I really enjoyed AlexaVillacotta's "Wild World" series, and had an idea for a story based on itβ--primarily based on the events in "Mated by the Alpha Male." It became a kind of nagging brainworm, so I decided to put it to paper if only to get it out my head. It frankly turned out kinda weirdly sad, and for that matter sadly weird, in places. As always, all characters herein are aged 18+, etc. etc.
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Alex wasn't quite sure what to expect as he knocked on the door of the little downtown brownstone walk-up. His breath turned to clouds of mist as he shrugged his scarf up around his neck; even his thick, dark brown fur couldn't completely shut out the winter's cold. On sunnier days, when the light hit his fur just right, one could see lighter, coppery, deep reds mixed in haphazardly into it, but in the flat light of the overcast day, it seemed a solid, black swathe. Errant drifts of snow, gusting in brief, thin sheets through the chilling wind, found their way into a fine dusting over his darting, pricked-up ears and the lighter brown fur of his fuzzy snout. Dressed in a black track jacket, a t-shirt for a long-defunct local thrash band, and thick black sweats, he struck an odd picture in this part of town; an imperiously tall canine beastman, he stuck out like a sore thumb in this well-to-do area. Beastmen were "low class," and for the most part, his kind was only seen near these nice places if they were delivering food or mail. Such was the case in some cities; stratification just kinda naturally set in.
He looked over the cracking paint on the faux ionic pilasters of the home: Its slate grey stairs, its brass knocker and mail slot. It was a far cry from his squalid uptown crash-pad. Alex wasn't here carting groceries, though; he was here on more important business. He was looking for his biological mother.
He didn't know why it felt so important to see her. She had given him away, after all; like so many beastmen, he had grown up a ward of the state, stressing the system to the limit as women who couldn't afford to take care of his fast-breeding kind gave them up for adoption. He'd had a hard childhood, and spent his fair share of time in juvvie--good preparation for the real, hard time he'd do later as an adult. Mercifully little, considering; but now he was on the straight and narrow, holding down a job waiting tables, just a few months over 21.
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Searching for his biological parents had never occurred to him until fairly recently. He knew his mother had been human; that much the agency had been legally obliged to tell him, as beastmen born from human mothers tended to have different immune characteristics; to be vulnerable to different diseases. This knowledge hadn't encouraged him, though. All his life, people around him had either joked about or derided the sort of woman who liked beastmen; clannishly grouped up with the other canines around school or juvvie or work, he'd gotten a chance to hear all the nicknames. Puppyslut. Knot-pocket. Breeder-bitch. Litter-box. Paw-stitute. At the very least that last one made him laugh, a little. Every now and then one of his friends would show off one of them who
really
had it bad; some piece of new arm-candy that had embraced their preferences publically, and been subsequently shunned by other humans as a result. He thought idly back to the little pinay number a roommate had kept as a plaything for a while, picking her up at one of the bars where humans "like her" liked to hang out: Bronze skin. Bleach blonde hair. Tiny titties. And of course, the defining feature that had probably first captured his roommate's attention, being a self-avowed ass-man: The little black pawprint tramp-stamp which peaked above her short skirts, declaring to the world her preference for dog-men.
The colorful, stylized collars she proudly wore from time to time changed so often, he wondered if she simply had a bucket full of them in her entryway.
She held down a part-time job at the local college she was taking classes at; a humdrum clerical gig. Her professors probably had no idea what she did in her spare time. His roomie had shown him a snap from her once on his phone, laughing hysterically: There she was, backlit by the dry, cold fluorescents of an office space, pulling back the collar of a long woolen turtleneck and offering at a peak at the mocha-brown flesh beneath. Hidden away from view was the hot-pink leather band he had put around her neck a few days earlier, along with some other fading marks he'd no doubt also left as a parting gift. Her little pink tongue stuck out from her lips teasingly, while her other hand was demonstratively circling the rim of a glass fishbowl full of multicolored plastic wrappers atop the desk behind which she stoodβ--condoms. If he squinted, he could read the little label in printer-paper taped to the side: "COURTESY OF STUDENT SERVICES: PLEASE TAKE ONE."
"She knows I don't bother with those," he said, nudging Alex's arm as his laughter faded into sporadic chuckling "dumb bitch."
He was ashamed to admit he'd beat off quite a few times to the sounds of his roomie ploughing and knotting her night after night, her cries carrying through the thin drywall as though it wasn't there. He'd gotten them in trouble with the landlord more than once for noise complaints, letting go completely from time to time when he knotted her and issuing forth a long howl to announce his conquest. It was cringe as hell, but the girl loved it; his roommate insisted she never came harder than when he'd "give in" like that. He kept fucking her until the inevitable finally happened: She was soon sporting an undeniable baby-bump that had begun to bulge with his litter. He strung her along a bit longer in order to savor a few last tastes of her pregnant pussy, and then discarded her. Bastard.
He felt a pang of shame roll through him. He couldn't really talk, not after what he'd done.
She had come by a lot, trying to see his roomie after the breakup, of course; he had heard all sorts of shouting matches. One night, though, his roommate was out. Trip out of state. Take care of my pet fish. Yadda-yadda. Alex had been glad to have his solitude for once.
He knew it was her; leaning on the old piezoelectric buzzer downstairs like she'd taken to doing. The building was too old and too run-down for a real intercom, so the grating, annoying old system for ringing up residents remained in place, ancient and nigh-unbreakable, as most things from its time tended to be. He was trying to study for something, and after the first thirty seconds of the loud buzzing filling the room, simply couldn't take it anymore. He went downstairs, intent on solving his roomie's mess, hopefully once and for all.
She'd looked so sad out there in the street. The dim, yellowed haze from the old sodium-lamp streetlights the city never seemed to have the budget to modernize fell over her chocolate skin in a way that made her feel like some sort of dark, golden specter; the effect only intensified by the fact that she'd gotten the usual crying out of her system early this time, and had grown quiet. Her stomach bulged over her teeny denim cutoffs, stuffed with a litter of puppies; her pink crop top looked like a sports bra, packed with her brand new breasts. They had swollen up with milk for what was to come, her little brown nipples visible through the overstretched fabric in a way that betrayed a lack of a bra--they had probably filled out so fast, she hadn't been able to keep up. Her body knew it would have a lot of mouths to feed, soon.
He'd intended to shout at her, to drive her off; but he couldn't bring up the will to do it, now. He tried to explain that his roomie wasn't home; tried to make up a lie, say he'd moved out. She took it about as well as he'd expected. At length, he found himself hugging her and stroking her hair, lying to her that it would be alright. He didn't know what else to do.
Suddenly, she surprised him; he felt her trembling little hands closing tight around his erect cock. He hadn't even realized he'd gotten hard, the fat, newly awoken beast printing obviously through his thin, shitty surplus PT shorts without him gronking on it. He hadn't even bothered with underwear that day; he was at home on a weekend, who cared?
He tried to stammer an apology; she was just so close, so warm; she just smelled so -good-... he didn't know what to do when she looked up at him with those big brown eyes and asked, "Can you stay with me for a while?"
He had never been with a human girl before then, but as he savagely ploughed her from behind in her little apartment after walking her home, he finally