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Date Posted: 00:30:46 01/28/02 Mon
Author: Rowan
Subject: Always expect the unexpected
In reply to: Isobel 's message, "Naptime" on 19:29:30 01/26/02 Sat

Rowan literally could not believe his ears. Here he was, standing with a girl who was virtually giving him free reign to do whatever the hell he wanted, minus any sort of commitment whatsoever. And he didn’t even have to pay her anything! Didn’t hurt that she was damn cute to boot, either.

He was still feeling slightly lightheaded as she pulled him toward the lake, but he figured it was probably because of the heat. What did she mean by “other things,” anyway? More than kissing? Like how much more? Wait, and was she still going to kiss other guys, too? He wasn’t really so sure about that. (Actually, he’d never seen her kiss another guy, but he didn’t exactly watch her 24/7, either.) Well, at least he could still kiss whoever he wanted, and do other things, too, whatever the heck that was supposed to imply.

When they got to the edge of the pond, Rowan made his way to the nearest sapling and chopped off a couple of the more sturdy branches. He handed one to Tia, and started to use one of the daggers on his belt to shave the end off into a point, watching as she did the same. Once that was done, the two of them wasted no time shucking off their clothes (or most of their clothes, anyway) and jumping into the water.

Rowan couldn’t resist staring at Tia as she stripped to her underclothes once again. It was so much easier to appreciate when he was this much closer to her, instead of spying on her from a rock! He tugged his shirt off and his boots, as well, before tossing off his swordbelt and wriggling out of his pants.

Now that he was clothed in nothing but his deerskin underpants (and of course the several charms and baubles hanging from his neck he never took off), some of the silver tattoos were more visible, since this part of his skin was naturally a little paler than the rest. Hopefully, Tia wouldn’t say anything about it, if she even noticed. So far, no one had in the past, so maybe it would all go by unexplained, which was just fine by him.

The first thing Rowan immediately realized about spear fishing was that he sucked at it. Tia giggled and made fun of him, saying something about how real men handled their spears (honestly, he really didn’t know how to take that—she seemed so frigging innocent at times!), before showing him exactly how it was done. She had more than a few large salmon-looking fish tossed up on shore while he was still making desperate stabs at shadows and rocks.

“I think I’ve had enough,” he said, laughing to hide his disappointment at being such a shabby spear fishermen. He had to remind himself that she was part nymph, and probably used her magic to lure the little beasties into her range or something. He tossed his makeshift spear onto the bank and waded towards her. “You’ve caught enough for the whole camp, let alone the two of us. Besides,” he grinned down at her as he put his arms around her, pulling her close, “I caught you, and that’s good enough for my first attempt, wouldn’t you say?”

He brushed the wet hair out of her violet eyes and kissed her, harder than the first two times, but still gentle enough not to scare a flighty-minded girl away. He had practiced all sorts of positions and pressures when it came to kissing, so that he always knew just the right one for just the right girl. (Just girls, really, because you could kiss a guy basically however the hell you wanted, and they just thought you were damned hot for even trying. Guys were like that. No challenge whatsoever. Still, sometimes you took what you could get.) Rowan just considered the kiss to be an extremely important art form. He liked to think of it as the gateway to the ultimate showcase, anyway

“Hey, I got an idea, too!” he said, breaking the kiss and backing slightly away. His body had been responding to that whole kissing her in the water while standing pressed up against her thing way too quickly for comfort. It was definitely gonna be all about close calls with her, anyway. Maybe tonight he could convince her to share a tent with him, and he wouldn’t have to worry about holding back so much. Hmm, something to think about.

“Look over there.” He nodded toward the sleeping figure of Isobel, lying close to the edge of the embankment nearest theirs. “Think she’d mind if we gave her a few swimming lessons, too?” He grinned mischievously and waded as silently as he could over toward the slumbering woman. When he got as close to her as possible, the water was still up to about his chest, as there was an almost immediate drop off from the shore. He turned to Tia and placed a finger over his lips, trying to stifle a giggle. Suddenly, he reached out and hefted Isobel into his arms, hugging her close to his soaking wet body for a moment before turning and dropping her into the water.

When the woman came up spluttering, now wide awake, he finally doubled over laughing, actually brushing tears from his eyes he was so overcome with mirth. It never even crossed his mind that she’d be upset or anything; it was just a harmless prank after all.

Tia was probably laughing, too, and when he thought about what the next night might hold in store for him, thanks to her noble agreement to completely lack commitment to one another and still do “other things,” he realized he hadn’t had as much fun as he was having now in a long time. And that was a damned shame, in his opinion. A guy should pick up a beautiful girl and start a water fight as often as he possibly could. After all, what was better than sharing an innocent frolic in the pond with one soaking wet girl than doing it with two?

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