Hours Left Behind

Even though he was still a little torn from what their father recovering meant in the long run, he could pull up a soft smile as he looked down at her looking at him. And it only got warmer as she told him she'd want to stay here with them. With him. He supposed he couldn't ask for anymore in life than his siblings wanting to be here beside him. It was a different relationship than what he had with his father or the queens. And much different between him and Scylla or him and Ruse. He did have a natural desire to protect them and to make them happy. Each of them outweighing the other in different aspects. And the four of them were closer than the rest of their father's litters. Cerberus couldn't imagine feeling any other way than this love that he felt for them.

With a gentle pull at her side as his paw was still wrapped around her, he gave her another little squeeze with some relief surrounding him. "I'm glad." Is what he could muster out, but there was so much more emotion behind his voice that felt near impossible to express. He at least wanted her to feel like she was wanted by him, that should have been easy enough to tell.

Raising his head back up off of hers he lifted a paw as he put all of his weight onto his hind end so he could still hold around her and lift his other paw up to her face. Carefully guiding her to look up at him again he didn't waste much time before dropping his nose to hers and giving her a gentle, meaningful kiss. Not just a peck like they shared earlier, but maybe a little more heartful than he had been exploring with her in the den. He was pulling outside of what became a regular nightly routine between them. With what happened between him and Scylla it was driving him into an instinctual physical want for Ruse. One he already discovered but something that was more understood now. Not because she was in her first heat, but because of the bond they had sewn together. Maybe she could feel it too, from him and inside of herself too. He couldn't know for sure.

Once they broke the kiss, whether it was from him or her, he'd rub his paw gently down her back before going to remove himself from her. "Come on, we should get the fire ready." They did have a little more work to do before they fully settled and maybe he seemed more interested in that. But really as the daylight would grow shorter, he was getting more eager for the time they'd spend wrapped up in each other out here alone in this temporary home.

"Cerberus"