Hey guys, once again sorry for the wait. Poor little me was forced to go on vacation to the South of France. I was in the Provence for a week in a place that can only be called a mansion with a really nice pool and then they sent me to a town close to Bordeaux and draged me the beach every afternoon, forcing me to build sandcastles, go swimming and get a tan and all that. Life as an Au Pair is tough.
Part 28
Liz walked out of the library, a stack of books under her arm. She and Kyle had spent the bigger part of the last week working on their powers, both making vast improvements, especially Kyle. And so now Liz had decided that it was time to look into the theoretical background. She’d gotten all the books she could find on genetics and molecular biology, hoping to come across some kind of information on cell-manipulation or gene-transformation. There had to be
some knowledge on this subject, or at least a few theories. Something that would at least give Liz an idea of what had happened to her and Kyle when Max had healed them.
A pair of strong arms suddenly wrapped themselves around her from behind. “Hey gorgeous,” a deep voice murmured into her ear before starting to nuzzle her neck.
“Hey yourself,” she said, a smile spreading over her lips while she tilted her head to the side as to give him better access. She sighed softly, letting her eyes drift shut for a minute.
“When did you get back?” she asked. Alec had been on a business trip the whole week and so they hadn’t seen each other ever since last weekend. The only kind of contact they’d had were a few phone calls, but that hadn’t been nearly enough. Liz had missed him, a lot. More than she wanted to admit to herself.
Alec tore his mouth away from her neck and rested his chin on her shoulder, his arms still wrapped around her waist. “Ten minutes ago. I was just on my way to the supermarket to fill up my fridge, the only thing currently in it is an empty carton of milk, a pineapple and some mustard.”
Liz snorted. “Sounds tempting.” Alec was such a guy sometimes. “You live around here?” she asked. Even though they’d known each other almost three weeks now, Liz had never been to his apartment. She didn’t even know where it was.
“Yeah, just two blocks down the road.” Alec suddenly noticed the books Liz had pressed against her chest, carefully turned so that he couldn’t read the titles. “What d’you got there?” he asked nodding in the direction of the books.
“Oh, nothing. Just some books for some…light reading before I go to bed.”
Yeah, right.
Alec let go of her and grabbed one of the books out of her hand before she could stop him. “Advanced Genetic Theory,” he read. “Yeah, looks like a real page-turner.”
Liz quickly took the book back, waiting for Alec to ask what the hell she was doing with something like that. When he didn’t say anything she looked up at him. The way he was looking at her didn’t indicate that he found it in any way unusual that she had books like that. Actually, the books in her arms seemed to be the farthest thing from his mind. Too relieved that he wasn’t probing, it didn’t even come to her mind to ask herself why exactly he found that so normal. And the fact that Alec was staring at her like she was the only person in the world didn’t exactly help matters.
Liz tilted her head up, closing the distance between them, pressing a sweet, gentle kiss against his lips. It didn’t stay sweet and gentle for long though. As a matter of fact, she got so absorbed in the kiss that she completely forgot about the books in her arms and almost dropped them when she reached up to wrap her arms around Alec’s neck. Alec deepened the kiss and passion sparked up between them. Having been apart for almost a week was affecting them, the anticipation and hunger that had built up over the last few days took over and their kisses became more fervent, more demanding, more passionate.
Liz didn’t notice the drop in temperature as dark clouds drew up, blocking out the sun. She was actually getting hotter with every passing minute, despite the fact that the wind had picked up. Only as the first raindrops began to fall did they pull apart. They both looked up at the sky, equally surprised to find the sun was no longer shining but instead dark clouds covering the sky. There was a crack of thunder in the distance and the sky opened up, letting water pour down on them. Too surprised to react at first, Alec quickly grabbed Liz’s hand and started running, pulling her along with him.
Five minutes later they had reached the apartment complex where Alec lived and were standing in front of door number 4B. Alec fumbled with the key for a second before unlocking the door and letting them in. Liz was soaked down to the bone. It had been raining so hard that she’d been drenched within seconds, and now she was so cold that she was shivering, but that didn’t keep her from looking around.
The apartment wasn’t messy, just untidy enough to make it feel homey. They were standing in what was obviously the living room/kitchen/dining room. In the middle of the room there was a sofa with a matching love seat and a couch table with a few magazines strewn across it. The TV was across from the sofa, set against the wall next to the apartment door. On the opposite wall there was a bookshelf with a few books and a stereo system along with a few dozen CDs. The kitchen was on her right, separated from the room only by a counter. A few bar stools were lined up along it. On her left there were two doors, leading to, as Liz assumed, the bathroom and the bedroom. There was a large window on the wall across from the entry as well as a glass door that probably lead out to a balcony. The decoration was kept to a minimum, yet the apartment didn’t seem cold. The only thing that was missing were some personal artifacts, like pictures or the little knickknack you unwillingly collected over the years.
“You’re shivering,” Alec stated frowning down at her. He had come up beside her, seemingly not at all uncomfortable with the way she was screening his apartment. “You have to get out of those wet cloths. A hot shower would probably also be a good idea. Wait, let me get you a towel.” He disappeared behind the door closer to them and Liz could hear him rummaging around. A minute later he came back out. “I laid out a towel for you as well as one of my t-shirts so that you have something to wear while your clothes dry.”
“Thanks,” Liz said before discarding her books as well as her hand bag onto the love seat and disappearing behind the bathroom door. After taking of her pants she suddenly heard her cell phone ring. “Alec, can you check who it is?” Liz called.
“Sure.” A second later he said, “It says ‘Max cell’.” Liz didn’t say anything for a moment, but Alec could hear a bang, as if Liz had just dropped whatever it was that she’d been holding. “Liz?”
“Reject the call.”
“You want me to hang up?” Alec asked surprised. The bathroom door suddenly opened and Liz came rushing out, not caring that she was half-naked, wearing only her top and her black lacy panties. She snatched her cell from Alec’s hands and did it herself before turning off the phone and carelessly throwing it back onto the loveseat. Then she turned around and disappeared into the bathroom again, leaving a rather baffled Alec behind.
~*~*~*~
When Liz came out again fifteen minutes later she was wearing nothing but her dried-by-alien-magic underwear and Alec’s t-shirt. The shirt however was large enough to reach down almost to mid-thigh and so she didn’t really feel all that undressed.
Alec was in the kitchen and so Liz went over to him and sat down on one of the barstools. When Alec noticed her he placed a cup of hot tea in front of her and Liz began to sip. She avoided looking directly at him, scared that he would star questioning her about Max. When he didn’t say anything the next few minutes Liz dared to look up at him. He was studying her, obviously wanting to ask her about Max. But he kept quiet, not saying anything until Liz was finished with her tea, and even then it had nothing to do with Max. “You hungry? If you want to eat I might find something edible in the freezer.” Liz shook her head and Alec walked around the counter to stand in front of her. He brushed a strand of hair behind her ear. “You okay?”
Liz nodded. “I’m fine,” she said, giving him a small smile.
“Okay,” Alec said, pressing a soft kiss against her forehead. “So, what do you want to do till the rain stops?”
Liz thought about it for a moment. “Got any board games?”
~*~*~*~
Half an hour later Liz was stretched out on her tummy on Alec’s couch studying the letters on their little plastic holder in front of her. They were playing Scrabble, a game Liz normally always won. And she had absolutely no intention of that being any different this time.
Liz looked over her letters again. She had two ‘b’s, an ‘e’, two ‘l’, an ‘o’, an ‘s’ and a ‘w’. What kind of word could she make with those letters? Looking at the board she suddenly had an idea and a sly grin appeared on her lips. The word ‘job’ was already there, and so Liz simply added the letters ‘b’, ‘l’, ‘o’ and ‘w’ in front of it.
“Blowjob?” Alec raised an eyebrow at her.
Liz just grinned while counting together the points that word brought her. “Forty-seven. Not bad if you ask me.”
Alec just shook his head before spelling out his own word, an equally mischievous grin having appeared on his lips.
“Lick,” Liz read. She raised an eyebrow but withheld any further comment. Instead she drew four new letters to replace the ones she had used to spell ‘blow’. She got an ‘u’ and three ‘c’s. This time she didn’t have to think for long. She simply spelled out the word ‘suck’, using the ‘k’ of Alec’s ‘lick’.
Alec added ‘ing’ to the end of it, so it now read ‘sucking’.
Liz drew the letters ‘d’, ‘o’ and ‘k’. She put the word ‘cock’ in front of ‘sucking’.
“A little fixated, are we?” Alec mumbled, not even bothering to look up.
Liz snorted. “You wish.”
Alec chuckled before spelling out the word ‘orgasm’.
Liz added the word ‘double’ in front of that.
“That a challenge?” Alec murmured. Liz blushed and he laughed. Since they had long since stopped monitoring their scores Alec decided to abandon the last rule they were still following and started rummaging around in the sack with the letters to find the ones he needed. When he was finished he spelled out ‘panting’. Liz did the same for the word ‘nookie’.
Ten minute later the board was full. Alec and Liz started at each other for a moment before they both started moving at the same time. A second later they were wrapped up in each other’s arms kissing passionately. Alec lifted her up, one of his hands on her butt, the other on her back. Liz automatically wrapped her legs around him, groaning when she felt his erection pressing against her hot core. Alec started moving in the direction of his bedroom, walking slowly since he could obviously not see where he was going, and of course because he was a bit distracted.
Liz had somehow managed to hold onto a last shred of common sense, which now set off the alarm in her head. What exactly would Alec expect of her if they moved this to the bedroom? How far did he think this would go? “Alec,” she panted, having problems getting the word out due to the fact that he was busy driving her crazy with his mouth on her neck.
“Hmm,” he murmured in between gentle bites.
“I can’t…I mean, we won’t-” Liz broke off. How exactly was she supposed to tell Alec that this would not be going any further? That their physical relationship would not go very much beyond what they had at the moment?
But Alec didn’t need an explanation. “I know,” he said softly. “Don’t worry.” He pressed a soft kiss against her forehead. “It’s just that this couch is too damn small for the two of us,” he added while trailing a path if butterfly kisses along her temple and check before finally returning to her lips. Liz felt like she was about to melt. She hadn’t expected Alec to be so understanding, so sweet about that issue. But he didn’t really seem to mind, or think it was a big deal, or at least he wasn’t showing it.
A minute later he gently lowered her onto his bed before following, never breaking the kiss. He instantly rolled them over so that she was on top – and therefore in control.
The storm was still raging outside. Liz could hear the rain pelting against the window, the cracks of thunder in the distance. Bolts of lightening illuminated the otherwise almost dark room every now and then. The weather had a strange effect on the atmosphere. It was like it charged it up and calmed it down at the same time.
Liz knew that the rain wasn’t stopping any time soon and that they therefore had no other option than to stay at the apartment for at least a few more hours. Thus she took her time exploring Alec’s soft, full lips, liking and nibbling her way around, before she gently dipped her tongue into his mouth to continue her exploration there.
Alex’s hand that had been resting on Liz’s lower back dipped down a bit so that his fingers were just grazing the top of her butt. Liz moaned and Alec took that as an invitation to let his hand slip down a bit further, giving her buttock a squeeze, before traveling upward again, his hand underneath her t-shirt this time.
His touch was just rough enough to excite Liz. She loved the way Alec didn’t treat her like she would break any second, like she couldn’t take it. So far every guy she’d been with had done that, most of all Max. Maybe that was the reason why she liked being with Alec so much, because it was so unlike anything Max would have ever done. Not that she hadn’t enjoyed being with Max, she just didn’t want to be reminded of anything regarding him.
Sometime during the last few minutes – Liz wasn’t quite sure when – they had changed position so that they were now lying next to each other, legs tangled, their lower bodies pressed against each other, mouths still locked in a soul-searing kiss. Liz hands were under Alec’s shirt, her fingers digging into his hard muscles. Alec’s hand was traveling up her side underneath her t-shirt and Liz held her breath in anticipation. She was surprised at how disappointed she was when he once again stopped right beneath her breast, seemingly not having the intention to cross that line. But Liz wanted that line to be crossed. Badly.
Without thinking she arched her back so that his hand unwillingly grazed the flesh she ached to have touched. If Alec was surprised he didn’t show it. Instead he cupped her breast a bit more firmly and brushed his thumb over Liz’s nipple, eliciting a moan from her lips. She grinded her groin against Alec’s, trying to somehow relieve the ache that was starting to build up there, frustrated to find that it only made matters worse.
In the mean time Alec was gently rolling her taut nipple between his fingers, making Liz think that she was about to lose it. Bolts of fire shot through her body, making her shiver and writhe against him. She dug her fingernails into Alec’s back, only have aware of what she was doing. Never would she have thought that a touch like that would affect her so much. She pulled Alec’s mouth that had been busy nibbling on her earlobe back to hers and latched her lips onto his in a mind-blowing kiss, wanting to show him just how much he was turning her on. He obviously got the message since he intensified his ministration. Liz groaned. God, this felt good.
~*~*~*~
Hours later their kisses began to become gentler again, turning into soft pecks before stopping all together. Alec, who had ended up on top, rolled over, pulling Liz with him so that her head was resting on his chest, pressed against his still rapidly beating heart. It slowed down rather quickly, showing in what good form Alec was. Not that Liz didn’t already know that – her hands had spent the better part of the last two hours exploring ever inch of his sculptured chest, and that was indicator enough.
“Who’s Max?” Alec suddenly asked, taking Liz completely by surprise. She froze, her hand that had been drawing lazy circles over Alec’s stomach stopping in mid-movement.
Liz’s reaction didn’t go unnoticed by Alec. He hadn’t wanted to ask about him since it was none of his business, but curiosity won out. Plus, he couldn’t help but wonder if the phone call of this Max-guy had anything to do with the progress in their relationship today.
Liz continued to stay silent. She didn’t know how she should answer that. Saying they were friends would be the easiest option, but at the same time the one the farthest away from the truth. Saying he was her ex-boyfriend sounded far too trivial. Whatever Max was going to be to her in the future, that was not something she would ever see him as, even though it was technically the correct term.
“It’s okay, you don’t have to answer,” Alec told her, misinterpreting her silence.
“No, it’s just that…it’s complicated. Not something you can explain in a sentence or two.”
“I’m not going anywhere.”
Liz sighed. “Max and I have known each other for years, even though we were never really what you would call friends. We went to the same school, had a few classes together, were lab partners in Biology. Then, two years ago, something happened and fate just sort of threw us into each other’s lives. We danced around each other for months after that before we finally gave in to our feelings and started dating. We were together for a few weeks before again something happened, causing us to break up again. That was a few weeks before the summer vacation started. As soon as they did I came here to stay with my aunt. When I came back to Roswell we seemed to be on the way of working things out and getting back together when once again something happened that caused quite a rift between us. It took a long time until we got back to being something even close to friends.”
She paused for a moment. It still wasn’t easy talking about this. She took a deep breath before continuing, and when she did there was a strange catch in her voice. “Then Alex died. And everything went downhill from there. Max and I had a huge fight, things got pretty nasty. He ended up sleeping with another girl and got her pregnant. A week later Kyle and I came here.”
“Ouch,” was all Alec said.
Liz snorted. “That’s one way of putting it.”
“So why is he calling?”
“Trying to patch things up no doubt.”
“He wants to get back together with you? After
that?”
“Yup.”
“And you’re thinking about it?”
“Yes…no…I don’t know. I haven’t yet figured out if I’m really considering that option or if I’m just not ready to accept the thought of us never being together again. He’s been such an integral part of my life for so long – ‘til now, I was always convinced that things would turn out alright, that we’d be together in the end, not matter how many curve balls life threw at us. No I’m not so sure anymore.”
“What about the girl he knocked up?”
“Left with his unborn child. Last thing I heard he’s been looking for her. Wants his son back.”
“And if he finds her?”
“Well, then I guess he has a hell of a lot of explaining to do to his parents.”
Alec stayed silent for a minute. “So, is this your way of getting back at him?”
“No!” Liz lifted her head to look Alec in the face. “Of course not,” she added. She searched his eyes to see if he believed her, but they gave away nothing. “To be honest, I’ve been trying to avoid asking myself what exactly my motives are for…this.” She waved her hand around as if to indicate what she meant.
Alec shrugged as if to say that it was no big deal, nudging her to lie down again. “I was just asking.”
~*~*~*~
Liz and Alec stayed like that until long after darkness began to fall, just lying together in silence. Liz then got up and walked over to the window to look out onto the dimly lit street. It was still pouring, the rain hadn’t stopped once ever since that afternoon.
“You got any way to get home?” Alec asked.
“I’ve just been asking myself the same question. Mandy is out of town until tomorrow, and Kyle’s out with Jondy. No idea where they are though. I didn’t bother to ask. The last time I did Kyle stuttered something about
charity work.” Liz sniggered. As if.
Alec snorted. “Yeah, right.” After a moment he added, “You know, I’d offer you a ride home, but-”
“A motorcycle isn’t exactly the ideal means of transportation in this kind of weather,” Liz finished for him.
“Exactly. But you know, you could just stay here for the night.”
Liz gave him a surprised look, but before she could say anything he reassured her that she could have his bed and that he would of course be sleeping on the couch. Liz started to protest, but Alec cut her off. He would be the one sleeping on the couch and there would be no further discussion about that. Then he went out into the kitchen to see if he could hunt down something to eat. Fifteen minutes later he came back with a pizza that had without a doubt come out of the freezer and some pineapples.
Realizing how hungry she was Liz dug in, piling up pineapple pieces onto her pizza. Alec watched her eat with a look of obvious disgust on his face. “What?” Liz asked after polishing off half the pizza. “Never heard of Pizza Hawaii before?”
“Heard of, yes. Tried, no.”
“Well, you should try it. It’s really good. I love the mixture of sweet and spicy.”
Alec mock-shuddered and Liz hit him on the head with a pillow. Alec looked at her for a second before pouncing and attacking her ribs.
“Stop!” Liz shrieked, laughing and squirming around underneath him, trying to get away from him.
Alec stopped. “What do I get for it?”
Liz thought about it for a second. “Some pineapple?” she suggested before reaching over to the bowl, fishing out one of the pieces and feeding it to Alec. She then lifted up her head to slowly lick off the remaining juice from his lips.
Alec’s eyes darkened. He too picked up a piece and brought it to Liz’s lips, pulling away a bit when she opened up her mouth to take it in, before feeding it to her. He bent down to kiss away the juice from her lips but quickly forgot about his ulterior motive as he got lost in the moment. Tongues dueled and teeth clashed as Alec lowered himself onto Liz. Her legs had wrapped themselves around Alec’s hips before she even realized what she was doing.
Fifteen minutes later Alec tore his lips away from hers. As much as he was enjoying this, he knew that it was better to stop while he still could.
“It’s late,” he said, panting slightly. “I should let you sleep.”
He started to get up, intending to go and sleep on the couch as he had promised, but Liz stopped him. “Wait. Don’t go. I mean, this bed is big enough for two. There’s no reason why we can’t both sleep here.”
Alec studied her for a long moment. “You sure?” he finally asked.
Liz nodded, and so Alec quickly took off his pants so that he was left wearing boxers and a t-shirt and lowered himself back onto the bed, slipping under the covers and holding them open for Liz to join him. She did, cuddling up beside him, her head resting on his chest.
“Goodnight,” Alec whispered, leaning down to give her a quick peck on the lips.
“Goodnight,” Liz replied, already drifting of to sleep. It had been one hell of an exhausting afternoon.
tbc
It's a bit short, but the next one will make up for that, it's really long.
