FF: Forwood (Oil and Water) - update 8/17: p. 5 - Page 2

ah..nice to see that you intend to continue this. Good work. This couple was a surprise on TV

Thanks guys! We will see if there is enough interest here for me to continue...

loved it! the pics gives amazing effect!

Wow loved all parts, And I really hope that you continue soon:)

Chapter 6:

"So, has the world changed much while I died and came back to life?" there was a self-mocking tone to his statement and she watched him out of the corner of her eye as she raided the refrigerator and found a foil covered tray of lasagna that only had a small piece missing from the corner.

She pulled it out and put it on the counter of the kitchen island and wiggled her eyebrows at him as is she had discovered the lost treasure of Genghis Khan.

His eyes widened, suddenly distracted by a hunger that roared to life inside him, and he was at her side in the next moment, reaching into the tray with his fingers.

"Uh-uh!" she smacked his hand away. "You are not eating like a savage animal."

He raised his eyebrows and shot her a look.

"Yea, yea… there's a pun there now. Lord, there are so many freakin' puns that it's hard to keep track. But Tyler-Lockwood-who-is-past-his-servitude-to-the-moon-for-the-month, I know your mother raised you better!" She took the tray off the counter and turned away from him.

"You know, Forbes, I only have to put on the gentleman act to impress hoity-toity girls. It's just you and me now. Mano-el-mano. So, what say you?"

He wouldn't let her walk away and held her around the waist in a death grip while he tried to pull her extended hands with the tray back towards him.

"Ha ha. Nice try. You know I am stronger now. This is not going to work." She warned him.

His hand slackened suddenly and she laughed. "You gave up that quickly?" she asked as she turned her head towards him.

That's when she felt him nuzzle her hair.

"You don't smell like a man." He said absently in a low tone that did not seem quite like a consciously made statement.

She felt a sick feeling in her heart as tiny butterflies suddenly erupted into flight deep in her belly.

He had been through too much in the past few days. He hadn't seen another human being in three days in fact, except his mother. He was having a wolf version of cabin fever. That was it. She had to snap him out of it without any room for awkwardness.

"Nooo… Right now, I smell like cold day-old lasagna. Which you are not getting any of no matter how you try to trick me. So Lockwood, unless you want to be in another chokehold, you are going to sheath those wolf claws and get some utensils." She kept her smile in place as she walked out of his hold and towards the oven.

She could see his reflection on the shiny black surface of the microwave. He stood confused for a few moments and she started talking immediately about all the inane crap that had gone on in the now vastly uninteresting landscape that was high-school. It snapped him out and he looked at her strangely for a moment before he opened the drawer next to him to grab forks and knives.

She set the oven to pre-heat and kept her face focused on the microwave the whole time she kept up her absurd chatter.

Rather than looking annoyed, it seemed to soothe him… he pulled up two of the counter stools and set the placemats and utensils and grabbed a pitcher of water and glasses. And for the first time in all the years that she had known him, she could tell that he was listening to what she was saying… maybe not the content – hell, even she didn't know what the hell she was talking about right then; half of it she was making up as she was going along – but rather the routine of it… this was the Caroline that he knew… and if Caroline was the same before and after his night from hell, then maybe the world hadn't tilted on its axis… and maybe life as he knew it hadn't disappeared entirely…

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Great update, devi! I'm loving your version of tyler - caroline story.
Their's is the perfect case of opposites attract. I loved the little tension between them which she conveniently ignored. Btw, do u like matt - caroline? Just out of curiosity...

Here I am dying for a Maryada update, and this is what pops up in my inbox. Not that I mind, I am enjoying this story. Ah, to put aside the vampire-werewolf and to just be human, what wouldn't they do for that. (Did that make sense? I don't think it did.)

Originally posted by: bluerose1889

Great update, devi! I'm loving your version of tyler - caroline story.
Their's is the perfect case of opposites attract. I loved the little tension between them which she conveniently ignored. Btw, do u like matt - caroline? Just out of curiosity...

good to see this back...