Path of Forgiveness

CHAPTER FIFTEEN - CONSUMMATION

Dinner was awkward, very awkward. Everyone kept staring at me and Varia like they couldn’t believe what was going on between us. What was worse was that Mother kept looking at me with this stupid little smirk on her face, and I kept blushing because I was sure that Gabrielle told her what had happened.

I was glad when it was over, and I could get out of there. I stood outside the hut, thankful for the cool night air outside. I felt hands on my hips, and I turned around instinctively. Varia stood there, smiling at me.

“You startled me,” I said.

“Sorry,” she replied, smirking. We didn’t say anything for a moment, then she touched my face and asked, “Stay the night with me?”

My lips curved into a smile and I asked, “Is that what the Queen wishes?”

Varia gave a small laugh and said, “Yes, the Queen wishes that very much.”

I shrugged in mock innocence, “Then I guess I have no choice, do I?” I giggled as she picked me up in her arms and carried me to the threshold of her hut.

I gasped as we entered it. It was dimly lit by small little tea candles... everywhere. She put me down and I stepped in and looked around, and then my eyes fell on the bed which was covered in rose petals. “Oh Varia...” I said in half a whisper.

“Do you like it?” Varia asked, unsure of herself.

I turned and smiled at her, “I love it.... I can’t believe you did all this.”

Varia shrugged a little awkwardly and said, “I kinda can’t believe I did all this either.”

I let out a small giggle and took Varia’s hand into my own and stepped towards her. We stood facing each other not more than a hand’s width away, and I studied Varia’s features under the soft glow of the candlelight. “It’s perfect,” I whispered, before leaning down to kiss her softly.

She kissed me back slowly, softly, something I didn’t know she had in her. Her other hand came up to trace my jaw line, and my hand came up to wrap around her waist. We just stood there and kissed each other softly for a long time, waiting for the heat that was building slowly inside of each of us.

Varia’s hands came up slowly to untie the laces the bound my shirt together. When it dropped from my body, she stepped back and undid her own top, while I got myself out of my skirt. After a moment, we both stood in front of each other naked.

Varia smiled softly and held out her hand to me, and I took it before she led me over to her cot. Her cot was double the size of my own, and she laid me down over the rose petals and got on top of me, spreading her naked form across my own. I gasped softly from the connection of our skin, and bit my lower lip.

There was no need to say any words, and we both knew it. Varia kissed me again, and I moaned softly into her mouth as I brought my hands up to tangle in her chestnut locks. She ran her nails over my skin, making me shiver beneath her as she took my bottom lip between her own and sucked on it lightly. My breathing was starting to get heavier, and the feeling in the pit of my stomach was growing more each passing minute.

I held her tighter against me as her lips found a way to my neck, kissing it and suckling it softly. “Mmm...” I moaned, barely above a whisper. “That feels so good...”

Her tongue made her way up my neck to trace my ear, and I shivered from the feeling as I roamed my hands further south to slide them over the curve of her backside, making her moan low into my ear.

Varia’s lips were now kissing their way down through my breasts and down my stomach, and my eyes closed instantly, just wanting to feel every moment of it. She licked above my hairline, and a moan escaped my lips with her name attached, “Varia...”

But instead of her lips being on me again, it was her hand, and I gasped and moaned beneath her touch, and instinctively spread my legs as wide as I could possibly manage. Varia’s fingers teased my clit softly and I bit my lip and arched my back to press myself against her hand harder. But then her fingers went lower, and got soaked with my essence instantly before she slide two of them inside me, making me cry out, “Oh God! Yes!”

I rocked my hips in time with the movement of her fingers, and Varia laid herself down next to me so she should see my face while she pleasured me. She slipped another finger inside of me and I moaned loudly, my hands clutching at the sheets on the cot. I gasped as she hit the spot inside of me and buried my face in her neck and wrapped one of my arms around her to keep her close to me.

“Varia... Please...” I gasped out against her neck. “I need to be yours...”

“You are...” she whispered in my ear, and I cried out against her skin as she hit the spot again, and then again until I was shaking beneath her, begging her for my release. “Forever,” she added. Then I came in a wave of ecstacy, crying out her name over and over.

We both lay there for a moment, panting. When I opened her eyes to look at her, she was smiling and tracing my face with the tips of her fingers.

“Varia...” I said, emotion over taking my good sense.

“Yes?” She asked me.

I touched her cheek with my hand and said the words I have never said and meant to anyone in my life until her, “I love you.”

There was shock on Varia’s face for a minute, but then she smiled and kissed me lightly, “I love you too, Eve. Though I’m sure only the Gods themselves know how this is possible so quickly.”

I smiled and kissed her again, rolling her over so that she was beneath me, and we fell into each other again. I don’t know how long it was until we fell asleep, or even when we did for that matter. All I know is that I had the most incredible day and night of my life.

I woke up at dawn the next morning, and rolled over to look out the window, when all of a sudden I saw Varia lying next to me, completely nude. I sat up with a jerk, waking her up in the process. I looked down at myself, only to be greeted by my own naked form. I looked from myself to her in shock, and then realized she was doing the same. Both of us had no idea how we had gotten here, or what had happened.

And then the memories of yesterday came rushing back, and I held my head in my hands to keep from passing out at the intensity of it. Meeting Varia for what I thought was the first time... kissing her on the hilltop... Our playtime near the riverbank... and last night... here... in this hut... and God... what we said to each other...

I jumped out of the bed, and gathered my clothes quickly. Varia let go of her own head, and looked at me with disbelief. And then something else hit me... Mother’s reaction to the whole thing. The smirks, the questions...

“MOTHER!” I screamed, as I realized she was the one who was behind this. She had to be. Varia jumped a little at the sound of my voice, and I looked back at her.

“I’m so sorry....” I said to her, before running out of the hut, hearing her call my name behind me, but needing to confront my mother before I even could face the possibility of confronting Varia.

I slammed open their hut door, waking Mother and Gabrielle up with a start. “EXPLAIN YOURSELF!” I screamed to her.

“Uh oh...” Gabrielle said, and looked at Xena.

“Yeah, uh oh is RIGHT!”

TBC....