Chapter 3: Waking Dreams
His mind was racing again, but this time, he wasn't nervous. The soft, sweet kiss she had pressed so tenderly to his lips made his mind reel with the weight of it, pressing thoughts into his head with alarming speed, thoughts of passion, love, and more pressingly, lust. She watched as the turmoil crossed his face for a moment, she could see his struggle to maintain control, and she smiled as she realized the source. She looked down, blushing, and reached into a pocket in the dress she wore, retrieving a pass key to her apartment here on the citadel. She silently thanked the gods for the practicality of the drell in giving these garments so many pockets, before looking back up at him, his face barely any calmer than it had been moments before, and she felt a slight twinge of urgency, lest she not speak soon enough, and his face turn back to the calm stoicism she always saw when he had finally regained control.
"Thane.", she said softly and simply, moving her hand so the passkey could easily be seen in front of him. He looked at the hand in front of him, and it took a moment of concentration to realize what she was holding. As it registered what the small, flat object was, he turned back to look at her, his eyes burning for her as she looked back, a playful smirk pulling at her lips. "Please, siha, do not tease me. If you do not want me with you tonight, tell me now, and I will walk away...For now.", his eyes seemed to bore into her soul with emphasis on that last bit. "I do not want to push you too quickly", he added, almost as an afterthought. She could see the war for control over himself in his eyes.
She smiled, reaching her left hand up to trace along the hard ridge behind his right cheek, moving slowly, deliberately, causing his eyes to close and a soft moan escape his lips. As she reached the side of his neck, she suddenly slipped her fingers behind his neck and pulled his face towards hers, her lips meeting his gently but fiercely, his eyes opening and going wide in surprise. Within moments she parted her lips to trail her tongue across his bottom lip, then his upper lip, finally teasing between his lips, as if begging him to open his mouth. He eagerly complied, his tongue darting out to meet hers between his lips, starting a slow and sensuous dance with her tongue, his curling around hers, creating a constant sea of motion, waves lapping against the shores of their lips, the moon no longer the master of their tides.
She sighed almost peacefully as his arms entwined her, one hand on her neck, the other on the small of her back, pulling her into him, making them one. She slipped the pass key back into its pocket and joined her hands behind his neck, at first gently pulling him closer, before resigning both hands to the delicate task of tracing the hard ridges behind both cheeks, and as tightly as he had her pulled to him, she could feel and hear the immediate effect that had on him as she felt him harden against her, heard and felt his drell vocal chords flex and vibrate, rumbling with a desperate groan against her mouth.
His hand on her neck slid slowly down to her suede-clad breast, at first gently cupping it in his hand, then slowly starting to massage it, and rolling her erect nipple through the leather gently with his fingers, forcing her to break the kiss momentarily as she gasped and moaned, pleadingly looking at him, hungry, no, starving for so much more than this. He lowered his hand and felt for the pocket containing the pass key, finding it quickly and deftly lifting it from its hiding place, bringing it up to flash in front of her. She eyed it with the intensity of a thousand suns, snatching it from him, grabbing his hand, and starting into a brisk walk in the direction of her apartment.
They had garnered a few looks on the way to her apartment, it was obvious what they were about to do, and more than one person had quietly snickered or looked longingly at the couple as they passed by.
They were past caring, past sanity, they both needed this more than anything in the universe right now.
As they finally got close, rounding a corner, she pointed to indicate which was hers. He smelled water close, and felt the air thicken with moisture as they pressed on, and he was rewarded with the sight of a medium sized, well-situated apartment, which had a mostly glass roof, and a waterfall flowing over the entire building, except for a small area around the front door that could only have held the water back by a tech barrier, which glowed dimly in the moon-lit night. His eyes widened at the sight, he stopped in his tracks, and she looked back at him and smiled, remembering the same expression on her face when she'd first seen the place. She tugged a little with her hand and that seemed to rouse him from his stupor long enough to get to the front door, as she unlocked it and stepped inside.
As he followed her in, he was struck by the smell he had failed to recognize on her earlier in the day: it was amber resin, a very rare substance that he had smelled in only one other place. "Earth.", he thought to himself as the heady scent curled around him like incense. He immediately recalled one of his marks on Earth having this scent on her, in her house, and all around her. He had loved the smell when he first experienced it in that place of death and sorrow, but now, it was his siha that carried the scent. A new, good memory to tie the sweet perfume to. He smiled. He loved making good memories, it helped so much when times were bad to be able to hold on to those memories, even if only for a moment.
This thought process had lasted only moments, and she hadn't noticed it. She turned to him, smiling happily to see him standing there, in her domain, in her place of peace. She gently led him towards the spiraling stairs, and up them, slowly ascending to her bedroom loft beneath the waterfall.
A/N: AAAAGH! CLIFF HANGER! :P
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