Authors Note: It's almost 2 AM here and I need to be at work at 8 AM and I'm here writing fanfiction. I am such a good adult and great at keeping my priorities straight! But, as always, let me know what you think!
The kiss was something else entirely. It was everything. Mindblowing. Electrifying.
With her hands on Peridots hips, Lapis continued to kiss her as Peridot wrapped her own arms around Lapis' shoulders, gripping onto her shirt and holding onto her like she was a life line and she never wanted to let go. Lapis pulled back just enough to give them both a moment to breathe before she dived back down, barely giving either any rest from the kiss before starting it anew.
The kiss, it felt like a sense of 'finally' was between them. As though this had been something long awaited for the both of them. Lapis found that she absolutely loved how soft Peridots lips were, loved the way they felt against her own. Though the taste of alcohol was still there she could taste the hint of cherry on them, maybe some chapstick?
While the kiss had started out as slow, as a gentle and sweet kiss bathed in innocence, it didn't take long for comfort to settle in and for them to get bolder. Their kiss started to become rough, sloppy, intense. Desire began to boil within the both of them.
Without breaking the kiss, Lapis pushed Peridot backward onto the couch so that the smaller of them was laying down. She crawled atop of her, cupping her cheeks as she continued to kiss and Peridot gripped her shoulders hard and pulled her closer until Lapis was practically laying on her. Need and want was bleeding into the kiss as they clung desperately to one another.
Every kiss Lapis had shared with Jasper amounted to nothing compared to here and now. While the ones she had with her ex had been aggressive and rough; possessive on both ends, this was something else. The emotion and passion behind their kiss, it wasn't born out of something awful, a desperation to own and possess and control. It was something better.
Hands slowly roamed each other's forms. Their bodies both heating up as blood rushed and arousal hit them both. The kiss was growing hungrier and Lapis slowly pulled away from the kiss to begin trailing them elsewhere. Her lips traced the gentle line of Peridot's jaw and down her neck. Kissing gently until she found a soft spot and without thinking she sank her teeth into it.
The sound Peridot made when she did that caused a shiver to run down her spine and excitement to course through her. She wanted more. She wanted Peridot. Wanted to claim her, make her hers, love her, everything.
Now wasn't the time though, she hated to admit.
She felt Peridots fingers running up and down her back, nails scratching her skin through her shirt. Reluctantly Lapis ended it, it was gradual as she slowly trailed butterfly light kisses back up Peridot's neck and laid a few more chaste brushes to her mouth. Even more reluctant was she to pull away.
Both were panting slightly for breath, their faces very red and a hazy look was in their eyes when it ended.
Lapis stayed on her, hovering over her smaller body as Peridot's arms stayed wrapped around her, neither wanting to move as they just stared at one another in silence. Both were trying to find something to say, to think, their minds desperate to catch back up to them after the heated moment they had just shared.
"So…" Lapis said slowly after a minute had passed. She was still looking at Peridot and only Peridot. Getting lost in those deep green eyes, she never wanted to look away. A playful smile appeared on her face, it was small but it was there,"This isn't by chance the whole reason you were out of nowhere doing everything you could to avoid me, is it?"
The blonde looked away, her blush deepening, but she nodded anyway. She must have sobered up a little by this point from the time that had passed and by the kiss, "I… yeah," Peridot admitted quietly, unable to meet Lapis' eyes. She was fidgeting under Lapis, her hands, still wrapped around the older woman, unconsciously tightened their hold on her, "I may have… I have a… I started liking you… more than a friend… I thought It would go away if I avoided you, but it didn't. I still really, really like you."
Lapis could feel something in her heart swell. Something warm filled her and a smile covered her face. She felt so giddy now, it was a big ball of relief that this was why Peridot was avoiding her. It wasn't because Lapis did something wrong and screwed up, it wasn't because Peridot hated her. She wanted to laugh. It was because she liked Lapis
Lapis dropped her weight onto Peridot, lying atop her as she wrapped her arms around Peridot waist and buried her face into the girl's neck. "If it's any consolation," she said, and couldn't help but nuzzle into Peridot, breathing in her scent as she felt herself relax. "I feel the same."
"Y-you do?" Peridot repeated, her voice giving way to disbelief.
The bluenette grinned as she pushed herself up again so that she could look Peridot in the face. She smiled at her, her expression full of warmth and love as she stared at the blonde beneath her, "I wouldn't have kissed you if I didn't," she remarked. It was true, that kind of kiss… it wouldn't have happened if Lapis didn't feel anything for Peridot.
She could see emotions flashing across Peridots face, could see how it practically lit up with joy as she realized what it all meant. Lapis felt her heart soar when Peridot started laughing, pulling the artist close as she buried her face into her.
"I can't believe- this is- stars!" Peridot couldn't even bring out complete sentences as she babbled.
Her joy in the moment was rather contagious and Lapis soon found herself joining in the laughter, holding onto Peridot just as tight as the two pressed against one another on the couch, they might as well have been a pair of giggling teens who were just shot by Eros' arrow.
But all good things had to come to an end, and theirs was a shattering crash to their joy by the blaring noise of a phone going off.
Peridot all but locked up under Lapis as her eyes turned to her phone on the floor. It must have fallen down during their kiss when neither would have noticed. It vibrated angrily and screamed at them. For the second time that night the caller ID of Yellow Demon was flashing on the screen and a sense of dread seemed to cover Peridot's entire form.
"Peridot?" Lapis asked slowly, bringing her hands to cradle Peridot's cheeks and make her look at her, trying to offer some comfort. What was wrong? She wanted to ask, she wanted to know why this call was so visibly upsetting the girl, and who it must have been to call twice in less than ten minutes.
She swallowed, eyes never leaving the phone, "My mother…" she answered.
Neither said anything as they watched. The phone continued to ring but after a minute or so it died down as 'Missed Call' took the screen resting below the previous missed call notification on her phone. But, the silence only lasted a few seconds as the phone started ringing again as YD was listed as the caller once more.
Lapis frowned as she looked at Peridot, watched her as her phone continued to ring. Peridot was trembling under Lapis, the fear coursing through her painfully clear to see as she stared at her phone. Lapis was sure that if the room wasn't so dark, she would see that Peridot had gone pale. Even though she was watching from a different perspective with a different person and scenario, was all too familiar in the most painful way possible.
Rolling off of Peridot, Lapis snatched the phone from the ground on an impulse. Peridot's eyes widened and she made a desperate attempt to grab at it. "Lapis!" she yelled but the rest became muffled as Lapis pressed her hand over Peridots mouth to silence her. She looked at Peridot, quietly, mutely asking for trust as she pressed the answer button and brought Peridots phone to her ear.
"Oh, so nice of you to finally answer. What have I told you about making me waste my time to call you over and over? You pick up on the first ring, you're not to make me call more than once," An older woman spoke as soon as the call was answered. Her voice was completely level, but the anger still there, and though Lapis could not see her face, she could easily imagine the angry scowl on her face. She felt a different kind of shiver run up her spine this time.
Lapis swallowed and then spoke up, "Hello? This is Ms. Olivine… right? Peridot's mother?" she thanked whatever God that was looking out for her that she was a pretty young teacher. She could easily pass off as a high school student with her voice still.
There was a pause, silence, Peridot was staring at her with complete terror but she stayed as quiet as a mouse.
After a few beats, the woman on the other end spoke up. Her every word was cold and calculating. "It's Diamante, not Olivine," she answered, "And who might you be? Even more important would be why you are on my daughter's phone. Where is she?"
"I'm her friend from school! Bobby Jones! She's at my house," Lapis lied as she looked over at Peridot, "We share most of our classes at school so she was going to sleep over at my house tonight and we'd study together for some upcoming tests." Hopefully, her mother didn't try to look up a 'Bobby Adams' to make sure it was right. But even if she did, Jones was a seemingly common surname.
"I see." It was clear that Ms. Diamante wasn't exactly pleased with Lapis' answer and lie, "If you could hand the phone off to my daughter, I'd very much appreciate speaking with her."
Lapis looked over to Peridot again. It was so clear that she wanted to do anything but talk to her mother. Lapis couldn't blame her, she wouldn't want to talk to Ms. Diamante either if she was in her shoes. "Sorry, she's in the shower right now, I'm only talking because she asked me to basically be a secretary and take a message for her," she rolled her eyes, faking a huff of playful annoyance like she was pretending to be mad at her friend.
There was a pause, she could hear a chair creaking on the other end and a bottle clinking softly against a hard surface. For a moment she wondered if Ms. Diamante was still there, but after a while, the woman spoke up again. "Very well. I will allow this just this once," she said, there was a warning tone to her voice. Clearly saying that this wasn't going to fly a second time, and Lapis had no doubt about that, "Tell Peridot that I expect her home no later than noon tomorrow. Understand?"
"Yes, ma'am," Lapis answered without missing a beat. There was something about that woman's tone that it made her wary of disobeying and disrespecting her in any way. She could easily imagine this woman as some kind of military leader matriarch to a race of alien soldiers. "Well, um, her phones about to run out of juice, so if there's nothing else you want to add, I'm going to hang up, okay?"
She wasn't given an answer. The line was cut dead as Peridot's mother beat her to the cut and hung up herself. Lapis stared at the phone and then looked back at Peridot who stared at her in a mix of fear and awe. A moment passed and Lapis laughed a little.
"Well… one way to meet the parents," she tried to joke.
Peridot let out a long groan and flopped back, covering her face with her hands, "I can't believe you just did that," she said, "You just… you lied to my mother and she believed it. I don't know which is scarier."
The woman placed the phone on the coffee table and stretched out to lay atop Peridot. She could feel the blonde's heart racing under her, she wanted to think it was from the close proximity between them, but, she knew it was from the call and conversation with her mother. "I mean… your mom is certainly not someone I want to meet in a dark alley at night. But, it could have gone worse."
"Yeah, can't argue with that," Peridot agreed, a yawn broke through as she said that.
Sitting up, Lapis smiled as she looked down at her friend… well, were they really just 'friends' now? "Looks like someone's sleepy," she commented as she pulled Peridot up, "C'mon, let's get you to bed."
Peridot colored a little as she was pulled to her feet, "Are you sure I can stay here for the night?"
"Of course!" Lapis answered quickly, "I sure as hell am not throwing you back out there into the rain, nor am I feeding you to that lion of a mom. You're sleeping here tonight and that is fine."
She half led and half dragged Peridot down the hall, pushing the door to her room open and bringing the blonde inside it. Laughing, she flicked the lights on and brought a hand to the back of her head, "Honestly, never thought I'd be showing you my room," she said and let go of Peridots hand, "But, here it is, this is where your favorite artist sleeps. Among other things," she added that last part with a little eyebrow wiggle.
Peridot's face heated up and she lightly pushed Lapis, "Grow up!" she yelled as Lapis started laughing, "But, I can sleep on the couch, it won't be a problem."
Walking over to the bed, Lapis looked up at Peridot and raised a brow, a playful smile on her face, "and what if I don't want you to sleep on the couch?" she asked in response, patting the space next to her on the bed, "come on. We've already made out, sleeping next to each other won't kill us."
Peridots face was still red, but she complied. Walking over, she slipped her glasses onto the small bedside nightstand before she got onto the big bed and slipped under the covers at Lapis' insistence. Lapis grinned as she rolled over onto her side and wrapped her arms around Peridot, tugging her over closer, "Come on, no need to lay so far away," she said as she pulled Peridot close and against herself, cuddling against the smaller girl happily.
The blonde grumbled something unintelligible, but her arms hooked around Lapis as she pressed her face against the older woman's shoulder. Clearly not unhappy with this position as she made no move to push away from her.
Peridot fit so perfectly against Lapis and in her arms. The blue haired woman never ever wanted to let her go. It was hard for her to believe that it took so long for this to ever happen and that the night could have so easily never ended like this. But, through chance and fate, they wound up here. Whatever it was that they were now and whatever it was that was now between them, Lapis never wanted to give it up.
For the first time in a good while, Lapis could truly say that she was happy. Happy having Peridot in her arms like this. Happy to have kissed Peridot. To know how Peridot felt about her, to be able to talk to her again to be able to do so much more with her now. To be… this with her. Whatever 'this' was.
It wasn't common, sure, but it was right. All of this felt right, like all the pieces of a puzzle coming together kind of right. Like getting every question on a test correct kind of right.
Lapis could feel her chest growing warm, filling up with something so intense and so strong as she stared at the fluffy blonde hair and light skin of the girl who had quickly fallen into a slumber against her. She was so small, so vulnerable, precious and just… beautiful. Lapis couldn't help the smile that was making its home on her face as she just watched Peridot sleep.
Peridot was something else, she was different from the others. Lapis had noticed that from day one. The moment she set her eyes on Peridot, she had caught Lapis interest, even if it wasn't for the best of reasons. But that interest is what drove Lapis to interact with Peridot so much, and those interactions had led to these feelings she'd gained for her.
Her heart fluttered as she thought back to the kiss. Warmth stirring up deep inside her as she thought of how it had gone from innocent to intense so quickly. She slowly reached up to press a couple of fingers to her lips. She could still faintly taste Peridot on them. She hoped that this meant she could kiss Peridot more from now on.
Reaching back down, she tugged Peridot closer, feeling her own eyelids growing heavy. Sleep was beckoning her as well, and though she wanted to spend more time watching the girl who'd managed to win so much of her affection, she didn't mind sleeping so long as she could keep Peridot in her arms the whole night.
Smiling, she dipped her head down and nuzzled against Peridot, happy to cuddle with her in the dead of night. She could feel Peridot breathing gently, quietly against her, and it was like a lullaby that lulled her deeper and closer into sleep's embrace as she slowly began to fade away to the land of dreams. The last thought she had before she finally passed out. God damn, she was in love with this small dork, wasn't she?