Chapter 25

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Washing Up

With everything else set and ready for the three to head off pick up ruby when they were ready, they stopped in at the butchery for some quick showers and a change of clothes. Jess was the last out of the car, she clearly wasn't feeling well. Lena just assumed it was all the trauma from the day, and the month setting in on her.

"It's gonna be ok. You are home, safe." Lena offered, opening the car door for her friend and offering her a hand.

"Thanks Lena. Sorry, it's been… it has been a long month." Jess admitted.

"I'm sure it has been. It was for us too. But I am incredibly relieved that we have you back." Lena hugged her friend. "I love you dummy, so don't go getting kidnapped again. Ok?"

Kara watched on, having a small chuckle to herself about how dramatically she had reacted the first time that she had heard Lena say that to her friend. She knew, she knew now that it wasn't like that, that Jess really was just a friend to Lena and that it was not competition. "We are both glad to have you back." Kara forced a smile over a ponderous look.

"I'll try. But I make no promises."

Jess was given free rein of the downstairs and its small shower in order to clean up. Lena was nice enough to set out a spare set of older clothes for the vampire to change into once she was all clean and dried up. The upstairs however was where the mated pair adjourned to clean and change. Kara either took pity on her exhausted mate or just forgot and didn't ask after what had been going on as they set up for a long warm shower.

"How are you doing love? Hanging in there?" Kara found a temporary seat on the edge of Lena's medium-sized tub.

"Yeah. I'm just fine. I've been telling you that all morning." Lena shooed off the ideation.

"Baby, you got stabbed. You didn't just get stabbed, your best friend's hand jutted inside your chest and nearly killed you." Kara's stress showed in a more human way as she buried her head in her hands, rubbing at her eyes and then her temples before looking back up to Lena. "I thought you were going to die." Signs of stress showed themselves more as Kara ran her hands through her hair a couple times, attempting to pull it back and out of her face.

"I'm ok." Lena assured again, kneeling down on the bathmat at Kara's feet. "I am ok. I am drained, tired, stressed, sore, and having Jess's blood had me wired for a good bit, so I was crashing a little when we had lunch. But I am and I am going to be ok." She took Kara's hands in hers, running each of Kara's fingers between her thumb and index on either side.

"You were hurt. I was scared. I couldn't control myself Lena. I… I haven't felt like that since, not since I heard Jess said she loves you."

Lena's hands stopped and she went silent.

Kara expected a variety of responses, the one she assumed most likely was a reassurance that Jessica never meant it that way. Dead silence was far from anything she had anticipated, however. "Baby?"

"Yeah! Yeah. I… that must be scary." Lena forced.

"Babe?"

"Time to take a shower." Lena looked up, forcing her smile harder.

"What's going on in that beautiful little head of yours?" Kara brought up Lena's hands to her mouth and kissed each once on the knuckles.

"Nothin, I just feel yucky and need to take a shower."

"Sweetheart, stop doing that. Please?"

Lena didn't open her mouth, but her expression of false bewilderment betrayed her silence.

"Pretending you don't know what I am talking about?" Kara's tone suppressed her frustration, but Lena felt like the alpha's eyes already knew all her secrets.

"I! I!" Lena made yet another unconvincing attempt to portray ignorance.

"I know I didn't fall in love with someone that stupid."

"I love you too." Lena whimpered and lowered her head into their hands.

"I know. So can you please be honest with me? Before we run out of hot water?"

"I am scared. There is a lot going on, and I am really scared."

"Ok. You don't have to tell me what it is." Kara offered in a knowing but empathetic register as she caressed the top of Lena's head and down her neck. "All you have to do is relax and shower with me."

"You sure?"

"I'm certain baby girl." Kara stood and assisted Lena up off of her knees. "Just relax. Ok?" She followed up with a soft kiss to Lena's neck and then pulling the omega's shirt off.

"Ok, Kara." Lena found a comfy little nook in the crook of Kara's neck, resting weary eyes into it as magic hands seemed to float around her and her clothes flew off.

"You are still all covered in blood." Kara pouted, her hands running over recently healed flesh.

"Be careful. It is still a little tender."

"Of course, of course. I'm sorry." Kara knelt down and left a loving kiss at the pinker patch of skin. The surface seemed to have healed, but Kara understood that did not necessarily mean the rest had as well. "I am so sorry I couldn't protect you."

"You did tho dummy" Lena pouted and playfully pushed Kara's shoulder.

"Lena. I wasn't strong enough, wasn't smart enough. I! I fucked up and you got hurt."

"I did get hurt. But it was Alex and I pushing for us to go in there. You were the smart one. But not strong enough?" Lena chuckled at the idea. "I've got the strongest alpha on the block. Able to keep her own against a vampire? Even outside of the moon? Are you kidding me? My alpha is the strongest, baddest mother fucker there is, was, and ever will be." Lena's lips sought out Kara's, ushering them both beyond the shower curtain and into the streaming water as a kiss developed and depend on something that nearly involved throwing each other up against the walls of the shower.

"God you are perfect." Kara panted into a kiss in its earlier stages; the stages where Lena was still feigning the ability or interest in leading.

"You are too my love." Lena purred back, nipping playfully at Kara's lower lip in an effort to awaken Kara's yearning just a little further.

Kara huffed low, her hips beginning to join in with the loving kiss, turning the act into a full-body activity as she rocked herself up against her mate. "Mine."

"All yours." Lena agreed. "All yours, in your arms, safe." The words half a reassurance for Kara and half a prayer for herself that things could just stay that way.

Kara's mouth slowly slipped from its dedicated post at Lena's lips. She took her time meandering across Lena's chin then down her neck until she hit the mating mark. There she gave extra attention, kissing and sucking at the extra sensitive skin. It was easy to drive Lena to a point where her nails were clawing into the alpha's back, to draw out a soft moan and whimper or two. Lena's breath shuttered in heavy pants when Kara began biting at her neck, nipping and sucking harder in a loving preparatory taunt. "Enjoying yourself?" Kara's smug tone cut through the haze building in Lena's tired mind.

"Kara." Lena whined and shifted to her tippy toes, trying to get Kara's attention back on her neck, to entice her alpha back into kissing and teasing at her neck.

"I know my love, but it is time to clean you up, not get you dirtier."

Lena pouted and pushed her shoulder into Kara's arm frustrated.

"Come now love, we both know I am going to take care of you." Kara smiled, grabbing the soap and sinking down to her knees with a controlled speed that made Lena want to force her down faster. The omega happened to decide against that idea however, as she figured that it might result in her not getting what she wanted at all.

"I just want you to relax." Kara lathered up her hands, beginning from Lena's shoulders then down around her breasts, making sure not to give them anywhere near the amount of attention Lena craved, but enough to keep Lena reeling. She kissed softly at the curve of Lena's hips, moving her lips over her mate's core without slipping down to the pheromone filled bush just slightly below. Kisses at bare flesh grew deeper, nearly nips and bites as she grew hungry for her mate.

"Fuck!" Lena's abdomen shuttered and twisted as heat built between her legs.

"Just like that my love, just like that." Kara's hands slipped lower, cupping Lena's ass and pulling it closer to her.

"Kara!" Lena yelped suddenly and opened her legs just a little.

"Want you." Kara growled low, nipping harder at Lena's sensitive flesh.

"Then take!" Lena panted, one hand shooting down to the back of Kara's head and the other wrapping around the shower knob.

"Happily" Kara pulled one of Lena's legs over her shoulder as to ensure she had perfect access to her meal.

Another breathless curse slipped past Lena's lips as her mate moved in, hot breath brushing against her sex as water rushed down her body and right past the point which ached for Kara's touch, and more specifically her tongue.

"My girl smell so good." Kara praised, leaving one kiss at the inside of Lena's exposed thigh and then giving in, yielding to both her alpha and her mate's desires. An open mouth embraced Lena's sex, a tongue running over the center of the omega's folds.

"Oh christ, Kara." Lena's grip at the back of her alpha's head tightened and her eyes rolled back as her hips rocked into Kara's mouth.

Kara mumbled something back into Lena's flesh, but it was indecipherable. She licked, sucked, teased her teeth at delicate flesh and moaned into Lena in heavenly intervals. Her tongue parted the folds, running up and back before focusing on Lena's clit to only start again a moment later. She could feel the omega's leg pressing harder on her shoulder and her heel pressing into her back as she struggled for just that last bit of leverage that would turn her brain and knees to jelly in an instant. Kara's grin stretched and she pressed into Lena's muff ever so slightly more. She adored nothing more than making her mate unravel. The feeling of Lena's nails digging into her scalp and knotting up her hair was the best compliment Kara had ever received and made for more than fantastic encouragement. Both Lena's wetness and that which is intrinsic in a shower dribbled down Kara's chin as she eagerly devoured more.

"Oh! Oh, fuck! Kara! I'm gonna!" Lena rocked her hips harder and squeezed with both hands her balance slipping away entirely as Kara speed up.

The alpha grabbed at Lena's ass, pulling her just that last picometer closer so that her work could only be a smidgen more effective in blowing her beloved away.

A piercing shriek broke out of Lena's lungs and she seemed to bounce up and down on Kara's shoulders like she was struggling to escape. The alpha continued her work for another moment, grinning wide with pride until her own jaw dropped and she let loose her own shrill. "Cold! Cold, cold, cold, cold!" Icy water poured over her head and down her back, shooting sudden chills straight through her bones.

"Cold!" Lena's face contorted in horror as she continued trying to escape out from above Kara while frantically spinning the shower's knob back to hot. "So cold!" She whined again, the shower finally warming back up.

"God! What happened?" Kara relaxed as the warm finally began to wash back over her.

"I… umm. I kinda accidentally turned the knob right as I was about to…" Lena pouted and looked away.

"So my beautiful girl didn't get to?" Kara kissed at the inside of Lena's thigh.

Lena whined and shook her head.

"Well, that's not an issue. I can just…" Kara moved to get back to work.

"Ooh! Hey!" Lena stopped Kara with a palm at her forehead. "Hey, hey. Maybe not just yet? Oof." Lena sighed, still trying to catch her breath back. "Just a lot." Lena smoothed her palm over Kara's head and down her neck, gently soothing her. "Just let me sit down for a second?"

"Course love." Kara assisted Lena in dropping her back down to the ground.

"Sorry babe." Lena sighed, sliding down and sitting on the edge of the tub against a corner.

"Now what are you apologizing for sweetheart?" Kara kissed Lena's knee and picked back up the soap. She once more lathered her hands and began at Lena's feet, lovingly working her way up and swapping legs after she reached Lena's hips once more.

"I feel like I ruined the fun." Lena pouted.

"Did you enjoy yourself?"

"Until I accidentally froze us alive? Thoroughly."

"Then there was nothing ruined. We had fun. If you wanna cum, I am happy to help you do that. If you don't want to, then that is ok. We can have fun without either of us climaxing." Kara placed a singular adoring kiss at Lena's belly. "If my girl is happy, then I am happy."

"Thank you. Thank you so much love." Lena pulled Kara's head up just a little before leaning down and kissing her gently.

"What's going on behind those beautiful eyes?"

Lena giggled, looked away, and blushed worse than she had minutes earlier with Kara's head between her legs.

"Come on, what's going on? You are smiling wider than normal." Kara leaned up, caressing Lena's cheek with just her thumb.

"You are you again. You aren't that snarling alpha beast, just barking at everything and everyone who passes by. You are my sweet, kind, loving mate. The one who couldn't stand to see Cat suffer. Not the animal who wanted to put Maxwell down just because he is sick. Because you are sitting here with me, caring more about whether I am emotionally ok then whether or not there is some ominous threat over the horizon. What is going on is that for the first time in what feels like a very long time, I am not scared. I finally think that it might really have all been a lie! That you aren't going feral. That you are ok! And that… that is the best feeling in the world. To have MY Kara back."

"Well? What's going on love? What's got that big smile on your face?" Kara repeated herself after no answer.

Snapping from her daydream, Lena shook her head, a tear falling and blending in with the shower. "Nothing babe. Just happy."

"Then I am glad you are happy." Kara nodded. "Ready to dry off?" Kara wiped her thumb over the pinker patch of flesh under Lena's breast. "It's a miracle that you are ok. I… I know that Jess giving you some of her blood helped you heal so fast. But… god. I was so scared. I was certain that you… that you." Kara couldn't bring herself to face her mate.

"You don't know what kept me alive do you?" Lena slipped down to the floor of the tub to be eye to eye with Kara.

"Lena, please don't say something stupid like 'oh it was my love for you that kept me alive' or something. That isn't how that works." Kara shook her head, still not ready to show Lena her face and the fear she knew it wore.

"I!" Lena sighed. "Well, although I am sure that it could be taken in that way. That isn't what I was going to say."

Kara stopped her shaking head and raised it ever so slightly, not quite looking at her mate's face, but not quite looking low enough just to be staring at her mate's breasts either.

"I was going to say that the ring you gave me kept me alive." Lena looked down to her hand, spinning it around on her finger. "I could feel it… like tightening around my finger? Like Jess had been trying to crush it, and not my heart. I… it really saved me love." Lena went to remove it, feeling like she was being punched repeatedly as she tried. "Ahh!" She cried out, clutching her chest.

"Lena!" Kara's arms wrapped around her mate.

"I'm fine. I'm fine. I… Just looks like it is still doing its work. So no taking it off right now. But, yeah. Depending on how you look at it, your love did keep me alive." Lena smiled softly.

"No taking it off then." Kara looked up, finally meeting Lena's eyes. "Maybe not ever?"

"I have a feeling it will heal sometime." Lena snickered without understanding what Kara really meant.

Kara sighed. "I… look, so, it is wolf tradition for that ring to be given as something more than just a 'hey I want to fuck you, bite you, and turn you into a werewolf.'"

"It was more than that Kara." Lena assured.

"But it still wasn't quite what it should have been."

"Kara? What are you saying?"

"We are wolves, and we are each other's in wolf culture, but we are humans too. I… I'll do it right. I'll get you something better than a tarnished old heirloom I didn't even pay a dime for."

"Kara?"

"But… would you?" Kara swallowed around a thick tongue.

"Would I what Kara?" Lena was smiling, her chest hurting for an entirely different reason all of a sudden.

"Would you like to marry me?" Kara gave a whole millisecond before she began blurting words out again awkwardly. "It doesn't have to be anytime soon! Hell, it can be over a year from now if you want. I… I just want, I want that. I want it with you." Kara settled.

"Of course my love. Like I could ever say no." Lena shook her head and laughed lightly.

"I love you."

"I love you too Kara. Now time to dry up before we turn to prunes."

End of Chapter 25

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