(This scene takes place just as Acheron's book finishes but before they are married)

Entitled: Pleasure!

Ash fell back on to the bed with a grunt and barely had time to catch his breath when Tory came climbing like a lioness in heat up onto his chest. He laughed at the sight of her swollen lips and her fired eyes and the rumpled hair, all his doing - something he was very, very proud of. She seized him in a kiss that was dominating and utterly sexy, hitching him up on to a level of aroused he didn't think he'd ever been before. Ash was so used to pleasuring everyone else that he found it hard to lay back and be submissive, but every time he moved to take Tory under him, she used her new found powers, which she had adapted to phenomenally fast, to keep him pinned under her. She took her time running her fingers through his hair and nibbling her way down from his lips to his throat, then his chest. Once she got to stomach she slowed, biting at his ribs and licking his naval and up to his nipples, Ash arched to her mouth and laughed when he felt the sharpness of her teeth.

Tory was manic with need for him. Not just for him, she was manic with need to please him. Through no fault of his own he was an incredibly experienced lover, where he had been her first and would now and forever be her only, Tory was always worried whether or not she could please him properly.

And at her most paranoid whether she pleased him more then Artemis.

Obviously she didn't ask him, it would make her seem small and a typically foolish female, which on most occasions she wasn't. She also didn't want to remind Ash of his time with Artemis; she'd rather cut her tongue out then hurt him with anything that she might say. But she was only human after all … well, she used to be human. With her Goddess powers Tory wasn't sure what it made her, but she could not bring herself to claim the title of Goddess, it reminded her too much Artemis and the great importance she placed on the position. Still, Tory was grateful for her powers, for one thing they came in damn handy when the T.V remote was too far away and she was comfortable on the couch. But for another when she was in the midst of need and arousal like now something … otherworldly kicked in. Like a deep instinct that had lain buried beneath her virginal appearance suddenly rose like a magnificent stallion rearing up and breaking loose from its reigns and riding until its heart was fit to burst. Tory always wanted to please Ash but the thing in her made it a compulsion to please him, she had to say it had rather scared her every time she and Ash had made love. Each time Tory had ended up taking the dominate role, though she had no idea where the need came from, then while on top of him the "stallion" kicked out to be free and the fear it created caused Tory to back down and allow Ash to resume command. But she had had a long, hard talk with herself and decided she would no longer fear joining with Ash because of the unknown. If the stallion wanted to be free then she would throw open the stable doors and give it all the liberty it could stand - she just hoped she and Ash could stand it.

Tory's hands were everywhere and she could barely make conscious thought, just a stream of wishes, hopes and desires flowed through her brain mostly punctuated by her own voice that demanded her to: Please him! Please him! Need him! Love him! Be him!

She could hear Ash's heart beating and his gasps when she licked and nipped, heard his moan as she worked him with her hand.

Please him!

Tory could feel something at work in her, Ash could feel it too. She knew this because for some reason his thoughts were in her mind, how she knew she couldn't tell but the thing in her knew and was pleased, it meant she was doing something right.

Ash felt like there was lightening in Tory's fingertips, she wasn't touching him in any real erotic way, her hand had left his sex and were running up and down his sides. Yet Ash felt pleasure originate from her very touch, pleasure enough for him to be arching his back and biting his lip to stave off an orgasm. He didn't want to embarrass himself by finishing before he was inside her and she had had her pleasure, he would never be so selfish, not after having a life where people had taken their pleasure from his body and given nothing but pain in return. Tory was the only one who'd ever wanted to please him and she did so tremendously, giving him back tenfold what he gave her. But the feel of her hands - he gasped! Her mouth! She'd just touched her mouth to him; just on his chest above his heart, and the pleasure was as if he were inside her thrusting into her and feeling her body's friction on his sex. It was like the best sex he'd ever had plus more - what was happening to him?

Please Him, Please Him!

Her mind was chanting and Tory felt like she could do no other, her body was hot and tight and experiencing pleasure she'd never felt before, even though this was only foreplay. Tory could not help congratulating herself for giving in to the instinct inside her, but before she could get too happy Tory caught sight of Ash's face. The pleasure was the same as if he were in the throes of his climax and it sent her instinct into overdrive, her fangs elongated and before she realised what she was about to do - as her only thought was to make him scream with pleasure - Tory sank her teeth into the flesh over his heart and Ash let out a noise so primal it was akin to a lions roar. The ecstasy was almost an ache, Tory could feel his body's pleasure and it had her climaxing and sobbing in response. It reached such a peak as no mere mortal woman, or man for that matter, would ever understand or experience and Tory could not hold on to it anymore, she had to let it go and when she realised her teeth from Ash's chest, she saw blackness.

Tory blinked her eyes open and realised she must have passed out, but only for a few moments for Ash's chest ,which she had collapsed on, was still heaving from the aftermath of what had just happened. She raised her head and saw all around them danced soft, coloured lights that reminded her of the lights that reflected around a room when the sun caught a glass prism.

"They appeared when I climaxed, but I don't think it's me doing it," Ash murmured in an awed voice.

Tory didn't say anything as she held herself up on her arms and looked between their bodies, Ash's sex was flaccid but all over both their stomachs, thighs and sex was his seed which he'd released without meaning to when she'd sank her fangs deep. Ash would never have drank blood at all if he'd not been forced into the situation by Artemis, but still he'd never denied that the overall effect of a blood exchange in sex was astonishing and with Tory it only got better, but this … he was almost scared of his reaction to it. He'd never had such a fierce, intense reaction to a blood exchange before, where the pleasure was almost violent.

Tory saw that the bite marks on his chest was still bleeding because she'd blacked out before she could close them, she dipped her head intending on sealing them with her tongue. But as she touched the tip of her tongue to his torn flesh, Ash hissed viciously and jerked, Tory pulled back, frightened that she had hurt him, panicking at the thought of hurting him.

"Sorry, my skin is just too sensitive after that. It feels like I'm going to come again when you do that."

Tory could not help the devil in her and before he could stop her she gave the wound one long, luxurious lick that had him doing exactly what he'd thought it would. Ash arched his back and Tory felt the rushing spurt of hot liquid coat her lower body, she heard him curse in Atlantean and laughed. Tory did it again and again, until he truly was spent and could not move, not even to put his arms around her. Tory moved from him because her knees were aching after being in the same position for such a long time, she laid herself out beside him, Ash moved his head weakly to look at her.

"I made a mess of you," he whispered hoarsely, one could only expect it after the endless shouts and curses he'd let out.

Tory looked down at herself and at him, to another woman it may have seemed obscene and disgusting but to Tory everything about and from Ash was beautiful to her. As strange as it may seem to another.

"Yes, you did. You really did," she replied happily, proudly.

"I'm sorry I wasn't in a position to give back some of … that," Ash said a little dazed, that had been some very mind-blowing that.

Tory chuckled, "believe me, I got more then you could imagine out of it."

The pride in her voice had Ash laughing with her, she had practically drained him, he'd never felt so empty and full at the same time, so blissfully achy and sleepy. Ash tried to push himself up and found he didn't really have the strength; Tory walked her fingers up his side, the aftershocks still causing his muscles to spasm and contract with her touch.

"Ash, we'll clean up later. We'll eat later and we'll think later. Can I just lay with you now?" Tory asked sleepily, with a delicious pout.

Ash cupped her face in his hand, "I wasn't going anywhere, and I only wanted to see if my legs were actually still there. I can barely feel my body."

"I'm the same," Tory giggled.

"How did you do that?" Ash asked with real wonder and shock in his voice.

"I was hoping you'd tell me actually?"

Ash's eyes widened, "I have no idea. The only one who might know would be -" he stopped abruptly and Tory frowned.

"Artemis?" she asked with a cold voice, Ash snorted derisively.

"Yeah right. As if she could do that to me," Tory felt ten feet tall. "I'm not telling you in case you go and ask her."

"Your mother?"

Ash nodded and Tory laughed, "well, we have to find out -"

"Hell no! I am not having you talking about our sex life to my mother."

"She's my mother-in-law!"

"Forget it, Tory!"

She laughed loudly, deliriously happy, she snuggled close to him and was dozing when she heard Ash mutter to himself.

"Whatever it is, I hope it doesn't happen again until at least next week. I don't think I'll be recovered until then."

Tory hid her smile in his chest.

Tory looked over at Ash as he stepped out of the shower and used a towel to roughly dry his hair. He was completely naked and beads of water still clung to his chest hair and … other places. He turned to give her a dazzling smile which was made all the more endearing by the fact that he actually blushed when he saw her checking him out. She noted that the bite mark she'd given him on his chest had yet to fade away, not that he minded, when he thought she wasn't looking, Tory sometimes saw him running his hand over it with looks of pride and amazement. He wore it like a badge of honour. Two months had passed since that night and it had happened twice more on the most unexpected occasions, both of them wondered when it would happen again. Though she kept it a secret from Ash, Tory did ask Apollymi about it and the Goddess laughed herself sick when she heard.

"It was a gift given to me when I was young by my sister, Agapa. On my wedding night she told me that when I wanted to truly please my husband it would happen. After I found out about his infidelities …"

Apollymi's face grew hard briefly, "I didn't care about pleasing him. I decided to share it with you, since I have no one to experiment with. Tell me is it … good?"

Tory tried to look demure but only achieved mildly mischievous, before looking around to see if anyone was near by, "Lets put it this way; hotshot could barely speak after it."

Apollymi laughed uproariously, she loved her daughter-in-law so much, even more for her sense of humour. "I know he's my son but it's rather hilarious."

Suddenly Ash's celestial form appeared in front of them, it was the only way he could see his mother without ending the world, he took one look at their faces and gaped at Tory.

"You told her?" he accused in shock, the two women took one look at each other and dissolved into fits of hysterics, Tory trying in vain to catch her breath to apologise. Suddenly - as if this humiliation wasn't enough - Savitar appeared, Ash groaned but the being only grinned evilly. He sauntered over to Ash and looked at the women with a wry smirk.

"Take it from me, Grom, just go with it."

"That's your advice? Just go with it?" Ash asked drolly, trying not to smile as Tory and his mother hung on to each other still trying to speak through laughter.

"Hey, you've got a woman there who wants nothing more then to please you. I'd say you've got a pretty good deal, so yeah, just go with it."

Ash huffed out a laugh and when Tory looked at him his smiled softened into one of joy, he pointed at her and with mock severity, "I'll see you at home."

He winked at Savitar and flashed himself home, hoping this was one of those nights where Tory really wanted to please him.