Barricades
I am feeling great thing with Illustrious were defined, we are a couple but were not at the same time if Unicorn is around, which is almost all the time. I mean I get it, Illustrious is careful around her, not wanting to shatter her worldview or force her to grow up too quickly. But it is what it is, not a lot I can do about the status quo on the base.
The side door to my office opens and I hear the sound of a serving dome clattering against a serving tray, looking to my right, I'm surprised to see Sirius and not Hermione bringing me my lunch. Just as she starts to get close to my desk, her feet catch on something, I'm not sure what exactly, but my lunch goes airborne. The serving dome coming free, chips, beer battered fish, and malt vinegar flying towards me, all in slow motion.
The fish tumbled in the air, slowly, end over end, until it impacted against my face, the chips like a salvo of daggers, impacting against my uniformed chest and bouncing off, and finally the vinegar landing square on my crotch. With the collision of Sirius hitting the ground, and the clattering of the tray against the ground, everything returned to normal speed. Looking at her on her hands and keens, her cheeks became bright red and she begged, "My Honorable Master, it seems I have made a mess this naughty maid her due punishment for this disgrace."
Sighing and hanging my head, "It's alright Sirius; the question is, are you okay?"
"Honorable Master, this naughty maid is not due such concern, what must this maid do for the Honorable Master?" she asks, looking back down at the carpet.
"It's fine, I'll just put this in the laundry with a rush on it." I sigh getting out of my chair and starting to clean up what was going to be my lunch, putting it in the dome.
Sirius looks up from her hands and knees, then sits on her stern, looking at me dumbfounded. Reaching over I place a hand on her head and reassure her, "I mean it, it's fine, Sirius."
To my surprise she places her hands on mine and holds it against the top of her head, kind of like she is appreciating the physical contact and she whispers, "This maid is not worthy of such kindness from the Honorable Master."
"Yes, you are." I whisper in her ear before standing
and leaving my office to get changed.
Looking over my shoulder as I reach my door, I see her sitting there, rubbing her eyes with a smile on her face; I know she's crying but happy about it. Sirius works so hard, but being a maid really isn't her thing, but she's trying to be like her sisters.
Stopping by the charging dock, I grab a laptop, might as well continue today from home after I get changed, and maybe a dip too.
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Closing the laptop, finally, I had managed to finish out all of the documents early today, mostly because I worked from home without any real interruptions. Stripping down to nothing, grabbing a couple of towels, one for actually drying off and the other, just for the off chance I get a visitor, I head down to my spa.
Dumping the water over my head to finish rinsing just as I hear my back gate open and I grab the small towel to cover myself and I lean back to see around the side of my quarters. My heart beating in time with the flip-flopping sounds of flip-flops, I wonder who's got the nerve to come to my spa unannounced.
Holding my breath, I hated feeling vulnerable, but well, being naked didn't help that. When she finished coming around the side of my quarters, I felt the edges of my lips turning into a smile, I couldn't see her face, but what I could see left little doubt about who it was. The soft white skin, trimmed white hair between her legs, and a rising tee shirt, that once that shirt crosses up past her chest, my jaw drops, I knew she had nice breasts, but, wow.
The shirt goes over her face and my heart rate picks up, when I see her lips, I want to kiss them again.
Illustrious lets out a sigh before opening her blue eyes, spotting me in an instant and her cheeks go bright red as she stammers, "M… Merlin, w… wh… what are you doing here?"
Tilting my head to the side and raising an eyebrow, "I kind of live here."
Illustrious shifts her shirt to cover her front and laughs nervously before shuffling to the side and grabbing a couple of towels out of the rack that was by the spa, "Ye… yes, of course, you do." With a small towel in hand, she lifts it to cover her face and asks, "Did you see?"
"Yup." I confirm.
"Oh my, that, was not my intention." She mumbles and slowly walks towards the rinsing station.
Shrugging and getting up I start to make my way over to the spa, not even bothering with covering up this time, I mean did see her after all, might as well let her see me if she wants.
Looking over my shoulder, I see Illustrious looking slightly lower than my head or back, telling me she's looking at my butt, what's really funny is that she's biting her lower lip, with a hearty chuckle I ask, "See something you like?"
Illustrious covers her face with both hands, drops her towel and shirt, exposing herself to me again, and mumbles, "Oh, I… oh, no. I mean… oh."
I laugh and shake my head before slipping into the water, letting out a relaxed sigh with the warmth of the water melting away any tension I had.
Curiously, I hear Illustrious go through the cleaning steps, before she comes over, making no effort to cover herself up. She slips into the water beside me, letting out a relaxed sigh. Our hips touching under the water again, she bites her lower lip again before asking me, "You do not mind, sharing this with me?"
Shaking my head from side to side slowly, I'm really surprised that she's willing to have nothing covering her right now. Stretching my arms out across the ledge, my left arm crossing behind her shoulders, Illustrious looked over at me, like she wanted to ask something, but stopped herself, just smiled, and looked back down at the water. Just like the last time we were like this, she lifted her hands out of the water and slapped her cheeks, slipping her hands back under the water.
After a moment Illustrious leaned in and whispered in my ear with a giggle, "Merlin, would you like to try a… soft landing?"
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After we had gotten out of the spa, drained the water, started to refill it, and gotten dressed again, I was walking her to the back gate, hand in hand. Lifting her knuckles to kiss them she giggled at me, "I am not opposed to intimacy, every now and then, but perhaps next time, we could try it not in the spa?"
With a hearty chuckle, I tease, "You started it."
She smiled and kissed me again, "I did, and I do not regret it." She paused to look me square in the eyes, "Any of it."
"Big sister?" came a voice that gave us both pause, standing at my back gate with her sisters were Unicorn, Formidable, Indomitable, and Victorious.
Illustrious took a deep breath before turning to face Unicorn and kneeling to look the girl in the eyes as she said, "Unicorn, I need you to understand something," she pauses to look back at me and take my hand in hers, "Captain Fox is very important to me, just as important as you are, or my sisters are."
The death glare I got for Unicorn made my blood run cold.
"But," Illustrious said, snapping her attention off of me, "that doesn't mean you are going to lose me, Unicorn. I just want you to try and get to know Captain Fox, you might actually like him."
Unicorn's lips bunched up, from behind Unicorn Victorious made a hand gesture that involved two fingers going into a circle and wiggled her eyebrows up and down at Illustrious. I did my best not to laugh and Illustrious just blushed brightly. Illustrious focused on Unicorn and asked, "Can you do that for me?"
"Fine." She pouted.
Illustrious smiled at the girl and whispered something in her eyes that made her purple eyes roll, then Illustrious stood up and rubbed her right arm as she said, "Perhaps we should head down to the beach, would you meet us there, Captain Fox?"
Taking the hint I step back and nod, "Of course, I'd need to grab some beach kit anyway."
Illustrious smiled at me and linked hands with Unicorn, the five of them walking away, Unicorn looked back at me and narrowed her eyes, letting me know without words, that she'd be watching me.
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A/N: this is the SFW version, the NSFW version is found on the AO3 version of this story.