So, I didn't want to leave you, my readers, hanging on that bit of a sour note of the last chapter. I felt I should rush this one out to keep you tied over until the next chapter. So... more steamy hotness in this shower... I mean chapter XD
Here we go again
Dani rested her head against Garrus' wiry, muscular shoulder. She still wasn't sure how she felt about him knowing her entire past. It was disconcerting to say the least.
Suddenly Garrus froze mid-stride with her still in his arms. She looked up in confusion and saw him staring at something with a bit of panic in his eyes. When she followed his gaze she immediately noticed what had him so upset at once. There were bloody smears on the fitted sheet of her mattress.
"It's red," he finally stated the obvious. "Not blue, red. It's not mine! Dammit Dani, not only did I hurt you, I wounded you!"
"Uh . . . actually, I'm pretty sure that's considered normal after a first – time. Didn't expect it to be so . . . visible, though. Didn't even think my hymen was still intact," she mumbled, feeling her cheeks heat up in embarrassment.
"What are you saying?" he suddenly asked very suspicious.
"Um, nothing? It's nothing to worry about, honestly. Trust me, I had this covered in biology." She tried to joke but saw he wasn't buying it. She closed her eyes. Great, as if her humiliation wasn't complete, she was now to explain her boyfriend that as an adult woman, she'd still been a virgin.
"Garrus," she began with a serious voice. "I think we just established that I've pretty much been on my own from the very start. I've never had friends, let alone boyfriends before I met Dr. Torque and we both know I never got there with Alex. What did you expect?"
He didn't reply but she could feel the stiffness recede from his muscles. He took the last few steps back to the bed and settled himself down, cradling Dani in his lap.
"I don't know," he finally admitted. "I just figured that at some point in your life you'd have . . . I don't know, gotten curious and . . . just tried things out with someone. Are you sure that's normal?" He asked concerned, nodding at the red stains.
"Pretty sure. And no, that point in my life never arrived," she replied in a quiet tone. "I never felt that need, the whole romance thing was lost on me. I never understood the appeal. Even when women talked about. . ." more heat radiated from her cheeks, " . . . pleasuring themselves – I always thought of it as weird or at best unnecessary. Even kissing someone never appealed to me."
"Then what changed?"
She could hear the genuine curiosity in his voice.
"I met you," she answered simply. "And I really don't know what else to say about that. It happened so slowly, so gradually, I didn't even realize until Liara, Tali – even Joker – started teasing me about you. Before you, I literally had no idea what falling in love was all about."
His talons grazed her jaw when he gently cupped her face and turned it up to meet his eyes.
"And now?" The soft dual toned question made her shiver.
"I think I've got a pretty good idea."
Dani smiled and closed her eyes when Garrus dipped his head and rested it against hers in a gesture of affection.
"Good," he whispered. "That's . . . good."
With a last tender brush against her cheek Garrus shifted her from his lap and raised himself from the bed in search of his clothes.
"So, I think at some point we should try to emerge from your room and start with our day," he mused without much enthusiasm. "I think Shepard is throwing us a large enough bone as it is, by not banging on your door at some unspiritly hour. We shouldn't take advantage though."
"Garrus, you're just . . . plain evil. You know I have problems with that kind of speech."
"What, you mean the large bone? Handling big guns?" he asked in a seductive tone.
Dani groaned in disgust.
"Why do I get the feeling that one is going to come back and haunt me?"
"Because you know it is," he chuckled. "Too bad so many of the old crew is gone. They would have had a field day with this – us," he added wistfully.
"Well, we still have Joker," Dani said with a smirk and Garrus snorted.
"So, how are the hygiene facilities situated?" Dani asked after a while. "Still shared showers?"
"You know it."
"Crap," she muttered under her breath. "Usually I don't mind, but right now I kinda do."
His eyes glinted in sudden mischief.
"Well then," he practically purred. "It's a good thing your boyfriend recently had a private shower installed in his room. I might let you use it, if you ask nicely."
Dani eyed him suspiciously. "How the hell did you manage to install a shower between getting hit in the face with a missile and racing to Earth to save me from a painful and premature death?"
Garrus smirked. "Very quickly and very efficiently. Wanna try it out?" He looked at her and his mandibles fluttered in a very peculiar way.
"Wait, did you just waggle your mandibles at me?"
"Damn right I did. Get used to it human, cause your boyfriend ain't exactly that."
"Waggles mandibles, check. Anything else I should keep in mind?"
"Plenty," he quipped, his sub-vocals lower than his normal voice. "But I'll gladly leave it up to you to find out about them."
Garrus took his time in dressing himself and Dani noted he looked completely relaxed and casual. He didn't hurry his moves in embarrassment over his naked form, nor did he linger to tease her. She took good use of the time she was given to examine his alien body now the lights on the ship burned at full capacity.
Dani remembered how Dr. Torque had went out of his way to point out that interspecies relationships were considered unnatural among humans. Even close friendships. He was of the firm belief that only humans could really understand humans and the same was true for other species.
Looking at Garrus' form, she realized there was nothing remotely human in any of his features. But his heart, the way he carried himself, exhibited more humanity than she'd often encountered in people who were actually human.
In trying to persuade Dani to form a normal relationship with Alex, Dr. Torque forgot one crucial thing about her . . . she felt as alien compared to other humans as Garrus actually was. She had always felt different and during her last stay with Dr. Torque, he had made her feel bad about it.
Looking at Garrus, she decided that if she could feel as alien as he looked and he was capable of being more human than actual humans, no one could ever convince her that their relationship was unnatural.
The mattress shifted under his weight when he sat down next to her to pull on his boots and adjust its straps. He then snaked an arm around her waist and ghosted his mouth plates against her lips.
She wasted no moment and latched onto his upper mouth plate. When he pulled back, she felt mesmerized by the soft glow in his blue eyes.
He leaned in one last time and whispered directions in her ear to reach his room. With a last swift press of his forehead against hers, he got up and left her alone.
She didn't wait long and got up to gather the stained fitted sheet and covers. She decided to hold back the sheet and only dumped the covers in the laundry chute. Though she had no illusions about the crew not knowing of her just evolved relationship with Garrus, she had no desire to fuel the gossip about her status when she entered that relationship.
When she felt something sticky dribble down her leg she really wished she had not left Earth in such a damn hurry.
Not only did she now not have clean clothes to wear, she didn't even have clean underwear! She could feel her cheeks burn while wiping most of it away with a tip of the sheet.
Well, she sure as hell wasn't going to run down Garrus' room near the Main Battery, which of course was situated right across the mess hall, completely naked! Dani scrunched her face in disgust when she dressed herself.
When she finally left her room, she tried to make a discreet run for the Main Battery. Of course she found several unknown crew members gathered in the mess hall who threw her a funny look when she bolted right past them.
The door of the Main Battery slid closed behind her. Before she could sigh in relief, her eyes widened when she felt more . . . stuff . . . drenching the fabric of her panties and trousers.
When she heard the hiss of a door sliding open to the right of her, she looked up in bewilderment. Of course Garrus picked that exact moment to appear! He opened his mouth to say something but froze mid-movement. He took an almost indiscernible whiff of the air around him and his eyes immediately snapped to her. Though he didn't say a word, his mandibles flaring in a huge smirk was insufferable enough.
He spread out his arm to welcome her inside and without a word she stomped past him to enter his room. It turned out to be a lot smaller than her own room, but there was indeed a small space sectioned off that would hopefully lead to his promised shower.
Suddenly Garrus' arms snaked around her, pulling her to his chest.
"Go on, shower is right in there. I'll be back in a moment," he murmured next to ear.
The seductive dual tones made her shiver. When his arms fell away from her, she dashed to the area he indicated without glancing back.
Once inside, she wasted no time in shedding off her clothes unto a small heap.
The shower was small, certainly smaller than the space available in the shared showers, but this was private. There was no cabin, just a shower head, a faucet, a towel rack and a sink.
Anxious for the soothing and cleansing water she fumbled with the buttons and yelped when she was hit with the first icy rays of water. She didn't care, just relieved she was finally under water.
The temperature quickly rose up to the comforting temperature she'd set for herself. She looked around and saw a niche with a small assortment of various bottles. Her curiosity peaked, she picked them up one by one in the hopes of finding a shower gel or shampoo she might actually be able to use. A kind of silly thing to do considering this was the shower of a turian.
When she tried a bit of goo from one of the bottles on her fingers, she found it was filled with tiny granules that felt quite harsh to the touch. No doubt designed to clean and maybe polish the hardened hides of the turian population, but she was pretty sure it was potent enough to peel her skin right off.
She sighed, washing the goo from her fingers before attending to the sticky goo between her legs.
With no one around to see what she was doing, she took a quick look at the substance coating her fingers, before it washed away. She'd never actually seen human semen, but knew it was described as a bit of a liquid milky or cloudy substance.
The stuff that was now disappearing down the drain looked oddly exactly like that. She wasn't sure what she had expected, at least it not looking so very . . . ordinary. It was just maybe a bit more silverish or bluish than what the description told about human semen.
"I've got something for you. Can I come in?"
His voice startled her from her thoughts and she was glad her already heat flushed skin would not betray her furious blush. She'd have died of mortification if he'd have caught her studying his load.
"It's your shower, I can hardly deny you access," she said a bit more prickly than intended, purposely not giving a direct answer to his question. It was silly, she knew. They'd slept together several times, even before the Normandy crashed. This morning they even had sex for the first time and now she felt jumpy and shy being naked under the shower in front of him? She shook her head at her own fickleness.
She could hear him enter the shower, the rustling of clothes, him padding closer to where she was. With every step he came closer, her heart started beating faster. Dani sensed, more than anything, how he stepped into the haze of steam. Still, she jumped when she felt his arms encircling her waist.
"Thought you might appreciate this a bit more than my turian toiletries," he murmured near her ear.
When she looked down she saw he was clutching two wonderfully pink bottles adorned with flowers.
She gasped in delight, her unease forgotten, and grasped the bottles from his hands.
"Shampoo! Shower gel!" she moaned loudly. "You're now officially my hero!"
"Hm-mm," he muttered in appreciation. "Gained status of boyfriend and personal hero in a day. Things are finally looking up."
Dani hummed happily and settled the pink bottle of shower gel snuggly in the niche next to his things. She squirted a liberal amount of shampoo in her hand, settled the shampoo in the niche as well and started applying it to her hair.
"Oh, this smells heavenly!" She sighed appreciative. "Where did you get this?"
"Miranda Lawson. One of the new faces you'll meet later on. I told her you left Earth in a bit of a hurry. Even managed to persuade her to lend you some of her clothes. She promised to have it delivered to my room. Just be prepared to pay up later. I've got a feeling she does nothing for nothing."
"Clean clothes. . ." Dani murmured happily while lathering the shampoo across her scalp and the long wet strands of hair.
"May I?" Garrus' asked softly. Dani had no idea what he meant but at this point he could have gotten her to agree with almost anything.
"Sure."
She felt his hands threading through her hair, running his talons through the light glossy mane again and again. He rubbed the shampoo into the damp strands, let his talons scratch along her scalp and he squirted more shampoo onto her hair to start the process all over again.
She smiled at this lazy sensation. When the water rinsed the last remnants of shampoo out of her wet tresses, Garrus picked up the other bottle. Soon her skin was covered in a soft, delicious, decadent foam.
His hands on her were warm and exploring beneath the falling water and she could feel her body respond to his touch. He took his sweet time softly lathering the soap on her skin. His hands softly kneaded the muscles in her neck and shoulders, they glided across her back, along her spine, they cupped and kneaded her buttocks.
Not a word was spoken between them. The only sounds was that of water falling, hitting their bodies, their soft breathing getting heavier, a gasp here, a soft moan there.
His hands sneaked around her and started playing with her breasts softly. Her rosy little peaks tautened under his touch and she moaned when he used her soft mounds to pull her against his chest.
"Mmm," he mumbled in her ear and put a bit more pressure while massaging her breasts. He licked at the back of her neck and, though already wet from the shower, Dani could feel herself get a different kind of wet in anticipation.
He softly nibbled at the sensitive soft patch beneath her ear and slowly dragged his tongue just beneath the angle of her jaw. She leaned back into him for support. Her breathing grew heavier, more erratic and shallow and she moaned softly when his hand drifted down her body until he slid his fingers to the junction of her thighs.
Garrus slowly rubbed that tiny little bud hidden down there and Dani gasped at the sensation . She reached an arm around to grasp him and keep herself standing.
While he explored the slippery folds between her legs, his motions were slow maybe even hesitant. He stroked her with gentle soft and circular motions with the padded side of his finger and Dani placed her feet a bit wider apart to give him better access.
It was all the encouragement he needed. His movements became a bit more firm, and she could feel herself opening up to him. She encouraged him further by rocking herself against him and soon her soft cries of pleasure mingled with an aroused rumbling that she could feel reverberating against her back.
Suddenly she felt his teeth graze the skin in her neck. Just a bit of pressure, just a little nip, not enough to break her skin but more than plenty to shoot a flare of desire to the very spot between her legs he was still caressing. She shuddered, her body rippled against him and she whispered his name, begged him.
"Spirits, you feel so good," she heard him pant in her ear and she silently thought the exact same about him. He grasped her leg, cupped a hand beneath it and lifted her slightly. She instinctively knew what he was going for and slightly breathless she braced her hands against the wall.
She twisted her free leg around his thigh so he could lift her a bit more. He groaned in appreciation. He aligned himself with her, tilted her pelvis a bit and pinned her against the wall. She tried to steady herself but was still nearly crashed into the wall when he entered her with one swift deep thrust.
The sharp pain she expected stayed away. Instead, she simply cried out in pleasure and he echoed her sentiment with a deep growl of his own. He drove himself into her with forceful and deep thrusts and she cried and arched back against him.
His one hand held her in her lifted position, he thrust wildly against that sensitive spot deep within her, while his other was still buried in her slick folds, circling her, teasing her until she was sobbing for mercy.
"Cum for me, sweetheart," he panted in her ear. "Just surrender and let it all go."
She could only moan and cry in response. "Garrus!" She panted. "Fuck, oh fuck . . ."
"That's it," he panted with her. "Come on, almost there. Just a little bit more . . ."
He was pounding into her hard until lights were shooting behind her tightly closed eyelids.
With the double sensation of him buried deep inside her and his fingers stimulating her between her legs, she was thundering towards that sweet release and she felt her body desperately straining to get there.
She finally cried out his name, as a tidal wave racked a shuddering path of delight and sweet release through her entire body. He groaned in her ear and with a few final mighty thrusts he emptied himself within her and shuddered against her.
He let go of her leg but as soon as her feet touched the tiles, she found her legs lacked the strength to carry her. With seemingly little effort, Garrus picked her up and maneuvered them to the towel rack.
Garrus quickly draped a towel around his waist, but took his time in softly dabbing her skin with a larger and wonderfully soft towel before he picked her up and carried her inside his room where he gently set her down before him.
Dani smiled up at him, marveling at the soft look in his eyes. She placed her lips against his mouth plates and gingerly darted out her tongue, softly grazing the contours of his mouth, inviting him to do the same.
He quickly replied and soon her tongue met his. She sighed as they let their tongues gingerly dance and dart around each other until she broke their kiss with a last peck against his mandible.
"Do you mind if I take another quick shower?" she asked hopefully. "I um, feel something . . . dripping down. And I'd hate to – um – drip all over your place."
"I think that would be a prudent idea, yes," he admitted with a chuckle. "When I first saw you standing in the Main Battery and noticed my own smell on you, I knew I would be joining you in the shower. So please, take it because I can't guarantee I won't ravage you in front of the crew otherwise."
She laughed and gave him a peck on his mandible before she padded back to the shower again.
