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-----Lil and Dana spend a pleasant morning-----------------



Lil stretched a little, waking completely to stare in delight at the woman 

curled into her side - she'd been afraid it was just another dream.  <For 

once I can wake cuddled up to her legitimately.  I love her so much!>  She 

lay watching in a happy daze, relieved to see the tension smoothed out of 

Scully's face.  She was smiling just a little, cupid's bow lips curled up 

at the corners, hand fisted under cheek.  <Adorable.  Mine.  And hers.>  

Lil closed her eyes, sniffed at Scully's rumpled red hair, acknowledging 

the fact that she'd managed to give her heart again, one she'd thought 

permanently damaged.  <I know she'll never deliberately hurt me.  I know 

what to look for now.  It'll be okay.  I just need to make sure she knows 

she has my trust, that I don't hurt HER by pulling away at the wrong time. 

 Whatever happens, she's worth the risk.>



Lil moved from Scully's hairline to kiss her forehead, then her mouth 

gently.   On the third kiss, she felt the soft response.  Scully was 

smiling against her mouth.  



"Hi.  I love you."  Drowsy blue eyes the exact shade of a clear winter 

morning regarded her unwaveringly, a smile lurking in the depths.



"Good morning.  I love you, too."  Lil's last bit of tension fell away - < 

she doesn't regret it!> -- and she leaned in to kiss Scully again, only to 

be interrupted by an unearthly cry in her right ear.  "What!"  She jerked 

back, turning to regard a plaintively meowing kitten, seconds later joined 

by another.  She could hear the third on the floor - the male kitten had 

been injured that storm-ridden night and could never quite jump as high as 

his sisters.  "Artemis, Athena, and Apollo.  Good morning."



"You feed them and the rest of the menagerie.  I'm going to brush my teeth, 

and then we can go back to bed."  Scully was giggling, though the 

expression in her eyes was slightly rueful.



"Sigh.  Okay, okay, y'all, let's get going.  You're getting dry food this 

morning, though.  No smelly canned stuff today, huh?  Got that?"  Lil 

wandered out to the kitchen, kissing Scully quickly before she went, a sea 

of dogs and kittens following her feet.



Scully scrambled out of bed and watched her at the door for a few seconds, 

feeling her face stretch into an entirely irrepressible, if out of 

character, smile.  <Toothpaste, now!  She didn't say anything, and I didn't 

notice, but morning breath is not good, especially not with a new lover one 

would like to keep beyond the weekend.>  She turned and marched firmly off 

to the bathroom.



<Hmm.  I think that I'll only need that ointment one more day.  I seem to 

be healing pretty well, even if it has been four days since THE INCIDENT.  

Not too shabby, Scully, not for thirty-something cancer/kidnap/etc. 

survivor with a damn high accident prone rate.>  She paused in her 

examination of her naked body in the mirror, frowning suddenly.  <I hope 

Lil thinks so.  I don't even think about them anymore, but there are all 

those scars.  My belly, my chest, my neck, although that one's small.  

Well, she knows about the chest wound, and it's the worst.  Geez, Dana, 

give her some credit, you know she's not that petty.  And she saw most of 

you last night anyway.>  She shrugged mentally - she couldn't control Lil's 

reaction, after all - and stepped into the shower with relief.  She'd 

missed that over the last few days, only now healing enough not to sting 

with the pressure of the water.  <Heh.  I still can't believe I did that, 

although I surely got the best possible results.  Maybe I should take more 

chances.>



"Scully?"  



Scully opened her eyes, brushing some water away and turned to face Lil's 

voice in the main bathroom.  "Hi.  I just wanted to get rid of the 

ointment, so…"



"You're okay if you do that?"



"Oh, yeah, I only needed it the one more day, if that."  She smiled a 

little guiltily.  She could have stopped using it yesterday morning, but 

better safe than sorry, right?



"Good.  Umm.  You want somebody to scrub your back?"  



Scully's eyes widened a little as her belly clenched at that thought, and 

she replied hastily, "s-sure.  It's not very hot though, I didn't want to 

aggravate anything."



"I bet we can warm it up."  Lil grinned, then added, "you know, body heat 

and all." - a hasty qualification that didn't make much of one.  She 

dropped her underclothes on the floor, took a deep breath and stepped into 

the shower, reaching to steady herself on Scully's arm.  They both gasped 

at the contact, the sound lost in the rushing water.  The two women stared 

at each other, Scully's blue eyes as dark as Lil's brown in the shadowy 

shower alcove.  Scully reached over to the soap tray, picking up the bar of 

Ivory to lather it up before reaching up to Lil's arm and shoulder, running 

it along her arm.



Lil drew in a breath at the slick coolness of it, contrasting it with the 

feeling of Scully's warm hand returning to grasp her waist.  She reached 

for the soap in Scully's hand and took a scoop of foam, beginning to stroke 

along behind Scully's shoulder, leaning into the light embrace, not quite 

touching Scully's breasts with her own.  Neither of them said a word, just 

washing each other, moving from neck to belly to breast, stroking the soap 

over rounded buttocks, nothing overt, just… washing as the water ran over 

them, alternately tickling and soothing and then arousing in places.



When the water became too cool, they staggered out of the shower stall, too 

wobbly to stand without touching each other, breast and hip brushing 

together.  Scully swallowed and looked up into Lil's eyes, almost 

whispering, "Lil, let's not wait.  But I don't, I mean I don't have any 

practical experience."



Lil smiled slowly, rasping back to her, "But of course you do.  Every time 

you've touched yourself.  Don't worry, love, it's the easiest thing to 

learn on earth, and I'll show you."   She dropped the towel and pulled them 

both still dripping back towards her bedroom, shutting the door on all of 

the furry would-be interlopers.  She could feel herself plump and slick 

between her legs, wet beyond what the towel could have dealt with.



They fell together onto the rumpled bed, Lil carefully maneuvering Scully 

on top to save her bruises.  Scully pushed up into her dropping her full 

lips onto Lil's, taking control with an urgency that surprised them both.  

They moved together, Scully moving to straddle Liliana.  She hummed as she 

felt the wet fur between her smaller partner's legs against her belly, 

arching up into her.  Scully pulled back with a gasp as Lil's thigh pressed 

up into her center, instantly pushing down harder with her mouth, sucking 

hard enough to bruise, moving to Lil's fluttering pulse, smiling hard 

against her throat as she felt its speed.  Lil, paralyzed in shocked 

delight, had time to think, <for someone who wasn't sure what to do…> then 

found herself lost in Scully's heat.  They moved together, not needing to 

think, just reacting, finally Scully collapsing slowly, head buried in the 

crook of Lil's neck, feeling Lil pull back a little to hold her.



"Just from that?  Just from you being close," Scully finally murmured, 

surprise replaced by wondering awe.  "Whatever took me so long to figure 

this out?"



Lil made a soft throaty rumbling purr that might have been a laugh and 

turned to suck Scully's earlobe gently for a second, feeling the delicately 

sweet shape slip over her tongue as Scully gasped and jerked in her arms at 

the touch.  "Just from that," she agreed when she had freed her mouth.  

"And just from this."



Scully dragged her head up to see Lil's hand slipping between her own legs, 

feeling tickling movement against her own thigh, slick from her position 

against her lover.  She moved her leg against Lil's hand just once, feeling 

her hum again more than hearing her, finally moving her leg off of her 

thigh, even as she reached down to pull her hand away.  "Hmm?  Does this 

bother…" Lil looked at her with half closed dark eyes, confusion fading 

into delighted relief as Scully's hand replaced hers.



"No."  Scully slid down, feeling a heat that was almost pain between her 

legs as she moved her breasts along Lil's side, shaking it off to 

concentrate on her lover's pleasure - a thing she was afraid was much 

overdue.  She held her hand still there for just a few seconds, finally 

reaching gently through the thick moisture to stroke the swollen clit, 

slipping through the folds, pressing down on the entrance, exploring all 

around the warm wet plumpness, almost slipping off, Lil was so wet, not 

quite touching the clit again or quite going inside, touching everywhere.  

Lil's husky voice, a full register lower than her usual begging her to 

touch her, go inside, do anything, just DON'T STOP, Scully's breathing 

raspy against Lil's arching breast, grasping the nipple with her soft wet 

mouth, nipping lightly, then harder at Lil's soft cry, shoving a finger, 

then two, inside, feeling hot slick flesh, so soft she closed her eyes.  

Finally giving in to her lover's desperate pleas, reaching to brush her 

clit with her thumb, pushing her hand away again, circling Lil's clit 

again, pressing hard, feeling her body convulse hard against her hand so 

hard it almost hurt, the pressure somehow feeling better than almost 

anything else she'd ever known.  



She lay, watching Lil's hard breathing through her lashes, feeling her body 

still clutch around her hand, Lil's hand reaching to run through her damp 

tangle of red hair.  <It's going to be a mess, I didn't brush it.> she 

thought irrelevantly, starting to smile against Lil's soft body, reaching 

to nuzzle the underside of her breast, wanting to purr like the most 

purr-happy kitten on Earth.  She had never felt so proud and pleased and 

altogether loving about anything she had ever done before.



"You know, my dearest darling, I'd never have guessed you were a novice," 

Lil managed, tugging her up to lie beside her, rumbling deep in her throat 

as Scully wiggled her fingers a bit as they slipped wetly out of her most 

intimate place.  Scully simply chuckled and turned to cuddle closer smiling 

at her, leaning forward to kiss her sloppily on the chin.  Lil beamed back 

and kissed her back, this time on the mouth, sweetly with as much love as 

her heart held, which somehow seemed to be considerably more than she'd 

ever felt capable of before.  "Love you, " they both began at the same 

time, giggling sleepily again, feeling the warm liquid langour that would 

draw them both in to sleep again in the bright summer sunshine.