Yelena pushed her chair back, standing to walk over to her girlfriend who also had pushed away from the table. She leaned down until her lips brushed Kate's ear, "take me to bed, Детка."

Kate was sure that all of her senses stopped working simultaneously and that she was no longer functioning as an alive and well person. "What?" She waited a minute for the blonde to respond but she only repeated her previous demand causing every pulse in her body to travel south. "I thought," her breath caught in her throat when Yelena slid into her lap, nipping at her earlobe.

"Hmm? What did you think, Kate Bishop," her accent even stronger as the words went straight to Kate's core.

"Distracting," she felt Yelena chuckle against the hinge of her jaw. "I thought you wanted to talk."

Yelena was leaving open mouth kisses along her jawline, "talking is so boring, isn't it?" Yelena continued her path of kisses while Kate tried to regain some semblance of how to use the English language. Her hands found themselves drawn to the blonde's thighs, her grip tightening when she found a particularly sensitive spot on Kate's neck. "So boring," Yelena chuckled at the groan Kate let out when she rocked her hips down slightly.

"Yes," Kate nodded enthusiastically, "but your note… wanted to talk…"

Yelena pulled back just enough so she could rest her forehead against Kate's, "do you not wish to have sex with me, Kate Bishop?"

"Oh I wish it," she looked into Yelena's deep forest green eyes.

"I want you," she simply stated, "and I want to show you how much I appreciate your thank you."

Kate was trying her best to see if there was any sort of hesitation in the other woman's eyes. When she found none, she felt herself nodding again, "talking is so boring."

Yelena let their lips barely touch, smirking into a soft kiss, "take me to bed, Детка."

Kate's brain had clearly short circuited but her body was making the moves for her as she pushed herself to her feet, the blonde wrapping her legs around her waist. "You are quite sturdy aren't you?"

Yelena chuckled, "small but compact," she started her assault on Kate's neck as the brunette carried her to the stairs. She was determined to carry her all the way up to her bedroom. The blonde's strong thighs weren't budging so Kate knew the woman was safe in her arms. Yelena stopped her kissing when they reached the top of the stairs. "When I said, take me to bed, I did not mean carry me to your bedroom." She smirked at her girlfriend, a sparkle of challenge in her green eyes. "Always a show off. Time to put those big muscles and that mouth to use, Kate Bishop."

Kate laughed, throwing the blonde down onto her mattress landing with a little bounce, "I'm a full service lesbian of course I was carrying you. You said take me to bed and I take most things at face value before I completely overthink everything," she reached down and started unbuttoning her dress shirt. "This is okay?" She asked while pushing her shirt off of her shoulders, it falling forgotten to the floor.

Yelena's smirk had been a permanent fixture since they started making out. She sat up on the edge of the bed, "the overthinking has started. Right on time." She reached out, grabbing Kate's hips and pulling her between her open legs. "There is nothing to think about right now except everything I'm planning to do to you in the next couple of hours."

"Hours?" Kate's tongue came out to wet her bottom lip thinking of all the possibilities.

"Hours," she ran thumb in a small circle around Kate's belly button.

Kate swallowed hard looking down at her girlfriend, "you sure you don't want to talk about this?"

Yelena's hands were working the button of Kate's trousers before she stopped and skimmed them up the bare skin of her torso, stopping to unhook her bra, "there are a lot of things I want to do right now and talking is not high on the list." She watched with rapt attention as the purple lacy fell from Kate's breasts. The urge to cover herself was there but less. Yelena noticed the tips of her ears turning pink, "you have nothing to be embarrassed about, you are gorgeous."

Kate reached down, her fingers lightly grazing Yelena's ribs before settling on the hem of her crop top, "something for something?" A slight nod was all she needed before pulling the fabric up and over Yelena's head. "Wow," was all she could get out before the blonde pulled her down into her lap. She let her hands travel up Kate's trouser covered thighs, thumbs dipping into the creases where her hips joined her legs as their mouths met again in a hungry kiss. Yelena was in the perfect position to press her mouth against Kate's sternum, flicking her tongue out for a taste while cupping Kate's breasts and sweeping her thumbs across her already sensitive nipples. A groan escaped the younger woman, "you like that?" Her only reply was a very enthusiastic head nod. Yelena swept her thumbs back over her nipples, "use your words, little hawk."

"Gods yes," it came out as more of a moan than a sentence. "More. I need more." Yelena delivered, sucking a pert nipple into her mouth. "Oh fuck," she threw her head back. "Yes, that is more," she could feel how turned on she was and felt she was moments from exploding and it had been a few minutes of above the waist touching.

She pushed Yelena off to create a little distance, "what?" The blonde looked confused with signs of worry, "did I hurt you?"

"No," Kate smiled, "nothing like that. I'm just not going to last long at this rate." She pushed Yelena back fully into the bed and climbed off of her, her fingers resting at Yelena's pants button, "May I?" She unbuttoned her pants, swiftly pulling them down her legs, letting them fall to the floor. Yelena was wearing a pair of dark green Calvin Klein boxer briefs that had Kate letting out another groan. A telling smirk graced Yelena's face. She knew she looked good and yes, Kate agreed, she should be very proud of her body. She let her hands glide over Yelena's stomach, thumbs brushing over the band of her underwear.

When she started pulling them off, Yelena sat up and flipped Kate over onto her back, "no you don't, Kate Bishop. Something for something." She unzipped Kate's trousers, discarding them over the edge of the bed. "May I?" She looked up when Kate started to move her hands to her underwear. "No, let me," she hooked her fingers under the lace and pulled them down her thighs. "Ты чертовски великолепна," she breathed out before removing her own boxers, sliding back up. They both moaned feeling their naked skin coming together with an electric shock. "You feel better than I dreamed," she brought their lips together in a kiss, she only stayed a moment before her lips and teeth went back to Kate's collarbone. "You'll have to forgive me."

"For what?" Kate's brain was malfunctioning.

"I haven't done this is a very long time," she slid one leg between Kate's pressing her thigh into Kate's center.

"Fuck me."

Yelena chuckled against her skin, "but I think we will be just fine." Kate felt another surge of electricity when Yelena started grinding her thigh into Kate. She could feel Yelena's arousal on her own leg and it was turning her on even more. "Иисус Христос," she groaned when she felt pleasure deep in her own core. "Мне нужно попробовать тебя на вкус."

"What?" Came Kate's breathless reply.

"May I taste you?"

Kate felt near orgasm as it was, "please," she said, rolling her hips for more friction.

Yelena pressed a kiss to her throat, then started a slow, tortuous journey down her body. Tongue, lips, teeth, pausing to explore one nipple, then the other, before continuing a wet glide down her stomach. "Fuck," Yelena whispered, pressing a kiss to the inside of Kate's thigh. "You're gorgeous." Then kissed her other thigh, "and very wet."

Kate laughed knowing just how turned on this woman had made her. How quickly she had broken her down by simple touches and kisses. Kate was desperate for release while Yelena seemed content on taking her time and finding every spot that pulled a moan from the brunette. Yelena's tongued darted out for for a taste everywhere except where Kate was desperate for her. "Gods, Yelena…if you don't hurry up I'm going to take matters into my own hand."

Yelena finally licked a slow path from her entrance to her clit then chuckled against her throbbing center, "relax, Kate Bishop, I'll get you there."

"Holy shit, Yelena."

Yelena smirked from her position between her legs, "yes?"

Whatever rebuttal Kate had prepared died on her tongue when Yelena hooked her arms around her thighs and pulled her closer. Her mouth took over from there, kissing, licking, slipping inside of her warmth. When Yelena replaced her tongue with two fingers deep inside Kate, a guttural moan fell from her lips, "this is how I'm going to die." Yelena knew exactly when to curl her fingers the moment her mouth closed around her clit alternating between sucking and licking. "Right there, so close," that was all it took for Yelena to double down on her efforts, teeth, tongue and mouth lapping at her bringing her closer to the edge with every thrust of her fingers. It did not take long before Kate was screaming Yelena's name to the gods as the blonde helped her back down from her orgasm. When her legs finally stopped trembling, she pulled Yelena up her body, putting every emotion she was feeling into a kiss. "You were right, you know? You are very good with your hands."

Yelena chuckled but her voice sounded wrecked with lust, "I told you this, Kate Bishop. I am very talented in everything I do."

"I get to do you now, right?" Kate looked like a kid on Christmas waiting for her chance to open a gift.

Yelena only nodded, before her hips started gently rocking against Kate's leg, "your turn. Show me what you got, little hawk." Kate grabbed Yelena's hips and pulled her higher until she was sitting at the juncture of Kate's crease. Yelena bucked her hips, her own center sliding against Kate's mound made both women groan in pleasure. "Трахни меня, Кейт Бишоп. Так хорошо," she started circling her hips down, pressing her clit against Kate, building her back up as well.

Kate reached between them, her fingers stopping at Yelena's entrance, "is this okay?" Yelena didn't respond with words. She grabbed Kate's fingers, lining them up and sunk down on them. The back of her own hand was in the perfect position pushing against her own clit. She had to remind herself that this was about Yelena's orgasm not her own but the blonde riding her fingers, cursing in Russian was doing all the right things for her. "You are so fucking hot," Kate couldn't hold that thought back. She saw the older woman blush slightly while increasing her speed.

Yelena leaned forward making sure Kate's hand was pressing against her, "cum with me?" Kate nodded her head and picked up the speed of her fingers, making tight circles over Yelena's clit. The blonde clenched hard around her fingers, "Блядь, я кончаю."

The force of Yelena's orgasm was enough to send Kate into a smaller second one, "the Russian language frock your mouth should be illegal," she panted while watching Yelena come back from the heavens.

Yelena moved slightly, collapsing onto the mattress beside the brunette, "give me two minutes." She watched as Kate brought her wet fingers up to her lips, sucking them into her mouth, moaning at the taste of her girlfriend, "never mind. I go again," she rolled back on top of Kate, kissing her breathless.

A few hours and many orgasms later, Kate found herself laying more than content under her own personal Russian weighted blanket. Yelena had melted down onto Kate after her last orgasm and chose to stay resting on top of her. The brunette was agile enough to pull the blanket over them so they didn't catch a chill in the late autumn evening. Yelena's head was just above Kate's heart while her hand was tracing shapes along her right arm and shoulder. "I could fall asleep like this, Kate Bishop," she snuggled down further into her, "your heartbeat is very soothing to me."

Kate kissed the top of her head, fingers combing through blonde hair, "do you think now might be a good time for that talk?"

Yelena was smirking though the other woman couldn't see, "perhaps we could talk about opening a window. It smells like a lot very satisfying sex was had in this bedroom. We might consider airing it out."

"Lena," she groaned, causing the blonde to rearrange slightly to prop herself up on her left elbow.

"Lena? This is new."

Kate's eyes grew wide, "oh shit. Sorry. It sort of just snuck out. Natasha warned me you didn't like that nickname and here I go delivering it after I finally get to have my way with you. So uncool of me."

Yelena gave her a little half smile, "I do not like when she calls me that. From you, I think I could make an exception." She snuggled back down on Kate, relaxing her weight on top of the younger woman.

"If you were serious about me opening the window, you are going to have to let me get up," Kate placed another kiss in the blonde locks that were tickling her nose.

Yelena groaned, "but you are so comfortable, Kate Bishop."

"I didn't really peg for you a post sex cuddler," Kate smiled when Yelena chuckled, "I like it."

"Natasha caught you spooning me that one day at home. She hasn't dropped the subject. I am afraid if this gets out, I will be forced to kill you."

Kate wrapped her arms tighter around the blonde, "your secret is safe with me." After a few quiet minutes, Kate's brain got the better of her, "so can I ask a question?"

"I knew you couldn't hold out for too much longer," Yelena remained snuggled. "Go ahead but if you think I'm moving you are wrong."

"What changed your mind? Don't get me wrong. I really really enjoyed this but you were so adamant about talking first then you came over and something changed."

Kate felt Yelena sigh, her breath ghosting over her collarbone. She felt her body respond and had to tell herself that now wasn't the time for more sex. It was talking time and she finally felt the Yelena was ready to open up a little, "Wanda and Nat stopped me on my way out."

"They told you to have sex with me?"

The deep raspy chuckle that followed was not helping Kate's libido, "not exactly. They just reminded me that life is short and we never know how much time we have left here. I came over with full intentions of talking then I walked in and you put so much thought into that dinner for me. Nobody had even done that for me before. For the first time in a very long time, I felt taken care of. I am not making any sense. I blame the orgasms."

"No," Kate didn't want her to slip back under her defenses, "I get it. I mean I don't have any sisters encouraging me and I also don't have any serious relationships to compare this to but I really really like you Yelena. It kind of scares me."

"I scare you?" She propped herself back up on her elbow to look down at her girlfriend.

Kate shook her head, "no you don't scare me. The fact that I'm falling hard and fast scares me."

"Ahh," she pecked her cheek, "then you and I are how do you say in the same car."

Kate smiled, "in the same boat?"

"Same thing," Yelena rolled her eyes, "I adore you, Kate Bishop." It was like she could see the wheels turning in her girlfriend's mind, "go on ask it."

"Were you in love with Emily?"

Yelena had been expecting a question like this to come up at some point. Honestly, she was surprised it took Kate so long to get to that point. She figured the emotions were running high with all the dopamine that had been released over the past few hours. "I've never really talked about her with anyone outside of the army therapists."

"You don't have to talk about anything you aren't comfortable sharing. I would never push you. I shouldn't have asked."

"No," Yelena cut her off, "it is okay. It is not fair to you if I do not share some things about me, about my past." She waited to see if Kate was going to say anything. The brunette was staring up at her just listening. "It is a long story but I will shorten it so we can get back to cuddling, da?"

Kate smiled, "like I said… whatever you are comfortable with sharing."

"Emily and I met when we were sent to the same AIT after basic. She talked to me on the first day of classes and basically told me I was going to be her friend and I had no choice. She was funny, smart, caring and one of the most selfless people I've ever met up until that point." Yelena shifted so she was no longer on top of Kate but laying along her left side, still propped up on her elbow, not quite making eye contact. She had never been great at being vulnerable. "Emily was my first real friend that I didn't share with my sister. Up until I met her, all of my friends were friends with Natasha first and they just sort of let me tag along. We sought comfort in each other, physically," she tried to hide her blush. "And we started calling ourselves girlfriends sometime before we were deployed on our first tour."

"It was a gradual thing then?"

"Well yes and no. We were the only two women medics in our company so it made sense for us. She and I didn't have much in common outside of the military but that's all our life was at the time so it did not seem to matter. You did not ask for this though. You asked if I loved her. I was very young and she was my first girlfriend. I think I loved her but I also do not think I knew the full extent of what love could be back then."

"Where is Emily now?"

Yelena's face dropped, "this is the part I do not like to talk about." She shook her head when she saw the brunette starting to say something, "I want to talk about it." She shifted again so she was laying on her back, looking up at the ceiling with her right arm behind her head. "Emily and I were basically the clean up crew. We were not the soldiers on the front line. We didn't fight. We weren't in the battles. They brought us the bodies and we fixed the ones we could but by the time they made it to us there wasn't much we could do. It was a very mentally draining job. We had a lot of sex to distract us from the sadness of the job. Which is one of the reasons I told myself I would never jump into bed with some right away again. That is another story," she sighed when she felt Kate snuggle up against her side. "Like I said… we were how do you say… behind the scenes. Emily came back to our tent one night telling me about a conversation she heard about a bombing that was going to happen close by later that evening. I told her to tell the people higher up in the ranks. She had this thing about her where all she wanted was to save people and if we went up the ranks, it would be too late. I thought I had convinced her that leaving wasn't a good idea. Apparently I was wrong. She told me she was going with or without me. I couldn't let her go alone. I followed her to edge of our camp and I tried once more to stop her. She made it two feet over the line and I stood there and watched as she was blown to pieces." She stopped her story and took a few deep breaths, "the company obviously heard the commotion and while they were open firing, I just stood there. And I hated myself for it."

"None of that was your fault."

"No," Yelena responded quietly, "I know. She was special to me and she died and there was absolutely nothing I could say or do to stop her from leaving. It fucked me up, Kate. I got on the medic's radar because I wasn't eating. I couldn't sleep and when I did I had nightmares. I wanted to go off and kill everyone who was responsible and when I realized I couldn't, I turned the anger and hate inwards. I started abusing the sleeping pills I was prescribed and I drank a lot. Feeling nothing was better than what I had been feeling. Eventually the company decided to honorably discharge me and send me home set up with intensive therapy. My mom really helped me through the worst of it. My dad was there too but he is kind of an idiot. They helped me realize that I could make a difference. That's when I decided to go to med school. Even if I wasn't able to save Emily or stop her from making that rash decision, I could at least be there to help heal those I can."

Kate was quiet, letting the words sink in. She definitely understood why Emily did what she did. Kate wouldn't be able to sit by if she knew people were in danger like that. After hearing all of that, she wondered just how much of her extra curricular activities Yelena was privy to and how she actually felt about everything. Kate was confident that if Yelena had a problem with everything or at least what she knew then she never would've slept with her. "Yelena…"

She turned on her side to face Kate, "please don't."

"I was just going to thank you for sharing."

"No. That is a lie," Yelena cupped her cheek, running a thumb across it, "you are comparing yourselves to Emily."

Kate's eyes widened, "how do you do that?"

Yelena kissed her nose, "superpower remember? Emily was very special to me. She taught a lot about myself, who I am and who I wanted to be. There is no denying that. But you, Kate Bishop, you are everything. I do not know what I would do if something were to happen to you or Natasha and Wanda. I do not even want to think like that. The point is I trust you and whatever it is you do. I would never ask you to change yourself or to stop doing what you're doing. Just know that I am here for you. Apparently so is my intern and sister. I only ask one thing."

"What is that?" She whispered, inching closer to the blonde.

"Please do not do anything rash without talking to me about it first. I will always support you but I need to know that you are safe."

Kate looked into her dark green eyes and felt she could see into this woman's soul. She was laying every emotion out on the table for Kate. A simple promise was all she was asking and she would support Kate no matter what she was getting herself into. The brunette wasn't sure she could commit to what she was being asked. She had never included a partner in her vigilante plans before because it was mostly a solo event or a partnered event but she had had Carol for that. Now that Carol was gone, Kate knew she was looking for revenge and she wasn't sure acting without impulse was an option but fuck it if she didn't want to try for this woman. She found herself nodding, "Yelena… I…"

The sentence was cut off when an explosion sounded from the large picture window outside of the loft bedroom door, "what the fuck?" She quickly got up, threw on some sweats and tossed some clothes to the blonde.

"Stop!" Yelena yelled, bringing the back of her hand to the door. "It's hot. Cover your face," she nodded towards the bed sheets. "We need to get Lucky and get out."

Kate grabbed their phones and tossed Yelena a shirt to hold over her face as she opened the door, flames dancing on the loft landing, "shit, fuck. Go," she watched Yelena exit, following quickly behind her when another bottle came through the window, exploding down near the living room. Lucky was already by the door barking, Kate grabbed her backpack and watched as Yelena leashed the dog, grabbing her own backpack and helmet. "We can go out to the alley."

"Who still uses Molotov cocktails?" Yelena sounded angry. "Come," she handed Kate Lucky's leash and grabbed her hand pulling her from the apartment and down the hall. "Call 911," she shouted back as they were descending the backstairs.

"No," Kate stopped just outside of the back door. "No police."

"No police? Are you fucking kidding me? Homemade explosives were just launched through your window."

"Yes," Kate knew exactly what was happening and who was behind it. "We don't need the police. Remember… we do this my way."

"Fine," Yelena huffed, "but I'm called Natasha."

"I wouldn't get your sister involved in this."

Yelena pointed behind her back towards the building that they were steadily putting behind them, "you don't think the fire department wasn't already called? I want to give her a heads up and tell her to keep her mask on incase whoever did this is lurking." She saw a look cross her girlfriend's face, "you know who did this, don't you?"

"I have a list of suspects," Kate shrugged. "I am not worried."

"Not worried? They threw bombs through your window, Kate."

Kate grimaced, "what would you say if i told you that wasn't the first time."

"And you still live there?" Yelena couldn't believe she was hearing such a nonchalant tone from her girlfriend. Clearly this was an issue and something that needed to be dealt with. Bombs through the window after sex was extremely bad timing but, "dying by explosives after a lot of orgasms would've been a cool way to die." She took her phone out and called Natasha who did verify that her crew was called to an explosives fire. Yelena warned her about the situation and her sister promised to be safe. She started talking solely in Russian but by the time the call ended, they had seemed to have come to some sort of conclusion. Yelena had led them to the subway. Since they had Lucky with them, she would have to come back for her bike. "You are coming to stay with us."

"Yelena, stop," she pulled the woman to a stop just outside of the subway entrance gate. "We couldn't possibly impose. I can get a hotel."

"Are you kidding me right now? Your home was attacked. I will not let you be alone."

"Exactly, I was attacked. I can't put you and your family at risk like that."

Yelena shook her head, "you do not get to make that decision for us, Kate. Natasha and I talked about it. We are unlisted. Nobody even knows us in the city. You have no connections to us. You and Lucky will come home with me and all of us will figure this out together."

Kate really didn't know what to say. It was clear her girlfriend wasn't budging on the situation and everything in her heart was telling her to go with Yelena. She could go, stay with the girls and still be able to do what she needed to do. The tracksuits wouldn't find her there. There was nothing linking Kate to any of these women. It made sense for her to go. She heard the announcement for the train they needed to board. She saw resolution in those green eyes and knew it was her only option, "fine. But the minute you and your family are in danger, Lucky and I are gone."

Yelena grabbed her hand and pulled her into the subway car when the doors opened, "it won't come to that."