Kong Li Christmas : A Sue Story 14
By Crystalquirt
Tobue. Kong Li messes up Christmas by trying to take Sue out of the celebration for good. Scary situations, violence, mild language, action, romance, angst, oh yeah.
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Tobey's eyes were shut, he only paid attention to kissing Sue and wasn't aware of the light that flashed when the spell was lifted from her. He did notice that Sue seemed to be feeling better. Yep, she was feeling a lot better!
Sue kicked her shoes off, pulled Tobey closer and wrapped her legs tighter around his waist never breaking the lip lock she had on him. She put one arm around his shoulder and across his back. Her other arm under his injured arm, gently keeping him from pulling on his trapped hand. She had him perfectly trapped, in the tiny space. Finally, I have Tobey where I want him and he is not objecting to my touch!
They were both sitting cross-legged now and she sat on his crossed lower legs. Her light frame on his legs caused him no discomfort at all. With her arms and legs around him, she made sure no part of him could get away.
Even if he had room to try, he had no intention of getting away. She parted her lips slightly and pressed to his. He tilted his head and pushed back eagerly so happy that she wasn't objecting to his touch!
He sucked on her lower lip asking for entrance and she let him in; they kissed deeply. Tobey slowly raised his arm and held the back of her neck, but Sue broke the kiss long before he was ready. He moaned, showing how he longed for her to keep kissing him. She squealed with delight. To his pure pleasure she didn't take her lips off of him. She kissed his cheek very softly near where she had bit him just two days before. In the darkness she hadn't seen where she just scratched him.
A line of butterfly kisses went down his jaw and neck to his collarbone raising goosebumps down his arms. He leaned back, shut his eyes and moaned with the pleasure he felt. Her hand went under his shirt and she ran her hands lightly up his stomach and spider-walked her fingers across his chest while she continued to kiss and lightly suck on his neck.
Tobey leaned back against the wall completely overcome with pleasure. He loved what Sue was doing to him, but couldn't really believe it was happening. Suddenly he gasped sharply and cried, "Ow!"
Sue froze and looked into his eyes, worried, "Tobey, what's wrong?"
"I forgot . . . my wrist," he groaned. "I shouldn't have leaned back."
"Sorry Tobey. Don't worry, I'm sure Nana and Sid will be back soon to get us out. Come back here." she pulled him closer."I won't let you lean away from me again." He thought she sounded like she was teasing him.
Tobey smiled and opened his eyes slowly to look at her, but his pain made him remember where they were and instead of Sue, he saw the walls closing in. He gasped and tensed up, a whining sound escaped from his throat, but before he could yell Sue covered his eyes with her hand; held his head still and kissed him on the mouth.
She kept her hand over his eyes, "Tobey relax, now I can promise for sure that I won't let anything bad happen to you! Just keep your eyes closed and I will provide distraction until Sid and Nana come back."
"Distraction? What are you going to do?" Tobey asked nervously while her hand still covered his eyes.
"Boys are so clueless." She mumbled and kissed his sweet lips again. After Sue kissed on Tobey for a few more minutes he squirmed and she stopped. He was trying to reposition like he was uncomfortable. "Need to move your legs?"
"No, my arm hurts all the way up to my shoulder. It's agony Sue!" In the dim light she could see tears running down his cheeks. She looked down and noticed the puddle of blood forming around his wrist.
"Give me your shirt." She instructed, but she already had his free arm out of his tank top and was pulling it over his head. His shirt was still around his trapped arm, but being careful to keep his arm still she slid the shirt down his arm to his bleeding wrist. He smiled weakly, imagining that she had taken his shirt off to see his muscular chest.
"See Sue – I am the strongest!" Eyes still closed, he tried to flex his shoulder and arm muscles to show off but she didn't notice. Sue was paying attention to his other arm and tying his shirt tightly around his injured wrist.
While she leaned slightly to the side so she could reach his wrist with both hands, he leaned forward against her, but wasn't in her way. She quickly finished. "There, your wrist is wrapped up, Tobey."
He didn't respond at all and his head rolled limply to the side when she gently pushed him back a little to see into his face. Eyes closed, cheeks still wet with tears, he had passed out.
"Oh no - Tobey. Please!" Sue got tears in her eyes and pulled him back to let him lean on her instead of the cold stone to keep his injury from being strained. She hugged him tightly keeping him very still so his wrist might stop bleeding. Her tears fell on his shoulder while she prayed Sid and Nana would come back for them soon.
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At Chung Lee park, twenty feet from the wishing well where Kong Li had started 'cooking', Nana and Sid separated and went on opposite sides of the well facing their enemy. Visible and invisible ghosts wandered all around them.
Busy adding a pinch of this and that to the recipe he was planning to prepare in the well, he had a bag full of fresh ingredients and a row of bottles with liquids and powers in them lined up all around the short sides of the well. He had no clue that Nana and Sid were there. He never thought they would leave Sue and Tobey.
Nana started knocking one bottle at a time into the well as she went, so Sid started doing the same on the other side. Kong Li screamed in frustration as all his measurements were totally messed up. Last to go in was the bag of vegetables and raw meat all mixed together!
Kong Li was enraged and couldn't see anything to attack so he threw a punch at random and his fist went through a nearby ghost. The ghost squealed. "That didn't hurt - you spectral moron! Even the ghosts I have to deal with are idiots! Which one of you messed up my recipe?" he yelled.
Invisible Nana threw more powder into the air and the ghosts that had still been invisible that it touched became visible. Sid tripped them and knocked their heads together, if those were heads. He cleared a path, ghosts flying in all directions as he used his skill, enhanced by Nana's magic on them.
The ghosts Sid attacked, tried to hit back, but they couldn't see who to attack either. Nana sprinkled more powder revealing even more ghosts amongst the ones already visible and joined Sid in wreaking havoc on them.
The ghosts crowded around Kong Li to get away from what ever was attacking them. Kong Li angrily swung his staff around, cutting some of the ghosts in half and making them disappear, but one swing overshot his target and knocked the cookbook into the well! By the time he fought the ghosts off and looked down, he couldn't see anything of the cookbook.
He yelled angrily as the ghosts crowded around him closer and knocked him into the well too. Several ghosts floated after him still seeking his protection from Nana and Sid's attacks. Other ghosts scattered. They were still around, but no longer milling about, or under Kong Li's control.
Nana turned herself visible and called to Sid, but he didn't answer. "Sid!" She called again. Sid's legs appeared hanging over the well edge. Nana ran over and looked down. Sid was hanging by his knees upside down in the well with the cookbook clutched tightly to his chest.
"Sid! You caught it! How did Kong Li not see it?"
"While I was still invisible, I held it behind my back, guess he couldn't see it. Can we talk later?"
Nana held Sid's legs down and he pulled himself up far enough to hand her the book and then sat the rest of the way up before he scooted off the well. "Nana can we get back to Sue and Tobey now!"
"Right away."
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Sid was surprised and freaked out a little when the ran into the garden and found the little doors on the Scholar Stone closed and locked again. It scared him that he couldn't see Sue anywhere either. Had she changed and ran away! How would they find her? How long had Tobey been locked in darkness?
"Tobey! Can you hear me?" He slapped the stone surface. "Nana! It's locked again! - what if?"
"No what ifs . . . lets just get it open." She entered the combination and the doors slid open. Nana wouldn't let Sid look first and used her hand to motion for him to stay back.
Nana smiled when she saw Sue was in the stone with Tobey so glad she was still there, and alive. Sue turned her head and looked at Nana, still hugging Tobey close, his head on her shoulder. "Nana! He's unconscious - I can't wake him!"
Sid's joy at hearing Sue's voice ended abruptly when he heard that Tobey's condition had worsened. He tried to see in the stone around Nana.
"What happened . . . how did you even get in that tiny space with him?"
"He was freaking out and hurting his hand even more, it's been bleeding – I climbed in to try and keep him still."
Nana chanted "Gei Kow No!" very softly and a flame like a candle appeared floating over her finger. Nana saw Tobey's shirt was wrapped around his wrist and soaked with blood. "Sue, let me lift you out so I can tend to Tobey. How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine!" Nana didn't have to help at all as Sue carefully unwrapped from around Tobey and got out without moving him. She even held onto him to make sure he didn't fall back and twist his arm. Once she was out, Nana reached in and took over.
Sid stood behind them still holding the cookbook close to his chest. "Sue . . . how are you feeling? Really?"
"Really fine Sid. The spell has been lifted."
"You mean, the spirit of the warrior's daughter is gone for good?"
"Yep." Sue returned her brother's hug when he grabbed her. "But how?"
Before Sue could answer him, Nana interrupted, "Sue come take over again here . . . Sid, give me the cookbook - we have to find the recipe that will make Tobey intangible. Lets hope Kong Li put it in here."
Sue leaned into the Scholar Stone to support Tobey and keep him sitting up. "Tobey, please be okay!" Sue kissed the palm of his hand and keep it pressed to her face for a moment. She noticed that even though he was unconscious, he was shivering. "Nana! He's going into shock . . . isn't he?"
"I'm afraid so, we have to hurry before he get's worse . . . Look it's here! The recipe! The one Kong Li found in the brick wall. Specter Stew." Nana read through it quickly. The smile gone from her face. "Its more complicated than I thought! This could take days or even a week to cook, and we would need a ghost!"
"What do we do?"
"There is no way to cook this in time to save Tobey! He will get much worse very fast if we don't get him out and get him medical help now. He will lose his hand, but we can save his life!"
"Nana! What do you mean?" Sid cried.
Sue knew what she meant. "NO!" Sue covered her mouth with Tobey's hand and held it tightly with both of her hands over his. Tears welled up in her eyes and her shoulder's shook as she tried to keep from crying. Sid went over and patted his sister's shoulder.
"I'm so sorry kids, we have to do it now and take him to the hospital!" Nana's hands were shaking now. Her mind raced trying to think of something else that would work, but was at a loss. Sid and Sue couldn't even look at her for a moment, but they weren't mad at her – it was just upsetting.
"But Nana, shouldn't the paramedics come do it? Cant they get him out?"
"No Sue, How can we explain what happened here? What happened to him to have his hand stuck in a stone. They will try to chisel him out and it won't work. And about Kong Li and trying to explain what he did? Don't worry I can do it to save him and then we can get him medical help."
"But Nana, we will still have to tell them what happened."
"But Wu's garden and the cookbook won't be involved; we will say he was caught up in the strange happenings in Chung Lee park and don't know exactly what happened to him."
"Sid, run and get me the sharpest knife we have, the bone cutting kitchen scissors and something to use for a tourniquet."
"But Nana . . . no." Sid spoke softly, but was screaming inside as he turned to go do as she asked.
Nana went back to studying the recipe thinking there would have to be an ingredient substitution or something that would make the preparation go fast enough to get him out in time.
Sue leaned back in and held Tobey's hand to her cheek. She thought it was good he was unconscious for this, but maybe not – what if he wanted to be in on such a decision? She got back in the small space part way, on her knees and bent forward so she could see Tobey's injured hand.
She wished it had somehow miraculously come out of the stone and was fine. But they had no such luck and she noticed the puddle of blood was a little larger.
There was more light in the scholar stone now, and she could see his other injuries, the bruises were getting darker on his chest and arms and when she found the scratches on his cheek, she knew they had been from her nails.
"Oh Tobey, what have I done to you? I told you guys to not let me hurt you while I was sick with Kong Li's spell! Through it all, you ignored the pain I was causing you and you kissed me!"
She hugged him from the side and held his head to her shoulder. He had stopped shivering, but his skin still felt cold. "We should have asked Sid to bring blankets too." Sue said to him, knowing he couldn't hear her. Sue pressed her face into Tobey's neck and sobbed.
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Tobey continued . . .