A/N: This chapter is … I dunno … PG-15ish/R maybe to be safe. Bath time fun, YIPPEE! No … um … "action" though, so younger readers might feel ok reading it. But I guess it could be considered to contain "mature themes" so maybe I should have all but the adults keep their eyes averted….I dunno.
I'll let y'all decide and just say I warned ya.
Overall, it's a very cutesy lil chapter that sets the stage for another toe curling WOW smut session. *hehe* That one's gonna take me just a bit to write 'cause I'm kinda having fun with it. :-P Just think of the movie mentioned at the end and Joe Cocker's "You Can Leave Your Hat On" and you'll be close to what I'm planning, but I bet the end result will still pleasantly surprise y'all. ;-)
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Pampering
"Don wanna move," Rogue moaned without opening her eyes.
Logan stood naked beside the bed looking down at his very satisfied lover and smiled smugly.
"Come on now, get up," he ordered again.
"How 'bout ya come back in here?" she cracked an eye to offer.
"You wanna do this the hard way, eh?"
While she frowned slightly and tried to figure out what that meant, he bent to scoop her up off the bed.
"Ah love it when ya get all commandin' on me," she sighed as she wrapped her arms around his neck and snuggled against his chest.
"Since when?" he had to know.
"Since ahlways. Ya get all gruff and growly and bossy and Ah melt."
He smiled at that and carried her into the bathroom where he'd drawn a hot bubble bath for her. She moaned delightedly as he lowered her nude body into the water.
"Now you just lay in here while I go clean up the kitchen," he ordered as he stood again.
"Yes, sir," she smiled and winked up at him.
"Imp," he growled before bending to give those smiling lips a quick kiss.
~*~*~
This was worth being drug outta bed for, Rogue decided as she lazed in the tub.
It'd been so long since she'd had access to a bathtub, as the girls' bathroom at the mansion only had showers.
Showers were all well and good, but there was just something about lying in a hot tub of water that couldn't be beat.
The warmth and steam were sinking into her every pore, making her all limp and relaxed.
She could barely feel all those new muscles she'd used during her two back to back experiences with actual lovemaking that morning.
In fact, all she felt was … fabulous.
WOW.
What a glorious morning she'd had.
And to think she'd been calling Logan a sadist for getting her up so early.
He was … wow … a dream.
She'd jump right up at any hour of the morning, day or night for him if it led to more of this.
This was love, she realized. The real deal. Not some silly wasted crush like what she'd had on Scott or a wild fascination like she'd had with Gambit, but … love.
She wanted to shout it from roof and mountaintops.
She wanted to climb out of this tub, find her love and jump his bones again.
She … good, God, she felt like singing!
~*~*~
"Oh, what a beautiful mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day
I got a beautiful feelin'
Ev'rything's goin' my way"
The sound of a throat being cleared in the doorway stopped Rogue's singing and made her look up from the bubbles she'd been playing with in her bath.
"What are you doin'?" Logan asked with a smirk on his face.
"Ah was singin'," she replied while flicking water in his direction.
"That was kinda hard ta miss, darlin'. Maybe I should ask what the heck were you singing."
Blushing at being caught in such a good mood and belting out the chorus to a showtune of all things, she simply sank lower in the bathtub and ignored him.
Not about to be ignored, the man knelt next to the tub, reached for a sponge and dipped it into the water.
"Whatcha doin'?" she asked as he soaped up the now wet sponge and raised her left leg from the water.
"Givin' you a bath, darlin'. What's it look like I'm doin'?
"Ah can bath mahself," she declared even as she moaned at his attentions.
"But what's the fun in that?" he asked as he slid the sponge up her leg to the inside of her thigh and back down.
He had quite a good point there so she simply sank back against the rim of the tub and watched him through half closed eyes as he slowly bathed her body.
"We didn't use any protection in there, ya know," he said as he moved to her right leg.
"Ah know," she smiled at the memory of feeling him inside her without any barriers between them.
"You could get pregnant."
"Nah. Hank gave me that shot thingy last month, so Ah'm all safe for the next two months," she revealed.
"Why'd he do that?" Logan growled, stopping his hands at her knee to frown at her.
"He was jus testin' a theory, shuga. He thought mah skin was related to mah hormones in some way and gave me tha shot to see if using it to regulate mah cycle helped any with mah skin," she explained.
Making a face that said she'd given a little too much information, he resumed his bathing.
She smiled at the expression and wiggled into his hands as they neared her hips.
Much to her pouting disappointment, he stopped before getting to her good parts and shifted his attention to her arms and back.
Her disappointment turned to delight as his big strong hands massaged her back as they washed it.
"Ah luv yer hands, shuga," she moaned at the touches.
"Hmm. So you love when I get "all commandin'" and my hands. Anything else about me you like?" he asked as he moved those hands to her front.
"Mmmm. Everythang."
"Everything?"
"Uh-huh."
His hands stopped on her breasts and he moved one to tilt her head back to look up at his.
She reluctantly re-opened her eyes to see what was wrong and found him staring down at her very intently.
"Do you know what you're sayin', Rogue?" he demanded.
Frowning, she tried to remember what she'd been saying.
"What do you mean when you say you like everything about me?" he got impatient and clarified.
"Oh, that," she smiled a little goofily. "Ah luv ya, Logan."
For a moment he stared deeply into her eyes to verify that she meant her words then he dropped the sponge, slid both his hands into her hair and kissed her until she was breathless and incapable of speech.
"You better mean that, darlin', 'cause I love you, too," he growled when their lips finally parted.
She blinked and stared up into his handsome face and intense brown eyes.
Then she blinked again in something akin to disbelief before a huge smile touched her lips.
"Ya luv me?" she shifted until she was kneeling in the tub. "Really?!"
"Really," he confirmed with utter conviction.
The smile neither of them thought could get any bigger did just that as she threw her wet body against his and began covering his face with kisses.
"Whoa there," he laughingly pulled back to say. "You're gonna fall outta there and hurt yourself if ya keep that up."
"You'll catch me," she stated without a doubt that he'd prevent her from getting hurt in any way.
Glad she realized that she was that important to him, he kissed her deeply while easing her back into the bathtub until she was again laying in it.
He pulled away, fished out the sponge from the underneath her then resumed bathing her.
"Yer one hellava man, Logan," she sighed as she loving stroked his cheek.
"I'd have to be to keep up with you, darlin'," he turned to kiss her again. "You're one hellava woman, Rogue."
~*~*~
Hours later he awoke her from her nap to serve her lunch in the bed she'd fallen asleep on after he'd given her a full body massage.
"Hope you're hungry," he said as he nibbled her neck and shoulder until she pushed herself upright with a smile.
"Starvin'," she confessed.
"I thought ya may be. You had a very … strenuous morning," he smirked.
"Mm-hmm," she nodded around a mouthful of the huge hoagie he'd made her.
Jaw moving quickly, she devoured and swallowed the bite before taking a sip of soda.
"Ah'm hopin' mah nahght will be just as … invigoratin'," she said as she bent to kiss him once her mouth was empty.
"Ya sure you're up to it?" he asked with a little concern.
"Shuga, after that bath, tha massage and mah nap mah muscles are all limp, relaxed and good as new. Ah can do everythang we did this mornin' all over again and then some," she boasted.
"And then some?" he quoted with an arched brow.
She nodded rapidly as she ate another chunk of her sub.
"Whatcha got in mind?"
The wicked smile that curled her lips and the twinkle entering her eyes made him stiffen somewhat wearily.
"Rogue," he said in a slightly warning tone.
Her hands slowly put down the hoagie and picked up her napkin to wipe away a little smear of mayonnaise from her lip.
While he was beginning to growl and glare at her, she just continued to smile as she took another sip of her soda to wash down the food she'd just swallowed.
"Ya evah seen tha movie 9 ½ Weeks?" she finally asked.
