Chapter 65

Unable to resist a chuckle, Reno gave Aura a wry grin. As lightning flashed outside, Aura's face was momentarily illuminated and the expression he saw there had his hands moving quickly over her, trying to work out how to get her out of the wet dress. It took several moments for him to figure it out in the dark, but he managed, and as he pulled the wet dress up over her head and tossed it onto a chair by the wall Aura's lips crashed down onto his.

Reno's knees just about gave out on him, and he quickly turned to lean over the bed, allowing Aura to fall harmlessly onto the sheets. She caught his arm and Reno found himself being tugged down with her. "I missed you." She whispered and Reno paused, hands on her hips, to look up at her in the darkness.

"Reckon I missed you more, yo." He murmured, pressing his lips to her cheek as he tried to work her underwear down her thighs.

"I dunno…" her hand took one of his and shifted it down between her legs, and Reno set about doing what he knew she wanted, watching as her back arched beneath him and she gasped.

Eventually he'd gotten her underwear off and had kicked his own pants away. Reno had been in the middle of shifting Aura higher on the bed so that she could rest back on one of the pillows, when she suddenly wrapped herself around him and rolled him onto his back as she straddled his hips. "Aur…" he murmured, looking up at her as she leaned forward, bracing her hands against his chest. "What're you doing?" he asked as one of her hands trailed down his skin and she adjusted her position. Reno knew he was hard before she'd taken hold of him, and as her fingers moved over him he bit his lip to keep himself quiet.

Reno's own hands came to rest on Aura's hips as she lifted herself slightly, positioning herself before carefully lowering herself onto him. He couldn't help a breathy moan then, his fingers tightening on her hips as she very very slowly began to ride him. Reno watched Aura move over him, lightning illuminating the tiny water droplets on the window glass like amber beads against the midnight sky behind her. He listened to the soft sounds escaping her lips as her hips moved, still so so slowly, and he didn't know how much he could take. When he tried to encourage her to move more quickly, guiding her with his hands, she resisted and maintained her torturously slow rhythmic movements. Reno groaned again, trying to breathe deeply. "Aur…" He clenched his teeth, "Aura… come on…" Lightning flashed again and he caught a brief glimpse of her, her eyes closed and a look of pure concentration on her face.

Needing to touch her, Reno lifted a hand to her cheek as she moved on him. Aura's eyes opened as Reno trailed his fingertips down her soft skin and to her lips and, as she met his eyes, he pushed a finger into her warm mouth. He watched as Aura's lips closed around his finger when more lightning illuminated the room, and he groaned when she held his gaze as she began to suck on him.

Reno's free hand slid around to Aura's lower back, following her movement as she continued to rock her hips slowly, and he was pleased that her skin was no longer cold. He could feel the heat radiating out from her now, and he couldn't help himself, unable to resist begging again. "Aur… please…"

"Tell me what you want." She eventually replied, her tone low as she pulled his finger from her lips with a hand of her own. Reno allowed her to direct his hand down to her breast where he clutched at her as she continued to move on him.

"I… I want… you… more…" both of his hands suddenly went to Aura's hips, trying to get her to move more quickly. "I… want…" Reno hesitated, not wanting to displease or put her off.

"You want to fuck me?" she asked, taking one of his hands in hers and lacing her fingers through his, still moving her hips slowly.

"Y-yes…" Reno's response was breathy, but he felt her constrict around him nonetheless. He lifted his free hand to her cheek, "You want that?" he asked, watching as Aura closed her eyes, leaning into his touch.

"Hmm…" Her eyes stayed closed, "Always have…"

Reno couldn't help thinking about that, one of his hands moving down her arm carefully, tracing her skin with a featherlight touch. Had that been true? Even back then? Quickly, a dozen different memories came to mind right from the night they'd met. Even then as he'd held her while she shuddered through that dirty Mako induced haze, she had pressed into him. Over the years it had continued, and he didn't know how he hadn't noticed that Aura had always melted into his touch. "I'm an idiot." He murmured, and Aura's eyes opened.

"Only sometimes." Her smile flashed with the lightning and Reno closed his fingers around her wrist, pulling her forward slightly. With practiced ease, he rolled them, pinning Aura beneath himself and pressing her into the mattress, smirking at her soft gasp. "If I'd…" he shook his head, "We might have…" one of Aura's hands slid up the back of his neck and Reno sighed, "So much time wasted." His lips ghosted along her jaw and he licked carefully at her throat, enjoying the way he felt her shudder beneath himself as he pushed into her slow and smooth. "I might have had you for years…"

"Reno…" she murmured his name softly and he lifted his head to meet her eyes in the dark, "You have me now."

"Yes…" he whispered, fingertips moving gently across Aura's cheek to her lips. Those lips parted for him and he slid a finger into her mouth, allowing her to suck on it for a moment. He did have her now, he could have her now. And he would. He would forget all about his fear of losing her over the past few days, that was gone, and he never needed to think about it again. He had her back, beneath him, wrapped around him, wanting him, and he was going to take everything she was offering him.

Pulling his finger from the heat of her mouth, Reno kissed her instead, slipping his tongue past her lips and sweeping her mouth with it until she moaned into the kiss. Pleased with this, Reno slid his hands over her, eventually lifting her hands and pinning them both above her head, his fingers lacing with hers as he did so. He brushed his lips across her cheek again, before lifting his head slightly to be able to see her face, to watch her expression, as he continued to move purposefully between her thighs.

Aura's soft gasping breath encouraged Reno at each of his strokes, and as the lightning filled the room with white light for an instant, he saw the deep flush staining her cheeks before she tipped her head back with a breathless cry. He held her in place, with her hands still pinned above her head, as he increased the pace of his movements, listening for that hitch in her breathing that he knew to mean he was doing a good job. Aura's legs tightened around his waist and Reno felt her trying to lift her hands free. He tightened his grip on her, their fingers still laced together as he closed his lips over that certain place on her throat he knew would get a reaction from her. She shrieked and he grinned, licking slowly up the side of her throat to her ear as he lengthened his strokes, pushing as deeply as he could.

"Reno…" her voice was low and guttural, and Reno's blood pounded in his ears. He struggled to focus with Aura flooding every one of his senses. He always enjoyed the sight of her beneath him, and would do his best to draw as many of those sounds from her as he could. Now, he had her right where he wanted her, and she smelled so fucking good he thought he might lose his mind as he shifted over her, enjoying how hot and tight she felt around him and tasting the salt in her skin with satisfaction as she moaned now at every one of his movements. When he heard his name again, Reno stopped thinking altogether and became entirely focused on simply responding to Aura, on making her say his name again, scream it, if he could.

When he felt Aura try to lift her hands again, Reno, not really keen on holding her down, released his grip on her. One of her arms went immediately around his shoulders, holding him close and he pressed his face into her neck able to hear her breath now clear in his ear. Her other hand continued to hold his, their fingers still laced together as they moved. Reno was listening intently to that little hitch in Aura's breathing and it told him exactly what to do.

Shifting himself and adjusting his rhythm, Reno tried to get to the other side of that hitch, and he knew precisely when Aura lost her breath. He felt her fingernails prick the skin of his shoulder and he kept going, his lips against her ear as he began to pant. "Say my name…" he breathed, his free hand clenching a handful of the sheet beside them, "Say… it…" Feeling Aura shudder a moment before she let out a soft whine, Reno pushed faster. She clutched at him as she began to gasp, her legs tightening around his waist as her hips moved to meet his.

"Ah!"

"Say… my… name…" Reno panted, "Come on, Aur…" He released his grip on the sheet and moved his hand into Aura's hair, pushing it back from her face before tightening his fist around a handful of it. She tilted her head back, her gasping sounding like little shrieks, before she did what Reno had been waiting for, and screamed his name.

The moment she did, Reno, unable to help himself, reached his own climax with several hard thrusts and an uncharacteristic bellow, and as his mind cleared a little and he was able to draw slow breath after slow breath, he began to still, pressing his face once more into Aura's neck.

"Def…initely… a highlight…" Aura's low murmured words brought a slow smile to Reno's lips as her hand moved lightly across his back, and he forced himself to lift his head to look at her. He got only a brief glimpse of her as lightning flashed, but it was enough. Aura looked thoroughly dishevelled, her hair all over the place, and a deep crimson flush across her cheeks and down her throat. Satisfaction filled Reno and he bent to press a light kiss to her lips in the dark.

"I'm glad." He replied softly, shifting to the side, and draping an arm across her hips to pull her to himself once again. As he settled against Aura, his fingers curling around her arm, he smiled, watching her. "You're definitely not cold now…"

"Good job." She murmured, her voice barely more than a whisper.

"I'm glad that you think so, yo."

Aura just settled her cheek against his shoulder with a soft hum, and went still. Glancing at his clock, Reno saw that it was nearly three in the morning, and figured that it would be best if they both got some rest, and so with his arm still firmly around Aura he allowed himself to close his eyes. She was evidently comfortable, and he was more than glad to have her back. Today would no doubt be a far better day than yesterday had been.