When Life hangs in the Balance...

[BadInfluence]

His burden wasn’t hers though, he sincerely wanted her to understand that, the choices he had made he had done on his own. For himself. She might have been the one to cast the light on the wreckage he had been living in but the choice to clean it up, to change, to move on? That was his entirely. “I know… I don’t want it to be easy… I just wish it was a lot more clear cut.” He had done the right thing, hadn’t he? He’d started it all with Sydel and pure intentions, he wanted to make things good for her, give her everything she could ever want to make up for his mistakes… Was it enough? Had he done ANY good for her in the end? Because looking back, seeing how much she had suffered, how many times she had even tried to run away from him with Chris and the others… He’d dragged her back every time and honestly… He was having a hard time finding any good in their past that he had done for her… Outside of keep her alive, anyways… The fingers over his heart, the ache there as it throbbed and cracked with each pulse, he knew she was right… “I didn’t know what love really was till you showed me… Otherwise I never would have known how bad Sydel and I had been together. We’d just grown too toxic to be healthy for each other.” He said before he let out a sigh that was heavier than lead in his chest. “I loved her… I really did… But I know now there’s a difference between a healthy love… And a love that will just continue to hurt…” Though… It was amazing that only forty eight hours with Gia had taught him a lifetimes worth of knowledge and understanding when it came to love. It just took someone with a heart big enough, a soul selfless enough, to show him what it was supposed to be… And while it had all started out as pretend, make believe so he might finally know what it felt like to be made love to, what had happened between them was the real thing… Terrifying and Sudden as a Tsunami it washed over both their lives and sucked them under, leaving them both changed, unable to go back to who they used to be. “I’ve lost my past, everything that I used to value, everything I put on a pedestal at the sacrifice of myself… My wife, my children, my friends… I’ve left them all because in the end… They didn’t need me anymore and that’s just a fact… I was killing myself trying to be more and more and more, trying to fill the gap around me, only to realize in the end it wasn’t them… They were fine… I was the one who had the chasm in their life…” Aysil was eighteen in exactly two months, she was going to be moving out, she already had a house waiting for her to take over… She had a stable job in the hall of Records where she repaired and maintained all the books therein so she needed nothing and no one… Sybelle, once she had passed no longer had any need for him, and he had done all he could for her to ensure that she was burried with all the love and respect she deserved… The other child? Aylan? Was seven and practically lived with Vivian, he loved her to bits and the two were kindred spirits, he helped her around the house and everything that she couldn’t do being blind and Vivian loved him much as she had her own son. The two were of an age and incredibly similar in voice and sound so for Vivian? It was like having her own son back and she loved that little boy possibly more than his own mother did. Sydel? His ex-wife? She was with the man she was always meant to be with, she and Diovan would finally make that life they deserved, the one they should have had before he ruined it out of spite and anger.

While she spoke though he had noticed the tears and asked her what was wrong, the answer given made him feel that her fears had come to pass, she was unable to have children and his heart ached for her. He was confused about it he wouldn’t lie, he could have sworn he felt it, that spark of life when ever he created a child… But then again he was so in love with her, every single emotion he had was on a positive high, he could have easily missed it and mistaken it for something else. He knew how important family was for her, it was just as much for him too, and for a moment in time… They had such grand dreams… Beautiful castles in the sky, filled with large swaths of children between them, he and Thaylan constantly keeping her pregnant and helping her fulfil her every dream and wish… But if it were so? That dream would die… But his love for her would live on regardless. For the first time in his life he did not see children as proof of love, rather the beautiful surprise gift of expressing that love, but his life with Gia? Was all he needed… Though he was no fool and he had already settled his broken heart on the knowledge that he had ruined what ever they might have had. You could virtually cut the air around them with a knife, they were both hurt and emotionally tender, mentally strained… They were talking and while it came out in batches, sometimes smooth, other times chopper than a storm tossed sea… It was still progress. They were going through it, step by painful step, confessing feelings and concerns in the healthiest way he had ever known in his life. “I don’t blame you though… I can’t say I don’t have a list of women long enough to wrap around the world who could say I broke their heart… I know all about my own reputation and I can’t deny all of it was based on facts.” How many women had he seduced, toyed with, tossed over the side? He had enough shattered hearts in his wake to build a castle tall enough to pierce the sun. Gia, in his mind, was just acting in self preservation and given her situation? Her nobility? She had to. “You aren’t a woman who stands alone, you can’t exist like others, you have to be strong always or your people will suffer.” He had learned a lot after he had saved a majority of her slaves, keeping the strong while he culled the weak, letting those who were sick, elderly or disease ridden to perish in the fall of her lands. From those who survived? He was educated, enlightened about how Drow society worked for the most part, the extreme reliance on the Matron to be strong and reliable… A mother to all her people…

Guided to his feet by her hands, the moment her arms were around him his were around her and he hugged her with all he had, unable to help the sound he had made that was a strangled soft of sob mixed with a sigh of relief. He was so afraid he had lost her, lost all of her and the beautiful magic that she was, terrified that he would never be near her again… But this hug… Such a sweet, small embrace was gluing his world back together, all the aching he had felt was eased off like a drug to ease the pain. She smelled so good, so warm and strong in his arms, nothing about her was petit but she wasn’t thick either… She was the perfect armful, she fit against him like they were cut from the same stone, perfectly matched as only can happen when a whole is halved… “And inside you is the only place my broken pieces have ever been whole… Oh Gia… Gia… My love… My Light… You are my Stardust and my Moonbeams, everything good and beautiful in this world, my reason for stepping out of the flames of change… Hardened… Resolute… Ready to face the new world you helped bring me into…” Yes, he still felt pangs of guilt for these things, how dearly he wished he could have felt this for Sydel… Knowing he should have if it was going to be that forever kind of love… But at the time he had never known any better, and not till Gia, not till his ebony Mistress did he finally understand the difference between for now… And Forever… When she began to cry he simply picked her up and placed her on his lap on the bench, telling her to go ahead and let it out, she had been so strong to keep them in for as long as she had. “You must have the storm to have the flowers, right? It’s definitely been one hell of a storm but those rocky waves and choppy waters brought me to your shore Gia and I am never, ever leaving, I’m tearing down that boat and turning it into a house before with you? Is where I stay.” More words were shared and yes, part of what she had said made him smile, had him laughing as he told her they were the epitome of Chaos. All he could do as she spoke was hold her, love her, accept everything she offered and meet her on equal footing. He knew what he wanted, he knew who he wanted to be, now it was just a matter of reaching those goals. “Chaos and calm, I am going to always be here, no matter what.” He would keep that vow and those words, Llolth intended to make him suffer and bleed, death was too good for him and she wanted him to pay the price for stealing the souls of her people and giving them to Khorn when they were due to go to her. Because of that though? He also knew what he had to fight for and if Llolth kept her end of the deal? He’d become an honorary Drow and he would be forever blessed as one by her, his children would be considered full drow if he and Gia could have ever had one, but even though they couldn’t? He’d be a drow Weapons Master and that was enough to have her house standing in pride and honor. “My hearts been broken a lot, it’s got missing pieces and jagged edges, but I promise you that you hold all of what remains in your hands. I can’t give you the parts that life destroyed but everything is yours… All of me… And if you do give me your heart, I will place it inside my own where it will rest forever safe, covered and shielded by my love for you…”

Though not once in that night? Did he ever offer marriage as a joke. He had meant all of it from start to finish, he loved her and he wanted to marry her, he wanted to take her name. He wanted to be her husband, to support her and help her rebuild, he wanted to do it all and more with her. Even if they couldn’t have children that was ok, children were nice but she was all he really needed, his dream and his heart packed in such a beautiful gift. He proposed again and she said she chose him, the smile on her lips, the way she was laughing… It was perfect… Though her slaves had failed to tell him that it’s the women who propose and not the men, causing him to laugh and shake his head, moving in to kiss her forehead. “I’ve never been happier to hear a No in my life…” He said with his own smile and he nodded his head, his hands sliding down her arms to link with hers, to hold them fast before he’d lift them to kiss every finger and knuckle. “I will marry you Gia Navere, I will take your name, and I will be your WeaponsMaster.” He said as he pulled her in and caught her lips under his, this kiss made all the others before it pale, it lit up the night sky and chased away any fear or doubt… He loved her and it was written in song and poetry in the kiss of his lips against hers… When it slowly broke, chased by a sweeter, smaller sister of a kiss he sighed happily and just held her close. He didn’t want to step away, not for a single second, not for anything… “I love you Gia… And it’s a habit I can happily get addicted to… I can’t wait to fall into bed with you once more, to hold you close as Thaylan and I shelter you, you are the most precious of gifts.” Though when she said they needed to speak he nodded his head himself. “We do… There are things that have occurred with me that you two need to be made aware of as well.” But one of the real treats? Was when she told him that he had hired on Rose and Jacob to be her personal physicians. His whole face lit up and the smile he gave her was bright as the sun. “Really?! That’s amazing! Wonderful! I love that boy so much and the thought of leaving him behind was resting so heavy on my heart, like a lead crown of thorns, this is the most amazing gift Gia, thank you!” Jacob was the ONE person he couldn’t leave behind without regrets, for all he loved Aysil his daughter was very much like her mother, closed off and a bit aloof… She was also a grown woman now and she had long since discarded the need for a father as all young women will… But Jacob? Held his heart in his hands as if he were his own flesh and blood. “We have been speaking about formally adopting him as my son, he’s not had much of a connection to Sydel or Diovan but he and I have been thicker than thieves from the start. Knowing he will be close by with Rose, I’ll be able to see them grow and get married, and Gods willing have little ones of their own. This… This is just amazing… I can’t express how happy my heart feels, my soul, I’m beyond anything I could explain…”

It was time to go though as they walked hand in hand, her head on his shoulder as he would lean in and kiss the crown of it every so often, the walk after all was not terrifically far and he was glad she chose to walk too… They did not know of his current curse from Llolth and any magical use by way of travel was going to be incredibly tricky. Once they were at one of the suits she had knocked on the door and Thaylan had answered it, dinner was upon the table with fresh wine and everything the heart could yearn for, moving aside so they could enter… Thaylan surprised him with a collar, the N of the Navere household on it made him smile, wondering just how much this man really knew of the future. He was as good at predicting it as he himself was which was no easy feat. He lifted the collar and placed it about his neck as he sat down at the table, feeling her hand on his cheek as they stole one last kiss, Thaylan smiling from the side as he laid out a cane on the bed. He knew Thaylan had irked Gia and he was in for a beating and it was just a damned good reminder to himself that he had to be sure not to do the same or he’d meet the same fate. He’d settle down comfortably and pick at the food, enjoying the wine as he began to strip out of his own clothing, leaving him in nothing but a pair of skin tight boxer-briefs. She enjoyed the view of his body and when ever they were alone together in a private setting? He’d strip down to his shorts or nothing at all, depending on the location, naturally. “It’s going to be alright Thaylan… I don’t think she’ll make you sit in pain for too long. I’ll ask her if she’ll let me take the edge off for you…” He said as he tried to keep his mind busy, wondering just what she had to get, his curiosity peaked as she moved about in the other room.

[BadInfluence]

It was hard not to be. You can love someone as a child and still love them as you grow, but that love starts to change a little bit, it matures and the love of childhood becomes the love of maturity… You start to have physical longings that you don’t fully understand, and for him, when they first hit he… Well… Didn’t have a whole lot of help for it at home. His father had already passed on by that time so he had no male figure to go to, and his mother? Well his mother was barely around so he had to hash it out on his own, hence his shyness… The way he’d be terribly awkward around her… He honestly didn’t know what to do other than the typical courtship rituals, wearing the flower on his lapel time after time around her, and just… Well… Hoping she’d notice. Until she did though? He was always with her, always there for her, just happy to be around her really… Good days, bad days, running all over Arvandor or staying home and taking some of the most awful tasting potions anyone had ever created… His life was brighter when he was around her… But it was mighty hard on those days when she ran around him naked, she had no shame and Gods nor should she, she was stunningly beautiful and absolutely perfect… But for him? If not for knowing how to jerk off he might have gone completely and perfectly insane from the sheer temptation and pressure. Staying away from her when she was like that was really the only way to save his sanity but otherwise? He was around her like her shadow, and indeed Caela had said he was such more than a few times, and not in a nice way either to be honest… But who cared? He didn’t… He really couldn’t have cared less if it weren’t for the fact Caela was the only one who could give him permission to court Sydel… Otherwise? He wouldn’t have given her the time of day. There was no one in the world but Sydel to him and that? Was simply how it was.

Things were going to be different now, Caela was gone and so was his brother, there was no one around who could stop them being together. No one to spoil it or warp it, it was just how it should have always been, just him…Just her… Chatting back and forth though he got a first hand education on some really raunchy words that he had no idea were actually such, and as she enlightened him on it he had to wonder if it was a thing, like something people enjoyed? It had to be otherwise people wouldn’t use the terminology, right? So there was a reason that people said them… He wasn’t sure of what he would or wouldn’t be comfortable about using in the bedroom though, he knew some words were just never going to be ok, things he could never bear to call her… But then again this was a new life for them both, who knew way lay in store for them? What might happen around the corner… “I’ve never used them no… But it sounds like something that could be enjoyable for both parties, right? I mean if soft sweet words work, there’s no reason why something a bit rougher, a touch grittier wouldn’t have the same effect.” Her return question had him blushing again and scratching the back of his neck a bit as he chewed the corner of his mouth a bit. “Well… No… Not Really… On average about twice a year? Our wedding anniversary and the biggest festival of the heart of the season are the only times we were guaranteed to be together and intimate. Between you and her?... Maybe five or six times a year total… Our schedules and such just didn’t mesh…” And no one blamed the other for it. Besides, he knew Sybelle had more than a few lovers and he never begrudged her that either, she needed company when he wasn’t around, who was going to blame her for that? His question about what she might or might not like in bed? Well it was honest and fair or so he felt, did she perhaps have something dirty she liked to be called in the bedroom? “I want to try at least… If there’s some you really like then I can try them on for size, so to speak, to see if it clicks or not?” There would be some things that they’d find out and he was looking forward to exploring. Even if it ended up in laughter more often than not it was just more memories to build up with her, things they could look back on when they were both silver and wrinkled, things that would make them smile and laugh at the follies of youth… Her comment about him knowing when it happened, that smile, oh he was pretty god damned red at that point. “I’ll give it a go… I really… I want to be different… Better this time around… I won’t waste our second chance by hiding in the bushes anymore…” Well… Metaphorically… He had never actually spied on her but… Who knows? She might lure him to it this time around.

Once her house was set up and in as much order as he could help it get they headed out to go for a swim, both of them having one HELL of a pretty hard knock when they saw each other in their swim suits. She looked too good for words, she took his breath away and made him hard in a second, the blood shift so hard that he actually sprung a bloody nose that he had to stuff with a cotton ball before he hid behind the wall. Not for the bloody nose, no, that was to hide the fact he had a rock hard erection and he was pretty damn sure that wasn’t exactly ok. Once in the water it was important that she tell him if anything happened because he wanted to make sure she was going to be ok. “Well if we make sure you getting enough food to help your body heal and maybe a little bit of some kind of potion I’m sure we’ll have you better than you ever felt before.” There was something right? He was sure there was and he'd make sure he found it for her too. “But until then? I’ll be with you so you won’t be alone. It will fly by, you’ll see.” He’d play a ton of games with her and read her from her favorite fairy tale stories, feed her new foods she hadn’t had before, foods she had forgotten about… That speedo comment though! Talk about playing dirty! He was blushing as she came around to him and touched his flaming cheek with her finger. “Well yeah… It’s why I can’t play gambling games.” He said with a laugh before she suddenly dunked him and he popped up a moment later spluttering and laughing, slicking his hair back before he’d splash her back, the teasing just going on… Her stating it was justified because he never swam with her and he told her flat out the reason he hadn’t was because of how often she swam nude! Another splash as she began to push him farther back in the water, guiding him to where ever she wanted him to be, looking back at her as he spoke. “Then you should have just told me that and I would have gone. I would have gone to play patty-cake with a drider if it meant I got a kiss from you.” Yeah… And that wasn’t a joke. He’d still do just about anything for a kiss.

The water play was more fun than he had had in years, every time he tried to get her back she either swam out of the way or ducked under, using her legs at this point to make sure he got one hell of a deluge coming his way. “Probably both to be honest… And I did see you that way… It was crazy as we grew up together how many times my feelings for you evolved, the love grew but it got a companion in the form of lust and desire, and I won’t lie Sydel… You were on my mind every time I had to cave in and take myself in hand to regain any sort of sanity… You still are…” She was his perfect fantasy, every little thing about her even down to her toes was arousing and beautiful to him, there wasn’t a hair on her body he didn’t think wasn’t just lush and utterly gorgeous… A few moments later he was pushed under that wall of much cooler water, into the cliff covered cave that was quite dim and private, very quiet and away from the world so to speak… The first kiss was so soft, something she took herself, her words were breaking his heart for her… Of course he’d stay, he’d stay with her as long as she wanted him to, he’d never ever leave her alone again. Holding her close in his arms he peppered her with a hundred other kisses as he moved back, trying to find the sandy floor before he could begin to walk, carrying up to the ledge and setting her down on it… It was warm, dotted with mossy flowers and plenty of thick carpets of the soft green patches, a perfect bed for them to lay on… He came atop her, half over her as their bodies touched, wet and warm from the water but inside he was a lot hotter than the temperature outside… He began to kiss her, his hands soft along her skin as he touched her everywhere, just the most loving of caresses… “Mmm?... So do you though… You don’t taste like copper anymore… You taste like tea and the cherry tart… Mixed with lavender and honey…” He said around the kisses he kept stealing from her, his tongue dipping down to dance along hers, his lips caressing over hers in that heated embrace… He might not have been sexually active but he wasn’t a virgin, every time they were together he learned from her, figured out which way to kiss her and touch her… Because of that he could tell that her fear was slowly easing away into something softer, warmer, but he was always carefully aware… The moment she got scared? He’d stop faster than a lightning strike.

In those moments though he felt it was time a certain ring found it’s home on her finger at long last, it had been waiting for her for so very, very long and it had never come to be… Now though? There was nothing stopping them and he slid it onto her finger, it was a one of a kind, a piece of art that he had designed and mostly made for her himself. “It still pales compared to you…” He whispered as he began to kiss her again, her fingers coming up to trace along his skin before she’d lock them behind his neck, their kisses becoming harder…Hotter… A touch on the hungry side… She ruled him and he fell so easily under her, she was his Mistress too and he would always drop for her without her having to so much as lift a finger, but this was a little more different… She was leading but not topping… Meeting him half way as the two of them locked lips over and over again before she whined against his lips, her profession of love, how much she loved him and he could only hold her tightly in response in those moments. “I Love you too Sydel, more than life itself, I can’t wait to marry you and start a family…” He would wait of course, he was excited at the idea, the prospect of it but he was never, EVER going to push her to try. He’d begin to kiss down her body then, going slowly, memorizing her every dip and curve with his lips, mapping her body out in his mind so that even if he went blind he’d know her shape more intimately than he knew the darkness behind the lids of his eyes. Dipping his tongue into her navel earned the response he wanted, his lips curling in a smile as he laughed with her against his skin, moving down before he came to rest between her thighs…Baby steps… He wasn’t about to line up and make love to her, he couldn’t tell how deep her scars went, how badly that…Event… Had scarred her. Because of that he just wanted to go at a slow pace, to slowly warm her up, let her body and her mind know she was safe with him.

All it took was her little whimper and he slid his hands up her body, caressing and stroking along her skin before he’d catch the line of her bikini bottoms on his thumbs and slowly drag them down her legs, kissing every inch of skin as it went before they’d be placed on the side… His hands never left her skin though, he’d constantly touch her, massaging up and down her legs and peppering her with more kisses than the sky had stars… Laying on his stomach (which by the way is seriously uncomfortable with a huge boner!) he settled between her thighs and placed the backs of her legs over his shoulders, one hand under her ass to lift her just a little bit so he could settle her on his forearm, remembering this angle from a past time with her… The way it opened her up, made her thighs spread a little farther, giving him more room to play in… He’d drag his tongue up along the inside of her thigh, kissing and nibbling as he went before he’d get to the crease between thigh and sweet velvety soft pussy, flicking his tongue along that ultra-sensitive skin… Kissing along her labia, nibbling on those plump sweet folds as his hand slid up her body to catch her hand as it rested against her belly, linking their fingers as he tormented her… Wound her up… Kissing, touching, nibbling and stroking with his tongue, lips and teeth all around her perfect pussy but not once did he dip into it… He just kept ramping her up higher, letting that anticipation build, never going at it quite the same so she couldn’t predict his movements… He’d keep at it until she was gasping and writhing, likely cussing him out and pulling a few chunks of hair out of his head, all of which he’d gladly take as he kept her there… Honing that razors edge of pleasure until it could cut the face of a God if it were a blade, and only then did he move in and it was not fair what he did, nor was it the actions of a man who had lived a very sexually dry life… Abstinence did not mean ignorance… He released her hand and slid his fingers into her, curling them hard and deep inside her the same moment his mouth caught onto her perfect little pearl and he’d begin to hum low and deep, vibrating her core while he pulsed his cheeks so her clit was suckled and tugged into his mouth… His tongue darting out to lap against that captured button of pleasure while he began to finger her hard and fast, his fingers knowing just where that spot was way towards the back, the bundle of nerves that would make her squirt for him, give her such an intense orgasm she’d feel it from head to toe as it lingered for so much longer than a regular orgasm…

Not for a moment did he let up either, even if she clawed at his scalp or crushed his head between her silky sweet thighs he’d keep going, pushing her harder and harder, the slick wet sounds of his fingers pumping in and out of her echoing thickly in their little grotto. As her slickness sweetly slid down her skin he would gather it up on his fingers and slide his pinky inside her ass, working it in tandem with his fingers in her vice tight honeyed little cunt, forcing the fingers on his hand together so that his pinky and his fingers inside her rubbed together through that thin bit of skin so that he was hitting her prostate and G spot all at the same time… Oh yes, sweet Sydel, your boy has been studding long and hard those books of the Paramours… More than that? He had been learning her too, figuring out just what she needed, pressure and speed wise… He was determined to do something to her that no one else ever had, to drop her so hard and fast she’d feel like she was falling for hours as the pleasure would continue to rack around her, dragging her down and down and father down still into that lush den of pleasure… And once she hit that peak? Once she squirted? He’d lap it up like a starving man, locking his mouth over her cunt to suckle it directly from the source before he’d go right back at it, turning her over and lifting her up onto her knees while he planted his face against her ass, dragging his tongue up over her slit and onto her tight little star. He’d lap at that sweet little hole until she was a quivering mess, his fingers back down into her cunt where he’d start to finger her all over again, both hands in use as he fingered her ass and her cunt until she was virtually begging him to stop… He wouldn’t though, oh no no no, this was decades in the making… Dragging her through pleasure as often as her body could handle it, he was dedicated and creative, putting her pleasure first above all things… From fingers to tongue he fucked her sweet tight pussy, her poor pearl was erect and throbbing and he never gave it a break, always keeping it nice and primed so her orgasms were fast and hard…Nearly back to back but lasting so much longer than the norm because he knew the secrets… Knew her body… Just what to do so those orgasms were drawn out… Almost failing to end before the other would roll up onto her… And on… And on…And on he’d go before he finally lay on his back and had her sitting on his face, his hands up about her tits, peeling down her top so his hands could explore and lavish some tender seduction upon those pert, perfect sized mounds… This? Was up to her now, he was handing over the reigns to her, to let her push him, tell him what she wanted next…

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He knew she was struggling with it all.. and he knew she had been struggling with it for the last few days.. the letters had come at the worst possible time, they were up to their elbows with family issues.. the surgeries were hard on the both of them.. in that time he had lost a Mother figure.. and 2 children.. Diovan and him were never really that close no.. but he felt for his Father in those moments.. it was one thing to lose a child through miscarriage early on in the pregnancy.. it was another Entirely when it was still born.. that was a heart ache all encompassing that not many would ever truly experience.. he knew about every miscarriage she had experienced..he knew about the troubles she had gone through to not only get pregnant but to just go through the action of pregnancy itself.. so.. experiencing it through someone elses eyes was going to be hurting.. and then to top it all off the letters were a little on the vague side.. Aeson could have handled it better.. he was a coward for leaving like he did.. but then again on the other hand he was thankful it happened quickly.. and that he was out of the picture.. was that a selfish thought?.. possibly.. he didn't have a lot of those.. he was always so selfless.. but in this.. when it came to her he was soon understanding he had to start thinking for himself.

. what he wanted.. what he needed and he knew.. it was always her.. whilst he would have shared.. could have shared.. Aeson was always just the much stronger person.. in pretty much all capacities.. all categories.. he was physically stronger.. mentally stronger.. he exuded more confidence.. he wont admit to the insecurities he had been feeling watching Ace with her.. but now.. all of that was in the background.. it was an aching shadow.. an echo that slowly he would drown out.. and make go away.. they had made decisions for their future in this room.. this little place.. out in the middle of no where.. The Matron had offered her a lucrative position within the House and thankfully she had accepted it.. the honour was massive and he would go with her.. work along side her and offer her all and any support she needed.. They would leave the surface world behind.. not completely but it would give them a chance to breathe.. a chance to be distracted by something new.. and that was what they needed above everything else.. Plus he figured it was highly doubtful that Ace would follow.. the little disolvable tablets were brought into play.. there was an air of being unsure.. did they need to know what had happened.. did they want to?.. he would if she would and he made sure to tell her as much.. they both fell harder than either of them were expecting.. down into that dark lustful embrace.. perhaps Gia should have warned her that not only would she see it.. but she would feel it all over again..

he watched her dancing.. the way her body moved and swayed.. the sultry seductive movements .. all so cat like.. such perfection.. he was cut.. caught between the dream state and the reality when she began to rub against him.. when she use his body for her own benefit.. the climaxes that tore through her. ripped through her as her cries echoed through his mind..they kissed.. it was hard, heavy and hot.. tongues danced and mingled.. dipped down into the depths of heated mouths where lustful breaths came out in quick panting succession..he had struck her in the visual and it shocked him.. though her response to it only made a growl sound from the back of his throat.. calling to his darker side to hit her if she ever stepped out of line.. -.. You are mine angel.. All mine.. -he whined.. gritting his teeth as he forced a breath through.. he lifted his ass up off the floor to press back against her.. to meet the grinding.. the rocking and rubbing.. the two of them were acting like horny teenagers.. unable to get enough ..The images of Thaylan raping her made him grip her all the tighter.. the way her body was savagely abused.. his cock ached from the sight of her being torn into.. being used for others entertainment.. for others desires.. he knew she enjoyed it.. he could see it.. he could hear it but most of all he could smell it.. that unmistakable scent of sex and desire..her confessions on loving it only made his lips curl.. that grin settling in .. his fingers reaching to wrap about her throat when she said she wanted to watch him fuck someone else.. a line of slaves no less.. to abuse and savage them all.. fill them up entirely with his cum.. leave them breathless and wanting more.. -.. and we will my pet.. we will.. we will ravage so many when we have the chance.. we will enjoy ourselves.. each other.. and other additions.. I will watch you being raped.. and you will watch me being the agressor.. we will drive each other to madness..

-Crow came into play then.. the piece he never knew was there.. but with all the gaps in his memory it wouldn't take long for a logical mind to figure out where he belonged.. she explained to him quickly what it meant.. who it was.. the darker side.. yet so kind and sweet.. keeping him safe from Grace.. before he rolled to the front.. that unmistakable crackle of dark energy that she would grow to need.. grow to want and crave .. he felt her slowing down.. the rocking becoming more sensual.. more languid .. his lips found their place upon the round of her shoulder.. suckling upon her neck-.. Oh yes.. Im real.. utterly and completely.. and im always right there.. just waiting.. watching.. though my sweet pretty bird.. I think I might look a little more closely now.. watch a little more.. -he clucked his tongue-.. often.. Ive experienced all that is you afterall and.. well.. I like what I see.. I enjoy it.. the feeling of that sweet supple little cunt of yours wrapped around my cock is all I desire right now.. -he reminded her about the bell though before he shifted back.. before Jacob would reappear and in that moment.. that was when everything shifted.. the tempo.. the sheer lust.. the desire.. the wanton need.. but it wasn't for sex.. it wasn't for release or orgasm.. or even control and power.. it was for a baby.. the both wanted this more than life itself in those moments and it showed in how they clawed at one anothers clothing..his slacks were removed.. and she impaled herself atop him.. he growled and groaned loudly.. she was hot and tight.. slick wet and smooth.. it was maddening.. the two of them fell into each others kisses.. reaching to hold.. to caress and grab as he lifted his hips.. his ass up off the flooring to fuck her.. to glide in and out of her as she bounced and wriggled..

when she climaxed that first time.. the way her cunt locked down hard around his cock was nearly painful.. he gasped and grunted.. he shifted positions.. and they would continue to do so.. several times.. sweat laden bodies rolled and rocked.. thrust deeply and writhed.. they couldn't have gotten closer to each other in those moments.. he enjoyed every supple perfect inch of her.. his lips would steal hers.. attach themselves to the swan like curves of her neck.. his hands woul roam to cup her bouncing tits .. the arching was fierce and he adored how it made her body look.. every flutter.. every tremble was soul stealing.. he easily lost count of the amount of times he had toppled over that edge.. how many times he had painted up those already slick wet walls.. that body of hers knew just how to make him cum.. knew how to force the climax from him with such ferocity that he would shout.. he would cry and groan.. the fur lined blankets beneath them were soaked with that mixture of cum and sweat.. the two of them lost in each others arms.. he had no idea if it had worked..there was no room for logic in the messed up fog of his mind.. she wasn't far wrong though.. that room would need to be burnt down.. the scent of sex was so strong anyone that entered would be caught in a lust filled frenzy.. though the owners could probably use it as a honeymoon suite.. her pheromones were permanently coating the floorboards..

he summoned what strength he could to lift her.. cradling her in his arms as he staggered his way across to the big comfortable bed.. resting her down atop those pillows as if she were made of spun sugar.. before he literally just collapsed down onto his side of the bed head first.. he laughed lightly-.. Oh my god.. -he groaned.. his body ached in only the most luscious way.. everywhere.. every muscle hurt.. but god damn it felt good.. he turned his head to look to her there.. reaching across to brush his fingers across her cheek-.. You are so.. so beautiful.. -he would whisper.. slowly rolling onto his side as he leant in closer.. drawing her over to him so they were face to face-.. I cant wait to start a family with you.. to spend the rest of my life with you.. -he'd caress her cheeks.. her face.. her chin with a finger tip-.. to explore with you.. to just love you.. every day from now until we venture onto the halls of Valinor together.. just you and I angel.. against the world.. -he would offer her a smile.. sweet and loving as he would always be to her.. always.. his hand would slide down along her arm.. reaching to take her hand.. fingers interlacing as he brought them up to brush his lips across them-.. My princess.. my angel.. -he would lean in to capture a kiss.. soft and sweet-.. I love you.. -whispered breathlessly.. the room was warm and quiet.. the sounds of rain outside the window gave them the perfect melody for a restful sleep.. the two of them would inevitably fall.. his hand would remain resting upon the flat of her stomach.. a gentle reminder that hopefully.. Hopefully they got to where they both desired.. hopefully a life was being created .. Morning would come.. the two of them had caused enough noise that the owners knew better than to disturb them early.. letting them sleep in.. the stunning sunshine pouring in through the opened windows.. the curtains billowing out to spread a soft warm breeze.. they might be woken to the sounds of silver trolleys being wheeled in.. just a couple.. a cooked breakfast awaited them.. it had been organised by Gia.. she knew not what to order.. it was surface food afterall.. so she just asked the owners to organise something nice.. and hearty.. a note folded beside a single floral bloom.. the deepest garnet coloured rose


-To the lovebirds

I trust you had a nice evening, I wanted to thank you for accepting my proposals and I look forward to having you both in my employ.

Please eat up.. enjoy the sunshine.. it might be a little while before you feel it again upon your skin

Talk to you soon

-Gia

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The two of them had stepped out of that green house considerably lighter than they had entered.. the talk between them both was long and heart helpful.. misunderstandings had been made.. words spoken out of turn.. but in the end only through communication did they find their common ground.. she slid her arm around him and walked at his side.. his kisses to the top of her head made her smile.. it was a small incredibly sweet gesture..soon enough though they had arrived back at the room.. the trio set that she had organised ahead of time.. Anya would be off with Adelaide.. though unlikely to interrupt them at all since the room she was in was not connected.. a rap to the door as she made her way inside.. the scent of food hung about ..-.. It would seem you were quite busy my love.. -she would call out to him.. glancing to the table that had been set with wine and quite a few different dishes.. something for everyone .. the light and the heavier foods.. she watched with a tilted head as the collar was given.. the insignia on the front giving any that might question the answer as to whom he belonged.. to whom he answered.. her hand graced her brothers shoulder.. giving a light appreciative patting before she would slip into the second room.. the door closing behind her.. once inside she just breathed.. she just exhaled long and deeply.. one hurdle surpassed.. and it went as well as anyone could have expected..

her hand rose to rub across her still stuttering heart.. she slipped out of the heels.. reaching back around to slide down the zipper on that little velvet dress.. letting it come to rest over the back of one of the chairs..she sunk down onto the side of the bed.. drawing the stockings up her legs.. rolling them as the smooth spider silk clung to the shape and length.. coming to hug.. to settle against her mid thigh.. the outfit was a rich vibrant red, black and silver.. a firm bodice was drawn around from behind.. though it wasnt a corset.. she had listened to Rose.. she wouldn't put her body under any strain.. it was just fitted to her shape.. not tight.. not restrictive.. the clips attached to the stockings as she reached back around to clasp the balconette bra into place.. it would lift those well rounded orbs of hers.. the jewellery was simply an addition.. an adornment to her otherwise very vacant neck.. she slid her small feet back into her heels.. smoothing her hands down over the shape.. pausing at her belly.. it was flat now yes.. the thought of it growing though made her breath catch.. she exhaled slowly.. knowing they would be waiting for her.. she slipped the full length red silk robe on.. Nautilous would remember it.. its the one she was wearing in the pool room.. the one he had peeled off of her.. tying the belt.. it would do well to conceal the outfit beneath for the moment.. before she gathered up the two small rectangular boxes that were resting at her bedside.. before she would make her way back out into the room they were sharing..

her gaze would wander.. catching a glimpse of Nautilous having stripped down to little more than those skin tight boxer briefs.. he really did have a remarkable figure.. and he was right she did enjoy watching it..she'd grown to admire that physique quite a lot.. she offered him an appreciative smile.. before her gaze would turn to her brother.. noticing the cane there upon the bed..- Come Thaylan.. settle in .- she'd turn back toward Nautilous.. reaching for his hand as she would urge him.. pulling him to his feet .. her fingers brushed down the hardened muscular planes of his stomach.. those almost haunting garnet eyes would lift..in this moment he would spy maybe a glimpse of the Matron that lead her people.. the Woman that took no issue in dishing out punishment when it was due.. before she guided him to stand in behind her.. she would untie the silk belt from around her middle.. drawing back the robe she had on.. till it pooled at her feet.. revealing that striking outfit beneath.. -.. roll over onto the cushion Thaylan.. -indicating she wanted his ass up a little higher than the rest of him..-.. Legs over the edge.. -she'd reach for the cane.. feeling its weight between her fingers as she struck it through the air beside her.. hearing the sharp slicing.. -.. So .. we have been here a few times.. over the years.. though for varying reasons.. -she would run the tip of the cane down along his spine.. -.. little slip ups and the like.. this time however.. its a little different,.. Nautilous can you take his pants down.. all the way..i want him completley naked.. -she would wait.. once Thaylans ass was revealed she would drag that canes tip between his ass cheeks.. going so far as to tap it against his balls.. -.. My letters to you.. are for who's eyes?.. -she'd question.. but before he had the chance to answer though he'd feel that incredibly sharp ice hot sting of the cane landing hard across his rounded ass cheeks.. -.. and who did you show my private correspondance to?.. -another sharp crack.. and then a secondary in quick succession.. she would reach across to rub across his reddening flesh though.. just a hard firm grip..-.. I understand your heart was in the right place my love.. but.. you wont do it again will you?..

-she would reach for Nauts hand.. drawing him in behind her.. her right hand would reach down to grip onto his outer thigh.. making sure he was pressed in tight against her .. his chest to her back.. her free hand though would reach for his arm.. fingers would interlace.. drawing forward so he was embracing her..reaching around her.. though she would then place the cane in his hand.. tilting her head back to look to him-... Strike him.. 5 times.. Hard.. -she spoke softly but with an authority that would never.. ever be met.. she stepped away from him.. making her way around the front of the bed where Thaylans head was resting against the quilt.. she'd gain a firm grip upon his hair.. grabbing a handful as she pulled it back.. forcing him to look to her whilst Naut tore into that already reddened ass-.. I love you.. my dear sweet brother.. but dont test me.. -she would watch his face.. the emotions running across it as he was struck those times she had requested.. her fingers long and slender.. lacquered nails curling about his throat.. before she would release the hold on his hair..his skin..patting the top of his head gently-.. He has suffered enough for his.. mistake.. Nautilous my Knight.. ease him a little.. -he could have gotten Thaylan some ice.. or just rubbed it.. something.. anything to take that white hot sting away..she figured he had a few ideas.. before she would lean down to press a kiss to Thaylans crown.. she would round the bed once more -.. Come sit for me boys.. -she would ask gently.. closing the gap between her and Nautilous in a few long strides.. she would take the cane from his fingers.. dragging its tip along his inner thigh before she would turn allowing them both to settle upon the bed.. to sit as she had requested.. those boxes she had brought out with her were resting upon the bedside table.. she came to stand there before them both.. her knees to theirs.. she knew her brother would be having a few issues sitting down.. reaching then to cradle his cheek-.. Thankyou love.. for finishing up everything back at the estate.-she leant up to brush her lips to is right cheek.. just softly-.. for bringing our daughter back safely.. -the left cheek-.. and for taking care of our families newest addition.. -she would guide his head down just a little.. just enough so she could kiss his forehead..turning then to pick up those boxes once more.. she took a breath.. it was clear.. whatever had happened.. whatever she had been told was weighing upon her a little heavily.. even after sorting things out with Nautilous-..

I had my medical with young Rose today.. -her brows furrowed-.. I got some unexpected news.. it's been quite a roller coaster.. these past few days.. a lot of highs.. and a lot of very deep lows.. -she paused-.. Im really looking forward to going home.. but before we do.. I need to tell you both a couple of things.. things that I feel are important.. and that have pegs on our future..-she rolled her shoulders..-I have offered a position to Rose.. to be my personal physician.. Jacob will also be attending.. they will both be working on cycle as our House Medics and Healers.. They will be there whenever the House requires it.. and for me when there is a need..They have both accepted and are waiting for my word to meet us on the road.. -pausing a moment.. looking down to the boxes in her hands-..There is quite a bit of news to speak on this evening.. she cleared her throat.. glancing across to Nautilous.. a lingering look with those striking garnet eyes-.. Thaylan I am pleased to tell you that Nautilous has accepted my proposal of marriage officially.. and that he is wanting to step into the role of Weapons Master when he is able.. -she would reach for Nauts hand.. her fingers would curl around his.. giving a gentle squeeze.. - I was going to leave this a little longer.. but I fear its weighing upon me quite heavily now.. -she handed them both a box.. they were of similar rectangular size.. wrapped in a red ribbon.. ..ushering them with a hand gesture to open.. she couldn't bring the words forward..they were on the tip of her tongue but they just wouldn't spill.. almost as if there was a fear that if she said it.. she'd wake up from the dream she thought she might be caught in.. inside the box beneath the soft red silk would be finley crafted silver rattles.. they were incredibly ornate.. the scripted N for Navere engraved in each one.. her hand rose as she covered her mouth because she knew she was going to get emotional.. Nautilous would have one.. and Thaylan would have two.. -.. Rose wants to follow me closely.. because ...three... can be risky -her voice was wavering a little as it was getting the better of her.. she reached up to wipe a few fingers beneath her tear laden lashes.. but she was smiling through it all.. -.. We are well and truly pregnant.. You boys dont like to do things by halves.. -she laughed a little giving a shake of her head .. oh she swore her heart would just burst right then and there..she reached for Nauts cheek.. cradling it-.. a beautiful single soul conceived when love was felt.. that first time.. -she turned to Thaylan.. warm fingers finding his cheek also-.. and You dear Brother..certainly made sure to make up for lost time with two in your corner.. -she gave him such a brilliant smile.-.Its all so very Very overwhelming..

Mistress outfit
Gifts in box

[BadInfluence]

What had started out as something he was rather terrified to go through had turned out to be something far more beautiful and healing than he had expected. He knew he had issues, buckets of them but this was the first time he had actually been able to resolve something so fluidly, in such a healthy manner… He knew there would be plenty of moments like earlier, signals would be missed, things would be misunderstood and that was just how every new relationship begins. He had faith that they’d get through it though, at least he did now, but ask him that an hour ago? And he’d be insanely hard pressed to answer in a positive manner. He and Sydel had more often than not butted heads so much that as they had gotten older they just opted to not talk about it, switch the topic, shift the mess under the rug… But this was forward and honest, a lot of information was shared which was so important, like to the point of extreme. He had to know her fears and her concerns, the way she reacted to things, the way her mind worked… She also had to come to understand how his own did too because the more they understood about each other the smoother their life was going to be together.

Together as they walked he couldn’t help the small signs of affection, he was at his heart an extreme romantic and a very affectionate person, he lived for things like small kisses and hand holding… Anything that showed care and love that could be expressed in and out of the bedroom. He was just happy that she enjoyed it, more than once his lips curling into a smile as he kissed the top of her head as they walked together, heading back to that room where Thaylan would have had everything set up and ready for them. He seriously had to wonder if Thaylan had a crystal ball because he was way too wise to be just the average Harlequin… Unless he wasn’t? He had heard that Chegorache had a few very special, very favorited Harlequins who were allowed to read the Black Book, and if that was the case then perhaps Thaylan had known how all of this was going to unfold?...

Naaaah…

More likely Thaylan was just a very intuitive, very compassionate and loving soul, wise beyond his years but not jaded despite it. The collar though when it was presented to him was a bit of a shock… He hadn’t worn a collar since… Yeah… And he had to admit the two could not have been more different if someone had tried. This one was made of fine, smooth material, thick so it enclosed almost his entire throat but it didn’t bind or hurt… No pinching or studs… The N engraved beautifully and boldly on the front of it and the back was a seamless lock that could only be undone by Gia herself with a key she kept on her person. Once it was slid in place it would sit against his skin, her fingers idly toying with it before he’d start to strip out of his clothes and take up a chair in nothing but his boxer briefs, picking up a bit of food to eat here and there… He hadn’t eaten anything since the fall out between he and Gia and he hadn’t realized that he even had a bit of an appetite… It wasn’t huge but it was something which meant he was going to be ok… It was all going to settle and they’d get there…

Gia had stepped into the other room and he and Thaylan chatted a little bit back and forth while she handled what ever she was going to be doing in that other room. He knew what was coming, Thaylan had told him as much and he had seen it himself in the letter she had sent them together, and he knew that the only reason Thaylan was about to get his ass beat was because of him… He had, in passing, told him that taking a cold bath or a bit of an ice pack could help lessen the pain and keep the damage from being too extreme but if Thaylan took it? Well that was up to him. He wasn’t surprised though to know Thaylan had passed up the advise though, he told her he didn’t think Gia would be TOO hard on him, she loved him after all. Someone else? Chances were skin might just be missing but it was Gia with Thaylan, he felt that while the chances are someone’s ass was going to be tanned? It wouldn’t be to the extremes that he himself had undergone before.

When she came out though in that red robe? Of course it was an instant, almost violent flash back to that moment in the pools, such an innocent start… When they said some fairytales start with a kiss he always called bullshit… Until it happened to him. His eye followed her as she moved, she didn’t walk she glided across the floor, the shift and slide of the silk over her was making his mouth run dry and this throat close just a touch. Thaylan of course was already by the bed, waiting for what was to come next and for that time? He simply sat back and watched, it was a good lesson to learn, and more than that? He wanted to see how Gia metered out her punishments, because if she was like Chaka? He might have to get drugged before each lesson or he’d likely go into an extreme panic. That first whistle for instance? Made his muscles clench just a bit but as it unfolded? It was kittens play compared to Chaka and he honestly damn near slid out of his chair in relief. With a sigh of relief he was content to watch until Gia brought him into it, and yeah he couldn’t lie, he was sporting a pretty impressive chub in his pants. Not fully erect no but obvious the whole thing was having an effect on him as he was pulled in to press flush against her body… The closeness was NOT helping the situation but he never got fully erect, he was being respectful, listening to her and trying to learn this… New role…

“Yes, Matron Gia…” He said as he’d take the cane from her hand, his lips finding the soft curve of her neck where he’d press a soft kiss, holding her close for just a moment before she stepped away. Seeing Thaylan bent over like that, he knew there were places he could hit him that would hurt less, but he also had a pretty solid idea if he did? Gia would take the cane to his ass for it. Instead he settled for a placement that would limit the pain when needing to sit, going for the upper curves and measuring it out with his eyes before the sudden whistle of that cane ripped through the air almost like a scream, the thin wood bending with force around Thaylans ass. He KNEW that had to hurt and unless Thaylan was something of a pain slut that was going to make him scream. He’d repeat the process four more times, making sure he waited long enough between strikes for each hit to be a fresh pain, no overlapping so one just bled into the other. This was a punishment, not a play for pleasure, so he knew just how to lay it out so that Gia would be satisfied. The next set of orders were heard and he nodded his head, moving into the bathroom to gather up a towel and soak it in some ice cold water before he’d come back out and gently lay it over Thaylans truly welted ass, the cold would be a delicious contrast to the heat and help to ease much of the sting away.

As she took the cane from him, the way she dragged it along his inner thigh almost had him jump, his jaw tightening as a shiver ran over him from head to toe. That? Was new… And… He was pretty sure… He liked it. When she took a seat he had to roll his neck to shake off some of that tightness that had rested there, finger still idly tugging the collar, not that it was bad or uncomfortable just…Really different… He wasn’t quite sure what to make of it yet but it was still very new. Thaylan sitting on one side of Gia and he on the other, they both listened to her as she spoke, and he knew what ever it was? Was a bit heavy on her and he offered silent support in the way he would snake his arm about her lower back, his hand gently stroking in slow circles in the dip there, letting her know silently he was there. He had a little outline of what it might be when she said it was unexpected, they had touched on it a bit back in the greenhouse, as well as the news of Rose and Jacob coming along. When she spoke on how he had accepted her proposal the grin on Thaylan’s face? Had him chucking a pillow at him with a bit of a grin. “Fuck you Cheshire cat… I want to know where your crystal ball is.” Because he? Had not expected Gia to propose but he didn’t know that was part of their culture either. Regardless? It was still an amazing surprise as he had curled his fingers around her hand, giving it a warm, supportive squeeze before she spoke about how… This next part was weighing upon her heavily. His fear? Was that Rose had confirmed her own fear, that she couldn’t have children and he was ok with that, he didn’t need them to be happy with her and he wanted her to know that… Had said as much too… But when she gave them those boxes?

“That’s a big box for an engagement ring.” He said as he loosed the ribbon, setting to the side carefully, pulling the lid off and at first… Seriously… Shit didn’t register… “Wait-“ [/i] He got out for like…Two seconds…Before she said that Rose wanted to be close by at all times because three could be risky… His jaw just hit the floor… So did the rest of him as he legs went out from under him and he slid off the bed to land hard on the ground, staring at the rattle in his box, things weren’t computing… Like… He had hoped… It had all come about suddenly the moment he felt himself pump her full of cum, his seed taking root, he had felt that flash… But then they had that horrific misunderstanding and he had felt everything crumble and break… Then the news tonight… He had assumed it meant that Chaka had lied about her womb still being there… But… “Gia-… Are you-? This-“ He was full on stuttering as Thaylan suddenly let out an extremely exuberant cry before watching as Thaylan pounced Gia so she was laying on her back on the bed as Thaylan peppered her with kisses everywhere he could reach but he?... He was dumbfounded… His hand touching his cheek where she had gently held him for a moment… The rattle in his lap before he just broke…

He'd lost his baby the day before… And he’d lost so many before that… He’d tried and tried but… And now… Now with the woman he loved, his missing piece, the only thing in the world that made him feel whole for the first time in his life… Was carrying his child… He rocked forward and just began to cry as he held that rattle against his chest, this was more than he had hoped for or dreamed, more than he deserved and after SO much loss… SO much pain and sadness and burying it all under a mountain of false confidence… He would push himself up after several moments and drag Gia and Thaylan into his arms where he would hold them tightly to him, kissing them both everywhere his lips could reach, because for all this might not make sense to anyone else… For the first time he was where he was supposed to be… “I love you so much Gia, my sweet, precious perfect Mistress, my Wife… This is just the start… We know now…We know… There will be so many more too but… Right now… This is so perfect… So good… This is more than I ever dreamed…” He said as he continued to pepper her with kisses and just hold her close, his hand drifting over the flat of her stomach before he’d move down and rest his head over that flat expanse, turning to press his lips over her gently. “Vendui ussta lotha ligrr... Dosst ilharn ssinssrigin dos lueth shlu'ta naut kyorl ulu thalra dos… But not too soon… Daddy can wait till you’re ready…” [/b] (hello my little girl... Your father loves you and can not wait to meet you) He whispered against her skin as he turned his head once more to rest above her belly, to listen to her heart beat as the tears slowly fell now and then to wet the fitted garment, his arm around her while the other just softly caressed her.

[BadInfluence]

“Always my sweet… A good husband is always busy behind the scenes so that his Wife may go about her day knowing that when she comes home all is in order for her to relax. I live to make you happy and ensure you are always comfortable when you come back to me.” As such food was on the table, things for he and Gia in their native cuisine, things for Nautilous that were of a heartier but far from heavy variety. He had moved over to Nautilous then with the Collar, catching that look he simply smiled, he had known it would come about this way before too long. He had seen the way Gia looked at him, the way she responded to him, he knew she loved him with a complete and utter conviction… The only hiccup between them? Some misunderstood words and he had cautioned her about it… Gently, quietly guided her around to understanding that she might be moving a little too quickly into cutting him off, to perhaps… Take a bit of caution… Take a little time to allow things to… Process… He knew his sister better than he knew himself, it didn’t matter how many years they had been forced to be apart he was her soul mate and she was his, the perfect other half to him. Because of that he knew what she needed much better than she herself did but he’d never say it to her, or to anyone really, that was just his own personal knowledge…

For all that there had been good earlier he also knew there was NO way she was going to forget about what he had done, she had written to paper that he best be prepared, and he knew what that meant… It wouldn’t be the first time he angered her and earned her wrath, and given that he planned on living a very long life with her, well this was likely far from the last. He’d picked up her favorite style of cane earlier, made sure it had the right weight and thickness to it, the handle well wrapped so that there was no backlash up the bamboo. She’d left to the other room to prepare, no Mistress or Matron would ever take on a whipping without the proper attire, otherwise they might as well be as common as beasts… As such he was not surprised by what she wore, oh hardly he was delighted, seeing her dressed up like that always made his heart race. “Yes, Mistress Navere…” No sweetness here, no loves, no sister… This was not a time to be romantic. He had committed a crime, he was going to have to pay for it, he was just glad that the crime had at least paid off very rich dividends. He settled them up a bit different and assumed the position she wanted him in, hearing that cane whistle through the air he actually flinched, memory was still vivid even after over twenty years space… Nautilous came up behind him then and would pull his pants down so he was without a single stitch there on the bed, not a word uttered, he knew his role very well indeed.

Just like her questions were not actually meant to be answered, they were rather reminders, place markers for him to memorize with the pain. That first strike? He bit back the scream, strangling it down into a painful grunt as he gripped the bedding, his head falling to the duvet. The second hit was right on the heels of the first and he groaned hard and long, gritting his teeth down as he held it back, knowing she wasn’t in this to hear him scream… It wasn’t THAT sort of play… “No, Matron Navere… Never again.” And he wouldn’t. He’d never need to do so again after all, so it was a very easy thing to promise, to stand by. When it came to Nautilous turn though? “Fuck-“ He uttered silently under his breath, entirely to himself as he knew this shit was going to be bad, extremely bad with Gia telling him to do it hard. He was trying to prepare himself for it but there was NO way to do so. That first strike lined up perfectly and despite his best efforts he yelled in pain… The moment the pain began to let up? He almost relaxed but the moment he did, that next strike came, the one after it just the same… Spaced out so he thought it was over, where he could relax, take a breath… Then white hot pain and he ended up giving more than a few hollers of pain before Gia would come around the front of the bed, her hand in his hair, forcing him to look up at her…The lines around his eyes, the tenseness in his face showed the pain he was in, his breath shot and stuttered… When she let him drop? He dropped HARD and sagged into the bedding, his ass was red hot and he saw white around the edges of his vision before Nautilous would come back with that cold towel, oh that hurt like a son of a bitch before it would help and start cooling him down.

When she settled on the bed he got up and honestly did his best to try and sit beside her, at least Nautilous had placed them up high so that he could sit somewhat, a weak sigh as she kissed the crown of his head. The touch to his cheek was welcomed though, leaning into it as she thanked him for what he had done, nodding his head as he leaned into it. “Anything for you my sweet sister…” He was still hurting a bit so he was perhaps a bit fogged up but it would pass soon he was sure… He was more worried about her than anything else in the moment though, something seemed to sit on her shoulders like the world itself, not something she often underwent… Like Nautilous his arm was around her, while Nautilous took the lower part he handled the upper, gently rubbing her shoulders as she spoke. Hearing she had taken that medical and the news was unexpected? What did that mean? That was incredibly vague which was very unlike her and it had him wondering just what she was building up to… Though hearing that Rose and Jacob were coming? He actually laughed a bit. “They are the most skilled doctors I have ever seen but I fear the first time Rose meets me if she ever takes the remembrance tablet… I have a feeling she will rip me a whole new orifice in some area of my body wholly embarrassing.” Though he couldn’t hide the smile on his face when Gia said she had proposed to Nautilous and that it had been accepted, the pillow tossed at him had him laughing and he simply shrugged, giving him a wink all the same. “If I had one I’d not tell you anyways, your far too smart on your own for your age, be content that life can still surprise you.” He said with that same bright smile despite the pain in his ass, literally, and he would have said more if not for the fact Gia was handing out boxes. “What is this for my precious little spider?” He’d ask before he’d start to undo his own ribbon, pulling the lid off to see the twin rattles there, his eyes turned to her so fast that he was sure some retina might have snapped inside his head. “THREE?!” He exclaimed loudly before he’d let out a whoop of pure joy and elation, the pain forgotten as he would throw himself at her and tackle her back onto the bedding, peppering her with a thousand kisses and he laughed and spoke in a gibberish mix between drow and common, words running together in his excitement. “Twins! AH! TWINS! Oh Great Goddess Lolth be Praised! Gia! Sister! My Sweet Sister! You are a mother! I get to be a father again!” He was a mess of exuberance she had only seen once before when she was pregnant with Anya, but this time nothing could tear them apart, this time they were together forever hand in hand.

Nautilous had taken it a bit hard at first, shock and sorrow were being paved for joy before he came into the bed with them and they both held her close and tight, peppering her with kisses before Nautilous would move down and spend that special moment with his child. “We must take every precaution now yes… Anya was smooth but I was not there, and this is not just one baby but three, it was very wise of you to hire Rose and Jacob on early. Though I think we must find a safer way to travel down back home, we must be very gentle, very diligent in guarding you and our children my sweet Sister… Please allow us to be worry wart husbands and fathers, for this is a blessing we did not dare hope for, all care must be given and all precautions taken.”

[BadInfluence]

The timing couldn’t have been more shit if Ace had deliberately set it up himself. He knew they were having a delicate surgery the next morning, he knew that it was extremely high risk, and given her own sadness with miscarriages that this was going to be a rough go as it was… But he’d done it anyways… Cut and ran with a vague letter that smacked of cliché ‘its not you it’s me’ jargon that men fall back on when ever they can’t be upfront about things. In the end? She would have loved to have known that Jacob was actually happier with him gone, it would have given her something to hold onto, a platform to stand on in those rocky moments. Still, what he was doing for her now was more than enough, he was doing wonders in helping her feel safe and secure in his arms. Ace might have left her because he didn’t like what he was seeing but Jacob was quite the opposite, he loved her and all these phases of her, he didn’t judge her or try to force her to become something that suited him… It was what helped her so much in these moments since the letter, since she broke down and told him what had happened, and that? That was so much more than she could have hoped for, especially given that she wasn’t the original one with Ace, let alone the first… Jacob himself must be suffering too but he held it in, he held it up so she could be weak, she only hoped he’d let her return the favor when the time came…



What did come though were those tablets… Did they want to? She knew that while he might have been undecided she knew she wanted to, there was something really important she was supposed to be remembering, something she couldn’t recall without taking that pill. Though… A little warning ahead of time would have helped them both a great deal most likely… Gia had said she would remember what had happened…Pretty easy…Clean cut… But what had come after? Was anything but. It was a vivid reliving of it and given how she was already under stress, her body screaming at her to use sex to fix it, this was NOT HELPING MATTERS! If anything? It pretty much tipped the scale so she was overwhelmed, she had run out of choices, of options because once those memories started? The sensations, the sights and smelled too? She was utterly ruined and there was no way she was going to be able to pull the reigns back…



But…



Did she want to?



As she remembered there was no way to deny the fact her body was on fire, she was burning with desire, with need for her beloved and the sweet pain and pleasure only he could give her. She was clawing at him at that point, rocking against him hard and wet as she used his body to get off those first two climaxes nearly back to back, already starting to get his pants wet with her nectar. As those images came on there were more than a few shocking outcomes, thins that had happened that neither of them could have expected, from the whipping to him slapping her and she saw it…There in his face…His shock… Perhaps a bit of shame and she was quick to destroy that weed before it so much as got a chance to send a sliver of a root into his consciousness. What he had done? Was satisfy her every dark, dirty, depraved little desire and she didn’t want him for a fraction of a second to think otherwise. Their lips tangled and dueled like skilled fencers, taking and giving pleasure as they each sought to master the other, hunger easily overwhelming anything and everything else in those moments… All memories of Ace? Gone like the smoke from an extinguished fire. “Fuck yes Daddy, all yours, your dirty little slut-“ She panted open mouthed against his lips before their kisses resumed, memories overlapping, meshing while they were conscious at the same time of what they were doing in the moment… Her nails raking over his skin, leaving pink welts under the fabric of his shirt as she ground hard down against him, feeling his cock surging in his pants when they got to the scene of Thaylan raping her. Did it bother her? Hardly. It was a fetish, a fantasy, a little kink… You could ask around and plenty of women would admit to having a fantasy of being raped, it wasn’t common but it wasn’t rare either, just enough spice to keep things interesting so to speak.



The fact? The fact was that yes, she adored having a big, thick drow cock forced into her. She loved being made helpless and allowed to scream and rage, to threaten death before being shoved into a submissive spot, hence his back handing her and Thaylans rape had made her cum so hard so often she’d lost consciousness more than once. She loved that it turned him on too, the idea of watching her getting taken advantage of, his little Rose’s tight cunt being pounded and savaged by someone else… It was like a drug she could never, ever get enough of, but that drug? Was a two-way street. As much as he enjoyed watching her? She wanted to watch him too, she wanted to pick out female drowses slaves and make them take his thick cock, she wanted to watch him raping them and turning them into mindless little fuck pins with tongues out and cum oozing from their cunts… The two of them were light and dark together, not purely good, not purely evil… They were perfectly balanced, the switches to each other in so many ways, they just fed into each other sublimely. “Such superb and splendid madness Daddy-“ She panted atop of him as she shattered once more, clawing through his shirt at this point, acting even worse than two horny teenagers at this point! “I can’t wait to watch you… Have you watch me… I want to eat out the slaves pussy as you rape her, I want to be a part of it, smell your pheromones as they drive every dirty slave to madness for your big juicy cock- You’re sublime Daddy, perfect in every way for me, I love the darkness we share and the light… No judgement… Just pure love… Understanding…Acceptance…” And it was true… And what a luscious… Dangerous mix! Love, support, freedom from judgement and similar kinks and fetishes? They really did have it all…They were, without a doubt, faultlessly and perfectly ideal for one another. Made to be together forever…



Crow had come in then and she knew it the second she felt it, that addiction, that need starting to come in…To settle in her veins… To hook and bite… Crow was so very different in so many ways, he was slow and sensual, reverent and knightly… She slowed immediately atop of him, her hands softening as she stroked over his skin, whispered words and little prayers… “I love you Crow… I love you-“ She whispered to him as he kissed and suckled up along her neck and her shoulder, hearing him talk about watching more often, having felt her… Tasted her… Enjoyed her body… She was a whimpering mess in his arms as she looked up at him ardently. “Please… Please watch me cum for you… I’ll speak with Gia… Find a way to bring you forward more for us… You and I… I want…You to feel a full orgasm… Deep inside me… While I cum all over your cock-“ She whined as she ground against him, that orgasm high and hot and hard as she cluing to him, hearing him remind her about the bell and she begged him to watch her kill Grace with the damn thing’s chain before he vanished, that addictive crackle was gone and Jacob was back…



In that moment? They both hit a frenzy because the end of that party? Had a very specific goal, and that was to conceive, to get pregnant… She’d been scared… Afraid of another miscarriage but that night… Between the drugs and the sheer raw sexuality coursing through her veins? Fear had been the last thing on her mind as she and Crow tried for a child, a little boy she wanted to name Lyon, the two of them had been so tightly entangled and desperate…Fighting so hard for it… Had it happened? She didn’t think so… She hadn’t felt anything but they weren’t out of luck yet. The moment she realized the potion was still in effect and she was still in estrus? She was clawing his clothes off in a fevered need to get him naked as she explained just what was going on… That there was still a window for them to have that baby and the moment Jacob understood? It was like gasoline met fire.



She impaled herself on him as soon as that thick juicy cock was free and neither of them had the patience to go slow or sweet, she bounced away on his lap like a wild little thing, her sweet perky tits bouncing and swaying madly on her chest… She rode him hard and fast until she shattered with a high sweet cry of pleasure before he’d bend her, laying her on her back as he began to pump into her furiously, another orgasm ripped from her hard enough to make her thoroughly and violently squirt around his cock and all over his legs, his own cum being pumped into her moments later. They were a white hot tangle of limbs, lips nearly constantly locked unless one of them was crying out in climactic bliss or the position was one where they couldn’t reach and he’d put her in a few of those, only serving to make her cum harder and more often than simple missionary would have done…He literally made her his little sex pretzel and she returned the favor, they fucked in more positions than the bible had psalms and by the end of it they were soaked with cum, his and hers and no small amount of sweat… The fur beneath them was slippery and slick, matted down with beautiful pearly white dollops of his cum that had fallen out of her well gaped pussy, her skin bruised and clawed and bitten up beautifully… A sexual masterpiece…



There was no way to hide the whimper she made as he lifted her up, ooooh her muscles were on fire, even her joints ached as she was cradled to his chest and moved into the bed…Oh but it was lush! Cool… Soft… Silky… She turned her head to look at him while her fingers caressed down his cheek, laughing softly at the way he was reacting, knowing EXACTLY How he felt. “I know… It was incredible-“ She let out on a strained, rough, nearly impossible to hear voice… She could barely speak he had made her scream in pleasure so often it was almost too much! Was it always going to be like this between them now? This new, more confident, more muscular and self assured Jacob… It was like someone down there in Naggoth had found the shackles and cut them all off, freeing him to be who and what he wanted to be, and she? Was reaping all the benefits… She curled into him tightly, bring his leg up to rest over her hip, her fingers tracing up and down his thigh as she languished in him embrace. “Always you and me Jacob… You are my world… Some day… I promise… I’ll give you a houseful of children… Sons and daughters… A family… All our own… Our legacy…” And she did… She so desperately wanted to give him that… No… That’s not quite right… She wanted to give THEM that… Because it was more than just him… She wanted to have this baby too… Lyon… Their son… She hoped she was… She truly hoped they had created their son together, they had tried to hard, given it all they had… “I love you, My sweet tin soldier, my perfect knight…” As she drifted off she’d send a prayer to Hanali, asking her to help with this wish of theirs, to try and start a family… Surely Hanali or some other god would look down on them and show mercy…



She fell asleep faster than she had ever fallen asleep before and she slept so deep, so profoundly restful that she didn’t even hear the trolleys coming up, hell she didn’t even hear the door open as they were pushed in. All she heard? Was the warm beat of her beloveds heart under her ear, her lips curled in a soft smile as she dreamed of a golden haired, duo colored eyed baby boy… Skin the color of milk and honey with a splash of freckles across his nose… When she woke up she could see Jacob was still completely dead to the world, slipping a pillow under his arm so he’d keep resting she got up to use the bathroom, aching from head to toe in the best way she could have possibly imagined. In the privacy of that bathroom as she tended to herself and brushed her hair, she figured she’d do a scan, she hadn’t actually tested herself which… honestly? She couldn’t figure out why she hadn’t… It was a simple one, something pretty easy, just a little scan before she’d shut it down and finish brushing her hair out, leaving it over her shoulder before she’d go to the trays and fix a pot of tea for them. Pouring out a cup of his favorite for him she placed it down beside him on the bedside table as well as a little envelope next to it as she curled up by the window herself, face turned up to the sun with a mug in her hands, savoring the sweet smell of fresh grass and clean earth right after a rain…



inside the envelope

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His blush there in the water was utterly adorable.. he hadn't changed much at all really.. he still came across to her as a little reserved, a bit shy.. no where near as much as he was when they were younger no.. but there were still parts there most certainly.. he mentioned that she should have told him that she wanted that kiss.. and just how much he would have done to get it.. even going so far as playing patty cake with a drider it was that serious.. she laughed-.. I almost did.. a few times.. I just missed the signals from you.. so I didn't think you were really that interested.. -she splashed him again.. and again.. walls of water heading in his direction as he spluttered and pushed her back with just as much force.. she laughed.. it was a lot more fun than she had had in quite a while.. he admitted that his feelings had evolved.. much the same as hers.. that she was on his mind whenever he had to take himself to hand .. her smile grew a little more-.. Oh I wont deny you were on my mind Diovan.. more than once.. Quite often.. more than a few occasions you almost walked in on me during those.. -she chuckled and shook her head as she continued to push him back toward the waterfall-.. Oh the trouble we could have gotten into if we'd just taken those steps.. -the slipped beneath that wall of water.. a kiss .. a long time coming occurred.. it was soft and perhaps a little hesitant.. before she asked him to stay.. she really didn't want him to go.. and she did not want to be alone.. he gave her all the things she needed to hear as he held her close.. her arms wrapped around him.. he was warm and smelt so so good.. into the little cave they moved.

.a little deeper before he layed her down and they fell into one another once more..lips were locked.. tongues shared and breaths stolen.. it was sweet and soft.. they reached and touched.. learnt one another all over again.. she was a bit softer.. a bit more supple than the usual hard sharp lines of her figure.. she smelt different.. sweeter with lavender accents.. but she certainly noticed his taste.. oh it was driving her wild.. it was so good..she just wanted more.. drawing him back to her whenever his head decided to go on a wander.. he would illicit sighs from her in those moments.. sweet sounds as she shifted..wriggled and writhed beneath him.. -.. You admitted you hadn't done this often.. in the previous few years.. and yet.. -she murmured-.. your actions tell me otherwise.. -whining a little.. he was strumming her with simple touches.. the ring surprised her.. the flash of magic .. the weight of it upon her finger.. all capturing her attention but the design of it was perfect.. the colour was so vibrant.. the cut was unique.. she just had a feeling in those moments she'd probably be catching herself staring at it often.. a profession of love was shared.. she did love him.. she always had.. it never, ever went away.. it simply evolved.. his tongue to her navel made her laugh.. made her shift.. lifting her ass a touch as those bikini bottoms were slid down over her hips.. down her thighs.. leaving her lower half bare.. his touches from that point were incredibly enjoyable.. teasing with his tongue along her inner thigh.. sweet little kisses.. her head sunk back behind her when that tongue slid along that sensitive crease.. her fingers curled around his as he reached for her.. resting there against the flat of her stomach..

he continued to torment.. to tease and tantalise.. and she gasped.. she whimpered.. her toes curled.. her fingers trembled..her lids tumbled closed as she whined-.. Please.. -she gasped and shifted.. she wriggled more as he continued to drag her along that sharp edge.. -.. Diovan!.. -her nails would have bitten into the side of his hand as she just about wept.. before he pulled that hand away .. she was not prepared for his next move.. that sudden and abrupt gliding up into her.. fully ..curling them deep as his lips locked onto that pearl.. her body stiffened instantly and she moaned loudly.. arching her chest up.. her fingers gripped at her stomach.. -.. Oh My God.. -she cried out when he began to fuck her with that finger.. his tongue.. his lips.. the vibration.. the suckling.. all of it.. she rocked her head back as her mouth fell open wide.. she groaned and gasped.. he was driving her insane.. that first climax hit her suddenly.. it rippled through her and he would have felt that fluttering as she whimpered and moaned.. it was only the start of what he was building up and she honestly had no idea what he was up to.. she reached down to him.. her fingers tangled within his hair as she tugged and pulled.. as she bucked her hips and trembled.. -.. Oh Goddess that feels incredible.. -she cried.. gritting her teeth down.. she rolled.. she rocked.. completely unable to remain still.. the finger gliding up into her ass had her hissing..had her gasping for breath as her poor heart took a beating.. stammering there within her chest -.. Where did you.. -her head hit the moss once more as she clenched her eyes closed.. oh she could barely talk.. the words were coming out stuttered and broken-.. where.. did you learn that.. My God!.. -she groaned deeply.. the fingers.. the tongue.. all of it.. she was in heaven.. that pressure built and built.. till he would have felt her nails dragging against his scalp as she cried out loudly at such a higher pitch.. that climax was new.. it was different..it was sharp and focused.. it rippled through her body instead of tearing through it.. oh if he wanted her squirting there was no way to avoid it.. she whined and shook.. shuddering against him as her head just floated.. fuck she was sensitive.. all over.. everywhere.. she jerked as he continued on this pleasurable attack.. rolling her over onto her knees with ease.. her ass up.. her head down as he just dove right back in.. fingers dipping back into her tight little holes.. his tongue.. his lips lapping against sensitive skin.. the tremors.. the shivers.. -.. Oh god.. Oh god.. -she whined..

he hit her over and over.. dragging her down so low.. and yet her head was incredibly high.. -.. Please.. please.. -she would plead with him.. she felt as though she were on fire.. -.. I cant.. I.. -hesitation as she groaned and whimpered-.. I dont know how much more.. -her head hit the mossy floor once more as she groaned and hissed.. oh the waves of pleasure were sublime.. she throbbed all over.. she was dripping wet.. trying to keep her knees up for him but every so often she would falter.. - Diovan!.. -she cried out.. her eyes were rolling back as her lids just felt so incredibly heavy.. her body.. from head to toe was covered in goosebumps.. he finally let up.. for.. maybe a moment.. before she felt her body being shifted.. his falling beneath her as she was positioned up on his face.. sitting there with his hands palming her well rounded tits.. her top pulled down.. she looked down to him there through half closed eyes.. oh she looked so incredibly relaxed and yet also in utter agony.. -.. you're spoiling me.. -she whispered.. her voice a little broken.. her hands rose as she gripped his hands.. holding onto her breasts there with him.. gripping and releasing those well rounded orbs-.. Id never done that before.. -she breathed.. grinding that incredibly slick wet slit down against his stubble laden chin..-.. I just figured I couldn't.. -she'd seen other women squirt.. Rose had done so.. but no.. it just never happened for her.. she put it down to herself being broken.. maybe there was an issue there.. -.. Fuck you are good at this.. -she rocked her head back.. feeling those sweet tiny nipples of hers hardening under his warm strong hands.. -.. its time to return the favour though.. mm?..

she bucked her hips down against him as she used his hands for balance.. turning her body around.. oh that sweet ass of hers was still in his face... that supple dripping slit still mere inches away.. knees on either side of his head as she slid her hands down the muscular planes of his stomach.. down against those skin tight speedos.. she would rub her fingers along his rather prominent erection..there was no mistaking it.. he was rock hard beneath that flimsy yet firm fabric.. she rubbed and squeezed.. before she would slid her fingers in to release it from its confines.. her breath caught at the size of him.. maybe it had been a while.. but he was thicker...longer than she remembered.. all of this.. the heat of the little cave.. their bodies pressed and her foggy laden mind.. it was chasing away her fear.. her hesitation.. the distraction was so naughty.. she began to stroke him.. wrapping those fingers before she would glide them up and down.. her lips would find his lower stomach.. his upper thighs.. she would nip at the flesh.. her teeth tugging just a little.. just enough to cause a sharp little repeated sensation.. her tongue would slide his cocks length.. from base to tip.. circling the head.. before she would take it into the heated depths of her mouth.. sliding down as her cheeks drew in.. nudging the back of her throat and a little further besides.. her toes would curl.. her body would tremble.. his kiss tasted so good.. but this.. the taste of his skin.. the precum was almost addictive.. and it would show in just how much attention she lavished upon it.. her fingers would wrap around its base.. stroking up to meet her lips every so often.. squeezing.. releasing.. gliding it all the way in.. picking up that pace.. hard and fast.. slow and tormenting.. if he could enjoy dragging her up to those multiple peaks.. over and over.. keeping her on that edge.. she was going to tease him.. play with him.. sliding her hands down between his thighs.. her nails would scratch against the soft warmed flesh.. before she would grip and massage his balls.. rubbing.. rolling.. tugging..her head would continued to bob.. to dip up and down on his cock as one hand slid lower.. and a single finger brushed against that tight little hole of his.. rubbing across it.. back and forth.. back and forth.. applying a little pressure every so often.. just enough to see if he was paying attention-

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She would wait for them then.. to settle down on either side of her upon that bed.. the cane having been placed aside.. the punishment dealt and handled smoothly.. she was impressed that Nautilous had slid into the role so perfectly.. their hands.. collectively against her back was soothing.. it helped her probably more than they would have noticed or realised.. because in that moment her poor heart was throbbing away in her chest.. she told him their news.. that she had employed both Rose and Jacob to be the medics and personal physicians for the House.. she already knew what Nautilous thought of it.. and Thaylans response was just as important..though his comment on the recall tablets made her lips curl.. -.. mm.. I already gave her two my dear sweet brother.. so you best be prepared for that new orifice soon.. -she shot him a wink there as she laughed softly.. she wasn't sure if Rose would have taken it.. but the offer was there.. it was all in their hands after that.. the proposal was spoken about and the boys had a bit of a cheeky laugh amongst themselves..she gave a bit of a shake of her head.. something was telling her that these two.. together was going to be a very.. very interesting experience..

the boxes were passed out with a trembled breath.. Nauts comment on an engagement ring made her laugh a little.. it broke the sharpness she was feeling.. the weight she had been holding.. and the next little bit seemed to play out in slow motion.. the removal of ribbon.. before the ornate silver rattles would be discovered.. she mentioned Rose accompanying them.. because three was a risk..her hands rose as she covered her mouth.. they both reacted differently.. but Nauts made her eyes widen as she reached to try and stop him from hitting the floor quite so hard.. her hand coming to his shoulder.. to squeeze.. a little reassurance.. a tear filled smile as she nodded when he looked for the answer.. asking her again in some broken words if she was indeed pregnant.. before her brother just pounced her and she landed back upon the covers with a laugh.. he peppered her with a million kisses as she reached for him.. to hold him.. he was ecstatic.. he was beside himself as his smile just grew ten fold.. it was reminiscent of how he was when she told him about Anya.. she reached for his cheek.. curling her fingers as she drawed him down to her.. foreheads touching.. -.. Twins my love.. -.. she breathed a few more tears tumbled down the sides of her eyes as she stole a kiss then.. soft and short.. just something filled with love and adoration as she felt a second set of arms sliding around her.. Naut had found his strength to join them.. she gripped his arm.. his hand and she held So tightly.. turning to look to him then as they shared a kiss also.. her hands were on them both.. holding them close.. on either side of her...she just felt so warm.. so loved.. so needed.. and So incredibly happy..

they were going to venture home soon.. back to the place she knew when she was growing up.. she was pregnant.. something she never thought would happen again.. And she had two beautifully loving strong men at her sides.. her fingers stroked through Nauts hair as he whispered sweet words to her stomach.. to their blossoming child.. -.. You are both going to make wonderful Fathers.. Guardians..Husbands.. her gaze.. that strong garnet colouring shifted to her brother .. listening as he spoke on taking precautions.. that three was indeed risky and hiring Rose at this time was perfect.. but that they needed to travel differently.. she reached for his cheek-.. I do not know of another way love.. I mean.. short of taking the webways we could go on foot.. it would take much longer.. and I wouldn't be able to travel during the day and the last time I did such long travels was from Dragonshire to Sanctuary.. it was incredibly taxing.. -she caressed his cheek lightly-.. Unless you have another option I fear we dont have any other choice.. -she leant in to press her lips to his forehead.. her fingers would continue to caress.. to stroke through Nauts hair as he just clung to her.. she could feel the dampness from his tears.. though she hoped his heart was filling with warmth through this..-.. I mean with the five of us.. all magic wielders we should really have no issue?.. -her hands slid down to take his.. fingers curling to interlace-.. Rose is going to meet us the moment I send word.. I have sent them a note already telling them to enjoy the sunshine in the morning.. for it might be a little while before they see it properly again.. -the comment about allowing them to be worry warts made her smile..-.. You two can fuss and worry all you like.. I will be taking as many precautions as I possibly can.. these children.. -her hand slid across releasing the banding from the hugging bodice piece.. revealing the flat of her stomach properly-.. mean the world to me.. and Ill protect them.. every single step from now until they bless us with their first breath.. What says you Nautilous?.. -she questioned.. resting her head against Thaylans chest as she looked down to him-. You might have a suggestion on how to get home?.. I mean you are the only one that knows the way..

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He had fallen asleep so easily.. possibly easier than she had.. his head hit those pillows and he was out.. out like a light.. not a single movement was made.. no stiring.. nothing.. his body might have needed a bit of repair and it was going to use the rest state to do it.. the hours ticked on.. the morning had come.. and still he rested.. not even her shifting the pillow woke him.. though the scent of the tea on his side table certainly helped.. he'd slowly begin to stir.. to be roused.. blinking his eyes open.. shifting beneath the soft covers..he'd reach for her place.. only to find her not there.. but the note.. the cup of tea made him smile.. he slowly moved to sit up.. murmuring at the aching that occurred from such an easy action.. the note came down to rest there upon his lap as he reached for the tea.. taking a small sip.. oh he just about died.. that was Perfection.. it was brewed just the way he liked it.. he grabbed the note.. sliding the sliver of paper out from inside it with his free hand as he took another drink.. it was soothing his semi dry throat.. the words on the paper didn't sink in right away.. it seemed an odd pairing.. he turned the note over.. nothing on the back.. before he would read it again.. and then again.. and then.. it would strike him.. pairs.. two.. his gaze shifted and she would have heard the sound of the china cup he was holding hit the hard wooden floor.. shattering as his mouth dropped open.. -.. No way..

-he blinked.. glancing around the room as he rubbed at his eyes.. forgetting all about the cup for now as he slipped out of the bed and tossed the towelling robe around his shoulders.. he'd catch a glimpse of her silhouette through the billowing curtains as he came up behind her.. his arms wrapping around her.. lips to her neck-.. Good Morning my love.. -he'd smile-.. Do tell me.. what this is.. -he would hold up the note then for her before his smile grew-.. is it what i think it is?.. like.. seriously?.. forgive me if I have misunderstood.. but.. -his heart was aching in his chest right then-.. Two?.. a pair?.. are we talking twins?.. Are you actually pregnant?.. -his voice rose .. clearly the excitement was there as he held her a little bit tighter.. spinning her around to embrace her.. to hold her as he actually lifted her up and span her around a few times-.. This is.. FANTASTIC.. I am.. I am stunned.. Wow.. -he'd slowly place her down not wanting to make her feel ill from the sudden movements as he laughed.. reaching to cradle her cheeks..-.. I love you.. So much.. So so much.. I dont know who gave you those potions.. or whatever else.. but.. Ill be thanking them for a very.. very long time.. -his smile brightened.. he was genuinely happy.. in the back of his mind he knew he had to be careful.. that it could.. end like the others.. but he would always remain hopeful.. Always -.. I saw the note from Gia.. we should make the best of this as suggested.. did you want to go for a walk after breakfast.. maybe into the village.. or just to wander?.. we have a few hours to burn i figure.. before we would be getting any note from the Naveres.. they wont travel during the day afterall.. -he leant in to kiss her forehead.. -.. What says you love.. what do you want to do with day?.. before we dip down beneath the ground..

[BadInfluence]

Oh yes, it was there alright, stronger than she’d ever seen them before too. One thing she was getting to be pretty certain about though was the fact that she would likely always carry multiples, she’d never once had just a single pregnancy, she always carried twins or more. Was that what was making her miscarry? She honestly had NO idea and that part? Sucked a lot because it would have been nice to just do it like everyone else. Then again, she and Jacob weren’t like anyone else, were they? So why should their pregnancy be either, right?



The note was hand written by herself, the little stars sketched in as she left it very simple, no bells or whistles… No amazing sort of illustrations or elaborate writing. It was sweet, straight forward, just like them. Was she nervous? Oh HELL YES. She was terrified honestly but just as much as she was scared? She was hopeful. They weren’t in Arvandor, for some reason she always miscarried there, her longest pregnancy? Had been maintained here on the surface and she only lost it while going TO Arvandor… Maybe her body and there didn’t mix to well? But either way? That scan showed her some incredibly promise for being so early. They weren’t soft little lights, no tiny glimmers of color, these were almost iridescent and bright… Like stars… Her hand kept trailing down and she prayed harder than she had ever prayed before, to Hanali and Slaanesh, to Silvanus and to Illustrae, to God and to every other deity she knew of. ‘Please’, she prayed, her eyes closed and her whole heart thrown into it; ‘Please, let me have these babies healthy and safe, let me carry to term…’ . It was a mantra and she was going to definitely never do any of the things she had done before. No cigarettes, no drugs, no alcohol. She had presumed before that she would be ok because she was an elf but she’d not risk it this time. Instead she stuck to tea, she wouldn’t even have any coffee, not even juice which have too much vitamin c. You wanted to talk about precautions? She was going to be taking them all… Well… Almost all…



Dressed in a silky little two piece in dark grey and black, the bottom of her breasts on display under the fabric, the sun on her skin making her glow like a soft golden pearl. She had laughed into her tea cup when she hear the sound of china breaking, she figured he had put two and two together in that note, and now? She just waited for him to come out… A separate tea cup already prepared for him because she figured he might need it. Feeling his arms wrap around her was the sweetest thing, moaning sweetly and leaning into him a bit, his lips to her neck? Paradise. She ached but only in the best ways and this was that perfect sort of balm. “Good morning my sweet Prince-“ She said softly, happily as her eyes fell closed for a moment, only opening when he asked her about something… Seeing him holding up the note she just smiled and for the moment feigned innocence. “What is what?...” She asked, giving him those big, sweet doe eyes of gold but she could only hold it so long… His curiosity, his excitement was too infectious, her lips curling in a smile that just grew and grew with his until she finally spoke. “Mmmhmm…” She said, blushing hotly as she looked into his eyes, her hands coming over to trace along his. “Your sons... Lyon has a twin so you my love, need to pick a name out for your other little boy.” Of course there was no rush really but it would be something a bit fun to bat around here and there as the days went on. Just the fact that he was so happy? Made her heart swell and it helped to keep the fear at bay... For now.



He'd gently pull her down from her little ledge, setting her teacup on the empty space before he lifted her up and span her around, in surprise she held him tightly but oh… It was such a good feeling, laughing against the side of his neck as he span her about a few times before letting her feet touch back down. Rising on her toes she would kiss his lips soft, their smiles were mirror images of each other, their wishes and fervent prayers had been answered. “I love you too Jacob, and it was Thaylan who had given them to me but... I don't think it was all him.” She placed her arms about his waist and hugged him tight, hugged him close with her head resting over his heart, listening to that beautiful beat ticking away so steadily. “These little ones are... A bit older than just a night...” They’d been trying a while now and on the night before he had gone down to Naggoth? She and he had spent the night together, her heart breaking to see him go but she knew it was needed, family was calling and couldn't be put off anymore... This put her at closer to a month and a little more pregnant which was why she kept trying but nothing was catching, why she never felt that spark, it was because there was someone already there... Or rather... Someones... He asked her what she might like to do and honestly, there was a whole lot they could do, or a whole lot of nothing... It was all open, the day was sunny and fresh, cleaned after the nights rain and she was thinking something outdoors was definitely on order...



“Let’s wander a while… I was doing some thinking and I realized I’ve lost every pregnancy in Arvandor…” She knew it was his home but she also knew the surface felt more like his home than anywhere else, it was something they shared, this constant love for the world around them and all their flaws… “I don’t want to go back and risk anything...” It was something she had thought about, something about her genetics did not settle well there, perhaps she had been on the surface too long or something but she was not going to go back and risk it. Ever. They’d take their children to visit after they were born, to see family and friends, but otherwise? Good luck because she wasn't going to risk it. She’d step away after a warm hug and a gentle kiss to his heart, moving to the trays and begin to fill her plate up, her foods were and everything was mostly very healthy and vital to proper nutrition. “I want to go out to the countryside, I want to explore a couple of glens, somewhere with lots of wildflowers… I want to memorize the day and all the sunlight on my skin before we go into the earth…” She knew it would be dark forever down there, it was vital to the health of Drow to be perpetually in the black of night, so she knew that inside the cycles of service? She would have to adapt to the shadows. But it was not permanent, they’d have plenty of times to come back up to the surface, to enjoy the sun and the flowers once more.



Tucking into a hearty breakfast she found she was starving as per usual, easily consuming two plates of food before she’d sit them aside, her hand gently stroking over her belly for a few moments with a gentle smile on her face. “We’ll have the first elvish children born in Menzoberranzan.” It was a heartening thought and one she really wished would come to complete and utter fruition. She’d idle around with him as he ate, drinking another cup of tea before she’d get up to get dressed, many of her clothes had been packed up and sent back to Naggoth leaving her the far more simplistic pants and shirts she preferred but… She did keep one or two of the more feminine things about… Slipping out of her night set she drew on a soft powdered lace dress that was well above mid thigh, nothing on under it to intentionally temp Jacob and drive him to distraction, make his hands itch to go wandering… A pair of sweet little matching blue ballerina flats that she slid on and laced up around her ankles… Her hair done in a simple braid over her shoulder, revealing the bare expanse of her back, her long legs despite her demure height… If it were possible to look insanely sexy and innocent all at once? She had mastered that fine balance perfectly, complete with just a touch of lightly tinted red lip gloss about her lips, a touch of that perfume at her pulse points that made Jacob drool a bit. There was nothing wrong with being a bit of a tease some times, right?



Once he did all he wanted to do that morning, shower and shave or simply get dressed, they’d head out of the Inn and out of town easily… There they’d walk for hours just in the sun, letting their feet lead them to where ever they wished, talking about all or nothing or simply being silent and happy in each others company… It was almost impossible for her hand to stop touching her belly though, it just kept drifting down and with that knowledge came something else too, a tingle along her veins… A smile tugging at the corner of her lips… It was as they wandered they’d happen upon something of a beautiful surprise, not far off the trail that they had been walking, just past a few trees was a beautiful meadow of wildflowers…A carpet of brilliant color with a small waterfall in the distance, a creek running through the meadow which helped support all the beauty around them. However, given it was such a beautiful day they weren’t the only ones out walking, but they were the first to get here… So far at least which left it all very beautiful and unspoiled for them, the grass emerald green and the flowers were virtually every hue of the rainbow...



The sun was high and warm, the flowers were sweet, the water off the creek was cool and perfect... "My love... Would you tell me what is on your mind?" She'd ask quietly, lovingly as she turned on her side to look up at him, her hand reaching out to catch his, their fingers linking... "I know you're coming down with me because you don't want to be apart anymore but... I want to know all your thoughts... Your fears... I want to be able to try and help settle as many of them as I can before we go down so that you can be a bit calmer about it... Even a little excited..." She wanted to put some ghosts to bed now if they could, but if not, well she also understood some things need time to be worked out... She'd give him that too, in buckets if he needed it, what ever it took... "That aside though... Goddess I am so happy... I can't believe it... I was so scared to look because I hadn't felt anything but... Twins... We're going to have twins... Lyon and... Well I don't know what his brothers name will be... What do you think? Any ideas?"



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[BadInfluence]

It wasn’t as hard as he thought it would have been to slip into the requested position he had pulled him into. He had been a Dom for most of his life so this was not new for him, but the fact that he was Gia’s slave, doing her bidding? Now THAT was new but… It didn’t feel as strange as he thought it would… Surely it should have? Yet there it was, as smooth as powdered silk, doing exactly as she told him as he lay the cane across Thaylan's ass. The aftercare was important too of course, he made sure to ease off most of that ache before Gia would call them over to her on the bed, each of them taking a side as they both worked to help bring her comfort. What ever it was after all, it was quite heavy, he could virtually feel the emotions rolling off of her but what they were? He couldn’t quite pinpoint… It was all just a little too jumbled… A little too chaotic… They were still learning so much about each other in so many ways that he felt it was better to watch, to pay close attention and to learn, it was the only way they were going to help prevent any other misunderstandings like before. Even so though? It felt like this, what ever it was, wasn't as bad as what he had felt earlier when they were in the greenhouse. This was less heavy, a bit more alive, like sparks...

His view on Jacob and Rose had been expressed earlier but Thaylans response? Oh now that made him laugh because he had seen Rose pissed off first hand and he did NOT envy Thaylan one bit on that front. “Maybe two if Jacob remembers and isn't fond of the memory of you raping his wife to be…” Ohhhh he was going to enjoy watching that firework show, not that he held anything against Thaylan, oh far from it! He loved Thaylan as well, his first official male lover, the one he allowed to take a liberty he hadn't given anyone since he was terrifically young back in the whore Brothel. If Rose or Jacob went too far he'd step in before Gia even had to think about it, he'd pour oils over the water, calm them down and get everyone back to rights.  “Rose is Adorable when she’s pissed off, she turns beet red and you can almost see the steam coming out of her ears before she pounces like a vicious blond wolverine, it’d be terrifying if it wasn’t so cute.” Which was a fact. It’s hard to be REALLY scared of someone that short and adorable… Perhaps a portion of why witch elves were so damn vicious. The shortest of the races it was like short stick of tnt. Might be small sure but it’d still blow your face off.

One thing slowly led into another though and that was when his world seemed to both explode and implode at the same time, never had he had his legs taken out from under him like that, everything just sort of collapsed and his legs went out from under him before he even knew it. Feeling her hand on his shoulder was sort of the only thing that made it real in that moment, surely he was hallucinating, or perhaps asleep and this was a bit of a cruel teasing dream. He wished he could tell her that this wasn't a bad thing, he was just overwhelmed with thoughts and emotions, but many of them were positive. His questions ran together yet somehow were also stuttered, her answers, the confirmation before Thaylan just pounced her back on the bad. How different they were… Gia was happily emotional, Thaylan was just exuberantly happy, and he himself was somber… Happy yes but it had really dragged the rug out from under him, there had been four huge changes going on all at once, their falling in love and making this miracle, his confession of love to her and his vow to leave Sydel and come live with her, and then his mistake that drove her off… The heavy talk and then the reconciliation… Now this? Once the shock wore off he knew he’d be insanely happy, thrilled and walking on stardust and moon beams, but for right now? It just seemed too good to be real. He found himself crying as it all just fell onto him, the knowledge of having a child on the way after losing the last one he would ever try to have with Sydel, that chapter of his life was truly closed and the book shelved… A new one started and with such an explosive first chapter… The crying felt good though, it was like he was bleeding off something toxic, opening a festering wound and letting it all come out...

When he was done crying though he had gotten up into that bed and just held them both so tight, soft warm kisses and love shown and shared, support and the promises of forever… Only moving when he would go to rest his head over her stomach, whispering the softest words to their child, in both common and Drow as that would be their daughters native language… “This is the most beautiful miracle I have ever seen with my own eyes...” It was a miracle and he had long since grown past the age where he believed such things were even remotely possible. "I thought, back at the Greenhouse when we spoke that Chaka had only been lying again at the end, that your dear wish of children wasn't going to be possible, my heart broke for you... But now... The woman I have fallen in true and absolute love with is having my child, our daughter, and even sweeter? Is the fact my lover and her husband to be has his own amazing miracle at the same time, our children inside you... Growing together... We will have such a beautiful family coming to us in a years time... All these dreams... Gia... You've made your dreams and ours a Reality... The most amazing and beautiful reality..." He said as he'd hold them both close and tight, peppering kisses and caresses everywhere he could reach.  “We’ll do the best we can… By you and by our daughters…” As Thaylan spoke though he himself had a few things to admit to… There were a few changes after all, shaking his head a bit as he would lift it up, coming to settle in beside her once more. This was important, something he had to confess to, something they needed to know before they went on. He knew it wouldn't effect his ability to be her perfect Weapons Master, but his lack of magic were going to come with extreme costs later on down the road, he needed them to know that in that way... He couldn't allow them to rely on him  “Four magic users… Llolth found me in the web ways going to keep a promise I made, she trapped me and took my magic for what I did to your home and your people. She's graciously allowed me to earn them back in time so please do not worry about it right now... I just need you to know that I can't help you magically for the moment...” Which given they were going deeper into Menzoberranzan than anyone had gone in centuries? Was going to be a risk in and of itself… “I made a visit to Strahd through those web ways, In my mind even if we had fallen out… I did promise to help you in that matter. He’s here in Silverthorn already if he travels like he always has.” A promise made was a promise kept with him, he didn’t do things willy nilly, without the intent or desire to actually follow through or the like. Because of that though he did have a chance at a different, far more comfortable form of travel, though while he was aware of it? He was neatly positive that Thaylan and Gia had never even heard of the like. It was so rare there were only a handful ever made, it was so magically demanding, entire swaths of mages were killed in the making of just a section of one and the art for it? The spells and incantations? Were lost long ago. “He has a way that will allow us to travel where we need to go without risking anyone, and while it does take a day or two, it is still faster than if we were to go by horse or on foot… Not to mention a good deal more comfortably.”

Though hearing her speak on them being allowed to be worry warts was new, Sydel had always told him not to, that it annoyed her… But this? Was important, not only did he want to take the utmost care of her but she herself was being active in it too, wanting to protect those little lives even more than they did. Once that skin was exposed he had drifted right back down to caress her bare flesh, her question was valid and he answered it has best he could, his lids half closed as he allowed himself to dream a bit. “Besides his carriage there is another way he can take us down into Menzoberranzan. It can take us down the first trip, then half way to your mothers estate on the next, but no closer… Achkinnal Falls never stays in the same place, it is always moving, looking for new sustenance… If it senses anything that might pose a threat to it, it immediately changes its course. We must meet it on foot and travel to it or we will spend months chasing it.”

[BadInfluence]

Well that was a can of worms he was going to have to dive into head first apparently! He didn’t hold it against Gia for giving her the tablets though, there had been a lot to go on that night and he was sure there were parts she’d want to recall, especially if those potions had worked. Everyone wanted to remember the conception of their child after all. He’d settle in on the other side of her, his hand stroking along the sides of her neck and her shoulders, he knew exactly all the places she carried stress and tension… His fingers remembering well how to help unleash some of those knots and tense spots. Nautilous’s laughter and words on how he might have two people pissed off at him made him laugh and shake his head. “Well I know for a fact Jacob won’t mind since he was the one who gave me permission to and watched the whole thing.” He said confidently with a grin on his face, oh yes, now THAT had been enjoyable indeed! “Rose though… We’ll see. She came more than enough for me to know she enjoyed it but women are far too complex for any man to really understand so we shall simply wait and see.” He and Nautilous were indeed well matched, they made excellent friends and even better lovers, and together for Gia? He felt they were the perfect power couple, they’d be able to support her in ways no one else ever had before, she’d thrive with them and he had every confidence that she would be able to move mountains and the very stars with them behind her.



His box was a surprise, Nautilous’s remark on it being a ring made him laugh as he himself pulled off the ribbon before Nautilous just sort of hit the ground and looked up with a bit of a shock, seeing Gia touching his shoulder supportively though he held back just a bit… Letting those two work out what ever the shock was… At least until he saw his own… The beautiful twin rattles, stunning little things and unlike Nautilous there was no shock, just complete and utter elation as he launched himself at his sister and tackled her to the bed with hugs and kisses. He couldn’t pick a language honestly, it kept running between common and drowish but it was all happy, a thousand words of praise and joy and love. They’d hoped, they’d certainly tried, and now it showed… Not only could she get pregnant? But she WAS pregnant! With his twins! Their twins! Two little beings just like he and his perfect sister. “I can’t believe it! Aaaah! This is amazing! Incredible! My Sweet Sister you are my Miracle! Look at you! Twins! Just like us! Little girls! Oh Gia! My sweet perfect sister! I knew as soon as life was where you needed it to be, when all the pieces fell in, I KNEW You would do the most Incredible things!” He knew when life had lined up just as it should be that everything would fall into place for them. Now all they needed was to return to their home and the house Navere would shine brighter than the sun! “And this is just the start my sweet spider! Think of it, these sweet ones grace us with their presence and then later on when you are ready? Your husbands will do all they can to give you another child as soon as they can. This big family you always dreamed of is going to be a reality!” It was all coming out ahead for her and it was utterly amazing!



The hope for them to be worry warts was real in his heart though. He had not had a chance to be there much when she was pregnant with Anya, he had been forced to run to save her life and that of their daughter, so this? Was his first chance to be a father in all contexts of the word, to help support and carry her through the adventure of pregnancy, then to take over and allow her to shine as a mother once more. Though as they all spoke there was his concern with her traveling the web ways right now in her delicate state. So early in pregnancy and the web ways containing so much magic, raw, primal and ancient… It could easily see those new lives and seek to suck out the souls just taking root. “I know my sweet, I do, but there are many concerns… The web ways are where the old ones watch, and you are carrying the child of a God inside you, not to mention our own twins… The gods are always hungry and having such a tempting treat traveling on their highway is risky… It is better to wait at least until you are somewhat farther along, when the risk of miscarriage is smaller, otherwise I fear the worst if we go…”



It was a shock to hear that Nautilous had his magic stripped from him though, he had never once seen the man without incredible magical potential, he virtually breathed magic like other people breathe air. “So it would seem it all caught up to you… I was afraid she would find you at some point, Lolth is not kind to males of her own race, let alone those of pale skins.” Though he was glad she had let him escape with his life intact, it could have been so, so much worse. Another surprise was revealed shortly after in the form of their father not only having been contacted but that he was indeed here in town, prepared to take them down to their homes, to help them find it once again. “That is… Quite the shock… I wonder if Father is aware of our relationship and how he views it… But it will all come to wash tonight.” Worse case and their father did not exactly wash with the relationship he had with Gia? Then he would travel down separately and allow all of them to travel together without him. It would be the smoothest route to take and what was a few days’ time compared to a lifetime together that waited for them?



He was silent for a few more moments before he’d hold Gia close for several more moments then slowly disengage from her, a gentle caress across her bare stomach before he’d place a kiss over it, warm and reverent. “I must speak with my God before the details are not fresh in my mind. Chegorache might know more of this plight with our beloved and soon to be husband, I also wish to check in on something with Rose and Jacob, so I will be gone for a couple of hours but I shall return long before it is time for us to go. I also feel you two have more catching up to do and quite a few words to be said…” He said softly before he’d kiss them each lovingly, passionate in turn before he would rise and redress, minding those fresh welts before he’d head out of the room to go and traverse the webways.

[BadInfluence]

“Guess that was my fault too though, I didn’t tell you outright like I should have, I just didn’t want to come off as all those other guys who were just after your body.” That was the worst part of what had happened to her as a kid… When word got out that her ‘parents’ had been prostituting her and Caela? Some of the guys got it in their head that she might be more sexually advanced and open to dalliances, something Sydel never did with the men but it didn’t stop them from asking or lightly pressing the advantage, something that had always pissed him off and perhaps more than once or twice he had blackened an eye of an evening when someone had reduced her to tears. The splash battle was fun though, they had done this as kids quite often, more than a few times he’d ended up with water up his nose and in his ears and had to shake his head and blow his nose for the rest of the way to get it all out. Though she shocked the hell out of him a few moments later though, nearly slipping under the water when she said he had been on his mind quite a lot, more than once he’d nearly walked in on her during those moments. It was one thing for him, as a guy, to confess he jerked off thinking about her but that it was mutual? “I can’t believe that! I never would have guessed! Trouble would have been the last thing on our minds if we had ever acted on our thoughts. Jacob would be a good ten years older if we had, not to mention the eldest of several siblings too, such a crazy thought…” How different their life could have been if they had just been more open and honest with each other in the way their hearts beat. If he would have just blown Caela off and done it his way versus tradition, if she would have stopped doubting herself so much and taken a step forward, their lives would have been so different.

The alcove was a surprise but one they took perfect advantage off, that soft kiss he instantly returned, he wanted her to know she didn’t need to be afraid anymore… He had no insecurities like that anymore, he wasn’t going to dally and wait about, hoping to find that perfect timing. He was going to make the moment happen and take charge of his life with her, he was going to take every leap, jump off every cliff no matter what happened. Good or bad? So long as it was with her? It was always going to be amazing… Their kiss shifted though, things got deeper, hotter when she told him she wanted him to stay. That kiss started off a gentle sweet meeting like vanilla but towards the end it had deepened into dark chocolate, rich and decadent, hot as their hands roamed and explored… His hands knew their way around her body, he knew where she loved to be touched or where it tickled, but this time it was even better than before… She was warmer, softer, she smelled like wild flowers and tasted like berries… He was hooked on her and he just wanted more, he wanted to explore with lips and tongue every supple inch but he took his time, he built her up slow and sensual… “I’ve thought about doing this with you for over half my lifetime… Imagined how I’d kiss you… Where I’d nibble or press my tongue… Your body was the map of my mind, I wandered over every supple space and worshiped every curve, each chance I got to touch you I placed a landmark in my mind… How it felt for you… Your reaction…” All he ever wanted to do was pleasure her, make her find those peaks so many just took for granted, he wanted to not just make her climax but he wanted to give her different ones… New, hot and sweet ones, things that she’d never felt before… One’s she’d only ever get with him.

Her engagement ring had been waiting for her for so long, his heart soared when it finally found the place it belonged on her finger, the fit was snug and perfect and the colors were as vibrant as she was beautiful. They both loved each other and over the years it had grown and changed, sometimes it was a little lonely, others it was painful but… It never broke no matter how life twisted, turned or stretched it, it just kept growing and getting stronger… Always returning to it’s original shape. He kissed, nibbled and licked his way down her body, laughing and smiling against her skin when he tickled her until be got down between her thighs and that was where he wanted to show off. He didn’t go for her sweet, succulent peach right off the bat, oh no. No he teased and kissed along the skin around it until she was whimpering and begging him to feast upon her sweet little slit. Once she had though he knew exactly what he wanted to do and as he started her response was everything he could have ever wanted. His fingers inside her were slippery and almost burned by how hot she was, the taste of her slippery slick skin under his tongue and the amazing sweetness he found, his lips locking onto her pearl to pulse and vibrate it in a way that would have her seeing stars… Her hands in his hair was divine, the pain of her yanking and digging her nails into it had him almost cumming in his speedo’s, pushing him even farther to give her that new orgasm. The first one was so damned tight his fingers were forced together with a zing of pain inside her but he didn’t quit, didn’t slow down oh no, no he kept at it… Building her up higher and higher until he slid his finger into her ass and began to pump in and out of her with that perfect speed, that pressure, devouring her cunt as she thrashed and wriggled against him. Oh let her, he knew he had her right where he wanted her to be, she could writhe all she wanted to she couldn’t escape him now.

That first gush…

“Oh Goddess yes-“ He uttered as he pulled out of her and tongue fucked her sweet little hole, lapping and scooping out that sweet succulent nectar flood as washed over him, dragging her orgasm out until she was utterly shook. He savored every drop of it, keeping that pressure up, never letting her fully fall as he couldn’t get enough of her. Those sweet witch elf pheromones mixed with her own beautiful taste and smell… She was more addictive than opium… He flipped her over easily, dragging her up on to her knees with his own strength easily, attaching himself to her core once more as he pushed her to another peak… His tongue, lips, teeth and fingers were everywhere she could have possibly imagined them being for her. “Yes you can my sweet love… Yes you can… Let go… I have you sweetheart…” He breathed against her skin as he kept going, building her up over and over again, never letting her fully fall… Just showing her body that he could keep her on that ledge as long as he wanted to, he could give her an entire night of pleasure like this, wring things from her body she never could have imagined… All because he loved her, because he was dedicated to her, to her pleasure… A few hours had passed easily between that first kiss and giving her a small break, pulling her body around a bit so that she was sitting atop his face, his tongue burried in her core as he slowly massaged that tight little core and got high on the taste of her and all that sweet rich nectar she was oozing all for him. “You need to be spoiled every day… It’s my life goal… To spend at least two hours between these beautiful thighs every day and hear your voice scream my name…” Some days he would wake her up with it, others he might help her fall asleep, sometimes it might just be a mid-day treat but it would be a daily thing guaranteed… His hands over her breasts felt so good, she had the most perfect tits, full and round and that just… Uuung… The size… All of her… She was just too perfect. When she said she hadn’t done it before he chuckled warmly against her core before he’d slide his tongue out of her and lick his lips greedily as he watched her. “It takes a good bit of work from the partner but it’s so worth it… You taste even sweeter than I thought you might and you smelled just like cloves… I can’t wait to do that again but… One squirting for today is a good start…” Yeah she better get used to the idea that this? Was going to happen a LOT more often.

“Return the favor?” He’d ask as she began to move around, a brow rising on his face before she sat on him reverse cowgirl, an appreciative growl at getting to see that plush ass right over his face. Took a bit of wriggling… A touch of work before he found her breasts again, he’d nearly spent his load when she was helping him palm her tits, reminding him of the way she loved to be touched… As it went though? The moment he caught onto what she meant, her hands on his abs made him groan a bit, his stomach clenching as his abs rippled under her touch. “Sydel… Sweetheart… Hold on-“ He got out before she suddenly took him in hand and his head rocked back hard, even those teasing touches and the sweet kisses, oh fuck it was AMAZING. Those nips… The tugging… Just enough pain… He started to moan thickly as she teased him, pleasured him, his lips peppering kisses up along her inner thigh… Before she suddenly took him between her lips and he groaned thickly, biting her inner thigh before he’d move to her core and began to devour her like a starving man, breathing hard against her core as she teased him… Up and down… Hard and soft… Slow and fast… Then that naughty little finger? He couldn’t stop himself, his hands releasing her tits, one hand slapping against her ass while the other found it’s way into her hair and held her down on his cock for a few moments, his lips lifting to slide his long thick cock all the way down her throat and to gag her… Just a little… Before he’d drop back and let her up, his fingers caressing her cheek before his hands would both rest on her ass cheeks and he’d grip them, palming them hard and sweet as he’d build her up to several more orgasms while she tormented him… Tortured him…

“Fuck… Sweetheart I can’t-“ He uttered brokenly as he felt that pressure rising and he was so torn… Conflicted… This was so good… So fucking incredible… He didn’t want it to end. On the other hand though he wanted more… But… Could she? Would she be ok? He was twitching with need and indecision, should he ask? Or should he take charge? How many opportunities had they missed because he waited for her to make the first move? He couldn’t fight it… He really didn’t want to… He’d reach out and catch her cheek in his hand and guide her off of his cock, pulling her up as he shifted out from under her, moving so they were face to face… He’d then slide her into his lap, his cock was soaking wet with slippery slick spit and hers with pleasure rich nectar… “Trust me…” He asked her gently before he’d catch her chin in his grasp and he’d pull her in for a slow, sensual kiss, his hand on her lower back caressing softly… Gently… Breaking that sweet kiss for only a moment, looking into her eyes as he began to slowly guide her down onto his shaft, the entire time his hand on her cheek… Cradling her… His eyes searching hers for a glimmer of fear or resistance… Hesitation… But if there were none? He’d slide himself into her with a strangled moan, just the head alone felt too big for such a tight, sweet, perfect little hole… But he pushed on, guiding her down a little more, his lips trailing along her cheek before he’d press them against her ear. “Your pussy is so fucking perfect… It’s so much tighter and hotter than should be possible… I thought you tasting amazing but you feel even better around my cock…” Dipping his toe into that dirty talk in bed he was feeling it out with her as they slowly joined, the pace was sweetly languid, heady and magical… When they were completely one? His cock bottomed out in her? He’d rest his hands on her hips and just hold her there… Not moving her nor allowing her to move, his hands gripping her firmly but not cruelly as he moved into kiss her once more, and oh…

That Kiss…

If she could feel poetry… If she could read the melody in the air… When he kissed her he was singing to her with his soul, poetry and music in that kiss, it was more fragile than a snowflake and more magical than all the miracles in the existence of time itself… In it was the song of his heart, the first tentative notes that his heart had sung as a child for her, more being added as he grew and his love for her changed… Evolved… Developed into the sonnet that rested there now and he was singing to her as their lips met, the finest of harmonies as their souls met through the thin cloak of flesh, mated in and out of body… He loved her and in those moments she could have felt it like a tangible thing, linked heart and soul, mind and flesh… Together they were a circle, never ending, unbreakable… He could say he loved her but he didn’t need to… She could feel it, how it would always exist, greater and more infinite than the universe, as unending as the passage of time and fate…

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The note had had woken up had been a complete surprise.. something he was not prepared for .. she was pregnant.. with twins apparently.. he had dropped his tea cup.. it shattered when it hit the hard polished flooring.. oh his heart was just skittering around in his chest. he moved to his feet.. sliding a robe about his shoulders as he made his way out onto the landing.. catching a glimpse of her in that tiny barely there outfit.. he slid his arms around her.. questioning the note before that smile of hers just gave it all away.. his matched hers easily.. his gaze.. that duo colouring looked up into hers.. just lingering there as he reached to cradle her cheeks.. -.. Its all so perfect.. -he breathed as he slowly pulled her down from that ledge..then without warning he span her around a few times.. he was truly and honestly happy.. he would slowly come to a stop.. letting her feet touch the ground once more as they shared a soft sweet little kiss.. he felt like he were about to burst.. he looked a touch perplexed though when she said she didn't think Thaylan had helped with the newest additions though.. -.. Im not sure I understand?.. -he questioned.. wrapping his arms around her in return.. before she explained that the babies seemed older than the dates first thought.. -.. well thats intriguing.. -he pondered..-.. I wonder how far along you are then.. -they'd only slept together a handful of times since he had gotten back.. maybe 2.. maybe three tops.. earlier than that perhaps?.. curious indeed.. he had asked her what she wanted to do with her day.. it could well be the last time they were going to be seeing the sunshine.. for a little while at least.. -.

. Wandering sounds wonderful yes..once we have breakfast and get organised we will head out.. spend the better part of the day outside.. no particular direction..just together.. -he tilted his head when she mentioned Arvandor , and how it could be an issue-.. Well.. I have my doubts its actually Arvandor itself.. it could possibly be the travel between the two though.. the portals are heavilly warded to keep the inner cities safe. But I have no issue in not going back for a while.. Once i get my letters organised I am positive they will be able to fill my position.. -he nodded.. the two of them would wander back into the room..breakfast having been unveiled.. quite a hearty one indeed.. he settled down for some toast, maybe an egg or two.. content with his tea as he settled back in his seat.. just watching her.. marvelling in the person she was.. it was soon time for them to get dressed.. to find something suitable.. and he didn't have a lot with him.. but realistically he didn't need it.. just a pair of slacks.. a white t-shirt..a comb back through his hair.. sliding into a pair of boots..he would catch a glimpse of this little lace dress she chose.. a low whistle sounding as he shot her a wink-.. You'l have all eyes on you my dear.. -he smiled.. reaching for her hand as the two of them set out.. leaving the Inn behind them.. heading out into the awaiting embrace of the sunshine and softly cool breeze..

The two of them walked side by side for quite a while.. no speed to their pace.. it was slow and easy.. enjoying each others company.. they talked about nothing in particular.. just idle chatter ..she managed to find this little slice of heaven though.. this seemingly endless field of sunflowers and emerald coloured grasses..his attention shifted toward her when she asked what was on his mind-.. a little of this.. a little of that.. -his head tilted.. their fingers interlaced-.. Its just an uncomfortable feeling thats all, I am positive it will pass once i am there.. -he nodded-.. nothing for you to worry about really. Ill imagine you're excited to get into your new position.. stepping into the spotlight so to speak.. its a really big deal.. and im really happy for you love.. -he offered her a smile-.. as for names.. no.. I dont think ive even had a chance to process it yet.. -he laughed a little.. might want to give him a little time.. names of children were not usually something that men dreamt of.. that was the womens domain.. -.. Lyon sounds like a strong name though.. regal almost.. I really like it. -she paused-.. are you going to tell Gia when we our attendance is requested this evening?.. or are you going to leave it for a little while.. -he wasn't sure if she felt it wise to leave it till after the first major danger period passed.. or if she would be up front and honest from the beginning-.. what are your thoughts on it all?

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She had shared the news with two of the most important people in her life.. she was pregnant finally.. after all this time.. with not just one baby but three.. it was the biggest blessing she knew of.. and she was incredibly humbled by it.. their reactions were starkly different.. Thaylan leapt at her and covered her in kisses.. where as Nautilous seemed to pull into himself.. but she understood it.. she of all people knew what he had just gone through.. it was really quite heavy and it would have made his conscience hurt so much.. only to then hear this.. her hand on his shoulder was one way to anchor him without crowding him.. he needed a moment.. sometimes they all did.. just like she did the night before.. she needed just a space to breathe so her mind could make sense of the tangle of thoughts that were circling it.. but soon enough the three of them were curled up close to one another.. fingers interlaced.. kisses shared.. it was an incredibly beautiful moment.. and her heart just ached for them both.. soon though they needed to talk reality.. logistics.. if they were going to travel what was the safest bet..

Her brow rose when she heard Nautilous was no longer a magic user though.. she turned.. glancing toward him.. curiosity and confusion crossing her features.. she reached for him.. her fingers warm against his cheek-.. The promise you were keeping.. when you were caught.. was it when you were going to visit our Father?.. -Oh her heart just sank a little.. if that were the case she exhaled softly.. -.. I understand that.. at some point.. sooner or later you would have been caught up with.. especially considering you are coming down to live with us.. but.. Oh dear goddess what terrible timing.. -she glanced across to Thaylan.. unsure on just what to do next.. she knew the webways like the back of her hand.. she'd been using then since she was able to walk.. but she knew all to well what happened when you took someone through there that was not magically inclined.. it made the road bumpy and unpredictable.. she blinked when she heard that their Father was in Silverthorn-.. he is here?.. like in the city?.. -her hand rose as she rubbed it across her chin.. she'd only just learnt of this Father.. who he was.. what he was.. but to know he was right there.. close.. it was almost a little unnerving.. her fingers curled in and she chewed upon the corner of her lip.. Thaylan echoed her thoughts... what if he didn't approve she reached for his hand.. curling her fingers around it as Nautilous explained this other mode of travel available.. perhaps some kind of carriage.. she didn't quite understand it.. but perhaps when she came across it, well then it would make more sense..

She felt Thaylans embrace before he excused himself.. siting that he had to go seek out his god.. -.. stay safe love.. -she watched him a little longer before she turned back to Nautilous.. -.. How long do you expect it to take us?...to find Achkinal Falls.. -she reached for one of the pillows then.. settling it beneath her head.. still looking to him though..she was curious to know if it was going to take weeks.. or months of travel.. it wouldn't be out of the question.. but an answer would give her a fair idea at least-..How are you doing.. really?.. -she reached across to tap a finger over his heart-.. Youve been put through quite a lot.. these past few days.. We can stay here.. for longer if needs be.. we dont need to head down there straight away.. -and she would.. settle in for a few more days if he needed a bit more time .. to deal and to process all that was going on in his head.. -.. What did you tell Strahd?.. How much does he already know?.. -she questioned.. curious .. not knowing how blind she was going into this meeting of sorts..did he know about the pregnancy.. did he know about Thaylan?.. or Nautilous.. how much had actually been explained..

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He had spoiled her.. thoroughly.. the way he strummed her like a prized instrument.. dragging her through so many pure throws of pleasure and passion.. she'd hit so many peaks in succession.. he had even managed to take her to a place that none other had...she just felt so warm.. so soft.. so pliant.. it was a lovers embrace she could really grow to desire.. to need.. but she wanted to return the favour.. it couldn't be all one sided.. so many wanted to do so much for her.. but would never allow her to return it.. and it often frustrated her.. it was one thing to be loved and appreciated and graciously spoiled.. but she kind of wanted a turn also.. she shifted her position.. settling down facing the opposite way.. gliding her hands down over his stomach as she began to bend at the waist.. his words though.. to hold on just made her exhale.. but no.. she was just going to ignore it.. he would have to pull her away.. she wanted to enjoy him for a moment.. she wanted to show him that it was shared.. what he was feeling.. the desire.. the lust.. all of it..kisses and nibbles.. fingers gripped and stroked along that hardened length as she pulled him from within the confines of those tight speedo style pants..

She stiffened when he bit her.. a quiet sweet cry sounding as she curled her toes under.. before she all but devoured him.. sliding him up into her mouth.. her tongue bathing and curling.. her teeth dragging just enough .. those fingers of hers would wander.. teasing.. tormenting him before she shuddered when he slapped his hand down against her ass.. the hand at the back of her head was unexpected though.. and he would have felt a little resistance.. before he thrust up into her throat ..her breath caught.. she gagged a little as her body stiffened once more above him.. she whined when he released her.. spit just dribbled down her chin.. she didn't stop though.. she kept going dragging her tongue up and down that length before he exclaimed that he couldn't.. it echoed her earlier when she said the same.. but he pulled her through it.. over and over.. this time no.. it seemed not to be the case.. she felt his fingers across her cheek.. guiding her up and off of him.. she rubbed the back of her hand across her mouth.. her glistening chin as he re-positioned her.. shifting her until they were face to face.. settling her on his lap.. she could feel his cock beneath her.. against her in this position.. her gaze that blue and green searched his.. watching him there.. 'trust me'.. his words cut through the desire laden fog that had long since settled in her mind.. she took a breath.. -.. I do.. -she whispered in return..

The hesitation was evident.. he would have been able to see it in her eyes.. but she knew she couldn't let it rule her forever.. she did trust him.. she always had.. he had never steered her wrong.. it was just her mind was struggling with the idea that it was his image that tore her power from her.. she leant into that touch ..that kiss.. returning it softly as her hands came to rest there upon his shoulders.. fingers not idle.. caressing the sides of his neck.. before she would feel that pressure.. their eyes met as he guided her down onto him.. her breath came out a little strained.. but when he slid further up into her her lids half closed and she moaned.. she whined and whimpered.. the fear was chased away by his lips trailing along her cheek.. eyes closing over completely as she gripped his shoulders tighter.. his words.. naughty.. dipping into the dirty in her ear made her whine-.. Oh my god that feels good Diovan.. -she breathed.. he bottomed out in her.. stretching her that little bit more.. that unmistakable sting made her tremble.. his hold was firm.. she was enjoying it.. just the sensation of him inside her..this was it.. this was where she was meant to be.. it was echoing that first night.. just the two of them.. no one else around.. the kiss was magical.. all encompassing.. her heart just melted utterly and completely.. her hands rose to slide back through his hair as she pressed against him.. chest to chest.. lips locked.. bodies joined.. they couldn't be any closer in that moment.. she whimpered into the depths of his heated mouth.. she felt all of him.. then..including the steady skipping beat of his heart as he embraced her.. everything else in that moment just vanished.. melted away.. all worry and concern.. all inhibition and hesitation.. this was how it was meant to be.. no drugs.. no alcohol.. just love.. just a genuine care and desire for one another..wholly -

[BadInfluence]

She hadn’t been expecting it either honestly, she’d been on contraceptives and had her miscarriage about two weeks before, but there they were… She was a bit scared honestly, nervous too, a little excited and a little hopeful… But like him? Cautious… She had miscarried every pregnancy so far and she was worried that the same thing would happen… That she’d lose this one too. Part of her hadn’t wanted to tell him, wanted to keep it secret and safe till the mark passed, till she hit the safe zone but at the same time she wasn’t wanting to hide anything from him. Especially with them going down into the under dark tonight there was so many things for him t be nervous about, warry and cautious, she wanted to give him some sort of good news… Something to burgeon him up and help him float along a bit more. She smiled up into his eyes when he said it was perfect before he coaxed her off that ledge and spun her about, making her erupt in giggles and hugs, holding him close once her feet touched the floor. Thaylan had been the one to give them the fertility potion but she didn’t think that Thaylan was ‘quite’ the one responsible for the little strangers. “Well… Do you remember… The night you were leaving to Naggoth? Nautilous and Sydel threw that little party for family only? We both got really fantastically drunk…” Deathhead wine, whisky, bourbon, absinthe… They’d all got terrifically smashed and she and Jacob had snuck off together for the last night till who knew when he could come home…

“We snuck into your office… Ringing any bells yet?” She asked because she sure remembered it… Well… Most of it… He’d pushed everything off of his work desk and they’d gone at it like a couple of love drunk teenagers at Prom, that office of his was completely trashed by the time they were done and there was no long a single pristine, untouched surface where their bodies hadn’t been on in at least one position or another. “I’m a little over a month or so.” Which lined up perfectly with that alcohol fueled night. And also explained why every time after she never felt the spark. It had already happened and she was just too drunk to feel it. He asked what she wanted to do and she was all for going out for the day, just to wander around, follow some paths and discover something new in the area… Soak up as much sunshine as they could because it could bee a couple of months before they felt it again… “Always together...” She said as she leaned up to kiss his cheek before they’d settle into breakfast and she spoke on her concerns going on, how each miscarriage had happened in Arvandor, something about it all just sat very funny with her… Like something wasn’t meshing right. “I have no idea… It just seems that on the surface I am fine but otherwise it all goes haywire. I wonder if the portals have affected pregnant women before? Might be something to look into…” If she wasn’t alone in it then perhaps it was just the portals and it was best to avoid going through them? But if not? Well who could really tell? Deep down she had a fear that perhaps she was having so many miscarriages because Jacob was her brother… The genetics might be too much…

Breakfast done they each got dressed and she wondered if he realized just how amazing he looked even if he dressed down, nice pants and a t-shirt was still so beautiful on him, he was a man who would never look slovenly even if he were dressed in rags. His comment on her dress made her laugh a bit and she shot him a wink. “Well it’s a beautiful sunny day and when were in Menzoberranzan I won’t have time to wear things like this so I figured… Well, why not? I also have a confession… I’m maybe a little bit mean… I love to tease my husband to be with things like this. You’re so cool and collected, reserved and respectful, little things like this? I know get under your skin a little bit… Make you twitch… Make you itch… It makes me feel sexy.” She said, smiling with a shrug as they’d head out together, just idly roaming about… Finding a hunting trail that split off into other trails for herb gathering or just wanders in nature, back and forth and on and on… They just roamed from one path to the other, never really staying on one, only stopping when they came to that beautiful little glen. They’d head down into it, not terrifically far by any means and just settle into the sweet grass and rainbow of flowers, her question the only thing to break the music of nature. “Mmm?” She asked, reaching out to take his hand when he had reached for hers, their fingers interlacing as they chatted a bit. “You know you come first, right? Opportunity of a lifetime or not you’re the one I love, the man I am going to marry, I would never put you through something that made you uncomfortable no matter how amazing it was.” She’d likely mourn the loss if she had to pull out, she’d also likely end up really tainting herself in the eyes of the Matron too if she pulled out last minute, especially after saying she would… But honestly? Jacob came first… He always would…

“I like it too… Just came to me in a dream one night and it’s stuck with me ever since.” And it had, for better or for worse, that name was in her head like a mantra. When he asked about Gia though and telling her, oh yes that was always going to be a pickle but he knew her too, she wasn’t the type to drag something along by the skinny string. “I am telling her this evening yes. It might be something she isn’t comfortable about and she might chose to have us not go with her if she feels it a hinderance. We both… We both know I have a real struggle getting pregnant and staying that way for what ever reason and… We both know the chances of me going to term are really stacked against us…” And she hated to say it, she really did but it was the elephant they both saw, were both perfectly aware of… “If it’s going to happen it will in the next two months, that’s just how it has been with me, and given my record… We’ll know in the next couple of weeks…” She’d never made it even close to the third month mark… She’d barely made it past ten weeks… “Matron Gia seems a very family orientated woman though. She longs for a family very much and we have a good deal in common. I think she will be happy for us regardless… I suppose that is one beautiful benefit to picking me. She gets you in the bargain.” She said with a smile and a wink, nudging him lightly in the side before she’d kiss his cheek, idly picking the wildflowers around her and making daisy crowns. She’d do this for some time before she settled one atop his head with a smile and she leaned into him, her head on his shoulder, her arm around his waist and the other in her lap as she held his hand there. “You’re amazing and we’ll take this all as it comes. Together nothing can beat us. So let’s do just that… Take it as it comes… If we lose these ones then it just wasn’t mean to be… We’ll use protection and we’ll hold off for a while. I might just be too young still, I only just turned 18 a handful of months ago, maybe this is just nature saying my body needs to mature a while yet. No matter what though? Looking up into his eyes in that moment. “I know someday we’ll have our family, big or little it won’t matter, so until then we’ll just support our family and friends in theirs.”

[BadInfluence]

“Well, no, the timing could be worse. You could have me as your house mage and be in the middle of a war when it happened. The timing isn’t great no, far from it honestly but it could be worse, it could always be worse.” At least they had time to move around, a chance to rectify a few things, find an alternate method of travel versus going through the web ways. “I’m just really grateful that I got to Strahd before she caught up with me. Llolth could have killed me but she didn’t, she just took my magical ability from me, and while this puts a kink in travel? Your father has a way to help around that.” At least, if he still had all the bells and whistles he had when he had gone to visit him, after all the mans garage was impressive to say the very least. That man? Knew how to travel… But perhaps that’s what comes with being older than the dirt you walk on.

A few moments later he told them both that Strahd had come to Silverthorn to meet up with them, and while it might pose an issue or two, a few bumps along the way? He seriously doubted they would. Taboo is simply relative and when you are as old as Strahd the last thing you give two shits about is the relation of people who are intimate with each other. He believed, personally, that Strahd would just be happy that his children were in love and content. Didn’t matter if it was with each other in the end. From what he remembered of Strahd the man was open minded, a pursuer of knowledge in all it’s forms, a lover of art and science. Incest was pretty much beneath him to care about, that was a human issue, a human ‘sin. It had no bearing on him or his mind. “Yes, on the edge closer to the gates, he’s not terribly fond of people en-mass…” Her father felt people were stupid in general and people in large numbers? Were exceptionally stupid indeed.

Thaylan had to leave then to go and report to Cegorach, nothing new there as he knew what that was like, and like Gia he wished him safe travels and the report in. One good thing of being so well loved by the God you serve is that rarely, if ever, are you put in a position of either danger or general discomfort. The issue was trying to stay in that favorite spot but Thaylan seemed to know just how to do it, quite the balancing act indeed, it took some serious skills but he made it look oh so easy. Once he was out Gia had turned to him and she had several questions to ask him, all of which were important honestly, things he needed to talk to her about anyways. As they lay in that bed his hand reached out and would gently stroke up and down her side, just easing her stress a little through supportive, physical touch. “Honestly it depends and I hate that… When Chaka imprisoned me there we didn’t move around much because there had been a war near by, the fortress was absorbing the dead so there was barely a murmur, but once that was gone? We’d start moving again until the next battlefield was found.” How it moved? He had no real idea just yet, he simply knew that it was alive, it moved under the sands like a vole and left no trace of it in it’s wake… It was more than a little terrifying to say the least, for him to be bound to something he didn’t understand, his only concept of it’s movements based on a years time in it’s captivity. “If we’re lucky and there has been a battle near by we can reach it as easily as a day or two on foot. But if it’s been peaceful or we are in the desert area then it can be up to months… It’s a living thing, what ever it is, it has needs like anything else alive… Food and water… If we can find what it needs we find it…” Chaka had lured it in with a couple dozen of the old and weak slaves of her house, a culling that drew the thing forward, allowing her to set foot onto it’s lands and bind him to it. They however didn’t have that, the slaves they did have were the best of the stock, they’d have to buy a slew of slaves from other houses or even places if it was going to work like that…

But… How was he doing? He was silent for several moments before he let out a heavy sigh. “I don’t know… I’m in such a weird place… I’m happy… Elated… Overjoyed with you, I love you and now this gift of a child, my minds just agape at it… And on the other side I know I’ve left the world I built around myself for ten years and I feel like a chick who just burst from it’s nest, wet and unsure, the new world bright and a little terrifying…” He was torn, there was a clean chasm between the then and the now of his life, the two parts so very different and yet not… Like twilight and dawn they are similar in color but that is the only thing they hold in common for one is the beginning, and the other is the end, and Gia? Was his dawn… But he and Sydel?... Had been living a life of perpetual twilight… Was it any wonder they became so unhealthy? She tried so hard to do the right thing and so did he, but no matter how tightly you hold onto water, it just slips from your fingers all the same… “There’s really nothing here to help me… The friends I had I have bid farewell to, land and properties Ive left in trust that will run well without me, my finances will continue to grow like always… Staying here just stagnates me… My world, my life with you? Is where ever you are and the sooner we get home? The better… We both know that your house must be at least semi-settled before the children arrive and I’d rather you not undergo the stress of child birth on top of the pressures and concerns of establishing yourself and the house.”

The question about Strahd though was a lot easier to answer. “He knows about it all yes, I wasn’t sure we’d ever be together again so I told him everything to spare you the trouble of it, and from what I’ve seen he doesn’t care that you two are related. He is simply happy his children are happy and producing children of their own. He’s… Different… Eccentric but… In a charming way. The only thing he doesn’t know about is my place with you two as given the time I saw him things were… A bit… Not so clear cut or good. The only thing he doesn’t know about is that you are indeed pregnant. I told him it was a possibility but we hadn’t had the news at the time… ” He said as he’d continue to stroke up and down her skin. “And what about you? My tree was not the only one shaken by the storm we shared… You carry more of a burden than Thaylan and I can ever understand and I can’t help you if I don’t know how… What are your concerns? Fears or worries? I want to know where your heart and your mind stand too…”