~ Diablo's Island ~
by Larisa

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Disclaimer: Yeah yeah, we all know but these ones are all mine. Sex, bad language, Violence, Gummy bears stuck to the ceiling and the kiddy part. Yes, yes, a little, I'll never tell and if you're wearing Pull-ups go the Hell away.

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Part 2

"Miss we're at the gate and your other plane leaves in fifteen minutes." The flight attendant told Sonji after shaking her shoulder to wake her.

"OK thanks, how far away is my next gate?" She stood up, stretched and grabbed her laptop bag.

"Once you're out of the jet way, turn right and it's the second gate down."

"Thank you for everything." She smiled and then jogged off the plane to go to her next gate. She looked at her dive watch and picked up the pace, she sighed with relief when she saw that there were half a dozen people waiting to be checked in for the puddle jumper over to Oahu. She had left the night before from LAX international, flown non-stop to Hawaii and was now on the last leg of her trip. She hoped that she hadn't jumped the gun on her feelings and what she thought she had heard in Diablo's voice. The biggest thing she had done was fax her resignation to her job, they had tried to give her a promotion and more money to stay on, she told them to go to Hell that she was going to live life. She pulled her ticket out, looked down at her wrinkled khaki pants, sweat stained white button down, and sighed. It had been two days since she had showered or changed clothes and she was feeling like a dirt bag at that moment. Finally, she handed her ticket over and got on the small plane. "I hope I'm not making a mistake here." She whispered to herself, stowed her bag and buckled the seatbelt across her lap.

*************

John kept looking over at his friend; it had been years since she had dressed in anything other than shorts and t-shirts. So the white pleated pants, starched white button down shirt and white Greek woven loafers were a shock. He really didn't know if she knew how beautiful of a woman she was, the dark tan, long dark hair and silvery blue of her eyes turned every head. "Will you stop staring at me; you act like I'm walking around naked."

"Naked doesn't do it for me, you dressed like this does. I feel sorry for poor Sonji when she sees you, I hope you know CPR." She gave him a crooked grin and a slap on his shoulder.

"I hope this does it for her, I'd hate to think that I starched and ironed all of this for nothin." She checked her watch once more and growled.

"Ohh calm down, we've got twenty minutes before you fly out of here for the main island, and besides, you have to wait for the other passengers to get off first."

"I can always run on and throw them out the door."

"That would work and get you put in lock-up." He waited for her to walk through the door and then grabbed her by the back of her belt. "Hold on there devil and stop fidgeting, you've got a lot of hours in a plane so calm down and relax." She dropped her bag and ran her hands across her face.

"I can't help it; it's been ten years since I was on a plane or off my island. I'm worried about my kids and what's gonna happen with Sonji. Not to mention that I spent all night on the internet searching for her company and address and I still don't know if I can find it or not. And then what happens if I show up and she doesn't want me?"

"Ohh calm down before I slug you, everything's gonna work out just fine, I know these things. Ya gotta remember that ma taught me well." He felt her jump beside him and then saw the plane pulling into the gate. "As soon as you get on there, slam a few drinks."

"Ohh great, just what I want to do is get drunk and make trips back and forth between here and the main island." He shrugged his shoulders and grinned.

"It was just an idea, here we go." He moved to the side to let the passengers get past them. He had a clearer shot into the jet way door than Diablo had and what he saw in the back of the crowd had his heart pounding. He grabbed onto Diablo's arm, squeezed and felt her kick him in his leg.

"What's wrong with you John, I might need my arm later?"

"I can't let you get on this plane, you can't leave!"

"Ohh don't tell me that the Goddess just whispered in your ear that it's gonna crash or something."

"Ohh nononono, that's not it at all." He grabbed her hand and pulled her closer to his side. "Look towards the back of the passenger line, who do you see?" He grabbed Diablo to keep her from sinking to her knees, the next second; she was pushing her way through the last of the passengers to get to Sonji. "Ohh it's love alright if she'll throw people out of her way to get to Sonji." He sighed and leaned up against the ticket counter.

Diablo stepped right in front of Sonji, looked down into her exhausted face, and felt her heart thump, green eyes looked up at her and just stared in an unfocused manner. "Sonji." She whispered hoarsely and waited.

"I must be sleep walking, you're not here." She reached out a hand, touched a warm bronzed cheek, and burst into tears. "I missed you." She fell into Diablo's body and clung to her as if her life depended on it. Diablo swung her up in her arms, nodded to John and stepped out of the jet way.

"Would you get our bags and we'll meet you in the claim area?"

"Sure, I'll get one of those carts and meet you there." He patted Sonji's back and whispered in her ear. "I'm glad you're back Sonji." Diablo carried Sonji away from the crowd of people and lowered her to the floor; she brushed her hair back from her face and looked into her bloodshot eyes.

"Why didn't you tell me you were coming back?"

"I wanted it to be a surprise, what are you doing here?"

"I was going to fly to LA to see you; I've missed you so much that I couldn't wait anymore." She leaned down and kissed her deeply not caring that people were watching them. "Let's get out of here, we'll get a room for the night and go from there."

"I already have a room but we'll need a van to get all my bags."

"Nah, John has his truck…wait a minute, how many did you bring?" She pulled back and saw the grin come over Sonji's face.

"Six or seven, it's everything I own. Let's get out of here before I fall down and go to sleep."

***********

Sonji sat in between John and Diablo, the second the truck moved, she fell asleep cuddled up against Diablo's side. John looked over at his friend and gave her a wink and a bright smile. "It's only just begun devil, it's only just begun."

"What are you talking about?" She then saw where they were headed and raised a dark eyebrow at him. "What are we doing at these docks, your yacht's not here?"

"Mine isn't but the one I was working on is." He pulled down a narrow road and stopped beside a 62 foot Passage Maker long range cruising yacht. "So what do ya think of it, nice huh?"

"Huge is more like it, what's something like that run?"

"Ohh a couple million I guess but this one has the works and we repainted it to that silvery blue. Wake up Sonji, I promised her when ever she came back that I'd introduce her to Skinny." He knew he was lying through his teeth and would pay later when Diablo found out why they were really there. He climbed out of his truck, walked to the front and waited for Diablo and a sleepy Sonji. "OK girlfriend," He dropped a large hand on Sonji's shoulder. "I'm gonna go see Skinny and you can handle the rest." He winked at Diablo and ran as if the hounds of Hell were after him.

"What's his problem and what are you supposed to handle?" Sonji took her hand and walked towards the Passage Maker; she stopped at the front of it and pointed to the name written in cursive along the side of the hull.

"What do you think of the name?" She turned to watch the expression that was sure to cross Diablo's face.

"Sonji's Tomb Raider," She looked from the yacht to Sonji and back before the meaning hit her. "That's your yacht?"

"Yeah, what do ya think of it and the name?" She stepped in front of Diablo, pressed into the length of her body and wrapped her arms around her neck.

"Why the Tomb Raider, do you have a thing for Lara Croft or Angelina Jolie?"

"Because and nope, more like an island Hermit. I came back to stay…with you if you'll have me." She searched Diablo's face and eyes and saw sparks ignite in pale blue. "I'm in love with you Diablo and I bought the yacht so that we can go see your ma when ever we want." She felt her knees go weak from the deep kiss that Diablo gave her and then felt her body lifted up and held. When the kiss broke, she was looking directly into silvery blue eyes the same shade of the yacht.

"I'm in love with you too and I was willing to beg and plead if I had to for you to come live with me." She kissed her again tenderly. "I can't believe you bought a yacht so that we can sail to Greece. Now I know why John ran off, he probably thought I was gonna go off the deep end and throw him off the dock."

"I think it was so he wouldn't have to watch us make out in public." She whispered and brought their lips together in a consuming kiss that left Diablo staggering. "Let's go on board so I can see what I paid for."

"You bought something this big and you don't know what's on board?"

"Nope, I trusted John and Skinny."

*******

John stood on the dock and watched Diablo back the yacht out; he knew something like this would happen he was just glad that he was able to drag his feet enough to keep Diablo from leaving for LA before Sonji got back. He would call ma and thank her for the heads up, it still freaked him out how she was able to know things before they happened. He didn't have the same beliefs as she did but he was beginning to see the errors of his ways. "Well Stesha, you were right again." He shook his head, waved to Diablo and walked back to Skinny's office.

********

Diablo set their course for their island and then looked over to where Sonji had fallen asleep in a deck chair. They had only taken a quick glance around the lower deck and then returned topside to get their bags. As soon as Sonji sat down, she was asleep and snoring. She didn't have the heart to wake her or carry her down to the captains berth. She wasn't worried about her kids for the night since she had left them enough food until John would have gotten back to the island. So they would anchor outside the small cove and spend the night on the yacht.

Three hours later, she shut the engines down, dropped anchor and put the keys in her pocket. Stretching her back muscles out, she then left the pilothouse to wake Sonji. She dropped down onto the side of the chair and ran her fingers across a tanned cheek until green eyes fluttered open. "We're home but I thought we'd stay on board tonight unless you want to take the runabout in."

"Actually, I was hoping you would say that." She took her larger hand and ran her fingertips across the calloused palm. "Would you make us something to eat while I take a shower, I feel nasty and it's been two or three days in the same clothes?"

"Is there food on here?"

"Yep, I had Skinny stock it for us." She smiled and kissed Diablo's palm. "I was praying that I hadn't read too much into everything."

"Ohh no, you didn't, believe me." She gave her a soft kiss and then helped her up from the chair. "Go take a shower and I'll have supper done by the time you get out and I put our bags in the captains berth."

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After they ate, they took a more detailed tour of the yacht and stopped in the captain's berth so that Diablo could change into her normal clothes. What she wasn't expecting were small hands stripping her out of them and pushing the other's onto the floor. "You don't need any clothes, devil." She pulled her head down, captured her lips in a kiss that sent their pulses racing and hearts pounding. She walked Diablo backwards until her legs hit the bed and then she fell back with Sonji on top of her. They kissed, fondled and striped Sonji out of her clothes to let them fall to the floor. Soft moans and whimpers escaped their joined lips and then pulled away when lungs burned from lack of air. Diablo closed her eyes and arched her neck when wet lips sought out her pulse point. "I've dreamed of this," Sonji whispered when she stopped at her ear and brushed long hair out of her way. "In my dream, I had you screaming." She slipped her tongue into her lover's ear and felt the vibration of her growl. Using the tips of her fingers, she traced sweat-dampened skin down to rose-colored nipples. Circling them, she licked and nipped at Diablo's ear lobe. She thought nothing of it when Diablo arched her back until she found her self flipped over and pressed into the mattress.

"In my dream it was you who was screaming." She took her lips in a deep kiss and explored every crevice that her tongue could reach. They dueled and pulled away to touch tongues and then kiss deeply again. Diablo trailed her calloused fingertips and palms from Sonji's hands down her arms to her ribcage. Going up onto her knees, she cupped firm breasts in her palms and caressed hardened nipples with the pads of her thumbs. "My dreams are nothing compared to this." She whispered in a deep voice and then dropped her head down to suckle a nipple and blanket them with her hair. She moaned when her lover's hips rose and pressed up into her wet nether lips in slow circling movements. She closed her eyes and continued to suckle until she felt fingers in her long hair that pulled her up to waiting lips. Their kiss was deep but slow, their hands caressed and memorized with soft touches that sent them higher. Diablo moved so that she was laying between her lovers legs and covered her body to press their breasts together. She rolled her hips down into Sonji and nipped at her neck with her teeth, her back arched from blunt fingernails running down her spine. A low whimper came from her lips when Sonji grabbed her ass and pulled her tighter against her. They ground together, mixing their essence until they reached the crest. Their bodies tightened like bowstrings just before they went over with screams of release. Diablo collapsed on top of her and continued to murmur in her ear with each spasm that traveled through her body. "Pros theon…Sonji, pros theon." She shuddered once more and then turned her head to capture moist lips with her own. In minutes they were moving back towards the pinnacle, Diablo crawled her way backwards until her lips were at trimmed dark curls. She nuzzled her face against a washboard stomach and then slipped her tongue inside her lover's naval. A wide grin came to her face when Sonji cussed and tried to push up into her for more contact.

"Damn it! Don't tease me."

"Ohhh I'm not teasing…Carpe Diem."

"Seize it already!" She thrust upwards and moaned when a warm wet tongue slipped between her nether lips. Diablo rolled her tongue around her center and drank of her offering, she growled against her center when she felt it twitch and then open to her. She felt her lover thrashing against her and then one hand grabbing the back of her head to move her where she was needed. Sucking her swollen clit between her lips, she nipped lightly, felt Sonji jerk against her and then flicked it with the tip of her tongue. The words that came from her lover's mouth made no sense until she heard her name screamed as she bucked from her climax. Holding onto her, she slipped two fingers inside of her, curled them upward and stroked the pulse point she found there. Sonji's thighs tightened and her hips thrust upward with another orgasm, she yelled out as juices pumped from her center. Her body gave out and dropped into the mattress; she panted and searched for her lover. Finally finding her hand, she pulled her up to cover her quaking body. "I love you Diablo!" She buried her face in her lover's neck and wrapped her arms around her. "We're not done yet devil." She mumbled against her neck and then bit down into the corded muscles. Hours later, Diablo woke to find her lover sound asleep between her legs and using her lower stomach for a pillow.

She sat up and reached down to wipe her hair from her eyes; she snickered when Sonji swiped at her hand and went back to her snoring. Slipping out from under her, she headed for the bathroom. She washed her face and then looked at her self in the mirror, tilting her head to the side; she ran her fingertips over the dark purple bruise beneath her ear. "That hurts like a bitch." She left the bathroom and headed to the kitchen; she was starving and knew that when Sonji woke up, she would be able to eat half a cow. "?et's see ??at ?e ?a?e ?e??" She rolled her eyes when she realized that she was speaking Greek. Grabbing lunchmeat and other things from the refrigerator, she made three huge sandwiches, grabbed two cans of Coke and went back to the captain's berth. She set everything down on the bedside table and lay down beside her lover. "??? a?e t?e µ?st ßea?t?f?? ??µa? ? ?a?e e?e? see?, ? ???e ??? ??t? a?? ?f µ? ?ea?t."

"What did you just say?" Sonji asked and opened one eye to stare at her lover. Diablo leaned in and gave her a soft kiss.

"I said you're the most beautiful woman I have ever seen and that I love you with all of my heart." She rolled off the bed, grabbed the sandwiches and handed one to Sonji. "I woke up starving, must be from all the exercise." She grinned and handed a Coke over.

"I hope you made more than two."

"Ohh I did, I know how much you can eat." She saw the wicked grin come over her lover's face and moaned. "I wasn't talking about eating 'that'."

"Maybe not but that's what I was thinking," She ran her hand up the inside of her lover's thigh and left it there. "You're gonna have to teach me some of those things you do with your tongue."

Diablo choked on her sandwich and pounded herself on the chest. "Excuse me?" She raised an eyebrow when Sonji looked up to her with innocent eyes. "I was gonna ask you for lessons and a name for a good chiropractor, I'm gonna need one in the morning."

"And Greek, I wanna learn how to speak Greek."

"I think some of the stuff we did was Greek." She finished her sandwich and Coke and lay back down beside Sonji. "Ancient or modern Greek?"

"There's a difference?"

"Yep, I know both as well as some other languages." She yawned and pulled a pillow under her head. "Ma knows more languages than me and at times she mixes them up so bad that no one knows what she's saying." Sonji grabbed the other sandwich and used Diablo for a backrest.

"I'm lucky I can speak English," She snorted and fell back across her lover's stomach. "I can talk valley girl, does that count as a language?"

"Only if you're in the valley." She placed a hand on her lover's hip and drifted off to sleep.

"Poor devils worn out. Just wait until the morning, you'll pray to your Gods to save you." She finished her sandwich, turned out the light and snuggled up against Diablo's body. Wrapping an arm around her waist, she rested her head on her wide shoulder and fell asleep just as the sun was peeking over the horizon.

**************

Diablo slipped to the deck from where she had been leaning back against the railing with Sonji kneeling in front of her, she ran a hand across her sweat-covered face and then pulled Sonji into her chest. In a voice hoarse from her screams, she groaned. "How many months has it been since you made love to someone?"

"Ohh that's been years," She kissed the valley between her lover's breasts and then pressed her cheek to sweat-covered skin. "It's been five months since I kinda had sex, why?" Diablo groaned again and dropped her head down to rest on top of Sonji's

"Never mind, I'll be dead by the end of the week." Sonji snorted and pinched a nipple. "Wait a minute, what's kinda sex?"

"That's when your partner says, 'Stop, my hair's getting messed up!' at a critical moment."

"Hers or your critical moment?"

"Mine, I just gave up after that, bought an electric vibrator and made lots of excuses to stay away from her." She looked up at the wreck that was her lover and smiled. She ran a finger across a dark circle below a bloodshot blue eye and down to where she had left bruises on her neck. "Your hairs a mess, you're sweaty and have bruises all over you but I still think you're a Goddess."

"You need your eyes checked." She gave her a deep kiss and rolled them over on the deck without breaking the kiss. She groaned when she heard her cell phone ringing and tried to ignore it. Sonji pulled away and reached out to her side to grab the phone, she slapped away Diablo's hand and answered.

"Devils busy can I take a message?"

"Yeah, tell her to get her ass on the phone or I'm sending lightning bolts." Sonji looked at the phone and then to her lover.

"Do you want lightning bolts?" Diablo took the phone and growled into it.

"?a ??? ?a?e t?e ???st t?µ??? ?? t?e ????d!"

"There's nothing wrong with my timing and why are you speaking to me in Greek?"

"?e?a?se t?at ?a? S???? d?es?'t ???? ?'µ ??ss??? ??? ??t, a???a??, ?? t?e?e s?µet???? ??????"

"You ain't cussing me out so forget it. And of course there's nothing wrong, I just wanted to tell you that I got a check today to fund our work here. With the amount we got, we can stay here long past mine and your death!" Diablo looked to Sonji and raised an eyebrow.

"You got a grant check, it wouldn't happen to have my lover's name on it anywhere would it?"

"Ohh, so you finally broke the drought, can you walk?"

"Maaaa!" She felt her face heat up. "Does it or not?"

"Yep it sure does, so she came back and you didn't have to get on that plane?"

"You're scary ma and no, I didn't have to fly anywhere," She gave Sonji a quick kiss and continued. "She bought this huge yacht so we can come see you in Crete."

"You let me know and I'll be at the docks with a camera crew, ?'ll have you leaving your island on film for posterity. Now go back to having wild monkey sex and I'll talk to ya later." She hung up before Diablo could say a word.


*********

Diablo peeked into one of the windows and groaned, she knew that she would come home to a mess but she didn't think it would be this bad. "Hey baby, wanna pair of new shoes made out of monkey hide?"

"What did they do?" Sonji asked and went up on her tiptoes to peer through the window. "Geez, I never thought that monkeys could do that much damage in a day and a half." She looked around and then up to her lover. "Where are they?"

"Probably hiding, don't worry; they'll come running when I start throwing their toys out the window." She went around and opened the door to see her clothes thrown on every possible surface and every pot and pan on the floor. "Ya have to admit, they do a good job of ransacking. Maybe I should hire them out to do B&E's; they could bring me back all the expensive stuff."

"I have the feeling that they would bring you junk mail and very useless stuff like jockstraps." She pulled a pair of Diablo's boxer shorts down from where it hung off the corner of a kitchen cabinet. "I know that Thelma and Louise couldn't possible throw stuff this high, what would they have done?"

Diablo laughed and took her hand. "You wanna see what two tiny little monkeys can do?" She pulled her into the bedroom and pointed to her dresser drawers. "Take a look and tell me what you see." Sonji walked over to one of the drawers that was hanging open and looked inside, she turned to Diablo with a wicked grin on her face.

"Were they boy scouts?" She pulled a thin leather belt out and looked at the knots tied in it. "Or fishermen, considering that this knot is used for repairing fishing nets?" She heard a scuffle and pulled a bottom drawer out to find two little green monkeys hiding in one of her lover's t-shirts. "You two are caught, might as well come on out of there." Diablo leaned over her and nipped her shoulder.

"How about we chase them out of here?" She worked her way up to her neck and ran her tongue all the way up to her ear. "I can think of some sounds that you make that will have them in the tree tops in seconds." Sonji tipped her head back and waited until blue eyes met hers.

"Me, I seem to remember someone else making all kinds of strange noises."

***********

Dressed in nothing but what they were born in, Diablo and Sonji waded in the water in the small cove with spear in hand. Diablo pointed to a spot a few feet to her lover's left and waited for her to raise her spear. "Take a deep breath, aim and throw. But remember that the water makes it appear where it's not." Sonji looked to her lover from the corner of her eye.

"If that's the case, then I want a bigger spear."

"Any bigger and ya could get a whale with it." She hefted the heavy spear over her shoulder and watched for another fish.

"Can we take the yacht out and try deep sea fishing; I wanna try to get a Marlin or maybe a shark that I can ship to LA and have dumped in Tabitha's swimming pool." She grinned at the chuckles coming from her lover and then threw her spear. "Ohh yeeee haaa, we're having sea weed and sand for supper!" She pulled her spear out of the sand and pulled the seaweed off. "Can't we just defrost some Mrs. Paul's fish sticks and pretend we caught it?"

"Noooo and I can't believe you bought those nasty things, minced fish sticks tastes like Elmer's glue."

"I happen to like the taste of Elmer's glue," She watched as Diablo's spear flew through the air and wobbled where it struck. "It's all in the sauce ya know, cover it with enough tartar sauce and ya don't know you're not eating real fish."

"Well, I guess I'll never find out about that." She waved a fat fish in the air and tossed it up on the bank. "A dozen more of that size and I'll be able ta eat."

"Haa! Just wait until later," She laughed like a maniac and saw Diablo shiver. "The kids taught me how to tie knots and I have lotsa rope."

*********

Sonji lay on the couch reading one of Diablo's archeology books with Gibbon feeding her grapes, if she knew that Gibbon was licking each one before she dropped them into her mouth, she didn't say anything. Diablo sat at her worktable, her glasses sitting low on her straight nose as she scribbled in her notebook. She looked to the side and smiled when she saw what her monkey was doing; she turned back to her work and then heard one of their cell phones ringing. She got up, grabbed them off the table, and answered the one that vibrated in her hand.

"Yassou."

"Is this where S. Anderson lives?"

"Yeah, this is Diablo. Can I help you?"

"Hey, this is Kalani at the post office. I have a big heavy box here for Sonji; you want me to give it to John?"

"Hold on and let me ask her," She covered the phone and went over to her lover. "Kalani has a box for you; do you want her to give it ta John?" Sonji put the book down on her chest, tilted her head back and looked up at Diablo.

"Nah, tell her to hold on to it and we'll be there in two days to pick it up." She grinned at the shocked expression on her lover's face and winked. "Just to do some shopping, we won't stay over night or anything."

"Kalani, we'll be there in a few days so just hold onto it for us." She crawled on top of Sonji and kissed the bare flesh that peeked out from where her shirt was unbuttoned. "You're really gonna drag me to Oahu shopping?"

"Yep, I wanna get some jewelry for my mom and one of those nasty flowered shirts for my dad." She closed her eyes and pulled her lover down closer into her body. "I never told them that I was moving here, so I have to call them and then use the gifts as peace offerings."

"My lover a great big chicken, what are you afraid of?"

"No idea what's so ever," She chuckled and hugged Diablo tighter. "They'd be ecstatic if they knew I got rid of Tabitha the Terror of LA, I just don't know how to tell them that I fell in love in a few days, quit my job, bought a yacht and I'm living on an island outside of Oahu?"

"Just tell 'em, it's as simple as that. If they're like my ma, they'll be happy that you're happy…you are aren't you?" She lifted her head to search green eyes. "Sonji?"

"Happier than I have ever been in my entire life." She brought their lips together in a tender kiss. "I love you tomb raider, even if your monkey licks grapes and then feeds 'em to me." Diablo chuckled and dropped her head down on her lover's shoulder.

"I didn't know if you saw that or not."

"Yep and you kissed me even after you knew what she was doing."

"It's only monkey slobber." She kissed her again and then got up from the couch. "You haven't even asked what's in the shed; wanna see what I have hidden away?" Sonji put a hand out and was pulled up off the couch.

"I figured that you'd show me one of these days."

*************

Sonji looked around all the shelves with boxes on them and then walked over to shelves that had artifacts lain out. She looked over to her lover with a raised brow and swept a hand over the items. "What are you gonna do with this stuff, wouldn't a museum want the stuff?"

"Yeah and then they'd send idiots in here, take over my island and ruin it. I maybe selfish keeping it all to myself but the island is more important than some museum." She shrugged her shoulders and then stepped beside her lover. "This stuff is important but not so much that it can't be found on other islands. What I'm trying to figure out is what happened to the natives." She told her about the pirates that were in the area and artifacts that had been sold or loaned to the museum on the mainland. What they didn't have were the coins that she had found here or some of the statues that she had found. "I don't want to see a repeat of what happened on my last dig, you'll find stuff on this island that you won't on the others and that's because we're the only ones here. There's foliage here that the natives haven't seen in more than 60 years, birds and reptiles that died off because of buildings being put up in their homes." She was getting to where her blood pressure was rising and the veins in her temples throbbed.

"Devil calm down, I don't want to see that happened either. I understand why you're keeping this a secret; I'd do the same thing if I were you." She wrapped her arms around her waist and hugged her tightly. "What about all your notes and stuff, is it for a book?"

"Kinda, when I'm dead and gone and there's no one else on this island, then it'll go to the archeological department at USC. After that who cares what they do with the information."

"So what's the book you and your mom are working on?"

"Ohh that's about what we found in the Gladiator ring in Athens years ago, we didn't tell everything in the articles we sold to magazines. When the books published, copies will go to the colleges to teach the students."

"How many books have you two written?"

"Ohh 40 or 50, I co-authored my first one when I was fourteen. I still get royalty checks for it, kinda strange after all these years."

"What were you five when you graduated college?"

"No I was sixteen, the only graduate that couldn't drive yet. You have to remember that I've been doing this all my life so I had a giant head start on other kids."

"And probably an IQ of 150." Sonji mumbled and grunted when Diablo squeezed her.

"Not even close there, it was 190 when they tested me when I was twelve. Didn't know that I come from parents with genus IQ's did ya?"

"Nope and ya know you're with a dummy don't you?"

"Ohh sure you are, you're a multi-millionaire because you're dumb. Come on, I wanna go for a swim."

The next two days were spent swimming, walking on the beach at sunset and making love wherever they stopped for more than five minutes. They would never see the jungle gym slide with the same eyes again and neither would the monkeys.

*******

"But I hate shopping!" Diablo whined and held onto the guardrail for dear life. "Those clerks think I'm a tourist and try to make me buy dumb stuff!" She held on tighter and braced her feet on the deck.

"You're such a baby, come on I'll protect you from the pushy clerks. Plus I need your muscles to carry that box from the post office." She ran a hand up the inside of her lover's thigh and cupped her sex. "I'll let you do anything you want to later." She squeezed gently and grinned when Diablo's knees weakened and a low moan escaped her clenched teeth.

"OK, you drive a hard bargain." She let go of the guardrail and stumbled after her lover. "Now I'll walk funny all day."

"You've been walking funny for days." She glanced over her shoulder and smirked. "Who knew that you could get beach burns?"

"Next time we take a blanket with us and make sure there's no lava rock under us." She rubbed one side of her ass and flinched. "So how are we getting around the island?"

"We're stealing John's truck." She reached back, took her lover's hand in hers, and leaned against her side. "I need to go to the airport to; I have something coming in on one of the flights."

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"By the Gods what's in this box?" Diablo grunted when she lifted it up past her waist to get it in the back of the truck.

"Books, I ordered them on-line and had them sent here."

"Books weigh this much?" She said and rubbed her lower back. "Feels like ya have part of the pyramids in there." She rolled her eyes at Sonji's wink and jogged to keep up with her. "OK, where to next?" Sonji looked at her watch and pointed towards the small airport.

"We have five minutes before the flight comes in, so that'll give us time to get to arrivals."

"Please tell me that it's not another box or suitcases that weigh ten tons."

"Nope," She took Diablo's hand and kissed her palm. "This is nothing like my box of books; you'll like what I'm expecting. I had it shipped in and it's rather small."

"You're not gonna tell me are you?"

"Nope, where would the fun be in that?"

Sonji led them over to the gate where the fight was arriving at and stepped to the side so that they would be out of the way of the passengers but still able to see. She checked her watch one more time and smiled when she heard the planes engines whining down as it approached the building. She tugged on Diablo's hand when she felt her fidgeting and pulled her closer to her side. "You really hate airports don't you?"

"No, it's the rude ass people that fill them. They step all over you, run over your feet with their damn jumbo size suitcases, shove until you fall over and then walk on your back."

"Now I could see that happening to me but you're six feet tall and intimidating."

"OK, so I'm the one who shoves people outta my way. They deserve it for stopping in front of me, now what are we waiting on?" She watched the inner door open and people start to disembark the small jet. "If it's a package, wouldn't it be down in baggage…oohh my Gods!" She stepped forward and pushed her way through the crowd. "Ma?"

"Yassou devil." Diablo picked her ma up and carried her towards where Sonji was standing. She didn't put her down until Stesha smacked her on her shoulder and threatened to beat her ass. "Are ya surprised?" She looked up into her daughters misty blue eyes and smiled. "I got tickets to come and visit along with the grant check." She stepped up to Sonji and gave her a tight hug. "Thank you Sonji, it's been years since I've seen my devil." She kissed her on both cheeks and then hugged her again. "You're good for my baby."

"I hope so and I'm glad I could get you two together." She looked up at her lover and smiled. Stesha turned and pulled her daughter down and kissed both her cheeks before putting her in a bear hug.

"You look good devil," She whispered in her ear. "Love agrees with you."

"Thanks Ma, I'm so happy you're here."

"Let's see you say that after we go get Saba, she's down in baggage claim. They didn't believe me when I told them she was my kid, so she got stuck in the cargo pit."

"You didn't show them that picture of you pretending to breast feed her did you?" She knew the answer by the wiggling eyebrows over eyes identical to hers. "Geez ma, that's gross." She took her carry on, Sonji's hand and wrapped her arm over her ma's shoulders. "Let's go get Saba and then we'll go get some lunch, I'm starving."

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They sat out on the porch of one of the restaurants, Sonji kept laughing when people would walk by and do a double take of the small monkey sitting in a high chair with a bib on. She also kept looking between mother and daughter and could swear that she was looking at twins. Even with the silver that ran through out Stesha's hair, she still looked young. She shook her head and reached for another crab leg. "What's the matter Sonji, don't know which one of us is better looking?" Stesha asked and then barked out with laughter.

"I should have warned you about ma, she has a weird sense of humor."

"And who was it that buried their old tennis shoes in Egypt for the college kids to find?"

"It was dad's idea; he wanted to see if the idiots would say that the God Nike was worshiped there."

"Ohh no it wasn't, I know it was you because the map was in your scribbled hand writing." Sonji looked back and forth between them and grinned, they were more like siblings that mother and daughter.

"Where's Saba?" Sonji asked and then saw two sets of blue eyes go wide.

"Ohh shit!" Ma said and jumped up from the table. "I'll check inside, you two look around out here."

"Where would she go?" Sonji asked Diablo.

"Look for old women with really big purses."

"Huh, what's she want with them?"

"It's not them; it's what they have in their purses." They started looking for women with huge purses, they were to the end of the dock when Sonji spotted a tail sticking out of an old women's purse.

"Ohh my Gods, there she is. How are we gonna get her back?"

Diablo grabbed her hand and they took off running. "You distract her and I'll get Saba."

Distract her…how?"

"Act blonde."

"Hey I am blonde…you just wait." They slowed when they got behind the old couple; Sonji walked up beside them and touched the woman on her arm. "Excuse me, could you help me? I lost my…mon…mom; she's about my height…black and white hair," She kept glancing at her lover and urging her mentally to hurry up and get Saba. "Makes funny noises…" When the woman gave her a funny look and started to walk away, she grabbed her hand and sniffled. "Please, I have to…"

"PURSE SNATHCERS! THEY'RE TRYING TO STEAL MY PURSE!" She swung her purse just as Diablo pulled Saba out and smacked her up long side her head with it, Saba let out a screech and jumped on the woman's head. "HELP ME DANIEL!" She yelled at her husband who just stood looking in the store window at the mannequins in thongs. Sonji fought to pull Saba off the woman's head and when she finally got her free, she got the woman's wig as well. Saba wrapped her arms around Sonji's neck screeched and showed her fangs at the old woman who swung her purse at Diablo again and caught her in the side of her face.

"Damn it woman we just wanted our monkey out of you damn purse!" Sonji yelled and blocked the purse from hitting her dazed lover. "Stop hitting her before I call a cop!" She helped Diablo up from the ground and pulled her back towards the restaurant. "Damn crazy ass bitch, go back to you old ladies home!" Once they were far enough away, she stopped them and looked at Diablo's face. "Are you all right devil?"

"Huh?" She blinked her eyes a few times and swayed back and forth. Stesha came jogging up and caught Saba mid flight from her jump from Sonji, she stopped in front of her daughter and grimaced.

"Who the Hell clobbered you?" She ran her finger across a mouse that was forming under a blue eye and growled. "Diablo Hawthorne who hit you?"

She gave her a stupid grin and waved. "Hi ma."

"Some old woman hit her with her damn purse after she pulled Saba out, she must have had bricks in the damn thing." She took her lover's hand and pulled her head down to get a closer look at her head and face. "She'll be OK; I think she's a little stunned."

"More like knocked stupid, that woman better not come anywhere near us or I'll knock her ass out." She took her daughter's hand while Sonji took the other, between the two of them they kept her from falling.

"So what's with Saba and big purses?" She asked Stesha.

"Ohh they remind her of the canvas bags we carry while working the site, my husband always had candy in his and she would go in there looking for it. Try convincing a monkey that not every bag has candy in it," She pointed to the small fanny pack around Saba's waist. "I even gave her that so she could have her own candy but she's a stubborn as Devil." She raised an eyebrow at Sonji. "Ohh so you haven't encountered the stubborn side of my kid yet?"

"Ohh I think I have, she just knows how to cover it better."

"Yassou, I'm right here ya know." Diablo looked down at the two smaller women and cringed when she turned her head. "My head is killing me and my eye hurts."

"Wouldn't be surprised, why didn't we just tell that old bitch that Saba was in her purse?"

"Because the last time I tried that, the woman swore up and down that Saba was her monkey and was going to report me to the police for trying to steal her property." She ran fingertips across the swelling beneath her eye and groaned. "I'm gonna have a black eye huh?" Sonji's eyebrows peaked above her nose; she nodded her head and placed a soft kiss on her lover's brow.

"Yeah and it's already turning colors, sorry baby." Stesha rolled her eyes and grabbed Diablo's hand.

"Come on you wimpy Tomb Raider, enough mushy stuff and whining." She put a small harness on Saba and hooked a leash to it. "I wanna go see John and do some shopping before we head out to the island. I need some new cargo shorts and t-shirts." She pulled on her worn and tattered shorts and looked down to her battered boots. "Maybe some new boots too, these have holes in the bottom."

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A few hours later, they had found a place for ma to get everything she needed without having to hit every store on the island or break her bank account either. They stopped in front of their yacht and waited for ma to say something about the name; she looked to her daughter with a raised dark eyebrow and smirked. "Was this bought before or after you came back Sonji?"

Sonji blushed and looked down to Saba who was sleeping on her lap. "I bought it before I went back to LA, why?"

"Ohh because my dimwit kid had no idea that you had staked claim to her before you left, I tried to tell her but she's a blockhead." She got out of the truck and looked around her until she found John's yacht a few boats down. "He better not have some floozy on there, the last time I caught them right in the middle of some very kinky sex." She winked at her daughter and Sonji and then headed down the dock.

"Nothing fazes her does it?"

"Nope, after all these years of hanging out with college kids, there's nothing that she hasn't seen or heard." She wrapped an arm around Sonji's waist and kissed her temple. "She's even caught me a time or two, I thought we'd be safe down in the Egyptian tombs."

"You would have been but John's a narc and he told me." Stesha laughed and jumped aboard John's yacht.

"Did I tell you that she has satellite dishes for ears?"

*********

Sonji covered her ears and closed her eyes; the noise coming from the monkeys was enough to deafen people all the way to Mexico. As soon as they had gotten to shore, Saba took off up the beach screaming. Minutes later, Gibbon, Jimmy and Beethoven were running towards her and then rolling in the sand. "They remember each other?" Sonji questioned Diablo and went back to watching the monkeys wrestle.

"They were all raised together and they're more like humans than most people believe. Some primates stay with their parents until they're seven or eight years old before finding a mate. They stay with that mate until one of them dies, now the gorillas are different." She smiled down at Sonji and took her hand. "We could take some lessons from them."

"Yeah we could, so do all archeologists have monkeys or just you two?"

"Just us, ma has always had monkeys. She had one when she was little and it passed on to me. We use them in the ruins to get into small spaces, Saba goes in with a small fiber optic camera and ma watches on a monitor."

"I never thought of the how the pyramids were explored in our day, I have this PC game called something Sphinx and they have this little robot thing that you use to explore air shafts. I kept getting the damn thing stuck and had to go back to a saved game, so I can see where using a monkey would be easier."

"Until they decided to unhook their tether line and do what they please, Saba would always come out when dad rattled candy wrappers though."

"OK devil, you can carry that heavy ass box and we'll get the rest of the stuff." Ma said and walked past her with her carry-on and some plastic grocery bags.

She groaned and looked down at the box. "I think we'll put the wheel barrow down here for when we go to Oahu." She hefted the box up in her arms and waited for Sonji to collect the other bags. "What kinda books did you buy anyway?"

"Ohh very educational ones, you'll see later." She nudged her lover forward and grinned the entire way to the hut because of all the moaning and groaning Coming from a struggling Diablo.

*********

"This is unbelievable." Sonji exclaimed as she looked at the temple remains. "No one has ever done anything around here but you?"

"Nope, it was pretty forgotten except for in some very old books that I found in the library on the main island." She picked a large but very delicate flower that only grew around the ruins and handed it to her lover. "Ma's gonna be busy for a while, wanna take a walk, there's more over on the other side?" She took Sonji's hand and led her down a path that stopped at the edge of a cliff; she pointed to two rough stone pillars and ran a fingertip across engravings that had seen the play of time. "I found these right after I found the ruins, they depict a sort of story of the natives that lived here but are unfinished."

"Unfinished as in no one was left to do it and that's what you're trying to discover." She leaned into Diablo and ran her fingertips across the stone. "Will ma be able to help you with this?"

"Ohh she has over the years, she has a lot more knowledge than I do and if I don't recognize something then chances are good that she will." She leaned down, placed a loving kiss upon Sonji's lips, and then hugged her tightly to her body. "What ma doesn't know comes to her in dreams."

"She gets answers in her dreams?"

"Yep, always has. It scares me sometimes that she knows what I did before I can tell her. Kinda like the spirits talking to her or something, she says it's the Goddesses."

"Anything is possible Diablo, after all the Pagan religion was here way before the Christian one. Who's to say that the Gods and Goddesses aren't still around?"

"You're something else baby," She kissed her again and looked over her shoulder to where her ma called out to them. "Ma must have found something that I didn't."

"I got something here and this is the perfect time ta give it ya." She gestured to the two stone pillars. "Right here with your mini Easter Island and the sea." She pulled a leather pouch from her cargo pocket and handed it to Diablo. "Go ahead and take a look, it's the most amazing thing believe me." Diablo emptied the contents into her hand, looked and then pinned her ma where she stood grinning.

"OK Tomb Raider senior, where did you steal this from," A dark eyebrow rose when nothing was said. "Ma, I know this didn't come from Crete, so where did it come from?"

"Ohh I made a weekend trip to Turkey and ended up at the Temple of Artemis," She pointed to the necklace and brought a finger across her lips. "No one knows about that or that I was there." Sonji took the necklace in her hand and ran a fingertip across the two golden crescent moons suspended by two thick golden chains.

"It looks brand new but very old at the same time, was it just luck that you found this?"

Ma shook her head and stepped closer to them. "That necklace came from a spot that no one paid attention to, it came to me in one of my dreams." She waited for the looks she usually got and saw nothing by anticipation. "On the corner of what remains of the temple, I dug away the dirt and found a bronze box under the foundation stone wedged in a crevice. That was inside the box wrapped in oil clothe, once I got back to Crete, I looked the box over and found three words in Ancient Greek that said 'For the chosen." She took the necklace and in seconds had two separate necklaces with a crescent moon each. "It was meant for two lovers," She flipped one of the moons over and showed them where a labrys was engraved on it. "Two Amazon lovers blessed by Artemis."

"When was this temple built?" Sonji asked and handed one of the necklaces to Diablo.

"The foundation dates back to the seventh century but it didn't become famous until around 550BC. It was sponsored by the Lydian king Croesus and was designed by the Greek architect Chersiphron. They decorated the place with bronze statues sculpted by the most skilled artists of their time: Pheidias, Polycleitus, Kresilas, and Phradmon to name a few." Diablo said and then looked to her ma to finish the tail.

"The temple served as both a marketplace and a religious institution. For years, merchants, tourists, artisans, and kings paid homage to the goddess by sharing their profits with her. So far, tomb raiders at the site revealed gifts from pilgrims including statuettes of Artemis made of gold and ivory. Earrings, bracelets, and necklaces, some of the artifacts came from as far as Persia and India. But that necklace is Greek and dates back to when the foundation was made; it survived the original temple being burned down and centuries of archeologists digging around. What was weird was that if you faced away from where I found it, you would be facing Greece." Sonji looked up from where she was looking at the woven chain and shook her head.

"We can't keep these, they belong…,"

"Around your neck, four of us know about them and the Goddess wouldn't have come to me if she didn't want them found. Think of it as it was meant to be, a gift and a blessing from Artemis to her chosen Amazons." She took the necklace from Sonji, placed it around her neck, and then did the same for Diablo. "If you believe then so shall it be." She gave them both a kiss on their cheeks and then went back to digging around the ruins. Sonji ran a finger across the crescent moon and looked up to her lover.

"So mote it be." She reached out to Diablo and pulled her down for a kiss that showed what was in her heart and soul, every fiber of her body sang out and she swore that the air crackled around them.

"Es' to Sonji es' to." Diablo took her lover's hand and led them back to the ruins. "Ma we're going back down, send one of the kids if you need us for anything."

"You may need my help if I'm reading your expressions right." She grinned and then waved a hand at them. "Just don't scare the Hell outta me with your screamin I've got enough grey hair."

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Ma returned to the hut with all the larger monkeys, she walked into the living room and rolled her eyes. Diablo and Sonji lay with their limbs entwined; Sonji had her head resting on a wide chest between firms breasts. Diablo had one hand tangled in her hair and a possessive hand on the back of her thigh. Looking closer, she saw a set of little eyes peeking from the mass of Diablo's dark hair covering Sonji's back. "What did you do watch them?" She asked the tiny monkey and snickered when the other one peeked up from beside Diablo's head. "Sick little monkeys, wake up your mama so I can show her what I found." She went over to Diablo's worktable and placed down the artifacts she had found while digging, she grabbed a toothbrush and started to clean the most prized piece better. A wide grin came across her face when she heard a loud yell and then all kinds of noise from where Diablo and Sonji were on the floor. She looked over her shoulder and snickered at her daughter. Her long hair was tangled all around her and Sonji and Thelma was hanging on for dear life.

"Where is she?" Diablo grumbled and blinked her tired eyes a few times to focus. "Damn little hairy fingers," She looked to where the snickering was coming from and pointed a finger at her ma. "You told them ta do that didn't you?" She rubbed her nose and reached out to keep Sonji from falling on her ass. "You OK baby?"

"Yeah except for having a hairy little hand shoved up my nose."

"Of course I told them to wake ya up, I wanted to show you what I found and besides, John's coming out tonight. I know you would box his ears if he caught you two bare ass naked on the floor." She nodded her head to where Sonji was still tangled in her hair. "Look likes a giant spider web over there and Sonji's the fly."

"From know on, we're gonna braid your hair." She wiggled free, grabbed Diablo's hand and pulled her towards their bedroom. "I think right now would be a good time to start."

"Hold on there you two, come over here first because once you go in there It'll be hours before I see either one of ya." She waved a hand and held out the small ivory statue she had found. "This does not belong on the island." Diablo took the six-inch statue in her hand and looked into her ma's twinkling blue eyes.

"But this is a Goddess from India," She looked closely at the small statue of the Goddess of plaque and blood sacrifices. "Why would someone bring Poleramma here?" She shook her head and then looked to Sonji. "I don't want this here, take it back with you and toss it in Aegean." She handed it back to her ma and shivered. "Still gives me the creeps after all these years."

"Who is this Poleramma and why does she give you the creeps." She took the small ivory statue in her hand and felt chills run up her arm, she didn't know if it was caused from Diablo's distaste or something entirely different. Ma nodded her head at her daughter and went on to explain who the Goddess was.

"She's better known as Kali, one of the Hindu Goddesses. When we were in India, we came across a village where the people sacrificed children to her. Their temple has a huge pit at the base of Kali's feet and inside was rotting body parts, the floor is covered in dried blood inches thick and the stench is enough to gag people miles away." She reached out, grasped Diablo's hand, and gave her a small smile. "I'll take it with me and toss it in with the other useless stuff we've found over the years."

"But doesn't this mean that someone came to this island from India at some point, maybe you could find out what ships were in India and left for this direction?" Sonji said as she rubbed goose flesh from her arms.

"That's possible and it could also mean that who ever brought the statue here practiced the art of human sacrifice and that's what happened to the natives. Now I'm not saying that all people who practice the Indian version of the mother Goddess do this but some did and still do." Ma said and looked to Diablo. "Or it could have just been a thing they traded for, we've never found any bones or anything while digging."

"No we haven't but that doesn't mean that they didn't and then maybe tossed the bodies into the ocean to appease a Hawaiian God. Either way…"

"Don't worry devil, I'll take Kali with me." She gave them both hugs and then stuck the small statue in her backpack. "Maybe I'll send it back to India and let them put it in some museum?" She said to herself as she zipped the side pouch closed. "Now go take a shower and I'll get supper ready, we're having souvlaki, kolokitkia Vraska and mousaka." She grinned at the moaning coming from Diablo and the wide grin plastered on Sonji's face. "Guess someone better break out the wine for tonight and get me some zucchini and egg plant from the garden."

************

Both John and Sonji leaned back in their chairs and moaned, between the two of them, they had eaten enough for ten people. Ma looked to her daughter and grinned. "Looks like they stuffed themselves that they'll roll across the floor, you might have to toss some stuff off John's yacht so it don't sink."

"Thanks ma, love you too and it's your fault I ate all of that food." John said and groaned as he got out of the chair. "Devil doesn't cook like you do and I'm thankful for it, I'd weigh 400 pounds if she did." He snapped his fingers and pointed to the front door. "Speaking of poundage, ma, I brought that crate with me. If you people keep ordering stuff like this, I'm gonna get me a barge." Diablo gave her mom a raised eyebrow look and crossed her arms over her chest.

"What did you have shipped here and is it stolen?"

"You'll see in the morning and no it's not stolen, I had it made for ya. One of the helpers on the crew makes them and I thought it would look good here on the island." She knew she had said too much when Diablo pulled an old hammer from her worktable and walked out the door. "Me and my big yap, now she'll go out there and tear the crate apart. "She covered her face and groaned; Sonji chuckled and pulled a hand down.

"Come on ma, let's go watch devil act like it's Christmas."

"And then cuss a blue streak when she has ta move the thing," She looked back at John and waved a hand. "Come on John, you might as well get in on the ass kicking."

"Gee thanks ma, I'm already sore from dragging that thing up here now you want my ass to match the rest of my body?"

"How did you get it up here anyway?" Sonji asked as she pulled ma out the door.

"One of those dollies's that movers use, the worst part was keeping it from bogging down in the sand and getting tangled in the vines." Sonji stepped out the door and froze, the wooden crate was as tall as her lover was and four feet wide, she was amazed that John was able to get it to the hut without help.

"Gods John, you're lucky you don't have a hernia. Why didn't you come and get us?"

"Because ma wanted it to be a surprise and next time I come out here, we're building a dock in the cove. I had to tip my runabout on its side to get that damn thing out." He covered his ears when Diablo pulled the nails out, the screeching reminded him of mails on a chalkboard. "The rest wasn't that bad because the dolly lays down and has four wheels." One side of the crate fell to the grass to reveal seltzer packing and bubble wrap. Diablo pulled more nails out and the rest of the crate fell away, with everyone's help, they had ma's surprise standing proud in the front yard.

"Ma it's beautiful," Diablo said as she walked around the statue of Artemis, she ran a hand across the smooth texture with a raised eyebrow. "What's he make them out of, it looks like marble but it's lighter?"

"He refuses ta tell me, I do know that he carves everything by hand and then makes molds out of them. He sells these all over the world when he's not working sites. Ya know for rich people ta put in their gardens and stuff, like they know what the Gods and Goddesses stand for. I had this one made just for you; it's more of how I see her." Diablo laughed and gave her ma a tight hug.

"Thanks ma and you're right. I don't think the classical Artemis would look to good standing out here," She looked at Sonji's confused expression. "The ancients had her chest covered in breasts, but me and ma have always seen her as more of an Amazon." She ran fingertips across the bow in one hand and then across the arrows in the quiver on her back.

"As long as it's a half naked woman, she can stand on my yacht any day." John eyed the statue and grinned. "You said he makes all kinds of statues, can he make me on for the bow of my yacht?" He saw the three of them roll their eyes. "Ahhh come on, I want a mermaid, anything wrong with that?"

**********

After arguing with ma for an hour, Diablo and Sonji lost the battle and the war, they lay wrapped in each other's arms in their bedroom while John and ma slept on air mattresses in the living room. "Now I have the full effect of Greek baring gifts." Sonji whispered and snuggled closer to Diablo. "Ma's something else and I can't believe these necklaces." She traced the crescent moon that rested below the hollow of her lover's throat.

"We've been to the seventh wonder of the world and I never saw where anyone even touched the ground around the steps. So that means that there's only one way ma knew about it and that's by her dream." She brought their lips together in a searching kiss and rolled Sonji beneath her. When the kiss ended, Diablo looked down into dark green eyes that glowed from the candle on the bedside table. "Ya know by accepting the necklace, we're joined in the eyes of Artemis?" She watched a brilliant smile come over her lover's face and matched it.

"I kinda figured that and I can't think of anyone that I've ever wanted to be joined with than you. I love you with my very soul Diablo." She pulled her down for a lingering kiss and then wiped the tears from high cheekbones. "What's wrong baby?"

"Nothing except that I waited so long to find you and it turns out that you found me. I owe Poseidon a gift for bringing you here, guess I'll throw John in the surf in the morning." She grinned and then yelped when Sonji pinched her ass. "I love you my little Amazon." They made love slowly, exploring every inch of each other's bodies with fingertips, lips and tongue. Their joined cries of release muffled against sweat drenched skin, their bodies shuddered with the remains of their orgasms and then calmed. Diablo lifted her head from where it lay on Sonji's shoulder; she gazed down into sea green eyes and saw them filled with love. She rose upward, kissed her way down to slick thighs, and placed kisses on each hipbone before continuing to wet curls. She inhaled their combined scents and moaned when her center twitched with arousal. Dropping her head, she licked along the sides of swollen nether lips and grinned when Sonji spread her thighs further apart and whimpered.

"Ohh Gods…devil…," She thrust her hips upward into her lover's mouth and gripped the damp sheets in clenched fists. Diablo rolled her tongue in different directions before finally finding the spot that drove Sonji insane. She flattened out her tongue and dragged it slowly from her center up to press hard against her clit and then back down to flutter at the tip of her bundle of nerves. She held on to her hips when she bucked and thrust against her and then speared her tongue into her center when she crested and went over the edge. "Son of a…pros theon'!" Sonji yelled and quaked against her lover's mouth with each spasm that shot through her body. When her body had calmed somewhat, she looked down and saw the strain in Diablo's face. She pulled her upward, had her go onto all fours and stay that away until she came back into the room. "Don't move devil," She crawled up behind her, nipped her ass with sharp teeth and grinned when Diablo thrust her hips. She ran a finger between her nether lips and moaned at how wet her lover was. "Gods baby you're so ready." She moved up close behind her, brought the strap-on between her thighs and up against her twitching lips.

"Is that what I think it is?" Diablo asked in a breathy voice.

"Uhh huuhh, don't worry, I'll be gentle with you." She thrust her hips slowly just letting the head of the dildo brush across her until she heard a deep growl.

"I can't take no more teasing…," She moaned when she felt it slid inside of her and Sonji pump her hips in long slow strokes. "More…I need more…" She pushed back into her lover and gasped out when the head hit a sensitive spot. Sonji pumped into her at a quicker pace and heard moaning and grunting until Diablo's body stiffened and she yelled out against the fist she had up to her mouth. Sonji thrust once more and fell across her lover's back, her hips continued to jerk with the spasms of her climax and her juices to run down the insides of her thighs. Diablo's arms gave out and dropped them to the mattress, they lay panting and moaning from the small tremors that raced through their bodies. Diablo tensed her insides and heard Sonji whimper and push into her. "So it's double headed?"

"Uhh…stop or I'll…Oooohhh geez!" She felt her body flipped over and then was amazed when she looked up into pale blue eyes.

"Or you'll what?" Diablo asked right before she thrust against her and didn't stop until they were crying out their releases again. The sun was rising when they finally fell into an exhausted sleep wrapped in each other's arms and still connected together.



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John rubbed his bloodshot eyes and growled at ma, she was bright eyed and bushy tailed and cooking a late breakfast. He could barely keep his eyes open and she was whistling up a storm and dancing around the kitchen. "How come you look like you slept in a tomb and I feel like I slept in the monkey cage at the zoo?"

"Because I sleep like the dead and never heard all the noises coming from their bedroom like you did. Go wake them up, breakfast is almost done."

"Why do I have to go in there, they might be naked?"

"Of course they're naked and like you've never seen that before." She rolled her eyes at the blush that ran up his face and waved a hand at him. He dropped his head, ran his hands across his stubbled cheeks and dragged his feet to the bedroom.

"Neither one of them better kick my ass or I'll…cry like a baby." He stepped quietly into the room, looked down at the two women and spun on his heel to go back to the kitchen. "I can't wake them up…they're…ma you go look." He dropped down at the table and let his head fall down to rest on the wooden surface.

"You're a big wimp John, what could be so bad that you can't wake them up?" She dropped a dishtowel on his head and went into the bedroom; she stood beside the bed and tilted her head to the side for a better angle. "Well I'll be," She ran a hand across her chin and grinned. "That's gonna hurt like a big bitch." She reached down, shook her daughter's shoulder, and then held her in place when one bloodshot eye opened. "Devil you two are still connected in the biblical sense so don't move too fast." She grinned wider when Diablo blushed and let out a small groan. "I don't know how you two managed to stay that way all night."

"We didn't," She mumbled. "Only been asleep a little while." She looked to the clock and groaned some more. "Mama…"

"Get some more sleep devil but you better get Sonji to pull out first." She chuckled when her daughter's blush deepened and then went back out to tease John. "Their dicks bigger than yours manly man."

"Thanks ma, that really builds up my ego."



********

Tabitha pulled up in front of Sonji's house, she looked at the realtors sold sign and then back to the mailbox to make sure she was at the right house. Getting out of her car, she strutted up the driveway and stopped in front of the window near the front door. She looked in ad saw that the front room was empty of all furnishings and that there was a key box on the door handle. Using her own key, she opened the door and went inside. She searched every room and found not one tiny bit of anything that was Sonji's. "I can't believe you would do this Sonji," She planted a hand on one hip and fluffed her hair with the other. "If you think this will keep me away from you you're in for a rude awakening, I'll find you and get you back in my bed in an hour." She pulled her cell phone out and dialed Sonji's parent's house. "This is Tabitha, where is Sonji?"

"She's with you so why are you calling me?" Sonji's dad said and then grinned knowing he threw her for a minute or two.

"Well, she was with me a week ago. I don't know where she is now and she sold her house!"

Mr. Anderson held back the shock and answered in his normal smartass way when it came to the arrogant woman. "She did call us and said that you two were in Istanbul riding camels across the desert, look around you, I'm sure you can't miss a big old camel."

"You're no help and there are no camels here!" She hung up the phone and stomped out of the vacant house. "I swear he must think I'm dumb and blind, I would have noticed a camel instantly if there was one here and where's Istanbul?"

*******

Mr. Anderson hung up the phone and yelled for his wife at the tops of his lungs. "Mama Sonji sold her house!"

"Jesus Christ old man I'm right behind you." She said and slapped him in his shoulder. "What do you mean she sold her house, she's in Hawaii with that bitch Tabitha."

"Nope, that was the bitch on the phone. I guess she's back and Sonji's missing." Mrs. Anderson shook her head of blonde shoulder length hair with its grey streaking through at the temples and mumbled.

"Now what has she done to get away from Tabitha, the last time she took off to San Juan for a week and learned to Tango." She grabbed the phone and called her daughters cell phone, after four rings a strange voice answered.

********

"Yassou."

"I'm sorry I thought this was Sonji Anderson's number."

"Ohh it is, hold on a minute and I'll get her." Diablo rolled across the bed and held out the phone for her lover who had just come from the bathroom, she then rolled back with a low groan and fell into her pillow.

"Hello?"

"Sonji where are you?"

"Hi mom, I'm in Hawaii." She covered her face with one hand and dropped down onto the edge of the bed. "I was going to call you this afternoon and let you know what's going on."

"Too late, the bitch called here looking for you, she said you sold your house. What are you doing?"

"It sold already…I ahhh I'm gonna live here in Hawaii." She looked to a worried Diablo and smiled. "I'm staying here with my wife Dr. Diablo Hawthorne." She heard her mother let out a yell and pulled the phone away from her ear. "Holly God damn she got married!" She heard her mother scream and then cringed when she got back on the phone with the same loud voice.

"You married a doctor in less than a month?"

"Yeah mom and she's not the type of doctor you're thinking either, she's an archeologist and we're living on her island."

"She has her own island, so I take it that Tabitha doesn't know all of this?"

"Nope and I don't want her to know either, she caused enough problems when we were here." She went on to tell her mom about them being ship wrecked and the time they spent there until John took them back to Oahu. They spoke for an hour and then she hung up to find Diablo asleep and clutching her pillow to her chest. She got up and went into the kitchen to get their breakfast; she glanced at ma and blushed. "Morning ma, sorry we slept so late."

"After all that exercise you two had I'm surprised you're up now." She pointed to the oven and a pitcher of fresh orange juice on the counter. "Everything is in there; it should still be warm so you might wanna nuke it."

"Ohh I'm up but devil went back to sleep and thanks for making breakfast."

"She must be really worn out if she went back to bed." She grinned and then chuckled at the light blush covering Sonji's face. "John headed back to Oahu; he had a charter to take out today. He said if you have anything else coming like mail, that he would call and let you know."

"The stuff we brought should be it for a while; I still haven't opened up my box of books." She pulled the food from the microwave, filled two glasses with juice and placed everything on a wooden tray. "What are your plans for today?"

"I'm taking the kids down to do some fishing, check the lobster traps and then do some work on the book me and devil are writing. You better get in there before they come in and see food; they stole most of Johns this morning." Sonji nodded her head and took the tray into the bedroom. "Maybe find some wild herbs to give devil an energy boost, she's gonna need it at this rate." She said to herself and chuckled from the remembered sight earlier that morning.

*********

Sonji kept pulling Gibbon out of the box she was trying to unpack, as soon as she pulled a couple books out, Gibbon jumped back in and smacked at her hand. "If you would let me get my books out you could have the box sooner." She snorted when Jimmy jumped in on top of her and then wrestled with her inside the box. "You guys are worse than cats," She reached around their bodies, pulled the last of the books out, and then watched the box fill up with the rest of the larger monkeys. She rolled her eyes upward to see Thelma and Louise looking down from their perch on top of her head. "Do you guys feel left out; I think I have another box you can play in?"

"They have you wrapped around their little hands." Diablo said and then dropped to the floor behind her. "You know people think I'm nuts because I live with monkeys and have long intense conversations with 'em?"

"If I had known how intelligent they were years ago, I would have gotten a monkey instead of dating some of the women I did." She looked down at the book in her hand, flipped it over and moaned. "Damn, you've always been a Goddess haven't you?" She showed Diablo one of her earlier books when she had to be in her late teens.

"If you consider being thirteen and already six-feet tall a Goddess than yeah." She snickered when she heard her ma groan.

"She ain't full of herself is she?" She tossed them each a plum and then groaned when five little sets of primate eyes pinned her. "Don't worry I have more." She emptied her pockets on the table and moved out of the stampeding primate's way. "Thieving little monkeys stole all of them from the first bag I picked and then ran off with my bag." She pulled on Saba's tail and stuck her tongue out at her when she bared her teeth. "You evil little bugger." She walked over to where all the books sat on the floor and whistled. "Did you buy every book we ever wrote?

"I think so, believe me I hit every book store on-line and the ones in California before I left. I found all of them at one place and just had them shipped here."

"When we get our new one published, I'll give you the first copy off the press." Diablo said and kissed her temple. "If you feel like it, we could take ma back to Crete and you can see what we're writing about first hand." She hit the floor when Sonji turned and jumped her.

"You really mean that, we can sail to Crete?"

"When ever you want, but we have to take all the kids with us and arrange with John to stay here." She groaned at the thought of her long time friend set loose on her island. "If he turns the place in to Club Med for leggy women, I'll kill him."

"You won't have to; we'll ship him in a crate to Tabitha." Ma got a huge toothy grin on her face, it had been years since she had cruised the seas and was looking forward to it.

"That'll be a long ass trip; we can get our book done and then some. Is there enough room on that yacht so we don't trip and fall all over each other?"

"More than enough, we've got four cabins, a living room and Hell; it's like being in a house." Sonji asked and rolled off Diablo. "We can stop and restock anywhere we want, see the different countries. Well the ones that I've never seen which is just about anywhere you point to."

**************

Two weeks later, they had everything of personal manner they needed on board the yacht and were just putting the last things that they had bought on Oahu in the lower storage area. One thing that they had on the deck was a large screen cage with all the monkeys in it with the exception of Thelma and Louise who were in Diablo and Sonji's berth. John handed the last of the boxes to ma and then leapt aboard to take it from her hands. "This is the last one," He pulled a clipboard with a chart on it from the railing and handed it to her. "This is every place that you guys can stop at that are reliable and trust worthy when it comes to getting fuel and other supplies. They're all friends of Skinny and know that you're heading their way."

Ma took the chart and gave him a kiss on his cheek. "Thanks John we really appreciate all the work you've done and be sure to thank Skinny for us."

"Ohh he's expecting to get a package of Baklava from Greece, he may weigh all of a hundred pounds but he can eat like Sonji."

"Using my name in vein again I see, and for your information I need all that food to keep up with ma. She can walk your legs off and then some." She wrapped an arm around her mother-in-law and kissed her cheek. "Is that the last box we have to go below?"

"Yep, I'll take it down right now so that you guys can head on out to terrorize the seas." He walked to the steps that would take him to the lower decks and met Diablo half-way down. "Don't worry about anything, I'll be the only one on your island and it won't be until night. I have a full booking for deep sea fishing and a few whale chaser cruises."

"I wasn't gonna say anything about that, I'm…" She dropped her head and wiped at the sweat on her upper lip.

"You guys will do great out there, you and ma know how to sail and Sonji's a damn quick learner. She's read all the books I could find for her and has the charts memorized, I don't even have that done and I'm out there everyday." Amazed blue eyes locked with his and a dark eyebrow rose in exclamation. "Ohh, so you didn't know that she has a photographic memory?"

"No I didn't," she looked up the steps to see her wife talking with ma. "Just wait until I get a hold of her."

"You'll bang her brains out and she'll forget everything." He shook his head at her and grinned before jogging down the steps. Diablo jogged up the remaining steps and stopped behind her small wife, she planted her hands on her hips and waited for her to turn around.

"I have this awful feeling that a certain devil is aggravated about something." She winked at ma and turned around with a sexy smile on her face. "So what seems to be the problem devil?" Diablo took a shuddering breath and shook her head.

"You do that just to throw me off," She took Sonji by the hand and led her over to the thick padded seats near the railing. "So you have all the charts memorized among other things?"

"John's a damn snitch," She pointed a finger at him when he cleared the steps. "I didn't want to look like an idiot and not know what to do or where to head us. I never want to experience falling overboard again and end up in shark infested waters." Diablo gave her a lingering kiss and rested their foreheads together.

"You don't have to worry about that; you're with two natural born pirates who've sailed all over the world."

"Ahhh, so I'm not the only one who was holding back information, I should have known."

"It's a family secret only because ma likes to sail bare ass naked and stand at the prow and do war cries."

"You lying sack of shit Diablo Hawthorne, it's you that does that!" Ma said after smacking her daughter on her head. "I'm gonna back us outta here and head out to scare the living shit out of you two with my sailing capabilities." After giving John hugs and Diablo threatening his life if anything happened to her hut, they headed out. Once they were clear of everything, ma opened up the engines and had them going full throttle. Sonji unbraided her wife's hair so that it flowed freely with the wind, they stood at the prow and watched as the yacht cut threw the waves and headed for the bottom of North America and would continue towards South America before turning up the coastline. Once on the Atlantic Ocean, they would head towards Africa and sail north towards Europe. On the final leg of their journey, they would stop off in Spain for the sites and then continue towards Greece and finally to the island of Crete.

**************

Thousands of miles later, with the waters calm and the sun high, Sonji sat in the fishing chair she had put on the deck with a deep sea-fishing pole in the holding cup. She laid her head back in the chair and looked up into dark sunglasses that hid her lover's pale blue eyes. "I really suck at fishing," She took the glass of iced tea and then her wife's hand to pull her across her lap. "How long have I been sitting here?"

"Ohh about five minutes," Diablo grinned and then kissed her forehead. "What kind of lure or bait are you using?"

"A great big hook with Gibbon on it." Gibbon had become a royal pain in their asses; she had picked up the habit of tossing their clothes overboard among other things. They now kept the closets locked and everything else that didn't float locked in a trunk in the pilothouse. "I caught her trying to toss the cooler overboard, what is it with her?"

"I think she's getting stir crazy, it's been years since she was on the open seas and back then she kept shutting the engines down or changing our coarse. Maybe we can anchor near a beach and let them go off and run their little bodies down."

"What if they all take off and we can't find them?"

"I've got lunge lines and harnesses; I use a small master lock to keep them from getting the line off their harness." She looked over to see her ma up on the fly bridge with Saba, Jimmy and Beethoven. She looked back to the fishing line that was in the water and heard Sonji chuckle.

"Gibbon's down in our cabin sleeping on the bed, I wore her ass out chasing her to get your boxers back." She ran her hands up Diablo's ribcage, cupped a bare breast and ran her thumb across a now hardening nipple. "How about if I wear you out for a few hours?" She leaned forward, flicked her tongue across the tip of her nipple and looked up into darkening eyes.

"Evil little woman, maybe I should stop running around half-naked?" Diablo forced out with a ragged breath, got up from her wife's lap and then dragged her below to their cabin. Ma looked down from the fly bridge and shook her head.

"My Gods, how many times do they have to attack each other a day?" She looked to the monkeys and grinned. "You got that right, but I can't cover my ears and pilot this thing at the same time."

**************

A few days later Sonji dropped anchor near a large beachfront with jagged rocks in areas, she looked through a pair of binoculars and then yelled for Diablo. "What do ya think, it's not real big but it should give the kids someplace to run around and get rid of some of their energy?" Diablo looked through the binoculars and then handed them to her ma.

"Looks good to me, maybe we can find some crabs or something for supper and there's some trees off in the distance maybe some fresh fruit to go with it."

"With all the food we have on board you want to scavenge?" Ma said and shook her head. "You two just wanna go romp in the trees or some other kinky sex game." Sonji grinned and looked to a blushing Diablo.

"Nope won't find us doing anything in a tree, been there done that." She pulled the yacht in closer to the beach, dropped anchor and then helped ma with the hoist for the runabout.

"You two are kinky sex fiends, are ya sure you don't have any Greek blood in you?"

"Not as far as I know, I pretty sure that I'm just German and Swedish."

"Well that solves that, ever seen one of those Swedish skin magazines?" She chuckled when Sonji gave her a startled look. "Ask John when you get back home, those are his favorites."

They got with in jumping distance of the beach when all the monkeys jumped and took off running across the beach, even the little ones went running while holding on to the others hand. Diablo was next, after helping Sonji and then her ma, she dropped down and touched the sand ground with both hands. "Gods this feels so good, I've missed real land."

"Devil it's been a whole three days since we were on solid ground," Sonji said and then used her kneeling form for a seat. "Remember all the little booths I dragged you to in Spain?"

"How could I forget, my feet still hurt from all that walking and I'll never ever again take food from you." She mimicked Sonji. "Here devil try this. Ya know my mouth is still burning from those peppers?"

"You're just a big wuss, with all the Greek food you grew up on you're complaining about some little tiny peppers."

"Peppers that singed the hair in my nose and off my ears and now I've got fur on my chest." Ma sat down next to Sonji and snickered when Diablo groaned.

"That means you'll look just like all your uncles, big tall hairy men that remind me of grizzly bears."

"More like cavemen, all they need are big clubs ta drag behind 'em."

"I won't tell them you said that if you go and see about some fresh fish or maybe some crabs or something." She got up, waited for Sonji to get up and then pulled Diablo to her feet. "Now get enough to feed the monster in your wife's stomach, if I didn't know any better I'd swear she was pregnant." She smacked them both on their asses and went off after the monkeys.

"That'd be something that would be hard to explain." Sonji said and then took Diablo's hand. "If that ever happens, you're gonna tell my mom."

************

Armed with a bucket and a lobster cage that they had brought with them, Sonji and Diablo walked in the shallow water on the far side of the island. Diablo stopped and placed her hands on her hips and searched in the clear water. "I haven't seen anything yet, how about you?" She turned and saw the wicked grin on her wife's face and then to where her eyes were glued to her ass. "And I'm not talking about my ass either."

"Uuhhmm nope, nothing yet, maybe we have to go out further like we do at home?" She wiggled her brows and licked her lips to get her meaning across as to what she was thinking.

"You just wanna play in the water and lobster is the last thing that you want to put your hands on."

"What can I say, I'm married to a Goddess and she keeps my libido racing." She walked up to her, took her hand and led her out into the deeper water. "I'll make you a deal, first we get supper and then we'll play." They dove in different directions and swam to the oceans floor, searching around out cropping of rocks; they swam to the surface and dove a few more times before Sonji came up with a good size lobster. Diablo went back down and stayed there until she found one. She shot to the surface and dragged in a deep breath before making her way to the beach, after dropping the lobster in the cage, she yelped. "Hey why'd you hit me?" She rubbed her ass and gave Sonji a narrowed look.

"Because I was getting worried, you were down there so long." She went back out and dove into the water, Diablo grinned and went back out to do more searching. Once they had eight lobsters, they placed the cage in the water and stacked the chain on the beach. Before Diablo could stand up straight, Sonji jumped her and took them into the incoming surf. They chased and dunked each other until Sonji wrapped herself around her wife and astounded her with a kiss. Falling back into the shallow water, they lay and let the surf wash over them. Hands caressed wet skin and removed the silk shorts that they both wore; soft moans were swallowed as they moved against each other. Diablo raised one knee and pressed it against her lover's center; she groaned and sucked the soft skin below Sonji's neck as they rocked together. Pulses rose and they panted as they climbed higher towards the pinnacle, Sonji pulled away and captured Diablo's lips just before she went over the edge, her hips thrust with every tremor and then she felt Diablo's body arch under her. Their bodies bucked together with their climaxes until they lay wrapped in each other's arms with the surf rolling across them. Sonji dropped her head down on her wife's shoulder and chuckled.

"It's a good thing that there's only us and ma here, I think our shorts are gone." She raised her head up and smiled down at Diablo. "Then again, we're close to Greece and they have nude beaches don't they?"

"Yeah and we are not going anywhere near them." She kissed Sonji with all the passion she felt in her body hoping the thought of nude beaches would leave her wife's head. When they broke the kiss, she knew that she had been caught. "Didn't work huh?" She groaned and dropped her head back into the sand. "I don't want men looking at you like you're a piece of meat."

"That goes for me to; I'd hate to end up in a Greek jail for kicking the shit outta all the men on the beach." She rolled off Diablo and got to her feet. "We better head back, it's getting dark and I'm hungry." She pulled Diablo to her feet and then helped her with the lobster cage, when they got back to where they had left the runabout, they heard ma yell from the yacht. "What did she do make the kids swim out there with her?"

"She probably had Thelma and Louise on top of her head and the other ones on the life saver that's not in the boat." She looked around them and saw that it would be getting dark soon. "We better get back before it gets dark, I hate being in a boat this small in the dark." She shivered and helped Sonji in and then lifted the heavy cage over the side. "OK Skipper, let's go."

**********

Ma led Sonji and Diablo down to her huge tent at the site where her crew was working, she smiled and raised a hand to one of the other archeologists and then turned to Sonji. "Beware of the hired help; I wouldn't trust them as far as Devil could toss 'em." She turned back with the smile still on her face and speaking through her teeth. "And the guy that just waved has a thing for blondes."

"Just great, the dogs are everywhere aren't they?" She mumbled to Diablo and then took her hand in a vise grip. "Don't you go out of my sight, devil."

"Don't worry, I'll make sure every single one of them knows that if they touch you, I'll sacrifice them to Artemis." She stopped outside of her ma's tent and snickered at the sign out front. "Head Bitch."

"Yep, they kept calling me an overworking bitch so I had that sign made, come on in and take a load off." She held the screen door open and watched the monkey's rush past her and jump on her bed. "Nothing ever changes, they'll have my quilt off on the floor and my pillow ripped to shreds." She shook her head and followed everyone in. "It's not much but this is home, no AC but I do have electricity." She flipped a light on at her worktable that was a twin to her daughters and dropped into her old worn out chair. "As soon as Dr. Jackson gets in here I'll have him get you guys a tent," She pointed to Sonji and then her base radio. "And right now you're gonna call your parents and let them know that we got here."

***********

The next morning Sonji stepped from their tent and covered her eyes quickly, she felt like she was in an oven with the little light shinning in her eyes. Pulling her baseball hat on, she went in search of her wife and ma. She had no idea of where to look first and the amount of people wandering around amazed her, she had no idea how many workers it took to dig but it looked like a thirty or so. She stepped up to a young man, tapped him on his shoulder, and then waited for him to finish with the crate he was packing. "Have you seen Dr. Hawthorne?" When he turned and looked at her with very dark brown eyes, she saw just how young he was. If he was fourteen, he was lucky.

"You want head bitch, she at dig." He pointed with a filthy hand with ragged fingernails to where there was a ladder going downward. "She have Diavallo with her." He gave her a wicked grin and then saw the fire in her eyes. "I take you." He jogged to the ladder, climbed down and waited for her to join him; he said nothing more until they reached the area where ma and Diablo were looking at some engravings on a high wall. He bowed his head and then ran back to the ladder.

"You were worried about me and you have a kid drooling after you?" Diablo turned and pulled Sonji against her chest.

"Morning baby," She gave her a heated kiss and groaned when ma kicked her in her shin. "I didn't want to wake you at the crack of dawn and hoped that Billy Bob would have been done with his packing before you came searching." Sonji raised an eyebrow at the boys name and snorted.

"Billy Bob? That is such a Greek name."

"I call him that because he likes all the old westerns and thinks it makes him a cowboy to be called that, little does he know he sounds more like a hill billy." Ma said and groaned when dirt flew down at them from above. "CHILLED MONKEY BRAINS FOR LUNCH!" They heard screeches and then little bodies jumped from above to run across the pit and play in the empty wooden crates. She took Sonji by the hand and pulled her over to a crate she had sitting by the wall, she reached inside and pulled out a vase with two men wrestling on the front of it. "They found this while I was with you guys and some other smaller stuff. We think it was buried with a prominent person."

"It's beautiful, where will it go now?" She ran a fingertip across the gold inlaid figures and looked over to Diablo.

"We're taking some crates over to the Heraklion museum, when we're there I'll take you through and you can see all the artifacts that have been collected throughout the years."

"Will I be able to see the stuff that ma found?"

"Ohh yeah, I make sure that they put my stuff on display as soon as they get it." Ma said and put the vase back in the crate. "Come on devil close this up while we get the monkeys caught and locked up, there is no way I'm searching for them when we get back."

***********

Mr. Anderson answered the front door, swore and slammed it shut. He turned when his wife stepped up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. "Mama don't open the door…it's a shoe salesman."

"Right and I'm Martha Stewart, get out of the way old man." She pushed past him, fought him for the doorknob and finally got the door open only to see Tabitha. "Why didn't you just say it was that crazy bitch and I wouldn't have opened it?" He threw his hands in the air and walked away.

"Because I have CRS and I'm an old man." He walked away not wanting to have to talk to Tabitha.

"Where's Sonji, I really need to see her?" Tabitha whined and fussed with her silk suit. "I tried calling her cell phone and it keeps coming up as out of the area." Mrs. Anderson grinned at her and laughed aloud.

"She left the country just to get away from you; she's in Greece right this very minute with her wife and mother in-law." Tabitha's blue eyes grew wide and then narrowed.

"She's not married, I would know if she was because it would be to me."

"You are so full of yourself and yes she is, in fact I have a post card right here from her." She pulled a post card from the small table beside the door and handed it to her. "Look for yourself, it came yesterday." She crossed her arms over her chest and watched the nutcase read the back.

Hi mom and dad

We went to the Heraklion museum the other day; you would not believe the ancient artifacts there! I've even uncovered a few myself while helping ma at the site. Of course, I have help from the monkeys and Diablo and believe me, when we're done, I can hardly stay awake to get back to our tent. Gotta go, devil's waiting so we can go shower, I'll call in a few days.

Love Sonji

Tabitha screamed and threw the post card, she stomped her feet and pulled at her hair. "I can't believe she went to Greece without me!"

"Are you really that stupid, she's married to Dr. Hawthorne why would she take you of all people?"

"She's not! NotnotnotNOT!"

"Ohhh yes she is, in fact, she changed her last name before they left. Now get off my property before I call the police and have you locked up for door to door prostitution." She slammed the door in Tabitha's face, leaned back against it and busted out laughing. "Ohh she is so stupid, old man get out here!" She went in search of her husband and laughed the whole way.

**********

Three weeks later, Sonji and Diablo were standing on the docks saying goodbye to ma with tear-filled eyes. They had traveled to Turkey a few days before and visited the ruins of the temple of Artemis, it was there that they felt such a strong bond to each other that Sonji never wanted to leave Greece. Now, sobbing, she hugged ma and felt a closeness with the woman that she had never felt with her own mother. She kissed both her cheeks and stepped back to allow Diablo to say goodbye, she looked out over the land and felt like she would lose a piece of herself when they left. Wiping her tears away, she cried harder when she saw her wife's tear stained cheeks. "Ohh for the love of Artemis you two," Ma growled and wiped her own eyes. "I expect you two at the airport in Oahu in six months, ya got that?"

"You're coming back in six months?" Diablo said in a hoarse voice.

"For good this time, I'm retiring before I'm too old to chase men. So you tell John to get the lumber ready so we can build my hut and to get me a generator for my kiln." She looked at their shocked expressions. "Hey I've learned some stuff over the years, I'm gonna reproduce some of the statues I've found and sell 'em on E-bay for a hefty sum." She gave them each another hug before sending them off, she stood on the dock waving with Saba sitting on her shoulder. "I hope they're careful on the way back." She turned and walked down the docks to where she had her small beat up Jeep waiting. A half hour later, she was pulling into the site and saw Billy Bob running towards her. She climbed out of the truck and tried to decipher his Greek and English mixed ravings. "Where is she?" She followed his finger and saw a dark haired woman trying to keep the dust from getting on her pale pink silk suit, she groaned after figuring out who the strange woman was. "Billy Bob, go turn the goats and sheep loose, make sure they run through here OK?" She handed him some candy and then went to see what Sonji's ex wanted, she had been warned that she might show up and ecstatically agreed to send her on a wild goose chase. "I'm Dr. Hawthorne, what can I do for you?" She looked the woman over and groaned mentally.

"Where's Sonji, I need to see her it's concerning our future plans."

"Your future plans huh? I don't think so Tabitha, I know for a fact that you're a using bitch and she told me not to tell you that she went to Uruguay…," She slapped her hands over her face and cussed. "Damn it, she's gonna kill me! But you'll never find her there unless you can find the Swahili tribe she's teaching English and economics to." She held back her grin when a herd of goats and sheep came charging towards them kicking up all kinds of dust, she waved a hand in front of her face and smirked at the disgusted expression on Tabitha. "So you wasted your time and money coming all the way over here to Crete."

"Ohh no I haven't, now I'm closer to her and I will find her no matter what!" She stomped off and stopped when she noticed that her ride was gone, she turned in a circle and came back to ma. "I need to get to the nearest airport or how ever else I can get off this damn disgusting island." Ma whistled and waved a hand at Billy Bob.

"Would you take her by our fastest transportation to the Hotel?"

"Yes ma, right away." He took Tabitha's hand and led her away.

"I hope you like donkeys and that you find out to late that the Swahili aren't in Uruguay." Ma said and went into her tent laughing hysterically.

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Diablo sat on the bench seat by the pilothouse with Sonji sitting between her raised knees; she dropped her head down, kissed her neck and then whispered in her ear. "Maybe your parents will come visit us on the island once ma gets there, she can take them to the other islands and teach them how to hula dance." Sonji chuckled and leaned her head back against her wife's shoulder.

"What ma does is not hula dancing, that's harem dancing and it would kill my dad." They had gone to one of ma's favorite restaurants in Knossos, she had gotten up, and danced with the women, she could still hear the men yelling and clapping. "You never did answer my question from that night, can you dance like that?"

"I'm Greek what do you think?" She whispered in a seductive voice and felt Sonji shiver.

"Ohh my Gods," She got up, shut the engines down, dropped the anchor and hit the stereo on. "OK devil, I want you to dance for me." She stood with her arms crossed over her chest and waited with a tapping foot.

"Now, right now you want me to dance?" She raised an eyebrow and looked around them.

"Yep, right now and I promise you when you're done I'll do anything you want." She licked her lips and ran her hands across her bare breasts.

"Ohh and the price is gonna be really big." She said and then stood and moved in panther like movements towards her wife to stop beside the mermaid statue they had gotten for John. "I'll warn you, I used to do this for money when I was younger." She started to move her hips to the rhythm of the Greek music. "I wasn't naked and I used pale blue veils and removed them one at a time." She moved closer to Sonji and with each step, her hips swayed faster. "They threw money and jewels at my feet." She rolled her stomach and saw sweat break out on Sonji's face and her eyes darken. Placing her arms above her head, she picked up speed and soon had Sonji wiping her face and moaning. She rolled her stomach muscles up and down and then gyrated her hips, Sonji let out a yell that had the monkeys scattering across the deck. She advanced on her wife, took her hand and pulled her back over to the bench.

"No more or I'll have a heart attack." She pushed Diablo down and dropped to her knees before her. "Next time you use veils so I last longer." She dropped her head and buried it between Diablo's thighs, she moaned deeply when she found how wet her wife was. With what they were doing, they never noticed the engines start back up or the sound of the anchor rising. After waking from their naps from multiple orgasms, Diablo noticed that they were moving and how fast they were going. She leaned up on her elbows and saw Gibbon and Beethoven in the pilothouse and Jimmy up on the fly bridge.

"Ohh no, Sonji, Gibbon's sailing!" She got up on unsteady feet and looked around them, she helped Sonji up and they headed towards the pilothouse.

"Are we headed in the right direction?" She asked and then took over from Gibbon.

"Would you believe that we are," She looked to Sonji and grinned. "Maybe we could hire them out for charters." She stepped behind Sonji and pulled her back against her body. "I love you Sonji Anderson-Hawthorne." She slipped a hand down across Sonji's stomach and stopped to run her fingers through her soft curls and lick at her ear. "Let's drop anchor, put food out for the kids and turn in for the night. But before we turn in, you dance for me."

"Me dance, so you need a good laugh huh?" She turned and pressed against her." If I dance a hurricane will develop, well get lost as sea, some idiot will write a series about us and we'll be forever stuck on an island with Tabitha and a bunch of other stupid people."

"Uuhhmm…OK but I think we should go below anyway, there's a Greek fishing boat out there and I have a funny feeling that they were watching us." She pointed out the window and snickered when Sonji took off running for the stairs. "Hope you pervs got your jollies." She said to herself and went full throttle to take them out of the area and away from the fisherman. "You planed this didn't you Gibbon?" She rolled her eyes when Gibbon bared her teeth and screeched.

************

Sonji snorted and looked to see Diablo and Beethoven fighting over the last bagel she had toasted for their breakfast, she opened her cell phone and dialed her parent's number while watching her wife try to take a bite of the bagel in her monkey's mouth. "Yassou mom."

"Where are you two and when am I going to met my daughter in-law?"

"We're about two days away from Diablo island and how about next month?"

"Why next month and are you two coming to LA?"

"Because that's when Diablo's mom will be here and I'm sending you and dad tickets to come stay with us here in Hawaii."

"Us in Hawaii, you're dad will flip. He wants to see those hula dancers, you know like that damn statue on his cars dashboard."

"Ohh I'm sure that Stesha and John will know just where to take you guys to see that." She laughed when her mom told her dad and heard him do his version of a rebel yell.

"Before I forget, have you heard anything from Tabitha?"

"Ma radioed us and said that she sent her to Uruguay to find us with a Swahili tribe. She may still be there trying to find us and speaking Swahili from a book to people who speak Spanish or French." She looked over to Diablo and groaned. "Devil that's gross and I'm not kissing you until you brush your teeth!"

"Do I really want to know what she's doing?" Her mom asked.

"She's licking grape jelly off Beethoven's fingers."

"Beethoven, who's that?"

"One of our five monkeys, they're worse than kids."

"So you weren't kidding in your post card about monkeys helping you in Crete?"

"Nope, you'll meet your grandkids when you and dad get here." Before her mom hung up, she heard tell her dad that they had five hairy grandkids and they needed to bring lots of bananas with them. She closed her phone, leaned back in her chair, and watched her wife play with Beethoven. The two of them mimicked each other, even to the rolling of eyes and raising of eyebrows. She had never thought of monkey's having eyebrows until she watched Beethoven's small brow ridge rise and wiggle. "You know, I don't know who the monkey is and who the human is."

"That's OK, neither do we." She kissed a hairy little head and then pulled Sonji from her chair to sit on her lap. "So your mom and dad are coming to visit?"

"Yep, as soon as we get home, I'll have tickets sent to them." She turned her head and looked to where they had John's mermaid strapped to the deck. "Do you think John will like her?"

"Knowing him, he'll probably propose to her here. Which reminds me," She pulled two solid gold rings from the pocket of her cut off shorts and held them out to Sonji. "I know we have the necklaces but no one will know what they signify, so I had these made while we were in Crete." Sonji took one of the rings and looked at the letters engraved on the band. "It says 'by the hand of Artemis'." She took the smaller of the bands and slipped it on Sonji's finger. "My heart and soul belong to you." She kissed her gently and pulled back to see tears in light sea green eyes. Sonji slipped the other ring onto Diablo's finger and then pressed her larger hand over her heart.

"My heart and soul belong to you, so mote it be." She wrapped her arms around her wife's neck and pulled her down for a loving kiss. "You're rubbing off on me; I'm sounding more pagan by the minute."

In a deep voice, Diablo asked. "And that's a bad thing?"

"Ohh not at all devil, not at all." She got up from her lap and took her hand. "Let's see how many of the Gods names I can make you yell."

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It was in the early morning hours when Sonji and Diablo made it back to the island. They had the runabout loaded with the stuff they were to take to their hut and were working the hoist system to ease it into the water. Once it was in the water, Sonji climbed down the ladder and into the boat, she looked to the shore and could swear that she saw two forms standing on the beach. Thinking it was just from the mist on the shore she ignored it and caught each monkey in her arms as they scampered down the ladder. Diablo came last with Thelma and Louise holding onto her neck and the last bag slung over her shoulder. "It's gonna feel weird to be on land after all these months." She said and then went over to the steering wheel. "Are we all set?" She checked to make sure that Sonji was sitting and that all the monkeys were safe. She cut the wheel and took them to the small cove, as she got closer; she saw the new dock and smiled. "John's been busy; he built a dock for us." Sonji looked over and grinned.

"I hope it's not a peace offering of some kind and I wonder if he got the lumber for ma's hut?"

"It better not be or he's a dead man," She pulled the runabout up to the dock, and waited for Sonji to tie them off. "This is easier than having to walk the rest of the way to the beach." She then noticed the dolly sitting at the edge of the dock along with a large hand drawn wagon. She knew then that he had gotten the lumber and other stuff for ma's hut; she wondered if he had started building it as well.

"Dr's Hawthorne I presume?" A growling voice came from the dense bushes and sent chills up both women's spines. Diablo was the first to see John running towards them, she walked down the dock towards him and pointed a finger.

"What is she doing here?"

"I have no idea; I came in last night and found her here." He dropped his head and then looked into angry blue eyes. "She ransacked your hut, I called the chief and he's supposed to be here in a little while." He flinched when Sonji walked past them and to where Tabitha was standing with her hands planted on her hips.

"When the chief gets here, I'm going to make sure that he puts you in jail!" She turned her back, took two steps before Tabitha's voice stopped her.

"I found something out about your so called wife that I bet you don't know." She held up a handful of papers and waved them in the air. "This island does not belong to her!" Green eyes tracked over to trap pale blue and then worried green. "So when harbor patrol gets here, she's the one who's going to jail not me."

"I can explain Sonji," Diablo walked closer and winced when green eyes turned fiery and then Sonji took off running towards their hut. "You mother fucking bitch!" Diablo stalked a scared Tabitha, ripped the papers from her hands and took off at a sprint after Sonji.

"You have no idea what you just did you psychotic bitch!" John said as he stepped closer to her. "Diablo will make sure that you never see the light of day now, you hurt her wife."

"It's paybacks for making me chase her all over the world!"

"She's not yours Tabitha, she made that plain as day when you were here last and you yourself said it was over. So leave them alone and go back to your disgusting little life of using people."

"Ohh she'll be mine because there's no way that she can trust Diablo now." She jutted her chin out and gave John a haughty look.

**************

Diablo came rushing into the hut and found Sonji standing in their bedroom looking down at the trunk that sat against one wall, the lock was smashed into pieces and papers and clothes lay on the floor in a pile at her feet. "Tell me why I shouldn't pack my stuff and leave." Sonji stood there looking at the mess that Tabitha had made hoping that answers would rise up and come to her.

"Because I love you and I didn't lie about anything," She stepped closer and laid a hand on Sonji's shoulder. "I just don't go around using my entire name and it doesn't really matter in the US what it means." She held the papers over her wife's shoulder and urged her to take it. "Read them Sonji, you'll understand better if you do." Sonji took the papers and read the first line of the first page; she turned and saw that Diablo had sunk down onto the foot of the bed with her face buried in her hands.

"This is a declaration of royalty for the lands of Thessaly," She looked and saw that Diablo still sat with her face buried in her hands, she read further and shook her head in confusion. "This is like reading a page out of a history book, what's it mean?" She sat down beside Diablo and pulled her hands from her face. "Diablo what is this exactly?"

"It's my family tree if you can believe it and sort of a birth certificate, my legal birth certificate from Egypt is somewhere in that pile. It has my full name on it as well as what's in your hand." Sonji scanned to the bottom of the page and saw a whole line of names.

"What is your real name because looking at this I have no idea and besides it's in Greek?"

"It's Deianeira Artemis Pheraea Ariadne Diablo Hawthorne; ma's is the same except for Stesha before the Hawthorne. In there is the deed for this island, it's under Deianeira of Knossos."

"We were at Knossos, what has your name got to do with it?"

"Uhhmm…my family can be traced back to King Minos, the first king of Knossos and all of Aegean. It doesn't really mean that much except to archeologists and history buffs."

"Then why is the deed under Deianeira of Knossos instead of Diablo Hawthorne?"

"Because everything that I own in Greece is under that name, me and ma are the owners of one of the largest tobacco farms in Volos. It's been in the family for more years than any of us knows and I'm the last of the line."

"But you have uncles, what about them?"

"They have a different father than Ma so they're not entitled to the property, it's handed down from mother to daughter." She shrugged her shoulders and looked to her wife. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you, I just don't consider it important to whom I am. I'm just Dr. Diablo Hawthorne, retired tomb raider." She took one of Sonji's hands in hers and looked to her with pleading eyes. "Can you forgive me?"

"For saving me from having to say all those names, yes." She brought Diablo's hand up to her lips and placed a kiss on her wedding band. "Now for my secret, I'm not worth millions…,"

"Money doesn't matter to me Sonji, the only thing that does is you."

"Good then you don't care that I have a few billion dollars lying around in bank accounts." Diablo smiled and shook her head.

"Nope, I sure don't. Money isn't everything, let's go back down to the boat and see if the chief is here yet. I want Tabitha gone and the sooner the better."

*********

When they got back down to the beach the chief of the harbor patrol was standing next to John and in front of a raving Tabitha. Her mouth was running a hundred miles an hour and loud enough to deafen them from a distance. Diablo rolled her eyes and took Sonji's hand; she looked down at her wife and gave her a quick kiss. "You have to listen to me, I know what I saw and read. Diablo Hawthorne does not own this island so that means she's trespassing!"

"Listen who ever you are, I've known Diablo for years and I know for a fact that she owns this island. Now if you'll come with me I'll take you back to Oahu and you can talk to the police chief about the charges being brought against you."

She pointed to Diablo and stepped forward to jab her in the chest. "You can't do that, I'm telling you that she's not who you think!"

"Chief haul this psycho out of here," Sonji said and smacked Tabitha's hand away. "I saw the papers you stupid bitch and this island does belong to my wife," She stepped into Tabitha's personal space and jabbed her in her chest. "And I'm going to have stalking charges added to what ever else is on the list."

"But it said Deianeira of Knossos or something like that, not Diablo Hawthorne." John rolled his eyes and groaned.

"Well Princess Deianeira Artemis Pheraea Ariadne Diablo Hawthorne of Knossos looks like your true identity is out there in the open, is there anyone here who cares?" He looked around and saw three heads shake and one set of wide blue eyes belonging to the gaping fish that was Tabitha. "Just what I thought and I never want to have to say your whole name again, it makes my jaws ache." They watched the chief pull Tabitha down the beach to where he had his boat and one of his officers waiting. "I am so glad she's gone, I had a Hell of a time with her last night." He raised his hand when he saw Sonji's mouth start to open. "I locked myself in the storage hut, I didn't want her getting in there and destroying the artifacts." He looked out to the yacht and could see the statue on the deck. "OK, what did you bring me from Greece and if you say nothing I'll call ma and cry."

"Ohh Gods, he's worse than a little kid isn't he?" Sonji said and then pointed to the runabout. "You help us get our stuff up to the hut and then go out to our yacht; you can't miss what we brought you."

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The next morning Diablo stood in the water up to her shoulders with a socket wrench in her hand while Sonji sat on her shoulders and placed the bolts in the fittings for the mermaid. John cussed and struggled to hold it in place and sighed with relief when two bolts were in and tight. "I can't believe you guys had this made for me, she's beautiful." He traced the detailed fin with his fingertips and let his eyes travel up to her long hair. "This is from the same man who made your Artemis statue?"

"Yep, he had a form already made from a job he had done for a ship builder, all he had to do was make some adjustments for yours." Sonji said and then put another bolt in for Diablo to tighten.

"Do you have a card or anything from him, I might know of a few other people that would be interested in his statues."

"No but ma will have one, you can ask her when she gets here in a couple weeks," Diablo smirked at the wide eyes and dropped jaw. "That lumber I told you to get is not for a guest house, it's for ma's hut, she's retiring and going to live here."

"Ohh Hell, I better get building then, I have the floor done but I need help with getting the sides up."

"We'll help you get it done and I'll talk to the chief about bringing in the other stuff by chopper." Sonji saw the expressions on her wife and John's faces. "He likes me what can I say."

"He should after you bought the harbor patrol that new cruiser; it's called 'The Sonji', and they use it to chase down those assholes who speed around the island."

Diablo narrowed her eyes and pulled Sonji's head down so that they were looking at each other. "So my McDonalds food cost you a cruiser for the harbor patrol?"

"No, that only cost me the fuel for the chopper. I gave him a bank check and told him to buy what ever they needed."

"You're something else Sonji and why did Tabitha call us Dr's Hawthorne yesterday?"

"Ohh because I have a doctorate in economics, I don't use it with my name but she did to impress her asshole friends."

"This isn't fair; I don't have a title in front of my name."

"Sure you do John, its Captain. Right devil, he's captain of his charter yacht."

"Ohh that makes me feel a whole lot better, I get to share the same title as Captain Gibbon of Sonji's Tomb Raider."

***********

Diablo and Sonji sat at a long table filled with food at the Polynesian Cultural Center on Oahu; it was the most famous place for luaus and hula dancing of all the Hawaiian Islands. The amount of food on the long table was slowly being diminished by a small blonde. Diablo squeezed her thigh and nodded her head up to where the stage was and then back to see Sonji roll her eyes and fill her plate with more lomi lomi salmon and kalua pork. "I can't believe that my parents are up there dancing with ma and John looks ridiculous with a coconut bra on."

"Well at least I'm not up there," Diablo said in a seductive whisper in her ear. "That could really cause a scene."

"You might just cause one anyway if you keep blowing in my ear and playing with my leg." She felt liquid heat rush to her southern areas when long fingers caressed her causing her to moan deeply. "Devil your playing with fire."

"I know and it turns me on when you moan like that," She circled her wife's ear with the tip of her tongue and then whispered. "Think anyone will notice if we sneak back to the yacht?"

"Ohh who the Hell cares if they do." She got up, took Diablo's hand and pulled her up from the ground. "Think we can run all the way there or should we take John's truck?"

***********

Ma watched her daughter and Sonji run from the luau and bumped hips with Mrs. Anderson. "Looks like their off to have another sexathon."

"That's all they've done for the last week, Sonji doesn't get that from her dad that's for sure." She climbed down off the stage and waved at her husband to join her and ma. "So Stesha, should we give them some time or go tease the Hell out of them?"

"Who are we teasing?" John asked and squirmed around trying to take off his coconut bra. "And how do you women wear these things, they itch and are binding?"

Ma helped him take it off and dangled it in front of his eyes. "The sex fiends and it's easy you big dummy, we don't wear coconuts on our tits."

"Not again, I swear they never get out of bed. And Diablo complains about me and all my girlfriends." He grabbed Mr. Anderson by the back of is hula skirt and pulled him down off the stage. "Come on dad, we have to go rescue the rest of the island from the girls."

"Ohh not again," He mumbled and looked to his wife. "Are you sure she's our kid, we were never like that?"

"Unless she was switched in the hospital then yeah she's ours, hard to believe though." She grabbed her husband by his hand and pulled him towards the parking lot. "Maybe you should talk to Diablo and learn something about sex." Ma looked to John and shook her head, from what she knew of Diablo and Sonji's sex life; it would cripple the Andersons.

**************

Diablo came charging down to the beach, spotted John standing with ma and headed right for him. When she was three steps away, she jumped and knocked him to the ground. Cupping his face between her hands, she gave him a huge kiss and hugged him. "Not that I didn't just enjoy the Hell out of that but why did you do it?" Diablo pulled a plastic stick from her back pocket and waved it in front of him. "Is that what I think it is?"

"Yep and it's positive, I'm gonna be a mama." She kissed him again, got up and hugged her ma tight. "That means you're gonna be a grandma."

"I can handle that but how's Sonji handling it?" Diablo pulled back and smiled.

"Not too good, she was hugging the toilet when I left."

"Hold on here a minute," John got up from the sand and brushed himself off. "I donated but I don't know who I donated for?" Ma rolled her eyes and explained it to him.

"Your sperm, Diablo's egg and Sonji's carrying the baby. I swear men are clueless when it comes to this, let's go check on her."

"You don't have to, I'm right here." Sonji walked into her wife's arms and pressed her face against her breasts. "Just don't mention food or I'll throw up on your feet."

"OK, so let's go up so you can call your mom and dad. I know they'll be thrilled to death about being grandparents." She saw Sonji's face go pale and covered her eyes just before she threw up all over the front of Diablo. "This is going to be a pleasant pregnancy." She stepped behind her daughter and pushed them towards the water. "Go get cleaned up and I'll go fix something that will help her stomach, John you come with me, you look as bad as Sonji."

Months passed with Sonji eating more than usual and getting bigger around the middle as her pregnancy progressed, her moods swung from one extreme to the next and had Diablo running for cover more than once. It was towards the end of her pregnancy that became stressful on the couple, they decided that they would stay on Oahu a week prior to her delivery date to be closer to the hospital while ma stayed on the island. Diablo had moved from their bed at the hotel to sleep in the chair next to it, Sonji had thrashed most of the night and Diablo had the bruises to show for it. She jerked awake when she felt her hand stretched across the distance being pulled on. "Baby I think it's time." Sonji whimpered and grabbed her stomach in pain. Diablo jumped from the chair and hit the floor in a heap a second later. "Devil what are you doing down there?"

"My legs are asleep," She whimpered and crawled towards where she had set Sonji's small suitcase by the door. "Where's my pants?"

"Devil, you're wearing pants. I haven't seen you naked in days!" She growled and clutched at her stomach.

"Baby, I wanted to be prepared for just this moment." She crawled to the bed and pulled herself up onto the side. "Can you walk or do you want me to carry you?" She flinched when fiery green eyes locked on hers.

"Right now, I wanna slap the shit outta you!" She sat forward, clenched her stomach, and swore like a sailor. "My water just broke."

"Ohh shit…hold on I'll be right back!" Diablo grabbed the suitcase, ran out the door and all the way to the rental car they had. She threw the suitcase in the back seat, dropped the passenger seat to a reclining position and ran back to their room. "OK baby we're five minutes away from the hospital," She picked Sonji up and carried her out the door and to the car. Once she had her in, she grabbed her cell phone and called ahead to make sure that their doctor was there. She took Sonji's hand and kept looking over at her on the short drive. "I love you baby."

"I love you too devil and I'm sorry for snapping at you." She brought their hands up, kissed Diablo's palm and groaned when another contraction hit her.

"Breathe baby breathe, just like we learned." She took a deep breath and looked over to Sonji. "OK, so we won't do that." She turned the car up into the hospital and stopped outside of the ER doors. "I'll be right back," She handed her the phone through the window. "Call ma and let her know." She ran to the ER doors, disappeared and missed the names Sonji called her. When she came back with a nurse and a wheel chair Sonji gave her a look that was incinerating. "Uuhhmm OK, well I…" She looked to the nurse and was happy when she took over.

"OK Sonji, let's get you inside and up to the maternity ward." She motioned for Diablo and pointed to the car. "Go ahead and park, you know where we'll be."

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Ma ran down the dock to where John's yacht was, jumped aboard and ran down the stairs to John's cabin. She flung the door open and screamed his name. "Come on Sonji's in labor!" She walked over to him, pulled the pillow off his face, and smacked him with it. "Come on John, we have to get to the hospital…NOW!" He jumped from the bed and fell back down to blink his eyes at her.

"Ohh shit," He looked around his room and back at ma. "Truck keys, we need my truck keys."

"There in the same place they always are, in the ignition." She grabbed him by his hand and dragged him from the cabin. "We have to hurry; she may have already had the baby."

**********

Diablo walked into the delivery room and was ready to turn around and go back out as soon as she saw the fierce expression on her wife's face. She took a deep breath, prayed to Artemis for strength and walked over to the bed. "What do you want me to do baby?"

"Make the pain go away," She whimpered and held out a hand to Diablo. "I never thought it would hurt this bad." She squeezed Diablo's hand with the next contraction and pulled her closer. "Where's our doctor, I want the baby…OUT…RIGHT…NOW!" She yelled in Diablo's ear and then bit her shoulder.

"Ohh I think someone is in a rush here." Dr. Lanua said as he stepped into the room and sat down on the stool between Sonji's legs. "What have we got under here?" He grinned up at a pissed off Sonji and wiggled his dark eyebrows.

"If you don't know that then you suck in more ways than one!" He busted out laughing and looked over to his nurse.

"She must have been talking to Bruce, he just loves to brag." He pushed the sheet up and moved the light to see better. "OK Sonji, are you sure you want to do this without any pain medication?" He saw her nod and nodded back. "OK then," He rolled backwards and grabbed a sheet from the tray set up and rolled back to Sonji, he looked over to the door when it opened and waved to ma. "Come on in and join the party, we're just about to start."

"I've been ready it's you that's slow!" Sonji said and then squeezed Diablo's hand again with her contraction. "Closer devil…closer." She growled, wrapped her arm around her wife's neck and bit her. The yell that came from Diablo had everyone covering his or her ears and cringing. The doctor looked down, saw the babies head crowning, and yelled above Diablo.

"That's it Sonji, keep on doing what ever you're doing!" Ma looked to see tears running down her daughter's face and hoped that this was a quick delivery for her sake. She stepped up to her and took her free hand for her to squeeze, it was funny in a way, and Sonji was making sure that her wife shared the pain. "Beautiful Sonji, just beautiful, on the next contraction I need you to really push hard." He looked up to see two sets of wide blue eyes and Sonji resting her head on Diablo's shoulder. She started to growl low in her throat and then latched onto Diablo's neck with her teeth. Ma winched from the pain in her hand and covered her ear with the other, she had been through delivery but it hadn't hurt as bad as the pain in her hand. When she felt Diablo falling to the side, she looked over and saw the whites of her eyes. "Ohh and we have a baby girl." Dr. Lanua said and placed the squirming screaming baby on Sonji's stomach. "I guess having Diablo cut the cord is out, Stesha?" He held up the scissors to her.

"Call me ma; after all you've been between both my daughters legs." He chuckled and gave her a bright smile.

"And I know that you believe me when I say I don't get any jollies when I look down there."

"Yep, you're right. Now what about your two passed out patients here?" She was using her hip to keep Diablo from falling and couldn't see Sonji.

"Sonji's readings are normal," He nodded to the nurse to take the baby and then examined Sonji closer. "We'll toss Diablo on a bed and then I'll sew the small tear Sonji has here, she did good for having such a big baby, I would have passed out to if I were her."

"We have nine pounds eleven ounces and 28 inches long." The nurse said and then started to clean her up. "Not surprising since both Diablo and John are so tall, but I see reddish highlights in this peach fuzzy." She wrapped the baby up and waited until Dr. Lanua had Diablo up on the bed with Sonji before handing her to ma.

"Must be from John's side, no one on our side had anything but black." She noticed a sheepish look on Dr. Lanua face and narrowed her eyes. "What did you do doc?"

"Well, to make it more of Sonji and Diablo's baby. I aaahhh…did some DNA work on their eggs. The baby won't have any of his genetics and all of her mothers." He saw the confusion in ma's eyes and tried to explain it better as he sutured Sonji. "I took certain DNA strains from Sonji's eggs and combined them with Diablo's, then I jump started the egg before implanting it into Sonji's uterus."

"Do they know about this?"

"Yeah, in fact they had me implant more than the normal amount of eggs as a safe guard, I couldn't use John's sperm because there's a problem with it, he can't produce children." He finished with Sonji and called a nurse over to take them up to a room and one to take the baby to the nursery. "Let's go into my office and I'll tell you my findings." He showed her through into the next room and pointed to a chair beside his desk. "OK, now after John dropped off his sample, we freeze it until we can harvest eggs. Once we have done that, we make sure that everything is normal. I fertilized an egg from Diablo with John's sperm and then placed it in incubation. Kind of, like what they do with test tube babies, nothing happened. I ran tests and discovered that John's sperm are infertile; it was up to Diablo and Sonji as to what to do next. They chose the procedure I told you about."

Ma rubbed her face and nodded her head. "Does John know about this and is there anything he can do to reverse it?"

"I spoke with him and told him what to do to if he ever wants to have children, he was thankful to find out now about this rather than later. Ma, he's still happy for them."

"I know he is and he'll make an excellent uncle, I better go find him and tell him the news. Then I'm going to kick his ass and Diablo's for not telling me all of this." She stood up and shook Dr. Lanua's hand. "Thank you for everything; I'm a grandma because of your hard work."

"No the hard work was done by Sonji and I have a feeling that Diablo's going to be really sore when she wakes up."

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John paced the hallway in his bare feet and ignored the strange looks he was getting from other people. He could care less that he was in just boxers and looked the way he felt. His eyes were burning from lack of sleep and his long hair was all over his head, at the sound of ma's voice, he sighed and walked up to her. "How is Sonji and did she have the baby?"

"The three of them are fine but you young man are going to get your ass kicked." She grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the elevator. "Why didn't you tell me that you shot blanks?"

"Ahhh ma, I didn't want you to know because I thought it made me less of a man." He dropped his head once they got in the elevator and looked at his dirty bare feet. "Sonji and Diablo sat me down after we found out and chewed on my ass for a good hour, they told me that I'm no less a man because of this. Doc Lanua told me of some things I can do to help if I ever want to be a father, either way I'm happy for them and I'll help in any way I can." He grunted when ma hugged him and blushed when she kissed his cheek.

"Their right you know but you could have still told me so that I could have told you the same thing. Now let's go see the new addition to the family and check on my passed out kids, damn wimps can't handle a little pain."

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They walked into the room and found Diablo sitting on the bed beside a still asleep Sonji, what got their attention was the ice pack to the side of her neck. "Yassou." She said through her teeth and closed her eyes in pain.

"What's wrong devil, you're talking funny?" Ma walked up to her and moved the ice bag away from her neck. "Ohh that looks really ugly," She looked closer and saw two small sutures in her neck and a few more in her shoulder. "Damn she really bit you hard didn't she?"

"Yeah and bruised some nerves ta boot." She tried to smile but she flinched instead. "Better in a few days."

"Boy am I glad I wasn't in there, she would have grabbed something and ripped it off." John said and then crossed his legs. "Is she OK, I mean I thought after the delivery the mothers are awake and screaming for their babies?"

"I'm too tired to scream, anyone have any food?" Sonji asked and then opened an eye to see Diablo with ice on her neck. "Ohh Gods," She pulled her wife's head down and kissed her temple. "How bad did I hurt you?"

"I'm OK," She looked over to ma and waved a hand. "Baby?"

John held up a hand and went towards the door. "I'll go check with the nurses and beg them to bring you some food." He gave them all a bright smile and went out the door whistling.

"And you devil are in big trouble, why didn't you tell me about John when you found out that Sonji was expecting?"

"Cuz we didn't," she looked to Sonji for help. "Baby help."

"I did to hurt you," She pulled the ice away from Diablo's neck and started crying. "Why didn't you tell me I was hurting you?"

"It was kinda bonding ya know, I shared your pain." She wiped her tears away and kissed her lips tenderly.

"Hello, I'm still waiting here for an explanation?"

"We didn't know how you would feel about the procedure we chose," Sonji looked to her with pleading eyes. "It's not exactly mainstream and well…"

"Listen to me both of you, this baby girl is special, even more special because she comes from both of you. It doesn't matter because you two gave me a granddaughter, something I never thought I'd have." She pulled them into a hug and kissed both their foreheads. "Now for a name for my granddaughter, you know she's the only heir to a Greek fortune?"

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Sonji read the paper that was similar to the one that Diablo had and shook her head; she knew that her parents were going to laugh their asses off when they saw how many names their granddaughter had. "Devil what name are we going to call her?" She looked at the long list of names and then up to her wife and daughter.

"How about Demi Hawthorne and when she gets older we'll explain to her why she has so many names?" She sat down on the couch beside Sonji and held Demi out to her. "She's hungry again and Gibbon has her bottle."

"What is she doing with her bottle," She pulled her shirt open to nurse Demi and gave Diablo a glance. "Tell me she's not drinking breast milk."

"No, actually Beethoven's drinking breast milk. Gibbon thinks she had a baby and she's feeding Beethoven and any one else she can tackle." She tried to get Thelma and Louise but they're hiding in the dresser with our shorts." She looked over to her PC when it beeped and got up from the couch. "Baby it's your parents and you will not believe dad!" Sonji got up, stood in front of the web camera, and groaned at her father.

"Dad that is the ugliest damn shirt I have ever seen, I can't believe mom let's you wear it."

"I tried to hide it but he keeps finding the damn thing, only your dad would run around with a hula dancer with flashing lights on her nipples on his chest." Her mom said and pushed him out of the way. "How's everyone doing, you guys need anything and what name did you two decide on?"

"We're all fine and we have everything we need," Sonji looked to Diablo and wiggled her eyebrows. "Your turn devil, tell mom and dad all her names."

"Ohh geez, you're really gonna make me say that mouth full aren't you?" She sighed and took a deep breathe. "OK are you ready," she saw them nod. "Deianeira Artemis Pheraea Ariadne Demeter Hawthorne of Knossos." She took a deep breathe and finished. "We're going to call her Demi Hawthorne for short."

"Oh thank you, there is no way that we could remember all that and why does she have so many names?"

"Ohh because she's Greek royalty," Ma said from behind Sonji. "And the only heiress to a Greek tobacco farm, now gimme that baby, I'm gonna tell her the history of her rotten good for nothing ancestor King Minos." She took Demi and walked over to the couch to begin her story.

"Ohh Hell, Stesha wasn't kidding was she?" Mrs. Anderson said and looked over her shoulder at her husband. "I'm not even going to ask you, you fell asleep in class all the time but I remember reading about King Minos."

"No mom, she wasn't but Demi will be raised just like any other kid. Titles aren't important in our family and neither is money, she's just gonna be like any other kid with the exception of having monkeys as playmates."

"And three grandparents to spoil her rotten, by the way, we got our tickets so we'll be there in two weeks. You guys all take care and call if you need anything."

"OK mom and we'll be there at the airport when you arrive." They waved and watched the screen go back to the background picture. "OK devil, what's for supper?" She turned and wrapped her arms around her wife's neck and leaned into her body.

"I can make some steaks, potatoes and corn…" She stopped reciting her menu when she saw flames erupt in green eyes and a pink tongue run across an upper lip. "That's not what you were thinking was it?"

"Ohh you are catching on quicker." She took her hand and dragged her towards their bedroom. "Ma, Gibbon has Demi's bottle!" She yelled over her shoulder just before she pushed Diablo through the door and closed it. Ma shook her head and looked down into green eyes.

"You would have thought that they would have slowed down after you were born, I think they're worse." She cringed when she heard Diablo yell, a thump and laughter. "I'm glad I don't know what they're doing in there, I have enough grey hair as it is." When the laughter turned in to deep moaning, she rolled her eyes, got up from the couch and went out the door. "Let's go down to the beach and I'll tell you all about Poseidon, and a dozen other Greek Gods."

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"I bet ma thinks were in here doing something else." Diablo said as she took a bite out of a piece of baklava and moaned deeply.

"Probably but that doesn't mean that we won't later," Sonji mumbled around a mouthful of the sweet desert. "In fact, I can think of a couple things I can do with this." She held a piece above her wife's chest, watched the sweet juice drip onto her breasts, leaned down and licked it off.

"To Hell with later," Diablo moaned and rolled Sonji beneath her to capture her lips and lick the honey from them. "I love you Dr. Hawthorne and I hope ma recites Homers Iliad and The Odyssey because that's how longs it's gonna be before I let you out of here."

"Throw in Socrates and it's a deal."

******

Ma sat on the beach holding Demi with all the monkeys sitting around her; she looked out to the ocean and took a deep breath. "Let's see, Homer's Iliad goes like this. Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, which brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures. For so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another. And which of the gods was it that set them on to quarrel? It was the son of Jove and Leto, for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people. Because the son of Atreus had dishonored Chryses his priest. Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover, he bore in his hand the scepter of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant's wreath and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs." She took a drink of water and a deep breath afterwards. "If I finish this long ass story today, I'm kicking both your mother's asses."

The End.
Diablo's Island
By Larisa
Hecate3366@frontiernet.net

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