[R]Forget me Not - Ari/Thomas

[kalindara]

So far things seemed to be going well. Ari smirked as Tom sat her down in the kitchen. She hadn't missed the effect her teasing had on him. This could still be a very good evening, she thought hazily, even if it didn't involve any more drinking or dancing.

It took two tries to prop her head up with her elbow on the table - but she wasn't drunk, nuh uh. Half-lidded eyes watched Tom move around the kitchen.

Since he was being accomodating, Ari raised her free hand and began listing off her demands for the evening. "Drink," she said, one finger coming up. "Hot tub," a second finger. "Sex... more sex..." After a moment's consideration, all the rest of the fingers shot up. She beamed in Tom's direction.  

[endejester]

"Oh.. yes..." he said trying to smother a laugh unsuccessfully, it bubbled up like a spring around his words. "Totally...not drunk... at all." He fetched her ice water from the fridge and dropped in a sliver of lemon before sliding it across the top of the island and stooped to kiss the line of her neck and shoulder murmmuring. "Mmmm...what if you decide you hate me in the morning?" He said half teasing. It wasn't as though they hadn't tread this path before quite sober... well, sober enough, and if it kept her from killing herself.

"Here is your drink princess.... bottoms up." He winked and then took one of her slender hands to kiss her finger tips.

"Then...we'll see about that hot tub."  

[kalindara]

Ari nearly purred as Tom dropped kisses along the bare flesh of her neck and shoulder. She made appropriately pleased murmurs until he stopped. Then, she made a face. "S'not my first time," she said, rolling her eyes. "Not even my first time with you."

Besides, Tom would have to do something much, much worse than follow her drunken commands to make her hate him. It was so nice to have something in her life that was just easy. (No, Tom, that wasn't a comment on you. Or on Ari herself, thanks. Just that them, together, was easy. No fuss, no drama, no silly teen wangst.) Ari hadn't known how much she needed something that just worked, considering how messed up everything else in her life was, until she had this. She wasn't letting it go so easily.

... Though whether Tom would feel the same if she told about what she'd been doing for the past week...

To derail that train of thought, Ari drained the drink Tom put in front of her. She made a face, more for show than for taste, considering she'd sculled it fast enough to avoid tasting much of it all.

"Hot tub now," she said, putting the glass down on the bench with a heavy thunk. Oops. It didn't look broken. Maybe she'd just be extra careful handling anything breakable for a while...

And in case Tom had forgotten, she reminded him quite seriously, "And then sex."  

[endejester]

"Mmm You... are going to have the WORST hangover..." He chuckled and then picked her up, pulling her tight to his chest... "Yes Mistress... as you wish."

Not precisely "Wesley" from the Princes Bride, but there was something of a similar intent there, sometimes for better or for worse most of what she wished for he would grant her.

He carried her through the rooms, empty rooms for the most part all professionally designed and most un-lived in, he and his sister sort of drifted through them like white ghosts with their rebellious natures burning like all too passionate flames in a sterile world.

The hot tub area wasn't as grand as say, Jada's might have been... but it was humid and smelled of salt, not quite sea water but the alternative to chlorine. He set her carefully down on one of the chase chairs so that she might strip out of some of her heavier clothing, no sense trying to peel the worst of it off after it was soaked.

"Mmmm I suppose theirs little sense in modesty given your further instructions for the evening..." he gave a wide white smile as he stripped off his own top most layers revealing a few more piercings that were less often reviewed by the 'general public', though she of all people would be familiar with others.  

[kalindara]

Considering Ari didn't even believe she was drunk, the idea of having a hangover was completely ignored. Instead, she clung to Tom's neck, giggling softly and kicking her legs as he carried her through the house. For unknown reasons, her vision was a bit blurry so she couldn't take in all the details, but she had the impression of a nice-ish place. A bit like her home, all done up as though no one really lived there. Hopefully it was also like her home in that the bedrooms made it obvious a living, breathing person really did spend time there, and had likes beyond 'white' and 'clean'.

Such hopes were all too easily forgotten as she took in the hot tub. She gave a short squeal as they arrived, hugging Tom enthusiastically. When Tom put her down and started removing his clothes, she was only too happy to do the same.

...Hmm, were her boots always this hard to take off? Ari went cross-eyed glaring at the knots in the laces. Eventually she just loosened what she could and managed to kick the boots off without quite untying them. The final boot smacked into the leg of another seat. Ari adopted an innocent expression - nothing to see here, no one abusing the furniture, no.

Her top went over her head, then into the air over one shoulder. There was some nice jiggling going on in a flame red bra as Ari shimmied her way out of skin tight fake-leather pants. Ari stood up and stepped out of them. The material slipped on the tiles under one foot, and Ari was sent careening into the tub.

A yelp and a loud splash were followed by the sounds of coughing. "I'm okay," Ari said weakly, cheeks flaming to match her hair and underwear. Wading to the side of the tub to seat herself, she threw a sopping wet bra and matching red panties out onto the tiles. Ari smoothed back her hair and shot Tom a seductive smile. "Coming?" she asked.  

[endejester]

He gave a short sharp laugh that was quickly stifled behind one hand but nodded, the warmth of it spreading to his voice as he followed her into the tub.

"Just don't drown before I get there Princess, he followed her into the hot water shaking his head. "You are -so- smashed..." He repeated leaning in to wrap his arms around her to keep her safe, and to capture kisses from her, one after the other.