A/N: EEK!

I am very sorry. I've not updated this in so long (nearly a month...ouch!), and have literally had this chapter sitting on my iPad for the better part of a month. Not for reasons of writer's block, but for reasons of extreme distraction.

I could divulge...but then I'd have to shoot you guys, and I kinda like you guys a lot.

This chapter is only short, and...for once... Does NOT contain a Cigarette Warning™, but does contain a bit of Fluff™ and some cuteness, and I hope it tides you guys over while I work on the next bit.

This chapter is for my good friend and partner-in-crime mynameislizzie, because I want to give her a dose of something cheery, because virtual snuggles won't quite cut it, and as much as I want to give her real ones, I'm a bit far away.

On with it, then...

Disclaimer: I do not own skins. Deviance is fun sometimes, no? *smirk* Any and all typos are a total lie...

(Naomi POV)

(The next morning)

I'd slept much like the dead. Can you really blame me? Our day out in Limassol had me completely exhausted, emotionally, physically, and even sexually. I'd worried that Emily might think she had done something wrong, or been too eager or hard with me, but I had tried to assure her that it wasn't that, I was just exhausted. And when I awoke the next morning, I noticed three things.

I felt kisses across the back of my neck. I felt arms around my waist as those kisses tickled my skin. And I felt a dull ache between my legs. I groaned as my body shifted. "Ems..." I said, my voice thick with sleep. "You promised." It was almost embarrassing how pouty I sounded.

"Are you telling me I can't kiss you, beautiful?" Emily murmured in a low, husky voice against my skin.

I sighed. "No..." I said, before moaning softly. "It does feel nice..." I said, before turning onto my back, feeling Emily's arm slip across my stomach. She placed a soft kiss against my shoulder.

"How did you sleep?" She asked.

I yawned wide and stretched my body, whimpering slightly as I felt a few aches make themselves known. "I ache." I muttered. "And I slept like the dead."

"Aww." Emily said, squeezing herself closer to me. "Where do you ache, beautiful?"

"My shoulders." I said. "And my arse." I felt myself blushing almost immediately.

Emily kissed my shoulder again softly. "Well, there's only one thing for that. Roll over onto your stomach, sweetheart."

I did as she asked, laying my head on the pillow as Emily straddled the backs of my thighs. I sighed again as Emily's hands began to slowly stroke along my muscles. Before long, she was kneading out the ache in my shoulders, and I groaned under her, beginning to feel the ache start to subside. "Mmm...that feels good." I murmured.

"Yeah?" She said, trailing her thumbs down my spine, causing me back to flex.

"Yeah..." I said, somewhat dreamily. "Keep going, and I might drop off back to sleep."

"Oh, can't have that..." Emily said, lightly spanking my arse.

"Ems!" I squeaked, feeling the sensation throb through me. It was only light contact, but my arse was still tender from the day before. "Baby..."

"I know. I promised..." She said, lightly stroking my skin. "I can't help it, though. The sight of you naked, the feel of you under me..."

I sighed. "Yeah, I know. I have an effect on you."

Her body shifted and she kissed the back of my neck. "Indeed you do." She continued to rub and stroke her hands across my back slowly. "And you know how much I love you?"

"Yes..." I sighed, groaning as her hands kneaded into my skin. Emily slid off my back, and cuddled into my side. She stared into my eyes and stroked her fingers through my fringe. "Hey." I said.

A warm smile crossed her lips. "Hey, beautiful." She replied, kissing my shoulder softly. "Did I ever tell you how beautiful your eyes are?" I shook my head, playing along. "Well..." She continued. "Let me tell you, your eyes are the bluest I have ever seen. They are bluer than the sky, and bluer than the waters of the Mediterranean Sea that reaches these white sands. I have never seen anything more beautiful in my entire life, and no other pair of eyes I ever see again will compare."

My heart did a little flip I my chest as I felt myself blush. My Emily was a right little sex fiend at times, and lately, I found myself missing the way she was with words when she wasn't trying to fuck my brains out. "Wow." I sighed.

Emily kissed my shoulder softly. "How about pancakes for breakfast?" She asked.

"Mmm...with bacon?"

"I've never quite understood your thing about pancakes with bacon." She said, getting up off the bed and moving to the phone on the desk.

"Oh, I don't know you at all!" I said, throwing a pillow across the room at her.

"Hey!" She said, moving so the pillow sideswiped her. "I never said I wasn't willing to try it."

"You liked it, though." I smirked, sitting up.

She nodded as she dialled for room service. "Good morning to you, too. Could we please have two stacks of pancakes...butter...syrup, and some bacon? Hang on..." She looked up at me. "Toast and coffee too?" I nodded. "Yes, that would be wonderful. Twenty minutes? Lovely, look forward to it. Goodbye." She said, hanging up the receiver. She looked up at me and gave me a smirk, picking up the pillow and throwing it at me.

"Oof!" I muttered as it hit me square in the chest. "Spousal abuse!" I laughed.

Her expression changed to one of a raised eyebrow, and she leapt onto the bed, crawling close to me, cat like. Her lips met mine in a soft kiss. "Impossible." She said, kissing me again. "I'd never abuse your trust, I'm not prone to violence, nor are we spouses." She kissed me slower, deeper this time. "I love you, and I'd never hurt you."

"Uhm...I was only playing." I murmured against her lips.

"Oh, I know." She said, with a smile.

I looked into her eyes, and her expression changed. "What is it?

I blinked, shaking my head. "Em...don't you ever wonder... What it would be like...if you were my spouse?"

Her expression changed to one of amusement. "Why, are you proposing?" She asked, sitting backwards and taking my hand.

"No, I..." I paused, biting my bottom lip. "I dunno, I just...wondered, that's all."

Emily lay next to me and leaned in her elbow, threading her fingers through mine. "We would wake up in the morning, in our flat... Maybe I'd wake you up with sex, maybe not... We'd have breakfast, get ready, go spend the day at work, unable to keep our eyes, our suggestions, and maybe even our hands to ourselves... Then we'd come home, eat dinner and fuck like newlyweds until we tired each other out and fell asleep in each other's arms."

I pondered for a moment. "So, much like we already do..."

"Precisely." She nodded. "I'm not saying I wouldn't want to marry you, beautiful." She said, kissing the back of my hand. "I'm just saying I love you so much as it is... I don't need a piece of paper to state it. Because I know it, and you know it...here." She said, taking my hand and placing it over her heart, while she placed hers over mine.

"Oh, Em..." I mumbled, tears pricking at my eyes.

Emily pulled me into her arms and hugged me tightly to her. "Hey now... No crying, beautiful. You know how I feel about you, baby."

"I know..." I said, sniffling.

"Aww, love..." She said, kissing the top of my head. She cuddled me close and stroked her fingertips through my hair.

"I'm not sad." I said, softly. "It was just so sweet." I laid my head on her shoulder. "I often forget how sweet you can be."

She chuckled softly. "I can be, yes."

"When you're not fucking me senseless."

"Yeah." She smirked, kissing the top of my head. "Do you think I don't love you enough to marry you?"

"No." I said, smiling a little as I shook my head. "That's not it, I was just...thinking out loud."

"Ok..."

"I know how much you love me, you don't even have to say it. There's just a look you give me, and I know. It was just a thought, that's all."

Emily kissed me. "Baby...it's ok, really."

"Yeah?"

She nodded. "We've been in this together for a long while, now. If that time comes, and we want to get married, we'll do it."

"And what if it never comes?" I asked, biting my bottom lip.

"Then we keep on as we are. I'm happy knowing we are committed to each other. It's much like marriage, but without the big party and the drunken fights at the end." She grinned.

"Drunken fights between you and me?" I asked, raising my eyebrow.

"God no! Between friends of ours, or relatives." Emily replied. "Well... I dunno, fighting with you sucks, and even though we don't do it often, I don't like it...but...the make up sex after is pretty hot." She said, raising both her eyebrows with a devious smirk.

"True." I said, sharing her smirk. A knock came at the door. "Shit!" I said, reaching for the duvet and pulling it quickly up over my head. I was still naked and didn't want some male bellhop seeing my...er...goods.

Emily laughed, and rose up out of bed, grabbing a bathrobe which she slipped into easily, and tied up the sash, which I could see her doss I peeked briefly over the edge of the duvet, She opened the door, and I shrunk. "Hi, just out on the balcony, thanks." There was a soft clattering of crockery and cutlery, and some soft footsteps as well as a little rustling "Thank you." She said.

"Efharisto, miss. Enjoy." He said, and I then heard the door close.

Emily laughed, softly. "You can come out, beautiful. He's gone." I flipped the duvet down, feeling myself blush. She grinned and bit her bottom lip. "Adorable..." She sighed. "And you asked for a sex free day..."

"Because you wore me out yesterday!" I said, getting to my feet and slipping into the other bathrobe. I walked up to her and slipped my arms around her shoulders, kissing her forehead. "Let's eat before it gets cold, yeah?"

I placed my knife and fork on the late in front of me and swallowed my last mouthful. "That was so good." I said, picking up the cup of coffee in front of me and taking a long sip. Emily was gazing at me with a curious smirk on her lips. "What?"

She shook her head. "It's amusing watching you devour a stack of pancakes. You do it so methodically."

I stuck my tongue out at her. "So what? You still liked to watch me eat them." I said.

Emily nodded. "Of course. It's...almost erotic. The look on your face is one of complete pleasure..." She said, sipping from her own coffee. "Especially when you eat things like pancakes, which I know you love." I felt myself blushing. "And then you go and blush, which just makes it adorable rather than erotic..." She laughed.

"Ems..." I started to say.

She reached across the small table and placed her hand over mine. "I know... I promised." She said, softly.

I shook my head. "It isn't that. I just... It's not often you tell me that."

She smiled. "Clearly I should do it more often, then." She replied. "So... What does Naomi want to do for the rest of the day?"

I sipped the last of my coffee, and placed my cup down, thinking for a moment. "Well... Maybe laze around in bed a bit more... And then maybe go for a walk along the beach? I'd really like to...you know...share a sunset with you."

She looked at me with a warm smile. "How ever am I supposed to keep my hands off you if we are in bed all day?" She sighed.

I looked at her pouting expression. It was so bloody cute, that it tugged at me, at my heart and places...further down. "Uhm... Well... I don't know... Maybe you...don't have to?" I said, biting my bottom lip.

"Oh?" Emily smirked, looking me up and down.

I swallowed. "God, I'm going to regret saying that, aren't I?"

Emily looked back at me in mock horror. "Oh, never." She said, standing up and moving closer to me. She leaned over, placing her lips close to mine. "I'll have you know that I can be very gentle if you need me to be, and still give you a big dose of pleasure..." She murmured, kissing me slowly. I let myself be kissed, slowly kissing her back. She pulled back and looked into my eyes, smiling. "You taste sweet...like maple syrup." She said. "Why don't you go and lie down, and I'll clear up the plates, and then I'll join you in a few?" She said, the low huskiness of her voice making me tingle. I nodded and stood up, and before I could move, I felt her arms wrap around me, pulling me in close for a hug. "Love you, beautiful."

"Love you, too." I replied, squeezing her close to me and kissing the top of her head softly. I went inside, and did as she told me to, laying myself down on the bed, and watched as she brought the plates in and placed them on the trolley the bellhop had left behind, and then opened the door and placed it outside for it to be collected.

Then, she came back inside, closed the door and stood with her back against it, and looked at me. "What?" She said, smiling.

I shrugged. "I like to watch you doing domestic type things...I guess." I said.

She pushed herself off the door and made her way to the bed, crawling onto it and laying next to me, slipping her arm across my stomach. She cuddled herself close to me and sighed. "I enjoy being domestic with you. It's simple, but never boring. I just love being with you, no matter what we do."

I softly kissed the top of my head. "You know, I can really see you being the person I grow old with." I said.

"Really?"

"Mmhmm." I said. "I mean... I love you too much to let you go, so you're sort of stuck with me."

"Well, it's not like I was planning on doing a runner..."

"Bit hard when I live in your flat, Ems."

"Hey..." Emily said, leaning up and kissing my lips. "It's our flat."

I smiled. "I know. But you know what I mean."

She slowly traced her fingertips up and down the part of my chest that was exposed. "Yes, but you know I think of it as ours." She said. "If it became too small for us one day, we could always...you know...get a new place of our own. Something that we both pick out..."

I blinked. "You'd want to do that?" I asked.

"Beautiful, I would live in a tent with you." Emily replied. "I'm happy where we are, but I'm just saying..."

"I know. I just didn't expect it, I suppose." I said.

"One day...when we make honest women of each other..." She grinned. "But for now, I'm perfectly content living in love and sin."

I laughed. "Love, and sin?"

Emily nodded. "Mmhmm." She smirked.

I pulled her into my arms and kissed her slowly. "You're amazing, Ems. Really."

"Me? Oh no... It's you who is amazing, beautiful."

"I guess that makes us both amazing, then." I said.

"No...you're amazing, and I'm just lucky enough that you love me for who I am." Emily said.

I sighed, a blush crossing my cheeks. "I love you."

She kissed me slowly. "Love you, too."

A/N#2: That is where we leave the story for now, I will try not to leave it so bloody long before the next update, though...I won't promise anything. Not giving up. Not by a long shot, but other things are taking up my time at the moment, not that it isn't...enjoyable...lol but there are only so many hours in a day, and I can only type so many words!

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