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Song for Ian to Charlie: What You've Done To Me - Samantha Jade

Charlie got her own room to sleep in, so that's where she went after her dinner with Ian, she climbed into bed and tried to sleep, she was just drifting to when Ian came in, she knew because of his scent, a low scent of some kind of flower then warm bread fresh from the oven and new car kind of mixed with leather.

"What are you doing?" she asks tiredly.

"Seeing how you are luv" he says innocently.

"Liar" she mumbles.

"Okay then, to be blunt wanna shag?" Charlie giggles for a full two minutes before she can breathe enough to respond.

"Thank you but no Ian, good day"

"Why? You've been checking me out as much as I have you luv" he says Charlie smiles lying on her back to see him since he sat on her bed.

"Protecting me again poppet?" he summarises from her silence.

"Correct" Ian leans down so their faces are only a few inches apart.

"They'd never know luv" he assures her she smiled Ian almost kissed her for that but waited for her answer, she leaned closer to him as well looking over his face.

"They'd know, they always do, I don't care how much you trust the people in this place, everyone can be bought or broken" she says their voices low so only they could hear.

"I love a challenge" Ian says in her ear tickling her, she puts her lips to his ear.

"And that's why you should go back to your own room" she whispered then moved away again to the inches apart position, Ian almost said I don't care, let them try, she'd be worth it but something make him stop, the look in her eyes usually filled with happiness and laughter, kindness but not now, fear and concern swam there instead, concern for him and he wondered who was seducing whom here.

"I've slept with princesses and been hunted by kings are these blokes really worse?"

"Yes, there's always something worse than the worse you can imagine" she says sounding like she was repeating it from memory, Ian shakes his head knowing he wasn't getting lucky tonight so instead he sat on the other side of her bed looking down at her, at first she looked back wondering what he was doing but soon sleep claimed her and she fell asleep on his side.

Ian was not a naturally soft guy in anyone's eyes but this girl had managed to make him just that in a matter of days, he didn't move from his spot next to her all day he lay there wishing he could read her mind maybe getting Bones or Mencheres to anyway, yeah it was dishonest and whatever but hey he needed to know who's ass to bloody kill and as his friends kept pointing out to him he always lied anyway.

"What in the blazes are you doing you bloody woman?" he asked her the next day having found her in the kitchen with a whole lot of ingredients that couldn't possibly go together.

"Cooking" she said obviously Ian snorted in amusement, looking at the ingredients, tuna and garlic, vegetable stock and lemon juice, pasta with tomato sauce and cheese and milk all together.

Charlie actually ate what she made though it looked and smelt better when it was done he even tried some it was damn good too.

"You might be half crazy Charlie" he says she snorts in amusement.

"Says the idiot that's going to get himself killed for being too stubborn" she says back brushing past him, he laughs out loud, ouch this girl red hair phoenix was going to burn him he knew it so what was he going to do? Hold on with two hands of course.

Whenever asked Jeaniene Frost has always said it would take a very strong woman to take Ian, I think Charlie is the One! Please Review and stay tuned.