Helena (taking the towel): Make love with me…

Dylan (biting her lip): Honey…

Helena (stepping out of the tub): I want you. I want to feel you pressed against me, feel your heat, your passion, your strength.

Dylan (wrapping the towel around her): Baby (brushing back wet hair) I want to, I want to so bad….

Helena (leaning forward; pressing her lips to Dylan’s neck) Then please, I need you, I need to feel you….
Dylan (sighing): You’ve been through so much (caressing her face) and I don’t want to cause you any further pain. I never want to hurt you like that.

Helena (pushing her on the bed): You won’t. I know you love me, (straddling her hips) I know that you’re only trying to protect and care for me and that makes me love you so much more (leaning forward and laying on top of her.)

Dylan (wrapping her arms around her): Are you sure? You said yourself you feel raw and vulnerable right now…

Helena (taking her hand): I feel raw and vulnerable but I also feel empty inside (guiding Dylan’s hand to her sex and closing her eyes as her touch made her shudder) and I desperately need to feel something besides this empty cold ache.

Dylan (feeling how wet she was; her body warring with itself): If I do anything…

Helena (her gray green eyes locking with Dylan’s): I want you to do everything.  

Dylan (thanking the Gods once again for this chance): If I do anything that scares you or hurts you I want you tell me and I’ll stop…

Helena (leaning back; pulling the towel off): That’s just it I don’t want you to (leaning forward and kissing her.)

Dylan closed her eyes and held Helena tightly against her, losing herself in the kiss and the warmth of the bond they shared.

Kit’s Apartment
Kit (walking in; she waited and listened; it was quiet, too quiet): Papi (setting down her things.) Honey (usually when she came home the stereo was on as was the TV or video games were blasting.) Babe (walking through the apartment looking for her girlfriend and finding her sound asleep in bed with just a sheet wrapped around her.) Poor baby (leaning down and kissing her cheek.)