WARNING: The following chapter contains explicit sex. This chapter is fully self-contained as there is exactly zero plot progression in it, not that it lacks in characterization of course, so if that's not your thing you can skip it, my apologies to those who do since that means there'll be a big gap between chapters but I wanted to try my hand on it.


Between kisses and touches, boots were kicked off, belts unbuckled, buttons undone, Rean's jacket fell from his shoulders and Laura's overskirt from her hips, leaving a trail from the closed door behind them until they reached the bed, or rather stumbled on it and almost fell on top of each other. It made them pause to catch their breaths and chuckle at themselves before they sat down on the edge of the bed.

For a brief moment there were only the sounds of their rapid breathing and the pounding of their hearts in their ears and a sense of nervousness, of uncertainty, almost started to form when Laura's hands cupped Rean's face. Her fingers caressed his cheeks as she admired his features, sharp, handsome but still with a hint of boyhood in them, specially in his fuschia eyes, glistering with a sea of feelings. Adoration for her, excitement, desire and just a smidge of fear. She squashed that last one by pulling his face to hers and kissing his lips and then she continued to kiss him, on his chin, his cheeks, his forehead.

Laura was peppering Rean with soft, butterfly kisses all over his face while her warm hands made him feel like putty, it was a soothing gesture filled with so much care and it made him feel truly loved. But at the same time, he couldn't help himself and though he tried to stifle it, a snort escaped his lips and Laura reeled, confused and unsure if she should be offended or not.

"I'm sorry, it's just that… This is Laura Arseid's idea of deeper intimacy, huh?" Rean gave a casual shrug. "It's cute."

She was decisively offended but only for a second before putting both hands against his chest and firmly pushing Rean down against the mattress, a cocky grin stamped on her face. "Oh you think I'm being cute, is that it? Is this just cute to you as well?"

She kissed him again, deeply this time, and her hands trailed down, reaching the hem of his shirt and going under it before starting on their way back up again and Laura took her time in enjoying the feeling of his muscles, the well defined abs and pecs she had gotten an accidental peak months ago and had often thought of since then. Without breaking their kiss, they moved and shuffled until Laura had Rean completely pinned down under her with her legs straddling him and only giving him enough space to lift his torso to take off his shirt.

Rean enjoyed how assertive Laura could get. Sure, she could get nervous and embarrassed like anyone but when she was sure of herself she just jumped head on with no reservation, it was one of the things he loved about her. He loved the physicality of the whole thing, the weight of her body on top of his, how their tongues rolled and danced with each other and the way she felt up his muscles, fingernails dragging against his skin ever so slowly upwards until reaching his chest and then he broke he kiss with a hiss that made her stop for a second.

"It's fine, nothing's wrong," he said with a soothing voice and kissed Laura back, and she melted once his left hand went behind her head, scratching her scalp, and she moaned sweetly against his lips. Reaching for her hair tie, he undid with a single pull, letting her hair cascade down like a indigo waterfall that surrounded his vision and beautifully framed her face.

Laura pulled away a little to brush away her locks from her face and was treated to Rean's eyes widening and mouth gaping at her. He looked entranced as he combed his fingers across her hair, wrapping her locks around his finger and gently playing with them.

"Do you like my hair that much?"

"I love everything about you. You're perfect," the reply was filled with complete adoration and made Laura's heart skip a beat at how earnest it was. Looking to show how much she felt the same, Laura kissed him again, on the lips at first, then his jaw, down to his neck then… Then something stopped her trajectory downward.

So caught up with Rean's left hand caressing her hair, she hadn't realized his right hand was over his chest, covering his scar, and now his earlier reaction made sense. It saddened her but Laura wouldn't let that, or anything else, ruin this.

"Well, in that case…" She said with a warm, loving smile and took his hand, lifting it away from his chest. "I believe we are past being self-conscious about this, are we not?"

Rean's only reply was a self-conscious and embarrassed laugh at himself. He hadn't even realized what he was doing, he hadn't thought about his scar or hiding it for a long time but it seemed that his subconscious had brought that old insecurity back.

"I think you're perfect too," Laura continued and put her hand to his chest, drawing circles with her finger. "Do you remember, Rean, when you said you've wanted to kiss me since that night in Celdic? Well, I…" She bit her lips and ran the tip of her finger across the lines that had been engraved on his skin, lightly, slowly, and it gave Rean goosebumps and made his breath quicken. "I've had similar thoughts too. Ever since I first saw you without your shirt on I've wanted to touch you here, especially in this way."

Laura lowered her head and planted kisses on his chest, one after the other along his scar, feeling the texture of his skin against her lips, and each time it sent jolts of electricity that made Rean hitch his breath.

"I know this is a thing that has caused you nothing but grief but if I may be shallow for a moment, I find that it looks rather striking, actually," she continued, kissing and licking and tasting him. "You're beautiful, Rean, and I love you. There's nothing about you that I don't love, the good and the bad, it doesn't matter, I desire you in your entirety. And in return, I am yours."

Laura's words and actions were making him dizzy. When did she get this sexy? And all of that had been just preparations for what was to come as Rean cried out when Laura bit down and sucked hard, leaving a perfect, wet love bite on his chest that crossed over between his scar and the unblemished portion of his skin.

Startled by what she thought was a cry of pain, Laura pulled away and all the confidence she had held in her actions until moment evaporated. "Oh Aidios! I thought that- I had heard this is supposed to feel good. Was I too harsh? I'm so-GAH!"

Laura's yelp was silenced as, in one swift motion, Rean flipped her over, instantly changing their position and pinning her down and his tongue invaded her mouth with renewed desire. Her surprise lasted for a brief moment and then Laura got back in the mood, running one hand over his muscular back and shoulders while the other grabbed his hair, holding him down for their fervent kiss.

Eventually both had to come up for air and through gasps and kisses, Rean undid the buttons of Laura's shirt and although there was a bit of fumbling, he still soldiered on until he undid the last one. He slowly opened her shirt and the sight before him made his throat dry. There she was lying under him with her shirt open revealing a simple black bra, with her chest heaving up and down from excitement, her hair loose and a bit messy and her golden eyes running up and down, gazing at his body with equal want. He had seen her nude before and this still took his breath away. It meant it was real and it was happening and she wanted him and he could scarcely believe it.

Laura trailed her hands along his arms, once again enjoying the feel of his musculature, and wound her arms around his neck, pulling him down back to her. They kissed again, slower than before but not lacking in enthusiasm, then Rean moved to kiss her chin, her jaw, her throat and she whimpered. He continued his assault, kissing her neck and ever so gently he grazed her skin with his teeth, getting ready to give her a love bite just like the one she had given him on his chest.

"N-not… Not there." Oh the regret she felt as she reluctantly batted him away. "I'm not going into battle with a hickey on my neck for our enemies to see."

"Okay," he planted a soft kiss on her neck instead before whispering in her ear. "I'll pick a better place."

The low growl of his voice and hot breath against her ear made Laura quiver. His lips glided down her neck, reaching Laura's collarbone, and she didn't wait for him, she lifted her back and unhooked her bra, flinging it to some corner of the room along with her shirt and making her invitation more than clear.

"You're beautiful…" He breathed out the words with sheer awe, sounding almost transfixed by the sight. His hand reached out and gently cupped her left breast, squeezing it so lightly that he wasn't sure if Laura had felt it or not, but she did and hummed sweetly under his touch. His thumb pressed against her nipple and made circles around it and Rean was caught between watching what he was doing and Laura's reaction as she continued to purr under him.

Rean kissed her collarbone again before continuing from where he had stopped. He dragged his lips across her skin to the swell of her breast while he grabbed her other one with his free hand, and he began to alternate between kissing and licking each one while his hands massaged both, and the way Laura's body undulated spurned him further.

She squealed when Rean captured one nipple with his lips, sucking on it, and squeezed the other between his fingers. Laura never thought she'd squirm this hard by having her breasts played with, although calling it "play" didn't do justice to the care Rean was putting in, he was downright worshiping her, and she figured that was what made it feel so good. The love he put in every kiss, every squeeze and-

"Ah!"

And even when he very gently bit her nipple before kissing and sucking on it again.

Laura let out a trembling sigh. She knew this was merely foreplay and more intense sensations were soon to come but everything was so new to her that she couldn't help it, it just felt too good. Without thinking, likely as a way to repay some of Rean's actions, Laura threw her hands over his head and pressed his face against her chest, shoving his face between her breasts.

Some might consider Rean had some sort of uncanny type of luck that led him to be put in that situation so frequently, starting with the events of his first day of school and the incident between him and Alisa, a situation that repeated itself with his other female classmates, and while even the young man himself might have stated that he was lucky in that regard once as a joke, the truth of the matter was that none of those occasions had felt any good. Just perplexing and embarrassing and, honestly, it was kinda painful getting hit in the face with a girl's full body weight. But this? Laura squeezing his face against her boobs and caressing his hair while the scent of her body threatened to overwhelm his senses? Now that was real luck.

But Rean wanted more, to explore more of Laura's body and make her feel good in different ways and thus one of his hands moved to her waist then down to her leg, stroking her strong, gorgeous thigh from under her skirt.

Understanding his intentions, Laura eased her hold on Rean with a breathy "Keeping going" that he very gladly obliged.

Rean continued his trajectory down her body, kissing Laura down to her midsection as he unbuttoned and removed her skirt, not missing the chance of getting a handful of her shapely, tight butt that felt just right in his palm. He nuzzled her belly as well, of course, kissing her as if he needed his lips to commit every milirege of her body to memory.

His fingers tentatively pulled at the waistband of the simple black spats she wore and he looked up to Laura, wordlessly asking for permission, which she gave with a nod of her head. Laura raised her hips and allowed Rean to slip what little remained of her clothes off and what he saw was… A set of boyshorts, also black and featureless. Basically a smaller version of the spats he was removing.

"I realize my underwear isn't necessarily the most feminine piece I could be wearing for the occasion," Laura said with a nervous gulp and Rean shot a look back at her, one eyebrow raised.

"Now who's the one being self-conscious this late into the game?"

Laura replied with a self-conscious and embarrassed laugh at herself, exactly like Rean had done earlier.

We are both such huge dorks. I love it.

Unlike Laura, he couldn't come up with sweet, beautiful words to assuage her worries, his thoughts were too foggy at the moment for that. Instead, Rean let his actions speak for him and nuzzled his face against her underwear, drowning in the scent and patch of wetness of her excitement and Laura barely managed to stifle a moan.

"Haaaah, o-okay, message… Received."

Rean wanted to give her a teasing retort but his lust riddled brain was incapable of formulating anything, instead he started removing her underwear. Slowly, tortuously so like opening a present he pulled them down to her knees then he raised her legs up in the air and finished taking them off along with her spats and socks. He continued holding up her legs, resting them against his shoulder while caressing her thighs and calves and admiring just how gorgeous the girl, no, the woman in his arms was.

She was tall, there was nothing new about that, but only now he truly realized how sensual it made her look. Long and firm legs with muscular thighs he couldn't get his hands away from. The flat stomach with a hint of abs showing. The chest heaving up and down with breasts that fit perfectly in his hands. The broad shoulders and strong arms of a seasoned swimmer and swordfighter. He couldn't stop admiring her. He wanted to see her back, imagining how well defined it must be, not to mention her ass he got a handful of just now.

Mine, all mine. And I'm hers.

Laura's heart thumped under Rean's wandering gaze over her body, his eyes were sparkling with adoration and he was practically salivating, licking his delicious lips that had been all over her body. Not that she had much room to talk, she couldn't take her eyes off Rean either, it was truly a shame how much his clothes hid but then that meant this view was hers and hers only. It was quite annoying then that he was still wearing his pants, unfair even, and Laura wanted to do to Rean the same he had done to her so she tried to lift herself up, but he held her in place.

"Shhh, stay still," he said, planting a light kiss on her ankle. "Let me do this for you."

Something about his velvety tone made her comply and she watched as Rean spread her legs open.

It was taking Rean all his mental power to focus and remain calm, resorting to some breathing techniques he learned from his master. He wanted to do this right, to do something special for his first time with Laura that showed his appreciation for everything she had done for him. It was why he had reluctantly gone to Angelica for tips and was treated to a surprisingly formal and no-nonsense lesson free of any of her usual teasing (that still left him flustered). Despite all that preparation, however, once Laura's legs were parted and he saw her pussy glistering under the room's light, Rean's brain almost shut down.

"R-Rean?"

Her voice was enough to bring him back to reality and he shook his head. He must have been looking like a fool. "Sorry, it's just that… You're so beautiful."

Rean put his head back in the game, starting with a simple chaste kiss on her knee before working his way up her legs, his mouth alternating between each one. Laura squirmed harder under his ministrations, resisting the urge to rub her thighs together as the heat between her legs became fiercer and she attentively watched Rean getting closer and closer to her sex, each time she felt his mouth touch her making her hitch her breath. Her legs were over his shoulders by this point, his was face so close she could feel his breath tickling her and his hands rubbed her thighs, fingers edging ever so close to touching her, she could practically feel it when… He pulled his face away, kissing her leg again.

"Hah… Don't you dare sto- AH!"

Just like she had done on his chest, Rean gave her an intense love bite on Laura's thigh.

Better place indeed.

He placed another, more gentle kiss on that same spot before turning his attention to what really mattered right in front of him: wet, pink, hot and absolutely inviting. He started slowly, gently, letting Laura get used to the new sensation of his lips against her, also to tease her out a bit, but gradually his ministrations increased and soon his tongue was darting out, pressing against her clit, licking, rubbing and rolling around it. Rean mouth worked with gusto, restlessly assaulting her quivering, wet pussy and Laura's reactions served to motivate him more.

Her back arched, her chest heaved and she couldn't contain her voice, any notion that one of their friends might pass by the corridor and hear her forgotten as she moaned loudly, reaching a higher pitch than she ever heard herself once Rean added his fingers to mix, rubbing her clit and teasing the entrance of her pussy. His other hand continued to caress her body, her thigh, hips and stomach, just one more little thing that threatened to overwhelm her. Laura was close, so close it made her thrust her hips forward, grinding against Rean's mouth and the vibration caused by his moaning drove her even closer. It was when he put a finger inside her, just one and not even that deeply, and thrust inside, once, twice, and on the third she grabbed a fistful of his hair and pressed him against her sex and rode out his face along with her orgasm.

Her sudden forcefulness caught Rean by surprise but it wasn't an unwelcome one, as her scream was music to his ears and the taste of her simply divine. He did fear for his life once her thighs caught his head in a vice grip and threatened to crush his skull, however. Eventually Laura released him from her grasp and her limbs flopped down at the mattress, and from his position he was treated to the amazing sight of the full extension of her body, an expanse of heaving flesh covered in sweat. He could barely believe he had done that. He owed his "big sis" a big one.

Coming down from her climax, Laura couldn't help but continue to squirm and let out soft moans, lost in post-orgasmic bliss, especially once Rean started to make his way back up, planting kisses all over and caressing her still sensitive body. It was amazing how caring he was, making sure she felt satisfied and that she knew how much he loved her. Even if it paled in comparison to what he had done to her, Laura reached down, gently running her fingers through his now matted hair.

Rean worked his way up until he reached her collarbone then stopped and adjusted himself to lay next to her, propping his head on one hand while the other continued to caress her body.

"So, I think I know the answer but…"

"It was amazing," she smiled at him. "Not that it surprises me but this was much better than using my fingers."

"Well well well…" Rean arched an eyebrow and looked at her with an amused grin, which Laura countered with a very unamused glare of her own.

"Yes, I masturbate when the urge strikes me. Don't you look at me like that, I'm not that reserved about such matters. It's a perfectly good way to relax after an intense day of training and you," she poked an accusatory finger against his chest. "Have no right to judge me considering certain things you've told me."

Rean laughed and raised a hand in a defeat gesture. "Okay, that's fair," he said, still with a grin on his face. He resumed to caress her body, hand firmly holding her hip, and leaned over to kiss her but then hesitated, jerking his head away.

"What?" Laura asked, wondering why Rean seemed somewhat lost about whether he should kiss her.

Rean gulped. "It's just that… Uhm… I just had my mouth, you know, down there, so I don't think you'd want to…" His voice deflated quickly and winced at how lame he was sounding and Laura couldn't help but chuckle.

"Your consideration is very sweet but…" She pulled his face to hers and kissed him eagerly then pulled away. "I don't mind."

They kissed again as that bout of awkwardness faded from Rean. He briefly thought if the situation was reversed if he'd have a problem with it but quickly decided that he wouldn't either.

They spent some time like that for a while, with slow kisses and hands that touched, caressed and groped as if they were trying to imprint the feeling of each other's bodies on their fingertips, and slowly the heavy petting grew in intensity as each tried to respond to the other's actions.

Laura kissed his neck and Rean grabbed her butt, giving it a firm squeeze. She rolled on top of him, allowing Rean to properly fondle her behind with both hands while continuing the assault on his neck, including gentle bites that weren't enough to leave marks but left him moaning in her ear.

Rean chanced a slap on Laura's buttcheek, earning a delicious yelp from her and giving him an opening that allowed him to turn the tables so he'd be on top of her. Keeping his daring streak, he nibbled her earlobe and Laura pulled on his hair and thrust her hips forward, rubbing her sex against his thigh, his still clothed thigh. She had to do something about that.

They rolled in bed and positions changed again and again and again until they were back to lying next to each other. Laura's hips moved again, grinding against Rean's leg and understanding what she wanted, his hand made its way between her legs, feeling her wet and hot against his touch.

Laura trembled, he barely had done anything but her body still felt so sensitive from the previous orgasm moments ago and everything was still so new to her that very little was necessary to arouse a reaction out of her. But it was unfair, she thought, how much pleasure she was receiving while Rean did most of the work. Feeling completely uninhibited at this stage, Laura's hand rubbed against his crotch, feeling the length underneath the fabric, her fingertips running from base to tip.

She very much enjoyed the trembling sigh that Rean let out and not at all minded that his movements slowed down a little, she just continued to kiss him while she pulled down the zipper and undid the button of his pants. Laura liked even more when he broke their kiss with a groan once she caressed his member through his boxers.

Rean shuffled and raised his body just enough so he could pull down his pants past his hips, freeing his bulge from some of its confines.

"Let me do it," Laura said, stopping Rean from taking off his underwear and he complied. She wanted to do it herself.

Looking down, her face was frozen with breathless anticipation as she continued to run her fingers across his length over the gray fabric, noticing the darker, wet spot where his tip was. Unable to resist any longer, she pulled down the underwear's waistband and his cock sprung out. The hard member throbbed in the cooler air and the head was slick with precum.

He wanted her so much and so did she. Laura shivered at the thought of his member penetrating her, sheathing itself inside her like a blad- No, no,no! Absolutely not. She was not going to think about sword related analogies during sex, she had her limits.

Shaking her head to get out of that silly line of thought, Laura gently wrapped her fingers around his cock, surprised at how hot it felt against her already warm hands and with a slow motion, she stroked him from tip to base.

"Urk- Hah- Holy-" And some other incoherent sounds came out of Rean by the simple fact a woman had touched his dick for the first time. That spurned her further and she tightened her grip on his cock, appreciating how hard it felt, and she stroked him again.

Rean grunted and his breath tickled her neck and Laura found she liked his reactions more than she expected. Not taking her eyes off what she was doing, she put her thumb against the slick head of his cock and rubbed it with circular motions that earned another moan from Rean. With a satisfied grin, she turned her attention back to him, eager to see his face filled with pleasure but to her surprise, she was the one gasping as inserted his middle finger inside her pussy and used the opening to capture her mouth with his instead with a hungry kiss.

But the kiss didn't last, how could it when both couldn't stop gasping, sighing and moaning as their hands continued to stroke and rub each other. It reached the point that all Rean and Laura could do was stare at each other, enraptured by their partner's minute reactions, their throats contracting when they took air, their dilated pupils and their flushed faces. Both were absolutely in love with just watching their partner edging ever so close but then Rean felt Laura's hand on his wrist and he didn't even have enough time to question why she had done that because the answer immediately came between gasping breaths.

"No more foreplay, Rean, let's do this. I want this, I want you, I want you more than anything I've ever wanted in my life. What about you?"

A rhetorical question if there ever was one but Rean stayed silent, taking in deep breaths as he recomposed himself and let his blood flow more evenly through his body and his face turned into the definition of serenity for a brief moment… Then what remained of his clothes was off in a flash, his hand darted to his nightstand where he grabbed the condom, ripped its packaging off and put it on. Next thing he knew he was on top of Laura, her legs spread open and with an expression of surprise on her face.

"I suppose this is a yes," she responded with a nervous chuckle.

He was nervous too, incredibly so. It was as if his mind had finally caught up to the fact he and Laura were about to have sex for the first time and none of the things they had done previously counted to dissuade his worries. But he managed to banish those doubts, fears and the idea he could potentially ruin everything because he saw how her eyes were sparkling when looking at him and he could feel how her heart beat in her chest. Laura loved him and he loved her and that was enough.

Rean cupped her face with a hand and planted a kiss on her lips. "I'm going to put it in, okay?"

Laura nodded and gulped, bracing herself.

He started by resting his erect cock on top of her mound first and both shuddered simultaneously when he dragged his member over it. It felt great even through the latex but none of them were in the mood for that kind of teasing anymore, so he positioned himself, his engorged head brushing against her lips, then slowly, cautiously moved on, meeting some very small resistance at her entrance before Laura's body took him in.

Laura gasped but that quickly turned into an assuring smile directed at her boyfriend. She gasped and moaned at every rege that went inside her then came out, her eyes fixed on Rean as he let out his own sounds of pleasure and she reached out with a hand, cupping her face. He leaned on her touch and held her free hand, their fingers interlacing.

It was slow and tender as they got used to it and soon the two found their rhythm, each time Rean pulled back he'd follow it up by thrusting a little bit further and Laura followed his movements with her hips. But that tenderness couldn't last and Rean gradually increased the speed of his thrusts. Harder. Faster. Deeper. It felt too good to hold back.

Then Laura hissed and her face turned to a pained expression and Rean became beside himself with worry thinking he had been too rough. He was about to pull out when Laura wrapped her legs around his waist and pulled him back inside her with all her might, resulting in Rean's full length plunging inside of her.

Which might have been a mistake, she realized, as pain and pleasure mixed together for a moment. In the end, however, pleasure won over, she had felt much worse pain, this was nothing.

As for Rean, he had keeled over Laura, burying his face on her shoulder and squeezing his eyes shut as he had almost come then and there and it was taking all of his strength to not end things too soon. It was a tense minute that felt like an eternity but he managed to hold it in and once he allowed himself to relax, he embraced the pure bliss that it was to be deep inside the woman he loved, taking in the smell of her skin, the feeling of the thumping of her heart and the sound of her voice.

"D-don't stop…" She whispered in his ear.

He lifted himself up so he could look into Laura's eyes, those beautiful golden eyes that projected so much strength, and his fingers brushed against her rose flushed cheek gently.

"I love you."

"I love you too," she replied, wrapping her arms around him and pulling Rean for a kiss.

They began again, slowly as Rean thrusted gently and deeply inside her and Laura still wouldn't let him pull out, keeping him locked with her legs, but soon the room was filled with the sounds of flesh hitting flesh and gasps and moans. Their breathing came out ragged between clumsy kisses and hands wandered aimlessly across their bodies, wanting to touch every part of their partner.

Laura let go of her leg lock, either because she trusted Rean wouldn't try to stop anymore or because she had lost control of her limbs, whatever the reason, he barely noticed it, he just continued to wail into her and Laura continued moving her hips, taking him all in.

"Ah… Ah… Oh… Fuck, Rean!"

Rean had grown a lot as a person these past few months, more than anyone should've in some cases, but that didn't mean he didn't still have an immature side. So hearing Laura swear like that, the first time he had heard her swear at all, while they were having sex? No, because they were having sex and he managed to draw it out of her? That excited him more than he would ever dare to admit.

Putting his arms around her body, Rean lifted Laura up and pressed her tightly against his body so they both were in a sitting position. Without the need to exchange a single word or glance, Laura moved in sync with him, holding on to Rean as she continued to bounce on top of him and their love making grew more intense.

The rest of the world fully disappeared for the young couple, nothing else mattered, not the war, not the Rivalries, not the past that had led them there or the future that awaited them. All that mattered was each other and staying together, as united as possible as their passionate feelings reached their apex.

Hold her close, a voice whispered in the back of his mind. Stay by her side forever.

Hold him close, a voice whispered in the back of her mind. Never let him go.

Then it happened.

Like an explosion shaking their bodies, declarations of love came out of throaty cries as intense waves of pleasure splashed across their bodies. They rode those waves that seemed to go forever, not daring to let the other go as if they would disappear, and once it was over they still held each other tightly.

It took a while but eventually their breathings evened out and their heartbeats weren't jackhammers pounding inside their chests. There was a slight discomfort in their muscles after being locked in place for so long and both groaned and moaned when Rean pulled out of Laura, almost making them consider a second go.

Summoning the little energy they had left, Rean removed his condom, tied it up in a knot and tossed it in his waste bin, while Laura picked up her shirt from the floor next to the bed, bundled it up and threw it at the light switch, blanketing the room in darkness. The couple then laid down on bed and Rean pulled over the covers over them, the chilly air finally making itself noticed against their hot and sweaty bodies.

Feeling completely exhausted but happier than they had ever felt in their lives, Rean and Laura held each other in their arms, basking in their afterglow. Before sleep finally took them, their lips touched and brushed together, so faintly it couldn't even be considered a kiss, but it still carried the same feelings as everything they had done that night.


Author's notes: And there it is, the first and probably only full blown sex scene I'll write for ToTS (I have some less explicit ideas for the future but nothing on this level).

From the get go I wanted for it to be about their characterization and not just smut (not that there's anything wrong with pure smut btw), the idea of what a first time between them would be like. So it's a little awkward at moments because they're both dorks at heart and it's their first time and it gets fluffy with them professing their love for each other. I hope it was a good read and worth the wait.

Anyway, with this out of the way we're at the final stretch with possibly just 5 more chapters til the end, so I hope you guys enjoy the rest of the ride.