No spoilers, PG-13/T for implied sexual activity. Prompt is "Animorphs, Rachel, Virginity".
She was never one of those girls. Not the loose kind, that loses her virginity by age fourteen or becomes completely uncool. And not the conservative kind, insisting that she'll be a virgin bride. She's her own kind of girl, the kind that goes with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.
Her first time is Marco and she's frankly ashamed to admit it. It could have been anyone. It's just because he's there. Afterwards he says, "Well, I have to admit the fantasies were just a little better."
She tells him, "That you even had fantasies at all is more than a little pathetic."
"It worked, didn't it?" And she has to admit that he's right.
They get together a few more times over the next few years, but it's always just a you were there moment and it doesn't mean anything. She and Tobias try it sometimes, but it's awkward, because even though his mind is mature his body is still the gawky thirteen year old she met him as, and he just isn't comfortable in it in the first place. She tries Ax in human morph and even Cassie once, in the loft above the barn, but that doesn't happen again. She never touches Jake because that would be weird (like screwing an alien and a hawk isn't weird enough) but there was a moment there, once.
It's not that she's easy. She doesn't do it for the sex, even. She does it for the release. Because nothing, nothing comes close to the high she gets in battle, but the passion is enough to tide her over until the next one. She's pretty sure the others do it for the same reason. But she needs it the most.
She was never one of those girls. She still isn't. She's still taking what comes to her, tearing it up like only she can, and letting the chips fall where they may.
