A/n- Just some more sweet and spicy Rutger/Lilina for you all today! Enjoy!

The Commission Files- File #1038 The Secret Pond

Characters: Rutger, Lilina

Based on: a commission by JollyOldSoldier on Twitter/X

It was the week of Rutger and Lilina's third anniversary and they were camping out on the plains of Sacae because Rutger wanted to take Lilina to a place that had been special to him and his family. She didn't quite know what kind of place it was since Rutger wanted to keep it a secret, but she trusted him that it would be something really important to him.

On the day that would be their anniversary Rutger led her to what looked like a dense forest in the middle of the plains, but he knew a path that led somewhere only a few people knew about.

"Before I show you this path Lilina, I hope you understand that I would really like for what I show you to stay as secret as possible." He asked of her genuinely. "This spot I'm going to show you was special to my parents and it's still special to me even with them gone. Can I count on you to keep quiet about this place?" Lilina considered laughing slightly, her tone giving an obvious answer, but Rutger was being more serious than usual, even for him, so she matched his tone.

"Of course you can." She assured him softly. "Even though Mark and Lyn are gone, they were important to me and my family as well, so it's the least I could do to repay them for everything they've, and you've, done for me."

"I figured that was the answer, but I just had to make sure." Rutger noted a bit more lightheartedly. That's when Lilina decided to giggle a bit.

"I know." She replied before giving him a peck on the cheek. "Family is important, especially to you. I'm honestly just glad you're willing to share this with me in the first place."

"Well, you're family now." Rutger noted simply with a small smile. "You seen it, you've become so important to me that I've been willing to open up to you about so many things, this is just another one of those things that I want to share with you so we can become closer."

"That's really sweet Rutger, I hope you know that." Lilina told him, blushing a bit from the warm feelings his words gave her.

"Hey, I had to learn some charm from my parents right?" Rutger joked. "Either way, let's actually go to where I want to take you instead of just standing here. We have the whole day to talk, and do whatever else we want." Lilina nodded in agreement and Rutger slowly started to lead her through the forest. At seemingly random points he would veer off to the left or right and Lilina could never tell when or where he was going to do it. She almost wondered if he was getting lost before they finally made it to the destination. In what seemed like a remote corner of the forest was a clearing with many large and flat rocks and a body of water. It wasn't really big enough to really be called a lake though, more like a pond really.

"I would have never thought something so open yet cozy feeling would be in the middle of a random forest in Sacae." Lilina wondered as they stepped onto a small patch of grass, perfect for sitting down together. "And is that steam coming off the water?"

"A little bit yes." Rutger confirmed as they sat down together. "There is something under the ground heating the water, we never really found out what exactly though. It's not hot enough to make a hot spring out of this place, but the water is almost never cold except for in the winter. Though I wouldn't come here then anyways unless it was to fish, the water never fully freezes here."

"That makes sense." Lilina noted. "And I can see why you'd want to keep something like this a secret, it's so beautiful with us being surrounded by the trees and being able to look up into the sky, but it's kind of small as well. I wouldn't want too many people here at the same time, it would get awful crowded."

"My parents told me once that about five people is the limit on how many people should be brought here." Rutger explained.

"Let me guess, there is a story behind that." Lilina asked with a chuckle.

"Well, apparently, they were taking your parents here, for obvious reasons, when they ran into another friend and invited them to come as well." Rutger noted. "You remember Sir Kent's wife Carrie right? It was her, before her and Sir Kent got together."

"Yeah, that checks out." Lilina replied. "And of course my parents weren't going to tell me that story, my father wouldn't want me getting any 'ideas' and your parents probably told them to keep it a secret as well, right?"

"The only thing they wanted to keep secret was the location." Rutger answered. "You know they were open about pretty much everything else."

"True enough." Lilina said before laying on her back and sighing contently. "I just wish we could see them like that, being around our age now I mean. I think it would be really exciting to be friends with them, sans a few things of course."

"They led pretty exciting lives." Rutger agreed as he laid down next to her. "For a while at least, before they had to settle down." He sighed as well, and even if his was of content as well Lilina felt like she had to say something.

"Hey, I know I bring this up pretty much anniversary of ours, but are you still happy being in Ostia?" Lilina asked a bit more seriously. "Are you still happy with everything going on and how our lives are? You don't have any regrets about anything?"

"Being in Ostia with you, it was different at first of course." Rutger started. "Those first couple months were the roughest, but I think now with how much time has passed that I'm really starting to find my footing there. I've made good friends, I'm able to catch up with friends from the war, and while I can't do exactly everything I want to whenever I want to I kind of like the structure. It gave me stability when I really needed it and it still gives me support today. And it's not like I hate my position, I get to train and teach impressionable young squires every week and pass on things my parents taught me when I was younger. So all in all, I'm in the place I want to be in Ostia."

"Yeah, what else was I expecting." Lilina noted, feeling a bit silly for asking when she practically knew the answer already.

"Hey, don't feel bad for asking, I appreciate you having concern for my feelings like that." Rutger assured her. "It's one of the many things that keep me here with you. Speaking of, that's really the main reason I don't want to leave Ostia, because that would mean leaving you as well. What would life on the plains be like if I couldn't spend it waking up each morning with the woman I love, the woman who pulled me back from the brink of despair, the woman who makes me feel complete? I couldn't imagine a life like that, it wouldn't be worth living."

"Do you realize how much saying stuff like that just makes me want to get on top of you and start kissing you?" Lilina replied, blushing a bit more since Rutger was being more direct. She was obviously used to him dancing around the subject most of the time, for one reason or another, but when he got serious about how he felt like this, it just reaffirmed how much she needed him around for her own support and stability.

"Who says I'm not trying to tempt you into do that right now?" Rutger teased back with a smirk. "But since you asked me, I might as well ask you, are you happy with where we are? Happy with me and all the baggage I still have to unpack?"

"Rutger, I love where we are at." Lilina stated confidently. "Like, it's so good right now. Every day I see you make more progress back to how you used to be before the war, and while I know you'll never truly be the same for a number of reasons, it makes me feel good about us that you are still trying to be better and to get better. And just like you said that the structure in Ostia supports you, you support me and keep me going way more than you realize. I could probably do all the stuff I need to do alone, but it's so much easier with someone like you by my side Rutger. You give me the confidence to do things that I wouldn't normally, you go along with the things I come up with, you back me up when I need it and you disagree with me when I need that as well. We could both probably live our lives separately, but like you said, a life like that wouldn't really be worth living, would it?"

"I'm glad we're of the same mind on that." Rutger noted. "And I'm glad I haven't embarrassed you too much in front of the other Lycian nobility." Lilina just had to laugh at that statement. "What?"

"Rutger, you know as well as I do that you're smarter than half of them in the first place." Lilina stated. "The only embarrassment that would happen is if they tried to challenge you on something and you just showed them up with how intelligent you actually are."

"I mean, that's true, but I'd rather just stay back and let you handle that, as strange as that sounds with me not wanting to be confrontational." Rutger replied. "I mean you've seen me step up when I have to, but politics has never been my strong suit, even if I am slightly better at it than my mother was. Though it does make me wonder how things would have went if she and my father stayed in Caelin. You think I would make a good Marquess?"

"With the right support and council I think you would be." Lilina answered. "But we're getting way off track now, I thought you brought me here so we could go swimming and have some fun?"

"Heh, you always know when to get things moving." Rutger chuckled before smirking a bit. "But something tells me you didn't bring your swimwear because I didn't tell you what we'd be doing, and I seem to have forgotten mine as well. However are we going to go swimming without those clothes?" He teased.

"I think we'll find a way Rutger." Lilina teased him back. And soon enough the two of them had stripped down naked before making their way into the slightly heated water of the pond. The water wasn't very deep, but it was deep enough to swim in, though they could easily see the bottom of the pond if they looked down. That didn't stop them from doing all the usual fun stuff when it came to swimming though. They swam back and forth, watched fish swim by as they sat and rested from time to time, splashed around trying to get each others hair wet, all that stuff. But of course it eventually got to the point where seeing each other naked for so long made them want to do other things, and neither of them were shy about what they wanted after being together for so long. So as Lilina was standing in the middle of the pond wringing her hair out a bit, it wasn't too much of a surprise when she felt Rutger's hands take a hold of her arms right below shoulders and his erection rub up against her butt.

"I'm thinking it's time we stop playing around and get to the real fun of an anniversary date, what do you think?" Rutger whispered into her ear as he started teasing her pussy with the tip of his cock.

"It's about time you were ready for this, I was about to jump you myself." Lilina teased him with a seductive smirk. "So how do you want to do this seeing as you have such a strong grip on my arms here I can't really move around?"

"Well, I figured we have all day here, so I feel like taking you just like this, not taking it slow or anything like that, just going hard and not stopping until I fill you up to the brim." Rutger whispered some more. "Then we can rest and do it however you want to do it afterwards, how about that?" Lilina couldn't help but bite her lip in expectation of how it would feel, she was so glad that Rutger could take control like this unlike he was a while back when they were first married.

"Elimine, you're so much more attractive than you already are when you say things like that." Lilina breathed, feeling herself getting more wet and ready just hearing those words and feeling his dick slowly rub back and forth on her pussy. "Well, far be it from me to stop you from getting what you want Rutger, I'm all yours."

"Yes, yes you are." Rutger said confidently before pushing himself inside firmly, causing Lilina to gasp in pleasure as she usually did. And Rutger wasn't lying about not wanting to take it slow, after the first few thrusts he gave her to get her into it he started going after it pretty hard. And Lilina loved it of course. Not only because it felt good, but because she didn't have to tell Rutger he could be rough with her, he just did it on his own. This was another sign of his progress and it just make the whole thing even more pleasurable for her. Though there was one thing she was wondering about.

"So why did you decide to grab my arms like this instead of my hips like usual?" Lilina asked through her rapid moaning.

"Because, I wanted to show you what I'm really capable of." Rutger teased. "Grabbing your hips makes it too easy, this is much more of a challenge. Plus with your arms like this, I get to see those perfectly sized breasts of yours wobble and shake even more than usual."

"Leave it to you to try and challenge yourself with something like this." Lilina tried to say sarcastically, but she couldn't get it out that way because of just how good she was feeling. "Elimine! Well, you're doing amazing so far!"

"I haven't even gotten started yet." Rutger teased some more before showing Lilina what he was really capable of. He started picking up his pace with his thrusting and he still kept a firm hold on her arms, but just gentle enough that it wouldn't hurt. Lilina moaned out even louder in response, practically getting loud enough that she was yelling, but with no one around it really didn't matter because it felt so good. She was expecting that Rutger wasn't going to be able to keep this up for too long, but he just kept going and going at that fast pace and eventually she couldn't hold it in any longer.

"Rutggggerrrrr!" She let out as she came hard and started clamping down on his dick, but Rutger wasn't done yet, he still had some stamina left in him so he continued going, pulling Lilina closer to him and whispering into her ear with his sensual tone.

"You're going to have to do that again if you want me to stop." He said, almost getting her to cum again right there with how he was acting. She was loving this, he was finally giving her his all without holding back and she wouldn't want it any other way.

"Then you're going to have to kiss me then." Lilina whispered back. So he did so, planting his lips right on hers as he bent his head down, as he continued to thrust into her at that quick pace. He was practically lifting her out of the water at this point and he could feel that he was going to lose it sooner rather than later so he moved one of his hands down between Lilina's legs and started thumbing her clit back and forth as he fucked her. The reaction was almost instant as she orgasmed once again and that finally got Rutger off as well, his seed spilling deeply inside Lilina, the tip of his dick practically kissing the entrance to her womb and filling it up as much as he could. Of course he figured she wouldn't get pregnant, it was a safe day, but that worry was becoming less and less of an issue as the days passed by since starting a family was pretty much the next logical step in their relationship.

"So, how was that?" Rutger breathed once they broke apart and sat down in the water to let everything wash off their bodies.

"That was everything I've ever wanted from you and more Rutger." Lilina sighed contentedly as she sat back. "I'm definitely going to remember this anniversary for quite a while."

"Good, I'm glad I could make you feel that way." Rutger noted. "You know I'd do pretty much anything for you right?"

"I do, and I love you for that. But I'd do the same you know, and I technically have more power that you, if you think about it." Lilina teased him.

"That you do, put you use it fairly and wisely." Rutger chuckled before motioning her over to come sit on his lap. "There was one other thing I wanted to talk to you about while we were here though."

"Oh, and what would that be?" Lilina wondered.

"It's more of just a me thing I wanted to let you know about, because one discussion isn't going to cover everything." Rutger started. "But I wanted to let you know that if you're ready for it, I think I'm ready to start talking about having children and starting a family. I think I've finally reached a place where I can handle it. Of course if you don't want to then that's fine but-" He was cut off by Lilina turning around and kissing him.

"Rutger! You know how long I've been waiting for you to say something like that!" She told him with wide, sparkly, eyes. "Of course we'd have to talk it over with everyone back in Ostia, but yes, I would love to start talking about starting a family together. I'm so glad you finally feel comfortable talking about it too! I didn't think you'd bring it up for a while longer actually."

"Yeah, well, I was thinking about it, and I figured now would be a good time." Rutger explained. "It's not like we have to rush into it or anything, we're still young, but I just wanted to let you know it's on the table for me as of now because I know how important family can be for the both of us."

"You're so thoughtful when try to be." Lilina told him with a warm smile. "Another of the long list of things I love about you."

"It's long?" Rutger asked in a teasing voice.

"I doubt I could write it down in less than three tomes." Lilina teased back.

"Wow, that's pretty long." Rutger commented, giving her a big hug in the process. "But I love you that much as well, though with my handwriting I might need 5 for the same amount of things."

"Yeah, probably." Lilina replied with a chuckle. "Anyways, you said I could decide how we get on with it next right?"

"Ready again already?" Rutger wondered.

"For sure!" Lilina said with excitement. "Now, for what I want, I want you to bend me over one of those smooth rocks over there and go just as rough as you did last time! Think you can do that for me handsome?"

"For you my love, anything."