Yay! Chapter 2 is finnnaaallllly out! Wheeeww... after several agonizing months, geez... I was supposed to upload this chapter around March or April when my flash drive went kaput... Ok enough of that, well chapter 2 doesn't contain much rated M, just a little warm-up for the 2.. Rated M's going to be read in chapter 3, and the good news is that it would only take me..ummmm-lets see- more or less 2 or 3 weeks, yet I'll promise that it would be worth the wait.

Hey, hey thanks for reviews you sent, it really encouraged me to add another chapter on this one.. YAYAY! Anyways, here is the 2nd chapter of SS, hope that you'll enjoy reading it.. : Don't forget R & R please!

Disclaimer: I don't really own TOA and its characters, give the credits to Bandai Namco..

Jade was about to take another sip from his glass when he realized that he had company. He turned to his left in time to see a familiar figure retreating her way to the exit. Hmm—the lady was well too familiar to him but the suit that she was wearing wasn't and he does admit to himself that it looks better than the one that she usually prefers to wear whenever their group uses the place…

"Hello Tear, I never thought that any of you would still be awake to use the spa. Would you want to join me, the water's good." Jade cheerfully called her.

Tear stopped on her tracks and turned around to face him her face blushing angrily with her mixed feeling of shyness and embarrassment. She wants to decline his offer but thought that she would probably would sound rude to him. 'It's the Colonel anyway, what could possibly happen?' she thought to herself as she approached Jade.

The full sight of her figure made Jade draw his breath back and felt the baser instincts he pushed away these entire years surge back into him. However he shook these thoughts from his head. He had too. Tear was too young for him that he knew that he was practically old enough to be his father.

That aside he could actually tell how embarrassed she was when he saw her wearing that skimpy swimsuit, he could tell that it was the swimsuit that the Emperor had provided her when she got her spa membership card. She probably thought that she would also be alone in the spa that she decided to wear it instead of the one she usually wears. But now that she found out that she wasn't, she probably felt ashamed of herself…

He too could relate on the way she felt, that's the reason why he never ever allowed himself to be seen by the others swimming with only his black Speedo; but ashamed? No, 2nd Division Commander Colonel Jade Curtiss of the Malkuth Imperial Forces, was never ashamed of anything and if it will come to that he would always make things seem that it was perfectly made for him. Well Anyways…

Tear was nearing Jade when she noticed the older man's discarded robe on a nearby bench and the bottle of liquor beside him. 'Had Jade been drinking? His robe—does that mean-' her thoughts trailing off as she remembered the small talk that she, Anise and Natalia had before.

"Oh, is something the matter?" He asked Tear with his ever present unreadable grin on his face. "Don't tell me that you've been working with such wild fantasies over this old man." Jade took another sip of the brown liquid.

"No, and I don't want to waste my time thinking about those kinds of things." She replied quickly as she tried to hide her embarrassment with her military facade.

"Funny that because I've been working on my own." Jade took another sip from his drink. Tear knew that the colonel meant it as a joke so decided to shrug it off. She went beside him and sat silently on the ledge as she tried to think of anything to say so that Jade wouldn't broach the subject of her swimsuit. But as she sat, Jade couldn't help but gaze at her breasts which was too tantalizingly close to his face. With this Jade took a big gulp of his drink to avert his attention.

They stayed quietly for some time when Tear finally broke the ice. "So what brought you here Jade?"

"I've been also wondering about the same thing." He said coyly.

"About your reason for going here at this time of the night?" she asked curiously this time.

"Nope, I was trying to think about the same thing, about your reason for going here in this time of the night." He replied. Tear looked at him slightly off; she knew very well how the Colonel hated to have his little privacy interrupted, most especially when drinking; but then again with the tone of his voice, she knew that he welcomed her company. "Anyways I'm quite sure that we had our own reasons, and it looks like that it pointed at the same direction." He finished.

"Oh-" Tear took a double take on that one; she couldn't say what the older man meant. Whether was it their desire for a quick swim or a chance to wear the "special" swimsuits that Peony had given them? Tear looked down on the pool and saw that the water was still enough to make out vague figures of the floor. She wandered her eyes underwater to help her settle her uprising embarrassment, until her gaze caught Jade's feet and then started to look upwards.

'The one that had the biggest cock was Jade-' fragments of the girls' conversation flashed into her mind.

Tear's cheeks instantly colored when she noticed that the older man was wearing only his black Speedo, which he usually kept hidden beneath his white robe. She continued to move her eyes higher, noting to herself how Jade managed to keep his body shaped and maintained despite his age.

"Now you're starting to work on your fantasies over me." He chuckled. "It never occurred to me that I was more of your type and not Luke, Tear." Jade snorted with his usual sarcastic tone, his crimson gaze fixing on the younger girl's face as he was getting ready to take another sip.

"N-no, I-I don't." She snapped, raising her cerulean irises quickly meeting the glowing mischievous ruby ones staring back at her. The reflection of the water on his face plus the alcohol induced glow on his eyes made Jade look like a precious gem just waiting to be owned. Tear's cheeks instantly colored and intently looked away to shake those thoughts off. With this Jade gave a small laugh and took a sip from his glass. "A-and Luke's not my type…" she continued.

"Ha hah and so you said… " he chuckled.

Even more embarrassed Tear tried to quickly redirect the conversation. Her eyes wandered for a while thinking of the things that would make Jade drop the current subject, until her eyes fixed on the half-way empty bottle of liquor that the Colonel had obviously been drinking for some time now. 'Don't tell me—'she thought.

"Jade… mind if I ask you something?" she asked tilting her head in her habitual naïve way making her pony tail slide a little over her shoulder and her bangs to the side of her face. This gesture made Tear irresistible enough to make Jade to deeply draw back his breath again.

"Hmmm? Go ahead Tear." He replied while playing the hot liquid in his mouth as he attempted to shake the thought away.

"Why are you drinking? I remember that you were already filling your glass with that wine ever since I came here." She asked curiously.

With this Jade raised an eyebrow. "Why would you want to know?" he cocked his head towards her, trying to figure out where this conversation is going.

"Nothing much, just plain curious... what was that anyway?" she asked.

"Its brandy, I always kept one just in case we need an immediate antiseptic on the battle field and it's also good to make one warm." Jade knew that the alcohol is beginning to take hold of him now, when he realized that he just did the thing that he always hated doing—explaining. "Don't tell me that you haven't tasted it before?" he continued.

Tear shook her head slowly. "Female Oracle Knights were forbidden to drink liquors; now given the current circumstances…I suppose it would be fine." She finished.

Jade filled the glass half way and extended it to Tear. "Do you want to taste some? Normally I don't offer these kinds of drinks to young ladies like you, but to satisfy your curiosity—here you go." He nudged the glass towards her.

"Thanks…" she replied as she took the glass from him. Tear took a small sip and her tongue stung with the bitterness of the brown liquid. She squinted a bit from the alien taste inside her mouth when she saw Jade's crimson gaze staring at her expectantly. Embarrassed that she would look rude from not finishing the drink that the older man generously offered her, Tear managed to empty all the contents of the glass in three big gulps, swallowing it quickly so that she wouldn't taste much of its unsavory taste. But then again, the burning trail of the liquor in her throat that is moving down her stomach made her feel queasy, flushed and burning.

"Tastes good doesn't it?" he asked sarcastically.

"Very. Now I don't understand why people love to drink those kinds of drinks for such an awful taste." She said while biting her lips over and over again to get rid of the taste. However she suddenly felt a surge from the pit of her stomach running up to her throat making her want to throw out the liquor that she drank seconds ago. Tear had a good sense to hold herself from what was coming and slowly slid to the water to fight the burning sensation rising up to her stomach, she doesn't want to add her embarrassing moment with the Colonel. Any unwanted events with him was very scary, specially he might use it torment her later, although she knew that he wasn't like that but being so unpredictable—well…

"Ha ha, perhaps you'll understand when you're accustomed with the undesirable taste." He chuckles. But his words were cut short with Tear's sudden movements beside him. He was about to sip from his glass when he saw her from his peripheral vision go into the water. His attention was so distracted watching her, carefully observing the way she slid into the pool, and noting how small her bikini was that he could almost see the cheeks of her butt and some of its cleavage and how the burning red fabric of her top gently hugs the outline of her breasts and her slightly protruded nipples as it became wet. With all the things he had seen, he doesn't know if he's going to love or hate Peony for giving her these. His best friend always loved to scheme up these kinds of plots.

The abrupt silence on Jade's part caught her attention. Knowing the reason behind this, although now embarrassed, Tear turned around to face him. "Umm… Jade?"

"Yes?" he tried to snap off his reverie.

"Does it look bad?" she asked shyly while gently rubbing her left arm with the other. "It was the first time that I wore it so I'm not quite sure if it looked good or not…" her voice trailed off.

'She's out of her mind thinking that it doesn't.' Jade thought to himself as if he knew her intention for asking. He carefully reconsidered his choice of its word so that he wouldn't sound rude He downed the content of his glass in one big gulp in order to compose himself. He did that in order to empty his mind of the inappropriate thoughts that is now filling his mind. "Yes, it is better than the one which you usually wear, and I don't see any reason for you not wearing it* if you want to seduce any of us." He said.

Satisfied with what she heard, Tear dove into the water the white cheeks of her butt slightly emerged as she slowly submerged. Her white flesh made Jade's gaze fix upon her and stare on the piece of red cloth snugly outlining the skin between her legs that it covered. With this he knew that he must leave now else he won't be able to restrain himself any longer. He took his bottle to finish off his drink once and for all then leave. He was certain that the alcohol was now starting to cloud his rationality as lustful thoughts invaded his mind. However when he tipped the bottle over his glass e found out that it was already empty. Frustrated, he decided to leave instead, but when he was about to get off of the pool that he realized that it was too late…

wheeww.. more suspense? (W-what?) If in case you haven't read my message on top. Rated M content will appear in the next chapters.. Chhhuuu.!

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