Amy blew a strand of hair out of her eyes. Damn it all to hell. Another perfectly good weekend lost. Weren't there whole websites of nature photography out there, free for the taking? Why this mountain? This weekend? She was supposed to be home, damn it. Getting laid. Fat chance of that now.
Darren, her pilot boy friend, wasn't the type to understand why Amy had to take this assignment while he was in town. He wasn't the most understanding sort to begin with, but then, she didn't date him for his personality. Truth was he was hung like a porn star, and with a life like hers, she didn't need or want any real commitments.
Sex with Darren was incredible, and she wasn't getting any. She was trekking through the woods looking for a moose. The thought made her laugh. Darren would never get over being dumped for a moose. Her favorite bawdy drinking song, one she'd learned back in her college days, came to mind.
Moose, moose, I likes a moose, I've never had anything quite like a moose. I've had lots of lovers, my life has been loose, But I've never had anything quite like a moose.
She heard a noise off to the side and stopped, camera automatically on as she swept the edge of the clearing.
She wasn't the only one looking. Huge dark eyes stared back at the lens. Amy panned out, getting a good shot of the entire... Oh. My. God. Everything about this creature was magnificent. The song writer had it all wrong. It wasn't a man's song at all. Unless he was gay, and she wasn't even going there. In fourteen years as a photographer she'd seen some unusual things, but never had she seen anything that compared to this Moose.
His cock had to be all of 14 inches long and hard as a -- well, hard. Was there a she-moose around he had the hots for or something? Surely a moose didn't go around with a hard-on like that all the time. He had to be looking for some special lady. Lady moose that is. Not her. Not Amy-the-not-getting-fucked- again-for-a-very-long-time.
OK, that was just sick. It was a moose for God's sakes. She was not staring at a moose's hard on. She forced herself to pan the camera away from that dark glistening head back to his other head. The one with the soulful liquid brown eyes that spoke to her, challenging...
Forget it. She was a photographer. Here on assignment. No matter how horny she was, she wasn't getting any closer.
"I can make you happy, Amy."
She nearly jumped out of her skin. But she didn't drop her camera. "Who said that?"
"He's no good for you, Amy. He doesn't love you. He's just a handy fuck. I could be so much more."
"Who are you, where are you, and who the hell are you to tell me how to run my sex life?"
The moose took two steps, out of the undergrowth into the long, waving green grass of the clearing. "You know who I am. You sing to me. Your body calls to me. You know you want me. Almost as much as I want you. Come to me. Don't be afraid."
"No, no, no, no. Moose don't talk. And if they did they wouldn't talk to human women. Go find yourself a nice girl moose to play with. I've got what I came for. I'm going home to my nice, sane life, where, if I'm very, very lucky, Mr. Happy will have a thing or two to say to me about being out on assignment all day. Goodbye now. Thanks for the pictures. Gotta go."
"Amy..."