Title: Alternative Lifestyle
Author: Christine Crahan
Summary: rewrite of Sex, Fearless 20
Pairings: Gaia/Ed, maybe we'll get some other action in there too,
like Tom/other (katia maybe?) don't know
Spoilers: Sex, Fearless 20 and everything written before that
Rated: PG-13 for now
Author's note: please email after you read this, I would love some
suggestions about where to take this story, even though I already
have my own evil little plan.
p.s. My Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pluckedfromobscurity/
Ed held his breath waiting for Gaia's answer and Gaia studied his face, which was now turning purple. Was she ready? I remember when I asked my mom what love was and she said that it happens when you care deeply for somebody and one day everything clicks and you realize that you could never live without that person in your life. Everything changes in a single moment, a blink of the eye to most people, and nothing is could ever the same again. Gaia now understood exactly what her mother meant. Yes, she was ready.
"I have a couple of questions for you first, before I answer."
"Okay, go," Ed replied in a shaky uncertain voice.
"Okay. Question one: Are you aware that I am a deeply flawed human being?"
"Well aware," Ed answered with an amused smile on his lips that tempted Gaia to forget the questions and get back to trying to answer the impossible question why Ed's lips were so irrestible. But, unfortunately she had to focus. "And do you understand that my life outside of this bed is... completely screwed up? I mean beyond any kind of-"
"I hope you don't think that you are just informing me of this." Gaia swallowed her instinct to run right back to her predictable life of ass kicking and forget about the complication that was Ed, but she couldn't. She had to ask this last question, the life-altering-save-the-best-for-last question.
"And...do you love me?" She couldn't meet Ed's eyes, if she could be afraid then she knew this would be the time. She felt fingers under her chin gently lifting her face to meet his.
"I can't remember a life before you walked into it, I loved you from the moment you first insulted me and I never stopped loving you since then."
"I love you too..." Gaia got tears in her eyes but laughed it off, "God, we could make an unbelievably sappy chick-flic if we ever got the chance. Ed's laughs caused the bed to jump and Gaia soon found herself joining in, unable to fathom the way she felt at that moment. She was finally home. She playfully threw her leg over Ed's hip and continued laughing but soon realized that he had stopped. Her smile drained from her face as she looked at her leg, which was draped over Ed. Ed's hand moved toward her calf as its owner watched shocked by its actions. Gaia licked her lips and tightened her leg around him, pulling him closer as Ed's hand moved cautiously from her calf to her thigh.
"You never answered my question," Ed said between panting.
"What question?" Gaia breathed as she moved closer to his lips.
"Are you ready?" Ed leaned closer, lips now a centimeter apart, words vibrating on Gaia's lips.
"Yes..." Gaia and Ed's lips touched and both backed off looking in each other's eyes, neither believing what was about to happen. Then they kissed, melting together as the wind rustled outside the window that was a thin barrier to the dangerous world awaiting them.
Ed held his breath waiting for Gaia's answer and Gaia studied his face, which was now turning purple. Was she ready? I remember when I asked my mom what love was and she said that it happens when you care deeply for somebody and one day everything clicks and you realize that you could never live without that person in your life. Everything changes in a single moment, a blink of the eye to most people, and nothing is could ever the same again. Gaia now understood exactly what her mother meant. Yes, she was ready.
"I have a couple of questions for you first, before I answer."
"Okay, go," Ed replied in a shaky uncertain voice.
"Okay. Question one: Are you aware that I am a deeply flawed human being?"
"Well aware," Ed answered with an amused smile on his lips that tempted Gaia to forget the questions and get back to trying to answer the impossible question why Ed's lips were so irrestible. But, unfortunately she had to focus. "And do you understand that my life outside of this bed is... completely screwed up? I mean beyond any kind of-"
"I hope you don't think that you are just informing me of this." Gaia swallowed her instinct to run right back to her predictable life of ass kicking and forget about the complication that was Ed, but she couldn't. She had to ask this last question, the life-altering-save-the-best-for-last question.
"And...do you love me?" She couldn't meet Ed's eyes, if she could be afraid then she knew this would be the time. She felt fingers under her chin gently lifting her face to meet his.
"I can't remember a life before you walked into it, I loved you from the moment you first insulted me and I never stopped loving you since then."
"I love you too..." Gaia got tears in her eyes but laughed it off, "God, we could make an unbelievably sappy chick-flic if we ever got the chance. Ed's laughs caused the bed to jump and Gaia soon found herself joining in, unable to fathom the way she felt at that moment. She was finally home. She playfully threw her leg over Ed's hip and continued laughing but soon realized that he had stopped. Her smile drained from her face as she looked at her leg, which was draped over Ed. Ed's hand moved toward her calf as its owner watched shocked by its actions. Gaia licked her lips and tightened her leg around him, pulling him closer as Ed's hand moved cautiously from her calf to her thigh.
"You never answered my question," Ed said between panting.
"What question?" Gaia breathed as she moved closer to his lips.
"Are you ready?" Ed leaned closer, lips now a centimeter apart, words vibrating on Gaia's lips.
"Yes..." Gaia and Ed's lips touched and both backed off looking in each other's eyes, neither believing what was about to happen. Then they kissed, melting together as the wind rustled outside the window that was a thin barrier to the dangerous world awaiting them.