A/N: can you tell I have an assignment due? I'm an award winning procrastinator!
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Caroline lay staring up at the ceiling. She'd intended a brief sit down but had got so comfortable she couldn't imagine wanting to get up ever again.
Kate jumped when a sudden laugh erupted from the couch, but found herself unable to not smile at the pink cheeked, perfectly happy face that greeted her when she looked over the back of it. "What's so funny?"
Caroline grinned at the face above her and let out a little happy sigh. She'd been doing a lot of those lately, everyone had noticed. "I was just remembering something I said to John." She may have held back from talking about an ex-husband with some people, but not Kate. Kate didn't have a jealous bone in her body.
As Caroline had expected to happen, Kate's smile widened and she crossed her arms on the back of the couch, resting on them. "What was it?"
"Remember that time my mum and Alan went missing?" Caroline lifted a hand to her hair.
"Yeah." Kate replied, lowering one arm to fix Caroline's hair for her before instantly messing it up again. She loved it when Caroline's hair was messy.
"When I got home that night, after I'd come to your place.." Caroline's voice faded for a moment, her eyes going a little foggy as she remembered that evening, the first time they'd-
"Caroline." Kate prompted, stroking a finger down her wife's cheek and doing nothing to help bring her back from the memories she was having. "what did you say?"
Giving a little, happy sigh, Caroline replied, "I told him that if I loved and trusted someone enough to have sex with them, I wanted them here where I could have them. Any time I wanted them."
"Telling your ex-husband you love me before you ever told me." Kate noted, though she still wore a smile on her lips.
"That's not the point of the story. The point of the story is now I have you here, and I want you, and I can have you." Caroline's hand came to rest over Kate's which still rested against her cheek.
"Can you?" Kate questioned softly.
Caroline's only response was to push herself up, slowly capturing Kate's lips.
…
Three hours later, unpacking Kate's things had been entirely forgotten, and mugs of tea were now on the table. Kate lay naked under a warm blanket, watching as Caroline, clad in a dressing gown of very thin material, paced a little as she ordered dinner over the phone. "No, I said no nuts, not no seafood. Why would I say no seafood when she's allergic to nuts, for heaven's sake?!"
Barely listening to the conversation, only able to focus on the movement of breasts under pink satin and the flash of milky thigh when Caroline strode towards the kitchen in annoyance, Kate was out of her warm cocoon in an instant, eager for the warmth of another.
"Look, if you can't accommodate that, just tell me!" Caroline snapped into the phone. "Because I-" Whatever she'd thought of to say next died on her lips as Kate walked into the room, long strides bringing her to Caroline in only a second before the phone was abandoned somewhere on the kitchen bench top as Kate pushed her wife against it, undoing the pink silk tie so she capture the breasts beneath it that had so captured her attention.
…
"What time will the boys be back?" Kate asked as she leant against the doorframe watching Caroline clean the kitchen for the hundredth time that morning.
"In the next half an hour sometime. And now apparently Gillian, Alan and my mum are coming for lunch, too. They think they can just tell me instead of asking." Caroline paused suddenly, looking up. "Do you think they'll be able to tell?"
Sometimes even Kate couldn't keep up with the speed of her wife's thoughts. "Tell what?"
"That we've had sex in every room in the house." Caroline looked mortified at the thought.
"…Not every room. Not the boy's rooms, not the laundry. Not the study, either, come to think of it, though I did have a sensational orgasm in there thinking about you the other day while you were at work. Do you think that counts?" Kate asked conversationally.
"You did?" Caroline asked breathlessly, a familiar glazed look coming over her face for a moment before she managed, just, to push it away. "That's not the point."
"They won't notice a thing, Caroline! And besides, we were on our honeymoon, so I'm sure they expected us to-"
"Oh god. So my…my mother will know I've had sex."
"I think perhaps she knows you've had sex before, Caroline." Kate offered dryly before she finished her glass of water and rested it back on the coaster that Caroline had put out.
"I think I might die when she looks at me." Caroline nodded in agreement with herself.
"Knowing you had sex with the woman you're married to would not shock your mother, Caroline. Knowing you had sex on the couch she's sitting on and that you came so hard you almost soaked the cushion, however-" Kate teased.
"Oh god!"
Placing a hand onto Caroline's cheeks so she was forced to look at her, Kate offered the blonde a gentle smile. "Relax. No one will know a thing."
Studying Kate's calm brown eyes soothed Caroline, and by the time a car pulled up in the driveway she was emitting her little happy sighs again as Kate dropped a tender kiss to her lips and then led her to the front door.
…
"So, what did you two get up to on your honeymoon?" Gillian asked halfway through dinner.
"Oh, not a lot, really." Kate offered, stroking her thumb over Caroline's hand that held tightly to hers. "We did a bit of decorating in the nursery…"
We did a bit of decorating and then had sex in the nursery, Caroline silently corrected.
"We unpacked my books and put them onto the new bookshelf in the lounge room…"
We put away her books and then had sex up against them, followed by sex on the couch, Caroline added in her mind.
"I got covered in paint and had to have the world's longest bath…"
Kate got paint on her being pressed against the wall as I brought her to orgasm, and then she had another in the bathtub, her feet slipping endlessly against the sides of the tub as she struggled for purchase while she cried out, Caroline thought.
"And I added a few of my favourite things to the kitchen." Her eye caught Caroline's as she finished, and both looked away instantly, biting back smiles.
"Well. That sounds lovely and relaxing. Just what you both needed, I'm sure." Celia offered, giving her daughter a fond smile. With Kate so pregnant, they couldn't have expected to have had a honeymoon like her and Alan's, she supposed. They'd had sex in every room of the house, after all!