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Before Longshot, Robbie and Miyuki had left for camp, Alison had politely, but firmly asked Robbie and Miyuki to find fun diversions in camp. Lengthy ones. She wanted her husband all to herself at least until sunset.

It took about an hour to organize, but when Alison finally retired upstairs, the lights were out and the shades drawn on all the floors. The only illumination came from tiny, floating candles in shallow water dishes placed on every other step on the stairs. One the landing of each floor, she had placed an item for him to find.

On the first floor, at the bottom of the stairs, a CD copy of his favorite French singer's newest album was tied with a gold ribbon. A tag attached to the ribbon read, Follow the lights.

On the second floor, a package wrapped in shiny red paper and silk ribbon. The tag read, Don't open this yet.

On the third floor landing, a second package was wrapped in white, shiny paper and ribbon. The tag read, Not yet. Keep moving.

On the fourth, two long-stemmed wine glasses waited for him.

The candles continued up the stairs to their bedroom. Inside, dozens of red candles of every size were lit in containers all over the bedroom. Spread out in front of the balcony doors was a soft fleece blanket. Several covered dishes were set out on it and two bottles chilled in a bucket of ice.

The tiny, floating candles created a path from the door to the bathroom where rose scented steam rolled out from under the door. Inside, Alison was sitting on the edge of the filled bathtub in a red silk robe. She drew small circles on the tile at her feet with her toe and waited for her husband to arrive. Hopefully, it would be before the food or the water got cold.

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"TA...daima?" Longshot came into the castle with a big bag slung over his shoulder. He had apparently been required to go into camp to get lots and lots of chocolate. They were all cute little pieces, too. Except Momoko made him some desserts instead since he was a gaijin and all.

He scratched his head. The castle wasn't usually this dim. He set the bag down and took off his boots. He hefted the bag with a small grunt. He had never been fully aware of how many women cycled through the camp until today. He set the bag safely into a corner of the living room. Because he had to go explore why there were little fires all the way up the stairs.

He eyed the floating candles before noticing the CD at the bottom of the stairs. He smiled at exactly who it was. A little excitement raced up his spine as he read the tag. He licked his lips a little and carefully made his way up the steps.

He almost tore into the package on the second floor landing before he noticed the tag. He grimaced and looked around to make sure nobody saw him. Safely unobserved, he tucked the package under his arm and followed the next set of guiding candles.

He almost ripped open the package he got from the second floor and the one he just found on the third floor landing before he saw the tag on the new present. He pouted a little. Then he shrugged and was over it. He quickly jogged up to the next landing.

He grinned at the wine glasses. He shifted the packages to under the same arm. He put the CD in that hand, too. Then he picked the wine glasses up by their stems between his fingers. He saw no note to tell him to not open his packages, but his arms were a bit too full to pull off that maneuver.

He made it into their bedroom with only one small clinking of the glasses. He looked around and raised an eyebrow. Somebody sure had been busy. Even though the rebel in him wanted to jump the path and go rolling in the blanket, he resisted. Alison was obviously not in that direction.

Longshot stopped in the doorway of the bathroom and let out a low whistle. He considered how much trouble he would get in for dropping the presents and just unwrapping his wife. The packages could wait. Except she had gone to all this trouble for him.

He couldn't stop grinning at her, however. "Hi."

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Alison looked up and smiled when Longshot entered. "Hi there."

She stood up and gently divested him of his packages and the glasses, setting them aside carefully. She leaned up on tip toes to kiss him very briefly and then casually un-tucked his shirt and started to tug it up over his head.

"Have a nice time in camp?"

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He blinked and leaned over a little to help her get his shirt off a little quicker. His hair was slightly ruffled when he straightened up.

"Yep! Got a lot of chocolate. I think I'll have to share. Too much for just me." He looked around with a smile.

"All this for us?"

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"Your camp must adore you. Did Robbie get a bunch, too?" She tossed his shirt aside and worked at the buckle on his belt.

"Nope!" She chirped and grinned, not looking up from her work. "All this for you. I was informed that in Japan, Valentines Day was a day for a woman to show her love for the man in her life."

She looked up at him and winked. "And, since we're in Japan and all..." She trailed off and waved a hand at the bath and the candle lit bedroom.

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Her gaze was magnetically drawn down his body. It was only fair. Some of her very favorite parts were down there. She was sufficiently distracted, however, by the sudden introduction of teeth to her neck.

"Mmmmm...." What had she been doing again? Oh yeah. She smiled and continued scrubbing down his chest and stomach, rubbing the cloth in soft circles against his skin.

Conveniently, she didn't move away from his nibbling at all.

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He slowly worked his mouth up her neck. A soft nip under her jaw and then his mouth was by her ear. He whispered and let his breath brush her skin. "Am I clean enough yet?"

Certain body parts weren't poking out of the water yet. Though they would be soon if she kept scrubbing him like she was. Then he would have a problem holding out for her other surprises. Because they would both be on the floor and not wanting anything but each other.

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"I think so." She smiled and dropped the washcloth, sliding her bare hand back up his body to his shoulder. She licked the shoulder in question playfully and smiled.

"Taste good, too." She winked. "Come on. Let's get you dry."

She slipped reluctantly away from him and stood to get him some towels.

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He blinked a little as she reached for the next package. His eyes were leaking a little! If anybody doubted he had the best wife in the universe, he would have to punch them in the nose. Even if they were 100 feet tall and bulletproof. Their noses would crumble under his fist!

He shook his head but didn't wipe away the tears when he was handed the next present. He tore into the wrapping and looked down at both chocolate hearts. He grinned and gently traced his finger around the edges. This looked better than any store-bought chocolate.

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Alison wrapped her arms around him and settled her head on his shoulder, looking down at the candy hearts.

"I have to confess that I had help with these. Something Miyuki said gave me the idea for the cannoli filling and she helped me in the kitchen."

She lifted her head enough to kiss his cheek softly and then rested it on his shoulder again. "Two hearts for your two hearts. And two because I love you twice as much as anyone else in the world." She grinned.

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His eyes brightened! It took everything he had to not grab up the hearts and devour them. It might give him a belly ache. That would ruin his wife's plans. "There's cannoli stuff inside??"

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Fireworks exploded in his head when Alison pulled him hard against her. Longshot gasped slightly. The blood pounded in his ears as he carefully pushed her to the floor. He had enough restraint to get her into position before he let go.

Once she was on her back, he pulled away to slide off of her. He ran one finger along his erection, not quite believing he was quite so hard. He was, and he shivered from that touch. He eyed the clothing still on her and growled at it.

He pulled them off none too gently. He hoped they didn't rip because he wanted Ali in them again, but he didn't particularly care at the moment. Longshot was too busy grabbing her legs and getting into position anyway he could. He wanted her legs resting against his shoulders as his hips slammed forward.

He groaned as he buried himself in her.

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The safety of her clothing was not an issue in her mind. If he had ripped them, she'd buy a new set. One for every day of the week, if necessary. The only thing that mattered to her was getting him inside of her and moving. Right now.

Alison's groan matched his when his hips met hers. She'd wanted him wild and unrestrained and she was definitely getting it. Her hands found grips on his arms and held on tight.

With her legs over his shoulders, there wasn't much moving she could do, so she lay back and let him take her however he wanted.

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He grunted a little as he pushed his torso forward, leaning over Alison to get the angle that would get him the deepest. He braced his arms on either side of her body. He pushed himself off his knees and onto his toes as he did one slow, experimental thrust.

Satisfied with positioning, he grinned ferally down at his wife. He had been waiting for awhile. Patience was not a virtue to him. He started a medium rhythm that couldn't go faster because he was pushing in hard and deep.

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He tried really hard not giggle. He just gave his wife chocolate. He knew the effects that had on her. Especially since it was all his fault for that particular reaction.

To keep himself from giggling, he decided kissing Alison was the best was to suppress that urge.

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Mmmmmmmmm. Chocolate and kissing. Who was spoiling who here?

She held him tightly with both arms and kissed him long and slow. When she finally decided to pull back, she didn't go far. She smiled and murmured, "Your chocolate is going to melt..."

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"If it gets all over you, I'll lick it off..."

Even so, he had to take a small bite. The cannoli stuff called to him. He gave her a quick kiss with his chocolate-flecked lips.

"So," he tried to say conversationally after he swallowed. "We have a big, empty castle to ourselves for awhile. Naked bodies. And food to give us energy."

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His hand on her neck was moved down to her hips. His other hand was moved up from grabbing her butt to grabbing her hips. He could feel the need for harder welling up inside him.

Especially when she moaned like that. His fingers tightened into her hips. He broke off the kiss to draw in a shuddering breath.

He grinned at her like an incensed animal. "Harder," he growled in Cadre. Higher brain functions to get words out in English were totally gone.

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Even if she hadn't understood the language, the intent was more than clear. She returned his grin as she sat up and back, bracing her hands behind her on his knees.

She pushed up with her knees and arms and let gravity bring her down hard against him. Long past teasing, she was soon moving as hard as she could without risking harm to either of them.

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He moaned loudly the first time she came down against him. His back arched off the bed a little. He hadn't even managed to push his hips into her. He panted a little as he adjusted his grip on her hips.

Then he used his arms to help pull her down hard against him as he used his legs to push up into her. He moaned her name every time stars danced on the edge of his vision. Which happened to be about every thrust.

He grit his teeth. Za's Vid he had wanted her since he saw her in her bathrobe in the bathroom. He had gotten her once, but that hadn't totally quenched the fire riding low in his gut. He kept pressing harder and meeting her rhythm as best he could.

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"Nuh-uh!" He shook his head. "You said your legs weren't workin'. Since I made 'em all wobbly, I get to hold you."

He peered in the fridge. Did everything in there have to be cooked? If there was stuff that didn't, they could just pile it on the blanket. Longshot would carry all that and Alison to the couch for movie viewing.

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"Well, we'll have to find something that's easy to make, then." She kissed his cheek again and then turned to look in the fridge, too. Hmmm.

"Lean over." She grinned at him. When he did, she started reaching for small things they could eat while watching television. In the end, she came up with some cheddar slices, ham, crackers, and a closed container that had the cannoli she'd made from the leftover filling.

If they were still hungry later, she could always cook.

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Longshot was a bottomless pit of hunger most times. Very few cooks could keep up with him. Maria almost did. Alison was better at sating other types of hunger. Though she understood the bulk rule of him consuming food.

He carried his wife out to the couch and settled down with her in his lap. Then he realized he would probably have to get up to switch the DVD disks. Darn.

He humphed. He didn't wanna get up when he had a lap full of Alison. So, to procrastinate in the best possible way, he kissed Ali softly.

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He squirmed a little at the light tickling. No fair! Squirming against his wife made things even harder. He barely cracked open his eyes.

There might have been a profession of love going on the television behind Alison, but he was much more interested in the profession of love on his lap. And trailing all over his body.

He smiled softly as he looked through heavy-lidded from the television to his wife. He shifted a little but made sure he never escaped any of her touches.

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"I love you," she murmured against his lips. She trailed soft kisses over his face and down his jaw, punctuating each one with another I love you.

She returned his smile as the fingers of one hand walked across his chest and over his shoulders to trail down his arm. The other wound its way down his chest and stomach to stroke over the smooth spot where his belly button would have been.

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She knew by touching that smooth spot it was just like pressing a nitro button, right? She had to! Because he couldn't help how his hips pressed up into when her fingers went right over it.

He did manage to get a handle on himself. Except for the very soft moan. But he didn't toss her onto the couch to pounce right on top of her and tell her he loved her over and over again as he thrust in.

His mind was dizzy from that thought alone. So, he found the best centering he could. He leaned forward a little and kissed her softly. Nothing hard and demanding yet. But very full of want.