Blaise POV - Unreasonable

[Amorentia]

There were a number of reasons this was not my favorite idea. Getting cleared only yesterday morning didn't seem like enough time for Sara to be putting herself in such a physically strenuous situation. Honestly, outside of physical protection, I didn't trust Pack guys intentions with Sara - especially Jalil. All morning I encouraged her, "Sweetheart, you have a wand...". But she wanted to feel confident in more than one from of self protection. 

Just recently we'd gone through the house using a special sticking charm to hide weapons in various positions throughout the house just in case they were needed. This charm we used made the concealed weapon so that it's fixed to whatever surface it was hidden under until it was touched by any of the people bonded to the spell. If Sara or my hand reaches for any of them, they released instantly. It didn't feel like enough for Sara.

On the edge of Peni's backyard I saw a number of Pack lounged around the backyard with Peni and Marcus. Jalil was putting on fighting pads while already giving Sara a suggestive smile. Shaking my  head I told her, "Be careful, okay? Don't get hurt."

"He's not gonna hurt me, gorgeous," Sara said with a smile. "He's gonna teach me how to fight back."

"Sometimes they don't know they own strength," I told her as she stretched. Turning, I eyed Jalil warily.

"I think I'm doing all the hitting..." Sara laughed with her shoulders forward, arms clasped, popping her knuckles.

"It's like hitting a brick wall with them." I explained to her. Seeing her cracking her neck, I couldn't resist how adorable she was. "Okay, I'll be right over here. You know I know a thing or two about Muggle fighting."

With a grin, she kissed my neck where it meets my shirt as she asked, "You know more than that you think it's silly since I have a wand?"

"There can be a certain value to it." I laughed thinking about the incomplete beating I gave Reg the night before, that I wished I could finish today. "You're stronger with your wand. You can do things your physical strength could never supply."

Sara's eyes turned serious. "I don't always have my wand and even when I do, Expelliarmous is not a hard spell to master." When she looked in my eyes I knew she was referring to the day she was attacked. With three on one, even if she knew how to fight, her odds wouldn't have been good. "I'd like to know I can handle myself without it"

Nodding I knew the confidence she could gain was more powerful than anything. "It's important to you. I completely support you. Just be careful." Holding her hands lightly I told her, "Hit the pads not him so you don't break your hands."

The kiss she placed on my kiss softened me. "Don't break my hands, Got it." Sara grined. "It'd be a shame not be able to use them now that the doctors given me the go ahead for other fun, recreational sports."

"There are a lot more fun things we could do right now before the ban goes in place." I laughed kissing her head. "But this is important." Then I watched her walk away to join Jalil in the larger part of the yard. As soon as I turned, Peni appeared in front of me holding out her baby girl to me.

"Look! It's Baba!"  Peni said.

Laughing at the squeal Bliss gave as she reached for me, her eyes turn green like they did only for me, as she said in her sugary voice, "Baba luv me." I was a puddle of mush.

"She needs some Baba time." Peni explained. "It's so hard for her going from being everone's baby to one of seven."

Kissing my daughter's charub cheeks, I told her. "I do love you, ololufe. You'll always be Baba's little darling." Sitting down with me first born daughter, she automatically had me laughing, feeling better about the day already. My daughter was a charmer. I was chuckling at her fit of giggles when I looked up to check on Sara seeing Jalil standing directly behind her, with his body pressed to hers holding both of her hands. To express my disapproval I cleared my throat loudly reminding him that the dripping smile that showed his enjoyment of the closeness to my girl was being noticed  and not appreciated.

It was hard to turn my attention from Sara. Bliss was pulling all her cutest moves to vie for my attention. Blinking her pretty green eyes she said loudly with her large smile, "Baba luv me." We started talking over the names of the different things around us while I glanced at Sara and Jalil carefully over my daughters shoulder with a furrowed brow. 

Seeing him still clinging to Sara I called out, "I think she's got the stance down."

"No," Peni contradicted me. Turning around from where her head rested on Flint's shoulder she looked at me first before saying to Jalil, "She needs to have more power on her back leg to really be able to throw her power into her punch. Really lean. Show her the lean."

Sara just laughed when Jalil pressed more against her as he breathed on the back of her neck while he  licks his lips. It was rich how everyone found this humorous but me.

"Why don't you show her, Peni?" I asked her. She knew just as much about self defense as Jalil, if not more. 

"I think Jalil's doing a great job." Peni smiled.

"She needs to learn how to fight a man," Flint's grin turned my stomach. Of course he'd enjoy this. He enjoyed Reg's torturing Sara yesterday with his manipulation mind games.

Sighing heavily, all I could do was to grunt my disapproval, "He's trying to show her a lot more than that." Just then I felt the jolt of electricity from Bliss who wanted me attention back to show me the bird that landed on the tree beside us. "Yes, ololufe," told my little darling, "It's a bird."

"I think I got this," Sara told me over her shoulder. Jalil give me a knowing grin.

I veered from the name-the-parts-of-the-face game I was playing with Bliss to grumble, "It's what he's getting that I'm more concerned about..." Every chance he could get, Jalil was taking to press his body to Sara. "Seriously?" I called out. "There is no reason to get that close."

"This is a priceless education she is getting." Peni defended her Half-Brother, with the Pack defending her. "That's how you learn to fight."

In my mind I could just see what would happen if Sam tried to teach Jacob something about fighting my riding up on his back. "I don't know what prison you all learn to fight in." I argued back. "But that's more loving than fighting."

Flint laughed, "He just wants to make sure she has the right form!  You don't want her to hurt herself do you?"

Then Sara demonstrated a kick. Jalil held her leg in his hands sliding his hand up the skin of her calf. "Take her," I held Bliss out to Peni as Jalil was then handling Sara's thigh and shoulder, which was too much. 

"No, it's you're turn." Peni told me. "She needs her Baba. She loves you." Bliss gave me a kiss on the cheek snuggling on my shoulder. Rubbing her back, I yelled to Jalil when his hand inched up more on Sara's thigh, "That's enough. What's wrong with you?"

"Gorgeous," Sara laughed. "Do you need to go inside so I can learn how to do this right?  It's pointless if I don't know how to hurt someone." 

"Yeah," Flint grinned. "She needs to know how to do maximum damage!  Geez."

"You're so over protective." Peni chimmed in. "He'd just helping."

Feeling the tightness of anger start to climb up my neck I said, "Helping himself." 

"You're so ungrateful." Peni didn't even turn when she said it. That got me a bit. I knew I wasn't the best at actively remembering all that she and the Pack have done for me and my family. There was a line between being thankful and taking advantage of that appreciation. Then Jalil grinned over to at me as he said, "Now let's work on escaping holds."

"You're doing great, Sara!" Peni yelled as I could feel the heat rising up my chest and neck to my face. 

At "rear hold", my lips were tight when I tried to object. Watching I saw Jalil wrap his arms around Sara's chest, squeezing and releasing against her breasts. I stood up with Bliss moving forward. By the time he mentioned groin and kissing in the same series of sentences I was seeing red as I paced agitated moving closer to the yard. Then he had the audacity to push Sara's hand against his groin to "show" her a "move." Nostrils flared I protested, trying to hand Bliss to Peni,  "Really, I think that's enough."

That's when Sara caught what was happening, moving away from him, to move on. Jalil wasn't deferred. He moved right onto putting Sara in a bear hug. I cursed, "For fuck sake......."

"Language....," Peni reminded me, which was hypocritical for the sailor's mouth she had sometimes. 

"Keep your brother from mounting my wife." I answered. 

"Your not married yet," Marcus laughed.

When Jalil grinned at me I knew without a shadow of a doubt he knew exactly what he was doing. Turning his attention back to Sara, he stopped her mid-move, to say they should move on before Sara could get in a knee to Jalil's "family jewels".

"You're teaching her right?" I spoke up. "How would she know how to kick right if you're always feeling her up when she's trying."

My patience was pushed even further for a "mounting" hold. When Jalil climbed on top of her both Marcus and Peni yelled out encouragement for Sara, as I had to turn my back knowing I was completely out numbered here. With his knees on her shoulders, Sara's head popped up trying to watch what he was doing, putting her face almost directly in his crotch. That's when Peni and Marcus started getting their own sexual ideas for watching. "See," I told them. "Even you see this is more about sexually feeling up Sara than anything."

Peni made more excuses with an insincere smile. It was infuriating. Changing the strong of curse words in my head to nursery rhymes, I tried to focus back on Bliss to calm down.

Then Jalil started suggesting a groin involved hold to which I objected: No.... she'd good.

Sara laughed, rolling over so that she was on top of Jalil asking him, "What's next?"

"Sara!" I hollered.

Giving me her best innocent eyes as Jalil put his hands on her waist, she asks, "What?  I just wanna know what move we're doing?"

The rage inside me bubbled over. "Get your... with the... off.... hands... come on... Sara..... really?!?!?"

Something triggered Sara then so she got up saying, "Oh." When she did, Jalil stood behind her with the audacity to press his lips to her hair line as he offered the next move we wanted to make on her. It was too much. My wand came out my mind selecting which curse could get back his Pack strength.

Peni got in front of me waving her hands saying, "Okay, wands away... give me my daughter."

My heart was racing, chest heaving with my lips running over my teeth. Behind her I could see the rest of the Pack moving defensively. They weren't going to let me attack one of theirs even if he deserved it. I hated being outnumbered and overpowered by them.

Sara rolled her eyes at Jalil saying, "Now I know that's not self-defense." Walking over she asked me in her soft voice, "Were you watching?  Can we practice later?"

It was hard to tear my furious eyes away from Jalil who was smirking when I asked Sara, "Do you feel better?"

When I looked down, her sweet smile shined up on me saying, "I know how to break a mounting attack..that's gotta be helpful"

Taking a breath to calm down I asked, "So you feel better?"

"I do," Sara smiled as she slid her arms around his waist. My heart was slowly calming down. "You still think it was a waste of time?"

"I don't know. You have to actually use it and see if it's useful." I told her. "And not on him." Then I pointed to all the Pack guys around, including Flint, saying, "Or him... or him... or him..." Where's Reg when you need him."

You know how they say don't speak of the devil because he'll show up? Just like that, the devil appeared as Reg walked into the backyard. Immediately my tension raised again thinking of our confrontation the night before.

Sara decided my idea was a good one so she challenged Reg to fight. I wasn't so sure about it. I had every confidence in my girls ability to handle herself. But, Reg fought dirty with no sense of fair play. Not to mention, I hadn't finished what I started with him.

Sara swung for the first blow. Reg dodged it. When she swung again, it connected right in his jaw. As the Pack cheered her on, I had to add in with a big smile, "That's my girl." 

When she raised her leg to follow through with a kick, Reg sweep her leg out from under her, knocking her down. I jumped forward hearing her hit the ground hard knocking the wind out of her. 

Just when I was about to get involved, Sara jad already planned her next move. My girl was furious. Pulling her knee up, she arched her leg up and out, connecting with his knee to bring him down. Reg was equally as quick, grabbing her ankle to drag her to him. Sara quickly flipped on her back to kick out of his hand. That's when Reg jumped on her to mount her, pinning her hands above her head as he said, "Ya know, if he's not getting it at home, he can get it else where."

That was just like him. It was just like Reg to stir her up manipulating her mind one way, then flipping gears to try to turn that against her. That made Sara snap. Before it was threw, they got to the heart of the issue which boiled down to Reg feeling jaded by the depth of Sara and my relationship. I sat on the porch quietly letting them work out what they needed to. Reg was my best friend. Sara was my everything. With Brailee in the picture, all of us on good terms was important. 

Once they settled everything, they made their way over to where I was quietly waiting. Sara's soft fingers held my face as she leaned in whispering, "I really wanna kiss you, but I'm nasty and sweaty, so if you don't want me to, I understand, just tell me now."

Pulling her in his arms, my large smile reflected her small one. She should know she didn't even have to ask as I told her, "Come here." After playing with a sweet kiss on her lips, I held her close to me with her face by mine as we both looked at Reg standing there like a dumbass.

"About the other day," Reg rolled his eyes before he looked at me saying, "I was out of line I was an asshole.  I'll own it."

Nodding I felt that was enough said.

Sara laughed, rolling her eyes, "Come on...there has to be more than that!"

"We've both beat his ass in two days." I laughed. "You want me to give it a go again?"

Reg shook his head, "I think getting my ass beat by a girl...a really tiny not very threatening girl...is enough right?" Sara flicked him off. Reg asked, "You want me to make amends?" Reg got down on a knee to press his hands together like he's begging and pleading, "Please don't cut Blaise off...pretty please."

We both started laughing as Sara told him, "Your such a dumbass...get up."

"I tried man..." Reg said like a completely idiot. "Maybe your more persuasive then me."

"I think we'd all be better off if you stay out of our love life." I told Reg. "Try that."

Reg laughs, "I promise to try my best"

"You'll have to do better than that or we'll all find ourselves right back here," I looked him in his eyes as I spoke.

"I think that's as good as he gets gorgeous," Sara laughed while shooing Reg with her hands, 'Go home." 

"Ok, ok...gee, I know when I'm not wanted," Reg turned to walk away. 

"I wish!" Sara declared.

"Love you too," Reg said as he left the yard blowing me a kiss. It was a relief to have that settled for now.

Looking at Sara I smiled touching a mark on her cheek, "Let's go get you fixed up."

Sara winced a bit when she turned still laughing, "He begged for sex for you."

"I haven't forgotten he's the one who got me cut off to begin with." I reminded her. "It's the least he could do."

"We don't have to, really." Sara said with a small smile that I could see unsurity in. "We can hump like bunnies til we walk down the aisle." Her lips touched mine as she added, "As long as your happy."

That was a tough one for me. There wasn't a problem till Reg created one. Now in Sara's mind there was one. I wasn't sure pretending like it never happened would actually help clear the insecurities that now arose in our relationship. "When can we agree of what makes both of us happy?" I asked. "I want that for you. If you feel like we need more in our relationship, or less, that means a lot to me."

"What makes me happy is being with you and the kids," Sara put her arms around me, "Just like this...well, without all the dirt and bruises and grass, but you know what I mean." She shook her head at herself with a laugh, "How come whenever I try to say something sweet, I always end up babbling?"

It was one of the many things I adored about her. "Everything you say is sweet, darling." Sampling her sweet lips I picked her up with a smile. "Let's clean you up."

[Amorentia]

Nov. 6, 2009 at 3:23 PM

To Read the rest of the story link from here: Peni Clearwater (Or Click PREV Journal) written by Amorentia. Marcus Flint written by shtteredprncess. Sara Black written by shtteredprncess. Reg Black written by shtteredprncess. Blaise Zabini written by Amorentia. Jalil Clearwater/Pack (Or Click back two journals) written by Amorentia.

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