A/N: Thank you all so much for all the reads and feedback I have gotten. I hope everyone likes where the story is going so far. I do promise to continue it and there will be drama external and with Raven and Eric themselves. I have had this story working for a while and I am in love with Raven. I hope you guys love her too.
Chapter 27 - Eric's POV
It is taking everything I have to be this restrained but not in a bad way, I lean forward and kiss her forehead and inhale her scent. It is a light citrus combined with a scent as if you are standing in a cool wind on the train. "Good. I am going to walk you in, wanted to talk to Bud about something."
I walk her in and make sure she gets into the room with Tris and Tori and then go over to talk to Bud.
"Yo Eric. What can I do you for?" He asks having eyed me walk Raven in.
"I did want to ask about any more designs Raven might have but also if you can do me a favor. Her ex, I really do not trust him. So if anything happens or they need someone can you message or call me? Otherwise I was just going to see if you wanted to grab a drink here."
Bud smirks at me a bit knowingly and then shrugs. "You got her last design but yeah I can let you know if anything comes up. Pretty fucking happy the shithead is out of her life." He walks back into the back area, grabs a couple of glasses and a bottle of scotch. "You can pour yourself a glass, but Raven is going to be coming here in a second for some piercings apparently.
Raven comes out giddy and smiling ear to ear. "It's time Bud. Do you have the dermals for me? Because I have these beauties for you."
Bud holds out his hand and she drops them in his hand. He frowns "Well shit, that is titanium. But what the fuck is that?"
She rolls her eyes. "It's me…can we get on with it?"
He shakes his head "What do you mean it's you?"
I saw the box and that was for sure from Erudite. I take one as I walk over and can't suppress the grin and shiver because how fucking hot is it that she loves that shit? I quirk my eyebrow because someone had to help, not just order this. "It means that symbol is her DNA sequence. If you were to take your blood and her blood in a lab and ran it and wanted to know what your symbol was from it, it would look different than that."
Bud rolls his eyes "Damn Noses. Of course you would love these. I thought you were thinking of the ones with those constellations in them."
She takes off her jacket and puts it by the station and I tilt my head. So it was either the stars in the sky or the very essence of her, fairly poetic. "These are even better. You never answered me do you have the dermals I wanted?"
He smirks at her. "Of course I ordered them the same day you told me what you wanted. Not like I am going to forget that you wanted bloodstones, and six of them. I am telling you the spine dermals are going to hurt."
She shrugs. "Pain don't hurt."
I can't help but laugh and shake my head. "Says pretty much only you and maybe me."
Tris comes out and frowns when she sees me. "Want me to stay out here while you get it done? We are just setting up the guns and inks right now."
She shakes her head and looks at me, and I am hoping that means she wants me there. "No that is ok I will be in right after."
She nods and kisses her cheek. "We won't start on the whiskey then." She pauses and looks back at Bud and then gets a mischievous look and Raven groans.
"Wait until after the piercings are done please, then you can release the Kraken." She gives Tris puppy dog eyes.
I chuckle a little. "Now are you going to tell Tori you called her that?"
She shrugs with a small smile and moves the hair from her ears "Maybe after the whiskey." She winks at me.
I sit in the rolling stool and slide close to her. "I don't see your father as the type to send you those, so who would have sent them?"
"My Aunt probably got the order for the titanium and added a bit of flare." She smiles and replies.
"Okay." I grin. "You going to go into your void for this?"
She smiles and quirks an eyebrow and I can tell her eyes are giving me the message of 'seriously'. "What do you think?"
I shrug and reply truthfully. "I think even I thought they hurt."
The smile and look never leaves her face and I smile. "Fair enough I still wouldn't have gone into any kind of void even if I could have. You are right it is kind of the point. Although you made it sound a hell of a lot sexier." I leaned forward and said it softly and she turned red. I couldn't help but to smirk and scoot closer and let my hand come to rest over hers.
Bud came back and started. She turned her head towards me. We locked eyes and she didn't look away once. I could tell she felt the pain but it was turning into something else for her and for me too. I moved my thumb in circles over her hand and I felt her pulse pick up. Her lips parted and her breathing became just a bit faster and I saw desire in her eyes.
She had to turn her head for the other ear and though we lost that eye contact our contact was still there and I felt the same desire going through me too.
"All done." Bud called gruffly "Not one fucking peep from you. Lost that damn bet."
She laughed and looked over the new gauges and smiled. They looked beautiful on her and just fit her. That smart, fearless, dauntless woman.
"Alright don't get up. Just sit up so I can lay the back part down then you will have to lay down on your stomach. Let me go grab everything for the dermals after that." Bud said then laid it down after she sat forward.
She swung her legs over and I stopped her from lying down yet. I gave a quick glance around. I couldn't not kiss her after that and this time I did deepen the kiss. I gave her time to stop me but she accepted my tongue. She gave this perfect little moan when our tongues touched and my hand went to the back of her head to bring her closer and needing more. Her tongue ring glided across my mouth sending little shivers of pleasure through me.
I pulled away and just looked at her smiling. I didn't want to end the kiss and I didn't want to leave either. So if she would let me I would be there for her dermals." I'll help you get settled."
"Thank you Eric." She did that sigh of my name again and her voice and eyes were just as laced with desire as mine. How can you not feel smug about that? To know that you are touching something inside another person that is just as much a fucking master of keeping control as you. More than a master of it than you considering she goes into that void state.
When I had her lying on her stomach I moved her braid so I could see her eyes clearly. I wanted to see that in her eyes again. Her crop tank lifted slightly and I caught site of the tattoo and from what I can see it is break taking. I let my hand just barely skim across the portions I could see. "Can I see it when it is all done?" I ask quietly.
She blushes and it is still sexy as hell as every other time. "Some of it no one but me, Tris and Tori will see. Unless I am wearing my bathing suit, but I don't think that will happen. Unless you guys did get that pool set up for the training coming up."
Her in a pool with me. I like the sound of that. I smirk as I reply. "As a matter of fact we did, should be ready sometime tomorrow."
"Well damn, I guess you get to see it then."
"Want to be the first in it?" My voice is thick with the thought of her in a bathing suit.
"I don't have a bathing suit yet. My old one I couldn't get to even if I wanted to wear blue again, which I very much don't."
I shrug and smile. "I am sure we could find you a much better one here."
She laughs "You're just impatient and want to see the tattoo."
I wink and smile. No I really just want to get you in a pool with me and in a bathing suit too. "Sure we will go with that. Where are you getting the dermals again?"
"Start of the spine starting with the neck area."
"Hmmm…so right here?" I lightly trail my fingers down along the area "To about here?" She proves so responsive again as her she shivers and moans softly.
"Yes…" she gasps.
Bud comes out and I move closer so she can see my eyes again and put my hand over hers.
"Don't move your eyes from mine Raven" I command her quietly and she nods and I see desire course through her at that. She liked me commanding her. I bite my lip because she doesn't know what it means really. "Good girl." Gods I didn't even know how much I would love that, but I do.
Bud cleans the area "You ready Raven? You are going to need to be still."
"She's good Bud, Raven here is tough." I say proudly holding her eyes and they light up at that.
"Oh I believe that." Bud murmurs.
Her nostrils flare and her breath catches for a second. I can tell she feels the pain but she doesn't even blink. Our eyes are so locked, nothing else is around for us. I feel desire from such a simple act that I could not even tell you where this is coming from, but I am not alone because she feels it too.
Bud has to repeat he is done a few times and we are both left blinking. I help her sit up. Bud and I both hold mirrors and she smiles looking at them. They look unbelievably hot on her too. Such a beautiful choice of the bloodstone.
"I fucking love them." She smiles from ear to ear and we laugh.
"Good because you just really cost me even more credits. Teach me to never bet against you. You will have to tell me if you ever go to The Gallows nights." Bud mutters.
"The Gallows nights?" She asks and I would like to slap the shit out of Bud.
"Something you don't need to know anything about Raven." I glare at him and his eyes go wide.
"Yeah not really something anyone needs to know about." I roll my eyes. Yeah that wasn't obvious stupid ass.
She shrugs "Okay." She says it casually but something is up because that was either an act or…
"I mean it Raven it isn't anywhere for you to go and it could get you booted if you even think about doing it during initiation." I have to switch to leader mode.
"I don't plan on trying to find it." She replies and that is what is off. She already fucking knows what it is. But how?
"Find it? But you know about it?" I demand.
"My brother might have mentioned it, but obviously not where it is." She sighs.
"Of course he fucking would." I growl. "Because that is who is down there, Peter's."
And then I see it. Not only does she know what it is and that he goes there. But she knows I used to fight there. There is also something else. I believe her she hasn't gone but she has that look of someone who has been to shit like that. Please let me kill that fucker now if it is what I think it is.
"Your brother is a fucking dead man for running his mouth Raven. Or at the very least I will just make it hard for him to speak for a very long time. That was a while ago and I have since grown up at least a fucking little bit." I pull her closer to me so that my mouth is just inches from hers and command her with everything I have. "Don't go there."
She smiles and this time it is genuine again. "I hadn't planned on it really. I tossed the idea around only because Four basically ordered me to not even think of the name much less go there. And sometimes as much as I love my brother I just feel this need to do the exact fucking opposite as what he demands I do."
I huff and laugh a bit. Who would have thought I could fucking agree with Four even if not right to his face. "Well, on this one we can fucking agree. I know right? Holy shit they agree on something."
She snorts and then laughs. "I didn't say it."
Tris comes out and almost groans. "Please don't let Four choose right now to walk in. Are you ready Raven? We are ready in there."
Well let's give him a show shall I? Not that I need an excuse because I want to do this again. "She'll be right there." Raven smiles and I pull her to me. She meets my passion every bit by grabbing my vest and pulling me closer as I pull her even more to me by her hips. My other hand moves to her head again and holds her to me. I feel her chest pressing closer to me as we try to make as many points of contact between us.
A cough comes from behind us and we break a part. My chest is heaving and I swallow trying to catch my breath. Neither of us is in any better state. She looks away from me and then back to me.
"I need to go." She whispers. I nod but I don't want to let her go.
"Just remember what I asked. I will be messaging later for sure now." I stand and pull her up to stand then walk her over to Tris who is standing there waiting for her. "Make sure she gets to Shauna's if that is where she is staying. If needed have Zeke leave Control to take her."
Tris smiles at me with a nod. "Uriah is going to take her over there."
I nod and kiss Raven's forehead one more time. I stroke her cheek before she goes behind the closed door.
I don't stay there that much longer. I head my office and get some paperwork done. It is has been an hour or two and I leave to go get something to eat.
"Yo Eric, you might want to go to the parlor." Zeke stops me.
"Is it Shane?" I frown and my jaw clenches.
He frowns and shakes his head "Four caught a little something on camera and is causing a big stink over there."
"Fuck of course he is." I growl and head over there. I hear him before I even get in the fucking place.