Chapter 41

Ares could feel the heat that was coming off of her body as he stared at her, and that pure, blazing desire that was reflected in her eyes told him everything that he needed to know. His anxious hands soon found their way to her hips and he wildly pulled her closer to him, eliminating all that unnecessary space between them. Their mouths moved closer together but did not quite meet in a kiss as both of them were still trying to control themselves a little. He just rested his forehead against hers as their breaths mixed together for a moment, bringing his hand slowly up and softly running his thumb against her sweet lips, aware that if he didn't maintain some kind of self control then he was going to end up taking her brutally and he didn't want to do that.

After a few more moments of struggling to tame that unbearable need to just bend her over that wretched table and impale her relentlessly until he had her withering from the sheer power of his thrusts, Xena slowly tilted her head up a little and captured his lips with her own in a tentative kiss. It took Ares a moment to respond to her but then, he quickly took control of the kiss, cupping her face and moving to deepen it as they both yearn for a little more. He had her willing and he wasn't going to waste a single second of it.

His kiss was just starting to become more hungrily when he literally attacked her mouth, making her fall deeper and deeper into the pleasurable bubble that he was now creating for her. He had been waiting for this moment for a long time, too many times he had to sit idle and watch her from afar and he was going to take advantage. As their hands began to roam over each other's bodies, Xena let out a soft moan from the delightful sensation of their kiss.

At the sound of her dreamlike, silky voice, something in Ares snapped, as a primal need began to build inside of himself and he just ached to have her, to hear her say that she belonged to him….. His mind clouded from the pleasure of getting to have her this close, he grabbed a hold of her waist and pulled her closer to him, melding her body with his own. Hearing her release another moan was all the encouragement that he needed. He deepened their kiss some more and slowly moved his hands down her body. He let his hands rest against her thighs for a moment, slightly pulling the material up until he made contact with her bare flesh, and then he hooked them to the back of her thighs and hoisted her up onto the table, never breaking their kiss.

Planting himself between her legs, he grabbed a hold of her hips and pulled her closer to him and she wrapped her legs around him in return. So this is what it felt like to have her wrapped around him, he said to himself, relishing in the feeling.

It was like something had come over the two of them; they couldn't seem to pry themselves apart as they franticly pushed and pulled against the other with an urgent need and at this point they wouldn't have been able to stop, no matter how badly they had wanted to. An excruciating craving for the other was building between them, the need to have each kiss last a little longer, as it seemed that their mouths were permanently glued together- only breaking away from each other for just the slightest second when Xena needed to take a much needed breath before their mouths found their magnetic ends again and crashed together once more in an even more passionate kiss. They both trembled at each other's caress as hands roamed against uncharted territory and the feral desire that was consuming them both with that unquenchable need to break all barriers that kept them apart and finally join as one, was driving them crazy.

Moments later, Ares tore his mouth from hers and started planting fervent kisses down her neck, finding that pulsating vein that just wanted his attention. He slowly kissed her skin there, feeling how her blood started racing more rapidly when he unhurriedly slipped her strap from her shoulder. He kissed his way to her newly exposed flesh and then he continued to her chest. He wanted to bathe her body with his lips and this simple dress she was wearing was restricting him and that just irritated him immensely. He leisurely ran his hand up her body, tracing the contours of what he had longed to touch for so long, and he stopped once he slipped his hand in between her breasts and started to slowly pull apart the small bow that had kept the material closed.

Having gotten the fabric loosened enough, her cleavage became more exposed to him and he generously lapped at his newly unwrapped prize. He softly pulled the material out of the way a little bit until he finally found what he was searching for. His tongue darted out of his mouth and lightly licked against her nipple before he claimed it fully. She shamelessly offered her breast more to him as she arched into him slightly and Ares took full advantage of it as he suckled against it more sensually, playfully tugging at her nipple with his teeth before feverishly taking ownership of it and she gasped slightly from the pleasing sensation and he continued with his one need to make her solely his while he gradually ran his palm over her thigh until he came into contact with the hem of her skirt.

Torturously slowly, he slipped his hand underneath her skirt, teasingly inching his way higher until he came into contact with her undergarment. He lightly began to stroke her through the material and he heard her deep wanton moan as she arched into his hand.

Xena now panted and whimpered out as he continued to stroke her through the material. The next thing she knew she was feeling his fingers on her bare skin as he had made her undergarment vanish. For awhile, he continued his slow circular movements on her clit and she ran her hands up under his vest and gripped his shoulders to help steady herself as she started to grind herself against his hand. She pushed against him eagerly, trying to hint to him just where she really wanted him to move his hand to. For a brief but at the same time endless second, she suddenly felt the abrupt loss of his hand but it didn't last long as he began running his fingers along her slick opening and her breath hitched in her throat at the contact. Her body filled with excitement of the possibility of feeling him inside of her and she pushed a little more readily against him and not long after, sensing his Princess' urgent need, he was sinking his fingers inside of her and she gasped out at the feeling as he pushed himself more into her depths and she tightened her grip on his shoulders while he slowly filled her.

Ares smiled smugly against her neck as he slowly made his way back up her throat. He refused to move his fingers at first and she started to fervently coax him into it as she began to rhythmically move her hips. He smiled more at her eagerness and, wanting to satisfy them both, Ares slowly began to pull his fingers out just to immediately plunge them back into her. He continued this several times while he teased her with his slow movements, moving them at just the right pace to make her yearn for so much more and at her needy whimpers he began to pick up the pace. He rammed his fingers into her repeatedly as she cried out from the pleasure he was giving her and he moved to capture her moans as he claimed her mouth in a passionate kiss. He could feel her getting closer to her release as her inner muscles started to clench around his fingers. He continued to move his fingers in and out of her, driving her absolutely crazy with his strokes as he swallowed each and every one of her moans, then with one last thrust with his fingers he pulled them from her body not allowing her the release that she desperately wanted and she groaned out in frustration from the loss of contact. Ares broke their kiss and started to slowly kiss his way to her ear.

"All in good time, my Dear." he whispered seductively against her ear and then nibbled against the side of her neck.

Xena shivered at his words and before she could even think to articulate a response, she soon found herself trapped in another fervent kiss with the War God. He was teasing her, driving her right to the edge of the sweet bliss that she now craved just to pull back before he let her tumble. She longed for him, oh how she longed for him to let her fall and it's then that she thought to even the playing field.

She thus started to slowly work her hands down between their bodies, unhurriedly running her fingertips lightly over his chest. She ran her hands down the edges of his vest until she got to his sword belt and slowly unlatched it and it clunked loudly to the floor. She then moved to unhook his vest and started to slowly remove it from his torso.

All this time, Ares didn't waste any time as he leaned back a little and he shrugged his arms out of it quickly and it joined his abandoned sword on the floor and he cupped her face and seized her mouth in a sweltering kiss again, wanting to just consume all of her. He had imagined what this would be like for thousands of times, but this was so much better than anything that he had ever come up with. His right hand unhurriedly traced its way down her body till he got to her waist and he pulled her closer to him, wanting to be as close to her as possible as he now had her sitting on the edge of the table.

Xena started to leisurely work her way back down his chest, lightly allowing her fingers touch against his skin and, working her way to his stomach she soon had him shuddering from the contact. She smiled to herself at the way the War God was now at her mercy, trembling at her slightest caress, longing to feel her touch again and, as he leaned into her more, she moved her hand away faintly.

He was ravenous as she tried to keep up with his fiery kisses, the way he was practically trying to meld their bodies together, if she hadn't known any better, she would have thought that the War God had actually missed her while he was gone. She could feel the small tremor that went through Ares when she ran her hand teasingly back and forth against his waistband, lightly tugging at the material and moving her hand down where she lightly grazed his enflamed member that wanted so desperately to be released from its cage. She swallowed the feral growl that Ares had released from her movements and she was set on having the War God under her control and she slowly started to loosen his pants more.

With that thought in mind, she pulled at the material, softly tugging at the laces and when she got it loose enough she slowly started to move her hand beneath the fabric, determined to get the upper hand on him, when he once again started to lightly rub his thumb against her clit before she could finish her journey. This time, it was Xena who broke the kiss as she gasped out from his ministrations on her and she buried her face into the crook of his neck as he continued to move against her. That wasn't fair, he had turned the tables on her as he gradually increased his strokes and at this point she didn't care, she wanted him to take her to oblivion. She could feel the buildup of her release begin to start again and she closed her eyes at the sensation he was stoking in her and another moan escaped its way out from her slightly parted lips. She began to pant heavily against him, and, trying to control her reactions she bit down into his shoulder just as he slipped his fingers back inside of her, eliciting a throaty moan from her as he filled her. Her whimpers came out muffled against him when he started to thrust into her, a slow torturous pace at first that gradually began to increase with each moan the War God drew out of her.

"That's it baby... " Ares whispered out as he started placing slow, languid kisses against her shoulder, "... come on, just let it go."

He moved his fingers with a fierce determination, she was holding back and he was set on having Xena lose herself completely to him. He plunged them into her deeply, and soon, her soft moans of ecstasy started swirling in his head, making him want more and more. He continued with his constant, deep quick thrusts within her and he had her gushing from the movements as her sweet juices started to coat his hand more. He pulled them out one last time and then thrust them back inside of her, keeping them firmly imbedded within her as he began to brush his thumb over her sensitive nub again. He slowly caressed her and steadily increased his movements. From the sounds that she was making, Ares knew that she was close to her release and her cries of pleasure were only fueling his own arousal. He was done with his teasing and he wanted her to meet her sweet end as he continued to intensify the pressure of his strokes on her clit. He could feel her digging her nails savagely into his back as she was nearing her peak. He knew she was close now as her moans and soft cries caressed his ear, just a few more strokes and he would tip her over into the pleasurable oblivion that she longed for. Once he helped her meet her release he was going to claim her as his own in the only way that mattered to him at that moment. His erection swelled a little more at the sounds of her gratifying whimpers and it pushed painfully against his leather pants as it wished to be freed of its confines so it could plunge itself deep into her sweet depths and finally fill her with every delectable inch and assert its claim that she was his and his alone while he marked her with every deep pleasurable thrust.