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After the wonderful night they’d had, Noh had expected Jamie to get up, get ready, and leave for work like usual. He’d been delighted when instead the morning took a different course. As the rain moved in and the apartment grew dark, Noh’s excitement increased. Jamie didn’t turn on any lights as he moved around, making himself a meal and sitting down at the table in the dim.

Noh, of course, had watched the whole food preparation diligently, memorizing exactly how Jamie had made his breakfast. Then he’d followed Jamie to the table and cuddled in close.

He couldn’t help himself. He’d been wrapped up with Jamie all night, and he just wanted more of that. It was a perfect morning, the rain, the cuddling. Did a Bogg? need anything more?

It was still early days of their relationship, so Noh tried not to be hurt when Jamie then took a cup of tea to the living room after and turned on a lamp. Noh had had to shrink back into the darker corners to avoid the light the second he’d seen Jamie reaching for it.

He reminded himself that Humans needed light to see. Jamie probably wasn’t annoyed with him or trying to chase him away, it was just too dim for his Human eyes. Jamie even glanced in his direction, as if checking on him.

It cheered Noh right up.

Over time, as Noh continued feeding Jamie his come, Jamie’s eyesight would grow sharper, better in the dark, but they weren’t there yet. Noh just had to remind himself that Jamie may need the lights now, but someday he wouldn’t. Or maybe they’d meet in the middle–Noh’s tolerance for the light expanding as Jamie’s sight in the dark grew. A thriving symbiosis.

Though the light of the lamp was too bright for Noh to be directly cuddled around Jamie, the rain kept coming and the rest of the apartment was nice and shadowy. Noh instead enjoyed moving about in the daytime for once. He manifested eyes in all directions to watch his beloved.

Jamie got himself cozy on the couch with a blanket and his mug of tea and then pulled out his phone. Noh’s interest perked up.

Last night he’d sat right over Jamie’s shoulder and watched him flip through the device. It had been so enlightening! His mate was so smart, he’d known how to overcome the language barrier by showing Noh what he’d wanted. He’d found dozens and dozens of images that had clearly aroused him, and Noh had to admit the success of last night was all because of Jamie. He’d guided Noh’s hands, showed him exactly how he wanted to be treated.

Was Jamie going to do it again?

He watched Jamie tapping his phone, but from the distance he couldn’t make out what was on the screen.

Noh turned his attention to the lamp. It wasn’t that bright. It was a warm, low luminance in the room. It made him wonder…

Noh had felt the sunlight this morning, had felt the threat of it and had known instantly that it would harm him still. But he’d spent all night suckling at Jamie’s cock, swallowing his spill. He didn’t produce anywhere as much as Noh had given Jamie, but it had still been the most Noh had ever gotten in a single night.

He wondered now if it had made a difference. If it was enough to ward him against a small light like this.

On the far edge of the light ring, Noh manifested a tendril. Slowly, so slowly, he eased it toward the light halo.

There was warmth when it touched him, but it wasn’t a sharp sort of warmth. There was no burning, no smoldering fire, no excruciating pain.

On the other side of the room, where the light was hitting a little brighter, Noh made himself another tentacle and slid it out from beneath the cabinets. The light on his skin was warmer there, but tolerable.

He stared at himself in the light, turning the tentacle this way and that. It was almost unreal to see his form in the warm glow. Even at his strongest, before this cursed apartment, Noh had never managed to tolerate any amount of light. His kind were so light sensitive that any touch could result in permanent damage. Too much light and he’d burn up. Cease to exist.

With his true mate, with enough shared between them, he would no longer have to fear such a death. Eventually he might even tolerate the sunlight itself.

What a wonder that would be!

Focus , he reminded himself, pulling his mind back to the present. One thing at a time.

Next he needed to test something directly in the light where Jamie was sitting. Fringe light was progress, but how close could he get to a bulb?

Forcing himself not to hesitate, Noh slipped beneath the flooring and came up under the couch. He didn’t have a heartbeat, but his whole body was swimming with nerves. He made himself one slithering arm and peeked it out the back of the couch where the full light of the lamp was hitting.

This was a much more intense wave of heat. Noh had come too close to one of the stove burners once, and it was similar to that. The heat of warning, but there was no pain. Being in the lamp light would likely wear him out, but he seemed to be tolerating it. It wasn’t searing away his being.

Oh!

As always, Jamie had been one step ahead of Noh. Did his little mate know about Bogg?s? Jamie knew he kept to the shadows, he’d seen Jamie glance in his direction plenty of times, but it seemed he also knew about the exchange.

Perhaps he’d been expecting Noh all morning! Expecting him to come out because he knew Noh was more light tolerant now. Jamie knew their evening had been enough.

Oh, Noh had the most clever, most perfect mate!

His attention snapped back to Jamie poking at his screen. To the reason he’d wanted to test his light tolerance in the first place.

Right now Jamie was looking at something on his phone, and no doubt expecting Noh to be paying attention. The last thing Noh wanted to do was disappoint him. His mate had done so much for him already, and Noh needed to make sure he was providing in return.

He kept himself transparent, as not having a solid form did help the light be less hot against him, and tucked himself up against Jamie’s back.

Sure enough, on the screen, Jamie was looking once more at erotic things. Pleasure zipped down Noh’s spine. Jamie had been waiting on him to catch up.

On the screen were images similar to the tentacled ones. Similar but different.

Noh peered at it closely. The Humans were all bound up in the images, but it wasn’t with the fleshy arms of a creature. It was done in some sort of braided rope. This rope was twisted together in intricate, pretty patterns. It wound around the Humans’ arms and legs and torsos, and even sometimes across their mouths, pushing between their lips.

Noh watched as Jamie went through page after page, and like with the tentacles, they all began to run into a theme. Jamie liked the ones where the Human was bound head to toe. Where they look so tied up Noh didn’t think they would even be able to move a muscle.

He liked the ones with the pretty braided spreads of rope across the torso or back.

The rope, Noh thought, wasn’t crude or garish, but beautiful. Did Jamie want to be beautiful like that? His mate was already the most stunning Human he’d ever seen, but in ropes like that…!

When Noh peeked around, he could see the flush on Jamie’s face. He watched Jamie’s hand move between his legs, touching himself where he was already aroused.

Noh crept closer, all his eyes trained on Jamie. His mate looked edible, ready to be ravished. Did Jamie want Noh to please him right now? Did he want Noh to bind him up all prettily, like a beautiful little gift?

Noh .

As if answering his question, Noh’s name dropped from Jamie’s plush mouth. Noh felt it like a live wire through him, better than the tastiest electricity. His mate said his name again.

Oh!

Jamie was so wonderful, so bold and unafraid to tell Noh exactly what he wanted. To show Noh how to best please him. He wanted this, wanted it now, and Noh was helpless but to obey.

It flustered him though. Noh didn’t know very much about this intricate rope binding, and hadn’t had any time in the night to study or experiment.

But his mate was asking. Noh wasn’t going to fail.

He plundered his mind for any knowledge he may have acquired on anything similar.

And came up with only one thing. The only other place Noh had seen such intricate weavings were the small creatures that shared the under the bed space with him sometimes. Spiders , that was what the Humans called them. Their little bodies made a silken rope and they spun it into all sorts of beautiful arrangements.

Noh, in the long, boring hours stuck in the apartment before Jamie, had spent plenty of time studying their webs. He’d spent entire afternoons watching spiders weave them, and his brain had cataloged all of that.

He might not yet know how to do those beautiful rope bindings that Jamie was looking at, but he could do something. He had the knowledge of how the spiders wove their webs, and maybe that would be good enough?

The next time Jamie slept, Noh could slip out and better research this. Now that he wasn’t bound to the apartment, Noh could go and find information sources. Humans had whole buildings of things like that, he knew.

Or since he was now able to bear the screen of Jamie’s electronics, Noh could try to use them. Look further into these photos.

He shrank back away from Jamie into the shadows, pulling himself together in the far corner of the room as he sifted through his memories to get the information that he needed. It would not be exactly what Jamie had just been looking at, but he could do close. He could satisfy his mate, he knew it.

So he drew himself a body that was shaped in the spinning spider's image. He figured if he looked the part, then maybe Jamie would be amused and forgive him that this was the only type of rope weaving Noh knew how to do.

Noh gave himself long, long spidery legs, a spider body, even their furred feet. With all of his energy, his body ran from the floor to almost the ceiling.

Jamie’s head snapped up immediately. Noh felt that electric flutter through him, the excitement, the anticipation. He could hear Jamie’s heart already pounding, his breathing elevated.

Noh fairly trembled with eagerness to please. Jamie wanted Noh, perhaps wanted him as badly as Noh wanted Jamie. He was ready for Noh to give him what he desired.

On his brand-new spidery legs, Noh stepped out of the shadows, a dozen of his eyes blinking into existence so he could take it all in. He did his best not to flinch as he stepped into the light, but it still must have shown, because Jamie stood and started backing away from the couch and toward the darkness of his bedroom.

His mate was so sweet and perfect.

Noh followed, wanting to prove to himself and Jamie that he could be in the light. The warmth was almost too hot on his body with this visible form, but he bore it as he followed Jamie across the apartment.

His mate was almost as eager to play as Noh was, calling Noh’s name over and over as he backed into his bedroom, his eyes not leaving Noh for even a moment. He babbled other words that Noh couldn’t yet understand, but was okay. Noh knew what Jamie wanted, and he prowled forward, ready to please his mate.

When Jamie was close to the bed, Noh struck. On all those spindly legs he was able to move quickly as he skittered into the dark bedroom. From his body he made an approximation of the thin spider webbing. It was black instead of the gossamer white that spiders made, but he hoped that Jamie wouldn’t mind.

He caught Jamie’s wrists first, then had a thought. Jamie was still dressed. In all of the images he’d seen, the Humans had been naked.

It was a bit more difficult with these spider appendages to do it, but Noh made quick work of stripping Jamie’s shirt and shorts off. Jamie shouted and squirmed underneath him, testing his holds, wanting Noh to prove that he was a strong, sure mate even in this spidery form.

When the clothing was all scattered on the floor, Noh started immediately wrapping the rope around Jamie’s wrists. He did his best to keep it neat and tight, but not too tight. Humans had such delicate bodies, and he didn’t want to hurt Jamie.

After he’d tied Jamie’s wrists together, he looped the end of the rope around one of the slats of the headboard.

“Noh, please!” Noh almost shivered to hear Jamie begging so prettily already, wanting more, and he did his best not to disappoint, catching Jamie’s ankles and wrapping those too in rope. Noh didn’t tie them together, but looped the rope ends of each through a separate slat on the bottom of the bed. He could readjust that later if he needed to, but at the moment it held Jamie down. Kept him from thrashing too badly, keeping him immobilized just the way Jamie wanted to be.

Once he had Jamie strung out on his back on his sheets, Noh straddled the bed with his long spider legs, looking down at his beautiful, perfect mate and all his bare skin.

Noh crooned a sound he’d heard Humans make before. It was something they did when they were excited or content. Noh didn’t have the kind of vocal organs that Humans did, so he did his best approximation of the sound.

Jamie again cried Noh’s name, looking up at him with wide, watchful eyes. Waiting to see what Noh would do next. Waiting to see if Noh would do what Jamie wanted.

Noh wasn’t going to fail his mate. The pictures Jamie had liked the best had had a lot of that rope twining up and down the Human body. He wanted to be covered, not just tied at both ends.

Oh! And Jamie had enjoyed having Noh’s tentacle in his mouth last night, so that was something he should do again too. Noh reached down and started to wind some of his black threads around Jamie’s head, sliding it between his parted lips when he opened them to speak. It muted Jamie’s sweet cries and words, muffling how he moaned Noh’s name, and Noh was sorry to miss them, but it was more important to give Jamie what he wanted.

Besides, there was also something so sweet about seeing Jamie still try to sob Noh over and over, even when his mouth was full.

Noh went about weaving the rest of the web across the points of Jamie’s body. It was halfway between a spider web and what he’d seen on Jamie’s phone. It wrapped down his arms and around his torso to his legs. It divided his body, but tied all the pieces together.

Each time he checked the ropes carefully, making sure they held but weren’t too tight.

Noh made what he thought was an attractive design, and when he pulled back he couldn’t help but be proud of his work. The dark rope had a sheen to it when it was that thin, almost purple or green in the dim lighting. The contrast with Jamie’s pale skin was beautiful. Stunning. He couldn’t look away with any of his countless eyes.

He knew this was Jamie’s desire, but it struck him deeply how much this was also a gift from Jamie to Noh. His mate wanted to be trussed up like a present just for him. Immobilized so that Noh could play with him however he wanted.

And if Jamie wasn’t going out today, maybe that was exactly what Jamie had planned.

Noh hadn’t missed that while he’d worked on the ties up and down Jamie’s body, Jamie had gotten hard. Both his nipples and his cock were at attention, his skin flushed with how ready he was.

In that moment Noh almost wished he had Human organs for speech and understood the language better. If he did a bit more learning, he could probably do enough replication, and he wanted to berate himself again that he hadn’t made it more of a priority before this.

He wanted to tease Jamie, tell him exactly what he was going to do with him. How good and wonderful his mate was, how hard Noh was going to work every single day to repay Jamie the honor of not only freeing him, but being his mate.

The feeling swelled inside Noh. He’d had vague dreams, of course, of finding his true mate, but none of them had even come close to this.

Jamie, his Jamie, decorated in his darkness, quivering in eagerness for his touch, sobbing Noh’s name behind the rope in his mouth.

Noh shivered eagerly. What next? What next?

He had put together a very accurate representation of one of the larger spiders he’d come across, and had the lightly furred toes to go with it. Noh had touched Jamie last night with his smooth tentacles and the bumpy suction cups. Jamie had enjoyed both, and now he wondered how Jamie would respond to these feet. If he’d like them more or less than yesterday’s form.

There was only one delicious way to find out.

Jamie let out a muffled cry when Noh brought one of his legs down to touch Jamie’s hip. He’d run the silky rope above and below Jamie’s cock, looping it around his upper thighs and framing the cute little member between them. Now his toes slipped over the rope to touch skin.

Jamie trembled at the first slow graze. The fur must tickle the way his body was shifting in reaction. Noh ran the very tip up Jamie’s cock, brushing over where he was most sensitive. His cock jerked, and shiny wetness pooled at the tip.

Noh couldn’t help himself, he bent to taste it.

Most spiders had some form of very sharp front teeth, but Noh had omitted those in his replication. There was no reason to have them in the way, and he didn’t want to accidentally hurt Jamie.

So he used one of his own mouths and tongues to lap at the first evidence of Jamie’s arousal. It tasted just as vibrant as it had every other time, and swallowing it down gave Noh a rush at the knowledge that he was doing a good job.

Noh took his lightly furred feet and used them elsewhere too. He traced the side of Jamie’s face down his throat and to his nipples. He checked the lines of rope as he went, making sure the indents in Jamie’s skin weren’t too severe. When he got to Jamie’s nipple, he brushed a pair of furry toes over the peak. His mate gave a muffled cry and jerked from the sensation, but all the ropes held him steady.

They were even more effective than the tentacles. Wound up and down his body, Jamie couldn’t move too far in any one direction without them pulling tight somewhere else. Noh saw the appeal, understood why this was the way his mate wanted to be restrained. Wanted to be helpless before him.

Jamie’s eyes were big and blown out, leaking at the corners as more spidery legs trailed down his sensitive sides and then over his legs. Noh had discovered the spots on Jamie’s inner thighs, neck, and sides where he was particularly sensitive. He felt proud to know just where Jamie liked to be touched and employed it again now.

Noh watched with ravenous curiosity as Jamie’s skin contracted. Goosebumps rose in the wake of his furred touches, and Jamie’s cock leaked more precome.

He slid the tip of one of his legs up Jamie’s cock again, watching it pulse, hearing his muffled pleasure. Noh shifted himself from hovering above Jamie to between his legs. To that hole that he was dying to get back inside.

The tips of his legs were much thinner than the tentacles had been, but Noh figured once inside Jamie he could change the proportions a little. He didn’t think Jamie would mind if he shifted out of this configuration on this occasion. It was all to better pleasure his mate.

He put the tip of his leg to Jamie’s hole, and then internally attached it to the part of him that was almost constantly leaking when he thought of his mate. It served as seed and lubricant, and as he eased the tip of his leg in, it made the initial breach slick and easy.

Jamie cried out louder as Noh started to push in. Yes , this is what his mate wanted. What his mate needed from him. He pushed further in, seeking that little spot inside Jamie. Every time he touched it he could feel Jamie’s body tremble, and he knew from past experience just how tied to a Human's pleasure it could be.

When he found that spot inside Jamie, his spider leg lost a little of its definition. Noh refigured it to be more like fingers so he could stroke that little bundle of nerves the way that Jamie liked.

Sure enough, a second later Jamie’s body tensed, trying to move and unable to, toes curling. More wetness leaked from the tip of his cock, and Noh greedily leaned up to suck it off.

Jamie’s body heaved against the ropes as Noh pulled his reconfigured fingers out of Jamie, and then thrust back in. It had been mere hours since Noh had been inside him, but already Noh was overflowing, his come gushing into Jamie to make the fuck wet and filthy.

He kept two of those spider legs on Jamie’s cock, tracing up and down the length, brushing the fur down the underside where it got the most reaction.

More beads of precome came to the tip and Noh lapped them up. It was addicting, the taste of his mate, and he couldn’t get enough.

He began to fuck Jamie in earnest, starting up a steady rhythm as he withdrew his fingers and then pushed back in, making sure he hit Jamie’s prostate every time as he stroked and sucked at the tip of his cock. Noh was pleased to realize that he was less clumsy with it now. He was getting better at knowing just what his mate wanted most.

He could tell Jamie was close. His cock was so red, hard and straining. It almost matched the pink of his nipples and lips. Pretty, pretty, all of him so pretty.

Noh watched with excitement as he worked Jamie’s body towards that goal. Another pair of legs reached up to stroke over Jamie’s nipples, dragging the fur back and forth over the sensitive buds.

Jamie cried behind the gag, tears leaking, body trembling as Noh worked him over. He could feel his own edge coming, the larger, gushing orgasm just on the horizon. He would come again when Jamie did, he already knew it. There was nothing so good as pleasing his mate.

Slowly, his hand inside Jamie widened, gaining girth till it was just as big as the two tentacles he’d had inside Jamie last night.

Noh could see the bulge of it in Jamie’s abdomen every time he fucked in. It drove him wild to see the evidence of himself inside his mate. To feel how Jamie clenched around him with need.

As he continued to move and suck and fuck and touch Jamie all over, Noh started falling out of the spider form. It was less natural to him than the tentacles had been, and as he drove them up and up toward the end, it was getting harder to pay attention to his large, physical body.

All of his concentration was being taken up by the sound and taste and feel of Jamie. On treating him exactly how he deserved to be treated. Worshipped.

Noh gave a harder suck just as Jamie was on the edge, and felt him break. Jamie’s body arched the small amount he could in the bindings, his head thrown back, eyes unseeing as he started to come. It happened right in Noh’s mouth and he hungrily swallowed his mate’s seed.

The taste of Jamie’s pleasure bowled right into Noh, and the parts of him inside Jamie started to come, a gush of it flooding into the deepest part of his mate, filling him up. It throbbed through Noh in electric pulses, waves drenching Jamie’s hole.

In the middle of their peak, Jamie went limp. It was like a sudden switch had been flipped, and while Noh licked and sucked every bit of his release, he spared an eye upward to see that Jamie had passed out. His eyes were closed, face slack.

A new bolt of pleasure zipped through Noh. He’d pleased his mate so well that his body had given up. Had sent him directly into sleep.

He let Jamie’s softening cock slip from his mouth and laid himself fully over Jamie’s body for a long moment. Noh could read electricity in anything, and could feel it thrumming in Jamie’s body. He listened to it for a full minute, making sure everything was running correctly inside him, before easing back.

Humans could be so, so fragile. Jamie would become hardier by absorbing Noh’s come, but it was important in the meantime to make sure he was okay. Jamie’s care was Noh’s number one priority.

When Noh finally stopped coming, he left his thick fingers inside Jamie to plug him up while his body absorbed Noh’s come and went about cleaning the rest of Jamie up. He dissolved the ropes one by one, pulling them back into his own body and checking over the marks left on Jamie’s skin. They were pink to red in some areas, but already Noh could see them going away.

If Noh had already gained some resilience to light, he wondered how much of himself Jamie had gained. He’d never used ropes on Humans before, so he had no idea if the way the marks were fading was normal, or accelerated for a Human.

He knew that some Human injuries could take ages and ages to heal. Hm.

After all the ropes were gone, Noh extended an arm to find the shorts Jamie had been wearing, that he’d carelessly tossed to the floor. Noh had watched the scowl on Jamie’s face the last two times he’d woken naked, and how his mate had fussily found and pulled on his shorts.

Noh preferred his mate stripped down, all of his prettiness on display, but he had to do what was best for Jamie. He needed to be a good mate.

So with some maneuvering, he slid the shorts back up Jamie’s legs and pulled himself out of Jamie’s hole briefly to slide them fully on.

Still, the legs of the shorts were loose enough for Noh to pull aside and peek under. He looked at Jamie’s gaping hole, and the black come that started to ooze out. Gently, he scooped it up and pushed it back inside, leaving himself in there once more, Jamie’s tight walls around him.

Noh had no idea how long Jamie would sleep for, but the longer he did, the longer Noh could stay with him, so he would be careful and quiet. The storm was still raging outside, the room dark except for the glow coming from that one lamp in the living room.

He slid another part of himself up and over Jamie’s cock. It was soft now, but Noh sucked it into his mouth and let it rest there. If Jamie slept long enough, Noh might be able to rouse him to fullness and swallow down another spill as his mate rested.

A perfect morning if there ever was one.

Some time later, Noh was able to do just that. The storm continued the rest of the morning, and it lulled Jamie into a deep sleep. Noh listened to the rain and Jamie breathing, and carefully coaxed the Human’s cock to hardness again, giving him the softest, easiest orgasm he could.

He kept Jamie’s come in his mouth for a long time after that, sliding the taste around as he savored it.

Around noon the storm tired itself out and real sunlight started to come back. Noh shrank himself down under Jamie’s shorts, staying until the heat on his back grew to threatening levels. He righted the blankets around Jamie as he pulled away, tucking him in.

When Noh crept back into the shadows it was with the taste of Jamie still on his metaphorical tongue, and pleasure thrumming in his body.

Soon, he would be strong enough for the sun. Noh just knew it.

Soon.