Something More Chapter 7

Author: DQBunny Title: Something More - Take a Hint

Something More

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Disclaimer: "Slayers" does not belong to me, but belongs to Hajime Kanzaka and Rui Araizumi. I'm just borrowing them for a little while.

Note: This fic was originally written for the LiveJournal community, "30 romances", a themed community similar to "30 kisses". All 30 parts will be combined to form one complete story that is the prequel to "Law of the Land." This chapter contains theme #15: Take a hint ; Scram!

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Chapter Seven: "Take a Hint"

They ate supper in Lina's room at the inn. She realized that her father probably wouldn't be back that night and since both rooms had two beds each, she suggested to Zelgadiss that he remain with them for the night. He took her up on the offer, especially since the room was already paid for.

They reminisced for several hours about their travels and talked about Amelia and their other friends. Zelgadiss' travels had taken him back into the southern lands, where Filia was now raising a young Valgaav. Lina and Gourry filled Zelgadiss in more on their adventures. It sounded so similar to what they had told Raulf a week earlier that they tended to rush through it.

Close to midnight, Lina wished them both a good night and turned away from the door as they left the room. She stretched as she heard the door shut and removed her robes. She draped them over a chair and started to unbutton her shirt.

Okay, so there was a change in plans. She couldn't let herself get caught, or else Gourry would go ballistic and then she'd have to deal with him as well. The best thing to do would be to wear clothing that helped them blend into the dark and sneak into the city by night. But, the problem with that was the gates at the bottom of the first loop were normally closed. Scaling them, especially with Gourry in tow, would be a nightmare. She absently wondered if she could talk Zelgadiss into going into the city with them - at least to shoulder the burden of hauling Gourry over the gate.

She reached the last button and removed her blouse, leaving the yellow band she normally wore on the outside of her clothing wrapped around her breasts. Gourry was another issue that she would have to settle, hopefully after things were straightened out with Dinasa. But the way things were going, they would need to talk sometime before that final trip. Lina sighed and stared out the window. If her theory was right and Dinasa did have a piece of Shabranigdu in her trying to wake up, what could she do to beat her other than use the Giga Slave again? Would it even work with the Blast Sword?

She pulled the curtains closed and started to pull the yellow band over her head. She would talk it over with Zelgadiss in the morning. Maybe he would have an idea on how to approach it. Maybe the Blast Sword could handle a couple of Ra Tilts. That could come in handy. She pulled off the band just as she heard the familiar clink of metal on the other side of the room.

She froze, band in her hand. Familiar clink of metal?

Warily, Lina turned around just in time to see Gourry placing his breastplate and thigh guards against the wood valet. He glanced up and she suddenly realized that not only was he in the room when he wasn't suppose to be in there, but that she was naked from the waist up.

His gaze immediately fell on her breasts and his eyes grew large. "Wow...you have a chest after all!"

Lina clenched her hands into fists, barely able to contain her rage, and started chanting beneath her breath. "Darkness from twilight, crimson from blood that flows..."

"Wait, wait, Lina!" Gourry shot across the room and slammed his hand over her mouth. "I can explain!"

She bit him and he jerked his hand back with a hiss. So, he settled for grabbing her arms. He glanced at her and couldn't decide which to focus on - her breasts, which he had an even better view of right now, or the anger blazing from her eyes. He knew that if she had the will to cast a Dragon Slave through expression alone, he and half of the town would be gone.

The safer bet, Gourry decided, would be to stare at her face. So he did and willed himself not to look beyond that. "I can explain! Really! I can!"

"Explain. Fast. Because as soon as you let me loose, I am going to tear you limb from limb," Lina growled.

"It's quite simple, really...I was planning on sleeping with you tonight."

The rage drained from Lina and was replaced by shock. She gawked at him. "You want to what?"

"You know, sleep with you." Gourry frowned and scratched his head. "I don't really feel comfortable with leaving you alone right now and I'll feel better if I'm close to you."

"You mean...sleep in me as in me in one bed and you in the other?"

"Yeah." He looked slightly confused for a moment, then mischievous gleam appeared in his eyes. "Why, do you want me to sleep with you?"

Yes! No! Maybe! I don't know! Lina shook her head to clear her thoughts and noticed that Gourry's hold on her had relaxed. So she took the time to stomp on his foot and give him an upper right-cut that sent him sprawling onto the bed that he said he wanted to occupy. She turned away from him and grabbed her pajama top, pulling it on as quickly as possible. She snatched up the bottoms and went behind the privacy screen to finish changing.

"You could had at least said something before now," Lina grumbled.

"I wasn't paying attention." She heard the rustle of clothing as he changed on the other side. "I thought you would had noticed before now, but you looked to be thinking and I didn't want to interrupt you."

So, instead, he managed to get a good look at...Lina glanced down at her chest and noticed that it did seem slightly bigger since she wasn't constraining it. He'd seemed sufficiently impressed - although this was the same man who insisted that a plate had more height than her chest. With a huff, she breezed out from behind the screen and over to her bed.

She lay on her back, staring at the ceiling. "Did you think the boogyman was going to get me or something?"

Gourry, lying in his bed, folded his arms behind his head. "Well...something told me I needed to be with you tonight. Whenever I get that feeling, usually something targets you within the next 12 hours."

Oh, fantastic. Lina sighed, but couldn't help but feel a sliver of anticipation. She'd been itching for a good fight for awhile, and it was part of the reason why she wanted to let herself be kidnapped. She'd restrained her temper for longer than she wanted to, mostly for her father's sake. If she'd had her way, and if Mother Nature had been with her, those stupid guards at the Zefielia border would had been blown into the Kataart Mountains.

"In the morning, we need to make a plan with Zel," she said. "I'm hoping he'll help us out."

"He will."

She glanced over at Gourry. "Come again?"

"I asked him when you were in the washroom. He said he'd help us."

She sat up, her eyes flashing at him. "What the hell do you think you were doing?"

He followed suit, his own gaze serious. "I'm not going to risk you walking into a trap. Having Zel with us will even the odds a bit more."

"I'm not arguing about that! I'm arguing about you doing this stuff!" Lina got to her knees and pointed at him. "What's gotten into you, today, Gourry? Skulking around, acting all possessive, doing stuff behind my back?"

"You've done stuff behind my back before!"

"That was different!"

"How so?"

They were shouting, but neither of them cared at the moment. Lina got up and marched over to his bed, hands clenched into fists. What surprised her was the flash of temper in Gourry's eyes. He was normally laid-back except on the battlefield. What's gotten into him?

She turned away from him and crossed her arms over her chest. "Look, I did that sort of stuff because I didn't want people to get hurt."

"And I'm doing this because I don't want to see you get hurt."

She bit her lip and considered her reply. "We've gotten into worse scrapes than this. We've come through okay. Don't you trust me to get us through this?"

Gourry noticed his hands were fisting the covers and he relaxed his hold and smiled. "Of course I do. I'm sure going up against a queen wouldn't be hard after the past few years."

Feeling calmer, Lina walked back to his bed and sat down at the foot. Vaguely, she recalled them being in opposite positions a couple weeks earlier. She glanced into her lap and wondered how to handle this. She laced her fingers together. "Hey, is something bothering you? I mean...you'd tell me, right? If something was?"

He wasn't quite sure how to respond to that. Part of him had always been concerned about her, but not to the nervous extent that he felt now. It seemed like he wasn't doing enough and he had to protect her as much as he could from whatever was out there. They had been in so many desperate situations. Gourry was realistic to know that one day, one of them wasn't going to walk away from one of them. But, he wouldn't stop them either - because that would be forcing Lina to change who she was, and it wasn't fair to her or himself. But, maybe he could get her to think a little more clearly.

Lina suddenly felt a pair of strong arms envelope her and draw her back. Before she could completely analyze what was going on, she was on Gourry's lap, her head resting against his chest. She stiffened, not used to the close contact and tried to figure out what was going on. Okay, she thought, he was upset for some reason. He seemed to be worried. She would discover the root of his problem, then bash him for taking such liberties.

But he didn't say anything. He simply held her. As the minutes slipped by, she found herself relaxing in his hold. The tension drained from him as well and she grew comfortable. It felt right to be quiet and enjoy the silence. Beneath her ear, she could hear the steady beat of his heart and recalled how that seemed to calm her in battle at times, when he would push her out of the way to protect her.

She had nearly drifted to sleep when he said her name.

"Hmm...yes, Gourry?"

His hand ran through her hair. "Why don't we get married?"

Her eyes snapped open and she didn't say anything for about a minute. Then, she pushed away, gaping at him. She didn't even bother to hide the blush that turned her entire face as red as her eyes. "You...you want to what?"

"I've been thinking about it for awhile," he replied, looking past her at the wall, appearing to be talking more to himself than to her.. "I mean...I think it's time."

She shook her head. "Gourry, you're not making any sense at all." Actually, Lina thought, this entire situation wasn't making sense. The past few weeks, ever since they shared that little makeshift shelter in the woods, hadn't made sense. Great gods, this was turning into a romance novel. She hated romance novels...

An odd mixture of nervousness and dread twisted in her gut. She stared down at her hands and wondered how to respond. Oh, this was annoying! If this was some random guy, the answer would be easy. Blah, blah, don't take advantage of my maidenly innocence, blah, blah, Fireball. But this wasn't just any man. This was Gourry. And he was actually saying the one thing she was hoping to eventually hear from him.

She pinned him with a serious gaze. "You're not saying this because you're in overprotective Mama Bear mode are you?"

"Huh?" Gourry rewarded her with a blank look.

Lina wondered if he had completely lost his mind. "So, out of the blue, when we're getting ready to travel into my hometown and confront the queen of my kingdom, who happens to be wanting my pretty little head, you suddenly decide that it's time for us to get married?"

"Well, there's no time like the present!" Gourry grinned at her.

She shook him slightly. "You're nuts! You're absolutely insane! And I'm questioning my own sanity because I'm agreeing to your proposal!"

His eyes lit up and she swore he looked like a child with a present. "You will?"

She sighed and cupped her head in her hand. "You're such a jellyfish. Of course I'll marry you. What makes you think that I...gah!" Her sentence cut off as he suddenly hauled her against him and hugged her tightly that she heard her back crack slightly.

"Can't...breathe...Gourry!" Lina wheezed.

He didn't listen and held her tighter.

So she threw him across the room into the wall. He slumped to the ground, leaving a Gourry-sized impression in the wall while Lina sprawled on the bed and sucked in several lungfuls of air.

A moment later, a knock sounded from the other side. "Could you please keep your kinky sex games down? I'm trying to get some sleep!"

Lina jumped to her feet, a fireball already forming in her hands. "Zel, I am going to fry your ass for that!"

Gourry stirred. "Kinky sketch games? I wanna play tiddlywinks." Then he passed out.

Lina sighed and allowed the spell to dissipate. She would simply have to get her revenge on Zelgadiss in the morning. She went over to heal Gourry and haul him into one of the beds.

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