A/N: Leia is a name I made up for LoA

While Nesta was heading with the girls, he went over to the guys. They found eco-balls somewhere and were now playing multiple games of golf. They made a bet to whoever would make the longest distance, the loser will pay for drinks.

"You guys wanted to see me?" Cassian asked them. Azriel was in full concentration while Lucien answered.

"Well, we decided to do a little competition.So far Rhys is losing." Lucien cuckled but Rhys groaned.

"By a point. I can still beat you all." He argued. Cassian chuckled at his brother before he faced him. "Well, besides that… We three decided that we should head to the bar later and celebrate a single party."

Cassian almost choked on air. "Seriously?"

"Vodka, Rum, you name it." Rhysand grinned.

Azriel made his shot. It was longer than Rhysand and Lucien's, placing him in first place. "So far, Rhysand will be playing for drinks if he doesn't get past that shot."

"You're an asshole Az…" Rhysand mumbled and took a ball.

"Fifty bucks if he doesn't make it." Cassian shot the bet

"I'd say sixty." Azriel shot back at him.

"Do you mind!?" Rhysand snarled but Cassian laughed at his desperation. He did his shot and got past Lucien's.

"Ah man… Welp, we tried." Cassian crossed his arms. They boys kept at it for the next hour.

Meanwhile, Nesta and the girls, except for Emerie who was called to her shop at the last minute, were actually at the bar and were just talking casually. Nesta seemed a little bit out of it since she never really opened up for people. Suddenly the lights went off as music began to play. Although the music was one of her favorites, there was something about the change in atmosphere. Mor nodged Nesta's elbow. "Yeah, I hope you are ready for your big surprise because this is one of Sitka's greatest treasures."

"Right?" Tanie agreed with her and drank from her beer.

A woman next to her, who mentioned that her name was Leia, nodded to her with a devious smirk. "Oh, yes. Oh, yeah." She replied. A spotlight ran illuminated around the room and focused on a chamber with curtains.

"Ok, this is the big surprise I was telling you about. You ready?" Mor asked her.Nesta looked around, noticing all the bar were women of all ages

"Oh, Nesta, you're gonna love it!" Tanie said and began to cheer. All the women began to cheer when a familiar guy moved the curtains out of his way, he was wearing nothing but a black tanga. Revealing a strong and sexy body. Nesta's eyes narrowed before they widened in shock, realizing what was going on. This was a single party.

"Helion's the only exotic dancer on the island. But we're lucky to have him." Tanie said.

"Work it, Helion!" Mor shouted while whooping as a random woman stuffed money in his black tanga. How did I let myself talk into this!? She thought.

Leia waved her hand full of money to him. "Over here, Helion! Over here." Helion looked her way and gave a dark and devious smirk. Nesta could only assume the two knew each other or were hooking up. "Over here, baby.~" He walked to her as she stuffed the money before spanking his ass.

"Oh wow.." Nesta was super embarrassed as Mor placed a tiara on her head. "W-Wait a minute-"

Mor smirks to Helion and shouts. "Show her what she's gonna be missing!" The woman began to whoop and cheer for Nesta to climb up stage with him. Helion mimicked a rope and lassoed her.

"Come, my sexy princess.~" He purred as everyone kept on rooting for her.

"Oh, no. No no no-" Nesta tried to object. Her face was now flushed. "N-Not necessary-"

"Go on, Nesta! Get up there!" Mor cheered.

Helion held her hands. "You come dance.~" He dragged her up the stage.

Nesta gave up at this point and tried not to sign frustratedly "Ok, pluck my eyes out. Ok." She mumbled as she was being dragged.

Mor, Leia and Tanie whooped and cheered. "Go, Nesta! Go, Nesta!"

Helion pulled out a wooden chair and dragged her in front of it. He slightly ran his hand on her waist, carefully not to touch her, and forced her to sit. "Oh!" She yelped with wide eyes. "Oh no."

Tanie shouted. "Give it to her, Helion!"

Mor followed suit. "Go on, Helion! Give it to her!"

Helion began to dance in sensual ways around her. One minute he was sawing his ass in front of her… The next he was on the floor, thrusting his hips up and down her legs. She tried not to flinch but this was getting out of hand. "H-Hang on-"

Tanie giggled. "Look at her face!"

Helion swayed his hips towards her. "I don't want to touch it." She barely whispered before he gently took her hand. Nesta got the wrong idea quickly. "I don't wanna-" Before she could finish, he held her hand to his cheek. "Oook, ok. Very sweet…" She said but he bit her fingers. She yelped and pulled her hand. "No, no, no, no, no!" She said and he began to sway his ass at her again.

Leia shouted at her. "Smack him!"

Nesta's shot wide open and hoped she didn't think what she just heard. She leaned forward to get the view of a swaying ass away from her to look as Leia. "I'm sorry?" She asked her.

Leia pointed at Mor, who was fake smacking Tanie's own ass for Nesta to get an idea. "Smack his ass!" Leia repeated.

Nesta's throat bobbed as she swallowed hard. "Smack it. O-Ok.." She looked back at Helion, now swaying his hips on a moving pattern. She tried and failed to even touch his barely naked ass.

"Smack him, Nesta!" Leia shouted.

"Nesta, give it to him!" Mor cheered at her and Nesta finally smacked his ass. Helion held his behind with slight amusement. "Yeah!" Mor and the rest of the women whooped and cheered while Helion moved his pointed finger from side to side.

"Quite naughty.~" He purred at Nesta as she quickly but carefully got up. Too much. It's too much. She had to get out of there before she starts getting naughty ideas. Or worse, before she gets horny herself!

"Can I get down now?" She got off stage and was given a glass with shrimp. She took it and quickly escaped to the bar's balcony, closing the door behind her. "Free." She mumbled and threw the shrimp to the water, unaware that they were actually cooked. "Be free." She placed the now empty glass down and rubbed her face in frustration and tiredness.

The door behind her opened as Tanie joined her with a bottle of beer. "Hey! There you are." She walked and stood next to her. She asked. "How are you holding up?"

"Oh, fine. Fine. Just.. uh working on my tan." She lied. It was one heck of a surprise for her and wondered if Cassian was doing better than her at all. Again, why was she thinking of Cassian and his ways to have fun?

"Yeah, the Paxtons can be a bit overwhelming at times." Tanie chuckled.

Nesta gave a genuine smile. At least she can agree to that fact, so she replied. "Yes, yes."

"It's a little different than New York, huh?" Tanie asked out of mere curiosity. Nesta bobbed her head in agreement.

"Yeah, a little bit. A little bit." She said and asked out of her own curiosity. "Have you ever been?"

Tanie shook her head. "No. That was always Cassian's dream, not mine."

Nesta tried not to wince and moved a tendril of her hair away from her face. "You guys were pretty serious, huh?" She asked. She saw how Tanie bit her bottom lip, as if weighing if she should tell her or not.

After a few seconds, she replies. "Well, I mean, we dated in high school and all through college, but we were kids." She took a chug of her beer.

Nesta still wondered and asked another question. "And you guys called it off because of…"

She swore her expression saddened for a moment but Tanie answered. "Well… The night before we graduated school…" She played with the lip of her bottle. "He proposed and said he wanted to elope and run away to New York with me. And… well-"

"You said "no"." Nesta finished her sentence bluntly. Tanie's lips were thin as she nodded.

"And I said "no", yeah." She said and sighed before continuing. "I've never been anywhere but here." Tanie smiled a little. "This is home." She said. Nesta saw how she loved it here, how she couldn't leave it for anything. She felt jealous, she wished she could have a place to call home. A place where her and her sisters didn't have to suffer. But, luck is not for all. Yet again, she recalled that Cassian seemed a bit out of it here, like this wasn't enough for him. Tanie snapped her out of her thoughts. "But anyway... you're a lucky girl. He really is the best, which you obviously already know." She chuckled.

No… No, she didn't know… She didn't know anything about Cassian at all. Nesta couldn't tell the truth so she just said. "Oh, yep. Yep, very much so, yeah.' She looked at the water to not look at her. Tanie nodded her head and held her bottle.

"Well, cheers to you guys." She smiled. Nesta froze for a moment before cheering with her empty glass. Cheering with a soft cling.

"Thank you." Nesta forced a small smile and placed the glass back down. The door opened behind them again as two women, each with a bottle of beer in hand, walked out and left. Inside, Leia and Helion were at it. Dancing rather fast, fluid and very, very intimately. Yep, those two have something going on in and out of bed.

Tanie chuckled. "Looks like Helion's wrappin' it up!" She waved goodbye at Nesta and ran inside whooping and shouting. "Go, Leia!

Once the party was over. Mor and Leia agreed to walk back to the house before the redheaded woman headed back to town. Nesta was a step behind them. "I've never seen him so…" Leia tried to say but moaned instead.

"You're drooling again. Ever since you and Beron divorced-" Mor was saying. Nesta recognized that name. Leia is Beron's ex wife?

"No, he really got down-" Leia tried to say over Mor's smirk. "Uh...out there. I mean… He's wonderful-" Se tried again but the two women stopped when they saw Cassian working on a canoe. By the looks of it, it seems it still needed work. He was shirtless, his body gleaming in the sunlight thanks to the sweat, Nesta's cheeks flushed red as that heat crawled down her back and pooled on her core. Great, can this day get any hotter!? She cursed mentally.

"Cassian!" Mor called but he didn't seem to listen. Mor squinted her eyes and saw that he was wearing headphones.

"Is everything ok?" Leia asked but Mor shook her head.

"W-What's he doing?" Nesta asked but Mor shook her head. Leia sighed and left back to town.

"Something's up. We should leave him alone. C'mon" The two resumed to walk inside but Mor began to call out for her cousin."Rhys? Rhys!" She shouted as he walked out of the living room.

"I'm here, what's with the shouting?" Rhys asked. Seems a bit out of it it seems.

"Why is Cassian out there hollowing out that old canoe again?" Mor asked. Rhysand held his hands in defense.

"Nothing.. well… um-" Rhysand stumbled on his words.

Nesta had to get out of there but she really wants to know. "I am so tired. Think I'm gonna go upstairs, take a shower, wash off… Helion's coconut body oil." She cringed a little.

Mor nodded. "Sure."

"I had a great day today. Thank you." Nesta went to go to their room but stopped midway to listen.

Mor asked again. "What happened?"

Rhysand ran his hand through his hair. "Cassian, Azriel, Lucien and I encountered Devlon and Keir on our way to the bar-"

Mor snapped. "Well, great. Just great! Those two will make it hard for him and you know it!" she shouted. Nesta stood still and quiet. "He's part of our family! Our Inner Circle! We only get to see him every three years because of those dipshits!"

Nesta did not consider that Cassian was having it bad with some people here. She wanted to listen more but Housel began yapping at her. She winked. "Shh!" She tried to hush it but Housel kept yapping. "Shhh!" She tried but the pup started running after her. She cursed and ran to her room while Mor kept ranting.

"I've had enough. I swear if you dont do something about those two-" Mor stopped before she can say something stupid.

"Mor, I can't do anything about them. I won't let them tear this family apart but I can't change them." Rhysand said but she countered. Just as they were still discussing, they didn't see Cassian walk in, still distracted with his phone and the music blasting from his earphone and headed to their room.

"At least do something to stop them and to shut the fuck off!" Mor said and stormed out. Rhysand sighed and headed back to the living room.

After Nesta took a well deserving shower, she peeked her head from the shower's glass door. She encountered a problem. "Where's a towel?" She looked around. Just as she said that, Cassian entered the room. Nesta kept searching around the bathroom. "Towel, towel, towel, towel, towel." She then spotted what seemed to be a yellow hand towel on the sink and picked it up. "This is all they have for a towel?" She asked herself and tried to dry her chin as in testing. "It's ridiculous. I can't get dry." She said before hearing someone opening the closet. Cassian just picked out a towel, still with earphones on. "Hello." She called out but he didn't listen and went to the balcony, away from the bathroom she was in.

Nesta poked her head from the door but she didn't see him. "Hello?" She said again but spotted the open closet, full of towel paradise. Nesta was somewhat dumbstruck but she tried to get over to the closet by covering her breasts and her front with the hand towel. She didn't even tip-toed two steps when Housel ran to her and started yapping at her again "No, no, no, no, no." She tried to move away but the pup blocked her way. "Just... I'm sorry. Let me just… let me just get a towel." She moved left, Housel blocked her and yapped. She went right, the pup blocked her and yapped. "Let me just get a towel!" She was frustrated and groaning. "Just... look. You need to just…" Housel kept yapping at her. Nesta sat on the tub, still trying to cover her naked body. "I'm sorry. Ok, I'm sorry for feeding you to the eagle." It kept yapping. "I'm sorry."

Cassian was looking at the view, seems a bit more come but still quite fed up. He didn't hear Housel's yapping of Nesta's attempt to get the pup to leave. "Go away. Go away." She said, throwing her hand to the side multiple times, but the pup didn't go away. "Just let me get a towel." She tried to air kick Housel away. "Go, go, go…" She thought for a moment. "Hold on." She said and went to the sink. Cassian still didn't hear anything as he was no stripping dor, phone hanging from his mouth while he removed his jeans. Nesta now had a weapon in hand, a blowdryer. She had a smug grin and held the blowdryer to the pup. "Yeah. Huh?" The pup still was yapping but it was now slightly. "How do you like that? Huh?" Nesta asked it as the pup backed away. "Take it, take it. That's right. That's what I'm talking about." She said as the wind blew Housel's fur. "You like that?" She asked smugly but the pup lay down, now quietly enjoying the air. "Oh… You like it." Nesta grimaced.

Cassian still didn't hear anything as he was now tripping from his boxers. Nesta now tried a new plan, she pushed the rub towards Housel and used a baby voice. "Come here. Come to Momma." She said as the pup unknowingly was stepping on the carpet. "That's right. Get on the carpet." The pup laid on the carpet. "That's a good boy. Yes! That's good, boy! Come on." Nesta said and switched positions, closing the door behind her. Just as she barely had her footing, Cassian waked in with a towel around his waist. The two collided and fell to the floor, with her on top and him on the bottom. Both now completely naked since the collision made his towel drop.

"Oh my God!" Nesta's face flushed as she got off him.

"Oh my God!" She wasn't the only one flushed it seems. Cassian cheeks were in a dark shade of red. "Why are you naked?" He asked as he crawled away from her.

"Oh, my God! Oh, my God!" Nesta couldn't form any other words as she quickly crawled to the bed. "Don't look at me!"

"I don't understand." He grabbed the towel on the floor. "Why are you wet?" He didn't even try to look at her.

"Why are you naked?" Nesta, on the other hand, dared to look. "Don't look at me!" She said while glancing at his muscular back. Damn it, too much in one day! "Oh, God! You're showing everything." She crawled to the side of the bed. "Cover it up, for the love of God!" She grabbed some lingerie to cover it. Cassian took one glance while this happened and shot his gaze away. She realized it was the gift Mor gave her. "Oh, God, not the Baby Maker!" She threw it away from her and yanked the blanket instead. "Explain yourself please."

Cassian wrapped the towel around his waist again before glaring at her. "Explain myself?"

"Yes, explain yourself." Nesta hissed.

Cassian shot quickly. "I was outside!"

Nesta countered, still too utterly embarrassed. "R-Really? You didn't hear me?!" Cassian didn't know she was calling.

"I was listening… What are you doing at home?" He looked at the bathroom. "Then you just jump me out of nowhere?"

Nesta hissed again. "I didn't mean to jump you. Your dog was attacking me, and I had to run, and I ran into you." She said but he didn't seem to believe her.

He mumbled annoyed. "What is it with you and this dog?" He asked a bit too sharply. Was he still mad? Nesta thought.

She stumbled on her words. "Just, you know, just... go. Go…" She threw her hand to dismiss him.

Cassian just scoffed and started waking to the shower. "Fine."

Nesta didn't like his attitude. "Go take a shower. You reek."

Cassian growled. "Fine." He then added. "Nice tattoo, by the way." He saw the very unique tattoo she had on her back, over her spine. Nesta stiffened.

"What?" She tried to complain but Housel ran out yapping when Cassian opened the door. Nesta pointed. "See? See? Exactly. You see that?"

Cassian wasn't having it and said with full and utter sarcasm. "Oh! Barely made it out with my life there." He pointed while glaring at her. She pressed her lips to contain her annoyance and embarrassment. He kept talking. "See the size of the teeth on that thing?"

"I didn't…" Nesta tried to explain but he slammed the door. Nesta still stood there before slumping herself face first on the bed. "Fuck".

That night, they lit up the fireplace to keep the room warm. Each laid on the respective sleeping spots but Cassian was willing to annoy her.

"So… So naked." He said quietly but Nesta growled.

"Can we not talk about that, please?"

Cassian just shrugged and replied. "Just sayin'."

They laid there. The silence between them is too awkward. Nesta broke it first with a pop of her lips. "So, what's the deal with you and this Devlon?"

Cassian said a bit too quickly. "I'm sorry. That question is not in the binder." Clearly he didn't want to talk about it but Nesta pushed.

"Oh, really? Well, I thought you were the one that said we needed to learn all this-"

"Not about that, I didn't." He interrupted.

She kept insisting. "But if the guy asks-"

Cassian growled. "Not about that, Nesta." He practically shouted. "Good night." He said and the room fell into silence again.

Nesta couldn't bare it. She couldn't bare the silence but she couldn't bare the thought of Cassian hurting and shrugging it off like it was nothing. So she said softly. "I like Romance Books…"

Cassian stiffened a little but asked. "What?"

"Not in the "Ohh how cliche" kind of way. I actually quite enjoy it. Especially about smut.." Nesta took a deep breath and found it a little shaky. God she was nervous. "I took dance lessons when I was a kid… My first concert was Rob Base D.J. E-Z Rock… I think your brother Rhysand is sexy… I bet he and my sister will hook up..:" She didn't even try to hide a smile at the thought but it faded quickly. "Don't like flowers in the house, 'cause they remind me of funerals…" She shook off the thought of her mother and her father. "Never played a video game before.." She tried to think of something else. Cassian, on the other hand, was surprised. It's the first time she had openly talked to him about her likes and her life. "I read the only non-smut book called Wuthering Heights every Christmas. It's one of my favorite books…" She took another shaky breath. Cassian heard it and took all of his will to not stand up and scoot next to her. The next thing she said surprised him even more. "Haven't slept with a man in over a year and a half…" Cassian tried not to smile. Nesta knew, she somehow knew, he was feeling better. She then said something that still broke her and turned over her insides. "And… I went to the bathroom and cried after Balthazar called me a poisonous bitch…" She heard him wince, yet he asked.

"And the tattoo?" She heard his shift on the floor when he asked. She didn't back down.

"It's… I don't quite remember what it's supposed to be. I asked the guy to make it to his liking…" She closed her burning eyes. "Got it when I was 16… after my mother died." She sighed.

"I'm sorry" Was the only thing Cassian said.

"I'm sure there's many, many other things, but that's all I can come up with right now." Nesta said as silence fell in the room again. She bit her lip and she swore she heard his sigh. It took all of her will power to break the silence again. "You there?"

Cassian smiled a little. "I'm here." His smile grew a bit wider. "Just processing." He said. Nesta couldn't help but smile. He then asked. "You really haven't slept with anyone in 18 months?"

Nesta bursted out laughing, mostly out of embarrassment. "Oh, my God. Out of all that, that's all you got?" She asked, still chuckling.

Cassian chuckled with her. "That's a long time."

Nesta managed to calm down a little and replied. "Yeah, well, I've been a little busy."

Cassian agreed. "Yeah…" A pause. "..Who's… Rob Base and D. J-"

"E-Z Rock?" Nesta finished his sentence.

Cassian chuckled a little. "Yeah."

"You know. It goes: "It takes two to make a thing go right. It takes two to make it outta sight"." Nesta sang parts of the lyrics. "Dun dun dun… No?" She asked but he hummed a No in response. "They were good.." She said but then he chuckled again. She shifted a little, genuinely smiling. "What?"

"Nothing." Cassian said before adding. "I know who they are. I just wanted to hear you sing it." Nesta tried to contain a giggle. "Nesta?"

The way he said her name made her shiver but she replied. "Yes?"

Cassian was having a hard time. He felt a bit nervous. "Don't take this the wrong way."

Nesta shifted on her side. "Ok…"

Cassian took a deep breath. "You are a very, very beautiful woman." He said. Nesta bit her lower lip. That was the first compliment she even had from a guy in years. He then started to mumble the next lyrics of the song. "I wanna rock right now.. I'm Rob Base and I came to get down. I'm not internationally known.."

Nesta joined him. "But I'm known to rock the microphone. Because I get stoopid, I mean outrageous. Stay away from me if you're contagious-" He then sang high pitched… or tried to.

"It takes two to make a thing go riiiight!" He at least tried. Nesta laughed silently at his high pitched attempt. "It takes two to make it outta sight!"

"Dun dun dun." Nesta voiced the background music.

"It takes two to make a thing go riiiight!" Cassian forced that part a bit.

"Feel it deep, feel it low." Nesta corrected him a little.

"It takes two to make it ou-" He coughed. "God, I can't sing that high."

Nesta couldn't hold in her laugh anymore. And honestly, neither can Cassian. It's been a while since they've interacted like this. Nesta felt good. She was glad to help him feel better and she was willing to do it again if it's to her deep delicious laugh. Cassian then said something that shocked her.

"Thank you…" Cassian said with a small smile. Nesta's chest felt like it was about to burst. Her cheeks flushed red as she smiled a bit.

"Don't mention it…" She said before then replying. "And… you're quite handsome too.." She could picture his devious smirk.

"Really now?~" He purred, almost making her whimper. "No wrong ideas Nes~"

"I take it back. You're an arrogant bastard." Nesta grumbled but he shot out a laugh. The two of them talked and laughed for the rest of the night as sleep was found for both of them.