Lilli sat in the kitchen, eating a late night salad, she had been missing her Venice terribly in the last few days, and had constantly been dreaming of her and Venice having their own child. She loved Marcus like her own son, but Lilli's body kept suggesting how lovely it would be to have her own.
She decided to keep these thoughts to herself, it would need an extra person in the relationship, a male. Lilli had no aversions to males in the past, but the thought of an extra person in their relationship made her skin crawl. If they adopted, or sought out a male to impregnate one them, it would not be a child that both Lilli and Venice had created. No, it was just not to be. Lilli needed a distraction. Like her insane mother threatening to send an assassin after her wasn't distracting enough.
Casey had been spending her every available moment at the Jettstar property. Venice, Lilli, and especially Marcus had a way of making her feel... less hateful of herself. Venice hated her skin, so pale, like a vampire, plastered with freckles. She had unmanageable hair, too dark a shade of red, she was flat chested compared to either of her sisters, her ears stuck out and where too pointy.
Casey hated her thin stick legs, she was taller than normal, she... she had to stop hating herself, Morgana the mage-witch had told her that 'Marcus loved her unconditionally, and accepted who and what she was, and that Casey would feel unworthy of that love, until she could love and accept herself.'
Casey wanted to be worthy, more than anything. She focused on what she hated most about herself.
She ran through the list of what she felt were her shortcomings, being a werewolf, she realized. Being a werewolf and at the mercy of the moon. She could change at will, she had been hunting a few times with her mother and her sisters, the change felt like a slow, painful process, as her body wrenched and remolded her body.
'If I had more control over it, and could do it faster, and when I wanted, maybe I could eventually halt the process all together!, Casey deduced. Casey, morphed from human to wolf and back, then again, and again. It hurt the same each time, but she was human when she chose to be, and wolf when she chose to be, she was in control. A slight feeling of euphoria flowed through her, she was in control of this, it wasn't just something that happened to her, she made it happen!
Casey took a deep breath, she was going to practice this like a gym workout, 10 repetitions, several times a day, she looked down at the pile of fur she had shed.
Casey crept across the road to the park, she squinted in the darkness to make sure she was alone. She hated it when the moon forced her to wolf out in front of people, despite the fact that her clothes stretched when she changed, she always felt like she was naked. The very first time the moon had forced her to shift, she had been wearing a tight fitting denim skirt and jacket, both with press studs. Her increase in size had left her running among the trees in her underwear. She chose her clothes for stretchiness now and refused to wear skirts or dresses ever again.
She took a deep breath, and triggered the transformation.
Casey's senses sharpened, she could see more clearly in the low light, her hearing improved easily tenfold, and her sense of smell.. "I'm sorry little rabbit, but I'm suddenly hungreee!" She growled.
Lilli was upstairs exercising when her phone rang, she flitted off the running machine, pushing the off button with one hand, and her mobile phone with the other. Venice was coming home later today, and Lilli was excited. "Venice!, sweetheart!, when will you be home?", Lilli asked impatiently. "In about three minutes, Ive missed you Lil!", Venice responded. Lil was on the stairs in a flash, and bolted for the front door.
Serena called Venice a few days after that, saying that she needed to talk. Venice invited her over, Serena had been her first good friend when she moved to Elba, it would be great to catch up.
"Here is the the thing.", Serena said, after they had been talking and drinking for a while, "Since my daughter Casey started dating your son Marcus, she has gone from a C- average to A+, and has even been on the honor roll, and you know as werewolves, we have a riff-raff reputation to uphold.", Serena joked..
"But seriously, she has more self-confidence, and I've never seen her happier, the few times she us at home for anything other than sleep. Marcus is really good for her. She is finally coming out of her shell!"
"The thing is, last night when I went to check on the girls, Casey was still awake, sitting up in her bed, twisting an engagement ring on her finger!", Serena burst out. "Casey said that Marcus had proposed to her two days ago, and she never told me, or even her sisters, and wouldn't say anything else about it, I'm worried this is going to fast!"
Venice didn't know how to respond so she went for, "This is news to me too!". Serena added "Casey has always been the most anxious, hesitant and insecure of my girls, and I don't want to see either of the kids get hurt."
Venice promised to talk to Casey and Marcus, and fill her in on the details.
Chapter Notes.
Both Lilly and Venice have been rolling continuous 'have a child / have a child with' rolls for days.
As you can see, Casey got her pale freckly skin from her mother, but hates it because both her sisters have a tanned freckleless skin. Serena was, in a pre LRC life, a vampy vampire, I werewolfed her, and gave her 3 daughters to raise, so Marcus would have someone in the game to talk too as a child.
I didn't actually plan on Marcus hooking up with any of them, but the game kept putting Casey and Marcus together, through school.
The title Faster Pussycat is a reference to the band formed in the mid 80's, who named themselves after a movie from '65. I had intended for the story to involve Bull and Dozer and some kittens, as both pups kept rolling 'play with another pet'. I had the scene all written in my head, but not on paper.
The idea got lost somewhere, only the title remains :(
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