Amidst the uniform greys and purples of Lavender Town, the Pokémon Centre shone its typical bright neon reds and whites. It pierced through the lingering mist, visible from nearly anywhere in Lavender Town and as the rain began to pour that light refracted off the newly slick surfaces of the town. The surrounding area was transformed into a kaleidoscope of dazzling reds and whites. Lighting split the sky and cast the entire town in a pale light that brightened every dark and dreary feature of the vacant town. As soon as it came, it disappeared and only the lights of the Pokémon Centre remained. Normalcy persisted for a moment, and another, then another before thunder crashed. It shook the ground, rattling the tiled roofs of Lavender Town's buildings. A few tiles wobbled out of place and slid off their angled roofs, shattering on the paved paths below into countless purple shards.
Green and Abby half ran, half stumbled into the Pokémon Centre completely soaked from head to toe. Green's brown hair hung over her face in long, wet strands. She flicked them out of her face, like parting curtains and sent droplets of water scattering in either direction. Panting, she slung off her bag and plopped it on the white tiled floor. It landed with a thud and Green sighed, rolling her shoulders with a relieved smile. Abby's hair was in a similar state, hanging in long auburn strands. However, she was too preoccupied to care. Abby was hunched over to such a degree that her head was practically pointing straight ahead of her. Her backpack was facing straight up at the ceiling. Dratini slithered out of it, far less wet than either Green or Abby. He shook the small amount of water on him off and peered over Abby's hunched shoulder to get a look at what she was holding. An orange tail swished out from her arms, the end of which had a flickering flame. Abby stood up straight and uncrossed her arms off her chest, revealing Charmander without a single drop of water on him. The front of Abby's chest was dry too, apart from a wet patch in the middle. Charmander's eyes were puffy and snot dribbled from the two small nostrils on the front of his face. Lightning flashed and two moments later thunder crashed.
"CHARMANDER!" Charmander pressed his face into Abby's chest and began to bawl, again.
Abby stroked the back of his head with sharp, stiff motions.
"It's okay," She sighed.
Each of Charmander's wails sent his tail in a roaring flare of flame. Red sparks shot from it, singing Abby's clothes. She flinched away as it swished close to her face. Green gave Abby's a sympathetic smile as she rang the water out from her hair.
"Come on, let's get some rooms. He'll feel better after some sleep," She assured her.
Abby said nothing but nodded all the same. Together, they made their way towards the front desk. Dratini continued peering over Abby's shoulder at Charmander. His head was cocked and his fin-like ears were pricked up. Before the storm had struck and he had slithered away into Abby's bag, Dratini had been fascinated by Charmander. Something which Green had trouble understanding. He was such a peculiar Pokémon. It made her glad she wasn't a dragon trainer sometimes. She had enough trouble understanding regular pokémon. Dratini seemed like a whole other level of strange.
Behind the front desk was a girl who looked nearly identical to the two women Green had seen before. With long, thick black hair dressed in white and grey robes. Green, with one hand, plopped down her bag on the floor before the desk, resting it against the solid red structure.
"Are you the Nurse?" Green asked.
The woman blinked at her before directing her attention towards Abby.
"Why did you have your Charmander out in a thunderstorm? Are you trying to kill him?" While it was most definitely a scolding, her voice was flat and matter-of-fact.
Abby scowled and turned away from her slightly.
"No of course I wasn't! I ran the whole way here hunched over to protect him."
The woman, who Green had to assume was the Nurse despite a lack of an answer from her, looked unimpressed.
"You have pokéballs don't you?" She folded her arms.
Abby opened her mouth but said nothing. Green could practically see the cogs in her head, turning.
"I do…" She admitted with a mutter, looking down at her feet.
"Mhm," The Nurse replied.
She opened a draw behind the desk and slid out a plastic container filled with a rainbow of different coloured wafers. Carefully, she picked a red one and held it out to Charmander. Charmander sniffed and stopped his wailing. He raised his head from Abby's chest and looked at the wafer, snatching it away immediately with his tiny hands.
"Char," He murmured and recoiled back against Abby's chest as he stuffed the wafer into his mouth.
Dratini slithered down Abby's arm and hopped onto the desk. He gazed up at the Nurse, grinning hopefully.
"Tini?" He asked, eyeing the box of wafers.
She narrowed her eyes and snapped the box shut.
"You're not sick."
Dratini huffed and slithered back to Abby. Abby's eyes widened.
"He's sick?" She asked, looking down at Charmander.
The Nurse raised an eyebrow and nodded at Charmander.
"Look at him, of course, he's sick. The wafer will help his cold, keep him in his ball tonight."
Green stared at Charmander, dumbfounded. She'd assumed his puffy eyes and runny nose were from crying. Abby must have too as she was giving Charmander the same baffled expression.
"But, he was only out there for like thirty seconds…" Abby said.
"Thirty seconds of cold, wet air is more than enough to make a newborn sick," The Nurse explained, not even looking at them anymore as she returned the box of wafers to her desk draw.
Abby sighed and swung her bag around. She retrieved Charmander's ball and returned him.
"A newborn," She muttered.
Green pointed to the healing machine.
"Wouldn't that help the cold too?" She asked.
The Nurse rolled her eyes at her.
"No, this is for physical injuries. It repairs, it doesn't kill viruses," She explained slowly as if speaking to a child.
Green scowled.
"We'd like rooms," She grumbled.
"Of course you do…" The Nurse muttered under her breath.
She sighed and reached for a book, flipping it open roughly. After a brief skim, she raised her eyes back to Green's.
"The group that came in before you only left one room. You'll have to share."
Green shrugged and turned to Abby.
"That cool with you?"
Abby's head snapped to attention.
"Huh? What?" She asked.
Green giggled.
"Sharing a room Abby, are you cool with that?"
Abby gave a similar shrug.
"Yeah sure, we've basically done it before anyways."
Green smirked as she accepted the room key from the Nurse.
"I don't think a cave counts as a room," She picked up her bag and swung it back onto her shoulder before making her way to the right of the centre.
Abby jogged up to her side.
"It's a room of sorts, just a stone room with no door."
Green laughed and shook her head.
"Yeah, I guess," She pushed open a set of double doors.
Together, they headed down the hallway beyond, still dripping water behind them. Of all the Pokémon Centres Green had been in, this one had the least amount of rooms by far. The hall was short with only two doors on each side and one at the end labelled "#5". The same number as the key she had been given. To not drench the purple carpet of the hallway, Green and Abby hurried to the door. Green quickly unlocked it and the two of them, along with Dratini entered an absolutely tiny room. A bed barely big enough for two people was pressed into the far right corner. On its own, it took up nearly the entire floor space. It left a slither of the room just big enough for someone to walk through on its left and at its base. The walls were jam-packed with cabinets and thin closets. A fold-out counter was strapped up below a microwave embedded in the left wall. As Green entered she was that next to the entrance of the room was another door. She swung it open, nearly clocking Abby in the face and found a tiny bathroom with a shower and sink squeezed as close together as possible.
"Well, it's better than a cave I guess," Abby said with a shrug as she swung off her backpack.
She threw it to the floor and went to lay on the bed.
"Whoa wait, you'll get the bed wet!" Green exclaimed.
Abby stopped herself just in time and smiled sheepishly.
"Whoops sorry, are there towels in there?" Abby pointed to the bathroom.
Green checked, there was a towel rack with one white towel on it. She sighed and plucked it off the rack.
"Yeah, only one. Here," She tossed it to Abby.
Abby caught it and buried her face into it.
"It's warm!" She exclaimed, muffled by the towel.
Dratini nuzzled it.
"Dratini!" He agreed.
As Abby began to dry herself off Green placed her bag down between the two doors and began looking to see if she'd packed a towel. Thankfully, she had and thankfully she'd buried it deep enough that it hadn't gotten soaked. She joined Abby, drying herself off too. When they were dry enough to sit on the bed, they did and worked away at getting dampness out of their hair. Dratini left them to it and explored the room. It didn't take long, after only a few moments of slithering around he'd seen what there was to see. He flicked the latch holding up the foldout counter with his tail. It folded out and he slithered up onto it, curled up and closed his eyes for a nap. Outside, another rumble of thunder shook the room, rattling the cabinets. Dratini didn't so much as stir. Together, Green and Abby looked at each other.
"I love thunder," they said in unison, making the other laugh.
Abby smirked.
"You like lighting too, huh?" She prodded Green's chest.
It took a moment for that to register with Green but when it did she laughed and gave her a shove.
"Fuck off, you fucked him too."
Abby rolled onto her back and shrugged.
"And I love lightning!"
Green wrapped the towel around her head and joined Abby in laying on the bed. An involuntary sigh escaped her as the soft mattress cradled her tense and stiff back. They lay there in silence for a moment, enjoying the comfort.
"So, you must be enjoying this place huh?" Abby asked, turning onto her side to face Green.
Green faced her too and cocked her head.
"What makes you think that?" She asked.
"Well, it's a small town with hardly any people, just like Pallet."
Green laughed and shook her head.
"Lavender Town is nothing like Pallet. Pallet is empty but it still has people, not many but still people. There are farms, Oak's lab and the occasional traveller. This place is just straight up abandoned. It's kinda creepy actually."
Abby giggled and nodded.
"Yeah, just a little." Abby's eyes suddenly lit up, "so you grew up on a farm?!" She asked, grinning madly.
Green shook her head.
"Nah, my mum runs a motel for travellers. As well as a bar for the farmers. We even used to have our own version of a pokémart but the real pokémart in Viridian had better prices so we had to close it." She explained with a smile, reminiscing about home.
The grin didn't disappear from Abby's face. She scooted closer.
"That's even cooler! It's like a tavern from a fairy tale!"
"Yeah kinda," Green laughed, "although less like heroes and adventurers, more like drunk farmers and exhausted trainers.
Abby shrugged and rolled onto her back again, resting her head on her hands.
"Sounds a lot better than being surrounded by people who only care about status."
Silence followed that. Abby stared up at the ceiling, her grin replaced with a hardened look. Green looked away, hiding behind her towel to dry her hair. After a few more moments of silence, Abby let out a long exhale and sat up with a hop.
"Whelp that doesn't matter now! I'm out in the world away from all that and perusing my dream," the smile had returned.
"On the run," Green chose not to say that out loud.
"Yeah exactly, you've even got four of the pokémon you need for your trial thing already!" Green exclaimed, trying to steer away from the depressing stuff.
Although, despite her effort, Abby's smile faltered again but only briefly. It twitched, dropping and returning but much thinner. She laughed awkwardly.
"Aha, yeah exactly."
Green could see where she'd gone wrong.
"You know, Charmander won't be weak forever. Pokémon mature fast, he'll be strong in no time with the right training," Green tried to assure her.
Abby's eyes darted away briefly.
"Yeah I know, it's just…" Her eyes returned to Green and then moved away again.
Abby chewed her lip.
"It's just what?" Green asked.
Abby opened her mouth but she froze, her eyes darted back and forth as if searching for something behind Green's head. Green furrowed her brow.
"You can tell me, I won't judge."
Abby sighed and dropped her gaze, staring at crossed legs.
"I always dreamed I'd have a Charmander like Red's," She admitted, rushing her words in a mutter.
Now it was Green's turn to be lost for words.
"Oh…" was all she managed.
"Sorry," Abby said quickly as she grimaced, "I know he's a sore spot for you."
Green shook her head.
"No it's okay I get it, plenty of people look up to him it's normal," She said with a clenched jaw.
Abby gave a weary nod.
"I'd always imagined by Charmander as fierce and brave," Abby glanced at her bag, "this one is, well, the complete opposite."
Green remembered Red's Charmander all too well. When he and Blue had gotten their starters, he'd almost burned down Oak's lab during their first battle. Fierce was as correct of a description as Green could up with for the pokémon and brave was an understatement. The way Green had seen him fight on TV, he fought as if his own safety meant nothing to him. The only thing that could bring that pokémon down was to beat him within an inch of his life and still that might not be enough. Green forced a smile.
"I'm sure your Charmander will be just as fierce and brave one day."
Abby beamed at her.
"Hopefully!" She hopped up onto her knees.
"Now, I'm bored! Let's see if there are any board games in these cabinets!" Abby exclaimed.
Green smile for real.
"Board games?" She laughed, "You think Channelers are gonna have board games?"
"Yup! All the Pokémon Centre's have them!" With that, Abby began searching the cabinets.
Green joined her.
"Maybe I'm wrong?" She thought, amused at the idea of Channelers playing Monopoly.
She wasn't. All they found were some purple incense candles and laundry detergent for the tiny washing machine housed in the thin wardrobe. Abby had wanted to light them but Green refused, if she smelt anymore Lavender she was going to vomit.
"Maybe they keep them at the front desk?" Abby suggested.
"Go ahead ask that Nurse for a board game, be my guest," Green laughed.
Abby took the challenge seriously and ran off to do just that. She returned a minute later, head hung low. She slumped onto the bed.
"Did they have board games?" Green asked.
Abby shook her head.
"Was she mean to you?"
Abby nodded. Green laughed and fell down beside her on the bed. Suddenly, a sly smile spread across Abby's face.
"You know what is in this room that we can have some fun with?" Abby asked, propping up onto her shoulder.
Green gave her a wary look, pretty sure she knew what the answer was.
"What?" She asked.
Abby's eyes gleamed.
"The bed."
They both laughed uncontrollably. Despite not feeling any shyness about the idea, Green still felt herself blush. When she went to speak, she tripped on her own words.
"Y-yeah?" She asked, feeling her heart thump in her chest.
Abby moved closer and placed her hand on Green's thigh.
"Yeah," she whispered.
The confidence she showed suddenly vanished and now Abby was blushing too. Timidly, she moved her off Green's thigh.
"You okay?" Green asked gingerly, feeling a bit of whiplash as she went from turned on to worried.
Abby nodded quickly.
"Y-yeah it's just uh-" she glanced at Dratini, "I kinda, sorta wanted to try without the pokémon?"
Green eyes widened and she sat forward.
"Oh! Really? I thought you couldn't do it without them?"
Abby fidgeted and looked away.
"I thought so too but after everything in Vermilion with Darcy and Surge," saying his name brought a smile to her lips, "I don't know anymore."
Green grasped Abby's hand and spoke softly.
"Have you ever done it with just a person before or was Dratini your first?" She asked, her face flushing more as she did.
Abby nodded.
"Yeah there was a guy in Cerulean I hooked up with, I got nothing out of it. But when I was with Surge and his Electrode I…" She giggled and went bright red.
Green laughed too, although not on purpose.
"Y-Yeah well uh, um I'd be happy to help?"
Abby pursed her lips together and nodded.
"Okay," She agreed in a small but excited voice.
Kneeling on the bed together they both just looked at each other or glanced away for a few moments. Until Green took a deep breath and pushed past her nerves. It was almost easy to do now. She leaned in and Abby followed. Green placed her hands on Abby's lap as she leaned forward, her skin was smooth but she could feel the goosebumps all along her thighs. Before she knew it, their lips were locked. Green closed her eyes, focusing on the warm feel of her mouth. It made her heart flutter. She wanted to push in harder but held off, afraid of scaring her. They pulled away and she opened her eyes to find Abby grinning.
"Was that good?" She asked.
Abby nodded.
"Yup!" She cried and lunged back at Green.
Green gasped but it was muffled as their lips locked again and roughly pressed together. They fell back into the purple blankets, sucking each other's face hungrily. Any hesitation in Abby had left far quicker than the shock in Green's system. Her hands groped at Green's body, squeezing her thighs and sneaking under her shirt to grope her breasts through her chest wrap. The pace was insane but Green didn't back down. Once her shock was gone, she matched Abby and started caressing her body. Feeling her firm, petite through her skirt and lifting up her shirt to feel her small breasts. It was a strange being with someone the same size as her for once. Abby felt light as a feather. Green grasped her hips and sat up, burying her face into Abby's breasts. She wrapped her lips around her nipple and sucked away, it grew hard in her mouth and she flicked it with her tongue. Abby gasped and laughed, clinging onto Green's head. It felt surprisingly good to be in control for once during sex. Green smirked against Abby's breast.
"I didn't know you were so strong!" Abby laughed.
Her laugh turned into a gasp as Green cupped her ass with both hands, hoisted her up and slammed her down onto her back. Now on top and between her legs, Green slid her hand under Abby's skirt and clasped her pussy. Abby bit her lip and clung to Green.
"Fuck," She whispered.
Green lifted her head, letting Abby's shirt fall back down. They locked eyes.
"Feel good?" She asked, slowly rubbing her hand back and forth.
Abby grinned slyly.
"Really good," She let go of Green and lifted her shirt over her head, flinging it to the side.
It hit the wall and fell back onto the bed. Green shuddered at the sight of Abby's bare chest with the rapid beat of her heart. Abby blushed as she stared and chewed her lip.
"They're not as big as yours," She said.
Green smiled and kissed her.
"And they're adorable," She whispered against her lips, making Abby giggle.
Abby kissed her back and they fell into a deep make-out. Green rolled off of Abby as they kissed, her hand still between her legs and rubbing away. Abby moaned into her mouth, getting rougher and rougher with her kisses. Her hands found the bottom button of Green's shirt and began hastily undoing them, trembling and fumbling each one. Still, she persisted and pulled desperately as the shirt after undoing the top button. Green laughed against her and helped, sitting back up and pulling the shirt back off her shoulders. She let it fall back behind her as she reached around to untie her chest wrap. It fell as the knot loosened, letting Green's huge breasts heave out. Abby's eyes winded at the sight. She froze, staring at them with an open jaw. Her hand fell between her legs, filling Green's absence. Green laughed.
"You wanna suck 'em?" She asked.
Abby nodded and immediately lurched forward onto her knees. Her hand whipped out from between her legs and joined her other in grasping the sides of Green's breasts. She wrapped her lips around Green's nipple and began to suckle. At first, she pulled on Green's nipple with each, frantic suck as she scrambled her hands to feel each inch of Green's breasts. Occasionally, she would lift her mouth away for a quick sharp breath and plunge right back down. But the more she sucked, the slower she got. Her hands rested in one spot, squishing the sides of Green's breasts to push them together, in sync with her sucking. As she sucked in she squeezed and as released with her mouth, she released with her hands. She held her breath for longer as she calmed and when she did take a breath, it was long and shaky. Her hands trembled slightly as they groped Green's breasts. Green, in turn, stroked her hair. It had lost any dampness from the rain and was soft, the waves in her locks had begun to return. A moan escaped Green's lips each time Abby sucked in. Her nipples were rock hard, the smallest sensation sent tingles down Green's spine. Her hands wandered down the back of Abby's head, following her hair. When her hands left Abby's hair they were greeted by the waist of her skirt. Gently, Green pulled Abby close to her by the small of her back. Abby made a muffled sound and a smile spread across her face, small at first but it grew into a wild grin. Her head popped up and she attacked Green's mouth with her own. Green's heart skipped a beat and she pulled Abby in tight, pressing their breasts together. Abby's mouth had been watering as he suckled on Green's breasts, making their kisses sloppy. Spit ran down both their chins but neither stopped to wipe it away. Their hands were too busy pulling at each other waistbands.
Abby pushed her mouth against Green's, hard and held it there for far longer than usual. She bit Green's lip lightly and pulled away.
"Fuck!" She exclaimed, "I want you to fuck me!"
Green giggled and gave her a light shove. She fell back onto the bed with a grin, grabbed at her skirt and raised her ass off the bed. With one tug she slipped it off and kicked it away, leaving her in nothing but panties and shoes. The panties quickly followed but Abby opted to keep her shoes and socks on. Green stretched the elastic waist of her shorts and wormed them off, her eyes locked on Abby's bare pink pussy between the creamy white skin of her thighs. Eventually, she was able to get them off, followed by her own panties. She smirked at Abby.
"Turn around and get on all fours, I've got an idea," She giggled.
Abby got up on her knees.
"Ooo, I like ideas," She turned around and bent over, getting on all fours before Green.
Green waddled forward on her knees and grasped Abby's ass with both hands. It was firm and just the right size for Green's hands to get a hold of. Abby gasped as she gave it a squeeze. Green took two fingers, her index and middle, and rubbed the tips against the entrance of her pussy. The muscles in Abby's ass and thighs tensed at her touch. With her free hand, Green caressed Abby's ass, rubbing it and giving it a squeeze occasionally. When Green heard a desperate moan from Abby that's when she acted and pushed her fingers inside her pussy. It squeezed her as she pushed them as Abby let out a gasp, followed by a soft short moan. Once Green was knuckle-deep inside her, she began drawing back to start fingering her. Back and forth she went, moving slowly and carefully. Quiet, whimpering moans came from Abby as she did.
"That feels good," She stammered before a moan overcame her.
Green kept her pace steady, not rushing. While a pounding was exhilarating, Green had learned by now that the most pleasure comes from a slow, steady rhythm. Not too fast and not too hard. She was being proven right too, each push of her fingers made Abby's pussy contract around her. The muscles quivered as she pulled back. Green leaned over Abby as she fingered her and kissed her up her back, leaving a hickey beneath her shoulder blade. That made Abby squeal, giggle and then moan a long, shuddering moan. Green pulled back, sitting upright on her knees again. As she did, she came face to face with Abby's asshole. It puckered as her pussy clenched around Green's fingers. Green just couldn't resist. She opened her mouth and pressed her tongue flat against her asshole. That, made Abby's pussy clench tighter than ever before. She gasped.
"Fuck! Oh, don't stop!" She cried.
Green didn't. In fact, she pressed further and poked her tongue inside. As the tip of her tongue stretched Abby's ass she cried out in delight. Over the top of her ass, Green watched as Abby's elbows buckled and her front-half collapsed, leaving her face down ass up. She struggled to get back up but Green pushed deeper inside, putting a stop to that. Abby couldn't stop moaning, over and over she moaned. Her hands clutched the bed sheets, pulling and tugging them as Green's ate out her ass. Her mouth and fingers worked together, moving in time to pleasure Abby. Green's heart was beating faster and faster, making her chest feel tight and heavy. She pulled back her head and gasped for air.
"Shit! Get on your back!" She panted and pulled out fingers.
Abby scrambled to turn over. As she did, Green closed her eyes and hung her head back as she still tried to catch her breath. She opened them again just as Abby was spreading her legs for her. Something that wasn't her mind made her move, she pounced on Abby and stuffed her fingers back inside. She stuck out her pinkie too, pushing that inside Abby's lubed asshole. Abby cried out as the three fingers entered her and grasped at her breasts. Her eyes locked with Green, hers desperate and Green's hungry. Green lurched forward over the top of Abby's body and locked lips with her as she fingered her again, now a little rougher. Their kisses were loose and frantic, between Abby's moans and Green's sharp breathing their mouths had trouble staying connected. Still, that didn't deter either of them. Even if tongue occasionally met lip or lips met cheek, their mouths always searched for each other. This went on for minutes, but it felt like hours of Abby's ass and pussy around her fingers. Of her tongue in her mouth and their breath mixing. Their mouths connected properly for once, locking lips. The last one for a little while as Abby's mouth fell away from Green's. The moans were stopped by a choke. Her back arched, popping Green's pinkie out of her ass. Abby made a choking gasp and began to spasm lightly. Her eyes rolled back and her hands locked up, shaking like leaves. A white creamy substance leaked from her pussy, covering Green's fingers. Abruptly, she broke out of her choke and let out a moan so loud Green had to quickly cover her mouth in case the people in the other rooms heard. Green rolled off Abby and lay on her back beside her. She cuddled her, holding her as she came. Her hand worked Abby's pussy, playing with her clit to make her orgasm even more enjoyable. Another loud moan followed this one muffled by Green's hand properly. Suddenly, Abby's body relaxed and limp. Green moved her hand off her mouth. Abby smiled up at her with droopy eyes.
"I-I came so hard," She whispered with a stammer.
Green giggled.
"Yeah, you did," She agreed and kissed Abby's forehead.
She moved her hand off Abby's pussy and wrapped her arms around her, pulling her limp body onto her chest. Abby embraced her, groping her breasts weakly. Together, they caught their breath and the tension slowly wilted away. Abby raised her head off Green's chest.
"I want to try," She said, each word sounded like an effort.
Green stroked her hair.
"Alright, give it a shot,"
She grasped Abby's wrist and guided it to between her legs. Abby giggled as her hand made contact.
"It's wet."
Green could only laugh at that. Abby tried to pleasure her but her movements were frantic. The speed was inconsistent as well as the way they rubbed. She started with circles, then moved the rubbing back and forth, then back to circles all at different speeds. None of which was even on Green's clit. With droopy eyes, Abby pawed at Green.
"I'm sorry," She murmured.
Green smiled and gently moved her hand away.
"Don't be, it's okay," She assured her.
Abby mumbled something as her eyes closed. Her head lay on Green's breast, above the nipple and she fell asleep. Somehow, despite getting no pleasure herself, Green didn't mind. At the foot of the bed, Green saw a pair of purple eyes watching her. Dratini was staring, still curled up in his sleeping spiral. He smiled, gave her a nod and closed his eyes. Green lay awake for a moment, unable to shake the grin on her face. Not that she was trying very hard. As she tried to fall asleep, she passed the time by stroking Abby's hair and staring at her naked body spooned up against her side.