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Sunday | December 20, 2026 | 11 AM | Northwood Cottage
Wednesday remained exactly where the bite had left them. Enid hovered above her, braced on one forearm, her other hand still cupped at the back of Wednesday’s neck, close to the mark without pressing.
Their eyes held.
Enid’s mouth stayed parted. Gold still edged her irises, slowly fading. Wednesday’s gaze fixed on the last trace of fang visible when Enid breathed, pale and sharp against her lower lip, slipping back by degrees. Her hair fell loose around her face, shadowing it. Wednesday’s own lay damp and wild across the pillow, strands clinging to her forehead and throat.
The mark stung when she swallowed. She did not mind the pain. Goosebumps rose sharp across her skin, urging her to arch into the sheets.
How inconveniently alive this feels.
Enid kept looking at her as if waiting for the moment everything would go wrong.
It did not come.
Neither of them moved.
“Oh my God, Wens.”
Enid’s voice came out thin and wrecked. Her thumb shifted once against the back of Wednesday’s neck. “People talk about this like you can understand it before it happens. You can’t. I thought I did, but I didn’t. Not even close.”
Her eyes searched Wednesday’s face with painful intensity. The hope in them was obvious. So was the fear beneath it. “Tell me you feel it too.”
Oh, she felt it. It pressed through her with the weight of a second heartbeat.
She had expected the bite to hurt. She had even allowed for a sharper attunement to Enid afterward, something bodily and instinctive, easily catalogued. She had not allowed for emotion. Enid’s fear kept breaking against her from the inside with enough force to require active resistance.
How disturbingly fascinating.
Later, she could dissect the mechanics. At present, Enid was waiting for an answer with all the composure of a woman standing on the edge of a cliff.
Wednesday swallowed again. The sting answered at once. She kept her eyes on Enid’s.
“Yes,” she said.
The word came out lower than intended. Enid’s breath caught.
“Yes,” Wednesday repeated, because the first had clearly been insufficient. “I feel it.”
Enid shut her eyes as a shaky laugh slipped free, brushing warm across Wednesday’s cheek. When she looked again, tears shone in her eyes without falling, making her look even more undone.
Wednesday disliked how much she liked that.
“Okay,” Enid whispered. “Okay, because I can feel you too. You’re just…” Her fingers tightened once at the back of Wednesday’s neck, then eased, as if catching herself. “I was so scared, Wens.”
Wednesday’s eyes did not leave hers.
“I know,” she said, quieter than usual, but no less precise.
Her hand lifted, resting at the back of Enid’s wrist where it hovered near the mark.
“You expected failure,” she said, with the faintest tilt of her head. “I...did not.”
Enid’s breath caught. Something in her expression softened, though the intensity remained. The fear receded further, but it did not take everything with it. What lingered beneath pressed forward instead.
Wednesday felt that too.
It took her a moment to separate it from the relief.
The sensation moved through her in steady, insistent waves, responding to every shift of breath, every point of contact, every place their bodies still touched without release.
This is no longer observation. This is acquisition.
“Oh,” she said quietly.
Enid blinked. “What?”
Wednesday did not answer with words.
She adjusted her leg beneath Enid, a minimal shift, barely more than a change in pressure.
The response was immediate.
Enid’s breath broke. Her fingers tightened at the back of Wednesday’s neck, and Wednesday felt it at the same moment: low, unmistakable, tightening with perfect alignment. Not delayed. Not separate. Shared.
She went still.
Then she did it again. More deliberately.
Enid’s head tipped back slightly, a soft, unsteady sound slipping free. The sensation carried through them both, clean and unfiltered, settling deeper.
Wednesday inhaled once, sharper now.
“This is not independent,” she said. “It is shared.”
Enid stilled. Realization dawned between them.
“You felt that,” she said. Not a question.
Wednesday held her gaze.
“Yes.”
Enid’s pupils dilated until they nearly swallowed the gold. She shifted again, no longer testing.
The reaction moved through both of them at once, stronger, less restrained. Enid’s grip tightened without hesitation, and Wednesday felt it take hold inside her, no longer observed from a distance but claimed.
Her fingers closed at Enid’s hip, anchoring her there.
“I do not think this feeling will resolve on its own,” she said.
“Which suggests...we should not ignore it.”
Enid let out a small, breathless laugh that barely made it past her lips. “Oh—okay. Yeah. That’s… a really good idea.”
Her hands tightened on Wednesday’s waist at once, pulling her closer as her body moved with sudden purpose.
Wednesday watched the change happen. Felt it.
She adjusted her leg with quiet precision, guiding Enid into a slow, deliberate rhythm. Each roll built like storm clouds gathering over an ancient manor, thick, electric, inevitable. Enid’s hands fisted in the sheets, knuckles pale as bleached bone. Her hips began to chase the motion, grinding harder, deeper, desperation bleeding into every movement.
Time stretched, torturous and sweet. Wednesday studied every flicker across Enid’s face: the flutter of golden lashes, the tremor in her lower lip, the way those ember threads flared brighter with each stroke. The connection thrummed between them, carrying every pulse of heat, every slick slide, every stifled whimper straight into Wednesday’s chest like venom she could not refuse.
Enid’s forehead dropped, mouth brushing Wednesday’s temple, words barely formed.
“Closer… more...please…”
Wednesday answered by wrapping her free arm around Enid’s waist and pulling her flush, erasing every last inch. Their bodies moved together now in one fused rhythm, skin against skin. Enid rode her thigh with increasing urgency while Wednesday met every downward grind with a steady upward press.
She felt the exact moment Enid tipped past restraint. The tension coiled tighter, taut as a noose drawn slow, then snapped.
Enid came with a quiet, shattered sound against her neck, body locking down hard, thighs trembling violently around Wednesday’s leg. The wave crashed through them like a tidal surge through shadowed corridors. Wednesday’s own breath fractured as it struck her untouched, sharp and humiliating in its intensity.
Mortifying. And exquisite.
Her back arched off the bed before she could stop it. Her fingers dug into Enid’s back, nails biting like thorns. The orgasm tore through her without warning, involuntary, drawn out by the sheer force of Enid’s release echoing inside her own body. It left her gasping, vision narrowing to the damp strands of blonde hair clinging to Enid’s cheek and the frantic thud of her own pulse, like distant funeral drums.
For several long seconds neither of them moved.
Enid stayed draped over her, breathing hard, one hand still cupped gently at the back of Wednesday’s neck, thumb resting just beside the fresh mark without pressing.
Wednesday lay beneath her, chest rising and falling in unsteady rhythm. The sting at her throat now matched by a deeper, slower ache low in her body.
She felt Enid’s relief still humming through the connection, soft and sated, threaded with something warmer that felt dangerously like awe.
Wednesday closed her eyes once, then opened them again.
She was only just beginning to understand the architecture of this connection, something layered and deliberate, built far deeper than flesh, where sensation and feeling blurred into something shared.
It wasn’t enough. She wanted to feel it again.
In one clean motion she rolled them, using the leverage of her hips to flip their positions. Enid landed on her back with a startled exhale, eyes wide, the faint gold at their edges flaring once before dulling. Wednesday followed immediately, settling between her spread thighs, palms sliding under the backs of Enid’s knees.
She gripped firmly and pulled, dragging Enid down the bed until her hips met Wednesday’s shoulders in one decisive yank.
Enid’s breath hitched. “Wens—”
Wednesday looked up the length of her body, hair falling wild across her own shoulders, bangs damp and sticking to her forehead. She felt the pulse of Enid’s renewed need echoing the low ache still thrumming between her own legs.
“Yes,” she said, the single word exact, almost clinical in its certainty.
She lowered her head without waiting for more permission than that.
The first slow drag of her tongue pulled a broken sound from Enid’s throat. Wednesday kept her grip tight on the backs of Enid’s thighs, holding her open, steadying every tremor. She worked with deliberate focus, mapping every reaction, every hitch of breath, every involuntary roll of Enid’s hips. Every spike of pleasure fed straight back into her, tightening the coil low in her own belly all over again.
It was utterly intoxicating.
Enid’s fingers threaded into Wednesday’s hair, not pushing, not pulling, simply holding on as if letting go might end the moment. Her thighs trembled under Wednesday’s palms.
“Wednesday,” Enid whispered.
Just her name. It was enough.
Wednesday lifted her head a fraction and looked at her.
Enid was gone in the only way that mattered now. Hair spread wild across the pillow. Mouth parted. Eyes bright and wrecked and fixed on Wednesday with that same helpless disbelief.
Then the break started.
Wednesday felt it a half-second before Enid did. The force moved through her first as tension, then as cold certainty. The answering urge rose fast and ugly, like ivy choking the walls of a ruined mausoleum.
She obeyed it.
Her teeth sank high into Enid’s thigh, not deep enough to break skin, but hard enough to leave the clear shape of them behind. Enid arched beneath her with a sound that tore itself free. When Wednesday released her, the marks were already blooming: a half-moon of teeth darkening by degrees, the skin flushing, then bruising in slow, possessive color. Evidence. Answer. A bruise that would ache for days.
The sound that tore out of Enid hit her like a funeral bell through fog, deep, resonant, and sacred in its ruin.
Wednesday held the moment in her teeth a fraction longer than necessary. It was not cruelty, nor simple affection. It was something older, coiling at the base of her spine like roots through graveyard soil.
She bit because the sting at her own throat was still fresh and alive, a warm, glowing claim Enid had pressed there moments earlier. That mark had bound them in one direction. Now Wednesday answered in kind: colder, more deliberate, sealing the circuit with her own signature. Tooth for tooth. Shadow for gold.
There was power in it. The clinical satisfaction of control. But beneath that lay a stranger impulse, almost humiliating: the need to balance the overwhelming surge inside her chest. Enid’s release had crashed through the connection like a tidal force through stone corridors, too much light, too much warmth, too much alive. The bite was her countermeasure against the dangerous awe threatening to drown her.
The bite is also what pushed Enid over the edge.
Enid came first, hard and sudden, a violent unraveling that tore a broken, keening cry from her throat, raw and shattered, rising into a desperate, trembling moan that fractured at the peak. Her body bowed sharply, thighs clamping tight around Wednesday’s head as violent tremors ripped through her. The gold threads in her eyes flared wildly, then shattered into something raw and helpless. Through the connection Wednesday felt every fractured second: the white-hot spike of pleasure-pain, the helpless jerk of Enid’s hips, the overwhelming flood that left her gasping and utterly undone.
Wednesday felt the edge of that same storm slice into her own body. Her own release followed a breath later, sharp and involuntary, ripping a low, guttural groan from her throat that fractured into something almost wounded, a sound she had never meant to make. It clawed its way out despite her, raw and unguarded, as she pressed her forehead hard against the marked thigh and rode the shared surge until it ebbed into trembling silence.
For several long seconds neither of them moved.
Enid stayed draped over her, breathing hard, one hand still cupped gently at the back of Wednesday’s neck, thumb resting just beside the fresh mark without pressing.
Wednesday lay beneath her, chest rising and falling in unsteady rhythm. The sting at her throat now matched by a deeper, slower ache low in her body.
She felt Enid’s relief still humming through the connection, soft and sated, threaded with something warmer that felt dangerously like awe.
Wednesday closed her eyes once, then opened them again.
She was only just beginning to learn the intricate architecture of this connection, the shadowed cathedral of shared sensation that had taken root somewhere far deeper than flesh.
Enid’s soft laugh faded into a contented sigh. Without a word, she shifted, gently tugging Wednesday upward until their bodies aligned. Wednesday allowed it. Enid pulled the covers over them both with careful hands and tucked her close, one arm wrapping securely around her waist, legs tangling together. The bite mark on Enid’s thigh brushed warm against Wednesday’s hip.
Wednesday let herself be held.
For a long while, neither spoke. The room settled into heavy velvet silence, broken only by slow breathing and the occasional creak of the old bedframe. Enid’s fingers traced lazy patterns along Wednesday’s spine.
This was not their usual.
Normally their nights unraveled with sharper edges — intense power plays where Enid took control with wicked precision, praising Wednesday in that low, honeyed voice even as she pushed her to the brink. Wednesday hated how deeply she craved those words, the humiliating ache that bloomed whenever Enid called her “good,” “perfect,” or “mine.” She would rather carve out her own heart than admit it, yet the praise always struck harder than any restraint or pain.
This had been different.
Not only because the bond had stripped her bare and forced that mortifying untouched release she would need to cure. But because it had been soft. Shared. No calculated begging. No deliberate praise or withholding. Just raw, mutual intimacy flowing unchecked between them until neither could tell where one ended and the other began.
It unsettled her.
Enid must have sensed the drift of her thoughts. Her fingers paused.
“What are you thinking about?” she asked quietly, voice still husky.
Wednesday remained silent for a long moment. She wondered, with faint unease, whether the bond had already grown strong enough for Enid to glimpse the shape of her thoughts. That would be unacceptable. Far too exposing.
She tilted her head slightly, meeting Enid’s warm gaze in the shadows.
“Many things,” she answered at last, voice low and even. “None of which require immediate discussion.”
Enid hummed, unconvinced, and resumed tracing slow patterns along her spine. “You’re doing that thing again. Going all quiet and cryptic like you’re plotting the downfall of civilization instead of just thinking about us.” She pressed a lazy kiss to the top of Wednesday’s head. “It’s cute. Annoying, but cute.”
Wednesday did not reply. She simply closed her eyes, letting the warmth and steady heartbeat lull the sharper edges of her mind.
They lay tangled and quiet for several more minutes. Then Enid shifted, a faint ripple of unease threading through the connection.
“Wait…” Enid’s voice dropped, suddenly sharper, laced with dawning horror. “We have to go back to your house today.” She pulled back, eyes widening. “Your parents. They’re going to see us. They’re going to see… this.”
Her fingers moved up to trace the mark blooming darkly on Wednesday’s neck. The bruise was already deepening, vivid and unmistakable.
“Oh god,” Enid groaned, exasperation thick in her tone. “Your mom is going to raise one perfectly arched eyebrow and I’m going to spontaneously combust from embarrassment before I even get to the howling part.”
Wednesday’s voice cut through the air, cool and unwavering.
“I do not concern myself with what my mother thinks. Or anyone else. I do not regret the marks we left on each other. And if anyone shows even the slightest disagreement… I will rectify the situation with extreme prejudice.”
The words hung like a freshly whetted blade. Enid’s nervous flutter stuttered, then eased slightly, a spark of reluctant amusement flickering beneath it.
Enid peeked out from under her arm, fixing Wednesday with a look that was equal parts glare and fond defeat. “Fine. We’ll go back. Marks and all. And if I start rampaging through the hallways chasing imaginary ghosts or chewing on family heirlooms at 3 a.m., I’m blaming you.”
Wednesday rested her chin on Enid’s sternum, dark eyes unblinking. “The heirlooms are remarkably durable. Most have already survived multiple family curses, several attempted exorcisms, and at least one poltergeist infestation. Your wolf form is hardly the greatest threat they’ve faced.”
Enid huffed a laugh. “Great. So I’ll just try not to chew on Great-Aunt Calpurnia’s cursed wedding dress or knock over the antique guillotine in the corner. No pressure.”
She ran her fingers through Wednesday’s hair, slower now, more soothing. The exasperation lingered but had begun to mellow.
“Fine,” Enid exhaled heavily. “We’ll go back. Marks and all. And if I start howling at the moon and chasing shadows through the hallways, you have my permission to sedate me with whatever creepy Addams family potion you keep in the basement.”
Wednesday’s fingers traced idle circles over Enid’s ribs.
“I would prefer to anchor you myself,” she said quietly. “The bond is new… but it has already proven stronger than either of us expected. You have not harmed me before in your wolf form. I assume now your wolf would only try to protect me further.”
Enid was quiet for a moment, then pressed a gentle kiss to the top of Wednesday’s head.
“Yeah… okay,” she whispered, voice thick with nerves and trust. “Just… stay close tonight?”
Wednesday did not answer with words. Instead, she simply shifted higher and tucked her face into the curve of Enid’s neck, breathing in the familiar scent of her skin.
The silence that followed was comfortable, heavy with the knowledge of what awaited them back at the main house — the visible mark on Wednesday’s neck, watchful parents, and the rising full moon looming over the estate like an unspoken promise.
While the room remained silent, Wednesday’s mind did not. It moved quickly, precise even now, tracing the implications with a clarity she could not ignore. Whatever this bond had become, it did not allow for distance. It would not permit concealment. What she felt would not remain hers alone, and Enid’s would not remain separate from her.
She should have found that unacceptable.
Instead, she felt… complete.
The realization settled into her with a quiet certainty that caught her off guard. She had believed she understood this already, back when she had forced herself out of isolation and allowed the truth of her feelings for Enid to exist without resistance. She had thought that was the extent of it. That had been significant. Transformative, even.
This was not the same.
This was deeper. More consuming. Not overwhelming, but inescapable in a way that felt deliberate rather than chaotic, as though something had aligned exactly as it was meant to.
She understood, then, why Enid had hesitated. Why the thought of others seeing the mark carried weight. Her parents would notice. Their classmates would notice. The meaning would not be subtle.
Let them.
The thought came easily, without hesitation or conflict. If anything, the mark felt less like a vulnerability and more like a declaration. A claim that did not diminish her, but refined something sharper within her.
She had been chosen.
Not only by a powerful supernatural being, though that alone would have been noteworthy, but by Enid. By someone who moved through the world with a confidence and warmth that stood in direct contrast to her own, who possessed a strength that did not mirror Wednesday’s, but complemented it.
Not identical. Not symmetrical.
Compatible.
Necessary.
Wednesday let the thought settle, examining it from every angle before allowing it to remain.
Yes. That made sense.
Yoko: Addams what have you done to Enid?
Pugsley: Who is this?
Yoko: I will literally drain you dry. Do not make me repeat myself. 🩸
Pugsley: Oh hey Yoko!
Yoko: FOCUS. Where is Enid.
Pugsley: oh lol
Pugsley: i think they’re in the woods
Yoko: the woods?
Pugsley: yeah
Pugsley: i saw enid go out there and then weds went after her
Yoko: weds?
Yoko: whatever. did they come out or did Addams sacrifice her to… something
Pugsley: no
Pugsley: i think they went farther in…
Pugsley: like… deeper
Yoko: what does that mean
Pugsley: they’re probably fine
Yoko: that is not reassuring
Pugsley: they’ve been doing this a lot lately
Yoko: doing WHAT
Pugsley: idk
Pugsley: just disappearing
Yoko: I HATE THIS 😭
Pugsley: they’ll come back
Yoko: WHEN
Pugsley: when they’re done
Yoko: DONE WITH WHAT
Pugsley: im sure you could guess 🙂