Haunted

[confessorlove]

Title: Haunted
Author: confessorlove 
Pairing: Richard and Kahlan
Rating: PG - 16
Summary: Richard is haunted by thoughts of Prince Fyren with his love, causing him to develop the urge to claim her as his once more.
Author's Notes: Written for my kissbingo  square Type: Rough. Prompted by confessorlove , Richard's beard/stubble in Season two. Not beta'd so all mistakes are my own.
Disclaimer: I don't own them. I just like to make them do my bidding.

Richard couldn’t shake the sound of Kahlan telling him she had been with Fyren many times.  Her voice seemed to haunt him in his waking hours and at night he would have nightmares of that mans hands all over his beloved.  It was slowly driving him mad with an overwhelming urge to claim her as his once again.  Just as he had when she had been torn only this time it would be better. This time it would be the real Kahlan.

He let his mind wander to thoughts of that blissful night, thinking about what they had done.  What he so desperately wanted to do again.  As thoughts of that night drifted through his mind he could feel himself becoming aroused by it all.  The memory of what they had done coupled with his overwhelming need to claim her as his once again making him groan.

“Richard?”

He spun when he heard his name, his eyes coming to rest upon the woman who had been dominating all of his thoughts.  He had been so distracted by the memory of being with her he hadn’t heard her coming.  He prayed to the Spirits that his arousal would cool, only for his eyes to drift over her breasts and release a low groan.  He dropped his hands, clasping them in front of the slight bulge in his pants, hoping desperately that Kahlan hadn’t seen it.  “You surprised me, Kahlan.  I didn’t hear you.”

Kahlan gave him a curious look, watching when he dropped his hands.  What she saw made her throat suddenly feel very dry.  “I… I’m sorry.  I didn’t mean to sneak up on you.”

Richard had to fight the urge to take her in his arms and kiss her breathless at the look on her face, she seemed… flustered and he didn’t know why but he liked it.  “It’s alright.”

She turned to leave, a slight blush pinking her cheeks as she thought about what he was hiding behind his hands.  “I’ll go.”

He knew it was a bad idea but he couldn’t help it.  In two quick strides he had reached her, grasping her by her upper arm and spinning her to face him.   She made a move to speak but he silenced her with his kiss; claiming her mouth in a kiss that left her breathless.  His tongue battling hers for control and he held her close to him.

She hadn’t been expecting him to do that but her surprise quickly turned to pleasure and desire.  The way he was dominating the kiss, his stubble rough against her skin leaving behind sweet irritation as his tongue plunged into her mouth, stealing her breath.   She moaned into the kiss when she felt his hardness against her belly, flooding her body with arousal, warmth pooling low in her pelvis.  She knew this was a mistake but she couldn’t stop, at least not yet.  Not when his kisses were so sweet and the slight scratch of his stubble felt so good.  She pushed back that voice in her head telling her to stop this as her powers started to rise within her.

“Richard…”  She moaned when he broke the kiss, nipping her lower lip as he did.  “We have to stop.”  She groaned at the feel if him trailing hot kisses all down her neck, the scratch of his stubble forcing her mind to wander to what it would feel like somewhere else.

He bit her neck, not to hard but just hard enough to leave a mark before kissing away the hurt.  “I don’t want to.”

She groaned at his confession.  So desperately she wanted to be with him like that and hearing him say it just fueled her passion for him.  She didn’t push away, like the voice in her head told her.  Instead she blazed a trail of open mouthed kisses up his neck.  His rough stubble tickling her lips as she kissed along his jaw and towards his ear.  “I don’t want to either.”  She whispered when her lips reached his ear.  Taking the lobe into her mouth and biting it lightly eliciting a groan from him.

“Kahlan…” He breathed out her name as he nipped along her shoulder, not caring that he was leaving marks.  He needed to mark her as his.  To show the world that she was his and only his.  She wrapped her leg around him, holding him closer to her.  Her hand snaking inside his shirt; nails digging into his shoulder blade and making him groan at the sweet sting of it.

The feelings he was drawing out of her were pushing her to a point where she no longer cared if she confessed him.  She just needed to have him.  She had waited so long and could wait no longer.  “Richard, please…”  She moaned out her plea, biting his neck harder than she had intended as he nails roughly dug into his back.  “I need you.”

At the sound of her voice, the way she was begging him for this.  He lost all restraint.  Quickly he scooped her up into his arms and carried her the short distance to a bed of moss and fallen leaves that littered the ground.  Laying her down his hands immediately went to work on her dress and corset, making quick work of it and in no time she was bare before him.  Her milky skin bathed in moonlight, she almost seemed to glow. 

Kahlan smiled up at him, her eyes glassy with the pleasure he had been bringing her.  “Like what you see, Seeker?”

He stared openly for a moment before smirking.  “Very much.”  He made quick work of his clothes as well and soon he was on her, trailing kisses all over her body, his stubble scraping her flesh as he kissed her breasts and nipped at her collarbone.  His teeth leaving his mark on her, the mark he so desperately wanted her to bear.

He continued kissing and nipping down her body, his stubble tickling her skin.  Her nails roughly digging into his back, urging him to continue as she writhed beneath him.  “Richard…”  She moaned out his name between pants, her grip on his shoulder tightening.

He kissed her hard then, the pleasure in her voice driving him on.  He bit her lip and tasted blood but he was beyond caring.  He needed her just as badly as she needed him.  They were one then.  Their bodies moving in harmony as they both skyrocketed towards their pleasure.  Nothing else mattered in that moment.  They were one after waiting for so long.

Richard felt her powers rush through them as they moved together, the overwhelming feeling of her power and his love just urging him on.  There was nothing better than that and it could never compare with what he had shared with that half of her.  This was the whole woman, his whole love.  It made it all the more pleasurable.  The pleasure driving him to give her everything he had.

Spent, he collapsed on her, nuzzling her neck gently and lightly nipping her ear lobe.  “I love you, Kahlan Amnell.”

“I love you too Richard.”

He rolled off of her a moment later, pulling her into his arms and kissing her temple.  “Marry me?”  He had no idea where the words had come from but it was what he wanted more than life. He wanted to be Kahlan’s husband and now that they knew her powers had no effect, there was nothing stopping them.

She turned in his arms, burying her face in the crook of his neck, trying to hide her tears of joy.  “Yes! Oh Spirits yes! I’ll marry you.”

“I’m sorry I don’t have a ring.  I promise I’ll get you one as soon as we stop in a town.”

She looked at him then, her eyes shining with her tears of joy.  “I don’t need a ring. I just need you.”  She kissed him then, as rough as their kisses had been before, that was how gentle they were now.  Taking every moment to show him how much he meant to her.  He knew he didn’t need to worry anymore.  He was sure his haunting dreams about Kahlan and Prince Fyren would now be nothing but a distant memory.

“I’m still getting you a ring.  I can’t wait to see you with a ring on your finger and know that I put it there.”

She just smiled and shook her head.  This is what her life was going to be from now on, spending every moment with him and she couldn’t wait.  There was nothing more that she wanted than to be bound to him for eternity but for now, staying in his arms seemed like a wonderful idea.  She was sure Zedd and Cara would come looking for them soon but for now she just wanted to soak in this moment and remember it forever.