La Chaleur - The Heat of a Lady

NiuNiu Note

I have corrected the grammar mistakes and typos (most of the grammar mistakes were just typos, thank god) from the last chapter. Oh, don´t you just hate the fact you become blind to your own texts? Well honestly! I read the last chapter like 15 times before submitting it here and still there was plenty of typos and simple grammar mistakes. That happens me every time I write. Think about how irritating that was when I was working as a journalist in one of our country´s biggest news paper editorial staff...

--

Lady tiptoed softly across the wooden floor. It felt cool under her still wet soles and Lady decided to hurry on sofa before the nice cool feeling would turn into coldness. She hated cold feet, especially after a warm bath. Lady quickly dried her short hair messing it under the towel and placed in nicely on the wooden chair that lied next to Dante´s office chair. She had been forced to bring few of her furniture with her to Dante´s office and one of them was a wooden chair. It wasn´t pretty, expensive or anything like that, but the chair had been in Lady´s room when she was still a small child. Every evening at bed time her mother had took that chair, placed it next to her bed and sat on it to read her a bedtime story. The small chair was maybe the only thing that was left from her old home and one of the only things that held the memory of mother, beside Kalina Ann. Lady never asked did Dante have any memory like the chair from his mother. She was just too shy to ask it and to be honest, Lady wasn´t sure would he even answer. As much as she enjoyed making that demon suffer now and then and no matter how much Dante tortured her, there was this wordless agreement not to talk bout family issues. The only road leaded forward.



Lady wiggled her toes. She had completely forgot the cold feet hazard! Turning quickly on heals Lady faced the small “living room” she had built in the one of the corners of the office with her furniture. Well, not much, just TV, slim wooden table and a nice, soft, just bought leather sofa that had... Dante on it. And the two decorating pillows on floor! White pillows on floor! Lady scowled angrily to Dante´s stupidity or should she say “to ignorance”. Every single time when he occupied the sofa the decoration pillows were thrown down floor and it made her mad. And here she was trying to make this crappy place look more homey!



Lady stomped with furious steps, hands squeezed into tight fists nearer the sofa. When she was just next to it and about to make him hear it all, Lady noticed Dante had left this world. He was sleeping. He had thrown his left arm over his eyes. Right hand rested on his stomach when the right leg hanged over the edge, having a meeting with floor. He almost snored, breathing deeply in and out, a mouth bit opened. The red jacket was next to him on the floor (of course, on the floor), an empty pizza box keeping it company from the table. Lady took a look on the pizza box, wondering had she really been in the bath for so long that Dante had managed to order a L-size pizza, eat it and fell into sleep? Well, at least he wasn´t getting bored here with nothing to do... She removed her eyes from the empty board back to the sleeping man before her. Without noticing it Lady took few very slow, quiet steps nearer the sleeping form, stopping between the table and sofa. Lady had though when she first realized Dante had took over the whole sofa to give him a hit on the head and snarl the shower was now free to use, but now Lady didn´t make a word. She just couldn´t. Like the words had left her she stood there, staring sleeping Dante, listening his soft snoring like breath. There was something highly fascinating in that creature, half-human, half-demon and Lady needed to admit that, with or without freaked PMS hormones. Lady took a half step nearer Dante, letting her eyes wander on him. She had never took a good look on him. On battle field there was no time for such things if you wanted to live and help your partner not being a burden for him and when there was no fighting Lady couldn´t take a look on him. It seemed like every time she set her eyes on him to study his features, Dante noticed it somehow and sent her a seducing smile with that cocky attitude. The flames of ego where already to high and he didn´t need anymore gas into them. Not that she would have been studying him like that! The idea made Lady to blush a bit and she shook it away from her head only to see she had never knew Dante had a such beautiful upper lip. Not that the lower lip looked bad, but the way his upper lip curved under his elegant nose looked... godly... And that chest! It looked even wider him being without any shirt or jacked. It almost leaded Lady into temptation to kneel down, entwine her slim arms around his large, warm form and press her ear against that manly chest to listen his steady breath and heart beat...



At the last though Lady snatched the empty pizza box and hit Dante on head. Hard. Partly because he was heavy sleeper and partly because she was annoyed those creepy things kept coming into her head. The corner of the box hit Dante on that godly upper lip and he bounced up like a rocket.



“Whaaa-auh...?” He touched the bruised lip and noted Lady stood there glancing him, hands on hips, a foot tapping the floor. Dante smirked and licked the small trail of blood away from his lip.



“Well hello babe. Nice to wake up when there´s a woman next to you” he sneered and continued “I bet you have stood there looking at this gorgeous body of mine for ages”.



For Dante´s surprise that comment send a hint of blush over Lady´s cheeks that hide behind her wet hair. He wasn´t sure did he see right, since usually his seductive jokes didn´t work on Lady. If she blushed it happened just for her being so angry over Dante´s jokes, but even she now gave him that Glance of Doom Dante couldn´t help to sense maybe he had hit the right spot. Would Lady do such a thing? Before he was able to think it more, Lady snorted.



“Excuse me not being one of those who finds your sex appeal too much to handle.”



“So no peeking over my half-naked body?”



“NO. Now, get lost until I change my mind and take another VERY LONG bath. My feet are freezing so I could use another bath.”



He turned to sit face toward Lady, bringing his arms behind his head. Then Dante leaned backwards, taking “I´m the man here”-sitting position. A Scary smile sneaked over his lips.



“I can´t go just yet. There´s till something undone.”



Lady couldn´t believe his was behaving like this again!



“Do I dare to ask what?”



The smirk just spread wider.



“Good thing you asked! You see, it actually has something to do with you and being a gentleman I´ll give a change to make things right.”



A laugh of unbelievable was all Lady was able to say or do.



“Since when did you turn into a gentleman and since when I have owed you something?”



Dante cocked his head a bit, eyes deepening into a velvet shimmer.



“My Lady hurt me only a moment ago. I got my lip bruised.”



“...So? You have got much more serious injuries from me and others than a small cut on a lip. Just get off the sofa will you.”



“It still hurts, you know. Maybe you should be a nice, apologizing girl and kiss the pain you caused away.” Dante smirked and to add more flirt into the suggestion pushed his leg forward to rub Lady´s slender angle. With one sharp leg movement Lady kicked his leg off.



“Fuck off.”



“Hey, didn´t you mom ever tell you kissing takes the pain away?”



“Keep your mouth shut about my mom! NOW GET LOST!” Lady yelled, surprising both herself and Dante for getting so pissed off. She had been so mad the whole day. Speak about mood swings...



After realizing it wouldn´t be fun to tease Lady anymore without making her feeling too bad (he really didn´t mean any bad), Dante shrugged his shoulders for gesture “Fine” and stretched his upper body eyes tight shut. Ah, sleeping in sofa made his muscles stiff. Warm shower sounded more than good now, for a body, mind and soul. He let a relaxed sight after stretching and opened eyes getting up. Dante patted Lady on the shoulder and smirked.



“All yours, go ahead”



Lady jumped like a cat on the still warm sofa and brought her feet on it´s surface. There she sat, hugging her legs and listening how Dante whistled some unknown tune before disappearing into bathroom. As soon as Lady heard the door shut she dared to relax. Lady touched her cheeks that were still warm from what she had just saw. All she could wish now was that Dante hadn´t noted it. Damn, how he dared to stretch like that in front of her! And sigh like that! It had made Lady´s heart to skip with so furious beat Lady was sure Dante could hear it. And he had said “ all yours, go ahead?” Maybe he had noticed how Lady looked at him, even she tried to act normal? No, no, it had to meant the sofa, that´s all... Lady´s heated heart didn´t want to calm down, the idea of curing his wound with that leg gesture take care of that. How Dante dared to do such a thing! He was always picking on her but lately it felt like Dante had been extremely seductive. Either he was displaying the frustration because all the intensive demon killing by teasing her or then Dante had decided to bed her in the way or another. ...No wait, that couldn´t be true. Guess? He could get anyone he liked, but even Dante liked to spend his time at clubs and bars Lady never noticed any female company with him. Well, perhaps he was pleasing the masses of women around him with little cuddles and pecks but Lady highly doubted Dante would go any further. Yes, Dante had attitude and huge ego, but he wasn´t stupid. For a moment Lady thought how it would feel like to curl under his arm for cuddles and kisses, but she shook that idea off her head as soon as it appeared and huffed. The hormones, man she hated them now! Couldn´t they let her be, give it a rest?! Didn´t they have more important issues to take care of than trying to make her horny and mate with Dante?!



“No, no, no, no! I just didn´t think about mating with HIM, did I?!” Lady hissed out with whisper taking care of Dante wouldn´t hear what kind of battle against hormones she was facing at the moment. Oh, how dare they! How everyone and everything dared to tease her like that at this vulnerable time when she felt this huge urge to pin that silver haired demon down and show him what Ladies had been made of. Not that she would do it, such primal urges didn´t get the held on Lady, she swore it. To calm herself down and to get something else to think about Lady switched TV on with the remote control and positioned herself better on the sofa. Not bothering to change the channel Lady decided to watch the unfamiliar soap opera. A man and a woman, both looking like they had escaped from model magazine, were having an argue. Lady didn´t bother to listen what was the issue, but just stared blankly the acting. And then the presumable happened. The fiery argue turned into at least as fiery passion filled kissing. Lady´s mouth opened in surprise when this swing of the act happened. Now the couple was rolling on the bed, man pressing the slim woman deeper into the mattress while the woman made some pleased small moans under him. Lady couldn´t help the idea would Dante be as rough on the bed, too, and not to inspirit her imagination more she quickly changed the channel. She surfed from channel to channel looking for something worth of watching that didn´t hid chances to support her hormonal feelings more. Ah, comedy! Naturally comedies had some dirty jokes here and there, but Lady reasoned some jokes would leave her be. She could now handle few jokes if they only didn´t come from Dante. At the scene young high school lads where sitting on a table, another of them had a huge book in his hands that he looked.



“So, it´s the literature´s discourse next week. Have you decided what author you´ll be taking?”



“Yeah, my big sister had this Dante´s Inferno on her bookshelf so I snatched it there. It´s rather interesting for being so old book.”



“WHO´S INFERNO?!” Lady shrieked in disbelieve, eyes wide as plates.



“I bet that Dante guy had took something inappropriate for seeing such things like demons. Haha, like there would be any demons or Hell.”



“I wouldn´t say that if I were you. Did you know you get into Hell if you do sins?”



“And what sin I have done? ...No wait, quite many actually...”



“Yeah! Drinking, lying, being lazy and FOR SURE touching yourself in prohibited ways...”



“Hey, cut that out! I´m a healthy young man! I´m positive that Dante guy kept touching himself, too, and that´s why he ended up wandering the states of Hell.”



Lady couldn´t believe her ears. Without permission the idea of Dante touching himself inappropriate ways lurked into her imagination. Would he be caressing now his own skin with those large palms, water cascading down his spine making his wet body glimmer as he would be arching his head, moaning with hoarse gasp as the hand adventured lower and lower to touch...



Lady hit her head with loud smack and grasped the remote control into her tiny hand. She was on the edge of complete explosion of anger and frustration and Lady thought for a moment should she heave the TV or herself out of the window. Still giving the TV a try Lady switched channel and ended up with Animal Planet.



“Ah, animals. Cute little animals, help me to clear my head” Lady begged watching a pack of wolves jogging across the snowy landscape. Lady liked wolves and snow. She whished she could see drifts of pure white snow before she would leave this world and travel to see her mother. Winters in this part of globe where always so dark, only a small hint of snow here and there. The wolves reminded Lady of her own nature – always lonely, hunting and being mysterious, different than others. Maybe feared, too... She closed her eyes and imagined herself jogging with the wolves around the snowy fields...



Lady´s dreams of snow and wolves were soon stopped, as the male voice spoke.



“Wolves mating season last from January to April. Usually only the alpha male and female mate. If the one of the alpha wolves gets killed the remaining alpha wolf seeks another life time partner and mates with him.”



“WHAT?!”



The scenery of wild running wolves in Lady´s mind was soon replaced by the video footage of humping wolves. That was enough the freak Lady off the limit. She yelled out loud and hurled the remote control on TV screen. It banged on the screen and landed then on the floor with another loud bang. Lady just buried her face in her hands and for a moment she felt like she could cry. Another muffled yell of anger parted from her lips, but it was cut off with another loud noise coming from the bathroom. Before Lady recognised what had happened Dante swung the bathroom door open and stood there scared look on his eyes. Lady could only stare him, lips a bit parted, eyes wide open. There he stood, water running down from his hair and skin forming small bonds on the floor. Dante had wrapped hastily a towel around his hips and held it up with left arm. With the right arm he held the bathroom door open.



“You OK? I heard some noise and your yelling.”



For a moment Lady couldn´t form any words.



“Umm...ahm... well...I sort... ummm, like... got angry to remote control, that´s all...” she whimpered trying to hide the fact the water ripping Dante made her mouth dry.



As quickly as Dante had jumped out the door his facial expression changed. He relaxed and sighed deeply.

“God damn it, woman, don´t scare me like that! I though it was a demon assault or worse.”

Lady felt herself shrinking deeper and smaller in the depth of the leather sofa.



“I´m sorry. Nothing to worry about.” she said quietly, making Dante to cock his head a bit. What´s got into her? Normally she would shriek at him for wetting the floor and perhaps swung him with that remote control if not shot him straight between the eyes, but now Lady sat there, looking... vulnerable? He hadn´t seen Lady like that, girly and cute, and it caused him to smile.



“Fine. Remember to keep that cute look on your face and maybe I forget the lip bruise and this disturbance of my shower when I return” Dante smirked winking his eye. It gave some life into Lady and she gritted her teeth. Taking this as “get lost” Dante retuned to enjoy his shower mentally cheering he had success at teasing her, yet again. Man, she was so easy today.

--



About the fic: Patience my children, patience! Some hot adult situations will be coming. But not just yet. I want to base them properly before start, tease a bit more Lady, so she can let all that frustration out on Dante later, haha.

If you´re interested in Dante´s Inferno (which really is an interesting book!) check out the Wikipedia or your nearest library.



Thank you for last reviews and again, they´re warmly welcome! If you don´t know what to say just leave “I have read this fic and this far it was good/bad/OK/horrible/fine/nice/ect”-note, so I know someone really IS reading this, hahaha xD xD And naturally, if you came up with some good plot ideas, I´m interested in to hear them!

-NiuNiu-