NightLover

After the eternal calm and defeat of Vegnagun, there were times when the Gullwings weren't quite needed. So to keep herself busy, Rikku stays at the Djose Temple every now and then to tick around with the machine and help out. Her father suggests she do it, he said Gippal could keep a good eye on her. But what happens when no one's watching him? Rikku learns a secret about Gippal that even he doesn't know. Well didn't know until now.

Chapter 3: Breaking Point

*Giggle*

"Ugh" Gippal groaned for the 14th time that day. Since the whole Cid chasing him around the faction and temple debacle, girls have been googly-eyed and whispering. He knew there were crushes but seeing a machine faction leader running half naked from a father followed by his barely clad daughter, he's been the talk of the temple.

He's avoided Rikku and Cid since that day. With much effort when it came to Cid. He's been making unscheduled visits to the faction and making Gippal seem like a prisoner under watch. He sighed as he reached his office. His arm was still a bit sore from the major stab Cid gave him. He lost a lot of blood quickly and passed out. When he woke up, Rikku was gone and he was resting peacefully in his bed. Potions work wonders.

He yawned. It had been a long day but he had avoided sleeping as much as possible. He couldn't feel safe behind a locked door anymore because of the thief who snuck in his room and put him in this predicament. But was she fully to blame?

'No…' Gippal sighed. He wanted her. Still did. Badly. His nights consisted of her in his dreams…. Having her in his dreams. He started setting up tripwires outside his bedroom door so if he went on one of his walks to her quarters, he'd trip and wake up. Something he should've done much earlier.

He sighed walking over to his bedroom and disposing of his shirt to the side. Wincing at the soreness he felt from his healed wound. He walked to the bathroom and his room, tiring from the sleepless nights. He opened his medicine cabinet and reached for a particular bottle that he'd been avoiding for the past few days. Tonight may be the night he used it. He wasn't needed tomorrow. He could sleep enough to hold out a few more days. Until he figured out what the hell he was going to do to correct this.

He popped two pills with a sigh and downed it with a bottle of water from his nightstand when he came back into the bedroom. He needed this sleep. He wanted it. Badly. He lied down on the bed and put the cover as far over his head as he could.

'Just let it go' He told himself. And just like that he drifted off.

-0-0-0-

'Gippal….'

Blurry words broke the sound barrier of the darkness.

'Gippal…'

A familiar noise. A familiar voice. But where?

'Gippal…'

A third call and his eyes opened. But yet he seemed to have a blurry vision he couldn't quite blink away. He looked up from the pillow his face was buried in. A blur of blonde and white, he didn't quite register who it was. Those sleep pills were much stronger than he expected. He forgot how much they helped him sleep. But at least he hadn't moved.

"What-…my bed…. cid's girl…" He tried to ask. He thought the question came out clearly but he seemed to be wrong. He blinked a few more times, rolled on his back and stretched.

"That wasn't English." Rikku's voice said. He knew it was her. She was the only one who felt comfortable enough to barge in his room like this. Only her.

"I said…" He sighed clearing his throat. A few more blinks and shapes came to his eyes. Yet the grogginess didn't leave him. He felt like he'd had a few. "What are you doing in my bedroom?"

"I wanted to talk."

"Now?" He rolled with his back facing her and peaked at the clock on his night stand. 2 am. Nope. Not doing it. "No."

"Gippal. I need to get some things off my chest-" Rikku urged. But Gippal groaned annoyed.

"I said no." He sighed and threw the covers back over his head.

"But-"She began.

"No." He said again firmly.

"I'm not leaving!" She fussed.

"Don't leave and I'll probably fuck you in my sleep. Your choice. My nut." He said so quickly, he didn't register how harsh it was coming out.

She was quiet for a moment and he groaned thinking about what her face would look like. He pulled the cover from over his head to find a beautifully sad sight. Rikku, in her white tank and yellow boy shorts with her hair loose and tussled, sat on the side of his bed fiddling with her fingers. Her eyes never left her hands.

"Don't cry, Cid's-"He began. He was groggy but he knew when he had hurt someone.

"I'm not going to cry!" She lied. She put up a good front but he saw how her eyes glistened in the midnight of his room.

"…Ok" He said. Even though he wanted to call her bluff. A few minutes pass and he doesn't speak, neither does she.

"You…. You were my …. I had never done it. And I know you have but…. Now you treat me like… I wasn't the kid you would…. Help fight off bullies back at home. Things have changed." She whispers in a confused mess but Gippal knew what she meant. Funny thing about Cid's girl, he always did.

He sighed and sit up on his side facing her. Something that made him incredibly dizzy but he passed over it.

"I remember more than just helping but we can go with your story." He gave his charming Gippal grin and he could've sworn he saw a peak of a smile. Then he knew he might get hell in the morning for it but he knew what she needed.

"Come here." He told her. He lifter the covers for her. Just then he heard slight thunder. It hadn't rained in a minute in Djose. "I know you don't like sleeping during this thunder…at least not alone."

She hesitated.

"I'll be good." He smiled. He really wanted to sleep anyway. She still hesitated. "And if I don't I give you permission to nut-check me."

She finally showed a small grin, then slowly proceeded to crawl into bed with him. She turned her back to him in the position they usually did when they were younger but Gippal noticed things had grown since then.

"Turn to me. I don't think I can sleep but something else wont if you're rubbing against it." He murmurs to her. She doesn't ask. She simply turns and buries her face in his chest as he enveloped her under a strong arm. His smell filled her nose and she had to withhold a quiver but she knew he was saying 'nothing changed. I'm still Gippal'. So she left him be… for a little while.

She did want to ask one thing. Which she only found words for after a few moments. Gippal was drifting in and out of sleep.

"Was I just a nut for you?" She whispered. He took a second to respond which almost worried her if he had even heard him. She almost accepted he was sleep until his voice reached her in a soft tone she hadn't heard before. He pulled her closer, simply saying "No, Cid's Girl. You weren't just a nut."

She smiled to herself. Then said one last thing.

"I have a name."

He simply chuckled. "Ok, Cid's Girl." Before trying to fall back asleep.

-0-0-0-

Gippal doesn't know for how long he was asleep but he was awoken by a sweet scent and a soft pair of lips brushing against his. Instinctually he responded. The kisses were slow. Testing the waters. Small hands touched his abdomen and caressed him in a way that made him groan. He forgot where he was and almost felt he was still dreaming as his found a pair of subtle butt cheeks beneath cloth. He pulled them closer to move against his member, but it was when the kissing got intense and a body climbed on top of him that he remembered where he was and who he was with. He opened his eyes as the realization hit him and found a goddess on top of him. A goddess he couldn't have…. Shouldn't.

"Ri-"He said between kisses. "I can't"

He pushed her off him. A little more roughly than he wanted to but he panicked.

He flew out of bed. Stumbling with the covers around him and crashing to the floor momentarily.

"No!" He said regaining his footing clumsily. Knocking over a few things from his end table.

She looked at him confused.

"No, don't look at me like that. We can't do that!" He ran a hand through his hair. His raging hard on pressing against his…. Oddly undone pants. How did she manage that?

"Gippal…"

"What are you thinking? Did Cid chasing me around the faction not register to you?" He almost caught himself yelling at her. "We don't-Can't do this!"

"You said…. I wasn't just a nut." She looked confused and hurt.

"That doesn't mean get one!" He rebutted. "That's not our dynamic. That isn't what you get from me. You're Cid's Girl. Cid's Kid. Not my girl."

She looked around then quickly got out of bed. She grabbed something from the floor. His shirt?

She began to rush out his bedroom. "It doesn't seem so hard to do it with random girls. Just me…."

He goes after her with a frustrated growl. He hurt her again.

"Listen, Cid's Girl!" He grabbed her wrist to stop her from leaving and another furiously came across his face.

"Rikku! R-I-K-K-U! Rikku!" She yelled at him. "And it's been that since we've met. Since the day you kicked dirt in my eyes at the playground and the definitely since the day you took my virginity!"

The anger boiled in Gippal. He couldn't hold it. The sleepless nights and sexual frustration had built to its boiling point.

"I didn't ask for it! It was just-"

"Another nut!"

"NO!" He yelled over her. He looked away trying to calm himself to no avail. "I didn't want this!"

"But you wanted to sneak in my room and finger me!" She hit his chest. "I was good enough then but not now! You treated those other girls better than me and you treat me like just a one night stand!"

"What do you want from me?!" He tried to hold her hands as the hits kept coming.

"To not just be a nut!"

"FINE!" Gippal yelled at her with frustration before he took her face in his hands and gave her a kiss that would've made even Shiva burn with desire.

Rikku almost lost her baring and footing. Gippal however was so heated he didn't notice. He moved his hands from her face to grip her thighs and pick her up to straddle him. She had no choice but to hold onto him to not fall as he walked somewhere she couldn't see. She heard things hit the floor before he set her down on his desk. She tried to scramble away but her body couldn't act quickly enough. Or probably refused to. Because before she knew it, he had took her pajama shorts and panties off in one swift motion and had begun a kiss on her neck, sure to leave a mark.

"Gippal…. "She shakily got out as she gasped for air she was previously deprived of. "What are you doing?"

"Making you way more than a nut." He growled. "Now shut up."

He descended lower. And she got angrier yet not at him. Her anger became toward how her body reacted when he got on his knees and delved into something she never expected him to with his mouth. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head. Her toes curled. And she found her hand gripping his head for stability as she fought not to come right then and there. And she didn't know how long he was down there, all she knew is that at some point her legs buckled and she bit her bottom lip from crying out in ecstasy.

But before she got a break, Gippal stood, unsheathed his member and slid it into her so smoothly. She couldn't hold back that cry. He held her with firm hands and she couldn't run from the thrusts he was giving her. The desk shook with the ferocity he did it with. Thrust after thrust, he was glistening with sweat as his muscles flexed from the motions. Her hands found his back and her nails his skin. Digging into him and more than likely leaving marks but it didn't deter him. In fact the growl he let out at the probable pain made her just as turned on as he was. He ,however, wasn't finished with her as her body shook for another orgasm. In one motion, like he had been trained to do so, he pulled her legs together, turned her over to set her feet on the ground and pumped into her like an animal from the back. The desk began to rock with each pump. She was sure she would have bruises but the pain was nowhere near the pleasure. Whatever he was proving, he was getting his point across.

They must not have heard a knock because Nhadala had come in looking for Gippal and the source of the commotion and got an eyeful.

"Gipp-"She came in saying but Gippal, who had apparently heard the door open sent out strong, angry and absolute instructions.

"Get out and hold the rest of my fucking calls and meetings."

She didn't ask. In the shock she closed the door and said nothing further.

Rikku felt him speed up and then in a grunt so rough and hard, she thought he may have died, he came into her. She thought with how hard he came, he would pause but he had other plans. Once he finished, he took a few shaky steps back, bringing her up to face him. He didn't say much. He simply told her.

"Go to the bathroom. Get in the shower." He was clearly out of breathe.

"Gippal… "Rikku stuttered out. "What are you doing?"

"Showing you that you're not another nut." He told her before slightly pushing her jelly legs in the direction. She almost stumbled with the sudden movement and he didn't wait for her to regain her mobility. He picked her up bridal style and took her into the bedroom toward the bathroom for much more evidence. Much, much, more.

TBC….

Sorry on the wait for this chapter but I got a burst of inspiration and it all flowed out. This isn't going to be a 3-part as you may be able to tell but it won't last long I don't believe. I'm still working on the other stories but I really write when I'm inspired to. I don't want to put out crap. So tell me how you liked this chapter. What are your thoughts on the development? R&R

XOXO,

Ayata-Ayumi