Listen, I know it's been literal months since I posted anything for this story, but I'm finally back and I promise to both be more consistent (a new chapter every other week) with this fic and that I had a very good reason for being absent this long. We had the most difficult (and filled with lots of bad luck) house hunting experience. Now, that we're moved in and I've got an actual desk to work on fic at (my old one got trashed before we moved because it was literal trash), the fic writing can finally commence.

A/N: Don't own Madam Secretary or any of it's characters. Just playing in their sandbox for awhile.

Anyways, I'll stop blabbing on now. Hope y'all enjoy this latest chapter. Kudos given and comments written would be nice too.

Chapter 6: Three in the Afternoon on a Friday

So, a couple days later Henry and Elizabeth had both been tested for various STD's and HIV and had both come back with completely negative results as expected.

Elizabeth rushed over to his place right after her classes were over for the day, figuring she could do whatever homework she needed to do later at his place.

As Henry opened the door after hearing her knock, he was immediately greeted by Elizabeth jumping into his arms and wrapping her jean clad legs around Henry's waist.

He caught her and said, "Wow! So, I guess you're negative?"

"Yeah," replied Elizabeth.

"I got my results this morning and they were negative as well," said Henry as he managed to shut and lock the door behind them while still holding onto Elizabeth in his arms.

Elizabeth responded by kissing his lips passionately in celebration.

Once they broke apart for air, they both said at the same time, "Bedroom."

"So we agree that we're gonna take this next step together?" Henry asked, confirming Elizabeth's consent.

"Definitely. Take me to bed, Jarhead," Elizabeth told him as she smiled widely at him.

"Okay," replied Henry as they headed towards the bedroom.

Once they got there, Henry set Elizabeth down on the edge of his bed

Elizabeth quickly began unbuttoning and unzipping Henry's jeans while he did the same to hers.

After he'd unbuttoned and unzipped Elizabeth's jeans, he pulled her up to her feet by her belt loops and slowly inched the jeans down her legs, eventually ending up on his knees in front of her.

Elizabeth responded by putting her hands on Henry's face and holding his face between her hands.

Meanwhile, Henry began kissing up Elizabeth's thigh until he arrived at her lacy underwear clad hip.

He took the lacy black fabric at the edge of her waist and snapped it against her hip playfully.

"You're such a tease. Get up here," Elizabeth told him as she once again smiled down at Henry.

Henry did as he was told and moved to stand up until he was face to face with Elizabeth once again.

Elizabeth resumed her previous hand position and held Henry's face in between her hands as she kissed him fervidly.

They stood there making out intensely for a few minutes when Henry broke the kiss and decided to pursue her neck.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth kicked off her shoes and held onto Henry's shoulders as she tried desperately to get her jeans off her ankles.

"Here. Let me," Henry told her as he signaled for her to lift her left foot up and then her right to get out of her jeans, the whole time holding onto his shoulders.

"Thank you," replied Elizabeth as she laughed awkwardly.

Henry then held onto Elizabeth's shoulders as he kicked his own jeans off one foot at a time and tossed them across the room.

Elizabeth wrapped her arms around Henry's neck and pulled him towards her in a passionate kiss.

As she pulled him towards her, she also moved backwards until the back of her knees hit Henry's bed and she fell onto it, Henry tumbling down until he fell on top of her.

"I'm so sorry, Elizabeth. Did I hurt you?" asked Henry concernedly.

"No. You're doing just fine," said Elizabeth a bit breathlessly as their lips remained inches apart.

"Do you prefer to be on top or bottom?" asked Henry.

"Top. There's more control that way. What about you?" asked Elizabeth as she smiled at Henry.

I prefer bottom. More thrusting power that way," Henry told her.

Henry got off of Elizabeth and rolled over until he was on his back. He signaled for Elizabeth to climb on top of him by bending his finger in a come here motion.

Elizabeth obliged and climbed on top of him until they were face to face once again.

"Hi," said Elizabeth sultrily.

"Hi," replied Henry before he closed the space between their lips and kissed her intensely.

They laid there lazily making out for a few minutes before Elizabeth snaked her hands underneath Henry's t-shirt, encouraging a bit of forward progress in their lovemaking.

After she took off his t-shirt, she quickly threw it on the floor.

Henry quickly removed Elizabeth's shirt as well and she just sat there staring at his chiseled muscles while he looked at her black lace clad breasts.

Then, with the look of both love and lust in their eyes as they focused on each other's bodies, not wanting to tear their eyes away, Henry finally cleared his throat and joked, "You haven't even seen the bottom half yet."

Elizabeth playfully dug her nails into Henry's shoulders before she said, "Funny."

"I aim to please," Henry shot back.

"So do I," replied Elizabeth as she looked into Henry's eyes.

"Then this should be a good time for both of us," Henry cracked one of his cheshire grins at her.

"You're such a tease and not that I want to rush this moment or anything, but can we at least move things along a bit?" asked Elizabeth, voicing her needs.

Henry responded by reaching behind Elizabeth's back and undoing her bra expertly.

Once he got it off and threw it in a heap on the floor, along with both of their shirts, he stared at her perfect breasts for a moment until she snapped him out of his reverie by saying, "Seems like you've done that before."

"Once or twice. Never with someone as special as you though," Henry told her earnestly.

"I'm sure that's what all the guys say when they get a woman into bed," said Elizabeth.

"In this case, it's true though. You know I love you and can't wait to go on this journey with you, right?" asked Henry, reassuring her as he looked into her eyes.

"Yeah, I do. I love you too. So much so that it still scares me sometimes," Elizabeth replied ardently as she looked into his eyes as well.

"We don't have to do this right now you know," Henry told her.

"No, it's not that at all. I wanna take this next step with you. It's just like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop or something. Right now, it's like we're in some sort of love bubble and we have been for almost two weeks now. I'm just waiting for that bubble to pop I guess," explained Elizabeth.

"I'm not gonna sugar coat it for you. Like I said, deployment is hard, both on the marine or soldier and on the ones he leaves behind. That bubble will pop. In two days, your whole life is gonna change and it will be one of the hardest things to acclimate to for nine months to a year. Then, like I've said before, it can be hard to reacclimate when you haven't seen your loved one in that long and have only communicated through letters and you've been doing everything alone and then all of a sudden they're back in your life and that takes some getting used to as well," said Henry.

"Well, let's make the most of these two days, then," Elizabeth told him with a mischievous glint in her eye.

"I agree. We can talk more about this later though. Are you okay to continue?" asked Henry.

"Yeah. Definitely," replied Elizabeth as she smiled at Henry, reassuring him.

Henry responded by resting his hands on Elizabeth's hips and pulling her in for another kiss as his hands eventually made their way to her breasts.

As Henry felt her up, he teased her nipples with both his fingers and his mouth, garnering more of those feral-like noises he liked out of Elizabeth.

After a while, Elizabeth made it clear that that was enough foreplay when she grabbed at his boxer clad penis.

"I need you inside me," Elizabeth whispered to him.

"Okay," replied Henry as he began removing Elizabeth's black lacy they hit her ankles and she expertly kicked them off and onto the floor.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth, getting a little impatient, quickly removed Henry's boxers before he kicked them off and onto the floor as well.

Henry quickly grabbed a condom out of his bedside drawer and quickly put it on.

As she straddled Henry, she looked into his eyes and asked, "Ready?"

"Uh huh," replied Henry, a bit breathless from the way Elizabeth's hands grabbed onto his penis and guided it towards her entrance, in full control of where his growing erection went.

After she guided him inside her, he asked, "Ready?"

"Yeah," replied Elizabeth as she smiled at him and looked into his eyes once again.

"Okay," responded Henry as he began thrusting up and into her a little further, careful to take it slow since it had been a while for both of them.

Henry inched his way forward and deeper inside her when Elizabeth said, "Mmhmm. Deeper."

Henry followed her feedback and went the slightest bit deeper, still mindful of the fact that they were both a little rusty at this.

"Mmhmm. Right there, Jarhead.," Elizabeth directed him.

Henry began a steady thrusting routine into the place inside of her that Elizabeth had directed him towards.

"Oh my god! Yes, Henry! Right there. Harder though," Elizabeth told him.

Henry pulled almost all the way out and then thrust back into her a little harder, mindful not to hurt her in any way.

Elizabeth responded by bellowing, "Yes, Henry! Yes!"

Henry could feel her walls start to clench around his penis and knew she was close.

He put his hands between their bodies and rubbed Elizabeth's clit as he continued thrusting a little harder and faster inside her.

"Oh my god! Yes, Henry! Yes! Yes! Yes…" Elizabeth trailed off screaming as she came.

Meanwhile, just the sound of her screaming his name almost tipped him over the edge as well.

He thrust inside of her a few more times, her walls still clenching around his penis and he soon came into the condom.

After they both calmed down a bit, Elizabeth rolled off of mounting Henry and onto the other side of the bed.

Henry immediately grabbed her hip and rolled her body and head towards his bare chest, wanting to be close to her.

Elizabeth laid her head against Henry's chest where she could hear his beating heart.

"That was incredible," Elizabeth told him.

"It sure was," Henry told her.

"I never knew sex could feel like that," added Elizabeth.

"You must have been having some really bad sex then," Henry told her a little conceitedly.

"I think it was more of the emotional connection between us that did it for me. The way we stared at each other hungrily. The way we stared into each other's eyes practically the whole time. That connection, that spark, it really made the experience all the more pleasurable and enjoyable," explained Elizabeth.

"Mmhhmm. That's why I didn't just wanna jump into bed with you, Elizabeth. I could tell our relationship, even though the attraction has always been there, was special and different from anything I've ever felt before. This is my first time taking it slower as well and it totally made the experience all the more phenomenal," Henry told her.

They laid there together for a while in companionable silence staring into each other's eyes before they eventually fell asleep in each other's arms.

They were now lovers in every sense of the word and it was only three in the afternoon on a Friday.

A/N: Hope y'all enjoyed this latest chapter of Soldier On and that it was worth the wait. Again, kudos given and comments written would be greatly appreciated as well. Feedback is important to me improving as a fic writer.