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"You've changed again." You say with no small amount of amusement. You and Dan Heng had retired to your room after the post Irontomb-battle-that-nearly-wiped-out-the-known-universe party, you and Dan Heng were reuniting after the long journey that was Amphoreus. So busy and fraught with danger you'd barely had time to appreciate his new form. You were certainly appreciating it now.
"I have." There's less hesitation in his voice, more confidence. He even gives you a small smile, appreciating how your eyes linger on the changes he's undergone. "What do you think?"
"You look beautiful." Your whole being seemed to glow with love as you said it. Then he followed, face glowing a soft pink as your simple words washed over him.
"Is that so?" His voice was slightly strained by the sheer weight your emotions carried into him.
"It is... you always were, in any form. But now you look... whole. Like you've found yourself. You're not part Dan Feng, you're just Dan Heng. I couldn't be more proud or find you more beautiful than I do now."
He closes his eyes and looks down, for a moment you wonder if you've said something wrong. However, instead of upset when he opens his eyes it's love, and a deeper affection you'd ever seen from him.
He steps forward, wordlessly at first, before cupping your cheeks in his hands and leaning in with an almost sultry whisper. "May I kiss you?"
Stunned by his forwardness for a moment you nearly forget to respond. He starts to pull away, assuming a no, only halted by a quick, near breathless, "you may, please do in fact" from you.
He surges forward immediately, meeting your lips with his in a soft but passionate kiss. He holds your face close with his hands, your body close with his tail. It was constricting but comfortable. Tougher and less malleable than his less corporeal tail, but still comfortable, if not more so.
He slides his lips against yours, ever gentle even when he feels needy for you. You can't help but return in kind.
It almost felt mean, he was bigger, more muscular, stronger. You had to relearn him but he still knew all of your weaknesses. The way your legs shake when his tail brushes your thighs, the way you pant, tongue practically vibrating with the want to entangle it with his.
He pulls you onto the bed laying you down on top of him, and part of him is scared to crush you beneath his bigger form if he were to be above you. Seems he still has something to learn about himself.
You pull away from his kiss reluctantly and pant, looking down at him with shiny eyes filled with want and desire.
"Dan Heng... this new body of yours, may I explore it...?"
"Ah... yes... you may." He hesitates a little bit, seemingly a little nervous.
"Don't be nervous, love you in all your forms, remember." You say gently, hands roaming his new, broader chest over his clothes.
"It's just... new isn't it." He looks down, smiling wryly at you, eyes flicking to your hands on his chest.
At his glance you squeeze his pecs teasingly.
He sighs but smiles "you really... do like it huh?"
"You don't even have to ask me that, love. You're gorgeous as I've said." You squeeze his pecs again, trailing your hands down his torso. "You're more defined now, it matches your new sureness... the certainty you have about you."
He just lets you, letting your hands roam his body, holding back from doing the same to you. "You flatter me too much. I'm not that different."
You just raise an eyebrow at him, "you are. You've... settled. It's like you finally accept yourself, acknowledging your history instead of running from it." I shift up and kiss him softly. "You're even more beautiful than ever, because you seem more happy with yourself."
"That you notice all of this about me... it makes me happy. You're too good to me." He murmurs, he leans up and captures your lips once more before settling down on the bed. "Feel free to take your time and explore. I want you to be comfortable with my body before we... do anything else.."
"It'd be my pleasure, love." With that you slip your hands under his shirt and pull it up, taking in the sight of him beneath you. The little patches of scales on his sides and one by his heart, they now shimmered a pale gold rather than the translucent blue that they used to be. Brushing your hand with the direction of the scales over his heart, they were more solid like smooth stone, and instead of giving a cool wet feeling when touching them it was just solid and dry.
You kiss each scale, smiling at the slight hitches of breath you could hear from an otherwise quiet Dan Heng. "So beautiful..." you whisper to yourself as you make your way down his body.
Kissing your way down his stomach, when you make it to the little tuft of black hair peaking over his trousers you pause, looking up at him. "Can I take these off?" He could see the clear excitement in your eyes, it made his stomach flip with affection.
"You may." Immediately you slip his trousers down, leaving his boxers for now. The patches of scales on his hips, the new thickness of his thighs, both were engraving to you. Your hands wondering, not oblivious to his more laboured breathing.
"Is your new body more sensitive?" You coo teasingly, smirking up at his flustered face.
"No..." he denies it, but with new body parts comes more sensitivity.
Kissing each of the scales on his hips while fully pulling off his trousers. You feel him tense and relax, like his body didn't know what to do with these sensations.
You ignore what rests between his legs for now, not wanting to trigger that so soon.
"Can you turn over please? I want to see your tail." You flutter your eyelashes for good measure, causing him to cough into his hand to hide a choke.
"You don't need to... never mind." He was so weak to you. He flips himself over, holding a pillow to his chest to keep himself grounded.
His new tail wags above him, the tip almost vibrating.
You reach out to grasp the tip gently, pulling it down to admire the new shape of it. "So pretty..." you muse, then almost unable to keep a hold of the tail as it trashes excitedly. You have to wait for it to calm down, you could tell by the shuddering of his shoulders that Dan Heng was being affected by your touches.
As he'd instructed you before you brush your hands along his tail with the direction of the scales. "It's so different... still lovely. It's... more solid, muscular, thicker. It feels... smooth like rock instead of silky like water. It's warmer too..." You muse, the tip of the tail vibrating more intensely with every word.
"You really notice all that?" Dan Heng's voice comes out slightly strained as he looks over his shoulder at you with his tail in your hands.
"Yea... I always take notice of you." You say, still stroking his tail from base to tip.
He groans and buries his face in the pillows again. "You... you're too much..." he mutters muffled into the pillow, no heat or actual annoyance in his tone.
You decide to leave his tail alone and instead straddle his hips and run your hands over the muscular expanse of his back, his broader frame was new and enticing, so much more space to explore. "Yummy." You comment cheekily, knowing it would fluster him more.
"Yummy? What does that- ah!!?" He gets cut off with shock as you sink your teeth into his right shoulder.
You chuckle in his ear as you pull away and whisper to him. "Yep, definitely yummy."
The world spins then and in an instant you're looking up at a very flustered and slightly mad Dan Heng, now pinning you to the bed.
"You are... dangerous to my senses." His voice was lower, a hint of need breaking through even if he was trying to hold back.
After the shock fades, you can only grin sheepishly up at him. "Well, what can I say? I have a very beautifully tempting boyfriend, I can't help it."
His snake-like tongue darts from his mouth, eyes narrowing dangerously. "And I have a very infuriatingly tempting partner... and I seemingly need to remind them about which buttons not to press if they don't want to spend all night awake."
"Is that a challenge?"
"It is, if I may?" He still asks, preparing to force himself away from you if you decide you don't want this.
Your cheeky smile softens at his words, your hands coming up to caress his cheeks before suddenly grasping his horns, making a growl come from him. "you may."