Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ La Painting ❯ 98 Degrees and Rising ( Chapter 3 )

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Chapter III: 98Ëš and Rising

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Van stood at Hitomi's door. A week had passed since their encounter and she had almost completely moved in to her room. Exotic music was flowing out of her room loudly. Curiously, he opened the door and his eyes bulged out and he tried to hold his laughter. Hitomi was dancing in her earth clothes with a brush in her hand as she was singing into it with the song. Oddly enough, there was no one there playing the music; Just a large black and yellow box sitting on her bed. It was a strange girl's voice that sounded like she was possessed was singing the words 'I just can't get you out of my head', over and over again with some other words and sounds. Hitomi was dancing a well-scripted dance to it, shaking her hips seductively.

The song stopped and Hitomi giggled and turned around. She screamed and jumped on her bed and pushed a button on the box and the next song turned off abruptly. "What the hell are you doing here Van? You can't just waltz in and watch people make a fool of themselves." she scolded with her hands on her hips.

He burst into laughter and held his stomach. "I'm king…remember." he said between laughs. She blinked and sweat-dropped. "Oh yeah… but people should have their privacy you know." she said. He finally stopped laughing and wiped the tears from his eyes. "I'll remember next time 'your majesty'." he said as he gave a joking bow.

She rolled her eyes. "Whatever." she said. Van eyed the colorful 'thing' on her bed and asked, "What is this machine?" Waving him to sit on her bed, he sat next to her. "It's called a radio. It picks up waves from the earth's atmosphere and songs or other programs play in it." she said as she settled it on her lap.

"It's like the ones they have on airships and some guymelefs right?" he asked. "Well, kinda yeah, but this can get better reception but you can't talk into it without programming it." she said. She hopped off the bed and picked up a large container and unzipped it. Inside of it were hundreds of CDs that made Van blink.

"Isn't that for jewelry? You must be really rich on the Mystic Moon to have so many." he said. She sat next to him and flipped through the pages. "This isn't jewelry, it is a disk that has music in it, like the song I was playing. I put it in the radio and it'll play it for you." she explained. "Like an orchestra?" he inquired. "Like an orchestra, but smaller."

She pushed a small gray button and the top opened with ease. Van jumped up and scooted over. "It can move on it's own?" he asked nervously. "Only if I push a button. But which one do you want to hear first?" she offered and held the folder closer to him.

After looking for a while, he delicately pulled out a CD with a washing machine with different things inside of it and handled it to her. She took out the Kylie Minogue CD and stuck in Shakira. She pushed numbers and the number three showed up in a little window. The song started slow and then caught a fast beat.

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Celena walked down the hall to the royal quarters. She was puzzled at first when Van told her there was a woman residing in the queen's chambers. Never truly meeting Hitomi, she was a little suspicious and lectured him about women. He laughed of course and Celena soon joined in laughter. It always pleased her tremendously when he laughed. Until recently, she would always catch him sitting at the highest roof of the castle and gaze towards the Mystic Moon.

That's why Merle left. She cared too much to sit and watch the king be depressed. He wouldn't sleep and he wouldn't eat for days, unless someone forced it down him. There were frequent periods of times that he would shut himself up in his room and wouldn't come out for weeks to even months. Merle was left to take care of Fanellia's problems when this happened and it became such a difficulty for her, she hired Celena as the high advisor. The council willingly accepted her in efforts to try to wed them together in order to have an heir before he dies.

She wasn't like that though. She felt a closeness to the king, like a friend, nothing more. When Merle married and left, Celena was the only one Van felt comfortable in confiding with. She always understood how he felt about things and was his sidekick in the mischief they performed on the ladies who came to try to sway the king into marrying them. It was fun and she loved being in the castle with him. To her, it was better than living in the dry old manor with Allen fussing over her safety.

Approaching the door, she knocked lightly. "Van? Are you here?" she asked as she peeked her head into the door. Hearing no answer, she opened the door quietly and went in. There was a small hallway at about ten feet long with an elaborately designed rug on the floor. When Celena walked into the room she gasped.

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Van laid atop of Hitomi, smothering hot kisses down her long elegant neck as he was unbuttoning her shirt and pulling it off. His shirt was already thrown across the queen size bed and onto the floor. Her black lace bra was soon assaulted by frantic lust driven hands. Hitomi sucked in a ragged breath and lifted herself up to him for easier access. As soon as she did this, he found the hook and unlatched it almost breaking it.

His breath became ragged as he gazed at her breasts. They were perfect to him, rosy, soft, and large enough to fit in his hands and spill over a bit. He drew his mouth around one and licked the nipple erotically slow. She gasped and shuddered at the new sensations she was experiencing. "Van…mmm." she moaned in satisfaction, her heart pumping faster as she held onto him. Her nipples hardened at the wonderful feeling of his tongue's attention it was giving her.

Van then rose off of her and sat down on the edge of the bed. "I'm done." he said in a cheerful voice. Hitomi blinked and groaned in frustration. "Van…please?" she whispered as she hugged him from behind, licking his neck. "Not yet my love, I wouldn't get any fun teasing you." he said with a whining voice. "You suck Van." Hitomi pouted.

Hauling her onto his lap, he said, "And you know all about that don't you?" She blushed and tried to get off and cover herself. He pulled her back even tighter to his body, making her gasp. "On second thought, I'm up to it." he said as he tossed her back on the bed and laid on her once more. Giggling, she pushed him off and put her bra back on. "And on second thought, I agree with your first decision you sick little man." said Hitomi. "Come on Hitomi, I was joking. Haha… funny right?" he said. Putting her shirt on, she replied, "Well, some things you shouldn't joke about Van."

Van sat with his legs crossed and rested his hands on both legs. "Well you should probably get around to meeting Celena anyway." He remembered the lecture he got from her for bringing a woman to the castle, especially into the Queen's Chambers. "Who is this 'Celena' woman anyway? Wasn't she Dilandau?" she asked.

"Well, yes, but now she isn't anymore. She doesn't even remember Dilandau or what happened to her when she was kidnaped. So do me a favor and don't bring Dilandau up to her, we don't want her to even think about him. Just to let her live a normal life." he said with stern seriousness. She nodded.

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A/N: Hello guys, I'm so sorry that this was taking forever but I had the SAT 9s and those really blow. Thank God we're over with it now. I feel that I am going to have a very good explanation chapter in the next chapter with everyone. Also, I'd like to thank Eliza Walsh (?) and others who have e-mailed me about Esca things! I really appreciate it! Write me more! Bye!