Bunny's part -
Chapter 10
~I can't believe it. You're a dream coming true. I can't believe how I have fallen for you. And, I was not looking. Was content to remain. And, it's ironic to be back in the game.~
Lex carried Trudy into their new room- the most private room in the mall, actually- and tossed her onto the bed.
"All right..." he said, trying not to sound a bit nervous, "here we are."
"Um, yeah..." she said, looking around. She looked a little off, was it that maybe they might . . . maybe last time she did this -
"Look, Trud... I don't know about who this other guy was-"
"Please don't ask me?" she begged. All the fears came back, gripping her body in the possibility of his finding out, leading to the downfall of . . . them. Now, that they were married, she had even more to lose, and she didn't want that to happen.
Lex nodded understanding. "So, how do you feel?"
Trudy shrugged, a small smile covering her mouth. "Tired."
"Yeah," Lex nodded again, thoughtfully. "After that reception."
"It was beautiful," Trudy agreed. "And big."
Everyone had brought together mountains of food for the celebration. Bray - the vigilant good boy - had felt bad for initially protesting them being together and made an immense effort to swath their reception with the nicest decorations and the best food he could manage. The local peddlers were all-too-happy to help - particularly when they found out it was their oh-so fair sheriff who was getting hitched.
"Do you want to sleep?" Lex asked plainly. His insides twanged at the sound of his voice, but he quickly held himself up - it was his wedding night. Of course he was going to want to . . .
Trudy looked to her hands and then Lex. "Can we?"
"Course," Lex answered, thoughts of anything past a kiss dissipated in every part except those he couldn't always control. "We don't have to-"
"Thank you," Trudy cut him off. She didn't want to hear the end of the statement; she was nervous and unsure. Confused, as her body flushed at his proximity, wanting to go further than their kiss, further then all the nights they spent together. She was also feeling foolish at not noticing it until now. She stood, her dress ruffling as she walked a little a ways from the bed Alice had fixed up, winking at Trudy over the bowls of cold soup Salene had made.
She tried to reach back to the dress, stopping and turning red.
"I can help," Lex offered.
"No. I don't want to have you practically undressing me when I just want to . . ."
Lex showed his teeth a little and laughed. "I'm not some horndog, Trud. I can help you with a bunch of buttons and not want to jump on you."
Trudy rolled her eyes and turned. Lex reached out, the smile falling from his face as he began to fumble with the small buttons. She was beautiful, and he did want to have sex with her, but it was Trudy. His wife or not, if she wasn't going to, there wasn't anything he could do. His days of convincing girlfriends, and strangers alike, to go farther seemed behind him.
Now that felt odd.
That night he wasn't sleepy, even after his lack of rest the night before. The image of her smooth, naked back ran through his mind, along with the way she held the front of the dress as she smiled shyly and slipped into the doorway of the larger closet they'd been gifted with.
Lex and Trudy married - as well as surprisingly resistant and nervous - slept side by side respectively with only their top halves touching. Lex was being quite careful not to let her feel anything she wouldn't have when their embraces were about comfort and not the possibility for more.
Each missed the full body warmth.
**
Alice hefted another pile of trash, a white mass of ribbons and sheer fabric. "Where are we going to put all of this?"
"We'll keep the fabric," Ellie instructed. "We might use it again."
Her older sister looked at her bemused face as she nodded forward. Following her line of vision, Alice saw Ryan and Salene cooing to each other in the corner.
"Young love," Alice sighed.
"The only kind," Ellie added. Bray walked past them, looking for his co- leader who had yet to return. "Feel like helping us clean?"
"Hmm?" Bray asked.
"Are you okay?" Alice questioned. He looked pallid and distracted.
"Yeah. I'm just looking for Amber."
The girls nodded, going back to cleaning as Bray once more faced the door. She wasn't late; she'd made it back for the party after the wedding, but went out again with Jack so he could pull up the right maps for the areas they'd most likely fight on.
Course that wasn't what was really bothering him. It bugged him how, up until two weeks ago, he hadn't even noticed that Trudy was with Lex. Bray and Trudy had stuck together after the virus, and even before they'd been friends for *years*, and he didn't even know she was with the biggest gigolo this side of the city.
Make that the whole city.
He didn't even know she was pregnant, and she must have been throwing up all of the time. Everybody, him included, was so wrapped up with the tedious threat of the Locos that they hadn't noticed anything. He failed the girl he knew, the one he promised to protect when everyone around them died. He didn't protect her from Lex. She was his now, not 'the one Bray took care of,' and maybe she hadn't been for a while, since she saw he and Amber together and began to pull away. By then he'd already ignored her for a while, he saw that now.
In the end, he pulled the wedding together, feeling selfish for wanting Trudy to cancel the whole thing and be just as she had always been. The one to look out for.
**
Morning came and Trudy stretched before feeling the cinch of an arm around her waist. She smiled and backed up against the pouring heat of his body, he'd never stayed before. But now they were married, and, hopefully, he'd always be there when she woke up in the morning.
When she shifted she felt all of him, their spooning position not hiding anything, unlike the adrift manner they slept in the night before. She felt the familiar twinge grow inside her as he languidly buried his face in her hair and sighed hotly on her neck, making her scratch her nails into his arm and hold her breath.
He moved against her actions and she sighed.
In the sublime morning daze she didn't feel so nervous, embarrassed, *or* unsure right now.
Trudy turned in against him, his morning stubble scraping against her as she crowded close and hooked a leg around his hip. She kissed him softly and he responded, mumbling her name in slumber when she pulled back. She did it again, her tongue dipping in to his searing, responsive mouth. Pulling him from sleep with her ministrations, he stared at her blurry eyed when she retreated.
"What are you doing?"
"Kissing you," she stated, doing it again.
"You know what you're doing?"
"I said it, and did it," she whispered.
"I just want-"
"I'm sure we should do this, if that's what you were going to ask."
"Something like that. Only less wimpy."
Trudy smiled and kissed him again. "You have your answer. I want to be with you, I love you. All right?"
Lex sighed and pulled her close, taking her mouth to his and pulling her on top of him. He wasn't going to resist, he was who he was, and who he was liked sex. With Trudy. That was a new add-on. And that was . . . different. Because she said she loved him.
He'd heard that from others before but he never reciprocated it with any of the ones who shared his bed - or that car he used to have. He didn't know if it was in simple terms of friendship or more . . . he'd take it either way he could because he found himself caring about the progress of it increasingly. Holding her hips and stroking in slow circles as she his brushed her lips along jawline gently, he couldn't help but hope it was more, otherwise he was in trouble. Something was happening.
He was falling in love with her.
~You are the one who's led me to the sun. How could I know, that I was lost without you?~
KC sat almost sullenly in Bray's room, the late afternoon sun was shining now, and he hadn't seen hide or hair of the wedded couple. Lex and Trudy were having their honeymoon time so Lex had said that he would stay with Bray, that way he would be safe and his older brother would not have to worry about him for a night or so. It'd been a night already, but according to Cloe, Ellie had said they didn't come to breakfast and not to expect them anytime soon.
Somehow it had not occurred to him about this "honeymoon" bit, but at least it was only for a few days. Plus, he now had a sister, and in a few months would be an uncle, so he SUPPOSED it was worth it to sit in boredom as Jack, Bray and Amber planned... something or other. It was very technical and they were talking in whispers and codes; he mostly tuned them out because he did not care, but, whatever it was they were talking about seemed to worry them a great deal.
"I wonder if Lex knows about it?" KC thought silently to himself. "Yeah." He corrected himself quickly. "Lex is SHERIFF; he knows EVERYTHING about everything..."
Amber finally looked over at the little boy in the corner and gave him a sympathetic glance.
"KC? Would you like a comic book?"
"No," he said, shaking his head.
"Something to eat?"
Again, he shook his head.
"Well... is there anything I can do for you, sweetie?"
KC almost flinched at that; he remembered when he and Lex first showed up, and Amber telling Lex that he was too small and too much trouble to look after. Lex had told her in no time flat that KC wasn't going ANYWHERE, and that he was HIS responsibility, no one ELSE'S. But, maybe she was trying...
"Well, it's a nice day, and the lake would be good for a swim?"
~And, I want to tell you, you control my brain. And, you should know that, you are life in my veins.~
Zoot lay back as Jaffa massaged his shoulders.
"How are the plans coming?" Zoot asked lazily.
"Wonderful, my liege," Jaffa said enthusiastically.
"Mmmm... good..." he said almost-contentedly, leaning more into the massage. He was never fully relaxed, too much to do, look after, conquer. Since he'd risen to such a powerhouse he could name one time he'd been truly at ease.
Months ago with Trudy.
"Um, Zoot?" Jaffa asked tentatively.
"Yes?"
"What are the plans once we get the children IN to the mall?"
Zoot gave him the evil eye. "Haven't you thought that far ahead yet?!"
"Well... yes! Of COURSE, of COURSE, Zoot! I just... wanted to know if... YOU had opinions of your OWN on the matter..."
"Huh... well, we'll see. I'll get back to you if I do. Meanwhile, keep good tabs on those kids, huh?"
Jaffa nodded nervously. He would have to come up with a battle plan and FAST. If only he hadn't been rushing so to outdo Ebony...
~You are the one, who's led me to the sun. How could I have known, I was lost without you?~
KC stripped off his shirt and shoes and did a cannonball dive into the water, drenching Bray.
Amber laughed, but Bray looked sour.
"I'm betting Lex TOLD him to do that?"
"He's seven," Amber giggled. "Cut him some slack?"
Bray nodded, ashamed. "It's getting late though, think we should head back?"
Amber looked up to the fading sun and back at Bray with a faint quirk of her lips. "Looks like we still have time."
"All right, all right; so... how do you think Trudy and Lex are doing?"
"Right now? I'd say they made it up to sti-"
"Ewwwww???"
"Right, right." Amber smirked. "Sorry. They're FINE. They're happy. I'm glad."
"Yeah . me too..."
Suddenly, they looked up as they saw four kids in the water, surrounding KC...
~Ooooh, I can't believe it. You're a dream coming true. Oooooh, I can't believe how I have fallen for you.~
Trudy snuggled against Lex and sighed contentedly, her skin moist and flush in the afterglow, her hair matted down with sweat from their intense lovemaking.
"You look beautiful," Lex said, brushing her hair back from her cheeks with both his hands.
"I look a mess..."
"MY beautiful mess."
Trudy rolled her eyes but smiled up at him.
"That was... oh, that was... WOW..." She said it with a hushed, astonished tone. She was excited; there was no denying that. It was the third or fourth time he gave her a . . . well . . . it was new, to say the least. Sighing, Trudy pulled her self across his chest contentedly and rested her chin on her hands. Her smile was so wide that Lex laughed at her, making her bury her red face in her hands before he urged her to look at him. His thumb tracing her lip.
Lex nodded. "So... What do you want to do now?"
"We could do . that . again," she smiled. "But we probably should go to the kitchen. Get some WATER?"
"And food," Lex added. The last time they ate was when someone was nice enough to leave a platter outside the door and knock discreetly.
Lex smirked, helping her out of bed, which didn't go especially well since she had to sit down again, looking at her uncooperative legs, laughing.
He felt pretty good about that.
She stood a second time, Lex was all too happy to pull the sheet away from her and help her into her robe. She smiled gently, happy to sink into her new marriage, and her new family. Speaking of which.
"I wonder how the kiddo is doing?" she asked absently, watching Lex tie the belt to his robe...
~And, I was not looking. Was content to remain. And, it's erotic to be back in the game. Ohhhh. You're a dream coming true. Oh, my, my, my. I have fallen for you. Oh, oh, oh. You're a dream coming true. Oh, my, my, my. I have fallen for you. Oh, oh, oh. Ooooooh, yeah. You're a dream, coming true. Oh, my, my, my. I have fallen for you. Ahhhh. Ooooooh. You're a dream. You're a dream. My, my, my, my...~
Chapter 10
~I can't believe it. You're a dream coming true. I can't believe how I have fallen for you. And, I was not looking. Was content to remain. And, it's ironic to be back in the game.~
Lex carried Trudy into their new room- the most private room in the mall, actually- and tossed her onto the bed.
"All right..." he said, trying not to sound a bit nervous, "here we are."
"Um, yeah..." she said, looking around. She looked a little off, was it that maybe they might . . . maybe last time she did this -
"Look, Trud... I don't know about who this other guy was-"
"Please don't ask me?" she begged. All the fears came back, gripping her body in the possibility of his finding out, leading to the downfall of . . . them. Now, that they were married, she had even more to lose, and she didn't want that to happen.
Lex nodded understanding. "So, how do you feel?"
Trudy shrugged, a small smile covering her mouth. "Tired."
"Yeah," Lex nodded again, thoughtfully. "After that reception."
"It was beautiful," Trudy agreed. "And big."
Everyone had brought together mountains of food for the celebration. Bray - the vigilant good boy - had felt bad for initially protesting them being together and made an immense effort to swath their reception with the nicest decorations and the best food he could manage. The local peddlers were all-too-happy to help - particularly when they found out it was their oh-so fair sheriff who was getting hitched.
"Do you want to sleep?" Lex asked plainly. His insides twanged at the sound of his voice, but he quickly held himself up - it was his wedding night. Of course he was going to want to . . .
Trudy looked to her hands and then Lex. "Can we?"
"Course," Lex answered, thoughts of anything past a kiss dissipated in every part except those he couldn't always control. "We don't have to-"
"Thank you," Trudy cut him off. She didn't want to hear the end of the statement; she was nervous and unsure. Confused, as her body flushed at his proximity, wanting to go further than their kiss, further then all the nights they spent together. She was also feeling foolish at not noticing it until now. She stood, her dress ruffling as she walked a little a ways from the bed Alice had fixed up, winking at Trudy over the bowls of cold soup Salene had made.
She tried to reach back to the dress, stopping and turning red.
"I can help," Lex offered.
"No. I don't want to have you practically undressing me when I just want to . . ."
Lex showed his teeth a little and laughed. "I'm not some horndog, Trud. I can help you with a bunch of buttons and not want to jump on you."
Trudy rolled her eyes and turned. Lex reached out, the smile falling from his face as he began to fumble with the small buttons. She was beautiful, and he did want to have sex with her, but it was Trudy. His wife or not, if she wasn't going to, there wasn't anything he could do. His days of convincing girlfriends, and strangers alike, to go farther seemed behind him.
Now that felt odd.
That night he wasn't sleepy, even after his lack of rest the night before. The image of her smooth, naked back ran through his mind, along with the way she held the front of the dress as she smiled shyly and slipped into the doorway of the larger closet they'd been gifted with.
Lex and Trudy married - as well as surprisingly resistant and nervous - slept side by side respectively with only their top halves touching. Lex was being quite careful not to let her feel anything she wouldn't have when their embraces were about comfort and not the possibility for more.
Each missed the full body warmth.
**
Alice hefted another pile of trash, a white mass of ribbons and sheer fabric. "Where are we going to put all of this?"
"We'll keep the fabric," Ellie instructed. "We might use it again."
Her older sister looked at her bemused face as she nodded forward. Following her line of vision, Alice saw Ryan and Salene cooing to each other in the corner.
"Young love," Alice sighed.
"The only kind," Ellie added. Bray walked past them, looking for his co- leader who had yet to return. "Feel like helping us clean?"
"Hmm?" Bray asked.
"Are you okay?" Alice questioned. He looked pallid and distracted.
"Yeah. I'm just looking for Amber."
The girls nodded, going back to cleaning as Bray once more faced the door. She wasn't late; she'd made it back for the party after the wedding, but went out again with Jack so he could pull up the right maps for the areas they'd most likely fight on.
Course that wasn't what was really bothering him. It bugged him how, up until two weeks ago, he hadn't even noticed that Trudy was with Lex. Bray and Trudy had stuck together after the virus, and even before they'd been friends for *years*, and he didn't even know she was with the biggest gigolo this side of the city.
Make that the whole city.
He didn't even know she was pregnant, and she must have been throwing up all of the time. Everybody, him included, was so wrapped up with the tedious threat of the Locos that they hadn't noticed anything. He failed the girl he knew, the one he promised to protect when everyone around them died. He didn't protect her from Lex. She was his now, not 'the one Bray took care of,' and maybe she hadn't been for a while, since she saw he and Amber together and began to pull away. By then he'd already ignored her for a while, he saw that now.
In the end, he pulled the wedding together, feeling selfish for wanting Trudy to cancel the whole thing and be just as she had always been. The one to look out for.
**
Morning came and Trudy stretched before feeling the cinch of an arm around her waist. She smiled and backed up against the pouring heat of his body, he'd never stayed before. But now they were married, and, hopefully, he'd always be there when she woke up in the morning.
When she shifted she felt all of him, their spooning position not hiding anything, unlike the adrift manner they slept in the night before. She felt the familiar twinge grow inside her as he languidly buried his face in her hair and sighed hotly on her neck, making her scratch her nails into his arm and hold her breath.
He moved against her actions and she sighed.
In the sublime morning daze she didn't feel so nervous, embarrassed, *or* unsure right now.
Trudy turned in against him, his morning stubble scraping against her as she crowded close and hooked a leg around his hip. She kissed him softly and he responded, mumbling her name in slumber when she pulled back. She did it again, her tongue dipping in to his searing, responsive mouth. Pulling him from sleep with her ministrations, he stared at her blurry eyed when she retreated.
"What are you doing?"
"Kissing you," she stated, doing it again.
"You know what you're doing?"
"I said it, and did it," she whispered.
"I just want-"
"I'm sure we should do this, if that's what you were going to ask."
"Something like that. Only less wimpy."
Trudy smiled and kissed him again. "You have your answer. I want to be with you, I love you. All right?"
Lex sighed and pulled her close, taking her mouth to his and pulling her on top of him. He wasn't going to resist, he was who he was, and who he was liked sex. With Trudy. That was a new add-on. And that was . . . different. Because she said she loved him.
He'd heard that from others before but he never reciprocated it with any of the ones who shared his bed - or that car he used to have. He didn't know if it was in simple terms of friendship or more . . . he'd take it either way he could because he found himself caring about the progress of it increasingly. Holding her hips and stroking in slow circles as she his brushed her lips along jawline gently, he couldn't help but hope it was more, otherwise he was in trouble. Something was happening.
He was falling in love with her.
~You are the one who's led me to the sun. How could I know, that I was lost without you?~
KC sat almost sullenly in Bray's room, the late afternoon sun was shining now, and he hadn't seen hide or hair of the wedded couple. Lex and Trudy were having their honeymoon time so Lex had said that he would stay with Bray, that way he would be safe and his older brother would not have to worry about him for a night or so. It'd been a night already, but according to Cloe, Ellie had said they didn't come to breakfast and not to expect them anytime soon.
Somehow it had not occurred to him about this "honeymoon" bit, but at least it was only for a few days. Plus, he now had a sister, and in a few months would be an uncle, so he SUPPOSED it was worth it to sit in boredom as Jack, Bray and Amber planned... something or other. It was very technical and they were talking in whispers and codes; he mostly tuned them out because he did not care, but, whatever it was they were talking about seemed to worry them a great deal.
"I wonder if Lex knows about it?" KC thought silently to himself. "Yeah." He corrected himself quickly. "Lex is SHERIFF; he knows EVERYTHING about everything..."
Amber finally looked over at the little boy in the corner and gave him a sympathetic glance.
"KC? Would you like a comic book?"
"No," he said, shaking his head.
"Something to eat?"
Again, he shook his head.
"Well... is there anything I can do for you, sweetie?"
KC almost flinched at that; he remembered when he and Lex first showed up, and Amber telling Lex that he was too small and too much trouble to look after. Lex had told her in no time flat that KC wasn't going ANYWHERE, and that he was HIS responsibility, no one ELSE'S. But, maybe she was trying...
"Well, it's a nice day, and the lake would be good for a swim?"
~And, I want to tell you, you control my brain. And, you should know that, you are life in my veins.~
Zoot lay back as Jaffa massaged his shoulders.
"How are the plans coming?" Zoot asked lazily.
"Wonderful, my liege," Jaffa said enthusiastically.
"Mmmm... good..." he said almost-contentedly, leaning more into the massage. He was never fully relaxed, too much to do, look after, conquer. Since he'd risen to such a powerhouse he could name one time he'd been truly at ease.
Months ago with Trudy.
"Um, Zoot?" Jaffa asked tentatively.
"Yes?"
"What are the plans once we get the children IN to the mall?"
Zoot gave him the evil eye. "Haven't you thought that far ahead yet?!"
"Well... yes! Of COURSE, of COURSE, Zoot! I just... wanted to know if... YOU had opinions of your OWN on the matter..."
"Huh... well, we'll see. I'll get back to you if I do. Meanwhile, keep good tabs on those kids, huh?"
Jaffa nodded nervously. He would have to come up with a battle plan and FAST. If only he hadn't been rushing so to outdo Ebony...
~You are the one, who's led me to the sun. How could I have known, I was lost without you?~
KC stripped off his shirt and shoes and did a cannonball dive into the water, drenching Bray.
Amber laughed, but Bray looked sour.
"I'm betting Lex TOLD him to do that?"
"He's seven," Amber giggled. "Cut him some slack?"
Bray nodded, ashamed. "It's getting late though, think we should head back?"
Amber looked up to the fading sun and back at Bray with a faint quirk of her lips. "Looks like we still have time."
"All right, all right; so... how do you think Trudy and Lex are doing?"
"Right now? I'd say they made it up to sti-"
"Ewwwww???"
"Right, right." Amber smirked. "Sorry. They're FINE. They're happy. I'm glad."
"Yeah . me too..."
Suddenly, they looked up as they saw four kids in the water, surrounding KC...
~Ooooh, I can't believe it. You're a dream coming true. Oooooh, I can't believe how I have fallen for you.~
Trudy snuggled against Lex and sighed contentedly, her skin moist and flush in the afterglow, her hair matted down with sweat from their intense lovemaking.
"You look beautiful," Lex said, brushing her hair back from her cheeks with both his hands.
"I look a mess..."
"MY beautiful mess."
Trudy rolled her eyes but smiled up at him.
"That was... oh, that was... WOW..." She said it with a hushed, astonished tone. She was excited; there was no denying that. It was the third or fourth time he gave her a . . . well . . . it was new, to say the least. Sighing, Trudy pulled her self across his chest contentedly and rested her chin on her hands. Her smile was so wide that Lex laughed at her, making her bury her red face in her hands before he urged her to look at him. His thumb tracing her lip.
Lex nodded. "So... What do you want to do now?"
"We could do . that . again," she smiled. "But we probably should go to the kitchen. Get some WATER?"
"And food," Lex added. The last time they ate was when someone was nice enough to leave a platter outside the door and knock discreetly.
Lex smirked, helping her out of bed, which didn't go especially well since she had to sit down again, looking at her uncooperative legs, laughing.
He felt pretty good about that.
She stood a second time, Lex was all too happy to pull the sheet away from her and help her into her robe. She smiled gently, happy to sink into her new marriage, and her new family. Speaking of which.
"I wonder how the kiddo is doing?" she asked absently, watching Lex tie the belt to his robe...
~And, I was not looking. Was content to remain. And, it's erotic to be back in the game. Ohhhh. You're a dream coming true. Oh, my, my, my. I have fallen for you. Oh, oh, oh. You're a dream coming true. Oh, my, my, my. I have fallen for you. Oh, oh, oh. Ooooooh, yeah. You're a dream, coming true. Oh, my, my, my. I have fallen for you. Ahhhh. Ooooooh. You're a dream. You're a dream. My, my, my, my...~