Magic Knight Rayearth Fan Fiction ❯ The Glaciers' Widow ❯ Illecebrae #1 ( Chapter 9 )

~*Illecebrae #1*~

*Temptation #1*

A small apartment near Princess Emeraude's chambers had been granted to Fuu; so that she could reach her without problem and without go through all the palace's wings. The ladies competed to have the Baroness' company, even if they couldn't compete much with the Princess! Sometimes, when the four young women played together, Queen Rosaura and Lady Caldina joined them: Caldina took off her slippers and invented funny dances following the music while the Queen beat the time with her hands.

Almost each evening, Fuu joined in a ball, but she didn't stay much: often it happened that when she waked up, the following morning, the other guests were just gone to bed. She doesn't mind this, because it allowed her to do her daily duties: each morning, Fuu went to the kitchen and helped the maids a little bit. The cook appreciated her help, even if she told that the Princess' favorite mustn't do manuals activities.

One morning, Fuu was helping the baker's helper to cook the bread.

" I think that those loaves art cooked: what do thou think Gill?"

Gill peeped in the oven and grumbled:

" Thou art right! Where is the shovel?"

" Thou have forgotten it in kitchen: thou remember to always have the utensils close by."

Fuu smiled. Gill giggled apologizing and run in the kitchen to take the shovel; after she a little bit went back and exclaimed:

" Oh My! I have forgotten to take other baskets too! Baroness, do thou want begin to take out the oven the bread while I go to take the baskets?"

" Yes, don't worry: but hurry or we'll burn it."

Fuu said comprehensive.

She had filled half basket, when anyone grabbed her by her waist: Fuu shouted, but immediately two gloved fingers was placed on her lips.

" Why do thou react in this way? I don't have intention to eat thou. Or better: I want to eat thou with kisses..."

Fuu jumped hearing that voice: why Ferio didn't let her in peace? The woman tried to free herself from his hold, but he didn't want to let her.

" Highness, let me if today thou won't eat burnt bread!"

" Admit it, Fuu-chan: whatever thou wear, even this floured apron, makes thou gorgeous."

" The bread is burning!"

" ...Please, run away together, just thou and me! We will go where thou will want and will do everything thou will want! I beg thou, tell me yes!"

" The bread is burning!"

" ... I couldn't bear to be away from thou! I love thou! How much times and in how much ways I'll tell it thou before... mmh, I smell something burning...."

Fuu rolled her eyes and was able to free herself from the hold; she then started again her work. Ferio watched charmed the woman moving frantically: when the baskets were full, she stretched some large tablecloths on the floor and put there the bread.

" Stop to annoy me: it's so amusing tease a girl saying her these things! Even wanting it, I couldn't believe thou: I know very well that thou have lots of lovers, and I don't have intention to enter thy collection of women!"

Ferio froze: despite his efforts, Fuu didn't believe his words. Sure, the half of what she said was true; a lot of women had slept with him. Ferio didn't deny that he desired Fuu passionately; but his physical desire was nothing if compared to the sincere and deep feeling that he felt for her.

" Thou men think just to one thing! Here, take!" Fuu exclaimed flinging a donut-shaped bread " A hole is always a hole, and that should be fairly hot for thou!"

Ferio grabs the loaf, but he leaves it almost fall for how much it was hot. Ferio looks the girl's back moving before the stoke hole: he put the loaf in a basket; he grabbed the girl's shoulders; he turned her and he kissed her desperately. Suddenly something hit his cheek; Ferio touched it with his fingertips, squeezing his eyes for the sharp pain: his cheek was hot and pulsating, entirely swollen. He opened the mouth, but he said nothing when he saw Fuu's eyes full of tears. Fuu lowered her hand and tightened it in a fist, she then turned and stammered:

" Don't... n-never dare to do anymore such.... such a thing, or... or the n-next time I... I will u-use the shovel! Go away!"

After that episode, Fuu didn't want anymore to be alone and Presea followed her lady anywhere.

Ferio was going mad: Presea didn't separate from Fuu; each time that he met there she there were always too much people. Unfortunately Umi hadn't still been able to know something, and each time that they spoke about the Prince, Fuu changed topic at once. Ferio decided to exploit his last resource: through the castle's secret passages, he could follow her everywhere she went. Sooner or later the proper occasion to be alone with her would show.

Fuu watched her bed's canopy and puffed. She rolled on her stomach, embraced her pillow and shut her eyes hoping to fall asleep. Everything useless: there were still few hours before dawn and she hadn't been able to sleep for five minutes in a row. Fuu sat on the bed and looked around: in the moonlight she could clearly see her dressing table, her stuccoed silk screen and part of the closet; through the open window she heard the singing of the crickets and the frogs croak. A buzz hardly perceptible and then a slap. Fuu scratched her arm where the mosquito sting her and puffed:

" Beyond this sultriness, I must bear the mosquitoes too! Why don't I have gone back to Acquaviva in June?"

" What dost happen, my lady?"

Presea asked from the next room: the long years of work had made the nurse's sleep very light, even a falling leaf's noise waked her up. Fuu got up and reached Presea.

" Nothing, just a mosquito. And the heat."

Presea looked at the clock and said amazed:

" My lady, it's two o'clock in the morning: why art thou still awake? The sleep is essential for thy health."

" I know it, but I can't fall asleep: I tried everything."

" Do thou have tried to read something very, very boring? The ' Discourses of Mona Petra ' or the ' Dialogues of Tonio ' would be perfect."

" Sure! Why don't I have thought about it?! There should be any copies in library: I go to take them!"

Fuu exclaimed wearing robe and slippers. Presea looked her shocked.

" Alone, my lady?!"

" I will go back soon. Besides in this time of night everybody sleeps; and if anybody must attack me, I will shout and the guards will come to save me!"

" But, my lady... "

Presea said pleading, but Fuu had already left.

The Baroness searched the books suggested by Presea in the section Philosophy: when she found them and took them, a cloud of dust flooded on her and Fuu coughed:

" These books art so dusty! Surely they hasn't been read from ages..."

She opened a book: the pages were turned yellow, but untouched.

" I correct: these books art /never/ been read!"

Fuu dusted her robe and went toward the door. Anybody leaned against the jamb and prevented her to go out.

" In search of nighttime readings, Fuu-chan?"

Fuu gasped and a book fell noisily on the marble floor: Ferio looked her with eyes full of sadness, slightly reddened. His voice was few more than a husky whisper, but clear and sincere as crystal. Ferio drew near her and took the book; he opened the cover, inserted a note, closed it and gave it to Fuu. Fuu grabbed the book and opened it curious: on a small piece of parchment paper there was written with Ferio's refined handwriting 'I love thou'. Fuu bit her lower lip and slipped out the library.

Ferio followed her without run and reached her: he putted his arms round her slender waist sink his face in her hair, inhaling deeply the perfume.

Fuu became stiff, her wide eyes searched hallway for help in the dark. Her brief and frantic breath shook her breast, while her heart beat faster.

Ferio removed some locks with delicacy, exposing part of her neck at the late summer's sultriness. With the trembling fingers he caressed the exposed skin and then began to kiss her with increasing passion, moving his lips from the neck to the collarbone. His arms embraced her with increasing strength.

Fuu was utterly petrified; she wasn't able to set end to what was happening. She gasped when she sensed his callous hands graze her not entirely developed breast. She turned her head slowly and looked his eyes.

Ferio raised his face from her shoulder: his eyes plead her with a sad and yearning prayer, full of love. The pleasure that she saw in his eyes of amber was a painful and heartbreaking pleasure.

With the same slowness, he pressed his lips against hers in an uncertain kiss and gently began to massage her lips with his own. Finally he turned her toward him, her tight fists between her breast and his chest; one of his hands from the shoulder slipped down to grab her bottom with steadiness.

Fuu was about to give up when she unconsciously unclosed her lips, letting his tongue explore her mouth's depths. Suddenly she sensed his hardness press against her abdomen and she understood where all this would have brought.

With force Fuu pushed Ferio faraway from her and runs shocked toward her rooms. Fuu didn't take care of Presea's questions and she thrown on the bed gripping a pillow.

" This... this dost not happen anymore... Anymore! "

She whispered to herself between the tears wrapped in the sheets as in a cocoon.

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