Chapter 25

Honey Trap. Noun. Definition: a stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.

(To all you Varian fans, I hope you enjoy)

Once more, five of the six images made for this chapter have to be left out as they contain teens.

The next day a message was sent to Varian stating that the hot water had stopped working for the large bathtub and he was needed to find and fix the problem. Not wanting his handiwork to be looked down on, Varian immediately grabbed his tools and headed for the castle. It was just past noon when he arrived and he was pleasantly surprised to be greeted by not only the princess, but Kiera and Catalina as well. Both girls were blushing for some reason and gave him a small wave as he approached. He smiled and waved back, a bit self-conscious at the attention.

“Hello, Varian,” Rapunzel said, giving him a quick hug in greeting. “We’re so glad you were able to come on such short notice.”

Varian put aside his smile and got into business mode. “Not a problem, Princess. If my hot water system is giving you trouble, it’s my duty to see it fixed as soon as possible. So, what’s the issue?”

“We’re not sure. The hot water won’t work in the tub. I haven’t tried the shower, but it is working in the kitchen, so I don’t think it’s a problem with the boiler. How much time do you think it’ll take to fix?”

Varian stroked his chin, thinking. “It all depends. If we can locate the source of the problem quickly and it’s something minor, I could have things up and running within the hour, but if it’s major, it might take all day or more.”

“And do you have the time for that?” Rapunzel asked.

“Absolutely. I made sure my calendar was clear for the rest of the day, and lucky for you I’ve got nothing pressing coming up, either.”

“Perfect!” Rapunzel said, smiling broadly.

For some reason Rapunzel’s response caused Kiera and Catalina to giggle. When Varian looked at them, Kiera smiled just as broadly as Rapunzel and Catalina’s blush deepened. He could only scratch his head in confusion at the girls’ strange behaviour.

The princess escorted Varian to the bathing room, while Kiera and Catalina parted ways with them, saying they’d let Varian get to work and not distract him.

“But you’ll come hang out when you’re done, right?” Kiera had asked before they left, to which Varian agreed.

Once at their destination, Rapunzel went over to the tub and turned on the faucet for hot water, but nothing happened. “See?” she said. “Something’s wrong with the tap.”

“Hmm,” Varian said. “Well, let’s just confirm that that’s the only problem, first.” He set his bag of tools down next to the tub and immediately got to work, turning on and off faucets for the various devices and checking fixtures. As he tested the shower, he asked, “So, Princess, what, um, what brings Catalina and Kiera to the castle?”

“They’re just visiting for a few days,” Rapunzel replied. “What a lucky coincidence that you’re here at the same time.”

Varian tried his best not to blush. “Lucky?” he asked, putting an ear to the wall so he could hear if there was any water running behind it.

“Yes, lucky. You don’t get very many chances to hang out with those two when you spend all your time in that lab of yours, you know,” she teased. “This is a perfect opportunity for you to get to know them a little better.”

Varian couldn’t help but turn a little red but gave a noncommittal shrug before turning away from the princess. “If there’s time.”

With Varian facing away from her, Rapunzel smiled conspiratorially. “Oh, I’m sure there will be plenty of time for both work and play.”

As Rapunzel has stated earlier, only the hot water for the tub was non-functional. Unable to locate any issues in the room itself, the two made their way down to the boiler room, where all the pipes originated from.

“Oh! Here’s your problem right here,” Varian stated when he located the pipe that led to the tub. “The shut off valve for the tub was turned to the off position for some reason.”

Rapunzel came up beside him. “Huh. Strange. I wonder how that could have happened,” she said, a little too innocently.

Varian failed to notice, and instead just reopened the valve. “Well, let’s head back up and see if that really was all that was wrong,” he said.

Sure enough, when they reentered the bathroom they heard the sound of running water.

“Oops, I must have left the tap on when we went downstairs,” Rapunzel said.

“That’s quite alright, Princess. At least it confirms that the problem has been fixed.”

The two of them headed over to the tub, which was already half full of steaming hot water. Varian turned off the tap and then reached down to pick up his toolbag. At the same time, Rapunzel also bent over to grab the bag. “I’ll get them,” she said a little too late, causing them to bump into each other.

Their collision was much stronger than Varian was expecting, almost as if Rapunzel had hip checked him, and he ended up losing his balance and tumbled into the bath with a splash. “Hot hot hot hot!” he yelled as he jumped back out of the water, now completely soaked.

“Oh, I’m so sorry, Varian!” Rapunzel said, hiding a smile as she helped him back out.

Varian held out his arms and looked down at his sopping wet clothes. “That’s okay. It’s just water.”

“But you’re all wet! You didn’t bring any spare clothes with, did you?”

“No,” Varian said, shaking his head.

“Oh, I know! Seeing as how you already fixed the problem, why don’t you take the remainder of the afternoon to enjoy the tub and sauna while your clothes dry?”

“Really?” Varian asked, perking up. He had only experienced the sauna as part of the testing, but hadn’t had a chance to enjoy the fruit of his labour since then.

“Sure! It’s the least I can do to thank you for dropping everything and coming all the way here on such short notice. I’ll even put up the occupied sign for you so you won’t be disturbed. You’ll have at least three hours of undisturbed time all to yourself.”

Varian really liked the idea, but was still a little hesitant to accept the offer. “Well ... if you insist...”

“I do!” Rapunzel smiled.

“Okay, then,” Varian said, giving in. “Though I’ll only stay long enough for my clothes to dry. I did promise Catalina and Kiera that we’d hang out, after all.”

Rapunzel showed him to the changing area and pointed out where the towels and other things were, not that he needed any direction as he and his father had built the entire room. She left him alone, turning the sign on the door to ‘occupied’. Before she left to go back to her regular duties, though, she noticed the two young sisters poking their heads around a nearby corner, watching her. “He’s all yours, girls,” she said to them, then walked away.

Inside the bathroom Varian stripped off his wet clothes and spread them out as best he could so they would dry as quickly as possible, then wrapped himself up in a towel and made his way to the sauna. It only took a few minutes for the room to warm up to a comfortable heat, and he was debating with himself about taking off his towel and relaxing entirely in the nude when the door suddenly opened and in walked Catalina and Kiera. They were both wearing only towels.

“Oh!” he exclaimed in surprise, jumping up to his feet. He instinctively covered his privates with his hands before remembering he was still wearing his towel. “Um, hi girls. I, uh, I wasn’t expecting anyone to join me. Rapunzel said she put up the occupied sign.” The two girls stood across from where Varian was standing. Both were smiling at him with mischievous looks that made him gulp.

“We know,” Kiera said. “But Rapunzel told us you were done already, so we decided to join you instead of just waiting for you to come join us.”

“May we join you?” Catalina asked, somewhat shyly. Her eyes drifted down his body and then darted back up to his face once she realised where she was looking.

Varian cleared his throat. “Ahem. Of course you can join me! I, um, I don’t know if Rapunzel explained to you what happened but I kind of got soaked so my clothes are drying right now. Otherwise I would have gone to see you right away.”

“Aw, how sweet!” Kiera said, sitting down next to him. Her sister sat down on his opposite side. Being flanked by the two girls was making Varian a little nervous and more than a little aroused and he began to fidget.

The girls noticed his reaction and a look passed between them. “You can relax, you know,” Kiera continued. “Catalina may be a werewolf, but it’s not like she’s going to eat you or something.”

Varian blushed.

“Well, not literally, at least,” she added.

Varian’s blush deepened and his eyes went wide. His breath caught in his throat and his dick twitched under his towel. He looked over at Kiera, who was just grinning at him. He then looked over at Catalina, and was surprised to find her face just as red as his as she pointedly stared straight ahead, not looking at him, but also not denying what her sister had just said.

“Um, thanks, I guess?” he said, trying to pretend as though what Kiera had said didn’t contain anything suggestive.

“It’s, um, it’s kind of hot in here, isn’t it?” Catalina pointed out, perhaps trying to make an excuse for why she was so red.

Varian shrugged, trying to remain nonchalant. “Well it is a sauna.”

“Do you ... would you mind if we took our towels off?”

Varian gulped. “Um, I suppose not, but ... you are wearing something under your towels, right?”

Kiera smiled. “Nope!” she said and quickly undid her towel, revealing everything. Varian gasped and couldn’t help but stare as her body was exposed to his eyes. She laughed at his reaction. “Oh, come on! It’s not like you haven’t seen us naked before. We spent days naked together back on the island.” She locked eyes with him for a moment before nodding her head towards her sister.

Varian took the hint and looked over at Catalina, who was still wearing her towel. Only once he made eye contact with her did she begin to undo her towel. Unlike her sister, she slowly undid her towel, revealing first one breast, then the other, before letting the towel drop. He gulped again. He wanted to say something, to compliment her or thank her or something, but words escaped him.

Catalina again looked down at Varian’s groin before going back to his face. “Are ... are you going to join us?”

“I’m, um, I’m not sure if I should.”

“Why not?” Kiera asked.

“Well, you girls do remember what happened last time we were naked together? I, um, I can’t really control how my body reacts.”

“And do you remember what we said back then?” Catalina said. “If we didn’t mind you getting hard then, why would we mind now?”

Varian took a deep breath. “Okay then,” he said, then began to move his hand towards the towel at his waist.

“Wait!” Kiera suddenly said, putting her hand on top of his. The proximity of her hand to his privates and the urgency in her voice caused Varian to freeze. She then looked up at him and said in a much softer voice, “Allow us.”

A tremor visibly shook through Varian. He looked over to Catalina, who gave an almost imperceptible nod, then moved his hands away. Without his hands there to hold things down, his towel tented obscenely as his dick struggled to point straight upwards. Kiera gently lowered her hand and grabbed the towel, gripping both the towel and his shaft. Again, Varian trembled, but he didn’t stop her. “That ... that’s not my towel,” he said.

“I know,” she replied, barely a whisper.

Catalina reached over and her hand slipped under the first fold of the towel. With her eyes fixed on where her sister’s hand was, she reached blindly for the towel’s edge. She ended up going further than necessary and suddenly found her fingers brushing against the bare skin of his shaft. He hissed at the contact, causing her to yank her hand back. “Sorry,” she said, then put her hand back in but made sure to touch only the towel.

“What ... what are we doing, girls?” Varian asked, his mind almost in a haze of wonder, confusion, and desire.

“Flirting,” Kiera said, releasing his dick but pulling on the towel. Catalina likewise gripped the other end of the towel and pulled, causing it to open and reveal Varian’s throbbing member. Both girls openly stared at it, hardly blinking.

Varian’s heart was pounding in his chest. “This feels like a lot more than flirting.”

“Is that a bad thing?” Kiera asked.

Varian fought off the impulse to cover himself with his hands. “No,” he admitted.

Several long seconds of awkward silence followed.

“I like you!” Catalina suddenly confessed, her face as red as her hair.

If Varian could have blushed further, he would have. He never imagined being confessed to in such a situation. “I ... I like you too,” he said.

“She means she LIKE likes you,” Kiera pointed out.

“Uh, yeah. I meant it that way too.” Being naked as he confessed his feelings for Catalina was strange. Having an equally naked Kiera right there as he did so was even more strange. Still, at that moment Varian was the happiest he’d ever been in his entire life. He turned to face her, trying his best to look her in the eye and not let her naked body distract him. He mostly succeeded. He then mustered up all the courage he could, brought his hand up to caress her cheek, and asked, “Can I kiss you?”

Catalina smiled and nodded, then closed her eyes, leaned forward, and puckered her lips ever so slightly in anticipation. Varian leaned down, doing the same. When their lips met, it was like electricity shot through the both of them and they shivered. One kiss became two, then three, and then the floodgates were opened. Before either of them knew it they were desperately making out with Catalina having crawled onto Varian’s lap and his hands firmly gripping her buttock, wanting to touch more but not daring to go too far too fast. Regardless of what his hands were doing, his dick was pressing into her stomach as she ground her hips against him.

Eventually they had to stop and catch their breaths. Just as Varian was sure he wouldn’t pass out from a lack of oxygen Catalina looked him in the eye and said, “Now Kiera.”

“What do you mean, ‘Now Kie-’”

Before he could finish his sentence, Kiera grabbed Varian’s face and turned in towards her, kissing him just as passionately as Catalina had done. Too stunned at what was happening, Varian’s body simply moved on automatic and responded in kind as Catalina’s sister shoved her tongue into his mouth. When he finally realised he was making out with her he managed to pull back. “Wait! What? What’s happening?”

“I like you too, dumb-dumb,” Kiera said, smiling. “Maybe not on the same lovey-dovey level as Catalina, but definitely enough to want to do more of this with you.”

“But I can’t ... I mean, Catalina and I just ... I don’t understand,” Varian stammered, utterly confused.

“We’re a package deal,” Kiera said, paraphrasing what Rapunzel had told her earlier. “If you want one of us, you have to take both of us.”

“Have to?” Varian was still unable to believe what was happening. “Catalina?”

The redhead nodded. “More like ‘get to’, but it gets the point across. We both like you, so we decided to share.”

“Share? Me?” Varian couldn’t decide if he was the luckiest man alive or if something terrible was about to happen.

“Share. You.”

“Share me, how?”

Instead of answering in words, Catalina got off of his lap and went to her knees on the floor, pushing his legs apart. She was joined a moment later by her sister who licked her lips as she stared hungrily at Varian’s dick.

“Oh shit!” Varian swore. He nearly came at just the thought of what was clearly about to happen. In a desperate attempt to slow things down so that he wouldn’t explode before either of them even touched him, he held up his hands and said, “Hold on. Isn’t this going a little fast? I mean, we just became boyfriend and girlfriend, um, girlfriends, right? We haven’t even had our first date yet.”

Remembering Rapunzel’s earlier words about Varian being reluctant, Catalina smiled up at him, not to be deterred. “Sure we have. The party where we were all dressed up. We were together for most of the night talking and laughing and having a good time. That’s basically what a date is, right? Then our time together on vacation was our second date.”

Kiera nodded in agreement. “It wasn’t formal or anything, but you did have your hands all over our naked bodies when you gave us those massages.”

“So here, now, this is our third date,” Catalina continued.

“And it’s about time we did something nice for you,” Kiera finished.

Before Varian could muster up any other half-hearted protest, Catalina opened her mouth and took him inside. The hot wetness that surrounded him stole any reluctance he might have had left. “Oh god!” he cried as pleasure greater than anything he’d experienced radiated through him. Catalina bobbed her head just a few times before she released him, only for him to be immediately recaptured in Kiera’s mouth. Again he was instantly transported to heaven as Kiera wrapped her lips tightly around his shaft and began to suck.

Varian knew there was no way he’d be able to endure this for any amount of time but just as he was about to blow, Kiera backed off, freeing him from her warm, wet embrace. There was no chance for him to cool off though, as Catalina took him in her mouth once again. He lasted only a few more seconds before suddenly and without warning, exploded into her mouth. She did her best to not gag as her mouth was filled with his essence, and waited for the pulses to stop before she pulled back and swallowed.

“Oh god!” Varian said again, though this time wasn’t so full of desperation.

“Hey!” Kiera said. “We were supposed to share!”

Catalina smiled. “Sorry. I’ll let you have the next one.”

“Next one?” Varian asked, still in a daze. He was totally overwhelmed with what just happened and couldn’t think straight.

Kiera grinned at him. “You’re not going to tell us that you were satisfied with just that, are you?”

“I, uh...”

“Because there’s one major problem with you quitting now.”

“And that is?”

Kiera stood and leaned in to whisper into his ear, though she spoke loud enough for Catalina to hear. “My sister is still a virgin.”

Varian couldn’t stop the groan from escaping his mouth. So much was implied with that one little sentence and he could barely hold on to his sanity. He looked down in awe and wonder at the girl still kneeling between his legs. The look Catalina returned, a strange yet delightful mixture of shyness and desire, made his heart skip a beat and he pulled her up to him and kissed her with what he hoped conveyed all the love and passion he felt for her.

When they broke apart, Kiera captured her sister in a hug from behind. Over Catalina’s shoulder she said, “Do we keep going here, or do we go to our bedroom?”

Varian gulped. “Bedroom?” he asked, both terrified and hopeful.

Catalina smiled and held out her hand.

Varian took it and was yanked to his feet. Kiera grabbed his other hand and practically dragged him and her sister out of the sauna. Instead of her leading them to the changing area so they could get dressed, her smile suddenly grew bigger and she pulled them towards the door to the hallway.

“Wait! Where are we going?” Varian said.

“To our room, duh” Kiera replied.

“But our towels! Our clothes!”

“Why bother? We’re just going to take them off as soon as we get there.”

“Catalina?” Varian pleaded, looking back.

Caught up with what her sister was doing, Catalina blushed at Varian’s look but began pushing him from behind. Varian continued to protest but didn’t actually stop the girls from leading him to the door. Once there, Kiera poked her head out to see if the coast was clear. Seeing and hearing no one else, she looked back at the other two and smiled, then darted out into the hallway, completely naked.

“You might want to stay as quiet as possible if you don’t want to draw the attention of the staff,” Catalina whispered. Then she gave the still somewhat stunned Varian a quick peck on the cheek and ran past him, heading out the door herself.

Varian gulped. He was nearly paralyzed with fear at the thought of going out that door, but what was waiting for him at the end of this little journey was a treasure beyond anything he’d ever imagined. Now that he was alone he thought briefly about running back to grab his towel, but figured that would not be a good idea, not in terms of impressing the girls at least. Taking a second to work himself up and refusing to think about the negative consequences he took a deep breath, threw open the door, then ran into the hallway.

And immediately collided with someone!

Varian rebounded off of someone tall and lanky, wearing a powder blue and white dress and head covering, the uniform of a lady-in-waiting. Stumbling backwards, the young alchemist looked up into the face of, not Cassandra as he initially thought, but Friedborg, Queen Arianna’s personal servant. She didn’t say anything, she never did, and it was hard to even tell if she had noticed him as neither of her bulbous eyes looked directly at him. Her ever-present grin was there, however, and her cheeks seemed to be slightly more rosy than normal, which suggested she had, in fact, noticed him.

The young man immediately blushed and covered his privates. “Friedborg! I, uh, I didn’t see you there!” he said. Maybe if he pretended he wasn’t naked, she wouldn’t do something unwanted. From behind her he could see Catalina and Kiera hiding behind a pillar desperately trying not to laugh at his predicament.

The hand-maiden’s only reaction was a slow, uneven blink and a slight movement of her head towards the door he had just exited from.

Varian looked to where he thought her attention was. “Oh! Um ... Sorry, I forgot to flip the sign,” he said. He reached up with one and changed the sign on the door to read ‘vacant’ instead of ‘occupied’. “There. I’m all done in there so if you want to use it, it’s all yours!”