Thank you to xXxSomethingSpecialxXx for your review of Chapter 16, I really appreciate when someone takes the time out to review :D. This is the M chapter, I don't know if their will be more it just depends on how creative I can be :D
Chapter 17:
That night after a spectacular turkey dinner and very detailed description of how Jackie and Eric's liaison began, the pair sprinted down the street towards Jackie's apartment. They were both bundled up for the cold weather but a light snowfall had begun late that afternoon and was picking up momentum.
"Can you believe them?" Jackie said through chattering teeth, her arm tucked tightly into Eric's. "First they bet on us getting together and then they grill us for four freakin' hours!"
Eric just smiled at her, "Unbelievable."
"I mean you would think that Brooke has more sense than to a agree to anything with that idiot. Well, she agreed to marry him and bear his children so I guess, I'm wrong. But still! I would at least have thought she would have more tact than that," she continued as they reached the front of the complex.
"Absolutely," Eric concurred, holding the glass door open for her.
Jackie started up the stairs before him, still babbling away, "I swear one day I really am going to kill Michael. Why did I ever date him? What was I thinking? Eric, are you listening to me?"
She had stopped turning the key in the lock and faced him.
"Of course, I am. You know how Kelso is, Jackie. We both do. That's how he operates. Just pray he's still stupid enough not to find some way to burn us with today sometime later."
Jackie nodded as she let them into the apartment.
Once inside, Eric grabbed Jackie's arm and spun her to face him.
"Hi."
She smiled up at him, "Hi."
He proceeded to kiss her senseless, pushing her up against the wall near the kitchen while pulling off his jacket and scarf as she wrestled with her own, all the while not breaking their kiss.
"Hey, Eric?" Jackie whispered, as he turned his attention to her neck.
"Hmmm?" came the reply.
"Do you- ooh, right there- ummm, will you go with me? When I go back to Point Place for the wedding?" she asked as she ran her hands through his hair.
Eric pulled back slightly to look into her eyes. "I thought you'd never ask," he said teasingly.
She sighed and pulled him tightly to her, "Thank you." She pulled back again, "Let's get our pajamas on and I'll make us some cocoa, we can see what's on TV tonight."
"Sounds like a plan," Eric said as she headed towards her bedroom to change.
He smiled at her retreating back. He was glad to know that she wanted him with her when she went back to Point Place. It made him feel needed and wanted, and it was all he could do to keep from break into a dance knowing that she wanted to be with him.
Giving into impulse, Eric did a quick little jig before going to his suitcase to pull out his pajamas.
Ten minutes later Jackie and Eric were once again curled up on the pull out, sipping hot chocolate and watching the Waltons: Thanksgiving Story.
"Can you imagine living in the mountains?" Jackie asked distastefully, "all those bugs… and washing your clothes in the stream? Yuck!"
"Not to mention all the fresh air and sunshine," Eric said playfully, "Ow!" Jackie had
elbowed his in the ribs. "Play nice or I'll be forced to wrestle you down again."
Jackie turned toward him with a raised eyebrow, "Is that a threat?"
"Oh, that is so a promise, little lady," he challenged back.
He only briefly glimpsed Jackie's smirk before she pounced. They wrestled around on the bed for a few minutes. Eric wasn't putting up much of a fight but why would he? He had a beautiful woman pressing herself on top of him and he wasn't about to keep that from happening.
Jackie ended the battle as she pressed his lips to his, taking advantage of his surprise. Eric's arms immediately went around her pulled her more closely to him.
But as soon as their kisses began to get more heated and Eric's hands were both up Jackie's shirt she stopped him.
"Jackie, wh-"
She put a finger to his lips, "Not here."
She jumped up off the couch and grabbed his hand. Jackie pulled him into her bedroom and shut the door. Eric stood watching her flip on the radio and adjust the volume to play lowly in the background. A little stunned, he watched her pick up a lighter and flick the flame over a tall pink candle.
When she turned back towards him she was smiling seductively and Eric swallowed the lump in his throat. She sauntered toward him slowly.
"First of all, Eric, I just want you to know that I have really wanted this all week long. And not just because I'm lonely or whatever other reason. It's because seeing you…" she placed her hands on his chest and toyed with the button on the front of his pajama shirt, "and spending all this time with you, it's been like something out of a dream I once had. A dream that I've come to realize I still really want."
Eric nodded as she continued.
"I didn't think I wanted this kind of future anymore, but I still do. And Eric?"
"Yes?" he asked as he smoothed his hands up her sides.
"If you aren't sure about how you might want this to work out in the future then we need to stop. I'm not going to set myself up again. I'm not trying to scare you off, but you know my reasons and you know what it is I am asking."
Eric grasped her hands that were on his chest and pulled her towards him, making her look up at him. She looked a little apprehensive and he didn't blame her. He did know what she was asking. She needed to know that this was going to go somewhere. That she wasn't wasting her time again on someone who didn't see what she saw for the future.
In any other situation this new development would definitely fall somewhere in the "psychotic" range but because they were who they were, Eric understood and on the same note, he agreed. He wanted to know that this was something that would go somewhere.
And for once it wasn't because they would have their friends' feelings to consider if this relationship really were just a fling, the consequences were non-existent to that end. He could only think at this point that this was happening because they were ready. It was now or never and both stood poised to take that plunge.
"Jackie…" he whispered as he placed a soft kiss on her lips, "Yes, I do see what you see."
The smile that she gave him then was worth everything he had ever gone through in his life.
Pure, uninhibited happiness and all directed at him.
"Oh, Eric!" Jackie exclaimed and launched herself at him, causing the pair of them to tumble backwards on to Jackie's fluffy pink bed.
She kissed his face over and over again, causing him to chuckle and roll them over so that he lay on top of her.
"I'm guessing that was a good answer?" he asked, running a finger down her cheek.
Jackie nodded, "A very good answer. Now if we can just finish what you started."
"What I started," he asked with mock surprise, "You kissed me first, you started this all."
"Did not."
"Did too."
"Did not."
"Did too."
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Okay, fine but I know you wanted to kiss me so you thought it first."
"No, I di- yeah, okay I did." Eric said with a smirk.
"All right then. Now where were we?"
In the next few minutes clothes flew over the edge off the bed and Jackie's giggles where the only sounds to be heard.
Finally, both lay together naked.
Eric's sucked in a breath.
"What?" Jackie asked, nervously.
"You're so beautiful. I want you so much, Jackie," Eric responded.
And in his mind he knew he had never seen anyone as beautiful as her. All his time with Donna and his other short-lived relationships, it was all building to this moment, finally being with the woman he knew he would spend his whole life pleasing.
Jackie giggled, and rewarded him with a passionate kiss. She drew him closer to her, their bodies pressed tightly together. She could barely catch her breath for the feeling of heat that rose rapidly from inside her and spread all through her body.
"Eric…" she whimpered.
When he looked back on this moment years later, he found that it was when she said his name that he realized that this was it, there was no turning back and that he didn't want to.
He wanted to move forward… with her.
Jackie's breathing sped up and she made a quiet squeak as he pushed himself into her. The flame overtook them both and they lay there for a few seconds to collect themselves, to revel in the feeling of their union.
"Oh, Jackie," Eric breathed huskily into her ear, as he pulled her legs up around his waist and gently rocked into her.
She whimpered in response, pulling his chest down to hers and seeking out his lips. Their kisses turned almost violent as Eric's thrusts gained speed and Jackie's nails sank into the flesh of his back. They raced towards completion, both needing to feel the release that, in their minds, would meddle them together and form the bond that they both had been searching for.
After what could have been forever, he couldn't tell because time meant nothing and the pleasure of Jackie was the only thing that existed, Eric could feel Jackie's inner walls tense up; her urgent squeaks were in his ear and at his neck as she kissed him. He felt the muscles in her legs seize up and her head fell back against his arms as she reached her peak.
"Eric!' she cried as she let the waves wash over her.
The combination of her pulsing heat, the look of complete ecstasy on her beautiful face, and the way his name fell from her lips pushed Eric over the edge as Jackie rode out the rest of her orgasm. He grunted into the crook of her neck and whispered her name as he reached completion.
Neither one moved for long minutes afterward, allowing their breathing to slow and bodies to cool. Finally, Eric lifted his face out of the crook of her neck and placed soft kisses all over her face. He tried to roll away but she wouldn't let him.
"No, stay like this… I've- I always wondered what it would feel like to stay like this…. You know, afterwards," she coloured slightly as she said this.
Eric felt a little swell of happiness as he realized he would be her first in this respect.
"Okay."
He shifted a little so that he had most of his weight off of her but so that they remained joined together.
Jackie smiled, "Mmmm, this is nice."
"Mm-hmm," Eric said, caressing her face with his hand.
And so they remained, entwined with each other, their bodies spent, as they allowed sleep to take them.