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 The Fair Folk 5: Fire Orchids By Mannheim Knot

   mannheimknot@gmail.com

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   Originally published under another of my pen names.  I am consolidating
my young girl stories under the Mannheim Knot banner.

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   Adam and Seth face the consequences of Seth removing Emma's jealousy. 
Emma shows a side Adam did not know she possessed.  Ginny comes to Adam
with a request he didn't expect.  Adam finds himself in the arms of someone
he's long desired, but in a most unusual way.  The story ends the way a
romance should.

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   MC, mF, mf, rom

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   Adam knew the obvious metaphor would catch up with him eventually.  No
boy had ever had his world turned into Eden more than Adam O'Dair.  First
he discovered that his family was Fair Folk and possessed gifts which made
his access to the pleasures of young females unfettered except for the
boundaries set by his own conscience.  Then, his extraordinarily powerful
little brother had given into Adam's beloved Emma's request to remove her
jealousy.  Now, Adam could continue to enjoy a plethora of his female high
school classmates while still maintaining a steady relationship with his
first and only true love.  Life was simply too good.  So, he knew he was
going to be cast from the garden sooner or later.  It came sooner.

   "Mac, what have you done?" Adam's da snapped at him, ten seconds after
his first encounter with the `new' Emma had ended.  "You had the perfect
little girl in your life, and you fooled with her mind!"

   "I didn't do it, Da.  It was Seth, but in the end, I'm glad he did. 
Emma had been begging both of us to remove her jealousy so that she and I
could be together.  She's been after that for two years.  I thought it was
selfish of me to do that, and I was afraid I would screw it up and change
her somehow, but she really is the same except that she's not jealous
anymore."

   "I'm not happy, Adam.  Not happy with either of you boys.  Colleen will
be here in a few minutes.  I called out to her while I was talking to Emma
just now.  She's on her way."

   "Da, why's Mam so upset?  I can sense she's on her way, and she's ... 
Oh!" Seth stopped mid-sentence as he entered the kitchen and caught the
vibe off of his da.  "What did I do?" he said with a sigh.

   "Emma," Adam said, feeling both defensive and mortified that maybe they
really had sinned against the girl he loved.

   "I could explain myself now," Seth said, "but then I'd have to do it
again in a minute.  Adam and I will wait by the pool." Adam, as he felt
maybe he had been doing too often lately, followed his thirteen-year-old
brother.

   "Figure the fresh air will help keep them calm?" Adam asked as he closed
the patio door behind them.

   "Hopefully.  Adam, am I getting too big for my britches?"

   "You're smart and powerful, little bro.  But maybe we ought to pay more
attention to Mam and Da.  They are older and wiser."

   "You know, when I first got my powers I was convinced I was smarter than
all of you.  Now...  I don't know how to handle Ginny half the time, and
even though I acted so sure of myself about Emma I was really just putting
on a show to convince you.  Hell, I let Ginny talk me into it, and she's
twelve."

   "No less special or smart than us Fair Folk, though," Adam offered.

   "Thanks, Adam.  I feel the same way about Emma.  And this was her choice
from the beginning, and in the end.  She's been asking for two years." Seth
tilted his head.  "Mam's here.  She's pissed."

   Adam and Seth sat contritely and let their Mam ream them out for longer
than she had done in the last five years combined.  She adored Emma, felt
she and Ginny were likely the closest thing to daughters she would ever
have.  She could not abide anyone messing with their minds in any way. 
When she was done, Adam shut up and let Seth do the talking.  Normally,
Seth would have been the wrong one to talk.  He usually got on his high
horse and argued when he should just nod and go along.  But Adam could tell
Seth was more than a little humbled by the responsibility he had taken on
to himself without consulting the family.  The possibilities of the ways
things could have gone wrong now shook him pretty deeply.

   "...  and that's why I think I should be punished," he concluded after
explaining himself.  "Every teenage boy has the power to do things his
parents wouldn't approve of, but the family only works if he's willing to
accept the consequences."

   "Um, me too," Adam added.  "What he said."

   "Punish you?" Da said.  "Haven't had to do that in a while.  I guess
that's a testament to the way the two of you have behaved most of the time.
Colleen?"

   "What I think we should do to you is make you live without your powers
for a while, but even Adam is powerful enough that we couldn't bind his
abilities without going further into his mind than we'd care to go.  Seth,
hell baby boy, your Da and I can't even touch your abilities anymore. 
Since you hit puberty I feel like a jet just flew three feet over my head
when you walk by in a mood."

   "We're volunteering, Mam," Adam said.

   "Alright then, one month, on the honor system," Da said grimly.  "No use
of powers at all for Seth, and no girls for Adam."

   "Um, Emma just made a hell of a sacrifice to get me back, Da.  Can I at
least hold her hand and kiss her goodnight, that sort of thing?"

   "No," Colleen said.  "Explain it to her, but then also explain that
we're a little upset with her, too.  She and Ginny played a role in this."

   "Does that mean that I can't hold hands or kiss Ginny?" Seth said, more
than a little upset to lose his kissy-face friend.

   "That only seems fair, Seth.  Ginny and Emma didn't actually do
anything, but they pushed you to use your powers in a way that they knew
Dan and I would not like.  This should all come around to them, too."

   Seth turned red, and Adam could feel the jet passing three feet over his
head as well.  Colleen blinked and seemed to be resisting the urge to take
a step back.  "Yes, Mam," Seth said after a tense moment.  "You're being
fair.  It just sucks in a lot of ways."

   "Not much of a punishment if it doesn't suck," Da countered.  With that
simple truth, it was done.

   The first three weeks were hard on the boys, but really only as far as
girls were concerned.  Mariel and the cousins certainly understood Adam
being `grounded,' and they let it pass with only clucks of sympathy.  Adam
played a bit of brinksmanship with the rules and ordered the two Terval
girls not to wear panties under their skirts for the next few weeks.  Like
Penny had told him, it reminded them he was thinking of them.  All three
girls got together and decided they were going to keep themselves tethered
to Adam in another way.  They weren't going to cum without his permission
for the entire month.  Adam was amazed at how frequently he got texts
asking for permission.  He was especially surprised by the fact that Mariel
texted him at least twice a week during school.  He was going to have to
figure out how she was getting away with jilling off during the day.

   Emma and Ginny both understood why they had been included in the
punishment, and Ginny was actually slightly relieved at first.  She and
Seth were getting closer and closer to `doing it' all the time; a month to
clear her head was something of a welcome gift initially.  But the girl had
a romantic heart, and it started to wear on her after a while.  Adam began
to suspect that in the end the ordeal might even hasten her decision to
take Seth to her bed.  After three weeks, Ginny was really missing her
`Snuggly Bear.' It didn't help that her parents, removed from Seth's
magical influence, started to think maybe it was a pretty god-damned good
idea for them to spend less time together.  Suddenly they could see how
close their twelve-year-old daughter was coming to surrendering to her
passion.  Their hard line triggered the "Romeo and Juliet" effect in the
girl big time, and the little redhead's desperation to get her boy back
truly spiked.

   Emma was frustrated as could possibly be.  She'd had a few boyfriends
during the two years she and Adam were apart, even slept with the musical
heartthrob of their school, Colby Gantrell, a few times when they were a
couple.  She admitted that she didn't really hate that at all.  But Adam
was the love of her life, and it had been a long time since anyone had
really stirred her heart and body at the same time.  The slender beauty got
extremely crabby that she had been so close to regaining her passionate
love life and then had it snatched away.  Adam had a pretty good idea of
how things were going to go the second his doom was lifted.

   At the end of the third week, something happened to Seth that he had
never dreamt of as a possibility before.  He got his ass royally kicked by
an eighth grade boy with a grudge.  Obviously Seth wasn't the only boy in
the middle school who burned for Ginny.  But for some reason, the boys had
all known better than to mess with her or her boyfriend.  But as the days
with his powers self-contained wore on his aura of invincibility eroded. 
The jealous boy jumped Seth right at the edge of the school grounds and
punched him five or six times before two of Seth's buddies caught sight of
it and ran the bigger boy off.

   "You could have defended yourself, little mac," Da said as he tended the
cuts.

   "I tried, Da, but I never really punched anyone before.  And I couldn't
see right after the first punch.  He came up from behind, called my name
and popped me right on the nose as I turned around.  I couldn't get my eyes
to behave very well after that."

   "I mean your mam and I would have been fine with you using your powers
in an emergency."

   "It wasn't an emergency, Da.  I was just a normal seventh-grade kid
getting his ass kicked by an eighth-grader.  Happens all the time.  Look at
Clark Kent in `Superman II.' He gave up his powers and that bully in the
truck stop beat him senseless."

   "But that was a movie, son..."

   "Da, I need to remember what it's like to be human.  I'm living my whole
life amongst them.  I mean I realized Ginny has to be afraid every day in
some way.  The world is full of boys and men who could hurt her as easily
as Ty hurt me.  I promise if I'm in real danger, or if anyone else is, I
will do what I have to, okay?"

   Adam sat on the end of Seth's bed that night.  "You know normal human
big brothers sometimes deal with situations like this," Adam snarled as he
looked at his brother's black eye and swollen lips and nose.

   "Don't."

   "But..."

   "Don't, Adam.  It's something I have to deal with."

   Adam didn't argue anymore, but he reckoned if he ran into Ty, he might
forget Seth's request.  Two days later, Ty decided to emphasize his point
with another beat down.  Ginny saw him coming and screamed.  Seth got in a
few shots this time.  Seth still came out on the short end, but Ty didn't
seem to enjoy having to go to the dentist and getting a false tooth put in
to replace the one lying on the sidewalk across the street from school.  He
probably also didn't like the kick in the balls he took from Ginny as he
tried to kneel over Seth and keep punching.  Ty taunted Seth from further
away after that.

   In a week, it was all over.  Seth could have given Ty nightmares for the
rest of his life or turned him into a blithering idiot.  He simply walked
up to Ty and gave two commands.  "Don't hit me anymore.  Don't ever bother
Ginny." Ty nodded and walked away.  He became a non-factor in the couple's
day-to-day world, but a lesson in humanity and humility for the rest of
Seth's life.

   Adam's punishment ended with a bang.  Emma all but raped him.  She even
created a dramatic cascade of buttons as she tore his shirt open.  The
gentle beauty threw him on the bed and wrapped the torn shirt around his
hands while looping it through the bedframe.  She hiked up the skirt she
was wearing without panties, her own choice.  She straddled him, slid her
hot sex over his cock and began to ride him like a rented mule.  Adam had
never forgotten how sweet and loving she was in bed, and how delightfully
playful she could be when she felt naughty.  But this was a new side of
her. Two years of sexual longing and emotional frustration all came out.

   As she cursed him for every tear she'd ever shed over him and for the
month she'd had to wait after getting him back, her nails dug into his
chest and her tight channel gripped his shaft.  "I fucking love you so much
it hurts!" she screamed.  "Don't ever go away again!  You and I are
together forever." She grunted and groaned as she fucked him with a
newfound ferocity.  She punched him in the arm a few times.  It was like
this was the only way she could exorcise the demons of the sad and lonely
time without him.  And while she wasn't jealous of the other girls now,
there was still some heartache at the unfairness of him getting his jollies
with plenty of other girls while she had only had the one boy.  And that
had been part of a steady relationship.  But she had Adam now, and that was
all she wanted, her lifelong love back in her arms.

   Well, at the moment he was beneath her hips rather than in her arms, but
that was a damned good start.  Her ecstasy grew as she ground and humped at
the startled but incredibly aroused boy.  He could not believe the heat
that was enveloping his cock and coming off her skin.  It was like a fever
was raging inside of her.  When she was nearing her climax, she reached
down and wrapped a hand around his throat.  Her slender fingers dug tightly
into the sides of his neck.  "Whose little bitch are you?" she demanded.

   "Emma's!" he managed to reply in a hoarse voice.

   "God-damned right you are!" Within seconds she began to tremble and
quiver.  She dropped down and buried her head into his shoulder, leaving
teeth marks as she bit him.  The squeal she let loose was louder than
anything he had ever heard from her before.  As she finished, she collapsed
on top of him.  She barely moaned when Adam finished with a few gentle,
deep thrusts from beneath and then flooded her with a soothing warmth deep
inside her sex.  She sobbed for a long time, managing to untie him as she
fought through the tears.  When he could wrap his arms around her, she
finally calmed.  She began kissing him over and over.  "That was wicked!"
she said with an embarrassed giggle after she'd regained her sense of
reality.

   "Is that how you want us to be?" Adam asked.  He could have lived with
it.

   "Not very often," she said.  "I'm still me, white roses and all," she
said softly.  "That was just about a lot of things I had to get out of my
system.  But I might want to do it like that again just for fun sometime,
okay?" He nodded.  She snuggled for a while.  "Adam?" she asked sweetly.

   "Yes, my love?"

   "You could do that to me sometimes, too.  I missed the gentle stuff more
than anything, and we only really ever got a little wild.  But over the
last couple years without you...  I realized I missed having someone I
trusted enough to get wild with.  And I'm in all the way with you now. 
You're going to get everything." She paused and then added for emphasis,
"And I mean everything."

   "I'm in all the way with you, Emma.  I'd make my solemn vow to do
everything with you, but I always wanted to do that anyway.  It wouldn't
have the same effect."

   "Boys are all pretty filthy, aren't they?"

   "I think so, babe."

   "That's kind of disturbing when you think of it.  But I'm sort of glad
you're a filthy pig, O'Dair." She laughed slightly and then rose up.  "And
I felt this way for months before Seth did his little trick with me, Adam.
My little turn toward the nasty side just added more fuel to the fire when
I was hassling him to change me."

   "You're kind of a skank, Wahl."

   "Totally your fault.  Everything is always totally your fault." She
kissed him sweetly.  "I'm gonna ride you nice this time," she said.  "Sweet
Mother Danu, I love you, Adam." This time things lasted much longer. 
Scratches and punches were replaced by tender strokes.  Sweet kisses
replaced the bite.  Love stepped in for lust, and desperation gave way to
happiness and sweet ecstasy.  Adam's heart got even more satisfaction than
his well-pleased body.

   The next evening, Adam got a knock on his bedroom door.  He put aside
the homework he'd been pretty disinterested in completing and opened up to
find Ginny standing there looking very serious.  "I need your help," she
said quietly.  Adam gestured to the chair at his desk and sat on the edge
of his bed.  "It's about me and Seth," she said.

   "I kind of figured."

   "I want to do it with him," she admitted.

   "You guys are young, but you've been in love forever, Ginny."

   "It's the young thing that has me scared, Adam."

   "I understand.  For a girl as young as you, taking a boy into your body
has to be frightening.  Emma was just over fourteen, a little more than a
year older than you are now, and she was still terrified."

   "It's not that.  I mean it is a little, but Seth has zero experience,
and I'm afraid he'll hurt me, or that I'll do something stupid and hurt
myself.  I kind of want to lose it to a guy who knows what he's doing, you
know?"

   "Um, Ginny.  You're a beautiful girl and I love you like a little
sister, but I'm not gonna..."

   Ginny's laugh cut him off.  "Geez, Adam, have much of an ego?" She
laughed at him again when he turned bright red.  "I could see where it
sounded like....  And I did used to have a crush on you, but I was nine
then.  I'm over that.  Remember when I begged you to help me get over my
jealousy when the time came?"

   "Yeah," he said, shifting uncomfortably.  "Maybe that's not such a good
idea."

   "Well, you don't need to!" Ginny said with a bright smile.  "Maybe it's
from hanging around with you and your parents, or seeing the hell Emma went
through, but somewhere in the midst of this crazy last month I got over it.
You Fair Folk have different lives.  I'm in love with Seth, and his life is
going to be WAY different from a normal human's.  It just all started
making sense to me.  I'm okay with him having other girls as long as at the
end of the day, it's me he really loves."

   "Cool!" Adam replied with a relieved smile.  "And, Ginny, you are
totally it for him.  You're the one girl he could build a life around.  So
if that's all good, what do you need my help with?"

   "I want Seth to learn from someone with some experience, and then come
back to me and show me how it's done."

   "You want me to see if one of the girls I see wants to sleep with him? I
can tell you right off, Mariel would have done it by now if she wasn't a
nice person and had no intentions of borrowing a twelve-year-old girl's
true love without permission."

   "And Seth really likes her.  I can see it; Mariel's really nice, and
she's all tits and lean muscle.  What boy doesn't like her?  But I do have
another thought.  There's someone with experience whom I like and trust,
and every boy is in love with her."

   "That's nice to say, Ginny," Adam said with a cheeky grin, "but I don't
think Mam is going to do it."

   Ginny laughed again.  "You know who I'm talking about, right?"

   "Yeah, I've been meaning to get there myself, but I'm totally cool with
Seth doing it."

   "Could you pull it off?"

   "Does she like him at all?" Adam asked, wanting the facts before he
agreed to anything.

   "She's in love with him, or damned near.  You know how strong you guys'
charm can be.  She won't even go near him in school, and she completely
avoids eye contact.  I thought she was going to have an O when he
innocently touched her shoulder when he was helping her out.  She'd gotten
all flustered and dropped her books as she was trying to turn away before
she made eye contact with him."

   "Then I can do it.  Da said it was okay as long as we did it right.  I
can make it happen.  Say, Ginny, about the Mariel thing.  She'll lay off
unless you give her outright permission."

   "Adam, tell her I said this.  When you go to the other one, bring Mariel
along.  She doesn't have to just sit back and watch, either."

   That Friday night, Adam, Seth and Mariel showed up at the door of a
pretty little house out in the country.  It was tiny, but very well-kept.
The flowers around the base of the house were exotic and would have taken a
florist's touch to keep them looking so healthy.  Well, a florist or a
middle school biology teacher with a zeal for botany, and this wasn't a
florist's house.  Seth looked nervous as hell, but he was anxious to learn
everything he could about pleasing a redheaded beauty.  In his eyes, the
redhead who lived in this house was second only to Ginny.  Mariel took
Seth's hand.  "Ready, Nightwing?" she asked.

   "Thanks for this, Starfire," he said.

   "Don't thank me, honey," Mariel said and gave him a long kiss on the
lips.  "I've been hoping for this day for quite a while.  I don't know
quite what it is about you O'Dairs that makes me want to do...  well,
anything you have in your filthy little boy minds."

   Adam rang the bell.  All he had told Miss Mokowski was that Seth needed
some help with his lessons, and that Adam and one of the girls from his
class were coming along so she wasn't left alone with a student.  Miss M
had agreed, perhaps feeling that the presence of the older couple would
keep her in line.  Miss M showed up at the door wearing one of the
wind-suit tops the girls' volleyball coach wore to school every day.  But
unlike in class when she also had the long, loose-fitting pants, she now
wore the tight volleyball shorts the girls wore.  Adam could smell the
nectar on her fingers.  The prospect of having the unfathomably charming
boy coming to her house had led to her getting naughty with herself.  Maybe
she'd been trying to take the edge off before the student who embodied
temptation itself arrived.  Maybe she'd given in to the inevitable and worn
the shorts to try and get a reaction from Seth.

   "Miss M!" Mariel cried and smiled broadly.  "I haven't seen you in
forever." She hugged the somewhat surprised teacher.

   "Oh, Mariel, honey.  I didn't know you were with Adam now.  Come in, all
of you," she put a friendly and completely innocent arm around the girl and
led them into her spotless house.

   "I'm not with Adam," Mariel said with no sign of sheepishness.  "Well,
obviously I'm with him right now, but he's Emma's guy.  Always will be. 
I'm just a close friend of the O'Dair boys.  They're really something,
aren't they?"

   "Yes, they are," Miss M said softly and blushed as they all sat around
in the living room.

   "Adam, did I ever tell you that Miss M was my favorite ever teacher?"
Mariel asked.

   "Yes, at King's Crossing, two years ago."

   "On THAT day?" Mariel asked.  When Adam nodded, she smiled happily.  "Of
all the things to remember.  You are so sweet, Adam!" Mariel stroked his
arm.  "About Miss M...  she talked me through some tough times in middle
school.  It's not always easy being a sixth grade girl that all the older
guys want to fuck, but Miss M knew how it was.  She's always been really
hot, and she was an early bloomer, too!"

   "Mariel!" the teacher said, feigning shock but laughing softly.  She was
again bright red.

   "All the boys in our middle school classes were in love with her, too,"
Mariel explained to Seth.  "But only Adam was ever a temptation for her."

   "Mariel, that's enough, honey.  This isn't a good conversation to have
in front of boys.  And I never told you I was tempted by Adam.  No offense,
Adam."

   "Oh, let's not be silly, Miss M," Mariel said, taking charge of the
situation.  "O'Dair boys are darned near magical.  And they pretty much
know what you're thinking.  The bottom line is that we're both getting
fucked tonight, probably each of us by both of them.  We can do it all
together if you want, but I'm not into girls, even the hottest teacher at
school.  So, you and I aren't going to...  you know."

   "Mariel!  I am not going to have sex with these boys...  or you.  If
that's what you came here for, you can all just..."

   "Look, Miss M, you're into Seth," Adam said gently.  "And he's totally
into you." The elder O'Dair boy still wasn't using his Fair Folk command.
He was hoping charm would carry them most of the way.  "I can promise you
that we won't tell anyone we're here.  Ginny knows.  She set it up because
she wanted Seth to learn how to do it from someone who knows what's
happening and who cares about Seth.  You're a biology teacher, and you care
about him.  You should be the one who teaches him."

   "This is insane!" Miss M said, seeming more confused than offended now.
"He's just a boy.  Hell, Adam, you're just a boy."

   "Yep.  And every boy looks at you like we do, but there's something
crazy going on with us, isn't there?  Something more than you should be
expected to resist.  You're a moral person, Miss M, or you'd have slept
with some of the other boys by now.  They all look at you like you're a
goddess all day long.  You are a goddess, except from what I know of other
goddesses you're way more decent and sweet than they are.  You've been
teaching for nine years now, and the only two boys who ever made you doubt
yourself are right here in this room.  We're different.  We're the
exception.  You'll still be a good person after tonight."

   "Adam...  I....  Seth, please, talk some sense into them!"

   "I want you, Miss M," Seth said.  "And I need someone to teach me so
that I don't hurt Ginny.  Think of this as helping her, too.  Do you really
think Adam and I should count the same as the other boys?  You're trying to
protect us from yourself, but we're pretty obviously the ones who are
feeling safe and comfortable.  You're the one that's confused, but you
don't have to be.  Are we the same as the other guys?"

   "No," Miss M admitted.  "God help me, the two of you make me want to act
like a slut, but I am NOT giving into it." She had dug in.  They weren't
going to get there with the mere temptation of finally getting to have the
boys that had driven her mad for so long.  Even her desire to help Seth and
Ginny wasn't enough of a motivator to get her to break her moral code. 
From Adam's point of view it only made her more desirable.

   Seth looked at Adam.  Adam shook his head and pointed to himself.  He
wasn't going to have Seth do this.  This one was on him.  "It's about time
I said this openly in front of Mariel.  She's more than earned the truth.
You will believe every word I say." The last was imbued with the power of
command.  "Seth and I aren't human."

   "I fucking knew it!" Mariel cried.  "You're totally space aliens or
something." She turned to Miss M.  "The sex is like way too good.  They
don't do anything physically weird or have big magic cocks or anything, but
they know when to hit every single button."

   "Not...  human?" Miss M asked, looking from one boy to the other.

   "Are you familiar with the Fair Folk?" Adam asked.

   "Celtic legends, an old race," Miss M said.  "Children of the Mother
Goddess, I think."

   "God, it's sexy how smart you are," Adam said and then reveled in the
fair-skinned woman's blush.  "That's what we are, almost pure-bred."

   "That's even cooler than aliens," Mariel said.

   "We can command people when we want to, but we usually just get by on
the fact that people are more drawn to us than others.  As far as I can
tell, we're emotionally pretty much like humans, but we do have a need to
make love with a lot of different partners.  It burns inside us all the
time.  Even so, I belong to Emma in the end, and I will love her above all
others for the rest of my life.  Seth is the same way with Ginny.  Sorry,
Mariel."

   "It's okay," she said, touching his arm.  "I'm not in love with you
guys, either.  I love you, but neither of you is the one."

   "But you are a girl that should be a guy's one and only true love.  You
deserve that," Adam said, meaning every word.

   "Smartest thing you ever said," Seth added.

   "Someday I will be a guy's one true love," Mariel said.  "In the
meanwhile, I get to have Adam to keep me warm.  And pretty soon I'm going
to FINALLY get to bang Seth, and that's been building up inside me for a
while now.  Seth, you are a hot little honey, and I want some of that."

   "I'm not that little!" Seth said with a laugh.  "I'm taller than you. 
I'm actually about as tall as Miss M."

   "Taller, I think," Miss M whispered.  She turned bright red again. 
"It's hard when you have desire for someone younger.  You look at things
like him being taller than you to try and justify the way you feel.  Seth
is wise in a lot of ways, and he feels older.  With Adam, he got fairly big
and strong already in middle school, and he was so sweet and loving.  I had
myself convinced for a little while that I was going to wait until he was
eighteen and then marry him."

   "Really?" Adam asked.  "I should have snuck a peek into your brain more
often."

   "You can see into my brain?" Miss M asked in horror.

   "If I want to.  But I generally try to stay out of specific thoughts and
just look at a person's spirit.  Yours looks like a very rich bouquet of
fire orchids.  You are one sexy woman, Miss M."

   "Fire orchids?" she gasped.  "That's pretty fucking cool!" She didn't
even seem shocked with herself for dropping an F-bomb in front of three
students.  It was turning into that kind of a night.

   "I'm daisies," Mariel said, feeling a little embarrassed to have so
common a flower.

   "With bluebells and Indian Paintbrush.  Yours is also the only bouquet
that ever moves, Mariel.  You are extremely special," Seth said.  "And very
exciting." Mariel took her turn at blushing.

   "Miss M, I could command you to let go of your doubts and just embrace
the situation, but I'd rather you consented.  As a matter of fact, as hard
as it would be for Seth and me, if you don't consent freely, we'll walk
away right now and all you'll remember is helping him with his biology
homework."

   Miss M sat back down in her chair.  She thought quietly.  "I can make
the exception," she said at last.  "This goes way beyond normal morality,
and I want the two of you so badly.  Plus, you know, you're not human and
all.  There comes a point when a person has to consider all the facts and
shift the paradigm."

   "God it's hot when you talk brainy!" Adam said with a grin.

   "Adam?" the redheaded teacher asked, leaning forward in her chair.  "You
just said something about altering memories.  How far can you go with that?
There's something I want to ask from you."

   "Anything I can do safely I will," Adam replied, crossing and kneeling
by her chair to take her hand.  He had sensed pain in her last statement.
Seth must have felt it, too.  He knelt on the other side and took that
hand. "Seth is stronger than me.  Between the two of us we can do quite a
bit."

   "I didn't lose my virginity in a good way," she said, tears in her eyes.
"I went to a high school party with my big sister when I was only twelve. I
told a cute high school boy I was a freshman, because I wanted to kiss him.
He led me to a room, and I did a lot more than kiss him.  In the end, when
we were close to doing it, I stopped.  He didn't.  I think he knew I didn't
want to go any further, but I was so scared I froze.  I didn't fight back
or scream no.  He took my virginity.  It was painful and awful, and then he
just walked out and left me crying."

   "You want us to erase that memory?" Adam asked.

   "No," the teacher said with certainty.  "That night taught me a lot
about safety and how to choose whom I end up alone with.  And it hasn't
kept me from enjoying sex or having normal relationships.  I want to keep
it, but not have it be my first time.  I want my first time to have been
special and wonderful."

   "So, we can just build a memory of you having done it before that night.
We can make it sweet," Adam offered.  It was easy to do things to people
who wanted them done, and a vague but sweet distant memory could be rather
simply implanted in her mind.

   "We can do one better than that," Seth said happily.  "You know that
Adam and I are going to make you keep all this secret, right?"

   "I thought you would," she answered, seeming buoyed by Seth's sudden
joy.

   "So, we're going to give you a little more magic than we really have.  I
knew all those time travel stories would come in handy someday!" Seth
detailed a plan so complex and crazy that it had to work.  "It's going to
mean Adam has to go first with you," Seth said a little sadly.  "But he's
been longing for you for three or four more years than I have anyway. 
Plus, I have Starfire here, and truthfully, I had a crush on her before I
met you." With their roles all decided, Miss M headed to her room with Seth
so that he could prepare her mind.  He came out a few minutes later.  "When
she was twelve, everybody called her Candy.  Her first name is Candace."

   "I always thought it was `Miss,'" Mariel said with a giggle.  She took
Seth by the hand and led him to the couch.  "Let's see what you've learned
already, Nightwing." She took his hand and looked deep into his eyes. 
"Such a sexy boy," she sighed.

   Adam took a deep breath and moved to the bedroom where Candy was
sleeping.  She was so very beautiful that he caught his breath.  Adam
almost wondered if Seth had left some magic hanging in the air.  Something
in her expression as she slept made it incredibly easy to believe she was a
twelve-year-old virgin.  The boy could have stared at her for a long time,
but he needed to initiate the plan.  He made a slight noise.  She stirred
and slowly awoke.  "Adam?" she asked the darkness.

   "It's me, Candy.  I was just checking on you.  Sorry I woke you."

   "Are the bad guys still out there somewhere?" she asked fearfully.

   "Mam and Da are finding them.  They won't last long once Mam gets hold
of them.  She's really strong, and they're threatening her baby boy."

   "This boy, Seth.  Your little brother.  He's really special, isn't he?"

   "Special enough that the Fair Folk Council pooled all their powers to
send us back in time to protect you, Candy."

   "And the Dark Fairies are after me because I help Seth in the future?"

   "Yes.  You become his teacher.  Something you teach him how to do
prevents him from hurting the girl he loves.  If that went wrong and he
hurt her he would turn dark.  You're extremely important, Candy.  Someday,
something that seems like a strange encounter to you will be the moment
that saves the most powerful member of our race, and that probably means
saving hundreds or even thousands of human lives, too." Adam brushed her
red hair softly.  "You are a force for good in the universe, Candy." He
turned to go, but she caught his hand.

   "Adam, you're a force for good, too."

   "I try, Candy."

   "Adam?"

   "Yes?"

   "Don't leave, okay?  I'm scared, and...  and I like you and don't want
you to go."

   "Okay, beautiful.  I'll sit in the chair here and watch you sleep." Adam
started to sit in the chair.

   Candace held onto the hand she had taken.  "Could you...  could you...
come into the bed and hold me, instead?"

   "Candy, you're only twelve."

   Candy got a little girl's hurt look on her face.  "I'm old enough to
know that I really like you.  And I'm not built like a twelve-year-old.  My
body is more developed.  Everyone says stuff about that.  Adam, I know you
won't hurt me.  All the older guys are trying to get me to do things with
them all the time.  Please don't tell me that the one wonderful older boy
that I really care about and want to do those things with is the only one
who doesn't want to!"

   "Oh, I want to, Candy.  I'm just not sure it's the right thing to do."

   "I'm telling you it is, Adam.  I promise you it is."

   He kissed her gently then.  He had for so long wanted to press those
lips and have this amazing woman take him to her bed and teach him the art
of lovemaking.  Now, he found that he would be teaching her.  In the end he
reckoned he was going to become a more important part of her life this way.
He was going to be as special to her as she had always been to him.  He
slid into bed with her and took her into his arms.  He had grown taller and
broader through the years, and while she was no tiny woman, she was quite
enough smaller than him that he managed to feel the fantasy of the body
belonging to an exceptionally blessed middle school girl.  She had a full
bust and all the female curves, but he had grown into a man's body, and
they fit together in all the right ways.

   They kissed for a very long time, and they slowly worked their way out
of their clothing.  Adam felt a flash of worrying over whether or not he
was protecting her adequately from the bad guys, but reasoned that his
powers didn't come from his clothing.  She couldn't be safer from harm than
in his arms.  He caught himself.  He was buying into the whole fantasy yarn
Seth had created.  For a moment, he resisted the urge to slip into the
fantasy, but then he let himself go in as deeply as he could.  He was
feeling this world from the thoughts he got from her, and Seth's influence
seemed to hang in the room.  The back of Adam's mind still held onto the
reality, but most of his thoughts strayed into the dream.

   Candy sat up and pulled her nightshirt off and cast it to the floor. 
Seth had asked her to change into the right clothing for sleeping.  She
wore only her panties now, and Adam had nothing on except his boxers.  He
took her to her back and began to kiss and suck on her breasts.  Candy
cooed and purred like a girl who had never known the pleasure of a boy's
lips against her nipples.  She squirmed her sex against his thigh.  She was
already fire orchids at twelve years old.  She just hadn't yet found the
boy she with whom she wanted to share all of her precocious gifts.

   Adam could feel the warmth against his leg, and a hunger began to grow
in him.  He had never taken a girl under the age of fourteen.  And in the
real world he would never take a girl this young and enjoy the pleasures of
her body and innocent heart.  But he once again found himself indulging in
the fantasy.  Mindy had taken him there, looking so young when he'd first
had her.  She still only looked fourteen though she was now seventeen. 
Now, Adam had found that it felt even closer to actually enjoying a too
young girl to take a willing partner's mind and create the fantasy that she
was younger.  He knew he would visit this indulgence again and again.  He
had found a way to slake his hunger for innocent adolescent hearts and
still protect genuinely young girls all at the same time.  Maybe he had
been right to start following Seth's lead on more things.

   Candy's fingers clutched desperately at the back of his head as he
kissed her neck, breasts and lips.  She was a girl whose desires had set on
her at an early age, and she seemed unafraid to share them with the boy she
trusted so much.  He was her knight, her protector.  He had the
protectiveness of a man, but he was still a boy in many ways.  There could
be no more perfect person with whom to share her first time.  Timidly, she
reached down to where his erection was peeking out of the top of his
boxers. She touched it and withdrew her hand.  Adam gasped.  Intrigued by
the power of his response, and perhaps for the first time understanding how
potent her touch could be to a boy, she reached her hand down again and
this time slipped it under the waistband and grasped what she found there.
"Oh my god," she whispered.  "I never felt like I really wanted one of
these inside me before, but I feel it now, Adam.  I know I'm supposed to
kiss it and stuff first, but can we just...  do it?"

   "Yes, if you want to," he said, trying not to sound overeager.

   "Should I show you my kit--" she stopped in the middle of the word and
switched to a word she felt was more grown up.  "Do you want to see my
pussy?"

   "I'll bet it's as beautiful as the rest of you," he said.  She pushed
down at his shorts and he removed them.  She started to pull her panties
down, but he stopped her hands.  "I want to," he said.  She nodded.  He
slipped into reality as he pulled her panties over her hips and down her
strong legs.  Twelve-year-old Candy wouldn't have shaved her pubic hair
into a design, but Miss M had.  Her ginger curls had been carefully tended,
just like everything in her home.  Her hair was groomed into a flower, not
any particular flower, more like a child's vision of one.  It was sexy and
incredibly sweet all at the same time.

   Candy couldn't see the reality of it.  She saw her twelve-year-old body.
"There's kind of a lot of hair for a girl my age," she said.

   "It's beautiful, Candy.  I knew it would be."

   "Touch it, Adam, but...  I want to do it pretty soon, okay?  I'm a
little scared.  The longer I wait, the more scared I'll be."

   Adam brushed his fingertips along her outer lips, and she gasped and
grabbed his arm.  Even for a girl who had never been touched there before,
it was an intense reaction.  Candy was aching to feel the pleasures of
making love to her dream of a boy.  He didn't make her wait.  He kissed her
sex tenderly, longing to taste it just once, and then he slid up to press
the head of his shaft to her opening.  "You're an incredible girl, Candy,"
he whispered.

   "Take me, Adam," she replied.  "And my first time will always be
special."

   Adam pushed into her mind a bit.  He told her that it would sting a bit
at first, but it would fade quickly.  He felt like the touch of pain needed
to be part of the memory, but he didn't want it to be any more of a factor
than it absolutely had to be.  Then, he pushed gently into her opening.

   "Ow!  Sorry, I'm okay," she said.  "Just stretching out, I guess.  I
still have a cherry, Adam.  Go ahead and break it." Adam pushed deeper into
her.  "Ah!" she said with a sharp breath.  "That wasn't bad at all.  I was
so scared over nothing."

   "You are so brave, Candy."

   "You can go ahead," she said.  "It kind of feels good already."

   Adam took his perfect teacher, his perfect little girl, with long slow
strokes.  He slipped back into the fantasy.  It wasn't hard to do.  Candy's
soft cries of wonder and pleasure were exactly those of a young girl
finding her first experience was everything she'd dreamt it would be.  He
made love to his tender beauty with all the care and affection her youth
and innocence deserved.  He was giving her pleasure, making her a memory of
things as they should be.  And as he slipped deeper into the fantasy, he
could have sworn she grew tighter and tighter around him, and her body
became smaller and smaller in his arms.  "Candy, tell me you're happy," he
said gently.

   "Never been happier, Adam!  This is like a dream!" She kissed his neck
and ear.

   Adam resisted the urge to go harder.  This first time needed to be about
tenderness.  Besides, there was such pleasure in the sweetness of the
moment.  He felt the swell within him as his climax started to approach. 
He wanted her to go over on her first time, though.  He hadn't done much to
warm her up, but it wasn't too late.  He rose to his knees and barely moved
in and out of her.  Candy started to protest.  She'd loved what he was
doing before.  Adam calmed her by taking her hand for a moment.  "Trust
me," he said softly.  She nodded.  He brought a thumb to her clit and began
to gently work it.

   Her responsive body and mind did everything he had imagined it would. 
Her breaths became sharp and urgent.  She began to squirm against him,
almost pulling his climax from him before he had managed to send her over.
But soon he could tell by the strong grip of her fingers on his other hand
that she was close to her release.  He brought her so close that she began
to pant and thrash.  Knowing that she was going to finish now even without
him at her tender button, he lowered himself back onto her and filled her
with deep, powerful thrusts.  "Oh, yes, Adam!  We're doing it!  We're doing
it!" she cried and then a gentle climax washed over her.  It felt to Adam
like her entire body was swept up in it.  He clutched firmly onto her
backside and buried himself all the way inside of her.  Her warmth and
movement, and the beautiful emotion of the moment provided him with
everything he needed.  He filled her with his warm seed and then rolled to
his back, pulling her on top of him.  "Perfect," she whispered in a dreamy
voice.  "My first time was perfect."

   "You were perfect, Candy.  I adore you." They spent a long time simply
enjoying the warmth of the other's presence.  Then Adam put her to sleep
for a bit, creating the illusion that more time had passed.  He got dressed
and sat on the edge of the bed.  "Candy, sweetheart, wake up," he
whispered, gently shaking her.

   "What is it, Adam?" she purred sleepily.

   "It's over.  Mam and Da won.  You're safe forever from them, now.  The
Council has figured out a way to put a charm on you to protect you from any
dark magic."

   "Don't leave, Adam.  Stay here."

   "You know I can't, Candy.  You knew that before.  I have to get back to
my family, to Seth."

   "Will I ever see you again?"

   "Lots, honey.  Lots.  And we'll both have the memory of our perfect
night together.  When you see me next, we won't recognize each other.  It's
something they do to keep the timelines straight.  But then, one day I'll
show up with Seth, and you'll recognize us, and you'll know what it is you
have to teach him."

   "And then, can we be together like this again?"

   "I hope so, Candy.  You were perfect." He kissed her and then gave her
the illusion that he vanished in a shimmer of light.  It seemed the right
touch.  He watched her to make sure she was okay.

   She cried for a long time and then calmed.  Finally, she smiled.  "Don't
be sad, stupid girl," she told herself.  "You are so incredibly lucky."

   Adam gave her mind simple instructions to clean up and told her that in
twenty minutes she should come out into the living room and expect three of
her students to arrive.  It would all seem normal to her.

   Adam found his little brother and Mariel snuggling naked on the couch.
They were giggling and sneaking kisses and playfully tickling in the manner
of typical teenage afterglow.  "Nightwing here rocked my world, Adam,"
Mariel said with a grin.  "We covered some basics.  Professor Jean Grey in
there can teach the advanced course." Both boys looked at her in surprise.
"I've been reading comic books to impress Seth," she said.

   "Good job!" the younger O'Dair exclaimed.  "You named a teacher, and a
redhead.  Crossed universes, but that seems appropriate for the way we're
messing with fantasy and reality tonight anyway."

   "I know Nightwing and Starfire are DC and Jean Grey's Marvel!" she
declared slightly defensively.

   "You're amazing," Seth said, and Mariel accepted it as a fitting end to
the discussion.

   "Grab your clothes.  We have to leave for a little bit.  Head out the
back.  No one can see us there.  I adjusted some things on the fly.  I'll
explain while you're getting dressed."

   Adam explained everything he'd done, the little touches he'd added. 
"But what if you changed her timeline and she doesn't become a teacher
anymore?" Mariel asked Adam.

   "I hadn't thought about..." Adam began and then rolled his eyes.  Mariel
had set him up.

   "He actually thought he'd been back in time for a second there," Seth
laughed.  "That was awesome, Starfire!" They kissed and acted entirely
superior to Adam for the rest of the time they waited for Miss M to get
ready.

   When they rang the bell, Miss Mokowski opened her door to find three of
her favorite students outside.  She did not recall them having visited her
earlier that evening.  Everything seemed perfectly normal.  They started
out catching up on old times, but Seth remained moody and a little distant.

   "You okay, Seth?" the teacher asked, feeling the urge to touch his arm
and soothe him, but afraid of the feelings physical contact with him
brought out in her.

   "Girl troubles," Adam said in the not helpful tone of a typical older
brother.

   "Ginny and you having a hard time?" Miss M asked.  "I noticed you two
weren't together the last month, but the last few days you seemed as strong
as ever."

   Seth's face twisted into a grimace.  He opened his mouth, but closed it
as if he was afraid to say what he wanted to say.

   "You can talk to Miss M about anything, Seth.  And she doesn't judge
you. She was in middle school herself--not very long ago," Mariel said. 
"She helped me through some really tough times with boy/girl things."

   "Thanks for the `not very long ago,' Mariel," Miss M said with a slight
smile.

   "It's me and Ginny," Seth groaned.  "We've been in love for three years
now, and we're getting close to...  you know.  But I don't know what I'm
doing.  I'm afraid I'll hurt her."

   "Well, she is awfully young for that, Seth.  Are you sure it's a good
idea right now?"

   "I don't know," Adam said.  "I seem to recall that some twelve-year-old
redheads are ready for that sort of thing, Candy."

   Miss M dropped her water bottle.  She looked at Adam in amazement and
then recognition.  They simultaneously rose from their seats and embraced
one another.  "I knew there was something special about you all along," she
said.

   "You're every bit as beautiful now as you were then, Candy."

   "Maybe a touch less innocent.  When did you figure it out?"

   "Just now.  They told me we would recognize each other when the time
came for you to teach Seth what he needed to know to avoid hurting the girl
he loved."

   Miss M's jaw dropped.  "No!" she said in disbelief.  "Really?  THAT is
what I'm supposed to teach him?"

   "Is there anything more important than learning how to make love to the
one person you care most about in the world?" Adam asked.  "Well, I suppose
there might be, but it's important enough, isn't it?"

   "It is pretty damned important.  I've had it done right, and I've had it
done wrong," she said with a hint of sadness and pain, "but my first time
is a treasured memory." With the last, she smiled.  "Seth, I know what you
and Adam are.  I guess the rules are different where you're concerned.  I
want to teach you how, and I want to be with you.  You O'Dair boys have a
way of getting to me."

   "All of us girls, Miss M.  Don't worry.  I know, too." Mariel squeezed
her hand.  "I've been helping Seth, but I'm not a grown woman, and I'm not
a teacher.  He needs you.  Ginny needs you, too."

   "You don't have to talk me into it, Mariel.  I'm already in all the way.
Can you two keep yourselves occupied out here on the couch?"

   "We'll come up with something, Miss M." Adam's grin gave away exactly
what he had in mind.

   "Coming, Seth?  Don't want to be late for the first day of school." She
held out her hand and led the boy to the bedroom.  "Oh, Adam," she said
turning back.  "I take it you and Emma are in an open sort of relationship.
You will be coming around to see me for a refresher course now and again?"

   "Yes, Ma'am," he said, looking down like an embarrassed schoolboy.

   "Not that you really need it from what I can recall," Miss M added and
closed the door as she and Seth disappeared into the room.

   "So, you popped the hot teacher's cherry, sort of?" Mariel asked.

   "I guess so." Adam got a naughty grin on his face.  He didn't try to
hide it.  He raised an eyebrow and looked at Mariel.

   "Not tonight," Mariel replied.  "But you can definitely pluck
twelve-year-old Mariel's petals some other time, and then do it again over
and over, I suppose.  My first time wasn't much better than hers.  But I
already had some sweet loving tonight with the Boy Wonder.  Come on over
and give me some salty goodness.  It's been a while."

   An hour later, Adam was buried to the hilt in Mariel's backside when
Miss M emerged from the bedroom.  Sweat shone on her skin, and she was
smiling.  "Don't mind me.  I just need to replenish some fluids," Miss M
said.  "It's important to stay hydrated." She grabbed two bottles of water
from the fridge and headed back to the bedroom.

   Seth showed up in the doorway, wearing a ridiculous grin.  "I learned a
LOT!" he said.  He looked at Adam and Mariel, frozen in position and
waiting to be left alone to resume their filthy games.  "Can we try that,
Miss M?"

   Miss M studied the pair for a moment.  "What the hell?" she said with a
shrug.  "It's for your education." They were gone back into the room.

   "You know something, Adam?" Mariel said before they resumed.

   "What, beautiful?"

   "People joke about you being dumb.  I think you're a fucking genius!"

   "FUCKING genius?"

   "That, too," she said and then moaned loudly as he drove deep into her
bottom.  "Oh, shit.  That, too."

   . . .

   Adam waited six more years to marry Emma.  It was a triple wedding.  The
two younger couples were delighted to share their day.  Emma and Adam gave
Seth a great deal of credit for their being able to get together, and Ginny
and Seth credited Adam for seeing to it that his younger brother learned
the ropes and got his love life with Ginny started on the right track. 
They were all family, then.  Ginny and Emma were like sisters by that time.
People saw it clearly, especially in the way that they were prone to look
at one another and burst out giggling.  There was something in the way that
the O'Dair women thought about their husbands that made them lose
themselves in fits of girlishness.

   Of course, it was a tremendous joy for all of them to see Dan and
Colleen take their vows again.  With no children in the house, their
strange little open marriage didn't seem inappropriate to them anymore. 
Some couples not deeply in love stay together for the children.  The
O'Dair's, it seemed, had separated for the sake of their boys.  It had
simply taken a while for them to realize that was what had driven them to
their split.  Divorced parents seemed more normal than married parents who
shared their bed with many partners.  The reunited couple's joy was like a
physical force in the room, washing over everyone there and creating the
happiest wedding and reception anyone could recall.

   That night, alone in the bridal suite, Emma turned to her husband.  "You
know the thing you did with Miss M?"

   "Um, sweetie, I've done a lot of things with Miss M in the last six
years.  I don't even know the names of some of them."

   Emma punched him in the arm.  "You're a filthy pig, O'Dair," she said
and giggled.  "I mean the one with the fake time travel and Miss M's
virginity."

   "Yes, but I was there for your virginity.  At least that's what you tell
me, Wahl."

   "It's O'Dair now, sweetie.  Mrs.  Adam O'Dair.  Don't ever forget it.  I
don't want to be fourteen again, not tonight anyway.  But how would you
like a virgin bride?  Ginny and I were talking it over.  She's going to ask
Seth for the same thing.  Only during...  I don't want to forget a thing
we've ever done in the long run."

   "I'd love it, but there's a price, Mrs.  O'Dair."

   "I'm afraid to ask," she said, not seeming afraid at all.  She had long
ago promised him anything, and she had proven she meant it.

   "Our race can only make a baby if both people make it their heart's
wish."

   "What a beautiful wedding gift!  Yes.  Yes.  Yes.  Go ahead and plant
another rose in my garden, Adam."

   "I love you above all others," he said and began to work in her mind. 
It took him only a few seconds.

   "I know you do, Adam.  That's why I'm glad it's you here tonight, making
love to me for the very first time.  I will love you, forever, Adam
O'Dair."

   "Sweet Mother Danu," he said, his eyes shining with emotion.  "I am the
luckiest boy alive!"