Timeless

7

Later in their room Grey pulls her into his arms and kisses her. "You were magnificent tonight Ariele."

Ariele made bold by even just those few sips of wine kisses Grey back. Grey picks her up and carries her over to the bed. Things were just starting to get interesting when a knock on the door has Grey flying off the bed and staring at her in horror. "What have I developed spots or something?" Ariele asks in confusion and hurt.

"No, I-I'm sorry Ariele. I've never lost control like that with someone in my care." Grey needs space and time to cool off so he goes to answer the door.

The guard whispers something in Grey's ears. It's enough to cool him off alright. "Tell her to give me fifteen minutes. Then knock once and let her in." Grey is grim, "And keep this information to yourself, I don't need the whole castle talking about this or speculating about Lady Ariele. Do I make myself clear?" The guards nod quickly not wanting to irritate the already irritated general.

"We will get you a proper lady's maid tomorrow. But for now we need to get you ready for bed before Sheila gets here." His words bring about an end of Ariele's desire as well. This night wasn't going to be any fun for her either.

His words act like electricity to her. She's off the bed and over to the wardrobe in no time flat. Grey goes over to her to help her undo the buttons and can't help giving her skin another caress. He only stops when Ariele leans into the caress and the dress falls to the floor unheeded.

Grey bends down and as Ariele moves away he picks the dress up and puts it away and hands her a nightgown. When she doesn't take it right away he looks at her and can't look away. Ariele didn't like to wear underclothing to bed and had taken it off, that's why she hadn't taken the nightgown.

"Oh, thank you Grey." Ariele says taking the nightgown and slipping it on over her head. He had grabbed the first one he came to and hadn't even realized he'd given her the silk one. "Oh, this feels nice."

Grey swallows in relief once she gets back in bed. He sets the lamps on low and has only a few candles burning so that it won't bother Ariele when Sheila comes. Then to make sure that Ari is asleep he goes over to her pulls the covers up over her. He sets the shield and makes sure that she is sleeping deeply. What he's going to do tonight shames him, but after Ariele's innocent teasing he knows he needs it.

By the time he has the trundle bed ready Sheila is there. "Mood lighting how nice. And your charge? Will she be watching?" Sheila is careful to keep the bitchiness down. She actually doesn't have a problem with the girl watching, she has a special performance planned and hopes the girl will enjoy it.

"No, and neither will she be joining us. She's asleep so keep your voice down." Actually with the shield on there was no reason for Sheila to keep her voice down except that it would be harder for him to pretend.

"Whatever you say lover," Sheila says and moves over to Grey. She knows how to seduce a man and he's already halfway seduced. She is surprised that Grey is allowing her such freedom though. Usually he likes to take the lead role in the seduction. She doesn't care as long as he reacts properly and there is no doubt about that.

No matter what Grey thought, Ariele wasn't asleep. She'd perfected the art of faking long ago. It has saved her many times for some rapes and made others far more bearable. So watching Grey and Sheila was an education, but after awhile it was an education that hurt too much for her to watch anymore. She didn't realize just how much this was going to hurt her, she allows the tears and even sobs to come. She has no doubts as to how well the shield is working, she couldn't hear a thing and knew that Grey wouldn't hear her either, nor would he see her tears.

In time the candles burned low and they had all fallen asleep. "Wake up girl. I know you can hear me even though you shouldn't be able to. Wake up!" The voice that had spoken to her earlier about love and sex was back and wakes her up. What she sees startles her. The voice shows her how to break the shield and she does even as she springs into action to stop the knife.

She doesn't know what she did but whatever it was Sheila couldn't move. "Grey aren't you awake yet?" She says in exasperation. "How in the hells did you survive long enough to become Captain Commander if you sleep this heavy?"

When Grey doesn't respond Ariele suspects that he himself was somehow put into a deep sleep whether by spell or potion she didn't know. But she does know an almost universal way to wake someone up. She goes over to the tub that had been purified and takes a bucketful of water and dumps it on him. That a good portion lands on Sheila first doesn't bother her at all.

"What the hell Ariele? Don't be angry at me, this wasn't my idea!" Grey only sees Ariele and the empty bucket in her hands.

"I'm not angry at you Grey. I just thought you might want to do something about that before my spell ends. I have no idea how long that will be since I didn't even know that I could do something like that."

Only then does Grey realize that a very naked Sheila was poised over him with a raised dagger in her hand.

Incredulous he states the obvious, "She was going to kill me."

"Yes, Captain Obvious she was. You're welcome. Now although I'm sure that some of her attributes might be rather tempting," Sheila was very well endowed, "I'd suggest you at least take away her knife before you do anything else." Ariele is getting more than a little annoyed at how slow Grey was acting and lack witted as well. It was worse than when she found herself transported here and confused as hell.

Grey gives himself a little shake and looks over Sheila. He shakes his head and goes over to the tub. He dunks his head in more than once until he's satisfied that he's no longer sleep slowed. All the time Ariele is fuming and angry.

"Ariele, I can't take the dagger away from her right now. The only way I could is by breaking off her hand or possibly just her fingers, but it would probably be necessary to break her hand. I can live with that but she might not and I will need to interrogate her to find out what the hell she was doing." Grey would just break off the blade but it's his dagger and his favorite at that which only makes him angrier.

Grey doesn't bother with clothes as he stalks over to the door and pulls it open. "You two in here now."

Seeing how angry he is they both jump into the room and stop cold at what they see. "I told her it was a bad idea but she was adamant." Grey mutters under his breath. "Take this bitch out of here. No, no clothes. She chose to do this like she is she can remain that way.

"You better have someone keep an eye on her for when the spell wears off enough to take the dagger away. She doesn't weigh much but it will take both of you to carry her like she is down to the dungeon. No need to be nice when you get there. Toss her in and if you can find some leg shackles put them on her. When she's no longer frozen bring me back my knife, it was a gift from Lady Anna and I don't want to lose it."

They salute him and take hold of Sheila any way they can but keep their crude comments to themselves as they see Lady Ariele over by the bed. They don't say a word about the soaking bed that Sheila is standing or rather kneeling over.

"Jeshua, see me tomorrow after your duties are done," Grey says as they leave.

"Yes, Commander Grey." Jeshua is nervous he's never been singled out by the commander before and isn't sure that it's a good thing now.