Chapter Thirty-Two

Author's Note: Yes, it is finished! Finally! It wasn't supposed to go on for that long but I swear, I had the hardest time getting all of them, especially Jan and Brady, to shut up. Anyways, I know this story got a little crazy but please review anyway. You know you want to :D Oh, and the last chapter is NC-17 but come on, I'm celebrating here!

Sami heard the door to her apartment open and left her place on the couch to go greet Lucas. His dark eyes twinkled mischievously and both hands were behind his back, "Sorry for being late. I would have been here sooner, but I was getting you something." he told her and Sami felt her mouth go dry at his words. The impatient part of her hoped whatever he had gotten her was packaged in a small jewelry case, one that contained a certain kind of ring inside. She smiled expectantly.

"Well, are you going to show me what it is?" Sami asked eagerly, trying to not to let her smile fade when Lucas brought out a box about twenty times bigger than what she had been expecting. Sami took the box from him and played with the ribbon that was wrapped around the medium sized box.

"What is it?" she asked, then nearly jumped out of her skin, "Oh my God! Something moved!"

Lucas reached out to steady the box, "Don't drop it!" once Sami had regained her hold on the box, he let go, "And you kind of have to open it to find out what's in it. Don't worry, it's not a snake or anything. Or is it?" Lucas shot Sami a look of amusement as she continued to eye the box warily.

"I'm a little worried now" Sami told him, "What are you up to, Lucas?"

"Come on, just open the box." Lucas urged her and Sami finally began untying the bow reluctantly. After letting the ribbon fall to the ground, she tugged open the box and gasped when she what was inside.

"You didn't." Sami's eyes were wide as she looked down at the pair of baby blue eyes staring back at her from inside the box. She picked up the tiny kitten and cradled it in her eyes, still staring at Lucas in shock. He looked back at her anxiously.

"Do you like it?" he asked, his voice cracking nervously. Sami looked up at him with a mixture of confusion and happiness.

"I wasn't expecting this but... the kitten is adorable. I love it but I don't really understand. We're not even supposed to have animals in our apartment." Sami stammered, unsure of how to react to this. No one had even given her a pet as a gift before and she had no idea what Lucas had been thinking. But she realized that this gift was not unwanted. The kitten really was adorable, with a soft golden coat and incredibly round, bright blue eyes.

Lucas waved his hand dissmissively, "Don't worry about it. We're not going to be living here much longer anyway. They'll never know." he promised. He reached out on hand to pet the cat, who began purring and arching it's back into Lucas' hand, "Yeah, um, this one really seemed to like me when Jan I went to the pet shop to find one."

"Jan?" Sami repeated. Lucas nodded and grinned sheepishly.

"She was the one who told me to get you the cat. I wasn't sure about it first but then I saw this one and it kind of reminded me of you. Because of it's eyes and everything." he added, reaching out to stroke her cheek while he continued to pet the cat with his other hand. The cat mewed slightly and squirmed in Sami's arms. One paw reached up to bat Lucas in the chin and Sami laughed.

"I guess I've found a name for this kitten." Sami smirked at Lucas, "I think I'll him Brady because he can't seem seem to keep his paws off you."

Lucas grimaced and shook his head, "You don't want to do that, Sami. Brady doesn't like me anymore, I scared him away. Besides, it's a girl."

Sami shrugged, "All the more reason to call in Brady. I don't think the real Brady has any balls either."

"You're terrible." Lucas said, but he was smiling too. He watched Sami pet the tiny kitten, which began purring even louder and nuzzling against Sami's stomach. Sami had a look of pure contentment on her face as she petted the newest addition to their family and Lucas couldn't seem to stop himself from admiring her. He just hoped she would be this receptive to the other gift he had ready for her.

"And you're wonderful." Sami mumured, drawing her attention away from the cat to look up at Lucas affectionately, "Sometimes, I think you're too good to me."

So she wouldn't squish the cat, she gently set Brady down on the floor and closed the small gap between herself and Lucas. She fingernails scraped lightly against the expanse of his back as she raised her head to kiss him. Lucas felt her lips part against his mouth and he eased his tongue between the silky, moist lips, tasting the infinite sweetness that was Sami. The lazy, undemanding pace of the kiss picked up speed, Sami's nails digging harder into her bed as Lucas' back and she applied more pressure to the warm softness of Lucas' mouth, her tongue stroking his tongue inside of her mouth. Brady paced back and forth on the floor restlessly, brushing against Lucas and Sami' legs while Sami caressed Lucas suggestively through the denim of his jeans. He bit down on her lip gently to stop himself from groaning and with some struggle, he broke their contact.

"Maybe it's because you're so good to me." his voice sounded huskily in her ear before his tongue darted out to run along the shell of her ear. She interlaced fingers with him and pressed herself as close to him as physically possible, soft curves meeting the hard angles of Lucas' chest. They didn't even need to speak, instead they both made their way over to Sami's bedroom, hand in hand. Once both of them had made it to her bed, Sami began undoing the buttons of his shirt with teasing slowness, her kisses hungry and openmouthed along each part of bonzed, newly uncovered skin. After completely unbuttoning the shirt, she quickened her piece, clawing the shirt off of him and her hands exploring hot flesh and rippling muscles.

"Wait." Lucas stopped her, clasping one of her hands in his own, "I have something else to give you first." he reached into his jeans pocket and pulled out the one thing Sami wanted to see more than anything. A dark, velvet jewellery box. Sami felt tears of happiness spring to her eyes and watched Lucas open the jewelery box to reveal a large, sparkling diamond ring. He looked up at her, his own eyes taking on a liquid gleam.

"I've had this for a while." he managed to say, his voice raspy, "I wanted to give this to you at the perfect moment but I didn't want to wait any longer-"

Sami brushed against his lips with her fingertips, "It is perfect, Lucas. You make it pefect.

He smiled a smile that lit up his entire face, "Thank you. Sami Brady, will you marry me?" he asked.

"Of course." Sami whispered, letting Lucas slip the ring on her finger, "I love you so much, Lucas."

"And I love you." he returned softly, fastening his mouth to hers again, capturing the moment without any more words because they weren't needed. Hot, restless fingers explored each other thoroughly and bodies entwined passionately.

The sheets rustled underneath them as Sami went on to strip Lucas of his jeans and boxers. The clothes fell to a crumpled heap next to his shirt and suddenly, Lucas rolled over so that he was straddling Sami, yet didn't break the union of their mouths. In a matter of minutes, he had Sami unbuttoned, unzipped and writhing underneath him. His shaft slipped between her open thighs and she moaned loudly, tugging desperately at his hair. He moved himself in and out and the moist apex between her thighs, teasing but never entering her. Suddenly, Sami stopped moving, taking long gasping mouthfuls of air to level out her breathing and her head touched his chest, stilling his movements.

"I can't do it." Sami told him once she caught her breath. Lucas looked down at her with concern.

"What's wrong?" he asked, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." she smiled self-deprecatingly, "It's just... the cat. Brady is watching us and I can't do it with her here." Lucas turned around and noticed that Brady the cat was really sitting near the door to the bedroom, watching them with a curious look on her face. Lucas groaned and turned back to Sami.

"It's a cat, Sami. It's no big deal." Lucas told her.

"Yes, it is." Sami buried her head in his chest and her voice came out in muffled murmurs, "Make her go away. She's making me uncomfortable." Thank God she never found out about Jan, Lucas thought to himself, If this is what she does when a cat is watching us, I'd hate to think about what she would do if knew that a person has watched us before.

"Go away, Brady." Lucas said useslessly, sighing with frustration when the cat didn't move. He got off the bed and walked over to pick up the cat. It mewed with protest when he picked it up but he ignored it and walked out of the bedroom. Lucas wondered if he should just leave the cat in the bathroom, since he had yet to set up the litter box and other random items he had gotten for the cat at the pet store. While he debated this, Jan crashed through the door to his apartment without knocking, followed by Shawn, Nicole and Brady. Shawn immediately turned around after seeing Lucas.

"Why am I having a serious case of deje veiw here?" Shawn asked while Jan eyed Lucas' still very erect member. Nicole squealed indignantly and covered Brady's eyes before he could see anything.

"What are you doing, Lucas?" Nicole demanded, "I just got Brady to decide to join the good team again but if you run around like that with Brady around, you're going to bring him back over to the dark side."

"I'm sorry." Lucas shot back, setting the cat down on the floor, "I was just thinking about locking Brady in the bathroom-" Nicole gasped and glared at Lucas, who quickly decided to correct himself, "No, no, this Brady."

"Why did you name him Brady?" Jan asked, "If you wanted to name her after one of us, you should have named him after me. I helped you find her, after all."

"Her?" Brady asked, his eyes still covered, "You named a female cat after me?"

"I didn't, Sami did." Lucas shot back, then continued, "What I was saying was, I was going to lock her in the bathroom and then you came in here and screwed everything up. You should have knocked! Not that we would have answered but still..."

"We only need to talk to you for a minute." Nicole replied defensively, "We came over to tell you that my agent just called. Since my divorce with Victor is now final and since Brady and I are together now, they want Brady and me to do an extended publicity campaign over the summer since the first one kind of got fucked up."

"Really?" Lucas smiled at Nicole, "Congratulations."

"I'm not finished." Nicole informed him, "And not only do they want you and Sami to join us. They think having all four of us there would increase the publicity goodness and what-not. And of course Jan and Shawn would be there because we can't get rid of them. So, what do you say?"

Brady gasped, "Nicole, you didn't tell me you wanted Lucas to come. Don't do it! He's an insane stalker and he'll kill you."

Nicole looked at Brady in confusion, "No, he won't. Lucas and I are friends, he wouldn't kill me. Where'd you get that idea?"

"Friends?" Shawn repeated in amazement, "I never expected to hear you use the name Lucas and friend in the same sentence. That's incredible."

Lucas couldn't help but agree with Shawn. He had never thought he would ever call Jan or Nicole his friends either. But somewhere along the long, he Nicole, Sami and Jan had all become close and there was no way he could write Jan or Nicole off as anything less than friends anymore.

"Me and Sami will talk about it." Lucas told Nicole, "But right now, we're a little busy." he raised his eyebrows, hoping they got the point.

"Fine, we'll leave. But can I take the kitty for a walk?" Jan asked, "It would be mean to lock her in the bathroom."

"You don't walk cats, Jan." Shawn reminded her.

"Well I do." Jan responded haughtily, pulling the cat out of Lucas' hands before he could answer her. Jan, Shawn, Nicole and Brady all left the apartment, with Brady the cat in tow and Lucas returned to Sami's bedroom. She grinned up at him as he lowered himself back onto the bed.

"What happened to you?" she asked, pressing her head against Lucas' already sweat dampened chest. His fingers traced a path up her ribcage and brushed against an erect nipple.

"We had some company." he replied, "But I got rid of them."

"Good." Sami responded before their lips came together again. Lucas flipped Sami over and pressed the head of his engorged penis into Sami's sheath, circling the aroused bud of her clitoris. Sami moaned and showed her displeasure at his teasing by raising her hips until his hard cock was lodged inside her fully. Both of them lost control at that moment, undulating against each other roughly, flesh slapping together and loud moans extracted from both Lucas and Sami. As both of them climbed higher towards their release, both of them felt the most intense source of completion that they had ever felt in their entire lives.