This one was a little more fun to write. I included things in here that are all mine.

Two

Ahh. Tori closed her eyes, and exhaled, enjoying the slight chill of the House's air conditioning against her newly showered skin. She could still faintly smell the spices of their stir fry dinner in the air, and feel the ache of their joint sparring session in her upper arms.

Life was good. Even though she wasn't entirely sure she was going to really catch on to kickboxing, she found she loved every minute of the classes they were taking for it. It was a new skill for Jade as well, and just the learning process felt exciting and fun.

Besides, Jade looked so cute in boxing gloves.

"Hey, Tor?"

Tori opened one eye, and rotated it around towards Jade's bedroom. "Yeah?" She wriggled into a more comfortable position flat on her back on the couch, and waited.

"Think a tshirt'll be okay on the plane?"

T-shirt. Tori considered the question with due seriousness. "Tank top." She disagreed. "Like that nice pale blue one you had on the other day."

The faint scuff of bare footsteps intruded into the living room, accompanied by their maTor. "What?" Jade queried, putting her hands on her hips. "The damn things are air conditioned, Tori."

"I know." The brunette agreed readily. "But I really love you in that tank top, and if you get too cold, I can always warm you up." She studied the tall, lithe figure in its worn jeans and bra. "Or you could just go like that."

Her lover sauntered over and took a seat on the edge of the couch, draping her arm over Tori's hips and gazing affectionately at her. "Does that mean you'll wear your new suit on the plane then?" She asked, with a grin.

"The gray one?" Tori hazarded. "Jade, it's sorta see through."

Jade grinned.

"Hm." Tori slid her hand up the inside of Jade's thigh. "Nah, let's save it for the wave pool." She conceded. "I am so looking forward to this trip." Her face creased into an easy grin. "I have such cool memories of the last one."

The blue eyes twinkled brightly. "Me too." Jade said. "I wish we didn't have the stupid convention to deal with, but I guess it's as good an excuse as any to spend a week up there." She leaned a little against Tori. "You all packed? Dad picked Chino up while you were in the shower."

"Yep, I'm all set. One medium sized case full of fun clothes, and a garment bag for the monkey suits. You all ready? I'll go start up the buggy."

"Just have to put my shirt on." Jade leaned forward, smiling as Tori's arms slipped around her neck and they kissed. After a few moments of increasing intensity, she braced herself and slid around, stretching out half beside, half over Tori's body.

It was a good size couch, and they had a lot of practice fitting on it together. Jade kept up the kiss as she slowly eased her hand under the fabric of Tori's cotton shirt, tracing a path up the center of her belly and ending up curling her fingers around the curve of Tori's right breast.

Even after a year and a half, it still grabbed her right in the guts, the reaction of her body so strong under Jade's gentle touch it made it hard to think straight. Tori returned the attention, easier for her since there was nothing between her partner and herself except the thin silk of Jade's bra.

She loved the way Jade's body fit her hands. "We're gonna be late for the plane." Tori whispered, circling Jade's navel with her index finger.

"My plane." Jade bit her earlobe gently. "The perks of being a billionaire."

Tori lost herself in the rich scent of Jade's skin for a little while. Then she paused, and poked her partner in the ribs very gently. "Know what?"

Jade went nose to nose with her, licking her lips with an attentive tongue. "What?"

"I like the way you think" Tori undid the top button on Jade's jeans. "There's only so many times you can Join the mile high club." She let the rest of her thoughts drift away, burned off by the heat of passion igniting in her guts. "You.. me…"

And a thoroughly creeped out Attendant. Yeah." Jade laughed softly. "I'm over it."

Tori laughed with her, and savored the touch of her bare skin. She loved how Jade felt; loved the silky texture of her skin, and the light twitches of her reactions as Tori's hands explored her.

She loved the low hum of approval when it tickled her ear, and pressure as Jade slid her thigh between Tori's and tugged off her shorts.

And you know, sometimes life just rocked.

Two hours later, they were sitting side by side in Jade's Gulfstream, tooling across the country as the last of the sun disappeared behind the Rocky Mountains. Tori had the passenger seat pushed all the way back, and she had her bare feet propped up while Jade leaned back in a relaxed attitude with one arm around her. As they streamed Endgame

"You know, I'm glad we didn't bring anyone else on this flight..." Tori commented, after they'd been companionable silent for a few minutes "We need time to ourselves and we're hardly going to be alone at the Tech show once we get there."

"Uh huh." Jade reached behind her, and removed a bottle of Yoohoo from the cooler in the seat next to her. "And we've got better inflight refreshments."

Tori leaned back, circling one knee with her arms. She watched the movie, and decided that she like this lyfestyle a lot better with Jade around."What convinced you to travel like this?"

Jade glanced around in the twilight. "Pretty much necessity." She admitted. "I used to leave at… all hours of the day, I guess, to get wherever I needed to go. And after a while chartering became too expensive" She recalled, shifting in her seat. "I prefer Road trips. You go on road trips much?"

Tori laid her head back against the seat. "Not with my family, no." She replied, in a quiet tone. "But when we went to camp in the summer, yeah. All of us in the bus. That was kinda fun. It wasn't really a wild and crazy camp – it was from my school. But Trina,and I counted the days till we went there and we were always sorry to leave. Shelby was not a fan of change much so she complained the whole time."

Jade moved to the right again, and settled back. "Where was it?"

"Up in the mountains." Her partner replied. "We had these precious little cabins, with maid service twice a day, and a valet to do our laundry. You know." Her eyes slid sideways. "Well, no, you don't know, but I look back on it now, and realize just how damn pretentious it all was."

"Eh." The dark haired woman chuckled a little. "I went to the Y camp one or two summers, but when I got old enough, I went to the summer programs on base."

Tori's lips twitched. "No valets, huh?"

"No." Jade shook her head. "You had kids who grew up on a military base, who had that mindset to begin with, and who lived in that culture. We did war games, camping, hunting…" A smile appeared. "I had a blast. It was one of the few times I remember just being really…" She paused.

"Happy?" Tori guessed.

"Content." Jade amended. "Accepted, maybe.I was so damn sure that was the world I wanted."

"Well." Tori swiped the bottle of Yoohoo and took a swig. "I never felt that way at camp. I was just glad to be out from under my parent's eyes. It was all so damn fake.. they had comportment classes, for pete's sake."

"What?"

"How to walk, talk, and greet people without tripping and dumping your bad white wine on them." Tori translated. "That and lanyard making. Jesus, do you know how many lanyards I made? Every damn color in the rainbow and let's not talk about the potholders."

Jade snicTored. "You and I come from such different planets." She said. "Only thing I made in camp was a belt from old ammo cartridges I collected on the base and rifle webbing someone'd thrown away." She glanced at Tori, watching the corners of her mouth curve up in a smile. "I'd have taken a potholder and used it to wipe my.."

"Jade!"

"Hey, you know what choices you have out in the bush?" Jade said. "Now you know where I got my dislike of camping from."

Tori burst out laughing. "Oh my god… you have no idea how funny that is. In our camp, one summer, they got the wrong toilet paper delivered. It was that brown craft paper kind of stuff they usually have in really bad rest stops?"

"Ow."

"Yeah." Tori nodded, still chuckling. "Well, me, the little rebel that I was, stole a case of it, and led the rest of my cabin in tp'ing the lead counselor's house so badly you couldn't even see the door." She did a little dance in her seat. "Oo..oo… the little bitch turned red as a tomato and didn't talk to us for a week!"

"TroublemaTor."

"Trina was so pissed at me." Tori snicTored. "But that woman already hated my guts so…"

"Why?" Jade asked, curiously.

"I have no idea. She always wanted to make a lot of me, and I… she just made me really uncomfortable. I figured she was trying to get something from my parents." Tori said. "She gave me the creeps."

Jade watched the movie a minute then she turned her head towards Tori. "How old were you?"

"High school." Tori replied. "Why?"

"Hm." The dark haired woman tapped her thumb against the steering wheel. "Ever think maybe she was interested in you?"

Tori's brow creased. "Well, yeah – I mean, I said she was, Jade." She replied, then paused when she watched Jade's eyebrow hike up expressively. Realization hit, and she inhaled in slight surprise. "Oh. You mean…that kind of interested? Like.. romantically?"

"Uh huh." Jade returned her attention to the road, flicking her eyes to the passing sign and noting it's contents. "Wouldn't surprise me. You were cute in high school." She drawled, with a slight smile. "I've seen pictures."

Tori remained absolutely silent for a few minutes, sucking absently on the neck of the Yoohoo bottle as she watched the movie a bit. Finally, she snorted a little, half surprised and half disgusted. "Never would have crossed my mind." She admitted. "I think I…. Daniel and I had just started to go out.. I wouldn't even call it dating, it wasn't that serious. I probably would have freaked out if she'd…"

"Tried to seduce you?" Jade stretched out her free arm and laid it over Tori's shoulders. "She'd have been an idiot, given your folks, but…" She scratched Tori's neck with her fingertips. "You were really an adorable kid."

Tori blushed, just slightly. "You know, I really never even thought anything like that. By that time, I'd learned just how far people would go to get in with my mother, I just…" She exhaled. "Assumed she was more of the same."

"Well, maybe she was." Jade sensed her partner's discomfort. "I was just presenting another point of view." She tugged on Tori's earlobe. "Want some desert? I think we can get the attendant to make us some chocolate lava cake."

Tori relaxed, and finished off the chocolate soda. "Sure." She agreed. "We've got plenty of time."

Jade signaled and The attendant came mover. She was a private chef, and was available to fulfill their every simple palletary whim.