p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"In the waning light of the fire, Tina's skin glows opal. She's damp with their combined sweat, but also smirking and very nearly purring in his arms, so Newt guesses she doesn't mind the mess they've made of her./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"She raises herself to her elbows, gently mapping the scars on his chest and neck. His flesh humps into goosebumps beneath her wandering hand, as it tends to do, and she shares the smile she reserves exclusively for him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""What are you thinking about?" she asks, and he lifts his head to smile at her with his eyes./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""You. I'm always thinking of you, Tina. Especially after—well. emAfter/em."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"She ducks her head to hide the color in her cheeks, smile faltering, and he places a hand under her chin to raise it. He meets her eyes, as he always does when he's being earnest. "Don't hide from me, Tina. Please. We just made love, haven't we?" He offers a tentative smile, the toothy one he saves just for emher/em, and she is powerless but to respond in kind./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Yes, we did. I'm sorry, I—sometimes it's hard, you know? The way you look at me, the way you talk about me...it's like being in a dream, and I'm always afraid I'm going to wake up and you'll be gone." She shrugs, a little awkwardly, and her mouth trembles. "I don't mean to be insecure, I just don't want to wake up. Ever."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Newt levels himself next to her before taking her hand and gently placing it over his heart. He knows she can feel his heartbeat, as steady and reliable as his affections for her. The symbolism of the gesture isn't lost on him—or on Tina if the sudden sheen of tears darkening her eyes is any indication./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Tina, I'm not very good with words or dealing with humans. But with you, I feel better about that fact, because, with emyou/em, I don't have to try. Loving you is as natural as breathing to me. You say you feel like you're in a dream, and you're afraid of waking up; I say, without you, I have no embreath/em, and I'm afraid of dying. I assure you, Tina: emI'm not going anywhere/em. I'm here, for as long as you'll have me—you'll never have to wake up from this dream."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Tina's eyes overflow, but her face is radiant when she leans in to claim him. He samples her tears and kisses them away, tiny, fleeting pecks over her cheeks and jaw and neck. Tina pulls him closer as he peppers her face, hands smoothing over his shoulders and back before moving down to the plane of his stomach./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Her face is dry when he leans in to nip her earlobe, and she hisses when he soothes it with a tender kiss. He repeats the gesture to hear her make that sound again, before nibbling down the column of her throat and swirling his tongue in her suprasternal notch./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Tina butts her face into his shoulder as he works over her, throat producing pleased sounds. She vibrates in his hands and digs blunt nails into his sides, before clever fingers trail down to grasp him where he rests against his thigh, half-hard and sticky with their combined fluids. He is still sensitive from their earlier activities, and her expert kneading quickly has him heavy and hard in her hands./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Twenty minutes?" she quips, and her voice is so dryly amused that it forces a bark of laughter out of him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""What can I say? You have that effect on me."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"She strokes him from the base to the tip, swirling her thumb over the vein on the back of the head before twisting back down. He takes a moment or two to just emenjoy/em the feeling of her hand around him, handling him with confidence born of long experience. Then he sits up and brings her with him, never allowing her to break contact until they're facing each other and he can better taste her skin./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"He knows the crook of her neck is her most sensitive spot so he starts there, laving it with his tongue before sucking hard enough to leave a love-bite. She moans, a low and earthy sound, as her hands remain gloriously sure on him. He angles his cheek to intentionally scrape her with his stubble—another breathless sound, and a red-hot burst of emlust/em flashes through him—while he swirls his tongue over her collarbone and across the expanse of her chest./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Her pink nipples are perky and hard when he makes his way to them, and taking one firmly in his mouth emfinally/em causes Tina's hand to falter. She squeezes as her hips jerk against him involuntarily. They groan in unison at the contact. When he switches to the other side, she yanks him against her and grinds them together./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Newt releases her nipple with a popping sound to gasp into her skin while her trembling arms hold him firmly. Suddenly and irrevocably inflamed, he gropes past where they meet to slot his hand between her legs. He parts her to find her molten to the touch, and still slick from their earlier activities. Groaning, he slides two fingers into her heat and rotates his wrist so he can roll her clit under his thumb./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Tina's head falls back and Newt licks the column of her throat, tasting the animal sounds forming there. He uses his fingers and his mouth to drive her wild, watching and listening and tasting as she reacts. He nips, bites, and suckles, drawing her in, and is rewarded with her sighs and gasps and pleads. He watches her cues and reacts appropriately, awed by her ardor and willing to do whatever it takes to please her./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"She clamps around his fingers without warning, and suddenly her hands are on his shoulders, pushing him away. "Not like this," she gasps, her hair a stormcloud around her head, her eyes impossibly dark. "I want to come with you in me, Newt."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"He fervently agrees, so he allows her to grapple his shoulders and pull them backward. They land hard enough to force the breath out of him, and she doesn't allow him to regain it before catching him in a searing kiss. Tina's movements are near-frantic as she rearranges her legs and spreads herself wide, and her hand fumbles where she grips him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Newt makes a shushing sound against her hair before stroking a soothing hand over her stomach. Her nails cut into him but she catches the hint: she struggles through a few deep breaths and calms slightly, still unbelievably desperate beneath him but no longer mindless with it. He slants his mouth behind her ear and breathes "I do love you, Tina", and she calms further. He repeats it until her trembling ceases and the aura of recklessness has left her. Emboldened by her pliancy, he guides himself and sinks to the hilt in one smooth stroke./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Tina clings to his shoulders and wraps strong legs around his waist, panting with need. Newt's face finds a home in the warm hollow of her neck, forearms laying flat to support his weight as his hands grip her shoulders. She arches her back as he retreats and sinks back in, pebble-hard nipples biting into the mottled skin of his chest. She sobs his name the second time he rolls his hips against her, and the third snap sends her into wordless paroxysms of delight./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Newt dips his head to drink in her heated kiss, before releasing her to gasp her name across her skin in shaky halos. They move together like the tide, Tina absorbing the shock at the apex of his thrusts and reciprocating it to rock them together. They breathe and gasp as one; sometimes she cries out her pleasure or breathlessly keens his name, punctuation lost to hedonism. She swallows his moans when the urge takes her and encourages his adorations when Newt discovers her name tastes like manna and says it, over and over, until they're both trembling and on the cusp./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The first outlying spark of impending release explodes across his nerves, just as he feels her tighten around him. Tina draws close and tenses, catching and holding his gaze as her climax bursts forth. Newt husks her name in awe as her eyes widen and she gasps her release, chest flushing red, trembling and hot around him. He holds himself steady as he nudges her along the initial crest of it, poised on the razor's edge until her powerful inner muscles start to flutter along his length./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"His last bit of control evaporates and he crushes her to him, breaking rhythm to shudder. Rendered temporarily mindless by the force of his orgasm, every muscle pulls taut while he thrusts and grinds into her. Newt emgrowls/em as she angles her hips to be more receptive to him and, driven by blind instinct, he presses deep to fill the cup of her womb, gasping into her skin./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"He comes back to himself in stages. Newt finds her stroking his shaggy hair, the skin on his back. She soothes him with soft sounds until his trembling subsides, and graces his nose with a gentle kiss. Boneless, they shift and adjust until they are side-by-side, covers pulled over them, fundamentally sated./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Newt is emexhausted/em and fading fast, but he still finds the energy to kiss her sleepily. Tina returns the gesture, eyes closed, and hums tunelessly when he wishes her good night. She's asleep moments later, breathing slow and even, and he tells her he loves her. Then he spools around her protectively before dropping his head onto the pillow of his arm, watching her drowsily until he, too, is claimed by sleep./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The fire burns down, then out./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"She raises herself to her elbows, gently mapping the scars on his chest and neck. His flesh humps into goosebumps beneath her wandering hand, as it tends to do, and she shares the smile she reserves exclusively for him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""What are you thinking about?" she asks, and he lifts his head to smile at her with his eyes./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""You. I'm always thinking of you, Tina. Especially after—well. emAfter/em."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"She ducks her head to hide the color in her cheeks, smile faltering, and he places a hand under her chin to raise it. He meets her eyes, as he always does when he's being earnest. "Don't hide from me, Tina. Please. We just made love, haven't we?" He offers a tentative smile, the toothy one he saves just for emher/em, and she is powerless but to respond in kind./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Yes, we did. I'm sorry, I—sometimes it's hard, you know? The way you look at me, the way you talk about me...it's like being in a dream, and I'm always afraid I'm going to wake up and you'll be gone." She shrugs, a little awkwardly, and her mouth trembles. "I don't mean to be insecure, I just don't want to wake up. Ever."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Newt levels himself next to her before taking her hand and gently placing it over his heart. He knows she can feel his heartbeat, as steady and reliable as his affections for her. The symbolism of the gesture isn't lost on him—or on Tina if the sudden sheen of tears darkening her eyes is any indication./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Tina, I'm not very good with words or dealing with humans. But with you, I feel better about that fact, because, with emyou/em, I don't have to try. Loving you is as natural as breathing to me. You say you feel like you're in a dream, and you're afraid of waking up; I say, without you, I have no embreath/em, and I'm afraid of dying. I assure you, Tina: emI'm not going anywhere/em. I'm here, for as long as you'll have me—you'll never have to wake up from this dream."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Tina's eyes overflow, but her face is radiant when she leans in to claim him. He samples her tears and kisses them away, tiny, fleeting pecks over her cheeks and jaw and neck. Tina pulls him closer as he peppers her face, hands smoothing over his shoulders and back before moving down to the plane of his stomach./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Her face is dry when he leans in to nip her earlobe, and she hisses when he soothes it with a tender kiss. He repeats the gesture to hear her make that sound again, before nibbling down the column of her throat and swirling his tongue in her suprasternal notch./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Tina butts her face into his shoulder as he works over her, throat producing pleased sounds. She vibrates in his hands and digs blunt nails into his sides, before clever fingers trail down to grasp him where he rests against his thigh, half-hard and sticky with their combined fluids. He is still sensitive from their earlier activities, and her expert kneading quickly has him heavy and hard in her hands./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Twenty minutes?" she quips, and her voice is so dryly amused that it forces a bark of laughter out of him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""What can I say? You have that effect on me."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"She strokes him from the base to the tip, swirling her thumb over the vein on the back of the head before twisting back down. He takes a moment or two to just emenjoy/em the feeling of her hand around him, handling him with confidence born of long experience. Then he sits up and brings her with him, never allowing her to break contact until they're facing each other and he can better taste her skin./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"He knows the crook of her neck is her most sensitive spot so he starts there, laving it with his tongue before sucking hard enough to leave a love-bite. She moans, a low and earthy sound, as her hands remain gloriously sure on him. He angles his cheek to intentionally scrape her with his stubble—another breathless sound, and a red-hot burst of emlust/em flashes through him—while he swirls his tongue over her collarbone and across the expanse of her chest./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Her pink nipples are perky and hard when he makes his way to them, and taking one firmly in his mouth emfinally/em causes Tina's hand to falter. She squeezes as her hips jerk against him involuntarily. They groan in unison at the contact. When he switches to the other side, she yanks him against her and grinds them together./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Newt releases her nipple with a popping sound to gasp into her skin while her trembling arms hold him firmly. Suddenly and irrevocably inflamed, he gropes past where they meet to slot his hand between her legs. He parts her to find her molten to the touch, and still slick from their earlier activities. Groaning, he slides two fingers into her heat and rotates his wrist so he can roll her clit under his thumb./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Tina's head falls back and Newt licks the column of her throat, tasting the animal sounds forming there. He uses his fingers and his mouth to drive her wild, watching and listening and tasting as she reacts. He nips, bites, and suckles, drawing her in, and is rewarded with her sighs and gasps and pleads. He watches her cues and reacts appropriately, awed by her ardor and willing to do whatever it takes to please her./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"She clamps around his fingers without warning, and suddenly her hands are on his shoulders, pushing him away. "Not like this," she gasps, her hair a stormcloud around her head, her eyes impossibly dark. "I want to come with you in me, Newt."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"He fervently agrees, so he allows her to grapple his shoulders and pull them backward. They land hard enough to force the breath out of him, and she doesn't allow him to regain it before catching him in a searing kiss. Tina's movements are near-frantic as she rearranges her legs and spreads herself wide, and her hand fumbles where she grips him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Newt makes a shushing sound against her hair before stroking a soothing hand over her stomach. Her nails cut into him but she catches the hint: she struggles through a few deep breaths and calms slightly, still unbelievably desperate beneath him but no longer mindless with it. He slants his mouth behind her ear and breathes "I do love you, Tina", and she calms further. He repeats it until her trembling ceases and the aura of recklessness has left her. Emboldened by her pliancy, he guides himself and sinks to the hilt in one smooth stroke./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Tina clings to his shoulders and wraps strong legs around his waist, panting with need. Newt's face finds a home in the warm hollow of her neck, forearms laying flat to support his weight as his hands grip her shoulders. She arches her back as he retreats and sinks back in, pebble-hard nipples biting into the mottled skin of his chest. She sobs his name the second time he rolls his hips against her, and the third snap sends her into wordless paroxysms of delight./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Newt dips his head to drink in her heated kiss, before releasing her to gasp her name across her skin in shaky halos. They move together like the tide, Tina absorbing the shock at the apex of his thrusts and reciprocating it to rock them together. They breathe and gasp as one; sometimes she cries out her pleasure or breathlessly keens his name, punctuation lost to hedonism. She swallows his moans when the urge takes her and encourages his adorations when Newt discovers her name tastes like manna and says it, over and over, until they're both trembling and on the cusp./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The first outlying spark of impending release explodes across his nerves, just as he feels her tighten around him. Tina draws close and tenses, catching and holding his gaze as her climax bursts forth. Newt husks her name in awe as her eyes widen and she gasps her release, chest flushing red, trembling and hot around him. He holds himself steady as he nudges her along the initial crest of it, poised on the razor's edge until her powerful inner muscles start to flutter along his length./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"His last bit of control evaporates and he crushes her to him, breaking rhythm to shudder. Rendered temporarily mindless by the force of his orgasm, every muscle pulls taut while he thrusts and grinds into her. Newt emgrowls/em as she angles her hips to be more receptive to him and, driven by blind instinct, he presses deep to fill the cup of her womb, gasping into her skin./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"He comes back to himself in stages. Newt finds her stroking his shaggy hair, the skin on his back. She soothes him with soft sounds until his trembling subsides, and graces his nose with a gentle kiss. Boneless, they shift and adjust until they are side-by-side, covers pulled over them, fundamentally sated./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Newt is emexhausted/em and fading fast, but he still finds the energy to kiss her sleepily. Tina returns the gesture, eyes closed, and hums tunelessly when he wishes her good night. She's asleep moments later, breathing slow and even, and he tells her he loves her. Then he spools around her protectively before dropping his head onto the pillow of his arm, watching her drowsily until he, too, is claimed by sleep./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The fire burns down, then out./p