Disclaimer: Still sure I don't own 'em

Okay, so italics are flashbacks

Warning: Auron is OoC in this one

Enjoy!

Beautiful

We're sitting around the campfire, eating, and I'm fighting with my buddy (arch enemy at the moment) Tidus over who gets the last bit of delicious Lulu-stew. The rest of the gang is watching us with amusement on their faces. Gotta win this one, Auron's watching too.

"I'm bigger than you!"

"I still have to grow!"

"I was out all day, and you were just sitting here with Auron!"

"I did a lot of things too!"

"Like what?!"

"Uhm…"

Okay, time to retreat. I can't tell him I've been going at it with Auron all day. Besides, I'm not ready to share that information with anyone yet. It's just something that's his and mine. I blubber something like "forget it" and then I quickly make my way towards my tent, to fight the useless battle against my blush.

They came back about an hour ago, just around nightfall. Damn Yunie and her punctuality. She can never be late, can she?

Anyway, I scolded them for five minutes for not waking me, when really I was thanking them silly in my mind. They told us all about their little trip to the Carnival, and I was glad when I saw Yunie look extremely happy the entire time. But, I have to say, my day with Auron was still more fun, obviously. But I couldn't tell them that, so I just said something like "I'm sorry I couldn't be there" and then continued staring at the Lulu-stew that was still simmering at the time.

I'm sitting in my tent, thinking about my glorious day with Auron. My eyes close and I get a dreamy smile on my face as I remember his gentle caresses and the feeling of him inside me. You'd think that after making love to him about ten times today, I'd have enough of it, but I just want more.

I realise it's not just that that I'm after either, I just want to be with him. I want him to hold me, just like earlier today.

We laid together after I pounced him when we were done bathing (we got dirty all over again), him half-sitting against a tree and me neatly tucked in his arms. I snuggled my face in his bare shoulder and tightened my arms around him. We were like that for a while, just taking in each other's company, when he asked me how I knew he is Unsent. I looked up at him cheekily and answered with my Almighty-Rikku-Air.

"It was pretty obvious, really, Auron. I mean, you flinch every time Yunie sends someone, you never seem to get tired, though you do need sleep, apparently,", I grinned, and my grin grew as I saw him smile, "And that extremely obvious comment Seymour made a few months ago just confirmed my suspicions. I'm surprised no one else figured it out."

"My smart little thief.", he said, and he chuckled when I blushed. Silence surrounded us once again, and I snuggled his chest again.

"You know that I have to leave when we beat Sin?", he asked after a while, and I could tell he didn't ask because he wanted to bring it up. He was concerned for me.

"Yes,", my voice quivered slightly, but I ignored it, "but I just figure, we have to make the best of the time we have together, you know?"

He nodded, before tucking my head under his chin again. I took in his manly-Auron-scent, sighing heavily in contentment.

I pout when I think about him leaving, and a sad wave crashes my heart. Now I have two reasons why I don't want Yunie to face Sin. The two people I care most about will leave me forever.

But I'm not going to think about that right now. I'll only get depressed, and that's the last thing I want. I only want to be back in his arms again.

I traded my night-watch with Wakka so I could be together with Auron. He was suspicious at first, but when I reminded him I usually had Lulu for a partner he shut up quickly. Sometimes I'm just too smart for my own good.

It's getting late, and I hear Yunie and Tidus go to bed. I wonder how many times Tidus will try to sneak in Yunie's tent tonight. Lulu always seems to catch them, though. Pity for them.

Oh, well. He should just be a little more stealthy, like me. But then again, I am a Master Thief.

So, I sneak out of my tent without anyone noticing and hide in the shadows, until finally Lulu and Wakka turn in too. Kimahri is nowhere to be seen, but he doesn't say much anyway, so I guess my secret's safe with him.

I stare at Auron sitting alone by the camp-fire, and my heart leaps. I decide I want to surprise/scare him, and I crawl over to him slowly, making sure I'm not making a sound. I'm almost there, when his gruff voice startles me so much I let out a very unladylike shriek. Damn.

"Just come over here, Rikku, you're wasting time."

Heh. Psychic, is he? Well, he is the Legendary Guardian, after all.

Naah, he was just lucky.

"What'd you that for!", I whisper, afraid my shriek woke someone up, but it remained silent in all of the tents. He only chuckles as I move to sit next to him, but he pulls me in his arms instead. Hey, I'm not complaining. That's what I was going for anyway.

I wrap my legs around his waist an my arms around his neck, pulling myself against him as if my life depends on it. He strokes my back soothingly, and he rests his chin on my head.

Ahh, this is the life. If I'm dreaming, don't wake me up, okay?

The fuzzy warm feeling I've been feeling all day today comes back with full force, and I sigh contentedly.

"You can't just turn me into Rikku-mush and pretend you didn't scare the hell outta me.", I tell him in my mock-angry voice, while making sure he understands that if he lets me go he'll regret it by tightening my grip.

"I think I'm doing a pretty good job so far.", he rumbles, and his grip on me tightens somewhat too. Sigh, he's right. He's doing a pretty damn good job.

I remember him telling me how beautiful he thinks I am. I think it was after Love-Make-Session-Number-Four. As I said, today was really a good day. I grin and blush at the same time at the memory.

We were lying on the ground just outside of our camp, our clothes scattered around us, as we tried to control our breathing again. I was sprawled on top of him (exhausted, yet extremely happy), his hands still on my hips as he had put them there earlier to steady me. My head is resting on his chest, and his beating heart in my ear lulled me into a sense of safety you can't imagine. He said something, but I didn't hear it, only the rumbling of his chest told me he wanted my attention. I looked up.

"You're beautiful.", he repeated, and I shook my head.

"Why do you keep saying that? You're exaggerating. I'm just your ordinary Al Bhed girl, you know?" I thought back to the first time he said it, in the heat of the moment, and the happiness that came with it.

He looked at me confused for a second, then answered in the scolding voice I knew only too well.

"I think I have to keep saying it, since each time I say it, you look as if you don't believe me. I've been around this Spira and Zanarkand, and never have I seen a girl like you."

I sat up slightly to look him in the eye, then gestured at my naked form on top of him.

"You can't be serious, I have nothing to brag about. My hips are too narrow, especially compared to Yunie's. My breasts are way too small, especially compared to Lulu's. As I said, nothin' to brag about."

He shook his head in disbelief, then raised his hand to stroke my cheek.

"Millions of men would kill to be able to look in your emerald eyes just once in their lives. Your hips are fine, they fit against me like they were made for me to put my hands on. And as for your breasts", he stroked his hands over them as he spoke, making me shiver, "they have the perfect size for me to caress them, and their softness makes me want to touch you all the more."

He brought my hand to his lips and kissed it, before directing his eye to my face again.

"I assure you that the image you have of yourself is a false one. You are anything but ordinary."

You understand that this little scene led to Love-Make-Session-Number-Five. And Six. He's just too romantic, really. I get all mushy around him, it's that simple. Like I am now. I giggle when I feel his fingers tickling my sides lazily.

"What are you grinning about?", he asks, and he pulls back slightly to look at me.

"Just thinking about how you're such a hopeless romantic.", I reply cheekily, knowing what he's going to say next.

"Don't tell anybody.", he murmurs. Jackpot. Told ya I'm to smart for my own good.

"I wouldn't dare, someone might try to steal you from me."

"No one's as good a thief as you.", he says. I know, Auron, I know.

I feel a yawn coming up, and I repress the urge to release it. Don't want to fall asleep now, it'll ruin a perfectly perfect moment. But really, he's the one that made me so sleepy in the first place (he's just too irresistible for his own good). I can't stop the next yawn, and I try to hide it behind my hand. Nope, he saw it.

"Little girls should go to sleep.", he rumbles, and I punch his shoulder lightly.

"Al Bhed children are adults at fourteen, you know! I've been an adult for almost two years now!" Ha, top that.

"Oh, so you're a thief and a liar.", he says, and I grin stupidly. Oops, forgot he travelled with my uncle Braska quite a long time.

"Heh…can't blame a girl for trying, can ya?"

"I suppose you can't.", he answers smoothly, and I know he's mocking me. Pff.

"You big mea…", I start, but I stop when his hands slide up my arms to my neck to my head. He's undoing my hair from its messy ponytail so he can run his fingers through it. He rubs his rough fingertips over my scalp and I can't help but moan softly. Man, his hands should be illegal.

"Sleep.", he orders quietly, and I feel my eyelids droop immediately. Weird. My head is suddenly to heavy for me to carry, and I rest it on his shoulder, the beating of his heart making the sleepiness all the worse. I snuggle closer until I find the comfortable spot just above his collarbone.

"I'm…not…tired…", I lie in a mumble, proving his point, and he chuckles lightly. Ooh, I love that chuckle of his.

"You're beautiful.", he says, and I can't help but smirk.

"I know, you keep tellin' me." I mumble, before falling asleep, feeling safer than ever.

I gasped as he brushed his fingers over my sensitive flesh. His mouth nibbled at my ear, and his body pressed me further against the tree, making my back scrape against its rough surface painfully. I pressed my nails in his back as punishment, while moaning loudly as he sinfully used his fingers to pleasure me.

"The others will be back soon.", he half grunted, half growled in my ear, and I moaned some more at the sound of his voice.

"So…uh…hurry…aah…it…ooh…up.", I groaned, and he presses his lips against mine before entering me slowly. My moaning wasn't normal anymore, it was so loud. He continued to make love to me achingly slowly, and I bit my lip trying to keep myself quiet. Whimpering and weird squeaky noises were the result of that, so I quickly gave that up. Instead I kissed him fiercely, and he responded by attacking my tongue mercilessly, while at the same time speeding up his thrusts into me.

I screamed when I reached my peak, "Auron!", and he released inside me seconds after that, groaning my name in my ear.

I fell limp in his arms after the intense wave of pleasure passed, and he switched our places, sitting down against the tree to catch his breath. I managed to sit up in his lap slightly, looking him in his eye dreamily.

"I love you, Auron.", I whisper, and he brushes my hair out of my sweaty face lovingly.

"I love you too, my beautiful little thief."


So, how was chapter 2? You know, this one was supposed to be without the lemon, but I just couldn't help myself.

Anyway, to my reviewers, thanks a lot!!

imindenial: I hope you like this chapter too!

AmazonTurk: I dunno, a threesome? I think that's a little outta my league... but I'll write a Rippal one-shot, if you want:P