Orna Puella

- III -

I have no idea how much time has passed since I lied down. All I knew that Raven’s body became colder and colder each minute. I think I cried, I don’t remember. Then I dozed off. I don’t know how long I’ve been asleep but when I woke up, I couldn’t figure out why my heartbeat was so damn loud. I blinked when I realized that Raven’s skin wasn’t icy cold anymore. At first, I thought I was imagining things. Then I thought that maybe I am feeling my own warm breath. And then finally I realized that it wasn’t my loud heartbeat I was hearing. It was Raven’s.

I raised my head off his chest really slowly. If this is just a dream, I’ll probably jump off a cliff or something after I wake up… I looked at his face. His eyes were closed but he wasn’t as pale as before. And oh my dear Talath… He was breathing! I carefully touched his face with my fingers. His skin was warm.

“Raven…” I muttered and he slowly opened his eyes.

I felt like I couldn’t breathe and the tears started to stream down my cheeks.

“What…” he said in confusion.

Then he blinked and sat up.

“Ah, crap…” he winced. “Where is he?”

I knew that he was talking about Arlen and I shrugged, tears choking me. Raven shook his head.

“Son of a bitch…” he muttered and pulled me close to him. “Hey, stop that…”
“Oh Dragon…” I finally managed. “I thought you died…”
“Ugh,” he said. “I did, I think…”
“What…” I could barely speak. “How…”
“I told you I am quite resilient,” he murmured in my ear. “Takes more than a gun to get rid of me… It hurts like a bitch though.”
“Oh, Talath…” now I was sobbing.

He held me tight and finally I was able to stop crying.

“You have blood all over your face,” Raven looked at me with a frown. “Did he…”
“No,” I immediately shook my head. “It’s yours.”
“What happened after he fired?”
“Well…” I wiped my eyes with the back of my hand. “Remember how I told you that Vicky taught me some spells?”
“Uh huh…”
“I read one of them out loud…”
“What did it do?”

I grinned.

“Go look.”

Raven let me go and got up. He went out of the shed and I could hear him cursing in disbelief.

“Great Lizard…” he said after he walked back into the shed. “Well, at least the shed is still okay… We don’t have to clean it again or anything.”
“Right,” I breathed. “Cleaning this place again is more than I can handle right now…”

He sat next to me on the blanket and looked at me, his expression serious.

“What were you going to do?” he asked finally. “You stayed here even though you thought I was gone for good…”

I shrugged.

“I was going to stay here,” I said simply. “And in case if you forgot, I know two more spells so nobody would be able to get me out of this damn shed until I die… I hoped it would be relatively peaceful though,” I added and he sighed.
“Talath…” he breathed. “You are something…”
“Raven…” I muttered and he stopped me with the kiss.

He didn’t kiss me as slowly as he usually did. Right now, his mouth felt hungry and almost frantic. I kissed him back, feeling like I was in frenzy. I could care less if Edwina Colette would march into the Black Shed right this minute. I would not let Raven go.

We almost fell down on the old blanket that I threw on the floor several hours ago. Raven’s hands were caressing my body and I felt lightheaded. He kissed me for what seemed like an eternity and finally I could feel his fingers unbuttoning my shirt. I pulled his sweater off and he shook his head impatiently when his long hair got caught on the collar. His mouth felt so incredibly good on my skin that I was shivering.

“Raven…” I muttered finally and he raised his head and looked at me, his eyes like two dark cherries. “Raven… You are my first…” I whispered and he started kissing me again.

It felt like the time has frozen for infinity. Everything seemed to be perfectly still except for Raven and me. It was amazing how even our hearts were beating in the same rhythm. His mouth was sliding all over my body and his fingers touched my skin so lightly that it felt unreal. He was kissing my neck, his tongue tracing my skin, when I felt him inside me. I hissed at the dull pain and arched my back. He stopped moving, letting my body to adjust accepting his. He never interrupted his kisses.

He was still for several minutes and then he started to move slowly. This time it didn’t hurt. I ran my hand down his spine and pressed my palm against his hip, pushing him even deeper inside me. He raised his head and looked into my eyes. My breathing became so uneven that under different circumstances it would be funny. Raven moved slowly within me and my body just rocked under his weight, in perfect synch with his motions. I have no idea how long we’ve been rocking back and forth, but suddenly I felt a wave of warmth washing me from the inside. It started somewhere in the pit of my stomach and flooded all over my body in a matter of seconds.

I muttered his name and pressed harder down on his hips with my both hands. Raven kept looking into my eyes, his breathing almost as uneven as mine. He kept biting his lower lip and for some reason that turned me on even more. Then I could feel some stirring inside me that kept growing at amazing speed. It was like a fireball that kept getting closer and closer. And it was getting bigger each second. Suddenly that fireball hit me full speed and it exploded into something unbelievable. I almost screamed Raven’s name out when my body started to convulse uncontrollably under his. It seemed that the harder I press against his hips, the more intense the feeling became.

Suddenly Raven whimpered and closed his eyes.

“No…” he muttered. “Great Lizard, not yet… Ah, Dragon…” he hissed and dropped his head into my shoulder, his body almost rigid now.

I pushed against him even harder and he moaned loudly.

“What are you doing to me…” he muttered and his entire body shook.

His ripples matched my own, and as hard it is to believe, they made them even stronger. I wrapped my arms around him and pressed hard against his stomach. He moaned and hissed almost at the same time. I could feel his spasms inside me and it echoed my own. Finally, his back relaxed and he lowered himself on top of me. I never unwrapped my arms, I just held him even tighter. He kept kissing my face and neck without sliding out of me.

“Great Lizard…” he muttered finally. “What are you doing to me… You know, usually I last a hell of a lot longer than this…”

I laughed softly and kissed his neck. He raised his head and looked at me, his eyes tense.

“Human,” he said quietly. “You just made the biggest mistake of your life…”
“Oh yeah?” I asked softly.
“Uh huh…”
“How so?”
“Because now there is no way in hell you are getting away from me… You are stuck with me until one of us dies for real…”
“Good,” I said and kissed his neck.
“Oh Talath help me…” he muttered. “Help me, Dragon, but I love you so freaking much…”
“I love you too,” I whispered and he started kissing my mouth again.

Suddenly there was some weird noise somewhere behind us and we pulled apart, startled. “Not again,” I thought in panic. But it wasn’t Arlen or anyone else for that matter. The sound was dry and crackling, like some sort of electricity was running through the air. It was vaguely familiar and I blinked. I couldn’t figure out why it sounded so familiar when I saw dark blue light flashing by the far wall of the shed.

“Oh, crap,” I said and reached for my shirt.
“What...?” Raven frowned.
“You might wanna put your pants on”, I grinned. “I think it’s Vicky…”
“Oh, crap,” he said and I laughed when he was frantically trying to pull his pants on.