Building Blocks 1.0
#1 of Freedom
Pretending to be something I'm not. This was how I spent every day of my life. Pretending to be human when I was something so utterly different. When I was nothing like one and yet played the part so well.
"Hurry up Adam!" Andrew called to me. He was also a pretender. Hiding among humanity to avoid persecution. He didn't know that I was anything but a normal human. But I had seen the seal over his tail bone that told me he was not a human. After a few weeks of snooping I had managed to see that he was a tiger.
"Oh, coming Andrew" I raced to catch up to him. He made an annoyed grunt when I stopped beside him "I thought you wanted to come and hang out at my place" I nodded "Yea I need someone to talk too" in truth I just wanted to tell him what I was.
He hit me over the back of the head and sighed "Well then stop stopping and hurry up" I kept pass with him until we reached his front door. I paused again. There was a sent of another tiger "Do you live with someone?" he nodded "Yea, my sister" I nodded gingerly and followed him into the house. She wasn't home, luckily. She would have picked my scent almost immediately.
"So what did you want to talk about?" he asked as he led me into his bedroom. He sat down on his bed "Do you mind if I use the bathroom?" he rolled his eyes "It's two doors down" I nodded and rushed out of the room.
I slammed my hands down on the basin and screamed at myself "I can't fucking do this!" within moment he was knocking on the door "Adam?" I didn't reply but just looked at my human reflection and sighed. But now I had no choice "Just give me a minute" I replied. I waited until I hears his footsteps go down the hall before I opened the door.
I snuck around the corner and saw him sitting at the table looking worried. He hadn't seen me yet so I dropped low and stalked up to the table and slipped under it. He was tapping his foot impatiently "What's up with him. He's been acting so weird" he mumbled "And to think I was going to try and get him into bed..." he let out a slight sigh "But I think he would freak out if he knew I was-" he paused. I decided to finish for him "A tiger?" I asked and slipped up between his legs. He let out a sharp yelp and I stopped him from getting up.
He looked down at me desperately and tried to say something but it sounded mangled "I've known for months Andrew. I stalked you to find out" he went to get up again but I clawed my way up onto his lap.
"Did you hear?" he whinged. I nodded "I've had a crush on you since grade five" he went as white as a ghost. Obviously he had expected me to run a mile. He tilted my face up to his "But if I wouldn't ever try. Because I would loose control and hurt you" I smiled slightly and shook my head.
"You wouldn't really..." I looked away and he pulled me close and checked for the seal. He spotted it and yelped loudly "I can smell a dog in the house" his sister said from the front door. She walked into the room and raised a brow when she saw us "Sorry for interrupting" she mumbled and began to head down the hall "Should I leave?" I asked him. He only stared down the hall "No, she knew I had feelings for someone at school" I cringed into his chest and groaned.
"What's wrong Adam?" I looked up at him "If I change release the seal I can't change back" he pulled me away a bit. His sister came back into the room "What species?" she asked me. I shut my eyes tightly "Timber wolf and border collie" she looked at me and sighed.
She then looked up at Andrew "We were going to move back anyway. We can go sooner if you want?" he looked down at me. He let out a slight whine "Do you want to move back to the capital?" the capital was a city for our kind and our kind only. I had heard a lot about it but had never been to the city were our kind first began to appear.
"I've never seen it" I admitted. They looked surprised. Over ninety percent of our kind came form the Capital "Well would you like to move there?" I looked down at myself and then concentrated on the seal.
"I swore to hide myself until I die but I guess I lied" my seal begun to unravel and the mark faded from my skin. Pain erupted over my body. Crossbreeds could only ever use a seal once and the transformations were always so painful.
Andrew released his own seal and within seconds he was in his true form. He pulled me tight against him as pain caused me to convulse "It's ok Adam, I've got you" I felt tears spill over as my body began to change quickly.
The process only took a few moments but in that time every bone and tiny blood vessel was destroyed and rebuilt. When it was over I sat panting on his lap. My clothes had turned to threads. I hid myself against him and his sister grabbed me a towel and covered my lower half.
"Are you ok?" I shook my head. My tears had been of blood and my body still throbbed.
His sister crouched down beside me "Let's run you a nice warm bath hun" Andrew helped me to my wobbly feet and had to help me to walk to the bath. Andrew stripped off and slipped in before me. I gave him a worried look "I don't want you to pass out" I nodded slightly. As it was it was hard for me to stay focused.
"My names Holly by the way" she said as she helped me into the deep bath. The water was so soothing to my tortured body. I had been using that guise for almost seven years now. Andre hugged me against him and smiled down at me "We'll go to the Capital tomorrow" he whispered down to me.
I nodded meekly and like I was a bird who was about to spread their wings for the very first time and all I wanted to do was feel the wind beneath them and soar "I'm tired" Andrew nodded and cleared the bloody tears from my face. I felt a smile playing at my lips.
"Holly" he called. She came back into the room and helped me out of the red tinged water "Are you feeling better?" I nodded and Andrew followed me out of the bath as well. He towelled me off and laughed when he dried between my legs. I could have dried myself off but he just wanted to see me squirm.
"Hey Holly, I'm going to take him to bed" she went to object but could see that sex was not on the immediate agenda. She nodded slightly and he helped me past her.
I slipped down onto his bed and let out a slight whine as the covers touched my sensitive body. Andrew followed me down onto them and pulled me into a tight embrace "Tomorrow we can be together" I nodded into him and snuggled in tight.
This was how things should have always been, since the very beginning.