Willow and Angel followed, a bit nervous. Xander and Cordelia choose the right opening and began to do what Angel had instructed them to do.
Angel looked at Willow and flashed her a quick smile.
“Did you want to be on top or on the bottom?” he asked.
“Which ever you feel more comfortable in,” Willow replied, trying not to blush.
“Then I’ll be on top,” he replied his voice a bit strained.
Willow nodded in agreement and was the first to enter the left passage. She crawled as far as she was permitted then laid down, her cheeks turning bright red. She waited and held her breath he as entered.
Angel tried as hard as possible not to press himself against her too much as he moved over her body, pressing his back against the cold wall above him. He tried to give her a comforting smile, as he fought back images that popped in his head.
“You okay?” he asked as he managed to place his hands successfully behind her back.
“Fine... you?” she asked, her cheeks turning redder.
“Fine.”
“Good.”
“Now... what we have to do is press on all the stones to open the wall ahead of us,” he instructed her.
“Okay... well then.... we should start.”
Willow moved her arms to his head where her palms touched down on the stones on either side of his head. She pressed her body hard against the floor pushing down on all the levers. Angel did the same, his hands finding one just above her head as well as one above her right shoulder. His knees straddled her hips, his knees covering two stones. Willow shifted her butt a bit to the side, pressing on the last stone. To their relief, the wall opened revealing a similar passage ahead.
Angel moved his palm, thankful to see the path still open. He nodded for Willow to begin to wiggle upward as he crawled with her. The next puzzle was a bit harder for the twosome, seeing they would need to be inventive.
“I can’t press the one between my knees.”
“Spread your legs,” he instructed her, as he moved his knees in between them.
Willow couldn’t help but blush as the small confines began to make her feel hot.
“Pull up your knees,” he further explained.
She did as he asked, setting her feet over two stones. Angel tried to ignore the sensations the situation created, and couldn’t help but smile as he looked down and saw the affect on her. Willow’s breath quickened as she held both hands above his head. Angel’s hands moved to cover two stones on either side of her waist as he strained his neck to press on the final stone.
The second wall opened to reveal a third. To both their surprise, the tunnel became smaller. Willow tried to wiggle forward, put was not able to fit her shoulders in it’s width. After a moment of thought, she changed her positions side way, or tried as she kicked Angel in the ribs.
“Sorry.”
They both turned to their sides, trying not to notice which body part touched each. Willow placed one leg between his, her knee needing to press down a stone too close to comfort by his groin. His hands pressed down, brushing against her breasts.
Much to there relief the wall opened to reveal a similar passage to the same as the last, but much smaller. Angel decided to take the floor and was the first to enter, shifting his body on his back. Willow couldn’t help but turn redder.... and hotter as she saw Angel lying on the floor ahead of her. She moved above him, her body now pressing slightly against him.
But the wall did not open. The large stone underneath Angel was not completely pushed down. That would only be resolved in one way.
“Willow...I need you....to.. put all your weight on me.... The stone hasn’t completely gone down.... it needs more weight.”
She did as asked and fell completely on him. Once the door opened, the walls behind them closed.
“I’m going... out... now,” Willow told him as she began to slide over him. She held her breath and prayed her didn’t smell just how nervous she was.
Angel did smell her nervousness, put more importantly he smelled something that stirred him. He clenched his hands into fights and retrained them to the floor as her body slid on top of him.
Once the couple was safety out, they couldn’t help but stare at each, wishing to find words to say. But before they could, someone else did.
“Took you guys long enough,” Xander told them as he walked up to them.
“How long have you been here?” Angel asked once he gained his vocal abilities.
“Hours...”
Cordelia appeared as she punched him in the arm.
“About two minutes.”
“It looks just like the other side,” Willow commented.
“Minus the 40 vamps - hopefully,” Cordelia added.
“We should get going,” Angel told them as he followed a trail into a forest.
Xander followed, leaving the two women trailing behind them.
“Must have been interesting being in that wall with Angel,” Cordelia commented to her friend.
Willow could only blush her response, not sure what to say.
“That’s what I thought,” she remarked with a smile.
But before the cheerleader would begin her interrogation Xander’s voice interrupted her.
“Why does this look too easy?” he commented.
“Because nothing here is,” Angel replied as he looked ahead of them and saw a stone wall with a red door right ahead of them, a few yards away.
The group looked around them, the dense forest offering them no clue of any danger ahead.
Willow immediately began to prepare herself for a protection spell as the four moved together down the path to the door.
“I really don’t have a good feeling about this....” Cordelia began to say, but again was interrupted.
“I wish you hadn’t said that,” Xander told her as the group stopped dead in their tracks.
Four large red serpents parted the tress ahead of them and hissed making sure they knew what exactly would prevent them from opening the door.
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