Invitation*

After the strange encounter with the 'Health Care Unit' from the SCP Foundation, I walk towards my car. Luckily, it's early evening, and not many people are on the streets, so I can avoid most.

Even when most people aren't so brave, there are always a few who will intervene if they see a guy carrying some young woman through the streets...

When we arrive near the Milton household, I can sense two people inside, probably Amy and her husband.

The door is already fixed, and the broken windows seem to be taped up with some foil too. I'm glad that they seem to be fine even if they are probably worried sick about their daughter...

But I also can't simply walk in and say, "Hello here is your daughter. She fought with her otherworldly father and is now sleeping after conjuring some crazy sign." Or maybe I can, I don't know...

Before I can decide, I feel Cthylla's hands wander up my chest and then around my neck.

"Good evening, did you sleep well?" I ask her, looking at her sleepy but happy face as she smiles at me.

"It is quite easy if you know you are safe," says Cthylla, snuggling up to me by burying her face into my chest.

This makes me smile, and I continue to walk towards my car and ask her after we arrive there, "Should we go inside? I'm pretty sure they are waiting for you."

She looks towards her house, she grew up in this world, and then shakes her head and says, "No, take me away from here. They seem to be fine."

She sounds tough, but her face shows a painful expression so I ask her, "Are you sure? We probably can make it work somehow."

I ask her that even when both of us know that every place we stay for too long would turn into a war zone as long as Cthulhu and his Followers are out there...

"Yes, as long as I stay away from them, they will be safe... I don't want my father to have any chance to use them as his puppets against me."

"I understand..." I open the door and lay her down in the backseat and go to the driver's seat myself.

She gets up a bit and looks a last time at her home, and I start the engine.

I give her a bit of time to be mentally ready and she asks after a while, "Ras? Will you help me to live a normal life in this world? Where I can visit people without fearing that my father will kill them or worse?"

I turn to her and say simply, "Yes."

She nods with a smile and then lays down to sleep.

As soon as she has recovered enough, I should probably go on a little hunt...

For a specific Follower, the first of his kind in this world. If I can bring him down, this could throw Cthulhu's plans back for a few centuries, giving me enough time to find a way to deal with him for good.

Too bad that he mostly stays in the background... but I'm sure a grumpy hunter can help me search for him...

With a promise and a new goal in mind, I drive towards a motel to relax for the evening.

---

After arriving at a motel a bit outside of town, I book a room for us and place Cthylla on a bed to let her rest while I go and take a shower.

Nothing is better than a cold shower to wash away the ash, especially after you have been burned alive...

Afterwards, I put on jeans and a dark grey shirt since the clothes from the store were dirty from the ash, and go out to the store across the street to get some snacks, bourbon, and two glasses to drink from.

Luckily, I still have over twenty thousand dollars in my trunk, or I would have no money since my wallet burned down with my clothes...

Speaking of burning down, I also need to ask Cthylla how to create that elder sign... maybe I can even make some new weapons out of it.

When I return to the motel, I see my clothes bag has been ravaged by someone who is happily showering right now, while her clothes are lying on the ground next to the bed.

While she freshens up, I sit down on a chair, pour some bourbon, and open the snacks. Nothing special, just chips, a lot of sweet stuff, and even an apple pie.

The good thing about being immortal is that you can eat whatever you want without getting fat... well, at least I can't get fat, Cthylla's vessels usually can.

She spent a lot of time in the other world doing sports or trying all the diets known to mankind to stay in shape.

"Too bad you didn't pick up my bags in the shopping center; I had a lot of clothes in there, including underwear..." says Cthylla while drying her hair with a towel, wearing only one of my black button-up shirts.

Well, I only put on the necessary stuff on her in the clothing store, and underwear didn't really seem important...

She places the towel on her head and walks towards me with a grin.

Then sits down on my lap, while placing her arms around my neck and asks mischievously, "Or did you leave out the underwear to recreate your dream?"

I grab a chip and stuff it in her mouth to wipe the grin off her face. However, before I can pull my finger away, she playfully bites my index finger before happily munching on the chip...

---

"Au... no, we kinda needed to get out of there, so I put on only clothes to hide the ash and keep you from getting cold," I say to her, after enduring her critical strike.

She looks skeptically at me, then says, "Sure, let's say I believe you... but how did you even find me in the shopping center? I am pretty sure that I hid myself with Enochian seals."

"I simply asked your mother." I say with a shrug.

"You met Amy? Did you meet Richard too?" asks Cthylla excitedly.

"No, he was at work or something like that. Only Amy was at home."

"It is probably better that way, considering how damaged the house was. What happened there anyway?" she asks, curious and worried at the same time.

"Well, I drank coffee with Amy until a Follower appeared with a bunch of mind-controlled people. So I locked her up to keep her safe and then went to deal with the Follower. But, the freaks outside became angry afterwards and demolished the house a bit to get me..."

"Well, the house is not important, but I'm glad you kept her safe, even though it will be hard to explain later why you locked her up and people destroyed their house..."

"She probably also thinks that I kidnapped you, so the conversation will be awkward anyway," I say with a chuckle.

Cthylla laughs at that but then gets serious all of a sudden and puts her forehead on my chest.

Well, it seems she is finally ready to talk.

"What happened after I was... gone from the other world?" asks Cthylla carefully.

"Do you really wanna know?"

I feel her arms around my neck grip me tighter, so I take it as a yes.

"After your father killed your vessel and wounded your essence, it went amok. It absorbed everything that could keep it alive, even the world itself in the end... and after nothing was left, it simply disappeared."

"And only you survived... I'm... I'm so sorry for what I did to the people and especially to you... It must have been horrible. I'm so sorry!"

I grab her chin and make her look at me while tears stream down her beautiful eyes. "It is not your fault, and you know that. The only one who should feel sorry for what happened there is your father and no one else."

And he will feel sorry after I rip him apart...

She nods weakly but still doesn't stop crying and says,

"You know that I waited for you every day, even when I knew you probably would never appear in this world? I waited for twenty years for you to come to me and say that everything is fine, since you somehow saved the world..."

Well, there are things that not even something like me can handle...

"No, I can't say that... but I can tell you that I'm here now, so everything will be fine," I say and wipe away her tears, while she looks deeply into my eyes.

We stay like this for a while until she calms down and closes her eyes... but this time not to sleep but to invite my lips to meet hers.

An invitation I can't deny... So I bend down a bit, and our lips meet after what felt like an eternity.

***

Letting go of her chin, I kiss her more deeply while my hands wander down her body, pulling down the shirt with them.

"Mm-hmm~" She moans as I start to play with her breasts. To spoil her even more, I let go of her lips and affectionately begin to kiss and lick her neck.

Like with her last vessel, this seems to be one of the things that turns her on, and she begins to move her hips in a circle while wetting my pants.

After a few minutes, she pushes me back into the chair while her cheeks are slightly red from the ride. She then presses her lips onto mine and grabs my hands, moving them down, signaling she wants more and wants it now.

So I grab her flawless ass and lift her up while standing up myself.

"Mmmh~, touch me more! I missed that so much," she says, and then grabs the towel to throw it off her hair, showing her beauty in full glory.

To fulfill her wish, I throw her on the bed before sealing her mouth again with my lips.

Afterwards, I wander down with my mouth till I reach her perfect nipples. Then playfully bite and suck on them while fondling her breast with one hand.

In the meantime, I let my other hand wander down to her vagina and start to play with it too.

"Mhm!" She begins to moan constantly, and it becomes more heated as she allows me to do what I want with her body for a while.

Till she grabs my shoulder and throws me on the bed, straddling me again, before ripping apart my T-shirt and opening my pants.

Well, there goes my next shirt...

But she makes me forget about it instantly when she grabs my manhood and places it at her entrance before moving down on it.

""Mm-hmm~"" We moan together as our bodies finally connect again.

***