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Tucker and Serana laid next to each other, sweaty and panting. The bed shifted slightly beneath them with each ragged breath. It had been about four days since their initial "incident" and they had repeated the act a number of times over the course of the past few days. So many times in fact that the pair had lost track. Their days were a haze of a bit of training, eating, and lustfully thrusting their bodies together any chance they got. The only issue was that nobody, to their knowledge, knew about them and they had not talked about it so far.

Serana glanced at Tucker. He was still healing from the wounds inflicted during their confrontation with Harkon. Normally he healed fairly quickly but the wounds that he received were as numerous as they were grievous. His wounds were, all but two of his ribs were broken, his innards had spilled out a bit but were put back, half of his face almost fell off before it was stabilized and he nearly lost vision in his left eye but it was saved by some master healer from the College of Winterhold, he had a number of fractures and breaks in his arms and legs due to being tossed around, and he had lost enough blood that they had to dump blood potions into him to act as a the amount that he lost and stabilize him. All told he should have been dead. He did have a number of new scars though, and they were all placed in such a way that made Serana just want to kiss and lick each and every one of them.

As her eyes rolled up and down his slightly muscular frame she thought back to the activities they had been doing. By the Gods they were like a pair of rabbits in spring. Thank the Gods they didn't have to worry about pregnancy. And he was quite good at these activities too. She did worry about one point, they hadn't discussed what was going on at all. She figured that he would broach the subject of their emotions since she had broached the physical attraction but he hadn't said anything yet. She feared that this was just casual sex to him. All their adventures and bonds of fellowship aside, what kind of future could he ever envision with a creature like her? She turned her eyes back to the ceiling at this thought. Gods she was being an idiot. This whole thing was likely to end in more heartbreak for her.

At the same moment that Serana turned her gaze to the ceiling Tucker shifted his gaze to her. She was quite beautiful in the dim lighting, her light complexion and bright eyes being easily visible in the relative darkness of the room. The room was given to him by Isran once he proved himself a capable member of the Dawnguard. Tucker was never one for fancy quarters gifted to him, preferring to sleep in the barracks with the rest of the Dawnguard but he and Serana had needed some privacy for the things they were doing.

His eyes noticed a few new scars on her slender yet powerful frame. Though she hadn't been in as critical a condition as him she had taken a large amount of damage during the battle. She had lost a large amount of blood, had multiple fractures and breaks in her bones, and was mildly concussed. Of course, being a vampire she was able to bear her wounds fairly well and recover in a day or two but still. Just because she survived it didn't meant it wasn't damaging and painful. What was even more impressive was that she fought so fiercely to protect him even when she knew he was likely to die. Rather than retreat to tend to her own wounds she risked her life to save a man that was on the brink of death. He was lucky to have someone like her at his back. He bit his lip at this thought.

They had not yet discussed what their amorous activities as of late meant. He had assumed that since she was the one that initated the sex she would be the one to bring up what it meant to her but she had not yet spoken on the matter. Of course he loved the sex because gods above was she amazing at it but he really hoped this wasn't some casual fling with a mortal to her. He knew that this wasn't some kind of fling to him. He turned away to stare at the ceiling as he mulled this over.

"So, that was pretty good huh?"

Tucker turned to look at Serana, he was surprised that she spoke up.

"Yeah, that was pretty damn good."

Serana shifted to look at him. Tucker couldn't help but blush a bit as his eyes followed other parts of her that shifted. She took notice and flashed him a predatory smirk that got him standing at attention once more.

"Mmm. Must be pretty good if you're ready to go again."

Tucker put on his standard cocky smirk and flirted back.

"For you, I'm always at the ready."

Serana began to scootch towards him on the bed, slowly wrapping an arm around him and using her vampiric strength to quickly pull him nose to nose with her.

"You'd better. Otherwise I might just have to find other ways of using you."

"Ah, and what ways would that entail?"

"Maybe you need a demonstration."

Serana slowly pushed Tucker's head down towards the bottom of the bed, towards her lower region. Tucker followed her guiding hand and enthusiastically got to work.

Some passionate time together later

Both Tucker and Serana laid panting on the bed once more. Yet again they played the game of glancing at one another but never at the same time. Finally Tucker broke the silence.

"So, um. This has been ridiculously fun but do you think we should maybe talk about what this means?"

Tucker could feel himself begin to sweat as he got the words out. Serana's entire body stiffened. He was finally bringing it up. She rolled over to face him.

"Sure. I think we definitely should."

The pair stared at each other, each trying to will the other to speak their feelings first. Finally, Tucker relented under her gaze.

"Well, if I'm being honest, I am very interested in you…. in a romantic way. And, I've been trying to work up the courage to start wearing uh…. this around."

Tucker brought out an Amulet of Mara from a nearby cupboard. He smiled as charmingly as he could. He failed horribly but Serana couldn't fight the huge grin that came over her face.

"That's pretty great seeing as I'm interested in you in a romantic way too."

Tucker's worried expression relaxed and his face broke into a huge grin.

"Really? So you're interested too? That's amazing! Riften is only a few hours away! We can go there and-"

"Wait."

Tucker paused his excited planning and looked at her quizzically.

"What's wrong?"

"I said I'm interested in your romantically but I don't know if I'm ready for marriage right now. Not yet at least."

"I don't understand. This is how things have always worked in Skyrim. You aren't interested."

Serana could see Tucker's face falling and put a hand on his arm reassuringly.

"No, no! I am! I just would like to take some time and court or date like they do in other provinces. Look, I love you but I only woke up a few weeks ago and everything I know is just very confusing. I just want to hold off on a wedding until I get more settled. But I do want to be with you and only you."

She smiled warmly at him. Tucker took a moment to think and smiled back at her.

"Well, I did spend time in other regions and I have courted and dated before. It's out of the norm in Skyrim but if that's what makes you comfortable then it's the best idea."

The two smiled at each other warmly. They moved closer together to share a kiss. A loud banging sound on the door caused the pair to break apart and caused Serana to hide under the blankets. Tucker hurriedly covered his lower half and relaxed in the bed.

"Yes? Who is it?"

He hadn't even finished his sentence before Isran burst through the door.

"Look, I know you and the vampiric harlot are committing your acts of debauchery but we have an issue and we need you two right now."

Tucker felt Serana shift under the blankets and felt his own body freeze. Isran had known about the two of them the whole time? Why hadn't he said anything. He was jarred out of his musing by Isran's rough barking.

"Oh for Gods' sakes everybody has known. A minimum of ten of us have walked in on or by you two when you were going at it in every room but this one. And we've all heard you two at least once but that doesn't matter. Both of you get some damned clothes on and come to the strategy room. On the double soldiers!"

Without waiting, he slammed the door and left the nude pair in stunned silence. Tucker was the first to speak.

"I can't believe they knew this entire time and didn't say anything!"

Serana gave him a wry smile.

"They are vampire hunters, they've probably been worried about me seducing you this entire time. Besides, we are a rather loud couple."

Tucker flashed a dopey grin at her.

"What?"

"Nothing. You just called us a couple."

Serana couldn't help but smile in turn.

"Well I think we did just agree to that. Unless I'm wrong and this was all a wild crazy fling for you?"

Tucker began to move toward her.

"Oh, it has definitely been wild and crazy for me but it's also the start of a wonderful romance."

He began kissing her neck. She moaned and enjoyed the sensation for a second before putting both her hands on his shoulders and gently moving him back.

"Oh no, we're not starting this again. We need to get down there and see what's going on."

Tucker sighed and rolled over, grabbing his armor and beginning to put it on while shooting Serana a wink

"Oh come on, we just saved the world, how bad could it possibly be?"


Author's Note: Yay! They are FINALLY together. We did it. The Elder Scrolls lore is kind of conflicting when it comes to vampires and pregnancy. There was the Gray Prince in Oblivion but that was a male vampire impregnating a non-vampire female. Also the other games are kind of all over the place about it. I know of no confirmation of a female vampire having a child so, for now I'm keeping it as vampires cannot get pregnant or if they can, it is very very very rare. This may get more development in later chapters if there's interest from either y'all or me or I may leave it ambiguous. Thank you so much for all of your support. All of you that are following, favoriting, reviewing, and reading this truly make my day so thank you very much. Have a wonderful day and I can't wait to get into this new arc!

Author's Note 2:

Hi. I was away for a while. I felt a bit frustrated with how the mage arc was going. So we're doing something different. Intermission Arc. Basically the next 2 or 3 chapters are gonna be intermission: small quests, fluff, character building and world building. Then we will see what main story arc we'll do next. I'm probs gonna delay the mage arc for a while as I am rather uninspired about it. My apologies, it will be done eventually but it will be of a higher quality. So yes. The shifting around of chapters should be stable now. No more removals. Anywho, thanks for sticking around and revisiting this fic way after it started. You guys are awesome. Also, last time around I greatly overpromised. My double thesis final semester starts soon. So updates will be all over the place. But we'll figure it out. This is not abandoned. If it ever is or I go on a long break I will give a heads-up.