Ok FAIR WARRNING this chapter is a M rated Chapter. That's why there's an M in front of the title. I say M for safety but I tried to keep it as T as possible. :)

DISCLAIMER: The characters do not belong to me they belong to Stephanie Meyer's author of the wonderful book 'The Host'

Chapter 16: United

I was late and I'd just gotten ready for bed and I was brushing my hair.

A knock on my door, "Pet. I wanted to say good night. Could I come in?"

"Sure mom." She liked it when I called her mom and it felt more human to me.

She walked in and hugged me, "Goodnight sweetheart. Sleep well." She gave me a kiss on the cheek.

"Night mom." I said pulling back.

I watched her leave and turned back towards my dresser and looked at the mirror. I started to move my hair from side to side or up and down looking for a style I liked. I wanted to cry, Trudy would know the perfect hair style for me. I put a hair band in it to keep the hairs from my face and was about to apply a face mask that Cloud Spinner had suggested I try to make my skin extra soft when I heard a noise.

The noise was a little tap. I jumped and looked around, there was nothing there. The noise happened again and I heard it coming from over by the window. I got up to the window just as a small object hit the glass and fell to the ground.

I looked out my window and then when I looked down I saw a figure in the dark. I opened my window. And the figure spoke.

"Wanda."

I celebrated I hadn't heard that voice in so long, "Ian?"

"Yes." Ian's voice called back, "I came to see you; can you come down and let me in?"

I made a face, "Better not, the stairs squeak."

"Good thing I have a plan B." I heard him say. I might have even heard a smile in his voice.

Ian walked over to the house to the trellis. The structure that helped plants grow up the house, I knew what he was going to do. "Ian it's too dangerous, don't."

"This isn't so bad." He said beginning to climb, "You should have seen the rock wall I had to climb in Junior High. That was impossible."

He was doing remarkably well, he placed his feet in secure spots so that he didn't have the chance to fall. I was only worried that it would break. He got up to my window, "Stand back." I stepped back and he climbed through the window. "Ta-da!" he said spreading his arms wide.

I looked into his beautiful blue eyes for a moment then jumped into his arms.

He caught me and hugged me close and tight. I put my hands on his neck and crushed my lips to his. My body sighed in relief; Ian was my 'No Pain'. Ian kissed me back and I felt his body relax.

I had him back, for however short a time. He couldn't stay for long, he defiantly couldn't be here when morning came and Brandon and Cloud Spinner woke up. But I'd worry about that when I came to it. I opened my mouth at the same time he did. I missed the taste of Ian. How he felt, how it felt to kiss him.

Ian started to kiss me back harder with almost a panicked urgency. He walked over to the bed, laid me down on it and made it so he was supporting his own weight as he laid on me. I couldn't get enough of him and I pulled him closer so that there was barely any space between his body and mine. Not even enough room to slide a piece of paper between us.

He moved his lips from mine so there was an inch between them, "I missed you so much."

I smiled, "I missed you too Ian." After every word I leaned up and planted a kiss on his lips.

He laughed quietly, "Don't you wanna talk."

I giggled, "You talk too much." I said planting kisses on his lips after every word again.

Ian laughed again and brought his lips down and kissed my forehead, "I" Nose "Missed" left cheek "you" Right cheek "so" lips "damn" lips again "much."

I giggled and brought his lips back on mine. It didn't last long before he was kissing down the side of my neck and moving my shirt up my stomach. I moaned softly as he kissed down past my collar bone. I felt him smile as he brought his lips back to mine and I grabbing his shirt and starting to lift it.

He threw his shirt on the floor and started kissing me again. I smiled under his kiss and pushed his shoulders to push him off me.

I got up and I smiled at him in the most seductive way I could. "What?" he asked me panting.

I got up and walked over to him, "I think you need a shower."

He grinned too and starting kissing me again. Our tongues danced together as he lifted me up and started walking towards my bathroom. I hooked my legs around his waist and felt him open the door and turn on the light.

He set me on the counter and started to undo his belt. I took my turn and kissed down his neck and rubbed my hand up and down his ripped chest. "Won't the shower wake up your parent?" Ian asked and I heard a clink as his pants hit the floor.

"It might" I said in between two kisses. "But I…. can always…. Tell them…. I'm getting in the shower."

I brought my lips back up to his and reached for the hem of my tank top and pulled it off. Ian took the opportunity, "You know, I've never done this before."

I looked at him and chocked my head to one side. "Of course you have. We've done it plenty of times."

He laughed, "No not sex. I mean I've never snuck into a girls room at night to have sex with her in her shower."

I laughed too. "I haven't ever let a man come through my window and take advantage of me."

He brushed his fingers across my cheek and then down my arm leaving a trail of goose-bumps and a line of fire. "I hope I'm the only one."

I smiled. "You're the only one for me."

We brought our lips back together momentarily before he lifted me off the counter and went to turn on the water. I slid my shorts and underwear off and walked over to help Ian switch it from cold to warm and we stepped inside.

He backed me against the wall and started to kiss me again. We moaned at the same time and he rubbed his body against mine. I reached down about to switch it from faucet to shower head when I heard a knock on my bedroom door.

I stiffened but he didn't. He moved his lips from mine so I could talk but started to kiss down my neck. My eyes rolled back into my head with pleasure as I called "Who is it?"

"It's me." Cloud Spinners voice called back. "I was just wondering if everything is ok."

Ian occupied my lips for a minute on his way to the other side of my neck. "Everything is fine."

"Everything is perfect." Ian mumbled against my neck.

"Ok. Goodnight."

"Night." I called before pulling up the shower lever.

I slowly backed him up against the opposite wall so that the warm water washed over us. I let the warm water run down my back as the front of my body was warmed by the heat from the man in front of me. I smile at him and let my fingers trace the contours of his body. I missed him, all of him. From the way he was touching me, he missed me too.

I reached behind him and grabbed the body wash and a hot pink loofa that Cloud Spinner had bought me. I took a step back as I poured some onto the loofa. I smiled as I started to rub the loofa on his neck, across his shoulders, down each of his arms, down his chest, past his waist line, down each of his legs, circling several times around his more tender parts. Then he turned around and I went up the back of his legs, across both his cheeks, up his tense back and going up and across his shoulders again.

He shivered several times while I coated his body in soft foam that smelt like pomegranates. And after I got to the top of his back he turned around and traded me places.

I watched the soap race towards the drain, running off his body as he coated by backside in bubbled lightly with the loofa. I smiled and turned around as he foamed my painted toenails. He rose and slowly traced every inch of my skin with the loofa and gazed at me with a strange expression.

"What is it Ian?" I asked placing my hands on his face as he stood up.

"I just…." He bit his lip, "I just spent two days sitting in the game room thinking you were gone. Thinking that they'd taken you out and sent you to the dolphins or something." He traced his fingers down my collar bone, "But having you here in front of me just makes me realize how lucky I am."

I smiled at him and slid my hands to his waist pulling him to me, "I won't leave this planet."

He smiled and bent so that his lips touched mine. I sighed and let my fingers crawl their way up his chest to tangle into his hair. And after a moment he lifted me up and as I wrapped my legs around his waist he slid inside me and we moved together against the bathroom wall.

Ian and I almost slipped several times. And after the second successful go-around I suggested we move to a place that was much more sturdy.

He smiled slyly at me and I grinned seductively at him. "The bed" we said together.

Ian rolled off me and onto the space beside me groaning. "Oh my god." He breathed.

I placed my left leg over his and curled myself into his chest, "Yea. That was amazing."

Ian chuckled and I noticed his voice seemed deeper than usual. "When I take you back with me we should take the bed."

I looked at him, "You didn't come here tonight to take me back with you did you?"

He looked over at me, "I wanted too but Mel said we had to strategically plan this. So this was just a…" he chuckles "a conjugal visit."

I chuckled rolling over onto my stomach, "You know conjugal refers to a married couple." I kissed his jaw which was as high as I could go.

He leaned down to kiss me "We might as well be married Wanda. It's past the end of the world, remember?"

I moved up and snuggled into the crook of his arm, "You could at least give me a ring." I meant it as a pouting sarcastic remark.

Ian turned to look at me in the face, "Do you want to marry me Wanda?"

I smiled and kissed his nose, "You know I do. We're partners and I'm completely and passionately in love with you."

He propped himself up on his arm, "You could have told me I'd be purposing, I'd have brought the ring."

"What ring?" he already had a ring.

"Well yea. Kyle and I both kind of have a ring. We got out of the house with some keep sakes and I had grabbed my grandmother's wedding ring. Now that he has Sunny back, Kyle has the ring he gave Jodi." He said.

I stared at him. "Why didn't you purpose sooner if you had the ring already."

He ran his hand threw his hair, he was nervous, "Well I wanted to. I wanted to purpose when we moved in together but…."

"But what?"

"But I wasn't sure you'd want to get married. It's a human thing and everyone else thought it was un-necessary." He cleared his throat, "Plus usually people know each other longer than we've known each other before they get engaged let alone get married."

I frowned, "I thought you said I was human."

"You are. It's just that…."

"Ian." I said putting my hands on either side of his face. "I want to experience all of your unnecessary traditions. I want to experience everything with you."

He smiled maliciously and rolled on top of me, "everything?" We laughed.

Ian put one leg at a time out the window and when he had a footing he got his torso out.

"When will I see you again?" I said pulling on a gray hoodie.

"Soon." Ian said getting his foot placement steady.

"Promise?" I said a wine in my voice and a pout on my face.

He smiled at me, "I promise Wanda. Everything will be fine. Mel and I will figure this out and we can get you home and then we won't have to be apart." He leaned up and I leaned down. The kiss wasn't as passionate as the kisses last night but it was meaningful and sincere.

A silver car pulled up and I saw Mel's face as she rolled down the window, "Come on Ian we gotta go."

We gave each other one more kiss before he made his decent.

"Wanda? Are you up?" My door opened and Brandon popped his head in.

"Dad don't you knock." I said defensively. I leaned back and watched Ian sprinting towards Mel's car. I sighed in relief.

"Oh. I'm sorry." He said knocking on the door "I thought I heard voices. Like yours and someone else." He took a step inside, "It sounded male."

I tensed up but rolled my eyes, "Dad, How would I have a boy in my room?"

He knew I had a partner but I wasn't about to tell him that I'd snuck my partner into my room through my window last night. He was looking around so I did too. I thought we'd cleaned up his evidence but we missed something. Sticking out from under my bed was Ian's boxers. I groaned, could have mentioned he did have them when he left. I walked over to the bed and sat swinging my legs so I kicked them under.

"I don't suppose you snuck him through the window did you?" my father asked curiously.

I groaned audibly and went and closed the window. "There was no boy dad. I'm going down stairs."

I said walking to the door and down the stairs. Boy that was close.

:D I just fed you "O'Wanda" addictions. Sorry it was a bit more M that T but hey, I left out the more graphic parts.