Succubus: A Soul Shared Ch. 17

This is chapter 17 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.

Harry and the girls are headed back to college after their half term was interrupted by a slave-freeing adventure in the underworld and some demons at war, but to the surprise of no one, there's a new threat waiting for them as soon as they arrive.

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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, former host of Meredith

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, creator 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 17

Monday 2nd March, 2026

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I woke up with empty hands. Keiko was gone.

Poppy was sitting at my desk, putting a light coating of make-up on her face before we left for college. Lily was still snoring next to me.

"Where's Alice?" I asked, my voice dry and coarse. Thankfully there was a glass of water on the bedside table.

"In the bathroom," Poppy answered, patting her cheek with a sponge of some kind while she spoke. "Did you sleep well?"

"Did you?" I asked, a little dazed and confused by the lack of a fox.

"Not too bad," she answered, squinting at my confusion. "Did you?" she repeated, trying to get her answer.

"Was there someone else in bed with us?" I asked.

"I bloody hope not," she answered, turning back to her phone as she was using the front facing camera as her mirror. "You need to buy some girlfriend essentials for when you have girls staying over. Alice needs her own dressing table."

Alice returned, and she got the same question as the redhead. "Did you see anyone else in bed with us last night or this morning?" I asked.

"No," Alice said, stopping dead in her tracks. Lily got a nudge, and just moaned in response. "Are you dreaming about other girls?"

"Keiko got into bed with us last night, in human mode. She cuddled with me and fell asleep with us," I explained.

"Really?" Alice asked. "I didn't wake up or see any of that."

"Alice will put her on the harem list if you're so obsessed that you're dreaming about her," Lily said, mid-stretch, after finally waking.

"No, nothing like that," I said, quick to shut that down. "You really didn't see her either?"

"I slept like a baby," Lily said.

"Apparently you all did, but it definitely happened," I assured them.

"Was it, like, kinky in any way?" Alice asked.

"Definitely not," I said. I didn't want to set that tone with it. It wasn't remotely like that. "She just wanted to sleep like that. She cuddled me but she wasn't trying anything."

"Maybe she just wanted a little bit of affection," Poppy said. Lily rolled off the mattress and continued her stretches.

"Maybe," I said, a little confused by the experience, but also aware of how much my girls loved to tease me, and anyone else they could get their hands on. "Don't say anything to her. She's been through it. If she wants a cuddle, it doesn't mean it's anything more than that," I said. They all agreed to leave her be.

"Maybe you should talk to her though," Alice said, kneeling on the edge of the mattress and giving me a quick kiss on the corner of the mouth. "Just to make sure it wasn't a dream. Brush your teeth first."

Lily jumped the queue for the bathroom, and my full bladder had to wait a while. I could hear a bit of uproar downstairs, but it sounded like the positive kind. Mum was cooking something that smelled very good. My parents were hosting a bunch of catgirls without the supervision of anyone else. Hopefully they could manage without us.

"I thought if anyone was going to climb into bed with us for a bit of cuddling, it would be Linney," Alice said. It wasn't only me she was capable of teasing.

Poppy scoffed. "Are we seriously still doing this?" she said, as she was brushing her hair.

"You don't need to be scared of her. She just thinks you're pretty," Alice said.

"You're annoying," Poppy said. I caught a glimpse of one of her ears as she pushed her hair behind her shoulder on the side closest to me.

"Holy shit, you really did get bitten, didn't you?" I said.

"Yukari fucking bit me," Poppy said, pretend frowning. "Didn't you notice it yesterday?"

"I didn't get a proper look at it."

"I sucked your dick with this ear facing you," she said, laughing.

"I wasn't looking at your ear," I said, and a wry smile filled her lips.

"She bit me there as well," Poppy said, showing me a couple fingers on her left hand. "It was literally the first fight of my life, and it was against a fucking cat, technically."

"A cat with her boobs out, as well," Alice said.

Lily returned, so the bathroom was mine. I relieved myself, brushed my teeth and returned to my bedroom to get dressed for school. Poppy had collected her uniform the previous day when she was out shopping for snacks and getting some extra clothes for our guests.

"I'm going to go shopping after school and steal some stuff for the kitties," Lily said.

"Do you want me to come?" I asked.

"You have detention," Poppy reminded me.

"Ah, fuck me, man," I said, falling back onto my bed as the life drained out of me. "I forgot about that. A whole term of it as well."

"She caught us fucking, just be grateful it's only detention."

"If we're really good, maybe she'll get over it and stop the torture eventually," I said.

"Mathematics is not torture," Poppy insisted, but none of us agreed with her.

Lily sat next to me on the bed as the other two finished their routines. "How are you feeling?" I asked.

"I feel better than last night," she said, even if she still curled her lip up in a silly frown. "I just keep thinking the worst about everything. In my fantasies, there were so many possibilities and none of them included me being dead. It probably makes the most sense too. I just couldn't let myself believe it was an option."

"We don't know everything. We'll find out the rest of it, and find out who you were. Who you are. There's more she isn't telling us," I said.

"I want to hate her, but my life rests in her hands now. If she doesn't stop the war, it's over," Lily said.

"Good thing she's stopping it right now then," I said. Lily managed a smile.

We made our way downstairs once everyone was ready, and squeezed in around the dining room table to start on a fry up breakfast that had already been partially devoured by our feline friends.

"I need to do a big shop if we're going to have so many mouths to feed," Mum said, laying a few extra strips of bacon on a plate in the middle of the table. I grabbed a couple for myself.

"Mum, leave that to me. They're my guests," I said.

"You leave it to me," Lily said in turn. "Keiko is my guest and everyone else is her guest. It starts with me. I can do it a lot cheaper too."

"You're a guest in my home, sweetie," Mum said, attempting to insist.

"I'm already going shopping tonight. I will get some food, enough for everyone and more," Lily said. She wasn't taking no for an answer.

"Okay, just don't get any staff members in trouble with your superpowers," Mum said.

"I won't," Lily promised.

Keiko was at the dining table, but she wasn't looking at me. She didn't seem like she was avoiding me. She was just really enjoying the food. Maybe it was a dream. I couldn't believe that no one else in bed noticed and she didn't look like someone who was hiding a big cuddle-based secret.

Salem was tiptoeing around the table trying to steal food from whoever would give it to him. I had been informed that he had met the feline forms of our guests, and his face was a picture when they transitioned back into their human form. He was still coming to terms with the fact that he wasn't the only cat in the building. He had been happy to share his space with a white fox, but this was more competition than he was used to.

"Did you enjoy your time off?" Mum asked.

"I was in hell for some of it, but it was nice before that," I answered.

"Last term now, and exam season is not far away. I want you to refocus on your schoolwork, and revise plenty. I know there's been a lot going on but this is a very important time for your future," Mum said.

"I know. I'll try my best, promise," I said. I had struggled for motivation for a while, and it was hard to look past what the potential demon war might steal from me, but there were so many more people who relied on me now and it made me want to be better. I had to be good for them. Alice was always my dream. I wanted to build a good life for her and us, but as the years ticked by and neither of us committed, it started to look like a false dream. We were together now, and it wasn't just her. I had to better myself for all of them, the ones we already had and the ones who may still come. Esme was on my mind again, and a big part of me wanted to know if she could build her own life as part of our silly little harem.

"That goes for the rest of you," Mum continued firmly. "Alice, Poppy and Liliana."

"Alice, your grandmother called about you this morning. You need to check in with her," Dad said.

"I'm going to see her after college," Alice promised.

"I just realised that as soon as I got here you signed me up for school. Why does no one else have to go?" Lily said.

"The ladies are just here to relax for a little while before they head home. You were planning to stay," Mum reminded her.

"I am also a tiger," Linney said, another vital detail. I started laughing, and a few of the others joined me.

Lily was giggling too. "That's a fair point. Gingers get bullied at school. It wouldn't be safe for you," she said.

"That's very funny," Poppy scoffed, mumbling through a mouth full of sausage.

"I think her hair is very beautiful," Linney said. The tigress' copper coloured eyes centred on the redhead, whose own eyes bulged slightly in response.

"Oh, thank you," Poppy said, meekly. Alice was quietly wheezing next to me.

"Right, some of you need to leave very soon," Mum said. I shovelled some more food down my throat before she started to rush us out the door.

"I'll help you clean up," Kyouko said.

"No need..." Mum started.

"I insist," Kyouko said. Yukari was put to work as well.

Keiko was still in the white nightgown she was wearing when she climbed into my bed. I didn't notice it properly until she was standing up. It couldn't have been a dream. I took my chance to talk to her while the other girls put their coats on and prepared to leave. It was just the two of us for a moment, as one group left to the kitchen and another moved into the hallway.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

Keiko nodded her head gently, smiling on only one side of her face. "I'm doing okay," she answered.

"What did you do last night?"

"I slept," she said, leaning back against the dining table and keeping her eyes firmly locked on me. There was a little quiver in her cheek, like she was holding something in, and it turned out it was a smirk. I released a nervous breath when it came. "Sorry if it scared you," she said.

"It was fine," I said, not wanting her to feel uncomfortable. I was surprised by it, but it didn't make me uncomfortable or anything like that. "I just thought it might have been a dream. I was shocked. You don't need to tell me, but why did you do it?"

Keiko was silent for a moment, and her eyes ticked around like the hands of a clock face as she was thinking. "I just wanted to feel warm again," she said, an answer which confused me more, but seemed to comfort her. She had started to smile more often, but it had been rare and it was still nice to see it.

"Okay," I said, not really sure what else to say next. Her amber eyes were completely unflinching. The tails that had tickled me the night before hung down between her legs. "I'm sorry about doubting you in the safehouse. I shouldn't have assumed the worst."

"I assumed the worst about you when I revealed my true self and attacked you. I thought you were hurting my friend," Keiko said.

"You're very good at protecting your friends. They're all alive because of you," I said.

"We did it together."

"You never gave up on them. You should be proud of yourself," I said, before picking my jacket up off the back of a chair and putting it on. Spring had officially begun, but it wasn't spring weather yet. "I'll see you later."

Keiko called out before I could leave. "Harrison," she said. I turned back to her. "We are friends, okay?"

"Friends," I agreed. I patted my chest. "I've got the scars to prove it."

"I protect my friends always, and they protect me. I will never let anyone hurt them, or you."

I smiled at her. "If you ever want to feel warm again, you're always welcome. Kitsune style or like this, if you want to stay in bed with us, whatever you need. Lily loves cuddling, even if she doesn't say it."

The corners of her eyes crinkled and her nose scrunched up as she beamed back at me. "Thank you. Have a nice day," she said.

"You too," I said, before leaving her to join the others.

**

We were dragged into assembly first thing. A group of teachers were standing at the sixth form entrance directing us to the main hall. Both college aged years were in attendance. Year 11 had been dragged along too, so there were more rows of chairs set up than usual.

Mr Tyrell was sat on stage, alongside two other men. Both were unrecognisable. There were a few other strangers dotted around the room. All but one of them were male, and all of them were mean looking. They dressed quite consistently across the board, in dark colours, cargo pants, heavy boots and a variety of trench coats and long wool overcoats.

Seraphina was in the room, in the relative obscurity of her glamour form, a short, curvaceous brunette with a frizzy perm. She looked normal to those of us who knew her, but when she caught me looking, she flashed in and out of her cover persona. Miss Evans and Miss Bishop were also in attendance, as well as a few other teachers. Mason and Grace had saved some seats for us.

"Welcome," Mr Tyrell said, as the last stragglers took their seats. Anyone who would have been late to their first period was going to have a much more awkward experience sneaking in here without getting a telling off about it. "Good morning to you all. Welcome back. I hope you had an enjoyable half term. Year 13, this is your last term with us. We'll be sad to see you go, but proud to watch you go on and achieve so much more. Give these last few months everything you have. There will be announcements to come about revision clubs, intervention classes and mock tests. Keep an eye on your portal accounts for those."

"What's with all the goths?" Lily asked, from my right.

"They're not goths, they're alternative," Alice joked, whispering from my left.

"We're going to have some guests with us over the coming weeks," Mr Tyrell continued. "I will allow them to introduce themselves. Mr Holloway..."

One of the strangers on stage replaced our headteacher at the podium, adjusting his glasses before he spoke. He was a big guy, tall and lean, with thick rimmed glasses, light stubble and grey sideburns that ran partway down his jawline. The rest of his hair was jet black. He cleared his throat before speaking. "Hello all. My name is Franklin Holloway. I'll cut to the chase. My colleagues and I are demon hunters," he said. My heart sank. "I'm sure you've heard of us, or our work. We've had reports of demonic activity in the area, and our investigation has brought us here."

Lily had taken my hand, and she was panic squeezing it to the point that some of my knuckles cracked. Alice had a firm grip on my thigh. This was not good. Lily had talked about the threat of the demon hunters on the day of her summoning. We always knew this was possible.

"First things first, if you know anything, you will know where to find us because we will not be going anywhere. We'll be staying on the grounds while we continue our search. Get used to our faces, and know that you can trust us. Our only objective is to keep everyone safe. I can guarantee the safety of everyone here until the matter is closed. The majority of demons we run into are, let's say, here for a good time and not a long time. Our goal is simply to send them home a little quicker, though we reserve the right to make it much more difficult for them if they resist," Franklin continued.

I looked to the opposite side of the room. Seraphina wasn't looking our way. She looked more agitated than worried, which helped settle some of my nerves. These guys didn't know who it was yet, and hopefully they never would. It was a relief we had her around to help keep them off our tail.

"We think the demon is in this room, or friends with someone that is. We'll be presenting this information to the other year groups later this morning, but given the age demographics in this room, our investigation will start here. We'll be conducting interviews with each and every one of you over the coming days, and we expect complete honesty. Not all demons mean harm, but if you are harbouring one that does, you will hold criminal responsibility for anything that follows."

"Finally, if you are listening, you know who we are and what we do. We can be friends, or we can be enemies. I prefer taking the friends route, but hold no reservations about being your enemy. You know the way out, and you should take it now," Franklin said, finishing his speech. He spoke in a soft Scottish drawl, but the words attached were menacing. He sat back in his chair, hands on both knees, and his eyes wandered across the room slowly and deliberately.

Mr Tyrell returned to the podium. "Your parents have been made aware of the change in circumstances via an email sent out this morning. Whether you individually remain in classrooms or return to online teaching like during the pandemic, will be at their discretion. We've got the best people on the case, and expect that the matter will have been dealt with by the end of the week," he said. "Mr Holloway's own daughter attends the school, and she will be staying with us. That should give you an idea of how safe we think you are, and how safe he knows you are. First period has been cancelled, and this would be a great opportunity for anybody who knows anything to approach one of our guests and tell them that information. We just want to send our uninvited visitor back to their homeland, ensuring their own safety as much as the safety of everyone else. Second period continues as normal. Dismissed."

There was a sudden racket as everyone around us clambered to their feet and started to file out. "Act natural," Alice whispered to me, stroking my thigh. "You look like you've seen a ghost. We can't be the only people in here who look like they're freaking out," she continued, before pulling me to my feet. I was rattled, but followed the girls out. With our first lesson of the day cancelled, we sought some privacy, and found it in the library.

"We never get a fucking break, do we?" I moaned.

"You better start acting natural," Alice said, sitting next to me. We were at a table in the far corner of the room. "Get out your textbook, pretend you're revising and stop looking like the most guilty person in the room."

"They're obviously going to know it's me," Lily said.

"Don't say that," Alice said.

"I started here a few weeks ago, and now they have demonic activity reports. I'll be the first person they drag in for an interview," Lily said. Her body language was a lot better than mine. She was good at making it look like she wasn't freaking out. I was still trying to get the tension out of my shoulders.

"Can't you just touch them and convince them it's not you?" Poppy asked.

"They're all pretty much covered from head to toe," Lily explained. "They know how this shit works. They are as prepared for a succubus as they are for any other kind of demon."

"My mum is already texting and asking if I want to stay in school," Grace said.

"You can take advantage of that if you want some time off. I won't be offended," Lily said.

"They'll still make us work on our computers and you need to have your webcam on. Lockdown was draining enough," Grace said.

"Mr Tyrell said that the guy's daughter goes here. Who is it?" I asked.

"He's Elira's dad," Alice answered. "I think so anyway. I've never seen him before, but they have the same last name and they looked reasonably similar."

"Which one is Elira?" Lily asked.

"You went to her party the first day you were here," I answered.

"I can't believe her dad is a demon hunter," Mason said.

"They did have a big spooky house," I said.

"Like you noticed that while you were getting your dick sucked in the bathroom," Alice said.

"My dick got sucked for a small percentage of that party."

"There was another demon at that party. We all know someone else at this school, probably in our year, is a demon. They've been around for longer than Lily has. Maybe they're looking for that person instead. We're probably worrying for nothing," Alice said.

"What about Esme?" I asked. "Did anyone see her?"

"She was near the front," Poppy said.

"She had a pretty strong demon inside her. There's a chance they're after that one. Imagine being the demon hunters who catch and kill an elder. She was obviously out and about over half term causing all sorts of problems, and maybe it led them here. The only difference is they're too late. Meredith is already gone," I said, explaining my point and searching for a bit of relief. There were other options. Lily wasn't the only demon they could be after.

Seraphina arrived, presenting in her glamour form. "Good morning, little cherubs," she said. I didn't know she talked like that in teacher mode. She sounded like my grandmother. It was weird.

"Hello, Mrs Angels," I said. "Do those two know about this?"

"I told them during psychology," Alice answered. Grace and Mason were both nodding.

"I didn't give you permission to tell them," Seraphina said.

"You're not even a real teacher, and you were leading our lessons a few months before our exams start," Grace said.

"If we fail, it's your fault," Mason added.

"I got roped into it against my will," Seraphina said, before her glamour dissolved and she started to look more like herself, at least to the people who mattered.

"What are we doing about this demon hunting problem?" I asked.

"I'm not sure yet. I won't be able to stop them interviewing you, so prepare for that," Seraphina said. "I'll try and lead them away from you all to begin with. I can reveal my identity to them if it comes to it. My people have allied with hunters in the past. We're often chasing the same sort of people. I would have said they were worse than us, more violent and hateful, but we all just saw the true depths my people can reach down in the underworld."

"The other demon who is here predates me, so they're probably not evil, but it might not be a bad time to find them," Lily said.

"I'll spend some more time looking for them," Seraphina agreed.

"Do you think we'll be okay?" Poppy asked.

"My job is to keep Liliana safe, and you're all a part of that," Seraphina said.

"Why are you still here?" Lily asked. "You know you were right about me now. I'm not telling you to leave, by the way, but you wanted to find out the truth and you got it. You can go and tell everyone back home that you were right about me, if you want."

"I got an answer, but there's more," Seraphina said. "Serena created you, but how? Did she do it alone? Can she do it again?"

"I guess you're stuck with us then," Lily said. "Until the war kills me, at least."

"Stop saying that!" Alice moaned.

"Harry was right. We never get a break. I'm going crazy," Lily said performatively. "Put your hand up if you think I should hand myself in to them."

I put my hand up, and put it back down when Alice smacked me on the arm.

We were able to calm our nerves in the library for a while longer, but eventually had to make our way to our first lessons of the day. "Are we coming up with an actual plan for when we get interviewed?" I asked my girlfriend. I was just saying goodbye to her before we went our separate ways. I had one hand on her lower back as she pressed me against the railing behind me. The library had an open windowed corridor that overlooked the main reception.

"If we all have the same answers and it all seems really planned out they'll know we're hiding something," Alice said, tickling my jaw with her fingernails. "Just say you don't know anything and look as confused as possible."

She was right. "You're better at this than me," I said, and she gladly agreed. I leaned in and gave her a kiss, treating myself to a quick squeeze of her bum before she had to leave me behind.

Lily and I set off for our first class of the day. "I need to talk to you about something," she said.

"As long as you were joking about handing yourself in to the hunters," I said.

"It's about something that happened yesterday. I was going to keep it a secret, and not in my usual lying way but in a more selfless way," she said.

"What happened?"

"It's about Keiko."

"Did you actually see her in bed with us?" I asked.

"I didn't see it, but..." Lily said.

"I spoke to her. It definitely happened. It wasn't a dream," I interrupted, desperate for anyone to believe me. "I think it was friendly though, nothing more. She just wanted some comfort with us all."

"I'm not surprised it happened. I spoke to her yesterday, after we got back from the underworld. I had all that blood on me and went to the bathroom to clean it up, and she followed me there. She basically offered to give her body up to you as payment or reward for all of your help. I told her she didn't have to do that, and that's not how it works here."

"Fucking hell," I said, surprised. "She obviously doesn't have to do that. Make sure she knows it's not like that. No expectation or anything."

"I did," Lily said, much to my relief. "You have to understand from her perspective, all those years in slavery, and what it might have done to her mindset and what she thinks she needs to do to serve a man, and keep herself and her friends safe. I set her straight, seriously. I told her she was free now, to do exactly what she wants and nothing more. It was her life and you had no control over her or anything like that. I think she understood, but then she ended up sleeping in bed with us, so who knows."

"I understand we can't make her think she's crazy for thinking that way, but we really have to hammer home that it's absolutely not the case," I said.

"I don't think she was making out it was an obligation, she didn't think she had to do it, but she felt like she should. It was more like an expectation she had of herself. I think after everything she has been through, it will take some time to accept that she really is free to do what she wants," Lily said.

"Thanks for explaining all that to her. I guess the jumping in bed with us part makes it difficult to understand if she believed what you were saying. I talked to her this morning, and she wasn't flirty or anything like that."

"You said she didn't try anything last night, right?" Lily asked.

"She curled up with me like a little spoon, and put my hand on her belly, but nothing else," I explained.

"Maybe that was flirting, maybe not. I don't even know if she knows how to flirt," Lily mused. "She has lived her life with certain expectations for so long. We just need to show her those expectations are now gone."

"She said we were friends this morning. That's the word she used. I think she just wants to feel safe," I said.

"I'll talk to her again," Lily said, as we stopped outside our classroom. "We'll have to wait and see if she gets back in bed with us tonight. This was a good secret though, wasn't it? Was it the right decision to keep this one a secret until she slept with us?"

"Yeah, that's a pretty fair secret."

"She's my cat. I'm loyal to her."

"You're a good cat owner. I never keep any of Salem's secrets."

**

The school day passed without much issue. The demon hunters lingered like a bad smell, but they didn't pull me or any of the others out of our classes. Lily was a new arrival at school, and they didn't rush straight to her, so that was probably good news. They didn't sit in classrooms either. It was a big school and there weren't enough of them for that, but they hung around the grounds and corridors like the Dementors from Harry Potter. I felt completely uneasy around them, but there was little escape from their presence.

I had maths and sociology lessons during the day. Miss Evans was more standoffish than she had been towards the end of the previous term when we ended up on reasonably good terms. Poppy was still in nerd mode though, and sat at the front of the class instead of her backup spot next to me.

Miss Bishop was probably Lily's biggest crush at school, so she tried her hardest in that class. She was one of mine too, to be fair, but my focus that day was on one of my classmates. Elira Holloway's party was supposed to be the night that I revealed my feelings for Alice. I ended up getting a blowjob from a succubus in an upstairs bathroom instead. It seemed very likely that her dad was the head of the demon hunters. It was crazy to think that on her first night in this new body, I took Lily straight into enemy territory.

Elira was a bit of a mystery. She was elusive at the best of times, living what seemed to be quite a solitary life. I'm not sure what convinced her to host that party, but she seemed happy and sociable during it. We had barely exchanged a word since, and that was much more like the version of her I knew. I don't think it's possible to confuse her reclusiveness with shyness though. She seems to be confident in herself and the way she presents herself. She's unquestionably a pretty girl, and she's a content creator of some kind too. Alice showed me one of her try-on hauls on youtube a few months prior, and we both gawked at her figure for a while.

I really hoped that her father didn't end up trying to kill my human-demon hybrid girlfriend.

I bumped into Esme during a free period after lunch. She looked more like herself. Long gone was the short skirt and visible bra peeking through her blouse from the day she wanked me off. She was back in her usual trousers, but what had once been so innocent was now so much more. Those things clung to her legs and bum like a second skin. I never noticed before, but my mind had become accustomed to a whole different side of her, even if that side was never really her. I was just fascinated to find out how much of it was her, and how much of it was Meredith.

"Oh, hi," she said, running into me as she turned a corner on her way to the library.

"Hello," I said. "Are you alright?"

"Back to normal," she answered. "I'm pretty sure I had about six broken ribs before Meredith fixed me."

"Lily beat me up when she arrived. Well, not as badly as your one, but she kinda proved she was capable when we were in the underworld. Seraphina is cool. She thought she was doing the right thing when she stopped you," I said.

"It's fine. Alice explained everything. I'm still getting used to all the supernatural stuff. I didn't even believe the summonings were possible until it worked. I just had a bit of a funny night after the quiz and talked myself into something crazy," Esme said.

"That's kinda my fault," I said. Esme motioned in the direction she needed to go, and we walked together. "I should have been more honest with you when you asked me about the whole dating situation. I just didn't know how to explain it without giving everything away."

"I get it, believe me," she said. "Alice was pretty blunt about it."

"She tends to be like that," I said. Esme laughed, barely.

"I'm sorry about everything," she said.

"That's going to have to be the last time you apologise," I said, and the look in her eyes told me she was silently accepting defeat on that front. "Was everything okay with your family when you went back?"

"They were a bit confused by a three day sleepover out of nowhere, but they heard the voices of other girls when we were on the phone so they trusted me. Meredith helped me act naturally around them during the week. I didn't want them to know," Esme explained. On the way to the library, we passed the bathroom she had taken me into to play with me while she was under the influence of demonic powers. She stopped outside it, and blushed a little. "Alice told me not to be embarrassed about what happened. I am trying my best. I just did a lot of things last week that had never even crossed my mind before. I don't know if that is part of me or not. The only thing that definitely happened when it was me was at the quiz. I really thought you were single. Everyone thought you were with Alice, but it was never official so I thought that maybe you really were just best friends. Then Lily came along and you seemed close to her so I asked about that, and you said you weren't together. I just went for it. I don't regret that part, because that was definitely me."

"I should have explained myself better," I said. We returned to walking and talking.

"You said it was complicated, and it definitely is," she said, which did give me some comfort. I just didn't know how to explain it at the time. I was hopefully going to get better at that.

"There's no normal way to say this," I started, trying to find the right words. "Whatever your contract was, whatever the exact wording, it means a lot to me that someone like you cares about me like that. You're beautiful and you're a lovely person."

"Thank you," Esme said sweetly. "I need to figure out which part of me survived the summoning, and what that means, but maybe soon we can talk about it some more."

"I hope so," I said, before we stopped at the library doors. "Let us know if you need any help with the demon hunters."

"I'm going to tell them the truth about my summoning. It might convince them to go away if they think it was me they were after," Esme said.

"That's a good idea."

"Alice suggested it during lunchtime," she said.

"You make a good team," I said. It wasn't lost on me what they had been through during our visit to the underworld. I couldn't really shake the feeling of my girlfriend groping the girl in front of me. Poppy had kissed her too, and desperately tried to make her come. Those were secrets for another day, though my priority would always be what was on that summoning contract. When she was ready to tell me, nothing was going to stop me from making that wish come true.

**

About 30 students from Year 13 had left the premises before the end of the day. It was about a fifth of our year group's total number. If that percentage carried across the rest of the school, then there was a healthy number of families who had decided to transition their kids to online studies while the demon hunters were in town. It was still a minority though. The majority of people heard the word demon and thought succubus and incubus, and plenty of those people had a very good experience with one of those two groups.

I was two hearts to hearts deep for the day. Conversations with Keiko and Esme had gone pretty well. Keiko had been willing to offer me her body. Lily had convinced her otherwise, thankfully, even if she eventually sought a different type of intimacy. Esme on the other hand, it was hard to imagine that we wouldn't eventually cross the line. She needed some patience but she didn't seem afraid of the harem commitment that my girlfriend had spelled out to her. She could easily have shut down any interest in that, but she didn't.

All that was left for the day was detention. For some reason, I was going to be doing that alone.

"She said I don't need to come," Poppy said, when we bumped into each other at the end of the day.

"Why?" I asked, incredulous.

"I don't know. She said she needs to speak to you about something. We have tutoring tonight anyway, so that counts as my detention."

"That's definitely not how it works. You choose to do the tutoring."

"Sucks to be you," Poppy said.

"Are you seriously going to leave me on my own?"

"I'm going shopping with the girls."

"That's so sad. You saddened me."

"You'll live. She seems like she's in a bad mood too, so good luck."

"I'm going to make it a worse mood and completely ruin your tutoring lesson," I promised, and the redhead just laughed and waved at me as she left school to her freedom.

Miss Evans was in a hideous mood, and she didn't leave me waiting long to find out why. I walked to my desk while she seethed in my direction, and she stood just as my bum hit the seat.

"I said that if you ever hurt that girl, I would show you how mean I can be," she said bluntly. "How dare you make those promises to my face, knowing that you were lying and you were going to treat her exactly like every other boyfriend she had."

"What are you talking about?" I asked, completely baffled by the onslaught.

"You told me you would love and care for her, and treat her right. I gave you both incredible grace after you completely humiliated me, and you didn't even have the decency to stick to your promise for more than a few weeks," Miss Evans continued, standing over the front of my desk with thunder in her eyes. Her tightly woven ballerina bun bounced at the top of her head as she rocked in place.

"I have no idea what you're talking about. Poppy is happy," I argued.

"You're lying to my face," Miss Evans spat back.

"I am not. She is happy with me. She stayed at my fucking house last night," I shot back, even swearing, as my frustration shone through. I cared deeply for my friend, and she was becoming much more than a friend. I would never hurt her. I wasn't going to take kindly to any suggestion that I was mistreating her.

"I saw you kissing Alice Crawford this morning, after assembly," Miss Evans said, her tone still sharp.

Well, shit.

I took a breath and relaxed my shoulders. The accusations had stiffened me up. "It's complicated," I said.

"I bet it is. Tell those girls the truth."

"They both know the truth. I said it's complicated. You've got tutoring tonight, haven't you?" I asked. She didn't answer. "Well, you do. Poppy just told me. Talk to her and she'll tell you it's complicated too. I am not hurting her or cheating on her. I'm not denying you saw something, but it's not what you think."

"What on earth could it possibly be?" Miss Evans asked. She had relented a little, and returned to her desk, sitting on the edge of it.

"Talk to her about it," I said.

"I'm talking to you."

"You know her better. It will be a much more comfortable conversation with her."

"Mr Whitaker, tell me what is going on. I put a lot of trust in you," Miss Evans said.

"I'm with all of them," I said, irritated. "Poppy, Alice and Lily. It's not some open relationship bullshit either. They're all mine. I love all of my girls. I would do anything for them. I will never, ever hurt them. I promised you that she would be loved, and that's what is happening, all day and every day. She's more loved with all of us than she could possibly be with anyone else."

Miss Evans was taken aback, but I still think she believed me. "I'll talk to her about it," she said, still quite cold in delivery.

"You should have done that before you doubted me," I said, getting to my feet and taking my bag with me. I had felt a need to defend my honour. Nothing was more important to me than the girls, and having my character questioned had really aggravated me. I wasn't going to ask for permission to leave. I just headed for the door and she never called out to stop me.

**

I arrived home before anyone else after skipping out on my detention. Keiko and the rest of our guests were crowded around the television, completely riveted by a quiz show. Tipping Point. I watched from the doorway for a couple of minutes, and not a single one of them seemed to be aware of my presence. Not a single one of them answered a question either, but they seemed to care about the outcome of the contestants' answers.

"Hello," I said eventually, and a couple of them jumped. They were all still wearing an eclectic mixture of other people's clothes, but that would soon change. I hope they gave Liliana some pointers on what they like wearing, because otherwise she'll return with a bunch of tennis skirts and baby tees. "Sorry. I'm home now. I'll make some dinner when the food delivery is here. Mum is working late tonight."

Lily was getting a food shop as part of her shopping spree. "Charlotte from Blackpool is our favourite," Kyouko said, her eyes and lips smiling in the exact same way. "She seems very sweet."

"Fingers crossed for Charlotte from Blackpool," I said, before joining a couple of them on the sofa, and locking in for the rest of the show. I was completely fascinated by their investment in the result. Charlotte from Blackpool won £7500, but missed out on the final jackpot at the end of the episode. "I don't think they have this on the tele in Japan."

"We'll find a way," Linney said.

"I think television will have changed a lot since we were last home," Kyouko said.

"When were you last in Japan?" I asked. I didn't want to overstep, but she didn't seem troubled by the question.

"1998," Kyouko answered. I knew that time moved differently across realms, but there was no doubt she had been held captive for a long time. Kyouko scratched the fur of the black cat in her lap. "Orihime was last home pre-war. Yukari-chan can show us her favourite programmes. She was home more recently than the rest of us."

"2022," Yukari informed me. Her capture had given the others stronger belief that they could escape. They didn't want her life to be stripped away from her like it has been from the rest of them. Orihime had been a slave for so long. It broke my heart. I hoped she could find some semblance of peace one day. I wouldn't have blamed her for hiding in her original feline form for the rest of her life.

Keiko didn't speak for herself. I didn't push her on it.

"I'm excited for you guys to go back, and that is by no means a hint that it needs to be soon," I said, a little worried about how my original comment may have come off. Some knowing laughter suggested they understood. "You're always welcome here. Even when you're home, the portal is always open. Seraphina might not be happy about that, but she works for us."

The food delivery arrived before Lily made it home. She had bought a shit tonne, and it took about twenty minutes to squeeze most of it into the fridge, freezer and cupboards. I got to work on cooking something up soon after. After remembering that I don't know how to cook, I just put some pizzas in the oven, threw some chips and chicken in the air fryer and prepared to heat up some rice. I sent a text to Poppy while waiting.

Miss Evans saw me kiss Alice. I had to tell her about our situation. She pissed me off a little bit to be honest. Enjoy tutoring though, she's going to have a lot more questions or you ????

I was still in a mood. Poppy sent back a crying emoji, before adding a changing room selfie of a short skirt she was trying on. I told her to get it.

Lily arrived home alone, not long before dinner was served. She had so many bags that she had to use her tail to carry the last few. She dumped them on a sofa, and then started handing them out to their owners. Everybody had at least a few new outfits, and there were huge piles of jeans, leggings and sweaters that anyone could take if they wanted them. "I did my best with the measurements you gave me," she said.

"They're perfect. You're an angel," Kyouko assured her.

"Can we try them on?" Yukari asked.

"After dinner," I said. Our guests moved to the kitchen to dig in.

"After dinner," Lily echoed, teasing me. "What are you, their dad or something?"

"You just went shopping for them. What are you, their mum or something?"

"I wish. I would be the milfiest schoolgirl in the world," Lily joked, flaring her skirt for emphasis.

"Imagine we found out your human soul was like 70 when she died. I really hope you were old."

"I would be the milfiest grandma as well," she said, setting the record straight.

Alice called me, and revealed she wasn't going to be able to sleep over. Nanny Rosie had put her foot down, so she was staying at home for at least one night. She was pouting about it, especially when she saw the pizza that was on offer. "Miss Evans was mean to me," I said to her, taking our conversation into a private room. Dad had arrived home and was indulging in some dinner of his own.

"Poppy told me," Alice said. "She usually spills all her secrets anyway so it was only a matter of time until Miss Evans knew about us."

"I've been secretly fuming about getting called out for being a bad boyfriend all night," I moaned.

"It's not that secret if you told everybody," Alice teased.

"I should probably get over it considering she did see me kissing another girl. I never claimed to be mature, but it's still annoying. She was talking down to me straight away and didn't give me a chance to explain."

"Not everyone is going to understand it. We all know you're secretly the best harem boyfriend," Alice said.

"Poppy isn't my girlfriend though, not officially. I know she's not sure about everything long term and she's open to just being friends who have fun, but she's a big part of this and she stayed here last night. I want her to be with us," I said. I had been thinking about it since detention, and that long legged miniskirt selfie she sent from the changing room had certainly helped to fuel my desire for her.

"I would love it if she was official," Alice said.

"I don't care if she wants to break up with us one day. Right now, she is ours and that's not changing anytime soon. I'm making it official," I said, fire in my belly.

"How are you going to do that?" Alice asked.

"I'm inviting her over. I'm going to fuck her and I am going to make her our girlfriend," I answered.

"Then what are you wasting time with me for?" Alice teased, sending me on my way.

Poppy got a text straight away.

I want you to come here after tutoring

I'm going to the gym tonight

Is Alice staying?

Just you

I want to see you

Is everything okay?

I'm going to fuck you

Poppy left me on read for a dramatic few moments, before responding.

Okay

I returned to the dining room to eat some leftover scraps, before relaxing for a while and waiting for her to show. Lily wasn't too upset about being left out. She said she was going to hang out with the kitties and do some show and tell of their new clothing.

Poppy arrived at about 9pm. My balls had been aching for more than a couple hours by that point. "Fiona said she was sorry," she told me at the door.

"She can say it to my face if she means it," I said.

"She was just trying to protect me," Poppy said.

"I know. I'll forgive her, but she can still say it to my face."

"Are you going to take it out on me?" she said, her tongue running along her bottom lip when she finished talking.

"The opposite," I said, leading her into the house. "This is all about you."

I kissed her in the porchway, loud smacks of our lips echoing in the small space between our front door and hallway. She was still wearing her sixth form uniform, because going shopping with the girls meant she didn't get the chance to change before her tutoring, and she was too lazy to get changed afterwards before jumping in the taxi to my house. I reached under her skirt to grab and grope her bum while she moaned into each deep kiss. She was always so loud, and there were family and guests in the house, so we needed to take the kissing upstairs.

I followed her up the stairs, chasing after those long legs, but we were both momentarily distracted after making it into my room. "My dildo," she said, running across to the bedside table it had been stolen from. It was back.

"Oh, shit," I said. I walked up behind her and wrapped my arms around her body. I started to slowly unbutton her blouse as she pressed her bum back against me. "Nice of whoever stole it to give it back."

"The vibrator is still gone," she said.

"I guess they kept the one they liked," I said, and she giggled.

"If someone in this house needs it then fair enough, but no offence to them, it's still getting a proper clean."

I peeled her blouse off her, before going under her skirt and pressing my fingers into her knickers, feeling the wet patch that was already waiting for me. I moved her hair to one side and kissed her neck, while she stretched an arm up and behind her to scratch my scalp. "Miss Evans wanted me to care for you and be good to you, but she wanted me to love you too. I do love you, and just not because we're friends. I want you to be with us," I whispered against her skin, before pushing her knickers down her legs.

Poppy didn't answer me there and then, but she turned back to me and she kissed me, and she kissed me with love even if she couldn't say it. She wrapped her tongue around mine, and mewled into me as my fingers explored her folds and teased her clit, before a couple of them pressed their way inside her opening. She was tall enough that when she sat on the edge of my desk, her feet were still planted into the ground. Alice would have been on her tiptoes at best.

I managed to unhook her bra with one hand, and she helped get it the rest of the way off her body. I kept finger fucking her as I leaned in to take a nipple into my mouth, sucking on the stiffening bud while she buried her nails into the back of my neck. Any insecurity she had about her boobs seemed long gone as her perfect, puffy nipples engorged in my mouth as she begged me to suck even harder. I moved from one nipple to the next as she whimpered my name, and her lower half rocked back against my fingers.

I kissed her again, freeing both of my hands to drop my shorts and flick her skirt up to her stomach. She was standing upright enough that it slipped right back down, but not before our bodies were pressed together, and my dick was aimed at her throbbing pink pussy. I pressed my rigid cockhead inside her, bending my knees a little to give me room to thrust up into her. Poppy is tall, but still comes up short on me.

I fucked her in that sort of standing missionary position, holding onto her hips before and after she took my shirt off me. She kissed my neck, kissed my lips and then stared into my eyes. "I told her everything. She knows how much of a slut you are," Poppy giggled, talking of our teacher.

"I told her you were mine. If she thought you were a slut before, imagine what she thinks now," I teased. Poppy moaned in response to the magic word, and set me off. I swung my hips harder, pulling her bum off the desk so she was fully standing. I grabbed her cheeks, squeezing and pulling them apart while she was filled over and over with my hard dick. "She probably thinks you're the biggest dick sharing slut in the world. At least you can share the crown with your two girlfriends."

Poppy squirmed in place, her face a picture of insatiable joy as she was teased. "Harder," she whispered, as she often did. I loved fucking her harder, so it was a match made in heaven. She was sopping wet, her pussy a squelching mess as she was fucked to the root with each thrust. I could feel her inner walls contracting around my dick.

"Esme Everleigh is going to join us soon," I breathed as her moaning started to hasten. "You've already played with her, haven't you?"

Poppy nodded. "I was just trying to help," she smirked.

"You loved fucking her with that dildo, and kissing her, because you love being part of this. When she's ready to join us, you'll be there to hold her hand and tell her what a good job she's doing at sucking and fucking your boyfriend's dick, right?"

Poppy brought her hands to my face and kissed me deeply and slowly, before she held tightly onto my jaw. "Ask me then," she said.

"Join us. I want you to be with us. Be my girlfriend," I said, and she nodded.

"Fuck me harder and I'll scream my answer," Poppy said. I laughed, and fucked her so much harder.

Poppy verbally agreed to be my girlfriend over and over, but she managed to keep it down given the house was full. I fucked her for long minutes, caught between kissing her and playing with her firm ass and those bouncing tits with their swollen nipples that seemed to twitch when they were in my mouth.

She moved a hand between our bodies and through a tuft of ginger pubes, and started to twirl a few fingers around her sensitive jewel. Targeted on all fronts, she really started to moan, leaning in to bite down on my trap muscle as her pussy gushed with pleasure. I fucked her relentlessly until she was begging me to take her over the line. I could sense it was coming, and started pushing some more buttons. "You're going to squirt for me, aren't you?" I said, and she started frantically nodding. I remembered exactly how her body looked and felt before the last time she drenched us both in her come.

Poppy orgasmed, one hand on her clit and the other over her mouth. I held on to her hips and fucked her through the shockwaves, my bottom half slick with her juices to the point it looked like we were fucking in the shower. I backed off and slipped out of her just as the flood came. I held her upright as her body shook with pleasure and her pussy gushed, streams of her juices trickling down her thighs as she soaked her feet. I stuffed a couple of fingers inside her, and fingerfucked her through the last of her orgasm.

I kissed her as she lifted herself back onto my desk, panting. She pulled her skirt up her stomach, and unhooked it to take it off. "I can't get this dirty," she huffed. "I need it for tomorrow."

She passed it to me and it was dropped off on my bed, before our bodies were back together and she was guiding my dick to her opening. She leaned back this time, her head hitting the wall beside my computer monitor. I fucked her slower this time, using long strokes and filling her to the balls before holding still inside her. At the end of each long thrust, we kissed. "I'm going to come inside you," I said, as she reached to stroke my neck with her sharp fingernails.

"Is that what you do with all your girlfriends?" she asked. I leaned in to suck and chew on a nipple before answering.

"It's becoming a habit," I said.

"What happens when someone gets pregnant? Are you going to have multiple families?"

"It will be one family," I said, as ridiculous as it may seem. I hadn't really thought that far ahead. I was 18, out of my depth and enjoying the ride. If there was one thing this day had proven to me though, it was that this wasn't just a silly little harem fantasy anymore. It was very real. Alice was right all along. I could and would love them all, and give them whatever they desired. If that meant families with all of them, then so be it. I wasn't going to throw this away, and there would be more people joining us before any left us.

"I want to have children one day," Poppy said, cementing her point. "I love you, so if it's with you, we'll be a happy family."

I put my hands under her lower back and lifted her. I took her to the bed, dropping her off on the mattress and falling on top of her, my dick stuffed inside her for the short journey. I started to really fuck her again, while her hands caressed up and down my back. "I love you too," I said, before falling into a desperate and needy kiss. She chased after my tongue, mumbling into every second, and wrapped her legs around my waist.

I fucked my new girlfriend until the pleasure was too much, and we were deep in a kiss as my balls contracted and she was filled with my load. The bliss that surged through my body was hard to describe, but it backed up our declarations of love. I left my dick inside her for a few more minutes as she rolled her tongue around mine, before falling off the side and bringing a hand to her chest, mindlessly playing with her tits as we both revelled in the aftermath.

"The first time that I came inside Alice, Lily showed up and cleaned it out," I said, the palm of one hand idly circling a nipple. "I'm just warning you."

"Cleaned it up, or out?" she asked.

"You've seen what her tongue can do. She went inside to get it out."

Poppy bit her lip, and tempted herself with the idea of it, but she wasn't quite ready for that. Instead she let me collect a mug, and she held it under her pussy as she climbed back to her feet. She shook her body until she was close to empty, and then we invited the hungry succubus to join us. Poppy was still naked, but hid her body under my duvet.

"For me?" Lily asked, shaking her head. "I'm human now, you know. This is very disrespectful. I'll drink it though, just to be kind. No other reason," she said, before grabbing the mug and downing it, lengthening her tongue so she could lick the rest of my seed off the bottom. She hummed appreciatively, before looking at the patch of squirt juices left in my carpet. "I'm not licking that up."

Poppy took a shower and put her pyjamas on, before we spent some time with the fox and cats and prepared ourselves for bed. I showered last, ate a slice of leftover pizza and then brushed my teeth, before joining the girls in bed. "Are you my girlfriend?" Poppy asked.

"Me?" Lily said.

"Are you and Alice dating, or are you both just dating him?"

"I have a name," I said.

"We never really put a label on it," Lily answered. "I swing every way you can imagine. If you ever want me to tear you in two, let me know."

Poppy laughed and blushed, but said no more. It wasn't long before we were ready for bed, with another day of school approaching, and the stress of the demon hunters hanging over us. I still fell asleep with only one thought on my mind, and it wasn't long before that thought nudged me back awake. Keiko was crawling up the bed, in her white nightgown, tails swishing behind her.

She lay her head down on my pillow, facing me, her amber eyes glistening back my way. I helped push the duvet back so she could put her legs under it. We had multiple quilts on the bed now, given the extra people that often stayed. "Warm?" I asked, and she nodded. She moved in a little closer, and stretched her foot over and placed it on mine. She was colder than me, but not for long.

Keiko took my hand and held it between both of hers, pulling it towards her, and holding it close to her breath. I could feel the warm air tickling my skin as she breathed, before she lightly kissed my knuckles and fingers. "Goodnight," she whispered, her lips perched delicately on my skin.

"Goodnight," I said, watching her eyes close and staring at her peaceful, pretty face. "Don't rush off in the morning. Stay with us," I whispered, as her fox ears twitched and she drifted off to sleep. It took me a while to join her, my heart fluttering as she gently snored next to me, her lips still kissing my hand as she slept.

**

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