Time Master
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“What are you doing?” April asked. She rose and draped herself with her own linen with the grace of a goddess, but didn’t bother to do much wrapping. Overnight, her hair had dried into waves that fell down over her bare shoulders.
I gulped and covered my crotch again. April smiled, a bit wickedly, I might add, as she walked over.
“Did you lose something?” she said, her eyes drifting over my body.
The way she looked at me set my body on fire. “The wizard stole my clothes,” I said by way of explanation.
“Good. They were putrid and needed to be burned. Do you want mine?” April pulled the corner of the linen wrapping away from her body as if she were going to disrobe right there. The smile on her face was teasing, but there was enough of a challenge to it that I thought she might actually mean it.
Was I dreaming? I gaped at her, wishing this were happening but not daring to hope. If it was a dream, though, then I could relax a little, right?
Before I could come up with an answer, April hesitated. She grew serious. “What the wizard said last night about us getting closer. Do you think it’s true? Will our gifts, your thing with time, my telepathy, will they grow?”
My lips had gone dry. Now wasn’t a good time to talk about the wizard. He was the last thing I wanted to think about. “I don’t know. He’s crazy, but somehow I think he’s telling the truth. At least, I think he believes it’s true.”
April nodded. “I believe him too. I think. But I can’t explain why.”
“Me, neither.” My voice was husky with need. Did April know how badly she was teasing me? Her linen wrapping barely covered her right breast, and it exposed one thigh up to the hip.
“I’m naked,” I stated fuzzily as all the blood rushed to my groin.
April giggled softly. “I know.”
“Can we talk about this maybe … later?” I said as she moved closer. Hell, she must have known the power she had over me. The evidence was barely concealed by my hands, which I didn’t dare move.
She gazed into my eyes and put a hand on my shoulder. “Thank you for saving us last night,” she whispered.
I breathed heavily, mentally fighting for control of my body. “Couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks for fighting with me. It was the bravest thing I’ve ever seen. And the sexiest.”
My last words lingered in the air between us. April stood on her tiptoes to kiss me on the lips. It began softly, but then she wrapped her arms around me and deepened it. Soon, I moved my hands to her waist, feeling the thin fabric covering her warm skin, her breasts pressed against my chest. Our tongues danced around as we explored each other’s mouths. She pushed her hips against mine, and I knew she felt my hard cock as I grabbed her ass and pulled her closer. My erection pressed into her firm abs, and I lifted her so it pressed instead between her legs. Fuck, she was hot, I thought, and when my hand found the gap between the folds of fabric and touched her bare ass, she gasped.
“Caleb,” she moaned.
It almost made me come right there.
I was hot, turned on, and needy, but there was only one bed, and June was still sleeping in it. I fantasized for an instant about waking her up and crawling in with both girls, but then decided that one was more than enough, at least for now.
“Where?” I croaked out.
“The bath.”
I didn’t need to be told twice and lifted April completely. She wrapped her legs around my waist as I stepped into the warm water. The cloth between us got soaked, and we laughed quietly as we tried to untangle it from around our legs. Once it floated away, April stood there with water up to her waist. This time I didn’t hide my appreciation for her perfect breasts, cupping them with my hands and kneading her nipples with my thumbs.
April arched her head back and smiled. “Perfect,” she said, echoing my thoughts. Her hands found mine as she urged me to continue. Smiling, I ducked my head and took one pert nipple in my mouth, sweeping my tongue over the soft skin. I wrapped my arm around her waist and pulled her closer. The ends of her hair dipped in the water as she bent backward. The motion reminding me of the dance moves I’d seen her perform on stage and made me wonder how flexible she really was.
Maybe I would get the chance to find out.
Sucking on one nipple, I waited until the areola softened and grew before moving over to the other breast, teasing it with my tongue, my teeth. April began to moan appreciatively, and her breathing became more ragged. I had never seen a woman respond so well to having her breasts kissed, and found that I liked it. If possible, I became even harder.
And she came. Her face scrunched up, and her mouth opened in a silent Oh! as her body shuddered with her orgasm.
I supported her for a moment, letting her calm down.
“Wow,” I whispered.
“That’s never happened before,” April said, still breathing hard and smiling as I set her down in the water. She got her feet under her and leaned against me shakily. “I didn’t know I could do that.”
I smirked, more than pleased. “Any other skills you want to share?”
April kissed my chest. “Au contraire, it was your skill that was shared, Caleb.” She winked and kissed my lips. “But I’ll be happy to find out if either of us has more to offer.”
Her nipples were red and swollen from my ministrations, and thinking about her orgasm from that made me proud. My cock was so hard now my balls hurt, and the thought of moving things further only intensified the sweet torture.
But before we could move on to part two, June shouted from across the room.
“What the hell are you doing?”
XIII
Naturally, I thought June was yelling at us. “Shit,” I muttered, but April looked confused.
The next moment, it became clear June had a different target for her outrage. The wizard had returned from who-knows-where, and I could see he was stark naked even through the curtain.
I couldn’t believe it. He really was a big pervert.
At first, I thought he had something sordid in mind, and I sprang into action. But two steps out of the bath, I realized something wasn’t right. The wizard wasn’t intent on anything vile. He was just wandering about, muttering to himself, apparently oblivious to his own nakedness and not even looking June’s way.
“Dammit, put some clothes on!” June yelled.
The wizard glanced down at his body, but then just shrugged as if it didn’t matter. To me, his shriveled body looked like a pale, white raisin, all wrinkles and saggy skin. His junk dangled down way farther than I thought possible. I mean, he was old, I knew that, but I hadn’t taken him seriously when he said he’d been alive for millennia. It looked like all those years had taken a toll on his body, and especially his, um, private areas. Averting my eyes, I looked around for something to cover the man with.
The wizard hadn’t paid much attention to June, but when he saw me, he smiled mischievously. “See what you have to look forward to?” he said.
I raised my eyebrows. “Huh?”
The wizard nodded his head, glanced down at himself, and grinned.
“You are certifiable,” April said from behind me. She had wrapped herself in the wet sheet, but this time it was tied tightly, hiding her beautiful body.
June finally took notice of me (naked, remember), and her mouth dropped open. She pulled the covers over her own body and scrambled out of bed. “What the fuck? Is everyone around here crazy? There are too many naked people in this room!”
My hands went back to my crotch, and I eased over to the bed while June moved away.
“I just need som
ething to cover up with,” I explained. “Take it easy.”
That was the wrong thing to say.
June’s eyes practically blazed, and I felt hot anger radiating off of her in waves.
“I’ll take it easy,” she said, “when everyone in this damn magic van gets some clothes on!”
The wizard didn’t seem to take June seriously. He looked me up and down and raised his hands to his mouth in a gesture of mock-shock. “Oh, my!” he said, channeling George Takei, and I could hear the grin in his tone. “What on earth is going on here?”
“We could ask you the same thing,” I muttered, finally grabbing one of the sheets off the bed and wrapping it around my waist. After seeing the old man’s wrinkly private bits, my own steamy thoughts had cooled considerably.
The wizard surveyed the room one last time in all his glory. Then he nodded to himself as if all was right in the world, and marched over to a wooden chest I hadn’t noticed before. Maybe Shell had conjured it during the night. Either way, he began searching through it. He tossed out random items of clothing—a t-shirt, jeans, a lacy bra and thong, a dress, some others.
April tiptoed over to grab some of it. “This is the top I was wearing last night.” She tentatively held it up to her nose. “Smells like laundry detergent instead of bug guts.”
The wizard continued tossing clothes onto the floor until he found a set of robes, which he then pulled over his head, fighting with them as they got tangled in his long hair.
I picked up the t-shirt and jeans, and they smelled fresher than they ever had before. “I thought these would have to be burned.” Even my jacket was back to its best.
June and April hurriedly gathered their clothing and retreated to a corner to get dressed. Since at this point everyone had seen me naked, I didn’t try to hide while I pulled on my jeans. I couldn’t find my underwear, so had to go commando. Not my first choice.
“There isn’t a pair of boxers in there, is there?” I asked the wizard, who had just managed to tie a belt around his waist to secure his robes.
“I pulled everything out,” he said. Then he chuckled. “Get it?”
“I get it,” I muttered as I pulled my t-shirt over my head. “How did you clean these?”
“Shell did it,” said the wizard. “If you ever need clean clothes, just pop them into that chest and she’ll take care of it.”
“What are we supposed to wear in the meantime?” I asked.
The wizard winked. “I’m sure you’ll think of something.”
From the far corner, one of the twins giggled. Since June hadn’t been in a good mood only two minutes ago, it must have been April. Had she told June what happened? My thoughts returned to the bath, and I glanced back at it longingly. Too bad our tryst had been cut short, although I did think it a bit weird that June had effectively been in the same room. I’d never had sex without being behind a closed door before.
I did have sex in a car once. The night before I’d left for Basic, I’d taken my then-girlfriend up to one of the few drive-in movie theaters still operating. We parked under the only tree in the lot, away from the other cars, and made love. It was the closest I’d got to having sex in public. Don’t remember the name of the movie, but the car was a 1974 Dodge Challenger I’d restored. That was as a great ride (the car and the girl), and to buy the Challenger even as a junker, I’d saved every penny from mowing yards, shoveling snow in the winter, and various other jobs in my teenage years.
Once we were all fully clothed, I expected the Greek palace to transform back into the van, but that wasn’t the case.
“We don’t need to transform to move,” the wizard explained.
“We’re just going to land a palace outside the Good Times Club?” June asked. She crossed her arms over her chest. It pushed up her boobs, and I tried to avert my eyes before she caught me staring.
“My dear June,” said the wizard, “we are not going anywhere right at the moment. Shell has a problem.”
“What problem?” Shell asked, her metallic, feminine voice carrying a hint of confusion. The wizard just glared at the glowing AI, which was hanging near the driver’s capsule.
“Oh, yes,” she said. “A problem. So many things to keep track of, what with the incursions and the timelines shifting. Speaking of timelines, we’ve got another alternate universe spinning up. Before we can fix it, however, I need you to go to the museum down the road. They have an artifact on display that also happens to be a part I need to repair the van.”
“There’s a museum down the road?” April asked. “Did we just happen to land where you knew you could get a part you need to fix a problem you didn’t have yet?”
I smiled. April was surprisingly sharp, and I could hear the open suspicion in her voice.
Nor was she the only one. June, wearing a deeply troubled look on her face, went to stand beside her twin, and I moved to join them.
June glared at me for a moment, then seemed to accept my presence.
“Anyone else feel like they’re just being used to hunt these bug-demons?” the dark-haired twin asked.
“I told you that last night, June,” the wizard said from directly behind us.
Startled, she and I both jumped. He poked his head between our shoulders and grinned his usual grin.
“Are you always this rude?” June asked.
“Only when the fate of the universe is in our hands, my dear.” He offered June his elbow as if to escort her outside.
XIV
The dark-haired twin crossed her arms over her chest again, causing her breasts to lift upward and her cleavage to spill out of her dress, and damn if I wasn’t getting hard again. This isn’t the time, I thought. June’s breasts were just as perfect as April’s. This, combined with her dark hair, dark lashes, and bright eyes, June looked like a sultry seductress from the underworld. I felt like a jerk for getting a hard-on for June when I had just been with April in the bath, but the whole situation was weird.
And, even though I didn’t know June as well as April, I still felt we shared a connection as well. Or maybe that was no more than lust. Pleasuring April had awakened my appetite, and I was having a hard time focusing on the conversation.
“Now, if Caleb here can stop ogling June’s boobs for just a moment or two,” the wizard said, bringing me back to reality, “I’ll explain what we are going to do.”
I did my best to ignore that he’d just outed my ogling. “Didn’t Shell just do that? I thought we were going to the museum to get a part,” I said.
The wizard blinked at me. “Do you think the guards will just let us go on a shopping trip as if we’d just arrived at the Dollar Store? We need a plan of attack!”
“Before we go into that,” Shell interrupted, “might I suggest that Caleb and April check their stats. I believe they leveled up this morning.”
April stared wide-eyed at the floating AI.
June frowned. “Leveled up? What do you mean?” she asked.
But the wizard cocked an eyebrow. “This morning, eh?” he said, grinning like the lecherous old goat he was and punching my arm. “That’s the spirit, Caleb. We never did beat around the bush with these things, did we?”
“Don’t touch me,” I said. “And I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“The bath,” Shell explained. “Caleb and April were intimate in the bath, and since orgasm was achieved, their powers were enhanced.”
More stats popped up in holographic form in front of my face. It wasn’t what I was interested in just then, so I waved my hand through them as if that would shoo them away. Yet I couldn’t help notice a couple of changes. My Time Bending skill rating had improved to a 2, and that odd Augmentors category now read:
Augmentors: 2 (x1.5 augmentation).
I didn’t see April’s stats, but figured they would show a similar improvement.
“What the hell, Shell?” I asked. “Were you watching?”
“Orgasm, huh?” June said, casting a knowing glance at April
.
“I don’t have to watch,” the AI said, “because obviously I do not have eyes. But I felt an orgasm, since you were in my bath water.”
“The bathwater lets you feel when people orgasm?” April asked. “That’s a bit creepy.”
“There’s nothing sexual about Shell,” the wizard said casually. He opened the outside door, letting a salty sea breeze enter the room. “But she’s more than just the floating device you see here. She’s everything, in fact. And if she can sense disruptions to the timelines, why shouldn’t she be able to sense the vibrations of an orgasm?”
“The vibrations of a—” I began, feeling my cheeks redden. Could Shell feel my erection, too? Or just the climax?
Like April said, it was creepy.
“Of course, you didn’t achieve penetration,” Shell added, not helpfully. “When you do, it will double your powers.”
“Wait,” I said. “That makes it sound like—oh, what do I care,” I said, shaking my head.
“Orgasm, huh?” June repeated, looking at April.
The blonde twin glanced at me and grinned. “You can’t blame me, can you?”
It was then that the wizard decided he’d indulged us long enough. “Are you coming?” he asked with his most lascivious grin. “Or was that earlier?”
Before anyone could respond, he grabbed my arm and ushered me out the door. I was blinking in the bright sunshine before I knew it. He must have enjoyed the joke, because he repeated it. “Coming, girls?” he said, giggling.
He tried to goad me toward a stone pathway, but I stood my ground and waited for April and June. None of us had actually agreed to help. The sisters looked at each other. Perhaps April said something telepathically. If she did, I didn’t hear it, but after a moment, June nodded.
“Okay,” she said. “If we must.”
The wizard’s grin grew broader. “Oh, you must. Absolutely,” he said blithely. “The entire universe depends on it.”
It didn’t do much to endear him to anyone, and the girls grudgingly joined us outside. But then, it wasn’t like we had another option. If we didn’t help, we would just be stranded in the middle of who-knew-where.