"Sorry to hear that Aden has gone," Graves said when she and her girlfriend shared the breakfast table with Charlie and Joey the next morning. "I know what a great friend he is to you, even if I never got to know him that well myself."

"It was always going to happen," Joey said. "Still, it was hard to say goodbye when the time came, but moving back to the city is the best thing for his rehab and the opportunity for Belle was also far too great for her to turn down."

"I've dealt a lot with the Media Unit in the past, so I might see quite a bit of Belle once she starts."

"Make her feel welcomed, because I'm sure Aden is hoping she'll love her role so much, she'll stay there rather than return to the newspapers," Charlie suggested.

"Will do."

"Would you like some more toast and coffee?" Kath came by to ask them.

"No thank you, Kath, I'm stuffed," Joey replied.

"Same here," added Charlie.

"I think we're right," Graves told her aunt.

"Just ask if you change your mind."

"Thanks Kath," Joey said. "Graves, you weren't kidding when you said your aunt would spoil us rotten," she said. "We had another basket of goodies waiting for us on our doorstep this morning."

"Well get used to it, because nothing will stop Kath from raining down sweetness on her favourites," Shannon said. "Believe me, I've tried to tell her it's not necessary and she just responds by putting extra into the next basket."

"I learnt long ago that you just go with the flow with Aunt Kath," said Graves.

"We figured that," said Charlie. "Which is why Joey decided to pig down the whole thing yesterday, knowing that there'd be more today."

"I didn't pig down the whole thing on my own," Joey said. "You ate your fair share."

"I didn't get much of the chocolate sauce."

"Yes you did," Joey said with a cheeky grin. "Just not in the mouth."

"Oh hey, brekkie table and not alone," Shannon said and there were chuckles all around.

"So Shannon, you said Kath added extra after you told her to stop?" Joey not so innocently asked.

"Oh god, I can see Joey now complaining every day just to see Kath responding with more and more food," Charlie said with a long suffering sigh.

"And Miss Piggy in Uniform will be enjoying all the goodies right there with me," Joey answered back and all Charlie could do was shrug in reply, since Joey was mostly right.

"As long as you enjoy the goodies, Aunt Kath will be pleased," Graves said. "She always loves happy campers."

"We're very happy campers," enthused Joey. "I'm really loving our stay here and I've already told Charlie that we'll be coming back for another stay in the future," she told them. "But what would make it even more enjoyable, is to have somewhere private to visit outside of our cottage."

"Perky knows all the great spots," said Shannon. She smirked at her girlfriend. "We've already sampled a couple of them."

"Oh really?" Joey said. "Like where?"

"Subtle Joey, very subtle," murmured Charlie.

"If you want to know, you only have to ask," Graves told Joey.

"Ok, can you point us in the direction of a nice private and secluded spot just for your loved up friends?" Joey asked.

"No," Graves replied with a grin. "They're private family spots."

"Come on Steffi, think of us as family."

Beaming from ear to ear, Graves shook her head at Joey.

"Please Steffi," she pleaded.

"It won't work, Joey," Shannon told her. "Especially calling her Steffi," she said. "It is kind of a boring name for my Officer Perky and she responds better to Perky or one of my other pet names for her."

"All of which are just as annoying as Perky," Graves good naturedly pointed out.

"Well, unless you'd like to hear those names in triplicate from the three of us, you should consider Joey's request," Shannon smugly said.

"That's blackmail."

"Yes, it is and isn't it wonderful?" Shannon teased. "Come on, you only have to cough up one place," she said. "Preferably one we've already sampled of course."

"I suppose one wouldn't hurt," murmured Graves. "You'll owe me though."

"I'll pay you myself," Shannon said. "Once we're alone."

Graves leant forward. "Ok, here's where you go."

Two hours later, with picnic basket in hand, Joey and Charlie broke through the bushes and into the clearing Graves had told them about.

"Oh wow, Graves should take payments for the directions to this place."

"Then everyone would be here," Charlie said as she took in the scenery. It was a little billabong, with plenty of excellent shade for them to lie in, both in and out of the water, which was perfect given the heat today. The water itself was so clear you could see the bottom.

"That water looks divine," Joey said, ditching the basket in some shade and then shedding herself of her shirt and shorts, until only her bikini remained. She dipped her toe in the water. "Ooh, a little cold," she said. "But I'm sure we can heat it up."

"I'm certain we can," Charlie said, but Joey was already diving under the water. Charlie stripped down to her own bikini, all the while her eyes watching Joey glide effortlessly beneath the water. By the time Joey came up for air, Charlie was in the water next to her. "Fuck, it is cold," she muttered.

"Let's swim over to where the sun is," Joey suggested. "Better?"

"Much," Charlie said. She flipped over and floated on her back. "It is so peaceful here," she said.

"Want to shatter that peacefulness with some rather loud noises?"

"Before lunch?"

"Before, during and after if I have my way," Joey teasingly said.

Charlie smiled when she felt nimble fingers at her back beneath the water.

"Oh look, it floats all on its own," sniggered Joey when Charlie's bikini top went floating away.

"You better get that back afterwards," she murmured.

"Would you prefer I get it now and put it back on you?" Joey teased.

"No way," Charlie said. She was already getting warm and it had nothing to do with the sun beating down on her now bare breasts.

"I take it then you'd prefer a different type of covering?" she asked.

"Something warm and wet," Charlie said, then sighed in disappointment when Joey released a handful of water over her chest. "Not that sort of warm and wet," she muttered.

"Oh, this sort?" Joey said, her mouth now centimetres from her objective.

"Very much that sort." This time when Charlie sighed, it was out of blissful joy as Joey's mouth worked over her nipples. Any last vestige of cold had disappeared and it felt more like the water was boiling around her from the heat now emanating from her body.

With a deft move, Joey had her girlfriend's bikini bottoms floating off after the top.

"Oh god," Charlie cried out when Joey's hand found her molten core.

"Nice to see you're so wet for me," Joey teased.

"Inside and out," she replied. Charlie felt Joey's other hand beneath her neck, supporting her head above the water.

"Can't have you drowning before I'm done," Joey told her.

"I'm more interested in your other hand," she said.

"Because it does this?" Joey said, swirling her finger over the hard nub she found waiting for her.

"Yes!" Charlie squawked. Her clit was on fire as Joey continued to tease her. When Joey thrust inside her, she nearly went under the water as her body bowed to the pleasure. Joey's hand gently massaged the back of her girlfriend's neck in time to the thrusts of her other hand.

"Can't neglect these," she said, leaning over to suck a nipple back into her mouth.

"Oh fuck," Charlie moaned, feeling the pleasure at both ends rushing toward each other. At this rate, she wasn't going to last long.

"These are so nice, I don't even need chocolate sauce," Joey joked around the nipple.

"Quit talking and just fuck me, baby," Charlie pleaded.

"I'm not already doing that?" Joey said. "Guess I need to do more then."

"Fuck!" Charlie hissed when teeth gently grazed her nipples while Joey's thumb pressed against her clit, all the while the rhythm of her thrusts picked up. Harder, faster and Charlie was there. Her mouth opened in silence, then she screamed, her climax hitting her hard. Her voice reverberated around the billabong, not ending even as she raced toward her second climax. Thrust, suck, thrust and her newest cries joined with the last in echoing around them. She lay gasping, Joey's support the only thing keeping her above the water.

"Do you need to cool down now?" Joey asked.

"No," she hastily said. She knew what a cooling down would mean. A dunking.

"How about lunch instead and then we can continue this afterward?" Joey suggested and Charlie nodded in agreement.

"Can you tow me over, because I don't have the strength yet?"

"Isn't there a rule about waiting 30 minutes after eating before going swimming?" Charlie said when Joey dragged her back toward the water a short time later.

"Who said anything about swimming?"

"You're insatiable."

"It's all that food," she replied. "I have to work it off somehow." Joey smirked at her. "It's also your fault for being so fucking hot."

"Hey, I'm not complaining," she said. They swam to the more shaded part of the billabong this time. "My, aren't you impatient," Charlie sniggered when Joey's bikini swam past her without any help from her.

"Why waste time," Joey said.

"Indeed." Charlie swam over to her and captured her lips. She smiled when Joey's legs circled her waist. The water was shallow enough for Charlie to find her footing on the bottom of the billabong, allowing her to brace her stance. She kissed Joey hard, while her hands reached up and cupped Joey's breasts.

"I'm so horny, I'm just about ready to explode," Joey murmured against her lips.

"That's what I like to hear," Charlie said. She let one of her hands glide downward, the water and sunscreen on Joey's naked skin making her path easy. Joey hissed in her breath when she felt Charlie between her legs.

"Oh yes," she groaned when Charlie went straight inside her. She put her hands on Charlie's shoulders and with her legs gripping Charlie's hips, she raised herself up and down on her girlfriend's hand.

"So hot," Charlie whispered as she watched Joey move against her.

"Yes, yes, yes," Joey panted in time to her movements.

"Oh god," Charlie said.

"Oh god is right," she gasped.

"No, I mean Joey, there is someone coming," Charlie worriedly said.

"That's me," Joey panted out, her hips moving faster. She was nearly there.

"I hear other voices."

Even in her delirious haze, the sound of approaching voices eventually broke through to Joey. "Oh shit," she gasped. It was too late though. Her climax hit her and only Charlie's mouth covering hers at the last second kept her orgasmic cries to a minimal.

Charlie held her spasming body, all the while praying they would have time for Joey to get back into her bikini. The voices were even closer now. "Joey," she said.

"Just a minute more," Joey gasped, her body still moving of its own accord.

"We don't have a minute," she warned her.

"Enjoy your seclusion?" Graves asked when she noticed the couple walking back toward their cabin.

"Seclusion my arse," Joey said. "We nearly got sprung by that couple with their kids." After a last ditch panic to catch her bikini and put it on, they'd just narrowly avoided being caught in their compromising position by a matter of seconds. Then to add to their embarrassment at their near miss, the kids had asked them where the animals that had been making those noises were at.

"Oh, that's a shame about the interruption," said Shannon, but at Graves' expression, Joey's eyes narrowed in suspicion.

"Oh are you kidding me!" she said. "That private place you sent us too wasn't one of the secret family spots, was it?" she demanded to know.

Already laughing hard by now, Graves shook her head. "It's one of the more popular places for visitors to see while staying here."

"Oh Perky, you devilish minx," chuckled Shannon. "You got them good."

"Along with my payment for it from you, I got double the enjoyment out of it."

Joey glowered, but even Charlie had started to laugh. "It is kind of funny if you forget for a moment that it was us," she said.

"Well, I suppose," Joey murmured, her mouth twitching as she too started to see the funny side of it.

"And at least it wasn't a total bust," said Charlie. "We did have a lot of fun when it was just the two of us."

"True," Joey said. "However, we can't let this go without retribution though."

"Do your best," Graves dared her.

Joey stared at her. "Ok, where is the real Graves?" she said, as she now begun to believe that Graves wasn't going to be the only woman with their hands full in that relationship. "You know, the one who first turned up in the Bay?"

"This is the real me," Graves replied. "At least when I'm off duty and on holidays," she added.

"I personally love this fun and mischievous Graves," Shannon said. "Though I do have a soft spot for the Graves that used to get so nervous and shy around me, that she'd blush and stammer." She grinned at her girlfriend. "You were so cute and adorable when you did that."

"I was embarrassed because I thought I'd be incapable of any speech around you and blow it with you."

"Lucky for me, you got through it."

"I'm the lucky one," Graves said.

"No, I'm definitely the lucky one."

"No, I am."

Joey rolled her eyes. "Oh god, they're hopeless."

"They're us," Charlie reminded her again. "We're invisible to them now, so let's leave them be and you can have the rest of the day to think about appropriate retribution."

"Fine," she muttered.

"They're gone," Shannon said with a smirk the moment they were alone.

"Works every time," Graves chuckled.

"Wanna go inside and show each other how lucky we are?"

"I love the way you think," Graves said. "Amongst other things," she added in a suggestive tone.