"The Cu Sith," his voice was a whispering wander that was trailing along her collarbone, his right hand drawing a softened circle against one uncovered thigh, "was a feral beast."
"Scotty - "
"Hush." He rushed the word nearer to her shoulder as he stroked his fingers up under the sheet that she'd crumpled between her legs, his eyes lifting to catch hers as he tickled along the inside of her thigh. "I'm teachin' you something here. Learn awhile, Althea. It won't kill ya."
Ally let her eyes drift shut on a half smirk, rolling her hips tighter into the turn of his hand as he shifted up over her side, his weight leaned heavily on his left arm. The back of her hand was wedged into the center of his chest and she ticked her knuckles against the beads he was wearing as he pulled her thigh up and close.
"She's a stalking wolf. Green in the eyes."
He was watching the muscles in her face go lax and he dipped his mouth quickly against hers to catch her up in surprise, smiling into the way her fingers caught curled against his throat while he stroked his tongue slowly against hers. He couldn't help letting a groan grate along her tongue.
"Are you calling me a dog, Telford?" her brow was so sharply arched as she pulled back that he couldn't help chuckling into the accusation plainly showing on her face.
"None such." He whispered back against her mouth before licking and nipping against her bottom lip. "She hunts silently. Not a sound. A harbinger. A guard."
"You are." She was tugging tightly but teasingly against his beard. "You're a bastard."
He laughter was another play of heat on her and she just banked back into the enjoyment of it, weariness tucking her eyes closed as his fingers stroked suddenly higher. A slip of a moan passed off her lips and he watched the slow way her head turned as she blinked up, his fingers already teasing into the dampness he'd left there.
"What are you hunting for, Cu Sith?" there was a sudden seriousness in his eyes that rattled and wrecked the lulled mood he'd created in the supposedly safe darkness of a four am détente. "Why prowl me?"
"I don't know." Her head marginally tipped back and forth against her pillow and the admittance in her tone had been full with surprised honesty.
He blinked as his thumb circled against her clit, drawing a flutter in her lashes as she sighed her head farther back on an arch. "I believe you."
"Filip?" her eyes were suddenly just as feral as the character in his taunting story.
"Aye?" his lips were breaking along her throat again.
"Could you please just shut up and make me come again?" the innocence in the way she murmured the words along his temple was such a brightened contrast to the seriousness of his words and the honestly of her request that he barked a sudden break of laughter into her jaw.
His brows lifted as he grinned into a nod and stretched over her, enjoying the way she dragged her arms against his shoulders. "That I can."
Ally nodded as she traced an arch around the cut on his brow. "I'd appreciate it."
"Oh, I know you will."
"In a hurry?" the first twist of smoke off his cigarette preceded him and, at first, she didn't dare look at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. Not wanting there to be any chance that she could find him in any way adorable in his early morning mussiness. She'd seen it before and it had led her to being more than an hour late.
"Well, some foreign bastard kept me up until four in the morning reciting the entire annals of the Celtic pantheon." The words bounced off the mirror and back toward where he was leaned in the doorway and she heard the chuckle he cast up at her back.
"Annals?" he snorted and gave her a quick glance in the mirror that she suddenly found unavoidable, stilling the mascara wand in her hand as she watched him piece the cigarette from his lips with forefinger and thumb.
"Don't tempt me." she spoke softly.
Chibs lifted his shoulders into a swaggered shrug, his steps slow but intent. She dipped her eyes closed from the way he'd hooked his pants onto his hips but hadn't buttoned or belted them. Ally exhaled into the way he angled into her back, one of his hands brushing slowly over the fabric of her uniform shirt before he bent a kiss into her shoulder, lips warm through the fabric.
"Just saying g'morning." His voice hushed along the back of her head and smoke hazed around them as he continued toward the shower. "I'll be outta here in fifteen."
"I didn't mean that you had to rush." She tried to soften her words toward apologetic as she watched him tuck the cigarette in his lips and lean into the shower, cranking the hot water toward blasting.
"I know." He smiled past the smoke that was still tucked in his lips, his accent curling the words up into something like affection. "Back to reality, Lieutenant."
She blinked into a wincing nod but smiled into the way he was dragging down the denim from one hip. "I told you not to tempt me."
"Come on in." he sucked down the last of the cigarette before dipping the butt under the running water and tossing it into the garbage, laughing broadly into the cocked glance of derision she gave him.
Ally leaned into the sink, closing the mascara as she very blatantly watched him strip and step into the shower, her glance raking his tattoos and down his chest and back up to the cocked way he was staring back as he dunked his head backwards under the spray, curtain still wide open.
"Coffee?"
Chibs nodded into the interested way she was searching for something of a tether or connection in his eyes and it brought a smile onto his lips. "Please."
"You really did compare me to a dog." She shook her head slowly as she dropped the mascara into her make up bag. "I shouldn't make you anything."
He make a tsk-ing noise against his cheek and winked once again, his grin deepening as he scrubbed his hands into his hair to wet it, "She Wolf."
"Shut up."