IGNIS stood there in his room, in shock for a moment as you dashed out of the room. You had just gone from seducing him, to a game of tag in the blink of an eye. His body was still reacting to you dragging your fingers down his neck as you whisper in his ear. Only for you to flip it on him and take it a completely different direction.

Although he wasn't sure if he was upset about not being able to touch you again, or not. But he did know one thing, you had been right that there had been no fun in the house. And perhaps that could be one of the reasons for not having pictures up. There just weren't enough good memories here yet. Ignis slightly smiled, then turned and looked in your direction as he heard you giggling as you flew out of the hallway and started heading down the stairs.

So you want to play then? Ignis thought as he put on a devilish grin.

Let's play. Ignis though then dashed off after you with a grin on his face.

You squeaked when you heard him coming after you. Then you slightly increased your speed as you raced down the stairs. You smiled to yourself as you were glad that he took the bait. You knew that that could have gone one of two ways. The first one being that he would join in and have some fun. Where the other, he would get upset and the whole thing would blow up in your face. You were very relieved that it was the first outcome.

Once you reached the bottom of the stairs you ran over and got behind the couch. Right as you reached the other side, Ignis came down the stairs and came to a stop just in front of the couch. You gave him a big smile as he watched you to see which direction that you were going to dash off to.

"You know that Korn wouldn't want us running around here." Ignis said with a smile on his lips.

"You better catch me then." You teased back.

Then you made a move like you were getting ready to dash to the right. But Ignis moved over to block your path. You grinned back and then switched to make a move to the left. He moved over to block your path again. So you stopped as you tried to think. Ignis just grinned at you then charged forward as he ran towards the couch. You squeaked again, then turned around and ran towards the dining room that was right behind you. Ignis ran up and vaulted over the couch as he raced after you.

You ran over and tried to get behind the table, but he quickly caught up with you and you ended up just running around it and dashing back out of the dining room area. You took out your phone as you considered dashing into the kitchen, but you knew that you would get caught. So instead you ran for the door that led to the outside patio. But just before you dashed out, you dropped your phone on the couch. You didn't want it to get damaged as you played. Ignis saw this move and followed suit as he dropped his phone by yours before racing out the door after you.

You screeched to a unsteady halt as you reached the pools edge at the deep end of the pool. But before you could look around to figure out which direction to run to next, you felt Ignis grab your waist. He was trying to pull you back from the edge, but hadn't quite calculated the motion correctly.
Well that, and he had no idea that you were still slightly off balance. Which accounted for his body taking yours straight towards the water. As soon as he realized his mistake he quickly wrapped his arms completely around you and turned you so that he would be the one to hit the water first.

You both held you breath as you felt the cold water rush over you. As you entered the water you felt his arm slightly tighten around you before it released you. You quickly moved away from him so that you weren't preventing him from coming back up. But you were mindful to keep your arms in front of you as you swam to the surface. You didn't want to hit him as you swam back up.

Right after you reached the surface you started treading water as you looked around trying to spot Ignis. But when you didn't see him, you started to panic. So you quickly swam to the wall and held on as you started scanning the water again.

"Ignis!" You shouted as you frantically looked around. Then as if to answer you, he popped back up.

"Ignis." You said with relief as you reached out your hand to him so that you could pull him to the side. Ignis slightly smiled and took your hand. But you instantly noticed that something was missing as he came to the wall.

"Ignis, where are your glasses?" You asked as you searched his face that was now frame free.

"That's what took me so long." He said as he reached the side.

"They fell off after we hit the water. I tried to grab them but they had gone down too fall by then." He said as he started taking his shirt off in the water.

You watched him in surprise as he stripped off his shirt and belt before setting them on the side of the pool. Your heart jumped at the sight of his chest as he pulled off his shirt. Then your eyes practically bulged out of your head when he set his belt on the deck as well. Then he turned and gave you a teasing smile.

"Can I trust you to stay put while I get my glasses?" He asked as he searched you face.

"Or do I have to restrain you." He said as he placed his hands on either side of you as he pinned you against the pool wall.

You could feel his tension as he let his body float against yours as you hung onto the wall as you faced him. Your mind started to wonder if you were out of sight from neighbors as you body started to react to his closeness. You had already been battling with yourself since last night as you wanted to do more with him then just kiss. You wanted to explore him in every aspect.

Your body, as if in response to your thoughts, had you reach out your hand and place it on his chest as it longed to touch him again. He paused as he watched your hand then he looked back at you as his eyes started to darken as you moved your hand higher as you wrapped it around his neck. Then he lowered his head as he met yours and had his mouth slightly open as he hungrily kissed your lips. Your breath caught as you felt the tug again from your core as your body started to yearn for his touch. He slightly pulled away only to have you return with the same intensity. You both exhaled as he pulled himself closer to you as he kissed back harder.

You wrapped both arms around his neck and slightly opened your mouth to allow him to enter. To which he immediately responded as his tongue entered your mouth as he hungrily tasted you. Your senses seemed to be on overload as the kiss became deeper and more passionate with each motion. After a bit he pulled his mouth from yours as he started to kiss down your chin and onto your neck.

You gasped as his lips hungrily met your neck as he tightened his hold on you as he pressed himself closer to the wall. You ran your fingers through his hair as you relished in the heat that he was creating in you. The sensation was starting to drive you crazy as you laid your head back as he continued to kiss your neck. You moaned when he reached the spot right behind your ear. He responded with a groan as you ran your fingers down the back of his neck.

You couldn't feel the coolness of the water anymore as your body radiated from the heat that he was causing from his passionate kisses. You never wanted it to stop. The way he touched you brought out something that made you feel things that you never had before. In fact you wanted more. And with that you slowly started sliding one of your hand down his chest and on down to his waist. You felt his body twitched under your fingers as you got closer to his pants.

Then just as you reached the top of his pants he stopped and put his hand on yours as he slightly moved back. You opened your eyes and stared at his. You could see the fire in his eyes as he looked back. You could see your own heat reflected in his eyes as you both stared at each other as you each were breathing heavily from the contact. He then took your hand and brought it up to his mouth and gently kissed each finger tip.

"Not here my love." He said in between the kisses that he placed on your finger tips. "I want you to be comfortable and on my bed when I let you touch me there. For I want to touch you there as well, while I explore every single inch of you." He said as he slid your arm back up by his neck, then let his finger tips drag down your arm leaving your skin tingling in its wake.

You breath caught as your whole body now seemed to tingle and shake with anticipation of his words. He wanted the same thing. But he wanted it to be more intimate with you, to where you were both comfortable as you on his bed. Just the thought alone was enough to make you wet as your pearl seemed to vibrate with anticipation. You had never wanted anyone to touch you more than you did at that moment.

You leaned in and hungrily kissed him as you tighten your arms around his neck as you melted against him. He passionately kissed you back before slowly pulling away. Then he looked into your eyes as he ran his fingers across you face. You could still see the heat in his eyes as he was fighting to get back under control before releasing you.

"Mind if I fetch my glasses now?" He said as he hungrily looked at you lips.

"Chlorine isn't exactly the best thing for them." He said as he run a thumb over your swollen lips.

The motion sent chills through you body.

You slowly released your grip on his neck as you brought your arms back down so that you could hold onto the wall. Ignis seductively smiled at you as he grabbed one of your hands as he moved away from the wall.

"Wait here for a moment." He quietly said then kissed your hand, before releasing it.

Then he took a deep breath and dove under the water to fetch his glasses from the bottom of the pool.

You did as he asked and stayed on the wall. Not that your shaking body would let you climb out at the moment anyway. So instead you watched from the surface as he descended to the bottom of the pool to fetch his spectacles. Than once he found them, he pushed off from the bottom of the pool and seemed to gracefully float up the surface.

You smiled at him as he surfaced and shook his head so that the water wouldn't get in his eyes. Then he swam back over to the edge right by you. He reached up and placed his glasses by his still soaked shirt and belt. Then he looked back at you and smiled

"Well, shall we get out." Ignis said with a slight smile. "We are both in need of some dry clothes now. We can't have you going home soak and wet now can we." Ignis said as you saw a flicker of heat flash across his eyes again.

Was he talking about the clothes or something else? Your heart rate increased at the thought.

"And how am I supposed to do that?" You asked as you searched his eyes.

Ignis slightly chuckled at you. "We do have a dryer here."

"Smartass." You said as you rolled your eyes at him.

"Come on." Ignis said then put his hands on the deck and pushed himself out of the water.

You rolled your eyes again as you turned around and followed suit. Once you were out of the water, you felt an instant chill as the cold air hit your wet clothes and exposed skin. You quickly wrapped your arms around yourself as you started to shake from the cold as goose bumps covered your arms. You looked over and you saw he was feeling the same chill as you saw the goose flesh on his chest and back as he quickly grabbed his shirt and belt after he put his glasses on. But he didn't hesitate as he quickly grabbed your hand and his house shoes, which was the only thing dry, and led you quickly back into the house.

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Once inside you felt a full body shiver as the slight heat from the central air, hit your body. Ignis left you by the door for a moment while he ran to grab some towels from the laundry room. After a few moments he came back with a over-sized, super soft, white towel. He didn't hesitate as he wrapped it around your shoulders and upper body so that you could start to warm up. The towel was so large that it made beach towels jealous, as is completely wrapped around your entire upper body and hung as low as below your butt. You grabbed onto the ends and used them to wipe off your face as you held it securely against yourself as you tried to stop the shaking.

Ignis used the other towel that he brought, for himself as he started drying off his hair and upper body. Once his chest and arms were dry, he started drying off his pants as best he could as he looked over at you and smiled as you stood there still wrapped up in the towel as you shivered. He knew the clothes were making you cold now and not the air. But he just needed to you drop-dry enough so that he could carry you upstairs so that you could dry off and change in his bathroom. He was the one who had to be almost completely dry so that he didn't slip on a wet floor.

"You alright love?" He asked as he watched you staring at him as he dried off.

"I'm just cold." You shivered as you pulled the towel closer to you.

Ignis smiled, then walked up and wrapped his arms around you as he tried to warm you up. You sighed as you felt his warmth coming through the towel. He rubbed his arms up and down the towel as he tried to warm you up. You stood there quietly until he suddenly reach down and grabbed your legs out from under you which threw you backwards and caused you to fall in his arms.

You squeaked at the motion and quickly grabbed him around the neck to prevent yourself from falling. Ignis chuckled as he tightened his grip on you as he held you off the ground. You smirked at him as he held you. But he just smiled as he started carrying you upstairs.

"You know that I can walk right?" You asked as you watched him.

"I know. But Korn hates his floors being wet. Besides, I wouldn't want you slipping." He said as he gave you slight smile.

"I'm starting to think that you just wanted to make me defenseless by carrying me again." You said as you laid your head on his shoulder as he started up the stairs.

"I wouldn't say your defenseless." He simply said as he rounded the first landing.

"But I'm not going to lie and say that I don't enjoy carrying you." He said as he cleared the second flight with ease.

Your face turned bright red as you felt the heat raising up in your face. It reminded you of the time that he had carried you inside your own house after the two of you had spared in the yard. You reached up and put your hand on his cheek. He glanced at you as he carried you into his bathroom. He stopped and set you back on your feet on the soft rug that sat in front of his mirror. You looked down and wiggled your toes on the rug.

"You sure you want me on your soft rug?" You said as you raised your eyes back up to meet his. "I'll get it wet."

Ignis smiled as he placed his hand on your cheek as he looked at you with a fire burning again in his eyes.

"I wouldn't have it any other way." He half growled as he kissed your forehead.

"Let me get you a temporary change of clothes." He said in a deeper voice as he turned around and walked out of the room.

You stood there looking around the room and was once again blown away by how nice the set-up was for Ignis. You never would have guessed that there was a condo this elaborate in Insomnia. And even though it wasn't long like the one in your suite at the citadel, this one had a charm all on its own. Everything though seemed to be missing every personal effect that would say that someone used it. You saw nothing out that would give you any idea that this was a used bathroom. But then you noticed the drawers and your curiosity seemed to soar again as you reached for the top handle.

But right as you hand was about to grab the handle, Ignis walked back in with one of his gray t-shirts, his grey hoodie, and a pair of gray sweatpants with a drawstring waistband. You looked at the clothes that he had in his hand as he handed them to you. These were the same ones that he wore the first day you had done his routine. You smiled as you took them.

"I'm afraid that these are the only things that I could find that might fit you." Ignis said as he placed them in your hand. "Everything else would have been too big for you. Besides, I figured that you would want something a bit loose."

"And why is that?" You asked as you gave him a curious look.

"Well...." Ignis said as he nervously looked away from you. You smiled as you watched him for the first time ever, get flustered by a question. But his answer would turn the tables. "We don't exactly have any women's underwear or bras here for you to change into. So you're going to have to................you know."

Your eyes felt like they were going to pop out of your head as the weight of his words hit you.

Oh my six! He's right. I can't exactly wear theirs. Well I probable could wear a pair of their underwear, but that wouldn't be exactly kosher. And there isn't really a substitute for a bra. You thought as you felt your face turn bright red as you felt the heat coming off of your cheeks as you turned away from him.

"I'll wait outside the door for you to change." Ignis said as he turned around to face the door. "This way I can take your clothes straight down to be dryer."

"Oh." You nervously said as you looked at his beautiful bathroom tiled floor. "Ok. I'll try to be quick then."

"There's no rush. I have to change too." He said over his shoulder to you. "Of course it'll take me half the time. So once your done, I should already be finished."

"Oh. Ok." You quietly said as you got nervous again.

Ignis then just nodded and walked out as he closed the door behind him. You stood there for a moment as you nervously looked at the door. Then you looked down at his clothes that he had just handed you and you blushed again. You were about to be wearing his clothes. That's something that boyfriends and girlfriends do when their dating.

Are we really at that point? You thought as you ran your fingers over the soft fabric.

Even if we aren't, I still get to wear them knowing that their his. You thought as you smiled to yourself.

Then you went about stripping off your soaked clothes and wringing them out in the shower. Then you dried off the rest of the way with the towel before putting on his soft t-shirt and sweatpants. Then finishing it off with his hoodie.

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Meanwhile in his room.........

After drying off the rest of the way and quickly changing into some dry clothes, Ignis had sat down at his computer desk and was checking the voice messages as Korn had asked him to do. Most of them were the usual updates from the field where no one had anything unusual to report, if anything at all. But there was one that he kept listening to. He was almost positive that he knew the voice, but he couldn't be 100% sure without calling it back.

"Mr. Scientia you have to help. I don't know where else to go. And no one else will listen to me. And if I tell the wrong person they'll hurt us. Please, you have to do something ............... shit! ................ someone's here ............. (faint footsteps)............." Said a frantic girl's voice as she whispered in the phone before the call ended.

Why does that voice sound familiar? Ignis thought as he saved the message so that he could share it with Korn when they got home.

He sat back in his chair as he recalled the message again.  The person on the other side sounded so familiar to him, but he just couldn't put a face or name to the voice.

Do I know them?

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Back in the bathroom............

You felt a bit out of sorts as the shirt rubbed against your bare breasts and the draft seemed to be a bit much around your sweet spot. This was going to be a bit awkward until your clothes were dry. You considered putting back on your underwear at least, but then pictured the wet spots it might make on the pants and decided against it. That would have been a lot more embarrassing than just feeling slightly awkward.

After making sure that the shirt and pants were covering up everything, you finally looked at yourself in the mirror and felt slightly mortified by how bad your hair looked. So you took your hair out of your hair doodad and did your best to try and straighten it out. You slightly frowned at yourself as you finished pulling your hair through hair doodad after running your fingers through your hair the best that you could. But you knew that it wasn't going to look right until you took a proper shower to rinse out the chlorine.

So with a sigh you grabbed your wet clothes and wrapped them up in the towel. Then after making sure that everything was clean and that nothing was out of place, you opened the door. When you did, you noticed that Ignis wasn't by the door. You stepped out of the bathroom and glanced down the hallway and saw Ignis sitting at his desk. He had on a different shirt and pair of pants, and his hair looked to be perfectly dry and styled.

Leave it to Ignis to figure out how to completely change and make it look like nothing ever happened. You though to yourself as you walked down the hallway towards his bedroom.

When you walked in his room, he seemed to be listening to messages on the house phone. So you waited until he hung up before you tried to get his attention. Once he had finished with what looked like it was the last message, you cleared your throat as he set down the receiver. Ignis quickly turned around and looked at you. Ignis seemed to freeze as he looked at you.

"Sorry it took so long." You shyly said as you looked around. "I was having a hard time getting my hair to cooperate. And I know I still look like a mess."

You weren't quite sure when he had gotten up from his chair.  For within the span of a breath he had his hand on your chin as he lifted your head to face him.

"You look perfect to me." He whispered as he traced your chin with his fingers.

You blushed as you dropped your gaze.

"No I don't." You quietly said.

Then you looked back up and meet his eyes. "But thank you anyway."

Seeing you in this frazzled state seemed to hit him harder then when you were in the pool with him. He secretly wondered if he could make you more frazzled as you begged for him to keep touching you. His yearning had him leaning over to you again as his body was starting to take over again. He wanted to continue where you had left off. He wanted to see all of you again as his hands caressed every curve. But right as he was about to kiss you again.

"Hey Ignis!" You heard coming from the main room. "Where the hell are you? I've been calling you!"

Ignis stopped in mid-motion as he was about to act on his desires. He dropped his hand and looked towards his hallway as Tredd entered his hallway as he came walking up.

"What the hell?" Tredd asked as he came into Ignis' room. "I've been calling for the last hour or so. What the hell have you two been doing?" Tredd asked as he looked around the room.

Tredd sighed when he saw that the bed didn't look like it had been disturbed. The was the last thing that Tredd wanted to report to Korn was that the two of you had been left by yourselves and had had sex in the house or something. But then he looked closer at the two of you and saw that you were both wearing something different then what he had seen you in that morning. Then he saw the wet clothes in your hand.

"What happened to your clothes? Why are you were wearing those?" Tredd asked as he looked back and forth between the two of you.

You quickly dropped your head. You had to say something, Korn would be ten times harder on Ignis than he would be on you. Besides, you didn't have to share the condo with him. And you didn't want to take the happy memory that you two had just created, and turned into a bad memory for Ignis. He had enough of those, you were sure of that.

"I fell in the pool." You quietly told Tredd as he was trying to drill Ignis who wasn't talking.

"What?" Tredd asked as he looked back at you.

"I fell in the pool by accident." You said as you shyly looked down. "Ignis had been giving me a tour when I got too close to the edge and I fell in. Ignis got splashed as I hit the water, which is why he changed."

Both Ignis and Tredd stared at you for a moment. Then Tredd looked back at Ignis.

"Is it true?" Tredd asked Ignis. "Did she fall in the pool by accident?"

"Well yeah but..." Ignis started to answer.

"Alright then. That answers those questions. Well, good for you for letting her borrow some of your clothes Ignis. But we do have to head back now. Korn is started to get worried. It's close to dinner time." Tredd said as he glanced at his watch really quick.

"Come on. Let's head back." Tredd said to both of you.

"We all know how much Korn hates being off schedule." Tredd said as he turned on his heel and headed back out of the room.

After grabbing your phones off of the couch you both followed Tredd back down to the parking garage and back to the car. After climbing in, Ignis placed his hand on your leg as Tredd pulled the car back on the road as he drove back to the citadel. You looked down at his hand and placed yours on his. He looked at your hands as well. Then he interlaced his fingers with yours. Then he slowly brought your hand up to his lips as he turned to look at you and gently kissed the top of your hand.

"Thank you for the fun memories today." He whispered as he slowly lowered your hands again.

"No." You returned with a slight smile. Ignis looked slightly taken back.

"Thank you." You said then dropped you gaze. "I needed some good memories right now.  To help replace the bad ones."

Ignis gave you a big grin back.

Then he leaned over and gave you a kiss on the cheek. "I can say the same."

When he leaned back, you both smiled at each other. Then you rested your head on his shoulder and closed your eyes as you relaxed for the first time in a long time.

******Author Note******

All of the house pictures are courtesy of Nico van der Meulen Architects - A world renowned architectural firm based in South Africa specialising in contemporary and classical designs in collaboration with MSquare Lifestyle Design. (This house is real and is total gorgeous. - FYI. bathroom and bedrooms are not a part of the real house.)

I hope that you enjoyed seeing Ignis as a playful teenager. It's a nice reminder that even Ignis has a playful side to him.

And next, without further ado...............(You'll just have to see. I may go off on another tangent at this rate. 😊 )

See you in the next chapter.

Thanks for reading. :)

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