Chapter 4:
Immediately after Leona kissed her, the pair agreed to keep what happened to themselves. While it wasn't forbidden on Mt Targon for two women to see each other, it certainly wasn't welcomed either. Diana wanted to spare Leona the possible backlash from not just being attracted to a woman but being attracted to Diana, the Elders and almost everyone else who knew what Diana was like would be far from accepting.
After the festival, Leona had taken Diana back to her place. Normally people their age were still living with their parents but Diana was an exception, she left early in order to get her own space and hide her research from her parents. Before Leona left for the night she took the opportunity to kiss Diana again after making sure the area was clear first. This day had gone in a completely different direction from what she had expected, but all of Leona's behavior was beginning to make sense to Diana, the way she was asking Diana for help with things she clearly didn't need help with, asking her endless questions about herself, she still couldn't understand why the Chosen would want to have anything to do with her but at least her strange behavior now made sense to her.
Leona lingered for a few moments after kissing her goodbye before actually leaving, Diana could tell she didn't really want to leave but knew if she missed her training with the Elders tomorrow morning because she was out late with Diana, this would be over before it even began.
A few days went by where Diana didn't see Leona at all and she began to worry to herself that maybe someone had found out about what had happened and had managed to convince Leona to stay away from her, how had she become so attached to the Chosen so quickly? Her fears were resolved quickly enough when one evening as Diana hid in one of her rooftop sanctuaries, Leona made an appearance. She had managed to track down one of Diana's hideaways and made the effort to climb up the side of the building to get to it. Leona had chosen to leave her armour behind at the temple, Diana was liking the idea that she might get to see Leona out of her armour regularly. Diana's face reddened at the fact that she had had that thought, the want to see Leona without her armour and without her clothing. Leona took a seat beside her, her eyes examining the blush that was spreading over Diana's cheeks, causing the blonde to turn an even darker shade of red at the close examination.
"You're adorable, you know that?" Leona said with a slight smirk before running her fingertips lightly along Diana's dark cheeks. Diana cursed herself for being so easily turned to useless mush at the idea of Leona being anywhere near her, let alone touching her. Leona pulled her into a deep, searing kiss while snaking her free arm that wasn't holding onto Diana's face around her lower back, pulling her into Leona. Diana wrapped her arms around Leona's neck, giving into Leona's pulling, giving into the Chosen's want to have her as close as possible to her.
After a few minutes, Leona ran her tongue over Diana's lower lip, wordlessly asking for entrance and Diana giving into it. Leona's confidence made Diana wonder if she had done this before but those thoughts were interrupted by Leona's hand sliding underneath the hem of her shirt, surprise causing Diana to break away from the kiss.
"W-Wait." She stammered out, she was going to hate herself for stopping this from going further.
"What is it? Do you not want to?" Leona asked, an apologetic look on her face, clearly she feared that she had pushed her luck.
"It's not that I don't want to. It's that it wouldn't be a good idea to." Leona's expression turned to a puzzled one at the sound of those words coming from Diana's mouth.
"And why's that?"
"I should have said something at the festival but it's not a good idea for you to be with me. I'll only drag you down, I'll taint you as the Elders would probably say. I'm far from disciplined and have never been very good at the sunworship thing. You should probably find someone else." Diana said, averting her eyes, she really did want this to continue, she wanted to see Leona more and have Leona want her but she couldn't see how this would turn out well for Leona when she couldn't even commit to the idea of worshipping the sun which almost everyone else on Mt Targon was convinced by.
"What if I said that I didn't care about all that?" It was now Diana's turn to look puzzled, why wouldn't Leona care about her reputation and how Diana might affect it?
"Why wouldn't you?" Diana asked, watching Leona's face for some clue as to what she was thinking.
"Why would I?" Leona asked her, a smile creeping onto her face, reaching both of her hands forward to cup both of Diana's cheeks. "You are far too interesting and beautiful for me want to give up that easily. I want to get to know you." Diana turned a deep crimson at the idea of Leona considering her beautiful. "But we can wait until I can get you to believe that I'm not going to be so easily dissuaded from my interest in you." Diana stiffened slightly as Leona pressed her lips to her neck before giving into her touch.
"Something makes me feel like you've done this before." She murmured just loud enough for Leona to hear her. Leona chuckled against her skin, making her shiver slightly.
"No, you're my first." Diana pulled away from her with an eyebrow raised, not believing that someone could be so confident when they hadn't been with someone before.
"I don't believe you."
"Are you saying what I think you're saying?" Leona pulled away, a dangerous smirk on her face.
"N-No, I don't mean that." Diana tried to defend herself, flustered by the idea that she may have implied something other than what she meant. "I meant it as a compliment, you're just so confident all the time." Leona laughed at her before bringing her in for a brief kiss.
"You're lucky that I like you enough to believe you."
Leona sat with Diana on the rooftop for as long as she thought she could get away with without sleeping through tomorrow morning like Diana did on a regular basis. As much as Diana wanted her to stay she kept herself from trying to talk Leona into staying past a reasonable hour, not wanting to drag Leona down with her.