WHO: Greed & Zoe w/Jonah WHEN: January 6th [Backdated] WHERE: Zoe and Jonah's apartment WHAT: What do you want to be when you grow up? WARNING: Tubby time
The winter weather had set in with a vengeance with the blizzard. Most were advised to stay indoors and not go out unless they had to. Greed needed some Chinese food. He most definitely had to. He got dressed, put on a furry coat and was out in style. Greed spent a lot of money on fancy cars but they weren't built for blizzards. He hadn't dealt with frost and cold like this in a long time, he'd forgotten how it didn't just move according to his wishes. The impact of the snow hadn't hit him yet as he just attempted to go on about his business. As he turned a corner down a street where the crest of the roadbed had built up with snow. As he tried to park the car he got caught up in a snowdrift and couldn't move.
Greed tried pushing the car, digging in the snow, but that car would not budge. Well, that was just entirely inconvenient. He rushed back into the car to keep warm. He was too far from home to walk back, so he called the girlfriend. Maybe she could throw Jonah down into the snow like a plow to dig him out. Instead all he managed was a wine that said "I'm stuck." _____________________________________ Zoe frowned at the distressed whiny noises coming from her boyfriend on the other end of the line, "Stuck how?" never dreaming he'd go outside in this mess. Though he had walked through a hurricane once. _____________________________________ "In the snow. I'm stuck." He whined again as if that fixed the problem. He didn't want to fir out in the snow. Frostbite looked ghastly. _____________________________________ She sighed, "Chance... why are you out in the snow? Aside from the fact you're a crazy person..." she went to grab a sweater, and start to bundle up. _____________________________________ "I wanted Chinese food. I was hungry." She may have taught him how to cook but he'd run out of food. He looked his greasy, fatty foods. _____________________________________ She craddled the phone between her shoulder and ear, "Do you not go grocery shopping unless I go with you?" she pulled out a snow proof jacket and said, "I'm kinda offended you weren't hungry for me and that's why you were out in this weather.." she was just teasing. _____________________________________ "Well I will be because it looks like it's closed now." Couldn't he just have some Chinese was that too much to ask for? Why we're people still afraid of bad weather? He looked outside his window and grumbled. "What are you doing?" Her voice was a little muffled. _____________________________________ "Offended that you wanted Chinese more than me." she pulled a red sweater over her head and put on her nice trench coat. She grabbed a yellow knit beanie and put it on her head, "I am bundling up to come and help you get your yellow monster out of the snow. Tell me where you are exactly." _____________________________________ "If I can't get it out how are you? You got a giant stuffed up your sleeve? I can walk. I don't want you to freeze to death." Hadn't they been over this before? Zoe popsicle was not how he wanted to keep her. _____________________________________ "I might." she was already grabbing her boots and stopped, smiling at his concern, "How about I start walking towards you and you start walking towards me and we can meet in the middle and keep each other warm on the way home?" she wasn't entirely sure he wouldnt slip and hit his head on the ice. _____________________________________ "Where's the middle?" As Zoe got ready Jonah had heard the rustling wondering where she could be going in this weather.
"Zoe?" Jonah asked concerned for her safety. _____________________________________ She smiled, "The middle is gonna be whenever we meet. Just walk towards my place the normal route and I'll walk towards the chinese place the same way." she looked over at Jonah and said, "Just going out to get Chance." and she adjusted the yellow knit cap on her head. _____________________________________ "By yourself in this weather?" He already started to put on his coat and scarf, "I'm going with you." Maybe she would find Greed, but if something happened to her before that, he'd never forgive himself.
Greed groaned into phone. "You aren't bringing the tower? I want serious about the giant..." _____________________________________ "Jonah, I'll be fine..." she sighed and smiled, "Alright.." she spoke into the phone, "We'll be easier to spot. See you soon." _____________________________________ Greed's answer was cut short when she hung up. Begrudgingly he got our of his car and started to walk. No car. No Chinese. He was hungry and grumpy.
The walk after a few steps were heavy. This want like the hurricane. The wind was cold, it stiffened his bones. The hardened snow was also not made for his fancy boots.Thus was going to be a balancing act.
Jonah made sure to take hold of Zoe's arm as they started their journey so she wouldn't fall. Greed was a hindrance to this girl. "I assume he'll be staying over tonight." _____________________________________ Zoe was going to object but it was kinda difficult to trudge through and the body heat was nice. Plus she was a known klutz. "Well.. yeah. You're not gonna send him back out in this, are you?" she gestured to the frozen land. "And you know, if you ever want to have a girl stay over, that's totally cool." _____________________________________ As her footing slipped a little he held on to her arm to keep her steady. "I thank you but I do not foresee my having company outside of Samson." The wind howled, swallowing them up and Jonah stopped them long enough to put his scarf around her. _____________________________________ She'd left the scarf Greed got her in the apartment in her rush to leave. "Jonah.. you'll be cold." she tried to tell him and then asked, "No? What about that girl you were crushing on you told me about?" _____________________________________ "I'll be fine," he assured her, taking her arm again as they battled the snow to find this incompetent Sin. He laughed lightly, but it pained him to talk about her and she had no idea. "Oh, I don't think she will ever see me as anything more than a friend." It seemed as if his heart were going to crumble. The more he was around her the more he aided her and Greed.
It took forever before they came across a furry Yeti-like snowman walking. The coat was gaughty. It had to be Greed. _____________________________________ She squeezed his arm, "Have you even asked her out? Oh wait, she has a boyfriend.. hmm." she searched the area for Greed, "Actually, you know who could give you some really great advice on this? Chance. He pursued me until I finally gave in. Women like that, a guy who is persistent. But not a pest. You have to show her you can offer more than the other guy." she smiled big when she saw a fancy shoed bear walking down the street, "Oh my god... it's a real yeti!" she said with a grin. _____________________________________ "No, no I think I'm ok." He waved his hand out. Of all people, he didn't need to the advice from Greed. "I'll figure something out." She was already in over her head with Greed, he wasn't sure there was any prying her away. He didn't need Greed to run it in his face more than he did already.
"What is he wearing?" Jonah just shook his head. Greed's scarf was wrapped all the way up his nose. The only thing that have him away was that tuft of hair and his gait under that woolly mammoth costume. _____________________________________ She laughed, "I think he's in disguise." Her nose was showing and it was pink. She tried to let go of Jonah's arm so she could hug her furry boyfriend but the second she tried to untangle herself from the virtue, she slipped on the ice. "Whoa!" _____________________________________ Jonah went down with Zoe. It was like watching billing pins tumble except no ball hit for impact. Greed as he tried to run just added another layer to this pile of warm bodies. It was the most awkward threesome he'd ever been in. _____________________________________ Zoe groaned when the Greed furball landed on her and she looked up at him, "Hey Frosty..." and kissed his nose before shivering since she was on the ice and it was freeeezing. _____________________________________ He should have been a human furnace but he was cold under all the fur. He wiggled to get up and landed on Jonah, then the Yeti couldn't get up fast enough. He touched a Virtue. He may not have been as grief out had Temp been his normal girl form. _____________________________________ Zoe tried to get up but was having a hard time, "If you boys are done groping each other... could one of you help me up please?" she tugged on teh knit hat to keep it from slipping off and struggled to sit up, her butt very very cold. She forsaw a lot of cuddling in her future. _____________________________________ Once Greed rolled off the stinky Virtue he got stuck in this costume. Jonah got to his feet and helped Zoe up while Greed shot daggers from his eyes. If he wasn't dressed as a polar bear he might have been able to beat Jonah to the punch. _____________________________________ Zoe gripped Jonah's hands in her gloved ones as he helped her up, "Thank you..." she slid again and smacked right into the Virtue's chest, grabbing on again. "Man.. I wish I could fly back to the apartment." her feet were not cooperating right now. _____________________________________ "Got it?" He wasn't letting go until she stopped wobbling. Jonah finally got her grounded offering his hand to Greed. It was quickly slapped away. "No!" Greed huffed. The Virtue was moving in on his girlfriend. "Stop it!" He pointed up. "She's mine." _____________________________________ She nodded when Jonah asked and let out a breath as she stood up straight when he let her go. She gave Greed a look when he started yelling about how she was his. "What is the matter with you, you loon..." she reached out her hands to him to help him up and prayed they wouldn't both fall. "Jonah is crushing on some girl. I was just telling him that maybe you could give him some advice to help him get her since she seems to have a total dickhead boyfriend." _____________________________________ "That's because it's you!" Why didn't Zoe get it? He managed to get on his feet, pulling her towards him so he could open up his coat and swallow her into it. He was not letting Jonah get his hands on her again. _____________________________________ Zoe burst out laughing cause it was such a ridiculous idea. Then again, she still didn't seem to notice when men checked her out and it took her many weeks before she even accepted Greed had an interest in her. She gave him a squeeze and shivered, "Just because you're crazy doesn't make it me." she gave Jonah a look like Greed was just being jealous without reason, right? _____________________________________ Jonah held up his hands. He wasn't getting into this now. "It's cold, it's got everyone thinking a little crazy. Let's go back to the apartment." Greed bundled her tighter with a hiss as if he were exorcising a demon out of Jonah. _____________________________________ Zoe gave Greed a look, "See. Told you. If you were that worried tho, you'd help him get this girl so then he'd have someone too." she squeaked when he had her so tight against him and chuckled, "Leave me a little room to walk, you can squeeze me when we get inside." she had warm squishy parts. _____________________________________ "No, I'm not buying into that." He was a penguin waddling them in small steps. "I think Jonah can find someone new to fantasize about." _____________________________________ She kept laughing a little because he'd done this before and it always amused her and she found him adorable. She wrinkled her nose, "Chance, I live with him so that's gross. Jonah does not fantasize about me." how creepy would that be... _____________________________________ Jonah didn't respond just started to make his way back. "We really shouldn't be out here much longer. The temperature will drop soon." Then they would be in some real trouble.
The wind broke out with a shrill scream through the buildings, so Greed bundled her as tight as he could as if she were velcroed to him. At least they didn't have much further to go. _____________________________________ Zoe shivered and was thankful for Greed being there. "Promise me next time you will just stay inside when it's bad weather outside..." once they were inside the apartment, Zoe stamped her feet and squealed with cold as she took off her coat and hat, "Brrrrrrrrrr!" was the only thing she could say as she shut the door once both boys were in. _____________________________________ It was their own strange little pack as they all came inside the apartment. One by one stripping of their coats to trade in for the warmth of being indoors. Samson the little boxer came bounding out from under the couch to greet them all happily with tiny barks and a wagging tongue.
Greed peeled off his Yeti coat looking dapper in his sweater, fancy three hundred dollar jeans and shoes that were never built for trucking in the snow. They were leather and most likely ruined. _____________________________________ Zoe tugged on the flippy neck part of his sweater, "This is really nice..." she put her arms around his middle and cuddled him, she peeked to see where Jonah was and since he was busy with Samson, Zoe whispered to Greed with a mischievous smile, "Wanna take it off and have a hot bath with me..?" she knew baths weren't his thing but she liked them and she wouldn't mind having him in the tub with her. It really wasn't meant for two but that was half the fun. _____________________________________ "Scandalous," he showed her his bright teeth to tease her. He wasn't used to her just jumping right in to the getting naked the moment he came in the door. He could really get used to Jonah being around if it meant he was able to get naked with his girlfriend. It was a shame they couldn't make him travel sized, like a pocket pixie he could keep in a glass jar. _____________________________________ She grinned at him and took his hand as she led them away from the living room, looking at Jonah only to say, "Umm.. we're gonna go get warmed up." before she started walking backwards while keeping her eyes on Greed, then pulling him into the bathroom with her. She still couldn't quite believe that he was all hers. _____________________________________ Jonah rolled his eyes and tried to keep his attention on the puppy. He was stuck here, it wasn't like he could wish the snow away so he could have some fresh air when those two got to be a bit too much. Samson played and barked so Jonah used his time to feed it and maybe watch a movie. A long one like Lord of the Rings.
Greed was easily roped into the bathroom, doors locked behind him. "What brought this on? It was the coat wasn't it..." he nodded as if that tacky thing was anything beyond expensive and bizarre. _____________________________________ She laughed, "Yes.. all that fur, that really did it for me." that was definietely one of the more hideous things he owned. She undid his belt and said, "What? Does a girlfriend need a reason to want to have a hot bath with her boyfriend? Take off your shoes." he never remembered, her boots were already outside by the door. _____________________________________ He didn't waste any time kicking off his boots and socks. She was just getting right down to business, he was kind of impressed. "No, I'm just drawing a blank as to what lit your fire all of a sudden other than the windchill." His nose and the tips of his ears were still red even. He hadn't had a chance to warm up, but her eagerness was definitely starting to do the job. _____________________________________ She let the water run in the tub so it could fill and stood there in her jeans and red sweater (with a long sleeved shirt and her bra on under that) "Well it's cold and I wanna warm up in a bath. Why shouldn't I want you there?" She turned back to him and pulled his sweater up over his head, "You act like this is something so shocking." she said with a small laugh. _____________________________________ "You're undressing me in under five minutes," he said with a muffled tone under the sweater before it was tossed aside. "You haven't even kissed me yet and I'm half naked." Yes he was shocked. It was scandalous for her. _____________________________________ "I'm sorry..." she put her hands on his sides and raised herself up on her tip toes so she could kiss him on the lips. Her hands traveled up and went around his neck, "I'm just... happy. That you're here." she looked at the filling tub and said, "One year ago today, I was sitting in that tub because it was the only thing that made me feel a little better cause I could not stop crying. And I thought that I'd be doing that this year too...." but she wasn't. She hugged him tightly, not taking for granted that he was here. _____________________________________ "Can I have more than that?" That kiss was hardly satisfactory for him. "So...." he pointed to the warm water. "This is because I barfed on my sister?" He'd bought them some time because he hadn't been ready to give it up either and just did what he could do sometimes to get out of a situation---bolt. _____________________________________ She gave him another kiss but nothing sizzling yet. She was still wearing her clothes cause she was focused on him. She removed her arms from around him and unbuttoned and unzipped his jeans, "Sort of... this is because you made me first." technically, Greed always picked himself first, he wanted Zoe so he chose Zoe cause it was what he wanted... but he had the choice. He'd had her for awhile, he could have had the rough insane sex with his sister, some variety, he had a free pass.. but he wanted to be home. And it made her want to burst with happiness. _____________________________________ "I just didn't want to be there. I wanted to be here..." with her. Tangled up in kisses and limbs and whatever it was she did that gave him all those fuzzies inside. He could tell by her kisses she wasn't gunning for sex, not yet anyways, and that for some reason was making his insides jump around in summersaults. She had him nearly undressed now as he shook off that last leg of jeans. _____________________________________ Her eyes were shining as she touched his cheek and dipped his head so his brow rested on hers as she said in a soft but intense voice, "I know.." her smile beaming as she gave him a deep kiss just filled with appreciation and love. Her tone showed she was shocked and pleased he wanted to be here. That he wanted her. Not only that, that he wanted her more than his sister. Something she didn't think was possible. His sister was bottled desire, Zoe could not compete with her and somehow... she won. _____________________________________ Zoe was strikingly different, in a way that Greed found sexy and irresistible. It was all the little things she did that made his inside flip. The way she made him jump off a cliff and fly during sex, and how he was growing with her. There was still so much he didn't know but was always excited to find out.
Lust drug him down below her, Zoe kept him at the same level. She wasn't above him, she was the same.
"Why are you still dressed?" Maybe then he wouldn't feel so fat. The more she took off the more he worried he looked like a blimp, like he was turning into his brother. Lust had made him feel vile and he hated it. _____________________________________ She grinned, "I was too busy admiring you to remember to take my clothes off.." she peeled off her sweater and looked him over making a teasing show out of oogling him. She looked at him curiously through the steam since he seemed to be hiding something. _____________________________________ "I deserve the same," he chewed in his bottom lip. He wanted to admire what she had too, it was all a handful, just the way he liked her. He started to unbutton her shirt, all her curves peeking out from each button as he pulled it away. _____________________________________ She let him undo her shirt and while she'd normally blush, she kept watching him curiously. When he got to where she was showing more skin than clothes, she put her hands on his stomach and looked at him, "Hey... what's the matter?" she inquired softly. He was adrift in his mind, she could tell. _____________________________________ His eyes were looking down on her skin, not at her. Even as she touched him it didn't pull him out of that dark reality where Lust's words still preyed upon him. The water started to fill up closer to the edge of the tub making his eyes shift towards it. "You're admiring a blimp." _____________________________________ She raised a brow, totally confused. "Really? Cause I thought I was admiring my boyfriend. You might have met him. He's this incredibly smart, sexy man..." she turned the water off before it'd get to the point it'd spill with them in the tub. _____________________________________ “He doesn't feel so sexy..." except when she said it---like he could believe it. Instead of hanging on to his sister's words. He may have escaped her, but some things clung to him in her own sticky web of deceit. _____________________________________ She was still too shy to fully disrobe infront of him so kept her bra and undies on as she stepped into the water and took his hands, to help him into the tub so they were both standing up in it, "That is crazy talk... why doesn't he feel so sexy?" he was normally so full of himself. _____________________________________ The water sunk into his toes up through and into his blood stream. It felt good, it filled all that cold that he'd accumulated outside. "Because he's getting lazy." He hardly had an ounce of fat that he could pull from his body, but it was enough to mess with his head as much as Lust's remarks. _____________________________________ She raised her brows, "Lazy? You're the hardest working man I've ever met." he put in extra hours at work and really, he was not a slacker in any department... _____________________________________ Greed put in everything when he was handed what he wanted. He slipped down into the tub so that only his broad shoulders stuck out of the water. Greed prided himself in his looks department, but having Lust use Envy against him it had settled in a little, no matter how much he wanted to be with Zoe. He needed his ego petted, at least a little.
"I feel fat."
He was worse than a woman when Lust made her hits. _____________________________________ "Ah.." she said as if it all made sense now and it did, he always seemed to get ripped apart when he saw his sister. He tried to ignore it but her voice always squirmed into his head and beat him up. She settled down in the water still in her under things and enjoyed the warmth the water fed to her bones. "I'm not gonna lie... you aren't a stone statute like the first time I met you.. but you know what, I'm glad. You just didn't seem... real that way. Pretty to look at.. but not to touch. And now...." she moved closer, her hand touching his flat stomach under the water. _____________________________________ "What if I wanna be a stone statue?" He was grumpy but he was listening. Her delicate fingers were just feathers against his skin, even under the water, which wa soaking in and taking out the cold. "Now what?" He wanted to know what she was going to say. Why was she lingering? _____________________________________ She was lingering because she was trying to figure out how to say it in a way that wasn't just petting his ego but making him accept who he was. She picked up the hairpins by the side of the tub and put her hair up so it wouldn't get wet. "If you want to be a stone statue then I fully support that. But.." her hand touched a spot on his side, "I'm gonna miss this spot. This is when we make waffles for breakfast. Annnnd..." she kissed one of his pecs, "This one is from every hour you decided to hold me instead of going to the gym." her hand moved down his flat stomach, "This one is from the penis cakes you make... and this one from us cooking dinner together.. feeding each other food when we watch a movie... " he wasn't fat, he was muscular but he was now.. comfortable, he spent his time with her instead of on his body, he was snuggly. _____________________________________ "But a little exercise wouldn't hurt..." his hands curled against her sides, the curves of hers that he refused to let her get rid of. Usually the tall, stacked and blonde were what he liked. Put weight on one of them and he'd be grossed out. All of Zoe were things he wanted from her and no one else. She had the magic.
"And that's sexy?" Ask her little descriptions. Which sounded nicer than Lust's deceptive words. _____________________________________ Her fingers gently tugged down his boxers under the water even tho she was still in a bra and undies herself, "I gotta tell ya... I've gotten more exercise with you in the past 6 weeks than I have all year.." she grinned a little and kissed his pout, "But if you wanna go to the gym or something.. you know between how many hours you put in for work and stuff..." which meant he'd get to see her even less. She gave him a surprised look, "Very sexy. This spot." she poked his bicep, "Is one of my favorite spots to snuggle into. If you were stone, trust me, I wouldn't be able to snuggle you. I mean.. what's sexy about a statue? You can't touch it.." it wasn't real. _____________________________________ She had managed to undress him in record timing, even with the little delay. And yet he wasn't jumping through hoops to have sex now! "I like being touched," he meant that as innocent as possible. If all people did was look at him and not touch he'd go crazy. Excesses were about do what felt good. No touch would be horrible, so he tried to look at it that way. _____________________________________ She dropped his soggy boxers on the side of the tub, draping them over the edge as she moved closer to him, "I like touching you..." she put her head in the crook of his shoulder, her hand and arm resting across his naked thigh under the water now. "You're much more touchable now than you were when I first met you." _____________________________________ "I wasn't touchable then?" He seemed a little surprised. Like how could no one not want to touch him as a rock. Her squishy bits did kinda fit into his nicely. Like a suit tailor made just for him. _____________________________________ Her bra was soaked and uncomfortable but the water was warm and she liked being snuggled into him so she was pretty relaxed. Plus, she didn't want to risk a freak out like last time. She shook her head, "You were hard... you didn't want to hold me or cuddle, your body didn't fit mine." he'd been weirded out by holding hands at first even. _____________________________________ His wet hands slinked up her back, following the distinctive curve as he leaned in for a gentle kiss. "And now I fit?" He knew she was going to say yes, but he needed to hear it. To hear that he was everything she desired as he was. _____________________________________ She gave him the sweet soft kisses other women never thought to give him and she nodded with a small smile, "Before.. you were perfect on your own.. now you're a perfect fit with me." she loved his body like this, it felt like a body that was in a relationship. _____________________________________ Lust abused him with her deceptive words, and for once he didn't want it. He didn't like this unnecessary feeling of vulnerability that she would twist and use against him. He was stronger on his own. He was stronger like this. _____________________________________ She let the silence be there for awhile. She enjoyed the feel of the water around them as a blanket and getting to be with him in it. He wasn't a fan of baths and pools and the ocean, she knew... but it was sweet that he'd indulge her now and then because he knew she liked it. She kissed his chest and asked, "What's going on in that big brain of yours..?" it was rare he got so quiet, but she was always curious about his contemplations. _____________________________________ The water made all kinds of slushy noises when he moved, running off his arms with an array of sounds. It was only relaxing. The warmth. He closed his eyes, droplets hanging on his thick lashes. "I like being stronger." This is what being King really felt like. _____________________________________ Zoe's eyes were closed as she relaxed into him, she frowned a little, he was super strong... so she asked, "What do you mean?" did he want to work out again at the gym..? _____________________________________ "Whenever I'm around Lust she baits me and I get ridiculously insecure over things on my own I don't ever think about." Like his image, his weight, all the things Lust brought up as if it stuck out like a sore thumb. On his own, like this he felt secure. _____________________________________ "Why..." she rubbed his side softly and didn't want to know but at the same time.. she sighed, "I don't want to talk about her for too long but you always make her sound like your partner.. so why is so... mean to you?" she didn't get it. _____________________________________ "Because it used to be different. I didn't care. I was vicious back." Had he gone too soft? Maybe the squishy physical bits played into what was going on inside. But...he didn't feel as weak like this. _____________________________________ She was uncomfortable by that... "Like you were at the con..?" she asked quietly. Was that how he was with his sister? Is that what they liked...? _____________________________________ "She pushes the bad out of me. The nasty side. The little boy." Here he was always the man (maybe not always) but he was able to think like a man and not pretend to be this shit little kid that the Lust saw. He was her toy, her puppet with strings. But Greed in itself was so much more than that. _____________________________________ She nodded, "I can understand that... a little. Being a kid also means for once you don't have to be tired. It's nice to be taken care of now and then. But the cost seems to be pretty heavy." Zoe hadn't been taken care of since her parents died. She had her grandmother but she had to grow up pretty fast. Greed was the first person who actually tried to take care of, it's why she resisted it as much as she did.. she didn't want to get used to it and then be heartbroken when it was gone. _____________________________________ "I like being on my own." He always fucked up and went crying to Lust, but he was legitimately trying to work through his own messes and figuring out the best outcome and it felt nice. It felt real nice. _____________________________________ She grinned and teased him, splashing some of the water at his neck, "What, you don't like being with me?" not realizing just how much he'd been attached to his sister. _____________________________________ "That's a stupid question," she was teasing maybe but he wouldn't be here if he didn't want to be. Greed got out of situations he didn't like and stayed in one's he wanted. A little bit if the water sloshed, hanging off his fat lip as he moved an arm out of the water to graze her cheek. She had a piece of hair stuck that coiled on her cheek like a snake. _____________________________________ "Apparently I'm a stupid girl, at least, according to the virtue in the living room." Jonah had been less than subtle about his opinions of her relationship. She looked at the water on Greed's lips and kissed the drop of moisture and smiled. _____________________________________ "The Tokyo Tower is just jealous he can't tongue you." He smiled, finally after all that depressive talk. _____________________________________ She wrinkled her nose, "Eww... why do you keep on coming with these images of him and me? I know you don't want to think of it and yet here you are... grossing both of us out with crazy talk." and she kissed his cheeks and his chin. _____________________________________ "So give me some tongue and I won't have to think about it." He grinned against her lips, at least laughing again, feeling comfortable. _____________________________________ She grinned and leaned back away from his lips and stuck her tongue out at him in a childish nyah way. _____________________________________ "That's not what I meant!" He tickled her more or less because his fingers were starting to shrivel up. The water was luke warm, and would eventually be cold. _____________________________________ She laughed with a squeal, "Well you should have been more specific!" she smooched him on the lips, "Let's get out and you can be my blanket. I know you're gonna start whining about being pruny otherwise." she took his hand and kissed his fingertips, "For the record, I like your pruny fingers." but she leaned over to grab a big towel. _____________________________________ He sloshed his way out, still warm and fuzzy, but definitely needing to get dry himself off so he want a raisen. He had a pair of boxers that he pulled out of her drawer and slipped on only because he wa freezing once the cool air hit his skin and he was sensitive now as he curled up under the comforter under the planetarium of stars he'd made her. _____________________________________ Zoe dried off but peeled the underthings off which were soaking wet, she bundled up in a pink top with a pink zip up sweater, only her legs were bare in short shorts as she quickly went over to the bed and picked up the leg warmers that Greed had got her, "Aren't you gonna be cold?" she asked about him in just his undies. "I can't heat you up as fast..." since Jonah was home. She sat on the edge of the bed and put one nearly nude leg up to slip on the leg warmer. _____________________________________ He shivered under the covers, grabbing at her leg and dragging her close. "Bring me a shirt?" Though he didn't suspect he'd keep it on for too long. Not with her looking this tasty. _____________________________________ She had half a leg warmer on when he grabbed her and pulled her close. She grinned, "Okay.. but you know you gotta let me go first, I can't magic it on over." she ran a hand through his hair absently. _____________________________________ "Kiss first," she wasn't allowed out of bed without giving him something to savor until she returned. Then she could get up. "Then you're my prisoner when you get back." _____________________________________ She chuckled, "I'm going to go get a shirt for you and I have to pay a toll? Rude." but she did kiss him, it was the quickest of pecks on his lips. _____________________________________ "Hey!" But before he could protest she was off the bed. He bundled up in her cocoon until he could feel his fingers again. _____________________________________ She picked up his shirt from the drawer, one of the ones that wasn't all form fitting and ran back to the bed and jumped on it lookin like the pink marshmallow she was dressed as. She threw the shirt at him so she could put her other leg warmer on while shivering. _____________________________________ By the time he'd poked his head and arms into the shirt she had finished up her dressing so he could football tackle her into the bed with a growl. Once he had her pinned under him he could work on warning up, starting with his lips. _____________________________________ She squealed in surprise and burst out laughing loud enough for Jonah to probably hear when Greed tackled her into the bed and went ahead and covered her with himself and kisses. Sometimes she couldn't believe this handsome goof was who she fell in love with. _____________________________________ He tangled his legs around hers, playing footsie with his feet while his mouth busy in a hockey battle with her tongue. Her hands he displayed outward, stretching their arms across the mattress where he finally put them to rest and tangled their fingers. _____________________________________ She was knotted up in his limbs and she let him do as he wished because some of that trust he'd lost he was gaining back. Her fingers wrapped around his and after kissing him again, she gave him an eskimo kiss, looking more relaxed and happy than she had in ages. She never wanted him to leave. _____________________________________ Once Greed had his fill of one position he rolled them over so she was over him, still tangled with his limbs. "What are you thinking?" He hummed, his nose skirting down her neck. _____________________________________ She closed her eyes as he went down her neck, "Hmmm... that I have a big funny hunky guy in my bed and it's kinda mind blowing." she opened her eyes and looked down at him, "No offense, but I never thought you'd be my type...." he'd seen her other boyfriends, they weren't as tall, or muscular, or good looking, or outgoing. _____________________________________ "Considering the track record I'd say you snagged a winner. A definite improvement." He wiggled under her with a grin. "You're in bed with a super-model, money grubbing ex-pornstar." She was getting again like she did when he did something right. _____________________________________ She wrinkled her nose, "That is not an argument for me snagging a winner." She kissed his chin, "But out of all the mistakes I've made in my love life and god knows I've made quite a few.. you're the best one and my most favorite." because even though he hurt her an insane amount, he loved her just as much. _____________________________________ "What, you don't like super-models?" He rubbed his foot up and down her leg, which was covered in yarn. It was soft though, like her. _____________________________________ She twisted her lips to the side and shook her head as she looked at him. It was the truth, she wasn't a super model type girl. Guys as good looking as him were playboys, nice to drool over but not take home. _____________________________________ "Oh?" His smile dropped like she'd kicked him. "So you don't like ex-pornstars either I guess. Our sexy money grubbers..." _____________________________________ She made winced face, "Well no... if you'd asked me a year and a half ago if I wanted to date an ex porn star or a sexy money grubber, I'd have said no. Not my type..but I like you." she raised a brow, "Are you saying that you thought you'd end up with someone like me?" _____________________________________ "No," he snorted "not at all. I usually dig blondes, stacked up to here," he motioned up his chest, " long legs, skinny as a rail...and now I gotta me a real girl." Not some Barbie doll cut out and he loved it. _____________________________________ She narrowed her eyes playfully, "So I'm real with okay boobs, short legs, and fat?" she was just teasing but had a thought, "I wonder you know... if I hadn't returned your wallet.. do you think we'd still have found each other somehow...?" she would normally be too shy to approach a guy like him and she wouldn't have had a reason to (the wallet provided one) and she was completely not the type of girl he'd been interested in back then. Was it chance or fate that day they met... _____________________________________ His hands slid down to her butt with a nice grip. "One that also resembles a small furry bug-eyed seal. Am I a little crazed that I want to fuck that baby seal?" He tugged on her sweater as she started to ask a more serious question. "I dunno. I think so." Maybe God felt some pity on his Sins and thought they deserved that piece of heaven he'd barred from them. _____________________________________ Her breath caught when he grabbed her butt, she chuckled, "You are most crazy. And I'm a fierce baby seal." she looked at him playing with her pink sweater, it was curious to her. "Yeah?" she smiled at him, "I wonder how that would have happened... you wouldn't have approached me on your own." her foot rubbed against his as she thought about it. Was it just right place right time? The stars aligned? Or was this always in the stars... her expression turned a bit somber as she remembered that according to everyone else... this was never supposed to happen. So maybe they made their own fate. _____________________________________ He sucked in his bottom lip, "A sexy baby seal. I still wanna fuck." He scratched the skin on her back softly, watching her with curious eyes. "How do you think it would have happened then?" _____________________________________ She grinned at his fucking baby seals talk because it was creepy and insane and so him, "You do get to.." since they could make love now. She snuggled into him and thought about it, "I don't know.. I don't think it would have. If I saw you I would have thought 'Wow he's cute.' and that would have been it." she raised her eyes to peek up at him, "I don't think you would have seen me..." he liked his sexy baby seal now but back then, he wouldn't have wanted to fuck a baby seal. _____________________________________ "I probably wouldn't have," that was honest, "I probably still would have noticed the locket first." But now so much more blurred right in front of him and it want jewelry, as much as he loved jewelry and gold and money. She had turned the tides. She saw more and he wanted more than either of them had imagined possible. _____________________________________ "Without my locket, you would have passed me by." she didn't have it anymore but she didn't need it to keep him. "It's kinda mind blowing to think about..." they wouldn't have met or ineracted normally, they're lifestyles were too different. "I wonder where we'd be right now if we hadn't met that day." _____________________________________ "You'd have moved away with that tree branch ex-boyfriend and I'd probably be in jail for stealing a baby, crying for Lust to help me. Nothing would have been different and I wouldn't be as rich as I am now." He'd He might still have the job he had before, but the world she had open him up to wouldn't be there and that was depressing. _____________________________________ She laughed, "Ugh... living with Mike, I would have been miserable and wishing I could meet someone that would sweep me off my feet." she smiled since Greed had done that in a very very unique way. She kissed his lips a couple of times, "I didn't realize an assistant made more than a financial secretary." his new job was nowhere near as lucrative as his old one but she hoped he liked it and it was something new he never thought of before. _____________________________________ "Mike was a toad." He made a disgusted face as if the boy had been covered in boils. That face doin changed to one of pride when she started talking about jobs. "I didn't either, but I like this job." He was good at it, he got to be creative." _____________________________________ She nuzzled his ear and kissed his neck, giving him several small kisses on his cheek as well as she talked, "Everyone at the company seemed to love you. You fit right in, sleazy and persuasive." her kisses paused and she looked at him wistfully, "I think that's remarkable you know.. to know what you want to do. I thought I did with school and now..." she shook her head. Learning that the things she studied were real was too much for her, she did what she did best, she ran from it. _____________________________________ "Sleazy---I'm not sleazy I'm slick. I'm a ninja." Her voice dropped a little like she didn't know what to do. "What do you want to do?" She had the toy store job but that was just retail. "Why not go back to school?" She liked school he thought. Had he ruined that too? _____________________________________ She looked lost as she shrugged, "I don't know... I thought I did." she shook her head adamantly, "School.. I can't. It was fun when I was studying about Poseidon ruining people's lives, it's not as fun when you're living the story. It's like when you're a kid and you think Santa Claus is real and then you grow up and learn he's not real and you know that your whole life and then someone goes nope! He IS real." not that she thought Santa was real, she wasn't that naieve. _____________________________________ His hands were busy running idyll circles on her back while she talked, softly to keep her calm. "Santa is real. Hate to break it to you." There were a lit of figures running around beyond the Greeks and Christians. Zoe had just meet the tip of the iceberg. _____________________________________ She gave him a dull look and ugh'd as she let her head fall on his chest and she pummeled him with her fists for a moment before just sighing. "And that's why I can't go back to school." she missed it but it was too weird... _____________________________________ "So is Shakespeare and Lancelot and King Arthur and a whole shitload of freaks." He rolled them over again, smoothing her hair off around her face."Seriously though, what do you want to do? Be a vet, work with kids, art?" He wanted to help. He felt compelled to help her do something with her time when he wasn't in it. _____________________________________ She wrinkled her nose, "La la la la la not listening...." she said over his talking about who was real and running around. The rest of it was muffled as he moved on top of her again. She looked up at him and the lanterns glow that softly bathed him in light and grinned, "Animals? Kids? Art? Those are such sweet suggestions." she tugged on shirt, "I thought you'd suggest porn or one of those car models.. you know, they stand and point at the car at shows." she raised her brows and nodded, "I'm very good at pointing at things." and she pointed off to the side with her finger randomly, deftly avoiding the question of what she wanted to do. _____________________________________ "Uh you are not getting fucked by anyone. That---" he motioned with his eyes downward where he was cleverly laying right between her legs, "is MY property. No one gets in there but me." He stopped her from avoiding the question, stilling her hands. "Stop evading my question." He wasn't going to let her skip town on that one. _____________________________________ "Are car models for having sex with?" she asked just to try to keep the conversation away from her. She arched her back and blew out some air when he grabbed her hands and forced her to talk about the issue at hand. She looked at him and said, "I don't know.. I had a plan when I was younger that I came up with with my grandma. I was going to get my degree, become a research assistant, establish myself, find a nice guy, get married, and have some kids." she knew he never liked to hear that but it had been the plan. "Then I went and fell in love.." she twined the fingers of one hand with his, "...and that really was not part of the plan at all and I don't regret it.." she wanted him to know that, "But I don't know what to do with the rest..." she didn't have anyone to guide her anymore. _____________________________________ "What do you like to do?" She had asked him those same questions when he'd lost his job too. "I know you like the water and stuff. What could you do where you don't need a degree?" He was trying to help her think outside of the box. _____________________________________ She looked thoughtful, "Hmmm... not much, I mean not much in terms of a career. I can always do retail. And it's not like I don't have my bachelor's degree. I just don't have my masters. But I do like the water... I've always wanted to travel." she sighed, "I don't know what else. My life was planned for me when I was really young, it just seemed easier to stick with the plan." it was too hard to do this on her own. _____________________________________ "Retail sucks. Come on. Long term baby. What could you see yourself doing?" He was going to push her to think about it because if he didn't she wouldn't consider it again. _____________________________________ She blew out another breath, surprised how hard this was... she'd never thought about it. "I don't know... something with books or the ocean." she bit her bottom lip and looked at him as if she had a secret. She smoothed his t-shirt as she hesitantly told him, "You know what I always thought was cool...... archaeology adventures. To be part of something like that somehow. Travel to Greece or some place and look for sunken treasure." she grinned because it sounded so wild, and it was! She wasn't the adventure girl but that had always been her secret wish. _____________________________________ "So do it. I'll steal whatever you find though. I've never found buried treasure. It sounds so pirate." He hummed as he looked into those baby seal eyes. "You'd make a sexy pirate." _____________________________________ She burst out laughing, "Oh you'd love that huh... you're already imagining me in a corset and thinking of plundering my booty jokes aren't you..." she narrowed her eyes playfully. _____________________________________ "I would love to put you in a tight corset and plunder every bit of you and your pirate booty." There was that goofy smile that had trapped her on day one. _____________________________________ She put her arms around his neck, "You're gross." she said matter of factly and then gave him a kiss. When it broke she told him, "I can't just pack up and go on an adventure. I don't have money or training. And even then, I'd lose the apartment if I wasn't here. And... what about you?" she doubted he'd quit his job to go be a pirate with her. They had to be grown ups about this. _____________________________________ "So does this mean I can't get you a corset?" He nibbled on her neck. He wouldn't want her away from him for too long, this was true, but he wanted her excited about something, it made her happy and happy Zoe benefited Greed. "We'll come up with something." _____________________________________ "If I said no would that stop you from trying to squeeze me into one anyway?" she countered. She knew him better than that. Her legs wrapped around him, giving him a squeeze between her thighs as her eyes closed when she felt him at her neck, "You wouldn't wanna run away and be a pirate with me?" it was a fantasy so why not get everything. _____________________________________ "Nope. I'm so shopping tomorrow." His tender caresses slipped down to her shoulders, pushing the peach sweater away from any bare flesh he could find underneath. "Only if I could have my own boat." He'd had one for a moment until Theseus took it back, but Greed had lost interest in it. This time? A cruise ship in his name. Now that would be the way to travel the waters. _____________________________________ She grinned and rolled her eyes, she knew he wasn't even joking about the corset. Her hand traveled up the back of his head into his hair, "You hate boats..." and he hated the water. So she was touched he would support her with dreams of the ocean. _____________________________________ "I do still. Immensely." The water was still a uncomfortable place for him. She had to show him how to deal with it properly without flailing around. _____________________________________ She chuckled and bit his earlobe lightly, "As soon as the weather is better, you and me are getting in the pool. I'd take you on my grandfather's boat but he told me he'd take me out on it before it got cold and he didn't do that. So I think getting him to take you out as well is a slim chance. Althoooough, he might like the idea of shoving you overboard." _____________________________________ "Why must you torture me with that fat sea fish?" He was defensive around Theseus for good reason and the event always ended with Greed making a complete fool of himself to ruffle feathers. _____________________________________ "Okay firstly, he's actually pretty slim, I don't think he eats right.." She made sure her body was securely tangled around him when she said, "If you never wanna see him again then that's fine, you don't have to." but that was a 'you', not a 'we'. It meant Zoe would see him just without Greed. _____________________________________ Greed mimicked her with every word with a less than mature face. "I forgot he's earned your trust." He hated Theseus. Theseus was a thief. He was going to always try to ruin this. For that, Greed wasn't sure he could trust him at all. He was greedy, which was something to be said by Greed himself. _____________________________________ She gave him a look when he mimicked her. She lowered her lashes, "Not.. all of it. But enough to get him another chance." she nuzzled his nose, "You'd know something about that..." since Greed was the King of fuck up's and earning trust back and knowing the value of another chance with Zoe. _____________________________________ Greed had fucked up....a lot, more than Theseus could account for, but it still didn't make it okay for him to slink back in. He would destroy Zoe when he left, and all he did was build fantasies and dreams for her to have a family that he walked out on. He was a snake that Greed wanted to be rid of. "He's going to take you away from me one day. I know it. And I can't have that." _____________________________________ Zoe groaned and let her head hit the pillow as she looked up at him, "You said the same thing about Gabe. And the same thing abut Jonah. And the same thing about Saint George. And look where I am. Right here. With you. So if none of those other people took me away, I don't think he is either." _____________________________________ "There is a difference. He's in a different position than Gabe or Jonah or St. George. He's like your father and that will kill you a lot faster when he leaves." She was distraught when Gabe left and maybe she would be when Jonah would, but Theseus was a parental figure, and he knew better than anyone with Lust how hard it was to shake someone that was like a parent as opposed to a friend. _____________________________________ Her gaze lowered as he said it so bluntly. But it was his way, to be fully open and honest.. he'd stopped doing that along the road and even if it stung now, she was grateful for it. "You said he wasn't allowed to leave..." she said quietly reminding him of before Christmas in the car. She'd mentioned Theseus would probably bail but Greed had been against it. _____________________________________ "He won't but watch him try and I'll kill him for it." He flattened his brows over his eyes as he picked at an invisible check on her collar. "He's a thief." _____________________________________ Most girls might be freaked out by the threat, but Zoe thought it was so sweet of Greed to want to kill her deadbeat grandfather. She cocked her head to the side, "Okay.. but you'd think you'd like that? You guys have a lot in common." since her grandfather was kinda selfish and smarmy and greedy and a thief... sorta traits her boyfriend had. Which was kinda disturbing she'd wound up with a guy like that... _____________________________________ "No. I don't like him for those reasons, because it's for those reasons that he will take you from me." He looked like a lost puppy who's owner wa s about to put him outside in the cold. Theseus wa like him which is why he couldn't trust him. _____________________________________ She didn't say anything for a few moments and then kissed him softly but deeply, wanting him to feel what they had. When the kiss broke, she said in a hushed tone, "Unless he throws me in a cage and ships me away... he's not going to take me away from you. I get to decide who I'm with. And if he did throw me in a cage and ship me away, when I got free, I'd come straight back to you. Plus, you'd be chasing after me, wouldn't you?" she was trying to lighten his heavy mood. _____________________________________ "No one takes anything from me without a fight." The hell Kings got a dose if the Sins when they tried to take their sister. "If he's still talking with my sister I wouldn't put anything past him." But Zoe had family now and if Greed pushed too far he would look like the criminal. _____________________________________ She was confused for a second and then it dawned on her he was talking about Lust. Her nose wrinkled and she said, "I hope not..." it bothered her a lot but if Theseus wasn't allowed to keep her from Greed, she had no right to keep him from Lust. _____________________________________ "Don't leave me..." He whispered in her ear, holding her as tightly as he could. He'd just gotten her back and dodged Lust's bullet. He didn't want to give her up again any time soon. _____________________________________ She snuggled into him, "I'll make you a deal... I won't leave you if you don't leave me." he was the one that kept running off to his sister's. It bugged her that he was paranoid about her leaving when he was the one that kept doing it. But it did calm her that he came back this time. She just wished it was on a more permanent basis. _____________________________________ "I don't want to." He kept his nose buried in her hair where he could imagine an island far far away from New York where she smelled of coconuts and they spent nights under the stars with no one to interrupt them.