Chapter Three
"Clara." Sam spoke into his phone, still that same night, "Is Artemis home?"
On the other side of the line, Artemis's Aunt Clara, a good friend of the Bennett's, bit her lip, "She's out."
"Oh.Well, when she gets in, can you tell her to call me?"
"Of course Sam.can I asked why?"
"I just want to talk to her." Sam reassured the older woman; "I wanted to talk to her about.Noah."
"Oh.Noah is a touchy subject when talking to Artemis." Clara sat down in her favorite recliner.
"I know." Sam nodded, "But.I can't help but.feel responsible for her in a way."
"She did stay almost a year with you, Sam."
"I know." Sam sighed, "Look, can you just tell her I called?"
"Of course." Clara nodded.
"Thanks Clara. You're a saint."
"Thank you Sam." Clara smiled, "I'll talk to you later. -Oh! I hear her outside, would you like me to have her call you back still, or you want me to go get her?"
"Either or." Sam shrugged.
"I'll go grab her away from Miguel." Clara smiled, "Hold on a second."
Sam heard her put the phone down, and stretched out on his stomach on his bed, waiting for Artemis to pick up the phone.
"Chief Bennett?" Artemis picked up the phone, "Is there a problem?"
"No, of course not Art.I was just wondering. could you stop by headquarters tomorrow? So we can talk? I'll take you out to lunch."
"Um.am I in trouble for something?" Artemis sounded a little concerned.
"No, of course not!" Sam smiled, shaking his head, "I just.I need to talk to you about Noah."
"Oh." Her voice flattened, "What about Noah?"
"Look, I know you didn't part on good terms.but.I want you to at least make an effort to ignore each other when your around the house." Sam looked down at his hands, cradling the phone in the crook of his neck, and with his shoulder, "I don't care what you do around town.but-"
"I understand Chief." Artemis nodded, "And if it's any constellation, I don't think I'll be around the house much."
"Actually." Sam spoke up, "I was wondering.would you like to come.stay with me for a little while?"
"Chief Bennett!"
"I know, it sounds really bad, especially when I'm the chief of police.but.I mean.I just like having you around." Sam knew he sounded more then a little corny.
"I'll think about it, Sam." Artemis smiled, "I can call you Sam, right?"
Sam smiled, "Of course."
"I'll stop by headquarters tomorrow." She spoke almost seductively. "And we can talk then, okay?"
"Okay." Sam nodded.
"Bye Sam." He could tell she was smiling through her voice.
"Bye Art."
"So you're going to sleep with her now too?" The voice came from behind him.
Sam turned to see Noah leaning in the doorway, "I never said that."
"You just asked her to come and stay for a few days. What did you plan on doing with her?"
"Noah, it's not like that!" Sam set the phone on the charger, "I could never.do that! She's like my daughter."
"Exactly." Noah's arms became more tightly crossed (if at all possible).
"Look.I just want her to come stay a few nights.She'll have her own room and everything." He spoke sarcastically, "Look.make the effort to be nice to her, please?"
"She stays out of my way, I'll stay out of hers."
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"Where are you going?" Miguel asked, watching as Artemis got up from the park bench,
"I'm meeting Sam for lunch."
"Your calling him 'Sam' now?" Miguel raised an eyebrow.
"Oh shush." Artemis pressed a quick kiss to his lips, "I'll meet you back here in.an hour and a half?"
"Sounds good to me." Miguel pulled her down for another kiss, "Until later."
"Later."
A few minutes later, Artemis pushed open the door to the police headquarters, "Chief?"
"Yea..." Sam looked up from a load of paperwork in front of him, "I'll be with you in ten."
Artemis made herself comfortable in the less then comfortable wooden chair set in front of Chief Bennett's chair, "Take your time. I'm in no hurry."
A few moments later, Sam pushed away the papers in front of him, "Okay, I can talk to you now."
"Talk? I thought we were going to lunch."
"But first we have to talk." Sam looked into her eyes, before Artemis forced herself to look away.
"Look." He suddenly noticed that all other activity in the room had stopped, and he looked at the other men in uniform listening in on the conversation, "Don't you guys have jobs?"
Rings of "Sorry Chief", and people going back to work filled the area, and Sam leaned across his desk, "Did you think about what I asked you last night?"
"Sam." Artemis looked at her hands, "I'm not sure it's a good idea."
"Why not? I just.I like having you at the house." Sam spoke sincerely, "And.well.I.to be honest, I was actually going to ask for your.other services as well.but that would be taking it a bit far."
"I'm flattered." A smiled tugged at the corner's of Artemis's mouth, "But.are you sure it's wise? A.well respected man like you.with a.poor little hometown girl-" She was almost sitting on his desk, his lap a little far away, "-like me?"
Sam took an intake of breath, "Not here, Art."
She backed off, back into the chair, "Okay.well, that's the purpose of me staying at the house for a few days, isn't it?"
"You-you don't have to. I mean, it's completely up to you. I'd like you to.but it's not mandatory."
"Oh.I think it is, Chief." Artemis was flirting mercifully with him, before glancing at the clock, "Oh dear! Look at the time."
"What about lunch?" Sam gulped, blinking rapidly.
"Well, we have all week to make up for that." She gave him a teasing peck on the cheek, before exiting the building.
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"You waiting for something Dad?" Jessica asked, as Sam stared out the window.
He turned, "No, of course not. Is dinner ready yet?"
"Yea, Kay is setting the table right now." Jessica hugged her father, "But really, who are you watching for?"
"No one hunny." Sam shook his head, "C'mon, lets go eat."
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"Sam?" Artemis whispered, pushing the door to his bedroom open.
Sam groaned, "Your late."
Artemis smiled, closing the door, the flooding the room back into darkness, "I didn't know we had set a time for me to arrive."
"No matter. You're here now." Sam put his arms around her waist, as she straddled him between her knees.
"Of course." Artemis brushed a lock of hair off his forehead.
"Kiss me." Sam begged, pulling her mouth to his, "Touch me. Work your magic."
"One thing at a time, Chief." Artemis began to tease his mouth with her tongue.
"Oh, don't do that.." Sam shook his head, "I'm to old to be teased like that, Art."
"Of course your not." Artemis pulled his shirt over his head, and tugged his shirt over his head before pulling his boxers down over his hips a bit, "Don't worry.I won't try anything to serious with you tonight." She released him, and leaned over the bed to pick up a bottle of oil out of her bag.
"What are you going to do?" Sam asked as she slid his head into her lap, watching her pour a little oil into the palm of her hand.
"Rub away all the stress of the last.few months." She began to work her fingers across his chest.
Sam's eyes drifted shut; loving the feelings that now pulsed through his body. He was startled out of his sleepy trance as he felt her hands run over his hips.
"What are you doing?" Sam asked.
"You have tension coursed through your entire body, and I'm trying to get rid of some of it."
Sam's eyes drifted shut again, feeling her hands work against his hips, and abdomen.
"I suppose your not interested in going.lower." She pushed her fingers against the waist band of his shorts.
"Whatever you want." Sam sighed, "You can have it."
Artemis giggled, pushing them off, letting her fingers tease his throbbing member.
"Please tell me you aren't going to tease me with just your hands." Sam looked up at her, "I notice you still have your clothes on."
"Oh. Good point." Artemis pulled her shirt over her head, her breasts barely being held back by her bra.
"Let me help you with that." Sam reached up behind her, but she stopped him.
"Hold on." She got up onto her knees, and began to un button her shorts.
Sam smiled appreciatively beneath her, as she pulled him off, flinging them across the room, leaving her in only her bra and panties.
"Is this better Chief?" She asked, her breasts hanging over his lips, still restrained.
"I thought you said we weren't going to have sex tonight." Sam flicked his tongue against the skin of one of her breasts, before lifting his head to suckle her through the fabric.
"I lied." She whispered, reaching to her waist, and undoing the ties on her panties, letting them fall away, before casting them off to the side.
"Your still wearing more then I am." Sam reached behind her, unclasping the bra, "and pardon the corniness in this, but the twins could use some air." He unhooked the last clasped, and cast the bra aside, before burrowing his face into her large, round, pert breasts, tugging on her nipples with his lips and teeth.
"I have something better for you to play with." Artemis teased, dipping her finger into her vagina, and then sucking the taste away.
Sam pulled her down on top of him, his tongue licking at her, pulling her down on top of him, her breasts now pressed against his stomach, his own large, generously sized penis begging not to be ignored any longer.
With Sam's fore play on her own lower regions, she took rein of his, three fold until he was erect without give.
"Oh god, don't stop now." He moaned, as she removed her mouth from him.
"Hold on." She calmed him, reaching over into her bag, "Would you like me to put it on you, or do you want to do it?"
"As long as your there, you do it." Sam took in a deep breath.
Artemis giggled, as he moaned at the mere touch of her hands as she slid the thin casing over his penis.
"C'mon.I'm on top." Sam forced her to switch places with him, "You know the male likes to be dominant."
"Of course Sam,." Artemis gave him free rein, "Just don't let it over inflate your ego." She whispered, pulling him down into her, starting the thrusting motion that gradually got faster, and pulsed harder as time passed.
"I'm going to come." Sam whispered, his mouth against her ear, sweat glistening over his entire body.
"That's what we were going for, wasn't it?" Artemis smiled, brushing lock of hair behind his ear, before he crushed himself to her, his orgasm raging through the both of them.
"I don't want it to be over already." He whispered, catching his breath, his heart pulsing through the both of them.
"We have all the time in the world." Artemis's lips brushed his throat, "We can keep going as long as you like."
"I thought you'd say that."
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"God Miguel! It's really none of your business why I wasn't home last night!" Artemis walked hurridly down the busy Harmony street.
"Yes it is my business." Miguel grasped her shirt sleeve, "I'm assuming you were with someone last night. I want to know who."
"You don't know anything." She wrenched herself free "And what gives you the idea that I was with anyone?"
Miguel took a deep breath. "Your wearing the same clothes you were yesterday."
Artemis was silent for a moment, "You know what I do, Miguel."
"But I don't understand WHY you do it! You don't do it for money, and you have a home! Why do you insist on sleeping with guys off and on-"
"Because I like it!" Artemis sighed. "Just.leave me alone, Miguel."
"There a problem?" a voice could be heard behind them, Luis Lopez- Fitzgerald standing in the doorway of one of the stores on the street.
"No, Luis." Miguel shook his head.
"Artemis," Luis turned to her, "Sam wants you to come over to the station so he can take you out to lunch."
Miguel suddenly turned to her, "That's who it is, isn't it?"
"Oh would you give it up, Miguel! Do you honestly think that the CHIEF OF POLICE would.would do that?!" Artemis asked, "For your information, I'm going out with Sam, because he wants me to stay at the house.help him out a little bit. Get over your self, Miguel. I told you that this wouldn't work." She started to walk away.
"Are you having some problems?" Luis watched on, a bit amused.
Miguel looked at him for a moment, before stalking off following Artemis.
"Art." He caught up with her a few minutes later, "Look, I'm sorry.it's just. I don't understand why you have to do it."
"Mind your own business, Miguel. Just stay out of it." Artemis began walking again.
"Just tell me who it is." Miguel stopped her.
Artemis sighed, crossing her arms, "I can't tell you that."
"Why not? I at least want to know whose fucking my girlfriend."
"Excuse me?" Artemis raised an eyebrow.
"You heard me."
"I am not your girlfriend, Miguel." Artemis pushed a lock of her hair behind her ear.
"Yes you are." Miguel tugged her arms loose from her chest, and pulled her closer, "Look.I'm sorry, okay? Will you forgive me?"
"I have to go." Artemis pushed away from him.
Miguel watched her walk away, silently knowing that soon enough, she wouldn't be able to think of anyone else.
"Clara." Sam spoke into his phone, still that same night, "Is Artemis home?"
On the other side of the line, Artemis's Aunt Clara, a good friend of the Bennett's, bit her lip, "She's out."
"Oh.Well, when she gets in, can you tell her to call me?"
"Of course Sam.can I asked why?"
"I just want to talk to her." Sam reassured the older woman; "I wanted to talk to her about.Noah."
"Oh.Noah is a touchy subject when talking to Artemis." Clara sat down in her favorite recliner.
"I know." Sam nodded, "But.I can't help but.feel responsible for her in a way."
"She did stay almost a year with you, Sam."
"I know." Sam sighed, "Look, can you just tell her I called?"
"Of course." Clara nodded.
"Thanks Clara. You're a saint."
"Thank you Sam." Clara smiled, "I'll talk to you later. -Oh! I hear her outside, would you like me to have her call you back still, or you want me to go get her?"
"Either or." Sam shrugged.
"I'll go grab her away from Miguel." Clara smiled, "Hold on a second."
Sam heard her put the phone down, and stretched out on his stomach on his bed, waiting for Artemis to pick up the phone.
"Chief Bennett?" Artemis picked up the phone, "Is there a problem?"
"No, of course not Art.I was just wondering. could you stop by headquarters tomorrow? So we can talk? I'll take you out to lunch."
"Um.am I in trouble for something?" Artemis sounded a little concerned.
"No, of course not!" Sam smiled, shaking his head, "I just.I need to talk to you about Noah."
"Oh." Her voice flattened, "What about Noah?"
"Look, I know you didn't part on good terms.but.I want you to at least make an effort to ignore each other when your around the house." Sam looked down at his hands, cradling the phone in the crook of his neck, and with his shoulder, "I don't care what you do around town.but-"
"I understand Chief." Artemis nodded, "And if it's any constellation, I don't think I'll be around the house much."
"Actually." Sam spoke up, "I was wondering.would you like to come.stay with me for a little while?"
"Chief Bennett!"
"I know, it sounds really bad, especially when I'm the chief of police.but.I mean.I just like having you around." Sam knew he sounded more then a little corny.
"I'll think about it, Sam." Artemis smiled, "I can call you Sam, right?"
Sam smiled, "Of course."
"I'll stop by headquarters tomorrow." She spoke almost seductively. "And we can talk then, okay?"
"Okay." Sam nodded.
"Bye Sam." He could tell she was smiling through her voice.
"Bye Art."
"So you're going to sleep with her now too?" The voice came from behind him.
Sam turned to see Noah leaning in the doorway, "I never said that."
"You just asked her to come and stay for a few days. What did you plan on doing with her?"
"Noah, it's not like that!" Sam set the phone on the charger, "I could never.do that! She's like my daughter."
"Exactly." Noah's arms became more tightly crossed (if at all possible).
"Look.I just want her to come stay a few nights.She'll have her own room and everything." He spoke sarcastically, "Look.make the effort to be nice to her, please?"
"She stays out of my way, I'll stay out of hers."
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"Where are you going?" Miguel asked, watching as Artemis got up from the park bench,
"I'm meeting Sam for lunch."
"Your calling him 'Sam' now?" Miguel raised an eyebrow.
"Oh shush." Artemis pressed a quick kiss to his lips, "I'll meet you back here in.an hour and a half?"
"Sounds good to me." Miguel pulled her down for another kiss, "Until later."
"Later."
A few minutes later, Artemis pushed open the door to the police headquarters, "Chief?"
"Yea..." Sam looked up from a load of paperwork in front of him, "I'll be with you in ten."
Artemis made herself comfortable in the less then comfortable wooden chair set in front of Chief Bennett's chair, "Take your time. I'm in no hurry."
A few moments later, Sam pushed away the papers in front of him, "Okay, I can talk to you now."
"Talk? I thought we were going to lunch."
"But first we have to talk." Sam looked into her eyes, before Artemis forced herself to look away.
"Look." He suddenly noticed that all other activity in the room had stopped, and he looked at the other men in uniform listening in on the conversation, "Don't you guys have jobs?"
Rings of "Sorry Chief", and people going back to work filled the area, and Sam leaned across his desk, "Did you think about what I asked you last night?"
"Sam." Artemis looked at her hands, "I'm not sure it's a good idea."
"Why not? I just.I like having you at the house." Sam spoke sincerely, "And.well.I.to be honest, I was actually going to ask for your.other services as well.but that would be taking it a bit far."
"I'm flattered." A smiled tugged at the corner's of Artemis's mouth, "But.are you sure it's wise? A.well respected man like you.with a.poor little hometown girl-" She was almost sitting on his desk, his lap a little far away, "-like me?"
Sam took an intake of breath, "Not here, Art."
She backed off, back into the chair, "Okay.well, that's the purpose of me staying at the house for a few days, isn't it?"
"You-you don't have to. I mean, it's completely up to you. I'd like you to.but it's not mandatory."
"Oh.I think it is, Chief." Artemis was flirting mercifully with him, before glancing at the clock, "Oh dear! Look at the time."
"What about lunch?" Sam gulped, blinking rapidly.
"Well, we have all week to make up for that." She gave him a teasing peck on the cheek, before exiting the building.
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"You waiting for something Dad?" Jessica asked, as Sam stared out the window.
He turned, "No, of course not. Is dinner ready yet?"
"Yea, Kay is setting the table right now." Jessica hugged her father, "But really, who are you watching for?"
"No one hunny." Sam shook his head, "C'mon, lets go eat."
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"Sam?" Artemis whispered, pushing the door to his bedroom open.
Sam groaned, "Your late."
Artemis smiled, closing the door, the flooding the room back into darkness, "I didn't know we had set a time for me to arrive."
"No matter. You're here now." Sam put his arms around her waist, as she straddled him between her knees.
"Of course." Artemis brushed a lock of hair off his forehead.
"Kiss me." Sam begged, pulling her mouth to his, "Touch me. Work your magic."
"One thing at a time, Chief." Artemis began to tease his mouth with her tongue.
"Oh, don't do that.." Sam shook his head, "I'm to old to be teased like that, Art."
"Of course your not." Artemis pulled his shirt over his head, and tugged his shirt over his head before pulling his boxers down over his hips a bit, "Don't worry.I won't try anything to serious with you tonight." She released him, and leaned over the bed to pick up a bottle of oil out of her bag.
"What are you going to do?" Sam asked as she slid his head into her lap, watching her pour a little oil into the palm of her hand.
"Rub away all the stress of the last.few months." She began to work her fingers across his chest.
Sam's eyes drifted shut; loving the feelings that now pulsed through his body. He was startled out of his sleepy trance as he felt her hands run over his hips.
"What are you doing?" Sam asked.
"You have tension coursed through your entire body, and I'm trying to get rid of some of it."
Sam's eyes drifted shut again, feeling her hands work against his hips, and abdomen.
"I suppose your not interested in going.lower." She pushed her fingers against the waist band of his shorts.
"Whatever you want." Sam sighed, "You can have it."
Artemis giggled, pushing them off, letting her fingers tease his throbbing member.
"Please tell me you aren't going to tease me with just your hands." Sam looked up at her, "I notice you still have your clothes on."
"Oh. Good point." Artemis pulled her shirt over her head, her breasts barely being held back by her bra.
"Let me help you with that." Sam reached up behind her, but she stopped him.
"Hold on." She got up onto her knees, and began to un button her shorts.
Sam smiled appreciatively beneath her, as she pulled him off, flinging them across the room, leaving her in only her bra and panties.
"Is this better Chief?" She asked, her breasts hanging over his lips, still restrained.
"I thought you said we weren't going to have sex tonight." Sam flicked his tongue against the skin of one of her breasts, before lifting his head to suckle her through the fabric.
"I lied." She whispered, reaching to her waist, and undoing the ties on her panties, letting them fall away, before casting them off to the side.
"Your still wearing more then I am." Sam reached behind her, unclasping the bra, "and pardon the corniness in this, but the twins could use some air." He unhooked the last clasped, and cast the bra aside, before burrowing his face into her large, round, pert breasts, tugging on her nipples with his lips and teeth.
"I have something better for you to play with." Artemis teased, dipping her finger into her vagina, and then sucking the taste away.
Sam pulled her down on top of him, his tongue licking at her, pulling her down on top of him, her breasts now pressed against his stomach, his own large, generously sized penis begging not to be ignored any longer.
With Sam's fore play on her own lower regions, she took rein of his, three fold until he was erect without give.
"Oh god, don't stop now." He moaned, as she removed her mouth from him.
"Hold on." She calmed him, reaching over into her bag, "Would you like me to put it on you, or do you want to do it?"
"As long as your there, you do it." Sam took in a deep breath.
Artemis giggled, as he moaned at the mere touch of her hands as she slid the thin casing over his penis.
"C'mon.I'm on top." Sam forced her to switch places with him, "You know the male likes to be dominant."
"Of course Sam,." Artemis gave him free rein, "Just don't let it over inflate your ego." She whispered, pulling him down into her, starting the thrusting motion that gradually got faster, and pulsed harder as time passed.
"I'm going to come." Sam whispered, his mouth against her ear, sweat glistening over his entire body.
"That's what we were going for, wasn't it?" Artemis smiled, brushing lock of hair behind his ear, before he crushed himself to her, his orgasm raging through the both of them.
"I don't want it to be over already." He whispered, catching his breath, his heart pulsing through the both of them.
"We have all the time in the world." Artemis's lips brushed his throat, "We can keep going as long as you like."
"I thought you'd say that."
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"God Miguel! It's really none of your business why I wasn't home last night!" Artemis walked hurridly down the busy Harmony street.
"Yes it is my business." Miguel grasped her shirt sleeve, "I'm assuming you were with someone last night. I want to know who."
"You don't know anything." She wrenched herself free "And what gives you the idea that I was with anyone?"
Miguel took a deep breath. "Your wearing the same clothes you were yesterday."
Artemis was silent for a moment, "You know what I do, Miguel."
"But I don't understand WHY you do it! You don't do it for money, and you have a home! Why do you insist on sleeping with guys off and on-"
"Because I like it!" Artemis sighed. "Just.leave me alone, Miguel."
"There a problem?" a voice could be heard behind them, Luis Lopez- Fitzgerald standing in the doorway of one of the stores on the street.
"No, Luis." Miguel shook his head.
"Artemis," Luis turned to her, "Sam wants you to come over to the station so he can take you out to lunch."
Miguel suddenly turned to her, "That's who it is, isn't it?"
"Oh would you give it up, Miguel! Do you honestly think that the CHIEF OF POLICE would.would do that?!" Artemis asked, "For your information, I'm going out with Sam, because he wants me to stay at the house.help him out a little bit. Get over your self, Miguel. I told you that this wouldn't work." She started to walk away.
"Are you having some problems?" Luis watched on, a bit amused.
Miguel looked at him for a moment, before stalking off following Artemis.
"Art." He caught up with her a few minutes later, "Look, I'm sorry.it's just. I don't understand why you have to do it."
"Mind your own business, Miguel. Just stay out of it." Artemis began walking again.
"Just tell me who it is." Miguel stopped her.
Artemis sighed, crossing her arms, "I can't tell you that."
"Why not? I at least want to know whose fucking my girlfriend."
"Excuse me?" Artemis raised an eyebrow.
"You heard me."
"I am not your girlfriend, Miguel." Artemis pushed a lock of her hair behind her ear.
"Yes you are." Miguel tugged her arms loose from her chest, and pulled her closer, "Look.I'm sorry, okay? Will you forgive me?"
"I have to go." Artemis pushed away from him.
Miguel watched her walk away, silently knowing that soon enough, she wouldn't be able to think of anyone else.