The Tegan Chronicles

Too Busy for Love 6

Tegan was standing in the living room on 'her' side of the duplex staring toward the empty dinning room. She really hadn't expected an answer. Maybe some yelling, but not dead silence. Had she royally screwed up? Was this going to ruin what they had? She didn't hear the smaller woman enter the living room, and jumped lightly as she felt arms encircle her from behind.

"Always and forever?"

Tegan's abdomen tightened at the touch of the keychain and Janet's cold fingers. "That's how long I'll love you."

Janet sighed into Tegan's back resting her head on her shoulder blade. "We can't afford it."

"Janet, it's already paid for."

"You can't spend your trust fund on it."

"I didn't." Tegan turned careful not to break Janet's embrace. "Well, not really, maybe a little bit. I, I've been saving, and part of it's the money from my house that sold when…"

"When we thought you were dead," Janet finished for her.

"Yeah."

"I want to sell my house, let you replace the money."

"No." Tegan shook her head. "Wait, does that mean…"

"Yes." Janet stretched up onto her toes and kissed Tegan's smiling lips, running her tongue along them. "It means yes."

Tegan pulled back. "I don't want you to sell your house. Rent it out, keep it for Cassie, but don't sell it."

"Why, it's not like it's anything special."

"It's Cassie's first home here, it's got a lot of memories in it for her. Besides, who knows maybe Margaret Scully will want to rent it. I think you could trust Dana's mom not to trash the place."

"Hmmmm." Janet nodded before grazing her teeth lightly along Tegan's lower lip.

Tegan slumped so Janet didn't have to balance on the balls of her feet as she opened her mouth to her, sucking on her warm velvet tongue until her lungs burned with the need for fresh oxygen. She pulled back panting as Janet pushed her leather coat to the floor. Tegan pulled Janet's shirt free from her jeans and guided her to the floor, her hands roaming under the black fabric finding the clasp to her bra and unhooking it with expert precision. Her left hand flattened against Janet's upper back supporting her as her right hand slipped beneath the lacy material, her thumb grazing Janet's nipple which immediately stood at attention.

Tegan looked into Janet's eyes and the moonlit windows reflecting in them. She wanted to remember this moment forever. She wanted it to be one of those memories that would help her fight her way back through anything. It was Janet that had kept her alive from the very first moment she stepped through the Stargate.

Tegan yelped having been so into her thoughts that she hadn't felt Janet's hand until a cool finger had slipped into the warmest part of her body. Her skirt had been push partially up on her hip, her panties merely pushed aside. "Janet."

"I know." Janet pushed her finger in further as her thumb touched the bundle of nerves that would send an electrifying jolt through her lover.

Tegan buried her head against Janet's neck, inhaling her shampoo. She licked her neck and kissed her way to her jaw. "Please… Janet."

"Do you want me to stop?" Her voice was husky with desire.

"No… please." Tegan brought her knee up sandwiching the denim of Janet's Levis between her thigh and Janet's need.

Janet found her rhythm rocking her hips to stimulate herself and her hand to bring Tegan to the point of no return. She knew that the first tremble in Tegan's body would send herself into a full blown orgasm. "Tegan?"

"Yes?"

Janet smiled, she'd seen the glazed look before. "Breathe."

Tegan inhaled her entire body giving into the sensation, her arm barely able to hold her above Janet even as she arched against her left hand. She exhaled as Janet removed her hand, vaginal walls still spasming. She rolled onto her side, her hand still trapped under Janet.

"Your side of the house smells like sex." Janet laughed.

"Got news for you, I'm sleeping on your side."

"Not unless I say so."

"Oh, I didn't tell you, that's in the contract."

Janet laughed.

"Actually, there is some fine print I didn't tell you about." Tegan got serious. "If we break up, and one of us moves we have to offer to sell the house to the other for the same price you paid for your half."

"Is that a prenuptial agreement?"

"It's an 'I don't see it ever happening, but didn't want to screw you over if it did' agreement."

"Oh, in that case." Janet rolled over and kissed Tegan's forehead. "Do you want to go make my side smell like sex?"

Tegan lay on the quilt in the dinning room looking up at the ceiling, she wasn't entirely sure where their clothes were… somewhere between 'her' living room and 'Janet's' dinning room. "Do you really think it smells like we've just had sex?"

"Uhm?" Janet counted in her head. "Four times, I think it probably does."

"Four?"

"It was four for me." Janet got up and walked into the kitchen to wash her hands. "You need to eat."

Tegan looked over at the salad. "It's probably spoiled now. But, I've got something better in mind."

Janet watched her stand up and move to the sink beside her and wash her hands. She pulled a towel out from under the sink. "Here."

While Janet dried her hands she took two mugs out of the cabinet.

"I thought this was 'my' side."

"I had a whole evening planned, remember?" She filled the mugs with water and put them in the microwave.

"Right, so what's up with the unpainted bedrooms? Did you run out of time?"

"Well, you were getting a little curious, and jealous." Tegan grinned. "But no, I wanted Cassie to be able to pick her own room and paint it whatever color she wanted."

"You know what color she'll pick."

"Yellow." They said in unison.

"But I didn't know if she'd go with a screaming yellow or something more subdued. And I'm willing to bet she picks the larger bedroom which happens to be furthest from our room."

"If not we can always have sex in the other master bedroom."

"Is that all you think about?" Tegan tapped the Godiva dark hot chocolate tin on the counter as the microwave beeped.

"No. I sometimes try to think about what life was like before you."

"Better I'm sure." Tegan mixed the cocoa into the mugs.

"Different, I slept a little better at night. Well, that's not true, I sleep best when I know you're right beside me."

"I think I know what you mean." Tegan handed her a mug. "Sorry, this would be better if I'd brought milk over."

"It's delicious."

"Wait here."

"Are you crazy?" Janet asked as she opened the sliding glass doors. "It's got to be fifteen degrees out there and you're naked as a jay bird."

Tegan didn't answer as she slipped out into the darkness. When she retuned a few minutes later her teeth were chattering and her skin was covered in goose bumps. Janet reached up and covered her hard nipples with her palms.

"Come on." Tegan pulled away and put Janet's mug in her hand then grabbed her own and Janet's wrist. "There's something else I forgot to show you."

"You could let me put some clothes on first."

"No." Tegan pulled her through the door and onto the large wooden patio.

Janet stopped when she saw the glow on the other side of the deck.

"Come on." Tegan pulled her wrist lightly. "You're going to freeze to death."

She led her though the gate separating the sides of the deck and around the large hot tub that sat under the kitchen window to Tegan's side of the house. On the end of that deck there was an outdoor stone fireplace with a small fire growing in it.

"Climb in the temperature's just right." Tegan took Janet's mug and sat it on the edge with hers before climbing in behind her.

"That fire is only going to keep us so warm when we get out." Janet mused.

"Let me worry about that." Tegan pulled Janet to her and kissed her. She felt fingers running up her thighs, and pulled back. "Not that I wouldn't love to Christen the hot tub, but I do need to be able to not walk like a bow legged cowboy tomorrow when the guys show up to help me move."

Janet laughed and turned around pressing her back into Tegan. "Ok, we can put it on the to do list."

"Right under whips and chains?"

Janet felt Tegan shiver behind her. "I never said anything about whips."

"I would do anything for you."

"And I would never do anything to hurt you, mentally or physically." Janet promised while trying to suppress her own memories of what Nirriti had done to her.

"I know." Tegan leaned her head back and something landed in her eye. She blinked and it was gone. She looked for the moon, and couldn't find it, and then something else landed on her nose. "Look Janet, it's snowing!"

"This couldn't be any more perfect could it?"

"No." She whispered in Janet's ear. "It couldn't."

"So," Tegan spoke after several minutes. "Life before me?"

"It was boring, although I didn't have as much to worry about." She laughed lightly. "You know when I got married, I was young. He was my high school sweetheart. I thought I loved him. Even after everything, his being a royal jerk most of the time. I still thought I had loved him at one point, I must have right?"

She felt Tegan shrug her shoulders behind her.

"I didn't know until I met you, what love really felt like."

Tegan leaned forward and pressed her lips to the spot where her neck intersected her shoulder.

"I mean I love Sam."

"You do?" Tegan mumbled against her skin.

"Yes. And I love Cassandra." She felt Tegan nod without removing her lips. "But to be in love, it's different. I never knew what that was like before you."

Tegan smiled and mumbled into Janet's neck.

Janet didn't hear her with her ears, but her heart knew that Tegan had said, "me too."

"I hate to ask." Janet broke into the silence that had descended on them. "But you said you and Sam were moving furniture?"

Tegan pointed to the Adirondack chairs on the deck. "You didn't honestly think I would lie, did you?"

"No." Janet lifted her hand to her lips and kissed the back of it. "I'm turning into a prune."

"Is that your way of telling me you're ready to get out?" She poked Janet's ribs.

"Yup."

"Ok, wait here." Tegan looked over at the fire. She had intentionally made it small, but didn't mean for it to be that small. The log was smoldering, and nothing more. She slid out and ran over to the fireplace leaving wet footprints in the quarter inch of snow that had fallen, before she got to the area where the fire had kept it from sticking. She stood there for a second and moved to the side of the fire place pulling open a door, and retrieving a black terrycloth towel from the alcove. It was warmer than if it had just come from the dryer and she slipped it on relishing in its heat.

"I hope there's another one of those in there." Janet watched the heat rising into the winter air before she started to get out.

"Wait." Tegan reached in and pulled out a matching slightly smaller robe and walked back over to the edge of the hot tub. "Now you can get out. I don't want to be blamed for the SGC's CMO freezing to death."

"That would be fun to explain during a court martial."

"No kidding." Tegan looked to the door. "Go on in, I need to put the fire out and cover the hot tub."

"I can help."

"I know, but I want you to go inside where it's warm."

Janet looked around for a second. "Are you sure no one could see us?"

"Guess you'll have to find out tomorrow." Tegan grinned.

"She's not moving in?" Jack wanted to be sure he'd heard right.

"No." Tegan growled dropping the box of books in the living room.

"For that price I'd buy it, and let you keep me warm at night." Daniel offered, hiding the fact he'd let her keep him warm regardless.

"For that price, I'd let Eleanor Roosevelt keep me warm at night." Jack grinned.

"I believe she is dead." Teal'c walked through the living room with two large boxes stacked on top of each other marked dishes.

"That's my point big guy."

"Look, it was stupid of me to ever think that she would want to move in with me. She told me before…" She turned and walked back to get another box from the bedroom without finishing her statement.

"Doc does know that it's paid for lock stock and barrel, doesn't she?"

"I don't think so, sir." Sam shrugged making way for Daniel and Teal'c who were heading for the couch. "And it's not our place to interfere."

"Who said anything about interfering?"

"I believe your expression gave you away." Teal'c continued to hold up his end of the couch as Daniel started lifting his.

"We're going to get the fall out from this, you know that right. When Doc's in a foul mood she takes it out on… Me!"

"We're going to load the couch now." Daniel drew Tegan's attention as she came in with yet another box.

"Fine."

"And see," Jack pointed at her back as she headed out. "She's going to go back in her shell, and I don't like it when she's not in a good mood."

Tegan came back in and looked at Jack. "You only get pizza if you actually help."

"See, bad mood." He said to the group before grabbing a box.

Jack walked down the loading ramp of the truck to see Janet pulling in. "Sorry I'm late."

"You're helping?" He looked quizzically at her smiling face.

"Why wouldn't I?"

"I don't know, thought you'd be mad."

"Mad?"

"I got you!" Tegan hollered out the front door. "I got you good!"

She turned back to look at the faces of her other teammates, a mixture of relief and disbelief.

"I didn't think you lied Kiser?" Jack raised an eyebrow.

"First time for everything sir. Besides, it was worth it just to hear you bitching about Janet and long needles."

"I never said anything about long needles."

"No but you thought about them." She winked at Janet.

"So, you told the truth about the neighbors not being able to see into the backyard." Janet turned slightly to Tegan as she came out side.

"Yeah, I've never lied to you Janet. And I never will."

"Not flat out anyway."

Tegan smiled. "Dr. Fraiser is a little different."

Janet watched as Tegan walked up to the railing, her breath turning to fog as she exhaled. "Shadow would have loved this yard."

"Yeah he would have." She leaned her head against Tegan's arm.

"Pizzas here." Jack walked out, and then feeling he'd intruded on an intimate moment apologized. "Sorry."

"We were just talking about Shadow." Tegan turned and looked at him.

"Yeah." He looked at the ground. It really hadn't been a public display of affection. In fact he'd offered Tegan more comfort than that when he thought she was going to die on him after he drank that tea on whatever planet it was. After a while all the letters and numbers jumbled in his head, they really weren't the most important things for him to keep track of.

"Let's go eat. I'm starved." Tegan smiled and led them inside.