Message-ID: <47470asstr$1081980609@assm.asstr-mirror.org> X-Mail-Format-Warning: No previous line for continuation: Wed Aug 14 16:30:23 2002Return-Path: <virgosun@internode.on.net> X-Original-To: ckought69@hotmail.com Delivered-To: ckought69@hotmail.com X-Original-Message-ID: <005901c42209$6e63c9a0$6701a8c0@penguin> From: "virgosun" <virgosun@internode.on.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:15:37 +1000 Subject: {ASSM} Beryl and the Polymorph 9/9 {virgosun} (mf cons rom 1st mutant) Lines: 639 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:10:09 -0400 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail Approved: <assm@asstr-mirror.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2004/47470> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: RuiJorge, dennyw <1st attachment, "poly09.txt" begin> *BERYL AND THE POLYMORPH* by virgosun (c) April 2004 ******************************* (Part 9) They drove to Dot's place, where Beryl was to stay while the storm blew over. Dot welcomed them both, and served them cocoa in the kitchen. Ted was locked to the telly. The household was in cheerful disarray, Rhoda's toys scattered about. Dot listened sympathetically as Beryl told the whole story, including the night George had assaulted her; it was then that Pro demonstrated, with rather more delicacy than he had used in front of Mum, what exactly he could do. With a soft, supple arm that snaked into a fine tentacle, he reached down behind and under the heavy kitchen cabinet to retrieve a wedding photo that had slipped down there. At first, watching him, Dot's face was agog with fascinated horror. But then, when the lost photo was placed back in her hands, joy lit her face and glinted with unshed tears in her eyes. Thanking Pro, she dusted off the portrait and set it on a safer shelf. "I have a little news of my own," Dot said demurely. They could hear Ted's deep voice murmuring after he answered the telephone, and the trio exchanged glances. Then Dot patted her apron, over her stomach, a glow in her eyes. She winked at Pro. "By the time you two get married, you'll be aunty and uncle again." "Oh Dot, that's wonderful!" Beryl cried, hugging her sister. Holding her at arms' length, she frowned, lowering her voice. "But I thought...you and Ted...weren't happy!" "Whatever gave you that idea?" Dot wondered. "Well, just that...Mum..." "Oh for God's sake Beryl, you should know our mother by now! After what went on tonight, for heaven's sakes? She's never understood Ted and she's had us heading for the divorce courts since we got married! Look, I'll grant you, marriage isn't always easy, 'specially after you have a baby, but it gets easier..." She gave a start as the kitchen door creaked and Ted poked his granite face into the kitchen. He favoured Pro a broad, keyboard grin, a rare sight in itself, then presented him a huge, thickskinned paw in greeting. "Reckon I oughtta welcome you to the family right now, you're gonna fit right in! She really has got her pinny in a knot. That was the Truffle Troll..." "Edward Ryan..." "...I let her know Beryl was safe and sound and going to stay the night. Should I make up the nursery? It's only tiny, but it's the only room we got. She din't stay on the line for long, but she never does when I answer, dunno why." Beryl was destined to spend several weeks staying with Dot. The going joke within the family was that Beryl could only stay until the new baby arrived, by which time she would be moving in with her husband. During her stay, she noticed the little clues she had missed before. Although each of them sometimes seemed preoccupied with their own thoughts, Dot and Ted also shared much - a look, a brief touch in passing, and a complete ease in each others' closeness that spoke volumes for mutual trust and respect. And they both welcomed Pro when he came to dinner. Pro fronted up at the scene of Mum's dinner fiasco the next day with a piece of glass, and helped Dad fix the door. "I...know a good man when I see one," said Dad, drawing on his pipe as he faced Pro through the missing window. And later, as they worked together to fix the panel, "Don't pay no heed to Flora, young man. She just takes her time to change her mind. She teaches patience, but that's no bad thing to learn." Slow anger and disappointment seethed within Beryl, though, at her mother's refusal to accept Pro. When it became obvious George was _not_ going to sell his car, and he continued to parade around town with Jean on display in the passenger seat, Mum retracted none of her belief in the former boyfriend. _Just because she had to marry, and Dot had to marry!_ Beryl fumed. _I'm doing the right thing and she's punishing me!_ Resentment was potent fuel for rebellion. *** As the weeks passed, one of the Phillips Clan houses received intensive care. It had been designed so that rooms could be added later as needed, but thus far had been little more than a shack for a single man. The kitchen was properly fitted out, and the blankets that had served as makeshift curtains came down from the windows. Raw external timbers were whitewashed, and paving stones set. Beryl herself worked full-time with the Enabled now, organising and ordering, and taking her turn in the gardens and with the children. However, she was not allowed to work upon Pro's house other than to plant garden beds. Tempest was largely responsible for keeping her at bay. "Ohh, shoo you!" Beryl flapped her hands at the laughing girl one afternoon. "You should be working on your own house! Doug's billet's hardly a place to go!" "Ooh! That reminds me! Pro's cake! Don't say anything!" With a classically Tempest leap of logic, she turned and ran back inside to take a whistling kettle off the boil, and was still taking off her apron as she trotted back outside past Beryl. "And his present! Doug said we've got to be uptown before closing to pick it up! Secret, mind! Don't go 'way, I'll be back soon!" The weekend was bringing Pro's birthday party. Shaking her head as she stood to watch Tempest go, Beryl pulled off her gardening gloves. In Tempest-speak, "soon" could mean half an hour, or half a day. Enough of seedlings! The punnets had been well watered, so they could wait to go in the garden. Beryl's back needed stretching, her knees a walk about. The fellers would be knocking-off for the evening shortly; if Tempest had left a hot kettle, the reasonable thing to do would be brew a pot of tea. It wasn't that she was banned from the house - on the contrary, she was consulted on everything from paint colours to doorknobs. Pro returned to his home every afternoon wondering what had changed, and what new surprise was in store. Now, as Beryl wandered in, shoes clicking on plastic matting that protected the floorboards, she gazed about in satisfaction. Although still lacking linoleum or curtains, the kitchen was functional. Making the tea while gazing from the window felt...different to making tea with Dot or Mum bustling around, strange and lonely on her own. But that loneliness would pass. Someone else would be home soon. Leaving the tea to draw, she walked into the loungeroom, past the dining table and a set of raw pine chairs awaiting varnish. There were coils of wire looping from holes in the wall for the television, the phone. She glimpsed the bathroom, still scented with fresh grout. The short hallway had an open end that had been tacked- over with plywood; beyond there was a timber skeleton for a second bedroom. She turned, entering the master bedroom. There were still speckled dropsheets all over the floor, but the painting was complete. Soft gossamer curtains filtered the warm, late-afternoon light. Pro's simple, single bed was covered by a fresh calico sheet. In a few weeks they would go to one of the big department stores, perhaps all the way to Kennaware, and shop for a double bed. The thought of it made Beryl draw a deep breath and clasp her hands to her heart for what that purchase represented. This was love splendid, love sublime...and love for life. Her happy face was slightly flushed, as reflected by the long mirror on the new wardrobe. New things smelled so good! Experimentally, she tugged one of the doors open. This half was still empty, a-jingle with coathangers, and she could see Pro's clothes hanging in the other side. How would it feel, to change clothes in here, before this mirror, before going off to the dance or the pictures? She could imagine Pro fiddling with his tie in the mirror, chin stuck forward, neck rippling and sizing to fit his collar. How would it feel, to relax at day's end? Beryl stepped out of her shoes, wriggling her toes. With a fey laugh, she pulled open the shoe drawer and set them neatly inside, then closed it again. In the privacy of her room, she could dress and undress as she pleased. Facing the mirror, she unbuttoned her blouse, wanting to hang _something_ in that empty cabinet. She wouldn't take all her clothes off, just a couple of items, to say she had claimed the space for herself. She shook the blouse out, then hung it fussily; undid her belt, unfastened her skirt, then slipped it down and stepped out. There was a clip-hanger that she could pin the skirt to. Then she stepped back, admiring the sight of her clothes hanging there, where they belonged. There came a muffled clatter, crockery on a sink, with a wonderfully familiar cheerful whistling. Beryl blushed, heart racing. Pro was home, helping himself to the tea, while she was standing around in her underwear. Although...the petticoat was a nice one, sheer and satiny, with plenty of lace on the hem and bodice. She turned side on to the mirror and posed, feeling like a vampy screen goddess. Arms raised and elbows bent, she took off the scarf and fluffed-up her wavy brown tresses. _Pearls!_ If only for a long string of them, or some bird-of-paradise feathers for her hair! She twirled from side to side, piling her hair up on top so that a few strands escaped and dangled down her neck in a wanton manner... "Er, Beryl?" Of course, he had oozed out of his grimy work-clothes in the laundry, then stopped by the kitchen when he saw the steaming teapot, then hoped and suspected she was still about. He'd heard movement in the bedroom, and slithered sneakily up the hall to check. Now he reared up to full height and human form, a tea mug clutched in one hand, grinning broadly and blushing almost as much as Beryl. His free hand had spread out as a broad sheet, making an apron of flesh that covered his pelvic area. "Hi!" Her face was on fire as she let her hair drop. "I was just trying out the wardrobe!" Her nipples had jumped to attention, so strongly that their peaks were visible in spite of her heavy cotton bra. The soft light caught the satin of her petticoat as it fell from those sharp points, and she could see Pro's eyes lingering on the view. The tingle in her nipples matched the moist pleasure that crept deep within her privacy. "Does it work?" Pro asked whimsically. "Oh yes. I should ask you that!" Beryl giggled, eyeing him curiously. "What's up? Have you got something to hide? I've seen you naked often enough," she teased. "Um...things," he said coyly. "Thank you for making the tea." His sudden shyness was endearing. All mischief, Beryl teased, although her lips were tingling with the need to kiss him. "I've seen your testicles before," she said softly, amazed at the silken change in her voice. Perhaps she truly was that siren of the screen, and if she arranged herself elegantly on the bed, would Pro feed her grapes before ravishing her? "Not like this you haven't," he vowed soberly. Beryl paced toward him, no longer looking at his groin, but his face. Raising her hands, she drew his face to hers in a long, velvet kiss. He relaxed and enfolded her, extending his arm to set his cup on the dresser, then bringing those nibbling lips to play. Across her shoulder, then up the arc of her neck, kissing her two for one. She pressed her satin body to him, feeling a warm and exciting pressure against her belly. His shielding hand, he brought away, to cup the smooth fullness of her rump and feel her womanly shape. "You're tense," she whispered, slipping her hands around his back, feeling the texture of his skin rippling. "Of course I'm tense...there's a beautiful, half-naked woman rubbing herself against me," he breathed. "In my bedroom." "Our," she corrected him. "Or should I leave now?" She drew a fingertip along his neck, down to the place where his heart pulsed strongly in his chest. Tiny patterns of scarlet flashed through his skin in response to her caress, and his whole body shivered. "God no, Beryl, love, don't leave!" "I wanted to be here for you, when you came home. I guess I wanted to know what it's going to be like when we move in together." Their lips merged passionately, tongues slithering in union, his agile tongue curling over hers. The loose straps of her petticoat slipped from her shoulders at a gesture from his kissing palm, and when she offered no protest, he eased the sterner straps of her bra aside too. Lifting his face from hers, he gazed at the beauty of her bare shoulders, the inviting vale of her cleavage. His body was beginning to pulse to the rhythm of his heart, as it had that night atop the Wall. Beryl let her head fall back in delight, hair tickling down her spine as he brought his lips to the sensitive skin. The hand that had caressed her behind rolled into a tentacle that snaked around her thigh, questing as it had beneath the table at dinner so long ago, tiny lips opening so that a tonguelet could play across her skin. "Please," she breathed, slipping her hand along that cord, to and fro, encouraging his exploration between her thighs. Her other hand roved over the smooth strength of his hips, and around toward the heat where their bodies pressed together. She wanted to touch him. With wriggling fingers, she let him know, drawing back only far enough to allow her hand access. Pro gasped, raising his head, eyelids falling shut. Lips parted in wonder, Beryl found hot, soft dangling, sensitive shapes to cup in her fingers gently. At first it seemed tighter cords might reel them in, safely away from reach, so she kept her hand very still. Soon, their weight settled in her gentle clasp, and Pro moaned in delight, rocking against her. She let her hand trail upward, a caress that found a thicker, stiffer tentacle than any she had felt before. Beneath her slip, a much finer, nimble feeler slithered beneath the elastic of her knickers, creeping into the soft forest of her pubes, and the well at its heart. "My love," Pro murmured, running palm-kisses up her throat, "would you...be nude with me?" For answer, she drew her hands away from him, to start raising the hem of her petticoat. Her nipples were so sensitive that they hurt where they rubbed on the bra. As her shift rose up, with the probe that explored her he hooked her panties down, so that they slipped from her legs with a caress of farewell. She stepped back from them, out of them, away - they were ugly and utilitarian, a remnant of girlhood and the safe things her mother bought for her. Now she was free of them. Pro admired her, her body unveiled like some warm, living, classical statue, a temple of womanhood awaiting. His arms encircled her once more, and the catch of her bra made little resistance to so many nimble fingers. At last, her full beauty was revealed, rosy nipples sweet with promise as her breasts were uncovered. Tightening his arms, he drew her to him, to stop her looking at that scarlet, throbbing place he had been trying so hard to shape. Beryl gazed into his eyes, cradling his face in her hands. "It's not right yet," he mumbled. She silenced him with a kiss. "No, silly, you're perfect. You're perfect for Pro. You don't have to look exactly like other men." She gave a wicked giggle. "I'm sure I'll never know what I'm missing out on. This has got to be better." Her pelvis ground against him with a mind of its own, as she tried to catch the pleasingly hard stump between her upper thighs. "Skin upon skin," he breathed, hands dividing into many fingers, rippling over her back and through her hair. Beryl drew a deep, shivering breath at the forbidden joy of his body pressed close. "Although nudity was normal for me, it was never for anyone else...but now, my darling, now..." He brought both his hands with ceremonial slowness to cup her breasts, gently dappling and kneading the soft flesh, tweaking her nipples. She gasped as little lips opened, sucking one nipple into the palm of his hand as he lowered his face to the other. From that place at his groin, something smooth and hot grew. A pulsing, firm cord snaked into her crotch, testing and tasting. Beryl groaned as secret, naughty needs clenched every part of her, from the fire in her clit to the deep, rolling clenches of her vagina. The one thing that would relieve her body's longings was lingering just outside. The third, tiny mouth that opened was just large enough to embrace her clit with its lips, to tease with its tongue, lapping and stroking her point of fire to an agony of purest pleasure. Beryl cried out his name, digging her fingers into his throbbing flesh as she climaxed. He kissed and nibbled upon nipples and clitoris, the sturdy cable of his manhood rubbing against her entry. As her orgasm ebbed, she let her weight fall against him, the rest of his body morphing to catch her. Together, they slid to the comfort of his bed. "I want to be Mrs. Phillips, Proteus. Make me your wife," Beryl murmured, a low command. She rolled onto her back, welcoming him within the embrace of her thighs, wriggling as that smallest mouth continued to lap amidst her folds. Rocking back, he stroked and kissed her breasts with his hands, revelling in how she responded to his lightest touch. The part of him that explored her went deeper...deeper. A long, slender cord reached further than any finger had, slipping beyond the low frontier of her maidenhead without breaking it. The sensation of him writhing and twirling deep inside begged her to wriggle and bear against him, bringing her to throb in time with his body. She kneaded his back and rump, squeezing rhythmically. His skin was taut as a drum, body tight and rigid. "Let it go!" she pleaded. His eyes were bright, face tense. "Let it go! I want to hold you, all of you inside me!" Something deep within grew, stretching, a pressure building that made her clench. Pro gasped, arching his back as she gripped him. Deep pulsations rolled the length of her vagina, each expansion larger than the last, filling her utterly. "Love you Beryl!" Her answer was a lusty cry of delight as she soared upon her second orgasm. His rhythm drew her on, and on, holding her at that point of ecstasy. When at last she gasped for breath, the room coming back into focus, Pro was still throbbing like one giant heart. There came a wave of heat across his skin, a massive spasm that started somewhere deep inside him, and ended in an explosion at her core. With the passing of that moment, Pro quivered and lost all form as his body relaxed, a warm mass that sighed and slipped around her. She held him in her arms, stroking his liquid back and whispering his name. He melted from within her, leaving a hot lake of moisture in her care. "I...never thought...a woman could love...one such as me," he mumbled through lips gone rubbery. Strength and tension slowly spread through him as he regained his senses, resting within her embrace. Beryl hugged him fiercely. "Nonsense. Basil found someone, why not you?" "Oh, I hoped...but couldn't imagine...what this moment would feel like...darling Beryl." He peeled back slightly so that he could see her sweaty face, taking some of his weight on columnar arms. The face he formed was one of tenderness and concern, and he brushed her brow with a tendril. "Are you all right, my love? I felt something...give way inside...and I couldn't stop." "I'm fine, Pro, it's all right. Maybe it was the future giving way to us? I am yours, now and forever." She squeezed him, and he relaxed against her, smiling. "No other man in the world is like you, and no other could satisfy me now." They nestled together until the sunlight faded from the window. Pro gazed in wonder at the pale carnation that had appeared upon his bed where they had lain. They were married now, more soundly than the murmurings of a country minister could make them. They bathed together, washing the sweat from each other, touching and caressing. There was time to grab a bite to eat, and to put ice in the long-cooled tea. When Tempest returned she snacked with them, a knowing sparkle in her eyes. Beryl phoned Dot, blushing as she did so, wondering how she would explain staying at the tower site overnight. For there was nowhere else she wanted to be. She said Tempest and Pro's parents had offered to take her in. *** "This is what it's all about." They walked their bikes along River Road, arm in arm, Beryl with her head on Pro's shoulder. That they lived together in their new home raised eyebrows about town, but only smiles on Enabled ground. Although, Tempest had raised some dust in wanting to spend more time with Douggie. It was he who settled her, with talk of "the future". And pegs were hammered into the ground assigned to Tempest, the weeds cleared and a few holes dug. Beryl and Pro had bought ice pops and now walked down to the river, watching the rose and gold of sunset as birds flocked home to roost. It had been a thrilling day, perhaps not in activity or obvious strife; the kind of day where the furore was mental, a flurry of news and elation and apprehension combined. Through it all, their arms were entwined, the strength of two into the future. Later they would curl in their new bed, together, and make love until the deepest hours. For now, it was time to rest and relax, together, away from the eyes of public, family and friends. Behind them, on the deepening mauve sky of the east, the tower gleamed with golden sunset light. The town lights were just flicking on, the sky still bright. A heavy engine roared. The baleful eyes of a large sedan veered toward them, with the doppler bray of a rude horn. Pro threw himself and Beryl into the roadside easement, trying with swift cords to cushion her landing as bikes and limbs flew all ways. The large, red car passed so close it showered them with sprayed gravel, leaving thick tyre-tracks in the sandy road shoulder, the stink of its hot breath over-rich with fuel. They picked themselves up, Pro brandishing a fist as he helped Beryl up. "Rowbotham!" But before they could check their scrapes or straighten their clothing, there came a splintering crump, a deep rattle and smash; a splash of something large and weighty hitting the creek, another crunch. Pro was on his bike in a moment, punching the pedals, Beryl close behind. "Shouldn't we call the police?" she shouted. But they were close to the bridge, and Pro wasn't stopping to discuss niceties. Dust still hung in the air, intermixed with exhaust fumes. Beyond a confusion of torn and splintered vegetation, George's car was in the riverbed, upside- down, wheels still turning as they lost momentum. Steam hung wraithlike over the car's carcass, a questionmark. The river wasn't deep, but the current was strong, crescent waves rising around the front half of the wreck, lapping the wheel-arches and spitting from hot brakes. The passenger's door was flapping open. Jean tottered from the river, bedraggled, bloodied but mobile. Her jade silk dress was torn, her hair a tangled mass. Beryl scrambled down the bank, catching Jean's questing hands and helping her to the shore. "George..." she whispered, then pleaded. "_George!_" Beryl whirled to face the car again. The cabin was full of boiling brown river water, and the strength of the current was swinging the whole car about on the pivot of its sunken roof. How often had she gone parking, nuzzling and cuddling in that rigid metal cage? She could have let George touch her, and could have still been in there, trapped with him. Drowning. The horrible, hateful thought that came to mind made her stomach turn. _Leave him there!_ Then she saw a flutter of discarded fabric. Jean shrieked. A fluid ripple of flesh slipped from the confines of clothing and plunged into the water. Beryl glimpsed his breathing-pores opening wide before he sank. "What was that???" "My fiance." "The freak...oh..." Beryl stood motionless in the shallows, Jean sobbing as she clung to her. The river chuckled gleefully and twirled its new toy. A car halted on the bridge, and someone called out. It seemed forever, but it took a few short minutes. Through the back of a glossy dark wave, Beryl saw something slither along the stones of the creekbed, perfectly adapted for the conditions. Then two bodies broke the water's surface, George wracked by explosive coughs. Pro carried him into the shallows on his mollusc-back, then supported him while he vomited. More bystanders were arriving, taking Jean in hand and helping her to a seat, taking off coats and finding travel blankets. Beryl gathered Pro's clothing, for a moment pressing the cloth to her face, catching the comforting scent of his body and their wardrobe. Gravel crunched, and his outline loomed tall before her in the deepening dusk. He smiled his lopsided smile, then turned his head toward town. Between the trees, his tower was tall enough to still be catching the sunlight. It blazed like a candle of redemption. "Now _that_," Pro breathed, "is what it's all about!" *** Proteus "Pro" Phillips and Beryl Crabtree married six months earlier than was originally planned. If Beryl had worried about her mother, she needn't have minded - Mum attended the wedding and cried her eyes out for joy. Most of the town turned out to wish the newlyweds well, and the churchyard was brilliant with flowers, notably an abundance of carnations. Even George and Jean attended, and while George couldn't quite bring himself to shake Pro's hand, he wished the couple well. Doug and Tempest married within the next year. Of course, a fortuitous breeze had carried Beryl's bouquet almost directly to Tempest's hands. On Tempest's wedding day, the weather was perfect. Pro's first baby son wriggled in the cradle of his father's arms. He had perfectly-defined limbs and a square, stolid face, definitely taking after the Crabtree side of the family. Beryl hugged her husband and son. To her mind, both her men were perfect, in every way. (end) <1st attachment end> ----- ASSM Moderation System Notice------ Notice: This post has been modified from its original format. 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