Chapter FIFTY THREE

Sami and EJ walked up the front path of the DiMera mansion, hand in hand, Sami leaning into her husband as they walked along. After another extremely enjoyable love making session in the hotel they had finally checked out and were now arriving home. Caroline had rung and said that she would bring the twins around at lunch time and EJ and Sami had insisted she stay for lunch as a thank you for looking after Ali and Johnny. They were at the front door now and Sami went to open the door but EJ pulled on her hand, spinning her around and backing her up against the door. Sami gasped in surprise but he didn't give her a chance to react beyond that as he captured her mouth in a series of passionate and almost desperate kisses.

"What was that?" she panted breathlessly when he finally let her speak again.

"We're not in the house yet," he reminded her, looking at her hopefully, his brown eyes full of mischief.

"EJ!" she exclaimed with a laugh and shook her head.

"Six hundred hours Samantha," he groaned against her neck, pressing his long body against hers, "We won't be able to do this again for six hundred hours!"

His hands went to her backside, pulling her roughly against him and she shuddered as she felt him already hardening against her. He was a total machine apparently when it came to this whole ready and willing anytime, any place thing and Sami felt an answering need immediately. She had a sudden flash of concern about what she'd just done, worrying now that they wouldn't actually have the slightest chance of being able to keep their hands off each other for basically a month just through sheer will power. Sami gave it a valiant attempt though.

"EJ," she complained with a groaning laugh, knowing she was going to give in but trying to appear like she had some self control, "I can barely walk after last night as it is!"

"Is your leg alright?" he asked, suddenly concerned, "Are you in pain sweetheart?"

"It's not my leg EJ," she said with a roll of her eyes, "Think a little higher and yes, I'm a little tender."

"Oh," he smiled, relieved now, "Well you know what you need for that then?"

"What?" she asked him, pretty certain where he was going with that.

"For Dr EJ to kiss it all better," he said smugly.

"I don't know Dr EJ," she said teasingly, "I think I'd like to see your qualifications before I let you have free reign."

"Ah see tricky," said EJ ruefully, "All my experience is pretty much in the field, hands on kinds of stuff."

"I see," said Sami, trying not to laugh now as she wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned into him, "I suppose I could perhaps consider… OHH!"

Sami squealed as EJ apparently had heard enough and moved suddenly, sweeping her off her feet and into his arms.

"EJ!" she exclaimed in shock, "What are you doing?!"

"Privacy," he said simply and promptly started to carry her around the side of the house.

"Oh my god you're serious!" said Sami, looking at him wide eyed disbelief, "EJ - we can't do this!"

"Six hundred hours," said EJ grimly and then looked at her almost desperately as he hurried along with her in his arms still, "We have to do this Samantha!"

EJ stepped off the path and into the bushes, going in with his back first, pushing through the dense foliage so that he was protecting Sami as he did. Once surrounded by all the bushes EJ finally put her down and Sami shook her head at him.

"You're crazy," she informed him with affectionately.

"It I am it's all your fault Mrs DiMera," he smiled back at her, drawing her into his arms and kissing her hard, "Loving you has made me utterly crazed and I love every single second of it."

"Mm," she sighed happily, nipping at his bottom lip as she felt his hands go to her backside again, "I do good work alright."

"Yes you do," he grinned, stopping her playful teasing of him by beginning to kiss her in earnest now.

Not allowing himself to break his passionate kisses EJ began to walk forwards, backing Sami up until she finally felt something hard at her back and realised he'd backed her up against a tree. His hands went to her hips, pulling on the material of her skirt and hiking it right up to her thighs whilst her hands went to his pants. The feel of her small hands on his increasingly stiffening member made EJ groan and he closed his eyes, trying to burn the sensation on his brain because after these few stolen moments this kind of touching was going to be off limits. EJ felt her hand encircle his girth and squeeze hard and groaned raggedly.

Oh god he must have been out of his mind to agree to not having her touch him like this for another month!

Still kissing her deeply his hand found it's way up between her legs and pulling aside her panties he inserted a finger into her core, incredibly gratified to find her already so wet for him. It was just another thing that drove him to distraction about her, how quickly she became aroused for him. It was Sami's time to moan now as he began to move his finger in and out of her quickly, angling it in such a way that it hit just the perfect spot inside her every time. Sami shuddered and began to return the favour by stroking and squeezing his quickly swelling member. EJ responded by inserting another finger and then another inside of her, stretching her and making her cry out loudly.

"You!" she gasped, unable to stand it any longer, "I want you EJ!"

EJ was more than happy to oblige her, grabbing her backside again and lifting Sami up off her feet as she wrapped her legs around his waist, sliding into her waiting heat in one powerful motion, making them both cry out.

"Samantha!" he grunted as he began to plumb her depths with almost instant urgency, very conscious that this was the last time he would have this particular delight for a long time.

Sami clung to him helplessly, happy to surrender herself to his masterful skills when it came to wringing pleasure from her body, whispering words of encouragement in his ear as they bought each other ever closer to that perfect moment of release.

oooOOOOooo

Smokey scratched at the ground and casually pecked at a little unsuspecting bug that he found there. Today had been a good day so far. He'd marked more of his territory, put a couple of flamingos in their place, long legged freaks that they were and found a juicy worm and a particularly large beetle to eat. All in all it had been a very fruitful morning. He'd also spent some time pulling out some old tail feathers seeing as he was moulting at last. However, his hopes of his tail feathers being fully returned to their former glory didn't look like eventuating as after the attempt on his life by the strange, long legged creature that roosted in the big box it appeared there was some permanent damage done and a section of tail feathers simply weren't growing back.

At first this had greatly annoyed Smokey, being disfigured thusly. So much so that he'd taken to roosting of a night time on top of the smaller box the long legged creature would climb into every day and drive away in it because it seemed to annoy the thing for some reason. But after thinking about it for a while he decided that he didn't actually mind having only half a tail. It gave him a toughened, street cred to the other birds and let everyone know he wasn't a bird to be messed with. He still would climb all over the long legged creature's noisy box like thing just for some fun and to show him who was boss but he was learning to enjoy having half a tail, one bonus being it was a lot less weight to drag around after him as well.

Some strange noises caught Smokey's attention then and as self appointed watchman slash overlord of all that he surveyed he figured he should check it out. It rather sounded like an animal in it's death throes and Smokey wondered idly if he should get some back up from his brethren but shrugged it off. None of those losers were going to be much help in a fight - what were they going to do… preen something to death?! No, Smokey had already worked out that if you needed a job done right you had to do it yourself. He followed the strangled noises, pushing his way through the underbrush and bushes that littered his domain until he came to a little area, completely surrounded by shrubs and he saw what was responsible for all the noise.

The long legged creature appeared to be wrestling for dominance with the smaller, noisier thing from the giant box. Smokey had a working theory that they were actually some kind of mutant flamingos with those long legs and pink bodies. Ugly as hell of course but you couldn't really blame them for that he supposed. He'd dominated the flamingos pretty easily, for all their height they didn't have a lot else going for them and was now working on the ones in the big box. It was harder though because apart from the black one who came out and chatted with him daily, the other's seemed to spend an inordinate about of time in the box. Smokey wasn't even sure why. He'd been in there and it was nothing to write home about - no trees, no bushes, no grass or dirt to scratch in - he honestly didn't see the appeal. Admittedly a lot of good things to roost on top of but apart from that he couldn't see why the insisted on staying for so long inside of it.

Smokey looked quizzically at the two creatures, tilting his head to one side as they still seemed to be tussling away noisily. He looked up and down the full length of the long legged one, the smaller, noisy one almost completely obscured from his gaze now and fluffed his feathers waiting patiently. He figured that he'd just wait to see who won the fight and simply take that one down, thus reinforcing his dominance. He didn't have long to wait as the smaller one made a noise that sounded like the big one had killed her, making the winner the one who'd attempted to drown him when he'd first gotten here.

Smokey was going to enjoy this.

oooOOOOooo

"Oh my god EJ," gasped Sami weakly, still shaking from her climax, "How do you keep getting me to do that?!"

"Mm," groaned EJ happily, feeling the glow from all of those endorphins coursing through his body from the force of his release, "You make me feel so good sweetheart."

They kissed then, languid and unhurried, enjoying the aftermath one last time before crossing the threshold of the DiMera mansion and enforcing their ban on sex for the next 25 days. EJ reluctantly pulled out of her as he did, feeling her unwrap her legs from around his waist so he could put feet back on the ground again. They continued to kiss for a while longer and EJ knew he should perhaps at least pull up his pants that were currently pooled around his ankles because the cool November air was a bit chilly on his naked buttocks but he couldn't be bothered, preferring instead to continue kissing his wife.

"I love you," sighed Sami dreamily when they finally broke for some much needed air.

"I love you Sama…AAAAGGGHH!"

Sami started as EJ basically screamed in her face and jerked away from her, swinging around and taking a couple of steps backwards.

"BLOODY HELL!" he cried out and Sami looked at him wide eyed as his hands went to his still naked backside.

"What happened?" asked Sami anxiously, eyes riveted to EJ, not even seeing Smokey yet, "Are you alright? Did you get stung or something?"

"He BIT me!" exclaimed EJ, pointing an accusing finger at Smokey who was regarding the carry on with a look of disdain.

Looks like he showed him who was boss!

Sami turned her head, seeing Smokey for the first time and realised what had happened. For some unknown reason the peacock must have decided to have a bit of a peck at EJ in a rather unfortunate place.

"The little sod bit my bum!" confirmed EJ in annoyance, pulling up his pants and glaring menacingly at Smokey who if EJ didn't know any better, he would have sworn that he was smiling.

Sami quickly covered her mouth with her hand so EJ couldn't see her smile but the choked sound of laughter pretty much gave her away.

"It's not funny Samantha!" he raged at her with a frown, rubbing the offending area on his backside through his pants.

"It could have been worse EJ," she managed, biting on her cheek to stop herself from simply bursting into loud laughter, "You could have been facing him when he decided to go in for the kill."

Smokey, his work here now done and satisfied that there was no question as to who was top bird in this territory simply turned around and walked back into the shrubs, disappearing from sight.

"This isn't over you feathered menace!" EJ called out after him, still scowling unhappily as he gave his backside a final rub and shook his head in annoyance.

"Now do you believe he's Satan?" asked Sami sweetly, pleased to be proven right at last.

"Humph," said EJ unhappily, "He's the thing that gives Satan nightmares!"

Sami giggled at that and he gave her a rueful smile.

"Well that somewhat killed the moment eh sweetheart?" he said with a little self deprecating laugh.

"It certainly made our last snuggle memorable," she agreed laughingly.

"Aren't out snuggles always memorable?" he pouted and looked a little put out.

"Yes they are honey," she reassured him, going up and giving him a quick hug before starting to lead him back to the house, "It's just they generally don't involve wildlife."

"Thank god for that!" said EJ, sounding very heart felt about that fact.