4B’s tongue brushed against hers, and the firm softness slowly traced the inside edge of her lips, setting Nora’s senses on fire. The hand under Nora’s t-shirt grew bold and rolled her nipple between exploring fingers. Nora’s moan was plaintive and deep when 4B shifted to hover over her, pushing a thigh between her legs. Nora’s hands moved across 4B’s back and she moved against 4B’s leg as the beautiful woman rose above her, holding her down, kissing her feverishly.
“I need to be close to you. I need to feel you,” whispered 4B between kisses, in a voice so laden with desire, Nora would have done anything to obey it.
Nora wrapped her arms around 4B, and despite the layers of clothing separating them, the pressure of the leg pressed into her center drove her crazy. Her hips rose, seeking more contact, and she pulled at 4B, moving against her. Their kiss continued to deepen, and Nora could no longer tell who was leading who. The motion of their hips grew more fervent.
4B’s lips slid to the corner of Nora’s mouth and then across her cheek to rest in the tender spot below Nora’s earlobe, raising an electric shiver down Nora’s spine. Nora lifted her chin and gave 4B access to her neck. 4B took full advantage, kissing a trail across Nora’s jawline and down the sensitive column of her throat, where she drove Nora insane by kissing and nibbling on the area where Nora’s neck joined her shoulder. Nora was consumed with the heat of her desire, a desire that had erupted so suddenly, she had no time to consider how it had started. All she knew was she wanted to keep doing it, follow it through to where it went, where she hoped it would go.
“I need to see you,” whispered 4B, sitting up as she thrust both hands under Nora’s shirt, pushing it over Nora’s head, exposing Nora’s bare breasts to the cool night air. Nora didn’t even register the chill as 4B’s greedy eyes scoured her body with a hunger that seemed to etch a trail of heat over her skin. Nora arched under 4B, inviting her to claim her, and she watched as a look of insecurity clouded 4B’s hungry expression. Nora smiled at her and used her hands to tell 4B that she felt it too, the hunger and the need, and 4B’s eyes grew dark again as she bent to trace another line of kisses across Nora’s neck.
Nora gasped and looked down when she felt 4B’s lips encircle one of her nipples. 4B’s eyes were closed, her pale eyelashes spread across her cheek and her brows knit in passionate attention. The sight of 4B’s enraptured face sent a pulse through Nora’s center. Every motion sent a reciprocal sensation to her swelling core, which she pressed against 4B’s thigh. She ached for a more intimate touch. A slow, rolling pressure built low within her belly, and she ground her hips against the woman above her in a rhythmic motion, dangerously close to making her come. But Nora wasn’t ready to give in to the demands of her body yet. She rolled 4B onto her back, and gazed into her eyes.
“You’re going to make me explode,” Nora explained through heavy breaths, dipping down to kiss 4B’s neck, trailing her lips up so she could kiss her again, claiming 4B’s talented lips and running her hand down 4B’s side.
“Oh, God, that’s exactly what I want. Please let me…” whispered 4B, as she wrapped a leg around Nora’s leg, rolling them back over, so she was back on top. “I want to make you come.”
Nora acknowledged a shift in 4B, a power that had, until that moment, been hidden in a serene and almost passive demeanor. The change thrilled Nora, who usually took the lead in her sexual encounters. Now, 4B set the pace and Nora was surprised to find she was more than willing to follow along.
When 4B reached down and slid her hand into Nora’s pants, an explosion of need bounded through Nora’s body. She helped by unbuttoning her jeans, and guided 4B’s fingers to the hard knot of flesh begging for release. She gasped as warm fingers slide through her wet folds. No longer trying to hold back, Nora wanted more. She kicked away the blanket entangled around their legs, and pushed her pants down, so she was fully exposed, spreading herself wide to the cool night air and the warm caresses she soon felt reach deep within her.
4B’s fingers worked magic inside of Nora, pushing her to dizzying heights. 4B was so deep inside, Nora thought she would burst, but she wanted even more. She found 4B’s mouth and kissed her, trying to convey her crushing need. 4B returned the kiss with a heat that enflamed them both. She pressed against Nora, grinding her center down on Nora’s taut thigh in a frenetic rhythm, and Nora could feel 4B’s excitement through the damp pajama bottoms separating their aching flesh. The knowledge of 4B’s need created a surge of pulsing thunder that started to spread across Nora’s body. She felt it gather and flex, trying to override her senses and erase all but the moment they were in. But Nora needed to touch 4B, to let 4B feel what she was feeling. Just as she was about to lose her mind, she managed to reach down and thrust her hand into the loose waist of 4B’s pajama pants. 4B was ready and open, and Nora’s fingers slid deep into the wetness she found there. 4B threw her head back and moaned, arching into Nora. 4B’s fingers dipped even deeper into Nora. All control fled. 4B’s passion tightened around her fingers, and a maelstrom of sensation flared within her. Lightning blasted and waves of blinding energy washed through her, and each time 4B moved, the tumult inside of her intensified until she was a raging inferno. When 4B’s orgasm exploded just seconds later, the sounds of 4B’s cries and the feeling of the strong muscles pulsing over Nora’s fingers in a warm flood of wet took Nora over the edge again with another shattering orgasm. Finally, 4B collapsed against her, breathing heavily into Nora’s neck, her gasping breaths tickling the damp hair stuck to the sweat on her skin. With 4B’s limp body covering her, Nora relaxed beneath her, holding 4B to her with one arm, as the other remained between them, her fingers still deep inside of 4B, luxuriating in the feel of the ebbing pulses caressing her fingers.
Soft lips teased a path up Nora’s throat. A gentle kiss landed on her mouth, and Nora fell back into the warm bliss that had started everything.
“That was…” 4B murmured against Nora’s lips. “I don’t have words for what that was.”
“Awesome?” smiled Nora, kissing the mouth hovering a hair’s breadth from her own.
“Better than awesome,” responded 4B, gently biting Nora’s bottom lip.
“Incredible?”
“Better.”
“Do I need to invent a word to describe it?”
“No. Let’s let the absence of words define it,” said 4B, staring into Nora’s eyes for a long moment before she kissed her again.
And the kiss ignited another round of lovemaking that left them both gasping for air within a few minutes. When they relaxed, Nora pulled 4B to her and held her tightly.
“God. I don’t know if I’ve ever come that hard once, let alone twice,” moaned Nora into 4B’s mouth as they kissed leisurely, basking in the after effects of their passion.
“If I counted right, it was actually three for you. God, you feel so good,” sighed 4B, collapsing against Nora’s chest, which was cooled by the sweat from their exertion.
“Yes, but who’s counting?” laughed Nora, still trying to catch her breath. She hugged 4B to her and shivered.
“Are you cold?” asked 4B, rubbing her hands up and down Nora’s exposed skin.
“Parts of me are a little chilly—others seem to need a cold shower,” teased Nora, stroking 4B’s back beneath the sweatshirt she still wore.
4B sat up and stripped off her sweatshirt. The pajama pants had been removed during their second round of passion. She then pulled the blankets over them as she lay down on top of Nora. She rested her head between Nora’s breasts.
“Good idea. One of the best thermal regulators is another human body,” said Nora.
“That sounds familiar,” said 4B with a sigh as she settled back into her place with her head resting on Nora’s chest. Nora loved the feel of 4B’s weight upon her and buried her nose in the hair on the crown of 4B’s head, inhaling her scent. Her skin tingled at the soft impression of 4B’s breasts resting on her torso and she fought the urge to move against her, to feel their skin sl
iding together again.
As if reading Nora’s mind, 4B moved to her side pulling Nora to face her, brushing their breasts together and running her fingers along every inch of exposed flesh she could reach without losing eye contact.
“Don’t move. Just let me feel you,” commanded 4B as she pressed her body into Nora’s, and their legs entwined. 4B seemed to take care not to press into the very sensitive apex between Nora’s thighs, which only made her crave it that much more. But she remained still, letting 4B skim her hand over her, tracing her lines and learning her skin.
4B’s eyes preceded the movements of her hand and Nora watched her closely, receptive to the touching, anticipating the thrill of it more and more as each moment passed and the strokes became more urgent. Incredibly, she started to edge toward initiating the no-turning-back launch sequence of yet another orgasm. Their breathing became ragged, yet Nora obeyed 4B’s command to lie still, and she remained mostly motionless, with only 4B’s hand making its tracks across the expanse of her body. Words of a plea gathered on Nora’s lips, and 4B’s mouth pressed over hers to silence them, though her eyes remained open, connected to Nora’s in an invisible conduit that let nothing else distract them.
Nora could stand it no longer, and she inched her hand, the one that had so patiently rested on the smooth skin of 4B’s hip, down and between them, into the hot, slick valley between 4B’s thighs. 4B’s back arched at the contact, and her hand, which had teased but not touched Nora’s sex, slid between them and into the pulsing heat, wrapping around 4B’s seeking fingers. It took no other motion to bring them both to release, and their bodies heaved against each other as the powerful sensations rocked them into divine sensation.
“No fair. I wanted to watch you come without my own distraction,” panted 4B, as she curled up against Nora once again. Nora’s sweat-sheened body broke out in goose bumps at the feel of the chill night air. She pulled the blanket back over them, holding 4B tightly against her.
“I couldn’t help myself,” said Nora, brushing the hair from 4B’s damp brow, and kissing her.
“I was almost there anyway. You have such expressive eyes,” said 4B when their lips parted.
“My eyes have nothing on you, lady. God. I felt you touching me even when you weren’t. You were killing me.”
“Killing you would have made this a little counter-productive,” replied 4B with a serious expression she quickly replaced with a playful wink.
“I’d say so,” laughed Nora, stretching her well-used body in a sated crescent around 4B, who had no choice but to follow suit. They were both beyond physically sated, though a potent sexual energy hovered around them, promising more lovemaking would occur before the night was through. “I’ve determined that you must be a professional sex-machine in your mysterious real life.”
A shadow passed over 4B’s face and Nora wondered if she’d said something wrong. She reached out and caressed 4B’s cheek.
“I didn’t mean to…”
“Oh. You didn’t say anything wrong,” said 4B capturing Nora’s hand and kissing her palm. “It’s just that I sometimes feel disconnected, not having any memory beyond these last few days. It’s so… isolating.”
“I can’t even imagine what it’s like.”
“I don’t think I can describe it, really. It’s weird. I know things, but I don’t know how I know them. The only time I’ve felt like a whole person was… was just now, when we…” 4B didn’t finish the sentence. Nora kissed her, telling her she understood.
4B looked at her and her eyes searched Nora’s.
“When we’re like this, it all feels right. I feel connected. I want to keep doing it until we’re… until there’s… ugh! I can’t express it. I just want to be inside of you.”
Nora knew what 4B was trying to say, even though she couldn’t express it herself. And she kissed 4B, once again fueling the fire that had erupted so quickly between them.
Nora rolled to her side and felt a warm arm encircle her waist from behind. The soft silk of 4B’s body shifted with her and pressed against her back. She pulled the arm tightly around her and settled into the cocoon of drowsy comfort surrounding them under the blanket. The covers were small and thin, and cool air snuck in around the edges as she moved. But the heat from the fire she’d kept stoked all night between bouts of lovemaking, along with their combined body temperatures, were enough to keep them warm and comfortable. She took a deep breath, and under the ubiquitous, tangy aromas of campfire and pine, she could make out the fresh and earthy scents of the forest as it woke from the long wet night. Even the intermittent dripping from the sodden canopy overhead had stopped, and from behind closed eyelids, she knew the sun was shining again.
She floated in the bliss between sleep and wakefulness and replayed her memories of the night before. A soft kiss on her shoulder told her 4B was probably thinking about the same thing and she pressed against her. Warm hands brushed over her body, arousing sensations that surprised and delighted her, not only for what they were, but for the fact that she would even have the energy for what her body was aching to do again.
“Good morning, beautiful,” she said, as she rolled over to face 4B.
A sleepy smile and brilliant green eyes greeted her and she stopped to study the face of the woman beside her. She reached up and pushed back a strand of hair and 4B kissed her palm before she slid her hand behind 4B’s head and pulled her toward her.
She saw 4B’s eyes widen at the same time as a low, familiar sound drew near. An engine! A small plane engine, and it was close!
Nora jumped up quickly enough to bang her head on the wing above her. She barely felt it. Hunched over, she grabbed her sweatshirt and stepped over the suddenly wide-awake 4B.
“A plane! Someone came!” she shouted as she ducked out of the shelter, pulling on her top, and ran toward the edge of the ravine. “I see it! It just flew by, but it’s turning back! We need to signal them somehow.”
4B was already throwing the greenest, needle-laden branches she could find on the fire. “The smoke is already drifting toward the ravine, but we need something to wave more of it that way!”
Nora ran back over and pulled on her jeans before she began to wave a t-shirt behind the billowing clouds pouring from the green wood in the fire. The wind that had been blowing away from the ravine during the storm was now pulling the smoke toward it, helping them in their task.
4B put on some clothes and continued to feed the green fuel to the fire, but not so much she risked extinguishing it.
“They have to see this,” said Nora, coughing at the acrid plume wafting back at her as she continued to wave the shirt at it. “One of us should stand near the edge so they see us when they investigate the smoke.”
Even as she spoke the noise of the plane grew closer and they both whooped when the plane flew impossibly near the edge of the ravine closest to where they were. The pilot was at eye-level with them, and Nora knew that even if he couldn’t see the two of them, he could see the wing of the plane and the smoke they were fanning toward the ravine. Nora ran forward, waving her arms, coming to a skidding stop just at the edge.
“Nora!” screamed 4B, coming up behind her and wrapping her arms around Nora’s waist. “I thought you were going to run right off!”
“I’m okay. We’re okay! We’re going to be okay!” Nora laughed, feeling almost hysterical in her relief. She turned in 4B’s embrace and kissed her. She picked her up and spun her around and 4B laughed too, pulling them both away from the lip of the drop-off when Nora put her down. Nora laughed again. It was her friend Tack’s plane. In normal circumstances, she would have felt the effects of dancing so close to the precipice, but in that moment, giddy hope overrode all other emotions. “I know that plane! It’s Tack! He saw us! He’s coming back!”
Nora pointed at the small aircraft as it turned sharply and headed toward them again. When it got close, the wings dipped in a sign the pilot had seen them.
“Crazy bastard! He’s flyin
g too low. I hope he doesn’t crash his own plane before he calls for help!” Nora laughed as she grabbed 4B around the waist and spun her around.
“You know the pilot?” asked 4B, laughing for the same reasons Nora was.
“Yes! We’re getting out of here!”
Jubilation bubbled between them as they gathered up what little belongings they wanted to take with them and waited for the plane to come back. They debated how the rescue would happen, since there was no place for the plane to land, and they wondered if they should stay put or find a place where help could more easily get to them. Finally, they decided to wait exactly where they were. They’d keep the fire going and the smoke billowing so their rescuers could easily find them.
“Nora, I’m scared,” whispered 4B as they were ushered from the helipad, past a throng of people, which had gathered near the emergency room entrance at the hospital in Anchorage.
During the thirty-minute helicopter flight, they’d been briefed that their rescue had already hit the news. The hospital had arranged for security, but the press of reporters surrounding them when they stepped from the noisy rescue helicopter was daunting. Hospital staff immediately surrounded them, ushering them from the aircraft to the hospital entrance. Wheelchairs had been brought to them but were ignored as both women waved them off and walked closely together, following the tall man who had been with them in the helicopter. The flashing lights of cameras assaulted their eyes and shouts rang out from every direction.
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