A/N: I don't own Tanith or Valkyrie. Val is about 26 here, story is in her point of view. 'Sparks' is a t.A.T.u. song.

I was lying in the grass after another seemingly endless workout. Tanith had worn everyone else ragged since she'd come back, and now she was training with me, not that I minded. I enjoyed her running me to the point where I was sweating and my muscles twitched.

Now as I lay there she approached, grinning cockily. She looked like a blonde goddess as she looked down at me, the sun haloing her head, her corset tight, and her cleavage slightly higher than usual. She was covered with sweat too, and her muscles twitched. Her eyes danced with excitement, and she unexpectedly dropped down to lie flush on top of me, propping herself up on her elbows.

I grinned broadly at her, and she kissed me as she'd done after every training session. Her kisses were sweet and she always took her time with me, in no hurry to rush off to something else. Tanith could make a single kiss last an eternity, and she had a lot of fun doing it too. When she at last let me breathe I gazed up at her in absolute adoration. "Not that I've ever minded," I said playfully, "but what does this have to do with training?"

Tanith raised a brow and grinned at me wickedly. "You might get kidnapped by lesbian pirates some day, Valkyrie. I'm helping you build up endurance for when they torture you."

I laughed and she stroked my hair, looking down at me fondly. She was so very beautiful that I often wondered what she was doing with me. I was proud to be seen with her, and now that we were training, we went everywhere together. She was aggressive by nature, never one to mince words, and she'd simply told me one day when she pinned me down after training that we obviously felt an attraction and that was that. Though I think her exact words had been. "Don't make me chase you, Val. I'll still have you, but then I won't be nearly so gentle about it."

She'd been teasing of course, but that aggression in her was what attracted me to her when she had recovered from the Remnant being removed. I didn't have to ask if she loved me, she told me every chance she got.

Tanith let me up at last, walking me to the showers of the Sanctuary. She never showered with me, but the hip bump and wink she gave me let me know she'd be thinking of me and wanted me to think of her too. Not that I needed help to think of her in the shower.

We were taking things slowly, and I appreciated it. Tanith was protective and nurturing, but she was still Tanith, so she could bounce around endlessly and act like a three-year-old child at times, forgetting her role as my older and more mature lover. She'd do cartwheels and hand-springs on the beach as we walked, or even down the street right in the middle of Dublin if the mood struck her.

She'd been more serious and reserved before, but now she had a playful element I adored. We met for lunch after our showers, Tanith giving me a crooked grin before hugging and kissing me in public. She loved seeing how much she could get away with at times, and since even straight women hugged and fussed over one another she got away with a lot.

She'd taken me to a steak place, insisting on paying. "I'm good for it and I work for the Sanctuary now, Val. You shouldn't ever have to pay for anything, not when you're with me."

I smiled. "Don't tempt me, Tanith. I'll take you shopping next."

"Hmm. If we stop at Victoria's Secret I'll buy you whatever you try on for me." She purred seductively. The man behind us was apparently eavesdropping because he started to choke on his coffee. Tanith picked up her water glass and dumped the contents over the man's head.

"Oi! Cool off, she's mine!" She growled. The man's eyes bugged out and he hurriedly grabbed his check and left. I laughed, luckily the waitress found the whole thing funny as well, so we got to stay.

"Perverts like him come in here all the time trying to pick up women. Especially two women, disgusting."

Tanith cocked a brow at her. "Why disgusting?"

"Who wants a man like that when you can have a woman?" The waitress asked, and we all burst out laughing.

Tanith indeed took me shopping, teasingly calling to me from the next dressing room. Women showed off outfits to each other all the time, and luckily there were no snarky boyfriends sitting there scoping out all the other women.

We in fact had the place to ourselves. Tanith had picked out a lacy black nightgown for me that hugged my curves and pushed up my bust, all, I was well aware, for her personal enjoyment.

The curtain shook and she called to me. "Come let me see, and I'll buy what your wearing and what I'm wearing." There was a teasing note to her voice so of course I stepped out and gasped at the sight of her.

Tanith was wearing a pure white teddy with rows of ruffled white satin fabric topped with a white bow and a small faux diamond. The white teddy showed off her generous cleavage, and shapely hips. She'd put a sheer dressing gown of a filmsy white material you could see through over it, and the effect was demure yet sexy.

"You look so beautiful right now, Tanith." I breathed. "Of course, you're always beautiful." Tanith leaned in and gave me a kiss of thanks, stepping back to admire me.

"You ought to be arrested for how that nightgown fits, Detective Cain. Wait here, you need something to put over it." She went out and came back shortly with a floor length black silk robe. She helped me into it, cinching it at my waist, and turning me to face the main mirrors.

"You look beautiful, Valkyrie." She breathed in my ear, then tenderly kissed me and I smiled at her in the mirror. Tanith wrapped her arms around me and our eyes locked in the mirror. "I love you." She said softly.

Tanith moved into the mansion with me shortly after that, and not long after, when we were both sure, we married, sorcerors being much more forward-minded than civilians and having gay marriage.

In time we were able to add children that were both truly hers and mine, using the magic available to all infertile couples. Two girls, one blonde and lovely like my beloved wife, and the other favouring me, who was of course Tanith's favourite.

We're still married today, and Tanith is still as beautiful as ever, even though she fusses at time over her once blonde hair having gone a lovely silver. She's slower now, but of course, so am I, and we often spend our days on the porch soaking up the sun into our old bones.