| LAST CHANCE BY TIMA |
CHAPTERS 226 - 230 |
PREVIOUSLY...
[Tea tries to fight the tears that threaten to fall, not wanting to give him the power to hurt her anymore. Despite her attempts to push away her feelings, the pain hits her hard, even as her heart tries to convince her not to give up on their relationship yet. She knows there must be a reason for his sudden anger. She doesn't feel up to the battle right now, though, that would need to be fought if there is any chance for the truth to come out and for them to make their way through this crisis together, and end up stronger in the end.]
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chapter 226:
[A long period of silence passes between the estranged lovers as they wait in the small, darkened elevator.]
Tea: Todd?
[He doesn't respond.]
Tea: Todd?
[Still no response.]
Tea: I know you can't be sleeping. You can't do that when I'm in the same room with you, remember?
[Tea waits, but still doesn't receive a response from Todd.]
Tea: So, you're not going to talk to me at all? You're just going to ignore me the whole time we're stuck in here?
[Todd continues to refuse to respond to her. Tea reaches her hand out in the dark. She finds her suitcases and pushes them to one of the front corners of the elevator. On her knees, she crawls the short distance until her hand bumps into Todd's leg. His body instinctively jerks from her touch, startled by the sudden physical contact.
Todd is even more startled when Tea straddles his body and sits on his lap, facing him. She places her hand on his chest and moves it up to his face as she leans her upper body closer to him.
It isn't until Tea kisses him that he finally responds to her...by kissing her back.
For several minutes they kiss each other, neither able to prevent their bodies, along with their hearts, from responding to the other person, despite their earlier anger.
Finally, Todd places his hands on either side of her face and ends their kiss.]
Todd: What the hell do you think you're doing, Delgado?
Tea: I'm communicating with you, the only way I knew would get some kind of reaction out of you. Now, let's talk.
Todd: You want to communicate? Fine! Let's communicate.
[Todd moves one of his hands from her face, down to her blouse. As his hand cups her breast, he speaks to her again.]
Todd: Is this enough communication or do you want more?
Tea: If you tell me why you're so angry at me, we could work this out.
[Todd responds with silence and by removing his hand from her breast.
Tea waits until she's certain that Todd won't be answering her question, before she removes her body from his and returns to sitting as far from Todd as she can in the small space of the darkened elevator.]
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LAST CHANCE
chapter 227:
[Several minutes pass uncomfortably until Todd can't prevent his body from seeking out what it needs.
He slides his body over until he comes into contact with Tea's body. His hand touches her thigh and caresses her bare leg. Knowing that she's still wearing the same outfit as she did the night before, at the diner, makes him think about all that they shared in the diner, as well as outside the diner. Todd moans from the memory. Tea smiles, enjoying the way he responds to physical contact with her. Despite her anger at him for refusing to discuss whatever has him ready to end their relationship, she can't help but consider giving into her own body's desire for him.
With Tea offering no resistance, Todd's hand moves under her skirt and caresses her through her underwear.]
Tea: If you intend to go any further, you'll have to do something for me, in return.
Todd: I'm not in the mood to chat right now.
Tea: I know exactly what mood you're in.
Todd: Since you're ticked at me, you probably plan on using your body against me and not letting it happen.
Tea: I'll let it happen. All I want is for you to talk to me after we're done. Don't worry, I'm not asking you to tell me why you're angry at me. It's obvious that you won't be filling me in on that. Since we could be stuck in here for hours, I'd really prefer not to have you ignore me the entire time, except when we're making...uh...having sex, that is.
Todd: So, if I chat about unimportant stuff while we're recovering, we get to work on that record we were talking about last night.
Tea: If you have you're way, this will be the last chance we'll have to break that record.
Todd: So, you're okay with this? You're not going to get all girlie on me and make more out of this?
Tea: We both obviously enjoy this part of our relationship. No matter what other problems we've had, this is one of the easiest aspects we've had to our relationship, once we finally started doing this together. Doing something that we both enjoy will make passing the time until help arrives easier. And, it would certainly be one way for our relationship to go out with a bang.
Todd: We don't have to talk while we're doing it, do we?
Tea: No, Todd. Your verbal communication can be limited to grunts, like it usually is.
Todd: This is a bad idea.
Tea: If you really feel that way, why is your hand still touching me so intimately?
Todd: There's material there.
Tea: Yes, but I can feel your hand. I can feel your caresses. I'm sure that if I were to touch you in a similar area of your body, I would find evidence of similar excitement to what I'm feeling right now.
Todd: You're a lawyer. You'll probably turn doing it in an elevator into consent for you to keep living in my penthouse.
Tea: It's my penthouse, and nothing that we do here will have any bearing on that. This is just two people in need of a certain type of morning refreshment. Nothing more.
Todd: So, we're back to doing this without it meaning anything?
Tea: Only while we're trapped here. After we get out, I'll go back to the penthouse. If you don't want to fill me in on what you're upset about, you'll be going somewhere else.
Todd: It's my penthouse.
Tea: The legal system may see it differently.
Todd: Not after I finish buying whatever part of it will give me the judgment I want.
Tea: You can't buy justice.
Todd: You're right. It's more like renting. I'll still have to shell out more cash the next time I need some justice.
Tea: Todd?
Todd: What?
Tea: If you want to do this, we should stop talking.
Todd: You're the one who won't shut up. Besides, you said I had to talk to you if I wanted to get what you've got.
Tea: I want you to talk to me after. Right now, I want this...
[Tea works to lower her underwear, wanting Todd's touch to be without any barrier. Todd realizes what she's doing and helps her. When he finishes, he places her panties in his pocket. Due to the darkness, Tea has no idea what Todd did with her underwear, after removing it from her body. In this moment, she's not particularly concerned. Her only concern is finding the release that her body is screaming for, along with secretly hoping that after making love, Todd won't be able to go through with his plans to end their relationship.]
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LAST CHANCE
chapter 228:
[Todd's hand returns to caressing Tea intimately. They both enjoy the contact more now that Todd has removed the barrier of her underwear.]
Tea: Todd?
Todd: I thought we had a deal about not chatting during this?
Tea: Would you like to kiss?
Todd: You want to kiss me?
Tea: I wouldn't object if you wanted to kiss me.
Todd: You're sure?
Tea: I've become accustomed to kissing while we do this.
Todd: I guess it would keep you from talking and ruining the mood.
[Tea reaches out in the darkness and places her hand on his chest. She turns toward him as her hand slides up his shirt to his neck. She brings her mouth to his and they share a kiss more tender than either expected in this moment.
They both try to let go of any anger they feel concerning recent events. Neither wants what could be their last time making love to involve any emotions other than love.
While they kiss, Tea's hand moves down his body and caresses the front of his jeans. After a few moments, Todd's hand stops pleasuring her. He quickly pulls on her body until she's straddling him.
They resume kissing as Tea grinds her lower body against his, creating a greater need for further pleasure in both of them. After a few more moments of delaying what they both really want, Todd's hands go to her buttocks, encouraging her to lift her body off his so he can remove his pants and put an end to his desperate need.
Tea doesn't move. She continues kissing him passionately, wanting to drag this moment out a little longer. Todd disagrees and doesn't want anymore delays.
Todd ends their kiss.]
Todd: Delgado...
Tea: You don't want to rush, do you?
Todd: Are you kidding? Come on, Delgado, quit playing games with me.
Tea: I'm not the one playing games.
Todd: I get it now. You just wanted to get me to the edge and now you think I'll let you back off.
Tea: If I wanted to stop right now, I know that's what we would do.
Todd: You can stop if you want to. That doesn't mean that I have to.
Tea: You would take care of this...need...this large...pressing...throbbing...need, all by yourself?
Todd: If I had to.
Tea: I wish we weren't in the dark.
Todd: You'd want to watch? That's sick!
Tea: You'd want to watch me, wouldn't you?
Todd: That's different.
Tea: Only in your mind.
Todd: Make up your mind, Delgado. What do you want right now? Because, I know that I'm not in the mood to talk anymore.
Tea: What are you in the mood for?
Todd: You know.
Tea: Say it.
[Todd is silent.]
Tea: Say it and I guarantee you'll enjoy what happens next.
Todd: I thought you were different.
Tea: What do you mean?
Todd: I didn't think you got off on taking a guy this far and then holding out until the poor sap has to do whatever you want just so he can get what he needs.
Tea: What I really wanted was a lifetime with you. We both know I'll never get that. What we're doing now, right here in this elevator, is just sex. Do you understand that? This doesn't mean a thing to me. It's just a physical act. It's not at all emotional.
Todd: Who are you trying to convince...me or you?
[Tea moves her body and opens Todd's jeans. She's surprised to find that he isn't wearing any underwear.]
Tea: Todd!
Todd: I will always surprise you, Tea.
Tea: Is there any chance that you'll surprise me by not pushing me away anymore?
Todd: I thought this was just sex and nothing more for you?
Tea: It could have been more, Todd. It could have been much more.
[Without anymore words, or anymore delays, Tea repositions herself and brings their bodies together in what they both know will be an orgasmically pleasurable way. They both moan from the connection that still sends thrills through both their bodies, despite the multitude of times they've made love since Todd's return to Llanview, and Tea's life, a few months earlier.]
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LAST CHANCE
chapter 229:
[Minutes later...
Todd and Tea are side by side in the darkened, disabled elevator. They're silent as they both recover from the quick, energetic sex they just had.
As the moments pass, Todd's anxiety rises. He feels a tremendous need to get out of the elevator, to escape his escalating feelings of panic. Knowing that he can't, only increases his anxiety.
Tea can hear as his breathing noticeably changes. She now regrets their having made love, as she realizes that he needs to escape her, as he has in the past, but this time his exit is blocked.
She tries to think of what to do that would offer him some relief from the overwhelming feelings she assumes he's experiencing right now. She knows that trying to physically comfort him probably wouldn't work. It might only make it worse for him if he knew for certain that she sensed his rising anxiety.
Unable to think of anything else that she could do in this moment that would help him, she turns to the one thing that she knows from recent experience helps alleviate his anxiety, at least for a short time.
In the darkness, Tea reaches out for him. He quickly tries to pull away from her.]
Todd: Don't touch me.
Tea: I need more.
Todd: What?
Tea: We have a record that we're trying to break, remember?
Todd: I know what you're trying to do.
Tea: I'm trying to take as much as I can, while I can. You're the one who wants to end our relationship, for reasons you won't clue me in on. If this is to be our last time together, I want more. I want much more.
[He knows that she's trying to distract him from the reality of being trapped and unable to escape, despite his body's warning that he must.]
Todd: It might not work, Delgado.
Tea: Let me try.
[Tea feels the movements of his body next to her as he lowers his jeans again for her. After he settles his body again, she reaches out for him and gently strokes him for several moments before repositioning herself and bringing her mouth to him, hoping to offer him so much pleasure his mind won't be able to focus on anything else.]
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LAST CHANCE
chapter 230:
[Tea continues to use her mouth to bring pleasure to Todd's flesh. His hands caress her head, letting her know how much he appreciates her efforts.
When Tea removes her mouth from his disappointed flesh, he objects.]
Todd: Delgado!
Tea: I want you.
Todd: Again?
Tea: I need you.
Todd: Okay.
[Tea straddles his lap but doesn't allow him entrance to her body...yet. Instead, she works to remove his jacket.]
Todd: What are you doing?
Tea: I need to feel you.
Todd: Go ahead and feel me. Don't waste time on stupid stuff.
Tea: I need to feel your whole body against mine, without our clothes getting in the way.
Todd: What if this elevator starts going again and someone sees us?
Tea: At this point, they would get quite a show, whether you're wearing a shirt or not.
Todd: It's too dark in here to see anything. Why does it matter if I'm wearing a shirt?
Tea: I want to feel my bare chest against yours.
Todd: You would really take everything off in here?
Tea: I could.
Todd: You're not worried about someone seeing you?
Tea: All I care about right now is being with you completely. I don't want any barriers.
Todd: It's too dangerous.
[As they continue their conversation, Tea caresses his chest through his shirt.]
Tea: I want to feel you against me. I want you on top of me. I want your flesh against my flesh. I want it all.
Todd: We can't do that in here.
Tea: I need it. I need you.
[Todd places his arms around her and moves his hands under the bottom of her blouse and caresses her bare back.]
Todd: When we get out of here.
Tea: You never want to see me again after this elevator starts working again.
[Todd nuzzles her neck, as his passion for her increases, and his desire to converse lessens.]
Tea: Please, Todd. If this is our last time together, I want it to be free of all barriers.
[Reluctantly, Todd continues their conversation.]
Todd: When we get out of here, we'll do whatever you want.
Tea: You'll tell me why you want to end our relationship?
[Todd is silent. In this moment, he knows that he would agree to almost anything so they can proceed and he can continue taking pleasure from her body. He doesn't want to lie to her, though, or make any promises that he'll later disappoint her by not keeping.]
Tea: It's okay. Let's just finish what we started.
Todd: I don't know what will happen. If I had a choice, I wouldn't lose you.
Tea: You have a choice.
Todd: I don't feel like I do. But, whatever happens, I'll take you to bed, first. I'll make love to you. I'll explore every part of your body again while I can see what I'm doing. I'll look in your eyes. I'll touch you like your the most precious thing to me, because you are. But, right now, I need to stop thinking about all that junk and go back to just screwing each other. Okay?
Tea: I love you, Todd.
[Their lips come together. They kiss for several moments, until neither feels they can wait any longer. Todd's flesh happily returns to it's preferred position inside Tea's body.]
to be continued...
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