Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-34263048-20180625091710/@comment-33398500-20180625173455

How did this happen?

The last thing I remember, I had been shaking my head in annoyance, my phone’s headphones screwing up, leaving me to tinker with the settings and the connection point in an attempt to salvage the damn things. They’d had a good run, but they were getting to the point of being defunct, and it was starting to annoy me. Hell, it clearly annoyed me to the point where I didn’t even notice the oncoming bus as I was walking across the street, until it was right on top of me, the screeching and the horn sounding off.

What I did notice, however, was the force of impact of something heavy running me off the road and back into the park I had emerged from. The pain and shock from this caused me to lose consciousness quickly.

Upon returning to consciousness a short time later, I found myself on the way to the hospital. “What happened...?” I asked, groggily.

“You got run into by a minotaur, she knocked you into the park across the street from you...” the paramedic informed me as I couldn’t really feel anything right now.

“Where is she? I’d like to thank her...” I started, moving my head slightly to look around, though it was clear she wasn’t there.

“She’s under arrest... she attacked you from out of nowhere...” he responded, shaking his head.

“Oh, no...” I started, though at this point, I couldn’t even move, much less help her in her predicament.

Sometime later, as I was recovering in the hospital, two officers came by to collect a statement from me as to what happened. After I told them what happened, I asked “What’s gonna happen to her?”

“Well, once you agree to press charges, then she’ll be removed from the country...” the officer explained. “Standard procedure...”

“Well, what if I don’t agree to press charges?” I asked seriously.

“Don’t? Why wouldn’t you?” the officer then asked. “You’re in this situation, in the HOSPITAL, because of that creature... why would you want to protect her?”, sounding genuinely confused.

“Because... if she hadn’t, I would, in all likelihood, be dead right now instead of merely injured...” I told him. “I was just about to get hit by a bus... or did that escape the witnesses’ memories?”

“Oh? So you were jaywalking, and she attempted to save your life? Hmm... that may be a different story... though, you may just be trying to protect her to try to get there with a mamono... we’ll have to look into it...” was the response I got before the officers left.

A short while later, another officer came into the room, followed by a huge, red-headed minotaur with a downright amazing form. No wonder the initial cops thought I was just trying to help her for my own gain...

“Well... your story was corroborated by your assailant, as well as the witnesses we had previously interviewed... combined with your decision not to press charges against your attacker... leaves us without much to go on... and she wanted to pay you a visit...” before she stepped over to the bed.

“Sorry you had to go through that... getting arrested because I can’t watch the god-damned lights...” I said to her regretfully as I tried to look her in the eye, though her chest was blocking my view from this angle once she was close.

“Oh? That. That’s all right... You got me out of it, didn’t you?” she responded, now sitting at my bedside, the bed sagging under her weight. “It’s fine now... I’m Erica, by the way...” she then introduced herself with what started out an enthusiastic hug before I winced at my ribs being pushed on, her pulling back a moment. “Sorry.”

“Victor.” I then introduced myself “...and that’s quite all right... if you hadn’t intervened, I wouldn’t be here...”

“H-hey... you’re makin’ a minotaur blush...” she told me sheepishly.

We then spent the next couple hours having a nice conversation about all manner of topics, usually with some jab from her about me being soft, or some reference to giants poking back at her. Once the staff told her visiting hours were over, she got up and left after kissing my forehead.

The next day, she came back, which had gotten me a little surprised “You didn’t think you’d be getting rid of me that easily, did you?” she asked with a grin on her face, the two of us resuming our conversation, this time nearly breaking the bed as she attempted to climb into it with me, the structure not designed to take the full body weight of a minotaur AND a human. When she left today, she kissed me almost between the eyes.

The next couple days went by like such, and the last day of my stay here, at which point they allowed me to leave, she greeted me by planting a kiss onto my lips. “What? You’re good enough to leave now, you’re good enough for a real kiss!” she told me, before the two of us returned to my apartment, which I’d promised to show her during our conversations.

“Ooo, I like it~” she told me. “A bit small, but otherwise nice! Just like you!” now sauntering through the apartment to the nearest door, I tried to ignore the fact that she was swinging her hips side to side as she did so.

“Well, yeah... I guess...” I started, unable to think of a return quip as her form proved rather mesmerizing as she did so, trying not to think about what she might have in mind as she opened the next door, noticing my bed inside the room.

“Ohohoho! Bed’s plenty big, though! You plan on this?” she then asked with a lewd grin as she sat on the edge, bouncing slightly against the mattress, pleasantly surprised at the fact it didn’t break under her weight.

“Oh... no... that’s just because I kinda move about when I sleep, so I didn’t want to run the risk of falling off while I was asleep...” I admitted, rubbing the back of my head. “I was kinda nervous that might happen in the hospital, but those beds had rails...”

“Well, trust me...” she then started, pulling me by the wrist over to my bed “I won’t let you fall~” before jumping back onto my bed, pulling me along with her and proceeding to do what she had apparently been straining to hold back from for the last day or two, with me silently hoping she didn’t injure me again, as that might have been awkward to explain.

The next day, when I came back with my mail, I saw her starting to cook breakfast for the two of us. “Gotta get your energy back up if you want any hope of keeping up~” she teased, as I looked through the mail, now finding an official one from the city “Hmmm...?” I started, before opening it, and reading through. “What’s that?” she asked curiously.

“Ticket for jaywalking...” I replied nonchalantly.