With Xena’s fingers picking up their pace, Gabrielle couldn’t control the electric feelings tingling all through her. She was at the mercy of her lover, and she surrendered with every inch of her being. Even when she opened her eyes, she couldn’t see quite clearly – she was dazed. Was she hallucinating?

It was all so pleasurable, Xena’s fingers so fast. Her tongue even faster, and focused. All of Xena’s techniques and expertise – focused on a virgin with no concept of pleasure. But how quickly Gabrielle would learn.

She nearly melted off the rock as she came, raking her fingers through Xena’s hair – pulling it accidentally while bucking her hips and climaxing so loudly that it echoed over the cliff at Xena’s back.

Her body tensed and relaxed sporadically as Xena lowered her lips and drank all she could, plunging her tongue in again to enjoy the little squeal from Gabrielle.

”Xena! … What’re you doing?” she slurred, just near the edge of the rock again as Xena laid over her. She covered Gabrielle’s naked, shivering body with her own. Licking her lips to savour the taste. It was so pleasurable that Xena truly wished that it could suffice for a regular meal. She wanted more already, but she didn’t want Gabrielle to be sore. Well, sorer than she was.

”Sorry … was I too rough with you? – I tried to be gentle.”

”S’was so good,” Gabrielle breathed, the pads of her feet tingling rhythmically, as well her fingertips. It felt like magic had lighted from within her.

”I love you, I love you,” Xena admitted quietly to Gabrielle’s adorable ear, carved in its own unique way. She set a trail of kisses down her neck before releasing her tongue there, for play and for pleasure.

”Ohh-g-uh!” Gabrielle gasped, so surprised with the excitement she felt from the kiss that she squirmed, and fell into the water with Xena’s arms still wrapped around her.

Once they both surfaced and laughed at the slip, they smiled so earnestly at one another that nothing could fade that moment from their memories. Newly satisfied, and still they gravitated to one another – Xena holding Gabrielle to pull them to the other side of the river, where they could lay in the sun – completely naked. Their legs tangled together, their hair a mix of gold and black.

Gabrielle, of course, was the first to break their silence.

”So … that’s how it is.”

Looking forward to many lazy afternoons, Xena could only smile as she played with the tangles in Gabrielle’s damp hair on her shoulder. ”Yes, Gabrielle,” she whispered with her love rightfully in her arms, holding each other impossibly close. ”That’s how it is.”