A/N: Mmmm, and we're back into PG-13 territory.I feel so safe.

Chapter 28: Come to Bed, Part 2

Vanellope sighed with pleasure. Her face was buried in Ralph's chest as he stroked his fingertips up and down her back. Each stroke caused pleasant shivers to course through her. She rubbed her forehead into his chest a little bit and then angled her head to look up at him, a sheepish grin on her face. Ralph had a look on his face that was carefully not smug, but it looked like he was struggling with it. Vanellope giggled.

"Hmmm?" Ralph asked, causing Vanellope to giggle again. Vanellope slid herself up to meet Ralph, putting her hands on his shoulders as leverage. She kissed him softly and then buried her face in his neck.

"Thank you." She whispered. Ralph shivered a bit at her breath on his neck.

They stayed like this for a very long time. Vanellope's head was spinning with what Ralph had just done to her. Cataloging the feel of his hands as they'd touched her, and the look on his face when her eyes had been focused enough to see it. She was wide awake as she replayed it over and over in her head. Ralph on the other hand...

Ralph was trying valiantly to stay awake. He'd been tired before all of this started, now he was just exhausted. He had a sneaking suspicion that falling asleep was probably going to ruin the moment for Vanellope, but he didn't see any way to avoid it. He was nearly trembling with exhaustion and built up tension, but Vanellope didn't seem to either mind or notice.

"Ralph?" Vanellope asked. Ralph's eyes snapped open and refocused.

"Hmm?" He mumbled in an attempt to acknowledge she had his attention.

"I just realized that you didn't..." Vanellope paused for a moment. "I didn't... take care of you." She said. That woke Ralph up a little bit.

Ralph blinked and groaned as a stretch went through him. He really didn't want to have to explain this now. He was very tired.

"Yeah, I know." Ralph replied after a moment. He could see the gears turning in Vanellope's head as she tried to decode this. A gear skipped as she found something too confusing. She had more questions.

"You don't want me to?" Vanellope asked.

"No. I'm good." Ralph replied. He felt a bit of him protest at that. He was still very hard, but he was ignoring that. Vanellope wasn't. In the position she was in one of her legs was brushing up against the sensitive organ. Ralph was ignoring that too, being tired made that much much easier than it would've been normally. She shifted her leg a bit to make sure of her findings. Ralph shuddered as the sensation went through him.

"Are you sure?" Vanellope asked, teasing, as she observed his reaction.

"Yes I'm sure." Ralph answered quickly, scared she'd take any silence or hesitation on his part as an invitation to continue down this path. Vanellope frowned a little, clearly not expecting or understanding that answer.

Ralph knew that as soon as that expression came on her face there little moment was killed. He hadn't had to fall asleep to make that happen. He waited for Vanellope to ask another question, trying to puzzle this out, but she never did. She just lay there looking at him, her face filled with confusion and something else he couldn't place.

"You okay?" Ralph asked. His fatigued brain cursing him for attempting to start another conversation when it was so tired. Even this tired he knew this was probably something they'd need to address.

"Yeah, I just..." Vanellope started quickly. But the rest of the words seemed to escape her. "Why don't you want to?" She asked after a moment.

Ralph, as always, was at a loss on how to respond. Self introspection wasn't his strong suit, but he was fairly sure he'd pinned down a few good reasons why he was feeling so reluctant. The first one that sprang to mind was exhaustion, but he was sure that that wasn't the type of answer Vanellope was looking for. The biggest reason...

"You probably won't understand it.. but it's because I'm scared." Ralph answered. If he'd been more awake he might not have said that out loud, but there there it was. It was out in the open now.

"What are you scared of?" Vanellope asked softly, her voice wavering a little. This was the first time Ralph had ever said anything like that before. It made the bed seem like a secret, intimate, place all of a sudden.

"Losing control... Hurting you... Lots of things." Ralph answered.

"Oh Ralph, you don't have to be scared of that. You'd never hurt me." Vanellope said with supreme confidence. She snuggled into his chest and put her arms around him as best as she could.

Ralph made a skeptical sound, but didn't reply. There was a long bit of silence where Vanellope just enjoyed the sound of Ralph's breathing under her ear. After a moment Ralph's breath evened out into a deep rumbling that she recognized. She angled her head up to confirm it. Ralph had fallen asleep.

A/N: No, I didn't write the bit in between the last chapter and this one. A lot of you seemed to want more high rated fun, but there's time enough for that later. Plus an equal amount of you seem to be uncomfortable with it. I had plans to post it somewhere else, but I kept looking at it and thinking 'this is stuff I don't want to leave out of the main story'. So I feel like I can't distinctively draw a line for the... 'extra content'. And really, that's the kind of sex scene I'd want to write anyhow. It shouldn't just be gratuitous. I have the problem that I don't want to alienate anyone who is genuinely enjoying the story without the sexytime bits.
In the future I think I'll bump up the rating for the fic (I don't think it requires it now) and post a warning before the chapter. Then I'll post a cliffnotes version in the author's notes or something.

To those having trouble with the link: ffnet took out the dot com, because it's very difficult to post anything with a dot on ffnet. After the tumblr and before the post there needs to be (slash). Try again. you-just-got-burned. tumblr. com (slash)post /38781917148

Review Response:

jeh-nee - I can't believe I posted on Christmas either. But there you have it. I'm glad you liked it, I personally thought it was all over the place. That's why I don't usually write long chapters. I hope you feel better too, mostly I'm just really really tired and achy.

ifired - *kills ifired* Stop using it! It's a stupid innuendo anyway and it doesn't make any sense.