After Katherine planted herself firmly on top of his legs, Connor decided that he had no intention of letting her go. He spent the rest of the dinner enjoying the sensation of having her wiggley bottom squirming around on his lap and his hands wasted not time taking full advantage of the situation. Seeing that his hands were busy, Katherine helped out by popping little tidbits of food in his mouth every now and then. In the meantime though she kept grilling him on what he had been up to the last 100 years, insisting on full and complete answers to her questions while Ev and Rayden watched in amusement on the other side of the table. Deciding that what their guests were doing looked like fun, Ev had Rayden assist her up into his lap as well and proceeded to feed him as his hands roamed over her body. Throughout the rest of the meal there was a lot of good natured teasing flying back and forth across the table accompanied with fits of giggles from the two women whenever the men had the nerve to complain they were being picked on.
Once everyone was done eating, Rayden caused the remnants of the meal to simply vanish, leaving a spotlessly clean table. Katherine just raised an eyebrow and shrugged, beginning to accept without questions things she would have thought as impossible just a few weeks before. Returning to the living room to make themselves comfortable again. Katherine had excused herself for a moment and came back to find a giggling Ev on Connor’s lap whispering something in his ear as Rayden grinned at them. Katherine froze for a moment in the door not sure what to do next. Rayden turned and smiled invitingly at her, patting his empty lap.
Keeping an eye on Connor to see what he reaction would be, Katherine crossed the room, hesitating a brief moment before lowering herself onto Rayden’s lap. Connor just grinned at her and shrugged slightly. A strange tingling sensation filled her entire body as she sat and he put his arm around her to pull her closer. Rayden could feel her resistance and uncertainty and beamed thoughts of reassurance, all the while enjoying the feel of her slender body beneath his hands. She seemed so tiny compared to his mate! He knew that she was sorting things through in her mind, trying to get her thoughts and feelings straight so he just sat quietly giving her whatever mental support she was willing to accept from him. Katherine started to relax a little, still carefully studying Connor and Ev on the other end of the couch. It was then she decided to drop a little bomb shell on Connor to see how he would react.
"So Connor me love, it would seem you have been keeping yourself busy as of late", she said in a dour sounding voice but with an innocent expression on her face. Connor instantly knew she was up to something and could not help groaning softly. Katherine tilted her head slightly and fixed a gaze on him that made him want to squirm inwardly before she continued on, "I hope you don’t think I spent all this time sitting around waiting for you to darken my doorstep again".
Ev grinned at Katherine, having a feeling she knew what the girl was about to spring on Connor. The Highlander sighed deeply, knowing that he was being tested. He thought carefully for a moment before choosing his reply. "I wouldn’t expect you too, Katherine, but knowing you as well as I do, you probably did", he replied evenly.
"Well, you’re wrong then!" she replied, a defiant set to her jaw and chin. Connor studied the quiet stubborn look on her face and decided to bite the bullet just so he could see what she was up too.
"Oh? Interesting. Anyone I know?" Connor kept his voice and expression carefully neutral as Ev giggled at him and wiggled on his lap to make herself more comfortable. Both she and Rayden had the "cat that ate the canary" look on their faces. Apparently his neighbors were fully aware of who this mystery guy was.
"As a matter of fact yes. Someone right here in SIMsCity, Captain Darling", the look on her face clearly said ~ I dare you to ask who!~.
Resisting the urge to flinch, he replied in a calm, even voice "Was it one of my dooplegangers then?", looking point blank at Rayden who just grinned broadly and shook his head.
"Wrong. Strike one. Try again!" Katherine said, a fierce gleam in her eye and a wicked little grin starting to spread across her face. He was all to familiar with that look, Katherine usually wore it when she was looking to pick a fight with him. He just shrugged and not having any clue who it would be, he grasped for straws.
"Duncan?" This response was rewarded with a slight startled expression
"Duncan is here too?" she asked. Connor nodded and she said wistfully. "Good guess then, but I haven’t seen him since he was a teenager. Strike two. Guess again."
Connor tried to buy a little time by helping the giggling Ev off his lap. Rayden released Katherine as well, giving her little bottom a swat as she rose to swap laps, an action which she chose to ignore for the moment. The two ladies settled back onto the laps they originally started out on.
"Well?" Katherine asked as Connor’s hand started to roam up her leg. He shrugged and asked if he could please have a little clue. Still looking into his eyes intently she quietly said, "The last time you saw us together you tried to rip his head off with your bare hands." With that little hint, all the lights suddenly went on.
"Doc????" You finally slept with Doc Adams?" with that he threw back he head and roared with laughter.
Katherine looked at him in amazement. Apparently this was not the reaction she was expecting. She studied him intently, one eyebrow raised and her head tilted slightly till he managed to get himself under control.
"About bloody time, Katherine! You kept that poor guy on the hook for over two hundred years!!!" he said as he started to laugh again. Katherine punched him gently on his chest and told him to stop laughing, it wasn’t funny.
"But it really is! Once I got over being pissed at him, I actually felt a little sorry for the guy. He really couldn’t help the way he felt about you." He laughed again. "Besides, he was drunk as a skunk that night and if I remember correctly, you were kinda sexually frustrated yourself at time, which probably rubbed off on him." That caused Katherine to blush furiously and mumble something about it being all his fault for sending her *that* book.
"What book was that Connor?" Ev asked innocently.
"Oh, just one I picked up in India" Connor replied with an equally innocent expression. "I believe it was called the Kama Sutra. It seemed like the perfect gift for someone who had just spent the last 50 or so years in a convent and might need to be reminded of *certain* things." This earned him another punch from Katherine as Ev and Rayden collapsed in helpless laughter.
Katherine sat in his lap, an indignant look on her face as they all laughed about a situation that when it had happened had not seemed funny at all. Shaking her head, she waited until Connor had a semblance of control over himself before asking "It doesn’t bother you then that he and I were together, Connor?"
"No, sweetheart, it doesn’t. Things work differently here in this place. But even if that wasn’t the case, it would not change the way we feel about each other one iota would it?" Her answer to that question was to throw her arms around his neck and snuggle contentedly up against his chest. Connor sighed deeply and held her slight body tight to his, happy that he had apparently managed to pass her little test with flying colors. The two couples sat in a comfortable silence for awhile before Katherine raised up and asked Connor in a low, husky voice, "Isn’t it time that you be taking me home with you then?"
Rayden held Ev in his arms as they watched their guests walk hand in hand away from their house. Ev was quite pleased with herself about how well the night went and giggled happily to herself before looking up at her mate and saying "I think it would almost be a safe bet that they don’t even make it into Connor’s house." Rayden glanced up at the couple who were now standing under a tree and kissing, Connor’s hands up under Katherine’s shirt..
"Woman, I do believe that is a given!" Rayden said, a broad grin across his face as he shut the door to give them a little privacy.
Connor noticed when the door closed and grinned down at Katherine as his hands explored the upper regions of her body. Her eyes were luminous in the moonlight as she looked up at him with a sad smile that almost broke his heart. He knew that his long years of silence had deeply hurt her and he wished he could somehow make up for that. He reluctantly took his hand out from under her blouse and placing one arm around her shoulders, they began to walk slowly down the sidewalk toward his house.
He paused in front of his house and placed his strong hands around her tiny waist lifted her effortlessly up onto the top of a brick wall that surrounded his little garden area. Katherine grinned at him and opened her legs to let him press close to her. He snuggled up close with his arms around her trying to think of the right words to say. Katherine was surprised to see a tear run down his cheek and she now understood then that their long seperation had not been easy on him either.
"I tried to find you Katherine, I really did. I tracked you down to that convent you belonged to in Ireland but when I asked about you they told me you were dead. And that your body had been blown to pieces when an IRA terrorist bomb went off at the school yard. They even showed my your grave!" His voice was thick with emotion. Katherine pulled his head close to chest and held him close, struggling to control her memories before she spoke.
"A young woman had stopped to talk with one of the children, Connor. She was killed in the blast too and they must have thought her body was mine. I was buried in some rubble and they didn’t find me. When I woke up I just couldn’t face any of the people around, especially the families of the children who were killed, so I fled. I ended up in Paris."
The two of them stayed that way for a few moments, comforting each other as they came to grips with old memories. That was when Katherine latched onto another, much more pleasant one.
"Connor, would you be remembering the first time you set me up on a wall like this?" Connor looked up at her and grinned. That day was a special memory for both of them.
"Aye, lass. I do. All the better to kiss you." He then set about to prove it. When they broke for air, Katherine pushed a little more.
"And that is not all you did, was it Captain me darling?" Connor acted like he was trying hard to remember something.
"Now what was it, oh yes! I think I found something interesting to play with." This was said as he unbuttoned her shirt and slid it off her shoulders, exposing her small breasts. Katherine sighed with pleasure as he captured one of her nipples with his mouth.
"Ahhh, Connor. You were a terribly desperate man then and you are still one now", she said with a deep sigh.
"Aye, lass. I am. Isn’t that the way you like me? If I remember correctly I was trying to get you to call my by my given name and you were being a wee bit stubborn", he retorted, a wicked smile on his face. "You only relented when I began to do this." He proceeded to demonstrate what he was talking about by running his hand up under her skirt.
Katherine groaned as his hand started to caress her hidden treasures. "I do not remember you getting quite that far, sir."
"That’s because you relented and did as I wanted, little one", he said in a low voice as his fingers encountered her warm moist inner lips. "Do you want me show you what I would have done next?" Taking her deep groan as an affirmative, he pulled her hips forward to the edge of the wall and lowered himself to taste of her sweetness, his tongue exploring every nock and cranny as she moaned in pleasure. After a few minutes he raised up, a wolfish grin spread over his features. "And the next step would have been this."
Katherine’s eyes opened wide as he unbuckled his belt and undid his overly tight pants allowing his erect member to spring out. "Connor! You wouldn’t! Not out here where anyone ….." The rest of what she was going to say was lost in a gasp and joyous laughter as he drove himself deep into her. She threw her arms around his neck and pulled his mouth to her while wrapping her legs around his driving hips; surrendered herself completely to him as they became completely one - body, mind and soul.
~ ~ ~ ~
Next door, Ev was dozing in Rayden’s arms when she suddenly woke with a start.
"Oh my word! Is that coming from next door?" she asked her grinning mate as waves of pleasure threatened to consume her.
"Apparently so. It seems Katherine has a lot more emphatic ability that we suspected. I image half the town is catching at least part of this."
"She wasn’t broadcasting this bad last night when she was with Ben, was she?" Ev asked.
"I felt her leaking last night too. But this is different. Apparently the bond between the two of the them intensifies her reactions. I think I will talk to her and see if she would like me to help her learn to control her emotional emissions" he said as he snuggled closer to Ev. "But in the meantime, we might as well have a little fun ourselves!"
"Sounds like a winner to me!" and soon they were so involved that what was happening next door was hardly noticable.