My Love

Jet smiled as the team went to bed in the Maxwell residence. Tesla and Shalte had went into their room, Clive and Gallows were in Werner and Ekatrina's old room, and Virginia and Jet had her old room. It didn't even cross the minds of the two men to separate their friends. After all, since they were partners for five and a half years at least, they'd shared rooms all on their own before. Perhaps it would be nice for them to spend some time alone again. Gallows had also whispered to Clive the idea of giving them alone time.

Now they were in her old room; with only one bed I might add. Although they'd shared rooms in the past, the two had never shared a bed. And I'm not talking about just the sexual innuendo of sharing ones bed either. I mean they'd never snuggled up to one another; with or without their clothes on their bodies.

Virginia sighed; it was just how she remembered it. Her bed was sized for an adult because once she was about five she wanted, "A big bed like the one Mommy and Daddy have." We are talking about Virginia here. So she had a double bed put in. Her desk was still by the wall; she sat and read at it as a child. There were bookshelves, drawers, and a closet. A single tear slipped down her face as she thought.

"Well, it's bedtime," she told her beloved, "It's time we went to sleep. I'll go into the closet to change. If you want, you can either wait for me to get out or change while I'm in here. I'm only afraid that Gallows will take the time to try and sneak a peek; either seriously or as one of his little pranks on us."

"I'll get ready at the same time. No use in waiting for you. Besides, if Gallows dares to try that, he'll live to regret it," Jet muttered. With that, Virginia picked up her nightgown and went into the closet. She wasn't in there long. Coming out, the girl blushed furiously. As always, Jet was sleeping in only a pair of sweat pants. Even in the desert, nights could be extremely cold when winter was about to set in. But he only wore a sweat shirt to bed in frigid temperatures when sleeping out doors. Saloons generally kept better care of the heat. In warm weather, he wore a pair of shorts in place of the pants. He looked at her face.

Jet inquired, "What? It's not like you haven't seen me like this before. I almost never wear a shirt to bed. And since I don't need to hide this part of my body from anyone, I have never covered it up. You know what my chest looks like." What had he done to make the girl he truly loved feel embarrassed like this?

She walked up to him, wearing one of her less practical nightgowns. It was short, made of white satin, and had spaghetti straps. Virginia only wore ones like this when in a saloon. For she didn't want her nice ones to get dirty. Smiling and blushing madly at the same time, she leaned her body towards his front; resting it on those handsome six pack abs. "I've never felt you before. We'll have to sleep in close contact to one another. Meaning, I'm going to be leaning like this on you as we lay. I feel like my heart has longed for this ever since I was younger. It's a dream come true. We're actually going to be together forever."

"Yes," he whispered as he put his arms around her, "You're the only one I'll ever care about. The only one who'll see me for who I am. If anyone else found out what I was, I don't know how badly I'd be treated. But you, you've always seen beyond what should have been seen. You gave me a chance to show I could be human. Heck, most of what I learned about being human came from you. Virginia, you're the only one I trust in this crazy world." He pulled the young woman closer to him, and she began to add her own momentum to his. Their lips brushed against one another, and then they shared another long kiss.

"I don't want this to end. I want this moment to go on for all eternity," Virginia stated as they came up for air. She wanted to live her entire life in this spot at this time; her and Jet together in a loving embrace. If only time could be frozen. As if Schturdark could hear her thoughts, he reminded her that a Guardian of Time did exist and he could do that. But she ignored him and continued on with giving Jet all her undivided attention. He then took one of his hands off her back in order to run it through her long brown hair; worn down whenever she went to bed. It felt so soft, so warm, so smooth, so right. Best of all, it felt so her.

He told her, "We have to find out where Janus and the Prophets got to. Else we might never get to have another moment like this. Don't worry, I'd die if only I could save you. Only you matter to me. No one else has ever proven worthy of this much attention. Not even those other two morons in the other room."

Virginia smiled. "They're not morons. But I knew you'd say that. After all this time I know you better than anyone else. You only show emotion when I'm around. And even then its rare. But that doesn't matter to me. I know you care. Your actions always speak louder than your words. That's how I know you have a heart under all that bravado you show. I see it in your eyes, your acts, and how much you care about me. I'm so going to make Leehalt chew on that. How DARE he think of you as only a machine?"

. . .

Virginia was sleeping cuddled up in Jet's arms when a figure climbed a tree by her window. A very large and bulky figure I might add. He jumped onto the balcony and opened the door. Then, he took a look in. There was Jet, shirt off, laying on the bed and holding onto Virginia. Lucky thing too, for that little silk nightgown she wore was pretty low cut. Jet didn't get totally embarrassed by seeing it because she'd worn things like that in the past. Besides, her breasts were covered; only the tops showed if she managed to roll into just the right position as she slept. And you wonder why she hadn't worn it since forming the team.

"Man, they're no fun," Gallows whispered, "You'd think they'd take advantage of such alone time to have a little fun. And I put in a good word for them. Darn it, they're boring. What's the good of sharing a bed if it's not with a member of the opposite gender who is willing to have sex with you? I don't know."

At that moment, Virginia woke up. She just had a nightmare in which Leehalt had captured the team, and killed Jet right in front of her in an extremely slow and painful manner. The poor girl had been forced to watch the man she loved with all her heart suffer in agony until he finally died. Leehalt had then called him a worthless machine. As Virginia sat there crying, the Prophet's leader struck her down. She too began feeling all of the pain and agony he'd felt, waking up before she could die in the horrible dream.

"That was horrible! I didn't think I'd ever see something so ruthless in my sleep. It makes Janus seem like nothing more than a…Gallows! What are you doing in here?!" the girl yelled at the Baskar.

Gallows stammered, "I was simply making sure you two were ok in here. You were quiet for an awfully long time. Worried that someone had come in here and killed you while the rest of us slept on." Around this time, Jet woke up as well. He noticed Gallows trying in vain to appease the angry woman.

She gave him a look. "Well of course we were quiet. We were SLEEPING! Don't give me that bull Gallows Carradine! I know you all too well. You were here to spy on us and see what we were doing to each other. Hentai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" With that, she punched Gallows in the jaw, and managed to send him flying out of the open balcony door, into the tree, and breaking every branch as he fell to the ground. Then, in order to not have him slow the team down, she tossed him a Potion Berry to heal his wounds. After her fit of rage cooled down, she again lay against Jet. He vowed never to get her annoyed like that; the young man valued his health a little too much to attempt something that would make her fly right off the handle at him.

And the moral of the story for all of those perverted men who read this or for those who wish to warn their perverted friends and family…be careful which young girl you try to leer at. Most will be annoyed, some will have a nasty bite, and a select few are willing to send you flying into the stratosphere if you try.

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Teefa's Last Words…

Yeah, the cheep shots seemed out of place here. But I wanted an excuse to laugh at Gallows. He's a real rip sometimes. I have a real love for the comedic characters. And the best ones for laughs are pervs, drunks, and idiots. Well, the reason he didn't see her wings (which he shouldn't see until right before Yggdrasil) was that she folds them up to sleep and wears a piece on the back of her nightshirt that hides them. After all, it wouldn't do for someone to walk in and find out about it.