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 Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:12 pm
Thorn snickered quietly. It was enough to have his shoulders shift, and to hide it, he picked her up. She was nineteen years old, for christ sake. He could carry a slip of a girl that age.
"We wouldn't want you to hurt yourself." he added smoothly, an excuse prepared for almost any situation. He was good at that. Creating excuses, that is.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:15 pm
Natalie squealed, this time. Not a squeak, a full blown squeal, complete with mild flailing and wide-eyes staring.
"T-this... it's not necessary! Really! I just need rest, that's all. Y-you don't have to carry me!"
Of course, once the world stopped spinning from the abrupt change in position, it was actually a bit nicer. But she sure as hell wasn't going to let him know that. "I'm not going to hurt myself!"
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:18 pm
Thorn adjusted his grip on the girl until it felt more comfortable. Of course, more comfortable meant more contact too, and with one arm slipped around her knees, he grinned.
"Natalie." he drawled. "You've already hurt yourself so many times. We don't want to knick that flesh, do we?" besides. He thought her being safe was safer. Blood, and injuries... that was another exciting avenue entirely. Especially with women.
"I'll let you walk as soon as I'm tired." he assured her, and grinned.
He could carry her for a while yet.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:22 pm
Natalie stared at him, and shivered. "You know, you have some pretty creepy ways of saying things, Thorn," she mutted, squirming, trying to get herself a bit more comfortable and keep her modesty, all at the same time. In her opinion, her skirt was hiked up a tad too much, so she tried to fix it. Awkwardly.
"And when else did I hurt myself? Huh? I only almost tripped, earlier."
She eyed him suspiciously. ".... fine, you can carry me until you're tired. Or we get out of the maze. Whichever happens first."
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:33 pm
"Or we get out of the maze?" he grinned. "Don't you think I can?" he paused, frowning as he murmured something along the lines of 'this wasn't here before' under his breath.
"Shall we make a bet, then?" he decided it was safest to ignore her first remark, file away the second to be quipped back at a later date. "If I do manage it out, and I'm not tired. I get a prize."
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:37 pm
She eyed him carefully. "I was more saying that so you couldn't kidnap me or something, once we're out, under the merit of you 'not being tired' so you didn't have to put me down." But his little whispered comment comforted her a little, so that at his next question...
"... only if we put some limits on what that 'prize' can be. My two best friends are frat boys - I'm not used to trusting 'prizes'." She smirked. He wasn't getting anything out of her that she didn't want to give (or at least, that's what she thought.)
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:40 pm
"Frat boys?" she was going to be more knowledgable than he had first thought. "Very well." he stated. "Something simple, then." he stopped, for just a moment as he smiled. "A little kiss is simple, isn't it?"
Wasn't it? It was just lips. And tonge. And faces. And hands. And everything else.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:45 pm
Natalie blushed, watching him and nibbling on her bottom lip, anxiously. After a moment, simply from the instability of being carried as she was, she looped an arm around his back.
"... Fine. Not like it'll be my first, huh?" She laughed, but it was nervous. Would it technically be... cheating? No, it was probably going to be like those stage kisses with Michael, when they'd first met. That was all.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:48 pm
Well, that was a quick one. Grinning and adjusting his grip on her again, he smiled. "Deal." he said.
And promptly started more or less to take a direct line out of the maze. Thorn was patient, but he had gotten his own way on this one. Really, there was no need to be patient about it any more.
"So, Natalie." he said, smiling slowly. "It wouldn't be your first, hmmm?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:51 pm
"Well, first kiss as part of a bet, yes. First kiss? No. Remember the, er, guy I mentioned? We're not just holding hands and saying how much we love each other, you know." Actually, there was none of that at all.
"B-but nothing past kissing!" she hastily ammended, realizing how badly what she just could be taken. "Just. Kissing. That's all."
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:54 pm
"And I've seen you as such an innocent." he teased, lightness on his face. As always. But at her next words, predator dominated whatever gentle, trusting image he wanted to give out.
"Of course." He had promised a kiss, hadn't he? Swinging Natalie so that he arm was still around her shoulders, but so that her feet would almost touch the ground, he leaned closer.
"I promise." he whispered, skirting the edge of contact.
And kissed her.
((mwahahhaa!! ))
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:02 pm
"I'm more innocent than most girls my age," she huffed, then blinked as Thorn got very, very close and she was almost, almost standing. "Ahh..."
And then he kissed her.
Wow, that was unexpected! Natalie squeaked, squirming a little and squeezing her eyes shut. They weren't out of the maze yet! They weren't even close, as far as she could tell - though maybe that light...
Well, it didn't matter. What mattered was that he was kissing her, because apparently he'd misinterpretted what she'd just said. Totally.
Still...
It was kind of nice.
Even so, even with her body accepting the contact, her mind balked and she squirmed again, trying to get him to stop.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:06 pm
Thorn stiiffened, blinking.
Was this woman SQUIRMING FOR HIM TO STOP?! Possibly. Nut used to anything like this at all, he broke contact, baffled. Thorn had a large ego. And what Natalie had done...
Crushed it. Jut slightly. A little dent, really.
"I did win, you know." he said, motioning to the exit.
He didn't sound hurt, but it only strengthened his determination. This girl was going to be his. Sooner or later. Before, after, or during Hadrian. Heck. Maybe together, if that was the way she liked it.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:09 pm
Natalie was finally able to put her feet back on the ground again, and she did so gladly. Then she looked where he was pointing, biting his lip.
"... Oh, I didn't... I mean... I didn't know we were close to the exit. I just thought..."
She wasn't sure she could take another kiss right now, though - she felt... a little dirty, even though she and Michael weren't technically an item. It just felt... wrong. Like she was betraying him. (HAH.)
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:14 pm
Thorn laughed. It wasn't a loud one, but it was real all the same. "Natalie." he patted her nose twice, and shook his head. Amused. Well, the bruise of his ego was fine, now. She was such a odd little thing. Rather like Hadrian.
"I need to get going now." he responded, smiling. "It seems the maze took up more time than I expected."
Not that it was a bad thing. Really. "And we're here and all."
And all.
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