| THE ADVENTURES OF THE O'CONNELL FAMILY Page 23 |
| "Oh boy..." he heaved a great sigh as he settled deep into the sand. He spent the next hour and a half explaining the birds and the bees to Ardeth, all the time wondering why the Med-Jai didn't know any of this stuff. "Ok, Ardeth, it's called being 'turned on'. When you get that sensation it means you are ready to engage in sex, maybe not ready, but on your way to being ready. Understand?" Ardeth nodded. "And what do we have here?" Evie's voice popped from behind his head. "Wha...? Oh, this does sound kind of interesting doesn't it?" he asked, slightly embarrassed. "Rick dear, might you tell me what's going on, it does sound quite interesting!" Rick gave a suggestive cough turning away from Ardeth to face his wife, glaring at her. "Later." He said with emphasis. "Well, if you insist!" and she flounced away smiling to herself. After Evelyn left Ardeth explained to him the Med-Jai code. He was appalled to find out that they were not even allowed to touch women until they retired from the service. So, he assumed this was why Ardeth did not even know the basic sex-ed. that he had learned in grade school. Rick smiled inwardly as he and Jonathan lifted Ardeth gently, carrying him away from the carnage to the side of the street. Rick savored the humorous memory in his mind in case he would never hear Ardeth's guttural laugh again. ~*~*~*~*~ As Nefret looked at Ardeth's closed eyes she remembered the first time she had discovered his true feelings for her. She was awakened out of her deep slumber by harsh moans emanating from Ardeth's sleeping pallet. Cautiously she rubbed her eyes and padded over to his side, crouching with her catlike and agile body just near his head. "Mmmm, Nefret, my love, come to me darling, let me run my hands through your hair." After that Ardeth mumbled something incomprehensible and a bemused look crossed her face. She continued to listen with renewed curiosity as he tossed moaning more deeply about her and how much he enjoyed her presence. Nefret could tell that Ardeth was indeed indulged in his dream for his erection was quite visible through his light-weighted tunic. The site of him like that made her first shocked and then somewhat pleased with herself. She had never effected a man that way before that she knew of, and it made her start to tingle. Then, she found herself doing something she would never have dared to do before. She leaned over Ardeth's sleeping form and kissed him on the lips, just grazing them with her tongue, obviously heightening the pleasure of his dream for him without waking him up. The result was Ardeth reaching a hand down to his growing erection and sighing heavily as he stroked there. She quickly jumped back on her haunches, letting his taste linger on her lips for a little before she ran her tongue over them as she continued to watch him. Her need for him became more and more urgent until she could take it no longer and retreated to her sleeping mat for the night. How foolish she had been, she had taken advantage of an innocent man just being himself, the male sex. She cursed silently as a tear slipped down her cheek and onto his tunic. She really did love him, she knew that deep down...When she had first laid eyes on him, kissing the ground at the harbor she knew he was different, her soul mate. She began crying joyously, realizing that she had found the one person she was meant to be with. Someone so innocent that they had not even touched a woman in a loving way before, so naive that they barely knew their own body, much less hers, and so dedicated that they would risk their life a thousand times over for the cause of good preservation. She rejoiced to the heavens, all the while willing this man, her soul mate to fight, to survive, to continue living. Rachel ([email protected]) April 6, 2002 Nefret and Jonathan took the semi-conscience Ardeth back to their hut as Rick and Evelyn tended to their son, who was--without a doubt--in need of the attention. "Oh Alex! I love you I love you I Love you!" Evie kept kissing her son who seemed not to be fully aware of where he was, he just slumped into the grasp. Rick knelt into the sand and hugged his son as well "I knew you'd be OK, I knew it!" he said as the three hugged. Alex only knew the past couple minutes as a blur, he heard the commotion, saw the camels, and then heard two gunshots. After this all he knew was that his parents miraculously appeared and were now practically strangling him...which he didn't' mind. "I love you" He said to them both as they held him in the hug for quite a long time. ~*~*~*~*~ After Seth had healed his leg and Nephthys� shoulder with just a touch of his hand to the wounds, he got up again from behind the barrel of wine. "What now?" Nephthys asked as she got up behind him and peered over. They were down a little alleyway between two huts where they stored the great barrels of wine for feasts and celebration. "We need that boy, I want the boy. He'd be the easiest to get and we have until tonight to get him! Do whatever you must. Now what can we use as a distraction?" Rick, Evelyn, and Alex were on their way back to the hut, which was several kilometers from the village. Rick had his son in his arms and Evelyn was beside them. "We need to make sure that Ardeth's alright. I hope so because he saved Alex! Oh, I'm worried about him." Evie said. "I hope he's OK too." Rick said, then he looked down and noticed that their son was sound asleep, it was probably the first sound sleep he'd had in a while now. It would be his parent's first sound sleep tonight too. "He looks like an angel." Evie said as she wiped off some of the dirt from his brow. |