He pulled her in when she sat up to kiss him, his hands on her bottom, squeezing shamelessly and greedily. He laughed when she broke and quipped, nosing along her neck and her shoulder. "I will gladly do that thing with my tongue as frequently as you desire, just so long as you don't make me do it when you're sweaty." He stood with her and picked her right up off her feet, stopping only to retrieve towels before continuing on to bed.<br/><br/>The next couple of weeks went more or less the same. Carson continued to train the majority of Initiates, going through the ropes with each chapter that arrived, arranging them into squads and assigning leaders as he went. At the same time Sunny trained Malia on the side, to the same pattern that the Strider had established the first day. Running, endurance, and strength training, then a brief break, then marksmanship and combat training. At the end of the first week Sunny ambushed her with a fight and left her bruised but mobile, and promised that the tactic would become a regular sort of thing. By the end of the second week she had begun to add knives to her sneak attacks.<br/><br/>Neither woman breathed a word of this to Carson. He was too devoted to finding happiness with his lover to be concerned about her bruises, anyway. He knew what Sunny could do.<br/><br/>At the onset of week three, Carson took Malia aside during lunch. He had allowed his Initiates to have a day off each week to rest and recover, though true to his prediction a month and a half prior most of them hated Cars for how hard he pushed them. They understood why he did, what was at stake, and they respected him, but he'd gained a nickname for himself among his trainees. He pushed all of it aside as he sat down with her at the end of a table, his expression solemn.<br/><br/>"So... how's your training going? Sunny's not going<i>too</i>hard on you, is she?" He smiled a little. "You definitely look more lean. I don't think you've ever been sexier than you are right now, like. However hard she's been, god damn, babe. It's working."