Chapter 54: Pack Building.
Vess perched her rather sizable scaley rear end on one of the comfy armchairs of the safe house/bunker's lounge opposite Seven who was sitting comfortably on a second one with Visa perched with her own scaley rear on his lap, she had been somewhat nervous at first but Seven had been somewhat insistent, pulling his big jittery Claw girl down onto his lap and folding her legs up under her so she was technically more straddling than sitting but the result was the same, he had a very firm and springy claw rear planted happily on his lap.
He could see that Visa was very nervous about how Vess was going to react, it wasn't that she wanted to hide her love for him but after spending so much time around the two big Claw's he was really starting to get an insight into Claw society and pack structuring, as much as Visa strove to be an Alpha female and to him she was, but her auntie truly was a pack alpha and her size and musculature gave that away given she was a foot taller than both Visa and Ven.
She was also covered in a litany of scars that told the tales of many battles fought and won to protect her pack from the influences and infractions of others who would harm her beloved family, each one told a story in its own right a story of courage in the face of danger and a willingness to fight to protect what was theirs.
Her thighs made both Visa and Ven's look like humans, by comparison, her hips were wide and incredibly feminine, this led into a set of chiselled abdominal muscles that bunched and flexed as she shifted her sizeable mass in the seat trying to get comfortable with her massive tail trapped under her.
As she shifted forwards slightly her massive chest swells heaved and swayed with her movements, she cocked her large horned head as she regarded Seven who was peeking out from behind Visa's large frame and she seemed rather interested by the way she was rubbing his hands over her hips and onto her belly cupping a pair of those delicious abdominals of hers in each and caressing them, he was determined short of bending Visa over the table to show this proud Claw opposite him just how deeply he loved her niece and how he was proud to show it no matter whose eyes were upon them.
By the curious smile that seemed to be creeping over Vess's lips showing off her incredibly sharp fangs and by the way the other new Claws were mingling with the others, she wasn't the only one who was curious.
Lia was walking around Malakai in circles and by the look on the big Claw girl's face, she was completely fascinated by him and by the synthetic girl lounging on his large fluffy abdomen, by the way, her claw-tipped fingers kept flexing she was aching to reach out and touch at least one of his eight fluffy legs, or maybe a nervously twitching spinneret.
But thankfully as much as curiosity was eating away at the big claw girl she seemingly respected the boundary of not touching another female's male and it was obvious that she realised that Malakai belonged to Wisp and visa versa.
But claw curiosity was a very powerful thing, honestly, sometimes Seven believed that they were worse than cats and now he had an entire pack of them to deal with, he'd heard the quote of try shepherding cats, well try shepherding cats when they are at the shortest eight-foot-tall and built like a scaley brick shit house.
"May I touch you? You look very fluffy and soft" Lia said and Wisp growled but she looked at Malakai and nodded.
"Sure," he said.
Lia reached out and ran her fingers over Malakai's long fluffy leg and up onto his large fluffy rear end, "Wow so soft and fluffy! You get to stroke this pretty fur every day?" Lia said glancing up at Wisp.
"Every single day as much as I can get away with," Wisp said proudly.
"You are a very lucky female," Lia said softly.
"I am the lucky one," Malakai said softly giving her a warm smile.
Lia wasn't the only one doing the rounds though technically the next one didn't even have to move, Passma was stood still while Shepherd and Spectre were both circling around him looking him up and down, "Now that is a whole lot of white boy right there" Shepherd said chuckling at her own joke about Passma's snow-white scales with their blue tinges while Spectre smiled and nodded her eyes running down his long thick tail which swished from left to right.
"I'm an albino claw," Passma said with an obvious tinge of embarrassment fluttering through his scales at his colouration being called out so bluntly.
This seemed to cause Shepherd to baulk in surprise at his sensitivity, "Oh that's not a negative thing big boy, after seeing how much smiling Gregory over there does on a daily basis thanks to Ven over there I'm already thinking both Seven and Gregory are onto something with this claw love thing, so yeah maybe I think my eyes and my mind are open now oh and for the record, this sister likes white boys, the bigger the better" Shepherd said and with that, she turned on her heel and walked away leaving Passma standing there with a stunned expression written all over his face.
"She's not the only one oh and my favourite colour is blue" Spectre said before she too turned and walked off.
Seven turned and raised an eyebrow at Vess who now looked stunned, "Told you this group was different auntie, these are good people, every single one of them, to them we are not claws, we are people plain and simple" Visa said.
"My sister tells the truth auntie, never in my life would I have imagined a life like the one we have with these incredible people, they treat us with respect, they love us wholly and compeletly, I mean just look at me auntie, i love this beautiful human man with all of my heart and soul, he is my whole world and I am his, I would die for him as he would live for me, i am proud to stand at his side and to declare it to any and all who would listen, so you see auntie these are not your normal garden variety humans but they have the potential to be, think about it auntie, a world where humans and claws don't just live side by side in peace but even share beds and love one another and not just claws, Nightstalkers, Supermutants, Ghouls, Arachnakai and any other species we may encounter on our travels, we can bring them all together and show them what this world can really be if we make it, we've already taken the first steps down that path and now look at us and you should see the places we've been and the people we've helped and this is just the begining auntie, together we can make the normal everyday humans see us for who we really are, a force for good in this world" Ven said with so much passion in his voice that Gregory just seemed to melt before throwing himself into his big Claw boy's arms for a deep loving hug which they followed with an equally deep kiss.
"So Vess I think you see now what this group is about and I really haven't had to say a single word," Seven said before planting a single kiss on Visa's hip making her scales flutter.
"Indeed, never in my life would I have imagined something like this, humans treating claws like equals, treating other species like equals, living, fighting and loving along side one another, all the humans I have ever encountered in my life have been nothing but a menace to my kind, treating us as nothing more than pests to be exterminated and at first I hated them for it but the more I saw how they actually acted I began to understand them, it was fear, they were scared of us, scared that were would hurt and kill them, to take their future from them and kill their cubs, when all were doing was exactly the same as them defending what was ours and who was ours, but now I'm questioning everything I have ever believed in and seen, i thought that what those bastards in the Enclave had done to us would be the end of us, but here I am sat in a human nest on human furniture speaking to a human male who has my beloved niece who has become an alpha in her own right sat on his lap with love for him making her every scale glow, my world is upside down right now" she said in her deeply gravely but oddly feminie voice.
"This beautiful woman showed me the truth of the human saying that love is blind, it doesn't care about species, gender, size or anything, all it cares about is that little voice in the darkness of that other heart and soul answering its call into the void, my soul called and the heart of this incredible alpha female answered and ever since she took me into her arms I have known exactly what face my love wears and the best past is my heart has teeth, horns and best of all claws" Seven said leaning in and planting a second kiss on Visa's other hip.
"Trust me, auntie anyone who has shared a building or a nest with those two can tell exactly how much they love one another, they most definitely are not shy about it or the noises they make in the night," Ven said playfully.
"As it should be! No proud Alpha female would ever do anything less than show the whole world the truth of her love for her male, her roars and snarls are her pride in his given voice and she is calling out to her ancestors and his both praising them and thanking them for his existence as well as a wordless promise that she will care for him always, this is what it is to be an alpha claw and the fact that he does the same for her shows he understands us and our ways" Vess snapped fixing her intense stare onto Ven who baulked a little.
"To be fair Vess Ven imbues these qualities as well, he does not shy from calling his love of Gregory out to the spirits and the world," he said.
Vess nodded approvingly, "Then it is as it should be," she said.
