Chapter 3.
Dat-es, Commitment and Games.
Michael Laroux and Bree Barnes were two complete strangers who were linked together by a thread of fate. Hundred of years ago two Scottish lovers named Ceana and Mungan were kept apart when Ceana was forced to marry another man, an evil man. They stayed together as long as they could before her husband found out. Michael and Bree are the reincarnation of Ceana and Mungan. When they met again they begin to dream about their last lives and the emotions start to bleed.
It comes out that Bree's ex boyfriend, who still feels she was the love of his life, was sleeping with Michael's longtime girlfriend Veronica, who he loved more then life before he met Bree. After Michael caught Veronica post coitus he fled to Bree's house where the two made a arrangement. Two days at a time, each level elevating the sexual contact at the end of which they would have sex.
This is part 3.
-Part 3-
Paint ball cures all, or does it?
Michael woke up to the first rays of the days sunlight streaming into a room he didn't recognize. The room was large, with a bed along the wall closet to the door. The wall opposite of the bed had a Dallas Cowboys throw blanket tacked up. The wall next to the bed had a series of pictures of a middle aged couple smiling happily. The other side of the room had a dress with pictures of a girl in a high school graduation gown. It took him a minute to realize where he was.
Last night he dreamed about Mungan again, but this time it wasn't as overpowering. Mungan waited all night for Ceana to come to their spot, but she never showed. He went home to his family with his head hung in despair and losing all hope. When he got home his mother informed him that Ceana had been brought to the village healer. She had fallen and broken her arm. Mungan knew better, Eonan had hurt her for being with him.
When he remembered the dream Michael looked over and found Bree lying next to him on her side facing away from him. She was fully dressed to avoid temptation. For a moment Michael just laid there watching her. He remembered all of last night. The pain at what he had seen when he arrived home. The horrible agony as Veronica taunted him and finally the hope when he laid between Bree's spread thighs and kissed her.
He was getting lost in those memories when he noticed something else. Bree was shivering, but it wasn't cold in her apartment. No, it wasn't shivering after all. It was shaking, Bree was shaking. Gently Michael slid across the bed and wrapped his arm around her and she began to shake harder and whimpered. "Shh. Bree, wake up. Your home. In your own bed."
Bree's eyes snapped open and her arm immediately came up and grabbed his wrist. She pulled him tighter to her and he held her close to him in answer. For a long time she didn't say anything and then Michael asked. "Ceana didn't come last night. Mungan heard she broke her arm. Did you see it?"
"Mmhmm." Bree whimpered. "It wasn't as strong as usual...and I don't feel so frustrated. I don't feel this burning need to find someone who wants me. I suppose...." She rolled over so she was facing him
and slid herself closer to him. "....that's because you're here with me now."
"It will help to talk." Michael whispered. "Tell me what happened."
"Ceana woke up and found two men guarding Eonan's doors." Bree said in the softest voice she could manage. Like she was afraid Eonan would pop out of the closet. "She begged them to let her go, but they refused. When Eonan came home she begged him to let her go. Told him she would go to him willingly and do all the things he wanted if he only let her go and see Mungan after the sun fell."
"She truly does love him." Michael said softly and smiled.
"Yes. She does." Bree agreed. "Eonan told her to prove it....and she did. She hated herself but she gave her ass to him. When she tried to leave he laughed at her and told her she would never see Mungan again, but now at least he knew she liked it that way too. When she tried to leave by force...."
"He broke her arm and raped her didn't he?" Michael asked, not wanting her to have to say it.
Bree knew what he was trying to do, and part of her adored him for it, but she shook her head and simply said. "No. They did."
"They?" Michael asked and he felt tears beginning to sting his eyes. "....the men who guarded her too?"
"Yes Michael....all of them." Bree cried softly and buried her face in his chest. She could still see it in her mind. Ceana screaming as they began to rip at her clothes. The taunts as they all told her, "where is your great love now?" She cried out for Mungan but it didn't help. She hit one of the other men in the face, that was when Eonan had broken her arm. They held her by the broken arm and took turns on her, all but the youngest.
"One of them tried to help her." Bree felt like she needed to tell him something good. "They laughed at him, but he brought her water, food. Wrapped her arm and took her to see the healer once the other men had fallen asleep." Bree fell silent and just when Michael thought she was done she looked up at him and there was a terrible fear in her eyes. "Michael...."
"Yes Bree?" He didn't feel comfortable calling her pet names. Not yet.
"....Promise me you will protect me." She begged. "After seeing that....promise me that if that ever happens to me and I scream for you...you will save me. Please? Michael promise me you won't let them do that to me?"
"Bree." He wanted to tell her that he couldn't promise that. That he couldn't be everywhere at once but when he saw the genuine fear in her eyes his heart melted and he nodded. "I promise you. If you ever need me, if men ever try and do that to you I will get to you before they can hurt you."
"Thank you...." Bree whispered and then looked down at his chest. "One more thing?" Michael grunted by way of answer that sounded to her like 'Hmm?' and she added. "....Kiss me?"
He didn't have to be told twice. Damn the morning breath, damn the germs and damn the doubts that plagued his mind about Veronica. He reached up, pulled her chin up to face him and kissed her. The kiss was gentle and loving but quickly became more passionate. Her lips parted to allow his tongue to