Sneaky Thief

No nightmares plagued either of the two, instead they were sleeping in a serene state, both instead could enjoy good dreams. For Samuel it was once again happy times of his childhood with his parents, while Ulma dreamt of her own parents and long green fields in front of her and not too far away the large vast ocean, behind her were her parents standing among their people, the elves of the sea and forest had created a unified nation of elves. The large redwood like trees stood at a rough height of 100 meters with several homes built into them. But there were also coastal cities on the horizon.

The elves lived among trees, on large floating cities and in coastal cities that much resembled regular cities made out of stone and wood. It was an era of peace and prosperity for the Elves, they had been accepted as a state of their own inside the Zemaylan Empire under the grace and promise of good rulers they lived away from most of the troubles of the world. The Great Elven Nation of Tinahsea.

Her dreams kept playing her happiest memories from her childhood, she was often playing with her parents or animals that lived in the great forests that acted as guardians. The memories of her often playing pranks on the royal guards were also happy, always forcing the youngest member of the guard to run after her when she was playing pranks. 'You can't catch me uncle Vulcon!' She often teased him and always ended up getting caught with an unstoppable giggle.

Vulcon always brought her back home and often got scolded by the rest of the guard for not being able to look after the one and only princess. But her father had always dismissed it saving the young man from shame, Vulcon is the youngest and most decorated of our honor guard, and he is also the son of one of our few clan leaders, the king had always defended him. "Maybe my daughter is just extremely blessed and skilled." The king had often rebuked when someone tried to complain, after all who could deny the kings word.

Unfortunately the good times ended in her dream as the sky turned red and her parents had put her inside a tree of life that had burrowed deep underground. Ulma could not for the life of her remember anything more than that. But her dreams quickly went back to the happy times instead of torment.

Samuel woke up well rested with a small smile on his face, he had indeed slept well and for a long time. Still with his eyes not entirely open he wondered why he could not move his left arm, and why something was itching his nose somewhat antagonizingly much. So he opened his eyes to see what was wrong with his arm and moved his other arm to remove the itching.

But he became very shocked when he saw Ulma press into his chest underneath his bed sheet, or was this even his room? A quick look and he indeed saw that it was his room. He wanted to shoot out of bed and yell at her asking why in the eleven hells she was in his room and sleeping in his bed, when he noticed the tears streaming down her face.

He froze up, too scared to move and wake her up as his annoyance and shock slowly faded. Maybe she sleepwalked into his room, the lock was busted so it would make sense, but another slow look inside his room and he saw that the handle had been locked in place by a chair, so unless she moved it perfectly in her sleep she must have snuck in here.

Samuel sighed and moved some of her hair away from his face before relaxing on his bed again, now laying there a bit awkwardly as she just seemed to embrace him harder, he looked forward trying to relax as best he could and despite the situation he focused on it being his day off and him resting in bed to ignore the fact that someone was embracing him hard.

After a while of boredom and his hormones winning he took a closer look, she had such a sharp yet smooth face, her silvery hair perfectly accompanied her look and those half pointed ears of hers. Although in bed it was a bit of a mess considering how long her hair really was, he just had never noticed because she had it put up all the time otherwise.

Suddenly he realized just how hard she was pressing into him, and he saw that she did not wear much. Samuel slept in a simple shirt with no sleeves and bed pants most of the time, while she had a very small nightgown. Blood rushed to his heads and he tried to count sheep and get himself to calm down. But it was very hard, in more ways than one.

Ulma slowly opened her eyes, which in that moment were all the more beautiful, her deep green eye and brown eye contrasted so well with her silvery hair. "Good morning!" Samuel said very quietly while stiff as a brick.

Ulma woke up from a final hug with her parents putting her to bed, and slowly she put her left hand over her eyes and rolled over on her back quietly. She was so tired she had not heard Samuel at all, so with one final sigh she rolled back on her side and wriggled her other arm free to support herself to a half seated position on the bed.

She actually felt weak so she lost her grip and fell on her back in the bed staring up at the ceiling. Until she heard a voice speak, "So... Is this revenge for me sitting next to you that one night and holding yer hand?!"

Ulma quickly turned her head to the right and stared straight into two beautiful blue green eyes and chestnut brown hair slightly falling down over the forehead. She smiled before being snapped out of her reverie, all the memories suddenly came crashing back down, how she had falled asleep hugging him and slept well the entire night after sneaking into his room.

She quickly sat up with a gasp and almost jumped out of the bed. Before taking a scared look at Samuel while her entire face became beet red. "Well if it was because of nightmares then I understand, I get them quite often myself." Samuel said in the least awkward tone he could manage and turned to his side so he would face the wall and not haveto look at her.

Ulma quickly noticed his gesture as she realized what she was wearing and rushed out of the room as fast as she could. She could not believe her own actions, what madness had made her go into the room of the douchebag last night. She tried being angry at herself but noticed that it failed every single time.

Samuel just took a few minutes extra in bed and took the opportunity to calm down, he had the intention to just take it easy the entire day after all. After a few minutes and getting changed and cleaned himself, he went down to make himself some breakfast. He found a note on the common table. "I be taking Erica to my home today and we won't be back until tomorrow! - Ya Friend Sonya!" Samuel shrugged as he finished reading it, it just meant he could take it more calm with less noise.

He made breakfast for two people without really thinking about it. He plated the food and quickly sat down to eat it. Ulma came down shortly after, walking in complete silence she took a quick look at the note. She seemed to be wearing a simple day dress, she looked at the plate of food after that and with hunger beckoning her she ate the food in silence really fast, before giving Samuel a 'thank you' that was slightly more than a whisper.

After that she quickly left, she had avoided looking his direction the entire time, Samuel shrugged thinking she was just embarrased and he himself did not want to think back on the time he was awake anyway so he just took the silence and went on with his day.

Most of it he spent reading when he was bored or playing around with cantrips a bit, while Ulma spent all her time in her room doing the gods know what. She came down only for dinner, since they had woke up so late their breakfast had been eaten around lunch. Samuel made food for her as well, and just like in the morning she was still very awkward.

A little less perhaps, but Sam did not care. He realized to still be very tired after finishing his food, "Well I wish you a good night! I will go sleep after this." He quickly said to her as she was leaving, he received no answer at all which made him shrug. She was really acting strange now.

Samuel quickly cleaned up and went to his own room, where he took a nice long bath. Meanwhile Ulma was pacing back and forth in her nightdress her heart had been beating hard ever since morning, 'What is happening to me?' She inwardly asked herself as she kept seeing the greenblue eyes of the man she thought to be a douchehero.

She sat down on her bed and grasped her large pillow in an embrace as if it was a person, before sneaking away. Meanwhile Samuel almost fell asleep in the bath at one point so he decided to quickly stop bathing otherwise he would fall asleep for real, 'tried it once, never again' he inwardly thought as he remembered how uncomfortable it was after a while.

He decided to skip a shirt and go to bed in sweatpants only, it had been nice to spend an entire day doing essentially nothing. So he turned off all the lights in the bathroom after drying himself off with cantrips, he then exited the room finding a sneaky thief girl sitting on his bed clutching a large pillow like it was her shield.

He blinked once and then twice and realized she didn't disappear, "Hi?" He said as a question. "Could I please sleep here?" Ulma asked really quickly and shamelessly even to her own standards, it had just slipped out so fast. "I-I-I..." She tried to continue but stuttered too much to continue. "You don't have nightmares when sleeping next to someone?" Samuel confirmed with a slight nod from Ulma while she had a sad stoic expression.

"Sure! It's fine by me!" Samuel said with a shrug, with an inward sigh wondering if he was going to be able to sleep tonight. He quickly jumped in close to the wall and turned his front to the wall and adjusted his pillow and shared with her the bed cover.

Ulma quickly placed down her own pillow and got under the cover and shuddered, she felt really cold and started quivering, perhaps she was just nervous but she turned her back facing outwards looking at his room while slightly quivering. At one point one of her feet touched his and he suddenly inhaled really sharply!

"Good gods woman!" He exhaled quickly. "Why are you so cold?" Samuel turned around to look at her quivering and shivering. She turned towards him slowly when she felt his gaze on him, so now they lay face to face instead. "I don't know! I am just really cold and freezing!" Ulma said with her teeth almost clattering.

Samuel placed a hand on her forehead to check if she was sick, she was surprisingly normal and not burning up at all like he was expecting, which meant that whatever it was she was not sick from a fever. But alas how wrong one could be, for there exists many types of sicknesses. Samuel sighed, all his dirty thoughts purged and he shuffled closer to her and embraced her with his warmth.

After a few minutes she instantly stopped shivering and instead found herself in a protective secure warmth from Samuel, she positioned herself so her pillow would be next to his so her head was in the same level as his.

"Does it feel better now?" Sam asked and Ulma nodded slowly while gazing into his eyes losing herself in their warmth, they were always so devoid of emotion normally, but when he cared for her they were glistening with warm sparks and care. 'My douchebag hero.'

Ulma smiled and inched closer to him to feel all the warmth he was giving off. "Lets try and get some sleep, just hold on to me for as long as you need! Alright---!" Samuel began and trailed off as Ulma's lips were tenderly attached to his own, stopping him abruptly from speaking further. After what felt like minutes she finally removed her quivering lips.

She then sank down a little bit and embraced him tightly and closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Samuel of course lay awake for in dumbstruck awe, 'What had just happened' he questioned himself, laying there for quite some time. After a few minutes of his heavy heartbeats Ulma looked raised her head a bit again, unable to fall asleep herself she had simply pretended to try so she would have a chance at falling asleep.

But her heart beat too fast, and she raised her head above his and stared into his eyes. She dragged her hands across his well trained chest and gave him another deep kiss, before she reeled back to take a deep breath and look him once again in those beautiful eyes. "We should really try to sleep!" She quickly said, one part of her hoping to sleep and another screaming for more.

She put her head down on the pillow at his level again, and this time it was Samuel's turn to raise his head above her. He pulled her closer and gave her a few light kisses that she responded to every time.

Almost as if on instinct, Ulma's hand slid down and she started grinding him while he did the same to her. Soon the light kisses became passionate moans as they started exploring eachothers bodies, they were both in desperate need of someone they could share their pain with, and in that moment they both felt their old wounds starting to fade as they shared a night.

After plenty of time exploring Ul found herself on top of Sam and together they became one and grasped their hands together. Faster, faster, slower and faster until neither could hold back anymore. They both exploded in a final bliss while embracing eachother and they both slumped down in their embrace next to eachother with heavy breaths.

They each put a hand on the others face and shared one final kiss and embrace before they finally fell asleep together, their internal scars somewhat reduced in number.

During the rest of the night they woke up a few times, and thought they would be really embarrassed while looking eachother in the eyes, but instead they looked eachother in the eyes and that was enough for the spark to trigger it all again. During that night they shared in passion many a times, hardly any words spoken leaving only room for love and passion and even more healing of hidden scars.