Pairing: Tancred & Emma, Paton & Julia

Name: The Beach Part One

Authors Note: Just to put this in, this story is based off of one of my earlier ones, but I changed this up a bit. Paton and Julia are married, and they don't go to the cabin, they go camping. Other than that, it's the same.

Emma's head rested on Tancred's shoulder. They were in the backseat of Paton's Bentley, and had been on the road for hours now. In the front seat were Paton and Julia, who were chatting amiably. They had decided to leave for the beach very early in the morning. It was, right now, three AM, and Emma had practically fallen asleep the second she had gotten in the car. Right now she was in that state where she was aware of what was going on around her, but was dead to the world.

Tancred was looking out the window, channeling all the excess wind he was creating so that it went outside the car. The seashore could expect a few blustery days.

The car finally stopped. By now it was almost nine in the morning, and Emma was still completely asleep on Tancred's shoulder.

"Em', we're here" he said quietly, gently squeezing her hand. Her eyes slowly drifted open, and for a moment Tancred just sat, intoxicated by her beauty. She smiled, and he shook himself out of it, though it wasn't easy.

They slid out of the car, and for a few minutes Emma busied herself with fixing her hair, which had become a little bit messy during the car ride. Tancred helped Paton unload the bags. They had decided to camp on the beach, since it was secluded, and there was little chance of anyone disturbing them. They didn't have to worry about the weather, seeing as they had Tancred with them.

They all walked down the path to the beach. It was still very early in the morning. The men went to work right away setting up the tents. They had three. The largest was for Paton and Julia. Then there were two medium sized tents for Emma and Tancred. Over all a good set up.

Soon after the tents were all set up, Julia announced that she was going swimming. Everyone agreed that they wanted to join her, and quickly slipped inside their tents to change.

About a minute later Tancred stepped out of his tent. He was wearing dark green swim trunks. He looked around him, and saw that Paton was sitting on one of the lawn chairs. He was wearing black swim trunks.

" Women, Tancred, always require about five times more time then men do." Paton said, just as Julia walked out. She just chuckled, but Paton looked like a toddler who just got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

Julia looked resplendent in her red one piece. It was a simple style, but was very becoming of her. Paton stood up, bent down and kissed her. Tancred blushed, and turned back towards his tent, feeling like he had just intruded on an intement moment.

Just as Tancred turned, Emma came out of her tent. Tancred stood and gaped. Emma was wearing a sky blue swimsuit that was shot through with green. It was extremely flattering on her.

" Well are you just going to stand and stare all day, or are you going to get in the water?" Emma asked him, smirking as she did so. Tancred grinned manically.

He swooped on Emma picking her up bridal style and running towards the water. Despite her shrieks of protest, when he was far enough in, he dropped her, getting her completely soaked.

Tancred laughed, until he felt something brush against his leg. The next thing he knew, his feet were yanked out from under him, and he had joined Emma in the water. They both came up laughing.