Dinner and Bed

Dinner at the Richards home was interesting to say the least, the table was more crowded for seats than ever before, and Susan worried she didn’t have enough for everyone. The Canoness despite some invitations from Reed and Susan chose instead to sit alone at the coffee table, folding her hands over her chest in the shape of a bird and muttering a silent prayer before carefully eating her food. And the cosmic woman who sat at the center of the table flanked by the two families simply stared down at her plate of food with mild curiosity.

By the time night fell and dinner was over, the Grimms were waved farewell by the Richards leaving their home, the Susans picked up their plates for HERBIE to clean, and everyone returned to their rooms for the night. Stopping at their shared room, the former sex-**** and supermodel stopped when the Invisible Woman reached out for them to stop at their door. “Uhm… Sisters, could you do me a HUGE favour?”

“Yes?”

“What is it?”

“Could you… Well, bunk with Susanna tonight?” Looking over her shoulder where the two other women leaned to the side to do the same, the trio looked back at the armored warrior woman who glowered back at them with her arms crossed. “I’ll pay you back tomorrow if you do.”

“Why OUR room?”

“Yeah… She’s SCARY!” Whispered the shy one of the two, pointing back at the Canoness.

Clasping her hands together and making the worse attempt at an innocent smile, Susan answered as she turned her attention to the others going to their own rooms. “It’s just that I want to avoid a bloodbath in my home, and I think she might be less aggressive if her bunkmates were… Human.”

Making a face of deep concentration with her lips twisting to the side, the model tilted her hip and crossed her arms while the other woman clasped her own hands over her heart, slowing making a face of grimace hiding behind Susan’s shoulder from the glaring Canoness.

“Pff… Fine, But I’m NOT sleeping on the floor.”

Timidly looking back at the towering warrior, the other woman shivered as she raised a hand with a nervous smile. “I… I can offer my bed.”

Narrowing her eyes, Susanna Stormbringer approached the timid copy, looming over her by several inches with a stern expression and stared deeply into her eyes. The timid Susan didn’t know how to react before Susanna leaned her head down to kiss her on the forehead. “You take the bed child, I will taker the floor.”

“M’kay…”

Eventually the three entered the spare room and the door closed behind the. Relieved that a calamity was avoided, Susan smiled and turned when she noticed a blue glowing light behind her. Floating a few inches off the ground from her toes, the cosmic Susan made her way down the hall heading towards them. “Hello… Susan, is there a room you would like to bunk in or…”

“I do not require sleep…”

Passing by the three women, the cosmic woman floated past them and entered the lab, where the doors closed behind her. Shrugging her shoulders, Susan got a start when she felt a hand rest on her arm behind her, finding Johnny back away with his hands up defensively. “Johnny! The HELL are you doing?!”

“Whoa! Whoa! I get it, she puts everyone on their toes.”

“Not as much as the others, thank God THEY don’t like coming out of their quarters.”

“Yeah… Makes me wonder what they do in there all day and night.”

“I don’t care, so long as its in there and not out here or out in the city.”

Exhaling and turning his attention to the door the two were talking about, Johnny shivered at the idea that just behind that door were three women that represented the absolute worst that his sister had and could become. “You know what? I’m heading under.”

“Same, today’s been a wild day.” Nodded the Invisible woman. “I’m going to tuck the kids under, have a good night Johnny.”

“Yeah.”

Making her way back to her bedroom, Susan was stopped by another hand on her shoulder, sighing and rolling her eyes when she turned back around and huffed with her arms crossed. “What is it NOW Johnn…” Immediately she was silence by a finger pressing against her upper lip and the woman in front of her shushing her silent.

*

Getting changed and stepping out of the adjacent bathroom of his bedroom, Reed scratched at his hair and beard, heading over to the bed to pull the bedsheets open and head to sleep. Stopping at the foot of the bed, Reed rubbed the bridge of his nose to release some stress. His mind was still swimming over what he was shown by the cosmic empowered version of his wife. It had shaken him somewhat to know that there was a version of his wife who completely lost her sense of humanity. Then again there was also one who loved unconditionally, even in a world where he was a monster of a man. It was a scary prospect, and a daunting one if he were going to bring everyone back to their home realities.

“What am I going to do…?”

Hearing the bedroom door click open and close behind him, Reed shook his head and sighed when he felt his wife’s arms snake around to wrap gently behind him and lips kissed at the back of his neck. “Hmm, hi sweetheart, sorry for scaring you in the living room. It’s just that… She showed me her world, how she let it die… Just because she thought it was meant to happen… So, she just let it happen. I needed to show her there were other options, that she didn’t have to be a **** to fate.” Wrapping his own arms around her hands, he noticed they didn’t feel the same, especially when he felt another pair of arms hug around him. Looking over his shoulder and turning around, Reed’s eyes went wide when his lips collided with the blue scaly woman in front of him. The tentacles of her hair slithered and wrapped around his neck and shoulders sensually like fingers caressing his skin.

Pulling away from the kiss, Reed looked back into her serpentine eyes, how despite their inhumanity they looked back longingly into his. Cupping his chin with all four of her hands, Susan smiled warmly to the man and pressed a clawed finger against his lip.

“Susan and I made an agreement, its MY turn tonight.”

Gently pushing him back against the bedframe, the alien looking Susan revealed she was only wearing a towel around her waist, gently prying the fabric off her smooth chitinous body to let it slip down to her feet. Crawling over top of the man, Susan straddled Reed at the waist and kissed him on the lips again.

“Please… Make me feel beautiful.”