happy ever after started with you

Usually the ew parents weren’t afforded the luxury of sleeping in, but with the pups out for the day and into the night, sunset found them still mostly asleep. Snuggled in their comfortable bed, alone for perhaps the first time since the litter was born. Venom wasn’t meaning to rush Maverick into wakefulness as she pulled herself closer to him. Instinctively he seemed to wrap his strong arms tighter around her thin frame. She would have fallen back asleep with him there, but as she nuzzled into him and thought of just how happy he had made her, she started to return her affections.

Similarly he had forgotten that they were childless right now, there were no puppies to think about this morning. Of course, Venom thought about them and did indeed miss them, but there was something special about being alone with their father after so long. He felt the magic of the moment and shifted subtly, nuzzling against her crown and whispering in her ear. Maverick's large paws roamed the curves of her without hesitation as she chuckled about his observations. As he appreciated the feeling of her under his touch Venom looked back up so she could kiss against his throat, trailing up to his jaw line where her forked tongue licked the short fur there.

"Strange, isn’t it?” After getting used to the chaos of raising young puppies such a peaceful quiet morning was unheard of. Not that she would have traded the season of life for anything, but they couldn’t take such a rare moment for granted. Pale toes entwined in the longer fur of his scruff as she continued to kiss along his jaw, aiming for his lips in her slow savoring movements.

"Venom & Maverick"