ff: Walking the cat chap. 4

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Title: Walking the Cat.
Rating: NC- 17. Smut 
Chapter Four: The Gifts of Courting.
Disclaimer: All BTVS characters belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.
Summary: Buffy has been tricked by the council into taking another mate.
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Walking the Cat.
Chapter Four: The Gifts of Courting.


Willow dreaded getting out of bed. Buffy refused to call her or even speak
to her if she called. She missed waking up with the slayer in her arms. She
missed the feel of the fuzzy cat at her feet. She missed them both. None of
it mattered much, she would have to get up and see what the cat had once
again left her this morning.

The cat was courting her. Willow could be thick sometimes but she was sure
the cat was courting her. Every morning she woke up and checked the front
porch for her gift. Yesterday it had been a rabbit with its head bitten off.
The day before that it was an elk. This really bothered the little witch.
Not so much that Tecal was bringing her dead animals as gifts. As an
anthropologist she understood that the cat was no different than other house
cats, which drop mice or snakes as gifts in front of their owner's feet. No,
if it was just the cat bringing her dead animals, Willow might have been
able to understand its actions.

But the cat was not just bringing her dead animals. The elk had been
savagely mauled, its neck broken, its blood drained, and it had been laid
carefully across the front porch on a tarp with an index card and a message.
At noon the workmen arrived to remove it. That had been the most unnerving
thing of all. Tecal wasn't just blindly bringing her animals. She knew it
upset the witch. Knew that she and Buffy would be angry if the cat smeared
blood over the porch. The killings may have been animal but the gifts were
from a thinking being. It scared the hell out of Willow.

She had tried to get Buffy to explain what was going on here. But the slayer
refused her calls. She even refused to see her. Willow had even tried to
trace the slayer and almost managed to find her in a motel room by checking
their credit cards. But something else was even stranger. Both Buffy and
Tecal were spending large sums of money, mostly on imported items. Oils from
India. Antiques from China. Tecal had also purchased wood and rope from a
lumber store as well as a truck. "The cat bought a truck." Willow didn't
even know she could drive. At least now she knew how the cat had gotten the
giant elk to the porch.

Even with all that, the biggest mystery were the letters Tecal was leaving
with the gifts. On the body of each animal Tecal had left a single index
card. They had a drawing and a one-word message. Today Willow had found a
dead squirrel. The index card had a drawing of the cat pushed against the
ground. The card read 'masturbation'. Willow put the card with the others
and then began to piece the message together.

The first was 'Buffy' followed by 'punished' 'Love' 'No' 'Touching' 'Lion'
'Form' 'Bad' 'Very' 'Care' 'Tame' and finally 'masturbation.'

"That stupid cat. 12 days of dead animals for this." Willow was mad but she
had gotten the message. Or rather the memory of it. It was an event she'd
never forget.


<<<<<<<<<<Those first 6 months with the cat were living hell for Willow. She
almost had left Buffy more than a dozen times. But she couldn't, she loved
her too much for that... and now she understood that the slayer was doing
most of this because she loved her. Willow never doubted the slayers love,
not for a minute.

It all started innocently enough. Buffy was making love to her. The cat in
lion form sat on the end of the bed, watching. Willow was still getting used
to the cat watching them in bed. She was also still getting used to sharing
Buffy with Tecal. At that point in their relationship, Willow had known that
Buffy made love to the cat. Buffy would not lie to her about it. But the
slayer had always waited until Willow was asleep and then moved herself and
the cat to another room or waited for Willow to be at work before she made
love to the cat.

Willow had caught them finishing up once or twice. Buffy had always
apologized and then over compensated for it with the witch. It was an
accursed period for them all. Buffy also had never let the cat out of her
sight at that time. When Buffy bathed, the cat either bathed too or sat on
the floor in front of the shower. Toileting, eating, sleeping or making
love, Buffy kept the cat on a tight leash, literally. 

The cat had lived with them for almost 3 months. It would be the one event
Willow would never forget. She had actually packed her suitcase and headed
out of the door more than 7 times over those horrible 2 weeks. But one thing
was for sure: if Willow made it through those two weeks she would never
leave the slayer.

So when Willow looked up and saw the cat staring back she thought nothing of
it. Buffy was working over Willow's pussy with her tongue. The redhead was
mindless with joy, and opening her eyes to get a good look at her love, she
saw the cat scooting its bottom against the bed. "I think you're not only
turning me on." Willow said to her lover with a playful voice.

"What-?" the slayer asked looking up with wet lips and lust in her eyes but
continuing with her fingers.

"I don't.... Oh god... yeah there!" Willow shouted. Buffy laughed but didn't
bother to stop making the witch squirm.

Finished with her work, Buffy lifted herself up onto her elbows "How do you
know the cat is turned on?" With the bond, Buffy could find out in a second
but she wanted to hear Willow's observation.

"Simple Sherlock, she is scooting her bottom against the bed." Before the
words left Willows mouth completely she could see the slayers rage. Buffy's
eye were no longer human but those of the cat. It was the first time Willow
had ever seen Buffy's new eyes, seen the change. In a blink Buffy had the
cat by the back of the neck dragging it across the room. Willow had seen
Buffy whip the cat with a belt. The cat had tried Buffy's patience often
enough but this was something else. Sure, Buffy gave the cat 5 to 10 swats
of a belt when it was needed, but she never really beat the cat in anger.
But now the slayer was angry.

Buffy had already forced the cat into the human form and bent her over a
chair. The cat tried to fight the slayer but wasn't strong enough. Then
Buffy began to beat the cat with her belt. After an hour Willow dressed and
left the house. When she returned Buffy had the cat flat on the bed face
down. The slayer was fucking the hell out of her back entrance. This wasn't
about sex, this was about dominance. Willow was in the room only a few
minutes as she saw the cat having a strong orgasm.

Buffy's rage returned. "Damn it, we have to start all over, I said no
cumming.!" Buffy then began beating the cat with her belt again. Willow just
sat down in the chair, afraid to stay but even more afraid to leave and
knowing that Buffy needed her, if only to regain control of her human self.
Willow tried to reason with Buffy. But the slayer just beat the cat. Then
she climbed back on top of the cat and fucked her until she cried and begged
Buffy to stop, screaming "That she would be good."
Between Tecal's tears and Willow begging, Buffy stopped. "For Now."

Willow should have paid more attention to the "For now" remark because for
the next two weeks Buffy tamed the cat. It was a cruelty the witch never
knew her lover had. Buffy let the cat sleep during the day while Willow was
at work. She also fed the cat extra meat, twice more, than what she normally
ate. But after that she spent every waking moment either beating, fucking,
or the thing that drove Willow crazy, keeping the cat aroused. 

For almost two weeks, Buffy would not let the cat cum. If she did, it meant
a beating, followed by a long ass fucking. Buffy only took the cat in the
rear opening over those two weeks.

Other than that, the slayer consistently fingered, kissed and rubbed her
body. She only let the cat sleep in lion form, all other hours the cat was
made to stay human. And at night while Willow and Buffy slept, Tecal was
handcuffed beside Buffy on the bed with a butterfly vibrator covering her
clitoris. Vibrating hard against the swollen clit. The cat begged and
pleaded for Buffy to not use it. The cat even once sneaked away in lion form
and chewed one up. That had been followed by one of the worse beatings Buffy
gave her that week. Willow almost left her that night but instead she went
to the adult bookstore and bought another dozen vibrators, Just as Buffy had
asked her to do.

Willow would watch the cat at night while Buffy slept soundly in her arms.
Every night the cat would pull her legs up under her to keep the vibrator
from rubbing against her and the bed at the same time. Buffy was teaching
the cat not only to cum by permission only, but that touching itself in any
form was going to get her the beating of her life. When Willow finally
realized that this was all about the cat touching itself in cat form against
the bed she didn't speak to Buffy for 3 days, she just dropped psychology
books in the slayer's lap.

Buffy tried to explain that it was not really about masturbation but about
bonding. After a while the slayer just shut up. Whatever the cat had done
was somehow part of the early stages of bonding. Willow was left confused
and, to her shame, horny.

Watching Buffy work the cat was starting to drive her nuts. The slayer would
hand cuff the cat to the bed, vibrator clipped to her clit. Then Buffy would
make love tenderly to Willow most of the night. But Willow found herself
envying the cat. Mostly because of the attention it received. Buffy made the
cat dress in skirts, knowing it hated them. They were tight around her waist
and didn't allow her to shapeshift to cat form easily. Buffy didn't let her
wear underwear either.

Buffy would turn on an old movie, place the cat on her lap. Pushing her
sore, black and blue, belt-beaten bottom hard against her bony legs and pull
her skirt up and finger her. The cat would move around not knowing what to
do with her hands. Before the end of the movie the cat would be breathing
hard and panting. The look of frustration on the cat's face as it tried so
hard not to cum. Buffy wasn't rough during this fingering, no she teased the
outer lips and traced just inside the cat's wet opening. It was the
gentleness that was so erotic, that and the slayer's detachment. The slayer
just watched the movie like the girl wasn't even there. Willow usually found
herself breathing harder than the cat. 

One of the most erotic of these film-watching sessions happened on a
Thursday night. Buffy fingered and teased the girl throughout the whole
movie, but the cat couldn't hold back and came. The slayer continued
fingering the girl and then, during the next 3 commercial breaks, beat her
with a paddle. After that she pushed Tecal over the back of the couch,
entered her with a large dildo in her back passage and pounded into her
while watching the rest of the film. After the movie ended she pulled out of
Tecal. The slayer went to the bathroom and returned wearing a new dildo. She
picked the cat up and slammed her whole body across the back of the couch
and pushed Willow over it, kissing her hard, before lowering the phallus
into the witch's tight pussy. Willow was amazed at how turned on she was by
Buffy's detachment. Buffy fucked her, fingered the cat and watched another
movie, using the remote control to scan the TV during the commercials. And
yet, Buffy also came every time Willow did. Willow wasn't sure but she
thought Tecal might have come as well, only Buffy chose to pretend as if she
hadn't noticed. 'How could the cat not cum?', Willow thought.

Buffy's punishment of the cat went on like this for days. The cat was kept
perpetually aroused. Buffy also took them both out in public. Buffy had hid
the cat before this, but now she was taking them both out to dinner in nice
restaurants, choosing places with long table clothes. Willow had been almost
embarrassed to death when she realized Buffy was fingering the girl during
the whole meal. Taking her to the bathroom twice before the meal was over,
to abuse her in the bathroom stalls.

Buffy played with the cat, while driving, shopping or eating. She didn't let
the cat alone for two solid weeks. Even Willow had grown to expect the
consistent abuse. 

And then it was over. One night the three went to bed. Tecal took her place,
hands holding the bed rail, legs apart and hips up in the air waiting for
the vibrator and cuffs to be put in place.
Buffy just padded the end of the bed. Tecal cautiously came to the end of
the bed then shifted into cat. The slayer laughed so hard at the cat trying
to keep her body off the bed. Even when Buffy got her to sit on the bed the
cat rolled over on her side immediately. Tecal would never again try to
relieve her needs by herself.

Buffy had tamed the cat. Tecal would never masturbate. Never touch herself
whether in cat form or human. More importantly, the cat would never believe
it could feel pleasure without the help of one of its mates. Willow didn't
know it then, not until after her own bonding, but the lesson had been not
so much about touching oneself but of feeling sexual pleasure as the cat.
The cat was not allowed to feel anything close to sexual release. That was a
demon doorway. That was the point of taking human form. If the cat could
attain all it needed in life in cat form, it would never need to be human.
It would stay the cat. 

The lesson Buffy was teaching the cat was that only the human form could
feel sexual pleasure or release. Only in human form would Buffy allow it.
And all pleasure or pain came from Buffy. From that point on, the cat's
beatings were the lesser of the Cats punishments. Holding back orgasm was a
much better punishment. The cat would almost always wait for one of its
mates to give it permission to cum before it would. Once in a while it would
lose control and cum without permission, and Buffy would always punish her.
Maybe not at that very moment but she would always punish it. 

Even that night on the couch, Buffy had known the cat had cum with her mates
permission. Buffy couldn't blame the girl, just as she knew the cat couldn't
take more abuse that night beyond the tortures with the vibrator. Even in
her fury Buffy had been careful not to beat the girl beyond what she could
take. Which is why she let the girl sleep most of the day in cat form at her
feet. If Buffy had really made the girl go without shifting the cat would
have been in serious pain. Sure the girl was bruised and sore, but not
abused beyond the point of pleasure. The cat was soaking wet from start to
finish of the slayer's treatments.

So after Willow went to work Buffy had tied her across the coffee table and
beaten the girl for coming the night before. Buffy had actually beaten Tecal
a lot in secret that first year, not wanting Willow to know how much danger
she was in, or how brutally she treated the girl. The slayer spent hours
taming her bonded mate, proving the order of their relationship. Teaching
the cat what she would tolerate and what she forbid. Truth was, Tecal was a
fast learner. Feral were not always that easily tamed. >>>>>>>>>>

********

Willow stared at the messages wondering how that one event entered into
Tecal's courtship. Why would the cat wish her to remember that Buffy forbid
her to touch herself? She stared at the cards just wishing to get it over
with.

"Buffy could care less you know." 

Willow jumped, she had not heard the cat come in.

"If I lay naked in the living room humping my cunt black and blue, Buffy
wouldn't care. Buffy, like most humans, doesn't like to talk about
masturbation, but she does like to do it. You would think, that with the two
of us pleasing her, she would never need to touch herself. The whole slaying
thing, it makes her horny as hell. She can't always wait to get home. Buffy
is so embarrassed by the fact that slaying makes her horny. I tried once to
reason with her, I told her that hurting always makes me horny, It's just an
animal reaction. That just made it worse for her. Humans don't like to be
reminded of their inner animals."

"Tecal what is going on?" Willow whispered watching the blaze in her beta's
eyes. 

"Mating, I wish to mate with you. Be your alpha. Willow I wish to bond with
you. I have brought you gifts. Sorry if they weren't the kind you liked."
The cat's voice lowered to a whisper, "but they were gifts nonetheless." It
was almost the Tecal she loved who was telling her this... almost.

"Ok, the gifts and cards are a message, but Tecal....I don't get it." Willow
said.

"You forgot the dreams. I sent them to you. But I will return to the story.
Buffy didn't beat me that time, because I touched myself. She kind of gets
off of knowing her making love to you turns me on. Which it does. I love
watching how much she loves you. When she makes love to you, she makes love
with every fiber of her body. I would lay there and dream of her making love
to me like that. She didn't at first. I was forced on her. She loved you,
but as time passed she came to love me too. God knows I love her." 

Tecal made a short pause.

"No Willow, what I did wrong was not so much touch myself but where and in
what form I did that. Touching like that is saved for bonding. I need to
become part with you and you to be part of me." 
Tecal fell on her knees in front of Willow, crying.

"Willow, I want to show you. I want to bond with you, and show you what it
is like to be me. I can give this gift to you."

"But there are strings attached I suppose."

"Yes. Life changing strings. There are 3 choices for you. You can walk away
and not bond with me. Everything may return to the same. Buffy or I may kill
each other. I am neither a witch nor a fortuneteller. I just know I can not
return to our pride without..." another pause followed "...at least a
serious beating, and no, Buffy has never really beaten me. Not really." The
weight of her tears still in her eyes as she looked up at Willow.

"That is the first choice?"

"Yes, The second is to bond with me, become my prime. Bonding is painful and
you must wish to do it. If you do not wish to bond heart and soul, you may
not survive, or worse you may survive as the demon cat's plaything. Willow,
Buffy's reasons for bonding with me were simple enough. They had poisoned
you and you were dying. No bonding, no antidote The watchers are bastards,
all of them. All of that doesn't matter though, Buffy wished to bond with
me, that is the important part. It was out of her own free will, She could
have killed me. Even after we started to bond, she could have killed me. Her
reasons were all about her love for you but she bonded with me. If you
choose, you will have to choose of your own free will. '

"My own free will... You really believe Buffy took you of her own free
will?"

"It only works that way. I know that at first she bonded with me to save
you. But after that she had to choose to complete the bonding of her own
free will. She freely chose me. You must believe that, to survive the
bonding without it means becoming a slave of the demon cat."

"Why me?" Willow asked

"You must know that Buffy has pushed you out of the pride. That is why she
will not help you or take your calls. Willow, If you bond with me, you and
she will have to work something out about the prime part. Personally I think
the two of you will be better off because you love each other too much to
not try and be equals in the pride. Willow it is killing her, not having you
around. She loves you from the core of her soul. She hasn't been sober in
days. I feel her. All she thinks about is that she will have to beat you, to
bring you back in the pride. It will be more ceremonial than hard beating,
like what she must give me, but she will beat you. She has to be the leader
prime to the pride. It is her cast." Tecal let the tears fall down her face
as she hung her head. Telling Willow even this little bit of information was
breaking some of the mating rules but she had to try. 

Willow bent over to the cat and wiped the tears away. "And the third
choice?"

"The first stage of bonding, the gift of the cat. We can share this, you and
I, together. And you can still walk away. I won't stop you. But you can
never come back to the pride. No Feral would take you. It would be a
one-time gift. But you can never come back to us. Not even over to diner,
nothing. If you tried to go near Buffy, much less mate with her, I would
kill you. I won't play with you though, I will make it fast and painless,
but I will kill you."

Willow had to smile. In Tecal's own way she had just told her 'I love you
and if I have to kill you I won't let you suffer'. In an odd way Willow did
know how much the cat loved her. 

"Then the third is not really a choice." Willow stated. 

"Not really, so if I start the bonding you will need to finish it, either
way you choose it will be life changing for all our pride." Tecal summed up.

"W-will you bond with me?" The cat asked after a few seconds in shaky voice.

"We bond." Willow said, sure this was the right thing to do.

"Are you sure?"

Willow simply kissed the cat on the lips to answer her. She was scared but
her inner witch told her this was something that needed to be completed. 

"Meet me at the top of Eagle rock at sunset tonight and I will give you the
gift of the cat. Be well fed and rested. I will be waiting there until after
sunset tomorrow in case you change your mind. Then I'll leave the rock and
accept your choice to not bond with me." With that the cat shifted and was
out the door as silently as she had entered...


"Hey! No body messes with my Willow." Xander

"And the weird award goes to...." -Buffy