~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ch9, Inescapable Spark
Maura pulled the suitcases into the bedroom and walked out to the kitchen to find Jane standing behind the counter looking out the window holding a bowl of lobster bisque. She heard Maura coming closer and turned to see her. "I couldn't wait Maura, this stuff is sooo good."
"That's fine Jane, I might like some too though." Maura smiled and stood next to Jane.
"When my rib stops feeling like it is poking into my lung, I will help you carry all the heavy stuff, but for now, I'm just useless. I'm sorry you had to move the luggage by yourself."
Maura nodded but didn't say anything. Both were transfixed by the scene before them out the window facing the ocean. The sky was gray and snowflakes were sailing across the window pane riding on the blowing wind. Wisps of tall grass danced as they reached higher than the depth of the thick blanket of snow on the dunes. The waves roared. Jane and Maura stared out at the heavy gray crashing waves.
"It sure looks cold out there, Maura. I hope you don't have too many outdoor activities planned." Jane pulled a spoonful of hot soup from her bowl and offered it to Maura. Maura allowed Jane to feed her. If she was in this, she was committing. In for a penny, in for a pound.
Maura swallowed and responded to Jane, "Mmmm, Thank you." Maura dabbed her lips with a napkin. "Well, considering this was a last minute excursion, I haven't planned anything other than time together. There is no itinerary at all. We can do anything you like, Jane. But first, I'd like to have a real meal and no matter how delicious the lobster bisque may be, I want more than just a few bites of your soup."
Maura knew she was delaying the inevitable.
"Great, More for me." Jane laughed as she walked around the counter where the remaining items from the deli were ready for their meal. Maura approached from the other side of the counter and they prepared their plates for dinner. "Hey, do you mind if we eat in the living room, I noticed that the big picture window overlooks the water, does that sound ok to you Maur?"
"Sure, I'll get our drinks and meet you in there." Maura took this opportunity to shake the nerves out of her system. She picked up Jane's parka that had somehow landed on the floor and hung it at the back of the bar-stool at the counter. She picked up her glass took a good long drink of her wine before she also picked up Jane's glass and headed toward the tiny cottage living room.
When Maura entered, Jane was already nestled up on the couch with her feet tucked under, eating her dinner and watching wave after wave hit the beach. Maura sat beside her and picked up her plate sitting on the side table. "It looks like a storm out there with the big waves, Maura."
"It does." Maura felt the storm inside herself as well. "But at least the snow has stopped. The sky looks like it's clearing too. Maybe tomorrow will be a pretty day."
"I know you checked the weather, and the sun is starting to come out, but I think those waves look bigger than they did half an hour ago. Is that because the tide is coming in? By the looks of the size of those things, are you sure we won't be carried off to sea in our sleep?"
"While waves and tides both occur naturally in the all large bodies of water, they are two very dissimilar phenomena. Tides are cyclical rises and falls in seawater levels. Waves, on the other hand, are ocean swells that occur at any time of the day or night." Maura paused for a breath and a nervous thought entered her mind. "Both waves and tides are normally harmless, but if waves and tides come together in the right arrangement, cataclysmic, momentous events are possible."
"So, I'm still asking, are you sure we won't be carried off to sea in our sleep?" Jane eyed Maura with some bit of amusement.
"Jane, the likelihood of our being swept away, although possible, it is improbable. We are going to be fine." That is not what Maura was thinking. Maura was considering what right combination of events were about to come together and none of her calculations involved waves of seawater. She rephrased, "We should be fine."
"Ok, Dr. Smartypants. How does your baked chicken taste? Mine is delicious."
"It is delightful. I'm glad you requested this from the deli. I am relieved that I didn't have to prepare a meal for us tonight after that long drive and we can simply enjoy this quiet peaceful experience."
"Peaceful? You mean beside the monster waves 100 yards from this tiny house?"
Maura smiled and took a bite of her food.
Jane finished her plate and set it down on a side table. She poured herself another glass of wine and topped off Maura's glass as well. She took a sip. "Maura, I like this wine with the rooster label."
"Oh, yes, Jane, it is very good."
"See, I told you we could buy our wine based on the cool labels and we'd be fine."
Maura shook her head and laughed under her breath. Jane was incorrigible at times. But she loved these times. Maura was beginning to relax. The easy conversation flowed as the waves kept coming one after another, after another, and the sky had mostly cleared outside the enormous picture window. The setting sun shed a glow throughout the tiny room and only a half circle of blaze orange remained above the horizon.
"Maura, did you know that the sun sparks just before it sets below the horizon?"
"Jane, it does not."
"No, really it does, come here." She took Maura's hand and led her to stand next to the window with her. Now watch for it. Jane moved behind Maura and snaked her hands around Maura's waist. They admired the orange and purple rays filtering through the remaining clouds above as the fireball sank deeper and deeper into the ocean off the cape.
"Ok, Maura at the exact instant the sun is about to disappear, you have to jump up and you will see the spark."
Maura turned her head back to look at Jane for a moment. "Jane, what are you doing? There will be no spark." She shook her head in confusion toward Jane and turned back around. They stood there together closely, gently swaying side to side, Jane behind Maura, they watched and waited. Maura leaned into Jane and tilted her head back against Jane's shoulder.
"You'll see Maura, if you jump at the right moment, you'll see." Jane's arms around Maura felt so good to her. She appreciated Jane's attempt to be close to her as silly as it sounded, waiting for a spark. After about five minutes of slow swaying and watching the sun drop lower, Jane stepped away from Maura.
"Maur, ok, it's about to go down. Get ready to jump."
"Jane, really? Must I?"
"What? Of course, I can't believe you've never seen the spark before. Get ready, you'll miss it. Turn around and look."
Maura turned and watched for the last light and at the moment the sun disappeared, she jumped up. When she landed on her feet having not seen a spark from the sun, she turned toward Jane with slight embarrassment believing she'd been fooled. Jane stood gazing at Maura with a soft, loving smile and fervent stare.
"Maur, so did you see it?"
Maura wasn't even sure anymore to what Jane was referring. "No Jane, I did not see the spark."
"Ahhh… really? Well, then your timing must have been just a touch off." Jane teased quietly, "Oh well, better luck next time." Jane stepped closer to Maura and dropped her voice to a near-whisper, "You know, I probably should have told you, the timing needs to be just right."
She took Maura into her arms and leaned in close. "A little too soon… and you miss it." Jane dropped down and kissed the corner of Maura's mouth then pulled back a few inches. "A little too late… and you miss it." She kissed the other corner. "It has to be perfect. Like this." And Jane pressed a kiss dead center on Maura's mouth. Floating once again, Maura may not have seen the spark but there was one. She could feel it all around her.
Jane continued to press her mouth against Maura's. Maura opened herself to accept Jane's offering and their tongues slid together deepening the kiss. It was as if something caged had been unleashed and Maura could feel the intensity increasing. She couldn't push Jane away. She could no longer hold back. A pained look crept across her face. She wanted this. She exhaled and went for more. She wanted Jane more than she's wanted anyone in her life. Whatever repercussions, she would deal with them later. Right now, all she wanted, all she needed, was Jane.
Jane maneuvered them back to the living room couch. Maura laid herself down as Jane pressed on. Their bodies flush now, desire escalating and unstoppable. Wet open-mouthed kisses were without aim, sliding over each other and back again, tongues colliding. Maura's hands were gliding along Jane's back as Jane rested her weight on top of Maura. Jane was unrelenting in her touch and Maura gave over to passion. Jane pulled back to give space enough to begin to unbutton Maura's blouse. As each button was undone, Jane's eyes returned to Maura's then set back to the task of the next button. Maura's breathing became deeper, stronger, filled with want. Maura's heartbeat was heavy in her chest, pounding so hard she imagined Jane could hear it. One by one the buttons popped open and one by one the barriers between the two women were dwindling to none.
Maura couldn't move fast enough to slide Jane's shirt off her body and pull Jane down to rejoin their kiss. Jane moved her knee down so the top of her thigh again pressed against Maura. Maura responded immediately to the pressure and her movements intensified even more. Maura breathed out heavily and took in another breath. "Jane." Her hands seeking, her kisses urgent. Deeper. More, she wanted more. She tilted her hips for more pressure and a firm, steady rhythm began to form.
Jane moved her mouth across Maura's face and down along the side of her neck. She began to gently draw and suck at Maura's pulse point matching the rhythm of Maura's hips, "Oh God, Jane." Maura's mind was lost, caught up in the feeling of Jane consuming her body. "Yes." She'd give it all to Jane. "Yes, Jane." She belonged to Jane. "Please, Jane."
Jane started to feel the pain of her broken rib. She didn't want to stop, but her body couldn't maintain. She pulled away from Maura's neck and breathed. "Maur," Jane winced. "Maur, can we move this to the bedroom? I can't hold this position." She breathed some more to regain her senses. "I'm so sorry babe, my rib. It hurts."
Maura fought to come out of her daze to help Jane, "Of course. Jane, let me help you." Jane tenderly sat back as Maura lay on the couch. Maura forced her eyes wide drawing in a deep breath and forcefully exhaled to regain her bearings. She looked up toward Jane to see the pain showing in Jane's face. Maura felt pain as well, but a different kind.
Maura slipped her legs from beneath Jane and sat up. Maura's body was still buzzing. She looked at Jane who had begun to perspire. "Jane, do you need your pain medicine? I'll get that for you."
"Yeah, Maura I think so. I guess we got a little carried away there didn't we?"
Maura was still caught up in the mutual energy they'd shared between them. "Maur, sweetie, where'd ya go?" Jane weakly waved one hand in front of the beautiful love of her life. "Earth to Maura."
"Oh, right, carried away? Yes. Yes we did get carried away for a moment. Jane, you need to be careful as your body tries to heal." She stood to help Jane to the bedroom. Even with the break in intensity, the sensation surrounding them remained.
She took Jane to the bed then Maura went to the luggage for Jane's pain medication. She put it on the nightstand. "Jane, I'll be right back, I'm going to get you some water."
"Ok, I'm not going anywhere." Jane felt so happy that she had such a wonderful woman to care for her. Tonight, despite the pain, Jane intended to demonstrate how much she loved her wife.
Maura stood in the kitchen still throbbing and hot as she filled Jane's glass with water. She inhaled deeply and exhaled again while the water poured into the glass then returned with the glass of water and set it on the nightstand. "Jane, I'm just going to go clear the dinner mess and I'll be right in."
"Ok sweetheart." Jane looked at her medication on the nightstand. Jane willed the pain away. She was not taking the pain medication until after she sent Maura to paradise and back tonight, no matter what it took.
Maura cleared the plates and the kitchen while she reminisced over the very recent episode in the living room. "A spark? Really Jane?" She chuckled to herself how she allowed Jane to lead her down a path. It was all so Jane. Her Jane. It was as if Maura wanted to believe. Maura laughed at the absurdity of it all. She knew now that if Jane said the moon was made of cheese, she might wonder what kind. She would want to believe it because it came from Jane.
It was love.
Maura stopped her thoughts or a moment. This Jane was not Jane. She was so easily lulled into believing. She needed to stop. Their time would come, just not until Jane was herself again. She doesn't even know what came over her in the living room. She shook her head and thought, Jane is good, very very good at seduction. Not that Maura needed much persuasion at this point, but Maura admired Jane's mystical power to draw her in.
After she'd cleared the mess, she went back to check on Jane. "Hey, you, I'm just going to go ahead and get ready for bed. I'll join you shortly." Maura removed what she needed from the suitcases and made her way to the bathroom and took a good long shower. Maura stood, letting heat flow across her body and down to the drain. After what Jane did to her in the living room, her body was aching for release but she refused to give in. This belonged to Jane. Everything. There was no turning back now. But not tonight, she figured that Jane would be sleeping shortly after taking her medication and she'd just slip into the bed without incident.
When Maura arrived in the bedroom, she found Jane wide awake and waiting. The look on Jane's face sent a flash of awareness through Maura's body. Maura's hands started to nervously shake again. She approached the bed.
"Took you long enough." Jane joked and pulled Maura into the bed, flannel pajamas and all. "Are these your new favorites? I might need to tell my mother so she can find more of these for you." Maura laughed at that while Jane moved her arms around Maura's body.
"Jane, don't hurt yourself again." Maura started to giggle as Jane kept sliding her arms around Maura. Maura turned to face Jane as she lay in the bed. Jane had a serious look on her face and Maura's took the same look. "What is it Jane? Are you alright?"
A soft smile appeared again, "Maura, I love you." Jane took her left hand and moved to the side of Maura's face then with her thumb, slid the tiniest piece of hair off her forehead. "I love you, Maura." She looked into Maura's eyes. There was nothing Maura could do. The spell was too strong and she accepted Jane's kisses as they came pouring into her. Jane's ardent affection spilled across her body. Her nerves were on fire. She felt every breath, every move, every kiss, everything as if it were magnified.
Wave after wave Jane pressed on, removing the flannel and all that was beneath. Jane's hands were all over Maura's body burning her with her touch, hot kisses trailed along her neck, across her collarbone down between her breasts and along her waist to her hip and back to Maura's mouth. They both began to perspire. Jane removed her own remaining clothing and continued to worship Maura's body with her hands and her lips and her fingers and her tongue. Jane's left hand was cupping Maura's breast teasing at her nipple with her finger and thumb. The sensation from Jane's devotions sent Maura's body into overdrive. Maura was aching, she needed more. She took Jane's hand and slid it down her own body to the throbbing, tantalizing heat between her legs. She held Jane's hand there until Jane began to move on her own.
Maura released Jane's hand and reached for a handful of the sheet on the bed. Jane slid her fingertips down and slowly pulled a slick wet trail back upward and even more slowly, began to draw circles around Maura's sensitive swelling. At Jane's steady movements, the breathless blonde gripped and held the sheet with her hand then pressed her head harder into the pillow and her chin jutted up. Involuntarily, she rocked her hips upward toward Jane's hand. Jane gently increased the pressure. She kissed her way down Maura's neck to her breast and began to roll her nipple between her tongue and her lips. She began kissing and softly sucking. Maura started to pant, her breath forceful and unsteady as she subtly undulated her body chasing contact with Jane. Jane's hand slipped delicately deeper and found Maura ready.
Jane started to move her fingers gently, sliding and building a fresh cadence, caressing the velvety smooth, hot, wet, indescribable softness. Maura breathlessly moaned, "Oh, Jane." At the sound of Maura's voice, Jane's body responded by sending its own white hot surge straight down. Jane could feel heat amassing between her own legs, passion ratcheting higher in herself. A powerful burn sliced low in her belly. Impossible, she thought, Maura had barely touched her. She kept going.
Maura's breathing was unsettled. Maura needed more. "Jane, Please, Please." Jane instinctively knew what Maura wanted and delightedly offered her pleasure. She slid her fingers deeply inside. Maura's hips bucked harder against her and she cried out, "That's it, yes, more."
Jane felt a different burning pain from her broken rib, momentarily distracting her from her goal, but Maura's body needed her more. There was no way she could stop now. She would always do her best to never let Maura down. She pressed harder and moved against Maura building the energy, giving all she could to express her love for her wife. She moved her body up and over Maura's to get leverage and kissed against her neck. Maura turned her face and held her hands against Jane's to force their mouths together again. Maura was getting close.
Conscious thought had already abandoned Maura the moment Jane began to kiss her. There was no longer a decision in her jurisdiction. Her emotions were not in her control. Her own body was not in her control. She was caught on a wave and was about to crash into heavenly oblivion.
Jane sensed the approach of Maura's climax and she prepared herself. "Maura." She needed to capture Maura's eyes. "Maura, look at me." Maura struggled to open her eyes and looked toward Jane's face. As soon as Maura recognized the loving look in Jane's eyes, she let go and was swept away. Her eyes slammed shut again and she held Jane tightly as she rode out the biochemically induced euphoria while thunder continued to roll through her body. Jane maintained a soft movement until Maura reached to still her hand.
Jane laid on her side and held Maura while the most delicate, gentle and loving woman on earth shuddered through the aftershocks as they reverberated through her small frame. She watched as a tear escaped Maura's eye and rolled down her cheek and she caught the salty droplet with a kiss. Maura turned her eyes toward Jane and Jane could see boundless love behind them.
Maura stared back into Jane's eyes. If she actually were married to this woman, she'd consider herself lucky and expect that she'd be happy the rest of her days. She stayed in Jane's embrace rejoicing in the intensity of what they had between them. After she'd finally come down enough from her high, she began to notice the pained look that was coming over Jane's face. Maura stumbled as she tried to form words, still breathless, "J-Jane, are you in pain?"
"What? No. I mean, a little maybe."
Maura knew instantly that Jane had overdone it. "Jane did you take your pain medication?"
"Nope."
Maura turned her head toward the nightstand and saw the medicine still there. Maura's voice was soft, "Why Jane? You have been hurting today. I brought it to you before I went into the shower? Why didn't you take it?"
"The pain doesn't matter to me, Maura. You do."
Jane continued to caress Maura's bare skin as they lay together in the bed. "Maur, I wanted to make love to you. I needed to make love to you. That stuff makes me so sleepy and it felt like it had been forever and I just needed a fresh new memory to hold with me. All the others are fading so fast." Jane rolled to her back. "When is that doctor coming anyway?"
"In a few days, Jane. She said she'd be here before she goes to her conference in Connecticut this week. Today is Monday so she should be here on Saturday."
Reality hit Maura straight in the face with a slap; again, she'd nearly forgotten that Jane wasn't back to herself yet. She readied Jane's medicine and watched her down the pills.
Jane moved close and held Maura, just like the other nights at her house. And just like at her house, Maura stayed awake, thinking. The difference tonight though, both Maura and Jane were skin to skin, touching the full length of their bodies. No Flannel, nothing between them. Jane's arm carefully wrapped against Maura's waist, her head rested just behind Maura's head. Jane's breath gently rolled over Maura's neck and exposed shoulder, soothing her while Jane's body pressed closely behind. Maura's body continued to twitch as tiny repeats washed over her, over and over again, rattling her body for hours that night. Her body was still on fire from the spark that surrounded them. Inescapable.
Note: Ok. So, I probably went way over the top with the sappy lovey stuff, but what I really wanna know is, do you like the story? or is it a confusing mess? Thank you for reading. Thank you for your time.
p.s. I'm signing up for comma school immediately. LOL