A/N: So this is my first multi-chapter forwood story and I'm sort of playing it by ear. Please review and let me know what you think, I'm not that confident with the content of this chapter (I'm not used to writing sex scenes!) so any feedback is much appreciated :)
Rating: M (for sexual content)
"Let's go camping!"
Tyler raised a sceptical eyebrow at Caroline across the lunch table. He was such a typical boy, why use his words when a simple expression would explain. Luckily, since he had become best friends with a verbose female such as herself she knew she could save him from a lifetime of caveman grunts and one syllable sentences. Truly, his future wife would be suggesting her for a noble peace price one day.
"Why not?"
She tried not to sound like a petulant child but she found herself pouting in frustration. She had thought it was such a great getaway idea this morning! He pointedly looked out of the wide glass cafeteria windows at the grey skies and pouring rain as she shoved a heaped forkful of meatballs into his mouth.
"Okay so it's winter but so what? It can't rain every day and we're supernatural, we can take a bit of cold and wet! Besides you should be extra pumped to get out into the wilderness!"
He screwed up his face in distaste and she knew it was less about the weather and more about her implying about his 'condition' in such a flippant way. Tyler was about as rustic and outdoorsy as any of the pampered elite and the less he associated with his 'other' side the better off she knew he felt. Still, she was determined to get away.
"Please?"
She gave him her hopeful doe-eyed expression and slid her cookie over to his tray as her last bargaining chip. He looked pissed off but she knew it was with himself because he was totally going to cave.
"Why?"
He began breaking up the cookie with his hand and passed half back to her and chewed on his entire half in one go. Caroline knew he ate like a pig at school because he couldn't get away with it at home but the fact she got half her sugar fix back endeared his lunchtime barbarism to her.
"Because I'm sick of this place! I'm sick of avoiding Matt like some unmentionable disease, of tiptoeing awkwardly around my mom. I'm sick of walking around town and being reminded of being shot or someone dying. I want to make happy memories somewhere else that won't be tainted by all the shit that always inevitably hits the fan around here. I want to do it before it too late."
She felt a lump in her throat as she remembered Stefan's absence or Elena's depression. She only had to remind herself that Klaus would likely be back for bloody retribution at some point and felt a vague panic at the back of her mind every day that it was just one step further into some ominous descent. Nothing felt sacred anymore, even her bedroom was where Matt had looked at her with such horror and broke her heart (for the second time? Third?).
Tyler stared at her with a gentle scrutiny.
"Okay."
"Really?"
She clapped her hands in excitement as Tyler rolled his eyes but she knew he was struggling not to smile, he was usually powerless against her enthusiasm.
"Have you even actually camped before Forbes?"
"You don't need to sound so suspicious. I'm not taking you out into the woods to murder you or anything."
He laughed and a pleasant satisfaction warmed her at her small achievement.
"I'll take that as a no."
"Yes it's a no. But it's not rocket science! I've seen it in the movies and mom has all this survival crap in the hallway closet. We just need a tent and activities and alcohol."
The alcohol comment had him grinning, they both tended to bond over liquor of some sort. It was kinda their thing.
"What about food genius?"
"I'll hunt bunnies and you can bring whatever you want. Don't make fun of me jerk, I'm planning as I go. It's supposed to be an adventure so quit with the party pooping."
Tyler put up his hands in amused surrender and pinned her with an indecipherable look. He was giving her a lot of those lately. The benefit of his lack of verbal communication was that she got to know most of his expressions or mannerisms to a tee, he was typically an open book now she had made the effort to study him but sometimes there was a shielded look that confounded her.
"Sorry, okay lets go."
"When?"
"Now."
"Tyler."
"I'm serious! You want me to come then we go now. Skip school, get our stuff and take my car."
It was already Friday but she never skipped class and she had imagined camping in a few weeks when they had discussed location and sleeping arrangements.
"And go where? It's raining!"
"Anywhere! Caroline it's supposed to be an adventure so are you going to be a chicken shit or are you going to leave with me now?"
She scowled at being called a chicken shit and he gave her a marginally apologetic half smile but his serious gaze trapped her like he was trying to figure something out. In the grand scheme of things, bailing on a few classes was worth it. Technically she would live forever but more and more she was beginning to feel like she was living on borrowed time. She wasn't going to waste any.
"Okay fine."
His blinding smile practically knocked her sideways and she felt herself grinning brightly in return. They picked up their bags and exited the cafeteria onto the field where they were immediately pummelled with huge droplets of rain. She hadn't run ten steps before her clothes were sodden. Tyler began to laugh at her feeble attempt of putting her satchel over her head to protect her hair which now stuck to the sides of her face.
"You're an asshole!" She shouted through the wind.
"Is that what I am? You are-"
He sobered for a moment and stared down at his shoes that were trudging through the mud. She had a feeling the sentence was going to end with something scathing about her vanity so she was glad he had the tact to keep his mouth shut. They walked briskly towards the car park, there was no point running when they were already soaked. After a few minutes of silence he put his arm around her shoulder and drew her to his side.
"You're shivering."
"That's because I'm cold genius."
Despite being equally drenched his naturally increased body heat did actually help but she was surprised to hear his heartbeat pick up when she leaned in closer against him. Poor guy hadn't been laid in so long any physical contact probably set him on edge. When they reached his car they quickly bundled in and Tyler immediately put the heat on full blast.
"Better?"
She nodded even though her teeth were still chattering.
"Sorry I'm leaking into your seat."
He shrugged in the careless way rich people could about ruining expensive upholstery but she realised if they were going to be travelling in the vehicle for hours on end that she'd dry out before the seat would. She quickly wiggled out of her coat and flung it behind her and took off her jumper until she was only in her bra. She automatically felt warmer having the clinging garments off of her.
"Caroline!"
Typical guy, he was practically wedged as far against the opposite car door and away from her as possible and his eyes were darting anxiously anywhere but at her.
"You know I'd really appreciate it if you could look a little less horrified at my semi-nakedness."
She undid the buttons of her jeans and arched up so she could slide them down her thighs and then kicked them the rest of the way off her legs.
"There! Now I won't flood the car."
She turned the radio on low and put her feet on the dashboard.
"Are you going turn to switch out of park anytime soon?"
Tyler seemed physically stunned as he hadn't moved and was still determinedly scrutinizing the ceiling light.
"Tyler?"
"You can't just get naked in my car without warning! You ambushed me with flesh."
His gaze unconsciously dropped straight to her chest before he seemed to regain his senses and overcompensated by scowling at her.
"Tyler it's not a big deal. We're going to be sharing a tent, we're friends and I've seen you naked countless times."
Tyler's scowl deepened at the mention of his transformation and monthly vulnerability.
"It's not the same thing. Besides I'm a guy, it's inbuilt that we perv when a beautiful girl is in her underwear, I can't help it!"
"Don't worry I totally perved when you were naked. Like I said, no big deal."
Tyler's eyes practically popped out of their sockets at this piece of information but she couldn't understand why he was so weird about it. They were human (kind of) and having a healthy curiosity was natural.
"I-"
She suddenly became aware that the windows had steamed up so she wrote cheekily across the windshield that Tyler was a chicken shit. He narrowed his eyes and she couldn't help but notice how cute he looked with his mussed up hair and wearing a top that had basically sucked in against his body so that every contour of his muscles were outlined. She felt a familiar throbbing between her legs but she ignored it. Tyler was her friend, anything else would just make it too messy. She could almost hear her nether regions complaining bitterly but she knew it was for the best.
"I'm a chicken shit am I?"
Before she knew what she had started, he was ripping his top up over his head and manoeuvring out of his black trousers with a kind of confident grace she couldn't have mustered. He raised his eyebrows challengingly and she obediently rubbed out her window taunt. The silence between them had become fraught with an awkward tension as they both realised they were facing each other clad in next to nothing in a steamed up car.
"Um this is weird."
Tyler didn't smile at her attempt to diffuse the moment. He was too busy caressing every inch of her body with his gentle gaze. She wasn't sure if he knew what he was doing until his eyes finally locked with her own and she finally understood. He looked hungry and the hot desire emanating from his side of the car was doing nothing to dispel the fire in the pit of her stomach. She tried to remind herself they were friends and that there were boundaries but she couldn't look away from him and the insane need that was pulsating between her legs had her dying to grind on him just to relieve some of the pressure. Her breath was coming out in uneven puffs and the heaving of her chest was battering down any resolve Tyler had to keep his hands to himself.
"Tyler" she whispered, halfway between a warning and a plea.
Her low voice seemed to have pulled the trigger and before she could think of something more substantial to add, he was lunging across the car and grabbing her face roughly with both hands. She gasped in surprise but he didn't kiss her straight away, he was so close to her she could smell the rain mixed with his cologne. He simply stared into her eyes, awaiting permission with shuddering exhales. She met her lips with his softly and forgot all her logical reasons for resisting him. They kissed slowly at first but then she was tasting him anywhere she could and he was trailing kisses down her neck while he reached around to undo her bra. It wasn't enough though and the way they were sitting made it awkward so she arched up and over so that she pushed him back and straddled him in his seat. He smiled up at her, almost shyly, as he stroked her dripping, messy hair behind her ears so he could better see her face.
"You are-"
She hushed him with a kiss as he returned the pressure desperately and slid his tongue into her mouth. She found herself wondering how long he had been waiting for this and whether it was just sex in general or especially with her. However when she felt one of his hot wet fingers push aside her underwear and enter her she couldn't even pretend to care. His other hand left her cheek and trailed down to massage one of her breasts which had her moaning his name into the side of his mouth where she could feel a satsified smile. This was not the kind of adventure she had expected to be having but she was just glad the windows remained fogged up since they were technically still on school grounds.
"More."
She sucked in a sharp breath when he entered another finger inside her and thrust harder, she grinded down on to his hand as she felt her insides wind tighter and tighter. Caroline sighed in contentment as she heard him panting lightly near her ear before he leant her back gently so he could take one of her nipples into his mouth. She braced both her arms behind her on the dashboard and closed her eyes and she continued to rock against him. Holy crap did she like having a friend this good. Seriously, she was pretty sure this was the best thing any friend had done for her.
As she felt her climax building she removed his hand from underwear so she could better feel herself move against his erection which elicited a long groan from her companion. That indecipherable look of his was back again that trapped her gaze and she felt a swooping sensation travel through her. She snuck her hand past the waistband of his boxers so that she could take him in her grip and stroked him with a teasing lightness. He was so hot it was unbelievable as he throbbed against her and the anticipation to have him inside her was too much.
She gave him a significant look and he understood. He bucked up against her and slipped down his boxers before pushing her underwear aside again so she could lift up slightly and then sink carefully down on to him. Once he was inside of her suddenly everything became loaded with meaning, they had crossed a threshold and although desire was aching in her every fiber, she felt a surge of affection to just kiss him and try and tell him that this was 'something'. What that 'something' was she had no idea but as she trailed butterfly kisses along his jaw and he stroked his arms up and down her back comfortingly she needed to let him know that it wasn't nothing, more than an impulse.
"I know," he whispered hoarsely.
She smiled in relief and began to thrust furiously against him as he gripped her thighs and met her rhythm with a confident ease.
Caroline curled up in Tyler's lap with her lips resting against his pulse point for several minutes after she had come down from the best orgasm ever. She found it bizarre that her mouth was so close to his artery but she didn't even have the energy for blood lust and he didn't seem uncomfortable at the promixity either. She wasn't sure if it was because she was supernatural or because Tyler knew her so well but she had never experienced such euphoria in her life. She thought she might have actually lost her mind, it had escaped somewhere as all-encompassing pleasure had taken over every thought and sense. She could only helplessly collapse against Tyler's chest as he tried to stabilize his own ragged breathing with what he'd call his 'shit eating' grin on his face. She was definitely no longer cold.
"Well I think it's safe to say neither of us are, in fact, chicken shits."
She had only just regained to the ability of speech but she wished to had thought of something more romantic to espouse. Tyler's chuckle rumbled through his chest as he kissed the top of her head.
"Nope."
"Still want to go camping?"
"I'll go wherever you go. Especially if I get car sex as a reward."
She frowned in indignation but didn't say anything.
"I can feel you scowling."
"You make me scowl so often you'll give me premature wrinkles."
He laughed and tilted her head up to him so he could kiss her lips and then between her eyebrows.
"Better?"
She kissed him back eagerly in response and nodded.
"Caroline you are-"
She rolled her eyes good-humouredly.
"One day you'll be expected to actually finish that sentence Tyler."
"-indescribable."
She blushed at the expression of gentle wonderment on his face as he breathed out that one word and reached out her hand to draw a heart in the misted window.