Chapter 21: Let Your Hair Down
After that I threw myself into the renovations of the mansion. Nik was very firm on the painting of the down stairs rooms but I absolutely refused to let him in on any decorations of our bedroom, my woman cave nicknamed wocave for short, and his art studio. That one took a lot of convincing but after threatening sleeping in another room he gave in pretty quickly and decided to focus on getting the coffin's back from Stefan. I looked up from the finished living room adjusting the furniture to my liking as Nik stormed in furious as he spotted his hybrids. He immediately commanded them to leave Mystic Falls but to stay just outside the city so they could be back at a moment's notice.
"What is going on?" I questioned him walking into the room, "Stefan" He growled furious. I raised an eyebrow. "What'd he do?" I questioned him. He was nearly spitting with rage before he grabbed me. My eyes widened but he pressed his face against my neck. "Nik? What's wrong?" I question wrapping my arms around him. "Nothing, nothing" he said sighing kissing my clavicle. "You sure?" I questioned him and he nodded but he was still mad. "Come on, I want to show you something" I told him with a smile. He raised an eyebrow his naughty smile crossing his lips. I smacked his arm. "Get your mind out of the gutter" I giggled shaking my head and he shrugged. "What can I say love every time you're around it takes up permanent residence there" he teased. Rolling my eyes I led him down the hallways before stopping in front large double doors. "Okay turn around" I told him with a smile pulling one of his ties out of my pocket. He tilted his head to the side with a seriously? Look on his face. I returned it with a your wearing the fucking tie look. He sighed before turning around, I leaned on the tips of my toes and tied it around his eyes before opening the doors and leading him inside. I set him in the middle of the room before turning on a couple lights. "Okay open" I told him pulling the tie off his eyes. He did and they widened as he looked around his new studio. His mouth falling open slightly and I smiled at seeing it.
I clasped my hands together watching him apprehensively as he took everything in as he turned slowly in the room his eyes running over everything so not as to miss a thing before he looked back at me in awe. "Do you like it?" I question him, he smiled striding back over to me lifting me up in his arms kissing me as he did spinning me around in circles. "I love it Sophie, you're bloody brilliant" he complimented kissing me again. I giggled pressing my head against him. "Well it's hard to fight what you are" I giggled kissing his bottom lip gently.
"So you like it? Really?" I questioned him and he nodded. "It's amazing love" he said softly. "Thank you" he smiled genuinely and I blushed under his praise. "I got it finished around lunch time but was waiting for the right time for you to see it. You always looked so peaceful when you were drawing or painting." I told him honestly. He smiled kissing me softly. I kissed him back and as soon as his hands started creeping up my thigh I pulled back. "You're still not getting laid" I told him and he chuckled. "Worth a try love" he teased wiggling his eyebrows at me. "Now I say we break this easle in" he said with a smile carrying me over to the couch. "Nik no! Don't!" I shouted at him trying to climb over his back to get away but he just laughed still carrying me to the couch. He grabbed it pulling it over to where he wanted it. "Why shouldn't I draw my muse?" He teased sitting me down on the couch but I dug my fingers into his back pulling him down with me. "Nik please! No!" I told him, "why not love you never minded when I drew you before?" He questioned, "Those don't count! I was sleeping or I didn't know I was being drawn!" I told him blushing furiously. "Oh are you nervous?" He teased, "no" "yes you are" "no I'm not" "yes you are love" our banter went back and forth. "Nik please no!" I tried to persuade again but he just smiled sitting back on his leg.
"Now love as an artist I strive to draw the most beautiful things I see and you Miss Mikaelson hold that title so you're going to lay here and let me draw you!" He told me firmly; well it was hard to argue with that. He smiled knowing he had won this argument. "What do I do?" I questioned looking at the couch awkwardly. He smiled his lips meeting mine as he pressed me back against the couch his hand holding the back of my neck. I smiled wrapping my arm tightly around his neck and shoulders curving my back to press against him. His free hand going to my hips as he lifted me up slightly, the hair on the nape of my neck worked its way into my hair pulling the hair bow out of it so it fell over my shoulders. "Just like that" he whispered before letting me go. I pouted at him and he smiled kissing me again softly before adjusting the light how he wanted it before grabbing a comfortable chair and pulling it over with his sketch book in hand. He set everything up before sitting down taking great care in sharpening his pencils.
"Don't make me look ugly Nik or those pencils are going in your leg" I warned him, he smiled back at me. "Impossible to do love" he chuckled, "What putting pencils in your leg?" I teased, "Oh no that's quite possible if you're the one doing it. I was inferring at making you look anything other than beautiful. Impossible" He told me with a wink as he opened his sketch book before bringing his pencil to paper. He didn't say anything else unless it was a piece of direction. I blushed under those focused eyes of his as the scanned and focused drawing every single detail. He was breath taking.
He spent hours sitting there just drawing away like he didn't have another care in the world. "There" he said softly putting his pencil down finally. "Can I move now?" I questioned him and he nodded, I sat up and stretched exhaustion had set in from doing all the shopping and furniture arranging. What with the hybrids gone it all fell to me now well and the movers but the issue was there I couldn't decide how I wanted it. I walked over to see it and he smiled showing it to me. I ran my hands down his chest standing behind him kissing his temple. It was gorgeous. The shading, the position, the technique everything. He even got the detail on the inside sole of my flip flop as it hung from my foot. The exact texture of my denim shorts, the shading off my stomach showing subtle abs and every strand of hair falling like a waterfall over the couch pillows even down to the light blush on my cheeks. "It's gorgeous" I told him, "I love it" I whispered kissing his neck. He gripped my arm squeezing it. "Glad you like it love" he whispered, "I love it" I told him again biting the top of his ear playfully. "If you don't pass this talent onto our children I will never forgive you" I told him stretching with a yawn. "Our children?" He questioned me looking up at me. I blushed at realizing what I said, electricity crackling in the air. "One day" I told him kissing his nose giving his chest a squeeze before leaving the room in search of dinner.
I was starved.
I was cutting up tomatoes when Nik entered the kitchen. I smiled at him then went straight back to my task. Things had gotten heated back there. "What are you making?" He questioned wrapping his arms around me swaying side to side against him. "Tomato sandwiches" I smiled at him and he nodded his head at my answer. "Okay love, want some help?" He questioned me, "Nope you can just sit there and look pretty" I winked at him and he chuckled but he didn't move from his spot behind me. But instead brought his lips against my neck kissing the skin softly.
God damn it.
This was the exact kind of thing I was trying to avoid. I didn't want to give in to him this easily. He was just trying to have children. That's all. He just wanted kids. "Nik" I warned, "hm?" He questioned his voice humming in my ear and I shivered against him. I gave him a look and he smiled back at me with an innocent I'm not doing anything look. Oh yeah fucking right like I believed that one! Bull shit!
"Do remember honey that I'm the one holding a knife" I told him with a smile. "Oh but can you stab me for being able to do this to you?" He questioned the tip of his tongue quickly flicking across my ear and I jumped shuttering at the shiver that ran down my spine. "Stop it!" I told him shoving back against him. His hands caught my hips guiding the movement. "Please keep going" he teased, "Nik!" I sighed exasperated by his constant come on's. He chuckled. "It's your fault really" he told me letting me go and grabbing a bottle of blood wine. "Oh? How is this my fault?" I questioned him flicking my hair over my shoulder. "Well for one when you do things just like that" he said pointing to my hair and I rolled my eyes. "And two you smell so damn delishes that I can't help it" he told me. "Now that was a pretty bad pick up line love" I teased him and he chuckled.
"It's the truth" he told me, I lifted up my arm smelling the crook of my elbow. It smelled normal to me. "Nothing" I told him and he rolled his eyes. "Never mind the point is your scent is bringing it on you" he told me. "Whatever you say love" I told him placating him with his own British accent. His eyes narrowed playfully at it. "You better watch it love or I'll have to teach you a lesson" he warned already setting the bottle and glasses down slowly. I tensed biting my bottom lip knowing what was about to happen. "Oh you can try" I teased and he pounced but I dodged turning on the spot and sprinting from the room as fast as I could knowing he was giving chase behind me.
I could hear him taunting me barely catching me before I made my escape. I jumped through the open walls landing in the ballroom before racing through it to the other side of the house. Only to feel his arm catch around my waist as he pulled lifting me clean off the ground. His other arm wrapping around me as he spun me around in circles as I screamed in giggles before he finally collapsed on the ground with me on top of him. "HA! I still win!" I told him triumphantly lifting my hands in the air in victory. He laughed holding my hips. "If that's what makes you happy love" he snickered. I smiled leaning forwards and kissing him softly. "It does" I told him. "Good, now how about you go rest on the couch and I'll bring dinner to you?" He questioned raising an eyebrow at me.
Hm….that would be nice.
"Deal" I smirked getting up and racing off to the main living room. It had the only hooked up TV. Picking out a movie I put it in the PS3 player and sat on the couch grabbing a blanket to curl up with till Nik got here. It didn't take long before he came in with a bunch of tomato sandwiches made just how I liked them. May, cheese, bacon and thin slices of tomatoes. He set them all down on the coffee table before kicking his boots off and relaxing back on the couch. He chose to sit in the middle of it lifting my legs up as he did so they could rest along his lap. "What are we watching?" He questioned me and I smirked and hit play on the TV and Titanic started. He gave me a look and I smiled at him. "You're the one that let me pick the movie" I told him with a smile and he rolled his eyes pouring himself a very large glass of wine. I chuckled taking his glass before he could drink it and sipping it myself. "You're really asking for it you know that love?" He questioned me, "Don't know what you're talking about sweetie" I winked at him biting into one of my sandwiches and settled in for the movie.
"I bet I can draw you better then that" Nik told me gesturing to the naked seventeen year old Rose. I looked at him. "In your dreams Niklaus" I told him playfully. "Every night" he playfully answered back and I rolled my eyes laying back in the couch now as Nik ran his hands across my feet and up my calves across my knees and up mid thigh to the hem of my shorts before dragging them back down and repeating the trail. "Nik" I questioned him curious now. "Yes love?" He questioned getting into the second bottle of wine. "Have you ever drawn someone naked like that?" I questioned him, he frowned at the question as he thought about it. "You mean besides you while you were sleeping?" He teased and I gave him a look and he smiled at me playfully his thumb rubbing small circles on my inner thigh.
"Not like that love why?" He questioned, "curiosity" I told him, shrugging my shoulders. "Love if you want to be my first then just say so" he teased and I stuck my tongue out at him but I couldn't get my mind off the feeling of his thumb on my mid thigh running up and down tracing the vein there and I wished that it was his fangs. I tried to calm my fast beating heart before Nik said something about it but he politely ignored it but he kept his thumb moving up and down, up and down, knowing what it was doing to me.
The moisture growing between my thighs, ignore it. Don't think about his lips there, or his teeth, or his gad damn it. I started moving my leg back and forth trying to adjust and move his thumb but it followed my thigh wherever it went. "Are you all right love?" Nik questioned giving me a knowing smile and I decided if he was going to tease me, then I would tease him too. "Perfect" I said with a smile only to get up on my knees. "Lay down" I told him and he furrowed his eyebrows slightly. "On your stomach, please? For me?" I questioned him batting my eyes innocently at him. He slowly moved to his stomach keeping his eyes on me as he did so.
I smiled triumphantly at getting him to do something like this before I sat on his butt straddling it. I ran my hands over his back digging my nails in slightly making it clear what I was about to do to him. He groaned trying to force the still very tense muscles to relax. Whatever happened tonight still had him furious even after the studio, and our play session. Chewing on my lip I wondered what it could be before realizing that it must have Stefan bending Nik's arm so hard that he finally had to give in and get rid of his hybrids. Looking around the room was completely empty, the house too. Not a single heartbeat was heard except for ours. It was unnerving after being in this mansion so long with others to now find it pretty much empty.
"Want to talk about it?" I question him softly and he just mumbles something that sounds an awful lot like no. Shaking my head I pushed his shirt up to his neck and start rubbing his muscled back. He sighs his hand coming back and resting on my calf so he could be in some kind of contact with me. I lean forwards as I run my hands from his spine up to his shoulders taking in his scent as I did. His scent was so thick it filled my throat and nose. It was strong, masculine, dominating everything that made my knees weak and head foggy as a woman. "Sophie" Nik calls and I look up at him. He's watching me over his shoulder before rolling over onto his back holding me on his lap as he sat up. "Hm?" I question him, "go out with me" he said softly and I furrowed my eyebrows. "Nik we're already living together…" I told him and he laughed. "I mean like a date Sophie," he explained. "Ow" I dragged out the w putting my arms around his neck. "And if I said yes what would we do on this date?" I questioned him, "Oh love now that's a surprise" he winked at me playfully.
"Okay will they're be cuddling and hand holding involved?" I question him playfully, "oh of course" he told me his eyes darkening playfully and his lips a dark red. He looked so adorable, and so damn kissable. "Hm" I mused playfully tapping my chin. "I don't know…." I still teased and his lips pulled into a small smile before he kissed my cheek. "Oh and what can I do to convince you love?" He questioned curious kissing my other check, my chin, my neck and ears playfully. "You make a pretty convincing case" I told him, his fingers kneading my back. "Oh so your answer is yes then?" He questioned me kissing me softly. "It was yes as soon as you asked" I told him honestly kissing him again. He caught my hips and pulled me back. "And yet you extort kisses out of delaying your answer?" He asked faking shock and I nod my head at him and his eyes narrowed.
I jumped off him before he could tickle me and ran for it once again. This time running up to the second story and through the many, many bedrooms this mansion had. I knew he could track me through my scent or even listen for my heartbeat but at least I had a moment to contemplate what was going on. I sat with my back up against a wall so he couldn't sneak up on me and behind some boxes but I could still see the door. But he was off exploring a different wing of the mansion. I chewed on my lip, I wanted to sleep with Nik I did. If he had only improved since the twenties then….no…no….bad brain….bad!
Is that why he wanted to go on that date? To romance me so we'll come home and have sex? He was so focused on having sex lately it was getting a bit ridiculous. But I couldn't really say much since I've been teasing him none stop about it and then as soon as he tries to progress things I run for the hills. Was I that scared to be with him again? I had already given up my family….my friends…everything. My phone went off and I sighed knowing I had lost the game now. Sure enough Nik appeared smirking at me. I smiled at him answering Tyler. "Hey Tyler, what's up?" I questioned him.
"I bit Caroline"