A Storm is Brewing

Months passed, and Katie and Steve came back every few nights to the Cirque, and whenever the Cirque moved, they simply followed mainly because of Mr Tiny's obsession with making sure he didn't miss anything. Through doing this, Steve was able to win back the trust of the freaks in the Cirque, and Katie was able to rebuild and even strengthen the bonds that she had with people like Rebecca and Darren, and even the relationship between herself and Crepsley. But the strongest bond that she had was between her and Evra. When she came back to the Cirque, she would spend most of the night curled up with Evra in his bed, or taking long walks with him and their friends, however this night was different. At this time, Katie and Steve were getting ready to go out and find the Cirque, when Mr Tiny suddenly walked in.

"Katie. Steve." Mr Tiny looked at them. "Where do you think that you two are going?"

"We are going for a ride on my motorbike." Steve told him as Katie looked in her mirror, tying her hair up.

"Who gave you permission?" Mr Tiny asked.

"Please Mr Tiny, it's getting stuffy in here, we just need some air." Katie told him, her voice sickly sweet.

"Alright, but be back before sunrise." Mr Tiny told them, after waiting for a few minutes, and then he gently patted Katie on the head and left.

"So that's how you get your own way." Steve laughed, as he looked back over at her when Mr Tiny had left.

"Well, it works with him." She smiled. "Now come on, I'm excited to see Evra."

"I wonder why." He smiled. "Have you two done the deed yet?"

"I have no idea what you mean." She told him, as she looked over at him.

"Have you and Evra had sex yet?" He asked her. "I mean, you two have been together for a while, and it's unusual for a couple in this day and age to have waited this long."

"No we haven't, but in case you haven't noticed Steve, I'm a lot older than you." Katie reminded him as they got onto his bike and she slid her arms around him from behind, closing her eyes as she felt the wind through her hair as Steve rode off.

Meanwhile back at the Cirque, Evra was tiding up his tent as Darren and Rebecca watched him.

"Spring cleaning?" Darren asked him, in a rather off hand manner.

"I need everything to be perfect for Katie tonight." Evra told him simply, not stopping his rather obsessive cleaning. "She will be here soon, so I don't have much time."

"Evra, she has seen your tent a mess a lot of times, why is tonight any different?" Darren asked him.

"Because, I want tonight to be the night."

"The night for what?" Darren asked.

"Oh my god, you want to do the deed with Katie tonight!" Rebecca guessed.

"Shh, Rebecca I don't want the whole Cirque to hear." Evra hissed. "Yes, I want to tonight, well I've wanted to every night, but this night it's harder to ignore."

"Is your snake mating instincts, kicking in?" She asked randomly and he sighed and nodded. "We understand, and so will Katie."

"That's why I'm trying to make it special for her, so she doesn't get the idea that I just want to do it because I'm more like a snake."

"And it will be, here I'll help." Rebecca told him, and she started to help him tidy up, and when it was over she helped him make the tent look romantic. They put rose petals on the bed and around the base of it, and candles on some of the surfaces, and Rebecca even burnt some Jasmine – Katie's favourite scent. They were stood back, admiring their handy work when they heard Steve's motorcycle pull into the grounds of the Cirque.

"Come on, they are here." Rebecca smiled, and she headed out of the tent to where Katie and Steve were standing by the motorbike.

Evra took one last look at the tent, and he sighed. "This will have to do; I hope that she likes it." He thought to himself, before he walked out of the tent.

After they had said their greetings to everyone, Katie made her way over to Evra and they gave each other a loving smile, before they hugged each other and shared a long kiss that held an equal amount of lovingness as their smile.

"Did you miss me?" Katie asked him, as she pulled out of the kiss, blinking her eyes open.

"Of course I did, Katie." He looked at her, his snake eyes finding hers. "Come to my tent tonight, I just want to lie with you."

She nodded, walking towards his tent with him, and she stopped looking around in surprise at seeing the candles and the rose petals, before a smile came to her lips as she smelt the Jasmine.

"Evra, what is all this?" She asked as she turned around to face him and she found him shutting the tent door.

"We have the Camp to ourselves, since everyone else is going to spend some time at the show, and well it's kind of that time of year for me when I want to...You know..." His cheeks got a tinge of red as he spoke, and he recognised how selfish he came across as.

She looked at him blankly for a few minutes, before she realised. "Oh, um...Well...Um..."

"I'm not asking you to have sex with me because of that though, I want it t be special for you and be because you want it to." He told her. "I love you Katie, and I want our first time to be special."

"It won't be that good Evra." She told him.

"What do you mean?" He asked as he walked to her.

"I'm still a virgin, I have been for centuries." She told him as she looked up at him.

"That won't matter to me." He whispered, leaning down and kissing her gently.

She lent up onto the tips of her toes and she kissed him back, moving a hand to knot into his hair using it to pull her closer. As the kiss grew in intensity, they both started to pull each other's clothes off, Katie finding it exciting to be able to touch the scales that covered Evra's body, and Evra getting excited at seeing what lay below her usually thick clothing. Katie suddenly tensed as she felt the softness of the bed sheets on her back, when Evra gently laid her onto the bed.

"We don't have to do this, you know?" Evra told her as he loomed over her, his jeans undone but still around his waist, and he looked up at her from where he was kissing her soft pale stomach.

"No, I want to...I'm just nervous...I've heard things, things about ones first time...They are what make me nervous."

"It'll be okay Katie, we will take this at your pace, and it will be as slow and as gentle as you want it to be." Evra promised, kissing her gently to try and push away her nerves and fear. After a bit of coaxing from Evra, he and Katie both rid themselves of their underwear, and they felt waves of pure bliss as they finally became one. After their very heated session, Evra and Katie were curled up together under the blankets of Evra's bed, Katie resting her head on the scales of Evra's chest.

"I love you." She whispered to him, as she looked up into the snake eyes that she loved so much.

"I love you too." He told her, kissing the top of her head and then her lips. "I'm sorry if I was too rough with you."

"You weren't." She smiled. "You were perfect." They stayed cuddled up like that until Katie and Steve had to leave, and by this time, Evra had walked outside with Katie and no one seemed to be any the wiser, apart from Rebecca and Darren, about what had transpired between the pair. When Katie and Steve rode off into the dark, everyone decided to call it a night and go to bed, but unfortunately, they were all oblivious to the face in the shadows that had been watching the whole show. Crepsley stopped outside of his tent, as he caught the scent of the person that had bared witness to what had happened, and he knew that this person was going to spark trouble, and it would be trouble that none of them would be able to stand at this moment in time.