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“I… I love you.”
Amethyst paused, clicking her mandibles as her reflection stared back.
“I love you Yennifer. You are my heart, you are my soul, you are me completed.”
A few seconds passed on in silence before the ariados shook her head in disgust.
“No, no. Too blunt. Too short. I can’t…”
The arachnoid took a deep breath, pulling her abdomen up into the air for a few seconds before allowing it to rest behind her. She opened her eyes again, staring hard into the reflection that stared back at her in the pond.
“Yennifer, I have something to tell you. I… I love you.” Amythest said, stifling a cringe. “-I love you very, very much.”
Her eyes closed, waiting for the rebuttal before opening them again.
“I… I don’t know. Ever since we were kits. It was a crush at first. I… You fought for me. Cared for me. Loved me like your own sister when nobody else cared for a stupid, useless spinarak. I… I couldn’t help but be attracted to you. And then, when we evolved together, fighting that monster at Vauh’s Pass...”
The tightness in Amythest’s abdomen grew worse, but she pressed on as she stood on her two sets of hindlegs, supporting herself on her second set of forelegs while her first foremost ones crossed together over her upper abdomen.
“You make me whole like nobody else can. I… I don’t give a damn about anyone else, just you. I can’t stop it. The thoughts of you with me, together forever and-”
She sucked in a breath, holding it to the count of five before exhaling. Slowly, her eyes trailed down towards the fire stone embedded in her scarf. Clutching her limbs around it, she held the stone against her chest. She breathed, taking the warmth into her being. A soft, keening cry left her mandibles, floating into the winds behind her.
“I… If you wouldn’t mind, w-would you want to go out on a d-date? M-maybe humor a silly spider like me? I-I know I am not a reynard, not even a fire type or biped, but… Maybe you’d be open to being with me?”
Amythest's words died off, staring into the distance before she fell to the ground in an abrupt fashion.
“Oh goddess, what am I thinking!?”
Dagger forelimbs clamped over her head, the ariados loosing a cry.
“She’d never want to be with me! Who ever heard of it? A bug with a fox? Even if she did want to be with me, I...”
Amythest slumped, curling up into a ball as she clutched her oh so precious fire stone between her forelegs. She pressed looked at it for a few seconds before pressing it against her neck, shivering as a stiff breeze blew against her carapace.
“You’re so stupid Amythest. Stupid to think it’d work. To make it work out despite all that would stand against it. She’d never be happy with me. I already ask so much from her. She wants a family. I can’t give her that.”
Her dagger forelimbs clamped over her eyes. A muffled sob escaped her mandibles, loosing into the dirt.
“She’d… She’d never want to be with me.” She sniffled, her limbs slowly relaxing as she stared into the dirt.
“B-but maybe… Maybe if she finds her husband, m-maybe she’d let me with her as an auntie to her kits. Y-yeah… I… I think I can live with that.” She said, forcing herself to smile even as she felt the void in her heart enlarge.
“Y-you were lucky enough to have her at all.” Amythest hiccuped, staring down at her reflection in the pond for a few seconds. She took a breath, the air burning her lungs as her eyes slid shut.
“Haaaaaa. An ariados and a delphox. Such a silly thing. Of course she’d want some male at minimum. Not some bug. Not some ariados that can’t give her kits.”
Amythest tried to visualize it, her and Yennifer together.
She sucked in a breath, feeling her arm cradled around between her head and abdomen as she stood up sitting on her abdomen, nestled against the kitsune’s torso as she rubbed the back of her head. In her lap and all around them were kits of varying species napping against their bodies.
Yet just as the vision came, it faded, flashing to an image of Yennifer’s face staring at her in disgust.
No words were spoken, but her expression said all the same as Amythest bit down a cry.
“Gods, I just can’t. I can’t bear it. If I told her I loved her and she rejected me, I’d-”
“Amythest?”
Amythest froze.
“No… It can’t-”
Spine rigid, Amythest shot to her feet and whirrled.
When she saw the owner of the voice, her blood curdled.
Not even five feet from her, a shiny delphox stared down at her with jaw agape. The vixen’s paws were half clutched to her chest, staring at her with wide eyes.
Amythest took a step back on reflex, horror upon horror filling her abdomen as all rational thought fled her, fight or flight instincts taking hold of her mind.
“Y-Yennifer!? What are- how much did you-”
Amythest’s heart spasmed as the delphox took a step forward, a hand outstretched.
“Amythest I-… I heard everything.”
Amythest stumbled back, her abdomen clenching as her own eyes bulged in their sockets.
“E-everything!? Oh gods, I-”
Her words died in a whimper, the studs of her feet clicking on the stone island beneath her as her eyes shot to and fro, looking for an escape, only to find the only route up to the stairs above was blocked by the delphox in question, with all else shielded by stone walls and flooded with water. Amythest flinched, the delphox taking a few more steps closer to her.
“Amythest, I-”
“Don’t!”
The delphox stopped, Amythest cringing at the snarl which escaped her. Her mandibles clenched, before looking up the delphox straight in the eyes.
“Don’t say anything. I already know what you have to say.” Amythest said, shuddering as she stumbled back at to the edge of the waterline. The ariados almost stumbled into the water, but managed to recover while clutching the fire stone to her chest with one of her limbs.
“I just… Just being selfish. Just wanted to be with you. Love you. I-”
“Amythest!”
The ariados flinched, unable to respond as the delphox barreled down on her. She crept back on instinct, and it was only when she felt herself slipping did she realize her error. Amythest screamed, her limbs scraping as her form tumbled into the water. The ariados screamed, feeling most of her form sink beneath the waterline with only but her head above it. She struggled, feeling herself pushed away from the water’s edge and into the tunnel behind her when a strong hand grasped at one of her limbs and pulled. Amythest scrambled back on to dry land as Yennifer pulled her to safety, clutching the ariados to her chest while shooting her a small smile.
“You… You...” The delphox started, but shook her head. Amythest stared, her heart pounding rapidly, but unsure of what to do when the delphox brought her up against her chest in a sitting position. Amythest flushed, feeling the warmth projected from the delphox as a finger tilted her head to face her in the eyes.
“You silly, silly spider.” She whispered, brushing under her chin. Amythest stared back, frozen in… She could not say what, but it froze her nonethless as Yennifer’s eyes pierced her soul.
“Do you really fear what I have to say that you’d try to drown yourself in the river?” The delphox asked, pressing deeper into her carapace.
Amythest mandibles clacked, but she could not find her voice for a few seconds as she eased into the delphox’s ministrations..
“I… I don’t… You weren’t supposed to hear that. Any of it.” Amythest finally whispered, her voice petering off into the void.
Yennifer eyes narrowed, her gaze sharpening on the arachnoid.
“And yet, I did.”
A pause fell on the two of them, with the only sound in Amythest’s ears being the slow flutter of the ways, and the beating of her own heart.
“Do you love me?”
Amythest cringed, closing her eyes.
“Y-you’ve already heard me say it.”
She could almost hear the smile in Yennifer’s melodious laughter, the delphox clutching her that much closer.
And yet with it, she could feel…
Hope?
Amythest’s eyes open, feeling the warmth from the delphox flow around her form.
“Yes. But I want to hear you say it.”
Amythest trembled, seeing the gentle smile upon the delphox’s lips.
Could it be?
“I...” She swallowed. “I- I love-” Amythest shuddered, her breath hitching as the tension in her body rose.
With immense effort, she forced it out.
“I love you.”
Silence.
Her eyes clenched shut, the uncertainty grinding her down.
And yet, she felt Yennifer’s breath against her mandibles. Her eyes opened, and her only warning was the flutter of the delphox’s eyes before her lips forced her mandibles open.
Amythest’s form went limp, eyes widened for but a moment before a moan escaped her. She jolted, a warmth from the delphox’s throat blowing down into her thorax. Her form spasmed, flushing with a glorious heat as Yennifer’s tongue dove down and scraped her mouth. The ariados’s body was twisted as Yennifer’s form wrapped around her own, the delphox using every bit of her powers to bring warmth to the wet form of the ariados. Water droplets evaporated from the arachnoid’s body as heat vapors engulfed her.
Amythest could not resist, even if she wanted to, so masterful was the delphox’s touch upon the back of her neck and abdomen. She keened, wrapping her own legs around the delphox as her mandibles locked around the witch’s lips. All the fears and horrors that had built up to that point had long evaporated, replaced by a glorious ecstasy as the fire stone began to glow and bond her with the delphox’s mind. Amythest’s mental defenses crumbled at will, allowing the delphox’s presence to flood into the arachnoid’s mind.
And to her shock, Yennifer’s confession.
Love.
The confession from Yennifer slammed into her with the force of a sledgehammer, rendering the ariados vulnerable to the delphox’s tender advances, pressing those wonderful fingers down into the sore spots of her neck and flooding them with warmth. The heat from Yennifer’s ember peppered down her throat robbed her of oxygen, but it made the sensations of the experience all the more potent as she felt the fox’s fur rub up against her carapace.
Yet as soon as it started, the kiss ended. Despite Amythest’s want to continue despite the lack of air in her lungs, Yennifer forced the engagement to an end as she ripped her lips from her mandibles. Amythest’s core warmed at Yennifer’s smile, the two laid flat on the ground with the arachnoid on the bottom and Yennifer on top.
Amythest’s abdomen curled, rubbing her face into the fox’s fur as she reveled in the mental connection she felt from-
“Does that answer your question, my silly spider?”
Pausing for but a brief moment, Amythest looked up and nuzzled her.
“… Yes.”