Yeah, that was as sappy as hell, but like I said, I'm not telling this story for you. Just sit tight and we'll get back to the nookie eventually. Damn, this just gets tougher for people to appreciate every time…

I woke up as people who are sleeping tend to do. Celes was still in my arms asleep. My slumber had had all the effect of a blink. Everything that I had felt and thought was still clear in my mind, there was just one difference. Despite all the things that had been said and all the rather imposing feelings I'd experienced, the thing foremost in my mind was the issue of the flashes and screams.

I didn't want it to be.

Oh well, couldn't be helped. It was probably for the best, idleness being the hands of the devil after all, and it had to be dealt with. The biggest step is the first and it's the job that never gets started that takes longest to finish and all that.

I was stalling for time and I knew it was because I was afraid. In spite of myself, I began to recall what happened out in field. The flashes through my head, that impossible speech. At first I felt afraid, but as I went through the events in my head, the fear dissipated. I was protected by a mental barrier, a sort of indifference and awareness that it was a memory only. My stomach didn't twist and that also made me feel more secure. I thought about what happened, then when I was finished and discovered nothing new, I started over again, and again. As the repetition progressed, so did the fear recess and soon everything I saw in my mind held almost no emotional connection to me whatsoever. I almost became bored.

Then I remembered a flash of light that was different from the rest. It was the flash after I heard the monster speech. I discovered it was different early on, around the fourth or fifth time, but I didn't know how or why. I couldn't even make a quality guess. Maybe it was because it of the speech or maybe not. It seemed like a good reason, but there was just no way to tell. I had nothing to compare any of this to and it frustrated me. Okay, fine…what else?

…

"Well fuck."

Celes stirred and woke up, moving herself off of me with a gentle nudge. I looked at her and the frustration was abated for a moment. Wow but she was vision that I never got tired of! She stretched and her entire body tensed. I was entranced. She twisted her torso to the left and then to the right, then returned to laying on her back, holding her arms close to her chest the whole time. She moved her legs close to her chest and assumed a fetal position moments before stretching all her limbs as far as she could. I was gone completely. Her mouthed opened wide and she yawned.

That effectively killed the moment. I winced at the sound produced.

May the goddesses smile on her, but she had a yawn that was about as feminine as a fart at the dinner table. I remember the first time I heard her, I leaped out of bed and ran to my nearby dagger, thinking some animal had entered the room. As I stood looking towards the bed, wearing nothing but a look of wild terror and my knife, Celes was staring back at me with the look of innocent curiosity on her face. She cocked her head to the side slightly and raised an eyebrow. She yawned again and then I understood, but I was no less shocked. That a human being, let alone a woman, could produce such an awful assault to the ears…mind boggling. There's just no way to describe it to you, and I would spare you (and me) the torture of trying. So I went back to bed with her, feeling silly and curiously enough, aroused. We decided to make the best of an embarrassing situation. Well…she did.

She leaped upon me with a quickness that took me by surprise. Before I realized what was going on, she had already mounted me and was starting to ride. I tried to say something, but I couldn't create words, so I ended up making these that rather resembled a startled animal.

"Shut up and fuck me!" She commanded breathlessly. I hadn't even said anything yet. Now I just nodded, lost in the pleasure and surprise. It was a nice and energetic quickie, something we hadn't had in ages. Quickies don't get the respect they deserve. Spontaneous sex means your both in the mood, so you're damn near guaranteed to get the most out of it. I worked hard to get her to a quick climax, just to slow down at the last minute. I saw the knowing smile it put on her face and that alone almost made me come. But I held myself in check, attacking her in waves of quick animal thrusts, only to taper off as she reached the heights, taking her ever closer and closer to her final breaching point. This kinda sex could get old pretty quick, I'll admit. The trick was to look for the right signal. The right expression or glance from the partner that told you, this'll be the final stretch…make it good. Half the time, even they don't know they sent it.

On the sixth or seventh wave, as I slowed down, Celes leaned forward and grabbed my shoulders and her legs ever so slightly tightened around my midsection. She bit her lower lip and looked at me with hungry eyes. Oh yeah, she was ready. I began to lung into her harder, deeper, and slower than before. She closed her eyes and tried to keep her lower lip held down. But she couldn't.

"Yes! Yes! Just like this!"

Soon my thrusts were pushing her and my pelvis off of the bed, the slow push ending with quick thrusts that would have her gasping and digging herself into me with the slow build of animal want. I let myself slide slowly and comfortably into that animal, and my body slowly gave up all sense of seduction and attacked her as she lost herself and simply began to scream and howl and buck against me. With the heat of her lighting me up, I screamed out as she did. We didn't stop thrusting into each other, forcing our orgasm to disappear slowly. When it was over, Celes slowly dismounted and sat at the edge of the bed and decided to end on a comedic note with a fake yawn.

Unfortunately, it was still early in the morning and the fake yawn turned into a real one.

Oi, she was making it long this time! I had my hands to my ears and was humming some tune I couldn't place. Eventually she stopped, but I couldn't tell. All I felt was the slap she gave to my stomach. The air wooshed out of me with in the form of a laugh. I opened my eyes and looked in her direction. She looked at me with frustrated annoyance.

"You are sooo melodramatic about that! It's not that bad." She got out of bed and walked over to her dresser drawer.

"Like hell it isn't!" I called after her, getting up with renewed energy. I must say I felt rather strongly about the topic. It didn't matter if you were in the deepest of dreams, nothing I know on this world can deny that auditory assault. Simply put, if she was waking up, I would be too, end of discussion. It was the alarm clock from hell and I said so.

She had her back to me, but I could tell that brought out a chuckle. I was onna role. I leaped out of bed and walked up behind her.

"I mean, sheesh woman, it sounds like one of the imperial Fidors trying to imitate an un-oiled magiteck machine! More than once I think it made the floorboards vibrate and I've been thinking about reinforcing the beams as a result."

"Oh shut up!" She whirled around and pushed me away, trying to hold back her laughter while putting on her shirt and failing miserably.

"Hey!" I cried out, lifting up my arms in a gesture of innocence. "Alls I'm saying is that if it doesn't wake the dead, it must scare 'em further into the ground."

She looked at me with mock anger. "You should be one to talk! You're the one with a snore that could wake the dead and make 'em throw an old boot at you to shut you up. At least I get you up when you're supposed to. I can't tell you how many times I've woken up and thought I was in the middle of an earthquake! There's a reason you'd wake up once in a while with all the pillows over your head."

"Oh!" I said with questioning surprise. "All this time, I thought you were just trying to kill me to get the house…"

Celes was finished getting dressed and now knelt down to tie her shoes. "Well now that you mention it, you can't snore if your not breathing…" She suddenly grabbed her chin, apparently deep in thought about procedures for my demise.

"Hey! My snores don't count anyway! I'm not awake when they happen. You actually have a choice to keep those un-holy sounds to yourself. Hah! Gotcha there don't I? Hmm? Hmm?" I stuck my chin out at her like I was a ten year old who'd gotten the best of his parents in an argument.

She stood up, finished tying her shoes, and rolled her eyes at me before turning round and heading out the door.

"Yeah, that's what I thought!" I called after her. "Oh yeah, I'm bad! I'm bad! In your face! What do ya think of that, huh? Huh?"

"I think your still naked in the bedroom while we're late for the open market in town." I suddenly heard the opening of the front door and it's sudden close. My eyes widened.

"Oh shit!"

With powerful energy of excited desperation backing me, I was able to slap on enough clothes to look decent (relatively speaking) in the space of maybe twenty seconds and was down the stairs and out the door in less than half a min. The morning sun was already well on it's way to noon and it hurt when it hit me. My eyes suddenly retreated into my sockets and it took a moment for me to get my bearings. In the meantime, I stumbled over every possible rock and tree root there could ever be between the front door and the front gate ten yards away. One last whatever-it-was grabbed my foot harshly and I stumbled till I hit the gate and fell over it, landing on my tailbone with a dull thump. The pain went up my spine like a lightning strike going backwards and my teeth grit inside my mouth for a moment. I got up slowly, rubbing my lower back.

"Oi! I'll be feeling that tomorrow morning."

"Will you move your ass?" Celes was almost a hundred yards away, out in the middle of the wild fields between the farmhouse and town. She looked back at me and I could tell she was getting impatient for real this time. "You've already ruined your clothes, let's not make things worse. I'm not missing the good prices for roots again, understand?"

I didn't say anything, but made a shambling run after her. She didn't wait for me, so it was quite awhile before I caught up with her. It gave me plenty of time to soak up the sun and lift my spirits. I felt a cool breeze run across my face that made me laugh out loud and run even faster towards my love. Today was going to be a great day.