Sanctuary

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In the quiet comforts of our bedroom, laying amidst the most peaceful serenity that some may never come to know, I watch him sleep. The stillness of the room, I take in everything he does. When he breathes in, I breathe with him. When he exhales, I exhale with him. When he reaches out for me, I take his hand and guide it to my heart and I know he

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He was baffled by his first taste of exhaustion after his ascension, but when Kate explained that it would take time for him to gain the power needed to be truly divine, to abandon the mortal needs of sleep and sustenance he found small comfort. Even though his humanity had always been an illusion, he was loathe to lose it completely.

So he slept, with his lover at his side...and in the night, he felt her.

He reached for her blindly, but wasn't aware until he felt the steady hum of her heart beneath his palm. Only then did he open his eyes and see her, head on the pillow beside his, her gaze fixed on his face with all the intensity of a woman lost in thought.

In her eyes, there was no color...love was the only shade he saw, a fact she was blind to more often than not. She struggled to tell him what was in her heart, but in her divinity she showed it. Her eyes, her touch, in the world that bloomed, dark and glorious when she would come to him with whispered words of passion and devotion.

Shifting his hand, he caught hers and drew their joined fingers from her chest to his cheek so he could press a sleepy kiss to her palm.

"Mmmmm...I dream, still." he murmured drowsily, voice hoarse with sleep. "An angel watches over me as I sleep."

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She remained where she was, her hand touching the rugged stubble of his cheek and yet even in that small gesture of affection when his lips pressed strongly to the inside of her hand, it was enough for her to feel apart of him. Soul to soul.

Slipping her chest into his side, Katie smiled intently, closing her eyes to feel the pulse against her fingertips that lined the underside of his jaw.

'Your angel finds it calming.' she whispered, her cheek moving to share his pillow as she took her hand back to rest gently on his chest.

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Rolling on his side with a smile, he let his forehead touch hers as he draped an arm across her waist to keep her close, the warmth of her skin and the radiance of her presence doing pleasant little to calm him.

"Not my angel." he murmured, nuzzling his nose against hers for a moment before pressing a feather-soft kiss to her lips. "An angel of the moon...a nymph, in worship of Selene, bathed in her holy light. Dusted with the glory of the stars," he drawled, shifting to press a kiss to the stardust tattoo at the corner of her eye, "and kissed by twilight beyond my domain...by your name, you are too beautiful for the likes of me, sweet love..."

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Moving slowly over him, she grinned devilishly while arching an eyebrow.

'Not your angel?' she breathed softly against his lips. 'And who decides that I am too beautiful for you, huh?' she chuckled as her eyes captured his before she began slipping down.

Placing gifted kisses down the middle of his chest, she slipped her little finger into the hoop of his nipple piercing and tugged lightly, spurring a little late night fun into him.

'Who says I'm even an angel?' she smirked before inching lower.

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Dog's answer was lost as his breath caught at the wave of sensation caused by the teasing weight on his piercing. Reaching for her head, he ran his fingers through her hair and against her cheek as he managed to lift his head to watch her move over him...flawless as the angel he'd declared her to be, pale as moonlight and wicked as the soft and heavy touch of her holy darkness.

"Angels fall from grace, my love." he pointed out, his voice growing hoarse with desire as he caught her hand and tried to tug her back up to him. "But even fallen angels can look down on humans from a place on high. If you think to please me, think again."

Grinning, he pulled her close and rolled her on her back, settling his body over hers as he bent to kiss her throat, tracing the pattern of one tattoo there with lips and tongue.

"God of your house...acolyte at your altar." he whispered against her skin as he settled his body comfortably between her legs, his voice low with heated promise. "If anyone's gonna go to their knees to please another, it's gonna be me."

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Katie allowed herself to be swept under him, giving in to the animalistic desires he summoned so easily. Her head tilted to the side, savoring his affections as her eyes rolled closed and her leg grazed his before hooking into his.

'I will not challenge your words..' she paused, letting a sultry sigh move with her hand along his backside in eager want. '..but even I will find pleasure in satisfying you without having to go to my knees.'

Pressing her palm across the small of his back, she rolled her hips into him while brushing her lips across his shoulder in heated pecks and nips.

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"As wise...and as generous...as she is beautiful." he purred between warm, lazy kisses against her skin, skimming his hands up her sides to hike up her tank top and gently pull it free from her body. For a moment he simply gazed hungrily at the sight of her, laid bare before him, then slid down the length of her body, remembering the shape and taste of her under mouth and fingertips.

For him, she had sacrificed her virtue, but even now she was a vision of purity in its darkest form. She was the educated maiden, eager and insatiable for that fruit she had been forbidden for so long, and now he could truly taste it in her when they coupled...her energy, her body, her spirit spoke to him as they never had when he was mortal.

Pausing at her belly, Dog nuzzled the soft skin above the waist of her jeans, teasingly circling her navel with his tongue before he finally reached up to slowly unzip her fly, parting it to allow him to dip lower and tease the sensitive skin with a warm puff of breath.

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Her smile passed off the amorous impulses she began surrendering to as her hands searched for his flesh. She was craving him with such intense energy that it bled from her pores.

Her hands smoothed over her fully exposed chest, enhancing the feel of his touch--smoothing down in a perfect shadow over his whispered assurances.

Her eyes opened and followed what he was doing, arching into his touch as if it was a moment in time she'd lost and now it'd been returned.

Fingers laced into his hair, spinning as another sigh lofted into the darkness of their chambers.

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Pausing for a moment to watch her run her own hands over her body, relishing the sight of her face as she responded to both her own touch and his, sinking willingly into decadent sensation.

His goddess lost in passion was a symphony of the senses that he could feast on until the end of time.

And he could, he realized as he slowly dragged her jeans of her hips, casting them aside as he drew them off her legs and reached up to caress the planes of her stomach.

Once again settled between her knees, Dog let himself enjoy a long, leisurely look at the sight of her, alabaster skin flushed with passion, singing with the pictures and gooseflesh that his ministrations rose on her skin, her quiet needy pants of breath echoing in the otherwise still room...

Bowing his head, he teased her only a little, nuzzling her inner thigh and letting his breath again puff warmly against her before he let his mouth find her center and lost himself in worship of her body.

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The sheer feeling of tongue and lips was enough to put her over the edge right at that moment, but she held on, determined to allow the flood of euphoria carry her to heights not yet been.

His eyes pierced through her, lighting the tranquility of her darkness with multitudes of vibrant colors under her eyelids leaving her murmuring his name in soft ribbons of reverent devotions.

Meeting his hand on her stomach with her own, Katie weaved her fingers into his as he continued to worship.

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Wrapping his fingers securely in hers, he smiled even as he continued to pleasure her, finally shutting his eyes to drink in the sound of her voice, low with passion...the taste and scent of her, the warmth of her skin against him and the movement of her body as she came.

And when he felt the tremors fade from her body, he started anew. Kissing and caressing, he mapped her body again with hands and mouth to make her ready for him again. It was another thing that came easier now, knowing the things divine flesh could feel, understanding the strength and the power she'd been forced to hide from him when he made love to her as a mortal man.

Her strength no longer had to be controlled, her power no longer needed to be checked, a fact he relished as he urged her legs to wrap around his waist as he finally guided himself into her body, groaning at the feel of her completely surrounding him.

Every touch was whole, each movement as it should be. The fragile mortal frame was no longer a concern.

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Slipping a slender leg over and hooking it intimately, Katie fell into the rhythmical rapture of his ministrations as her fingers traced over the colorful lines of his tattoos.

The feel of him raised her a little more, her stomach tightening under his as their energy combined--wrapping into each other with stunning serpent like grace.

Breathless sighs forced her fingers to grip into his arms tight as she travelled them upwards, brushing over the back of his neck as an erotic sheen developed between their bodies.

He would hear her coming as the celestial skies burst open wide with heavenly gasps, but he would first hear her pleas for more.

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The rhythm their bodies set was the primal pulse of creation, as their pleasure mounted their energies blended and he could feel them...the two parts merging, a whole being of divine light and purpose forming in that instant when they were more than gods, more than man and woman.

As they came together, he could feel the universe sing their pleasure, and although he had no means to reason, to think...he knew no mortal eyes could look on the glory of them and live to speak of it.

Eternities passed as their ecstasy dwindled and dimmed, ages passing in the span of a mutual climax that defied all description. Dog had never known the kind of pleasure he had with her when he was a mortal man, and knew that anything less than this would never satisfy him as a god. It was the simplest of joys...sleeping in on a Saturday, a drink of water on a hot day, a ray of sun in the rain...and it was the greatest thrill he'd ever known. No rock concert, no cosmic event...the Second Coming couldn't match it.

When he finally had enough sense to be himself again and shift his weight off of her, he rolled and pulled her close so she was stretched out atop his body, a sweet blanket of warm, sweat-slick skin to ward off the chill.

"Love like that should last forever." he breathed with a broad grin, running his fingers through her hair. "Existence knows this, and a black hole somewhere weeps tears of oblivion to know that it'll never touch moments like these."

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With ragged breath, Katie moved only in mild effort onto him. Pressing her cheek to his naked chest, she let a little chuckle vibrate through her throat as she adjusted herself to fit more comfortably.

'Love like that does.' she stated simply, rolling her face to look at him with a wicked grin. 'And it will, for eternities, my love.'

Reaching up, Katie allowed her fingers to brush fondly over his face, an action that permitted her energy to transmit easily. Her love for him at that moment was unrestricted, and never would be in any lifetime they took pleasure in.

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"Mmmmm, love that lives in the soul will last longer still than that." Dog replied with a grin, a low sound of pleasure almost like a growl trilling in the back of his throat as he leaned into her touch. "But that moment of flesh on flesh...that, I'd give my divine soul to stretch out until the end of time."

Gazing into her eyes, he let his hand smooth over her hair, relishing the silky texture between his fingers...the warmth of her body stretched over his, the lazy and joyous trail of her energy sliding through him.

"I love you." he murmured softly. "Body and soul."

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She always knew those words would come sooner or later, but there was no other better time for them to be shared other than that precise moment. Those three simple words were nothing she'd ever heard before, yet, coming from him, it seemed as if that was all he ever said to her.

Settling her hand back onto his chest, she smiled.

'I love you too. With everything and all that I am.'