A Moth to a Flame

Author's Notes: Here it is, the very first Duskshipping fic on AFF.net! Why, might I ask all the GS writers, has this pairing been so overlooked? In terms of personality, there are no characters in GS more compatible than Felix and Karst. They both like to talk tough and pick fights, but the most important thing to both of them is protecting the people they love. Plus, you couldn't ask for a hotter pairing: a tough, rugged hero together with a feisty, sensual lady. It's high time Felix and Karst got some attention!

Anyway, this story takes place shortly after my previous fic, "Perfect Bait". There are a few connections between the two stories, but you should be able to understand this tale without having read "Perfect Bait". Here's the index of sex scenes(see my profile for explanation):

chap1 - 1.M/F, explicitness: 3
chap3 - 2.M/F, explicitness: 4

A Moth to a Flame

by The Pairing Guy


Chapter 1: My Sister's Husband

Nothing, Isaac remarked to himself, felt as good as Jenna's tits.

Well, almost nothing. But he wasn't going to waste his time with thoughts of Mia. Not while he was having the distinct enjoyment of kneading Jenna's large breasts, and listening to her moans telling him that she enjoyed it, too. He bent down to lick at her belly, starting low and going up to her navel.

Jenna groaned at this bit of teasing. "Isaac... I'm ready..."

She spread her legs for him, revealing her dripping pussy. Isaac eagerly positioned himself at her entrance and pushed in, making Jenna cry out with pleasure. He thrust on, enjoying how her pregnancy made her insides tight and responsive.

There came a loud knock at the door.

Both of them groaned, and not in pleasure this time. "Told you it was a bad idea to do it in the early afternoon," Isaac snapped.

"Tell me you aren't going to answer that," Jenna said darkly.

"I've got to..."

"If you pull out now, I'm leaving you forever!"

"Uh huh," Isaac said with a roll of his eyes, and got himself out of her. He began pulling pants on.

"Fine... fine. But whoever it is, you get rid of him quick, and then get back here and finish what you fucking started!"

"Relax," he muttered, throwing on a shirt.

"Relax!? How the hell can I relax now?"

She had a point. Isaac couldn't relax, either. The best he could was push his hard-on around in his pants to a direction where it wouldn't show on the outside, and hope that whoever was at the door wouldn't notice the sweat on his body. With a sigh, he opened the door.

It was Felix. "Hello, Isaac."

"Um... hi. What are you doing here?"

"Well..." His old adversary put a hand on the door frame and leaned against it in a lazy fashion. Come on, come on, hurry up! Isaac thought to himself. "Had some business down this way, and I hadn't been down here since you and Jenna got married. I heard you kind of got shotgunned into the whole thing, so I thought I should pop in and see how you were doing."

It had to be a lie. He and Felix never got along that well. He was probably just dropping in to see how his sister was doing. Still, Isaac didn't mind clearing up the matter. Otherwise Felix would probably get the idea that he wasn't treating Jenna right.

"Well, yeah, it was kind of a shock at first. I mean, I was going steady with Mia at the time. But now that I've had time to get used to it..." He shrugged. "I'm pretty happy. Really, I'd always been kind of in love with Jenna, it's just that she never gave any interest back. Since we've been married, though, she's been pretty good to me." Not exactly true, but not really a lie. Most guys would hate her temper, but for some reason, I love it. It's one of the things that makes her Jenna. She does nag me a lot, but I'm used to it, and a round in the bed with her always more than makes up for it. And thank the elements, she hasn't asked me to do anal sex with her again. I guess she didn't like the way it ended the first time. "She seems pretty happy, too."

"Really. Can I see her?"

"Uh..."

He heard Jenna groan, "Nnnnyyyyyuuuuuuhhhh!" A sound which clearly said "Get rid of him right fucking now and come back to bed or I'll light your ass on fire!"

"Well, uh... as you can hear... she's having some trouble making her bowels move today. Comes with being pregnant, you know."

"I see," Felix said, a look of concern covering his brow. "You know, there are certain techniques with Venus psynergy that can help with that sort of thing if you use them carefully. I could teach -"

"Yes, yes, I know about those, but they don't seem to be working," Isaac said in a rush, eager to get rid of Felix so that he could get back to screwing his sister. "Thanks for dropping by, but I gotta go back and give her a little hand there now. See you around!" He forced the door shut before Felix could stop him.

That done, he ran back to the bedroom, yanking his shirt off and tossing it aside as he went. "Now, where were we?" he said to Jenna, looking at her naked body with keen desire.

"Took you long enough!" she snapped. "Were you sharing your life stories, or what? I've been sitting here ready to die from -"

He shoved his hard rod back into her.

"Ohhh... Isaac..."

His feelings of euphoria were quickly restored as he thrust into her warm, tight passage. "Jenna..."

PAIRINGSPAIRINGSPAIRINGS

Felix turned and walked away from Isaac and Jenna's house. Isaac had said the two of them were happy, and Isaac was basically an okay guy, right? Sure, he obviously cared more about people calling him a hero than just doing the right thing, but he'd never lie just to protect himself.

It was a shame that Isaac couldn't talk with him longer. Besides wanting to check on Jenna, he really needed some advice on women. Karst was driving him out of his mind, and contrary to the rumor mill, she'd barely given him any interest in return, not even a smile. There was no other woman who he could possibly stand to spend the rest of his life with; he had to win her heart somehow. Isaac was the only person worth asking about that. All his other acquaintances were either too young, or too old. Or in Agatio's case, too close to Karst.

Still, something wasn't right. Something that made the hackles stand up on the back of his neck. Why had Isaac been so eager to get rid of him? And so nervous? So guilty-looking? And that groan he'd heard from Jenna... was it really the sound of someone suffering from constipation? Or was it... a cry for help, muffled by a gag?

He turned and ran back to the house. It was no use telling himself that he was imagining things; all the clues said that Isaac was up to no good. And the last thing he could ever do was let someone harm his sister.

This time he didn't bother knocking, but flung open the front door. The room was empty. Where...?

And then he heard it... a blood-curdling scream. That's Jenna!

It was coming from the room on the left. He slammed into the door with the full force of his body. When he saw what Isaac was doing with his sister, he froze in horror.

She lay spread out on the bed, naked, twisting in the throes of a full orgasm. Even the sound of him breaking the door off its hinges hadn't caught her attention; she just lay there, breasts heaving, moaning his new brother-in-law's name.

Isaac hadn't reached his own climax yet, and was more alert. He had turned to stare at Felix in terror.

Felix stood there a moment, staring at this horrifying tableau. Then he took a step back. Then another. Like a zombie in reverse, he retreated from the house, one backwards step at a time.

As soon as he stepped back out of Isaac and Jenna's house, he turned and ran.

PAIRINGSPAIRINGSPAIRINGS

He burst into the inn, ran up the stairs, and pounded on Sheba's door. The wan-faced, short-haired Jupiter adept opened it, and her eyes widened in concern. "Felix? Are you okay?"

"Sheba, quick! Can you erase a thought or image from a person's mind?"

"Huh? W-well, I can try..."

"Get rid of the one that's in my head right now! Hurry!"

"Okay, okay. Bend down so your head's closer to mine."

Felix did as she asked, and he soon felt the quiet touch of Sheba's psynergy on his mind. A moment later he heard her giggle, but he ignored it. Then slowly, but blissfully, the image of Isaac and his sister was rubbed out. He sighed with relief.

"Why were you thinking of that?" Sheba demanded.

"I didn't just think it up by myself. I saw it. I walked into Jenna and Isaac's bedroom and I saw -" He stopped. "I... I don't remember. Nice work, Sheba."

"Thanks. Good thing you came to me right away, though! If a thought stays in your head too long it becomes a part of your memory, and then there's no getting rid of it." She giggled. "I saw another thought in there too, though. Not the one you wanted to get rid of."

"Two thoughts at once? What do you mean?"

"Well, there was the thought you had of Jenna and Isaac... and that thought made you think of Karst." She giggled again.

"Karst? Why would it make me think of Karst?" he asked, puzzled.

"Oh, no reason," she said, with yet another giggle. "I'm sorry, Felix; I don't mean to make fun of you. It must be tough when almost everyone knows how you feel for her."

Felix shook his head. "You're the only one who really knows how I feel about her, Sheba. Everyone else thinks I just have some fleeting sexual desire for her. If anyone else knew how much I feel for Karst, even Jenna, they'd hate me. Piers understands her, but the rest of them... they all still think Karst is the enemy."

"Karst is the enemy!" Sheba shot back. "She's a screwed-up little psycho!" She paused. "But I know you're a good person, Felix... you were willing to throw your life away by challenging Saturos and Menardi, just to protect me. Besides, I can't judge you for your feelings for Karst. Even if Karst isn't a good person, your feelings for her are good. I hope that you and her will get together and be happy."

"Thanks, Sheba."

"But you know... if that happens, then everyone will know your feelings. If you're right, then they'll all hate you. Will you be okay with that?"

He needed less than two seconds to think about it. "Yes," he said. "I don't want them to hate me, but if they won't forgive Karst for what she did to help her own people... then screw 'em."

Sheba surprised him by responding to that with a warm hug. "You know what, Felix? Even though I don't want to forgive Karst... you're my hero."

Hero? I don't care about whether or not anyone thinks I'm a hero. I just want to do the right thing. And if the gods will let me, be with the right woman. He knew now what he had to do. He couldn't bear to go back to Isaac and ask for his advice now. He'd just have to go to Karst, and face her like a man.