A Match Made In A Frozen Hell

Oracle Thunder

Disclaimer: I don't own squat. I have no money. I am a broke ass bitch.

Summary: What happens when a Shadow demon and a cybernetic ninja play cupid?

Chapter 4: The Morning After

Sub-zero groans as he feels sleep leaving him. His back arches off the bed as he stretches. It is then that he feels the smooth, warm weight on his body. The Grandmaster looks down and sees the top of a woman's dark head, pale arms and shoulders, the rounded sides of breast and the curve of back to backside hidden by the bed sheet.

He swallows a groan when she shifts her weight, causing her legs to spread open over his hips. Sub-zero reaches the hand not around her waist to her hair. His fingers gently brush aside the dark hair to see the face. As the face becomes clear he shakes his head. 'Oh it's one of those dreams again.' Then he winces as a dull pain stabs in the back of his head. 'What the hell. That never happens in the dreams.'

He looks back down at the woman and runs his hand in slow lines down her back. Sub-zero's lips curl when she gives a low moan into the side of his neck in her sleep. 'This is what happens in the dreams.' She nuzzles her face against his throat as she settles back into deeper slumber.

Sub-zero rolls her to his side so he can get a better look at her. Her upper torso twists so her face is up but her left arm and leg are still over him. She mumbles in her sleep and moves her arm over his chest and ab muscles in slow circles. The poor Grandmaster barely bites back a moan when her hand rests just inches away from his hardening member. A quick, appreciative look over her nude form nearly makes him growl in frustration. 'Why isn't she awake? This never happens in the dreams.'

Frost recognizes the state she's in. The in-between as she called it when she was little. That moment when you're asleep and you haven't woken up yet but you can sense things going on around you. Frost keeps her eyes closed, hoping to get more of the good sleep she had been having. She feels deliciously warm and there is a deep, steady thumping she can hear that is strangely lulling and soothing. She shifts over something and the thumping goes faster. 'What is in my bed?'

Before she can fully rouse herself she feels like something nudges her onto her side. Then she thinks she hears a voice say, "Even in my dreams you're stubborn."

She opens her eyes and blinks out the bright light. "Sifu?"

Sub-zero frowns. 'She never calls me 'Sifu' in any of the dreams! What kind of dream is this...' The Grandmaster's eyes widen. 'Oh shit.'

"Sifu?" Frost mutters. 'What is Sifu doing in my room?' She frowns. 'What the fuck is Sifu doing in my bed?' Frost opens her mouth to start yelling when she notices the room. 'Wow, when did my room get so big and neat?' Then her eyes widen and her mouth drops open. 'Oh my fucking god! Sifu's not in my room. I'm in his!'

Frost looks down at herself and gasps sharply. She pulls away and presses her back against the wall. The woman yanks the bed sheet over herself and wraps it tightly around her body.

Sub-zero feels the iciness of the room bite into his skin as Frost pulls the warmth of her body and the sheet away. His eyes watch as she tightens the sheet around her breasts and hips. Then he feels the twitching in his nether regions. Remembering his own predicament he thinks fast and grabs the pillow behind his head. With a quick prayer he places the pillow over himself, hoping she hadn't noticed his third leg trying to stretch.

Frost takes a deep breath and closes her eyes. 'Please god let it go away. Please god don't let it be real.' She opens her eyes and finds herself looking down at Sub-zero's legs. Her eyes lift upward to his stomach. 'Deep breath.' Then drift up to his chest and shoulders. 'Almost there.' Her eyes stop. 'Come on. At least look him in the face when you ask him!' She can't lift her face. 'Coward.'

A deep voice interrupts her thoughts, "Frost."

Keeping her eyes on his shoulders she softly answers, "Yes, Sifu?"

She hears a sigh and then feels a firm hand hold her chin. The Grandmaster's hand lifts Frost's face up to his. "Frost what do you remember from last night?" he asks.

Frost tries to drop her face but Sub-zero still has a hold of her chin. So she stubbornly drops her eyes again. "I don't know. What do you remember?" she asks.

Sub-zero frowns. Sub-zero looks down at the table and back to Smoke's face.

"Well?" Smoke presses.

Sub-zero quickly swigs the rest of his bottle and hurriedly begins work on another one.

"What the hell are you doing?" Smoke asks, then he frowns. "Oh no you don't. We have a deal. You're not getting out of this!"

Sub-zero slams the now empty bottle back on the table. He chuckles a little...then his head falls to the table.

"Uh, well I was in here with Smoke," Sub-zero answers. 'Well that explains the damn headache.'

Frost frowns. Frost shrugs. "I still say you're his favorite," she maintains. Frost groans and puts her head in her hands. "Ugh, I'm feeling it now. I think I'm going to my room." Frost barely gets out of her seat before her legs give out. Fortunately, Sareena still has her demonic wits (and powers) about her and catches her.

"You ok?" the she demon asks. She looks at the woman in her arms. Frost's eyes are closing.

"So sleepy," she mumbles.

"Frost, are you ok?" Sareena asks.

"I think I'll crash now," Frost mutters as her eyes shut.

"Well I was in Sareena's room with her," Frost says. Then Frost's eyes catch sight of the table. "Damn did you have a party in here? That's a lot of booze," she pronounces.

Sub-zero grunts. "Smoke and I were sharing drinks," he admits reluctantly. 'And apparently I got drunk, dragged you here and had my way with you.' Sub-zero notices the crooked line of clothes and the order they follow towards the bed. 'Well at least our underwear isn't out in the hall or something.'

Frost nods her head guiltily. "Yeah, Sareena and I were drinking too," she confesses. She frowns. "But how did I get in here? I passed out in Sareena's room."

Sub-zero studies her face. "You're sure you were last in Sareena's room?"

"Yes," the embarrassed woman answers.

Sub-zero growls. "Then you ask Sareena what happened. I'll ask Smoke." He stands up and heads for his bathroom with the pillow still in front of him.

"Do you think this is a sick joke?" she asks hopefully, trying not to stare at his ass.

Sub-zero looks over his shoulder at her. 'Does she find the idea that bad?' He turns back toward his bathroom. "I don't know what to think. If it's a joke it's very elaborate, but one thing is for certain. Sareena and Smoke are the last people we were with so they should at least know how you got here," he says.

Frost's sick humor rears it's ugly head for a badly timed (in her opinion) perverted pun as she says, "Actually Sifu I think we were the last people we were with." 'Oh my god I did not just say that to him!' Her face feels uncomfortably hot as she ducks her head down.

Sub-zero, his back still turned from her, smiles. 'Good to see she still has her sense of humor.' "I'm going to take a shower. When I get done I'll change and leave the room if you want to shower," he tells her, knowing she wouldn't want to bathe until after he left.

"Thanks," she mumbles. Then she looks up. 'What am I going to change into afterwards?' The idea of putting on old clothes, especially the same ones after last night, was extremely unappealing.

'Why not? It seems all the action took place without clothes anyway.' Frost shakes her head.

Something soft hits her chest. She looks down to see old gray sweat pants and a white cotton pullover shirt at least three sizes too big. Frost looks up at her Sifu.

Sub-zero standing by his dresser shrugs his shoulders. "You can wear those to get back to your room in," he tells her and quickly darts into the shower to avoid her bright blue eyes and take care of his, er, not so little anymore problem. 'Cold shower. Very, very, extremely cold shower.'


Sorry about the time between updates. I just couldn't write this chapter the way I wanted it. I'm still not completely satisfied with this chapter but it's the best I've been able to come up with. What do you all think? R&R please. This chapter was very difficult to write. Hopefully I should have the next chapter up before next Friday.