Sloth

I jerked awake as a siren slid by below me, heading east.

Seriously? It was a Sunday afternoon, couldn't the baddies take a break for one day?

Next to me, Raven had fallen asleep, book dropped from her hand hours ago. She was dressed in one of my white shirts and her black cotton panties, lounging around in the shade on my balcony. She looked almost too sweet to wake up. Ugh. I really needed to stop those sappy, disgusting thoughts before they ruined my reputation. I nudged her limp hand, trying to shake her awake.

"Rae. Siren."

"Nope." She popped an eye open at me and closed it. "I'm supposed to be six hours north of here until tomorrow night. I can't come home early just yet, the team will get suspicious." She tilted her head to the side and listened, and I could feel her powers slide out of her body as she assessed the situation. "Besides, that's just a bank robbery by two douche bags with unloaded guns. Dumbasses forgot to put the magazines in their pistols."

"You can hear that from here?"

She shrugged and turned a little more to look at me, the shirt sliding down her shoulder exposing her cleavage. "I can feel their panic from here. Police will take care of it. No need for the big guns to get involved."

I chuckled and stretched, picking up my own discarded book and placing it on the table. "Wanna get up and go do something?"

I felt her eyes slide down my bare chest before looking back at me. "Something?"

I laughed and nudged her shoulder. "I meant go out for dinner or see a movie."

"Mm… no." Her eyes closed and she leaned back into the patio chair, enjoying the laziness of Sunday afternoon. "Maybe later. What time is it anyway?"

"It's almost seven." I walked inside and set my book on the coffee table before going and grabbing another beer and iced tea. I watched her readjust herself for another nap before calling out to her from across the living room. "We can't lie around the apartment all day, you know."

"Says who?"

I laughed and walked out to her, handing her the iced tea. "Says me. I finally get a whole weekend to spend with you and we've spent it reading and watching bad movies on the Syfy channel… and having amazing sex. Not that I mind the sex part, I mean… really. I didn't even know you could do that with rope."

Raven's lips twitched as she fought a smile. "It's amazing what you can Google." She finally opened her eyes and looked at me. "I'm sorry. I'm probably being a really bad girlfriend, but I just never get enough time off to actually spend with you."

I could feel my heart twist when she said 'girlfriend'. It had been almost three months since our debacle on the roof of the restaurant, and this was the first time she had actually called herself a girlfriend. Somewhere, we moved past the stage of it just being about sex, to actually enjoying each other's company. I'll be the first to admit the strangeness of waking up one morning to realize that I enjoyed making breakfast for her, and that it made me sad to watch her get ready to leave. I even cleared out a drawer in my dresser for a few things of hers, and after a week or two of it being empty, I opened it to discover a bra and panties and a spare uniform. I never told her how happy that made me.

"It's okay." I sat next to her in my own chair and reached out to grab her hand, enjoying the stillness of the day. Or, almost stillness. The sirens were still going off down the road. "Maybe later we'll invite Kevin and his new girlfriend over."

"Across-the-hall Kevin?" She twitched her lips as she tried to put everything together. It was still dangerous for the two of us to go out, there was no telling who might see us together, and we really couldn't chance the fact that Robin might be able to put two-and-two together. "Doesn't he work for the celebrity rag?"

"Cast a glamour spell. He's not so smart he can figure out who you are." There was a long pause between us as she sipped her tea. "Besides, I like doing real couple things with you."

She chuckled softly. "I do too."

My heart twisted again and I tugged at her hand, smiling. "Come on. I know some real couple things we could be doing right now."

She laughed and stood up, tugging at my hand. "I'd thought you'd never ask."

I grabbed her around the waist and pulled her to the cement below us, just out of view of my neighbors. "Right here. I don't feel like moving just yet." My hands moved up my shirt on her body, unbuttoning each of the tiny buttons until she was completely exposed to me. All this time, and she was still the sexiest thing I'd ever seen, especially with just a touch of sun on her cheeks. I pulled at her panties. "Come on. Out of these."

"Not even a little foreplay?" She bit down on my lower lip as she shimmied out of her panties.

"I had a sexy dream with you in it." I pushed my own pants off me and speared her body with mine. She moaned and her hands clawed at the planes of my chest as her heat bathed me, one move and she was already so close to the edge. I licked up her neck. "I'm already far overdue for the main event."

"So eager." She sat there and rode me slowly, almost lazily, as if we had all the time in the world. Her pants were soft in my ear and I couldn't help but enjoy the sight. It was like fine art to me. Fuck pears in a bowl, or old, dead leaders, I just needed to see Raven enjoying herself on my body.

"You feel good." I whispered into her ear and tightened my grip on her hips. "Very good."

She smiled down at me. "You always say that."

I shrugged and leaned back, tucking my arms behind my head as I watched the show. "It's the truth."

"Mm…" She keened softly, biting down on her lower lip. She was already going to come. That was totally an ego boost to me, although I'm pretty sure that it was just that Raven was probably a little more sensitive than most. Her breath hitched and she whispered my name as I felt her muscles tremble around me, milking me. She floated down from the clouds, and I chuckled.

"My turn, Sunshine." I rolled her over tucking a throw pillow under her lower back and angling her hips at just the right angle to that I could hit all of her sensitive parts at once. She trembled in my arms, but I refused to let her down from whatever high she had found, and I pushed in and out of her languidly. It was slow, but with purpose. We didn't have anything else to do today but lay here and pleasure each other. Below us I could hear the noise of the city on a Sunday, and I didn't care. I'd found paradise on my own balcony.

It felt like hours before I finally came, making sure Raven had plenty more orgasms before I let myself go. I rolled off of her and propped myself up on my elbows. Her eyes were glazed and she looked thoroughly loved as she stared at the cement above us, her lips whispering my name.

"Awe come on, Rae… it wasn't that bad was it?"

She looked over at me and chuckled, brightness returning to her eyes. "I don't think I ever stopped coming."

"I'll take that as a compliment." I pushed her body onto her stomach and smacker her ass. She glared over her shoulder at me, but I was used to it by now. "Come on. Let's get up and do something."

"Like what?" She pulled on her panties and buttoned up my shirt.

I shrugged. "Don't know. We'll find something."

She shook her head. "Or not. Whatever."

I leaned over and kissed up her neck. "Yeah, you're right."

For just one Sunday, maybe it was okay to do nothing at all.

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Sorry, this one was a little shorter than the others.
But, let me know what you think.