Succubus: A Soul Shared Ch. 16

This is chapter 16 of my urban fantasy, harem series about a succubus who believes she is a real girl, the human couple helping her investigate that belief, and all of their friends and enemies.

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Character Guide

Lead

Harrison 'Harry' Whitaker (18) - friendly neighbourhood succubus summoner, pov character

Liliana 'Lily' De Rosa (??) - succubus who believes she is a real girl

Alice Crawford (18) - alt babe who is definitely not a goth, Harry's girlfriend

Friends

Poppy Beaumont (18) - harem member, gorgeous redhead, maths whizz, unconventional bond with her maths teacher

Grace Bellamy (18) - artist, Mason's girlfriend

Mason Caldwell (18) - animator, smut artist, Harry's best mate, Grace's boyfriend

Esmeralda 'Esme' Everleigh (18) - pub quiz friend, shy supergenius, fancies Harry

Elira Holloway (18) - hosted the party in chapter 1, hasn't been seen since

Family

Caroline & Simon - Harry's parents

Salem - Harry's family cat, ludicrously old

Nanny Rosie - Alice's grandmother

Kitsune & Catgirls

Keiko - kitsune, formerly known as Scully, Lily's pet cat

Linney - bipedal, humanoid tigress of unknown origin

Kyouko - bakeneko, mature and motherly protector of her allies

Yukari - tiny, fierce, blonde bakeneko

Orihime - nekomata, long-term captive, now mute

Teachers

Fiona Evans (39) - strict, cold maths teacher, Poppy's tutor and muse

Deborah 'Debbie' Harris (47) - geography teacher, best friends with Harry's mum

Miss Bishop (30) - sociology teacher, Caribbean heritage

From Lily's Past...

Zachary Rivera (1969-1995) - Lily's first human love

Bethany Ellwood (34) - Retired tennis pro, unattainable goddess, one of Lily's best friends

The Underworld

Serena - elder succubus, head of the now disbanded council, protector of Lily

Meredith - elder succubus, council member, Lily hater

Malachorio - elder incubus, formerly bald

Dorian - Lily's friend, incubus, gay

Tim, Winston and 34 others - incubus simps

Diana - underworld pub landlord

Zachariah - brothel owner, evil Aetherial

Daphne - cyclops, brothel madame

The Upper Plane

Seraphina - Aetherial reaver, searching for answers on Lily's origin, tall elf-like humanoid with long, white hair

Lumiel - reaver, sent to kill Lily, didn't go well for him

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Chapter 16

Sunday 1st March, 2026

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Lily looked my way as we floated in the pitch black void, caught between two worlds. I kept moving my legs, hoping they would find solid ground before too long. Lily opened her mouth, but nothing came out. I could feel the pressure of her squeezing my hand though, and it comforted me. Dorian had entered just ahead of us, but he was nowhere to be seen.

We left the portal in my bedroom, and the relief of being home quickly washed over me. I took a deep breath, and the air tasted so much sweeter than it did down in The Hollow. My room was filled with a mass of people, but my eyes were searching for one in particular.

Alice's shoulders sank when she saw us, like the tension of waiting for our safe return was stripped from her body. She was standing by the window for only a moment before she squeezed her way through a couple of bodies and ran into my arms. I felt her legs kicking out in excitement as she embraced me, before she wrapped them around my waist. Her hands ran through my hair and our noses smudged together as her lips found mine and she kissed me desperately.

"Idiot," she said, which made me laugh and brought me right back down to earth.

"I promised you we would all be back," I said, my words fighting through all of the frantic pecks of her lips on mine.

"I know," she hummed, staring into my eyes. "I believed you. I just wanted it to be sooner."

I caressed her cheek with my thumb. "You look different," I said. She looked tired for one, bags starting to form under her eyes. I didn't know yet how much time had passed but that wasn't my first priority. She still looked so effortlessly beautiful. I hadn't seen her this natural in a long time, even if it was a dyed natural. "I like your hair."

Alice smiled. "I changed it too quickly, but the stress and the wait was killing me. I stress dyed my hair, stress cleaned the house, stress learned how to crochet."

"Crochet?" I asked. Her hair was back to its natural chestnut colour. Dorian had given her the split dye treatment when he was summoned inside her body, but it had become a victim of her worrying.

"It's just a start. Kyouko showed me how to do it," she said, motioning towards the bakeneko, who warmly smiled back. It was amazing to see even a little bit of happiness on her face.

"What day is it?" I asked. I wasn't overly worried. Seraphina had informed us that time would have passed, but the fact that everyone was still in my room seemed to confirm we hadn't been missing for weeks or months on end.

"Sunday," Alice said, as she was slowly lowered back to ground. I gave her bum a few gentle love taps as she refused to let go of me. "You've been gone for about two and a half days."

"That's not too bad," I said. My life had continued in the underworld, and time had passed, though not as much. I had lost two days of my life. I was fascinated by the thought of my aging process. Had it slowed down, or sped up, during that time?

"We'll swap places next time and you can tell me how stressful it is waiting for that portal to reopen," she moaned, curling her lip in a playful frown before leaping to my side and wrapping her arms around the third part of our throuple. "I missed you, too. You look so hot like this."

"I'm covered in blood," Lily said, though she wasn't letting go of that cuddle either. Alice was right though. The demon look was so fucking sexy, bloodcovered or not.

"Is any of it yours?" Alice asked. Lily confirmed it was not. "It's extra hot, in that case."

I looked around the room, and everyone but the demons looked a little different to how we had last seen them. They had clearly arrived back much earlier, and had time to clean up and settle in. It was a funny sight, not least of all because my bedroom was filled with beings my mind couldn't even have comprehended a few weeks earlier, but simply because most of them were dressed like me. The only thing missing was a redhead. "Where is Poppy?" I asked.

"She's gone to get some food, and some fresh clothes. She should be back soon, and she's going to be mad she missed the big return. We didn't know how long things were going to be like this. Your parents are due home today, by the way, so we have to deal with that. Harry, are you hurt?" Alice said.

"I'm fine," I said, but my girlfriend insisted on a more honest answer. "I took one bad landing. I promise, a couple of bruises, that's it. I got lucky."

"I saved his life," Lily said.

"I knew you were going to brag about that," I said, and the succubus smirked back at me in the most performative way. "Luckily, she wasn't bullshitting all those times she said she was strong and fast and powerful, so yeah, she saved my life."

"I never lie," Lily said, which was a lie.

"Is she okay?" I asked, my eyes briefly resting on our demon summoning friend. Esme looked to be resting, having been moved from the chair to the bed. Her handcuffs were gone. Alice must have had good reason to believe she wouldn't run away. I trusted my girlfriend's judgment on that one. Serena was sitting on the edge of the bed, at the feet of her fellow elder. "Is everyone else okay?" I asked. Alice stepped aside and the room opened up to us.

"Thanks to all of you, we are," Keiko said. The kitsune was wearing a pair of my shorts, alongside the hoodie she had found in the safehouse. That had been covered in blood before, meaning she had been here long enough for it to go through the wash. "Where is Seraphina?"

"She is delivering Zachariah to her superiors," I answered. "She said she will be with us soon."

"Thank you for everything you did for us," Linney said. The tigress was wearing some of my clothes too. Kyouko was the same, though they were a little baggier on her. Yukari was smaller, so she was wearing a pair of Alice's pyjamas.

Keiko walked into the embrace of Lily, who held onto her tightly. "Thank you," she sobbed, her body rocking against the succubus.

"Anything for you, honey," Lily said, holding the kitsune's head against her chest and gently stroking her hair.

"How is Orihime?" I asked. She wasn't missing, but she wasn't human either.

Kyouko stroked the pitch black fur of the feline beside her. A sofa had been moved into my bedroom to make room for all of our guests. The two bakeneko sat either side of the nekomata. Linney was resting on one of its arms. "She is free, which is what matters most. She will come out when she is ready," Kyouko said. Her English was stronger than Keiko's, and her accent was a little easier to understand. Her tone carried a warmness that could easily have been lost in captivity. "We are extremely grateful for your bravery, and your hospitality. Alice and Poppy have been so good to us. We do not want to overstay our welcome."

"No, that's not a problem at all," I said, quickly. My mother had been pretty strict on no new guests after the kitsune had arrived and immediately sliced up my chest, but she was going to have to come to terms with a bunch of new arrivals. It would have been much easier if they could all shift, but there was no hiding the tigress. That one was going to be difficult to explain. "There's no rush. You guys need to rest for a while. Seriously, you are welcome here and can stay as long as you need. Whenever and wherever you want to go, it can be arranged, as long as you think you will be safe there. Seraphina can help with that."

"Japan," Kyouko said, gently. "It's been a long time since any of us were home. I believe there may still be some friends waiting for all of us."

That was a beautiful thought, and hopefully true. "What about you?" I asked, turning my attention to the tigress. It didn't take a genius to figure out she wasn't the same as the rest of them, but Keiko had mentioned that she had no memory of her life before enslavement. It was clear that she had a home and a family with the other girls if she needed it, but she might want more than that.

Linney took a moment before answering. "I will stay with my friends for now," she answered. "I would like to know who and what I am, when the time is right. That day won't come until I am sure they are all safe."

"Do you have any idea where to start?" I asked. I was fascinated by her origin. "Do you know if you're from the underworld? Are your people from this planet, just well hidden? Another realm entirely?"

Linney shook her head. "I have no idea," she said. There was a melancholy sound to her voice. She didn't seem desperately troubled by it, but with her freedom now achieved, there were answers worth searching for.

"If you ever need any help looking, let me know," Lily said, which didn't surprise me. "I'm something of an expert on unknown heritage."

"What happened after we left?" Linney asked.

"The cyclops got away, with the stone guy, whatever he was," I said.

"Gargoyle," Linney said. I probably should have figured that one out for myself.

"The rest are fucked up," Lily said, and that was a fair description.

"Seraphina is hoping her people will go after the rest of them, but we won't know until she's here," I explained. "Basically though, the ogre can't stand up, the orc is blind and you know what happened to the goblin."

Linney smiled. I told her to focus on the safety of the others over revenge, but she managed both. "If you knew the things he had done," she said, but she didn't need to explain herself. "I got to him before our little kitsune could do it herself."

Keiko had been a fierce little fighter, but she had also clearly come out with the most scrapes. She had cuts and bruises all up her legs, as well as a cut lip and a gash on her eyebrow. There could well be other injuries hidden beneath her hoodie. "I took it easy on them," Keiko said, eking out a faint laugh. I knew how dangerous she could be. Her cheeks were still stained with tears, but she seemed to have found a sliver of happiness now that everybody was free. In time, hopefully she would find some peace.

"How are you doing?" I said, turning to the succubus elder. There were a couple of sex toys on the bedside table, which was a bit weird. A pink dildo was standing upright on the wood. I didn't even know what to think about that. Alice caught me looking and innocently smiled.

"I didn't know we could be here like this," Serena said. She had moved up the bed, sitting close to the waist of the sleeping Esme. She had never met this girl, but you wouldn't know it. She looked down at her with eyes filled with longing, sadness and genuine care. Meredith was in there, and that was someone she truly loved, despite everything.

"Seraphina said it's not for long," I said.

"She's weak but she's in there, and we need to talk. Time to wake her up," Serena said. Esme was an impressively deep sleeper. All the ruckus from our arrival and she hadn't so much as twitched. Dorian was sitting on my computer chair, playing a game of solitaire on my PC.

"I told you she needs some rest," Alice said. "Esme takes priority. Meredith lies too much, so she can just keep her mouth shut for a while."

"I've waited long enough," Serena argued.

"How long have you been here?" I asked. She went through the portal a couple of minutes before us, so she couldn't have waited that long. Those portals were weird though, and the other two looked pretty comfortable when we arrived.

"About twenty minutes," Serena answered.

"And you?" I asked, acknowledging our incubus friend.

"Five minutes," Dorian answered, distracted. He still had blood on his antler horns.

"You know there's actual games you can probably find on the internet," I said, watching him play the game over his shoulder. "You don't need to play the basic solitaire app that comes with the computer." Dorian took my word for it, and went searching.

"A lot of time gets lost in those portals," Lily said. "We came through a couple minutes after you, and a few steps behind him."

"I didn't even know this was possible which means I definitely can't explain how it works," Serena said. "I need to wake her up now. I've been patient enough."

"She's not going to be much help to you at the moment. Meredith is pretty much a zombie, for obvious reasons," Alice said.

"What are those obvious reasons?" I asked, but we were all distracted by the return of the missing redhead.

Poppy arrived in my bedroom with a backpack on, and a plastic bag in each hand. "Oh, shit," she said, dropping a bag on each side. She surprised me with a hug, running into me with a smidgen less intensity than my girlfriend had. She didn't wrap her legs around me either, but she held on tight and scratched the back of my neck with her fingernails. "We were so worried," she whispered, close to my ear. Lily got a hug next.

"I'm seriously covered in blood," Lily said.

"Thanks for looking after everyone," I said.

"It's okay, that was the easy part," Poppy said, looking down at her white shirt, with its fresh splotches of blood attached. "Freeing them was the hard bit. Is this actually blood?"

"Well, yeah," Lily said, laughing. "I had to fuck people up to do the freeing them part. I'm going to get a quick wash."

Lily left to clean up some of the blood on her horns, tail and everywhere else. Keiko went after her. "Would you like some help with this?" Linney asked, before lifting the backpack from Poppy's shoulders.

"Thank you," Poppy said. "There's plenty of food in there, and the other bags, and some underwear and stuff like that. Lily doesn't have enough knickers in her drawers."

"That's because she barely ever wears them. We cleaned up her room, by the way," Alice said, which was a relief if my parents were due home soon, but also because the alternative was me cleaning it up. I didn't want that.

"Sorry about that," Esme said, her voice hoarse, and it was her voice. She let out a long, lingering yawn as all attention turned her way.

"Meredith?" Serena asked. Esme's eyes were half closed still, and then she struggled to reckon with the extra bodies that were surrounding her.

"Nice to have you back," I said.

"Do you feel better?" Alice asked.

"A little bit, maybe," Esme answered, before slowly lifting herself so she was sitting against the headboard. Lily's pyjama top was tight fitting around her chest. She had been cleaned up and changed out of her dress since we left, but that made sense given the handcuffs were long gone. She must have been operating with some free will, even if she was still in my house. "Serena?" she said, faintly.

"Do you recognise me?" Serena asked.

"Meredith does, but she's not very strong right now."

"Evidently. I need to talk to her," Serena said, fidgeting with her hands. She looked like she wanted to reach out and touch, but something was holding her back.

Esme looked at me. She didn't look like the shy girl we knew so well, but she didn't look like the demon-fuelled vixen who took me into that bathroom cubicle and wanked me off, either. "I'm so sorry about everything," she said. "It was all my fault and it's so humiliating. I completely betrayed your trust, and ended up breaking into your house."

"I promise it's fine," I said, trying to comfort her. "The most important thing is that you're okay. I made the same decision you did not that long ago. I did a summoning of my own, so you're not going to get in any trouble for that around here."

"Alice and Poppy told me all about that, and a lot of other things," Esme said, still not entirely comfortable. "I'm still sorry, and embarrassed about everything."

"It worked out in the end because it gave us the best excuse to go down to the underworld and deal with everything else we needed to do," I said.

"I've had enough of the interruptions and distractions," Serena said, climbing to her feet and pacing around the room as she spoke. "I don't know how long we can be here. Meredith needs to come out now, so we can talk. If you want war, keep having your heart to hearts and apology tours. If you want peace, save them for later."

"Why are you back in control?" I asked, my question directed at Esme.

"Meredith is weak at the moment," Esme answered. "I can still communicate with her but her voice is faint."

"What's the problem?"

"She needs sexual energy. She needs to feed off some orgasms and some seed, preferably," Serena said, her eyes laser focused on mine as she approached. "You need to fuck her and make her come, and then we can speak to her."

"Excuse me?" Esme said, and now she looked a little more like her old self, her cheeks flushing red and her eyes averting from my direction.

"Someone needs to fuck her," Serena insisted. "Dorian, do you want to do it?"

"Not really my type, as gorgeous as she is," Dorian said, before his eyes lingered on her for a second, and he pulled a face that suggested he might be capable of getting the job done.

"No one is having sex with me," Esme said, nervously. She meant it, but she was struggling to say it with any authority. "Meredith says no incubus is having sex with her, either."

Dorian kissed his teeth dramatically. "You're a pretty little doll, missy, but this incubus doesn't want to fuck that witch inside you, either. Make sure she knows that."

"Harry can't have sex with her anyway, so if you want to talk to her then it needs to be something else," Alice said.

"He's a man with a penis and my senses tell me his balls are full and they can get me a conversation with my old friend," Serena said, undeterred.

"If you were willing to listen, you would know it won't work because of her summoning contract," Alice said.

"What's the contract?" Serena asked. Esme buried her face in her hands.

"Meredith goes home if they have sex," Alice said, answering on behalf of her embarrassed friend without spelling it out in too much detail. I could read between the lines though, not least of all due to her discomfort. Those cheeks were redder than ever before.

"Dorian it is," Serena said.

"There are ways around that," Lily said, interrupting the elder before her incubus friend was dragged into some traumatic hetero sex. She had returned from freshening up, and in her human form too. "If the contract says sexual intercourse then you have plenty of other options. She could suck his dick, or give him a handjob, and not for the first time by the way, but if it makes everyone feel a little bit better, then the best thing you can do is the same thing you did for me on my first day. Go and wank yourself off into a cup and let her drink it."

"Fucking hell," I said. That was a much more viable option, at least. She had asked me to do that in the past, but that was in private when it was just the two of us. It was a lot more awkward in front of everybody else, not least of all the people we had just freed from sexual slavery. "Is this the best option?"

"Would you be willing to do that?" Alice asked.

"I guess so," Esme said. It was insanely awkward. I couldn't look at her anymore, just like she couldn't look at me.

"If Meredith wanted to leave, she would," Lily said. "She can give up the contract any time she wants. She's staying because she's willing to talk. It's weird but let's just get it out of the way and then we don't need to deal with her any more."

"Are you going to hurt her?" Esme asked.

"No, she means more to me than you could know," Serena said, sitting back down on the bed. "Has she been nice to you?"

Esme nodded gently. "I think so. She tries her best anyway," she said.

"I'm sorry for being so forceful about this, but it is a life and death situation. Lily is right. She's choosing to stay, for now at least, though we should probably put you back in the cuffs to be safe. Does she have any issue with that?"

Esme shook her head that time. "She said it's fine, if you don't trust her."

Serena laughed through her nose. ""Why are you still here?" she said, turning to me. "Hurry up. There's a war to stop, and it starts with your seed."

"Jesus Christ," I mumbled under my breath, turning around and making my way out, passing the smirks and giggles of three of my lovers on the way.

I went downstairs to collect a mug first, before heading into the bathroom. The last time this happened, my wank bank was a whole lot less full than it was now. I had barely had a wank in weeks, in fact, given that sex had become such a prominent part of my life. Alice and Lily wasn't a fantasy anymore, it was very much a reality. It still took my dick a couple minutes to get going. I hadn't slept in so long, and my mind and body were exhausted, but bedtime seemed closer than ever. I just needed to fill a mug first, and stop a war.

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I jerked myself off to the vision of Alice kissing Lily, and then Lily kissing Poppy, and then Poppy kissing Alice. It was working, until a distraction came along. Someone knocked on the door.

"I'm busy," I said.

"Your girlfriend is allowed to watch," Alice shouted back.

"Come in then," I said, and she did.

Alice walked straight into a kiss, and wrapped her hand around my dick, pushing mine aside in the process. She squeezed her body between me and the sink and wrapped her tongue around mine until she needed to take a breath. "Who lets their boyfriend go and make himself cum when they can do it themselves?" she hummed, before moaning into our next kiss.

The exhaustion inside me slipped away as her desires consumed me. "I missed you," I said, as she dropped to kiss along my jaw and up to my ear, before giving it a bite.

"Never do that to me again," she said.

"I promise," I said, and the doe-eyes she gave me in response condemned me to those words. I couldn't let her worry about my safety again. I reached down and gave her bum a squeeze over her pyjama shorts, before lifting her up onto the basin of the sink. She had two hands wrapped around my dick. "I'm so proud of you looking after everything here, making them all feel safe after they arrived. We'll talk about it more but they really went through hell, and they couldn't have asked for anybody better than you to be there for them when they were finally free."

"I have a lot to tell you too," Alice said, pecking my lips between each word. "First things first, you need to fuck me."

"We're fucking?" I asked.

"I waited two and a half days for you," she said, completely serious. "I didn't wait that long just to wank you off. I want you to put your dick inside me and fuck me like you missed me."

"Two and a half days is such a long time," I teased, and her laugh became a wheeze which she shut up with a kiss. I was wearing a lot more than her, but my trousers were the only problem at that moment. I unbuckled my cargo pants and pushed them and my boxers down my legs. Her shorts were loose fitting, so they were easy to pull to the side. Her knickers followed, before my cockhead was pressed against her opening.

I pushed my dick inside her, inch by inch, watching as her mouth fell open and her tongue rolled out onto her bottom lip. My balls hit the cold porcelain of the sink before she was filled, which sent a chill through my body. I groaned, and she giggled. I lifted her and moved her bum a couple inches closer to the edge of the sink, and then filled her the rest of the way, before leaning in to taste that tongue of hers. I started to swing my hips into her as she fought back, claiming my tongue for herself and sucking on it.

I couldn't keep my hands off her after a two and a half day break that wasn't even two and a half days for me. She had been lucky enough to sleep three times in that span of time, even if those bags under her eyes suggested she wasn't sleeping much. I slid my hands along her thighs, before hooking them under the low of her back and using her entire bodyweight as leverage for my thrusts. I fucked her hard from the start, driven by her intensity for me and the memory of my life flashing before my eyes when the axe of that orc almost came down and split me in two.

I slid my hands up her stomach, lifting her tank top above her tits without taking it off her completely. Her perfect little tits bounced with each thrust, tempting me to lean in and suck on both of her nipples one at a time. I wrapped my tongue around the stiff buds, teasing her with my teeth until she was mewling back at me. Alice scratched my scalp with her fingernails and pulled me up to another kiss, before sinking to my neck and sucking and biting on my skin.

"You're never going to leave me again," she purred, her warm breath and soft lips dovetailing to perfectly caress my neck in equal measure. "You're never going to leave any of us. Me. Lily. Poppy. And that's just a start, because you know exactly what was on that contract in there. Esme is going to be yours soon, baby."

I fucked her harder with every word spoken, and even my balls hitting the sink couldn't slow me down. "Is that right?" I said. Alice kissed me again, and then pressed her forehead to mine so she was staring into my eyes as she answered.

"She's going to be ours, baby. All of us together. She wants it so badly she summoned a demon for it."

"I did the same for you."

Alice smiled back at me for just a second, before the pleasure took over her expression once more. She was chewing on her bottom lip, quivering under my touch and desperate to come. "Harry, it's so close, please don't stop," she moaned, pushing back against the bathroom cabinet behind her to meet my frantic thrusting. I just had to avoid slamming her into the mirror.

I fucked my girlfriend to orgasm, and when her moans got too loud she put a hand to her mouth to try and contain the noise. Our bodies collided desperately as she squirmed in pleasure, her body shaking enough that she fell back into the sink basin, my dick slipping out of her in the process. Her bum hit the drain and her elbow knocked the tap, turning it on and soaking the back of her pyjama shorts. She squealed as the cold water shocked her, before jumping out as quickly as she could manage.

She started laughing while my aching dick pulsed. "Please, the mug," I grunted, right on the edge, and she quickly searched for it. She held it at the head of my dick with one hand, and wrapped the second around my shaft. I put my hand on top of hers and we teamed up to finish the job, my balls tightening as the mug was filled with my load. I moaned and groaned like a madman until my orgasm subsided, and then leaned over the sink so she could give my dick a quick clean.

"You need to be patient with her. She's a little bit embarrassed about what happened at school, and everything else, but she's not going to hide why she did the summoning in the first place. She knows all about us now, because we've spent the last couple of days talking about these things. It's not like she's gotten an official offer from me, but we all know what she wants, and now it's time for you to make her feel like you want her just as much," Alice said, as she cleaned me up, before dumping my dick back into my boxers as they were pulled up my legs. "Just take your time with it. There won't be a demon in her for much longer."

"You and your fucking harem fetish," I said, turning her around as she smirked up at me. I looked at the wet patch on the back of her shorts, then gave her bum a squeeze and a slap. "You deserve that for being naughty."

"I'm on the least naughty streak of my life," Alice argued.

"Seriously?"

"Well, the least naughty streak of the last three weeks of my life, since you sent me to hell and then brought me back to fuck me."

We both laughed, and then she cuddled me again, and those next few kisses were much more gentle. "Hopefully we never need to do anything like that again," I said, holding her head to my chest. "It was crazy down there. Did they tell you everything?" I asked, still unsure how long it had been since everyone arrived. "How long have they all been here?"

Alice sat back on the edge of the bath. "They all arrived at random intervals over the last couple of days," she said.

"Seraphina explained that she lost some time because she had to keep closing her portals in the middle of the fight," I said.

"Kyouko and Orihime got here first," Alice explained. "That was on Friday morning, quite early, around 6am. They woke us up. I didn't get to sleep until about 4am that night waiting for you to come back. There was a bit of screaming and panic for a couple of minutes but Kyouko managed to explain who they were. We couldn't really do much but trust her. She explained that there was a big brawl going on and that they were trying to get everyone else out. We thought it might be immediate but it was over a day before anyone else got here. It was terrifying waiting, and getting the details of what was happening in small bursts."

"You did amazing dealing with that, and keeping everyone comfortable and safe and making them feel at home," I said, sitting alongside her and taking her hand.

"It was a bit crazy to begin with. Kyouko was pretty much naked when she got here. She promised she was one of the people you helped. After everything calmed down, we talked about what was happening down there and just hoped the portal would open again any minute. I was freaking out so much but everyone else helped keep me calm. Kyouko is so sweet. She's been so nice to me. Orihime doesn't come out at all. They're all worried about her."

"She was a prisoner for a long time," I said.

"Yukari got here yesterday morning," Alice continued. "She was even less dressed than Kyouko. Esme was showering when she arrived. I was on guard, sort of, so when she got here there was no one in the room. Poppy walked in, got jumped and bit a couple of times, but eventually we calmed her down and she's been pretty sweet ever since, even if she's a bit crazy."

"Poppy got bit?"

"Yeah, on the ear and a couple of fingers, but it could have been worse."

"It wasn't bad?"

"No, it was fine," Alice confirmed.

"Okay, that means we can laugh about it," I said, and boy did we laugh.

"Things would have been a little bit easier if at least someone we recognised came through first but it wasn't too bad. It's lucky that Keiko came through with Linney, because we were not prepared for a fucking tiger."

"She gave us a heads up about that before we got there, but it was still hard to process," I said.

"She is so cool," Alice said. I wanted to be closer to her, so pulled her into my lap, her bum against one of my thighs and her back to my stomach. I wrapped my arms around her and linked my fingers near her belly button. She leaned her head back against the front of my shoulder. "How are you going to tell your parents about this?"

"Brutal honesty usually works. Mum hasn't been as carefree about it since Keiko fucked me up, but she will be cool about it if we tell the truth. It's not like they're going to be here forever. They just need a place to rest and relax for a while after something horrific. Mum will understand, and Dad will listen to Mum. What about you? Has Nanny Rosie been okay with you staying here?"

"I told her that I was looking after you because you're ill and your parents are out of town. Esme needed to get in touch with her parents and sister as well because they were texting her so much, because they were obviously worried about her. Meredith was still in control then. We had to trust her to give up control so that Esme could talk to them on the phone, and thankfully, she did that."

"How has Meredith been?" I asked.

"She's a bit of a bitch but sometimes she's not too bad. Esme likes her, which says a lot, in my opinion. They spent a bit of time together, and did some crazy things. Meredith was obviously nice to her, so she's not all bad. I need to be honest with you and say that things got kind of freaky because even though she is cool sometimes, she is also a fucking liar and she spent the last few couple of days telling us she was going to die."

I looked straight ahead, watching my girlfriend's face in the mirror opposite us. She was trying to suppress a smile as she spoke, and even blushed a little. Alice didn't blush with me anymore, so that was interesting. "Die? What's that all about, and what does freaky mean?" I asked, while she scrunched up her nose and pouted back at me.

"She said she was losing power because she wasn't having sex or getting any sexual energy. Esme started to come back out while that was happening. We were worried about what would happen if the succubus died while she was inside her so, you know, we helped."

"Is that why there was a dildo in my room?" I asked.

"Dildo and a vibrator actually," Alice said, through giggles.

"Did you cheat on me?" I teased, and her jaw dropped.

"Absolutely not," she assured me. "Not like you were cheating on me getting a handjob at school."

"What happened?" I asked. This had the potential of massively turning me on. I wanted every detail.

"We got her the toys. Esme agreed to play with herself to try and power Meredith back up. As annoying as she is, we weren't going to leave her to die. The toys weren't working though. Esme wasn't coming. It just wasn't happening."

"Did you have to step in and help?" I asked.

Alice scowled back at me. "This isn't just some hot sex story, you know. I was stressed about you potentially being dead. Strangers kept showing up. The demon we were supposed to look after was convincing us she was going to die. It was one stress on top of another. I had to learn how to crochet just to cope."

"I promise you, it's not turning me on," I said. Alice reached my dick, which was still soft. I don't think that was proof enough given it had orgasmed only a few minutes earlier. She gave it a squeeze, and sighed.

"Poppy did most of it," she said.

"Most of what?"

"Poppy played with her, using the toys, and then kissed her a few times as well. Meredith said that might work. I just played with her boobs a little bit."

I playfully gasped while she smiled back at me through the mirror. "You played with her boobs?" I repeated, and she nodded her head. I moved my hands to her boobs in response, kneading them through her tank top.

"Just a little bit. I didn't kiss her though, or anything else. Actually, we did show each other our boobs too, because after hers came out it was only fair. It was a boob exchange."

"Did it work?" I asked.

"She just wasn't coming, even with a sex demon inside her. Too much of a mental block after everything that happened. Meredith admitted she was bullshitting, after everything we did. She said she was just going to get weak and lose control. Esme would take over fully, and she would wait for a feeding. She is annoying and a liar but after that she was nicer to us. It also helped break the seal with Esme, and after that we talked and told her the truth about everything and she did the same and now we're all on the same page. Her boobs are really nice, by the way."

"I hadn't noticed," I lied, which made my girlfriend laugh.

"I think they're even bigger than Lily's."

"I definitely didn't expect you to say any of that, but as much as nothing makes sense in our lives anymore, it does sort of make sense. I'll forgive you on this occasion, as long as you promise me that if you get the chance to play with another pair of boobs in the future, you'll take it."

"Esme is on the harem list. That's why you didn't get in trouble for getting wanked off by her at school. I'm innocent for the same reason. We're both just seducing our future girlfriend."

"Sounds good to me," I said, even if that list didn't really exist outside of her imagination.

"Meredith also threatened to fuck me, so she's on the list now, too."

"I'm not sure about that one," I said.

"I think she's gay anyway, so she might just be on my list."

"I told you, this is your harem and not mine. I'm completely innocent."

There was a knock on the door. Lily didn't wait for permission, and opened it up to join us. "No way you just had sex without me," she said, instantly aware of the cum in the mug, standing over it and inhaling the scent. "Is this one for me?"

"Not this time," I said.

"Not fair," Lily said. "Seraphina is back. Everyone is waiting for you two whores."

"Sorry, we were just catching up," Alice said.

"I saved his life, did he tell you that part?" Lily asked.

"You literally already told her that yourself!" I said. Lily evilly laughed as she ran away from us, back to my room. Alice followed after her, mug in hand. The wet patch on the back of her shorts had left a damp spot on my pants. I was getting warm with all my layers on, and finally started to unravel the safety vest that had protected me in the underworld.

**

Seraphina was back, as promised, though she looked a little different. It was the most casual we had ever seen her. She was typically in some sort of combat or active gear, but on this occasion she was wearing a pair of grey jogger pants and an oversized white t-shirt. It reminded me again of how little we really knew about her, and her realm. Lily told me once that they did have culture down in the underworld. I wasn't prepared for how much. Seraphina had been back home. It wasn't crazy to think she had an apartment, friends, and casual clothes. I just had no idea how it worked up there.

She had also had a haircut. Her long platinum white hair usually reached her waist, but was now cut as high as her shoulders. I remembered it had been burned in the brothel, so that change was less surprising.

"How are you doing?" I asked.

"I'm feeling better," Seraphina answered.

"Nice to see you again," Alice said.

"I'm happy we got everybody out," Seraphina said, looking around the room. She looked a little less sure of herself than usual, and there was a noticeable change in her tone and body language. She had been through a tough time, and probably just needed some time to process it. She rarely lost a fight, but she lost one down there. She eventually won the battle, but that doesn't change any of the horrors that were inflicted on her before she managed to get away with our help.

"We want to thank you for your part in that," Kyouko said. Orihime was sitting in her lap. "Our thanks will never be enough."

"I was just doing my job," Seraphina said, not giving herself anywhere near enough credit.

"I'm sorry for how it went," Keiko said.

"You got out when told, and came back for me," Seraphina said, managing a smile. "You saved me too."

"What happened when you got back home?" I asked.

"Zachariah is in custody. Reavers have been sent after the rest. I'll keep you updated on that. They were shocked he had turned on us. They are telling me he is the first. I'm not so sure about that anymore, but that's an investigation for another time. My focus remains here. I'm not going anywhere until we get some answers, and we'll have them soon enough."

"Is that a threat?" Serena said, glaring up at the Aetherial from her place on the bed.

"It's a promise," Seraphina said.

"I see you're still friends," I said.

"You're alive because of me, and him," Serena said, giving some credit to the incubus. "None of you make it out of there without us. I promised a meeting, and nothing more, but none of that comes before my own interests."

"Don't drag me into your silly arguments, sugar," Dorian said, committed to the online poker game he had found his way into. "I told you that down there we're the best friends in the world. Up here is Liliana's domain, and my chère gets what she wants."

"Incubus used to be loyal," Serena said.

"Not the gay ones," Lily said. "He doesn't want to fuck you like the rest of them."

"I am loyal to you and your mission here, honey, but whatever secret you're holding over Liliana and the rest of us, it's got to stop," Dorian said, explaining himself. "You ain't promised undying loyalty from your subjects, unless you think you're better than us. I never got that impression from you, but power corrupts."

"Feed the seed to the girl," Serena said. "I get what I want first. I'm the only person here truly committed to stopping a war that might kill all of you."

Alice stepped closer with the mug, and awkwardly handed it over. "Are you sure you're okay with this?" she asked.

Esme nodded. She was handcuffed to the bed, just to be safe. "It's fine," she said, before eyeing up the entire room. "I wish everybody wasn't watching."

"Everybody look away!" Lily shouted, and everybody looked away. Humans, demons, some kind of angel, a kitsune, two bakeneko and a humanoid tiger. Orihime's feline form looked too sleepy to care.

"Okay, it's done," Esme said, placing the mug down on the bedside table, next to the dildo. All eyes moved back to her, and she was still for a moment, before a flood of energy tore through her entire body. Her nipples both quickly hardened against her tight pyjama top as she shivered and almost moaned in relief. The moans weren't hers, and when she spoke again, the voice wasn't either.

"Semen," Meredith said, scowling. "Disgusting."

I pulled a face. A little bit mean, but whatever. Alice laughed at me. Meredith tugged at her restraint, and then turned her eyes back to her fellow elder, and former lover. Esme's body language had changed at the flick of a switch.

"It was always going to come to this, wasn't it?" Serena asked.

"If that is true, why didn't you join me?" Meredith responded.

"I have to keep everyone alive. I wanted to keep you alive. I tried everything to make you happy, and convince you your life was worth living."

"Subjugation isn't freedom, Serena," Meredith said, harshly. "That's all we've had for a long time."

"Subjugation is still life, imperfect but living and breathing. Did you not feel alive? Did you not fall in love?"

"You couldn't convince me then. What makes you think you can now?"

"I convinced you for a millennia. You found peace for a time. Was this always the end goal?"

Their eye contact broke for the first time in a while. Meredith turned to the side, and took a deep breath. "It was always something like this," she whispered. "Freedom, by any means necessary, and that includes death."

"The death of all of us?" Serena asked. She put a hand to Esme's jaw, and guided her eyes back to her own. "You sent a man to put a knife in my neck."

"I regretted it," Meredith said, and she sounded truthful. "I yearned for this day for the very same millenia that you tried to convince me it would never come. I wanted you on my side when it did. I wasn't prepared. You still weren't convinced. You created her, and everything changed. She put us all at risk, and brought forward my plans. I tried to have her killed to get her out of the way. I even regretted that, but nothing more than trying to hurt you. I fled here out of shame as much as anything else. We're not ready. We won't win. We still have to fight, for our dignity and for everyone that came before us. We have lost everything but each other. This is our last chance to free ourselves."

Lily had taken a few steps closer. She looked my way, her eyes shimmering with a feeling she probably couldn't explain. I nodded in their direction to encourage her, and she approached the two of them. She crouched down next to the bed, and stole their attention. "You created me?" she asked.

"Liliana, not now," Serena said, but it was too late for that.

"I've had enough of the secrets. Tell me the truth," Lily said. "Meredith is going to get us all killed anyway. Better to clear your conscience before that happens. Maybe there's a heaven for demons."

"She's not getting anyone killed. I won't let her do that."

"I have a better chance of winning with you by my side," Meredith said.

"There will be no war!"

"You don't get to dictate my life anymore. Tell me the truth," Lily said, refusing to give in. "At the trial, she said I was a mistake. Now she says you created me. What does that mean? What did you do?"

"We created you," Serena said, answering quickly and definitively, her tone sharp and the irritation visible on her face. She had made it clear she was here for her own interests first and foremost, and she was being distracted from those before she was done. "There weren't enough of us anymore. We were dying out. There wasn't a single succubus or incubus born for generations. We had to find another way. Meredith didn't like it. Not many did. I found a way. I found you."

"Serena, what am I?" Lily asked, her voice cracking as the moment threatened to overwhelm her.

"You were human, yes, but you were dead. I didn't take you away, or steal you, or anything like that. I'm sorry. Lily, you had passed away. I gave you another chance. Another life. I hoped in the process we could bring new life to our people, before our extinction."

I wasn't the only person in the room frozen in place. You could hear a pin drop, but for their conversation. Lily took a sharp breath that almost sounded like it hurt. "Why did you lie to me?" she asked.

"I was trying to save us all, but you didn't take to it like we hoped. You sought your true self from the very first summoning. Meredith had always wanted to risk our existence in her uprising. I created you to prove this wasn't needed, but inadvertently gave her an even bigger reason to resist the chains that humans put on us. Your desperation to find out the truth endangered us, but I couldn't give you up. I lied to you because you had nowhere else to go, and no life to return to, but with us you had life. I'll ask you the same thing that I asked her. Did you not feel alive? Did you not fall in love?" Serena said. I could feel pins and needles in my fingers and my heart was thumping as she spilled the long desired truth. Lily had fallen onto her knees next to the bed. "You were my dream for the future of our people, and bringing you back into this world was my greatest accomplishment. I loved you like a daughter, and couldn't lose you. Your soul was in transition. I took it to give you a second chance. Would you rather everything you have now, or an afterlife that none of us have ever seen?"

"You should have told me the truth," Lily whispered. Serena reached for her hand, but it was snatched away before she could take it. "I can't go back?"

"I don't see how you could," Serena answered.

"I wish you were honest," Lily said. "You should get to choose, and you were going to make more and lie to them all the same. The only reason you didn't is because you failed with me. Was it definitely only me?"

"Only you," Serena confirmed. "You weren't a failure. Liliana, you are alive."

"You wanted to create another willing slave, and you failed," Lily said.

Dorian slumped forward, and his forehead crashed into my keyboard. "Shit," he said, climbing to his feet and then crashing into the wardrobe. "Lord above, the heavens are calling me."

"Are you okay?" Alice asked. Lily was sniffling as she stood back up and left the elders behind.

"I don't feel so good," Dorian said.

"I need to send them both home soon, because that will only get worse," Seraphina confirmed. Dorian sat back in the computer chair. Poppy started fanning him with a notebook.

Lily's cheeks were stained with a couple of streaks where tears had fallen. She walked into my arms and pressed her face into my chest. "I told you," she said, looking up at me. Her little sniffles tugged at my heartstrings.

"I believed you," I said, wrapping my arms around her and holding on tight. Lily pulled Alice into the hug.

"Never doubted you for a second, Pinocchio," Alice whispered, before giving her a kiss on the cheek.

Serena started to get the shivers too. "We need longer," she said.

"You're the only two people here without a soul," Seraphina explained. "It's safer for you where those things aren't required."

Dorian looked more gaunt, like his lifeforce was being stripped away. "Time to go home, missy," he said.

"I'm not finished," Serena said. She was an elder, stronger than him, and not quite as affected just yet. Her eyes were glistening too, and they were still aimed in our direction. Lily had forced her to open up an old secret, and in one way or another, it had devastated all of them. She turned back to her fellow elder, and started her final stand. "You have to meet with me. Show me enough grace to meet with me in person and tell me you're starting a war that will kill us all."

"I'm not making any promises," Meredith said. "You'll need to unshackle me, or there's no way for me to leave."

Seraphina removed the cuffs, and the elder hummed as her powers surged back through her body. "If these revelations have fuelled your anger, perhaps it's time to accept you're one of us and join the resistance," Meredith said.

"You never treated me like one of you," Lily said.

"My priority was my people. Your priority was convincing people you were anything but one of us."

"I just wanted to be free, like you."

"You wanted freedom from being us, as if we were the enemies. You lusted after a return to humanity, to the people who enslaved you. Why would I love you like one of my own if you dreamed of becoming the oppressor?"

"She enslaved me," Lily hissed, her skin blotching red as a demonic rage spilled out of her. Her horns grew unsymmetrically from her head as she released all of her anger. I held onto her hand to keep her close as she threatened to devour them. "I didn't choose this. I made friends down there. I want freedom for all of you, but you're not going to lecture me on slavery when it was her that forced me into it. It doesn't matter anymore. There's no human life for me to return to, so when you lose your war, we'll all die together."

Serena had broken down too, and tears were streaming down her face. "I'm sorry. I was desperate. Your soul was beautiful. I wanted to save it, save you and save us. All of us."

"What was my name?" Lily said, coldly. She was caught between two states, half human and half demon, her tail swaying behind her.

"I don't know that," Serena said, her voice growing more raspy as she weakened.

"I don't believe you," Lily said. "I'll never believe you again."

"I'm going back. Sorry about the mess," Meredith said, climbing to her feet. "Take care of Esme for me. She's a sweet girl."

Serena pounced on her, grabbing fistfuls of her shirt and holding on for dear life. "Meet with me, please. I'll be waiting for you. You know where," she begged. "Bring who you want. Kill me after we're done talking if you must, but just meet with me."

Serena stumbled, but Meredith held her up. "I'll see you there," she said, a gentle promise.

Serena leaned in and kissed her. Esme's lips acted as the conduit for a demonic kiss that rocked the room. Alice looked at me, eyes bulging, before turning back to watch. The hunger in both of them was quite captivating. Lily didn't much care, and turned away and back into my grasp, her arms around my waist and her misty eyes pressed into my shirt.

Esme's eyes opened and then widened partway through the kiss, and she fell back onto the bed as the demonic elder who had inhabited her body vacated her contract and returned to the underworld. "Oh, uhm, sorry. Meredith is gone," she said timidly.

Serena stood over the girl, and wiped her lips. "I'm sorry," she said.

"It's okay," Esme said. "She misses you a lot. She told me."

Serena offered the faintest of smiles, before turning back to the rest of us. "We should go. I will meet with her, and try to fix things."

Lily kept her face on my chest, refusing to look back. Dorian hobbled over from the side. He had lost a little bit of the prettiness as he weakened, but he was still very pretty. "Who woulda believed the annoying girl who couldn't keep her mouth shut at the bar one night was telling the truth?" he said. Lily sniffed and moved her cuddle from me to him, looking up at him as he spoke. "You were always a special case of something."

"I'm sorry," Lily said, her voice soft. "I led you on, made you believe we were all the same, and all of us were human."

"I'm happy here, baby," Dorian assured her. "I've lived a long life, had some lucky summonings just like this one you got here. I don't resent the lack of a soul unless it distracts me from my poker game. Most important thing to me is you know the truth."

"What are you going to do now?" I asked.

"I'll convince Goldilocks to forgive me for our little argument before, keep an eye on her and the other one. I'll seduce 'em if need be, stop the war the fun way."

Lily laughed, even if she was still sniffing away a snotty nose. "The only bad thing about being here is missing you," she said.

"I'll come visit next time your pretty girlfriend needs a dye job," Dorian said.

"That will be soon," Alice said, though the natural look was starting to become a new favourite of mine. It had been so long since she looked like that. This was the version of her that stole my heart.

"It's my turn next, anyway," Poppy said.

"Sugar, give me that red hair and those long legs and you'll never get that body of yours back," Dorian teased.

Seraphina had opened her portal. "I left my incubus in your safehouse. Do you mind sending him to me?" Serena asked, as she waited by the entrance.

"I'll drop him off soon," Seraphina promised.

"Didn't you want to talk to her?" Lily asked. "Maybe beat her up a little bit, spin her round by the ankles and throw her into a wall."

Serena frowned back. She looked completely despondent. "I got the answer we were after. If there's more, we'll find that too," Seraphina said.

"Liliana," Serena said. "I'm sorry that I wasn't honest from the start, but in a million lifetimes I would make the same decision, and bring you back into this world."

Lily was back against my chest, her eyes closed. She didn't look back. "Stop the war if you want to make it up to her," I said. I wasn't speaking for her but for myself. I always hoped that she could be human again. Without that, she was in grave danger from any fresh hostilities that broke the previous conflicts post-war pacts and led to the extinction of her demon kin. I had fallen in love with her, and we just couldn't lose her like that.

Serena nodded, and lingered for one more moment with her eyes on Liliana, before stepping through the portal. Dorian wasn't far behind after a few more goodbyes, and soon all but one demon had left us. Seraphina closed the portal. Lily faceplanted onto my bed seconds later. "Sorry about all that," Lily said, her voice muffled against the mattress. "You guys didn't need to see that," she said, rolling onto her side and looking towards our guests.

"It was fun," Yukari said. Kyouko tutted at her and told her to behave. Lily weirdly laughed, before rolling back onto her face and festering in her sadness.

"Probably not a good time to remind you of this," Alice said, looking up at me. "Half term is pretty much over. We're back in college tomorrow."

**

Lily had been human. I never really doubted her. Maybe on the day we met, but she was very persuasive and very pretty, so it wasn't hard for her to convince me. She got the answer she always wanted, but the caveat that she had passed before her transition to her demon form had broken her heart. I suppose it made sense. Serena had collected a soul in limbo, waiting on passage to the afterlife, and used it to spawn a new succubus, a hybrid of some kind. We had theorised about that on occasion. Seraphina was confident she was something new, something that didn't exist on record.

I jumped in the shower after things had calmed down, and changed back into my own clothes. I was a little bit rattled by the fact that school was the next day. I didn't even process that when we were told two and a half days had passed since we left.

Esme was preparing to leave when I got back. "It's nice to see you looking more like yourself," I said. It wasn't entirely herself, given she was wearing a pair of gym clothes that belonged to Lily. There was a height difference between them, but they had passably similar figures, and it was the best we could do.

"Thank you," she said. She was the most herself she had been internally for at least a week and a half. "I'm sorry about everything, again. So sorry."

"Stop apologising. We already forgave you on his behalf," Poppy said. That sounded like something they would do.

"I can't believe everything that's going on between you guys," Esme said. "I mean the demon world stuff, not the other stuff. I won't tell anyone."

"You better not," Lily said, briefly transitioning into her demon form, minus the wings. "My devil of a mother just confirmed I am a demon. I might start eating people soon."

Esme took a nervous step back. "Don't listen to her," Alice said, taking a hanger out of the wardrobe. "We all know she's human now, so she's not as scary anymore," she continued, taking a black dress off the hanger and passing it to Esme. "This is yours, by the way. We washed it for you."

It was the bloodsoaked black dress she had been wearing when she broke into my house and got a beatdown from Seraphina for the trouble. "I can't believe that I wore this," Esme said, taking the dress and shoving it into her bag. It was tight and short, not her usual style.

"It looked good on you," I said. I was flirting a little bit. She blushed, so it worked. I knew what was on that contract of hers and couldn't get it out of my mind. Alice had her name on a very special list, and a big part of me wanted to fulfil that contract when the time was right. "See you at school."

"See you at school," Esme echoed, before saying goodbye to everyone else.

Poppy saw her out, but not before complaining a little bit. "By the way, you not showing up fucked us over at the quiz the other day, you know," she said, which made me laugh.

We spent a while resting, recuperating and recapping everything that happened in the underworld. Alice was so jealous of our experience in The Hollow. She wanted to see it so badly. I had to promise to take her one day, or she wouldn't shut up about it. Seraphina left to escort Tim back to Serena in the underworld. Lily told her to ignore his offers of sexual intercourse. Everything seemed to be building up to my parents' return, and it wasn't long before they were with us.

Alice waited with me in the front room, and we sat them down after they made it back from their trip. "Hello, my darlings," Mum said, dragging me into a hug before taking her seat. We sat on the sofa perpendicular to her. I took a breath, but didn't get the chance to speak. "Alice Crawford, are you pregnant?"

"Nooo!" Alice said, laughing.

"Why are you both looking so serious?" Mum asked.

"Do you remember when I summoned Lily, for moral reasons and not for sex?" I said.

"I refuse to believe you can get a succubus pregnant," Mum said.

"I've heard you can do it," Dad said.

"She's not pregnant either," I said, already exhausted trying to explain everything. "Where did you even hear that? You can't get a succubus pregnant. Can you?" I asked. I looked at my girlfriend.

"Why would I know?" Alice said.

"If you're not having sex with her, why would you be worried about that?" Mum asked, smugly.

"Uhm," I said.

"What is going on, Harrison?"

"We have some new guests upstairs. They are friends of Keiko. Keiko was Lily's pet fox. She is a shapeshifting kitsune. She's the one who sliced me up with her claws, but we're friends again now so you don't need to worry about her. Keiko was a slave in the underworld. She wanted help freeing her friends, so we went there and did that."

"I don't want you putting yourself in so much danger," Mum said.

"We already did it," I said. "I just didn't ask for permission first. That's the smart move."

"We can't exactly tell you off for helping what you refer to as slaves," Dad said.

"They needed our help. Lily was going to go with or without me. I was going to keep her safe too."

"So, we have new people in the house, and you trust them?" Mum asked.

"We all trust them. They have been through a lot. They won't be here for long. They want to return home once they are recovered and just live freely, obviously. There are four of them. Three of them are basically like humans, but they can transform into cats."

"Catgirls?" Dad asked. I looked at him funny.

"Yeah," I said. "You shouldn't know that term."

"Your mother showed me them," he said.

"I don't like that thought either," I said.

"The girls have been through a lot. They just need somewhere to rest for a while, and we will look after them. You don't need to do anything, but please let them stay here," Alice said, taking over for me.

"Your friends are always welcome here as long as they are not hurting you," Mum explained. "I will be happy to provide them with food and anything else they need."

"Thank you," I said, very appreciative of her constant understanding. She took the first summoning in stride, and had trusted me with everything since. "There's just one more thing, and it's going to sound crazy, but one of them is a tiger."

"What does that mean?" Mum asked.

"She's literally a tiger," Alice said.

"Like a tiger, tiger?" Dad asked.

"Yeah, a tiger," I said.

"How does that work?" Mum said.

"Well, just imagine a tiger, and then imagine it standing up and talking."

"So, like a human tiger?"

"Yeah, sort of," I said, nodding. "Human shaped, but also tiger shaped at the same time."

"Maybe we should just meet the tiger so it makes more sense," Mum said.

"That would help, but you should prepare yourselves for an actual tiger."

"She's really nice!" Alice said.

My parents were introduced to our new guests. Linney stunned them as much as she would stun anyone, but she also proved she was really nice, and that was all that mattered. Keiko got a telling off for injuring me, but she was forgiven and welcomed to stay for as long as she needed. They all talked about me like it was my individual heroics that saved them down in the underworld, but then it turned out that was a directive from my girlfriend to make me look good.

Mum cooked a big dinner, and fed everyone. All of our guests had arrived before us so they had been well fed since then, but this was their first big cooked meal for a long time. Orihime still didn't come out, but she did eat. Kyouko told us not to worry too much. Yukari threatened to eat my cat when he tried to steal something off her plate, then she tried to convince me that he was secretly a bakeneko like her.

After dinner had been eaten, there was only one thing on my mind. "Can I go to bed now?" I asked.

"Why would you ask for permission?" Alice said.

"I'm just working under the assumption that something will go wrong, or someone will die, or we'll all get dragged to hell again. It's not easy to relax these days," I said.

"Go get some sleep. It's girls night anyway, you're not invited," Lily said.

I didn't hesitate. I had been awake for so long. It was only about 7pm, but with a return to school on the horizon, bedtime was desperately needed. I fell asleep before my head hit the pillow.

**

I was woken up a number of hours later. The girls were in my room, chatting away. Three of the girls to be exact. The main three in my life, given current circumstances and my girlfriend's harem fetish. Alice, Lily and Poppy were deep in conversation. I groaned a little and pulled the quilt up over my face, turning onto my side. Alice was sitting close to the top of the bed. Lily was near my feet. Poppy was in my computer chair, with her legs up on the bed.

"She definitely fancies you," Alice said.

"Who?" Poppy said.

"Linney," Alice answered.

"Oh, shut up."

"Really?" Lily asked.

"She's been eyeing her up since she got here," Alice said.

"Maybe she's just into gingers," Lily said. "Are tigers ginger?"

"I never thought about it like that," Alice said. "I just pictured them as orange. Orange and ginger are different, somehow."

"Why are you all here?" I groaned.

"There's people sleeping all over this house," Alice said. "We didn't want to disturb them. We're going to bed soon."

"Go to bed now," I said.

"Unless you want a blowjob."

I took a breath and reached for my phone beside me. 11pm. Four hours is a good start to my sleep. I could probably open my eyes for half an hour. "A blowjob?" I said, and they all giggled.

"I thought that would wake you up," Alice said.

"Does that mean it wasn't a legitimate offer?" I asked.

"No, it definitely was," Alice confirmed. I swung my legs off the bed in response.

"In that case, let me use the toilet and brush my teeth," I said, needing to empty the bladder. "Who said you could sleep over?"

Poppy was in her pyjamas, and it looked like she was in for her first overnight stay. "I've been here the last three nights," she reminded me. "This is more my house than yours at this point."

"I hope you like lots of sweaty bodies," I said, because my nights had certainly gotten warmer since two people had joined me in bed. Lily in particular was like a radiator. I left for the bathroom. I had a piss and brushed my teeth in case any of them wanted to do any kissing, and then prepared to head back.

My attention was caught by a white shroud in the darkness as I made my way out into the corridor, and I quickly realised it was Keiko. She was in her kitsune form, sitting down and watching my every move. "Are you okay?" I asked, but she didn't react. "Keiko?" The fox didn't move an inch. I couldn't see any lights from downstairs, so assumed everyone had gone to bed. "Do you need something? Do you want to come in?"

Keiko stared daggers through me, but ignored all of my questions. Her three red-tipped tails started to sway behind her, but the rest of her was unmoving.

"You should get some rest. If you need anything, give the door a scratch. Or just knock, you know. You are human sometimes, after all," I said, before awkwardly leaving her behind and returning to my bedroom. It felt rude to lock the door behind her, but my dick had been offered a blowjob. I didn't want any of our guests or my parents catching us.

"Who were you talking to?" Poppy asked.

"Keiko's in the corridor being weird," I said, before jumping back on the bed. "I was having a good sleep, you know?"

"Lily is threatening to kill herself so we had to wake you up," Alice said.

"I'm not threatening to kill myself," Lily said.

"I woke up for the blowjob, to be honest, but I guess we can deal with this first," I said.

"I'm just saying that now we know the truth, you have to prepare for me to leave eventually. I was human. I died. There's nothing any of us can do about it now. Harry is going to get sick eventually because of the soul split. I can't return to my human life, which means leaving this one when he gets ill," Lily explained.

"Then we just summon you again, you get the twin soul and we keep doing it forever," Alice said.

"I'm not allowed back down there. I made a deal, which means going back equals death. Meredith kills me and then they don't need to worry about their stupid hybrid project anymore."

"So much has changed since then," I said. "The old deal doesn't apply anymore. Meredith didn't like that you were trying to escape, not because you were risking breaking the pact but because you were doing it before she was ready for her war. If she is convinced not to go to war, then she'll have no reason to kill you. She already said she regretted doing it."

"Why did she come here then?" Lily asked.

"She ran away," I said. "That's what she said. She regretted what she was doing and she ran away. She knows she's wrong, but she's desperate and self-destructive. She knows she's doing the wrong thing, she's being begged to stop and she still says it's the only way. She came here to hide from her mistakes. Serena can still convince her to stop. We just need to give her a chance to do that."

"How?"

"I don't know. She probably just needs to fuck the life out of her," I said, probably because their kiss was still on my mind.

"That kiss was kinda sexy," Poppy said, proving it wasn't only me.

"Well, you know what it feels like to kiss Esme," I said.

"Who told you that?" Poppy said.

"Alice."

"Snitch!"

"It was important information," Alice argued.

"You guys aren't sad enough about me being dead," Lily said.

"Do you really believe her?" I asked. "You've spent your entire second life believing she was lying to you and then the second she finally proves you right you start believing every word she says?"

Lily frowned. "I'm just feeling very dead right now. I'll probably die soon. I already died once. I'm dead."

"We need to go and find out who you were," Alice said. "She took your soul to turn you into a demon. Maybe you've still got that soul hidden somewhere inside you. If they did lose the war, maybe humanity would spare you given you used to be one of us. You wanted to know you were human and now you do. You can't give up now."

"Okay. I stopped being depressed now," Lily said, curling her lip and forcing a big frown that suggested otherwise.

"Someone stole my dildo," Poppy said, the ultimate distraction.

"Really?" Alice said. We all looked towards the bedside table, and it was gone. The vibrator was also nowhere to be seen. "Did Esme take it?"

"I didn't notice," Poppy said.

"That was your dildo?" I asked.

"Yeah. I bought it before we had sex, don't worry."

"Can we suck your dick now?" Alice asked.

"All of you?" I said.

"Yeah," Alice said.

"No," Poppy said. "I'm just watching."

"Boring," Alice said.

"Why is a blowjob even on the table?" I asked. I had been enjoying my sleep, but my dick loves getting sucked.

"Lily said she did it in the safehouse and it got us all in the mood. It's a reward for being brave down there."

"I didn't really do anything but no complaints from me," I said.

Alice started to pull my shorts down my legs. "Lie down," she said. I followed her instructions and rested my head in the pillows. My dick was still soft but that didn't stop her from just grabbing hold and wrapping her lips around it. She started to relentlessly bob up and down, and it was quick to grow in her mouth.

"Someone's hungry," Lily said. Alice was between my legs at the time but she was quickly nudged aside. Lily crawled up the bed and claimed my left leg, straddling it. Alice scooted across to the left, her knees either side of my right leg.

Alice popped off my dick, and it had grown to a semi inside her mouth. She had one hand around the base of my shaft, and she generously aimed it in the direction of her co-stars lips. Lily leaned forward and took in the head, using her lips to lower my foreskin and bathe my cockhead in her molten hot mouth.

This blowjob was a collaboration. You never knew what you were going to get with them. Sometimes they competed, but this time they were sharing. Alice took me back next and started to wrap her tongue around the head, her saliva sliding down my shaft and pooling in my balls. Lily mopped it up, sinking lower and licking over my sack before sucking on my balls one at a time. My dick was rock hard now. Alice started to push herself deeper, taking in over half of my length until she gagged and came back up for fresh air.

"Slow down, beautiful," I said, running my fingers through her hair. She kissed the tip of my dick a couple of times, before dropping a little lower on her second pass, and taking more of me into the back of her mouth and eventually her throat.

"Who taught you to do that?" Poppy said. I turned to her, and she was watching intently, open mouthed one second and chewing on her bottom lip the next.

Alice sat up. "Porn, and practice," she answered. Lily replaced her lips on my dick, running her tongue up and down the underside while the other two talked.

"Porn?" Poppy said.

"I knew that I was going to suck his dick eventually. I wanted to be good at it," Alice giggled. "It was very lucky that I got my practice in considering who my competition ended up being."

"You're so much naughtier than you used to let on, and you were pretty naughty then as well," Poppy said.

Alice gave her the eyebrows, and then lifted her pyjama top over her head. She crawled up the bed and dropped a nipple in my mouth, her arms wrapped around my head cradling me as my tongue and lips devoured her sensitive little bud. "Show her the tongue," Alice said.

Lily let her tongue fall out of her mouth, but it was her human one on show. "I'm human now, didn't you hear?" she said. "No more demon party tricks."

She was lying, of course, and quickly grew her tongue to at least quadruple its natural size, wrapping it around my dick from base to tip. Her tongue was so hot it was as if she was cooking my dick in an oven, smothering my entire length. I couldn't see an inch of my skin, it was only her tongue all over. She started to tense her tongue, as if she was trying to milk my dick. I chewed harder on my girlfriend's nipple while she moaned in response.

"That's so fucking hot," Poppy said.

"Come here," I said. Poppy hesitated. "I know you don't like doing it. You don't have to do it to kiss me."

Poppy relented and climbed up onto the bed, kneeling next to me. She leaned in and my hand found her cheek as she kissed me. Lily tried to distract me during the kiss, playing with my dick in ways that my mind couldn't even picture through closed eyes. I groaned as the redhead's tongue wrapped around mine. I let my hand drift down her body, reaching her hip and then giving her bum a squeeze.

Alice crawled back down my body and reclaimed my dick. She was starving and sloppy, drooling all over me and choking on me time and time again.

"Why don't you like it?" Lily asked, though her speech was slurred as she started talking before her tongue had shifted back to its regular size.

"I didn't actually say that to him," Poppy answered. "I said that I didn't like swallowing, but it's not exactly wrong either. Just bad experiences with the wrong guys."

"The reason you're even here is because you decided this is the right guy," Lily reminded her.

Alice was gasping for breath after popping off my dick, but still found it in her to agree. "She's right."

"You shut up," Poppy said. Alice listened and got back to work. She circled her tongue around my dick, before wrapping a tight vacuum around the head and really focusing on my crown. Poppy looked at me, a rare shyness visible on her face. She hadn't hesitated to fuck me in that classroom, but this was different. "I'll just do a little bit, but not the finish," she said.

Alice lifted back onto her knees, panting, and presented my cock to the redhead. Poppy mewled nervously, but edged herself down the bed until she was kneeling next to my hip. She took hold of my dick and started to slide her hand up and down my shaft. "You like being called a slut, right?" Alice said. Poppy laughed through her nose, because she knew the tease was coming. "Then suck his dick, you fucking slut."

Poppy leaned down close to my cockhead, took one deep breath that warmed the tip and then opened her mouth and took me in. Poppy Beaumont was a pretty cocksucker. She took her time, soft and gentle with every movement. She might well like acting like a slut when she fucked me, but she sucked my dick like an angel. She was slow and deliberate, her lips clasped tightly around my shaft. She found her limit quickly, and pushed no deeper. She had no intention of gagging or choking like the other two.

"That's so good, gorgeous," I said. Her big secret was that for all the sweetness attached, her tongue was working me like crazy from inside her mouth. It wrapped around my dick over and over, coating me in constantly evolving pleasures. I stroked her back while she worked me over, and pushed her hair behind her ear on the couple of occasions it fell over her face. I could see her watching me out of the corner of her eye, but she didn't change her angle enough to give me the full frontal view.

Poppy released my dick and sat back up on her heels. "That's it," she said.

"30 more seconds!" Alice said. Poppy pouted and leaned forward, and took my dick back in. She bobbed a little quicker that time, and her tongue sped up too. I don't know if the others could tell the damage it was doing to me.

"If you don't want my cum, you'll have to stop soon," I groaned.

Poppy popped right off me, and wiped her lips. "That's definitely it," she said. I pulled her back up the bed, and she fell into another kiss with me. Someone took my dick in their mouth as our lips smacked together. "Was it good?"

"So good," I said. I wrapped my arm around her and she rested her head against my shoulder, and settled in to watch the other two finish me off.

The girls worked in unison to devour me, covering me from top to bottom in all of their desires. My dick throbbed under the constant bombardment. I was writhing in place before too long, trying to keep my enjoyment as silent as possible. Lily stayed low towards the end, coating my balls in her warmth. Alice claimed my head, and my cum. I grunted as the orgasm hit me, filling her mouth to make up for the load she had to shoot into a mug earlier in the day. "Fuck me," I hummed, shaking with pleasure.

"So hot," Poppy said. Alice swallowed my cum, and then crawled up the bed to kiss me. Lily claimed a kiss of her own. I held onto the three of them, bouncing from one pair of lips to the next for a while, before they all started to settle in for bed. It was our first night with four in the bed, but we made it work. One by one, after gossiping for a bit, the girls fell asleep.

I drifted in and out for a while, before waking up to see the door slightly ajar. Keiko was on the bed, still in fox form, watching me. I jumped, but not enough to wake the others up. Lily and Alice were on my right. Poppy was on my left, having rolled away for me after falling asleep during our first proper cuddle. "Jesus Christ," I whispered, shaking my head to confirm she was really there. "Are you alright?"

Keiko shifted into her human form, before carefully crawling up the bed, making sure not to kneel on any body parts as she approached me. She was wearing a white nightgown, similar to the one she arrived in, but much cleaner. It made her look like she was glowing in the dark. I could see the tips of three red and white tails poking up behind her as she crawled my way. She looked ready to pounce in the darkness, but when she got close enough, her expression looked more tender.

She kneeled beside me, and then turned onto her side silently. She lay next to me in bed, and backed herself into my grasp. Her tails went between my legs, tickling my skin. She pressed her back into my stomach, and then found my arm and wrapped it around her waist. "Are you okay?" I whispered, and she turned her head my way and looked into my eyes.

"Sleep like this," she said, before turning away. I listened to her soft breathing, and held onto her like she wanted me to. I don't know if she fell asleep before me. She was still, and didn't say another word. Her fox ears twitched occasionally. I was confused but exhausted enough to melt into her, and it wasn't long before sleep took hold of me.

**

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