You've got to be Kidding me (Cameron)

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He heard the door open and didn't turn around, sure his mother had come to say something personal he would regret. Instead he heard Leyshell's voice and about startled, stopping when she said 'apology.' Instead he froze and listened carefully as she spoke and he looked irritated. As she spoke his anger lost some of it's edge but didn't really go away entirely. When she stopped he turned his head and said "I told you I wasn't mad at you and right then I wasn't but when you spoke up in favor of those damn rings... and it seemed suddenly everyone was against me in all ways. It was a bit much to hear."

Turning to her directly he took two steps and stopped in front of her. "For losing my temper about that I'll apologize to you, but not to them." He still looked irritated, but with his sleeves rolled up he did look more relaxed. "Come on, I promised I'd show you if you came over..." Leaving the box where it was (no one was going to steal it after all in their backyard) he led the way around the pool and down some stairs into the courtyard. Waving in the proper directins over the sound of the waterfall he said "Closets, bed, seating."

Leading the way to the bed he waved at it. "Go on, sit down. I suspect you can say you've been in my bed with a straight face and get delight out of other's reactions." Tossing his jacket at the closet door he walked over as well adding "Here, I'll sit down there you can claim to have been in my bed with me if you care." Throws himself down on his bed as it swings back and forth slightly, rubbing the bridge of his nose. The bed smelled of him and Duncan watched them from the closet door, watching her in particular.

"Look, I have been prepared for this coming up. The timing I don't give a damn about, but I don't like being treated as if I have no choice. I'm reasonable, people can talk me around. I don't keep my points inflexible. But I do have stuff happening and I do use sex as part of it. Not with everyone, but some people." he took a deep breath and let it out before he turned his head and looked at her. "You threatened to ruin a number of promising fools I can use later on. That struck a bad note with me, Leyshell and I reacted badly. I liked the woman from the water park. A lot. I can deal with her, if she is willing to give me a chance and talk first before pushing absolutes in my face. And in exchange I won't shove surprises at her either."

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“Yeah, I know but I still needed to apologize” Leyshell said as she followed him to where she assumed his room was going to be, unless he was giving her a tour but she doubted to big of a risk running into their parents. She could tell that he hadn’t thought she would visit in these circumstances neither did she. If she was being honest, she absolutely loved his room, it was relaxing. Not to personalize but personalize at the same time. She kicked off her heels and she was suddenly entirely to short, maybe being almost as tall as him had gotten to her head. Sighing she sat on the bed….as comfortable as she could considering her dress.

“I doubt, this counts especially since laying down in this dress would be sooo uncomfortable. But it’s one my father absolutely hates.” she said shrugging, she got an idea. She skipped over to the closet and picked out one of his T-shirts and held it to her body…it would be long enough to cover herself. Slipping it over her head she didn’t put her arms in the sleeves instead unzipping her dress and then fixing the shirt. She was sure he hadn’t seen anything but then again…her swim suit that day had less materials than what she underneath at the moment. Walking over to the bed she laid down and laughed when he sat down on the bed, or laid down rather. The bed was like a giant swing “Now you can say you’ve gotten me in your bed” Which wasn’t something anybody could say beside him…oh great more things to boost his ego he thought inwardly.

Leyshell sighed, her hair was changing from blonde to pink only be she was both sorry and embarrassed by her behavior. Pushing it out of her face she played with a strand of her hair as it grew longer. “Yeah, that wasn’t the best way to handle that, though it was mostly because you actually asked me about that. We adopt a don’t ask don’t tell policy as in I won’t ask you won’t tell. Cause truthfully I’m a selfish and jealous person but im a flirt so I can see how that conflicts. I just really don’t want to know, and I can’t promise not to get angry about things girls says.” Since they were being hones with each other she might as well be honest with him.

“I think she can agree to that, as long as you’re willing to go snowboarding” She said smirking, that was something she wanted to do during the winter holidays. Maybe not soo much winter, there was always Easter break and she didn’t mind if he invited a friend over….as horrid as that might sound especially if it was a girl.

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"I appreciate it. It's going to take me a bit to let go of the anger of what all has happened tonight, but you are not the cause." He saw her eyes as she looked around and he pointed behind her. "That's all mine. Amateurish I'm sure, but I'm getting there." He shook his head when she skipped to his closet and Duncan watched her carefully. She was clearly used to treating other's things as her own, he'd have to watch that. It was almost as if since the ring business she had already translated in her mind to him being hers.

His eyes lit up when he realized what she was doing however.

"Ah, true. If we're going to really shock them..." Walking over to the closet he looked in another door and took off his shirt, hanging it with the coat then pulling out a slim pair of shorts and pulling off his pants with his back to her, sliding the shorts on over his underwear. Returning he smirked as he lay down again, this time on his side facing her only a few inches separating them. "Now that is better." Her comments about don't ask made sense though and he nodded, reaching over and moving a lock of hair out of her face.

"Agreed. protects us both from mind readings if they suspect one of us of...something the other can't give it away." he nodded to himself, liking the concept. "Well most of mine aren't that...physical, but look more then they are. That's part of the trick to them. Image is everything when playing with someone's mind." Last thing he was expecting was snowboarding-- but whatever worked indeed. "Snowboarding? Sure." He hesitated. "A friend? Hmm, don't know if I should do that to you. I'd rather you not feel stress because of what I am doing around you, Leyshell."

His eyes looked relieved more so and he reached out and touched her cheek. Softly. "We can make this work. I will try not to be a pain to you, Leyshell, but I will tell you about the ones where nothing happens, okay? Like Dany. We're just quidditch buds, I swear, but I think we've become more siblings." As a furry brush across his back happened he chuckled and reached behind him, lifting Duncan over in front of her. "And Duncan. He's my lifelong friend. Duncan this is Leyshell. You will see her around a lot. Leyshell, this is the cat who has saved my life a few times..."

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Leyshell nodded “They’re nice, to be honest im not much of an art critic everyone has their own, zest and type of art it’s not my business to put them down because I don’t understand or like it.” She was comfortable, extremely so, perhaps it was because his bed was comfortable which was really strange seeing as she hadn’t ever been in a guys bed before. She mentally groaned, this was starting to be a long list of first, and she wasn’t entirely sure where this was going. Though she couldn’t say it was the worst thing in her mind, He was hot.

She turned her attention to his Cat. She was beautiful and her name was bit off….why did he name her Duncan. you know Duncan you might get along with my cat Zar, he’s pitch black with glowing green eyes, I had him since I was a lass” she said solely to the get, they didn’t always respond to her because they never knew if she really understood them but it was nice to talk to a cat. She had be ignoring Zar of late because she had a lot going on in her life. After that, she got more comfortable in Cameron’s bed moving closer to him in the process, she wondered his how he could sleep outside, what happened when it snowed or got cold.

“On a scale of one to ten how do you rank your kissing skills” she said with a small laugh, her voice was soft mostly because she was tired and wanted to put all stress behind them for now. They had a while to work out the details and she would make it a point to be more allowing but also reasonable. They could make it work as long as she kept a reign on her anger and remembered they were in the same boat.

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As she spoke about art he nodded, glad to hear she didn't feel like being critical. "Well I doubt mine is sellable in the first place. I do it as a relief really, that's all. So it's for me mostly."Now that his anger was dying down, or at least not being distracted by his parents, he could take another moment to see her. Seeing her in one of his shirts was more then a small turn on, actually, though he wasn't going to tell her that as he glanced over her and mentally approved. She seemed to be looking over his chest and he didn't mind that either, though he could think of better ways to get rid of tension, the think she had decided not to do till the wedding being chief amongst those.

Ah celibacy. An evil word.

Duncan studied her face. 'Possible. Is he at the stone castle too?' The cat was decidedly male in his sound. She got more comfortable and he couldn't help but notice she moved closer. "Comfortable? This bed has rocked me to sleep for many years. I miss it a lot at school..." She seemed to be tired now, but it had been a very stressful evening for them both really. A stretch on his part as he lay there, then he thought about ho to answer her other question.

It was such a flirting question when they lay so close together on his bed."Well I think of myself as very easily an eight or nine, but I never rate anything as a ten. I think there is always room for change, for improvement. However, you should judge for yourself, Leyshell," and he leaned over and gave her a brushing kiss, soft and gentle and barely there. The kiss was followed by another and another each getting a bit deeper as one hand fell to her waist, the other to her chin.

When they continued, this hand slipped into her hair, running his finger tips across her scalp gently...

Oh yes, he wanted her. It would make things so much more relaxed between them, not to mention she was beautiful and wild; she would be inventive if nothing else and keep him on his toes.

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Leyshell nodded “I find, the art industry is always filled with that one desperate house wife that will buy anything as long as you put the words on of kind….and limited addition in front of. Add some flirting and tell her how envious her friends will be and you got yourself a deal“ She was aware that she sent mixed signals sometimes, but really it was simple. She didn’t mind him flirting and stuff as long as it was purely for business. Some small part of her was still selfish enough to not want a girl to get the same attention as her because then she was just as much as sucker as they were. She wasn’t falling for him or anything, it was just as simple as that. She never had to share before, but at the same time she’s never had someone give them their full attention. Most of her relationship dealt with her manipulating people to get what she wanted, the one real relationship she had…she ruined because he was a moral Gryffindor and she could risk him tainting his soul….he couldn’t risk that.

She raised an eyebrow at the cat….it was a boy so why was she thinking it was a girl. She probably miss interrupted his words due to her sleepiness. yeah, he’s hard to miss he snoops around and he’s sarcastic as all get. Just as nosy also, maybe a bit stuck up but other ways a good person.” She turned to Cameron “I can understand you and Duncan’s relationship I’ve had Zar since he was a kitten and whenever me and parents traveled and they forgot I was along or left me somewhere it was just me and Zar exploring, trying to find the Hotel or trying to pick up small parts of the language.” She relied on Zar a lot, though they didn’t talk much lately he was always there to give her support so on some level they had a connection. Though she wouldn’t tell him that, no he had to figure this out on his own, a helpful nudge wouldn’t be to much trouble…but still.

“Very. Comfortable I might have to steal the idea of a swinging bed, but with a canopy to keep out the light, and change the colors to purple.” she said with a small smile, she hoped this wouldn’t be one of those fight/make up relationships though the possibility of what that meant in the future intrigued her. “I think so too” was all that came from her before he leaned over and kissed her, gentle at first but each time getting deeper, she would never tell him if he was a good kisser. She followed his lead, resting one hand on his chest and the other against the side of his neck she returned the kiss.

She had read somewhere that URST was the cause of may fights and arguments, she was sure that somewhere along that he would test her decision to wait until the wedding. For now she was more interested in shifting her body closer which she did. She could already tell the signs of her want were there, her hair turning ebony following the trail his finger tips left across her scalp. The way she throw herself into the kiss a bit more, she never really tried to take control of the kiss because she knew he had more experiences than her, only this was about the most control he would ever Truly get in the relationship..

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Art talk was very interesting actually, but this wasn't the time to get deep into it either. "I don't know if I will ever sell anything, but I like what I do so it's sort of a part of me. That makes it harder to let go of really..." Still the idea of flirting being a needed part of art selling tickled him. "DO you really flirt and it helps? Like, do you get more for doing so? That's sort of hilarious that people are that easy to trick..."

Nodding, he ruffled the back of Duncan's neck on the side where he seemed to like it a lot. "When I was stuck in the wheelchair a few weeks, Duncan was the reason I didn't go crazy. His attention kept me from doing some rather drastic stuff. He's very smart and he knows me well..." She was making sounds at the cat and he seemed to respond to it. Maybe she had one of those special talents? "Are you talking to him or just making sounds? Because I can tell he's listening and responding to you."

Grinning he added "I wish I had had a pet back then. Duncan has only been with me about three years. That's great you have been with Zar while you were growing up!" As she spoke about the bed he chuckled, knowing what she meant. "They already have them with canopies. Actually, I've seen one made like a boat and you slept inside of the deck part." As he kissed her, she went with it, giving him the lead and seemed equally into it.

Leyshell tasted good, and she certainly knew how to follow along and make stuff up along the way he could tell. By the time his head was sideways, her hand was on his chest and neck which he liked. As she began to explore a little, he increased the kissing significantly when she reached those spots he liked most, such as the spot between shoulder and neck, her fingers across his chest. He followed up with his hand sliding from her scalp to the back of her neck cradling her, the hand at her waist sliding around, gripping her in little bits, enjoying the feel of her in his hands.

His hand had just slid slightly down her thigh softly, feeling the material of her underwear in the way when he heard steps on the stairway.

Oh of course, it had to be his father he knew. He was wrapping up the kiss making a disappointed sigh as their lips broke before his father even spoke. "MERLIN! What ARE you doing Cameron??" As he partially went up on an elbow he looked towards his father with extreme disappointment. "First off I think you know exactly what I am doing and it's a lot less then you and mom do. Second off, Leyshell came to convince me to hang around instead of leaving like I had been doing when she came in here." He pointed at the front of the closet where a suitcase stood, clearly being packed though he hadn't touched it and Leyshell hadn't seen it before. Clearly it had been prepared in advance.

As his father's face paled, Cameron nodded once with a hate filled look as he added "Yes sir, you had me that p!ssed off. Fortunately for you, Leyshell is a pretty good convincer." He glanced down at her, the eye his father couldn't see from the stairs winking at her. "Though right now it's only a delay tactic. I still want to blow a hole in the wall. I am NOT putting that ring on though."

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Leyshell laughed “Me, no I don’t flirt, stuffy rich guys are a bit creepy about seemingly poor artist. I’m saying that with your looks you could pull it off if you play your cards right.” He didn’t have to sell his artwork or anything, she just didn’t want him to put down his work, everyone had individual taste and she was sure his work would appeal to someone who felt the same emotion he felt while creating it. That was what was great about art. People could interpret it a million ways from what you had originally intended. There was no wrong or right, just closed and opened minds. “Hey, everyone is con you have yet to pull…..until you find the person you don’t want to Con.” Maybe that was a bit fortune cookie of her but it was what she lived by.

“I would go crazy even with Zar, and he would go crazy with me, he’s too sarcastic to help anyone stay sane, he’ll tell you exactly how he feels and the looks he gives you.” she said smiling genuinely, she raised an eyebrow at his question “oh, it’s a gift I can talk to felines even the bigger ones…it’s always fun since about half the castle has cats ….good for information.

“I’m so getting one, I just have to deal with Zar forever in my bed and not his….he’s such a diva sometimes” She said as she lost herself in the kiss. If she was being honest with herself, she would rate him a nine and half or a nine and three-quarters because the boy knew what he was doing. She figured she might as well enjoy feeling him while she so could, because if they were caught they would surely be chaperoned. She let her finger trail across his chest, trailing along his stomach tracing imaginary patterns as they moved. Her other hand moved up from the side of his neck to the back of his neck into his hair, just feeling the texture.

Her excitement grew ash his explore more and she followed suit, though she heard footsteps and prayed it wasn’t one of her parents. She couldn’t come up with a good enough lie as to why she was currently half-dressed and snogging her contracted husband, though she shouldn’t exactly have to explain should she? She heard Cameron’s fathers voice asked what she was doing and she giggled and laid partially on Cameron’s chest. She had messed her hair up some with her gift and from moving around, mostly because she wanted to see his fathers reaction. “Only a delay tactic, guess im gonna have to try harder huh?”
She said looking at him with mischief dancing in her eyes. She was so having fun with this, though she seemed to forget she was wearing only a shirt.

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His growing grin said he took the double compliment with pleasure and he did. The fact she was telling him many would flirt with him said enough from her in the first place. "Thanks, I'll remember that," with a smile. A glance over her form again filling out his shirt got him more interested in the very sort of exploration they had spoken about the other day, but he knew they had little time. Her comment about cons he only half paid attention too; he had far more important things he wanted to include her in right now.

"Yes, cats have their own sort of magic really. I know I don't want to ever do without Duncan. He puts up with me very well." As she spoke about his bed he decided waiting was out of the question and he kissed her. As she explored he brought the kiss through several states, building up both sensations and emotions together. He slid his fingers across her underwear and was about to make his way up across her back when they were interrupted. Hating being stopped, he knew if he didn't aggressively talk back to his father the man would force action on the issue.

As his father stammered, Cameron pointed at the exit at the top of the stairs. "Leave so I can get her dressed, sir, nothing has happened of what you fear." As his father half turned, half looked at the suitcase, he was clearly wondering what to do. He had barely reached the top while Cam watch when he turned and caught her up with an arm sliding around her waist as he lowered his lips to her with a passion that had been missing earlier. Now he drove the kiss, pressing himself to her, his hand sliding down the back of her leg and back up, keeping up the sensation. He kissed her steady for nearly a full minute before he broke it off and whispered "Mmmm, you taste wonderfully enjoyable."

And then he slipped off the bed releasing her and picked up her dress holding it not out for her, but undoing the side and holding it for her to step into. Either way he would still see something, but that was hardly an issue; had had already tried for more then he would have expected. And supposedly she was his and he was hers. Once she slipped in he zipped it trying hard not to whine about what he was missing out on, then turned and picked up some jeans and a shirt slipping them on instead of his suit. "I've had enough dressing up for the night."

Leading her up the steps he handed her his shirt saying "A souvenir for the time being." Up on the patio he stopped and picked up the ring box and held it a minute looking at her. "Yes or no. I'll let you decide."

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Leyshell raised an eyebrow when Cam told his dead to leave, he looked like he wanted to say more so she wondered if he would leave or stay to talk more. She wasn’t nearly as impressed as she was before when he walked away, her parents would’ve stayed and yelled and proceed to make her get dress and try to shame her into behaving. Leyshell snickered a bit but it hardly go finished before Cameron’s mouth was back on hers. She had to admit that she liked this kiss better than the last, the amount of passion it had set her lips on fire. Leyshell herself was never one for slow and sweet or sweet anything for that matter but the sense of urgency in the kiss, reminded her that one of their parents would come back if they weren’t back in the dinning room soon. She enjoyed the feeling of his hands running across her bare skin and held back a disappointed sigh when they he broke the kiss.

”Flattery will get you most places Mr. Clarke’ she said with a smirk and watched as he went to pick of her dress. She got this evil smirk in her eyes as she got up of the bed and undid the buttons slowly to “her” shirt as she walked towards him. Just because their little exploration was finished didn’t mean she couldn’t tease him. She stepped into her dress and kissed him quickly on the cheek “Thanks Doll face” she said before tying her hair up in a loose ponytail. It would be easier than having to explain why half of her hair was black, her mother wasn’t exactly clueless to what it meant. She got her mood hair from her after all. She smiled and accepted the shirt “Well I guess I should thank you for the new night gown, apparently lingerie shops don’t make comfortable bed clothing, though I doubt they expect the clothes to stay on, still.” she grabbed her shoes, but didn’t put them on. She was way past acting proper and she was a bit envious of Cameron’s jeans, she wanted to be in a comfortable oversized T-shirt and in bed.

“Eh, we could always use them for negotiation purposes….after all it is in the contract. Might give us some leverage as they cant force us to put them on.’ She checked her pocket and made sure the ring was still there and hadn’t fell out when she had removed her dress. She shook her head at the thought that Cameron and her had meet all but two times and her had gotten her out of most of her clothes. Then again he saw her in her swim suit but there was a difference when you undressed in front of someone. She walked back into the house and waited outside the dinning room, she so didn’t want to go back in their and face their parents. Perhaps they could make a run for it. “What are the odds they’d follow us if we try and make a break for it?” she said with an eye roll.

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His father, he knew, would want to keep a scandal down and this smacked of one even if only between the two families. He wavered when facing his son's anger at his parents' ways which truthfully he felt were justified and then decided since his son had said they were coming he could go and prevent her parents from seeing or witnessing anything. Fingers crossed things would work out, the rather torn man hurried back to the house as Cameron had thought he would. "He's too busy thinking scandals now and how to keep your parents from learning about this now to be much trouble. I rarely go against him, but he's royally screwed up with me today and he knows it."

A glance down at her chest before he sighed adding "Of course new perspectives lead me to thinking differently now..." and then he got up to retrieve her clothes. "Hardly flattery to tell a woman what she already knows, Leyshell," he said as she walked towards him unbuttoning in a very attractive way causing him to lick his lips, "And you know yourself very well I suspect." As she kissed him as he fastened her dress around her form he whispered in her ear "And if I thought you would give it to me, I'd ask you for your address and a date you'd like to see me there in the night without them knowing..."

But she had already told him she was waiting for marriage so he knew that the temptation even she was smart enough to avoid. The next time they got that far along it would rapidly lead to getting out of hand, possibly on both their parts now that she knew he was skilled at what he did. The taste of her still on his tongue, he savored the moment of her looking at his jeans with envy and followed her figure as she walked up the stairs in front of him carrying his shirt. "Well that at least I can promise you, come the wedding night you may find more an advantage to not having any at all. The honeymoon will be an adventure to say the least."

Barefoot he walked with her around the pools to the house and as she spoke he stuck the ring box in his jeans pocket. "Hmm, maybe. He did say codicil which is a legal document so i suspect they can force the issue already legally. I'll owl you a copy as soon as I can get my hands on one. I still have yet to see a copy of the contract, it might give me some ideas." Without an interest in getting out of it so much now as whether she had intended it or not she had convince him he wanted her now, he did want to make their parents pay. "After all, they need to learn a lesson about trying to force their offspring into something against their will and I would like to find a way to use their contract to hit them back."

She might have gone over it legally after all, but he doubted she had looked at using it as a weapon. As much as Cameron and Leyshell were now legally stuck together, their parents were also written into it and there might be something there he could use. "Oh I suspect now they would be forced to come after us. Seems they gave up on a full dinner, I saw them in the living room as we came up. Come on, I'll get us something to snack on quick enough," he said taking her hand and leading the way down the hall to the kitchen. Bartelby their wizard servant and Zu-zu the house elf were clearly busy in cleaning up and as soon as he stepped in through the door he motioned towards the counter edge. "There you are, Master Cameron, I suspected you would be along soon so I set two aside."

Nodding his thanks, he pulled out a chair for Leyshell without a thought and as soon as she sat he took the counter chair beside her. Zu-zu was doing dishes and putting them away as the servant poured them each a glass of wine. "Much better then that table at the moment, I think anyway. By the time we get something I suspect your parents will be waiting for your appearance to leave without knowing anything except I gave you a tour. Talk about the back yard the most I suspect, you've already seen most of the main rooms."

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