Warning! EROTICA! You have been warned!

Takes place after the event's of "Ariadne's true love" and "Arthur's Ghosts". You don't have to read them but it may make more sense. This had turned into a big series that started with "A week at this level" which I will re-do soon.

All you have to know is that they are married and have two kids.

Ariadne's Birthday

1.

~ Arthur was making love to his wife. The pretty Architect was meeting his movements unenthusiastically as he finally came down from his own release.

He was kissing her sweetly before he rolled off. His hands cupping the face he so dearly loved looking at. He was surprised she looked uncomfortable.
"Did I hurt you?" He whispered, still out of breath.
"No. No, it's fine." She said shifting slightly.
"You didn't come?" He panted, feeling hurt.

"No, not really. But it's okay. It was fine." She told him. She covered herself with the sheet and moved away from him.

"It wasn't good?" He asked. Not able to hide the feeling of being insulted.
"It was good." She assured him. Her voice betraying her.
Arthur was still breathing hard as his wife settled herself in bed. He could tell she hadn't enjoyed their coupling as much as he had. It had been a problem for the past few times together. They had only recently started becoming intimate again after the birth of their son. Ariadne had been having body issues since the birth and her ill planned crash diet hadn't helped.

"Was it something I did?" He asked. Still unable to believe she hadn't climaxed when she always had before.
"No, it's fine." She said again.

"Maybe you should talk to your doctor." He suggested trying to pull her closer to him. "Your having problems get aroused."
"I'm not having trouble getting aroused, Arthur." She said coldly.
"So it is me." He bit back. His body happy and relaxed but his temper perking back up.

"No." She said feeling defensive.

"So what is it?" Arthur asked. A feeling of deep frustration coming over him.

"I don't know." She said wishing this conversation was over.
"Do you think it's because of the baby?" He asked.

"Can we stop talking about this?" She asked. "I'm really tired. Darcy and Dominic kept me on my feet all day. It was Mrs. Mills day off."

"I'm sorry, Ariadne." Arthur sighed kissing her neck as she rolled away from him.

"It's fine." She whispered as he spooned around her.

~ "You think it's because of the baby?" Arthur asked Cobb the next day.
"Could be." The Extractor concluded. "The female orgasm is an tricky thing."

"You and Mal ever had this problem after the kids came?" Arthur asked as the two friends sipped coffee.

"We had that problem before we were married. Can't hit a bulls eye every time." Cobb said with an amused little smile normally found on the Forger.

"Well, we never did till now. We were always really good sex wise." Arthur said. This new development troubled him.
"Lucky you." Cobb grumbled.
"I don't think I'm doing anything different." Arthur mused.

"Maybe that's the problem." The Extractor offered.

"Well, what do you suggest?" Arthur asked rolling his eyes at Cobb.
"Maybe an old fashioned date night?" Cobb said. "Take her out like you used to before the kids came. You can leave Darcy and the baby with Sarah and I."
"Ariadne and I have been meaning to speak to you about Sarah." Arthur said putting his coffee down. Cobb looked surprised.

"You don't like her?" The Extractor asked.
"No, we like her. We really do." Arthur said hurriedly. "Ariadne especially. Just, your not fooling us. Your two are a couple."

"No were not." Cobb said shaking his head.

"Dom." Arthur said. "Come on, it's alright to be with someone again. Were happy for you."

"Were not a couple." Cobb said not meeting Arthur's eyes.

"If you say so." Arthur shrugged. "So, date night?"

"Couldn't hurt. Change things up a little. Right now she might feel like too much of a mommy." Cobb said with a shrug. Glad they had changed the subject. "Take her out and romance her. Make her feel desired again."

~ Ariadne felt like a zombie mommy.

The Dominic had been teething and his cranky wails had woken her up last night and they didn't end till this morning.

"You look horrible." Sadie said examining her own nails. They were painted a bold shade of pink, brown, white and yellow. Making the leggy woman's nails look like a banana split.

Ariadne threw her friend a hard look before tossing the last of Darcy's toys in the toy box. Sarah had taken the kids out for a play date and left the Architect with some much needed alone time.

Arthur didn't want his wife hanging out with Sadie anymore after the incident of Ariadne's dieting, but he was not the type of man to forbid her to do anything. Ariadne wasn't the time of woman to blindly obey her husband either.

"Try staying up with a fussy baby all night and see how you look." Ariadne said.

"Well, thank God I'll never have to find out." Sadie rejoined.

The leggy woman looked up at her friend brightly.

"Let's take a spa day." She suggested. "Just you and me."
"All I want to do is sleep." Ariadne said thinking about crawling into her nice comfy bed.

"You can sleep anytime." Sadie said petulantly. "Think how happy your Arthur will be once he sees you have started... looking like yourself again." She said looking for the right words.

"What?" Ariadne asked. She gave Sadie a curious look.

"Well, I know you haven't been waxing since you got pregnant." Sadie said. "You told me your Arthur really liked that. Why not do that again? Maybe get a facial and your hair done?" The tall woman went to light one of her foul smelling cigarettes.

"Don't light that indoors." Ariadne said plucking it from her fingers. The last thing Ariadne needed was Arthur freaking out over their home smelling like a whore house.

"And it's fine." Ariadne said. "Everything is fine."
"It's not fine. You must make yourself feel sexy again." Sadie told her. "You can't feel sexy in sweats and limp hair and no make up."

~ Arthur came home a few hours later. He hated seeing Sadie. The memory of what the spider legged woman put his wife through after their son was born still bothered him.

"Sadie." He said curtly as he held the door open for her.

"Arthur." She huffed briskly as she stalked out of the apartment on too high heels in an unfortunate lime green.

"I wish you wouldn't hang out with her anymore." He grumbled as he shook off his coat.
"She's not that bad." Ariadne said. "Although she did point out that I've let myself go."

"You have not." Arthur barked. His wife was beautiful even in nothing but sweats.

Ariadne caught their reflection in the hall mirror and shifted uncomfortably next to him. She looked an odd match next to the immaculately dressed Point Man. He was wearing a new dove gray suit with matching vest and a handsome red tie. She was dressed in pink sweats that should have been washed yesterday.

'Sadie is right, I have let myself go.' She realized.