Bed Time Story 
by David Schock
Even if your the world's greatest hero, your a coward when you sleep in your mother in law's house 


On the island of Themyscira in the family section of the now darkened royal
palace princess Martha was climbing into bed.  She was going hunting with
her mother and grandmother in the morning and she wanted to make sure to have
a good night's sleep. 

Right about the time their daughter was nodding off, something far different
was transpiring in a soon-to-be far more crowded bed. Martha's father knew
that he was in trouble the moment his wife donned one of those special
black nightgowns, the type he didn't need his x-ray vision to see through.

His worst fears were confirmed when, due to a lack of locks on Amazon doors,
Diana jammed a chair under the doorknob so that they wouldn't run the risk of
being disturbed - and, of much more importance to her -- interrupted.

Wife, mother, and companion, the hero known to the outside world as Wonder
Woman glided gracefully across the room and climbed in to bed next to her
husband.

The husband in question was at the moment doing his best to pretend to be
asleep. Diana knew better, or perhaps simply didn't care. After all, her plans
included more than just sleeping this night. Her husband lay on his side, with
his back to Martha's mother. But that didn't stop her from reaching over with
her left arm and, placing her hand under his pajama top, beginning to stroke
his broad chest.

She drew closer, kissed the back of her husband's neck, and whispered into his
ear, "We both know you're not really asleep, Lover!" She began licking his ear
and, placing her thigh over his, soon found herself busy playing footsie with
him under the blanket.

"Don't you have to get up early to go hunting with your mother?" he asked.

"There's plenty of time," she replied, raking his chest delicately with her
fingernails," for other things!"

When he didn't reply quickly enough, she smacked him in the back. "I thought
you liked it when I --" She paused for a moment to find the right words. "I
thought the times when I made the -- first move, it was something you
enjoyed!"

"Of couse I do, but Honey, I -- I mean we really -- shouldn't -- "

"Shouldn't? Shouldn't what?" she snarled. Growing even angrier with him, she
then quickly added, "What I shouldn't be doing is begging -- and if you think
that's what I'm about to do, then you're out of your Kryptonian mind!"

She then turned onto her side in a huff, and lay there with her back to her
husband.

"Diana?" He said her name almost in apology.

He received no answer, and even he could feel the chill coming from the
usually warm form of his loving mate. He turned over and faced her own broad
back, now turned to him.

"Honey, sweety? Please talk to me."

When he continued to receive the cold shoulder rather than an answer to his
plea, he placed a hand tenderly on her arm. She instantly shrugged it off.

"I don't want you to touch me unless you mean business!" she hissed in a tone
of voice used only during domestic combat.

"Please -- let me explain!" he begged.

"Explain what? That I repulse you? Or perhaps that I'm disgusting when I'm the
one who makes the first move to have sex?"

"No! Nothing like that," he reassured her.

"Then what is it?"

The man known to the world as Superman leaned close to the woman he loved.
"This is a palace, and it's huge. But God, Diana! It's still your mother's
house!"

She slowly turned over and looked at him. One glance at his earnest face told
her he meant every word. Lying on her back, Diana looked up at the ceiling,
rolled her eyes, and said, "Lois -- however did you put up being married
to this man for all those years?" She then added, "AND THEY CALL ME WONDER
WOMAN?"

Still lying on her back, she turned her head towards her husband and lover."
The women on this Island might be all but immortal. But they have the same
wants and needs as do women in the outside world. Many of my Sisters found
ways to meet those needs. I, on the other hand, knew at a very young age that
such ways were not for me. Even then, I knew the answer to my problems and my
needs lay in the male of the species -- even if I'd never seen such a creature
myself for the first twenty-one years of my life!"

She paused for a moment to gather her thoughts. "Do you have any idea how many
nights I lay here alone as a young girl, in this very bed? Dreaming of the day
the man I would love and who would love me back would be lying here next to
me? Fantasizing about what it would be like, making love as well as being in
love?"

She sighed. "And now -- after all those years of exile and all the trouble
between me, my mother and my Sisters -- the man whom I love won't touch me
because he has to prove he is still the world's biggest Boy Scout!"

Finished with her tirade, Diana turned back on her side in a huff, away from
her husband. She drew the bed covers over her shoulder. In turn he reached
tenderly under the covers. She reacted -- as he knew she would -- by pulling
away and telling him, "I thought I told you not to -- !"

He cut her off by pulling her closer. " -- unless I meant business. Well,
there can be no more important business for a loving husband than making sure
that a little girl's dream comes true -- and that the fantasy of the woman I
love should become mine as well -- "

Diana, Princess of Themiscyra, wife, and mother now rolled on to her back. She
smiled broadly as she reached up with her arms and pulled husband down on top
of herself.

It was early the next morning when a lone member of the Royal Guard made her
lonely way down the silent marble hallway of the Queen's Palace. She had been
sent by queen Hippoylata to see what was keeping her daughter.  The Amazon
queen was looking forward to this hunting trip with her daughter and wanted to
get an early start. 

The silence of the early morning was broken by the strange sound of giggling
coming from the childhood room of the newly-reinstated royal Princess. She was
about to knock on the door to wake up the Queen's daughter to go hunting, when
she heard the strange sound of a schoolgirlish scream, followed by an equally
strange bout of girlish laughter.

Now seriously alarmed, the Amazon guard knocked on the door. "Are you all
right, Princess Diana? It's time to get up!"

"I'm fine!" came the answer. "I'm just rubbing the sleep from my eyes." The
guard heard a cry of surprise from behind the closed door and the sound of her
Princess suddenly shouting "CUT THAT OUT!" After a moment or so, Diana told
the guard to tell the Queen that she was "getting dressed".

After she heard the sound of her Amazon Sister's retreating footsteps, Diana
spoke as she rested her head in the crook of her husband's arm. "Now -- if
that guard is totally deaf, dumb, and stupid to boot, she will have no idea
whatsoever of what's going on in here!"

Her husband reached up with his arm and, placing his hand on his wife's ample
breast, told her, "After all -- it was your fantasy!" With that said and done
he went back to gently running his tongue over her still erect nipple.

"My fantasy didn't include staying up the ENTIRE night making love," she
complained before moaning her pleasure.

"It didn't?" he asked in mock disbelief.

"Well -- perhaps," she admitted with a rather large grin. She tried to get up
out of bed, only to be pulled down once again on top of him. She struggled for
a moment, but in truth really didn't try to resist all that hard or for very
long. Instead, she relaxed on top of him, with her head resting on his bare
chest as he stroked her hair.

"Are you really going to try and tell me you'd rather run around in the cold
woods with your mother, doing your best to kill some poor animal instead of
staying in bed all day with your husband, snuggling?"

She squeezed him tight as she said, "I can't think of anything I'd rather do
then to stay in bed with you all day -- even if I know full well you have
something else on your mind beside simple snuggling!" She then added, "But if
I don't get up now, the next person who comes knocking on our bedroom door
will be my mother!"

Finished with her explanation, she suddenly brought the point of her elbow
down into his stomach. This allowed her to jump off the bed, and to float
toward the ceiling.

Her husband and her lover looked up at her. "Do you have any idea how
incredibly sexy you look when you fly around the room naked?"

She smiled down at him. "You know what they say in show business -- "

"Always give the fans what they want?" he answered, patting the empty space
next to him.

"No, my love. What they say is -- always leave them wanting more!"