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"Stop looking at me like that!" Sarah snapped, irritation on her face.
Jane grinned wider at her mate. "Only when you stop being mad at me, it's been a week already."
"I'm not mad," Sarah said with a sniff before glaring when she heard a scoff of disbelief.
"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not."
"Are too."
"Are not!"
"Are too!"
"Are not!"
"Are too!"
"Are not!"
"Are not!"
"Are too- Hey!"
Jane snickered at the juvenile trick and the fact it had actually worked in turning the situation back on her mate. "Well if you say so then I guess it's true," she said innocently.
Sarah growled warningly, her eyes narrowed. "Do you want to sleep alone?"
Jane sobered immediately before giving her beloved a patient look. "Babe, stop hanging onto it, it's not the first that it's happened-."
"That's not the point," Sarah said stiffly. "The point is that you laughed!"
"What did you want me to do?" Jane asked with a frown at how unreasonable her human lover was being.
"I don't know but laughing wasn't it!" Sarah said angrily, stepping back when the loric moved towards her.
"Sarah, you're being ridiculous now," Jane said bluntly and watched her mate splutter. "It's a natural and normal thing-."
"No, it's not!" Sarah shouted before silence reigned in the bedroom and she slowly turned red and shifted uncomfortably, not looking at her beloved. "Now I sound ridiculous."
Jane nodded her agreement before pulling the woman onto the bed gently. "It's alright; I told you that as well, didn't I?"
Sarah nodded slightly but it didn't stop the look of humiliation from taking over her expression and she buried her face in the crook of her beloved's neck.
Jane sighed wearily as she held the woman comfortingly, trying to soothe her before her mood swings could do a 180 and leave them both weepy and miserable and like the world was ending, before she sighed again as she thought back to the start of the week that seemed to be going so well.
Flashback - A week ago:
Jane groaned gutturally, her eyes closed and her face a picture of enjoyment as soft hands massaged her tired body, rubbing in the soothing rose oil generously. "Mmm~ have I told you how much I love you?"
"Not recently," Sarah said lightly as she worked the hard muscles, reducing them to goo as she indulged her mate. "Try and stay awake this time."
"That only happened a few times," Jane protested lazily.
Sarah rolled her eyes but didn't stop her massage. "We've been here over a week and all the times that you don't fall asleep, you're already asleep."
Jane mumbled into the bed sleepily before her eyes flew open with a squeak as her body went stiff as a board and shock flashed over her face.
"A girl likes some appreciation," Sarah said innocently as she twitched the not-so-innocent finger that was buried in her mate, earning another moan. "You know?"
Jane nodded quickly, struggling to stay still at the pleasant sensations that awakened a hungry itch. "S-Sarah."
Sarah raised a brow at the plea and felt a familiar shiver go through her that could only be caused by the powerful woman before her begging for her but she found herself not as excited as usual. "Maybe tomorrow night," she said quietly, leaning down to kiss a shoulder tenderly before getting off the bed to clean up.
"Wha?" Jane said dazedly before her mind registered that she wasn't being ravished and her mate was no longer on the bed. "Sarah~."
"Yes, babe?" Sarah said as she put away the bottle of oil.
"I want you," Jane said impatiently, trying to keep from outright whining as she laid on her back, using her elbows to prop herself up into a reclined position on the bed.
"Me? You want me?" Sarah said teasingly, amusement in her eyes.
"Yes," Jane said plaintively as her eyes locked onto the toned body of her mate, liking the way it gleamed from the rose oil that had rubbed off onto it.
"Jane, my face is up here," Sarah said dryly, feeling her slit itch at the hungry gaze directed at it.
Jane blinked, confused for a second, before she moved her gaze higher with a frustrated huff. "Hun, why don't you just get the cowgirl hat and get into bed and-."
"A little higher, you're trying to reason with my breasts," Sarah said bluntly, trying to hide her amusement.
"Well maybe they'll listen to me!" Jane said indignantly, impatience and frustration on her face and in her tone. "Sarah, it's late, cold and I'm horny and pregnant and want you right now!"
Sarah bit back a grin as she appeared to consider the words and nearly laughed at the impatient growl from the pregnant loric. "I don't know, like you said, you are pregnant, are you even allowed?"
"If you're gentle, then yes," Jane said stiffly before nearly cheering when Sarah settled the cowgirl hat on her head firmly. "Yes! My cowgirl!"
Sarah grinned at the reaction before crawling onto the bed and up the reclining form to kiss her mate passionately, moaning into her mouth before leaning back for breath. "My gorgeous bronco," she breathed before returning the smile. "Is there time for whipped cream?"
Jane gave her beloved a frown, clearly saying there would be consequences if she dismounted and left to find the can of sugary cream.
"I guess not," Sarah said meekly at the daunting look before claiming another kiss as an appeasement while she slipped a thigh between Jane's gently and gave a muffled moan at the heat radiating from the loric's core. "You're certainly hot for me."
"I'm always hot for you," Jane panted before drawing her human lover down for another hungry kiss, rolling her hips against the thigh between hers, seeking delicious friction to help sate her growing lust.
"No wonder there's global warming," Sarah teased playfully. "I wouldn't be surprised if all that snow outside was melted into slush by morning."
"Now you're being dramatic," Jane said dryly before gasping when her mate started to move deeply but slowly against her slick heat. "Mmm~ don't tease me tonight, babe."
"Don't forget who the cowgirl is," Sarah said with a smirk as she put her hands on either side of Jane's head to brace herself as she rocked her hips deeply, drawing out each stroke for as long as possible.
Jane's growl turned into a choked groan at the budding pleasure. "Maybe I'm going to be a wild bronco that needs to be ridden hard then."
Sarah bit back a laugh as she grinned before indulging her lover as she moved her hips faster, moaning as she rubbed herself against Jane's thigh vigorously, finding her own motivation to not tease the loric as her movements started to be mirrored earnestly, doubling both their pleasure as their gasps for breath and moans of need sounded in the cool air. She moaned loudly and threw her head back when Jane's arms wrapped around her and she drew her nails from her shoulder blades down to the hallow of her lower back, making her hiss at the slight pain but not stop as her hot breath misted in the air of the bedroom before she looked back down at her beloved. "Bad bronco," she chided before letting her mouth descend to pay homage to the loric's jiggling mounds, getting a moan of approval.
"Ngh...S-Sarah," Jane gasped as she arched her chest up into the hot mouth willing, finding the temperature difference made her nipples tingle painfully before changing into a feeling of pleasure that made her toes curl slightly as she hooked her free leg around her mate, pulling her closer, before she found herself being kissed breathless as their bodies rocked on the bed.
Sarah moaned into the kiss as she felt the loric's grip on her tighten, indicating her need and building pleasure, and she panted before grimacing when her stomach cramped suddenly and tried to brush it off before another joined it, throwing off her thrusts quickly as she wrapped an arm around her middle.
"Nooo, don't stop now," Jane whined, desperation on her face before she heard a gasp of pain and opened her eyes and looked up at her mate, concern on her face. "Sarah?"
"I'm fine," Sarah said reassuringly before trying to get back on track and grit her teeth when another cramp shot her libido in the head execution style while a familiar throbbing and aching started in her thigh and her eyes widen. "Oh please no."
Jane blinked, confusion on her face, her own lust and desire blocking out Sarah's feelings in their bond but the words were enough to give her concern. "Sarah?" she repeated.
Sarah flinched, shame and humiliation on her face as she quickly scrambled off her mate, gritting her teeth at the continuing cramps as the pain in her leg got worse. "I-I-..."
"Sarah, what's wrong?" Jane asked firmly, a frown on her face as she looked at her mate before reaching over and turned on the bedside lamp before staring at the blood smeared on her thigh that had been between Sarah's legs before she looked back at her beloved before chuckling. "That explains the whipped cream."
Sarah stared, hurt in her eyes at the laughter as the feeling of humiliation grew and she threw the hat at her beloved before stumbling off the bed, clearly upset.
"Hey, where are you going?" Jane protested before wincing when Sarah stumbled again and could see she was limping heavily and she urged herself off the bed to help her beloved.
"Don't!" Sarah snapped before disappearing into the bathroom and shut the door in the loric's face.
"Come on, Sarah, I need to wash too," Jane said with a frown, not overly bothered by the blood on her leg but was willing to use it as an excuse to get into the bathroom with her lover and she peered in when the door opened before padding in and saw Sarah stepping back into the shower carefully. "Are you ok?"
"Don't talk to me," Sarah said bitterly as she turned away, cursing her menstrual cycle and endometriosis.
"Is it your leg again?" Jane asked as she wet a hand towel before starting to clean her thigh calmly.
Sarah grit her teeth as she kept her back to her mate. "Yes."
"I'll break out the heat pack," Jane said sympathetically.
"I can do it myself," Sarah said stiffly.
Jane sighed wearily before opening the shower door, letting the steam billow out before she turned the woman around and looked her in the eye. "I'm trying to help, it's alright, ok? Now let me help."
Sarah nodded slightly after a minute, crumbling quickly in the face of the painful cramps and watched the loric leave before going back to washing, letting the hot water soothe away the pains a little.
End Flashback:
"We could go to the doctors," Jane said comfortingly as she held her mate, coming back out of her thoughts when her beloved shifted in her arms. "Maybe they can give you something."
"Going to the doctors means having a medical record and we can't risk that, not now," Sarah said softly, letting a hand rest on the loric's rounding belly gently. "I miss cuddling up with you and a blanket on the couch; we'd eat chocolate and fall asleep to some sappy movie."
"We can still do that," Jane said reassuringly before grinning crookedly. "Might not get the cramps for awhile but we can still cuddle and eat chocolate...and whipped cream."
Sarah turned bright red and hid her face again. "You're not going to let that go, are you?"
Jane grinned and shook her head, barely keeping herself from laughing. "It was practically a warning sign dressed in neon orange and jumping up and down under my nose," she said teasingly before letting out a quiet chuckle. "You're so adorable when you get your whipped cream cravings."
"No, I'm not, I pig out on that stuff-," Sarah said miserably before getting cut off.
"No, really? And here I thought putting the nozzle in your mouth and letting it rip until your cheeks are blown up like a puffer fish was a normal thing," Jane said playfully and grinned when she saw a smile crack her mate's face before holding her close. "Next time, let's not fight during your shark week and cuddle, how does that sound?"
"Will there be whipped cream?" Sarah asked in a small voice after a minute of silence.
Jane grinned widely before kissing the love of her life firmly before looking into her eyes happily. "Of course, babe."
Sarah smiled before cuddling her beloved happily, letting the last of her anger and hurt go as she fell into the warm embrace. "I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry too," Jane said earnestly before blinking when she felt hands on her chest and looked down at her beloved. "What?"
"What do you mean 'shark week'? Are you calling me a shark?" Sarah asked suspiciously, her eyes narrowed dangerously.
Jane laughed nervously, starting to sweat slightly at the dangerous look that was trained on her and she resisted the urge to think that the woman was looking at her like a man-eating shark. "N-No, why would I say that about my sweet gumdrop?" she asked nervously, putting up a weak smile and paled slightly at the noise of annoyance. "It was on the television-."
"Are you saying the TV told you to call me a shark?" Sarah asked bluntly, one brow perfectly raised as she waited expectantly.
"No but it did tell me that a shark's brain looks very similar to the human female reproductive system," Jane said quickly before grinning meekly. "So let's call it shark week."
"Let's not in case I decide to eat you," Sarah said dryly before poking her mate's belly. "And your shark brain looks like...like..."
Jane raised a brow as she waited before smirking. "You should just quit while you're ahead," she advised before grinning back at her mate happily. "All forgiven?"
"All forgiven," Sarah said with a smile before a glint passed through her eye and she nipped at the exposed neck playfully, getting a yelp from the loric. "That's for calling me a shark."
Jane rolled her eyes before crawling into bed with a shiver as the windows rattled from a cold wind, making her look at them darkly. "I hate the cold."
"I know, I'm sure the whole world knows," Sarah said as she watched with some amusement as the fiercest loric warrior in existence huddled down in a cocoon of blankets, a dark scowl on her face as she sulked and tried to get warm. "You'd be warmer if you wore socks, since you lose more heat through the bottoms of your feet than any other place in your-."
"I'm not wearing socks to bed," Jane said bluntly, a stubborn look in her eye.
Sarah sighed wearily before turning out the light and slipped into bed, having to work hard to wiggle into the protective cocoon but succeeded and wrapped her arms around her beloved, feeling the tiny tremors as her muscles shivered from the chill. "I promise, next time will be somewhere warm."
Jane snuggled into her mate, a miserable expression on her face, first she gets pregnant somehow, and then she gets ordered into loric protection like she was being threatened by the mob, before ending up in a frozen hell. The only thing that kept her from telling everyone to shove their protection detail was the human she was curled up next to, even though the last week had been bitter and taxing, she'd welcomed the distraction from everything but not her beloved's pain. She sighed quietly, wishing she could take her to a doctor to see if there was something to be done for her leg, she didn't know the right word for it but she did know that some misplaced nerves or cells in Sarah's thigh acted up on her cycle, making it painful for her to so much as move her leg and it wasn't like someone had come up with a medicine specifically for thigh pain during menstruation. But she did her best to make the other woman comfortable each month, even if this one had been hell on Earth, at least Sarah hadn't been able to focus totally on the pain while being mad at her.
"I love you," Sarah mumbled as she shifted to get more comfortable, ready to drop into blissful darkness.
Jane smiled tiredly, letting her thoughts flee and she pecked her mate on the lips softly before relaxing again. "I love you too," she murmured before following her into sleep's sweet embrace.
The digital clock ticked over to 3:25am silently some hours later, the cold wind and snow buffeted the still house relentlessly in the darkness of the night, deepening the chill within the house as the two occupants slumbered.
Sarah's eyes snapped opened suddenly and she gave a muffled shriek into her pillow and covers, sleep fleeing with her dreams as a shock of cold shot up her leg, sending chills up her spine as she grit her teeth and tried to keep quiet while trying to figure out what had happened. She squeezed her eyes shut and cursed silently at her mate's icicle of a foot on her calf, wondering how they even managed to get that cold when Jane was wrapped up in the cocoon of blankets and wished the loric would wear some damn socks to bed. She shuddered as the cold spread up her leg before groaning into her pillow to muffle the sound, she knew Jane hated the cold and everything related to it after growing up in the hot Australian outback and no matter how many layers she put on the pregnant loric, her teeth still chattered and she looked absolutely miserable when her mate thought she wasn't looking. But that wasn't the issue at that particular moment, the freezing cold foot that seemed to be glued to her leg was the issue and no matter how far she moved it, Jane's foot refused to break contact. "Jane," she whispered urgently. "Jane!"
The pregnant loric didn't so much as twitch at the whispers as she slumbered on, ignorant to her beloved's plight.
"Jane!" Sarah all but screamed at her mate before starting when she got a reaction but it wasn't the one she expected nor the one she desired as Jane mumbled in her sleep before rolling over and latched onto her and pulled her close. Now BOTH of the loric's freezing feet were on her legs while her head was tucked into the crook of Sarah's neck as she continued sleeping. "Jane," she whimpered pitifully as another shudder went through her from the ice blocks on her legs and the warm breath on her exposed neck.
"Mmm~...Sarah...," Jane mumbled in her sleep and pulled her distraught lover closer as she dreamt pleasantly.
"Yes, that's my name, now for the love of god, woman, MOVE!" Sarah hissed insistently, not finding her predicament pleasant at all.
Jane mumbled incoherently in her sleep before pulling her indignant mate closer, forcing the woman to arch her back to keep pressure off of Jane's seventeen week large belly, which forced her legs against the freezing feet even more.
Sarah growled at the dilemma she was in and squirmed, rocking her lover back and forth to try and rouse her from her slumber already, prepared to take her wrath for waking for her supposedly no reason, even if the freezing cold feet on her legs seemed like a good enough reason for her to warrant a wakeup, a sleep deprived and hormonal Jane would not agree. "Come on, babe, wake up already," she pleaded before yelping when Jane wrapped her leg around hers, putting a cold foot on the front of hers and sending another shudder of cold up her mate's spine. "Oh my God, Jane, how can you be this cold?! You definitely aren't human if your feet are this cold, what on earth did I do to deserve this?"
Jane didn't answer as she slept on, oblivious to her lover's discomfort.
Sarah sighed in defeat, making a note to wear long pants and thick socks to bed from now on and to get Jane's circulation checked. She shivered as another chill shot up her spine before staring at the wall silently, zoning out as she thought about the past few weeks. The sudden move from Michigan to Canada, dealing with Luke, looking the other way when Jane achieved her revenge on John for moving them to Jane's version of hell with a side dish of Luke being stuck to the SUV by his lips and tongue for nearly half an hour, and then trying to blend into their new home while remaining inconspicuous so no one would really care or notice when they left. Not to mention the last week of drama that she'd rather pretend had never happened to save her own pride. Even with all that going on though, she hadn't failed to notice how much Jane's belly had grown in the time they'd been living in their new home and was trying to sort her feelings on the topic. They still didn't know how it had happened or whose baby it was but she was more than willing to play pretend for Jane's sake and a part of her seemed to have made an iron clad decision that the baby was hers and her mate's. It didn't feel like a decision though, it was like a gut feeling or something, she sighed wearily as she felt herself starting to get a headache before twitching when a cold foot ran up her leg seductively, sending more unpleasant chills up her spine as she grimaced. No matter what she figured out though, she was not going to let anyone or anything harm her growing family, she nodded slightly to reaffirm her decision before settling down and tried to get some sleep. "You're lucky I love you so much," she muttered before closing her eyes with a weary sigh and smiled slightly. "I know I'm lucky that you love me though."
I apologise to all those who are groaning and disappointed that they didn't get to read the goods they were expecting but fear not, there will be more next time and some big questions will be answered! Now review my pretties! Come on, there's like, nearly three hundred of you READING this, share the love!