...The Treasure Hunt…
The next day I woke up to Blaise kissing me. He smiles down at me with a very victorious look on his face. "Morning Blaise." I whisper tiredly. "Morning love." he responds. I sit up stretching. Blaise soinks back onto the bed. I looked at him disapprovingly. "I know you didn't just wake me up so you could go back to sleep." I huff. He closes his eyes and yawns.
I straddle his waist and bend down to kiss his neck. He groans but doesn't move. I continue my assault. He sits up and I grin. "Fine. I'm awake." he surrenders as I wrap my legs around him. I pull his face down to mine for a kiss. He wraps his arms around me and flips us over. I moan against his lips. "Can't we stay here for just a bit longer? Please love? I'll make it worth your while." he whispers kissing my neck. My hands travel down his frame and he groans.
"No, love. We have to help with the treasure hunt. Come on." I murmur as he begins kissing me down my neck. He keeps traveling lower. "Really? Your response is very different from your words." he smirks as he continues kissing a trail down my body.
He kisses the inside of my legs and I sit up. "No! Nope. We need to go. You're not behaving love. Come on." I start to untangle myself from him and the blankets, but he stops me. He carries me to the bathroom putting me on the counter. He closes the door. "How about this. I give you some pleasure and we spend the day inside." he states as he slip a hand up my tank and I slide it off.
"You're accepting?" he asks with a hopeful smile. "Nope. I'm taking a shower." I hop off the counter. I start to walk to the shower. He hugs me from behind me. I turn to him frowning. He was smirking. "Shower time." I tell him. I slowly take off my pajamas and run the shower to warm up the water. I stepped inside and let the water run over me.
I hear Blaise step inside. I step under the shower head letting the water run through my hair. When I was done, I step out from under it. I wipe the water from my face. Blaise was smirking still. I push him under the shower head.
I rub shampoo in my hair and rinse it out. When I was done with my shower I reach for a towel. "Really Blaise?" I ask incredulously. The towels were gone. "What's wrong love?" he asks in an attempt to shake me off. I close the shower door. "Do you want to play this game?" I ask seriously. He looks at me and smiles. I back him against the shower wall kissing him passionately.
He groans as I kissed him. He lifts me up and I wrapped my legs around his waist. He deepens the kiss and I moan. He places me on the ground and spins us around so that my back was on the shower wall. He kisses a trail down my body. He lifts my leg over his shoulder and kisses the inside of it.
I let my head fall back as he begins licking at my clit and sucking it into his mouth. I press his head further into my folds. I nearly buckled as the first orgasm rolled over my body, but he held me up with his hand. He kept going orgasm after orgasm rolling over me in quick succession. I shudder as he stops attacking my clit. I pant trying to catch my breath.
He kisses a trail up my body finally burying his face in my neck kissing it lightly. He presses me to him and put my legs around his waist. I arched my back as he enters and gave a slight gasp. I stare into his eyes still panting.
I kiss him eagerly as he thrusts himself inside me. I bury my head in his neck as he continues thrusting inside me. I could barely contain myself as the orgasms kept washing over me. I gasp as the biggest orgasm washed over me and stars danced across my vision. I feel him thrust harder into me with reckless abandon as he reaches his finish. I pant heavily. "You're dangerous Zabini." I pant in his ear.
He smirks capturing my mouth in a kiss. "Now we can go." he whispers. I hit his shoulder playfully. I shower off. Blaise handed me a towel. I wrap it around myself as I exit the shower. I wash my face and sit on the counter. I watch as he goes through his clothes and mine. I shake my head at him.
He comes back in the bathroom. He hands me an outfit he'd picked out. I look at him. "It's a treasure hunt. You'll need to wear something comfortable." he explains as he dresses. I let my eyes travel the length of his chest one last time before getting dressed.
I walk out of the bathroom and made sure everything was in my bag. He gets up from the couch and holds his hand out. I put my hand in his and we leave the room heading downstairs.
"Morning you two." Mrs. Zabini calls from the stove. I sat at the kitchen island. Blaise leaves to answer the phone that had begun to ring. "How are you Charlotte?" Mrs. Zabini asks as she places some freshly made bread, butter, and jam in front of me. "Yes. I'm having a lovely time here." I respond as I tasted the jam. "That's not quite what I asked you, but ok." she winks at me and I blush. She tore off a piece of bread and spread some butter on it.
Blaise joins us. "The others will be joining us soon." he says as he taking a piece of bread. I nodded and turned back to my food. "How are you this morning Blaise?" Mrs. Zabini asks slyly. "I'm doing fine. I'm well rested if that's what you wanted to know." he answers looking at his mum with a strange expression. She goes to the fridge to get some food for the trip. Blaise sends me a look, but I just shrug hiding my blushing face with my hair.
I finish the light breakfast. Mrs. Zabini packs some bags with simple foods and looked like she wanted to ask us some more questions, but thankfully the doorbell rang. "I'll get it." I sing as I hop up from my seat. I open the door and Elda tackles me in a hug. I hug her back. "Are ready to begin the adventure?" she squeals as she releases me. I nod as I move to hug the others. We head into the kitchen. The adults talk about the destinations we had to go to.
"Why is your mum giving you weird looks?" I hear Rochelle whisper to Blaise. He shrugs handing out the snack bags. "We'll start the hunt with the Pantheon and the Forum." Nardo states pointing at a list of places.
I had an sudden idea. I pull mini book keyrings from my bag. I cast a quick spell over them and hand one to everyone. "What is this?" Cyprienne asks staring at the keyring with a smile. "I put a spell on them so that they'll buzz when we're near a message." I explain as I demonstrate with her keyring. I hold It over one of the messages. It starts buzzing lightly. "I made it buzz lightly so that way we won't attract any unwanted attention. Especially if the hunt leads to national treasures." I smile.
Everyone nods and tests out their keyrings. We head out to the cars. I ride with Blaise, Cesco, and Rochelle. We follow behind the others. Once we were on the road Rochelle clears her throat. "Can you answer my question from earlier?" she taps Blaise on his shoulder. He tsks at her and she sits back. "Then can Charlotte answer my question?" she continues. I turn around in my seat and wink. "Go for it." Blaise chuckles. I nod at him and explain the situation to her, in Chinese. I sat back in my seat as I finished.
"Fine! I won't ask you anymore questions." she huffs folding her arms. Cesco looks at each one of us highly confused. I shake my head at him. Rochelle leaned over to tell him, but I turn the radio on.
I close the door stretching after the drive. Rochelle had started poking me the moment she got out of the car. I wrap an arm around her and lead her to the others. Blaise pushes a still confused Cesco after us.
We begin looking around while acting like our interest was in the Pantheon before us. I take pictures as we walk. Blaise pulls me to him as we walk around. "Your family is very perceptive." I whisper. He chuckles pointing me at various things he thought of importantance.
The search continues for an hour. Neryssa waves me over. Her keyring was buzzing. I look around and saw it. The message was currently surrounded by tourists. I nudge her, and she takes out her notepad as I whisper the message. We'd found a lot of messages already. There weren't any hints left, so we went to the Forum.
I walk around the Forum with Rochelle and Elda. We'd found quite a few messages and then took a break. I sit down with them as we munch away on our snacks. "Seriously. Why was auntie Cianna looking at you two so slyly?" Rochelle asks.
"I don't know. I already answered her earlier when she asked us." I sigh. "That's weird. If you already answered her why is she looking at you as if she knows something?", Elda giggles. I look over to where Elda was looking. Mrs. Zabini kept looking back and forth between me and Blaise as she talked to the other adults.
I sigh wearily. When they were done, we resumed the hunt. It didn't take long. I sort the notes as everyone relaxes. "This is so much fun Cianna. I can't wait for tomorrow!" Ymelda squeals. Mrs. Zabini smiles at her. "Tomorrow we'll be visiting St. Mark's Basilica and the Uffizi Gallery." Roque informs everyone before we get in the cars. I nod and slide into the passenger's seat. Everyone got in the cars. On the drive back I translate all the messages we collected today. We drop Rochelle and Cesco off in front of their houses. I finish translating by the time we pull up to the house.
I put my things in my bag as we got out. Mrs. Zabini wasn't home yet. I went upstairs and changed and slid into bed. Once Blaise was done organizing the messages, he joins me. He slides over to me. "Time for you to get some sleep love." he whispers. I put my head on his chest letting his heartbeat be my lullaby as I fall asleep.
I awoke the next morning very early. I look around sleepily. It was barely 5 in the morning. I stretch lightly. I put my head back on Blaise's chest. "Why are up?" I hear him mutter sleepily. I shake my head, "Don't know." I murmur back. He groans. I look up at him. He was slowly waking up too. I lay my head on the pillow.
He sits up looking around. He gives another groan when he sees the time. I move so that I'm behind him and wrap my legs around him. I kiss his neck. "Go back to sleep. It's still early." I mumble. He shakes his head. I look up at him. I feel his chest rumble with quiet laughter.
He moves me in front of him. I look at him curiously. He gave a sigh. I crawl onto his lap. He ruffles my hair. I smile lazily. "What should we do since we're awake?" he asks rhetorically. I flatten him on the bed tracing my fingers down his frame. He places his hands on my hips. I tsk at him. He smiles up at me. "Do what you want love." he tells me as I sit up.
I roll his shirt up and he throws it off. I throw my top off too and kiss him. He moves his hands to cup my neck holding me in the kiss. I giggle as I let my hands travel. He flips us over tsking at me. He rolls my shorts and panties down my legs. He kisses his way back up. He lets his finger travel down my body teasing me. I shiver in anticipation.
He plays with folds rubbing his thumb over my clit watching my face as he does so. I purr. He smirks and picks up the pace. My back arches. He grunts in satisfaction. I was shaking so much he has to use a hand to keep me still. He leans down to kiss me as he continued rubbing my clit. I moan into the kiss.
I shaks even harder as my first orgasm wracks my body. He reaches over onto the dresser. I pant heavily. I squirm as he sits up taking off his boxers and putting a condom on. I watched him with lust filled eyes. He slides inside of me. I shudder at the feeling of him filling me up.
He places my legs on his shoulders. I shake my head and he smiles. He slides in and out of me slowly at first and then picking up speed. My head falls back, and my back arches. I fall back onto the bed as I orgasm. He puts my legs down. I look at him once I'd calmed down a bit. He had his hands on my hips watching me.
He flips us over. I slide down slowly impaling myself on his cock. My head falls back as he runs his hands over my hips. I lifted myself again, but instead of waiting on me he slams me down hard. I gasp in pleasure. He sits up and kisses me as I ride him.
I moan as he raises his hips to meet mine. I bury my head in his neck. I shudder as another orgasm hits me. "Damn." I hear him mutter as he watches me orgasm. I look into his eyes and seeing the lust in them orgasm again. He holds me to him as I shake.
He flips us back over and drives into me like there's no tomorrow. I stifle my moans in the pillow. I raise my hips to meet his. I orgasm again and again. Blaise kisses me. I moan against his lips and cross my legs behind him driving him in further. I moan in his ear and he rolls his hips faster. "Merlin's beard your moans should be illegal love." he groans.
I smile. He picks up the pace as he nears his finish. I kiss his neck. I shake as I orgasm, and he comes. I pant watching him. He looks into my eyes. I gulped. "Do behave yourself love." he told me as his eyes rake over my body. I run my fingers over his bare chest. "What if I don't want to?" I ask dangerously. I pull his face to mine. "What if I don't behave love? Honestly, what would you do?" I murmur against his lips.
He gulps. I feel him grow hard again. I shiver. He picks me up and took me into the bathroom. He sets me down and closes the door. I watch him closely. He waves a finger at me. I look at him tilting my head. "Charlotte if I have to behave myself then you have to behave as well." he sighs as he stood in front of me. My hands travel over his chest as he speaks, and he shudders. I smile at his reaction.
He smirks. He turns me around, so I was facing the mirror. He slowly bends me over the counter, so I lay flat on it. He rubs his cock over my folds. I watch him carefully. He slides into me and I moan. He starts off slowly. I lay my head on the counter letting him take control. I moan as multiple orgasms hit my body back to back and I lose count. He stops. I look up at him sadly. I feel him slide out of me and whimper.
He begins sliding his cock over a different hole. I shiver. He looks at me. I nod. He slides into my ass slowly and I groan. I give another shudder. He slides in and out and I let my head lie back on the counter. I orgasm again and he stops. He leans over and kisses my neck. He slides out of my ass. He takes off the used condom and rolls on a new one. He slides back between my folds as he kisses my neck. I gasp.
He stops again and I sigh in frustration. I sat up. Blaise watched me with interest. I hop onto the counter. I pull Blaise into a kiss. He slides back into me. I roll my hips to meet his at the same pace as he was going. I tremble as he drives into me. Stars dance across my vision. I don't know how much longer I can stand this, I think to myself as Blaise ran a thumb over my clit watching as I orgasm again. I push him off.
I push him down to the floor and impale myself on his erection. I bounce on him. I bend down to kiss him rolling my hips as I went. He groans and puts his hands on my hips. I kiss up and down his neck. "Time to let go Blaise. Come on love let go. Finish it before I go crazy." I murmur in his ear. I lift my head up enough to see his face.
His eyes investigate mine burning with lust his self-control on the verge of breaking. I bounce faster clenching my walls around him. He grunts and groans as I bounce. He sits up and I wrap my legs around him. He forces me down even faster. We climax at the same time.
I let my head fall back. Blaise groans rolling my hips down as the last of his climax ends. I wrap my arms around his neck. He kisses me gently. I slowly calm down. We were both panting.
I moan as he slides out of me and discards the used condom. I lie on the floor. I hear Blaise filling up the tub. He picked me up and we sat in the tub. I gather water into my hand and pour it over me. Blaise watches me. I continue to pour water on myself.
He picks up my foot. I stare at him. He examines my face and puts my foot back. I squinted at him. He grabbed the soap and hands it to me. I take it and scrub myself clean. He hands me a towel and my robe. I stand up and wrap myself up. I watch as he scrubs himself. He wraps a towel around himself as he stands from the tub. I wash my face pretending like I haven't been watching him.
"Do you want something to eat?" he asks. I nod. He dresses and goes downstairs. I clean up while I wait. I dress in shorts, a tee, and sneakers. I put my hair in pigtails and sit on the couch and cutting the tv on. I was flipping through the channels when Blaise returns.
He places a tray of food on the table and sits beside me. "If you wear that can I wear what I want?" he asks looking at my outfit. I shake my head and wave him to the closet. He chuckles and gets up and walks to the closet. I was watching cartoons and munching away on the platter of Focaccia and fruit he'd brought up when Blaise comes out of the closet dressed in a tee, shorts, and sneakers. He sits by me and pops some fruit in his mouth. I roll my eyes and lean over to kiss his cheek.
We watch cartoons until Mrs. Zabini knocked on the door. "Time to go you two lovebirds." she calls and we hear her skipping down the stairs. I cut off the tv and grab my bag. I follow Blaise out of the room and to the car.
We pick up Rochelle and Cesco and head to Venice. Rochelle looks around. "See something familiar?" I ask her. She nodded and we follow her as she weaves her way through the crowds.
We follow her up the clock tower. She look around at the top. The key ring began to buzz. I look down. There were words on the ground below. I translate the words to her and take photos with my camera. Blaise and Cesco had noticed something and had gone off to make notes. I stood looking at the scene below.
Rochelle looked around further. I stare intently at the ground. Rochelle went to find the others. I observe the ground like the symbols were floating around. "Come on love." Blaise says from behind me. He pulls me away and we descend the stairs. "Why were you staring at the ground where we found the message so intently?", he asked, "The others have already found the rest of the messages."
I swing our hands not answering. My head was still trying to organize what I'd seen. He pulls me over to a less crowded area where we would not be overheard. "The picture was moving." I confess to him.
He looked at me. "It was like watching a movie.", I explained, "I put the whole thing in my journal." He sighs "It looked like you were trying to jump in or something. Rochelle came and got me." I look around. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." I whisper. Blaise hugs me telling me it was okay. "What do you mean it was like watching a movie?" he asks. I point at the ground. "She appeared. She was painting a story. She was beckoning." I fumble around trying to explain. The others had come over to see what the problem was.
"She was beckoning and painting?" Ymelda asks. I take out my notes. I flip to the page I'd written on. "This. Do you recognize it?" I ask showing them the rough sketch of the painting.
Cyprienne gasps. "Take me to where you saw this." she pulls me back to the tower. Ymelda follows us. When we get to the top I point to the exact location. The others that stayed on the ground went over to examine it from there. Cyprienne gasps excitedly. She stays up there with Ymelda while Blaise leads me back down.
He holds me close to him. "You got quite the eye." he whispers. I smile lightly. I stare up at the buildings. I take some photos. I wander over to the front of a building and stare at it with a smile. I take a photo of myself in front of it.
I make my way back over to Blaise and the others. Blaise was laughing. "What's so funny?" Elda asks. "I just remembered that her mum has taken photos here before. I wonder if she has ever noticed anything." he continues laughing.
"I sent her a letter and she should be sending back a response anytime now." I nudge him. "Your mum's been here before?", Ortensia asked. "Yep. The funny thing is her mum has been to our art galleries. It turns out she talked to me about the eye-catching art when I was 6 or 7." Blaise explains. Cesco coughs in shock. I stare at him. "Your mum is Mrs. Black?! Faerydae Black?!" he exclaims. His mother hit him. "You should have realized that when she showed us the photos of her family. All of you!" Cyprienne scoff and waves a finger menacingly around.
We ate a quick lunch and then headed off to the gallery in Florence. We went inside and I gasp in delight looking around frantically. "Focus." Blaise murmurs in my ear. I wave him off and Byanca and Neryssa laugh.
Blaise holds my hand and guides me through the gallery. I keep tapping him trying to get him to stop at every work. He keeps moving me forward. I poke his chest. He stops. I use the opportunity to read a description of a work. He places his hands on my hips and guides me away. "I'll bring you back one day." he promises. I pout and he smiles. I focuses on the task but stops a few minutes later. Blaise groans. "Mum restored this one." I mutter looking at a work. I go back to searching. I clap my hands.
I lead Blaise over to a work. We look at it and read the description. Blaise broke into a smile. "This is one your mum has redone. It also just so happens to be what we were looking for." he tells me. He makes some quick notes.
Once we were done searching the gallery, we joined the others. Blaise told them about what we found. I recall my memories and close my eyes. I sigh in irritation and open my eyes.
"You just remembered why you recognized it, didn't you?" Blaise looks at me. I nod. "You remember how I told you my dad is a curse-breaker for Gringotts?" I ask him as the others leaned in. Blaise nods not yet catching on and I continue "Ava and Lucas used to love playing around with some of the stuff he brought back, and they decided to play catch with the treasure in mum's studio and destroyed several works in progress. That one in there was just one of them."
Rochelle smacks her forehead with her hand. Ymelda shakes her head and frowns. "Your poor mum. I'll bet she was livid.", Ortensia sighed. I shrugged, "I was in the park. I avoid those two when they look mischievous. I think that day it was something from an Egyptian vault. Really nasty piece of work." I shudder.
We gather the last of the notes. Everyone reads over the messages thoroughly. I look around. Blaise had poked my side. I look over. He points to a passage. I read it quickly and translate it. I scan the rest of it and smile. The smile turns into a light laugh and Blaise pushes me lightly. I snicker drawing the attention of Zoela and Neryssa.
"It's not funny!" Blaise states. I shake with laughter. "What happened? Blaise what did you do?" Neryssa asks. "This message talks about how your great grandfather acted. Isn't is shocking?" I ask trying to contain my laughter for Blaise's sake. They read it and laugh. "This behavior must be hereditary." Neryssa gasps in a break in laughter.
Blaise coughs highly flustered. They pass the translated message around. I avoid Blaise's gaze that begs for help. When everyone was done laughing, I help Uberto translate a message. Finishing the last of the translations everyone piles back into the cars. We decided to take a break the next day. We drop the others off and returned to the house.
I grab my things and follow Blaise. He closes the room door behind me. I sit on the couch. I take out my notes and spread them out. Blaise still stands by the door. I wave him over, but he doesn't move. I get up and walk over. I hold his hand and drag him over to the couch with me. He still looked slightly upset from the teasing he'd gotten earlier. I lean my head on his shoulder. He organizes my things and puts them away.
He turns the tv on and clicks through the channels until he finds a movie. I take my shoes off and curl up into him. We watch movie after movie. At some point he was laying completely flat on the couch with me on top of him. My head was on his chest as I fall asleep.
I wake in the middle of the night to find I was in bed. I sit up looking around dazed and confused. Blaise was still on the couch. I change and go back to sleep. When I wake the second time with Blaise behind me and his arms around me. He grumbles and I smiles slipping back into a deep sleep.
I wake again after 8 in the morning. Blaise was leaning over me peering out the window. I look in the direction and see two owls. I sit up and run to the window opening it. Blaise's owl and Blue flew in.
Blaise groans and stretches. I untie the letters from everyone. I read through them quickly and write responses and updates. I open the one from mum. I go back to the bed and crawl back in beside him. He groans still very tired.
I lay my head on his chest and read her letter. He reads along with me. I laugh as we finish reading. Blaise was shocked. Mum had no idea what to say. She had asked around but what I'd seen was dumb founding to everyone she asked. My 'skill' hadn't been heard of for hundreds of years. I turn to Blaise.
"You're dating a real weirdo, aren't you?!" I ask him. He looks at me with a frown. "You are not a weirdo. I don't like you using that word to describe yourself. You are more so special than weird." he whispers. I feel tears of happiness spring up in my eyes. I bury my head in his chest.
"I understand." I mumble. He wraps his arms around me. We sit there for a while. He rubs my arms comfortingly. Mrs. Zabini knocks on the door. Blaise tells her to come in. She comes in smiling and holding a tray of food. She stops when she sees us setting the tray down. "What happened? Did you make her cry?" she asks concern coloring her voice. Blaise holds up the letter. She comes over and sits on the bed. She reads it.
"Ugh. You two. You scared me. I thought something bad had happened.", she mutters, "I brought you two some food." Blaise chuckles. She gets up and leaves the room muttering to herself.
I sit up. The food smells delightful. I crawl out of the bed and make my way over to the tray. It was filled with fruits, yogurt, prosciutto, fresh bread, and jam. I tear off a small piece of bread I pop it into my mouth. Blaise sits beside me and starts eating. I cut the tv on and we watch cartoons and movies for the entire day.
