Slightly inspired by the Stone Sour cover of "Wicked Game" and a boring afternoon in the hotel room while outside the sea was threatening to submerge half of Rimini. Rating goes up to M. Not anything too graphic, according to the site rules, but discretion is advised.
Chapter 2 - WickedGame
Not five minutes later, Ferus joined Jane at the table on the large balcony she had chosen, with an immaculate bottle of 'Twister and two shot glasses, set them in front of her and then sat on the metallic chair, facing her. Even through the eyes of a slightly intoxicated man, she was by far the most gorgeous woman in the whole room. And there was no way he could get away from that place without at least a comlink ID or an address to call her or visit her. There was something in Jane Kobb that attracted him like a magnet, it was a centripetal force that pulled him in and he couldn't resist her.
He just needed to be smart and bold enough to ask her out.
"So, my dear Inquisitor, I know there are many versions of the 'Twist. Which rules are we going to abide?" she asked, dragging one of the shot glasses towards.
"Basic rules?" he proposed, twisting the cap and breaking the seal of the bottle. "I mean, I ask you a question and if you don't want to answer you drink a shot. I know those rules."
Jane nodded as he poured the drink. "Good. There's also a very hardcore version but that's for a group round, it works like this: one in the group asks a questions and each one answers. If you don't want to answer you drink your shot. Works wonders to light up dull parties."
"I bet. I'm more a beer kind of guy, but you can light up a party even with an empty bottle of beer."
"Spin the bottle?" she asked, a wild strand of hair partially covered her eyes.
"Yep. I was introduced to all these goodies when I left the Jedi Order and believe me, I've met the craziest people at parties, playing Spin The Bottle or Twister Twist." He confessed. "Not exactly my cup of tea, but I can adapt."
Jane laughed, softly, covering her lips with her hand to mask it. It was painful to watch her laugh and not being able to see her smile. He wanted to kiss her so badly he could feel his own lips tingle with anticipation. He could almost taste her, even if he didn't even have a direct experience of it.
"Yeah, I'm not exactly a party girl myself, but you know… when I was at the Academy I had my dose of wild parties and stuff. And since some of my friends introduced me to the 'Twist, I swear I fell in love with this thing. Sometimes I avoided answering questions because I love the taste of the liquor."
"Then I'm going to introduce a new rule: we're both trained at detecting lies so we must be sincere. OK?"
Jane nodded and took her shot glass, raising it in front of her eyes. "I'm OK with that. A toast? To Inquisitors and Police cooperating?"
Ferus took his shot and raised it too. "I'm more for a night doing extra work that turned into a nice night out with a beautiful, intelligent woman. How do you like that?"
"Then to an undercover job turned into a night of revelry?" she proposed.
"And to the hangover tomorrow morning." They clicked their shots together and downed them. The strong spirit burned their throat but the strong, bitter taste was a bliss for them. That thing was one of the best liquors available in the galaxy. "Come on, let's start it! First question: favorite color?" he asked, refilling their glasses.
Jane made a face. "Easy enough. I'm a fan of red and purple, but I tend to like more purple. The deeper the better. My turn: how long have you been working for the Inquisitors?"
"Since about a month after their creation. The Boss came personally to my door to ask me to join, considering my background. Now let me think…" he took a long pause to think about an interesting question and looked straight in her eyes, seeing everything and nothing at all. Those deep green eyes were a mystery in which he just wanted to dive. That girl was an interesting character, and he wanted to discover every layer of Jane Kobb. "How about… how old are you?"
"Really? You're asking me how old I am?" she replied in disbelief.
Ferus nodded. "Yeah, I mean, you're a cop and that means you're over age, but I'm a bit worried about the gap."
"Why Inquisitor, are you going to ask me out?" asked Jane, biting her lower lip and sliding a little on her chair so she had her elbow on the stony balcony and her chin on the heel of her palm. That way, one of the shoulder straps of her dress moved a little, enough to give him the chance to see a little more skin than earlier. "Or are you asking me because you want to get in my pants and you don't want a jailbait?"
He took a deep breath before answering. "We'll see. Anyway, are you going to answer?"
"Of course! Turned twenty one three months ago so don't worry, no jailbait. How about you?"
"Thirty one in ten days. Are you single?"
At that, Jane downed her shot. Bad sign. Either she had a boyfriend and she didn't want him to know, or she had some issues with said boyfriend. Or maybe she simply didn't want to talk about it. "Are you?"
Ferus nodded. "Free as a bird. Actually, outside the colleagues, I don't know many people, let alone have a girlfriend. Why did you join the Police Force?"
"I was recruited. I used to do swoop bike racing and the Captain of the Special Forces noticed I had a natural talent for driving in dangerous situations. He asked if I was interested in putting that talent into good use. I was sixteen then, the right age to join the Academy so I finished school and went straight to the Police Academy. I did my training and I was a driver for the Special Recon Team for a year, then someone else noticed I was good at undercover jobs when I had to pull my squd out of a tough situation and I posed as a prostitute from the Outer Rim, accent and everything, and I was moved to Vice last year. I'm aiming at the position of Detective in Homicide, if I can get there."
"That's why you took this job? To add more points for a possible promotion?"
"Partially. That, and because I was the only woman in the task force. Also, I was the only one of the shift that could fit into this dress. And you? Why did you come here? Hoping for a promotion too?"
Ferus shook his head. "Nope. I was the only one with a formal dress at work when my boss asked if any of us had one. Family?"
"Mom, dad, an older sister and an older brother. And six between nieces and nephews. I'm fifteen years younger than my middle sibling. You?"
He drank his shot, then proceeded to refill it. He didn't really want to answer that. His family was the Jedi Order, but everyone knew what had happened to them. He had jumped off the sinking ship early enough to save himself. That didn't mean he didn't ferl bad about it. Really bad. Good people had died during the last years and he knew many of them. Some of them were his friends. "Why Homicide?"
"It's cool. Also, catching murderers and stuff like that is better than jailing pimps, prostitutes and sometimes going undercover as one. You know, some of the airways are kind of cold, in thet kind of clothes."
He laughed, trying to picture her in a low-life prostitute attire. And having a hard time imagining something else but silk on her. "Yeah, I get it. Not cool enough." he replied, trying to push those thoughts away.
Jane shrugged her shoulders "It's not about how cool a job is, it's a matter of what I want to do. What I feel is right for me. And I'm a better detective than I'm an actress. I'm a terrible actress. Sometimes I wonder how my superior can send me undercover as a prostitute all winks and flirts."
"Your flirting technique works perfectly. I mean… yeah, it works!"
She arched an eyebrow and threw him an inquisitive look. "Did it work for you?"
And she bit her lip. Again.
He wanted to bite that lip. Badly. So much he had to grab the leg of the table with one hand and hold it tight not to show any kind of reaction at the gesture. Damn it, that woman was pretty much still a girl, barely out of teenage, and she acted like a much older woman, probably closer to his age. He had to bite down his tongue to refrain himself from jumping over her. He just grabbed the shot glass and drank from it, so quickly he almost chocked on the liquor. Two could play that game though. That wicked game that was making him strain to touch her. Yeah, her flirting technique was working wonders on him, but she didn't need to know it. If she didn't know it already.
Another refill. "Why are you doing this?"
"Doing what?"
"Playing a drinking game that will get you drunk with a guy you barely know?"
Jane thought about the answer for a moment, searching in her slightly hazed mind an appropriate answer to that question but she didn't have one. At least one that made sense. None of the answers she could come up with were sensible ones. She liked the guy, that was sure, he fascinated her in many ways, first and foremost the loneliness she could see in his eyes, but there was something else. Something big he wasn't telling, but not just to her, but to anyone around him. A big secret that was gnawing him away, slowly, but that hurt him. A lot. Still, she didn't have an answer for his question, so she simply took his shot and drank it, never taking her eyes away from his.
Yep, all her flirting was working. His pants were awfully tight at that point. And he decided to try it, even if it wasn't his turn.
"Would you mind if I asked you out?"
"No. What do you think of women letting men they just met in their beds?" she asked, and Ferus noticed a slight trembling in the finger she was running on the brim of the shot glass.
He shook his head. "Nothing, what should I think of them? It's their life, if they want to have sex with a guy they just met, it's their life. How about men hooking up with women on the job?"
"Not exactly a fan, but if they don't strictly work together, like they work in the same field, no problem, but I don't think that two people working together in the same place every day could have a good relationship. My turn now. Would you forget my name tomorrow morning if I invited you at my place?"
"I'm really good with names so, no, I wouldn't forget your name tomorrow morning. And for what it's worth, I would be honored."
"To come home with me? Honored? Again with the knight in the shiny whatever thing?"
Ferus shook his head. "Never been knighted. I'm no knight in shiny whatever, I'm just the average guy with an average job that met the most beautiful woman of the planet and happens to like her a lot."
Jane giggled and tried to hid behind the shot glass in her hand, and her smile lit the room at his eyes. Maybe it was the alcohol talking, but he had the definite impression he had fallen in love with Agent Jane Kobb.
"You have a certain way with words. Your Master's work?"
"No. Plain and simple drunkness. I'm way more shy when I'm sober."
Even without a question asked, she downed her shot and refilled her glass. They way she did it perspired sensuality. It was impossible for her to be only twenty one. She couldn't be so self conscious about the way men looked at her to use it at her own advantage. That was something that came. "There's only one thing that stops me from waving a cab and take you home with me."
Holy fuckin' shit... he tought, hiding the sudden twitch of his limbs with a jerky movement aimed to take his own glass and drink his dose of liquor. "And that would it be?"
"I don't want to be a notch on your bedpost. I don't want to be only a conquest, a trophy you can boast about with your friends."
"That's not how it works with me. There are no conquests, no trophys. I'm serious, when it comes to relationships. And I have the feeling this one can be great."
Biting her lower lip again, Jane stood, drank the last shot of the night and banged the empty glass on the table. "You have no idea."
And with that, she headed towards the entrance of the hall, leaving Ferus sliding down on the chair in the vain attempt to hide his more than evident arousal under the table. The way she whispered that you have no idea was just fuel on an already big fire. Running both hands on his face he looked at her direction, admiring the view of the plain expanse of her naked back. He was desperately trying to regain some composure, at least enough to be certain his legs would hold him straight and he wouldn't wobble around her like a drunkard thrown out of a dirty pub in the underbelly of Coruscant.
A skycar speeding some yards away made his glass shine with the headlights as it passed by and he simply grabbed it and drank it, calling it quits. Enough liquor, time to dive into action.
As he stood up, ready to follow her, Jane turned around and faced him, hands on her hips. "You comin'?"
Nodding like a school boy, he soon reached her, walking straight and not wobbling, like he was worried about. "How far is your place?"
"Twenty minutes cab ride north of here. Not far."
"I didn't picture you for an uptown girl." he said, hooking his arm so she could sneak her own around his. Classiest way to leave a place, with the most gorgeous woman of the party at your arm. He could feel the envious stares of all the men present in the room, both single and married, and he smiled inwardly, rejoycing for his luck.
"Dad's rich. When I decided I wanted to get away from home, he bought me an apartment. Couldn't let go of his baby girl without knowing she's safe in a surveilled building with to of the line security measures." she said, waving a cab that passed her by, not even slowing down. "Damn... I hate cabbies that ignore women."
"Gender equality my ass, sorry. It's still a man's galaxy." he put thumb and index beneath his tongue and let out a high-pitched whistled that had a cab pull over to their position on the walkway in no time. "Be it for me, I'd beat the crap out of every sexist and racist guy I meet." he confessed, opening the door for her.
"Not very Jedi-like." she said as she slid inside.
"Then luckily for me, I'm not a Jedi."
He followed her and as soon as the door was closed, Jane gave the cabbie the address of her apartment complex, then closed small window that separated the passengers compartment from the driving seat.
He was expecting a short ride, just long enough to relax for a moment and let the alcohol in his system wear down a little so the world, and Jane, would stop spinning like a damn carousel around him and then see what she had in mind once they reached her place, but he was wrong. So much wrong.
Practically the same moment the car moved away from the pavement, Jane was all over him. With her hands on his shoulders, she straddled his legs, grinding down on him, and thank the Force for the wide slit in her dress, because it was just the kind of contact they both needed. And much more.
She kissed him with a hunger and a passion he couldn't think was possible, her soft lips devouring his while, her fingers threading in the short hair at the nape of his neck, holding for dear life onto it. It took him more than a moment to react, so stunned he was by her bold actions, but once he realized what was going on wasn't a product of his over-frustrated imagination, he kissed her back, again marvelled at the hunger he himself poured into that kiss, invading her mouth with his tongue, caressing her own, enticing her even more. She tasted like an undescribable mix of something fruity and their liquor of choice, but the most incredible thing was the scent of wild cherries that surrounded her, like an invisible cloud and in the cramped space of the skycar, everything was amplified.
Ferus was mesmerized by that woman he barely knew, her young, strong character attracted him like a moth to a flame, a woman that had him pinned down on the seat of the car like a horny teenager.
He pulled back just enough to take a deep breath before tangling his own fingers in her long hair and pull her down to him again for another hot, sloppy kiss that cut her air supply short, a kiss that slowly trailed down her jaw and neck.
Throwing her head back to allow him more room for manouvers, Jane let out a content sigh at his careful ministration, each stroke of his tongue and lips sent a wave of pleasure through her body, and she cried out loud when he gently bit down at her pulse point. Gauging her reaction, Ferus bit her again, harder this time, then laved the same sensitive spot with his tongue, leaving her shuddering and grasping his shoulders hard, as if to mantain some self control. And even if he couldn't see her face, the Force in motion around her was a enough to tell him how aroused she was. Smiling against her skin, he kept his journey across her collarbone, leaving hot, wet open mouthed kisses in his wake while his hands ran down her side to her hips, skimming the soft silk of her dress, while he wished he could get her naked in that very moment and feel the softness of her skin, and not the high quality cloth that looked so amazing on her, and she shivered in anticipation of what would come as soon as they would get home.
They were still in the cab, but that didn't stop Ferus from pushing his hips up while pulling Jane down into him, earning another loud gasp from her, and making it hard for him to swallow back his own. Damn, she was so horny she could have come by only dry humping him in the cab, but he had other ideas in mind. Other plans.
Shaking her head a little, as if to push away some kind of fog, and looked down at him. The lights coming from outside the cab made her eyes sparkle in the dimly lit cab, and when she bit down her lower lip, Ferus jumped a little on the seat, she let go of his shoulders and sneaked her hand between them and brushed her fingers over his groin, then, with a wicked, crooked smile, she cupped him through his fingers, and she did revel in the loud noise that came out of his mouth, as he let his head fall on the back rest, with his eyes rolled back as his grip on her hips tightened on his hands' own volition.
That cruel grin that lit her eyes remained when she ran her fingertip on the seam of his pants, drawing ghostly patterns on the fabric that made him twitch in the confined space. Jane could film him carelessly strain beneath her as she held him in her hand, literally and metaphorically, until Ferus felt that little self control that remained in him snap and he pushed his hand beneath her dress until the tip of his fingers touched the front of her panties, only to find her soaking wet.
How could he resist something like that?
"Oh gods..." she whined, then almost screamed as he pushed a little more into her. "Oh fuck..."
"Damn it Jane, how long have you been this wet?"
Using her free hand, Jane grabbed his tie and pulled him to her and kissed him again, rolling her hips against his fingers. "Long enough..." she whispered against his mouth.
Damn, she wants to kill me. he though when her teeth scraped his lower lip. But he nearly lost it when she deftly undid his fly and sneaked her hand inside and...
The cabbie banged his fist against the plastic glass that separated them. "Het lovebirds, no sex in my cab or I'll call the cops!"
With the moment ruined, Jane and Ferus looked at each other with an expression of pure wrath in their eyes, then simultaneously pulled at each other's badges, his in the internal pocket of his jacked and her neatly tucked in her garter, then pushed them against the glass, so hard the cabbie jumped on his seat.
"The cops are already here smartass." started Jane. "And if you don't want a fine for the extremely dangerous way you drive not to mention the violation of the hygenic laws for cabs and private transport cars, you'd better shut your mouth, raise the divider and drive." her voice was so stern and tight it was clear she was using her cop persona, and the tone aroused Ferus even more.
"How do you do that?" he asked, as the plastic separator was raised again, this time with a thin opaque layer to give them some more privacy.
"Do what? I just knew he had the opaque glass, this cab model has it by design."
"This... I mean... how do you change like that?"
"Five years in the police make you pretty much multitasking. We can be sweet as candy with victims one minute and assholes with the perps the other. Now... where were we?" her sultry voice made him shiver as much as the hand popping the button and the fly of his pants and diving into his underwear, pulling him out.
The skin-to-skin contact made him shudder and Jane smiled. She was truly going to kill him, one way or another, by the time they reached her place. That little game she was playing had to finish, and he needed to put an end on it. Shoving a hand beneath her dress again, he pushed her underwear aside. "Clean?"
"Clean and on birth control. Satisfied?"
He didn't even reply, simply pulled her down onto him and entered her with a well angled, long thurst.
"Holy shit..." he groaned, covering the sharp intake of breath coming from Jane. She hadn't had the time to guess his size but... let's just say it was more than what she was used to. She clenched her fists in his jacket and stood completely still for a long moment, her forehead against his, trying to catch her breath and... getting used to him.
On his side, Ferus had to hold onto all his self control not to finish there and then, and ruin the moment. She was tight as hell and to be honest, it had been years since he'd had sex with a real woman and non just his hand. They had to slow down, or the party would be over way too soon.
He held his breath as he cupped her face with his hands and gently kissed her, softly, at first barely touching her then deepening the kiss, allowing themselves to get used to one another. Then Jane started to move above him, slowly, finally adjusted to the feeling. And it was amazing.
She didn't know if it was because she was a Vice cop breaking the laws she was supposed to protect and abusing her power and her badge, or because of the alcohol flowing in her veins or simply because of Ferus, but there was something she couldn't explain herself in that moment. She had always enjoyed sex, but that was more than... enjoying. She was loving it. It was... more than anything she had ever expected.
In the dimly lit cab, speeding hundreds of yards above the ground, Jane was having the best sex she ever had, with a guy she barely knew but that in one night out, a supposedly night out on the job, had treated her better than any official boyfriend she'd ever had. The way he held her close to him made her feel safe, the way he kissed her, like there was no tomorrow, made her crave for his touch more than her next breath.
But it was something in his eyes, a shadow that darkened them in a way she had never seen in a man, a sense of loneliness that didn't belong to a guy so nice... there was something in him that attracted her, more than any other man she'd ever met.
She had it bad.
And enjoying every minute of it.
As Ferus. He was in heaven. A drunk hazed heaven, but heaven nontheless. Many times he found himself thinking he was dreaming, because there's no way a woman like her could be interested in a man like him, but each time she rolled her hips, he got a very strong reminder it was real, very much real. It was too much and not enough at the same time, like he couldn't get enough of her.
At first he tried to set a rhythm, do something active but both of them were too caught in the moment to do anything rational and they just followed their instincts. That meant it was wild, messy, sloppy and fast as fuck. She ground on him like her life depended on it, still holding tight at his jacket to find some purchase and balance. Her lips randomly claimed his in a searing kiss that left him breathless every time, and he really felt like he was floating in a distorted version of heaven.
Suddenly, Jane let go of him and placed her hands on the backrest, at each side of his head for a better hold and balance, and the way she moved changed, became more erratic, frantic. She was close to her release, searching for the right angle, that right stroke that would make her fall. He couldn't let her do all the work. It wasn't polite.
Circling her waist with his left arm, he leaned towards and slid a little forward on the seat, planting his feet on the floor of the car for better leverage. The sudden change of angle made her gasp against his mouth, which turned into a full whine when he sneaked his other hand under her rumpled dress between them, his thumb deftly stroking her.
It took Jane nothing more than a couple of well angled thrust to make her lose it. She threw her head back and let out a strangled cry of pleasure as her orgasm washed over her like hot waves on the beach, cutting her breath short, and Ferus soon followed her, his own release hitting him like a blow to the back of the head, making his muscle go rigid in his whole body. The hand holding her thigh clenched so tight he was sure he would leave bruises on her.
They remained in that position for a moment, trying to fill their lungs with air and clean their haids from the aftershock of their mind-blowing orgasms, holding onto each other for dear life, while the low hum of the skycar engine filled the passenger compartment like a lullaby.
"Gods..." she whispered once she regained a semblance of control over herself.
"Yeah... wow." he replied, closing his eyes shut for a moment then opening them wide to clear them from the haze created by the liquor and the arousal. Seeing Jane so delisciously dishelved, her hair flying in every direction, eyes wild and glowing... he made him crave her more. There was something in her he found absolutely irresistible. She was truly the most amazing person he had ever met.
And when she rolled off him and sat back on the seat, he immediately felt the lack of contact. "Never though cab sex could be so much enjoyable." she revelaed. "Maybe that's why I write so many fines for it!"
"Really?"
Slowly, she nodded. "Yeah, well... not as many as for prostitution or anything related but... yeah, I've signed many fines and arrests for that." she was trying to get her dress back into shape, but it was almost impossible. It was all crumpled, a clear sign of the activity they had enganged in the last fifteen minutes.
And when Ferus looked down at the crotch of his pants, while getting presentable himself, he realized the evidences of their little "illegal activity" were on him as well. Oh well, dry cleaning. He though to himself.
"Ahem, may I use your shower tomorrow?"
Jane took her badge from the place he had thrown it earlier and tucked it in her garter again. "Of course, you don't even have to ask." she replied, handing her his own badge.
"Thank you. How long?"
"We're almost there."
"Right..." he took a bill from the note compartment of his badge and had it ready.
"You don't have to pay, I can handle it." she said.
"Let me be your knight for tonight Jane. You can thank me later if you want." he whispered with a barely there wink.
He didn't expect to see her stick her tongue out like a kid, and he was about to reply the same way, but the cab suddenly halted and the screen glass slid open. "We're here, lovebirds." sighed the driver, pointing at the fare meter, displaying the price of the run. Apparently, he hadn't overcharged it for the little inconvenience, so Ferus fished for another bill and handed it to him, doubling the fare.
"Sorry for the mess..." he mumbled handing him the money. The cabbie took it without a word, closed the compartment and opened the passenger door, allowing Jane to open it and get out on the walkway right in front of her apartment building. The massive complex was situated in one of the welthiest zones of the planet, with a private walkway with access denied to all the non authorized people, except for rapid transit of cabs, doorman and everything, and it was really equipped with the latest devices regarding security, to the point that Jane had to swipe a card and enter a code on a keypad just to be let inside the front door.
But as she walked to the front door, still unable to stand up completely straight and wobbling a little, Ferus found himself staring at her and wondering where the hell he had got so fortunate in his life. The past ten years and more had been a sequence of totally shitty events, one after the other, and suddenly an angel dropped in his life, out of nowhere. Better sail with the tide, and see how long it lasted.
She was punching the code on the keypad when he reached her. "Everything alright?"
"Yeah, sort of. I just don't like being drunk and having to go through all these security measures. I wish dad had bought me an apartment in a different area of the town."
"Would you blame him for it?" he asked, circling her waist with his arm and pulling her towards him.
"He just wanted to know I was safe. He's always worried about me, since I decided to join the police. He was so relieved when I was pulled from patrol I didn't have the guts to tell him I was assigned to Vice." she replied, dragging him towards the turbolift.
The ride was spent in comfortable silence, both of them holding onto one another, sharing a long quiet moment as the elevator took them to the right floor.
When it finally stopped and the door opened, Jane slid out of his embrace and walked down the long corridor until she reached a door not too far. She swiped the card and looked at Ferus, some steps behind her. "You comin'?"
Ferus sighed. "Always."