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Hormones
Kisses – Burn
"Okay, I get it! You're hungry, but look at me! Does this look like someone who can fight now?"
Ember forced herself to grit her teeth and take a deep breath, instead of indulging her desire to deep fry him. He'd been useful so far, and as loathe as she was to admit it, he was actually enjoyable company since they stopped fighting.
But she was hungry! Fuck, her last feeding seemed so long ago.
Still… Danny looked like hell. Not like she'd look any better after tangling with those Homunculi… They were not that strong, but the things were ridiculously tenacious. Hence the battered form of the boy in front of her, glaring at her from his bed.
…
Okay, yeah. He wasn't really in any position to put up even a mock fight. She sighed and flopped down next to him, suddenly tired, ignoring his squawk of surprise. She really wasn't kidding when she told him she needed to feed. She was running way too low for her peace of mind.
She propped herself up on her elbow, looking at his face again. That was a hell of a shiner. Not the worst she'd seen, but still…
"Hold still."
Wha-
And suddenly Ember was way too close and her hand was on his eye and it felt like his face had gone numb. "What are you doing!?"
She gave him a Look. "Calm your tits. Cold helps with a shiner. Since I'm pretty comfy right now, and the fridge is a bit far away, you're gonna have to settle for this instead."
He frowned, but it did make a strange kind of sense. Besides, it was actually soothing. He sighed and closed his eyes and forced himself to relax, pretending that there wasn't a particularly hot ex-enemy lounging on his bed.
And suddenly the coolness was gone. He made a vague sound of protest and opened his eyes and froze. Her face was only inches above his, emerald eyes burning into his own. He could feel the heat rising in his face. Oh yeah, of course, this is the perfect time for a blush.
"It does look a lot better." It took him a moment to process that she was talking about his eye, rather than the new redness in his pale features. For some reason, the thought made him giggle (chuckle, damnit, guys didn't giggle!) and the awkward moment passed.
He reached up with his arm and gave her a one-handed hug. "Thanks Ember. That actually helped a lot. Still sorry I can't help, but I can hardly get out of bed right now."
What the hell am I doing? Hugging Ember now?
The thought had barely finished forming when he vaguely heard Ember say: "…i wonder…"
Is it quantity, or quality? She always erred on the side of caution, preferring quantity, even if only for safety's sake. But here was a golden opportunity…
"I wonder if that'll work…."
Danny was about to ask what she said, but he suddenly had bigger things on his mind.
Well, maybe not bigger things, but the lips he suddenly found pressed against his own had a bit higher priority than a silly question like that.
She tasted vaguely sweet. He had no idea how or why, seeing as she wasn't even alive in the normal sense, but once again, his mind wasn't really focusing on silly ideas like that, since he felt her hands in his hair and she gave a little tug and … oooooh boy.
Time out.
He was kissing back.
Hold up.
His hands were on her waist, shifting her from beside him to on top of him.
BAD IDEA!
His hands moved over her hips, along her ribs and finally (FINALLY!) to her shoulders.
He pried her off. He even thought he vaguely heard a pop as they separated.
"Wha-"
And suddenly her finger was on his lips. Her eyes were playful, but it was a kind of playful he never had to deal with. "Call it an experiment."
…
Let it never be said that Daniel James Fenton wasn't open to SCIENCE!
Oh god, yes, that's the stuff…
Screw those stupid crowds of teens, just wanting to vent… THIS was attention, attention in a way she never had before. She moaned into his mouth, her nails digging into his shoulders.
That strange hunger that characterized such a large part of her being faded, much faster than it ever did before… Hell, it was virtually gone! She was actually sated in so little time? That had never happened before.
But she was still feeding. She tried to stop it, dimly aware that something bad was going to happen if she didn't stop and suddenly his hand was in her hair and his teeth tugged insistently on her bottom lip and it didn't matter anymore.
She lost control and her hair blazed.
"MOTHERFUCKER!"
They stared at each other. Her green eyes - still half glazed with some kind of pleasure humans couldn't fully understand - into his blue, filled with regret.
Cause he could hear the tell-tale squeak of Jazz's door opening.
He sat up, Ember spilling into his lap. Glanced at his hands, idly noting the vicious red streaks now marring them. Linked them together behind his head and lay back, resting his head on the wall.
"Hide. Please. If Jazz comes in now…"
She didn't need to be told twice. She faded from view, but he could still feel her, all but snuggling against his warmth. He could feel her shifting, pressing her body against his. Not in any amorous way, though it was still distracting as all hell.
But no, she was just reaching for his hand, drawing away the heat like she'd done earlier to his eye. He slowly relaxed as her much smaller hands grasped his and the pain flowed away.
He could feel her face nuzzling into his neck and hear her whispered 'sorry.'
Then Jazz was there and all his attention had to be on fooling his psycho analyst of a sister.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
She knew what was going to happen. She knew. But she still couldn't stop it. And now Danny was hurt. Again.
Ah well… What's done was done. She could at least fix this… But how to apologize?
…
She let loose a rather mischievous grin against his neck, reveling in the pulse she found there…
He sighed. "Yes Jazz, I'm fine. Just moved too quickly. You know how fast I heal. I'll be fine. I just need to be more care-".
What the hell was Ember doing - was she licking his neck? Nope, nibbling now… really not helping. At all. He shook himself, rocking her around, but that didn't seem to deter her. Not like he could do anything else while Jazz was still there.
"… You sure you're okay? You look twitchy?"
She was lightly scratching his neck now and her breath was in his ear and he had to get Jazz out now, otherwise this wasn't going to end well at all. He forced himself to speak through his suddenly dry throat.
"Yeah, I'm fine." At her unbelieving stare, he rolled his eyes. "Ghost sense keeps going off and I can't do anything about it. It sucks."
That seemed to mollify Jazz. "Hero-complex!" she sing-songed and ducked behind the door again.
As soon as she heard the door close, Ember faded into visibility, looking like the cat that had the cream, ate the canary and blamed both crimes on the goldfish. As fun as that was, Danny was still a mite pissed at her…
He racked his head trying to think of a way to wipe that smirk off her face…
The smirk that bloomed on his face would have made Vlad envious…
Yeah, that should get her angry...
SMACK!
Ember's mind had gone blank, matching her expressionless face. She slowly, jerkily moved her head so that she was looking into Danny's eyes.
"Danny… did you really just spank me?"
At his entirely too smug look and matching nod, she broke into the sauciest smirk she could manage, lent forward and breathed into his ear.
"Kinky... I like that."
With those words she faded out, going invisible and intangible.
… Not what he was expecting. At all.
Ah well. He could live with that.
He fell backwards, finally relaxing.
And then laughed.
He could hear someone whistling I'm Walking on Sunshine outside his window.
AN: So yeah, first chapter of Kisses. Here you go.
Ember is kinda based off a very good friend of mine, so she might come off as a bit strange. Might. If she did, TELL ME.
As for the heat-extraction thingy, Ember doesn't control fire (too easy)... instead, she can control temperature. She just prefers heat. And yes, feeding does give her a high.
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PS - Cookie to whoever figures out where the previous line came from.
~GrinGrin
Updated - fixed some minor spelling and grammar errors, tweaked the dialogue and cleaned it up a bit.
Written: 11/08/2014
Posted: 11/08/2014
Updated: 11/09/2014