Okay people here's the next chapter that you ALL have been waiting for, correcto? And, it's a fluffy chapter, for those who wanted fluff, cough Wild Magelet Cough.. thanks to all of the following wonderful people!!!

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After those quick introductions, the Long Lake Pack were led outside to a shed where they were fed, and then Daine and Numair sat down to eat dinner. They hurriedly ate and then politely asked to be excused.

"I'm very sorry, Maura, and the same to you," said Daine as she bent her head toward the Swobets to indicate that she was talking to them.

"It's just that Numair and I are fair tired after our ride here, though it was quite interesting," said Daine jokingly.

Numair just thought, I'll get her for that later.

Lord Swobet just replied, "Of course, my dear. We shall have a more formal dinner tomorrow where we can get to know eachother more, shall we?"

Daine just simply nodded and Numair said, "Of course. Good night and Goddess bless."

Daine went over to Maura, hugged her tightly, and whispered in her ear, "Let's have some time together tomorrow with your new friend, okay?"

Maura smiled in response and whispered back, "Sounds good."

"Then, until tomorrow," said Lord Swobet and so Daine and Numair left the dining room to walk toward their own room.

As they walked in the hallways, Numair took Daine's small hand into his own and began walking hurriedly to their quarters.

"Numair, why the hurry?" questioned Daine.

"There's something I have to tell you about," he replied.

"Well, can't you just talk about it here? It's not like there's any spies or anything. Odds bobs, this is Dunlath. Why the secrecy?"

"I just can't talk about it here," Numair said.

"Fine," retorted Daine.

Numair just squeezed her hand which brought a little smile to her face.

Once Daine opened the doors to their rooms and they both had stepped inside, Numair shut the doors.

Daine quickly walked ahead of him into their bedroom to look around.

However, before she could go very far, Numair placed his hands over her eyes and said, "Guess who!"

"Um, let me think about that a little," replied Daine.

"George?" she said with a little giggle.

"Excuse me?" Numair said indignantly.

"Can you give me a hint?" Daine asked.

"Well, I have black hair," he said.

"Oh, I know, you must be Jon, though why you have your hands over my eyes is a question that needs answering," said Daine in a voice that was strained from trying to not laugh out loud.

(A/N: I hope I'm right that Jon has black hair. I just can't remember right now...silly me...and I know what one of me friends would be saying right now... cough smitha cough shame on you, eunae, shame on you. Lol)

"I don't think you got the right person. Really, there can't be THAT many men that you know that are six feet five inches who can shapeshift into a black hawk and oh, who is one of the seven black robed mages of the entire world, and also is the top-"

"Alright, you vain man. There's only one man that can fit that description which is my love, Numair," said Daine finally letting her laughs explode.

"Finally, I thought you would never get it. And, well, you almost failed my test, sweetling," said Numair with a grin.

Daine turned around in Numair's arms so that she could face him. She let her hands caress his face and smooth away some stray hairs.

She laid her head on Numair's chest and listened to his heartbeat and fell into the same breathing rhythm as he.

Daine felt her head rise and fall with every breath that Numair took and his breath ruffle the top of her hair.

They stayed in this position for quite awhile until one of Daine's curls tickled Numair's nose which resulted in him sneezing in an undignified way.

Daine just chuckled and lightly kissed his cheek before making her way toward the window to let some light in.

However, Numair had other plans.

He placed his hands around Daine's waist and brought her close to him, again. (lol)

"You're not getting away with just that, my magelet. You failed my test earlier, and you shall pay the consequences," said Numair with a mischievous grin.

"Oh really, and how may that be?" asked Daine with curiosity in her blue-grey eyes.

"Just like this, my dear," he answered.

He bent down and captured her lips in a loving kiss while running his long fingers over her curves, memorizing each one on her face.

Daine responded back with zeal and felt the familiar electricity jolt through her as she kissed her lanky lover.

Numair's mouth moved from her lips, which were now slightly pouted from the lack of attention, to her eyes, nose, forehead, and cheeks and kissed them with soft, feathery kisses.

Daine gasped as Numair flicked his tongue over a sensitive spot on her ear and moaned lightly.

Numair smirked and moved to her neck where he also licked a spot that he knew to be sensitive while proceeding to kiss her hungrily.

Daine tangled her fingers in Numair's hair and shivered delightfully and relaxed into Numair's grasp on her.

When Numair felt her slightly slump against him, he picked her up from where she was standing and carried her to the bed.

He looked at where he had laid his love and saw Daine on the bed with her smokey brown curls arrayed on the pillow like a halo around her angelic face.

He saw her chest fall and rise rapidly as she was drawing in quick breaths and he knew that he had succeeded in his mission.

"See, I told you I could make you pay," he said with a twinkle in his eye.

Daine just got up and pulled Numair onto the bed with her which ended up as a tangle of limbs on their bed.

"Ouch, Daine, that hurt," said Numair.

"Oh, should I make it better for you," asked Daine teasingly.

And with that said and done, Daine began to kiss Numair's face all over and was rewarded when he let out a small groan.

She smiled wickedly at him and began to inflict upon him the same torture that he had to her.

But suddenly, Numair's long arm shot out and made Daine lie down on the bed and he placed himself on top of her.

It was now his turn to smirk.

But when he was about to place his lips on his beloved treasure, she shapeshifted and he ended up kissing the pillow.

Numair looked up, surprised. Then realization of what just happened dawned on him.

He began rubbing his hands over the coverlet of the bed, expecting to find some small bump somewhere.

Under the pillow, his hand found a small bump and he uncovered it, and lo and behold, a mouse was there.

"Daine, I would turn back right now to a proper human," said Numair.

The mouse just squeaked.

"For Mithros' sake, c'mon Daine," he said.

Numair got off the bed and began to go toward the other side of the bed, where the mouse was.

In the blink of an eye, Daine transformed back and covered herself with the blanket.

Numair climbed back onto the bed, over her, and smiled.

"I was wondering where you went," he said with a face that was trying to hold a grin back.

Daine just gave Numair an innocent look and clutched the covers tightly to her body, teasingly.

"Oh I don't think so, sweet," said Numair huskily.

He tugged at the covers playfully until Daine relented, from which they proceeded onwards in their lovemaking.

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As Daine slipped the blanket over their warm bodies, she asked sleepily, "Numair, what was it that you wanted to tell me?"

She received no answer and shifted to look at his face.

It must not have been important because he didn't tell me right away and he's sleeping as sound as a newborn babe, with nothing urgent on his mind, thought Daine.

Daine pushed away that thought to the back of her head and soon felt her drowsy eyes begin to close.

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