Chapter Nine
A/N I'm really starting to love this pairing. :D Of course, I am the one who made it up, but still... The evil plot bunnies attacked me last night and I'm starting to plan another Ravess x Harrier fic for when this one is over... I may even start it sooner, depending on how much free time I have on my hands... Anyway, on to the fic! It's kind of a short chapter again, sorry...
"Isn't this against your Code?" Ravess breathed into his ear.
"Does it really matter?" Harrier's whispered reply hung in the darkness.
Ravess's even breathing told Harrier that she had fallen to sleep. Her soft skin rubbed against his bare chest as she shifted around and murmured in her sleep. He let out a contented sigh and pulled her closer to him.
"Does it really matter?"
Harrier could feel a hint of guilt. Of course it mattered. The Code and his honor were his life... But having sex with Ravess wasn't against the Code. If it was, would I have been able to stop myself? It just felt so right... He closed his eyes, trying to shunt the guilt away. He hadn't done anything wrong... Ravess... He felt something for her. He wasn't completely sure what it was, but he definitely felt something.
He could almost feel Ravess's warm breath on his face, almost feel her touch which somehow seemed to be everywhere at once. There was only one word he could find to describe what he had felt. Passion. It was something that he had never really felt before; not like that. It was something he couldn't control and it scared him. But there was something that scared him even more.
He loved it.
Frowning, he considered this before eventually dropping off to sleep.
"You're an incredible woman, Ravess," Harrier whispered, his hand gently stroking her spine.
"Tell me something I don't know," she purred, staring into his fiery blue eyes.
Ravess opened her eyes slowly. The first thing she was aware of was Harrier's arms wrapped around her. His slow breathing told her that he was still sleeping. A smile came to her lips; control. That is what she sought and that is what she had. Manipulating him into sleeping with her had been for control, and nothing else.
Or at least, that was what she had told herself at the time... Her mind flashed back to his lightning blue eyes, alight with fiery passion. But there was something else there... Could it have possibly be caring? Could it be that Harrier actually cared for her? But how could that be possible? She shook her head. It didn't matter how it was possible. If it was true, she could just manipulate him further...
Ravess frowned; part of her didn't want to manipulate Harrier. That wasn't like her at all... Her eyes widened. She didn't have feelings for the honorbound fool, did she? No, of course not. That wouldn't be possible... Still, that didn't mean she couldn't get pleasure from playing around with him...
Wriggling in his arms, she turned toward him and nuzzled his neck.
"Mmm..." Harrier's eyes fluttered open. He looked confused for a moment before his mind woke up enough to remind him where he was. "Good morning..."
She smiled. "Morning." Craning her neck up, she kissed him on the cheek, but he didn't respond. Instead, he seemed to stare off into the distance, as if he were thinking. She frowned, annoyed.
"Tell me," he started, his voice distant sounding. "What are you going to do with me now?"
Ravess tipped her head to the side. "What do you mean by that?"
"I realized... I realized that I'm still your prisoner." He didn't look directly at her, instead staring past her to the wall.
"Well I thought that you could stay here," she replied, massaging his chest with her hands. "Didn't you find last night... enjoyable?"
Finally he did look at her, his lightning blue eyes staring into her eyes. "I did... But..."
"But?" she prompted, pushing closer to him. Their faces were only centimeters apart.
Their gazes remained locked for a few moments before Harrier turned his head away. "I'm not a fool, Ravess."
"Mmm?" Ravess nuzzled his neck, trying to get him to look at her again. "I don't recall calling you a fool..."
"You're only doing this for your own pleasure," he clarified. "I know that you care nothing about me... Other than my looks, that is."
She reached a hand back and ran her fingers through his ponytail. "And why would you say that?"
Harrier turned his head to look at her again, his lips nearly brushing hers. "I... I just think that-" He was cut off as she pressed her lips to his.
She pulled back for a moment. "No more thinking," she whispered before kissing him again.
"A-alright," Harrier breathed after she pulled away again. He blinked, as if clearing his head. "Does that mean... Does that mean you actually do care for me?"
Ravess blinked, and not really knowing the true answer, plunged her tounge into his mouth instead.
