Chapter 13

She stirred awake, suddenly very warm. She found herself in bed wrapped up with someone. She slowly opened her eyes to find a small brunette in her arms. She wasn't upset, just surprised. She rolled over to find someone else in the bed with them, a beautiful blonde. Now she was thoroughly confused. She couldn't remember going to bed, much less with two other people. She sighed and the blonde opened her hazel eyes. She could make out small flakes of gold and green in the otherwise hazel brown. She felt her heart skip a beat, but it still felt wrong somehow.

"Morning," the blonde told her.

She smiled at the blonde as her mind began to catch up with her body. She realized that she was back home, if she could call it home because she wasn't really sure where home was. The blonde scrunched up her eyebrows in question and scooted closer, if that was possible, in the bed. Danni was a little stressed. Her body hurt and her mind wasn't helping figure things out.

"You okay, Danni?" she asked.

"Yeah," she whispered.

She didn't know why she was so quiet. Then she remembered that she was in bed. She couldn't understand why her mind was so slow. She smiled at the blonde again and lay back on her back to stare up at the ceiling.

She was hoping that she would completely wake up or go back to sleep. The soreness in her body wasn't helping her relax. She felt like she'd been run over a couple times, thrown through a wringer and put away wet. She hurt in places that hadn't hurt since came through the time portal to Storybrooke years ago. But, she wasn't in Storybrooke anymore. She knew that she was in the Enchanted Forest, at Winterland Castle, in her room, in the East Wing. She sighed.

"Danni, what is it?"

"How long have we been back?" she asked, not caring who answered.

The brunette stirred beside her, rolling over towards her, but not waking up. She dropped an arm around Danni's waist and snuggled closer. When Danni looked to the blonde, she just smiled at the scene before without making any comments. Danni didn't know what to do. They both seemed very familiar with her, but she just couldn't think straight. It was like she was under a spell, but she knew that couldn't be true. And, she didn't know why her chest hurt her the most.

She sighed. The brunette burrowed deeper into her side, lifting her head and putting it on Danni's shoulder. The blonde smiled and matched the brunette on the other side of Danni's body. She completely sandwiched between the two, and normally she would be happy about this, but something was off. She couldn't place it. She knew them, but she couldn't remember their names. She trusted them, but she didn't know why. She loved them, but she wasn't sure how deeply.

Had this become her life? Had she come back and taken on lovers? She didn't know. It was like her life was a blur that made no sense. There were thoughts and feelings, but they seemed to be locked away in the back of her mind and she didn't have the combination to the lock.

She continued to stare at the ceiling. She tried to figure out what was going on. She could feel her magic pooling and swirling inside her, begging for release. She took a deep breath and held it. She didn't want to let anything go. She was afraid that she might hurt someone, but she could feel the pent up energy just beneath the surface. She sighed and felt the two women hold her tighter.

"Just relax, Danni."

She felt herself try. She took a deep breath. She stared at the ceiling and then closed her eyes. She tried to relax. She really did. She tried breathing exercises and finally felt her muscles relax. She kept her eyes closed and took more deep breaths.

"Danni?" she assumed the brunette asked her.

"Yeah?"

"Just let go, sweetie. I told you earlier that you weren't going to have to face this alone. We aren't going to leave you. You've helped us, now let us help you," she told Danni.

And, finally Danni felt herself relax. She gave into the comfort that both women were giving her. She burrowed a little bit into the mattress. She felt herself going deeper and deeper into a relaxed state. Her breathing got deeper. The warmth that surrounded her helped her unwind a little more and she felt her magic begin to settle down. She didn't want to dream because she was afraid at what she would dream about. She made her mind go blank and drifted off.

That was until she felt a hand on her hip start moving. She wanted to open her eyes. She wanted to figure out what was going on between her and the women in bed, but she was afraid. She was afraid that her magic had caused all this to happen. She wouldn't have excuse and she knew that she was going to need one. She could just feel it.

The hand started to move upwards. Then another hand, smaller, on her other hip started to move as well. She realized that she was holding both women with her arms, one lying on top of each side. Her fingers were wrapped around their hips. She felt her fingers start to dig into flesh. There was no cloth between her and their skin.

"Danni, just stay calm. We've got you. I promise," the blonde told her.

She felt her fingers dig into their flesh deeper as the hands began to rub on her more. She felt the pressure in their hands get harder. Her breathing sped up and warmth began to settle through her body. Her eyes flew open as a hand made its way up her torso.

She wasn't sure what was going on, but she was getting warmer. Her skin felt like it was on fire as that hand on her torso kept going higher. The other hand on her hip started across her stomach. She heard herself moan, but she wasn't sure that she wasn't dreaming at the moment. She reflexively squeezed her hands and felt pliant flesh beneath her fingers. She had to be bruising them but she couldn't let go.

"Danni?" the brunette asked as she turned to long into her dark soulful brown eyes.

She blinked. She knew she did. She looked into the brunette's eyes and saw a depth of love that she hadn't felt in years...decades even. She turned her head to face her a little more clearly. She felt a hand leave her stomach and brush her own dark hair out of her face. She opened her mouth to ask a question, but no words came out. The brunette seemed to furrow her brows in question as she leaned up a little on her elbow to look down on Danni and get a little more comfortable.

Out of nowhere the brunette leaned forward and kissed her forehead, like she'd done it a million times before. It felt normal. It felt right, but she knew that it wasn't the kiss that she was looking for. As if she could read Danni's mind, the brunette leaned back and touched her face, gently, sweetly and with some sort of affection that Danni couldn't name. She didn't dare blink. She couldn't. She was mesmerized by the look in the brunette's eyes.

"Danni?" she asked again.

She looked at her, but still couldn't say anything. Her voice was trapped. She could only moan at the soft touches and caresses that she was receiving. She opened her mouth, but nothing came out.

She knew that she must look worried, because the brunette touched her face again. She held Danni's face in her hands like someone holding their lover's face. Danni could only stare up into her eyes. She saw the tiniest of gold flecks in her dark brown eyes and the flecks looked like stars. She focused on them as she felt the blonde stirring beside her.

"Danni, are you okay?" the blonde asked.

She turned her face to look at the blonde. She saw the gold flecks mixed with green and brown. She felt her body begin to turn towards her. Danni gave a look to the brunette as her body turn on its own accord. The brunette let her roll towards the blonde.

"Quinn, why isn't she speaking?" the brunette asked as Danni turned completely over into the waiting arms of the blonde named Quinn, Danni surmised.

Danni buried her head into Quinn's waiting shoulder. She didn't know why she was so calm and comfortable with the two women, but she was. She felt the brunette move up behind her. She felt the other woman's body melt into her own. She kept her eyes on Quinn's, but she felt the brunette's arms surround her.

"I don't know, Rachel," Quinn finally answered.

Her body was warm and feelings were running through it in ways that she hadn't felt in a very long time. She wasn't sure why the names of the other women reminded her of something, just beyond her grasp, but it was a something familiar. It was something that she'd known before, an emotion that she'd hadn't had a full grasp of when she was a young adult still under the care of Belle and Ruby.

When she let herself succumb to the feeling, she felt lighter. The pain in her heart started to dissipate. She realized that she was allowing her feelings to mix with her magic and no matter the amount of red flags that fact were raising in her head could stop the emotions. There was no end to the surmounting fury of emotion building. The more it mixed with her magic, the more it stirred things inside her.

"Danni?" Quinn tried again.

Danni's eyes flashed green. She opened her mouth to allow sound to pass and a low moan escaped. Rachel squeezed her harder. It seemed like the two women were trying to give her their love through osmosis. She didn't understand why it felt so good and so right. She didn't understand why the underlying anger that had possessed her for so long wasn't bubbling to the surface. Where was the hatred? Where was the fear? Where was her anger? It was just gone.

Hands moved across her body. The sensations on her skin gave way to the excitement fluttering in her heart. Quinn held her gaze with her eyes. She felt the warmth of Rachel's hand as the moved to her lower torso. Two small hands, palm down, gently pulled her back. She felt her body flush itself against Rachel. The slight gap that was built between her body and Quinn's caused her front to become cold.

It was like her body needed the warmth. She needed to feel something in order to keep herself grounded. The look in her eyes must have been wild. Quinn leaned forward and kissed her forehead. She leaned into the kiss. There was a blossoming passion growing from her heart and head and spreading throughout her body.

"Quinn?"

The blonde lifted her head up just enough to look over Danni. There was a shift between the women and Danni could feel it. Danni raised her hand to Quinn's face. Their eyes met and held. There was a silent conversation. Quinn smiled at her and Danni smiled back.

Rachel lifted her head just enough to whisper in Danni's ear. Her hands still holding Danni's body against her own started moving back down to her hips. Danni couldn't move. She felt good and she felt loved. It was a feeling that she had been so desperately searching for that she wasn't sure what to do with it now that she had it.

The hands on her hips began to stroke her skin. Her head fell back onto Rachel's shoulder. Quinn's hands moved to hold her face, keeping her focused on her, while Rachel continued to touch her. She didn't care about the goosebumps that were coming up on her skin.

Quinn moved first. She leaned in and kissed Danni. If she was taken aback by the action, she didn't make it known. The kiss was chaste and neither one of them pushed it further.

Rachel's hands never stopped moving. Whatever spell she was weaving with her hands, Quinn was weaving with her mouth. Danni couldn't help but feel. She couldn't stop herself from falling. She was enjoying the feeling of the hands on her body and the lips against her mouth.

Quinn let go of her face and started to move her hands down to Danni's shoulders. Leaning forwards a little more, Quinn pressed her body against her as she deepened the kiss. Her tongue swept across her lower lip asking for access. Danni acquiesced and Quinn deepened the kiss as she reached around to touch Rachel, pulling them all together. There was no room between them. Danni could feel warmth and passion building.

Rachel's hands didn't stay still. They were suddenly under Danni's shirt. She kept leaning back into her. The women kept her high on the passion building between them. She couldn't stop the feelings and she couldn't stop the warmth building between them all.

Danni didn't know when or how it happened, but her shirt was gone. She didn't even know who removed it. But, she could feel the warmth of Rachel's skin against her own on her back. She could feel the gentle and calming effect that Quinn's body to her front. She heard a low moan flow from her lips.

Quinn ended the kiss. She back away just enough to look into Danni's eyes. The green swirling with dark brown answered whatever questions were on the tip of tongue. She leaned back in and kissed her harder. The harshness of the new kiss was juxtaposed with the new sensations running down her back with the mild and sweet kisses that Rachel was giving her there. She arched into Rachel, pushing her shoulders back and her stomach forward into Quinn.

Quinn understood what Danni needed. She moved from her lips to her neck, slowly biting and nipping, marking and licking her way from ear to collar bone and back. Danni was on fire. There was a fever burning and she didn't know how to quench it without their help.

Her hands which had been dormant began to move. She wrapped one hand in the blond hair of Quinn while the other sought out Rachel's hip. Anchoring herself in both of them, she held them against her body, relishing in the feeling of closeness. It was a like a drug and it was pulling her magic to front. She smiled as they continued to touch her. At some points, she didn't know where she ended and they began. She was losing herself in the passion and she was enjoying it.

She'd never felt so free and alive. She'd only felt like this with …. Her mind just wouldn't find the name or the person. Her fuzzy memory didn't concern her. The two women, her friends who loved her so completely and without trepidation and reservation, were loving her still. She had nothing to compare it to or against. She hadn't had many lovers in her years, but those that she had; she'd loved so completely that when she lost them, she thought her heart would break.

The Darkness that was in her was loving this strange twist in events. She knew that she loved Rachel and Quinn deeply. They had been together for years, but they never had experienced love like this together. She knew that it should strike her as odd, but she didn't care.

She felt cold kisses across her forehead and saw the worried look in Quinn's eyes. She smiled at the blonde hoping that it would reassure that she was alright with how things were going, escalating between them and that she wasn't frightened. She was barely holding her magic back, but she was doing it. She didn't think that this was some elaborate test, but she couldn't help but wonder why Rachel and Quinn waited until now to take her.

Hands moved across her body, tan and pale. The push and pull between them sucked her in. She marveled at the difference in their technique. While Quinn seemed too reserved in the moment, Danni could tell that she was rough and thorough as a lover. Rachel while not meek and mild, had a more tender approach to her claiming of Danni's body. It was soothing and peaceful. Danni could lose herself in the chaos and serenity that they were causing. She adored it.

Small hands found her hips, grinding them back against Rachel's. Another moan escaped. She was losing the battle of desire and she was happy about it.

A tentative pale hand move slowly, gracefully, down her chest to her breast. She felt them kneaded and squeezed. There was a softness to the skin that was almost free of calluses touching her naked body. She reveled in the feeling and wished for more.

Quinn circled her nipple, never quite giving her what she wanted, but just enough to make her body crave and beg for her touch. Rachel's hands found her thighs about the same time that Quinn's mouth began its assault on her bosom. Danni felt like she was having an out of body experience. Nothing in the last hundred years could have prepared her for such wonder.

As Quinn pushed her down slightly as Rachel continued to pull her backwards towards her. Quinn was attacking her upper body with lips and hands, while Rachel used her fingers to get Danni to spread herself open for them. Rachel's hands were all over her thighs and hips. Danni's body was on fire and the desire to please both of them crept over her. She sighed and it turned into a moan.

"Danni?" Quinn questioned as she moaned again.

Her body rocked up into Quinn's and then down into Rachel's. She needed the contact with both of them. Her skin started to crave their touch. Her magic called to them. She was sure of it.

"Quinn, is she okay?" Rachel asked.

Danni wanted to scream out that she was fine. She just needed them closer, oh so closer. She couldn't explain her need, her want, the passion growing inside her. She opened her eyes to see Quinn staring down at her. Questions in her eyes, but Danni didn't have any answers. She was just lost to the feelings that they were creating with their touch.

She felt loved. She felt like she was home. And, she never wanted the feelings that were stirring inside her to end. She burrowed into both of them.

Suddenly, she felt the cool sheets beneath her naked back. She opened her eyes to see Quinn hovering over her. Her eyes were dark and passionate. Quinn watched her as she touched her breasts, like a hunter watching their prey waiting to strike. She moaned out a sigh. She chanced a glance down her own body to see Rachel getting comfortably between her legs.

The soft caress of Rachel's hand lured her to relax and just enjoy further. Quinn teased her and riled her while Rachel calmed her and gave her body the adoration that it was craving. A hand slipped between her legs and found her warmth, her need, her core. She arched off the bed, a scream tearing from her throat.

Quinn leaned down and kissed her again. She broke the kiss and began to whisper words of comfort and encouragement as she felt Rachel moving below. She couldn't look. She couldn't see anything but Quinn above her. She felt the swipe of her tongue on her lips and Danni opened her mouth for Quinn to devour her further. She wasn't disappointed.

As Quinn was kissing her into oblivion, Rachel had other plans with Danni's body. Danni couldn't see what she was doing but she felt the first tentative swipe of Rachel's tongue. It was soft and slow, like she was asking for permission. Danni moaned it out as loud as her feeble body would allow her, but somehow through the expulsion of air and sound, Rachel understood.

Danni came off the bed with each new sensation. Quinn tried to help Rachel hold her down as the sucked and licked at her core. But, not wanting to be left out of the situation, Danni felt Quinn's hand slide down her torso, over her breasts and stomach, until she found her wetness. One finger touched her intimately and sent Danni soaring.

A groan tore through her body as she exploded below them. It started at her core and moved outwards. She could see a white blinding light float from her and she wasn't sure if it was magic or just her orgasm. She didn't care. She'd never felt like that before just from someone's touch. There had been so much love between them. There were no words needed.

She was convulsing with the aftershocks. She felt the world buzzing around her. Her magic was keeping the euphoric feeling heightened around her. She smiled and let out a low moan.

"Quinn?"

"Yes, Rachel?"

"Why is she moaning like that? Is she okay? Should we get one of her mother's?"

"I don't know, Rach. I don't know. I don't know what we're doing. She needs more sleep. Whatever she did earlier set off her magic and she still hasn't calmed completely."

"We've been holding her for an hour. I've only felt her relax for a few seconds. Then, she would tense back up. She grabbed my hip so hard that one time, I am sure I'm bruised."

"I don't know what to do, Rachel. I don't know anything about magic. I mean I was reading those books, but seeing it and reading it are two different things," Quinn told her.

Danni felt herself sobering. They had just been holding her. She opened her eyes. They were clothed. Nothing had transpired between them. Had she been asleep while they were holding?

"Quinn…" she mumbled out.

"I'm here, Danni. What do you need? Do you need me to do something?"

She rolled to see Rachel. Tears filled her eyes. It had all been a lie. She couldn't stay there. Her magic and her heart were at war. She was going to go insane before she helped anyone. She couldn't get her body and her mind to work together the way she needed to. The pain came back. The fever grew in her blood. The magic called to her in ways she didn't want.

"I need…" she started to say.

"What? What do you need Danni? What is it?" Rachel asked.

"Santana…Brittany…Belle…"

"We sent them away," Quinn told her.

"Need San…Britt…'Elle…" she stumbled over the words.

Her body convulsed again. Rachel and Quinn stared at each other, unsure of what she meant. Rachel reached out to touch her burning skin, but Danni jerked away at the gesture. Quinn tried to grab her, to still her, to comfort her, but she thrashed and fought so hard until Quinn let her go.

"Please…"

"She wants us to get them," Rachel stated.

Quinn scrunched up her face in question. She didn't understand why she would be asking for Santana and Brittany. It wasn't that they weren't her friends, but she was closer to Quinn and Rachel than she ever had been with S and B. She was a little hurt by it, but she couldn't let Rachel or Danni see that. She had to be strong for them. She wanted to help Danni, but she just didn't know that much about magic. She would need help, too.

"I'll go get them."

"Okay," Quinn told Rachel as she scrambled off the bed.

Her hazel eyes met Danni's dark eyes and held. There were so many questions between them and Quinn wanted to ask her, but she was afraid. She was afraid that Danni would retreat inside herself and they would never get her to come back out.

"Is it your heart?" Quinn asked her.

"I can't…you wouldn't understand…please…"

"Rachel went to get them," Quinn told her, squeezing her arm and watching Danni close her eyes tightly like she was excruciating pain.

"Thank you," Danni whispered and passed out.