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Title: Trick or Treat? Chapter 13.
Characters: Eden/Gabriel.
Rating: NC-17.
Word count: 2,118.
Disclaimer: Do not own.
Summery: They make a deal of convenience together.
Note: Very, very AU. Eden wakes to a visitor.
Overall WC: 28,814.
Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Pink sunlight shines dappled through the lace curtain as Eden opens her eyes to the sound of laughter.
She raised herself up on her hand, the other pulling the sheet over breasts and looked beyond the bed. She couldn’t see anyone. Gabriel was still fast asleep beside her. He had awakened her numerous times during the night and was rightly exhausted. She was quenched and dully burning between her legs. There, again the laugh; high pitched and joyful. There was a child in the room.
Eden held her breath and drew the cover back to get out. She picked up her dressing gown from where it was folded on a chair and stepped around the bed, her stomach tight with a nameless anxiety, her dreams vivid in her minds eye.
There was a little boy, she thought, playing with her wedding veil. He had placed it over his head and was concealed under it as if it were his tent. When he noticed that she was standing before him he looked up and her silently before breaking out into a fit of giggles. Eden felt herself grinning and she crouched down next to him.
“Hello, what’s you name?” He didn’t answer, only pulled the veil tighter against the top of his head. She tugged on her veil and he tugged back. “Where is your mommy?” That got his attention. His eyes widened and he looked at her.
“Mama?”
Eden felt herself flush at the sound and picked him up in her arms, the veil floating to the ground. His weight was comfortably plump in her arms as she bounced him. That brought back his smile. She looks back at Gabriel and sees he’s still dead to the world.
“Night-night.” The little voice said to his sleeping figure over her shoulder as she stepped out of the room. She switched him to rest on her hip and walked carefully down the stairs as his chubby hand pulled on her hair. She winced slightly, pulling away.
“Where is your mommy hmmm?” He stared at her with clear eyes. “You don’t know of course.”
“Zachariah?” The voice was panicked but quite, coming from what she thought was the back of the house. Eden headed towards it and was met with a curvy woman in her thirties, attired as a maid. Eden thought she remembered her from last night as they arrived. She slumped slightly with relief at the sight of her son who stretched out his arms to her. She took him with an apologetic expression. “Oh I’m so sorry mistress. He likes to play hide and seek and I lost track him.” She looked down at him and tweaked his nose affectionately. “Didn’t I Zach? Little tyke!” He just giggled at her.
Eden smiled at the pair while feeling a pang that he wasn’t in her arms anymore. “It’s perfectly fine. He’s a lovely little boy.” She grinned at him, taking his small hand.
The mother’s name was Audrey and she and her husband lived on the property, looking after the house when the Petrelli’s were away and when they stayed. Eden joined her in the kitchen were she made her some breakfast, whisking her up some eggs. Zach sat at her feet away from the stove, sitting contently.
“He’s so well behaved.”
“Ah he’s only being quite because you are here.” She looked down at him with a small smirk. Eden bent down to him.
“May I?”
“Of course mistress.”
Eden picked him up and settled him on her lap where he settled quickly. She placed a hand against his chest to keep him against her, rocking slightly. The motion soon sent him to sleep. Eden smiled down at him dreamily. She had never got a baby to sleep before.
“Eden?”
She looked up to see Gabriel coming through the door with a bemused frown, dressed in his shirt and trousers. His eyes flicked to Audrey, who curtsied to him, then back to Eden. She put a finger to lips and tilted her head down to the baby in her arms. The bemusement left him drip by drip.
“I’ll serve you up some eggs sir?”
Gabriel was so intently watching Eden as he sat down that he didn’t hear the blonde woman. He looked up at her with his brows raised. “Oh, sorry. Yes please.” Eyes back down to the boy. He had light brown hair and he could hear him softly snoring. Eden was trying not to giggle at the noise. Audrey set out a newspaper for him to read and he thanked her, leafing through it absentmindedly. Eden was humming under her breath a lullaby, which she mixed with nonsensical cooing words as the boy slept on peacefully. Eden looked up and catches Gabriel’s eye, giving him a beaming smile, face glowing. He returns it in a weak imitation. She never notices.
The land around them is beautiful but unapproachable, the freezing weather making it difficult to take walks in. The stay there for four days and when they are not sleeping, eating or otherwise occupied they make love. Or, more appropriately, fucking. He’s inside her, pounding her against the mattress and she comes quickly under his constant thrusts. But she can see he’s not really into it, his eyes too troubled with some inner conflict that had nothing to do with reaching his release. He had stopped worrying about satisfying her as he could make her orgasm with the simplest touch. When he comes he’s taken away from his thoughts as he whimpers and growls against her neck, sated. As he pulls out the frown is back in place.
“What’s wrong Gabriel!?” She asks. Voice half weary, half angry.
He looks up at the canopy of the bed as he speaks. “Do you use sponges?” He looks red in the low lamp light. Eden feels her face go numb. Spermicidal sponges.
“No. Why should I?” He doesn’t answer, only clenches his jaw. She can’t stand it when he ignores her. She rolls on to her side, pressing herself to him.
“I think it’s a bit early to be worrying about precautions Gabriel.”
His eye twitches slightly. “It’s exactly the right time precisely because of that.” He says softly but firmly.
Eden stares down at him, her throat feeling tight and her stomach writhing. She makes a noise of contempt and turns her back to him, curling up on her side as she pulls down her night dress from where it had been shoved up to above her breasts. Her eyes are burning as she stares at the wall and draws in a wet breath. She had started feeling overemotional since she had risen, her monthlies days away, and was trying to keep herself from giving into her disappointment. She felt the bed dip behind her as he moved over to her, hand clasping her shoulder gently. She feels his lips on the back of her neck and he gives her feather light kisses.
“I’m sorry Edie, I didn’t mean to make you upset. I just don’t think it would be the right time yet. We can just about fit two us into my home, doubt about anyone else.” He trails his hand down the arm of her night dress and tugs on the end of it. She feels herself smile despite herself. “ Please don’t be angry at me.” She turns over when he pulls her hip back and bends down to kiss her mouth. He pulls the night dress away from her body and slips into her as she pulls him down, making love to her gently. She rocks soothingly with his movements till she experiences a slow building, deep orgasm that rolls through her body like molten waves.
The next morning they say goodbye to the Parkman family, Audrey’s cheerful husband Matthew coming to wave them off. Little Zach cries fretfully and nothing anyone does can calm him down.
“It seems I’ve lost my magic touch.” Says Eden as he wriggles out of her arms. They had just finished their breakfast and were almost ready to depart.
“I told you miss, once he’s got you under his thumb he’s a little terror.” Eden could start to see why Gabriel was off put as the boy started screaming piercingly. “Zachariah! You be quiet you hear?!” Audrey exhaled a tired sigh and looked at her in desperation. He had stopped yelling suddenly, even his over tired grumblings had halted. Both women turned to look down into his cot. Gabriel was bent down on his hunches and was gently stroking his index finger down the little boy’s nose repeatedly. Everyone watched transfixed as Gabriel stood up and turned to them with an uncertain smile. They tiptoed out.
“How did you do that Gabe?” Eden asked in amazement.
He shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know. I just thought it would calm him down.” He looked away from their impressed faces embarrassed but his own face was pleasantly blushing at their praising smiles. Eden took his hand as they walked to their carriage and got in, waving goodbye and wishing luck to the couple standing by the summer house.
Their arrival back home was made with no commotion apart from Virginia assailing them with hugs and warnings to carry Eden over the threshold, it was bad luck not to. He picks her up easily and carries her inside as she laughs in his arms. Virginia had something laid out for them to eat which they devoured ravenously. Eden tells her about the Parkman’s and their child. When she gets to Gabriel settling the baby to sleep Virginia brakes out in cooing noises and Eden almost joins her. He stares at them both with silent mortified hostility. Eden could have laughed at his expression but all it did was make her sad.
His mother excitedly shows them a newspaper article, an advertisement for a watch factory not far from where they were. They were interviewing candidates to replace a deceased business partner. His mother shoved it under his nose.
“See Gabriel? They’re one of the biggest manufactures of watches in the north. You would be perfect!”
He stared down at the clipping with a frown. “I know who they are Ma. But I don’t think that would be right for me.” He pushed the paper away for him. Eden picked it up and read it quickly.
“Why not Gabriel? It seems that they are looking for someone with expertise and money. You have both.” Eden said seriously. “Or do you want to work in your small shop for the rest of your life, with us living above it?” He stared at her hard but she could see he was considering her words. “I’ve seen your work, and I think you have explained enough to me about it for me to see you’re fabulous. Write to them Gabe.”
“Yes Gabriel, do it.” They both smiled at him encouragingly. He stared at them both warily, feeling that they were ganging up on him. He looked at Eden.
“You’re beginning to sound like my mother.”
“Because I’m telling you the truth?” She leaned over the table. “Sometimes people need a little bit of prodding Gabriel.”
“Which you would know all about.” He shot back. Her mouth thinned with displeasure. “They would never take me up. They’re a huge business and I don’t have the knowledge to work in an environment like that.” His voice had a whine like edge to it.
“Then why did you get the loan in the first place if not to expand? You’ve already started with the paper advertisements.” He just shrugged his shoulders and stayed silent, avoiding her eye. Then it hit her. It wasn’t the money or making a better business or even the watches that mattered to him, only what attention they brought him. She couldn’t help feeling disappointed. He was a brilliant horologist. “Fine, if that is the way you want it.” She said in dismissive tone as she got up to help Virginia do the dishes. He sits there seething.
When they share their bed for the first time he’s rough, taking her hard. She’s not sure if he’s still angry or not for his face is totally committed to maintaining his fast but regulated pace. When she comes he stops before resuming, thrusts even more bone rattling that she can feel herself close to another climax. She watches his eyes squeeze and he takes in a huge breath as he comes. But not inside her, pulling out at the last moment to ejaculate over her hip and side. He’d been rigidly controlling himself from the moment he started touching her.
He left her barren.
Characters: Eden/Gabriel.
Rating: NC-17.
Word count: 2,118.
Disclaimer: Do not own.
Summery: They make a deal of convenience together.
Note: Very, very AU. Eden wakes to a visitor.
Overall WC: 28,814.
Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Pink sunlight shines dappled through the lace curtain as Eden opens her eyes to the sound of laughter.
She raised herself up on her hand, the other pulling the sheet over breasts and looked beyond the bed. She couldn’t see anyone. Gabriel was still fast asleep beside her. He had awakened her numerous times during the night and was rightly exhausted. She was quenched and dully burning between her legs. There, again the laugh; high pitched and joyful. There was a child in the room.
Eden held her breath and drew the cover back to get out. She picked up her dressing gown from where it was folded on a chair and stepped around the bed, her stomach tight with a nameless anxiety, her dreams vivid in her minds eye.
There was a little boy, she thought, playing with her wedding veil. He had placed it over his head and was concealed under it as if it were his tent. When he noticed that she was standing before him he looked up and her silently before breaking out into a fit of giggles. Eden felt herself grinning and she crouched down next to him.
“Hello, what’s you name?” He didn’t answer, only pulled the veil tighter against the top of his head. She tugged on her veil and he tugged back. “Where is your mommy?” That got his attention. His eyes widened and he looked at her.
“Mama?”
Eden felt herself flush at the sound and picked him up in her arms, the veil floating to the ground. His weight was comfortably plump in her arms as she bounced him. That brought back his smile. She looks back at Gabriel and sees he’s still dead to the world.
“Night-night.” The little voice said to his sleeping figure over her shoulder as she stepped out of the room. She switched him to rest on her hip and walked carefully down the stairs as his chubby hand pulled on her hair. She winced slightly, pulling away.
“Where is your mommy hmmm?” He stared at her with clear eyes. “You don’t know of course.”
“Zachariah?” The voice was panicked but quite, coming from what she thought was the back of the house. Eden headed towards it and was met with a curvy woman in her thirties, attired as a maid. Eden thought she remembered her from last night as they arrived. She slumped slightly with relief at the sight of her son who stretched out his arms to her. She took him with an apologetic expression. “Oh I’m so sorry mistress. He likes to play hide and seek and I lost track him.” She looked down at him and tweaked his nose affectionately. “Didn’t I Zach? Little tyke!” He just giggled at her.
Eden smiled at the pair while feeling a pang that he wasn’t in her arms anymore. “It’s perfectly fine. He’s a lovely little boy.” She grinned at him, taking his small hand.
The mother’s name was Audrey and she and her husband lived on the property, looking after the house when the Petrelli’s were away and when they stayed. Eden joined her in the kitchen were she made her some breakfast, whisking her up some eggs. Zach sat at her feet away from the stove, sitting contently.
“He’s so well behaved.”
“Ah he’s only being quite because you are here.” She looked down at him with a small smirk. Eden bent down to him.
“May I?”
“Of course mistress.”
Eden picked him up and settled him on her lap where he settled quickly. She placed a hand against his chest to keep him against her, rocking slightly. The motion soon sent him to sleep. Eden smiled down at him dreamily. She had never got a baby to sleep before.
“Eden?”
She looked up to see Gabriel coming through the door with a bemused frown, dressed in his shirt and trousers. His eyes flicked to Audrey, who curtsied to him, then back to Eden. She put a finger to lips and tilted her head down to the baby in her arms. The bemusement left him drip by drip.
“I’ll serve you up some eggs sir?”
Gabriel was so intently watching Eden as he sat down that he didn’t hear the blonde woman. He looked up at her with his brows raised. “Oh, sorry. Yes please.” Eyes back down to the boy. He had light brown hair and he could hear him softly snoring. Eden was trying not to giggle at the noise. Audrey set out a newspaper for him to read and he thanked her, leafing through it absentmindedly. Eden was humming under her breath a lullaby, which she mixed with nonsensical cooing words as the boy slept on peacefully. Eden looked up and catches Gabriel’s eye, giving him a beaming smile, face glowing. He returns it in a weak imitation. She never notices.
The land around them is beautiful but unapproachable, the freezing weather making it difficult to take walks in. The stay there for four days and when they are not sleeping, eating or otherwise occupied they make love. Or, more appropriately, fucking. He’s inside her, pounding her against the mattress and she comes quickly under his constant thrusts. But she can see he’s not really into it, his eyes too troubled with some inner conflict that had nothing to do with reaching his release. He had stopped worrying about satisfying her as he could make her orgasm with the simplest touch. When he comes he’s taken away from his thoughts as he whimpers and growls against her neck, sated. As he pulls out the frown is back in place.
“What’s wrong Gabriel!?” She asks. Voice half weary, half angry.
He looks up at the canopy of the bed as he speaks. “Do you use sponges?” He looks red in the low lamp light. Eden feels her face go numb. Spermicidal sponges.
“No. Why should I?” He doesn’t answer, only clenches his jaw. She can’t stand it when he ignores her. She rolls on to her side, pressing herself to him.
“I think it’s a bit early to be worrying about precautions Gabriel.”
His eye twitches slightly. “It’s exactly the right time precisely because of that.” He says softly but firmly.
Eden stares down at him, her throat feeling tight and her stomach writhing. She makes a noise of contempt and turns her back to him, curling up on her side as she pulls down her night dress from where it had been shoved up to above her breasts. Her eyes are burning as she stares at the wall and draws in a wet breath. She had started feeling overemotional since she had risen, her monthlies days away, and was trying to keep herself from giving into her disappointment. She felt the bed dip behind her as he moved over to her, hand clasping her shoulder gently. She feels his lips on the back of her neck and he gives her feather light kisses.
“I’m sorry Edie, I didn’t mean to make you upset. I just don’t think it would be the right time yet. We can just about fit two us into my home, doubt about anyone else.” He trails his hand down the arm of her night dress and tugs on the end of it. She feels herself smile despite herself. “ Please don’t be angry at me.” She turns over when he pulls her hip back and bends down to kiss her mouth. He pulls the night dress away from her body and slips into her as she pulls him down, making love to her gently. She rocks soothingly with his movements till she experiences a slow building, deep orgasm that rolls through her body like molten waves.
The next morning they say goodbye to the Parkman family, Audrey’s cheerful husband Matthew coming to wave them off. Little Zach cries fretfully and nothing anyone does can calm him down.
“It seems I’ve lost my magic touch.” Says Eden as he wriggles out of her arms. They had just finished their breakfast and were almost ready to depart.
“I told you miss, once he’s got you under his thumb he’s a little terror.” Eden could start to see why Gabriel was off put as the boy started screaming piercingly. “Zachariah! You be quiet you hear?!” Audrey exhaled a tired sigh and looked at her in desperation. He had stopped yelling suddenly, even his over tired grumblings had halted. Both women turned to look down into his cot. Gabriel was bent down on his hunches and was gently stroking his index finger down the little boy’s nose repeatedly. Everyone watched transfixed as Gabriel stood up and turned to them with an uncertain smile. They tiptoed out.
“How did you do that Gabe?” Eden asked in amazement.
He shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know. I just thought it would calm him down.” He looked away from their impressed faces embarrassed but his own face was pleasantly blushing at their praising smiles. Eden took his hand as they walked to their carriage and got in, waving goodbye and wishing luck to the couple standing by the summer house.
Their arrival back home was made with no commotion apart from Virginia assailing them with hugs and warnings to carry Eden over the threshold, it was bad luck not to. He picks her up easily and carries her inside as she laughs in his arms. Virginia had something laid out for them to eat which they devoured ravenously. Eden tells her about the Parkman’s and their child. When she gets to Gabriel settling the baby to sleep Virginia brakes out in cooing noises and Eden almost joins her. He stares at them both with silent mortified hostility. Eden could have laughed at his expression but all it did was make her sad.
His mother excitedly shows them a newspaper article, an advertisement for a watch factory not far from where they were. They were interviewing candidates to replace a deceased business partner. His mother shoved it under his nose.
“See Gabriel? They’re one of the biggest manufactures of watches in the north. You would be perfect!”
He stared down at the clipping with a frown. “I know who they are Ma. But I don’t think that would be right for me.” He pushed the paper away for him. Eden picked it up and read it quickly.
“Why not Gabriel? It seems that they are looking for someone with expertise and money. You have both.” Eden said seriously. “Or do you want to work in your small shop for the rest of your life, with us living above it?” He stared at her hard but she could see he was considering her words. “I’ve seen your work, and I think you have explained enough to me about it for me to see you’re fabulous. Write to them Gabe.”
“Yes Gabriel, do it.” They both smiled at him encouragingly. He stared at them both warily, feeling that they were ganging up on him. He looked at Eden.
“You’re beginning to sound like my mother.”
“Because I’m telling you the truth?” She leaned over the table. “Sometimes people need a little bit of prodding Gabriel.”
“Which you would know all about.” He shot back. Her mouth thinned with displeasure. “They would never take me up. They’re a huge business and I don’t have the knowledge to work in an environment like that.” His voice had a whine like edge to it.
“Then why did you get the loan in the first place if not to expand? You’ve already started with the paper advertisements.” He just shrugged his shoulders and stayed silent, avoiding her eye. Then it hit her. It wasn’t the money or making a better business or even the watches that mattered to him, only what attention they brought him. She couldn’t help feeling disappointed. He was a brilliant horologist. “Fine, if that is the way you want it.” She said in dismissive tone as she got up to help Virginia do the dishes. He sits there seething.
When they share their bed for the first time he’s rough, taking her hard. She’s not sure if he’s still angry or not for his face is totally committed to maintaining his fast but regulated pace. When she comes he stops before resuming, thrusts even more bone rattling that she can feel herself close to another climax. She watches his eyes squeeze and he takes in a huge breath as he comes. But not inside her, pulling out at the last moment to ejaculate over her hip and side. He’d been rigidly controlling himself from the moment he started touching her.
He left her barren.