Just an Old Legend Ch. 06

"Not till later," she whispered, "I can help you with this, Ion, but I don't want to go where we need to go right now, and I really want to. Just trust me here."

It turned into more of a petting session between them, but she worked at it mostly to give him some relief, though the things that he did always tempted her to just throw everything to the wind. She'd already been pleased a couple of times, though not in the way that she wanted, before he groaned in his throat, and she felt the seminal fluid.

She felt a bit sad. She'd wanted to do more than just use her hands, but there was an unknown here that they hadn't had time to talk about. She began to stop her motions, but he asked her to please continue, and she was happy to, though she couldn't understand why. He asked her to just continue in small motions, so she did.

It took about ten minutes. Ten minutes, she noticed, during which time his contractions had almost, but not quite abated. Four more times, they'd returned strongly and there was more from him. She'd never seen anything like this before and wondered where it all came from. They were both something of a mess now. When she finally felt him begin to soften, she kissed him, "Better?" He nodded weakly with a smile, and his thanks.

"Good, and thank you," she smiled as she kissed him, "I only hope there's some hot water by now. We need a shower, and now this cover needs a wash too." She sighed, "I guess there's more work to keeping a wolf-man than I thought. Do you always do this?"

"Yes," he nodded in some embarrassment, "since I became this. I am sorry, Elena."

"Don't be," she said with a grin, "I guess I did that well for you, so I'm happy about that. I Just don't get how you can do that. I've never seen so much. Do you know how to work the shower?"

He nodded, and she told him to get started, though they'd both be dripping wet with only the one towel between them, and her hair normally needed a couple by itself, but she didn't mind.

He was surprised when she got into the shower with him, though it left little room. "Small hot water tank," she said apologetically with a smile. Since neither of them were hungry, they just had some coffee. His eyes were closed in near-rapture, "This, and the tea last night, Elena. I had forgotten how this tastes."

He was able to find one old tape measure in the barn. It wasn't his, he'd mostly used a reel type. The tape in that had been canvas, and there was nothing left of it now. But the first few feet of this old steel one were still good, if a little rusty, and Helen used it to get some measurements of his body, hoping to find some trackwear or something that would fit him. They talked as she worked.

"I'm going to head in to town in a little while," she said, "We need some things. I'm going to get a ton of food and maybe give the bears around here a little break." she smiled. Placing her arm around him as he sat, she kissed his cheek and continued, "How is it that you can um, do what you did up there? I've never known any man who did that, no matter what I did."

He was a bit embarrassed, but he was getting better, he thought, "I do not know. I only know that things changed when I was bitten. Before this, I was as you have just said. Little things are different about me, even as man. I think maybe I am like wolf in some ways, like as I said last night about your ear."

It gave Helen an Idea, and she turned on her laptop. That brought a lot of questions from him, but she told him that she'd explain better when she got back. She told him to slide his chair over beside hers. Within a few minutes, even at her painfully slow dial-up speed, she knew a few things about canine physiology.

"When you're the wolf,' she asked, "have you ever mated with a real wolf?"

He blushed furiously, and shook his head, "I think about it once, but I would have to fight her male at least, maybe whole pack, kill them, and for what? They run from me anyway."

"That's ok, Ion. I'm not trying to embarrass you, I was just looking for something. Try not to be embarrassed here, but is there something that's different about your, um, penis as a man? I think I already know the answer, but I want to be sure."

He'd have just gotten up and walked out before, but she cared for him, he knew, and she was trying to help. He said that he hadn't noticed anything different.

"From what I read, deep inside, there is supposed to be a small bone in a dog or wolf," she said, "Men don't have that, and you don't either as far as I could tell. Which is a good thing, I guess, but how you can go on for so long at the end raises another question. Kind of a big one for me." He looked at her and said that if he could help, he'd be glad to, and to ask him anything.

She smiled and leaned against him, "I don't think you know the answer, my friend." She pulled his jaw around further and kissed him softly for a moment. "Before you get all embarrassed again, I want you to look at this from my side, if you can, and don't you dare want to go off all alone into the woods hating yourself again. It's just something that we need to think about because I'm pretty sure that somehow we do love each other, right?"

He nodded, but felt a cold uncertainty in the pit of his stomach. "What is it?"

"Well, you're three things, and even though you can make these huge changes to yourself, there seem to be some parts that remain constant between them. Like your mind, your eyes, the way that you're, um, built there, and that makes me wonder about something else in that neighborhood, Ion. Even if it's the worst answer, I think that we can get around a lot of it, but there's the one thing," She looked at him.

"Everything works right, just like it's supposed to, and believe me, I'm glad. But what kind of bullets are you shooting here? Man, wolf, or what? And I know that you don't know the answer to that." She kissed him again, and got up to make them more coffee. He looked at the door.

"Don't even think about it, we're just trying to figure things out together," He looked at her back. She'd said that without even looking at him, but turned now with a smirk, "I know you a little bit, Ion. Let's just work on this, I even have a solution or two already, and I still accept you, so just calm down. If it's some of that strange male pride that's bothering you, I sure don't see you as less than a man. Do you need me to repeat that, just to make sure it sinks in?" He shook his head.

"Good, because even if you were a normal man, I've never met anyone like you."

She sipped her coffee after placing his in front of him, "How was your wife after she arrived? Any difference that you could tell?"

He nodded, with a slightly grim expression.

"Good," she said, "that's where you'll start then," sliding a letter pad and a pen to him, "While I'm in town, could you please try to make a list of what kind of farming things you'd need just to get started? But the most important part is this - "

"But I have trouble speaking English sometimes, Elena. Writing it is hard for me."

She shook her head, "I don't have to read it, you'll read it to me, so write it however you want to. I want you to make a list of ALL of the things that were different about Danaya when she came from how you remembered her - everything, no matter how small, or even if it makes you uncomfortable to tell me. This is important to me, Ion, and to us. If you haven't figured it out yet, women today are not as shy as they were back then and there. We talk about things. Sometimes, we even talk about them to the men in our lives," she winked with a smile. "So while I'm gone, even if you don't get to the farm stuff just yet, do this for us. Everything, remember, physical things about her body, changes in her way of acting to you, anything that you can remember. I know you might have trouble with the memory, I understand that perfectly, that's why I want you to do this while I'm gone, ok?"

He nodded, "Yes." With a bit of a thought, he spoke up, "You will find boat on the other side of dock. I moved it. Was in wind too much and I was afraid it would break, maybe. Will maybe be full of water too, now. I will empty it for you. There is small red pump."

She was amazed at him, and said so, but she didn't see how he could pump it out for her, considering he had no clothes. He just smiled and told her to get going as he stood up and hugged her to him.

After his long kiss, she admitted that she really didn't feel like going anywhere now, but that she'd do it anyway. Ion laughed and after a quick kiss, he was out the door.

By the time she'd gotten dressed, tied her hair in a loose braid, and applied a bit of makeup to cover the slight discoloration that her impact with the door had brought, he was already well into emptying the boat. He had no idea how his making a list as she'd asked him to could help, but for her, it was nothing to him if he could help her.

She stood there in amazement as she reached the dock, "Ion, you know that there are water skiers and fishing boats all around here, what are you doing?"

It took him a second to stare at her and how she looked with her hair braided, but he laughed, "People only see what they want to see, Elena. Nobody that far away sees dog in water, and nobody sees man here on this side emptying boat standing in water!" He scowled as the pump began to suck air a minute later, "But I can go no more, I think. I must get on dock or in boat to do more. But there is plug to empty boat as long as it moves. Only be sure to put back before you stop, yes?"

She laughed at him and tousled his hair, "This is great, Ion, thank you." He nodded with that smile of his and slipped under the dock. She watched for a moment as the wolf swam off from the other side, getting in to start the motor.