Four Strawberries
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. - Anatole France
Cat was collecting her winning from all the losers in that wagered for Natsu to wipe the floor with Piper due to her lack of experience. Any other time Cat probably would have wagered against the woman but she could see the bright golden soul in her chest surge when she thought that the ice mage was hurt. While collecting her winning she thought she saw a face she hadn't seen since she was a snotty teenager that was living in the White Seas guild apartments. The man had the same color hair but longer. His was a bit taller and more muscled. She shook her head, "Couldn't be him. He has no reason to be here…"
"Who are you talking about, Sunflower? Who has no reason to be here?" Vander asked with an knowing grin on his face.
Cat knew that look as well. She wasn't sure if Vander knew about her short little romance with the resident beast master just before she was recruited in the Blood Hunters. " Uh…no one that you know I'm sure." She lied with a straight face.
Vander looked at his friend's face. He knew she had a poker face when it came to having to lie to anyone but him, but he could tell it was something that she wasn't ready to talk about so he just let it slide, "Fine Cat, but when you want to let me in, I'll be around. I need to go talk to Laxus and big bro anyway about West Nitespring. After you guys left shit got real down there."
Cat blanched at what Vander said. Every word, she knew he knew something was up with her.
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"Get out! Get out! Get out! He is not creepy! You are creepy talking to animals! I'm not weird because I have a human soul bound to me! Get ooooouut!" Cat screamed at she threw whatever she could get her hands on at the gangly green haired teen in her bedroom. This time it was a shoe. They had had another disagreement about animal spirits and human souls again. He ran out of her room with his clothes in his hand laughing knowing that she didn't mean any of it. She humphed down on her messy bed with her arms crossed. She felt Tito dip down beside her. "You're not creepy Tito and he's not creepy either or weird."
She felt what was Tito's way of expressing a hug and then him talking to her telepathically, 'I know you were just defending me, but I like the boy. He's a good match for you. He puts up with your bullshit.' Tito laughed in her mind.
Beck stopped out in the living area of the guild apartment and finished getting dressed. He was laughing to himself, when Lex interrupted him, "She kicked you out again, huh? What did she do this time?"
Beck finished pulling his leather moccasins on, "We were discussing animal spirits and human souls again and I may have said Tito was a wee bit creepy." He smiled. "You know I don't though, right? I just like to get that wildcat going. Makes things fun the next time."
Lex shook her head, "Sometimes I think you picked the wrong sister to share exclusive pleasure with if you like to play with fire." That earned a laugh from the green haired teen.
"She'll cool down in a few days. I'll see you around Lex." He said as he hurried out the door to avoid any more shoes heading his way.
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Cat shook her head from her memories. That was the last day she got to see Beck and it ended on an argument because she was being a little bitch. She got recruited to the Blood Hunters a few days later because she had registered for the military at the age of 15, then the Boscan government banned and outlawed seith magic. She hasn't been to Bosco in a long time.
She decided that running around in her head in the past wasn't a good idea. She went over to the bar and ordered another berry smoothie from the barmaid and struck up a conversation with the new blonde that showed up.
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Cat agreed to go out with Lucy and Cana to night since Piper bailed on them for a date with Gray. She wasn't ecstatic about going out with them but it beat sitting at home laying her bedroom staring at the four walls of her bedroom or arguing with her sister or being lecture by Grammie over something she did wrong in a past life. Grammie always gave her shit about how she used her souls. Always telling her you should put them in something to make them more useful to you, blah, blah, blah, look at my three little totems. Why can't you be like Arman's boy and do what I say, blah, blah, blah. Cat sat on Lucy's bed with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands watching the other two pick out dresses for her. They had determined that she and Lucy were basically the same size just Cat was a few inches taller.
"So let me ask you two something, if I want to share pleasure with a man tonight do I just go up and ask him and if he says yes do you have pleasure booths where we are going?" Cat asked. She genuinely wanted to know. It had been so long since she shared any pleasure with anyone, she almost broke her rule and asked Vander. Seeing that man today had brought up old memories she had an itch and needed scratched.
Lucy froze for a moment and Cana just laughed. "What it's a serious question. You Fiorians are weird when it comes to pleasure, at least that's what Vander told me. This is my first time here."
Cana came over and sat beside her and put her arm around the blonde, "If you find a guy who you 'want to share pleasure with' just ask him to take you back to his place or you can take him back to your place. Make sure you use protection." Cana explained. Lucy's face was a deep red just talking about sex. It wasn't like she was a virgin. It was just her upbringing and how sex wasn't just talked about in the open like this.
Cat felt better about going out now. She agreed with Vander on Fiore's cultural taboos on sex. She wasn't one to talk much on having many partners, but she was just a selective person. She learned it had a little something to do with her magic. Grammie explained that not all seith mages feel this way just a few of them, "OK great the rules of the games are set. Can I wear that slinky red number with that's open in the back with those red pumps? What club are we going to again?"
Lucy smiled and said "Fairy Tail guildhall. Vander said he was going to sing tonight. He wanted to lighten the mood up after everything over the past few days."
Cat grinned. "Great Vander singing can't wait. Maybe he'll sing some old, old songs. It's been a long time since I've heard that devil sing with that angel voice of his."
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"Papa I'm going out tonight with Gray, that ice mage that was over a while ago. I don't know what time I'll be home." Piper called out to her father.
"That's fine, mi hija" He returned. Oscar wasn't worried for his daughter anymore now that he knew she had been blessed by the kitsune and was given a trainer for her newfound powers. He was grateful for the tall Boscan man. He welcomed him into his home and thought of him as his son.
Piper had found a black skirt with silver glitter through it and a blue sleeveless blouse and white sneakers. She crossed over the hallway and knocked on the door. She listened for the grunt to enter. "So why aren't you dressed you big lug? You need to go have fun to because I'm boring as hell." She said to her trainer that was laying on the bed in just a pair of long red shorts.
Beck was reading one of the books his parents had sent with him from Bosco regarding the ancient kitsune his clan revered. It was an interesting read for him now that he knew that Piper was a celestial kitsune, Sam from the Air clan and Astrid of the Shadow. He knew the strengths and weaknesses of them, but deep down he could still feel the feral playfulness in Piper. It was like she was a kit. Sam and Astrid had been around for centuries. They were even a mated pair. He rolled over and gave her a bored look, "No you are not boring but why do you want me to go with you on your date with this man you've been pining after?"
Piper blushed, "You knew about that huh?"
"You keep forgetting that I am a beast master." Then spoke into her mind, 'I attuned to your fox spirit. You and your fox spirit want the ice mage.'
Piper blushed deeper, "Yeah well…but it's at the guild…and your friend is singing." She walked over and started pulling on his arm. "Come on. At least you can mingle with the other people there instead of being cooped up here like an old fuddy duddy."
He snorted over that last remark, "Old fuddy duddy! Fine I'll go." He rolled off his bed and got dressed as she left.
Gray was nervous about this date with Piper even though it was only at the guild. They agreed it would be a mutual place with friends all around. He knocked on the door to Piper's home and was greeted by her dad Lucas. He welcomed him in and heard Oscar call for Piper.
Piper came down the steps to meet Gray who was dressed as casually as she was. He had loose fitting dark jeans on and a dark button down with short sleeves. He smiled at her all his anxiety let when she came down to greet him with a hug. "Are you ready Piper?" he asked.
"One sec." She said. Piper went over to the stair and yelled up to the straggler, "I'm leaving with my date now! I better see you smiling face and mismatched eyes at the guildhall later or I will have your shadow friend help me glitter bomb the shit out of your room! He seems like the sort that would resort to dirty deeds!"
"Don't get your tail in a knot, Star shine! And be careful of getting Vander involved he doesn't know when to quit!" returned a baritone voice.
Piper returned to Gray. She nuzzled him on the cheek, "Ok I'm ready."
"Should I ask what that was about?" He wondered as they left the brownstone.
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Ila and Asuka were running around the guildhall playing. Ila decided she wanted to involve Uncle Vander. "Asuka let's get Uncle Vander." She whispered.
Vander noticed that the two girls were quiet all of a sudden. He seen them whispering. He knew when children were quiet they were plotting something, because he was one of those kids. Another thing was one of those kids was his niece. He waited acting like he didn't see them creeping up behind him. He was then pounced on by both girls and brought down into a giggling squealing mess of girls. He shadow stepped them over to the stage. "Ok since you got me, I think you should pick my first song I sing. What do you two think?"
The two girls put their heads together in discussion occasionally looking over at Vander, "Uncle Van, after much deliberation, we decided that we want you to sing one of Papaw's favorite songs, Satisfaction by the Rolling Rocks."
Vander looked impressed at his niece and her friend, "That's a big word there munchkin, but I think you mean the Rolling Stones and when did Papaw listen to the Rolling Stones?"
Ila turned up the innocence look, "That's a secret between me and Papaw." She smiled sweetly.
Vander turned around to his brothers that were here to play music with him and Gajeel, "You guys cool with oldies night?" He got a round of approval.
Music and Vander's voice wafted through the guildhall. People were dancing, mingling, drinking and just having a good time overall. Vander's voice was like a spell being wove over the crowd of people. The cloud of gloom seem to lift from the people dancing. Even though Fairy Tail and the White Sea didn't suffer the tragedy but empathized with the remaining members of the Red Foxes. Those lost would never be forgotten but the grief would be lessened and the sadness lifted.
Piper and Gray entered the hall and the pulse of the music drifted over them. The lights flashed and moved with the beat of the music. "Wow Vander can sing." Piper said over the music. "Come dance with me." She said as she pulled Gray towards the group of people dancing. Piper felt the rhythm of the music calling to her to move with it. Her eyes glittering with mischief as she looked at Gray. She felt her kitsune spirit being swept away by the tune being played.
Gray laughed as he let his date drag him willingly into the throng of people dancing. He enjoyed dancing but deep down he knew dancing with Piper was going to be a new and grand experience. He let her lead him out and then moved with her body in the rifts of the guitar. She felt like heaven to him as she moved against him. He felt the ice he kept around his heart melt. She felt perfect to him not like those imposters he would seek out at those clubs on the weekends. Gray had waited for her for a few months. He feel into rhythm with her and let his hands drifts down her sides as she moved to the music. They both became lost in it and each other.
Piper felt Gray's hands on her sides as she moved. She inhaled his peppermint scent. It was soothing to her. It made her want to do things with him, more than just dance, but she knew this was not the place to give into her wilder instincts. She decided to just taken in the peppermint and hints of scotch and the body heat to her back as she moved with him. Piper was impressed with how sensual he could move too. She was mesmerized. She turned in his arms and looked up into his deep blue eyes as she put her arms around his neck. She inched her lips closer to his. She wanted to feel those soft lips again on hers. The music had switched a few times and now Dream On by Aerosmith was being belted out by Vander. She moved with Gray in unison to the tune. She felt like they were the only ones in the room.
"Pippi!" Cana called out as she weaved her way towards the couple. She grabbed Piper by the arm and hauled her away from her magical moment to the bar where Lucy and Cat were sitting. Piper let out a growl at the brunette but was ignored.
"Cana I think you may have interrupted something there." Lucy giggled, "And for the last time her name is Piper."
Piper was not happy about having her date interrupted nor her special moment ruined but she was definitely intrigued by what she saw sitting in front of her. "Did I not get the memo about wearing red tonight?" She looked between the three. Each one was wearing a different style of red dress.
"Oh it gets better!" Cana squealed, "Let's got to the locker room and finish my hair." The card mage grabbed Lucy and peeled her away from the bar towards the locker room leaving Cat and Piper at the bar.
Piper looked at the blonde, "So I know we've only met briefly but I feel like there is some mischief afoot with you three in similar attire." She said with a wink, "And since I've come into my magic and awaken this kitsune spirit, I enjoy partaking in high jinks now."
Cat grinned wide as she looked at the purple haired woman, "Apparently those two have been wanting to prank the guild for a while now with multiple 'Lucys'. They figured since I look similar to her, they brought out this cool crab stylist guy, covered my clan tats, and are going to turn Cana's hair blonde. Lucy said she was also going to pull out another spirit that can copy her. So they will have four of her running around here. Should be fun to watch. Sorry they interrupted you dance. You looked like you were in your own world with that ice mage."
Piper blushed, "You saw that huh?"
"I'm pretty sure everyone did but they didn't care. You two look good together. Don't get shy, girlie. IF you want him ask him to share pleasure. I know you've been around us Boscans long enough to know that." Cat encouraged her, "He certainly looked receptive to it." She winked.
Piper looked over to the direction Cat was and eyed her date dancing with 'Lucy' in a playful way. They both had a friendly face on and nothing more happening. Piper smiled she was happy that the two friends were having fun. She scanned the dance floor for her friend. She frowned a little when she didn't see him, but she brushed it aside and grabbed one of the many 'Lucys' to go dance on the floor. "Come on. Gray can't be the only one dancing with a Lucy." Piper laughed. They threaded their way through the crowd to another section and started dancing.
Cobra could hear the beating of the music before he even got close to Magnolia. Why are they being so fucking loud now? I guess it doesn't matter for most of those drunkards to have a party and be loud and drunk. He had been gone for a few months. He took a long job to get away from the looks and sounds of the guild that thought he was crazy for breaking up with Tink. He had done some soul searching. He knew he was scared. He was scared of being intimate because of what Brain had did to him all those years ago. He was scared of hurting Lucy more than he already had. He was terrified he wouldn't be 'good enough' for her. His dragon was unrelenting in its drive to make him feel miserable and remind him that denying his mate was senseless and hurt both of them more and more he kept away.
He knew Lucy was forgiving loving and courageous. He knew what kind of shit he had put her through in the past but she forgave him and still loved him. He was surprised when his little friend came gliding through the air and wrapped around his arm. 'Hey little guy. Not so little anymore are you.' He thought to the little Harvati serpent.
'Yep I've grown you big dork. Just so you know they are all at the guild. A lot has happened. Your Tink is there. Have fun finding her.' Cobra could feel the grin through the thought.
"Have fun finding her? What did they lose her or something?" he said out loud. His only answer was a cheek nuzzle and Flick flew off into the summer night air.
Lucy, Cana, and Cat were having a grand time watching the confused faces of their guild mates as they would see a Lucy here and there at the same time. Cana took a drink of her beer, "Lu I'm digging this blonde look. Maybe I should have you do it more often. OK I'm heading back out there. Wish me luck." Cana waved and disappeared into the crowd.
Cat turned to Lucy, "We better disperse before they start catching on. I think it was a fun idea to take a shower in your shampoo and soap. Somehow your dragon slayer are a little thrown off by it. Your pink haired friend was talking to me for about 10 minutes before he realized I had blue eyes and not brown. The look on his face was priceless. I almost had him talked into sharing pleasure with me as well." Cat snorted.
Lucy sniggered with her, "Yeah he's know me for so long that he knows when I switched soaps so I just keep buying the same brand unless he pisses me off then I pull out my off brand and use it for a while. Let's go dance I'm so not tired yet. I think Gemini is still out there. Oh do tell how you almost got my gay friend to have sex with you?"
Cat took a drink of her beer, "Sometimes it's not the equipment that you carry but the passion and fire in your soul that connects you. Case in point," Cat nodded off to the fire slayer that was in between Lex and Nick, "My sister and cousin do not care. They will take care of him." Cat laughed
Lucy looked wide-eyed at the threesome on the dance floor. Cat's sister had a lip lock on the pink haired man while her taller blonde cousin was grinding on him from the back. Lucy couldn't tell whose hands were whose. "Hmm guess you're right."
The women dispersed out into the writhing dance floor. They had been fooling people for about an hour and half when Cobra entered the guild. He wanted to shove cotton in his ears because everyone sounded so fucking happy. He could differentiate his Tink out of the bunch. So he resorted to his eyes and nose. He seen a flash of blonde and caught a hint of strawberry. He growled and curse again about it being too loud before he waded in.
Not long after Cobra returned, Beck arrived to the guild. He heard the familiar tones of Vander before he walked into the main hall. He felt Piper inside. He felt her happiness and horniness. He smiled. He knew how long she had been pining after that ice mage. He went ahead and cut his link from her to give her the privacy she needed. He scanned the hall. He saw skiffs of blonde hair in the crowd. He tracked one. It brought back memories from his teens of a blonde that left his life before anything could happened.
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Beck was lounging inside the guildhall caring for a kitten of northern mountain cat that had been killed by some poachers. He was nursing it. People didn't see these cats very often near the Grass Sea. They tended to stay up in the northern mountain ranges where it was cooler and dryer, but he was given it by one of the Knights that found it on patrol in the region.
Cris and Kaleb came over to the teen, "You got a new stray there, Beck?"
Kaleb looked at the little cub in the teen's hands, "Looks like one of those mountain lions babies. How did it get down here? They down leave the mountains."
His mismatched eyes looked up from the fussy kitten, "Yeah his mother was killed and the knights brought her to me."
"Oh speaking of the northern mountains aren't we getting a couple of new members that were from that area?" Cris interjected.
"Yeah, Master Grenlow should be with them now for their introduction." Kaleb said.
"Do you think they will have the blonde hair that the northern clans are rumored to have?" Cris wondered out aloud.
"Why don't you ask them yourselves. You two are worse than a bunch of old women, you know that." Vander said as he appeared with two girls out of the shadows.
"Of course you've already hogged them Van." Cris said with a whine.
"Trust me Cris, they are immune to my effervescent charms. Otherwise we wouldn't have been here so soon." Vander said with a wag of his eyebrow only to get smacked in both shoulders at the same time.
The two girls giggled at the shadowquip. The red head spoke up first, "Hi I'm Lex and the broody blonde over here is my sister Cat."
Cat wasn't paying attention to the other boys. She was watching the bi colored boy with the mountain lion cub. She walked over to him slowly with a curious look on her face, "Where did you find him? He shouldn't be this far south."
Beck was mesmerized by the long blonde hair that had black streaks through it. Later in life he would come to find out why they were there. He had never seen hair so blonde. It was a golden blonde. It was shiny and looked silky to touch. When she looked up at him and her baby blues met his blue and gold, he wanted to fall deeper into those pools, "Uh…the Immaculate Knight found him and brought them to me. I'm a beast master…so I can…"
"…attune yourself to the animals. That's cool. What's his name?" Cat asked.
"Uh…I haven't named him yet…"
"May I?"
"Sure"
"How about… Bygul. It's the name of one of The Lady's sacred guardians. She is the one that grants our clan our magic and is the keeper of the seith magic." She said with a sad smile.
"Sounds like a fine name and I think he likes it."
"Cat! Come on we gotta go! Grammie is waiting for us!" Lex called.
"I have to go. See you around." She waved as she ran off to her sister.
Cris and Kaleb watched the interaction between the two before Cris said into the mind link, 'I don't think you'll have to worry about his little childhood crush anymore.'
Kaleb looked over at his longtime best friend and the smittened look on his face, 'No I don't think so, but if and when that wild cat breaks his heart we'll be there to help mop it up.'
'Absolutely.'
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'Beck…'
'Kaleb…'
The beast master looked up at to the second floor and seen his longtime friend with his all–knowing smile plastered on his face.
'…what's that smile for?...'
'…she's here…'
'…she?...' Beck looked at Kaleb with a confusion.
'…HER…' Kaleb pushed harder with some memories.
Beck had memories filter through his mind of his teenage years. Memories of a blonde haired beauty that was like a feral cat that he wanted badly. 'Where is she?'
Kaleb smirked through the link, 'You're the beast master. Hunt down your quarry.'
Beck growled. He had a mixture of excitement and cautiousness. He was excited to 'hunt down' the woman who had been missing from his life for years but he wanted to proceed with caution because as Kaleb said she was like a feral cat if he cornered her. He knew she had a free spirit. He felt it the first time he met her when he had Bygul. A spirit that was not to be tamed but nurtured into loyalty that was unbreakable. He remembered their last argument. He wasn't angry with her ever. She just had a short fuse when it came to her spirits and how her grandmother regarded how she treated them.
He looked over the writhing mass of mages. He knew this was going to be difficult, like finding a needle in the haystack. He could do it though. How hard could it be to find a short blonde woman in a dance floor.
Kaleb leaned into the railing of the upper bannister. He felt large hands slide around his waist as his mate nuzzled his neck under his long blond hair. "Why are you standing up here like you ate a canary?" his graveled voice resonated in his ear.
"Did Gramps take Ila home?"
"Yes. Now are you going to answer my question before I drag you off to my office?"
"Just baiting our beast master into a hunt for a wildcat, and it seems our poison dragon slayer has returned as well." Kaleb chuckled when all he got was a grunt before Laxus's hands were pulling at his shirt and leading him toward his office.
Cobra inhaled and caught strawberries. He saw the blonde dancing with a mage he didn't recognize. He move over and shoved the other mage out of the way and let the blonde gyrate on him. He breath her in, his Tink? He brain was putting puzzle pieces together. He let his hands run up and down the sides of 'Tink' as he moved with her. Something felt off, but he couldn't place it. The music and the others sols were messing with his hearing. His nose said this was Tink but his hands and his dragon were saying 'No wrong blonde.' He continued to dance. The blonde turned around and put her arms around his neck, "Hey there tall dark and sexy. I haven't seen you around here. You're the first person in here to really get me going. You want to leave and go somewhere else and share some pleasure?" Blue eyes meet single indigo.
Cobra growled. This woman wasn't his Tink, close but not quite. He didn't say anything and just left the horny seith mage. He didn't want anything to do with anyone except Tink. He seen another blonde in a red dress. Fuck did everyone who was a blonde wear a red dress. He watched this one. This Tink had a bottle of beer in her hand. He then saw her face, the Drunk. When did she become a blonde. His frustration grew.
Beck stalked the blonde on the edge on the mob of dancing people. The exhilaration he hunting her down awaken something in him. His pupils dilated and his nostril flared. He didn't have the acute senses like dragon slayers or apparently kitsune, but he could detect a little better than a normal human. He sidled in next to the blonde in the red dress. The blonde looked up at him, "Piri, Piri Hi." Brown eyes and the odd vocabulary threw him off.
"Uh…" before he could finish what he was going to say the blonde in the red dress poofed into a shower of gold. "What the hell?"
He heard a commotion and saw a marooned haired man dragging off another blonde in a red dress. He heard the woman giggling and the man's inner dragon rumbling and growling in frustration mixed with the feeling the relief of finding his mate. He smiled. Beck was happy that a dragon slayer found his mate. He knew that that was a big deal. He went back to his task at hand. He noticed that blondes in red dresses decreased to one. The one that he saw had familiar clan tattoo on her right arm. He made a beeline for her.
Cat let the music feel her soul and danced with it. She was delighted when the marooned haired man started dancing with her. His hands felt sensual at first but then became like a confused fumble of a man who had never been with a woman. She turned around to see if maybe she could get the man to share pleasure with her but was met with disgust and disappointment in the single indigo eye.
She wasn't a vain person but to feel rejection like that hurt. She swallowed the self-doubt and lost herself into the music and Vander's beautiful voice. She made up her mind that if she didn't find someone tonight she was going to break her rule and ask Vander to share pleasure with her. Lex would understand. They made that sisterly pack long ago, Vander was hands off. She closed her eyes and swayed into the song. She didn't notice the golden magic reveal her clan tattoos and her Blood Hunter mark again. She was deep in the song that she didn't notice Lucy being taken out of the guild by her future mate.
Cat lost in self-loathing and music didn't notice the tall man with green hand thread up behind her. She checked back into reality when large warm calloused hands encircled her waist and the hard planes of a male body moved with her. She felt she self-confidence return and moved more erotic. The hands and body had a slight familiarity to them but she couldn't place them. She looked to the stage. Vander and his brothers were all there. He was too big to be Presca. Plus Presca didn't mix business and pleasure like this.
Beck was over the moon now that he had his hands on his missing kitten. He could see that she was lost in her mind. Over thinking as usually, he thought. He felt the change in her when her brain noticed someone was dancing with her. She became more sensual in her movements. He bent his head down and smelled her hair. He smelled strawberries and wrinkled his nose. He always remembered cherry blossoms. He changed his movements to meet hers. His hands became braver moving up to her ribs and back down to the swell of her hips. Her hands slide up into his hair and one of his followed her arm while the other stays on her wait. He spun her around and looked into her bright blue eyes that he hadn't seen in years.
Cat felt those heated hands move on her sensitive flesh of her upper arm. The heat of the moment and the movement of the man behind her felt so right. Her libido was getting revved up. She was feeling the ache in her lower pelvis. When he spun her around and she met those mismatched eyes, she was pulled back to the past of when she was happy as a teenage girl. She stretched up to meet those lips she hadn't felt in years. Beck may be older, taller, BIGGER, but those lips, those lips felt the same as they did when they were teens. She threaded her fingers into his hair and deepened the kiss that had a moan escape her. She pulled back and looked in those bi-colored eyes, she missed, "Hey you…"