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[loveasthouwilt]

[[from here]]"As are you, love," I said with a smile, reaching back to let my hair loose from its tie. Just the feel of his hands on my waist, even outside the dress, was making my pulse race, and I felt myself nearing breathlessness as I let my palms slide down his bare chest, relearning the feel, the shape of his body which had once been as

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[incassielsname]

I let my arms wrap around her neck, then, and shift in positions on the edge of the bathtub, spreading my legs to draw her close to me. At her neck, my fingers find the tie of her unfamiliar dress and I loosen it, though her dress does not fall as she is pressed against me.

"I can scarce believe you're real," I say, knowing at the same time it is foolish, as she is the one who has spent nine months wondering whether I live or die, somewhere else out there in the world.

[loveasthouwilt]

"Ah, but I am," I murmured, dropping my hands to the buttons of his trousers. "And so are you." I bit back another exclamation at how much I'd missed him; the time for words was passing, and I knew I would do far better to show him rather than tell him. Taking a step back, I dropped my arms, letting the dress slide to the floor. "Come here," I murmured, turning and stepping into the tub.

[incassielsname]

If there is one thing I have always been able to say is true about Phedre, it is that she knows exactly what she wants, and she will get it every time.

She is every bit as stunning as I remember my twenty-three year old Phedre to be, which is just as stunning as I remember my thirty-three year old Phedre. That is to say, she will always be amazing. I watch her as she slides into the bathtub, and I know that she will always be my world.

I rise from the edge of the tub, letting my trousers fall to the floor; I step out of them and slide my shoes from my feet. With no small amount of grace, I step into the bathtub before Phedre.

[loveasthouwilt]

The water was hot and I sank into it with an enjoyable hiss, making room for him to sit behind me. It was good, so good to lean back against him, the heat of the water and his body behind me cradling me in a protective cocoon, and I sighed contentedly as I settled against him. "Hold me a moment," I murmured, taking his hands in mine and wrapping them around me. We could move in a moment; just then, I needed this reminder of home.

[incassielsname]

I took my time settling down into the bath, partially because it was one of the few ways I had with which to torment Phedre, and partially because sitting in a tree for a week does awful things to one's joints.

Once there, though, I settled easily against her, nestling my chin in the crook of her neck. I could spend the rest of my life like this, of that I am sure.

"I shall hold you forever if it is what you wish," I say, a smile on my lips, as I hold her close to me.

[loveasthouwilt]

"Mmmm," I murmured agreement, craning my neck back in order to kiss him again. "I would like that, I think," I said softly, my lips brushing his jaw, his neck. "Perhaps more so when you are clean," I added, shifting further to pick another bit of leaf out of his hair, showing it to him with a slow smile.

[incassielsname]

I laugh at that, only having the vaguest sort of idea what sort of disarray I am actually in. There may well be a tree growing somewhere in my clothing, and I would not know it yet. I reach up to pluck the leaf from her fingers and I drop it over the side of the bathtub, letting it float to the ground.

"Perhaps, then, you could... assist," I say, a sly smile on my lips before I lean over to capture her lips with my own.

[loveasthouwilt]

"Gladly," I whispered, reaching for the small pitcher next to the bath and dunking it under the water, tilting his head back and pouring the water over his hair. It sluiced away the dirt to show the lustrous wheat colour beneath, and I poured another pitcher over him, sighing softly as his arms settled around me.

"Let it be known," I murmured as I reached for the shampoo, "that under other circumstances I would insist on refilling the bath. But I fear I cannot wait for that." I shifted again to straddle him, my fingers working through his hair, my lip caught in my teeth as I met his heavy-lidded look with one of my own.

[incassielsname]

"There is time for patience later," I say, blinking water from my eyes and pushing myself ever so slightly up against Phedre. "For now, I fear my patience is waning."

In truth, I've been impatient since I first saw her from my spot in the tree. There is no place else I'd rather be than here with Phedre, and she is the only thing in my mind as of now.

I let my hands map the surface of her body, dipping below the surface of the water to follow the curves of her body.

[loveasthouwilt]

I shivered despite the heat of the water; his touch after so long was more than enough to set me trembling. "Well and so, I cannot say mine is everlasting," I murmured, my hands drawing lightly up his neck to cup his jaw. He lifted his face to mine and I bent to kiss him, my hair falling down to curtain us from the world. His hands were strong on my hips and he lifted me easily; I sank down onto him with a slow, shuddering breath, my eyes falling shut as my fingers slid further into his hair. "Oh, Joscelin," I breathed, my lips brushing helplessly against his.

[incassielsname]

I push up to meet her, fingers pressing into the soft skin of her hips with just the tiniest amount of pressure, enough to hold her and keep her in place, claiming her as mine, here and now, always and forever

I kiss her reverently, letting my lips fall against hers. I kiss her eyelids, her cheeks, her ears, her throat. Any space my lips can reach is mine, and I have never been more happy to know it is so.

[loveasthouwilt]

I caught my lip in my teeth, trapping a low moan as his fingers dug into my flesh. His mouth left a hot trail across my skin, and I felt as though I were melting into him, losing track of where I ended and he began. "Joscelin," I murmured, my hips shifting forward, feeling the sweet spark building in my stomach as I moved against him.

[incassielsname]

I do my best to keep still, to let her adjust to the feeling of me, to let myself adjust to feeling her against me, around me, surrounding me. Quickly, though, it becomes too much to bear, and I find myself pushing up against her more and more quickly, aching to touch every inch of her, to commit her entire body to memory.

"I love you," I whisper into the soft skin of her neck before I claim it with my lips. "Now and forever, Phedre."