28. Stellar Transit

Lupo was at a total loss.His thoughts swam in circles as he attempted to comprehend Auren's account of the shadow and the whispers. The story was so beyond anything he could have imagined that he ran out of plausible explanations rather quickly. The transformation in Auren was undeniable, stretching far beyond his disconcerting eyes. Reluctantly, Lupo came to admit that whatever Auren had encountered in the void, it had left its mark on him—it was real.

"Is it speaking to you now?" he asked, peering into Auren's eyes as though he expected to see the thing staring back at him from within.

"No, not right now. It comes and goes," Auren admitted tiredly.

The ship was piping in the sounds of a woodland stream, faint animal calls, and the sigh of wind passing through trees. The attempt at serenity only inflamed his unease.

"We'll figure this out. I promise," Lupo assured Auren, squeezing his hand.

This… thing… had attached itself to him because of Bartie—because of what Lupo had forced him into. And Lupo felt committed now to doing whatever it took, for however long it took, to undo as much of the harm he'd caused Auren as he could.

The younger man looked at him, his youthful face strained but forcing a weak smile. His haunting eyes glimmered in the light of the aquarium. And to Lupo's relief, the innocence he had seen in Auren during their first moments together had returned. He found himself kissing him before he knew what he was doing. Lupo withdrew abruptly, touching his mouth like he'd just used a forbidden word. Auren's lips had been so soft…

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have. I don't know what came over me," Lupo blundered, ashamed that he'd let himself get carried away like that.

He instinctively began to rise to remove himself from Auren's presence, but to his shock, Auren shoved him back onto the bed and straddled him aggressively.

"But I don't want to stop," Auren whispered, taking off first his own then Lupo's shirt.

Their bare torsos connected forcefully as Lupo pulled Auren down onto him, his hands roving across the petite man's lithe, muscled frame as he finally had the opportunity to touch him the way he'd wanted to for so long.

Auren was both hard and soft. His skin was smooth and nearly hairless, and even though Lupo knew neither of them were actual flesh and blood, the interplay of his senses and the expert crafting of their synthetic bodies was so convincing that he kept forgetting they weren't truly alive.

Lupo could even feel the ache of his cock bulging against his flight suit, sending shivers of pleasure across the span of him as he instinctively thrust against Auren's weight. He could taste Auren's sweetness as their lips locked together. He could feel the warmth of Auren's hand as it traced its way down Lupo's hairy chest. But then the hand froze, and Auren seemed to lose the momentum driving him.

"You're shaking," Lupo commented, feeling Auren's hand begin to tremble as it neared its desired destination.

Auren was shivering violently on top of him now.

"Sorry, I've… never been with anyone," Auren chattered. "I was going to try and pretend, I just…"

Lupo gently rolled them over, laying Auren on his back atop the sheets. He brushed Auren's hair back from his forehead.

"Is this okay?" Lupo murmured, placing one of his hands on Auren's chest. To his relief, he could feel Auren relax at his touch, and the gooseflesh and trembling subsided.

"Yes," Auren whispered.

"And this?" Lupo asked quietly, kissing down the side of his neck.

"Yes," Auren moaned.

Lupo pressed his muscular torso into Auren's, delighting in their warmth. He bit at Auren's earlobe. Gently at first, and then a little more aggressively as Auren exposed more of his neck to him.

"Mmmph," Auren moaned.

Lupo's cock was the hardest he thought it had ever been. When Auren's hand grazed it for the first time, finally regaining the courage to explore his unrequited desires, he let out a quiet gasp.

"You don't need to be shy," Lupo whispered. He sat up and slid first one then the other leg out of his flight suit pants.

His cock was precisely as it had been when he'd been a man—he was prodigious, and the look on Auren's face now was one he'd jerk off thinking about for the rest of time.

Auren reached out hesitantly, then clasped his small hand around Lupo's girth, stroking the length of him as he took in his size. Lupo's cock shuddered at the contact, and he worried he'd come then and there.

"You're… beautiful," Auren said.

"Nowhere near as beautiful as you, amore mio," Lupo replied.

Auren was taking off his pants now, revealing the rest of what Lupo believed to be the most beautiful body in the universe. He was perfect. Inside and out. And Lupo knew then that he loved him. He loved him like he'd never loved anyone in all his years. And the feeling was so overwhelming that he wondered if he'd even known love before now—before this.

Before Auren.

They threw themselves at each other. Auren's breath was hot and fevered as their lips reconnected. They were both kneeling on the bed, their naked torsos pressed against one another as their cocks touched for the first time. Auren's breath became frenzied at the contact, and he thrust himself into Lupo ferally, seemingly overcome with lust.

"How do you want this to go?" Lupo whispered.

Auren had begun to kiss his way down Lupo's neck, and he was half worshipping, half exploring him as he traced his tongue around his nipple.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Do you want to fuck me? Do you want me to fuck you? Do you want to…" Lupo began listing the possibilities.

"Fuck me," Auren said decisively. "I want you to fuck me."

Lupo had to bypass his own orgasm then as Auren took the head of his massive cock in his soft, wet mouth.

"By the stars, that feels fucking amazing," he groaned, thrusting inadvertently and causing Auren to gag violently at his length. The more petite man was jerking off furiously, apparently liking it when he did so.

Lupo couldn't wait any longer and shoved Auren playfully to the bed.

"You asked for it," he growled.

Lupo swirled his tongue along Auren's shaft, biting at his balls before continuing down his taint until he reached his quivering asshole. He began to probe and prod at the opening, feeling it first resist him and then start to give way.

"This is new," Auren gasped. He was bucking at the intrusion.

Lupo ran his hand up and down Auren's washboard abs, loving the feel of his ass pressed against his face. He fucked him furiously with his synthetic tongue, stroking his cock off as he did so.

"Are you ready?" Lupo asked once his face had become sore from the effort, panting at the exertion.

"I… think so," Auren said dreamily.

Lupo had the ship print up some personal lubricant and dispensed it liberally across his length before giving a hefty dollop to Auren's hole.

"Ooof… that's cold!" Auren winced.

"Sorry," Lupo laughed. "I probably should have warmed it up in my hands first. Here. Let's try that again."

He dispensed another glob into his hands, rubbing them together vigorously before applying it to Auren's rock-hard shaft.

Lupo pressed himself against Auren's virgin asshole, looking down at him for permission. Auren nodded at him and began stroking himself off as Lupo slowly pushed the head of his cock past his sphincter.

At first, Auren didn't seem to be able to relax enough to accommodate him, but eventually, he felt himself begin to slide in inch by inch. Auren felt amazing. Better than amazing. And Lupo let out a low grunt as he entered him completely.

He rested momentarily, feeling Auren stretch and loosen to accommodate him as he relaxed into the intrusion.

"Still okay?" Lupo asked. The sight of Auren completely skewered by him made it hard to believe he was.

"Fuck me," Auren moaned.

And so Lupo began to. He pulled out until only the head of his cock connected them, then slowly plunged his entire length into Auren in a single, smooth thrust.

"Oh," Auren whispered as he did it again. And again. Faster now. Harder.

Auren wasn't jerking himself off anymore. His cock bobbed up and down furiously as Lupo ravaged him. The sight of his bare, muscled chest sent Lupo into a frenzy, and he fucked him like it was the only thing that had ever mattered.

Auren began to come. And the copious amount of ejaculation that erupted from him was the first thing the synthetic bodies hadn't gotten quite right. There was loads of it. Auren's orgasm seemed to go on for far longer than it should have as the young man shuddered and groaned beneath him, clutching at the sheets like he was holding on to reality itself. Lupo felt his cock swell inside of him and then began to experience his version of what Auren appeared to be going through.

His mind erupted into pure pleasure that went on and on and on. It was nothing like a human orgasm. It was better. And he realized then that he could have as many of these as he wanted.

Lupo began to fuck Auren again before it even finished, in the second round of what ended up being an entire night lost to carnal lust.

And with each drawn-out experience of bliss, Lupo and Auren proved to one another over many sweaty hours that they were, indeed, alive.