Ayase took a deep breath as she held Shu close. She wanted this, but she knew she'd have to be patient. Shu wouldn't just take advantage of her. They'd both lost a lot, lost people, and slowly, gradually, a relationship that had started as friends had developed into 'second choice,' but now that it was all over, they had become the better part of all that each other had left. They needed each other; had been left as two sad, broken parts of a mutually supporting whole. They may not have been each other's first choice, but now they had become each other's first and only, and that was all Ayase needed.

She held Shu close as he took her, breathing deep and kissing his neck gently. Her body shook, but she didn't feel much; a rhythmic jolting through her upper body as he claimed her for his pleasure. He had spread her legs for her when she'd removed her nightgown for him, and she knew when he had entered her by his gasping as he'd lain her down onto the cool sheets of the bed. She wished that she could give him more than this – the way her cheeks had flushed and the pressure simmered in the pit of her stomach told her that she should be writhing in ecstasy for him, moaning, wrapping her long, full legs around his waist as she took his length into her, but she couldn't. She couldn't move her legs, couldn't feel anything below her waist… All she could do was hold him close, her fingers digging into his back in an effort to convince Shu that this was okay… he could satisfy himself with her – she wanted him to.

She'd always wondered what it would be like to give someone her virginity, but now that she had… Tears welled up in her eyes – not because it had hurt, but because it hadn't; she'd felt nothing, not at first, but slowly, so, so slowly, a heat rose within her body, rising faster as Shu intensified his thrusting.

"Shu…" Ayase cooed; the smoldering embers in her belly felt good, but she wanted more, if he would give it. She took his good hand from the sheets and guided it to her generous breast and sighing in gentle bliss as Shu's fingers closed around the soft and sensitive swell, "Yes…"

"Ayase…" Shu reached with his false hand to take hers, never ceasing as he continued to take her. This was their tribute to Hare, to Gai, to Inori; to show those that they had lost that that they were strong enough to carry on, if only together, and that the memory of their loss wouldn't hang a pall over the rest of their lives, "I… I love you…"

He leaned in to kiss her but it was an awkward attempt at best as he sightlessly leaned in. He felt the cool skin of Ayase's fingers caress his cheek and weave into his hair, pulling his lips to hers. The kiss was sweet, if shaky as Shu continued to make love to her, determined to reach her – to make her feel him – and he slipped his tongue passed her lips. Maybe he was blind, but that did not stop her from tasting sweet on his lips, nor the feeling of her tongue sliding over his as the locked lips from quickening his heartbeat. Shu couldn't really be sure which of them was leading; he was on top, but Ayase seemed so much more confident of what she was doing… knowing how she could please him, and he felt a pang of guilt, knowing that, each time he drove deep inside her, she couldn't be feeling anywhere near what he was.

She hadn't shuddered, her breath hadn't hitched, and there had been no grimace of pain when he'd entered her; Ayase had just held him close and told him that it was okay – that she wanted him to have this. She was tight around him and he had taken it slow at first, but through it all she had simply hugged his head to her chest and stroked his hair affectionately. Her breasts were soft against his face, and the gentle kisses he placed upon them were one of the few ways he could hope to pleasure her as she was doing for him. She let out just the slightest little moan as his lips brushed her nipple, and hearing how that had pleased her, he closed his lips about the sensitive peak. That could make her gasp –make her ask for more – and finally it wasn't all about him.

"Right there Shu…" She cooed, eyes closed as the pleasure finally reached her, "Can… you do both…?" Shu nodded, never releasing her nipple and causing his partner to let out an involuntary vocalization of pleasure as his good hand took hold of her other breast, squeezing and kneading, "A-ah! Yes…"

For his part, Shu was close. He felt at tingling sensation within himself begin to build as he thrust into her warm tightness, beginning in the end and slowly working its way down the base of his length. Instinctively he began thrusting faster, and his hips slapping up against hers became audible as he neared his climax.

"Aya-,"

But she interrupted him, wrapping her arms around him and not letting go, "In,"

"But-,"

"I want it,"

Reassured, he didn't stop. His breathing grew ragged as he intensified, and finally, with a long, shuddering groan, he let go, offering a few, final heavy thrusts as he finished inside her and felt a hot spray meet his skin in exchange. Ayase let out a satisfied sigh as the pressure and the heat inside of her drained away. All that was left between them was warm comfort as they relaxed, lying down together on the bed, not bothering to separate.

As Shu caught his breath, his eyes drifting shut, Ayase pulled his head close once more to cradle it to her chest. Shu had lost Inori and Hare, but Ayase was still there for him, able to provide what they'd never gotten the chance to, "I'm glad that I could make you happy…"

Well then, I don't know about you, but I thought it was rather a crime that poor Ayase didn't get a romantic resolution in the series proper – I mean, she's my favorite character and I think she deserved more screen time generally, but I can't change that. What I could do though was give her the romantic resolution though – hard as it was to try and write a sex scene for a character who doesn't feel anything below the waist… Hopefully it worked out though.