Lita woke an hour later, confused. Where was she? Then the events of the evening replayed in her mind and she sat straight up, "ah your awake" came from her bedside. She turned to see and brown haired man that looked astonishingly familiar, "Nephrite!" she asked increduasly.
He grinned, "Long time no see. No need to beat the crap out of me," he commented when she raised her fists, "I'm on your side. Serena called me a hour ago since she couldn't teleport both you her and her motorcycle here so she had me bring you home."
Lita looked around curiously, "where is home?" she asked, "Serena's mansion we call it. It's a 10 bedroom 3 bathroom house that accommodates us all." Lita tossed her legs over the edge of the bed, "us all meaning?"
"Meaning Jadeite, Malachite, Zoyicite's, Serena, and me." Lita let out a whistle, "want, some food" Nephrite asked, Lita grinned, "got a kitchen?"
Serena walked in a half and hour later to the smell of eggs, pancakes, waffles, bacon, and toast. She followed her nose to the kitchen, "either the devil's having a snowball fight in hell and the generals actually made something edible or Lita's up."
She commented as she came into the kitchen. She saw Lita with an apron on and the four generals eating their weight in food. Serena laughed when Lita handed her a plate, "I thought it was the latter."
She took the plate and sat down beside Malachite, "sorry for what I said to you earlier Malachite" Before Malachite could say anything Lita asked, "what did you say"
Then she blushed "sorry with the girls you had to say it or forever hold your peace" Serena smiled, "its alright Jadeite does it all the time. I cursed Malachite to hell earlier so its best I explain now or I can kiss any free drinks and such at Andrew's good-bye." Malachite swallowed his eggs, "is that all I'm useful for? For free drinks!"
He looked so pathetic and sullen Lita laughed and flopped three more pancakes on his plate, "you're useful for a lot here these are my special strawberry pancakes.
Filled to the brim with warm delicious strawberries." Malachite's face went immediately from a pout to a smirk as he dug into the pancakes.
Serena finished her food and asked Lita, "so why exactly were you in the park at 9:00 at night, crying?" Lita blushed when Nephrite stopped his ferocious eating to listen, "Well Raye was really pissed at you for coming back and she wanted me to go and do everything in my power to make you leave.
So she was going to have me and Mina go in there and bring up some old…secrets." Serena hissed because she knew what secrets these were, "I refused because over the years I realized what we did was stupid and I wanted Serena as my friend again.
Raye got really mad and told me that I either do as she said or she was going to take my pen and kick me out of the shrine where I was staying."
Serena contemplated this and decided that she would ignore Raye for now. "Alright, Lita do you have another place to stay?" Lita looked to the ground, "no" she said in a small voice, "I was staying at the shrine but I would rather live on the streets than go back there."
Serena nodded, "as Nephrite probably told you we have plenty of room here. I will go get your stuff myself so you can avoid any… contact with Raye at the moment." Lita raised her head, eyes shining, "you mean it?
You won't kick me out if we get into a fight or anything?" Serena laughed, "No I won't. You probably have to worry more about the guys than me. Nephrite why don't you give Lita a tour?"
Nephrite nodded and stood, "it would be my pleasure" with that, he took Lita's arm as she protested, "but…the dishes-" Serena cut her off with an evil look at the remaining Generals whom all gulped, "the dishes are fine. We have plenty who have eaten enough for an army who can pitch in and do dishes if they know what's good for them."
The Generals immediately started on cleaning up with Serena helping. Nephrite lead Lita out of the kitchen with a chuckle. He showed her around the house giving full commentary while showing.
Lita was to say the least, astounded. 10 bedrooms and enough space to make four guys and a woman have plenty of privacy. "And finally, my room. Its away from the others so I have plenty of room to breathe and practice."
Lita stared around the large room. It was made like a master bedroom except here the furniture was pushed towards the edge with a large space in the middle for obvious reasons.
What was strange was that despite its size, the room felt intimate. "Interesting room" she moved from his side to the middle of the room. She gazed around his quarters then settled her gaze on him.
He was nervous; that she could tell immediately. He kept shifting from side to side, his long brown hair shifting with him.
You could see his muscles through his shirt and his jeans. A wicked grin crept on her face. She faced him and took up her fighting stance, "lets see how good you are." Nephrite was taken by surprise. He had been hoping she had liked his room, but she wanted to fight him.
'Well' he mused as he crossed to her, 'I won't treat her like a girl'. He grinned when he faced her, "engarde" She smiled; "fence" and they started battling. Both were equal right down to the strength. It could have been minutes; hours, days and they wouldn't have known it. The fighting was timeless.
As if they had done it millions of times before. Finally Lita had Nephrite pinned down on the floor, her face inches from his, "I win". Suddenly he flipped her so their positions were flipped, "I win" then he kissed her.
'Heat' was the first coherent thought in Lita's head, pure heat. Her body heated up as he deepened the kiss and Lita couldn't have stopped herself from kissing him back if she wanted to.
His tongue ran lazily across her bottom lip, asking for entrance and eagerly agreed. She tasted wonderful. Just as he had remembered since he regained his memory. She tasted of fight, of heat, of passion.
His blood began to boil and he knew that if he didn't break the kiss now, he'd lose all control. Slowly he broke the kiss and looked down at her. Her face was flushed as sweaty from the fight and her lips were slightly parted.
Her eyes opened slowly and her jade green gaze connected with his hazel one, "well that was interesting" she commented, angry that her voice was shaky from the intensity of the kiss, "indeed it was" Nephrite agreed as he rose off her and offered a hand, which she took, and pulled her up.
"What made you do that?" There was no way in hell she was going to admit she was going to kiss him before he had flipped her. Something about him made her blood heat and heart ache, "just a memory".
She grinned at his response, "well keep this memory 'cause if that's what going on then we're going to be doing this a whole lot more" A smile appeared, "your right, now how about a trip to the fighting field?"
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