A/N Ok, so ask and ye shall receive huh? If there is interest in this story I'll sure keep it going, it's a change of pace for me and I like it. I hope everyone else does too so, without further ado...Enjoy.

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"Oh come on now Blondie, I don't bite…unless asked." He amended she rolled her eyes. "Yeah yeah, I'm thinking I need drinks…a lot of them." She said firmly.

"Bickslow, I only bid tonight for one main purpose." Erza said then. Bickslow definitely looked uncomfortable. When he had seen Cana and Lucy his hopes had soared that he was in for a great night but Erza? Now he was thinking he'd be lucky not to end up in the hospital.

"And that would be?" He asked, keeping his tone light and friendly, taking up an inner mantra "Keep her happy, Keep her happy, Keep her happy."

She held up the bar of chocolate and he actually smirked, he knew that chocolate, he was Boscan by birth, his adoptive father was the Boscan ambassador, and he even had dual citizenship. He'd had fun with Boscan Kissing chocolate since he was a boy.

"I can help you enjoy that the way it's supposed to be eaten." He told her and took the seat beside her when she patted it.

The guide took the drink order and unsure what to do first Lucy hesitated, afraid to look up at her date who was now standing entirely too close to her. "So what are we doing first Blondie?" He asked, he'd leaned over to her so his breath fanned her ear and she tried but couldn't quite hide the shiver that ran through her.

He was too much, always had been, her whole body reacted to the damn man, and her brain short circuited if he touched her and he was likely to do that at some point during the night.

"What would you like to do?" She asked and nearly kicked herself, contemplated flinging herself off the balcony right then. Great idea idiot, put control in the hands of the devil.

"You." It was just one word, spoken softly by her ear, meant to tease because that's what he always did to her but oh God Lucy was already losing the battle between her mind and her body. Write her off now, she had a whole evening with the Thunder God himself at her disposal and he already had her envisioning taking him to one of those high backed sectionals, tearing his clothes off and riding him till she couldn't walk.

He looked incredible too, damn him to hell. Snug black slacks that stretched over powerful thighs and Canas favorite ass. An almost black purple button down silk shirt that also had to stretch in places to accommodate his mouth watering bodys way too well toned muscles.

"Nothing to say? No snappy come back? Come on Blondie." He purred. Lucy bit her lip, god he smelled good, he always did, like a spicy rainstorm.

"I…Oh good, drinks!" Lucy had never been happier to see a waiter as when their came with a tray full of shots, three bottles and a stack of glasses.

Saved by the booze. Lucy sat beside Levy, who gave her an encouraging smile. Levy knew all about Lucys troubles with Laxus, she was the only person Lucy had ever told about it all.

But Levy was trying to enoy an evening with Gajeel and Lucy loved them both and didn't want her own troubles taking away from their evening so she turned her attention back to Laxus as she lifted a shot to her lips. She knew it would burn, knew it wouldn't taste good, she fucking hated tequila, but she needed something to slow her racing mind down.

Laxus watched her, he hadn't hoped for this. He'd long since come to the realization that Lucy was just out of his reach, His interest in her had been real for a long while but he had a temper and he knew it.

In spite of his time alone, and all he'd been doing to better himself, to prepare to take over Fairy Tail when his grandfather retired Lucy presented any man with a unique challenge.

Her fucking team. Approaching her was already near impossible without someone noticing, and if you did get her alone it was a sure bet one of her weirdly obsessed team members was sure to come looking for her as soon as they noticed, and he'd decided each one of them had some bizarre "Lucy timer" built into them that let them know when they had been removed from her fucking hip for too long.

So one of them would come looking for her, he'd seen it happen. Hell Bickslow had decided to ask her to attend a dance clinic when some famous dancing team had been in town because he'd found out Lucy had some real training in ballroom and some other forms of dance and when he'd tried to corner her away from her team to avoid them interfering and turning it all into something it really wasn't, Titania had come looking for Lucy when her weird timer went off that told her to and had pinned the man to the wall with a sword to his troat.

Bickslow had ended up going alone, still had a great time, but Lucy had unknowingly missed out on a hell of a great opportunity at some incredible dance instruction along side a great partner. He bet she still didn't know about that because Bickslow didn't tell her and didn't bother trying to talk to her again.

Laxus' temper was too short to deal with that kind of shit, so he just acted like an asshole and teased her, it didn't seem to set off any Erza alarms or bother Gray or Natsu and it was the only interaction with the blonde he seemed able to get so he ran with it.

He'd had no particular hopes for the night either. Figured it sounded like fun, he'd get to come back to the resort whenever he wanted to for a free weekend and odds were he'd get laid. All win win in his book.

But when they'd toped the stairs and Lucy had been sitting there with an armband on, his heart had started hammering in his chest. He and Bickslow had exchanged hard looks. If Bickslow got her he knew the man would jump on the opportunity, the Seith Mage liked her too, both of them had talked about how frustrating a challenge Lucy was a few times, Bickslow was his closest friend, that he shared interest in the same woman, well, it wasn't the first time.

More than once he and Bix had semi faced off over a woman, they had similar tastes but the women were the deciders, either they loved Bickslows fun, carefree craziness, or they loved Laxus' quiet and rough personality. Sometimes they just preferred a body type, Bickslow was built like the gymnast he was, Laxus was built like the powerhouse he was.

They had never let it get between their friendship though. Tonight, Laxus had the luck of the night by far though and he had to shift out of asshole teasing mode or he'd fuck everything up for himself and he knew it.

He wanted to laugh at Bickslows position. Poor guy was going to be dodging the sword all night trying to keep Titania happy but really, if anyone could do it, Bix could, he was probably the Re-quip mages complete opposite and wouldn't take any of the blunt things the woman said to heart, Bickslow knew Erza well enough to know how to handle her. Laxus sure didn't envy him though as Erza discussed the chocolate that Bix knew well because he'd used the stuff countless times himself and always had a few bars stashed.

Glancing down at the bar she had he smiled slightly. "So are you going to want to try the chocolate? Kind of the whole reason all of us were told if we were willing to help with that we had to check that "Ladies choice" option on the card." He met her surprised look and made an honest effort not to look too damn hungry for what he knew that chocolate meant he'd get. "I promise I won't ravish you, but I would love to see what Fairy Tails princess tastes like."

Lucy blinked, looking down at the bar of chocolate. She'd made a sort of pact with her friends that they would all try it, sitting in the hot tub at Canas. She could hear Erza discussing it with Bickslow, who apparently knew the stuff pretty well since it came from his home country. Erza was going to kiss Bickslow, she knew already Cana was going to do a hell of a lot more than kiss Bickslows tall sexy brother if she had her way.

Here Lucy had Laxus sitting in front of her, hers for the night and the man was being…civil, sexy and flirty but she doubted he was capable of not being that way. He was sexy when he fucking blinked for Gods sake.

"Ok, I'd like to try it, Cana said she's had it before, with Bix in fact. But promise me something." She eyed him and tried not to lick her lips when those rainstorm eyes locked with hers. His brow went up and she gave him a challenging smirk with more confidence than she felt by far.

"No teasing about it. You've probably kissed a lot more women than I've kissed guys." She was shooting for a truce, if she could wrestle that out of this evening then it was worth her body being in a constant state of five alarm holy fucking shit the towns getting flooded insanity in the mans presence.

He actually smiled, real smile, with real humor in his eyes. Gods fucking help her, he was hotter that way than when he did the arrogant smirk, at least with the arrogance she had her annoyance to help her deal with it, a genuinely amused Laxus was just unfair.

"I promise I wont tease you about this…just this." He allowed picking up the chocolate. She snatched it out of his hand though with a grin at his surprised look. "No, I get to taste you first, It's my chocolate and I'm…curious." She admitted, blushing but with the vodka Cana had given her in her room and now a shot of tequila in her, Lucys mind was slowing from its usual fire drill pace.

"Oh really?" He quirked a brow, treading a thin line with teasing her but stopping himself.

"Really, open up "Thunder God"." She broke off a piece then and held it up to his lips and he let her slide it into his mouth, his eyes darkening as his lips closed around her finger, she felt one of his over sharp canines scrape against her skin and gasped slightly, pulling her hand back as if burned.

He reached up after a moment and ran his thumb over her lips, holding her chin and pulled her to him so she would open her mouth and then Lucy was really lost.

What little control she'd scratched together so far shattered as his lips slanted over hers and his tongue, covered in the decadent confection slid against hers. God he tasted like rain, rain and bittersweet dark chocolate, he smelled like sandalwood and ozone, like lightning and storms and she couldn't get enough.

She didn't even feel the moan slide up her throat until it left her, drifting into his mouth. They were supposed to go through twelve pieces of this, 6 times she would be drowned in his storm and she was already washed away with the first.

Oh Gods, I can't handle this, he tastes too good, he smells good, his eyes just make me melt, holy shit… Lucys mind was racing again, images of tearing his shirt open, climbing into his lap and really letting go carried in by the storm the man was. He was the only man in Fairy Tail she'd ever had fantasies about, and she knew it was because she'd firmly believed, he was way out of her reach, so somewhere in her head she'd thought it was safe somehow to indulge in some fantasies. She was seriously wrong.

She managed to pull back though, damn near threw herself a parade in her head for having the will power to do so too. Eyes fluttering open she met those storms of his and found them raging, threatening to carry her away.

He drew in a steadying breath and smiled "so what do I taste like, Lucy?" his voice was husky, it struck her right between the legs too when she heard him say her name, God she was worse than Cana.

"Rain, you taste like rain." She answered, and seriously, she deserved a parade, her voice didn't break and she didn't stutter she was fucking wonder woman. Teams were sandbagging her heart and her damn libido successfully it seemed. Yay her.

"My turn then." He said, she hadn't even seen him get the piece of chocolate, ok, so maybe the teams were too busy sandbagging and had to shut down less important things like noticing anything but the Dragon Slayer in front of her.

She opened her mouth and he put the chocolate in and she caught his finger just like he had hers, yep, watching his eyes darken, his smile falter and hearing his breath hitch? Oh hell yeah, Wonder woman had nothing on her, fuck that weak bitch, this was a level above in difficulty.

He didn't yank his hand away though like she had, just pulled his finger free and his smile recovered. Well, he was the Thunder God right?

She reached for him though, sliding her hand to his face and pulling him to her, his lips parted for her and she plunged in, gathering every bit of confidence she had and aiming to dominate.

God bless this chocolate, I swear I'll but a case of it. She felt and heard his moan come into her mouth, he didn't let her keep her advantage, but she held the kiss until they had to break for air, both breathless.

"Well?" She prompted, smiling at her own bold sounding voice. "You taste better than you smell, Strawberries…chocolate covered strawberries." He smiled. Once again her brain flew out her ears for a moment under that gaze, she'd formed a plan and scrambled for it, trying to catch her wayward intellect that was being strangled by her sex drive before she really did start ripping off his clothes and climbing into his lap.

"Ok, so that mystery is solved, I have a challenge for you." She said, elated her voice was as strong as it was.

Laxus tilted his head and looked wary "Ok, what would that be?" He asked.

"Did you see the little race cars they have? I'm betting I can beat you." She put on her best smile then, narrowing her eyes and he smirked at her.

"You're challenging a Lightning mage to a race? Think that's smart Blondie?"

She nodded "It's in se-plug cars Laxus, the person with the most magic energy has the edge in those, your kind of magic doesn't matter, and I'm betting as a Celestial mage? I can kick your ass."

Truth was she wasn't sure, sure she had a huge amount of magic energy because she was a celestial mage, but Laxus was still a Dragon Slayer, a little older than her and S-class so she wasn't sure how or if that would even the field a bit.

What it would do though is buy her distance from the intoxicating man and give her a way to vent this alarming amount of energy and tension inside her. She hoped so anyway.

"You're on." He stood and took her hand to help her to her feet. She grit her teeth, fuck, he was just being polite now and her body thrilled at the touch. Traitorous body, keep sandbagging the storm wasn't over.

With a glance at Levy and Gajeel she saw they were definitely enjoying the chocolate and holy fuck, Erza was in Bickslows lap, wrapped around the man kneeling so she was above him where she straddled him on the bench, had her fist in his hair and was holding his head back while she damn well devoured his mouth but he didn't look the least bit upset about it.

They went down to where the raceway was and while passing the dance floors Lucy saw Cana, She had herself wrapped around Bickslows brother, grinding against him and reaching up and grabbing his shoulder length black hair and yanking his mouth down to hers pretty roughly. Like his brother though, Cristoff didn't seem put off by rough handling.

Laxus leaned on the rail next to her a few minutes later, watching the cars shooting past them as they waited for their own. "Oh this looks like fun." He admitted. He hadn't been sure when she'd challenged him, but now he was, and while he could see he wouldn't have quite the advantage he'd like, he was still going to give her hell.

The cars had bumpers all around them and he could see some people actively trying to make others crash.

Lucy saw it too and he smile turned wicked, making his heart jump, she'd been surprising him at every turn so far. He had to admit he was grateful for the break from the intensity of before, his body wasn't listening to him well around her. It was something he'd noticed a few times when he'd been near her, while he never had issues even around women he knew he was going to fuck, that were all over him whispering dirty things to him, he'd felt himself getting hard like a damn teenager just kissing her before and that never happened to him.

He had more control than that, had for years, just…not around Lucy for some reason. It was another reason he'd always been a little nasty with her, keep her at a distance, she had a habit of hugging and stepping into peoples space, he saw her do it even with Gajeel who was NOT nice about people getting in his space, who Laxus had heard tear into her a couple times for it, but that didn't deter her.

Gajeel was soft with her, she regarded him as a friend and so she hugged him, had even planted a kiss or two on the mans cheek and forehead.

If she ever did that to him, he knew he'd have her slammed against a wall out of sight tearing her clothes off faster than she could apologize for getting into his space. One kiss, feeling those pouting lips on his skin once would have undone him for sure.

So undoing the distance he had built between them could be a mistake but Fuck it, he wouldn't get another chance like this, with her watch dogs busy elsewhere, knowing he was her date for the night thanks to the auction and not what they would perceive as his evil intentions.

Ok sure, some of his intentions were well into wickedness, the woman was gorgeous. He'd tasted that mouth, felt her tongue against his, now he was half mad wanting more, wanting to taste so much more of her, pull more than a soft moan out of her, rip screams from her, have her shrieking his name was what he wanted now but first, get her to see he wasn't just some arrogant asshole bent on making her miserable.

That she was treating him like she was shocked him, she really was as open and forgiving a soul as he'd ever met and he was grateful of it, had been silently thanking every God he could think of for this opportunity and vowing to himself not to waste it.

Her wicked smile as she watched the racing made his pulse jump. She really was as close to a perfect woman as any man could want. He had never dated much, stuck with the comfortable ease of one night stands and stayed clear of guildmates because that was a mess he didn't need but Lucy was worth the risk.

Deep down, for a while now, he'd wanted her, hadn't hoped for anything, but she was the first woman he'd ever met that he could see himself mated with, God the idea of putting a child into her made him damn near shudder so he refocused his attention on the cars.

They wouldn't be alone out there, would get 4 laps and would be timed against each other as well as other racers. When the attendant called them he leaned down by her ear "I am not going to be nice out there Blondie." He promised, She stopped, surprising him by looking him right in the eye, her hand on his chest making his breath hitch "Oh neither am I sparky, I'm putting your ass in a wall." She growled before spinning and walking swiftly after the attendant leaving him biting his cheek to get himself in check as he watched her beautiful ass swivel side to side under that clingy red dress she was in.

The idea of bending her over the high back of one of the cars and fucking her until she screamed was not going to help him win this. Delicious as it was.

They actually had cars big enough for a man his size, he would bet even Elfman would fit into one, and while Lucys car was a little smaller, it was probably a bit more nimble too so he kept that in mind as they waited for their light to start.

When the green flashed they both shot off into the fray. Lucy immediately targeted a driver in a blue car she'd seen was nasty, roared up behind him and clipped his right rear quarter, spinning him toward the wall and into it to immediately open space for herself.

Grinning with a strange sense of pride watching her Laxus had to pay attention then as two more men tried to pin him between them to "escort" him to some haybales ahead but slamming on his brakes then accelerating rapidly behind them he was able to sideswipe the man that had been on his left into the man who had been on his right and put both of them into the bales they had meant for him, taking off after Lucy with a dark grin.

The pair were ruthless, and while they didn't talk about of exchange a single word, they both decided to abandon going after each other and instead targeted every other racer on the track with them, hunting them like prey.

Lucy would run them down because she was faster, slow them down until Laxus got there then they would tag team them until they spun them into a wall. It was intensely good fun for both mages and Lucy groaned when the checkered flag came out waving them in.

She leapt out of her car, grinning to the attendant and rushed over to her impromptu team mate and jumped into his surprised arms laughing. "We dominated!" She declared brightly pointing to the scoreboards. Their take downs of other drivers were credited as "Kills" and both of them had more than double what any other driver had as well as Lucy having first place over all and Laxus having second only because his laps were slightly slower from plowing people into walls while she shot ahead for the next target.

Having staggered under the exuberant pounce of the blonde into the shadows of the walkway from the race track Laxus was captivated by the woman beaming in his arms. Her laugh rang like a bell in the walkway and having her look at him that happily completely drove all coherent thought from him.

She was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen, her ruthlessness on the track, the way she seemed to read him and work with him without a word said just floored him. That she was so delighted by their brutal victory also turned him on nearly as much as her soft curves pressing against his tall body and when her eyes stayed on his and the joy darkened into a soft burn, he kissed her.

He couldn't stop himself and she didn't object, her hands pushing into his hair and a heated moan coming from her that made his blood race. Turning to press her against the wall of the walkway her deepened the kiss, his lips slanting over hers, tongue pressing into her mouth and hers met it.

There were people coming into the walkway, other racers, probably people they'd put into walls. It wasn't the right place for this. He growled in frustration but pulled away, almost groaning at her whimper of protest.

Stepping back he put his forehead to hers "Lets get somewhere we can actually talk ok?" He asked, even to his own ears his voice was husky, ragged with want.

She nodded and walked quietly alongside him, her mind was in chaos. Everything had gone great, sure she hadn't really kicked his ass as much as every other person on that track but they'd just slid into team work and it had been too fun. Then she'd jumped on him, God why did she do that?

He led her back to the main resort area, where some people were enjoying walking around the massive atrium and pulled her into it, finding a spot by a fountain that seemed to satisfy him.

"I'm sorry I…jumped on you like that, I was just…" She started to apologize but he caught her and suddenly her mind was gone again, his warm lips were on hers and she was hopelessly swept up in him again.

She managed to pull back, not sure she was quite as happy about it as she had been when she'd done it earlier and met his eyes, she was confused, she honestly thought the man didn't like her, hadn't ever liked her, but when he kissed her it sure felt like that idea was wrong.

"You…Laxus…I thought you hated me." She managed. Ok, so wonder woman had bailed on her, probably used up all her get awesome cards on the racetrack back there, that and she was sobering up.

He shook his head, looking almost sad "No…I've never hated you Blondie, not ever." He said, pushing his hand through his hair and heaving a breath, sitting back against the edge of the fountain.

She moved over beside him and leaned against it herself, though the top was too high for her to hop up and sit on considering her shoes.

"Well then why tease me and treat me like shit for fucking years?" She asked in frustration. Now she was very confused, if he didn't hate her why the hell did he act like he did?!

"Because you're probably the least approachable woman in Fairy Tail." Laxus dead panned, he couldn't think of any other way to put it and he wasn't any good at softening things. He actually didn't like that when people did it, truth was truth, if it hurt than it probably needed to.

She gaped at him "I am not!" She denied, glaring at him, all of the churning heat swirling through her veins for the man starting to cool. Ok, perfect, yeah sparky, give me what I need to really go off on you.

"You don't think so? You know two months ago Bickslow got invited to attend a dance clinic with some famous dance team, Sergio something…" He was trying to remember. Lucys eyes widened "Sergio Dominez and his partner Ruella? Yeah they came to Magnolia, I tried to just get tickets to watch but they sold out too fast…" She breathed. She had so badly wanted to go to that but the tickets were way pricey and had sold out in minutes just to sit and watch the clinic. You couldn't participate unless invited and Bickslow had been invited?!

"Yeah that one, he got invited to participate and he wanted to ask you to go with him because he knew you had some training, when he went to ask you, tried to catch you on your own so he didn't catch hell from any of your friends…" He started telling her and Lucy suddenly remembered.

Lowering her head she looked at the ground and sighed "He tried to talk to me in the hall behind the bar, said he needed to ask me something but…Erza came looking for me and…"

Laxus was nodding "And thought he was trying to be a perv or some shit, slammed him into the wall and put a sword to his throat. He wasn't willing to get killed over asking you so he went alone."

Lucy was frowning, looked up at him with sad frustration all over her face.

"So see, I have a temper, it's something I've been working on but I know it, If I tried to talk to you in any way your fucking watchdogs thought was slightly out of character I'd have to deal with one or all of them…I would lose my temper dealing with that stupid shit and end up doing or saying something I didn't want to." He shook his head, not looking at her "Easier to just play the fucking part I was handed, none of them look at me twice if I act like an ass and at least I get some sort of interaction with you, put myself into your thoughts some damn way." He sighed, tilting his head back and closing his eyes.

It sounded too fucking childish, it was the way Lucys team was, he knew it, the whole damn guild did, no man in Fairy Tail was willing to try that gauntlet even as amazing as Lucy clearly was.

"I…They just care about me, want to protect me." She said quietly.

"I realize that Lucy, So I just dealt with it, never thought I'd get a chance to ever talk to you away from it but here we are and I'm telling you I'm sorry, for how I treated you, for how badly I teased you sometimes…" He smirked then "You're fun to tease though, especially when I caught you checking me out."

She gave him a half hearted glare "Yeah? You've stared plenty at my ass." She said.

He grinned now "More than your ass." His grin turned wolfish and she laughed.

"God…you actually wanted to say something nice to me and my fucking team kept you away? Now I really want to skin Natsu." She bit her lip, shaking her head and closing her eyes, her teams good intentions had cost her more than she realized.

"I'm going to talk to them, and not nicely." She vowed.

"Good idea. What about me then Blondie, willing to give me a chance? Let me spend some time with you without your team breathing down our necks suspecting every damn thing we do?" It was a genuine offer, and she stared at him in disbelief. This wasn't the Laxus that she'd been able to stay away from, this was the man she'd always suspected was behind that cocky smirk, the one she fantasized about, and it was terrifying that this…was the real Laxus.

Gods help her, because without that annoyance, she was helpless under those stormy eyes of his.

"I'd like that." She said before she could stop herself and nearly melted into a puddle at the smile it earned her.

He stepped around her then, hands grasping her hips and he lifted her up the few inches so she sat on the edge of the fountain. It brought her up almost even with his impressive height and her legs separated, the slit up each side of her dress giving her that without her dress riding up and he stepped between them, regarding her with eyes that totally ended her ability to think well.

"Then tomarrow, it's almost 2 am right now. Spend tomarrow with me?" He asked. She smiled, nodding and he leaned in closer, his mouth close to hers now. "11am, meet me at the entrance to the carnival pier out there, wear your swimsuit under your clothes too, sound good?" His eyes were searching hers and she nodded again, glancing down at his mouth, unable to stop herself and then he was kissing her and her arms wound around him as his closed around her.

He was like rain, that was the taste of him, being around him was like walking through a storm and his scent, that hard sandalwood and ozone, masculine and so unique to him it made her heart pound in her chest.

God his kisses just ruined her, the sandbags were swept away, the man was a hurricane against her weak defenses. Seeing him like he really was tonight had just wrecked everything she had in way of protecting herself, will power, all of it swept up in his storm.

When he deepend the kiss she moaned into his mouth, drowning in him and unable to come up with any reason not to now. When he started to pull back she had her hands in his hair and pulled hard, keeping his mouth on hers, drawing a growl out of him that swept through her like the lightning he was.

When she finally let go they were both breathing hard and he smiled at her, slowly shaking his head "Fuck Blondie… give a guy a chance to breathe." He chuckled and she cut him off, kissing him again just to shut him up. When she pulled back the wickedness was in her eyes too and it almost undid him.

"Tomarrow?" She asked,

He nodded, lips hovering near hers "want me to walk you back to your room?" He asked.

She smiled "Better not, if you did…I'd ask you to stay…" She admitted.

He smirked "And I would stay." He told her.

"And we would do thing we aren't ready for…" She sighed.

Laxus chuckled darkly "Oh I'm ready…" He said "But I don't think you are…so…Good Night Blondie." He kissed her, this time light, chaste, pulling her down from the fountain edge to set her on her feet. She was going to walk away but he pulled her back, one last kiss, soft and hot, setting in a slow burn she felt scorching her before she pulled away and smiled shyly up at him before turning to finally retreat.

He watched her leave the atrium and cross the lobby to the elevator, turning before she did and heading off toward the wing he was staying in. He needed to coldest shower he could get going because holy fuck had his world just been set sideways.