Sitting on the bed, Mac thought about his life with Kaori, it had been good through all the times, he knew he had feelings for her but he was never sure of her feelings towards him, up until she said she loved him and the day they were married. Now, one year has passed and they were living in their new mansion of a home.
Kaori had filled up the entire walk in wardrobe and he only had only a quarter of his clothes in there next to her piles of clothes.
He suddenly heard his stomach grumble and he thought to himself to make a sandwich or something.
Unfortunately they didn't have any bread; fortunately they weren't far away from a convenience store so he decided to lock the house and go get some. Kaori had gone to race Psymon, who had challenged her to a race, she seemed rather uneasy with it though, well he didn't blame her, it was Psymon.
He walked through the snow and onto the streets, and he walked about a block before he walked into the store and grabbed the bread, he wasn't far from home when he heard a little tiny yelp.
He looked around in the snow but he couldn't see anything but he was sure it was a dog or something.
It seemed to be crying.
He took a couple more steps but then felt a bump on his leg. He looked down to find a little husky puppy, nibbling on his pants, he smiled, it was so cute.
"Hey there little guy, what'cha doing with my pants?" He laughed.
The little puppy seemed only a few weeks old and Mac wasn't even sure if it could see yet, it was so tiny, like the size of his palm.
It yelped as it tripped up on its own feet and it started to nibble on Mac's pants again.
"Shouldn't you be with your mommy?" Mac asked and then wondered if it was a stray.
There were a lot of wild wolves and huskies around here and most of them died from the cars and snowmobiles that tore their way through the thick blanket of snow.
Mac bent down and held the puppy in his hand.
He instantly fell in love with it and wanted to bring it home with him.
Would Kaori mind?
He didn't think she would.
"Come on, little guy I'll take you home and feed you." Mac smiled.
The puppy cuddled into his hands and then found the bread and started to try to get it open, Mac only watched and smiled at the puppy's efforts.
"Maybe you can have some when we get home, if you're good." Mac said and he walked up the driveway and unlocked the door.
He dropped the puppy and it walked very clumsily over to the stairs and knocked its head on the first step.
Mac laughed.
"Funny little guy." He commented.
He found some old cushions and laid them down in the office room and the puppy walked onto them and laid down and looked like it was asleep already.
"You must have been tired." Mac whispered and he smiled and went to the kitchen to make himself some food.
Up in the slopes Kaori was in no mood for playing, she had travelled up here to greet Sid, who up until now had been friendly but now she was starting to doubt her own judgement of him.
"Hey there, how are you?" Sid greeted.
"Hi, I'm good I guess." She answered.
"Well, how's Mac?" Sid asked rather smugly.
"Why would you like to know?" she asked.
"Just wanna know how he is," Sid smiled.
"I had to tell him that I was up here with Psymon you know. He gets a bad vibe from you," Kaori answered.
"And why couldn't you tell him the truth?"
"Because, if he knew it was you, he'd stop me and I don't know you nor does he, I think we'd like you more if we knew more about you." Kaori said.
"Um, what is there to know?" He asked.
"What was that on the plane?" she abruptly said.
"What's what?" he asked rather childishly.
"You know what I'm talking about." She glared.
"Oh you mean this?" He asked as he came a step closer and he place his lips on hers, she didn't have time to think but she felt his arms surround her and she suddenly realised what was happening.
She forced herself away and wiped her mouth.
"What? Why did you do that?" she yelled.
"I know you wanted it." He said.
Kaori was feeling all these things at once and what's worse she didn't know what it was she was feeling.
She was in love with her husband and then all of a sudden he kisses her and now she was totally confused what was going on.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"What do you think is wrong? You kissed me when I'm with Mac! How dare you!" she shouted.
Sid just stood there with a big smiled on his face.
"What are you smiling about?" she asked rather angry, which is a rare thing for her.
"It took a while for you to pull away, there's something there that craved me for a second, and it was the bad girl inside that Mac sealed away from you. I like that bad girl; she would have probably punched me in the face and then kissed it better." Sid started to laugh.
"I don't think I have a bad girl inside me. She sure as hell wouldn't kiss you voluntarily anyway! We both are with Mac! Even if she does exist, she only comes out in my dreams." Kaori flared but then wondering why she was talking to him about this weird subject, why would she bother explaining to him about a side of her that rarely ever gets shown. She didn't know him that well, why would she trust him with her secrets…if she had any?
"Kaori Nishidake…" Sid started.
"It's Kaori Fraser to you!" she shouted. She really wasn't in the mood for games this time.
"Kaori whatever, I know that badness is in there, I can bring her out if you'll let me. I know she'll love every moment outside of the cage." Sid finished.
"Would you stop referring to my spirit as if it's some wild and dangerous animal?" Kaori raged.
"But Kaori, the badness is a dangerous wild animal, it loves to be free." Sid said trying to sound spiritual, but he didn't get past Kaori's guard.
He took a step closer and rested his hand on her back; Kaori closed her eyes and only feared the worst.
But Sid just leaned his face close to hers and his lips were only a few centimetres away from her ear and his lightly whispered:
"I know what you want; I can give it to you,"
A surge of emotion came over her and it must have been the way how he whispered it or just his charm but she wrapped her arms around him.
Sid smiled and he returned the love.
He leant his face down and kissed her like how a lover would to his long lost love.
Kaori suddenly snapped out of it.
"What the hell?" she pulled away.
"Oh Kaori, I didn't know you were feeling that way…" Sid joked.
"NO! I didn't kiss you! You kissed me again!" she shouted.
"Yeah, but you kissed back." Sid smiled and looked at his hand, thinking how lovely it would look with a wedding ring on it.
"You tricked me! With your whispering stuff to hypnotise me!" Kaori screamed.
"I doubt it." Sid smiled again.
Kaori couldn't stand being around him anymore and she started to walk off but she made sure he saw the evil glare she threw him but he only smiled.
'She'll come back for more.' He thought.
She entered her house and suddenly she wanted to be in Mac's arms so badly.
"Mac!" she called as she removed her snowshoes, out came her husband with a half eaten sandwich hanging out his mouth.
"How was the race?" Mac asked.
"Oh, I won. Yeah, he wiped out so I won." Kaori lied.
"Cool, way to go baby." Mac congratulated her and he sat down in the living area and started to hook up the Xbox to the big massive TV on the wall.
"So what happened while I was gone?" Kaori asked.
"SANDWICH!" Mac called out.
"Uh, okay, you were hungry. Didn't have to shout I'm right here." Kaori smiled.
"Oh yeah I was hungry to." Mac laughed.
"Wait what?" she was suddenly interrupted by a little husky puppy the came running to Mac.
"Meet the newest Fraser, Sandwich." Mac stroked the puppy.
"You named the puppy Sandwich?" Kaori asked.
"I was hungry and all I could think about was a sandwich and the puppy was trying to get a sandwich to, so I named him Sandwich." Mac smiled.
Kaori loved him already; he was the cutest thing she ever saw.
"Where will he sleep?" she asked.
"Don't worry, I got some old cushions and set them up in the office area." Mac told her.
"He is so cute."
"I know, I found him, well, rather he found me. I think he got separated from his family and mistakenly thought I was his mom or something." Mac explained.
"Oh you poor thing." Kaori sympathised.
As soon as Mac got the Xbox set up, he and Kaori played Halo 3 and Kaori got surprisingly good and Sandwich just slept on Mac's lap.
It seemed like it was perfect family although Kaori felt a little empty, maybe Sid was right and she was never going to have fun out partying anymore. The wild girl with the constant smile on her face was fading away and walking away with Sid on the wild side and leaving her behind.
Was she craving the danger that Sid had offered her?
But while she had been lost in her thoughts, Mac had killed her character causing her to loose the game.
"Ha-ha, I win." Mac bragged.
But Kaori was still lost in daydream and Mac noticed her face totally spaced out he waved a hand in front of her but she didn't respond.
A wave of guilt washed over Kaori, she had kissed him. Even though she didn't initiate it, she kissed him back.
What was fate trying to tell her?
Mac wanted to know why had his wife completely phased out from the world and he leaned his face in close to hers.
Kaori suddenly snapped out of it and kissed him, she kissed him like there was no tomorrow and Mac was taken back by her instant and unexpected reaction but he enjoyed this, it had been awhile since Kaori had put all her emotion into one kiss. Mac had always known what she was feeling when she kissed him, this kiss had an edge to it, like it was on the verge of becoming something more than just a kiss and Mac wasn't sure whether to take the cue or not. But something else got him stumped; it was the feeling of confusion, and fear.
What possible reason did his wife have to fear? He vowed he'd never let anything hurt her or worry her but he guessed that promising to never let anything worry someone is probably impossible, it was human nature to worry and Kaori was definitely worrying about something.
But then Kaori's touch became raw and she crawled herself on top of him, pushing Sandwich off with a light shove and he obediently went for his bed.
"Whoa, Kaori, you sure?" He asked and Kaori nodded.
"You are the one I want. I will not love anyone else but you." She whispered and Mac took that as the cue to start.
Still in the back of his mind, it sounded like Kaori was trying to convince herself rather than him.
Maybe Psymon had said something to her.
But Mac still enjoyed it, he had waited so long and now that he was ready he surely wasn't, catching him off guard like that and his halo game was still playing.
But he didn't care; being in passion with is wife was far better than a video game could ever be.
Kaori pushed him further down onto the couch forcing him on his back and she was the lady blanket on Mac's now shirtless body.
She rubbed her hands through his hair and was about to kiss him again but then something made her slip and both of them fell off the sofa, onto the hard silver floor. They both laid there laughing and yet still locked in an embrace.
The late sunset looked upon their house with a fading smile and the two lovers were deep in passion, letting their emotions show and keeping balance as they walked clumsily up the stairs, still locked at the mouth and making their way to the bedroom.
That night was one of the most romantic nights Kaori had ever experienced and she loved it.
The morning greeted them with a beautiful sunrise and Kaori awoke in the arms of Mac, even though fast asleep, he still looked like the kind and young gentleman Kaori knew him as, the steady rise and fall of his chest was in perfect rhythm and Kaori rested her head on his perfect hairless chest.
His short hair was all matted by the action and the movement of his head last night but the sun rays that glowed on it made his hair seem reddish gold.
As much as she wanted to stay in this perfect moment, she had to try out the new bathroom and that new shower.
She got up out of bed and turned the shower on and made it sure it was 98 degree water before she even set foot in it.
The high pressure from the hose was bliss on her body and it was pure heaven but she had felt more pleasure than this, after last night, nothing would ever come close to it.
Mac sure did know what he was doing.
She dried herself off and went out to her bedroom to find the bed empty.
"Mac?" she asked.
She explored the big house and found him in the living area, picking up the clothes off the floor and then picking Sandwich off them who kept hopping back on, thinking it was game of some sort.
"He is so cute." Kaori said.
"I know. But you know Sandwich is cute too." Mac joked.
Kaori made her way to the kitchen and decided to make some breakfast.
"Hey Mac, how would you like another pet?" Kaori asked.
"Um, what sort of pet?" he called back.
"How about a kitten?" she asked.
"Yeah. That'd be cool." Mac agreed and Kaori smiled, she always liked cats.