Chapter 12

Shalimar was awoken early the next morning by the sound of retching in the bathroom. Climbing out of bed, she walked into the bathroom to see Emma with her head pressed against the cool tiles of the floor. Sitting down behind her she pulled her back into her embrace.

"I'm sorry." Emma sobbed.

"It's not your fault that your sick." Shalimar told her, pushing back her hair from her face.

"No." Emma said shaking her head. "About last night. I don't know why I did it." She said not making any sense to the feral.

"What did you do sweetie?"

"I started remembering things, it wasn't the alcohol that made me sick, it was that." She said pulling away from Shalimar as she didn't know how she was going to react. "I don't know why I lied to you."

Shalimar cupped her face making her look at her, "It's okay. I understand. This is something that you need to figure out by yourself, but if you need me I'm always here."

"Thank you." The psionic said, lying back into the feral's embrace.

"So what did you remember?" Shalimar asked.

"Not much, just things I've already been told about. It was just little flashes here and there." Emma said turning over and burying her head into the feral's stomach.

"Come on." Shalimar said easing her and Emma up. "Brush you teeth and we'll go back to bed."

Emma nodded. After brushing her teeth she took the feral's offered hand and walked with her into Emma's room. Climbing into bed they snuggled up together and fell asleep.

Emma awoke a while later. Looking at the clock she saw that it was almost midday. Turning in the feral's arms to face her, she placed a light kiss on her lips, knowing that this was enough to wake the older woman. She pressed harder when she felt Shalimar responding to her kiss.

"Feeling better?" Shalimar asked against her lips.

"Much." Emma breathed back.

Weaving her hand into Shalimar's hair, Emma rolled them over so that she was slightly on top of the blonde. She nibbled softly on the feral's bottom lip, causing a small moan to vibrate into her mouth, before soothing it with her tongue. Shalimar opened her mouth and Emma's tongue quickly slipped in, exploring every surface. Feeling Emma's wondering hand slip under the waistband on her shorts, she regretfully pulled back.

"As much as I hate to say this we need to stop." She said, grabbing the red head's hand before it went any further.

"But why?" Emma asked, "I want to, you want to, so why don't we just do it?"

"Just a little while longer, please." Shalimar pleaded.

"How long is a 'little while'?'"

Shalimar sighed, "Okay. This was going to be a surprise kinda thing, but I might aswell tell you now."

"Ooh, I love surprises." Emma said getting excited.

"Last night I stayed up a little while longer and planned a day out for us, kinda like a date."

"A date?" Emma asked quite amused. "Where to?"

"Well, I'm going to make reservations at a very posh, and not to mention expensive restaurant, then come back here and see where things go from there."

"That sounds wonderful." Emma said kissing the feral on the nose, "But it doesn't have to be expensive."

"Fine." Shalimar said grinning, "Well go to a very posh, but not that expensive restaurant."

"That sounds even better." Emma said moving in to try one last time to tempt the feral. Shalimar quickly pulled back though and climbed out of bed.

"I'll see you in a few hours. I need to sort some stuff out."

Emma sighed happily and climbed from her bed to search for an outfit to wear.

The hours seemed to drag by but finally 6:00 came and Emma opened her door to see a very stunning feral.

"Wow. You look beautiful." Emma said looking the blonde from head to toe. Shalimar smiled and stepped forward. She placed a sweet but teasing kiss on the redheads lips.

"So do you." She whispered into her ear. Pulling back she offered Emma her hand. "Ready to go?"

Emma slipped her hand into Shalimar's and the two women headed out.