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Staggering Along The Way

You Are It For Me

Gail was lying on her stomach; head partially buried under a pillow, hands spread like wings on her sides, groaning lazily. It couldn't be classified as groaning, more like making a constant sound inside her throat. Akin to humming but a little raspy, the rumble of her voice was a bit muffled. Her whole body felt extremely charged. Not charged as in energetic and bouncy; charged as in overly sensitive, raw, and jumpy. Every muscle, every nerve ending, every tissue, every cell in her system buzzed, rippled faintly and ceaselessly.

Holly padded into the bedroom; a brilliant smile almost immediately attacked her lips and she sucked in her next breath through her mouth instead of her nose. The view of Gail laying there, on her rumpled bed, buck naked; oh it was so scenic that it was extremely unfair. The constant need of physical, skin to skin connection with Gail, flared inside her gut instantly. She gripped the water bottle in her right hand and swallowed before clearing her throat lightly. "Nice view there, officer," she teased in a low husky tone. Her voice, it appeared, had changed in the last few hours. Maybe her continuous cheering during their activities was a reason but eh, who cared? She sounded much sexier in this voice; just the right amount of sultriness.

Gail stopped making that sound and wiggled her head a few times to move away the pillow but remained in a somewhat similar position. "Where did you go?" She asked but didn't bother opening her eyes. Her query got half lost into the mattress of the bed.

Holly took a step ahead and stopped at the end of her queen sized bed, running her eyes from the blonde's toe, to the shapely calves, the slightly parted thighs, and the twin flawless globes of Gail's ass. She exhaled and her nostrils flared. "To get water," she absently lifted the bottle in the air and added, her eyes refusing to move away from the ass. "Needed sustenance."

Gail caught the lilt in Holly's voice. She peeled open her eyes, tilted her head a little on the bed and peered down at the brunette. The standing woman was clad in sheets with wild, untamed hair flowing down the shoulders; openly salivating over her gluteus maximus. She bit the inside of her cheek; she should not have known that. Holly's nerd was rubbing off on her, apparently in more ways than one. "You are so ladylike that it's almost disgusting," she mumbled, vexed by the fact that the doctor was not fully naked like her.

Holly blinked and the visual examination of Gail's well-formed derriere unfortunately ended. Her dark bronze eyes met the blonde's cobalt; they were dancing in mirth. She cinched half her bottom lip in between her teeth and smiled, causing her lip to glide out slowly and sensually. She placed the useless bottle on the bed somewhere near Gail's leg and tugged the sheet away from her body, letting it teasingly slide down on to the floor. "Is this ladylike?" her left eyebrow hiked up in challenge.

Gail's opened eyes didn't stay that way for long as Holly bent down, kneeling at the edge of the bed, to kiss her right foot. She made that humming sound again and it morphed into a moan before rolling out of her lips. Her hands that were spread at her sides, clutched at both ends of the previously discarded pillow. She buried her face in the dark space formed in between her right upper arm and the bed. Holly's silky hair brushed against her skin above the foot and she felt the familiar, intimate flame flicker to life in her lower abdomen.

Holly laved her tongue from Gail's right heel up to the calf, enjoying the way the muscles tensed and relaxed repeatedly. She again took the previous path but this time with her lips. She flicked her hair to one side and changed her position to pay the same attention to the blonde's left leg. A minute later, upon reaching the right thigh, she decided to introduce her teeth into the mix for more fun.

Gail reacted as evenly as she could. The buzzing inside her was increasing sluggishly as Holly paved a dewy trail up her legs unhurriedly. The flames inside her steadily achieved height as she welcomed the return of dampness in between her legs. Suddenly she felt teeth dig in to her thigh and groaning loudly, she burrowed her face impossibly further into the mattress, "unnnggghh...Hol." She hissed when a moment or two later she felt the same sensation on her other thigh but this time it was a proper bite. Groaning, she gritted her jaw tightly in knowledge that this was not going to be slow and tender.

Holly's hands kept busy running the length of Gail's smooth legs; as far as she could reach without compromising her current activity. Her palms stopped on the thighs when her face reached the derriere she was formerly just drooling upon. She smiled and proceeded to cup that pair of perfection in both her hands; squeezing them hard and trying to cover every square inch of that out-curved muscle, baby soft skin with open mouthed kisses. Heading up, she grazed her nose and lips over the tiny basin formed at the small of Gail's back. She didn't have much of patience left in her; so instead of asking the woman below her to turn over, she thought of trying out a position that could grant them mutual release.

In the last few hours, Gail had become familiar with two or three sexual positions; all of which made sense to her and worked well for both of them. But this time, she couldn't imagine what kind of arrangement Holly was thinking of. She sure was not in the mood of turning over on her back so they could fuck properly; the good ol' missionary way! She was feeling extremely lethargic and it was too much work.

Holly lifted her head and languidly perused Gail's pale back. There were light red streaks and scratches all over. Her hands left the blonde's ass and rested on the bed. She shuffled ahead and kissed a few of those marks, "do they hurt?" She asked softly, nuzzling her cheeks over the curve of Gail's spine before tracing one vertebra at a time with her tongue. Her nipples brushed over Gail's ass; at first without her knowledge but then she started slightly shifting up and down so that her breasts rubbed deliciously against the soft buttocks. She sighed and moaned and kept lapping, kissing up the spine.

Panting and moaning, Gail clutched at the pillow fiercely when she felt the brunette's erect nipples scraping all over her ass. "No," she belatedly answered the question. They didn't hurt at all. In fact, every time anything brushed over them, she was reminded of Holly writhing and bucking under her. So, no. They didn't hurt one bit. Her nipples found reprieve in the friction caused against the bed sheet with every small movement.

Holly exhaled and traced the blonde's shoulder blades with her tongue before reaching the nape of Gail's neck. Tiny white-blonde hair tickled her forehead and nose as she kept up the journey. She kissed behind the officer's right ear, "spread your legs for me." She ordered.

Gail parted her legs and felt both of Holly's knees pushing at hers. Soon, her legs were bent and spread eagle with the brunette's knees placed exactly behind hers, mirroring her stance. She was shamelessly open and the unkempt little folds of bed sheet under her brushed against her wet sex. She moved and bowed her back, pushing against the bed. "Whatever you are trying to do, just fucking do it," she growled and set her jaw tightly as she still wasn't sure what position this would incur.

Holly laughed breathily at the blonde's impatience. She freed Gail's left hand from the pillow and threaded their fingers together, squeezing hard in assurance. Her mouth was exactly beside Gail's right ear, her breasts smashed deliciously against the hard arch of shoulder blades; there was only one thing left to do. "Just wait for it," she hotly rasped, whispered, reaching between them with her right hand to spread open herself completely with two fingers. With her tongue poking at her upper lip in concentration, she settled her lower body against Gail in a very calculated, thought out position. "Oh...fuck yes," she groaned satisfactorily, biting into the shell of Gail's ear as her wetness oh so sinfully descended upon the out-curved soft muscle of the blonde's ass.

Gail gasped at the feeling of abundantly drenched sex slide against her butt. "Wow," she muttered in surprise. This wasn't something that crossed her mind. She pushed her ass up into Holly and moaned loudly when the brunette bit into her neck.

Holly freed her right hand, thrusting herself into Gail's perfect ass; her spread knees providing her with more than enough leverage. Every single thrust caused the blonde's hard back curve further into her own soft front. She snaked her right hand in between Gail and the bed and easily reached her target. She exhaled and wheezed when her long fingers found the blonde's copiously soaked sex. "You like this," she lapped Gail's ear with her tongue and inquired teasingly.

Gail buried her forehead further into the mattress and nodded vigorously as Holly roughly circled her clitoris. Her right forearm was pressed into the bed beside her head so that she could keep her upper body arched. The flames inside her had reached their limit and were now engulfing her chest and heart. She just had to feel Holly inside her. "Just fuck me, Hol," she growled vehemently and impatiently.

Holly groaned at such unbarred display of need and her restraint unbolted immediately. She grunted in the next thrust and groaned as two of her fingers easily slipped inside Gail. She didn't stop to adjust and kept thrusting. It was too dizzying an accomplishment; her fingers sliding in and out of Gail as her own sex glided against the blonde's ass at the same time. "God yesss...baby, you feel so fucking good," she panted into Gail's ear.

Gail couldn't agree more as her clit rubbed over Holly's stretched palm upon every movement. "Fuck...yeaah...unnggh god," she moaned and groaned as they gained perfect momentum with every push. Their left hand fingers were tangled so desperately, so tightly together that it almost denied the blood flow, turning them white and pale. Every sound that Holly made fell directly over her burning ear, fanning the fire inside her chest making her heart beat overtime and impossibly fast. And the feeling of Holly's thudding heart just above hers, through her back, amplified the sensation.

Holly buried her face into the blonde's neck as she kept grinding herself into Gail. She kissed and licked and nipped when she could and bit when an extra strong shove provided just the right amount of friction over her clit. A thin film of sweat intensified the static energy between their heated skins. Her knees and thighs burned due to all the force it took for her to keep undulating in this position. She couldn't hold back her release anymore. "Ga..ehh...Gail," she managed, gasping for breath. She was tiring out fast.

Gail heaved and nodded in understanding; having sensed the exertion overtaking the brunette. She lifted herself up a little, trying to share the effort behind every thrust. It wasn't easy because that caused Holly to completely slump over her back. Soon, their movements became erratic and disorderly. Their grunts got louder and louder and their breaths shorter and shorter with every second. "Almost." She exhaled; her voice rough and hoarse. She swallowed thickly, gritting her jaw painfully.

Holly nodded her agreement into Gail's neck and moaned when she felt the blonde's walls clutching at her fingers, making it difficult for her to do anything. She reduced the length of her strokes and increased the force behind them. The tip of her fingers prodded at the ribbed muscle on Gail's upper wall in every shove. She clenched her eyes shut when her own sex fluttered and throbbed against the blonde's ass. "Fuuhh...I'm...unngggh...there," she grunted.

"Come with me, Hol," Gail too grunted in response and begged. Her body was so unbelievably hypersensitive that she felt every flutter of Holly's sex on her skin and the frequency at which the brunette's clitoris was pulsating, she knew they were going to be washed over with release any second now. Holly garbled something incomprehensive into the crook of her neck and bit into her. She hissed in pain and in the same moment felt the extreme contraction of her insides.

Holly exhaled heavily through her nostrils as she latched onto the accessible skin on Gail's neck. They stilled mid-thrust and she felt the blonde's spasms against the full length of her own body. Her insides contributed in creating a vacuum that sucked in all her left over energy as her heart sped up dangerously and lodged in her throat, robbing her of her voice and breath alike. Her eyes burned and suddenly she felt like she was burdened with an unbearable weight over her worn out shoulders.

Gail felt the flames rush through her veins to all her extremities, shutting off her brain momentarily as she shouted her release into the mattress, muffling it before it could become a shrilling scream. Complimentary silent tears of an intense orgasm accumulated under her draped lids and she gasped tiredly for breath. Embers of after-effect oscillated between them and echoed through their insides for long intervals. Finally, Gail felt Holly's sex relax against her skin and she herself could only moan softly when the brunette slipped out of her.

Holly repeatedly, softly kissed at the patch of skin she had just released and groaned, carelessly collapsing over the small blonde completely. There was no sound in the air around them except for their respective attempts to breathe. She swallowed dryly, too tired to clear her throat. Wordlessly, Gail shifted on left side causing her to move and embrace the blonde from behind. Their legs straightened out full length but were still weaved together. As the minutes passed them by, they gave into the sweet exhaustion and drifted into slumberland.

They were lounging on the bed in a very unusual position after yet another round of mind-blowing sex; at least according to Gail. She was lying on her back, perpendicular to the brunette so that her head rested on Holly's left thigh. The doctor's other leg passed over her midsection, just below her breasts. She stared up at the ceiling while tracing mindless patterns on the brunette's leg. "Oh...kay," she unwillingly broke the silence. "So, I have a question that I think you, being the experienced lesbian, should answer."

Holly's lips curled at the corner. She curbed the urge to roll her eyes at the blonde's ambiguity. She indulged. "Fine," she purposely drawled. "Shoot."

Gail flicked her eyes to the brunette. Holly hadn't even bothered opening those beautiful brown eyes. She bit her bottom lip, "when do we exactly stop, Holly?" Her tone was meek, bashful, and unsure.

Holly frowned as her eyes fluttered open. It took her a second to understand the insinuation in Gail's question. The incredulity in the blonde's tone made her laugh heartily. "Oh...my dear, dear Gail," she teased. "The beauty of being with a woman...you don't have to stop unless you want to." She flashed her perfect teeth and wiggled her eyebrows when Gail finally looked at her.

Gail pouted. After a beat she said, "I am thirsty." To which she only got a low hum in response, nothing else. She blinked and scowled. "And I am tired." Again no interest but a single hum. She ground her teeth at being ignored. "And I just hit early menopause...my vagina is extremely dry."

Holly chuckled and finally spared the pouting blonde a look. She licked her lips exaggeratedly and raised an eyebrow. "Is that a challenge?" She knowingly turned her voice deep, working the base of her throat.

"Seriously?" Gail growled and punched at Holly's thigh playfully. "But I am hungry," she whined.

Holly smirked. She pulled away the leg that was resting on Gail's stomach and bent it at the knee. With both her hands, she gestured at herself – to the V in between her legs - like presenting a platter of gourmet food to the blonde. Her whole body shook as she laughed out loud at the stricken expression that took over the speechless blonde.

Gail huffed and got up from her position, scrambling on all her fours to lie down on her stomach, knowingly facing away from Holly. Suddenly she felt like crying she was so fucking famished and weak. And dare the doctor make fun of her.

"Gail," Holly called out softly.

"I am not talking to you, you savage beast," Gail replied.

Holly laughed lightly, inaudibly. She breathed in and out to compose herself. "What is it that you want me to do?"

"I want you to take care of me," Gail snapped, turning back to look at Holly.

"I thought I just did. Not once...not twice, but all night long," Holly declared haughtily.

Gail turned on her back, growled, and thrashed her limbs petulantly like a stubborn kid. "I am hungry," she declared yet again.

Holly narrowed her eyes. "Then get up...go...eat, I am not stopping you."

"You go bring food and water," Gail commanded.

"I fetched every bottle of water while you only ever got up to take bathroom breaks." Holly's thumb was pointing behind her on the floor where a pile of empty bottles lay discarded. "It's your turn."

"It's not my fault that orgasms over-stimulate my bladder, Holly," Gail quipped. Her whole body deflated the next moment though. "And I don't wanna get up." Her voice shook and she blinked furiously.

Holly saw the change in the blonde's demeanour. "Why?" she simply asked.

"I ache all over," Gail kind of accused Holly and couldn't stop a soft sob from escaping her. She really had no idea why she was crying and being an ass. She turned away from Holly and curled herself into a ball.

"Honey," Holly came behind the blonde and kissed the shoulder. "Hey...sweetie, why are you crying?"

"I am not crying," Gail turned on her back to look at Holly. Her eyes were in fact glimmering; she swallowed guiltily at seeing genuine concern in the soft brown orbs. "I am just so hungry and tired and ache-y." She pulled away her gaze shamefully.

Holly smiled down sweetly at the adorable, impossible creature that was her girlfriend. "Apparently lack of food makes you grumpy, too." She growled playfully, twisting her face and kissed Gail's forehead. Her knuckles caressed the officer's left cheek as she suggested. "Tell you what...I will go down, bring up that Thai lunch from yesterday, feed you, and then we can have a long, relaxing, warm bath. What say?"

Gail smiled with her tongue in between her teeth and crinkled her nose. She craned her neck up to place a kiss at Holly's lips. "I love you," she happily announced.

"Yeah, yeah...don't think I will let you emotionally blackmail me again just because I love you," Holly answered in a soft tone. She exhaled as she softly kissed the blonde once before getting up and leaving the bed for good.

Holly found the bed empty when she came back after taking care of their dishes and some other messes they had made in last long hours. She frowned. "Gail?" She called out.

"In here," came the response from the bathroom. They had again lazed around for another half hour after eating. A part of Gail was very disturbed to realize how unimportant an entity time became to her when she was with Holly. They had been cooped up in that bed for almost twenty long hours and she had not paid any attention. Granted, a few of those hours were spend napping and talking too but wasn't it really a matter of concern that they were actually capable of having so much sex? She shuddered and gulped at the remembrance of a few very...carnal and wanton moments.

Holly made her way to the washroom wondering what was happening. She stepped inside to find the blonde filling up the tub with warm water; four or five red scented candles were lit around the tub. A soothing orange hue produced flickering shadows on the walls. She leaned against the door sill and crossed her hands over the half open shirt, just watching. The flowers earlier, the attention, this gesture, everything made her feel incredibly valued and very special but the meaningfulness of all these little tokens of love and care just skyrocketed because it came from Gail. Her Gail. Her cute, sweet, thoughtful, quirky Gail. She inhaled deeply and picked up the calming smell of fresh apples, vanilla, and maple with a dash of cinnamon. Her throat constricted as she tried to swallow.

Gail stared at Holly. "Hol?"

Holly blinked and looked at the blonde. "Hmm?"

Gail extended her right hand. "Come here."

Holly did. The younger woman stood before her and took her shirt off before pulling down her panties. "You really aren't that tired after all, huh?" She joked, narrowing her eyes in a slit.

Gail scoffed and kissed Holly. "Well, you did tolerate my tantrum and fed me. So, now that I feel sexually sated and completely full," she patted her stomach twice, pleased, "I thought I should do something nice for you."

Holly wrapped her arms around Gail's waist and pulled the blonde in a loose embrace, swaying slightly. "You didn't have to." She whispered, humming very softly as they moved side to side.

Gail rested her head on Holly's shoulder. Closing her eyes, she exhaled. "Yes, I had to," the feeling of their naked skins together still felt novel to her, untainted and almost purely virgin.

Gail wasn't the type to go out of her way for just anyone, Holly knew that. She stumbled a little when it suddenly dawned on her just how special Gail must have wanted their first time to be. "You really wanted this to be special, didn't you?" She asked softly. The bulge inside her throat oscillated making it difficult task for her to speak. Gail only hummed in reply. She licked her lips. "Was it?" She couldn't keep her voice from wavering.

Gail stilled their swaying and pulled back to gaze at Holly. She shook her head at the brunette, always thinking of others. "It was much, much more than that, Holly." She hissed passionately with her eyes wide. "Don't you dare doubt it." Pushing herself on her tip toes, she pulled the brunette into a fiery kiss. They both moaned into it; hot whiffs of air escaped their slightly squished nostrils. Much to Holly's displeasure, she ended the kiss. "Now get in to that tub before the water gets cold," she shoved gently at Holly's shoulder.

"Okay, okay," Holly turned and slowly dipped her right leg, then her left into the foamy water. "Aren't you going to join me?" She asked as she carefully situated herself down, adjusting her back against the slippery porcelain. She groaned; the warmth engulfing her aching, tired muscles instantly began to draw the pain out of her pores.

Gail stayed silent trying to collect her thoughts. She kneeled beside the tub crossing her arms over the rim. She tilted and kissed the brunette's temple. "In a minute," her tone was low and so very gentle. She kept staring at Holly; the most wonderful and the most beautiful and no doubt the most amazing person in her life. Holly was it for her. It struck her like a sledgehammer how lucky she must be to have such a stunning, fascinating, and marvellous person by her side.

Holly let the blonde be for a few seconds. The police officer was definitely thinking about something serious. "Honey, what is it?" She ruffled with the tuft of hair over the blonde's forehead.

Gail stayed silent, trying to collect her thoughts. The overwhelming sensation of her feelings for Holly started permeating her heart. She swallowed once and blinked and gritted her jaw.

Holly gave her time, holding her breath.

"When I met you Hol," Gail's tone, a very low in timbre. "I wasn't in a very good place. I was angry at everything and everybody." She paused to inhale deeply. "At the constant victimization that I was so unfairly subjected to or so I thought. Family, friends, work, Nick, in short everything." She inched closer to the tub to kiss Holly once; a soft, sure pledge of togetherness. "But then I met you," her tone quivered. "Something happened to me. Something very amazing happened, Holly." She loosely rested her right hand on her own sternum. "Something inside me changed...gradually and slowly but it completely changed. My whole being, my individuality, my centre...it just...it shifted like it slid into the place where it actually belonged. The axis of my existence tilted and you became my gravity," her smile was brilliant despite the tears shining her clear blue eyes. "You became everything and I don't know if just saying that I love you is enough. So please remember this, okay? I don't exist without you; I can't exist without you anymore and I don't want to." She gulped noisily. "And after all this, I really can't look back. I love you like a mad, crazy, mentally unstable person who doesn't know any limits," she gave a teary chuckle at the in-eloquence of her choice of words and sniffled twice. "I just...I don't want to rely on just words. They fail miserably sometimes."

Holly snorted with the blonde. She knew for certain that she would never love anyone like she did Gail. It was simply unfathomable. "They do," she assented to the last part. An invisible threshold dashed open as a profound sense of completion surged her from inside out. She licked the remnants of her tears from her lips. "I love you like a mad, crazy, mentally unstable person too." She announced with just the right amount of mirth.

Gail smiled but a thin layer of fear still shone over her eyes. "Please, Hol," she shakily inhaled; being this vulnerable, openly and willingly, didn't come naturally to her. "Please don't break my heart, I won't survive it." With that, she exhaled as she tried to smile.

Holly silently urged the blonde to join her in the tub. She slid ahead, almost to the middle of the tub and Gail sat down facing her, crossing the ankles behind her back. When they were both settled and comfortable, she placed her hand over Gail's heart like that simple action would protect the beating muscle. She breathed in and gave the blonde a teary smile. "I can't break your heart without shattering mine first," she whispered; promising herself to Gail, today, tomorrow, forever.

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