Intimacy

Prompt 077: Lust

There were scars all over him.

Veronica had made love with her husband countless times, always unraveling some new scar and trying to be totally prudent about her reactions about them. But now that she had him naked, under the warm waters of the shower and was scrubbing his back, she could not help but to cringe. His back was crisscrossed with scars, some superficial, most angry and deep and seeming to still hurt. He didn't seem to mind as she touched them, apparently not keeping a thing from her, but deep down he was keeping everything from her. How could he have gotten such angry looking injuries, how did he ever heal, on his own…? Veronica's soul was tortured, ins ilence, as she refused herself to ask about them; Balthazar didn't share much about those years he spent alone, only when it was either something funny or absolutely necessary.

Veronica leaned and kissed his scars, making his head fall and water drip in torrents through the heavy bangs of dirty blonde hair. "Veronica." He said softly, in a moan even, as she knelt before him and kissed the small of his back, the scars tracing lines down his muscles and to his hips. Her caresses did not stop, and moved down his scarred thighs and then back up and around to his stomach, feeling him chuckle as if he were been teased. "Beloved."

"My sweet Balthazar," She whispered, kissing the skin over his tailbone along with the scar that moved from there to his ribs, or maybe the other way around, she wasn't sure.

"They are nothing, beloved, really."

Veronica knew her husband had always capable of absorbing information, even through their link, newly fixed and properly kept, but Veronica also had wanted him to feel accepted. His scars were nothing to her, Balthazar was still her true and only love… "They are like badges to me, more than scars." Her hands fell to her sides, as Balthazar turned and smiled down at her. "I went through many painful things to have you here, and I would do them over and over again if need be."

"No, Balthazar…"

"Stand, Veronica, please." And she did so, taking his hand and pressing close because her legs were without circulation. And because she wanted to touch him with her own skin. "I want to make love to you." A moan escaped her and she felt his lips find hers in a crushing kiss.

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"You should take vacations."

"Sorry?"

"Vacations, to go to your honeymoon." Dave suggested out of the blue, sitting across from him in the middle of the lab, there had been a long silence between them, and the fire around the ring had been extinguished a goof fifteen minutes. Balthazar frowned at Dave, not understand the origins of this idea… "I've been sitting here without you ordering me around for twenty minutes, you need to go get it done with Veronica."

"What a good idea!" Said Balthazar quickly getting up and putting on his coat. "I will get it done with Veronica then. See you tomorrow."

"You'll die of too much sex!" Called Dave after the master, making the man return to the catwalk above and lean to look down at his apprentice

"Dave, when you are as old as I am, you discover certain things and one of them is that there is no such thing as too much sex!" And Balthazar left a stupefied Dave behind.

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"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Asked Veronica's voice from the other side of the door, while Becky sat on the dressing room's only chair with legs crossed.

"Please Veronica is your husband's birthday. This is the gift I'm well aware that keep on giving." Said the younger sorceress, smiling as her friend struggled with what they had selected. Actually Veronica had eyed it and blushed on the spot and Becky had told her she was trying it on.

"I just feel… Weir."

"Because you are used to cover everything up with skirts, pants and long sleeve blouses."

"I was groomed to be a lady."

"So was I; but this particular outfit is not for going out… Hell it won't even be on you for long enough to get a good feeling out of it."

"I thought that was the idea; getting a good feel out of it." They both laughed, and Becky stood.

"Yes it is. Are you ready?"

There was a moment of silence, in which Becky waited for Veronica to come out. "I'm not coming out."

"Why not?"

"It's too revealing."

"That's the general idea!"

"I'm going to take it off!"

"Don't you dare; now let me see." There was another second of silence and after a good fifteen second wait the door slid open a mere crack, but before Becky could pry it open Veronica slid her fingers, sighed.

"Don't you dare laugh." Whispered Veronica, opening the door the rest of the way.

"Why would I laugh? We told the clerk we are lovers so I can help you choose one of these… Oh My God! I've never been envious of another friend's body but you are just so… so…."

"Plump. In a good way; I know."

"I hate you."

"No you don't."

"Do you even have a push up bra?" Asked Becky, unable to help herself and touching.

"No, it's… their natural disposition."

"Now I really do hate you."

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Veronica was naked, feeling the warmth of the little fireplace they owned. Balthazar's head rested over her naked lap, his hair messy and warm covering some of her thigh and knee, while he rested equally naked over the living room's carpet. Veronica combed his hair from time to time, she also massaged his scalp or traced lazy lines over his face. They had just made love; sweet quiet love, the sort of love making she dreamed about while thinking about him in her dreams within the Keep. She leaned, kissing his lips, and felt his hand lift touch the back of her head and knead a little at her neck's muscles.

"Beloved." He murmured softly, eyes still closed, making Veronica close her own eyes and breath in his scent. "How I love you."

The words always brought tears to her closed eyes.

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Author's Ramblings: I did get a few reviews, I did get a lot of fav story for this particular piece and I wanted to thank all of you guys who read it and like it. I do understand why you wouldn't post but one of my reviewers asked me to do more about this two and I wondered if it would be a good idea, specially when involving Dave and Becky. So this is what came up. ^_^! I hope I didn't disappoint and yes I know is shorter but I don't want to make them sound too corny you know. Remember these are snippets. Thanks for reading!