Csoh: So I have neglected Prelude's part a bit, but don't worry. The romance is coming...
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Chapter 4:
Holly looked about the room. It was very large. The walls were a light beige and trimmed with some dark wood. The couple sat down across from her and the toddler started to fuss in his mother's arms. The kid was absolutely adorable. He had short black hair and looked like Vane. Of course Vane was gorgeous in the raw masculine way. "Do all the guys around here look like they stepped off the runway?" The woman laughed as the toddler finally broke free and headed for her lap.
"Trace found target!" The boy looked up at her and she patted his head as Vane looked worried.
"So what's going on that you needed to stay." Holly shifted.
"I really wish I knew. According to Savitar I have people after me and at this point all I know for sure is that I'm dead tired and ready to have the rest of the world go on pause so I can relax."
Vane ran a hand through his hair. "Well you're perfectly welcome to stay here with my clan as long as you don't mind wolves." The boy started to push a controller into their guest's hands as Vane's wife laughed.
"Don't mind Trace. He's use to having his uncles here." Holly took the controller and laughed.
"It's fine. I use to have a little brother that loved video games... um... I don't actually know your name-"
The woman laughed, "My name is Bride." She paused as she looked at the clock. "I actually need to put Trace in bed for the night. It's getting late." Holly set aside the controller as Trace beat her. The toddler groaned at Bride and started to pout at Holly.
"That's fine. Trace... if you want I'll play a rematch with you in the morning." Trace hugged her.
"Uncle Furry will be here then!" Trace ran into Bride's arms and a couple more guys past through the room bidding goodnight to the four.
The four of them went up set of stairs and Bride started down the hallway with the still excited toddler. Vane motioned toward the other direction and the two headed toward the end of the hallway. Vane stopped at the second to last door and opened it to a cozy indigo room.
"You can sleep in here. There's a bathroom right there. And the dining room is right downstairs just off the living room. Goodnight Holly." Holly bid him goodnight and closed the door.
The room was even better than her bedroom at home. The comforter was a dark maroon on a queen sized bed. Even the carpet was more soft than her home's. She placed her suitcase on the stand next to the bed and changed quickly before climbing under the covers. In a matter of seconds she was out cold.
Holly looked around in her dream. The walls were a deep crimson with a cream trim. The windows were boarded up so that no light could get in. Everything in this room looked like it belonged in a museum. Even the chair she was sitting in. She paused as she looked down at the chair... it wasn't the chair that held her attention... it was the outfit she was wearing.
Her shorts and t shirt were both gone replace by a navy blue gown that hugged and showed emphasis to every curve of her body. As she moved a slit in the sides of the gown showed her thigh. 'Alright so I guess I need to take a vacation-', Holly's thoughts were interrupted as she caught sight of the door to the room opening.
Dressed in a black on black ensemble, Prelude walked into the room.
"Um... I think kidnapping is considered illegal." Prelude raised an eyebrow.
"I think you might have hit your head. I didn't bring you here." Holly thought about it until he pulled her into his arms and started to kiss her. She moaned at the feel of her savior surrounding her. She didn't even noticed he was carrying her until he opened the door at the bottom of a metal staircase. She pulled back as he looked hungrily at her.
"Where are we now?" He carried her into the room and closed the door. Candlelight showed a black duvet on an antique bed.
"We're in my room." His gaze made the air in the room energize with sexual energy. She pulled him onto her and captured his lips. Her need desperate and raw. His hands stroked her waist and the small of her back sending chills up her spine and making her needful even more.
His eight pack rippled with his movements. It was intoxicating being so close to him. It was a wonder she hadn't died from lack of oxygen. He pressed her against the bed, cradling her like she was fragile. He trailed his kisses down her chest. She traced the outline of scars that covered his back. They weren't from someone who spent his life in luxury. He grabbed her arms and came back up in a scorching kiss that made her toes curl.
"I love how you feel in my arms." Prelude's gaze met hers as he mumbled against her lips.
"You're not that bad yourself." Holly stroked him with one hand as she looked at him.
He... was... spectacular! If this was real than she was willing to live with it.
She felt him nearing her core. The heat in the room increasing more and more by the second. He was about to enter...
Holly woke up and looked to find she was back in Vane's house. She dragged herself off the bed and got dressed. It was raining down hard outside and the view out the window revealed that it was going to be a drizzly Saturday.
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Prelude was ready to take Holly right then. She was breathtaking. He was almost to her center when he woke up. His body was standing at full attention. He thought about Shanta. She had been his everything, but Holly... She made his love for Shanta a joke.
A figure twitched to his left. He saw D'spute sitting lazily on his nightstand smirking like he was a child finding dirt on their sibling.
"So you'll never guess what I just heard." Prelude tried to rub away the pain in his erection.
"I'm sure it's fascinating." He looked at the clock. Nine thirty. "It's far too early for me to be awake. Tell me what you want and then leave me in peace." The skoti smiled at him.
"I'm sure you remember ol' Zeus don't ya? Well apparently he's in a rather angry mood. Apparently there's some chick here in New Orleans that has some weird ass ability that cancels out the fates." Prelude took that in. The fates had never been out done by anything except free will. The skoti paused before continuing. "Well, all the pantheon is freaking out. The fates did find though that if she has some-" He paused as he started to hump the air. "-intercourse." Prelude continued to look away. "Then she won't be fully able to use her abilities. Those fates are strict. Anyway, all the big guys are trying to find out what two gods conceived her."
Prelude waited a minute for him to continue. The skoti was still grinning at him and he was still tired after a night full of daimons.
"And you needed to tell me all that because..." The skoti smirked even more.
"I told you cause just now dear Artie just tried to get you to take her." He wiggled off his nightstand and leaned against the wall. "You don't have to wait for her forever. She will have her full potential and be perfectly capable of being laid after about... a week. She's just got about 164 hours until her powers get matured. I guess it's like puberty in a way."
Prelude pinched his nose and tried not to imagine what D'spute was saying. "I get it. You should leave." The skoti stared at the wall for minute before agreeing.
"Yeah, she's up and about now so the others can't try to hook you up again. It looks like you going to have to keep your guard up. Lata loser!" He disappeared as Prelude lay back on the bed. Damn. After all the years of pain. Fates still held him away.
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Holly sat down at the table next to Bride. There were was at least a half a dozen people at the table. Trace was running from adult to adult trying to get one of them to play. Each of the guys looked to Bride until one of them grabbed the toddler and headed to the living room. Holly and Bride laughed when the poor guy took the first controller and Trace freaked out on him.
"That's Fury or as Trace called him last night Furry." She chuckled as Fury tried not to be too hard on the kid in the game. "So did you sleep well last night?"
"Yeah," Holly turned away from the two players and continued to eat. "I slept even better than usual actually- OH!" A guy who looked a lot like Vane accidentally tripped against her chair.
"Sorry," the guy mumbled as he held his leg.
"OH ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!" Holly got out of her chair and helped him into the chair next to hers. His leg was bleeding. Bride saw the blood and got up as others came into the room. Vane rushed over and started to pull Holly away. The guy stopped him.
"It's fine brother. She didn't do this, there's daimons all over the town. They were popping out of bolt holes everywhere." Bride came over with bandages and Holly rushed to grab some water to wash off some of the blood. The others started to rush out of the house as Vane went to call someone.
"So why are you here?" He winced as Bride poured antiseptic on one of the wounds.
"Savitar brought her here. Obviously he knew something was going to happen." Vane entered the room and sat in one of the chairs.
"Fang, we are going to be taking Holly to the Inferno so Dante can keep an eye on her for Savitar. Ash is apparently trying to find out what's going on."
After one very long call to both her jobs and three rounds of video games with Fury and Trace, Holly brought down her suitcase. Fang was still beaten terribly and Fury decided to take his place in the trip to the Inferno. They still hadn't explained what that was.
The Inferno as it turned out was a bar... in Minnesota. Holly was quite glad she had her coat with her as they walked upstairs above the bar. Another very model like guy was waiting at the top of the stairs and Savitar leaning against the wall. She was surprised to find him in beach clothes.
"I don't think Minnesota has a beach. What, did you lose all your winter clothes in a fight with a girlfriend?" The others snickered as he ignored the comment. Vane and Fury disappeared and the guy held his hand out.
"The name's Dante and feel free to be chilling here as long as you like."
