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The door shut behind Susie with a slam, hushing the howling wind and cutting off the stream of blowing snow. “Holy hell, it’s bad out there!” Her voiced teetered on yelling, but she was too busy shivering and gripping her own arms to bring it up any louder.
Lucky for Noelle, her mother wasn’t home, so there would be no one there to scold her for the ruckus. Kris, however, still did a double-take. “Might wanna be careful there, Sooz. If Mrs. Holiday caught you making that much noise, she’d read you the riot act.”
“Dude, c-come on! It’s in the n-n-negatives out there!”
“I know, I felt it too.”
“Dude, you’re an endoth-th-thermos, or whatever it’s called! You can t-tank it better than me!”
“Yeah, but not by much. I’ve got no fur.”
Hoofsteps clacked down the parlor stairwell, and their host came into view. “Hey guys!”
“Hey Noelle!”
“’S-sup, dork.”
The Doe skipped over to the threshold in nothing but shorts and a thin shirt. Kris lurched his head around to see the thermostat reading on the parlor wall. It read 50 degrees Fahrenheit. He then felt one of Noelle’s arms wrapping around him, the other just barely wrapping around Susie’s big draconic frame. The five layers of insulation on him and the seven on Susie made for a difficult hug, But Noelle embraced and nuzzled them both without hesitation, rubbing her snout on their cheeks and making them both blush even harder than the cold had made them, and they exchanged a smile as she let them go. Their eyes rested on her. Thick patches of deep brown and stark white fur adorned her, as it had throughout the winter. It was shaggier and softer and longer than her summer coat, and it was always a joy to feel brushing against one’s face, especially after a grueling 5-minute trek through the snow-coated streets of hometown.
“Come on in, you two! You look like you’ve frozen half to death!”
“You’re not too far off...” Kris quipped as he shed his outer jackets.
“N-n-nah, she’s s-spot on, dude.” Susie shivered, refusing to take off more than two layers.
Noelle felt a twang of pity for both as they shivered out of their extra layers and snow boots. “I’ve got the fire stoked and some hot chocolate, if you guys want it.”
“’If you guys want it’ she says…” Kris chuckled as he and Susie practically sprinted into the living room and up to the nice, roaring fire crackling in the rustic, red brick fireplace.
Noelle saw them both immediately put their hands and feet out practically past the hearth. “Fahaha! Man, it’s got to be really bad out there! I’ll get the hot chocolate in just a sec!”
“Thanks, Noelle!” Susie called out as the doe checked on the steaming, bubbling pot. “Oh GOD, this feels nice…”
Kris could finally feel his fingers and toes again. His eyelids glazed in sweet, sweet relief. “You said it…”
Noelle had cups of piping hot chocolate ready in moments, toped with whipped cream and sprinkles assorted in reds and greens. “Here you go, guys!”
“Thank you SO much…” Kris said, as Susie’s mouth was already full of the piping hot drink, gulping it down like a desert-stranded woman who had found water. “Heh… I think Susie likes it!”
“Mm! *gulp* Dude, shut up!” She jeered, giving him a light punch on the shoulder before immediately finishing her first cup. “Got any more, Noelle?”
“I’ve got plenty!” She walked over to pour some directly from the pot. “I should probably make more, though. You guys are putting this stuff away!”
The heat was almost hot enough to scald Kris, but not enough to discourage him from draining his cup halfway. “Yeah, that sounds great.”
“Coming right up!”
Noelle had the routine down to a tee. A second pot had the hot water, cocoa powder, sugar, and milk chocolate bar in it in no time. The stove timer was set to ten minutes, and with that, she joined her friends by the fireplace, setting her arms around them. To her relief, their shivering had begun to subside. The tighter she held them, the faster it went away, and they returned her embrace, nuzzling her shoulder and consolidating the heat between them. The shared warmth was honestly a little toasty for her preference, but it was all worth it to see the relief in their smiles and the mellow comfort in their relaxed breaths.
The feeling in their extremities had long come back at this point, and the hot chocolate warmed whatever the fire couldn’t reach. Susie’s poikilothermic proclivities began to kick in as the heat began to mount just a little over her usual comfort zone.
“Hey, do you guys mind if we move back to the couch?”
“No, not at all! Kris?”
“No objections.”
The couch awaited them with veritable mountains of pillows and comforters and quilts. None of them wasted time getting under them, even if it was relatively close to the fireplace and big screen TV that sat above it. They could still feel the hearth’s warmth, but it still felt nice to just throw some soft sheets over themselves and just bathe in it. It also helped that Noelle’s thick seasonal coat had trapped so much of it. It radiated a soft, toasty heat that spread under the sheets and enamored the boy and the dragon in mere seconds, driving them to cuddle closer to her just to get more of it. Noelle barely failed to hold in a meek little squeal as Susie and Kris put their arms around her.
Kris loved when she would get all flustered. That mischievous little boy within him laughed because playfully getting under Noelle’s skin had always been so fun. The teenager he ostensibly was now liked it for another reason entirely.
“You’re so cute!” He teased, nuzzling his nose into her shoulder.
“And warm…” Susie added with enthusiasm, digging her snout into the nook of Noelle’s neck. “So warm…”
Noelle could tell in an instant where this was going. There was little else that the doe wanted more in the world than some loving attention from Kris and Susie. The tricky part of course, was admitting she wanted it, because both the human and the dragon, if nothing else, were outright teases. They loved to tease her with how much she wanted it. They would tease her for how much she enjoyed it. They would tease her for how cute she was when in the process of loving it, and by the angel, did she indeed love it. She loved Susie’s big, kissing mouth and sloppy draconic tongue. She loved Kris’ dexterous, mischievous little fingers and plush, warm human lips. She loved the way they both adored her so much, and how eager they were to show it.
And she both loved and hated how impish they were about it.
So, to save herself an all-day long session of ‘tease the doe until she’s a blushing, squealing little puddle of fur and antlers.’ She tried hard to shrug it off and segue into a distraction. Luckily, she already had tabs on the remote, and the flash from the TV coming on seemed to have taken their attention, and with it, the noses and lips parsing and prodding her fur and skin which made her feel a little emptier than she anticipated, but she committed to the bit.
“S-so! While the hot chocolate’s going, what do you guys want to watch?”
Kris and Susie on the other hand, had already spat out the bait. The human gingerly took the remote and shut the TV off. Setting it a little distance away from himself on the other end of the couch. “Nah, I think I’m good. Not really in the mood for TV.”
“Me neither.” Susie purred, continuing to root her snout through the doe’s hair.
Neither were coming across as especially lecherous. They weren’t touching her anywhere that would escalate things (though to her begrudging admission, she wouldn’t have minded that). Their arms were still wrapped around her, hands staying above the waist, but still gently squeezing it and her midsection when they weren’t brushing through her hair. It was a foregone conclusion, but Noelle still felt she might as well ask.
“S-so what do you guys want to do, then? Smashing fighters? I’ve got the Snitch hoo-*EEK!* -hooked up!”
“It’s not as fun without Berdly giving out Johns whenever he loses.” Kris snickered, reaching a finger into one of her sensitive, ticklish armpits.
“U-um, then maybe a movie, if you guys don’t want to watch any sho-o-o-oh my gosh…”
Not wanting to be outdone, Susie upped the ante by gently nibbling Noelle’s ear, cutting the poor doe off and slurring her speech. “Nah, no movies either. Feel more like doing something than watching, you know?”
Kris was quick on the uptake. “And since it’s a frozen hellscape outside, we’re stuck indoors, so...”
Noelle resigned herself with a timid smile. “S-so what do you guys want to do then?”
Kris and Susie immediately replied with a simultaneous, drawn-out kiss on her cheeks that robbed her of breath and coherent thought.
The boy was so eager to just love all over the cute little doe that he didn’t waste time thinking of some quippy way to say it.
“We want to adore you for a bit.”
That silky, sweet tone of his seldom failed to melt her, and when coupled with rapid fire kisses from Susie, it turned her into putty. She had nothing verbal to reply with. Nothing coherent anyway. Her hands curled up in front of her and her eyelids fluttered as a soft, sweet little whimper drew itself out from the front of her throat. The sound was music to Kris and Susie’s ears, and they both drew closer to her, kris wrapping one of his legs around Noelle’s and Susie wrapping her legs around them both, sharing more of their mutual warmth and bringing them both cheek to cheek with the mewling little deer girl. Kris took one of her quivering hands and begun kissing it, driving Noelle to hold his hand with both of hers while Susie began to stroke under her chin, pecking her cheek and along the length of her snout.
“G-guys!” She squeaked in token, fake protest. “Where did this come from?!”
“You heard Kris!” Susie replied. “We just want to give you a little TLC is all.”
Kris had been given enough time to come up with teases, and he was armed and ready. “I mean, you were so nice to us, letting us in and giving us hot chocolate, getting the fire going-”
His shared braincell with Susie came in handy for the teasing. “-And we just wanted to show a little gratitude, y’know?”
Noelle had a retort in there somewhere. This was as transparent of a ploy to sandwich her as any they had tried before, but as Kris began to nibble one of her sensitive, tender, flittering ears while Susie followed suit, she quickly realized how little she cared. It just felt so good. So sweet. Why object to it?
Instead, she laid her head back and basked in the bliss her friends were so eager to bathe her in, sighing softly while their lips pecked her sensitive skin.
Kris loved the way her ears flipped and fluttered against his lips. He kissed around the base, feeling the muscles of her ears wrench and flex as they flopped around his face, then drew outward to the thin, delicate outside edges where his devious little teeth would clamp down and nibble, eliciting more of those adorable noises from his childhood friend. Her ears were so big, but so delicate and soft. He remembered with some guilt how he used to pull on them sometimes to mess with her when he was little and rambunctious. It wasn’t like she held a grudge over it. She looked back on those days with fondness, especially after they begun to reconnect, but Kris still felt some need to treat them with a little more gentleness than his childhood-self had shown. Not simply to make up for something old and forgiven, but also because it was just so much more enjoyable. Feeling her tender ears against his gently skittering teeth, hearing her lovely cooing, all of it so wonderful and sweet. He could just cuddle with her all day and do this if she’d let him.
Where Kris was gentle and teasing, Susie was just flat-out sloppy. She knew her teeth were a bit on the sharp side. Not fine razor sharp, but sharp enough that she didn’t want to risk accidentally hurting her, even if just a little, so instead she opted to use her tongue instead. She licked Noelle’s sensitive ear all over, cornering it when it retreated to make sure her tongue could give it a good lathering before she flicked it around again. She lapped at its contours, relishing the smooth texture of her fur and the softness of the cute little ear beneath it. Susie flicked at the tip of the doe’s ear with the tip of her tongue, eliciting the cutest little giggles from the doe before flat out engulfing it, making her cry out and kick her legs up and down. She could feel it trying to escape, pulling against her mouth to little avail, and she growled in satisfaction, suckling and licking to her hearts content. The dragoness marveled at just how soft Noelle was, here and elsewhere. This part of her was so irresistibly tender, and it was just her ear. She could spend hours adoring her everywhere.
Kris and Susie had just started and poor Noelle was already flushed beet red under her fur and trashing about at the sensation of naughty teeth and a feisty tongue going to town on her sensitive ears. She had a second or two to catch her breath when they stopped, only to feel their lips pressing against her cheeks again. This time, they both began to ascend he length of her snout, making their way up in alternating smooches.
While Noelle was out of words, Kris and Susie certainly weren’t. They could scarcely hold in their adoration for the doe as they continued to kiss her.
“Look at your snoot!” Kris planted a few more kisses midway up. “Look at your cute little snoot!”
“K-Kris!”
“He’s right, you know!” Susie added, rubbing the leading edge of her own big snout against the more petite frame of Noelle’s. “Look at your little snootle!”
It was almost totally unlike Susie to use cutesy talk like that. Kris too unless he was teasing, but the sincere smile on his face told her he wasn’t, and Susie hadn’t covered her mouth like she would when she would catch herself saying something that sugary. With every kiss, Noelle realized more and more just how deeply those two were head over heels for her. How much they cared about her. How much they loved her. If all the physical affection had taken her to the edge of ecstasy, the verbal affection had swiftly pushed her off, and she lurched her head back, crying out with joy as her friends continued to shower her with affection.
“Someone’s happy!” Said Kris with a wide smile on his face as he gave Noelle more Eskimo Kisses.
“Look at her face!” Susie couldn’t get enough of the doe’s drooling smile and happy laughter. “Look at your cute little face!”
“Eep!” She squealed, hiding behind her hands. It was almost too much for her system to take in all at once. “Oh! Oh my goodness! G-guys!”
“Awww, you poor thing!” Kris cooed,
“You’re not embarrassed, are ya, Nelly?”
The poor deer could barely form a coherent sentence. Instead, what came out was a mush of random noises and snort and giggles and raspberries with her little buck teeth over her tongue. Kris and Susie couldn’t help but fawn over her.
It was then that Kris decided he wanted to try one more thing with Susie and his childhood friend. He dove under the sheets to their surprise and lifted Noelle’s shirt up just a little.
“AAAHH!” The doe cried out.
“Woah, woah! Kris, what are you-?!”
He cut her off as he plunged his face into the doe’s tummy with cheeks full of air before blowing it out, sputtering muffled, deep raspberries that made both of the girls explode into laughter.
“AAAAHHHH AAAHAHAHA! WAIT! AAAH!! KRIS, WAAAAIIIIT!”
“Oh my God, Kris!” Susie chuckled as she joined him under the sheets. “Dude, make some room for me!”
He moved down to Noelle’s flank, giving the dragon plenty of real estate to work with. “Here, it’s kind of tricky because of the fur, but you’ve just got to blow really hard and get your face in there!”
Noelle could hear the scheming from her side of the quilts and immediately turned them up just in time to see them plunge their mouths into her exposed tummy. The covers fell back on top of her, her friends’ lips blew onto her midsection, and Noelle felt a sensation that tickled her harder than any set of fingers ever had. She gasped as the ripples being sent through her belly surged through every muscle in her body. Her chest heaved upward, and she made a sound that neither Kris nor Susie could describe without the use of words such as ‘dying rubber duck’ or the like. Her arms and legs flailed about as she bounced on the sofa, her friends tickling her merciless with both their hands and their mouths. Kris’ fingers crawled all over her ribs and dug into her armpits while Susie continued to lick her tummy along with him before ducking under and nibbling along the contours of her arched back.
And all the while, Noelle was on the verge of happy tears. Her gleeful little cries and giggles and squeals melted their hearts and only made them adore her all the more as they continued to tickle her.
“Uh oh!” Kris chuckled as his fingers continued to pare her fur and tease her skin. “You need a break?”
“Y-YES, I NEED-! AAHH AAAHHHH! SUSIE STOPPIT!”
“Hmm? What’s that?” The dragoness teased as she interrupted her with a nibble at her flank. “We can’t hear you!”
“I-I’M GONNA-EEEEP!”
Kris resurfaced from the doe’s tummy. “Sorry, we can’t quite make that out!”
“AAAAAAHHAHAHAHAAAA!!”
The poor doe couldn’t even start to enunciate. Kris and Susie exchanged another a smile and nodded. With that, they took a deep breath, put their mouths on Noelle’s stomach and blew the hardest raspberries they could on her perfect, soft, fuzzy belly, eliciting one more joyful cry from their friend before they finally relented, coming up from their positions and flipping the covers back up to expose their heads together. Noelle was still panting and gasping, struggling to catch her breath as she felt the last dregs of ticklishness shiver through her body. The other two cuddled her up again, going back right to where they started with loving, gentle kisses on her cheeks and snout, giving her a chance to recover while still giving her the affection they still so badly wanted to pamper her with. It took a few moments for her to catch her breath enough to speak clearly.
“K-Kris! Susie, I-!” She whimpered, beaming at her friends, and hugging them close.
Susie was stroking the doe’s chin. “Yeah, Nelly?”
“What is it?” Kris added, nose deep in the nape of Noelle’s neck.
She searched for the right words to do justice to the deluge of loving attention they had just given her. Biting her lip, Noelle resolved instead to just hug them tighter, and the both of them understood, answering her with more nuzzling and gentle kissing that sent her already fluttering heart into a frenzied race. Her hooves kicked the couch and more mewls escaped her buck teeth and bottom lip. Kris and Susie could hardly hold in their feelings.
“We love you, Noelle.” Kris cooed, planting a kiss on her forehead. Together with Susie.
“We love you soooo much…”
Noelle drank it all in, feeling their adoration for her and letting that find the words for her. “I love you guys too…” she mewled.
They all felt a shared warmth in their hearts to rival the heat in the blankets.
That was when the timer on the oven decided to interrupt with its shrill beeping, shaking Noelle from her blissful stupor like the morning alarm shook her from sleep, and it felt just as rude and unpleasant coming from the stove as it did coming from her phone at 6:30.
“Oh… there’s the hot chocolate.” She grouched as she began to move the quilts from over herself, right before a big purple hand and a small pale hand stopped her.
“Don’t worry. We’ll get it.” Susie said with a smile as she and Kris got up right away to fetch the fresh drink, the both of them leaving her with a quick peck before turning off the stove and coming back with the pot and an extra mug with some whipped cream.
Noelle felt nearly spoiled by how much those two had set on pampering her, but she didn’t object. She had learned not to question the way they cherished her, opting instead to just soak it in. The hot mug with a mountain of whipped cream and sprinkles on top was making her mouth water and her heart flutter all at once.
“Thanks, you two!” Her voice was still meek and sweet and quiet as they rejoined her on the couch, setting the put onto the coffee table and sliding under the sheets.
She picked up the hot beverage, blowing beneath the cream to cool the piping hot chocolate underneath before taking a slow, soothing sip. It was rich, sweet, and tasty as ever. A simple recipe with a lot of flavor packed into every drop. While she didn’t really need it warmth as much as her friends did, it still brought a comfort that radiated through her whole body, perfectly complimenting the embrace of her friends. It made it all the more puzzling when she stopped sipping and heard laughter from either side of the couch.
“Hmm? Guys, what’s up?”
The dragoness held a laugh back behind puffed cheeks. “Pfft! You-! You got a little something there!”
“Something where?”
“Right here!” said Kris as he smooched her nose.
“WAAHH!” Noelle cried. “K-Kris!” her eyes crossed and spotted a little smidge of whipped cream, mostly cleaned off by Kris’ smooch, but with enough left over for Susie to finish the job.
“Mwah!”
“Eep!”
Susie licked her lips. “Ah! Love me some whipped cream!”
“Don’t lick my noooooose!” Noelle meekly protested with a smile, holding back a laugh of her own to take another sip. “You guys are so- oh no!”
She realized she had failed to keep her nose clean again, but Kris was still willing to honor her request, using his finger instead.
“Boop!”
“Kriiiiiiiiis!” She giggled as the human licked his finger.
“Boop!”
“Aah! Susiiiieeee!” It was taking all her self-control not to spill anything in laughter. “Come on guys, let me drink my cocoa!”
“We’re not stopping you, you little dork!” Susie quipped.
“Yeah, go ahead! Drink up!”
She could tell by their smiles that neither had any intention on stopping.
But all the same, she had no intention of making them stop at that point.
With another shared laugh, they all shared the hot cocoa and each other’s warmth under the blankets until the pot was empty, and by that point the shared comfort and full bellies had all driven them to sleep, their arms wrapped around each other, their faces cuddled close together, and their faces shining with smiles in the amber light from the hearth.
THE END