Dorothy had to admit she was kind of in love with Ruby's sudden need to cuddle. After long days of helping to decide the fate of millions, it was nice to come home fall onto the couch or bed or really just to sit down anywhere in the cottage and become instantly engulfed by an infectiously happy Ruby 'Red' Lucas.
Now if only her clothes- her shirts and travel cloaks in particular- would stop going missing everything would be on its way to being perfect. While Dorothy was more than willing to wear what she'd come to see as a more 'modern' shirt from Ruby's wardrobe she was starting to become annoyed at the need to replace her own stock of shirts just for those too go missing as well some of them after she'd only worn it a single time.
It wasn't until she'd seen her not so sneaky wolf dragging the cushions from the only comfortable chair left intact in their living room up the steps when she'd thought Dorothy was taking a nap on the equally stripped but still far more comfortable sofa that she had an idea about where the rest of the 'missing' collection had gotten off to.
"All I asked was have you seen my shirt Red. I'm running late." Dorothy repeats angrier than she felt and unintentional carry over from her low simmering rage at being unable to get out of going to the latest in a steady line of coven meetings that night so she could spend more time with her girlfriend.
Not that Glinda had been so inclined to give her an out given the topic up for debate that night. Not that Dorothy remembered what it was anyway as she noticed the broken expression Ruby was sporting now after the harsh scold as she returned to the kitchen with the very shirt Dorothy had been looking for in her hand.
Once she was dressed Dorothy had tried to say she was sorry for snapping at her but Ruby hadn't seemed to hear her as she disappeared into a little used second bedroom down the hall from their room locking the door firmly behind her when Dorothy had tried to follow her.
That had been three days ago, and Ruby had yet to say anything to her let alone come out of her new room to allow them to talk.
True Dorothy could use magic to open the door or maybe tap into mirror magic just to check on if Ruby is still even in the house anymore given how upset she was the last she'd seen her but, in the end, Dorothy had decided against both options.
Ruby would let her back in when she wanted Dorothy wouldn't force her.
Knocking lightly on the door as best she could Dorothy set the large serving tray she was carrying down but unlike the two previous nights she opts to stay out in the hallway tonight because dammit she was more than sick of this stalemate. She missed her wolf and the pain her absence caused was like a physical wound that had been plaguing the no longer world hardened warrior these last few days.
"I missed you even more today." Dorothy confesses running a hand in her unkempt hair as she slides down to the floor across from the still closed door to Ruby's 'safe room'. "and even with going to them back to back these last few nights I keep forgetting how much I hate when the big stuff is up for decision at council. No one seems to want to do anything but argue and its really getting on my nerves." Dorothy admits as she rolls her head back against the wall behind her. "I also made you an afternoon snack if you're hungry and I even stopped at the market to pick up another two of those blankets you seem to like."
Along with her clothes, it also seemed as if every extra blanket, pillow and bed sheet set in the house was also missing. Strangely however their bed was always remade with fresh sheets every night the past three night when Dorothy had gotten home a fact she just now seemed to remember after a glance into the main bedroom behind her.
"Come on I really liked the red ones." Dorothy whines seeing that now she'd be sleeping on softer navy colored sheets as she climbs back to her feet quietly accepting the fact she'd have to spend another night alone she heads into their bedroom to start getting ready for bed before going to make herself something that could count as dinner.
She'd finished stripping off her boots tossed her belt onto a nearby chair and had reached for the edge of her shirt when she heard the sounds of the door ease open, but she didn't dare turn to check just stayed frozen in place waiting.
Had she not spent a good chunk of her teenaged and adult life in the woods dodging flying primates trying to kill her she'd have missed the sound of Ruby's approach.
Great Oz has Ruby's body always been this warm? Wait, was her wolf even wearing clothes?
Again, Dorothy didn't trust herself to move she stayed statue like trying a failing to keep her breathing and heart rate in check the longer Red's fingers move over her skin as she tugs at the laces of Dorothy's pants with her other hand.
"Trust me I noticed."
Dorothy swears she tastes copper against her tongue biting back her moan at the velvety animalistic danger of her girlfriend's voice as her pants are shoved down her legs that Dorothy helpfully finishes in kicking off. Because no. No, her teasing wolf was not wearing a stitch of clothes while Dorothy still had her shirt and dampening underwear still left to be discarded.
"Do you have any idea how wet you made me listening to you touch yourself?"
If she wasn't distracted with her human wolf's roaming fingers up and down her heard toned abdomen vaguely remembering Ruby referring to her abs as 'Hershey worthy' in a not so long ago heavy kissing session Dorothy would have blushed at having been caught as it was, the question only made her whole body flush, even more, leaning back into the wolf's strong seductively warm body to steady herself. "If you were listening then why didn't you come help?"
"I was too scared I'd hurt you." The confession was just audible given Red lips were currently right beside Dorothy's ear.
More from annoyance than anger Dorothy lets out a long breath through her nose letting her hand reached back fisting in Red's dark-colored locks as her other arms wrapped around the human wolf's waist bringing her impossibly closer in their already joined state. "How many times do I have to explain this to you Wolfie?" she wonders aloud resting her head back against Ruby's shoulder so she could meet her wolf's amber colored eyes as she spoke. "I trust you just as much as I am in love with you. And I love you a heck of a lot."
Although now living together and very much in love the couple had yet to share a bed for anything other than actual sleep and more than a few heavy kissing sessions.
It wasn't that Dorothy was unfamiliar with the art of sexual intercourse after all she was a national hero in Oz so naturally, she'd had her share of suitors. Although not as many as Ruby's cursed self had been with but enough to know what she liked and didn't like when it came to the bedroom. It was that the couple wanted to get to know one another on a much deeper level than just relying on a physical craving for one another and the knowledge that they shared true love to keep them together.
"Come with me." Curious and unwilling to let her girlfriend out of her sight again for a while Dorothy follows keeping a strong grip on Ruby's hand as they crossed the hall to the door she'd come to hate in the last three days.
"Surprise." Red said her tone now shyer and more childlike as she pulls her mate into the smallest of the cottage's three bedrooms making sure to reclose the door behind them. Unlike the one she'd made back in Storybrooke this nest was by far her best creating yet the place she'd come to think of as her own fortress of solitude: Kansas edition. Now though it wasn't just hers.
"Beautiful." Was all Dorothy could think of to say as she takes in the seemingly deliberately arranged room.
Thanks to the darkening sky outside the half-open window the room was light by several rows of different colored string lights hanging from the ceiling while the small fireplace on the other side of the room went unused. Dorothy could also see that every available part of the full sized bed that wasn't already taken up with the cushions from the downstairs sofa and chairs arranged at the head of the bed was covered with at least four layers of sheets and blankets while all of her stolen shirts and the red sheets from their bed made up the center of the cozy looking safe haven.
"I trust you too Kansas." The purr of a remark was followed by a less than gentle bite against her shoulder that had Dorothy pivoting around to shove her teasing wolf back into the carefully arranged nest with a low growl of her own. 'You think I'm the wolf right now.' Dorothy finds herself thinking following Ruby onto the bed before the fear she sees beginning to cloud the lust in her wolf's amber green eyes could grow. "Then prove it." She answers placing a not so innocent kiss against her she wolf's lips. Merciful Oz none of her past encounters could ever being to dream about making the warrior woman feel as wanted as she was in the presence of her true love.
"I'm going into heat." Ruby manages to say between the clashes of lips teeth and tongues that had become their kisses while the pair shimmies up the bed with Dorothy still topside using her full weight to keep her more than willing girlfriend under her.
"I've been wondering about that." Their hands fist together beside Ruby's head letting the tension that had been steadily building the last three days stack up just a little higher as they watched the other's eyes slowly blow black. "How long?"
It takes the wolf a second to answer more focused on burning the fresh scent of her aroused mate into her scent memory as Dorothy rolls off of her taking Red's place at the center of her nest while her wolf squirms around before finally settling once she'd draped herself over her girlfriend's front rolling Dorothy's shirt up enough to watch a sweat bead roll down the well-defined muscles of her human mate's abs to really hear the question.
"How long Wolfie?" Dorothy asks again earning a whimpering groan from Red when she rolled her still clothed yet dripping wet center against Ruby's thanks to their tangled limbs. "now I've found you. A week. Normally it would be three." The answer comes in a fast panting whine just as Red's grip tightens around Dorothy's hand resting beside her head when she's rewarded with another rock of wet hips against her own.
Dorothy's head tillite to one side was enough of a question for Ruby to elaborate more but like before it takes her a while to remember what she's answering. "Even when your human I still see you as my mate so by finding and falling for you I get a break from the longer fire rollercoaster that was my heat because you're here to help instead of me taking care of myself."
"And when does this heat coaster start?"
At this Ruby looks away her body flushed and a purring hum building low in her throat when the shirt her mate was wearing joined the others she'd collected while Dorothy's mouth goes to work marking her now exposed neck with calming kisses that soon moves in a wet path down to her chest. "Two days ago."
The aroused wolf lets loose a loud needy whine when her girlfriend's tenderly applied attention abruptly stopped at her answer leaving her breasts wet as Dorothy's mouth released her left in a soft wet pop as she pulled away to meet Red's now pleading gaze.
"Two days ago." She might still be learning a lot about her werewolf true love but at the very least Dorothy had spent some of her childhood being raised on a farm, so the concept of animal mating wasn't something she was unfamiliar with.
Ruby nodes looking anywhere but into her mate's lust darkened eyes. If she did, she'd spoil her carefully arranged plan and her self-control was already hanging in fraying tatters as it was. God, she thought scenting her mate's arousal from a room away was mouthwatering. How wrong she was.
"Well, you didn't want me."
Her inner wolf howled in triumph as soon as Dorothy twisted them around having somehow slide out of her last bit of clothes without Red's notice not that the she-wolf could linger too much on that point when Dorothy dropped her full weight down on Red's lower belly working herself up so there was already a generous coating of her arousal left behind while she spreads Ruby's legs open wider making sure her strategically slid knee kept just enough pressure against the roaring fire that was Red's core to make the wolf whine louder every rocking move. "Remember that time you promised you'd always come for me?"
Red nodes grinding down against her mate's toned thigh. God she was going to enjoy marking every bit of new territory that was her mate's body when she was finished taunting her girl. And by the feel of the slick sliding down her stomach, Dorothy was having just as much fun chasing after her.
"I'm going to enjoy making you regret making said promise."
Red kept her jaw clenched so Dorothy couldn't catch her wolfish delight at having her mate play right into her hands.
Now the fun begins.
