Chapter ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY SIX – Make Hay While the Sun Shines
A happy woman is one who has no cares at all;
a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
~Beverly Sills~
EJ looked up with a bit of a start when Sami suddenly burst through the doors of his apartment, just back from visiting with John and her mother at the hospital. Sami giggled to see his surprise and launched herself at him where he was sitting on the sofa.
"Hello," she beamed, straddling EJ's lap and putting her arms around his neck.
"Hello," he grinned back, "You're very happy my love."
"Why wouldn't I be happy?" asked Sami with a huge smile, "You're here, waiting for me like you said you would be."
Sami frowned suddenly and tilted her head to one side.
"Why are you just sitting here?" she asked curiously.
"Just thinking," said EJ rather vaguely Sami thought.
"About what?" asked Sami, not letting it go.
"About what just happened," said EJ, "John not remembering."
"You sound almost disappointed," said Sami, her frown deepening and letting her arms fall from around his neck.
"No of course I'm not disappointed sweetheart," said EJ quickly, putting his arms around her waist and hugging her as she straddled his lap, "I just-"
"What?" Sami pushed him.
"I guess I just don't like not knowing what I'm dealing with," admitted EJ ruefully, "At least if John had remembered we'd know that but this-"
EJ waved a hand around and made a frustrated face.
"This is a kind of limbo land," he said with a bit of a shrug.
"This," said Sami a little fiercely, surprised at EJ's negativity, "This means that we can be together EJ. I can't believe you aren't as happy about it as I am."
"Of course I'm happy to be here with you and not locked away in some cell Samantha," said EJ firmly, "But I suppose I want some guarantee that such gloriousness isn't going to be taken away at any minute. You're all I want in this world sweetheart and I can't bear the thought of being without you, even for an hour."
"You want guarantees?" asked Sami sceptically but felt her heart swell in her chest at hearing the desperate neediness in his tone.
It was exactly how she felt but EJ always seemed to be more in control of his emotions than she was so it was nice to know that the thought of being without each other made him want to curl up into a ball and cry as much as it did her.
"That would be lovely yes," said EJ ruefully and she could see by his face that he knew that wasn't how it worked.
"Well I can't guarantee you anything about John," said Sami with a lop sided smile, "But I can make you some guarantees of my own-"
Sami leant forward and smiled at EJ, their faces very close.
"I promise I'll always love you," she told him huskily, moving to kiss the side of EJ's neck as she said that.
EJ smiled to hear her do as he'd done with her earlier that day at the hospital. Sami drew back and returned his smile.
"I promise I will tell Lucas about us the moment his feet hit Salem," she said, "I'll end it with him and you'll never have to see me with him again."
"Good," EJ growled, his hands tightening in a territorial way on her hips.
Sami kissed EJ's neck again, a different spot as she did that and felt the powerfulness of the man in the coiled tension of his body at the mention of the other man's name.
"I promise I'm going to tell my family about us as soon as that happens and not let them get between us," Sami continued on, planting another kiss on EJ's neck.
Sami pulled back then, her eyes glowing.
"I promise I'm going to marry you," she said throatily and then gave him an impish look, "When you get around to asking me of course."
"Oh I'll be asking," EJ assured her throatily, "I'm just waiting for the perfect time – I've got it all planned."
Sami's smile widened at that thought.
"I promise you are going to be the only man who makes love to me for the rest of my life," she whispered unevenly, emotion welling up inside of her, "The only man who gets to claim my body and call it his-"
"Yes!" EJ hissed in appreciation of that thought before moving to give Sami a hard kiss.
His tongue pressed for entry into her mouth and Sami granted it without thinking, wanting to taste him as badly as he wanted her sweetness in his mouth. She clung to him as EJ hungrily plundered her mouth, the need quickly building between them. Sami felt EJ put his hand into her blouse and roughly push up her bra so he could cup her bare breast in his hand. Sami gave a low moan as he squeezed the soft flesh, his thumb finding her nipple. She could feel herself getting instantly wet and there was a growing hardness pressing against her core that she could feel, even through the denim of EJ's jeans.
"Mine," he grunted possessively into the kiss before tearing his mouth from hers and seeking out one pert nipple with his hungry mouth.
Sami sighed happily, arching her back and giving EJ free access to her body. She loved him being so jealous of her, like he'd kill any man who tried to take her from him. Sami had never experienced that kind of love before, her hold on all the men in her life before now had felt tenuous at best. EJ made her felt like she was the only possible woman in the world for him, that there could never be another and it was a feeling that made Sami giddy with happiness, never having experienced that before. Her hands went to his shirt, tearing it off his body, not wanting anything between them as he moved them so that she was underneath him on the sofa.
EJ continued to kiss her almost violently, their near miss over almost being separated making the moment more desperate somehow. Sami's hands went to the front of EJ's jeans as he lifted himself up a little bit, granting her access to his body. She quickly released him from his confines, finding him already gratifyingly rigid and ready for her. EJ moaned into their kisses as Sami began to stroke his quivering flesh, coaxing him into ever greater hardness. Not stopping with the kisses EJ began to unbutton her jeans as well, eagerly pulling them down, along with her panties. His fingers dove into the wetness he'd uncovered and Sami gasped, bucking up and breaking the kiss.
"You're just how I love you to be," he told her thickly, his two fingers probing her deeply now causing Sami to give a shaky moan, "My darling girl is always so very juicy."
Sami shuddered at the word he'd chosen, feeling exactly like that – some kind of plump fruit desperate to be picked, particularly when EJ crooked his fingers inside of her and found her most sensitive spot. He stroked the delicate flesh and before Sami knew what was happening she was grabbing EJ's face tightly as she came around his fingers in a short, sharp burst of deliciousness.
"OhhHH!" she moaned appreciatively at the skill EJ had with her body but that was all she could manage as EJ drove home his advantage literally.
He quickly withdrew his fingers and then Sami had the great satisfaction of feeling him fill her with all of that swollen stiffness of his, mounting her in a single, sharp thrust. But EJ wouldn't let her catch her breath after such an invasion though and immediately his fingers found her nub even as he began to pump his length into her again and again in a frantic dance. EJ's skilful fingers continued to massage her nub and Sami's orgasm just kept going and going, even as EJ plundered her depths as she dissolved all around him. At first Sami struggled against so much pleasure being given all at once but then she realised it was useless, succumbing to what he was doing to her body and let EJ have her any way he wanted. Sami knew that he loved riding her while she was climaxing so she just gave herself over to each wave of intense sensation, her body convulsing violently around his nonstop the whole time.
"SAMANTHA!" he roared her name as her body took its toll on his, forcing him to unload all of his maleness into her before he wanted to but her body was too intoxicating for him in its present climaxing state.
Sami held EJ's still heaving body to her, waiting for him to be done as he finally removed his fingers from her nub and she was no longer climaxing herself now. She felt so completely at peace in that moment that there simply weren't words to describe it. They lay in each other's arms, trying to recover from the headiness of their combined release.
"Am I too heavy?" EJ mumbled tiredly, his face buried in Sami's neck.
"No," she said softly, stroking his back and just wanting to stay like this forever.
It took awhile but finally their breathing had returned to normal and EJ reluctantly pulled out of her but remained where he was, covering Sami's body with his own but taking most of his weight off her with one knee and an elbow.
"I have a question," he stated, kissing Sami's still sweaty neck.
"Yes," said Sami with a very satisfied smile, "And more than once."
"Good to know," EJ chuckled, knowing what she was talking about, "But that wasn't going to be the question."
"Alright," said Sami with a happy sigh, still completely in a land of hazy blissfulness, "What is your question then EJ?"
"Last night I had this incredibly intriguing encounter with a woman named Brandi Mathas," said EJ huskily, "And she blew my mind."
"Amongst other things," said Sami with a quirk of her lips and when she saw EJ's amused raised eyebrow she just gave him an impish wink, "Women talk you know."
"Apparently," EJ grinned, "And on that note I was wondering if you could help me out about something?"
"Shoot," said Sami with a little smile.
"Well at one point last night Brandi was..." EJ paused, pursing his lips together as he chose his next words carefully, "Giving me a rather pleasurable, shall we say, tongue lashing."
"Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?" asked Sami with a giggle, almost certain what the question was going to be now.
EJ grinned at her teasing but continued on.
"So I believe," he said cheekily, "And she did something that made it a particularly singular experience. It's quite hard to explain because it was both hot and rather cold at the same time and try as I might I can't work out what was her trick."
"Has this question been keeping you up at night?" asked Sami, tongue in cheek.
"The memory of it certainly has," said EJ wryly.
"Well you're in luck EJ," said Sami calmly, "I think I might be able to help you out with that. Brandi shared a few of her secrets with me and that just happened to be one of them. Here-"
Sami pushed on EJ's chest to indicate she wanted to get up and EJ complied, rolling to one side and letting her off the sofa. She could feel his appreciative gaze on her naked body as she went over to her purse and felt a little chill run through her body. Sami wanted him again already and knew that he wanted her too and if he didn't then EJ certainly would in a few minutes, she was sure of that. Sami retrieved the necessary item from her purse and walked back to where EJ was now sitting up on the sofa, as naked as she was. She put her hands behind her back and smiled down at EJ who was looking up at her expectantly. Sami moved one hand from behind her back and handed EJ the item in question.
"Throat lozengers?" EJ said, reading the name on the packet, "A throat lolly?"
"Aha," said Sami with a knowing smile, "A menthol flavoured throat candy – that's the important part."
"Oh," said EJ with an arched eyebrow and the beginnings of a smile, "I see."
"Your memory seems a bit hazy," Sami commented coyly, "Would you like a refresher course of the effects of menthol on the more delicate parts of the body EJ?"
Seeing as EJ was naked then it was pretty hard to miss his body's reaction to that suggestion on Sami's behalf.
"Well I was just going to get you to raise your hands," said Sami mischievously as she watched EJ's member stiffen rather significantly at the offer, "But I guess that is more or less the same thing."
Sami knelt down in front of EJ now, pushing his legs apart and settling between them. He was growing harder with each passing second as he watched her with rapt adoration.
"You do know how to make a girl feel needed," said Sami with a sultry little smile.
"Sweetheart if you knew how much I needed you right now you would be running screaming from this room," said EJ a little raggedly.
"It's unlikely," said Sami with a smirk, "I love it when you're worked up into a frenzy EJ – it makes you take me so hard that it makes me come just thinking about it."
"Are you wet right now my darling girl?" he asked her thickly, his eyelids drooping in anticipation, watching as Sami popped a menthol lozenger into her mouth.
"When you're in the room I'm always wet EJ," she told him throatily, her blue eyes full of seduction and promise.
EJ swallowed a groan and shoved his fingers into her long hair, cupping Sami's head as she began to kiss her way down his tightly muscled stomach, her naked breasts rubbing against his straining erection as she went. Finally she was at where Sami knew EJ needed her to be and she took him into her mouth, the pressure of her mouth and tongue plus the menthol candy doing its job as EJ began howling almost straight away. His fingers instinctively tightened on Sami's head as EJ threw his head back, moaning continuously at her skilled ministrations.
It seemed funny to Sami that she'd never particularly enjoyed this task before but somehow with EJ it was as sexy as hell to her and he was certainly an appreciative receiver. There was something about having this big, powerful man completely at her mercy that excited Sami so much. In the end that excitement became too much for Sami as she abandoned her plan to have EJ release himself into her mouth, something they both enjoyed in favour of a more pressing need on her behalf. Sami released him from the caverns of her mouth, causing a complaining groan to be ripped from EJ's lips but Sami had other plans.
"Do you still want to know how wet I am EJ?" she asked him huskily, slightly out of breath from having worked on him so hard and from her own arousal.
"Yes," said EJ thickly, his brown eyes almost black with his need for her.
Sami stood up and turned around, climbing back onto EJ's lap so that she was straddling him backwards now. She sank down on him, their previous lovemaking and her wetness making penetration easy for both of them.
"Oh god YES!" she heard EJ moan out through gritted teeth.
Sami turned her head, throwing her arm back over her head and grabbing the back of EJ's to drag his mouth into a heated kiss. She passed him the half sucked lozenger that had still been in her mouth and he accepted it readily. Sami broke the kiss, the two staring at each other with hungry eyes before Sami twisted back around so she was facing the front again. She leant forward, her muscles contracting tightly around his heavily engorged member as Sami placed her palms on the nearby coffee table that was just in front of her, causing her to be bending over almost in half and parallel with the floor.
EJ's hands went to her backside, immediately beginning to move Sami up and down on his ravenous manhood, both of them groaning loudly throughout the whole thing. This position gave caused an incredible amount of friction between their joined bodies and it was hard not to scream the place down because of it. At one point Sami was worried that EJ's passionate grunting noises was going to have someone knocking on their door in complaint but then her own orgasm overwhelmed her and she simply didn't care. They both came incredibly hard in that position, Sami frightened she'd never be able to walk again as EJ hammered himself into her so hard right before his end that she felt like she was going to lose consciousness from the intense pleasure of it all.
In the middle of her life changing orgasm she could feel EJ climaxing inside of her as well, could feel his multiple releases and it just added to her own thrill. When they were both finally done with each other Sami somehow found the strength to straighten up, leaning back heavily against EJ's now sweaty chest, their combined breathing ragged and noisily filling the room. EJ's hand came out and splayed out across Sami's stomach, causing last little explosions deep inside of her, her muscles quivering helplessly at the caress. They both moaned, EJ dropping his sweaty head into her shoulder from where he was still behind her as they enjoyed this last little thrill.
"Okay," he said hoarsely when he could find the strength to speak again, "We definitely need to write that position down somewhere – that was a keeper."
"You don't think you'll remember it?" she teased him with a tired giggle, snuggling in back to him.
"I'm pretty confident it will be amongst one of my last thoughts this side of the grave," said EJ with an exhausted chuckle of his own, "God woman, the things you can get my body to do – it ought to be illegal."
"Well it isn't," said Sami smugly, as EJ wrapped both of his arms around her on the sofa, "You'll just have to settle for it being immoral instead."
"Done," said EJ, kissing her neck in sated happiness.
oooOOOOooo
EJ looked down at the sleeping countenance of Sami in his bed and felt his heart overflow with love for her. He bent down and pressed a very gentle kiss to her forehead and Sami didn't even stir. Their energetic lovemaking that afternoon had overflowed into the night as well and EJ didn't blame Sami for being sound asleep right then after it all. EJ normally would have been slumbering happily beside her, Sami wrapped up in his arms but right now he couldn't sleep, his brain refusing to shut down and allow him that escape from his thoughts.
It was just after midnight when EJ had given up trying to sleep, getting up and dressing. He wasn't sure exactly what he planned to do but after kissing Sami goodbye he headed out of the apartment and to his car, just needing to drive around for a bit and hopefully figure some things out. Without consciously deciding on it EJ found himself at the Salem University hospital. It was late and only the night staff was there, going about their business in hushed efficiency. EJ made his way unchallenged to John's room and after hesitating only momentarily he let himself in.
John was in bed, sleeping of course at this late hour and EJ walked over to the bed. One of his pillows had slipped to the floor and on reflex EJ stooped to pick it up. He held onto the pillow, standing over John in the darkened room. EJ looked down at the man who stood between his and Sami's happiness, sleeping so soundly and EJ's hands tightened on the pillow he was holding, frustration welling up inside of him at the power the sleeping man had over him.
His and Sami's whole future hung in the balance over the say so of one man and EJ knew he couldn't face a world without Sami by his side. A riot of emotion coursed through EJ as he stood there, a million thoughts crowding his brain, all clamouring to be heard. In the midst of the chaos John's eyes suddenly opened, staring directly at EJ and EJ could see that John knew the truth.
The two men didn't speak, just stared at each other, the possibilities of that moment stretching out into eternity...
