Closed RP: Stephen and Sarah - The Surprise

[nopower-overme.livejournal.com]

((This starts Friday morning. Good clean fun with appliances abounds!))


With minimal fuss, Sarah and Stephen had left the school by Floo to seek out a waiting cab in a nearby 'Muggle' village. Their destination, as far as Sarah knew, was Macduff Aquarium in Aberdeenshire, but this whole day just existing was already so incredible to her. They were leaving the castle - and with it she hoped the stress that had plagued them recently - and venturing out into the non-magic world which she had not been in since her arrival. To be fair, she had not gone beyond the castle and grounds except once to Hogsmeade with Stephen, so she was quite excited.

Settled against Stephen's side in the backseat of the cab, she was content to point out things that caught her attention on the drive - and even explain things that might have been interesting to a man from the 19th century - or simply just sit in companionable silence. The familiarity of being in a car after two months was refreshing because it was something distinctly non-magical and not connected to what they had left behind, and it was all that much better for having Stephen, who was already her new 'familiar', right next to her. They both needed this, in her opinion, so she had been ridiculously pleased when Stephen had mentioned the plans. Without knowing it (or so she assumed, as she had never mentioned her birthday), he had given her an early birthday present in this day trip out with him. There was no more she could ask for, and yet...

"Stephen, I think the cabbie's taken us to the wrong place," she said once she had gotten close to his ear to whisper without being overheard. Outside the window of the now stopped cab was a cottage, very lovely but not the aquarium she had been expecting to see. Too preoccupied with the view or with Stephen, she had not even noticed telling road signs that might have led to confusion much sooner.


((R-ish for quite a lot of smut in various places. xD))

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[nopower-overme.livejournal.com]

Sarah was certain there was something they were supposed to be doing other than getting themselves completely worked up before breakfast with the intoxication of exploring water-slick skin. She did not really wish she could remember, as most thoughts were on the skin under her lips and the places she was touching, but finally the answer came to her through a fog of want. Realizing soap would, in fact, get them both clean and make them more slippery, she let out a soft laugh against his chest and then fumbled for the soap. Once she had it, she began to work it across his chest, grinning widely as she moved her other hand after the soap to play with his soapy skin.

"Look - we're having good, clean fun," she said impishly as she looked up at him.

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"So we are. Clever girl." He ducked his head to capture her mouth again.

[nopower-overme.livejournal.com]

"This is going to take awhile this way," Sarah murmured between kisses, trying to at least keep the soap moving over him. "Then we'll both be bruised, marked and wrinkled - completely not fit to go into public at all." She grinned. "Not that I'm complaining, considering I'm now further from the bed than I was supposed to get."

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"Right. What say we finish this washing business as quickly as possible so we can get you back into the bed where you belong, hmm?"

[nopower-overme.livejournal.com]

"Hmm, alright, so long as you are keeping me company," Sarah said, taking the chance to run her hands all over his body once more and then held the soap out. "You can have this and I'm going to wash my hair." With a grin, she moved against him, deliberately sliding her wet skin along his soap-slick front as she put her hands on his arms to get him to turn and switch spots with her.

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

Stephen moved obligingly so that she could get the full force of the water, and took the soap from her, but set it aside. "Correction: I am going to wash your hair."

[nopower-overme.livejournal.com]

Sarah blinked in surprise and then smiled, brightly. "That sounds lovely," she said and handed him the shampoo before she stuck her head under the water completely.

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

He waited for Sarah to emerge from the stream of water, then did as he said he would, using rather too much shampoo in the process and creating a surplus of lather.

[nopower-overme.livejournal.com]

Still smiling, Sarah closed her eyes and let him work, both to enjoy it and to keep the soap out of her eyes as she brushed the excess lather away from her face.

"This feels very, very good," she informed him, leaning back against him rather unproductively considering the length of her hair. "I'm becoming spoiled, I think."

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

Stephen rubbed the lather into Sarah's scalp. "I should never undertake to spoil you."

[nopower-overme.livejournal.com]

Sarah made a soft sound of pleasure at the gesture. "Hmmm, I'm probably not being spoiled then," she said, and there was a wistful note to it, thinking that moments like this could be... not expected so much as thought of as things that could happen, rather than moments that would never come again. For a brief time, she thought of their return and one of the changes she worried would come with no more potion, but pushed it away. They could discuss it another time. "I'm loving all of this." A soft murmur.

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

Stephen had not an inkling of Sarah's apprehension -- her sense that each moment was stolen, he could be taken from her at any time -- and went on happily washing her hair. "There, now, you may rinse that."