Baby it's cold outside (for desertpaladin and blurugirl)

[Blurugirl]

"Brace yourself! Winter is coming!"

Suzie Bennett grimaced as she received that meme for the umpeenth time from one of her friends. Although the eighteen year old girl has never seen the show Game of Thrones (her parents were much too overprotective of their eldest child for that), she knew the cultural reference. It just wasn't funny in her present circumstances.

The Bennett family had rented a rustic but upscale cabin in a small group of cabins for winter break. The cabins were close enough together that the company that maintained them could provide the renters with services like maintenance, laundry service and even a small gourmet food and wine store. The cabins were far enough apart, however, that you could go out on your deck, and not see a neighbor.

Suzie had went up ahead of her parents and younger siblings to get the keys to the cabin. As she was in the main office, the manager was explaining to one of the cabin renters (or owners, as some people owned their cabins) that there would be a delay in getting their laundry back, as they had had a breakdown, and needed to get spare parts. In fact, the manager explained he was going to drive to the nearest town (about two hours away) as soon as he gave the keys to a new renter.

That was Suzie's cue to step up. She showed her identification to the manager, got the keys, and explained to the manager her family wouldn't need the laundry service, as her Mom was planning to use the washer and dryer in the cabin. The manager nodded, made a mark on the record of the transaction and left right behind Suzie, locking the door to the office behind her.

When Suzie got to the cabin, she looked around at and decided that it wasn't going to be so bad after all.

The next few hours drastically changed her mind, however. The meteorologists had been predicting a major snowstorm to move into the area a day and a half from now. So her parents were picking up supplies and were supposed to be there tonight. Except the weather had moved in faster than anyone had suspected. Her parents were staying in town out of fear of being caught on the road when the storm hit.

Which left Suzie in a cabin with no food, and she remembered the manager saying the generator would only last until sometime tonight. Which means she would be in a house with no heat, since her parents were also bringing the fuel for the generator, and Suzie had no idea how to build a fire in the fireplace. So soon she'd have no heat.

Suzie started crying and panicking. Her father had to talk sternly to her to get her to calm down.

Her parents first suggested she go over to the manager's office and stay there until the storm was over. She tearfully told them that the manager was leaving just when she left, and nobody would be at the manager's office. Then her Dad had an idea.

One of the cabins in the little group was owned by a writer. Suzie had never heard of him, but he was one of those fantasy geek writers her dad really, really liked. In fact, her Dad knew this writer would be staying at his cabin. It was like a ritual or something this guy did all the time. And Suzie's Dad was hoping to engineer a situation so that he could meet the guy.

Suzie wasn't sure about her Dad's suggestion. She had lived a fairly sheltered life, and the prospect of just showing up on some stranger's doorstep asking to stay a couple of days seemed nuts. But her father assured her that everything he read about this guy, and what he had seen of this guy on podcasts and such made him think this guy was a real good guy.

Suzie was dubious, but the choices were either seek help from a stranger, or be cold, hungry and thirsty for two days. So Suzie acquiesced to her father's suggestion. She put on her warmest coat, a turtle neck sweater, warm jeans and thermal underwear pants over her panties, and hiking boots. She then packed a daypack with her toothbrush and personal stuff, and a change of underwear before she began the mile long trek to the writer's cabin.

It had already begun snowing when she started out, and began getting thicker as she walked forward. How she managed not to get lost was a minor miracle. She did end up slipping in a ditch of water, though, soaking her boots and her pants all the way to her thighs. So by the time she got to the writer's cabin, she was a cold, wet, shivering miserable mess.

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[desertpaladin]

Lawrence Stewart let out a long sigh as he looked out at the hard winter storm. "A bit of a heavy storm so early in the year" he commented to himself. It was honestly one of the oddest things he had noticed since getting the cabin to get away and get in some writing, he really had not realized how much he talked to himself when he was alone when nothing else could take his mind off of things. Moving a hand up he mumbled a bit to himself, his jawline was getting a bit hairy again, sure they were still light prickles but he knew he would need to shave soon before it became an itchy mess.

Moving away from the window he decided to do a quick check on his supplies, he had made sure to stock up, after all it really made no sense to get a secluded cabin in the woods if you spent most of your time driving back and forth to the nearest town. Opening the fridge he had plenty of meat both in the fridge and some that was frozen, and a few things of veggies in the freezer among other fun things in the fridge like OJ, eggs, and other bits of food. His pantry was well stocked, about 2+ weeks of food if he didn't head down to town though most of it was going to be canned food or jerky and the like which really wasn't the best thing to be eating he knew. The only problem was his laundry had been taken down to the manager's office and he had only found out the machine broke after his clothes were found in the broken machine. The manager had been apologetic and had offered to comp the service for the inconvenience since his cabin didn't have their own laundry machines and he had been fine with waiting, hardly the first time he was a bit low on clothes since that sorta thing just tended to slip his mind.

As he began to move back to his desk to continue writing he heard clumsy footsteps making their way up the wooden steps to his front door. "The hell?" he wondered who the hell could be out in this weather? Sure he knew of hyper fans but he was just an author not some big name actor and he really didn't feel like he was handsome enough to have such devoted fangirls. A hand rose up, brushing back some of his short brown hair into place before adjusting his glasses as his hazel eyes made out a bit of the shiloette of... a girl, through the window on his front door. He heard the knocking and he hurried up, his feet were wearing only socks but his tall 6'4" and somewhat stocky frame made plenty of noise even over the howl of the wind outside. "I'm coming!" He called, his voice booming like thunder as he made his way to the front door before opening it and seeing the shivering girl standing there. He blinked a bit, a bit shocked however while he was dressed a bit warmly with a long sleeved shirt and jeans even in his own home which was being warmed by the fireplace the chill of the wind and the feel of the sharp stinging of snow against his face made him figure questions should be second.

"Here, get inside" he said quickly, a large hand moving around her back and ushering her in before using his mass to close the door against the strong wind as he finally closed and locked it before letting out a long sigh. "Well now..." he looked to her, "Who are... woah! Okay um, you need to get out of those wet clothes now" he told her simply as he moved past her, long strides moving toward the couch in front of the fireplace as he grabbed one of the throw blankets there, happy he had them now as he looked to the girl and he said, "You can head to the bathroom but right now those clothes will likely just make you sick if you stay in them, so go strip out of them and you can use this to cover yourself." he said as he looked up and down the girl. "Well, luckily it seems to have only gotten the lower half, and don't worry we can dry them off so you can redress..."

However after he said that he shook his head, "Though, once we get you at least out of the cold wet clothes and get you covered up and warmed up a bit you can maybe tell me your name and what the hell you are doing out in the storm wet and trying to freeze to death?"

 

[Blurugirl]

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Suzie dumbly nodded, quickly stripping off her coat, boots, socks and jeans, leaving her in only her sweater and underwear. She paused for a second, trying to stretch the hem of her (still relatively) dry sweater to try to cover herself as much as she could, before her brain said "Why aren't you wrapping yourself with that blanket?" Which she promptly did, making sure her bare legs were still covered.

"Th-th-thank you," she managed to stutter, as she warmed herself in front of the fire.

 

[desertpaladin]

Lawrence had turned away as she had started stripping, trying to give her some privacy as she stripped down, turning back after a moment to see her standing there awkwardly as he gave a small blush before turning back and letting her get the blanket around her. When she spoke he nodded. Taking her soaking wet clothes he moved to lay them out near enough to the fireplace that they should dry off. He let out a small sigh as he moved to grab a chair and scoot it closer to the fire as he sat down and looked at her. "Feeling better?" he asked, the girl had not answered his question from before but right now he wanted to make sure she would be at least doing a bit better before he asked "Look, I understand some people like the cold but could you please tell me why the hell you were out in that storm?"

 

[Blurugirl]

It had taken Suzie a few minutes to warm up enough that her teeth had stopped chattering. She also felt a little more...no, make tha a lot more comfortable with the blanket fashioned so that it served as a makeshift long skirt. Granted, it wasn't the best fashion statement to go with her sweater, but at least she felt her modesty was again being protected.

"S-sorry," she began. "Just c-couldn't talk without chattering." Suzie took a deep breath and tried to focus to the warmth returning to her body.

"My family is in the Goshawk Cabin," she began, referring to the designation of the rental cabin about a mile away from Lawrence's own. "Well, I'm in the cabin. My parents were supposed to be right behind me with all the supplies, except I guess this blizzard caught everyone by surprise. So, I, um....}

Suzie stopped, not sure how to proceed. "I didn't know what to do, and the main office was going to be closed, because they were going in to town to get parts, and they might get stuck in town too, ,and I guess you write books or something?" Suzie paused, giving Lawrence an inquiring look. "Anyway, Dad is a big fan of yours, and I was going to be stuck in a freezing cabin, and he said you'd be able to help me out." The look Suzie gave Lawrence was both unsure and pleading.

 

[desertpaladin]

Stewart let out a long sigh, "Well..." he said leaning back in his chair. "It isn't like I was going to throw you out, even if you were some crazy stalker since I'm not going to be able to live with myself if I did something like that." he thought a moment, staying silent as he clearly was lost in thought for a moment. "We should have enough food and fresh water here as well as some other things for the both of us for so long as this lasts, as well as plenty of firewood. The pipes might freeze up so we might not get warm showers the entire time so... that might be the main problem" he said looking to her as he said. "The only other thing is there is only one bed here, there is the couch and I think I have a few other blankets so we should be good however..." he slowly stood, making his way over to the kitchen as he pulled out a small kettle, filling it up with water from the sink as he walked over to the fireplace, the kettle having a small perch within the fireplace as he smiled. "How about we have something warm to drink, I only really have the stuff to make tea or hot cocoa right now." he said as he gave her a small smile.

For now the two would just need to... well break the ice a bit. Hopefully make this a bit less awkward, "I am impressed you made it out here, I was looking out at the storm earlier and it's practically a white out."

 

[Blurugirl]

Suzie nodded emphatically at the thought of something warm to drink. "Hot cocoa would be great, thank you very much."

As her host made the drinks, Suzie added, "You won't have to worry about the pipes freezing. They've been weatherproofed. My Dad's company was the plumbing subcontractor when all these cabins got built up here. That's part of the reason my family was coming up here. I mean, we're here on vacation, and I guess my Dad knows the books you write, so I think he was hoping to meet you. But the company that maintains and rents everything up here was going to invest in ground source heat pumps for the rentals, and offer to pay part of the costs for people like you who own their cabins. I don't understand any of the accounting reasons or stuff, but I'm kind of a science and engineering geek, so the rest I understand. I got to a STEM magnet school, "she added with a blush.

"And I don't know how I got here either," she added. "I was really scared when I stepped into a ditch a sank, well, you know how far I sank," Suzie added, nodding to her drying jeans. "But I guess it wasn't that bad on the walk over here as it is now, and I managed to walk in a straight line, more or less."

 

[desertpaladin]

Lawrence clearly was a bit impressed she knew about all of it, looking at her a bit shocked actually. It wasn't like he doubted what she said but more it was not exactly what he had expected to hear and that was actually a good thing considering it meant they would have guaranteed water and such. He gave a small smile as he said, "No worries about being a geek, you are literally with a guy who writes books about far off fantastical worlds for a living so it isn't like I am going to go around yelling nerd and giving weggies" He gave her a small smile as he then listened to how she got here and nodded. "Yeah but even something like that can be difficult. It is quite easy to step just a little bit off a beaten path especially if vision is a problem" he said "so if nothing else you can consider yourself lucky, maybe sinking into the snow had helped reorient you and you will never really know" he said with a shrug, "Or it was just all bad luck and more a miracle you got here before hopefully you caught anything bad from the cold" he said as he shifted in his seat.

As the water began to make the kettle whistle he smiled, pulling it off the heat and setting it down on a nearby tray before he got up, grabbing some hot cocoa mix before getting a couple of cups for them as well and a spoon each. Handing her the cup he smiled pouring in some water for her making the cup warm up nicely and act as a perfect little heater for her hands before pouring his own drink as he sat back with a small sigh as he mixed in the packet of cocoa powder. "After we both enjoy our drinks I'll get the sheets to make up the sofa, considering you still look a bit cold you can have my bed tonight since it should be a bit warmer and I'll take the couch"

 

[Blurugirl]

Suzie gave Lawrence a grateful smile as he handed her a cup. "I don't want to kick you out of your bed. I can stay on the safe."

The blue eyed teen took a sip from her cup, and it looked as if the weight of the world had been lifted from her shoulders. "I want to think you again for taking me in." Suzie giggled self-consciously as she added, "I don't even know your name. I just know you as that guy who writes stuff my Dad likes to read. Anyway, I'm Susanna Bennett. But everybody calls me Suzie."

 

[desertpaladin]

He however gave her a small smile and a slight shake of his head, "It is fine, right now I want to make sure you don't get sick because of the cold" he told her before she began to speak again and he nodded before laughing a bit. "It's Lawrence Stewart, though you can call me whatever you like, Lawrence, Lance, Law, just not Larry" he gave a visible shudder, "Really does not bring up good memories. Not even sure why Larry was one of the shortened versions of Lawrence" he shook his head a bit before looking back to her as he was about to finish his cocoa. He stood and headed over into another room before coming out with a few pillows and blankets as he gave her a small smile and nod, "Well, it is a bit late. Before you began your journey did you eat at all or would you like something to eat before heading to bed?" he asked as he set the supplies he had down on a nearby chair before pulling out one of the sheets he had and beginning to cover the couch cushions with it.

 

[Blurugirl]

"I grabbed some fast food before I drove the final stretch up here," Suzie answered. She gave a wide yawn and smiled bashfully. "I guess now that I'm warming up, the long day is catching up with me. Thank you again for giving me a place to sleep," she added, gesturing toward the sofa that Lawrence was making up.

 

[desertpaladin]

Lawrence nodded with a small smile, "No problem, I hope you are feeling a bit better now and your clothes should be dry by morning." he told her as he laid out a few sheets and blankets as well as giving her plenty of pillows to use. As he finished he stepped back and looked toward her gesturing toward the bed, "Let me know if you need anything else, otherwise sleep well" he told her before he made his way over toward the fireplace, stopping only to take their cups and the kettle and putting them back in the kitchen before he yawned and began to head to bed, stretching a bit as he soon disappeared into his bedroom.

 

[Blurugirl]

It was an incredibly weird situation, Suzie thought to herself, as she waited for Lawrence to leave the room. She was walking around with literally nothing but the clothes on her back (half the clothes, she reminded herself, as she looked at her boots, jeans, socks and lower thermal underwear drying by the fire) in a cabin owned by somebody whom her father was a fanboy of.

But Lawrence seemed a nice enough guy. He kind of reminded Suzie of some of her father's friends. The nicer ones, at any rate. The ones who exchanged a few words with her when she went through a room, but didn't try to pry into what was going on in her private life the instant they saw her. That was kind of creepy when adults did that, Suzie thought.

With just the light of the fireplace, Suzie stretched out on the sofa. But she couldn't quite get comfortable. Reluctantly, she stripped off her thermal top and bra (Suzie, who was about a foot shorter than Lawrence, wore a 36DD bra), leaving her only in her sweater and panties. She put them Finally, she found herself dozing off and going into a deep sleep.

The next morning, Suzie was still fast asleep when the sun came up. Outside, the blizzard had tapered off, though the snow was falling and it was still way below freezing. Inside, though, the cabin was still warm and toasty, thanks to the fire and its circulated heat, as well as the solid construction of the cabin itself, which was retaining heat very, very nicely indeed. During the night, Suzie had pushed the blankets down, so they only covered her legs from the thighs down. Suzie had rolled onto her size, facing the back of the sofa, and her sweater had ridden up, exposing a very nice, very firm panty clad backside. The panties themselves weren't the skimpy sort, but neither did they leave anything to the imagination.

Suzie was still out of it, unaware that she was exposing herself, as she made a sleeping sound that was somewhere between deep, heavy breathing and a very, very, very light snore.

 

[desertpaladin]

Lawrence felt a bit odd letting her sleep on the couch. Sure he kinda felt like he had to be nice since he wasn't a monster and wasn't about to throw her back out to the cold but... he shook his head. Her story was believable but he had psycho fans before which was probably why even though he mostly trusted her to be telling the truth he still was glad his early drafts were locked up in his desk drawer now. And unless she had managed to hide a really damn tiny set of lockpicking tools she wasn't likely to get into it. Sure he knew that sounded weird but it had almost happened before where his early copies were almost stolen.

As the morning came the only difference he felt was instead of a wall of black and white from the intense storm was a land of pure white. Grumbling he sat up slowly and rubbed his eyes. God everything felt so stiff, not sure if it was because of the cold or he was starting to get that old as he stood and stretched, hearing a few pops he let out a long sigh, plopping back to sit down on the bed a moment before he stood and headed out of his bedroom rubbing his eyes a bit more before putting on his glasses.

As he looked to the couch well... part of him had expected to wake up and not see her, another part had expected to find her awake, another part expected her to be asleep and bundled up... to wake up and see her mostly exposed backside and her plump rear well... it wasn't like he was going to complain because Suzie was a very attractive young woman but if she knew he was looking he was sure she would view him as a creep. And it wasn't like he could get closer to cover her, what if she woke up the moment he actually got close enough and thought he was trying to perv on her? It was a lose/lost situation if he tried so he decided he would walk past her, pretend to have not noticed anything as he made his way into the kitchen.

There were some noises as he got out a couple of pans, trying to be mostly quiet but there was only so much you could do after all. If he heard her waking up he would make her food as well, figuring she would definitely be hungry now.

 

[Blurugirl]

Suzie woke up with a start, disoriented. As she looked around in the morning light, she starting panicking, not really sure where she was. Then the memories of where she was began flooding in on her and she began relaxing. Last night could have been a disaster of epic proportions. Instead she found herself taken in and given shelter, warmth and...

A rumbling in her stomach suddenly made her wonder if food was going to be part of the rescue package that Lawrence was going to offer. Not realizing that she had exposed herself earlier, Suzie got up and wrapped the blanket she had been using as a skirt last night around waist and legs and moved to the kitchen, which was (according to her stomach), was emanating some very, very enticing aromas.

"Uh, morning," she said meekly, sticking her head into the kitchen, looking hopefully at the food Lawrence was preparing.