Chapter Two: The Past or Bust
NINE YEARS LATER...
Aries bolted upright in bed drenched in a cold sweat; her labored breathing woke the man sleeping on the floor. Erick Barton, Trowa's first-born son, didn't think twice before climbing into the bed, enveloping Aries in his arms. He had thought she would push him away as she had done multiple times in the past. The two had met when Amanda and Aries' space pod had landed at Hilde and Duo's house after two weeks en route. The Bartons had been sharing a quiet lunch when the twins had landed. At first it was hard for anyone to believe that Zechs and Noin had died, for they always had a way to escape from a desperate situation alive. Over the years Duo's son Arron, Trowa's son Erick, Amanda and Aries had become great friends. Though Aries was always somewhat withdrawn from the rest and barely spoke.
At the age of twenty-one Arron and Amanda had discovered their love for each other and gotten married. It was there that Erick had declared his love for Aries. Who had left the room in tears and had locked herself in her room for three days. The pain of loss weighted heavily on her, making her. afraid to get close to anyone (even her identical twin Amanda) Aries had never in words returned Erick's love but she never said she didn't love him and it had been him who had convinced to come out of her room.
"More nightmares?" Aries nodded against his shoulder needing to feel like she wasn't alone.
"It hurts so much I don't think I can go on like this any more. It's all my fault they died because of me." She began to sob violently.
These words struck fear into Erick's heart. A couple of months after the twins had arrived on Earth. Aries locked herself in the bathroom and cut both of her wrists with a piece of glass from the bathroom mirror. She had missed her radial arteries by two inches and still to this day had the scars to prove it. Then the night of Arron and Amanda's wedding, Erick had not seen her at the reception and went to the house where she lived with Hilde and Duo and found her sitting on the couch, a bottle of painkillers open and spread over the table, a huge half empty bottle of burgundy in her hands.
His had shaken her awake because he was afraid that she had drunk herself to death. Then he franticly called the hotel where Amanda and Arron were just starting their honeymoon. He told them what had happened and to meet him at the hospital. Erick had asked Aries countless times why she done this, but the twenty-one year old had been too drunk to string a whole sentence together. And by the time she was in her right mind had clammed up like and oyster and refused to talk to him Amanda or Arron. It had been three years since Aries had tried to take her own life, but Erick felt that if left alone with the opportunity of suicide she would try again. And he couldn't bear it if he let the woman he loved hurt herself anymore then she already had.
Hoping to distract her from her nightmare Erick leaned forward pressing his lips to hers. After only a moments hesitation Aries responded letting his tongue in her mouth. Erick tried to break the kiss to get in a better position but Aries would have none of it. Seeing a hungry yearning look on her face Erick laid down with her in between his legs. Breaking the kiss for the first time for the lack of oxygen Aries lifted her nightdress over her head. Not wanting to rush anything Erick keep on his only article of clothing. But a few kiss later when she tugged at the elastic waistband of his boxers and began to slide them down his hips. The noise of the door suddenly opening and two gleeful faces walked into the room.
"We've done it!" Arron shrieked, Amanda running in after him. Both let their eyes digest the scene that lay before them. Erick, his boxers halfway down his hips with Aries only in her undergarments with him in between her legs.
"Oh my god Arron we're interrupting something, we'll come back you guys." Amanda was shocked to find her sister this way. She never thought that Aries would let Erick consummate his love for her.
"No use you already interrupted so just go ahead." Erick said annoyed, the one night Aries hadn't pushed him away and he was allowed to show her how deeply he felt for her and they picked tonight to come barging in.
"Well we just thought that you guys would want to know that the mobile suits are ready and loaded. And thanks to me and my genius got the time machine operational and we can leave as soon as we want to provided that we have aliases because once we're there we can't risk our parents finding out who we are too soon."
" Yes well Amanda we can talk about that tomorrow. But for now I think I need my sleep and that would require r you two leave right now." Aries gestured at the door.
"Ok, ok I'm sorry I thought you would want to be the fist to know that we can go back. We can take a hint can't we Arron." the woman pulled her husband out of the room and closed the door behind her. Erick sighed deeply as he proceeded to get out from under Aries.
"Where you going?" she asked indignantly as the insecurity of him wanting to leave the moment they had been caught
"We should really get some sleep, big day tomorrow." Erick said absently trying to cover his disappointment and the fact that his body had begun to throb from the abrupt stop
"What you don't want me now that Arron and Amanda saw us together?"
"No, where the hell did you get an idea like that?"
"Well it's not hard, you kiss me when we're alone and then after we are interrupted you don't want me anymore."
"That's not what my body says, but I thought that since you have always turned down my advances that now we were interrupted that you had regained whatever it was you lost when you kissed back." Aries began to laugh as she covered Erick's body with her own.
"So what does your body say Mr. Barton?" Aries cupped his face in her hands smiling genuinely for the first time in what seemed liked years.
"It commands me to ravish you until the late morning." Erick confessed truthfully sitting up and rolling over so Aries was on the bottom.
"Oh really?" she questioned as the hardness of his length was pressed against her underwear. "But we really should get to sleep.
"Yea but people don't always do what they should do, do they." she let him remove her remaining clothing and moaned as he began to place kisses all over her body.
Next morning the two reluctantly put their clothes back on and went into the main room where they found Arron eating breakfast alone..
"Well, Well, Well look who's finally up." Arron teased as he brought the spoon to his mouth.
"Ha, ha, yes you have a good laugh because I got some and you didn't, where's my sister?" She took the seat across from her brother-in-law.
"What the hell makes you think that I didn't get any?"
"Because you wouldn't be this grumpy if you did." Erick added sitting down next to Aries, handing her a bowl of cereal
"What is this you guys have sex for the first time and all of a sudden it is gang up on Arron?"
"No one is ganging up on you, you started it by teasing us and you never told me where my sister is."
"Fine, you two win, I lose. Amanda couldn't sleep a wink kept complaining that the room was too small and that I shouldn't have chosen this room for us to sleep in. I didn't see her after that she got up, so I think she's looking outside the window in the cargo bay."(Because Amanda is claustrophobic, from spending a week in that escape pod when her and Aries were on their way to Earth.)
"Oh so you didn't get any sex or sleep damn man I feel for you." Erick said sympathetically.
"That makes two of us." Amanda stood at the threshold of the room. "But you don't see me complaining."
"Just get over here honey. We're just about ready so if anyone has any second thoughts then now is the time of forever hold your peace. Because this thing only has enough juice for one jump and if I remember correctly they haven't discovered Dargon yet. So you need to yourself over here, so we can get this show on the road, unless you have changed your mind." Arron got up, walked to his wife, make her close her eyes and hold his hand while whispering something in her ear and brought to the back of the room closer to the time machine. Finishing her breakfast Aries stood up and walked over to Arron while Erick punched in the coordinates for where and when they wanted to end up. In a flash of blue light that surrounded the ship it disappeared into thin air.
To be continued.
NINE YEARS LATER...
Aries bolted upright in bed drenched in a cold sweat; her labored breathing woke the man sleeping on the floor. Erick Barton, Trowa's first-born son, didn't think twice before climbing into the bed, enveloping Aries in his arms. He had thought she would push him away as she had done multiple times in the past. The two had met when Amanda and Aries' space pod had landed at Hilde and Duo's house after two weeks en route. The Bartons had been sharing a quiet lunch when the twins had landed. At first it was hard for anyone to believe that Zechs and Noin had died, for they always had a way to escape from a desperate situation alive. Over the years Duo's son Arron, Trowa's son Erick, Amanda and Aries had become great friends. Though Aries was always somewhat withdrawn from the rest and barely spoke.
At the age of twenty-one Arron and Amanda had discovered their love for each other and gotten married. It was there that Erick had declared his love for Aries. Who had left the room in tears and had locked herself in her room for three days. The pain of loss weighted heavily on her, making her. afraid to get close to anyone (even her identical twin Amanda) Aries had never in words returned Erick's love but she never said she didn't love him and it had been him who had convinced to come out of her room.
"More nightmares?" Aries nodded against his shoulder needing to feel like she wasn't alone.
"It hurts so much I don't think I can go on like this any more. It's all my fault they died because of me." She began to sob violently.
These words struck fear into Erick's heart. A couple of months after the twins had arrived on Earth. Aries locked herself in the bathroom and cut both of her wrists with a piece of glass from the bathroom mirror. She had missed her radial arteries by two inches and still to this day had the scars to prove it. Then the night of Arron and Amanda's wedding, Erick had not seen her at the reception and went to the house where she lived with Hilde and Duo and found her sitting on the couch, a bottle of painkillers open and spread over the table, a huge half empty bottle of burgundy in her hands.
His had shaken her awake because he was afraid that she had drunk herself to death. Then he franticly called the hotel where Amanda and Arron were just starting their honeymoon. He told them what had happened and to meet him at the hospital. Erick had asked Aries countless times why she done this, but the twenty-one year old had been too drunk to string a whole sentence together. And by the time she was in her right mind had clammed up like and oyster and refused to talk to him Amanda or Arron. It had been three years since Aries had tried to take her own life, but Erick felt that if left alone with the opportunity of suicide she would try again. And he couldn't bear it if he let the woman he loved hurt herself anymore then she already had.
Hoping to distract her from her nightmare Erick leaned forward pressing his lips to hers. After only a moments hesitation Aries responded letting his tongue in her mouth. Erick tried to break the kiss to get in a better position but Aries would have none of it. Seeing a hungry yearning look on her face Erick laid down with her in between his legs. Breaking the kiss for the first time for the lack of oxygen Aries lifted her nightdress over her head. Not wanting to rush anything Erick keep on his only article of clothing. But a few kiss later when she tugged at the elastic waistband of his boxers and began to slide them down his hips. The noise of the door suddenly opening and two gleeful faces walked into the room.
"We've done it!" Arron shrieked, Amanda running in after him. Both let their eyes digest the scene that lay before them. Erick, his boxers halfway down his hips with Aries only in her undergarments with him in between her legs.
"Oh my god Arron we're interrupting something, we'll come back you guys." Amanda was shocked to find her sister this way. She never thought that Aries would let Erick consummate his love for her.
"No use you already interrupted so just go ahead." Erick said annoyed, the one night Aries hadn't pushed him away and he was allowed to show her how deeply he felt for her and they picked tonight to come barging in.
"Well we just thought that you guys would want to know that the mobile suits are ready and loaded. And thanks to me and my genius got the time machine operational and we can leave as soon as we want to provided that we have aliases because once we're there we can't risk our parents finding out who we are too soon."
" Yes well Amanda we can talk about that tomorrow. But for now I think I need my sleep and that would require r you two leave right now." Aries gestured at the door.
"Ok, ok I'm sorry I thought you would want to be the fist to know that we can go back. We can take a hint can't we Arron." the woman pulled her husband out of the room and closed the door behind her. Erick sighed deeply as he proceeded to get out from under Aries.
"Where you going?" she asked indignantly as the insecurity of him wanting to leave the moment they had been caught
"We should really get some sleep, big day tomorrow." Erick said absently trying to cover his disappointment and the fact that his body had begun to throb from the abrupt stop
"What you don't want me now that Arron and Amanda saw us together?"
"No, where the hell did you get an idea like that?"
"Well it's not hard, you kiss me when we're alone and then after we are interrupted you don't want me anymore."
"That's not what my body says, but I thought that since you have always turned down my advances that now we were interrupted that you had regained whatever it was you lost when you kissed back." Aries began to laugh as she covered Erick's body with her own.
"So what does your body say Mr. Barton?" Aries cupped his face in her hands smiling genuinely for the first time in what seemed liked years.
"It commands me to ravish you until the late morning." Erick confessed truthfully sitting up and rolling over so Aries was on the bottom.
"Oh really?" she questioned as the hardness of his length was pressed against her underwear. "But we really should get to sleep.
"Yea but people don't always do what they should do, do they." she let him remove her remaining clothing and moaned as he began to place kisses all over her body.
Next morning the two reluctantly put their clothes back on and went into the main room where they found Arron eating breakfast alone..
"Well, Well, Well look who's finally up." Arron teased as he brought the spoon to his mouth.
"Ha, ha, yes you have a good laugh because I got some and you didn't, where's my sister?" She took the seat across from her brother-in-law.
"What the hell makes you think that I didn't get any?"
"Because you wouldn't be this grumpy if you did." Erick added sitting down next to Aries, handing her a bowl of cereal
"What is this you guys have sex for the first time and all of a sudden it is gang up on Arron?"
"No one is ganging up on you, you started it by teasing us and you never told me where my sister is."
"Fine, you two win, I lose. Amanda couldn't sleep a wink kept complaining that the room was too small and that I shouldn't have chosen this room for us to sleep in. I didn't see her after that she got up, so I think she's looking outside the window in the cargo bay."(Because Amanda is claustrophobic, from spending a week in that escape pod when her and Aries were on their way to Earth.)
"Oh so you didn't get any sex or sleep damn man I feel for you." Erick said sympathetically.
"That makes two of us." Amanda stood at the threshold of the room. "But you don't see me complaining."
"Just get over here honey. We're just about ready so if anyone has any second thoughts then now is the time of forever hold your peace. Because this thing only has enough juice for one jump and if I remember correctly they haven't discovered Dargon yet. So you need to yourself over here, so we can get this show on the road, unless you have changed your mind." Arron got up, walked to his wife, make her close her eyes and hold his hand while whispering something in her ear and brought to the back of the room closer to the time machine. Finishing her breakfast Aries stood up and walked over to Arron while Erick punched in the coordinates for where and when they wanted to end up. In a flash of blue light that surrounded the ship it disappeared into thin air.
To be continued.