw away the key.

She closed her eyes and mounted him, her suddenly warm body sinking down onto him.

"Oh, fuck! Fuck me!" She put her hands on his stomach, and then leaned back and rode him. One hand was frantically working at her clitoris while she used the other to squeeze her breast. She was nearly manic now, letting out loud shrieks that had him covering his ears. What was wrong with her?

The sparks were circling her belly now, crawling up to disappear beneath her shirt. She leaned forward, her hips rolling wildly as she took in a deep breath and shrieked one final time, her whole body shuddering as the sparks jumped from her back into Mike.

He was already hard, but the throbbing in his cock threatened to undo him. He grabbed her by the hips and thrust into her, and she let out a gasp.

"Stop!" She slid off his cock and rolled onto her back, breathing hard.

"Everything okay?" He sat up and looked at her.

"If you keep going... we'll be at this all day..." She sucked in a mouthful of air, and then let it out. "I... feel weird like..." Her blue eyes turned toward him. "I feel alive."

Looking at her, he had to agree. She had consumed his cum many times, but this was the first time he had used his magic. Not only was Dana's skin the healthy glow of a living woman, but she looked winded from the effort.

"Oh my god, I'm alive!" Tears formed in the corners of her eyes, and she held up her hands to look at them. "I can feel my heart beating, and oh my god, so many emotions, I'm actually—" Her eyes crossed for a second and her head twitched to one side. Her whole body spasmed for about ten seconds and Mike realized she was suffering a seizure.

"Holy shit, Dana!" He held her on the bed, and wondered if he needed to do something to keep her from biting her tongue. Eventually, the seizure faded, and she opened her eyes, her gaze meeting his.

"I died again." She sat up with a sigh, then looked at her hands. Oddly enough, it looked like she was holding back tears. "But I still feel way better than I did."

"You... you scared me." He sat away from her on the bed.

"I was scared, too." She took a moment to put her panties back on, deliberately looking away from him. "Hey, I'm sorry this is so weird for us. I wish it was easier, like with the others. I'm just carrying too much baggage. Stuff about Alex and... yeah."

"Huh? You have nothing to feel bad about, I'm sorry that... well, everything." He was also sorry that he couldn't will his erection to go away, but kept that bit to himself. "I'm sorry you have to keep doing this.

A thin smile crossed her lips. "Well, one of these days, we'll get things fixed so that I don't have to. Please don't take that the wrong way, what we just did was... fun. You're still just not my type."

He let out a chuckle. "If I ever figure out how to turn into a woman, I'll do it just for you."

"That's probably not a promise you should make, knowing what you know." She found her pants and put them back on, and then retightened her ponytail. "Chances are good that something in this place can do that."

The smile slipped off his face. He had already done something similar in a vision, so it wasn't much of a stretch to imagine it being possible. "Okay, well maybe just on a temporary basis. Nothing permanent."

Done putting on her clothes, she turned to face him, her mouth open as if to say something.

"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO MY ROOM?!?" Yuki cried from the hallway.

"Sounds like the others are back." Dana winked and headed for the door. "Let's go help Tink deal with Yuki."

Mike let out a sigh and put his dick away. There was no rest for the wicked, after all. He adjusted his clothes and walked out of his room and down the hall. He could hear the kitsune's distressed voice inside of her room, and Beth was sitting against the wall in the hallway, clutching Jenny to her chest. He stopped in front of her, noticing the haunted look in her eyes.

"Hey, you okay?"

Beth looked up at him and nodded, letting out an explosive breath. "Rough day. Is this your fault?" She looked at the hole in the wall.

"Tried to hack a lock on a magic door and broke our resident zombie. You?"

"Freddy Krueger-ed by Oliver across the surface of my soul... I think." She shrugged. "The details are super fuzzy, and I'm having trouble remembering it, which might be for the best."

He looked in the room to see Dana holding Yuki's hands and talking to her in a calming voice. The hole was larger than it had been, and Tink was frantically sawing through a cracked piece of wood at the base. He moved out of view, choosing to stay outside with Beth. "What's this about Oliver?"

She explained to him the process of having the demon's soul piece removed from her own as best she could. When she was done, he helped her stand and showed her the locked door from a safe distance.

"So it blew Dana through the wall when you put in the wrong code?"

"Only the second time. We pulled it the first time and nothing happened, so we figured it was safe."

"Interesting." She let out a yawn. "I'm afraid I don't have any insight. Ratu might, but she's down in the Labyrinth with our latest guest. Wants to be there when she wakes up, and ask her some questions away from all the weirdness up here."

This made him laugh. "I'm glad she considers waking up in a Labyrinth with a snake-skinned sorceress the tame choice. Maybe we need to build a sitting room or something. We could put in a fainting couch and a noise machine."

She laughed. For some reason, it sounded musical to him and he slid down the wall to sit next to her. Though Beth had been there from the beginning, he often forgot that she was just as new to this as he was, and she wasn't even bound to the house.